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A splendid evening at the mysterious town Hajiganj
By Md. Taqi Yasir November 28, 2019
Hajiganj Fort is considered to be one of the most astounding architectural masterpieces of the Mughal era. Alternatively known as the Khijirpur Fort, we came to know from the local people that the fort was established during the reign of Bangla Subedar Mir Jhumla in 1650. The fort is located in the mysterious town Hajiganj at the western bank of the Shitalakshya river.
After the emergence of Mughal capital in Dhaka, three forts or castles were constructed during the Sultani era to repel Portuguese and Mogh pirates and safeguard the invaluable treasures of Bengal. Also, to monitor enemies passing through the waterways and to keep track of them, the fort was created by the bank of the river. Henceforth, people also call it Waterfront Fort.
A deep tension existed amongst the Subedars of Bengal regarding how a resistance would be created against the enemies. They started planning, sitting with different engineers and finally, formulated a scheme to construct a fort. Also, this is how Subedar Mir Jhumla planned and executed the blueprint of the three waterfront forts.
This quadrilateral fort, made of brick and mortar, is surrounded by a wide wall. There are holes on the walls of the fort for cannons to aim through. There are rounded domes on each of the four corners. On the outer parts of the wall, you can still see the gaps for rifles to fire from. For instance, these holes were used by the soldiers to make secret attacks with gun pointers.
On the two sides of the entrance are carved arches, where the upper part is adorned with a lotus flower. To enter the fort, you need to enter through a passage and walk twenty stairs up. The fortress is about 2 kilometers wide. The entire middle portion of the fort is an open field. It is speculated that soldiers posted in the area used to camp here and used to fight the enemies after getting commands.
Hajiganj Fort
The once fearful Hajiganj Fort is now a silent ancient tale. The fort is on the verge of destruction due to lack of renovation and maintenance. As a result, it is high time we need to preserve such a precious witness of our glorious past.
The Tomb of Bibi Mariam
Another very significant architectural site of the country, Bibi Mariam’s Tomb, is located at Killarpur of this very Hajiganj. It is speculated that Subedar Shayesta Kha created Bibi Mariam’s Tomb between 1664 and 1688 AD. Bibi Mariam who lies in the tomb was Sayesta Kha’s daughter in this mysterious town Hajiganj.
Surrounded by high-walls, the tomb was built in the center of a square yard. The tomb, engraved with leaves and vines, is made of white stones. Aside from tombstones and tombs, there are also a number of regular graves in the balcony. The three-domed mosque constructed by Shayesta Kha – named Bibi Mariam’s Mosque – can be seen on the west side of the tomb. To ensure women’s education and empowerment in the area in this mysterious town Hajiganj, a girls’ high school was constructed beside Bibi Mariam’s Tomb. As a result, it was named after Bibi Mariam.
There is a hidden tunnel on the west side of the tomb. People speculated that the tunnel used to lead all the way to the Shitalakshya River. Due to insufficient renovation, the walls of this ancient architectural masterpiece are collapsing, along with the tomb. If this continues, all these memorials from the Mughal era will go extinct one day.
Dhaka to Hajiganj
Get into a train or a bus that takes you to Narayanganj from Dhaka. After reaching there, hire an auto-rickshaw that goes towards Gudaraghat or a rickshaw from the bus stand near Metro Hall. The autorickshaw will cost Tk. 10 per person and the rickshaw will cost you Tk. 15. Apart from this, you can go from Narayanganj railway station or port by auto or rickshaw. Or you can get into a Dhaka-Narayanganj route bus from Gulisthan and get down in the roundabout of Chashara. From there hire a rickshaw and go to Killarpur. There you can find the fort.
There are many more beautiful places in this area to look around and visit. If you have enough time in hand, you can also visit Chourangi Fantasy Park, Sonakanda Fort beside the Waterfront fort which is a witness of the Sultanate era at the mysterious town Hajiganj.
Author Md. Taqi Yasir
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Odisha CM gives the perfect gift on Children’s Day
by Manmath Nayak November 15, 2017 February 13, 2019
written by Manmath Nayak November 15, 2017 February 13, 2019
For the development of Odia language and encouraging students’ interest towards the language, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday announced Rs 5,000 scholarship for 10 students of each block for scoring good marks in the language. He also announced Rs 5,000 scholarship each for a total of 40,000 students for scoring good marks in HSC board examinations.
“Education will take us to the next level of development. With our focus on quality education, we can take our State to next level. This can happen when all of us join together in a movement,” Naveen said while making the announcement.
“I want the students of my state to excel in all fields, including education, sports, music, art and social service,” he said, adding that he had full faith in the younger generation.
While addressing the school students on the occasion of Children’s Day, Patnaik said the students should develop a scientific mind while gathering knowledge about modern technologies in order to translate their dreams into reality.
While encouraging students, he said, “As a student you have 3 responsibilities – first is to study well, second is to realize the responsibilities towards your parents and third is to do something for the society, village and country you belong.”
He also announced the ‘Mukhya Mantri Medha Bruti’ (MMMB) cash reward scheme for students faring well in the Class 10 board examinations.
As many as 100 students in each block and municipal corporation area, 50 each in the municipalities and 20 each in the notified area council (NAC) of the state would benefit from the scheme, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief said.
The parents of students who performed well in exams would also be felicitated, he said, adding that the three best schools in every block would be given a cash incentive of Rs 1 lakh each.
Announcing the ‘Mo School’ (My School) campaign, the chief minister sought the involvement of the alumni and the public in general for the development of the institutions.
“If anybody donates any amount to a school, the government will donate double that amount to that school,” he said.
People who want to know more about the e-Medhabruti Scholarship Scheme 2017 from the Odisha government can log on to Buddy4Study and click on the link https://www.buddy4study.com/scholarship/e-medhabruti-scholarship-scheme-2017.
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Carbon concrete
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Impulse seminars at the 11th Carbon and Textile Reinforced Concrete Days 2019 in Dresden
On 24 and 25 September 2019, the annual user conference takes place in Dresden. CARBOCON once again has its own stand at the accompanying trade exhibition and is available with its team for questions and answers. A presentation on current projects is also planned. For the first time, the conference will include 'impulse seminars', at which participants can further their education in various subject areas. CARBOCON will look at aspects important for structural engineers with regard to the design of carbon reinforced concrete structures in new construction and strengthening. Furthermore, a second impulse seminar will demonstrate how to gain project-related approval and national technical approval.
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Project progress - reconstruction of the Thainburg pedestrian bridge
As a leading supplier in the field of carbon reinforced concrete technology, CARBOCON is currently entrusted with various monument reconstruction projects. One of the oldest reinforced concrete bridges is located in Naumburg in Saxony-Anhalt and was built using the Monier construction method which was very innovative at that time. The Thainburg bridge is being renovated now after more than 125 years. CARBOCON is supporting the project along with the TU Dresden and a planning office. Comprehensive structural design services were provided to integrate carbon reinforced concrete in the reinforcement of the bridge arch. In addition, CARBOCON helps the client with regard to the approval process. On the basis of the existing national technical approval for strengthening with textile concrete, a project-related approval is used with argumentation.
First carbon reinforced concrete road bridge
Carbon reinforced concrete technology continues to attract attention in the industry: planning for the first road bridge for heavy-duty traffic made of carbon reinforced concrete is underway in Saxony. An existing bridge on the S111, east of Bautzen, about 7 meters long, is to be restored using carbon concrete technology.
CARBOCON is in charge of the planning and approval process. The CARBOCON team also acts as the central interface between the clients and the partners involved in the project. The Free State of Saxony is acting as the client.
Reconstruction of monuments with innovative carbon reinforced concrete technology
The hypar shell in Magdeburg is not only a cultural landmark but also one of the most architecturally interesting buildings in the city. In the multi-purpose hall, which was built in 1969, fairs, concerts and other events used to take place. In 1990 the prominent building was listed as a historical monument. For more than 20 years the hypar shell Magdeburg has been closed because of dilapidation. The renovation of the hypar shell is being carried out with innovative carbon reinforced concrete technology, thus ensuring the appearance and design of Ulrich Müther are retained in line with the regulations for historical monuments. CARBOCON and its partners are supporting the city of Magdeburg in the planning and implementation of the reconstruction. The architectural design for this application is being prepared by the architectural firm gmp.
Carbon reinforced concrete megatrend - trade fair review at the beginning of 2019
In the first half of 2019 CARBOCON participated as exhibitor and partner in several trade fairs and conferences. Following BAU 2019 in Munich, CARBOCON presented its range of products and services in February at the 63rd 'Betontage' in Ulm, at the Bridge Construction Symposium in Dresden and in March at the 'Deutsche Bautechnik-Tag' (DBT) in Stuttgart. Special highlights at the DBT were the honouring of Prof. Manfred Curbach with the Emil-Mörsch commemorative coin, his subsequent lecture on the carbon reinforced concrete megatrend and the lecture by Dr Manuel Hentschel on the hypar shell Magdeburg. A four metre-long demonstration showed the trade audience how carbon reinforced concrete can be used to build with millimetre precision and to save resources.
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News on current bridge projects
CARBOCON looks back on a successful first half of 2019. In the area of civil engineering in particular, several projects were significantly developed. The Thainburg Bridge project in Naumburg was supported already at the turn of the year. The project-related approval process for the application of the 6-layer carbon reinforced concrete strengthening of a motorway bridge was also carried out by CARBOCON. Moreover, early on in the project, the experts demonstrated the feasibility of using carbon reinforced concrete technology to strengthen existing structures or construct new ones for four other bridges. All structures are located in different federal states and thus ensure the dissemination of the technology by CARBOCON.
CARBOCON as exhibitor in Winterthur/Switzerland
The advantages of carbon concrete technology are also attracting increasing interest internationally. One of the advantages of carbon reinforced concrete technology is its increased durability. While ordinary steel reinforced concrete structures only have a service life of about 40 to 80 years, carbon concrete structures are expected to last 200 years and more. Durability can be optimised by appropriate planning, execution and quality control. On 7 June 2018, the CARBOCON team will be pleased to welcome you to the conference "Textilbeton in der Praxis" (Textile concrete in practice) at the ZHAW in Winterthur. We will be happy to advise and inform you about these topics at our trade fair stand and will be at your disposal as your contact partner.
User training in carbon concrete from EIPOS
At the beginning of May 2019, a user training course on carbon reinforced concrete technology was held. Over two days, theoretical knowledge was imparted with regard to, for example, materials, dimensioning, storage and existing permits. On the second day there was a particular focus on practical aspects of how reinforcement can be specifically applied to structures and components using carbon reinforced concrete technology. Here all participants could work with the material themselves. At the end of the course, the participants received a certificate after successful completion of an examination, documenting the qualification they had acquired.
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Dresden carbon reinforced concrete technology receives German Future Prize
On 30 November 2016, the Federal President of Germany, Joachim Gauck, awarded the German Future Prize to the carbon reinforced concrete researchers Prof. Manfred Curbach, Prof. Chokri Cherif and Prof. Peter Offermann from the TU Dresden. The professors are among the leading minds in the research of carbon reinforced concrete and are successfully driving the launch of the building material onto the market. They have succeeded in developing a corrosion-resistant and resource-saving alternative to conventional steel reinforced concrete. With the fascinating composite material, carbon reinforced concrete, they are marking the beginning of a new construction era. The German Future Prize from the Federal President is one of the most important science prizes in Germany.
CARBOCON at the 10th Carbon and Textile Reinforced Concrete Days in Dresden
On 25 and 26 September 2018, the 10th Carbon and Textile Reinforced Concrete Days took place at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden. For the tenth anniversary, there were more than 50 presentations drawing on industry practice and research, providing an extensive spectrum of knowledge on new construction, reconstruction and development of components using carbon reinforced concrete technology. CARBOCON gave an account of the reconstruction project for the hypar shell in Magdeburg - a cultural landmark, built according to the plans of Ulrich Müther. The presentation was held on 26 September 2018 from 13:30 in Hall 1.
Great interest in bridge construction
In the middle of March 2018 the 28th Brückenbausymposium took place in Dresden. The Bridge Construction Prize was awarded in the presence of the Prime Minister of Saxony, Mr Michael Kretschmer, and the responsible Federal State Secretary, Mr Rainer Bomba.
CARBOCON was present at the accompanying fair with its own booth and provided detailed information about carbon reinforced concrete services, projects and technology. It was particularly encouraging that the innovative technology was met with lively interest from many of those involved in bridge construction and was also the subject of other presentations.
CARBOCON as exhibitor at the 9th Carbon and Textile Reinforced Concrete Days in Dresden
On 27 and 28 September 2017 the leading trade fair for carbon and textile reinforced concrete technology took place in Dresden. After the welcoming address by Dr Hartmut Mangold, Undersecretary of the State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport (SMWA), the more than 300 visitors had the opportunity to inform themselves about current developments and trends as well as completed and ongoing projects. CARBOCON was present at the conference with its own booth and information about its own projects, products and services. It was encouraging to see the keen interest with which the visitors informed themselves for the first time about the innovative technologies. This also showed that carbon and textile reinforced concrete are becoming more and more important for companies and experts.
CARBOCON establishes important contacts at the Bautechniktag in Stuttgart
On 27 and 28 April 2017, the Deutsche Bautechnik-Tag 2017 took place in Stuttgart. Mr Klaus Pöllath (Chairman of the DBV) opened the conference under the motto Dialogue Innovation Quality in front of an audience of approx. 1,500. The numerous managing directors, board members and employees of the construction industry who were present followed the speech with great interest, particularly when the chairman spoke about carbon reinforced concrete as one of the most important innovations for the construction industry. Carbon reinforced concrete will have a lasting impact on the industry and will be the answer to many issues and challenges in the coming years. CARBOCON was present at the Bautechniktag for the first time. Intensive discussions on the new technology took place and valuable contacts were established for potential projects.
The CARBOCON team is also at your disposal as a central contact partner with interdisciplinary expertise. In connection with our range of services, this enables us to take care of various customers with different requirement profiles.
CARBOCON supports the projects from the first analysis to the subsequent application. The spectrum of projects ranges from comprehensive consulting on strategic, operational and technical issues in the use of carbon reinforced concrete technology to 'classic' planning for the strengthening of bridges and other structures with carbon concrete.
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Footgolf course offers Corpus Christi a new challenge
The wind is howling as players line up to tee off. Their target is hundreds of feet away, marked by a flag.
Footgolf course offers Corpus Christi a new challenge The wind is howling as players line up to tee off. Their target is hundreds of feet away, marked by a flag. Check out this story on caller.com: http://callertim.es/2k2vkkh
Matt Woolbright, Corpus Christi Caller-Times Published 6:32 p.m. CT Jan. 17, 2017 | Updated 11:32 a.m. CT Jan. 18, 2017
Playing the footgolf course at the Lozano Golf Center, 4401 Old Brownsville Road, costs $10 for those 12 and older, and younger children cost $7.50 each. The course is open the same hours as the center's regular golf courses.(Photo: Gabe Hernandez/Caller-Times)Buy Photo
The wind is howling across the course as players line up to tee off. Their target is hundreds of feet away, marked by a flag.
After calculating the power and trajectory necessary to get the ball in the hole with as few shots as possible, the player swings, but there's no "click" of the club striking a golf ball. Instead, there's a "thump" as a size 5 regulation soccer ball careens — ideally — toward the target.
This is footgolf at the Lozano Golf Center, which is one of Corpus Christi's newest attractions.
"The challenge is really the wind because there's not a lot of hazards," said Javier Martinez, the golf course superintendent at the center. "A lot of people think it's easy, but they get surprised."
The game is scored like golf with the lowest score winning, and each hole has a "par" or number of strokes needed to beat to stay even.
Martinez said people expect to either get par or below, but most will end up, on average, about one or two shots over the limit for each of the nine holes. The better players may end two or three shots over, but very few beat par, he added.
Another part of the challenge comes on holes where the hole is on a hillside — a missed putt on those holes can add multiple strokes to a player's total.
Playing the course at 4401 Old Brownsville Road costs $10 for those 12 and older, and younger children cost $7.50 each. The course is open the same hours as the center's regular golf courses.
General Manager Peter Palacios said Corpus Christi's cultural affinity to soccer was a major factor in bringing footgolf to the center. The game is more popular in the northeastern parts of the country, he said.
But the game's popularity has been growing in Corpus Christi since the inaugural event in August, Palacios said.
"We've just seen that number (of players) grow every week," he said. "People are trying to find other things to do in Corpus Christi, and this gives that opportunity."
He said there hasn't been a single demographic dominating the attendance, either. Families come out, but so do young professionals, college students and groups of high school friends and teams. Even though attendance can be sparse, Palacios said the golf center is hoping to offer a footgolf league as interest grows.
"It's here to stay," he said.
Playing the footgolf course at the Lozano Golf Center, 4401 Old Brownsville Road, costs $10 for those 12 and older, and younger children cost $7.50 each. The course is open the same hours as the center's regular golf courses. (Photo: Gabe Hernandez/Caller-Times)
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Don't ever play the hypocrite - Dan Mohler - HCSKL 2011 Session 19
Sat 5 August 2017-7am - I have finally settled it which session of the 2011 school was the most impacting one. Here it is:
DAN MOHLER - DON'T EVER PLAY THE HYPOCRITE Transcript
(note, this text is partially transcript and partially transliteration)
KL11-19 Audio 1:10:35 & Video
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9nya2UP870&t=1h13m1s
Based on an open vision
I had the Lord come into my bedroom one time. I was worshipping God. Crying out for his heart (I did that for weeks). Suddenly my room turns into a cyclone and I hit the deck crawled into a ball.
He said to me Dan, do you realise I have given you the honour and privilege of loving in my unfailing love. What he was telling me is “I have given you my heart”. See yourself as one with me. Don't come to me as if you are lacking anything. I've put myself into you.
Isn't that scriptural? I've taken out the old Adamic heart and given you a heart of flesh.
There was a time when I laid on my bed and I said I don't understand hot or could and lukewarm. Lukewarm feels as it is at least half way to hot and not all the way to could.
See lukewarm is hypocrisy. I asked the Lord a question. I had never experienced anything like this, On Sat afternoon the Lord comes and on Sat night I front my poor home group.
You talk about the fear of the Lord. He said I'd rather you be cold than lukewarm. That's what he said. Because if you're could I can transform you and set you on fire.
But if you chose lukewarm you have chosen a middle ground and there is none such.
Lukewarm is hypocrisy, it's mediocrity , it's stagnancy and it's good for nothing and it's good for no one. Then he said something that you can weigh for the rest of your life (time will tell)
HYPOCRISY IS THE MOST WRETCHED SIN
More people face eternal damnation because of the sin of hypocrisy then for any other sin
The hypocrite and those deceived by his hypocrisy that have failed to come to me are lost because of hypocrisy. The presence of God was unspeakable. I was in a fetal position. The voice sounded audible, but I don't think it was, it doesn't matter.
SO DAN, DON'T EVER PLAY THE HYPOCRITE
The voice came with intensity, amazingly real, sounded like yelling, it took me to the floor. Third time I heard it I felt like I would die. I lied there for at least an hour, shook and cried and said YES LORD. It came out of the blue suddenly, but was preceded by an intense desire coupled with diligence in seeking the Lord.Then he was working sincerity in me, commitment in me, discipline in me. His grace was fashioning me because I don't want to be a hypocrite. I was that my whole life (until 33). The visitation came because I don't want to live for myself any more, don't want to be a hypocrite any more and I was there (in my bedroom) day after day, time after time, hours and hours because I want HIM, I was not just saying I want him. I was playing music and praying JESUS I WANT YOUR HEART IN ME.
HOW DO WE GET IT ?
ASK - a simple request and he answers. When you seek HIM you will find HIM. Draw near to him he draws near to you. That's how it works kiddo. He never leaves you nor forsakes you. Hours and hours of diligence and devotion to a selfless relationship it took. Hold on to him and you will get off the floor changed and become more than you ever where before and you will increase in the kingdom This applies to all things, be it healing, love or whatever.
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Meet Jia Yueting: The Elon Musk Of China, Who Has A Vegas Problem
By Amy Lamare on August 19, 2016 in Articles › Billionaire News
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Jia Yueting is a self-made Chinese tech billionaire who started out as the IT guy at his local tax bureau and made his $3.2 billion fortune through Leshi Television – his Internet video company. Now, he's turned his ambitions to the world outside of China and has trained his eye on Elon Musk and Las Vegas. Jia Yueting is nothing if not ambitious. He wants his Faraday Future to be a bigger and better electric car company than Tesla Motors, Inc. In fact, he is so focused on that latter goal that he has hired staff from Ferrari and BMW and gotten the backing of the Governor of Nevada to build a $1 billion auto plant in North Las Vegas—just 400 mile from where Tesla built its battery factory in 2014.
Sounds good, right? There's just one problem. Nevada's Treasurer, Dan Schwartz isn't buying it. He is skeptical that Jia can get the financing for his revolutionary electric car plant. Schwartz notes that Jia would need the support of the U.S. government for power lines, water mains, and roads. Schwartz wants more than promises from Jia, he wants a clear plan on funding for the project before committing $120 million in state bonds to the infrastructure improvements. And by the way, Schwartz used to the CEO of a private equity firm in Hong Kong, so he has some familiarity with the climate of China.
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The main problem Schwartz has is with Jia's plan to rely on equity-backed loans. If this strategy backfires, it could leave Nevadans vulnerable to the ups and downs of China's volatile stock market. Regulatory filings show that Jia has pledged 87% of his holdings in Leshi Internet Information & Technology Corp. – his flagship firm – for cash that he can then put back into building his car company.
The problem, as Schwartz mentioned, is in the vagaries of the Chinese stock market. The stock was halted in Shenzhen from January through May and has dropped 11% since it resumed trading on June 3rd. Schwartz fears that a margin call could keep Jia from being able to fund the plant.
The type of financing questions that are surrounding Jia's proposed electric car plant are becoming increasingly more common around the world as wealthy Chinese entrepreneurs make investments in companies and properties overseas. But with the debt level in China rising, doubts have been cast over these entrepreneurs' abilities to secure truly stable funding.
Faraday's concept car is a 1,000 horsepower machine that has drawn comparisons to the Batmobile. Jia has invested more than $300 million of his personal fortune into Faraday. The car firm is expected to announce an outside round of funding within the next several weeks. This funding is expected to come from Asian investors, which does nothing to quell Schwartz's worries over the company's financing.
Faraday, like Tesla, is named after a 19th century electricity pioneer.
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Travis Baugh August 24, 2016
Fort Worth Simply Cannot Get Enough Heim Barbecue.
Welcome to Cued Up! In this new feature, we’ll bust out the wet naps and get elbows deep in sauce in order to find what makes the region’s best barbecue spots tick. We don’t just want to know what makes their ‘cue so damn delicious, though; we’ve got to cut down to the bone of these pitmasters to learn what makes each one of them so special — and why they’ve dedicated their lives to one of the most fundamentally Texas cuisines.
This week, we chowed down on Heim Barbecue .
Fast Facts on Heim Barbecue.
Where: 1109 W Magnolia Ave, Fort Worth.
When: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day but Tuesday.
Seating: Easy to find a spot.
Line Speed: Long but fast.
Woods Used: Oak.
Heim Barbecue has been making a name for itself in the Fort Worth barbecue scene for little over a year now, initially serving food from a truck, and just opening its first brick and mortar restaurant on West Magnolia Avenue this month. This family-owned barbecue joint may be young, but they smoke a brisket like the old pros.
“We take what we do really seriously and hopefully that shows in the food,” says Travis Heim, co-owner and pitmaster of Heim Barbecue.
This hip barbecue joint is dedicated to quality and the people can’t get enough. Heim is usually sold out by 4 p.m., so get there before the lunch rush inevitably wipes them out.
Some History.
Heim Barbecue started in the backyard, but it was Travis’ passion for barbecue that brought Heim out of the backyard and on to the table.
“He always had a thing for barbecue,” says Emma Heim, co-owner, business manager and Travis’s better half.
Travis and Emma received a little Weber grill as a wedding gift and they put it to good use pretty quickly. Travis started cooking briskets on it, and soon realized that the little Weber wasn’t enough and set out to get a smoker of his own. It just so happened that his uncle had one he was willing to part with and just gave it to him. But the smoker was so large they couldn’t park it at their house, much less cook just for themselves on it. So the Heims started smoking for friends and family, at parties, and pop-up events they called Meat Club. This got so popular they started having Meat Club at least once a month.
“In the back of our mind we have always kind of wanted to do a restaurant,” Emma says.
So that’s just what they did. The Heims soon found a food truck for lease online and put everything they had in to it.
“We ended up using all of our money to pay for the deposit for the truck,” Emma says.
On February 21, 2015, Heim Barbecue opened. The food truck they leased had a permanent home at the Republic Street Bar and they were only open on Wednesdays. At first they were make just enough to cover the expenses, but they were selling more and more each day, so they started opening more days. After receiving their first big review, however, business exploded. Emma quit her job, and a little over a year later, the Heims opened their first brick-and-mortar location.
The Pitmaster and His ‘Cue.
Travis Heim has been into barbecue for a long time — since before he could drive, even.
“Since I was 12 or 13, I’ve been cooking for fun,” he says.
When he was younger Travis and his grandfather would cook out on the grill a lot and it was around this time he came up the recipe for the barbecue sauce that use in the restaurant today. But barbecue wasn’t what he set out to do in life, however, one day after losing his job, Travis realized that it was something he had a passion for.
“It’s kind of like you don’t really think you care about it, and then you just wake up one day and you’re like, ‘Oh, I’ve been doing this my whole life,'” he says.
It wasn’t until the Heims started Meat Club that the Idea of a restaurant really began to form. After that, Travis and Emma strived to prefect their barbecue. At that time, they say, it was all about experimenting and constantly improving things.
It was during a Meat Club event dubbed “There Will Be Bacon” where they inadvertently crafted one of their best selling items the menu, the bacon burnt ends. Theses bite-sized bits of smoked pork are coated in a rub that has a perfect balance between spicy and sweet.
By the time Travis and Emma opened the new Heim Barbecue they had done some traveling around the country learning about good barbecue.
“Every single aspect of what we do we have planned out,” Travis says of their farm-to-smoker approach.
Every cut of meat they get is farm-raised and hormone free, and that shows in the quality of the brisket. The bark is full of flavor, the smoke ring is perfect and every bite is juicy. All the sides are made daily and are either a family recipe or one of Emma and Travis’ original ideas. It wasn’t until after opening did the Heims finds out that their surname means “home.” It’s something they’ve since taken to heart.
“We try to take a more enlightened approach to hospitality,” Travis says. “Barbecue is very much a communal thing.”
And the community loves Heim Barbecue. They smoke over 1,000 pounds of barbecue a day, and it’s typically all gone by mid-afternoon. You’ve got to get there pretty early to snag some of those bacon burnt ends, or any of the other offerings from Fort Worth’s best barbecue joint.
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Travis Baugh is a contributing writer and photographer at Central Track. In 2015 he won first place at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association for a feature story in a literary magazine. Travis has two degrees, one in photography and another in journalism. He has history in print and online publications. Travis is a movie nerd who likes craft beer and vinyl. “Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.” - Jean Cocteau
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Sins Of The Father: Chapters 5 & 6
Revving up now. A little action today along with a little intro to characters for new readers. Let me know what you think, and thanks for all the kind notes, especially yours Richard :)
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Cal and Daniel stuck around for breakfast. Patty Quinn put Cracker Barrel to shame. The full spread of pancakes, french toast, eggs and mounds of bacon left both men full. Tom and Patty barely touched their food. Husband and wife were not eager to see the Marines leave so Daniel did what he always did, he made things happen. A couple of phone calls and within fifteen minutes, a police cruiser was sitting out front. Daniel had a few words with the police officer and it was assured that the Quinn's would be watched night and day.
Cal and Daniel said their good-byes again. The Quinns thanked them profusely for coming. Tom offered to pay for their gas, but Cal refused.
"Give me a call if you need anything. Anything at all.”
“I feel like I'm imposing on your life," Tom said.
"You're family now," Cal replied, surprised that he really meant it. "Daniel and I like to take care of family, so like I said, if you need anything, call me."
Tom just nodded and went back into the house with his wife.
Daniel waved to the cop at the curb as they pulled away.
"Do you think we should get them a place to stay, at least until this blows over?” Cal asked his friend.
"I think they'll be okay with police for now. They got lucky, but maybe it is all just a coincidence," Daniel said.
They'd already discussed the break-in while the Quinns had slept. Whoever had gotten in was good. There was no sign of forced entry. According to the Quinns, nothing had been taken, but from careful analysis Daniel had detected that a couple pieces on the mantle and on the living room coffee table had been moved around. The months-long collection of dust had seen to that.
They were winding their way through town, headed back towards the highway, when Daniel said, "We're being followed. Maroon Ford Ranger. Four cars behind. One man in the cab.“
Cal didn't have to look. If anyone could sniff out a tail it was Daniel. “Since when?"
"Just after we left the neighborhood.”
“See if you can bring them in close. I want a better look."
So instead of making their way back to the interstate, Daniel took a circuitous route, meandering in and out of morning traffic.
Once they were one hundred percent sure that they were being followed, Cal said, "Make your way to the highway. He's not making much of an effort to stay hidden. Let's see where we can take this."
Daniel did as instructed and turned left. Suddenly they were out of the morning log jam. Sure enough, a few cars later, their pursuer followed.
"We'll take him at the on-ramp. You ready?"
Daniel nodded. When was he not ready? The truck was close now, probably concerned that maybe they'd make a quick getaway. Daniel let the cars behind get close and soon it was their car, a sedan, and the truck behind that.
Daniel's timing was perfect. He jammed on the gas and then slammed on the brake as if the engine had locked up on itself. By now the maroon pickup was sandwiched from behind with nowhere else to go so Cal made his move. He bolted from the car and caught the eye of the driver in the maroon truck. Mid to late twenties. Eyes narrowed. Blue ball cap. The driver didn't wait either. Instead of trying to drive his way out, he bolted from the truck and headed towards the highway and the steep embankment leading down to the four lane road. The guy was quick, but Cal was in fast pursuit.
Just as his quarry hit the lip of the hill, Cal dove, slamming into the man's back. Over and over they tumbled, neither man gaining the upper hand. Cal's hip slammed into something hard and he tried to grab hold of the man. End over end they went until they were at the bottom.
The man hopped to his feet first seemingly no worse for wear. Cal hopped up a split second later, too late to block the haymaker that clipped him in the left side of the face. He rolled with it taking some of the pain, feeling his head swim, but he'd taken worse hits before. The hit was hard, but would have been harder if his own reflexes hadn't been as fast. He finished his roll on one knee, bracing himself for a hand to hand match, but the guy was running again.
Then, as if out of nowhere, a black motorcycle swerved out of traffic and pulled off to the shoulder. The man in the blue cap hopped on. Before Cal was even to his feet, they were gone. Cal rubbed his jaw and then his sore hip. At least now he knew the thing with the Quinns wasn't a coincidence. It was no use second guessing what he'd done. He'd seen an opportunity and taken it. Maybe he could have shot the man, but for what? A hunch? And besides, the last thing Cal wanted to have to do was explain to the cops why he'd killed a man in cold blood. The Jefferson Group was made up of elite warriors who worked directly for the President, but even they weren't above the law when it came to working in the public eye.
Cal straightened his shirt and did a quick search of the area in a vain attempt to salvage something from the situation. And then there it was. In the grass, a piece of metal that didn't belong. When he reached down to pick it up he realized it wasn't metal. It just had a glossy sheen. It was rectangular and about the size of a wallet or one of those passport holders. He picked it up and turned it over. There was a zipper around the seem. Cal unzipped it and his eyes narrowed as what he saw. Inside was a stack of mini photos, the size kids get when they have pictures done for their yearbook. The picture on top was of Tom Quinn in his bathrobe going to get the mail. The second was of his wife looking out the window.
But what really made Cal's jaw clench was the next picture. It was a image of him from days before, squatting next to a wrecked Maserati cradling the lifeless body of Tommy Quinn.
Something about the Georgetown bar always reminded Master Sergeant Willy Trent of the movie The Firm. “Top”, as the former Marine Master Sergeant was called by his friends, could just see the young Tom Cruise playing Mitch McDeere, prowling the place as both a law student, shuffling pizza, and as a newly minted member of the firm that has ties to the mob. The upscale pub had that kind of intrigue. Students mingled with politicians. Money men sipped on martinis while college athletes downed pitchers of beer. It was a lively place and there was an unwritten rule that you never got in a fight at Hanrahan’s.
He’d come in for a drink and to watch the game. But it wasn't the game that had Top's attention now. It was a drama being played out at the other end of the bar. There sat a guy with a suit, tie pulled down to his third button, talking the ear off of a girl who would nod politely every once in a while. To Top's trained eye, it was clear that she was uncomfortable. The date, if that's what he was, kept buying drinks and the girl kept refusing. Nobody else seemed to take notice, but Top did. It was something about the body language. The guy kept getting closer while the girl inched away as far as she could.
Top downed his drink and stood. His near seven-foot frame towered above the rest of the crowd. Despite his size, he weaved his way effortlessly through the packed crowd until he was standing right behind the couple at the other end of the bar.
"Excuse me, miss," he said to the girl. That cut off the date's jabbering and they both looked up at him in surprise. Top registered disgust on the man's face, which quickly turned to feigned congeniality when he saw the size of the man looming behind. "I'm sorry miss, but I think I know you. I went to school with your father. You were about this high back then." Top motioned to his waist and ever so subtly, so only she could see, he winked and she instantly got his meaning.
"Oh yes, I'm so sorry. I didn't recognize you," she said, extending her hand.
"Yes, ma'am. The name's Willie Trent."
"I'm Mary."
"That's right. How rude of me. How could I forget such a pretty name? How is your father these days?"
"Oh, he's fine," she said, playing along.
"Hey look man," the date said. "We were having a conversation. Do you mind?"
"I don't mean to be rude, but it seemed kind of like a one-way conversation."
"We’re on a date," the boy said, doing his best to salvage his pride. He was full of liquored courage, his words starting to slur.
"Well, Mary, I didn't mean to butt in, you know us old timers."
"Oh no, that's okay," Mary said quickly. “I was just leaving."
She went to rise, but her date grabbed her by the wrist. "We just got here," he said angrily. He wasn’t completely stupid because he realized what he'd done and let go of Mary's wrist. He did not back down. "Come on, just a couple more drinks. You said you liked this place."
"Mary, would you like me to call you a cab" Top asked.
The date didn't give Mary a chance to reply.
"Hey, Grandpa, why don't you beat it?"
Top winked at Mary again, just to let her know that everything was all right. She was tense now and boy wonder was just plain stupid.
"Oh, I'll take off," Top said, said turning to the boy, "But first, you mind if I show you a bar trick?" He didn't wait for the clown to answer, reaching in his pocket and pulling out a single dollar bill. The date glanced furtively at the twisting bill in Top's hand. "I heard a story once of this guy, a young kid, just like you. You see, this guy met a girl. The only problem was that they lived on opposite sides of the country. So what does this guy do? He decides to take a trip. He jumps in his car and just starts driving. Now, back then he didn't have some fancy phone that gave him the father and told him a storm was coming. So on he plowed as the snow fell and the ice slicked the roads. The highways were clogged from the mess so he took out an old paper map and went the back way, over steep hills and black ice roads. He ignored all the signs and just kept driving, thinking about that girl. You see, he really, really, really wanted to see that girl.
On he went through the night. He somehow got through a couple of states. Luck, I guess. The storm still raged, but the poor guy ignored it. He thought he was safe in that car, safe in the memory of that pretty girl. He got tunnel vision, you see. Well, at some point, the weather just got too bad. I'll spare you the details, but that fine young man swerved off the road, crashed, and died right there in the middle of no where. But here’s the kicker. He didn't die right away. They say he laid there for hours, pinned against the wheel with broken ribs and who knows what else. He was barely able to breathe, and probably died thinking about that girl."
By now, Top had twisted the dollar bill into a tight cone with a pointy end. He held it up for a moment and admired it.
"What's your point?” the date asked with a huff.
"My point, sir, was that this poor young man failed to see the signs. He failed to see that he was walking into something he could not handle. He had never once driven in snow. He had never once driven more than 100 miles at one time. He was in unchartered territory, but he was young and he felt invincible and the thought of that girl kept him going."
The date snorted. "You're crazy, you know that?"
"Oh, I've heard that before, but I'll tell you what. You see this little dollar bill in my finger?" Top held it up so the man could see. "You know if you fold a newspaper this way you can kill a man with it? Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking. No way, right? But I've seen it. Now, I’ve got a bet with an old friend. I told him I thought you could probably do the same thing with a dollar bill. That's sturdy paper they make those dollar bills with. Gotta be sturdy to pass between all those hands. All you’ve gotta do it shove right up here.” Top show him the spot right under his jawline. “So yeah, I've got this bet, and well, I've got nothing but time."
Then, as if he'd remembered his manners, Top jammed the dollar bill back in his pocket. “But like I said, I’m so sorry I interrupted. Mary, it was a pleasure to see you again,” and then he pointed to the other end of the bar. "I'll be right over there if you need me. And, sir," he said to the date, clapping him on the back hard, "It was a pleasure to meet you as well." He gave the boy one final grin and then returned to his perch across the way.
No sooner had he gotten there when his phone beeped. Before he could type a reply to the text, Mary was there. Top glanced back to where she and her date had been. He was gone.
"I just wanted to say thank you, Mr. Trent," she said nervously. "I met him online and he seemed so nice, but when he showed up, he was already drunk."
"That's all right, Mary. I'm sorry you had to go through that. How about I walk you to your car, just in case.”
"My roommate dropped me off and he,” she pointed to where her date had been, “was supposed to be my ride home."
"Well, not to worry. Modern technology shall save the day." Top pulled up the Uber app on his phone. "Well, will you look at that. There's a car right around the corner."
"Oh, Mr. Trent, you don't need to do that."
"Mary, it is my treat. It is not often that I get to save the day for a young lady such as yourself.”
“That's very nice of you. If you give me your phone number, I'd be happy to pay you back."
"Completely unnecessary. Like I said, my treat. Now, my phone says that the car should be here in exactly one minute. Amazing this technology. How bout I walk you out and make sure you get there safe?"
Mary nodded and Top caught the eye of the bartender who slipped his tab across the bar. Top laid a $50 bill on top of it and then left with Mary at his side.
Once he explained to the driver that he was not coming along for the ride, he said goodbye to Mary. He waved as the car drove off, then he turned back to his phone. The text had been from Cal.
Need you back in Charlottesville. Something’s come up.
The Marine typed in his reply.
Sorry. I was just playing Captain America. I'll be home in a couple of hours.
Mary Sheerin link
Love it when things start to heat up. I'm buckled in for the ride!!!! Heee-haaaaaaa
Jerry Lovett
The story is getting even more interesting. Your stories all end up being hard to stop reading.
It's getting exciting!!! Love it when the boys get into some action! Keep it coming C. G.!!!
Tory Shade
What they said...(grin). Looking forward to more.
G. Younger
I loved Top's story. This novel is going to be fabulous.
Man, I just love Top! Always so relaxed.
I'd still like to see a book or two more on Tops story.
Knowing Carlos the drunk or the girl will be part of this story somehow. Can't wait to see how they get woven into the story line.
Good read so far.
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Your welcome, dont thank me thank madre and padre. BTW i think i forgot to thank those of you readers who wete kind to me and became friends in the pricess
Okay ladies and gentlemen please place your seats in the upright position and fasten your seatbelts. Some turbulence coming up soon
Excellent chapter love Captain America and nice to see Snake Eyes again excellent chapter good character formation action looking forward to some action between Daniel and the Bad Boys
Craig Wilcox
Wooo-Hooo, Carlos! You are beating feet in a rapid fashion, Sir! And now that Capt. America is on board, things will perk up.
Thanks so much for making us a part of your writing process, Carlos. How and where you get your plot line from is surely twisted genius, and we all appreciate it.
Awesome so far. Going to be exceptionally good! Suspense already growing.
Man, I just love me some Willy Trent! This may turn out to be one of the best Corps Justice novels yet.
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Carlos is a master of bringing all these seemingly unrelated things and people together as his stories progress. Waiting (impatiently) for the next chapter!
Sandy Kaplan
And we are off to the races! Here come the twists and turns you give us...Fantastic chapter with Top playing Captain America. This is shaping up to be the best Corp Justice you have done....and that is an amazing feat.
Minnie Lee
Love the chapters! Trent to the rescue again! Can't wait to see how everything plays out with the motorcyclist and Cal
Kathryn Andresen
I agree with Team Carlos! They are right on! I love looking forward to your chapters every day. Thank you!
Captain America, nice touch. The action is starting to pick up and it should be interesting to see where it goes.
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And the Grammy goes to...El Orisha de la Rosa
With the Grammy for Best Recording Package, we honor the memory of the great Magin Diaz (1921-2017). The 60th GRAMMY Awards ceremony was held at the Madison Square Garden in New York City.
El Orisha de la Rosa by Magin Diaz is nominated for 2 Latin Grammy Awards
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LA Galaxy II (11-9-11, 44 points) drew 2-2 with Sacramento Republic FC (13-12-6, 45 points) on Wednesday night at Papa Murphy’s Park in Sacramento, Calif.
Sacramento struck first on the night, when Thomas Enevoldsen placed a right-footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner on a fast break. Tomas Hilliard-Arce almost intercepted the pass to Enevoldsen – getting a foot on the ball – but it wasn’t enough to break up the play.
LA Galaxy II remained aggressive in the first half and they were rewarded just before halftime. Kai Koreniuk put a blistering shot on goal, an attempt that was saved right into the path of Ethan Zubak.
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Watch Newcastle United fans choose their player of the season
Jamaal Lascelles, Mo Diame or Jonjo Shelvey? These supporters have their say on the standout performer of the campaign
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See Newcastle United supporters pick their standout player of the season.
Captain Jamaal Lascelles and Mohamed Diame were popular choices among the St James’ Park faithful.
We spoke to fans outside the stadium following the convincing 3-0 win over Chelsea on Sunday.
Take a look at what they had to say in the video above.
United exceeded expectations to secure a top-half finish in the Premier League.
A lot of credit was given to the team as a whole for the way they had improved during a first season back in the top flight.
Who would it be if you had to pick out one star performer?
Watch Newcastle United fans rate the first season back in the Premier League
Lascelles, Diame and Paul Dummett were the names which cropped up the most.
Jonjo Shelvey is at the centre of a heated debate over his World Cup chances and was singled out for praise by some.
There was also a mention for Ayoze Perez who ended up as United’s top goalscorer across the campaign.
Who is your Newcastle United player of the season? Have any names been missed out? Let us know in the comments below.
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FAMU to get its first-ever female dean
by Martin Kudláč
09/12/2019 - Documentarian, film theoretician and curator Andrea Slováková has been voted to lead FAMU
Andrea Slováková
Czech documentarian, film theoretician and curator Andrea Slováková, who works on the management team of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, currently curating experimental films and the VR programme, and is one of the founders of the DAFilms portal, has been voted to become the next dean of the Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). Slováková is thus poised to become the first female dean in the history of the school, since it was established in 1947. Slováková studied documentary filmmaking at FAMU and briefly served as a vice-dean under the current dean.
Producer Čestmír Kopecký, who lectured at FAMU, and Ondřej Zach, who currently leads FAMU International, were the other candidates for the post. Six senators out of nine voted for Slováková; Kopecký and Zach received one vote each, while one senator abstained from voting. The outgoing dean, Zdeněk Holý, decided not to run for the position, and he will return to film production.
Slováková aims to concentrate on the school’s openness, “on the mechanisms of ongoing reflection” and “on supporting the school’s internal organisation and manner of functioning in order to ensure that FAMU remains at the forefront of development”. She summed up her vision and concept for the development of the institution, mentioning five strategic pillars: “Openness in relation to the cultural environment in the Czech Republic and abroad, supporting the diversity of audiovisual creation considering changing processes and technological innovations in the areas of production and distribution, improving working conditions, augmenting knowledge and critical thinking at the university level, and encouraging the different departments to interconnect and communicate.” Her goals also include reducing FAMU’s carbon footprint and incorporating environmentally friendly practices into the running of the school.
The rector of the Academy of Performing Arts (AMU) has yet to officially appoint Slováková to the position for 2020-2024.
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Melanie Grant Takes Her Brand of Aussie Beauty Stateside
She’s Australia’s only official Chanel skincare expert, with a clientele including Victoria Beckham and Kim Kardashian. And she recently opened her first overseas salon in Los Angeles. The Australian facialist shares how she did it.
Photography: Courtesy of Melanie Grant
by Georgia Graham
Few facialists have built a roster of clients as impressive as Sydney’s Melanie Grant.
Her exclusive regime – one that blends clinical techniques and modern methodology with a holistic approach to health – has earned fans from Sydney to Paris, and now, after breaking into the notoriously competitive French skincare game, she’s opened her first overseas “skin health studio” in Los Angeles.
“Good skin is not achieved simply through a skincare regime or treatment plan in isolation,” Grant says. “Rather, it’s the result of a 360-degree approach that incorporates diet, lifestyle and preventative measures.”
Her studio’s signature “glow” is all about looking bare faced and natural.
Grant opened her first studio in Sydney’s Double Bay in 2012 and followed up with a Melbourne location in Armadale in 2016. That same year, French fashion and beauty house Chanel asked Grant to be its first and only official Australian “skin expert”. Grant had been in Paris for fashion week, offering facials to existing clientele (such as Australian blogger Nicole “Gary Pepper Girl” Warne) and new Paris-based clients.
“Australian beauty has a lot to offer everyone – not just Australians,” says Grant. “I see my work as representative of Australian beauty. It’s grounded in a lifestyle-positive approach to skincare. Australians are relatively laid-back, warm and friendly, and value simplicity and authenticity. This translates into an uncomplicated and effective approach to treating the skin.”
Her new Los Angeles salon on Melrose Place in West Hollywood counts the Olsen twins’ flagship Row boutique as a neighbour.
“I’ve always loved LA. It’s diverse, vibrant, dynamic and, of all the American cities I’ve visited, it has the most ‘Australian’ feel,” Grant says.
Despite being tailored to its Californian surrounds, the new studio’s interior has the same Parisian influence as her Australian locations, inspired by the apartments of her favourite European city. An ornate French staircase dominates the entrance hall. The floors are covered in Parisian-style parquetry. Treatment rooms are minimal and white, accented with fresh flowers and pale blue quilted blankets on the beds. Naturally, Chanel products line the bathrooms.
The Los Angeles location offers the same treatments as those in Australia. The cult “camera ready” facial – which involves a deep cleanse and exfoliation with ultrafine diamond microdermabrasion, followed by a custom antioxidant peel, hydration infusion and firm French massage techniques – is already popular.
Social media platforms like Instagram – and, importantly, the celebrities who use them to champion their favourite products, people and brands – have helped Grant expand into overseas markets. Kim Kardashian, with her 137 million followers, has posted about Grant on Instagram, and Victoria Beckham is a constant and vocal advocate. Those endorsements triggered a rush of Australian fans: models Lara Worthington, Jessica Gomes, Nicole Trunfio and Phoebe Tonkin included.
“For small Australian businesses like ours, the tyranny of distance that has kept us a secret has been conquered with technology and social media,” Grant says.
Luckily, Grant’s expertise isn’t limited to those with access to her salon. Her own Instagram account features a wealth of how-to tips and personalised advice for skincare enthusiasts or those simply wanting to learn more about how to look after their visage.
“I understand the responsibility, as an expert in my field, and I do not take this lightly,” Grant says. “My aim is to provide a reliable and credible source of information for anyone who wishes to educate themselves further.”
“We’re returning to a more natural look, where a healthy and vital complexion is the cornerstone,” she continues. “The vast majority of my clients want to maintain radiant and clarified skin – skin they feel confident in without the need to conceal and cover up.”
What’s her non-negotiable tip for healthy skin?
“As with many things in life, consistency is certainly key when it comes to ensuring your complexion is optimally functioning,” she says. “It’s one thing to achieve good skin and another to maintain it. It’s important to adhere to your skincare regime – and, most importantly, a preventative approach to skincare will negate the need for expensive correctional treatments down the line.”
However, for Grant herself consistency can sometimes be difficult to achieve.
“Being 24-hour busy is a load that takes its toll,” she says. “Combine this with a near constant flow of new products that I’m trialling for work, and you can rest assured that me and perfect skin are barely on speaking terms.
“So sometimes looking after my skin is just plain hard work. I’m careful to tailor my regime to match my lifestyle, and I’m constantly reassessing my routines. Tending to my own skin has never been a chore – on the contrary, it’s where I find some peace and relaxation, a bit of me time.”
Melanie Grant’s Los Angeles salon is now open at 8438 Melrose Place, West Hollywood. In Australia, you can find her studios in Double Bay, Sydney, and Armadale in Melbourne.
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Oil Search Surges on CNPC $5 Billion Bid Report
Published 9:59 PM ET Sun, 16 Sept 2007 Updated 3:19 PM ET Thu, 5 Aug 2010 Reuters
Shares in Oil Search surged as much as 19.4% on Monday after the South China Morning Post newspaper said a joint venture of China's National Petroleum Corp. was considering a bid of up to US$5 billion for the Australia oil firm.
Oil Search said it had had no formal approach from CNPC or anybody else.
The Hong Kong daily, citing unnamed sources, said CNPC Exploration, a joint venture between CNPC and Hong Kong listed Petrochina, was considering the bid.
PetroChina officials in Hong Kong were not available for comments.
The reported bid would value Oil Search's shares at about A$5.31 each, compared with its all-time high of A$4.64, based on shares on issue. The paper said some European oil companies were also looking at Oil Search.
Oil Search owns reserves in Papua New Guinea, Yemen, Egypt and Libya. Its annual report shows that it has proven and probable oil reserves of 1.43 billion barrels at the end of last year.
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All the Little Things That Make First Class Worth It
When Emirates introduced their groundbreaking First Class Private Suites in 2003, the airline raised the bar for what a premium in-flight cabin experience could be.
Solo travelers looking for that luxury-hotel-in-the-sky feeling needn’t look further than the First Class Private Suite on Emirates. It has its own wood-finished sliding door, which means not having to see another passenger for the entirety of the flight if you choose. And once inside, there’s little reason to leave. From the oversized leather seat, passengers will find their own 32-inch television screens, a minibar with soft drinks and sparkling water, a snack basket (with everything from shortbread cookies to fruit-and-nut bars), a Bulgari amenity kit filled with skincare products, and a pair of Hydra Active Microcapsule Technology pajamas meant to hydrate the skin during sleep (the fabric subtly releases natural, nutrient-rich sea kelp, which stimulates circulation).
Meals, meanwhile, are served “room-service” style: Passengers choose when to eat their multi-course meals (which typically start with caviar and blinis and ends with desserts like a smoked chocolate fondant or seasonal fruit). Cocktails include classic Bloody Marys, Manhattans, and Martinis. And before landing, First Class passengers have exclusive use of the onboard Shower Spa (available on the Airbus A380, used on popular routes like New York and San Francisco), which means arriving in Dubai more refreshed—especially when it’s followed by a green apple, ginger and mint detox juice. On arrival, a chauffeured-driven, WiFi-enabled Mercedes-Benz V Class is available to whisk you to your hotel. Talk about making an entrance.
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State-Owned French Bank Joins Bitcoin Startup’s $8 Million Series A
Oct 8, 2019 at 16:00 UTC
Leigh Cuen
“We’re convinced that bitcoin is becoming more and more obvious.”
That’s not typically what one might expect to hear from a veteran banker at a public institution. But Veronique Jacq of the partially state-owned French investment bank Bpifrance told CoinDesk bitcoin is becoming a staple of the global economy.
That’s why Bpifrance just made its first investment in a crypto startup, because the bank wants to play an active role in building bitcoin’s infrastructure.
The lightning-focused startup ACINQ raised an $8 million Series A led by Idinvest Partners, with the participation of Serena and Bpifrance. Idinvest Partners managing director Nicolas Debock told CoinDesk this round was also his firm’s first investment in a bitcoin company.
“As we continue to look at bitcoin companies, we think that second-layer opportunities are a big one and it’s definitely something we’ll be looking into more,” Debock said, adding:
“If you’re building for the digital economy … you need to build a strong and safe infrastructure. What I really like [about ACINQ] is they are not rushing to launch a product that isn’t ready.”
From Debock’s perspective, earlier waves of investment in the bitcoin economy revolved around mining companies, then exchanges and wallet providers. But traditional firms, like Idinvest, were wary of the “timing game” required to make significant returns on projects that are still subject to the erratic whims of an immature market and an opaque regulatory climate.
By contrast, he said, investing in companies with a long-term focus on the application layer offers a more palatable opportunity.
“If lightning lives up to its promise, it’s going to relay a lot of transactions,” Debock said. “When you relay a lot of transactions there are always ways to make money.”
Jacq agreed that although ACINQ’s business model is still unclear, she sees it as one of the leading startups focused on the lightning network protocol.
“The lightning network will be where high volumes of transactions could develop in the future, so we wanted to be there, with the infrastructure that will enable these transactions,” she said.
In a press statement, Serena partner Kamel Zeroual echoed his peers, explaining why a government bank would want to invest in developing layers of the bitcoin ecosystem:
“In a context of currency wars and negative interest rates, Bitcoin’s value proposition – a free, independent currency with an issuance policy set in its protocol – is impossible to ignore. All that it needs to achieve its goals is a sound, usable scalability solution.”
This Series A brings ACINQ’s total funding up to $10 million, CEO Pierre-Marie Padiou told CoinDesk, and will be used to grow the six-man team up to a dozen employees over the next year.
“We’re very picky about the people we hire … because it’s very hard to find people with the right skills,” Padiou told CoinDesk. “We are looking for people but … we will take however long it takes.”
Stepping back, ACINQ has long been the quietest pillar of the lightning startup trinity, with much of the community development spearheaded by Lightning Labs and Blockstream, both in Silicon Valley. Yet ACINQ has its own lightning implementation, Eclair, in addition to the Eclair mobile wallet, and Strike, an application program interface (API) for lightning, which Padiou compared to the merchant payment processing provider Stripe. He also said the Eclair lightning wallet has garnered 15,000 downloads via Google Play since it launched in 2018.
To date, ACINQ operates the largest capacity lightning node on the network, supporting over 1,000 channels. Blockstream engineer Rusty Russell told CoinDesk he thinks such diverse implementations benefit end-users since it’s unclear how the network will evolve.
“I started working on Bitcoin because of a previous Open Source project which made my career: Linux. And the one thing we learned from that journey is that we’re not going where we think we’re going,” Russell said, adding:
“Since we don’t know where we’re going, the more experimentation the merrier. … From my vantage point [ACINQ is] helping with the standards process. They’re absolutely equal partners. Their style is less flashy, but they are going to continue to be a major player in the space and I expect great things to come.”
Mobile and approachable
As for ACINQ, Padiou said his startup is focused on mobile devices and payments.
“It’s important because maybe the protocol is the same but we have different views on what we want to optimize more,” he said. “It allows anyone to build software that fits their needs.”
Idinvest’s Debock said institutions can view lightning as a “broader application” of bitcoin’s potential, a space ripe for more traditional equity deals.
As such, ACINQ engineer Bastien Teinturier told CoinDesk that courting investors beyond crypto circles can benefit the entire industry.
“Bpifrance investing is an even bigger shift: public institutions are acknowledging the importance of this technology and its future relevance,” he said. “They aren’t trying to shut it down, they aren’t ignoring it either, they want to understand it and potentially work with it.”
Although Teinturier expressed gratitude for the public outreach done by the teams at Blockstream and Lightning Labs – like running community Slack channels, live demonstrations and conferences – his smaller team prefers to minimize its media exposure for the near future.
“We want to be able to offer a great UX for private, reliable, instant payments, that even your grandmother could use,” Teinturier said, adding:
“We’re not there yet and we want to make sure we can deliver on that promise before we spend time communicating about it.”
ACINQ CEO Pierre-Marie Padiou image via YouTube
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How do you scrap a nuclear submarine?
By Matthew Gunther2019-04-22T09:30:00+01:00
The UK is facing a £7.5 billion bill to dismantle its 20 defunct vessels
The UK defence department has not scrapped any of its 20 defunct nuclear submarines in more than three decades, according to a recent public spending report. Storing the vessels has already cost the government around £500 million. But why has the UK left these submarines in dockyards for so long – and how difficult is it to dismantle them?
What is a nuclear submarine?
A ‘nuclear’ submarine can refer to a submarine that carries nuclear warheads, one that is powered using nuclear energy, or both. In the UK, the Vanguard, Astute and Trafalgar class submarines are all powered using a nuclear reactor, but only the four Vanguard class submarines carry nuclear warheads – Astute and Trafalgar submarines are ‘hunter-killers’ designed to sink other ships.
Source: Ministry of Defence – OGL
Trafalgar class submarine HMS Tireless at sea, 2012
The UK’s current fleet relies on a reactor typically seen in power stations across the world – the pressurised water reactor (PWR). These compact power plants produce vast amounts of heat through the splitting of uranium-235 (235U). This fissile isotope exists in very small quantities (less than 1%) in natural uranium, which mainly consists of uranium-238 (238U).
To use it as fuel, the 235U is increased relative to the 238U in a process known as enrichment. In the PWR, waste fission products are made, such as caesium, xenon and krypton, as neutrons split the 235U fuel, with 238U also absorbing neutrons to form plutonium. These fission products can damage the ceramic fuel and reduce the reactor’s efficiency. The vessel that contains this whole process is also bombarded with high levels of radiation over its operational life.
What happens to a nuclear submarine once it is removed from service?
Once a nuclear-powered submarine is decommissioned, it is placed into long-term storage. Only after monitoring the vessel will engineers begin to defuel and dismantle it. However, over the past four decades, this second part hasn’t happened in the UK.
Source: Fosnni photographic section – OGL
HMS Spartan, a Swiftsure-class submarine, pictured leaving Faslane Naval Base in Scotland. Spartan was decomissioned in 2006.
Since 1980, the UK Ministry of Defence has taken 20 nuclear-powered submarines out of service. Of these 20 subs, the UK has not fully disposed any of them and nine still contain highly radioactive nuclear fuel. The vessels have languished at dockyards in Plymouth and Rosyth.
This is not a sustainable solution, but it is in stark contrast with other countries’ past policies. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union dumped 19 ships containing nuclear waste in the Kara Sea, as well as 14 reactors and the K-27 nuclear submarine. With such vessels continuing to rust on the seabed, there are concerns these sites could harbour a potential environmental crisis.
However, the subs stored in the UK are constantly monitored in a controlled environment. Although a far cry from the Arctic submarine graveyards, the UK fleet still lies exposed to salty water, with the vessels rusting in the dockyards.
Why are the submarines still in storage?
It is an incredibly complex situation, but the government stopped defueling its disbanded fleet back in 2004. The UK’s nuclear regulator deemed that the facilities were not up to standards, and the UK has been working to improve them ever since. Mired in delays and inflating budgets, the defueling may not restart until 2023 – the original start date was 2012. Even when the subs are ready for their next voyage through the disposal process, it is a journey fraught with complexity.
Source: LA(Phot) Will Haigh – OGL
Astute class submarine HMS Ambush during sea trials near Scotland
What is the plan for the nuclear waste?
Once defueling starts, the sub will be moved to a ‘reactor access house’ on rails. In this facility, engineers will remove the spent nuclear fuel from the sub, which contains various actinides and radionuclides. The fuel is highly radioactive and generates heat, so needs to be cooled in water before any further work can begin.
To cool the fuel rods, the waste is sent to a specialised plant at Sellafield, where it is stored in vast water ponds. The water acts as both an efficient coolant and radiation barrier. Historically, this spent fuel would have then been recycled to form new nuclear fuel.
Nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard arrives back at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, Scotland following a patrol.
During reprocessing, the fissile uranium and plutonium is separated through solvent extraction, before converting the remaining liquid waste into a glass for long-term storage. However, it is now unclear whether this will still happen. It is more likely that the spent nuclear fuel will be stored indefinitely after cooling.
The current UK strategy is to bury this waste in a highly-engineered geological disposal facility, which would see more than 650,000m3 of waste stored in an underground cavern, according to recent government estimates. But plans are still ongoing and a facility is yet to be built.
Source: Photo: LA(phot) Mez Merrill/MOD – OGL
Vangard class submarine HMS Victorious on transit to the Clyde Submarine Base Faslane, 2003
What happens to the submarine after defueling?
After defueling, the sub will return to the ‘wet’ dock for another period of storage and monitoring. Following this, the submarine is dismantled. Components such as pipes and pumps exposed to radiation are taken away and the reactor vessel removed.
However, engineers do not simply remove the reactor. In many countries, the reactor is lifted out with the two empty compartments either side of it and then sealed off to minimise the risk of exposure. After removing this ‘three-compartment unit’, the submarine is cast off for its final voyage to a commercial shipyard for recycling.
But it will be a costly endeavour. The UK may face costs of up to £7.5bn if it wants to take the entire fleet through this voyage of defueling and disposal. It remains unclear whether the plans will stay on course, but the defence department has committed to dismantling the fleet ‘as soon as reasonably practicable’.
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I make things.
Artsy things.
I have a Master of Arts in Communication, Media and Theatre and I create lots of artsy arts. This website is where you can find any and all information regarding what art I'm making.
Please, return to this page for news on upcoming shows and releases..
Recording My Christmas List
This is a shot from a Christmas show called "Screw Christmas" that used to be put on by Chemically Imbalanced Comedy. I asked Santa for a lot of things. Big important things. Power. Money. AND et cetera as well.
Thirsty Blackwater's pic
This is a still from an indie movie I made. This is me and Amy Sumpter in one of my favorite scenes.
2012 Alien
I'm an artist too. Here's a picture I made. It's a gray alien about to destroy the planet for a show I did about people thinking 2012 was going to be the end of the world. It wasn't.
This is the only poster made for the only play I ever wrote and directed that got a great review. "Highly Recommended" in the Chicago Reader back in 2007. I think I'll have to write and direct again sometime in THIS decade too.
A mess called me.
I think this is what people think of when they think of me. Good lord, somebody help him!
I could sing for you?
Trailer for
"Tell Me About My Mother
Still making things...
"The Very
Important Room" Full
Documentary.
"Thirsty Blackwater's Karaoke Showdown" Full Movie on IMDB.
"Ballad Of The Small Talker" By Chris Churchill
ChrisChurchill Does Many Things
© 2017 by Chris Churchill
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My Week 11th-17th April
My Week
April 11th – 17th
In the Chamber
On April 11th I attended the very important APPG on the steel industry, I put the following question forward to the Secretary of State “To help prospective buyers, may I ask the Secretary of State whether the UK Government will take on the pension liability of £15 billion for 130,000 Tata workers and former workers, and will they redress the imbalance caused by the reduction of the workforce over many years, as more people now take money out of the scheme than pay into it?
I was proud to speak in Westminster Hall about Neath’s Glen Clarke, and support the campaign for a National Defence Medal. I stated the following, “I have a constituent called Glen who has been campaigning on this issue for many years. He was drafted through national service to serve as a non-commissioned officer in the Suez emergency in the 1950s, yet he feels that he has never received adequate recognition for the years that he dedicated to service and the sacrifice that he made. Surely we should do all that we can to honour those drafted to protect our country”?
During a debate on steel I put forward the following question to the Secretary of State, “Hundreds of apprentices at the Port Talbot works receive on-the-job training while attending local colleges and universities. Swansea University has approximately £40 million in active grants to support research and innovation in the steel industry at the Materials Research Centre. If the steel-making facilities are removed and sponsorship is subsequently lost, future generations will be deprived and the UK will miss out on the potential to be at the forefront of materials development”
I also asked “Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government could see the current threat to the UK steel industry as an opportunity to change the way to do things, so that a structure can be established to protect the industry for many years to come? The Government could look to other sectors, such as the care sector, and to other parts of the world to learn from tripartite models of delivery involving public-private sector investment, as well as third sector involvement in the shape of a management-worker buyout
I also supported the Statuary Institute on Third Party Rights against Insurers Act, making is quicker and easier for those who are victims to make a claim.
During the PIP debate I put forward the following question:
Everything my hon. Friend says is happening in Neath. What is the Department for Work and Pensions doing to ensure that the healthcare professionals who undertake the assessments are mental health specialists, as Capita claims? What exactly does “mental health specialist” mean? Are they qualified mental health nurses, doctors or carers? In one case in Neath, a report was done by a paramedic.
Will the Minister explain why people who have been in receipt of DLA for more than 10 years are no longer eligible to receive disability benefit? Why are they no longer classified as disabled under the current Government guidelines?
Attorney General: EU Withdrawal: Effects on Human Rights
I was very pleased to deputise for my colleague Karl on The Shadow Attorney General, and delighted to announce an important event for Karl and his wife who welcomed their baby daughter Stella May this week. May we congratulate him on the birth of his first baby, and wish them all well.
I asked “Does the Attorney General agree that if the UK left the EU, it would not only be human rights in Scotland that would be affected? Surely there would be a question over the whole devolution process in Wales and Northern Ireland. We should not forget that the agreement that gave us the institutions in Northern Ireland took membership of the EU as a given, and if the UK left the EU, it would lead to unwelcome uncertainties”
Out and about around the constituency
On the 15th April Team Neath headed down to Barry to help Campaign with Jane Hutt in the Vale of Glamorgan. Great afternoon had by all and an excellent response from the constituents in Barry.
I was very privileged to be present for the annual dinner of the mayor of Neath, I know Jan has done a wonderful job in the community of Neath, and I wish John Warman all the very best who will take over as Mayor in May 2016
On 16th April I was out Campaigning with Jeremy in Penrhiwtyn, a great response from the doorstep, Team Neath does it again. Great to be out and meet my constituents who are very passionate about their area.
Proud to support #SaveOurSteel #workingtogether #unite #togetherforwales
Sunday 17th April, I helped marshall the trial of the junior Gnoll park run, great time had by all, they are hoping to have it as a weekly event working together with NPT pass and NPTCBC.
I later travelled to Seven Sisters RFC to watch the Ladies Team pull off a fantastic win, proud to watch and support a great team. I Wished Captain Bethan a speedy recovery after an injury she received.
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© 2016 by Katelena Hernandez Cowles. Proudly created with Wix.com
MObile Comfort Unit (MCU)
and the Comfort Mission
As a featured artist at the East Austin Studio Tour opening parties in 2016, I was scheduled to present a new, edgy work (Piropo). After the disheartening results of the U.S. Election the night before, I made a last-minute decision to present a mobile version of my piece Comfort Station. I felt that at that moment our community needed this kind of care more than playful boundary-pushing.
In this variation, which I dubbed "Comfort Mission (Impossible)," I wore a pillow suit and offered passers-by standing and sitting public mini-sessions of lullabies, cuddles, band-aid rituals, and full attention sessions. Rather than sit, lie down or curl up with my audience, I moved through the crowd, allowing people to rest their heads on my pillowed shoulders or chest as I sang to them and stroked their hair. What started often with amusement and humor ended in tears, and more than once I had to hold up the weight of three or more adults as they gave in to their emotional needs.
Though my audience that night was heavily liberal and Democrat, I later discovered that even people who were Republican or had voted for Trump were just as hungry for emotional release; it seemed clear that the vitriol of the campaigns and social divisiveness surrounding them had taken their toll on everyone. My intent in sharing this experience with all is not to release anyone from responsibility or try to indicate that ignoring the situation is an acceptable alternative; instead, I hope to bring people out of their state of inner turmoil that leads them to focus only on their own tight interests. We cannot connect or trust or work together when all our energy is spent fighting an internal battle for equanimity.
I was so grateful that they allowed me to comfort them and grateful to those who allow me to do it for them now. That is what comforts me--and in these days, we all require a lot of comforting.
On the early morning on Wednesday, November 9th, like much of America, I fell into despair. As the electoral college’s results were announced, we were faced with the cold truth that almost half our country was able to accept an openly hateful, inflammatory, entitled, double-speaking, xenophobic, racist, sexist, homophobic bully as their leader in return for flimsy promises of personal gain--especially when those claims were totally unsubstantiated by coherent plans or evidence from his history as a business man and public figure. That he has been elected is terrifying, but for me, the more earthshaking shock and cause for dismay was that nearly half of the people who voted didn’t find his agenda and his presentation so repellent that they dismissed him as a candidate out of hand long before he took over the most powerful position in our nation.
The moments after the announcement are documented in photos around the world, and in a sizable percentage one would be hard pressed to differentiate the expressions and gestures in a huge percentage of them from photos of observers during the 9/11 attack. In the same way that the World Trade Center attack shook Americans’ idea of safety from outside threats, this moment shattered any illusion that we were safe within our own borders, that the vast majority of Americans were committed more to the ideal of a civil society built on mutual respect, human rights, and fair play than to their own political and personal gain.
Even knowing that economic, political, and social forces have caused alienation among many, I cannot reconcile even that with the desire to elect Trump and the rancor that comes with him. I understand the desire for change; I do not understand the willingness to throw out all of America’s ideals of pluralism, honesty, goodwill, and tolerance. It is a crushing blow to my soul to see its evidence.
So instead of going through with presenting the new piece I had developed for the 2016 East Austin Studio Tour, in response to this moment of collective mourning I very rapidly switched gears and developed a mobile version of my piece Comfort Station, an emotional day spa. I refer to it casually as Comfort Mission (Impossible)--since how can we actually fully recover?--but more formally as the MCSU, the Mobile Comfort Station Unit. It’s not a total coincidence that the other use for that acronym, in the military, is a Mass Casualty Service Unit.
I will visit locations throughout the tour, and beyond, and offer my services: lullabies, Band-Aid rituals, forehead kisses, cuddles, hair play, and full attention sessions, in which people can tell me anything and I will not respond, just listen. As befits an emergency service, I will request no payment, but will accept donations if offered to help make it possible to continue my work.
These comfort-giving acts are not meant to assuage fears, because how can anything, when the fears are legitimate? Nor do they indicate that we should passively respond to this situation and try to hide and wait out four years, because we simply cannot, if we hope to have those ideals we believe in continue past this point. But a moment of mourning and connection and rest and healing is essential before returning to the fronts and fighting, as MASH units provide soldiers in the field.
We can remember that the popular vote indicates that more people in America rejected Trump’s ideals than supported them. We can remember that Millennials voted to reject him and his project. It’s not over.
COMFORT ARTIST
Katelena Hernandez Cowles
The Mobile Comfort Unit is available for performance at events, fairs, museums, and galleries.
The artist invites inquiry by groups or organizations interested in co-presenting this work in socially impactful ways.
Comfort Sessions can also be arranged on an individual basis. Follow this link to schedule:
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Rizzo's back open tonight; Hog & Hominy hosting gin dinner
I'm catching a bit of R & R in New Orleans and missing a few things in Memphis in the meantime. First off, no worries about Rizzo's at 492 S. Main: There was a small electrical fire but everything is under control and chef/owner Michael Patrick...
Rizzo's back open tonight; Hog & Hominy hosting gin dinner I'm catching a bit of R & R in New Orleans and missing a few things in Memphis in the meantime. First off, no worries about Rizzo's at 492 S. Main: There was a small electrical fire but everything is under control and chef/owner Michael Patrick... Check out this story on commercialappeal.com: https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/dining/2016/07/21/rizzos-back-open-tonight-hog-hominy-hosting-gin-dinner/90571298/
The Commercial Appeal Published 11:35 a.m. CT July 21, 2016
Rizzo's by Michael Patrick.
I'm catching a bit of R & R in New Orleans and missing a few things in Memphis in the meantime. First off, no worries about Rizzo's Diner at 492 S. Main: There was a small electrical fire but everything is under control and chef/owner Michael Patrick says barring anything unforeseen, he'll reopen tonight. (Rizzo's has rebranded, by the way; it is now Rizzo's by Michael Patrick, and the food is a bit more refined. I'll check it out soon and let you know about it.)
On Monday, there's a gin cocktail tasting and dinner at Hog & Hominy, 707 W. Brookhaven Circle, starting with drinks at 5:30 p.m. Lewis Johnstone, brand ambassador for Hayman's Gin, and Aaron Hanna, bartender at Hog & Hominy, will come up with the cocktails. Dinner, four courses served family style, starts at 6:45 p.m. with one of my favorite things on the menu: The salad with fried chicken skin 'croutons.' It's $45; call 901-207-7396 to reserve your spot.
This came in too late for my column, written early because of my trip: Paulette's, 50 Harbor Town Square, hosts its monthly wine dinner on Aug. 2 at 7 p.m. This will be the first under new executive chef Jeremy Jaggers. The four-course meal is $65; call 901-260-3300 for reservations.
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Nokia launches free Wi-Fi service in London
Nokia has launched a trial of free Wi-Fi in London in partnership with Spectrum Interactive.
Jenny Williams, University of Gloucestershire
Published: 01 Nov 2011 15:06
A total of 26 Wi-Fi hotspots across London will be available for any Wi-Fi-enabled mobile device to connect to until the end of the year. Nokia is sponsoring the pilot, which uses Spectrum's technology. Nokia is using the trial to collect data about consumer demand and usage - but not personal data.
Simon Alberga, executive chairman at Spectrum Interactive, said the business model of Wi-Fi is evolving into a free service.
"While 4G mobile access is firmly on the horizon, Wi-Fi coverage currently fills a much needed niche between 3G mobile internet and home broadband," he said.
He continued to say Wi-Fi access will support uploading of multimedia to social media platforms. Spectrum may upgrade the bandwidth if too many people stream video content.
Each Wi-Fi hotspot site has a DSL connection with speeds of up to 20Mbps and secured with a https encryption. Users will be limited to one megabit download.
Spectrum is using its payphone kiosks to house the equipment for the service, including routers and access points. "BT has done something similar," added Alberga.
Nokia plans to complete a larger roll-out of free Wi-Fi across London and other global cities in the coming months. Nokia Maps will also be integrated with the service.
The government is planning to deploy free Wi-Fi around London during the Olympic Games in 2012 amid fears that mobile phone networks could run out of capacity.
Virgin Media said in August it is in "quite advanced negotiations" with London boroughs and councils to complete a "metro" roll-out of a Wi-Fi network in the "not too distant future".
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Natural gas furnaces have long been one of the most popular types of home heating systems. They’re efficient and economical, and they can keep your home toasty and warm even on the coldest nights. Plus, gas furnaces generally have a long lifespan, lasting 15-20 years or more. However, if you have an older gas furnace that’s still chugging away after fifteen years of service, you might want to consider replacing it with a newer model. That’s because today’s gas furnaces are even more efficient and better at keeping your home comfortable, thanks to some big improvements in technology.
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Getting the Most Out of Your Fuel
The efficiency of furnaces is rated based on the AFUE, or Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency. This rating essentially tells you what percentage of the fuel that goes into the furnace is converted into heat for your home, versus how much is wasted as exhaust. Older residential gas furnaces generally have AFUEs of about 56% to 70%, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. That means only 56-70% of the natural gas you’re paying for is actually heating your home!
On the other hand, gas furnaces manufactured and installed today must have an AFUE of at least 78%, according to federal law. And much higher efficiency furnaces are available. For instance, the Daikin DC96MC gas furnace has an AFUE of up to 96%! With a system like that, almost all of the natural gas that the furnace consumes is converted into heat. Only 4% is lost as exhaust, compared to up to 44% with an older furnace. That can add up to major savings on your heating bills.
From these numbers, it’s clear to see that some big improvements in furnace technology have been made over the past decades. Now let’s take a look at what some of those improvements are.
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No More Pilot Lights
Older furnaces generally used a pilot light—a continuously burning flame—to light their burners. Of course, keeping the flame burning consumed fuel. Modern furnaces work differently. In a modern furnace, an electronic igniter lights the burners when needed instead of keeping a flame going all the time. It’s a small change, but it adds up to savings over time.
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Double the Heat Exchangers
Older furnaces generally had a single heat exchanger, where some heat from the combusted gas is transferred to the home’s air. Then the combusted gas was exhausted outside, taking the rest of the heat with it. But some newer furnaces, such as the Daikin DC96MC, have a secondary heat exchanger. In these furnaces, the exhaust gas goes into the secondary exchanger to draw out even more heat before being released outside. Again, this means less of your hard-earned money being wasted “heating the neighborhood” instead of your home.
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One Speed Doesn’t Fit All
Another big improvement in furnace technology has to do with the speed of the blower motor. In the past, blower motors only operated at one speed—ON. That means every time the furnace comes on, it’s operating at full power until the set temperature is reached, and then it shuts off. The house cools down below the set temperature and the furnace cranks up to full speed again, and so on.
There are two big problems with this system. One is that it means the home’s temperature tends to vary a lot, swinging up and down as the furnace turns on and off. The other problem is that it wastes energy, because it takes a big jolt of electricity to get that fan started up to full speed. It’s sort of like if you turned your car off and back on at every stoplight. That’d be a big waste of gasoline.
But modern furnaces don’t have to work that way. Today we have multi-speed and variable speed blower technology. With this technology, the blower doesn’t have to run at full power every time it comes on. Instead, the furnace can adjust to the needs of your home, avoiding big temperature swings and wasteful starting and stopping. Multi-speed means that the blower has two or more set speeds at which it can run, while variable speed means that the blower can ramp up or down in very small increments for the most precise control.
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Give It a Little Gas, But Not Too Much
Another big improvement in furnace technology is the development of two-stage and modulating gas valves. Just like with the blower fans, gas valves in older furnaces are simply on or off. But in these newer furnaces, like the Daikin DC96MC, the gas valves can also adjust to release just as much gas as is needed. This sendsto heat your home efficiently and effectively at that moment.
Again, two-stage means that the gas valve has two settings, while modulating means that it can adjust in very small increments. For example, the Daikin DC96MC’s modulating gas valve can operate at anywhere from 35% to 100% capacity. This mean it uses exactly as much gas as needed to keep you perfectly comfortable without waste.
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Toyota supports biodiversity education in 10 European countries
New initiative being rolled out this month
When you work at Toyota anywhere in the world, one of the things you learn is to not take things for granted but go to where things are happening and study the situation with your own eyes. We call it “genchi genbutsu” in Japanese – meaning “actual place, actual thing”.
“Observe the production floor without preconceptions and with a blank mind. Repeat “why” five times to every matter.” – Taiichi Ohno, father of the Toyota Production System.
With a new initiative being rolled out in 10 European countries this month, Toyota is encouraging school children to do just that, following in the footsteps of Charles Darwin and his legendary curiosity about the world around him.
“Throughout his life Darwin wanted passionately to understand or explain what he saw. He really noticed things and thought about them. He never stopped asking questions. Darwin also developed methodology to record information and investigate mysteries so he could find answers. Most importantly he recorded details about an enormous number of different things he saw in many different places, followed the evidence and was brave enough to come up with ideas that seemed logical — even if they were almost unthinkable.” – From The Great Plant Hunt, Darwin Story Book.
This project is an initiative of Toyota Motor Europe, the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to support biodiversity education in schools throughout Europe. The initiative builds on the Wellcome Trust funded project “The Great Plant Hunt” co-ordinated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, KEW - which runs in the UK and India. The campaign aims to educate students about biodiversity and its importance and encourages them to take positive action. It focuses on biodiversity with a particular emphasis on plants and their associated species.
The initiative, which is launching in November, will be rolled out in 10 European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey.
Schools within these 10 countries which are part of the FEE network can join. To find out more, schools can contact their Eco-Schools National Operator.
Toyota will fund the translation of the materials and FEE will make them available for schools in their language. The target audience of the campaign in 2015 is young children, aged between 6 - 8 years.
Through the initiative, Toyota hopes to encourage young people to become advocates for conservation and promotion of local biodiversity activities.
Steve Hope, General Manager Environmental Affairs & Corporate Citizenship: “At global level, promoting biodiversity is one of Toyota’s top priorities in our efforts to enrich the lives of communities. This initiative is a significant step in our upcoming 6th 5-Year Environmental Action Plan helping to promote awareness on environment in general and biodiversity specifically.”
Julia Willison, Head of Content and Learning, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: “Kew is delighted that Toyota Europe and the Foundation for Environmental Education is increasing the reach of The Great Plant Hunt, helping to stimulate from an early age an awareness of native biodiversity and an interest in plant science”.
The Foundation for Environmental Education is a non-governmental, non-profit charity aimed at promoting sustainable development through environmental education. A global presence, more than 80 countries around the world are engaged in working with various FEE programmes. The organisation is recognised by UNESCO as a world-leader within the fields of Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Kew’s mission is to be the global resource for plant and fungal knowledge and the world’s leading botanic garden. The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to improving health by supporting bright minds in science, the humanities and social sciences and public engagement.
'The Great Plant Hunt' was commissioned and funded by The Wellcome Trust to mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. The Great Plant Hunt materials were developed and created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Toyota Motor Europe established the Toyota Fund for Europe to collaborate with non-profit organisations on community activities that support the environment, technical education and road safety. The projects supported by the Toyota Fund for Europe aim at raising awareness and creating positive change.
Toyota Motor Europe established the Toyota Fund for Europe to collaborate with non-profit organisations on community activities that support the environment, technical education and road safety. The projects supported by the Toyota Fund for Europe aim at raising awareness and creating positive change. To find out more about the initiative and apply, please visit the official website.
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Built for battle
Mark Robinson | VOLUME 25, ISSUE 6
By any standards, the Arvor 215 possesses striking looks
Arvors have earned a reputation for being able to fight big fish in big seas.
Northern Europeans have been putting to sea throughout most of recorded history and boat ownership per capita remains high to this day. And that’s despite their usual scenario of a dark and cloudy sky, along with slate-grey seas and icy winds. Gale warnings are common much of the year and sea conditions are often listed as rough, to very rough. Given all this, we can confidently conclude that Euro boaties are a crazy bunch. Or not …
With so much experience venturing out in less than ideal conditions, Europeans have a reputation for designing and building craft that cope extremely well with lumpy seas. Which is both one of the strengths and also one of the weaknesses of the Arvor 215; a statement that I’ll clarify a little further on.
By any standards, the Arvor 215 possesses striking looks, combining an aesthetic appeal with features that promise a high degree of seaworthiness, such as the deep forefoot, flared bow, high coamings and self-draining cockpit.
The semi-planing hull has been described as “a gull-wing-shaped, variable deadrise” arrangement, which, when it is viewed from the rear, presents a configuration resembling a tri-hull. Now, a semi-planing hull is never going to compete in the speed stakes with a true planing hull, but nevertheless, the Arvor can get along at a reasonable cruising speed of 17 knots (31km/h) and tops out around 21 knots (39km/h).
The hull features a slight keel and full skeg aft, the skeg’s role being to provide protection for the craft’s four-blade, shaft-driven, bronze propeller and its stainless steel rudder. Generously proportioned chines provide a good degree of stability at rest.
Hull length, excluding the swim platform, is 6.36m and it sports a beam of 2.54m, but the overall beefy appearance of the vessel gives it a bigger presence than the measurements might suggest. If we include the swim platform, it brings the overall length to 6.88m and other vital statistics include a draft of 0.75m, a fuel tank capacity of 95lt and a displacement of 1650kg, including the engine.
SPACIOUS CRAFT
The craft is rated for six occupants, each of whom could find room to fish comfortably in the spacious cockpit with the aforementioned high coamings and their stylish wooden capping. However, the smoothly-rounded finish where the craft’s sides join with the cockpit floor do not allow any sort of toe-hold when fighting a decent-sized fish – an omission that some might see as a disadvantage in a fishing platform.
Construction is listed as solid GRP, with the hull-to-deck join both bolted and glued. From what I could see of the gelcoat, the finish was close to flawless.
With its full walk-around cabin and spacious cockpit, a split bow rail (which is high enough to provide a good level of crew safety in a seaway), and with a spacious anchor well up forward accompanied by quite substantial hardware, it is apparent that considerable practical planning has gone into this vessel.
Earlier I said that being designed in Europe, primarily for use in the North Sea, represents both a strength and a weakness in this vessel, so it’s time I explained myself. You see, while it has less of a claustrophobic feel than some other vessels from the Northern Hemisphere, its wheelhouse’s rather small side hatch provides limited ventilation and reports from owners in our hotter parts of the country suggest that there needs to be considerably more airflow. While the large clear hatch on the cabin topsides helps in this respect, it may not be enough if your boating is either close to, or somewhere above, the Tropic of Capricorn.
Helm station visibility is very good, with the five-spoke, wooden-finished wheel falling readily to hand, and there are good sightlines to the instrumentation, which includes a good-sized compass fitted right where it should be for the skipper to view when attempting to steer an accurate compass course.
A CMD, four-cylinder, 2lt, 115hp, shaft-drive diesel motor provides power and features high-pressure, common-rail injection, which, its manufacturer claims, provides economical running, along with significant smoke and noise reduction. Counter-balance shafts on the engine are there to help smooth vibration, while heat exchangers and exhaust manifolds have been designed to reduce both size and weight.
As you can see in the accompanying photograph, the mechanical fit-out is very neat, with components readily accessible for servicing or repairs, while a SmartCraft engine display system places key information right at the skipper’s fingertips.
DIFFERENT DRIVER
The hull and engine combination makes driving this boat a somewhat different experience to a true planing hull that needs to climb over ‘the hump’ as it transfers from displacement mode to full planing. On the Arvor, pushing the throttle lever results in a steady surge forward, with the hull lifting as it does so with the assistance of several planing strakes. At the relatively slow speed of around eight knots (15km/h) it is virtually planing, with further throttle advance taking it up to a top speed of 21 knots (39km/h).
Steering is light and fairly positive, while the underwater configuration of this vessel provides a somewhat different feel to a true planing hull, with wave action from the side influencing the hull’s position to a greater degree than one might be used to. Given that, on the test day, South Australia’s Gulf Saint Vincent was in an especially calm mood, I was unable to detect this handling characteristic, however, overseas tests suggest there is a certain amount of side-to-side wandering in a boisterous seaway as the keel is pushed sideways.
In an attempt to evaluate the softness of the ride, I chased down a large game fishing boat and drove back and forth across its not inconsiderable wake. Here I found that the Arvor took the lumps fairly comfortably, with little apparent jarring. Somewhat annoyingly, the stainless bar that acts as a passenger footrest clanged with each impact, but this would be an easy fix. And while wake characteristics are only a poor approximation of a rough sea, the softness of the ride as we criss-crossed the game boat’s wash suggested the Arvor handles with reasonable comfort in the kind of sea conditions often encountered around our coastline.
Standard features on the test craft included hydraulic steering, an electric anchor winch, two electric bil gepumps, full engine instrumentation, an electric windscreen wiper, a VHF radio, an AM/FM radio/CD player, a cutting board, mooring cleats, rod holders, gunwale rollers, a swim platform with stainless steel ladder and an outboard bracket, plus a bait board and transom door.
NANNA NAPS
While not intended for lengthy cruising or onboard living, the wheelhouse V-berths are sufficient for an average size adult to overnight on or to enjoy a nanna-nap between tides, with the lockable sliding cabin door a boon in colder weather.
The two fold-up wooden benches in the cockpit are a nice practical feature for slow fishing days and can be kept out of the way when the bite is on, while the two underfloor lockers provide plenty of storage for fenders and the ones that didn’t manage to get away. And, given the inbuilt live bait tank with electric pump, plus the inbuilt tackle drawer, there’s potential for plenty of those.
The fully self-draining deck, with its generously-sized scuppers, is designed to quickly and efficiently shed any green water that comes aboard, along with any rainwater that might collect on a mooring. Safety features include the well-placed stainless steel grabrails that provide secure handholds just about anywhere you choose to either sit or stand. And the stainless steel ladder and handholds facilitate easy reboarding from the swim platform.
In the Arvor range there are six models available here in Australia and in the 10 or so years these craft have been imported, they have enjoyed a growing acceptance of their unconventional, though practical configuration.
This particular craft is well worth a close look, particularly if you go boating in our colder climes and are in the market for a quality, sea-kindly vessel with timeless styling. Equipped as tested, the Arvor 215 wears a price tag of $92,950. ¿
SPECIFICATIONS: ARVOR 215
Type: Cabin walkaround
Material: GRP composite
Weight: 1650kg
Fuel: 90lt
Power: CMD 2lt 115hp
For more information: www.arvor.com.au.
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KREATIVHAUS
Giant inflatable Hunter backpacks are ‘hidden’ in London
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The marketing and PR industry has come so far, no longer is it aimlessly floating enlarged products down the Thames.
No longer is it adding QR codes to every activation under the sun.
And no longer is it running treasure hunts for consumers who frankly can’t be arsed to run around town for a 10% discount off a product no one needs.
Giant inflatable versions of Hunter backpacks floating along ponds in London parks or hidden in plain sight on the busiest thoroughfares.
There’s more, they have QR codes on them to win a lottery style prize for those who can be bothered to embark on a scavenger hunt.
I know, that’s what I thought when I laid my eyes upon this blast from the past. The backpacks were floating around the capital for three days, we’re told, with clues across Hunter’s social media channels.
For anyone lucky enough to find these 7-10m tall yellow backpacks the next action was to scan the QR code to enter a lottery for a £5,000 prize.
And then what? Head to the pub to re-evaluate life’s priorities, I guess.
I mean, is this section required?
Rather than a subjective review I’ll list a few more elements of the campaign to help you make your own calculated decision as to whether this worked:
One of the backpacks was ‘hidden’ outside Shoreditch High Street Overground Station.
One was on London’s South Bank. Classic.
Engagement rates on social topped out at 0.97% with a low of 0.16%.
It’s a scavenger hunt, but the things are 7m tall.
Seven. Metres. Tall.
Quite liked the design and typeface and on the social posts, so there’s a positive.
And it rained all weekend, which seems apt for a welly brand.
Well planned.
In Hindsight
The brand claims that the campaign will head from London to both Boston and Tokyo next.
Perhaps it’s time to change tack though, think about what the audience really wants, what they interact with and the brands that are engaging with them well.
Hunter’s Instagram shows it is targeting a more urban and less tweed-clad type of person than it would have in the past.
Those people aren’t running around London tourist traps hoping to see giant inflatables, unfortunately for them.
Published on: 24th October 2019
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The small town of
Archanes Town
Arhanes is a picturesque small town, built at an altitude of 380 meters [1280 ft] in the middle of a basin. It is run through by Kaeratos stream, dividing into two parts. Arhanes is 14 kilometers away from the city of Heraklion and only 7 kilometers from the Palace of Knossos. The greater area of Arhanes is most significant for its numerous archaeological sites.
The colorful village has been prized by the European Union as model for residential development. You could visit the museums of the town and discover the region's history through the findings of the Minoan and Byzantine Era and the folk art exhibits. Also many wonderful architectural buildings and Byzantine churches affirm the designation of Arhanes as an ideal traditional settlement.
Visit the various restaurants and taverns at the central square to discover the world famous Cretan cuisine or the exquisite Arhanes wines. Discover the methods the people of yester Crete used to produce their precious products, wine and olive oil, by visiting the traditional olive and wine presses. It is not surprising that the oldest wine press in the world has been found in Arhanes. Why not participate in the summer harvesting of grapes during the celebration of the Arhanes Farmer Festival and many more cultural activities.
For those of you that prefer trekking and walks in the nature, there’s a lot to choose from: walk up to the sacred mountain, Jioukta, where according to ancient mythology, Zeus, the father of Gods and Humans has been buried. Walk along E4, the European trail to the Silamiano gorge under the thick shade of oaks and sycamores and climb on the Fourni hill, where you’ll walk in a scenic pine wood and visit the ancient necropolis.
Fourni Wood
Fourni is a large lush hill next to the picturesque Arhanes village, about 12km south of Heraklion. It takes its name after the local homonym preminoan cemetery, next to Knossano Gorge. Fourni can be accessed through Kato Arhanes, where you’ll meet signs leading there.
Anemospilia sanctuary
At position Anemospilia, on the north slopes of Mount Jiouchtas, the archeologists G. and E. Sakellarakis located in 1979 a small sanctuary of Minoan Crete that surprised the global archaeological community. This small sanctuary offered the first indication of human sacrifices in Minoan Crete.
Archaeological Museum of Archanes
The Archaeological Museum of Archanes operates since 1993 in a beautiful neoclassical building that housed the first primary school of Archanes, at the district Tzami.
Fourni Minoan Cemetery
The archaeological site of Fourni is located on the homonym wooded hill, 17km south of Heraklion and west of Kato Archanes. To get there (the site is not open, but you could contact the guard), you could walk along the Minoan path starting from Kato Arhanes or drive to the beautiful artificial grove of Fourni.
Jiouchtas Peak Sanctuary
Jiouchtas in the ancient times was considered a sacred mountain, mainly because it resembles a human face that looks to the sky from the northwest. Even today the human like mountain causes awe. According to the legend, this is the face of Zeus and the mountain is his tomb. Indeed the name Jiouchtas is a corruption of the Latin word for Zeus, Jupiter.
Hosto Nero Cave
The cavern of Hosto Nero is found in the region Selia of Youchtas mountain near the road that leads to the top of Afentis Christos. It is located at an altitude of about 720 meters in the southern top of the holy mountain and in order for anyone to see it he/she has to enter through a narrow hole. This cavern has 3 rooms and many corridors that connect them all with the first room of 7 meters length that has enough light because of its big opening.
Minoan Palace in Arhanes
The palace of Archanes is located in the suburb Tourkogitonia of Archanes town. It came to light only in 1964 by Giannis Sakellarakis because, by then, only a few traces of the palace had been found. Some parts of the palace are still below the houses of modern Arhanes.
Xotaris Art Forum
At Arhanes we meet the unique museum - private collection of engravings and exlibris in Greece. The exhibits include lithographs, ex libris, free graphics, thumbnails, etc.
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Ash Donaldson’s A Race for the North
Ash Donaldson
A Race for the North: Another Fairy Tale for Children of European Descent
Self-published, 2019
What better way to inoculate young minds against the degeneracy of the modern world than by telling new stories and making these stories look old? Young white kids need a past they can hold on to and be proud of; such a thing is crucial for the development of a positive identity. Ash Donaldson started this project in 2018 with his excellent children’s story Blut and Boden, and now follows up with a sequel, A Race for the North: Another Fairy Tale for Children of European Descent.
In Donaldson’s mythos, which is equal parts Joseph Campbell and J. R. R. Tolkien, ancient races of elves, dwarves, and giants represent elemental aspects of our world and our souls. Storm giants, for example, represent what is violent and destructive in men and also the great winters that caused the last Ice Age. Before the advent of men, these races often did battle, with the storm giants routing the elves in North America and sending their great prince, Boden, fleeing to Europe. There, the elves managed to defeat the storm giants (an allegory for the retreating glaciers after the Ice Age) with the help of humans. As I wrote in my previous review:
A younger race, the humans, assist them; but not all humans dare to do so. Only the hardiest, strongest, and noblest humans have what it takes to stand alongside the elves. These are the Aryans, the sons of Arius. These are the white humans.
This new story departs from Blut and Boden by having a structure which is perhaps more historical than fantastic. Where Blut and Boden teases us with snippets of history in which members of these elemental races assist or harm humanity, Race for the North begins in a fixed place and time: Onboard the HMS Erebus with Sir John Franklin in 1845. Franklin is searching for a Northwest Passage to Asia, and his love for his wife Jane propels him further on, even as ice is closing in on all sides.
Keeping spoilers to a minimum, what Franklin – and later, another fearless soul named Elisha Kent Kane – finds in the frozen Arctic tundra is a connection between modern man and the Earth’s primordial past: a beautiful elf maiden named Nimue who has been trapped by storm giants and is searching for a magic ring. It is this magic ring which allows the elf maiden to escape and travel to the British Isles. There, she calls for a young man who will breathe memory and courage into the sons of Arius, who are forgetting who they are and how to be brave.
This boy, an escapee from a malignant factory in Manchester named Arthur, is sent on a quest by Nimue, and on his journey meets famous artists, writers, and musicians throughout Europe. As in Blut and Boden, Donaldson fills the pages of A Race for the North with paintings, maps, and photographs, not only to assist in the storytelling but to inspire young readers by showing who these great men were and what they accomplished. And each shares a tremendous concern: that the soul of Europe is being lost in its rapid industrialization.
The author makes it abundantly clear that the whites of the West were losing their sense of vigor and romance:
As she walked through the town nearby, it was clear to Nimue that Elisha and John were men of the past. A new day was dawning, with a fierce light that drove away everything that was not efficient or profitable. It was a new world, run by small-minded men, an age of finance and not valiance, an age of captains of industry rather than captains of men. It was a world with no magic and little spirit, nothing like the spirit of Elisha and the magic of the ring he sought.
She returned to the castle and followed the stream that ran east of it, the Afon Ogwen, on up into the mountains. Here, the stream flowed out of a lake, and in that lake, with her keen-elf eyes she could see a sword. With such a sword, could the spirit be rekindled?
Upon this realization, Nimue becomes the famous “Lady of the Lake” and calls for young Arthur to take the sword, and with it, revitalize Europe. The introduction of Arthurian legends into A Race for the North is another way in which it distinguishes itself from Blut and Boden.
Yet another is Donaldson’s chapter on the villain Karl Marx. Donaldson portrays him as an outsider in Europe, a stranger in a strange land who wishes to transform this land into something unrecognizable through a thoroughly malicious ideology. As Donaldson describes it:
He is not of the sons of Arius, and he feels only contempt for the world they have made. But here, in the library, he can order ideas about the way he wished he could order men about, to make them do as he wishes. It is a world that exists only in his mind, but how to make it become reality? That is the question that troubles him.
Then, a storm giant appears and grants young Marx the power and energy to pursue his dreams of corrupting Europe. Marx then has visions of “rivers of blood” and of the gulag in which “those who disagree with his plan are worked to death.” He also envisions the great march of Marxism through the institutions of the West, such as its schools, churches, newspapers, and universities. This indeed becomes the “specter” which will soon haunt Europe.
And we see this during Arthur’s quest. Nimue sends him across Europe to the banks of the Rhine, where he will deliver her sword to a mysterious Wanderer. Through the artists and writers he meets, he sees how even back then Europeans were turning away from beauty and their own heritage. These creative people are resisting this and making lasting works, but Arthur envisions how this general listlessness will eventually allow Europe to be subjugated by Marx’s followers. He envisions how the great cities of Europe will surrender to outsiders without a fight, making the sons of Arius minorities in their own homelands. Many elements of history are merely hinted at, but subtly enough for grown-ups to catch. Examples include the ugliness of postmodern art and architecture.
A Race for the North focuses on the importance of art and creativity, more so than Blut and Boden. Arthur eventually meets a great man above the banks of the Rhine. This Wanderer, a real-life artist of the highest caliber, is world-renown and influential, but his career at that moment is at low ebb. He doubts he can continue. When Arthur presents him Nimue’s sword, only the hilt remains. Parts of it had been disseminated to the other creative men Arthur had met across Europe. This sword clearly represents the restless and fearless spirit of European Man, as embodied first and foremost in his artists. The Wanderer takes the sword (and along with it Arthur’s own story), and quickly the sword becomes him. The Wanderer is reinvigorated and, for those of us who know his history, goes on to create great works.
But for Arthur, Donaldson has this to say:
And you, Arthur, you felt a prick when you bundled up the sword just now, where the shattered blade’s edge cut just a little. Now you see the drop of blood on your finger, and you place it in your mouth without thinking. Why do you do it? Is your blood precious to you? It should be, for it is the line that connects you to those who came before, who sweated and strove, tilled and toiled, birthed and battled, all so that you might stand here. Locked in the sacred mystery of your blood is all that you have come from, all that you are, and all you could yet become.
A Race for the North imparts above all else the great kinship shared by the white European peoples. It depicts how foreign and destructive ideologies have threatened this kinship and led to horrific, fratricidal wars. It also shares how this kinship has led Europeans to develop great civilizations. But beneath it all, it is about blood and race. No youngster reading this book can finish it and reach any other conclusion. In fact, the perceptive reader will note how this idea is hidden in the book’s very title. White people today really are in a race for the North. It’s a race against time before the inheritors of Marx and their Third World foot soldiers disinherit the sons of Arius from it and their own birthright. Beyond that, whites themselves are the race that is suitable for the North. We belong here, Donaldson tells us. The North is our home. We have no other. This is something that Elisha envisions when he travels through the frozen tundra of North America:
He came across petrified trees, ancient trunks of wood that had turned to stone with the passage of time. Here, it seems, had once been green forests and warm air, a garden paradise teeming with life. Had his own race, he wondered, once lived far north in such a place?
Perhaps in legend they did. And with enough young people absorbing modern legends such as A Race for the North, whites will continue to do so indefinitely.
Spencer J. Quinn is a frequent contributor to Counter-Currents and the author of the novel White Like You.
Published: November 27, 2019 | This entry was posted in North American New Right and tagged A Race for the North, articles, Ash Donaldson, book reviews, fantasy literature, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
Hello Ash. I’m really curious why you chose to treat with Conner the way you did? Why his right arm and both his eyes? Wouldn’t loss of his eyes alone have set him up for a future as a blind seer ? Is he in this brutalized condition meant to represent the current state of the white race?
Just to clarify for the benefit of others, your question pertains to another one of my books, not this one. Without trying to give away too much in the way of spoilers, the right arm is actually the more mythologically significant of his injuries, since the myth of Tyr and the wolf, and the importance of the one-handed warrior in our race’s legends and myths, is invoked throughout the book (and most often through Connor’s own words).
Physical blindness, as you point out, can also be an apt metaphor for our race’s current situation, although that was not directly how I arrived at this element in the story. Feel free to write me at [email protected] with any comments or questions. Thanks for your interest!
The version available from the White Art Collective is a PDF. Readers interested in a color hard copy can get it from Amazon here. A less expensive black & white print version is here. Or you can go all out and get a double-length edition with Blut and Boden, thick enough for a titled bind, here.
Thanks for the links, Ash. Is there a way to buy directly from you, though?
Sadly, no. Amazon remains the only way to get a hard copy, and they take their shekels before I see anything. I’ve been exploring other publishing options, but for now this has the best reach, and I’m pleased with how the print editions look.
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By Danny Chambers
An Abundance Of Experience Returns To Volleyball Team
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Above is the team camp photo which includes the upperclassmen who attended camp.
The dog days of summer are upon us, but fall high school sports are just around the corner. The Tecumseh Lady Savage Volleyball team begins play on Aug. 13 with a boat load of experience.
Coach Emma LaChappell begins her fourth season as the head coach and is enthusiastic about this group of players. There are 17 seniors on the squad, and they have been with Coach LaChappell and assistant coach Meagan Laughlin for all four years.
"This group of seniors have been with Meagan and me since we started coaching; it'll be sad to see them go," according to the coach. It may be sad to see them move on at the end of the season, but Coach LaChappell feels they have abundant potential to do big things during the season.
"This team has the potential to make it to the state tournament," said LaChappell. "If we can play well enough to get ranked where we need to be, we could make it to state. We got noticed last year by some higher ranked teams that are calling to get on our schedule for the competition. Maybe getting noticed will help our rankings going into the playoffs."
The T-Town ladies have the talent and experience on the team to make a run in the playoffs, but they may have to overcome one obstacle. The opening game of the season and most of the home games in the near future will be played away from the friendly confines of the Tecumseh gym.
Due to the ongoing construction and some unexpected issues at their home gym, the Lady Savages have been practicing at the former St. Gregory's gym in Shawnee. The team will be bussed daily for practices and will host home games at St. Gregory's until the renovation is done at home.
"I don't think it should be a big deal," per the coach. "We've been practicing at St. Gregory's since we began practice last week and we held our summer camp there this summer. You might say it's become our home away from home."
The team camp held at the former college's campus was July 15-18 and was run by a group called Gold Medal Squared. The team camp was just for Tecumseh and was a pretty intense training for the Lady Savages. "I think it went really well and I think we got better," noted Coach LaChappell.
The hopes of the team are bolstered by the season a year ago when the Lady Savages had an impressive increase in wins. The ladies finished last season with a record of 17-9 and as the Regional Tournament Runner-up, one step away from the State Tournament. The team also finished second in their summer league in June at Chickasha.
The coach hopes that last season's success and this summer's hard work will be a spring board to the next step with this group of upper classmen. With 17 seniors and a total of 40 players in 9th through 12th grade, there is plenty of depth.
As it stands right now, the varsity squad is made up of 11 players, including 10 seniors and one junior, along with several others waiting in the wings. The varsity 11 currently are seniors Cierra Garcia, Skye Branham, Bailey Swanner, Brooklyn Sutton, Natalie Whiteman, Baylee Keel, Emily Ridley, Jenna Jones, Jenna Harrison, Emma Kinsey and junior Megyn Walker.
The coach says she has a well-balanced team and all 11 will play fairly equally. "Literally every girl on our team knows every position on the team and that makes us versatile. That's why I like this group of girls because they will play wherever you ask them to play."
The team will play with a Libero (defensive specialist), but the decision as to who it will be has not been made. "We have three very good defensive specialists in Cierra Garcia, Emma Kinsey and Megyn Walker, but we don't know who will wear the Libero jersey yet. Each one of these girls is versatile and can play any position on the floor."
When asked about the strength of the team, Coach LaChappell didn't hesitate to answer. "I think what we talked about is our strength, everybody can do everything in the rotation. We have a team of volleyball players-not specialist. Plus, the energy and commitment they bring to the floor is unlike anything we've seen in our four years."
Below is from a summer league tournament where the lady Savages took second place.
A tougher question for the coach was about a weakness or something the team needed to work on. It took her a minute, but she decided it was the team being too self-critical. "Being afraid to make a mistake and being less aggressive after a mistake, we're working on that. We tell them that the only mistake they can make is to be afraid of making one. If they go through the season afraid to make a mistake, then they may not be as good as they could be."
"We're excited for every season, but we're really excited for this season and the potential this team has and what this group of girls is doing for the Tecumseh Volleyball Program. We can't wait for the season to start."
The wait won't be long as the Lady Savages open the season by hosting Life Christian School on Aug. 13 at St. Gregory's. You probably should try to get out and see this talented team.
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Wimbledon: Serena Williams cruises, will face…
Wimbledon: Serena Williams cruises, will face Simona Halep in final
Williams will play in her 11th Wimbledon final and for her eighth title at the All England Club on Saturday
Serena Williams celebrates defeating Barbora Strycova during their women’s singles semifinal match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London on Thursday, July 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)
By The Associated Press |
WIMBLEDON, England — Serena Williams made it look easy in the Wimbledon semifinals. What she really cares about, of course, is what comes next.
That’s why she puts in all the work. Why she keeps at it with everything she’s already won, everything she’s already accomplished.
Williams is once again on the verge of an eighth Wimbledon championship and 24th Grand Slam title, moving into the final at the All England Club with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over an overmatched Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic on Thursday.
On Saturday, Williams will take on No. 7-seeded Simona Halep of Romania, a 6-1, 6-3 winner over No. 8 Elina Svitolina of Ukraine under a cloudy sky at Centre Court.
It’ll be the 11th final at the All England Club for Williams and the first for Halep, whose only major trophy came at the French Open last year.
“I look forward to it,” Williams said.
Why wouldn’t she? She owns a 9-1 career record against Halep, including a victory in the Australian Open’s fourth round in January.
Still, the 37-year-old American also knows that she’s been this close to No. 24 before: In 2018, her first season back on tour after the birth of her daughter, Olympia, Williams reached the finals at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open but lost each time.
That has left her Grand Slam total at 23, a record for the professional era and one fewer than Margaret Court accumulated while playing part of her career against amateur competition.
“I have a great job and I love what I do,” Williams said, “and I’m still pretty good at what I do, I guess.”
Sure, Serena. Just pretty good.
It’s been an up-and-down year because of illness and injury, limiting Williams to 12 matches until last week. After a third-round loss at Roland Garros on June 1, she stayed in France for medical treatment and finally felt pain-free while preparing for Wimbledon in England.
“It’s definitely a lot better,” Williams said. “Every match, I know that I’m improving.”
After a three-set struggle against Alison Riske in the quarterfinals Tuesday, Williams was at her dominant best against Strycova, who appeared limited by some sort of issue with her right leg. As it is, the 33-year-old Strycova was the oldest first-time Grand Slam semifinalist in the professional era.
Williams played cleanly, accumulating nearly twice as many winners as unforced errors, 28-10. She was at her usual court-covering best, which helped limit Strycova to 10 winners.
And Williams played calmly.
The semifinal’s turning point came quickly. Ahead 2-1 in the first set while Strycova served at 30-all, Williams sailed a backhand return way long and let out a cry of “Aaah!”
Maybe that got her going, because she simply took over.
Williams took the next point with a swinging forehand volley winner on the 16th stroke, then one after that when Strycova’s mediocre drop shot landed in the net. Having offered up a break point, Strycova crouched at the baseline and rested her racket on her head.
A cross-court forehand passing shot delivered the break for Williams, and Strycova bent over again, one of the initial signs that she was dealing with something physical.
The runaway was on: Williams seized seven points in a row and 16 of 20 to close out that set.
Strycova would repeatedly flex or shake her legs between points or try to stretch in her sideline chair by pulling her right foot onto her left knee and rocking her leg. Nothing was going to help her slow down Williams on this afternoon, and the match was over after 59 minutes.
Halep seemed headed for a long day when her semifinal against Svitolina began with a pair of games encompassing 32 points across 20 minutes.
Halep excels at this type of play, more frequently seen on clay courts than grass, and soon enough was on her way to her fifth Grand Slam final.
Like Strycova, Svitolina never had been to the final four at any Slam. With her boyfriend, former top-10 player Gael Monfils, in the stands, Svitolina made things competitive enough at the outset.
Five of the first 11 points lasted at least 10 strokes; two went 23.
Svitolina even earned three break chances in that opening game, but Halep eventually held there on the 16th point. Another game of the same length followed, and there again were three break points, except the difference was that Halep converted her last when Svitolina pushed a backhand wide.
While Svitolina would break back at love, that was pretty much the end of her challenge to Halep, who scrambled to cover the court so well, took balls early and created angles that earned her points.
“She played unbelievable today,” Svitolina said. “She was moving really good, striking the ball perfectly.”
That style of play serves the Romanian so well at Roland Garros, where she was the runner-up twice in addition to last year’s title. Halep also reached an Australian Open final.
The former No. 1 never had that kind of success at Wimbledon until now.
Her play was intense Thursday. So was her body language, including when Halep looked up at her coach, yelled and extended an arm in the first set’s final game.
By then, she was in control. Now comes a tougher task: beating Williams.
“I respect a lot what she has done and what she’s doing,” Halep said. “But now I feel stronger, mentally, facing her. We will see what is going to happen. It’s just a big challenge for me.”
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Grocery chains and UFCW make some progress;…
Grocery chains and UFCW make some progress; more talks planned
The two sides will meet for three more days starting July 30
As labor negotiations continue, executives with Ralphs, Vons, Albertsons and Pavilions agreed last week to drop a provision that would have reclassified cashiers at some 500 supermarkets, reducing their pay by 25%. (Photo courtesy of Ralphs)
By Jack Katzanek | jkatzanek@scng.com |
Three days of negotiations last week yielded some progress, but Southern California’s largest supermarket chains and the union that represents its workers still have a long way to go in the pursuit of a labor contract.
Executives of Ralphs, Vons, Albertsons and Pavilions agreed last week to drop a provision that would have downgraded the job classification for cashiers at some 500 supermarkets, which leaders of the United Food and Commercial Workers said would have slashed those workers’ pay by 25%.
The two sides will meet again for three days starting July 30. They remain far apart on matters that include wage gains, hours, health care benefits and pensions.
News of the elimination of the proposed cashier reclassification was revealed in an update appearing on the website of Local 770, which represents Los Angeles County workers.
“This was encouraging, but we’re five months into this and it shouldn’t have ever been on the table in the first place,” Joe Duffle, president of Local 1167, which represents Inland Empire workers, said of the cashier concession. “It was pretty ridiculous.”
The two sides have been in negotiations — which affect some 60,000 Southern California workers — since early March. The employees have been working under terms of a contract that expired on March 3.
Last month, 96% of UFCW members in the seven locals voted to authorize its leaders to call a strike if necessary, and Duffle said the membership is serious about its proposals.
“As soon as the employers figure out that we’re going to hang strong, then we’ll see what happens,” he said. “Our memberships’ principles are wages, benefits, hours and pensions. These are all huge for us.”
Union leaders have said that the companies are offering wage gains of only 1%, and sharp declines to their contributions to the health care plan.
In an e-mailed statement, John Votava, Ralphs’ director of corporate affairs, said last week’s talks focused on contract language, health care and wages. Representatives of the other chains did not reply to requests for comment.
“We’ll continue to meet with the unions, exchange proposals and come to a fair and balanced offer,” Votava said in the email. “With a balanced approach, this next agreement can be a win for everyone.”
Other union locals on the West Coast are currently in negotiations, and last week Roseville-based UFCW 8-Golden State reached a tentative agreement with Vons and Safeway in Northern and Central California. Talks with other chains in that area are continuing.
Also, UFCW members in Portland, Ore., voted to authorize a strike earlier this month.
Greg Conger, president of Orange County’s Local 324, said the Local 8-Golden State’s settlement “certainly doesn’t hurt us,” but added that Southern California workers have specific needs, so he doesn’t foresee an identical deal.
“We wouldn’t accept anything less” than the Northern California contract, Conger said.
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Freddie Mercury was 'almost blind and covered in ulcers' in his tragic final days
Queen legend Freddie Mercury was almost blind and covered in Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions in his final days
Jack HardwickSenior Showbiz Correspondent
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Elton John has opened up about the tragic final days of Queen legend Freddie Mercury – revealing he could barely visit hospital to see the singer due to his heartbreaking condition.
Freddie died in November 1991 from AIDS when he was just 45 years old.
Writing in his autobiography, Me: Elton John , the Rocket Man singer explained: "He hadn't told me he was ill.
Freddie Mercury died in November 1991 at the age of only 45 (Image: Redferns)
Freddie Mercury mocked David Bowie's album on his death bed, says Elton John
"I visited him a lot when he was dying, although I could never stay for much longer than an hour.
"It was too upsetting – I didn’t think he wanted me to see him like that."
Elton, 72, continued: "Someone so vibrant and so necessary, someone that would have got better with age and gone from strength to strength, dying in such a horrible, arbitrary way.
Freddie Mercury was the frontman of iconic British rock band Queen (Image: Michael Ochs Archives)
Freddie Mercury's haunting final photo before tragic death
"A year later they could have kept him alive with antiretroviral drugs. Instead, there was nothing they could do for him."
Going into detail about Freddie's heartbreaking condition, Elton added: "He was too frail to get out of bed, he was losing his sight, his body was covered in Kaposi's sarcoma lesions, and yet he was still definitely Freddie, gossiping away, completely outrageous.
The Elton John AIDS Foundation has raised over $450 million to fight the virus (Image: Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images)
"I couldn’t work out whether he didn’t realise how close to death he was or if he knew perfectly well but was determined not to let what was happening to him stop him being himself."
After Freddie's death, Elton was spurred on to tackle the growing AIDS epidemic.
In 1992, the singer launched the Elton John AIDS Foundation and has raised over $450 million to date to help beat the virus.
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https://www.milfordmirror.com/al-features/article/A-section-of-New-York-Appalachian-Trail-finally-13887596.php
A section of New York Appalachian Trail, finally
Published 2:41 pm EST, Wednesday, February 24, 2016
by Rob McWilliams
Any old hike won’t do. Usually, you have some qualities in mind. How long, how strenuous, how tranquil, how far from home, and so on. This month I wanted to hike somewhere new. I wanted a little adventure, but nothing too long or knee-stressing. Since I would go alone, it had to be a loop. I did not mind driving a while to get there. But where was there?
Over the years of writing this column, I have mentioned some resources for finding hikes in our region (though none, of course, beats reading “Taking a Hike” every month). There is the Connecticut Forest & Park Association, the Appalachian Mountain Club guidebooks and group hikes, and town guides like Redding’s “The Book of Trails”. But a resource I have not mentioned yet is the website of the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference. This is a significant omission, because www.nynjtc.org has a handy “Find a Hike” feature.
“Find a Hike” found me this outing. Under “Difficulty”, I chose “Moderate”. For “Features”, I selected “Views” (and could have added others, like “Swimming” – way too cold! – or “Historical feature”). This yielded a list of over 100 hikes. To make it more manageable, I sorted by region. Many of the regions were too far off or unfamiliar to interest me this time (New Jersey’s Kittatinnies and Wyanokies, for example). But many were just across the state line in New York, east of the Hudson. I picked one in Fahnestock State Park.
On the Monday before, Friday, Feb. 5, had looked a grand day to get out. It didn’t look so grand on Friday morning. In my yard, a breeze was pasting snow to the tree trunks. Two hours later, at the trailhead, the sky was the same gray as the ice on Canopus Lake. I walked to the Appalachian Trail on an inch or two of powder, to which a few flakes were still being added. The NYNJTC hike description told me to look out for a brown “wand” marking the Appalachian Trail. I had not heard of a wand on a trail, and wondered what to look for. It turned out to be a flimsy pole bearing a logo and rules. I set off toward the first – and well camouflaged – A.T. white blaze, my first ever steps on the Appalachian Trail in the Empire State.
I followed the A.T. for an hour and a half. There were two or three short, steep-ish descents, which the snow required be made with patience; but otherwise the trail was easy going, following at first the bed of a narrow gauge railroad from iron mining days. I remember coming down to Canopus Creek, black amid its snow-covered bed stones and the forest’s powdered branches. On a ridge, I looked up to the tops of tall pines set against the gray sky, but noticed too a lightening of the gray far off to the southwest. Soon, a strip of palest blue appeared between the lightening gray and the line of the next ridge over. The A.T. came down to a frozen wetland and, at its outflow, a beaver dam. A fallen trunk showed evidence of incisors. Beneath the dam, the outflow stream poured down a pretty stepped waterfall.
It happened on Sunken Mine Road. I left the A.T. still in an overcast, muffled world. Then, on the woods road above Canopus Creek, clearest blue sky showed in the distance, divided from the gray of the storm by a ruled line. The line approached minute by minute until, with a gust that sent sparkling snowflakes flying off their branches, the sun came out and changed everything. I stopped for lunch in this new world of light, shadows, and sharp colors, and felt alone, hearing nothing but the wind and the calls of a bird.
I was heading back now, about to climb the ridge on the Blue trail. The trail is named, of course, for its blazes, but today fitted nicely too with the sky pushing over from the southwest, plowing the storm out to the Atlantic. The ridge – 1,000 feet above sea level – was a delight, a mile of sunlit boulders and trunks, and here and there the glowing copper leaves of a little beech. After half an hour the trail came to open rock with a view down to Clear Lake and, I think, Oscawana Lake beyond. (Photos taken on the ridge, and on the hike as a whole, can be found at “McWilliams Takes a Hike” on Facebook.)
The trail fell, rose again, and then came down for good, joining Three Lakes trail after a short green-blazed stretch. Three Lakes skirted a wetland for a distance, a place filled with straw-colored reeds as tall as I, and lit up in the sun. It is good to finish one hike with an idea for another, and Three Lakes may be my next Fahnestock outing. At 8.8 miles, it would be longer and more strenuous than today’s loop. If that doesn’t fit, I’ll go back to “Find a Hike.” It worked well for me.
Rob McWilliams is a local resident. Taking a Hike appears monthly. Contact Rob at “McWilliams Takes a Hike”, blog and Facebook. He’d love to hear from you.
IF YOU GO …
By Canopus Lake on NY Rte 301, 1 mi SW of intersection with Taconic State Parkway.
I was out for 4 hours.
ROUTE & MAP
Broadly, Appalachian Trail south to Sunken Mine Road, then Blue trail north back to parking area. NYNJTC East Hudson Trails, Map 103 (the Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Park trail map is an online option).
Best to put the NYNJTC hike description in your pocket.
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ISMG Debuts Responsive Design
Users Now Can Choose How to View Content Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • July 10, 2015
Information Security Media Group, publisher of this media site, announces the launch of a new "responsive design" that enhances the features and functionalities of multimedia content.
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The new format makes it easier for subscribers and consumers to read, watch and listen to content produced for the two dozen-plus ISMG websites by enhancing the features and functions of multimedia on all platforms, including smartphones and tablets.
ISMG is rolling out the new format starting on July 10. Viewers are urged to share their feedback on the redesign in the comment box below.
After months of development and testing, the redesigned sites will:
Showcase ISMG's news, interviews, education and research regardless of how they are accessed, via every form factor - desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone;
Feature the most urgent topics and content items via a new "Trending" bar atop the sites;
Present exclusive interviews with industry thought-leaders in an enhanced "Interviews" section that presents audio and text versions, giving viewers a choice about how to experience the conversations; and
Promote greater engagement with the audience via social media and viewer comments, both of which are more prominent in the new design.
ISMG General Manager Mike D'Agostino discusses the new responsive design.
ISMG's General Manager Mike D'Agostino says the company's rapid growth in Europe and Asia, where consumers rely on mobile devices to access news and information, is a driver behind the move to the new responsive design, in which content is viewed based on the format of the device.
In the past four years, the share of non-North American traffic to ISMG websites has grown to 40 percent from 10 percent. And a high percentage of non-North American users access ISMG content on their mobile devices. "For us, when it comes to these developing countries and regions outside of North America, it's even more important that our content is displayed in applicable formats for them to absorb it all," D'Agostino says.
ISMG, headquartered in Princeton, N.J., publishes InfoRiskToday, DataBreachToday, BankInfoSecurity, CUInfoSecurity, HealthcareInfoSecurity, GovInfoSecurity and CareersInfoSecurity.
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Field is responsible for all of ISMG's 28 global media properties and its team of journalists. He also helped to develop and lead ISMG's award-winning summit series that has brought together security practitioners and industry influencers from around the world, as well as ISMG's series of exclusive executive roundtables.
https://www.databreachtoday.com/ismg-debuts-responsive-design-a-8388
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Wastewater plans mean Brighton junkyard owners…
Wastewater plans mean Brighton junkyard owners can’t salvage business
Jeff Elms sits on what’s left of his first car, a 1936 Studebaker, as he considers what he will do whenhis Seven Sons Auto Salvage must close for a water-treatment plant.
Among the losses when Seven Sons moves may be this big-fin Cadillac from the 1950s.
Jeff Elms runs Seven Sons Salvage Yard in Brighton that includes over 2,600 cars - many of them vintage. But he has been told he needs to move to make way for a new $220 million wastewater treatment plant for cities and town in the north metro area. Joe Amon, The Denver Post
By Monte Whaley | mwhaley@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
BRIGHTON — Somewhere in a sea of big-fin Cadillacs, spent Novas and hollowed-out pickups rests the 1936 Studebaker Jeff Elms bought with his own money when he was 14.
“It was my first car, and it was about the best thing I ever owned,” Elms said.
But soon his old car, along with the rest of the 20-acre Seven Sons Auto Salvage that Elms and his family have owned in unincorporated Weld County for 50 years, will be gone.
In its place will emerge a $480 million state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant that will serve the growing north-metro corridor.
Elms, 60, says he knew his cluttered but happy life was going to change when the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District told him last year he would have to be gone by the time the plant broke ground in 2012.
“They said they would make me whole,” Elms said. “That’s when things started going downhill.”
The same feeling of dread and frustration is spreading though the 500 or so residents of Sylmar Manor Mobile Home Park, south of Elms’ salvage yard on U.S. 85.
The district needs their land for what’s being called one of the most advanced treatment plants in the Western U.S. But most of the trailers are too old to move, and residents say they have few prospects for new housing.
“It’s really a lost cause,” said Arthur Petty, 74, who has lived in Sylmar since 1974. “It’s like when a man jumps into the ocean — you know he doesn’t have a chance.”
The district says the facility will have the latest environmental and odor controls as well as the capacity to grow with the region. After it opens in 2015, it will treat between 22 million and 26 million gallons of water per day for at least a decade.
Big capacity upgrade
The new plant may eventually treat 60 million gallons of sewage daily, said Barbara Biggs, governmental-affairs officer with the wastewater district. By contrast, Brighton’s existing wastewater plant treats about 2.3 million gallons a day.
“This facility is desperately needed now with the growth in the region,” Biggs said.
The new plant, she adds, will eliminate seven lift stations in seven neighborhoods and the need for complicated and expensive repairs to existing plants.
The location on 90 acres at the northwest corner of 168th Avenue and U.S. 85, next to the South Platte River between Brighton and Fort Lupton, was chosen over 11 other sites. Project managers say it is well- suited for expansion.
Other sites had ongoing gravel operations or ownership issues or were too far north to be feasible, Biggs said.
“We needed a site than can handle our needs now and 40 to 50 years down the road,” she said.
Fort Lupton Mayor Tommy Holton says the plant likely will not benefit his community of 7,500, north of the site.
Holton is worried that the effluent water discharged into the Platte by Metro Wastewater will make the water discharged from Fort Lupton’s sewer plant a few miles away look bad.
“Hopefully, it won’t affect our compliance issues with our health department,” he said.
He said he resents that the plant was not put in Adams County, where much of the growth is occurring.
“Why should metro Denver come into Weld County and dump their refuse here?” Holton asked.
The district is negotiating with six property owners for the land needed for the plant and will pay fair market value based on appraisals, Biggs said.
The district also will assist with moving costs.
Talking with residents
The district met with park residents, sent them letters in English and Spanish and extended their deadline for moving to June 2011.
Settlements appear close on at least two of the properties. If settlements can’t be reached, Biggs said, the district may use its power of eminent domain.
“We know it’s difficult to take private property for a public project,” she said. “But this project is desperately needed right now.”
More than 2,600 vehicles — some crushed and stacked six high — crowd the parcel behind Elms’ home. Also on the site is a pond teeming with fish and surrounded by wildlife. Next to Elms’ tool-strewn office is a garage, where a 1930 Model A Ford is being restored.
Elms said he doesn’t know what he will do with any of it as time draws close to ground- breaking.
“This place has been an institution and a place where you can wander back there and find a good part you can’t find anyplace else for your car,” said his younger brother, Bob Elms. “I guess there is just not room for a junkyard anymore.”
Monte Whaley: 720-929-0907 or mwhaley@denverpost.com
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As United Methodist Church prepares for split, local Methodists pray for unity
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Two shot at Hampden apartment complex in Denver
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NO to Heathrow. YES to a Safe Climate Future.
by Plan B
Plan B is charity (CIO) which combines mobilisation and litigation to hold power to account for climate breakdown, fighting for the future for all people, all animals and all life on earth.
pledged of £15,000 stretch target from 167 pledges
Case updates 3 Updates 3
Latest: March 28, 2019
The trial is over: now awaiting judgement!
The trial is over and we're now awaiting the court's judgement.
We expect to have it some time in May or June although it could be sooner.
Whatever the outcome:
we were able to present our case …
We're opposing the expansion of Heathrow Airport because it's inconsistent with the Government's commitments on climate change under the Paris Agreement and inconsistent with our demand for a safe climate future.
On the one hand the Government promises "international leadership on climate change". On the other it's planning major expansion of the UK's aviation capacity, one of the most polluting forms of transport, which would preclude the UK from making an appropriate contribution even to the minimum standard of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
The leading authority on climate science, the IPCC, has recently warned that the consequences for humanity of crossing the 1.5˚C temperature limit are appalling (whether in terms of the environment, the economy or international security); and that without an urgent and radical change of course the world is likely to hit that limit any time from 2030, just 12 years away. Our government claims to respect the science but its actions fly in the face of the scientific advice.
We're calling them out on the blatant self-contradiction. This is "business-as-usual" on trial. We must stop Heathrow expansion for any hope of the UK making a fair contribution to the Paris Agreement.
We've already started the process of judicial review. A number of other parties including Friends of the Earth are bringing separate claims. On 4 October 2018 Mr Justice Holgate ordered a full trial of the claims, beginning on 11 March 2019.
As a small charity, we can't afford the costs of legal representation, so we're bringing the case directly, with the support of a network of volunteer lawyers. However we need to raise funds to cover our potential cost liability and to obtain professional advice on certain issues, including the relationship to our 2050 Target case, which is currently before the Court of Appeal.
Please help us fight for our common future.
Heathrow expansion protestors gather outside High Court hearing (Daily Mail)
Heathrow expansion: All five legal challenges to get full hearing (The Independent)
Blow for Heathrow as Campaigners win legal fight over third runway (The Times)
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Case documents
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Keep up the fight. The present defeat shows the power of aviation and fossil fuel industries. It also shows that the majority of the public are oblivious to the fact that their holiday flights and business flights make the case for expansion. This thinking needs to change.
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we were able to present our case fully and fairly
both inside and outside court, attention was focussed on the urgency and gravity of the climate crisis.
The transcripts of the trial are here (our submissions were on the 13th and 19th of March):
https://www.judiciary.uk/publications/heathrow-claimants-v-the-secretary-of-state-for-transport-transcripts/
Below is some of the media coverage:
Legal Battle over Heathrow Expansion to start at High Court (Daily Mail)
No to Heathrow: Climate Campaigners Outline Case Against Third Runway (Desmog)
We'll update you as soon as there's any news.
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Support Open Justice for Heathrow
The legal challenges to the UK Government's reckless plans to expand Heathrow Airport have been described as the "iconic battleground against climate change". The model of "business-as-usual" growth is pitched against the scientific imperative to cut emissions urgently. It's now clear that the Government failed to assess Heathrow expansion against the Paris limit. Unbelievably the Government appears to be denying that the Paris limit is government policy:
"the Claimant is wrong to assert that “Government policy […] is to limit warming to the more stringent standard of 1.5˚C and “well below” 2˚C””.
Yet, as things stand only the 100 or so people who can cram into Court 76 of the UK High Court will be able to hear the evidence. It's 2019 and that doesn't make sense! Please support Friends of the Earth's and Plan B's application for have the proceedings live-streamed by taking 5 seconds to:
1) sign and share the form below:
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2) Retweeting this tweet:
https://twitter.com/PlanB_earth/status/1082567177998385152
It's your case and you should be able to follow it!
We Reached our First Target!
Dear Friends of the Planet
Thank you so much for your support in helping us reach our £5,000 target to challenge the Government's reckless plans for Heathrow expansion. You've put us in a strong position to cover our costs in this case.
Meanwhile in seeking to defend our claim the Government argues that “[Plan B] is wrong to assert that “Government policy[…] is to limit warming to the more stringent standard of 1.5˚C and “well below” 2˚C””.
Yup, you read that right.
The Government denies that its policy is to limit warming to the level that, according to science, is necessary to avert climate catastrophe. Thank you for helping us to shine a spotlight on this unarguable position.
We filed our Reply to the Government's submission on Friday, which you can read here:
https://planb.earth/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/REPLY-TO-DGR.pdf
Seasons greetings and best wishes for a 2019 that marks a turning point to a safer future.
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Phoebe Legere brings ton of talent (& her accordion) to New Haven gig
By Joe Amarante
Published 1:17 pm EDT, Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Phoebe Legere’s art, as viewed in a Buttonwood Tree exhibit in Middletown in 2017.
Photo: Cassandra Day / Hearst Connecticut Media
Phoebe Legere’s parents were artists and she — now in her mid-50s — has been a mostly under-the-radar star of voice, piano, guitar, accordion, poetry and painting since her teens.
The talented Massachusetts native, with Mayflower and Acadian ancestors, studied the philosophy of art at Vassar College and composing at Juilliard and has released 15 CDs of original music. Playing with a punk-rock band in 1990, she opened for David Bowie on his tour but always shunned major labels.
Legere will bring her “Tribal Roots of Rock Blues Cajun & Jazz Show” to mActivity Fitness Center in New Haven, Sunday, June 23, with Washboard Slim as part of the East Rock Concert Series. Lys Guillorn will open.
Legere these days performs her original tunes along with classic, singalong Cajun and Americana favorites. A supporter of female, gay, Native American and civil rights causes, Legere is pledging proceeds from the show to her nonprofit Foundation for New American Art, a 501 c3 organization that brings art and music to the children of low-income communities.
A foundation official said one Legere ancestor, Alfred Hemenway, former president of the American Bar Association, gave millions of dollars to Yale; that her Mayflower ancestor is buried in New Haven; and that she is exploring outreach programs in the Bridgeport area.
mActivity, 285 Nicoll St., New Haven, Sunday, June 23, 7 p.m. $16.52 (with service fees) in advance and $20 at the door. 203-936-9446. mActivity.com/events-calendar
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Curbside Classic: 1994 Mustang – The Car That Almost Wasn’t
Greg Beckenbaugh
This Mustang is the car that almost wasn’t. If Ford had stuck to its original plans, a very different Mustang would have been on the market by the mid-1990s.
The original Fox-bodied Mustang was looking long-in-the-tooth by the late 1980s. When it debuted in the fall of 1978, the Fox-platform Mustang was a breath of fresh air for the industry in general, and Ford in particular, which seemed determined to turn every coupe into a smaller version of the Lincoln Continental Mark IV. After a great first year, a combination of the second fuel crisis, a severe recession and Ford’s substitution of the miserable 255 cubic-inch-displacement V-8 for the venerable 302 sent sales tumbling.
For 1982, Ford crowed that the “Boss is back,” as the 302 V-8 returned for the GT version, and the 255 V-8 was mercifully dispatched. Build quality improved as Ford really did work to make quality control Job 1, and the convertible reappeared for 1983. Mustang sales rebounded as gas prices declined and the economy improved.
No good thing lasts forever, and it soon was time to think about a new Mustang. Ford’s bean-counter driven management thought that it had the perfection solution – base the next Mustang on a front-wheel-drive Mazda platform. Ford could spread costs over a larger volume of cars, and reap the benefit of Mazda’s engineering prowess.
This actually wasn’t a bad idea. Ford would use the same strategy with good results for the second-generation American Escort. Unfortunately, in this case, it was applied to the wrong car.
Basing an American icon on a Japanese front-wheel-drive compact touched a raw nerve in the 1980s. A furious backlash ensued, as Mustang fans inundated Ford headquarters with letters decrying the possibility of a “Maztang” and accusing Ford of performing a “Mazdectomy” on the original pony car.
During this era, electronic mail was largely limited to government employees and computer buffs, meaning that most Mustang fans who wanted to vent their frustrations to Ford actually had to sit down, type or write a letter, stamp it and drop it in the mailbox. Faced with this level of passion, Ford quickly changed course, and the car originally proposed as the next Mustang appeared in 1989 as the Ford Probe.
This left a big question unanswered – what to do about the next Mustang? Ford management formed a special team dedicated to the new Mustang, with instructions to deliver it quickly and under stringent cost targets. This can be a formula for trouble – the bittersweet saga of original Dodge/Plymouth Neon is proof of that – but in the case of the Mustang, it worked. It helped that the new car was based on an updated version of the old Fox platform, and carried over the 5.0 V-8, while dropping the 2.3 four in favor of the standby 3.8 “Essex” OHV V-6 as the base engine.
When the new model debuted for 1994, it looked fresh while still looking like a Mustang. The side vents from the original Mustang returned in modified form, as did the galloping chrome pony on the front. There were enough improvements to keep loyalists interested and the general public intrigued. Even more importantly, in that curious way Ford has when it does it right, its vices seemed to be part of the charm. A few rough edges made it seem authentically American, or least something that would have pleased ol’ Henry.
Buyers responded enthusiastically–not with “Mustang fever” as they had in 1964, but enough to keep the car viable in an increasingly difficult marketplace. The Mustang soldiered on through the 1990s and early 2000s, triumphing over its GM foes. (The Ford Probe, meanwhile, died after 1997, as the market swung away from front-wheel-drive sport coupes.) By the time GM threw in the towel on the Camaro and Firebird at the end of the 2002 model year, the Mustang was outselling both of them combined.
The Fox-based Mustang would receive one more styling update, along with structural improvements, for the 1999 model year, before its ancient platform was finally retired for the even more nostalgically styled model that debuted for 2005.
What about this specimen? Unlike San Francisco or Eugene, a 15-year-old daily driver is considered an “old car” in Harrisburg, where road salt is regularly used in winter. It is not uncommon to see 10-year-old vehicles with signs of rust. Cars from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s have largely disappeared from the streets–they are either show queens or in the scrap yard, waiting for their next life.
It was thus surprising to see this 1994 or 1995 GT coupe regularly parked in a reserved parking space in Harrisburg’s Capitol complex. Particularly since Mustang GTs from this generation are now popping up at local classic car shows, either in modified form or as lovingly preserved originals.
For 1994 and 1995, the GT sported still sported old but trustworthy 5.0 V-8–the overhead cam 4.6 V-8 would not arrive until 1996. By this time, the 5.0 V-8 had the level of aftermarket support and enthusiasm that had largely been reserved for the Chevrolet small-block V-8. It only took Ford about 40 years to figure out how to achieve that goal.
Ford took the trademark Mustang taillights and laid the dividers on their side for 1994 and 1995. These taillights were criticized for their similarity to the taillights on a contemporary Pontiac Grand Am. By the mid-1990s, having your styling compared to that of a Pontiac was not compliment. How the mighty had fallen.
This car has patina galore. The black paint is peeling from the roof,
and the front bears a few battle scars. It obviously is used as a daily driver, something that would also probably please ol’ Henry. Like its more numerous V-6 powered brethern that are also still spotted on the road around here, it soldiers on. Not too bad for a car that almost wasn’t.
jpcavanaugh
I have a minor “thing” for these. I consider this series of Mustang to be the most attractive of all of the fox Mustangs, and I would really like to own a 5.0 GT convertible from 94 or 95.
Back about 1995, a younger brother and his wife bought one of these – a black GT coupe with a 5 speed. They had to fly out of Indianapolis for a week, and they left the car in my driveway. My brother told me that I was free to use it, but I could tell from the look on his new wife’s face that he lacked actual authority to lend out her brand new car.
It killed me to leave it all week, but at least my daily driver at the time was a 68 Newport, so the lure of the V8 was largely sated on a day to day basis. I did take it out for a brief spin once. My-oh-my, but was that fun. Suddenly I was back in 1965 when my Dad got a stick shift Mustang fastback for the weekend when his boss’s son needed Dad’s company wagon. There is no feeling like a strong V8 mated to a nice feeling stick shift.
educatordan
I’ve never really gotten turned on to this generation of Mustang. My favorites (other than my Dad’s 67) are the mid 80s (when the 5.0 got interesting again) to 1993 models and then the current 2005+ retro theme.
73ImpCapn
I’m with Dan. I actually like the last of the boxy Foxes, 91-93-ish. They stripped off the remaining black trim and painted them bright colors. A yellow non-hatch LX from this era would be fun, as long as you kept plenty of cinder blocks in the trunk.
I saw one of these in a Ford dealer’s front row recently – a maroon notchback coupe with the 5.0, GT wheels and the dual exhausts, in really nice shape. Although I like the 94-95 better, my college-age son liked the older one. And I gotta admit, it would be fun smoking unsuspecting folks at a traffic light with a plain-jane notchback.
Billy Rockfish
Posted January 10, 2012 at 12:13 PM
These aren’t bad, but ’87-’93 Notchback LX’s w/302 were the winning ticket. BTW – briefly owned a cherry ’86 3.8L V-6 LX notchback. With an ’82-’83 style GT exhaust (Flowmaster), it woke that little “boat anchor” V-6 up.
TEXN3
I always liked this body style, mainly because my dad was moved to Tulsa, from LA, and needed a new car since he wasn’t getting a company car. So he got a V6 manual in deep forest green, which Ford only made for two years. It was a sharp looking car and it has aged very well (the look, not necessarily the cars).
Looking back, it wasn’t very quick, but worked well for around town and out on the open roads. Returned phenomenal mileage, around 28 on the highway. Loved riding in it, and we’d take it to church on Sundays. It may not have been a special model, but it sure was cool when other kids parents had a Taurus (well, we also had a Sable wagon).
We moved to Houston and my grandparents gave us their 79 Cutlass Supreme Brougham since they bought their “last” vehicle when retiring to Anacortes…an Outback. My dad sold the Mustang and commuted on the Metro bus. Probably better off, as the 3.8l suffered headgasket failures, and that most likely would have happened under my right foot.
I owned a 1996 version which was the first year of the 4.6L V8. Wasn’t super powerful or fast with the automatic (felt about the same as my ’78 Z28 with the 350cid and 4spd) but great fun in the winter. Ended up selling when the insurance costs sky rocketed after we moved back to the “big city”.
You don’t want a 3.8L V6 car from this era – they had an appetite for head gaskets.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveseven/166921692/
Paul Niedermeyer
I could never warm up to this generation Mustang. The roof looked like it sat on the body like a removable hardtop. Make mine from the years just before.
geeber
I guess I’m just a Mustang fanatic…the only ones I don’t care for are the 1971-73 Clydesdales and the infamous Mustang II!
I’d be happy with one from this generation, or one of the 1979-93 models.
Btrig
Clydesdales, eh? 🙂
I actually like those, though the space utilization is absurd. Always thought though that the ’71 Mustang should have been the Torino, while the Torino should have been the LTD/Galaxy, and the Maverick (with different trim and specs) should have been the Mustang. A more square-bodied version of the Maverick could have been the Falcon. Seems a winning lineup to me…
The styling of the ’94 Mustang always left me cold. Like Paul says, the roof sits there looking removable — and at an odd angle, like it might slide off. It’s pretty darned ugly. And the automatics have that hideous slender, curved shifter that looks like something inspired by billy goats. This and the Mustang II are the only Mustang incarnations I actively dislike and would promptly sell if one were given to me.
Ate Up With Motor
It’s funny you should say that, because I remember reading when these cars were first previewed to the press that there would be a detachable hardtop for the convertible that looked just like the coupe roofline. I’m not sure if they ever actually marketed such an option, but I’ve certainly never seen one, and I don’t remember ever seeing it on the factory options lists.
Posted November 1, 2011 at 6:08 AM
Yes! The hardtop was an option for 1995 Cobras . There were some slight differences between a regular convertible and the hardtop convertibles to accommodate for the mounting mechanism of the hardtop, if I recall correctly, so they had to be ordered as hardtop convertible models – you couldn’t just pick one up at the parts counter later. I think they only came in black too.
The effect of the true pillarless hardtop look on the car is stunning – with all four windows down, the car looks like a menacing piece of ’60s iron. If I had time, space and money for a project like this, I’d pick up some extra coupe and convertible parts cars and turn my ’96 into a pillarless hardtop.
rudiger
Looks good. Says just under 500 were built, but can’t verify that number.
That’s how I would have ordered mine if I hadn’t been 16 and broke when these showed up. That hardtop make the car.
jslez
The roofline on the coupe is a bit off, but when you drop the top on the convertible that all just goes away and it looks so much better. It does look like they designed the convertible first and then figured out how to add a roof to the coupe.
I grew up in a GM family and was never really a Mustang fan. But five years ago a black 95 GT 5-speed convertible sort of fell into my lap, and I have to say I really enjoy it. It’s got some patina, it’s loud, rough, and really doesn’t go or handle that well by current standards, but there’s really nothing like putting the top down and listening to that V8 rumble while cruising around town.
Thank you, Paul, for running this piece.
This car just caught my attention – the GT versions aren’t that common as daily drivers, and the owner of this car was important enough to rate a reserved parking space right in the heart of the Capitol complex. Most people this high up on the state goverment food chain aren’t driving well-worn 16-year-old cars to work.
I’ve always like this generation of Mustang, particularly the GT version with these larger wheels. They have a nice, lean style about them that manages to look less dated than the contemporary GM F-body.
There are plenty of V-6 versions still chugging along in this area, so either the notorious head gasket problem wasn’t as common in Ford’s rear-wheel-drive cars, or this problem is easily corrected.
Mint or near-mint GT versions from these years are now showing up at the car corrals for the various Carlisle car shows. If only I had the money, I’d be very tempted to buy one…make mine a light metallic blue convertible or coupe, with these wheels, and a leather interior!
The RWD versions did not seem to have as big a problem as the FWD version for what ever reason. Also the redesigned gaskets whether OE Ford or Fel-Pro largely eliminated the issue. With good gaskets the 3.8 will last 200K or more.
That’s correct; malady of this era (’94) usually found on the FWD variants w/3.8 V-6, usually the Continental.
The 94-98s never really grabbed me. They were a bit too feminine or soft for my taste. The 99-04 cars did get my attention though.
It’s amazing what a slight refresh can do to a car.
Hmm. I felt the opposite — I thought these weren’t bad, if a little rental car-ish (and not to my tastes), but the ’99 redesign always struck me as contrived, especially as they ladled on more fake scoops.
mnm4ever
I remember when these came out… at the time they were lookers, big improvement over the old Fox body Mustang, but wow, they were slow. When the 94 came out, my freind’s dad bought a brand new convertible GT, with the auto. We took it out for a late night spin to see what it could do. What a disappointment! I know the convertible was heavier, and the auto was horrible for performance, but it just had no punch.
Looking back now, I dont like the looks of these 94-98 cars. I would rather have a 91-93 LX5.0 hatch (I know the notch is lighter but so ugly!), or a 99+ GT. Either of these, if you can find one that isnt beat to death, is cheap and fun. If I had the LX5.0, I would get the SVO front end and dual-deck spoiler, always loved that look!
suzulight
” It only took Ford about 40 years to figure out how to achieve that goal” Oh please! The small block Ford was kicking Chevys butt on the track as early as mid ’62 thanks to Shelby, and piling up trophys before most people had ever seen one. Unless you happened to buy a 62 Fairlane. Or a Cobra
The small-block Chevy ruled the roost until the mid-1990s. Victories on a race track aren’t worth much unless they translate into hardware for the streets. Race track victories are not the same thing as after-market support for a particular engine or vehicle.
Even the late Don Frey, the person Ford insiders credit with the concept that became the original Mustang, admitted that Ford largely sat out the muscle-car era. Chrysler and Ford may have gone tooth-and-nail at each other on the race track in the mid- and late 1960s, but on the street it was Dodge and Plymouth versus Chevrolet and Pontiac.
The reviews of the original V-8 in the Fairlane noted that it was hardly a scorcher. The enlarged 260 and 289 variants were better. I’m not saying that any of them were bad engines – the 260 and 289 versions were excellent engines for their intended purpose (which was providing sprightly, but not blistering, performance for family sedans, wagons and hardtop coupes), and were much better than Buick’s aluminum V-8 engine.
But on the street, Ford was largely an also-ran in the performance wars during the 1960s. And I say this as a Ford fan.
@geeber, I have to agree, the factory Fords just didnt have the punch of the factory GM engines. I think you could build a great Ford motor, but Ford didnt do it for you…
Posted November 3, 2011 at 10:22 AM
I built a 260 V8 back in the 80’s on a lark. I could have gone 289 K engine (had the block and all the internals for it) or 302 ( no shortage of them in junk yards at the time) but tried something different though not new.
Taking a cue from Shelby I used small chamber 289 heads, ported and flow matched to a singleplane high rise, and a 450CFM four barrel. I used variable duration lifters, dual pattern camshaft, electronic ignition, a windage tray, high performance valve train parts, and oversized pulleys. It nearly doubled the horsepower and pulled hard all the way to 7000RPM.
The slightly smaller engine breathed deep with the larger ports and valves of the 289, the only loss was low end torque. This combination was good enough for low 14s in the Fairlane I was running at the time, although I give credit to the C4, 3.25 gearing, and high stall converter in the trans for most of that.
Ah the good old days.
I had 2 of these, a 97 cobra convert, and a 2004 gt auto. I drove the gt for a year every day and it was really reliable, and much more solid than the 97. That Cobra version was incredible, DOHC and the 5 speed was a great combo, pure pleasure. The 04 GT had all the issues ironed out, and it was a quick smooth runner that was screwed together well. The GT auto was easier to drive in Long Island rush hour. I sold the Cobra when I moved into an apartment, and the GT was sold after I got a Ram SRT10, that was just a monster!
This generation still had plenty of character and “felt” like a Mustang when driving, the 2005 and up look more like a Mustang, but have lost a little of the Mustang driving feel.
I owned three Fox bodied cars of my own, a 1980 Mercury Capri Turbo, a 1985 Mercury Capri RS 5.0, and a 1986 Mercury Capri Sport Coupe 5.0. (See a pattern here?) Between the 1980 and the 1985, both of which were large POS’s, build quality did not improve. In addition to others in my circle of friends and family who had Ford products from that era, Quality was not Job One. The 1986 was better in the three years I had it, nothing major (or minor) broke on it. I was impressed.
All that said, I’d still love to have a Fox body again. I was something of a fan of the car featured, but like others here, I thought it was a bit overstyled. I did like the reprise of the three spoked TRX style wheels on these cars, and I think time has been kind to this re-style. FWIW, I like the contemporary F-bodies better.
The guy who lives directly behind me has a convertible 1996 model, which is a nice driver, for sure. I really liked the 1999 refresh of this car, but the 2005 version is kind of large for a Mustang. I hope someday it becomes a smaller car, like the original.
I meant to add: I’d be perfectly happy with a car like the one featured. It’s fast enough to keep me entertained, and beat up enough for me to use it as a CAR and not a fragile showpiece. Kind of like my 1995 Sunfire GT is now…
Also had that ’85 Capri 5.0.
Worst made car Ive owned, and slow
That car comes in at third place to being my “worst car ever”. I had a 1983 Trans Am that, while admittedly I was rough on the car (I was 20 at the time), all kinds of stuff broke. But it was a toss up between what I broke and what was just junk on the car. The 85 5.0L was fine for the first year, in fact it was my wife’s daily driver. But stuff broke on that car that never broke on others, including my POS T/A and Turbo Capri. And she isn’t that hard on equipment.
If I hadn’t owned a Mercury Topaz that would blow seals out of brake calipers and shatter tie rod ends on contact with curbs, or my Grand Marquis that was another POS unworthy of so many electrons, the 85 Capri would be first.
To it’s credit, it was fast for the times. I had no problem running with the Z28’s and Monte Carlo SS’s of the day. But, I would much rather have the 1986 version back again. It was by far the better runner.
BoredOOMM
The roof is not simply patina. 1995 paint was an error for all models as the switch from solvent based to water based and clearcoat paint replaced baked enamel.
They also had the sprayers at the wrong height, allegedly. Most Fords lost the paint on the roofs, I have dealt with this on three cars. I don’t buy Fords any more.
My 95 Explorer’s roof is just now losing the clear coat, after 19 years of sitting outside exposed to the elements. Otherwise when its clean and waxed, it still shines up like a new car, save for all the rock chips in the front from 326,000 miles of traveling.
What kept it up for so long was just a simple wax job every year, just once a year kept it looking like new for so so long.
What failed first on the Explorer’s paint job was the black paint on the B-pillars and the D-pillars.
I see lots of newer cars here in N. Texas that have failed paint, and darker colored Hondas. It’s not a Ford thing, it’s a care and feeding thing of any car and brand.
KitaIkki
The center stack of the SN95 Mustang, with the square top (around the vents) and round bottom (around the shifter), looks like a men’s room urinal.
THIS is one that I let get away… I wanted working A/C so instead of fixing it on my 89 GT CONVERT, I traded it for a 10 year newer car with a/c… pffffffttt and 3+ years later I still and probably always regret not keeping it somehow. I can’t even tell you what we let it get away for.
Mr. Tactful
I’ll add my voice to the quiet chorus that prefers the ’87-93 cars.
My best buddy had a ’90 LX 5.0 notchback 5-speed, and every Friday night we’d cruise Memorial Drive in Tulsa. EVERY Friday. Although it was his car, he didn’t like to drive as much as me and I always ended up driving. Also drove it on a several hundred mile trip down to the Winding Stair mountains in SE Oklahoma, where I made my one and only mistake with the car while driving. Tried to pass someone going uphil on a damp road, got a little greedy with the downshifting, and the ass end got REALLY light on me. Whoops. No crash, just a little squirrelly.
Still think fondly of that car. About the only thing that wasn’t too great was the heavy-ass clutch.
Posted November 1, 2011 at 12:07 PM
Oh yeah, the rear ends of these cars could have a mind of their own. I “warmed up” my 1986 5.0L, but kept the stock wheels and tires. Once I had enough HP up front, it didn’t take much to burn the Gatorbacks down to nothing. Think about it. Heavy iron block up front, not much out back. The only thing the extra shock absorbers did was to keep the tires closer the ground, but it wouldn’t guarantee traction…
On my (automatic) car, the 1-2 shift was the worst, because it would still smoke the tires into second and that’s usually when you’re hoping for traction. I swung that tail wide a number of times trying to manage that transition. It was a tail happy little beast.
Of course, then there were the embarassing moments. I literally got stuck at a red light once. It was on a uphill grade, it had just started raining and the Gatorbacks were on their way out. No matter what I did, I just sat and spun. I had to reverse to the side of the road to find some traction, then I was OK.
Another time, my wife took my 5.0L to her job, while there an early November (wet heavy) snow had happened. She could not get the car to move from the spot, those big Gatorbacks just slid in the wet snow. She called me up from the house (we only lived a mile away) and told me to come bring her car and where to put my Oxblood Red toy. That was not a fun evening…
NMUSpidey
There is a guy out here in the middle of Nowhere, Japan who carts his very small kids around in a 4.6L GT from this generation before the millennial refresh. I’ve seen (well okay, HEARD) countless V-12 powered Italian cars since moving here (Nowhere, Japan is also a tourist destination), and the sound that gets my blood flowing? That GT’s V-8 rumble…
I’ve always preferred the Mustang to the Camaro/Firebird, even though that usually meant lower performance than the F-bodies, and if given a chance, I’d love any of the V-8 powered Mustangs from pretty much any year outside of the 1970s.
I have a 1996 GT is my daily driver. Down here in Alabama, the climate is friendlier to older cars I guess – having grown up further north, in the DC area, I’m always amazed when I’m underneath it and find what just looks like a dusty, few years old car under there instead of a rusty, grimy, scaly 15 year old car.
I like the horizontal tailights of the 94-95 models – they make the car look a little lower and longer, and a little meaner. The rear end can get a bit stubby with the wing on the decklid that most came with. Although, I like the later, upright taillights too – they remind me of big red rubies when I’m washing the car – nice and bright looking and you can add sequential turn signals to them for a little vintage flair.
One feature of the 94-98 body I really like is the coke bottle sculpting of the sides.
The New Edge reskinning in ’99 was a remarkable job. The car was given a whole new character while remaining essentially identical. More successful than the 2010 update of the S197 and a more dramatic change than the areo update of the Fox.
These were pretty good cars – they weren’t great at anyone thing, except perhaps projecting the Mustang image (which is probably the most important thing anyway) but they drove pretty well, were fast enough to get into trouble with, handled alright and were reliable, durable and usable enough that you don’t sacrifice too much to use one as your everyday car – probably why they bested the F-bodies in sales and why there’s tons of SN95s still plying the roads while 4th gen F-bodies have already all but disappeared, as well as all their other contemporary sporty coupe competitors.
ciddyguy
I remember seeing these for the first time shortly after they came out. I was working a temp job for Big 5 Sporting Goods at their Shoreline WA location when they moved from the old store to a new one on the premises.
The old Aurora Village shopping center, first built in 1962 or so was in the midst of being torn down in 1994 and one of the corporate fellas who’d flown in to help set up the new store had rented a white Mustang convertible and I recall it looking pretty neat at the time and noted how retro it seemed with the curved dash tops and the concave fronts of it as well.
As far as this body style goes, I think Ford needed to do a bit more with the general design, it looks a bit conservative for a Mustang and the design cues were just the merest hits of the car’s original looks and I think it doesn’t hold up nearly as well as it could’ve. Not a fan of the later chiseled versions but DO like the current 2005+ models but not as big a fan of the tapered rear end treatment of the 2010-2011 models as much as the more squared variants, which more closely resemble the original cars, albeit the original 64-66 models.
As for the bodies I’ve always liked best were the 67-68 bodies, the ’71 for it’s the best rendition of the bloated ‘stangs and do like the early Fox stangs, especially the hatchback versions best and the 2005 on myself.
A Foxy stang from the 80s was how I discovered the platform… it is amazing how distinctive the feel of a Fox chassis car is. Btw, as far as the 5.0 goes, Cobra heads FTW! 😀
Drew Wescott
I agree that the roof looks tacked on. I always thought that was a cheap move.
Out of all the Fox Mustangs, I prefer the Mercury Capri, as far as design goes. Looks a little Euro with those clean cut fender bulges, and I like the way the squarish front fascia rakes back horizontally at the headlights like my old 86 Thunderbird.
NoChryslers
Never liked this version. Too many cut-lines and a very awkward roofline.
While hard core drag racers love the 87-93, the general public went nuts for my 94. I got one of the first V6 models in December 1993. I got so much attention, perhaps too much. Had the galloping horse on front stolen and wheel covers. But, the V6 got better highway miles than my friend’s ’92 2.3L hatch.
Zackman
Our son bought a very nice greenish 1997 Mustang in 2000. It was a pretty fast car, even if it was a V6 auto. I was surprised at how light the doors were – as if they were hollow. I hope they had side beam impact protection inside, as I was concerned about that.
Unfortunately, his V6 apparently had a recall for a coolant leak issue that he never found out about. He traded the car 4 years later, concerned about the leak that had become manifest, and bought a very nice 2000 Eclipse GT he drove until last September.
Can’t believe that thing is already 20 years old. I had the Motor Trend magazine in which they explained “all” about that car when launched.
I loved this version of the Mustang. I’m glad Ford didn’t go the front-wheel drive route. Front-wheel drive is fine for some cars, like the Mini Cooper, or the old-school Honda Civic and today’s Honda Fit, but not a sports car, like the Ford Mustang. No way!
Michael Notigan
I’m thankful for CC and Mustang week, one enjoyable read after another about one of my all time favorite models.
I love the sharp edge styling of the refresh. Not to mention what the soul successor to SVO was doing with the Cobra: Independent rear suspension, 4 valve cylinder heads and later, a belt driven supercharger. For all the hype of the later Shelby GT’s and 500’s, they never got around to making the rear end independently sprung. John Colleti and SVT did, with this model Cobra.
John Coletti and before him, Michael Kranefuss were true car guys who contributed mightily to elevating the later Mustangs from just a big motor car to a car that had potential in the twisties. John’s crowning achievement was his last project: the Ford GT.
just plain joe
I have owned two Mustangs of this era, in addition to earlier Fox bodies and the 2011 that I have now. One was a 1995 V6/5 speed that we bought to replace our beloved ’88 GT convertible. The ’88 was to the point where it needed some expensive repairs and, in a moment of weakness, we traded it in on the ’95. We regretted this move within a couple of weeks; the ’95 was okay to drive with the manual transmisison but we missed having a convertible (and the V8). After a couple of years we found a used 1996 GT convertible at a local Ford store and traded in the ’95. The ’96 had been a “program car”, dealer speak for “former rental car”; this one had definitely been rode hard and put away wet. The transmission had to be replaced (under warranty) within the first year of our ownership and we decided that we would not keep this one after the warranty expired. If I remember correctly this Mustang got traded in for an Explorer, which became my wife’s daily driver.
AGuyinVancouver
I remember reading when this generation came out that Ford stylists had given names to the various prototypes, ranging from the smoothest, Bruce Jenner (upper in your photo) to Rambo (lower). The in between Arnold Schwarzennegger won the day. Luckily the car has aged better than all three namesakes.
Article: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1994-1995-1996-1997-1998-ford-mustang1.htm
I had an ’84 Mustang GT and after that an ’89 Probe GT Turbo. The Probe was a better car by just about every measure, but it wasn’t as much fun to drive. I’d still take it every time over the Mustang though.
dominic1955
My sister had one of this era Mustangs, but it was a convertible. Even with the V6 (rather than the 5.0 or later V8) paired to an automatic, it had some zip and she never had any major problems with it. It was a fun car to drive, the times I got it in the winter when I was in the area and she didn’t like to drive it but would rather have my 4×4. I also drove it a few times in the summer with the top down, and that’s where it excelled. About this same time we had a Mitsubishi Eclipse turbo floating around in the family. It seemed a lot faster, and was certainly more fun if you like a stick but it just didn’t have the same American cultural cachet of a Pony car.
Being a cruiser type of car enthusiast rather than a need for speed type, it fit the bill.
Johannes Dutch
So far the Mustang 4th gen was the last model that was officially imported here. Hessing De Bilt was the US Ford-Mercury-Lincoln importer. A few other cars the company imported in the nineties: the Ford Explorer and Thunderbird, the Mercury Grand Marquis and the Lincoln Continental. I remember the reviews and tests in the magazines and books from that era. These cars were relatively low-priced back then given their size, luxury and engines.
The Mustangs of the 5th gen are all grey imports, like the Shelby GT500 below (Photo: Pedal to the Metal Joure). Yet I see them more than their predecessors in the eighties and nineties.
I’ve read that the 2015 Mustang will make an official comeback, probably with a 4 cylinder turbo engine.
A friend bought one of these – the convertible – when it came out. I was quite jealous.
While I could find versions of the Mustang II and the Fox that I liked, this was the car that said to me “Mustang is Back!” And, I’ve felt that way ever since. And, I like what I see for 2015, so I’m a happy guy. Maybe someday I’ll own one.
Ugh, The Probe. That name always conjured up in my mind a medical tool for proctologists. A space age looking annoyance in Ford’s line-up. Good riddance.
mFred
The first gen Mustang got something right that more recent generations have not: it was a charismatic, unthreatening looking car that could look totally badass with very few factory mods. This gave it appeal to almost everyone, from the demure secretary to the James Dean wannabe. Even the Mustang II and the early Fox based ‘stangs got this more or less right. But from ’94 on, the styling has overemphasized the bad boy vibe, sacrificing general appeal in order to reach the mulletted set. Sales have reflected this—they’re now about one-ninth what they were in 1966. Is a broad-audience approach to car design no longer possible?
I believe it stems more from a decline in the overall market for coupes than anything else. Between an aging population and child-restraint laws that require children to either be in child seats or boosters, there is simply less willingness to put up with the limitations of a coupe.
I have two pre-school children. Getting them buckled into their child seats is hard enough in a four-door sedan.
I’d go with that. Our ’89 T-Bird succumbed to parent hood thanks to child safety seats. I think my folks let us go free range in the backseat of their ’62 two-door Falcon Futura.
tomcatt630
Insurance companies charge more for 2 doors, due to past history of acciedents, unfortunately. So, some buyers rule them out once they check rates.
Anyway, I had a 1994 Mustang in its first year, and got lots of attention, as if it as 1964 again. “Wow, is that a new Stang!?” It had first year bugs, but was fun, for awhile.
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Posted April 17, 2014 at 12:36 PM
I’ve not seen this proposal before. I wonder if it was an idea for a RWD Mustang or a Probe. A search on the internet for it said it was part of the FWD Mustang study but what does that guy know he called it a horror lol.
Looks like it could be RWD. Not very “Mustang” but a pretty car with a nice low belt line and small headlamps. Fresh enough to be a 2014 which you can’t say about the other proposals. Could have come from Audi.
My problem with the ’94, as nice as it was, was that I was just sick of the Fox look by that time.
XR7Matt
I believe that was the “Bruce Jenner” styling proposal, I presume it’s Fox based. Pretty neat, I never saw it past the renderings.
Looks like a Dodge Stealth!
I was always a Fox body fanatic, I have written before how not buying a 93 LX 5.0 was my biggest automotive regret back then. The father of a good friend had purchased a 94 GT convertible with automatic brand new in 94, and let us take it for a test drive. I was completely underwelmed. It felt like a dog compared to the 93 I had test driven a year prior. I am sure the auto and the convertible weight was partially to blame, but still not very impressive. But I do see the appeal of this body style, in the right color with the right wheels it looks very sharp. And nowadays making it faster is pretty simple.
There recently was a purple one parked at a house I drive by very often, hardtop GT, from the OEM wheels I would guess it was a 96 or 97. Something about that color and the stance (it was stock, sitting a bit high but it looked better that way IMO) just struck me. I have kept an eye on it, hoping I’d see a For Sale sign on it someday. But the other day I noticed it was gone, no sign ever appeared. I hope he just put it in the garage or something. I never see purple ones for sale.
The thing I never cared for on this era Mustang was the horrifcally cheap and tacky interior plastics used.
Good looking cars, but the interior always left me cold.
Granted the 3rd and 4th gen F-bodies weren’t much better.
Doug F
Still have the laser red GT bought new back in March 1994. All original except for the battery and tires. Just turned 39,000 miles.
I just can NOT warm up to these at all. In general, all ’90s jellybean shapes look like bland crap to my eye. That said, after the ’98 refresh these definitely looked better. Or at least less bad. The addition of some blackout trim, and some hard edges made it look less flabby and more masculine. I think the biggest eyesore on the ’94-’97 models was the godforsaken wheels. Every last choice was total garbage. They all were soft shapes, most all were painted silver so every last one looked like a set of wheelcovers from walmart. The Fox body’s tri spokes were at least machined finish with a high tech look. The turbine wheels used from ’87-90 ish were the absolute BEST looking wheels used on a mustang from ’79 up til the Bullits and the updated Magnums on the Mach 1’s that were out ’02-’04 ish. Yes, Im a total wheel snob/whore. The wrong wheels can make a good looking car look like total shit, yet the right wheels can make a mediocre or even ugly looking car suddenly look appealing….or at least MORE appealing.
I thought the all the SVT wheels looked pretty good, the 96/7 ones looked better than the 94/5 ones though, instead of silver accents they were dark grey.
mopar4wd
One of my neighbors has a 1996 mystic chrome one (1 of 2000 apparently) It’s his show car and I only see him driving it once in a while, he and his wife both have V8 manual GM cars for daily drivers so it’s all relative I suppose.
dman63
I’ve driven a few of these and I want one – preferably with the V8 and a stick. They’re fun to drive and they make me smile. What more do you want?
FloridaHank
In 2001 my friend bought a light teal ’95 GT convertible (with an automatic) at a dealership in West Virginia. It had been traded on a new Ford by an older woman, and had 23,000 miles on it. Knowing my friend tired of his cars quickly, I waited. I live in Florida, and have now owned that car for twelve years and have added another 45,000 miles. The only additions have been a set of Cobra rims and a recent top .
I like this car and will have it until I die. Then I’ll take it with me.
I remember when the Ford Probe first hit showrooms. I read a magazine article about it. It started with someone asking what it was. The dealer worker replied that it was “the New Mustang”. I remember being pissed. I was like “I hope they didn’t replace the Mustang with this ugly thing.” I thought the Probe was the ugliest thing Ford produced since the Pinto. As the article continued, the same guy says “that’s not a Mustang!”, like I didn’t know it wasn’t the new Mustang?
I love my sn95 heavily modified .most work done on my garage…I l love muscle car & morpar enthusiast..
Jose Delgadillo
Hey Alex, that’s a good looking Mustang. The huge wheel wells on these cars cry out for some twenty inch wheels with wide tires to fill them up. Or, you have to lower them a bit and go with 18’s or something. These cars looked pretty sad with the little 15” wheels that came on the V6 models. When new, I thought that these were a let down, where was the Mustang look? The final Foxes didn’t look anything like the first gen cars but had developed a “tough” look of their own. Back when these came out I was driving my Northstar Cadillac STS and these didn’t even warrant a look.Twenty years later when I was looking for a hobby car I began to appreciate the styling. They are actually very true to their Mustang roots. Short deck, longish hood, side scoops and a chrome horse up front. The high tail, wedge shape still looks contemporary. I find my ’96 4.6 model to be quite reliable and easy to work on and satisfying to drive, stock. Of course like all Mustangs the sky’s the limit when it comes to modifications.
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Sticking to an innovation-driven strategy, Northeast China"s Jilin province has made breakthroughs in manufacturing of rail transit equipment, commercial remote sensing satellites and precise instruments, in an effort to put itself among the top performers in China and in the world.
The province has also set up laboratories and innovation centers to nurture a group of companies in the fields of big data, cloud computing, pharmaceuticals, bio-medicine and modern agriculture to fuel growth and generate new economic engines.
Chang Guang Satellite, founded in 2014 in Changchun, the capital city of Jilin, independently developed the Jilin 1 satellite. Jilin 1 is the country"s first commercial high-definition remote-sensing satellite, and was launched into the space in October 2015.
On June 5, 2019, the Jilin 1 03A satellite was sent into space. The newly launched commercial satellite, with a ground resolution of more than 1.1 meters, sent back high-definition images by the next day, demonstrating a stable working status. Thirteen satellites in the Jilin 1 family are now in orbit.
"We have made three big leaps in satellite development technologies," said Jia Hongguang, deputy general manager of the company.
The resolution of the satellites has been improved from the first batch"s 0.72 m to the second batch"s 1 m and to the latest more than 1.1 m, Jia said. Meanwhile, the weight of the satellite continues to drop. The first batch weighed 420 kilograms each, the second batch was 208 kg each and the latest weighs only 40 kg, one of the lightest in the world with equivalent technical indicators.
Jilin 1 family satellites have been used for remote sensing more than 20,000 times by governments, research institutes, universities and industrial users since 2015, according to the Jilin government.
More importantly, the company has nurtured more than 100 suppliers, propping up the industries of optical manufacturing, precise processing, electronic information and new materials in Jilin, said Zhang Xiaoxu, director of equipment and industry office at Jilin Industry and Information Technology Department.
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When the launch happens, it will make Jilin the only province in China to develop a full chain of commercial satellites from the remote sensing satellites to the research, launch and operation of the small carrier rocket, Zhang said.
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Chris Hoy challenges unsuspecting London commuters to a track stand battle (video)
In the build up to the Revolution Series's Longest Lap race, Sir Chris Hoy challenges some London riders to track stand at traffic lights before sprinting away
Stuart Clarke November 12, 2015 11:37 am
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Sir Chris Hoy is certainly keeping himself busy in his retirement, but when he’s not watching over his range of bikes and cycling apparel or racing motorcars he can be found out on two wheels, challenging regular cyclists to track stand competitions.
Ahead of the third round of the Revolution Series in London on Saturday, Sir Chris took his bike and a covert camera crew to Brick Lane in east London, where he challenged some unsuspecting commuters to a Longest Lap-type race.
Regular viewers of the Revolution Series will be familiar with the concept of the Longest Lap, or Marymoor Crawl as it’s also known – riders must perform a track stand for several minutes, before sprinting round the track.
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It’s harder than it looks, as the poor London commuters found out, wobbling about on their bikes as Sir Chris – an expert from his cat and mouse sprinting battles on the track – remained pretty still at the red traffic lights.
Cheered on by passers by and his very own flashmob, Sir Chris proved his winning instinct is still in tact by smoking the commuters off the line.
Unfortunately for the six-time Olympic champion, video evidence shows that his wheel did cross the line at the lights, meaning he’s automatically disqualified. Sorry Chris.
The Longest Lap will be the final event of the afternoon session at the Lee Valley VeloPark on Saturday. For more information about who’s riding, including Geraint Thomas and Peter Kennaugh, and how to buy tickets, check out our preview here.
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DFS Group Opens the Fourth Annual Masterpieces of Time Exhibition, Showcasing 400 Timepieces by 32 of the World's Most Prestigious Watchmakers
DECEMBER 13, 2012 - Following the opening this past weekend of its highly-acclaimed annual exhibition, Masterpieces of Time, DFS Group (DFS) is now presenting the watch collectors and connoisseurs of Asia with its expertly curated selection of the world’s finest timepieces. Considered the most prestigious Haute Horlogerie gathering throughout Asia, Masterpieces of Time IV will remind all guests of an essential truth: A fine timepiece becomes a companion to our treasured events – marking the Pinnacle Moments of our journey through life. Highlighting this concept, DFS’ remarkable collection of 400 exquisite watches by 32 of the world’s preeminent watchmakers offers passage into the extraordinary world of watchmaker masterpieces — a journey which all DFS customers will have the opportunity to enjoy until February 28, 2013.
“Masterpieces of Time IV is an achievement that directly results from our over half century of expertise as the world’s leading luxury travel retailer, and we are extremely proud to be able to share this exceptional collection with all of our distinguished guests,” said Philippe Schaus, Chief Executive Officer of DFS Group.
“It is our honor, once again, to collaborate with DFS on this prestigious event, at Macao’s preeminent luxury destination,” said David Sylvester, Senior Vice President of Retail Development for Las Vegas Sands Corp. “We will continue to bring unique and exciting exhibitions like this to Macao, contributing to its development as a world center of tourism and leisure.”
On December 7, DFS previewed the exhibition before members of the media, offering them an in-depth introduction to the Masterpieces of Time IV collection through a forum, exhibition viewings, and an intimate dinner. The forum, led by Harold Brooks, DFS Group President of Merchandising, hosted guest speakers Carson Chan, Chang Wei and Eric Ku — all prominent watch collectors and connoisseurs — and Zhao Yinyin, the internationally-acclaimed classical pianist, in two sessions that considered Haute Horlogerie from two standpoints: collections and lifestyles. The panel also explored contemporary trends in watchmaking and collecting, ranging from the increasing prevalence of Chinese elements in luxury watches to the participants’ stories of Pinnacle Moments highlighted by fine timepieces in their own lives. Later, Benjamin Vuchot, DFS Group Region President, Asia North, led them through a tour of the grand new addition to the DFS Galleria Macao: The Luxury & Watchmaker Boutique Halls, which house one of the largest and most extensive collections of luxury watches in all of Asia.
Following the tour of the new boutique, guests witnessed the exhibition itself and its assortment of the rare timepieces that masterfully combine artistry with technical innovation and complexity. The distinctive complications of the Vacheron Constantin Perpetual Calendar, for example, enable it to keep time so flawlessly that it requires no correction until 2100. The Luminor 1950 Tourbillon GMT Ceramica by Officine Panerai — made of a complex combination of synthetic ceramic based zirconium powder and able to withstand extensive scratching, corrosive agents, and high temperatures — is a groundbreaking example of innovation in both design and use of materials, as is the H. Moser & Cie Moser Perpetual Golden Edition, which boasts a perpetual calendar thoroughly enhanced by solid gold components. Another stunning example of a new height in the art of watchmaking is the 051 Phoenix Tourbillon by Richard Mille. The result of a partnership between the brand and actress Michelle Yeoh, the watch is encapsulated with a highly complex placement of diamonds and sports a base-plate made of black onyx. Its face, which resembles a phoenix, pays homage to the actress’s Chinese heritage. Similarly, the IWC Portuguese Dragon Year Edition also testifies to the rich influence today of Chinese culture in the design of fine timepieces. Created in commemoration of the Year of the Dragon with a dragon engraving its rotor, it captures the dynamism and good fortune of this mythical creature of the Chinese zodiac.
Mr. Brooks said: “The collection for this year’s Masterpieces of Time represents some of the highest achievements in Haute Horlogerie complications, design and use of innovative materials and jewelry. We are very excited to welcome our guests from across Asia as they come to the DFS Galleria Macao to witness the magnificence of these exceptional timepieces.”
Even before arriving in Macao, however, customers everywhere can already have the opportunity to discover the inspiration for the collection by viewing the specially created Masterpieces of Time Pinnacle Moments film on Youtube or Youku. Shown for the first time to guests of the media program during a Gala Dinner on December 7, it is a moving series of micro film interviews with four individuals, each leaders in their own fields, as they explore the concept of Pinnacle Moments and the role they play in defining lives. Featured are 2012 London Olympics Men’s Individual Foil Champion Lei Sheng, China’s premier portrait photographer Xiao Quan; Guo Pei, China’s first and leading creator of Haute Couture; and world-class concert pianist Zhao Yinyin.
Closing the dynamic opening weekend, DFS Group hosted a final Gala Event on December 8 at The Venetian Macao. As they inspected the dazzling timepieces for the first time, guests had the chance to meet other connoisseurs, brand ambassadors, special guests and even some of the masters behind the timepieces themselves.
For the duration of its exposition, the Masterpieces of Time IV showcase will remain at the DFS Galleria Macao, the largest DFS Galleria in the world with the most extensive selection of luxury watches in Asia.
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Video: Senator Elisha Abbo caught on camera brutally assaulting a woman at a sex toy shop in Abuja
Elisha Abbo who is Nigeria’s youngest senator has been caught on camera assaulting a woman at a sex toy shop in Abuja.
According to Premium Times, the exchange which led to the assault incident occurred on May 11 after Mr Abbo, a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), walked into the shop at about 6 pm to purchase adult toys. It was learnt a lady he came with allegedly vomited multiple times, prompting the shop owner to remark that she should have vomited outside and not inside her shop, as she is not a child.
Senator Abbo who intervened accused the shop owner of poisoning the store’s air conditioner which she denied. According to the shop owner, if the air conditioner had been contaminated others in the shop would have also taken ill. This led to a heated argument and exchange of words.
The shop owner was later seen at some point in the video, calling her father to inform him about the situation after the senator told a police officer who walked in to arrest her. The senator later told the lady to end the call and tried to collect her phone. The shop owner’s friend who was also present intervened and asked the Senator and the armed officer to take it easy on the shop owner.
In the video obtained by Premium Times, Senator Abbo all of a sudden poured out his anger on the said friend. He slapped the lady repeatedly and asked the officer to take her away. The senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District who claimed that the shop owner insulted him and called him drunk, even though they were friends, assaulted the other lady while the armed mobile police officer looked on and also made an attempt to arrest the victim.
Premium Times reported that the incident occurred, nearly three months after Mr Abbo became a senator-elect and a month before he was sworn in on June 11. The assault incident was reported on May 14 at the Maitama Area Command Headquarters on Nile Street, and it was further learnt that the police told the victim to go look for Mr Abbo’s telephone number or they would not be able to do anything about it.
Watch the moment Senator Abbo slapped the woman repeatedly:
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Nirbhaya’s parents welcome encounter
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Published Dec 7, 2019, 1:43 am IST
Updated Dec 7, 2019, 1:43 am IST
Nirbhaya’s mother said that the court, the government, and the Delhi Police should see what example the Hyderabad police has set.
It may be recalled that in December 2012, Nirbhaya, a 23-year-old paramedic student, was gang raped in the national capital and later died due to her injuries. Her rapists, who were sentenced to death, are still awaiting their fate. (Representional Image)
New Delhi: Supporting the police encounter of the four accused in the Hyderabad gang rape and murder case in the early hours on Friday, the family of Nirbhaya said that the Telangana police has set an example and urged authorities not to punish the policemen responsible for the action.
It may be recalled that in December 2012, Nirbhaya, a 23-year-old paramedic student, was gang raped in the national capital and later died due to her injuries. Her rapists, who were sentenced to death, are still awaiting their fate.
“The police has done a great job and I demand that no action should be taken against the police personnel. Now I request the judiciary and the Central government to hang Nirbhaya’s accused as soon as possible and set an example before the society,” said Nirbhaya’s mother.
Justifying the encounter, Nirbhaya’s father said that had the police not acted promptly and shot the accused, they would have fled.
“The family of the Hyderabad doctor will not have to wait for seven years for justice like us. We can understand the pain of her parents. At least they got justice early,” he said.
“It is good that the police showed prompt response and acted, otherwise the accused would have fled and it would have been difficult to catch them. The escape would also have raised questions on the efficiency of the police,” he said.
Her father said that the family has been awaiting justice for seven years now.
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Nomura 24: Minimalist Japanese Home
by Alex Ion
Very often perceptions are typecast and along with it design also tends to fall in a certain comfort zone with everyone wanting the exact same thing. When it comes to the design of a home most of us tend to think about the squares and rectangles. But architect Antonino Cardillo has gone in a completely different direction by creating a home in Hyōgo, overlooking Ōsaka bay, Japan that takes the shape of an irregular polygon. While we are not sure if it was space constraints that led to the design or just the zest to try out a new form factor, the end result seems pretty cool indeed.
The minimalist home, as the name suggests, still adheres to the idea of sleek and well-defined lines, but it does so in a unique fashion. The central hall of the home is a seven-sided polygon and the perfect use of white concrete, ambient shades, wooden flooring and glass windows that allow for plenty of natural ventilation, have made the home as aesthetic to look at as any other modern home.
The idea here is to try and incorporate traditional Japanese architecture and natural lighting principles along with modern minimalism to create a truly one-of-a-kind structure. And we can confidently say that Antonino Cardillo has succeeded at that.
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Chief, Section of Neurosurgery
Dr. Joseph Shehadi was the first, elected Chief of Section of Neurosurgery at Grant Medical Center. He served a two year term, then he served at Vice Chair for two year, but most recently he has been reelected to Chair of Section of Neurosurgery
Prism Award Nomination
Prism Awards are OhioHealth’s most prestigious event. The Prism Awards recognize the many extraordinary and inspirational ways Ohio Health physicians model the behaviors connected to Ohio Health’s core values of compassion, excellence, integrity and stewardship. Dr. Shehadi was nominated for a Prism award for Stewardship.
Power of One Award
Power of One is a program in which patients can nominate a physician for exemplarily service. Dr. Shehadi has received several of these awards over the years.
Call Neurosurgery Associates today at 614.220.5648 to get started.
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Axis #4-6 – Inversion Review
"Trading Places"
By: Jim Bush | Comic Reviews | December 5, 2014
With the release of Avengers & X-Men Axis #6, the second act of the miniseries has been concluded. So as with the first three issues – called “Book One: The Red Supremacy” – I am going to collectively review Axis #4-6. The second group of the miniseries is called “Book Two: Inversion” and while the first three issues had a great deal of tension, the second act was a lot less effective. I thought the plot and pacing of “The Red Supremacy” was pretty well handled and though much of the characterization felt strained in order to facilitate the plot, I thought the issues were solid overall. The second arc of Axis in some ways explains the seemingly out-of-character moments from the end of “The Red Supremacy” and while it’s good to know that those moments were intentional, the twist in “Book Two: Inversion” isn’t really developed in a new or surprising way. At the end of Axis #3, the Avengers and X-Men, who had just worked together to defeat Red Onslaught on the island Genosha, have a heated exchange about what to do with the Red Skull’s body, something that might contain the dead Charles Xavier’s consciousness. Captain Falcon-America and Havok in particular come across looking like class-A jerks. “Book Two: Inversion” of Axis explains why: when the Scarlet Witch (aided by Dr. Doom) cast an “inversion” spell on Red Onslaught, all of the heroes and villains on the island were affected, undergoing a personality “switch” from the spell. What this practically means is that all the heroes have gone bad and all of the villains have gone good. The one person seemingly unaffected is that greyest of ethically grey guys – Magneto. This obviously explains why the characters seemed to be acting abnormal at the end of Axis #3. However, while the switch is a fun concept by writer Rick Remender, it doesn’t really work with the heroes. I think the problem is that Marvel’s hero characters have been dragged through the mud consistently by writers since Civil War, so it’s not at all novel to see “heroes” acting dastardly. For instance, Jonathan Hickman’s current Avengers/New Avengers storylines involve a group of heroes called the Illuminati doing morally-questionable things hidden from view while other heroes plot to stop them. The flip side is more interesting because it is relatively uncommon to see villains acting heroic. It’s not entirely unprecedented for villains to switch sides. For instance, two of the villains affected here, Mystique and Sabretooth, have been on the regular X-Men team in the past decade. Still, it’s fun seeing Carnage and Dr. Doom acting selflessly. In Axis #4-6, you only get glimpses of this. I suppose those stories are playing out more fully in the related tie-in issues like Axis: Carnage. There are some good elements in Axis #4-6, such as the presence of wisecracking Spider-Man. I must say it’s nice to have Peter Parker back and Remender does a good job of giving him some funny “gallow’s humor” type of lines in these issues. At the end of Axis #6, an aged Steve Rogers has assembled the inverted villains together as an “Avengers” team to battle the evil heroes. While I think this team could make Book Three of Axis (called “New World Disorder”) more fun than Book Two, having villains as a superhero team sort of feels like a recycled concept as well (e.g. Thunderbolts, Dark Avengers). There are also some choices in Axis #4-6 that I actively disliked, such as having an inverted Hulk turn into a “Hulk’s Hulk” called KLUH (Get it?!? It’s Hulk spelled backwards! OMG!). I think “Hulk’s Hulk” is a stupid concept and KLUH is an even worse name. Plus, the character design looks ugly and similar to how Marvel changed some of their monster-characters when they were affected during the miniseries Fear Itself. On a positive side, the art on Axis #4-6 is improved in my opinion from issues #1-3. Axis #5 and 6 are drawn by Terry Dodson (with inks from his wife Rachel) and these issues are very nice looking. Issue #4 was drawn by Leinil Francis Yu, who had also drawn issue #3. I think Yu’s work on Axis has actually been better than much of his earlier work. I preferred his art on Axis #4 because the characters weren’t stuck on the perpetually dark and rainy Genosha. Like with a many films, the middle act on Axis sagged in momentum. The inversion gimmick has a fun-enough element (and is the impetus for the new Superior Iron Man series), but doesn’t really feel fresh applied to the heroes. Hopefully, the “New World Disorder” highlights the temporarily-reformed villains and has a clever and original way to reset the world, so that Axis goes out on a strong note.
Villains acting like heroes (especially Carnage and Dr. Doom)
The art is better, mainly due to Terry and Rachel Dodson's issues
Spider-Man has some funny lines and is a nice contrast to the angst
Heroes acting like villians
The story doesn't really go anywhere and feels familiar
Kluh, the backwards Hulk
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Lewis Hamilton apologises to Albon after rare error
By afp - 18 November 2019
Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton after finishing in third place before a penalty resulted in him being demoted to seventh
Image: REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
Six-times world champion Lewis Hamilton apologised to Alexander Albon on Sunday for a collision that cost the Red Bull rookie a first Formula One podium.
The Mercedes driver, who clinched his latest title in Texas two weeks ago and had nothing at stake in the race at Interlagos, was handed a five second penalty for the penultimate lap incident.
“I fully accept the responsibility. I fully accept I was coming from behind so I’m the one that touched him, not the other way round,” said the 34-year-old Briton.
“I massively apologise to Albon. I went for a move... the gap was kind of there, but obviously it closed right at the end and completely my fault.
“It’s probably the first time I’ve come together with someone for a long, long time... I went straight to him after the race to apologise.”
Hamilton was demoted to seventh, his 32nd consecutive finish in the points and one short of his own record, while Albon ended up 14th.
“His time will come,” said Red Bull team boss Christian Horner.
Albon said Hamilton, on fresher tyres, would probably have got past anyway further down the road but third would have been his.
“It wasn’t meant to be, next race,” he said.
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The race was won by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, the 22-year-old Dutch driver’s third victory of the season and first from pole, with French 23-year-old Pierre Gasly the runner-up for Toro Rosso. Albon, also 23, had been second when the collision occurred.
“I think it was a great race and it’s great again to see the youngsters coming and driving so well,” said Hamilton.
“I’m battling as hard as I can to stay in the mix.”
Hamilton has still won 10 of the season’s 20 races so far but he recognised that Red Bull and their Honda engine partners were too quick.
“Max did a fantastic job today.
"They (Red Bull) just outclassed us in terms of overall performance. We couldn’t keep up with them on the straights,” said the Briton.
“Honestly, I raced my heart out. I gave it everything. I left nothing on the table and I took a lot of risks today, as you saw.
“We threw everything and the sink at it. Honestly, we could keep up with them in the corners but they were outshining us on the straights, therefore I don’t think there was anything we could do.”
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Uptown & Andersonville
Salvation Army Food Truck Back on the Street After Dustup with Alderman
By Adeshina Emmanuel | March 4, 2013 2:54pm
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UPTOWN — A Salvation Army food truck returned to its usual spot near the lakefront Monday, the mobile outreach unit's first visit to Uptown since this past weekend's controversy over whether it should continue to serve the neighborhood's needy.
The food truck, which the organization has sent to Uptown since 2009, was the subject of a dispute between Ald. James Cappleman (46th) and Salvation Army officials, who said Cappleman asked that the charity stop giving people free food at the corner of West Wilson and North Clarendon avenues.
Cappleman released a statement Sunday acknowledging he was at a contentious meeting with the group, but said his goal was to work with the organization in helping the homeless.
"No one should ever have to be worried about where his or her next meal will be," he said in the statement.
John Welles, 68, who lives in low-income housing in Uptown, was one of more than two dozen people who sought food from the truck Monday. Welles, who said he has no living family and has been unemployed for 15 years, said a few free meals a week makes a big difference since his Social Security check is not always enough for him to both pay for rent and food.
"Oh, you better believe it helps! I'm living a hard, tough time. I'm 68, I can't get a job," he said as he ate a bowl of soup and bread.
Salvation Army Captain Nancy Powers said that in the unit's first year, 2009, it helped get as many as 600 people off of the street, and that it does the same for about 300 individuals every year. The food is just the organization's "calling card," to establish relationships with people they hope to help find long term solutions to circumstances in their lives, including drug abuse, mental illness and homelessness.
"The point is to establish a relationship. Today I take a bowl of soup to you, tomorrow [you] might go to detox," Powers said.
The Salvation Army's Director of Homeless Services, Christine Henry, said case workers "come out and bring to the streets the things that the homeless won't come out to get." Henry said it is an effective strategy, but that the organization serves a "different crowd" than it has in recent years.
"It's not so much the homeless getting food from my truck as it is the residents," she said.
About half of the largely middle-aged and elderly men who came for a meal Monday lingered and mingled with caseworkers after eating food. Others ate on the spot and walked away or immediately left with the food.
Cappleman, a former social worker and teacher, has said he is working on behalf of people like those eating out in the cold Monday— but his response to the Salvation Army controversy and promise of more advocacy won't stop a Wednesday evening protest planned outside his office.
"This food truck issue is the latest in a string of actions," said Rogers Park lawyer and activist Thomas Westgard, who plans to be at "The Feed the Hungry," protest March 6 at 5 p.m. along with others who echoed similar sentiments about Cappleman following his statement.
Westgard cited recent news of rent increases at the renovated Chateau Hotel that could price current residents out, Cappleman's efforts to close the Wilson Men's Hotel and his relationship with developers in Uptown who Westgard said want to limit the amount of affordable housing options.
"The most needy among us are being attacked just to help real estate developers make a little more money," he said.
Organizers said the protest started as scattered discussions among residents and activists Saturday night — but Uptown resident Stavroula Harissis decided to centralize those efforts by creating a Facebook page to help organize a united effort.
"As an Uptown resident who walks past Cappleman's office every day on my way to the Red Line, I feel compelled to let this man know how appalled I am," she posted on Facebook.
Asked about the status of the protest following Cappleman's response Sunday night, she said, "We're still going ahead with it."
More than 200 people had indicated they were going as of Monday morning.
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Here are 10 of Arizona's most photogenic spots. Some of them might surprise you
Arizona is filled with scenic locations. Some are obvious, like Sedona and Grand Canyon. Others are more surprising. Here are 10 worth photographing.
Here are 10 of Arizona's most photogenic spots. Some of them might surprise you Arizona is filled with scenic locations. Some are obvious, like Sedona and Grand Canyon. Others are more surprising. Here are 10 worth photographing. Check out this story on eveningsun.com: https://www.eveningsun.com/story/entertainment/2019/09/18/best-places-to-take-pictures-arizona-how-to-photograph-grand-canyon-sedona-monument-valley/2369891001/
Scott Craven, Arizona Republic Published 6:58 p.m. ET Sept. 18, 2019
The 10 best places in Arizona to take scenic photos
Perched on the edge of the South Rim, historic Kolb Studio pressents a different and dramatic way to photograph the Grand Canyon. Rob Schumacher/The Republic
Ellsworth and Emery Kolb embarked on a number of expeditions into the Grand Canyon to get dramatic shots from places no one had ever dared go before. Courtesy Grand Canyon National Park
Kolb Studio on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. Michael Schennum/The Republic
The Grand Canyon serves as a backdrop to Kolb Studio, a historic structure on the edge of the South Rim. Rob Schumacher/The Republic
Most people head straight to the center of the Horseshoe Bend overlook, capturing the same photo everyone has. Instead, head to the side for a different perspective. Scott Craven/The Republic
The sun sets over the Colorado River at Horseshoe Bend in the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area near Page. Michael Chow/The Republic
A viewing deck opened in 2018 provides a safe way to enjoy the view at Horseshoe Bend. Mark Henle, Mark Henle/The Republic
Sarah Nadeau takes a selfie at Horseshoe Bend, April 11, 2018, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Page, Arizona. The overlook's popularity on social media has fueled visitation. Mark Henle, Mark Henle/The Republic
Visitors nap at Horseshoe Bend, April 11, 2018, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Page, Arizona. Mark Henle, Mark Henle/The Republic
The Three Sisters at Monument Valley. Steve Yozwiak/Special for The Republic
The Totem Pole at Monument Valley. Steve Yozwiak/Special for The Republic
This view of Highway 163 heading toward Monument Valley was featured in "Forrest Gump." Jake Bacon/AP
Monument Valley photographed in August of 1960 The Republic
Monument Valley: The Western landscape does not get more iconic than this. Name one other place that's equally associated with John Wayne and the Roadrunner. Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park straddles the Utah state line, but the visitor center, scenic drive and View Hotel are all in Arizona. Mark Henle/The Republic/azc
Explore Northern Arizona | Start with two nights at the View Hotel outside Monument Valley, which just added cabins. Regular rooms, which must be booked months in advance, start at $159 a night in the fall. Cabins start at $199 a night. Add the sunrise tour. Spend the next two nights in Flagstaff, with a day on the ropes at Flagstaff Extreme Adventure Course and beer from one of the several breweries in the evening. Finish in the lap of luxury: Enchantment Resort in Sedona. Rates start at $350 a night. Don’t miss a jeep tour and spa treatments there. | Details: monumentvalleyview.com, flagstaffarizona.org, enchanmentresort.com. — Scott Craven Rebecca S. Ortega
Spider Rock rises majestically from Canyon de Chelly, and is best seen from it namesake overlook that is easily reached by car. The Republic
Rising 800 feet above the canyon floor, Spider Rock is a defining formation of Canyon de Chelly. Roger Naylor
Those who hire guides can learn much of the history and culture of Canyon de Chelly. Courtesy Arizona Outback Adventures
Canyon de Chelly’s White House Ruins Trails is the only way visitors can access the inner canyon without a guide. Photo by Roger Naylor
It's not easy to reach, but Pinnacle Rock is worth the hike at Chiricahua National Monument. Roger Naylor
The Chiricahua Mountains are the most distinctive of the “sky islands” dotting southern Arizona. Roger Naylor
Willcox serves as the gateway to Chiricahua National Monument, a mountainous region known for dramatic rock formations. Roger Naylor/ Special for the Republic
Duck on a Rock is one of the distinctive formations on Heart of Rocks Loop at Chiricahua National Monument. Roger Naylor
April 18, 1924, the Chiricahua National Monument was established. Michael Schennum/The Republic
Massive columns, slender spires and impossibly balanced boulders are part of the landscape of Chiricahua National Monument. Bob Miller
Kayakers will find Emerald Cave tucked into a cove on the Colorado River in Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Layla Sheldon
Hoover Dam is among the most-visited sites at Lake Mead. Mark Henle/The Republic
The rock face around Lake Mead shows how much the water has receded. Mark Henle/The Republic
A boat cruises in Boulder Basin March 17, 2019, in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area near the Arizona/Nevada border. A high-water mark or “bathtub ring” is visible on the shoreline; Lake Mead is down 139 vertical feet. Mark Henle/The Republic
A pontoon boat cruises near Boulder Beach March 17, 2019, in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area near the Arizona/Nevada border. Mark Henle/The Republic
The Desert Princess, a three-level paddle-wheeler, leaves Las Vegas Boat Harbor & Lake Mead Marina March 18, 2019. Mark Henle/The Republic
Chapel of the Holy Cross appears as if a work of art against the red rocks of Sedona. Republic File Photo
Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona, seen here in 1957. Republic File Photo
The Little Horse Trail in Sedona brushes past the Chapel of the Holy Cross to end at Chicken Point. Roger Naylor/Special for the Republic
Sedona residents enjoy a 360-degree red rock view and an ideal climate for health and outdoor activities. twildlife, Getty Images/iStockphoto
Horizontal view of Cathedral Rock frederic prochasson, Getty Images/iStockphoto
The red rocks of Sedona attract visitors from all over the world. Mare Czinar/Special for The Republic
Hiking trails thread through Sedona, providing access to its natural beauty. Mare Czinar/Special for The Republic
Snow covers the red rocks in Sedona Feb. 18, 2019. Michael Chow/The Republic
Jerome Grand Hotel: Jerome Grand Hotel, formerly a hospital for this historic town's miners, is believed to be one of the most haunted places in Arizona, and ghost tours are offered for guests. Photo: Mark W. Lipczynski/The Republic
The Asylum, a longtime favorite restaurant for tourists, is located in the Jerome Grand Hotel, which was built in 1926 as a hospital. Republic File Photo
The Jerome Grand Hotel was built in 1926 as United Verde Hospital, when Jerome was still a mining mecca. The hospital was closed in 1950 and remained shuttered until 1994, when it was purchased and renovated as a hotel that opened two years later. Today, the Jerome Grand is the tallest public building in the Verde Valley, Roger Naylor/Special for The Republic
Head to the bar in the Asylum Restaurant to enjoy spirits of the alcoholic kind. Handout, Asylum Restaurant
The Jerome Grand Hotel looks positively chilling at night. Ron Chilston
The London Bridge spans a manmade channel in Lake Havasu City. Richard Maschmeyer, Getty Images/Robert Harding World Imagery
There have been reports of a couple dressed in old-fashioned English clothing strolling across London Bridge and then vanishing as quickly as they appeared. The Republic
Should you find yourself on the London Bridge on a quiet night, keep an eye out for a ghostly couple enjoying the fresh air. The Republic
London Bridge construction in Lake Havasu City 1971. Republic File Photo
England's London Bridge in Lake Havasu City in 1972. Transplanted here in 1971, it crosses an arm of Lake Havasu, which is fed by the Colorado River. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
London Bridge (right) and the English Village Shoppes (left) in Lake Havasu City. Mark Henle/The Republic
U.S. and British flags line the London Bridge at Lake Havasu City. David Wallace/The Republic
Lake Havasu celebrates its famous landmark during the London Bridge Days each fall. Mark Henle/The Republic
Arizona's natural splendor is well known to anyone with a camera and an eye for beauty. In other words, most people.
While the magnificence of the Grand Canyon and the grandeur of Sedona capture more than their share of attention, many other sites show off the best of what Arizona has to offer.
Some are far off the beaten trail, requiring an effort rarely seen outside family cross-country road trips. Others are overlooked locations that tend to blend into the background until you look at them in a different light.
Here are some of Arizona's most photogenic spots, from the famous to the less known, and where to shoot to show off their best sides.
THE OBVIOUS
The full majesty of the canyon is almost impossible to capture on film, but a shot of Kolb Studio, a cabin perched on the edge of the South Rim, offers a perspective many photos lack.
The spot: Head to the west side of the studio and walk up the slope. At some point you’ll see how the canyon serves as a backdrop, the cliffs of the North Rim slightly higher than the roofline.
Best time: Sunset illuminates the studio while painting the canyon walls with a warm glow. At the very least, wait until late afternoon with the sun lingering to the west, ensuring the studio is brightly lit.
While you're there: Stroll the easy South Rim Trail, camera in hand; take the shuttle to the Yavapai Geology Museum, right on the rim with a stunning vista through its picture windows; enjoy beer, wine or a cocktail in the casually elegant bar inside El Tovar lodge.
Details: www.nps.gov/grca.
The hike to this improbably curvy stretch of the Colorado River has become an international favorite thanks to the hundreds of thousands of photos of it on social media.
The spot: After you hike over the hill between the parking lot and the rim — it's three-quarters of a mile along a sunny, sandy trail — veer right. Most people center the bend in their photos, which is fine. But for a different angle, stand above the point at which the river starts to bend. To your left is a slightly higher promontory jutting farther into the canyon. Position someone near the ledge (not too close — safety above all) and get a shot of a solitary figure looking toward the horizon. Your human subject adds a striking perspective to the landscape.
Best time: As with most scenic photography, the best light comes in low at the start or end of the day. But if you can't be there during sunrise or sunset, the best time is when you're there.
While you're there: Peer over the ledge safely from the viewing deck; take a tour of the nearby Glen Canyon Dam, where you'll see the large generators as well as a view of the dam from the bottom; have dinner at the Rainbow Room at Wawheap Marina on the shore of Lake Powell.
Details: www.nps.gov/glca.
John Ford Point was a favorite shooting location for the Hollywood director. Roger Naylor
Straddling the Arizona-Utah state line, Monument Valley is the centerpiece landscape of the Navajo Reservation. Roger Naylor
The Lee Cly Trail was dedicated in the summer of 2016 and makes a 2.1-mile loop across rolling sandy hills with excellent views. Roger Naylor
Goulding’s Lodge sits just outside the tribal park and offers rooms, cabins, a campground, restaurant, grocery store and museum. Roger Naylor
The View Hotel and the valley floor are visible from the Mesa Rim Trail. Roger Naylor
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park shelters over 91,000 acres and is still home to dozens of Navajo families. Roger Naylor
The formations of Monument Valley have come to define the American West for generations of moviegoers. Roger Naylor
Clouds and cloud shadows and big sky become part of the landscape at Monument Valley. Roger Naylor
The Wildcat Trail loops around West Mitten and offers beautiful views of Merrick Butte and East Mitten. Roger Naylor
The only public access to the interior of Monument Valley tribal park is a 17-mile dirt road that loops through its stony heart. Roger Naylor
The campground at the View Hotel offers impressive Monument Valley panoramas. Roger Naylor
For truly iconic Old West images, there's only one place to go: Monument Valley on the Arizona-Utah border. Fans of Western movies will instantly recognize the rock formations, but anyone can see why this setting on the Navajo reservation has moved artists for generations. Rebecca S. Ortega
MONUMENT VALLEY: At Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park at the North Window, the road leads to a magical place where rocky monoliths burst from the desert floor. Mark Henle/The Republic
Monument Valley 1999. Mark Henle/The Republic
Highway 163 snakes through Monument Valley on the Navajo Reservation. Highway 163 snakes through Monument Valley on the Navajo Reservation. Jake Bacon/AP
Nearly 200 miles separate Navajo Mountain from Monticello in San Juan County, Utah. The trip requires drivers to first travel south into Arizona before traveling north to the county seat. In between the two destinations rests Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. Erin Vogel-Fox/News21
Sunrise in Monument Valley | Under the gift of cloudless skies, it starts with a hemisphere of purple emerging over the horizon. The light evolves from red to orange to yellow. The sun bubbles forth, its rays racing along the desert floor before colliding with vast columns of stone. The buttes and pillars glow red as if molten lava were frozen in time. But as the minutes pass and the Earth turns, that magical moment grows more mundane, with long shadows receding like the tide. Still, there is plenty of time to capture photos guaranteed to impress on social media. Your Twitter, Instagram and Facebook feeds will glow with warm comments, and the best shots can be your electronic wallpaper for years to come. Rebecca S. Ortega
The 1939 film ?Stagecoach? showed off the dazzling landscape of Monument Valley. United Artists Behind the scenes from the 1939 John Ford western STAGECOACH. Credit: United Artists. Handout, United Artists
It was a chilly night in Monument Valley for Daryl Horton of Scottsdale. Luckily, he says, he was staying at The View hotel and "could head right back into the room after every shot 'cause it was freezing!" See more of his photos at instagram.com/sometrail. Daryl Horton
Pottery Arch is so-named for obvious reasons, says Stacy Lankford of Scottsdale, who took this photograph at Monument Valley. See more of his photos at instagram.com/lankford. Stacy Lankford
There are no bad photos at Monument Valley, unless you accidentally touch the shutter button while putting the phone back in your pocket. Everyone shoots the iconic Two Mittens from the visitor center parking lot. It’s lovely, but typical. Your target is the Three Sisters.
The spot: You can see the Three Sisters from the 17-mile loop road ($20 per vehicle). Two immense spires flank a frail third that tilts precariously, the formation appearing as if a modernist sculpture on a grand scale. For a much better view, take one of the many private tours available at the visitor center. Rates start at $60. Hint: They're worth it.
Best time: Anyone who appreciates nature's magnificence must experience Monument Valley at sunrise. The buttes and columns glow seemingly from inside, throwing shadows that crease the landscape in a complex geometry.
While you're there: If you don't take a tour, be sure to drive the scenic loop (it's unpaved but fine for most cars) and stop at each overlooks; dine at the aptly named View Restaurant, offering several Navajo-inspired dishes; head back to U.S. 163 and drive north to Forrest Gump Point (about 18 miles from the visitor center) for the movie's iconic image of a lonely road leading toward the graceful formations of Monument Valley.
Details: navajonationparks.org/monument-valley.
Havasupai Waterfalls
People from all over the world hike to the Havasupai falls in the Grand Canyon, tracing the turquoise water of Havasu Creek as it tumbles toward the Colorado River. The towering Havasu and Mooney falls captivate the imagination, but the lesser-known Navajo Falls is an idyllic destination. (Permits are required. They go on sale each Feb. 1 and disappear within hours.)
The spot: Navajo Falls (technically the "new" Navajo Falls, formed during a 2008 flood) is about a mile from Supai Village, halfway between the village and the campground. A narrow path veers off the main trail, taking visitors over a small rise, where a curtain of water tumbles roughly 30 feet along a ledge. Follow a path to the tumble of boulders overlooking the pools for a dramatic view of the falls' length.
Havasupai Falls: Spectacular photos from an Arizona natural wonder
A beam of sun penetrates the clouds at Navajo Falls. Courtesy Melissa Gable
The switchbacks at the start provide the steepest parts of the hike into Havasupai Falls. You may even encounter a dog belonging to trail-maintenance workers. Scott Craven/The Republic
Once past the switchbacks on the way to Havasupai Falls, the path levels out before dropping further into the canyon. Scott Craven/The Republic
Much of the trail to Havasupai Falls follow a desert wash. Scott Craven/The Republic
Rock shelves along the way to Havasupai Falls provide the perfect spot to take a load off for a few minutes. Scott Craven/The Republic
The trail from Hualapai Hilltop to Havasupai Falls features a very gradual descent as it heads deeper into the canyon. Scott Craven/The Republic
The canyon narrows the deeper you get, at times winding through rockfalls. Scott Craven/The Republic
On sunny days, overhangs provide welcome shade along the trail to Havasupaii Falls. Scott Craven/The Republic
One past the village of Supai, the first of the waterfalls comes into view. This is Navajo Falls. Scott Craven/The Republic
Once at the Havasupai Falls campground, be sure to snag a picnic table to hold all your camping essentials. Scott Craven/The Republic
The compost toilets in the Havasupai Falls campground are a step up, so to speak, from a bucket or (shudder) shovel. Scott Craven/The Republic
Dogs are a familiar sight in the village and campground. This one bounced between generous campers each day, and while dirty, appeared to be in good shape. Scott Craven/The Republic
The trail to the foot of Mooney Falls requires a steep descent through a short tunnel. Scott Craven/The Republic
The view from the top of Mooney Falls, about a mile from the Havasupai campground. Hikers go through a tunnel carved into the rocks, then down a set of chains and ladders to reach the bottom. Scott Craven/The Republic
Looking over the edge of a cliff at Mooney Falls. Believe it or not, there is a way down. Scott Craven/The Republic
Hikers inch their way down ladders and chains, making their way to the foot of Mooney Falls. Scott Craven/The Republic
Mooney Falls beckons to those making their way down the trail. Scott Craven/The Republic
The early morning trail down to Mooney Falls can back up as hikers slowly descend a series of ladders and chains Scott Craven/The Republic
Parts of the three-mile trail from Mooney Falls to Beaver Falls cuts through lush vegetation at the bottom of the canyon. Scott Craven/The Republic
The trail to Beaver Falls crosses Havasu Creek at various points. Choose your path wisely. Scott Craven/The Republic
Hikers get a glimpse of Havasu Creek along the trail to Beaver Falls, four miles from the campground. Scott Craven/The Republic
At times the trail to Beaver Falls ascends canyon walls, above the clear waters of Havasu Creek. Scott Craven/The Republic
As you hike to Beaver Falls, you come across idyllic spot like this along Havasu Creek. Scott Craven/The Republic
Hikers follow the turquoise waters of Havasu Creek to reach Beaver Falls. Scott Craven/The Republic
One of the more unique crossings on the trail between Mooney and Beaver falls. Scott Craven/The Republic
Hikers will cross Havasu Creek a few times between Mooney and Beaver falls. Water shoes are definitely a plus. Scott Craven/The Republic
Take your time while hiking between Mooney and Beaver falls and enjoy the views of Havasu Creek. Scott Craven/The Republic
The constant rumble of Havasu Creek is never far away as hikers travel between the falls. Scott Craven/The Republic
At times the trail from Mooney to Beaver falls takes hikers along narrow ledges. Scott Craven/The Republic
Beaver Falls is well worth the four-mile hike from the campground. Scott Craven/The Republic
While not as steep or difficult as the descent to the base of Mooney Falls, the path to Beaver Falls is a bit tricky. Scott Craven/The Republic
Beaver Falls cascades down several levels, forming pools perfect for swimming. Scott Craven/The Republic
The trail from Supai to the campground offers this dramatic reveal of Havasu Falls. Scott Craven/The Republic
Though not as tall as Havasu or Mooney fall, Navajo Falls is usually less crowded, allowing for a serene wilderness moment. Scott Craven/The Republic
A spring feeds Havasu Creek, so the temperature is about 70 degrees year-round. Scott Craven/The Republic
Nature has sculpted flowing sandstone features the cliffs at Navajo Falls. Scott Craven/The Republic
No better time to check the phone when a stray cell signal is captured near Navajo Falls. Scott Craven/The Republic
Admiring the view of Havasu Falls, as seen from the trail into the campground. Scott Craven/The Republic
The trail from Supai offers a glimpse of waterfalls. Scott Craven/The Republic
On the way out of Havasupai Falls, the trail seems shorter as hikers know what to expect. Scott Craven/The Republic
After going up steep switchbacks, the end is in sight after the eight-mile hike out of Havasupai Falls. Scott Craven/The Republic
Yet another group poses, all smiles, on Hualapai Hilltop before the long hike to Havasupai Falls. Scott Craven/The Republic
Best time: The late afternoon sun backlights the falls from this vantage point. Normally the glare would wash out the photo, but in this case it puts a spotlight on the mist, crafting an ethereal look.
While you're there: Take a dip in one of Navajo Falls' swim-friendly pools; order a taco at the nearby frybread stand (hours vary); put down your phone, breathe deeply and revel in the moment because you are in one of the most beautiful spots on Earth.
Details: www.havasupaireservations.com.
This national monument's remote location in the northeast corner of Arizona does it no favors when it comes to tourism. Take the less-traveled road to this gem on the Navajo Reservation where the centerpiece is the towering column that is Spider Rock.
The spot: While getting to Canyon de Chelly isn't easy, a gorgeous view of Spider Rock is easily accessible once you’re there. Take the paved rim trail to Spider Rock Overlook. Below, the spire rises gracefully from the canyon floor. Behind it, the red and green spreads toward the horizon.
Best time: Anytime a patchwork of clouds is floating by. The shadows add lovely contrast, especially if Spider Rock is brightly lit against a darker canyon.
While you're there: Stop at Face Rock Overlook, another scenic spot; take a guided tour, the only way to explore the floor of the canyon, which remains home to many Navajos; spend a night in the Spider Rock Campground, not far from the canyon's rim.
Details: www.nps.gov/cach.
Chiricahua National Monument: born from a volcanic eruption
Elevation at Chiricahua National Monument ranges from 5,124-feet to 7,310-feet, making it a comfortable summer getaway. Bob Miller
The Chiricahua Mountains were called the Land of Standing-Up Rocks by the Apache warriors who took refuge there. Bob Miller
The Civilian Conservation Corps constructed virtually all the trails in Chiricahua National Monument. Roger Naylor/Special for the Republic
Forming an island of sculpted stone and forest in a sea of arid grasslands, Chiricahua National Monument shelters an exotic array of massive columns, slender spires and impossibly balanced boulders. Roger Naylor/Special for The Republic
Elevation at Chiricahua National Monument ranges from 5,124 feet at the entrance station to over 7,300 feet. Roger Naylor/Special for The Republic
A golden curtain falls over Chiricahua National Monument. Bob Miller
Tours of Faraway Ranch, a homestead from the 1880s in Chiricahua National Monument, are conducted Thursday-Sunday when staffing permits. Roger Naylor/Special for The Republic
A chorus of rhyolite columns on the trail to Heart of Rocks in the Chiricahua National Monument. Bob Miller
Punch and Judy are found on the Heart of Rocks Loop at Chiricahua National Monument. Roger Naylor/Special for the Republic
Chiricahua National Monument is a 12,000-acre park located in Cochise County, southeast of Willcox. Bob Miller
Duck on a Rock is one of the distinctive formations on Heart of Rocks Loop at Chiricahua National Monument. Roger Naylor/Special for the Republic
Chiricahua National Monument's Heart of Rocks Loop. Roger Naylor/Special for the Republic
Rhyolite rock formations are seen at the Chiricahua National Monument, southeast of Willcox in front of the Dos Cabezas Mountains on Thursday, November 12, 2009. David Wallace/The Republic
Rhyolite formations seen from the Ed Riggs trail at sunset at Chiricahua National Monument near Willcox, Ariz. on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. Michael Schennum/The Republic
Chiricahua National Monument
Amid the whimsical landscape created by the immense stone pillars of the Chiricahua Mountains, few formations capture the imagination like Pinnacle Rock. The immense boulder poised on the tip of its pedestal has no business remaining upright if gravity had any say.
The spot: Pinnacle Rock is unmistakable along the Heart of Rocks Trail, a somewhat strenuous 7.3-mile loop from the visitor center.
Best time: The formation's uniqueness stands out in any light. Sunset is nice, but hardly mandatory.
While you're there: Take a tour of Faraway Ranch, a former guest ranch dating back to 1917; do some birdwatching, as southeastern Arizona is along a popular migratory route; visit Willcox, a small town 35 minutes away and home to wine-tasting rooms and the Rex Allen Museum.
Details: www.nps.gov/chir.
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SURPRISING FINDS
A nondescript cove — more a nook than anything else — slips past unnoticed by those unaware of the treasure tucked at the back. Visit at the right time of day and Emerald Cave glows with a bright green hue, thanks to water-diffused sunlight reflecting off the shallow bottom.
The spot: Emerald Cave is reachable only by boat, so most visitors rent a kayak or pay for a tour out of Willow Beach, 2 ½ miles downstream. The cove is on the east side of the Colorado River. Enter it to see the cave near the back. It packs a scenic punch despite its smallish size.
Best time: Any clear day between noon and 3 p.m., when the afternoon sun typically lights up the cave.
While you're there: Rent a boat from Willow Beach Marina and explore Lake Mead; take a tour of Hoover Dam (30 minutes away); head into Las Vegas (an hour away).
Details: www.nps.gov/lake.
Chapel of the Holy Cross:The most compelling work of art in town doesn't hang in a gallery. It rises from the ground and merges elegantly with the surrounding towers of red rock. The Chapel of the Holy Cross was designed by sculptor Marguerite Brunswig Staude and completed in 1957. It perches 200 feet above the valley floor, thrusting upward between two burly pillars of rock. High cliffs of salmon hues form the backdrop. The interior is simple and unadorned. A few benches, some tapestries and flickering candles create a serene, meditative oasis, while soft sunlight streams through the floor-to-ceiling window. Come for the sweeping views, a little quiet contemplation, or both. | Details: 780 Chapel Road. 928-282-4069, www.chapeloftheholycross.com. (Photo: Republic File Photo)
This may be the most beautiful house of worship in Arizona. It's not just the structure, which is quite elegant. It's also the setting, built into Sedona's famous red rocks.
The spot: There are two angles worth capturing. For the first, approach from below where the narrow, A-shaped chapel appears as if a natural formation against the formidable stone wall behind it. The second is from behind and above, revealing how the chapel peers over Sedona like a guardian.
Best time: Between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., when the chapel and its parking lot is open to the public. Visitors who come by outside those hours often park along residential streets or on private property, clogging the roads and creating a nuisance for neighbors.
While you're there: Shop at Tlaquepaque Arts and Crafts Village, a Spanish-Mediterranean-influenced plaza; sip the signature Nut Brown Ale at Oak Creek Brewing Co.; stop by the Schnebly Hill Observation Site for some of the best views available without hiking. It's on Schnebly Hill Road a short distance past the end of the pavement.
Details: chapeloftheholycross.com.
Jerome Grand Hotel
Imagine a lonely road on a dark and stormy night, and suddenly your car gives out. A foreboding mansion lies ahead. OK, the Jerome Grand Hotel is not on a lonely road, and it boasts many warm, dry and well-appointed rooms. But perched on the side of Cleopatra Hill, the former hospital appears deliciously creepy.
The spot: You want to shoot from below. Head down the approaching road until you reach the point where the hotel looms. You'll know it when you see it.
Best time: Dusk. Sunlight provides an aura of normality. You're going more for implied dread.
While you're there: Spend the day exploring Jerome's shops and restaurants; have a cocktail at the hotel's Asylum bar; stay the night at the supposedly haunted Grand Hotel, where you might see the Head Nurse, a spirit reported by two visiting psychics.
Details: jeromegrandhotel.net.
Jerome, Arizona, January 20, 2016. Mark Henle/The Republic
Audrey Headframe Park (foreground), January 20, 2016, Jerome, Arizona. Mark Henle/The Republic
A portrait of Don Robertson, January 20, 2016, at his Gold King Mine and Ghost Town, Jerome, Arizona. Robertson, who founded the attraction some 30 years ago, died in late 2016. Mark Henle/The Republic
A dentist office, January 20, 2016, at Gold King Mine and Ghost Town, Jerome, Arizona. Mark Henle/The Republic
The Sullivan Apartments, January 20, 2016, Jerome, Arizona. Mark Henle/The Republic
Chris Altherr (right) and Shakir Crawford work the front desk, January 20, 2016, at the Grand Hotel, 200 Hill Street, Jerome, Arizona. Mark Henle/The Republic
The view from the lobby doors, January 20, 2016, of the Grand Hotel, 200 Hill Street, Jerome, Arizona. Mark Henle/The Republic
A young couple views a selfie on their phone, January 19, 2016, Jerome, Arizona. Mark Henle/The Republic
The Haunted Hamburger, January 19, 2016, 410 Clark Street, Jerome, Arizona. Mark Henle/The Republic
Main Street, Jerome, Arizona, January 19, 2016. Mark Henle/The Republic
The mineral room, January 20, 2016, in the Douglas Mansion, Jerome State Historic Park. Mark Henle/The Republic
Jerome, Arizona, January 20, 2016. Photographed through a window in the Douglas Mansion, Jerome State Historic Park. Mark Henle/The Republic
J.P. Lunazul (left) takes Jacquelyn Massie (center) and Nestor Trejo on a guided tour, January 20, 2016, of haunted Jerome, Arizona. Mark Henle/The Republic
The $2.5 million that city founder Robert McCulloch paid for the London Bridge in 1967 was a relative bargain compared to the cost of shipping it and then dredging a channel ($7 million). But it all turned out to be a wise investment, as the city still benefits from having the historic landmark.
The spot: Cross the bridge and head to its base, following the concrete path to the northern side. Once you're about 50 feet from the bridge, pan up until you see only water at the bottom of the frame. The bridge arcs gracefully across the channel, the facades of the English Village across the way visible under the first arch.
Best time: While the bridge shines any time of day, lights framing its upper ledge shimmer in the water as the intricate lamps stationed along the road lend an ethereal glow at dusk and after dark.
While you're there: Explore the 27 scaled-down replicas of famous lighthouses scattered around the shore; relax on the beach in the no-wake zone of Bridgewater Channel; enjoy a freshly brewed beer at one of Lake Havasu City's three brewpubs (Mudshark, Barley Bros. and College Street).
Details: www.golakehavasu.com.
Have any tips on relatively unknown, must-see destinations in Arizona? Reach the reporter at scott.craven@arizonarepublic.com or at 602-444-8773. Follow him on Twitter @Scott_Craven2.
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Russia remains suspended as reinstatement process put on hold
November 23, 2019, 9:10 am Updated: November 23, 2019, 9:48 am
World Athletics president Lord Coe welcomed the decision to keep Russia’s suspension in place (Mike Egerton/PA)
Russia’s reinstatement process has been suspended by the World Athletics Council following fresh anti-doping charges against senior officials.
The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) has been banned from competition since 2015 and the suspension will now continue indefinitely as the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) made its latest recommendations to the council.
On Thursday “several senior federation officials” from RusAF were charged with and provisionally suspended for tampering and complicity.
The AIU has charged the Russian Athletics Federation with obstructing an investigation and has provisionally suspended several senior federation officials for tampering and complicity following a 15-month investigation. Find out more ⬇️https://t.co/6YlhDEdAYx#AIUNews1/2 pic.twitter.com/ZwvyLAhfcw
— Athletics Integrity Unit (@aiu_athletics) November 21, 2019
In its findings, the AIU taskforce called for the immediate suspension of the reinstatement process until the latest charges had been answered.
World Athletics then confirmed on Friday evening that it had taken the step to halt Russia’s return to competition.
“There is an ongoing process and we have to respect that process,” taskforce chairman Rune Andersen said in the statement.
“There are charges laid by the AIU which we need to respect, and the AIU needs to receive feedback from RusAF by 12 December.
“When we have the answers from the AIU on what has been going on and what the process will be, then we will convene and look at the whole structure and we will come up with recommendations to the council.”
World Athletics president Lord Coe added: “It is really important that we continue with the process we began in November 2015. The recommendation that was given to us today, and unanimously accepted by the council, was in the spirit of that process.
“We will take this through to wherever we need to take it to protect the athletes and the sport.”
On Friday night the World Anti-Doping Agency confirmed its independent compliance review committee (CRC) had recommended the Russian national anti-doping agency be declared non-compliant.
WADA’s Compliance Review Committee recommends non-compliance for RUSADA: https://t.co/HQMsoXA4ya
— WADA (@wada_ama) November 22, 2019
The recommendation was sent after Russia failed to provide adequate explanations for inconsistencies in laboratory data which WADA obtained in January of this year.
The recommendation also contained suggested sanctions, which are confidential at this stage, to be considered by WADA’s executive committee when it gathers in Paris for an emergency session on December 9.
The recommended sanctions could include barring Russia from competing in and hosting international sports events. The Court of Arbitration for Sport will ultimately rule on the case if the WADA ExCo endorses the CRC recommendations.
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Kirklees Council
Kirklees Council's children's social workers vote yes to strike action
Walkout threat looms as department director Sarah Callaghan quits
Nick Lavigueur
Sarah Callaghan, Kirklees Council's Director of Childrens Services
Hundreds of children’s social workers have said ‘yes’ to strike action.
The crisis in Kirklees Council’s embattled children’s services department has escalated after Unison members voted to walk out.
The strike threat comes amid news that department’s chief officer Sarah Callaghan has quit.
Mrs Callaghan, who was appointed as director of children’s services last April, has left by “mutual consent” just six weeks on from a damning report by watchdog Ofsted, and only nine months into her tenure.
Unison launched its ballot for industrial action two weeks after the Ofsted report but denied it was capitalising on the turmoil.
Kirklees' children's services crisis deepens as union threatens strike action
Kirklees Unison chief Paul Holmes said they had been raising the same issues for years and members had agreed to ballot after a lack of improvement.
Unison member Paul Holmes
He said members wanted rapid action on issues including workloads, bad management, bullying, IT systems, travel, working environments and pay.
Now the threat of strike action is a reality after “big yes vote” by union members.
Some 79% of the 250 members have voted in favour of walking out.
Mr Holmes said any strike would have to be taken between January 23 and February 6.
He said it was likely staff would strike for at least one day but said he thought there was a thirst for longer action.
Unison: Staff have been complaining about Kirklees' children's services for TWO YEARS
“Members will probably want something bigger as we’ve been in dispute for four years,” he said.
“The Ofsted report really re-enforced what we said two-and-a-half-years-ago.
“It’s unfortunate this has happened now but that’s the way it is.”
Talks between the union and management are set to begin this week in a bid to avoid a full department walk-out.
But the departure of Mrs Callaghan leaves Unison with no one to talk to.
Council chiefs are also busy at the moment trying to set Kirklees’ budget for the next four years.
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Mrs Callaghan joined Kirklees last April from Warrington Borough Council, during a turbulent period for social services.
Within a few weeks of her taking the top role a self-imposed review of previous years found 22 cases of sub-standard care of vulnerable children.
Then on November 25 Ofsted rated children’s social care in Kirklees as “inadequate”.
Eleanor Brazil, Children’s Services Commissioner for Kirklees Council
The poor result triggered a Department for Education (DfE) intervention with troubleshooter Eleanor Brazil brought in to oversee a turnaround project.
Now a little over a month in to the review, Mrs Callaghan has opted to leave the council.
Clr Erin Hill, Cabinet member for family support and child protection, said Mrs Callaghan had left by “mutual consent” and had not been pushed out.
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“She made an absolutely fantastic contribution while she was here,” said Clr Hill.
“We’re grateful for all she’s done. She’s got on with resolving problems that weren’t of her making.”
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Orbital/Suborbital Program
Virgin Galactic plans to launch satellites from a Boeing 747 December 4, 2015 at 10:09 am
Virgin Galactic has unveiled a 747-400 commercial airliner, dubbed ‘Cosmic Girl,’ that will join the company’s LauncherOne satellite launch service.
SpaceX Grasshopper breaks reusable rocket altitude record at 700 meters (with video) October 14, 2013 at 3:56 pm
While NASA struggles to keep projects afloat amid a widespread government shutdown, SpaceX continues to push the boundaries of aerospace engineering. Last week, the company more than doubled the previous height record of its remarkable Grasshopper rocket system.
SpaceX lands first military contracts, a big step for private space flight December 7, 2012 at 4:11 pm
SpaceX has announced that it won two military contracts from the US Air Force, which happen to be the first military contracts the company has ever won. Even though the contracts are one-and-done jobs, if SpaceX performs them well, it could gain valuable funding and experience to help bolster its other, more ambitious goals in the future.
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MoMA Names New Architecture And Design Curator
By Shaunacy Ferro 1 minute Read
The Museum of Modern Art has appointed Martino Stierli as its new chief curator of architecture and design, the museum announced Thursday. Stierli, currently a professor teaching the history of modern architecture at the University of Zurich, will fill the vacancy left by Barry Bergdoll, who left the post last summer.
Stierli brings to the table a “solid grounding in the history of modern architecture and art, coupled with a keen interest in contemporary practice,” according to MoMA director Glenn Lowry.
“By continually expanding its comprehensive collection, the Department of Architecture and Design has been pivotal to the preservation of modernism for the future, and to making that heritage accessible to scholars and the broader public alike,” Stierli said in a press release. “I am excited to continue this tradition at MoMA and look forward to working with the Museum’s extraordinary team to contribute to shaping the current discourse on architecture and the city–locally, nationally, and globally.”
The museum ignited a firestorm over its decision to demolish the former Folk Art Museum.
In recent months, MoMA has proved especially adept at shaping architectural discourse in New York City–but not necessarily in a good way. The museum ignited a firestorm over its decision to demolish the former Folk Art Museum as part of an expansion plan.
Stierli will not be taking interviews on his new role until after he begins his tenure in March 2015, a MoMA spokesperson said, so we didn’t get a chance to ask him what he thinks they’ll do with the AFAM facade currently stuck in MoMA storage.
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Editor’s Corner—For Calix, transforming to a software-centric strategy is the way forward
Jun 12, 2017 10:48am
Calix is securing its future by laying out a sound platform for software transformation.
Calix may have started out as a broadband hardware access vendor, but it’s clear that the company’s morph into a software-based company reflects a desire to be part of its service provider customers' journey to transition their broadband networks from dumb pipes to virtualization pathways.
While the initial use of software-based elements like SDN and NFV had an eye toward simplifying business services delivery, new network designs such as Central Office Rearchitected as a Data Center (CORD) illustrates service providers want to virtualize their last mile networks.
Carl Russo, CEO and co-founder of Calix, said during a recent press and analyst event the company has positioned itself in the software domain to be agnostic to the underlying hardware.
“Calix was founded as a wireline access systems company but we’re now a communications software and services company,” Russo said.
At the heart of Calix’s approach is its AXOS (Access Extensible Operating System), a Linux-based network operating system and software platform for the access network. AXOS allows for software-defined access where all software functions move without relying on the underlying hardware and associated chipsets.
One example of this trend was the introduction of its AXOS Subscriber Management Module, which allows carriers to collapse aggregation routers and broadband network gateways in the network, with that functionality replaced with an AXOS software module. Municipal broadband provider Cedar Falls Utilities (CFU) is deploying it on a NG-PON2 platform, for example.
Multiple carrier benefits
Whether they go directly with Calix or another competitor like Adtran, which has also been touting its own software defined access (SDA) vision, service providers are starting to take advantage of these new approaches.
Two of the most notable shifts have happened at AT&T and CenturyLink, which are applying CORD to their last-mile networks.
CenturyLink is applying CORD initially to improve DSL service broadband service delivery times. It's part of a broader effort to migrate to a software-based network architecture. Already, CenturyLink has implemented SDN and NFV technology into 60% of its major points of presence (POPs) as of the end of 2016.
Additionally, CenturyLink is tying its G.fast deployments to an underlying software-based SDN platform that give it more flexibility in providing services. By leveraging Calix's last-mile gear and software, CenturyLink created an orchestration platform that would enable it to more rapidly provision G.fast services.
The telco also sees potential for software-based elements to be part NG-PON2 transition. For example, CenturyLink could use software-based elements to differentiate wireless backhaul services, while developing APIs to help a wireless operator virtualize functions like baseband units.
AT&T, alternatively, is eyeing CORD to improve GPON deployments. In August 2016, AT&T began a field trial that uses an open vOLT application that runs as part of the ON.Lab CORD platform.
For AT&T, the ability to use more virtualized functions in its GPON network is all about accelerating scale. The provider has set a goal to reach 12.5 million homes with FTTH services, with plans to reach 6 million of those homes by the end of this year.
AT&T and CenturyLink are not the only carriers that have embarked on an SDN architecture movement for their network.
Windstream, while not as far as ahead as AT&T and CenturyLink, is making progress on the SDN front. The service provider recently released its SDNow (Software Defined Network Orchestrated Waves) for wholesale content and service provider customers. Windstream has not announced software-based approaches for its last mile network yet, but it could leverage Calix’s AXOS to accelerate its VDSL2 service roll out via its Project Excel initiative.
A necessary change
Seeing all of the major service providers moving in a software-defined direction means that Calix's migration from being a company focused on hardware to a software and services company is a necessary change.
Now that Calix has laid out a sound platform for software transformation, the onus is on the company to educate its customers on how they can apply software-based elements like AXOS into their last-mile networks.
Focusing on software and services is not just relegated to Calix alone. Cisco, for one, has embarked on a similar path. The routing giant has consistently said that it has been transforming itself into a software and services company.
However, Cisco’s transition has not been without pain. It has prompted the vendor to conduct multiple layoffs while purchasing other software-centric companies like Viptela for SD-WAN to fill out its portfolio.
Regardless of the approaches vendors take to software, Calix’s movement is not only about being able to survive, but being part of its service providers' team to rapidly scale and differentiate. In order to maintain a relevant state in the last mile network Calix has had to rethink how its delivers products to customers via a more agile software construct.—Sean | @FierceTelecom
SDN network functions virtualization (NFV) software-defined networking DSL Calix Carl Russo AT&T CenturyLink
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The Thrilling Third Anniversary Roger Corman Sci-Fi Triple Feature!
First of all, my apologies for not posting sooner. Normally, I try not to let too much time elapse between my brilliant insights-- the goal is two weeks or less. When it comes up on the 10 day mark, I get antsy and start thumbing through my vast collection of B movies for something to write about. Here it is, almost a month since my last post, and I'm just now sitting down to the computer. Where did the time go?
Of course, you hear this refrain a lot, especially around this time of year. The difference between me and all those other people is that I have thought deeply about it and have come up with a theory. And no, it's not the standard "time flies when you're busy and/or having fun." I've found two separate phenomena, specific to the season, that combine to literally cause time to contract. (I'll wait a moment or two for that to sink in………..) I'm still calculating how much each contributes to the overall effect, but there is no doubt in my mind about the resultant time distortion.
When I'm not blogging, I'm hard at work
solving the mysteries of the universe.
First, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) of the universe vibrates (I prefer the word 'sings') in a kind of harmony that scientists are only beginning to understand (hey, don't take my word for it-- look it up). Crass retailers have disrupted this delicate universal harmony by introducing Christmas displays and music to their stores in mid-to-late October. The universe has a self-correcting mechanism that restores equilibrium and harmony -- and a holiday season that runs as it should from Thanksgiving through January 2nd -- by collapsing time in upon itself along the axis of the space-time continuum. The 24-hour day doesn't just seem shorter-- it is shorter. We don't notice because the time is subtracted when we're asleep.
Secondly, as everyone knows, the earth's orbit around the sun is not a perfect circle, but elliptical. At this time of year, when the earth comes to the hair pin curve in its elliptical orbit, the sun's mass grabs the earth as it rounds the curve and hurls it like a slingshot. As the earth speeds up, time also accelerates according to Einstein's Theory of Relativity and some other stuff that's too hard to explain (don't blame me, it's Science!). By itself, the effect is imperceptible to humans, but combined with the universal harmonics time contraction, it causes us to wonder every year around this time, "Can it really be so close to Thanksgiving already? Where does the time go? And where am I going to get a tofurkey for my fussy vegan aunt?"
So there you have it. Never mind that I have a scientifically-validated excuse for letting time get away from me. This blog and its followers deserve at least one post this month. And what better time to do it than on the 3rd anniversary of my first blog post? (Okay, so it's a couple of days late -- the anniversary was the 24th -- but we're going to overlook that particular bit of time distortion for now.)
To make up for lost time (and because it's appropriate for a third anniversary), I thought I'd feature three (count 'em!) of B movie maestro Roger Corman's early sci-fi hits. Just like my advanced brain, these modestly budgeted movies are packed full of strange and intriguing scientific concepts. Fortunately for those wishing to visit the outer reaches of weird science, they've been conveniently packaged by Shout! Factory into a two disc set (Roger Corman's Cult Classics / Sci-Fi Triple Feature), replete with such extras as "A Salute to Roger Corman" documentary, audio commentary by Tom Weaver and the Brunas brothers, and the extensive Roger Corman trailer collection.
Where to find it:
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Now Playing: Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Pros: Perhaps the iconic B sci-fi movie of the '50s (especially the title); Manages an atmosphere of dread in spite of the dubious premise
Cons: If you watch this with friends or family, make sure there's no food or liquid in your mouth the first time you see the crab monster
In brief: A group of scientists and Navy men travel by seaplane to a remote Pacific island to study the effects of of radiation from nearby H-bomb testing. A previous group from the same institute vanished without a trace on the same island, presumably lost at sea during a violent storm. A Navy officer (Ed Nelson) somberly tells the new expedition members, "When I came here to rescue your first group, I not only knew they were dead -- but that they were gone completely and forever, body and soul." Okay then!
We know something definitely is not right when a sailor accidentally falls into the water not far from shore, and his buddies haul his headless body back into the boat. Then, with all the expedition members watching, the seaplane takes off and promptly explodes. Trying to contact civilization from the island base's shortwave radio, Hank, the engineer/technician (Russell Johnson) discovers that he can pull in commercial broadcasts but can't seem to transmit. (Later, the radio is completely destroyed by a mysterious thing that smashes through a wall to get to it.)
One of the scientists makes the understatement of the century when he says, "Something in the air is wrong!" There doesn't seem to be any life left on the island except for seagulls and land crabs. The only thing the previous group left behind is chief scientist McClain's diary. In it he describes finding a bizarre specimen of worm, over 5 feet in length, with flesh that seems to allow solid objects to pass through it harmlessly (?!). And then there are the constant booming sounds and earthquakes that keep shaking the tiny island. Not far from the base, a huge 50 foot deep pit suddenly appears, apparently a result of the mystery blasts.
Attack's titles feature some wild art.
That night, biologist Martha Hunter (Pamela Duncan) is awakened by the disembodied voice of McClain. She follows it out into the night. Jim Carson the geologist (Richard H. Cutting) also hears the voice and joins her. He wonders how the Navy failed to find any survivors from the last expedition, since McClain is obviously still alive. Jim makes the mistake of trying to rappel down the pit in search of McClain when another quake hits. He falls. Soon, the other members of the expedition are hearing a similar disembodied, spectral voice in the night, but this time it's Jim's. They try to rescue him, but give up for lack of light and the danger of more quakes.
Against the unnerving backdrop of constant blasting and earthquakes, some deadly, mysterious force is picking off the scientists and the sailors one by one. The survivors soon learn that the island is literally disintegrating under their feet, and waiting to catch them when they run out of solid land is a new, radiation-enhanced species of land crab with the bizarre ability to absorb solid objects, including brain tissue, into its body.
Attack of the Crab Monsters is so chock-full of absurdities -- giant crabs with molecularly-disrupted bodies that allow solid matter to pass through or be absorbed, and with the mysterious ability to pulverize an entire island in the space of a few days -- that it's easy to dismiss it as one of the more ridiculous sci-fi Bs of the '50s. But Corman manages such a dark atmosphere of suspense and almost supernatural dread -- especially with the constant booming sounds in the distance and the disembodied voices in the night -- that you're tempted to put your rational faculties on hold and enjoy it anyway.
Corman (and screenwriter Charles Griffith) also add enough grisly elements to the suspenseful mix to keep viewers off-kilter and wondering what will happen next-- there's the sailor who loses his head just offshore, and then later a scientist loses his hand in an avalanche. Unfortunately, all the carefully built atmosphere is pretty much dissipated upon first viewing of the monster. The prop people decided to give the giant crab a couple of huge, very human-looking eyes with lids that look like plastic garbage bags being pulled by a string. I'm tempted to say that more shadows and less close-ups of the monster would have made for a better film, but then, the corny, cheesy effects are a big part of why we love these movies. Right?
"Once they were men, now they are land crabs!"
Key screenwriter: Charles B. Griffith wrote the scripts for Corman's more intriguing early sci-fi and horror. Born into a show business family -- his mother and grandmother starred in a popular radio show, Myrt and Marge -- Griffith was trying to sell TV scripts in California when he met and befriended actor Jonathan Haze. Haze was just getting started as a member of Corman's B movie "repertory" company, and as a favor showed Corman some of Griffith's scripts. Corman liked them, and the rest is history. [IMDb bio].
Griffith also acted and did second unit director work, but it's the screenplays that made him a B movie legend. In addition to Crab Monsters, he wrote Not of This Earth (1957; see below), The Undead (1957), A Bucket of Blood (1959), Beast from Haunted Cave (1959), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), and Death Race 2000 (1975) -- all, as you might expect, for Corman. In Corman's first memoir (which also contains dozens of interviews with associates), Griffith shared Roger's formula for making cheap, memorable thrillers (and how he managed a long and fruitful partnership with the King of the B's):
"When Roger first told me he wanted this crab picture, he said, 'I want suspense or action in every single scene. Audiences must feel something could happen at any time.' So I put suspense and action in every scene. Usually, I'd do a draft in two, three weeks, with very little discussion with Roger. The he'd take my first draft and say, 'Let's tighten it up a little.' So I'd make a few changes and type it over with wider margins. That gave me a lower page count and Roger was happy." [Roger Corman with Jim Jerome, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, Da Capo Press, 1998.]
"The most terrifying horror ever loosed on a shuddering Earth!"
Now Playing: Not of This Earth (1957)
Pros: A sympathetic, yet creepy alien; Interesting details about the alien's home planet and culture are nicely woven into the story; Don't miss Dick Miller's classic bit part as a vacuum cleaner salesman
Cons: The alien's unwitting human helpers are verrrrry slooowww to realize their employer is not of this earth
In brief: Dour Paul Johnson (Paul Birch) has been sent to Earth by his masters on the planet Devanna to evaluate human blood for its compatibility with Devannan physiology, and to figure out if Earth is ripe for invasion. It seems that due to high radioactivity from near constant nuclear warfare, Devannans have found that their blood is breaking down, turning literally to dust in their veins. The species will die if a new blood supply can't be found. Johnson is the original man in black, wearing a crisp black suit, black fedora, dark glasses, and carrying an aluminum attache case with his blood-sampling equipment. Getting a human blood sample is quick and efficient: Johnson takes off his shades, cooks the donor's brain in his skull just by looking at him with his alien, opaque eyes, and then gets to work draining the blood into one of the vials he carries in his case.
Sparing no expense, he's rented a large house in Beverly Hills and hired a witless petty crook (Jonathan Haze) to drive him around and help him cope with the strange culture. After using mind control on a local doctor to get a drug transfusion, no questions asked, he hires the doctor's attractive nurse, Nadine (Beverly Garland) to live at the house and administer regular transfusions. During a late night communication session with his boss on Devanna (via an interplanetary communicator/transporter hidden in the closet), we learn that the Earth is between a rock and a hard place. Johnson is a guinea pig: if the transfusions work and human blood is compatible with Devannans, Earth will be invaded and humans harvested for their blood; if the blood is no good and Johnson dies, the planet will be destroyed. Meanwhile, the local cops are scratching their heads over a serial killer who cooks his victims' brains in their skulls and drains the blood from their bodies. Will the beautiful Nadine get a clue about her eccentric employer and alert her boyfriend cop before Johnson completes the final phase of his plan?
Nurse Storey (Beverly Garland) is not sure what
to make of her enigmatic employer.
As a ten year old kid seeing this for the first time, I was unimpressed. The "monster" was just a doughy-faced middle-aged man in a suit. Yeah, the eyes were kind of creepy, and there was that alien umbrella-shaped flying thing that wrapped itself around its victim's head, but then again, there were no spaceships or giant bugs to really hold a kid's attention. Only after I overcame my prepubescent attention deficit and viewed the film a couple more times did I come to appreciate it's B artistry.
Charles Griffith's and Mark Hanna's screenplay is quite sophisticated for this sort of sci-fi quickie. Like Bram Stoker's classic Dracula, Johnson the alien "vampire" must rely on human helpers in order to cope in a strange environment. While he seems to be "bloodless" in more ways than one -- not the slightest hint of emotion crosses his face as he drains the blood from his victims -- he nonetheless seems curious about his new home, its language and customs. There is the slightest hitch in his monotone voice as he repeats his master's plans for the subjugation of the Earth. Even more interesting is the hint of panic in the master's voice as he describes the urgency of the mission, and how the social fabric of the homeworld is fraying as the native blood supply literally dries up. Later, a renegade female Devannan escapes to Earth through Johnson's transporter at the risk of summary execution, and her description of a world in chaos is pretty potent stuff. What would you do under the circumstances? (The real horror is the seemingly vibrant, intelligent nurse played by Garland, who at the same time can't seem to understand the menace that her eccentric employer represents. You want to reach through the screen and shake her!)
Key player: And then there's Dick Miller (billed here as Richard Miller), who plays a bit role as a pushy vacuum cleaner salesman, Joe Piper, who shows up at Johnson's door. Complete with a thick Brooklyn accent, Piper is a man who refuses to take no for an answer. Unfortunately, his persistence gets him killed for his troubles. After failing to quickly get rid of Piper, Johnson realizes that his blood is probably as good as anyone's for test purposes, and he agrees to have the salesman demonstrate his state-of-the-art vacuum down in the cellar. Miller's/Piper's double-take as he pauses from his pitch and looks up at the alien vampire, sans glasses, is a classic B movie moment. Here's Miller's memory of the role:
"Roger thought Piper would wear a suit and bow tie and have a pocket full of pencils and say politely, 'Good afternoon, sir, may I see the man of the house?' So I show up in a black cashmere jacket and a black shirt and Roger is still unsure of the image. He says, 'You're not dressed.' I say, 'Hey, look, this is the way I dressed when I sold pots and pans in the Bronx for two weeks, let me dress this way. You think a guy goes to college to sell vacuums? If it doesn't work I'll go home on my lunch break and get other clothes.' I did the scene as a real hippie-dippy street kid with lines I ad-libbed as I went. 'Hey man, you wanna purchase, you purchase, you don't wanna purchase, you don't purchase…'" [Ibid.]
"From outer space he came to destroy the people of this planet!"
Now Playing: War of the Satellites (1958)
Pros: Eschews bug-eyed monsters for a more cerebral alien menace; Effective shock scene involving a Bunsen burner; Assembly of the spacecraft in orbit anticipates the real-life Apollo space program
Cons: The crackpot space jargon flies so fast and furiously it makes your head spin
In brief: If it weren't for bad luck, the United Nations' manned space program Project Sigma would have no luck at all. It seems that a mysterious space barrier is blowing up every expensive piloted satellite that project director Dr. Van Ponder (Richard Devon) and his associates Dave Boyer (Dick Miller) and Sybil Carrington (Susan Cabot) can throw up at it. Seemingly oblivious to the loss of life, the determined project head wants the UN to finance yet another mission that he himself will captain. Soon, the UN receives a message from the masters of the spiral nebula (?!) Gana that any attempt by primitive, aggressive humanity to expand into outer space will be stopped cold.
Van Ponder's plans to address the United Nations and argue the case for giving the "Masters of the Universe" the proverbial finger and sending up yet another ship are disrupted when a mysterious light in the sky takes control of his car and forces it to crash into a ravine. Without Van Ponder's presence at the council meeting, the delegates are ready to nix any more funds for Sigma. The mood turns even more sour when the council gets word that Van Ponder has been killed in an automobile accident. Dave, representing the project, makes an impassioned plea to soldier on: "It's precisely because they don't want us to travel the skies that we must do so!" When Van Ponder miraculously shows up to the meeting without a scratch, the day is saved and the delegates vote to continue the project.
What's a busy rocket scientist to do?
Clone himself of course!
The Project Sigma base hums with activity as the rockets are readied for the latest mission. But strange things are going on as well. Van Ponder seems to be able to clone himself -- one minute he's at a remote corner of the base, and the next he's seen in his office miles away. And then there's the curious incident in which he carelessly sears his hand over the flame of a misplaced Bunsen burner, but minutes later when medical help arrives, his hand is completely healed and normal. Dave begins to suspect something's amiss, then stumbles upon Van Ponder literally duplicating himself when he thinks he's alone in a corridor. Minutes before launch, Dave is reassigned to fly in the second rocket, while the alien posing as Van Ponder invites the unsuspecting Sybil to ride with him in the flagship rocket. Will Dave be able to convince his crewmates that Van Ponder is not really who he seems? Will humanity finally break through the space barrier, or will this mission too end in explosive failure?
Being an artifact of the early space age, War of the Satellites is full of scientific naivete and technobabble that would make Buck Rogers or Rocky Jones, Space Ranger blush. The manned craft of Project Sigma are referred to as satellites rather than spacecraft or capsules (terms that would be in full-blown use just a couple of years after the film's release). Viewers will smile in bemusement at astronauts wandering around the base just minutes before takeoff, and then strapping themselves into leather lounge chairs that are just sitting (not bolted) in the middle of an amazingly spacious rocket compartment.
Bemusement turns to slack-jawed amazement when the faux Van Ponder creates a beating heart in his own chest cavity when the suspicious ship's doctor decides to conduct an impromptu physical (easy enough I suppose for someone who can duplicate his whole body through alien mind over matter). The amazing part is that along with the new human heart, he's suddenly acquired a very human romantic interest in Sybil. Oh brother!
This space mission is brought to you by La-Z-Boy (TM).
Still, the alien impostor in the form of long-faced Richard Devon does supply some interest and suspense. The scene with the errant Bunsen burner flame is pretty effective. In the lab prior to the mission, the alien Van Ponder is talking with one of his engineers. Van Ponder accidentally jostles the lit burner, then, with his back turned, rests his hand right in the path of the flame. The alien feels nothing until the horrified engineer catches sight of his charred hand. As the panicked man runs off to find the base doctor, the impostor, making sure no one is looking, rubs his hand back into perfect shape.
Another interesting scene anticipates the real-life docking and assembling maneuvers of the Apollo space program of the '60s and '70s and later space stations. Instead of employing one gigantic needle-nosed spaceship like other sci-fi films of the era, Project Sigma entails launching multiple manned rockets, each with a capsule that detaches from the booster in earth orbit and docks with other capsules to form a larger, spinning craft with artificial gravity -- quite an advanced concept for a rushed B production.
Key filmmaker: In The Movie World of Roger Corman (J. Philip di Franco, ed., Chelsea House, 1979), Corman proudly boasts of his ability to quickly exploit a hot news item:
"This was a quintessential example of shooting from the headlines. The first Russian Sputnik had just been launched when a friend called me with a story idea about satellites. I called Allied Artists and said I would have a script in two weeks and the film could be shot in ten days and cut in three weeks. The film was actually shot in eight days, and within two months of the headline event we had the first movie about the new space age."
(P.S.: Look for Corman himself as a young mission control specialist.)
"The future comes to life... today!!"
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Labels: Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957), Beverly Garland, Charles B. Griffith, Dick Miller, Not of This Earth (1957), Paul Birch, Richard Devon, Roger Corman, Sci-Fi, War of the Satellites (1958)
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Events, Other Books May 19, 2015 July 2, 2015
Sunday with Simsion at the New Inchcolm Hotel
by Maurie O'Connor
The Inchcolm in the heart of Brisbane has a rich and distinguished history. Many long-time Brisbane residents would know it as suites for medical specialists and legal chambers. These days the New Inchcolm Hotel & Suites is a tastefully renovated boutique hotel managed by Accor and one of nine MGallery Hotels in Australia. It made a perfect setting for their ‘In Conversation’ literary event with award-winning author Graeme Simsion.
As part of its Literary Collection concept, MGallery is hosting one of these events in each of its hotels throughout this year from April to November. The Inchcolm was the second of these events, the first being held at Mount Lofty House in the Adelaide Hills with author Favel Parrett. The ‘In Conversation’ events are held in association with the Wheeler Centre, which organises public events for the development and celebration of books, writing and ideas.
This association is intended to bring a literary element to the hotels, all of which have a unique history and story of their own. The plan is for an Australian writer to take up residence in one of the hotels for three nights and to create a short story inspired by their stay. The collection of short stories will then be published in an edition exclusive to MGallery Hotels.
When I heard about this project, I was immediately inspired and excited. I wondered if it was picking up on the tradition of Finbars Hotel and maybe even Naked Came the Stranger. However, unlike Finbars Hotel, you will know which author wrote which story, and unlike Naked Came the Stranger, there will be no hoax element. What there was in fact was some of Inchcolm’s superb canapés with fine wines and a fascinating account of how Graeme Simsion came to write The Rosie Project, his first novel.
The main character in The Rosie Project, Professor Don Tillman, has Asperger’s Syndrome although it is never explicitly stated. Don has an incredibly ordered and logical life, although lacking in social skills, he is unable to find a woman to be his life partner. Embarking on the ‘Wife Project’, he devises a questionnaire to select exactly the right type of person. For the reader the results are hilarious and for Don they are completely unexpected.
In conversation, Graeme talked about how he was at pains not to be patronising or ridiculing of people with Aspergers or Autism Spectrum Disorder. He consulted widely on the manuscript, and having received approval and acclaim generally and particularly from people with Aspergers and their support groups, he was initially taken aback when a man fronted him at a book launch declaring that he had Aspergers and taking issue with the book. It turned out that the issue he had was on page 30 where Simsion used the term ‘mathematically illiterate’, which the man claimed was incorrect terminology. Simsion convinced him it was correct and that he had got confirmation of the fact before publication. The man went away satisfied.
The Rosie Project to be made into a film
True to Simsion’s background as a writer of short stories, plays, screenplays and non-fiction books, The Rosie Project started as a screenplay and became a novel – a process that probably makes the translation from book to film relatively easy. Simsion has been working with Hollywood producers on the movie version, which we can look forward to soon. The interesting thing is that even in writing novels, he still writes scenes on cards, setting up a description of the action without much prose.
Sunday with Simsion was a fascinating insight into how his novel and character were devised and developed and some of the aspects of Asperger’s Syndrome from the writer’s perspective. It was a very pleasant way to spend a Sunday afternoon and if this is any indication of how the MGallery and Wheeler Centre collaboration is shaping up, I’d definitely recommend catching one of the In Conversation events, not to mention a visit to the Inchcolm anyway for the ambience and charm of this little Brisbane gem.
Maurie was a guest at the Inchcolm’s ‘In Conversation’ event.
For details about future In Conversation events, visit www.accorhotels.com.au
The New Inchcolm Hotel menu for ‘In Conversation’:
Cold Canapés
Pickled Harvey Bay scallop, preserved citrus and watermelon radish
Air-dried Brassola crisp, smoked eggplant and pickled enoki
Coffin Bay oyster, lime leaf and candied ginger foam
Green pea sphere Jamon snow and mustard leaf
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1975 Gibson EB-0 Walnut, Very Good, GigBag
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Used 1975 Gibson EB-0 bass serial number 96924.
This bass is in very good condition and is completely original with the exception of the strap buttons. The neck and frets are fine, cosmetically showing various “nicks & chips”, what could be expected from an instrument this age that has been played but not abused.
This era EB-0 features a 3 piece neck with volute and a rosewood fingerboard. The single pickup is positioned closer to the middle of the body not in the usual neck postilion. Volume and tone controls, a three point bridge, open back tuners and a black pickguard complete the package.
The EB line of basses were and still are popular. You can find a Cream puff without spending a Mountain of money.
Non original gig bag included.
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Neck: 3 piece maple
Finish: Walnut
Scale Length: 30.25”
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Pickup: Single Gibson Humbucker
Controls: Vol code looks to be 137 75. Tone code 137 7542
Width at Nut: 1 5/8”
Radius: 9.5”
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Maidenhead drug dealer jailed after being caught with stash of class As and cash in police raid
Jason Wade has been jailed for three years and four months after his home was raided by Thames Valley Police officers on Wednesday, July 17
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Drug dealer Jason Wade (Image: Thames Valley Police)
A drug dealer caught with a stash of class As at his home in Maidenhead has been jailed.
Jason Wade, 28, of College Rise, was jailed for three years and four months after admitting two counts of possession with intent to supply, and a count of possession of criminal property.
His home was raided by Thames Valley Police officers on Wednesday, July 17.
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Charity Centre for Children and Youth Development
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Charity Centre for children and Youth Development is a community based organization which is helping orphans and vulnerable children in Zambia through the provision of basic education and skills development for self reliance.
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Teaching children at the school and general management of the organization.
Charity Centre for Children and Youth Development (CCCYD) is a Non-profit, Non-political and Nonreligious Organizations which was established to help Orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), Youth, women and persons with physical challenges improve their standards of Living through the provision of several life skills, education support, HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, provision of micro-entrepreneurship skills and as well as material support
We envision a society that will work towards eradication of poverty, HIV and AIDS, illiteracy among Orphans and vulnerable children, youths and women in Society.
The Organization's mission is to promote and enhance the capabilities of children, youth and women in Zambia and beyond to effect positive social change that would necessitate the development of their lives, communities and the nation at large
Objectives of the organization:
a) To promote access to quality education to the under privileged and empower them for being responsible citizens.
b) To support the orphans, the displaced, widows elderly and the physically hand caped with essential items and provide sustainable source of living.
c) To help young people discover their skills competences and talents that will enable them become responsible citizens.
d) Promoting and encouraging education to families affected by HIV/AIDS especially orphans left through provision of school fees, uniforms, scholastic materials to re-enter formal schoolings.
e) Under take children’s rights and gender awareness campaigns and community sensitization and training on gender issues so as to promote gender equity.
f) To support girl child education by linking them to organization that give scholarships from any part of the world.
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Gizmo Times / Accessories / ThinCase for iPhone brings back 3.5mm headset jack, and has a kickstand
ThinCase for iPhone brings back 3.5mm headset jack, and has a kickstand
Gizmo Times Staff
. May 1, 2017
As the name suggests, the ThinCase is a slim case for the iPhone. But then, what makes us mention it here is not the slimness of the sleek nature of it but the features it brings along for the iPhone users. It is surely claimed as the world’s thinnest all-in-one case for the iPhone.
As the description from the makers, ThinCase is the World’s Thinnest All-In-One Battery Charging Case for your iPhone 6, 6S, 6+, 6S+, 7 and 7+. More durable, More powerful & More Capable than any other phone case! At less than half the size of other cases, the ThinCase doubles your battery power and adds Protection, a Smart Kickstand + a 3.5mm Audio Jack!
The case is made for all the iPhones from the iPhone 6, and since the latest iPhones don’t possess an earphone jack and the audio reliability is through the lightning port, the ThinCase helps by providing one. The case adds up about 4.8mm more to the actual phone’s thickness and to help with a better battery life of the iPhone, the ThinCase will have a 3000 mAh battery packed in. The kickstand here is also something different from the regular ones because what you see here is the case pulled out from the front and rotated towards the back to make the phone stand in a vertical orientation.
For the bumpy falls, the case is said to have enough to protect the iPhone from cracking its glass. Since there is a Pass-through charging technology here, while you connect the charger to the case, it will help charge the phone first before charging itself. It takes about 1h45min to fully charge the Thincase, and 3.5hour to fully charge the Thincase and the iPhone together.
The ThinCase is available for $59 and a combination of two is going to cost $98. It is put up as a project on Indiegogo.
While we talk about these projects from crowdsourcing websites, we cannot guarantee or vouch for their delivery or whether they would be successfully made or not, but they are among the coolest ideas people have got.
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Kansas Names Phil Wittmer CITO
Gov. Sam Brownback looks to the private sector to fill the state's top technology position.
by News Staff / July 24, 2015
On July 23, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback named a new chief information technology officer in Phil Wittmer. Wittmer will join the Governor’s Office of Information Technology Services on Aug. 10, following three years of service from Anthony Schlinsog, who resigned in Oct., and an interim role filled by Secretary of Administration Jim Clark.
“Phil will bring a unique perspective to the role of the CITO,” Brownback said. “I am pleased he is bringing his extensive experience in managing IT systems to serve the citizens of Kansas.”
According to his profile on LinkedIn, Wittmer joins the state with more than 20 years of private-sector IT experience, including roles at Pizza Hut, Grand Metropolitan Foodservice, ARAMARK, KOCH INDUSTRIES, TV Guide Magazine, U.S. Central, Affiliated Computer Services, CSC Consulting and Polsinelli Shughart. For the past 13 years, Wittmer was president of Lead-IT, a technology investment and consultancy firm.
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Sri Lanka - Nature and Wildlife
Sri Lanka is home to approximately ninety-one species of mammals. Of these ninety-one, sixteen are endemic and can only be found in Sri Lanka while fourteen are threatened including the large Sloth Bear, the Sri Lankan Leopard and the Sri Lankan Elephant. Due to the geographical differences (climate, vegetation and altitude) found in Sri Lanka, mammals are widely distributed throughout the country.
The Sloth Bear and Leopards are found in the majority of National Parks in Sri Lanka, however, Sloth Bears are most commonly spotted between June and July in either Yala or Wasgamuwa National Parks. Research suggests that Yala National Park hosts the highest density of leopards in the world.
The elephant population has dropped steadily in the past hundred years and is estimated to be at approximately 4,500-5,000. The population has fallen due to extreme loss of habitat. Udawalawe National Park is considered by many to be one of the best natural habitats to view elephants year round. Minneriya National Park is famous for “The Gathering” that happens between July and October when the park witnesses over three hundred elephants gathering by the Minneriya water tank due to the immense dry season experienced there. It is believed that the amount of elephants gathering in Minneriya is the highest in the world.
There are also three monkey species found in Sri Lanka as well as a variety of bats, squirrels and a further twenty-six marine species located in the waters around the country. Blue whales and spinner and Risso’s dolphins can be found of the coasts of Mirissa and Kalpitiya. Black tip reef sharks are also spotted in Sri Lankan waters. The beaches located on the west and south coasts offer year round accommodation for endangered marine turtles who come ashore to nest. Approximately 227 bird species live in Sri Lanka, however, some people place the number at over 400.
Sri Lanka is home to 171 reptile species, the majority of which are snakes. The largest reptiles in Sri Lanka are two species of crocodile, the Mugger Crocodile and the Saltwater Crocodile. With 106 amphibian species, many claim that Sri Lanka has the highest density of amphibian species in the world.
With upwards of 26.5% of the total land area of the country being listed as protected, Sri Lanka has a higher percentage of protected areas than any other country in Asia as well as much of the world. Sri Lanka has 501 listed areas covering around 1,767,000 ha including 32 forests. Within the 501 protected areas are 92 Key Biodiversity Areas which are considered irreplaceable because they each house endemic species with some providing habitats to more than 100 globally threatened species. There are also four Biosphere Reserves which have been declared under UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere Reserve Programme.
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Give president trade authority to benefit Montanans
Opinion piece by Montana Grain Growers official on foreign trade deals
Give president trade authority to benefit Montanans Opinion piece by Montana Grain Growers official on foreign trade deals Check out this story on greatfallstribune.com: http://gftrib.com/1Hi4HYw
GreatFalls Published 2:49 p.m. MT May 20, 2015
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When I joined my father in the farming business over 30 years ago, our market was driven by what was going on in Kansas.
If it rained the market went down; if it didn't rain the market went up.
Now we are in a world market. What goes on in Australia, Russia, Canada and Argentina, to name a few countries, is just as important as what goes on in Kansas.
Transportation has become so efficient that we can move commodities from country to country with speed and velocity. Trucks, railroads and ships are able to deliver products to upgraded ports and bring food to tables across the world in a timely fashion.
Worldwide trade has become an opportunity for the United States, in particular Montana, to participate in. We raise high-quality wheat that is in high demand all over the world and those markets are available to us. I raise wheat, barley and peas and need access to these markets to empty my bins. Trade agreements are a reality (and potentially a huge economic boon) for Montana. New trade agreements, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which could open up access to some Asian markets, can only be concluded if the president has Trade Promotion Authority (TPA).
Eighty percent of all the wheat in Montana is shipped to other countries, with Japan being the leading importer. Montana is also the largest producer of pulse crops in the United States. Our peas are processed and sent to India and other countries that have them as a staple in their diet.
The TPA legislation outlines U.S. trade policy objectives and sets conditions for the president to negotiate free-trade agreements and allows expedited congressional consideration. TPA builds confidence with our negotiating partners that once an agreement is reached, Congress cannot change it through amendments or other means. Congress still has the opportunity to examine the agreement and to vote for or against final passage of U.S. participation. TPA also installs consultation requirements to ensure that Congress and the president maintain a strong partnership in advancing trade policy goals. TPA has been given to administrations for more than 30 years and this bill will extend into the next administration.
Trade adds economic value to all of Montana’s products in agricultural, manufacturing, small businesses and all other areas in the state’s economy and TPA is necessary to get these trade agreements passed.
Charlie Bumgarner is president of the Montana Grain Growers Association. He farms with his wife, Karla, east of Great Falls.
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Once Democrats take charge of the House, addressing climate change will become top priority again
Congress backed President Trump's push to boost fossil fuels by downplaying climate change. Democrats who won back the House want to change that.
Once Democrats take charge of the House, addressing climate change will become top priority again Congress backed President Trump's push to boost fossil fuels by downplaying climate change. Democrats who won back the House want to change that. Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/26/house-democrats-climate-change-epa/2067831002/
Ledyard King, USA TODAY Published 5:50 a.m. CT Nov. 26, 2018 | Updated 4:35 p.m. CT Nov. 26, 2018
This is a giant postcard made of 125,000 individual postcards containing messages aiming to fight climate change and global warming made on the Aletsch glacier near the Jungfraujoch saddle by the Jungfrau peak, Switzerland,(Photo: VALENTIN FLAURAUD, EPA-EFE)
WASHINGTON – Capitol Hill Democrats who soon will run the House of Representatives are prioritizing climate change nearly a decade after their attempts to slow global warming helped whisk them out of power.
Party leaders vowed to hold hearings on President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to undo Obama-era climate rules and demanded internal documents on administration decisions to scale back restrictions on fossil fuels that contribute to global warming.
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who is vying to regain her role as House speaker, said she planned to revive a special congressional panel designed to examine climate change. The Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming was shelved after Republicans took over the House in 2010.
That urgency grew after the release Friday of a dire government report that climate change poses an increasing risk to the planet in the form of extreme weather, worsening health conditions, the spread of new diseases, increasing drought and famine and economic decline.
Trump said Monday that he's not buying the National Climate Assessment's warning that the effects of global warming could reduce the nation's GDP by as much as 10 percent by 2100.
"I don't believe it," he said when asked about the conclusions of the report, which was written by dozens of top scientists from 13 federal agencies in the Trump administration.
Though they won back the House during the midterm elections by campaigning largely on health care, Democrats got the backing of environmental groups that poured tens of millions of dollars into their campaigns and registered liberal voters.
The quandary for the party leaders when they take back power Jan. 3 is how aggressively to pursue an issue that contributed to the tea party wave that fueled the Republican takeover of the House in 2010.
How prepared are they to address opponents' arguments that "alarmist" climate change policies would increase energy prices and reduce consumer choice? How willing are they to take on a president who was elected two years ago on an America First platform that promised to "bring back coal" as part of an energy independence agenda?
For now, Democrats are content to build a case through fierce congressional oversight and the power to subpoena administration records, knowing that any major legislation they could pass probably would be vetoed by the president even if it got past the GOP-controlled Senate.
Lawmakers led by incoming Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., demanded documents related to Environmental Protection Agency proposals to let states regulate their power plants, freeze fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light trucks and roll back requirements on the power industry to check and repair methane leaks.
"The tragic and human and financial costs of unchecked climate change are high and increasing fast, and unfortunately the administration's actions for the last two years are only exacerbating these conditions," Pallone wrote in a letter Nov. 20 to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.
The emphasis on climate change – which Trump has labeled a "hoax" perpetrated by China – comes amid a cascade of scientific reports, including from the United Nations, that portend catastrophic social, economic and environmental consequences within decades if global temperatures keep rising.
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Effects are already being felt through stronger hurricanes, more intense wildfires, melting glaciers and loss of habitat, researchers say.
Despite broad evidence that greenhouse gases from fossil fuels are a primary culprit, the Trump administration made expansion of fossil fuels, including more offshore oil and gas drilling and mining, a centerpiece of its energy and economic agenda.
The president pushed to undo Obama-era steps aimed at addressing climate change: proposing a new Clean Power Plan rule to give states more authority to regulate the industry; recommending a freeze on mile-per-gallon standards for cars and light trucks after the 2020 model year; and withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, the international accord to gradually reduce emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
"This agreement is less about the climate and more about other countries gaining a financial advantage over the United States," Trump said June 1, 2017, when he announced the withdrawal from the Paris accord.
An EPA spokeswoman said the agency was reviewing Pallone's letter.
Incoming House Commerce and Energy Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., plans to press the Trump administration on its push to expand fossil fuel programs given the effects of carbon emissions on climate change. (Photo: The Associated Press)
David Doniger, a climate change expert with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said forcing records into the light of day could pressure the EPA to withdraw rules or Congress to pass laws if they show the agency selectively used information or improperly skewed cost-benefits analyses to favor the fossil fuels industry.
"It's always important to know ... more about the real influence and the real reasons and the real beneficiaries of these decisions," he said. "The public has a right to know that."
Pelosi was speaker in 2009 when the chamber narrowly passed a "cap and trade" bill to address climate change. Portrayed by opponents as little more than an energy tax that would hit consumers' wallets, the measure never came up for a vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate and helped fuel the tea party wave that propelled Republicans to take control of the House in 2010.
Though the effects and predicted consequences of climate change have grown more dire since then, some House Democrats are content with modest efforts to address global warming.
“It’s going to be, I think, more of an opportunistic strategy, where, in various pieces of legislation across the board, we’re going to insert measures that address climate change,” Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., co-chair of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition, told The Hill newspaper.
Even if the House did pass an aggressive plan, it's doubtful the GOP-controlled Senate would take it up.
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ITS-Davis study finds social influence a key element in transitioning to more sustainable transportation such as PHEVs
Research from the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis (ITS-Davis) suggests it will take more than a reasonable price and good information to get consumers to make more sustainable transportation choices, such as the purchase of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). Post-doctoral researcher Jonn Axsen says policymakers need to consider another critical and historically overlooked factor: social influence.
While marketers have taken social network effects into consideration in recent years, policymakers are just beginning to recognize their importance. Axsen says his work points to the need for more in-depth synthesis of the role of social interactions in policy design.
Our interactions with friends, families and coworkers affect the way we make decisions, how we value the environment, and how our lifestyle relates to our purchase decisions. Car buyers are not just rational “automatons” affected by price and the availability of product information. Social influence does matter.
It’s clearly time to break out of the simplistic, rational consumer model of behavior when it comes to policy design. Of course, price and information do matter, but social influence is extremely powerful and needs to be explicitly addressed.
—Jonn Axsen
Axsen recently received the “Young Researcher of the Year Award” from the International Transport Forum, an intergovernmental organization comprising 52 member countries convened by the OECD. His paper, “Interpersonal Influence within Car Buyers’ Social Networks: Developing Pro-Societal Values through Sustainable Mobility Policy,” was selected from 40 nominees from 16 countries.
“What we’re finding, especially at UC Davis, is that its takes more than technical solutions to fix our problems; we can’t keep building our way out. We have to increasingly focus on personal, behavioral solutions.”
Axsen identified five theoretical perspectives on interpersonal influence: contagion, conformity, dissemination, translation, and reflexivity, and applied these perspectives to car buyer perceptions of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). PHEVs can be perceived as having functional, symbolic, private and societal attributes. The context was a PHEV demonstration project where 275 interpersonal interactions were elicited from interviews with 40 individuals in 11 different social networks in northern California.
Contagion. In contagion, influence is transmitted through the point-to-point flow of information—i.e., interpersonal influence as the unidirectional flow of functional information. When a new vehicle technology comes to market, early adopters or experts help transmit information to build the general public’s awareness of the product or practice.
Contagion, notes Axsen, neglects important nuances of interpersonal influence. One criticism is that functional information is not the only type of information shared.
Conformity. Conformity addresses individuals’ perceptions of others’ thoughts and actions, and may best apply to symbolic benefits (private and societal). Conformity includes threshold models, where an individual’s threshold is the proportion of the relevant social system that must engage in the behavior before the individual will join. Thresholds may vary according to the strength of ties with other individuals, Axsen says, s well as physical proximity, structural equivalence, and other factors. However, while conformity conceptualizes the influence of thresholds, it neither represents specific interactions between members of a social group nor explains social norms arise or change.
Dissemination. Axsen applied dissemination—defined as “diffusion that is directed and managed” by an organized group—to the provision of societal benefits. As an example, collective action seeks to explains how motivated individuals interact and collaborate to provide societal benefits that would not have been provided otherwise. Collective action approaches look for the appearance of a critical mass: a small group with strong interest in the societal benefit that is willing to contribute resources to sustain more widespread action.
Dissemination may best apply to interpersonal influence concerning societal-functional and societal-symbolic benefits, Axsen suggests.
Translation. Translation is how consumers figure out the personal benefits and costs of the technology. “In this process there is ongoing negotiation between yourself and individuals in your social network. You might ask, ‘I know hybrid cars exist but will they save me money? Will they save the environment? Will my friends make fun of me?’ Working through this process is complex, and it occurs over time and through repeated interactions,” Axsen says.
Reflexivity. Reflexivity—the dynamic, continuous, selfaware process of defining and expressing oneself—is how consumers relate that technology to their personal values. “We found that, under the right conditions, consumers will start to change their values and potentially commit to a more environmentally sustainable lifestyle,” Axsen says, especially when an important reference group, such as family or co-workers, also supports that value. The reflexivity process counters traditional marketing models that assume people’s values are firm and unchanging.
The adoption of an innovation offering societal benefits, e.g., a PHEV, may be one component, or trial, of a more fundamental shift towards a societally-conscious lifestyle, Axsen notes. After adoption, a user may solidify or modify their initial interpretations of the vehicle. Thus, similar to translation, the innovation and its social context are subject to continuous uncertainty and revision of interpretations and meaning.
Applying the five perspectives to PHEV trial participants, particularly reflexivity, helped to identify which households and social networks may be more amenable to developing new, pro-societal interpretations of vehicle technology.
Norton et al. (1998) explain that neo-classical economists’ models, which represent consumer values as static and exogenous, “cannot be expected to correctly characterize or guide decisions that have potential impacts over decades, centuries or longer,” such as sustainable mobility policy decisions. Expectancy-value or rational choice models of behavior suggest only two levers for policymakers to influence consumer behavior: changing cost (via financial incentives or disincentives) and providing functional information about the product or behavior (Jackson, 2005).
In contrast, this research suggests the importance of explicitly representing how interpersonal influence can change households’ values and expressions of possible future behaviors. The government can be viewed as an influential agent, and implemented policies are a form of interaction between the government and car buyers. Careful consideration of how different policies and types of information and experiences influence car buyers can help policymakers to better design mobility policy, predict its effects, and measure its impacts. In particular, policymakers might consider the differences between the processes of diffusion, translation and reflexivity.
...Better representing these interpersonal processes will help policymakers to better understand of how consumers might come to value mobility technologies and practices that offer societal and environmental benefits. As a starting point, this paper points to the importance of: disseminating functional awareness of such technologies, stimulating interpersonal discussion of pro-societal benefits, and marketing to a social network rather than only the individual car buyer. Further research can explore how policy can shape the negotiation of societal values—potentially identifying new strategies for policymakers beyond the conventional levers of financial incentives and disincentives and the provision of functional information.
Future studies may also employ focus group and ethnographic methodologies to more directly observe translation and reflexive processes, as well as quantitative survey methodologies to validate our findings across mobility contexts, including actual alternative-fuel vehicle buyers (as opposed to trial participants).
—Axsen and Kurani
Axsen’s social influence research is a key component of the ITS-Davis PH&EV Research Center’s recently completed second-year report on the PHEV Demonstration and Consumer Education, Outreach, and Market Research Program. The full report summarizes the findings from 67 households that drove a converted Toyota Prius PHEV for four to six weeks between August 2008 and February 2010.
Axsen is currently a post-doctoral researcher with the Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center at ITS-Davis. In August, he returns to Vancouver, BC, where he will be assistant professor of energy and materials modeling and policy at Simon Fraser University.
Jonn Axsen and Kenneth Kurani (2011) Interpersonal influence within car buyers’ social networks: Developing pro-societal values through sustainable mobility policy (International Transport Forum award winner)
Axsen, Jonn and Kenneth S. Kurani (2011) Interpersonal Influence within Car Buyers' Social Networks: Applying Five Perspectives to Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle Drivers. Environment and Planning A in press doi: 10.1068/a43221
Posted on 30 May 2011 in Electric (Battery), Hybrids, Market Background, Plug-ins | Permalink | Comments (6)
There is logic and emotion, many times a car buy is emotional after the logic. Once more people make the choice it validates that if others think it is a good idea then maybe it is.
Posted by: SJC | 30 May 2011 at 08:32 AM
This is probably what influenced so many, specially in USA and Canada, to buy huge over weight over powered gas guzzlers since the end of WWII.
We had to show the neighbors and the world our newly acquired opulence.
Very childish immature acquired behavior exploited by many car promoters.
Posted by: HarveyD | 30 May 2011 at 09:41 AM
In the 50s and 60s gas and steel was cheap and cars had carburetors. Heavy cars were thought to ride better and be safer. They the 90s people just bought into the SUV craze and those started selling almost as well as pickup trucks. Vehicle buying habits in the U.S. are hard to understand in the rest of the world. We sell more than one million pickup trucks each year and most of them are not used for work.
While this is an interesting theory of consumer behavior - it is far too academic and non-cognitive of simple decision trees. If Mr. Axsen wants to understand how to promote PHEV sales - he should check out PHEV blogs. There you find a clear channel into consumer thought.
How do people choose a certain technology? The anal types do tons of research and reading. The bold go with their gut. The majority listen to each other. These days they read each others' opinion. Opinion from non-stakeholders is highly influential.
The PHEV is in a crown position to sell from all political and social spectra. On the left you have the die-hard greens. On the right you will have (after Rush and Beck etc grasp it) the patriots - who buy domestic to support their cause. BOTH can be satisfied with a PHEV provided the green component is not oversold.
In the end all the feely interpersonal development will not override a pocketbook decision. As long as we have a market and credit-based economy, people will buy cars that save gas money.
As for the psychology of "reflexivity" - it is severely damaged by the disingenuous climate fiasco. Public awareness of manipulation and outright fabrication of this campaign - has killed potential conversion to "sustainable lifestyle." The reason is simple. The climate movement has been caught crying climate wolf. They are now seen as untrustworthy, deceitful solipsists.
The only redemption would be full disclosure based on best intentions. But the climate community has too much pride for that.
Posted by: Reel$$ | 30 May 2011 at 05:45 PM
Reel$$ -- do you really believe most Americans read the PHEV blogs? Or that they make rational buying decisions? Have you priced potato chips lately?
Posted by: JMartin | 30 May 2011 at 06:30 PM
JM -- I am suggesting the PhD candidate read PHEV blogs. He's trying to asses purchase behavior. Americans listen to friends and neighbors. Witness how we purchase app software today... go to market, find an appropriate app, read a half dozen personal reviews...decide.
This behavior unfortunately diminishes the role of "experts." Where once we relied on the opinion of a select few reviewers... we now have millions of opinions to gauge value and verity by. It is the indulgence of the "Anthropocene."
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Hebrew University to Become First Israeli School to Recognize Palestinian Authority Test Scores
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The new policy is expected to significantly increase the number of East Jerusalem Palestinians who attend Hebrew University, the first Israeli university to accept PA matriculation results.
The university has recognized high school test scores from outside Israel, but never the Palestinian matriculation exam, which is known by its Arabic name, the tawjihi.
Previously, the tawjihi was only accepted for applicants to Hebrew University’s pre-college program, or for applicants to the university who also scored very well on Israel’s psychometric exams additional tests taken after high school akin to the U.S. college admission exams.
With Israel’s erecting of its West Bank separation barrier, Hebrew University has seen growing interest among East Jerusalem Palestinians.
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A fitting game to Mr West Ham
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It was a day of mixed emotions that’s for certain, especially as for some it was some fans last time at Upton Park. Noble himself done well to keep control of his emotions after his guard of honour at the start of the game then the fun began.
There were so many highlights but a few will definitely stand out for a long time. The first of them being Taylor Tombides goal and dedication to his brother Dylan who passed away. When he scored the majority of people couldn’t help but tear up. It was an extremely moving moment and so fitting for Taylor to score it at one of the last games at Upton Park. A moment never to be forgotten.
Another highlight was Adrian’s goal. All fans are used to him trying trick with the ball at his feet but this time he went one step further and completed an incredible solo goal which saw him run the whole length of the pitch to score a goal which put the current hammers 2-1 up. Everyone knows the talent Dean Ashton has but he really proved it during the game with a special strike, an overhead kick that any player would be proud to score. Sakho provided another after his he took out his phone and took a selfie with his team mates.
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Laundry platforms are very versatile and designed to be a complete laundry cycle solution, encompassing washing, spin drying and drying. The platforms can support 150-250 personnel in the field, and can process up to 26kg of dried laundry per hour. Wash cycle options from 30 to 85 degrees Celsius allows for medical standard washing of hospital linens. Aseptic washing machine option features separate ‘in’ and ‘out’ openings for soiled and cleaned linen to eliminate contamination and ensure hygienic production at all times. The dirty and clean areas are further separated by a PVC coated canvas divider.
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A Flow Patterning Approach to Improve Heavy Oil Miscible Displacements
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In the miscible displacement of heavy oil, the viscosity contrast and medium heterogeneities contribute to flow instabilities promoting longitudinal dispersions with considerable bypassed regions. In the absence of gravity, the injection rate and solvent composition are the main controlling parameters for improving the sweep efficiency. The industry has practiced cyclic shut-in and pressure pulsations for enhancing oil-solvent mixing. However, the attenuation of pressure pulses coupled with the slow solvent-heavy oil diffusion process hinders the heavy oil recovery. This objective of this research is to improve the sweep efficiency of heavy oil miscible displacement in a heterogeneous medium. Herein, we develop a novel methodology for an effective controlling of viscous fingering and dispersion via a periodic variation of the flow directions during a miscible displacement of a 1000 cp viscose mineral oil (PAO-100) with n-Hexane. A series of experiments are conducted in a visual model containing pore-scale heterogeneities as well as two parallel layers with low and high permeabilities. The time evolution of solvent-oil mixing length and sweep efficiency are evaluated with multiple patterns of flow swings. The experimental results indicate that the proposed flow pattern can remarkably improve the sweep efficiency when a backward flow, having a greater amplitude but shorter period compared to those of forward flow, is introduced. The rapid transverse dispersion of the solvent during the reversal flow cancels out the effect of advancing solvent fingers during the forward displacement. Furthermore, the crossflow between the two permeable layers enhances mixing and reduces the length of viscous fingerings. The novel contributions of this methodology are the reduction of the longitudinal dispersion and the promotion of solvent-oil mixing that can be employed in the field scale for improving the sweep efficiency of miscible displacements in heavy oil reservoirs.
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A Modular System for Electromagnetic Heating of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs
Electromagnetic (EM) heating is an alternative thermal EOR method. Potentially, an electromagnetic system could unlock energy savings of 30%-50%, eliminate expenditures related to water/steam facilities and offer environmental benefits through fewer GHG emissions and fewer tailings ponds. Despite the advantages of EM heating, its development is ongoing and the technology is confronted by several practical challenges. We feel that three issues stand out: 1) flexible EM system design and deployment, 2) reduction of radio frequency (RF) losses and 3) the need for high-efficiency, low-cost, high-power electronics to generate signals at RF. The system presented here addresses these practical challenges through a modular design.
Consider challenge #1, EM system design and deployment. Typically, a conventional single generator design (like an antenna or a transmission line) is tailored to each well, where considerations like well length, water saturation and other reservoir parameters must be taken into account. If a chain of RF generators is used instead, the design process can be streamlined, where modules containing separate generators can either be added or removed for different well lengths. Furthermore, additional generators allow for greater control of the heating pattern along the well, where power levels can be adjusted or the RF power can be “steered” to a small degree, which can mitigate overheating and potentially improve energy-to-oil ratio. Challenge #2 stems from two sources: downhole transmission losses from a surface RF generator to the underground antenna and power delivery efficiency from the RF generator to the reservoir itself (i.e. power lost from reflections). In this modular approach, if RF signals are generated in-situ, each module can be powered using conventional 60 Hz or DC signals which are less susceptible to losses downhole.
However, to the knowledge of the authors, the maximization of power delivery efficiency and the need for high-efficiency, low-cost, high-power RF electronics have yet to be addressed in the community. Maintenance of reflected power back to the RF generator is a major issue, where power delivery to the reservoir is dependent on water saturation and evolves as the reservoir is heated. In the context of the modular approach presented here, this was addressed using a combination of two coaxial discontinuities launching a wave into a self-forming leaky-wave antenna. This technique kept power delivery efficiency above 90% throughout the heating process in reservoir simulation, and was confirmed using a scaled benchtop prototype in liquids with different electrical properties designed to mimic reservoirs with different water saturations.
To address challenge #3, a new type of electronic oscillator was conceived. This oscillator was based off an elegant E/Fodd power amplifier tuning originally developed at Caltech. The initial benchtop prototype achieved 75% efficiency and over 300 W output power at 10 MHz using robust and economical silicon carbide electronics. While both the efficiency and output power will be improved in future iterations, this is an excellent first step towards an RF generator which could be deployed in-situ.
Thomas Apperly
A Novel Corrosion Moniting System for Pipeline Integrity Management Networks
Category: Pipeline & Processing Facilities
Pipelines are present in every facility around the globe, being an efficient and relatively safe means of transport. The failure of a pipeline can lead to cathastrophic results, such as damage to the environment, harm to human beings and financial loses. In order to prevent occurrence of accidents in pipeline networks, Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) techniques are generally implemented. However, NDT has a limitation; they can only reveal the state of the structure at the particular moment of testing. To have a better control and statistics about the performance of the assets, Continuous Condition Monitoring and Structural Health Monitoring of assets are able to provide a broader picture of their structural integrity.
The main purpose of this study is to investigate a novel technique that would help maintaning the structural integrity of pipelines, by conducting pipe wall thickness monitoring. This pipeline integrity management system is able to identify the occurrence of corrosion in pipes to help operators to mitigate assets damage or failure at an early stage, providing a greater control over the operation and performance of the facility.
This system consists in a magnetic flux leakage sensor that involves a permanent magnet that saturates the surface of the pipe, a solenoid to monitor the difference on inductance occurred on the pipeline and a PCB with a microcontroller. The solenoid is pulsed with an AC current that captures any surface leakage from the saturated magnetic field, present through the thickness of the pipe wall, due to the progress of a defect. The magnetic field remains constant while the thickness remains the same but would increase if the thickness reduces. An algorithm was developed to translate the captured data into thickness measurements. The data is wirelessly transmitted real-time and can be accessed and controlled via a user-friendly app that can be conveniently installed on a smart phone or tablet.
The system has been tested on steel pipes of different thickness, ranging from 4mm to 11mm. The results show a difference of inductance depending of the thickness of the pipe. Therefore, it has been demonstrated that this technique can detect thickness loss of 1mm on steel pipes.
The system is developed for permanent installation on areas of high erosion/corrosion risk and provides thickness measurements when interrogated remotely. It is targeted at piping in locations that contain areas susceptible to wall thinning (e.g. at pipe bends), with restricted access (i.e. physical impediments or Health & Safety constraints) where conventional wall thickness inspection by ultrasonic thickness gauges is not feasible. This low cost monitoring system for loss of thickness due to internal corrosion could replace ultrasonic thickness gauging in difficult to access areas.
Natalia Garban
Active Vehicle Controls Technology
Category: Health and Safety
The technological advancements in vehicle telematics are revolutionizing the way companies manage their fleets. Fleet management Systems are helping businesses reduce costs, increase efficiencies, maintain compliance with government regulations, and improve safety. What if your business could gain a competitive advantage by implementing active controls in your fleets?
Why Automate?
Accidents, Death and Injury
Motor vehicle accidents remain a leading cause of societal harm and economic loss. The National Highway and Traffic Safety Authority (NHTSA) in the USA reported that accidents in 2010 caused $836 Billion in societal harm including: 32,999 deaths; 3.9million people injuries; and 24 million vehicles damaged. Road deaths in 2015 soared to over 35,000. (source: NHTSA 2010 USA figures)
Nearly 1.3 million people die worldwide in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day. An additional 20-50 million are injured or disabled. More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among young adults ages 15-44. (source: World Health Organization)
Fuel Costs and Emissions
The transportation sector is responsible for 26% of GHG emission in the US and 14% worldwide. Aggressive driving including speeding, rapid acceleration and hard braking impacts fuel economy. Poor driving habits can lower your fuel mileage by roughly 15% to 30% at highway speeds and 10% to 40% in stop-and-go traffic. (source: US DOE, EPA)
On-board computing technology supplemented with Active Control can significantly improve fuel economy.
Tracking and Monitoring vs Active Controls
Studies have demonstrated active speed controls to be ten times more effective then passive systems at reducing injury accidents and even more effective at reducing fatal crashes.
Active Control and Geozoning
Using Active Controls along with Geozoning capability, organizations can ensure safe speed compliance in critical speed zones such as school zones, playgrounds, hospitals and workzones. This has tremendous positive social and safety implications.
NaviLink integrates Active Vehicle Controls technology and vehicle automation with telematics giving fleets a tool that can dramatically improve drivers’ performance, fuel economy and safety. The system is vehicle agnostic and applicable to all vehicles, new or used, from car to truck. One tool can manage any mixed fleet.
Dan De Palma
Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Streamline Transportation Technologies Inc.
Jordan Kaiser
Advanced Simulation Environment for Induced Seismicity Mitigation and Integrated Control
Category: E&P Geoscience
ASEISMIC is a new computational toolbox to aid in producing quantitative mitigation and response plans by combining reservoir-simulation methods with advanced geomechanical and seismological computational tools.
The toolbox includes modules for site-specific induced seismicity operational risk assessment, by augmenting relevant public data sources with additional site-specific information. Ultimately, this could lead to a product which can successfully be used by industry and regulators to mitigate induced seismicity hazard, and is useful for academia. Case-studies from western Canada will be used to evaluate the applicability of this approach for unconventional oil and gas development and for gigaton-scale carbon dioxide storage.
There are currently many tools that have been developed to address individual areas of this problem. However, while many of these tools are supported by strong scientific logic, none of them successfully bring together all aspects of the problem in order to fully and satisfactorily model induced seismicity in such a way that would be useful to successfully mitigate against it.
The toolbox is broken down into six separate modules which are integrated into a workflow: a database module, simulation module, stochastic module, hazard module, risk module and mitigation module. The simulation module performs a full simulation from hydraulic fracturing to induced seismicity, by defining the local initial stress field and simulating hydraulic-fracturing stages, stress and pore pressure perturbations generated, and any slip along pre-existing faults caused by these perturbations. In order to analyse the hazard and risk in a probabilistic sense, the simulation module is run a large number of times using the stochastic module. The hazard module generates hazard maps for the likelihood of occurrence and uniform hazard spectra using a probabilistic seismic hazard assessment approach. The risk module calculates the risk by convolving hazard spectra from the hazard module with fragility curves and consequence data in order to generate a risk report. Finally, the mitigation module simulates scenario events using the simulation module to assess the best approach for risk mitigation based on treatment design.
ASEISMIC is the first tool aiming to address all areas integral to modeling and mitigating induced seismicity arising from hydraulic fracturing. The tool contains modules that consider processes from injection to rupture simulation to ground motion prediction and hazard analysis, using the most advanced science currently available. Development is currently at an early stage but is moving forward rapidly through a partnership with the Centre for Innovative IT Solutions at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, which is enabling a much higher-quality software solution than typical research code.
Novel/Additive Information
ASEISMIC is a new computational toolbox that can help to mitigate induced seismicity, which is a major issue for the energy industry in the exploitation of unconventional hydrocarbon resources.
Thomas Eyre
Agile Safety and Digital Data Management System for Digital Projects
Agile safety, alert, and digital data infrastructure management in digital transformation projects is complex. The influence of safety is important as preventing and reducing accidents is less expensive than dealing with accident aftermath. Applying positive management actions like safety, alert, and data management activities, results in avoidance of 70% of accidents that lead to death and loss in buildings. An innovative Agile Safety Monitoring Tool is proposed to integrate agile safety, alert, and digital data infrastructure management into the structural health monitoring system (SHM) and mobile mapping system (MMS). This tool includes comprehensive project management software that consists of two systems. First is an SHM, whose development is a survey to determine if a structure or object is changing shape or moving in a defined period of time. Second is an MMS that can provide accurate surveying measurements of the objects around it. Since it has both photogrammetric and laser scanning range data, it can provide very accurate yet very fast acquisition to produce geospatial data. The Safety Agile Monitoring Tool concentrates on precision engineering monitoring through IoT Real-Time Monitoring Services and 3D modelling. The Smart Infinity Dimensions (S∞D) Internet of Things (IoT) Real-Time Streaming platform is a state-of-the-art digital transformation solution designed to optimize the operation and minimize energy consumption, waste, and cost in mega projects. The long-term objective of this project is to develop a Digital Transformation Project Management Platform. This is the first technology package to integrate SHM and MMS with agile management components and apply them directly in construction and oil and gas. Many scholars and experts believe that applying agile rather than traditional approaches has enhanced efficiency and delivered higher productivity levels. Researchers and professionals have used both qualitative and quantitative approaches (mixed methods). Developed by analysing the data from mega-projects in downtown Calgary, Agile Safety Monitoring Tool focuses on large construction projects. Integration of safety and digital data infrastructure management components with SHM and MMS systems lets the tool assist in ensuring safety. It aids with safety recommendations and actions to prevent workplace accidents, specifically for large-scale monitoring projects that require identification of safety issues. The tool aids in the proposal of safety recommendations and affiliated actions. The tool can be used to assess safety and prepare the safety action plan as a cost-effective, technology-based solution. The plan 1) sets specific goals for safety improvement, 2) assigns responsibilities to individual functional teams, 3) prepares a report and safety actions and ensures compliance with regulations, 4) prepares emergency preparedness and quality assurance, and 5) prepares documentation for the procedures in managing safety as well as periodically evaluates the effectiveness of the safety plan, safety recommendations, and lessons learned.
Dr. Nesreen Weshah
University of Calgary and Micro Engineering Tech Inc.
An Innovative Cloud-Based Platform for Cost Effective Training and Development
Category: People & Talent
People & talent: 1) Cost effective training, and 2) Developing and building the next generation of petro-technical professionals.
An innovative cloud-based platform is proposed. The platform (RoboGarden) encourages the concept of coding to control towards entrepreneurship. RoboGarden is a cost-effective training and development engine that digitizes STREAM content without the need of software developers, minimizing the cost of content production, which helps to build the next generation of petro-technical professionals. The platform’s backend is an artificial intelligence engine that uses user data to optimize the educational experience.
A simultaneous global increase (12%) in programming and STREAM jobs represents above-average growth compared to the greater job market. The combined result is globally high unemployment rates in this high-demand area. The problem requires an innovative and complete platform that can deliver technology-related digital content in an easy-to-understand way, and to tie it effectively to the digital workforce. We believe the RoboGarden platform fills that niche. The RoboGarden platform is self-paced with an intelligent hinting-based system to support the learner with minimal to no involvement of instructors. RoboGarden’s intelligent engine uses data collected from users to constantly improve feedback to the user. The platform’s pedagogy is designed to prepare an individual in the oil and gas industry with minimum or zero background in technology, and to quickly and productively integrate them into the workforce with a focus on freelancing. The platform integrates computational thinking, problem solving, fail-fast to succeed faster, coding literacy, teamwork, and communications. RoboGarden’s platform content currently covers pseudocode, Python, and JavaScript programming languages in addition to Machine Learning and Web/Mobile App Development courses. The RoboGarden platform is a forward-looking and will use AI and interactive, game-based learning to produce a pipeline of future coders and skilled entrepreneurs.
The designed platform makes creativity available for everyone by building the most powerful and simplest intelligent global eLearning teaching and training platform for science, technology, engineering, and math. This will be achieved by maintaining traffic and by modifying our intelligent engine to continue training as we acquire new data. The RoboGarden platform is a fast-growing platform that carries a message that is important to the larger community, and to Canada, especially for the next generation of petro-technical professionals. Our objective is offer guidance to non-technical workers who wish to move into the technology sector. We seek to make creativity available to everyone through the most powerful and simplest teaching platform for science, technology, engineering, and math. Our training philosophy contributes to a decrease in the unemployment rate, which will be a direct benefit to society. RoboGarden platform has won international awards in Silicon Valley and Dubai.
Stephen MacKenzie
RoboGarden Inc.
An Integrated Carbon capture & conversion plant
Category: Environmental Management
To reduce the carbon footprint of the natural gas combined cycle power plant (NGCC) by capturing CO2. To increase the net present value (NPV) of the CO2 capture system by converting captured CO2 into fuels and feedstocks.
Methods, Procedures, Process:
The goal of this project is to demonstrate a techno-economically viable carbon capture and conversion (CCC) plant, which can be integrated with the existing natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) power plant. The proposed CCC plant consists of two units: carbon capture unit which consists of molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC) and a carbon conversion unit which consists of CO2 electrolyzer. In this project, CO2 from the flue gases of an NGCC power plant will be captured using MCFCs. The MCFCs are electrochemical fuel-cells which operate on CO2 from flue gases, natural gas (NG) and steam to simultaneously generate clean electricity and concentrated (>95%) CO2. The MCFCs will be retrofitted into the existing NGCC power plant and the required raw materials for MCFC i.e., CO2 from flue gases, NG and steam are available within the existing NGCC power plant. Due to the exothermic reactions within MCFCs, no external source of energy is required to generate steam and the excess heat energy generated from MCFCs will be used to generate clean electricity. Our preliminary study suggests that over 80% of CO2 from flue gases can be captured by MCFCs.
The captured CO2 and clean electrical energy generated from MCFC will be fed to the CO2 electrolyzer. The electrolyzer will then convert CO2 into fuels and feedstocks, including carbon monoxide, n-propanol, ethanol, methanol, formic acid through electrochemical reduction reaction (e CO2RR). Under current techno-economic conditions, carbon monoxide and formic acid are found to be economically viable products.
Results, Observations, Conclusions:
80% of CO2 in the fuel gas can be captured.
Surplus clean electrical energy is generated.
The net present value of e CO2RR process is positive for carbon monoxide and formic acid.
Thermal efficiency = 82 %
≥95% purity CO2 stream is produced
Novel/Additive Information:
The captured CO2 is usually either stored or fed into the drilling wells for enhanced oil recovery. The captured CO2 needs to be compressed, stored and transported to a remote location. The proposed CCC plant will overcome the costs associated with the storage and transportation of CO2. The CO2 electrolyzer unit will utilize the clean electrical energy produced from MCFCs and also enhances the NPV of the whole process by converting the captured CO2 into high-value fuels and feedstocks. The proposed CCC plant can be integrated with any existing facility that emits CO2 (e.g., SAGD, refinery ) which can be lucrative to many petroleum industries to avoid carbon tax and produce revenues from the valuable fuels and feedstocks.
Imtinan Mohsin
Application of Robotic Process Automation in MWD Survey Business Model
Category: Drilling & Completion
Landing the curve and placement of the production section of oil wells within the pay-zone, is a critical steering operation executed by the directional drillers. A Measure While Drilling (MWD) tool provides the trajectory of the wellbore, where this "Data to Action" loop needs to be rapid and accurate. However, delivering this information to the engineers in town, implies the use of four different systems: MWD surface equipment, paperwork (excel or online), well planning software and the delivery of the PDF report by email; where in some cases can take up to three hours.
-In this paper, we describe how a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) system called ROSS (Robotic Operator Survey System) reduces the collection, processing and delivery cycle, from three hours to seconds. Furthermore, ROSS eliminated the labor of the survey-updating task, which is up to 25% of the well planner workload, and significantly reduces the risk of human errors.
The main components of ROSS are: (a) continuous screening and detection of new surveys coming up to the MWD surface equipment and storage the data in a remote server; (b) aggregation of the surveys with the directional well plan for deviation analysis; (c) web-based business intelligence dashboard, allowing the user to have a real time data visualization against offset wells in the same area; (d) and a unique and innovative virtual agent which reduce all the decision latency on wellbore positioning. ROSS continuously monitors the position of the well against the directional well plan, communicating to the client any undesired or unexpected deviation of the wellbore.
After the application of ROSS, the overall service quality had a significant improvement. One of the most immediate benefits was the increase in speed on survey delivery. On the customer side, "Data to Action" loop had a tremendous reduction in term of decision latency on unexpected wellbore positioning events.
Furthermore, field operators and engineers, had a positive response to the system.
In some cases, the MWD operator was required to enter 10 different values, with more than 70 digits in total. Now, manual and extensive typing entry of survey values is no longer required. Also, client services satisfaction was an important gain, due to the full awareness of the wellbore positioning, even when the drilling engineers were outside of regular office hours.
Additionally, the well planning department was greatly benefited from the elimination of up to 25% of the repetitive and heavy workload required in the ongoing generation of the daily survey report during weekdays, weekends and holidays.
Oscar Jara
Drilling Optimization Engineer
Drillinintel Innovation Group
Bioreactor Processes for Bioremediation of Soils, Sediments and Water
Objectives/Scope:
The occurrence of large and medium sized oil spill events are worldwide decreasing yet occasionally they still can occur. Bioremediation has been proposed to be a cost-effective remedy for cleaning oil spills that pollute air, soil, and water. Bioremediation processes typically involve various microbial species acting in parallel or in sequence to complete the biological degradation processes of contaminants.
The scope of this college-based applied research project is the development of a bioreactor process and its application to bioremediation of soils, sediments and water polluted with recalcitrant and toxic compounds from oil spills and other sources of contamination. In our work we used naphthalene as a proof of concept example of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contaminant commonly found in oil, tar sands and bitumen, as well as worldwide in soils and sediments as a result of both natural and anthropogenic production.
We developed screening assays and enriched in progressive enrichment steps cultures of napthalene utilizing bacteria with naphthalene as main carbon source in the selection media. In parallel, we designed a bioreactor process and explored its application and utility for our isolates in moving bed biofilm reactor technology. The microbes grew as biomat on biofilter media (bio balls) and performed the pollutant degradation work. We characterized the biofilm forming capability and tested its cold climate performance. Our project integrated traditional bioreactor technology, such as design, engineering, and monitoring aspects (microscopy, classic microbiology, degradation analysis and real-time parameter monitoring) with key new diagnostic DNA technologies including quantitative PCR, next generation DNA sequencing and environmental-informatics.
The collection of isolated PAH-degrading bacterial strains obtained during our screening is a valuable resource for detailed examination of the PAH-catabolic potential of environmental microbial isolates. They can contribute to knowledge acquisition through the identification of highly divergent or novel functional genes associated with the degradation abilities of PAH’s and may include isolates of utility for the bioaugmentation of PAH-contaminated sites.
In addition, we continue to explore the application and utility of our isolates in biological aerated filter and moving bed biofilm reactor technology by characterizing their biofilm forming capability and focusing on cold climate performance. Specifically we are working on characterising the biofilm formation and optimizing and advancing the process. We are also interested in understanding the biofilter performance as a means of pollutant and biomass removal.
Most major population centers in Europa and North America are growing and developing on former industrial sites often polluted with hydrocarbon contaminants. In addition, the demand for energy in form of hydrocarbons is increasing and our applied research effort may contribute to a better understanding of alternative and environment friendly clean up options and represent a cost-effective strategy for remedial action of production and polluted sites, as well as for future waste management.
Athanasios (Ethan) Paschos
Mohawk College for Applied Arts and Technology
Carbon-dioxide Conversion into High-value Fuels/feedstocks using Metal-organic Frameworks based Eectrocatalyst
The escalating high levels of Carbon-dioxide (CO2) in atmosphere has raised substantial apprehensions towards environmental impacts of using fossil fuels simulating the investigation of new technologies to alleviate the CO2 emissions by capturing, sequestration, and/or conversion. Electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 presents a favourable methodology of artificially recycling carbon for mitigating global energy and sustainability challenges. The CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) produces a wide range of products, including carbon monoxide, formate, methanol, methane, ethanol, propylene, etc., which can be either used as fuels, or converted other valuable chemicals. Considering the larger market sizes and techno-economic reasons, the long chain hydrocarbon (C2+) products have more commercial and CO2 utilization potential. However, electrochemical production of C2+ involve multi-electron transfer reactions resulting in a number of challenges, including low faradaic efficiency, complex micro-kinetic reaction mechanisms etc. Techno-economically compelling and industrial implementation of CO2RR is reliant on the novel catalysts capable of selectively reducing CO2 to targeted valuable fuels or feedstocks at low overpotentials. There is dire need to optimise the activity, selectivity, efficiency and stability of the novel electrocatalyst materials. Metal organic framework based electrocatalysts have attracted great interest in carbon-dioxide reduction reaction process. As they can potentially be used as scaffold for tuning the properties of electrocatalysts with atomic precision by rationally designing the molecular building blocks for their chemical, structural, pore-metric features.
This study focuses on the study of Cu based MOF and MOF derived electrocatalysts for C2+ high value fuels and feedstocks. The synthesised MOFs were characterised using FTIR, XRD, BET, and SEM. Once the appropriate MOF properties were ensured, they were coated on Carbon paper to be used as electrocatalyst. Electrochemical properties, CO2RR were performed in a flow cell configuration. The liquid products were investigated with NMR, and GCMS was used for gaseous products. High C2+ selectivity with improved faradaic efficiency, current density and stability were observed. The outcome of the proposed research paves the way for a step closer to the economically viable C2+ products. The proposed work can be integrated with any existing carbon capture plant which can be lucrative to many petroleum industries to avoid carbon tax and produce revenues from the valuable fuels and feedstocks obtained after CO2RR.
Nidhika Bhoria
M Sc Student
Cost-Effective Gas Sweetening System for Oil Industry – Case Study
Blackspur Oil Corp’s facility in Alberta, Canada produces natural gas from an existing oil battery. The site was using an H2S scavenger system to treat sour gas which resulted in high operating costs. After evaluating various options, Blackspur selected Macrotek's SULFCAT® H2S Removal System to treat 5000 ppm of H2S from 3MMSCFD of gas down to less than 2 ppm. Macrotek Inc. is a Canadian based supplier of a variety of air pollution control systems and has developed an innovative catalytic reagent that converts H2S to elemental sulfur. The SULFCAT process is delivered using Macrotek’s novel process gas scrubbing system. H2S is absorbed from the gas in the absorber column. The scrubbing liquid is sent to the oxidation vessel where air is bubbled through, regenerating the scrubbing liquid. A slip stream of the scrubbing liquid is sent to the sulfur filter producing a washed and dried filter cake.
An overview of the system will be presented including the dual absorber vessel design to allow for operating flexibility; the skid-mounted packages (pump, blower and sulfur filter) to minimize field work and installation costs; and the fully automated controls. Due to the remote nature of the facility, considerations to minimize the requirements for process interruptions due to maintenance were significant to the design of the system. Further, key safety considerations will be summarized.
The SULFCAT system was commissioned in the spring of 2018 and has since been continuously running without any downtime. H2S content in the treated gas is below the requirements for sweet gas infrastructure. An analysis of the operating data will be discussed including H2S removal efficiency and reagent consumption.
Chris Ristevski
Applications Enginner
H2Sweet Inc.
Delivering the Right Information Within Pipeline Projects: A Practical Approach
Managed appropriately, information is a competitive advantage in the pipeline industry. Organizations with timely access to documents and drawings created in the design, build and maintenance of a pipeline operate more efficiently, make better business decisions, and comply with regulatory requirements. However, managing information created throughout pipeline projects is a monumental challenge. With hundreds of thousands of documents created by numerous stakeholders, in a variety of formats and locations, careful oversight is essential. Some documents constantly change, and are carefully controlled to keep correct revisions accessible. Others are hand-written on the pipeline right-of-way in extreme weather conditions, when expediency takes precedence over careful documentation. This diverse environment increases the risk of missing or incomplete information.
While project managers are accountable for ensuring documentation is complete and accurate, they focus on higher priorities like budget and timelines. Information management is left to EPCs and contractors, with little owner-operator input. If the project manager reviews information deliverables at all, it is at project closeout, when no time or budget remains to address concerns. When Operations identifies information deficiencies weeks later, it is too late to correct them. The project team has moved on to the next project, with no awareness of these difficulties. This relaxed approach has left Canada’s pipeline industry with significant gaps in critical documentation required to operate their pipelines. Organizations spend considerable time and money locating or recreating this information, yet these hidden costs are not considered in project planning. Pressures to reduce costs are ever-increasing, while heightened public scrutiny demands additional safety and environmental protection measures. The pipeline industry can no longer afford to be lax with project information
There is a better way. Based on current research in the Canadian oil and gas industry, this presentation will quantify the financial, reputational and safety risks lost or missing project information creates, and outline a simple, practical approach to ensure pipeline projects deliver the right information. This approach requires:
defining information requirements at project kickoff, tracking critical deliverables at each stage gate, and introducing shared accountability between the projects and operations teams. Defining information requirements at project kickoff clarifies which information deliverables each party is accountable for, and any mandatory submission standards. Communicating requirements early avoids unnecessary charges, minimizes effort to align with owner-operator standards, and maximizes efficiency by ensuring documents are created alongside related activities. Tracking these requirements throughout the project allows time and budget for corrections. Most importantly, involving the Operations team in both establishing requirements and reviewing deliverables ensures the final information meets operational needs. When scaled to project size and complexity, this approach ensures projects deliver the accurate, complete, and trusted information required for pipeline operations.
Colleen Moretti
Integra Partners Ltd.
Effect of Wettability on Sweep Efficiency of Nanofluids
Heavy oil constitutes a large proportion of oil reserves in the world. However, a fundamental obstacle to recover large fractions of this heavy oil in place via fluid injection is poor sweep efficiency due to the high oil viscosity, leading to low oil mobility. Therefore, robust mobility control is an important long-term goal. The aim of this research is to improve the sweep efficiency of a drainage displacement without having to inject more viscous fluids (such as polymers) by application of functionalized Nanoparticles which are able to stabilize in-situ emulsions with high viscosity. Another aim of this study is to use a sensor technology for displacement pattern recognition. Like the case in the healthcare field, where medical professionals use high-frequency diagnostic imaging tools for disease recognition, a similar equipment which is a medical CT scanner is used here to detect how Nanofluids and oil propagate in porous media.
Throughout the first stage of this study, hydrophilic silica NPs are synthesized as the most commonly used and cost-effective option for EOR applications, and they are subsequently functionalized with an effective chemical reagent (hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS)) to increase their affinity to the oil-water interface. This affinity is known to correlate with in-situ emulsion formation as well as with the ability to improve conformance of drainage displacement of Nanofluids. Several characterization techniques demonstrated successful grafting of HMDS on the surface of bare silica NPs.
We conducted coreflooding experiments in a water-wet sandpack and monitored the displacement using a medical CT scanner. This imaging technology permits a clear identification of opportunities for sweep efficiency improvement in an oil reservoir in presence of functionalized NPs, which is impossible to be tracked in underground porous media. The sweep efficiency of drainage corefloods was dramatically larger in presence of modified NPs. In contrast, we observed dominant viscous fingering in absence of NPs. Based on the mechanism for this improvement, we anticipate similar behavior as reservoir wettability changes toward the oil-wet condition. Therefore, the sweep efficiency improvement in an oil-wet porous media will be investigated as well in the absence and presence of Nanofluids.
The results of this study would then clarify the efficiency of Nanofluids in stabilizing a displacement front, especially in an oil-wet reservoir, which consequently has a paramount role on the amount of oil recovery obtained. Options for implementing this method for improving sweep in the field are discussed.
Sepideh Maaref
PhD Studen
Experimental Investigation on Steam-Foam Process: Profile Control and Gravitational Drainge
Category: Enhanced Oil Recovery
The steam foam process was developed to improve the sweeping efficiency of steam in thermal oil recovery methods (i.e. steam flooding). Reported experimental work on the steam foam process usually focused on determining the mobility reduction factor (MRF) under the various steam qualities and velocities. In this study, we investigated the performances of the steam foam on the profile control in the heterogeneous reservoirs by employing the dual-sandpack models as well as the effect of the gravitational drainage on the steam foam propagation process.
The foaming agents were first screened by conducting the foam height tests under a high temperature of up to 200 oC and a high pressure of up to 500 psi. The selected surfactants and nanoparticles were then used in the steam foam coreflooding experiments at 200 oC and 200 psi backpressure. Superheated steam was mixed with the foaming agent solution to reach the desired steam quality and the mixture was injected into either a single sandpack or parallel sandpacks with different permeability ratios. Foam propagation was monitored from the differential pressure transducers placed at different sections along the sandpack. An in-line density meter was utilized to characterize the foam behavior as it exited the sandpack and to quantify the distribution of flow between the parallel sandpacks. The coreflooding tests were repeated for the different sandpack orientations to investigate the effect of gravitational liquid drainage on the foam performance.
The coreflooding experiments in a single vertical sandpack (downward flow) show that strong steam foam was generated in porous media with an MRF of about 30. The MRF is increased by a factor of four when sandpack permeability is increased from 3 to 23 Darcy, making this system well suited for improving conformance in heterogeneous reservoirs. In addition, the density history of effluent shows that changes in injection pressure instantaneously affect steam quality and liquid saturation distribution in the sandpack. The pressure gradient in the bottom section of sandpack is much larger than those of the upper sections. This is attributed to greater foam propagation in the bottom section due to the larger liquid saturation there. Significant flow diversion is observed during foam flooding in the heterogeneous dual-sandpack model.
This study provides an experimental reference on evaluating the ability of the steam foam to improve sweeping efficiency in heterogeneous reservoirs. The in-line density measurements provide valuable insight into foam behavior in the porous media and an easy method to quantify the flow diversion. This study also investigates the effects of gravitational drainage on steam foam performance, which has often been overlooked. An improved understanding of such topics will help to achieve a more successful steam foam implementation.
Zan Chen
Foam-Assisted-SAGD: Moving Towards a More Efficient and Eco-Friendly SAGD Process?
Although SAGD is a very popular in-situ extraction process in Canada, irregular growth of the steam-chamber is a major concern in terms of its actual effectiveness. Indeed, lack of steam conformance is made worse by reservoir heterogeneities and leads to high heat losses. Eventually more steam is required, thus more natural gas is burned to vaporize the water, adding to the total carbon footprint. Foams could be a cost-effective solution to tackle these issues. They have been used to that effect in many cyclic steam and steam flood field cases but not yet for SADG.
Phenomenological assessment of FA-SAGD has been performed in a homogeneous cross-section in the preliminary work of (Chen et al. 2010). Here, we focus on two simplified homogeneous and heterogeneous models (Foster Creek, Hangingstone). Reference rheological behavior of steam-foam is captured from coreflood experiments using native cores containing heavy crude oil at 200°C. The resulting data are used to calibrate the foam model of our reservoir simulator. Several injection strategies, including continuous injections, are assessed in terms of water consumption, cumulative Steam-Oil-Ratio, and with a specific focus on back-produced surfactants.
In order to propagate the foaming surfactants throughout the steam chamber the injection sequence needs to be properly determined and optimized. A simple continuous FA-SAGD injection would lead to an accumulation of surfactant close to the injector wells, preventing the steam from moving upward in the reservoir and increasing the risk of steam breakthrough occuring during the process. While taking into account the shear-thinning rheological behavior of the foam at the injector, it appears that the Mobility Reduction Factor induced by the foam needs to be adjusted to find a compromise between a good steam mobility control and an efficient growing of the steam chamber. After 24 months of injection a reduction of at least 30% of the cSOR is observed, mainly due to a reduction of steam consumption. Furthermore, surfactant production occurs after a few weeks due to the proximity of the producer and the injector (6 meters). Injection strategies can delay the chemical breakthrough and increase the amount of surfactant retained in the reservoir. However, it might not be a major concern since the chemicals envisioned for this application are found to degrade rapidly and therefore will be of minor concern regarding surface facilities.
It is observed that Foams will act in two different ways in SAGD: as blocking agents in the middle of the steam-chamber and as a conformance control agents as they will improved its growth within heterogeneous reservoir. Without heavy optimization, we observed clear improvement of FA-SAGD compared to SAGD which results in a reduction in costs related to the steam generation and water consumption, and thus of the carbon footprint.
Guillaume Batôt
High-Resolution Density Measurements for Interpreting Multiphase Flow and Transport Phenomena
Category: Reservoir Engineering
Understanding fluid flow in porous media is important; it is especially challenging for flows of complex fluids and multiple phases. We demonstrate that high-resolution in-line density measurement is a valuable tool in this regard. Placing an in-line densitometer downstream of the core exit in core flooding apparatus provides real-time quantification of multiphase fluid production rates, high-resolution data on connate water displacement, breakthrough times, emulsion/foam generation and coalescence, steam condensation, and fines migration.
To illustrate the potential applications for in-line densitometry in core flooding, a series of core floods were performed with a densitometer placed at the outlet of a sandpack. All fluids exiting the core passed through the measurement cell at the same temperature and pressure as the core. An algorithm was developed and applied to the density data to provide a quantitative determination of oil and water production. The second series of tests were performed at high temperature and pressure, with a densitometer placed at the inlet and outlet of a sandpack, for steam applications. In both series of experiments, data acquisition was collected at 1 hertz to provide effluent histories with resolution of <0.001 PV. The analyzed density data was validated against conventional effluent analysis, including Dean-Stark, toluene separations, magnetic susceptibility measurements, and ICP-MS, as applicable.
The high-resolution monitoring of effluent from a flow experiment through porous media in a system with two phases of known densities, enables oil production to be accurately quantified in the case of both light and heavy oil. The frequency of measurements results in a high-resolution history of breakthrough times, displacement fronts and fluid phase behavior. The instrument sensitivity allows for the differentiation of connate versus injected water in the effluent and for resolving the behavior of miscible displacements. As well, it is possible to differentiate between emulsion production and bulk oil production and determine produced emulsion quality. In the case of monitoring steam injection processes, laboratory tests show that in-line density measurements enable the real-time determination of steam quality at the inlet and outlet of a sandpack, steam condensation monitoring, and information on the effects of non-condensable gas on steam foam quality. The densitometer also provides valuable information in foam flow monitoring, allowing foam quality determinations and the ability to identify foam/no foam boundaries. In nanoparticle applications, the densitometer can be used for dynamic adsorption experiments to monitor retention, effluent concentration, and fines migration with high accuracy.
The use of high-temporal-resolution in-line densitometry in core flooding applications provides insight on complex fluid flow in porous media, which typical bulk effluent analysis cannot resolve. The ability to measure produced fluids at high resolution reduces mass balance error associated with the effluent collection and broadens our understanding of complex fluid flow in porous media.
Adam Fehr
Key-Performance Indicators and Their Role in Efficient Hydraulic Fracturing Operations
With the wide spread adoption of horizontal drilling and multi well pads, a single frac crew can be on a well site for days or weeks on end. Having tangible data to measure and understand the time line of operations allows for not only clarity on areas for improvement, but also provides for the ability to set benchmarks for future projects. Key performance indicators (KPIs) are quantifiable measurements of the success or failures of an operation, organization, or project. In terms of multi well pads, KPIs can be used to measure various aspects of the job such as overall pad efficiency which is compromised of pumping time, non-productive time, and time spent on forward moving operations separate from pumping and unplanned delays.
In the cost-conscious market of low oil prices, burn rates are often measured on a per minute basis for large pads and pumpable products can run into the millions of dollars. By having an explicit focus on optimization and efficiency its allows operators and service companies alike to understand the intricacies of the project as it develops and highlights cost-saving opportunities.
Through both pre-planning, and continual tracking throughout the project, inefficiencies get highlighted sooner providing for the opportunity for real time adjustments and potential realized cost savings versus post job reviews.
This presentation intends to highlight the main concept through examples of both a major project where overall fracturing efficiency was increased year over year as a direct result of KPI tracking, and small pads where fundamental operations were changed to improve efficiency and ultimately cost savings.
Potential Categories:
16. Intelligent Completions: Design, Implementation and Performance
115. Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Management: Strategies for Successful Project Execution
41. Marginal Field Developments and Optimizations
Scott Churchill
Completions Engineer
Innov8 Group
Leveraging a Lubricant Supplier to Provide a Competitive Advantage
Category: Field Development & Infrastructure
Lubricants make up only 3-5% of a typically maintenance budget and are often treated like a consumable.But what if you can leverage your lubricants and your lubrication program to unlock exponential benefits to an organization such as reduced maintenance costs and increase equipment reliability? Industry studies have shown that on average 75% of component failure mechanism can be attributed to lubricants; such as insufficient lubricants, lubricant contamination, incorrect lubricants, and aged lubricants. Poor lubricantsand practices can result in increased equipment downtime and increased total cost of ownership. Having a strong progressive lubrication program and using the right lubricants can allow an organization to reduce equipment maintenance time, improve equipment efficiency, and increased reliability providing an enhanced competitive advantage.
Poor lubricant program habits can become a norm within an organization, with employees becoming inept to the results of the habits. A lubricant supplier should have the ability to conduct an assessment of an organizations current lubrication program. The site visit and lubrication program assessment by your lubricant supplier allows for high trained field-based engineers to identify your complete lubrication requirements, offer recommendations on optimized lubricants and maintenance frequency, while looking for ways to apply industry best practices and deliver value. Areas of focus for the lubrication program assessment should be; Lubricant Storage and Handling, Contamination Control, Lubricant Application, Oil Condition Monitoring, Training, Equipment Optimization, Standard Procedures, and KPI Planning. With the completion of the lubrication program assessment, improvement projects must be identified with an expect value delivery along with the projected completion date. This lubrication program assessment should be completed on a set interval to ensure continuous monitoring and improvement.
In response to customer needs, harnessing technology to deliver value through the creation of solutions, such as on-vehicle oil analysis sensors, web-based applications and long-life lubricants is critical and should leveraged and explored with your lubricant supplier.
Strong collaboration with your lubricant supplier strengthens a proactive maintenance regime versus a reactive regime. The lubricant supplier should be available to assist in understanding why a failure occurrs, what role, lubrication played in the failure and most importantly, leverage their technical services to determine the root cause and implementing actions to prevent the failure from occurring again.
In a recent example a large oil well service company operating in North America was experiencing a decreased in their Power End MTBF) along with an increase in wear metal flagging’s during routine oil analysis. By reaching out to their lubricant supplier and leveraging their expertise and technical services, a complete investigation with root cause analysis was performed resulting in understanding why the failures were occurring along with the identification of a solution that leveraged lubricants to deliver an estimated $2.9 million annual savings to the company.
Lubricants only make up 3-5% of a typically maintenance budget by partnering with a lubricant supplier that has a focus on quality lubricants, equipment reliability and value delivery, can be a become true competitive advantage.
Scott Kwas
Technical Team Lead
Shell Canada Lubricants
Magnetic Actuation Mechanisms to Eliminate Valves Leaks and Fugitive Emissions
Magnetically actuated valves offer the potential to eliminate valve leaks completely, which would be extremely beneficial in many applications such as lethal service, eliminating fugitive emissions, and improving the safety of high temperature process and steam valves. This paper will describe the history, current state of the art, and the author’s vision for future development of magnetically actuated pack-less valves.
An Abstract for the Pipeline and Processing Facilities Technical Category
Magnetic valves couple the torque or force required to actuate a valve across a hermetically sealed bonnet and have no continuous stem from inside to outside the valve, and hence don’t contain a dynamic seal that can degrade or leak. Magnetically actuated valves are in some ways similar to bellows valves, however magnetic valves have several key advantages over bellows valves because bellows valves often develop leaks as they age associated with metal fatigue and their welded seams, and can also fail catastrophically in some instances.
A brief history of magnetically actuated pack-less valves stretching back 75 years to Ralph Carlson’s work at Crane in the early 1940’s will be presented along with limitations of previous generations of magnetic valves. Electromagnetically actuated solenoid valves are ubiquitous, and academic research abounds with microfluidic-scale magnetically actuated valves, but rugged cost effective macro-scale magnetically actuated valves are still not commercially available. Part of this has been due to the limitations of available magnet technology many years ago, and part of it has been the overall architecture and resulting poor high temperature performance of previous magnetic valves. Higher temperature magnet technologies such as Alnico and Samarium Cobalt magnets will be discussed. Alnico and Samarium Cobalt magnets offer some advantages such as improved survivability for flame testing, but also have disadvantages such as low coercivity which require special handling and architectural considerations. Finally, the author’s vision of a novel magnetic valve architecture that enables high temperature operation, hermetic sealing of the bonnet, such as by welding or brazing, and welded or soldered port connections will be described. New experimental data utilizing this architecture and modern high strength neodymium iron boron magnets will be presented.
This work is novel and beneficial to the energy industry because it offers a path for magnetic actuation to completely eliminate the possibility of valve leaks. New magnetic valve designs, their measured test data and actuation performance will be presented. Photographs and drawings of actual valves that have been completely welded shut will be shown, and prototypes will be available for demonstration afterwards.
Maui Innovation Group
Measuring Methane Emissions using Satellite and Airborne Instruments
In June of 2016, GHGSat launched the world’s first and only satellite, GHGSat-D, capable of measuring greenhouse gas emissions from targeted industrial facilities around the world. The satellite has a field of view of approximately 12 km by 12 km with a spatial resolution of <50 m, and is capable of measuring both carbon dioxide and methane. Since launch, this demonstration satellite has acquired over 3000 observations at hundreds of targeted sites around the world. We review the satellite’s imaging spectrometer measurement concept, and provide recent methane observation examples from various industrial sites.
GHGSat’s remote sensing fleet will expand in 2019 with the addition of two new instruments. GHGSat-C1, scheduled for launch in June 2019, is the first of our constellation of next-generation satellites for methane measurement, and has design improvements to reduce instrument error and improve detection performance by almost an order of magnitude compared to our demonstration satellite. Also scheduled for deployment in mid-2019 is our first aircraft variant instrument, GHGSat-AV, which has a similar but more compact instrument design compared to the satellite payloads. Operating this airborne instrument on board a light aircraft flying at low (~3 km) altitudes will compliment satellite-based methane observations of sites by targeting smaller areas at finer spatial resolution (<1 m) and with improved sensitivity. Overviews of these two new instruments are presented along with updates on their construction and deployment status. We describe the use of GHGSat’s satellites and airborne instrument as part of a tiered observational system that will be a cost-effective measurement solution capable of addressing the majority of methane emissions in the upstream petroleum industry.
Warren Shaw
Manager, Airborne Systems
GHGSAT
Mechanistic investigation of brines for low salinity flooding for EOR
Low salinity flooding has been an enhanced oil recovery technique of choice for a prolonged period of time. This as a result of its practical applicability given its cost effectiveness coupled with its displacement efficiency. The efficiency however depends on the formulation of the low salinity water (LSW) and the rock mineral make up, in essence the rock-fluid interaction. In order not to cause formation damage due to the precipitation as a result of incompatibility between the injected brine with the insitu formation water, a good compositional formulation of the low salinity water to that of the formation water is very essential. This research focuses on the composition of the LSW and its compatibility with the formation water by testing out different salt of different compositions and ionic strengths to investigate the displacement efficiency. Sulphate and chloride based salts were used as the bases for low salinity brine to carry out a laboratory core flooding process on a sand stone core sample at a pressure of 1200 psi, temperature of 40C, and an injection rate of 0.25 ml/min. The results of the experiments showed that, for the investigated rock type and formation water composition, the sulphate based low salinity flooding fluid gave the best recovery factor of about 71% compared to the chloride based fluid of 50%. This can be attributed to a better chemistry between the sulphate based salt, the rock mineral composition, and the displaced oil at those conditions. Furthermore, reduction in the interfacial tension (IFT), being one of the displacement mechanisms of low salinity flooding, between the displaced and displacing fluid was apparent from the results obtained which was further investigated through Interfacial tension measurement using the rising bubble method.
Athari Alotaibi
PhD Researcher
Nanoparticle transport via foam to create O/W emulsion for EOR
When dealing with water flooding in heavy/viscous oil reservoirs, many adverse factors influence the expected degree of success (Brown, 1989). More than 80% of the original oil in place remains unrecovered after water flooding. High relative mobility ratio due to the high viscosity of displaced fluid (heavy oil) and low viscosity of displacing fluid (water) results in early breakthrough and low cumulative oil recovery. Moreover, linear alkanoic acids, naphthenic and asphaltenic acids present in the resident oil inside reservoir are very effective adsorbing agents to water/oil interfaces which stabilize W/O (water in oil) emulsions. Sullivan and Kilpatrick (2002) concluded that W/O emulsions could be strongly stabilized through asphaltene and resin adsorption. These emulsion droplets can dramatically increase the viscosity of the oil and increase pumping costs.
The above-mentioned concerns are the motivation to try preferentially generating O/W emulsion in situ, thereby improving mobility ratio. Because components in the oil phase typically lead to W/O emulsions, we introduce suitably treated nanoparticles previously shown to stabilize O/W emulsions. Delivering the nanoparticles into the reservoir with greater sweep efficiency is a key challenge. Here we have explored the use of nanoparticle-stabilized foam for this purpose. Biodegradable, environmentally friendly rod shape nanoparticles were added to surfactant to stabilize CO2 bubbles in aqueous phase.
A series of foam flooding experiments with the nanoparticle-surfactant stabilizers was conducted at 27.5 bar and 25 to determine the sweep efficiency of the displacing fluid. The experiments were conducted in the absence and presence of oil. During foam flow in water saturated sandpack, high quality foam is produced at the effluent, rapid pressure response across sandpack is observed and pressure build up is around 600kPa. More fluctuation in pressure was recorded during foam flow in oil saturated sandpack and pressure build up across sandpack was around 100kPa. Foam collapses when touches the oil and an emulsion of oil in (surfactant+ NP) solution was collected at effluent. Oil enters and spreads into the lamella and tends to collapse the CO2 bubbles. When the oil saturation in the sandpack reaches a critical saturation(~20%OOIP), pressure stars to build up and foam is generated inside the sandpack.
Apparent viscosity and resistance to flow increased dramatically in comparison to conventional water flood. This NP system improves the recovery in two aspects; first, it stabilizes foam that delivers CO2 gas with greater sweep efficiency. Fine-textured foam encompasses a large bubble density and imposes a huge resistance against the gas flow, which improves the recovery (around 20%OOIP extra after water flood in our experiment) and guarantees long lasting foam at HT/HP reservoir condition. Secondly, as the foam displaced oil, nanoparticles that were originally present at gas/liquid interfaces transferred onto oil/water interfaces, enabling the in situ creation of O/W emulsion stabilized by the nanoparticle. Produced O/W emulsion destabilized and separated only by gravity segregation within 48 hrs.
The generation of O/W emulsion would prevent the common situation in which W/O emulsions form in the reservoir and greatly reduce productivity.
Sahand Etemad
Non-Thermal Multispectral-IR Imaging & Quantification of Methane Emissions
Primary Category: Environmental Management (Methane Emissions Reduction)
We describe new technology and a prototype system, and illustrate results for imaging and quantitative measurement of fugitive emissions, leak detection and venting of hydrocarbons and other gases, supporting next generation emissions monitoring. Our approach, based on multispectral sensing in the extended short-wave infrared (SWIR) spectrum, has several key advantages over conventional thermal methods of optical gas imaging (OGI). Gas imaging in the extended-SWIR is based on multispectral absorption of sunlight or artificial illumination, and requires no temperature difference between gas emissions and the background. Avoiding water-vapor absorption bands, we are able to image gas through moisture and fog, and sense methane-steam mixtures without confusion. Our use of multiple SWIR spectral bands enables real-time imaging, speciation and quantification (aboard the camera) of methane, ethane, other volatile organic compounds (VOCs), carbon dioxide, and ammonia. Gas imagery is presented on a tablet user interface as color-coded absorption strength (optical depth or column density) overlaid on a visible color image to provide context. Several leak rate (emissions) algorithms estimate mass and volume flux for high-pressure leaks (jets), low-pressure leaks and vents (plumes), and surface zone emissions due to underground pipe leaks. We present an overview of the prototype system, illustrate controlled release validation experiments from the lab and the field, and summarize results from pilot testing being conducted in Alberta, Massachusetts, and other locations. Our technology is applicable to the upstream production, midstream transmission and storage, and downstream distribution sectors of the natural gas supply chain, as we illustrate with example imagery and emission flux estimates. We include direct comparison of prototype system imagery with existing commercial OGI imagery and flux estimates. Our patented gas camera technology will become commercially available in 2019 at a significantly lower price-point than existing thermal OGI cameras.
Allen Waxman
MultiSensor Scientific, Inc.
Novel chemical treatments for oil sands tailings
Oil Sand tailings are a mixture of water, sand and clay minerals, and residual bitumen produced during the extraction of bitumen using the hot water extraction process. Based on the step in which a tailing stream is produced, the composition of tailing varies largely. Regardless of the involved step and the composition of tailings, the untreated or partially treated tailings are transported to the tailings pond. In the tailings pond, the coarse particles settle fast, and the remaining clays-enriched composition (known as fine fluid tailings, FFT) stays suspended to quite large time. Over the course of time (years), FFT is partially converted to a stable form of tailing known as mature fine tailing. Due to the ever-increasing volumes of fresh FFT (at least for the next 10 years) and large storage of MFT in the ponds, efficient treatments to dewater the tailings to reclaim tailing ponds is of great interest.
Currently, anionic polyacrylamides (PAM) and inorganic salts (coagulants, e.g., alum) are the main chemicals used in the field in different parts of tailings processes such as thickener, centrifuge, inline flocculation process, etc. However, the treatment with PAM and/or coagulants is yet unable to deliver a solid the meets the criteria for land reclamation. Some shortcomings include a change in the water chemistry of released water due to the coagulant addition and the shear-sensitivity of the formed flocs produced with PAM (insufficient shear strength).
We have developed a novel strategy for chemical treatment to address some of these challenges. Through a comprehensive chemical design with an understanding on the dewatering mechanism, a series of compounds were selected based on their outstanding performance in dewatering of tailings and on the quality and quantity of the released water. The treatment resulted in flocs with negligible water, while the released water showed limited alterations. Based on the inferred dewatering mechanism, a number of surfactants (e.g., cationic and zwitterionic surfactants) and a cationic polymer, which could resemble some properties of our selective compounds, were used in dewatering experiments. An outstanding performance of our chemicals for dewatering was observed in comparison with commercially available coagulants, polymers, and surfactants in various type of tailings (i.e., MFT, FFT, and flotation tailing).
While, the commonly used chemicals show some extent of activity to destabilize the suspended clays (i.e., kaolinite and illite), the multi-functionality of our selective compounds to target bi-wettable clays and bitumen droplets is the key to outperform regarding the quality and quantity of released water. The results suggest a promising new pathway for tailings treatment strategies. This project is under further assessment for its scale-up.
Zohrab Ahmadi
Production Solutions to Evaluate ESP and Completion System in Sandstone Formation Applying Reservoir-Production-Geomechanical Synergy with BHGE Product Lines
The aim of this poster is summarize a general review on the wells behavior of shallow-marine in sandstone reservoirs in Mexico and describe an integral methodology to select the best way to produce the wells taking into account:
• Evaluation of the production technologies considering this type of formations.
• Improve Artificial Lift designs in wells with severe risks of solids productions
The integral evaluation presented include the comprehensive reservoir glance and well review coupled with artificial lift design and a comparative study in lower completion technologies which applies to wells in sandstone reservoir.
With this type of studies, BHGE offers to our clients different solutions based on reservoir centric workflows. Our Geoscience and petroleum team (GPE) is a group of integrators providing technical guide to help our production and completion product lines in order to assess reservoir performance and optimal bottom hole flowing pressure at well level. The idea is to confirm well productivity and feasibility to implement or not ESP as an artificial lift in wells and make the best selection of sand control technics and configurations.
The production system analysis may include:
• Artificial Lift operation + Reservoir Data analysis
• Production Maximization
• Artificial Lift sizing considering lifecycle reservoir
• Align production objectives
Typical sand problems observed in some fields are associated to
• Reservoir pressure depletion
• Sudden changes in flow rates or high flow rates at well level
• Unconsolidated formation
• Failures in Downhole completion systems
• High fluid velocity
• Water break through
• Lack of knowledge of geomechanical reservoir models and related parameters like in situ stress orientations, in situ stress magnitudes, pore pressure, rock Mechanical properties.
Our goal is to provide customers with an integrated service value combination that will optimize ESP designs, make the proper study of best technologies for artificial lift and lower completion configurations for conventional and non-conventional wells architectures based on sand production prediction, 1D production geomechanics model.
Emaglin Hernandez
Senior Production Team Leader in GPE (Geoscience & Petroleum Engineering)
Baker Hughes a GE Company
Role of Porous Media on Emulsification During Co-current Two-phase Flow
The formation of emulsions in the porous media can significantly affect the flow of the fluids, since the rheological properties of emulsions are quite different from those of the original fluids. Depending on the type of emulsion that is formed, they can either create more resistance to flow or enhance mobility. The objective of this work is to address the mechanisms of in situ emulsification, using co-current flow of oil and water in the porous media at very low Darcy velocities, with the ultimate aim of being able to induce the preferred mode of emulsification to enhance recovery.
Co-injection of aqueous and oleic phases is performed into sand-packs of different permeabilities, wettabilities and grain sizes. Additional variables, — including two surfactants with different HLB values, and a wide range of fluid velocities — are used to create numerous combinations of fluid, flow and sand properties in this study. The type, amount, and droplet size distribution of the produced emulsions are determined alongside the pressure drop across the sand-pack for the final analysis.
Characterizing the states of in situ emulsification would help to apply appropriate methods to control them. Our observations show the relationship between wettability of the porous media and the HLB value of the surfactant for emulsion formation. High and low HLB values tend to create more emulsion in the water wet and oil wet porous media, respectively. We have also seen the significant effect of the permeability and grain size on the amount of produced emulsion.
The experiments at very low Darcy velocities are relevant to understanding in situ emulsification in thermal recovery methods, such as Steam-assisted gravity drainage, in which the oil and condensate have a very slow co-current flow toward the production well.
Ali Kasraian
Smart Infinity Dimensions Internet of Things Real-Time Streaming platform
E&P Geoscience/ Geomatics and Remote Sensing.
We are proposing an innovation platform that is called Smart Infinity Dimensions (S∞D) Internet of Things (IoT) Real-Time Streaming platform. Recognizing the opportunities generated by the advancement of technology, falling costs of digitalization, and high availability of devices and sensors, we are developing an S∞D Internet of Things (IoT) Real-Time Streaming platform that is a state-of-the-art digital transformation solution designed to optimize the operation, minimize the energy consumption and waste, minimize cost, and maximize the return on investment for capital asset management of existing and new facilities, in addition to mega construction projects.
Statistics show a forecast of the economic impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) by the year 2025, forecast to be between US$3.9 trillion and US$11.1 trillion. We recognize the inherent value of creating a turn-key system that produces information from a variety of other sensors in multiple dimensions through IoT and integration into 3D modelling formats. We designed S∞D services as three levels, as follows: Integrated Asset Modelling, Sensors and Connectivity, and Asset Management/Risk Assessment/Maintenance Prediction. We are introducing an intelligent and connected online platform as a one-stop-shop for capital asset management with customizable digital transformation modules that leverage the IoT, as built, geolocation, data analytics, AI, and more. The platform can be fully or partially integrated into new and existing facilities. The main value proposition is to remotely monitor critical physical variables of different machinery for predictive maintenance improvements, operation cost minimization, risk mitigation, productivity maximization, and optimal return on investment. Massive cost savings in maintenance and operations are introduced. This is also part of its Smart City insight, where it uses its 3D capabilities along with sensor information and communication technologies to increase operational efficiency.
Our turn-key solution methods start with analysing and understanding the underlying problems, selecting proper sensors and sensor vendors, installing and calibrating the sensors, acquiring IoT grade data, building data analytics models. Lastly, we provide engineering grade outputs in the form of real-time streaming and data archival. We started the engineering grade IoT platform/services with the Calgary City Hall truss repair project in 2016-17, where it provided a turn-key IoT-based system comprised of two digital cameras, over 300 strain gauges, approximately 70 measurement nodes, and 10 data gateways. This system was used to monitor the structural health of the building during its complex repair with both live streaming and cloud archival data.
Finally, the developed platform has an artificial intelligence module to leverage captured and real-time streaming data for evaluation of maintenance prediction models with the following modules: a geolocation-capable module, a cloud-based computing data analytics module, an engineering-grade 3D module-as built, and an AI module using software as a service.
Dr. Mohamed Elhabiby
Micro Engineering Tech Inc.
Technology Landscape Map for the Mexican Oil and Gas Industry
As part of its collaborative partnership with Technologico de Monterrey in Mexico, the Extractive Resource Governance Program at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy has advanced a methodological approach to develop technology landscape map (TLM) for Mexico’s oil and gas industry. This work is part of the Value Chain and Talent Observatory Knowledge Network funded by the Mexico Secretariat of Energy Hydrocarbon Fund.
The purpose of developing the TLM is twofold. First, to provide oil and gas companies looking to expand operations into Mexico or those already operating in the country with a tool that highlights the emerging and disruptive technologies developed in Mexico, which can be adapted into their operations. The map will include innovations by companies in the Mexican oil and gas industry, as well as technology transfer from other Mexican industries, academia and research institutions and the international oil and gas industry. By knowing about the disruptive technologies available in the Mexican industry, companies can develop work plans for capacity building and training employees to work with new, efficient technology. Second, the TLM project will form a foundation for developing a Mexico national technology knowledge network and lead to faster innovation development in the Mexican hydrocarbon sector. The TLM will allow industries, government, academia and other research institutions to become partners in an open innovation market, enhancing technology transfer opportunities and collaboration on developing disruptive technologies.
A fully developed open innovation market does not yet exist in the Mexican economy, particularly one centred on the oil and gas industry. With the 2013 Energy Reforms still in adolescence, opportunities for building an open technology ecosystem, that benefits exploration and production companies and service companies exists. Opening the innovation market will change the Mexican workforce, as employment transfers towards skilled and highly skilled workers who will contribute to the technology ecosystem, and automation will reduce the needs for low-skill workers.
The TLM will be populated by using the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Patentscope database. Patentscope catalogues all the patent documents for new emerging and disruptive technologies, based on industry classifications and country of development. Along with populating the TLM, Patentscope will give us insight into how much technology advancements are occurring in the Mexican oil and gas industry, as well as how much the industry relies on technology transfer. Patentscope also collects the company information that submits the patent. Thus, we can determine which type of companies are developing the most innovative technologies.
Braeden Larson
University of Calgary, The School of Public Policy
Temperature Effect on Relative Permeability in Oil/Water/Clean Sand Systems
INTRODUCTION: More than 97 percent of the Canadian oil reserves (167.7 billion barrels) lie in oil sands which contribute to 55 percent of the current Canada oil production and have a great impact on Alberta’s economy. The most common recovery method for production of bitumen from oil sands is SAGD (Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage) in which the steam is injected through the upper well of paired horizontal wells to reduce the oil viscosity and mobilize it toward the production well. The successful implementation of SAGD requires information about the multi-phase fluid flow behavior in oil-sands. The relative permeability is the most essential element representing the fluid flow behavior within a porous medium.
PROBLEM: There are many factors that affect the multi-phase flow behavior, which are sensitive to the high temperature existing in SAGD processes, including the mobility ratio, wettability, interfacial tension and, fluid/rock properties. Only limited measured data on relative permeability are available in the literature for viscous oil systems due to measurement difficulties. Previous studies have reported contradictory opinions regarding the effect of temperature on relative permeability.
METHODOLOGY: This research focuses on the two-phase viscous oil/water relative permeability measurements over a wide range of temperature, from 23 to 200 ºC, using clean sand systems to clarify whether the temperature has a direct effect on the relative permeability. For this purpose, a clean system comprising deionized water, PAO-100 (from Chevron Phillips Company) as a clean oil phase, and clean sand-packs were used in four experiments at temperatures of 23, 65, 127, and 200 ºC. The unsteady-state technique with both the implicit (History match) and the explicit (JBN) analyzing approaches were applied to the experimental data. The history match processes were carried out using an in-house developed reservoir simulator.
RESULTS: According to our results, both JBN and history match techniques confirmed that the relative permeability in a clean system was independent of temperature. Although the practical residual oil saturation apparently changed with temperature, the value inferred from history matching rejected this conclusion. It was due to the fact that we need to inject a huge volume of water (~1000 PV) at the lowest temperature to reach close to the real residual oil saturation, which is not practical in laboratory measurements. It was found that the relative permeability measured at the highest temperature, where it is possible to reach the residual oil saturation with much lower volume of water injection, provided very good history matches of the displacements at lower temperatures.
Sajjad Esmeili
The Benefits of a Data-centric Approach in Facility Engineering
In today’s competitive commodity landscape, every capital project and operating asset needs a digital execution architecture strategy. However, operators must overcome several challenges related to the implementation of a data-centric approach to managing projects and long-term industrial assets. In many cases, short-term risks are misunderstood and believed to outweigh the benefits.
In this presentation, technology veteran, Patrick Reilly, aims to dispel myths about the perceived risks associated with a data-centric approach. Patrick will explain an outlook that views data as the most important and perpetual asset used in support of applications to produce deliverables associated with facility design, construction, operations, and maintenance.
This presentation identifies three common misconceptions about digital execution architecture.
The first is that people believe a data-centric approach is too expensive to implement. While short-term capital investment is required to implement a digital execution architecture, the cost of a proper implementation should not prohibit most projects. In fact, when compared with the savings potential (e.g. 10% TIC reduction) to be realized over the asset’s lifecycle, the system integration costs are minimal.
Another misconception is that benefits are exaggerated. It is true that a digital execution approach has not yet been carried out over a long-term asset. But the examples of savings through early project phases demonstrate how increased collaboration and transparency, combined with shared access to a central database of near-live information can improve execution in ways that weren’t originally anticipated.
The third myth about a data-centric approach is that the learning curve for project personnel is too great and resistance from staff will prevent a successful implementation. This presentation will look at how the tools and processes of a data-centric approach can enable people to spend more time performing high-value tasks and make more informed decisions, ultimately benefiting the project and accelerating career advancement.
A Paradigm Shift
Digital execution architecture is a new paradigm for the energy industry. The oil and gas sector is by nature an industry of innovation, but the industry has been slow to grasp the merits of changing the way capital projects are executed and managed throughout the asset’s operational lifespan.
This presentation will explore how digital execution architecture is a structured model comprising a single source of data, a technical data hub or portal, and various information systems related to engineering, document control, project controls, procurement, vendor data and materials management, execution verification, commissioning and completions, and operations/maintenance.
The technical data hub and the single-source model are the two essential unifying elements that transform information systems from a collection of disconnected information silos to a centralized, single source of truth maintained by all project stakeholders throughout the life of the asset.
Patrick Reilly
Managing Partner – Technology
Vista Projects
Thermal Management of Medium Voltage Adjustable Speed Drives
Medium Voltage electric motor driven pumps are employed to boost flow in pipelines in the midstream industry, whether it be crude or natural gas liquids (NGL). Depending on the end user, these pumps operate in fixed speed or adjustable speed configurations or a combination of both. From a life-cycle cost (LCC) standpoint, an adjustable speed configuration on a per pump basis provides the greatest pipeline operational flexibility, batch processing of deliveries and saves on energy costs.
Medium Voltage (MV) Adjustable speed drives (ASD) or commonly known as variable frequency drives (VFD) are used to control the speed of the electric motor and pump. Depending on the capacity, length, and type of the pipeline, there can be multiple booster stations each consisting at least two to three pumps with motor and ASD ratings between 1000HP to as high as 6000HP. Conventional indoor-type MV ASDs are typically >96.5% efficient. The rest is rejected as heat to the indoor environment thereby requiring massive HVAC systems to maintain specified temperature and humidity levels. HVAC systems come with a CAPEX, but the variable costs regarding maintenance, electricity, and service have a huge impact on the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the VFD installation.
This presentation describes a novel outdoor rated free-standing enclosure for MV drives that eliminate the need for an HVAC system and large industrial control buildings or motor control center (MCC) rooms. The benefit for operators is; now a pump station or a processing facility can be mostly designed with outdoor equipment. The paper first compares the existing methods of installation with the outdoor enclosure based on costs and other installation factors. Next, we discuss the proposed enclosure and how it works to ensure the appropriate environment for the drive even in extremely cold conditions which is prevalent in parts of US and most of Canada. The presentation then describes the high-level specifications, installation method, and suitable applications for the enclosure. The talk concludes with a guideline that prospective end users of MV ASD equipment can use to decide between selecting an outdoor-rated versus indoor-type MV ASD and methodology in calculating savings in HVAC costs over a 25-year life.
In the past few years, end users have started evaluating electrical power conversion equipment not only from a CAPEX perspective but based on total cost of ownership. Hence, this presentation provides an alternate solution to pipeline and facilities engineers and designers to solve the heat management problem with MV drives that a large majority of operators face in existing and prospective projects.
Manish Verma
Sr. Sales Application Engineer
TMEIC
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The Glyph Queen
An ongoing sci-fi / fantasy web serial about a nuclear winter, a corporate police state, and an ancient witch coven.
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“Is she? Or isn’t she?” Alexander mused. He looked at security feeds of the exemplar spire. Each one showed a horror movie massacre. Some cameras even had blood splattered across the lens. Marines patrolled through quiet halls looking for survivors.
A call came in. Captain Romero. He was in the exemplar lobby holding a radio piece to his ear. Alex could see him through a camera.
“The spire is secure, Your Majesty. Are we still in lockdown?”
“Yes. Absolutely no one leaves that spire until I give the word.”
“Understood, ma’am.”
Alex hung up. He returned to pondering the million dollar question: Was Katherine among the bodies? Or the marines?
In retrospect, weaponizing the exemplars may have been foolish. Six marines had died in the fight. That left eighteen alive. But were there eighteen shield stone still functioning? He’d call down to the exemplar operations room and have them check, but oops, they’re dead now. Not that it would be surefire anyway. Katherine might have separated a marine from his shield for a moment, but left the shield intact. That seemed incredibly unlikely given how those shields were underneath their armor, but not impossible.
Kill them all? It was the only way to be really sure, and hundreds of people had died already. Why stop now? The citadel was mostly evacuated, so at least Alex wouldn’t have to kill everyone, but who would kill the marines? Super marines? A larger number of marines? Then who would kill them? He’d be swallowing a bird to kill the spider, and he wasn’t even sure if the spider had killed the fly yet.
He checked the dial on his wrist. Twenty-one minutes.
His path was clear.
Alex got up and crossed the room. In the corner was the second box Quentin had delivered, small enough to fit in the office. Alex pried open the lid and looked down at the slick, chrome surface of a factory-standard nuclear bomb. Beside the control panel was a PostIt note with Quentin’s scrawled instructions. Following them, Alex turn on the panel display. He typed in the security code and authenticated with a thumb print scan. The display then prompted for a time.
Alex checked his wrist dial again. 20:26 and counting.
He typed in 19:30. After several confirmation screens, a red light came on and the countdown began. Alex turned off the screen. No one looking at it would have any idea it was armed.
“Time to go, Sib. Bring the girl.”
Two flights down was the bridge floor. He nearly passed by, but changed his mind.
“How’d the strike go?” Alex asked as he stepped down to the center. Admiral Laughlin nearly spoke when he stopped to stare at Sibyl. Everyone did.
She stood silently by the door as she always had, but her arms were around a young black girl that none had seen before. Ropes bound the girl’s arms behind her. They wrapped about her torso several times. A motorcycle helmet was on her head. The visor was spray painted an opaque silver, and a brace around her neck prevented her from moving her head.
“Look at me, Admiral.” Alex snapped his fingers before Laughlin’s face. “The strike?”
“I… unfortunately, Your Majesty, I’m sorry to report that our intercepters were unable to destroy the rogue orbiter before it reached maximum orbital speed. Their spiders collided with our ships. However, the enemy have no more drones at all. If they should come down into—”
“Great. Never mind. Has the citadel been fully evacuated?”
“Everyone except for vital staff and the marines, ma’am.”
“And how many ships are left on board?”
“Pods? Ships? How did people evacuate the citadel? How many more can escape?”
Laughlin gestured to an officer who brought up a list of ships. “There’s one hopper left in the hangar. It can carry six people at maximum capacity.”
“That’s it?” asked Alex.
“The citadel was over capacity, ma’am. Why do you ask? Has the situation in the exemplar spire been contained?”
Alex winced and gestured. “Sort of, but I’m going to have to blow up the citadel to be sure.”
Cries of alarm sounded around the bridge.
“Destroy the— what?” Laughlin sputtered. “There is no means to do that.”
“Don’t worry, I brought my own bomb.”
“Your Majesty! That’s insanity! We can’t destroy this ship, it’s the flagship of your empire.”
“Let me rephrase. I’ve already armed a nuclear warhead. This ship is going to explode in… eighteen minutes. We need to escape.”
“Nuclear warhead? Your Majesty! We’re a mile off the coast of Porto Maná!”
“Ooh.” Alex hissed through his teeth. “That’s… unfortunate.” In hindsight, maybe Alex should have asked Quentin for a smaller bomb.
“We have to disarm it, ma’am.”
“We could, but I’d rather not. This may be our only chance to get rid of this infectious terrorist problem once and for all. So come on. Is that ship ready for flight? Do you guys have to make a flight plan?”
“Where is the bomb?”
“Don’t worry about it.”
“Where is the bomb, Helena?” His voice carried a warning tone. Everyone looked at Alex.
He didn’t need to be a telepath to see where this was going. “Hold that thought,” Alex skipped up the bridge steps to where Sibyl waited with Naema. “I’d like you all to meet my fun little friend.”
From behind, Alex reached around Naema and flipped up the spray-painted visor on her helmet. Naema’s mouth was gagged, and earbuds were in her ears blasting music. Naema blinked in the light. With bloodshot eyes, she looked back at everyone she saw.
“Move her around a little, will you,” said Alex. “Make sure she meets everyone.” Sibyl swiveled, rotating Naema to face everyone in the bridge. The crew stared back, perplexed. Alex sidestepped to remain behind Naema as she turned. He reached again and flipped the visor back down. When he returned to the admiral, Laughlin’s mind opened to him. Alexander basked everyone in Sympathy.
“Now, Admiral, do you think you guys could prep the last ship for evacuation?”
“We need to think about the people in the city,” Laughlin said. “Whatever this terrorist infection is, it can’t be worth sacrificing the capital. I’m telling you this for your own good, Your Majesty. We must find another way.”
Alex held up a stopping hand. “Do you think I want to do this? I didn’t come to this decision lightly, but you don’t understand how dangerous these terrorists are. No matter how many people I send after them, they will just infect more. They can turn entire crowds into terrorists. If I don’t stop them now, they will bring about the destruction of our civilized world, but right now—right now—I have the chance to end this. The death toll will be monumental, and I’ll live with that for the rest of my life, but I must do this.”
He leaned on his Sympathy harder. Laughlin looked at him severely. “At least, let us send the citadel out as far into the ocean as we can. We might give the people a better chance.”
Laughlin turned to his flight controller. “Do it. Take us away from the city. Maximum acceleration.”
“Aye, Admiral.”
“Now,” said Alex, “about that ship.”
“Have you considered a smaller bomb, Your Majesty?” Laughlin said. “If we contact munitions at—”
“No time. We only have for as long as Captain Romero can contain his own men, and he doesn’t understand what he’s up against. We have… fifteen minutes now.”
“Perhaps if we—”
“No! Prepare the final ship. Tell me where it is. Then we will discuss this.”
“Your Majesty, if there is any way—”
“Are you loyal to me, Admiral? Or do you want to see this empire fall like the terrorists do?”
“Of course not, ma’am. I would do anything to serve you. I would lay down my life to keep you safe, but setting off that bomb may destroy the empire. If people found out it was on your order, it doesn’t matter for what reason, they’ll—”
“Then we’ll blame the terrorists. That’s what we always do. Prep the ship.”
Reluctantly, Laughlin nodded toward the flight controller, who got to work.
Moments later, the controller responded. “The ship had a flight plan coded. Bay doors are open.”
“Where is it?” asked Alex.
“Portside aft sector, Deck 1.”
“We’ll need to call back another ship,” Laughlin said. “Between the bridge and the strike room, it’s not going to be enough.”
“Oh, don’t worry about that,” said Alex.
“Well…” Alex glanced around. Twelve people here. Six more would be downstairs. “The more ships we bring back, the more likely the terrorist agent can escape. We’ll just have the one.”
“You… want us to stay?”
“No, Admiral. If you stayed, the agent could come up here and take control of you.”
“So what then?”
“Do you remember a moment ago when you said you’d lay down your life for me? It’s funny you should say that…”
Alex drew his gun.
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Love Among the Ruins
by Evelyn Waugh
Publisher Chapman and Hall
Released January 1, 1953
In a future, dystopian Britain, Miles Plastic is in prison for arson. Which isn’t so bad, really – the prisons are actually quite nice. When he is released, he finds himself a nice, wholesome job at a state-run euthanasia clinic trying to control the crushing volume of voluntary applicants. At the clinic he meets Clara, a beautiful, bearded woman, and falls in love. But, as it turns out, love formed at a euthanasia clinic is fraught with its own unique challenges.
A near-fine first edition, in the original red binding with gold embossed child. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket, with some discolouration to the top and right side of front cover. The "Evelyn" in the authors name has faded.
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New bargain ticket prices at Scunthorpe's Vue Cinema to compete with Netflix and Amazon Prime
Prices to see the latest films in Scunthorpe are now significantly cheaper than other cinemas in the region
Jamie WallerLive News Reporter
Ticket prices at the Vue Cinema in Scunthorpe have been reduced (Image: Vue Cinemas)
Ticket prices at Scunthorpe's cinema have been reduced to make it easier to see the latest releases on the big screen.
Admission to see films at the Vue Cinema now costs just £4.99, no matter what time of day you go to the cinema.
The cheaper pricing comes as the cinema aims to fight back against streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime, which let people watch blockbusters in their own homes.
It also arrived in time for the school half-term holidays and aims to make it easier for families to be able to afford to see the latest films.
Lego Movie 2: The Second Part has just landed on the big screen, featuring the vocal talents of Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Alison Brie and Will Arnett.
The price drop comes just in time for The Lego Movie 2 (Image: Warner Bros)
And more big-name releases such as Disney's live-action remake of Dumbo, superhero finale Avengers: Endgame and Mark Wahlberg comedy Instant Family will be coming shortly.
David Scarsebrook, general manager for Vue Scunthorpe, said: "We’re excited to offer our guests the opportunity to enjoy the best in big screen entertainment for just £4.99 a ticket.
"There's some fantastic films to see in 2019 and we look forward to welcoming people in to enjoy them."
The new prices make the Scunthorpe cinema much cheaper than others across the region.
Going to see the Lego Movie 2 would set an adult back up to £8 at the Parkway Cinema in Cleethorpes and up to £12.25 at the Lincoln Odeon, depending on the time of day.
All tickets for 2D films now cost £4.99 at the Vue Cinema in Scunthorpe (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
The £4.99 price in Scunthorpe is for standard tickets and excludes certain screenings, seating types and extras such as 3D glasses, VIP seating upgrades and IMAX screens. Special event cinema screenings such as live streaming of shows and sports may also cost more to attend.
The seven-screen Scunthorpe complex which has 1,500 seats was built in 2002 by the Texas-based Cinemark chain.
Based in the Parishes shopping centre, it was sold two years later to UCI and then to Vue.
Tickets can be booked online through the Vue's website.
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Bentley Walker partners with Aquiva Wireless in Zimbabwe
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Harare, Zimbabwe and Hampshire, UK 19th March 2016. Bentley Walker, one of the world's foremost service providers for broadband satellite Internet, has partnered with Aquiva, one of Africa's leading Internet Access Suppliers, to bring its range of Freedomsat Ka-band services to the Zimbabwe market.
The Hughes VSAT terminals are 2-way high throughput terminals supporting Internet access, VoIP, video and multicast amongst its range of IP services. Developed to operate with the latest generation of high throughput Ka-band satellites, the Hughes Network modems havebeen designed to meet the demands of the consumer, SME and B2B marketplace.
Anthony Walker, CEO of Bentley Walker, said: "We are delighted with the establishment of this new partnership with Aquiva because of their excellent reputation in the market. The Virtual Network Management utilities we have developed enables Aquiva to best support their customers by enabling, disabling and monitoring their sites in real time and independently of a third party."
Petros Muchato, Chief Commercial Officer of Aquiva, said: "The high bandwidth available to users enables delivery of faster speeds at affordable costs. With enduser equipment stock already in-country we are excited as our subscribers are able to be without any delays and will be able to watch movies, make cheaper VoIP phone calls, and browse the Web at the same time with this solution."
The Freedomsat service will provide reliable high-speed broadband Internet access across the country via a Hughes HN hub installed at Avanti's Earthstation at Goonhilly, Cornwall, UK. The new service will make use of Avanti's HYLAS 2 Ka-band capacity which was launched in August 2012.
While Ka-band offers potential in a range of market segments across Zimbabwe, including corporate, government, education and transport, the company sees most opportunities for growth in high-speed satellite Internet access for consumers and in tourism. Aquiva Wireless was the first company to be fully compliant with the new promulgated regulations in 2015 as the sector undergoes reforms which align it with global trends.
About Bentley Walker
Bentley Walker is ranked as the largest supplier and operator of VSAT Networks outside of North America. Comsys independently audited Bentley Walker as having around 45% of the Market in Europe and the Middle East, to date having sold and brought online over 40,000 VSATs.
Bentley Walker Ltd and Bentley Telecom are both privately owned Companies, the former started in 1947 by the Late LT Commander C Walker (George Cross DSC, DSO, DFC) RNVR in 1947 and is currently run and owned by Mr. Anthony Walker and Mr. Matthew Walker.
Visit Freedomsat website
About Aquiva
Aquiva Wireless is a communication solutions provider that offers Satellite, WiMax, Fibre-based connectivity solutions including VoIP in Africa. Established in 2007, Aquiva Wireless is an Internet Access Provider Class "A" telecommunications Operator licensed by The Post and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) in January of 2010.
The company has consistently delivered wireless and metro high-quality, cost-effective and efficient communication solutions to telcos, ISPs, governments, enterprise customers and residential users.
Visit Aquiva website
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Toughening penalties if pets are harmed during crimes
When Denise Krohn came home to find her goldendoodle Kirby bleeding on the kitchen floor, she at first thought it was a terrible accident.
Toughening penalties if pets are harmed during crimes When Denise Krohn came home to find her goldendoodle Kirby bleeding on the kitchen floor, she at first thought it was a terrible accident. Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2m2dXB2
The Associated Press Published 7:54 p.m. ET Feb. 20, 2017
Denise Krohn with Tedi, sister to one of Krohn’s two goldendoodles that were shot dead during a burglary at her home in upstate New York. Krohn is pushing for “Kirby and Quigley’s Law,” legislation named after her slain pets that would make it a felony punishable by two years in prison to kill a pet while committing a crime.(Photo: feb. 8 photo by Mary Esch/Associated press)
FLORIDA, N.Y. — When Denise Krohn came home to find her goldendoodle Kirby bleeding on the kitchen floor, she at first thought it was a terrible accident. But she soon realized that her home had been ransacked, and that her other dog, Quigley, was lying dead on his favorite blanket in the living room.
Burglars who tore through her hilltop farmhouse north of Albany made off with several televisions, a laptop, some cheap jewelry and change. And, police say, they apparently shot her friendly, goofy dogs on their way out the door.
"It was just a mean, nasty thing," Krohn said.
It was love at first sight for 2 pigs with rough pasts
A year later, the crime remains unsolved. But what bothers Krohn is that police told her that if someone is caught, they would likely get 25 years in jail for burglary, but no additional punishment for killing the dogs.
"It's just not right," she said. "I don't care about the TVs and other stuff. What hurts us every day is losing our dogs."
Krohn hopes to gain some measure of justice by making her pets the poster pups for New York state legislation that would make it a felony to harm a companion animal, even by accident, during the commission of a crime. Conviction would be punishable by a $5,000 fine and two years behind bars on top of the jail time for the burglary or other crime.
Dubbed "Kirby and Quigley's Law" for the slain dogs, the proposal currently faces an uphill fight among lawmakers. But if it does pass, experts say it would be one of the toughest animal-cruelty charges in the nation.
Diane Balkin, a former Denver prosecutor who's now with the Animal Legal Defense Fund, likened it to felony murder, a legal rule that allows someone to be charged with murder if they kill someone during the commission of another dangerous crime, even if the killing wasn't intentional.
Sen. Jim Tedisco, a Schenectady County Republican who first introduced the bill five years ago, said he was originally motivated by two cases in which heroin traffickers smuggled drugs in the stomachs of puppies and dogs and were charged with drug crimes but not animal cruelty.
"Attorneys said it had nothing to do with cruelty, they were just smuggling heroin," Tedisco said. "What this bill does is make it clear that if you harm a companion animal while committing another crime, you face an additional penalty."
Tedisco's spokesman said the measure is intended to apply only to cats and dogs. But the bill says "companion animals," and a state appellate court once upheld a felony cruelty conviction under the current law of a man who stomped a goldfish to death.
The bill passed the state Senate 59-2 this month but has died in committees in the Assembly the past five sessions. Opposition has focused on whether such a law is really needed.
In the case of Kirby and Quigley, Balkin said the criminal could probably be charged under the existing cruelty law because the shooting was clearly an intentional act. The new law would also cover an unintentional act, such as hitting a pet with a getaway car.
"This bill is unnecessary," said Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, a Brooklyn Democrat. "It's already a crime to assault or kill an animal; it's already a felony if you do it with malicious intent."
Lentol said if the point of the law is to deter cruel acts, it makes no sense to expand it to include unintentional harm.
Publicity about Kirby and Quigley led several breeders to offer goldendoodle puppies to the Krohns. They now have 8-month-old Porter and 7-month-old Tedi, who's related to the blond, curly Quigley and looks just like him, right down to the joyful grin.
Krohn has already written a pile of letters to lawmakers and promised to keep fighting for the bill.
"I never thought of myself as an animal activist," said Krohn, a retired teacher. "I just want to do what's right."
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Digital Living at Hansgrohe – from Person to Person
Markus Armbruster is a source of fantastic words: you’re likely to hear terms like ambidexterity, scrum, chatbot, and shy tech. As Vice President of IT & Digital, he’s well versed in the vocabulary of the future and translates it for Hansgrohe. His team plunges into the depths of digital waters on a daily basis, fishing out the best, most sustainable and future-proof solutions for the company.
“Amazon and Apple are a prime example of how important innovation is – and just how fast it’s gaining ground today. Customer desires are a top priority here at Hansgrohe, too.”
Digitization at Hansgrohe: Long-Standing Company with Start-Up Mentality
Digitization as a matter for the boss: Board member Frank Semling manages digital living at Hansgrohe.
“When I started at Hansgrohe during my integrated work/study degree program in 2003, I thought I’d be a programmer my whole life,” says Markus Armbruster, who studied business informatics. But that’s not what happened. In addition to working on projects connecting Hansgrohe with suppliers and architects, the Swabian technophile has also optimized processes via digital platforms and implemented mobile websites. That’s because the faucet and shower specialist found itself in the middle of an upheaval that would eventually be referred to as the “digital transformation.”
E-commerce channels were then developed, a groundbreaking change for the established company with its traditional distribution channel. And that proved to be a good decision: this restructuring resulted in an enormous surge in growth. Armbruster’s career, which barely spans 20 years, demonstrates just how fast the digital world is turning – even in the comparably conservative sanitation industry.
“Transformers” for a Progressive Mindset and Cultural Change
Markus Armbruster is now a power broker at a company that is consistently working towards a connected future. Under the leadership of Hansgrohe board member, Frank Semling, the sophisticated digital strategy already extends into the thinking and behavior of every specialized department. And it’s not only an issue of technology, but also of culture. Employees are preparing for the work of tomorrow at the internal Campus digital faculty. Around 30 talents are being trained as “digital transformers,” who will pass on their knowledge of the future freely to others, so that everyone can work more autonomously and with flatter hierarchies. The Hansgrohe Group is in the process of breaking up traditional department structures and increasingly working in fast, agile teams. The company desires and promotes a culture based on trust in which each individual is allowed to think in an unconventional, bold, and interdisciplinary way.
“Above all else, digital living is a dialogue.”
To make the future digital, the Hansgrohe Group is also streamlining its value chain processes, which makes production and logistics more efficient. Across all marketing and distribution channels, specialists are working on the digital brand presence, optimizing the customer experience, and turning it into an intuitive experience for all customers and target groups. These employees also have the right to be curious, experiment, and develop on a high level. Fail fast has become an aspect of the company culture and means that an idea or innovation needs to be thrown out as soon as possible if it’s not the optimal fit after all. This is one of the many benefits of being nearly 120 years old: at the Black Forest think tank, they know that not every technology trend is a good fit for the company. Instead, everyone tries to understand new things in detail and use them to the benefit of the growth strategy.
“The digital transformation is mainly about the people – much less about the technology. The change begins in the mind and must be applied to the company as a whole. We promote a corporate culture that views digitization as an opportunity for us, not as a trend, and certainly not as a threat to jobs.”
Frank Semling, Hansgrohe board member
Digital Living in the Bathroom and Kitchen: Smart Products That Pamper People
Digital living at Hansgrohe: the range of Smart Living products makes the home more sensual and healthier – not more technical.
Short-winded technical knickknacks don’t stand a chance with Hansgrohe and its quality brands in the bathroom and kitchen either. While the product-driven company clearly focuses on digital solutions (Smart Living), they’re never an end in themselves. Not everything that claims to be “smart” on the market deserves the AXOR or hansgrohe label. Only those things that make life and living more beautiful, emotional, and relaxing are ever developed. “Smart Living focuses on people – not technology,” says Markus Armbruster. Unobtrusively integrated behind the wall as shy tech, it yields to modern design and makes operation intuitive.
Anything but Old School: Hansgrohe Has Always Thought Virtually
“Maintaining tradition, recognizing opportunities, and integrating innovation: that’s an art in itself,” says the VP of Digital. What will play a more important role in the future? “Sustainability, sensible use of technologies such as the Internet of Things (IOT), and artificial intelligence (AI). As well as coordinating more closely with our customers around the world and collaborating more intensively with start-ups and other partners.” If you want to know what the best product will be tomorrow and what will one day ensure customer satisfaction, jobs, and growth, it’s worth taking a look at the past. During his time (beginning in 1901), founder Hans Grohe didn’t get involved in every trend that came along either. The Hansgrohe Group owes its solid core business to his ability to imagine a possible future (= thinking virtually). This business primarily consists of “analog” faucets and showers – a reliable foundation on which to effectively develop the digital aspect. Incidentally, ambidexterity is exactly this tightrope act: the balance between the power of innovation and stability.
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After joining the company, Markus Armbruster switched to Digital Marketing and to Business Development and became a future strategist. “What fascinates me is the design variety. Finding the right thing for the company out of the endless digital opportunities and creating something valuable for customers and colleagues.” This includes continuous training. “I read a lot and always want to understand, soak up, and try out everything myself.” Programming continues to fascinate him to this day.
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Prince George and Princess Charlotte Help Kate Middleton Cook Pasta
The Duchess of Cambridge revealed her kids are helpful in the kitchen.
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Royal kids Prince George, 5, and Princess Charlotte, 3, offer their mother help in the kitchen. During her visit to Lavender Primary School today, Kate Middleton revealed that her little ones give her a hand in cooking, People reports.
The Duchess of Cambridge opened up about "how much her children love cooking and how they cook for her," according to Matthew Kleiner-Mann, chief executive of the Ivy Learning Trust.
"They made cheesy pasta the other day. One stirs the flour, one puts the milk and butter in. And they make salads and stuff," he added, per People. "Food is important to her and she understands the links between mental health and physical exercise."
The Duchess of Cambridge joins Ms McGrath and Year 6 pupils for a food diary activity, which focusses on the links between food choices and mood and feelings. #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek pic.twitter.com/n1JC0lkt6W
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) February 5, 2019
Kate also shared that her daughter has an unexpected food of choice. "Charlotte loves olives," she told students.
During another part of her visit, the duchess participated in a show and tell exercise, where students brought in an object that made them happy. Kate partook in the activity by showing a photo of her family that she pulled out of her clutch bag.
"This is a photo of my family," she told the children. "These are my children, this is my husband," she added, pointing to the photo.
The Duchess of Cambridge takes part in ‘show and tell’ at Lavender Primary School - and produces a picture of the thing that makes her most happy. Her family. @Place2Be pic.twitter.com/A8J9pSMwmR
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"And my family makes me feel happy," the duchess continued. "We like playing outside together, and spending lots of time together as a family, and that makes me very happy."
If you look closely, you'll notice the photo Kate brought is the same one used in the Cambridges' 2018 Christmas card. The portrait, taken by Matt Porteous, shows the family of five (including Prince Louis!) posing on a tree outside together.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are pleased to share a new photograph of their family. The photograph, taken by Matt Porteous, shows The Duke and Duchess with their three children at Anmer Hall. This photograph features on Their Royal Highnesses’ Christmas card this year.
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The Care Quality Commission have today published the phase one report of their review of children and young people’s mental health services which ultimately reveals, as expected, that too many children and young people “have a poor experience of care and some are simply unable to access timely and appropriate support”.
The report follows a range of measures set out by the Prime Minster in January 2017 to improve mental health support in England. This is the first phase of work and will lead to fieldwork being carried out in 10 areas of England to look at mental health services for children and young people.
The report confirms, what is all too real for many families, that there are extensive waiting times, a lack of person centred care, a lack of time for staff to provide specialist services and receive training and fragmented care due to a lack of joined up working.
As specialist education law solicitors we work with many parents who have been placed on waiting list after waiting list to access mental health support for their disabled child. The Education Policy Institute report that children may be waiting a long time to be assessed by CAMHS and then have to endure a further wait to actually receive treatment. By this time, their mental health has deteriorated to such an extent that they have reached crisis point. This is simply not acceptable and is putting young people’s lives at risk.
Recent figures received from Childline show that there has been an 87% increase in Childline counselling sessions with children and young people who are struggling to access local mental health services.
The CQC report also states that Public Health England estimates suggest that only 25% of children and young people who need treatment for a mental health problem are able to access it.
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Children and young people have reported through the CQC review that they wish to have more input in their care and more choice as to how and where the support is delivered.
The report confirms that “most specialist CAMHS services are caring, meaning that they involve children and young people and treat them with compassion, kindness dignity and respect”. However, it confirms that there are “still services which are failing to provide person-centred care that meets the specific needs of children and young people”.
It has also been clearly reported that the failures within the specialist services stem from a lack of assessment and poorly maintained or inappropriate facilities. This links into the staff having a lack of time to spend assessing each individual and really taking the time to get to know that person and build a relationship with them.
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Sadly, it is becoming all too common for young people, once they have managed to access support, to be sent miles away from their family home in order to receive treatment. It is indeed a ‘postcode lottery’ as to what services are available locally and the eligibility criteria to access these services. Many services do not offer the specialist support which is becoming more and more necessary for young people.
The report confirms that “a review by the Council for Disabled Children found that there are no inpatient mental health beds suitable for children and young people with a learning disability in London, the south east and south west of England”. This begs the question, what support is being offered to young people who require inpatient services in this huge geographical area? Are they being sent miles away from their family home or are they simply not receiving this support leading to a further detriment in mental health and well being.
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The parents whom we work with often experience significant frustration at the lack of communication and joined up working between the organisations and agencies who are involved with their child’s care.
Mental health care is delivered by many organisations including the child’s school, GP, Local Authority, youth offending services, hospital and A&E departments, CAMHS and voluntary sector organisations. The CQC report states that “CQC inspections also found examples of poor collaboration between different agencies, such as one specialist inpatient CAMHS service that had “limited” working relationships with any other teams or services”.
Families who have a child who requires support for mental health difficulties are already going through an extremely emotional and stressful time. By the time they are able to access the specialist CAMHS service for this young person they are often at crisis point and the lack of communication between professionals, who are supposed to be helping the family and young person, simply adds to this stress and anxiety.
The report confirms what we already knew in essence that “there is a variation in children and young person’s overall experience of the mental health system, and too many children and young people struggle to access the right care at the right time”.
“The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health has described the system under pressure, leading to long waiting times, appointments being cancelled, and some children being unable to access timely and appropriate help”.
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Scientists Have Developed a Promising New Migraine Medication—Here's What You Should Know
It could help the millions of Americans who suffer from migraine.
By Maggie O'Neill
By some estimates, migraine is the third most common illness in the world. And migraines disproportionately affect women. Eighteen percent of American women suffer from the debilitating head pain the condition causes—while it affects just 6% of men.
That said, new migraine treatments are much needed. And a promising one might be on the way, according to a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The journal published the results of a phase three trial for a medication called rimegepant. Researchers gave 537 people the medication, and 535 received a placebo. Nearly 90% of the study participants were women. Two hours after taking the pill, significantly more participants in the rimegepant group, compared with patients taking a placebo, were free of their worst migraine symptoms. (The new research was funded by Biohaven Pharmaceuticals.)
But, the new report cautions, nausea and urinary tract infections affected 1.8% and 1.5%, respectively, of participants who took rimegepant.
RELATED: A Neurologist Explains Everything You Need to Know About Migraines—and How to Avoid Them
How are migraines currently treated?
Migraines are now treated with a number of medications. These range in strength from over-the-counter pain relivers, such as Advil, to opioid medications, which are highly addictive painkillers that kill thousands of Americans who overdose on them every year.
In addition, medications known as triptans are used to treat migraines. These are prescription drugs that obstruct pain pathways in your brain, Mayo Clinic explains.
However, triptans can cause recurring migraines, sometimes called “rebound headaches,” the American Migraine Foundation (AMF) says.
Two opioids used for emergency relief of migraines, oxycodone and hydrocodone, can also cause rebound headaches, the AMF says. “Even taking them just once per week can cause headaches to get worse in frequency and severity, the foundation notes.
And for some patients who take triptans, the medications don’t relieve migraine symptoms at all, according to the new report.
Rimegepant “may be effective in patients whose symptoms do not respond to triptans, owing to their different mechanisms of action,” the report says.
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Triptans also present problems for cardiovascular patients. The new report notes that triptans can cause what’s called vasoconstriction, which is the technical term for the narrowing of blood vessels. For this reason, triptans aren’t ideal for heart patients.
“Currently available treatments may not work at all, may not work fast enough, may have undesirable side effects,” Mia Minen, MD, headache neurologist and assistant professor in the departments of neurology and population health at NYU Langone Health, tells Health.
How will rimegepant work differently?
The new report says rimegepant could work as a treatment for cardiovascular patients for whom triptans aren’t safe.
The new medication does not present the vasoconstrictive effects that triptans sometimes produce, the report says.
And this population of people who have both cardiovascular trouble and migraine is probably larger than you imagined: 3.5 million of the 40 million Americans who get migraines either can’t take triptans or have to take them with caution due to heart trouble, the new report says.
But, Dr. Minen points out, more research needs to be done on the safety of this medicine for cardiovascular patients.
Research also needs to be conducted on the long-term effects of the drug, Dr. Minen says. And before the drug is available to the public, it must undergo FDA review. But, Dr. Minen adds, because of problems with the currently available medications, “we always look for new abortive migraine treatments for our patients."
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Gunter Eci(AL) cremation services will not try to influence your opinion about whether you should or should not visit the deceased while they lay in a coffin before the cremation.
For some people, seeing the person who has died for one last occasion will provide them with enough closure, and they will be on the move on with their lives, while other people will disagree and suggest the last memory will be embedded onto their brain forever and seeing the person dead is not how they would prefer to remember their loved one or family friend. You can discuss this with cremation services in Gunter Eci(AL).
What About Ashes to Ashes & Dust to Dust?
Where you are attending a religious funeral service arranged by Gunter Eci(AL) cremation services, you may hear these words from a religious person who is conducting a service. These are the words used at a grave site for a burial, and it is peculiar, but it is actually a cremation that will provide the necessary situation for a body to be passed back to the earth or the sea without leaving a carbon footprint, un like that of a burial.
This is why some people will tell cremation services in Gunter Eci(AL) that they believe that a cremation is a more natural way of completing a funeral service.
There will be many questions and answers required as you go through the various stages of grief, but you will find that friendly and caring personnel are on hand and available to help you through the entire process at Gunter Eci(AL) cremation services.
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Standing the Test of Time
The client relationships you begin today can last a lifetime.
By Judy Minich
CLIENT: Linda Arroz
PERSONAL TRAINER: Jillian Hessel
“Returning to Pilates has changed my life,” says Linda Arroz. That’s a powerful affirmation, but Linda’s journey with trainer Jillian Hessel has power to spare. Their story extols the virtues of focusing on health over weight and building connections that stand the test of time.
The Foundation of a Lasting Partnership
It began in 1994. Hessel, a multicertified master Pilates teacher, remembers her first meeting with Linda.
“She was editor in chief of Big Beautiful Woman magazine and was interested in doing a Pilates makeover story,” says Hessel. “Pilates was just starting to become popular, and I thought I could use some press for my business.” They began with a 90-minute introductory session.
“We did a fitness history, a health screening and a posture analysis, which is one of my trademarks,” Hessel explains. “Linda weighed around 240 pounds at this time, [but] I want to emphasize that her goal was not necessarily to lose weight. She wanted to feel and move better and improve her posture and stamina.”
“Before” pictures showed a pronounced forward head, rounded upper back and distinct lordotic spine. Hessel adds, “She had a pronounced ÔÇÿQ’ angle at the hips, with medially rotated femurs, and bilateral collapsed arches with severely pronated feet.”
This detailed assessment helped Hessel create an equally specific plan to realign Linda’s posture. “We needed to strengthen her lateral hip rotators and work with the intrinsic muscles of her feet to correct the collapsed arches. We also worked to lengthen her neck extensor muscles and strengthen the upper-back muscles to correct her forward head.”
Since Linda’s weight made many Pilates exercises challenging, Hessel used modifications, focused on basics—like breathwork to strengthen the mind-body connection—and moved forward with patience.
In 1995, Linda published her story, writing, “The transformation I have experienced in 5 months of sessions has been profound . . . I am much stronger, and I feel confident in the way I look as a large woman. The lessons I have learned about movement will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
A Successful Reunion
Linda has returned to Pilates with Jillian’s training.
“Flash forward to today,” says Hessel. “We are both 64 years old, and Linda has returned to Pilates. She now has the challenges of a past hip replacement and broken foot. She’s developed a Trendelenburg gait [generally indicative of hip abductor weakness] from limping for a long time and has many of the same issues she came to me with 25 years ago.”
The two have settled back into a successful training relationship. “In just weeks I was getting results,” says Linda. Her ability to stand has progressed quickly, and she’s been able to increase her daily step count from 5,000 to 15,000.
Hessel recommends setting realistic goals and reevaluating often, a philosophy that resonates with her client.
“The encouragement from Jillian has really boosted my confidence,” says Linda. “This positive energy carries over; every day, I hear Jillian’s voice in my head, guiding me to continue the personal growth and physical improvements.”
The respect is mutual.
“I am honored to work with Linda—we make each other better,” says Hessel. “Check back with us in another 10 years!”
Do you have a client who has overcome the
odds to achieve new heights in health and fitness? Send your story to [email protected], and you and your client may be featured in an upcoming issue of Fitness Journal.
Judy Minich
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High! Canada Magazine International Woman's Day Spotlight on Women in Weed
Better the balance, Better the world.
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#BalanceforBetter
#IWD2019
We want to celebrate all the wonderful women that High Canada Magazine has been lucky enough to have worked with, met and spoken to, interviewed, collaborated with, featured or generally gotten to know and been blown away by their dedication not only to the plant but to changing the world and minds daily about cannabis
Today and everyday we should celebrate women's achievements, maintain a gender parity mindscape, forge a more gender balanced world, challenge stereotypes and bias, influence the beliefs and actions of others through positive engagement forging positive visibility of women, not only within the cannabis space but it all aspects of our lives.
Here our our top picks for outstanding women who really caught our eye in terms of breaking stigma and advocating for cannabis, above and beyond, in Canada this past year. This list literally could have went a lot longer. There are so many wonderful women in the cannabis space and so many amazing women on the High! Canada team that this list could have been twice the length.
Please join us in acknowledging the following woman as true inspirations and powerhouses in thier respective fields.
Angelina Blessed: My motivation Is my healing. My motivation is knowing that Learning to heal yourself was the biggest step forward and while being injured felt like the end of my fight path, it opened the door to healing others and spreading the benefits of cannabis training and recovery. Because even in the face of exhaustion, pain and distraction you must be willing to work hard and do more.
My motivation is my grind, the grind you learn to love and accept in the face of adversity. My motivation is the insanely talented team that built this with me, and believed in this from day
My motivation is trusting the path no matter the twist and turns it throws at you. Motivation though is not a gift that can be given to you, you must simply want it
Check out our exclusive interview with Angelina in the March Issue #41of High! Canada Magazine!
Jamie Shaw is an experienced leader with a demonstrated history of successful Social and Political change, particularly in the cannabis field. Lobbied for and consulted on the earliest municipal cannabis retail regulations in Canada. Canada’s only Court-certified dispensary expert. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Lobbying, Advocacy, Communication, Education, and Entrepreneurship. Graduated from American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City.
Cheryl Shuman:
Cheryl built the largest cannabis media source in the world with Kush Magazine in 2010 as Director of Celebrity, Media & Public Relations, taking them from $150,000 in gross revenues to more than $6.5 million in revenue within 18 months.
Known as the “Martha Stewart of Marijuana”, Cheryl now manages a $100 million funding facility to invest in the cannabis sector as well as a personal endorsement contracts with ancillary products in the cannabis industry. In a short time, Cheryl has secured product placements for products in FX’s Wilfred, CBS News, The New Ricki Lake Show, and more.
Cheryl lectures internationally about everything from seed to sale of the Cannabis Plant and is currently working with the prestigious William Morris Endeavor Agency in Beverly Hills for film, television, book and lecturing deals.
Madison Banes is a wonderful person. She is also a Naked News On-Air Personality, yoga instructor, burlesque dancer, canna-activist, Karma Cup Judge, host of Naked News Goes Pot and co-host of @babesnbluntz alongside Marina Valmont.
Natalie Sophia: Owner and operator of Nattilly Attired. Natalie makes Handmade Body Polish & Oils, Bearded Bloke and is a Classic Rock RedNeck kinda chick! Oh yeah...She used to be a Tattoo Model! Nattilly Attired is a company that is growing quickly in popularity. Its products have recently been featured on the “Women's Network” website.
Home grown social influencer Barinder Rasode and her quintessential advocacy for Canadian values is nationally renowned. Her leadership, mastery of complex subjects and innovation guides a plethora of issues that impact the everyday life of Canadians. Barinder is the current CEO of Grow Tech Labs and founder of Niche Canada.
She has also served on the Board of Directors for Fraser Health, which provides governance and vision for the largest health authority in British Columbia. In her appointed role, she worked with senior management to establish overall strategic direction, review long-term plans, and ensure appropriate community consultation.
Barinder has extensive experience working with senior levels of government, stakeholders and the private sector to find common ground to encourage respectful, informed dialogue on diverse issues to tackle emerging challenges facing Canada’s future.
Alison McMahon is the Founder & CEO of Cannabis At Work. Founded in 2015, Cannabis At Work is the leading source in Canada for cannabis jobs, recruitment services, online industry training, and workplace impairment training. Alison’s work has been featured in the Globe & Mail, Huffington Post, Financial Post, CBC, Business News Network (BNN), Leafly and by many other media outlets.
Cannabis At Work has significant experience working in the regulated cannabis sector with Licensed Producers and Applicants, ancillary businesses and the retail sector. Cannabis At Work was the first to receive a government contract for retail staffing services from the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation.
In addition to staffing services, Cannabis At Work also provided education to employers on cannabis legalization and advised on drug policy changes. Alison was a term instructor for 5 years at the MacEwan School of Business in Edmonton, and she is a former board member with the Human Resources Institute of Alberta. She serves on Board of Directors for Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana (CFAMM) and is a Mentor for the Leaf Forward cannabis incubator. Alison is a Certified Professional in Human Resources (CPHR) and holds a Bachelor of Human Resources & Labour Relations (B.HRLR).
Dr Sana Ara Ahmed is a visionary who has taken on the challenge to revolutionize the way chronic pain patients are treated in Calgary. She is guided by her expertise as an anesthesiologist, by her ultrasound-guided interventional procedure skill-set, and by her specialization in cannabinoid medicine to be innovative, tech savvy, and to not be afraid to advocate for her patients and promote medical cannabis use.
Dr. Ahmed is a practicing clinical Anesthesiologist in Alberta and Ontario with specialist training in Interventional Chronic Pain Management and Cannabinoid Medicine. She graduated from the University of Saskatchewan (2006) and received her FRCPC in 2011 in Anesthesiology and Medicine from the University of British Columbia. She worked as an academic anesthesiologist (2012-2014) in Toronto at St. Michael’s hospital and completed her Medical Education Fellowship from the University of Toronto (2013).
Abi Roach is the owner & founder of HotBox Lounge + Shop, Hotbox Jamaica Bud & Breakfast, Hotbox Homegrown Hydroponics and
Publisher of Spliff Magazine. Abi Roach, has been in the Cannabis lifestyle & tourism industry for near to 20 years. She has dedicated her life to the freedom of cannabis consumers and the normalization and now legalization of cannabis.
Specialties: Marketing, promotions, street level marketing, sales, cannabis culture.
Jacqui Childs is a Social Influencer with an online following into the millions (Over 2 million on her verified Facebook page). Jacqui is a wife and mother and has been modeling for over 30 years, having been published nationally and internationally. She co wrote an international best selling book “Ignite Your Inner Warrior ” where she shares her battles with drugs and alcohol.She works directly with many social causes and brands and shares her experiences on social media. Now living Pharma free she’s chosen to spend her time focused on the Cannabis industry and community as well as “Women’s issues” and charities. Jacqui feels she owes this community as much exposure and attention as she can as a thank you for saving her life.
All while trying to end negative stigmas and prejudices one post at a time. You can find Jacqui at industry events, markets and farms across Canada. Jacqui’s quest for knowledge within the cannabis space doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon. Much like cannabis she’s “growing like a weed”.
Virginia Vidal discovered the benefits of medical cannabis more than a decade ago, then faced arrest and criminal charges for using it to relieve her symptoms. As a mother of six concerned about the pungent odor of cannabis smoke, she found her own way to medicate inconspicuously, and turned that discovery into one of Canada’s fastest-growing edibles companies. Vidal launched Mary’s Original Coffee & Teas, a healthy, tasty infused product line available at dispensaries across Canada.
Sarah Bain has more than 15 years experience in politics, stakeholder relations and public engagement. She has provided advice to cabinet ministers, the Liberal Party of Canada, federal and municipal governments, and leading corporations and associations. Prior to joining Auxly and Nesta,
Sarah was Vice President, Public and Corporate Affairs at Hill+Knowlton where she provided strategic advice regarding medical cannabis and the emerging regime of legalized cannabis.
She was registered to lobby the government regarding policies and regulations relating to the distribution of cannabis, and helped her clients understand Health Canada guidelines and the legislative process as Canada moved towards implementation of the Cannabis Act. Sarah holds a Honours Bachelor degree from the University of Ottawa, which included an International Exchange at l’Université de Picardie, France.
Jenn Larry is President of CBD Strategy Group, a brand strategy and marketing firm created to help cannabis brands thrive inside the box of regulation. She is a public speaker and has participated in multiple cannabis conferences and media partnerships across Canada and the U.S.
Over the past 18 years, Jenn has worked with national & international companies across regulated sectors including: Music, Online Gambling, Pharmaceutical, Tobacco, Payments, Technology, and Consumer Packaged Goods. Her experience has allowed her to successfully create and execute strategies for her clients in markets that ban traditional marketing and branding. Jenn is well known for her ability to forecast trends, and leverage business intelligence to lead change across organizations.
Stephanie Ostrander a passionate, dedicated, and self-motivated professional with a strong background selling cannabis-related services and facilitating profitable relationships with a wide array of key decision-makers in the industry. Amongst other things, she possesses years of successful experience planning and implementing effective promotional strategies to increase sales and achieve revenue goals, and has been consistently recognized for outstanding contributions to the bottom line. In addition, Constantly commended for her business development skills, she possesses a dynamic understanding of MMPR, MMAR, ACMPR and Cannabis Act regulations, policies, and practices.
Tamara Jane Hirsh: With decades of experience in lifestyle design and business development, Tamara Hirsh is now putting her transferable skills to use in helping build a vertically integrated seed to sale group of companies that are playing an active part in helping shape an emerging global Cannabis industry. Tamara has had a successful background in design/build including lifestyle branding, positioning and niche marketing.
After 20 years of lifestyle design/build/brand, Tamara had a life altering moment. It’s was a chance encounter with a seemingly harmless Red Snapper fish, that resulted in Tamara contracting a painful nerve damaging neurotoxin from a toxic dinoflagellate algae that the fish had consumed. Like many others using conventional opioid based pharmaceuticals to manage their chronic pain, Tamara was introduced to Cannabis which was the catalyst for a radical career shift. It didn’t take long for her to recognize it’s medicinal value and market potential. Tamara is now putting her skills to use in helping build a vertically integrated seed to sale group of companies that are playing an active part in helping shape a robust Cannabis industry.
Tweedledoob: Marly as she is also known, is one of the country's best cannabis based photographers and advocates. She has been a cannabis enthusiast & medical patient for over a decade.
She got her start in the industry working in a cannabis lounge while completing her Honours Bachelor Degree in Philosophy & Buddhist Studies at the U of T.
In 2015 she started the instagram account @tweedledoob and has organically gained 42k followers since. For the last year she has been doing freelance content creation, paid promotion, and social media consulting full time & is proud to have recently been contracted by The Supreme Cannabis Company to consult on their 7ACRES recreational brand launch. Photo by @fallforvee
Sandra Colasanti is the VP of Sales and Business Relations for Remo Brands Inc. They are a producer of a vegan nutrient line of plant food that has been winning international awards over the last few years. She works with large distribution channels throughout the world such as Hydrofarm USA, Hydrotek Quebec, and Easy Grow UK. They also supply larger facilities with industrial sized totes and commercial pricing and work with clients to help keep costs in line while providing them with quality assurance second
to none.
Karli Thiessen is certified clinician and consultant with Living Leaf Remedies which provides medicinal products and pain management services. She provides personal guidance, product introductions and therapy planning.
When Karli was diagnosed with cancer, she knew cannabis would heal her. With the late great Gayle Quinn's (Karli's mentor) help in doing the Rick Simpson Oil (RSO) protocol, she was cancer free. Inspired by her own healing journey, Karli gave back to her community by making cannabis suppositories and capsules for medical patients. Karli has recently taken a course on how to treat canines with cannabis. She makes a cannabis cream that changes people's lives!
"Be strong in what you say or do. Be yourself. Be true to who you are"
Karli recommends topicals, edibles, smokeables and the education that goes with it to heal your body.
Jodie Emery is recognized worldwide as a high-profile cannabis advocate and political activist. She is often invited to speak at events and endorse legislation across Canada, the United States and abroad, and is regularly featured in mainstream media stories about cannabis and legalization. After two B.C. Green Party election bids in 2009 and 2013, she campaigned as a Liberal Party of Canada nomination candidate for the 2015 federal election.
Jodie was the owner and operator of Cannabis Culture headshops, vapor lounges and social-use cannabis retail stores, and media websites Cannabis Culture and Pot TV.
Loretta Eldridge is the Director of Marketing at Ample Organics, a leader in cannabis tracking and reporting technology that powers 70% of Canadian licensed producers. Loretta brings extensive marketing experience from a decade-long career in book publishing, managing marketing teams in the development and implementation of national campaigns. She holds certificates in Strategic Marketing from Ryerson University, Creative Book Publishing from Humber College, and is a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) graduate from Trent University with a Double Major in English and Cultural Studies.
Shannon Ford-Smith has a uniquely diverse background that includes education, construction, consumer goods as well as experience building and leading companies in the sports healthcare sector. She has over a decade of experience building, leading and establishing business direction.
Ms. Ford-Smith started her career in healthcare with a focus within the orthopaedic and sports rehabilitation industry. She owned and operated Perpetual Motion, three multidisciplinary sports rehabilitation clinics in Toronto. Her passion for helping people fueled her desire to grow her brand of clinics. Her clientele included top tier athletes, professional sports teams as well as leading hospitals within the GTA.
Recognized as the youngest educator at The Canadian College of Massage and Hydrotherapy as well as Sutherland-Chan Massage School and Teaching Clinic, Shannon taught courses and led large teams of students in the school student clinic.
Bridget Hoffer
and Katie Pringle
Bridget is the co-founder of Marigold Marketing and PR, a communications strategist and brand expert. She has extensive experience in delivering strategic communications, marketing, and brand programs that achieve results and resonate. Her expertise ranges from developing and managing iconic Canadian brands to refreshed personal brands with effective positioning to ensure relevance and value.
Katie is the co-founder of Marigold Marketing and PR and an integrated marketing expert. She has a deep understanding of the social and digital landscape and traditional media mix. She has extensive experience in lifestyle, entertainment & kids, with a specific focus on brands that speak to women. As a marketer, Katie is forward-looking, delivers beyond expectation and is always ready for the unexpected. Her peers say she can see around corners.
Val McCulloch from Shatterizer has deep experience in business operations, development, communications, sales and marketing. With strong combination of cross-functional experience in diverse industries and markets, ahe has recognized ability to creatively meet business challenges and manage complex projects. A highly motivated problem-solver, enthusiastic and goal-oriented professional, Val is a leader in creating and delivering integrated multidimensional strategies
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City University of Hong Kong (CityU) – Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) and five technology organizations including Hong Kong Electronic Industries Association (HKEIA), Automotive Platforms and Application Systems R&D Centre (APAS), Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD), Hong Kong Applied Science And Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) and Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) announced the establishment of five CityU EE Joint Labs on 19 September 2019.
CityU EE Joint Lab is a “Government-Industry-Academic-Research Centre” scheme for collaboration between EE Department and industrial associations, research centres, corporates and organisations. This scheme includes physical lab logo wall setup in the EE Department; an online platform linked up with the EE Department website to share the progress of collaboration and projects; a series of regular networking events for industrialists, faculty members, and students, etc. The Joint Lab aims to empower recruitment, research collaboration, commercialisation, and technology transfer.
An opening ceremony was held on CityU campus for five Joint Labs. Prof. Stella Pang, Department Head of EE, CityU; together with Dr. Lawrence Poon, General Manager of APAS; Mr Hugh Chow, CEO of ASRTI; Mr. CK LEE, Assistant Director (Acting) of EMSD; Dr CH Ng, Chairman of HKEIA; and Dr. Lawrence Cheung, CIO of HKPC launched the Opening of the five CityU EE Joint Labs.
Prof Stella Pang, Department Head of EE said, “We are excited to partner with so many industrial organisations to work together as a team to drive Hong Kong technology. I am sure CityU EE Joint Lab can help to train our students to contribute to the industry through different collaboration projects. Moreover, the developed technology through the Joint Lab Scheme can be commercialised and transferred to industry partners and government stakeholders.”
Leveraging on CityU EE’s strong research capabilities in 14 research themes including Antenna design; Big data, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence; Bioinformatics; Biomedical system; Biosensors, Bioelectronics; Computer Engineering; Control System and Optimisation; Microelectronic Devices and Circuits; Nanotechnology and Nanodevices; Networking and Internet of Things (IoT); Photonics, Power electronics and Systems; Signal and Image Processing; Terahertz and Millimeter Waves; Wireless Communications; a series of collaboration and technology initiatives will be carried out under the CityU EE Joint Lab Scheme.
With APAS, ASTRI, EMSD, HKEIA, and HKPC’s strong R&D and industrial network, CityU EE’s world-class researchers and five partners’ industrial experts will work together to drive university research to commercialisation and daily life applications especially in HK to the world.
The CityU EE Joint Lab Ceremony will be scheduled to be held quarterly. Maximum six Joint Labs will be established in each round. There will be six technology companies joining the next round in December 2019. Additionally, the progress of projects and collaboration will be shared in the seminar in the ceremony.
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Home > Newsroom > Press Releases > 2018 Press Releases > IH Provides Federal Officials With Input
Independent Health Provides Federal Officials With Input on Future Policies to Address Growing Drug Prices
Buffalo, NY (September 7, 2018) – Independent Health has provided federal officials with input on future policies to address growing drug prices saying it believes a series of immediate and longer-term, bolder strategies are necessary. Independent Health summitted the recommendations in response to a Request for Information (RFI) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the HHS Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs.
In submitting the proposal to The Honorable Alex Azar, Secretary of HHS, Michael W. Cropp, M.D., president and CEO of Independent Health said, “We fully support the Administration’s objective of lowering the price consumers pay for prescription drugs and believe that lower costs will provide greater access to medications that improve health outcomes. We look forward to working with HHS to achieve this objective.”
Dr. Cropp also cited the success its Pharmacy Benefit Dimensions™ affiliate has achieved in providing a unique, transparent pricing model that seeks to provide the best pharmaceuticals at the lowest cost possible – in essence the right drug at the right dose, at the right price.
“Pharmacy Benefit Dimensions controls drugs costs by managing its formulary – emphasizing the use of therapeutically equivalent generics or brand drugs that cost less, which is known as a clinically based formulary,” Dr. Cropp explained. “The company also manages its own contracts with drug manufacturers and pharmacies, which allows us to pass the savings directly to clients.”
A summary of Independent Health’s recommendations to HHS for consideration in the effort to lower costs include:
Increase transparency across the board.
Increase competition between manufacturers, including for generics.
Establish a drug price review board with authority over drug prices.
Prohibit direct to consumer advertising.
Allow midyear formulary changes and flexible benefit designs.
Eliminate rebates and manufacturer coupons.Create uniform industry standards and definitions.
Read a more detailed summary
Dr. Cropp said the RFI identifies four key strategies that should be considered in lowering drugs prices including improved competition, better negotiation, incentives for lower list prices and lowering of out-of-pocket costs. He said the HHS policy statement recognizes that the implementation of these strategies can be done in two phases: actions that the Administration can take immediately, and other bolder actions that may require legislative changes.
Dr. Cropp also said the government has an opportunity to parallel the success Pharmacy Benefit Dimensions has achieved and adopt some of the same practices.
“Our comments seek to support efforts HHS may take to establish and maintain a level playing field throughout the system that we believe is best achieved when market forces are allowed to prevail,” said Dr. Cropp. “The traditional economic feedback loop of consumer behavior, one of the strongest market forces, is mitigated in the current system. Drug manufacturers are insulated from consumer behavior through a convoluted delivery system where different levers, such as rebates, brokers, and patient assistant programs, mask the true price of drugs.
“With pharmaceutical companies continuing their practice of routine price increases, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the ability to lower prices within the system is reaching its limit. The need for administrative actions to empower market forces and increase transparency on the various levers within the system is critical, especially through policies that focus on list prices,” added Dr. Cropp.
Independent Health requested that any administrative actions taken by HHS recognize the potential of unintended consequences that lowering costs in one sector may have on another sector.
“Our concern is that actions taken to lower prices for government programs might not extend to nongovernment programs, which could ultimately lead to even higher costs for some consumers, and ultimately the larger economy. For example, making changes to ‘safe harbor’ provisions on rebates for Medicare and Medicaid could ultimately lead to higher costs for the consumer in the commercial and small group markets. Any actions taken should be applied universally to avoid costs being shifted, rather than lowered,” Dr. Cropp emphasized.
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The Enchantments of Mammon (Hardcover)
How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
By Eugene McCarraher
Belknap Press, 9780674984615, 768pp.
Publication Date: November 12, 2019
List Price: 39.95*
Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world.
If socialists and Wall Street bankers can agree on anything, it is the extreme rationalism of capital. At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the "disenchantment" of the world, stripping material objects and social relationships of their mystery and sacredness. Ignoring the motive force of the spirit, capitalism rejects the awe-inspiring divine for the economics of supply and demand.
Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether or not it is acknowledged. Capitalist enchantment first flowered in the fields and factories of England and was brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit. Later, the corporation was mystically animated with human personhood, to preside over the Fordist endeavor to build a heavenly city of mechanized production and communion. By the twenty-first century, capitalism has become thoroughly enchanted by the neoliberal deification of "the market."
Informed by cultural history and theology as well as economics, management theory, and marketing, The Enchantments of Mammon looks not to Marx and progressivism but to nineteenth-century Romantics for salvation. The Romantic imagination favors craft, the commons, and sensitivity to natural wonder. It promotes labor that, for the sake of the person, combines reason, creativity, and mutual aid. In this impassioned challenge, McCarraher makes the case that capitalism has hijacked and redirected our intrinsic longing for divinity--and urges us to break its hold on our souls.
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Heart Transplants From HCV-Positive Donors Safe
Publish Date January 13, 2020
Adult heart transplants from hepatitis C virus-positive donors appear safe, with no increased risk for adverse effects on one-year survival.
Nurses Can Help Manage Drug Interactions in HIV/HCV Treatment
Drug interactions between ART and direct-acting antivirals pose a clinical challenge in patients with HIV/hepatitis C virus coinfection.
Outcomes of Hep C Screening Intervention Examined
A multicomponent intervention can improve hepatitis C virus screening, although there is considerable variation by practice.
Renal Impairment Labeling Updates for Sofosbuvir-Based HCV Therapies
Steve Duffy
The FDA has approved updated labeling for Epclusa, Harvoni and Vosevi to include updated information regarding treatment of patients with HCV who have severe renal impairment including those with end stage renal disease who are on dialysis.
Treatment Response Rates High for Seniors With Hepatitis C Infection
For patients with chronic hepatitis C infection, sustained viral response rates are similar for those aged 65 years and older and those younger than 65.
Lower Education, Hepatitis C Co-Infection Linked to Earlier Menopause in HIV
Hannah Dellabella
In women with HIV, lower education and hepatitis C co-infection are independently associated with the onset of menopause before age 45 years.
Women of Reproductive Age: An Important Opportunity to Curtail the HCV Epidemic
Christina Loguidice
Investigators found data from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System that showed hepatitis C virus infection rates doubled among women of reproductive age between 2006 and 2014.
HIV/HCV Co-Infected Children May Significantly Benefit From Early DAA Treatment
Children who are co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C virus may benefit from early treatment with direct acting antivirals
Conflict-Driven Migration Increases Hepatitis Burden as Production Costs Fall
Researchers of studies on the effect of conflict-driven migration on rates of hepatitis indicate that mass migration from high-burden countries has significantly increased the prevalence of both hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in the host nation.
DAA Therapy Associated With Higher Survival in HCV-Related Comorbidities
Patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and comorbidities, including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), clinically significant portal hypertension, and cirrhosis were shown to have significantly higher survival rates when treatment included directly acting antiviral agent (DAA) therapy, according to the results of several studies presented at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases’ The Liver…
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New EMR-Based Tools Improve Hepatitis Screening in Various Care Settings
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More Mainframe Fun
I recently "released" (he says in quotes because it's still sub-alpha, albeit functional) PigIron 0.3 Java Class Library for IBM VM SMAPI. I blogged previously about PigIron. Working on PigIron has made me refresh my view of mainframe programming resources.
Google Chrome -The browser is the new Desktop
Envycasts Advanced ActiveRecord Review
DCT readers of my posts know how interested I am in the power of vidcasts, especially ones that fully engage the viewer. I recently received an invitation from Gregg Pollack of Envycasts, to check out their new Advanced ActiveRecord vidcast. And the verdict is...
FIJI Fun - Still Crazy After All These Years
In 2001 I posted the last public changes of my ForthIsh Java Interpreter to SourceForge. There was a lot of interest in Java interpreters at that time. FIJI was a pretty good cut but the arcaneness of addressing Java classes in RPN insured a manageably small user community, so to speak. Jump ahead to this week when
Think Holistically
Software architecture is not a three-layer diagram -- UI/Business logic/Data. As an architect, you need to consider the project/solution at hand from a lot of different angles and take care for all sorts of concerns from the technical, team, managerial, and event esoteric ones.
The Mobile Evolution
Embrace Your Constraints: Code Contests
Regardless of our background, programming language of choice, or political persuasion, most developers have at least one thing in common: we enjoy building things. As full-on members of the creative class, however, we're also likely to have a million ideas for useful gadgets, web services, and applications, but comparatively little time to execute on them. Sigh.Fortunately, given modern web savvy tool sets, it's easier than ever to launch a website or application. In fact, yo
A Few Pithy Thoughts on Architecture
"97 Things" - Architect Axioms
I recently stumbled on "97 Things - Things every software architect should know" (via Bobby Woolf). This is a list of axioms for architects (which will eventually be a book by O'Reilly) edited by Richard Monson-Haefel. While I don't agree with all the axioms, and some, which I fe
Calling All Software Pirates
Don't you just love it when someone comes after you while trying to convince you that they're on your side? Well, then you're going to really enjoy "Smart about Software: 2008 Software Strategies for Small Businesses, a new reference guide for small businesses from Small Business Administration (SBA) in partnership with the Business Software Alliance (BSA).
Twitter, Not Rock 'N' Roll, Saved My Soul
I'm getting lots of questions about whether Twitter and other microblogging sites can and should be used in the enterprise, to which I say, "Can you afford not to?"
BlackBerry Bold Delayed Again?
Arg. If you believe the Boy Genius Report, it looks like the BlackBerry Bold will be delayed again in the United States until Oct. 2. If true, this is truly disappointing news.
Google Launches Google Video For Business
The company is using its Google Apps business to provide the infrastructure necessary to search videos, restrict access to them, rate them, comment on them, and download them.
Rumor: iPhone Will Allow Tethering
Lenovo Introduces Low-Price, Low-Power Desktop
Google Shows Off Android App Winners
All of the 10 teams that won the Android Developer Challenge top prize of $275,000 utilize GPS in some manner.
Majority Favors Global Internet Bill of Rights
Key rights granted under the global Internet Bill of Rights would be freedom of information, freedom of expression, and the right of people to have affordable access.
Yahoo-Google Partnership Draws Antitrust Scrutiny
Review: Verizon's V CAST With Rhapsody Music Service
I've spent the last few weeks taking Verizon Wireless's V CAST With Rhapsody music download service for a spin. It has some really great features and some really annoying features. Find out if the pros outweigh the cons.
Report: TXTRS SND 95.4B SMS MSGS IN 2008
Thumbs of people the world over are getting some serious action. That action comes in the form of pecking out text messages on their cell phones. So far, 2008 is on pace to smash last year's numbers by a mile. Some of the figures being touted by VeriSign are just staggering. It sent more than 52 billion messages in the second quarter, up more than 20% from the first quarter for a total of 95.4 billion messages. People sure have a lot to say.
Busy Week For E-Discovery
Three new product releases aimed at the electronic discovery market close out the last week of summer.
Obama's VP Text Missed By Half Who Signed Up
Keynote Systems' independent tests showed inconsistent performance of Obama's SMS service with extremely poor availability compared to the industry standard.
Comcast Sets Bandwidth Threshold For Residential Customers
Residential customers will receive phone calls and requests to curb use if their bandwidth use exceeds a new gigabyte limit.
AT&T-iPhone Problems May Signal Difficulties For Android
Verizon and T-Mobile may do well to sidestep network glitches if Google wants its phone to outsell Apple's, a wireless spectrum expert suggests.
Kindle Upgrade Unlikely Before Next Year
A version of Amazon's e-reader aimed at students would need to incorporate technology that lets them highlight key text passages.
Open Source Culture Needs To Be Security Culture, Too
How to react to the news that an earlier flaw in Debian's random-number generator has been used to fuel an honest-to-Linus exploit, especially after yesterday's post? Welcome to the tip of the iceberg.
Content Management Help For Law Firms
Lawyers need a little love from content management systems, too, and the recent product and partnership announcements from Open Text and Interwoven should fit the bill nicely.
Psystar: Apple Illegally 'Destroys' Competition, Bricks Mac Clones
The upstart Mac cloner claims in an antitrust suit that Steve Jobs and company employ a mix of hype, dubious licensing schemes and technology to dominate the Mac computing environment.
BlackBerry Wins Versus Windows Mobile For Google Apps Mail
After a flawed experience with one of the first Windows Mobile-based Motorola Q's, Microsoft outfitted me with a Samsung SCH-i760 smartphone which, from an industrial design perspective, is one of the best designs for a smartphone I've ever experienced (more on that in a second). Unfortunately, integrating WinMobile 6.0's version of Outlook with Google Apps-based Gmail was so problematic that I gave up in favor of a company-furnished BlackBerry. Bla
Start-Ups Bring Google's Parallel Processing To Data Warehousing
Aster and Greenplum have made Google's MapReduce compatible with SQL for use in the parallel data warehousing systems based on open source PostgreSQL.
Smaller Businesses Drive SaaS Growth In China
Worldwide, the market for SaaS is projected to grow 25% annually and reach $19.3 billion by 2011. Much of the fuel for the growth comes from China, where the annual growth rate is pegged 33% and almost 20% of the total market ($3.8 billion). And in China, the SMBs are the growth engine -- 42 million of them contributed 60 % of GDP and by 2012 there will be 50 million.
Zi Renews Nokia Contract
The multiyear contract to provide its text products to Nokia calls for a 100% increase in first year revenue over the existing contract, the company says.
Learning about Text Analytics
I spend a lot of time on teaching materials on text analytics: articles, presentations, and courses. I've gotten positive feedback about my introductory materials, which I designed for practitioners (like myself) rather than for academics or researchers. There are great resources out there — technical papers and white papers, case studies, software, etc. — but you have to get the basics down first...
Microsoft To Acquire Ciao Shopping Portals For $486 Million
Ciao operates in seven European languages and countries, and recently launched a beta site aimed at the U.S. market.
Leaked Documents, Unintended Access: That's Also Life In The Cloud
Running a business in the cloud, or even part of a business, is great for so many reasons: It's cheap (sometimes free), incredibly convenient, and simple. But life on your private little cloud can get unintentionally, and unknowingly, crowded with extra eyes if you're not very careful.
MapReduce: And You Were There
There's been a lot of buzz lately about Google's MapReduce framework for speeding up the processing of large datasets. It makes you wonder, did Google just dream this up in last couple years while all of the database vendors were sleeping? Or, paraphrasing Isaac Newton, were they standing on the shoulders of giants? The answer is, both.
Obama Nomination Spotlights 'Net Nation
We are all Internet Americans now. OK, Barack Obama actually didn't say that in his nomination-acceptance speech Thursday night. But he could have, because the great thing about this campaign is that you don't have to watch TV or consume the news when it's pushed down to you by big media. You can learn about the candidates when you want, how you want (for example, Obama's speech can be viewed here). All the more reason that it's incumbent upon y
Electric Cars: Inside Chevy Volt, Tesla Roadster
Check out our image gallery with pictures of GM's upcoming Chevy Volt hybrid, and Tesla Motors' groundbreaking all-electric Roadster.
Smartphone Apps For The Rest Of Us
Even if you use Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon -- or don't have an iPhone for your AT&T connection -- you can still get games, music, location-based services, and other mobile content on your phone. Here's how.
Assertions in Production Code?
Acquia Expands Its Commercial Drupal Private Beta
It appears that Acquia, the startup focused on releasing a commercial version of open source content management system Drupal, is moving briskly toward a full launch. Its private beta program has kicked into high gear this week with a new batch of invitations being given out at both Drupalcon Szeged and by TechCrunch. Going forward, Acquia plans to dole out about 100 new invi
Comcast Orders Extra-Large Customer Caps
Yesterday, DSL Reports broke the news that Comcast is planning to implement a 250-GB monthly bandwidth limit, starting in October. All I can say is that it's about time.
Apple Patent Application Describes Multi-Touch Mac
The 52-page diagram shows gestures on the touch screen associated with a number of tasks, including zooming, panning, scrolling, rotating, and enlarging.
Upcoming iPhone Software Update to Address Security Flaws
A locked iPhone isn't really locked -- not if you're running firmware 2.0.2 (the current version) or earlier. Apply promises to patch a newly discovered security flaw next month.
IBM Expands Its Information On Demand Strategy
The updated software tools help position the company as a provider of all of a business' data management needs, including content management, data cleansing, and data integration.
Dell's Profit Drops As IT Spending Slowdown Spreads
The company has been cutting expenses for months to meet a promise to Wall Street to cut at least $3 billion in spending by the end of the fiscal year 2011.
SaaS Doubts Boost Remote Infrastructure Services
Chiquita Brands, a SaaS believer, taps remote management services provider for e-mail chores.
No Blueprint Yet For Private Clouds
Many people don't like the concept of "private clouds," including my colleague John Foley and Sam Johnston ("The case against 'private clouds' "), since by definition cloud computing involves letting people plug into shared IT services in data centers that aren't their own. As oxymorons go, though, private cloud computing doesn't st
FBI Arrests Blogger Over Online Music Sharing
Los Angeles music blogger Kevin Cogill is accused of posting Guns N' Roses songs online before their commercial release.
Google Unveils Android's App Store
A competitor to Apple's App Store, the Android Market will allow users to browse, purchase, install, and rate applications on Android handsets.
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Company Results & Forecasts
Balfour Beatty suffers further £23m hit on Aberdeen bypass project
Collapse of Carillion adds to costs on scheme
Perry Gourley
Balfour Beatty has already taken a £44m hit on the project
Construction group Balfour Beatty has suffered a further £23m hit from delays and cost increases on the Aberdeen city by-pass project.
In its results for the first six months of the year out today, Balfour Beatty booked an additional £23m loss on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Routeproject which included £8m for fulfilling former partner Carillion’s obligations on the contract.
Balfour Beatty wins share of huge US airport shuttle contract
The firm has already taken a £44m hit on the project and today it said the final impact is dependent upon the result of ongoing claims discussions.
But excluding the Aberdeen contract, the group said its UK construction division had reported an encouraging profit from operations of £20m representing a margin of 2.1%.
Overall underlying pre-tax profits came in at £56m during the period, more than double the £22m achieved in the same period last year although underlying revenues fell to £3.8bn from £4.19bn
The group said its order book increased 11% to £12.6 billion.
Shareholders are in line for an interim dividend payment up 33% to 1.6p a share.
Leo Quinn, group chief executive, said: “All our businesses are now either achieving industry standard margins or on track to do so in the second half. The disciplines installed under Build to Last are also enabling us to increase the order book with key infrastructure projects to translate Balfour Beatty’s expert capabilities into future profitable growth.
“Given the strength of our balance sheet and the Board’s confidence that the group’s full year earnings will meet expectations, we are raising the interim dividend by 33% and plan to repay the outstanding convertible bonds this year.”
John Moore, senior investment manager at Brewin Dolphin in Scotland, said: “These results show why it’s good to be the survivor.
"The company has watched many of its competitors struggle or fold in the past few years, which has reminded many of its customers why they picked it in the first place. "It has also meant that today Balfour Beatty can look to win business not just focusing on price, but on aspects such as operational delivery and stability. In time, this position offers the potential to boost its market presence and, ultimately, profitability further.
“Balfour Beatty is a huge company. While it can be difficult to quickly change big businesses, there is solid evidence that the turnaround plans Leo Quinn put in place are beginning to bear fruit. There appears to be real momentum behind Balfour Beatty and its direction of travel is sound. The share price is up around a fifth in two years and, if it continues on its current journey, there could be room for further growth.”
Another partner on the Aberdeen bypass project, Galliford Try, has already taken a £25m hit in its accounts due to cost over-runs on the project and the collapse of Carillion.
EngineeringAston Martin issues profit warning but Rolls-Royce enjoys record yearContrasting fortunes of luxury marques as Rolls tops 5000 sales
EnergyWood to meet market expectations after $60 billion synergiesAberdeen based engineering group increases operating profit by 20% with strong growth in Middle East, Caspian and Asia Pacific
Retail & ConsumerDisappointing Christmas for Quiz after sales plunge 9.3%More bad new for Glasgow-based fashion retailer as even online revenue is down
Banking & FinanceSigma signals strong year-end for property developmentsEdinburgh property investor on course after rise in profits from developments
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