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Google explores the making of fashion with We Wear Culture
today Jun 9, 2017
On 8th June, after over a year of preparatory work, US internet giant Google has announced the worldwide launch of its new We Wear Culture website, in a press conference at Paris' Decorative Arts Museum. The website's declared aim is to make the history and culture of fashion accessible to everyone.
The home page of We Wear Culture - Google
The website was described by the Director of the Decorative Arts Museum, Olivier Gabet, as "an innovative, ambitious project that will cause quite a stir." Thanks to the US group's digital savvy, We Wear Culture is able to explore the fashion world from the inside, revealing how it works and highlighting the various kinds of expertise that lie behind it.
The website is part of Google's Art & Culture department, which operates using Street View technology, and gives the general public's access to over 6 million images and 4,000 exhibitions. Google has worked with 180 partner institutions in 40 countries to gather the archive material and the items featured in We Wear Culture.
In France, those partners include the lace museum in Calais, the Versailles Palace, fashion design school ESMOD, the National Centre for stage costumes and the Azzedine Alaïa gallery. Elsewhere, Google has worked with New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, the Kyoto Fashion Institute in Japan and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
According to Laurent Gaveau, Head of Lab at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris: "The digital experience doesn't compete with visits to the actual museums. It's part of a virtuous circle. It makes people want to learn more, and encourages them to get out [and do so]." According to Delphine Pinasa, Director of Paris' National Centre for stage costumes, the challenge nowadays is to "showcase, inform and bring the public back into museums."
Museums the world over have given Google access to their signature pieces, such as Chanel's little black dress or Christian Dior's Bar two-piece suit. They also contributed their expertise, and helped Google produce content which includes articles, videos and pictures, which users can zoom in on, taking a closer look at the finish, fabrics and tailoring of the clothes on display.
We Wear Culture is designed to explore the making of fashion and its relationship with art and culture, measuring its sociological and economic impact and providing a deeper understanding of the history of clothing. The website will allow "the sharing of insights that are still reserved to a select few, but which nurture the thirst of knowledge of many others," said Olivier Gabet.
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Arnhem Land: A matter of national emergency
By Adam Jacoby | 24 October 2015, 2:45pm | comments
Memorial service for land rights pioneer, Mr Wunungmurra, in Yirrkala (Image via abc.net.au)
On a recent visit to Arnhem Land, Adam Jacoby was prompted by the inequality of opportunity and lack of self-determination of the Indigenous community to write about their plight and ask where the $millions of taxpayer's money is going as it's certainly not to the community.
LIKE MANY of you, I had heard stories of Arnhem Land and the Indigenous community. I had seen pictures and read articles. I had heard the rhetoric of the plight of our first people and accepted that the problems that have spanned decades are just too complex to remediate. And there is some truth to that notion but only some.
The struggle of the Indigenous people is indeed a struggle for land, respect and acknowledgement but it is deeper than that and their community leaders know it. I am confident of this as I have spoken directly with them about it. The real fight, the important fight, is the battle for self-determination, equality of opportunity and a base level of existence that does not continue to hold their proud, capable and kind hearted people down.
The things I have witnessed during my visit last month will stay with me forever.
@TheAviator1992 recently returned from speaking with Elders in Arnhem Land, lots of talk of self determination.
— Adam A Jacoby (@adamajacoby) October 5, 2015
There exists a frustrating dissonance: a land owned by the Indigenous people but controlled by outsiders who enslave them into poverty and inactivity, the call for development and training but a system architected in such a way that it is impossible to deliver it and community leadership both wise and forgiving but largely ignored by the only people able to help enact their will in their own land.
Make no mistake, the leaders of the Indigenous community are not those you see reporting to government. They do not have budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars and have business cards with government logos. The real leaders are revered tribesmen and women who, above all else, place the continuity, welfare and development of their beautiful and proud culture above personal benefit. White people are visitors in their land but still control it with ruthless indifference.
What I have seen offends me. Foremost it offends me as a humanitarian but as a taxpayer and a long standing businessman I am equally shocked and enraged.
The people of Yirrkala, a gorgeous coastal town at the very north-east tip of Arnhem Land live, on average, 9.6 people to a house. The houses they live in cost approximately $700 per week to rent and they are not allowed to own the property they live in. Think about that for a moment. The people who own the land and have done so for thousands of years, in a protected region of the country are not allowed to own their property. One elder I spent considerable time with has paid rent for 50 years on the same house that sits on his own tribe’s land.
Unemployment is at 98 per cent in Yirrkala but not because the people are unable or unwilling to work, in fact they are desperate to. They have grand but achievable plans to build training centres, businesses and community capability. But it is hard to work when the town consists of one small supermarket and an art gallery for the tourists who occasionally stop by for a few hours during a cruise. I heard first-hand from a government funded body, supposedly there to build community business outcomes, that it will take 7-10 years to get a permit to start a business because of the back log of paperwork at another well-funded government agency. Seven to ten years to get a permit from an outsider — to build a business in their own community to help their own people.
These are traditional owners, elders, leaders, being held back by white people with control of taxpayer money specifically earmarked to help them. My money. Your money.
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I have asked hard questions about the accountabilities surrounding appointed bodies charged with building community businesses and enterprise in a town with neither businesses nor enterprise. The questions, not surprisingly, were met with both alarm and concern.
I want to know where the tens of millions of taxpayer dollars are going. Because it is obvious that it is not going into the community. Why are the traditional owners receiving no financial benefit for the tens of millions of dollars provided by Rio Tinto each year and the hundreds of millions of dollars distributed by the federal government? Why do the royalties of the banana plantation operated by the government appointed body not go back to the traditional owners despite promises they would be? Why are artists being paid 20 per cent or less of the RRP of their artwork?*
I have witnessed many white people living in large houses on the beach front and family after family of Indigenous community members who have to ration food, clothing and electricity just to survive. Electricity costs $1600 a quarter here and petrol costs almost double the prices in Sydney and Melbourne at around $2 a litre.
This is an environment engineered to maintain the status quo.
If Arnhem Land is intended to be a sacred tribal land run by and for the Indigenous community, then why are elders not running or at least controlling the distribution of investment funds. Why does their vision of schools, tertiary and training programs remain unfulfilled? Why are rates of suicide and diabetes at a significant multiple on the rest of the Australian population?
We don't want a 'Minister of Aboriginal Affairs' Turnbull we need our self determination. UN Rights of Indigenous People. #libspill #auspol
— Julie Dowling (@julie_dowling) September 15, 2015
Don’t confuse these queries for naivety. I am well aware that these are complex problems and that many great leaders both Indigenous and white, have been trying to deliver a positive impact in this community for decades. There is no magic bullet, no single fix for the myriad of problems that exist but surely a first step is community control of community assets and resources.
There are three kinds of power co-existing in Arnhem Land:
Positional Authority — government leaders, where power results from the office held
Delegated Authority — government appointed and funded organisations
Practical Authority — tribal elders and genuine community leaders
The reality is that the first two categories are temporary and are subject to the political mood of a constituency who does not understand, nor see what is happening up north. There is much work to do before these communities can thrive and be genuinely self-sufficient BUT if you chase the money trail, I suspect you will quickly understand why this moral stain on Australia is so deep and longstanding.
It is time that white Australia understood that the only way our great Indigenous community can rise up and meet its potential is to invest in its self-determination. Anything else is undemocratic, inhumane and immoral.
* EDITOR'S NOTE: In a previous version of this piece it seems we incorrectly reported that '.. the gallery is not staffed by a single Indigenous artist?' The author has received comments from members of the Yirkalla community to express that the Arts Centre does indeed employ Indigenous community members and so we have have removed this part of the sentence. Arts Centre staff have also told us that the percentage of the proceeds are in excess of 67 per cent of RRP and not 20% orless as reported. However, oher reports have been received since time of publication from other members of the community supporting the latter assertion. IA will continue to investigate this matter.
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Low yield of thyroid-stimulating hormone testing in elderly patients with depression
Shelagh A. Fraser, Kurt Kroenke, Christopher Callahan, Siu Hui, John W. Williams, Jürgen Unützer
Although hypothyroidism is purportedly an important cause of depression, prior studies have involved small samples of young people and produced conflicting results. We examined the yield of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) testing in a large group of elderly patients with major depression or dysthymic disorder. The study sample comprised 883 outpatients aged 60 years or older from 18 primary care sites enrolled in the intervention arm of a clinical trial of depression management. Thyroid function was assessed by a single TSH value. Depressive diagnoses were confirmed with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) and depression severity was assessed with the HSCL-20, a modified depression scale of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist. TSH results were available for 725 (82.1%) participants. Although 32 (4.4%) of those tested had TSH>5 mIU/L, the vast majority (27/32) had marginally elevated results (5.1-9.4 mIU/L). Only five patients (0.7%) had TSH levels >10 mIU/L. Patients with elevated TSH did not differ from those with TSH≤5 mIU/L in the severity or symptom pattern of depression as measured by the baseline HSCL-20 score (P=.37) or SCID score (P=.44). These findings should caution physicians against acceptance of borderline TSH values as the primary cause of a patient's clinical depression.
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Fraser, S. A., Kroenke, K., Callahan, C., Hui, S., Williams, J. W., & Unützer, J. (2004). Low yield of thyroid-stimulating hormone testing in elderly patients with depression. General Hospital Psychiatry, 26(4), 302-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2004.03.007
Low yield of thyroid-stimulating hormone testing in elderly patients with depression. / Fraser, Shelagh A.; Kroenke, Kurt; Callahan, Christopher; Hui, Siu; Williams, John W.; Unützer, Jürgen.
In: General Hospital Psychiatry, Vol. 26, No. 4, 07.2004, p. 302-309.
Fraser, SA, Kroenke, K, Callahan, C, Hui, S, Williams, JW & Unützer, J 2004, 'Low yield of thyroid-stimulating hormone testing in elderly patients with depression', General Hospital Psychiatry, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 302-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2004.03.007
Fraser SA, Kroenke K, Callahan C, Hui S, Williams JW, Unützer J. Low yield of thyroid-stimulating hormone testing in elderly patients with depression. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2004 Jul;26(4):302-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2004.03.007
Fraser, Shelagh A. ; Kroenke, Kurt ; Callahan, Christopher ; Hui, Siu ; Williams, John W. ; Unützer, Jürgen. / Low yield of thyroid-stimulating hormone testing in elderly patients with depression. In: General Hospital Psychiatry. 2004 ; Vol. 26, No. 4. pp. 302-309.
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Meek Mill Sentenced to 2 to 4 Years in State Prison for Violating Probation | #iRockParties
Entertainment, Music, New York by iRockParties November 7, 2017
Rapper Meek Mill has been sentenced to prison for a minimum of two years for violating probation.
The ex-boyfriend of Nicki Minaj was spotted arriving at a Philadelphia court on Monday before a judge ruled that he violated multiple provisions of his probation, according to Philly.com
A rep for Mill, 30, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from PEOPLE.
His sentence comes after Mill — born Robert Rihmeek William — was arrested twice this year.
Explaining why she was imposing a jail term that could be up to four years, Common Pleas Court Judge Genece E. Brinkley, recounted the numerous chances she had given Mill.
“[You are] just thumbing your nose at me,” the judge said, according to Philly.com.
The judge continued, saying that once Mill was in prison, “I’ll be done with you.”
The musician was then immediately handcuffed and taken from the court, Philly.com reports.
His defense attorney Brian McMonagle said he plans to appeal the rapper’s sentence.
PEOPLE confirmed in August that was charged with reckless endangerment in New York City. He later plead guilty to reckless driving.
Months earlier, in March, he was charged with misdemeanor assault after an altercation with employees at St. Louis International Airport. The charges were dropped after he agreed to perform community service.
Despite the charges being dropped, the judge – who has been dealing with Mill for years – ruled the arrests were violations of his probation.
The star was previously in jail for eight months and on probation for five years due to a 2008 conviction for gun and drug charges. In 2016, Mill was placed under 90 days of house arrest for violating probation due to unapproved travel.
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Rest in Peace, meaningful goodbyes
RIP (Rest in Peace) is one of the oldest wishes. People who plan ceremonies with me have this wish at heart. They believe creative, meaningful ceremonies make a difference. RIP may be one of the English language’s most widely understood acronyms. For good reason.
We want peace at death
Probably without a second thought, most people’s best wishes for anyone who has died it that they and their family are peace. We don’t share firm beliefs much any more. But in a world full of restlessness and beset by challenges and uncertainties, we long for peace.
We might think of Rest in Peace as a kind of best wishes at the end of life. RIP is part of our vocabulary for thinking and talking about death or loss. Set phrases like this help when words are hard to find. The wish that a person rest in peace might be spoken aloud by the intimate carer of someone who has died. It might be mentally whispered by a distant friend or a rock star’s fan.
That there should be a vibrant shared peace at the time of death is a great wish. Rest in Peace is worth exploring. Who is it for? How may it best be achieved? If you’re interested in exploring these questions with a third person I am available.
Co-create a non-religious funeral
RIP has come down the ages in cemeteries and graveyards. On the one hand Rest in Peace is a kind of ‘best wishes at the end of life and forever’. On the other it implies belief in everlasting life. It may have been a rough ride here on earth. In the Christian faith a priest can still invoke the ideal of resting in peace in the name of Christ.
If you aren’t religious, co-creating a funeral or memorial ceremony is a great way of exploring what matters most.
Love projects on the street, traumatic death
I see creative work like street art RIPs as ‘love projects’ to loved people. Traumatic death is unbearable. It calls for tributes and they often say RIP. These are my thoughts based on street art I’m familiar with. In Northcote the death of 15-year old Tyler Cassidy shot by the police, is memorialised in a number of laneways. One of the Fitzroy portraits of skater Lewis Marnell, who died suddenly and shockingly from a diabetic hypoglycaemic attack says RIP. Each of these murals connects us to the person who died.
After traumatic death or death by suicide, a well considered funeral that is inclusive of everyone makes a big difference.
Facebook sweetness
Here’s someone who finds the RIP outpourings on Facebook touching. Doreen Felix, a New York writer says: ‘Fans imagined connections with their idols represent one of the few instances, to me, in which the internet has a capacity for sweetness.’ How accepting she is of how hard it is to find words. Yet the impulse to respond to death is there. How to help everyone have a shared, meaningful and creative experience when someone dies? I can help with fitting, creative and meaningful rituals.
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With the rise of the Internet came a new form of sexual offense: Enticement. Across the nation, most states have statutes regulating the proper activities in which adults and children may engage. Simply talking to a child is naturally something that is lawful, but talking to a child in such a way as to entice him/her into a sexual situation is illegal.
Another term for this is “Child Grooming.” The object is to befriend a child so as to form a bond then prey on that trust for sexual gratification. With the rise of the Internet, the ability of unknown adults to tempt children into compromising situations increased. In response, Missouri and other states passed legislation specifically-related to such crimes.
What is Enticement of a Child in Missouri?
Put simply, anyone over the age of 21 who attempts by any means to persuade anyone under 15 to engage in sexual contact of any form, is guilty of “Enticement of a Child” under Section 566.151.1 of the Missouri Revised Statutes.
In charging someone with enticement of a child, the states’ prosecution is stating that the defendant used some means to lure a child into a situation wherein sexual relations with the child may be possible. In many cases, the Internet is a tool which is used for this purpose.
Also in many cases, the “child” is a law enforcement official posing as such for the sake of building a case against the defendant without his/her knowledge. Missouri law specifically allows such behavior making it a non-defense that the alleged child was an officer of the state.
In addition, a person can be charged with Enticement of a Child by simply misrepresenting their age online to a child in a way that would reasonably be interpreted as seeking to engage the child for sexual purposes.
What is the Age of Consent in Missouri?
In Missouri, the age of consent is 17. There is no ‘age gap’ provision but Missouri does allow for an affirmative defense if the age of the victim could have reasonably been mistaken.
What are the Possible Penalties if Convicted of Enticement of a Child Charges?
If you are facing charges of Enticement of a Child, you are facing serious penalties if convicted. Depending on the circumstances, a conviction could result in a sentence of at minimum five years’ state incarceration. However, the maximum penalty is 30 years in prison. Essentially, there are three possible charges: Class B felony, Class C felony, or Class D felony.
Attempting to entice is the Class D felony which carries the lower sentence.
Actual enticement of a child is a Class C felony UNLESS the defendant currently or previously violated other provisions of the law. Other provisions which play into these charges include:
Child endangerment, including the manufacture of methamphetamine drugs
There is physical injury to the child
Degree of contact with the child
Whether there was violence towards the child
If additional provisions are brought into play, the charges may be increased to a Class B felony. In the event of a conviction, the maximum penalties will apply.
In addition to these penalties, fines up to $5000 may be imposed and a conviction for child enticement requires sex offender registration for life. If any professional certifications are held in the state, these may be forfeit.
What Are Defenses to Enticement of a Child Charges?
Defenses to Enticement of a Child depend largely on the evidence and the circumstances. Although each situation may be similar, each is different. It is the differences which can make a huge difference between a conviction or a reduction or even dropping of charges. Your attorney will have many questions for you and will look at the situation from all angles.
If you were apprehended in a sting operation, the evidence is likely to be strong. However, if you were arrested at home, that is, not actively engaged in criminal activity, the defense strategy will be different. In any case, you need an attorney who can lead the charge with compassion and dignity.
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For returned and new volunteers, and friends of the Peace Corps in Kentucky!
KPCA Annual Picnic
Category: KPCA News
Kentucky Peace Corps Community Mini Grant
June 26, 2018 / William Mcilwain / Leave a comment
Sign up for monthly PC Dinners in Lexington!
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Help with KY Peace Corps recruitment activities!
May 31, 2016 / Patricia Siza / Leave a comment
RPCVs are needed to support recruitment events this summer! Help with Peace Corps outreach and enjoy a fun event. Sign up via the links below and RSVP/get reminders on the Facebook group. Come to socialize, swap stories and pick up the latest Peace Corps swag! For questions, contact: ahamilton@peacecorp.gov
· Peace Corps at The Flea Off Market (Louisville, Saturday June 4th, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.)
o Sign up for a time slot here:sign-up sheet
· Peace Corps at LexPrideFest (Lexington, Saturday June 25th, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.)
o Sign up for a time slot here: sign-up sheet
From Angela Hamilton’s newsletter
2016 Kentucky Peace Corps picnic!!
KPCA Picnic/Potluck and Annual Meeting
12 Noon
Annual meeting 2pm
(new officer and board member elections)
At Don and Ida’s farm in Frankfort
(email kypeacecorps@gmail.com for directions)
Please RSVP at http://goo.gl/forms/oFq4rfOYB8CbnFZt2
• A dish to share
• Place settings, plates, cups for your family
• Drinks (we will have a water cooler)
• Chairs, blankets, etc.
• $ for donations, t-shirts, and Marksbury Farms fresh grilled sandwiches
Other optional suggestions
• Bug spray, sunscreen, hats, etc.
• Games (bocci ball, Frisbee, corn hole, etc.)
• There is a creek to play in so bring supplies accordingly, depending on your intentions around that. HA!
• Musical instruments!!! We invite you to share any musical talents you may have with the group.
• Pop up shade tents
• As always, camping is welcome!
• We will have KPCA t-shirts for sale. We have a fresh supply of Small and Mediums as well as the larger sizes. T-shirts are $15 ($20 for XXL)
• As always, we will be collecting donations to help offset the cost of the port-a-potty as well as replenish our bank account. We ask that you consider a donation of $15 per person as a “membership fee” as well as an extra “potty” donation. ☺ All our funds go to help support worthwhile service projects at home and abroad!
A letter from our KY Peace Corps recruiter
May 1, 2016 / Patricia Siza / Leave a comment
Hello Kentucky RPCVs,
I recently completed one year as a Peace Corps Recruiter, and have had the pleasure to meet so many of you around the state. From helping recruit at events to sharing crazy stories from service over a drink, it has been a pleasure. I look forward to continuing to work with you.
I thought it might be helpful to offer periodic on points of interest about Peace Corps and how recruitment is going. This is the first so it’s a bit long…
· University Partnerships: This past spring, after a competitive application process, Murray State University signed an MOU to become the FIRST and ONLY school in Kentucky to offer the Peace Corps Prep program. It will likely launch this fall, and there is much enthusiasm and support all around campus. Other schools that are interested may also apply for the Peace Corps Prep program, or the Coverdell Fellows Program. ßThere are currently NO partner schools in KY for it…c’mon UK and UofL!
· Nashville Recruiter: There is currently a hiring process underway to hire a Regional Recruiter to be based in Nashville, TN. If you are recently returned and still have NCE, you can post your resume here. The Nashville Recruiter will be nearer to and therefore take over the southwest part of the state (Murray and Bowling Green).
· New territory update: From here on out, I’ll also be covering Southwest Ohio, including Cincinnati and Dayton. It will be exciting to visit new places, but I doubt they can beat Kentucky hospitality!
· Peace Corps at any age: This May, Peace Corps is celebrating Older Americans Month and its 55th birthday by reaching out to inspire the 50+ population to serve. A special event will be held on May 17th in Louisville with RPCV guest speakers Lettie Heer, Jordan Dye and John Shealy. Share this video with anyone over the age of 50 that you think would make a great Peace Corps Volunteer, or to find some inspiration to serve again!
· Kentucky PCVs by the numbers: I’ve attached a table showing information about PCVs from colleges and universities around the state in the last 3 years. You are all part of the great legacy of service in the state, and the best asset Peace Corps has to inspire others to serve. If you have ideas or suggestions on how to build up interest at certain schools or among certain groups, feel free to reach out to me!
· Recruiting future PCVs: If you haven’t had a chance to see what the new application process is about, check out these positions that we’re actively seeking candidates for. It’s similar to a hiring process for employment: we’re looking for the best people for the job and to represent America’s diversity in its many forms. Maybe you know the perfect person for the job! I’ll also be in touch about opportunities to help at recruitment events.
Thank you for your continued commitment to Peace Corps and happy Spring!
Angela Hamilton
Regional Recruiter (Kentucky/Indiana/Ohio)
RPCV, Dominican Republic 06-09; Response Guatemala 13-14
Midwest Peace Corps News!!!
February 3, 2016 / Patricia Siza / Leave a comment
News Clips 1.29.16 from Midwest Peace Corps regional office
Midwest Blog stories
How this Peace Corps applicant turned a ‘No’ to a ‘Yes’
Tori Jackson vividly remembers February 24th, 2015. It was the day she received notification that she was not selected for the Peace Corps, and her dreams were suddenly put on hold.
But 30 days was all it took for the Indianapolis native to turn the ‘no’ into a ‘yes’. The George Washington University graduate was determined to make her a dream a reality and spent a month revamping and improving her application. Her hard work paid off, and Tori will begin serving as a secondary English education teacher in Ecuador on Jan. 26.
Continue reading here.
Meet Your Peace Corps Recruiter: Jason Lemberg
“People join Peace Corps for many, many reasons. My reasoning for joining was really quite selfish. I was so turned to Peace Corps knowing it would allow me to experience the ups and downs of living in a foreign land, to learn a new language, and to really explore the caverns of my shifty mind.”
Meet Your Peace Corps Recruiter: Bryce Rinkenberger
Peace Corps gave me the opportunity to get to know myself, practice my skills and better understand the world. It exposed the things that really matter: people, relationships, and appreciating every day. It transformed my whole attitude for life. Gone are the days of dragging myself out of bed to fall into a routine. Now that I’m back home, my life is all about embracing every day, pursuing challenges, and connecting with the people in my life.
Columbus, Ind., native departs for Peace Corps Ecuador
The world is Tim Hofmeister’s classroom and for 27 months there are no boundaries that he will not cross. The Columbus, Ind., native will depart on Jan. 26 for Ecuador to begin training as a secondary education English teacher and will train the local English teachers on new instruction methodologies to implement in the classroom. He will also work with community groups to create need-based development projects for his community and facilitate youth life-skills classes and professional development workshops. A graduate of the Grand Valley State University of Allendale, Mich., he shares below how he was inspired to serve.
RPCVs
MINNESOTA: Each day in Peace Corps brings a crazy adventure: The Hardest Job You’ll Ever Love
Maggie Eisenbeis, 24, of Kasson, is slowly crossing off continent after continent that she has traveled to, but this journey is much more than something to cross off a list.
“She has the continents all marked up on the wall of her childhood room to cross out each continent as she goes there. She is working her way down the list,” said Maggie’s mother Pennie. Maggie’s father is Joe Eisenbeis.
Maggie is currently serving in the Peace Corps in Zambia, in a province called Luapula, which is near the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Music with Motivation: RPCV helps fund an African refugee camp library
As a case manager for homeless youth, Ryan Hall chats with minors in homeless camps about all sorts of topics. Sometimes that includes popular rapper Young Thug.
“If I can connect with someone over music, it’s perfect,” Hall says. “It’s a good, non-threatening way to bridge connections.”
Hall does outreach through Lighthouse Youth Services, talking to homeless kids on the streets and getting a feel for their needs. He uses every opportunity he can to apply his love for music toward his equally strong love of social change.
WIU Peace Corps Fellow Will Serve As Intern In Hillsboro
The city of Hillsboro and Imagine Hillsboro will be getting some assistance from Peace Corps fellow and Western Illinois University graduate student Mary Fuller.
She will be serving an 11-month internship as she works with the city and Imagine Hillsboro on several projects related to community and economic development. These projects include volunteer management and community service, disaster preparedness, job creation and capacity building.
Bradford grad bound for Madagascar with Peace Corps
Jamie Cummings will soon leave everything he knows and travel more than 9,000 miles to work with the Malagasy.
Cummings, 25, of Kenosha, hopes to share his talents and skills in medicine with the people who can benefit from them most. He plans to live in Madagascar for more than two years as a member of the Peace Corps, a volunteer program providing technical assistance to people outside the U.S.
Peace Corps news
From Peace Corps Senegal: Managing Stock Levels with SMS Solution Aids Fight Against Malaria
In the fight against malaria, Senegal has been a leader in West Africa in testing new strategies and implementing innovative solutions that has resulted in a mark decrease in malaria burden. However, one issue constantly plaguing the efforts of program administrators and critically restricting the positive potential of these programs has been the struggle to manage stock levels and avoid stock outs of key materials. Without prophylactic drugs and bed nets, the most vulnerable populations cannot be protected from getting malaria. And without reliable access to medications, those who get malaria cannot be treated.
Peace Corps opens an office on the KSU campus
Kansas State University’s Office of International Programs, with cooperation from Career and Employment Services and the College of Agriculture and K-State Research and Extension, announces the hiring of Becky Carnes as the new campus representative for the Peace Corps.
Peace Corps suspends El Salvador program as violence surges
The Peace Corps has suspended its half-century-old program in El Salvador, highlighting the violence that has wracked the Central American nation and helped propel a wave of migration to the United States.
McFarland native finding friendship, understanding during Peace Corps work
McFarland’s Bridget Norris has spent the last 18 months in western Africa where poverty is rampant, there is no running water or electricity, the infrastructure is underdeveloped, and there are gender disparities.
Exciting new changes for NPCA
October 15, 2015 / Patricia Siza / Leave a comment
NPCA is making exciting new changes to further carry out the Third Goal and promote our Peace Corps mission! Please read below an announcement by Glenn Blumhorst, President of NPCA:
“The National Peace Corps Association’s affiliate groups are the lifeblood of our community. Each one keeps our Peace Corps family connected, advocates on behalf of the Peace Corps and its volunteers, and carries out the Third Goal in its own unique way. That’s why one of the NPCA’s goals is focused on enabling affiliate groups to thrive.
Your NPCA staff and Board of Directors approved new strategies – which I wanted to share with you before we begin rolling them out this week – to expand our community and to make it more robust, inclusive and diverse:
Going forward, membership in the NPCA will be complimentary for every member of the Peace Corps community – serving Peace Corps Volunteers, Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, current Peace Corps staff, former Peace Corps staff, host country nationals and anyone who shares Peace Corps ideals, so long as we have accurate service and contact information. As of January 1, 2016, the dues required for NPCA membership are eliminated. We will continue to promote, collect and remit dues for affiliate groups.
This refreshed community engagement approach aligns with our launch of the boldest and most visionary initiative in the 36-year history of the NPCA: the Peace Corps Community Fund. Members will have the opportunity to support the Peace Corps community as Mission Partners through donations to the Community Fund.
NPCA is partnering with Publishing Concepts Inc (PCI) to produce the 2016 Peace Corps Community Directory. Please encourage your members to respond promptly to the postcards and emails requesting them to verify their contact and service information and share their photos and reflections. The print directory – and a searchable online version – will be published before Peace Corps Connect in Washington, DC next September, when we will honor Peace Corps’ 55th anniversary.
In the days and weeks ahead, I’ll be writing to fill you in on these exciting plans and how your group can be a part of them. Meanwhile, I invite you to learn more about these initiatives in the Community section of the NPCA website.
Thank you for all you do as members of our Peace Corps Community.”
Glenn Blumhorst
RPCV Guatemala 1988-1991
RPCV’s making the news! Weekly local spotlight
September 28, 2015 / Patricia Siza / Leave a comment
Read below for stories about RPCV’s making positive changes in their hometown and beyond. Compiled by the Peace Corps Midwest Regional office.
Illinois: VIDEO – Changing lives together through Illinois State’s Peace Corps MI program: https://stories.illinoisstate.edu/magazine/illinois-state/state-side/video-changing-lives-together-through-illinois-states-peace-corps-program/
MINNESOTA: Kyrgyzstan RPCV’s mother writes a book about her Peace Corps service: http://www.swnewsmedia.com/chaska_herald/half-a-world-a-way/article_0ebfac11-b83d-52e1-bfbd-c2ccdf52118b.html
SOUTH DAKOTAN: Ukraine RPCV earns recognition as first female commander for a South Dakota National Guard unit: http://www.yankton.net/community/article_fb993b04-5cec-11e5-9a3c-c3a075ee9e8f.html
MISSOURI: RPCVs recalling Peace Corps training in the U.S.: http://kbia.org/post/thinking-out-loud-returned-peace-corps-volunteers-recall-1966-mu-and-three-creeks-training
Peace Corps Stories
Interview with RPCV who was first woman of color to go in space: http://fortune.com/2015/09/12/first-woman-of-color-in-space/
Why job candidates from Peace Corps, AmeriCorps are good for business – column by Peace Corps director: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carrie-hesslerradelet/why-job-candidates-from-p_b_8148698.html
MINNESOTA: Savage native begins Peace Corps service in Senegal: http://midwestpcvs.com/2015/09/18/savage-minn-native-begins-peace-corps-service-in-senegal/
MICHIGAN: Berrien Springs native begins Peace Corps service in Mozambique: http://midwestpcvs.com/2015/09/16/berrien-springs-mich-resident-begins-peace-corps-service-in-mozambique/
MISSOURI: St. Louis native begins Peace Corps service in Paraguay: http://midwestpcvs.com/2015/09/16/st-louis-native-begins-peace-corps-service-in-paraguay/
OHIO: Ohio native takes advantage of Peace Corps Master’s International Program: http://midwestpcvs.com/2015/09/15/ohio-native-takes-advantage-of-the-peace-corps-masters-international-program/
MISSOURI: Peace Corps visits Lincoln University to find the next generation of international volunteers: http://midwestpcvs.com/2015/09/14/peace-corps-visits-lincoln-university-to-find-the-next-generation-of-international-volunteers/
OHIO: Ohio native brings passion for agriculture to Peace Corps Paraguay: http://midwestpcvs.com/2015/09/11/ohio-native-brings-passion-for-agriculture-to-peace-corps-paraguay/
New Peace Corps Pledge perfectly encapsulates vision and goals of service.
If you ever wondered what Peace Corps service was all about and what it means to us, read our new pledge written for the swearing-in of volunteers. It was written by Meleia Egger, former RPCV to Malawi and current Peace Corps Third Goal Program Specialist.
The Peace Corps Pledge:
I, first, last name, promise to serve alongside the people of country of service.
I promise to share my culture with an open heart and open mind.
I promise to foster an understanding of the people of country of service with creativity, cultural sensitivity and respect.
I will face the challenges of service with patience, humility and determination.
I will embrace the mission of world peace and friendship for as long as I serve and beyond.
In the proud tradition of Peace Corps’ legacy and in the spirit of the Peace Corps family — past, present and future — I am a Peace Corps Volunteer.
Meleia Egger, RPCV Malawi, 2007-2009
Recap of Peace Corps Picnic 2015
August 4, 2015 / Patricia Siza / Leave a comment
This year, our picnic was at RPCV Don Stosberg’s farm in Frankfort. We had 55 people in attendance and it was a blast! Representing were volunteers from 21 countries: Costa Rica, Gabon, Ghana, Botswana, Dominica, Guinea, Ethiopia/Eritrea, Zaire, Senegal, Paraguay, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Rwanda, Tanzania, Micronesia, Cameroon, Liberia, Jordan, Nicaragua, and Bulgaria. Local musicians Jeri Howell and Nat Colten provided entertainment and John Mark Hack of Marksbury Farms provided us with delicious local grilled meats. There were also loads of homemade food, swimming and games. We really hope you were able to come out and enjoy the day!
See below for some pictures of this year’s picnic. If you have any more pictures you would like to share, email kypeacecorps@gmail.com.
Kentucky Peace Corps Community Mini Grant June 26, 2018
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2016 Kentucky Peace Corps picnic!! May 12, 2016
A letter from our KY Peace Corps recruiter May 1, 2016
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Willem Dafoe and His Best Friend Feature in Trailer for Disney’s ‘Togo’
The sled dog Togo and his owner Leonhard Seppala (Willem Dafoe) embark on an arduous journey in the uplifting new Disney film, Togo.
It’s 1925 and there’s an outbreak of Diptheria in the Alaska town of Nome – the residents’ only hope is to send their sled dogs on a treacherous 700 mile run to gather an antitoxin serum.
Based on the ‘untold true story’ of the serum run to Nome, the film highlights the bond between Willem Dafoe’s character and his dog Togo, who was initially deemed too small and weak to lead such a race.
We find out from the trailer that Togo wasn’t born to simply be a sled dog, but rather a sled dog leader, with the bond between dog and owner being the key contributing factor in completing such a dangerous mission.
Dog lovers will love Togo by the looks of it, but it also does feel like a truly inspirational film that will appeal to all audiences.
Togo is set to launch exclusively on Disney+ on 20 December 2019, following the likes of other exclusives like Noelle (2019) and the live-action adaptation of Lady and the Tramp (2019).
The film releases right in time for the Christmas holidays and should be a hit for Disney’s streaming service if this new trailer is anything to go by.
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Liminal Theology
What is Liminal Theology?
March 31, 2018 April 20, 2019 Jonathan L. Best Liminal, Love, Theology
What Follows Saturday?
Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid. It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning. Luke 23:53-54 (ESV)
In this world suffering and disease are indeed ‘normal,’ but their very ‘normalcy’ is abnormal. They reveal the ultimate and permanent defeat of man and of life, a defeat which no partial victories of medicine, however wonderful and truly miraculous, can ultimately overcome. But in Christ suffering is not ‘removed’ ; it is transformed into victory. The defeat itself becomes victory, a way, an entrance into the Kingdom, and this is the only true healing.[i]
Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World
The Saturday of Holy Week has always held a certain fascination for me. Settled between death (Good Friday) and life (Easter), Saturday feels forgotten and overlooked. In the Easter story it is a day of silence and uneasiness. For at this point in the story, Jesus’ death signified only failure and disaster. Shouts of violence and death had overwhelmed the singular call of love, justice, and equality that Jesus had so passionately pursued. Humanity’s collective “No!” to Christ wasn’t meant with dramatic intervention or retaliation. In response to unspeakable violence, God was silent. Between Friday and Sunday there was only silence and waiting.
Uncomfortable with the silence, the church filled this day with stories and traditions to alleviate it. Yet, scripture remains agonizingly silent. Saturday, for the most part, remains a time of silence and waiting. Silence in the face of the violence. Waiting for that which is not known. I believe that a true liminality exists within the Easter story. A liminality that exhibits the forgotten narrative of Easter. It is the narrative mystery that lies between death and life, which poses the question: What follows Saturday?
This question seems to haunt the characters of the story. Though scripture provides few details, there must have existed an underlying doubt as to what would happen after Saturday. What will happen on Sunday? What will happen next week or the one after that? Saturday, the first day after the crucifixion, must have felt like a day separate from time. The apparent victory of violence undoubtedly signaled a very different future from the one Jesus’ had promised. For in one day, everything had been thrown into doubt and chaos. The future was now unknown and beyond their grasp. Saturday, the day after, was now a day of coping with this new liminal experience. It was anyone’s guess as to what the new week would bring. Death already had its say. Would it remain the final word going into Sunday? Would there be hope after Saturday? There was no way to know.
Of course, we the readers already know the conclusion to this story. Saturday is now a blip between crucifixion and resurrection. Barely worth mentioning. A day after and before, yet nothing more. But let’s consider how miraculous Saturday was, and what Saturday truly represents for us today. Because Saturday is both our burden and our hope.
So many of us are living in Saturday. It can be the feeling of dealing with a Friday of failure or disappointment. Perhaps it’s a personal failure or a poor decision. Each day then becomes a struggle of living with that failure. Friday has passed, leaving us with only Saturday. A day defined and bound to whatever failure has happened before. Is there hope after failure? Thus, we wait and wonder, and ask: What follows Saturday?
For others, Saturday is coping with the dreaded Friday of disease. When Friday takes away our physical health, it leaves us with the day-to-day struggle of Saturday. Caught between sickness and health, Saturday becomes a physical battle ground of unpleasantness and discomfort. In-between, Saturday leaves us wondering if there will ever be a Sunday. Is there healing after disease? What follows Saturday?
Still, others live in the Saturday of inequality and injustice. Friday represents the social and political ills that plague our country and world. It’s the scourge of economics and the denial of a living wage. It’s the plague of prejudice that inflicts Fridays of racism and sexism that strips away ones’ humanity. It’s the political inaction by the legislatures who no longer care about representing, much less respecting, its citizenry. As such, it leaves us only with Saturday. Again, we are eager for the next day. Will Friday ever be rectified? What follows Saturday?
As people of Saturday, we’re caught between the real-life struggle of death and life. We deal with the burden of the unknown, of not knowing what the future will bring. Thus, not-knowing invokes a dreaded feeling that is both powerful and unsettling. And yet, I have hope. I have hope that reconciliation and restoration await us the day after Saturday. For if the Easter story has shown me one thing, it’s that death can be transformed into new life. Defeat can be transformed into victory.
Through His own suffering, not only has all suffering acquired a meaning but it has been given the power to become itself the sign, the sacrament, the proclamation, the ‘coming’ of that victory; the defeat of man, his very dying has become a way of Life. [ii]
I have hope because God has already transformed death into victory. The Easter story is also a story about Saturdays. It’s a story about living in-between failure and disappointment, sickness and health, injustice and justice, and death and life. Thus, the story teaches us that victory is rarely immediate. There will be periods of living in-between. We will undergo doubt, questioning, frustration, and hardship. Saturday will test us physically, mentally, and spiritually. And yet, Saturday will pass. Easter points to the hope we can still have in the future.
What follows Saturday? I have hope in what follows Saturday.
[i] Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1973), 103.
[ii] Schmemann, 104.
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Making Things Work: Tales from a Cabinetmaker’s Life (Second Edition)
By Nancy R. Hiller
As cautionary woodworking tales go, Nancy R. Hiller’s might just be the funniest – and the most sincere.
Standing in contrast to James Krenov’s “The Impractical Cabinetmaker” from 1979, Hiller’s book, “Making Things Work: Tales from a Cabinetmaker’s Life,” is not about waiting for a particular plank of wood to tell you its true purpose. It is not an exhortation to fuss over each detail, no matter the personal cost.
Instead, Hiller’s funny and occasionally ribald story is about a cabinetmaker who was trained to work at the highest level possible and how she has dealt with the personal anxiety that occurs when the desire and drive for excellence collides with paying the monthly bills.
The backdrop for “Making Things Work” is a cast of characters who could populate a Cohen brothers film – a Missouri furniture maker who masquerades as a Brit to impress his customers. A 30-something client and her older husband who seem hell-bent on cheating every trades worker in the Midwest. And Hiller’s British trainers, who through teasing, criticism and mockery finally let her know what “navy cake” really is.
At the center of it all is Hiller. She seeks to run an honest business, make beautiful things and be fairly paid. Doing all three things at once is an immense challenge, and she tells her odyssey in a series of vignettes that read like a modern-day Aesop’s fable. There is a lesson in each chapter about the craft, business or personal relationships. But it’s up to you to decode them. Her indirect approach is one of the great charms of the book.
If you are considering abandoning your cozy corporate job to make furniture, “Making Things Work” is required reading. It will illuminate you as to how difficult the profession can be. If you are undaunted after seeing the quality of Hiller’s furniture and reading about her struggle to make a living, perhaps you have a shot.
For amateur woodworkers, the book is a great read. Hiller is a fine and precise writer who knows exactly when to land a punch line (sometimes with a sledgehammer).
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AFL-CIO Safety and Health Department
http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Job-Safety/2012-Death-on-the-Job-Report
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This 2012 edition of Death on the Job: The Toll of
Neglect marks the 21st year the AFL-CIO has produced a
report on the state of safety and health protections for
America's workers.
Four decades ago, in 1970, Congress enacted the
Occupational Safety and Health Act promising workers in
this country the right to a safe job.
Since that time, workplace safety and health conditions
have improved. But too many workers remain at serious
risk of injury, illness or death, as demonstrated by
three 2010 disasters: the explosion at the Massey Energy
Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia that killed 29
coal miners-the worst coal mine disaster in 40 years;
the Tesoro Refinery explosion in Washington State that
killed seven workers; and the BP/Transocean Gulf Coast
oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers and caused a
massive environmental and economic disaster.
In 2010, according to data from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, 4,690 workers were killed on the job-an
average of 13 workers every day-and an estimated 50,000
died from occupational diseases. More than 3.8 million
work-related injuries and illnesses were reported, but
this number understates the problem. The true toll of
job injuries is two to three times greater-about 7.6
million to 11.4 million job injuries and illnesses each
year.
The risk of job fatalities and injuries varies widely
from state to state, in part due to the mix of
industries. West Virginia led the country with the
highest fatality rate (13.1 per 100,000), followed by
Wyoming (11.9), Alaska (11.8), South Dakota (8.6) and
North Dakota (8.4). The lowest state fatality rate (0.9
per 100,000) was reported in New Hampshire, followed by
Massachusetts (1.7), Rhode Island (1.8) and California,
Delaware and New Jersey (2.0). This compares with a
national fatality rate of 3.6 per 100,000 workers in
Latino workers continue to be at increased risk of job
fatalities, with a fatality rate of 3.9 per 100,000
workers in 2010. There were 707 fatal injuries among
Latino workers, down from 713 in 2009. Sixty-two percent
of these fatalities (441 deaths) were among workers born
outside the United States.
The cost of job injuries and illnesses is enormous-
estimated at $250 billion to $300 billion a year.
The number of workplace inspectors is woefully
inadequate. The federal Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) and the state OSHA plans have a
total of 2,178 inspectors (892 federal and 1,286 state
inspectors) to inspect the 8 million workplaces under
the OSH Act's jurisdiction. Federal OSHA can inspect
workplaces on average once every 131 years; the state
OSHA plans can inspect them once every 73 years. The
current level of federal and state OSHA inspectors
provides one inspector for every 58,687 workers.
OSHA penalties are too low to deter violations. The
average penalty for a serious violation of the law in FY
2011 was $2,107 for federal OSHA and $942 for the state
plans. Even in cases of worker fatalities, penalties are
very weak. For FY 2011, the median initial total penalty
in fatality cases investigated by federal OSHA was
$11,197, with a median penalty after settlement of
$7,900. For the OSHA state plans, the initial median
total penalty was $6,662, reduced to $5,900 after
settlement. South Carolina had the lowest median current
penalty for fatality investigations, with $1,688 in
penalties assessed, followed by Idaho ($1,750) and Utah
($1,850). Rhode Island had the highest median current
penalty ($43,880), followed by Minnesota ($26,375) and
Wyoming ($20,400).
Criminal penalties under the OSHA law are weak. They are
limited to cases in which a willful violation results in
a worker death and are misdemeanors. Since 1970, only 84
cases have been prosecuted, with defendants serving a
total of 89 months in jail. During this time there were
more than 370,000 worker deaths. By comparison, in FY
2011 there were 371 criminal enforcement cases initiated
under federal environmental laws and 249 defendants
charged, resulting in 89.5 years of jail time and $35
million in penalties- more cases, fines and jail time in
one year than during OSHA's entire history.
Eight years of neglect and inaction by the Bush
administration seriously eroded safety and health
protections. Standards were repealed, withdrawn or
blocked. Major hazards were not addressed. The job
safety budget was cut. Voluntary compliance replaced
strong enforcement. In the absence of strong government
oversight and enforcement, many employers cut back their
workplace safety and health efforts.
The Obama administration has returned OSHA and the Mine
Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) to their mission
to protect workers' safety and health. The president
appointed strong, pro-worker safety and health advocates
to head the agencies -- Dr. David Michaels at OSHA and
Joe Main at MSHA.
The Obama administration has moved forward with new
initiatives to strengthen enforcement and with some new
safety and health standards on job hazards. The
administration has increased the job safety budget and
hired hundreds of new inspectors, restoring the cuts
made during the Bush administration.
But with the election of a Republican majority in the
House of Representatives in 2010, progress in safety and
health is threatened. Business groups and Republicans
have launched a major assault on regulations and have
targeted key OSHA and MSHA rules. In the face of these
attacks, progress on developing and issuing many
important safety and health rules has stalled.
Workers in the United States need more safety and health
protection, not less. Four decades after the passage of
OSHA, there is much more work to be done.
The tragedy at Massey Energy's Big Branch Mine and the
explosion at the Tesoro Refinery highlighted serious
problems in job safety protections and laws. At MSHA,
many coal operators contest violations to try to avoid
being cited for a pattern of violations and subject to
tougher enforcement, including suspending dangerous
operations. At OSHA, the agency has no authority to
require the correction of hazards while employer
contests of violations are pending.
The job safety laws need to be strengthened.
Improvements in the Mine Safety and Health Act are
needed to give MSHA more authority to shut down
dangerous mines and to enhance enforcement against
repeated violators. The Occupational Safety and Health
Act is now more than 40 years old and is out of date.
Congress should pass the Protecting America's Workers
Act to extend the law's coverage to workers currently
excluded, strengthen civil and criminal penalties for
violations, enhance anti-discrimination protections and
strengthen the rights of workers, unions and victims.
The nation must renew the commitment to protect workers
from injury, disease and death and make this a high
priority. Employers must meet their responsibilities to
protect workers and be held accountable if they put
workers in danger. Only then can the promise of safe
jobs for all of America's workers be fulfilled.
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Vines That Will Grow on Masonry Walls
by Victoria Weinblatt
Lush, green vines add natural beauty to stone and brick walls and pleasantly camouflage concrete-block walls. And you can exercise creativity by training the vine's shoots to grow in the pattern you desire. Clinging vines attach themselves to masonry walls in a couple different ways, depending on the vine. Some have tendrils with tiny adhesive disks that cling like Spider Man, while others send aerial rootlets into crevices of rough-textured surfaces. These attributes make clinging vines the best choice for masonry walls. Twining vines can also grow on masonry walls, but typically require a trellis.
Sites With Full Shade
Climbing hydrangea (Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris) and the Japanese hydrangea vine cultivar (Schizophragma hydrangeoides “Moonlight”) grow in full to partial shade and beget white flowers. Climbing hydrangea offers a stunning display of fragrant flowers you can place in fresh and dried flower arrangements, and its reddish-brown bark offers winter interest. This vigorous vine easily attaches to masonry walls and grows 30 to 40 feet tall in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 4 through 7. “Moonlight” climbs masonry walls, blooms for six to eight weeks and offers yellow foliage in autumn. This vine grows 20 to 30 feet tall in USDA zones 5 through 9.
Clay Soil, Black Walnut Trees and Drought
Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) and Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata “Fenway Park”) tolerate clay soil, black walnut trees and drought. Virginia creeper is a terrific cover for masonry walls in USDA zones 3 through 9 and helps control soil erosion. Its foliage emerges purplish, matures to green and becomes purple to crimson-red in the fall. "Fenway Park" easily scales masonry walls, grows in USDA zones 4 through 8 and is invasive in some regions. It exhibits yellow leaves in sunny spaces or lime-green leaves in the shade, and then turns yellow, orange and red in the fall. Both vines for masonry walls grow 30 to 50 feet tall.
Noteworthy Flowers
Cross-vine (Bignonia capreolata “Tangerine Beauty”) and blue passionflower (Passiflora caerulea) produce eye-catching, fragrant flowers. “Tangerine Beauty” easily attaches to walls, displays tangerine-color trumpets that yield 7-inch long seed capsules and has reddish-purple foliage in autumn. This vine grows 20 to 30 feet tall in USDA zones 6 through 9. Expect strikingly unusual blue and white flowers followed by edible fruit on a vine 10 to 25 feet long when you plant blue passionflower in USDA zones 8 through 9. The best place for planting this twining vine is a patch of loose gravely or sandy soil, next to a south-facing brick wall with an overhang to protect it from heavy rain.
Short Walls, Small Gardens
Certain vines are just the right choice for short walls and small gardens. With a little encouragement, you can train clematis (Clematis tangutita “Golden Cross”) to grow on a masonry wall in USDA zones 4 through 9. It grows 5 to 6 feet tall and offers late-blooming flowers. Once winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum) reaches the height of your wall, you can pick it up and drape its shoots over the top so it cascades down the other side. It prefers a south-facing wall with sandy-loam soil in USDA zones 6 through 10 and grows 10 to 15 feet tall. Both vines have yellow flowers.
University of Missouri Extension: Selecting Landscape Plants -- Ornamental Vines
Missouri Botanical Garden: Hydrangea Anomala Subsp. Petiolaris
Missouri Botanical Garden: Schizophragma Hydrangeoides "Moonlight"
Missouri Botanical Garden: Parthenocissus Tricuspidata "Fenway Park"
Missouri Botanical Garden: Parthenocissus Quinquefolia
Missouri Botanical Garden: Jasminum Nudiflorum
Missouri Botanical Garden: Clematis "Golden Cross"
Missouri Botanical Garden: Passiflora Caerulea
Missouri Botanical Garden: Bignonia Capreolata "Tangerine Beauty"
Clemson University Cooperative Extension: Vines
Victoria Weinblatt began writing articles in 2007, contributing to The Huffington Post and other websites. She is a certified yoga instructor, group fitness instructor and massage therapist. Weinblatt received her B.S. in natural resources from Michigan State University and an M.Ed. from Shenandoah University.
Will Clematis Grow on a Wall?
Perennials for a Vertical Accent
Top 10 Small Evergreen Shrubs
Tall Flowers That Grow Near Walls
Plants for Narrow Beds With Stone Walls
Cascading Flowers for Sunny Retaining Walls
Landscape Ideas With Wooden Wagon Wheels
The Best Low Shrub With Color
Small-Leaf Shrubs
Flowers for a Gate Arch
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What The Old Kmart Site May Be
Posted on November 25, 2019 November 26, 2019 by Desiree Avila
Walmart Sells Its Oakland Park Site
According to public record, in 2012, mega-retailer Walmart purchased 670 E. Oakland Park Blvd. for $10,000,000. Kmart continued to function on the site until 2014 while Walmart negotiated its opening with the City of Oakland Park. Walmart was finalizing its plans when they received unsolicited offers on the property according to their spokesperson Phillip Keene. Walmart rethought its plans to open a store on the site and instead put it up for sale.
Katz and Associates’, David Emihovich listed the property for sale. Image courtesy of Katz and Associates.
South Florida based RAM Realty, was one of the companies that took an interest in the Walmart property. RAM Realty specializes in developing distressed properties in markets throughout the Southeastern United States that show high growth potential. RAM Realty’s attorney, Robert Lochrie III, shared with LivingInOaklandPark.com that they are currently under contract to purchase the former Kmart site. Lochrie did not share the negotiated purchase price.
Lochrie said that RAM would like to build a mixed-use community on the site. The preliminary plans include commercial spaces directly facing Oakland Park Blvd. The back end of the property will have 297 luxury residential apartments.
The residential side will have luxury amenities including a clubhouse, business center, swimming pool and spa, a dog park and several pocket parks. The project may also include a boardwalk along the river that runs on the south side of the project. RAM also intends to landscape and make pedestrian improvements all along 6th Ave.
RAM Realty developed The District in Boynton Beach, pictured above,
RAM has not yet finalized its plans for the project so Lochrie was unable to provide renderings to LivingInOaklandPark.com. RAM does plan to have preliminary rendering ready for the neighborhood meeting on December 3rd. For more details about this meeting and how you can participate, click here.
RAM will submit formal plans to the City as they work through the approval processes. Lochrie concluded his correspondence by saying that :
“Ram believes that this site, at a significant crossroads for Oakland Park and neighboring communities, can be developed with a mix of uses that fits the redevelopment goals and vision of the City of Oakland Park”.
Share your thoughts about RAM’s project for the old Kmart site in the comments below.
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8 thoughts on “What The Old Kmart Site May Be”
Kim Greenstein says:
I rather like this idea than a Walmart.
Jeff Helyer says:
I hope they will put an emphasis on a public walkway along the waterway
Rosie robles says:
Awesome idea!!
Adding more unaffordable housing is a waste. The area is already overpriced and pushing hard working people out of neighbors that they’ve lived in for years. I’m ok with more retail space, but more apartments???? Ugghhh no!!!!
William Ormsby says:
Definitely better than Walmart. I sure they maximize the potential of this property.
Nicholas Thompson says:
My grandparents bridge is on 6 avenue so I hope they make a nice boardwalk connecting to it. My grandfather was all about making Browsrd County more beautiful this is a step in the right direction. There is no reason why this building should still be empty. Since it is a beautiful waterfront piece of property the potential is endless. Good luck and whoever takes on this project make Jerry proud.
john a lyons says:
So glad to see this happening….wonderful idea !!
Walter Redd says:
Awesome….100 % approval here. Walmart would have attracted increased crime.
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#OneBigTeam, 2016 presidential election, Al Jazeera America, BridgeGate, Chris Christie, Congress, Hillary Clinton, Morgan Radford, New Jersey, President Obama, Robert Gates, unemployment insurance
WATCH: McAllister Talks with Morgan Radford on Busy Week in American Politics (Jan 12, 2014)
In Video on January 14, 2014 at 1:48 am
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Host Morgan Radford talks with Republican analyst and commentator Lenny McAllister about the latest in American politics Sunday morning on Al Jazeera America
WASHINGTON, DC / PITTSBURGH (January 12, 2014) – (Courtesy Al Jazeera America) – Political commentator and former Republican congressional candidate Lenny McAllister talks to Morgan Radford of Al Jazeera America concerning a busy week of American politics: “BridgeGate” in New Jersey, Sec. Robert Gates’ new book on book shelves, and unemployment woes on Capitol Hill and throughout the United States.
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WATCH: McAllister on Sun News Network’s “Straight Talk” About Sec. Gates’ New Book (January 8 2014)
In Video on January 8, 2014 at 4:52 pm
Lenny McAllister weighs in on an explosive new memoir by Obama’s former defence secretary Robert Gates on “Straight Talk” on Sun News Network
TORONTO / PITTSBURGH (January 8, 2014) – (Courtesy Sun News Network) Republican strategist Lenny McAllister talks with host Adrienne Batra on “Straight Talk” to weigh in on an explosive new memoir by Obama’s former defence secretary Robert Gates.
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Home / News / To histone, or not to histone…
To histone, or not to histone…
15 November 2019 Research News
The nucleus of each and every cell in our bodies is packed with DNA that is 2 metres in length. So, how do you package all of that DNA into something less than the width of a single hair? The answer. Histones. DNA is wrapped around these proteins to form a complex called chromatin and allows the DNA to be packaged up and condensed into a smaller and smaller space.
In almost all eukaryotes, histone-based chromatin is the standard, yet in bacteria, there are no histones. So, how and why have histones become so entrenched in our chromatin structures during evolution, but bacterial genomes don’t need them. Interestingly, another branch of life called archaea – another type of single-celled organism – are even more flexible as some do have histones and some don’t. This makes archaea a great model to help us try and understand how you can build chromatin and whether there is anything special about histones. Can we still get chromatin-like structure if we swap histones for some other protein? Two new research studies published in eLife on 6 November and 11 November by the Molecular Systems group at the LMS shared insights into these questions.
Molecular surface of histones is shown in blue and the DNA in orange wrapped around. Image by Thomas Splettstoesser – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 – https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15327175
Building chromatin-like structures
The archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum grows optimally in very acidic conditions with high temperatures. It doesn’t have histones, but interestingly its ancestors did, so how does this archaeon package its genome without histones? Previous studies had shown that Thermoplasma gained a bacterial protein via horizontal gene transfer – the movement of genetic material between unicellular or multicellular organisms other than through reproduction. Research by Antoine Hocher in the Molecular Systems lab has demonstarted that this bacterial protein has converged to act like a histone in Thermoplasma. Like histones, it prefers binding DNA rich in C and G nucleotides and protects the DNA from nuclease digestion. This shows that you can make similar chromatin structures using different proteins and is a striking case of convergent evolution across different kingdoms of life.
Escherichia coli is a bacterium, which doesn’t have any histones. It is a system that is naïve to histones and hasn’t evolved to deal with histone:DNA structures. The second paper, led by PhD student Maria Rojec, asks the question how this system copes when you add an archaeal histone into the mix. Excitingly, these histones, when expressed in E. coli, bind the genome nearly everywhere in sequence-specific ways and formed repressive structures down-regulating the expression of some genes. The bacteria, however, don’t seem to care much that these histone proteins are bound to its DNA. This research shows that packaging up the DNA into chromatin isn’t completely shutting down gene expression. Instead, histones are being incorporated in the bacterial genome without affecting key processes in the cell, like replication or transcription. It suggests that histones in present day eukaryotes may have evolved initially without interfering with these key DNA processes, and only later became global repressive forces.
Tobias Warnecke, Head of the Molecular Systems Group at the MRC LMS and senior author of both these papers, discussed the next steps for this research:
“We want to explore more ‘odd systems’ with exceptional cases where there are interesting combinations of proteins and we don’t know what the chromatin structure looks like. We want to look at other archaea, algae and other natural histone mutants and dissect chromatin diversity across the tree of life.”
‘Chromatinization of Escherichia coli with archaeal histones’ was published on 6 November in eLife. Read the full article here.
‘The DNA-binding protein HTa from Thermoplasma acidophilum is an archael histone analog’ was published on 11 November in eLife. Read the full article here.
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WATCH: Adrian Loya Murder Trial Day 8
by Ronn Blitzer | 8:13 am, September 8th, 2017
[Watch live coverage of the trial on the LawNewz Network, with in-studio legal analysis in the player above when court begins. For a raw feed of the trial, watch in the player below this article.]
The trial of Adrian Loya continues this morning. Loya, a former Coast Guard member, is accused of shooting Lisa Trubnikova and her wife Anna Trubnikova on February 5, 2015, killing Lisa and injuring Anna. Both were also members of the Coast Guard. Loya is also charged for shooting and injuring Police Officer Jared MacDonald, who responded to the scene.
Loya allegedly broke into the couple’s Massachusetts home armed with multiple guns before opening fire on them, with a video camera strapped to his body to record the carnage.
According to police, Loya wrote a 250-page manifesto detailing why he wanted to kill Lisa. Her family has said Loya had been obsessed with Lisa since they were stationed together.
Loya’s attorneys have claimed that he should not be held responsible because he suffers from mental illness. He was previously examined by a psychiatrist and deemed competent to stand trial, but his defense team had him evaluated by a private psychiatrist as well.
On Thursday, different medical examiners testified as to Loya’s mental condition and whether he was able to conform his behavior to the law. Previously, Dr. Martin Kelly said that Loya had Asperger Syndrome, but both forensic psychiatrist Dr. Judith Edersheim and forensic psychologist Dr. John Daignault said otherwise on Thursday. Dr. Edersheim, who was not able to interview Loya himself, said Loya suffered from borderline personality disorder and avoidant personality disorder, but was able to recognize the wrongfulness of his actions and conform his behavior to the law. Dr. Daignault, on the other hand, said Loya has a depressive disorder, and on the night of the shooting he suffered from a delusional disorder, which prevented him from appreciating the wrongfulness of his actions.
The trial could very well wrap up on Friday, with the jury beginning their deliberations.
Stay with LawNewz.com and the LawNewz Network for continuing coverage of this case.
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By Aaron Keller August 31st
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By Ronn Blitzer August 30th
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Why Nedbank is Focused on Changing How its 30k Employees Approach Learning
Elissa Bass
With technology disrupting the banking world and new competitors popping up every day, the financial industry is in the midst of a metamorphosis. In 2017, Nedbank, South Africa’s fourth-largest bank with 30,000 employees, felt that change coming.
Their goal: embrace it and use it as an opportunity to rethink their business – and further improve how they serve their customers.
“We were facing pressure not just from FinTechs, but from other companies that were developing their own banks,” said Manashka Mathura, L&D Digital Learning Manager for Nedbank’s Group Technology (GT) division. “So we looked at ourselves and we began to ask, are we meeting our customers’ needs, are we meeting them quickly, are we optimizing and are we efficient?”
Nedbank knew that in order to do those things, it needed to transform its culture from a top-down mindset to one that is agile and bottom-up. And that would require an agile learning platform that would promote self-driven and continuous learning.
At the time, Nedbank had primarily focused on instructor-led training, but “found it wasn’t working well to meet the demands of our business,” Mathura said. They needed something that could scale learning across Nedbank and provide on-demand, individualized training.
So, Mathura and her counterparts from Retail Business Banking (RBB), Jacqui Barnes and Merle Van Rijssen, began looking for a learning solution that would not only support a more agile work style, but also one in which employees would see value. After investigating many platforms, they chose LinkedIn Learning.
Among the reasons for the selection: “LinkedIn was considered for our retail business because it is a content library and not a preferred Learning Management System,” said Barnes. “LinkedIn was the preferred choice at the time because other content libraries did not have the extent of learning offerings on some of the latest trending bank-related needs, such as Design Thinking, Python Coding, Cyber Security and Data Science.”
van Rijssen also supported the decision from an ease-of-adoption viewpoint, noting, “LinkedIn allows the learner to activate remotely and with ease, allowing for immediate learner uptake and adoption.”
“We selected LinkedIn Learning because of the vast spectrum of courses, from tech to leadership,” Mathura added. “The breadth and depth of material would provide a great beginning to our new learning program and aligned well with the transformation journey the bank is on.”
NedBank’s Experience with LinkedIn Learning: From 3,000 Licenses to 30,000
In autumn of 2017, the Retail Relationship Banking and Group Technology teams were assigned 3,000 LinkedIn Learning licenses. In both divisions, licenses were primarily assigned by management. Although a number were assigned ad hoc, so both groups could test, pilot and use the information to drive Nedbank forward as a thought leader in each respective area of expertise.
Both divisions saw incredible interest and adoption of LinkedIn Learning. Barnes described the uptake as a “learning ground swell.” As employees got to know about it, other clusters started showing interest too.
From October 2017 to September 2018, 95 percent of those 3,000 licenses were activated. And employees have watched tens of thousands of LinkedIn Learning videos in that time.
In the wake of those successes, Nedbank expanded its LinkedIn Learning investment to 30,000 licenses in 2019, covering nearly the entire workforce. The progressive rollout to all employees is now handled based on cost, need and priority for each business area within Nedbank.
Factors that drove license uptake in Nedbank:
The change within NedBank. Thirty-four new roles were created as part of the organization’s transformation to a more flexible, agile business – meaning a massive reskilling of thousands of employees to take on these roles.
Nedbank’s need for efficiency. Existing roles within Nedbank needed to make use of some of the latest digital tools, methodologies and platforms in order to enhance business productivity and efficiency.
Nedbank’s need to reduce cost-to-income ratio in its retail space. External training vendors were replaced with LinkedIn Learning solutions at a cost reduction and to achieve the same – if not better/quicker - learning outcome.
Nedbank’s collaborative approach. Learning was not forced onto learners in isolation, it was delivered as part of a blended learning journey in places where it was most successful.
Awareness sessions. Retail Banking conducted several awareness sessions using a “top down” approach in order to launch the LinkedIn Learning concept before employees led their own learning.
To foster reskilling, Nedbank used a combination of instructor-led, employee-led and curated LinkedIn Learning courses. The goal was for their learning offerings to mimic the new mindset they wanted to instill – an agile one, where the employee leads the charge, with the company facilitating.
LinkedIn Learning was also integrated into existing Learning and Development processes to ensure sustainability and drive awareness. Events and meetings were held at which the magnitude of the LinkedIn learning platform was showcased, driving awareness from the bottom-up.
“Training had to be available anywhere, any time, and it had to be relevant,” Mathura said. “We had to allow for quick innovation. LinkedIn Learning became part of the bigger plan to go from a training mindset to a learning mindset and ultimately to a learning organization.”
So, yes, engagement of LinkedIn Learning was important. But, really, Nedbank wanted to see if this new approach to learning – a mixture of online and in-person – would help employees feel more prepared for their new roles.
It did.
“With LinkedIn Learning, people were equipped and supported to make their shift successful,” Mathura said. “And it was much more hands-on, engaging and supportive.”
How LinkedIn Learning is Driving Growth and Engagement
What does this all mean to employees? For two real-life examples, look no further than Nedbank employees George Nel and Nicholas Namacha.
The two men, both of whom work in IT, have utilized LinkedIn Learning continuously since the company rolled it out. Nel wakes up early each day for his self-scheduled two hours of learning, while Namacha utilizes the mobile app to take courses while on his commute to and from work, for also about two hours a day.
“The main reason I take all these courses is not to say to my supervisor ‘See what I’ve done’ and get a promotion,” Namacha said. “For me, it is part of my five-year plan. Over the next five years, what do I need to learn, to apply to my own life, to prepare me in the event the doors open? I’m not using LinkedIn Learning for tomorrow or even a year from now. I am using it for my future.”
Along with improving himself, Nel has also begun to use it to build inclusiveness and cross-functional relationships within his 26-member team. He has set up learning paths so team members can enhance their skills in certain areas, for example, Java and Python. This year, he and some other managers will launch a “Guild,” a group that will voluntarily come together regularly to watch courses together.
“It will be a group coming together for the love of the craft,” Nel said. “We will study together and push each other. We had an initial meeting with 60 of us to introduce it, and the response was really good. Offering these courses gives us a place to start. We can leverage each other. We can build relationships.”
In addition to creating relationships and improving skills, both Nel and Namacha talked about taking advantage of LinkedIn Learning for their personal growth. In separate interviews, both spoke of their career goal to rise to the C-suite – and they see LinkedIn Learning as a way to get there.
That’s the message Nedbank wants to send its employees: Nedbank isn’t a place where you stagnate. Instead, it’s a place where you can grow your career.
“We didn’t just buy LinkedIn Learning to hit company goals,” Mathura said. “We did it so our employees can reach their individual goals, too. If both happen, we’ll be set up for long-term success.”
Post updated on April 9, 2019.
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LinkedIn Learning Named a “Leader” by G2 Crowd With a 94% Customer Score
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ROBERT F KENNEDY:Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Ladies and Gentlemen…Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee”
delivered 4 April 1968, Indianapolis, IN
Audio mp3 of Address
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[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio. (2)]
I’m only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening, because I have some — some very sad news for all of you — Could you lower those signs, please? — I have some very sad news for all of you, and, I think, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world; and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it’s perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who are black — considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible — you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.
We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization — black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand, and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion, and love.
For those of you who are black and are tempted to fill with — be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.
But we have to make an effort in the United States. We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times.
My favorite poem, my — my favorite poet was Aeschylus. And he once wrote:
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
until, in our own despair,
against our will,
comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God.
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.
So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King — yeah, it’s true — but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love — a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke.
We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We’ve had difficult times in the past, but we — and we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it’s not the end of disorder.
But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.
And let’s dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.
See Also: Documentary trailer for “Ripple of Hope.“
Video Source: YouTube.com (See also The Greatest Speeches of All Time (The Nostalgia Co.) at www.soundworks.net)
Special Collections Audio: Kennedy Press Aid Frank Manckiewicz Announces the Death of Robert Francis Kennedy.mp3
Also in this database: Edward Kennedy – Eulogy for Robert F. Kennedy
Posted in CIVIL RIGHTS, Nt'l, POLITICAL ANALYSIS, Racism
Obama’s Money Cartel:How he’s fronted for the most vicious firms on Wall Street
In viewing the “race” for president this year I have been astounded by the lack of depth in the coverage given by our so called free press, the “main stream Media”.Reading for content in the local rag, the Dayton Dumb News, is a five minute blitz, leaving the reader to wonder, “where’s the Beef”?
As an equal opportunity Presidential race cynic my focus has been on countering the mythology of “free and open elections” by looking for and posting and reposting articles that define the CLASS nature of the “selection” process.
To think that we are choosing from anyone outside the ruling cabal in Washington, regardless of the smoke and mirrors and the hifalutin rhetoric, is to ignore the underlying forces that actually shape and direct the “process of democracy” in the US of A.
By Pam Martens
Source: CounterPunch
Pam Martens’s ZSpace Page
Wall Street, known variously as a barren wasteland for diversity or the last plantation in America, has defied courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for decades in its failure to hire blacks as stockbrokers. Now it’s marshalling its money machine to elect a black man to the highest office in the land. Why isn’t the press curious about this?
Walk into any of the largest Wall Street brokerage firms today and you’ll see a self-portrait of upper management racism and sexism: women sitting at secretarial desks outside fancy offices occupied by predominantly white males. According to the EEOC as well as the recent racial discrimination class actions filed against UBS and Merrill Lynch, blacks make up between 1 per cent to 3.5 per cent of stockbrokers – and this after 30 years of litigation, settlements and empty promises to do better by the largest Wall Street firms.
The first clue to an entrenched white male bastion seeking a black male occupant in the oval office (having placed only five blacks in the U.S. Senate in the last two centuries) appeared this month on a chart at the Center for Responsive Politics website. It was a list of the 20 top contributors to the Barack Obama campaign, and it looked like one of those comprehension tests where you match up things that go together and eliminate those that don’t. Of the 20 top contributors, I eliminated six that didn’t compute. I was now looking at a sight only slightly less frightening to democracy than a Diebold voting machine. It was a Wall Street cartel of financial firms, their registered lobbyists, ! and go-to law firms that have a death grip on our federal government.
Why is the “yes, we can” candidate in bed with this cartel? How can we, the people, make change if Obama’s money backers block our ability to be heard? (more…)
Posted in BARAK OBAMA, Democratic Party, MSM/Main Stream Media, Political Corruption, PRESIDENTIAL RACE, Racism
Mitt Romney’s Words on the MLK Holiday/Dr. Jerrie L. Bascome McGill
I received this in an email today and was struck by the character insight Dr McGGill provides into Republican Presidential candidate Willard “Mitt” Romney.
Her essay:
“Teach kids they ought to get married before they have babies!”
These were the words spoken by Republican candidate for President, Mitt Romney, after he had posed smilingly with a group of African American children and was asked to make a comment. To publicly speak his thoughts in this way on any day gives all of us a clear indicator of his skewed beliefs about a people. But to publicly pronounce his belief that promiscuity is factual within African American youth on the day the nation paused to honor a world renown African American visionary is absolutely egregious. (more…)
Posted in Education Issues, Racism, Republican Party
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The following essay was presented as a panel at Ice and Fire Con in April 2019
Worldbuilding is a concept familiar to many of us as the process of fleshing out an imaginary world for fictional characters to live in. It’s a term that’s actually been around for two hundred years and has been widely applied to criticism of sci-fi and fantasy for about the past fifty. The constructed world has geography (in the form of maps), ecology (the environment) and physics (how objects in the world behave alone and in relationship to each other), and often history, and character backstory. As far as process goes, building a world can happen either in a “top down” or “bottom up” fashion, or some combination of the two. Those are systems terms that are applied to the writing process to help untangle the complexities authors face when constructing a functional world.
GRRM uses the terms “architect” and “gardener” to describe the same processes, noting that he himself identifies *primarily* as a gardener. So, in his words “gardeners […] dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.” But at the same time he’s very careful to note that he does have broad outlines worked out, which makes perfect sense to everyone who’s ever planted a garden. You start with a plan, the architecture of your landscape and a blueprint for your plants, but perhaps the things you plant don’t behave as you thought they would. Maybe one variety gets outrageously large, while another fails to thrive. Some gardeners adjust, transplant, divide, try new varieties and generally nurture until getting an outcome they’re satisfied with. Others might feel the need to start over until they can wrangle their garden into its predestined shape. GRRM, in his own words, is the former type, to whom the growth of the characters (representing the plants in his garden) is of primary importance. As he’s said “my natural inclinations, the way I work, is to give my characters the head and to follow them.” But this inclination isn’t without its problems, since sometimes his characters can lead him into blind alleys (like Tyrion at the Bridge of Dream in Chroyane) or get him tangled up in knots (Oh, Daenerys…)
At the same time, the foundation of the garden remains extremely important. The underlying structure can provide everything from nourishment to support to visual enhancements. In the same way, worldbuilding supports the narrative. Whether it happens from the top down, following a careful blueprint, or takes a more organic, bottom up approach, the work put into building the world pays dividends in texture and realism. And as GRRM has said about his penchant for turning to real world history for inspiration “I [want] to get the feel right, the details right, and give it as much verisimilitude as possible.”
In 2018 when announcing his endowment of a Worldbuilders Scholarship at Clarion West Writers Workshop, GRRM noted that:
Every great story requires interesting characters, an engrossing plot, evocative prose, an important theme… but epic fantasy also requires a memorable setting […] a world both like and unlike our own, with its own rich history and geography and customs, its own beauties and terrors […] The best fantasy carries us far from the fields we know, to worlds beyond the hill, worlds that, once visited, live on in our imaginations for the rest of our lives. They assume their own reality, these imaginary worlds. Millions of people have never visited Rome or Paris, yet they know the Colosseum and the Eiffel Tower by sight. Rivendell, the Shire, and the Mines of Moria are instantly recognizable in much the same way to countless readers around the world. The history of fantasy is rich with such imagined landscapes.
And A Song of Ice and Fire is set in a particularly rich and well imagined world. Even before the release of The Lands of Ice and Fire map book, the historical novellas, The World of Ice and Fire, and Fire & Blood, the world of Westeros had achieved a level of realism few series rise to. While the organic style of the author can lead to issues with things like timeline and tying together the far flung Seven Kingdoms and even farther flung communities of Essos, the very existence of a detailed history and backstory in Westeros makes the world feel more real, lived in. This sort of thing works even when it’s only hinted at, or referred to in an offhand way, perhaps especially well in those cases. Consider that when I refer to George Washington, I don’t need to explain who he is, because his existence is common knowledge in our culture. In the same way, a similar reference to common knowledge shared by characters in the story gives us a sense that they’re real people, living a reality that makes sense to them. And one of the most effective tools in the author’s toolbox in creating that feeling is the story within a story technique that Martin deploys to great effect when relating the historical legends of Westeros.
So, now I’m going to take a look at a few of those stories to get a sense of how storytelling by secondary characters adds to the tapestry of detail the author uses to construct a fully realized world for his story to unfold in, at the same time as providing a valuable vehicle for advancing the narrative. The first of these secondary characters is Old Nan, who as a caregiver for generations of Starks, spent many hours off page schooling them in the legendary history of their lands and family so as to give several of the primary characters knowledge of significant stories. The fact that this knowledge is shown in many cases to be shared amongst the Stark siblings multiplies the sense of realism these legends add to the story. As a first example of storytelling as worldbuilding, here’s Old Nan’s story of the Last Hero.
Old Nan’s Tale
“Oh, my sweet summer child, what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods.”
“Thousands and thousands of years ago, a winter fell that was cold and hard and endless beyond all memory of man. There came a night that lasted a generation, and kings shivered and died in their castles even as the swineherds in their hovels. Women smothered their children rather than see them starve, and cried, and felt their tears freeze on their cheeks.”
“In that darkness, the Others came for the first time. They were cold things, dead things, that hated iron and fire and the touch of the sun, and every creature with hot blood in its veins. They swept over holdfasts and cities and kingdoms, felled heroes and armies by the score, riding their pale dead horses and leading hosts of the slain. All the swords of men could not stay their advance, and even maidens and suckling babes found no pity in them. They hunted the maids through frozen forests, and fed their dead servants on the flesh of human children.”
“Now these were the days before the Andals came, and long before the women fled across the narrow sea from the cities of the Rhoyne, and the hundred kingdoms of those times were the kingdoms of the First Men, who had taken these lands from the children of the forest. Yet here and there in the fastness of the woods the children still lived in their wooden cities and hollow hills, and the faces in the trees kept watch. So as cold and death filled the earth, the last hero determined to seek out the children, in the hopes that their ancient magics could win back what the armies of men had lost. He set out into the dead lands with a sword, a horse, a dog, and a dozen companions. For years he searched, until he despaired of ever finding the children of the forest in their secret cities. One by one his friends died, and his horse, and finally even his dog, and his sword froze so hard the blade snapped when he tried to use it. And the Others smelled the hot blood in him, and came silent on his trail, stalking him with packs of pale white spiders big as hounds-”
So this story forms part of the background knowledge of the Stark siblings, thanks to Old Nan they seem to know as much about the Last Hero and other legends of the north as they do about the written history of Westeros. GRRM does a marvelous job in achieving verisimilitude by creating tension between written history, left in the hands of the maesters, and oral history or legend, relayed by a class of characters that we might call the storytellers. Anyone familiar with the story of A Song of Ice and Fire knows that the Others are growing in significance to the narrative, and in the main narrative MOST characters, those who rely on the “official” histories of the maesters, simply don’t believe in them.But the facts of their existence and their renascence is becoming painfully obvious. This story is absolutely packed with details, about the last hero, the Others, the long night, the timeline of settlement and more, and we expect that crucial bits of information from Old Nan’s tale will turn out to be very useful in the pages and scenes to come—such as the fact that the Others hate “iron and fire and the touch of the sun” and most critically, the fact that Bran Stark knows the ending, as we learn later in same chapter:
All Bran could think of was Old Nan’s story of the Others and the last hero, hounded through the white woods by dead men and spiders big as hounds. He was afraid for a moment, until he remembered how that story ended. “The children will help him,” he blurted, “the children of the forest!”
This story within a story technique (aka hypodiegesis) can hint at the future, disclose background of characters or reveal backstory that influences main plot. So while GRRM has said these events are as remote from characters in the story as we are from Gilgamesh/Noah, this tale turns out to be not only an entertaining way to bring us into a richly imagined past, but is also highly significant to the narrative. And sure enough, three books and nearly ten years later, GRRM made another revelation about the Last Hero which can be paired with the information from AGoT. In AFfC, Samwell Tarly of the Night’s Watch tells Jon Snow, who shares in the same background knowledge Bran has:
“The armor of the Others is proof against most ordinary blades, if the tales can be believed, and their own swords are so cold they shatter steel. Fire will dismay them, though, and they are vulnerable to obsidian. I found one account of the Long Night that spoke of the last hero slaying Others with a blade of dragonsteel. Supposedly they could not stand against it.”
So GRRM is playing long game of a slow reveal using backstory that is found in books and legends by his characters in story to hint at the future of his narrative. From these far flung hints, we assemble the knowledge that the Children of the Forest helped the Last Hero to defeat the Others, which he did using a blade of dragonsteel. We learn elsewhere that the Children were the source of the knowledge that the Others are vulnerable to obsidian, we also hear that they did not forge blades of metal, but used obsidian in all their weapons. So while according to Old Nan the Children helped the Last Hero to defeat the Others in some significant way, we have to look elsewhere for the origin of the blade he used since we know from Nan’s tale that the sword he set out with had broken as he sought the Children. And sure enough in ACoK, many leagues to the south and in a character PoV that at the time had nothing to do with the North, the Wall or the Others, another secondary character related a story that seems unrelated on first listen. Here’s the Lysene pirate, Sallador Saan’s telling the Legend of Lightbringer to Ser Davos Seaworth.
The Legend of Lightbringer
“Do you know the tale of the forging of Lightbringer? I shall tell it to you. It was a time when darkness lay heavy on the world. To oppose it, the hero must have a hero’s blade, oh, like none that had ever been. And so for thirty days and thirty nights Azor Ahai labored sleepless in the temple, forging a blade in the sacred fires. Heat and hammer and fold, heat and hammer and fold, oh, yes, until the sword was done. Yet when he plunged it into water to temper the steel it burst asunder.
“Being a hero […] again he began. The second time it took him fifty days and fifty nights, and this sword seemed even finer than the first. Azor Ahai captured a lion, to temper the blade by plunging it through the beast’s red heart, but once more the steel shattered and split. Great was his woe and great was his sorrow then, for he knew what he must do.
“A hundred days and a hundred nights he labored on the third blade, and as it glowed white-hot in the sacred fires, he summoned his wife. ‘Nissa Nissa’ he said to her, for that was her name, ‘bare your breast, and know that I love you best of all that is in this world.’ She did this thing, why I cannot say, and Azor Ahai thrust the smoking sword through her living heart. It is said that her cry of anguish and ecstasy left a crack across the face of the moon, but her blood and her soul and her strength and her courage all went into the steel. Such is the tale of the forging of Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes.”
So, this story tells us of a magical blade, which we learn elsewhere was instrumental in defeating the “Great Other” and ending a period of catastrophic darkness. Within the narrative of ASoIaF, Saan is telling Davos Seaworth about the original Lightbringer, so that he can judge the authenticity of the one Stannis had pulled from the chest of the statue of the mother in the burning sept on Dragonstone. For the close reader though, there are connections to be made between this story and Old Nan’s tale of the last hero which serve another function to the narrative. GRRM is laying clues to his end game. He does this using thematic references in character arcs that refer back to these legends that exist in the background.
Now, the very existence of a diverse pantheon of legends that are related both orally and in texts within the narrative is a marvelous piece of worldbuilding. You could almost view this as an example of internal intertextuality, the process of a text shaping the meaning of another text, in this case tales of the Long Night are used as a device inside the narrative to weave a complex web of backstory that not only builds the world through a series of connections, but also holds great significance to the narrative arc.
And speaking of connections, the Legend of Lightbringer ends with a reference to the moon cracking. Well, back in a AGoT we hear a story in Daenerys Targaryen’s PoV about the moon that just might be connected to the Lightbringer mythos.
Doreah’s Story
“A trader from Qarth once told me that dragons came from the moon,” blond Doreah said as she warmed a towel over the fire. […]
Silvery-wet hair tumbled across her eyes as Dany turned her head, curious. “The moon?”
“He told me the moon was an egg […] Once there were two moons in the sky, but one wandered too close to the sun and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand dragons poured forth, and drank the fire of the sun. That is why dragons breathe flame. One day the other moon will kiss the sun too, and then it will crack and the dragons will return.”
So this brief tale from the Far East of the world, introduced a multi cultural element to the narrative and added texture to the story. Many years later, TWoIaF confirmed the Qartheen origin:
“in Qarth the tales state that there was once a second moon in the sky. One day this moon was scalded by the sun and cracked like an egg, and a million dragons poured forth.”
Doreah’s story suggests that fire might be involved in hatching dragon eggs, which becomes significant to the narrative very shortly after she relates it. But perhaps more significantly, with the publication of the next book we saw that it contains a point of intersection with the Lightbringer story that suggests that there might be a connection between the two. The cracked moon in the former story was a result of Azor Ahai’s wife Nissa Nissa’s cry of anguish as he sacrificed her in the forging of his magical blade. In the latter story the crack is explained by the moon wandering “too close to the sun”, and the result was the birth of dragons. Both stories contain elements of sacrifice, fire, and creation and the one may in fact simply be an alternate or symbolic rendering of the other, each informed by the culture they took root in. That all these elements might be part of a larger, cyclical tale is a rather compelling idea and a lot of fun for the engaged reader to consider.
The impact of using storytelling as a worldbuilding technique is reflected in the complexity of the narrative. At the same time a diversity of stories adds to the realism of the tale. Stories from the North like Brave Danny Flint, Mad Axe, 79 Sentinels, Arson Iceaxe, and the ‘Prentice boys are mentioned to add depth to the portrayal of a cultural history that directly impacts the main story. The story of the Rat Cook, which derives from the same pantheon, has a specific relevance as it’s used to elaborate on a precept that has huge significance to the narrative. The interesting thing about this story is that it’s only mentioned in passing, so we don’t have a left to right narrative as we do with the Last Hero and Lightbringer stories. But it’s possible to compile the references from several places to tell a coherent tale:
The Tale of the Rat Cook
In the North, they tell the tale of the Rat Cook, who served an Andal king —identified by some as King Tywell II of the Rock, and by others as King Oswell I of the Vale and Mountain— the flesh of the king’s own son, baked into a pie.
The Rat Cook “chopped the prince to pieces” and cooked the son of the Andal king in a big pie with onions, carrots, mushrooms, lots of pepper and salt, a rasher of bacon, and a dark red Dornish wine. Then he served him to his father, who praised the taste and had a second slice. Afterward the gods transformed the cook into a monstrous white rat who could only eat his own young. He had roamed the Nightfort ever since, devouring his children, but still his hunger was not sated. [But] “It was not for murder that the gods cursed him,” Old Nan said, “nor for serving the Andal king his son in a pie. A man has a right to vengeance. But he slew a guest beneath his roof, and that the gods cannot forgive.”
The concept of guest right is hugely significant to the narrative of ASoIaF and GoT, most notably in the Red Wedding and its aftermath. The story of The Rat King helps explain characters’ reactions to that and other events, and as a parallel to a specific event that occurs later in the story (*spoiler– Manderly’s pies) it helps the reader to apprehend what’s really going on in the main story, while allowing the author and his characters to continue obscuring the action. It’s really a masterful device, which again serves the dual purpose of advancing the narrative and providing a foundation for it.
And then there are the stories that appear at first glance seem to do little to advance the narrative. But setting mood is a valuable part of narrative and worldbuilding both, so the final story is Nimble Dick Crabb’s Squishers.
“Best we keep a watch tonight, m’lady,” Crabb told her, as she was struggling to get a driftwood fire lit. “A place like this, there might be squishers.”
“Squishers?” Brienne gave him a suspicious look.
“Monsters,” Nimble Dick said, with relish. “They look like men till you get close, but their heads is too big, and they got scales where a proper man’s got hair. Fish-belly white they are, with webs between their fingers. They’re always damp and fishy-smelling, but behind these blubbery lips they got rows of green teeth sharp as needles. Some say the first men killed them all, but don’t you believe it. They come by night and steal bad little children, padding along on them webbed feet with a little squish-squish sound. The girls they keep to breed with, but the boys they eat, tearing at them with those sharp green teeth.” He grinned at Podrick. “They’d eat you, boy. They’d eat you raw.”
“If they try, I’ll kill them.” Podrick touched his sword.
“You try that. You just try. Squishers don’t die easy.”
So comic relief for sure, and if you’ve listened to our Brienne episode you know just how amusing we find this passage. But this particular story does more than relieve the tension of a monotonous journey. It actually sets up a feeling of dread that will prevail when, having passed through the dreary pine woods and bogs of Crackclaw Point, the trio arrive at the Whispers, which incidentally is named for another story Dick Crabb told Brienne:
“Ser Clarence Crabb […] was eight foot tall, and so strong he could uproot pine trees with one hand and chuck them half a mile. No horse could bear his weight, so he rode an aurochs […] His wife was a woods witch. Whenever Ser Clarence killed a man, he’d fetch his head back home and his wife would kiss it on the lips and bring it back t’ life. Lords, they were, and wizards, and famous knights and pirates. One was king o’ Duskendale. They gave old Crabb good counsel. Being they was just heads, they couldn’t talk real loud, but they never shut up neither. When you’re a head, talking’s all you got to pass the day. So Crabb’s keep got named the Whispers. Still is, though it’s been a ruin for a thousand years. A lonely place, the Whispers.”
For what it’s worth, Clarence Crabb bears a distinct resemblance to the American folk hero Paul Bunyan, but with a macabre twist. And in case you missed it, the story of the Whispers also contains an offhand reference to a magical kiss that just might be a legendary antecedent of the kiss of life we see in the main story. So Nimble Dick spends the outward journey from Maidenpool telling an apparently never ending series of legends about Crackclaw Point, all of which serve to build up the horror vibe of the chapter. And that’s no accident because the Squishers are almost certainly an homage to H.P. Lovecraft’s Deep Ones, described here:
I think their predominant color was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked … They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design – living and horrible.
It’s nothing new to talk about GRRM’s love of Lovecraft and its influence on the story. The ironborn Maester Theron is said to have written a treatise called Strange Stone all about the oily black stone that was mentioned repeatedly in TWoIaF claiming that objects made from the black stone quote “might be the work of a queer, misshapen race of half men sired by creatures of the salt seas upon human women” a race which Theron named The Deep Ones, the source of legends of merlings, while their fathers are quote “the truth behind the Drowned God of the ironborn.”
And while it’s not made clear whether Theron’s Deep Ones are related to Squishers, it doesn’t take a great expertise in the Lovecraftian mythos to see the similarities between the Squishers and Lovecraft’s description of his own Deep Ones. Using an homage to Lovecraft in a setting where he hopes to build horror, such as the Whispers, is a classic tactic of GRRM using what he hopes is the reader’s background knowledge to create expectations. Finally, with the character of Nimble Dick we’re offered a collection of related stories that create a convincing depth to that particular area of Westeros, while allowing the author to draw upon his references later to create a feeling of cohesion with his greater world.
By their nature history and legend provide texture to the world, and all of these stories in the background add tremendous depth, contributing to GRRM’s overall worldbuilding technique. By providing a literary and legendary past to Westeros, Martin imbues his world with realism akin to our own, giving it a relatable structure that enhances the reader’s understanding and enjoyment. In ADwD, Jojen Reed says to Bran Stark:
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies […] The man who never reads lives only one. “
Similarly, a world with stories is a world with thousands of lives, not just a single thread. The background stories and tales within the main narrative function to support the overall expansive feel GRRM’s multi stream narrative fosters. In other words, ASoIaF gets depth from its history and legendary past, and breadth from its multi PoV structure. That the background information comes to us through both oral and written traditions adds to the world’s verisimilitude, to use Martin’s term. But the Last Hero and Azor Ahai and Lightbringer and the Rat Cook aren’t only window dressing. In A Song of Ice and Fire the past informs the present and the future. GRRM uses worldbuilding in a unique way that presses all the elements into dual service. In so doing, he’s created a world that is both real and fantastical at the same time, which functions on multiple levels. It’s possible to read ASoIaF in an entirely casual way and still enjoy and appreciate the work the author has presented. But the constructed world has so many layers that for the close reader, or the super-fan or fan analyst it’s possible to dive deep and find those hints, allusions, foreshadowings and homages. That’s what draws many of us in and I hope you’ve enjoyed this little foray into some of the minutiae of ASoIaF.
asoiaf meta, last hero, lightbringer, podcast, Squishers, Storytelling, the rat cook, Worldbuilding
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Apple’s AirDrop and password sharing features can leak iPhone numbers
Friday, August 2, 2019 3:36 pm 2 Comments
Dan Goodin for Ars Technica:
Apple makes it easy for people to locate lost iPhones, share Wi-Fi passwords, and use AirDrop to send files to other nearby devices. A recently published report demonstrates how snoops can capitalize on these features to scoop up a wealth of potentially sensitive data that in some cases includes phone numbers.
Simply having Bluetooth turned on broadcasts a host of device details, including its name, whether it’s in use, if Wi-Fi is turned on, the OS version it’s running, and information about the battery. More concerning: using AirDrop or Wi-Fi password sharing broadcasts a partial cryptographic hash that can easily be converted into an iPhone’s complete phone number. The information — which in the case of a Mac also includes a static MAC address that can be used as a unique identifier — is sent in Bluetooth Low Energy packets.
The information disclosed may not be a big deal in many settings, such as work places where everyone knows everyone anyway. The exposure may be creepier in public places, such as a subway, a bar, or a department store, where anyone with some low-cost hardware and a little know-how can collect the details of all Apple devices that have BLE turned on. The data could also be a boon to companies that track customers as they move through retail outlets.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s a trade-off. Apple wants to make sharing easy enough for average users and also, by using partial cryptographic hashes, make it not a trivial thing to grab this info.
Security firm Hexway, which published the report, includes proof-of-concept software that demonstrates the information broadcast.
Hexway also posted a video to YouTube:
Xitizen C
Friday, August 2, 2019 at 10:04 pm
I told Tim Bluetooth Low Energy or BLE was a load of BaLoNey! Now they have to fix it. Apple will get it done though, I have lent them my tiger spirit energy – #winning!
FUMDN
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 2:33 am
pathetic imposter still has no life. you are truly pathetic.
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Tim Cook reveals surprise behind the scenes look at 'Little America'
applecynic on Tile will testify against Apple in U.S. Congressional antitrust hearing today
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Organizational Citizenship Behavior Towards Sustainability Dhiman Deb Chowdhury
Robert Gordon University, UK This article extends literature of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) in the context of corporate sustainability. The author presents the concept of Organizational Citizenship Behavior towards Sustainability (OCBS) as a variant, contending it’s appropriateness for today’s much needed behavioral competence to implement sustainability measure at organizational level. The formulation of OCBS espouses Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) with a twist. The viewpoint defended that a form of “constructive controversy” in behavioral attribution as oppose to compliance is necessary in the development of proactive and creative competence for corporation to meet multiple stakeholder’s needs and demands towards organizational, economic, social and environmental equity. The study identifies key determinants of OCBS, including sustainability culture, leadership support and organizational commit. Keywords: Bilateral corporate sustainability, sustainability performance, organizational citizenship behavior, organizational commitment, organizational sustainability JEL: D23, M12
Corporations are the economic powerhouse of
surface. We the human, our societies and nations
the world: of the 100 largest economies, 51 are
corporations and only 49 are countries and
resources into wealth (Dunphy, Griffiths and
revenue of fewer than top 200 corporations are
Benn, 2003) and thus to help run the contraption
bigger than combined GDPs of all countries
of world economy. However, the degree to which
excluding top 10 GDPs (Anderson and Cavanagh,
earth’ s resources being exploited would leave
2000). However, corporate influence does not
little for future generation and ensued fallout
stop there; it is persuasive to our very life,
could even threaten the human existence. Apart
societies and nations: such corporate influence
from environmental concerns, socio-economic
challenges could also be somewhat attributed to
advertisements, job opportunity, influence on
behavioral issues of corporations. For example,
earth’ s
caused
economic and political agreements. Downside of
“ economic shakeup” has been linked to human
such encompassing corporate influence is that it
actions and inactions related to corporations and
can drive us over the edge if left unchecked; the
regulatory bodies (FCIC, 2011). The presidential
issue is much enticing than it is perceived on the
investments and banking services firms directly or Manuscript received December 20, 2012; revised February 15, 2013; accepted March 5, 2013. Corresponding author Email: [email protected]
indirectly meltdown,
contributed languishing
Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2241827
lending American
29 Chowdhury without jobs. However, such detrimental behavior
(OCB)” that he posited as an effective conduit in
corporations e.g. Enron (Watkins, 2003; Swartz
scholarly investigations found compelling data
and Watkins, 2003; Seeger and Ulmer, 2003).
related to OCB and organizational effectiveness
detrimental
including it’ s financial performance, employee
behavior is a matter of concern that led to many
retention and proactive competence at individual
measures.
undertakings
promise,
Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) has
environmental received less degree of success
many shortcomings including inapplicability of
than anticipated in recent era due to increasing
some behavioral dimensions e.g. “ compliance”
deprivation of endogenous qualities (FCIC, 2011;
in the development of organizational capability to
Dunphy, Griffiths and Benn, 2003; Romano,
2004) of corporations and lack of dynamic
adjustments on the part of regulatory measures
environmental equity.
(Broomley, 2007). Romano (2004) claims that
legislative measure alone is not enough to curtail
important in corporate sustainability discourse,
corporate misbehavior in the disposition towards
economic, social and environmental equity. The
espousing
Sustainability (OCBS) deriving the concept by
doctrines overlooked importance of behavioral
modifying OCB construct and contending it’ s
competence despite it’ s subtle presence in
competence to meet endogenous and exogenous
whether
discourse:
organizational behavior, management science, human
change management and organizational cultural studies.
importantly,
determining factor is a pursued “ fundamentals” in sustainability discourse despite it’ s otherwise implicit reference (Linnenluecke and Griffiths, 2010; Linnenluecke, Russell and Griffiths, 2009; Salzmann, Ionescu-Somers and Steger, 2005). An interesting parallel to this scholarly inquiry is the postulation of Prof Denis Organ that received much attention in organizational studies. Prof Organ connoted a latent behavioral construct known as “ Organizational Citizenship Behavior
towards
In this paper, I seek to
challenges. Why Behavioral competence is important in Corporate Sustainability? In order to examine the behavioral competence and the pursuit of sustainability in corporation, let us first review and explore the concept of corporate sustainability. I argue that despite much scholarly attention on the subject, there is lack
“ what
corporate sustainability should have and how to achieve them. More importantly the definition of “ Corporate Sustainability” Literature
is yet not settled.
corporations to develop proactive and creative
30 International Journal of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
“ Quest for a Sustainable Society”
needs and demands (Asif et al, 2011) while
“ the sustainable society is one that lives within
resolving conflicts at organizational and financial,
the self-perpetuating limits of its environment.
societal and environmental context.
That society... is not a "no growth" society... It is
The term “ Corporate Sustainability”
rather, a society that recognizes the limits of
derivative of broader notion of “ sustainability” ,
growth... [and] looks for alternative ways of
which is in hitherto continuingly shaped by the
growing" (Coomer, 1981; Pogash, 2009). On the
WCED’ s
brundtland
discourses. This process rendered the definitions
formulated,
of “ sustainability”
development that meets the needs of the present
complex;
sometimes confusing and
postulated as
term handling
“ Sustainable
compromising
generations to meet their own needs”
future (WCED,
deteriorating relationship between our biosphere
1987). While Coomer (1981) emphasized a direct
and ongoing economic development (Faber,
Jorna and Engelen, 2005; Chiesa, Manzini and
environment, brundtland statement adds both
Noci, 1999; WCED, 1987), others questioned the
notion of “ Sustainability”
perpetuation.
whose
as vague and lacks
intergenerational Though
(Phillis
debatable
Andriantiatsaholiniaina, 2001; Solow, 1991). The
different. Similarly, Mihelcic et al’ s (2003)
discourse of “ sustainability” therefore may draw
over 50 definitions due to scholars of different
sustainability posits a pragmatic imposition of
disciplines e.g. ecology, biology, evolutionary
biology, economics, sociology and anthropology,
all having their own perspectives while defining or
human and industrial systems to ensure that
critiquing the concept of “ sustainability” (Faber,
humankind’ s use of natural resources and
Jorna and Engelen, 2005). An intelligent selection
cycles do not lead to diminished quality of life
is not enough since it could easily lead to
predisposition. Thus a conceptual and logical
opportunities or to adverse impacts on social
conditions, human health and the environment”
development of “ sustainability”
notion. It is in
to sustainability:
(Mihelcic
“ [the]
part an analytical persuasion of philosophical and
connotation, John Elkington coined the term
Triple Bottom-Line (TBL) to encompass social
counter-moves of scholars who tried to define
and economic components with it’ s historical
relationship to environment (Hopkins, 2002). The
examples, James C. Coomer in his book,
TBL which is also known 3 Ps (People, planet and
unravels
concepts.
31 Chowdhury Profit) of sustainability rationalizes economic
diminishes
(naturalstep.org,
maintains
social impact.
inclusions It
greater acceptance in the late 1990s but not
consumption 2011).
framework is far from resolving inherent concerns of sustainability and remains as strategy tool.
without critique. Few argued that giving equal
However, much of the debate is not about a
weight to economic, social and environmental
strategy to implement sustainability measures
component is a vague postulation and lacks
rather whether concern for sustainability exists
objective evaluation.
and whether the sustainability delineation should
O'Riordan, Cameron and Jordan (2001) and
be based on normative or scientific discourse.
Lutzkendorf and Lorenz (2005) developed an
Interestingly, many of the available definitions of
alternative approach based on TBL in the “ Three
sustainability innately put much emphasis on a
or ‘ Russian Doll”
model. Rather than
putting equal weights to social, economic and
consensus in otherwise a complex issue of
this alternative model
progress and preservation of our
suggest that economic capital is central to wealth
creation which propels development (O'Riordan,
sustainability discussions of finding common
Cameron and Jordan, 2001; Wilkinson and Reed,
ground to eliminate discord between normative
2007) but inhibited by environmental and social
(e.g.
factors. The model attempted to present a win-
(operationalization)
win paradigm of sustainability where TBL left off,
(Becker, 2006), though absence in much of the
however, is being increasingly rejected as over-
simplistic and unattainable.
In contrast, “ The
(Faber, Jorna and Engelen, 2005; Vlek and Steg,
Natural Step” (TNS), a sustainability formulation
2007). It is there the continued sustainability
defined by Dr. Karl-Henrik Robert emphasizes on
discourse finds common ground. Increasingly,
collaborative rather than adversarial methods to
the normative discourse of sustainability found
level those
biosphere.
precondition)
and of
environmentalists,
Brundtland statement (WCED, 1987) and in NGO
unreached by scientific community (Bradbury and
treaties (Becker, 2006). Examples
Clair, 1999). The TNS framework recognizes that
normative imperatives are inter-generational and
life supporting natural structure is increasingly
intra-generational
under threat due to increase in population and
Brundtland report (Becker, 2006).
continued progress in global economy. It uses a
Brundtland statement also recognized the need
metaphor of expanding “ funnel”
for continued economic progress and coined the
of these
impinging issues that our world in general and
economic and industrial system in particular are
1987), an argument that finds basis in the of
subject to and how services of natural structure
(WCED,
discourse.
arguments in scientific dimensions however seek
values and institution was also espoused in
to discount normative arguments since the later
brundtland statement when it coined the term
relies
“ sustainable development” : “ development that
scientific dimension, some scholars reject the
meets the needs of today without comprising the
ability of future generation to meet their needs”
quantifiable
arguing can
(WCED, 1987). This explains physical investment,
dissipated elements, others finds it hard to
believe since laws of thermodynamics precludes
embodied within human capital (Toman, 1994)
such conception. This moves and counter moves
and by applying those material elements and
generated a third dimension that centered on
through value ingrained response to achieve
intergenerational and intra-generational equity.
arguments as depicted in Agenda 21
(an initiative of UN with regard to sustainable
This notion of “ Sustainable Development”
Development). However, the only conduit that
served as the prelude for corporate sustainability.
dimensions is “ Behavioral Attributions” (Faber,
“ bringing their own perspectives”
Jorna and Engelen, 2005; Vlek and Steg, 2007).
scholars’ to define
are also prevalent in “ Corporate
Sustainability” discourse. The figure 2 attempts to summarize the scholarly depicts
contentions a
and theme is
contributions of
“ behavioral ignored
increasingly gaining ground. The connotation of Figure 1. Behavioral attribution as the conduit of “Sustainability” discourse.
“ behavioral
“ sustainability” Increasingly
(WCED, 1987; Toman, 1994;
Bradbury and Clair, 1999; Mihelcic et al., 2003;
behavioral attributions (Gomis et al, 2011) are
Faber, Jorna and Engelen, 2005; Vlek and Steg,
sprinkled in many schools of thoughts and
2007; FAST-ISE, 2010; Gomis et al., 2011)
gaining traction. For example, Fulbright Academy
sustainable development (Leiserowitz, Kates and
of Science and Technology (FAST) and Institute
Parris,
for Sustainable Enterprise (ISE) created a human
(Bradbury and Clair, 1999; White, 1999; Paula
value and sustainability forum to foster dialogues
and Cavalcanti, 2000; Coblentz, 2002; Ratner,
among corporate world and academic community
2004; Shields, Š olar and Martin, 2002; Gibson-
regarding
Graham and
(FAST-ISE,
This notion of bringing together human
Roelvink, 2009; Asif et al. 2011;
Putnik, 2012; Pourdehnad and Smith, 2012).
33 Chowdhury
Figure 2. Imperatives of Behavioral Competence. The early conceptualization of sustainability
for corporation to report their environmental
had narrow focus on environmental protection
impact indicators of business activity. This led to
(Seuring and Muller, 2008) creating a necessity
Figure 3. Corporate Sustainability Timeline. preparation and distribution of Corporate Social
corporate responsibility in social, economic and
environmental context begin to take shape since
(CSR)
continuing as
“ Corporate
Sustainability” .
WCED
(WCED, 1987).
“ Sustainable As scholars
begin to ponder on the subject each drawing
upon their own perspective to define corporate
economic and
sustainability, a variety of subsequent definitions
environmental concern into corporate strategy
of sustainability in organizational context begin to
emerge. Some classified corporate sustainability
describe integration of
synonymously
(Berger,
Drumwright, 2007).
However, CSR remains a
narrowly as
ecological concern (Shrivastava,
marginal activity towards corporate sustainability
1995) other broadened it to include corporate
(Gray, Kouhy and Lavers, 1995; Quiroz-Onate
economic activities with organizational concern
and Aitken, 2007) and not mean to substitute
about natural and social environment (Dunphy,
or replace the later. A
35 Chowdhury Griffiths and Ben, 2003; Dyllick and Hockerts,
curtail this behavioral issue, serious attention to
2002; Van Marrewijk, 2003).
ethics of doing business (Paula and Cavalcanti,
Consecutively, underpinnings
2000;
Gibson-Graham
Roelvink,
corporate governance (Aras and Crowther, 2008)
resolving conflicts at organizational, societal and
Schneider and Meins (2011) termed this aspect
citizenship (Mayer, 2007)
perspective, it means developing capability to
governance” .
(Asif
needs 2012)
The concept of OCB and OCBS Social science since long observed
environmental equity. Coblentz (2002) considers
altruistic behaviors that seem to integrate human
that a sustainable organization needs to be
values with service to be endowed. Schwartz
institutionally, financially and morally strong to
(1977) argued that altruistic behavior occurs when
individuals holds personal norms with regard to
specific behavior. These norms are moderated by
incorporating three dimensions of organizational
the awareness of the result of engaging or not
engaging with specific behavior, for example,
recycling behavior (Hopper and Nielson, 1991;
mandate (White, 1999). Linnenluecke, Russell
Vining and Ebreo, 1992). Karp (1996) adds that
individual values can influence behavior when
demands.
stakeholders’ Institutional
Linnenluecke
Griffiths (2010) add that sustainable organizations
are capable and proactive and simultaneously
Dennis Organ and his colleagues also made a
flexible fostering a culture of sustainability through
similar observation that behavior is influenced by
(Dunphy,
values and moderated by situational concern in
Griffiths and Benn, 2007). To achieve this notion
an organizational setting. Organ called it OCB
of organizational self-reliance or competence,
and defined it as “ individual behavior that is
organizational and social learning (Shields, Š olar
discretionary, not directly or explicitly recognized
and Martin, 2002; Pourdehnad and Smith, 2012)
by the formal reward system, and that in the
aggregate promotes the effective functioning of
concern. Professor
sustainability that essentially runs the institutional
contraption. Without financial sustainability it
presented his concept of OCB (Organ, 1977) as
would be impossible for organization to hire staff
or maintain it’ s presence. However, in pursuit of
Podsahoff
financial stability, some organizations and their
presenting an essay that supports popular notion
leaders have been involved in unsustainable and
of “ worker satisfaction affected productivity”
unethical practices e.g. accounting fraud. To
with a twist. The viewpoint defended the popular
(Organ, 1988). Organ initially
devil’ s
(Organ, towards
belief and draws distinction between quantitative
make them do and for which you cannot
measures of productivity and something more
guarantee any definite rewards, other than your
subtle, a form of worker’ s contribution that often
not reflected in such measures of individual and
The assumption here is that managers are
group output. These subtler contributions may
reasonably knowledgeable and can speak with
take the form of helping behavior, following the
some confidence about particular action by
spirit, workplace governance, accommodating
changes to improve organization’ s operational
towards organizational effectiveness. Among the
efficiency and so on.
contemplated “ OCB”
However, Organ did not subtler
(Smith, Organ and Near, 1983).
identified,
behavior, punctuality, volunteer to do things not
formally
professional colleagues that managerial belief on
suggestion to improve overall quality of the
job satisfaction and it’ s influence to productivity
department and so on. Such behavior defers
was not without merit.
Two of Organ’ s doctoral Bateman
students Tom
“ altruism” ,
researchers, the action may not have any motive
nonetheless,
and it may be directed towards a colleague or to
considered the essay as material for the audacity
the organization. It is neither motive driven nor an
to propose some research and test the idea and
act of “ selfless”
added as material to a research project that
the behavior for example, punctuality may be
primarily examines job overload on behavior and
construed as “ compliance” , however, Organ,
Podsahoff and MacKenzie (2006)explains though
(Bateman and
research led to a crude measure of what was
“ compliance”
Some attributes of
is a form of OCB but does not
“ qualitative
imply merely strict obedience to order.
“ quantitative
(Williams
Anderson,
Larry 1991)
productivity. Though result of the study would
conducted a research to determine whether
hardly be a presage to OCB research that
distinguishable from each other and from people
correlation between job satisfaction and OCB. If
of what they do to perform specific duty. The
not for Ann smith who envisaged the link between
behavior fits that of hypothesized model for each.
(Roethlisberger and Dickson, 1939), the concept
Organ’ s taxonomy of OCB included following
of OCB would not have studied further. This
behavioral dimensions: a) altruistic or pro-social
interest led her to interview manufacturing plant
asking them
Sportsmanship, d) Courtesy and e) Civic Virtues.
question, “ What are the things you would like
Organ (1990) later added two other attributes of
your employee to do more of, but really cannot
empirically
helping other
peacemaking.
37 Chowdhury However, those attributes did not receive much
Van Scotter and Motowidlo, 1996). However,
contextual performance differs from Organ’ s
theorized that OCB includes a variant called
original notion of OCB which according to
“ loyalty”
Professor Dennis Organ was solely discretionary.
Instead,
(George and Brief, 1992; Graham,
1989, 1991). Important to this aspect is Katz’ s
But the term “ discretionary”
varies person to
protecting the organization as behavioral element
Professor Organ to modify definition of OCB
that does not occur in response to formal reward
adding that such behavior “ contributes to the
system. A literature review conducted by LePine,
maintenance and enhancement of the social and
Erez and Johnson (2002) found 40 measures of
OCB dimensions; however, their meta-analyses
(LePine,
suggest seven factors that capture distinction
within and among OCB dimensions and those
labeling, experts always conceived that OCB
are: helping, compliance, sportsmanship, civic
consists
virtue, organizational loyalty, self-development
Hence, if OCB is an “ aggregate”
and individual initiative.
Since Organ’ s initial observation on OCB,
Erez
Johnson,
dimensions. model than
functions be
difficult.
the This
there have been significant scholarly work on the
assumption led LePine, Erez and Johnson (2002)
subject; however, scholars were not consistent
to conduct literature review and meta-analyses of
about labeling it as Organ’ s original notion of
the variants and domain attributes. The research
OCB (Morrison, 1994; Organ, 1988; Van Dyne,
Graham and Dienesch, 1994).
variants/dimensions and domains attributes are
Some scholars
Pro-social behavior (Brief and Motowidlo, 1986;
difference among predictors across dimensions.
George, 1990, 1991; George and Bettenhausen,
Based on the result, LePine, Erez and Johnson
(2002) suggest that it may be worth to define
Organizational Spontaneity (George and Brief,
OCB dimensions collectively as latent construct.
1992; George and Jones, 1997) and 3. Extra-role
A group of researchers found that OCB can be
behavior (Van Dyne, Cummings, and McLean
Parks, 1995). Another label that is quite common
Performance (Buentello, Jung and Sun, 2008),
organizational psychologists and overlaps the
Sales performance and customer Satisfaction
behavioral domains of OCB (Motowidlo, 2000) is
(Podsakoff and Mackenzie, 1997), organizational
“ Contextual
effectiveness and performance (Bateman and
Chatman,
(Borman
labeled the OCB behavioral dimensions etc as 1.
Motowidlo, 1993, 1997; Borman, White and
Podsakoff
Dorsey, 1995; Motowidlo and Van Scotter, 1994;
Mackenzie, 1997; Borman and Motowidlo, 1993;
George and Bettenhausen, 1990; Karambayya,
1990; MacKenzie, Podsakoff and Fetter, 1991,
achieving behavioral change at both the local and
1993; Organ, 1988; Podsakoff and MacKenzie,
occasionally wider organizational level.
1997; Podsakoff, MacKenzie, and Hui, 1993;
These organizational outcomes linking OCB
Smith et al., 1983). Subsequently, a number of
makes it an appropriate behavioral “ latent”
empirical studies also found positive correlation
between OCB and individual-level performance
organizational sustainability. Important to note
(MacKenzie, Podsakoff, and Fetter, 1991, 1993;
here is that available literatures on OCB did not
furtherance
performance (George and Bettenhausen, 1990;
sustainability though it’ s link to organizational
Podsakoff and MacKenzie, 1994), group-level
outcomes related environmental performance and
effectiveness are well documented. I believe this
Ahearne,
(Karambayya, and
Podsakoff, and
is an omission which sooner or later will be
corrected. I considered this an important context
Niehoff, 2000). In a meta-analytical study of
to pursue my research relating OCB (or a
2417 samples to measure OCB at group level
variation thereof) to the holistic concept of
Nielsen, Hrivnak and Shaw (2007) found positive
corporate sustainability. My observation is that
correlation (.32) between OCB and organizational
certain behavioral dimensions of OCB may be
performance i.e. positive financial outcome.
incompatible with corporate sustainability while
organizational-level
(Walz
Daily, Bishop and Govindarajulu (2009) linked
others are essential. This led me to develop a
OCB to proactive environmental behavior and
new conception based on OCB and denoted it as
postulated a conceptual model of Organizational
“ Organizational
Citizenship Behavior directed toward Environment
Sustainability (OCBS)” . It is a discretionary act
(OCBE). They argue that OCBE exists and are
positively related to environmental performance
creative competence for organization to meet
such,
Citizenship Behavior
multiple stakeholders’
needs and demands
organization’ s overall corporate citizenship and
towards organizational, social, economic and
therefore important.
The OCBS differs from
Smith and O'Sullivan (2012) conducted a study
OCBE in concept that, unlike OCBE, it takes into
among five largest UK organizations to identify
context the holistic nature of sustainability as it
how social marketers and organizations can
pertains to organization. Similarly, OCBS differs
from OCB in multiple behavioral dimensions. First
it replaces OCB’ s “ compliance”
harnessing employees’
dimension with “ controlled discord” , a term
organizational citizenship behaviors (EROCBs).
denotes
employee(s)’ s
Result shows employees engaged in OCB created
demeanor to question proposals/projects in an
39 Chowdhury honorable way with intention to help develop a
and Sonenshein, 2003) differs from OCB in many
collective consensus for a better approach. The
“ controlled discord”
departure from organizational norm and can
also defers from deviant
questionable behavior. In same connotation,
attributions.
exhibits positive
workplace behavior (DWB) (Appelbaum, Iaconi Matousek,
ethically
can be construed as
departure from norms but exhibits attributes that
(Spreitzer and Sonenshein, 2003) in certain
behavioral attribution. For example, like positive
DWB the “ controlled discord” is a praiseworthy
scholarly contributions without creating conflict or
behavior that differs from norms of a referent
status quo. It advances team spirit and produces
group in honorable ways.
positive result through innovative behaviors and
“ positive organizational scholarship” (Cameron et al., 2005) and depicts behaviors such as innovative,
noncompliance with dysfunctional directives etc. The typology of “ controlled discord” depicted
(Appelbaum,
figure Iaconi
4. and
Matousek,
in-tuned through
towards positive
benefiting
creative performance. Another important difference between OCB and OCBS is that, unlike OCB, it emphasizes on sustainability culture (Linnenluecke and Griffiths,
2009) and value sets to develop appropriate
behavioral attributions rather than alluding to the
Spreitzer). Substantial Departure from Organizational norms
Positive Deviant Behavior Departure from norms Benefit society from ethically questionable behavior
Insubstantial Departure from Organizational norms
Controlled Discord Departure from norm Benefits organizations through scholarly, innovative and creative behaviors
Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) Departure from job requirements Benefits organizations
Figure 4. Typology of “Controlled Discord”
Departure from business norm Benefits organization, society & environment
consign of individual’ s domestic or household
moral norms (Liere and Dunlap, 2006) relates to
behavior (Fusco, 1991) e.g. recycling behavior
sustainability (Schultz et al., 2005; Thøgersen
(Hopper
and Ölander, 2002; Liere and Dunlap, 2006) or
Ellintong, 1983), pro-environmental behavior or
environmental awareness and individual value
altruistic-environmental
Nielsen,
(Schultz
Zelezny, 1998).
the followings are four key antecedents of OCBS: Sustainability Culture, Leadership and Supervisory Context
The link between
values and environmental attitudes is explained in
Based on available literatures and my thoughts,
pro-environmental
(Hopper and Nielsen, 1991).
Key antecedents of OCBS
Knowledge Organizational
many scholarly studies (Grunert and Juhl, 1995; Nordlund and Garvill, 2002; Schultz and Zelezny, 2003; Stern et al., 1999; Tankha, 1998) though their
environmental attitudes, environmental concern, and environmental worldview (Dunlap and Jones,
Commitment.
Figure 5. Key antecedents and outcome of OCBS Sustainability culture
2002a, 2002b; Fransson and Gärling, 1999;
Zelezny,
multivariate and
equation analyses
sustainability behaviors can be predicted, e.g,
how human values (Schultz et al., 2005) and
attitude and attitude in turn influence behavior
41 Chowdhury (Homer and Kahle, 1988). A hierarchical model
of resource management developed by Shields
Organizational Culture and Leadership" (Schein,
and Mitchell (1997) provides insights to the
1992) Edgar H. Schein defined organizational
interworks
"A
elements. Their research finds that “ peoples’
assumptions that the group learned as it solved
its problems of external adaptation and internal
of a
application of their held value sets” .
integration, that has worked well enough to be
These held values are often influenced by culture,
considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to
new members as the correct way to perceive,
frameworks in which people live (Shields, Š olar
think, and feel in relation to those problems"
and Martin, 2002) and through such development
(Schein, 1992).
those values become an “ ordered value set” .
Schein’ s model of organizational culture
These ordered value sets are thought to be the
presents three fundamental elements in OC:
primary element influencing individuals’
as depicted in figure 6.
Assumptions,
Espoused
Artifacts. The same connotation can be observed in other scholarly contentions on OC (Hofstede, 1981; Ouchi and Price, 1993; Pettigrew, 1979; Schwartz and Davis, 1981). Some scholars (Howard,
Ott,
ideologies and beliefs are considered to be particularly important in the understanding of OC (please see Figure 7).
Figure 6. Hierarchical Model of Resource Management To
concept we
further to
Figure 7. A diagrammatical representation of Values, Attitude, Behavior and OC
Organizational Culture (OC) since it is regarded as the access point for the field of human
Byles, Aupperle and Arogyaswamy (1991)
resources and Organizational Behavior (OB). In
argued that OC may have positive effect in overall
fact, OC and OB to this aspect can be construed
organizational performance providing that OC
as synonymous due to anthropological origin of
aligns with strategic needs of the firm. Similar
contentions are made by many other scholars
system which helps defining critical imperatives of
about the influence of OC in organizational
performance and Change (Marcoulides and Heck,
assumptions” ,
1993; Barney, 1986; Gordon and DiTomaso,
Zheng, Yang and McLean (2010) finds that
1992; Deal and Kennedy, 1982; Peters and
Waterman, 1982; Ouchi, 1983), effectiveness
mediating agent in the relationship between OC,
(Denison and Mishra, 1995; Zheng, Yang and
strategy and organizational effectiveness. This
McLean, 2010) and behavioral competence at
individual and group level e.g. OCB (Mohanty and
organization specific sustainability culture as it
Rath,
can aid in the understanding of what questions
2012a;
Mohant
Consecutively,
“ artifacts” .
defining
measure of “ ambitious corporate sustainability
Manga, 2010) and/or bottom-up approach to
activities and strategies have to be embedded in
integrate change.
“ basic
irrespective of top down, catalytic (Mirvis and
2012b).
“ values”
(Baumgartner,
These research findings led to believe that “ context
potentials are inviting and seem to be the reason
practice is useful conduit in the development of
organization specific sustainability culture that in
sustainability literatures. However, an organization
may have different subcultures or competing
organization leading towards OCBS. That is:
value framework (CVF) in cultural orientation
H1: Context specific knowledge management
(Linnenluecke,
Griffiths,
Linnenluecke and Griffiths, 2010). The presence of subcultures may posit differences of how employees
(Linnenluecke, Russell and Griffiths, 2009). This
system is imperative conduit in development of Organizational Sustainability Culture. H2: Organizational
influence Organizational Citizenship Behavior towards Sustainability.
implies that unification of these subcultures is an
Leadership and Supervisory Support
important stepping stone towards achieving a
Schein’ s model of organizational culture claims
cohesive perception of corporate sustainability.
that OC is a learning process which does not start
However, the unification subcultures innately do
at ground zero, however, has significant influence
not answer the “ what”
from founders and leaders as organization starts
sustainability at level.
questions related to
and for
individual cultural
to develop (Schein, 1983). He observes that organizational
augmentation is required that can influence
intertwined and explained this entanglement in the
collective consensus at organizational level. Such
instrument of influence can be understood as
According to him, organizational cultures reflect
“ context
the values and beliefs of founders and leaders at
cycle.
43 Chowdhury the beginning. As the organization develops, it’ s
context of OCB (Podsakoff et al., 1999). A
culture begun to shape through the process of
formation, experience and learning which in turn
observation e.g. servant leadership can predict
OCB (Vondey, 2010) at individual or unit-level
leaders.
summarizing this conception, Bass and
2007);
(1992) by proposing that the relationship OC
Shortridge,
and leadership and vice versa is
influences OCB (Khasawneh, 2011; Greene-
emulated
similarly,
(EhrHart,
Avolio
(Greene-
support towards environmental performance is
turn get shaped
the developed
ample scholarly underpinnings about the link
Steger, 2000; Ramus, 2001, 2002; Zutshi and
between OC and leadership (Bass and Avolio,
Sohal,
1993; Nicholls, 1988; Quick, 1992; Schein, 1992;
implementation of sustainability culture or cultural
Simms, 2000; Ogbonna and Harris, 2000; Block,
2003; Tsai, 2001). With varying results, empirical
leadership and
which in turn influences OC and OCB. Therefore,
in-line with Daily, Bishop and Govindrajulu’ s
organizational performance (Ogbonna and Harris,
(2009) observation that links supervisory support
to OCBE, it can be contended that the interplay
(Ramus
culture. A review of available literature suggests
depict
interplay in which the leader shapes the culture in
effective change management (Kavanagh and
Ashkanasy, 2006), responsiveness of employee
supervisory support will influence OCBS. That is,
(Asree,
Razalli,
performance (Asree, Zain and Razalli, 2010;
supervisory support will impact implementation of
Ogbonna and Harris, 2000). An exploratory
sustainability culture in an organization,
depicts
H4: Sustainability culture in turn will influence
perception of OC depends on the
leaders and perceived supervisory support in
leadership type of their immediate supervisor indicating that supervisory support is important conduit
(Employee-Organizational-
the organization. H5: Perceived supervisory
leadership support
construct will
Relationship) and OC (Zhang et al., 2008) and
Organizational Citizenship Behavior towards
(Rashid,
Sambasivan
organizational and
Rahman,
Organizational Commitment
2004). It is, therefore, obvious that the interplay
Organizational commitment can be understood
of OC and leadership has significant impact over
as having following three components (Mowday,
organization’ s behavioral competence in the
Porter, and Steers, 1982):
i) Individual’ s identification or strong belief with
organization’ s
working environment to its employees in attaining
their full commitment for organizational success.
goals/missions that are manifested in pride
Many other studies also reported similar findings
and in defense of the organization.
(Jo and Joo, 2011; Silverthorne, 2004; Lok and
ii) A willingness to long term membership with the organization, and
These research findings indicates that OC
iii) Exhibits a high level of extra role behavior that is often referred to as OCB. Essentially,
Crawford, 2001).
influences and in many cases act as catalyst for organizational commitment to develop which in
turn influence employees’
OCB at individual and
indicates a form of OCBS at individual or group
group level. Therefore, it can be hypothesized
level. Research has found significant positive
correlation between organizational commitment
influence organizational commitment, which in
and OCB. Williams and Anderson (1991) found
turn will impact employees’
H6: Organizational
commitment are predictors of OCB and in-role behavior. Shore and Wayne (1993) observed that employees’
commitment to them (which can be termed as
sustainability culture will
OCBS. That is,
influence Organizational Commitment. H7: Organizational Commitment, in turn, will influence Organizational Citizenship Behavior towards Sustainability.
perceived organizational support or POS) create
Sustainable Organizational Performance
Earlier in corporate sustainability discussion, we
learned that achieving sustainability performance
organizational commitment and for this matter
in an organization requires the development
“ POS”
is a better predictor of OCB. Many
extra-role
between OCB and Organizational commitment
demands. This implies that organization should
(Gregersen, 1993; Yilmaz and Cokluk-Bokeoglu,
have endogenous quality or capability to resolve
al.,
2005). is
financial and environmental level. This reference
influence of OC towards developing employees’
of sustainability performance is holistic in nature
thoughts, feeling and attitude towards change;
and takes organizational, societal, economic and
for example, a study by Zain, Ishak and Ghani
environmental equity into context.
dimensions the
Professor Organ and his colleagues argued that OCB has potential to improve organizational
commitment. The findings implicate that an
effectiveness and performance (e.g., Bateman
organization needs to be aware of the importance
and Organ, 1983; Smith, Organ, and Near,
of OC dimensions in providing a favorable
45 Chowdhury supported professor Organ’ s postulation and
expanded OCB’ s potentiality for organizational
identifies that OCB influences many facets of
expounded
organizational life which in turn results many
OCB,
several first,
effectiveness (Koys, 2001; Walz and Niehoff,
organizational effectiveness and financial and
1996), profitability (Koys, 2001), performance
environmental performance. We also observed
that OCB influences corporate governance and
(Podsakoff,
corporate ethics.
This led me to believe that,
perception of service quality (Kelley and Hoffman,
subject to further research, OCB can potentially
1997), environmental performance (Daily, Bishop
help develop behavioral competence to resolve
and Govindrajulu, 2009; Smith and O’ Sullivan,
conflicts at organizational level and to meet
(Werner,
2000). The internal collective processes that
denote
driven this organizational outcomes can also
Discord” is one of the important distinctions of
OCBS over OCB. I explained that “ Controlled
(Corporate
Responsibility),
OCBS,
needs and demands. To added
“ Controlled
as behavioral dimension is better
and financial performance. Chun et. al. (2011)
suitable for creative, scholarly and innovative
demeanor.
experimented
relationship at
1983; Tjosvold and Johnson, 1977; Tjosvold, Wedley,
Tjosvold
(Tjosvold, 1982, 1998, 2008; Tjosvold and Field,
behavior (OCB) mediate the ethics– performance the
hypothesis was tested using data collected from
supportive evidence that “ constructive (task-
3821 employees from 130 Korean companies
related) controversy
and respective firm’ s financial data. The results
context improves the quality of decision making
“ collective
organizational OCB
and creativity” “ constructive
in a cooperative group
(West, 2002). This notion of controversy”
essentially
meaningful intervening processes that connect
same connotation as “ controlled discord” .
corporate ethics to firm financial performance” .
Scholars from different spectrum of management
studies also found it’ s potentiality in other areas
controversy” has positive relationship to decision
of research e.g. innovation which is essential for
quality, commitment to decision, and impact on
firm’ s long term viability. Yi (2006) found that
innovation. These group level outcomes are
OCB can play a mediating role in organizational
possible in workplace environment where team
process leading to team innovation.
has ability to conduct open minded dialogue.
Seyr group
“ constructive
These findings along with those related to OCB
methodology for change in organizations and a
suggests OCBS has potential to resolve conflict
purview of creative and proactive competence in
approach.
environmental level while creating organization’ s
incorporates the benefits of the sociological
capability to meet multiple stakeholders’
paradigm incorporating a bottom up approach by
and demands towards organizational, financial,
means of “ value ingrained culture” that fosters
social and environmental equity. That is,
creative, proactive competence and capability. It
is a departure from the notion of sustainability in
Sustainability will influence organizational
business that is much about compliance and
“ sustainability” performance.
reactive in response. The work presented here has
CONCLUSION Survival of human species and the existence of our
common biosphere innately
survival and capability to meet
multiple stakeholder’ s needs and demands towards organizational, economic, social and environmental intergenerational equity. However, conflicts
environmental level have caused much concern and
impacted
sustainability measures in corporations. behavioral
of The to
resolve such conflict and help develop viable and responsible corporation of future, without which corporation may find as much as threat to itself
This Paper presents a conceptual model of contending
in at
organizational level. However, the paper does not discount existing sustainability frameworks rather present an integrative purview emphasizing on proactive and creative competence than reactive approach. The behavioral normative presented here
limitations;
(Key
Performance Indicators) has been defined for organizational sustainability performance. Future research needs to consider the definition of Corporate Sustainability given in this paper and develop appropriate KPI from that notion to test hypotheses
sustainability performance. Secondly, a set of sustainability cultural attributes should be defined to integrate sustainability cultural interventions for OCBS. The paper presents discussion related to sustainability culture which could serve as the prelude to develop those measurable attributes. Such attributions can then be tested through hypotheses e.g. H2. Third, author suggests that researcher
as it is to our common biosphere.
“ OCBS”
develops
appropriate (CIT)”
“ Critical
development of “ Controlled Discord” behavioral dimension of OCBS to test H2, H5 and H 7. These limitations may actually serve as the prerequisites to furtherance the research towards measuring
performance. Nevertheless, the work presented in this study contributes to the sustainability body of knowledge and serves the basis for further research.
47 Chowdhury contextual performance, (71-98). San Francisco: Jossey-
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PHOTOS CONSTANTIN MIRBACH
Company founders and international investors are visiting Tartu in January for perhaps the Baltics’ biggest startup convention. The eastern Estonian university city has become a startup hot spot almost overnight.
Lightening the daily load can start with taking out the trash. When one of his school friends complained about taking the garbage out at home, Joonatan Oras and three of his buddies dreamed up Wastefox, a balcony compost box. Oras was 16 then; today he’s 20 and studying journalism and PR at Tartu University in Estonia. Together with 35-year-old psychologist Madis Vodja, he has now optimized the Wastefox. In it, fruit and vegetable scraps turn into rich humus in just a few months. Oras and Vodja sell around 1000 boxes a year, and even the Estonian capital, Tallinn, has noticed their startup and equipped 150 households with Wastebox. The aim of the project is to see if the composter could help to realize the EU’s ambitious plans to recycle more than half of European household waste by 2025.
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Identify a problem, devise a solution and conquer the market with it: Sponsored by investors with an appetite for risk, young developers across the globe are working on the Next Big Thing. The hot spots for the scene are San Francisco, London, Tel Aviv – and Estonia. The small Baltic country was once known mostly for its forests and moorlands. It may have only one expressway but Estonia has overtaken other countries on the data highway. The state’s constitution guarantees people the right to Internet access with countless free WiFi hot spots and nationwide LTE coverage. Digitalization has found its way into all areas of life, from tax returns to parliamentary elections and founding businesses: In Estonia, a few clicks takes care of them all.
Within a few years, Estonia’s very liberal tax system and targeted venture investments have also earned the country (population 1.3 million) the nickname “startup nation.” In 2019, some 5000 people were working for around 650 new businesses – the highest rate in Europe compared with the total working population. Among best-known startups based on know-how from Estonia are the taxi app Bolt, the Skype messenger service, the online payment system Transferwise and the games developer Playtech. Look for Estonian startups and you will find them in the business districts of Tallinn, the capital – but also in Tartu some 200 kilometers away, the second-largest city in the country – not that it’s immediately obvious that the future is being planned here.
Innovative: Sophio, Mariam and Ketevani at the Spark Hub
Fractory co-founder Joosep Merelaht
The picturesque old town clings to Toome Hill with its imposing cathedral. In the valley below, the Emajõgi River flows sedately eastward into Lake Pelpus on the border between Estonia and Russia. Tartu is literally on the edge – and yet right at the heart – of Europe; it is home to 120 nationalities, and 13 000 of its 100 000 inhabitants are students at the country’s oldest university, which was founded in 1632. Young people stroll through the cobbled streets in the center of town, glide along the riverbank on rental bikes and populate restaurants, cafés and bars. The university is the soil on which the state’s Internet-friendly politics act like fertilizer. This is especially true as the university regularly organizes “speed dating” at the Spark Hub on the edge of the old town, where students go to find brilliant business ideas by meeting with startup mentors such as lawyers, marketing and IT professionals.
Sophio Japharidze, Mariam Mikava and Ketevani Kvirikashvili, all in their early twenties, attended in October 2019. They developed a ring that measures its wearer’s heart frequency and oxygenation of the blood – allegedly more accurately than smart and Apple watches – and raises the alarm when readings become critical. The three aspiring soft- and hardware engineers spoke with experts, analyzed markets and developed a prototype. For this, they received ample praise, but also discovered that they still had a long way to go, not least due to the complexity of the approval procedures for medical technology.
Imposing: the town hall of the former Hanseatic League city
Analogue art: a mural depicting Tartu University
“Not every idea immediately sparks a startup,” says Maret Ahonen, 60, the economist heading the Startup Lab at Tartu University that has been hosting the annual Spark Hub since 2015. Creativity, self-confidence and the ability to work as a team are required. “They’re not skills you learn in seminars,” says Ahonen, “so we aim to spark a spirit of innovation.”
And they are succeeding: Some 150 young startups, from financial software to biotech companies, currently employ around 1500 people in Tartu. The Biotechnology Park and the Science Park are like hothouses promoting technical and medical startups. In January, the university opened the Delta Centre, a research and teaching building, in which mathematicians, software engineers and economists share 23 000 square meters of space. Here, too, collaborations with businesses will take place. And for the past four years, founders, entrepreneurs and investors from all over the world have been coming to Tartu in January for Startup Day, the self-professed biggest startup convention in the Baltic region and itself a startup. This year, some 4000 visitors are expected, likely, the city thinks, because the name is stylized as sTARTUp.
Financial software startup Mooncascade
Paving the way: Maret Ahonen heads up the Start-up-Lab
Young and creative: Graphic designer Mikko Leo Selg at his workplace
Kristjan-Julius Laak and Robin Saluoks of eAgronom
On the second floor of the Spark Hub, Joosep Merelaht takes us through a half-empty office loft. Boxes of office furniture are stacked against the walls, and Whippet the whippet is chasing a green rubber ball down the corridors. “A few rooms was all we needed to start with,” says Merelaht, “but now we take up half a story here.” Their company, Fractory, is still young: In 2016, he and his colleagues Martin Vares and Rein Torm submitted their idea to the mentors at the Spark Hub – an online shop for custom steel parts required by industry and the trades. Today, Fractory has 16 employees in Tartu and lately another five in Manchester, England. Numerous companies in the Baltics, Scandinavia and Great Britain already use the platform. Investors at home and abroad have so far poured a seven-digit sum into the startup. “Everything’s moving really fast at the moment,” says Merelaht, “we’re trying to keep up somehow.” In other words, they are trying to grow their product fast before someone else has the same idea. That’s another reason startups need investors they can trust at the crucial moment. But in Tartu it happens fast.
The city has its advantages, says Fractory cofounder Merelaht: low living costs, green surroundings, short distances. “Everyone basically knows everyone else.” That’s useful, especially at the start. Once a company is up and running, there’s no need to move because “thanks to the university, Tartu has enough experts.” And it is also well connected with almost daily direct flights between Tartu and the Finnish capital, Helsinki.
Tartu Science Park
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OUT AND ABOUT IN TARTU
AHHAA is a science museum with a handson approach. Visitors can lift a car with just one hand, for instance.
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Italian wine, poetry slams: Creatives meet at the Barlova bar amid Karlova’s wooden houses.
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Tartu is the oldest city in the Baltics and 2024 European Capital of Culture. Find out more at
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An open fire welcomes guests to the Lydia hotel, which boasts ample breakfasts and a park view.
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Culture replaces conflict: The new Estonian National Museum on the site of an old military airfield.
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In January, Lufthansa flies twice daily from Frankfurt (FRA) and three times weekly from Munich (MUC) to Tallinn (TLL). Continue to Tartu by train, bus or car. Use the app to calculate your miles: miles-and-more.com/app
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Donald Trump Wins Nevada Caucuses, Collecting Third Straight Victory
Mar 1, 2016 | Health, Politics
Donald J. Trump was declared the winner of the Nevada caucuses on Tuesday night, according to The Associated Press, gaining a third consecutive victory in an early-voting state and strengthening his position in the Republican presidential race before the wave of Super Tuesday elections on March 1.
Turnout in Nevada was reported high compared with previous caucuses. Mr. Trump was seen as a favorite going into the contest, but his victory still serves as a setback for his chief competitors, Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida, who must now try to break Mr. Trump’s winning streak in the larger states that vote in the coming weeks.
For Mr. Trump, the outcome in Nevada is another sign of his campaign’s durability and the breadth of his appeal: He has now handily won primary elections in New England and in the South, and a caucus fight in the far West. He won over independent voters in New Hampshire and evangelicals in South Carolina, and prevailed in Nevada, where Mormon voters and rural activists wield influence.
This latest triumph may only encourage Mr. Trump in the brash campaign style that has alienated many Republican officials and mainstream voters. In the two days leading up to the Nevada caucuses, Mr. Trump called Mr. Cruz a liar and threatened to deliver vicious attacks on Mr. Rubio as well.
At a rally in Las Vegas on Monday evening, Mr. Trump ridiculed a protester in his audience and told supporters that he would have liked to “punch him in the face.”
His supporters in Nevada were jubilant on Tuesday night. Holding Trump signs and flags and a few Bud Lights, the crowd at the Treasure Island casino erupted into a minute-long cheer when Mr. Trump was projected the winner on a CNN broadcast, and chanted the candidate’s name.
But the chants quickly turned to boos as soon as the network mentioned Mr. Cruz.
The results are likely to reinforce the sense among national Republican leaders that only direct confrontation can block Mr. Trump from claiming the party’s nomination, because none of the party’s most powerful voting blocs seems likely to thwart him on its own.
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TradeKing, acquired MB Trading Holdings, LLC
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synopsis: TradeKing Group, Inc., an innovator in online brokerage, today announced that its acquisition of MB Trading has officially closed. With the addition of MB Trading’s renowned trading platform, TradeKing now offers a powerful, active trading experience for the most seasoned traders.
buyer: TradeKing
TradeKing Group, Inc. provides online brokerage services for independent self-directed investors in the United States. It offers online trading services in the areas of options, stocks, exchange traded funds, mutual funds, fixed incomes, and foreign exchange funds. "
target: MB Trading Holdings, LLC
MB Trading is a direct access brokerage firm that develops and markets direct access trading technology to online investors, institutions, and qualified destinations. Using a proprietary order routing system, the company allows investors to trade directly to the NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX markets.
announced 12/18/2019 via BNC Analysis
Flatex, will acquire DEGIRO B.V.
synopsis: flatex Bank AG, a leading online brokerage business in Europe, will acquire DEGIRO BV, one of the fastest growing online brokers in Europe. DEGIRO provides affordable, custom-made financial services for investors worldwide. Their intuitive platform accommodates all styles of investing, and offers a large number of financial instruments and markets.
buyer: Flatex (DB:FLA:$132.15)
Flatex is a leading online brokerage business in Europe. Flatex provides an affordable and mobile online broker-platform with expert service and advice. Flatex offers trading in all common securities such as shares, funds and ETFs in exchange and over-the-counter trading. "
target: DEGIRO B.V.
DEGIRO is one of the fastest growing online brokers in Europe. DEGIRO provides affordable, custom-made financial services for investors worldwide. Their intuitive platform accommodates all styles of investing, and offers a large number of financial instruments and markets.
Lynx Vermogensbeheer BV, acquired TradersOnly BV
synopsis: LYNX, a Dutch specialist in online investing, has acquired TradersOnly, the number 1 online broker for active investors in the Netherlands. TradersOnly's advanced trading platform provides investors with real-time prices and relevant information. TradeOnly allows users to easily trade shares in 19 different countries and 63 different exchanges.
buyer: Lynx Vermogensbeheer BV
LYNX is a Dutch specialist in online investing. LYNX provides investors with access to more than 100 exchanges in 20 countries through its user-friendly trading platform. The company was founded in 2006 and has been active on the Dutch market since 2007. "
target: TradersOnly BV
TradersOnly is the number 1 online broker for active investors in the Netherlands. TradersOnly's advanced trading platform provides investors with real-time prices and relevant information. TradeOnly allows users to easily trade shares in 19 different countries and 63 different exchanges.
Mohamed Radwan & Omar Radwan, acquired Arab Finance Brokerage Company
synopsis: Arab Finance Brokerage Co. announced a group of investors finalized the acquisition of 100% of Arab Finance. Among the new shareholders, were market experts Mohamed Radwan, Ex-Board member In Pharos Securities and Omar Radwan. Arab Finance is one of the most prestigious and well-known news websites in the financial sector.
buyer: Mohamed Radwan & Omar Radwan
Mohamed Radwan is the Ex-Board member In Pharos Securities and Omar Radwan is the former Head of Asset Management in HC Securities & Investment. "
target: Arab Finance Brokerage Company
Arab Finance is one of the most prestigious and well-known news websites in the financial sector. Arab Finance has one of the oldest news portal covering the Egyptian EGX and macroeconomic news. In addition, Arab Finance also provides its services as a brokerage house specialized in online trading.
Ally, acquired TradeKing
synopsis: Ally Financial Inc., one of the world's largest automotive financial services companies, announced that it has acquired TradeKing Group, Inc., a digital wealth management company. TradeKing Group, Inc. provides online brokerage services for independent self-directed investors in the United States.
buyer: Ally (ALLY:$6,494.00)
Ally Financial Inc. is one of the world's largest automotive financial services companies. The company offers a full suite of automotive financing products and services in key markets around the world. "
target: TradeKing
TradeKing Group, Inc. provides online brokerage services for independent self-directed investors in the United States. It offers online trading services in the areas of options, stocks, exchange traded funds, mutual funds, fixed incomes, and foreign exchange funds.
closed 1/10/2008 via Burlington Free Press
Banks.com, Inc., acquired OnLine Investments, Inc.
synopsis: Banks.com, Inc. a leading financial services focused web property, announced the acquisition of certain assets of Online Investments, Inc., including MyStockFund.com, MyStockFundKids.com and an online broker/dealer with a wide array of products, tools, and services.
buyer: Banks.com, Inc. (BNX:$0.00)
Banks.com is a leading Financial Services portal containing a unique breadth and depth of products and services. Our mission is to bring our users and subscribers the most relevant financial information on the web. "
target: OnLine Investments, Inc.
MyStockFund Securities, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC, is the broker-dealer offering the unique securities trading platform. OnLine Investments, Inc. the parent of MyStockFund Securities, Inc. has developed the technology to enable convenient and cost-effective Internet-based investment.
The Charles Schwab Corporation, will acquire TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation
synopsis: Charles Schwab is to buy discount brokerage rival TD Ameritrade in an all-stock deal valued at $26 billion. TD Ameritrade is a broker that offers an electronic trading platform for the trade of financial assets including common stocks, preferred stocks, exchange-traded funds, options, cryptocurrency, mutual funds, and fixed income investments.
buyer: The Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW:$10,784.00)
The Charles Schwab Corporation is a leading provider of financial services. Through its operating subsidiaries, the company provides a full range of securities brokerage, banking, money management and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisors. "
target: TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation (AMTD:$5,872.00)
TD Ameritrade is a broker that offers an electronic trading platform for the trade of financial assets including common stocks, preferred stocks, futures contracts, exchange-traded funds, options, cryptocurrency, mutual funds, and fixed income investments.
announced 12/19/2018 via Reuters
Saxo Bank, will acquire BinckBank
synopsis: Saxo Bank, a fintech specialist, is to acquire Dutch online bank BinckBank. BinckBank operates as an online bank for investors and savers by offering online financial services provided by its central European IT platform.
buyer: Saxo Bank
The Saxo Group is a fintech specialist, and they provide multi-asset market access and Banking as a Service to clients in 180 countries via cutting-edge technology. They are based in Copenhagen. "
target: BinckBank (:$186.53)
BinckBank is the largest independent Dutch online bank for investors. BinckBank operates as an online bank for investors and savers by offering online financial services provided by its central European IT platform.
tradeMONSTER merged with Options House,
synopsis: OptionsHouse LLC, L.P. and tradeMONSTER Group, Inc., two innovative, Chicago-based leaders in the online brokerage sector, announced the completion of the previously announced transactions to combine the two companies, creating a market leading brokerage for active traders and investors, pending final regulatory approval.
buyer parent: PEAK6 Investments LP
buyer: Options House
At OptionsHouse, their mission is to provide savvy investors in options and stock the power and functionality of traditional software-based trading tools with the portability of an online trading platform through the extensive use of leading edge web technologies. "
target: tradeMONSTER
tradeMONSTER™ is an innovative online brokerage that helps self−directed investors manage their money with the skill and confidence of professionals.
closed 10/1/2007 via
Scotiabank, acquired TradeFreedom
synopsis: Scotiabank signed a definitive agreement to acquire TradeFreedom Securities Inc., a privately owned and dynamic Canadian online brokerage boutique. The transaction complements product offerings currently available through the Bank's direct investment arm, ScotiaMcLeod Direct Investing.
buyer: Scotiabank (TSX:BNS:$14,975.30)
Scotiabank is one of North America's premier financial institutions and Canada's most international bank. With more than 58,000 employees, Scotiabank Group and its affiliates serve approximately 12 million customers in some 50 countries around the world. "
target: TradeFreedom
TradeFreedom Securities Inc. is Canada's premier online broker for active traders and investors. Since 1999, we have been providing sophisticated online brokerage services, including instant direct access to equities, options, futures, and forex, through better technology at a better price.
announced 7/3/2019 via GlobeNewswire
Tiger Brokers, will acquire Marsco Investment Corporation
synopsis: Tiger Brokers, a leading online brokerage firm focused on global Chinese investors, will acquire Marsco Investment Corporation, an online brokerage service platform in the US. Marsco focuses on empowering self-directed investors with the necessary tools to manage their portfolios.
buyer: Tiger Brokers
Tiger Brokers is a leading online brokerage firm focused on global Chinese investors. Tiger Brokers provides an online and mobile trading platform that enables investors to trade in equities and other financial instruments on multiple exchanges around the world. "
target: Marsco Investment Corporation
Marsco is an online brokerage service platform in the US. Marsco focuses on empowering self-directed investors with the necessary tools to manage their portfolios. Marsco is designed for self-directed investors who want the flexibility to trade and invest in a wide variety of securities.
Niyogin Fintech Ltd., acquired Moneyfront
synopsis: Niyogin, a non-banking finance company in India, has acquired a 50.1% stake in Moneyfront, an online robo-advisory and investment platform in India. Moneyfront helps its users invest in mutual funds and other fixed-income instruments. Users can manage their investments through a customizable portfolio management system and earn superior returns.
buyer: Niyogin Fintech Ltd. (BSE:538772:$2.40)
Founded in 1988, Niyogin is a non-banking finance company in India. The company helps small businesses with their financial needs, whether it is collateral free access to credit for working capital, financing small projects, expanding businesses or purchasing inventory. "
target: Moneyfront
Moneyfront is an online robo-advisory and investment platform in India. Moneyfront helps its users invest in mutual funds and other fixed-income instruments. Users can manage their investments through a completely customizable portfolio management system and earn superior returns.
announced 8/6/2018 via Company Press Release
AxiCorp, will acquire One Financial Markets
synopsis: Australian-owned Forex (FX) and Contracts For Difference (CFD) trading provider AxiCorp has announced that it will acquire UK-headquartered One Financial Markets (OFM). OFM is an award-winning global online broker providing trading facilities for retail and institutional investors.
buyer: AxiCorp
AxiCorp is a leading global provider of margin and deliverable Foreign Exchange, Contracts For Difference (CFDs) and Financial Spread betting. Their major brands are AxiTrader, AxiPrime, AxiSelect and AxiForex. They offer fully regulated Retail and Institutional trading. "
target parent: KBBO Group
target: One Financial Markets
One Financial Markets is a global, award winning, online broker providing 24/5 trading facilities to retail and institutional investors in forex and CFDs on indices, commodities, energies, bonds and futures.
closed 6/12/2018 via Yahoo, Inc.
Freedom Finance, acquired NetTrader
synopsis: Freedom Holding Corp. has announced its subsidiary Freedom Finance Investment Company, headquartered in Moscow, Russia, has completed the acquisition of NetTrader Brokerage Company ("NetTrader"). NetTrader provides online securities brokerage services, such as touch-tone trading, trading over the Internet, and real-time quotes.
buyer parent: Freedom Holding Corp.
buyer: Freedom Finance
Freedom Finance Investment Company provides stock brokerage and asset management services. The company is headquartered in Moscow, Russia. The Freedom Finance team is one of the few in Russia that provides full support to clients' work on US exchanges. "
target: NetTrader
NetTrader LLC provides online securities brokerage services, such as touch-tone trading, trading over the Internet, and real-time quotes. Its Web site enables to manage investment accounts, make trades, and maintain portfolios.
Grupo Supervielle S.A., acquired InvertirOnline.com
synopsis: Grupo Supervielle S.A., a universal financial services group headquartered in Argentina, has acquired InvertirOnline.com (IOL), an online trading platform in Argentina that allows trading in the Latin American and US stock exchanges. IOL offers online assistance and information for making decisions related to buying and selling stocks and bonds.
buyer: Grupo Supervielle S.A. (BASE:SUPV:$424.10)
Grupo Supervielle is a universal financial services group headquartered in Argentina with a nationwide presence. The group provides financial services to all segments in the economy, focused on offering inclusive, high quality, and affordable financial products to individuals and corporations. "
target: InvertirOnline.com
Founded in 1999, InvertirOnline.com (IOL) is an online trading platform in Argentina that allows trading in the Latin American and US stock exchanges. IOL offers online assistance and valuable information for making decisions related to buying and selling stocks and bonds.
announced 7/1/2015 via Reuters
Playtech plc, will acquire Ava Trade
synopsis: Playtech Plc said it has agreed to buy currency trading platform Ava Trade for $105 million to expand its online trading platform. AvaTrade is one of the world’s most popular and trusted online FX and CFD brokers, delivering the best forex trading experience for novice and expert traders alike.
buyer: Playtech plc (LSE:PTEC:$921.30)
Playtech is an online gaming software supplier, offering cutting-edge solutions to the industry's leading operators. Its approach has been centered on the continual development of best-of-breed gaming products and content, and its success built upon strong partnerships with our licensees. "
target: Ava Trade
AvaTrade’s user-oriented perspective, combined with financial backing, is unique in the field of online trading. AvaTrade has created the optimal trading environment for every trader. AvaTrade’s scope includes a spectrum of trading instruments including Forex, stocks, commodities and indices.
Playtech plc, will acquire Plus500
synopsis: Playtech Plc, the online gaming company, has agreed to buy Plus500, an online trading platform for retail customers to trade CFDs internationally over more than 1,900 different underlying global financial instruments comprising equities, ETFs, foreign exchange, indices and commodities.
Playtech is the world's largest online gaming software supplier, offering cutting-edge, value added solutions to the industry's leading operators. Since Playtech's inception in 1999, its approach has been centered on the continual development of best-of-breed gaming products and content. "
target: Plus500 (AIM:PLUS:$221.48)
Plus500 has developed and operates an online trading platform for retail customers to trade CFDs internationally over more than 1,900 different underlying global financial instruments comprising equities, ETFs, foreign exchange, indices and commodities.
announced 3/6/2014 via PR Newswire
MTS S.p.A., will acquire Bonds.com, Inc.
synopsis: Bonds.com Group, Inc., the parent company of Bonds.com, Inc. (BCI), which is a U.S. based platform for the electronic trading of U.S. corporate and emerging market bonds announced that is has entered into a merger agreement to be acquired by MTS, part of London Stock Exchange Group.
buyer parent: London Stock Exchange Group plc
buyer: MTS S.p.A.
MTS is a provider of electronic trading in the European bond markets. Through its U.S. subsidiary, MTS Markets International, it offers U.S. buy-side participants the ability to access real-time pricing to trade electronically with all the major European dealers via its BondVision platform. "
target: Bonds.com, Inc.
Bonds.com Inc., a FINRA registered Broker Dealer and ATS, offers access to live liquidity and execution through its web based electronic BondsPRO platform. BondsPRO posts live, anonymous, and executable orders on a single bond or list basis, and permits price negotiation.
announced 9/12/2013 via BusinessWire
TradeKing, will acquire GAIN Securities
synopsis: TradeKing Group Inc., an innovator in the online brokerage industry, announced it has received approval from FINRA to acquire the assets of GAIN Securities, Inc., a subsidiary of GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. TradeKing anticipates it will have the GAIN Securities clients fully transitioned to its brokerage firm by early October.
TradeKing is a nationally licensed online stock and options broker offering simple, low cost online trading fees. TradeKing has received multiple discount broker awards from top industry sources and was rated best in customer service by SmartMoney Magazine. "
target parent: GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc.
target: GAIN Securities
GAIN Securities is an SEC registered and FINRA member broker-dealer offering direct access to listed U.S. equity securities, including stocks, exchange traded funds, or ETFs, options, mutual funds and bonds.
TradeStation Securities, Inc., acquired Interbank FX
synopsis: TradeStation Group, Inc. announced the acquisition of IBFX Holdings, LLC ("IBFX"), an innovative provider of forex trading services to 27,000 individual traders, fund managers and institutional clients worldwide. Interbank FX, LLC, the primary Forex operating company of the IBFX group, will be merged into TradeStation Forex, Inc.
buyer parent: Monex Group, Inc.
buyer: TradeStation Securities, Inc.
TradeStation Group, Inc. offers the TradeStation platform to the active trader and certain institutional trader markets. TradeStation is an electronic trading platform that offers state-of-the-art electronic order placement and execution. "
target: Interbank FX
Interbank FX, LLC is a worldwide provider of retail Forex trading services, offering individual traders, fund managers and institutional customers proprietary technology and tools to trade Forex online.
MB Trading Holdings, LLC, acquired Wizetrade Group LLP
synopsis: MB Trading Holdings, LLC, parent company of several technology-driven, low-commission brokerages specializing in order routing in FOREX, Equities, Futures, and Options, announced that it has acquired ownership of The Wizetrade Group, a preeminent leader in providing trading tools for almost ten years.
buyer: MB Trading Holdings, LLC
MB Trading is a direct access brokerage firm that develops and markets sophisticated yet simple direct access trading technology to online investors, institutions, and qualified destinations. "
target parent: Dynetech Corporation
target: Wizetrade Group LLP
The Wizetrade Group, LLP provides traders of all experience levels with a suite of software products and investor training classes that assist them with their trading selections. This suite of products includes Wizetrade(R) Stocks, Wizetrade(R) FOREX, CommandTRADE(R) FX and many others.
Zecco merged with TradeKing,
synopsis: TradeKing and Zecco, two innovators in the online brokerage industry, announced the merger of the two firms has officially closed. Zecco is an online brokerage site for stock, options, and forex traders. Zecco Trading is an online stock brokerage that offers low cost stock trades and low cost options trades.
target: Zecco
Zecco is an online brokerage site for stock, options, and forex traders. Zecco Trading is an online stock brokerage that offers low cost stock trades and low cost options trades. Zecco provides low commission rates, free research and tools, and customer service.
Ticker: DB:FLA
Flatex is a leading online brokerage business in Europe. Flatex provides an affordable and mobile online broker-platform with expert service and advice. Flatex offers trading in all common securities such as shares, funds and ETFs in exchange and over-the-counter trading.
Ticker: AMTD
TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation
Ticker: IBKR
Interactive Brokers Group, together with its subsidiaries, is an automated global electronic broker that specializes in catering to financial professionals by offering state-of-the-art trading technology, superior execution capabilities, worldwide electronic access, and more.
Ticker: MF
MF Global Holdings Ltd
MF Global is one of the world’s leading brokers of commodities and listed derivatives. The firm delivers trading and hedging solutions as a broker-dealer across all major markets for futures and options, commodities, fixed income, equities and foreign exchange.
Ticker: MISX:OFCB
Otkritie Financial Corporation Ltd.
OTKRITIE Financial Corporation Ltd. is one of Russia’s leading banking groups which offers its clients and partners the full array of investment banking, commercial banking, brokerage and investment management services.
Ticker: BSE:512165
ABans Enterprises
ABans Enterprises is an Indian company engaged in the business of trading, processing, broking and consulting in all kind of commodities. ABans is in the business of trading in agriculture commodities, precious metals, shares, currencies, and derivatives of all kind in electronic exchanges.
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Cambodian Textile Workers Killed By Police During Protest
In the Third World, the proletariat are driven in the harshest conditions to produce the value that we proletariat in the First World appropriate. We should not be surprised in any way that the most radical of worker actions against exploitation take place there. With the resistance of the workers to that exploitation so high, the bourgeois respond in a manner of repression necessary to combat it. This truth leads us to what happened yesterday in Cambodia when the worker protest turned deadly.
The garment workers had been protesting to demand that the minimum wage be doubled due to the overwhelming poverty they face. A demand for a minimum wage of $160 (US) a month was responded with an offer of $100 (US). This is simply not enough. It is important to note that Cambodia has over 500,000 garment workers which make up an important source of national income.
The workers eventually refused to produce for the capitalist and blocked off a road south of the capital, Phnom Penh. These actions lead to a clash with the police who have maintained that the protesters should not be allowed to take such acts.
Eventually the police opened fire killing three protesters and injuring several more. A military spokesman, Kheng Tito, told the Associated Foreign Press that nine policemen were injured.
An activist from rights group Adhoc, Chan Soveth, told the news agency that police “used rifles and other things to crack down on the strikers” at Friday’s protest.
It is clear that the grinding poverty of some of the world’s lowest cost labour is not acceptable to the dignity of human life. These people have the right, and necessity, to struggle against the national bourgeois and the First World foreign capital that dominate their lives. All socialists should stand in solidarity with the workers as they strive for livable wage.
Cambodia garment workers killed in clashes with police, BBC News
2014 01 04 in News. Tags: cambodia, protest, worker struggle
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Scott Caulfield has been involved in fitness and athletics for over two decades, in a variety of different roles. Currently, he is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at the NSCA Headquarters in Colorado Springs. He utilizes 20+ years of “under the bar” lifting and coaching experience in a variety of different roles in support of the NSCA’s mission as the worldwide authority on strength and conditioning.
Caulfield holds the Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with Distinction (CSCS*D) certification and Registered Strength and Conditioning Coach with Distinction (RSCC*D) designation from the National Strength and Conditioning Association, as well as USA Weightlifting’s Level 2 Advanced Sports Performance Coach certification.
Scott’s specialties include: Strength and conditioning programs for athletic teams and individuals, strength training for speed and power, endurance, speed and agility development, energy system specific conditioning, injury prevention, Olympic weightlifting, strongman, powerlifting, nutrition for athletic performance, fat loss, and overall health.
What initially attracted you to strength and conditioning?
I always played sports growing up, but when I went into the Navy, I started lifting more seriously. It was during this time that I noticed the correlation between lifting and my own sports performance in basketball. When I found out you could make a living working with athletes, a lightbulb went off. I began pursuing the physical education field working with different sports teams and at different universities.
Could you share more about the athletes you currently work with?
At the NSCA Headquarters, we work with so many different athletes including high-level youth hockey (14-20-year-old teams), tactical athletes, police, SWAT teams, firefighters, first responders, Paralympic teams, and international teams.
I always joke that you never know who will show up at NSCA Headquarters. We have the flexibility to work with so many different athletes. Plus, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has reached out to our NSCA team to work with athletes.
You work with tactical athletes. Could you describe what this entails?
Tactical athletes are individuals who have to apply our strength and conditioning methods to real-life scenarios such as police, firefighters, SWAT teams, first responders, etc.
The biggest difference with tactical athletes is that they are typically older when they start working with us—around 30 or 40 years old. These individuals might start with us having poor movement mechanics and injuries that you have to work around.
Tactical athletes are not playing a game every Sunday like your typical athlete. They might leave a session with us and be called into a fire call or hostage rescue. The training has to be very sensible and cognizant of how much we do and how much we push them because they are leaving NSCA and putting their life on the line.
What is your philosophy in regards to strength and conditioning?
Everything we do is about results and relationships. We have to get results—bigger, faster, stronger, or reduce injury. But, it is also about building positive and impactful relationships with people.
What shifts have you seen in strength and conditioning throughout the years?
The most successful people stick to the fundamentals. Throughout the years, there have been many changes with implementing more wearable technology in the weight room and field.
What is the most difficult aspect about your position?
In our setting, we don’t see some athletes as often throughout the year. The biggest challenge when you don’t see someone consistently and you have to reassess and see where the athlete is currently on a given day.
What advice would you give athletes about recovery?
An athlete has to do what works for the individual. Recovery protocols have to be something that they are going to follow through with, and be practical and maintainable.
The Marc Pro allows athletes to have access to use the tool themselves, making it a huge asset. Athletes can use it for recovery for future workouts, and to feel better after hard training sessions.
What is your favorite part about working with athletes on a daily basis?
Building positive and impactful relationships. I really like to learn more about individuals and invest in them as people. When you actually build those relationships, it comes back tenfold.
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District Officials Think They Know Open Ed. Resources, But Grasp Is Surface-Level, Survey Finds
About half the nation’s school district administrators have at least a general awareness of open educational resources, but their understanding drops when they’re asked specific questions that get beyond a surface-level understanding of those materials.
Those were among the takeaways in a newly released survey by the Babson Survey Research Group, which found that 31 percent of K-12 officials polled said they were generally “aware” of open educational materials, and an additional 19 percent said they were “very aware.”
But the authors also sought to probe administrators’ depth of understanding of open resources. And when asked detailed questions meant to test the rigor of their knowledge, school officials’ acumen was not as impressive.
Open educational materials are typically defined as resources that either live in the public domain or are created on licenses that allow them to be freely shared, altered, and repurposed. (It’s not enough, by that standard, for them to simply be offered for free.)
When the survey authors asked K-12 officials if they were aware of both open educational materials and licenses issued by the organization Creative Commons—a prominent organization that undertakes that work—the portion of respondents who were “very aware” of open resources fell from 19 percent to 13 percent. The number who were “aware” drops from 31 percent to 15 percent.
And the portion who were “somewhat aware” fell from 15 percent to 6 percent. (Strong majorities of respondents, however, claimed a general understanding of the copyright status of classroom content and public-domain licensing.)
District officials in smaller K-12 systems—those with fewer than 1,000 students—are much less aware of open resources than district officials in larger systems, according to the survey results, released in a report titled “What We Teach: K-12 School District Curriculum Adoption Process, 2017.” The Babson Survey Research Group is an independent entity affiliated with Babson College in Massachusetts.
The authors also examined K-12 officials’ knowledge of specific brands of open curriculum, too.
Sixteen percent of district officials surveyed said they had adopted at least one full-course open curriculum. But when the administrators were given a list of names of K-12 materials classified as open educational resources—spanning 14 different combinations of subject areas and publishers—a much larger number, two-thirds of those surveyed, said they were aware of at least one of those materials.
The best-known and most widely adopted of the open resources was Eureka Math/Great Minds. A pair of resources created by New York state in English/language arts and literacy also fared well. The overall level of awareness of individual products ranged from more than 50 percent to under 10 percent, the survey revealed. Here’s a list of individual products, ranked by the awareness level of K-12 officials:
The nationally representative survey drew responses from 584 K-12 school district administrators who are involved in curricular decisions, said Jeff Seaman, the director of the Babson Survey Research Group, in an interview. The surveys were collected during the spring of 2017 in 48 states and the District of Columbia.
In addition to looking at open educational resources, the authors of the study also sought to probe the overall factors that prompt districts to adopt new curriculum across academic subjects.
One of the takeaways is that the need to adopt new standards or change them is a very strong factor in replacing previous curricula—cited by 69 percent of those surveyed. Other factors—such as teacher or district dissatisfaction—ranked much lower.
Once materials get adopted, they tend to stick around for a while. A strong majority of district officials, 57 percent, said their previously adopted curricular material has been in place for 6-10 years. An additional 23 percent said the materials had been in place more than a decade.
But when decisions get made, they get made fairly quickly, the Babson survey found. The entire curriculum-adoption process typically takes less than a year from beginning to end.
Among other takeaways from the from the report:
Teachers have some curriculum decision-making power in 94 percent of districts, more than district-level administrators (75 percent) and principals (73 percent) according to the administrators surveyed;
Districts are much less likely to engage outside experts (21 percent) and parents (18 percent) in the adoption process;
A majority of districts consider 3-5 curriculum options, and pare down the number to 2-3 during the final review; and
The cost of choosing curriculum is much more of a factor in districts with high rates of poverty, where 52 percent say it is critical, than in systems with low rates of child poverty, at 26 percent.
Implications for Businesses
For K-12 vendors trying to interpret the survey results, one message is that most district officials are not drawn into buying new curricula because they’re wowed by a new set of materials. The overriding concern among district decisionmakers is whether the resources are a match with the standards.
“The ‘build-it-and-they-will-come’ approach, where an alternative is so compelling that districts rush to adopt it, will NOT work,” the report says. “School districts do not engage in an adoption process because they have found a compelling curricula alternative. Almost all decisions are driven by a belief that the current materials no longer meet current standards, not by the characteristics of potential alternatives.”
The notion that districts replace curricula because of a more-enticing alternative “never showed up” in the results, said Seaman, a co-author of the survey. The strongest motivation among districts was because what they have “no longer meets what the standards are.”
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Tom McDonald says:
There is an overwhelming consistency within traditional public educators in thinking they are doing the correct things to advance, sustained, student success, performance improvement outcomes, for all students, when in reality the opposite is true. This is validated by looking at the data: student success outcomes and the education gap are not improving. And then we look to traditional educators to solve the problem and they, in their ultimate, flawed wisdom, maintain the flawed, once size fits all paradigm, thinking that a few minor additions to a flawed system, will correct the problem. One thing is for sure. Traditional educators are not the source for paradigm change and educationally innovative pedagogies. Maintenance of the one size fits all status quo is their mission, which means that they are really not interested in advancing student success outcomes, for all students. Go figure.
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The Babadook: Ghost Story or Psychological Thriller?
I watched an exceptionally good horror film on Netflix, called The Babadook. One thing I like to do after seeing a good movie is try to reverse engineer the screenplay. What was the spark that inspired the screenwriter?
In this case the spark was likely a familiar domestic scenario in fiction: what tvtropes.org calls “Maternal Death, Blame the Child” — i.e., the mother dies in childbirth, and the father resents the child.
In this breakout Australian film, the genders are reversed. It’s the father who dies in a horrific auto accident while rushing his pregnant wife to the hospital. Fast-forward seven years, and you have single mother Amelia, struggling to raise her stormy, high-strung son, Sam. The lines on Amelia’s face hint at the toll Sam has taken on her with his eccentric hyperactivity. At just seven years old, Sam has developed a spastic repertoire of magician’s tricks, while fashioning homespun mechanical weapons that shatter windows and break dishes.
The film makes clear Sam’s motive in demanding all of his mother’s attention. He’s afraid she doesn’t love him. It’s his greatest fear. And in a horror film, your greatest fear can turn murderous.
Amelia begins to fear this about herself, as well. Has she stopped loving her son? Though her affection for Sam is obvious, her sanity is wearing thin. She puts out Sam’s fires left and right: Sam ejected from school for bad behavior, Sam shoving his cousin out of her tree fort and breaking her nose.
Amelia is also horribly sleep deprived. With Sam’s birthday–also the anniversary of her husband’s death–fast approaching, she’s plagued by nightmares of the car crash that decapitated her husband seven years before.
Sam has nightmares, too. Amelia must soothe him long into the night. The best way is to let him sleep in her bed. But she’s robbed of her own sleep, as he clings to her. In two memorable close-ups, Sam’s hand grips her throat or he grinds his teeth right next to her ear.
As the sleep deprivation wears on her, Amelia begins to lose her temper. She snaps at Sam, curses, even. “If you’re so hungry, why don’t you eat shit!” She apologizes, horrified at herself.
But we’re not surprised. We see she’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Tellingly, that’s when the Babadook–a supernatural creature from a super-creepy children’s book–begins to terrorize them in their shadowy house.
Amelia reading the pop-up book “The Babadook” to her son, Sam
(Spoiler alert: if you haven’t seen the film yet, stop reading here.)
From that point on, the film plays as a supernatural slasher flick. The Babadook possesses Amelia’s body and targets Sam. It/she stalks him with a butcher knife.
Or, is it the case that Amelia has simply lost her mind? If so, the story shifts from supernatural thriller to psychological thriller and becomes much more disturbing.
But the camera storytelling keeps us on the fence. It’s a classic presentation of Freud’s the uncanny: we don’t know how to take Amelia’s violence–is she possessed or is she insane?
Rather than run away, Sam fights back. With his arsenal of homemade weapons, he pelts Amelia/Babadook with darts and bocce balls.
He slows her attack long enough to wrest her attention: “I know you don’t love me,” he shouts. “The Babadook won’t let you!”
It’s at that moment the film so movingly reveals the central metaphor: that Amelia’s grief at the loss of her husband poisons her relationship to her child. The Babadook represents her resentment. Resentment kills relationships.
At the risk of revealing too much, let’s just say Sam battles the Babadook to the end.
December 10, 2016 January 12, 2018 Martin Lopez Tagged ADHD, Australia, children, culture, family conflict, family drama, film, Freud, grieving, Horror, insanity, loss, motherhood, movies, night terrors, nightmare, paranormal, parenting, psychoanalysis, psychology, reviews, single mothers, writing 1 Comment
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Joe Sokolinsky
I really enjoyed reading this piece. It helped me further appreciate “The Babadook.” When I saw the film, I was not aware of the concept of “maternal death, blame the child.” Now I realize that the film was a variation of that condition. In addition, I was not aware of the “uncanny” condition.
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Trusona envision a new world where the weakest link in cybersecurity, the password, is replaced by a user-centered experience that is both usable and secure. Chief Design Officer, Kevin Goldman, says, “We think that security is one of the most interesting places for a designer to be right now, it’s really on the cusp. We’re quickly reaching a point where we need the human side of the screen to be as elegant as those algorithms, bits and bytes are formed of.”
Launched 3.5 years ago, Trusona’s authentication service is now used by some of the largest enterprises around the world, including a partnership with tech giant, Microsoft. Their service has true demand across the globe and their team of 33 are constantly finding new innovative ways to optimise their product for the omni-channels they service, including ATMs. That’s where Marvel comes in.
Democratising design with Marvel
Their Founder, Ori Eisen, knew it was important for their business to embed design thinking, not just into the product, but into the company as well. “It was a really important decision on Ori’s part to hire an executive in design, who has a seat at the table" says Kevin. In doing this, they allowed design to be something that wasn’t seen as a side group, or subsidiary of the product, marketing, or any other group. “That was probably the single most important way in which we help make design part of everything that happens here. And Marvel really facilitates this way of thinking.”
At Trusona, the design team is everywhere; pairing with engineering, imagining and writing with marketing and strategizing with product. Even co-creating assets and demos with sales, and running their own ethnographic research.
“Marvel is a democratic design tool,” says Mariel, Lead Product Designer at Trusona.
“It levels the playground so anyone, from our CDO to our sales engineers, can elevate their design chops and create value for our customers and prospects - not 6 months from now, but today.”
Mariel explains that keeping a multidisciplinary team that spans continents updated and on-target is no easy feat but Marvel helps their global team collaborate. They share everything from large prototypes solving cases in their Software Development Kits (SDKs), to one-page marketing materials for approval.
“Aside from the design culture we’re building, we're very heavy on a balanced and family culture,” Mariel continues. “Not only for people working remotely, but Kevin and I travel, we both have kids, family engagements and priorities. Because we have Marvel, it’s possible for me to be in Mexico, him be here at the office, work on a paper, and I know that I can take a picture of my work, send it to him, and he can comment directly into the prototype.”
Prototypes the whole company can use
Trusona’s design workflow means combining Marvel, Abstract and Sketch, which they combine with a functioning demo for the whole company, which they call The Lab. The first time they did this, they had the whole company interested and adopting that workflow with Marvel within a week. “We realised that we could combine a prototype in the working code, within a week, and never went back,” says Kevin.
The team instantly switched to that format for almost all the demos they were creating, and now design have trained sales engineers to create those prototypes on their own.
Getting the other teams up to speed was no hassle, Kevin says, “It really wasn’t a lot to onboard them with Marvel, it was more of an un-experience to onboard them! Just because the tool is very self-explanatory.”
Their sales team use Marvel everyday, including those who manage their Microsoft partnership. Throughout the sales process, they showcase prototypes which provide a general awareness of what Trusona does, and also build more specific, visually dynamic prototypes that help really cement what the experience is using Trusona.
“This means that our prospects get to see our passwordless multi-factor authentication logins as if it were in their sites,” Kevin tells us. “Bridging a gap that may be too broad for some to cross without visual, “clickable” aids.”
Kevin explains that one of Trusona’s biggest deciding factor to go with Marvel, is that the tool let’s their work be the star of the show.
“I really appreciate that when we send Marvel prototype links out to stakeholders, that the tool’s interface doesn't steal the show.”
“If you take a screenshot of some of the other tools on the market and calculate the percentage of the UI that's dedicated to the work, and to the tool itself - something like 20% of the screen real estate is dedicated to the tool. I can't get behind that. So, we made the decision to go with Marvel, and have not once regretted it since we did that years ago.”
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Only Beauty
by Matthew Duffus
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When he looked back, which he tried not to do, he only remembered sitting before the Steinway with the astronomical insurance premium, preparing to begin the scherzo he’d spent years studying. His friend Evgeny had conquered it at fifteen, recording live in Japan, while it proved his Rubicon at thirty-four, on an April weekday in Flyover Country. At the final piu mosso, the home stretch, he went blank, stumbling over the triplets, muscle memory failing like the final engine of a distressed 747, ensuing chords unrecoverable, the black box of his mind malfunctioning, recording static when there should have been stretto e crescendo. But what was there to crescendo, stretto or otherwise? He sat before the piano, hands hovering above the keys, positioned as he’d held them since he was four. Where was Mrs. Claiborne when he needed her? She would have hummed the note in his ear.
His therapist had warned him about the job, that it was too soon to consider something so dangerously adjacent to performing, but his money was running out, so he’d acceded to his friend’s offer of a Guest Artist position, sublet his apartment, and moved south. He saw himself as a missionary from a more cultured place and expected to find the natives harmless and kind, uncouth but pliable. Instead, he confronted a room full of serious young women, each seated at a piano, backs straight, chins high. He half-expected them to rise at his entrance.
Incapable of sustaining a lecture, of offering tidbits about composers’ lives or speaking of his own career, he prowled the room’s perimeter, adjusting an elbow, tapping a rhythm on the piano top, but never depressing a key himself. He felt exposed, a fraud.
Only one was worth his time. She played with force and confidence, struck each note exactly as directed in the score. But that was her problem. Like her teacher, the technique was flawless. Like her teacher, the lack of emotion would leave audiences cold. A reviewer had referred to his albums as listenable but not re-listenable; everything is on the surface, with none of the depth one seeks in greatness. It was unfair to pass down such a critique to her. Everyone from his manager to his piano tuner had heard him rail against said critic. How could he presume to say the same of this twenty-year-old?
He grew charitable over the weeks. Increasingly, he spent time playing recordings for her, urging her on with the sounds of his friends — Yundi and Hélène — sought to transfer the power of Argerich and Uchida aurally. She grew more emotive but less certain, as though she contained a set amount of ability that had to be apportioned among the two poles of expressivity and technique. She made mistakes, missed flats in chords she had known by heart, became tangled in runs that she had previously dashed off with aplomb.
One day, he arrived in the studio to find six young women in a semi-circle around the seventh’s piano, where his star pupil hammered the keys like pistons inside an engine, the same sixteenth-note run over and over. Bach’s Keyboard Concerto Number One in D Minor. He’d played the Gould recording for her a week earlier, noted the inconsistencies in the legend’s interpretation but impressed upon her their lack of consequence, the fact that Gould’s martial lyricism came through regardless. Now, she fired off sixteenth-notes so hard he expected the keys to fly off with them. The piano legs shifted against the wood floor. The piano top trembled. There were tears in her eyes and snot on her upper lip.
He cleared the room with a glance and sat next to her. He’d bluffed through the semester without pausing to wonder how he’d influenced them. He’d implored. He’d cajoled. But what if he’d damaged them, as well? He covered her hands with his own, lightly enough that he could feel the tendons in her fingers, the brushing of her knuckles against his palm. He feared what would happen if he stopped her, so they remained, caught in perpetual, repetitive motion, until the sun set and the room darkened.
The following afternoon, he was too preoccupied by his missed therapy session to notice her absence at first. He’d grown dependent on his video sessions, the only lifeline to humanity that didn’t imply, or ask outright, the constant question, when are you coming back? It wasn’t until the Bartók truly took off that he became aware of the absence of that sound, the lone improvement he’d grown inured by, the expectation that, week after week, she would develop as sure as the nights would grow longer. He frowned at the place where she should have been, as though disappointment might conjure her. When she did not arrive after twenty minutes, he released the class into the late-afternoon shadows, blaming their lack of effort, though even they could see his verdict was half-hearted.
He did not know what to do, how to contact her, or where to begin. All he knew was that he would be lost without her. He sat at her piano, judged himself for thinking he could feel her presence there. He studied the keys she had played the last time she’d been there, the measures she’d repeated for two hours without missing a note or varying her tempo, not even when he’d placed his hands on her own, the most sensual gesture imaginable, he now realized. He placed his fingers above the keys, pressed the first one and then another and another. It wasn’t perfect. It was only beautiful.
Matthew Duffus is the author of two forthcoming books, the novel Swapping Purples for Yellows (Aug. 2019) and the collection Dunbar’s Folly and Other Stories (Oct. 2020). He teaches and directs the writing center at Gardner-Webb University, in Boiling Springs, NC.
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I won Delta South senatorial election, Uduaghan reacts to Tribunal judgment
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Emmanuel Uduaghan, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the Delta south senatorial election, says the election tribunal should have declared him winner of the February 23 poll.
He said this in reaction to the tribunal’s removal of James Manager, his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Manager winner of the election but Uduagahn challenged Manager’s victory.
On Saturday, the tribunal annulled the election and ordered INEC to conduct a fresh one within 90 days.
In a statement which Monoyo Edon, Uduaghan’s media aide, issued on his behalf, the former governor of Delta said the tribunal’s verdict was an affirmation of his position that the election was rigged.
“While we are happy with the tribunal’s judgement which affirmed my party’s position that the election was rigged and characterized with electoral over voting, we are not entirely satisfied with the judgement as the tribunal ought to have deducted the excess illegal votes and declared me and my party rightful winner of the election,” he said.
“In view of this, we shall be challenging the tribunal’s judgement at the Appeal Court to declare us as the outright winner of the February 23rd, 2019 National Assembly Election for Delta South Senatorial District.”
The former governor also thanked his supporters who had waited for the outcome of the poll.
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Album Review of Guadalupe Plata (2015) by Guadalupe Plata.
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Release Date: Jan 15, 2016
Record label: Everlasting
Genre(s): Blues, Blues-Rock
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Guadalupe Plata (2015) - Fairly Good, Based on 4 Critics
The Line of Best Fit - 85
Based on rating 8.5/10
Taking their name from the patron of their home-town, the virgin of Guadalupe, it’s of little surprise that there’s something transcendental about the eponymous new release from Spanish trio Guadalupe Plata. Fusing together the musical traditions of their native country with delta blues and anarchic psychedelia, pressing the play button is somewhat akin to the ingestion of peyote. A fitting comparison then, given that the first two minutes of the record also feel like the first tentative steps in to a dust-caked Mexican border-town - sleepy, for now, but with an ever-apparent air of danger beneath the surface.
Classic Rock Magazine - 60
Primordial blues rock high on atmospherics. As film director Sergio Leone proved, Spain makes a great stand-in for America. So it is with Guadalupe Plata, an Iberian three-piece whose take on punk-rock blues plugs directly into the Mississippi Delta while owing much to the power of the holy trinity of reverb, tremolo and feedback. .
The Skinny - 60
The kind of record that leaves you feeling you need a bath, Guadalupe Plata is beyond dirty. A scuzzed-up, howlaround, frenzied fusing of blues forms and punk attitude, the Andalucian trio's fourth album was recorded live to eight track tape and you can tell: the arrangements are raw, the production barely there, the sound an abrasive, all-consuming clatter. It's an elementary mix but there's a blackened spirituality within its shadows.
The Guardian - 60
You can almost smell the greased-back hair and the scent of old sweat on leather as you listen to what appears to be Guadelupe Plata’s third album, and their first to be released in the UK – it would almost be a disappointment if they didn’t travel from town to town across Andalucia by battered bike. They sound as if they must rip up the stage when they play live – a tense, taut rhythm section provides the base over which screeching guitar builds and releases. And while the singing is in Spanish, you don’t get the impression it’s all hearts and flowers.
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Blink-182 Clap Back At Disappointed Fans In New Song ‘Generational Divide’
Written by Laura English on June 21, 2019
Blink-182 have released a 49 second track titled ‘Generational Divide’ and it’s basically a f**k you to haters who don’t like the new Blink direction.
The new track is fast, a Travis Barker specialty and ironically enough, has some old-school Blink-182 vibes. The second verse features lyrics, “All I needed was a lifeline / We swore we’d be better than the last time / Donate, tell me that you’re all right / I’m not the generational divide”.
Heavy music fans being outraged that their favourite bands are changing their sound is a tale as old as time but how good are the songs that follow. Trophy Eyes’ ‘You Can Count On Me’, Bring Me The Horizon’s ‘Heavy Metal’, and now, Blink-182’s ‘Generational Divide’ — perfect.
‘Generational Divide’ is the second single off of the upcoming Blink-182 album, following ‘Blame It On My Youth’. Listen to it down below.
In an interview, Mark Hoppus said the new album will be “a lot more aggressive” and “darker in theme and tone”.
“If you like California to Enema Of The State then this album is more like the untitled record where we are trying to experiment more: trying to experiment more, trying different sounds, and trying to expand upon what people think Blink-182 is,” he told Alt Press.
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Faubert loan to Madrid in offing
metrowebukmetroFriday 30 Jan 2009 11:55 pm
West Ham have confirmed midfielder Julien Faubert is discussing a loan move to Real Madrid.
The Hammers gave the Frenchman permission to talk to the Spanish champions after he struggled to secure a sustained run in the first team this season.
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Chief executive Scott Duxbury told HIS club’s website, whufc.com: “He (Faubert) had asked the manager about a possible move, and we felt it right to let him talk to Real Madrid. If it does not happen then we will, of course, welcome Julien back into the squad.”
He added: “I was first contacted by Madrid on Friday morning – and after extensive negotiations, we have agreed in principle a deal that would see them paying us a £1.5million fee to take Julien until the end of the season.
“His long-term future would then be reviewed in the summer, with a significant transfer fee payable should Madrid want to take up their option.
“If Julien does go on loan, then we will look to quickly bring in a replacement.”
Faubert joined the London side in 2007 from Bordeaux but soon suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon, which left him on the sidelines for the first half of last season.
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Probe targets Sarkozy link to illegal-funding claims
Prosecutors on Wednesday investigated claims that President Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign received illegal cash from France’s richest woman, as the scandal spawned lawsuits and a fightback by his allies.
The prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre asked the fraud squad to look into the allegations by a former accountant for Liliane Bettencourt, heiress of the L’Oreal cosmetics empire.
Sarkozy’s allies hit back, accusing the media of “fascist” tactics and dismissing as a smear campaign a scandal that has plunged him into the biggest crisis of his presidency.
Accountant Claire Thibout has told police that in early 2007 Bettencourt’s financial adviser gave €150 000 in cash to Eric Woerth, who was the treasurer for Sarkozy’s campaign and is now labour minister.
Woerth decided to make an official complaint over the allegations, saying he was the victim of “malicious falsehood” by persons unknown, his office said on Wednesday.
“He denounces the false accusations to which he has been subjected,” the Labour Ministry said in a statement. A French magistrate will study his complaint and decide whether criminal charges can be brought.
Prime Minister Francois Fillon, meanwhile, rebuffed mounting calls for a ministerial reshuffle to clear the air, vowing: “We will not give in to this upheaval.”
Woerth has blamed “a political plot orchestrated by the Socialist Party”, while others slammed the media, notably investigative news website Mediapart, which broke the story.
“This famous site’s behaviour recalls that of certain newspapers in the 1930s,” Industry Minister Christian Estrosi told France Info radio, in an apparent reference to fascist political currents in pre-war France.
Mediapart had quoted Thibout as saying that Sarkozy had also received envelopes of cash from the family.
They were the first allegations to link Sarkozy directly with a scandal over Woerth’s ties to the billionairess. The affair started with a Mediapart report based on conversations secretly recorded by her butler.
Woerth has been accused of a conflict of interest since the revelation that his wife worked for a firm managing Bettencourt’s €17-billion fortune while as budget minister he was fighting tax evasion.
He insists he did nothing wrong but various politicians and commentators from within Sarkozy’s own right-wing camp have urged the president to speak out on the matter.
Families Minister Nadine Morano reiterated the charge by other Sarkozy supporters that Mediapart had used “fascist methods”.
The journalist who founded the site, Edwy Plenel, told France Info he would sue Sarkozy’s allies for defamation for the “fascist” comment and insisted Mediapart‘s reporting was in the public interest.
Aides say Sarkozy is considering a televised address as pressure rises before Woerth presents a sensitive pensions Bill, centrepiece of the president’s reform drive, on July 13.
Sarkozy on Tuesday described the affair as “a slander with only one goal, to smear with no basis in reality”.
But neither he nor Woerth has yet confirmed whether their party took money — even a legal campaign donation — from the billionaire.
In France private donors are forbidden from giving more than €7 500 per year to a political party and there are strict limits on how much can be raised in cash.
Sarkozy’s approval ratings are at their lowest levels since his 2007 election and he faces an uphill battle to get reforms back on track before seeking re-election in 2012. — AFP
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Design Challenge Winner PERC: Assessing Growth Mindset
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By Tenelle Porter, University of California, Davis
Visualize something you’ve always been pretty good at–maybe it’s a skill or subject in school that came easily to you, something that made you think “I’m a natural!” Now, think about something you really struggled with but eventually learned. Maybe it’s playing an instrument, or solving quadratic equations — something that took effort, practice, and lots of failure, but that eventually you got.
Research tells us that both of these experiences probably informed your “theories” about how abilities work. One belief you may have developed is that abilities are fixed; this view says that we come into the world good at some things and bad at others and we stay that way – this is sometimes called the Fixed Mindset. Another belief is that skills and abilities are malleable – that you can learn or improve at just about anything with enough effort and help – this is sometimes called the Growth Mindset.
Every person has a mix of both the fixed and the growth mindset. But, research suggests that when students can tap into a growth mindset, it can help them succeed in school. Believing you can get better in math (growth mindset) is more helpful than believing you’re bad at math and there’s not much you can do about it (fixed mindset).
One way a growth mindset is likely to help students is by shaping their behavior. What do I mean? Students who embrace the growth mindset are likely to act in ways that promote their learning and growth, even if that means taking risks: they will seek out challenges to help them learn, be more effortful and persistent when material is difficult because they believe it’s possible to improve, and show resilience – when inevitable set-backs come in school, they can to bounce back.
We think these behaviors, Persistence, Effort, Challenge-seeking, and Resilience, are an important part of the growth mindset picture. That’s why our UC Davis and Mindset Works research team has been working to develop a new assessment tool, PERC, to tap into them. In PERC, students complete puzzles that don’t depend on their knowledge of other subjects: we use their responses to these puzzles as our primary measures (check out this video for details). PERC allows us to take a sample of students’ behavior in response to a novel activity, not unlike those encountered regularly in school. Although behavior is tricky to study, partially because it is difficult to measure on a large scale, PERC is computer-based, and self-directed, making it feasible to administer to many students at once.
We’re finding that PERC behaviors are positively associated with students’ achievement. Even when we take into account where students start out the year in their grades, PERC behaviors still explain achievement at year’s end. The students who have more of a growth mindset also tend to have higher persistence, effort, resilience and challenge-seeking on PERC, as we would expect.
What are some ways you have seen a Growth Mindset reflected in how you or your students behave?
You can see our Design Challenge awardees present on their measures by following links to the Recording and Slide Deck from our webinar as well as our Brief.
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Soul 7’s New Frequency Spa
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It has been a long, hard, Canadian winter, so when my editor wrote to ask if I would review Soul 7’s new frequency spa, I jumped at the chance. Their web site spoke of rewiring your brain’s response to stress and releasing blockages, and other things that could potentially make me skeptical or nervous, so I decided to go in uninformed instead. My one hour session promised to lower my stress level — that’s all I needed to know.
On the day of, my already high level of stress was intensified by trying to make it through Toronto traffic to get there on time. I had unwittingly made myself the perfect test subject: If this could lower my stress level on that day, it could lower anybody’s stress level on any day!
I was greeted by Rebecca when I got there. I instantly liked her. She was alert, down to earth, warm, clear and kind. In short, she made me want some of what she was having — presumably some Soul 7. I cannot stress enough the importance of Rebecca’s demeanor in this experience. If she had been flaky or haughty, I think everything would have been tainted for the worse. Instead, talking to her was relaxing in itself!
She gave me some tea that smelled of roses — I am a sucker for anything infused with roses! — and gave me a little background on the place: The founder of Soul 7 was originally a lawyer. His wife was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and they were told nothing could be done. True to lawyer form, he was not willing to accept that nothing could be done. Thus began his search for healing technologies around the world, which culminated four years ago in the conversion of his legal offices into a wellness centre. The frequency spa, Soul 7’s newest venture, was added only a month ago. Knowing that this history was emanating from these walls explained why I didn’t instantly fall in love with the decor, but also simultaneously enriched the surroundings and led me to love them before long.
After a quick tour of the place — a beautiful row of balancing bowls that she played for me briefly; a fish tank where a surreally beautiful and shy fish named Dory swam around until my slight movement scared her away; and of course, a row of wellness rooms used for different therapies — I was brought to the de-stressing room for my one hour frequency spa session.
The first half hour was what they called “Pulsed Electro Magnetic Field Therapy.” I was instructed to lie down and put the headphones on. There was a kind of electronic mantra playing – presumably busying your mind like a mantra you might chant while meditating. The lights next to the bed started to pulsate different colours, much like my aromatherapy machine at home which I had always believed was just plain old fun design. Turns out pulsating colours are relaxing! It was all a lot less weird than it sounds, and a lot less weird than I thought it would be.
The room itself was nice, but also made me think of hospital rooms: a single bed with a machine next to it, dropped ceiling tiles, a curtain that was eventually drawn even though nobody was occupying the bed on the other side. I should be clear: It was what a hospital room should be. I had fantasies of a healthier future where hospital rooms looked like this instead of the cold, drab surroundings we get thrown into currently. Instead of listening to the annoying neighboring roommates, or their guests, you could lose yourself in the earphone’s mantras. Instead of the horrible lighting, alternating colors. At best, it would help you heal. At worst, it would help the long, medicalized hours go by so much more pleasantly.
Rebecca came back to the room at the end of my first 30-minute session. She rearranged things for my second half hour – something called “Syronga.” This time, the headphones played the sound of crickets and rain. The pulsating lights were inside of a pair of glasses that she put on my face, but it proved to be a little too intense for me. Since I was not willing to forego the full experience, I lay the glasses right below my nose for a gentler version. The bed pad I was lying on started to massage me. It felt like a horizontal and more sophisticated version of those airport massage chairs. Again, this conjured images of a better tomorrow. Most spas require lotions or oils being applied to your body, or water that you need immerse yourself in. For this, you stay dressed and untouched by human hands. It makes it possible to do this as a lunch time activity or, in my fantasy, as an airport layover activity. I thought about all those people I have walked by in airports being massaged at the front of those airport stores, or the people that put coins in massage chairs next to the regular chairs. If there were frequency spas in airports, travelers could enter another, more relaxing, world for a half hour to an hour easily. Like the hospital, even the worst outcome would be pretty good: a relaxed body ready for the next leg of their trip.
When Rebecca came to get me at the end of the second half hour, I was not quite ready to leave. I rose feeling extremely relaxed. There is no doubt that it had lowered my stress level. I brought some lovely tea and essential oil home with me which helped me to extend the mood, as I floated in thoughts of past legal offices, present frequency spas and future hospitals and airports for as long as I could before I had to go back to being a typical, stressed-out, overworked Torontonian once again.
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The invisibility of young peoples voices in the Don Dale royal commission’s interim report
Northern Territory Youth Detention Royal Commissioners Mick Gooda and Margaret White
(The Australian)
Young people’s voices are all but invisible in the Don Dale royal commission’s interim report
By Thalia Anthony
Associate Professor in Law, University of Technology Sydney
6 April 2017 [node:read-more:link]
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The Cashless Debit Card causes social and economic harm - so why trial it again?
The federal government’s Cashless Debit Card trials in the East Kimberley and Ceduna were recently extended. In the space of a day, the government not only released the limited evaluation of the trial, but used this to justify its extension. The extension is puzzling given that the trial has led to further economic and social harm among people compulsorily included. Some communities argued that the card would be important to curb gender-based violence. However, there are reports that domestic violence has actually increased since the card was introduced and crime increased. [node:read-more:link]
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This page provides an insight into the treatment of the First Nations peoples in Victoria and the archaic attitudes of the colonisers immediately following many of the mass slaughters and displacements from 'country' in the 19th century.
It covers 5 pages of volume 1 from 'The Australian Race, its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent' published in 1886.
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A Croatian born artist Vesna Tenodi who has an Art Centre in NSW stole the sacred image of the Wandjina in 2009 and commissioned a Wandjina sculpture at the front of her gallery and has been misusing the sacred image ever since. Local First Nations people objected strongly and a Worora Tribal custodian of the Wandjina travelled over from the West Kimberley to tell her the statue seriously offended his people, but she discarded what he said by saying her actions were a "revival of Aboriginal spirituality", even though she was born on another continent and the culture of the sacred Wandina is still practiced by its peoples. [node:read-more:link]
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In 1926 a group of colonists with self acclaimed 'high moral standards' and with a small touch of guilt, came up with the idea to create an Aboriginal state. The idea was to give Arnhem Land to Aboriginal people and teach them how to be self-sufficient ... "It is a bold scheme, but the committee behind it includes men who know the aborigine, and who have sufficient faith in it to call for signatures to a petition to be presented to the Commonwealth Parliament asking for its inauguration" [node:read-more:link]
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Hypocrite David Hogg marches in protest against NRA alongside his own personal armed guards – watch at Brighteon.com
Thursday, September 06, 2018 by: Ethan Huff
Tags: America-haters, anti-american, armed guards, Communists, Congo, David Hogg, democrats, fascists, Hitler, hypocrisy, KKK, left cult, Libtards, Marxists, Nazis, nra, priority, Real Video, Second Amendment, shootings, Therese Okoumou, useful idiots, WGON
(Natural News) Anti-gun fascist David Hogg and his trope of mindless followers recently staged another gun-grab protest in front of the headquarters of the National Rifle Association (NRA). And during the event, little Hoggwash was seen with an entourage of armed guards who were clearly there for his own personal protection.
Linda from WGON put together a video analysis of this blatant hypocrisy, which you can watch at Brighteon.com. In it, Linda talks about how Hogg is apparently too blind to see what a sanctimonious little sleazebag he is, as he parades around in condemnation of guns while taking advantage of their benefits for himself.
“It seems that this individual is against guns, unless they’re protecting him,” Linda states, being careful not to say the name David Hogg as doing so in a previous video on YouTube resulted in her account being eliminated. “It doesn’t matter that you’ve got to be protected, too – it’s all about this individual.”
Who’s paying for David Hogg to have armed security?
Whatever the actual age of David Hogg, he’s clearly not old enough to be able to afford armed guards all on his own. Someone, or some entity, is obviously footing the bill, which begs the question: where is all of this money coming from?
“My question is: who paid for these armed guards?” Linda asks. “And there were numerous of them, not to mention the armed police officers in the parking lot. Is this college kid able to afford to pay numerous armed guards? No. You know, as I’ve been stating before, that this person is backed by somebody.”
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David Hogg says one of his “biggest inspirations” is Congo woman who hates America and calls Americans “motherf***ers”
In a corresponding article published by The American Mirror, it was revealed that one of Hogg’s “biggest inspirations” is a woman from the Congo by the name of Therese Okoumou.
Why is this a big deal? In case you didn’t know, Okoumou is a rabidly anti-American communist with a filthy mouth who’s repeatedly unloaded profanity-laced diatribes against the American people.
“America, you motherf***ers! You drug addicts! You KKK! You fascist USA!” are among the things Okoumou had to say publicly against America, and David Hogg apparently finds this inspirational.
“She needs to learn American history because the KKK is the Democrats, not the Republicans, not the conservatives, the Democrats,” Linda says. “You know, the people that are paying her, and the young man that this story is about.”
“She’s the fascist. You know how they’re always projecting, talking about things that they’re doing that they put on us. This Congo woman needs to go back to the Congo, that’s the best that I can say it.”
David Hogg is a mindless fool
David Hogg is the epitome of a useful idiot – a full-blown, brainwashed communist who’s pushing to dismantle a key tenet of what it means to be an American. Even though he may have been born in this country, Linda says that Hogg certainly isn’t an American, and doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing and why he’s doing it, and really just needs to grow up.
“This individual that this story is about here, he has been used horribly, and now he is completely deceived,” says Linda. “He’s been turned over to his reprobate mind. He’s aligning with communists and with America-haters. This woman would slit his throat in a heartbeat, but she’s using him also. She’s being used, he’s being used, they’re using each other.”
“We see that this individual is a communist, through and through, and he has gone off the deep end. He wants to take your guns just like the Nazis took everybody’s guns, but they kept theirs, just like he’s keeping his. If you are not seeing what is happening now, you’re as blind as a bat, that’s all I can say.”
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Commissioning reflections
Marie Gabriel
Jeremy Hughes
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With over 14 years of NHS board experience, Marie is currently the chairperson of East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT), an ‘outstanding’ provider of mental health and community health services in London, Bedfordshire and Luton. Recognised nationally for staff engagement, internationally for quality improvement, ELFT is working with NHS Improvement and The King’s Fund to support inclusive cultures. A member of the workforce race equality standard advisory group and chair of the London mental health trust chairs group, Marie’s contribution was recognised through her incorporation on the inaugural HSJ Inspirational Women list.
We work with multiple commissioners and across the mental health and community sectors. We benefit from having two big sustainability and transformations partnerships (STPs) in north east London and Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes where we can achieve best value for money and highest quality for our local communities.
It’s also interesting to have different commissioning climates and styles, so we can then say ‘we do this over there and it works and helps us’. We also have collaborative system arrangements in two parts of our trust – so we can work system-wide, but keep our local focus.
The contrasting challenge is that we sometimes end up going through the same process several times. It varies depending on external pressures and what’s happening in the relevant local authority.
We are also specialist commissioning providers for NHS England, and that gives us opportunities to influence national policy slightly. And our local authorities are also our commissioners.
STPs are a new challenge: how can we work effectively with boroughs and health providers and commissioners to improve? They imply much more commissioning in partnership in collaborative ways, rather than via the tender process.
Another challenge arises because we deliver a financial surplus. Increasingly, people say 'you've delivered a surplus so you clearly don't need more money for services'. McKinsey analysis said this is because we are productive, hence we are not in the red. Finance is a challenge for the whole system: the rest of the system locally is in deficit, and we are not but we readily recognise our responsibility to support the system to be in balance and equally importantly to develop truly integrated care.
There is quite a variation in commissioning styles with some narrowly contracting as opposed to commissioning which is a process about the whole cycle. It would be better to have relationships where commissioning was five-yearly, as opposed to annual and recognised system challenges. Commissioning support units (CSUs) also need to be able to provide the support and information that the clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) need as we move towards outcome-based and system-wide arrangements.
There is much discussion of the relationship between local and national commissioning. As more responsibilities get devolved to local commissioning, we as a provider would like to understand more about how that transition will work, and the role of CSUs in that.
Then public health commissioning sits in local authorities: understandably, their priorities can differ from CCGs’, and we have to get used to that difference. To be really radical, let's look at where commissioning fits, and social care being an essential element of what we do. Have we got the right fit? This issue keeps on raising its head: how can health and social care commissioners and providers collectively work together, with current funding and structural challenges?
The need to avoid acute sector dominance
The STP process needs to align overarching priorities to make sure it is not entirely focused on the acute sector and the financial challenges many providers face. We have expertise as an out-of-hospital provider and there must be just as much focus there.
To tackle health inequalities, STPs need a broader group around the table, including the voluntary sector.
The STP process needs to align overarching priorities to make sure it is not entirely focussed on the acute sector and the financial challenges many providers face. We have expertise as an out-of-hospital provider and there must be just as much focus there.
It’s too early to tell whether STPs can help support more joint commissioning (or at least alignment) between primary care, social care, public health and secondary care. And it depends which STP you mean. We’re involved in two. In one, there is an accountable care organisation-type vanguard, which brings a different flavour to how organisations work together. This is on a more sub-STP-wide footprint – addressing a big financial problem. In our other STP, the option to close the financial gap is more workable.
The importance of place-based care
The development of new care models is not, for us, that much different to our work transforming services in east London. It’s all about place-based care, and about existing local relationships at sub-regional levels. Sometimes it can be quite hard, as local authorities or other health colleagues may see relationships differently to us. What we believe is that the emerging NHS system requires a new type of leadership.
Local authorities’ drivers are different. We have four mayors across our east London patch and four local authority leaders in Bedfordshire and Luton, and it is different working with each individual. Ultimately, it is about successful joint working across the health and care systems, and politicians do have an important impact on that joint work.
Local authorities have to think about services for the whole community: parks, roads, rubbish, libraries. These are all key parts of determinants of health. They think about everybody, not just about needs for health conditions.
The challenges facing CCGs as currently configured are hugely variable by CCG. There is even variation within CCGs and, like boroughs, they are all different and have differing priorities.
Avoid structural reform unless it is needed
CCGs have varying maturity profiles. We believe that we should not fiddle with CCGs unless there are real problems. CCGs may work better together, and there is a clear move for them to do so. When there are good relationships locally, CCGs work well together.
We are unsure how nationally-commissioned, specialised services will interact with local commissioning in future – there does seem to be a move to push STP systems and as part of devolution we may be moving to a specialised commissioning board for London.
Some of this remains unspecified. Think about forensics: you can’t have really local relationships. It has to be done on a larger footprint. The connection needs to happen when someone leads on a geographical footprint. That involves transition, and part of our job is to put services and support in place to help make patients part of the community.
We have heard that, for example, if a commissioner wants to buy mental health services for the whole of north-east London from the relevant trusts, they will say they currently get different outcomes and deals per provider, so we start talking about better standardised quality pathways or joint work as possible ways forward.
Payment reform
It’s all developmental. We were told last year that the centre was thinking about changing the tariff, and so we couldn’t progress on a local mental health tariff as it was all going to change. But then it didn’t. Trusts need to be nimble and fleet of foot to manage this uncertainty and keep their focus on the patient.
We were told last year that the centre was thinking about changing the tariff, and so we couldn’t progress on a local mental health tariff as it was all going to change. But then it didn’t. Trusts need to be nimble and fleet of foot to manage this uncertainty and keep their focus on the patient.
The ongoing talk about ‘granulising’ tariff – we’ve been looking at capitated budgets and the different possibilities there. We’ve also been party to national discussions on tariff and whether it’s an obstacle to the new world. We are not keen to go back to block contracts, but outcome-based commissioning means we’d need much more analytical capacity, business intelligence and agreed outcome measures. Fees for service is good when you want more of the service; less good when there’s less money and more demand.
Co-commissioning for primary and specialised care
In terms of co-commissioning both for primary and specialised care, we know that co-commissioning in primary care makes sense as it brings a greater sense of ownership. It works well, for example in Tower Hamlets and our expectation is that this will spread across our STP areas in some form.
For specialised commissioning, it may be an issue of having providers work out among themselves how to manage across the whole system (in an anti-competitive way, of course). We are having those discussions on medium secure mental health services across north and south London and looking at wider collaboration across north central and east London. If confirmed, this means we would be responsible for all patients including those in the private sector: i.e. to oversee best value for money and recovery.
A more personalised approach
Discussions about a more personalised service, and the concept of personalised budgets, has had very little impact so far. We could be interested. Local authorities use personal budgets, but still restrict what service users can access through those budgets. GP colleagues do much more of this: some support it, some do not. That agenda has yet to get far in mental health.
Discussions about a more personalised service, and the concept of personalised budgets, has had very little impact so far. We could be interested. Local authorities use personal budgets, but still restrict what service users can access thorough those budgets. GP colleagues do much more of this: some support it, some do not. That agenda has yet to get far in mental health.
By contrast, we have been very involved in capitation budget work in Tower Hamlets and other parts of east London. We also have some shadow outcome-based alliance contracts in Hackney, but these are still being tested so success is yet to be seen.
The future of the purchaser-provider split
We’re gradually moving away from the purchaser-provider split as traditionally understood, recognising that it may not allow shared accountability on the whole care pathway. Although it’s very helpful to know which services you deliver and are accountable for, surely it is best if all players in the system know their role is delivered through collaboration (which does not mean merger). That's what devolution and vanguards should be about: providers working together to interact and wrap the right care round the patient.
Commissioners may struggle with parts of this – and CCGs may often have their primary care provider heads on. We have to be more innovative. That’s not just about acute providers running everything: there has to be a more equitable process, to move care closer to home on the patient care pathway, and mental health has already made extensive and successful headway with that shift.
In our view the best NHS leaders will be those who understand complex systems, can bring the anxious and worried together to achieve a common purpose and are willing to take personal risk. They need to be authentic and to believe in doing the right thing for the communities they serve. We hope the NHS system supports that type of leadership from whichever sector to make STPs and other collaborative arrangements a success.
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Explore Arizona
Arizona is the 48th state of the United States, having joined the union only before Hawaii and Alaska. You most likely know this state as the home of the Grand Canyon. While the Earth’s deepest canyon is one of the most beautiful places in the world, Arizona has so much more to offer. The state’s capital is the 5th largest city in the country, and there is no lack of cultural diversity if you take the time to explore the state. Nature and history have also made the expanse of Arizona a place to enjoy otherworldly desert landscapes while also having otherwise rare glimpses into the vibrant past and present of Native American people. Nightborn Travel is born and raised in Arizona, so we hope to provide you with a detailed guide to everything that this state has to offer, from restaurants in Phoenix, to hiking guides around the state, as well as larger scale guides and itineraries that we provide for the other locations that we explore.
1 General Information and Arizona’s Cities
1.1 Cities
1.1.1 Phoenix
1.1.2 Tucson
1.2 Small Towns
2 Native American Nations
2.0.1 Havasupai
3.1 National Park Units
3.2 State Parks
3.3 Other Hikes
4 ITINERARIES
4.0.0.1 Itineraries from other bloggers:
5 WHERE WE’VE BEEN
5.1 More Posts and Tips:
General Information and Arizona’s Cities
Type: US State (1912)
Official Languages: English; Spanish is common and Native American languages like Dine, Tohono O’odham, Apache, and others are still living.
Population: 6,931,071 (2016)
Capital: Phoenix
Cultures: American (Southwestern- with heavy influences from Mexican and Native American cultures); How to Travel Respectfully in the US
Phoenix is the capital of Arizona, and it has gained some notoriety as an endless, souless suburbia. 10 years ago, that might have been true, but these days the city has started to transform into a foodie’s paradise and it is home to some of the most unique museums in the world. Phoenix may not be the city that I consider to embody the cultural mixing pot of Arizona, but it is certainly the place to go if you want to see the modern vibrancy of life in the state. I would be remiss to mention that Phoenix is also home to some of the largest urban, natural preserves in the US.
If you are interested in getting a real sense for how Southwestern cultures have manifested in Arizona, Tucson should be your go-to. There is a very strong Mexican influence here, and the city also borders the Tohono O’odham nation, home to the San Xavier Mission (which makes a prominent appearance in the city’s flag above). Tucson is also surrounded by amazingly beautiful mountains, several of which are Sky Islands (desert on the bottom and forests on the top), so there is an almost endless variety of hiking trails to explore.
Small Towns
Backyard Discoveries: Unexpected Beauty at Arcosanti
Backyard Discoveries: Travel Tips for a Jaunt in Jerome, AZ
Backyard Discoveries: The Shrine on Chihuahua Hill
Backyard Discoveries: S.O.S. (or Seeking Out Superior)
Bisbee: A Three Day Itinerary for History and Culture in Southern Arizona
Native American Nations
Arizona has the most land, nearly a quarter of its area, of any US state set aside as Native American Nations. Not all of them are interested in visitors, but those that are offer unique cultural, historic, and natural experiences that should not be missed.
The Havasupai Tribe are the heart and soul of the Grand Canyon and the keepers of Havasu Falls. If you want to learn more about their culture and history, our guide will give you some starting points to learn more. If you want to visit, we also have the guide for you.
Most people think about three things when they imagine nature in Arizona, the Grand Canyon, Sedona, and the desert. Unsurprisingly, this state is far more complex than that. The simplest way to think about the environment of Arizona is that the south is a lowland desert and the north has higher elevations and forests; the two are delineated by a ridge called the Mogollon Rim. Of course, if you have driven the state, you know that the landscape is a far more like a mosaic than the above description implies. To the south, you will be met with a land of rolling desert grasslands that are crowned by mountains so high that they have their own forests at their summits (called the Sky Islands). But the characteristic, bushy desert of the Sonoran Desert that surrounds the capital of Phoenix also stretches to the south and north. This is a highly biodiverse desert, which will surprise plenty of people with its greenery. To the north, forests become more common, but it is not without its own desert wonders. Monument Valley and the Painted Desert are both great examples of just how jarringly beautiful these places can be. National Parks and State Parks are a great place to start in discovering the magic of Arizona.
Highpoint: Humphreys Peak
UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Grand Canyon National Park
National Parks: 22 National Parks
National Park Units
Coronado National Memorial and Tumacacori Historic Park
Montezuma’s Castle and Well
Danger, Nature, and Social Conflict in the Desert: Organ Pipe National Monument
The Apache Trail and Tonto National Monument
Sedona: Red Rock State Park
Arizona State Park: Slide Rock
Hiking Picacho Peak
Brown’s Peak: Summiting the Phoenix Skyline
Upper Fish Creek in Tonto
The Lower Salt River: Phoenix’s Riparian Wonderland
Watson Lake Loop Trail, Prescott, Arizona
Guide to the Southern Arizona Ghost Town Road Trip
Guide to the Southern Arizona Ghost Town Road Trip (Day Two)
Roadtrip to Safford
Itineraries from other bloggers:
Vegas to Phoenix in 48 Hours (From Bee Anything But Boring)
Ultimate Weekend Guide for the Grand Canyon (From Ready, Set, PTO)
More Posts and Tips:
21st Century Warriors: Keeping Culture Alive at the Kenshin Dojo
Finding Comfort in History: The Southwestern Charms of The Cochise Hotel
The Story of Water in Arizona: SRP and CAP Canals
How to Obtain a Havasupai Permit by The Wandering Queen
If your thirst for Arizona knowledge has not been quenched by this guide, please visit our Explore Arizona Pinterest board for more blogger insight into this beautiful, amazing state.
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Backyard Discoveries
Cultural Highlight
Island Travel
The Un-Planner's Guide
Tourism Science
Travel Thoughts
U.S. Travel
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National Indian Law Library
A blog covering current events in federal and tribal American Indian Law.
NILL added new content to 6 Indian Law Bulletins on 10/19
Library Tip: Having trouble finding a Department of Interior Solicitor memo or opinion? NILL has copies of many hard-to-find opinions and memos. Check the NILL catalog or contact the library for help.
* U.S. Courts of Appeals Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/cta/currentcta.htm
Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida v. United States (taxation of gaming proceeds)
Northern Arapaho Tribe v. Harnsberger (state taxation, vehicles, excise taxes)
* U.S. Federal Trial Courts Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/dct/currentdct.htm
Cases featured:
Farmer Oil and Gas Properties, LLC v. Southern Ute Indian Tribe (sovereign immunity, oil and gas)
United States v. Washington (fishing rights)
Wilbur v. Makah Tribal Court (exhaustion of tribal remedies)
Center for Biological Diversity v. Pizarchik (coal mine permit, sovereign immunity)
* State Courts Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/currentstate.htm
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe v. Davis (Indian Child Welfare Act, temporary custody)
* News Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.htm
In the "Environment & Energy" section we include an article about tribes in the Pacific Northwest working to block coal terminals as well as a tribe's geoengineering experiment to combat climate change and boost salmon health.
* Law Review & Bar Journal Indian Law Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/currentlr.htm
We feature several articles examining the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
* Regulatory Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/regulatory/currentfr.htm
One of the items included is a notice from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission regarding a feedback requested on a draft "Tribal Protocol Manual" to be used to guide the agency in the tribal consultation process.
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The National Indian Law Library (NILL) is a law library devoted to American Indian law. The Library serves the research needs of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) (the oldest and largest nonprofit law firm specializing in Indian law) as well as the public. NILL provides specialized Indian law research assistance and maintains a unique and valuable collection of Indian law resources.
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Dept. of Justice Announces Eagle Feather Policy
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The New England Ball Project
Add & Correct
6 Brothers Myth
John Henry Manning
M, #67101, b. October 1839
Display family
John Henry Manning was born in October 1839 at OH.1,2 He was the son of James Manning and Jemima Fanning.3 John Henry Manning married Elizabeth Earl, daughter of Alanson Earl and Rachel Day, on 26 October 1865 at Auglaize Co., OH.4
Census, Occupation & Residence
17 August 1850 Clay, Auglaize Co., OH "John H." age 10, b. OH, with parents, etc.1
26 June 1860 Clay, Auglaize Co., OH "John H." age 20, b. OH, farmer, with brother William, etc.5
6 July 1870 Wayne, Auglaize Co., OH "John H." age 30, b. OH, Minister of the Gospel, with wife Elizabeth and sons Wilber and Frank, and Eliza Earl (age 18, b. OH, domestic servant, relationship unknown)6
25 June 1880 Mendon, Mercer Co., OH "John H." age 41, b. OH, post master, with wife Elizabeth and children Wilber, Frank, Cora, Anna and Viola7
1 June 1900 Mendon Village, Union, Mercer Co., OH "John H." age 60, b. OH, landlord, with wife Elizabeth and daughters Anna and Viola2
15 April 1910 Mendon Village, Union, Auglaize Co., OH "John H." age 70, b. OH, widower, own income, with daughter Viola8
Children of John Henry Manning and Elizabeth Earl
Wilber J. A. Manning6 b. c 1867
Frank C. E. Manning6 b. Jan 1870
Cora D. Manning+ b. Feb 1872
Anna Mabelle Manning+ b. 28 Mar 1874, d. c Dec 1952
Lily Viola Manning7 b. Jun 1876
[S7] 1850 (June 1) U.S. Census, Clay, Auglaize Co., OH, p. 640 (back of stamped 320).
[S12] 1900 (June 1) U.S. Census, Union, Mercer Co., OH, ED 89, Sheet 1B (back of stamped 258).
[S7] 1850 (June 1) U.S. Census, Clay, Auglaize Co., OH, p. 639 (stamped 320).
[S1604] Ohio County Marriages 1789-1994, made available by FamilySearch.org (Salt Lake City, Utah) on-line at http://familysearch.org, 2017; database courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
[S8] 1860 (June 1) U.S. Census, Clay, Auglaize Co., OH, p. 36 (back of stamped 510).
[S9] 1870 (June 1) U.S. Census, Wayne, Auglaize Co., OH, p. 13 (stamped 558).
[S10] 1880 (June 1) U.S. Census, Mendon, Mercer Co., OH, p. 32 (back of stamped 535).
[S13] 1910 (April 15) U.S. Census, Union, Mercer Co., OH, ED 123, Sheet 1A (stamped 253).
Albert Hennegan Parker
M, #67102, b. 5 June 1923, d. 10 June 2014
d. 2014
[left photo 1965 / right photo 2007]
Albert Hennegan Parker was born on 5 June 1923 at Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH.1,2 He was the son of Albert Hennegan Parker and Nell Frances Moore. Albert Hennegan Parker married Jeanne Ann Davis, daughter of Milford Earl Davis and Marion R. Neuman, on 23 April 1945 at Dallas, Dallas Co., TX.3 Albert Hennegan Parker died on 10 June 2014 at Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, at age 91.2
From an obituary in "The Cincinnati Enquirer": Lt. Col. Albert H. (Ret.), Beloved husband of the late Jeanne Parker (nee Davis). Loving father of David (Ann) Parker and Barbara Roberts. Devoted grandfather of Sylvia Parker Killebrew, Eric (Emily), Daniel (Jantina), and Mandalay Roberts. Cherished great-grandfather of Lindsey, Jimbo, Desmond, and Aria. Passed away on Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at the age of 91. Al was a Norwood native and served as a fighter pilot in WWII. Following active duty he served as a liaison officer for the USAF Academy until his retirement. Left photo courtesy of Sue Bennett; right photo courtesy of Barbara Roberts.
April 1930 Norwood, Hamilton Co., OH "Albert Jr." age 6, b. OH, with parents, etc.1
2 April 1940 Norwood, Hamilton Co., OH "Albert H. Jr." age 16, b. OH, with parents, etc.4
Children of Albert Hennegan Parker and Jeanne Ann Davis
David Alan Parker+
Barbara Sue Parker+
[S15] 1930 (April 1) U.S. Census, Norwood, Hamilton Co., OH, ED 31-303, Sheet 28A (stamped 73).
[S903] Find A Grave - A User-Contributed Listing of Cemeteries and Memorials; Find A Grave Founder Jim Tipton, 2009; online at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gs&, Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH.
[S1270] Barbara Roberts, "Some Parker Genealogy Information - email 01," e-mail message from Barbara Roberts to David G. Ball, 2 January 2011.
[S16] 1940 (April 1) U.S. Census, Norwood, Hamilton Co., OH, ED 31-69, Sheet 3B.
Jeanne Ann Davis1
F, #67103, b. 11 November 1923, d. 3 December 2005
Jeanne Davis
b. ????
d. after 1996
[photo December 1965]
Jeanne Ann Davis was born on 11 November 1923 at Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH.2 She was the daughter of Milford Earl Davis and Marion R. Neuman.1 Jeanne Ann Davis married Albert Hennegan Parker, son of Albert Hennegan Parker and Nell Frances Moore, on 23 April 1945 at Dallas, Dallas Co., TX.2 Jeanne Ann Davis died on 3 December 2005 at Blue Ash, Hamilton Co., OH, at age 82.2 She was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH.3
Photo courtesy of David G. Ball of North Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Children of Jeanne Ann Davis and Albert Hennegan Parker
[S3441] Jim Cunningham, "Cunningham Family Tree," database made available on-line courtesy of Jim Cunningham, https://www.ancestry.ca/family-tree/person/tree/42268206/person/282069203831/facts?ssrc=, database viewed 15 Mar 2019.
Josepha Frances Kuhn
F, #67104, b. 15 September 1895, d. 20 February 1982
b. 1895 MO
d. 1982 Cincinnati OH
Josepha Frances Kuhn was born on 15 September 1895 at St. Louis, MO.1 She was the daughter of George Kuhn and Josepha Ezelda Sturger.2 Josepha Frances Kuhn married C. Green Lott. Josepha Frances Kuhn married Albert Hennegan Parker, son of Joseph Cromwell Parker and Lula Everst Brickel, on 23 September 1956. Josepha Frances Kuhn died on 20 February 1982 at Cincinnati, OH, at age 86.
Josepha Frances Kuhn was also known as Jo called "Auntie Jo" by step-grandchildren. Photo courtesy of David G. Ball of North Vancouver, BC, Canada.
14 June 1900 Carondelet, St. Louis Co., MO "Josepha" age 4, b. MO, with parents, etc.2
25 April 1910 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Josepha F." age 14, b. OH, with mother, etc; living with family of Charles Stewart (a great-uncle?)3
2 January 1920 Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Josepha F." age 24, b. MO, hospital nurse4
25 April 1930 Miami, Dade Co., FL "Josepha T." age 34, b. MO, widow5
9 April 1940 Cincinnati General Hospital, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Josepha" age 44, b. OH, widow, supervisor at the city hospital6
[S1800] Missouri Birth Records 1851-1910, made available by The Generations Network Inc. (Provo, Utah) on-line at www.ancestry.com, 2007; database from the MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm Missouri Birth Records. Jefferson City.
[S12] 1900 (June 1) U.S. Census, Carondelet, St. Loius Co., MO, ED 112, Sheet 19A (stamped 122).
[S13] 1910 (April 15) U.S. Census, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, ED 93, Sheet 9B (back of stamped 34).
[S14] 1920 (January 1) U.S. Census, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, ED 132, Sheet 1B (back of stamped 217).
[S15] 1930 (April 1) U.S. Census, Miami, Dade Co., FL, ED 11, Sheet 9B (back of stamped 263).
[S16] 1940 (April 1) U.S. Census, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, ED 91-183, Sheet 9A (stamped 2691).
C. Green Lott
M, #67105, d. before 1956
C. Green Lott married Josepha Frances Kuhn, daughter of George Kuhn and Josepha Ezelda Sturger. C. Green Lott died before 1956.
Joseph Cromwell Parker
M, #67106, b. 16 February 1855, d. 31 May 1894
Joseph Cromwell Parker was born on 16 February 1855 at Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH.1 He was the son of John Leggett Parker and Margaret Morris. Joseph Cromwell Parker married Lula Everst Brickel, daughter of William Henry Brickel and Sara Anna Agusta Hutchison, on 29 September 1879 at Hamilton Co., OH.2 Joseph Cromwell Parker died on 31 May 1894 at Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, at age 39. He was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH.1
27 June 1860 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Joseph" age 5, b. OH, with parents, etc.3
5 July 1870 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Joseph" age 15, b. OH, with parents, etc.4
10 June 1880 Rush, Kenton Co., KY "Joseph C." age 25, bookkeeper, b. OH, with parents, etc. (listed as single)5
Children of Joseph Cromwell Parker and Lula Everst Brickel
Arra May Parker+ b. 14 Jul 1880, d. 3 Dec 1969
John Leggett Parker+ b. 4 Jan 1882, d. 8 Jul 1925
William Henry Parker+ b. 6 Jan 1887, d. c 1946
Joseph Cromwell Parker+ b. 12 Jan 1889, d. 6 Jul 1973
Albert Hennegan Parker+ b. 14 Mar 1891, d. 15 Nov 1976
[S1046] Jeffrey G. Herbert, compiler, Restored Hamilton County Marriages 1870-1884 (Cincinnati, Ohio: The Ohio Genealogical Society, 1994), p. 567.
[S8] 1860 (June 1) U.S. Census, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, p. 81 (stamped 289).
[S9] 1870 (June 1) U.S. Census, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, p. 193 (stamped 364).
[S10] 1880 (June 1) U.S. Census, Rush, Kenton Co., KY, ED 212, p. 13 (back of stamped 578).
Lula Everst Brickel
F, #67107, b. 7 November 1856, d. 20 September 1929
Lula Everst Brickel was born on 7 November 1856 at Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH. She was the daughter of William Henry Brickel and Sara Anna Agusta Hutchison. Lula Everst Brickel married Joseph Cromwell Parker, son of John Leggett Parker and Margaret Morris, on 29 September 1879 at Hamilton Co., OH.1 Lula Everst Brickel died on 20 September 1929 at Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, at age 72. She was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH.2
11 June 1860 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Eva" age 3, b. OH, with parents3
18 June 1870 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Eva" age 12, b. OH, with parents, etc.4
2 June 1900 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Lula" age 43, b. OH, widow, with children Arra, John, William, Joseph and Albert5
20 April 1910 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Lula E." age 53, b. OH, widow, with sons John, Joseph and Albert6
Children of Lula Everst Brickel and Joseph Cromwell Parker
[S8] 1860 (June 1) U.S. Census, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, p. 60 (back of stamped 102).
[S12] 1900 (June 1) U.S. Census, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, ED 159, Sheet 3A (stamped 65).
[S13] 1910 (April 15) U.S. Census, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, ED 36, Sheet 5A (stamped 209).
Thomas Lee Moore
M, #67108, b. 6 May 1873, d. 29 March 1952
b. 1873 Hamersville OH
d. 1952 Hamersville OH
[center photo crica 1912]
Thomas Lee Moore was born on 6 May 1873 at Hamersville, Brown Co., OH.1 He was the son of John Durbin Moore and Mary Elizabeth Early. Thomas Lee Moore married Suzann Rice, daughter of Robert Dimmit Rice and Hannah Mariah Metzger, on 9 January 1894. Thomas Lee Moore died on 29 March 1952 at Hamersville, Brown Co., OH, at age 78.1 He was buried at Hamersville Cemetery, Hamersville, Brown Co., OH.1
Left and right photos courtesy of David G. Ball; center photo courtesy of Barbara Roberts.
10 June 1880 Hamersville, Brown Co., OH "Thomas Lee" age 7, b. OH, with parents, etc.2
9 June 1900 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Thomas L." age 27, b. OH, bookkeeper, with wife Suzann and daughters Nell and Mary3
16 April 1910 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Thomas L." age 35, b. OH, manager of a grain company, with wife Suzann, and children Nell, Mary, Thomas and John4
3 January 1920 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Thomas L." age 46, b. OH, manager of a hay and grain company, with wife Suzann and children Mary, Thomas, and John5
11 April 1930 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Thomas L." age 56, b. OH, proprietor of a grain brokerage, with wife Suzann and sons Thomas and John6
8 April 1940 Hamersville, Brown Co., OH "Thomas" age 66, b. OH, grain buyer and owner of a coal yard, with wife Suzann7
Children of Thomas Lee Moore and Suzann Rice
Martha Marie Moore b. 16 Sep 1894, d. 18 Nov 1895
Nell Frances Moore+ b. 29 Oct 1895, d. 17 Jul 1954
Mary Elizabeth Moore+ b. 23 Feb 1898, d. Apr 1974
Thomas Early Moore b. 28 Jan 1906, d. 14 Mar 1967
John Robert Moore b. 8 Dec 1907, d. 6 Jul 1970
[S903] Find A Grave - A User-Contributed Listing of Cemeteries and Memorials; Find A Grave Founder Jim Tipton, 2009; online at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gs&, Hamersville Cemetery, Hamersville, Brown Co., OH.
[S10] 1880 (June 1) U.S. Census, Hamersville, Brown Co., OH, ED 2, p. 17 (stamped 25).
[S12] 1900 (June 1) U.S. Census, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, ED 233, Sheet 16B (back of stamped 74).
[S13] 1910 (April 15) U.S. Census, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, ED 24, Sheet 3A (stamped 24).
[S14] 1920 (January 1) U.S. Census, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, ED 55, Sheet 3B (back of stamped 84).
[S15] 1930 (April 1) U.S. Census, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH, ED 31-53, Sheet 12A (stamped 253).
[S16] 1940 (April 1) U.S. Census, Hamersville, Brown Co., OH, ED 8-2, Sheet 4A (stamped 16).
Suzann Rice
F, #67109, b. 4 December 1874, d. 11 January 1949
b. 1874 Bullskin OH
[center photo circa 1912]
Suzann Rice was born on 4 December 1874 at Bullskin, Brown Co., OH.1 She was the daughter of Robert Dimmit Rice and Hannah Mariah Metzger. Suzann Rice married Thomas Lee Moore, son of John Durbin Moore and Mary Elizabeth Early, on 9 January 1894. Suzann Rice died on 11 January 1949 at Hamersville, Brown Co., OH, at age 74.1 She was buried at Hamersville Cemetery, Hamersville, Brown Co., OH.1
16 June 1880 Clark, Brown Co., OH "Susanna" age 5, b. OH, with parents, etc.2
9 June 1900 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Susan" age 26, b. OH, with husband, etc.3
16 April 1910 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Susie" age 35, b. OH, with husband, etc.4
3 January 1920 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Susie" age 44, b. OH, with husband, etc.5
11 April 1930 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH "Susana R." age 55, b. OH, with husband, etc.6
8 April 1940 Hamersville, Brown Co., OH "Sue" age 65, b. OH, with husband7
Children of Suzann Rice and Thomas Lee Moore
[S10] 1880 (June 1) U.S. Census, Clark, Brown Co., OH, ED 2, p. 26 (back of stamped 29).
Catherine Mary MacCrimmon
F, #67110, b. 16 September 1868, d. 11 October 1941
b. 1868 Lochiel ON Canada
d. ????
[left photo circa 1895 / right photo circa 1936]
Catherine Mary MacCrimmon was born on 16 September 1868 at 8th Concession, Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada.1 She was the daughter of Norman MacCrimmon and Sarah Morrison. Catherine Mary MacCrimmon married Donald McCuaig, son of Neil McCuaig and Sarah McCrimmon, on 10 September 1889 at 8th Concession, Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada.1 Catherine Mary MacCrimmon married David Newton Dwyer, son of Dennis Dwyer and Jane A. Hall, on 9 May 1900.2 Catherine Mary MacCrimmon died on 11 October 1941 at Maxville, ON, Canada, at age 73.3
Photos courtesy of David Ball of North Vancouver BC.
April 1871 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Catherine Mary" age 2, b. ON, with parents, etc.4
April 1881 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Kate" age 12, born ON, with parents, etc.5
6 March 1891 Lochaber and Gore, Ottawa, QC, Canada "Catherine" age 23, b. ON, with first husband6
6 May 1901 Lochaber, Labelle Co., QC, Canada "Catherine" age 32, b. ON, with second husband, etc.7
June 1911 North Plantagenet, Prescott Co., ON, Canada "Kate" age 42, b. ON, with second husband, etc.8
Children of Catherine Mary MacCrimmon and Donald McCuaig
Norman McCuaig8 b. 21 Mar 1894, d. 19 Mar 1916
Sarah Harriet McCuaig+8 b. 16 Feb 1896, d. 1967
Children of Catherine Mary MacCrimmon and David Newton Dwyer
Gladys Gene Dwyer8 b. 20 May 1902, d. 21 Jan 1919
Keith David Dwyer8 b. Jul 1903, d. Nov 1968
[S203] Ontario Registrations of Marriages 1869-1922, Division Registrar Vital Statistics Records 1858-1930, Marriage License Books 1907-1910, Delayed Registrations of Marriages 1892-1916, and County Marriage Registers 1858-June 1869, various microfilm (all as viewed on-line at Ancestry.com) MS932 (695 reels), MS940 (28 reels), MS945 (12 reels), MS948 (4 reels), and MS248 (14 reels), Archives of Ontario, Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada, Glegarry Co., ON, p. 77 (record 7, stamped 11639).
[S2466] Descendants of Norman MacCrimmon, Norman MacCrimmon and Sarah Morrison Family Bible (photocopy of family record) (n.p.: n.pub., unknown publish date); present owner: David Ball, North Vancouver BC Canada (2014).
[S2465] Jacqueline Dwyer, "Dwyer Family Tree," database made available on-line courtesy of Jacqueline Dwyer, http://trees.ancestry.ca/tree/54693326/person/26117569095, database viewed 23 December 2014.
[S848] 1871 (2 April) Census of Canada, Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada, p. 25.
[S111] 1891 (6 April) Canada Census, Lochaber and Gore, Ottawa Co., QC, Canada, p. 1.
[S105] 1901 (31 March) Canada Census, Lochaber, Labelle Co., QC, Canada, p. 16.
[S201] 1911 (1 June) Canada Census, North Plantagenet, Prescott Co., ON, Canada, p. 14.
Flora MacCrimmon
Flora MacCrimmon was born on 21 April 1872 at ON, Canada.1 She was the daughter of Norman MacCrimmon and Sarah Morrison. Flora MacCrimmon married William Clark on 28 June 1900.1
April 1881 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Flory" age 8, born ON, with parents, etc.2
13 April 1891 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Flora" age 19, b. ON, with parents, etc.3
[S111] 1891 (6 April) Canada Census, Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada, District 65, p. 30.
Daniel Donald MacCrimmon
M, #67112, b. 14 February 1870, d. 3 April 1918
Daniel MacCrimmon
d. 1918 Astoria OR
Daniel Donald MacCrimmon was born on 14 February 1870 at Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada.1 He was the son of Norman MacCrimmon and Sarah Morrison. Daniel Donald MacCrimmon married Anna Larkin on 16 November 1897 at Hoquiam, WA. Daniel Donald MacCrimmon died on 3 April 1918 at Astoria, OR, at age 48.
Photo courtesy of David G. Ball of North Vancouver BC Canada.
April 1871 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Donald" age 1, born ON, with parents, etc.2
April 1881 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Donald" age 10, born ON, with parents, etc.3
13 April 1891 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Donald" age 20, b. ON, farmer, with parents, etc.4
21 June 1900 Hoquiam, Chehalis Co., WA "Daniel" age 29, b. Canada, logging camp foreman, with wife Anna5
[S12] 1900 (June 1) U.S. Census, Hoquiam, Chehalis Co., WA, ED 11, Sheet 18A (stamped 215).
Donald Ogg MacCrimmon
M, #67113, b. March 1790, d. 10 February 1890
b. 1790 Immergradden, Scotland
d. 1890 Lochiel, ON, Canada
Donald Ogg MacCrimmon was born in March 1790 at Immergradden, Glenelg, Inverness, Scotland. He was the son of Donald Ogg MacCrimmon and Anna MacLeod. Donald Ogg MacCrimmon married Margaret McKay on 28 February 1820.1 Donald Ogg MacCrimmon died on 10 February 1890 at Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada, at age 99; fall on ice.2 He was buried at Kirkhill United Church Cemetery, Kirkhill, ON, Canada.3
DONALD OG MacCRIMMON Jr.: 'I was born at Immergradden in Glenelg, Invernessshire, Scotland, in the month of March of the year 1790, in the same house in which my father was born. Glenelg is on the main land opposite the venerable mountains of Skye. My ancestors came from Dunvegan on the Island of Skye (Eilean A Cheo) in the early years of 1700. Swordland at the head of Glenmore was their home until the time of the 1745 rebellion when it was burned down by the King's troops who suspected the McCrimmon family of being Jacobites and supporters of the cause of Royal Charlie. They then moved to the home where I was born. I was about twenty-five years of age when I left Scotland, and I remember Glenmore Cnoc Eoin, and all the other places around there very well. I made frequent visits with my mother to Dornach, Portree, Dunvegan, and other places on the Isle of Skye. My mother's maiden name was Anna McLeod, and she was a native of Dornach, Isle of Skye. She was first married to a man named Morrison who died quite young leaving one son Alexander. He never came to America, but some of his family came in later years. I was pressed into the British Navy near the close of the year 1809, and served nearly six years, till after the battle of Waterloo when I got my discharge. I was one of the crew of the 'Firefly' which was guarding against the escape of Napoleon when he was a prisoner on the Island of Elba. I was afterwards transferred to the war sloop 'Fasson' under Captain William Parker (Duine Mosacdh) and with four other war vessels we were in a naval engagement on the night before the battle. We were besieging a coast town and took it in the morning. We could hear the cannonading at Waterloo from shortly before noon until along in the evening. I saw Napoleon about two months afterwards on board the Hellerophon, if I remember the name of the warship correctly, when he was about to be taken to St. Helena. My grandfather was a great musician and a piper of note. He sang well and played well. In 1745-6 he was at Moyhall during its most troublous days. He used to give us some interesting incidents of the occurrances there during those stirring times. I emigrated to America from Greenoch in an old British transport with my parents, three brothers and one sister, Angus, Duncan, Alexander, and Christina in the year 1816. We were nine weeks on the sea from Greenoch to Halifax. We settled on Lot 35 in the eighth Concession of Lochiel in the Spring of 1817 where I still reside. My health is quite good. My father died at the age of seventy-five and my mother at the age of ninety-seven years. Both are buried at Kirk Hill. I have been an elder in the Free Church Kirk Hill since the disruption.'
Donald Ogg was known as one of the sterling men of Lochiel. He was popular, intelligent, and looked up to by his neighbours. His counsel and advice were frequently sought by the troubled and tried, and, were never sought in vain. He was agreeable and cheerful in all associations and was usually the centre of attraction in every gathering at which he was present. He never forgot the experiences of his early naval days, and to the last could with Tennyson say 'I hope to meet my Pilot face to face, when I have crossed the Bar.' On the 10th of February A.D. 1890 his long, consistent and useful life came to an end. He married Margaret McKay of Cote St. George and had a family of eight sons and three daughters. One grandson, John N. McCrimmon, still resides on the old homestead.
Neil McCrimmon and Mrs. Malcolm McLeod both residing at McCrimmon are grandchildren. Mrs. Norman McLaurin of Dalkeith and her brother, the Honourable A. P. McNab of Saskatoon are grandchildren. The late Judge Neil McCrimmon and Mrs. A. N. Cheney of Vankleek Hill were also grandchildren. Other grandchildren are Norman McCrimmon of Blind River, John N. of Edmonton and Mrs. D. N. Dwyer of Ottawa. The sons of Donald Ogg were somewhat noted for their musical talent. It is said that almost every one of them could, on an occasion, in the old day's of precentorship, get up and lead the singing of the church, or other kindred meetings. John N. on the old homestead seems to have inherited some of this talent. Photo from a contemporary issue of the Glengarry Times newspaper.
January 1852 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Donald M'Crimon" age 60, b. Scotland, farmer, with wife Margaret and children Christy, Catherine, William, Norman, Donald, Peter, Mary, and Norman Ogg; lving next to brothers Duncan and Alexander4
January 1861 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Don'd McCrimon" age 69, b. Scotland, farmer, with wife Margaret and children William, Christy, Norman, Donald, Peter, Mary and Norman Ogg5
April 1871 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Don McCrimon" age 77, born Scotland, farmer, Presbyterian, with wife Margaret and children Norman and family, Donald, Christy, and Mary6
April 1881 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Donald" age 89, b. Scotland, living with son Norman and family7
Children of Donald Ogg MacCrimmon and Margaret McKay
John MacCrimmon+ b. 31 Oct 1820, d. 12 Nov 1883
Duncan MacCrimmon+ b. 12 Aug 1822
Neil MacCrimmon b. s 1824
Christy MacCrimmon b. 25 Apr 1826, d. 11 Mar 1910
Catherine MacCrimmon b. c 1829
William MacCrimmon+ b. 8 Jun 1832, d. 17 Oct 1914
Norman MacCrimmon+ b. 7 Oct 1833, d. 16 Sep 1918
Peter MacCrimmon b. 24 May 1836, d. 9 Dec 1889
Donald MacCrimmon b. c 1837, d. c 1904
Mary MacCrimmon b. 30 Oct 1838, d. 4 Feb 1883
Norman Ogg MacCrimmon b. 22 Jul 1842
[S204] Ontario Registrations of Deaths 1869-1934, Registrations of Ontario Overseas Deaths, Division Registrar Vital Statistics Records 1858-1930, and Registration of Marriages 1869-1924, various microfilm (all as viewed on-line at Ancestry.com) MS935 (496 reels), MS944 (11 reels), MS940 (28 reels), and MS932 (reel 128), Archives of Ontario, Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada, Lochiel, Glengarry Co., Ontario, p. 496, item 10 (stamped 16411).
[S903] Find A Grave - A User-Contributed Listing of Cemeteries and Memorials; Find A Grave Founder Jim Tipton, 2009; online at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gs&, Kirkhill United Church Cemetery, Kirkhill, Stormont/Dundas/Glengarry Co., ON, Canada.
[S70] 1851 (12 January 1852) Census of Canada, Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada, p. 149.
[S847] 1861 (14 January) Census of Canada, Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada, p. 115.
Margaret McKay1
F, #67114, b. circa 1795, d. 26 July 1878
Margaret McKay was born circa 1795 at ON, Canada. She married Donald Ogg MacCrimmon, son of Donald Ogg MacCrimmon and Anna MacLeod, on 28 February 1820.1 Margaret McKay died on 26 July 1878 at Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada.2
January 1852 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Peggy" age 60, b. Canada, with husband, etc.3
January 1861 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Peggy" age 69, b. ON, with husband, etc.4
April 1871 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Peggy", age 77, born Scotland, with husband, etc.5
Children of Margaret McKay and Donald Ogg MacCrimmon
[S204] Ontario Registrations of Deaths 1869-1934, Registrations of Ontario Overseas Deaths, Division Registrar Vital Statistics Records 1858-1930, and Registration of Marriages 1869-1924, various microfilm (all as viewed on-line at Ancestry.com) MS935 (496 reels), MS944 (11 reels), MS940 (28 reels), and MS932 (reel 128), Archives of Ontario, Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada, Lochiel, Glengarry Co., Ontario, p. 449, item 5 (stamped 13809).
John Morrison1
M, #67115, b. November 1811, d. 2 January 1890
John Morrison was born in November 1811 at Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada.2,3 He was the son of Duncan Morrison and Christina MacGillivray.3 John Morrison married Flora McDonald. John Morrison died on 2 January 1890 at Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada, at age 78.3
He lived on Lot 8, Concession 8, Kenyon, ON.4
January 1852 Kenyon, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "John" age 39, b. Canada, farmer, with wife Flora, and children Duncan, Sarah, Catherine, Ewen, Sarah, Douglas, and unnamed daughter5
January 1861 Kenyon, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "John" age 49, b. Canada, yeoman, with wife Flora and children Duncan, Sarah, Catherine, Ewen, Marion, Dougald, Harriet, and Ann2
April 1871 Kenyon, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "John" age 60, b. ON, farmer, with wife Flora and children Duncan, Catherine, Ewen, Marion, Dougald, Harriet, and Anna6
April 1881 Kenyon, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Johnathan" age 72, b. ON, farmer, with wife Flora and children Ewen, Dougald, Anna, and Duncan and his family7
Children of John Morrison and Flora McDonald
Duncan Morrison+8 b. 24 Jan 1841, d. 7 Sep 1922
Sarah Morrison+ b. 5 Jun 1842, d. 7 Aug 1927
Catherine Morrison4 b. 4 Dec 1843, d. 7 Nov 1907
Ewen Morrison5 b. c 1847
Marion Sally Morrison5 b. c 1848
Dougald Morrison5 b. c 1850
(daughter) Morrison5 b. c 1851, d. b 1861
Harriet Morrison2 b. c 1853, d. 17 Mar 1892
Anna Bella Morrison9 b. 16 Sep 1856
[S2247] Ontario, Canada, Deaths 1869-1938, made available by FamilySearch.org (Salt Lake City, Utah) on-line at http://familysearch.org, 2012; database courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
[S847] 1861 (14 January) Census of Canada, Kenyon, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada, p. 67.
[S1040] Duncan W. MacDonald, compiler, Lochiel Parish register 1820 - 1884 (ON: The Leeds & Grenville Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, Feb. 1987), p. 94.
[S70] 1851 (12 January 1852) Census of Canada, Kenyon, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada, p. 101.
[S848] 1871 (2 April) Census of Canada, Kenyon, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada, p. 14.
[S1040] Duncan W. MacDonald, Lochiel, ON Parish Register, p. 81.
[S1040] Duncan W. MacDonald, Lochiel, ON Parish Register, p. 103.
Flora McDonald
F, #67116, b. circa 1812, d. 3 January 1903
Flora McDonald was born circa 1812 at Scotland.1 She married John Morrison, son of Duncan Morrison and Christina MacGillivray. Flora McDonald died on 3 January 1903 at Kenyon, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada.2 She was buried at St. Columbia Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Kirkhill, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada.3
January 1852 Kenyon, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Flory McDonald" age 40, b. Canada, with husband, etc.4
January 1861 Kenyon, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Flora" age 46, b. Scotland, with husband, etc.5
April 1871 Kenyon, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Flora" age 58, b. ON, with husband, etc.6
April 1881 Kenyon, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Flora" age 70, b. Scotland, with husband, etc.1
Children of Flora McDonald and John Morrison
[S903] Find A Grave - A User-Contributed Listing of Cemeteries and Memorials; Find A Grave Founder Jim Tipton, 2009; online at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gs&, Saint Columbia Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Kirkhill, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada.
Donald McCuaig
M, #67117, b. circa 1854
Donald McCuaig was born circa 1854 at Kenyon, ON, Canada.1 He was the son of Neil McCuaig and Sarah McCrimmon.1 Donald McCuaig married Catherine Mary MacCrimmon, daughter of Norman MacCrimmon and Sarah Morrison, on 10 September 1889 at 8th Concession, Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada.1
6 March 1891 Lochaber and Gore, Ottawa, QC, Canada "Donald" age 38, b. ON, farmer, with wife Catherine2
Children of Donald McCuaig and Catherine Mary MacCrimmon
David Newton Dwyer1
M, #67118, b. 5 August 1871, d. 26 September 1947
David Newton Dwyer
b. 1871 Thurso QC Canada
d. 1947 Maxvill ON Canada
[right photo circa 1936]
David Newton Dwyer was born on 5 August 1871 at Thurso, QC, Canada.2,1 He was the son of Dennis Dwyer and Jane A. Hall.1 David Newton Dwyer married Catherine Mary MacCrimmon, daughter of Norman MacCrimmon and Sarah Morrison, on 9 May 1900.3 David Newton Dwyer died on 26 September 1947 at Maxville, ON, Canada, at age 76.1
He claimed that his great-nephew, David Ball, was named after him, so left him $100 in his will to be paid when David Ball reached 21 years of age. Left photo courtesy of Jacqueline Dwyer; right photo courtesy of David Ball of North Vancouver BC.1
6 May 1901 Lochaber, Labelle Co., QC, Canada "David" age 29, b. QC, farmer, with wife Catherine and step-children Norman and Sarah McCuaig4
June 1911 North Plantagenet, Prescott Co., ON, Canada "David U." age 39, b. QC, dealer, with wife Catherine, children Gladys and Keith, and step-children Norman and Sadie McCuaig2
Children of David Newton Dwyer and Catherine Mary MacCrimmon
William Clark married Flora MacCrimmon, daughter of Norman MacCrimmon and Sarah Morrison, on 28 June 1900.1
Anna Larkin
F, #67120, b. May 1873
Anna Larkin was born in May 1873 at WI.1 She married Daniel Donald MacCrimmon, son of Norman MacCrimmon and Sarah Morrison, on 16 November 1897 at Hoquiam, WA.
21 June 1900 Hoquiam, Chehalis Co., WA "Anna" age 27, b. WI, with husband1
M, #67121, b. circa 1818, d. 16 November 1889
William Barton was born circa 1818 at County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.1,2 He was the son of George Barton and Mary Blakely. William Barton married Eliza Jane Holmes on 26 October 1846 at West Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., ON, Canada.2 William Barton married Mary Blaney, daughter of Charles Blaney and Jane Barton, on 28 September 1858 at Caledonia, Prescott Co., ON, Canada.2 William Barton died on 16 November 1889 at West Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., ON, Canada.2 He was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Vankleek Hill, Prescott and Russell Co., ON, Canada.3
January 1852 Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., ON, Canada "William " age 33, b. Ireland, farmer, with wife Eliza and children Mary and Thomas1
January 1861 West Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., ON, Canada "Wm." age 43, b. Ireland, farmer, with second wife Mary, and children Thomas, George, James, and William4
April 1871 West Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., ON, Canada "William" age 53, b. Ireland, farmer, with second wife Mary and children Thomas, Geroge, William, Sarah, Robert, Charles, Oliver and Joseph5
April 1881 West Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., ON, Canada "William" age 56, b. Ireland, farmer, with second wife Mary and children William, Sarah, Robert, Charles, Oliver, Joseph, Mary, Maragaret, John, Susan, and Henrietta6
Children of William Barton and Eliza Jane Holmes
Mary Ann Barton b. 14 Jan 1848, d. b 1861
Thomas H. Barton b. c 1850, d. 1916
George Edward Barton+ b. 11 Feb 1853, d. 30 Sep 1944
James Edward Barton4 b. 19 Aug 1855, d. 15 Aug 1861
Children of William Barton and Mary Blaney
William Barton+ b. 14 Nov 1859, d. 16 Dec 1937
Sarah Jane Barton+ b. 23 Jan 1862, d. 8 Jun 1960
Robert Barton+ b. 2 Feb 1864, d. 23 Mar 1940
Charles Barton+ b. 3 Jul 1865, d. 23 May 1927
Oliver Barton b. 27 Oct 1867, d. 26 Oct 1940
Joseph Barton+ b. 4 Jul 1870, d. 6 Mar 1909
Mary Ann Barton b. 5 Sep 1871, d. 29 May 1927
Margaret Barton+ b. 19 May 1873, d. 14 Nov 1952
John Gilbert Barton+ b. 8 Apr 1875, d. 14 Feb 1955
Susannah Barton+ b. 16 Jun 1877, d. 4 Mar 1957
Elizabeth Barton b. Jul 1879, d. 9 Nov 1879
Henrietta Barton b. 10 Oct 1880, d. 17 Jan 1928
[S70] 1851 (12 January 1852) Census of Canada, Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., ON, Canada, p. 7.
[S1255] Helen Purdy, compilers, Descendants of George Barton and Mary Blakely (n.p.: Helen Purdy, 2010).
[S903] Find A Grave - A User-Contributed Listing of Cemeteries and Memorials; Find A Grave Founder Jim Tipton, 2009; online at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gs&, Greenwood Cemetery, Vankleek Hill, Prescott and Russell United Counties, ON, Canada.
[S847] 1861 (14 January) Census of Canada, West Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., ON, Canada, p. 8 (stamped 41).
[S848] 1871 (2 April) Census of Canada, West Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., ON, Canada, p. 49.
Mary Blaney
F, #67122, b. 8 March 1834, d. 8 February 1904
Mary Blaney was born on 8 March 1834 at Lochabar Bay, QC, Canada; age at death 69y.1,2 She was the daughter of Charles Blaney and Jane Barton. Mary Blaney married William Barton, son of George Barton and Mary Blakely, on 28 September 1858 at Caledonia, Prescott Co., ON, Canada.3 Mary Blaney died on 8 February 1904 at West Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., ON, Canada, at age 69.4 She was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Vankleek Hill, Prescott Co., ON, Canada.5
January 1852 Caledonia, Prescott Co., ON, Canada "Mary" age 17, b. Canada, with parents, etc.6
January 1861 West Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., ON, Canada "Mary" age 26, b. ON, with husband, etc.7
April 1871 West Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., ON, Canada "Mary" age 36, b. ON, with husband, etc.8
27 April 1891 West Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., ON, Canada "Mary" age 57, b. QC, farmer, widow, with children Sarah, Charles, Oliver, Joseph, Mary, Margaret, John, Susannah, and Henrietta10
4 May 1901 Vankleek Hill, Prescott Co., ON, Canada "Mary" age 67, b. QC, farmer, with children Oliver, Mary, Susannah, and Henrietta2
Children of Mary Blaney and William Barton
[S204] Ontario Registrations of Deaths 1869-1934, Registrations of Ontario Overseas Deaths, Division Registrar Vital Statistics Records 1858-1930, and Registration of Marriages 1869-1924, various microfilm (all as viewed on-line at Ancestry.com) MS935 (496 reels), MS944 (11 reels), MS940 (28 reels), and MS932 (reel 128), Archives of Ontario, Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada, West Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., Ontario, p. 363, item (stamped 124006).
[S105] 1901 (31 March) Canada Census, Vankleek Hill, Prescott Co., ON, Canada, p. 9.
[S204] Ontario Registrations of Deaths, West Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., Ontario, p. 363, #024006.
[S1257] Nancy Nitschkie, "Descendants," database made available on-line courtesy of Nancy Nitschkie, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2747119&id=I0019, database put on-line 19 December 2003.
[S70] 1851 (12 January 1852) Census of Canada, Caledonia, Prescott Co., ON, Canada, p. 1.
[S111] 1891 (6 April) Canada Census, West Hawkesbury, Prescott Co., ON, Canada, p. 41.
M, #67123, b. circa 1828, d. 2 February 1896
b. c1828 County Antrim, Ireland
d. 1896 ON Canada
James Barr was born circa 1828 at County Antrim, Ireland.1 He was the son of Alexander Barr and Rose Mary McCullough. James Barr married Mary Manson, daughter of John Manson and Martha Patterson, on 28 May 1857 at Riccarton, Ayrshire, Scotland.2 James Barr married Jane Anderson, daughter of Alexander Anderson and Isabella Mitchell, on 7 July 1875 at Vankleek Hill, Prescott Co., ON, Canada.1 James Barr died on 2 February 1896 at Vankleek Hill, Prescott Co., ON, Canada.3,4 He was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Vankleek Hill, Prescott Co., ON, Canada.3
Photo courtesy of Sherry Fordham.4
April 1871 Caledonia, Prescott Co., ON, Canada "James" age 44, born Ireland, farmer, Presbyterian, with wife Mary and children: Martha, Alexander, Mary, James, Anna and William5
April 1881 Caledonia, Prescott Co., ON, Canada "James" age 53, b. Ireland, farmer, with second wife Jame and children Alexander, Martha, Mary, James, Annie, William and John6
20 April 1891 Caledonia, Prescott Co., ON, Canada "James" age 63, b. Ireland, farmer, with second wife Jane and children Anna and John; living next to son James and family7
Children of James Barr and Mary Manson
Alexander Barr+ b. 10 Feb 1859, d. 20 Apr 1945
Martha Barr b. 10 Feb 1859, d. 18 Apr 1893
Mary Barr+ b. 6 Jan 1861, d. 23 Jun 1950
James Barr3 b. 6 Jan 1861, d. 14 Oct 1862
James Barr b. 7 Feb 1863, d. 1949
Anna R. Barr b. c 1865
William Barr b. c 1870
John Manson Barr+ b. c 1871
Thomas Manson Barr b. 29 Apr 1874, d. 16 Aug 1874
[S1805] Ontario, Canada, Marriages 1801-1928, made available by FamilySearch.org (Salt Lake City, Utah) on-line at http://familysearch.org, 2012; database courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
[S2537] Letter from Mary Armstrong (Nepean, ON, Canada) to David G. Ball (North Vancouver, BC, Canada), 12 April 2015; Personal Library of David G. Ball (North Vancouver, BC, Canada).
[S903] Find A Grave - A User-Contributed Listing of Cemeteries and Memorials; Find A Grave Founder Jim Tipton, 2009; online at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gs&, Greenwood Cemetery, Prescott and Russell, ON, Canada.
[S2611] Sherry Fordham, "Barr-Graham Family Tree," database made available on-line courtesy of Sherry Fordham, http://trees.ancestry.ca/tree/38808448/person/19286715945, database viewed 2 July 2015.
[S848] 1871 (2 April) Census of Canada, Caledonia, Prescott Co., ON, Canada, p. 63.
[S111] 1891 (6 April) Canada Census, Caledonia, Prescott Co., ON, Canada, p. 19.
Mary Manson
F, #67124, b. 21 December 1835, d. 29 April 1874
b. 1835 Riccarton, Scotland
d. 1874 Prescott Co. ON Canada
Mary Manson was born on 21 December 1835 at Riccarton, Ayrshire, Scotland. She was the daughter of John Manson and Martha Patterson. Mary Manson was baptized on 31 December 1835 at Riccarton, Ayrshire, Scotland. She married James Barr, son of Alexander Barr and Rose Mary McCullough, on 28 May 1857 at Riccarton, Ayrshire, Scotland.1 Mary Manson died on 29 April 1874 at Prescott Co., ON, Canada, at age 38; died in childbirth.2 She was buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Vankleek Hill, Prescott Co., ON, Canada.2
April 1871 Caledonia, Prescott Co., ON, Canada "Mary" age 34, born Scotland, Presbyterian, with husband James and children4
Children of Mary Manson and James Barr
George Blakely Barton
M, #67125, b. 20 August 1888, d. 14 October 1976
[photo circa 1967]
George Blakely Barton was born on 20 August 1888 at Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada.1 He was the son of William Barton and Mary Barr. George Blakely Barton died on 14 October 1976 at age 88.2 He was buried at McLaughlin Cemetery, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada.2
He was normally called Blakely and never married. He farmed in Vermilion, AB and worked at the Community Centre there.3 Photo courtesy of David Ball of North Vancouver BC.
13 April 1891 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "George Blackly" age 2, b. ON, with parents, etc.4
15 April 1901 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "Blykley" age 12, b. ON, with parents, etc.5
June 1911 Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada "George Blake" age 23, b. ON, farmer, with parents, etc.6
[S202] Ontario Registrations of Births and Stillbirths 1869-1909; Delayed Registrations and Stillbirths (“50” Series) 1869-1907; Delayed Registrations of Births and Stillbirths (“90” Series) 1869-1907; Direct Clergy Returns for Simcoe County Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1892-1896; Evidence for Delayed Registrations of Births 1861-1897; and Division Registrar Vital Statistics Records 1858-1930, microfilm (all as viewed on-line at Ancestry.com) MS929 (206 reels), MS930 (51 reels), MS933 (50 reels), MS936 (1 reel), MS946 (2 reels), and MS940 (parts of 28 reels), Archives of Ontario, Toronto, York Region, ON, Canada, Ontario delayed statement of birth (dated 15 Nov 1941 at Vankleek Hill, Prescott Co., Ontario), #901099.
[S111] 1891 (6 April) Canada Census, Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada, p. 23.
[S105] 1901 (31 March) Canada Census, Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada, p. 11.
[S201] 1911 (1 June) Canada Census, Lochiel, Glengarry Co., ON, Canada, p. 16.
All right, title, and interest in and to original content included in the New England Ball Project is owned by David G. Ball unless a publisher or copyright owner is specified as the source of data.
Compiler: David G. Ball, (click on name to send email) North Vancouver, BC, Canada (site last updated 10 January 2020)
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GPL 3.0 Licence Query
if I’m using an open source GPL-3.0 library in my saas product, do I need to publish my code under the same license as well?
license-recommendation gpl-3
AbdelmawlaAbdelmawla
Are you planning to publish your code at all? Since you mentioned SaaS, I guess you are just going to keep it on your own servers. But if you are planning on publishing it somewhere (the code, not the service), this fact will affect the answer. – Brandin Apr 24 '19 at 13:03
It's a commercial SaaS. We are not going to publish the code outside our private servers. – Abdelmawla Apr 24 '19 at 18:09
If you only run the software on servers that you control, then that is not considered distribution according to the GPL license and thus you are not required to publish your source code.
If you give the binaries to others to run on their servers, then you are distributing the software and you need to observe the restrictions of the GPL license. That means that you must also provide your source code under a GPL-compatible license.
Bart van Ingen SchenauBart van Ingen Schenau
While compared to closed source, GPL does give more freedom, but compared to other open source licenses like MIT or BSD2/3 it also imposes restrictions. Since we are only talking about open source on this site, why don't you mention the restrictions in your answer? "That means that you must also povide your source code under a license that gives the recipients the same restrictions as they get with the GPL license." Not to mention that this sentence is incorrect since he uses a library. GPL does not set any more restrictions on the use of libraries than LGPL does. – Smart455 Apr 24 '19 at 17:07
@Smart455: I didn't mention that because the GPL doesn't require all code in a project to have the same restrictions that the GPL has, only the same freedoms. You can combine GPL code with code that has more freedoms than the GPL (like the freedom to not distribute source code), but not fewer freedoms. – Bart van Ingen Schenau Apr 24 '19 at 18:03
So why would he has to release his code under GPL (in your answer) if you just wrote (in your comment) that he actually could release it under more permissive license and combine that with GPL? Which one is it then? – Smart455 Apr 24 '19 at 18:17
@Smart455: His code does not have to be under the GPL and I have edited my answer to make that more clear. The license does have to be compatible with the GPL though to make the act of distribution legal. – Bart van Ingen Schenau Apr 24 '19 at 18:30
GPL does not really have 'restrictions' it has obligations. If you want to distribute GPL code, you must supply all the relevant source code. The only apparent confusion is that sometimes people think that if they make some changes or add-ons to some GPL code, then somehow the parts they add are completely 'theirs'. No. Just like if you buy a Harry Potter book and decide to write your own chapter based on that. Yes, you wrote it, but it is not really 'yours'. It is a derivative work. With GPL, though, you are allowed to make derivative works, as long as you follow the license terms. – Brandin Apr 25 '19 at 4:22
By law you are free to license your code as you decide to license it. No one can force you to do anything. Just be prepared to fight for your right in a court in case some FSF, FSC or some similar organisation is going to bully you.
So instead ask yourself: do you have the resources to go to court? Are you a sort of person who gets easily intimidated by threats and false claims? You can estimate your risks by counting all the down-votes this answer gets from the fascists around here alone.
Smart455Smart455
No, this is not how it works. If you distribute someone else's code (which is GPL licensed), then that license says under what terms you are allowed to distribute their software. One of the terms of GPL is that if you make a derivative work (by combining GPL code with your code), then you must distribute the source code to the whole derived work when you distribute it. If you don't agree to this term, you must not make derivative works from that software. – Brandin Apr 25 '19 at 4:10
@Brandin So where does it say that incorporating someones library, without modifying it, makes it a derivative work? Can you please point out where in gpl sets any more restrictions to (/burden with obligations) libraries than lgpl? – Smart455 Apr 25 '19 at 6:37
This answer is technically correct, but highly misleading in context. Also @Smart455 you are alluding to things that are simply not clear in any jurisdiction: there is no clear precedent anywhere as to what precisely a derivative work is in the context of software libraries. FSF has one opinion on that. If that opinion is true, the LGPL provides a useful exception. People wanting to minimize compliance risks should follow the FSF opinion as well, since it's a “worst case” from their perspective. Others have voiced other opinions, e.g. Lawrence Rosen. – amon Apr 26 '19 at 10:49
@amon FSF is extremely biased about their licenses and therefore it's pointless to ask their opinion on it. There is threat that they might jump on anyone who would challenge their reign of terror and that's why I felt necessary to warn about it. – Smart455 Apr 29 '19 at 18:00
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Shadowtime
Dance/Opera | Running Time: 2h10 | Closing: 09/07/2005
One of the most lauded living composers, Brian Ferneyhough has only recently written his first opera. Premiered at the Munich Biennale in May 2004, Shadowtime is a series of seven scenes based on the life of writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin. Described as an ‘opera of thoughts’, it combines musical layering with passionate expression and poetic allusions.
The vocalists of the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart are joined by the orchestra of the Nieuw Ensembles Amsterdam and conducted by Jurjen Hempel.
Learn more about London operas within the West End.
Solo Pianist/Narrator: Nicolas Hodges, Guitarist: Mats Scheidegger
Conductor - Jurjen Hempel
Lyrics By - Charles Bernstein
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A privilege and a pleasure: OPS 2015
Professor Ian Roberts
It has been wonderful to receive such inspired and inspiring feedback from the teachers who attended OPS 2015. I was particularly heartened by this response from the MFL subject leader of a sixth-form college in the West Midlands:
“It is such a privilege to be able to learn new concepts, and to widen and enrich existing knowledge. It has been a great pleasure to talk with colleagues from other institutions and sectors.”
These are the two central aims of the Oliver Prior Society, which is now enjoying its second year of revival.
In all, 104 delegates travelled to my college, Downing, for the two-day meeting on 29 and 30 March 2015. Members of the MML Faculty at Cambridge mixed with secondary-level teachers from all sectors and from across the country representing 65 different schools. Several longstanding members of the Society were present, including one delegate who has been coming to OPS annual meetings for the past 50 years. We were joined by friends and colleagues from Alliance Française de Cambridge, the University of Exeter, Routes Into Languages East, and several other national organisations supporting language teachers. We knew that with such a diverse mix of delegates we were set for a lively and stimulating annual meeting.
Photo: Perry Hastings
Elspeth Wilson and Sarah Schechter hear from the Cambridge Bilingualism Network
Once again, I was very grateful for the willingness of colleagues in the Faculty to share their current research, giving our teachers real insight into what the learning experience is like for MML undergraduates at Cambridge. Rory O’Bryen opened OPS 2015 with a fascinating presentation about the works of nineteenth-century Colombian poet Candelario Obeso. The lively round of questions from the audience that followed Dr O’Bryen’s talk really set the tone for the rest of the meeting: throughout, there was a delightful exchange of knowledge and expertise. We remained in the nineteenth century with Nick White, who introduced us to his research on the cultural legacy of the Franco-Prussian War. Dr White explained how this project exploring “the war before the First World War” gets to grips with the use of the language of war in unexpected contexts – in commentary of the 1982 World Cup semi-final between France and Germany, for instance – in order to understand how history speaks to the present moment, especially as Europe reconstructs its identity. Identity politics were also central to Abigail Brundin’s lecture on the seventeenth-century proto-feminist nun Arcangela Tarabotti, who developed a powerful political voice that was heard far beyond the convent walls. Remarkably, Dr Brundin showed how Tarabotti’s writing retains its empowering potential today.
Dr Abigail Brundin speaking in the Howard Theatre, Downing College
In her talk, Henriëtte Hendriks questioned whether language shapes the way we think, and encouraged audience participation through on-the-spot- translation exercises. Teachers commented afterwards on the value of this research, as they find themselves so often working with students whose first language isn’t English. Bilingualism was something of a theme for OPS 2015, providing us with opportunities to talk freely about pressing political and social issues. We were fortunate enough to hear from Sarah Schechter, Project Manager of Routes Into Languages East, about the many and various initiatives rolled out locally and nationally to encourage language learning at secondary level. Clips from entries to the Routes Spelling Bee, Language on Film, and Sing to the Future: Language Beatz competitions were not only impressive, but thoroughly entertaining. The Vice Chancellor made an appearance (albeit virtual!) at lunchtime, as doctoral candidate Elspeth Wilson and Dr Theodora Alexopoulou screened a short film produced by the Cambridge Bilingualism Network. Your Languages, Your Future emphasises both the importance of proficiency in a second language for any number of careers and the need to recognise and validate all the languages children might be using at home. The film was a perfect complement to the persuasive after dinner speech given by Cambridge Language Centre Director, Jocelyn Wyburd. We didn’t mind at all that Jocelyn threw cautionary etiquette to the wind in talking politics, as she grappled with the possible outcomes of the forthcoming General Election and the potential impact of new departures in education policy on teachers nationwide.
Delegates lead the discussion in the closing Q&A
The Q&A session that closed the event on Monday afternoon was driven and energised by our delegates. Queries and concerns regarding university admissions procedures were raised frankly and responded to constructively by the MML Faculty panel in the hope that the most able A Level students increase their assurance and develop the ambition to pursue languages to degree-level.
To borrow from one of our delegates, I must say that it was a pleasure and a privilege to preside over the success of OPS 2015. And although I step down as President of the Oliver Prior Society at the end of this year, I have every confidence that the society will continue to go from strength to strength.
If you would like more information or would like to become involved, please visit our website www.oliverpriorsociety.org or write to us at oliverpriorsociety@gmail.com
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September 10, 2016 – November 7, 2016
Film artists throughout the 20th and 21st centuries have, in many ways, grappled with the power of the mass media and its effects on the political and social sphere. With the relatively recent rise of Internet-based social media, we are experiencing new forms of news reportage, opinion, collective action, and the leverage of data in our everyday lives. But before this digital revolution, crucial public outlets such as newspapers, television, newsreels, and radio disseminated information one-directionally. Cinema has always had a strange, contentious relationship with the mainstream press, and so with Print the Legend, we look back not only at classic film examples of the mass media’s portrayal of politics in the US, but also some of our favorite explicitly or implicitly political films that have resonated deeply with audiences over the years and which have often provided perspectives that the neither the media nor the people are normally able to access. With a focus on films that satirize the political sphere or the machinations of the media, Print the Legend seeks to be an antidote to and critical lens on the 24-hour news cycle. Take a break from the smartphone, be with others, laugh, cry, and consider a different perspective on the mediated theater of political reality, even just for two hours.
Download a printable PDF of the series schedule
A Face in the Crowd
Directed by Elia Kazan
A parable about the dangers of media sensationalism, the problems with “15-minute” fame culture, and unchecked greed, Kazan’s film came …
Ace in the Hole
Directed by Billy Wilder
Out-of-work newspaper reporter Chuck Tatum (a perfectly smarmy, snarling Kirk Douglas in one of his best roles) moves west to …
Directed by Hal Ashby
In one of his most memorable roles, Peter Sellers plays Chance, a hermetic housekeeper at a wealthy man’s sprawling, lavish …
Born in Flames
Directed by Lizzie Borden
Borden’s landmark, low-budget revolutionary treatise addresses a semi-documentary, semi-fictional parallel world to ours, where competing feminist groups wander the streets …
Directed by Terry Gilliam
A shape-shifting film like few others, Brazil stands as Terry Gilliam’s foremost masterpiece and one of the finest political/dystopian satires …
Directed by Warren Beatty
Jay Bulworth, a democratic US Senator from California up for re-election in 1996, is losing on several fronts: in his …
Citizen Ruth
Directed by Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne’s (Election, Sideways, Nebraska) debut feature tackles the circa-1996 reproductive rights debate but plays it as a new kind …
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
A nuclear-age parable of unmatched film-historical importance and generalized hilarity, Kubrick’s vision of the day before doomsday remains frightening—and side-splitting—over …
Duck Soup
Directed by Leo McCarey
Despite its relative box-office failure upon initial release (a fact that remains shocking to this day), Duck Soup has become …
Directed by Armando Iannucci
Before his brilliant HBO series Veep took US cablewaves by storm, writer/director Armando Iannucci created the British sitcom-of-sorts The Thick …
Medium Cool
Directed by Haskell Wexler
Legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler’s (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Days of Heaven) directorial debut …
Meet John Doe
A film about an unexpected media sensation run amok on the American public, Meet John Doe stars Barbara Stanwyck as …
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Perhaps Chaplin’s foremost contribution to the preeminent art form of the 20th century and routinely voted amongst the greatest films …
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Ostensibly a huge dumb sci-fi blockbuster starring mid-’90s Hollywood lukewarm up-and-comers, in lesser directorial hands Starship Troopers would have been …
A humanistic, sensitive masterpiece nearly unparalleled in cinema history, Renoir’s WWI drama concerns the trials and tribulations of a group …
Directed by Michael Mann
A scalding exposé of big tobacco, government lobbying practices, and the methods that power will leverage to silence its critics, …
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Directed by John Ford
“This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” That most famous of lines from John …
Please use the site search to find films, festivals and series from 2013 onward. Use our previous site to peruse archives prior to 2013:
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Practising Point of View
Students will practise using pronouns to help them understand point of view.
Exploring Different Points of View
The activities in this lesson will engage students in thinking about how a person’s position, needs, and concerns affect their point of view on an issue. Students will apply this to characters in "The Memory String" by Eve Bunting.
Read Between the Lines
When it comes to reading, it’s all about inferring. Kids can learn how to use clues in a text to understand a character’s thoughts or follow the action, in this book about jumping to conclusions.
Pronouns & Point of View
Students will practise using pronouns to support their understanding of point of view.
What Happened Next?
Play author with this creative writing and comprehension exercise! Your child will learn all about inference, or drawing conclusions based on what they've read.
Whose Side of the Story?
Allow your students to explore how stories may change depending on the perspectives from which they're told. Interesting texts and a creative writing assignment make this quite the engaging lesson.
First- and Third-Person Point of View
Use this lesson to help your ELs understand which pronouns to use when writing from different points of view. Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as a support lesson for the *My View as an Ant* lesson.
The Paper Bag Princess
In this lesson, students will practise listening comprehension skills after reading “The Paper Bag Princess” together as a class. Afterward, students will role-play, make inferences, and use summarization to strengthen literacy skills.
What makes a character special? Their traits, of course. With help from The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg, students will enjoy completing character maps and learning about different character traits.
Things are jumbled up at the newspaper! Your child has the know-how with the help of this workbook to set things right. Review grammar rules and practise composition through reading passages.
Exploring Different Perspectives in Folktales
Give your students the opportunity to explore the perspectives of different characters by using the "Circle of Viewpoints" Visible Thinking Routine from Harvard's Project Zero.
Students will love talking about what they've been reading when the story comes to life. This tea time activity nourishes students' confidence in addition to improving their reading comprehension skills.
Making Inferences About Feelings
Students will make inferences about feelings and perspectives in a short text.
First vs. Third Person Narration
Students are asked to distinguish between first and third person narration as well as fiction or nonfiction writing.
Point of View practise
One of the first questions young readers should ask is, "Who is telling this story?" Here students will practise spotting different points of view by identifying which point of view sentences are written from and then writing sentences of their own.
Point of View Frenzy
Explore a day in the life of a pencil! Your students will practise different points of view by thinking outside the box and writing as though they are something else.
My View as an Ant
Give students a chance to experience a different point of view! This fANTastic lesson on narrative style turns young readers into characters of Chris Van Allsburg's Two Bad Ants.
Point of View Pronouns
In this support lesson, your ELs will learn how to determine point of view in a text while using pronouns to support their understanding. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Mythological Creature: Vampire.
Describe a Character
It's what's on the inside that counts! Your young reader can describe her favorite character, making sure to separate physical and personal traits.
Two Points of View
Are your students ready to see narratives from a different perspective? This reading lesson will get students excited about discovering first- and third-person points of view.
Story Elements: Compare & Contrast
This worksheet helps students analyze the ways in which stories are similar and different.
Point of View: Being the New Kid
Have you ever been the new kid? Well, maybe you can relate to the character’s point of view. Use this resource with your students to practise identifying the point of view of a text and explaining the character’s opinions.
In this support lesson, your students will use sentence frames and short texts to make inferences about a character's feelings in order to understand their perspective.
Craft Stick Story Elements
This comprehensive overview of story elements will definitely leave students with a better understanding of author's purpose, character traits, sequence, and main idea. It features the acclaimed Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus.
Shifting Points of View
This lesson gives students practise identifying first person and third person narration in fiction and nonfiction texts. It could be taught as a stand-alone lesson or as a precursor to the lesson Fiction vs. Nonfiction.
Identifying Problems and Solutions in Fiction Texts Making Connections in Fiction Texts Retelling Fiction Stories Making Predictions in Fiction Texts Characters, Setting and Events in Fiction Texts Central Message, Lesson or Moral in Fiction Texts Sequencing in Fiction Texts Cause and Effect in Fiction Texts Text Structure of Fiction Texts Chronology in Fiction Texts Illustrations in Fiction Texts Sensory Language in Fiction Texts Summarizing Fiction Texts Making Inferences in Fiction Texts Author's Purpose in Fiction Texts
Learning characters’ points of view in fictional texts teaches students to understand other points of view in the real world. The resource library has a diverse mix of teacher-created lesson plans and skills-based printable worksheets and workbooks available to employ this important component of reading comprehension. Kids can learn the difference of first, second, and third person, how to interpret characters' feelings and other tools that will enhance reading enjoyment and create empathy, too.
In Someone Else’s Shoes: Resources on Point of View
What are the villain's motives? Why is protagonist so determined? Is the sidekick actually trying to deceive the hero? When older students start to discover point of view in fiction, the stories become more textured and enjoyable to read. Education.com’s Learning Library equips parents and teachers with the tools to boost student reading capabilities with selected printable worksheets, lesson plans, and popular workbooks.
The dozens of worksheets available teach students how to analyze themes and understand plot clues. Creating character trading cards is an inventive way to inspect individual personas. Kids will be able to decipher who the narrator is and what person they are speaking. Other worksheets have advanced students take a careful look at word choice to draw inferences.
The Read Between the LinesWorkbook for first graders is full of assignments on drawing inferences including cause and effect practise and interpreting images. The Shifting Points of ViewLesson plan includes practise comparing works of fiction and nonfiction and language differences between first and third person. This lesson plan serves as a resource for English language learners, too. Excited students will know what it’s like to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes with the variety of tools on points of view available in the Learning Library.
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Encouraging young people to explore the world
© Keith Parsons - credit: Keith Parsons
Encouraging the Spirit of Exploration
Antarctic Heritage Trust’s Inspiring Explorers Expeditions provide opportunities for young people to experience and challenge themselves in Antarctica and the polar regions.
These expeditions connect young people with the legacy the Trust cares for and encourage them to embrace that same spirit of exploration. It is a spirit as critical in the 21st century as it was over a century ago.
By making the legacy the Trust cares for relevant, young people will identify with it, value it, and in the future be motivated to protect it.
The expeditions not only change participants’ lives, they create a platform to share inspiring stories and experiences with participants’ communities and a wide audience.
© Antarctic Heritage Trust - credit: Sylvie Admore
Inspiring Explorers (2017) climbing Mt Scott, Antarctic Peninsula.
© Canterbury Museum - credit: Canterbury Museum
Sir Ernest Shackleton, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Dr Edward Wilson on the British National Antarctic Expedition, 2 Nov 1902.
Building a Leadership Legacy
The iconic Antarctic explorers Shackleton, Scott and Hillary embodied the qualities of truly exceptional leadership. Their remarkable stories of leadership in the face of adversity have resonated around the world for over 100 years.
The Inspiring Explorers Expeditions create opportunities for the young change-makers of tomorrow to connect with and be inspired by the qualities of those heroic Antarctic leaders.
The expeditions provide life-changing perspectives through challenge and exploration in the world’s most pristine and unforgiving environments. Antarctica is crucially important in today’s cutting edge research into climate change, biology and meteorology.
Just as crucial is fostering the Shackletons and Hillarys of the future—the young people who will draw on the great legacies of the polar heroes to drive change and instigate new perspectives for tomorrow’s world.
Link to: Greenland Ice Cap
Link to: Borchgrevink’s Hut
“There’s no right or wrong in adventure. It’s a beautiful way to bring people together and to spread happiness.”
-Brando Yelavich, Inspiring Explorer 2018
Link to: Climbing Mount Scott, Antarctic Peninsula
Link to: Famous Discoveries
“The Inspiring Explorers Expedition provided an amazing opportunity to share my insights and learnings from my life’s journey with a group of young enthusiastic explorers who are at the start of their adventuring lives.”
-Mike Dawson, Olympic Kayaker, Inspiring Explorers’ Expedition 2019 Mentor
Link to: Crossing South Georgia
“While I want people to be amazed by what we’ve done and what we’ve seen, I want people to think about how they can have those sorts of experiences as well. I want people to dream about what their next adventure could be and how they can connect with, and get to, places in the world that they have never been to.”
-Leah Stewart, Inspiring Explorers’ Expedition 2019
Inspiring Explorers’ Expeditions
Link to: Antarctic Peninsula
Link to: Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project
Our biggest group of Inspiring Explorers so far journeyed to the Antarctic Peninsula with a focus on kayaking.
Greenland Ice Cap
A 560KM ski expedition across the Greenland ice cap in honour of the 130th anniversary of Fridtjof Nansen’s original crossing.
Mount Scott
The Inspiring Explorers ascended Mount Scott on the Antarctic Peninsula, named after iconic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott.
This first Inspiring Explorers’ Expedition followed in the footsteps of Shackleton, Worsley and Crean’s epic journey across South Georgia Island, honouring the centenary of that crossing.
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ArtistsExhibitionsFairsPublicationsContact
7 November – 22 December 2017
Images Press Release Artist PageBack
Selected WorksThumbnails
razor wire, soldered galvanized cable,
steel pipe, and steel brackets
22 x 120 x 15 1/4 inches
(55.9 x 304.8 x 38.7 cm)
Curtilage (detail)
Richard Wentworth: Now and Then – installation view 1
Lives (horizontal)
soldered galvanized cable and London bricks
9 x 38 x 34 inches
glass screen, microchip, soldered galvanized cable,
mirror, and cherry wood and glass vitrine
artwork: 6 1/2 x 5 x 3 inches
(16.5 x 12.7 x 7.6 cm)
vitrine: 42 x 62 x 34 inches
(106.7 x 157.5 x 86.4 cm)
Various Truths
glass pitcher, book, and hook
48 x 9 x 8 inches
(121.9 x 22.9 x 20.3 cm)
Lives (Suspended)
soldered galvanized cable and steel pin
45 x 37 x 12 1/2 inches
(114.3 x 94 x 31.8 cm)
Scroll (for Buckminster Fuller)
galvanized chicken wire and mirrors
pair of concrete lintels, book,
soldered galvanized cable, and steel brackets
24 1/4 x 36 x 15 1/4 inches
First and Last Word
dictionary, soldered galvanized cable,
and unused linen bed sheet
3 3/4 x 12 x 8 inches
(9.5 x 30.5 x 20.3 cm)
Window (Médoc and Snapple)
pair of concrete lintels, bottle glass, and steel brackets
21 x 23 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches
pair of concrete blocks, galvanized cable, and pair of mirrors
Horizon (Pinot Grigio and Amstel Light)
galvanized steel, cement, bottle glass, and steel brackets
8 1/4 x 47 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches
(21 x 120 x 38.7 cm)
Catherine Murphy
Lives (small)
13 1/2 x 12 x 3/8 inches
(34.3 x 30.5 x 1 cm)
Aping
dictionary, soldered galvanized cable, and pair of bricks
11 1/2 x 10 x 6 1/2 inches
Tool to end things (a gift for architects)
galvanized cable, mirrors, and a pair of washers
Peter Freeman, Inc.
140 Grand Street, New York
info@peterfreemaninc.com
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War On Words / The War On Words – July 2019
The War On Words – July 2019
Bob Yearick
Jun 28, 2019 , War On Words
A monthly column in which we attempt, however futilely, to defend the English language against misuse and abuse
Non-Words
In both our speech and our written communication, we constantly use words that really are not words. Some examples:
• Nother, as in “that’s a whole nother subject.” No, it’s a whole other subject.
• Alls (or, perhaps, all’s; not sure how it’s spelled), as in, “alls I know is . . .” It’s “all I know is.” I have no idea how this got started.
• Everyday as a replacement for every day, as in the sign pictured at right. Everyday is fine as an adjective, as in “this is an everyday mistake.” But if you mean “each and every day,” it’s two words: every day.
• Irregardless, as in “I’ll vote for him, irregardless of whether he’s honest.” And yes, the word is in the dictionary, but it’s classified as “nonstandard.” The correct word is regardless.
• Can not, as in “I can not believe he ate that.” It’s one word: cannot. This is a common Facebook mistake.
• Alot, as in “she likes him alot.” It’s two words. Also common on Facebook.
• Workout as a verb, as in “let’s workout.” That’s the noun; the verb is two words—work out.
Whom: a Dying Word?
A reader asks that question, citing this headline from the Wilmington News Journal sports pages: “Who do you bet on…” That should be whom, since it’s the object of the preposition on. But I submit that whom not only is not dying, sometimes it’s used incorrectly by grammatically over-zealous writers.
Here’s an obvious mistake, from a recent online news service: “Mr. Smith was involved in an altercation with school personnel whom initially contacted the police.”
Then there is this less obvious example from an online grammar site: “He is a man whom I believe can do the job.” The writer chose whom, thinking it was the object of believe. But rearrange the sentence to “He is a man whom can do the job, I believe,” and it’s obvious that the proper word is who.
Department of Redundancies Dept.
• Gayle King, one of the anchors on CBS This Morning, called the new royal baby’s name (Archie) “an unexpected surprise.” A surprise, by definition, is unexpected.
That’s every day!
• Dan Patrick doubles down: As I mentioned in a recent column, the more I listen to Patrick’s eponymous sports talk show, the more often he appears here. Recently, he scored a Department of Redundancies Dept. item by referring to his “fellow co-workers at ESPN.” As an adjective, fellow means “belonging to the same class or group.” A few days later, Dan said of another talk show host: “He text me the other night.” Like many people, he thinks text is the past tense of text. It’s texted—simple.
• Reader Sue Fuhrmann submits this from columnist Adam Taylor in the Washington Post: “But there are an alliance of countries who may be more sympathetic to the idea…” As Sue points out, the verb should be is since it links with the singular alliance, not the plural countries.
• Reader Louise Lanahan says the Maisie Dobbs books by Jacqueline Winspear teach her “about an era of which I know little, they are good stories, and they are well written and edited.” Except, she notes, for the mistaken use of there’s where there are should be used, in sentences like this: “There’s quite a few people still here.” This is a frequent mistake in the media, but it should never appear in well-edited books. If Winspear had not used the contraction and instead wrote “there is quite a few people still here,” she probably would’ve seen her mistake.
• Andrea Mandell, in her USA TODAY review of Wine Country, wrote that the movie “is emblematic of just about any group of ride-or-die friends who come together after living apart for awhile.” That’s a while. Awhile—one word—is an adverb, whereas a while is a noun preceded by an indefinite article. One hint: if for precedes it, go with a while.
Judy Tribbey, of Morton Grove, Illinois, was one of three readers who pointed out that, contrary to what we said in the June column, there should be no comma after Grazie in the phrase “Grazie mille,” which means “a thousand thanks” in Italian. No excuse. Brain freeze?
Word of the Month
Pronounced ZEER-ik, it’s an adjective meaning of, characterized by, or adapted to an extremely dry habitat.
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War On Words
Written By Bob Yearick
The copy editor of Out & About, Bob Yearick retired from DuPont in 2000 after 34 years as an editor and writer. Since “retiring,” Bob has written articles for Delaware Today, Main Line Today and other publications. His sports/suspense novel, Sawyer, was published in 2007. His grammar column, “The War on Words,” is one of the most popular features in O&A. A compilation of the columns was published in 2011. He has won the Out & About short story contest as well as many awards in the annual Delaware Press Association writing contest.
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St Denis, Bishop of Paris
Saint Denys or Denis is a westernisation of the Latin, Dionysius. According to Saint Gregory of Tour’s book ‘Historia Francorum’ Denis was one of seven bishops sent to Gaul by the Bishop of Rome during the reign of the Emperor Deccius. Their mission was to extend the spread of the Gospel in that mostly-pagan area.
While most of the bishops were sent to major settlements, St Denis was assigned to the small, remote pagan town of Lutetia, which later grew to become the city of Paris. He and his companions settled outside the town in a house given to him by a convert, where the few Christians could meet in secret. Soon, through the holy bishop's grace-filled preaching and his many miracles, Christianity grew rapidly.
A fierce persecution of Christians swept through Gaul, and many of the faithful were abused, tortured or put to death. Saint Denis, fearless of danger and heedless of his own old age, travelled among the Christians, visiting the prisoners and encouraging all to remain firm in their confession of Christ.
Dates are a little vague but during the years of persecution of Christians by Roman emperor Decius in 251 or Valerian in 258, Denis was arrested along with several companions, and was tortured without pity. Whilst he was publicly hanging on a cross, he preached to the onlookers of the mystery of Christ's Passion.
Taken back to prison, he celebrated the holy Eucharist for the last time, enveloped in a heavenly light. He and a host of other Martyrs were then beheaded on a hill, now called Montmartre in their memory. Before the French Revolution, the Kings and Queens of France were buried in the Basilica of Saint Denis in the town, now Northern Parisian suburb, which was named after him.
Saint Denis is allegedly the first Bishop of Paris, a Christian martyr and a patron saint of France. The feast day for him and his martyred companions is celebrated on 3rd October in the Western Church.
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Sharon Thesen on Re-Wilding (Re-Worlding)
In the year 2001, after the tragic events of that September, and only about five years under my belt as a curator/facilitator of events featuring visiting poets, I had the good fortune to organize a visit by legendary poet, anthologist, essayist, Jerome Rothenberg. (You can hear my interview with him here, conducted at the time of his visit to Auburn, WA, where SPLAB was then located.)
But one of the main things that lingered from his visit is his telling someone close to me that he: “expected a community of peers” to be a part of the visit, but all he: “saw was Paul.” Sure, there were workshop participants and people attending the reading. There were old friends that checked in with him and took him to dinner while I had to work, and other folks. But the human infrastructure that helped enable the visit was lacking. I know what you are thinking, such is the condition of a place like Auburn, Washington, the former Slaughter, and a place where I once joked that “the only culture in the town could be found in the dairy section of Safeway.”
It has taken years to work on the source of this inability to gather like-minded people who get the depth of my vision and seek to extend it. So the recent success of the 3rd Cascadia Poetry Festival is something I am going to savor for a while. And perhaps it is working with Canadian-Cascadians, and their legendary humility (as Canadians) that is a huge part of that, I don’t know. I LOVE the NHL tradition of the handshake line after every playoff series is over and I can’t but help compare this to the enmity I see in the average NBA series. That the Blackhawks of my hometown of Chicago were Stanley Cup Champions for the third year in six made watching that ritual sweeter for me last night.
So, my ongoing gratitude goes to the Nanaimo local organizing committee for making CPF3 the huge success it was, but also to people like Sharon Thesen. Her presentation on the Rewilding Poetry (Eco-Poetry in Cascadia) panel is something to consider deeply and begin to understand not only poetry from here, but the culture from here so that we may deepen our own experience as humans. She has sussed the current situation in North American poetry quite ably and this paragraph illustrates that:
Sharon Thesen (Click on photo for link to essay.)
“By “the world” I mean the public world, the world we share in common. We are encouraged to think, however, that such commonality is a socially constructed fiction. We do not share a world, it seems to say, but rather there is a “we” that excludes others, a “we” to whom all wealth, power, and security are owed. The communities we belong to are communities of tastes and brands. As we cling more and more to our finely parsed identities, what we take to be the world is more and more a totality of fractalled and fracked surfaces. The ground opened by poetry, on the other hand—by the world-making activity of poeisis—restores us both to the world and to one another. The late Robin Blaser, who was very much concerned about the disappearance of the public world, as he thought along the lines suggested by Hannah Arendt’s work on totalitarianism, noted, “The public world has to do with the depths beneath the surfaces in which each simple, separate [and I would say “innocent” and “wild”] person swims—the rhythmic relationships by which one can notice that the surface is violent.” None of this has escaped the notice of poetry. Young poets today must write in such a vast and slippery territory, including the world-vaporizing currents of both neoliberalism and academic suspicion of imagination and spirituality (unless safely ensconsed within indigenous methodologies).”
Here you can see the whole panel at which she delivered this essay:
You can see her read her own work here:
And her phrase: “academic suspicion of imagination and spirituality.” Wow. Perhaps Diane diPrima never imagined it would be poets, academic or otherwise that we’d have to worry about, but there it is and maybe diPrima did have some sense. For it is imagination which allows us to have compassion, is the act we engage in when we consider how it would be for “them.” How much in the world today suffers from lack of empathy, lack of imagination? Trevor Carolan, another Canadian poet living and working in Cascadia says compassion is one of the qualities of the best of Cascadian poetry. Not that it is missing in poetry from other bioregions, but our proximity to Asia, as part of the Pacific Rim, our proximity to wilderness much more so that most bioregions on this continent (and surely those with any significant population), and the fact that Indigenous culture here survived more than elsewhere on the continent, these all seem to me to be factors ratifying Carolan’s theory, but that exposes my biases.
Here we see again some very clear thinking, very relevant to our time politically and culturally and few south of the 49th parallel have ever heard the name Sharon Thesen. Yes, she is one of 89 poets in Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia. This is the kind of material that defines the Cascadia Poetry Festival and related activities and that is, to me, what success looks like. Thank you Sharon.
About Splabman
Paul Nelson is founder of SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) in Seattle, the Cascadia Poetry Festival and the August POetry POstcard Fest (PoPo). He wrote a collection of essays, Organic Poetry & a serial poem re-enacting the history of Auburn, WA, A Time Before Slaughter (shortlisted for a 2010 Genius Award by The Stranger.) He’s interviewed Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Wanda Coleman, Anne Waldman, Sam Hamill, Robin Blaser, Nate Mackey, Eileen Myles, George Bowering, Diane di Prima, Brenda Hillman, George Stanley, Joanne Kyger & many Cascadia poets, has presented his poetry and poetics in London, Brussels, Qinghai and Beijing, China, Lake Forest, Illinois and other places & writes an American Sentence every day. www.PaulENelson.com
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1 Response to Sharon Thesen on Re-Wilding (Re-Worlding)
Susan McCaslin says:
I love Sharon’s talk. Good to hear again about Robin Blaser’s sense of the “disappearance of the public world” via Hannah Arendt.
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On the Campus Halftime at Princeton
By Angela Wu ’12
Published in the February 24, 2010 Issue
During intersession, opportunities to reflect and serve
Participants in the third annual Halftime Retreat — “a midterm assessment” for sophomores.
Courtesy Thomas Dunne
Not all students traveled home for intersession at the end of January: Sixteen sophomores spent time reflecting on their Princeton experience during the third annual Halftime Retreat, while about 180 students volunteered in Princeton and Trenton as part of a new community-service program.
Halftime Retreat is “a midterm assessment,” said Thomas Dunne, associate dean of undergraduate students, who led the gathering at the Carmel Retreat Center in Mahwah, N.J. “The goal is to encourage students, both individually and in groups, to reflect on their Princeton experience thus far — and to use those reflections to identify plans for the remainder of their time at Princeton.”
Working with alumni, faculty, and other administrators, the sophomores took part in journaling exercises, group discussions, and activities that focused on contemplation of academic and personal goals.
“The retreat gave me an opportunity to take a step back and consider my thoughts, expectations, and future plans together from a relaxed and thoughtful standpoint,” said Lewis Kerwin ’12.
The retreat was also an opportunity for sophomores to meet new people in their class through an “in-depth experience,” much like the Outdoor Action camping trip is for freshmen, Dunne said.
“I stay in close touch with many of the people who attended, and am lucky to have some among my absolute best friends at Princeton,” said Henry Barmeier ’10, a Rhodes scholar who attended the retreat two years ago.
The weeklong community-service program, called Inter-Action, was organized by the Pace Center, the University’s civic-engagement hub. The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) sponsored the program after a referendum vote to support service projects with funds initially designated for a fall lawnparties concert.
Inter-Action gave many students their first chance to become involved with community organizations like the Rescue Mission of Trenton and the Mercer Street Friends Food Bank. One group joined in renovations of the aging Trenton YWCA building.
“I felt embarrassed that as a student, I’ve lived in Mercer County for a year and a half now and know almost nothing about Princeton or Trenton,” said Alexis Morin ’12.
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How to Cite Images in PowerPoint
How to Cite a Drawing in MLA Style
How to Cite a Museum Work of Art
Gerri Blanc Updated July 19, 2017
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When writing reports and essays during your high school and college years, you may be required to perform some research. Often, you have to cite the sources within a "Works Cited" page, a bibliography or footnotes. Though you may have the basic citation style down for things likes books and newspapers, there are several less-traditional resources you may not know how to cite. Citing works of art in a museum may be one of them. Luckily, citing these particular references takes as much time and effort as citing the more traditional references.
Citing in MLA Style
Discover some important information about the artist to be used in your Works Cited page. You want to find out the artist's full name, the title of the artwork, the year the artwork was created and the museum's name and location.
Create your citation entry for the artwork by listing the information you found in the following arrangement: Artist's Last Name, First Name. The Title of the Artwork (in italics). The Year Artwork was Created. Name of Museum, Location of Museum.
Indent all lines by an inch after the very first line in your entry. Place your entry on the Works Cited page according to alphabetical order.
Citing in Chicago Style
Find some information on the artwork. This includes the artist's full name, the title of his piece, the medium he used to make the work (oil, watercolor, etc.) the date it was created, and the museum's name and city.
Organize the information in a citation entry in the following order: Artist's Last Name, First Name. "Title of Artwork," medium, c. Year of Creation (Name of Museum, City).
Place the entry in your footnotes or end notes according to the order in which you presented in within that page. For instance, if you cited the work of art first on the page, you would number the entry "1." then follow it with other references you cited after it.
Citing in APA Style
Figure out the following information concerning the work of art: the artist's full name, the type of artist she was (painter, sculptor, etc.), the year the work was created, the title of the artwork and the type of work (such as Impressionist) the piece falls under.
List the information you found in a citation entry to be used in your References page. Organize it in the following order: Artist's Last Name, First Initial., (Type of Artist). (Year of Creation). Title of Artwork [Type of Work].
List your entry within your References page according to alphabetical order. Indent any lines following the first line in your entry by one inch.
Blanc, Gerri. "How to Cite a Museum Work of Art." , https://penandthepad.com/cite-museum-work-art-7329413.html. Accessed 19 January 2020.
Blanc, Gerri. (n.d.). How to Cite a Museum Work of Art. . Retrieved from https://penandthepad.com/cite-museum-work-art-7329413.html
Blanc, Gerri. "How to Cite a Museum Work of Art" accessed January 19, 2020. https://penandthepad.com/cite-museum-work-art-7329413.html
If the location of the museum is apparent in its name, you do not have to write out the city of the museum in your citation.
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Gerri Blanc began her professional writing career in 2007 and has collaborated in the research and writing of the book "The Fairy Shrimp Chronicles," published in 2009. Blanc holds a Bachelor of Arts in literature and culture from the University of California, Merced.
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How to Cite Authors with First, Middle & Last Names in APA
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Rocco Pendola Updated November 22, 2016
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The American Psychological Association notes that APA format allows writers and researchers to organize their work in such a way that readers can easily find key information when reviewing it. APA format provides uniformity to the presentation of statistics, tables, figures, headings, subheadings, punctuation and abbreviations, according to the APA style website. APA format is best known for guiding the in-text and reference list documentation of sources.
In-Text Citations
Follow APA style's author-date system for citing sources in the text of your document. By listing the author's last name and date of publication next to--or close to--the information you have borrowed from someone else, you not only credit that source, but you direct your reader to the corresponding full-length citation in your reference list.
Enclose the complete citation information in parentheses when it appears at the end of a sentence. Follow this example, adapted from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL):
A majority of infections occurred due to unsanitary conditions (Jones, 1999).
Place the date in parentheses when including the author's name as part of your sentence, as shown below.
Jones (1999) points out that most infections occur due to unsanitary conditions.
Use the word "and" to separate the names of two authors within the text of your document. Purdue's OWL advises using an ampersand when enclosing their names in parentheses. For example:
(Jones & McCoy, 1999)
List all authors the first time you cite a source with three to five authors. Use the phrase "et al." for all subsequent citations, according to Purdue's OWL:
(Jones et al., 1999)
Use "et al." for all citations where there are six or more authors for a source.
Reference List Citations
Alphabetize your reference list by the author's last name followed by the first name. The second line of each entry should be indented one-half inch. Double-space the text in your reference list.
List the last name followed by initials for works with three to seven authors. If a work has more than seven authors, list the first six followed by an ellipses after the sixth author. After the ellipses, insert the final author of the source:
Jones, R., Johnson, T., McCoy, S., Sandy, T.; Montgomery, C., Bellings, A... & Jones, D. S. (1999).
Start with the earliest publication date when you have multiple articles written by the exact same author or set of authors.
Pendola, Rocco. "How to Cite Sources in APA Format." , https://penandthepad.com/cite-sources-apa-format-6085254.html. Accessed 19 January 2020.
Pendola, Rocco. (n.d.). How to Cite Sources in APA Format. . Retrieved from https://penandthepad.com/cite-sources-apa-format-6085254.html
Pendola, Rocco. "How to Cite Sources in APA Format" accessed January 19, 2020. https://penandthepad.com/cite-sources-apa-format-6085254.html
If a source does not have an author, cite it in-text by using the first word or two of its title. In the reference list, begin the citation with the work's complete title.
If an organization is the author, use it in place of a person's name both in-text and in your reference list. If the organization is well-known (Purdue's OWL uses Mothers Against Drunk Driving [MADD] as an example), list it in its complete form the first time you cite it in-text. Subsequent citations can use the acronym. In your reference list, include the full name of the organization in lieu of a person's name.
Electronic sources and documents other than books or articles are handled in the same fashion. Cite the source using the author's name if available. If the organization is the author, use it. Resort to using the title of the work if no author or organization is listed.
For details on using APA format and special situations, get the latest edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, available at most libraries and from most book retailers.
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A wearable new technology moves brain monitoring from the lab to the real world
The portable EEG created by PIK Professor Michael Platt and postdoc Arjun Ramakrishnan has potential applications from health care to sports performance.
Postdoc Arjun Ramakrishnan (left) and Penn Integrates Knowledge professor Michael Platt created a wearable EEG akin to a Fitbit for the brain, with a set of silicon and silver nanowire sensors embedded into a head covering like the headband seen here. The new technology led to the formation of a company called Cogwear, LLC.
Imagine if a coach could know which moments of competition a certain player might peak, or if a truck driver had objective data telling him his body and mind were too tired to continue driving.
Traditionally, measuring alertness or mental fatigue requires interrupting a natural moment to intervene in an artificial setting. But Penn neuroscientist Michael Platt and postdoc Arjun Ramakrishnan have created a tool to use outside the lab, a wearable technology that monitors brain activity and sends back data without benching a player or asking a trucker to pull over.
For the work they wanted to do, Ramakrishnan (above) and Platt sought a high-quality, portable EEG that, once in place, didn’t disturb the user. When they weren’t satisfied with what was available commercially, they built one themselves.
The platform is akin to a Fitbit for the brain, with a set of silicon and silver nanowire sensors embedded into a head covering like a headband, helmet, or cap. The device, a portable electroencephalogram (EEG), is intentionally unobtrusive to allow for extended wear, and, on the backend, powerful algorithms decode the brain signals the sensors collect. Though it’s still in the early stages, the technology has potential applications from health care to sports performance and customer engagement.
Building a working prototype
“This all grew out of our desire as a group—and my strong conviction—to get neuroscience out of the lab and into the hands of people who could use it to reach their full potential,” says Platt, a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with appointments in the School of Arts and Sciences, Perelman School of Medicine, and Wharton School. “We naively thought that we could just take advantage of current market-ready solutions that were out there.”
But the more options the team tested, the more obvious it became that nothing was quite what they wanted. Most lacked high-quality sensors overall or had sensors whose quality dropped quickly once the wearer began moving. In early 2017, they decided to build their own portable EEG, getting a boost from a National Science Foundation-funded seed grant allocated by Penn’s Singh Center for Nanotechnology.
“We struggled for six or seven months to make a working sensor,” says Ramakrishnan, who has been part of the Platt Labs for three years. “We finally had our first working prototype in December 2017.”
A prototype of the sensor technology (left), intended to be worn comfortably in most types of head coverings.
The successful version, designed in part by research engineer Naz Belkaya, was made of a combination of silver and a silicon-like material called polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Silver is flexible, sensitive, and conductive; PDMS is stretchy and can bend, properties similar to skin. Placing the PDMS on top of the silver nanowires made the product essentially antimicrobial and prevented the need to use gel to adhere it to the skin. This meant the sensors could comfortably stay in place for long periods of time.
With what they felt was a strong sensor technology in hand, Platt and Ramakrishnan began talking with PCI Ventures, a branch of the Penn Center for Innovation aimed at guiding University faculty through the process of starting a company. The licensing team at PCI helped them file a provisional patent for the product (originally called NanoNeuroScope), and Cogwear, LLC, was born in May 2018. In early 2019, the company hired a CEO, Patrick Wood, with the objective to figure out how to scale up production and which direction to aim first.
“There are huge numbers of potential applications,” Wood says. “That’s really a wonderful starting point for a company. We have great momentum.”
Sports performance and engagement
Platt and colleagues have already made strides testing their EEG technology in the sports arena. During the spring of 2019, a team led by Platt Labs postdoc Scott Rennie worked with Penn Rowing to study group chemistry, trust, communication, and brain synchrony—crucial for an activity that hinges on coordinated movement.
In a gym, the researchers put the sensors on the athletes, then analyzed them rowing on single, randomly selected machines; next to teammates but on unlinked machines; and on linked machines. EEG and heartrate readings showed that physiological syncing was unsurprisingly highest when teammates maneuvered on tethered machines and nearly as high when they trained next to each other untethered.
A professional soccer player from a team in the United Kingdom participates in a drill while wearing the sensors.
Rowing isn’t the only sport for which brain data may be useful. This summer, the researchers worked with a professional soccer team in the United Kingdom to evaluate the players’ focus during training drills, susceptibility to stress under pressure, and ability to predict and outwit opponents. An upcoming study with Penn Wrestling will measure fatigue’s influence on the neural signals underlying decision-making and on communication between wrestler and coach. Wood sees strong potential for a numbers-driven sport like baseball.
“You’ve got all players’ previous statistics, weight, dimension, all kinds of metrics, but you may need an additional data point about how mentally fit they are to withstand the pressure of standing at the plate about to hit the ball,” Wood says. “You may need to know more about each player before you can start comparing them.”
Beyond sports, Platt and team are testing the technology’s ability to determine engagement in group activities like a haunted house at Eastern State Penitentiary or a business conference put on by an enterprise solution company like SAP. “We did a brief pilot study in Las Vegas measuring brain activity and heart rate for people walking through an SAP trade show,” Platt says. “We found that heart rate didn’t vary at all; it didn’t move. But measures of engagement from EEG data showed really interesting peaks and troughs. For the most part, people were not very engaged, brain-wise, except when talking to other people.”
This past May, the researchers conducted a larger study with SAP. For a focus group attending a conference, Platt’s team found that brain data helped predict which booths and activities people would visit. Much like with the pilot, social interactions seemed to maximize engagement.
“The current gold standard is emailing attendees a survey after the conference, which is a poor measure of engagement,” he explains. “We already have exciting results showing social interactions move the needle more than nonsocial ones and that we can, perhaps, make other predictions based on brain activity.”
This summer, researchers from the Platt Labs worked with a professional soccer team in the United Kingdom to evaluate the players’ focus during training drills, susceptibility to stress under pressure, and ability to predict and outwit opponents.
A future in health care and beyond
Down the line, Platt and Ramakrishnan say they could see the health care industry employing this technology both for physical applications like in-home seizure monitoring for children and for mental health, to watch for changes in state of mind that might indicate anxiety or depression, for instance.
“About 40% of college-going students are anxious or depressed in the U.S. This is a staggering number,” Ramakrishnan says. The challenge is that people aren’t often self-aware regarding their own mental health situation, he adds. Backed by a Brain & Behavior Research Foundation grant, the Platt Labs team is working on a take-home kit that includes games and the portable EEG, which could objectively track several days of a person’s emotional peaks and valleys. An already-completed lab component showed that Platt’s team could identify participant levels of anxiety with about 84% accuracy using novel algorithms that combined EEG-based features with heart rate variability and skin conductance.
“This is the direction in which health care is going in general,” Ramakrishnan says. “There is a lot of promise for this sort of approach.”
All of the technology applications the research team has so far tested have focused on large-scale institutional use. But eventually any individual might be able to purchase an EEG product centered on the sensor technology, an addition to the ecosystem of individualized data-collection tools like smartwatches and sleep-monitoring apps already on the market.
“At its core, the advance we’re making here is the sensor technology, but in reality we leverage all the expertise we’ve developed over the last 25 years in terms of understanding and decoding brain signals,” Platt explains. “Then we can leverage those signals to make predictions about performance, user experience, customer engagement, all sorts of things. That’s the crux of actually monitoring the brain; it allows us insights into function or dysfunction that people can’t or won’t self-report.”
Michael Platt is the James S. Riepe University Professor in the Department of Psychology in the School of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Neuroscience in the Perelman School of Medicine, and the Marketing Department in the Wharton School.
Arjun Ramakrishnan and Scott Rennie are postdoctoral researchers in the Platt Labs. Naz Belkaya is a research engineer in the Platt Labs. Patrick Wood is the CEO of Cogwear, LLC.
Penn Center for Innovation team members who participated in the development of Cogwear include Neal Lemon, who helped Platt’s team file provisional and non-provisional patents; Ryan Mendoza, who helped launch Cogwear; and Jordana Barmish, who acted as the company’s interim CEO for Cogwear’s first nine months.
Funding for the project came from National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant NNCI-1542153; the P&S Fund and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation; FabNet™ award sponsored by Ben Franklin Technology Partners; Penn Health-Tech; and an NSF-funded Penn I-Corps grant.
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News from the world of Maths
Mathscon: Reshaping perceptions of mathematics
We're looking forward to taking part in the next Mathscon – Farheen Zehra tells us what we can expect!
Tools made of light win 2018 Nobel prize in physics
Revolutionary laser tools that have changed our lives have won the Nobel prize in physics.
An interview with Ivan Smith
We talk to Ivan Smith, invited lecturer at the ICM 2018, about his work and what he likes about the Congress.
An interview with Nalini Joshi
We talk to Nalini Joshi about her mathematics, the International Mathematical Union, and her work in supporting women in mathematics.
An interview with June Barrow-Green
We talk to June Barrow-Green about the history of women in mathematics.
An interview with Jack Thorne
We talk to Jack Thorne about his lecture at the ICM 2018 and his work "faceting the gem stone" in number theory.
Leelavati Prize 2018: Ali Nesin
Ali Nesin has been awarded the 2018 Leelavati Prize for creating a mathematical paradise for Turkish students and the world's mathematicians.
The ICM 2022: Bringing nations together
We talk to two of the organisers of the ICM 2022 in Saint Petersburg.
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MY STORY: Wolf DeVoon
1) Why did you choose to self-publish and what were your expectations?
It was a last straw, last ditch effort to archive my work. Too many web domains were robots.txt-blocked or expired or banned by ODP and Google. And it bugged me for two decades that everyone else had paper and ink, except me. Twenty years is a long time to be anguished.
2) Why did you select your specific publisher?
Lulu was cheap, and I couldn't justify throwing big money at a small target. My expectation of sales in bookstores is precisely zero.
3) How is it going so far? Are you achieving your goals?
I published three books to see what the POD process was like. I discovered that it is basically impossible for me to do anything without help. And it took two disasters to find a really excellent text formatting service. I sent a few hardcover copies to people I respect. I'm still mulling what to do with my sci-fi novel. Perhaps burn it. Or print one copy for -- who? Me? My kid? William Morris?
4) What advice would you give a person who has completed their manuscript and is considering self-publishing?
I'm all for it. I encouraged a friend to self-publish recently, despite the fact that he's not very creative and I particularly disliked his book project. I suggested that he send review copies to area celebs, magazines, newspapers, etc, and visit bookstores to set up book signings. I did this with a traditionally published book ten years ago, and it works. Authors have to fight for recognition. Plug it everywhere you can. I'm not even sure it matters what your book is about. You need to sell yourself.
Wolf DeVoon
author of "First Feature" (clothbound, 189 pp., Lulu 2007)
Compelling, candidly realistic story of ambition and harrowing odds of failure. Born to be a filmmaker, young Robert Whitney fights his way to the coveted, sordid prize of success in Hollywood. Adult sexual situations, graphic language. http://stores.lulu.com/wolfdevoon
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More on the Chronicle / Blurb thang.
The story so far:
1) A Newsweek article stated Chronicle (a third-party publisher) was going to refer authors they rejected to Blurb (a self-publishing provider) and receive monetary benefits as a result.
2) This spread to forums and blogs and was widely criticized.
3) A Joseph Ternes, representing Chronicle, posted to many blogs saying that monetary benefits were not in fact part of the deal.
4) Most bloggers thought this made the recommendations acceptable.
I, however, was not one of them and I would like to explain why. From a customer's point of view, all books are pretty much the same whether published via a third party publisher or self-publishing provider. From an author's point of view however these two business models are very different indeed and not interchangeable.
If we take as our model a mainstream press like Chronicle the writer's goal in approaching them is to place a book with wide appeal on the mass market, through bookstores. Successful self-publishers have a range of different goals. They may wish to maintain firm control of the work for artistic or philosophical reasons. Or they may want a swift and easy book production process because their book is topical or their medical tolerance for stress is low. They may have a work that is not suitable for the mainstream due to content, style or – let’s be honest – quality. They may need the book as part of a general small business, further monetizing their services, products or expertise.
If self-publishing is to develop as a valid business model authors need to enter it knowing which of these explicit reasons they are motivated by and why they think self-publishing is the best way to satisfy it.
Look at this way:
Let’s say you want to knit. You try to join a knitting circle and take some of you knitting. The most esteemed senior member of the circle says: "having you considered taking up pottery?" It is possible the novice knitter has never considered potting and will indeed enjoying potting, and that the local potting co-operative is truly excellent, but is this really the message being given?
In brief although I do not believe Chronicle is doing a malicious thing for money, I would still argue they are doing an ill-advised thing for [insert your preferred reason here]. The mere mention of Blurb from a person the author presumably holds in high esteem carries a message that the author needs to change their goals and implies a reason why.
If a person wants to be third-party published, if those are their goals, that is what they should do. They should continue to try and do it until that hope is either extinguished or their whole approach to writing undergoes a marked transformation and they discover their real goal is more consistent with self-publishing.
My conclusion:
Chronicle is entirely the correct authority to say your book is not right for Chronicle.
Chronicle is entirely over-stepping their bounds to in any way suggest or imply your book is not right for third-party publishing in general, and is right for self-publishing.
Because, as I said, even if they have a perfect understanding of the book this choice is not about the book – it is about the goals of the author. And the author should be encouraged to explore those goal him or herself without a person of considerable authority (to writers with third-party publishing goals) endorsing a specific company that operates on entirely different business model. And authors that embark upon self-publishing with the wrong expectations only end up participating in the growing backlash against its typically more modest and nuanced achievements.
Please note the special Halloween open call. See left column.
Begins With a Single Step
The POD People already have our regular features 'My Story' (for authors to discuss how self-publishing is working for them) and 'Anatomy of a Purchase' (for readers to describe why they bought a self-published book). We would like to add to this the feature 'B egins with a Single Step'.
BWASS will be a frank and full reaction to an author's main online point of sale. All you should provide is the genre, and a link to the website you see as you main entry point for customers (own site, Lulu, Amazon, blog--I leave that up to you). Email this to PODpeep at gmail.com with the title 'BWASS:[genre].
In return a reviewer interested in that genre will give a full account of the impression they got from the site and of the book, and anything that put them off or made a poor impression.
Who knows, if you did a very good job they might request a review copy!
NEWS: File under 'a really bad idea'.
From Newsweek
"Chronicle Books plans to unveil what it says is a pioneering "mutual referral" deal with the Silicon Valley self-publisher Blurb, known for its print-on-demand online bookstore and glossy photography books. Chronicle will refer unwanted authors to Blurb, who will return an undisclosed cut of the earnings generated from the new accounts. Blurb says that while it's not uncommon for self-publishers to sell promising manuscripts up the chain to larger publishers, this is the first deal to send submissions in the other direction: from the discard pile of a traditional publishing house to an online bookstore where authors pay to have their books printed and sent off into the real world.
It looks to be a win-win arrangement."
...Much like 'journalists' writing stories based on new releases without making any attempt at a serious analysis. If a writer submits to a traditional press, they should get a yes or a no, period. If and when they decide to self-publish they should choose the best printer and distributor for their purpose. A traditional press taking kick-backs for referrals to a self-publishing service is not a win-win situations. It is, in fact, a win-win-lose situation for Chronicle, Blurb and the writer, respectively.
Like any true blogger I like to move things around from time to time. Any thoughts on the new look? Is it displaying correctly?
Whale Meat
TITLE: Whale Meat
ISBN: none (short story)
POINT OF SALE:Lulu
Science fiction writer Jeff Duntemann has written a number of short stories over the years. Most of these exist only in faded copies of magazines, available (if at all) on eBay auctions. Unlike most writers, Jeff is trying something different to get these stories out, namely a “Gumball Ebook Network.” Basically, this is a simple to implement website that would allow people to buy content in small amounts for small money. I’ve been calling it a “digital jukebox;” put money in, get good stuff out.
Jeff recently took another concrete step towards developing that Gumball Network, by releasing his fantasy short story Whale Meat in e-book format on Lulu.com It’s Jeff’s only fantasy story (or so I recall from his email to me) and a very good read. (Full disclosure – Jeff reviewed and liked my novel The Mars Run)
First, a word about formats. Jeff is selling Whale Meat for $1. He gets 80 cents, and Lulu gets twenty. For your money, you get a zip file with the story in several formats (PDF, RTF, and a couple of others) as well as a license to store, use, read etc. the story on any electronic device “based in your household.” There’s no Digital Rights Management (DRM) overhead, just plain files.
The story itself is a fantasy, set in (then) present-day Chicago, and stars Yonnie and Mara, a pair of witches. (Back when the story was written, four “Eisenhowers” could get a dinner meal for two.) Witches are very long-lived, and economic outcasts, relying on charity and their wits. Mara is also pregnant with Yonnie’s child James, and will be for several more years. This requires a furtive lifestyle. To make matters worse, she needs whale meat, which is damned hard to find in Chicago in a cold March. As I said, it’s an interesting story, in which both witchcraft and calculus, the “mathematics of change” have critical roles to play.
Jeff tells me that the initial impetus for the story was his struggles with calculus as an undergraduate, a problem I share with the author. At any rate, I highly recommend Whale Meat and wish Jeff the best with his experiments in digital jukeboxes.
Chris Gerrib is a resident of Villa Park, IL and Director of Technology for a Chicago-area bank. Chris is the author of the science fiction novel The Mars Run. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois and Southern Illinois University and is president-elect of the Rotary Club of Darien, IL.
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Labels: 9/10, Chris Gerrib, Fantasy and Sci Fi, review
From Self-Published to Big House Success -- Part Two
Continued from this post. The following is excerpted from the promotional materials for 'Rashi's Daughters, Book II: Miriam'.
Goldinger encouraged Anton to hire a publicist whose areas of expertise included Jewish books. Most important, she convinced her that without a major distributor, "Rashi's Daughters" would never get into bookstores or libraries. Together, they produced a marketing plan thorough enough for Biblio to accept little Banot Press for distribution.
Marketing was key to Anton's success. "Jewish women readers are hungry for books that feature Jewish heroines, especially historical ones, and I knew where to find that niche audience: synagogues, women's organizations like Hadassah, and book clubs," says Anton. She started with an appearance at the Women's Rabbinic Network conference. "Let's face it -- if I couldn't sell "Rashi's Daughters" to women rabbis, I might as well give up." While there, Anton sold copies to two-thirds of the attendees, and came away with their roster.
Next came a couple of Jewish groups' regional conventions, where she again sold copies to most of the people she spoke to, and left with another list of names and contact information. At the same time, her publicist was shipping out review copies to the major media and the Jewish press, in addition to leaders of Jewish book groups. Packets of information were sent to every single Jewish bookstore and Judiaca specialty shop in the country. "Then I hit the phone and computer, calling and emailing every organization I could find that might invite me to speak about Rashi, his daughters and medieval Jewish women," says Anton. She stressed that the lecture was free, since she was doing this to promote her book, and the invitations began rolling in.
The final part of the story will have to wait until tomorrow, I need to finish off my review to email into Forbidden Fruit. I enjoyed the book immensely! I may have to get hold of a copy of part one to review for POD People....
Any thoughts out there on Amazon's attempt to leap into the self-POD biz?
Authorhouse and iUniverse have officially merged under the banner of Author Solutions.
Labels: Authorhouse, iUniverse
The following is excerpted from publicity material provided to me with a review copy of 'Rashi's Daughter Book II: Miriam' by Maggie Anton (Plume, an imprint of Penguin). 'Rashi's Daughter Book I: Joheved' is currently available on Amazon with a sales rank of #12,182. The review copy was sent to me due to my association with the e-zine Forbidden Fruit, not my association with the POD People.
Many 'self-published author makes good' stories are a total crock, but this one is rather interesting. I will post the first few paragraphs. If anyone is interested in the rest just let me know and I will type it out for you all.
From Self-Published to Big House Success
When Maggie Anton formed her own company to publish her first novel, she knew that self-published books carried a huge stigma. "I had spent five years writing the first volume of my 'Rashi's Daughters' trilogy and was working with a literary agent, but was frustrated with how long the process took," says Anton. The year 2005 marked the 900th anniversary of Rashi's death, and she wanted her novel to come out in time to take advantage of the interest she hoped this would generate within the Jewish community.
In early 2004 she began to investigate self-publishing, "just in case." She found that if she wanted her novel to be taken seriously by the literary world, it would have to come from a "real" publisher. Since the "real" publishers were dragging their feet, she decided to create her own publishing company instead. Anton says, "I chose the name Banot Press- Hebrew for 'daughters'- rather than the more obvious 'Anton Press,' because I wanted to maintain the illusion of a small California Press rather than a blatant self-publishing effort."
By the summer of 2004 she had a company name, a finished manuscript and an excellent author photo. The one things she didn't have was the expertise to produce a professional-looking book. So, just as she had hired a free-lance editor earlier, she decided to hire a book shepherd, Sharon Goldinger of Peoplespeak. Goldinger helped guide her through the publishing maze, showing her how to choose and work with the interior designer, cover design company, and printer for the first 3000 copies.
And this from Maggie Antone at Amazon: "I sold the series to Plume (a Penguin imprint) for six figures. Rashi's Daughters: Book Two - Miriam will hit the stores this week, and it's already ranked around 1000 on Amazon."
Do you want to hear more?
Anatomy of a Purchase
1) Which self-published book did you purchase?
The Confession of Piers Gaveston by Brandy Purdy, published through iUniverse.
2) How did you come across it?
I've been buying Edward II-related books on eBay from Brandy for a while, so when I learned that her own novel was coming out, I couldn't resist!
3) Did anything put you off the purchase?
No. The back cover copy made me want to read more.
4) What made you decide to buy the book?
I'm fascinated with this period of history. Besides that, one of the great things about historical fiction is seeing what different authors make of the same historical characters. Piers is a major character in my own novel, but his relationship with Edward II is treated very differently in Brandy's book. There's debate about the exact nature of their friendship--whether it was sexual, brotherly, or something in between--so there's a lot of room for interpretation. I especially liked the relationship between Gaveston and his young wife, Margaret--it's very touchingly portrayed.
by Susan Higginbotham
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Bainbridge city, schools getting connected
Jack Swanson, For The Sun — Sep 27th, 2003
Parts of Kitsap Public Utility District's magic glass pipeline to Bainbridge Island are in place, and the rest are on their way, officials said Friday.
KPUD's David Jones said parts of the district's high-capacity fiber-optic cable to downtown Winslow are already installed, and the rest will be completed during the next several weeks.
City and school district officials said Thursday night they have told the PUD they plan to use the cable. The actual connection, however, will be managed by an Internet service provider, and those contracts have not yet been completed.
"If we're going to do fiber, we need to do it in the next couple of months," said Randy Orwin, school district information systems manager. "We have asked the PUD for a definite date for when the service will be available, and they said they'd send us in writing what date that will be."
Orwin told the school board Thursday night that the district will save tens of thousands of dollars by signing an agreement soon to use the PUD cable because the PUD will provide connections directly to each school and other buildings.
If the PUD installs the cables before an agreement is made, the district will have to pay the cost of connecting the buildings to the cable, Orwin said.
Jones said the PUD plans to string its cable down Highway 305 from the Agate Pass Bridge to Day Road, then along Miller Road to New Brooklyn.
It will then go south to Madison Avenue to an intertie with Qwest's cable. Another cable will go north on Sportsman Club Road past Sakai Intermediate and Woodward Middle schools and then up North Madison to Wilkes Elementary School.
The new cable will provide wide-area networking for all of the school district's facilities except for Blakely Elementary School on the south end of the island, Orwin told the board.
"If we say we want to connect now, they will build a cable to Blakely as well," he said.
That will take place, however, sometime after work is complete on the connection to downtown Winslow, officials said.
The city of Poulsbo hooked up to the PUD's pipeline in June, and the North Kitsap School District is negotiating a contract with a service provider to hook up also.
The PUD and Qwest have signed an agreement to allow Qwest to provide services on the PUD's "backbone" as well, officials said. The intertie between the PUD line and Qwest's cable is crucial to both companies and their customers, Jones said. Together, the two systems provide a complete "circuit," allowing information flow in both directions. In the event either cable should fail, both systems can continue operating.
Jones said he is extremely pleased that the Bainbridge connection is finally coming together.
"It has been a long time," he said, "but the chips are starting to fall where we were hoping they would. But we gotta keep going. We're not yet where we want to be, but we're getting there."
Jack Swanson is a free-lance writer. Contact Lloyd Pritchett at 360-792-9205 or lpritchett@thesunlink.com.
Bainbridge moves forward on broadband
Kitsap Public Utility District's fiber-optic pipeline is coming to Bainbridge Island no matter what, a PUD spokesman told the island's school board. And when it does, the Bainbridge Island School District probably will use it, officials said. It may be later rather than ... [Read More...]
Construction of fiber-optics 'roadway' slowly moving forward
South Kitsap High School Sign Choir leader Rikki Leblanc, 17, center, rehearses a song in sign from the Disney animated movie "Tarzan" with other members in the school's commons. Staff photos by Larry Steagall Kitsap County's fiber optics network has been making slow but ... [Read More...]
ONE RINGY DINGY: QWest, HCTC to provide area with phone upgrade
Phone perks such as voice messaging, caller identification, and last-call return have been long sought-after in the area. Hood Canal Telephone Company had hoped sometime this year to deliver to the Belfair area many of the perks already enjoyed by their Union customers. ... [Read More...]
Schools ponder legality of using education funds for broadband
According to a survey taken a couple of years ago, Bainbridge Island has the highest saturation of Internet users in Kitsap County. But Poulsbo is about to skip past the island in a more important sphere -- ultra-high-speed access to the Internet through ... [Read More...]
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Commented Feb 13, 2009 on Google iPhone Sync at davextreme
Google iPhone Sync
I've played around with [Google's new sync services][1] for a few days now, and mostly it works well. Since I use [Google Apps][2] instead of regular Gmail I had to go into my administrator panel and turn it on first, then reload the mobile page a few times to get it to work. I've found three pro...
Happy to oblige. May not be back until Thanksgiving, but I'll shoot you a line.
Commented Oct 1, 2008 on Baltimore Comic-Con at davextreme
[DrOct][1] and I went to Baltimore on Saturday for the 9th Annual Baltimore Comic-Con. We decided not to get there too early, but didn't foresee the need to buy tickets online ahead of time. There are only three people selling tickets at the door, so we had to wait in line for 45 minutes before g...
Re: Batman, the crossover stories are nothing and I haven't been reading them. They stuck the RIP logo on 'tec and Robin but no key plot points happen there, just maybe some spillover stuff. Re: the obscure references, you're not missing anything that anyone was supposed to really get without the benefit of internet research, but mostly they're from Batman stories from the 50s. Basically he's cherrypicking crazy ideas from Silver Age books and bringing them forward, because he thinks superhero comics should be fun like they used to instead of depressing while simultaneously showing that there was some messed up stuff going on beneath the surface of those old stories. See here for more: http://geniusboyfiremelon.blogspot.com/search/label/m-bats Unrelated, check out this Batman silent movie mashup: http://geniusboyfiremelon.blogspot.com/2008/08/1920s-batman-arkham-after-midnight.html Re Final Crisis: it's pretty thick, and his storytelling style here is to be purposefully cryptic until a much later chapter when it will all (hopefully) fit together. He's also selectively skipping over stuff, like in issue three instead of showing us a big fight with The Flash, he skips over it and just shows a character reacting to what happened. He says in interviews this is because he finds the obligatory fight scenes boring, so he's just skipping over them to the interesting stuff. And you're right, since he gives the reader so little to go on there's no way most people can keep up unless they really know who all the characters are (and even then, he's just ignoring the events of Countdown, which was supposed to lead into Final Crisis but the writers screwed up the plot points they were supposed to lead up to). Again this is where I actually give DC props, because normally a company wouldn't publish such an inaccessible mess. If you go back and read old crossovers like Crisis on Infinite Earths, the characters are always calling each other by name really awkwardly and verbalizing things they all already know. They just decided to do away with that in Final Crisis, but it does lead to it being a huge mess to wade through.
Commented Aug 28, 2008 on Morrison's DC at davextreme
Morrison's DC
I have to hand it to DC Comics for having the guts to publish the comics they've been putting out lately. In a summer where parent company Warner Bros. released a widely successful Batman movie, one would have expected them to try to parlay that success by publishing some watered down, accessible...
On the other hand, they're doing a Cloverfield manga series.
Commented Jan 21, 2008 on Cloverfield ★★★★ io9 writes how... at davextreme
Cloverfield ★★★★ io9 writes how...
Cloverfield ★★★★ io9 writes how [Cloverfield is about September 11][1], which, well, it is. It uses the visual language of that disaster (giant clouds of dust, people filling the streets of Manhattan) to build its horror. Some viewers will probably be understandably unable to cope with that, bu...
I feel like a lot of the movie is based on the gimmick of the handheld camera. They'd need to come up with another gimmick I guess for a sequel? Another random group of people with a handi-cam wouldn't cut it.
Ah, here's the article I had read about how they were generalizing the conflict away from Religion: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/15-12/ps_compass Nathan: I noticed, too, that Mrs. Coulter has a statement in the movie that's something like "our ancestors did something bad" which is a substitute for a speech referring to Adam and Eve. Lord Asriel reprises it later in the book. Also, as in the book, the movie calls God "The Authority". In print you see it capitalized and it's obvious they're talking about a deity, but in the movie you can hear it to mean any authority. I don't really mind any of this. Movies are not book and it's okay for them to do different things. If they leaned too heavily on some of the themes in the book they could easily wind up doing the same things that made people hate the Matrix sequels.
Commented Dec 3, 2007 on The Golden Compass ★★★★ I've already seen... at davextreme
The Golden Compass ★★★★ I've already seen...
The Golden Compass ★★★★ I've already seen some "dust"-up about this movie's anti-religious themes, and I expect to see it kick into full gear this week before the film's official release. Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is unabashedly iconoclastic, but early on I read statements fr...
Should be fixed now, thanks.
Commented Nov 14, 2007 on I am, of course, legally required to link to... at davextreme
I am, of course, legally required to link to...
I am, of course, legally required to link to [this][v]. [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QNI3W8UB "YouTube - Cal Band- Video Game Show 2007" [v]: http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/uc-berkeley-band-subjects-sports-fans-to-game-music-322243.php "Clips: UC Berkeley Band Subjects Sports Fans To Game...
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Commented Sep 12, 2007 on an explosion of horrible, entropic freedom at WWdN: In Exile
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We have a new refrigerator. It's energy efficient, can hold an entire horse and a stick of butter, and is generally one of the more awesome "grown up" purchases Anne and I have made since we got married seven years ago. In addition to the awesome Futurama magnets that adorn its doors, it comes w...
Personally I use the "Old Phone" ring sounds. I used it on my previous phone and use it on my iPhone. I like that my phone ring sounds like a phone ringing. There's no mistaking it when there's other noise in the room.
Commented Sep 5, 2007 on Apple's releasing new stuff right now. You can... at davextreme
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Apple's releasing new stuff right now. You can read about it on [Engadget][1] and [Ars Technica][2]. The thing where they're going to charge for ringtones is bullshit. Clearly the iPhone's technology could just let you assign a ringtone from a song in your library. I understand that there's tons ...
I really enjoy these. Can you write up reviews of other shows, too, and maybe pretend you were in them and invent fake memories about shooting them?
Commented Nov 14, 2006 on New TNG story at TV Squad: Lonely Among Us at WWdN: In Exile
New TNG story at TV Squad: Lonely Among Us
My latest TNG recap is at TV Squad. This time, it's Lonely Among Us. Two alien races, the Antican and the Selay, wish to be admitted to the Federation, so they can get the discount card and the cool bumper sticker that comes with the welcome packet. But before they can join the club, they have t...
"Hey Wil, I used to work at Nick. I know exactly who you're talking about. His name is Don, and he's the most awesome security guy ever." Bizzare. I used to work in an office and we had a mailman like that. He'd come in in the morning and just brighten everyone's day, and his name is Don, too.
Commented Apr 20, 2006 on silently and back to me at WWdN: In Exile
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I had an audition for a voice over at Nickelodeon yesterday. The only problem is, I, uh, didn't know about it, because the details on the reading came via e-mail during a period of a couple days last week when all e-mail sent to me went flying off into the gamma quadrant of the Zarkon V Nebula. ...
What I like about TypePad is that it *doesn't* let me tinker too much. With MT, knowing that every little thing can be tweaked, I get tempted to spend too much time on that (and often screw everything up in the process).
Commented Mar 5, 2006 on mt with plugins vs. typepad: which do you prefer? at WWdN: In Exile
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Okay, I've rebuilt the entire old WWdN database, and made significant progress on the relaunch of WWdN:2.0. I owe a HUGE debt of gratitude to Mike Pusateri, who pulled the entire WWdN databse, pre-fuck-up-by-wil, including all the comments and everything, and put it into a 38MB text file for me ...
Go see Serenity. Seriously. It's one of the best pieces of Sci Fi I've seen lately. Also the film itself has a nice underdog story, and they need a big 2nd weekend to stay in sequel-greenlight contention. P.S. Glad you're liking TypePad. I like the tinkering Movable Type lets one do, but the simple elegance of TypePad really is something.
Commented Oct 6, 2005 on i think i’ll be a tough guy and i think i’ll be a punk at WWdN: In Exile
i think i’ll be a tough guy and i think i’ll be a punk
Several WWdN readers who have temporarily joined us here in exile (*wave*), wrote in this morning to inform me that I've earned a spot in another Joy Of Tech comic. Clicky for teh funnay. I haven't had time to see Serenity, yet. I was too busy to attend both of the screenings I was invited to, b...
Ditto on the TypePad love. I like MovableType because it lets me tinker and play and configure everything to my heart's content, but TypePad just makes everything so elegant and easy.
Commented Sep 30, 2005 on laundrytown at WWdN: In Exile
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A big problem with the upgrade was trying to switch from a SQLite to MySQL database. To do this, I had to export all my entries (easy) and create an empty MySQL database (also easy). Then I need to reconfigure movable type to look at the MySQL database, instead of the SQLite databse (super easy)...
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Job fair Jobs for young people
Created on Friday, 29 March 2019 14:22
March 29, 2019 in the regional Kazakh drama theatre named after H. G. Bukeeva Uralska together with the employment Center of the akimat of Uralsk city held a job fair for graduates of higher and secondary special educational institutions, unemployed youth and other categories of youth.
The aim is to increase the employability of young people, unemployed young people, providing extensive information about government programs.
In rumah activities for participants were organized training seminars on the program "With diploma to village!" "Youth practice", "ZhasProject", starting a business, access to the apartment building, the electronic labour exchange and "Soft Skills", operated free parts of the consultation.
At the job fair were presented to large businesses and enterprises, public institutions of Uralsk and areas (healthcare, education, culture and sports, universities, schools colleges, etc.). b.) More than 45 companies have submitted about 800 vacancies. West Kazakhstan state University. Utemisov, in particular the career center actively assists future graduates in finding employment, supporting the job search, explains the rules of admission to magistracy, and provides information about opportunities for those who want to pursue post-graduate education. At today's job fair there were more than 1000 visitors.
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Family of black bears invades local news set
Eric Pfeiffer
The Sideshow April 24, 2012
WNEP-TV meteorologist Kurt Aaron was on the set, ready to deliver his news station's 11 p.m. weather forecast when he spotted an uninvited guest on the set: A large black bear.
"I hear this sound and I turn around and the bear is literally 10 feet in front of me.," Aaron said live on air after the bears were spotted. "And I ran like I stole something. I'm not going to lie."
The mother bear and her three cubs walked onto the outdoor weather set in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The family of bears continued to walk through the outdoor set, which is built to resemble an actual forest.
Black bears have been known to venture outside their natural forest habitat when searching for food, particularly in places occupied by people.
"They walked right up on me. Black bears. Look how big mama bear is," Aaron said, while the bears continued to walk in front of the cameras.
Aaron did eventually give the weather forecast, but off-camera, while hiding behind a door that kept him at a safe distance from the surprise visitors.
"No offense, but I don't want to be doing the weather with four bears," he said.
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Newmont Goldcorp Corporation (NYSE:NEM) went down by -0.63% from its latest closing price when compared to the 1-year high value of $41.23 and move down -5.37%, while NEM stocks collected +2.49% of gains with the last five trading sessions. Press Release reported on 12/02/19 that Newmont to Repurchase up to $1 Billion of Stock
Newmont Goldcorp Corporation (NYSE:NEM) Worth an Investment?
Newmont Goldcorp Corporation (NYSE: NEM) scored price to earnings ratio above its average ratio, recording 13.45 times of increase in earnings at the present.
NEM Market Performance
NEM stocks went up by 2.60% for the week, with the monthly jump of 0.62% and a quarterly performance of -0.53%, while its annual performance rate touched 20.73%. The simple moving average for the period of the last 20 days is 3.43% for NEM stocks with the simple moving average of 7.71% for the last 200 days.
Analysts’ Opinion on Newmont Goldcorp Corporation (NYSE:NEM)
Many brokerage firms have already submitted their reports for NEM stocks, with Deutsche Bank repeating the rating for NEM shares by setting it to “Buy”. The predicted price for NEM socks in the upcoming period according to Deutsche Bank is $30 based on the research report published on October 3, 2019.
Macquarie, on the other hand, stated in their research note that they expect to see NEM stock at the price of $30. The rating they have provided for NEM stocks is “Neutral” according to the report published on September 13, 2019.
BMO Capital Markets gave “ Outperform” rating to NEM stocks, setting the target price at $50 in the report published on September 11, 2019.
NEM Stocks 2.21% Far from 50 Day Moving Average
After a stumble in the market that brought NEM to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, Newmont Goldcorp Corporation was unable to take a rebound, for now settling with -5.09% of loss for the given period.
The stock volatility was left at 1.79%, however, within the period of a single month, the volatility rate increased by 1.58%, while the shares surge at the distance of +4.21% for the moving average in the last 20 days. In oppose to the moving average for the last 50 days, trading by -2.88% lower at the present time.
In the course of the last 5 trading sessions, NEM went up by +2.49%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200 days to the total of +10.57% of gains for the stock in comparison to the 20-day moving average settled at $37.91. In addition, Newmont Goldcorp Corporation saw 15.75% in overturn over the period of a single year with a tendency to cut further gains.
NEM Stock Insider Trading
Reports are indicating that there were more than several insider trading activities at Newmont Goldcorp Corporation (NEM), starting from Palmer Thomas Ronald, who sold 4,000 shares at the price of $38.30 back on Dec 02. After this action, Rushing now owns 242,073 shares of Newmont Goldcorp Corporation, valued at $153,200 with the latest closing price.
Buese Nancy, the EVP & CFO of Newmont Goldcorp Corporation, sold 7,500 shares at the value of $37.83 during a trade that took place back on Nov 27, which means that Buese Nancy is holding 14,936 shares at the value of $283,725 based on the most recent closing price.
NEM Stock Fundamentals
The current profitability levels are settled at +16.28 for the present operating margin and +21.87 for gross margin. The net margin for Newmont Goldcorp Corporation stands at +3.86. Total capital return value is set at 7.51, while invested capital returns managed to touch 1.95. Equity return holds the value 14.50%, with 7.50% for asset returns.
Based on Newmont Goldcorp Corporation (NEM), the company’s capital structure generated 40.57 points for debt to equity in total, while total debt to capital is set at the value of 28.86. Total debt to assets is settled at the value of 20.57 with long-term debt to equity ratio rests at 5.05 and long-term debt to capital is 34.36.
EBITDA value lies at +1.10 B with total debt to EBITDA carrying the value of 1.66. The value for Enterprise to Sales is 3.67 with debt to enterprise value settled at 0.21. The receivables turnover for Newmont Goldcorp Corporation is 24.91 with the total asset turnover at the value of 0.35. The liquidity ratio also appears to be rather interesting for investors as it stands at 2.95.
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Council okays BRT draft proposal
Cebu Daily News / 07:39 AM August 30, 2012
The final draft of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) proposal was approved by the Cebu City Council in its regular session yesterday.
The final BRT draft proposal was presented to the council last Wednesday, Aug. 22.
BRT project coordinator Rafael Christopher Yap asked for the passage of a resolution that would approve the proposal.
“With the approval, Cebu City is fully committed to meet the BRT project. That’s a very significant milestone for Cebu City,” Yap said.
The final draft report is a more detailed pre-feasibility study of the BRT project, he added.
The pre-feasibility study began two years and was done by the Integrated Transport Planning Ltd., hired consultants of World Bank.
BRT lead consultant Colin Brader said he’s “extremely pleased” about the council’s approval.
“It is a significant step forward and marks the end of the planning phase and start of the scheme implementation phase. It will place Cebu at the forefront of BRT development and would allow the city to grow,” Brader said.
Councilor Nida Cabrera said the BRT project will “greatly help reduce the city’s pollution.”
The technical working group of the BRT project will send a copy of the council’s resolution to the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC).
Brader said they will already appoint detailed engineering design consultants for the road, station and terminal works.
Yap said consultations are still ongoing “because we understand that BRT will affect certain groups.”
Among them are the passenger jeepney operators and drivers, who voiced concern on the project.
Brader said they will consult them in order to address their concerns and needs.
The feasibility study team will also finalize the loan agreement between the World Bank or the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) or French Development Agency and national government for the BRT project.
Detailed engineering designs will commence this November or December, Yap said.
Brader said the engineering designs of the buses are programmed for completion on June 2013. The buses are expected to be operational by 2015. Correspondent Tweeny M. Malinao
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Representative immunofluorescent staining of β3-tubulin (green) of SPG4-derived neurons treated LNA-miR-33a for 48 hours. In the latest issue of Clinical Science (volume 133, issue 4), Nakazeki et al. demonstrate through studies on induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cortical neurons that miR-33a is a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of SPG4-related hereditary spastic paraplegia.
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Research Article| February 22 2019
MiR-33a is a therapeutic target in SPG4-related hereditary spastic paraplegia human neurons
Fumiko Nakazeki
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Itaru Tsuge
Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Takahiro Horie
Keiko Imamura
iPSC-based Drug Discovery and Development Team, RIKEN BioResource Center (RIKEN BRC), Kyoto, Japan
Medical-risk Avoidance based on iPS Cells Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN AIP), Kyoto, Japan
Kayoko Tsukita
Akitsu Hotta
Osamu Baba
Yasuhide Kuwabara
Tomohiro Nishino
Tetsushi Nakao
Masataka Nishiga
Hitoo Nishi
Yasuhiro Nakashima
Yuya Ide
Satoshi Koyama
Masahiro Kimura
Shuhei Tsuji
Motoko Naitoh
Shigehiko Suzuki
Yuishin Izumi
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
Toshitaka Kawarai
Ryuji Kaji
Takeshi Kimura
Haruhisa Inoue
Correspondence: Koh Ono (kohono@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp) or Haurhisa Inoue (haruhisa@cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
Koh Ono
Clin Sci (Lond) (2019) 133 (4): 583–595.
https://doi.org/10.1042/CS20180980
Revision Received:
Accepted Manuscript online:
Fumiko Nakazeki, Itaru Tsuge, Takahiro Horie, Keiko Imamura, Kayoko Tsukita, Akitsu Hotta, Osamu Baba, Yasuhide Kuwabara, Tomohiro Nishino, Tetsushi Nakao, Masataka Nishiga, Hitoo Nishi, Yasuhiro Nakashima, Yuya Ide, Satoshi Koyama, Masahiro Kimura, Shuhei Tsuji, Motoko Naitoh, Shigehiko Suzuki, Yuishin Izumi, Toshitaka Kawarai, Ryuji Kaji, Takeshi Kimura, Haruhisa Inoue, Koh Ono; MiR-33a is a therapeutic target in SPG4-related hereditary spastic paraplegia human neurons. Clin Sci (Lond) 28 February 2019; 133 (4): 583–595. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/CS20180980
Recent reports, including ours, have indicated that microRNA (miR)-33 located within the intron of sterol regulatory element binding protein (SREBP) 2 controls cholesterol homeostasis and can be a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of atherosclerosis. Here, we show that SPAST, which encodes a microtubule-severing protein called SPASTIN, was a novel target gene of miR-33 in human. Actually, the miR-33 binding site in the SPAST 3′-UTR is conserved not in mice but in mid to large mammals, and it is impossible to clarify the role of miR-33 on SPAST in mice. We demonstrated that inhibition of miR-33a, a major form of miR-33 in human neurons, via locked nucleic acid (LNA)-anti-miR ameliorated the pathological phenotype in hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP)-SPG4 patient induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cortical neurons. Thus, miR-33a can be a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of HSP-SPG4.
human model, microRNA, paraplegia
Gene Expression & Regulation, Molecular Bases of Health & Disease, RNA
MicroRNAs (miRNAs; miRs) are small non-protein-cording RNAs that bind to specific mRNAs and inhibit translation or promote mRNA degradation. MiRNAs show cell-type-, tissue-, and species-specific regulation of their targets in different cellular contexts [1,2]. Therefore, it is critical to study miRNA function in appropriate cell-types, tissues, and species. Previously, we demonstrated that miR-33 controls lipid homeostasis with the use of miR-33-deficient mice [3]. However, the physiological functions of miR-33 in humans are still unknown because of a lack of appropriate models.
MiR-33 has two isoforms, miR-33a and miR-33b. Although miR-33a and b differ by only two nucleotides in their mature forms, they are identical in their seed sequence. MiR-33a has been highly conserved throughout evolution, whereas miR-33b is present only in the sterol regulatory element binding factor (SREBF) 1 gene of large mammals, and rodents lack miR-33b [3–6]. To investigate novel target genes of miR-33a/b in human, we generated miR-33-single (miR-33a or miR-33b) and -double (miR-33a and miR-33b) knockouts (KO) in human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) by clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-Cas9 technology, and analyzed their transcriptome.
In the current study, we revealed that SPAST was a novel target gene of miR-33 in human. Actually, the miR-33 binding site in the SPAST 3′-UTR is conserved not in mice but in mid to large mammals, and it is impossible to clarify the role of miR-33a and miR-33b on SPAST in mice. SPAST encodes a microtubule-severing protein called SPASTIN [7–9], and mutations in the SPAST gene (previously known as SPG4) are the most common causes of hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP-SPG4) [10–12]. We demonstrated that miR-33a affected the pathological phenotypes though regulating SPAST expression in SPG4 patient iPSC-derived cortical neurons. Moreover, inhibition of miR-33a, a major form of miR-33 in human neurons, via locked nucleic acid (LNA)-anti-miR ameliorated the pathological phenotype in HSP-SPG4 patient neurons. Thus, miR-33a can be a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of HSP-SPG4.
Generation of iPSCs and cell culture
SPG4 patient iPSCs were generated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) or T-lymphocytes using episomal vectors for OCT3/4, Sox2, Klf4, L-Myc, Lin28, and dominant negative p53 or OCT3/4, Sox2, Klf4, L-Myc, Lin28, and p53-shRNA, as reported previously [39], and were cultured on an SNL feeder layer with human iPSC medium (primate embryonic stem cell medium; ReproCELL, Yokohama, Japan) supplemented with 4 ng/ml basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF; Wako Chemicals, Osaka, Japan) and penicillin/streptomycin. The present study and the use of hiPSCs were approved by the Ethics Committee of Kyoto University, and informed consent was obtained from all donor subjects from which hiPSC lines were generated in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.
Construction of plasmids for gene targetting
For CRISPR-Cas9n plasmids, guide RNAs were designed using CRISPR Design (http://crispr.mit.edu/). The guide RNA oligonucleotides (Supplementary Table S1) were inserted into a pHL-Ha-ccdB plasmid. For constructing the donor plasmid, we modified pBluescript SK (+) by inserting the selection cassette and the fragments of genomic sequences 5′ and 3′ amplified by PCR. Each homologous arm was bound using an In-Fusion HD cloning kit (Clontech, Mountain View, CA) as 5′ and 3′ homology arms.
Genome edition of iPSCs by gene targetting
For transfection of CRISPR-Cas9n, 1 × 106 iPSCs were electroporated with 3 μg each of two gRNA plasmids, 5 μg of Cas9n (D10A Cas9) plasmid, and 10 μg of donor plasmid by using the NEPA21 electroporator (Nepa Gene, Chiba, Japan). Transfected cells were plated onto feeder cells and cultured in human ES medium supplemented with 10 μM of Y-27632 for 1 day. Three days after transfection, neomycin and/or puromycin selection was applied and continued for 10 days. Resistant colonies were picked out and expanded for genomic DNA extraction and PCR screening. To remove the selection cassette, cells were transiently transfected with a Cre-recombinase expressing plasmid (pCXW-Cre-Puro) by electroporation and puromycin-resistant colonies were selected. Selection cassette excision and bi-allelic deletion for miR-33a and/or miR-33b were confirmed by genomic PCR screening and Sanger sequence analysis.
Induction of cortical neuron differentiation
Human iPSCs were dissociated into single cells and quickly reaggregated in U-bottomed 96-well plates for suspension culture (Greiner Bio-One, Frick-enhausen, Germany), pre-coated with 2% Pluronic (Sigma–Aldrich, St. Louis, MO) in 100% ethanol. Aggregations of embryoid bodies (EBs) were cultured in 5% DFK medium (Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium/Ham’s F12 (Sigma–Aldrich), 5% KSR (Gibco, Waltham, MA), NEAA (Invitrogen), L-glutamine (Sigma-Aldrich), 0.1 M 2-mercaptoethanol (Invitrogen) with or without 2 μM dorsomorphin and 10 μM SB431542 (Wako Chemicals) in a neural inductive stage (days 0–8). After induction, EBs were transferred onto Matrigel (Becton Dickinson)-coated 6-well culture plates and cultured in supplemented with 1× N2 supplement (Invitrogen), 2 μM dorsomorphin, and 10 μM SB431542 in the patterning stage (days 8–24). After patterning stage, migrated neural precursor cells were separated from the plate bottom using Accutase (Innovative Cell Technologies, Inc.) and cultured in Neurobasal medium FULL, Neurobasal medium (Invitrogen/Gibco) supplemented with 1× B27 without Vitamin A (Invitrogen/Gibco), 1× Glutamax (Invitrogen/Gibco), 10 ng/ml BDNF, 10 ng/ml GDNF, and 10 ng/ml NT-3 on Matrigel-coated 12-well or 24-well culture plates or cover slips in the neural maturation stage and then cultured until used for experiments.
Western blotting was performed using standard procedures as described previously [40]. Samples were lysed in lysis buffer consisting of 100 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.4, 75 mM NaCl, and 1% Triton X-100 (Nacalai Tesque). The lysis buffer was supplemented with complete mini protease inhibitor (Roche), ALLN (25 μg/ml), 0.5 mM NaF, and 10 mM Na3VO4 just before use. The protein concentration was determined using a bicinchoninic acid (BCA) protein assay kit (Bio-Rad). All samples (10 μg of protein) were suspended in lysis buffer, fractionated using NuPAGE 4–12% Bis-Tris (Invitrogen) gels and transferred onto a Protran nitrocellulose transfer membrane (Whatman). The membrane was blocked using 1× phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) containing 5% non-fat milk for 1 h and incubated with primary antibodies against SPASTIN (S7074, Sigma–Aldrich), ABCA1 (NB400-105, Novus Biologicals), sterol regulatory element binding protein (SREBP) 1 (2A4, Santa Cruz), SREBP-2 (Cayman), TF2B (EP4588, Abcam), or β-actin (C4, Santa Cruz) overnight at 4°C. After a washing step in PBS-0.05% Tween 20 (0.05% T-PBS), the membrane was incubated with the secondary antibody (anti-rabbit or anti-mouse IgG HRP-linked; 1: 2000) for 1 at room temperature. The membrane was then washed in 0.05% T-PBS and detected by ECL Western Blotting Detection Reagent (GE Healthcare), using an LAS-4000 system (GE Healthcare Life Science).
RNA extraction and qPT-PCR
Total RNA was isolated and purified using TriPure Isolation Reagent (Roche), and cDNA was synthesized from 100 ng of total RNA using a Transcriptor First Strand cDNA Synthesis Kit (Roche) in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. For quantitative RT-PCR, specific genes were amplified by 40 cycles using SYBR Green PCR Master Mix (Applied Biosystems). Expression was normalized to the housekeeping gene 18S ribosomal RNA. Gene-specific primers are listed in Supplementary Table S2.
Quantitative PCR for miRNAs
Total RNA was isolated using TriPure Isolation Reagent (Roche). MiR-33 was measured in accordance with the TaqMan MicroRNA assays (Applied Biosystems) protocol, and the products were analyzed using a thermal cycler (ABI Prism7900HT sequence detection system). Samples were normalized by U6 snRNA expression. We also measured 16, 4, 1 pM, 250, 62.5, and 15.625 fM oligonucleotide of miR-33a and miR-33b, and created a calibration curve. We calculated the absorbance value of samples from the figure to determine its concentration.
Dual luciferase assays
Full length PCR fragments of the 3′-UTR of SPAST were amplified from human iPSC cDNAs and subcloned in psi-CHECK2-let-7 8X vector (addgene). To create WT or mutant 3′-UTR luciferase reporter genes, a fragment of the SPAST 3′-UTR as follows was inserted into a psi-CHECK2-let-7 8X vector:
Wild-type; acagacttaaacaaaatatacaatgcaaatgtaattttttgttgtttaag
Mutant; acagacttaaacaaaatatacccgtaaaatgtaattttttgttgtttaag
Luciferase activities were measured as described previously [41].
SPASTIN and green fluorescent protein overexpression
The human SPAST, with or without the full length 3′-UTR of SPAST, was cloned from human iPSCs into the pCMV-internal ribosome entry site (IRES)-green fluorescent protein (GFP) vector and then CMV promoter was replaced with a Synapsin I promoter which is relatively neuron-specific. We produced lentiviral stocks in 293FT cells in accordance with the manufacturer’s protocol (Invitrogen). In brief, virus-containing medium was collected 48-h post-transfection and filtered through a 0.45-μm filter. Cells were infected with SPAST, SPAST with 3′-UTR, or empty GFP control lentivirus. Neural cultures were allowed to differentiate for 10 days after DNA transduction. Infected cells were highlighted with GFP.
Cell transfection with LNA-anti-miR-33
Cells were transfected with 10 nM LNA-anti-miR-33 or LNA-control using Lipofectamine RNAiMAX (Invitrogen) in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. Cells were used for analysis 48 h after transfection.
Cells were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde (pH 7.4) for 30 min at room temperature and rinsed with PBS. The cells were permeabilized in PBS containing 0.2% Triton-X 100 for 10 min at room temperature, followed by rinsing with PBS. Nonspecific binding was blocked with Block Ace (DS pharma biomedical) for 60 min at room temperature. Cells were incubated with primary antibodies overnight at 4°C, and then labeled with appropriate fluorescent-tagged secondary antibodies. DAPI (DOJINDO) was used to label nuclei. The following primary antibodies were used in immunocytochemistry: βIII tubulin (1:1000, CST, 5568S). For evaluating the positive count ratio of immunocytochemistry, we imaged the cells using automated microscopy by ArrayScan and counted the immunostained structures by using HCS Studio 2.0 Cell Analysis Software (Thermo Fisher Scientific).
Data are presented as means ± standard error of the mean (S.E.M.). Statistical comparisons were performed using unpaired t-test or one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Sidak’s post hoc test (three or more groups). The statistical analysis used is indicated in each of the figure legends. A P value of <0.05 was considered as statistically significant, Statistical analyses were performed using GraphPad Prism 6 (GraphPad Software, Inc.).
Generation of miR-33 KO human iPSCs
To investigate the role of miR-33 in human cells, we generated miR-33 single KO and miR-33 double KO cells using human iPSCs. We constructed a pair of CRISPR guide RNA (gRNA) expression vectors (Supplementary Table S1), and co-electroporated them into control iPSCs (named 201B7) together with D10A Cas9 nickase (Cas9n) to introduce a double-strand break. The double-nicking approach was chosen to minimize off-target mutagenesis. Previous studies showed that the miRNA seed region is the preferred cleavage site to KO miRNA genes with high efficiency and specificity, we triggered PAMs (NGG) within/adjacent to each seed region [13,14]. To facilitate the screening for bi-allelic deletion, we combined the above procedure with homologous recombination donor vectors, which enabled neomycin- and/or puromycin-resistant cell selection (Supplementary Figure S1a). The predicted sizes of indels, such as mature miR-33 sequence deletion and loxP sequence insertion, were identified by DNA sequencing (Figure 1A, Supplementary Figure S1b). Complete loss of miR-33a/b expression in KO iPSCs was confirmed by RT-PCR analysis (Figure 1B) although slight signals remained because of the PCR-based miRNA measurement. Deletion of miR-33a and/or miR-33b, encoded by an intron of SREBF2 and SREBF1, did not affect the protein levels of their host genes or splicing (Figure 1C,D). We further attempted to confirm whether the deletion of miR-33 was established without interfering with the activation of their host genes. NK104, an HMG-CoA inhibitor, activates the transcription of SREBF2 and TO90137, an LXR agonist, enhances SREBF1 expression. SREBF2 and SREBF1 mRNAs in control and KO iPSCs were significantly increased with these pharmacological stimulations, and expression levels of miR-33a/b in control iPSCs increased in parallel. Because the expression levels of miR-33a and/or miR-33b in each KO iPSCs were undetectable even with the stimulation of their host genes, complete loss of miR-33a and/or miR-33b was achieved in miR-33-single and -double KO iPSCs (Supplementary Figure S1c,d). Chromosomal Q-band analyses showed that our established iPSC lines had normal karyotypes (Supplementary Figure S1e).
CRISPR-Cas9 can significantly down-regulate the expression of miR-33
(A) Schematic structure of the miR-33 locus and DNA cleavage sites (B) Expression levels of mature miR-33 were normalized using that of U6 small nuclear RNA. n=3 in each clone, two clones per each KO line. ****P<0.0001 by one-way ANOVA. (C) Protein levels of host genes in miR-33 KO iPSCs. Two clones per KO line. (D) Sequencing at the junction between exon 16 and 17 of SREBF2 mRNA and between exon 17 and 18 of SREBF1, indicating correctly spliced.
miR-33 regulates SPAST expression in human
To analyze the effect of miR-33 on human cells, we performed microarray analysis using miR-33-single, -double KO, and control iPSCs (201B7). The microarray data detected 93 up-regulated genes and 191 down-regulated genes in miR-33a KO, 99 up-regulated genes and 110 down-regulated genes in miR-33b KO and 49 up-regulated genes and 127 down-regulated genes in miR-33 double KO iPSCs versus control iPSCs (fold change >2) (Figure 2A). We searched for miR-33 target genes among the up-regulated genes in all of the miR-33-single and -double KO iPSCs with the use of a public database, TargetScan (http://www.targetscan.org). As shown in Figure 2B, SPAST was the only gene identified by this method. Next, we validated the expression levels of SPAST and its translational product, SPASTIN by RT-PCR and Western blotting analysis, respectively (Figure 2C,D). The presence of two translation initiation codons in SPAST allowed the synthesis of two SPASTIN isoforms: a full-length isoform called M1 and a slightly shorter isoform called M87. M87 is more abundant in both neuronal and non-neuronal tissues [15–17]. The SPAST 3′-UTR has a potential binding site for miR-33 in mid to large mammals. However, there is no target site in mice (Figure 2E). To test whether the putative miR-33 target sequence in the SPAST 3′-UTR could mediate translational repression, we inserted the 3′-UTR of the SPAST transcript into a luciferase expression plasmid (psiCHECK-2-SPAST 3′-UTR) and transfected it into HEK 293T cells. CMV-driven miR-33a and miR-33b expression resulted in a decrease in luciferase activity compared with the control vector (miR-control; miR-C) (Figure 2F). Mutation in the potential binding site in the 3′-UTR abolished the effect of miR-33 (Figure 2G). Moreover, reporter vector with mouse SPAST 3′UTR did not respond to miR-33a or miR-33b (Supplementary Figure S2a).
Expression levels of SPAST up-regulated in all miR-33 KO iPSCs
(A) MA plot (M, log ratio; A, average mean) of miR-33 KO iPSCs versus control [fold change (FC) >2 was highlighted in red and blue]. (B) Venn diagram displaying overlaps between up-regulated genes in each KO iPSCs and top 200 predicted targets of miR-33 by TargetScan. (C) Validation of SPAST induced by deficiency of miR-33. n=3 in each clone, two clones per KO line. **P<0.01, ***P<0.001 by one-way ANOVA. (D) Protein levels of SPASTIN in miR-33 KO iPSCs. Two clones per KO line, two independent experiments. (E) Conservation of miR-33 target regions in the 3′-UTR of SPAST. Underlined sequences are the potential binding site of miR-33 seed sequences. *indicated the conservation among species. Mutant 3′-UTR sequences are highlighted in red. (F) 3′-UTR reporter assay used to verify the target. Luciferase reporter activity of human SPAST gene 3′-UTR constructs in HEK293T cells overexpressing miR-C and miR-33 (n=6 each, ****P<0.0001 by unpaired t-test). (G) Luciferase reporter activity of the WT or mutant SPAST 3′-UTR at the potential miR-33 binding site in HEK293T cells (n=6 each, ***P<0.001, ****P<0.0001 by unpaired t-test).
Loss of SPASTIN activity is the characteristic phenotype of HSP-SPG4
Mutations in the SPAST gene (located on 2p22.3) are the most common causes of HSP [7–9]. Autosomal-dominant HSP-SPG4 in most cases is considered a prototypical HSP with gait impairment because of spasticity and weakness of the lower extremities [7–9]. Considering the effect of miR-33 in the regulation of SPAST gene in human, we hypothesized that inhibition of miR-33 would promote the activation of one normal SPAST allele and subsequently reduce the pathological phenotypes. To address this hypothesis, we generated iPSCs from one SPG4 patient and healthy controls (named hc1-A and hc3-A). The patient carried the heterozygous G>A substitution located in intron 9 of the SPAST gene, which alters the splice site (IVS9+1 G→A), causing skipping of exon 9. Exon 9 lies within the AAA cassette-encoding region of the gene (Pedigree in Figure 3A). This IVS9+1 G→A mutation in patients with HSP was described previously [18]. This region was sequenced to confirm that the SPG4-derived iPSCs maintained the mutation in the SPAST gene (Figure 3B, Supplementary Figure 2b,c). Chromosomal Q-band analyses showed that this iPSC from SPG4 had a normal karyotype (Supplementary Figure 2d). To investigate the cellular phenotype, we differentiated SPG4 and control iPSCs into cortical neurons using the quick embryoid body-like aggregate (SFEBq) method, as described previously [19]. Because SPG4 is caused by autosomal dominant mutations, SPG4 patients likely have about 50% SPASTIN activity if one allele is non-functional. A previous study revealed that neurons derived from SPG4 patients with a splice site mutation showed approximately 50% reduction in SPASTIN protein levels compared with controls [20]. Consistent with this, there was a significant decrease in both SPAST mRNA and SPASTIN protein levels compared with controls (Figure 3C,D). Finally, we examined SPG4-derived neurite morphology. Immunofluorescent staining revealed that the total neurite length and the numbers of branching points were decreased in SPG4-derived cortical neurons (Figure 3E).
Characteristics of SPG4-derived cortical neurons
(A) Pedigree of SPG4 patient included in the study. (B) Sequence for the presence of the heterozygous SPG4 mutation IVS9+1G→A. (C) Expression levels of SPAST in iPSC-derived cortical neurons. n=5 in SPG4, n=4–5 each in control, two clones per control line. ***P<0.001 by unpaired t-test. (D) Protein levels of SPASTIN in iPSC-derived cortical neurons. n=3 in SPG4, n=2 each in control. ***P<0.001 by unpaired t-test. (E) Representative immunofluorescent staining of βIII-tubulin (green) using SP8 confocal microscope system. Nuclei are labeled with DAPI (white). Neurite length and branching points from SPG4-derived cortical neurons compared with control neurons. Images were automatically captured using the Cellomics ArrayScanVTI. Each dot indicates the mean value of 50 different microscopic fields. *P<0.05, **P<0.01 by unpaired t-test.
miR-33a decreases the neurite length of cortical neurons derived from iPSCs through SPAST 3′-UTR regulation
The previous study showed that a reduction in SPASTIN levels was directly linked with the observed disease phenotypes, and it was demonstrated that SPG4-derived neurons overexpressing SPASTIN could rescue neurite outgrowth defects [20]. To determine whether miR-33a directly regulates SPAST expression and affects neural phenotypes in SPG4-derived neurons, we co-transfected lentiviral constructs into SPG4-derived neurons. We overexpressed GFP–IRES–SPAST with/without the 3′-UTR including a potential binding site (Vector 1 and Vector 2) in the presence of synapsin I neuronal driver. We used GFP-overexpressing SPG4 neurons as a control (Supplementary Figure S3a). Consistent with previous reports [20], SPG4-derived neurons overexpressing SPASTIN restored neurite length compared with GFP-controls (Figure 4A). Co-transfected CMV-driven miR-C with overexpression of either of Vector 1 or Vector 2 led to the restoration of neurite length in SPG4-derived neurons (Figure 4A). However, co-transfection of CMV-driven miR-33a with Vector 2 decreased neurite lengths, which was not observed with Vector 1 (Figure 4B, Supplementary Figure S3b). We could not observe the difference in branching points (Figure 4B).
miR-33 affected neural phenotypes in SPG4 though modulating SPAST expression
(A) Representative images of transfected SPG4-derived neurons, labeled with GFP. Neurite tracings are shown in black insert. Scar bars: 100 μm. (B) The total neurite length and branching points in GFP+ SPG4-derived neurons, transfected with the indicated lentivirus. Images were automatically captured using the Cellomics ArrayScanVTI. Using a 10× objective. Each dot indicates the mean value of 50 different microscopic fields. *P>0.05 by one-way ANOVA.
Inhibition of miR-33a via locked nucleic acid-anti-miR ameliorates neurite length
We demonstrated that miR-33a modulated neural phenotypes in SPG4-derived neurons by targetting the SPAST 3′-UTR. To investigate whether the inhibition of miR-33 could be a potential therapeutic target for SPG4, SPG4-iPSCs were transfected with LNA: anti-miR-33a, or control (LNA: anti-miR-C) because the absolute levels of miR-33a were more abundant than that of miR-33b in both the undifferentiated state and after neural differentiation (Supplementary Figure S4a). To confirm the knockdown efficiency of the LNA-anti-miR-33a, the expression levels of miR-33a were evaluated by RT-PCR at 48-h after transfection. There was almost 40% knockdown of miR-33a in iPSC-derived neurons (Supplementary Figure S4b). Down-regulation of miR-33a was associated with up-regulation of ABCA1, which is known as a direct downstream target of miR-33a (Supplementary Figure S4c). SPASTIN levels were significantly increased by LNA: anti-miR-33a (Figure 5A). We observed that not the branching point but the neurite length in SPG4-derived neurons was significantly restored at 48-h after transfection with LNA: miR-33a, suggesting the therapeutic potential of miR-33a inhibition for the treatment of SPG4 (Figure 5B,C). We also conducted the similar experiments by the use of LNA anti-miR-33b. However, there was no difference in branching point or neurite length (Figure 5B,C). Moreover, enhanced expression of miR-33a was observed in our SPG4-derived neurons compared with the controls, in parallel with host gene mRNA expression and protein levels (Supplementary Figure S5a–c). To identify the cause of miR-33a elevation, we established Spast-knockdown Neuro 2a lines using lentiviral infection of shRNA constructs. There was about 50% knockdown of Spast mRNA expression in Spast RNAi lines 1 and 2 (Supplementary Figure S5d). RT-PCR results revealed that the neuronal cells with reduced spastin compared with the controls tended to increase the expression levels of miR-33a in parallel with the host gene, Srebf2 (Supplementary Figure S5e). Thus, enhanced expression of miR-33a in our SPG4-derived neurons may have a direct effect in SPASTIN reduction.
Inhibition of miR-33 by LNA restored neurite length in SPG4-derived neurons
(A) Protein levels of SPASTIN in SPG4-derived neurons with LNA treatment. n=3 each. *P<0.05 by unpaired t-test. (B) Representative immunofluorescent staining of β3-tubulin (green). SPG4-derived neurons were treated with LNA: control, LNA: ant-miR-33a, or LNA: anti-miR-33b for 48 h. (C) The total neurite length and branching points in SPG4-derived neurons with LNA treatment. Images were automatically captured using the Cellomics ArrayScanVTI. Using a 10× objective. Each dot indicates the mean value of 50 different microscopic fields. *P<0.05 by one-way ANOVA.
In previous reports, the roles of miR-33 in mice have been explored, with evidence of its involvement in the regulation of lipid metabolism [21–23]. However, in human, the roles of miR-33 remain unclear because of a lack of appropriate models. Here, we generated miR-33-single (miR-33a or miR-33b) and -double (miR-33a and miR-33b) KO iPSCs using CRISPR-Cas9 technology and demonstrated a complete deletion of mature miR-33 biogenesis in these KO iPSCs. Furthermore, we identified that SPAST was a novel target gene of miR-33 in human. SPAST, one of the genes responsible for HSP, was directly regulated by miR-33. Inhibition of miR-33a by LNA partly reduced the pathological phenotypes of SPG4-derived cortical neurons. It is tempting to speculate that inhibition of miR-33a by synthetic RNA oligonucleotides could promote the activation of one normal SPAST allele and subsequently reduce the pathological phenotypes.
Specific and stable KO for miRNA is essential for studying miRNA functions. Genetic KO of the miRNA under study is the most reliable technique for loss-of-function analyses. Recently, CRISPR-Cas9 technology has been applied for the study of gene functions in a variety models. In addition, several publications reported that CRISPR-Cas9 technology could repress miRNA expression by targetting the terminal loop or 5′ region of the pre-miRNA [14]. In the present study, we generated miR-33-single and -double KO iPSCs using CRISPR-Cas9 technology without affecting the expression of their host genes.
Neurodegenerative diseases are largely considered to be proteinopathies with alterations in the expression levels of these genes [24]. Previous studies demonstrated that SPG4-derived neurons had lower numbers of shorter and less branched primary neurites, which was similar to the phenotype observed when human ECS-derived neurons were depleted of SPASTIN by siRNA [25]. In addition, overexpression of SPASTIN in SPG4-derived neurons restored these pathological phenotypes [20], suggesting that the SPG4-phenotype is dependent on SPASTIN dosage. The overwhelming majority of mutations found in HSP-SPG4 patients abolished the microtubule-serving activity of SPASTIN generated from the mutated SPAST allele and theoretically resulted in the accumulation of microtubules that were lower in number but more stable [26], which led to nervous system abnormalities during development.
In the present study, we hypothesized that inhibition of miR-33 could increase SPASTIN levels via promoting the transcription of one normal allele and subsequently reduce the pathological phenotypes. To address this hypothesis, we generated iPSCs from one SPG4 patient and controls. Consistent with previous studies, we observed that the SPG4-derived neurons, carrying a SPAST IVS9+1G→A mutation, showed impaired neurite length and branching. Moreover, we observed that co-transfected CMV-driven miR-C with overexpression of either of SPAST with or without the 3′-UTR including the binding site was sufficient to restore neurite length and normal branching in SPG4-derived neurons. On the other hand, co-transfected CMV-driven miR-33a with SPAST with the 3′-UTR impaired the restoration of the neurite phenotypes, which was not observed in the case of SPAST without the 3′-UTR. Our findings indicated that miR-33a directly regulated SPAST expression and affected neural phenotypes in SPG4-derived neurons.
Several siRNAs and antisense oligonucleotides with LNA are currently under investigation in clinical trials for various diseases [27]. In the current study, we demonstrated that LNA-based pharmacological inhibition of miR-33a restored neurite length in SPG4-derived cortical neurons. MiRNA expression profiling studies were initially done in the cancer field, and certain miRNAs, including miR-33, have been identified as having tumor-suppressing functions or oncogenic potential [28,29]. Recently, miRNA profile studies identified differentially expressed miRNAs in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer disease [30–32] and Parkinson disease [33]. We observed enhanced expression of miR-33a in our SPG4-derived neurons, and this may explain the substantial effect of LNA-based inhibition of miR-33a. HSP are mainly caused by mutations in genes that encode the SPASTIN (SPG4), ATLASTIN-1 (SPG3), and REEP1 (SPG31) proteins. Previous reports showed that these proteins bind to one another and shape the tubular endoplasmic reticulum network throughout cells and are also involved in lipid droplet formation and enlargement [34,35]. In addition, recessive forms of HSP genes have been linked to alterations in gene expressions involved in fatty acid metabolism, such as DDHD1 and DDHD2 [36,37]. These findings and our experiments with Spast-knockdown Neuro 2a lines suggested that altered lipid metabolism in HSP may have elevated miR-33a in our SPG4-derived neurons. However, relevance between neurodegeneration and alteration of lipid metabolism has not been clarified yet. Further investigations to connect function of miR-33 and mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases including motor neuron diseases are required.
There were several limitations to our study. First, we examined SPG4-derived neurons from only one patient with a splice-site mutation. There are over 40 spastin gene mutations described to date, including missense, nonsense, and deletion mutations. Second, we could only restore neurite length but not branching in the experiments with overexpression of SPAST and LNA anti-miR-33a transfection. This may be because of the relatively short duration of observation period. We analyzed 10 days after the transfection in Figure 4 to avoid possible silencing effect of the lentiviral-mediated protein expression. We also measured the neurite length at 48 h after LNA transfection according to the manufacturer’s protocol in Figure 5. Third, targetting the SPAST 3′-UTR in SPG4 patients through miR-33a may up-regulate both normal and mutant SPAST. However, it was reported that the truncated mRNA was detected but truncated SPASTIN protein was not detected in brain [38]. Thus, this possibility seems to be low. In addition, it was important to develop a drug delivery system to cross the blood–brain barrier for the treatment of neural diseases by synthetic RNA oligonucleotides.
In summary, we identified that SPAST, one of the genes responsible for HSP-SPG4, was a novel target gene of miR-33 in human. Inhibition of miR-33a by LNA normalized the pathological phenotypes such as reduction in neurite length of SPG4-derived cortical neurons. Our findings indicated that miR-33a could be a potential therapy for the treatment of SPG4.
Physiological functions of miR-33 in humans are still unknown because of a lack of appropriate models.
We demonstrated for the first time that SPAST is a novel target gene of miR-33 in human by the generation of miR-33a/b deficient human iPSCs.
miR-33a can be a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of HSP-SPG4.
The authors would like to express his sincere gratitude to all of his coworkers and collaborators; to Takako Enami for technical assistance; and to Noriko Endo, Ruri Taniguchi, Mikie Iijima, and Makiko Yasui for their valuable administrative support.
The authors declare that there are no competing interests associated with the manuscript.
This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI [grants numbers: JP1605297 (to T.K.); JP17H04177, JP17H05599 (to K.O.)]; the Research Project for Practical Applications of Regenerative Medicine from AMED (to H.I); the Core Center for iPSC Research of Research Center Network for Realization of Regenerative Medicine from AMED (to H.I.); and a visionary research grant (Step) from Takeda Science Foundation (to K.O.). The experimental protocols dealing with human or animal subjects were approved by the institutional review board of each institute.
F.N., I.T., T.H., K.I., H.I., and K.O. designed the project; F.N., I.T., K.I, and K.T. performed experiments; F.N., I.T., T.H., K.I., A.H., O.B., Y.K., T.N., T.N., M.N., H. N., Y.N., Y.I., S.K., M.K., S.T., M.N., S.S., T.K., H.I., and K.O. analyzed and interpreted data; A.H. and H.I. contributed reagents, materials, and analysis tools; Y.I., T.K., and R.K. recruited patients; and F.N., I.T., K.I., H.I., and K.O. prepared the manuscript.
clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat
embryoid body
green fluorescent protein
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Sidewalk Replacement Program
Over the years, repeated concerns were raised regarding the safety of the Village’s sidewalk system. In particular were sidewalk tripping hazards in the older parts of town. To address these concerns, the Village provided two options to eliminate these hazards. The first step was to repair the tripping hazard by using asphalt patch material or by grinding the sidewalk to provide a smooth surface. This step was always taken whenever a tripping hazard was reported. Unfortunately, too often this approach left the resident dissatisfied with both the repair and the general appearance of their sidewalk. To address the concern of appearance, the Village developed a 50/50 Sidewalk Replacement Program designed to replace the asphalt-repaired sidewalk as well as any other defects that could raise a safety issue. Under this program, the cost of replacing the sidewalk was shared evenly between the resident and the Village.
In reviewing the history of sidewalk complaints received over the years, it was noted that a majority of the complaints pertained to tripping hazards caused by a vertical displacement. Clearly, the number one concern in the community, at this time, is to eliminate vertical displacements that could result in tripping. In response, the Village Council appropriated $250,000 in 2001 as a first step towards implementing a program designed to repair all sidewalks in the Village that posed a tripping hazard. The design of this program is such that the worst tripping hazards throughout the Village were addressed first.
Based upon the extent of the sidewalk problem, the criteria in place to identify tripping hazards, as well as the funding level provided, the Sidewalk Replacement Program has the following parameters:
The Village has been divided into nine areas that will be inspected once every nine years. View the sidewalk replacement map (PDF).
The initial inspection of each area will focus on vertical displacements of 7/8 inch or greater.
If replacement of sidewalk is required due to vertical displacement, adjacent sidewalk will also be inspected based on other replacement criteria.
All asphalt-repaired sidewalks will be replaced as part of this program.
All costs associated with the replacement of these sidewalks will be the sole responsibility of the Village.
Relationship to 50/50 Sidewalk Replacement Program
Although the Sidewalk Replacement Program is designed to identify and replace hazardous sidewalks throughout the community, there will still be a need to maintain the existing 50/50 Sidewalk Replacement Program. Tripping hazards in those neighborhoods not scheduled for inspection and repair will still need to be addressed. Therefore, the existing repair program will remain in place (asphalt patching or grinding to eliminate the hazard). Once completed, the resident will have the option of participating in the 50/50 Sidewalk Replacement Program or waiting until these asphalt-repaired sidewalks are within the Sidewalk Replacement Program area for that year.
It is anticipated that at some future date, the 50/50 Sidewalk Replacement Program could be phased out. This would occur when the quantity of sidewalk needing replacement falls to a level thereby allowing all sidewalk requests to be included as part of the Sidewalk Replacement Program for any given year. However, until such time, the 50/50 Sidewalk Replacement Program will remain in place in order to provide Village residents the greatest amount of service and safety.
Report a Sidewalk Issue
To report a sidewalk issue, please call the Department of Public Works at (847) 705-5200.
50/50 Sidewalk Replacement Program Application (PDF)
50/50 Sidewalk Replacement Program
Annual Street Resurfacing Program
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2017 Can-Am Off-Road Lineup Optimized for Performance, Specialized Use and Value
From Can-Am:
Vacourt, Québec, June 1, 2016 – BRP (TSX:DOO) introduced today its most complete lineup of Can-Am Off-Road vehicles to date. The 2017 Can-Am ATV and side-by-side lineup features new models with more specialized packages and enhanced performance, along with multiple new entry-level options, further solidifying Can-Am leadership in the industry.
“We’ve optimized the 2017 Can-Am Off-Road lineup to benefit both our dealer network and customers,” said Anne Bélec, SVP Global Brand, Communications and PAC at BRP. “This includes introducing more specialized vehicles to the portfolio while at the same time scaling back in some areas. These changes reflect our commitment to expand the Can-Am Off-Road lineup while staying true to our brand DNA, which is grounded in performance and innovation.”
3 new side-by-side models for 2017
First, Can-Am developed in close collaboration with expert hunters, is an all-new Can-Am Defender Mossy Oak Hunting Edition that features a purpose-built, industry-exclusive, hunting-ready package with exclusive Mossy Oak Break-Up Country camo. This new package, along with the 2017 Defender MAX family unveiled in March, gives Can-Am a better footprint in the hunting segment of the industry.
Additionally, Can-Am further cements itself as an industry leader in the side-by-side mud segment with an all-new, four-person Can-Am Maverick MAX X mr 1000R side-by-side vehicle built to outperform in even the most demanding settings. Also new as a new point-of-entry into the Maverick lineup in the 60-inch family is the Maverick xc 1000R side-by-side vehicle, which is a DPS-less option offered at a lower price.
The 2017 Can-Am ATV lineup
Outlander and Outlander L side-by-side models are now unified under the Outlander name, creating one family that offers the most horsepower in the industry in every engine class. With value in mind, the 2017 Outlander 450 ATV includes many Outlander family performance features at a lower price point*. Also new are the Outlander XT 570 and Outlander MAX XT 570 models, which are the most equipped mid-size ATVs on the market for the price. Rounding out the changes is a new Outlander 6×6 DPS 650 model as the new point-of-entry price in the 6×6 ATV category.
Other notable changes in the Can-Am ATV lineup include the addition of a Can-Am Renegade X mr 570 vehicle, purpose-built for mud, and an Outlander Mossy Oak Hunting Edition 1000R ATV. The Mossy Oak Hunting Edition is the flagship Can-Am ATV for hunters with its superior performance, capability and camouflage design. The Can-Am DS 70 ATV also returns the lineup and is suitable for riders six years of age and older.
To bolster Can-Am Off-Road performance in 2017, all-new FOX Podium QS3 shocks come standard on nine Can-Am side-by-side vehicles and four Can-Am ATVs. Additionally, the Maverick Turbo vehicle now shares the successful technologies of its CVT with Quick Response System (QRS) with the new Maverick X mr and new Maverick MAX X mr side-by-side vehicles. All Can-Am Commander and Maverick side-by-side models also come with a new front sway bar for 2017.
*Models and prices may vary by region.
BRP (TSX:DOO) is a global leader in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and marketing of powersports vehicles and propulsion systems. Its portfolio includes Ski-Doo and Lynx snowmobiles, Sea-Doo watercraft, Can-Am all-terrain and side-by-side vehicles, Can-Am Spyder roadsters, Evinrude and Rotax marine propulsion systems as well as Rotax engines for karts, motorcycles and recreational aircraft. BRP supports its line of products with a dedicated parts, accessories and clothing business. With annual sales of over CA$3.8 billion from over 100 countries, the Company employs approximately 7,900 people worldwide.
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Two brothers, Alama (Vito Aofaga Vito) and Popo (Longi Taulafo), work hard at their family’s plantation in rural Samoa. But they’re tired of their grumpy father’s authoritarian style and don’t earn much money, so they set off to New Zealand as seasonal workers.
At the end of a successful season picking kiwi fruit, Alama wakes up to find that Popo has run away – and taken all of their money. Desperate not to return home empty-handed, Alama seeks help from a local Samoan relative, Bob Titilo (Tofiga Fepulea’i).
Bob is in his 40s. He’s unemployed and still lives with his mother but he’s a self-declared ‘private investigator’ and is determined to solve the case. His unconventional methods soon lead to an action-laden chase through Auckland and the beginning of an extraordinary friendship.
Coming of age; duty versus fun and adventure; breaking traditions; rebelling against parents; foreign subcultures; traditional Polynesian martial art; self-discovery; friendship; loyalty; community; becoming a better person
Take Home Pay has some violence:
There’s frequent use of traditional Polynesian martial arts to express anger, solve or avoid problems, mark dominance and emphasise Polynesian parental authority over children. On the other hand, martial arts are also used as a way of practising self-discipline and expressing Samoan culture and tradition.
Typical fighting moves are twisting arms and hands, punching in the stomach and face, kicking, wrestling, throwing the opponent on the ground, and using a controlled strangle move to put an opponent to sleep.
Alama and Popo’s father uses traditional Samoan fighting moves to discipline and punish his sons. He throws heavy objects at them and threatens them with a machete. He also shouts and yells at them.
Alama practises his moves as part of daily self-discipline or meditation and as an expression of culture.
Alama never attacks Popo but tries to talk with him. But Popo’s immaturity and desire to avoid talking leads to fighting.
During or after fights, people ache and pant but no-one seems to be seriously injured or bleeding.
Sexual references
Take Home Pay has some sexual references. For example:
People say some mildly flirtatious things like ‘If you were a kiwi fruit, I’d pick you’ and ‘I'm Irish – I rish you were my girlfriend’.
Popo hugs two girls.
One minor character appears to be a drag queen.
The drag queen and two girlfriends pull money out of their bras.
Alcohol, drugs and other substances
Take Home Pay shows some use of substances. For example:
Even though Bob knows he doesn’t tolerate alcohol, he drinks some wine at a wine-tasting event. He then wanders the streets in an out-of-control state, picking fights with strangers, shouting, hysterically laughing, smashing bottles and trying to hit people.
One of Alama and Popo’s Samoan elderly relatives tastes wine for the first time. The relative is astounded by the taste, calls it an ‘eye-opener’, takes the whole bottle and then drinks wine regularly.
Nudity and sexual activity
Take Home Pay has some nudity and sexual activity. For example, some Samoan men are shown topless and in traditional sarongs. This exposes their bare and tattooed skin. But this is presented in a traditional/cultural context rather than in a sexualised way.
The following products are displayed or used in Take Home Pay: Samoan Airlines.
Coarse language
Take Home Pay has some coarse language and insults, including ‘stupid’.
Ideas to discuss with your children
Take Home Pay is a heartwarming, upbeat and humorous action comedy with an excellent cast.
On one level it’s a story about two young men going on an adventure that ends up being a journey of self-discovery, dreams and friendship. But the movie also offers a valuable insight into the simple life of traditional Samoan farmers as well as the Samoan and wider Polynesian community in New Zealand. Much of the movie is in Samoan with English subtitles.
These are the main messages from this movie:
You not only hurt others but also yourself when you’re selfish.
It’s never too late to show remorse.
You can learn from your mistakes to become a better person.
Values in this movie that you could reinforce with your children include:
building family and community cohesion
giving everyone chances and second chances
reaching out for help
asking for forgiveness
knowing where you belong
being creative and innovative
making the best of your circumstances and potential.
Take Home Pay could give you the chance to talk with your children about selfishness, impulsiveness, cowardice, bullying and mean ness, betrayal or trust, responsibility, and the use of violence to solve problems.
You might also like to talk about:
cultural diversity and tolerance
family, community and friendship
the ability to admit when you’re wrong and say sorry
forgiveness and letting go of grudges.
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Category Archives: Reichsfolk
Posted in Cosmic Reich, David Myatt, Fourth Reich, Mythos of Vindex, National Socialism, Reichsfolk, Vindex | Tagged Adolf Hitler, Cosmic Reich, David Myatt, Ethical National Socialism, Extremism, Fascism, National Socialism, Nazism, Neo-Nazi, Racism, Reichsfolk, Third Reich
Applying Myatt’s Philosophy To The Real World
The following pdf document contains our essay Applying Myatt’s Philosophy To The Real World, issued in two parts in February 2019.
We argue that the modern terms – the denotata – “racism” and “hate-speech”, and what derives from them, such as “racist”, are examples of the Myattian principles that (i) denotata hide the physis (the nature) of living beings and thus the ontological relationship between living beings and between an individual being and Being itself, and (ii) such denotata depend on the supposition that named opposites exist and that implicit in such a supposition is a dialectic; that is, a real or assumed or a potential conflict.
We also suggest that such modern denotatum as “racism”, and “hate-speech”, derive from the ideological movements that have come to dominate the political life of the nations of the West; movements which Myatt wrote about in his earlier monograph Vindex: Destiny Of The West, published in 1984.
We conclude that Myatt’s apparently “above time” philosophy of pathei-mathos is ineluctably Western, pagan, and practical, and in essence opposed to the Magian abstractions – such as the concept of “racism” – that now dominate the nation States of the modern Western world to the detriment of our ancestral Faustian ethos.
Part One: Racism and Racist
Part Two: The Crusade Against Hate-Speech
Vindex: Destiny Of The West
(pdf, facsimile of 1984 text)
The Mythos Of Vindex
Posted in Articles About David Myatt, Cosmic Reich, David Myatt, Magian, Modern Heresy, National Socialism, Philosophy of David Myatt, Philosophy of Pathei-Mathos, Reichsfolk, Vindex | Tagged Adolf Hitler, Cosmic Reich, David Myatt, Ethical National Socialism, Fascism, Mythos of Vindex, National Socialism, Nazism, Neo-Nazi, Philosophy of Pathei Mathos, Reichsfolk, The Numinous Way, Vindex, Vindex Destiny Of The West
Zionism: An Influential Myth
Editorial Note: We reproduce the following article since it appears to be relevant to the current (June 2019) war-mongering by the American government against Iran – a country which the Zionist entity that currently occupies Palestine regards as its number one enemy – with the President of America declaring that Iran would face “obliteration” if it did not do as the American government wanted. A war-mongering and provocations such as flying surveillance drones inside Iranian air-space and then claiming, after one was shot down, that it was in international air-space and that there should be a measured military response. A war-mongering that includes an attack on an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman and which attack some consider was a “Black Op” by the American military {1}
{1} Preparing For Another War.
Zionism: A Powerful And Influential Myth
The United States ambassador to the Zionist entity that currently occupies Palestine – who was appointed by the pro-Zionist administration of the current President, The Vulgarian – declared in May 2019 that the Zionist entity was “on the side of God.” {1}
He also declared that in relation to moving the US embassy to Jerusalem in compliance to Zionist demands,
“the move of the embassy was a validation by the strongest nation in the world, not just strong militarily, strong economically, but strong morally, strong ethically, with a bedrock of Judeo-Christian values.”
Such declarations, and the fact that the ambassador – David M. Friedman – is Jewish and that his remarks were made at a meeting of an American Christian evangelical group provides the necessary context.
A context also provided by comments such as that “God gave the Land of Israel to the Jewish people thousands of years ago” {2}, and as does the plan by the current US national security adviser John Bolton to either get the US to invade Iran {3} – the arch enemy of the Zionist entity – or to support a proxy war against Iran undertaken by Middle East states such as Iraq and Saudi Arabia. A proxy war similar to the current conflict in Yemen where the US provides military hardware, military intelligence, and incentives to a Saudi-led coalition in their war with Shia rebels and which Shia rebels look to Iran as their spiritual home.
That the wealthy John Bolton, a staunch Christian, was instrumental in getting the US to invade Iraq in 2003 by using the lie of “weapons of mass destruction” and instrumental in supporting armed “regime change” – and conflict – in Libya and Syria, and yet like the Vulgarian {4}{5} cowardly managed to avoid military service in Vietnam {6} says all that needs to be said about his posturing war-mongering.
The necessary context is how so many influential individuals in the pro-Zionist administration of the current President of the United States promote “Judeo-Christian values”, and believe in the myth that the Zionist entity is “on the side of God” and accept the myth that “God gave the Land of Israel to the Jewish people thousands of years ago.”
In other words, the most powerful nation on Earth is – in the 21st century – not only promoting a particular ancient religious myth but is using that myth to support policies of foreign aggression and unconditional support for Zionists and the Zionist entity that currently occupies Palestine.
In practical terms this amounts to Zionist control and manipulation of the most powerful nation on Earth, just as the Zionist myth of the so-called holocaust – the foundation myth of the Zionist entity that currently occupies Palestine – keeps all other Western governments in thrall and obedient. A thralldom evident, for example, in the acceptance of holocaustianity by the current British Prime Minister who in May 2019 stated that belief in holocaustianity was “a sacred, national mission.” {7}
Is there an alternative to belief in such an ancient religious myth and in the acceptance of the belief that the Zionists and the Zionist entity are on the side of God?
Yes: it is the alternative of National Socialism. But not the Hollywood type of Nazism and White racialism {8} in which the modern myth of the holocaust and hate and misogyny play a central role. But the authentic National Socialism manifest in the deeds and writings of the likes of Waffen-SS General Leon Degrelle {9}.
The Hollywood type of Nazism and of White racialism – the Zionist myth about National Socialism and racialism – has conjured up people like Jack Renshaw and Thomas Mair who in their cowardice and weakness both fantasized about killing women, with Mair succeeding in his Hollywood-inspired plan to kill a defenceless woman.
Would the likes of Waffen-SS General Leon Degrelle, of SS-Obersturmfuhrer Per Sorensen, or SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny, or Major-General Otto Ernst Remer, have murdered defenceless women? Of course not.
That the Hollywood propaganda version of Nazism and of White racialism – with its hatred, its misogyny, and its often reliance on Judeo-Christian myths and values – still dominates the lands of the West is indicative of just how powerful and influential modern Zionists have been and still are.
As does the fact that the genuine National Socialism – of the likes of Waffen-SS General Leon Degrelle, SS-Obersturmfuhrer Per Sorensen, SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny, and Major-General Otto Ernst Remer {9} – is apparently unknown among the majority who in the 21st century profess to be either National Socialists or White nationalists.
Reichsfolk
{1} https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/world/middleeast/us-ambassador-israel-god.html
{2} https://israelunwired.com/bolton-said-palestine-grabbed-attention/
{3} https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/16/john-bolton-trump-iran-nuclear-deal-danger
{4} https://reichsfolktimes.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/the-vulgarian/
{5} https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html
{6} https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2005/04/28/boltons-conservative-ideology-has-roots-in-yale-experience/
{7} https://reichsfolktimes.wordpress.com/2019/05/07/accepting-holocaustianity/
{8} “Hollywood was founded by a band of buccaneering Jewish immigrants.” Times Literary Supplement, April 29, 1983.
{9} https://reichsfolktimes.wordpress.com/2018/12/26/a-new-interpretation-of-national-socialism/
Zionism And The Zeitgeist Of The West
Posted in Homo Hubris, Iran, Magian, Modern Heresy, National Socialism, Reichsfolk, The Holocaust, The Vulgarian, Zionism, Zionist Entity | Tagged Black Ops, Holocaust, Iran, Jack Renshaw, Leon Degrelle, Modern Heresy, National Socialism, Neo-Nazism, Reichsfolk, The Vulgarian, Thomas Mair, Western Culture, Zionism, Zionist Entity
A Rotten System
We are not surprised that mainstream newspapers publish the propaganda lies of a hateful propagandist financed by a Zionist billionaire {1} without bothering to check the facts or give the person who is being lied about the opportunity to give their side of the story.
For that is how the vast majority of newspapers now operate: as purveyors of gossip and propaganda with little or no regard for the truth knowing full well that ordinary citizens in a land such as Britain will not sue for libel because they cannot afford to since only the wealthy can afford to pursue a claim of defamation through courts of law.
In other words the journalists and publishers of such newspapers are part of the rotten and rotting system that exists in nearly all the lands of the modern materialistic West, led as those lands are by egoistic politicians or, as Myatt wrote in 2010 in a perceptive essay {2} by politicians with their own personal (sometimes emotive) political agenda and/or by the agendas of whatever special interest groups have helped them get elected.
“Such special interest groups invariably include those with particular business and political concerns who have the financial resources to employ professional lobbyists, Media consultants, and propagandists.
The result is that the political party and/or particular advocacy groups who have the most money during elections campaigns, and who have the support of a substantial part of the Media, and/or who have a candidate for high office who is a persuasive public speaker, influence the result of elections, having persuaded or influenced the percentage of people necessary to win an election.
In other words, modern elections have become an often cynical process of targeting, persuading, and influencing, people […]
[Another] problem with modern democracy is that modern politicians – with only a few exceptions – have mastered and use the art of propaganda, evident in their inability to be open and honest about their own failings and culpability while in public office, and in their inability to be honest about the failure of the policies of their government. Instead, they are adroit at manufacturing excuses, or shifting the blame away from themselves and government policies, or are disingenuous when answering questions or when addressing concerns about their culpability or that of their government […]
The always well-off political clique will continue to laud it over the poor and those whose ‘front-line’ public service keeps society functioning. The self-perpetuating political clique will continue to makes excuses for their own failures, for declining public services, for government failure to solve social problems, and for increasing poverty, homelessness, and crime.” {2}
Myatt’s solution is somewhat reminiscent of the idealism inherent in both fascism and National Socialism, albeit that this idealism has been been almost air-brushed out of history by concerted anti-fascist and anti-NS propaganda campaigns during and after the Second World War. Propaganda campaigns such as the ones about “the holocaust” which continue to this day; and propaganda campaigns such as the one being waged today by a “grubby little propagandist” at the behest of a Zionist billionaire which involves rants about fascist and nazi “hate” speech, the hateful dehumanizing of opponents, the praising of multi-racialism, and telling lies about people, all under the pretence of “defeating hate”.
Myatt wrote that the solution is
“to reform modern democracy so that leaders and politicians must have such personal character-revealing experience as qualifies them to lead and to govern, with that personal experience consisting of proven and years-long ‘front line’ service to their country and to their people such as in the armed forces or serving as a ‘first responder’ in such occupations as paramedic, a police officer, and in the Fire & Rescue service.”
This solution could easily be applied to broadcasters, to journalists, to the publishers of newspapers and to the owners of media organizations.
Until the day of such reforms arrives the purveyors of gossip and propaganda via means such as newspapers and ‘special interest’ groups will continue with their grubby trade.
Richard Stirling
{1} https://regardingdavidmyatt.wordpress.com/2019/02/23/a-grubby-little-propagandist/
{2} https://davidmyatt.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/the-moment-of-my-reading/
Posted in Allegations About Myatt, Anton Long, David Myatt, David Myatt and the Order of Nine Angles, Labyrinthos Mythologicus, National Socialism, O9A, Order of Nine Angles, Reichsfolk, The Holocaust, The Nation State | Tagged A Modern Mage, About David Myatt, Anton Long, David Myatt, Hope Not Hate, Labyrinthos Mythologicus, Nick Lowles, O9A, Occult Mythos, Order of Nine Angles
One Insight: Honour And Beauty
Here, an insight: Honour creates Beauty – and it is beauty that I desire: to be surrounded by beauty, without and within. Our modern world is ugly: it has made ugliness into an art, a business, a cult and a way of life.
Our environment is for the most part ugly; the attitude of many, many people is ugly – concerned as they are for the most part with mundane things, with profane things, and all to ready and willing as they are to do what is not honourable: to gossip, to be petty, to put their own ego, desires, before what is honourable, and subsumed as they often are with the ethos of ugliness that pervades our modern world. They do not feel beauty; they do not desire beauty; they are, for the most part, content to live, breathe, desire, be part of, the ugliness of the modern world and its dishonourable way of life. For instance, most of the music, the “entertainment”, the art, of this modern world is ugly; the buildings, the cities, the towns, are ugly.
There are a few places where beauty lives, today: A concert, perhaps, where sublime, numinous, music presences for an instant what elevates us beyond ourselves; a woman of empathy, whose face, whose eyes, whose manner, radiates both a warmth and a reminder of our own fragile humanity. A sunny day in Spring or Summer in rural England or Germany when, atop some hill, ones sees, feels, senses the connexion that we are with all life and especially with the ancient land of our ancestors. A simple shared and wordless moment when two lovers become one, through their uncomplicated loyal love, through the immediacy of a shared momentary experience… But these are isolated, increasingly fewer, incidents, among the tawdriness, the urban sprawl, the egotism, the obsession with materialism, the dishonour, the disloyalty, the profanity, the commonness, of modern life.
Beauty is not the norm – the ideal, the archetype, the goal – as it can and should be.
Why do I admire – why have I steadfastly admired, for thirty-five years – National-Socialist Germany? Because I found, and find, in it an intimation of beauty – a desire to bring beauty, joy, back into the lives of ordinary people; a desire to raise them up from the ugly. And what was wonderful, inspiring, remarkable was that this was done within the confines, within the constraints, of a modern nation with its cities, towns, industries: and that it involved all of the people, not a minority, not an elite. National-Socialism was a means whereby the beautiful could be felt and known – a means whereby beauty was once again presenced in the lives of ordinary people. A means whereby a connexion was made to those things which can and do elevate and evolve us, and which thus create an inner beauty. This is the simple, profound, beautiful message of National-Socialism.
How did those National-Socialists do this? Through honour; through duty; through loyalty, through understanding the importance of beauty and of our connexion, through our folk and homeland, to Nature.
So many lies have covered this beauty; so many lies to try to distance us from that truth; so many lies to try and prevent us from seeing, understanding, striving to follow, that beautiful, inspiring, example. And yet – the truth lives; the beautiful, numinous, archetype is there, and will always be there so long as some of us remember, and recount to others our remembering.
December 114yf
Editorial Note: The article was first circulated by Reichsfolk and then published on various “right-wing” internet forums in 2003, including Stormfront and Skadi. It was subsequently translated into many languages, including a Dutch version as given below.
Een inzicht, eer en schoonheid
Hier is een inzicht: uit eer komt schoonheid, en het is schoonheid welke ik nastreef: om door schoonheid omringt te worden, van buiten en binnen. Onze moderne wereld is lelijk: het heeft lelijkheid tot een kunst verheven, een business, een cultus en tot een manier van leven.
Onze omgeving is voor het grootste deel lelijk; de houding van velen, vele mensen zijn lelijk, bezig als ze zijn met voor het merendeel moderne dingen, met overbodige dingen, en maar al te snel klaar om bereid dat te doen wat oneervol is: te rodelen, om mooi te zijn, om het eigen ego en de eigen wensen voor dat wat eervol is te plaatsen. De manier waarop ze vaak opgaan in de lelijkheid welke onze moderne wereld doordringt is pervers te noemen. Zij voelen niet de schoonheid, ze streven de schoonheid niet na; zij zijn, voor het meerendeel, gelukkig te leven, ademen, wensen en deel uit te maken van, de lelijkheid van de moderne wereld en zijn oneervolle manier van leven. Bijvoorbeeld, de meeste van de muziek, de zogenaamde entertainment, en de kunst, van de moderne wereld is lelijk; haar gebouwen, steden en dorpen, worden tot lelijkheid verheven.
Er zijn een paar plaatsen waar de schoonheid leeft heden ten dag: Een concert, wellicht, waar sublieme, overweldigende, muziek welke ons wij voor een moment boven onszelf getild worden; een vrouw van empathie, wiens gezicht, wiens ogen, wiens manieren, zowel warmte uitstralen als ons herinneren aan onze eigen breekbare menselijkheid. Een zonnige zomerdag in een landelijk stuk Europa wanneer, boven op wat heuvels, iemand de connectie met al het leven, en special de oude landen der onze voorouders, voelt. Een simpel gedeeld en woordeloos moment wanneer twee geliefden eender worden, door hun ongecompliceerde trouwe liefde, door de urgentie van een direct gedeeld kortstondig moment… Maar dit zijn ge- isoleerde, steeds minder voorkomende, incidenten, onder de stedelijke nonchalante houding, het egoisme, de obsessie met materialisme, de oneervolheid, de onloyaliteit, de individualistische gemeenschappelijkheid, het modern eleven.
Schoonheid is niet de norm, het ideaal, de ruggengraad, het doel, wat het kan en zou moeten zijn. Waarom bewonder ik, en heb ik stavast bewonderd, voor 35 jaren, het NationaalSocialistische Duitsland? Ik vond, en vind, daarin een uiting van schoonheid – een wens om schoonheid, vreugde, terug in het leven van gewone mensen te brengen; een wens om hen van lelijkheid te verhevenen. En wat prachtig was, opmerkelijk en inspirerend was, dat dit binnen de grensgebieden, binnen de beperkingen, van een moderne natie met zijn dorpen, steden en industrie werd gedaan: het ging eenieder aan, niet een minderheid, niet een elite. NationaalSocialisme was een middel waardoor de schoonheid gevoeld en gekend kon zijn, een middel waarbij de schoonheid nogmaals present was in de levens van de normale mensen. Een middel waarbij een connectie gemaakt werd naar die dingen welke ons kunnen verheven en evolueren, en daardoor dus innerlijke schoonheid waar maken. Dit is de simpele, diepgaande, mooie boodschap van het NationaalSocialisme.
En hoe deden deze NationaalSocialisten dit?
Door eer; door plichtsgevoel, door trouw, door het begrijpen van het belang van schoonheid in van onze verbintenis, door ons volk en vaderland, naar onze aard.
Zo vele leugens hebben deze schoonheid gemaskeerd; zo vele leugens welke ons op afstand willen houden van de waarheid; zo vele leugens welke trachten te voorkomen dat we zien, begrijpen en streven hetgeen te volgen, dat mooi en inspirerend is. En toch, de waarheid leeft; de schoonheid en de ruggengraad is er, en zal er altijd zijn zolang een aantal van ons zich het herinneren, en het doorgeven aan anderen om te herinneren.
° Myatt: Selected National Socialist Writings (pdf)
° Vindex: Destiny Of The West (pdf, facsimile of the 1984 text)
° David Myatt And Reichsfolk
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Reichsfolk National Socialism
Reichsfolk:
A New Interpretation Of National Socialism
What is not widely known in the modern Western world is that there are two very different interpretations of National Socialism. “Ours” – that of groups such as Reichsfolk and of those who know and who appreciate the writings and deeds of people such as Waffen-SS General Leon Degrelle {1} – and that of the majority of latter-day self-described “neo-nazis”.
Latter-Day Neo-Nazism And The National-Socialism Of Reichsfolk
The first and most well-known latter-day interpretation of National Socialism is that of the majority of self-described “neo-nazis”, and which interpretation is accepted by most anti-fascists who actively oppose such modern “neo-nazis”.
This is the National Socialism with a belief in a strong, powerful, nation-State, and with an overt racist ideology. A National Socialism with a dislike – often hatred – of non-White immigrants and non-White neighbours; with a belief in the instinct of “might is right” and the necessity of kampf; with a dislike – even a hatred – of those whose love is for someone of the same gender; a National Socialism with a misogyny based on the masculous instinct that it is the natural duty of most women to be wives and home-makers; and a National Socialism with a dislike – even a hatred – of Islam and Muslims.
The second, and not very well-known, interpretation of National Socialism is that of the “revisionist”, non-racist, National-Socialism developed by David Myatt in the 1990s and manifest in the Reichsfolk group {2} inspired as this version was by Myatt’s meetings with Waffen-SS General Leon Degrelle and by his correspondence with Jost Turner whose vision was of a new Aryan folk-community in America and of other “NS kindred” communities around the world.
In this Myattian interpretation of National-Socialism {3} it is regarded as both (i) “an ethnic philosophy which affirms that the different races, the different peoples, which exist are expressions of our human condition, and that these differences, this human diversity, should be treasured in the same way we treasure the diversity of Nature. National-Socialists believe our world would be poorer were these human differences to be destroyed through abstract ideas,” and as (ii) “a pure expression of our own unique Aryan ethics, based as these ethics are upon the idealism of duty to the folk, duty to Nature, and upon the nobility of personal honour.” {4}
It is also the National-Socialism which rejects the notion of a strong, powerful, modern nation-State in favour of new ethnic folk-communities and which National-Socialism is not politically active “on the streets” but instead is “a social, educational, cultural, and spiritual, movement based upon and dedicated to disseminating the noble principles of ethical, non-racist, National-Socialism which are honour, reason, fairness, loyalty, duty to one’s own folk and to Nature, and respect for and understanding of other cultures and other ways of life.” {2}
In simple terms, the Myattian interpretation of National-Socialism is based on both honour and race, whereas the neo-nazism of most modern nazis and of modern neo-nazi political groups is based on the glorification of race and the glorification of “racial struggle” at the expense of personal honour; a difference Myatt emphasised is his essay A Brief Criticism of William Pierce, written in 114yf,
“The main weakness of the theorizing of Pierce is that he has failed to see that it is a combination of race and honour which defines National-Socialism, and which should define the racialist movement in general. Without the evolutionary, moral, concept of honour, there is only the inhuman ethics of the past, and in practice this leads to the creation of people who are ignoble and societies which are anti-evolutionary. Thus, Pierce is firmly stuck in the past: an ignoble past of unreason and dishonour.
This lack of an ethical dimension to his thinking leads to him supporting the old concept of racial struggle and the inhuman consequence of considering that some races are superior to others.” {5}
Myatt expanded upon this in his seminal text Esoteric Hitlerism: Idealism, the Third Reich and the Essence of National-Socialism,
“An affirmation of race without an affirmation honour is not National-Socialism, just as an affirmation of honour without an affirmation of race is not National-Socialism.
It is this living, organic, dialectic of honour and race which defines National-Socialism itself, and a National-Socialist is an individual who strives to do their honourable duty to both their own race and Nature herself, of which other human races are a part.
That is, a National-Socialist must always be honourable, whatever the consequences, or the perceived consequences. Quite often, this means a National-Socialist is faced with what seems to be difficult choices and difficult decisions, although in reality if National-Socialism itself is properly understood, there is no conflict, no moral dilemma and no difficulty in doing the right, the honourable, thing.
Thus if something, some act or deed, seems to affirm race – or be beneficial to one’s race – but is dishonourable, then that something is not something a National-Socialist should do. What honour does is define our duty to our race and other races – it prevents us from committing hubris.” {5}
In addition, in Myatt’s revisionist version of National-Socialism there is no misogyny, for the NS Code of Honour applies equally to both men and women,
“A man or woman of honour treats others courteously, regardless of their culture, religion, status, and race, and is only disdainful and contemptuous of those who, by their attitude, actions and behaviour, treat they themselves with disrespect or try to personally harm them, or who treat with disrespect or try to harm those whom the individual man or woman of honour have personally sworn loyalty to or whom they champion.” {6}
Our National-Socialism
The National-Socialism of Reichsfolk is Myatt’s revisionist, non-racist, ethical, version of National-Socialism.
This is the National-Socialism where
“a true National-Socialist knows or feels that some things are honourable, and other things are dishonourable. It is dishonourable, for instance – cowardly and unfair and uncivilized – for several people to attack and try to injure or kill a single individual.
Thus, if several Caucasians attack one Negro, they are acting dishonourably – they are being uncivilized and cowardly. A true National-Socialist would never do such a thing. They would always want to see, or take part in, a “fair fight”.
Furthermore, I myself – a life-long National-Socialist – would go to the aid of a Negro if I saw him being attacked by several Caucasians, for that would be the just, the fair, the honourable, the civilized and the National-Socialist thing to do. That so many people today who adhere to ‘political National Socialist’ organizations do not agree with this just shows how far these so-called ‘National Socialists’ are from genuine National-Socialism. Which, incidently, is why I always write ‘National-Socialism’ rather than National Socialism.”
This is also the National-Socialism where there is respect for the Muslim way of life and Muslim culture, with honourable co-operation between National-Socialists and Muslims regarded as desirable {8}.
That this revisionist, non-racist, ethical, version of National-Socialism is not appreciated – and certainly not understood – in the societies of the modern West is regarded by our kind as just one more indication of just how successful the Magian, the hubriati, and the neo-nazi hordes of Homo Hubris, have been in propagating the Magian latter-day (mis)interpretation of National Socialism as something “racist”, homophobic, misogynist, anti-Muslim, and uncivilized.
{1} Waffen SS General Leon Degrelle was awarded numerous medals for war-time bravery including the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, a German military award similar to the British Military Cross. His writings include:
° The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS volunteer, 1941-1945. Institute for Historical Review. 2014. ISBN 9780939484768.
° Hitler, né à Versailles. 1–3. Paris: Art et histoire d’Europe. 1986. ISBN 2906026085.
° Ich war Gefangener. Nürnberg: Hesperos Verlag. 1944.
° Hitler pour 1000 ans. Paris: La Table Ronde. 1969.
{2} qv. https://regardingdavidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/intro-reichsfolk.pdf
{3} qv. Myatt: Selected National-Socialist Writings (pdf).
{4} Myatt, Why National-Socialism is Not Racist, 111yf. The essay is included in Myatt: Selected National-Socialist Writings.
{5} The essay is included in Myatt: Selected National-Socialist Writings.
{6} The Code is given in the third edition of Myatt’s The Meaning Of National-Socialism, included in Myatt: Selected National-Socialist Writings.
{7} Myatt, The Spirituality of National-Socialism: A Reply to Criticism, included in Myatt: Selected National-Socialist Writings.
{8} See, for instance, the essay Islam and National-Socialism in https://regardingdavidmyatt.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/ns-islam.pdf
David Myatt And Reichsfolk
https://reichsfolktimes.wordpress.com/2018/12/26/a-new-interpretation-of-national-socialism/
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David Myatt and Tommy Robinson: A Contrast
We republish here an article from 2013 which raised suspicions about the person using the alias Tommy Robinson. The article was first privately published in Das Reich, the internal bulletin of Reichsfolk, and then publicly posted on the well-known Right-Wing Stormfront internet forum. {1}
The 2013 article contrasts the showmanry, publicly-seeking behaviour of “Tommy Robinson” with the restrained behaviour of David Myatt, with Mr Robinson announcing his apparent “change of heart” in 2013 in public at a Press Conference broadcast live on Sky TV News. In contrast Myatt did not publicly mention his private conversion to Islam in 1998 until two years later when interviewed by the BBC for the Panorama TV programme about David Copeland and which brief remarks by Myatt about his conversion were cut from the programme and never broadcast.
The article also drew attention to the fact that the person behind the alias Tommy Robinson – Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – was associated with and friends with influential Zionists such as Richard Spencer and Pamela Geller. Which influential people perhaps explains why the 2013 Press Conference and Mr Robinson himself attracted so much Media attention at the time.
In the five years since the article was published it has become public knowledge that “Tommy Robinson” is now and has been for over a year not only mentored and financially aided by wealthy Zionists such as Ezra Levant, Daniel Pipes and David Horowitz, but also is supported by British Establishment figures like Eton-educated millionaire Lord Pearson and influential American figures such as the Republican Congressman Paul Gosar. {2} Gosar, incidently, is a staunch supporter of the pro-Zionist Middle East Forum run by millionaire Daniel Pipes which group paid for the July 2018 trip to England by Gosar where he met with “Tommy Robinson” and spoke at a pro-Robinson public rally organized and paid for by Daniel Pipes and Ezra Levant.
In summary, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – a convicted criminal who has been jailed for violence and fraud – is a man who is not only, as the 2013 article states, a publicity-seeker “hooked on attention” but is also, as more recent articles have revealed, a useful muppet whose strings are being pulled by his Zionist paymasters while Establishment figures like Lord Pearson massage his ego by wining and dining him in exclusive venues such as the British Houses of Parliament with the muppet now well-dressed and well-coiffured courtesy of his wealthy mentors but still spouting the same old Islamophobic rhetoric he spouted five and more years ago.
In contrast David Myatt – despite also being a convicted criminal who has also been jailed for violence – is a man who not only now lives like a reclusive mystic but who also as a result of pathei-mathos has, in extensive writings, renounced both his extremist past and all forms of extremism. {3}
{1} http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t999405/
The Das Reich bulletin published by Myatt’s Reichsfolk group was mentioned in the Nazi Satanism And The New Aeon chapter of the book Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, authored by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (page 223 of the edition published by NYU Press in 2003). It was also mentioned – in the section headed David Wulstan Myatt – in the earlier book Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right, edited by Jeffrey Kaplan and published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2000.
{2} See for example https://reichsfolktimes.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/an-example-of-zionist-power/
{3} For an overview of Myatt’s recent writings see the book The Mystic Philosophy Of David Myatt (pdf)
David Myatt and Tommy Robinson – A Comparison
In early October 2013 the founder and leader of the anti-Muslim EDL, one Tommy Robinson (aka Stephen Lennon aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka Andrew McMaster aka Paul Harris, or whatever his real name is) with much fanfare publicly announced he had left the English Defence League (EDL) because he had “concerns over the dangers of far-right extremism”.
He subsequently gave many interviews to journalists and even held a press conference which was not only broadcast live by Sky TV but also was widely covered by many mainstream newspapers and media including The Guardian and The Sunday Times.
In several of these interviews he announced his intention of continuing to combat what he termed Islamic extremism and even spoke of forming or being part of some new group dedicated, among other things, to preventing the establishment of any new mosques in Britain and propagating the belief that “the Koran promotes violence”. He also declined, when pressed by several journalists, to renounce his association with and support for prominent anti-Islam activists and propagandists such as Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer with whom he had a long-standing association.
Unsurprisingly, many anti-fascist groups and commentators were suspicious of Robinson’s sudden ‘conversion’ with one association – the Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks – even going so far as to say that unless Robinson met with the victims of anti-Muslim prejudice where the perpetrators were EDL sympathisers they would not believe his ‘conversion’ was genuine.
Contrast the public shenanigans of Robinson with David Myatt, the founder and first leader of the NSM (of which David Copeland was a member) who was, for thirty years, a violent neo-nazi activist and regarded not only as the “ideological heavyweight behind Combat 18” but also as “the mentor who drove David Copeland to kill”.
In the Fall of 1998 Myatt privately, and without any public fuss, converted to Islam at a Mosque in Worcester. Following this conversion he gained a reputation, according to the author Martin Amis, as a “fierce Jihadi”, and – according to Professor Robert Wistrich – travelled and spoke in several Arab countries and wrote one of the most detailed defences in the English language of Islamic suicide attacks, with the Simon Wiesenthal Center commentating in 2003 that,
“David Myatt, the leading hardline Nazi intellectual in Britain since the 1960s […] has converted to Islam, praises bin Laden and al Qaeda, calls the 9/11 attacks ‘acts of heroism’, and urges the killing of Jews. Myatt, under the name Abdul Aziz Ibn Myatt supports suicide missions and urges young Muslims to take up Jihad. Observers warn that Myatt is a dangerous man.”
Over ten years later (in 2010) Myatt, again privately, and without any public fuss, renounced all forms of extremism, admitted his past mistakes, expressed regret regarding his extremist past, and wrote, in an oblique reference to his former political opponents (such as those involved with the Searchlight organization), that –
“I harbour no resentment against individuals, or organizations, or groups, who over the past forty or so years have publicly and/or privately made negative or derogatory comments about me or published items making claims about me. Indeed, I now find myself in the rather curious situation of not only agreeing with some of my former political opponents on many matters, but also (perhaps) of understanding (and empathizing with) their motivation; a situation which led and which leads me to appreciate even more just how lamentable my extremism was and just how arrogant, selfish, wrong, and reprehensible, I as a person was, and how in many ways many of those former opponents were and are (ex concesso) better people than I ever was or am.” Source – http://www.davidmyatt.info/genesis-of-my-unknowing.html
Myatt then withdraw from public life, to reclusively concentrate on developing his rather mystical ‘philosophy of pathei-mathos’ which extols the virtues of compassion, humility, empathy, and love.
This comparison of Myatt with the shenanigans of ‘Tommy Robinson’ leads to the inevitable conclusion that, as one journalist wrote, Robinson’s “defection is not a transformation” and that Robinson “is a man who is hooked on attention” who is simply “changing his method” (his tactics) and not his fundamental beliefs.
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Court Enforces Arbitration Agreement Incorporated Into “Notice to Employees”
November 19, 2019 by Brendan Gooley
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas compelled arbitration in a putative Fair Labor Standards Act class action based on language in a “notice to employees” that put the plaintiffs on notice that they were agreeing to arbitrate claims in an incorporated (and hyperlinked) arbitration agreement. The court also rejected various other defenses to arbitration raised by the plaintiffs in an attempt to avoid arbitration.
Cotton Patch Café LLC, a restaurant chain, hired Ian Norred to be a server when he was 17 years old. Cotton Patch also hired Rain Bennett when she was 18 years old. Norred and Bennett signed an electronic document titled “Notice to Employees” that contained a section titled “Arbitration Acknowledgment, Safety Pledge and Receipt” and another section titled “Agreement to Arbitrate.” The latter section provided, among other things: “I agree to use binding arbitration, instead of going to court, for any claims, including any claims now in existence or that may exist in the future” against Cotton Patch. It also referred Norred and Bennett to a hyperlink that read “View Agreement” where they could read the full arbitration agreement. The notice to employees also stated: “By my signature below, I acknowledge that I have received and read (or had the opportunity to read the … [a]rbitration [a]greement. …”
Norred sued Cotton Patch claiming that it had violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by not adequately compensating him and other similarly situated employees. Bennett joined Norred’s suit. Cotton Patch responded by seeking to invoke the arbitration provision. Norred and Bennett claimed that they were unaware of the terms of the agreement and could not have assented to them (because the terms were not in the notice to employees and were accessible by hyperlink). They also claimed that there was no valid agreement to arbitrate because the notice to employees did not indicate that Cotton Patch had offered consideration in exchange for the arbitration clause.
Applying Texas contract law, the Northern District of Texas concluded that a valid contract existed and that the contract included the notice to employees and arbitration agreement. The notice to employees contained sufficient language to incorporate the arbitration agreement by reference. The notice to employees was also clear on that point. The arbitration agreement was also supported by mutual consideration and was mutual, requiring all parties to arbitrate.
The court also rejected Norred and Bennett’s defenses. Norred and Bennett argued, among other things, that the contract was illusory because the agreement to arbitrate was unilateral and because Cotton Patch could unilaterally terminate the agreement. The court rejected that argument, noting that the agreement was mutual and Cotton Patch’s power to terminate the agreement did not apply to claims prior to termination. The court also rejected the argument that the language in the agreement established that it applied only to current employees (Norred and Bennett had previously stopped working at Cotton Patch.) Notably, the court rejected Norred’s argument that he was not bound by the agreement because he signed it while he was underage. Although it was true that a minor could repudiate a contract, he had to do so within a reasonable time after turning 18, which Norred did not do in this case. Finally, the court concluded that the agreement between Cotton Patch and Norred and Bennett was not unconscionable.
Norred v. Cotton Patch Café, LLC, No. 3:19-cv-01010 (N.D. Tex. Oct. 22, 2019).
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Skrivet av: rebeccamw | 2019/08/20
Open and replicable science cannot save us from academia
P-hacking and other questionable research practices were described in the scientific literature as early as 1830 by Charles Babbage in his book “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England and on Some of Its Causes”. That was 189 years ago, and he was not the first: “That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine”. Babbage wrote his impopular book because he found it absolutely necessary for academia to change in order to save science:“Of the causes which have induced me to print this volume I have little to say; my own opinion is, that it will ultimately do some service to science, and without that belief I would not have undertaken so thankless a task.”
Thanks to Babbage’s whistleblowing, academia changed and questionable research practices are today mere anecdotes we tell undergradute students during their first lessons in scientific methods.
No. Academia didn’t change and science wasn’t saved. 200 years after Babbage’s book, academia remains the same, but worse: insecure employments; unhealthy hierarchies; unhealthy work-life balance; unwanted relocation to secure a position; administrative focus on quantity rather than quality; career development rather than scientific development; fear of sharing ideas, data and materials with colleagues; publish or perish. These are the things that make us employ questionable research practices. Academia might once have been created for the sake of science, but if so, that purpose was lost a very long time ago.
Babbage described the exact same problems that we are still struggling with. He worried about too few positions in academia for scientists and that there were too many scientists–especially leaders–who cared more about their career and reputation than about science. Babbage argued that science lose out when researchers need to support their leaders to protect their own positions. “The habits of […] obedience and command […] are little fitted for that perfect freedom which should reign in the councils of science”, he wrote. He described the need for open discussion, non-anonymous criticism, and the importance of scientific discussions not being competitive or about winning. He insisted that the public had a right to read and review scientific work paid by public funds, and he expressed frustration over public funds being misplaced on irrelevant administration.
Babbage also wrote about the importance for scientists to have enough time free from teaching and non-scientific responsibilities to focus on their research. This view is brought up again 67 years later by the renowned neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal in his book “Advice for a Young Investigator”. Alex Soojung-Kim Pang (2016) writes about it in his book “Rest: Why you get more done when you work less” (p’s 20-21):
“[…] Santiago Ramón y Cajal warned aspiring young scientists that two major impediments would stand in their way as they tried to make new discoveries. First, science had become a source of industrial and political power, and growth of the scientific community, as well as faster communication within the community through journals, conferences, and newspapers, had made science faster and more competitive. No longer could scientists afford to “concentrate for extended periods of time on one subject” […]. One had to hurry to stay ahead of the competition. “Research is now frantic,” he warned, and this meant that fast, superficial science – and lots of it – won over slower, deeper, and more profound work.
Second, most scientists assumed that long hours were necessary to produce great work and that “an avalanche of lectures, articles, and books” would loosen some profound insight. This was one reason they willingly accepted a world of faster science: they believed it would make their own science better. But this was a style of work, Ramón y Cajal argued, that led to asking only shallow, easily answered questions rather than hard, fundamental ones. It created the appearance of profundity and feelings of productivity but did not lead to substantial discoveries. Choosing to be prolific, he contended, meant closing off the possibility of doing great work.”
To do good science, we need “cerebral polarization or sustained concentration” (p. 30), Pang reports from reading “Advice for a Young Investigator”, and we need rest (p. 31):
Diversions that are “light and promote the association of new ideas” are to be taken freely. Long walks, art, and music offer good material for a break. And if, after a period of sustained concentration, a breakthrough does not come, “yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while.” A few weeks of “relaxation and quiet in the countryside brings calmness and clarity to the mind”, and provides “intellectual refreshment.” Even getting there can provide creative stimulus: “the powerful vibration of the locomotive and the spiritual solitude of the railway car,” he says, will often “suggest ideas that are ultimately confirmed in the laboratory.”
The replicability revolution we currently see, primarily in the life and social sciences, calls for increased scientific rigor. Just like Charles Babbage did 189 years ago. What is the difference now? Why would we succeed this time?
The answer is that we now have computers and internet and that the current revolution is co-occurring with a different movement: the movement for open science.
By coincidence, the movement for open science can actually also be traced back to Charles Babbage. One of the early computer pioneers, Babbage can arguably be considered to have played at least a small role in sparking the openness movements that later emerged during the early 1980’s with software developer Richard Stallman at MIT and the free (libre) open source software movement. The openness movements have offered empirical scientists the tools we need to improve the scientific rigor of our work: open data; open code and materials; version control and digital preregistration; open and rapid access to scientific reports (e.g. preprints); open licenses (e.g. Creative Commons); unrestricted word limits in scientific publications. Today we finally have a reproducibility movement, hand in hand with the openness movements. And this is why we have such a great potential to succeed this time.
The reproducibility movement became a movement, especially in psychology, some time during 2010-2011. University of Virginia was and still is one of the epicenters for the movement through the important and hard work by scholars such as Brian Nosek, Barbara Spellman, and Jeff Spies. This year, the movement–or revolution as it is often called–has been ongoing for 9 years. Brian Nosek (2019) recently posted on Twitter about a new form that faculty members at the university must complete, including the following items:
Number of completed peer-reviewed publications
Number of unpublished/incomplete active projects
Cumulative citation count
Annual citation count
Annual patents count
External invited talks count
Books published count
Book chapters count
9 years at the epicenter of revolution, and this is where we are?
Academia remains the same and I fear that the only change we will accomplish within the current system is to raise the stakes; adding pressure to already stressed out researchers by telling them that they now also need to conduct science in new and additional ways.
Number of completed peer-reviewed publications that are open access
Number of completed peer-reviewed publications that were preregistered
Number of completed peer-reviewed publications with open data
Number of unpublished/incomplete active preregistrations
Number of preprints that are not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal
Annual open licenses count
Annual open badges count
Raising the stakes at this point, in traditional academia, is not the solution we are looking for. Academics will find shortcuts to meet the new requirements for publication, just like they did with the previous requirements.
The goal of academia has for at least 200 years primarily been to make money to fund expensive and inefficient habits such as superfluous administration; buildings; subscription fees for access to scientific articles; and more recently, to fund proprietary software. I think it is pretty fair to say that academia has become counter-productive to science. The change we are longing for can thus not be found within the existent academia. Not 189 years ago. Not 9 years ago. Not today.
So what is the solution?
I believe the solution is pretty straightforward: science would be better off without academia, so why not cut the ties? Many of the great discoveries did not come from the universities, Babbage (1830) pointed out, but from scientists working for themselves. Researchers don’t need academia, we never have. We can organise ourselves in other ways or reinvent academia from scratch: less and more efficient administration; cheaper buildings or no buildings at all; open access (or Sci-Hub) instead of subscriptions; free and open source software; location independence to allow researchers, students, administrative and technical staff to work from wherever they want to or need to be; and completely flexible work hours (researchers should probably not count work hours at all).
Researchers have tried for at least 200 years to change academia and they have all failed. So would we. So let’s not do that. Let’s instead build something new, a new academia. We can create many new ways for scientists to organise themselves. Maybe something like IGDORE or Ronin. Maybe something different. Let’s try, shall we?
*Babbage. C. (1830). Reflections on the decline of science in England and on some of its causes. London: B. Fellowes, Ludgate Street; J. Booth, Duke Street, Portland Place.
Nosek, B. (2019). https://twitter.com/BrianNosek/status/1110946407316369413.
Pang, A. S. K. (2016). Rest: Why you get more things done when you work less. Penguin Random House UK.
*Please forgive me the sloppy Babbage references. They are based on personal notes I made while reading the book and I had not recorded the page numbers. I’m happy to help you find the page source for a particular statement should you not be able to find it yourself.
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Hi there! Thank you for posting your thoughts on this topic. I am a mid-career professional who is considering applying for a PhD in psychology. I like your thinking as I can clearly see that research and teaching are separate. However, many researchers need a venue to talk about their work, and students do need educators. What are your thoughts about the knowledge transfer aspect of graduate study?
By: Sandy on 2019/08/20
Hi Sandy! Thank you for reading! Research and teaching are two separate things but they can both definitely occur within the same organisation. I’m not proposing to leave the students behind in traditional academia while the researchers leave for a new academia. The students also need a better work environment, etc, just like the researchers do.
By: rebeccamw on 2019/08/21
Very nice article, however the problem is that journals only accept articles (especially with human participants) of experiments that were approved by an ethics committee. How are you going to do research as an independent researcher as you say, when you are forced to use ethics committees by universities?
By: anon on 2019/08/21
Thank you for your comment! Ethics review is indeed a crucial point.
The laws on ethics review for research on humans are very different in different countries. For example in US you’ll find a number of limited companies specialised in ethical review of research conducted outside of traditional academia. Such reviews can cost the applicant about 10.000 USD or more. Sweden practices a law that only makes it possible to ethically review certain types of research with humans; completely anonymous research with adults about non-sensitive topics *can* be ethically reviewed if the researcher really wants to, but cannot receive any formal ethical approval. Yet other countries, such as Indonesia, makes it possible for individual researchers to ask the closest university if their IRB can review their research.
Research institutes, such as IGDORE and Ronin, can also set up their own ethical review boards. Likely will such review boards in the beginning be focused on meeting the eligibility criteria in one or a few selected countries, for example the country from which they have most researchers being in need of the service. US seems to be a country that really needs competition on this area to push down the unethically(!) high prices on ethical review outside of traditional academia.
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Apoptosis and viral hepatitis
S. Pianko, G. McCaughan, W. Sievert, J. G. McHutchison
Medicine Monash Health
In chronic viral hepatitis, necrosis is the central histologic feature. However, cells also die by apoptosis. The cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) plays a central role in both mechanisms of cell death. Necrotic cell death occurs in response to an injurious stimulus, whereas apoptosis also plays a role in physiologic cell death. In contrast to necrosis, when cells die by apoptosis they form apoptotis bodies without the release of toxic intracellular contents. In viral hepatitis, apoptosis is increased and correlates with the degree of histologic inflammation, Interaction between the CTL and the hepatocyte signals apoptosis, and this interaction occurs through the release of intracellular proapoptotic agents and via ligand/receptor interaction. Viral gene products may also act to induce or inhibit apoptosis. Irrespective of the pathway, the apoptotic cascade is activated and proceeds through enzymes known as caspases. In the liver, apoptosis is not restricted to the hepatocyte, and non-parenchymal apoptosis may be important in fibrogenesis. We review the essential features of apoptosis and how they relate to parenchymal and non-parenchymal cell injury in viral hepatitis. Potential future pro-and anti-apoptotic agents may be targets for therapy.
Viral Hepatitis Reviews
Cytotoxic T lymphocyte
Pianko, S., McCaughan, G., Sievert, W., & McHutchison, J. G. (2000). Apoptosis and viral hepatitis. Viral Hepatitis Reviews, 6(1-4), 93-109.
Pianko, S. ; McCaughan, G. ; Sievert, W. ; McHutchison, J. G. / Apoptosis and viral hepatitis. In: Viral Hepatitis Reviews. 2000 ; Vol. 6, No. 1-4. pp. 93-109.
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Beyond big data, the open data revolution for research
Paul Benneworth, Inge Bakker, Willem-Jan Velderman
Center for Higher Education Policy Studies
The Netherlands has pioneered the use of open data by public authorities, driven by a desire to exploit existing local government information and data to help solve other kinds of policy problem, to improve transparency of decision-making and to stimulate data commercialisation. But recently emphasis has shifted from improving transparency to improving municipality service delivery and policy development. In this chapter we question whether open data can improve regional decision-making. Drawing on a case study of a region in the east of the Netherlands, we identify potential opportunities for, and barriers to, using open data in delivering smart social cities.
Knowledge, Policymaking and Learning for European Cities and Regions
From Research to Practice
Nicola Francesco Dotti
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Published - 31 Aug 2018
New Horizons in Regional Science series
Benneworth, P., Bakker, I., & Velderman, W-J. (2018). Beyond big data, the open data revolution for research. In N. F. Dotti (Ed.), Knowledge, Policymaking and Learning for European Cities and Regions: From Research to Practice (pp. 193–205). (New Horizons in Regional Science series). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786433640.00026
Benneworth, Paul ; Bakker, Inge ; Velderman, Willem-Jan . / Beyond big data, the open data revolution for research. Knowledge, Policymaking and Learning for European Cities and Regions: From Research to Practice. editor / Nicola Francesco Dotti. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2018. pp. 193–205 (New Horizons in Regional Science series).
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En route to safer roads. How road structure and road classification can affect road safety.
Atze Dijkstra
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Research output: Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research external, graduation UT
Atze Dijkstra investigated whether road safety can be improved by making changes in road structure and road categorization according to the functional requirements of Sustainable Safety. One of these demands is that the fastest route is also the safest route. This is often not the case in practice. The results of this research will make it possible to check in the planning and design phases of a road network to which extent it will meet the Sustainable Safety requirements. Several (new) types of research methods and safety indicators were used to answer these questions. The road network has been analysed using the so-called (adapted) Integrated Network Design method. The safety aspects of routes have been determined using three safety indicators: a route score which describes the safety of a route (DV score), the number of conflicts that has been calculated in a microsimulation model (calculated conflicts), and the number of registered crashes. The number of calculated conflicts has a quantitative relation with the number of crashes, and the number of conflicts has a quantitative relation with the route score. Indirectly, through the number of conflicts, there is a relation between the DV score and the number of crashes. The DV score is therefore relevant for road safety research. In a study area, several routes with the same origin-destination relation have been investigated. The comparison of their DV scores shows that, among other things, the fastest route and the most chosen route do not always have the best scores. The safety of the routes that were travelled has afterwards also been calculated using crash rates. This indicates that the fastest routes are significantly less safe than the safest routes. These results are dependent on the given network in the study area. Adaptation of the network can change the results. The present study shows that presently the safest route often fails to be also the fastest route. Because drivers usually choose the fastest route, the author recommends developing policy to ensure that the fastest route is also the safest route.
van Maarseveen, Martin, Supervisor
SWOV
Published - 12 May 2011
Dijkstra, A. (2011). En route to safer roads. How road structure and road classification can affect road safety. Leidschendam: SWOV.
Dijkstra, Atze. / En route to safer roads. How road structure and road classification can affect road safety.. Leidschendam : SWOV, 2011. 247 p.
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Skip the Caipiroska: Brazilian cachaca brand defends its national spirit
April 15, 2010 at 9:40 pm by Brian Hieggelke
by Brian Hieggelke
April 15, 2010 Filed under:
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By Ernest Barteldes
While living in Brazil, I remember ordering caipirinhas (the famous national cocktail made with muddled lime, sugar and cachaça) at restaurants and bars, and I was hit with the inevitable question: “de cachaça ou de vodka” (“Do you want it made with cachaça or vodka?”).
At the time, I didn’t think much of it. Although I did prefer the spiciness of the Brazilian national spirit, I also often recalled the hangovers I’d get from drinking the (mostly) mass-produced stuff they had there at the time, and most of the time ended up having the drink made from vodka.
The problem is that muddling lime and sugar and adding anything other than cachaça is not a caipirinha, but an imitation (some bars list the alternatives as caipiroska—with vodka—or caipirissima when made with rum). But since the general public was not complaining, they got away with it—until now.
Just recently, a group of purists led by the producers of Leblon cachaça have been making an effort to “save” the caipirinha by calling for the public to sign a list (salveacaipirinha.com.br) that would regulate not only the cocktail itself but also to let the public know if the cachaça is artisanal (like today’s premium brands) or mass-produced like the vast majority of brands available in Brazil.
I first heard about this on this controversy in the UK’s Guardian, and I left a comment stating that there are two reasons for this problem. The first is that in Brazil there is a stigma that cachaça is a poor man’s drink, and as a result “sophisticated” drinkers opt for vodka-based drinks out of pure prejudice. The other is the general acceptance of the alternatives in bars, restaurants and other locations (yes, you can have one made right by the beach there).
Curious about the origins of the campaign, I contacted Leblon’s US representative, Steve Luttman, who told me via email that “our Salve a Caipirinha campaign in Brazil is focused on educating consumers and bartenders on the high quality of cachaça, particularly the batch Alembic Cachaças from Minas Gerais, and to reconsider cachaça instead of particularly vodka when ordering a caipirinha.” He added that “In Brazil, 60 percent of caipirinhas are now ordered with vodka amongst high-income consumers. This figure was only 10 percent a little over five years ago.”
“The issue is the perception of cachaça being a low-quality spirit, and particularly low consumer awareness about the differences between an industrial mass-produced cachaça, and a batch Alembic Cachaça,” he stated. “The problem is magnified by the labeling laws, which don’t allow the batch Alembic Cachaças to explicitly communicate Alembic production methods on their labeling. As part of our campaign, we are supporting, with other Alembic producers, legislation proposed in Brasilia by two congressmen to revise the labeling laws, allowing Alembic to be placed prominently on cachaça labels.”
I couldn’t help but agree with Luttman on this one. Cachaça makes a whole lot of difference in a caipirinha. Make a caipiroska and you taste lime and sugar, but the flavors inherent to the original spirit are completely lost. The same goes with rum, when the taste of molasses simply overpowers the other flavors. Not that I would forsake the non-Brazilian spirits altogether, for everything has its place in our drinking world.
As Luttman later told me, “I would never put cachaça in a cosmo, or rum in a margarita, nor would I put low-quality tequila in a margarita or cheap vodka in a martini. It’s kind of like making mashed potatoes from instant flakes versus real potatoes (but then again, for some people, flakes are fine.)”
“It just seems to me that cachaça can be as good as all the other spirits, and like Brazil, it deserves some respect,” he concludes.
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CARL LINNAEUS: CLASSIFYING NATURAL HISTORY (1)
‘THE FIRST EDITION’
Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778) is arguably the most renowned Swedish naturalist. Maybe unarguably. Before the age of 30, his orderly and rigorous scientific methodology had created a new standard system for the classification of the natural world. As initial challenges to his great work fell to one side, so he bestrode his present and the future natural world as a great innovator. His system has stood the test of time to this day – and in Latin, too. As the saying goes, “Deus Creavit; Linnaeus Disposuit“: God created, Linnaeus organised. In fact, Linnaeus himself was (rather vainly?) the originator of the adage…
ANIMAL, VEGETABLE & MINERAL
Linnaeus first had to define the broad categories in order to organise them into their component parts. He chose regnum animale, regnum vegetabile and regnum lapideum – the animal, vegetable (plant) and mineral kingdoms. Here are some examples, photographed in the climate-controlled ‘treasures room’ at the Linnean Society, London during a viewing with the Librarian.
The first column of the first substantive page of the first edition of Systema Naturae (1735). This is the start of it all – the ‘man-like’ creatures Man [classed as a quadruped], apes and… 3-toed sloths (Bradypus), later to be moved to a more comfortable place. After that come creatures large and small, wild and domesticated, including lions, bears, cats, weasels, and moles. Canis included not only the dog, wolf, and fox but also… the squillachi. The last one is a mystery – a quick online search reveals only a footballer of that name.
At the bottom of the first column, horses, hippos, elephants and varieties of pig are classified together; followed by varieties of camel, deer, goat, sheep and cattle.
Linnaeus’s achievements in ‘organising’ were twofold. First, he grouped creatures, plants and minerals into similar species, using his prodigious knowledge to arrange the groups into defined hierarchies (and as it was to turn out, not invariably correctly). Secondly, he adapted and refined an existing but somewhat random scheme into his structured binomial system, attaching two names to each creature, plant or mineral. The first name was a general categorisation (‘genera’); the second was more specific (‘species’). Consistency was achieved for the first time. Linnaeus was indeed the ‘father of taxonomy’ as we still know it today. He probably called himself that as well.
Here are some of the birds – grackles, doves, gulls and so on down the list. The latin names will be very familiar to birders, since they are still used today. The birds are followed by columns for amphibians, fishes, insects and sea creatures such as jellyfish, conchs and urchins.
Entries in the minerals section, with schist, marble and quartz perhaps the most easily identifiable.
On the right of the bird column shown above is a hint of a ‘random’ category. My detailed photo of it didn’t work, so I include a facsimile copy is below. These were creatures that were known of, or believed possibly to exist but for which there was perhaps scant scientific evidence. The hydra. The monocerous. The pelican. The satyr. The borometz (half-sheep, half-plant), phoenix and dragon. And so on. Bearing in mind the date of this work, it is perhaps not surprising that Linnaeus kept his mind and his options open about such creatures. You can read about all these Paradoxa in an excellent Wiki article HERE
SYSTEMA NATURAE (1735)
The title page of the first edition of Systema Naturae (1735). This was the first page we were shown, after the book had been laid reverently on a special cushion by the Librarian. I have to admit to a jolt of excitement, both then and indeed several times more during our visit.
Published in 1735 when Linnaeus was a mere 28, Systema Naturae was both revolutionary and evolutionary.The full title of the work spelled out the breadth of the enterprise: “System of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera and species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places”. At least 12 further editions were published during his lifetime. Each was expanded as more scientific data was gathered; from 11 pages in the 1st edition to more than 2000 in the 12th, published about 30 years later. Corrections were also made. For example, the initial assignment of whales to fishes, based on knowledge at the time, was later corrected to include them with mammals.
The Taxonomic Hierarchy (+ Setophaga pityophila)
IN PART 2: THE COLLECTIONS OF LINNAEUS
The extraordinary manuscript, specimen and library collection of Linnaeus is preserved in this wonderful treasure store. I took this photograph at the end of the viewing. By this stage we had examined a selection of the sample cases – note the open drawers and cases on the table. Also, note the special cushion for the precious manuscripts.
All photographs © Keith Salvesen; portrait and facsimile scan of Paradoxa, O/S; Olive-capped Warbler (as annotated by me), Tom Sheley; magpie pickings from a wide variety of sources inc. Linnean Society, Smithsonian, Encyclopaedia Britannica online – and not excl. Wiki!
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Surgical Endoscopy
December 2010 , Volume 24, Issue 12, pp 3224–3224 | Cite as
Chopstick surgery: a novel technique enables use of the Da Vinci Robot to perform single-incision laparoscopic surgery
R. A. Joseph
N. A. Salas
C. Johnson
A. Goh
S. P. Cuevas
M. A. Donovan
M. G. Kaufman
B. Miles
P. R. Reardon
B. L. Bass
B. J. Dunkin
First Online: 24 June 2010
Single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) is limited by the coaxial arrangement of the instruments. A surgical robot with “wristed” instruments could overcome this limitation but the “arms” collide when working coaxially. This video demonstrates a new technique of “chopstick surgery,” which enables use of the robotic arms through a single incision without collision.
Experiments were conducted utilizing the da Vinci S® robot (Sunnyvale, CA) in a porcine model with three laparoscopic ports (12 mm, 2–5 mm) introduced through a single “incision.” Pilot work conducted while performing Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) tasks determined the optimal setup for SILS to be a triangular port arrangement with 2-cm trocar distance and remote center at the abdominal wall. Using this setup, an experienced robotic surgeon performed a cholecystectomy and nephrectomy in a porcine model utilizing the “chopstick” technique. The chopstick arrangement crosses the instruments at the abdominal wall so that the right instrument is on the left side of the target and the left instrument on the right. This arrangement prevents collision of the external robotic arms. To correct for the change in handedness, the robotic console is instructed to drive the “left” instrument with the right hand effector and the “right” instrument with the left.
Both procedures were satisfactorily completed with no external collision of the robotic arms, in acceptable times and with no technical complications. This is consistent with results obtained in the box trainer where the chopstick configuration enabled significantly improved times in all tasks and decreased number of errors and eliminated instrument collisions.
Chopstick surgery significantly enhances the functionality of the surgical robot when working through a small single incision. This technique will enable surgeons to utilize the robot for SILS and possibly for intraluminal or transluminal surgery.
Porcine Model Port Arrangement Surgical Robot Laparoscopic Port Optimal Setup
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Posted by ReadItDaddy at January 02, 2020 Labels: comics and graphic novels
We're kicking off the new year with a couple of articles we've been working on for a wee while.
Over the Christmas Holidays, and for most of 2019 in fact, we've been ramping up our comic consumption. Mainly due to the crazy deals around in digital comics (and if you're a purist with infinite amounts of cash to spend on printed comics, more power to you!) but also due to the sheer amount of amazing stuff that's appeared over the last decade in the world of kid and YA comics.
As much as we hate trying to divide things up into neat little pigeonholes by age group or reading ability, we're going to offer up 25 comics and graphic novels in each of the 2 age groups in our two-parter article (Early Years & Middle Grade, then Tweens and Young Adult) that tick all the right boxes for us.
So let's dig in with part 1...
Early Years & Middle Grade Comics (Rough age guide - Approx 0-11 years old)
Kids are never too young to start appreciating comics - though for adults it's not always easy to read these as you would a picture book. Following comic narrative comes naturally to kids though, they are able to follow and decode a story far more naturally in comic strip form than other methods of breaking down reading. We're not going to get into a phonics discussion here but let's list 25 fantastic comics and graphic novels for the above age groups (in no particular order).
1) Hilda by Luke Pearson (Flying Eye Books)
Peerless pace and fantastic artwork, tons of detail and stories that limit the 'wordiness' of other comics to let the visual narrative take over. Shot through with Nordic charm, fantastic beasts, and some of the tightest artwork you'll see, it's not difficult to see why Luke Pearson is such a sought-after talent, working on top shows like Adventure Time as well as creating an enviable catalogue of glorious graphic novels for kids. Check out the Netflix show too, with series 2 well under way.
2) L'il Gotham by Derek Fridolfs and Dustin Nguyen (DC).
Arguably way better than the 'grown up' DC Universe characters, imagine the Little Rascals as a bunch of superheroes and supervillains. Brilliantly observed, funny and yet still "Bat/Supe/WonderWoman" enough to be recognisably part of the DC Universe with adventures in summer camps giving these just the right level of kid appeal.
3) Spider-Ham by Larry Hama and Tom De Falco (Marvel Comics).
Bitten by a radioactive spider, a pig becomes part of the Spider-Verse in a series of surreal wisecracking adventures. Satisfyingly spider, funny and just a little bit crazy.
4) Louis by Metaphrog (Self Published). More surreality than you can possibly handle, with a completely engaging central character just trying to live his best life.
There's so much to unpack here, from Louis' musings on his almost cube-bound simple life to his friendship with awesome best birdy pal FC, and the nefarious plots of his 'frenemies', a boss and his "Shiny" sidekick. Hunt these down, they're just so good!
5) The Phoenix Comic (David Fickling / Phoenix Publishing)
We've been reading the Phoenix since C was a tiny mite, and even though she was probably a bit young for it originally, she's grown up loving the strips and becoming familiar with the characters in a comic that is undeniably "hers" just as 2000AD was mine when I was a nipper. Effortlessly diverse, reeking of quality from cover to cover, with a fantastic mix of funny strips, action, adventure, sci fi, and even gritty dystopia, it's the comic that keeps on giving and it just keeps getting better and better every year. Pick up the collected "Phoenix Presents" series for a taster before diving in on the main comic weekly and don't miss out on strips such as Corpse Talk (history has never been so much fun!), Von Doogan (our brains still hurt from working our way through the last adventure!), Mega Robo Bros, Looshkin, Troy Trailblazer, Squid Bits, Gorebrah and so many, many more awesome strips and characters that make this awesome comic utterly essential to our weekly sanity on the blog!
6) The Beano / The Dandy (DC Thomson)
Two of the longest-running kids comics out there, and with good reason. Both The Beano and The Dandy have continued to offer up a brilliant mix of familiar and new characters, constantly evolving and attracting some of the best talent out there. Though concentrating mostly on funny strips, both The Beano and The Dandy are still well loved (and well read) by us, and still offer up an enviable cast of characters for kids looking for a decent weekly funny comic. Both brilliant!
7) The Holidays by Blexbolex (Gecko Press)
Wordless graphic novels should be more of a thing. They take skill and cunning to pull off perfectly, and Gecko Press have been publishing some of the best examples over the last few years, dancing that thin line between 'pure' graphic novel and picture book. "The Holidays" is a simple story of childhood seen through the eyes of a young girl setting off on her holidays with her dad. It begins fairly ordinarily before descending into a whirlwind maelstrom of imagination and surreality as the girl enhances her world with daydreams and flights of fancy. Argue all you want whether this should be in a comic / graphic novel roundup but it feels very much like a lot of high concept grown-up graphic novels, and is an utterly stunning piece of art.
8) Marvel Rising by Ryan North, Devin Wilson, Guruhiri and others (Marvel)
Finding your way into the sheer sprawl of the Marvel Universe (movie or comic) is tough, and we're often asked what comics from Marvel's gigantic back catalogue we'd recommend as 'safe' for younger kids. "Marvel Rising" isn't just put together by some of the cream of Marvel's writing and illustration talent, it features some of their most exciting characters of the last few years with a mighty roster comprising Ms Marvel, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Captain Marvel, New Captain America and many others. Packed with awesome storytelling, mighty girls and boys, and a ton of kick-ass action yet pretty safe for 4-5 upwards.
9) Welcome to Oddleigh by Tor Freeman (Bog Eyed Books)
Tor is just too, too good! As a regular contributor to "The Phoenix Comic" and of course a massively popular author and artist in her own right, here she's collected together a series of incredibly funny comic strips about ordinary everyday animal folk, that comes across like a crazed mash-up between Richard Scarry, Edgar Wright and Tove Jansson.
"Welcome to Oddleigh" is pant-wettingly rib-tickling storytelling with a ton of distinctly eccentric anthropomorphic animal characters policed by long-suffering cops Chief Inspector Jessie and Sergeant Sid. Chock full of mystery, suspense, hilarity and surreality in equal measure, this is genius stuff!
10) Steven Universe by Various Artists / Authors (Titan Comics)
Easily as brilliant as the show that spawned them, these monthly comics are regularly collected into different volumes, each riffing on themes and ideas that have made the show such a huge success. Steven and the Crystal Gems are a perfect fit for comics, and the title has attracted some of the most enviable talent in the business such as Melanie Gilman and Katie Farina, steering the series towards storylines that will give your kids a fantastic slice of colourful candy-coloured fantasy.
11) Doctor Who Comic by various artists / authors (Titan Comics)
Another licensed comic, one that has been running for many, many years but is constantly reinvented, rebooted and regenerated almost as much as the good Doctor him/herself. Splintered into various series each favouring a particular 'flavour' of Doctor, right up to current awesome Doctor 13, Jodie Whittaker, these are often small run series or brilliant standalones featuring top quality artwork and writing from some of the brightest and best working in comics today. Perfect if you have younger fans of the show at home, though possibly more suitable for the 5-7 year olds, or through to middle grade and beyond but worthy of inclusion in early years as Doctor Who's fanbase is increasingly starting earlier.
12) Akissi by Marguerite Abouet and Matthieu Sapin (Flying Eye / NoBrow)
Kids comics really do not get any better than this, the fantastic adventures of energetic Akissi and her family living in a township in Africa. Like most little girls Akissi can be an absolute angel, but is usually more commonly found getting up to mischief along with her friends.
Flying Eye / NoBrow Press have translated two volumes of Akissi's adventures from Marguerite and Matthieu, and they're just so good. Funny, beautifully observed and featuring a superbly mischievous main character who you just cannot fail to admire, even though most of the time she's up to no good!
These have hit our Book of the Week slot every time they've been translated and the only sad thing about them is that there aren't more available in English (though it gives us an excuse to brush up on our French to pick up the rest of Akissi's adventures!)
13) Anna and Froga by Anouk Ricard (Drawn and Quarterly)
With a completely surreal collection of characters, and laughs that just don't stop, the "Anna and Froga" series are brilliant pint-sized 'strip cartoon' type comics that feature the adventures of Anna and her crazy bunch of animal pals including Christopher (a weird and love-lorn worm) and Bubu (a braggardly dog who pretty much steals the show in every strip!)
Brilliantly illustrated and beautifully written with the sort of wry sense of humour that kids completely 'get', there are a couple of collected editions of these - and of course a ton of comics in Anouk's native language (those French REALLY know what they're doing when it comes to comics!).
It's impossible to resist stuff this funny, weird and entertaining with storylines touching on everything from Bubu's totally hopeless Christmas gifts (made of fudgesicle sticks) to Christopher's crush on a beautiful actress worm. Absolutely unmissable stuff.
14) Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke (FirstSecond)
Sci fi for kids is definitely on the up and the superb "Zita the Spacegirl" by Ben Hatke effortlessly zips across the cosmos to bring you the mighty girl adventures of Zita, cruising the stars and exploring weird alien worlds in her spaceship. Ben has a gift for writing superb kid-friendly sci fi and fantasy (also check out his "Mighty Jack" series), with gorgeous artwork and fantastic plots. We definitely want more of Zita's adventures though for sure!
15) Azzi In Between by Sarah Garland (Frances Lincoln Childrens Books)
Probably one of the most important, heartbreaking and brilliant graphic novels depicting what it's like to be a child in a war-torn country, "Azzi In Between" by Sarah Garland is just superb gritty stuff, perfectly underlining what it would feel like to be a child in the midst of chaotic upheaval, watching your country being systematically destroyed around you.
Azzi is a strong character, in some respects an ordinary little girl placed in the most extraordinary circumstances purely because of where she was born.
Approved by Amnesty International, "Azzi In Between" raises awareness in children (and adults) in an impactive and direct way, triggers further discussion and investigation into what happens when war, famine or oppression affect people's lives.
Sarah's child-friendly artwork and the story's curve between Azzi's initial fairly normal life, and what happens when war arrives on the doorstep, is compelling and gritty stuff but produced in a way that children will understand and digest, and best of all, raise their own questions about long after you've turned the last page. Utterly essential to any young comic fan's growing library.
16) Red's Planet by Eddie Pitman (Amulet / Abrams)
More whip-smart sci fi surreality, this time collected across several arcing storylines contained in the superb "Red's Planet" series by Eddie Pitman. Bringing his awesome storyboarding skills to bear in a tale of an ordinary everyday girl who finds this world more than a little boring and lonely, as an orphan struggling to find her place in life.
That all changes when Red is whisked off to a bizarre alien planet, abducted and left to fend for herself. Though being a bit of a smart alec with plenty of street smarts will save Red many times, as will making new friends on the bizarre alien worlds she finds herself.
Superb themes of friendship and believing in yourself play out across Eddie's trademark super-colourful panels, this one seems to slide under most people's radar but has been a huge fave of ours for several years now, with each volume in the series getting better and better.
17) Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur by Brandon Montclare, Amy Reeder and Natacha Bustos (Marvel Comics)
Marvel have definitely been producing more and more impressive kid-friendly comics over the last few years, and we're always on the hunt for comics that work for a range of age groups, right through early years and touching on middle grade.
"Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur" by Montclare, Reeder and Bustos covers those bases perfectly by featuring a younger character than your normal average everyday Marvel superhero.
Lunella Lafayette is the cleverest kid in school by a long margin, but struggles to fit in and be anything other than just the 'nerdy kid'.
After a run-in with the "Inhuman" cloud, Lunella's life changes utterly when she time-shifts and begins to accidentally 'swap brains' with a gigantic red T-Rex, who also happens to become her bestie! As you can imagine, Lunella's skills in cybernetics, lego and mathematics also come in handy for defeating supervillains, and also fending off the nefarious plans of a group of time-displaced cavemen who want to reclaim a mysterious artefact that's accidentally dropped into Lunella's lap. The quieter moments in the strip where Lunella's hapless parents try to figure out how best to bring up a super-genius who has a literal rage monster that could bite your head off are just part of the colossal appeal. Younger kids (particularly those who love dinosaurs and science) are going to lap this up, it's just brilliant!
18) Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters and Brooke Allen (Boom!)
Again this is a comic series that comfortably 'fits' for a huge range of ages, and we reckon it's a pretty good place to start for confident early readers who love a good dose of girl power and fantasy themes. Little Miss asked me to point out that she started reading these when she was 6, if you're looking for some sort of yardstick or age guideline, but I reckon you might want to enjoy these with your kids as a readaloud thing unless they're fine with comic panels and layouts.
So enough yapping, what the hootin' heck is Lumberjanes all about? It's about a strange collective of awesome girls who happen to be Girl Scouts. Meet Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley - best friends forever but also a force to be reckoned with when it comes to camping out in the woods, building fires and taking care of the woodland creatures they meet - well, apart from the ones they end up biffing on the chin.
Like a crazy mash up of Gravity Falls, The Powerpuff Girls and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this introductory collection of the first six comics introduces the gang and their forestial world - where not quite everything is as it seems, or as it should be. Now breaking out into a series of middle grade novels as well as the original comics and collected editions, this is easily one of our top recommendations for the slightly older end of our age spectrum that'll last them well into MG and beyond.
19) The "Narwhal and Jelly" series from Ben Clanton (Egmont)
More hilarious stuff from a series that's gone from strength to strength since we first featured it last year. "Narwhal and Jelly" books are perfect introductory titles for mini comic fans, featuring the crazy undersea adventures of Narwhal (the unicorn of the sea!) and his pal Jelly (a jellyfish, definitely the brains of the outfit but don't let Narwhal hear you say that).
With a touch of Spongebob Squarepants-style craziness, these mini graphic novels are just superbly entertaining, and Narwhal and Jelly are brilliant buddies, and comic compadres.
We've been delighted to see bigger publishers such as Egmont taking on and publishing more kid-friendly comics, and this is a fab series we hope to see much more of in 2020.
20) Ella Upgraded by Dan Whitehead, PR Dedelis, Abby Bulmer and Jim Campbell (Zebra Comics)
Perfect for kids who love videogames, "Ella Upgraded" comes from a veteran games writer and journalist who turns his awesome experience into a set of stories featuring a very special girl with an amazing cybernetic secret. Given videogame-powered super-awesomeness by her big brother, Ella decides to use her new-found powers for good, fighting crime and solving mysteries thanks to her 'upgrade'. Blisteringly paced, brilliantly illustrated, and perfect for gaming-obsessed kids.
21) Lucy the Octopus by Richy K. Chandler (Jessica King Publishing)
Ever felt like a fish out of water? Or how about an Octopus who doesn't quite 'fit in' with the cool kids, and whose parents regularly crop her out of family photos (whaaaat??) "Lucy the Octopus" is a superb collection of funny comic strips that deserves a huge amount more attention than it originally got, coming from indie comics creator Richy K. Chandler. These are beautifully observed strips that deal with a ton of the issues kids themselves will fully identify with, in a really funny and sometimes quite heartfelt way as Lucy dreams of joining her favourite band Lamington Fuzz, rocking out and finally being accepted by her friends and her sibs. It's a fantastic collection, and we hope Richy is dreaming up more adventures for Lucy, it's top quality comic goodness!
22) Melowy by Cortney Faye Powell and Ryan Jampole (Papercutz)
Not to be mistaken for My Little Pony in any way, shape or form, this fab fantasy series really caught my daughter's eye last year, in a superb equestrian world filled with colour and coolness.
The "Melowy" of the title are magical creatures who attend the Unicorn Academy, honing their magic skills across four ancient island realms. At the age of 14, young Melowies all come together at the amazing floating Castle of Destiny to begin their magical training.
Each Melowy has a special power of their own, and magical symbols on their wings giving them individuality and character (and endless merchandising opportunities!)
I was fairly dismissive about this series at first, but when C started to rave about it I decided to dig in, and despite first appearances, it's a superbly intelligent and smart piece of comic writing clad in the most vibrant and colourful art imaginable. Don't be put off by the whole MLP appearance of this, it's way better than that.
23) Stig and Tilde: Vanisher's Island by Max De Radigues (Flying Eye / NoBrow Press)
Flying Eye / NoBrow Press feature heavily in our list with good reason - they produce some of the most stunning graphic novels for kids and the superbly dark "Stig and Tilde: Vanisher's Island" is no exception.
For those of you who think that kids comics play it way too safe, this is definitely something completely unexpected. The adventures of twins Stig and Tilde have been wowing comic fans across the channel for some time, so it's great to finally see translations of Max's awesome stories arriving on our shores (with a new book coming this year, we cannot wait!)
In "Stig and Tilde: Vanisher's Island" two intrepid and adventurous twins hop on a dinghy and head to a desert island, as part of a rites of passage.
Traditionally kids would set off every summer at a certain point in their lives to spend an entire year fending for themselves.
For Stig and Tilde though, tradition has turned into a month away at a summer camp on an island - one that even has Internet! Wow!
Unfortunately for them, their journey takes an unexpected turn as they both end up locked in the under-deck of their tiny boat during a storm, and soon they end up shipwrecked on the wrong island.
An uninhabited island.
Or so they thought...
The two kids will be tested to the limits as they try to repair their boat, and face off against a mysterious supernatural character who takes a shine to Tilde. Blistering storytelling with fantastic sharp artwork, it's definitely recommended for kids who like their stories a lot more spooky and dark.
24) The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North, Erica Henderson and Rico Renzi (Marvel Comics)
We've already touched on this genius character, joining the cast of "Marvel Rising" but her own comic collections are works of divine genius. Effortlessly taking a minor Ditko character and making her their own, Ryan North and Erica Henderson (with later art contributions from Rico Renzi in the series) rebooted Squirrel Girl and how!
Now a kick-ass computer science major, Doreen Green can harness the power of squirrels - and has pretty much kicked just about everyone else's butt in the Marvel Universe (I mean literally, she split into two, and her evil side beat up just about everyone including the Hulk, Captain America, Spider-Man, you name it, she duffed 'em up!)
But these stories are about way way more than eating nuts and kicking butts, Doreen is the kind of female superhero that instantly appealed to my daughter, mixing brains and brawn in equal measure, and often with stories chock full of feels and humanity that you normally wouldn't expect to see in the MCU.
As the series has now drawn to a close (we have no idea why, I mean C'MON Marvel, you make us suffer series after series of has-been heroes but shut down the mighty Squirrel Girl?) you can at least seek solace in the collected volumes which are just too good to miss. Until Kevin Feige sees sense and does a full-on Squirrel Girl live-action movie, luxuriate in reading one of the best modern comic series from this mighty publisher.
25) Hilo - The Boy Who Crashed to Earth by Judd Winnick (Puffin)
Again it's fantastic to see publishers not normally associated with comics jumping in on the kid-comic bandwagon and publishing some superb stuff like "Hilo - The Boy Who Crashed to Earth". "Hilo" introduces D.J. and his friend Gina, who are totally normal everyday kids just pootling along and minding their own business.
One day they're hanging out in their club house when a mysterious stranger - a boy - literally crashes the party, smashing straight through their clubhouse roof.
They manage to communicate with the stranger, an alien kid called Hilo.
Hilo doesn't know where he came from, or what he's doing on Earth (or why going to school in only your underwear is a bad idea - hey, we've all done it, right?!) but he's starting to think he might not be the only alien to have crash-landed on our planet. Somewhere out there he can find a link to home.
Can the trio unlock the secrets of his past? Can Hilo survive a day at school? And are D.J. and Gina ready to save the world? A superb fish-out-of-water tale, equal parts funny and melancholy with a huge heart, really fantastic stuff for fairly confident early readers.
So that's it for part one. Tune in next week for part two where we take a closer look at comics to keep your kids interested in reading when they're normally entering the realm of only being interested in what's happening on their phones...The tricky world of Tween and YA comics!
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Stossel: Jordan Peterson on Finding Meaning in Responsibility
Lessons from Jordan Peterson's book 12 Rules for Life
John Stossel and Maxim Lott | 4.17.2018 11:30 AM
Jordan Peterson is an unlikely YouTube celebrity. The Canadian psychologist lectures about things like responsibility. Yet millions of young people watch his videos, line up to hear his speeches, and buy his book 12 Rules for Life. It was number one on the Amazon bestseller list for a month.
John Stossel asks: What could make a book about responsibility take off?
"People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom," Peterson tells Stossel. "There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story."
The other side of the story, according to Peterson, is that "it's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure."
Peterson instead advises: "Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth….That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life."
Many leftists hate Peterson. They attack him for saying people should be "dangerous." Peterson explains to Stossel that he means people should have the capacity to be dangerous, but control it.
"People who teach martial arts know this full well," Peterson says. "If you learn a martial art you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously you learn to control it."
Advice about that, and responsibility, bring Peterson big audiences.
Soon: another Stossel video with Peterson—this one about gender differences and whether people are allowed to speak about that on campuses.
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Clinic call ambulance for “abortion complication” patient 18 weeks pregnant
A Nebraska abortion clinic called 911 after a patient – there for an 18 week abortion – suffered complications from the procedure.
Operation Rescue has more:
Operation Rescue just received the 911 recording and Computer Aided Dispatch transcript from February 4, 2016, in Bellevue, Nebraska, that shows LeRoy Carhart indeed botched an abortion on a late-term patient, which caused serious bleeding that required emergency hospitalization.
The February 4th call reveals that a 33-year old woman suffered severe bleeding during an 18-week abortion. In Nebraska, abortions at 20 weeks or later are illegal.
In fact, the caller emphasized that the woman was “18 weeks currently pregnant.”
This is an indication that the baby was not fully aborted when emergency responders were summoned to Carhart’s Bellevue abortion business.
Such an incomplete abortion accompanied by uncontrolled bleeding would represent a life-threatening medical emergency for the patient. Her current status remains unknown.
But, Operation Rescue says this was not the first emergency at a LeRoy Carhart abortion clinic this year, they report:
Earlier this week, Operation Rescue reported that a 911 call related to a January 19, 2016, medical emergency at Carhart’s other abortion business, Germantown Reproductive Health Services in Germantown, Maryland, showed that another late-term patient suffered serious bleeding and was transported to an emergency room for care while Carhart packed his luggage in his car and left the scene.
Late January 2016, a pro-life group in Missouri reported another ambulance to a Planned Parenthood.
Coalition for Life St. Louis writes:
On Saturday January 30th, at approximately 12:35PM, a Coalition for Life St. Louis volunteer witnessed the arrival of a fire truck and Emergency Response Team to Planned Parenthood of the Greater St. Louis Region on Forest Park Ave. This was followed by the arrival of an ambulance, which dispatched a stretcher and additional emergency staff into the clinic at 12:45 PM. At 12:51PM emergency responders rushed from the Planned Parenthood facility with the victim, who appeared to be in serious danger.
The ambulance left Planned Parenthood at 12:55pm with sirens on, presumably to the nearest medical facility in order to stabilize the victim.
Planned Parenthood has declined to comment, as of the release of this statement.
The above sighting is the latest of the 30 that have been recorded since 2009, the most recent of which was recorded exactly one month to the date prior to this case.
Those dates are listed here:
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Hip Hop on Film: Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s
Renette Smith McCargo, Arkansas State University
Book review of Hip Hop on Film: Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s, by Kimberly Monteyne (2013).
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Post-Earthquake Evaluation and Emergency Repair of Damaged RC Bridge Columns Using CFRP Materials
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Saiidi, Mehdi S.
The main objective of the study was to develop a rapid and effective repair method using carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) materials for earthquake-damaged reinforced concrete bridge columns. This study consisted of three main phases. In the first phase, a data base of 33 test columns was developed and analyzed and five distinct apparent seismic damage states were defined. The damage states were correlated to measured seismic response parameters in terms of drift, frequency, strains, and yield and ultimate displacements. Fragility curves were developed and applied for two case studies in performance-based design (PBD) and performance-based assessment (PBA) of bridge columns. Comprehensive experimental and analytical studies were conducted in the second phase of the study. Two standard single columns, one standard two-column bent, and two substandard columns were tested on a shake table, repaired using CFRP fabrics, and retested on the shake table to evaluate the proposed repair procedure. The measured data were extensively analyzed to investigate the performance of the repaired columns compared to the original column responses. It was concluded that the strength and ductility of the standard columns were successfully restored and those of sub-standard columns were upgraded to the current seismic standards after the repair. However, the stiffness was not restored due to material degradation during the original column tests. Even though the repair process was done rapidly and was treated as "emergency" repair with implication that it was a temporary measure, it can be treated as a permanent repair as long as the stiffness of repaired columns is sufficient for non-seismic loading. In the analytical studies, extensive static and dynamic nonlinear analyses were performed on the column models and a simple analytical method was developed for the repaired columns to account for stiffness degradation. Based on the results from the experimental and analytical studies, repair design recommendations were developed in the third phase to aid bridge engineers in quickly designing the number of layers of CFRP layers based on the apparent damage and basic information about the column fixity, size, and reinforcement.
Saiidi, Mehdi Saiid; Sanders, David H.; Itani, Ahmad M.; Dascalu, Sergiu; Anderson, John G.
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Thousands of fans have begun to prepare for Oscars parties to find out which actors, actresses, and movies of the 88th Academy Awards will win a gold statue. As part of the celebration, Shutterstock’s company designers have worked again this year to create fascinating pop art-inspired posters for popular films nominated by the Academy.
Like the many of the different types of movies nominated for the Best Picture award, Shutterstock says its posters share a theme of endurance and testing how far you can stretch the lengths of human nature.
“On the surface his work simply looks cool, but this shallow analysis misses the irony behind his cultural representations”
When you think of many of this year’s Best Picture nominees, movies like The Revenant, The Martian, and Mad Max share a common theme of strength, resilience, determination, and power. These themes are stunningly carried over into Shutterstock’s pop-art posters this year. Posters featured include Jordan Roland’s Warhol-inspired Mad Max: Fury Road, which offer a take on Warhol’s “subversive dictator portraits to shape this poster of Immortan Joe,” says the artist. In Cristin Burton’s Flirst-inspired Oscar Pop 2016 The Revenant, the poster includes assembled pieces the artist used to “create a vast, sinister, and lonely landscape.”
People Happily Await the Begining of the Show
The pop-art posters include a fun view of movies but also of topics that aren’t so fun. In Flo Lau’s The Big Short, inspired by Keith Haring, the artist chose a comedic approach to the dark subject of the bursting of the 2008 housing bubble.
Flirst is a collage artist who assembles disparate pieces to explore how he can change the harmony of the whole. For my poster, a homage to The Revenant, I assembled pieces to create a vast, sinister, and lonely landscape. The poster features a figure with very few people on his side; this represents the film’s main character, Hugh Glass, who was brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead in the winter wilderness.
“I wanted to portray the same witty chaotic vibe in my poster”
In his “Barcelona” series, Mario Corea Aiello forms a grungy collage of newspaper and magazine cutouts and heavy paint strokes. I felt this style would parallel the vicious storm that left Mark Watney for dead on Mars in The Martian. For the color scheme, I deferred to Eric White’s cover art from the original novel by Andy Weir to capture the characteristics of an otherworldly storm.
On Set with the Crew
My inspiration for this poster is one part Roy Lichtenstein and one part Stefan Sagmeister. Spotlight is about journalists uncovering a massive scandal in one of Boston’s oldest institutions, and I found that the perfectly contradictory homophone “pray/prey” encapsulates the shock and horror felt by the community when this scandal was made public.
To illustrate this, I pixelated an image of a priest, then tore off his head and replaced it with an image of a wolf. I looked to Warhol’s subversive dictator portraits to shape this poster of Immortan Joe.Warhol had a remarkable ability to distract from the meaning of his art. On the surface his work simply looks “cool”.
Mad Max: Fury Road has the same effect: The stylized nature of the film gets more attention than the meaning behind it.
I chose to feature Immortan Joe because he is a terrible person, but his iconic look makes him instantly recognizable. When I first read the plot summary for Room, I envisioned lonely, sterile characters, who had been institutionalized by their secluded environment.
Of course, when I saw the movie that perception quickly changed; the characters are full of life, love, and joy, and the audience instantly empathizes with them on a raw, human level. KAWS’ statues play on a similar deceit. Initially they have a sterile, robotic feel, but when you view them in their human-scale sizes and see their playful aesthetic, you experience an unexpected sense of connection.
“Welcome to the Oscars, Or as some people like to call it, the white people’s choice awards”
The Big Short takes a comedic approach to a dark subject, and I wanted to portray the same witty, chaotic vibe in my poster. Keith Haring was my inspiration because his high-contrast, brightly colored political work, which touches on grim subjects like rape, death, and war, hinges on the same contrast as the film. The poster is based on the film’s alligator-in-an-abandoned-pool scene; the alligator represents the main characters in the movie, who took advantage of the 2008 housing bubble and left the world in desperation when it burst.
Getting Ready for the Big Night
I chose to focus on the muddy gray areas and loopholes within Bridge of Spies. The Cold War was fueled by each side’s increasingly dire hypotheticals, causing mass paranoia among citizens and governments alike.
A large part of the film’s narrative focuses on the extent of protection under the law, especially for a Soviet spy. I reimagined Lady Justice, mixing her blindfold with the American and Soviet flags to represent how both countries were tied to their individuals’ principles of justice even while locked in an unending battle for the upper hand. Set in the eponymous 1950s borough, Brooklyn features then-contemporary imagery that now exemplifies the commodification of Brooklyn as a global brand.
Just as the Pop Art movement utilized mass advertising and irony to re-contextualize commercial art, I drew from today’s vintage, artisanal design trends, which are inspired by that era and setting.
Telephone Booth Shooting
In that vein, I applied the animated footage and vector elements to illustrate how the contrasting settings of Brooklyn and Ireland re-contextualized the protagonist’s identity through a fluctuating sense of “home.”
The 88th annual Academy Awards are underway, and viewers are anxiously awaiting the ceremony to find out if their favorite flicks and actors win, which categories will see big “upsets,” and which speeches and performances will stand out. Not to mention how host Chris Rock will approach the “Oscars So White” controversy, and who he will target during the opening monologue. Did Leo finally take home a golden statue? The buzz began during the red carpet events prior to the official event.
Jennifer Jason Leigh, nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Hateful Eight, seemed slightly out of it during her interview with Ryan Seacrest on E!’s special. But arguably the biggest surprise was Best Actor nominee Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role nominee Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs) playing to their nostalgic fans by walking the red carpet together. Can you believe it’s been nearly two decades since they starred together in the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic (which took home Best Picture)?
“If hosts were nominated, I wouldn’t be here; instead, you’d have Neil Patrick Harris.”
Rock, who addressed the issues with ease and expected humor, added that he did seriously consider quitting after so many people spoke out and pressured him to do so. “But the last thing I need is to lose another job to Kevin Hart,” he said, as the crowd erupted in laughter (including Hart himself, who was in the audience).
Arguably, the best part of Rock’s monologue was his blatant dig at Jada Pinkett-Smith and her vocal “boycott” of the Oscars. “Isn’t she on a TV show? Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties,” he said.
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San Angeloan Announces Bid for Tom Green County Commissioner
By Yantis Green | Nov. 8, 2019 3:51 pm
SAN ANGELO, TX – San Angelo engineer Cary Houston plans to file as a candidate for Tom Green County Commissioner for Precinct One, which serves the northeast portion of the county.
According to information from his campaign, Houston feels that his extensive experience as an engineer and engineering project manager can greatly benefit the residents of the precinct he calls home. Commissioners are responsible for the budgeting and oversight of road maintenance as well as major construction projects like the jail. Houston has pledged to “…help get the most benefit for your tax dollars in all the projects and maintenance the county oversees.”
He served as a project manager at Ethicon, where he worked for over 30 years, and has operated his own firm, MCH Engineering, for over 20 years.
Describing himself as “conservative and family oriented,” Houston and wife Carla has been married for 42 years and have five daughters and seven grandchildren. Houston graduated from Central High School, holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and is a licensed Professional Engineer.
Houston is no stranger to politics or to public service; he spent 12 years on the Miles ISD School Board, four of those as president. He has also served for ten years on the board of MHMR Services for the Concho Valley and on the Texas Council of Community Centers for six years.
Houston has been actively meeting Precinct One residents and building up support for several months. Local businessman Jim Bob Harris will serve as treasurer of his campaign.
The first day to officially file as a candidate for the March 202 Primary is November ninth.
Long time Pct. 1 commissioner Ralph Hoelscher is the incumbent Republican. Hoelscher has not publicly said if he is seeking reelection in the March Republican primary.
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Dec 02, 2019 2:49 pm CST
We need some opponents for the commissioners court, these idiots have wasted our money on a jail that is way over budget and then they vote themselves a raise. I wish the rest of them would have opponents, especially cry baby Ford. "My raise is not big enough"
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Grand Mainer
The floor plans for the Grand Mariner condos range from 3,608 to 4,473 square feet with pricing varying from around $2 million to the $3.5 million area. Vistas of the bright blue Gulf of Mexico are just one of the numerous reasons why Grand Mariner has become sought after.
Beautiful views are a highlight of Grand Bay condos for sale. Floor plans generally run from 1,270 to 4,075 square feet with residences featuring 2 bedroom, 2 bath to 3 bedroom, 3 bath configurations. You will find price points in the $300,000 to $1.5 million range.
Fairway Bay
The condos at Fairway Bay feature floor plan sizes from 1,192 to 2,632 square feet and are typically configured from 2 bedroom and 2 baths to 3 bedroom and 3 baths. These residences carry price points ranging from around $500,000 to just over $1 million.
Configurations for the En Provence condos are typically 3 bedrooms and 3 baths to 4 bedroom, 4 bath residences with airy floor plans ranging from 3,400 to around 6,000 square feet. Price points vary, but usually range from around $2,900,000 to about $3,725,000.
Quaint studios to 2 bedroom configurations boast floor plans from around 416 to 1113 sq feet and featuring sumptuous appointments for such reasonable price points. The Diplomat condos for sale are typically prices from around $193,000 to the $486,000.
Club Longboat
This 60 residence complex is known for its immaculate tennis facilities and the Club Longboat condos for sale are highly sought after by investors seeking style, spaciousness, and its idyllic waters edge location. Floor plans average around 1,200 square feet.
Cedars East and West
Condos here are configured with 2 bedrooms and 2 baths, private garages, and sweeping vistas of the Gulf of Mexico or Sarasota Bay. Bright and airy floor plans range from about 1,257 to 2,842 square feet and modest price points vary from around $300,000 to $700,000.
Castillian
Ownership at Castillian brings with it options where you can select from 2 or 3 bedroom configurations with floor plans varying from 1,340 to 1,738 square feet. You are also allowed to rent out your residence 3 times per year with 1 month minimum tenancy.
Buttonwood Cove
The condos for sale at Buttonwood Cove feature floor plans ranging from around 1,238 – 2,568 square feet and configurations of 2 to 3 bedrooms. The layouts and interior treatments understate the pricing with average pricing running around the $435,000 mark.
If you have dreamed of living in tropical heaven where you were steps from your own beach and boat dock, here is your opportunity. A Longboat Key lifestyle means never worrying about long drives as everything you could possibly need, even the beach, is at your front door.
Bleu Claire
The condos for sale at Bleu Claire are a peaceful refuge positioned in a wealth of verdant landscaping where residence price points begin around $3 million and go up. The airy floor plans vary from 3 to 4 bedrooms combined with 4.5 to 5.5 baths in this opulent development.
Beachplace
Resting in 31 acres of rich tropical gardens, the configurations for the Beachplace condos for sale can range from 2 to 3 bedrooms with 1,172 to 1,819 square foot floor plans. Pricing for these striking condos varies from around $500,000 to over $1.2 million.
Boasting fabulous Gulf as well as golf course views, the Beaches of Longboat Key condos for sale feature expansive wraparound terraces. With spacious and open floor plans ranging from 1510 to 3964 square feet, the residences offer 2 bedroom, 2 bath or 3 bedroom, 3 bath configurations.
Beach Harbor Club
Constructed in 1970, this Spanish style waterfront development is centrally located at 3808 Gulf of Mexico Dr. One of the favorite amenities of this quaint complex of 3 story structures is the private access to the Residents Only beach frontage.
Beach Castle
Built in 1970, the Beach Castle condos for sale have always been popular for savvy buyers looking for the ultimate Longboat Key residence investment. Located at 5311 Gulf of Mexico Drive and stretching from Sarasota Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.
With private covered parking, the Bayport condos for sale design arrangements vary from 2 bedroom, 2 bath or 3 bedroom, 2 bath. Floor plan sizes vary from 1,260 to 2,134 square feet and price points range close to $330,000 to around the $630,000 level.
Built in 1970 and located at 450 Gulf Of Mexico Dr, Bay Harbor provides spectacular Sarasota Bay and or golf course vistas from its position in the prestigious Longboat Key Club. Amenities include golf, tennis, resort style pool, direct water access and boat marina.
Banyan Bay Club
The quaint and comfortable condos for sale at Banyan Bay will delight most families for its Sarasota Bay to Gulf of Mexico access and beautiful views. Built in 1974, these charming residences are located at 5260 Gulf of Mexico Drive
Arbomar
Arriving from all corners of the globe, impending Arbomar owners are attracted to the miles of pristine beachfront, but also the nearby attractions such as Longboat Key Center for The Arts, St. Armand’s Circle, and Mote Marine Lab & Aquarium.
Located at 1701 Gulf of Mexico Dr, on the highly popular southern part of Longboat Key, are the quaint condos for sale at Aquarius Club. Built in 1975, the building is located close to Longboat Key Club Resort, marinas, dining, and shopping.
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Pitching Huge For DuBois
Bryant & Stratton (Albany)
Bryant & Stratton (Albany) (22-24) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
Penn State Du Bois (26-12) 0 1 0 0 0 3 X 4 3 1
2B: Vince McDowell
HR: Clayton Butler
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Tonight Penn State DuBois faced a familiar foe in the USCAA World Series in Bryant & Stratton University. On April 25th, during the regular season, Bryant % Stratton came to DuBois and defeated the Lions in a doubleheader. DuBois was hoping they got another chance at the Bobcats in this World Series, and they got it tonight in another battle between the 2 clubs.
The first score came in the bottom of the 2nd inning when catcher Joey Dipietro (Punxsutawney) hit a sacrifice fly to score Vince McDowell (West Branch). That would be the only score through 6 innings due to a pitcher's duel between the 2 starters. Toner Corl (Central Mountain) held the offensive minded Bobcats scoreless in a performance worthy of world series pitching. Marlinson Brunken of Bryant & Stratton also did his own work from the mound as he held Penn State DuBois hitless until Isaac Stouffer (Punxsutawney) hit a single to left field in the 6th inning.
A double from McDowell then would score the 2nd run for DuBois. Then to the plate came Clayton Butler (Central Mountain) and the dugout erupted as he hit a 2 run blast over the right center field wall to put DuBois up, 4-0.
Corl continued to keep the Bobcats at bay with help from his defense who didn't let him down all game.
Coach Calliari had nothing but praise for the effort that his team put out, saying "Toner Corl literally carried us to victory tonight, and Clayton (Butler) and Vinny (McDowell) put the nail in the coffin."
Hitting – Butler ended the night with one hit and 2 RBI's, while McDowell added a double with an RBI.
Pitching – Corl pitched a complete game shutout, facing 24 batters, allowing only 3 hits, and dealt out 6 strike outs.
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Everybody Needs to Stop Hating on Google Stadia
June 30, 2019 Ty Harvey — 111 Comments
Look, I get that this is primarily a PlayStation publication, but I just had to get this off my chest. People are hating on Google Stadia, and that annoys me. No, it doesn’t annoy me to see people hating on Stadia. Everybody’s entitled to their own opinions, obviously. The thing that annoys me, is the fact that people are hating on Stadia for absolutely ridiculous reasons. So here, let’s talk about it, and let me explain what Stadia actually is, and how the vast majority of the people hating on Stadia are wrong and misinformed.
So, just what is Google Stadia?
Stadia is a new cloud gaming service provided by Google. It’s essentially a high powered virtual game console without the console, where instead of downloading the games individually to your local device, you stream them over an internet connection.
Stadia is expensive!
No, it really isn’t. I know a lot of people (journalists, YouTubers, etc) are trying to portray Stadia as being this expensive thing, but the fact is, Stadia’s significantly less expensive than the base PS4. If you have practically any device with a screen, that device is transformed into a virtual console that’s significantly more powerful than the PS4 Pro. In fact, Stadia (10.7 teraflops) is actually more powerful than both the PS4 Pro (4.2 teraflops) and the Xbox One X (6.0 teraflops) combined! And better yet, Stadia will just keep getting more powerful as time goes on, and new technologies are developed. And you know how much Stadia costs?
Stadia is entirely free, and supports up to a 1080p resolution, with every single game running at 60 frames per second. If you don’t have a computer of any kind, you can also buy a Chromecast Ultra to play on your TV. (Chromecast Ultra is $70)
But say you have a 4K display, such as a 4KTV? Stadia Pro is available for $10 per month, which supercharges your virtual console to support 4K ultra high definition resolutions with every game running at a constant 60 frames per second. Not even the Xbox One X can do that, and that’s a $500 console.
Oh, and multiplayer is free. There are no monthly or yearly fees to play with your friends.
You need super fast internet, which nobody has!
According to a report by Speedtest.net, the average internet download speed in America is 96.25 Mbps. Stadia Pro (the 4K version) recommends 35 Mbps, with Stadia Base (the free 1080p version) recommending 20 Mbps. That means your average American internet user has at least double the required speed on average, and can stream games at the highest resolution and frame rate Stadia has to offer.
Yes, some people are going to have slower internet, and won’t be able to use Stadia. However, the average internet user in America has more than enough speed to use Stadia at its highest tier.
The latency! Oh noes, the latency must be horrible!
For those of you unfamiliar, latency is the amount of time it takes for a button press to translate to an in-game action. The less latency there is, the more responsive your game will be.
According to Eurogamer, Stadia has an identical latency to that of the Xbox One X, with it potentially being better depending on the game you’re playing, and your network conditions. However, because Stadia isn’t actually going to be out until this November, we can only speculate on how fast (or slow) Stadia’s latency actually is. But based on what we know so far, Google Stadia is on-par with the consoles, but not quite as responsive as a high end PC.
Of course, latency also depends greatly on where you live, and how close you are to a Stadia datacenter. The closer you are, the less latency there will be. Thankfully, Google’s a giant in the world wide web, so they have quite a few datacenters to spare. Odds are, you’re close to one.
What about data caps?
This is actually a legitimate concern, at least in America. If you have an internet connection with a monthly data cap, going over that cap could cost you a pretty penny or two. Depends on your internet service provider, as well as the area you live in. Google’s official response is essentially “ISPs will adapt”, which may or may not be true. To be honest, there’s no real solution to this particular problem, as it’s not a Stadia problem. It’s a problem with American Internet Service Providers.
You don’t own the games! I REPEAT! YOU DON’T OWN EM!
That’s correct, though you also don’t own any game you buy online. What you’re actually buying is a license to play the game indefinitely. This license can be revoked at any time, such as if your account gets banned, or if the service that sold you the license were to shut down, or for no damn reason at all.
Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, Origin, Uplay, Stadia. If you’re buying it digitally, you don’t own the game. It’s just that simple, and while yes, this is a worthy concern to have, it’s not something that should be associated with Stadia as some big and exclusive negative. Because once again, you don’t own your games on any modern platform, either. Stadia’s no different.
If my internet goes down, I can no longer play my games!
Welcome to the world of DRM, and modern gaming. This is true for a lot of other services, albeit to a lesser extent. But yes, ultimately, if you lose connection to the internet, you can no longer access Stadia. Nor can you access Google. Or YouTube. Or this very website.
The point is, if your internet goes down, everything that’s reliant on the internet goes down with it. That includes games with always-online DRM checks, or digital storefronts on PC like Epic Games Store. You’ll even lose access to your downloaded PS4 games if you didn’t previously activate your console as your primary console.
Losing access to the games you love sucks, but it’s hardly an exclusive problem just with Stadia. Though, you’re right; Stadia and other internet-only services are obviously more impacted by the lack of, you know, the internet.
I can’t mod my games on Stadia! That sucks!
You can’t mod your games on PS4 or Xbox either, unless the developer chooses to let you. Same goes for Stadia. Remember, Stadia isn’t a “PC marketplace” it’s a “virtual cloud game console”, and just like with non-virtual game consoles, you can’t use mods on Stadia.
Just because you can play Stadia games on nearly any device, including your computer, doesn’t mean that the games you’re playing are computer games. They are console games. Stadia is a console in the cloud. It has all of the same limitations and advantages as a typical home console.
If Stadia gets shut down, I lose all my games!
If Steam is ever shut down, you will lose all of your games. If Origin is ever shut down, you will lose all of your games. If PlayStation Network is ever shut down, you will lose all of your games. If Xbox Live is ever shut down, you will lose all of your games. If Stadia is ever shut down, you will lose all of your games.
See a trend forming here?
Also, I’m aware that Steam has a “if we go down we’ll give you your game library somehow” clause, just in case they ever do go bankrupt or something. There’s no reason Google can’t do the same thing.
I have to buy my games again if I want to play them on Stadia!
If you buy a game on the PS4 and want to play it on your Xbox One, you need to buy the game again on the Xbox One.
If you buy a game on Origin and you want to play it on Uplay, you need to buy the game again on Uplay.
If you buy a game on Steam and you want to play it on GOG, you need to buy it again on GOG.*
Why would Stadia be any different?
* GOG Connect lets you transfer select games from Steam over to GOG during a timed promotional period.
Look, I get it. Stadia’s a new technology, and it’s promising to deliver a lot. That doesn’t mean we should all just go ahead and lie about it, right? Yes, games are full price on Stadia, because why shouldn’t they be? No, Stadia isn’t like Netflix, because why should it be? There are so many widespread misconceptions, lies, and falsehoods, it’s honestly baffling to me. Reporters from major news publications, large YouTubers, and your average gamer that believes their lies and misconceptions.
Now, I don’t want to believe that people are purposely spreading false information due to some hidden agenda. I want to believe that it’s just a matter of basic misunderstanding of what Stadia is. So, for those of you that think Stadia is a rival to Steam? It isn’t.
Stadia is a virtual game console powered by the internet. It’s a competitor to the traditional consoles, not to Steam, or PC gaming as a whole. It’s a console without a console. So please, internet. I beg of you. Stop spreading misinformation about Stadia. It’s at point where it’s no longer funny, and only mildly amusing.
Also for those of you wondering why there’s a Google Stadia article on a twenty year old PlayStation publication? Well, like I said at the top of the article, I really needed to get this off my chest. I absolutely hate it when people spread false information, and I needed to write about it, and try to set some things straight. So that’s what I did. Don’t worry, you’re unlikely to see too many Stadia articles in the future, since most of our focus is on the PlayStation 5.
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Regency Marriage ~ Licenses & Banns
Today I continue my five-part series on marriage during the Georgian to Regency Eras. This segment, #2 of the series, will discuss the differences between banns and licenses.
Here are the links to all FIVE parts of the series —
Part 1 – The Legalities
Part 2 – Banns and Licenses
Part 3 – The Ceremony Prep
Part 4 – The Garments
Part 5 – The Vows & The Celebration
Marriage requirements in England according to Hardwicke’s Marriage Act of 1753–
a couple needed a license and the reading of the banns to marry
parental consent if either was under the age of 21
the ceremony must take place within a public chapel or church by authorized clergy
the marriage must be performed between 8am and noon before witnesses
the marriage had to be recorded in the marriage register with the signatures of both parties, the witnesses, and the minister.
Essentially these five “rules” were the law as applied to legal marriages in England. There were, however, a few caveats and legal options. Number one, for instance, had three different options, as noted below. Which path was chosen depended on the circumstances and wealth of the persons involved.
A. Calling of the Banns. This was the cheapest way, ie- it cost nothing. For three consecutive Sundays prior to the wedding, the Church of England clergyman in the parish where the groom and bride lived would announce the intended marriage from the pulpit. The following is what would be recited—
“I publish the Banns of marriage between Groom’s Name of–his local parish–and Bride’s Name of–her local parish. If any of you know cause or just impediment why these two persons should not be joined together in Holy matrimony, ye are to declare it. This is the first [second, third] time of asking.”
Banns. Click for larger.
If the persons marrying came from separate parishes, the curate of one parish could not solemnize the wedding without a certificate from the other curate stating the Banns had been “thrice called” and no objections had been lodged.
The “objections” mentioned were the point to the Calling of the Banns. Banns were not to inform the parishioners of the coming union or as an invitation to the wedding, but to ask of those citizens who presumably knew the couple if there were any impediments to the marriage. This is the origin of the objection line in modern ceremonies. The difference in the Regency was the allotted time — two weeks at least — for anyone to come forward. If there were objections, the person would go to the clergyman directly and give evidence of why one or the other was not free to wed.
Once the three Banns were called, with no objections, the couple then had ninety days to finalize the ceremony. If not done for whatever reason, the Banns would need to be called again.
B. Common or Ordinary License was the second option. Clergyman of the Church of England could issue a marriage license for a few shillings to a pound. This license was valid for fifteen days, and the couple could marry in either of their resident parishes. Other stipulations applied, such as being a resident of the marrying parish, and a sworn statement had to be given by both that there were no impediments.
With a common license there was not the two-week delay while waiting for the reading of the Banns. However, the ceremony still had to take place in a sanctified church by a clergyman between 8am and noon. The other requirements also had to be met.
C. Special License was obtained from the Archbishop of Canterbury in Doctors Commons in London. The big differences between the “special” license and the “common” license were the cost – over 20 guineas plus a £4 to £5 Stamp Duty for the paper – and that the couple could be married at any time of the day and anywhere they wanted. All the other requirements were the same.
As you can imagine, only someone very wealthy with a very good reason to pay the money, and go to the trouble of traveling to London and gaining an audience with the Archbishop of Canterbury, would hassle with it. Not an easy task even if rich.
1818 Church Parish Register. Click for larger image.
Those were the three legitimate avenues in England for a couple to marry. Briefly I should mention that the only exception to the Church of England rule were for those of the Jewish faith who married in a synagogue, and Catholics, Dissenters, and Quakers who married in churches of their own faith.
Marriage at Gretna Green blacksmith shop
And of course we all know about the famous Gretna Green. Indeed, Scotland had different laws, and minors could marry without parental consent. The town of Gretna Green was not special, as far as the laws go, it was simply the closest town over the border via the main coaching road from London. Fast to reach if a couple were eloping! All that was required was to pledge your troth in the presence of another person. Any person. As it happens, historically the first place reached once crossing into Scotland was a blacksmith. Elopement to Scotland came to be known as “marrying over the anvil” by these “anvil priests.”
Last, but not least to the marriage legalities portion, was the official newspaper announcement. This was for the social aspects rather than an actual law, but if one was of the upper classes it was a crucial step.
Return next Monday, March 24 for a post on the ceremony preparations.
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nmayer2015Nancy says:
The only exceptions were for Jews and Quakers. Everyone else had to follow the rules including Catholics and Baptists and Methodist and Presbyterians. No ceremony in England for any one except Quakers and Jews that didn’t follow the rules was valid. Catholics had to be married in the church of England parish church for their marriages to be valid. Only bishops of the various Diocese or their representatives could issue common/standard licenses within tehir disocese. The Bishop of London couldn’t issue a license for some one to marry in Durham. There was a seven day wait.
There was no waiting period in Scotland during the first score of years or so of the 19th century. I think the waiting period was imposed sometime in the 20’s . I just know i there was no waiting during the regency period.
Death bed marriages were difficult to obtain without a special license. If banns had already been called and a man wanted to marry his mistress or housekeeoer or someone and there was no one to complain the pastor could conduct the service . If no one complained or contested her right the marriage would stand. It would be valid as far as the church was concerned but not by the letter of the law.
Byron wrote to the Archbishop about a special license and was told to apply to Doctors’ Commons. He was embarrassed that he didn’t know that. Then he applied in the afternoon but only had to come back the next day to pick it up. The license was all hand written Most people received theirs the same day. parents, and solicitors do appear to have been able to obtain the special license for a couple. Had to have some authorization and ability to swear to the truth of the information but it appears that they could obtain it. It was easier for many to just marry by common license when they weren’t near London as it would usually take more than the seven days for letters to be sent and messengers to arrive etc.
I was really happy to find this post. I love Jane Austen novels but have never known what they were talking about with the banns and special licenses. Thank you!!
kimistry says:
I have always wondered just how long it would take to obtain the license once someone applied for it. I remember reading somewhere that Lord Byron was upset that it took over a certain amount of time (which I don’t recall offhand). I’m guessing it would depend on what time of year, and if the archbishop or his copying/recording clerk were very busy (or holding off because of the person applying). Is there any general waiting period involved, and once the document is prepared, how would one know?
junewilliams7 says:
I wonder if any exceptions were granted in cases of one person being near death. No quickie marriages then except for Gretna Green, and I’ve heard that today, even Scottish marriages must go through a waiting period. Thank you for the helpful info!!
Sharon Lathan says:
Good question, June. I didn’t find anything on that scenario in my research, but I am a believer in exceptions for just about any rule. Still, the legalities seemed fairly strict.
Debra Brown says:
Great post, Sharon. Do you know if a person could send their solicitor to London to get a special license? Or did they have to go themselves?
This is a very good question, Debra. Sorry for the delay in response. I have been ill, and wanted to dig a bit to make sure I was correct in the answer.
In short, no. The groom, at the least, and bride-to-be if possible, had to personally solemnly swear before the Archbishop himself (or one of the Archbishop’s officials) that there were no impediments to the marriage. Legally and ethically no one could do this other than the gentleman seeking the license.
As glamorous as the whole “special license” idea is within romance novels – and the flighty minds of people like Mrs. Bennet – obtaining one was very, very rare. Similar to one thinking there must have been thousands of handsome, bachelor Dukes running around England based on the number of novels on romance shelves, special licenses are now perceived as being doled out willy-nilly. LOL!
Almost all the serious sources on the subject agree that getting a special license was very unusual. Even a rich man could not simply walk into the office and plop down the cash. There were “eligibility” rules, for one, meaning that only those of the aristocracy or highly elevated rank were able to apply at all. Secondly, there had to be a very good reason to ask for one. The benefit of having a special license (which really did not amount to much of a difference than a common license) generally did not outweigh the hassles.
Interesting info from one source: “Prior to January 1755 the Vicars General, and after that date the Archbishop of Canterbury through his Faculty Office, could also issue “Special” Licenses allowing marriage “at any time and in any church or chapel or other meet and convenient place”. Considered to be “special acts of grace and favor” on the part of the Archbishop, their granting was much restricted… The numbers issued were tiny (six in 1730, twenty-two in 1830) compared with 2,700 common licenses issued annually through the Vicar General and Faculty Offices, but the number greatly increased after the Second World War.” *Full article here: http://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Marriage_Allegations,_Bonds_and_Licences_in_England_and_Wales
How nice of you to go to this trouble to find me a good solid answer. It is very much appreciated.
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How to buy and store Gold and Silver Bullion in Ireland, Scotland and England with Nigel Doolin, Head of Trading at Merrion Gold & British Bullion
Nigel Doolin is Head of Trading for Merrion Gold in Ireland, Scottish Bullion, Sheffield Bullion and Newcastle Bullion in the UK. Having been a long-term personal investor in precious metals and coming from the business background of running a Vault facility, Nigel was involved in the starting-up of Merrion Gold in 2013. Since then the company has grown to include trading desks in Scotland and England. With a keen eye and interest in world economics and politics, Nigel and the team at Merrion Gold have rapidly built up a reputation for straight-talking, transparent dealings and educating investors in what is best for them when purchasing or investing in precious metals.
Where does gold / silver derive its value from?
“The answer to this question stretches back thousands of years! There are Egyptian hieroglyphs from as early as 2600 BC describing gold as a valuable item. Some of the first minted gold coins to be used as currency were found to be from around 600 BC in Asia. The basic reason gold has come to be so valuable must surely derive from the fact that from days past it was an easy way to move around or travel with your wealth. Of course, it could be worn as jewellery, it is hugely resistant to corrosion and it is (relatively) light. Today the world usage and consumption of new gold produced is about 50% in jewellery, 40% in investments, and 10% in industry.
A lot of the above can be said of silver also, except the world usage and consumption figures are quite different with about 60% of silver being used in industry and the remainder in jewellery and investment. A little known fact and probably a good way to put the price of gold and silver into perspective is that there is more Silver mined every DAY than there has EVER been gold mined in the history of records!”
In general, what is the nature of the relationship between the British and Gold/Silver?
We find on the most part the British tend to move towards investing in gold in times of uncertainty – both political and economic. The Lion’s share of investors will look at gold as a medium to long-term investment (4-5 years+), with most happy to ride out the dips that usually come at some stage along the way and wait for their investment to top the price they bought at. We have more and more smaller investors getting interested in buying gold and these would tend to be 1-5oz buyers who will buy coins as opposed to bullion. No matter which of these brackets the buyers fall in to they tend to be more educated on the safe-haven value of gold these days.
Which is your favourite gold/silver coin and why?
My own personal favourite coin is the 1oz Gold American Buffalo. I think it is one of the most recognisable coins out there and it’s one of the few coins which I like the design on both the front and reverse. It has a great feeling of heritage and nostalgia about it, and I think it very much looks like the kind of coin one would find in a treasure chest of old!
Do you notice any difference in psychology between the silver and gold investor?
In my experience I find gold investors tend to be a little more relaxed in their attitude to their precious metals investments – most are happy to wait out a longer timescale for their investment to mature – silver investors tend to look for a quicker ‘turnaround’ on their investment. I also feel the silver investor would be more willing to take a higher risk.
What are the most common mistakes of physical Gold and physical Silver investors?
I think the most common mistake first-time investors will make is automatically opting to buy coins – we always ask the purpose of the investment so as to be able to give the best precious metals advice to the client. Clients should understand that with coins there are minting charges and you must also take into account that some coins are more in-demand than others, therefore it is possible that someone purchasing a 1oz gold coin could end up paying a lot more for that 1oz coin than they would a 1oz bullion bar. When they go to sell back to a bullion dealer it will almost always be just valued on the weight, therefore (unless you sell a coin to a coin collector) you will rarely make this difference in price back when you go to sell. There are other pitfalls involved when purchasing gold for the first time, which is why at Merrion Gold we strive to educate our clients as well as serving them in the most efficient manner possible.
Are there any tax advantages in Ireland when investing in Gold or Silver?
The most obvious is that gold is VAT Free, whereas there is VAT applied to all silver sales.
In your experience which silver/gold coin is the most difficult to fake?
The most difficult coins to fake are the newer coins – the likes of the 2017 Britannia and the Canadian Maple (from 2015 on) – these coins have laser-precision waves on the face of them which are practically impossible to fake. It must be noted however that no coin is completely impossible to fake – this is why here at Merrion Gold we have a 6-level testing set-up in-house. Buyers should always be wary of any dealer who does not have sufficient testing set-ups in their business.
Can you describe your 6-level testing set-up?
At Merrion Gold, we have a 6-level testing set-up at our disposal in-house. This enables us to test every precious metal that comes through our company, when either buying or selling. Even though we only trade in LBMA approved refineries, this testing ability means we can ensure all precious metals through our company are 100% as they should be. It is worth noting that some companies will use 1 or 2 methods of testing (some listed below), but we find when all of the testing variations below are used together, the result is as definite as you can get.
Our testing set-up includes:
Digital Weighing scales
Digital Caliper and dimension matching
Magnetic Balance Weighing – this measures the (apparent) weight change in the metal by use of a super-strong test magnet positioned on a digital balance.
Electronic Conductivity measuring apparatus
Fisch testing implements (for coins and used only in-conjunction with the above)
Use of Bullion code matching system.
Can you briefly describe the History of Merrion?
Nigel Doolin
When we started Merrion Gold in 2013, we wanted to create a world-class gold bullion and coin trading service. We offer our clients the complete privacy and security they deserve, this is why we are housed within an actual vault facility. This not only offers clients an environment with total security – but we also offer them the ability to purchase, collect and store their precious metals in the one place.
Our trading volumes have increased year on year, proving to us that if you offer the right service and value to clients they will return time and again. In 2016 we opened our second trading desk in Scotland called Scottish Bullion – and in January of 2017 we opened Newcastle Bullion in the UK.
Can you tell us more about the services you offer?
We buy and sell physical gold bullion and coins. We only deal with LBMA approved refineries so our clients can be sure that all gold we sell is ‘good-delivery’ gold. We also have a 6-level testing set-up at Merrion Gold, where all gold moving through us (in OR out) is fully tested and verified. We do not offer any financial advice as we are not QFA’s – however we will give you the very best precious metals advice that you can get.
We also offer safe deposit box rental within the vault (through our sister-companies Merrion/Glasgow/Newcastle/Sheffield Vaults) where you can store your precious metals and/or any other valuables you may have.
Why do customers choose Merrion?
I think customers chose Merrion because we are completely transparent and honest in our dealings. The security of being housed within a vault is also a huge plus for us. Our traders have a wealth of knowledge and we try to educate new clients as to what is the best product/s to suit their requirements. Some clients who have given us reviews and feedback online always state that our professionalism and efficiency is second to none. We enjoy what we do here at Merrion Gold and this obviously comes through in our dealings with clients.
Do you sell gold outside the UK / EU?
We can transact with any client anywhere around the world – however when you purchase from us you must collect from one of our vaults. We have vaults currently in Ireland, Scotland and England. We do not ship to anywhere except to our vaults. If the client cannot make it straightaway for their gold collection, we will securely hold their purchase for them in our company safe deposit box within our vault for up to 30 days at no extra cost.
What are the storing costs after the first 30 free days?
We can store clients purchases within our company vault box for up to 30 days at no cost to the client, to enable them sufficient time to collect their purchase. After 30 days the cost is capped at €45 per month.
Where can potential customers find more about your services?
Potential customers can call me directly at: +353 (0)1 254 7901 – Nigel Doolin – Head of Trading or you can view our website at: www.merriongold.ie
Originally published here
Merrion Vaults invests £1m (€1.17m) in Newcastle facility
A £1m (€1.17m) investment by the Irish-based Merrion Vaults in Newcastle in the United Kingdom is set to create the city’s first safe deposit facility.
The new facility, which is known as Newcastle Vaults, is owned by Merrion and has been launched in response to major banks withdrawing safety deposit box services.
It follows similar initiatives by Merrion in Dublin and Glasgow.
The company’s Co-founder David Walsh said the move into Newcastle “is part of our ambitious plans for further growth across the UK.
“We’re looking forward to building the business in the city, providing a much-needed service that will ultimately give peace of mind to people who require a safe haven for their valuable and irreplaceable possessions.”
Meanwhile, Co-founder Seamus Fahy, said: “Cost-cutting measures at high street banks means that secure storage is being phased out and so customers who rely on the boxes to keep their treasured items safe are now left with having nowhere to store them.”
Based in the centre of Newcastle, and with capacity for 15,000 boxes, it offers safe-keeping services to private individuals and businesses, allowing them to safeguard items such as cash, jewellery, family heirlooms, title deeds, and gold bullion.
The state-of-the-art purpose built vault includes surveillance technology such as seismic shock sensors, round-the-clock monitoring, and biometric identification technology.
(Originally published here)
If you have valuables or irreplaceable items you need to keep safe and secure, what is the best option for you? Whether it’s cash, jewellery, gold bullion or just important paperwork you need to keep safe, there are a number of things you should consider when deciding between a home safe or a safe deposit box.
1. A Safe Deposit Box is better value. A small, mid-range home safe will cost approx. £1,000-£1,500 (before fitting costs) – whereas a safe deposit box starts at only £150 per year – giving you over 5 years total safety and security, with 7 day access for less than the cost of the home safe.
2. A Safe Deposit Box will offer better protection from fire. The aforementioned home safe would have a fire rating of Grade 1, this will only offer protection from fire for 30 minutes whereas the safe deposit box in this instance is in a Grade 8 vault, offering a hugely increased fire and security rating.
3. A Safe Deposit box offers much more protection from thieves. People believe they can ‘hide’ their home safe from thieves and burglars. The latest research and expertise from the police proves this is rarely the case. Burglars are now breaking into homes complete with handheld metal detectors (easily available to buy online) – they can then ‘sweep’ the entire property in 5-10mins and will almost always find the ‘hidden’ safe. Thieves will then cause major destruction to property in removing these home safes. It is also worth bearing in mind that if they cannot remove the safe, they may then wait until such time as the homeowner or family is actually in the home, to return and under use or threat of violence make the homeowner comply with their demands to open the safe.
4. Home Safes are notoriously easy to ‘crack’ open. All one has to do is watch an episode of ‘Storage Wars’ on TV, or many other similar TV shows, to see just how easy it is to open a home safe. Alternatively, a quick google search of ‘how to crack a home safe’ returns findings of over 7 million results! (a lot with videos). Safe Deposit Boxes however, are housed within a secure vault, which is practically impossible to open.
5. You can save money on home insurance with the use of a Safe Deposit Box. If you have a home safe, your valuables will still be included in your home insurance – which means you will still be paying for their cover – especially if they are ‘specified items’. When you rent a safe deposit box you can remove these ‘specified items’ from your home insurance policy therefore lowering your premium.
While there are many more advantages to having a safe deposit box over a home safe, it is worth pointing out that any additional security measures you take with your valuables at home will normally be justified. For more information on renting your own private safe deposit box contact info@sheffieldvaults.co.uk or call: 0141 343 1305
What is being billed as “Scotland’s first independent safe deposit box service” has been launched following an investment of more than £1 million.
Glasgow Vaults said it had made the move in response to the major banks withdrawing the service that safeguards people’s valuable possessions
The venture is being led by David Walsh and Seamus Fahy, who have invested in equipping the vault with state-of-the-art surveillance technology, including seismic shock sensors, making a Hatton Garden-style heist impossible, it has been claimed.
Employing five staff, the Glasgow facility is part of a strategy to expand the model across the UK and Ireland, following the successful launch of an initial site in Dublin, in 2013. The business is expected to grow its staff numbers in Glasgow to 15 by the middle of 2017.
Fahy said: “We identified Scotland as a key growth region, mainly due to the fact that the banks no longer offer the service.”
Stash the cash: Keep your money and valuables safe
Keeping valuables at home is an open invitation to burglars, so why not keep them in a secure vault. asks Mark Keenan.
A wealthy Dublin-based entrepreneur is heading off to see a hypnotist this week – to help him remember where he stashed a wad of tens of thousands of euro he had hidden in a “safe place” in his house.
Having hidden away several stacks of cash for a rainy day, he recently went to retrieve them and discovered he couldn’t account for that last hiding hole.
Household stash mishaps are becoming far more common among the super rich.
Last year the gardai recovered more than 200 grand concealed in the former home of developer Tom McFeely on Ailesbury Road in Dublin 4 (Mr McFeely has denied it is his). Whoever put it there, had certainly hidden it away, believing it to be safe.
Then there was the case of the Barnardos curtains in highbrow Dublin 6. Charity shop staff discovered thousands of euro sewn into a pair of curtains donated by a resident in the area. The money was returned to the embarrassed owner after the shop issued an appeal through the gardai.
Merrion Vaults launches Fine Art & Antique Storage (Walk-in Vaults)
When we launched our Safe Deposit Box business in Dublin, we provided various sized Safe Deposit Boxes capable of storing cash, jewellery, title deeds, gold bullion etc.
We quickly realised that there was also strong demand for larger secure vaults capable of storing Fine Art, Antiques etc. On a daily basis, we were receiving enquiries for larger storage units. We then contacted a number of Art and Antique Dealers and Galleries in Ireland who confirmed that such a service would be invaluable both to the themselves and to their customers.
We also contacted several Safe Deposit Box facilities in the UK to assess demand there. Harrods Safe Deposit Boxes in London confirmed to us that there was a waiting list of 4 years for their walk-in vaults. Typical clients were storing fine art, large antique furniture and gold / silver bullion in their larger vaults.
Sheffield Vaults now offers this service to its customers.
Safe Deposit Facility For The Digital Currency (BitCoin)
Bitvendo, the company that provides Bitcoin ATM facilities here, has formed a partnership with Merrion Vaults to provide a safe deposit facility for the digital currency.
Giles Byrne, head of marketing with Bitvendo, said Merrion Vaults was a natural partner for the group as there was a demand from holders of Bitcoin for somewhere to store their digital currency safely. “We have encrypted wallets inside the vaults. If you want to send bitcoin into those wallets, they are stored offline in an encrypted format where nobody can hack them.”
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Ghost Rider Will Connect ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ To ‘Doctor Strange’
Posted July 26th, 2016 by Ben Silverio
In the weeks leading up to San Diego Comic-Con, there had been speculation that Ghost Rider would be coming to ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ on ABC. Rumors started when an advertisement for the show featuring a flaming chain appeared on the side of some San Diego trains. While some dismissed this by claiming that an Inhuman named Hellfire that was introduced last season would simply be brought to the forefront of the series, Marvel Television confirmed at the con that the Spirit of Vengeance would indeed be coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to mingle with Agent Phil Coulson and his team. But with ’S.H.I.E.L.D.’ being so anchored in science, how will this more mystical hero mix in with the established mythology? The showrunners addressed that very topic in a recent interview.
Some time after their SDCC panel, executive producers Maurissa Tancheroen and Jed Whedon spoke with IGN about the arrival of Robbie Reyes on their show. Before revealing that “there will be no waiting for Ghost Rider” when Season Four begins, the duo shared that the new addition will connect the ABC series to ‘Doctor Strange’. Hear what they had to say in the video below:
Coulson and company have dealt with superhuman and aliens so far, but magic might bring things to a whole new level. And Ghost Rider definitely isn’t the only mystical being in this universe, so does this mean that the floodgates will be open to more demons, wizards, and mysterious artifacts? We’ll just have to wait and see what happens in September when ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ debuts in their new 10:00pm time slot.
What do you think about Ghost Rider connecting ‘Doctor Strange’ to ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’? Are there any mystical characters that you hope to see on the show or elsewhere in the MCU after Robbie Reyes, Stephen Strange, and (later on down the line) Danny Rand open the door for that sort of thing? Share your thoughts and theories in the comments.
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Our facial mites can tell us a lot about who we are and where we come from. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Facial mites reveal where you come from
Facial mites have always been with us. A new study uses them to find out who we are, and where we come from.
Rasmus Kragh Jakobsen
Published thursday 07. january 2016 - 06:25
Our face is teeming with mites that eat, mate, lay eggs, and live their entire lives around our hair follicles. It might sound disgusting, but now a team of imaginative scientists have put them to good use to tell us more about ourselves.
DNA reveals the various subgroups of mites found on people from different parts of the world, and reflects our own great migration history since our ancestors left Africa 60,000 to 100,000 years ago.
"It’s very interesting. We humans are a walking zoo of living organisms in the form of lice, fleas, intestinal flora, and hair follicle mites," says Associate Professor Morten Allentoft from the Center for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
"These species have followed us throughout our evolution and our prehistoric migrations around the continents. It’s become clear in recent years that our micro flora and fauna are important to understand our survival and proliferation as a species," he says.
Allentoft was not involved in the new research, which is published in the scientific journal PNAS.
‘Meet your mites’
A few years ago, the American biologist Rob Dunn, who is affiliated with the Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate at Copenhagen University, decided that it was time to find out more about these mites that live in human hair follicles—the so-called demodex.
Together with a team of colleagues, he started the project 'Meet Your Mites' where they collected demodex and DNA from the faces of volunteers in the US.
They showed for the first time, that we all walk around covered in demodex--something scientists had long suspected but had not actually demonstrated before.
They were surprised by just how faithful these little mites were to their human host.
Many mites are specialists, and occupy a very particular niche in nature. Demodex are one such example, which not only stick to humans, but to different groups of humans, and reveal our shared history.
Just as human DNA can provide insights into the connections of people from across the globe and help us to map the migration routes of ancient ancestors, so too could the DNA of our little mite companions.
Four ancestral lines of mites
In the new study, Dunn and colleagues focus on one mite in particular: Demodex folliculorum. They collected DNA from 70 volunteers in the US.
They analysed a small part of the mite's DNA--the mitochondrial DNA--and found that the little creatures fell into four ancestral groups, A to D, which also reflected the ethnic ancestry of their human host.
All four lines of mites were found on the skin of people of African descent, while the D-line was almost entirely limited to Americans of European descent.
Americans of Asian descent had mainly B and C lines, while people with South American roots primarily had A and D.
They saw that the type of demodex remained the same over time, and that children had the same type of demodex as their parents.
The results showed that we do not share mites with strangers in the street, but rather within our own families.
"It’s not surprising that there’s genetic differences among demodex from different continents, it’s the same among people and all sorts of other animals and plants," says Allentoft.
"It’s much more interesting that apparently we retain our original demodex population, even if we move to another continent and that this population can be inherited over generations,” he says.
Demodex DNA could, in theory, reveal your own ethnic history, says Allentoft.
Read the Danish version of this story on Videnskab.dk
Translated by: Catherine Jex
'Global divergence of the human follicle mite Demodex folliculorum: Persistent associations between host ancestry and mite lineages'. PNAS, 2015. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1512609112
Meet Your Mites project website
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B09002. Own Children Under 18 Years by Family Type and Age From the American Community Survey Summary File: 5-Year Estimates, 2013-2017 Database Shown in # Persons [electronic resource]
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Series 2: Arctic Explorer records consisting of letters from or to various Arctic explorers, including among others Sir John Franklin, Sir George Back, Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, Sir George S. Nares, Sherard Osborn, Sir William Parry, John Rae, Sir John Ross and Sir James Clark Ross; photostat copies of records found on northern Ellesmere Island in 1948 left by the Nares (1875-1876) and Peary (1905-1906) expeditions; notebook titled Glacial action high latitudes, discussing research by Arctic expeditions undertaken between 1585 and 1887; engraving of Sir G. Back and photograph of Sir F.L. McClintock; newsclippings; and other miscellaneous documents and artifacts.
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Topic Software security
Security training and jobs
SubTopic Application attacks
Application attacks
Application firewalls
Security patching
Open source security
Securing productivity applications
Secure SaaS
Social media security
New defenses for automated SQL injection attacks
By automating SQL injection attacks, hackers have found a way to expedite the process of finding and exploiting vulnerable websites. The old defense of testing and patching Web app code may not be enough to stop the threat. Michael Cobb explains how website owners have to step up --- and even change -- their game to prepare for the latest SQL injection exploits.
Michael Cobb
Recently, analysts at the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center discovered a tool that automates the process of finding and exploiting websites vulnerable to SQL injections. The automation illustrates the increasingly popular technique of using parts of legitimate sites to host and deliver malware.
What is new about this latest round of SQL injection attacks ... is both the degree to which the attacks are automated and the sheer scale at which they are carried out.
In this tip, let's take a look at SQL injection attacks and examine how to find, isolate and address the malicious pages of an otherwise safe website.
SQL injection attacks of the past
SQL injection attacks are nothing new. In a high-profile 2003 case, for example, apparel company Guess Inc. suffered a SQL injection attack on its website, which resulted in a security breach and a government-led legal settlement. At the time, court documents described SQL injection as occurring "when an attacker enters certain characters in the address (or URL) bar of a standard Web browser to direct the application to obtain information from the databases that support or connect to the website." In court, it had been found that attackers manipulated an application to gain access, in cleartext, to every table in the guess.com databases, including those that supplied purchasers' credit card information.
The liability that companies face if they expose sensitive data hasn't changed. What is new about this latest round of SQL injection attacks, however, is both the degree to which the attacks are automated and the sheer scale at which they are carried out.
The new SQL injection attack
From a technical perspective, today's SQL injection attackers are more thorough in how they seek out vulnerable websites. Various toolkits are being used to speed up the exploitation process. Consider the Asprox Trojan, which has been distributed far and wide by a spam botnet. Here is how the whole process works, according to Joe Stewart, senior security researcher with Atlanta-based SecureWorks Inc.:
A Trojan is installed by spam (that is itself sent via compromised hosts).
A PC infected by the Trojan downloads a binary that, when launched, uses Google to search for potentially vulnerable websites that use forms built with Microsoft Active Server Pages. The search results become a target list for SQL injection attacks.
The Trojan launches a SQL injection attack against those sites, compromising a percentage of them.
Visitors to compromised sites are fooled into downloading a piece of malicious JavaScript code from another site.
That code directs the user to a third site, where more malware is hosted, such as copies of Asprox or Danmec (a password-stealing Trojan).
These steps indicate just how much has changed in five years. Previously, Web application developers were advised to test and patch their code on the slim chance that an SQL injection vulnerability might be uncovered and exploited maliciously. Recent attacks, however, have shown that vulnerabilities are now much more likely to be uncovered and exploited maliciously. Developers, therefore, should vigorously test their code prior to deployment and promptly patch it as soon as new flaws are reported.
Knowing when a website has been attacked
Certainly no enterprise wants to unknowingly spread malware. So how do you know if your site is compromised? Oddly enough, the answer might come in a notice from Google. In an excellent example of how hacking tools work both ways, Google, a major player in the stopbadware.org project, monitors sites for "badware," defined as spyware, malware and deceptive adware. Indeed, Google automatically sends badware alerts to the following email addresses at domains where its Web crawlers locate a problem:
* abuse@
* admin@
* administrator@
* contact@
* info@
* postmaster@
* support@
* webmaster@
Of course, an enterprise must be prepared to receive these messages, something that sounds deceptively simple. There may be spam filters on these addresses, or worse, no designated recipient, meaning the messages may go unread. Cataloging and verifying contact details for all of corporate domains is a good first step in responding to this new wave of attacks. Savvy security pros might want to leverage news of these attacks to procure additional resources for a thorough site review.
The explosive growth in Web activity during the last five years has resulted in many "lost" sites, projects that were launched then later abandoned without proper termination. Unfortunately, the relentlessly thorough Google Web crawlers will find them, and if they are potential targets, they will eventually be attacked. Fortunately, though, an enterprise can proactively determine if it has a "badware" problem: any site can be checked for free using Google Webmaster Tools.
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Those organizations that are uncomfortable relying on Google should embark on a detailed review of their websites. There are some tools that can help, starting with Xenu's Link Sleuth, a free program that can check all the links on a given site and report a variety of errors. Remember to test the production site and to run checks from a machine that is outside the company network; otherwise some problems may be missed.
How to prepare for the new attacks
Moving forward, a proactive strategy would be to invest in a Web vulnerability scanner such as those from Acunetix Ltd. and SPI Dynamics (now owned by Hewlett-Packard Co.). A good Web vulnerability scanner -- not to be confused with a network scanner -- will spot all currently known SQL-injection vulnerabilities on your site. An up-to-date scanner will spot new vulnerabilities as they become known.
Bear in mind that defending against SQL injection attacks may not be enough. Attackers are conducting concerted and automated searches for targets and executing of attacks on them. These techniques could well be applied to other Web infrastructure weaknesses besides SQL.
Finally, secure code review at all stages of the Web application development process and pre-production security testing are now more important than ever. They should be augmented by post-deployment testing that includes vulnerability scanning tools and site monitoring.
Michael Cobb, CISSP-ISSAP is the founder and managing director of Cobweb Applications Ltd., a consultancy that offers IT training and support in data security and analysis. He co-authored the book IIS Security and has written numerous technical articles for leading IT publications. Mike is the guest instructor for several SearchSecurity.com Security Schools and, as a SearchSecurity.com site expert, answers user questions on application security and platform security.
This was last published in June 2008
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