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‘the most beautiful run in scotland’ on the horizon
It’s fast approaching that time of year again to dust off those trainers and start your training for the Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland Glenlivet 10k.
The event, dubbed ‘The Most Beautiful Run in Scotland’, takes place this year on Sunday, April 8 in the stunning setting of the Glenlivet Estate in the Cairngorms National Park. The incredibly scenic running route follows quiet country roads which meander around the sublime River Livet, passing ancient castles and providing amazing views of this secret glen.
Now in its ninth year, the Glenlivet 10k has gone from strength to strength and has become a firm favourite on the running calendar with both elite and novice runners from all over the country.
It won a bronze award for the ‘Best 10k’ at the 2016 Running Awards and it was the highest placed Scottish running event on the night.
Last year’s overall winner of the Glenlivet 10k was Gordon Lennox, who ran a time of 35min 18sec to finish first of 484 entrants.
Anne Hartmann was the first female home in 40.24, out of 256 female participants.
Runners and joggers of all levels are very welcome and by taking part you are directly supporting those affected by chest, heart and stroke illness.
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Artist Places Realistic Mannequins In Cities All Over The World To Mess With People (30 Pics)
Mark Jenkins is an American artist who has come up with an artistic way to creep people out by placing realistic looking mannequins in cities all over the world. The artist calls these installations The Urban Theater. He arranges the mannequins in lifelike and provocative poses often making the viewer question reality.
Mark did his first street art installation back in 2003 when he placed a figure in a refuse dump in Rio de Janeiro. He wanted to draw attention to the rising problem of homeless children on the streets. Eventually, the project grew and some of the artist’s works were featured in venues like Lazarides Galleries and Kunsthalle Wien.
In an interview with Reuters, the artist said themes of his installations are rather dark. “They often tend to be marginalized individuals, sometimes in lonely states, so it’s poetic but also dark. For example, the guy in the river is holding a bunch of colored balloons that are almost trying to magically lift him out. There’s always an undercurrent of hope,” said Mark.
When asked why he does the installations, the artist said he likes making people question their surroundings and ask what is real and what is not. “These days, people are so buried in their mobile phones and I just wanted to get them to look up. So at the beginning, I was collecting social data about people’s reactions. But six years later, these images are more about poetry, of capturing a magical moment,” explained the artist.
Check out Mark’s amazing installations in the gallery below!
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What Is This Fish?
One issue not in question - it's a real nice fish.
Early in our Research and Development program in Southern Chile, one of our guides, Garrett Sullivan, caught this exceptional fish.
We took some shots and released it, thinking “man, that was an awesome brown”.
When we got home, we sent some pictures around to a bunch of folks, and maybe half of them responded saying “great fish, but that’s not a brown – that’s clearly an Atlantic salmon.”
Looks like a salmon here, doesn't it?
Over the past couple of years we’ve had a lot of people weigh in on the topic, and opinions seem to be pretty split. We’ve also thought in the past about running polls on our blog, so we figured now’s the time – we’ll let the collective wisdom of the internet identify this fish!
Red spots - brown. Maxillary vs eye - brown. Patchy spots on back - Atlantic. Head shape - Atlantic. Right?
[poll id=”2″]Note: if you’re reading this in a newsletter or a reader, just click here to go to our web site and vote in the poll.
Thanks for weighing in! Feel free to leave a comment below letting us know why you voted the way you voted.
P. S. Yes, we considered the R&D program on that river to be successful, and yes, we fish that river at Chile West whenever we can.
P.P.S. If you’d like to chase exceptional fish like this around Southern Chile, drop us a line – we’d love to have you.
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307outfitters says
amazing fish
Woodstock says
Brown. Three positive reasons; one sorta reason:
Positive: 1) Mandible extends to half-way or beyond orbit of eye.
2) Heavy and numerous spots on operculum (gill plate)
3) And most compelling of all: Spots on the adipose fin
And the sorta (because you can’t see with 100% certainty):
The caudal peduncle (wrist) appears thick
Gharrett landed a trophy brown – not some escapee salmon from a Chilean fish farm. Good on you, man!
Jeremy Christensen says
Hope your Chile squad faired ok in the earthquake…thoughts go out to everyone down there.
Thanks Jeremy – our team and their families are all fine. We’re far enough away that they didn’t even feel it. Thanks for the thoughts!
Karl Kreissig says
Hallo to everbody,
I`m quite sure that the fish on the photo is a male atlantic salmon.
He escaped from a fish farm. You can see that because the fish has got not real good fins. It would have been better not to release such a fish.
Karl Kreissig
a fishfarmer from Germany
Doug Schlink says
I vote brown, although Karl’s point about damaged fins well taken, and I can offer no explanation. But…while difficult to tell from photo, there appears to be no concavity to the tail -it’s more spade like indicating brown. Also, spots appear to extend fairly well below lateral line, indicating brown. Also thickness of caudal peduncle. Salmon have a narrower wrist. Had Garrett tried to “tail” this fish, I think it would have squirted out (unless he knew the Vulcan Grilse Grip!). In adult salmon (not grilse), the relatively narrower caudal peduncle combined with stiff positioning of the exterior caudal rays make a perfect “handle”. (FYI – lifting a salmon completely out of the water by the tail so that it hangs vertically can damage internal organs – poor catch & release practice).
Trevor Covich says
This fish is amazing yes! I have never stared at a fish for so long or ever in that fact trying to determine species. After seeing numerous different looking browns in that same area I started comparing fins. The tail doesn’t match any of the other fish I’ve seen here. The fish is big, so if this was a brown the rounded off tail and other fins could be from escaping predators and other trout. The Jaw and upper back would tell me that this is an Atlantic. A very distinguished jaw, and the spot configuration on the top of the back is something I’ve also never seen.The spots remind me of the salmon I used to catch in the salt. The orange spots on the side and the maze configuration on the adipose fin tell me its a brown. So my next question is, can the two cross breed? As a guide here, this is a question that must be answered. I want to say its a mix.
T- Covich
Look at the close up of the fish, do you see the “super tiny” spots mixed in on the top of the back. Now look at photos of every brown we have ever caught here. I can’t find any with that spot configuration. I’m convinced neither will you. Mix.
i went back and looked at this photo as well. i still vote mix
Mark Orlicky weighed in with this comment via email:
You know, it sure looks like a brown. But, when a brown has been in the Great Lakes or gone to sea, it frequently gets real silverish. And, can be mistaken for a Chinook Salmon sometimes, other times, it looks like an Atlantic Salmon. And, vice versa. This is a good one.
I sent the email to an ichthyologist friend of mine. He sent back a guess that it was a naturally occuring cross between a Brown Trout and an Atlantic Salmon. He said,
It looks to me like a brown/atlantic hybrid for sure.
The giveaway is the upper jaw extending downward with a slight hook. Most of the other physiological features are brown.
So, let that guess be entered into the pot.
twenty years ago i worked with fisheries and oceans on the east coast of canada and atlantics and brown trout were successfully crossed. thats what this looks like to me
Robert Parker says
I’ve seen a few fish like that in over 8 seasons in Chile, mostly in the Rio Simpson and a couple in the fjords. They’ve always really stumped me in having characters of both species. It’s difficult to accurately determine caudal peduncle depth and maxillary length from a photo, and using the maxillary for identification is not always accurate in these species. Coloration can be an environmental trait and not a heritable one, so it’s a tough call there. Probably the best character to get a good ID is vomerine teeth (one row in Atlantic salmon, two rows in brown trout), but obviously this is difficult with a live fish in a C&R situation. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility of this fish being a hybrid. Running the genetics would be the only way to get a definitive identification.
Paolo Silva says
I was caught those cain of fish several time in my entire fly fishing live here in chilean patagonia.
When you see his behavior when they start to run upstream you will know that they are Atlantic salmon. ex. where they lie, how they move upstream, how many are in the group, and more important “they are easy to recognize when you can see it more silvers”. The salmon of the picture is a mature one. Its behaviour are not from a brown trout.
Piscator says
Looks like a clear case of hybridization to me as it displays characteristics of both – same Genus, so it is completely within the realm of possibilities… But we’re being a bit nit-picky, aren’t we? Either way, whatever its origins, it is one helluva salmonid!
ramrod says
clearly a brown seeing the spots on the adipose fin and the square tail.
atlantic salmon do not have these spots on the fin. It’s plain to see why some think it an atlantic. the mouth looks like it’s close to the rear of the eye when drawing a vertical line. a brown would extend past the rear of the eye. But the spots on the fin makes it a brown
Brown – Thinking that when they get big they can start to look very much like a salmon, especially the cock fish which develop a considerable hook jaw. Generally its the cannibals that get bigger and live longer as a consequence. Sometimes then being known as Ferox trout. Possibly similar to eels the predatory tendancies also cause the head to enlarge. Seems like the double figure ones get ridiculously broad heads. They also seem to silver up as they get bigger. Some of the larger ones I’ve been lucky enough to encounter are entirely silver and don’t seem to retain a hint of brown about them. Seems to fade out as they hit double figures. But they definately are browns. Spots can look similar to the one in the photo which appears to be starting the “silvering” process. No chance of being salmon where I have encountered them. Although when you first land them your so gobsmaked and high on adrenalin youre half inclined to think they could be!
Beautifull fish. For a river that is an absolute specimen. Must be a good river !
Tim Donnell says
On salmon, the vomerine teeth are small and arranged in a single row on the shaft, with few to none on the vomerine head. On the Brown Trout, the vomerine teeth are well-developed on both the vomerine head and shaft, and arranged in a zig-zag row on the shaft. Also on salmon, the caudal fin may be slightly forked and on the brown trout, the caudal fin is square and unforked.
Caudal fin identification is probably the most commonly used method, since noone can remember which teeth configuration is trout and which is salmon; however, Brown trout have Always been refered to as Square Tails in our region.
http://www.maine.gov/ifw/fishing/species/identification/salmon_browntrout.htm
Sometimes, one can tell the difference just by the tail…”old square tailed Browns”……but sometimes the juvenials look SO similar that you have to reach into their mouth with your pinkie and feel the rows of teeth. And, even THEN, I cannot always be certain. The State of Maine Department of inland fisheries tries to help fishermen identify properly, as we are trying to protect our Salmon population. My theory is never keep any fish, but moreover….NEVER keep a fish that is in question. Gorgeous fish….even prettier release.
But By your photo, my guess would be a gorgeous Brown, based on the coloration and squared off tail. Browns can grow to be as big as a salmon, as witnessed by this monster taken from a Lake in Maine a few winters ago. I tried, unsuccessfully, to find a photo for you, as it was printed in the Kennebec journal around 3/6/ 1996 . This brown was So big ( caught through the Ice) that the fella had to chip a 10 inch auger hole out to about 12 inches to get the fish out of the water. I have included a record of it’s capture.
Point: This giant brown looked just like a salmon, not a trout, however, was clearly identified by state biologists as a Brown. It had none of the coloration of a Brown and was as silver as a smelt. The State record Atlantic Salmon is only 5 lbs or so bigger.
http://www.landbigfish.com/staterecords/records.cfm?state=Maine
We do occasionally have a stray fish in a place where it does not belong, but this particular pond has no dam-less access to the ocean, or any Landlock population. So there is no question in my mind that this was an accurate identification.
On a more comical note:
We did have a guy catch a 36 inch Striped Bass in the Machias Lake chain a few years ago, and wardens arrested him, because the size limit on Stripers on the coast is 40 inch min. He caught this thing in the LAKE, where it had made it’s way up the Machias River 20 miles inland, and was most likely eating all of our trout. But, they arrested him for NOT releasing this fish. I’ll be honest….I would NOT have put a 36 inch striper back into a trout pond either.
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In Addition, Tim’s comment of July 18 2010 is exactly correct also. The record brown caught in Maine had such an enormous head for it’s length, that it looked more like a prehistoric creature than any modern brown that you’ve ever seen.
Mr Marine Harvest says
Bad news the brown trout/salmon fish in the photos is an escaped farm salmon that should have ended up on a fish counter but managed to get into your river. We catch lots of them in scotland and ireland and refer to them as chumpys. It is a terrible fish……with neh fins that will ruin your “wild” stock.
Ben Gahagan says
Nice Fish Garret! I agree with the brown votes, looks exactly like a very big sea run brownie to me, beyond what else has been said the the black margin on the caudal fin is typical of sea run browns and seals it for me
Jere Crosby says
Wish you guy’s could respond when I post!!! I’ve investigated this Brown/Atlantic thing, and my conclusion is they are the same fish!! I called the Flyshop in California, and raised that question to them, and their answer was their is very little DNA/genetic difference. They both reside in the same areas/geographical zones, and one is anadromous just like the rainbow/steelhead thing. Seems fly fisherman want to make the distinction as they are two separate species. An Atlantic that is in the river system turns very much like a Brown Trout, and can’t be distinguished from a Brown in my opinion.
Hey Jere, thanks a lot for stopping by – we appreciate your posts! Great input on the brown/Atlantic question…I think there are as many views as anglers on this one.
Whatever it is, and it looks like an Atlantic Salmon to me the shape of the tail fin, with the points badly eroded would seem to indicate that it is an escaped farmed fish. Every farmed fish you see in a supermaarket has a tail like this sYou can see any number with
Michael W. Miller says
I have been catching, dining on some few, releasing many, brown trout,though never close to the size of this specimen, since I am 17. I am now 67, the math is easy, and I catch them still. There is zero doubt to my eyes, that this outsized piscine marvel is, yes, a brown trout. The yellow,and the white colouration on his flank and underbelly make this certain to me, in addition to the colour of its spots as well as their aureoles. Yes, I am hooked on this fish and this opinion of it.
Michael W. Miller
Did it have teeth in the roof of its mouth?
Browns do, AS do not
When all else fails this is a good indicator
Salmon, eyes located too far back and low to be a brown
ipop says
it`s sort of funny. i was searchinhg the net for the common/local names for the brown land loch cross and found this site.
i have caugt a number of them. in my case they are mentioned earlier, the viable crosses on the east coast of canada. i fish those lakes they talked about, and actualy plan to target these fish and land loch salmon to over the next 10 days. these land lochs are atlantic salmon, mostly land loched naturaly a long time ago and now are also stocked. they developed in the 40`s a viable cross of brown trout and these salmon and at the same time an artic char that could handle slightly warmer waters. because of this the regs for the area refer to them as “any combination of brown trout and land loch salmon”. the one shown is one of the easier of these crosses to identify. we have different seasons for brown and land loch, so some variants like the female`s with a browns body and salmon forked tail – just how forked did it have to get to be a cross? so they finaly just changed the rules to include both and any combination.
they are fun to catch, and can prefer bad weather with lots of waves. they will also do the salmon thing of following the boat some times. they don`t put up as much of a fight as a brown, and have the tendancy of a salmon to quit after a short initial fight. the strong slamon variant can have a soft lip, requiring soft rods and smouth reels – don`t over set the hook or you will lose it. they taste like a combo of the two, i cook them like salmon… but i cook browns like salmpon too! lol!
i target them almost completely in the spring, their bite dies off a lot in the summer. the fall fishing for them is new to me, i`ll see how i do and let you know.
i do have at least one picture of this hybred variant, salmon body digital pattern, small for it`s size brown`s square tail, jaw hooked and head like brown or fall spawning atlantic that has been in fresh water for more than a few days. same as your fish. i would post it but i planned to put it on another site that probabley won`t like that. do you guy`s claim rights on photos? if not, or if i can find another one or get one before the first of oct. i will post it.
brown trout atlantic salmon hybred.
chumpy`s eh?!!! lol thanks!
Felipe Aristizabal says
Hola Amigo,
Brown Trout and Atlantic Salmon cannot cross, it is a scientific fact. Had they been able to, they would have done so in Europe many millions of years ago. Although they belong to the same genus Salmo, their offspring if there ever have been any, would be sterile. It is most definitely a German Brown just like the many I’ve cought in Colorado and Arkansas, no different! Wishful thinking goes a long way.
A nice sized Brown is what it is, I can give you my full confidence on this one. It looks nothing like an Atlantic salmon. It’s color is brown not silver. It has red and black spots and a yellow underbelly.. It’s definitely a BROWN!
Dustin kecki says
The teeth are the only sure sign.
Ricky lapsley says
Hi this fish is a brown trout I can’t believe there is so many people convinced its an Atlantic salmon.im from Scotland and that is a trade mark back end (late season brown)it’s obviously a cock fish.atlantic salmon have few BLACK spots if any under the lateral line&no way would you never get red spots on an Atlantic salmon.the fact that its tail isn’t full suggests that it is farmed or escaped from a farm which means returning that fish was a bad idea as it will effect the wild species in the river.personally I would have killed it we have alot of bother on our river Tay here with escapee rainbows bad for migrating fish.
Cathal McNaughton says
You do get red spots on gravid Atlantic Salmon. Male and female it doesn’t matter. To be more accurate, these are not redirected spots as per a brown trout. These are the typical rust coloured spots of a salmon. Farmed salmon that have never seen fresh water develop the same livery in sea cages as the spawning season approaches. Farmed salmon above. Any fish farmer can verify that. The spotting in this is not only not consistent with any wild salmon or trout, it is 100% consistent with the distinctive poorly developed, excessively heavy sporting of a farmed Atlantic Salmon. There is no need to look beyond that. Attempting to identify fish from details such as the eye/ mouth line is fraught with difficulty and is affected by the posture of the mouth, whether the mouth is open or closed. Anyone suggesting this is anything other than a farmed Atlantic Salmon is not familiar with their fish, fish identification or the pitfalls of identifying species using photographs only.
Red spots, not redirected . Apologies. Farmed Atlantic Salmon. I’m very familiar with them, wild salmon, brown trout and sea trout..and sea trout which have reverted to being Brown trout in fresh water. The above fish is a farmed Atlantic Salmon. In every detail. There is no confusion here.
B Fallon says
Possible hybrid? I know there’s thought of a “fish farm escapee” being possible, but I also know GM Atlantic Salmon have been known to interbreed with brown trout and actually Brown Trout and Atlantic Salmon have been known to interbreed in the wild as well. I think a good question to ask in this case would be – what time of year was this caught in relation to brown trout spawing in Chile? It might better explain the kype? Either way, good catch, and I disagree with “it would have been better to not release the fish”…..we’ve fucked up the planet enough already, I don’t think releasing a possible farm fish (which I’m not anywhere near certain it is) will cause some sort of invasive reaction. It’s not like you’re releasing a snakehead. Brown trout and Atlantic Salmon virtually have the same eating habits and it is a similar fish with a few differences .
Zach says
That is definitely an Atlantic salmon.
Josh Campbell says
Looks like male atlantic salmon with the specs of a browntrout haha
Tratta Lykelligsynd says
could be a hybrid, that does happen, you know. It is getting exceedingly rarer as global climate change accelerates
Norman Ward says
First of all let me say that’s a hall of a fish whether it’s a brown trout or atlantic salmon so Congrats to the angler Aslo glad to see it was released
I live in Red Bank, New Brunswick Canada. Red Bank is a small First Nation community that lies along the banks of both the Little Southwest and Northwest Miramichi rivers The two rivers meet here in Red Bank and flow into one river, the Northwest Miramicbi river that flows into the Atlantic ocean The many rivers of the miramichi river watershed have long been famous for their legendary runs of Atlantic salmon and have attracted anglers from around the world Sadly these large runs of salmon that have made the miramichi river famous have dwindled to the point that many of the different rivers of the miramichi river watershed no longer have runs that even meet spawning requirements The reasons for this are many so I wont get into them as its getting off topic I mentioned living along the northwest and little southwest miramichi rivers as I have fished atlantics here for over 30 years, have guided for over 20, have worked as a fish warden for 11 and for the past three years have worked live catching atlantic salmon in live catch trap or box nets from June to the end of Oct These box nets catch salmon by the salmon following a lead into a box net where they can’t swim out of The salmon are caught to collect science data and estimate return numbers A small percentage of the male grilse which are salmon under 63cms in length are killed and distributed to the first nation people of Red Bank for food, social and ceremonial purposes All large salmon are released and only male grilse are kept as there are more than enough males. The numbers of female salmon returning to spawn are low and often not enough to meet spawning requirements so all female salmon must be released so they can continue upriver to spawn Living and working along and on the miramichi rivers for my entire life I had the opportunity to handle thousands of salmon so have quite a bit of experience with atlantic salmon As for brown trout my experience with them is much less as they are not native to the miramichi river watershed although they can be found in other river systems here in New Brunswick as well as in the rivers in neighboring provinces of Nova Scotia, Pronce Edward Island and Newfoundland I have fished for and caught a few brown trout in Nova Scotia yesrs ago but not many In my opinion the fish in the pics being debated is a large brown trout I admit that Atlantic salmon late in the fall when they are close to spawning closely resemble brown trout but I still think the fish in the pics is a brown trout Also atlantic salmon are more closely related to brown trout than to other species of salmon which can make identification of the two even harder but there are some differences
Atlantic salmon have a forked tail compared to a brown trout and trout in general have a square tail and the fish in the pic has an obvious square tail Salmon domt usually have spots on their dorsal fin, adipose fin and tail like brown trout do and the fish in the pic has spots on both the adipose fin and dorsal fin as well as the tail Brown trout in general are more heavily spotted than atlantics. Both have spots on the gill plates but the brown usually has more than the atlantic salmon so going by the pic I would say brown trout again Both male browns and atlantics can get an elongated snout with a large kype so really no diff there The section between the adipose fin and the tail is usually thicker on a brown than an Atlantic but hard to tell from the pic As for the eye in relation to back of rhe jaw good luck telling from a photo as it can depend on rhe angle of rhe photo, if the fishes mouth is open or closed or how the fish is being held so I domt think you can use that from these pics to make a conclusion I dont know what the farmed salmon conclusions are based on as wild atlantics close to spawning closely resemble a brown trout close to spawn Like I mentioned before atlantic salmon and brown trout are closely related and Atlantic salmon are more closely related to browns than to other species of salmon so of course they are going to have many of the same characteristics Here is New Brunswick and Atlantic Canada farmed raised fish have their adipose fin clipped off in order to identify fish farm escapees Not sure if this is the same in other parts of the world As for hybrids I dont think anyone could tell this from a photo with the two fish being so closely related with the only definate way to identify a hybrid would be through DNA analysis So again my opinion and thats all it is the fish in the pic is a brown trout
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Grosmont to Whitby Walk01723 383636work Walking RouteJoin the River Esk on the final part of its journey from the high moors to the sea on this 8-mile linear walk that starts in Grosmont and finishes in style on the pier in Whitby (fish and chips optional!). There’s a fascinating railway heritage to explore in Grosmont, before a gentle walk through fields, woods and two small villages, shadowing both the line of the river and the Esk Valley Railway. Whitby makes an alluring ending to the walk, with the chance to dip your toes in the North Sea if it’s warm enough. It’s also easy to do the walk by public transport – take the train from Whitby to Grosmont and then return following signs, waymarks and the salmon symbol for the ‘Esk Valley Walk’.
Great for: riverside rambles, family walks, history lovers
Length:8 miles (13km)
Start/Finish: Grosmont station/Whitby pier
Grid Ref: NZ 828 053
OS Map: Ordnance Survey OL27
Refreshments:Grosmont, Sleights, Ruswarp, Whitby
Toilets: Start/Finish of the walk
About this walk
This is the fourth and final section of the Esk Valley Walk (EVW4), a 37-mile ‘Regional Route’ from Castleton to Whitby. Put all 4 sections together to complete the route, or walk each section individually for great days out in the Esk Valley – also see EVW1, EVW2 and EVW3.
The route is mostly on fairly level bridleways, with several gates and some stiles along the way. The going can be muddy and boggy in parts, where horses and livestock have been present, and there’s a steepish descent and ascent up and down steps between Ruswarp and Whitby. Please take care when crossing the railway tracks, and also be aware of traffic when crossing roads in Sleights, Ruswarp and Whitby.
The route runs through farmland and farmyards – please always keep your dog on a short lead near livestock. You also cross the railway track twice and walk near and along roads at several points, so it’s important to keep your dog under control at all times. On bridleways, it’s safest to keep your dog on a lead if cyclists or horse-riders pass by.
Grosmont village is entirely a product of the railway age. Until then there was nothing here except for a farm and a few stones from a thirteenth-century priory, but in 1831 Whitby businessmen asked George Stephenson to draw up a plan for a railway from Whitby to Pickering to improve their trade. By 1835 the route was opened between Whitby and Grosmont, featuring a regular horse-drawn service, and the line was extended to Pickering in 1836. That same year saw the building of Grosmont station – exactly the same time that London’s first station opened, at London Bridge.
By 1847 horses had given way to steam, and by the 1860s several connecting rail lines continued from Grosmont all the way up the Esk Valley to Middlesbrough. Travelling today on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (from Pickering) or Esk Valley Railway, you are following in the tracks of true railway pioneers.
Ruswarp
The land bordering the river at Ruswarp is known as the ‘Carrs’, a word of Scandinavian origin which means flat, wet land (or fen) likely to flood. One of the first stone bridges over the Esk was built here as far back as 1190. Since then several bridges have been washed away in high floods – the last time one was destroyed was in 1930, when some areas were under 8 feet (2.5 metres) of water and villages upstream as far as Castleton were cut off by the floods.
Whitby and Captain Cook
He may have met his end in Hawaii, but England’s greatest navigator and explorer Captain James Cook first trained in Whitby for his epic adventures. He lodged as an apprentice in a 17th-century house on the harbourfront – now the Captain Cook Memorial Museum – from where he learned his trade, transporting coal to London on working boats called ‘cats’, owned by a family of Quaker ship-owners. The young James spent eight years in Whitby, sailing up and down the coast and as far as the Baltic and St Petersburg, rising to the position of master’s mate and becoming a trusted seaman.
In 1755 Cook left Whitby, having volunteered for the Royal Navy, where he rose through the ranks. When not at sea in later life Cook lived in London, but it wasn’t the end of his association with Whitby, since all his ships of exploration were built in the town. The Endeavour (technically a ’bark’, ie a flat-bottomed cargo vessel, not a ship), the Resolution, Adventure and Discovery were products of the renowned Whitby shipyards which so impressed the Admiralty when they were looking to supply the Pacific expeditions that would make Cook’s name and change the world.
The Russian ship ‘Demeter’ ran aground on Whitby’s Tate Hill beach, with the only apparent survivor a mysterious dog that disappeared up the 199 steps. At least, that’s how Bram Stoker’s famous vampire novel ‘Dracula’ starts, inspired by Stoker’s holiday in Whitby in 1890.
Grosmont Railway StationFront Street,GrosmontYO22 5QEUnited Kingdom54.435783300000-0.725361200000http://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/visiting/enjoy-outdoors/walking/our-walks/walking-routes/grosmont-to-whitby
Grosmont to Whitby Walk
Walking Route, free entry
Join the River Esk on the final part of its journey from the high moors to the sea on this 8-mile linear walk that starts in Grosmont and finishes in style on the pier in Whitby (fish and chips optional!). There’s a fascinating railway heritage to explore in Grosmont, before a gentle walk through fields, woods and two small villages, shadowing both the line of the river and the Esk Valley Railway. Whitby makes an alluring ending to the walk, with the chance to dip your toes in the North Sea if it’s warm enough. It’s also easy to do the walk by public transport – take the train from Whitby to Grosmont and then return following signs, waymarks and the salmon symbol for the ‘Esk Valley Walk’.
Walk Route: The route is mostly on fairly level bridleways, with several gates and some stiles along the way.
Access: Easy to access.
Miles: 8
www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/visiting/enjoy-outdoors/walking/our-walks/walking-routes/grosmont-to-whitby
Grosmont Railway Station,
Front Street,,
Grosmont,
YO22 5QE
Map reference: NZ 827052 Lat: 54.43578 Long: -0.72536
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Here's Proof Aaron Rodgers and Danica Patrick Are the Cutest Sports Couple
By Gina Vaynshteyn
It's football season, which means Sundays are off-limits for many of us fans (unless it involves a TV and snacks). The Green Bay Packers are going up against the Los Angeles Chargers this upcoming Sunday, and we're not the only ones who are cheering on the Wisconsin team in advance (sorry, LA). Quarterback Aaron Rodgers has an especially big fan: his girlfriend, Danica Patrick. If you check out her Instagram page, you'll see why she's definitely the Packers' #1 fan.
This past Sunday during the Packers vs. Raiders game, Danica posted a selfie with the caption, "☝🏼The @packers are killin it!!!!!!!! Another simply amazing performance by @aaronrodgers12! Getting it done week in week out......let’s goooooooo pack go! Loud living room at @ebunt187 house!:
How long have Aaron Rodgers and Danica Patrick been dating?
According to CheatSheet, Aaron and Danica first met in 2012, during the Espy awards ceremony. Even though Danica was married to someone else at the time, she ended up getting a divorce a few months later. Was it because she knew Aaron was the one? The two actually took awhile before they got together, both dating other people until 2018, the year Aaron and Danica became #official. The two have been together since.
Here's what else we know about Danica Patrick
Danica is a professional athlete as well. The 37-year-old used to be a race car driver. In fact, according to Sports Illustrated, Danica was the first female driver to finish in the top five at the Indianapolis 500, along with being the first to win an IndyCar Series race. If that's not impressive enough, she's the first woman to win a NASCAR Cup Series pole.
You may have seen Danica on TV — she's made a ton of appearances. In 2008, the now-retired racer was featured as a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman after she won her first IndyCar race. She also filmed several national commercial with GoDaddy.com, one of which aired during the Super Bowl XLIII. (In fact, she's been in 14 Super Bowl commercials, according to ESPN, which is a record for any celeb.) Most recently, she was a guest on the The Kelly Clarkson Show.
Danica is also an actress, because what can this human NOT do? For example, she was in a 2010 episode in CSI:NY, voiced herself in a Simpsons episode called "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?" and that's not even all of it. Aside from TV and acting, Danica has her own wine company called Somnium. She also has her own athleisure collection called Warrior by Danica Patrick. Unclear when Danica has time to sleep!
Happy Wednesday!! @danicapatrick’s #WarriorByDanicaPatrick collection, including items from the elevated line is on @hautelook today and tomorrow! https://www.hautelook.com/events/196929
A post shared by @ warriorbydanica on Dec 20, 2017 at 12:19pm PST
So, what's Danica Patrick's net worth? What's Aaron Rodgers' net worth?
You've got one successful Packers quarterback, and one retired, groundbreaking racer who happens to own a few companies on the side. That HAS to mean this couple is loaded, right? Obviously, the answer is yes. According to CheatSheet, Danica is worth $60 million. Aaron just signed a $134 million contract with the Green Bay Packers, so while his net worth is around $89 million, that number is sure to go up as his football career progresses.
Will we see Danica at the Packers game this Sunday? Who's to say! Sounds like Danica is also perfectly happy supporting her BF from her living room. #TrueLove.
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This is why TV cameras are still huge and ridiculously expensive
December 6, 2019 by John Aldred 1 Comment
Over the past couple of decades, very high-quality video-capable cameras have down a lot in both price and size. So, why then, are the camera setups used for shooting broadcast TV content still so huge? and why are they so expensive?
In this video, Zebra Zone breaks down exactly what’s involved in these types of setups, exactly why they’re needed and why they cost as much as a house. He also busts a big myth that it’s the camera that’s huge. Much of the bulk and cost are the extras bolted onto it.
The setup shown in the video comes to a total cost of around $250,000. That’s a hell of a lot of money, but almost 90% of that cost is the lens attached to the camera, which is just a $3,500 Blackmagic URSA Broadcast camera. The tripod and fluid head alone come in at almost six times the cost of the camera, at around $20K. The remote control handles, lens adapter, monitor and fibre optic transmission module total up to around another $21K.
Camera: $3,500
Lens: $212,000
Tripod & Fluid head: $20,000
Remote handles: $9,000
Fiber module: $3,000
Monitor: $1,800
As explained in the video, in traditional video setups, what you shoot is based on the gear you have available to you. You adapt your environment to your kit. In broadcast, it’s the other way around. Your gear needs to be able to adapt to any environment it finds itself in. This could mean everything from talk shows to sports coverage. And kit that can adapt to just about any environment is very expensive (and huge).
The lens shown in the video is a Fujinon 4K UHD 8.4-900mm f/1.7 4K. It’s packed with so many features it’ll make your head spin. But the biggest is that it’s parfocal. There’s no need to refocus your shot as you zoom in and out, which is vital, especially on a live broadcast. It also features built-in image stabilisation, it’s razor-sharp across its entire focal length, and it can go from minimum to maximum very quickly. Oh, and it has a built-in 2x teleconverter, giving it a final range of 8.4-1800mm.
We look at those $10K cinema lenses and think they’re amazing, and even those are out of the reach of many low budget filmmakers. But even those are nothing compared to something like this. Something so big that it requires external controllers for adjusting focus and aperture. Not optional extras, like throwing a follow focus on a cinema rig, but actually required as part of its operation.
But it’s nice to know that even if we can’t afford or justify the types of lenses they use for broadcast work, the cameras at least are attainable for even lower budgets.
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Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: Blackmagic, Broadcast, gear, TV Camera, URSA Broadcast, Zebra Zone
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Abortion, an increasing public health concern in Ecuador, a 10-year population-based analysis
Authors Ortiz-Prado E, Simbaña K, Gómez L, Stewart-Ibarra AM, Scott L, Cevallos-Sierra G
Received 5 December 2016
Accepted for publication 8 March 2017
Published 13 July 2017 Volume 2017:8 Pages 129—135
Video abstract presented by Esteban Ortiz-Prado
Esteban Ortiz-Prado,1–4 Katherine Simbaña,5,6 Lenin Gómez,5,6 Anna M Stewart-Ibarra,4,7 Lisa Scott,8 Gabriel Cevallos-Sierra9
1OneHealth Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad De Las Americas, Quito, Ecuador; 2Department of Cellular Biology, Physiology and Immunology, Institute of Biomedicine, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; 3Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine “Eugenio Espejo”, Universidad Tecnologica Equinoccial, Quito, Ecuador; 4Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, 5Center for Global Health and Translational Science, Upstate Medical University, State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, USA; 6Faculty of Medical Science, School of Medicine, Universidad Central del Ecuador, 7Prometeo Program, SENESCYT, Quito, Ecuador; 8Graduate College of Biomedical Sciences, Western University of Health Sciences, Lebanon, OR, USA; 9School of Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Objectives: To describe the epidemiology of abortion in Ecuador from 2004 to 2014 and compare the prevalence between the public and the private health care systems.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional analysis of the overall mortality and morbidity rate due to abortion in Ecuador, based on public health records and other government databases.
Results: From 2004 to 2014, a total of 431,614 spontaneous abortions, miscarriage and other types of abortions were registered in Ecuador. The average annual rate of abortion was 115 per 1,000 live births. The maternal mortality rate was found to be 43 per 100,000 live births.
Conclusions: Abortion is a significant and wide-ranging problem in Ecuador. The study supports the perception that in spite of legal restrictions to abortion in Ecuador, women are still terminating pregnancies when they feel they need to do so. The public health system reported >84% of the national overall prevalence.
Keywords: clandestine abortion, private vs public health system, misoprostol, therapeutic abortion, metrotexate, misoprostol
Every minute there are on average 255 births worldwide1 from around 210 million pregnancies annually. Eighty million of those pregnancies are unplanned or unwanted and 1 in 2 of these are terminated before birth, representing more than 41 million abortions a year.2–5 About 47,000 women die every year due to complications from unsafe abortions, 86% of which occur in developing countries.6–8 Unsafe and clandestine abortions represent a great risk for women and therefore are an urgent public health matter.
Studies have shown that banning elective termination of pregnancy is associated with an increase in clandestine abortion practices and associated medical complications that arise when abortions are performed under unsafe conditions.6,9 In some South American countries, such as Ecuador, Peru and Colombia, elective abortion is criminalized under most circumstances.10,11 However, there are a few Latin American countries and territories, such as Puerto Rico, Cuba, Uruguay and Mexico, where there are legal grounds that allow women to terminate unwanted pregnancies.12,13 In South America, the rates of unsafe abortion are one of the highest in the world.14
Restrictive laws for abortion and clandestine and unsafe practices to terminate pregnancy become even more relevant in the current Zika virus outbreak. Zika virus has been linked to severe neurological malformations in babies born from infected mothers. This has increased the demand for pregnancy termination in Latin American countries.15–17 Clandestine and unsafe abortions are more common in poor and very young women who lack access to medical services and, unfortunately, these women are also the ones who might be most affected by the Zika outbreak.14,15
Ecuador has prohibited any form of induced abortion since 1837, when the first Penal Code of Conduct was published.18 This code stated that abortions could not be requested by women for any economic, social or personal reason. Furthermore, abortions were considered illegal regardless of fetal wellbeing.19 In January 2014, the Penal Code of Conduct was ratified and therapeutic abortion was approved under specific circumstances that were limited to mentally ill or incompetent women who had been raped or cases where the woman’s physical or mental health was in direct danger as a result of the pregnancy itself.19,20
A study published in 1990 by The Bull Institute shows that there was a notable increase in the overall rate of abortions in Ecuador from 1964 to 1988.21 However, the lack of data from that period makes it difficult to ascertain whether the increase was due to an incremental rise in the number of miscarriages or induced abortions, or simply to an improvement in data collection. The study identified social determinants that were linked to abortion. It showed that most unwanted pregnancies occurred in the rural, mountainous regions of Ecuador, typically within low-income families.22 The validity of these findings is difficult to prove, due to widespread underreporting of intentionally induced abortions, most likely due to the legal consequences previously described.4,6,23
Although there are legal constraints that limit access to abortion services in Ecuador, access to some drugs such as misoprostol, an off-label abortive pill, is possible. Misoprostol is a prostaglandin E1 analog with regulatory approval in Ecuador to treat gastroduodenal ulcers but can also be used to induce abortion, either as oral pills or by vaginal placement.24 Misoprostol and its off-label indications as an abortive pill works when taken before the 63rd day of gestation, having a reported success rate for pregnancy termination higher than 90% if done within this time frame.24–29
The aim of this study is to describe the epidemiology of abortion in Ecuador from 2004 to 2014 as well as to describe its current trends. At the same time, we compared the prevalence of abortion between the public and private health care systems in Ecuador. Finally, we report the current trends in misoprostol marketing in the country in order to find if there is any correlation between the annual misoprostol consumption and the annual abortion rate.
National, provincial and regional data were analyzed from the Ministry of Public Health’s national databases of Vital Statistics Deaths and Births Databases from 2004 to 2014, Hospital Discharges Database from 2004 to 2014 and the Population Census of the National Institute of Census and Statistics (INEC) from 2010. Data includes annual hospital cases, mortality, and number of live births. Demographic characteristics of women including age, province of residency and type of establishment were analyzed. The number of units of off-label abortive drugs sold was obtained from local purchase of medications retrieved from government pharmaceutical company Enfarma EP, up to 2015.
We used the following terms to retrieve the information corresponding to the International Classification of Diseases 10th revision (ICD-10): Medically Justified abortion (ICD O04), spontaneous abortion (ICD O03) and other pregnancies that resulted in abortion (ICD O00-O02, O05-O08).
The data used is public, anonymized, thus the local regulatory agency does not require an IRB approval or ethics review.
We performed a Pearson correlation in order to find if there is any correlation between the use of the misoprostol off-label abortive pill with the rate of abortion in Ecuador, assuming the distribution of abortion rate and of misoprostol were both normally distributed. The raw data was analyzed, saved and managed within the Microsoft Excel™ software and episheet stat open source statistical software was used for descriptive and frequency analyses. References citation and retrieval were managed by Zotero Open Source Software version 4.0.11. Spatial analysis was performed using QGIS 2.8.
Prevalence of abortion in Ecuador
Between 2004 and 2014, a total of 431,614 miscarriages and abortions that met any of the ICD-10 abortion classifications (spontaneous abortion, justified medical abortion or other pregnancies that ended in abortion) were reported in Ecuador within the national Hospital Discharges Database (Table 1).
Table 1 Distribution of abortions in Ecuador from 2004 to 2014 according to ICD category
Abbreviation: ICD-10, International Classification of Diseases 10th revision.
The number of annual spontaneous and induced abortion registrations combined ranged from 33,132 in 2004 (108/1,000) to over 40,256 (124/1,000) in 2013 and decreased to 35,711 (112/1,000) in 2014 when the abortion ban was ratified.
From 2004 to 2014, there was an annual average of 39,236 abortions, and 2011 reported the highest number ever recorded, reaching more than 42,500 abortions countrywide.
There is an inter-annual variability in registered abortion rates. The average rate of abortions during the evaluated period (2004 to 2014) was 115 per 1,000 live births (Figure 1). The rate of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 was 7.86 in 2004 and 13.43 in 2010. From 2004 to 2014, 189 abortion-related deaths were reported to the Ministry of Health (Table 2), resulting in a maternal mortality rate of 44 per 100,000 registered abortions.
Figure 1 Annual number of abortions and births in Ecuador from 2004 to 2014.
Notes: Left axis represents the number of abortions (black bars) and births (grey bars). Right axis represents the annual abortion rates per 1,000 live births (blue line).
Table 2 Number of recorded deaths related to abortion in Ecuador from 2004 to 2014
Notes: *Other pregnancies that ended in abortion.
Geographical distribution of abortion in Ecuador
During the evaluated period (2004 to 2014), we found that all the provinces in Ecuador reported a considerably high number of abortions in absolute numbers and abortions to birth ratios. A significant geographic difference in the number of abortions is reported countrywide. When all the data from the last 11 years were plotted, we found the highest numbers to be reported in the biggest and most populated province. Guayas reported a total number of 696,038 abortions in the last 11 years, followed by Pichincha (487,344) Manabí (266,348) Los Ríos (154,487) and Azuay (130,358) (Figure 2).
Figure 2 Number of abortions from 2004 to 2014 per province in Ecuador.
Note: The insert is a zoomed image of the Galapagos Islands, an archipelago located 200,000 miles off the coast of Ecuador with an estimated population of 25,000 people.
When we compared the number of abortions with the number of births per province, we found that other provinces were at the top of the list. The highest abortion ratios by the number of births was found in Pastaza, a province with a ratio of 186/1,000 births, followed by Pichincha (174/1,000), Guayas (166/1,000), Galapagos Islands (165/1,000), and Esmeraldas with (164/1,000), (Figure 3).
Figure 3 Overall accumulated abortion ratio by number of births among the provinces of Ecuador from 2004 to 2014.
Note: The top 5 provinces are colored in orange bars.
Private versus public health system
The results show that 84.3% of abortions were managed within the public health system, while 15.7% occurred within all the clinics and hospitals from the private for-profit and non-profit subsystems. The majority of cases that were reported within the public health system came from hospitals of the Ministry of Public Health (88%), while the rest were seen among hospitals from the Army, Police, some Universities, local governments and other charitable centers (12%). Women who received medical attention within the private health care system were distributed among the private for-profit (87%) and non-profit private centers (13%).
Misoprostol consumption in Ecuador
According to the annual government expenditure on drugs and the private pharmaceutical consumption given by Enfarma EP database, during the last 9 years, misoprostol sold an average of 70,000 tablets per year. We performed a Pearson correlation to find if there is any correlation between the use of this off-label abortive pill with the rate of abortion in Ecuador. The results show that a weak trend may be indicated between abortion rates and units of misoprostol sold in Ecuador (r=0.63, p=0.069); however, these results were not statistically significant as we set the p-value at p<0.05 (Figure 4).
Figure 4 Overall accumulated abortion rates and units of misoprostol sold from 2004 to 2014.
Note: Correlation coefficient =0.63, p=0.069.
Although abortion rates in women of childbearing age have shown an important reduction in the last two decades, the data in developing countries is not always available.30 In countries with similar socioeconomic situation, abortion rates per every 1,000 births average 34 to 45 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age.31 Understanding abortion rates and demographic distribution among women in South America and Ecuador is important in order to establish the basis of the problem, to provoke further research, and also to encourage deeper analysis with the objective of providing good evidence to support policy making. Our findings are an important part of demonstrating the basis of abortion in Ecuador.
In Ecuador this preventable condition and its impact on women’s wellbeing and the entire health system, including the economic impact of the disability-adjusted life year and the related quality-adjusted life year measurements have not being evaluated yet; however, authorities are concerned with the increasingly higher numbers being reported to the national database.32 According to the data collected, women undergoing a medically justified abortion (ICD O04), spontaneous abortion (ICD O03) and other types of pregnancies that resulted in abortion (ICD O00-O02, O05-O08) are seeking medical care within the public health system rather than the private system 333,963 (84%) vs 61,940 (16%). This might indicate that poorer women with less education and poorer access to health care are the ones seeking medical attention if an abortion is inevitable.33
Due to the lack of data, the causes of differences in abortion ratios by province have not been studied yet; however, cultural, educational and better health care systems might be related to the higher number of abortions among the most populated provinces.34 When we compared the number of abortions with the number of children born each year, we observed that Pastaza, one of the least populated provinces with high cultural diversity, reported more abortions than any other provinces with numbers totaling 186/1,000 births. This trend might support the fact that some places with lower education levels and poorer access to health care infrastructure have higher rates of abortion among their women, forcing them to travel long distances in many cases to obtain the procedure.35,36
Although we are unable to distinguish between arbitrarily induced or self-induced abortions and miscarriages in this study, the data support evidence from prior studies that some women in Ecuador are intentionally terminating their pregnancies despite the ban on abortions.21,23,34 Interestingly, during the analyses, we found that abortion rates had declined in 2014. This behavior might correspond to the fact that during 2014 the new Organic Penal Code was approved, which punished abortion with up to 2 years of jail time either to the health care provider or to the woman who was aborting.19 In our experience, and partially supported by our results, abortion is intentionally induced in many women countrywide.21 We suspect that this is often accomplished through the use of misoprostol to induce cervix dilation.37–39
Despite the fact that the use of these medications for the purpose of causing abortions is not indicated for those without a physician’s prescription, more than 75% of drugs that require a prescription in Ecuador are sold without one.40 Thus, obtaining misoprostol, might not be that difficult.41,42 Other medications that are widely used as abortive pills (eg, mifepristone) are not publicly available in Ecuador.
The wide availability of potential medicines that can cause abortion allows women to affect the course of their pregnancies without proper medical assistance or counseling.
We believe clandestine abortions are often documented as “spontaneous” or “medically justified abortions”.14,43 Doctors are prohibited from performing any procedure that is intended to terminate unwanted pregnancy.19 However, when women arrive at the emergency room (ER) with vaginal bleeding (presumably due to self-induced cervix dilation with misoprostol), documentation of the ER service automatically changes to “spontaneous abortion” or “medically justified abortion”. Thus, causality is extremely difficult to demonstrate.25,44
Once the discussion focuses on rights, evidence, and figures, politicians will understand that women who want to abort will do so, regardless of where or with whom they do it.45
Despite the results, we experienced important limitations that were out of our control, including the information available that did not allow for differentiation between self-induced abortions and miscarriages. Additionally, we do not have any information about a number of unreported instrumental or procedural abortions that occur in clandestine facilities or those that occurred at home after self-administration of abortive pills and did not cause significant complications.46
In Ecuador, abortion is a public health concern, affecting more than 39,000 women every year. Since abortion is a highly controversial subject, and due to many sociocultural factors that influence public perception of the procedure, self-induced abortions might be very difficult to demonstrate and quantify in this study.
On the other hand, since demonstrating the presence of clandestine abortions is complicated, the relationship between misoprostol/abortion rates might offer some clue regarding the presence of this health problem, although this issue needs to be investigated thoroughly due to the severe health risks that these drugs pose to women terminating pregnancies.
The study supports the perception that in spite of legal restrictions to abortion in Ecuador, women are still terminating pregnancies when they feel they need to do so. Experience from developed countries shows that legal and open access pregnancy termination services reduce mortality related to abortion and its complications. Abortion restrictions in Ecuador have not reduced the practice of clandestine or unconventional pregnancy terminations. Although more study is required, it would be wise to encourage discussion within the public policy sector regarding access to medically controlled termination of pregnancies in order to reduce any more unnecessary deaths in women.
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Q1 2019 - What Are the Top Three Things U.S. Asset Managers Should Be Doing to Prepare for Brexit?
By Rob Mirsky & Natalie Willans
With Brexit looming, U.S. asset managers should be preparing themselves for an overhaul in the way U.K. and E.U. regulation and legislation affects their future. Brexit may change the course for all funds and managers looking to do business in the U.K. and E.U. Managers should ensure they are considering steps to mitigate the uncertainties surrounding the U.K.’s departure from the E.U. in March 2019. Below are some key areas to consider:
1. Distribution Strategy
A key focus for U.S. asset managers in the run up to Brexit is to put in place a clear distribution strategy focusing on the investors they are targeting. By getting a clearer understanding of the overall distribution strategy (by both product and investor type and location), managers can focus on jurisdictions and regimes under which they might fall. For example, a distribution strategy targeting the U.K. should be focused on the appropriateness of product for that market. While it is likely a given that an E.U. 27 product will still be saleable in the U.K., the question is for how long? Also, is a U.K. product now more viable? The converse will also be true for a U.K. product sold to E.U. 27.
Currently, U.S. asset managers with no operations in the U.K. who classify themselves as Non-European Economic Area (EEA) Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs) will continue to function with little or no change going forward, as they have never had access to the passporting rights that are afforded to EEA AIFMs. They will, however, continue to be able to use NPPRs (National Private Placement Regimes) and reverse solicitation to do business with the E.U. 27 to the extent national regulators continue to allow them. Reverse solicitation, while not a strategy, may also continue to be used. However, the European Securities Marketing Authority (ESMA) has requested changes to the Markets in Financial Directive (MiFID) II regulations to increase restrictions on the use of reverse solicitation.
Additionally, from March 29, any U.S. asset manager who uses a U.K. Undertakings for Collective Investment of Transferable Securities (UCITS) to sell within the E.U. 27 will have to rethink their European product set. Establishing an EU-based UCITS, whilst seeming like the most straightforward option to bypass this issue, is potentially costly.
2. Processes
Despite the increased costs, managers are in the active phases of contingency planning for a U.K. exit from the E.U., including additional compliance measures that will need to be considered. In particular, large banks and asset managers have grown weary of waiting to see how Brexit will impact them and several firms have already made significant changes to processes.
As the U.K. could soon be classified as a ‘third country’ under MiFID, any U.S. asset managers who use U.K. operations to do business within the E.U. should consider applying for passport licences within E.U. jurisdictions. By establishing subsidiaries with substance within the E.U., they should effectively be able to access similar passporting rights as they have currently from the U.K.
Luxembourg and Ireland have become the frontrunners for managers looking to ensure their continued ability to do business in the E.U. Both jurisdictions have seen a huge increase in the number of license applications over the last few months.
The E.U. could also grant the U.K. ‘equivalence,’ which would be in line with the current arrangement between the U.K. and the U.S. Equivalence is based on the notion that a third country has similar regulatory and compliance structures to the E.U. and can continue to trade and distribute without having to directly adopt the E.U.’s regulations.
3. Personnel
Another significant change that U.S. asset managers should consider is the location of their U.K. and European based personnel. Some of the U.K.’s largest financial institutions such as UBS and Goldman Sachs have already taken the costly decision to move some operations and personnel to cities like Frankfurt or Paris. While this move hasn’t been seen to the same extent in the asset management space, managers should be considering where they need to base personnel. This is as a result of the new paradigm of a U.K. outside the E.U. and the visa requirements that might follow, or because of the need for additional substance to maintain effective connectivity with the U.K. and E.U. 27 post-Brexit.
Predicting and understanding what changes will come into play post March 29 is something that our clients are considering carefully in the run up to the U.K. leaving the European Union. Fundamentally, the continued uncertainty surrounding whether there will be a hard Brexit, soft Brexit, no-deal or a delay in the entire withdrawal agreement means that most fund managers are adopting a process which minimises risks no matter how the U.K. leaves. The U.K. government’s deliberations are mired in political infighting and complexity with only a handful of weeks remaining. While the E.U. is stating that the chance of no-deal is becoming much more likely with every passing day. As with U.K.-based fund managers, U.S. fund managers are left second guessing which way events may unfold, but immediate contingency planning should help weather the Brexit storm.…
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Addison Trail names August recipient of 88’s Best recognition
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Pictured is Addison Trail senior Christopher Voinea (right), who has been named as the school's August recipient of 88’s Best recognition. He's pictured with Addison Trail Principal Michael Bolden.
Christopher Voinea has been named as Addison Trail’s August recipient of 88’s Best recognition for his outstanding academic accomplishments. Voinea, a senior, was recognized during the Aug. 27 District 88 Board of Education meeting. To watch Voinea’s 88’s Best presentation, click the video above.
Voinea is an outstanding student and continues to challenge himself. He has taken on a rigorous schedule every year and continues to be a leader in and out of the classroom. When he graduates, Voinea will have taken 10 honors courses and 15 Advanced Placement (AP)/college-level courses.
“Voinea was in my sophomore honors chemistry class and junior AP physics I class,” said Sean O’Connor, Addison Trail science teacher. “He has the talent to learn and understand quickly. In addition to strong academics, Voinea is a classroom leader. Students in class looked to him as an expert and often sought out his help. As a leader, rather than simply give an answer, Voinea provided the how and why to his peers' questions. It would be simple for Voinea to exist in the vacuum of his knowledge and success. Instead, he takes an active role in enhancing the Addison Trail community.”
Addison Trail social studies teacher Laura Magnavite agreed.
“Voinea was an absolute joy to have in class!” Magnavite said. “His knowledge of AP European history BEFORE stepping into the classroom was epic. He was always the student I could rely on to get a class discussion going. His writing was superlative – so much so I used his first essay as a model sample for all of my classes (and still do). He also was fun to have in class, especially for debates, because he was so intensely devoted to winning the argument. We used to joke debates would be structured with Voinea versus the rest of the class!”
Voinea said he is self-motivated, but he also is motivated by his parents, who come from Romania. Voinea has a strong desire to represent his family in the best way and knows he can do that by being a conscientious and hardworking student.
Outside of the classroom, Voinea has been involved with Addison Trail’s Academic Team and Key Club and has worked with various community service organizations to give a hand to those in need. But Voinea’s primary involvement is with Addison Trail’s Science Olympiad Team. He has been an integral part of the team since his freshman year and demonstrates his leadership by motivating and organizing his team members. Some of his favorite memories are from Science Olympiad and the rewards gained from those competitions.
Voinea has not yet decided where he will attend college, but he is pursuing University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Yale University and The University of Chicago. He is considering a degree in biological or chemical engineering.
District 88 values the hard work and achievements of students and wants to make sure students are honored and recognized for their accomplishments. The District 88 Board of Education and administration created the 88’s Best award to highlight students’ success. That award recognizes nine Addison Trail and nine Willowbrook students each school year for reaching their personal best in various areas. Recipients are honored during a District 88 Board of Education meeting in one of the following areas: academics, highly improved performance, extracurricular activities, service work or performing arts/electives. They receive an 88’s Best glass sculpture and a certificate to a local restaurant.
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Research Handbook on Global Climate Constitutionalism
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Climate change is causing traditional political and legal concepts to be revisited. The emergence of a global polity through physical, economic and social interaction demands global responses which should be founded upon new principles and which cannot simply be modelled on traditional constitutionalism centred on the nation-state. This Research Handbook explores how to build this climate constitutionalism at a global level, starting from the narrative of Anthropocene and its implications for law. It provides a critical approach to global environmental constitutionalism, analysing the problems of sustainability and global equity which are entwined with the causes and consequences of climate change. The Handbook explores how to develop constitutional discourses and strategies to address these issues, and thereby tackle the negative effects of climate change whilst also advancing a more sustainable, equitable and responsible global society. Learn More
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Services & Resources > Veterans Services > Tuition Waiver for Veterans
Tuition Waiver for Veterans
GI Bill® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). More information about education benefits offered by VA is available at the official U.S. government Web site at benefits.va.gov/gibill.
In-State Tuition for Veterans
Texas Education Code Section 54.241 Paragraph K, line 1 provides a person (veteran, spouse or dependent) who is eligible for benefits under the federal veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 or any other federal law authorizing veteran educational benefits, with in-state tuition prices. The person must file with their college a letter of intent (out-of-state waiver request) to establish residence in this state. The person resides in this state while enrolled in the institution.
Items Needed to Establish In-State Tuition
1. Completed and signed Out-of-State Residency Waiver Request
2. In-District/County Documentation: One or more of the following documents may be used to establish in-county residency classification provided they meet the correct criteria including listing the student's name and address.
Most recent utility bill
Most recent bank/credit card statement
Lease/rental agreement
Other official mail such as a medical bill or tax statement that has been mailed within 30 days of enrollment.
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Is the Whale Shark Tourism Industry Conservation or Exploitation?
By Neela Eyunni
It was 4:45 a.m. when I arrived at Tanawan Beach in Oslob, Cebu. Despite the darkness, the parking lot was already bustling with tour buses and visitors, who had come from all over the world. Local boatmen, easy identified by their long sleeve blue shirts, prepared for the influx of visitors to come.
Like everyone else, I had made the long journey to this little-known town in the Philippines to see one thing … whale sharks.
Snorkelers in Oslob, Cebu try to get close enough to take selfies with the whale sharks. Photo credit: Studio H2O
A quick internet search on where to swim with whale sharks revealed unbelievable images of snorkelers just a few feet away from the giant filter feeders. Furthermore, Tanawan Beach, the area where the whale shark interactions occur, guaranteed sightings. I could hardly contain my exhilaration as I arrived at the beach that first morning.
The reality of the situation, however, was far from what I had expected. After heading out in a boat with several other tourists, I spotted my first whale shark. My initial excitement soon faded when I saw the sharks swallowing handfuls of food being tossed into the water by Tanawan Beach staff. The whale sharks looked more like domestic pets than wild animals as they followed the feeder boats, continuously gulping down food at the surface.
Boatmen at Tanawan Beach get their boats in position to take tourists out into the water. Photo credit: Studio H2O
My experience at Tanawan Beach no doubt left me disappointed, but more importantly it left me concerned about the sharks' welfare. How were these interactions, which included giving the sharks food, impacting their behavior?
Less than two months later I was back with a film crew. The documentary On the Brink: Uncharted Waters follows my personal journey to answers my initial questions. It reveals how some practices could leave the sharks vulnerable to poachers and ultimately threaten the survival of the entire species. It further examines how this in turn could have a devastating impact on the marine ecosystem. Referring to the film's title, the balance between conservation and exploitation is “on the brink."
However, the issue of whale shark tourism in the Philippines is complex and it's impossible to fully understand without looking at the human aspect as well. The whale shark interactions have single-handedly lifted Oslob, Cebu from extreme poverty, with residents only recently gaining access to healthcare and education. Oslob's mayor, Ronald Guaren, insists the revenue generated by the whale shark tourism industry goes directly back into the town's development.
The question is: How do we balance the needs of people and the needs of sharks to make the industry responsible and sustainable?
The answer may not be simple. But by looking at other whale shark tourism destinations in the Philippines, like Donsol in Luzon Island, I've learned that it is possible. Donsol's whale shark tourism industry has a strict ban on feeding and operates for just six months out of the year.
The Philippines is home to one of the largest whale shark populations in the world, with more than 900 identified individuals. Photo credit: Studio H2O
Through my experience, I have come to understand that the first step is to create a diversified economy. Whale sharks are wild and unpredictable animals. By relying solely on them for income, local governments are leaving themselves financially vulnerable. The industry also requires tighter nationwide regulations, something that conservation groups in the Philippines are currently working towards.
But lasting change can only occur when we as tourists choose to put the welfare of animals over our own interests. It is this shift in mindset and the acknowledgement that our individual actions can and do make a difference that is the key to sustainable shark tourism, not only in the Philippines but around the world.
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Mathew McCurley
The WoW Archivist explores the secrets of World of Warcraft's past. What did the game look like years ago? Who is etched into WoW's history? What secrets does the game still hold?
Before we learned about Mists of Pandaria and where we stalwart adventurers would be exploring in the coming months, I wrote a post discussing how an expansion about Pandaria, specifically its title, would change the tone of World of Warcraft. Mists of Pandaria would be the first expansion that does not directly reference or reveal the main villain of the expansion's storyline. Blizzard and the WoW development team has been incredible stewards of tone, from the early days of Warcraft to Cataclysm's world-breaking motif. Tone is one of the most important aspects of the MMO because your game world needs to be compelling enough to call back players at any point. Good MMOs set good tone.
Tone has evolved in WoW after each expansion pack, changing considerably each time we swap settings and install the latest content. Alex asked me to write an article that spanned the history of World of Warcraft, and I could think of nothing more dynamic than the tone of the story and how masterfully Blizzard has handled it.
Warcraft before the World
Long ago, in a time long forgotten by memes and YouTube, there was a world of Warcraft before World of Warcraft. The Warcraft universe uniquely blended the RTS genre and its complexities and strategies with a brand of humor that compelled players to click, click, and click until every unit was milked of its hilarity. The look, feel, and especially the tone of the Warcraft games was one of the most talked-about features and aspects of the games. "Stop poking me" became a quick classic. Missions would send Orcs from another dimension after Human settlements to capture pop references and funny-named characters, all in the presence of a goofy voice from outer space. The Humans were so stark and proud, with the manner of the greatest medieval cosplayers the early '90s could offer. It was jokey with a hint of war.
Even in the transitional Warcraft III, where the series' story began to take on a more serious, cinematic vibe, the humor stayed. The tone shifted toward suspense and overwhelming danger while still retaining the old Warcraft humor and quips, even in the face of a darker world. Arthas stormed into his father's throne room, murdered his king, and ascended to his future as a death knight, all in a world where Goblins rode turtles, Humans joked about joining the army, and gyrocopter pilots could see their house from all the way up in the air. The key point is that both of these types of events existed in the same universe almost seamlessly.
The original World of Warcraft's tone was less about the world and more about the mechanics. The Azeroth that we first stepped into back in 2004 was an Azeroth built from the ground up with the previous generation of MMOs in mind. World of Warcraft was going to be the best of the old guard with new ideas and technology to create a mostly loadless world where the horrors of the MMO were a thing of the past.
Vanilla was, for all intents and purposes, a continuation of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne in terms of tone and focus. We were the lab rats set free in this Azerothian maze, with a focus on questing, fighting, exploring, and finding our old favorite places from the previous games. We compared maps, marveled at our favorite heroes rendered in the new world, and gracefully said goodbye to a lot of the awful MMO tropes of the past generation.
Tone in the classic game was a carryover from Warcraft III. The serious moments mixed in with the pop culture and the humor equally in the quests players would complete and the storyline shifted from the dramatic retelling of Darrowshire to the jokey fun of Booty Bay. The one constant was that this was undeniably Warcraft, from the bad to the good. Vanilla was the origination of how we would approach the game from here on out and understand the direction that the developers would take.
While the title of the original game "World of Warcraft" never told us who the enemy was or who the big bad causing all of the problems was, we had enough information in that this was Warcraft. The raid game began to take on a real set of ideals and its own tone as players embarked on the quest to end Onyxia and venture into the Molten Core. The stakes were high and felt real, culminating in Ragnaros' emergence out of the Firelands and into his little "too soon" pool. It was suspenseful.
Blackwing Lair was similar in scope and tone. Nefarian was teased during the game in humorous ways and, as a villain, he was Warcraft's first troll (except for the Trolls ... you know what I mean). While Nefarian's presence was daunting and suspenseful, his joking and mannerisms made the whole instance feel fun in the presence of a world-threatening evil.
Ahn'Qiraj and Naxxramas let the WoW development team put the tone of the next content updates in front of the players in a very real way. As Orgrimmar and Ironforge began to build up their resources for the coming war, physical manifestations of the fight would begin to appear in the cities. Resources piled up, hides stacked high next to a mint's worth of ingots. When the gong was rung and the gates swung open, a real war had begun. We felt it. We worked for it, and our payoff was war. The tone changed to immediacy and wonder as we passed through the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj and stormed the floating citadel of Naxxramas, all while C'thun whispered to us our deaths and Kel'thuzad screamed about his slain kitty cat.
Burning up in Outland
World of Warcraft's first expansion was actually a sequel to Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, where players saw the culmination of the stories from another expansion and finally got to see the planet Draenor. The tone of The Burning Crusade was set the second you walked through the comparatively small portal in the Blasted Lands only to emerge a tiny speck in the shadow of the Outland's portal. On top of that, the armies of the Burning Legion ambushed your forces at the gate, prompting a hasty retreat behind the enemy lines as the action began immediately.
Outland's tone was all about the unknown. Wonderment was key. Blizzard had to convey a sense of wonderment and newness to a game that was very familiar to the Warcraft fanbase. The Burning Crusade's biggest hurdle was that it looked nothing like Warcraft but had to fit in a well-established universe. Many players feel that Blizzard succeeded, especially in molding in the new, alien races into the Warcraft canon. Draenei were just weird the first time we saw them, but their mannerisms and story eventually blended well. The expansion set a unique tone on a unique world -- what is this place, and how does it make you feel?
The Burning Crusade's tone worked for me and affected me. The way this expansion made me feel was, in a word, revitalized. The aim was to show something new and convey a sense of wonderment, and it worked. Warcraft had already been a colorful world, but Outland turned the colorful nature of the universe on its head. There is an entirely purple zone. Think about that.
The title of The Burning Crusade also started the trend of letting the player know and understand what was at stake straight from the title. When you bought the box, you knew what you were in for: The Burning Crusade. If you were a Warcraft fan, you knew who the Burning Legion was. You understood their crusade, and you knew the main players. Illidan, Kael'thas, and Vash'j were commonplace heroes in the Warcraft lexicon at this point. How did The Burning Crusade make you feel? It made me feel excited to fight demons on another world as the character I had adventured with from the beginning of the world.
Next week, I'll discuss the change in focus and tone that brought about a golden age in World of Warcraft with the release of Wrath of the Lich King, as well as the ever-presence of the main villain in the game after an expansion with no clear-cut enemy.
The WoW Archivist examines the WoW of old. Follow along while we discuss the lost legendary, the opening of Ahn'Qiraj, and hidden locations such as the crypts of Karazhan.
In this article: ahn-qiraj, archivist, burning-crusade, tone, vanilla-wow, wow-archivist
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Reflections on "Spenser, Poetry and Performance" at Shakespeare's Globe, 12-13 June 2017
by Jane Grogan, Tiffany Jo Werth; Linda Gregerson, Stephanie Elsky, Patricia Palmer, Deana Rankin, Will Tosh, Nathan Szymanski, Sarah Van der Laan, William N. West
Jump to: Introduction, Linda Gregerson, Stephanie Elsky, Patricia Palmer, Deana Rankin, Will Tosh, Nathan Szymanski, Sarah Van der Laan, William N. West, Programme notes
Stephanie Elsky (Rhodes College), Jane Grogan (University College Dublin) and Tiffany Jo Werth (University of California, Davis)
Organisers: Jane Grogan, Tiffany Jo Werth, and Stephanie Elsky (ISS)
Farah Karim-Cooper, Will Tosh, Robin Craig (Shakespeare’s Globe)
Shakespeare, like many other early modern dramatists, was a poet as well as a play-maker (and a performer himself, of course); one part of his practice informed the other. Ten years his elder, Edmund Spenser, was the most admired English poet of his day, ‘fame’s eldest favourite’ (Thomas Nashe) and ‘sage and serious Spenser’ (John Milton), and a rich source of interest and allusion for Christopher Marlowe, himself a ‘tragicall poet’ (Francis Meres) and ‘the Muses darling’ (George Peele). But despite these examples of dramatists and poets crossing generic boundaries, moving between the demands of poetic text and dramatic performance, we rarely study early modern drama as a way of understanding the nature and reach of Spenser’s poetry. Nor do we look to Elizabethan poetry to help us understand the language and literary ambitions of early modern drama. This Research in Action workshop grew out of the question: what do we miss by neglecting the connections, tensions, and mutual influence of these two nearly contemporary writers, and through them, of the traffic between early modern poetry and performance?
We have known for a long time now that Shakespeare knew his Spenser, even if direct allusions can be tricky to pin down.[1] On the other side, we tend to forget that Spenser was a London boy, who got his schooling at Merchant Taylors’ under the innovative schoolmaster Richard Mulcaster, a man who set great store by drama and performance in education. Although Spenser was based in Ireland from 1580 until his death early in 1599, he made regular visits to London, both for his poetry and for his professional service within the English colonial administration. One wonders how much drama he may have seen, and further, while in that speculative vein, whether Shakespeare turned up to his funeral in London early in 1599, paid for by the Earl of Essex, to whom Shakespeare would refer in one of his plays later that year. But biography, and even Spenser’s form of tricksy self-referentiality or ‘auto-fabrication’, can take us only so far.[2] When an exciting opportunity arose to try out Spenser’s poetry on the stage of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, courtesy of Farah Karim-Cooper, head of higher education and research at Shakespeare’s Globe, the moment for exploring these connections through performance-based research seemed irresistible.
Our questions were many: how might these two authors have understood the relationship between poetic and dramatic writing? What did dramatists learn from poetry, and what did poets learn from dramatists? Do they treat language differently? How far do the conditions and values of performance enter into conceptions of early modern poetry, especially given the shared interest in voice, in persuasion, in affect? How might we better conceptualize the relationship between poetic and dramatic writing - and between the consumption of poetry and drama in the period? We have become more accustomed to thinking of early modern playgoers as people who might also go out and buy play-texts, but how important is it to think of these people as also heavy consumers of poetry (especially young men at the Inns of Court, for example)? Do we need to re-evaluate our understanding of ‘intertextuality’ when it involves influences across media, whether from poetry to drama or the other way around? These and other questions propelled our two-day gathering on 12th and 13th June 2017, bringing together in dialogue 90 attendees — poetry scholars, drama scholars, theatre historians, scholars of performance studies, actors, and theatre professionals — from different parts of the world. In a unique collaboration between Shakespeare’s Globe and the International Spenser society, ‘Spenser, Poetry and Performance’ featured a variety of non-traditional discussion formats alongside the Research in Action workshop at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and the critical conversation unfolded both on and off the stage.
In keeping with the exploratory nature of the event, Monday 12 June featured four facilitated discussion panels in the Nancy Knowles Lecture theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe. Rather than the usual set of academic papers, a panel of four experts were given 3-5 minutes each to introduce a set of key points or approaches, illustrated and accompanied by an agreed set of pivot readings from Spenser’s poetry. The readings were performed by ‘on-the-book’ actors Fran Marshall and Matthew Foster, followed by further discussion from the panelists and contributions from the floor. Our four themes for the panels were 1) Poetry, Dialogue and Performance; 2) Performing Lyric/Music’s Poetry; 3) Performing Materiality and the Non/Human; and 4) Rhyme, Line and Lyric. We are delighted to share these sessions, along with the excerpted readings, via podcast here. The findings from these panels ‘were too long to tell’, but some of the greatest payoffs, perhaps, included the stichomythia from ‘August’ (The Shepheardes Calender) which drew hearty laughter and a new appreciation for Spenser’s understanding of performative dialogue (so much for the ‘sage and serious’ Spenser of Milton); the alluring relish of poetic effects (alliteration and assonance in particular) in the description of ‘Gluttony’ from the pageant of the Seven Deadly Sins in Lucifera’s House of Pride; the lyricism of Epithalamion 5 and 6, especially its musical echoing effects; and the chilling intimations of human extinction sounded in one of the most famous sonnets of the Amoretti (75).
Meanwhile, back in the Playhouse, Linda Gregerson, Will West and Will Tosh had the tough but enviable task of workshopping and preparing for performance a selection of extracts from both Spenser and Shakespeare, working together with Irish actor Deirdre Mullins, English actors Dominic Brewer and Philip Bird, and Icelandic musician extraordinaire Arngeir Hauksson. The fruits of their work were revealed to a large crowd of conference attendees and the general public that evening in an unforgettable two-hour Research in Action Workshop. The video recording of this workshop, ‘Performing Elizabethan Poetry: Spenser and Shakespeare’, is available for consultation by scholars visiting the Globe’s Library and Archive. But we share, below, the programme notes for the evening, as well as reflections by the directors, actors and audience members in the pieces that follow. Suffice it to say that the experience was truly transformative of our understanding of a performed and performative Spenser, and a stunning insight into the possibilities of a performance-based approach to early modern poetry at large.
Tuesday 13th June began with a set of comments on the previous evening’s Research in Action workshop and performance, followed by four more traditional academic panels covering subjects such as Spenser’s pageantry, connections with university drama, dramatic voices in Petrarchan lyric poetry, and Shakespeare’s influence on Spenser. The full second day program, with paper titles and abstracts, can be found in the Fall issue of the Spenser Review. The day ended with an energising closing roundtable, which can be heard here. ‘Spenser, Poetry and Performance’ concluded with a lively wine reception and a roomful of exhausted, but exhilarated delegates, inspired by this innovative, exploratory but ultimately celebratory conjunction of performance and poetry, Spenser and Shakespeare. For it, we owe great thanks to all of the participants, to our colleagues in Shakespeare’s Globe, especially Farah Karim-Cooper (who first suggested the idea) and Will Tosh, to our superb directors Linda Gregerson and Will West and to early encouragers such as Kenneth Gross, Bill Oram and Ewan Fernie. We also are grateful for support for the event from Shakespeare’s Globe, the International Spenser Society, University College, Dublin and Simon Fraser University. And we look forward to continuations of the compelling critical conversations launched with such verve at Shakespeare’s Globe last June.
Elizabethan Poetry in Performance: Spenser and Shakespeare
Research in Action Workshop
Linda Gregerson (University of Michigan)
The scene: The beautiful and remarkably intimate space of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe
The time: Early afternoon on a Monday in June
The context: A conference on Spenser, Poetry and Performance, organized by Jane Grogan, Tiffany Jo Werth, and Stephanie Elsky
The personae: Will Tosh, Lecturer and Research Fellow at Shakespeare’s Globe, and Coordinator of the Globe Education’s Research in Action program
Arngeir Hauksson, lutenist
Philip Bird, Dominic Brewer, Deirdre Mullins, actors
Linda Gregerson and Will West, here in the guise of Spenser scholars
The question: What can we learn in a performance workshop setting about the relationship of poetry and performance in the work of Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare?
The invitation was irresistible: Would Will West and I be interested in working with Will Tosh and a group of performers in a workshop at Shakespeare’s Globe? Absolutely! But how could we possibly be of use? ‘Ah’, the Organizers assured us, ‘we have every confidence in you’. So Will West (hereafter Will W) and I set to work on a series of rubrics and parallel passages drawn from hither and yon in those two capacious bodies of work: the writings of William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser. In response to which the Organizers expressed continuing gratitude and encouragement and patiently explained that this was not quite what they’d had in mind. Guided by their own wonderfully ambitious outline, we tried again, hampered only by the fact that we would have at our disposal not six months of improv and rehearsal time but a scant five hours. We hope, in the end, they were not too disappointed by our scalings-down. From our perspective, the workshop and the evening’s performance were marvellous opportunities for practical enquiry into the reciprocal dynamics of page and stage. The actors were superb and endlessly resourceful, willing to try anything. A former actor himself as well as a scholar of early modern theatre, Will Tosh (hereafter Will T) deftly kept us all on task and on schedule, leading us safely through every temptation toward Mazy Digression.
The afternoon’s most thrilling investigation, from my perspective, and the one that led to the most surprising results, involved the temptation of Redcrosse Knight by Despair in the Book of Holinesse. Our mandate involved comparative questions about poetry in performance. We were working in the House That Shakespeare Built. What was to be the fate of Spenser’s exquisitely complex poetic achievement in this setting and with these methods? Wouldn’t poetry written chiefly for the page invariably suffer by comparison with poetry written for the stage? It occurred to us to challenge the resilience of the stage by focusing on a passage in The Faerie Queene whose power seems indissolubly tied to the private reading experience: what would happen when such a passage is translated to the materiality of performance? As every reader discovers for herself, Spenser’s personae do and do not function like dramatic characters. Bound in fruitful tension between allegorical and narrative obligations, they are specifically designed to prompt multiple and conflicting modes of apprehension. The reader is required to be mobile, imagining now the multiple figures in a scene of action, now the strenuous encounter of abstract principles, now the speaking partners in dialogue, now the inward divisions of the individual psyche. Augmenting these instabilities are the ambiguous pronouns, sliding modifiers, and occluded speaker attributions that form so distinctive a part of Spenser’s poetic. Consider the last of these alone: again and again the reader is required to hypothesise speaker attribution, only to find this hypothesis unconfirmed or flatly contradicted. This in turn requires a pause, a ‘rewind’, and a second reading, possibly more. Isn’t the cognitive puzzle here, and the cognitive pleasure, peculiar to the reading experience alone? Wouldn’t the clear division of ‘roles’ among actual performers in actual space and time constitute an inevitable diminishment? We decided to try it out.
Many a reader has been momentarily confused by the back and forth between Despair and Redcrosse Knight in Book I, Canto 9. Who is speaking when? Who is deferring to providence? Who is quoting scripture and to what end? Whose argument is wicked? Whose is virtuous? Why does the one seem so easily to morph into the other? In fact, with some painstaking application and a ruthless commitment to clarity, the sorting is quite possible: of the ninety lines in the long temptation scene of TFQ I.ix.38-47, A. C. Hamilton attributes only four to Redcrosse Knight. The beginning of the passage is easily established: ‘The knight much wondred at his suddeine wit, / And sayd … ‘ (I.ix.41.1-2). Far less clear, at least on an early reading, is where the passage ends. ‘Who life did limit by almightie doome,/ (Quoth he) knowes best the termes established’ (I.ix.41.6-7) follows smoothly from the pious sentiment of ‘The souldier may not moue from warchfull sted, / Nor leaue his stand, untill his Captaine bed’ (I.ix.41.4-5), although the reader will soon discover s/he must revise this initial impression of continuity. The new lines (‘Who life did limit’ etc.) lead to others that seriously trouble our understanding of Redcrosse Knight and his narrato-allegorical function (‘The lenger life, I wote the greater sin’ (I.ix.43.1)) and to others (‘Then doe no further goe, no further stray / But here ly downe, and to thy rest betake’ (I.ix.44.1-2)) that cannot possibly be assigned to him. A series of rereadings and hypothetical reassignments will lead most readers to concur with Hamilton’s assignment of speakers to lines. However, while this parsing may be correct, it fails to capture the actual experience of reading. That is not its business: editorial annotation is meant to spare readers the uncertainties and backtracking of an unassisted encounter with the text. But how might we take uncertainty as central to the meaning of the text? Spenser’s method is one that privileges error and revision: he’s a master of the cognitive stutter. How might we posit these complexities in performance?
That is, how could readerly error be reproduced onstage? Perhaps the temporality of revisionary reading could be translated to the simultaneity of overlapping speakers, we thought. Redcrosse might continue speaking those lines that seem to be a continuation of his pious protest, even as Despair begins to speak himself, Redcrosse dropping away only when the lines could not possibly belong to him. Or her, in this instance, Deirdre Mullins gamely taking on the role of Redcrosse and Philip Bird of Despair. And in a handful of run-throughs, these marvellous performers made of our simple prompt a thing quite rich and strange.
Rather than framing a single passage of uncertain transfer with a set piece of clearly delineated dialogue – a translation manifestly inadequate to Spenser’s haunting portrait of Despair – they made porous boundaries and complicity the governing principle of performance. As Philip spoke in the person of Despair, Deirdre (Redcrosse) would venture a few lines here and there, as though trying on a point of view, or succumbing to hypnosis. Philip would veer toward tyranny one moment and insinuation the next. Ostensible initiative passed back and forth. Clear divisions disappeared. Conscience and hopelessness, piety and doubt confusedly infected one another. And we in the audience began to feel the full force of Spenser’s inside/outside, affective/intellectual, intuitive/doctrinal, individual/collective rendering of Christianity’s foremost deadly sin. We knew it before, or thought we did: it was the premise of the workshop. But the joy was to discover anew just how powerful an investigative instrument performance really is.
Spenser in Time
Stephanie Elsky (Rhodes College)
Although a co-organiser of ‘Spenser, Poetry, and Performance’ with an interest in the performative aspects of poetry, I confess I was concerned. Would these two days, held in Shakespeare’s Globe, of all places, conclude that Spenser owed an overwhelming debt to drama? Would we be trying to turn Spenser into yet another dramatist? Doesn’t Renaissance drama have enough?, I crankily thought to myself. Does it need to take Spenser too? Reader, I need not have feared. Performance, as an analytical lens and an embodied experience, taught me much more than I could have possibly foreseen about Spenser’s work as a poet. My remarks on the concluding roundtable, which I expand here, sought to articulate an important thread in our two days’ work.
While not often explicitly named as such, temporality (not to mention timing) was an undercurrent running through the whole remarkable event – in the facilitated discussions and panel papers; in the actors’ readings and performance in the Sam Wanamaker Theatre; and in the conversations that took place before, after, and in between. Taken as a whole, the conference shed remarkable light on issues of temporality in Spenser and in performance. I begin with two observations about how our own scholarly temporalities (or conception of what makes for scholarly temporality) were altered by the unusual and remarkable format of this event.
Slow Reading. I think it is fair to say that we academics were universally delighted with how viewing performances of Spenser’s poetry by Globe actors (in the very different spaces of the conference room and Sam Wanamaker Theatre) shaped our understanding of that poetry. A good part of our delight came from the way these performances unsettled our understanding of the time in which scholarly analysis takes place. ‘Slow reading’ is usually associated with the practice of private reading. This is supposed to be when scholarly interpretation happens. Performance, on the other hand, is often deemed to move too quickly to offer a basis upon which to develop a ‘reading’. Yet, ironically, the term ‘slow reading’ was invoked multiple times to describe the experience of watching actors perform. The experience of performance slowed us down in ways we hadn’t anticipated. In our conversation at the conclusion of the first day, Susanne Wofford spoke of performance as an opening up of time, one that allows for different pleasures and interpretations. In his reflection on the Research in Action Workshop the next morning, Bart Van Es similarly referred to the theatrical performances by Philip Bird, Dominic Brewer, Deirdre Mullins, so wonderfully directed by Linda Gregerson, Will Tosh, and Will West, an exercise in ‘slow reading’.
Although, sadly, we cannot always have actors on hand (especially those of such skill and calibre!), how can we continue to incorporate the experience of performance into our scholarly practice? How can those who study drama primarily continue to learn from the performance of poetry? It is our hope that the podcasts of the actors’ ‘pivot readings’ during the first day of the conference (emerging from the facilitated discussion panels on Poetry, Dialogue, and Performance; Performing Lyric, Poetry’s Music; Performing Materiality and the Non-Human; and Rhyme, Line, and Lyric in Drama and Poetry) can provide a basis, or inspiration, for this type of work.
Precedence. When participants were charged with the task of considering Spenser’s relationship to performance, they happily took us away from another scholarly temporality, that of origins and precedence. The latter may have led us to make certain assumptions, that Spenser influenced Shakespeare, for example, or that printed playbooks shaped the printing of poetry. Surely, those printed speech prefixes in “August”’s Willye/Perigot stichomythia must have been be taken from early modern playbooks? Yet, Emma Smith offered the intriguing argument that in fact the opposite may have occurred. What, she asked, does Spenser contribute to the printing of performance? Similarly, in his talk, Willy Maley introduced the concept of a ‘latticework of links’ to describe the connections between Shakespeare and Spenser, suggesting that Spenser may have been influenced by Shakespeare rather than vice versa.
Duration. A story that stubbornly persists: performance is ephemeral, while poetry, especially written poetry, is enduring – or at least potentially enduring (since, of course, Spenser himself often questions poetry’s monumentality). The way we came to think about performance as ‘slow reading’ already poses a challenge to that story, but there were other ways in which this happened too. Over and again we saw the temporalities of poetry and performance unexpectedly overlap on a conceptual level through an interplay of what Simon Jackson described in his talk on the echo as a musical effect in Epithalamion as ‘flux and fixity’. Rather than settle on one or another, this echo holds the two in suspense. Joseph Campana invited us to hear in Amoretti 75 not poetic immortality (that is fixity, endurance) but rather its opposite: extinction. Campana characterised the female voice in this sonnet as a performance from a lyric future without humans. In terms of the experiential quality of performance, the actors in the Research in Action workshop pushed us to rethink the stanza as an essentially poetic unit, distinct from drama. They spoke of their experience of its timing, the play of its pauses, as not so different from drama after all. While Performance Studies has begun to push back on temporality as one of the constitutive binaries between performance and writing, Spenser revealed to us how temporality itself could be a place where theatricality and poetry meet. We have long recognised Spenser as a poet who manipulates our sense of time to an astonishing degree – and with profound effects on our understanding and experience of concepts ranging from the self to history. With ‘Spenser, Poetry, and Performance’ we can consider, too, the tantalising possibility that his poetry itself might be a resource for the creation of dramatic time.
‘Wanton Bardes, and Rymers Impudent’: A Response to ‘Spenser, Poetry, and Performance’
Patricia Palmer (Maynooth University)
By putting Spenser on the stage, the Globe’s Research in Action workshop reminded us what a creature of the page he really is. By making stanzas stand up and walk about, by showing what happens when the silent music of Spenser’s verse assumes voice and directs the motions of acting bodies, the workshop sent us back to the page with new perspectives and different questions. It was no surprise that the staging of extracts from The Faerie Queene, the shorter poems, and A View of the Present State of Ireland didn’t flush out a hitherto unrecognised performance poet. But it was revealing that Spenser’s most ‘theatrical’ moments turned out to be pageants – or pageants masked as masques. As befits an allegorist, Spenser’s stageable possibilities are predominantly dramas of exposition rather than of exploration: the Masque of Cupid’s personifications, for example, lend themselves to being paraded but never dramatised. Even when summoned by the actors’ dramatised reading, ‘Fansy’, ‘Desyre’, ‘Doubt’, and ‘Daunger’ remained creatures of their narrator, subordinate to his damning qualifiers (‘womanlike’, ‘vaine’, ‘ydle’) (FQ.III.xii.7.7, 8.5, 9). Emblems on hind legs, they paraded around ‘in trim array’, never threatening to escape into the autonomy of embodied characters.
Something more disruptive happened, however, when the actors moved from reading narrative descriptions dramatically to treating the words of allegorical figures as though they were speeches in a drama. The actor discovers – invents – autonomous characters and plural voices where, on the page, there are only concepts and assertions in the fancy-dress of allegory. The dramatised reading of Red Crosse Knight’s encounter with Despair, in Book 1, Canto 9, for example, complicated the text’s didactic exchange between tempter and tempted by availing of Spenser’s customary indeterminacy around speech indicators to fold the voices of Despair and Red Crosse Knight together at the point where the latter succumbs to Despair’s persuasions. So, when Despair seductively enjoins ‘Sleepe after toyle’ (I.ix.40.8), the voice of the druggily entranced Red Crosse takes up the tune and joins in. We watch the entrapment happen in slow motion; allegory has become psychology.
The psychological basis of dramatic characterisation, however, turned into something more problematic when A View of the Present State of Ireland was staged as though it were a reasoned discussion between a pair of debonair parliamentarians. Irenius’s argument that the scorched earth policy that had crushed the Desmond ‘Rebellion’ in the early 1580s needed be rolled out again in the mid-1590s to starve O’Neill’s Confederates into submission became more provisional, qualified and humanised when Eudoxus was incarnated as a counterweight interlocutor (rather than a compliant adjunct to Irenius’s assertions), and when the actor playing Irenius allowed his voice to quaver empathetically when remembering the ‘anatomies of death…crying out of theire graves’. [3] This flesh-and-blood Irenius becomes a character who, troubled, conflicted and compassionate, makes his devastating advocacy of famine more in sorrow than in anger: ‘yet sure in all that warre, there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremitie of famine, which they themselves had wrought’ (102). The question this raises about the translatability of page to stage is partly a question of genre: what happens to a Renaissance ‘dialogue’ – more correctly, in the case of A View, a monologue for two voices – when it’s treated as a theatrical debate? But, even more importantly, what happens when we transpose a unitary voice into something more incorrigibly plural? Ideology and a genocidal prescription that would shortly be put into action by Elizabeth I’s generals, Carew, Mountjoy and Chichester, becomes, on the stage, an anguished expression of personality. As the workshop’s audiences’ declarations about ‘feeling moved’ attest, it makes the advocacy of man-made famine available to that most meretricious of political emotions, sentimentality. The natives still must die but now, at least, the perpetrator feels bad about it.
With the poetry, too, this new, stage-play Spenser brought a shift in the political valence of the work. The translation of arguments ‘deepe within the mynd’ (VI.0.5.8) into words delivered by embodied characters on stage entails a translation of the monological and the self-divided into the plural and the dialogic. It turns a poetry of absolutes that are forever being undone, of certainties that unravel, and endings that come unstuck into the more unitary articulations of two-dimensional characters. As they become more psychologically grounded, they also, paradoxically, become more fixed. A poetry of self-division becomes less complex, less internally conflicted, when it is dispersed into multiple characters, each with only a single point of view.
The spoken verse in the Research in Action Workshop forcefully demonstrated just how well Spenser works orally – but his is the orality of the storyteller, not the playwright. It was strange that, amid so much talk of theatrical genres, the genre of romance was missing from the conversation almost entirely. Yet, the real enchantment of listening to actors reading Spenser was that of listening to a compelling, swift-moving story. Time and again, the Globe actors – telling, for example, the story of Pastorella, the princess raised by the shepherd, Meliboe – brought me, at least, not to the playhouse but to a scene of storytelling. It brought me to Ireland, to Munster and to the great hall of a castle where a professional storyteller, a seanchaidhe, enthralled his audience with precisely such storylines of romance. [4] But the event was strangely amnesiac about Spenser’s 18 years in Ireland, despite Willy Maley’s reminder that Ireland should not be seen solely as a not-London non-lieu, a cultural wasteland where, exiled from the playhouse and the company of university players, his muse was forced into compensatory, untheatrical directions. The wistful narrative of what-ifs – what if Spenser had been able to graduate from university playwriting to the London stage? what if he had regularly seen Marlowe and Shakespeare? – turns its back entirely on the fact that, between 1580 and 1598, Spenser was actually in the midst of a very different world of performance. That world was hidden in plain sight in the final extract, performed without a sidelong glance to that reality. Britomart (sheltering from some very Irish-sounding bad weather), is still marvelling at Ease, the ‘graue personage’ who ‘passioned’ the prologue to the Masque of Cupid, when
a ioyous fellowship issewd
Of Minstrals, making goodly meriment,
With wanton Bardes, and Rymers impudent,
All which together sung full chearefully
A lay of loues delight, with sweet consent (III.xii.3.6, IV.vi.5.3-7).
It is they who lead in the ‘iolly company’ of masquers; the air is filled with a worryingly seductive ‘delitious harmony’ which
In full straunge notes was sweetly heard to sound,
That the rare sweetnesse of the melody
The feeble senses wholly did confound (III.xii.5.8, 6.1-4).
We need to think harder about these ‘wanton Bardes, and Rymers impudent’ if we are to piece together the full story of Spenser’s performance history. Spenser the colonial official had good raisons d’État to deplore, in A View of the Present State of Ireland and elsewhere, the poetic class which furnished the ideological armour steeling Gaelic and Old English lords’ resistance to colonial incursion. But he was neither unacquainted with their craft nor, as Britomart’s involuntary ‘confound’-ment’ attests, immune to their charms.
A snapshot of Spenser’s neglected performance context is unexpectedly supplied by George Legge’s 1595 map of the Munster Plantation.[5] It depicts Spenser’s castle in Kilcolman – cadmium-orange tower-and-bawn on a moss-green mound – surrounded on all sides by the micro-courts of the Gaelic and Old English lordships. What it can’t show is that many of these were the redoubts of court poets and retinues of musicians and entertainers. Just to the south-east of Kilcolman, Legge shows Roche’s rather grander castle, home to the ‘Book of Fermoy’, one of the most significant manuscript compilations of the period.[6] The ‘Teig Olyve’ in whose towerhouse Spenser ‘lay… one night as he came home from the sessions at Limerick’ is, properly, Tadhg ollamh, Lord Roche’s ollamh or chief poet, probably Tadhg Ó Dalaigh. (So outraged was Lord Roche by his poet’s temerity in entertaining the vexatious planter that he ‘killed a fat beef’ belonging to the overly hospitable Tadhg.)[7] We are left to imagine how the two poets passed their evening together but the fact that they did opens a window on to Spenser’s own conversations with the bards. We know from the View that Spenser ‘caused diuers [bardic poems] to be translated unto me that I might understande them’ (77), and figures like Tadhg ollamh and evenings of recitations and performance formed part of that exchange.
To the west of Kilcolman lay Dúthaigh Ealla, in the overlordship of Domhnall MacCarthaigh Mór, Earl of Clancare, himself a poet who encumbered his estate by hosting ‘sumptuous banquets and magnificent entertainments’ to keep the English sweet.[8] MacCarthaigh Mór’s own ollamh, Aonghus Fionn Ó Dalaigh (c.1548-c.1602), wrote – and conducted an influential bardic school – in Cluain Mín. What’s more, in two towerhouses twenty kilometres apart, poet and ollamh were using identical romance motifs: while Spenser wrote of Ruddymane and Red Crosse Knight’s dalliance with False Una, Ó Dalaigh was writing of a hermit and a succuba, of an infant and a bloody hand, in a series of hymns to the Blessed Virgin.[9] Coincidence doesn’t imply influence, but it does suggest just how much is lost when we bypass Spenser’s exposure to bardic performance. The poet who can envisage Red Crosse Knight, in ‘the commune hall’ of Lucifera’s palace, coming across ‘many Bardes, that to the trembling chord / Can tune their timely voyces cunningly’, is someone who knows about Gaelic performance: here is a perfect description of a reacaire, the poetic reciter, performing the work of the file to the accompaniment of a harpist (cruitire).
Of course, the soundtrack to Spenser’s Irish experience included the ‘bagpipes shrill’ (III.x.43.2) as well as ‘Minstrals’’ merrymaking. If Spenser missed out on the London stage, he got himself a ringside seat at a bloody theatre of execution and war. If students approaching Titus Andronicus require the protection of a trigger warning, what, we must ask, was triggered in Spenser by his spectatorship at scenes of dismemberment and grief:
at the execution of… Murrogh O-brien, I saw an old woman, which was his foster mother, take up his head, whilst he was quartered, and sucked up all the blood runne thereout, saying, that the earth was not worthy to drincke it, and therewith also steeped her face and breast, and tore her haire, crying out and shrieking most terribly (66). [10]
Spenser uses the word ‘performance’ three times in A View, always in the sense of executing a task that is, in two of those cases, a military task. The Irish are to be stripped of their clan identity and trained up to the ‘performance’ of a trade (148). The ‘performance’ of the Chief Governor should include, euphemistically, having ‘an uncontrouled power to doe any thing, that he… should thinke meete to be done’ (159-60). And Irenius holds up Lord Grey’s ‘performance’ in ‘dispeopling and driving away all the [native] inhabitants’ from the lordship of Fiachaidh Mac Aodha Ó Broin as a model for bringing the whole country to ‘eternall quietnesse’ (115) – the quiet of depopulation.
The musician Arngeir Hauksson provided a beguiling accompaniment to the workshop performances, switching between lute, theorbo, and gittern. To recreate the full backing track to Spenser’s experience of performance, however, we need to add the ‘dainty musicke’ (IV.xi.23.2) of the harp, as well as the ‘shrill trompets’ (III.xii.6.6) of war and its ‘bagpipes shrill, / And shrieking Hububs’ (III.x.43.2-3). I look forward to seeing that in Shakespeare’s Globe.
Of Women, Actors and Bards
Deana Rankin (Royal Holloway, University of London)
I start with a confession: I missed most of the first day of ‘Spenser, Poetry, and Performance’, arriving just in time for the evening Research in Action Workshop. I missed it – this is relevant – because I was leading a very different performance-based workshop just along the Southbank at the National Theatre on ‘Acts of Violence and Yaël Farber’s Salomé’. I rushed into the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, then, with my head (and my heart) still full of images, sounds, and thoughts: of the politics and poetics of silencing women on stage; of the transformation of Oscar Wilde’s Irish Iokonaan enacted by two alternating performers, one of whom spoke Hebrew, the other Arabic. These thoughts, images, and sounds all found resonance in the evening’s Spenser/Shakespeare performance. I offer here three traces of this resonance which, some six months on, continue to haunt my reading – and teaching – of Spenser:
Of women: It came as a shock to find that there were no female characters voiced in the Wanamaker that evening. Deirdre Mullins was, of course, on-stage, but when she played women, they were either dancing or watching plays. Rather than being given voice, the women in the workshop (actors and characters alike) seem to have been silently conjured into the kind of absent presence we know from Epithilamion. For those of us who think of Spenser as a creator of Amazons – I was due to deliver a paper on his ‘Monstrous Regiment’ the next day – this felt, initially very wrong. But in fact it served as a reminder that – for instance — when Britomart gazes out to sea, makes complex calculations, muses on the pain and futility of love, fights fearsome battles, she does so for the most part silently. Spenser’s fighting women are less voluble than we might wish to imagine them.
Of actors: The Globe cast was terrific: their readiness to take on – and openly admit to — the discomforts of performing Spenser’s poetry was admirable. The tendency to recycle ‘hey nonny nonny’ repertoire moments of shepherd comedy rankled at times; yet such self-parodic pastoral also produced moments of haunted insecurity – when Redcrosse and Despair discuss death, for example. The View has, of course, been performed before: indeed Spenser and Shakespeare both voiced whole swathes of it in Frank McGuinness’s Mutabilitie (NT, 1997). The choice to pair Spenser’s dialogue here with Henry V, the first Shakespearean text in play that evening, seemed deliberately controversial. Certainly, the actors’ response to the challenge of voicing these two texts alongside each other proved instructive: standing far apart from each other, the performers seemed to be moving well beyond their comfort zone, with oddly stilted, distant declamation of a text which can also be delivered as a chillingly intimate plan for systematic genocide; this was followed by the sheer relief of the familiar, the comforting sentimental nationalism of Henry’s fearful ‘happy few’.
Of Bards: The actors slipped into Shakespeare like a favourite old cardigan. Their evident comfort with the tenor of Shakespeare as voiced in the Globe nonetheless made me wonder: what if other performers, perhaps unschooled in the ‘original conditions’ of English early modern stage delivery, had experimented with Spenser/Shakespeare’s lines; in Hebrew, or in Arabic, for instance… Or what if we had heard Irish voices that evening? Arngeir Hauksson’s extraordinary musical interventions brought an unexpected depth and colour to Spenser’s poetry in performance; his at once impassioned and informative explanation of his craft brought the art of story-telling into close connection with the instruments themselves. And yet these very qualities – historical research conjugated with performance history — also drew attention to elements of the early-modern sound-scape otherwise strikingly absent that evening: the rhythms, themes, and cadences of the Irish language and of the Bardic poetry which surrounded Spenser in his Munster tower.
Performing Elizabethan Poetry: Spenser and Shakespeare
Will Tosh (Shakespeare’s Globe)
Photo credit: Pete Le May
With the opening of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2014, Shakespeare’s Globe developed a new sort of public research event. The Research in Action format is designed to allow scholars and practitioners to test the capacities of our archetypal early modern theatre in the intimate candle-lit conditions of indoor Tudor and Stuart performance. From the outset, the workshops were intended to draw on the observations and insights of the three key groups in practice-as-research methodologies: academics, artists and audiences. The principles of the format are simple: scholars and practitioners gather on the morning of the event to spend the day exploring and experimenting with a prepared script in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. At six o’clock, a public audience joins in and the scenes or vignettes are performed in front of a crowd, who contribute ideas to the subsequent energetic discussion, re-staging and debate.
‘Elizabethan Poetry in Performance: Spenser and Shakespeare’, coordinated by Shakespeare’s Globe and the International Spenser Society, was our first attempt to extend this approach to literary texts that are not designedly dramatic. With Linda Gregerson and Will West I helped to devise a workshop script using extracts from Spenser’s works and Shakespeare’s plays that would help us to think about the points of contact between the two writers. Necessarily concise – Research in Action workshops last just over two hours – the selection was not intended to offer a ‘greatest hits’ of late Elizabethan verse and prose, but to give us scope to explore the ways in which the writers were influenced by the conventions and practices of oral poetry, dialogue, musical performance and what we might now call the craft of storytelling. As Linda Gregerson puts it in her contribution to this issue, our objective was to interrogate the ‘reciprocal dynamics of page and stage’, on the well-founded hunch that Spenser and Shakespeare were unlikely to have framed their art within the rigid generic boundaries of modern literary scholarship: if early modern writers thought across poetry and drama, so can we.
After much painful cutting and streamlining, Linda, Will and I produced a script that encompassed the deployment of performance as a literary motif, the blurred boundaries between narration and dramatic dialogue, lyricism in text and music, the pastoral form, and literary representations of war and conquest, and drew on The Faerie Queene (Book 1, Canto 9; Book 3, Canto 12; Book 6, Canto 9), Amoretti, The Shepheardes Calendar, A View of the Present State of Ireland as well as Henry V and As You Like It. These extracts were given life by a foursome of experienced and knowledgeable artists: actors Philip Bird, Dominic Brewer and Deirdre Mullins, and musician Arngeir Hauksson, who played a variety of early modern plucked string instruments (lute, bandora and cittern). Deirdre and Philip supplied written accounts from a performer’s perspective after the event, excerpts of which I include here; the workshop was filmed and the recording is available for consultation at Shakespeare’s Globe.
One of the central purposes of a Research in Action workshop is to incorporate into the processes of scholarly research the particular close-reading skills practised by actors, both in their rehearsal and in the moments of performance. The close multi-directional reading of a scholar, alive to the structural weave of a text, is different to that of an actor, whose prime purpose is to live the moment of their character’s life: an actor may know as much as an academic about the text’s historical or critical context, but their job is to offer a deliberately partial view of a single character’s experiences. As Deirdre puts it, ‘you jump with [the character] off that cliff of experience, you defend their perspective above all others and live and die with them’. The forward motion of this sort of reading, articulated in performance, distinguishes it from the forensic study of the literary critic or, indeed, the leisurely absorption of the private reader.
As Linda has revealed in her reflective essay, this produced a disruptively interesting reading of the Despayre and Redcrosse Knight exchange in The Faerie Queene (Book 1, Canto 9), as Spenser’s ambiguous speaker attribution posed a challenge to the performers: Philip explained to the workshop audience that ‘our starting point was to work out who was talking’, and Dominic Brewer admitted that ‘only later do you realise who is speaking’ – after-the-event wisdom which is effective as a literary technique (connaissance d’escalier?) but a fundamental obstruction to theatrical delivery. The performers’ decision to overlap the voices of the narrator and the characters was driven by the need for clarity, but it also produced a welcome dramatic effect. As Deirdre described it, the ‘actors lent a physical and raw emotional impact’ to a scene in which ‘the audience saw a person, in the same space as themselves, bullied to death’. The experience, she argued, carried ‘exciting implications’ in its extension of complicity to a watching audience (‘should they or could they have reached out and intervened?’) which was made all the more effective by the investment of the narrator in the action of the scene: ‘[Philip, playing the narrator] played it as if he were compelled to take over dialogue from the characters, and thus wound himself into the central and agonising conclusion of the scene’, becoming an ‘active, goading punisher’.
The actors found the task of narration to be a curious one, from a performance point of view. Deirdre pointed out that an actor experiences a ‘distancing effect’ when recounting a narrative, because ‘nothing [is] at stake for the narrator and the story has already happened.’ The things an actor wants most – jeopardy, conflict – are largely absent from the role. The extracts that demanded a quasi-authorial narration, particularly the Masque of Cupid sequence in The Faerie Queen (Book 3, Canto 12), raised questions about the nature of the Spenserian narrator: ‘is he a character, as Dickens can be in his works, or a (supposedly) dispassionate observer?’ asked Philip. If he or she is understood to be a character, are Spenser’s often allegorical dramatic figures ‘fully rounded, or are we only seeing a key, emblematic aspect of them?’ For Deirdre, the complexity arose from Spenser’s ambiguous authorial voice. The Spenserian narrator is ‘not neutral, but many-sided’, and readers are able to ‘decide for themselves … what Spenser “intended”’. But an actor has to make decisive choices about ‘tone and attitude’: ‘ambiguity is impossible to play,’ wrote Deirdre, ‘even if you want your audience to [be able to] make their own minds up’. Complexity and ambivalence are estimable dramatic results, but they are disastrous performance decisions: ‘neutrality is unplayable.’ As a narrator in the Meliboe and Calidore exchange (The Faerie Queene, Book 6, Canto 9), Deirdre had to make a decision as to ‘how much to lean on [Calidore’s] roaming eye, eager for “double ravishment”’ of Meliboe’s daughter Pastorella. Her interpretation determined whether the audience would find it ‘charming, funny or uncomfortably pervy’, a decisiveness that heightened the drama of the scene at the expense of its multivalency. As Deirdre argued, in private reading the ‘written word has great advantages in terms of [the conveyance of] complexity and multi-tonality’, but public performance brought out dramatic scenarios which were latent in the text.
Philip reflected that the day raised many issues to do with ‘the processes of reading, hearing and watching’, and he was left with over-arching questions about the relationship between the early modern and contemporary reading experiences: ‘do we read with less imagination now, as we tend to receive stories via visual images and performance? Or at least, do we read with less patience?’ For the audience, he wondered whether ‘hearing the words rather than reading them add[ed] anything?’ ‘Are the words,’ he asked, ‘crying out to be recited?’ Answers might well lie in a better understanding of the early modern performance culture of Spenser’s works (something we know little about): was there a convention of domestic or small-scale performance of Spenser’s poetry, in manuscript or print? Were many of his early ‘readers’ actually listeners? In applying the practice-as-research methods of a Research in Action workshop to these questions, Shakespeare’s Globe and the International Spenser Society helped to open up a new and unfamiliar way of thinking about Spenser’s verse and prose.
‘This is really funny’ or Performing Edmund Spenser
Nathan Szymanski (Simon Fraser University)
‘Delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present. Laughter hath onely a scornfull tickling … But I speake to this purpose, that all the end of Comicall part, bee not uppon suche scornefull matters as stirre laughter onelie, but mixe with it, that delightfull teaching whiche is the end of Poesie.” (Sir Philip Sidney, The Defence of Poesy)
I admit that I was surprised that the staged reading event at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse was such a resounding success. Like many others in attendance, I expected it to be ‘interesting’ or ‘provocative’ or whichever descriptor people invoke to talk about performances that are discussion-worthy or important but that are not entertaining for the layperson. To use Sir Philip Sidney’s terminology, I was expecting to experience ‘delightfull teaching’ but not to feel much in the way of ‘scornfull tickling’. Yet what became quickly and surprisingly clear was that selections of Spenser’s poetry work so well in front of a crowd that one cannot help but wonder if they were written with performance in mind. What I would like to do here is reflect on a comment I heard often that evening, and that encapsulates one of the most illuminating aspects of seeing Spenser performed on stage: ‘This is really funny’.
In my experience, reading Spenser alone and in silence rarely provokes out-loud laughter, although critics including Rachel Hile, William Oram, and Frances McNeely Leonard have provided different possibilities for understanding Spenserian humour, including his use of satire, laughter, and comedy.[11] While there are some critics who suspect that Spenser might not be taking himself quite so seriously, much criticism in recent years supports John Milton’s aphoristic characterisation of the ‘sage and serious Poet Spencer’ [sic]. Thus, the event at the playhouse afforded an excellent opportunity to properly shine a (candle-) light on a side of Spenser we rarely consider.
Perigot and Willye’s roundelay, in the ‘August’ eclogue of The Shepheardes Calender, provided a perfect example of seeing an old passage with fresh eyes, or, to use a more appropriate cliché, of hearing it for the first time. ‘August’, one of the ‘recreative’ eclogues that E.K. skips over in his introduction, may not have the intellectual heft found elsewhere in Calender, though the actors brought the roundelay to life by singing it alongside the accompaniment of an early modern stringed instrument and by acting out its farce. Here is a short, representative snippet of Perigot complaining about his love for the ‘bouncing Bellibone’ (l. 61):
Per. Hating to raunch the arrow out,
Wil. hey ho Perigot,
Per. I left the head in my hart roote:
Wil. it was a desperate shot.
Per. There it ranckleth ay more and more,
Wil. hey ho the arrowe (ll. 97-102)
In my reading of the eclogue prior to the event, the roundelay served as a prolonged preamble to Colin’s more austere sestina, which Cuddie relates in full near the eclogue’s close. But after hearing the roundelay sung aloud, I think that the humour of the roundelay splits the focus of the eclogue between a mirthful beginning and a melancholic ending. I am reminded of William Oram’s suggestion that ‘[t]he other side of laughter is melancholy’ and that the ‘quick slippage between laughter and melancholy is a trademark of Spenser’s imagination’.[12] It is entirely possible that Spenser is not only showcasing Colin’s song in ‘August’ but is carefully weighing its austerity (and textuality) against the rambunctiousness (and orality) of the roundelay.
I will forego explaining why the roundelay was so funny, which never works, but I will take a risk by suggesting how it might have been performed in an even funnier way. Attendees of the event will recall that the roundelay was performed by actors largely unfamiliar with the text, and, most importantly, that the context of the excerpted roundelay was missing. I pose two questions: what if there was one more actor onstage to perform the role of the judge, Cuddie, who is given the responsibility of picking a winner out of the two roundelay singers, but who ultimately declares it a draw? What if, after the singing contest, ‘Hey ho’ Willye were to persist in asking, in spite of Cuddie’s draw, ‘who has the victorye’ (l. 130)? Cuddie’s response to the contest subtly ridicules both the lead voice (Perigot) and its undersong (Willye): ‘Little lacketh Perigot of the best’ (l. 126), Cuddie says, and then he continues, ‘Willye is not greatly ouergone’ (l. 127). Using classical terms, one might say that Cuddie subverts the rhetorical figure of a litotes to highlight Willye’s and Perigot’s mediocrity or, in simple modern terms, that Cuddie speaks out of both sides of his mouth. Either way, it is a funny and appropriate response to the preceding song.
In all likelihood, Spenser first learned about eclogues in grammar school, where eclogue collections by both Virgil and Mantuan were ubiquitous and later registered as ‘English stock’ titles in the Stationers’ Register. Of why he taught eclogues, Thomas Elyot said that the ‘pratty controversies’ of the eclogues are particularly well suited to children, which supports the idea that there were many theatrical elements included in the everyday workings of an early modern schoolroom (a phenomenon upon which both Lynn Enterline and Jeff Dolven have elaborated).[13] Spenser may have encountered eclogues in the third form at Merchant Taylors’ School, in exercises of rudimentary translation, though he may also have viewed eclogues as poems to be read aloud, or akin to the staged disputations presented during the upper years of grammar school. My point is that the classical poems that ‘August’ is based on, Virgil’s third and seventh eclogues, were likely performed in part or in full in grammar schools. By attending specifically to the form of the eclogue, a word that Abraham Fleming translates as a ‘talking together’, one gets a better sense of how performance undergirds some of the Calender’s conventions. Ultimately, the eclogue form merges pedagogy and performance, providing further evidence of what Judith Owens has called the ‘emotional community’ of the early modern schoolroom.[14]
This brings us hastily back to the Sam Wanamaker event, where comedic elements that may have once signalled an affiliation with puerile schoolboys in grammar school were staged in a London theatre for a company of academics. Admittedly some moments of laughter were testaments to the actors’ comic timing, but there were also many moments that demonstrated how well Spenser was able to, as one actor so eloquently put it, ‘listen to an audience and what they … find funny’. I am in no way suggesting that The Shepheardes Calender, with its ornate typography and extensive glosses, was ever intended to be performed in full. Rather, I want to ask whether the eclogue may not signal performance more often than is generally thought, which might explain why ‘August’ is so funny, and which might help scholars revisit eclogues by Spenser and by other early modern writers. I will finish this short reflective piece with another passage by Sidney, spoken by Rombus, the ‘substantiall schoole-master’ who judges the eclogues in The Lady of May. Following the first singing contest, Rombus provides his own ideas about ‘delightfull teaching’—or is it ‘scornfull tickling’?—when he exclaims, ‘Attend and throw your eares to mee, for I am grauitated with child, till I haue endoctrinated your plumbeous cerebrosities’.
Spenser, Poet and Performer? An Italian Analogue
Sarah Van der Laan (Indiana University)
From the moment Fran Marshall launched into a rollicking performance of Gluttony’s entry in TFQ I.iv.21, I realized something that should have been obvious all along: Spenser’s poetry (at least some of it) was intended for performance. Not the kind of performance we usually think of when we talk about performance in Elizabethan England—a staged presentation by a company of professional actors—but the kind of performance that Spenser himself is often said to have given for Elizabeth: a reading by the poet in front of a patron and a gathering of courtiers. While this particular story may be apocryphal, as Andrew Hadfield notes, Renaissance courtier-poets did perform their work, for pensions and for other benefits too.[15]
We can glimpse the conditions and the stakes of such performances through the memories of Spenser’s fellow heroic poet, Torquato Tasso. Like his son, Tasso’s father, Bernardo Tasso, was a courtier-poet; his principal work, Amadigi, retold the adventures of Amadis of Gaul across 100 cantos of ottava rima. And like his son, the elder Tasso struggled with the irreconcilable demands of critics and cognoscenti who insisted that heroic poems observe Aristotle’s unity of action, and of courtly and popular audiences accustomed to the interlaced plots and digressions of Ariosto, Boiardo, and chivalric romance. In his Apologia for his own Gerusalemme liberata, the younger Tasso defends the Amadigi (and, implicitly, the Liberata) against criticism of its supposed lack of unity by describing his father’s experience in the service of Ferrante Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno:
Leggeua alcuni suoi canti al Principe suo padrone, & quando egli cominciò à leggere erano le camere piene di Gentil’huomini ascoltatori, ma nel fine, tutti erano spariti, dalla qual cosa egli prese argumento, che l’unità dell’attione fosse poco diletteuole per sua natura, non per difetto d’arte che egli hauesse, perciòche egli l’haueua trattata in modo, che l’arte non poteua riprendersi, & di questo non s’ingannaua punto.
[He read some of his cantos to his patron the Prince, and when he began to read the chambers were full of gentleman listeners, but by the end, all had disappeared, from which he drew the lesson that the unity of action was not very pleasing by its nature, and not through any defect of his art, for he had treated it in such a manner that his art was beyond reproach, and in this he did not deceive himself at all.][16]
As Tasso’s comments make clear, the performance of selections from a heroic poem was not only an important aspect of courtiership for a court poet, but an important testing ground for the poetics of a poem in progress. Performance offered a poet access to an audience whose response to the experience of the spoken text—not the written—could determine fundamental aspects of the poem’s composition, and whose verdict could override even classical theoretical precepts. A passage, a phrase, an approach that did not please in spoken performance might not survive to be circulated or printed for reading in written form.
The elder Tasso’s experience reinforces the argument Julian Lethbridge made in drawing the first day to a conclusion: The Faerie Queene ‘is written in spoken language’: ‘language written to be read aloud’.[17] As he reminded us, Spenser would have expected The Faerie Queene, like much other Elizabethan literature, to be encountered by many of its ‘readers’ as spoken language: read aloud, whether by a non-silent reader or by someone else. Marshall’s delightful performance—all the performances given by five committed actors over the full first day of the conference—and Lethbridge’s comments should prompt us to understand The Faerie Queene and much other Renaissance poetry as composed in part to appeal to the ear of an audience with fairly sophisticated dramatic tastes and expectations. We should, therefore, look for dramatic poetics in these poems usually assumed to have little to do with the theatre – especially in the set-pieces that poets may well have built into their poems for performance, by themselves or by others. And we should consider the whole range of ways in which practices of reading aloud may have bled into performance.
Some of those practices sprang to mind as I sat in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse on the first evening of the conference, watching a breathtaking staging of Redcrosse’s temptation by Despair. In such evocative surroundings, it was easy to imagine a household circle or a group of Cambridge undergraduates reading the poem aloud. Casting Deirdre Mullins as Redcrosse reminds us that assigning readers to parts might throw unexpected light on the poem’s language, ethics, characterisations, supplementing or challenging the assumptions the written text seems to invite. Having Mullins and Philip Bird as the narrator read together, or trade off, passages in which the narrator presents Redcrosse’s thoughts invites us to imagine readers navigating the ambiguous places in which it isn’t clear which character speaks or is referred to, and to wonder how might these ambiguities have popped more sharply, or have become the point rather than a crux to be resolved. And the sheer emotional punch of Mullins’s descent into despair, juxtaposed with the laugh-out-loud funny setting of the ‘August’ eclogue from The Shepheardes Calendar, reveals that Spenser in performance reveals himself to be deeply comic and deeply moving in ways that—for all my love of Spenser—I had never previously imagined. We should perform Spenser more often.
Acting Writing
William N. West (Northwestern University)
Who wouldn’t jump at the chance to participate in a Research in Action Workshop on Spenser and Performance at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre in Shakespeare’s Globe, in the company of Linda Gregerson, Will Tosh, players Philip Bird, Dominic Brewer, and Deirdre Mullins, and musician Arngeir Haukkson? And I had a confident hypothesis: performing Spenser’s poetry would clarify what distinguishes its capacities and resources from those of early modern performance, illuminating playing as if from its other side. It wasn’t that I thought Spenser’s verse wouldn’t play—far from it, for what is more theatrical, in one sense of the word, than the Britomart transfixed by the masque of Cupid or Guyon tearing into the Bower of Bliss? It’s that I thought what made passages like these both Spenserian and theatrical somehow stood opposite what made texts like those of Shakespeare or Marlowe performative. Spenser’s texts seemed to me to display, those composed for the playhouses to embody. Getting Spenser’s verse up on its feet them might help tease apart those different aspects of the experience of theatre, observation and enactment (or to frame it contentiously in the language of the event, research and action).
What I learned, when Linda and I walked into the Sam Wanamaker Theatre with the passages we had selected, to meet Will Tosh and the performers who would embody those passages, was that my assumptions about Spenser’s poetics were not wrong, exactly, but not right in the way I had expected, either. I had imagined that performing Spenser’s poetry, and searching through it for moments amenable to performance, would sharpen my intuition that its resources were distinct from those of performance and show me how. Instead, I found that Spenser’s poetry worked brilliantly and illuminatingly as performance (and performance, especially with the performers we had, worked brilliantly upon it); and that its performance forced me to rethink both what it means to perform and what I had thought of Spenser’s poetry as doing.
Spenser’s poetry has always seemed to me engaged in an undertaking that is self-consciously graphic, very different from that of performance. It was composed, transmitted, and received in writing rather than orally. It calls attention to the historical contingencies of its writtenness, its printedness, and its bookishness in its physical layout, its archaizing spelling, its alignment with traditions of written poetry that represent themselves as performed or sung, from bardic epic to the singing shepherds of pastoral. It is graphic as well in the vernacular sense of vivid and explicit.
But Spenser’s poetry also seems to me graphic in a more figurative way, something like a grammatological sense. It is monumental, mediated, archivable, as the conclusion of Book VI of The Faerie Queene signals, ‘writs’ and ‘threasure’ that may outlast the fickleness of ‘wicked tongues’ that ‘endite’ against it. It is replete, filling and overfilling its readers’ interpretations, in contrast to the spareness of many performance texts that seem to ask to be acted in order to be understood. It is open-ended rather than decisive: it doesn’t often demand that writer or reader choose among possible senses, but rather that they be aware of the array of possible commitments to meaning or choice that could be made. It is expansive: the narrative requires readers to recover threads that seemed long lost and holds out promise that suspended ones may still return. It continually demands recursion and reflection, requiring that interpretive choices be revisited and reappraised as the narrative proceeds. Finally, it feels oriented towards moments remote—the past (from which the present emerges, even if the past is unknown), the future (which mortal providence anticipates and which present choices will produce), and the eternal (which is the opposite of the eventual, serial quality often associated with performance)—rather than the relentlessly transitory present of performance. Of course graphic and enacted are not the only centres of gravity in literature and orature, but they are surely among the most marked orientations we have in those fields.
As a reader, I had imagined Spenser as a subtle and insightful guide to reflecting on action, rendering it as writing. In the playful, practical work of the workshop actors, as alert to the texts’ openness as the most adroit and careful reader, the multiplicities, ambiguities, ambivalences of Spenser’s text were realized as actions. A performance sometimes feels as if it fleshes out the theatrical text that it enacts. Watching Spenser’s poetry put into action, I became aware as we worked of how the needs of performing continually forced us to let go of some interpretative possibilities. Scenes narrowed, but sharpened. We tried things out, discovered things that worked and things that didn’t, and at each moment were reminded as readers rarely are that action is both an opportunity for invention and a kind of bottleneck that exchanges breadth for a focusing intensity. Perhaps this is a difference between the immersion of a reader, whose consideration surveys and reconsiders, and that of an actor, whose body commits and launches. The particular texture of Spenser’s allegory did not disappear, but it changed. Commitment replaced reflection; activity shifted back into the hands of the actors and characters from those of the reader, which is how I had expected to experience Spenser. Some years ago, Harry Berger proposed an approach to Shakespeare’s plays that he called ‘imaginary audition’, combining the reader’s focused precision with the spectator’s corporeal sensitivity.[18] The Research in Action workshop did something that was almost its inverse. Acting was reading, and writing.
I recall in particular how the actors enrolled the narrator among the characters, as when a look from Philip and Dominic as Calidore and Meliboe (VI.9) transformed Deirdre, at the foot of the stage as overseeing narrator, into Pastorella as the object of desire; or how, as Linda relates in her discussion, Philip’s narrator took sides with Dominic’s Despair against Deirdre’s Redcrosse. Spenser’s narrator has never seemed neutral to, but its script did seem to address judgements and biases to the reader. Here I saw a new way the narrator could be drawn into the narrative and narrative itself become a kind of action. But perhaps the greatest revelation of the workshop came during the day when we all worked together on these passages, trying out choices, discarding them, refining them, and finally deciding on them. I am less sure that any of this working-out was visible in the evening performance, when there could be no more rehearsal and little experimentation, but only the outcomes of that work in decisive enactments. I only wish everyone at the conference could have spent the day working with us – although I wonder then if the workshop would have lost some of the name of ‘action’.
In the wake of the workshop, the question of whether or not Spenser is performative, or graphic, or more one than the other, seems to bewhat needs reconsideration. Genevieve Love has suggested that performance criticism is not a method or a discipline, but an affective, even corporeal orientation towards what we are studying.[19] It now seems to me that the workshop was not about any quality of Spenser’s poetry, but the orientations through which we approach it. His poetry is in some way our performances of it. Spenser changes with what questions we ask – how we see Spenser or even how we do Spenser. The graphic features of Spenser’s poetry have in common with those of performance that they are instantiated by particular kinds of encounter between observer and object. As yet I think a good syntax for appreciating this kind of writing as performance is still wanting. But I also think that projects like this one may help us devise one and perhaps enact it, fashioning ourselves according to its virtuous and noble discipline.
[1] One point of reference is Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive Opposites edited by Julian Lethbridge (Manchester University Press, 2008), but we are thinking, too, of important work by Kenneth Gross, Anne Lake Prescott, and others.
[2] Introduction to Richard McCabe (ed.), Edmund Spenser: The Shorter Poems (Penguin, 1999), p. xvii.
[3] Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland, ed. Andrew Hadfield and Willy Maley (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), 101; subsequent references are given parenthetically in the text.
[4] A door onto this world was pushed open long ago by Ronald M. Smith in ‘The Irish Background to Spenser’s View’, Journal of English and German Philology 42 (1943), 499-515, and ‘Spenser, Holinshed, and the Leabar Gabhála’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 43 (1944), 390-401.
[5] Maritime Museum Greenwich MS P/49(27).
[6] https://www.ria.ie/library/catalogues/special-collections/medieval-and-early-modern-manuscripts/book-fermoy-book-roche
[7] Willy Maley, A Spenser Chronology (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994), 52.
[8] Philip O’Sullivan Beare, Ireland under Elizabeth: Chapters towards a History of Ireland in the Reign of Elizabeth, ed. Matthew J. Byrne (Dublin: Sealy Bryers, 1903), 59.
[9] Lambert McKenna ed. and trans., Dánta do chum Aonghus Fionn Ó Dálaigh (Dublin: Maunsel and Co., 1919. The MACMORRIS project which I am developing, with David Baker and Willy Maley, proposes to fill in Spenser’s complete Irish context as part of its commitment to mapping the cultural and linguistic complexity of early modern Ireland.
[10] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/10/18/cambridge-university-students-given-trigger-warning-shakespeare/
[11] Rachel E. Hile, Spenserian Satire: A Tradition of Indirection (Manchester University Press, 2016); William Oram, ‘Human Limitation and Spenserian Laughter’, Spenser Studies 30 (2015): 35-56, eds. Ayesha Ramachandran and Melissa Sanchez; and Frances McNeely Leonard, Laughter in the Courts of Love: Comedy in Allegory, from Chaucer to Spenser (Norman, Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981), especially 133-67. Ayesha Ramachandran also hosted a roundtable on “Comic Spenser” at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in Puerto Rico in 2013, with papers by Brett Foster, Rachel Hile, David Lee Miller, and Kimberly Reigle.
[12] See Oram, ‘Human Limitation’, 52.
[13] See Lynn Enterline, Shakespeare’s Schoolroom: Rhetoric, Discipline, Emotion (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) and Jeff Dolven, Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
[14] From her current project, tentatively titled ‘Instructional Settings: Early Modern Pedagogical Culture and Literature’.
[15] Andrew Hadfield, Edmund Spenser: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 235–6.
[16] Torquato Tasso, Apologia…in difesa della sua Gerusalemme liberata (Ferrara: Giulio Cesare Cagnacini, 1585), A4v.
[17] Quote from recapitulation of remarks sent by Julian Lethbridge to Nathan Szymanski (private correspondence).
[18] Imaginary Audition: Shakespeare on Stage and Page (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).
[19] Genevieve Love, ‘Performance Criticism Without Performance: The Study of Non_Shakespearean Drama’ , in New Directions in Renaissance Drama and Performance Studies, ed. Sarah Werner (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 131-46 (134).
PROGRAMME NOTES: ‘Elizabethan Poetry in Performance: Spenser and Shakespeare’ Research in Action Workshop
Monday 12 June 2017, 6.30-8.30pm
Led by Will Tosh, Linda Gregerson and Will West
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe
In January 2014 the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse opened for its first season. Years of research and debate went into its design, which draws together what we know about the historical Blackfriars, Cockpit, Whitefriars and Salisbury Court playhouses to produce an archetype of a Jacobean indoor theatre. Our Research in Action workshops help us to ask questions about the nature of performance and spectatorship in early modern England. Using extracts from well-known and unfamiliar texts, we explore the opportunities these scenes afford in terms of the staging, music and lighting capacities of our indoor Jacobean theatre.
Early modern poets and playwrights were rarely far from each other’s practice. Although we appreciate the poetic qualities of Shakespeare’s lines, rarely do we consider the performance value of early modern poetry. What was the relationship between poetry and drama? How did early modern drama affect or connect with the extraordinary poetry written in the same period? How important was Shakespeare for Spenser, or Spenser for Shakespeare?
This Research in Action workshop will address and test these questions by staging poetry written by the most admired Elizabethan poet: Edmund Spenser, ‘the Prince of Poets in his tyme’.
This event is a collaboration between Globe Education, the International Spenser Society, University College Dublin and Simon Fraser University.
Texts performed:
Spenser, Amoretti (1595), Sonnet 54
Spenser’s ‘Sonnet 54’ takes the image of the theatre centrally to describe the courtship of his beloved.
Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590), Book 3 Canto 12
Britomart has vowed to rescue Scudamore’s wife from the castle of an evil sorcerer named Busirane, where she is being held captive. As Britomart wanders the castle alone at nightfall, a storm rages and a masque is played out before her.
Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1 Canto 9
The Redcrosse Knight discusses death with Despair, and finds his own views called into question.
Spenser, Epithalamion (written 1594)
Spenser wrote Epithalamion in celebration of his marriage to Elizabeth Boyle. Here at the poem’s opening, the speaker calls muses to help him praise his bride.
Spenser, Shepheardes Calender (1579), ‘August’
The Shepheardes Calender depicts twelve months in the life of a shepherd through twelve ecologues (short, pastoral poems). In ‘August’, Perigot praises his love, and the satirical Willy answers his every verse.
Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland (written c.1596)
Eudoxus and Irenius discuss the end of the Nine Years War in Ireland.
Shakespeare, Henry V
On the eve of Agincourt, Henry’s soldiers discuss the coming battle.
Shakespeare, As You Like It (1623), Act 3 Scene 3
Touchstone, court jester to Duke Frederick, and Corin, an elderly shepherd, compare life at court with rural living.
Sir Calidore’s pursuit of the Blatant Beast has brought him to the countryside. There he encounters a company of shepherds, and is invited into one of their homes.
Philip Bird
Dominic Brewer
Deirdre Mullins
Arngeir Hauksson
Jane Grogan, Tiffany Jo Werth; Linda Gregerson, Stephanie Elsky, Patricia Palmer, Deana Rankin, Will Tosh, Nathan Szymanski, Sarah Van der Laan, William N. West, "Reflections on "Spenser, Poetry and Performance" at Shakespeare's Globe, 12-13 June 2017," Spenser Review 48.1.2 (Winter 2018).
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/review/item/48.1.2
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Google Search Share at 67.5% as Global Search Soars 41%
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Google continued to pace the market, landing 76.7 billion searches, good for a market share of 67.5 percent, comScore said. More than 113 billion searches were conducted in July this year, marking a 41 percent increase from a year ago. Microsoft expects to gain even more queries should it consummate its plan with Yahoo to become the back-end engine for Yahoo search. In other comScore stats, social network Facebook rounded out the list with 879 million searches, up 18 percent from the prior period. Facebook's inclusion in the global search list underscores just how much the company has scaled on the Web.
More than 113 billion searches were conducted in July this year, marking a 41 percent increase from July 2008, according to the latest global search statistics from market researcher comScore.
Despite the emergence of Microsoft's Bing as a search engine challenger, Google continued to pace the market, landing 76.7 billion searches, good for a market share of 67.5 percent.
Yahoo retained its No. 2 ranking and boasted the greatest global search share growth of 58 percent, with a 7.8 percent global share on 8.9 billion searches. Chinese search engine Baidu followed Yahoo with 8 billion searches.
Microsoft significantly trailed Baidu, but its 3.3 billion queries were up 41 percent from July 2008, 11 months before the arrival of Bing, which has been well received. Bing now garners an 8.9 percent share in the United States, gaining fractions of percentage points each month since its launch in June almost three months ago.
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Microsoft expects to gain even more queries should it consummate its plan with Yahoo to become the back-end engine for Yahoo search. That arrangement will be closely watched if it passes regulatory scrutiny. ComScore analyst Eli Goodman said earlier this month Bing needs to lure more infrequent searchers from Google to become power users on Bing.
In other comScore stats, social network Facebook rounded out the list with 879 million searches, up 18 percent from the prior period.
Facebook's inclusion in the global search list underscores just how much the company has scaled on the Web. It's got 250 million-plus users connecting with friends, and close to one billion queries coming in. How will it mine that traffic for a profit?
Europe accounted for the highest share of searches at 32.1 percent, followed by Asia Pacific at 30.8 percent and North America at 22.1 percent. Europe boasted the second highest overall search volume per person, with 117 searches per searcher; North America exhibited the second heaviest frequency, with 12.5 search usage days per searcher.
The bump in global search queries from 2008 reinforces comments made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt on financial earnings calls. For the past year since the economic tailspin whacked first the East Coast and then the rest of the world, Schmidt has been assuring financial analysts that consumers conduct more Web searches during a recession to shop for bargains.
For the complete results, see the comScore tables on Google Watch here.
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Extron Electronics Announces New Expanded Office Location in Japan
Anaheim, California (2 February 2005) - Extron Electronics is proud to announce that its office in Japan has moved to a larger facility so that the company may offer expanded services to its clients. "Extron has a long tradition of providing our customers throughout the world with cutting-edge technology backed by uncompromising service," says Lee Dodson, vice president of marketing. "This new facility enables us to expand and grow our regional support structures while fostering the level of service our customers have come to expect." The new Extron office includes a large product warehouse, significantly improving delivery times. The expanded location also includes a new repair center to provide quick turnaround of products that require service or repair. New address in Japan: Extron Electronics, Japan Kyodo Building, 16 Ichibancho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0082 Japan Telephone and fax numbers remain unchanged: TEL: +81.3.3511.7655 FAX: +81.3.3511.7656
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CreativeFuture: Coalition Looks at Solutions to Online Piracy
By Rob Scott
Independent film executive Ruth Vitale — who has held positions at New Line Cinema, Paramount Classics and First Look Studios — was recently named executive director of CreativeFuture, a coalition of movie and television producers, unions and companies that is aiming to steer Hollywood’s digital future. After tech giants convinced Congress that proposed antipiracy laws were too restrictive of online freedom, the film and television industries remain threatened by online piracy. CreativeFuture hopes to change that.
Hollywood has taken to legal battles against pirate sites such as Megaupload and, more recently, Popcorn Time.
“An app that allowed instant streaming of newly released films with Netflix-like ease, Popcorn Time was quickly taken off the Web this month under what its developers, who were based in Argentina, hinted was legal pressure,” reports The New York Times. “But similarly designed apps popped up elsewhere, underscoring the difficulty of slapping down global film theft with lawsuits or prosecution.”
A study commissioned by NBCUniversal recently reported that online piracy in North America, Europe and Asia had risen 160 percent in two years. Some have argued that the best way to combat piracy is a disruption to the longstanding distribution model by releasing day-and-date in every window.
Vitale and others suggest that losing audience to sites like Pirate Bay has become a factor in the declining number of studio films produced each year, a trend that is now evident in the independent film business.
“Vitale attributed the falloff to piracy-driven problems that have made it more difficult to finance an independent film by selling rights to foreign territories, where viewers flock to poorly controlled pirate sites, bypassing conventional outlets and the revenue they once provided to finance films,” notes the article.
CreativeFuture was founded in 2011 by CBS, Warner Bros. and several entertainment unions with the intent of providing Hollywood’s antipiracy efforts with a public face besides that of the MPAA (often viewed as an alliance of corporate heavyweights). CreativeFuture’s backers now include Killer Films, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, and talent reps such as Creative Artists Agency and William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.
“Now the question becomes what to do with that support,” says NYT. “For the moment, Ms. Vitale said she hoped to extend voluntary arrangements with payment processors, ad agencies and others. To date, the most prominent of these agreements is the Copyright Alert System, under which several Internet service providers last year agreed to send an escalating series of notices to suspected copyright infringers, imposing restrictions on service after six ‘strikes.'”
In addition, Vitale hopes that children raised with legitimate streaming services from Netflix and Hulu can be persuaded to think differently than today’s millennials, and that alliances with educational nonprofits could help enforce the idea that stealing someone’s work online is similar to stealing from a classmate’s desk.
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Computational and quantitative methods in historical linguistics
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Michael Cysouw
Hagen Jung
Lexical material ("words") is one important source of information to establish genealogical relations between languages. We investigated quantitative methods to assist linguists in this kind of historical-comparative research.
The comparison of words (i.e. strings of characters) is strongly reminiscent of the comparison of strings of DNA. The major difference is that the strings of DNA are normally much longer than words in human language. This means that in principle there is more information in the DNA-strings to properly assess their similarities. In contrast, each character of a linguistic word is much more informative than the 'letters' of DNA. In DNA there are only four letters (A, C, G, T), while a human language has between 15 and about 100 different letters (phonemes). This means that each individual character in strings of human language carries more information than the 'letters' of DNA.
We expected that these different kinds of data are roughly equally informative, and consequently we were adapting approaches from DNA comparison for the comparison of words in human language. As for the data, we were using the various wordlists that were collected in our department to investigate and test different kinds of quantitative methods of lexical comparison.
Selected recent publications produced within this project
Cysouw, Michael & Hagen Jung. 2007. Cognate identification and alignment using practical orthographies. Proceedings of Ninth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology, 109-116.
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Prep students, music teacher perform at ADL 'Show of Unity' event
Ronald DeRosa
For a second year in a row, Fairfield Prep musicians had a strong presence at the Anti-Defamation League's "VOICES: A Show of Unity" event at the Klein Memorial Auditorium.
On Saturday, Nov. 9, students from Fairfield Prep's music program joined several area choirs as the opening act at the VOICES event, which is a fundraising benefit and community gathering designed to bring people together and foster dialogue.
The combined VOICES choir (listed below) was conducted by Prep Music Teacher Mr. Dan Horstmann.
"The theme for the evening bringing people together to celebrate unity and diversity," Mr. Horstmann said. "And what better way to do that through the universal language of song and music."
The VOICES choir permed two songs: "This Little Light of Mine" and "This Is Me," from the 2018 film The Greatest Showman.
Paul Shaffer, famed musician and musical director of the Late Show with David Letterman, hosted the evening and Trombone Shorty was the headliner.
The night was hosted by Paul Shaffer, and the headliner was Trombone Shorty.
VOICES Choir
Gospel Soloist — Marcia Fountain
Choir Participants — Fairfield Prep Select Choir, Pivot Ministries Choir, Bridgeport Public Schools, Westport Public Schools, Neighborhood Studios, Singers from local churches and synagogues.
Pianist — Joe Barbieri (Fairfield U. music student)
Drummer — Paul Scalese (Fairfield U. music student)
View a photo gallery of the event
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Catherine Rampell: Keystone Cops capture U.S. economy
The Keystone Cops are officially in charge of our economy.
Markets have been plunging, with the S&P 500 down 20 percent from its September peak. A lot of factors have driven the correction, including President Trump's trade wars, his government shutdown and a surprise court ruling declaring Obamacare unconstitutional.
Trump needs a villain, though, and that villain can't be Trump. Why, according to the president, markets love Trump!
So instead, he declared the villain to be Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell, a man Trump personally chose for the job a year ago.
As Trump and his surrogates love to remind us, most major economic measures — unemployment, gross domestic product, consumer spending — still look strong. Under such circumstances, it's unsurprising that Powell has continued the gradual interest rate increases begun three years ago under his predecessor, Janet L. Yellen.
Nonetheless, Trump has said the Fed should stop its rate hikes because the economy is apparently too fragile to withstand them. Instead of abiding by tradition and never talking about monetary policy, the president has gone public with his fury with the Fed.
Then, over the weekend, things got exponentially worse: News broke that Trump was thinking about firing Powell.
Whether Trump has the legal authority to do so remains ambiguous. Unambiguous, though, is how economically cataclysmic even such an attempt would be.
There are good reasons we want central banks to remain politically independent. As Argentina, Venezuela, Turkey and other hyperinflationary economies have shown us, putting the printing press in the hands of politicians is a recipe for disaster.
Politicians always have an incentive to crank out a little more money today, which juices growth in the short term but jeopardizes price stability in the long run.
Over the decades, the Federal Reserve has cultivated a hard-won, well-deserved reputation for political independence — and with it, a credible commitment to stable prices. The entire worldwide financial system depends on that independence.
With one fell swoop, Trump could destroy it, and set off a global panic.
None of that has stopped some of Trump's economic advisers, such as Heritage Foundation fellow Stephen Moore, from encouraging Trump to fire Powell, plus everyone else at the Fed, too. That's ultimately what would be necessary for Trump to get the looser money he wants: He appointed four of five sitting Fed board governors, and last week they all voted unanimously for a rate hike.
Fortunately, some Trump officials know how disastrous such developments could be. Unfortunately, those officials also appear to be incompetent.
First, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin tweeted a quote purportedly from Trump himself, declaring that "I never suggested firing Chairman Jay Powell, nor do I believe I have the right to do so."
Call me crazy, but Trump seems to know his way around Twitter. If that's really what he believes, he certainly has the means to deliver the message himself. The fact that he didn't was less than reassuring. (In fact, Trump continued cyber-bullying the Fed on Monday, further spooking markets.)
Then Mnuchin decided to make things worse.
On Sunday, he released a seemingly panicked statement urging the public not to panic. From his Mexican golf vacation, Mnuchin had called heads of our biggest banks and then told the world that these banks had enough liquidity to continue lending. He also announced an emergency Christmas Eve convening of the "Plunge Protection Team," which includes heads of the Fed, Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
I cannot sufficiently stress how amateurish it was for Mnuchin to make this announcement.
If markets were worried about anything, it was Trump's scheme to fire Powell, not bank liquidity — until Mnuchin suggested they should be worried about bank liquidity. The whole episode was like going to your doctor for a heart attack and being told not to worry because he knows how to treat brain cancer.
Maybe Mnuchin was trying to put on an ill-devised show of strength for his boss. Maybe he wanted to assure Wall Street that he had Trump under control, and needed a cover story for the calls. Maybe he was trying to draw from the playbook written during the 2008 financial crisis, not realizing that the conditions, the players and the threats are all quite different this time.
Other, more seasoned members of the Plunge Protection Team — including Powell — almost certainly would have warned Mnuchin that releasing such a statement would backfire. The fact that the statement came out at all suggests he either ignored or didn't seek their input, either of which is alarming.
In any case, if you've been wondering how this administration would handle a real financial crisis, we just had a dry run.
Two, sort of.
Neither went well.
Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post. She frequently covers economics, public policy, politics and culture, with a special emphasis on data-driven journalism. Before joining The Post, she wrote about economics and theater for the New York Times.
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Kathleen Parker: Kiss me, kiss me not
CAMDEN, S.C. — At a recent brunch here preceding the Carolina Cup steeplechase race, the host gave me a gift of hometown recognition and, though we are friends, extended his right hand as I approached him.
As the gathering looked on, I ignored his hand and gave him a warm hug, which he returned. It was a natural thing for me to do because I'm an incorrigible hugger and I love the guy. We were among friends, though many politicos were in attendance. Thus far, no one has objected.
Also recently, a high-ranking state official whom I've known for 30 years greeted me with a handshake in his office, where several staffers were gathered. I accepted the handshake, though a hug under other circumstances might have been more natural given our long history and our Southern culture of social huggers and kissers. But an embrace wasn't appropriate to the situation.
Two circumstances, two men, two very careful approaches. One was social, the other professional — and therein lies all the difference. But to be clear, it fell to me — the woman, in other words — to determine ultimately how the greetings would go.
And when in doubt, a handshake is always the better choice.
These personal anecdotes are prompted by Joe Biden's sudden dunking in the #MeToo vat of public humiliation following several women's allegations of past inappropriate touching. Lucy Flores, a former Nevada state assemblywoman, wrote last week in New York magazine's The Cut that, during a 2014 rally when she was running for lieutenant governor, Biden approached her from behind, placed his hands on her shoulders, smelled her hair and planted a "big slow kiss" on the back of her head. On Monday, former congressional aide Amy Lappos told The Hartford Courant that in 2009, Biden rubbed noses with her at a fundraiser. Despite his, shall we say, warm personality, no one, including those he has touched, is accusing Biden of anything approaching a crime.
Even #MeToo activist and actress Alyssa Milano tweeted in his defense. After paying the requisite respect for Flores' story — telling her truth, as it were — she paid homage to Biden's work on behalf of women. Notably, as senator he introduced the 1994 Violence Against Women Act.
In one of the dirty quirks of politics, some liberals apparently will tolerate repulsive — and, in some cases, potentially criminal — behavior by men as long as they check all the right boxes. So, too, some biblical conservatives will avert their gaze from a hush-money-paying, misogynist president with a history of philandering, just as long as the Supreme Court is properly packed. The Lord really does work in mysterious ways.
Until now, Biden has been able to employ his flirtatious charm to great effect, in part because he's a good guy whose policies seem to flow from a genuine concern for women. Also, to be precise, he reliably carries water for feminists. But, let the man consider running for president in #MeToo nation, and he's practically a predator. Republicans couldn't be happier, but it would be wrong to conflate Biden's "Eskimo kisses," as we used to call nose-rubbing, with Trump's recorded comments about sexually assaulting women.
I confess to a high tolerance for male attentions. Oh, those dreadful decades of flattery and doors held open. How ever did I survive? I'd clutch my pearls and swoon, but I'm writing in my pajamas and airplane socks. That said, as one of just two or three female reporters in my first newsroom, I also can muster long-suppressed rage regarding the many times I felt minimized or reduced to just-a-girl by patronizing male bosses, politicians and assorted others, whose "grandfatherly" gestures were simply rude, condescending and sexist. If you sometimes wonder why women are so angry: Those guys.
In politics, glad-handing, hugging, social kissing, and winking as occasions required have been time-honored and effective means of communication and communion, especially in the matriarchal South — the truer story that outsiders have never heard. But times change and habits die hard. Biden, at 76, is caught between two ages and will have to adapt if he wants to survive.
The sad irony is that Biden, considered by many to be the Democrat most capable of defeating Trump, could be taken down by his own party, thanks to the standard set by New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand in her take-down of former Senate colleague Al Franken. And Trump, who once bragged about force-kissing and grabbing women by their genitals, would get to pose as the better man.
All things considered, whom would you rather hug?
Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker's email address is kathleenparker@washpost.com.
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LeafNation
for the 08/09 season. Motivated by the bills vs steelers thread, it's probably a good idea to just have an NFL thread.
I am very excited for this season coming up. And with the season soon approaching, I would like to start out this thread by making a few bold predictions.. Here's my first one.
The Browns I believe overachieved last year.. While certain guys had their coming out party last season (Braylon Edwards as an example), I think the team takes a big step back this year.. Looking at their schedule, and they have a much more difficult schedule this year because of their improved record last season, I can't see better than 5-11 or 6-10 for Cleveland.
Look at this schedule-
Steelers X2 (Pittsburgh just owns them now)
Cowboys, Giants, Eagles, Redskins (NFC east, are you kidding me?)
Colts, Jaguars, Titans, Texans
Bills, Broncos
meshie
I'm going to the Bills-Jets game November 2... SOOO excited... will be my first NFL game.
Who do you think is the team to beat this year, LN? (From the bit I've seen in preseason, not my Colts. =/)
meshie said:
Just great, my 2 most hated teams. I hope they BOTH lose. LOL.
Your first NFL game huh? Make sure you get there early. NFL games are an "event" Get there 2 hours early and tailgate with the fans.. Barbecues are burning in the parking lot, people drinking beer, having a great time. People throwing the football around..
Great atmosphere.. Nothing like it in sports... BTW, you're not going to the Miami-Buffalo game in December @ the Skydome? It's the first regular season game ever in Canada.. THAT is going to be an event.. Glad that my Dolphins will be playing in the first ever reg season game in Canada.
Just a bit too early, hard to tell. I will give my predictions a couple days before the reguar season starts.. Still, with cuts, injuries happening all over the place ( The Rams just lost their starting center and guard, so LeCharles bentlley is going there with a shot knee etc).
And of course, the Giants losing a good DE in a season ending injury the other night, as just a couple examples.. Final cuts are coming Aug 30th, and some good players get cut and move on to other teams.. Some trade rumors are swirling.. For instance the stud WR out of Arizona, Anquan Boldin wants out of Arizona.. Miami and Dallas are rumored as interested. If Dallas gets him, WOW, they'd be my pick right off the bat.. Boldin is like a Michael Irvin in his prime. Same type of player.. I think Boldin is the fastest player to ever get 400 receptions (or something like that)..
So there are still moves teams will make.. But early on, in the AFC, I like the Chargers. Only question is if their coaching can hold up imo. The team itself though, is awesome, and they have good depth at key positions.
By the way mesh, I wouldn't worry about the preseason when it comes to the Colts.. When they won the super bowl, they were 1-3 in the preseason ( or was it 0-4?).
Now the Colts with the great Bill Polian running the show are the epitome of how to build a successful NFL franchise.. All 22 of their starters for their super bowl team spent their entire careers with the Colts.. They had some number of 45 of their starting 48 being drafted by the team.. That's very impressive.
The Steelers won the super bowl with 18 of their 22 starters drafted by the team. The Pats won a super bowl with 85% of their starters drafted by the team.
That's why I am very excited what Bill Parcells and Jeff Ireland the GM are doing in Miami.. They built that good team in Dallas. They know how to draft well. And we had a terrific draft this year.. Bodes well for the future.
Quick turnarounds happen often in the NFL.. When Bill Parcells took over the Jets, they were 1-15 the year before.. PArcells took them to 9-7 in his first year, and in his 2nd year took the Jets to 12-4 and into the AFC championship game..
In 2001 the Panthers were an abysmal 1-15 team.. They got Rodney Peete, a veteran QB to hold the fort, and a guy who knew the system (similar to what Miami did with Pennington for a ball control power offense).. A guy who the young players respected back there... Then what Carolina did was build from the lines on back..
Two years after that 1-15 season , Carolina made the super bowl in 2003 with a young QB ( Jake Dellhomme).. A similar QB style to the rookie Chad Henne in Miami, who is also similar in style to Matt Hasselback.. So those are just 2 examples of some teams that have made quick turnarounds in a couple of years. But you need the right guys in charge to make it happen.
Factinista
Let's go San Deigoooo. Gates and Hardwick are a little injured though, and Merriman might miss the entire year
Totally forgot about the Merriman thing. Remember reading it on footballsfuture... That will hurt, definitely. Not an easy player to replace..
mbow30
merriman is an enormous blow. he's almost as important as LT. of course, if rivers can bounce back from the knee surgery and also take a few steps forward (as a young QB coming off some big-game playoff experience should) they should still be alright. rivers has been good for them but not great. he has the potential to change that and he is going to have to this season with merriman out and gates hobbled.
as for the browns, i would agree that anderson overachieved last year; i don't know why they gave him that contract. but they have a pretty good wildcard in brady quinn so if things aren't going smoothly he can be inserted and is good enough to turn things around, even as a first year starter.
The Saints should be a force this season.
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During the playoffs last year Rivers finally started to show why everyone was blowing their load on him during his draft year, it was nice to finally see him shine.
But yeah, If Merriman is out that is going to really suck. Aside from the fact that he's one of the best defensive players in the game, he's fun as hell to watch. Typical luck for that team.
Gates and Hardwick should be ready to go sooner than later though.
And hopefully LT is still LT. Looked to me by the end of last year like he might have passed his best before date.
When I think of the Browns, it's not so much their offense. They have some impressive skill position players and a good line. Love their TE by the way,.. No matter who the QB is there, they are going to move the ball.
It just has to do with their defense,. Their defense is porous against the run.. And with that schedule, and teams who can run the ball on them with some very good offensive lines, and some stud backs on those teams ( such as The Jags with Fred Taylor and Maurice Jones-Drew, Dallas with Felix and Barber, The Eagles with Westbrook, The Steelers with Parker and Mendenhall , The Giants with Jacobs and Bradshaw, The Titans with White and Johnson, the Colts with everyone on offense etc), they will have a very difficult time stopping teams getting off the field and trying to give the ball back to that offense of theirs.
The Browns are one of the more overhyped teams this offseason......they seem to be everyone's pick to do big things (both ESPN and CNNSI have been drooling over them all offseason).....but from where I'm standing they seem poised to be one of the teams that has the biggest drop off.
Although everyone is looking mainly at my Jets acquisition of Brett Favre, I think they did some great things this offseason which will have larger impacts on their success than Favre will.........The addition of defensive lineman Kris Jenkins gives us our first real NT for our 3-4 defense, since the Mangini came on board........fully healthy he's one of the best 3 or 4 defensive tackles in the league, and should do incredible things to open things up for our linebacking crew.........which has a great core now, led in the middle by David Harris and Eric Barton.....and solid passrushers on the outside with Calvin Pace (another offseason addition) and the combo of Bryan Thomas and Vernon Gholston (who'll get eased into the lineup mainly on passing downs)
With all that pressure coming from up front.......it should also lead to our star DB's Darrelle Revis and Kerry Rhodes getting more int's off of QB's forced mistakes.
Also on offense we added LG Alan Faneca (perenial pro-bowler), RT Damien Woody and FB Tony Richardson all of which should help out our running game significantly and give Favre plenty of time, to do some damage.
(For the Fantasy guys in the crowd, Thomas Jones is going to put up fantastic numbers behind this reconfigured O-line, which already had 2 studs in Nick Mangold and D'Brickshaw Ferguson)......
All of this.....plus the addition of Brett Favre, should position the Jets to be a legitimate sleeper in the AFC this year..........a 10-6 or 11-5 season isn't out of the question at all.
This is for axlsalinger and the other dolphins fans on this board.. I found a nice little 8 minute highlight video of the game saturday night (link below)..
And this is why I love this new young offensive line.. Take a look at about 52 seconds into the video, take a look at the toss sweep to the left with Ricky Williams... Look at the right guard #66 Donald Thomas on that play.. Look at him chip the DE first, then look at him go to the 2nd level and just toss the Linebacker to the ground like a flea.. Then look at him go downfield following the play and shove another D-lineman at the end of the run... He also screams and yells at the d-lineman shaking his head after the play is over for good measure.. Now THAT's some SERIOUS attitude from your O-line....You can't miss it here starting at 52 seconds in-
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=10ok2sl&s=4
Also take a look at 2 minutes in, it's a solo closeup shot of Donald Thomas pulling creating holes.. The announcers even mention this guy's extraordinary POWER !! VERY IMPRESSIVE rookie ! He was a STEAL in the 6th round this year. A TOTAL steal.. Some veterans on our D-line have mentioned after practice that Donald Thomas has the strongest punch they have ever seen.. He also ran the 2nd fastest 40 at the NFL combine for lineman.. And he had the fastest 10 yard split of any lineman drafted at 1.72. I see BIG things for him and this nice young O-line Miami has built.. It ALL STARTS up front.. And we have some very talented guys up front with an attitude and mean streak ( something I haven't seen in many years).. Perfect place for a rebuilding team to start from.
Long-Smiley-Satele-Thomas-Carey = Finally a real O-line in Miami that we can be proud of. Thank you Bill Parcells.
ps-- By the way, Leafman101, you mentioned in the other thread that you didn't see Pennington throw a pass outside the hashmarks, well watch at 3 minutes into that video above, pass to Ginn near the sideline.. And oh yeah, the perfect nice long TD pass to Peelle (about 5 minutes in) that was called back because he bobbled the ball
Williams has looked fantastic behind that O-Line this pre-season.......him and/or Brown are gonna studs for the Phins this season.
Montana said:
I am a big Ricky fan.. The guy, if he played every season, could have potentially been the best running back in history.. He has no weaknesses.. Tremendous vision, unbelieveable power, great speed, a tremendous "feel" for the game and finding the open holes. Great speed to the outside and his ability to sucker in safeties is unbelievable.. Very explosive, a great ability to make something out of nothing, and has a good ability of catching the ball out of the backfield. Really, he has no weaknesses.
The good thing about him now is he is in the best shape of his life, he has been at the Dolphin complex all summer really dedicated and training like a mad man... He is really a young 31 when you consider he has only had 6 snaps in the NFL since 2005.. His body hasn't taken the beating of most players his age as he took a few years off.
When you're bored, take a look at his 2002 season when he won the NFL rushing title. .I watched it all last night, and it gave me goosebumps in regards to the upcoming season.. He's Very impressive. It's a treasure seeing this guy run the ball.
Ricky Williams' 2002 NFL season
Part1- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jc68d2vEXM
Part2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHeR7TWdW-Y
Part3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4wpP1llLfc
Part4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2msR7SLqR2M
Part5- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtNxj3o6Y0w
Kritter
LeafNation said:
I am a big Ricky fan.. The guy, if he played every season, could have easily been the best running back in history..
:smilielol5:
What happened with the Argo's? He was terrible for them.
Kritter said:
Okay, you're right.. Maybe not "easily". I definitely agree there.. Let me replace that word with "Potentially".. Edited accordingly.
JaysCyYoung
I think Jim Brown, Barry Sanders, Emmit Smith and LaDainian Tomlinson would have something to say to that Ricky Williams comment.
Okay, you're right.. Maybe not "easily". I definitely agree there.. Let me replace that word with "Potentially".. Edited acccordingly.
He potentially could have been a great back , not potentially the best ever.
I was a huge fan in college. That trade that was made for him by Ditka was insane and probably part of his problems, expectations were too high (no pun intended,lol)
JaysCyYoung said:
Not to mention Erik Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Tony Dorsett, Walter Payton, Marcus Allen, OJ, Marshall Faulk , etc etc
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HPD: Baby girl found safe after truck stolen with her inside
Houston police say a 10-month-old girl has been found safe after a pickup truck was stolen while she was inside.
HOUSTON - Houston police say a 10-month-old girl has been found safe after a pickup truck was stolen while she was inside.
According to the Houston Police Department, the truck was stolen from a gas station near Homestead and Bennington in northeast Houston around 9:35 a.m. Friday.
Video from the gas station shows a woman walk away from the truck at a gas pump and into the store. A man is then seen getting out of an SUV and getting into the truck. The woman runs out of the store and chases after the truck.
RAW: Man steals truck with child inside at Houston gas station
Houston police say a 10-month-old girl was inside a truck when a man stole the truck at a Houston gas station. The entire incident was caught on camera!
The truck was left near Elbert and Finch, and the baby was found safe inside.
Police continue to search for the suspect. He is described as a skinny Hispanic male with a beard, wearing a blue hoodie and dark blue pants.
Police are also looking for a second suspect that is described as a 5'11", 220-pound black male driving a dark Toyota RAV4.
A 10-month-old girl was found safe after a pickup truck was stolen from a Houston gas station while she was inside. (FOX 26 Houston)
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Obama turns focus on Pa., hopes to boost Democrats
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Barack Obama turned his political attention Friday to Pennsylvania - a state Donald Trump won in 2016.
The former president campaigned in Philadelphia with two leading Democrats running for re-election, Gov. Tom Wolf and U.S. Sen. Bob Casey.
At a campaign rally at the Dell Music Center in Philadelphia, Obama implored Pennsylvanians to vote in November because the election was more consequential than any he could remember.
"This time, it really is different. This time, the stakes really are higher," Obama said. "The consequences of any of us sitting on the sidelines are far more dangerous."
During the speech Obama made no mention of his successor in the White House by name, but urged voters of all parties - not just Democrats - to vote to restore honesty, decency and lawfulness to government.
In the Nov. 6 contests, Democrats are trying to oust Republicans in four U.S. House districts and more than a dozen state legislative seats in the Philadelphia area alone. Obama twice carried Pennsylvania in his presidential races, and Democrats hope the state can help them retake control of Congress from the GOP.
Casey's Republican opponent, Rep. Lou Barletta, told The Associated Press that Obama's visit will stir up GOP voters in an election year when their party faces an uphill battle to retain its Capitol Hill majorities. Obama will "energize those blue-collar Democrats who worried about their jobs under Obama and went out to vote for Donald Trump," Barletta said.
"On President Obama's watch, we had our slowest economic recovery since World War II and Democrats lost more than 1,000 seats," said Michael Ahrens, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee. "If he wants to help energize Republicans this election too, we're happy to have him."
Democrats in other states where Obama has campaigned recently say his stops have drawn big crowds, giving the party a chance to organize, update voter contact lists, motivate new donors and boost volunteerism. Obama planned a fundraiser after the Philadelphia rally.
Obama's trip is the latest in a string of appearances before the midterm elections. While his full schedule is taking shape, aides said he is considering how best to help candidates throughout the country.
Obama has endorsed more than 80 Democrats in more than a dozen states. A second round of endorsements is expected this fall.
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Relaxed gun laws take effect in Texas hours after Odessa shooting
By Elizabeth Evans and FOX 7 Austin
AUSTIN, Texas (FOX 7 Austin) - Almost a dozen new firearm laws went into effect in Texas on Sunday, just hours after a shooting that killed seven people and injured more than 20 in Odessa.
The laws loosen gun restrictions across the state. Texas has had four of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in recent history, including last month in El Paso when a gunman opened fire inside a Walmart, killing 22 and injuring dozens.
Three other mass shootings have taken place in Texas. Twenty-five people and an unborn child were killed when a gunman fired inside the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs in 2017. A gunman drove his truck through the wall of a Luby's cafeteria in Killeen in 1991 and shot and killed 23 people before taking his own life. A former U.S. Marine killed sixteen, injuring at least 30, shooting from the tower at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966.
The new gun measures were passed during the most recent legislative session which ended in June. The new laws include:
SB 535 allows licensed handgun owners to legally carry their weapons in places of worship, such as churches, synagogues or other places. The law comes nearly two years after Sutherland Springs.
HB 302 prevents homeowners or landlords from banning residents from lawfully possessing, carrying, or storing firearms or ammunition on rental property.
HB 1143 prevents school districts from prohibited licensed gun owners, including district employees, from storing a gun or ammunition in a locked car in the parking lot, provided neither are in plain view.
HB 2363 updates specifications on how foster parents can store their firearms in a foster home, including putting firearms and ammunition together in the same locked locations.
SB 741 prevents homeowners/property owners associations from regulating gun ownership and prohibits restrictions on lawful discharge of a firearm.
HB 1791 prevents ordinances that keep licensed gun owners from entering government buildings with handguns.
Hurricane Harvey prompted HB 1177, which prohibits Texans from being charged with a crime for carrying a handgun while evacuating from a state or local disaster area during times of natural disasters.
Licensed gun owners are also protected from trespassing charges by HB 121 if they immediately leave areas where guns are prohibited.
With HB 1387, the cap on the number of armed school marshals was lifted.
The new self-protection laws that are coming are not limited to guns. On Sunday, it became legal in Texas to carry brass knuckles, clubs and pointed keychains.
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El Oriente, Cuba
Things to Do in El Oriente, Cuba
Prior to the 1959 Revolution, the eastern half of Cuba was a single province, straightforwardly called El Oriente, or the East. Most Cubans still refer to everything east of Camagüey -- a region much more scenically and historically interesting than most of central Cuba -- as El Oriente, even though it is now composed of the distinct provinces of Holguín, Granma, Santiago de Cuba, and Guantánamo. The region is less known and visited than the western half of Cuba, but every bit as rewarding for travelers (and perhaps more so). The farther east you go, the more emphatically Caribbean it feels. The region's remarkable landscapes include the north coast's exuberant banana and coconut groves, stunning aquamarine seas off Guardalavaca, densely wooded peaks of the Sierra Maestra, and tropical rainforest on the east coast.
The wars of independence began in El Oriente in the 1860s, and nearly a century later, Castro concentrated his power base in the inaccessible Sierra Maestra. Quiet but dignified Bayamo, which played a pivotal role in Cuba's revolutionary struggles, is the capital of Granma province. The gorgeous beaches and warm seas of Guardalavaca, part of Holguín province, make it the fastest-growing resort area in Cuba, while tiny, remote Baracoa, where Columbus first dropped anchor at the extreme northeastern edge of Guantánamo, is one of the most beautiful, rugged spots on the island. The former capital city of the Spanish colony, Santiago de Cuba, is not only known as a vibrant musical center, but also as the cradle of the Revolution; see chapter 11 for full coverage of Cuba's "Second City."
The eastern end of Cuba was especially hard hit from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in September 2008. More than 100,000 people were evacuated from Guantánamo province, including the popular tourist spot of Baracoa. In Holguín, the main areas affected were Banes and Gibara, and repairs to those damaged towns are still ongoing.
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By AKC Government Relations
The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that proposed Amendment 13 to the Florida Constitution can appear on the ballot on November 6, 2018. This amendment seeks to ban Greyhound racing in the state effective December 31, 2020. Please scroll down to view the text of the pr...
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When the current State Constitution was adopted the only gambling that was approved by the citizens of Florida were pari-mutuels — dog tracks, horse tracks and jai alai — all that had been operating in our stat...
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Mother, son sue eatery for Thanksgiving dinner food poisoning
By News Desk on January 6, 2017
A mother and her son who were among the 260 people sickened by bacteria-contaminated food served by the Golden Ponds Restaurant & Party House are suing for their injuries and damages.
Attorneys Paul V. Nunes of Rochester, NY, and Bill Marler of Seattle filed the lawsuit on behalf of plaintiffs Natalie Woods and her son Connor Wynn against the Rochester restaurant at 500 Long Pond Road.
Officials from the Monroe County Department of Public Health closed down the Golden Ponds after more than a fourth of its Thanksgiving Day guests became ill. An inspection revealed a walk-in refrigerator with food spills and mold, a damaged gasket preventing the door from closing, and mildew growing inside.
Health inspectors found a “very poor sanitary condition” and called for corrections to be made immediately. Later, on Dec. 5, inspectors returned and found tripe, sausage, potatoes, meatballs, Italian sausage, and Pollish sausage all stored outside the walk-in refrigerator.
Following several weeks of investigation, Monroe County officials found the bacteria Clostridium Perfringens served by Golden Pond was indeed responsible for the outbreak.
Marler, a nationally known food safety attorney, told reporters Clostridium Perfringens was the likely cause of illnesses as soon as the first diners were sickened in the hours after eating Thanksgiving dinner.
Woods and Wynn both had Thanksgiving dinner at the restaurant, and suffered from stomach pain, cramping, and diarrhea by about 1 a.m. the next day. The plaintiffs are seeking damages based on strict liability, negligence and negligence per se.
They said Golden Ponds “owed a duty” to comply with statutory and regulatory provisions that pertained to their product, which was adulterated.
Monroe County health officials cleared Golden Ponds to reopen in late December. At that time owner Ralph Rinaudo told the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle newspaper he had upgraded the restaurant’s kitchen, cleaned the restaurant and retrained staff in proper food-handling procedures.
John Ricci, a spokesman for the Monroe County Health Department, told the newspaper that Golden Ponds had been reinspected and found to have had a “huge turnaround.”
Editor’s Note: Bill Marler is publisher of Food Safety News.
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It's Time Philip Morris Bears Believed in Its Smoke-Free Future
The tobacco giant continues to prove it's serious about kicking the habit.
Rich Duprey
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Feb 21, 2018 at 2:19PM
Rich has been a Fool since 1998 and writing for the site since 2004. After 20 years of patrolling the mean streets of suburbia, he hung up his badge and gun to take up a pen full time. Having made the streets safe for Truth, Justice, and Krispy Kreme donuts, he now patrols the markets looking for companies he can lock up as long-term holdings in a portfolio. His coverage reflects his passion for motorcycles, booze, and guns (though typically not all exercised at the same time), but his writing also covers the broader sectors of consumer goods, technology, and industrials. So follow along as he tries to break down complex topics to make them more understandable and useful to the average investor.
Philip Morris International (NYSE:PM) is telling anyone who will listen that it really believes the future is smoke-free. The leading global cigarette manufacturer has invested billions of dollars in research and development on what it claims are reduced-risk products, such as its iQOS heat-not-burn electronic cigarettes. It's also created a foundation to promote alternatives to traditional cigarettes, pledging to contribute $1 billion to its efforts, and taken out full-page ads in newspapers declaring it wants to kick the cigarette habit itself.
Yet Philip Morris critics persist in being skeptical of its claims, including 10 U.S. senators who want the FDA to deny the company's application to sell the iQOS with a reduced-risk label. But maybe after the tobacco giant's fourth-quarter earnings results, the bears who disbelieve Philip Morris' claims of wanting to leave its cigarette past behind will come around to its way of thinking.
The tobacco leader reported its 2017 earnings earlier this month, which missed analyst expectations. Revenues for the year came in at $78.1 billion, up 4.2%, though after excluding excise taxes, they were just $28.7 billion, a 7.7% increase. Net profits, however, were $694 million for the quarter, down 60% from $1.7 billion in the year-ago quarter, or $1.31 per share on an adjusted basis. That was below analyst consensus forecasts of $1.35 per share.
While total shipments were down 2.7% from 2016, that was solely because cigarette shipments were down nearly 7%. Shipments of heated tobacco (which includes Philip Morris' iQOS device) surged nearly 400% year over year. Including all geographies, shipments of heated tobacco units hit 36.2 billion, up from almost 7.4 billion a year ago.
In the fourth quarter, Philip Morris shipped more than 15 billion iQOS devices -- meaning it shipped more next-gen cigarettes than it did long-established brands such as Chesterfield, Parliament, and its own Philip Morris cigarettes. In fact, only Marlboro and L&M brands shipped more.
Although that's still a fraction of the 762 billion cigarette shipments for the tobacco leader, it's clear Philip Morris is ramping up its smokeless alternatives, and sooner rather than later they will reach parity.
Image source: Philip Morris International.
Already a leader
The iQOS is already Philip Morris' dominant device in Japan. For all of 2017, traditional cigarettes still eke out a lead over the heated-tobacco device, but in the fourth quarter, following a nationwide rollout of the iQOS, the heat-not-burn e-cig saw 13.1 billion units shipped for the period, compared to only 7.7 billion combustible cigarettes. Even though the Marlboro brand ended the year with an 8% share of the total market -- making it still the leading combustible-cigarette brand in Japan -- the iQOS HeatSticks had surged to a 13.1% share of the market. The heat-not-burn device is now Philip Morris' leading brand of all cigarette products.
The acceptance and proliferation of the iQOS has forced rival Japan Tobacco (OTC:JAPAF) to announce it will release its own heat-not-burn cigarette later this year in a bid to stop Philip Morris from running over the market like a steamroller. It is promising to spend nearly $1 billion over the next few years on additional R&D of reduced-risk products.
You can see similar growth of the iQOS in other markets where Philip Morris has introduced the device, though they're not as pervasive as they are in Japan, which was the first country in which the product was released:
Heated Tobacco Shipments (Units, in Millions)
Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa
Latin America & Canada
Data source: Philip Morris International SEC filing. Table by author. NM = not meaningful.
Kicking the habit
Philip Morris is increasingly proving its commitment to move away from combustible cigarettes and toward reduced-risk products. Other markets are openly embracing these devices as a safer alternative to smoking, even if they're not the healthiest solution (even Philip Morris now publicly states that the best solution is for smokers to not smoke anything).
It remains to be seen if the FDA allows Philip Morris International's marketing application for the iQOS, and though there is room for debate on whether it should garner a reduced-risk label, a number of other public agencies around the world have adopted these devices as a healthier alternative for smokers than if they continued smoking.
The bears had better start believing that Philip Morris is truly heralding a smoke-free future.
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IWD19: Tough Women In Sport And Adventure by Nyla Sammons
Nyla Sammons’ photography series ‘Tough Women In Sport And Adventure’ is everything goals. As part of our #ForaHer event series in celebration of International Women’s Day 2019, Fora welcomed Nyla and her Tough Women for an inspiring discussion. Here, Nyla tells us about the inspiration behind the project…
What was the inspiration behind the Tough Women portrait series?
An incredible woman called Kiko Mathews, who I photographed in 2017. She was attempting to break the world record in becoming the fastest person to row the Atlantic solo and raise £100,000 for Kings College Hospital, as a huge thank you for saving her life in 2009. I took some press photos for her and we stayed in touch after that day and became friends and I followed her journey. In March 2018, after 49 days at sea she broke the world record and became the fastest women to row the Atlantic solo. I was incredibly proud and inspired by Kiko, and this sparked the idea of creating a portrait series of Tough Women in Sport and Adventure, where I was fortunate enough to get to know some incredible badass women and photograph them.
Kiko Matthews, by Nyla Sammons
What did you want to capture?
I photographed each woman twice. First in my studio space, where I wanted to really capture their strength and ferocity. I really wanted to show that these women are fierce, they push boundaries and don’t let society dictate what they should do.
The second photo of each woman was taken on location. I choose the locations based on what resonated with them. This helped to better tell their story.
Laura Hoggins, by Nyla Sammons
Do you have a favourite image?
That’s like asking a mother who her favourite child is. I love them all, each photo brings something special and unique to the project and that’s because of the women themselves.
Having worked with the Tough Women, what would be your advice to other women out there looking to get involved in sport and adventure?
This whole project was to celebrate the achievements of these women, but yes it was also to inspire people to go out there and adventure, get motivated and work towards their goals. I would say just get up and go, you will be amazed at how you feel when you get out of your comfort zone. Inspired by these Tough Women, in February, I went on a three-day hike with a friend along the South East costal path where I got to see some of the most beautiful views from climbing up steep hills. I learnt a lot about myself during that trip and its now the beginning of me going out there and adventuring.
Pip Stewart, by Nyla Sammons
Tough Women in Sport and Adventure Photography Exhibition Open daily | Free Entry Crossrail Place Roof Garden Canary Wharf London E14 5AB You can see the full Tough Women series online here. Nyla is London-based photographer, specialising in portraits of people, editorial and cover event photography. Nyla loves travelling and you can usually find her exploring London, finding hidden treasures, sipping on cocktails and discovering the latest hip eatery. You can contact Nyla here.
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Daily Poll: Will Form Alter Function With Books?
Maybe you’re sick of talking Kindle. If so, stay away from the Atlantic’s Web site, where two writers are currently going head to head on whether the literary device signals the death of reading as we know it or is just a natural adaptation in the evolutionary process.
On one side of the argument you’ve got Sven Birkerts, an essayist who’s resisting the siren call of the Kindle: “For me the significance of this is not whether people end up reading more or less, or even a matter of what they read. At issue is the deep-structure of the activity. My fear is that as Wikipedia is to information, so will the Kindle become to literature and the humanities: a one-stop outlet, a speedy and irresistibly efficient leveler of context.”
And on the other, the aptly named Matthew Battles, a librarian who thinks that the Kindle will promote cultural understanding, not kill it off. “Technologies shift — and with those shifts come changes in our consciousness,” he explains. “We read differently now than did the contemporaries of Johannes Gutenberg or Jane Austen. By the nineteenth century, books were no longer individually crafted works of art, but products of industry — no longer richly bound and ornately hand-decorated, but serviceably assembled using interchangeable parts. Yet despite these far-reaching shifts, the sequences of words themselves have been handed down more or less intact from age to age.”
What we’re wondering is:
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Divided FERC Approves PJM’s Capacity Performance Proposal
In an order issued late in the evening of June 9, 2015, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) largely approved PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.’s (“PJM”) December 12, 2014 Capacity Performance Proposal (“CPP”) to restructure its capacity market, the Reliability Pricing Model (“RPM”), over the dissent of FERC Chairman Norman Bay.[1] PJM’s CPP was proposed in response to widespread generator outages in the January 2014 “Polar Vortex” and concerns that retirements of oil- and coal-fired generation and increasing reliance on natural-gas-fired generation might further reduce reliability in the future.[2] FERC approved the CPP effective April 1, 2015, as requested by PJM, and in time for PJM to apply the new rules in its next Base Residual Auction (“BRA”) for the 2018/2019 Deliver Year. PJM will phase in these reforms over a three-year period, with full implementation in the 2020/2021 Delivery Year.
The central elements of the CPP are a new capacity product–the Capacity Performance Resource–and the adoption of an essentially “no excuses” performance requirement for generators and other Capacity Performance Resources to provide energy (or reduce load) during extreme weather events and other emergencies. Rather than adopting a “prescriptive” set of objective eligibility requirements (e.g., requiring generators to obtain firm gas supplies or weatherization requirements), PJM would largely enforce the heightened standards with the “stick” of large financial penalties for non-performance and the “carrot” of higher auction clearing prices designed to incentivize improved performance by existing resources and the construction of new, reliable generation to meet both load growth and replace retiring resources, supplemented by additional bonus payments to all resources that exceed their performance obligations during emergency periods.
Apart from improving reliability, PJM’s Capacity Performance reforms will likely have a number of significant market impacts. The CPP will likely increase capacity prices and revenues (by PJM’s estimates up to $4 billion per year). In addition, the likely increases in clearing prices for the BRA will improve the economics of nuclear generators, while the Non-Performance Charge may encourage the retirement of resources that cannot meet the new standards. The CPP may also incentivize intermittent renewable resources wishing to participate in the capacity market to pair their offers with storage and/or fossil-fueled generators in order to ensure that such renewable generators are able to fulfill their capacity obligations in emergency situations even when their fuel resource (e.g., wind or solar) is unavailable. In addition, the CPP’s encouragement of investments in existing resources and the development of new dispatchable and reliable generating resources will likely also spur investment in natural gas pipelines and related infrastructure.
Chairman Bay’s Dissent
FERC Chairman Norman Bay issued a dissent to FERC’s order based on his belief that the CPP “has a serious design flaw that undercuts the very aim that it seeks to achieve” and his concern that this flaw “may result in billions of additional costs for consumers without achieving its intended aim of [improving reliability].”[3] According to Chairman Bay, PJM’s existing capacity market rules are working “tolerably well” and concerns regarding generator performance can be addressed by inexpensive fixes such as better preparation, winterization, or gas-electric coordination.
Chairman Bay claims that the CPP’s “incentive structure creates an opportunity for resources to profit from non-performance” due, in his view, to PJM’s overly generous estimate that there will be 30 Performance Assessment Hours in each year, rather than the most recent three-year historical average of 14 hours per year (or six hours per year if the 2014 Polar Vortex is excluded).[4] Using this historical average, Mr. Bay calculated that a supplier that never performed during these Performance Assessment Hours could still theoretically receive positive capacity payments if the clearing price were to be higher than the Non-Performance Penalties.
We agree with Chairman Bay that the risk of the Non-Performance Penalty should begin to change bidding behavior, thus raising PJM’s capacity clearing prices in the future. And, while Chairman Bay’s proposed set of circumstances could potentially occur under the CPP structure, his assumptions assume that market participants will drastically change their bidding behavior such that BRA auction clearing prices will be substantially higher than what has historically occurred.
The results of the 2018/2019 BRA later this August will be telling as to whether Chairman Bay’s concerns have merit, and the June 9 Order does protect against such outcomes by requiring “PJM submit informational filings with FERC after the conclusion of each of the first five delivery years under PJM’s proposal . . . to evaluate the impact of this 30 hour assumption on resource performance during Performance Assessment Hours. . . .”[5]
Chairman Bay also questioned whether the CPP’s costs were roughly commensurate with its benefits, characterizing it as a fix to “a several hundred million dollar uplift problem in the energy market with a multi-billion dollar redesign of the capacity market,” citing previous PJM estimates that CPP would run from $1.4 to $4.0 billion per year.[6] Mr. Bay concluded that, “given the potential multi-billion dollar cost of the CPP and the burden consumers will be asked to bear, any analysis, no matter how rudimentary, would have been helpful before concluding this proposal is just and reasonable.”[7]
Most tellingly, however, is Chairman Bay’s last two sentences, where he explains his disagreement with the CPP. Chairman Bay rightly observes that “[t]he reality is that once a market construct is accepted and implemented, it is very difficult to unwind” and that one of the biggest disappointments he sees with the CPP is “the opportunity cost of the time and resources that could have been used to develop a more sustainable, efficient, and cost-effective design.”[8] What Chairman Bay seems to be implying is that the piecemeal fixes of the CPP are not enough, and a more holistic and comprehensive reform of these markets is needed.
What PJM’s Capacity Performance Reforms Mean Going Forward
PJM’s Capacity Performance reforms are anticipated to have profound effects on the economics and supply of capacity in PJM going forward.
The new Capacity Performance standards are expected to immediately result in higher BRA clearing prices in the upcoming 2018/2019 Delivery Year BRA, thus increasing capacity payments for generators that meet the Capacity Performance standards. The magnitude of the revenue increase will not be known until the next BRA is run in August. Likewise, it may take some time for the amount of offsetting benefits in the form of increased reliability and lower energy market prices to be fully known.
One significant variable in the equation is the standard for qualifying as a Capacity Performance Resource. As it often does, PJM has left the standard flexible, and it has resisted attempts to provide objective qualification standards. Because the standard is flexible, the costs for generators to meet the new standard are not entirely clear and will largely depend on how PJM interprets and applies its standard. Like other flexible tariff standards, the specific requirements will likely evolve as PJM and capacity suppliers gain experience with the new construct. However, that same flexibility could allow PJM to determine how much and what types of resources qualify as a Capacity Performance Resource, which could affect capacity market prices. A stricter interpretation of the Capacity Performance Resource standard may reduce supply and increase prices, while a more loose interpretation could increase supply and decrease prices.
One significant winner from the CPP is expected to be nuclear power, which has on-site fuel and runs around-the-clock (except, of course, during refueling, maintenance, and relatively rare, unplanned outages). Nuclear power plants thus will likely all qualify as Capacity Performance Resources and receive higher capacity revenues and Bonus Performance Payments without needing to make any incremental investments. Similarly, baseload coal generators that can economically winterize their fuel delivery systems should also benefit from the CPP reforms (assuming they continue to operate in the future, given the potential compliance obligations under EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan).
The need to firm up natural gas fuel supplies to meet the CPP standards, and avoid steep Non-Performance Charges, should also spur investments in natural gas pipeline and storage infrastructure to provide firm gas supplies to natural-gas-fired generation. It may also spur further production of shale gas in and around the PJM footprint as a way to increase the likelihood of delivery to generating facilities in the region.
The new CPP requirements also provide significant new opportunities for intermittent renewable resources like wind and solar to capitalize on capacity payments and, especially, Bonus Performance Payments, by allowing renewable generation owners to pool their resources together, which will provide a hedge against failure to perform. And if intermittent resources perform above their expected output, such as occurred during the 2014 Polar Vortex when many wind facilities over-performed, these resources now stand to capture significant bonus payments. Moreover, the new aggregation option allows renewable resource owners to aggregate with other renewable resource types (e.g., wind and solar) in different locations, as well as with energy storage resources or fossil-fuel generators, as a way to further hedge risk. These changes should increase system reliability and the economics of renewable resources.
Generators that are not able to economically upgrade to meet the Capacity Performance Resource standards will ultimately be forced out of the PJM capacity market by the 2020/2021 Delivery Year. Such resources will no longer be able to earn capacity revenues from PJM. The resulting economic impact may force some generation into early retirement (at least to the extent that they depend on capacity revenues), or they may look to sell into nearby markets that do not have such stringent performance requirements.
Another likely result of the CPP changes is additional disputes, complaints, and litigation. PJM’s decision not to adopt “prescriptive” or objective eligibility requirements (e.g., requiring generators to obtain firm fuel supplies), gives PJM a great deal of discretion in applying its standards. In addition, the dramatic increase in non-performance penalties may result in disputes over what constitutes non-performance and force majeure. And if the CPP results, as expected, in higher capacity clearing prices, there may be a wave of complaints from load-serving entities and their stakeholders demanding reforms, including demands that penalty payments be distributed to load, rather than to over-performing generators.
Finally, Chairman Bay’s dissent sends several messages. First, it seems that FERC’s June 9 Order will not be the last we have heard on PJM’s capacity markets. Moreover, FERC will be keeping a close eye on the implementation and results of the CPP. Second, Chairman Bay’s focus on the lack of a cost-benefit analysis to support PJM’s proposal may signal a renewed interest at FERC to use cost-benefit analyses as a tool for evaluating regulatory matters. While the cost-benefit tool has some appeal on its face, it also opens up the potential to dive into fact-intensive disputes to address regulatory policy matters, which will provide fertile ground for an increase in FERC hearings and litigation.
[1] See PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., 151 FERC ¶ 61,208 (2015) (“June 9 Order“). As used herein, the term CPP means the PJM proposal, as ultimately accepted and modified by FERC in the June 9 Order. Unless otherwise specified, capitalized terms used herein shall have the meaning assigned to them in the CPP or in the PJM Open Access Transmission Tariff.
[2] PJM and FERC emphasized that generator forced outage rates during the 2014 Polar Vortex increased from an annual average of approximately 7% to 22% (and up to 40% for natural-gas-fired units). Further, PJM stated that approximately 26,000 MW of coal- and oil-fired units had retired or would retire by 2019, while over 80% of new generation in the interconnection queue is natural gas generation.
[3] Chairman Bay Dissent at 1.
[4] Id. at 4.
[5] June 9 Order at P 13.
[6] Bay Dissent at 6.
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0:11Skip to 0 minutes and 11 secondsIn the previous lecture we have seen that even simple interactions can lead to very complicated dynamics. However, the interaction partners in biological systems are not fixed, but subject to ongoing evolution. How does evolution affect the interaction dynamics? This is the topic of the present lecture.
0:34Skip to 0 minutes and 34 secondsSome biologists have argued that evolution is the general tendency to create order from chaos. Or, in other words, to proceed in the direction that chaotic dynamics are unlikely and the world is highly predictable.
0:51Skip to 0 minutes and 51 secondsOthers, mainly mathematicians, have argued that evolution has the tendency to shift the system to the edge of chaos. That is, to a state that is intermediate between being highly ordered and highly complex.
1:07Skip to 1 minute and 7 secondsIn this lecture I will shed some light on this debate, illustrating the role of evolution in the context of rock scissors paper dynamics.
1:17Skip to 1 minute and 17 secondsConsider three different types of organisms, say, three different species of algae that are linked in a competitive cycle corresponding to the rock scissors paper game. Hence, the rock species is harmful to the scissors species, this scissors species is harmful to the paper species, and the paper species is harmful to the rock species.
1:39Skip to 1 minute and 39 secondsWhen put together into competition, the three species start to oscillate in the characteristic manner. We can now add evolution to the system by creating mutants. That is, variants of the three strategies that differ slightly from the already-existing types. To be concrete, let's consider the evolution of the degree of harm imposed by the rock species upon the scissors species.
2:07Skip to 2 minutes and 7 secondsWe start with a situation where the rock species imposes little harm, and that mutants once in awhile impose either slightly more or slightly less harm than their ancestors. The question then is, which of these mutants will be selected? In other words, which of these mutants will strive to replace their ancestors?
2:34Skip to 2 minutes and 34 secondsRepeating this process many times, we can then see how natural selection affects the harmfulness of the rock species.
2:42Skip to 2 minutes and 42 secondsMarcus Frean and Edward Abraham conducted such a simulation with the following result.
2:50Skip to 2 minutes and 50 secondsFirst, we see that evolution leads to an increase of the harm imposed. In other words, evolution leads to more nasty strategies in this case. This result does perhaps not come unexpected. What is unexpected, however, is the fact that the evolutionarily successful mutants, which are more harmful to the scissors species, are actually also more harmful to themselves. This can be seen by the gradual decline of the abundance of rock individuals in the course of the generations.
3:27Skip to 3 minutes and 27 secondsWhen giving it some thought, this all becomes less counterintuitive than it appears at first sight. More aggressive mutants of the rock strategy are successful in competition with other individuals in the rock species, since they exploit the scissors species more efficiently. Hence, they have a selection advantage in their own species.
3:52Skip to 3 minutes and 52 secondsOn the other hand, they weaken their own position in line with the saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." The enemy of rock is paper, and scissors is the enemy of paper. Hence, by weakening scissors, aggressive rock mutants indirectly strengthen paper, their own worst enemy.
4:15Skip to 4 minutes and 15 secondsThis example shows the effects of evolution can be less straightforward than one might think. Natural selection tends to bring about more efficient strategies, but there's no foresight, and quite often results in an outcome that is not really favourable for the evolving species.
4:36Skip to 4 minutes and 36 secondsIn fact, many evolutionary simulations of the rock scissors paper system considered above result in such an increase in aggressiveness that the aggressive species eventually goes extinct. In other words, seemingly successful strategies can succumb to their own success. And evolution can lead to sub-optimal outcomes, including extinction.
5:01Skip to 5 minutes and 1 secondThis latter phenomenon, which happens in other models as well, is called evolutionary suicide.
5:10Skip to 5 minutes and 10 secondsLet us now consider the effects of evolution on biological diversity. Here you see the ups and downs in the abundance of five species of algae that compete for a few resources in a droplet of water. Competition is non-transitive, and the dynamics is quite irregular. We now add three mutants, one in each of the three species, and watch how this affects the dynamics.
5:36Skip to 5 minutes and 36 secondsThe graphs show three typical outcomes if you run many simulations with the same three mutants but slightly different initial conditions.
5:46Skip to 5 minutes and 46 secondsFor a long period of time, almost nothing seems to happen, until eventually one of the three mutants emerges as the clear winner, fighting all its competitors to extinction. Hence, the advent of new mutants can eliminate the diversity and complexity of the system. Which of the three mutants will win is, however, completely unpredictable. Evolution can not only destroy diversity, it can also create high levels of diversity. Here's a graph showing a long-term simulation in a situation where algae compete for three limiting resources. Every five days one new randomly-created mutant was added to the system. You see that, on the one hand, evolution can lead to an enormous buildup of diversity.
6:37Skip to 6 minutes and 37 secondsBut almost 100 species can coexist on only three limiting resources for hundreds of years. On the other hand, the kind of a new mutant can lead to the collapse of diversity from 550 or 100 species to only two or three that remain. Would we see a pattern like this in empirical data, we would undoubtedly ask ourselves, what the hell happened in year 2050 when there was a mass extinction? Apparently, there must have been a major and catastrophic change in the environment. This, however, was not the case. The whole simulation was run under absolutely constant external conditions and in the absence of any external chance events. The only stochastic factor was the generation of new mutants.
7:30Skip to 7 minutes and 30 secondsThe sudden and unexpected collapse of diversity is intriguing, but not really well-understood. In none of the cases where biodiversity collapsed was the collapse caused by the advent of the super-competitor that eliminated all inferior types. In contrast, the mutant that initiated the collapse typically went extinct together with most of its competitors.
7:56Skip to 7 minutes and 56 secondsIn this lecture, I've only shown examples of how evolution responds to and affects the dynamics of competitive cycles involving elements of non-transitive rock scissors paper types of interactions. But the two main conclusions to be drawn are actually much more general. First, natural selection leads to the evolution of strategies that are most efficient competitors within the species. It does not necessarily induce the evolution of properties that are optimal for the species as a whole. Second, evolution can create order from chaos by using the collapse of diverse systems with a high degree of dynamic complexity and limited predictability. But it can also lead to the buildup of diversity and dynamic complexity.
8:48Skip to 8 minutes and 48 secondsThere does not seem to be a general tendency, neither from chaos toward order, nor from order to more chaos, nor toward the edge of chaos.
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The Otariidae, or eared seals (like the Steller sea lions below), are differentiated from true seals by several traits. The animals in this group have external ear flaps. Flipper structure also differs, as does means of locomotion on land: eared seals "walk" by extending their front flippers to the sides and often rotating their hind flippers under their bodies like feet. True seals, in contrast, do not use their flippers, but lurch across the land by throwing themselves about and hunching like inchworms.
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Newborn Steller sea lions are dark brown to black. They shed their hair at 4 to 6 months and grow new, lighter hair. This pattern repeats until the adult color, a light tan to reddish brown, is reached. Adult males can grow to almost 2500 pounds, and be as long as 11 feet. Adult females are significantly smaller, weighing up to 770 pounds and growing to 9.5 feet in length.
Fish, such as herring, cod, and pollock, are the main food source for these sea lions. Octopus, squid, and the pups of other marine mammals supplement their diet. The Steller sea lion is viewed by many fishermen as a competitor.
Male Steller seal lions arrive at rookeries in May. The males establish and defend territories, fasting during this time in order to maintain a constant vigil over their patch of turf. Females arrive in late May or early June, and mothers give birth to a single pup from the previous breeding season 3 days after arrival. Mothers will stay on shore for more than a week to nurse their pups before returning to the sea to feed. Pups are usually fully weaned after one year. Eleven to fourteen days after giving birth, females will mate again. Males will mate with all the females within their territory.
Populations of the Steller sea lion have been declining throughout the past few decades, and the species has been placed on the endangered species list as a threatened species. For more information of the status of this species, visit NOAA Fisheries Alaska Regional Office.
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By Leah Marieann Klett ( [email protected] ) Aug 01, 2017 08:54 AM EDT Comment
Harrow councillor Chika Amadi has been suspended from the Labour party pending an investigation. Niklas Halle'N/AFP/Getty Images
A pastor who was suspended from her position on Harrow council over her comments criticizing the LGBT community has refused to back down, saying that as a Christian, she "must" tell the truth.
Chika Amadi, a charity worker and evangelical pastor who has been on the Harrow Council since 2014, was suspended after sharing a post from the website LifeSiteNews.com showing a picture from a Toronto Pride march with a young girl appearing to cover her eyes as a naked man walked past.
"Walking about naked in front of children is nothing but paedophelia being labelled liberalism," she tweeted. Another tweet said: "Try me try my God. Walk naked in front of my child, you will know whether you are normal or not."
Amadi, who is one of the main speakers at the five-day long "Jesus Festival 2017" which takes place in north London next month, also tweeted, "Who cares how distressed the child in the picture is? I do. It is unfair to take away a child's innocence.
In an earlier Facebook post, she shared a quote from the president of the Gambia in which he threatened gay men and women with prison.
"Homosexuality is anti-humanity," the quote reads. "I have never seen a homosexual chicken, or turkey. If you are convicted of homosexuality in this country, there will be no mercy for offenders. We will put you in the female wing of the prison."
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Chika Amadi was suspended over her anti-LGBT comments
When other social media users accused the pastor of homophobia, Amadi tweeted, "Evil. If you dare walk naked in front of my child God will give you terrible assignment that will put you to perpetual sleep. Be warned."
Shortly thereafter, she was suspended by the Labor party "pending investigation."
Harrow Council's leader, Sachin Shah, told the Evening Standard: "As Leader of Harrow Council and a proud Harrow resident I absolutely reject and condemn these abhorrent statements.
"Homophobic views have no place in our community - which is one of the most diverse and accepting in all of the UK. We stand for equal rights for all - and I have asked the national Labour Party to deal with this issue swiftly and decisively."
Dylan Thomas and Sarah Kerton, the co-chairs of LGBT Labor, also issued a separate statement calling the comments "offensive, distasteful and homophobic".
Conservative MP Margot James said: "These homophobic comments by a sitting Labour councillor are completely unacceptable and wrong. I urge the Harrow Labour party to withdraw the whip immediately from Councillor Amadi to reflect the seriousness of these statements on her social media."
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Dancing on Ice beats Strictly by featuring same-sex couple in UK TV first
ITV bosses have reportedly beaten BBC's Strictly Come Dancing to become the first ever UK reality show to feature a same-sex duo
A same-sex couple is set to feature on Dancing on Ice next year in a UK TV first, Good Morning Britain hosts announced earlier today.
Ian 'H' Watkins and professional skater Matt Evers have reportedly been paired up for the upcoming series in 2020.
It is the first UK reality TV show to make such a move - beating BBC's Strictly Come Dancing to it.
Dancing on Ice is set to make 'TV history' by welcoming its first ever same-sex couple
GMB's entertainment reporter, Richard Arnold, told Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid how it was reported that Ian, 43, asked Dancing on Ice bosses if he could possibly be teamed up with a male pro-skater.
Richard said: "It's thought the first ever same-sex couple will be skating on Dancing on Ice when the new series kicks off - series 12 - in January.
Final celebrity named for full Dancing on Ice line-up 2019
"Singer Ian 'H' Watkins of Steps could be paired, it's reported today, with professional skater Matt Evers in the upcoming series.
"According to reports 'H' enquired about being paired up with a male pro-skater, haven't we all over the years, and Dancing on Ice were 'fully supportive'.
According to reports, Ian 'H' Watkins will be paired up with professional skater Matt Evers for the upcoming series
The ex-Steps singer will be skating with Matt, 43, who has been a pro-skater on the programme since it started back in 2006.
Richard added that he thinks the move is a step "in the right direction, if you ask me."
Matt Evers famously paired up with TOWIE's Gemma Collins last season.
Dancing On Ice returns to ITV in January 2020.
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Sarah grew up in Louisianna, and the sweet-natured Southerner has always had a passion for helping kids, especially those with special needs. After graduating college, Sarah spent some time at her dream job — working with children with disabilities at the Shriners Hospital in Honolulu. The plan was for her to head back to school to get her Master’s degree so she could keep doing what she loved. But as it turns out, God had a very different plan for Sarah. He sent her to rescue this unwanted baby for whom He had a great purpose!
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A Change In Plans
God completely changed the trajectory of Sarah’s life while she was at the University of Southern Mississippi getting her Master’s. One Sunday Sarah stumbled upon a church, and there she learned of Danita's Children — an organization in Haiti dedicated to rescuing orphaned and impoverished children.
“That was my light-bulb moment, where I needed to look into doing some missionary work," Sarah says.
Sarah took a trip to Haiti soon after. Seeing the conditions that Haitian children were living in, especially disabled children who were often seen as "worthless, not valued," forever changed her life.
"My heart was torn out of my chest. I couldn't act like I hadn't seen this, like I didn't have the tools to help. I knew I would be back."
Sarah on a trip to Haiti Credit: Facebook
True to her word, Sarah returned to Haiti once she’d completed her Master’s program. She signed a two-year commitment and spent her time advocating for kids' needs and attempting to combat the neglect and abandonment that ran rampant.
But God’s true purpose for Sarah became clear when a woman came to the orphanage where Sarah worked with a baby girl, Nika.
Meeting Nika
The 3-month-old baby clearly needed help. She had an enlarged head that Sarah recognized as hydrocephalus — a condition she says they see a lot in Haiti where there is excessive fluid on the brain. Sarah immediately went to work at getting Nika the necessary medical help.
The woman who brought Nika in claimed to be the girl’s aunt, providing a far-fetched story about how she came to be responsible for the baby. However, they soon learned that the woman was actually Nika’s mother. She was a young prostitute who’d dropped out of school once she became pregnant.
“But I never judged her for it or treated her any differently,” Sarah says. “I knew that she deserved love and to be shown grace.”
Trying To Help
Family preservation is something that Sarah says is very important to her. So she spent the next two months working with the reluctant mother to get little Nika ready for surgery. The day after the operation, the orphanage received a call from the hospital saying Nika’s mother had taken off.
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The girl’s mother wound up coming back for her child, but then she began trying to pressure the orphanage to give her money in return for taking care of her own daughter.
"I told her that she broke our trust," Sarah says. "I said, ‘If you don't lie to me, I will move heaven and earth to help your child.' We are there to help and support and encourage."
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Sarah couldn’t stop thinking about Nika. She worked tirelessly with the girl’s mother, who was detached and repeatedly let her daughter’s health lapse, despite the free medical resources offered to her through the orphanage. Sarah did everything in her power to try to get the indifferent mom to take an interest in her daughter’s life.
“My hope was that she would see someone else love Nika, place value on her life, and maybe, she would be encouraged to do the same."
Coming To The Rescue
Sadly, nothing she did worked. Nika’s health deteriorated until she was at death’s door, and Sarah knew that if someone didn’t step in, this precious life would be lost. While it seems like an easy decision to step in and rescue the baby, Sarah says the process is different in Haiti than in America. But she championed for Nika’s rescue, getting approval from the mother as well as the missionary’s CEO.
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But that was just the first step in saving the little girl. When Sarah and a pastor went to get Nika, the emaciated child was completely alone, lying on the floor atop a rice sack, surrounded by trash. She weighed only six pounds, and more than half of that weight came from the fluid that had returned to her brain. It was utterly heartbreaking.
"It was a victory in the fact we were able to take her out of that situation and restore some dignity to her," Sarah explains. "But her organs were failing, and we were fighting for her life. I didn't have to change her diaper for a week because she was so malnourished."
In Need Of A Miracle
In addition to the hydrocephalus and severe malnourishment, doctors discovered she also suffered from another lethal condition — hydranencephaly. A large portion of Nika’s brain is missing, and in its place is spinal fluid, which most likely resulted from a stroke that occurred in utero.
"We consulted with several American doctors," Sarah says. "They said we were probably going lose her. We spoke life over her, prayed for miracles."
And a miracle was exactly what it was going to take for little Nika to survive. Sarah said that 99% of babies with this condition die within the first year. With medical resources being limited in Haiti, the ugly truth is that doctors are forced to choose whose lives are worth fighting for and the doctors there refused to give Nika the feeding tube she needed.
But Sarah refused to stop fighting for this little girl’s life, and God led her to a doctor in Alabama who was willing to make the trip over to insert the feeding tube.
A Little Warrior
Despite Nika’s grim prognosis, this little fighter has continued to survive.
"We kept fighting through to the next step,” Sarah says. “We knew the prognosis, but we kept fighting. Months went by, and she kept going. We were given that ‘any day' sentence, but we kept going."
Sarah loves Nika as if she were her own daughter. So, she adopted her. And true to the words she had spoken to Nika’s biological mother, Sarah continues to work to move heaven and earth to help the child.
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Nika’s head only continued to grow, and she was in need of another surgery to drain the fluid building up around her brain. She was not going to be able to get the help she needed in Haiti, so Sarah brought Nika home to America.
The doctor from Alabama who had helped Sarah before referred her to a hospital in Pensacola, Florida, that was willing for perform the surgery pro-bono. It was a blessing for Sarah, but especially for the little girl who has come such a long way.
"We saw her head size decrease almost two inches," Sarah says. "She lost five pounds in fluid and two inches in height from her head. It has dramatically changed her quality of life."
If you recall, before going to Haiti it was Sarah’s plan to return to her pediatric medical career in Hawaii after earning her Master’s. But now, Sarah has completely submitted to God’s plan of caring for this little miracle, because Sarah knows that every life matters.
She has moved into a little house with Nika, back in her hometown of Carencro, where she is a full-time caregiver to the precious child no one else wanted. It’s a humbling experience for the highly educated young woman who knows she’s perfectly capable of working but now must rely on donations to cover all of her living expenses.
But Sarah is living on faith, which God is fully rewarding. She’s enjoying with incredible moments with Nika, like the celebration of her fifth birthday.
That’s right — the little girl who wasn’t even supposed to make it to a year has, through God’s grace and Sarah’s perseverance, turned five. And for Sarah, who will never stop fighting for this precious angel, this is just the beginning.
"I believe in her," she says. "I believe in her potential. There is no part of me that's ever going to give up on believing in her."
You can follow Sarah and Nika’s journey on Facebook at Little Warrior Nika.
“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” Proverbs 31:8-10
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Consumer Confidence Sinks In November
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There is widespread anxiety in the country over the economic slowdown.
Latest figures of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) show that consumer confidence has weakened due to the current state of the economy and anxiety about the future has increased. According to the RBI, the consumer confidence index has seen a 15 point fall from March 2019 to present day.
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The RBI’s latest figures show that the consumer confidence index, which was above 100 in March 2019, has fallen to 85.7 points in November. This clearly means that in the first six months of the Modi government’s second term, despair and mistrust regarding the economy has increased.
Almost all the norms, on the basis of which the RBI has prepared its report, have registered a decline. The consensus on economic conditions and employment is becoming negative.
In September, the confidence index on economic conditions was -14.1, but in November it became -21.1. This means that consumer mistrust is increasing each month. Similarly, the confidence index on employment in September was -24.5, which fell to -33.1 in November.
In this survey by the RBI, people expressed their concerns over inflation as well. People believe that prices have risen in the last year and they will increase further in the coming year. In the confidence index, inflation was at -82.8 in September, which increased to become -83.9 in November. Similarly, on the income front, the index has risen from -1.7 to -2.6.
The RBI has prepared this report after a survey of 5,334 households in 13 cities across the country, which included Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Patna and Thiruvananthapuram.
This indicates that it will take some time for the all-round despair over the country’s economy to dissipate.
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Arrive at London St Pancras station at 9am, where you will meet a representative who will be standing at the National Rail Ticket Office. Receive an informative welcome pack, holding all you’ll need for the day, ready to board your train in time to set off at 9.40am. Arrive at Brighton station at around 11.09am.
Once off the train, the sparkling city of Brighton is yours to explore. From the stunning pebble beach and the glittering coastline, to the colourful amusements and the independent shops and cafes, there’s no shortage of things to do.
To get your bearings, this package includes a hop-on hop-off bus ride around the city. There is a bus stop right outside the station. See all the Brighton sights including the Royal Pavilion and the beautiful Regency architecture, travel easily around the city and learn all there is to know about this special seaside destination. Stops include Brighton Pier, King's Road, Grand Avenue, Palmeira Square, Lansdowne Road, St Anns Well Gardens & Furze Court, Brighton Station, Imperial Arcade, Marine Parade, Royal Crescent and Brighton Marina.
Spend the rest of the day exploring Brighton in your own time, before you catch an off-peak train of your choice back to London St Pancras.
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You are free to choose when you return. Trains return to London every 20-30 minutes until approximately 10pm
Please Note: The train times are subject to change, depending on availability of the train services. So it is highly important that you leave your contact telephone number & email address in the checkout process so that we can contact you if needed.
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Days of Operation: Daily (except Sunday)
Check-in Time at London St Pancras Station: 9:00 am
Meeting Point: Meet your representation at National Rail Ticket Office
Departure Time: 9:40am
Arrival at Brighton: 11.09am
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All solar systems across nine schools have been operational for more than two years. Over that timespan the systems have generated more than 22,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity, and have saved the School District approximately $1.1 million in energy costs. PsomasFMG constructed the solar systems and has responsibility for operating and maintaining the systems.
All schools have a web portal accessible by students, teachers, administrators and the community showing instantaneous power (kW), energy produced (kWh) and insolation metrics (sunlight intensity). The web portals are available to view now and are listed below:
The William S. Hart Union School District (WSHUSD) entered into a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in 2012 with PsomasFMG, LLC to buy electricity at a fixed rate at 9 District sites. This 6.4 Megawatt (MW) solar project is estimated to save WSHUSD approximately $18-20 million over the 20-year contract.
The District had no upfront cost or capital investment for the solar system; the Hart District is obligated through the PPA to purchase the power produced from the solar systems. Third party ownership of the system, by an outside investor, allows the District to realize immediate savings and budget more effectively because of predictable future energy costs.
The cost of equipment maintenance and repair, including module cleaning, is included in the cost of the energy to the District. In addition to this, there is a 25-year manufacturer's warranty on the panels and a 20-year warranty on inverters. PsomasFMG monitors the systems throughout the day to ensure they are performing and operational at all times. A service and maintenance team is deployed to fix any deficiencies and also perform cleaning and preventative maintenance to our system is producing the most power possible.
Solar panels were installed on nine campuses predominately in parking lots but also on open land on four schools (see examples below). District wide construction took place between Fall 2011 and Spring 2012, and individual school systems were constructed within 10 to 14 weeks. All systems went into commercial operation on October 2012. Solar shade structures in parking lots now provide approximately 2,300 shaded parking spots for faculty and students.
Depending on the weather and year, the solar systems will generate approximately 9,000 - 11,000 Megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity annually, which is equivalent to 75-85% of the 9 school's historical energy usage. This allows for maximum savings to the District by offsetting the highest Southern California Edison (SCE) rates and also providing a cushion for potential reductions in use.
During the day, sunlight hits photovoltaic (PV) panels and is converted into electricity. When the system produces more power during sun light hours than is needed, the utility meter literally spins backwards, accumulating credits with Southern California Edison (SCE). Net metering allows excess generation in any given month to be carried over to the next billing month, typically for up to one year.
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PsomasFMG is a single source provider of solar energy systems and solutions for schools, businesses and communities. Located in Huntington Beach, CA, we are the #1 builder of solar for schools in Southern California. Our experience and familiarity with school solar projects enables us to delight our clients as we move through the project - from energy analysis and planning through construction into operations and maintenance, all while maximizing the client's energy savings. We call this "Energy Engineered." For PsomasFMG, solar is not just a business, it is our investment in the future. Together we can help solve the global energy crisis - one community at a time.
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SC Supreme Court Enforces Fourth Amendment
October 16th, 2014 at 7:00am
Tags: Exclusionary Rule, Fourth Amendment, Right to Privacy, Satellite Monitoring, Search & Seizure
In State v. Adams, the South Carolina Supreme Court recognized limits on law enforcement’s ability to track a citizen’s vehicle with a GPS device, set a trap, and search the vehicle for drugs. In doing so, the Court enforced United States v. Jones, a 2012 Supreme Court of the United States decision holding that “the Government’s [warrantless] installation of a GPS device on a target’s vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements constitutes a search” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.
In Adams, our Court of Appeals found the GPS devise constituted an unlawful search, but went on to hold subsequent traffic violations cured the harm, meaning the drugs were still admissible evidence. In an opinion written by Justice John Kittredge, our Supreme Court disagreed and held the “traffic violations provide an insufficient attenuation from the taint of the illegal search” because “[t]he traffic stop was entirely predicated on the information obtained from the GPS device and law enforcement’s desire to search Adams and his vehicle for drugs.”
In holding the exclusionary rule applicable, the Court recognized the importance of its decision in enforcing Jones. Allowing the State to use the evidence would “provide a blueprint for the circumventing the protections of the Fourth Amendment.” The government “would be free to install a GPS device on a suspect’s vehicle without a warrant, track the suspect with impunity, and cure all ills from the underlying Fourth Amendment violation by waiting for a fortuitous traffic offense.” The Court recognized, “Such an affront on the Fourth Amendment would render Jones meaningless and would not serve the exclusionary rule’s stated purpose of deterring unlawful police conduct.”
Adams is an important decision. Advances in technology infringe on privacy. The Fourth Amendment and the Right to Privacy guaranteed by the South Carolina Constitution are important limits on government power.
Please click this link to read the court opinion in State v. Adams.
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4 Crowdfunding “SCAMpaigns” That Taught Us a Painful Lesson in Marketing
“Sizing issues”
“At the finish line… nearly”
Many crowdfunding projects delay, but 9% of all Kickstarter projects eventually fell through, according to Kickstarter. While it appears these creators most often prey on scientifically illiterate or ill-informed backers, with the smartest marketing strategies, even your smartest friends may have been fallen victims to these s-campaigns.
#1 Coolest Cooler, US$13 million
Top the list is Coolest Cooler, a small machine that instead of cooling drinks, evaporated US$13 millions into thin air in 2014. The project creator promised backers a US$185 cooler that blends smoothies, plays music and charges your phone. Since Coolest Cooler sounded like the all-in-one tool every picnic-lover had been wishing for, it immediately gathered more than 62,000 backers. After a 2-year delay, Coolest tried to squeeze more money out of its backers’ pocket with another “expedited” delivery if they pay US$97 more.
Image Source: Kickstarter
Lesson learnt: Start in a market people are too excited to think about its pitfalls
No one was cautious about the risks when Kickstarter first started out. Back in 2014, Kickstarter was still an expanding platform that excited many: every creator seemed genuine inventor desperate for your help to bring their meaningful project to life. There might be a few delays in certain projects; but successful cases were much more frequently heard.
#2 Znaps, US$2.3 million
“Connection is a znaps away!” is what Znaps pitched its 70,122 backers, but the company did quite the opposite. The CA$9 magnetic adaptor that claimed to provide a seamless charging experience is neither delivered nor functional. Two months prior to the promised delivery day, Znaps stopped updating and responding to their customers, until a year later, some customers claimed they had received an email from Znaps about lost orders and discounts for retail sale of Znaps. Recently, the Hong Kong government disqualified the deal from an ICT Award it won in 2o16 for its indefinite delay.
Lesson learnt: (1) Invest in media
When compared to its dupes on other local sales platforms, Znaps dominated the entire market. Partly because a diverse pool of media from Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, the U. S., Italy and Germany (see below for more) featured Znaps in beats from business, technology to lifestyle. The total clicks of Znaps’ Kickstarter page alone amounted to over 48,496,000. Plus, strong publicity indicates good market response, a consideration the government takes in giving out awards, funds, and exposure to startups and projects.
(Znaps as seen in media across the globe)
Lesson learnt: (2) Offer a groundbreaking solution people are willing to pay for
No iPhone users would want to scratch their precious gadget, but the product design has made it inherently difficult not to. For just a few dollars, Znaps adaptor conveniently solves the problem that has been bugging every iPhone user for way too long.
#3 Arist, US$800,000
The team behind Znaps is not the first time failing a public campaign on Kickstarter, they had launched a coffee machine Arist a year before. Over US$800,000 were raised for this remote coffee brewer smartphones can take control over. Despite being endorsed by the Hong Kong government with an ICT Award in 2015, Arist failed to deliver any product to backers even until today. With their proven record of “crowdfunding success”, the team later started a business (archived) to teach potential creators the know-hows and profit from 30% of the fund raised. Regardless, the founders of Znaps and Arist blatantly denied any scamming accusations.
The team of Arist even invited the media to a product launch (Source: unwire.hk)
Lesson learnt: Grow your reputation strategically
Similar to Znaps, Arist capitalised on its wide publicity and government’s recognition to up its crowdfunding game. Both Arist and Znaps are solid proof that media coverage keeps good things coming.
#4 Kobe Red US$0 (could have been more than US$120,309)
Finally, here comes a victory for all honest creators and backers. The campaign was promptly suspended by Kickstarter at the very last minute. With the gimmicky “first-and-one-of-its-kind gourmet-flavoured” jerky made from high-end kobe beef at an unbelievably affordable price, the project collected US$120,309 in just a month. Given the then lift of ban on beef imported from Japan, suspicion over the enormous supply of beef grew and snowballed with the lack of creator’s information. Kickstarter was forced to put a halt on the project once-and-for-all.
Lesson learnt: Be genuine with your users, or convince them so
From his or her Japanese upbringing to positive reviews by customers, creator of Kobe Red told backers almost everything (except his or her contact information). In addition to a personal touch, customers’ reviews presented the beef jerky as something that had been through rigorous R&D process. Backers were more likely to be sold and bought the “how-I-love-the-tasty-jerky-from-my-homeland” story.
What we can learn as a Growth Marketer
These projects share one thing in common—an unbeatable marketing game. From launching the product in the right market, to harnessing media exposure, these creators crossed everything off the marketers’ checklist. If they can make millions out of an unfinished idea with some marketing tricks, there is no reason why you can’t on a finished product.
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BMW X5M And X6M Modified By BMW Individual
by Frédérick Boucher-Gaulin December 8, 2014
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The M-powered X5 and X6 may have been released only a few weeks ago at the Los Angeles Auto Show, but BMW Individual is already modifying them, and they just released their list of available products for the models. To showcase what they can do, they also sent pictures of two vehicles that they have modified.
The X5M received Pyrite Brown paint, which contains an additive named Xirallic. This gives it a metallic shine, but it also has a pearlescent look that gets a deeper reflexion depending on the ambient lightning. Inside, the SUV receives Merino White leather and a matching Alcantara roof. This X5 also sports Piano Black interior trim and a dashboard covered in leather and contrasting stitching.
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Home Politics Don’t disrespect Sen. Dianne Feinstein. She’s 84, female and essential.
Don’t disrespect Sen. Dianne Feinstein. She’s 84, female and essential.
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She’s been an indispensable senator on guns, terror and intelligence matters. Why must her own party treat her like a pox?
President Trump and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.(Photo: Alex Wong, Getty Images)
One of the country’s most powerful voices against assault weapons and 30-round magazines is long past her teen years. But like the young survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., she does happen to have been baptized in blood on this issue.
It was 1978 when Dianne Feinstein found her San Francisco Board of Supervisors colleague Harvey Milk face down in his own blood (“I tried to get a pulse and put my finger through a bullet hole”). In the decades since, the senior senator from California has authored the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, let the American public know what our government did in our name in the war on terror, and corrected disinformation about how the Russia probe began.
So must her own party treat her like a pox? Apparently, yes: At their recent state convention, her fellow Democrats denied her their endorsement. Among the reasons cited? Her support of the Iraq War. In 2002. “Time’s up!” the crowd chanted as she was played off the stage.
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As every story about 84-year-old Feinstein notes, she is the Senate’s oldest member. But because she’s also one of its most essential, the disrespect she’s being shown is offensive. (And though women tend to outlive men, is her age somehow more disqualifying because of her gender?)
Yes, she’s a moderate in a lapis-blue state, and as a young volunteer in San Francisco’s Mission District during the time she was mayor, I wrote her off as an all-in gentrifier, conveniently convinced that the problems of homelessness would one day evaporate like fog in the Presidio. Last year, when she insulted the Catholic judicial nominee Amy Coney Barrett by noting that “the dogma lives loudly within you,” I thought about getting the t-shirt.
Except, there’s no surplus of elected officials of any age who are as able on a number of matters that matter. And it isn’t as though she’s coasting on accomplishments long forgotten.
Before the 2016 election, Feinstein alerted the country to the danger of Russian interference (we didn’t listen, but she did tell us). Last year, she raised the specter of U.S. internment camps at Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing, then slipped out to have a pacemaker put in.
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Her unilateral decision to release the Fusion GPS transcript, over the objections of Republicans, was an important corrective. As ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, she took it upon herself to let the public see the truth about the committee’s interview with the co-founder of the firm that did research on Donald Trump during his campaign. This was vital not because it helped her party, but because it refuted metastasizing falsehoods about the origins of the Russia probe.
“The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the transcript are part of a deeply troubling effort to undermine the investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice,” she said in a statement. “The only way to set the record straight is to make the transcript public.” The move prompted President Trump to call her “Sneaky Dianne Feinstein.” But someday, even the GOP may thank her.
Meanwhile, no one can say she’s lost any of her gusto in her work. Seated at the president’s elbow as he unexpectedly — to see what Sen. John Cornyn looked like in cardiac arrest, maybe? — talked about banning assault weapons, she did the happy dance in her chair.
Feinstein’s primary opponent, California Senate leader Kevin de León, whom she’s dominating in polls, said at the state convention that “I’m running because California’s greatness comes from acts of human audacity, not congressional seniority.”
But audacity she’s got. And it’s refreshing that she knows what to do with it.
Melinda Henneberger, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors, is an editorial writer and a columnist for The Kansas City Star. Follow her on Twitter: @MelindaKCMO.
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Nephrologists (doctors in renal medicine) diagnose and treat diseases of the kidneys.
Nature of the work
General nephrology includes the management of patients with diseases which affect the kidney.
Diseases that affect the kidney include:
auto-immune disorders (where the body attacks its own tissues) such as systemic lupus erythematosus (causing inflammation of the connective tissue) or vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels)
Nephrologists also see patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) when only the kidney is affected (for example, following certain drug reactions) and also AKI as part of multi-system failure resulting, for example, from septicaemia (blood poisoning).
They also manage patients with end-stage kidney failure either by dialysis or by kidney transplantation.
Nephrologists manage acutely ill patients and those with a chronic disease requiring long term care with the help of colleagues in a multidisciplinary team. A patient, for example, may progress to renal failure and require dialysis and subsequently a renal transplant over a period of 10 to 20 years.
They generally work in renal units based in district general hospitals or university teaching hospitals. The renal services in these two types of hospital are broadly similar, with the exception that renal transplantation mostly takes place in university teaching hospitals. Many renal units also manage satellite haemodialysis units, either in other hospitals or in community-based facilities.
More renal medicine specialists will be needed in future to cope with the predicted increase in chronic kidney disease in the UK.
Nephrologists treat conditions such as:
congenital and genetic disorders, eg autosomal dominant inherited polycystic kidney disease (an inherited condition in whuch fliud-filled cysts develop and grow in both kidneys) and familial nephropathy (inherited kidney disease)
autoimmune disorders, eg acute glomerulonephritis (inflammation of the glomeruli, the filtering units of the kidneys)
malfunctions caused by impaired blood supply, eg acute tubular necrosis (a condition causing the death of kidney tissue cells)
kidney infections
metabolic disorders, eg cystinuria (an inherited disorder leading to the formation of stones in the kidneys, ureters and bladder)
tumours of the kidney
renal failure due to external factors, eg crushing accidents
Common procedures/interventions
renal biopsy
the insertion of temporary vascular (vein) access for haemodialysis (the removal of waste material from the blood of a patient with renal failure, using an artificial kidney)
the insertion of tunnelled catheters (thin flexible tube) for haemodialysis vascular access
the insertion of peritoneal dialysis catheters (thin flexible tube that allows dialysis fliud to enter the abdominal cavity and then drain back again)
Many nephrologists develop sub-specialty interests such as:
academic nephrology
acute kidney injury (AKI)
the working life of someone in renal medicine
the entry requirements and about training and development needed
This section provides useful information about the pay for junior doctors (doctors in training), SAS doctors (specialty doctors and associate specialists) and consultants.
Find out more about the current pay scales for doctors, and there's more information on the BMA website.
NHS Employers provides useful advice and guidance on all NHS pay, contracts terms and conditions.
Medical staff working in private sector hospitals, the armed services or abroad will be paid on different scales.
Where the role can lead
Read about consultant and non-consultant roles in renal medicine, flexible working and about wider opportunities.
Consultant roles
You can apply for consultant roles six months prior to achieving your Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT). You will receive your CCT at the end of your renal medicine training.
Managerial opportunities for consultants include:
clinical lead - lead NHS consultant for the team
clinical director - lead NHS consultant for the department
medical director - lead NHS consultant for the Trust
Most NHS consultants will be involved with clinical and educational supervision of junior doctors.
Here are some examples of education and training opportunities:
director of medical education - the NHS consultant appointed to the hospital board who is responsible for the postgraduate medical training in a hospital. They work with the postgraduate dean to make sure training meets GMC standards.
training programme director - the NHS consultant overseeing the education of the local cohort of trainee doctors eg foundation training programme director. This role will be working within the HEE local offices/deanery
associate dean - the NHS consultant responsible for management of the entirety of a training programme. This role will be also be working within the HEE local offices/deanery
SAS doctor roles
SAS doctors (Staff, Associate Specialists and Specialty Doctors) work as career grade specialty doctors who are not in training or in consultant posts. You will need at least four postgraduate years training (two of those being in a relevant specialty) before you can apply for SAS roles.
Find out more about being an SAS doctor.
Other non-training grade roles
These roles include:
trust grade
clinical fellows
If you have trained on an academic renal medicine pathway or are interested in research there are opportunities in academic medicine.
For those with a particular interest in research, you may wish to consider an academic career in renal medicine. Whilst not essential, some doctors start their career with an Academic Foundation post. This enables them to develop skills in research and teaching alongside the basic competences in the foundation curriculum.
Entry into an academic career would usually start with an Academic Clinical Fellowship (ACF) and may progress to a Clinical Lectureship (CL). Alternatively some trainees that begin with an ACF post then continue as an ST trainee on the clinical programme post-ST4.
Applications for entry into Academic Clinical Fellow posts are coordinated by the National Institute for Health Research Trainees Coordinating Centre (NIHRTCC).
There are also numerous opportunities for trainees to undertake research outside of the ACF/CL route, as part of planned time out of their training programme. Find out more about academic medicine.
Trainees can develop their interest in research. Fellowships in renal research are available through Kidney Research UK, the main charitable organisation dedicated to funding kidney research. Many renal trainees are also successful in obtaining research fellowships from the Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust and other funding agencies. Renal units based in university teaching hospitals typically have active research units and employ academic nephrologists at senior lecturer, reader and professorial level.
The Clinical Research Network (CRN) actively encourages all doctors to take part in clinical research.
There are opportunities to be employed by the NHS, academic institutions, private sector, universities, the armed forces, organisations and national governing bodies.
A few nephrologists enter industry and work for companies involved in dialysis or in transplant immunosuppression.
Job market and vacancies
This page provides useful information about the availability of jobs, finding vacancies and where to find out more.
Job market information
Renal medicine had 523 consultants and 407 medical registrars in England (NHS Digital, 2016).
Women make up 28% of the consultant workforce, and 51% of higher specialty trainees in the UK (2014/15 RCP census, 2016).
Job prospects in renal medicine have been affected by oversupply in the last few years.
Trainees with a wide skill-mix, or in dual-training programmes with renal medicine, will have better job prospects than those studying single specialties.
There are many opportunities for research, either laboratory based (eg underlying mechanisms of renal disease, immunology of transplantation); clinical based (eg examining effects of treatment on various renal conditions), or epidemiological (eg looking at incidence of various renal diseases in different populations which impact on the planning and delivery of renal services).
The specialty is well suited to flexible training and working patterns.
In 2016 the competition ratio for Core Medical Training (CT1), the first stage in the training (post-foundation), was 1.53 and for ST3 renal medicine it was 1.37 (NHS Specialty Training, 2016).
For information regarding Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland please click on the links below.
NHS Scotland medical and dental workforce data
NHS Wales medical and dental workforce data
Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety workforce information for Northern Ireland
Where to look for vacancies
All trainees apply through the online application system Oriel. You will be able to register for training, view all vacancies, apply, book interviews and assessment centres, and manage offers made to you.
Local education and training boards HEE local offices/deaneries will have details of training vacancies. Not all local education and training boards/HEE local offices will offer new training posts in all specialties in all years.
All jobs will be advertised on the NHS Jobs website.
The BMJ Careers website also advertises vacancies.
Northern Ireland has its own recruitment process. For further details please visit the Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency website.
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Output from coal-fired power plants was 12.9 TWh in January, up 37% on year and averaging around 17.3 GW for the whole month, a level not reached since the extended cold spell back in February 2012, the data shows. Coal also removed lignite from the top of the power mix in January with lignite plants already running near maximum available capacity.
Coal Prices and Outlook - Energy Explained, Your Guide To ...
Lignite is the lowest rank of coal and has the lowest energy content. Lignite is crumbly and has high moisture content. Lignite accounted for about 9% of U.S. coal production in 2017. Subbituminous coal has a higher heating value than lignite. Subbituminous coal typically contains 35%–45% carbon, compared to 25%–35% for lignite.
What is Lignite? - The Balance
Dec 10, 2018· The balance is used to generate electricity, which provides power for more than 2 million consumers and businesses in the Upper Midwest. Because of its high weight relative to its heat content, lignite is expensive to transport and is typically used in pulverized coal or cyclone-fired electric production power plants close to the mine.
Coal plants without scrubbers account for a majority of U ...
Of the plants without scrubbers, the ones burning subbituminous coal generated 69% of the electricity while only emitting 48% of the associated emissions in 2010 (see chart). Even though lignite-burning plants accounted for 16% of SO 2 emissions from scrubbed plants in 2010, they generated only 8% of the electricity from scrubbed plants.
The Types of Coal: Composition, Usage, and Energy Value
Dec 17, 2018· Coal is still the fastest growing energy resource worldwide. Learn about the different types and how they differ by energy, carbon content, and usage. ... All Types of Coal Are Not Created Equal . Share Pin ... Soft coal is also known as brown coal or lignite. China produces more hard coal than any other country by a factor of about three. The ...
Techno-economics of modern pre-drying technologies for ...
pre-drying technologies for lignite-fired power plants . Nigel Dong . August 2014 ... the high moisture content of lignite can result in low thermal plant efficiencies. Drying the lignite prior to combustion in the boiler is thus an effective way to ... Techno -economics of modern pre drying technologies for lignite fired power plants. IEA ...
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The plants are listed and sortable according to the year the plant started (or is expected to start) operation, the owner of the plant, the location of the plant by city and province, the type of gasifier(s) utilized at the plant, the number of gasifiers, capacity of coal/lignite or other solid feedstock being gasified, and product types along ...
Lignite Coal, Lignite Coal Suppliers and Manufacturers at ...
And whether lignite coal is quick, or slow. There are 1,468 lignite coal suppliers, mainly located in Asia. The top supplying countries are China (Mainland), India, and Russian Federation, which supply 97%, 1%, and 1% of lignite coal respectively. Lignite coal products are most popular in Domestic Market, Southeast Asia, and Mid East.
NLC India Limited - Wikipedia
NLC India Limited (formerly Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited) (NLC) is a 'Navratna' government of India company in the fossil fuel mining sector in India and thermal power generation. It annually produces about 30 million tonne lignite from opencast mines at Neyveli in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India and at Barsingsar in Bikaner district of Rajasthan state.
Coldry Overview | ECT
When applied to lignite and some sub-bituminous coals, the mechanically simple Coldry process produces a feedstock in the form of densified pellets that are stable, easily stored, can be transported and are of similar energy value to many black coals, whilst significantly reducing CO2 emissions compared to its original brown coal form.
Classification of Coal - Engineering ToolBox
Coal is a readily combustible rock containing more than 50 percent by weight of carbonaceous material formed from compaction and indurations of variously altered plant remains similar to those in peat.. After a considerable amount of time, heat, and burial pressure, it is metamorphosed from peat to lignite.
RWE sees lignite-fired power plants profitable into 2020s ...
London — RWE sees its entire fleet of lignite-fired power plants profitable into the 2020s despite a "low three-digit million" euro investment needed to make all units compliant with tighter EU air quality rules from summer 2021, a spokeswoman for the German utility told S&P Global Platts late Monday.
ACB (India) Limited, along with its subsidiaries and associates, is the largest coal beneficiation company in the private sector with an aggregate designed beneficiation capacity, on a proportional basis, of 65.61 million tons per annum.
Europe's Coal-Fired Power Plants: Rough Times Ahead
Europe's Coal-Fired Power Plants: Rough Times Ahead — May 2017 4 has no economic future post-2021. We therefore question the wisdom of the German state to agree to pay EPH to decommission two of the units in 2022 and 2023 under a standby capacity reserve agreement.
What are the types of coal? - USGS.gov
There are four major types (or "ranks") of coal. Rank refers to steps in a slow, natural process called "coalification," during which buried plant matter changes into an ever denser, drier, more carbon rich, and harder material. The four ranks are:
Estimates of Emissions from Coal Fired Thermal Power ...
coal characteristics or the operating conditions at the various thermal power plants in India. A time series of emission trends of CO. 2, NO. x, and SO. x. from the Indian coal fired and lignite based thermal power plants over a decade (2001-02 to 200910) is presented here. Eighty six p- ower
India Energy Portal
Coal and lignite. Coal. The Indian coal industry was nationalized in the early 1970s. While the production of coal increased from 70 MT (million tonnes) at the time of nationalization to 382 MT in 2004/05; the national coal industry has always been producing less coal than the actual demand leading to …
CHAPTER 4 PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS 4.1 Fly Ash
nowadays used in cement, concrete and other cement based applications in India. As per IS 3812: 2003, the generic name of the waste product due to burning of coal or lignite in the boiler of a thermal power plant is pulverized fuel ash. Pulverized fuel ash can be fly ash, bottom ash, pond ash or mound ash.
Thermal Power Plant Working | INDIAN POWER SECTOR
At present 54.09% or 93918.38 MW (Data Source CEA, as on 31/03/2011) of total electricity production in India is from Coal Based Thermal Power Station. A coal based thermal power plant converts the chemical energy of the coal into electrical energy.
Lignite - Wikipedia
Lignite begins as an accumulation of partially decayed plant material, or peat.Burial by other sediments results in increasing temperature, depending on the local geothermal gradient and tectonic setting, and increasing pressure.This causes compaction of the material and loss of some of the water and volatile matter (primarily methane and carbon dioxide).
1.7 Lignite Combustion - US EPA
and domestic situations, but lignite is mainly used for steam/electric production in power plants. Lignite combustion has advanced from small stokers to large pulverized coal (PC) and cyclone-fired units (greater than 500 megawatt). The major advantages of firing lignite are that it is relatively abundant (in the North Dakota and
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What Is Coal Preparation? - Energy
What Is Coal Preparation? • Coal preparation is the removal of undesirable material from the Run-of-Mine (ROM) coal by employing separation processes which are able to differentiate between the physical and surface properties of the coal and the impurities. Through coal preparation…
An Overview of Coal based Integrated Gasification Combined ...
The integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) produces electricity from a solid or liquid fuel. First, the fuel is converted to syngas which is a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Second, the syngas is converted to electricity in a combined cycle power block consisting of a
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Legend has it that shortly after Minneapolis, Minnesota, institution Matt's Bar opened in 1954, a hungry customer came in and asked for two burger patties with a slice of cheese in the middle. He took a bite and proclaimed it to be "one juicy Lucy!" - and an icon was born. Only fresh-ground beef goes into each hand-formed burger, and the first bite yields a river of molten, gooey cheese. These burgers are much more difficult to make than they may appear, and the one at Matt's Bar is absolute perfection and will only set you back $7.75.
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#9 Char Burger, Edzo's (Evanston, Illinois): $9.00
Edzo's founder Eddie Lakin is a former line cook who worked in high-end kitchens around the world before settling back on his home turf of Evanston, Illinois, to flip burgers for a living. But what burgers these are: made from choice chuck, hand-cut and ground on the premises every morning, handled gently, and given a shake of salt and pepper as they cook. Burgers are available in two preparations: smashed flat on a griddle or grilled over an open flame. We suggest ordering the latter, an 8-ounce beauty topped with ketchup, mustard, onion, pickles, lettuce and tomato and costing nine bucks.
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#8 Bacon Cheeseburger, Hodad's (San Diego, California): $8.50
Now with multiple locations in the San Diego, California, area, including several inside Petco Park and another inside the Sycuan Casino, Hodad's has been serving seriously good burgers to thankful locals since 1973. The secret to Hodad's success may be the bacon; instead of just adding plain ol' strips to the burger, they boil the entire belly until it falls apart, then fry up a patty on the grill before adding it on. It's nothing short of brilliant, and when a patty is topped with mayo, mustard, ketchup, onion, pickles, lettuce, tomato, cheese and that bacon, it's burger heaven, all for just $8.50.
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#7 Dirty Love Burger, Love Shack (Fort Worth, Texas): $7.50
The menu at chef Tim Love's Fort Worth, Texas, destination Love Shack is full of jokes and puns: Consider the Amore Caliente (hot love) burger and the section called "Love on the Side." But there's serious flavor here, too. The way to go is the Dirty Love Burger: lettuce, tomato, pickles, "Love Sauce," American cheese, bacon and a fried quail egg. The patty is on a fresh bun with an excellent cheese-to-meat ratio, and this whole glorious mess only costs $7.50.
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#6 Original Solly Burger, Solly's Grille (Milwaukee, Wisconsin): $4.89
In business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, since 1936, Solly's claim to fame is the butter burger, which was once far more common but is now all but impossible to track down. Fresh-ground sirloin is delivered daily from a local butcher, and even though about 15 toppings and burger varieties are available, but the trademark Original Solly Burger is the way to go. Each 3-ounce patty gets cooked on a large flat-top griddle and is topped with stewed onions and a pat of butter - at least 2 or 3 tablespoons' worth - before being placed between two halves of a soft white bun. The butter melts into the meat and into the bun, and it's unlike any other burger you'll experience. It's a hard-to-find throwback to those halcyon days before cholesterol was a thing, and sampling it costs just $4.89.
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#5 The Original Burger, Louis' Lunch (New Haven, Connecticut): $6.25
Supposedly, one day in 1900, a gentleman hurriedly told Louis' Lunch proprietor Louis Lassen to make him "something he could eat on the run" and was sent on his way with a blend of ground steak trimmings between two slices of toast. Thus, as legend has it, the hamburger was born. That same exact sandwich is still what's being served at this New Haven, Connecticut, must-visit today, and it's one of the most iconic dishes in America: a 6-ounce flame-broiled burger made in a vertical hinged-steel wire gridiron that cooks the burgers on both sides at the same time, served on white toast with your choice of cheese, tomato and onion (no condiments offered). It's a culinary pilgrimage that's definitely worth making, and it'll only cost you $6.25.
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#4 The Company Burger, The Company Burger (New Orleans, Louisiana): $8.75
Company Burger is renowned in New Orleans, Louisiana, largely because chef and owner Adam Biderman has created what's essentially the perfect double cheeseburger. He starts with two 3.25-ounce patties from Creekstone Farms, which are given a light crust on the flat-top before being topped with red onion and American cheese and then stacked. A couple of pickle chips and a toasted house-made bun complete it. And best of all, this double-patty beast only costs $8.75.
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#3 Cheeseburger, Maple & Motor (Dallas, Texas): $8.25
Maple & Motor has a big presence in Dallas, serving some fabulous burgers along with other now-legendary creations like their fried baloney sandwich and flat-top-seared brisket. That burger is a masterpiece, though: a half-pound of griddled beef and melted American, Swiss or pepper jack; topped with mustard, red onion, lettuce and pickles; and tucked into a toasted, buttered bun. Without cheese it's just $7.75, cheese adds an additional 50 cents.
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#2 Hickory Burger, The Apple Pan (Los Angeles, California): $8.10
The Apple Pan is a legendary West Los Angeles lunch counter that hasn't changed much at all since it opened in 1947. The restaurant's signature Hickory Burger is a juicy round of hickory-smoked ground beef on a reasonably standard bun anointed with mayonnaise and a secret sauce that tastes like slightly spiced-up ketchup. Pickles and lettuce complete the $8.10 package; melted Tillamook cheddar bumps the price up to $8.85.
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#1 Cheeseburger, Burger Joint (New York, New York): $9.42
A dive bar tucked into the corner of fancy hotel, accessed by passing through a (very) tall curtain, Burger Joint has scribbles on the wall, signs asking you not to scribble on the wall, bare booths and some of the absolute best burgers in New York City. These burgers are simple perfection, topped with lettuce, tomato, pickles, onion, mustard, mayo and ketchup, and while it may be no-frills, it's absolutely worth waiting in line for.
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Unlicensed contractor jailed, ordered to pay $60,000
By Corey Murray cmurray@hillsdale.net
An unlicensed commercial contractor, who erected a pool for one Hillsdale County family, was sentenced to jail Wednesday morning and ordered to pay almost $60,000 in restitution.
Kevin Gerald Boguth, 47, of Coldwater, was convicted of being an unlicensed builder previously and set on a delayed sentencing docket until May 31, at his request, to give him time to pay back $59,675 in restitution to Griffith’s family, who had hired him to erect the pool for their family.
“He’s working, but he hasn’t had a chance to pay this money,” Public Defender Rod Dunham said on Boguth’s behalf as he appeared before Judge Sara S. Lisznyai.
Boguth said his understanding of the previous arrangement was to pay the full restitution and not make payments; he added that he is currently working for another company in Coldwater and could pay $400$500 a month.
“My intent still is to make this right,” Boguth said. “I never wanted to get to this situation.”
Chief Assistant Prosecutor Jamie Wiesniewski echoed Dunham’s statements that Boguth has yet to make any form of a good faith payment.
The work Boguth did had to be ripped out and redone by another contractor, Wiesniewski said. The walls of the pool bowed in and the stairs were unsafe; there were also issues with the slide not being properly installed.
“He endangered their children,” Wiesniewski said.
Although the original charges were dismissed, they were brought forth again by the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office and the case has been open for almost a year.
Wiesniewski said no permits were ever pulled when Boguth installed the original pool and there were no inspections ever done.
Boguth had brochures and business cards available, which made his business look great, Wiesniewski said.
Imposing sentencing, Lisznyai ordered that Boguth serve 40 days in jail with 30 days suspended; work release was authorized for the 10 days jail Boguth will serve.
Boguth will also be subjected to 24 months probation, the maximum Lisznyai could impose, with a stipulation that Boguth makes regular $500 monthly payments; the remaining 30 days jail, Lisznyai said, is “hanging over his head.”
Lisznyai also requested documents on Boguth’s financial responsibilities including his income.
“My biggest concern is that restitution is paid,” Lisznyai said.
Boguth was also ordered not to work as a contractor without a license.
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Shoulder instability is a chronic condition that causes frequent dislocations of the shoulder joint. A dislocation occurs when the end of the humerus (the ball portion) partially or completely dislocates from the glenoid (the socket portion) of the shoulder. A partial dislocation is referred to as a subluxation whereas a complete separation is referred to as a dislocation.
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The term arthritis literally means inflammation of a joint, but is generally used to describe any condition in which there is damage to the cartilage. Damage of the cartilage in the shoulder joint causes shoulder arthritis.
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Acromioclavicular joint (AC joint) dislocation or shoulder separation is one of the most common injuries of the upper arm. It involves separation of the AC joint and injury to the ligaments that support the joint. The AC joint forms where the clavicle (collarbone) meets the shoulder blade (acromion).
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The collarbone or clavicle is the bone that connects your sternum or breastbone to your shoulder. Clavicle fracture, also called broken collar bone is a very common sports injury seen in people who are involved in contact sports such as football and martial arts as well as impact sports such as motor racing.
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5 of 20 David Legwand 1998-2014 GP: 956 G: 210 A: 356 Pts: 566 %: .592 PIM: 474 David Legwand, the first draft pick in franchise history. The expectations were heavy on a kid who was drafted to be a franchise center. It's no secret that he didn't live up to that hype, but don't let the missed expectations distract you from the awesome career that he did turn out. A modest guy who never sought the spotlight, Legwand would do anything that the coaching staff asked of him. Which after retiring he would admit, along with David Poile and Barry Trotz, that upon being drafted he was asked to sacrifice some of his offensive talent in order to become a more defensively responsible center. And he was a very underrated defensive forward throughout his career. An efficient and speedy skater who suffered from Mario Lemieux complex, in which fans think his effortless stride meant that he wasn't trying hard enough. In many ways, especially in his early seasons, Legwand was misunderstood of Predators players by the young fanbase who assumed he should be putting up 100 point each season. A favorite critique of mine to hear from fans was "Poile should have drafted Lecavalier", which of course wasn't possible. It wasn't until later in his career, well past his prime that he majority of Nashville fans really appreciated Legwand and his contributions. He left the team in 2014, traded to his hometown Detroit Red Wings for Call Jarnkrok who is still with the team. At the time of the trade, and still to this day, Legwand is the franchise leader in Games Played, Goals, Assists and Points. He also earned the distinction in 2000 of becoming the first player in NHL history to score on a penalty shot in overtime. Legwand's story arc follows the same path of the team as a whole, being the first draft pick, as Legwand went so did the team. After honing his defensive game for the first few years, he started to add to his offensive output. In the 2002-2003 season, Legwand was finally enjoying what could be considered a true breakout. This season was significant because when the team was founded in 1997, owner Craig Leipold in an effort to sell the required number of season tickets, laid out the "5 Year Pledge", which said that the team would make the playoffs in their 5th season or he would freeze any increases in ticket prices. That year the Predators were approaching the 8th seed late, Legwand had 48 points in 64 games. In a key matchup with the Chicago Blackhawks, the Predators won in overtime, extending a great run of 9-2-0 over 11 games to move into that final playoff spot. However in that game Legwand injured his shoulder and would miss the remainder of the season. There has never been a more obvious sign of his impact on the team as the club went just 1-13-4 in his absence and failed to qualify for the playoffs. Known as "the Legwand Effect" indeed the team saw similar W/L results throughout his tenure regardless of the players around him. Following the lockout, the team acquired center Jason Arnott to be the #1 and later brought in Paul Kariya. With the SAD (Sullivan-Arnott-Dumont) line leading the way, the team was finally able to slot Legwand into a more appropriate #2 role and give him skilled wingers, known as the 9-10-11 line (Kariya - Legwand - Erat). Legwand enjoyed the best statistical seasons of his career managing 89 points in 122 games under that configuration, including a career high 63 in 78 during the 06-07 season. For comparison, the most offensively dynamic line that most people consider when they think of the Predators is the current Forsberg - Johansen - Arvidsson unit (JoFA) where Johansen and Arvidsson led the team with 61 points each last year. But as memorable as his statistical contributions were, it was the things that most fans wouldn't notice which made him a favorite of the coaching staff. Legwand of course was molded directly by Trotz to be a two-way player and never complained once about it. He was offered the captain's C and several times an A and declined multiple times until near the end of his tenure because he didn't seek the spotlight. He led the team onto the ice for warm-ups each night and directed the warm-up routine for much of his career. Legwand was a real professional who was always tasked with a mentorship role for rookies coming in, rooming with them and teaching them the NHL life and he always retrieved the puck for teammates on firsts and milestone goals and points. Even if it took 15 years for most fans in Nashville to appreciate him, it's impossible to imagine those first 15 years of Predators hockey without David Legwand. He didn't have a hall-of-fame career, he won't have his number retired by the team, and his franchise records will surely be passed in just a few years, but what he meant to the team while he was here is something that will never be surpassed or forgotten.
Game 9: Islanders @ Predators (10-28-17 | 7c)
I really don't want to talk about this one. But i'll say that Juuse Saros is bad right now, the Predators are very undisciplined and the offense can't cover for these things.
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Nashville Predators (5-3-2) The Predators narrowly beat the Blackhawks 2-1 last night on the strength of 43 saves by Pekka Rinne. Tonight Rinne will rest as Juuse Saros gets the start. The Predators have earned a point in seven of their last eight games. Scoring Leaders Filip Forsberg - 7 Goals P.K. Subban - 8 Assists Filip Forsberg - 12 Points New York Islanders (5-4-1) The Islanders last outing was a 5-0 beatdown in Minnesota, but the team had been on a roll prior to that one winning three straight and four out of five. Scoring Leaders John Tavares - 6 Goals Anders Lee - 6 Goals Joshua Bailey - 7 Assists John Tavares - 10 Points Joshua Bailey - 7 Assists Nashville Predators Projected Lines Filip Forsberg - Ryan Johansen - Viktor Arvidsson Scott Hartnell - Calle Jarnkrok - Kevin Fiala Pontus Aberg - Frederick Gaudreau - Craig Smith Miikka Salomaki - Colton Sissons - Austin Watson Roman Josi - Samuel Girard Mattias Ekholm - P.K. Subban Alexei Emelin - Yannick Weber Juuse Saros New York Islanders Projected Lines Anders Lee - John Tavares - Josh Bailey Brock Nelson - Mathew Barzal - Jordan Eberle Andrew Ladd - Casey Cizikas - Jason Chimera Nikolay Kulemin - Anthony Beauvillier - Cal Clutterbuck Nick Leddy - Johnny Boychuk Calvin de Haan - Dennis Seidenberg Adam Pelech - Ryan Pulock Jaroslav Halak
Game 9: Predators @ Blackhawks (10-27-17 | 7:30c)
almost forgot to add, Pekka Rinne last 6 starts 4-0-2 1.14 GAA .963 SV% Team MVP so far this season.
Good Guys Win!!! Predators - 2 Blackhawks - 1 Some positives: Depth scoring: Craig Smith and Calle Jarnkrok come through with the two Predators goals. Defense: Ekholm-Subban reunite, Girard looked good again, Matt "dumpster fire" Irwin scratched really helped the unit as a whole Goaltending: Pekka Rinne makes 43 saves on 44 shots Three Stars: * Pekka Rinne ** Craig Smith *** Calle Jarnkrok The negative takeaways would be: Lack of top-end scoring, usually when the JoFA (Johansen, Forsberg, Arvidsson) line isn't scoring then the Predators have problems. Luckily some guys who are slumping came through tonight, particularly Jarnkrok who has been absolutely awful this season and totally kills any offensive chance his line has. Undisciplined play. The Predators took six penalties and gave the Hawks six powerplays. While the Blackhawks also took six penalties and gave the Predators six powerplays, they also scored a bad shorthanded goal in which Rinne made two point-blank saves with a Predator defender on either side of the net and neither of them cleared the puck before Anisimov banged in the third attempt.
These two teams met two weeks ago in Chicago for a game in which the Blackhawks came out with a controversial 2-1 overtime win. The Predators will be looking for revenge, but the Blackhawks are still hungry to pay back the division rival for embarrassing them in last spring's playoff series. For the Predators Filip Forsberg is the hot hand, he already has 7 goals this season. Last season at this time he had only 2. On the other side Patrick Kane has points in 6 straight games. The Blackhawks are trying to settle their ever-jumbled defense pairings and the Predators are still searching for secondary scoring. Nashville Predators Projected Lines Filip Forsberg - Ryan Johansen - Viktor Arvidsson Scott Hartnell - Calle Jarnkrok - Kevin Fiala Pontus Aberg - Frederick Gaudreau - Craig Smith Miikka Salomaki - Colton Sissons - Austin Watson Roman Josi - Samuel Girard Mattias Ekholm - P.K. Subban Alexei Emelin - Yannick Weber Pekka Rinne Chicago Blackhawks Projected Lines Brandon Saad - Jonathan Toews - Alex DeBrincat Richard Panik - Nick Schmaltz - Patrick Kane Patrick Sharp - Artem Anisimov - John Hayden Lance Bouma - Tommy Wingels - Ryan Hartman Duncan Keith - Jan Rutta Gustav Forsling - Brent Seabrook Michal Kempny - Connor Murphy Corey Crawford
4 of 20 Kimmo Timonen 1998-2007 GP: 573 G: 79 A: 222 Pts: 301 %: .525 PIM: 348 Timonen joined the Predators in a blunder of a trade by the LA Kings at the 1998 expansion draft. In exchange for not selecting Garry Galley, the Kings traded Jan Vopat and Kimmo Timonen to the Predators. At the time Timonen was considered an undersized defenseman who would have difficulty developing into an NHL player. Despite his international success, the NHL was too big and rugged at the time for a player like Timonen. At least, that's what everyone said, Timonen had other ideas. His strength was in his skating ability and power, massive legs were the engine that propelled him to success. Timonen quickly worked his way up the depth chart and was a fixture on the first pairing as soon as 1999 (Galley was out of the league in 2001). It's hard to find a single flaw in his game, he had the skating of course, but also hockey smarts, positioning, superb passing ability and an effective shot. Five times he finished over 40 points and twice over 50 during his time with the Predators and another season with 33 points in 51 games (a 53 points pace). A leader of the blueline during his Predators tenure, Timonen was named team captain in 2006, though it would be his final season with the team before Craig Leipold sold off talent ahead of an attempt to sell the team. Timonen left the team as the franchise's leading scorer and games played leader. He still ranks 4th today and is second among Predators defenders in games, goals, assists and points.
3 of 20 Tomas Vokoun 1998-2007 GP: 383 W: 161 L: 159 T: 35 OTL: 11 SO: 21 SV%: .913 Tomas Vokoun was an overweight, unmotivated goalie on the verge of becoming completely irrelevant as far as an NHL career goes when he was taken by the Predators in the expansion draft. Expected to be a project as the Predators had Mike Dunham and Eric Fichaud ahead of him, Vokoun actually ended up playing 37 games for the Predators in their inaugural season. Thanks to the work of goaltending coach Mitch Korn, Vokoun found his motivation with the Predators. He slimmed down and made improvements each season, and was a fan favorite to replace Mike Dunham well before he actually did. Vokoun brought a fiery unpredictability to the crease, not quite the unorthodox style of Dominic Hasek but certainly not any kind of traditional goaltending. In the days before the trapezoid rule, Vokoun would wander all around the defensive zone chasing down pucks, often in a footrace with opposing players that resulted in collisions. He assumed the starting role after the trade deadline in the 2002 season, and in 2003 carried the load solo for the first time and nearly led the team to their first playoff birth (it was derailed by an injury to leading scorer David Legwand). In the 2003-2004 season, Vokoun was spectacular in finally getting the club into the postseason and put up a great showing against the #1 Detroit Red Wings. Unfortunately, while he would maintain a high level of play in the seasons following the lockout, injuries would prevent him from being effective in the playoffs with the Predators. A freak blood clot incident, spurred from a childhood boiling water accident caused him to miss the playoffs all together in 2006 and a thumb injury kept him out of action for portions of 2007 and lowered his overall ability in the playoffs. Still, Vokoun left as the most popular player after the first 10 years and until very recently (Pekka Rinne) he led the franchise in every goaltending statistic. He also had a great off-ice personality that endeared him to the fans and community, appearing at the childrean's hospital often, starring in local commercials and attending many team signing events. One of the best memories is when Vokoun made a big save at what is now known as Bridgestone Arena, the song "Song 2" by Blur would play and fans would replace the Woo-Hoo lyric with Vo-koun.
2 of 20 Scott Walker 1998-2006 GP: 410 G: 96 A: 151 Pts: 247 %: .602 PIM: 465 Scott Walker can only be described as the heart and soul of the Predators from 1998-2006. Walker epitomized the "Predators Way". Not only was he usually one of the primary scoring threats on the roster, but he hit, fought, forechecked with intensity, killed penalties, blocked shots and brought a general feisty approach to his play every night. His body suffered for his rough and tumble style, but Walker led the Predators in goal scoring and points multiple times. He wore an alternate's "A" and would wear a "C" whenever the captain was unable to dress. When we he was traded to Carolina in 2006, Walker was the franchise leader in Goals, Points and Penalty Minutes. He still ranks #7 in points on the franchise's all-time list despite the team's best years being in the 11 season's since he was traded.
Game 8: Flames @ Predators (10-24-17 - 7e/6c)
Very tough to swallow the shootout loss tonight. The Predators absolutely dominated this game for 50 minutes. Pekka Rinne was godlike in net, but of course the Predators offense failed them. Forsberg and Josi scored two early powerplay goals, just over a minute apart. Again, all of the scoring coming from the top line. From there Rinne and Smith traded big save after big save. Midway through the third period, Arvidsson goes off with injury and the Flames score twice in two minutes (Tkachuka and Ferland) before Arvy returns. The Predators did miraculously take the game to a shootout. I say this because they are abysmal in 3-on-3 overtime. They play a very passive game that gets torched continuously. In the shootout, Fiala came in with his slow super deke move and had Smith beat but lost control of the puck. Monahan scored on the easiest little wrister, no move or anything just skated in and flicked it over the blocker side. Forsberg tied it up, Versteeg missed. I didn't see the Preds third shooter, I think it was Arvidsson, but it was stopped and then Tkachuk wins it for Calgary. It's just difficult to wrap my head around it because the Preds seemingly had this game on lockdown all night. They deserved two points, Rinne deserved the win. A bad goal that deflected in off of Josi's stick, they lose focus and let in another and all of a sudden they're in OT, harsh.
1 of 20 Cliff Ronning 1998-2002 GP: 301 G: 81 A: 145 Pts: 226 %: .751 PIM: 126 Ronning was acquired via trade early in the first season and instantly became the biggest scoring threat on those first teams. In fact, he led the team in scoring in each of the four seasons that he was with the Predators. He brought something rare to the first roster... experience. Ronning already had 11 seasons in the NHL and more than just his scoring prowess, he became a leader and a mentor. He showed many young players how to be a professional. As a smaller player, he was also instrumental in instilling the "Predators Way" of hustle and fighting for every inch of ice. Ronning left the team as the franchise leader in Goals, Assists and Points.
This one looks dangerous for the Predators as their offense has been non-existent lately and coming off a bad loss to the Rangers. The good news is that it's back on home-ice where they've been very good in this early season. Once again, the forwards have to get some puck into the net, guys like Jarnkrok, Smith, Sissons, Salomaki and especially Fiala need to start contributing something. Subban needs to get things going on the blueline and somehow the third pair needs to figure out how to not be a constant Keystone Cops routine. Expect Rinne back in net, he should have started the Rangers game IMO. It's too soon to give up on Saros, but he's another Predator who really has to figure out what he's doing and show a lot more than he currently is.
Game 8: Predators @ Rangers (10-21-17 - 12:30e/11:30c)
Well that game was frustrating for the Preds. I'm glad I missed it as I was hiking with the family and it was a dang 11:30am start time here.
Predators In The News
Bridgestone Arena also won Arena of the Year... again, lol If there's one thing that Craig Liarpold did right, it was getting things started with a culture of "Ridiculous Customer Service". From day 1 the arena experience has been fantastic.
Houseley a big mistake and I have proof
Honest Bender replied to Hockey Junkie's topic in Buffalo Sabres
Housley has been a successful head coach at other levels, and has been mentored now by Barry Trotz and Peter Laviolette. In my opinion as an outsider, the Sabres just don't have the right players. Murray was horrible and his rebuild was bad, now Botterill has to start the rebuild again. It's difficult for Sabres fans to sit through all of that and come out on the other end with basically no progress, but that's the reality and it's going to take another 2-3 years before JB can fix the issues that he inherited and get Housley the players that he can win with. I'm not saying it's a guarantee that Housley will be a success, but I don't think the current woes of the Sabres can be pinned on him just yet.
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February 20, 2013 1:14pm PT by Lesley Goldberg
OWN Acquires Tyler Perry's TBS Comedy 'For Better or Worse'
The cable network will expand its scripted fare repeats and a new third season of the comedy.
OWN is expanding its relationship with Tyler Perry.
In addition to inking the multihyphenate to an overall deal and greenlighting a scripted comedy and drama, the cable network has acquired Perry's For Better or Worse from TBS.
In addition to acquiring the first 45 episodes of the scripted comedy that originally aired on TBS, OWN will produce a third season of the series -- which ranked as basic cable's top show among African-Americans.
The original cast -- Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Crystle Stewart, Kent Faulcon, Kiki Haynes and Jason Olive -- all will return and begin production on season three in April in Atlanta.
STORY: Tyler Perry Comedy, Drama Land Series Orders at OWN (Exclusive)
"For Better or Worse is a great addition to our growing lineup of scripted programming from Tyler,” OWN president Erik Logan said. “We’re excited to build out OWN’s slate of original shows.”
For Better or Worse joins Perry's two other scripted efforts at the network: The Haves and the Have Nots, a drama about the dynamics of the affluent Cyrer family and the impoverished family of their housekeeper, Hanna, and the obstacles and secrets that exist within both, and Love Thy Neighbor is a multicamera comedy set at Love's Diner, where every day the menu serves up good food, great laughs, valuable life lessons and a lot of love for its zany neighbors.
OWN inked Perry -- the prolific writer, director, producer and actor behind the Madea features, among several other stage and small-screen projects -- to a multiyear pact in October to produce original content for the cabler.
Before the deal, Perry's TV efforts were housed at Turner-owned TBS, where the network launched half-hours Tyler Perry's House of Payne and Meet the Browns.
For Better or Worse hasn't been the ratings performer TBS had hoped it would be, after both House of Payne and Browns triggered 90-episode renewals as part of their 10/90 package at the cable network.
Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com; Twitter: @Snoodit
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You are here: Home » Activities and Groups » Library and Research Services for Parliaments » News » Report on 83rd IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC)
Report on 83rd IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC)
By Karin Finer, Secretary, Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments
WLIC 2017 took place in Wrocław, a beautiful city on the Oder River in western Poland, from 19-25 August. Over 3000 delegates from 122 countries took part in the event. Apart from the spectacular opening ceremony - streamed online for the first time - its many sessions covered issues such as copyright and other legal matters, knowledge management in organisational change, open linked data, networks of digital libraries, how international legal institutions inform the public, professional development and adapting libraries and library space to new roles.
New at the conference this year was the release of several dynamic platforms - including launches of the Library Map of the World (collects and shares basic information about libraries worldwide) and an online voting platform (relating to the IFLA Global Vision discussion that was launched at a kick-off event in Athens in April).
It was a very busy week for the IFLAPARL Section! The Standing Committee reviewed its past and future activities during two business meetings, organised its own open session and cooperated with other IFLA sections to arrange a popular knowledge café on the changing role and development of information professionals, and a session with government libraries on supporting UN sustainable development goals. Steve Wise, House of Commons Library, was elected as new Chair of the Section, while Karin Finer and Adama Kone will continue in their roles as Secretary and Information Coordinator for another term.
IFLAPARL convened an open session entitled “Parliament and the People: Transparency, Openness, Engagement” - an interactive session on how parliamentary libraries and research services facilitate open and transparent communication between legislators, parliaments and the public - with five short presentations followed by group discussions. The presentations were highly engaging and the group discussions lively and informative;
1. Avelina Morales Robles. Director of Research and Analysis Services. Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies / Parliamentary Researchers Network (REDIPAL), a sharing platform of news, publications and events
2. Mateo Maciá. Director de Documentación, Biblioteca y Archivo. Congress of Deputies. Spain / Transparency and right of access to public information in the Spanish Congress of Deputies
3. Marale Sande. Senior Research and Policy Analyst. Parliamentary Research Services. Parliament of Kenya / Facilitating for Parliaments and legislators to communicate with the general public: creating an effective interface for re-use of information and research outputs through outreach and partnership
4. Leonor Calvão Borges. Legislative and Parliamentary Information Division of the Portuguese Parliament / Paths to public engagement in the Portuguese Parliament: an example of the improvement of technological mediation
5. Pablo Morales. Coordinador. Departamento de Estudios, Extensión y Publicaciones. Library of Congress of Chile / Chilean budget data visualization tool
For more photos, see: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifla/albums/
Conferences, Poland, Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section
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Moto G7 Power To Go On Sale In India Today, Specs And Price
by Anubhav SharmaFebruary 15, 2019
Model / Variant
USA: $249
India: Rs. 13,999
160.83 x 76 x 9.4 mm
Glass Front
Polymer Glass Black
Ceramic Black
Display Size and Type
LTPS LCD
1570 x 720px
Memory Expandability
Up to 512 GB
12MP f/2.0
Burst shot
Auto HDR
High-res zoom
Primary Video
8MP, f2.2
Secondary Camera Video
1080p @30fps
GSM band 2/3/5/8
WCDMA band 1/2/5/8/19
4G / LTE Network
LTE band 1/2/3/4/5/7/8//19/20/28/ 38/40/41
Bluetooth® 4.2 LE, aptX
802.11 a/b/g/n,2.4GHz + 5GHz, Wi-Fi hotspot
15W turbopower Charging
Rear Mounted Fingerprint sensor
Shortly after announcing the latest Moto G7 lineup in Brazil, Motorola is going live with the sale of their Moto G7 Power in India. The smartphone will be available February 15 onwards, and it can be purchased via Motorola partnered offline stores or online via Flipkart. The reported price for the same is Rs. 13,999. Possibly, the device could be sold for the same price on Flipkart, but nothing can be confirmed as of now. The Motorola Moto G7 Power will be available in a single 4GB+64GB variant. The device is available in a single colour option which is Ceramic Black.
The Moto G7 Power weighs 193g, owing to a massive 5,000 mAh battery which is the highlight of this device. Motorola claims that the battery can last for 3 full days on a single charge. Although the rear of the device is made out of plastic, it looks elegant. It has a 6.2 inch LCD display with a resolution of 1512 x 720 px and an aspect ratio of 19:9. The smartphone features the classic wide notch.
Also Read: Motorola P40 To House Samsung’s Exynos 9610 Chipset & 48 MP Rear Camera
The Moto G7 Power packs the Snapdragon 632 chipset which is coupled with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. The fingerprint sensor is rear mounted and embedded in the Motorola Logo. The smartphone features a single primary camera with a 12MP (f/2.0) sensor and a front facing 8MP (f/2.2) camera sensor. Moto G7 also has support for fast charging and it comes with a 15W charger. The device will run on Android 9 Pie out-of-the-box.
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Home » Islamic World » Inistitution » Research Institute of Hawzah and University, Qom, Iran
Research Institute of Hawzah and University, Qom, Iran
P r e f a c e:
Research Institute of Hawzah and University was founded in 1982. Primarily named "the Office of Hawzah and University Cooperation", and aiming for the execution of a preliminary plan for "reconstruction of human sciences", and as requested by the head office of the Cultural Revolution, the Society of Professors of Hawzah-ye Elmiyeh-e Ghom planned the program. After confirmation of the head office, this plan was also approved by Imam Khomeini, the supreme leader and founder of the Islamic Revolution of Iran.
In 1990 following a period of successful activity, "the Office of Hawzah and University Cooperation" was officially accepted as one of the establishments cooperating with "the Organization for Study and Compilation of University textbooks in Human Sciences" (SAMT). With a successful 9 year background of close cooperation with this organization, due to its remarkable success in research and production of books and scientific researches, and with ratification of the Council of Development of Higher Education in 1998, under the title of "the Research Circle of Hawzah and University" this foundation became a member of institutes and universities of the ministry of Sciences, Researches and Technology. After another short period of prominent and successful research and scientific activities, in 2003 it was given the title of "Research center of Hawzah and University" and finally in 2004 was named "Research Institute of Hawzah and University".
The basic goal of this research institute is development and expansion of research in the areas of Islamic viewpoints concerning topics and issues of human sciences, and preparation for improvement in related research activities. Such researches result in publication of books, essays, pamphlets,university textbooks, and satisfaction of the needs of executive systems of the country; a goal which has been accomplished through more then 25 years of production with numerous essays and pamphlets, hosting various scientific conferences and seminars, and publication of more than one hundred and thirty specialized books in different branches of human sciences.
So far there are 49 faculty members and 100 researchers with educations both at Hawzah and university levels, the Research Institute thereby consisting of three separate institutes: "Research Center of social sciences" with departments of economics, political sciences, social sciences and management, "Research Center of behavioral Sciences" with departments of educational sciences, psychology and philosophy of human sciences, and " Research Center of Islamic sciences" with departments of history of Islam, Quranic studies, philosophy and theology and law. All these three research centers are working on proposals and production of scientific-research topics.
M i s s i o n S t a t e m e n t
The Research Institute of Hawzah and University is a research- based center established on the belief that recognition of human and human values is among the most important bases of human civilizations, as well as Islamic civilization. According to this belief, the philosophy for existence of this research institute is as following: "Theorization about the relations of religion and human sciences and expansion of the boundaries of Human-Islamic and local sciences"
With keen insight and utmost perseverance, the Research Institute tries to be a scientific pole in Human-Islamic sciences in a universal horizon.
The Research Institute feels a commitment to university and Hawzah members more than others, and at the same time tries to satisfy the needs of both the system as well as Islamic society.
In the coming two decades, the research institute will be taking yet higher steps in theorization and presentation of a worthy image of itself. This can be achieved by making the best out of scholars of Hawzah and university and considering the teachings of Ahl-e Beit (AS), The research institute will benefit most from modern methods and equipments in research and information processing grounds, so that expansion of knowledge becomes parallel to expansion of technology.
The research institute will publicize the spirit of morality, spirituality, and commitment among its members and colleagues, so that through keeping its researchers and workers and their scientific and professional strength, it may simultaneously improve with wisdom and spirituality.
The research institute will make its scientific achievements accessible to all researchers and those who are interested, in any suitable form of books, essays, research, educational and advisory services, etc.
A. Research goals:
The first and the most goal of this research institute is the issue of research. Research is the main axis of all activities, and all other activities must be organized and conducted in harmony with research. The following items are considered for research purposes:
1. Theorization on the grounds of relations between religion and human sciences;
2. Extraction of Islamic viewpoints about issues and topics of human sciences;
3. Nationalization of human sciences according to Iranian and Islamic culture;
4. Theorization, and expansion of the boundaries of Islamic sciences with modern approaches;
5. Solving the problems of the system with a look at Islamic viewpoints;
B. Educational Goals:
The second group of goals is education. Educational goals consist of postgraduate and doctoral courses. Education is to serve research, in other words it must be "research-oriented", and fulfillment of educational goals should remarkably help fulfillment of research goals. The following items are proposed in relation with educational goals:
1. Development of educational interdisciplinary courses appropriate for the mission of the research institute;
2. Supplying required human forces (researchers and administrative personnel) for the research institute;
3. Training suitable human force for propagation and expansion of the research institute's mission;
C. Cultural Goals:
Cultural works are essential for fulfillment of the research institute's mission, and creation and entrenchment of extroversive spirit in the research institute and its products. Thus cultural goals of the research institute are proposed as following:
Promotion and entrenchment of Islamic viewpoints in:
1. Policymaking centers of the country;
2. Educational and research institutes;
3. Cultural foundations;
Research Institute of Hawzah and University - Daneshgah Blvd - Pardisan - Ghom
P.O. Box: 37185/3151
Fax: 009825-32803090
EMail: info@rihu.ac.ir
Tehran Office:
The Research Institute of Hawzah and University- Osku alley- between Vesal-e Shirazi St. - Enghelab Ave. - Tehran
Tel: 009821-66402600
e-mail Name Title
info@rihu.ac.ir Prof. HasanAgha Nazari Dean of the research institute
info@rihu.ac.ir Dr. AliMohammad Hakimian Vice- Dean for Research
info@rihu.ac.ir Dr. Abbas Shafiee Vice- Dean for Administrative and Financial Affairs
method@rihu.ac.ir Dr. Hamidreza Hassani Editor in chief, Journal - Methodology of Social Sciences and Humanities
jostarha@rihu.ac.ir Prof. Hasan AghaNazari Editor in chief, Journal - Jostarha-ye Eghtesadi
islamicedu@rihu.ac.ir Dr. Mohammad Davoodi Editor in chief, Journal - Islamic Education
Psy@rihu.ac.ir Dr. Mohammad Kaviani Editor in chief, Journal - Islam Studies and Psychology
soci@rihu.ac.ir Dr. Mohammad Davari Editor in chief, Journal of Islam & Social Sciences
islam&management@rihu.ac.ir Dr. Abdollah Tavakoli Editor in chief, Journal of Islam & Management
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Interest in the use of fuel cells is steadily increasing as a result of the shift toward e-mobility and the broader adoption of renewable energy sources. To examine this development, the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT is organizing the first Laser Colloquium Hydrogen LKH2, which will take place in Aachen on March 18, 2020. The event will focus not only on laser cutting and welding of fuel cell components, but also on the execution and monitoring of the entire process chain.
On March 18, 2020, LKH2 attendees will be treated to a wide range of presentations covering the use of laser technology in the realm of hydrogen: the first element in the periodic table is a key element of fuel cells.
Fraunhofer ILT will be holding its Laser Colloquium Hydrogen LKH2 on March 18, 2020. It will focus on laser welding and cutting of bipolar plates and the entire fuel cell manufacturing process chain.
© Fraunhofer ILT, Aachen, Germany
Some experts regard fuel cells as a smart alternative for addressing global mobility challenges due to their high energy efficiency.
The use of hydrogen in fuel cells is attracting increasing attention in numerous applications, especially since it is widely regarded as a useful addition to other activities in the world of e-mobility.
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Growing interest among industry experts, researchers and policymakers
“We’re getting an increasing number of inquiries about fuel cells, hydrogen infrastructure and similar topics,” says André Häusler, team leader for the micro joining of metallic materials at Fraunhofer ILT.
“Policymakers are also paying more attention to this new technology, because when you take into account all the aspects of producing and recycling lithium-ion cells, you start to wonder how sustainable electric drives really are – especially considering the changes that must be made to the power grid.”
Toyota and Hyundai are two companies that have taken these concerns on board. They recently began offering fuel cell vehicles as an integral part of their product range, highlighting the benefits these offer over electric vehicles in terms of both range and ease of energy storage.
It also takes considerably less time to refuel a car with hydrogen than to charge an electric battery.
Highly efficient laser technology available along the entire process chain
Laser technology has a key role to play in fuel cell manufacturing, with highly efficient laser methods now available at every stage of the process chain. The Aachen-based experts are therefore confident that the use of laser technology will continue to expand in this area thanks to its outstanding flexibility and high degree of automation.
Bipolar plates: more work needed on process expertise
The colloquium aims to examine the current state of the art with presentations on topical issues such as the production of bipolar plates. Depending on the specific design in each case, a fuel cell typically consists of around 200 of these catalyst-coated plates, which serve as electrodes.
These require hydrogen-proof seals throughout, potentially leading to seam lengths of over 200 meters for each fuel cell.
Nevertheless, researchers at Fraunhofer ILT recently discovered, much to their surprise, that there are virtually no specialist publications of any major significance on the fabrication and production of bipolar plates.
They were also keenly aware that methods such as laser beam welding have traditionally been too slow to get the job done.
Easily weldable configurations optimize joining processes
This has inspired them to take a closer look at the process. “We aim to work with specialists from industry and research to find out what the key problems currently are,” says Häusler, explaining the motivation behind the project.
“We’ll be tackling issues such as easily weldable designs that facilitate laser joining and the complex laser cutting of prefabricated bipolar plates.”
Users employ both metal and polymer-based bipolar plates, so the colloquium will also include a presentation on laser joining of polymer plates. The Aachen-based team also has its sights set on the end-to-end process, with presentations scheduled to take place on establishing and monitoring process chains in a production setting.
Against this backdrop, funding approval was recently granted for a new project called CoBiP, which aims to create an innovative, turnkey solution for manufacturing high-quality bipolar plates. CoBiP covers all the key processes involved in micro rolling and forming, laser welding, laser cutting and coating.
The goal is to create an adaptable, autonomous solution that will significantly increase the efficiency and quality of the value chain. The project “CoBiP – Continuous roll-to-roll production of bipolar plates for fuel cells” will receive funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) for a period of 3 years and is supervised by the Project Management Jülich (PtJ).
Participating in this project under the leadership of the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT: Institute of Energy and Climate Research – Techno-Economic Systems Analysis (IEK-3) at Forschungszentrum Jülich, e.GO REX GmbH in Aachen, Precors GmbH in Jülich, Matthews International GmbH in Vreden and Fraunhofer ILT in Aachen.
Best practice from industry and research
Fraunhofer ILT is keen to provide a balanced mix of theory, research and practice and has already signed up a number of industry representatives to speak at the colloquium.
These include Gräbener Maschinentechnik from Netphen, a German pioneer in the production of bipolar plates, and plasmo Industrietechnik from Vienna, a company that specializes in a number of different fields, including quality assurance for automated laser welding processes.
The first Laser Colloquium Hydrogen LKH2 will take place at Fraunhofer ILT in Aachen on March 18, 2020. The presentations will be held in German. The registration deadline for the colloquium is February 19, 2020. Early birds who sign up on or before January 16, 2020 will receive a discount. Register online at www.ilt.fraunhofer.de/lkh2
André Häusler M. Sc.
Group Micro Joining
Telephone +49 241 8906-640
andre.haeusler@ilt.fraunhofer.de
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Inosat makes a big impression at Gitex 2013
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Inosat Global was there to show its portfolio of innovative solutions to the Emirati costumers.
GITEX, Middle East’s largest technology tradeshow, counted with a novelty this year: Inosat Global, leading company in fleet management and vehicle tracking with GPS and GSM technology, was there to show its portfolio of innovative solutions to the Emirati costumers. Inosat and its UAE partner, Gulfnet Security Systems, were available to answer to the big demand and curiosity among prospective clients.
Additionally, GITEX was an important step for Inosat to consolidate its expansion vision in the Middle East as this tradeshow works as a showroom for the entire MENA region. Hosted in Dubai and launched in 1981, GITEX is the ICT business gateway to the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia Region. It is an annual international trading hub for the global technology sector. GITEX acts as both an inbound sourcing platform for the entire Middle East region and the eminent source for anyone interested in doing business in the region.
Analyzing the presence at GITEX, Inosat’s CEO, Tiago Borges, highlighted that “GCC countries will be investing more than $2.5 Trillion in construction projects until 2022, and their number of professional vehicles in use has increased by 50% in the last 5 years. As a consequence, Inosat has received visitors from more than 20 countries, which illustrates the high demand for our products from local companies and public entities”. Tiago Borges stated that “expectations were clearly surpassed in this first presence at GITEX and we will definitely come back in 2014”.
Inosat has experienced accelerated growth of its international presence. The company currently manages more than 70,000 vehicles worldwide and INOSAT clients are making optimal management of their fleets by using Inofleet’s innovative features. Inosat develops all its technology, both software and hardware, which provides great flexibility in adapting to client’s most demanding and specific needs.
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The queen of England is a cannibal and Finland doesn't exist — these are the 12 wildest conspiracy theories on the internet
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Welcome to the internet, where incredulity and paranoia loom large. Here, you'll find no shortage of theories expounding on the non-existence of celebrities and detailed analysis on the many ways in which we've been lied to by the government (which, in turn, has been lied to by the elite reptile overlords who really rule the earth).
Here are a few of the strangest ideologies currently occupying the web:
1. Melania Trump has a doppelganger who follows the president around on official business.
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In October, several people took to Twitter to question the real identity of the woman trailing behind the president during a White House press chat. Twitter users compared side by side photos of the "real Melania" and the "Melania double" and came to an official assessment: there's a slightly shorter First Lady lookalike.
2. J.K. Rowling doesn't actually exist.
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In 2005, Norwegian filmmaker Nina Grünfeld argued that the Harry Potter series had been created by an entire industry of writers, and that the woman known as J.K. Rowling was only a front. "Is it possible that a person can write six thick books that are translated into 55 languages and sell more than 250 million copies in less than 10 years?" Grünfeld asked.
3. Finland doesn't exist either.
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This theory evolved on Reddit in 2015, when a user called "Raregans" suggested that Finland was a fabricated landmass, dreamed up by the Japanese and Soviet Union during the Cold War in an effort to secure fishing rights in the Baltic Sea.
Raregans suggested the people who populate the country known as Finland actually belong to the nations of Sweden, Estonia, and Russia.
4. An elite cohort of reptiles rule the earth, and Justin Bieber is among them.
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A Public Policy Survey in 2016 found that nearly 12 million people believe that an elite class of space-traveling lizards rule the earth. Among these lizards is Justin Bieber, who was reported earlier this year shape-shifting mid-concert into a giant reptile with "big scaly claws" and "a black stripe down its middle."
5. Queen Elizabeth is a cannibal.
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Ever wondered how the queen of England has managed to live so long? British historian Hubert Humdinger has the answer: "She must eat human flesh to be so vivacious." In 2012, the site Dear Dirty America claimed to have "confirmed" Humdinger's reports when a serviceman at Windsor Castle claimed to discover human remains inside the queen's "private freezer."
6. The ice bucket challenge was really a Satanic ritual.
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When the ice bucket challenge began circulating the web in 2014, a number of suspicious theories came with it. Several critics took to YouTube hoping to reveal the true motivations behind the challenge, with many of them claiming the ALS benefit was a ritual purification cleansing for what would be the largest human sacrifice in history, part of a hidden Illuminati code passed down by Satan himself.
7. NASA knows about a second sun, and they've hidden it from us.
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When NASA reported the discovery of a Planet 9 in 2016, astronomer Paul Cox took to the internet to speculate that the planet was actually a second sun. In a live video posted to a robotic telescope service site called Slooh, Cox examined Mercury's transits and pointed out a second sun. "NASA and other organizations, they usually hide that stuff away from us," Cox said. "They don't tell us the truth, but there it is."
8. Michelle Obama is a man, and s/he murdered Joan Rivers.
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InfoWars' Alex Jones came up with this theory up in 2016: After Joan Rivers joked that Michelle Obama was a transgender woman, the Obamas had her assassinated.
9. The earth is flat.
A map citing the biblical evidence for a flat earth from 1893.
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After the solar eclipse in August, a number of flat-earth conspiracists, or "flat earthers," took to the internet to disprove the spherical shape of the planet. The theory is experiencing a modern-day resurgence, with flat-earther YouTube channels and subreddits like /r/flatearth flourishing with thousands of members online.
10. The Israeli government has a pack of evil, GPS-equipped sharks that they use against their enemies.
After a series of shark attacks off the coast of Egypt in 2010, a South Sinai official blamed Israel's government. From there, theories spread online: Israel was accused of possessing a fleet of "killer arrow" armed "spy dolphins" and a pack of sharks "equipped with GPS systems" that were sent to Egypt with an evil master plan.
11. The UN is plotting to kill us all.
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For years, a UN-backed sustainable development plan called Agenda 21 has faced suspicious criticism: According to a large spectrum of the internet, Agenda 21 is really the Illuminati's covert plan to kill off the majority of the earth's population.
12. Robert Kardashian and Ted Cruz are the same person.
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This conspiracy claims Robert Kardashian isn't actually dead, but rather he's just been traipsing around in the guise of Ted Cruz in order to sever ties with the Kardashian clan and enter into a career in politics.
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Neuromorphic Computing
Beyond Today’s AI
New algorithmic approaches emulate the human brain’s interactions with the world.
The emergent capabilities in artificial intelligence being driven by Intel Labs have more in common with human cognition than with conventional computer logic.
Neuromorphic computing research emulates the neural structure of the human brain.
The Loihi research chip includes 130,000 neurons optimized for spiking neural networks.
Intel Labs is making Loihi-based systems available to the global research community.
Probabilistic computing addresses the fundamental uncertainty and noise of natural data.
Collaborations on next-generation AI extend to worldwide industry and academic researchers.
What Is Neuromorphic Computing
The first generation of AI was rules-based and emulated classical logic to draw reasoned conclusions within a specific, narrowly defined problem domain. It was well suited to monitoring processes and improving efficiency, for example. The second, current generation is largely concerned with sensing and perception, such as using deep-learning networks to analyze the contents of a video frame.
A coming next generation will extend AI into areas that correspond to human cognition, such as interpretation and autonomous adaptation. This is critical to overcoming the so-called “brittleness” of AI solutions based on neural network training and inference, which depend on literal, deterministic views of events that lack context and commonsense understanding. Next-generation AI must be able to address novel situations and abstraction to automate ordinary human activities.
Intel Labs is driving computer-science research that contributes to this third generation of AI. Key focus areas include neuromorphic computing, which is concerned with emulating the neural structure and operation of the human brain, as well as probabilistic computing, which creates algorithmic approaches to dealing with the uncertainty, ambiguity, and contradiction in the natural world.
Neuromorphic Computing Research Focus
The key challenges in neuromorphic research are matching a human's flexibility, and ability to learn from unstructured stimuli with the energy efficiency of the human brain. The computational building blocks within neuromorphic computing systems are logically analogous to neurons. Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are a novel model for arranging those elements to emulate natural neural networks that exist in biological brains.
Each “neuron” in the SNN can fire independently of the others, and doing so, it sends pulsed signals to other neurons in the network that directly change the electrical states of those neurons. By encoding information within the signals themselves and their timing, SNNs simulate natural learning processes by dynamically remapping the synapses between artificial neurons in response to stimuli.
Producing a Silicon Foundation for Brain-Inspired Computation
To provide functional systems for researchers to implement SNNs, Intel Labs designed Loihi, its fifth-generation self-learning neuromorphic research test chip, which was introduced in November 2017. This 128-core design is based on a specialized architecture that is optimized for SNN algorithms and fabricated on 14nm process technology. Loihi supports the operation of SNNs that do not need to be trained in the conventional manner of a convolutional neural network, for example. These networks also become more capable (“smarter”) over time.
The Loihi chip includes a total of some 130,000 neurons, each of which can communicate with thousands of others. Developers can access and manipulate on-chip resources programmatically by means of a learning engine that is embedded in each of the 128 cores. Because the hardware is optimized specifically for SNNs, it supports dramatically accelerated learning in unstructured environments for systems that require autonomous operation and continuous learning, with extremely low power consumption, plus high performance and capacity.
Intel Labs is committed to enabling the research community at large with access to test systems based on Loihi. Because the technology is still in a research phase (as opposed to production), there are only a limited number of Loihi-based test systems in existence; in order to expand access, Intel Labs has developed a cloud-based platform for research community access to scalable Loihi-based infrastructure.
Intel Corporation's self-learning neuromorphic research chip, code-named "Loihi." (Credit: Intel Corporation)
Advancing Neuromorphic Computing as a Cross-Disciplinary Challenge
Neuromorphic computing develops at the intersection of diverse research disciplines, including computational neuroscience, machine learning, microelectronics, and computer architecture, among others. Intel Labs has established the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community, a collaborative research effort that brings together academic, government, and industry entities to work on complementary architectures, tools, and approaches that enable neuromorphic computing as a whole.
The community works to abstract principles of neuroscience and adapt them to practical computational technology. For example, producing more advanced SNN algorithms is a key area of focus, including the development of programming models and tools. In particular, it drives experimentation and development with the Loihi research chip, including applications to solve real-world problems and mechanisms for interfacing systems based on SNNs with external data and computing systems.
Members of the community agree to an open and collaborative approach where they will share the outcomes of their research. Intel Labs facilitates some research efforts within the community by means of funding and access to Loihi development systems.
Probabilistic Computing Research Focus
The fundamental uncertainty and noise that are modulated into natural data are a key challenge for the advancement of AI. Algorithms must become adept at tasks based on natural data, which humans manage intuitively but computer systems have difficulty with.
Having the capability to understand and compute with uncertainties will enable intelligent applications in diverse AI domains. For example, in medical imaging, based on the uncertainty measures one can prioritize which images a radiologist needs to look at and show on the image regions highlighted with low uncertainty. In case of smart assistant at home, an agent can interact with the user by asking clarifying questions to get better understanding of a request when there is a high uncertainty in the intent recognition.
In the autonomous vehicles domain, the systems piloting autonomous cars have many tasks that are well suited to conventional computing, such as navigating along a GPS route and controlling speed. The current state of AI enables the systems to recognize and respond to their surroundings, such as avoiding collision with an unexpected pedestrian.
To advance those capabilities into the realm of fully autonomous driving, however, the algorithms must incorporate the type of expertise that humans develop as experienced drivers. The sensors like GPS, cameras, etc. exhibit uncertainty in their position estimates. Also the ball that children are playing with in a nearby yard could roll into the street and one of the kids may decide to chase it. It’s wise to be wary of an aggressive driver in the next lane. In these cycles of perception and response, both the inputs and the outputs carry a degree of uncertainty. The decision making in such scenarios depends on the perception and understanding of the environment to predict future events in order to decide on the correct course of action. The perception and understanding tasks need to be aware of the uncertainty inherent in such tasks.
Managing and Modeling Uncertainty
Probabilistic computing generally addresses problems of dealing with uncertainty, which is inherently built into natural data. There are two main ways the uncertainly plays a role in AI systems:
Uncertainty in perception and recognition of natural data. The contributing sources include input uncertainty arising from hardware sensors and environment, as well as the recognition model uncertainty because of the disparity in training data and the data being recognized.
Uncertainty in understating and predicting dynamic events. Human movement and intent prediction is one example where such uncertainty is exhibited. Any agent trying to predict such dynamic events needs to model human intent and understand the uncertainties in the model. Observations can then be used to continuously reduce the uncertainties for efficient intent & goal prediction.
Key problems in this area revolve around efficiently characterizing and quantifying uncertainty, incorporating that uncertainty into computations and outcomes, and storing a model of those interacting uncertainties with the corresponding data.
One implication of the fact that outputs are expressed as probabilities, rather than deterministic values, is that all conclusions are tentative and associated with specific degrees of confidence. To extend the autonomous driving example above, the children’s ball disappearing from view or increasingly erratic behavior by the aggressive driver might increase confidence that such a potential hazard will require a response.
In addition to enabling intuition and prediction in AI, probabilistic methods can also be used to impart a degree of transparency to existing AI recognition systems that tend to operate as a black box. For example, today’s Deep Learning engines output a result without a measure of uncertainty. Probabilistic methods can augment such engines to output a principled uncertainty estimate along with the result making it possible for an application to decide the reliability of the prediction. Making uncertainty visible helps to establish trust in the AI system’s confidence in decision making.
Whereas deterministic processes have predictable, repeatable outcomes, probabilistic ones do not, because of random influences that cannot be known or measured. This process of incorporating the noise, uncertainties, and contradictions of natural data is a vital aspect of building computers capable of human (or super-human) levels of understanding, prediction, and decision-making. This work builds on prior applications of randomness in data analysis, such as the well-established use of Monte Carlo algorithms to model probability.
Enabling a Probabilistic Computing Ecosystem
In addition to its main thrust—dealing with incomplete, uncertain data—probabilistic computing depends for its success on being integrated collaboratively and holistically into the broader universe of computing technology. Intel Labs is helping to build the necessary bridges across entities in academia and industry through the Intel Strategic Research Alliance for Probabilistic Computing.
This research initiative is dedicated to advancing probabilistic computing from the lab to reality, by integrating probability and randomness into fundamental hardware and software building blocks. Drawing together and enabling research in these areas, the Alliance works toward engineering the capacities for perception and judgment to enable next-generation AI.
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The pyrite remediation scheme is a scheme of last resort which aims to repair certain homes affected by significant pyritic damage where the homeowners have no other practicable option for redress. The scheme has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Pyrite Resolution Act 2013 and began accepting applications on 26 February 2014.
Pyrite Resolution Board
The Pyrite Resolution Board was first established in early 2013 and was placed on a statutory footing on 10 January 2014 under the Pyrite Resolution Act 2013 .
The Board is responsible for directing and overseeing the implementation of the pyrite remediation scheme and is being assisted in this regard by the Housing Agency.
Pyrite Panel
An independent Pyrite Panel was established by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in September 2011 to investigate the problems caused by pyritic heave in certain dwellings in Ireland. The Report of the Pyrite Panel (pdf,12.06MB) was published in June 2012.
Pyrite Resolution Act
The Pyrite Resolution Act 2013 provides for the establishment of the Pyrite Resolution Board and for the making of a pyrite remediation scheme for certain dwellings affected by pyrite. The Act came into effect on 10 January 2014.
Pyrite Resolution (Standard for Testing) Regulations 2017
The Pyrite Resolution (Standard for Testing) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 556 of 2017) provides that pursuant to section 14(9) (a) of the Pyrite Resolution Act 2013, the “standard for testing” for the purpose of the Act shall be Irish Standard 398-1:2017 - Reactive pyrite in sub-floor hardcore material — Part 1: Testing and categorisation protocol, as published by the National Standards Authority of Ireland on 4 August 2017.The operative date of these Regulations is 15 December 2017.
Local Property Tax (pyrite exemption)
The Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 (as amended) provides for a temporary exemption of at least six consecutive years from the local property tax for certain residential properties where:
a certificate of damage has been completed;
a dwelling has been accepted into the pyrite remediation scheme;
an insurance company has remediated a dwelling; and
the builder / developer has remediated the dwelling.
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Mykenna Dorn (left) from Langley and Alexis Thind from Whistler have been revealed as two of the contestants on the upcoming season of ABC’s The Bachelor. (The Bachelor/Facebook)
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Mykenna Dorn and Alexis Thind will compete for bachelor Peter Weber’s heart
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Two women from British Columbia have been chosen as contestants for the 24th season of ABC’s The Bachelor.
The popular reality dating show revealed the women who were selected on their Facebook page in an album asking “who gets your first impression rose?”
Among the 33 women profiled in the album are Mykenna Dorn from Langley and Alexis Thind from Whistler.
Dorn, 22, is a blogger and influencer on social media, with more than 40,000 followers on her Instagram, which she recently set to private.
In her bio she describes herself as a dancer, “grape supporter,” West Coast girl, Grey’s (Anatomy) super fan and a “single pringle.”
Her blog is dedicated to fashion, beauty, her “single life struggles” and “all things wine.”
In a blog post from October of last year she writes about her desire to be on reality dating show.
“I will be on the Bachelor soon, mark my words.”
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Meanwhile, Thind is a pilot from Whistler and a graduate of the University of British Columbia.
She was inspired to get her pilot’s license by her late father, according to her profile on Give Hope Wings, a charity that offers free flights for patients in rural communities needing medical care.
Thind’s father was a pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force and Air Canada.
“Before my dad passed, I made a promise to him that I would strive to be the kind of daughter and pilot that would make him proud,” she wrote in her profile with the charity.
Dave McElroy, a pilot with Give Hope Wings, shared on Facebook when Thind learned she would be a contestant on the show.
“Who knew, when she read us that message from the Bachelor producer on that rainy, windy day at that remote gravel runway at Gamma Rae, NWT, that 80 days later she would be in Hollywood, Who knew?”
Both women are set to vie for the heart of airline pilot Peter Weber, a former contestant on The Bachelorette.
The 28-year-old from Westlake Village, Calif. was sent home by recent bachelorette Hannah Brown.
The 24th season of The Bachelor is set to air in January.
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Peter Weber, 28, was sent home by Hannah Brown on the recent season of ABC’s The Bachelorette and will now try to find love on The Bachelor. (The Bachelor/Facebook)
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Deutsche Bank says automation will bring thousands of layoffs
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Deutsche Bank's CEO, John Cryan, says the company plans to make massive job cuts, reports Fortune. He warned about automation taking over jobs in the banking industry and the cost savings it would create as a result.
According to Fortune, Cryan is under pressure from stockholders to cut costs. Cryan said automation will not only help the bank save money, but also make it operate more efficiently.
Cryan noted that most banks employ about half the number of his 97,000 workers, according to the report.
Automation is expected to replace many retail jobs, and is expected to take hold of the banking industry, as well. Automation has been used in manufacturing for decades and could claim even more jobs. Finance was one of the first targets of automation due to a computer's ability to more accurately and more quickly calculate numbers.
Jobs with repetitive tasks, such as cashier and other clerical positions, are prime targets for computerization. The challenge for employers and workers is to ready their workers through training and upskilling, which employers can jumpstart by being transparent about which tasks may soon be automated.
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Pakistan Calls India 'Mother Of Terrorism' In South Asia, Demands UN Intervention
She said the ‘largest democracy’ is also “the world’s largest hypocrisy” and it’s ruled by the “fascist” ideology.
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Pakistan on Sunday accused India of adopting a posture of a 'predator' and said if the international community wishes to avoid a dangerous escalation between the two neighbours, it must call on New Delhi to halt its provocations and aggressive actions.
Terming India as the "mother of terrorism" in South Asia, Pakistan's Ambassador to the UN Maleeha Lodhi accused it's neighbour of sponsoring terrorism in various parts of her country.
Exercising her right to reply after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday hit out at Pakistan for creating terror groups like LeT, JeM, Hizbul Mujahideen and the Haqqani Network, Lodhi alleged that "in her vitriol she (Swaraj) deliberately ignored the core issue" of Kashmir.
Swaraj in her remarks did not mention Kashmir.
"If the international community wishes to avoid a dangerous escalation between India and Pakistan, it must call on India to halt its provocations and aggressive actions. It must end the ceasefire violations along the Line of Control. It must halt its sponsorship of terrorist groups against Pakistan," Lodhi said.
Given that such responses are normally given by a low level foreign service official, it was quite significant that the top Pakistani diplomat took up the floor to launch a verbal dual against India.
India did not immediately exercise its right to response to Lodhi's remarks, in which Pakistan for the second time accused the National Security Advisor Ajit K Doval of interfering in Balochistan.
Lodhi said if the parties fail to resolve a dispute, the UN and the international community has not only the right but the obligation to intervene and help to resolve the dispute.
"UN Security Council resolutions do not lapse with time. Or are 'overtaken', as the Indian foreign minister put it. Law has no expiry date. Morality has no sell-by date. India's posture is that of the predator. It cannot escape its legal and moral obligation to abide by the resolutions of the Security Council," she said.
Referring to Swaraj's remarks on terrorism and her push for a definition, Lodhi said the UN should actually define terrorism.
"In that definition, we should include 'state terrorism'. The state terrorism which the Indian National Security Adviser has boasted is being sponsored by India's spy agencies in Pakistan's Balochistan province in what he called a 'double squeeze' strategy," she alleged.
"India has sponsored and perpetrated terrorism and aggression against all its neighbours; creating terror groups; destabilising and blockading neighbours to do its strategic bidding and sponsoring subversion, sabotage and terrorism in various parts of Pakistan. All this establishes that India is the mother of terrorism in South Asia," she alleged.
She said the 'largest democracy' is also "the world's largest hypocrisy" and it's ruled by the "fascist" ideology. Lodhi alleged that Swaraj in her speech criticised Pakistan's founding father M A Jinnah.
She also said Pakistan remains open to resuming a comprehensive dialogue with India to address all outstanding issues, especially Jammu and Kashmir and discuss measures to maintain peace and security.
"But this dialogue must be accompanied by an end to India's campaign of subversion and state sponsored terrorism in Pakistan," she demanded.
In her speech, Swaraj had said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered the hand of peace and friendship since he assumed office. "Pakistan's Prime Minister must answer why his nation spurned this offer," she had said.
Swaraj reminded Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi that in December 2015, when she was in Islamabad, a decision was made by then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that dialogue between India and Pakistan should be renewed and named it a "Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue".
"The word 'bilateral' was used consciously to remove any confusion or doubt about the fact that the proposed talks would be between our two nations and only between our two nations, without any third-party present. And he must answer why that proposal withered, because Pakistan is responsible for the aborting that peace process," Swaraj had said.
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Hyundai wins a triple at Next Green Car Awards
Hyundai Motor UK has won three major titles at the Next Green Car Awards; Manufacturer of the Year, Car of the Year and Family Car of the Year 2018
Overall Car of the Year and Family Car of the Year went to the revolutionary Kona Electric, capable of 449 kilometers (279 miles) of zero emissions range
Judges praised Kona Electric for bringing long-distance EV technology to the mass market with outstanding value for money and practicality
Hyundai continues to invest in low emissions technology, launching the NEXO Fuel Cell Vehicle in early 2019, and a total of 18 electrified models by 2025
13 December 2018 - Hyundai Motor UK has won three major titles at the annual Next Green Car Awards, including the flagship Manufacturer of the Year and Car of the Year awards.
These most recent wins come hot on the heels of Hyundai being named Electric Vehicle Manufacturer of the Year at the GreenFleet Awards.
It was the revolutionary Kona Electric singled out by Next Green Car Awards judges for special praise, picking up both Car of the Year and Family Car of the Year awards. Its extraordinary value for money and family-friendly practicality elevated it above all other contenders in the eyes of the Next Green Car experts.
With its 279-mile range, the Hyundai Kona Electric represents outstanding value for money when compared with rival offerings. As the first to bring a long-distance EV to mass-market customers – and with such a capable package – Hyundai’s Kona Electric is NGC's Car of the Year 2018.
The Next Green Car Awards team
Kona Electric is the latest electrified model from Hyundai, joining the IONIQ in the line-up – the world’s first car to be available with three separate electric powertrains; hybrid, plug-in hybrid or fully electric.
It was Hyundai’s pioneering work in electrified powertrains, and the broad array of low emissions offerings in the range that led to Next Green Car Awards judges naming Hyundai as their Manufacturer of the Year.
While Hyundai's Kona Electric has been making headlines this year, the company's plug-in activities are far more significant than just one model. Now with the IONIQ Electric, IONIQ Plug-In, and Kona Electric, Hyundai is becoming a class-leading electric brand.
Hyundai continues to invest in low and zero emissions powertrains, and is the only manufacturer to offer hybrid, plug-in hybrid, fully electric and Fuel Cell options. The NEXO Fuel Cell Vehicle is due to go on sale early in 2019. NEXO even cleans the air as it drives, cleaning nearly a tonne of fine particulates from London’s air during October’s ‘Clean Driving Month’.
We have a very clear mission to become a world-leader in electrified and fuel cell vehicles, and it gives me great pleasure to see that the big strides we have already achieved are gaining recognition. Our electric offerings, including Kona and IONIQ, represent extremely good value for money, are packed full of the latest technology and come as standard with the peace-of-mind that’s afforded by Hyundai’s five-year unlimited mileage and eight-year or 125,000-mile high voltage battery warranty. The future of both our fuel cell and other electrified powertrains is taking shape as we speak, but I guarantee you there’s much more to come.
Tony WhitehornHyundai Motor UK President and CEO
Hyundai Motor Group recently revealed plans to secure a 500,000-units-a–year fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) production capacity by 2030, including passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles, in anticipation of high demand for global FCEVs, expanding to around two million units a year within that timeframe.
Hyundai’s commitment to reducing emissions across its line-up will see a total of 18 new electrified models introduced to the range by 2025, with three new fully electric vehicles by 2022.
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iPhone storage problems? Here's the reason why you run out of space - and how to fix it
Bloated iOS apps like Snapchat now take up 51 times more space than in 2013.
By Alistair Charlton
Updated June 29, 2017 12:05 BST
Do you find your iPhone Bloated applications are filling up iPhones more quickly than ever, as Facebook, Netflix, Snapchat and Instagram are all found guilty of taking up far more storage than just four years ago.
The 10 most popular iPhone apps on the US App Store took up just 164MB of space in May 2013, but in four years this has ballooned to 1.9GB, an increase of 1,100%.
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Research conducted by SensorTower found Snapchat to be the biggest offender, growing from 4MB to 203MB in four years, as extra features and the iPhone's increased screen resolution have caused the app to hog 51 times more storage than in 2013.
Apple allows application distributed through the App Store to be as large as 4GB at the time of purchase, a limit which was doubled by Apple in early 2015.
Over the same period it was found that Uber increased 22 times, Gmail by 20 times, Facebook Messenger by 15 times and Facebook itself 12 times.
iPhone apps have grown massively over the last four years, research has found Reuters
Facebook also takes the crown for being the largest of the 10 most popular iOS apps, at 388MB, up from 32MB in 2013. During just one update in September 2016 it grew by 100MB.
Apple is aware of the problem, having finally ditched the 16GB storage option when the iPhone 6S gave way to the iPhone 7, which starts at 32GB, in 2016. The two options above that are 128GB and 256GB.
Research by SensorTower reveals how much iOS apps have grown in size since 2013 SensorTower
But without a microSD card slot, which rivals like the Samsung Galaxy S8 have to add up to an additional 256GB, the cheapest iPhone still lag some way behind the competition.
To help improve this situation, iOS 11, which will be available to the public in the autumn, has a feature suggesting you delete apps not used for some time. This removes the core features of the app, but retains its settings and associated data to make reinstalling easy. This core is limited by Apple to 100MB, however, so the feature's effect is likely to mean little to all but the most space-strapped users.
How to free up space on your iPhone and iPad
In the meantime, a quick way to free-up space on your iOS device would be to delete large apps you don't use anymore, or could do without. To do this go to Settings>General>Storage>Manage storage. You'll see the apps in a list below with the ones taking up the most amount of space in descending order. Tap the ones you want to lose and hit delete.
This article was first published on June 23, 2017
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You've got 500 cc of liquid-cooled Harley-Davidson® V-twin engine and attitude ready to be unleashed on your city.
Authentic H-D Features
True Harley-Davidson Sound: Some motorcycles make noise. The Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle makes sound. The deep, thumping Harley-Davidson rumble that doesn’t demand attention, but gets it anyway. We take the sound of every motorcycle we make very seriously. And tune it to perfection in our state-of-the-art sound facility in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin USA. When you hear the sound pouring out of the upswept muffler on the Street 500 model, you’ll have no doubt we took the time to get it right. This is the note that instantly says “Harley-Davidson”. There is no mistaking it. Real, authentic and instantly credible on the street.
Premium Harley-Davidson Details: The pride that comes from owning a Harley-Davidson motorcycle doesn’t go up and down with the price of the machine. Because if we’re going to build a motorcycle, we build it right. We don’t cut corners. We don’t skimp. Check out the details on the Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle if you have any question about that. Yes, it’s an affordable motorcycle, but the kind of details and craftsmanship you expect from a Harley-Davidson are all there. Steel teardrop tank. Steel fenders. Premium paint. Chrome tank emblem. Painstaking fit and finish. The list goes on. Long story short, we never settle for “good enough”. Life is too short for that.
Metal Teardrop Tank and Fenders: A Harley-Davidson fuel tank has to answer a higher calling than just holding gasoline. And Harley-Davidson fenders have to do more than keep what’s on the road off of you. This isn’t just about transportation. This is about a machine that stirs your soul. That’s why the teardrop fuel tank and fenders on the new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle are metal. This is about riding the real steel. You can’t build that with plastic.
Café Inspired Speed Screen: Note the café inspired speed screen on the new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle. This is a look that was born in the outlaw street custom culture of the ‘70’s brought forward for modern times. Our roots run deep into the history of custom motorcycles. Sometimes that history rides again in a whole new way.
LED Taillight and Mini Bullet Turn Signals: A LED tail light and mini-bullet turn signals come standard on the new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle. Sleek, modern, custom touches like this are what put the distance between the Street 500 motorcycle and the common machines you see rolling up and down the boulevard.
Belt Final Drive: Power on the new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle gets to the rear wheel via smooth, low-maintenance, rock-solid belt final drive. There’s no chain to tighten or oil. This technology has been proven over billions of miles by millions of riders. There’s no better way to get power to the pavement.
Locking Gas Cap, Fork Lock and Ignition Lock: The new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle features a locking gas cap, a fork lock that prevents the front wheel from being turned when it’s engaged and an ignition lock.
Premium Paint: The new Harley-Davidson Street™ 500 motorcycle gets the kind of paint that has made Harley-Davidson the benchmark for color on a motorcycle for as long as anyone can remember. You can expect deep, rich paint polished to a flawless finish. We take fanatical pride in the work we do in our paint shop. That’s one more reason you can take fanatical pride in the Street 500 when it’s parked on the curb at your address.
Custom Soul Features
Revolution X Engine Styling: Let your eye take a run over the new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle. This is an exercise in blacked-out, Harley-Davidson Dark Custom™ style and aggression. It starts with the finish on the all-new Revolution X engine. Notice the blacked-out heads and the black air cleaner cover. And the black cylinders highlighted by polished metal fins to bring out the aggressive lines of this iconic 60-degree V-twin. The Street 500 motorcycle is a dark take on pure, stripped-down street custom attitude. The Revolution X engine sets the stage. It just keeps getting darker from there.
Black Two Into One Exhaust: You’re looking at the first all-black exhaust to roll out of a Harley-Davidson factory since the ‘70’s, when it debuted on the original Café Racer. Black pipes frame the blacked-out Revolution X V-twin engine and feed into an aggressive, upswept black muffler. There’s no chrome to polish here. Just raw, blacked-out custom attitude.
Black Cast Aluminum Wheels: The new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle rolls through the city on black cast aluminum wheels. If you’re the type of rider who likes a dark, aggressive, no-nonsense look, these are the type of wheels you’ll like.
Blacked-Out Front End: Stand in front of the new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle and give it the once over. You’ll notice a black café inspired speed screen, black fork gators and lowers. Even the pullback handlebars are black. All that black is there for a reason. This is the latest Harley-Davidson Dark Custom motorcycle. Stripped down, raw, aggressive. And featuring plenty of black.
New Chrome Tank Medallion: The piece of chrome you’ll notice standing out on the new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle is the all new Harley-Davidson tank medallion. Where other manufacturers might put a decal, we put a three-dimensional steel badge. And then make it shine to match the pride that comes from riding a premium machine through the streets of your city.
A Blank Canvas for Customizing: We didn’t design the new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle to be completely finished when it rolls out of the factory. We designed it to be the ultimate platform for your own custom style and attitude. Your dealer can show you a whole range of custom accessories for adding your personal touch. Once you start, there’s no limit to how far you can go.
Urban Mobility Features
All-New Liquid-Cooled Revolution X™ Engine: The all-new liquid-cooled Revolution X engine that powers the Harley-Davidson Street™ 500 motorcycle is 494 cc of genuine Harley-Davidson® V-twin built to thrive in high temperatures and heavy traffic. Liquid-cooling means it maintains temperature and performance. Bring on the stop-and-go traffic. The Street 500 stays cool and ready to respond instantly to your throttle hand. And you can count on this: every cubic centimeter of the 494 cc Revolution X engine is pure Harley-Davidson. 60-degree cylinders. 4 valves per head. And plenty of low-end torque. You don’t have to be winding the RPMs up to five figures to feel the strength and character of this engine. It’s built to give you a soul-satisfying ride at the kind of RPMs you find yourself riding at on city streets.
Six-Speed Transmission: The new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle gives you six gears to work with when you’re out tearing up the city streets. A smooth-shifting 6-speed transmission makes it easy to stay in the powerband when traffic is stop-and-go. And when the road opens up, sixth gear lets you drop the engine into a nice, easy groove for a long, comfortable ride at highway speeds.
Light Lift Off Force: Low weight and a low center of gravity mean it doesn’t take a lot of muscle to tip the new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle up off its side stand. This bike is easy to handle. Even when it’s stopped.
Low Seat Height 25.7 Inches: When you’re astride the new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle, the ground is within easy reach of your boot soles. The seat height is just 25.7 inches. And the frame and seat are narrow, which makes for an even easier reach. The advantages of a low seat also shine when the light turns green. It gives you a low center of gravity for confidence when you’re negotiating traffic, just rolling slow through a parking lot looking for a spot.
Mid-Mount Controls: Slightly forward mid-mount foot controls on the new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle put you in a riding position that keeps you comfortable, but confident and ready to maneuver. The mid-mount controls also keep the ground in easy reach when it’s time to stop. In 110 years, we’ve tried every different riding position known to riders. This one works in the urban grid.
Easy Lock-To-Lock Handlebar Sweep: Bring on any obstacle the city can throw in your path. Quick turns and moves come easy on the new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle. The pullback handlebar and light front end make sweeping the steering from lock to lock light and easy.
Low Speed Maneuverability: The rake and trail angles on the front end of the new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle are optimized for low speed maneuverability. So at low speeds, the ride is predictable.
Single Disc Brakes with Dual Piston Caliper: Confidence in your brakes is the flip side of confidence in your engine. If you want a great ride, you need to have both. The Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle gives you fast-stopping single disc brakes with dual piston calipers.
Skinny 17-Inch Front Wheel, 15-Inch Rear Wheel: Out front on the new Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle you’ve got a skinny 17-inch wheel. It’s the ultimate combination of a skinny width for light handling and a large diameter for getting over and around rough urban infrastructure. It’s matched to a 15-inch wheel in the rear. We built this motorcycle for the city. And these wheels are rolling proof of that fact.
60.4-Inch Wheelbase: On tight streets, you need a motorcycle built to execute tight turns and nimble moves. With a wheelbase of just 60.4 inches, the Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle is made for maneuvering in small spaces. The wheelbase also means the machine responds quickly to your inputs at higher speeds.
Specially Tuned Shocks: Like everything else on the Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle, the shocks are built to meet the demands of urban riding. They’re dialed in for the weight of the bike, the geometry of the frame, the position of the rider and rough, urban pavement. You get excellent handling and a smooth ride.
2-Up Seat with Passenger Footpegs: You might start out the evening riding solo, but there's always the chance you're not going to end it that way. A two-up seat with footpegs for your passenger means you can invite someone to go for a ride. Or say "Hop on" when someone asks.
3.5-Inch Electronic Speedometer: The Harley-Davidson Street 500 motorcycle gives you a handlebar mounted, 3.5-inch electronic speedometer with odometer, trip meter and LED indicator lights. It’s all the information you need, in a clean tight package.
Street™ 500
2-piston floated front and rear
Front & Rear: Black, 7-spoke cast aluminum
Front: 100/80 R17 Rear: 140/75 R15
455 lbs. (206 kg) dry 489 lbs. (222 kg) running order
25.7 in. (654 mm) laden 27.9 in. (709 mm) unladen
Gear, 36/68 ratio
High beam, neutral, low oil pressure, turn signals, engine diagnostics, low fuel warning
Revolution X™ V-twin
30 ci (494 cc)
2.72 x 2.6 in. (69 x 66 mm)
29.5 ft. lbs. (40 Nm) @ 3,500 rpm
Mikuni single port fuel injection, 35 mm bore
Black 2 into 1
64 mpg (3.7 l/100 km) combined city / highway
Vivid Black, Black Denim
Iron Steed Harley-Davidson®
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Palestine Calls for ICC Investigation into Israeli Crimes
Posted by: Abdullah Izzadin in Middle East, News, News Views, Palestine 24/05/2018 0
The Palestinian Authority (PA) this week submitted a referral to the International Criminal Court, calling for an immediate investigation into the atrocities routinely carried out by the Israeli Government.[1] The referral comes on the back of over 100 Palestinian deaths following weekly demonstrations at the Gaza border, in which Israeli forces used live ammunition on protesting civilians, bringing about worldwide condemnation of the Zionist state.[2]
Speaking at The Hague on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Malki said:
“Through this referral, we want the Office of the Prosecutor to open, without delay, an investigation into all crimes that she presently concludes have been commissioned or are ongoing. This referral is Palestine’s test to the international mechanism of accountability and respect for international law.” [3]
“We believe there is ample and insurmountable evidence to that effect and we believe that proceeding with an investigation is the right and needed course of action. Further delaying justice for Palestinian victims is also tantamount to denial of justice.” [4]
Whilst the Israelis have never recognised the ICC’s authority, the fact that the “State of Palestine” was granted membership to the ICC in 2015 means that Israeli nationals can still be prosecuted for any crimes committed on Palestinian territories since June 2014, which includes Israel’s assault on Gaza that year. The ICC’s remit includes prosecuting those accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes,[5] and hence it is no surprise that the Zionist state has avoided its recognition.
The ICC has been looking at the matter for some years in what is a “preliminary examination”, but the move by the PA is expected to exert significant pressure on chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to progress to a full investigation, which she had previously been left to do on her own accord.
Former ICC official Alex Whiting tweeted in response:
“If a state asks for an ICC investigation, it is much harder for OTP to stay in the preliminary examination phase for years. Referral creates expectations and signals willingness to cooperate, and therefore pushes OTP towards investigation. The referral has a real effect.” [6]
The move had been on the cards for some time, but it is believed that the PA delayed such action due to pressure from the US Government, and Israel’s threat to again withhold millions of dollars of tax revenues collected on behalf of the PA.[7] However it seems that the recent attacks on Gazan civilians and the US embassy move have finally pushed them to act.
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[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-44214088
[2] https://www.islam21c.com/news-views/nations-react-as-gaza-bury-martyrs/
[3] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/palestine-submits-icc-referral-open-probe-israel-crimes-180522101121093.html
[6] https://twitter.com/alexgwhiting/status/998498626262458368
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Carbonization of Coal in Heat Recovery Coke Oven Battery
One of the present trends in the production of the metallurgical coke is the comeback of non-recovery ovens. The ovens are called non-recovery since the by-products are not recovered and are burnt during the process of coal carbonization. This is driven due to the less interest in by-products, smaller investment per annual ton, and better environmental performance. The development of non-recovery coke ovens took place in 1980s and 1990s. This technology arises from the classic beehive ovens which supplied since the eighteenth century the coke for the industrial revolution. The beehive ovens were manually operated, with small heat recovery, just for heating the oven. Now, non-recovery ovens are modern construction, with highly mechanized operation, and automated to a certain degree. The non-recovery ovens are called heat recovery ovens when the energy of the exit gases is recovered in the form of steam for generation of power. The schematics of the HR coke oven process are shown in Fig 1.
Fig 1 Schematics of the process of a heat recovery coke oven
The basis for the heat recovery (HR) coke ovens is the so called ‘Jewell-Thomson oven’. These ovens were developed in 1960 when three test ovens were successfully built at Vansant, VA. Several of these ovens are grouped together to form one battery. Gases generated by the combustion of the volatile matter are sent through the down-comers and further burnt to heat the oven bottom and sides. The hot flue gas is used for steam production and power generation.
Jewell-Thomson oven is shaped with a rectangular ground area. The oven brick lining is composed of silica refractory material. Coal is charged onto the oven floor at the beginning of the cycle. The carbonization process is started by the heat which exists from the previous carbonization cycle. The released raw coke oven gas is partially combusted in the crown by the addition of ambient air through the oven doors and the gases pass through the down-comers into the heating flues situated in the oven sole. This flue system is beneath the oven floor and here by way of a further supply of the ambient air, the complete combustion of the raw gas takes place at temperature ranging from 1200 deg C to 1400 deg C. The gases then pass into an afterburner tunnel where any remaining not combusted gases are oxidized. The afterburner tunnel system routes the hot gases to the heat recovery steam generators. Fig 2 shows a cut-away drawing of a Jewell-Thompson heat recovery oven.
Fig 2 Cut-away drawing of a Jewell-Thompson heat recovery oven
The coking of the input coal takes place by direct heating from the oven crown and by indirect heating from the refractory floor. The whole system is being operated under negative (sub atmospheric) pressure. The time of coking in Jewell-Thomson oven is around 48 hours. After completion of coking, the coke is pushed out and wet quenched.
Process of carbonization
In the heat recovery coke ovens, the coal/coke mass is located in the large oven chamber in the upper part of the oven. The coal/coke fixed mass is of a parallelepiped shape. The carbonization process of the coal begins at the top and at the bottom of the fixed mass. Then the carbonization front moves continuously through the coal mass. The heat required for thermal decomposition and carbonization is generated by combustion of volatile matter released from the coal mass. The volatile matter is partially combusted in the free space above the fixed coal mass using air entrained through the various ports/openings (channels) located in both side doors and the oven roof.
The gas formed in the upper oven is transported through the down comer passages to the sole flue (bottom part of the oven). Additional channels in the sole flue provide the required amount of air to complete the combustion process. In the course of the process of coking, which proceeds under negative pressure, the amount of air provided to the spaces above and below the coal mass is controlled by under-pressure (suction) generated using either a fan or through natural draft caused by a stack. The entire coke making process can be controlled just by varying the suction at the outlet of the oven. This is usually not enough to obtain the same high quality product (coke) in the entire coke mass.
For improving the homogeneity of the coke product, a uniform heating rate of the fixed coal mass has to be ensured. In the upper part of the oven (above coal mass), heat is transferred to the coal mass mainly through radiation from the oven walls and from hot gases, which are products of partial combustion of volatile matter. The heat produced in the sole flue is transferred to the coal charge through the sole flue brick ceiling. The uniform heating rate of coke charge through the sole flue ceiling can be obtained if the temperature profile in the sole flues is uniform. This can be achieved by changing the size and position of the gas and air channels.
The coking proceeds from the top through direct heating by the partial combustion of the volatile matter over the coal mass, and from the bottom by heat coming from full combustion of gases escaping from the oven. The coke oven is provided with sufficient free space between the oven top and the coal mass where the volatile matter coming out from the coal charged during carbonization gets combusted. The adequate free space as well as controlled supply of air ensures efficient combustion of the hydrocarbons present in the volatile matter. The unburnt volatile matter along with the hot flue goes to the sole via the chamber provided at the side walls of the oven where secondary air is injected to facilitate the complete combustion of the remaining hydrocarbons. The burning of the volatile matter in the sole increases the temperature of the coke oven mass which increases the efficiency of the coke oven. Also an additional combustion chamber is normally provided for complete combustion of unburnt volatile matter and for settling down of particulate matters. All the above mentioned pollution control devices are inbuilt in the coke oven system. The clean flue gas is utilized for the heat recovery.
The coal carbonization is the physico-chemical process and depends on the coking rate, operating parameters, coal blend properties and the transport of thermal energy. The heating rate of coal influences the strength and the fissuring properties of coke. In order to arrive at a homogeneous quality, the heating of the coal mass in a coke oven is to be uniform over the total length and height of the oven. In addition to this, the plastic layer migration rate influences the level of thermal stress in the re-solidified mass and hence, the level of fissuring. The strength of coke depends to a large extent on the thermal condition prevailing during carbonization. The thermal conditions are influenced by oven crown and sole flue temperature, negative pressure (suction) and carbonization time.
The oven temperature and the time for coking adopted in a normal operation are not independent factors and they vary inversely. At constant temperature, extension of the time for coking beyond what might appear strictly necessary is known as the soaking time and allowing the coke to remain in the hot oven during this time is called soaking of coal.
During the process of coking, the maximum coke temperature is partially decided by the total heat supplied between charging of the coal mass in the oven and discharging the coke. Heating rate is strongly associated with the pattern of heat supply during coke making process. A suitable heat requirement and the pattern of heat supply need to be selected from the point of view of coke quality as well as minimizing the total heat consumption. During the process of coking a plastic layer is formed. The plastic layer of coal is a highly heterogeneous where intricate physical and chemical equilibria between solid, liquid and gaseous components take place.
Softening, devolatilization, swelling and re-solidification are closely related. These all mentioned phenomena are highly dependent on the degree of heating rate. It is normally seen that all coals irrespective of their rank, can be de-volatilized without showing any swelling provided the heating rate is sufficiently slow. The carbonization process can be schematically characterized by the following typical equations
Coal –> Metaplast
Metaplast –> Semi-coke + primary volatile matter
Semi-coke –> Coke + Secondary volatile matter
Heat transmission rate to a coal charge in a coke oven is affected by several factors, such as, coal blend, moisture content, bulk density, oven crown and sole temperature, etc. These factors influence the thermal phenomena. The most important ones are shown in Fig 3.
Fig 3 Factors influencing the thermal phenomena in HR coke oven
Design and construction of heat recovery coke oven batteries
There are several suppliers for the heat recovery coke oven batteries. The main features of some of the designs are described below.
The Sun Coke battery – Present Sun Coke battery design is based on in-house experience since 1960. In 1989, the basic design was renewed and the Jewell-Thompson name was adopted for the oven type. Then, in 1998, new changes were made to the design. During this time, a power plant to recover heat in the off gas is included. Present oven configuration is shown in Fig 2.
Typical dimensions of the chambers of the coke ovens are 14 m length, 3.5 m to 3.7 m width, and 2.4 m to 2.8 m height. 40 tons to 50 tons of coal is charged per oven. Typical charging height is 1000 mm. The ovens are built with 23 refractory brick shapes. Coal blend is charged through one side, by means of a so called -pusher charger machine’ (PCM) moving over rails close to the ovens. Immediately after charging, the coal blends absorbs the heat from the refractories and the combustion of volatile matter starts.
Below the oven roof, partial combustion of volatile matter takes place, on top of the coal mass. Soon afterwards, gases are suctioned to the oven hearth, where more air is introduced to complete the combustion. The coking front advances from the bottom and from the top, joining somewhere in the middle. There is no pressure buildup occurs as in by-product coke ovens, so expansible low volatile coals can be blended.
Temperature, pressure and inner combustion are controlled in the ovens. The time of coking is of the order of 48 hours. Coke withdrawal is carried out with the same PCM used for charging. Coke is quenched with water. All water used for coke quenching is recovered, with the exception of evaporation loss.
Process hot gas, after going through the bottom of the oven, goes up to a duct built on top of the ovens. They may be driven to the boilers, for steam production, or sent to the stacks. In both cases, desulphurization is carried out by aspersion of lime slurry on the gas. At least 80 % of the SO2 generated during coal carbonization is eliminated. This equipment generates solid calcium sulphate and sulphide as a waste.
The Chinese designed battery – The Chinese have built also, besides standard horizontal heat-recovery coke ovens, a vertical-type non-recovery oven. As regards the horizontal ovens, the oven roof is a 120 deg arch structure. Adjustable primary air inlets are evenly installed in the arch, forming a waste-gas-protecting layer between the coal and burning zone in the oven roof. Four linked arches are used at the oven bottom. On the base of the arches, adjustable secondary air inlets are installed to distribute the air in the flue, for further combustion of the exit gas to heat the oven bottom. Flues inside wall and bottom can be coordinated. A ventilation layer between the foundation of the oven and the sole prevents the base plate from overheating. Main wall is equipped with suction-adjusting facilities.
Oven door is divided into two sections, the upper one is fixed and the lower movable, in order to prevent soot leakage. They are made in cast iron and lined with ceramic fiber.
The dimensions of carbonization chamber of the horizontal heat-recovery coke oven battery of one of the design consists of 13,340 mm length, 3596 mm width, 2758 mm height with 4292 mm of centre to centre distance of the chambers. The effective dimension of the coal cake is 1300 mm length, 3400 mm width, and 1100 mm height. The bulk density of the charge coal is 1.0 tons/cum to 1.5 tons/cum. The oven has a coal charge capacity of around 50 tons and has 72 hours coking time.
There are two more designs available. The dimensions of carbonization chamber in these two designs consist of 13,334 mm and 15,440 mm length, 3,598 mm and 3,700 mm width, 2,888 mm and 2,693 mm height with 4,530 mm and 4300 mm of centre to centre distance of the chambers respectively. The effective dimension of the coal cake is 12,750 mm and 14,850 mm length, 3,500 mm and 3,600 mm width, and 1,050 mm and 1000 mm height respectively. The ovens have a coal charge capacities (on dry basis) of 42.393 tons and 51.856 tons and has coking time of 72 hours and 70 hours respectively.
The first vertical coke oven heat recovery battery has been built in 2002 in China. In comparison with horizontal-type, these coke ovens require less space and 20 % to 30 % less construction cost. More important, it is said that the separation between coking chamber and combustion chamber avoids the burning of the coke which may occur in horizontal-type oven. Heat comes only through refractories, as in conventional batteries. There are two layers of air cooling channels at the bottom of the batteries. The temperature of the foundation is between 100 deg C to 150 deg C, preventing failure. Main dimensions and features of the vertical ovens are listed in Tab 1.
Tab 1 Technical parameters of vertical heat recovery coke ovens
Sl.No. Parameter Unit Value
1 Carbonization chamber
Height mm 3200-4830
Length mm 12570-16940
Average width mm 560
Centre distance mm 1180
2 Charge weight tons Around 24
3 Cake bulk density t/cum 1.0-1.1
4 Time of coking hours 38
5 Number of ovens numbers 4×35
6 Partition wall thickness mm 100
7 Thickness of the oven sole mm 1182
8 Useful height mm 2800-4400
9 Centre temperature deg C 1000 +/- 50
10 Pushing coke weight tons Around 18
11 Exit gas N cum/h 350,000
12 Exit gas temperature deg C 950 +/- 50
The coke ovens design of Sesa Goa – Sesa Goa initially entered into a joint venture with Kembla Coal and Coke (now Illawarra Coal and Coke), under the name of Sesa Kembla Coke Company, in 1993. The Australian coke maker contributed their in-house developed technology. The 84 ovens battery failed. A systematic analysis of the reasons for the failure was carried out and the battery was rebuilt. Then, agreements were ink to license the technology. Ovens are narrower than the coke ovens of Sun Coke. This makes possible to use roman arch for the roof (Fig 4). They are built with aluminous refractories, as a difference with Sun Coke ovens and this implies a smaller width. The oven is having 10760 mm length and 2745 mm width. 21 numbers of ovens are connected to a stack. The ovens are with top charging.
Fig 4 Transverse cut of non-recovery oven of Sesa Goa
The use of aluminous refractories instead of silica refractories is due to their better behaviour under oxidizing atmosphere, better resistance to thermal shock and less volume changes upon cooling, when there is some delay in recharging the oven.
Sesa Goa is using vibro compaction, for higher charge density. The operation is carried out in a separate station. Vibration and compaction are applied simultaneously to the coal blend with a determined moisture and grain size, within a box, in three successive layers. To this end, plates covering the full surface of the ‘cake’ are actuated during two minutes for each layer, to achieve the strength required for the transportation to the oven (Fig 5). The density achieved is of the order of 1.14 tons/cum.
Fig 5 Essential parts of a compacted charging machine
The compacted charging is done in a stationary compacting station and the compacted cake is then transferred to a charge car on a steel plate. The charging car transfers the coal cake into the oven with the help of a winch.
The Uhde design – Thyssen Still Otto Anlagentechnik GmbH (TSOA), then ThyssenKrupp Encoke, now part of Uhde, signed in the late 1990s an exclusive license agreement with Pennsylvania Coke Technology Inc. (PACTI). This company has developed a concept of non-recovery oven and built a pilot plant with two full-size ovens in Nueva Rosita, Mexico. On this base, TSOA redesigned the oven and through an agreement with the Illawarra Coke Company, Australia, built two ovens there and carried out several coking experiments with different coals.
The present Uhde design is based on its strength of accumulated knowledge of companies building conventional batteries since the beginning. These companies through mergers and acquisitions are all under the same roof.
The coke ovens are stamped charged. But the charging machine does not enter the oven. The dimensions of the ovens are having 3.8 m width and 15 m length. The lining is of silica bricks.
The tunnel for exit gas runs laterally below the oven floor level, instead of over the ovens, as in Sun Coke design. Another difference is that charge and discharge are carried out with two different machines. The charge being previously stamped, there is no need for the machine to enter into the oven, avoiding water cooling and water to humidify coal. For discharge there is no fall of the coke, keeping the cake without breaking, thus favouring lower emissions.
SJ 96 coke oven -This oven has been developed in-house by Shanxi Sanjia and is characterized by the exceptional weight of the coal charge which 120 tons. Hence, there is a need for long coking time of ten days in comparison with the 48 hours to 72 hours of typical coking time of the other processes. Coal mass height is 1.8 m and leveling is done at 90 cm and 180 cm levels. Both charge and discharge are manual and with the oven cooled. Temperatures are of the order of 1200 deg C in the upper coal layer and 1150 deg C in the lower coal layer. Gas is burnt completely in the under flues below the oven, and its temperature is used to produce steam for power generation.
Recently, a thermal modeling exercise has been carried out. This study provided some interesting conclusions. These coke ovens are to be kept at as high a temperature as possible if the optimum gross coking times are to be achieved. Hence, the volatile matter content in the coal blend is limited, to achieve an adequate heat balance with a bed height of 1 m, densities higher than 1.05 tons/cum and gross coking times less than 60 hours. Hence, the heat recovery coke oven is to be airtight. Adjustment of the primary and secondary air flow quantities at the correct points in time is of great significance with respect to the temperature regime in the oven. Supplying the primary air through the oven top promotes the surface heating of the charge in ovens longer than 10 m and is an advantage over air supplied through the oven doors at the sides.
Some of the features of different processes are compared in Tab 2.
Tab 2 Comparison of different types of HR coke ovens
Process Charge preparation Refractories Charging Discharging Width X length in meters
Sun Coke Standard Silica Horizontal (PCM) Fall to wagons 3.5 to 3.7 x 14.0
Chinese horizontal Stamped charging Horizontal Fall to wagons 3.596, 3.598, 3.7 x13.34,13.334,15.44
Chinese vertical Stamped charging Top Fall to wagons 3.2 to 4.4 height x 12.57
Sesa Goa Vibro compaction Alumina Horizontal Fall to wagons 2.745 x 10.76
Uhde Stamped charging Silica Horizontal Push to wagon 3.8 x 14
SJ -96 With cold oven Alumina Manual Manual, inside cooling 3 x 22.6
Blend design and coke quality
Non recovery/heat recovery coke oven battery produces a quality coke for blast furnaces, cupolas, and ferroalloy furnaces etc. These ovens are useful to obtain high quality coke for blast furnace operation with high PCI (pulverized coal injection), where better properties of coke are needed, or to obtain standard quality based on blends with some proportion of non-coking coals.
In some batteries, the aim was to increase the percent of non-coking coals in the blend, obtaining a coke with reasonable quality for their blast furnaces. Optimizing coal moisture content and using vibro-compaction, a charge density of 1.1 g/cc was achieved. Upto 35 % of non-coking and weakly-coking coals were introduced, obtaining a coke with CSR greater than 64 %, a coke reactivity of less than 25 % and an abrasion strength index M10 of less than 6 %.
The content of volatile matter in the blend is an important parameter in non-recovery coking, as the energy required by the process is contributed by their combustion. So, a certain minimum content is required. But if volatile content is too high, coke may have high porosity, being too reactive to CO2 and with low post reaction strength. As in by-product coke making, coking power, expressed by the free swelling index (FSI) plays an important role. The range of coal, in terms of the reflectance of vitrinite, is important, as well as the rheological properties, in terms of maximum fluidity. Tab 3 gives typical specification of coal being used in the HR coke ovens.
Tab 3 Typical specification of coal for HR battery
1 Ash % less than 10
2 Volatile matter % 23-25
3 Sulphur % less than 0.6
4 Free swelling index greater than 6.5
5 Vitrinite % greater than 60
6 V9-V13 % greater than 55
7 Maximum fluidity ddpm 500-1100
8 Mean maximum reflectance % 1.1 – 1.2
A relevant experience is that of the Sun Coke battery of Indiana Harbor Coke Company, from 1998 to 2000. They started charging a blend of 30 % volatile matter (dry basis), 3097 ddpm maximum fluidity and 1.11 % maximum vitrinite reflectance. Then the blend evolved to less fluidity (200 ddpm), less volatile matter (22 %) and higher reflectance (1.42 %), with an important content of low volatile coal, which normally results in wall damage in a conventional battery, due to expansion at the end of coking typical of these coals. Coke quality continued to be high, despite of the changes.
Chinese experience shows that upto 40 % anthracite or 50 % to 60 % lean coal can be included in the blend. The coke quality obtained in Chinese vertical-type non-recovery ovens is M 25 value greater than 90 %, CSR (coke strength after reaction) values in the range of 65 to 68, M 10 value less than 7 %, CRI (coke reactivity index) value in the range of 23 to 25 and ash content less than 11.5 %.
Comparisons have been carried out by coking the same blend in conventional and non-recovery ovens, and it has been noted that in this case an increase in post-reaction strength and in cold mechanical properties.
The substantial differences from the environmental point of view between non-recovery and conventional process come from two aspects namely (i) the operation of the ovens under negative pressure, and (ii) the non-existence of byproducts plant. In the coke oven batteries, emissions to air are related to coal handling, oven charging, oven doors, process stacks, discharging, coke quenching and coke handling. By-products plants are a source of air emissions, too. Differences between processes are reflected first in coal charge and oven operation.
Standard emissions of SO2, NOx, CO and VOC are smaller for non-recovery ovens, while TSP (total suspended particles) and PM10 (particulate matter) are higher. The residence time of gas in the oven, the high temperature, turbulence and oxygen, enough to destroy HAP, imply very low emissions in HR coke oven batteries.
The main advantage of a non-recovery coke oven battery is that it does not generate liquid effluents. Cooling water for equipments and washing is collected and used for coke quenching.
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Home » Law Students » Super Student Passes Bar Exam Despite Brain Injury
Super Student Passes Bar Exam Despite Brain Injury
By Amanda Griffin
Summary: A WMU Law student with a traumatic brain injury was able to push through law school and pass the bar exam.
Law school is not easy for anyone, throw in a traumatic brain injury and making it through and successfully passing the bar exam is likely not possible. Matt Super defied the odds and passed the state bar, according to The Detroit News.
Super received the brain injury from a car accident during his second semester at Western Michigan University Cooley Law School. Super went on academic probation at the time so no one would have given him a hard time about giving up on law school.
However, Super was not ready to give up and people weren’t ready to give up on him. With help from others, Super worked hard and was able to graduate in January and take the bar exam the following month. He was able to pass the exam without problem. Super said, “This whole thing has been so surreal to me I can’t explain it. I feel like I’m the most fortunate person on this earth, and miracles do exist.”
Super got into the car accident while on his way to the school. Another car ran a red light and struck his car. He explained, “The last thing I remember just before it happened is that I turned the wheel as far as I could to the left, closed my eyes, and I prayed, ‘God please let me open my eyes again.’ Somehow my car went around the corner pole, and I still to this day have no earthly idea how that was possible.”
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Super tried to keep up his studies for two more semesters but struggled to keep his GPA above 2.0 so he took a semester off. He came back to the law school and once again had a low GPA of 1.81. He said, “To put mildly, my attitude and overall outlook on life wasn’t the greatest. Dean Halushka sat me down and talked to me, told me I needed to take care of myself, so I took a leave of absence, which was the best thing anyone could have ever done for me. … After I left school I prayed every day for someone to be able to help me.”
During his time, Super learned he was also suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. He found Kathie Schofield, a nurse, therapist, and clinical social worker that dealt with PTSD. Them met at the beginning of 2015. He said, “I brought her my diagnosis forms, but before I really said anything she said, ‘You have a head injury, I can see it in your eyes.’ At that point I just continued praying, for a miracle.”
Schofield performed cranio-sacral therapy on Super, relieving him from the headaches he had been suffering from for years. They then did neuro-feedback, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, psychotherapy, speech therapy and yoga. Super added, “Anything Kathie could do for me she did, all while knowing I didn’t have the money to pay for it at the time. She agreed to help, and just said, ‘You can pay me when you get better.’”
The therapy treatments lasted around eight months for a couple hours everyday. “I got a lot of homework assignments. Eventually, I started to be able to do everything again. It was a slow process and there isn’t one day that I could point to that was my turning point. I had to remind myself baby steps are still steps in the right direction. I still see her, but only once every other week. All I can is that Kathie Schofield saved my life.”
Super ended up taking a full year off from law school. His GPA climbed to a 3.55 GPA and then kept climbing until he was able to graduate with a 4.0. Super said, “The staff and students were so helpful and instrumental at helping me become ‘me’ again. I couldn’t have asked for anything more. They will always hold a special place in my heart.”
Assistant dean Lisa Halushka said, “The transformation in Matt is extraordinary, but not surprising. He never full gave up hope, and worked harder than anyone I’ve known to achieve his goals. I was so proud to sponsor Matt into the Bar, as I completely believe in him. The legal profession just got a little bit better because of Matt’s inclusion in it.”
Macomb Circuit Judge Edward Servitto, who Super clerked for, swore him in. Super is working for Romano Law Firm.
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PIONEER POLE BUILDINGS JERSEY RUSH VII RETURNS TO NEW EGYPT TUESDAY, JULY 25 WITH SPRINTS & MODS
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NEW EGYPT, NJ (July 7, 2017) – The roar of racing engines, the rush of adrenaline, and the thrill of 410 Sprint Cars has filled race fans with anticipation for Tuesday, July 25 (Raindate: July 26). This is the date that Pioneer Pole Buildings present Jersey Rush VII – a thrilling double main event show featuring the region’s most popular racing divisions, plus a pre-race pit party – at New Egypt Speedway.
Billed as ‘The Ultimate Double Header,’ Jersey Rush VII combines the 410 Sprint Cars and the Modifieds for a full night of action on the racy d-shaped clay oval.
The 410 Sprint Cars will race for a $4,000 winner’s share, with $1,000 bonus available for the highest finishing pre-registered car. $1,000 will go to the tenth place finisher and $300 to start the A-main. The area’s fastest Sprint Car drivers will compete in 10 lap heat races – set from time trials, and a 12 lap B-Main before the 30 lap main event. Only approved Hoosier H-Series tires will be eligible for competition.
Entry for Sprint Car competitors is $50 and includes 3 FREE pit passes.
Previous Jersey Rush winners Greg Hodnett, Ryan Smith and JJ Grasso are among the first to enter the July 25 event. While fan favorites like Danny Dietrich and Lucas Wolfe are chasing their first victories at the Jersey dirt track.
The Modifieds will compete for a $3,000 top prize with $1,000 going to the fifth place finisher and $250 to start the feature event. The top-12 heat race finishers will redraw for feature starting positions. Modifieds MUST use American Racer tires with a left rear 44 compound and a right rear 48 compound. Competitors have the option of running a Big-Block with windows or a spec Small-Block with Sail Panels. Big-Blocks must weigh a minimum of 2,500 lbs.; Open Small Blocks must weigh a minimum of 2,450 lbs. and use windows; Spec Small Blocks on alcohol must weigh a minimum of 2,350 lbs. and on gas a minimum of 2,275 lbs. and have the option to run sail panels.
Oliver Communications Group, a telecommunications cabling company, based in Bordentown, New Jersey, has upped the ante offering $200 bonus money to the winners of the 410 Sprint Car and Modified qualifying heats on Tuesday, July 25.
Before the racing action, fans will be treated to a special pre-race Meet and Greet from 5:00-6:00 PM. All race fans are welcome to visit the pit area and get an up-close look at the stars and cars competing in the JERSEY RUSH VII. Spectators can enter the pit area from the gate behind the fourth turn grandstands.
Adult Admission for Jersey Rush VI is $30, Children (6-11): $10 and Children 5 and under are FREE! Pit admission is $35 with no license required.
Pit Gates open at 3:30 PM, Grandstands open at 5:00 PM, the Driver’s Meeting will be at 6:15 PM, Warm-Ups at 7:00 PM and racing at 7:30 PM.
For full event information fans and competitors can visit www.jerseyrushrace.com – the website contains rules, full payout information, and entry forms.
Pioneer Pole Building presents…
JERSEY RUSH VII
Tuesday, July 25 (Raindate July 26) 7:30 PM
New Egypt, NJ 08533
Event Information: Len Sammons: 609-888-3618
Bob Miller 443-513-4456
About New Egypt Speedway
With state-of-the-art facilities, New Egypt Speedway feature daylight-quality lighting system, excellent sightlines – from any seat in the house. The grandstands are fully wheelchair accessible with wide, clear and well-groomed walkways. Concession facilities serve up everything from sausage sandwiches to ice cream treats at family-style prices. On the track, the multi-grooved 7/16-mile D-shaped clay oval serves the Garden State race fans with some of the best competition in the country.
About Jersey Rush
Jersey Rush is a co-promotion put on by Lenny, Danny & Davey Sammons along with special events promoter Bob Miller. For six years, Jersey Rush has combined the region's two most popular racing divisions -- the 410 Sprint Cars and the Big-Block/Small-Block Modifieds -- for an exciting night of racing action at New Egypt Speedway, located in Ocean County, New Jersey.
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4 Undeniable Arguments for Why Your Company Needs Better Gender Diversity
Gender diversity in business is the future, but that's not the only reason to prioritize it in your business.
By Morgen NewmanCo-founder, IdeaPaint@MorgenNewman
We've all heard it countless times before: the most important factor in your company's success isn't the idea or business plan, but the quality and strength of your team. What we hardly ever hear is that the diversity of your team can play a significant role in driving success. As the male half of the male/female founding duo behind organic tampon startup Cora, gender diversity is at the heart of our team. Yes, I know period management isn't exactly a trending market for male founders. Gender diversity leads to greater profitability, more innovation, better problem solving and even a boost in opportunity for future women in business.
1. Greater Profitability
Of course you want a more profitable business, who wouldn't? A study by Harvard Business Review finds that companies who transitioned from leadership positions held by 0 percent women to 30 percent women see a 15 percent increase in profitability for the average company, or 1 percent bump in net margin.
If profit isn't enough, how about beating your competition? Companies with the most gender diversity are 15 percent more likely to outperform their industry averages according to McKinsey (the results are even more compelling for ethnically diverse companies).
Traditional roles may be flipped at Cora, as a startup working on women's rights and health, where we have a male on our founding team. Our team is currently 71 percent female and we know this diversity helps us approach disagreements and challenges as well as our strategy with perspective that would be tougher in a less diverse team. This perspective comes from better problem solving and more creativity, both skills performed by more diverse teams.
2. More Innovation
We all know innovation is critical to the survival and growth of your company. When women hold a portion of leadership roles at companies that prioritize innovation, those companies consistently generate better financial gains.
So if gender diversity is so beneficial, who's taking action? Many companies are establishing plans to add more women to their ranks. For example, global athletic brand Adidas has increased its proportion of women in management to a 2015 goal of 35 percent. Surely Adidas has multiple motivations for this priority and program, but companies of all size are adjusting their historic behavior for one key reason: diversity is great for business.
At Cora, we've quickly innovated in this tired space as a result of our diverse team. My co-founder Molly Hayward was focused on the safety, health and performance of the organic tampons we'd offer given her dismay and concern with the products offered to her as a longtime tampon user. But as a non-user, I was able to research and design accessories for storing and carrying tampons that I saw as an opportunity because I had no history or preconceptions of what managing one's period had to include (or not include).
3. Problem Solving
Being better problem solvers helps your team reach clever solutions, execute faster and ultimately perform better. Increased diversity in teams, and even the awareness of this diversity, leads teams to handle conflict better. Diversity cues team members to be alert for differences of opinion. Eventually, when conflicting opinions eventually surface the team isn't surprised and acts more openly to reach an outcome that includes the entire team's perspectives.
Research reveals that groups made up of similar people process information without as much care as groups with a more diverse makeup. Diverse groups, on the other hand, experience increased performance and problem solving because the inherent differences in the group caused them to interpret information more carefully.
4. Future Opportunity
Less than 10 percent of venture capital backed startups have at least one female founder. This is hardly fair given that that startups with at least one female founder performed better than startups with all-male teams by 63 percent according to First Round. Further compounding the issue, the number of female partners at VC firms decreased from 1999 to 2014 according to Babson College, and VC firms with female partners are twice as likely to fund female-founded startups.
In short, the more women in your company's core team and leadership ranks, the more women who are likely to become future founders and investors and in turn create the next generation of women-led companies.
Incorporating diversity in your team isn't going to be easy, just as building a Tampon business as a gender diverse team at Cora isn't easy. But then again, growing a successful business is never easy. The easy path isn't the best path, as the evidence is clear: include more women (and create more female friendly policies) in your leadership and management not just because you should, but because you will have a more profitable and more innovative business that creates the stage for the women of the future.
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Managing Editor, Industrial Distribution
mhockett@ien.com
https://www.inddist.com
Mike Hockett is Managing Editor of Industrial Distribution. He previously served as ID's Editor from 2014-2018, before a 1-year stint as Editor-in-Chief of Evaluation Engineering during 2018-2019 before returning to ID. He also served as ID sister publication Industrial Maintenance & Plant Operation (IMPO) from 2016-2018. Prior to those publications, Hockett worked in sportswriting at The Fond du Lac Reporter (2012-2014) and the Newton Daily News (2010-2012). He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire in December 2009 with a B.A. in Print Journalism.
Born-and-raised in Oregon, WI, Hockett is an avid fan of the Green Bay Packers, Wisconsin Badgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Bucks and Iowa State Cyclones.
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Fullerton Tool Acquires Carbro Corp.
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First Ever Whole Ovary Transplant Results in Pregnancy
“Baby Due as a Result of First Ever Whole Ovary Transplant”
News-Medical.net, November 9, 2008
In what is thought to be a world-first, a British woman who was given an ovary transplant is about to give birth to her first baby.
The 38-year-old Londoner underwent the pioneering whole ovary transplant in the U.S. early last year when her identical twin sister’s donated ovary was transplanted after being removed using keyhole surgery.
The ovary transplant was carried out by Dr. Sherman Silber and his team at the Infertility Centre of St Louis in Missouri and is the first to result in a successful pregnancy.
The woman’s ovaries stopped working when she was 15, when she experienced a premature menopause and stopped producing hormones and she has become pregnant a year after receiving her sister’s ovary.
According to Dr. Silber identical twins are five times more likely than the rest of the female population to suffer ovary damage and his pioneering new procedure is particularly relevant for them.
As the twins are genetically identical, eggs from the donor ovary are equivalent to those produced by the patient herself – women who are not genetically identical produce genetically different eggs so the transplant technique will have limited application for women who are not twins.
However it does offer the possibility of removing and freezing an ovary prior to cancer treatment such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
The transplantation of the walnut-sized ovary demanded microsurgery to reconnect blood vessels as small as half a millimeter in diameter and follows previous successes by the team with ovary graft transplants, where a slice of ovary tissue is grafted onto an infertile patient’s own ovary.
The first graft transplant to produce a successful pregnancy was in 2004 and was also between twin sisters.
Dr. Silber says reconnecting such blood vessels deep inside the pelvis can be a tactical challenge and is an extremely delicate procedure as the ovarian artery is less than a third of a millimetre in diameter.
Three months following the surgery, the London patient had her first period in 22 years, showing that she was ovulating normally again – Dr. Silber says they believe this is the first successful human intact whole ovary transplant which has led to a healthy pregnancy.
Dr. Silber and his team have also tested techniques for freezing ovaries for future transplant and have successfully preserved 27 ovaries, and also for the first time five fallopian tubes and he says their work represents a new chapter in reproductive organ transplantation.
He says as well as whole ovary transplantation it is now possible to consider fallopian tube transplant for women with irreparable tubal disease.
Dr. Silber will present his research results this week at the American Society of Reproductive Medicine’s annual meeting in San Francisco.
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Corazón Eterno at Mixed Blood Theatre
"Corazón Eterno" plays through Feburary 25, 2017 at Mixed Blood Theatre in Minnepolis. Mariana Fernández (left) and Israel López Reyes (right). Photo credit: Rich Ryan.
"It's a sweet, funny, simple love story." Cherry and Spoon
Read Cherry and Spoon's full review
Corazón Eterno (Always in My Heart) by Caridad Svich is entering its final weekend at Mixed Blood Theatre. It's the third bilingual show that Mixed Blood has produced. Mixed Blood Artistic Director Jack Reuler explains, "It is an epic romance that celebrates the enduring power of love, the resilience of the human spirit, and the richness of multiple languages in a collision of class and culture. We at Mixed Blood are blessed to have a cast and creative team such as this.”
I really enjoyed the sweeping romance of the story and the charm of the production. My favorite part about this play was the bilingual script and the ability to enjoy the beautiful Spanish language. I've been studying Spanish for many years and I find myself at an intermediate level where I enjoy reading young adult novels in Spanish, so I was excited to stretch my listening skills during the show. Luckily, when I got a little behind I could just look up at the supertitles projected above the screen for a little English help.
I felt a little underwhelmed with the production at times when the acting felt a little stiff, but overall I found the cast and story to be lovely. And if you need a reminder of why we need love stories, playwright Caridad Svich tell us that, “in dark times, maybe in all times, a reminder that what sustains and connects us as human beings feels urgent. In writing Corazón Eterno (Always in my Heart), I was thinking about how we need to keep love and light in our hearts and how to remind ourselves that we sometimes need to render ourselves foolish to become vulnerable to the rites of passage Love demands of us. This play is, in part, a valentine to what we do in the name of seeking another with whom to share a life.”
Ticket Information: Corazón Eterno
Inspired by the magical realism of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera), this is a poetic, romantic adventure of love ignited, denied, rekindled, rejected, and renewed; of love pragmatic and impossible, temporal and eternal; and ultimately of love that transforms the human experience.
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1) Through Radical Hospitality, admission is FREE on a first come/first served basis starting two hours before every show!
2) Advanced reservations are available online or by phone for $25. Advanced reservations available at mixedblood.com or 612-338-6131
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Friday February 24 – 7:30PM
Saturday February 25 – 8:00PM
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Refrigeration Case Cleaning Team Leader
PDA Search and Selection Ltd South End, Temple Gate, Bristol BS1 6PL, UK
Position: Refrigeration Case Cleaning Team Leader - (Night Shifts) Location: Bristol and surrounding area Salary: £24,192 salary (depending on experience) plus pool vehicle, possible £500 bonus every quarter plus pension and medical and other company benefits. Hours of work - Night Shift 4 nights per week (Sunday to Thursday) - 45 hours per week Sun 5.00 pm - 5.30 am, Mon 8.00 pm - 7.30 am, Tues 8.00 pm - 7.30 am, Wed 8.00 pm - 7.30 am We are committed to the perfect partnership with ASDA and our mission is to provide them with the cleanest and best maintained stores exceeding their expectations, every day. Overview We are currently looking for a Refrigeration Case Cleaning Team Leader to join our friendly team at Asda maintaining a high standard of cleaning throughout the store by operating machinery and completing general cleaning duties. The role will cover a specific region but may be required to travel to other areas and you will work in pairs with a Technician This role will be hands on with responsibility for providing regular updates to Supervisors and Store Management on progress of activities and addressing any escalations This role will lead on co ordination and distribution of tasks to the Technician whilst in store We are looking for those who have: A positive approach, able to work in a dynamic business environment, but above all be committed to the delivery of outstanding customer service Experience of cleaning / basic maintenance in one of the following areas: Large supermarket retail environment Food processing Industrial cleaning environment The ability to lead a team who actively participate in delivering outstanding customer service. You will be professional, pleasant, friendly, flexible, courteous and helpful at all times whilst carrying Are able to adapt changing demands from hands on activity to completing paperwork and other administrative tasks The ability to work independently as well as within a team A full Driving Licence - would be the primary driver for the vehicle. Driving duties may be shared with the technician A degree of flexibility with the ability to travel and stay away overnight. Accommodation would be provided typically in Premier Travel Inn Hotels on a single board basis What we can offer you as part of our team: Fantastic benefits package including Pension scheme, discounts on popular retailers and restaurants across the UK and a generous death in service benefit Childcare Vouchers and Cycle to Work scheme The opportunity to build a career in a fast-paced environment Uniform Holidays - there are fixed periods of holidays during Christmas and Easter - Christmas - 8 days (2 Weeks) days fixed, immediately preceding New Year, Easter - 4 days (1 Week) fixed, week ending Good Friday About us: City Facilities Management (UK) Ltd is one of the UK's fastest growing independent businesses. We have more than 25 years of successful facilities management and building maintenance delivery across retail, residential and commercial markets. We are committed to the perfect partnership with Asda and our mission is to provide them with the best maintained stores exceeding their expectations, every day. This one stop solution includes the delivery of a refrigeration service and maintenance programme We are an Equal Opportunities employer and encourage applications from all members of the community. We are committed to the Disability Confident Initiative and offer a guaranteed interview to any applicant who considers themselves to be disabled and who meets the requirements for the post. Candidate must have a full and valid driving licence and be prepared to work permanent night shifts. If you feel these qualities describe you, then we would like to hear from you. Please apply by submitting your CV and completing a short online application in the strictest confidence to Jonathan Sweasey at PDA SEARCH & SELECTION LIMITED .
Asbestos Contractor - £200 day rate - Berkshire, South East
Penguin Recruitment Ltd Reading, UK
Asbestos Surveyor/Contractor £200 day rate Berkshire, South East With over 20 years trading experience, our client has grown to become one of the UK's leading asbestos management consultancies, delivering excellent and complete surveying, analytical and consultancy services across the UK and afar. Due to new contract wins, they are now seeking a hardworking and self-sufficient asbestos surveyor to join their team on an on-going contractual basis. To be considered for this role you must be BOHS P402 qualified with a minimum of 2 years' experience working as an asbestos surveyor. You will have excellent knowledge of the asbestos health and safety legislation and have a full UK driving license, own kit and access to a vehicle. Asbestos Surveyor Duties: Complete various types of surveys on a range of domestic and commercial premises Collect and upload data to TEAMS using hand held data collectors Produce high quality reports in a timely manner Ensure all work carried out is in line with HSG: 264 Provide excellent customer service to clients, contractors, tenants and other members of the public daily Interested? Please contact Recruitment on for further details about the opportunity, or alternatively send your CV across to for immediate consideration. Commutable locations: Swindon, Oxford, Basingstoke, Bracknell, Farnborough, Woking, High Wycombe, Aylesbury, Berkshire, Hampshire, South Central, South East
Setsquare Recruitment Dorset, UK
My client is seeking a number of Electricians to work on their commercial project in the Bournmeouth area. To be considered for this role you will need to have a valid Gold JIB qualification, one day health and safety and five point PPE. You must also hold; * City and Guilds 2330-07 Level 3 (Electrical Installation) or alternative evidence of Electrical skills set Qualifications (Essential) * Requirements for Electrical Installations BS 7671 Current Edition (Essential) * Recognised Qualification in Inspection and Testing (Advantageous) * Electro Technical Certification Scheme (ECS) approved (Preferable) To be considered for the role you should be self-motivated and have good electrical knowledge, have strong attention to detail with the ability to multi-task and work on your own initiative. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing company who support and progress their staff where possible. This is a full-time position (10 hours a day, 5 days a week.) To apply for this position please find the links provided or for more information please contact Luke on . Setsquare is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Setsquare is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Health and Safety Advisor
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited Tyrone, Omagh BT79 9PU, UK
***Health & Safety Manger Required - County Tyrone*** Your new company Your new company is a private, family run construction firm specialising in the commercial & residential sector with a continuously expanding portfolio of works based in County Tyrone. Due to recent contract awards, the company are expanding in size & profile and are now seeking a Health & Safety Professional to join their specialist team. Your new role Based in County Tyrone as Health & Safety Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing H & S on a range of small-medium sized residential & commercial schemes across Northern Ireland. You will create and complete Risk Assessments & Method statements alongside conducting site audits on a regular basis. You will lead and deliver health & safety initiative to help raise awareness of risks and hazards. What you'll need to succeed You will have a previous track record in working in similar role, in a construction environment. You have a work knowledge of SHEQ standards, audit procedures and integrated management systems. Ideally you will be professionally qualified to NEBOSH level or hold a relevant BSc Degree. Y What you'll get in return This is a unique and exciting opportunity to develop your skillset and grow alongside the business on a secure & ever-expanding portfolio of works based in Northern Ireland. With an intimate and specialist workforce, your individual contribution is highly valued with a commitment to personal progression. In reward of your hard work, the company offers you a generous package that includes a competitive salary. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk
2 x 2 person deep drainage pipefitter
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited Hull, UK
Your new company We are delighted to be working in partnership with a well-established main contractor with a site in Beverley. Your new role 2 x 2 person deep drainage pipefitting gangs required for a site in Beverley. This role is due to last for 8 months and involves being a slinger/signaller for moving the pipes, driving dumper/rollers and laying pipes 3/4 m deep. What you'll need to succeed Successful candidates will have a CPCS (dumper/roller) and CSCS card as well as experience of deep drainage pipelaying. What you'll get in return An excellent rate and 8 months of work. What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk
CSCS Labourer
PDR Solutions West Kingsdown, UK
My client is looking for an experienced hardworking labourer that wants to progress their career. You will already be used to working on sites, possess a valid CSCS card and be used to working to the appropriate health and safety legislation. As a trainee you will be responsible for the supply of materials to the more experienced members of the team, ensuring that they have the materials they need when they want them. In addition to this you will be trained in the art of acoustics and hopefully progress to becoming a supervisor and team leader (1-2 years ) The successful candidate will be willing to work long hours up to 12 a day including travelling able to drive Work away from home ( Monday to Friday ) on occasions a fantastic team player and above all hard working and reliable Please send your CV to apply or call the office for more details
Refrigeration Engineer - North Wales. £25000-£28000 Benefits
Penguin Recruitment Ltd Brymbo, Wrexham, UK
Refrigeration Engineer - North Wales. £25000-£28000 + Benefits Inc. Company Van. Environmental and Building Consultancy with a UK wide coverage are looking to grow their maintenance division and currently require a Refrigeration Engineer to cover the North Wales and parts of the North West area. To apply the successful Refrigeration Engineer will need to have a proven track record working on retail based sites and also be able to work to a rota system including some weekend work. You will hold a refrigeration related qualification such as F-Gas 2079 and have been doing this type of role for a minimum of 3 years. Key duties of the Refrigeration Engineer include Carrying out PPM of all sites, ensuring work is recorded and reports are completed to the required standards of the business. Acting as the lead on project work, offering guidance to less experienced staff and in line with Health and Safety procedures. Working effectively as part of a team, ensuring your van's stock is maintained and your work schedule is organised and deadlines are kept to. Attending regular company led training to enable to progress through the organisation and help with the continued growth of the business. With a full benefits package and a flexible approach to work to find out more please email Commutable Locations:- Wrexham, Mold, Nantwich, Chester, Crewe, Northwich, Oswestry.
Asbestos Surveyor - Liverpool - £21k - £28k
Penguin Recruitment Ltd 9 Stanley St, Liverpool L1 6AA, UK
Asbestos Surveyor - Liverpool - North West £21,000 - £28,000 + Benefits + Overtime Opportunities This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading environmental consultancy who due to winning major contracts are looking for an Asbestos Surveyor. My client is looking for Asbestos Surveyors with a minimum of 2 years' experience and are looking to progress with their careers in the industry. To be considered for this role you must be BOHS P402 Qualified and have a full UK driving license. In addition to this you must have excellent interpersonal skills and a hard working attitude. A minimum of 2 years Asbestos Surveying experience and an understanding of all asbestos legislations. In return my client is offering a competitive basic salary added benefits such as: company vehicle fuel card, tablet, pension, life assurance and much more. As well as offering further training so that you can progress with your career (BOHS P403, P404, P405, CCP). Key duties of an Asbestos Surveyor include: Carrying out Management/Refurbishment/Demolition asbestos surveys Following a daily schedule and travelling to Commercial, Industrial and Domestic Sites Inputting survey data electronically onto your work tablet Working in line with UKAS requirements and Company procedures For more information please contact Jack Wadelin at Penguin Recruitment on , or email your CV to Similar Job Titles: Asbestos Consultant, Asbestos Analyst, Asbestos Surveyor Analyst Commutable Locations: Manchester, Warrington, Liverpool, Stockport, Wigan, Macclesfield, Blackburn, Bury, Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale, Altrincham, Sale, Stretford, Northwich, Preston Huddersfield, North West.
Senior Architectural Technician/ Technologist
Penguin Recruitment Ltd Thetford IP24, UK
Senior Architectural Technician/ Technologist (Award-Winning Consultancy) AC Thetford, Norfolk Salary: Up to £32,000- £38,000 (Depending on Experience) + Excellent Benefits A multi-award winning, national Building Consultancy based near Thetford, Norfolk, have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Architectural Technician/ Technologist to join their team on a permanent basis. You will be joining a close-knit architectural team (as part of a wider multi-disciplinary) working across a wide range of sectors ranging from small scale domestic to large scale urban development projects. There is a clear cut progression path, alongside excellent mentoring and support, to help you progress in the best way possible. You should already have job running experience, preferably also being a member of CIAT. Career progression is actively encouraged. Essential Qualifications/ experience for this Senior Architectural Technician/ Technologist role: * Degree qualified and ideally a member of CIAT (but a relevant architectural qualification is also fine) * You will have excellent knowledge of UK building regulations/ producing and submitting planning applications * Strong knowledge of AutoCad, Sketchup and Photoshop (Revit is also beneficial) * Excellent communication skills both written and verbal * A full UK driving licence and own transport Additional responsibilities of this Senior Architectural Technician/ Technologist role: * Working on projects from start to finish * Liaising with teams regarding additional input from third party consultants * Developing specifications and tender documentation * Ensuring the schemes are checked by a senior team member * Ensuring the checklist is compiled for the tender packs * Developing links with contractors and other consultants * Attendance of meetings * Completion of valuations * Issuing inspection reports after site visits * Experience working on site as well as working within an office environment is beneficial * Understanding of new legislations changes and potential benefits to clients, conducting informative emails and notes to send to key contacts * Development of planning scheme into detailed construction drawings * Working alongside the planning team regarding the planning conditions * Development of Specification and tender documentation Commutable locations for this Senior Architectural Technician/ Technologist position: Thetford, Norfolk, Diss, Bury St Edmunds If you are interested in hearing more about this Senior Architectural Technician/ Technologist role, please could you call ALICE on 365109, or please send an updated CV and portfolio to
Designate Store Cleaning Manager
PDA Search and Selection Ltd Croydon, UK
Job Title: Designate Store Cleaning Manager Location: Covering sites in South London Area Salary: £23,289 + Benefits Benefits: business mileage (must use your own vehicle) + private medical + death in service + stakeholder pension My client is a major UK Facilities Management Company employing over 12,000 people with an impressive client base, including a major UK Supermarket Retailer. Our client is looking for an experienced Designate Store Cleaning Manager whose job it will be to achieve consistently the hygiene standards laid down within company targets and objectives, by leading and coaching the cleaning team to deliver the results expected within large supermarket stores in the South London area Candidates ideally will be based in the South London Area. The role is permanent and full time. Key Responsibilities: To ensure cleaning duties are delivered as specified in company targets, allocating priorities and monitoring standards To actively promote and encourage open communication To monitor and control documentation To recruit and train colleagues in accordance with Company procedures To deliver a high standard of customer service To adhere at all times to all company Health & Safety Rules and Regulations To carry out any other duties as directed by management to support the needs of the business Ideal candidates will have a proven background in Retail Cleaning Management but we also welcome applicants who have Management experience in retail, catering, facilities. Candidates must have full valid driving licence and their own vehicle. The role is for 40 hours a week and requires flexibility to work morning and late shift patterns over a 5 day period which could include some weekends. Additionally, the manager is required to conduct "hands on" cleaning duties with the team for 1-2 hours per day. Our client are allowed to clean with the Supermarket stores between 6.00am-10.00pm, so shifts will be between these hours, on a typical week, there would normally be 3 early morning shifts 6.00am-2.00pm, 1 day shift 8.00am-4.00pm and 1 late shift 2.00pm-10.00pm. Our client is looking for Managers who have a proven track record of managing and motivating people in a demanding environment. In return our client offers a competitive salary and benefits with the opportunity to develop your career in a forward thinking, dynamic business. The salary for this role is fixed at £23,289 so please only apply for this role if you are OK with this salary. Please only apply if you have a full and valid driving licence and full use of your own motor vehicle To apply please submit CV in the strictest of confidence to Jonathan Sweasey at PDA SEARCH & SELECTION LIMITED .
Development / Construction Project Officer
Gravitas Recruitment Group 133 Oldham St, Manchester M4 1LN, UK
Property Development / Construction Project Officer required for a permanent position within a Not for Profit organisation who develop and re-generate Housing schemes in Salford Quays. Role: Property Development / Construction Project Officer Location: Salford Quays Salary: Circa £32,000 Benefits: Pension 2.5% employee 12.5% employer, traditional flex-time, home-working. Sector: Not-for-Profit Essential skills/behaviours/experience: Knowledge of the Property Development/construction cycle and processes Project Management - doesn't have to be formal experience - however must be able to run multiple projects concurrently and be able to keep track of and report on progress Proactive, on the ball - able to work autonomously Strong communicator both written and verbal - understands the importance of constant communication within a team and project environment At least a basic understanding of ICT & Excel Ability to persuade, influence and sell ideas Strong stakeholder management Able to deal with uncertainty Positive and "can do" attitude Willingness and Ability to learn Resilience and drive Ability to drive and access to a car If this opportunity is of interest please get in touch urgently. The shortlist is closing on Monday 27th Jan. Interviews will take place later that week.
Energy Assessor
Penguin Recruitment Royston SG8, UK
Energy Assessor Royston Competitive Starting Salary + Benefits Ref: SH838 Penguin Recruitment is working alongside a consultancy specialising in sustainability and energy, to bring in an energy assessor to join their team in Herefordshire...... click apply for full job details
Installer / Fitter
Thomas Sanderson Perth, UK
Installer / Fitter £30,000 - £45,000 per annum Thomas Sanderson are going through a period of sustained growth and are looking for Surveyor / Installer / Fitters of their bespoke blinds and shutters. With an initial investment of £500, you will be working on a self-employed basis with the potential of earning £30-45k per annum. There is also potential to increase these earnings further through add on sales of products to existing customers. If you have experience as a carpenter, joiner, glazer, property maintenance technician, installations engineer, general handyperson or just simply good at DIY, and are looking for a new challenge, then this is the job for you! Full and extensive training is given and you will continue to be coached and mentored until you fully understand our products and processes. Our ideal Installer / Fitter candidates will have: * Proven practical abilities and attention to detail * Excellent customer focus * Experience of managing your own workload * Full UK driving licence (own van is essential) So, if you do have experience as a carpenter, joiner, glazer, property maintenance technician, installations engineer, general handyperson or are just simply good at DIY then please click to Apply Now! No terminology in this advert is intended to be deemed discriminatory. We are happy to accept applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, gender, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.
Development / Construction Project Manager
Property Development / Construction Project Manager required for a permanent position within a Not for Profit organisation who develop and re-generate Housing schemes in Salford Quays. Role: Property Development / Construction Project Manager Location: Salford Quays Salary: up to £55,000 Benefits: 15% pension, traditional flex-time, home-working. Sector: Not-for-Profit Essential skills/behaviours/experience: Experience of Property Developments/Construction - ideally within a regulated sector Project Management - doesn't have to be formal experience - however must be able to run multiple projects concurrently and be able to keep track of and report on progress Line management experience in some form Proactive, on the ball - able to work autonomously Strong communicator both written and verbal - understands the importance of constant communication within a team and project environment At least a basic understanding of ICT & Excel Ability to persuade, influence and sell ideas Strong stakeholder management Able to deal with uncertainty Positive and "can do" attitude Willingness and Ability to learn Resilience and drive Ability to drive and access to a car If this opportunity is of interest please get in touch urgently. The shortlist is closing on Monday 27th Jan. Interviews will take place later that week.
Graduate Geo-environmental Engineer - South East
Penguin Recruitment South East, UK
Graduate Geo-environmental/Geotechnical Engineer - South East Competitive + Benefits An excellent opportunity has become available working for a successful consultancy. They have a diverse client base and multiple complex projects across various sectors have been established in the industry for a number of years...... click apply for full job details
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Is Jones calling Sandy Hook a hoax free speech?
Sandy Hook victims' parents are suing Infowars host Alex Jones for saying the massacre was staged. His lawyer contends he's protected by free speech.
Posted: Aug 7, 2018 11:39 AM
Updated: Aug 7, 2018 11:50 AM
It is the oldest cliché in free speech circles that "you cannot shout 'fire' in a crowded theater." In other words, there are limits to free speech -- even under the First Amendment.
In the theater analogy, it's the risk is of causing harm, not directly, but via the panic that your statement could cause. Similar rules can apply for speech inciting violence or hatred against particular groups.
By that standard, Alex Jones and his Infowars outlet make terrible free speech champions. They have made their careers by doing the online equivalent of screaming "fire" on a daily basis.
They are 9/11 truthers; fueled the Pizzagate conspiracy, which led to an automatic weapon being discharged in a Washington restaurant; have suggested Sandy Hook was a "false flag" operation; incited harassment against parents of crime victims; and have done far more.
But it's not the US government that's acted against Infowars and Jones; it's most of the largest tech companies in the US. Jones and Infowars have now been removed from YouTube, Spotify, Facebook and Apple -- all within hours of each other.
There is no automatic right to have your content hosted by any tech giant. They are private companies and thus entirely legally able to decide the limits of content and speech available on their networks, provided it complies with the law.
However, for all that this is the legal argument -- and it's a sound one -- in practical terms, if you get knocked off the platforms of the tech giants in such a way, you have very little chance of building an audience.
A small group of companies has gained such dominance of how content providers can reach new audiences and disseminate content on the internet that, in practical terms, they become all but unavoidable.
If a government (other than the US) censors you, you have plenty of other countries where you can try to spread your message. If it's Facebook and its fellow tech companies, you don't.
Companies with such power shouldn't exist.
Alex Jones should not be anyone's free speech martyr -- his content is self-serving (his conspiratorial rants are used to sell overpriced supplements to preppers) and dangerous. But his banning does reveal the extent to which we have concentrated power on the internet.
The most significant part of Jones' story is the way in which he and Infowars was banned. For years, people have been trying to hold the tech companies to account for dangerous misinformation, hate speech and abuse on their networks. And in response, we constantly hear that the issues are complex and the companies have extensive procedures in place for how they tackle such issues.
The manner in which Infowars has disappeared from almost all the major networks -- at the time of writing, Twitter is the last major outlet still yet to ban it -- takes anyone who's said or swallowed that line as a sucker.
The tech giants either want us to believe in astronomical coincidences about when they take their action, or they don't care that their protestations about how they implement their guidelines ring hollow.
Most people could now reasonably deduce that, provided they can keep their conduct out of the headlines, they may well be able to get away with what they're doing.
In this, perhaps, the companies have publicly blundered. They have shown us they can act, and they have shown us that bad headlines and public pressure is the trigger.
But they've also shown us their guidelines -- as they stand -- seem more of a crutch and an excuse than a real barrier to action.
This is a marker: We can hold them to higher standards, and we should make them live up to those all the time -- not just when the headlines are bad.
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By Darcia Narvaez, PhD On Jan 6, 2020
You May Be Experiencing the Transrational Borderland
Scientists who focus only on measurable and replicable phenomena (often mostly from experiments) tend to dismiss transrational experiences (e.g., peak experiences).
As Bernstein (2005) notes, transrational experiences are assumed by the western-educated mind to be rooted in illusion or wild imagination. This is the interpretation of the logical calculating mind, the one the western world has emphasized for some time. But this thinking mind, associated with the left brain, is unable to access the implicit subconscious mind which does have many more capacities (some categorized as “intuition”) largely associated with the right brain (see McGilchrist, 2009, for a summary of research) and apparent in indigenous and traditional societies.
Jerome Bernstein (2005), Jungian psychotherapist, discovered in several of his clients a sensitivity to the transrational. At first, he tried to persuade them it was their own imaginations, fantasies based on childhood experiences. After repeated failures to make any progress and after exposure to Navaho healing, he changed his mind. Like Temple Grandin, who is renown for her ability to feel the suffering of animals in feedlots, he discovered that some people in modern societies are more sensitive to the cues or communications of animals and the natural world.
Based on what turned into decades of clinical experience, Bernstein concluded that “the collective unconscious has tapped certain individuals within the culture to be carriers of personal and collective mourning for the profound assault and wounds to nature wrought, predominantly, by western civilization and the modern technological society” (Bernstein, 2005, pp. 78-79).
Bernstein’s clients taught him what he should do whenever he was presented with a profound transrational experience:
“The challenge is to not interpret at all—certainly not in the moment—to hold an experience that can feel between language, that can leave one with the tension of holding one’s intellectual and rational breath for far longer than any of us can imagine doing. To not seek the comfort of rational understanding, but to come to kind of knowing through a holding and a wonderment” (p. 73).
Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First-Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing: Edited by Darcia Narvaez, PhD
Bernstein describes their experiences as ones of the Borderland: “The psychic space where the hyper-developed and overly rational western ego is in the process of reconnecting with its split-off roots in nature,” (p. 8) a “by-product of that evolutionary process, the ‘space,’ the nexus, the threshold whereby the western ego is being thrust into reconnection with transrational dimensions of reality” (p. 82).
Bernstein writes out descriptions of his clients’ experiences. Several describe dreams and experiences of “great grief,” the loss of nature or connection to nature, or a tuning into particular animal suffering: “not as neurosis, but as objective, nonpersonal, nonrational phenomena occurring in the natural universe” picked up by Borderland individuals. Their experiences are not intrapsychic but actual world experiences.
Although a “Borderlander” may have borderline personality disorder, these are different phenomena. One difference Bernstein noted was that borderliners bring anger to the room and Borderlanders bring sadness or mourning.
In therapy sessions, he helped Borderlanders understand that they were grieving not so much “something in here” as “something out there.” One felt: “The world is dying… and our souls with it. And the world is too busy to even note it.” The song “The Earth Died Screaming” went through this client’s head for days.article continues after advertisement
Most of his clients, and others who reported similar experiences, told him that transrational events began in childhood, but were sanctioned for expressing it. Though such experiences may be common among children, formal education typically excludes “the imaginal, magical, archetypal, and other ‘right-brain’ dimensions of psychic existence” (p. 91).
For example, one woman described how she heard the screams of the insects being “put to sleep” in a jar with chemicals within her elementary classroom but was shamed for “imagining” it. Bernstein calls this type of pedagogical and cultural assault on the child’s sensitive psyche an overlooked source of trauma for children.
In his book, he relates some of the experiences he heard about. Most of the accounts are long. Here is a shorter one from a letter Bernstein received:
“My sensitivities to all things animate and inanimate were with me from my earliest memories. I would touch my bedroom door and it would “tell” me about the forest it came from. Though we had no pets, dogs and cats would show up at our front door—I had invited them to come over. The dog next door was my best friend, literally.
Everything I came in contact with had something to tell me. It was not a problem until I realized that no one else heard what I heard or felt what I felt. I kept waiting, hoping, to find other people like me. There is nothing worse for a child than to be different. I was different from everyone, my own family included. Interestingly my older brother and sister made up a story that I had been dropped on the door step by an Indian. I was only about three years old when they told me this story, but I remember being so happy to hear that I did have a “real” family and that maybe they would come back for me. I used to watch out the front door, looking for an Indian.
As a small child (2-5 years old) I was very tuned in to both the animate and inanimate world. I remember my mother trying to explain death to me. She said that when animal dies, it stops eating, breathing, and becomes like a rock. I told her, well then it is still alive, because for me rocks were very alive” (Bernstein, 2005, p. 85).
This woman closed off this part of herself at age 8 but reconnected to it at age 32.
Borderlanders want their experiences acknowledged, not pathologized because to them the experiences feel sacred. An ability to enter liminal spaces, those outside of everyday reality, feels like a gift. Such capacities are common around the world in traditional societies (Descola, 2013) and cultivated as part of being human and a respectful member of the earth community (Four Arrows, 2016; Katz, 2017; Narvaez, Four Arrows, Halton, Collier & Enderle, 2019; Young, Haas & McGown).
As Bernstein points out, transpersonal psychology, which includes Jungian psychology, does not shy away from “spirit” and assumes an immeasurable mystery at the heart of being human and a member of the planet.
Approaching the Borderland of Transformation, Part 1
Do You Feel Grief for the Natural World? You may be experiencing the transrational borderland, Part 2 (this page)
In the Borderland of Consciousness. Is the human collective psyche shifting in these perilous times? Part 3
Bernstein, J.S. (2005). Living in the Borderland: The evolution of consciousness and the challenge of healing trauma. New York: Routledge.
Four Arrows (2016). Point of Departure. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Katz, R. (2017). Indigenous healing psychology: Honoring the wisdom of the First Peoples. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press.
McGilchrist, I. (2009). The master and his emissary: The divided brain and the making of the western world. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Narvaez, D., Four Arrows, Halton, E., Collier, B., Enderle, G. (Eds.) (2019). Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing. New York: Peter Lang.
Young, J., Haas, E., & McGown, E. (2010). Coyote’s guide to connecting with nature, 2nd ed.. Santa Cruz, CA: Owlink Media.
Darcia Narvaez, PhD
Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. You can visit The Evolved Nest for extensive, free resources. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture, wellbeing and sociomoral character in children and adults. She integrates neurobiological, clinical, developmental and education sciences in her theories and research about human nature and human development. She publishes extensively on moral development, parenting and education. Recently she has been studying the Evolved Nest and how it influences wellbeing, sociality and morality. She hosts interdisciplinary conferences at the University of Notre Dame regarding early experience and human development (the talks and/or powerpoints are available online). In 2016, she organized a conference on Sustainable Wisdom: Integrating Indigenous KnowHow for Global Flourishing (talks available online). She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles (downloadable from her website). She is an advisory board member of Attachment Parenting International and the Association for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health. Her recent book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom (2014), won the 2015 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association and the 2017 Expanded Reason Award. She is former executive editor of the Journal of Moral Education.
Darcia serves on the board of directors for Kindred World, is a contributing editor for Kindred Media, and founder of the nonprofit initiative, The Evolved Nest.
Safe Infant Sleep: Expert Answers To Your Cosleeping Questions, A New Book
Attachment Parenting / Bonding
International Baby Sleep Research Leads To New Bedsharing Advice
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Post-Launch Prospects: Learning from Firewatch
Software company and publisher Panic has recently posted an insightful retrospective via its blog regarding the post-launch of its first-person adventure video game Firewatch, co-published and developed by Campo Santo. These insights are extremely valuable for a Dev team like us; what we could expect and possible post-launch scenarios.
Reviews/write-ups/streaming
There's no getting away from the fact that your stomach will be in a wreck on launch day. ReRunners is already gaining lots of nice, positive reviews during its Soft Launch, but it's still nerve-racking logging in to check new reviews. Firewatchhas also had a lot of high-profile influencers stream the game, but it's still unclear whether they were paid for or were organic streams.
Recouping investment is also a talking point, with Firewatch making its investment back in roughly 24 hours. 500,000 copies sold in one month is incredible for an indie game.
Here at Klang, we're in a similar position as Campo Santo although we're still in Soft Launch. We read Tweets, communicate on our Forum, reach out to our audience, and work 24/7 to find bugs and other points of frustration for our players. This will never stop. But, constant improvement is necessary to make a quality product.
When a game meets real life
At one point during Firewatch, you'll find a disposable camera, and at the end of the game, you can choose to upload the photos you took to Panic's server. Then, you can order physical copies of these images. This, alongside encouraging fan art, are both really cool ways to bring the game and brand into real life, rather than only through a monitor or mobile/tablet. We have a lot of crazy ideas for merging ReRunners with real life and other forms of multimedia, but we'll see what happens with them.
One final interesting point was that a lot of Panic's marketing budget went into last year's
GDC Firewatch preview centre experience.
For us, reading about the success and post-launch insights of a booming indie game is very inspiring! Here's to the future!
Image: nasa.gov
Who's this Klanger? An interview with Jonathan Baker
Who's this Klanger? An interview with David Magnússon
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Trump to nominate Christopher Wray for FBI director
President lauds the former assistant AG's 'impeccable credentials'
Updated: 1:10 PM CDT Jun 7, 2017
By SADIE GURMAN and CATHERINE LUCEY
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his pick for FBI director — a former Justice Department official who served as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s personal lawyer during the George Washington Bridge lane-closing investigation.Trump’s early morning two-sentence tweet that he intends to nominate lawyer Christopher Wray came one day before the FBI director that Trump fired last month, James Comey, was to testify in public on Capitol Hill for the first time since his dismissal.Trump called Wray “a man of impeccable credentials” and offered no more information about the selection, ending the tweet by saying, “Details to follow.”Wray served in a leadership role in the George W. Bush Justice Department, rising to head the criminal division and overseeing investigations into corporate fraud, during the time when Comey was deputy attorney general. Wray took charge of a task force of prosecutors and FBI agents created to investigate the Enron scandal.With a strong law enforcement background, Wray is a traditional choice for the job. Trump had entertained current and former politicians for the role, including former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman. Though favored by Trump, Lieberman would have faced a challenging confirmation process; he pulled his name from consideration.Comey, during his appearance before the Senate intelligence committee, is expected to describe his encounters with Trump in the weeks before his firing May 9. Comey could offer new details regarding discussions with Trump about the federal investigation into Russia’s election meddling and possible coordination with the Trump campaign.The White House and its allies have been looking for ways to offset that potentially damaging testimony and have been working on strategies aimed at undermining Comey’s credibility.Wray works in private practice for the King & Spalding law firm. He represented Republican Christie in the lane-closing investigation, in which two former Christie aides were convicted of plotting to close bridge lanes to punish a Democratic mayor who wouldn’t endorse Christie.Christie and Wray met when Christie was the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey in the Bush administration. Christie said at a news conference last week that he worked together with Wray “a lot.”“I have the utmost confidence in Chris. He’s an outstanding lawyer. He has absolute integrity and honesty, and I think that the president certainly would not be making a mistake if he asked Chris Wray to be FBI director,” Christie said.Christie, who has informally advised Trump, was not charged in the bridge case.One of the questions hanging over Christie was about a dozen text messages he exchanged with a former staffer during legislative testimony by officials from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages the bridge, in 2013.It’s not known what was in those messages and a judge rejected defense attorneys’ attempt to subpoena the phone last summer. After that ruling, Christie’s office revealed that Wray had the phone.Christie had previously said he “gave it to the government” a while earlier, but the U.S. attorney’s office said it never had the phone.The law firm that Christie’s administration hired to review the scandal said it “returned” the phone after reviewing its contents in response to a government subpoena.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his pick for FBI director — a former Justice Department official who served as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s personal lawyer during the George Washington Bridge lane-closing investigation.
Trump’s early morning two-sentence tweet that he intends to nominate lawyer Christopher Wray came one day before the FBI director that Trump fired last month, James Comey, was to testify in public on Capitol Hill for the first time since his dismissal.
What to know about FBI director nominee Christopher Wray
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I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be the new Director of the FBI. Details to follow.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2017
Trump called Wray “a man of impeccable credentials” and offered no more information about the selection, ending the tweet by saying, “Details to follow.”
Wray served in a leadership role in the George W. Bush Justice Department, rising to head the criminal division and overseeing investigations into corporate fraud, during the time when Comey was deputy attorney general. Wray took charge of a task force of prosecutors and FBI agents created to investigate the Enron scandal.
With a strong law enforcement background, Wray is a traditional choice for the job. Trump had entertained current and former politicians for the role, including former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman. Though favored by Trump, Lieberman would have faced a challenging confirmation process; he pulled his name from consideration.
Comey, during his appearance before the Senate intelligence committee, is expected to describe his encounters with Trump in the weeks before his firing May 9. Comey could offer new details regarding discussions with Trump about the federal investigation into Russia’s election meddling and possible coordination with the Trump campaign.
The White House and its allies have been looking for ways to offset that potentially damaging testimony and have been working on strategies aimed at undermining Comey’s credibility.
Wray works in private practice for the King & Spalding law firm. He represented Republican Christie in the lane-closing investigation, in which two former Christie aides were convicted of plotting to close bridge lanes to punish a Democratic mayor who wouldn’t endorse Christie.
Christie and Wray met when Christie was the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey in the Bush administration. Christie said at a news conference last week that he worked together with Wray “a lot.”
“I have the utmost confidence in Chris. He’s an outstanding lawyer. He has absolute integrity and honesty, and I think that the president certainly would not be making a mistake if he asked Chris Wray to be FBI director,” Christie said.
Christie, who has informally advised Trump, was not charged in the bridge case.
One of the questions hanging over Christie was about a dozen text messages he exchanged with a former staffer during legislative testimony by officials from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages the bridge, in 2013.
It’s not known what was in those messages and a judge rejected defense attorneys’ attempt to subpoena the phone last summer. After that ruling, Christie’s office revealed that Wray had the phone.
Christie had previously said he “gave it to the government” a while earlier, but the U.S. attorney’s office said it never had the phone.
The law firm that Christie’s administration hired to review the scandal said it “returned” the phone after reviewing its contents in response to a government subpoena.
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Chef Berthelot gets the Louisiana cuisine cooking in Atlanta
by: Chad Sabadie
Newsfeed Now for January 17. 2020
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LSU fans traveling to Atlanta for the SEC Championship Game won’t have any trouble finding some home cooking or some friendly smack talk.
‘We get to end their season, so how great is that going to be?’
‘There it is, it never stops!’
At Ray’s in the City restaurant downtown, there are both LSU and Georgia fans working in the kitchen.
‘I’m so looking forward to this game,’ Chef Dean Berthelot said. ‘I have a lot of guys who are entrenched with Georgia. And I get to talk so much smack because I know we’re gonna win. I know what the outcome is going to be.’
Berthelot grew up in New Orleans and graduated from LSU but has made Atlanta his home over the past two decades.
‘You never leave the state,’ Berthelot said. ‘You may physically get away from it, but Louisiana will always be with you. From the flavors you put in the food, the cuisine , all that stuff that you get is just amazing. We have the best gumbo, better than anything I’ve ever done in New Orleans or had in New Orleans and you guys are going to try it and you’re going to agree.’
Berthelot is excited to welcome in hundreds of Tiger fans over the next few nights, expecting some of the best crowds of the year.
‘We already were nearly full with reservations and now the phone is just ringing off the hook. It’s great, I’ll have my LSU hat on walking around and talking to people. It’s just good to see all the purple and gold on here. We opened in 2003 and we always when LSU came to the sec championship had a smattering of purple and gold. It’s been growing over the years when they come up, but this time it’s just going to be something else.’
The restaurant has 600 reservations alone Friday night.
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Newsfeed Now for January 17: Impeachment trial preparations; Chiefs fan gets Andy Reid tattoo
by Matt Sewell / Jan 17, 2020
On Newsfeed Now for January 17, the conversation began on Capitol Hill. After weeks of waiting, the Senate impeachment trial against President Donald Trump is about to begin. Washington reporter Kellie Meyer joins the conversation.
For the full story: CLICK HERE or watch the video above.
Former Saints player Steve Gleason honored with Congressional gold medal
by Jessi Turnure / Jan 17, 2020
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – A New Orleans Saints legend received the highest honor lawmakers in Washington can bestow upon a citizen: the Congressional Gold Medal.
Steve Gleason is the first NFL player to receive the award as rare as the disease it recognized him for Wednesday.
‘He’s the greatest coach’: Chiefs fan takes Andy Reid love to the next level with new tattoo
by JOHN HOLT, WDAF / Jan 17, 2020
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In Kansas City, people are clearly passionate about Chiefs football, but one Kansas City man has taken his love of Big Red to the next level.
"To me, he’s the greatest coach, so I had to have him," Robert Gaskins explained while getting a tattoo of Andy Reid's face on his leg at Limitless Tattoo in Midtown.
Aaron Nolan is a morning show co-host in Little Rock, Arkansas with Nexstar Media Group's KARK-TV. He has a passion for social media and makes it an important part of his daily routine. Click here to read Aaron's full bio.
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