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Products > Anigozanthos viridis 'Phar Lap'
Anigozanthos viridis 'Phar Lap' - Green Kangaroo Paw
Category: Perennial
Family: Haemodoraceae
Origin: Australia (Australasia)
Flower Color: Green & Blue
Bloomtime: Winter/Spring
Height: 1-2 feet
Irrigation (H2O Info): Medium Water Needs
Anigozanthos viridis 'Phar Lap' (Green Kangaroo Paw) - A small kangaroo paw with grassy narrow leaves to 1 foot tall and 18 inch stems bearing bright green slightly-curved flowers with strongly-reflexed lobes and iridescent bluish hairs. Flowering often commences in late winter and extends through to early summer. Plant in a sunny or lightly shaded open position in the garden in moderately well-drained soils and regular irrigation - this species can tolerate moist soils. Fertilize in spring (not heavily and keep phosphorus on the low side). Fans only flower once and need to be cleaned out after the flowering period so remove the old leaves down to as low as possible at the end of a season. Anigozanthos viridis is a plant that needs to be divided regularly though care should be exercised while dividing or cleaning not to damage the rhizomes while dormant in mid to late summer. Hardy to 25 degrees F. Attractive to hummingbirds. Phar Lap was the name of a famous giant chestnut thoroughbred racehorse that was foaled on October 4 1926 in Timaru in the South Island of New Zealand and raced in Australia where he became a racing sensation - the equivalent to America's Seabiscuit. He is described as "a wonder horse that triumphed during the Great Depression of the early 1930s, when a hero was most needed by the people of Australia." After conquering the Australian racing circuit with 36 wins out 41 starts he went on in 1932 to win North America's richest race at the time, the Agua Caliente Handicap, then died less then 2 weeks later, struck down by a mystery illness that many suspected was foul play. The name itself was modified from its oriental language roots and appropriately meant "lightning". The information on this page is based on research conducted in our nursery library and from online sources as well as from observations made of this plant as it grows in our nursery, in the nursery's garden and in other gardens that we have observed it in. We also will incorporate comments received from others and always appreciate getting feedback of any kind from those who have additional information, particularly if this information is contrary to what we have written or includes additional cultural tips that might aid others in growing Anigozanthos viridis 'Phar Lap'.
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Golden Age of Electric Vehicles: Great Opportunities…But Surprising Dangers?
Over the summer (and to much media fanfare), Elon Musk’s Tesla rolled out its Model 3 vehicle. More recently, Tesla rolled out a semi-truck design that stunned the automotive world.
Many car-watchers believe the moment was profound. The Golden Age of Electric Vehicles may be upon us, but like any new age dawns, we need to be mindful of any new hazards that may exist.
Perhaps we’re witnessing a true automotive industry paradigm shift—a tipping point on the way for the dominance of electric vehicles. The first Model 3 batch came off the assembly line in late July, and more than 500,000 customers already have placed deposits for a vehicle. At $35,000 per unit, Elon Musk called the Model 3 the best car for its price point, either electric or gasoline.
This step toward a mass market seems beneficial for the environment and our future.
Electric cars promise to have distinct advantages–but do they also pose hidden dangers?
What are the risks futurists are ignoring?
First: Recapping the Benefits of Electric
Increased energy security. In 2015, the US imported nearly a quarter of the fuel it consumed. Three-quarters of all U.S. petroleum consumption is related to transportation. As a nation, we’re vulnerable to supply spikes and disruptions, as much of the world’s oil comes from volatile political areas. Using electric- and hybrid-model cars can help reduce the spikes in oil prices and make the United States less dependent on foreign oil.
More energy efficiency. Electric vehicles often achieve better fuel economy and create lower fuel costs than those operating on conventional fuel. As an example, the 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid advertises an average fuel economy for highway and city of 48 miles per gallon. Light-duty total electric cars can achieve fuel economy that exceeds 100 miles per gallon.
Better emissions. Both electric and hybrid vehicles have significantly cleaner emissions compared to their conventional counterparts. Electric vehicles create zero tailpipe emissions, and hybrids produce no emissions if they’re in electric mode.
More battery power. Electric vehicles and hybrid models feature advanced batteries that can last up to eight years or 100,000 miles. In moderate climates, some experts believe these batteries could last 12 to 15 years. Though these batteries can be expensive, prices are expected to decline as these cars become more common and production volume increases.
Possible Dangers Posed by Electric Vehicles
Despite the benefits of better security, longer lasting vehicles, and improved fuel economy, electric vehicles are not without their disadvantages:
Possible dangers for first responders. A report by the Society of Automotive Engineers details that first responders reporting to the scene of a serious accident involving an electric vehicle are vulnerable to electric shock. This risk also applies to tow truck drivers who are unfamiliar with the high-voltage areas of electric vehicles.
A study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that drivers of electric cars may be more vulnerable to electrocution, vehicle fire, explosion, or exposure to leakage of caustic battery chemicals from vehicle ports. Electric vehicles use DC (direct current) technology, and a shock could prove fatal even in small doses.
Electric vehicles, on average, are approximately 10% heavier than a standard fuel vehicle due to their onboard rechargeable electric storage systems. This added weight could serve as a safety disadvantage in crashes involving other vehicles.
Car charging ports also pose some risk of electrocution. A random check from the U.S. Consumer Safety Commission found that many of the charging ports across the country lack operational grounders.
Electric vehicles are projected to be a boon to the American economy and the environment. These vehicles carry a lot of distinct advantages, making the idea of a mass market share appealing.
As we’ve outlined, they’re not without their dangers. The government must work to standardize safety features and tackle these problems head-on if we’re to enjoy safer roads. Electric cars stand to benefit from rigorous safety testing and standardization.
If you or anyone you know has been injured by an electric vehicle, you may want to reach out to an attorney familiar with this new industry so that you can know your rights.
Electrocution and other hazards exist with the newer vehicles, the frontier is constantly changing. There are many advantages to owning these electric vehicles, however, be careful of the disadvantages as well.
Please feel free to leave a comment below if you have any negative experiences with electric vehicles. We here at Smiley Law Firm want to create a forum where the public can learn from the experiences of others. A good personal injury attorney can help to outline any possible risks that may come from electric vehicle danger.
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Minnesotas Value Of Solar Tariff
Is Minnesota's Value of Solar tariff the future of solar?
Published on November 06, 2019 by Catherine Lane
Categories: Community solar, Net metering, Solar power, Utilities
Utilities and solar customers throughout the US are at odds over the best way to value homeowners’ solar energy generation.
Utilities often argue that they lose money under net energy metering and lobbying by these utilities has led some states to price solar generation at the much lower avoided cost rate.
A Minnesota community solar panel installation at Leech Lake Tribal College. Image source: NRDC
Meanwhile, many customers think that the avoided cost rate is not a fair price. They attest that homeowners should earn back the full retail rate in order to help them recoup their investment and to encourage the adoption of home solar.
Introducing the Value of Solar tariff
Value of Solar tariffs are designed to more accurately compensate solar customers by carefully calculating the benefits of solar energy production. Minnesota is the only state to have a set statewide Value of Solar tariff in place.
However, recent Value of Solar price projections for 2020 have upset Minnesota’s largest utility, Xcel Energy; prompting Xcel to ask for changes to the ‘Value of Solar’ formula.
Although the Value of Solar tariff is only mandatory for Minnesota’s community solar projects, its success could lead to the state’s utilities instituting it for their residential customers, as well. This would save Minnesota solar customers much more money as compared to how much they save now.
The rest of the US is looking to Minnesota as an example for Value of Solar tariffs, and whatever changes they make to their tariff could impact how Value of Solar rates are designed throughout the country.
The argument against net metering
Net metering is a widely-used billing method that allows solar homeowners to recover their energy usage costs through their systems’ solar energy production. Homeowners receive a credit that is equal to the full retail rate of electricity in exchange for the energy their solar panels produce.
In places where net metering is offered, solar homeowners can use their net metering credits in order to reduce the amount in which they have to pay towards their electricity bills. Because this reduces the utility’s revenues, utilities feel they are forced to raise electricity rates for their non-solar customers.
Reports have shown that electric rates will increase for non-solar customers as more solar is installed; significant price hikes will occur when solar panel systems make up 10% of the electric grid.
How much do solar panels cost in your area?
What is the purpose of the Value of Solar tariff?
Minnesota is a long way away from having so many solar installations that it causes rates to increase. Despite this, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) has taken measures to prevent general rate increases for electricity consumers by creating Value of Solar tariff guidelines.
Value of Solar tariffs are used in the hopes that distributed solar generation will be more accurately compensated for, by taking into account the benefits of solar on the grid. The MPUC guideline outlines how to calculate the ways in which solar provides value to society, as well as the benefits of renewable energy on the grid.
Under the Value of Solar tariff, solar customers pay for all of the energy their home uses at the retail rate of electricity. They are then given a credit for each kilowatt hour (kWh) of energy their solar system produces.
So, if your home uses 30 kWh of electricity in a day and your solar system produces 20 kWh during that same day, you would pay the full retail rate for 30 kWh and get compensated at the Value of Solar rate for 20 kWh.
The Value of Solar tariff is only mandatory for Minnesota’s community solar projects. However, utilities can apply through MPUC to use a Value of Solar tariff as an alternative to net metering. No utilities have applied for this yet.
Community solar garden in Ramsey, Minnesota. Image source: Smithsonianmag.com
How is Minnesota's Value of Solar rate determined?
In 2014, Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commission approved the Minnesota Department Of Commerce’s (MDOC) Value of Solar calculation methodology.
Calculating MDOC’s Value of Solar tariff is based on the following 8 variables:
Avoided Generation Capacity Costs
Assumes that solar will prevent utilities from having to build new power plants;
Avoided Transmission Capacity Costs
Estimates how much a utility will save on transmission costs when a customer installs solar;
Avoided Fuel Costs
Determines how much a utility would save in fuel costs over the course of 25 years. This assumes the price of fuel does not fluctuate over time;
Avoided Environmental Costs
The value of how much pollution is offset by installing a solar panel system, including carbon dioxide and non-carbon dioxide pollutants;
Avoided Distributed Capacity Costs
Considers how much money solar installations save utilities by preventing utilities from having to make distribution upgrades, like installing new transmission lines;
Avoided Variable Plant Operations and Maintenance Costs
Estimates how much a utility saves on operations and maintenance costs that are affected by the amount of energy a power plants creates;
Avoided Fixed Plant Operations and Maintenance Costs
Estimates how much a utility saves on annual costs that don’t depend on how much energy a power plant is generating. This includes costs like regular annual power plant maintenance; and
Avoided Reserve Capacity Costs
Assumes that solar projects will increase grid reliability by decreasing solar owners’ reliance on the grid.
Each of the above variables is calculated by using the methods outlined in the MDOC’s guidelines. The result of the variable calculations are then added to find the total Value of Solar rate.
How much can you save with the Value of Solar tariff in Minnesota in 2019?
Even though Value of Solar rates don’t provide as much in savings as full retail net metering, they are more valuable than the avoided cost rate. Xcel Energy, Minnesota’s largest utility, does not offer full retail net metering.
Currently, Xcel’s residential customers receive a rate of $0.07139 per kWh of excess generation their solar systems produce. Whereas, in 2019, the Value of Solar rate is $0.1109 per kWh.
Let’s say in one month, your home consumes 1,000 kWh of electricity and your rooftop solar system produces 700 kWh. Under Xcel Energy’s rate of $0.07139, you would save around $49.97 on your electric bill. With the Value of Solar tariff, you would save $77.63. You would have about 35% more in bill savings under a Value of Solar tariff.
The savings are substantially higher with Value of Solar as compared to the avoided cost rate, and such is the case for many places that are currently being billed at the avoided cost rate.
What this means is, your utility switching to a Value of Solar tariff could work in your favor!
What could the future hold for Value of Solar?
Value of Solar tariffs are still a relatively new concept. In fact, Minnesota is one of only two states with an active Value of Solar program in place. But, it is only available to Minnesota community solar customers. Depending on how successful the tariff is for their community solar program, Xcel could possibly extend it to their residential customers.
One Texas utility, Austin Energy, has implemented the only other Value of Solar tariff in the US to its residential customers.
It’s hard to determine how well Value of Solar tariffs actually represent the benefits of solar because there are so few in use. Some have criticized Minnesota’s Value of Solar tariff because they believe the environmental benefits are actually undervalued.
As Minnesota's Value of Solar methodology evolves, we could see Xcel extend the rate to its residential customers. As tensions rise between utilities and solar customers, the country may see more Value of Solar tariffs being implemented.
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Occupying the space between harmony and emphasis
When designers are looking at ways to harmonise TVs with living spaces, a piece of art can be an inspiration. Artwork and sculptures manage to function as natural inhabitants of the space despite incorporating attention-capturing visual attributes. Blending the elements “harmony” and “emphasis,” two seemingly incongruous characteristics, art fills spaces with unique tones that resonate with comfort and luxury. The “Soft Minimalism” concept centres on uniting the discreet and the noticeable into the look of a TV as an actual object.
Easy to be around: an important quality for people and TVs
If TVs could find that balance, people would have more configurations to choose from — and that freedom would help weave TVs further into the fabric of everyday life. To make that kind of intimacy a reality, a TV design needs to have warmth. A person who’s too detached and restrained might be difficult to feel comfortable around. The same goes for TVs: while minimalist designs might be vital in helping people immerse themselves in their viewing experiences, there's a risk of making the designs feel a bit cold and inorganic if the minimalist agenda is pushed too hard.
That’s the basic premise behind the themes of “Soft Minimalism,” an approach that uses gentle detailing, engaging materials and textures, and warm hues, to take the chill off a minimalist configuration. The result? A TV that wows when it’s on, eliminating extraneous elements to maximise the power of the visual experience, while residing comfortably in its environment when it’s off, harmonising with the space like a piece of artwork. We live in an age where simplicity and comfort are more important than ever. Emerging from that context, the “Soft Minimalism” concept shapes a new embodiment of what a TV can be.
How new value can grow out of antinomy
We’re always trying to find new experiences and new value in antinomy, the contradictory, paradoxical elements of design. The “Soft Minimalism” concept is basically proposing a “white black.” On the one hand, it’s got an emphatic visual presence — but on the other hand, it blends into spaces with the cool, withdrawn feel of a video system. For us, the focus was on developing a TV that would balance those two contradictory dimensions and resonate with today’s lifestyles.
Tako, Chief Art Director
Minimalism styled with softness
The A9F, with its OLED display, represents a masterful fusion of the viewing and listening experience. And all this condensed into a single slate—the screen, with only a stand in the back to hold it up. The actuator and subwoofer are placed inside the stand. Its shape and materials are imbued with softness, with a rounded bezel and fabric-covered rear panel. These characteristics allow the A9F to exude an emphatic visual presence, while also blending into its surroundings.
The screen turns off but the style stays on
Not everything in a living space has a specific function; artwork and sculptures, for example, don’t actually do anything. An idle TV falls into that category too. Works of art produce a kind of energy and richness by just being there — and we wanted to see if we could make TVs do the same thing. That’s why we adopted a new perspective in formulating the “Soft Minimalism” approach. Instead of seeing the physical presence of a TV as a distraction to eliminate, we reimagined it as a meaningful asset.
Yokota, Art Director
This BRAVIA OLED TV features a minimal two-panel structure with one for the stand and one for the screen. By rounding the edges of the panels, the team accentuated the design’s sleek configuration to create a lighter, airier feel.
The smooth, gentle contours of handmade craftwork
Hand-crafted shapes have the natural ability to deliver the perfect fit — whether you’re holding a plate in your hand, sitting in a chair, or grasping a tool. The BRAVIA® design team sought to capture that feel through a variety of tweaks, such as rounding the corners of the bezel and soundbar casing to create a soft, gentle form.
Patterns and materials that reveal functional beauty
BRAVIA® designers took innovative approaches to the back panel of the TV. The design incorporates heat-release slits and terminal covers into a network of geometric patterns, for example, making the TV look as elegant from the back as it does from the front. The soundbar, meanwhile, features a unique amalgam of different materials that not only reinforces the functional purpose of components with a visual touch but also enriches the aesthetic harmony between the overall design and the surrounding space.
The key is finding balance
A soundbar can generate the kind of audio that a TV can’t produce by itself — and it’s capable of rendering sound in high dimensions without much effort. In designing the soundbar, we focused on finding a higher order balance that’d make its presence, affinity with the TV, and harmony with the interior space all fall into place.
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Bringing people and TVs into a warmer, more comfortable relationship, the BRAVIA® design represents a new step forward for viewing experiences in living spaces.
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Leaked Document Exposes Obama's Climate Strategy
Confidential memo outlines key messages the Obama administration wants to convey at UN climate talks in Mexico in November.
The Guardian has published the text a leaked document revealing the US government's increasingly controversial strategy in the global UN climate talks. The document was left on a European hotel computer and passed to the British newspaper. The text unveils the Obama's administration's hardline, "take it or leave it" approach to the agreement, signaling that the US intends......read more
Heat Waves in a Swamp
Charles Burchfield's unique, mystical vision of nature captured in new touring retrospective.
Widely acclaimed during his lifetime, American painter Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893 - 1967) is curiously under-appreciated today. But an ambitous new touring retrospective, curated by artist Robert Gober, may change that. HEAT WAVES IN A SWAMP, which opens in June at New York's Whitney Museum, features over one hundred works by the visionary artist. Working predominantly in watercolor,......read more
Favela Painting
Artists give Rio community a radiant makeover.
In Santa Marta, a hillside favela in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, two artists from Holland are using a massive art intervention to transform the community. Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn originally came to Brazil in 2005 to shoot a documentary on the vibrant favela music scene. They never left. The two stayed in Rio to form Favela Painting, an organization dedicated to creating "striking......read more
Simen Johan: Until the Kingdom Comes
Norwegian artist explores the space between reality and fiction.
In his series Until the Kingdom Comes, New York-based artist Simen Johan creates dramatic tableaux of wildlife with weird and unnatural twists. In the large-scale color photos and taxidermy-based sculptures, nothing is quite as it seems. A pair of white owls sit perched on a picnic table in the fog; a pair of foxes huddle together in the snow, crying; two moose battle in a rugged landscape, with......read more
Yu Kawakita: Water Paintings
H2O as material and metaphor.
The abstract works of Japanese painter Yu Kawakita capture both the rhythm of nature and the event of creation between artist and media. She makes them by applying paint or ink onto a thin layer of water covering a primed surface, then blowing on the liquid to create patterns. When the water evaporates and the paint dries, the process is frozen in time and the work is complete. "There are......read more
Chris Ballantyne: Paintings
Desolate depictions of the American landscape.
With a deft hand and a quirky sense of humor, Brooklyn-based artist Chris Ballantyne highlights the desolate emptiness of American landscapes. In his paintings and murals, graphically rendered structures are isolated on flat fields of color, underscoring the anti-social effects of our built environment. “Growing up in a military family and moving to different parts of the country, there was a......read more
Nick Gentry: Floppy Disk Paintings
Dead storage media given new lease on life.
Sometimes, like with records or Polaroids, old media is fetishized and revered for having qualities that new tech can't replicate. But usually obsolete media is forgotten and condemned to the trash heap. Floppy disks land squarely in the category of unlucky ones. London-based artist Nick Gentry gives floppy disks a new lease on life, resurrecting the discarded technology to make canvases for......read more
Alex Roulette: Fabricated Realism
Photorealistic American landscapes.
Using photographic source images, Brooklyn artist Alex Roulette creates realistic paintings of fabricated landscapes, depicting private moments in male adolescence. "The invented landscapes arise from archetypal citations of past and present cultural influences," he says. "Placing figures into these landscapes is an attempt to take advantage of the viewer's natural ability to......read more
Paper Reefs by Amy Eisenfeld Genser
Elaborate mixed media works created from rolls of colored paper
Judging from these meticulously crafted mixed media works, Amy Eisenfeld Genser is one patient lady. For each piece, the Connecticut-based artist rolls up colored paper into hundreds of tubes, then adheres them to painted canvases. The results are stunning, polychromatic pieces of art that resemble undersea reefs. In fact, the natural environment inspires all of Gensler's work. As......read more
Paintings by Amy Casey
Cleveland painter dreams up fantasy cityscapes
Amy Casey's most recent crop of paintings are noticeably devoid of people and creatures, but there are plenty of signs of life. Her depictions of houses and factories resting precariously on stilts, or connected in mid-air by a tangled mess of cables, offer an anthropomorhpic interpretation of city buildings. Amy has conjured a fantasy urban landscape where the humans have left and the buildings......read more
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Charlotte's Web Summary
You'd be surprised how much can happen in the life of a pig. And for Wilbur, life's got some definite ups and downs.
Right off the bat, we know Wilbur is in for some trouble. Just after he's born, Papa Arable wants to kill the little piggy merely because he's the runt of the litter. Thankfully, eight-year-old Fern Arable isn't going to stand for such injustice. She convinces her daddy to let her keep the pig as a pet and then gives him a memorable name: Wilbur, of course.
Fern is a great little mama to Wilbur, but Wilbur eventually gets too big to be a house pet. So, she sells her pet to her Uncle Homer Zuckerman. Wilbur is sad to leave Fern. She's the best! But at the Zuckerman farm he finds good friends and a warm manure pile. (Gross? Definitely. But Wilbur likes it.) And the best friend of all in this barn is an itty-bitty grey spider named Charlotte.
Wilbur is enjoying his new home until one day he gets some seriously bad news: eventually Homer Zuckerman will probably kill Wilbur and turn him into bacon and ham. Oh no! Wilbur's a special little bugger, and we're pretty sad to hear he might get sent to the butcher block.
So it's Charlotte to the rescue. Our favorite spider hatches a plan to save Wilbur's life. There are three steps:
(1) Write the words "SOME PIG" in the middle of her spider web. This makes everyone think that Wilbur sure is something special. In fact, they think he's "some pig."
(2) Launch the second slogan in the Save Wilbur Campaign: "TERRIFIC." Now Zuckerman thinks Wilbur is so terrific that he'll take the little pig to compete in the county fair.
(3) Weave the third catchphrase into the web: "RADIANT." The whole county is visiting the Zuckerman farm to see this seriously radiant piggy.
Charlotte has definitely convinced people that Wilbur is a special little guy—er, pig. And once the Arables and Zuckermans get to the County Fair, she's going to have one more chance to show off her friend. So Charlotte weaves her final sign. This time it says: "Humble." All the fairgoers agree: that's one humble pig.
It's time to break out some cheering because Wilbur wins a special prize at the county fair. Charlotte knows she's done her job well and the Zuckermans will never kill such a special pig. Check and mate.
But now it's time to break out the tissues: Charlotte is dying. We know, this seems pretty sudden. But spiders just don't live very long. And the worst part of it is that she's created a sac of 514 eggs that she'll never get to see hatch. Plus, they're going to be stranded at the fairgrounds. This is seriously sad.
Thankfully, her dear buddy Wilbur is going to save the day. Charlotte saved his life and now he's going to save the lives of her little kiddies. So Wilbur takes the egg sac back to the Zuckerman farm, while Charlotte dies alone at the fairgrounds. Yep, totally tragic.
But here's the silver lining: once spring comes, Wilbur has lots of new spider friends. And even though those spiders eventually die too, they also leave egg sacs filled with more future friends. Basically, Wilbur is never going to be lonely a day in his life.
Before Breakfast
Charlotte's Web kicks off with Fern Arable asking her mother a question: "Where's Papa going with that ax?" (1.1). Huh, that's not the first line you normally see in a kids' book. But now that you mention it, Fern, we're pretty curious too.
According to Fern's Mama, Mrs. Arable, Papa is heading out to the hoghouse to "do away" with the smallest pig (1.4).
But this little euphemism isn't about to fool Fern. She turns out to be quite the smarty-pants and realizes right away that "do away" means "kill" (1.5).
Fern isn't about to stand for this pig-killing business. It just doesn't seem fair to kill a newborn pig just because he's the runt of the litter.
So Fern rushes outside and pleads with her dad to spare the pig. She even tries to take the ax from his hands. Whoa, Fern, safety first!
Papa puts up a struggle, but it looks like Fern is a daddy's girl because she eventually gets her way. Her dad decides to save the pig, and let her care for it just like a baby.
Sounds like he also thinks this might teach Fern a lesson about just how tough it can be to care for animals.
Soon after, Papa brings the pig into the house and sets it in a carton at the kitchen table. Oh, and there's bacon for breakfast sitting at the kitchen table. Awk-ward.
When Fern sees the pig, she's psyched. A new pet!
We can't say the same for Fern's ten-year-old brother, Avery. Check this out: Avery comes into the kitchen with not one but two weapons: an air rifle and a wooden dagger. Don't cross this kid, is all we're saying.
When Avery sees the pig, he thinks it looks pretty silly because it's so small. But then he asks his dad if he can have one too.
Hmm, seems like Avery might be a smidge jealous of his little sis.
The family tries to eat a bit of breakfast before the kids head off to school. But Fern just wants to make sure her new pig gets his meal.
So she feeds him milk with a baby bottle. How sweet is that?
On the bus to school, all Fern can dream about is her cute little pig. And soon she's come up with "the most beautiful name she could think of": Wilbur (1.34).
Fern is so into her new pet that she keeps daydreaming about him in class. So when her teacher asks Fern to recite the capital of Pennsylvania, what do you think Fern says? Yep: Wilbur.
The girl's only got one thing on her mind.
Based on this chapter's title, we're thinking Fern's obsession with Wilbur hasn't gone away yet. If anything, she's even more into her adorable pig.
Fern loves taking care of Wilbur every chance she gets. She gives him bottles multiple times a day.
She even has a bib for him, which, okay, maybe not strictly necessary. But still, a pig with a bib is pretty cute.
You know what? We're getting the idea that Fern is someone who's outgrown her dolls—but not quite.
The next order of business around the Arable home is to find a place for Wilbur to live. He starts out in his carton in the kitchen. But Mrs. Arable gets fed up with that—pigs in the kitchen doesn't sound super hygienic—so Wilbur moves to the woodshed.
Two weeks later, Wilbur moves into his third and coolest (literally) home yet: a small patch of yard under an apple tree. Fern is worried he might be cold outside. But Wilbur shows her just how resourceful he is when he burrows into some straw to keep warm.
Now that's a smart pig.
Wilbur and Fern get into a nice little routine together. It goes something like this:
Morning, before school: Fern gives Wilbur a warm bottle of milk. Then Wilbur waits with Fern until she catches the bus and heads to school.
During school hours: Fern is at school, of course. So Wilbur stays in his yard while she's gone.
Afternoon, after school: Fern and Wilbur spend every second together. He follows her everywhere. And sometimes she pushes him around in her stroller alongside her doll. There was one afternoon when Fern swam in the brook while Wilbur played in the mud.
Sounds like a pretty sweet daily routine. But all of this fun is about to change because Papa has an announcement: he's going to sell Wilbur. Oh no!
Fern is super upset at this news. She's had five glorious weeks raising Wilbur and she doesn't want to lose him. But Papa says the pig eats too much now, and all his brother and sister pigs have already been purchased.
Thankfully, Mrs. Arable comes up with a solution: Fern should see if her Uncle Homer wants to buy Wilbur. Fern can give her uncle a good deal on the pig, since Wilbur is so small. Plus, Fern can just head up the road to visit her baby.
Uncle Homer says he's in, Fern says okay, so everybody wins. Now it's time for Wilbur to move one more time to Uncle Homer Zuckerman's barn.
Wilbur's new digs are pretty sweet. Uncle Homer's barn is huge, filled with fun barn stuff like ladders and rope, and full of warm places to relax and enjoy the day.
Every day, Fern comes to visit Wilbur. In fact, she comes so often that all the animals get used to her and start to trust her.
During her visits, Fern sits on a milk stool and looks into Wilbur's pen. She's not allowed to take Wilbur out of his pen or climb in there with him.
This means Wilbur doesn't get to go on stroller rides or go swimming anymore.
But at least he and Fern still get to see each other every. single. day.
On one particular day, Wilbur heads outside to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Fern isn't there yet so he's pretty bored. But here's the crazy thing that happens: we hear Wilbur's first thought. And it goes like this: "There's never anything to do around here" (3.6).
Actually, Wilbur is so bored that he talks out loud to himself all about how there's just nothing to do but walk in and out of his little barn space.
But then something happens that's about to make Wilbur a lot less bored: he hears a voice that says: "That's where you're wrong, my friend, my friend" (3.8).
And who is the giver of this nugget of insight? A very resourceful goose. The goose tells Wilbur that he can get out of his fence if he just pushes on one of the loose boards.
Wilbur does, and he's free. Yippee!
But now that he's free, Wilbur doesn't quite know what to do with his newfound liberty. The goose has some advice: jump, dance, and do whatever you want. Sounds like a good plan.
So Wilbur does a little twirl. Yep, this pig not only talks, but dances too. Then he heads over to an apple tree to enjoy one of his favorite pastimes: digging his snout into the ground.
But the fun can't last forever. Mrs. Zimmerman sees that the pig is loose and sets off the alarm. Before you know it, Uncle Homer, Lurvy (a man hired to help on the farm), and even the family cocker spaniel are chasing down Wilbur. All the animals in the barn have heard of Wilbur's escape and are eager to watch the chase.
Poor Wilbur doesn't know what to do. Should he run? Stay? Do a jig? He's so bewildered that he's wondering why on earth he broke through the fence in the first place.
Homer, Lurvy, and the cocker spaniel start grabbing for Wilbur. So he's stuck dodging arms left and right. To make it all even more confusing, the animals are shouting contradictory advice from the barn. Some say go uphill, others down. Some say dance, some say spin. It's a regular kerfuffle!
The chase comes to an end when Mr. Zimmerman whips out a pail of slop. The slop is a mix of milk, old breakfast cereal, and leftover food. Ew, right? But Wilbur thinks the slop has the most heavenly smell ever.
So Wilbur follows Mr. Zimmerman and his pail back into the pen. The whole time the goose is shouting to Wilbur that it's a trap, but he couldn't care less. All he wants is some nice comforting food, especially since Fern isn't there.
Back in the pen, Wilbur is happy again. He's full, Homer is scratching his back with a stick, and Lurvy and Homer are talking about what a swell pig Wilbur is. Perhaps life inside the pigpen isn't so bad after all.
The day after Wilbur's fence-escaping adventure, it's raining cats and dogs. Wilbur is super bummed about the bad weather, because he'd had his day all planned out.
How's this sound for a daily schedule: eat, have a chat with a rat, nap, dig, stand still (seriously, Wilbur schedules time for standing still), eat, scratch, stand still again and wait for Fern, eat.
This pig sure is a planner.
But sadly for Wilbur, the rain sends these plans out the window.
So Wilbur sets about calling for Templeton, the rat that camps out under his trough. When Templeton doesn't respond, Wilbur feels pretty miserable and lonely. Even breakfast doesn't cheer him up because "Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love" (4.22).
Poor little guy.
Wilbur decides to see if he can find a friend to play with him. So he makes his pitch—some version of "Will you play with me?"—to each barn animal around, one after the other.
First up: the goose. But the goose says she's too busy sitting on her eggs.
Second in line: the lamb. But the lamb is super rude and tells Wilbur that he just isn't interesting enough to be the lamb's playmate.
Well, that's just not nice.
Third up to bat: Templeton the rat. But Templeton says he doesn't know how to play. Instead, he's going to eat Wilbur's breakfast, since the pig hasn't had a bite of it.
Seeing Templeton eat his breakfast is the last straw. Wilbur has no friends and now no food. He feels so stinkin' lonely that he breaks down and cries.
Lurvy thinks they need to do something to cheer this pig up, so Mr. Zuckerman says to give Wilbur some medicine and molasses. And Wilbur is so not in the mood for medicine or molasses. His day just can't get any worse.
But once nighttime hits, Wilbur gets a pleasant surprise. A voice in the darkness says: "Do you want a friend, Wilbur?" (4.40).
You bet he does!
Wilbur can't see where this mysterious voice is coming from because it's so dark out. But the voice tells him two important things that just might turn Wilbur's luck around:
(1) The voice wants to be Wilbur's friend.
(2) Wilbur will get to see the source of this voice in the morning.
Wilbur is so excited to meet this new friend that he can't sleep.
When the sun finally comes up, Wilbur just can't wait any longer, so he makes an announcement to the whole barn.
And he may just be the politest pig around because check out how he tries to find his new friend: "Attention, please! […] Will the party who addressed me at bedtime last night kindly make himself or herself known by giving an appropriate sign or signal!" (5.17).
The other animals think Wilbur is being pretty ridiculous. And one old sheep points out that maybe this alleged new friend of Wilbur's is sleeping in late.
And it turns out that's precisely what's been happening. So when the new friend eventually wakes up, the mysterious small voice greets Wilbur again.
Wilbur still can't figure out where this voice is coming from until the voice says to look up in the corner of the barn doorway where she'll be waving at him.
When Wilbur takes a peek in the barn corner, there's none other than a spider waving one of her eight little legs at him. Spiders can be creepy, but this one seems pretty nice, actually.
At this point some introductions are in order. And, based on the chapter title, what do you think our newest character is going to be named?
Yes dear Shmoopers, this little spider is Charlotte.
Actually, make that Charlotte A. Cavatica. This is no ordinary spider. She's a fancy shmancy spider.
Wilbur learns a few things about his new friend:
(1) She's seriously pretty. But Charlotte thinks there are other prettier spiders out there.
(2) Charlotte is near-sighted, so she can't see Wilbur too well. Someone get that girl some glasses!
(3) Charlotte eats flies, which kind of grosses Wilbur out. (This from the pig who eats slops.) But, she does it mercifully. Wilbur watches as a fly accidentally gets stuck in her web. Charlotte first winds it up in her silky thread, and then knocks it out so it'll feel less pain. She's a humanitarian spider, this one.
(4) Charlotte comes from a family of "trappers" (5.49). This means that she's good at making a mean web to catch herself some dinner.
She doesn't love the fact that she needs to eat other little bugs, but that's the way of the world.
All this talk of trapping bugs gets Wilbur and Charlotte into a debate about bug-eating ethics. Is it really fair for Charlotte to trap and kill these bugs?
Wilbur seems to think it's a bit cruel. But Charlotte points out that no one brings her a bucket of slop, so she's got to find her own way to survive.
And Charlotte makes another good point: without spiders like her, there'd be a gazillion bugs in the world and that would make things rather unpleasant.
So really, she's just helping avoid overpopulation and a bug-spawned apocalypse.
Well, Wilbur can't really argue with that.
At this point the eavesdropping goose thinks to herself that Wilbur is pretty naïve. He doesn't even realize that he's probably going to end up being Christmas dinner.
And neither did we. Yikes!
Luckily, Wilbur doesn't hear this thought, so he's unfazed. Instead, he lies down to think about his new friend. She sure is clever and pretty, but she's also got a tough streak in her, and Wilbur's not sure how he feels about that just yet.
But our narrator gives us a hint about what we're going to learn soon enough: Charlotte "was to prove loyal and true to the very end" (5.57).
You know how summer rocks? Well, it rocks on a farm, too, especially now that Fern is off from school and gets to visit Wilbur more. Plus, the birds are singing and flowers are growing.
Life is grand!
If you're a pig like Wilbur, early summer is particularly awesome because Mr. Zuckerman and the farm workers rake lots of fresh hay into the barn.
One day early in the summer, the barn gets a few new inhabitants: seven cute little goslings. Those eggs the goose has been sitting on for a month finally hatch. Fern, Wilbur, and Charlotte are super excited for the goose and the gander (who we've only just met).
Templeton, on the other hand, is a regular sourpuss. All he wants to know is why the eighth egg didn't hatch.
The goose and gander aren't about to let Templeton rain on their parade. So, they let Templeton take the dud egg away to his stash, with the gander warning Templeton that he better stay away from the new goslings… or else.
Later that day, the goose takes a little walk with her seven goslings and Mr. Zuckerman spies the happy little family. Mr. Zuckerman counts out the geese and seems genuinely happy for the goose when he says: "Now isn't that lovely!" (6.47).
The more time Wilbur spends with Charlotte, the more he grows to like her. That girl—er, spider—is the best.
For starters, she's #1 at fly-catching. And Wilbur has decided that flies stink big time. They annoy everyone from the cows to the horses, so it's better that they become Charlotte's dinner.
On top of her fabulous fly catching, Charlotte is merciful.
Sure, Wilbur was impressed that she knocked the flies out when he first saw her eating them. But now that he's been watching her for a while, he's even more amazed that Charlotte gives her flies an "anaesthetic" so their death is painless (7.4).
And Charlotte's not the only good eater in the barn. Wilbur has been doing his fair share of eating and he's getting nice and plump.
He's pretty pleased with his growing body, but the sheep has some bad news: "they're fattening you up because they're going to kill you" (7.49).
Uh-oh.
Wilbur can't believe his little piggy ears. But the sheep clues him in: every year, there's a conspiracy to kill a pig, and everyone from Mr. Zuckerman and Lurvy to Mr. Arable (Fern's dad), is in on the plot. According to the sheep, one day they'll shoot the pig—that is, Wilbur—dead. Yikes!
That's bad news for our dear Wilbur, who doesn't want to die. Naturally, he has a wee panic attack about it, but Charlotte tells him to hush.
Wilbur is having a hard time calming down. Actually, he's freaking out.
Charlotte admits that the sheep probably knows what's going to happen, since she's seen many pigs meet the same fate, but has some good news to offer up: "I am going to save you" (7.26). Charlotte may not be able to tolerate Wilbur's crying (truth be told, she doesn't really sympathize with him at all), but she's still a good friend. So Charlotte is going to do everything she can to save her friend's life.
A Talk at Home
Fern is having a little breakfast with her mom and dad when they start talking about Uncle Homer's farm.
Fern is pretty excited about the new goslings and tells her parents all about them, right down to how the eighth egg didn't hatch so Templeton took it away.
Mr. and Mrs. Arable are confused about this last bit. Who's Templeton? And why is our daughter talking to a rat?
Mrs. Arable is especially baffled that her daughter (1) appears to be talking to animals, and (2) that those animals have names. What on earth!
Once Fern's mom sends her off to get ready for Sunday school, Mrs. Arable starts psychoanalyzing her daughter's weird behavior. She's pretty worried that her child thinks animals can talk. To her, that's total cockamamie.
But Mr. Arable is a bit more open-minded. He thinks that maybe, just maybe, animals can talk and he and his wife just can't hear them.
This would mean that Fern is an especially good listener.
Wilbur's Boast
So we're back in the barn, witnessing a conversation between Wilbur and Charlotte. Charlotte is weaving herself a web in the late afternoon, which is her favorite time for web weaving.
Wilbur decides to open the conversation with, well, not the slickest line ever: "You have awfully hairy legs, Charlotte" (9.2). What does he expect the spider to do? Shave?
But Charlotte isn't perturbed by Wilbur's candid question.
Instead, she takes it as an opportunity to give Wilbur an anatomy lesson. A spider's legs are super important and complex because of all that weaving business. In fact, they have seven sections, a tidbit that Wilbur just can't believe.
So Wilbur is partly in awe at Charlotte's awesome legs.
But he's also thinking that maybe he could spin a web if Charlotte would just teach him how. Charlotte, bless her heart, gets on board and says she'll be Wilbur's web weaving instructor.
And thus commences Wilbur's Web Weaving Attempt #1: Charlotte tells him to climb up to a high place (for her this is a door frame; for Wilbur it's a manure pile, which is a little grosser, and probably also not as high.)
Then she says that all Wilbur needs to do is jump, extrude some string, make some attachments, and he'll be good to go. Wilbur jumps but, alas, no spidery string appears.
So our Wilbur ends up on the ground. Charlotte is a barrel of laughs, but not in a mean way.
Really. Actually, she's pretty impressed at Wilbur's go-getter attitude. All the while, Fern is enjoying the show too.
But Wilbur isn't giving up so easily. He figures he'll do better next time around if he just has some string attached to his tail. Templeton to the rescue, with some dingy string for Wilbur to borrow.
So we get Wilbur's Web Weaving Attempt #2: Wilbur tells everyone to watch and he spins into the air again. Sadly he forgot to tie the other end of the string to anything, so the poor guy ends up on the ground again.
Templeton seems a little too gleeful about Wilbur's failed attempt. But Charlotte decides to talk some sense into her friend so he doesn't keep hurting himself. She points out that Wilbur (1) doesn't have the proper tools like "spinnerets," and (2) he doesn't have the "know-how" (9.29).
Plus, Charlotte says that spinning webs is really something only spiders can do. Even humans stink at spinning webs. Take, for instance, the web-like Queensborough Bridge which took humans a whole eight years to build.
Charlotte, of course, can whip up a web in no time at all.
(By the way, Charlotte might not be a real spider, but the Queensborough Bridge is real. And it really is pretty web-like.)
The whole bridge discussion makes Charlotte realize that while humans are always hustling and bustling around, she prefers being sedentary. She gets to rest for huge chunks of time, and she likes it that way.
Wilbur realizes he's pretty sedentary too, but not necessarily by choice. If Wilbur had his way, he'd be out in the woods poking his snout around and trying to find food and smelling the ground.
Out of the blue, a lamb decides to insult Wilbur, saying that the pig smells.
Well, now, that's not very nice. Thankfully, Charlotte comes to Wilbur's defense.
Wilbur tries to brush off the insult and enjoy the rest of his evening.
On the one hand, he's really enjoying the familiar sounds of the farm. But on the other hand, there's that pesky little problem of the humans wanting to kill Wilbur.
Wilbur confesses his fears to Charlotte: he just doesn't want to die.
Charlotte understands, and reminds Wilbur that she's hatching a plan to keep him alive. In fact, Charlotte has been thinking a lot about how to save Wilbur's life.
Fun fact: She likes to think with her head hanging down. According to her, all the blood is in her head, which helps her think. So she spends lots of time now head down, legs up, thinking cap on.
The good news for Wilbur is that Charlotte is super certain that her plan will work. Her new mantra for Wilbur is "Never hurry and never worry!" (9.67). Easier said than done, Char.
So Charlotte has become a very helpful little friend, but she's also become a bit of a bossy pants. Wilbur asks for her permission to go eat some of his remaining food, and she's says that's okay. But when Wilbur asks if he can get some milk to drink, Charlotte orders Wilbur to bed. Apparently, Wilbur isn't allowed to worry or allowed to drink. In case he pees in his cozy manure pile?
An Explosion
Charlotte has one main task these days, and that's scheming up how to save Wilbur's life. Happily, our girl has hatched a plan: fool Mr. Zuckerman.
Around the same time, Avery and Fern head onto the Zuckerman farm. In the kitchen, Aunt Edith (aka Mrs. Zuckerman) offers them some blueberry pie.
Being an ungrateful kid, Avery lets the frog he's holding hop all around his aunt's kitchen.
But eventually Fern and Avery grab the frog and head outside to play on the rope swing.
Here's the thing about this rope swing: it's the best rope swing ever. We repeat, the very best rope swing ever! Kids can stand on the ledge of the hayloft, grab the rope, and go swinging like nobody's business.
Parents aren't huge fans of the swing (obvs), but the kids love it.
So, Fern and Avery take turns on the rope swing. Then they go berry picking and eat a bunch of raspberries.
Besides the fact that Fern bites into a berry with a bug in it (gross!), this sounds like an awesome day on the farm.
Once the Arable kids are tuckered out, Fern says she wants to visit Wilbur.
And now the lovely day on the farm is about to take a dark turn, because Avery has spotted Charlotte. And do you think Avery is going to leave a beautiful spider specimen like Charlotte alone?
Nope, he wants to capture her.
Avery starts to reach a stick to knock Charlotte down, when the potential spider-killer trips and falls.
The good news is that Charlotte's life is spared. The bad news? Avery falls into Wilbur's trough and apparently that old goose egg is underneath it.
When Avery falls, he breaks the egg, and now the whole barn stinks of rotten egg. The smell is seriously disgusting, but at least it forces Avery to jet away from the barn and from Charlotte.
Most of the animals had been out of the barn during the egg-exploding debacle, and when they return Wilbur tells each of them about how the rotten egg saved Charlotte's life.
The goose and Templeton are both pretty proud of their part in the whole thing. If the rotten egg hadn't been there, Charlotte would have been one unlucky spider.
But now Templeton is the unlucky one, because when Lurvy brings some yummy slop for Wilbur's dinner, he discovers Templeton's nest. Lurvy covers Templeton's little home in dirt and turns all the rat's possessions into buried treasure.
Charlotte's been super quiet throughout this whole ordeal. Later that night, while everyone sleeps, Charlotte spends her time thinking and working. And this isn't just any work. Charlotte's doing some mysterious things to her web. She's taken out the middle and now is adding something else in.
We can't wait to see what it is.
Now it's the next day and it's a foggy one. Everything from the barn to the grass is wet as can be.
Luckily for Charlotte, fog is a spider web's best friend. And here's why: "This morning each thin strand was decorated with dozens of tiny beads of water" (11.2). Sounds like a seriously pretty sight to see.
Lurvy agrees: the web is a beauty. Actually, it's not just extra beautiful this morning, it's also got some extra writing in it. Inside that hole Charlotte made in the center of the web, now sit the words: "SOME PIG!"
Okay, that's maybe the coolest web ever in the history of spider webs.
Seeing this web, Lurvy kind of starts to freak out. Is he seeing things? Going crazy? So he fetches Mr. Zuckerman, who is also baffled by the writing in the web.
Lurvy and Homer Zuckerman can't make heads or tails of the web, so it's time for a third opinion. They head into the house and talk to Edith Zuckerman, where Homer tells his wife everything that he saw.
His conclusion: they have a seriously special pig. But Edith has a different conclusion: they have a seriously special spider. (Maybe they're both right.)
The Zuckermans and Lurvy spend some time at the barn analyzing the spider web and admiring their pig.
As for Charlotte and Wilbur, they're loving all the attention. The more they look, the more Lurvy and the Zuckermans realize just how special this pig is. In fact, by the time they're walking away, Lurvy is repeating the words on the web: "He's some pig" (11.32).
Soon after, Homer heads out to talk to the minister about the miracle on his farm. According to the minister, they should keep this miracle a secret and not tell a soul about it.
But it's tough to keep a secret about something as cool as a miracle pig and a literary spider. We don't know who spills the beans, but soon the whole county seems to know about the spider web.
This means the Zuckerman farm becomes a bit of a local attraction, with tons of people visiting to see Wilbur and the web. And the consensus is clear: "All said they had never seen such a pig before in their lives" (11.84).
All this attention on Wilbur has some pros and some cons.
The cons: Well, for starters, when Mrs. Arable finds out that Avery almost killed the spider, he gets sent to his room. No fun for Avery.
Plus, everyone on the Zuckerman farm is so distracted by the visitors that the crops are going rotten. On top of that, Charlotte is a little peeved that all the visitors mean the barn is always bustling these days.
But there are also some pros: The Zuckerman farm is famous! And, oh yeah, it doesn't look like anyone wants to kill Wilbur. So that's a pretty big pro.
A Meeting
Remember how Charlotte can be bossy sometimes? Well, this is one of those times. It's been a few days since her message in the web went viral and she's called a meeting in the barn.
First thing on the agenda: roll call. Wilbur? Check. Gander and goslings? Check and seven little checks. Lamb? Present. Templeton?
Radio silence. But Charlotte thinks they can just move along even in Templeton's absence. She doesn't seem to have a high opinion of her not-so-friendly rat neighbor.
The main point of this meeting is to discuss new messages for Charlotte to weave into the web.
Turns out that Charlotte is a master at public relations, and she realizes that the visitors will soon tire of reading the same words over and over. So a new slogan is in order.
The goose suggests the word "terrific" and Charlotte is into this new idea. The only problem is no one is quite sure how to spell "terrific."
The old sheep has a suggestion: ask Templeton for help. Charlotte isn't sure the selfish rat will get in on their campaign to save Wilbur.
But Templeton could be helpful since he can fetch magazine scraps from the dump to help with spelling.
When Templeton enters the barn, the old sheep works to convince the rat to help out. At first, Templeton doesn't care a lick about saving Wilbur's life. But when the old sheep points out that the rat gets most of his meals from Wilbur's leftovers, Templeton gets on board.
So a plan is in motion: Templeton will collect some magazine scraps for spelling and inspiration.
And in the meantime Charlotte is going to write "Terrific" inside her web to give everyone in the county a new sensation to gab about.
Wilbur doesn't think he really is terrific, but Charlotte says he is so he's just going to have to go with it.
Good Progress
Charlotte gets to work on the new web design. She clears out the center of the web to give herself a blank canvas, and then sets to work on the letters.
This spider is not only clever at campaigning, but she's also quite the engineer. She thinks about which types of thread she'll use for different parts of the web. Plus she considers how thick she should make the letters so that they'll be more visible.
Charlotte works on her web all night and stays cheery the whole time. The girl's a mighty hard worker.
In the morning, Lurvy finds Wilbur standing under the new and improved web. There's also a bit of dew this morning, so the web is sparkling again.
Lurvy is amazed and needs to spread the news. This sets off a good old-fashioned game of telephone: Lurvy tells Mr. Zuckerman who tells Mrs. Zuckerman who tells the Arables who come straight over to the farm. Phew! And then there's one more important call to make: to a reporter at the Weekly Chronicle.
You know this kind of buzz can't stay quiet for long (not that anyone is trying to keep it a secret). So soon everyone in the county is making a second trip to the Zuckerman farm to see the new writing in the web.
Mr. Zuckerman realizes that things need to start changing on his farm now that he has such a special, nay, a terrific pig. He instructs Lurvy to only put clean straw in Wilbur's pen instead of manure, because a terrific pig deserves a clean bed.
Plus, Mr. Zuckerman makes plans to take Wilbur to the County Fair. Lurvy needs to find a big crate and paint "Zuckerman's Famous Pig" in gold letters onto the crate. It's going to be super fancy.
Now it's time to switch gears, mid-chapter, and turn to Templeton. Our little rat has been snooping around in one of his favorite places: the dumpster just below the apple orchard. And Templeton has found some goodies that he thinks Charlotte might like. But it takes him a few tries to get it right:
(1) On his first attempt, Templeton gives Charlotte a magazine advertisement that says "Crunchy." Charlotte points out that the word crunchy might make people think of bacon. That would be really bad for Wilbur.
(2) With his second attempt at dumpster diving, Templeton brings back a label that reads "pre-shrunk." Nope, no good.
(3) So on the third try Templeton brings back the packaging for some soap. The box says: "With New Radiant Action." Neither Charlotte nor Templeton know what this means, but they agree it might have potential.
Charlotte decides to test out this potential slogan. She orders Wilbur to dance about so she can see if he is radiant. Charlotte isn't entirely convinced that Wilbur is radiant, but the slogan seems like a good one so it'll have to do.
Wilbur and Charlotte are both tired from all this slogan-testing, so they settle down for bed. And Wilbur asks his spider friend for some bedtime stories.
First, Charlotte tells Wilbur a story about how her cousin caught a fish in her spider web. The fish and the spider had an epic battle before the fish became so entangled in the web that it couldn't get free. Then the spider ate the fish. Bam!
Next, Charlotte tells Wilbur about another spider cousin who would form balloons with her thread and float through the air. Wilbur thinks sounds a little far-fetched, but Charlotte insists that it's the truth. Apparently she comes from a family of exceptional spiders.
After this last story and a little lullaby, Wilbur finally falls asleep. And then Fern goes home. We haven't heard much about Fern lately, but turns out she's been in the barn for a while. Who knew?
Dr. Dorian
The next day, Fern is washing some dishes after breakfast. And while she's cleaning Fern tells her mom all about Charlotte's stories.
Remember how Mrs. Arable thought Fern was a little nuts for thinking animals could talk? Well, Mrs. A hasn't yet changed her tune.
Mrs. Arable tells Fern to stop being such a little liar.
Once Fern leaves to head to the Zuckerman farm, Mrs. Arable decides she's had enough of this nonsense. She heads out to talk to Dr. Dorian.
Dr. Dorian seems like a pretty open-minded fellow. When Mrs. Arable asks for the doctor's opinion on the words in the spider web, the doc says that he's totally fine not knowing how they got there. Come to think of it, he doesn't really understand how spiders make webs in the first place, and he's a-okay with that.
Well, no offense to Dr. Dorian, but we like to know these kinds of things.
But enough about the web. What Mrs. Arable really wants to know is if Dr. Dorian thinks animals can talk. Surprise: Dr. Dorian sides with Fern. He thinks that maybe animals do talk, and adults just don't pay enough attention to them.
Mrs. Arable feels much better about Fern. Plus, the doc thinks Fern will eventually grow out of her obsession with animals and become interested in boys instead. Phew!
Sadly, summer is coming to an end. Everyone knows it, but no one knows it better than the crickets who sing about it over and over again. These creaky crickets let everyone around know that summertime is done for and autumn is on the way.
The crickets' message travels fast. Everyone from Fern to Lurvy to Charlotte gets the picture. Even a "little maple tree in the swamp" hears the song (15.5). News of summer ending has definitely gotten around town.
Meanwhile, Wilbur is still making the most of his new-found fame. Charlotte's newest slogan of "Radiant" is emblazoned in the web.
This means Wilbur now spends his days trying to look as radiant as possible. So he bats his eyelashes and does back flips. We have to admit, that would be one radiant pig.
But amid all this radiance, Wilbur worries about his future. What if Mr. Zuckerman still wants to kill him one day? That would totally stink.
But Wilbur has one hope left: if he does well at the County Fair, he'll have a decent chance of staying alive.
There's just one problem: Charlotte might not be going to the fair with Wilbur. When Wilbur wonders why his best friend in the whole wide world would leave him high and dry, Charlotte explains that she needs to stay home to lay some eggs.
Wilbur is so worried about going to the fair without Charlotte that she promises she'll join him if she can make it work. But secretly, Charlotte knows that she'll be laying eggs soon and definitely won't be going to that fair. Big bummer all around.
Off to the Fair
It's fair time, y'all! The night before the fair, everyone is dreaming about how great the next day is going to be. Mr. Zuckerman dreams that Wilbur wins all the fair prizes so that he's completely covered in blue ribbons.
Even the barn animals are excited for the fair. They all go to bed early so they can see Wilbur in the morning before he begins his first road trip.
On the morning of the fair, the Arables and the Zuckermans get ready for the big event. For Fern, this means putting on a cute dress because you just never know who you're going to see at the fair.
For Wilbur, getting ready for the fair means enjoying a buttermilk bath from Mrs. Zuckerman. Mr. Zuckerman doesn't think Wilbur is dirty at all, but Mrs. Zuckerman insists that she bathe Wilbur in buttermilk. Apparently it's something her grandmother used to do.
Turns out that Mrs. Zuckerman is right. After Wilbur's buttermilk bath, he sparkles. He sure does look radiant on the outside and he feels radiant on the inside, too.
While the Zuckermans and Lurvy finish getting ready for the fair, Charlotte makes an announcement: she is going to the fair with Wilbur, after all. Woo!
Charlotte thinks Templeton should come, too. He might be good for running errands. But Templeton is being his grumpy self and declares that he has no interest in coming to the fair. Thankfully, the wise old sheep tells Templeton all about the food scraps he'll find at the fair, and Templeton changes his tune.
So Charlotte and Templeton hide in Wilbur's green crate for the fair. The sheep figures this means the crate should really read "Zuckerman's Famous Pig and Two Stowaways" (16.33).
The Arables arrive to load Wilbur into his crate and get it onto the truck. Everyone can't help but notice what a very handsome pig Wilbur is.
Unfortunately for Wilbur, this admiration is short-lived because Mr. Arable is about to say something really upsetting: "You'll get some extra good ham and bacon, Homer, when it comes time to kill that pig" (16.46).
Uh-oh, looks like Charlotte's plan to save Wilbur's life isn't working out as well as it should.
Wilbur can't stand this news, so he does precisely what a nineteenth-century lady would do: he faints.
One bucket of water later, Wilbur is awake again and shoved into the crate. Now that he's on the back of the truck, everyone is off to the fair.
When the truck arrives at the fairgrounds, the place is already hoppin'. There's music blasting and rides spinning, so Fern and Avery waste no time heading off on their own.
Mr. and Mrs. Arable warn them to keep safe, but otherwise those kiddos have no supervision for the day. Freedom!
The adults load Wilbur into his pen, and then they head off to enjoy the fair, too.
Charlotte has found herself a perch in Wilbur's pen. She can see into some of the other pens and realizes that there's a huge pig next door to Wilbur.
Charlotte thinks this is bad news for her friend, so Charlotte sets out to meet this big pig. When she drops into his pen, the big pig says that he has no name but is just called "Uncle." Hmm, wonder where that name came from?
Charlotte thinks Uncle is pretty crass and noisy, while Wilbur is much nicer. But she does worry about how big Uncle is. When you're a pig getting judged at a fair, size is definitely important.
After this meet-and-greet, Charlotte is exhausted—even though the day has just begun. This has Wilbur pretty worried about how his friend is feeling.
Meanwhile, the Arables, the Zuckermans, and Lurvy all head back to Wilbur's pen. The children have clearly been having a lot of fun. Now it's time for some lunch and a little nap.
That sounds pretty good to us, too.
The Cool of the Evening
After such a hot day, everyone is happy when the cooler evening arrives.
For Charlotte, this is a good time for her to spin a web. She tells Templeton to bring her back some inspiration, because "I shall be writing tonight for the last time" (18.2).
Uh-oh, that sounds pretty ominous to us.
Templeton heads out of the pen. His first concern is food, but once he's eaten his fill of scraps he snatches part of a piece of paper to bring back to Charlotte.
Templeton's a lucky little rat, because it turns out that he just so happened to grab a good word: humble. Charlotte says this word is perfect because it means both "not proud" and "near the ground" (18.12). Wilbur is both, so the word is two for two.
Charlotte weaves "HUMBLE" into the center of the web. Because it's so dark, none of the people can see the word. The Arables and the
Zuckermans head home for the night and Wilbur settles in to catch a few Zs.
When Wilbur starts to chat with Charlotte, he realizes that she's not on her web. Instead, she's in a corner doing something mysterious.
All she tells Wilbur is that she's "making something" and he'll have to wait until the morning to see it (18.31). That means we're stuck in suspense too.
Back at the Arable home, Fern and Avery are off to bed. This has been a pretty great day. In fact, Fern says it's the best day ever.
The Egg Sac
The next day, Wilbur gets to find out what this "something" is that Charlotte was making. When he looks up into the corner of the pen, he sees a peachy-looking sac next to his spider friend.
Charlotte tells Wilbur that this is her greatest work. She's super proud of her egg sac. And why wouldn't she be when there are five hundred and fourteen eggs in there? Yep, 514. That's a lot of spiders.
Wilbur is amazed at this jam-packed egg sac. He can't quite believe that Charlotte is going to have five hundred and fourteen little kiddos. She's going to be one busy mama.
But according to Charlotte, the spiders won't arrive until next spring. And this is bad news for Charlotte because she doesn't feel too great. Actually, she feels like she might not be around for much longer.
This is super sad news, guys.
Charlotte doesn't want to focus on that, though. Instead, she points out the nice dewy web that she's woven. This one is another beautiful masterpiece.
While Wilbur and Charlotte admire the web, Templeton comes back into the pen to rain on their parade. Templeton has seen a blue ribbon on Uncle's pen, so he figures that Wilbur hasn't won a prize and the Zuckermans will probably kill Wilbur soon.
Charlotte tells Templeton to shut his trap, and Wilbur tries to ignore the rat's rudeness. To change subjects, Wilbur points out Charlotte's beautiful egg sac. Even Templeton has the courtesy to congratulate Charlotte on her hundreds of future offspring.
Later that morning, the Arables and Zuckermans arrive at the pen. They all love the new writing on the web.
Soon, this joy goes down the pipe when Avery points to that blue ribbon on Uncle's pen. They realize that Wilbur didn't win first prize, which is a huge bummer.
Mrs. Zuckerman is really upset, but Mr. Zuckerman plucks up pretty quickly. He says it's time for Wilbur's bath, so it's time to whip out the buttermilk.
Bath time becomes a pretty popular spectacle at the fair, since more and more people gather to watch the Zuckermans bathe Wilbur.
Everyone seems impressed with how clean Wilbur is, even if he isn't as big as his neighbor, Uncle.
After a little while, there's an announcement over the loud speaker. Mr. Zuckerman needs to bring Wilbur to the grandstand for a "special award" (19.55). Maybe Wilbur's luck hasn't run out just yet!
Everyone is super jazzed about this special prize. Charlotte, invisible to human eyes up in her perch, is happy too because she knows she saved her friend's life. But Charlotte is also feeling weak. We have a bad feeling about the future of this spider.
The men load Wilbur into the crate and onto the truck. Templeton sneaks his way onto the crate and Fern perches on top. Everyone is happy about Wilbur's prize.
Fern is too, but she's also looking at the Ferris wheel and thinking about that cute boy, Henry Fussy.
The Hour of Triumph
When they arrive at the grandstand, the audience steps aside to let the truck through. All this attention is very exciting for humans and pig alike.
The one person who seems to have lost interest in the proceedings is Fern. She sees Henry, asks her mom for some money, and heads off with her crush to ride the Ferris wheel.
Actually, Avery seems more interested in Wilbur than Fern nowadays. Ah well, Wilbur still has plenty of admirers.
One of those admirers is Charlotte. She's holding onto her egg sac in the pigpen and listening to the announcements over the loud speaker. Even though she isn't with Wilbur, she feels triumphant.
Back at the grandstand, the announcer reminds everyone of Wilbur's far-reaching fame. Everyone knows about Zuckerman's famous pig and the miraculous spider web. But no one can figure out how the spider web with the writing got there in the first place.
According to the announcer, it must be because of "supernatural forces" (20.18). Spiders can't write and that's that. Charlotte knows this is a load of baloney, but no one is around to hear what she has to say. (Not that they'd hear her if she did.)
So Wilbur wins the Zuckerman's a special prize: twenty-five bucks and a medal.
Okay, twenty-five dollars might not seem like much, but the kids were able to go on rides and buy food all day for just seventy cents.
That definitely puts the cash prize in perspective.
There's an awkward moment where Wilbur faints from all the attention. According to the announcer, a dead pig can't win the prize, so Zuckerman better fix this problem ASAP.
Templeton's wily side becomes useful here since he decides to bite Wilbur's tail to get the pig to wake up again.
And Wilbur does! And the crowd cheers! Woohoo!
Then Lurvy comes blundering through the crowd with a pail of water to wake up Wilbur. But since Wilbur is in the crate and Lurvy just isn't thinking straight, the water ends up all over Mr. Zuckerman and Avery instead.
By this time, the crowd is going bananas. A cute pig and some accidental slapstick humor all in a few minutes? Best fair EVER.
Plus Avery is hamming it up, pretending to take a shower now that he's all wet. The audience is eating this up.
So looks like everyone had a good day full of tons of applause and attention.
After such a long day, it's nice for Wilbur and Charlotte to have some quiet time alone in the pigpen.
Charlotte tells Wilbur how happy she is that his life is saved. She's so glad to have helped out her friend. Wilbur can't understand why Charlotte would be so nice to him when he hasn't done anything for her. But according to Charlotte, that's just what friends do. Plus, it made her life a little more entertaining.
You know how Charlotte kept making comments about being tired or not being around for much longer? Well all that ominous talk turns really dark, because Charlotte tells Wilbur that she's going to die soon. In a few days, in fact. She won't even be able to make it back home.
Wilbur is upset, so upset that he starts to throw a tantrum. Can you blame him? The poor guy is about to lose his best friend in the entire world.
Wilbur doesn't want Charlotte to be alone, so he declares that he will stay with her. But Charlotte tells Wilbur that he has to go home.
He has no choice.
All of a sudden, Wilbur has an idea: he'll bring the egg sac back to the barn. That way, at least Charlotte's children will live and have lots of barn friends.
There's just one problem: Wilbur can't reach all the way to the corner to get the egg sac. So he asks Templeton for help. But Templeton is being as mean as he's ever been. He refuses to get the sac because he says everyone is always calling on him for favors.
The people are returning to the pen soon and Wilbur knows he's only got a little time left. So he cuts Templeton a deal. If Templeton gets the egg sac, then Wilbur will let Templeton eat from his slop first. We know how much Wilbur loves his slop, so that's a pretty nice thing for Wilbur to give up.
Templeton's one kryptonite is food. Once the prospect of more goodies is on the table, he can't help but agree to get the sac. He grumbles the whole time, but eventually he releases the sac from the pen and gives it to Wilbur.
This happens just in the nick of time, because the Arables and the Zuckermans have arrived to load Wilbur into the crate. So Wilbur stores the egg sac in the only safe place he can think of: inside his mouth.
The good news is that the egg sac will be safe. The bad news is that Wilbur can't talk. Instead, he gives Charlotte a wink to tell her goodbye. She whispers goodbye back, and waves with one of her weak little legs.
Get out the tissues, because it's time for some tragic news: the next day, Charlotte dies.
A Warm Wind
Wilbur is back at the barn and it's like old times again. The animals are happy to see him and Wilbur is happy to get back to his manure pile. Plus, now there's a shiny medal hanging over the pigpen.
Everything is swell except for one tiny important detail: Charlotte. Wilbur is sad that Charlotte isn't around anymore. There are a few strands of her web left and when he looks at them he seriously misses his friend.
After the bittersweet homecoming, the seasons start to change. First fall arrives and then winter. Wilbur survives through Christmas, so looks like Charlotte was right: his life is now safe.
Throughout the winter, Wilbur also keeps a close eye on Charlotte's egg sac. He becomes the best parent to those eggs that you could ever imagine.
Eventually, winter turns into spring and Wilbur can't wait to meet the little spiders. They start coming out of the sac one by one. They wave their little spider legs at him, and some of them say hello. Actually, that's pretty cute.
One day, after they've grown a bit, something strange starts to happen with the spiders. A warm wind starts to blow through the barn and the spiders start to float away. The first one stands on its head, makes a balloon with its silk, and then says goodbye. The other spiders follow suit until there are a bunch of spiders with balloons floating on the wind.
Wilbur is super upset. He's losing all his new friends and Charlotte's babies!
Finally, the last spider explains what's happening. Apparently all these little spiders are aeronauts like the spider in Charlotte's story.
They float on the wind and land "wherever the wind takes us" (22.40). Then they make a home somewhere else.
This sounds like quite an adventure, but Wilbur thinks it sounds horrible. He can't imagine anything worse than losing all of Charlotte's kiddos.
But the next morning Wilbur gets a pleasant surprise: three little spiders have stayed! Now Wilbur has three new friends, which rocks.
These friends need names, so names they shall have. One by one, they talk to Wilbur to get a name:
(1) Meet Joy. The first spider asks Wilbur why he's shaking and Wilbur says, "I'm trembling with joy" (22.52). This gives the first spider the idea to be called Joy. Hey Joy!
(2) The second spider feels inspired by her mother's middle initial, A. So she names herself Aranea. What's up, Aranea!
(Quick brain snack: Araneus is the genus of a lot of common orb-weaving spiders—just like Charlotte.)
3. Last but not least, say hello to Nellie. She has no idea what her name should be, so she let's Wilbur pick out something "not too long, not too fancy, and not too dumb" (22.57). Nellie fits the bill. Pleased to meet you, Nellie!
So Wilbur has three chums who all seem super sweet. They pledge their eternal friendship to one another and it looks like there's only good times ahead.
Over the years, Wilbur has lots and lots of new friends. This means that each year when his friends die, new friends are born.
All in all, Wilbur is one happy pig. He has his barn animal friends and his new spider friends. Plus he gets to live through the winter each year instead of being killed, so that's good.
And he never forgets Charlotte, the best friend and best writer that Wilbur could ever ask for.
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By shmula, Last Updated March 16, 2007
One of the key lessons in The Theory of Constraints is that the contraint or the bottleneck determines the throughput for the entire system. This means, then, that if we optimize and improve a non-bottleneck, then those efforts have zero impact on the overall throughput of the system. It is only when we improve and optimize the contraint that we will see improvement in the throughput of the entire system. Every system has a constraint — that is neither good nor bad — but just a fact of dynamic systems. The key is to identify and then manage. Once you’ve identified the constraints in your system, then the next step is to manage it.
I was able to obtain some empirical volume data for Burger King. The data below is taken from 1 Burger King restaurant. I imagine the numbers would be significantly different if we were to average the volume by geography, restaurant size, or by other factors. Now, consider the following process map for a typical Burger King:
Over the course of an average month, Burger King produces 34227 sandwiches. This means, then, that for an average hour, Burger King produces 198 sandwiches per hour during normal hours. But, on Friday and at 12:00PM, Burger King experiences higher-than-normal volume and so we add a “Peak Multiplier” of 18% and 17.9% to arrive at 256 sandwiches during Peak Hours. The “Peak Multiplier” is not completely arbitrary, but a quasi-educated guess at the volume increase during those hours. In both cases of Fridays and Lunch Hours, we add a ~20% multiplier.
Now, let’s take a look at the process map. We see the Assembly Step producing 200 sandwiches an hour. We consider the Assembly to be the constraint in the system. The upstream processes produces more than 200, but when we arrive at the Assembly, the capacity of that step is lower than its upstream processes. So, the maximum throughput of the entire system above is 200 sandwiches per hour.
Under normal hours, the constraint functions reasonably well. Since normal hour demand is 198 sandwiches per normal hour, the Assembly Step can produce at least at that amount — but, it’s cutting it close. Under peak volume, the constraint is not able to fulfill demand.
How To Manage A Constraint
Under normal hours, it appears that the Assembly Step can produce at expected demand. But, there are several things that could put burden on the constraint and cause it to producing less than capacity. Here are some of those items:
Rework: Having to Re-Assemble sandwiches adds undue burden on the system and exaggerates the effects of the constraint, leading to a potentially higher-than normal work-in-process, or build-up.
Set-up & Changeover: If all the parts aren’t immediately available in the Assembly step, then it could lead the operator to slow down which could lead to build-up and higher-than-normal work-in-process.
It’s easy enough to see that the Assembly Step needs some help. Here are several things Burger King — or any system with constraints — can do to better manage the natural constraints that are in every system:
Eliminate Defects at the Constraint: This means that all waste is eliminated or reduced at the constraint.
Have the Quality Steps in Front of Constraint: In support of the first bullet, make sure that the parts entering the Assembly step are free of defects.
Support the Constraint: Add labor to the constraint or more lines, if that is prudent.
Appropriately use Buffers: Systems with Constraints exhibit a feast/famine phenomena. To avoid having too much coming into the constraint or too little coming into the constraint, have a buffer of parts large enough that the constraint stays appropriately busy. Put another way, reduce the variation in front of the constraint as much as is possible. A Drum-Buffer-Rope system might be appropriate for some systems.
Evaluate the overall system: How much of the steps in the system are really value-add to the customer? What is the process-cycle effeciency of the process?
All systems have constraints. Identify what they are, quantify the effects, then manage it. The above Burger King example shows how this can easily be done. What are the constraints in your systems? What can you do to better manage those constraints?
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Announcing Shopify’s Build a BIGGER Business Competition
by Simon Heaton
If you’ve been around the Shopify ecosystem for the past few years, you’re likely familiar with our annual Build a Business competition.
Build a Business began as a way to encourage people around the world to pursue their entrepreneurial passion and start the business of their dreams. Since its initial launch, we’ve helped thousands of entrepreneurs build amazing businesses with the help of industry leaders like Mark Cuban, Seth Godin, Arianna Huffington, and Sir Richard Branson.
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The entry period is open until February 28, 2017, and the competition concludes on July 31, 2017 when the two businesses with the highest growth in sales volume, and percentage growth, will be selected to receive our grand prize, which includes:
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These are tense days for elite institutions of higher learning. Students at Sarah Lawrence College began occupying the main administration building last week with a list of over 100 demands. And at Harvard, a distinguished law professor and faculty dean of one of the university's 12 undergraduate resident houses is under fire for joining disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's defense team.
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. is a former public defender who's helped to secure the release of over 6000 falsely imprisoned people. He's a legal hero, which at an institution like Harvard you'd think would gain him substantial social capital. But it doesn't work that way anymore. When you've pushed some students’ hot buttons by choosing to represent America's number one pariah, your slate’s wiped clean.
Now the African-American legal crusader who's devoted his career to helping the disadvantaged is just another guy making some students uncomfortable about having him as the dean at Winthrop House, where he has a pastoral duty as a live-in resident. Sullivan's said that the work of attorneys is not ideological, and they cannot be equated with their clients, which is undeniable under the principles of American jurisprudence. We're constantly reminded that Harvard represents the crème de la crème of American society, so is it too much to expect that its leaders-in-training would grasp this concept that perhaps the party boys and girls at a place like Florida State might be expected to struggle with?
On the petition calling for removing Sullivan from his dean's position, one befuddled person asked his fellow students if they want to accept their diploma from someone who believes it's appropriate to defend the most prominent #MeToo villain of them all. “Defending” someone in court isn’t tantamount to defending their alleged crimes. It's the provision of a legal right guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment. Emergency room doctors will try to save the life of a mass murderer, not because they're soft on crime but because that's their job that they've taken an oath to uphold.
These are adult concepts that strip away the clouding element of emotion, so they require a measure of intellectual rigor to grasp. Such discipline's missing from the 270 people who've signed an online petition calling for Sullivan to resign from his dean position, those spray painting “Whose side are you on?” on Harvard buildings, and the dozens of protesters who marched in front of administration building.
The dean of Harvard College, Rakesh Khurana, issued a statement confirming that the right to a vigorous defense is a cornerstone of the justice system, but then announced that Harvard would be conducting a “climate review” of how students at Winthrop House were reacting to Sullivan’s representation of Weinstein. If the presumption of innocence is the pillar of jurisprudence that Khurana claims, why would such a review be preferable to the school's educators teaching the dissenting students on this matter?
Some students have talked about how Sullivan, as the dean of their residence hall, has interfered with their sense of “safety.” This is a misuse of the word “safety,” which doesn't involve the protection of delicate sensibilities imbued into young people by helicopter parents. This corrupted new definition of the word is antithetical to the highest purpose of a university—fostering an atmosphere of free inquiry—meaning that universities need to make a point of not accepting it from their students. Being around someone with different views than your own does not mean you are not safe. It means you're alive.
Other students have said they wouldn't feel comfortable going to their dean if they'd been sexually assaulted. Given Sullivan's long history defending those in need, this complaint is odd, but the professor has provided the name of another faculty member that students can choose to go to in such cases. Case closed on this objection.
You could criticize Sullivan for going along with a system that allows wealthy people to buy the best defense, but it's not his system. Additionally, the more high-paying clients he takes on, the more pro bono work he can do. Dean Khurana should talk about Harvard alum John Adams, who risked his career by representing British soldiers accused of killing five in Boston in 1770.
The American criminal justice system only works if the most unpopular are defended in court. Certain Harvard students should look beyond themselves. It's not about them all the time. The school's officials should be firm and guide them through this process, which is their job. Ronald Sullivan's come too far in life to be treated this way.
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£130k renovations for war memorials across Stockport
Renovation works are taking place across Stockport’s war memorials ahead of ceremonies to mark the Armistice Centenary on November 11th.
Remembrance Sunday in Stockport - 11 November 2018
Details of Remembrance Sunday Services taking place across the borough this year.
Stoptober quitters urged to “keep going!”
People across Stockport joined tens of thousands in the UK who chose to turn their back on cigarettes this month in the mass 28-day stop smoking challenge, Stoptober
Planning application for Stockport's new transport interchange submitted
The new multi-million pound Stockport Interchange draws a step closer as transport bosses submit a planning application for the new development.
Have your say on Stockport Local Assistance Scheme (SLAS) consultation
Stockport Council is encouraging residents to have their say on the proposed removal of the Stockport Local Assistance Scheme (SLAS).
Civic Commemoration for Wilfred Wood, V.C. - A6 Road Closure
The A6 in Hazel Grove will be closed to traffic in both directions between approximately 10.30am and 11.30am this Sunday (28 October).
Contractor Appointed for 2 Stockport Exchange
GMI Construction Group plc has been appointed as the main contractor to deliver 2 Stockport Exchange.
Stockport’s Victoria Cross Heroes Commemorated
As part of the national World War One centenary commemorations an engraved paving stone will be laid in the birth towns of soldiers who were awarded the Victoria Cross
Extra 1,300 trees to line Stockport's streets
Stockport Council has announced that just over 1,300 extra trees will be planted on streets across Stockport over the next four years, starting this year.
Winners of Stockport Children's Book Awards 2018
The winners of this year’s Stockport Children’s Book Awards, hosted by Stockport Libraries, were announced at a special presentation event at the Town Hall on Thursday 4th October.
Statement on Marple Pool
The Council is continuing the work on the feasibility of providing new leisure and community facilities in Marple following the temporary closure of the pool earlier this year.
Brand new relief road opens to traffic
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What Is The Definition Of A Smallbore Rifle?
by SSUSA Staff - Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Today’s understanding of the term “smallbore” is largely attributed to such calibers as the .22 inch rimfire family of cartridges. Did you know that in days past, “smallbore” referred to any caliber significantly less than .577 cal? What now constitutes smallbore would once have been described as “miniature caliber.”
Going back barely two or three generations, a .451 caliber Whitworth target rifle fell firmly into the smallbore category. At that time, almost all modern military small arms, now considered to be “fullbore” would have joined it.
In 1919, Winchester introduced the Model 52, which subsequently became the gold-standard legend in the arcane world of smallbore rifle competition.
Luckily, the NRA provides a definitive answer for modern shooters in Section 3 of the smallbore rules:
3.1 The Rifle―The rifle authorized for use in smallbore rifle matches is the .22 caliber rimfire chambered for cartridges commercially catalogued as the .22 Short, .22 Long, or .22 Long Rifle cartridges. There are no restrictions on the barrel length or overall weight of the rifle and accessories. No portion of the rifle or any attachment to the rifle shall extend more than 3 inches beyond the rear of the shooter’s shoulder. The trigger pull must be capable of lifting 3 pounds. The same rifle must be used throughout all stages of any one match (except aggregate) except in the case of a malfunction or disabled rifle, when the competitor may change rifles with permission of the Chief Range Officer.
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Castle de Haar is a real fairy-tale castle, complete with towers, red-white shutters, a moat and a drawbridge. You can take long walks in the castle gardens with ancient trees, ponds and long lanes.
“Castle de Haar is a real castle like you’ve heard about in fairy-tales: with towers, red-white shutters, a moult and a draw bridge.”
Located just outside of Utrecht in castle village Haarzuilens lies the six-hundred-year-old estate de Haar. A beautiful estate with ponds, bridges and lovely gardens that have been shaped in both the English landscape style and the clean-lined French baroque style. Of course, the imposing castle is an absolute eye-catcher. You can also view the inside of the castle. The personnel rooms have been open to the public ever since April 2018. You’ll get a good impression of how servants and chambermaids lived and worked here.
The most important annex of the castle is the Châtelet, also called the gate castle. Originally, it was mainly intended for installations, but later the building was also used as employee housing. Nowadays, the family of baron Thierry van Zuylen regularly stays in the gate castle. During a tour, you’ll learn all about the now deceased baron and his family.
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Howard drops 40 points as FSU wins at Syracuse
Natasha Howard’s incredible senior season continues.
Howard drops 40 points as FSU wins at Syracuse Natasha Howard’s incredible senior season continues. Check out this story on tallahassee.com: http://on.tdo.com/1b18BuT
TLH Published 12:51 a.m. ET Feb. 14, 2014
FSU’s Natasha Howard is averaging 19.1 points and 8.9 rebounds.(Photo: Melina Vastola/USA TODAY Sports)
Thursday night the forward dropped a school-record 40 points in Florida State’s 83-59 victory at Syracuse.
Howard registered her school record 40 points on 14-of-19 shooting from the floor, as well as 12-of-15 from the charity stripe. Her 40 points breaks tops record-holder Roneeka Hodges, who scored 39 points against Maryland in 2005.
The 40 points Howard scored Thursday night in the Seminoles’ first-ever trip to the Carrier Dome also marked the most points a player’s scored this season in Atlantic Coast Conference play.
“Natasha was incredible tonight,” FSU head coach Sue Semrau said. “The individual honors are nice for her, but she would tell you first-hand that it’s an even greater win for our team. I’m really proud of the way our players played tonight. They did an excellent job against a very good Syracuse basketball team and Natasha led the way for us.”
Howard helped the Seminoles (17-7, 5-6 in the ACC) shoot 54 percent from the field. It was FSU’s first 50-percent shooting performance in ACC play this season. FSU’s 83 points were also its highest in conference play this year.
Helping Howard was senior point guard Cheetah Delgado, who registered her fourth double-digit assists performance with 12 on the night. Freshman Ivey Slaughter recorded her ninth double-double of the season with 12 points and 11 boards, as the ‘Noles outrebounded the Orange (17-8, 6-6), 43-24.
Thursday’s win was the first Top-25 RPI victory of the year for FSU. The Orange entered the game with the No. 17 RPI in the nation.
Howard is now averaging 19.1 points and 8.9 rebounds per contest.
No. 12 FSU softball plays home opener today
No. 12 Florida State softball’s home opener is today against Southern Miss.
The Seminoles (4-1) will also face North Dakota State (3-1) this weekend as part of FSU’s Renegade Classic.
The schedule for the three-day tournament was adjusted because of weather issues in the Northeast that forced Hofstra to stay home. FSU, North Dakota State and Southern Miss. (0-3) will now play a round robin format where NDSU and Southern Miss. each play five games over the weekend, while FSU plays six.
First pitch for FSU’s home opener against Southern Miss. is set for 4 p.m.
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TPD looking for suspect in West Tennessee Street attack
TPD looking for suspect in West Tennessee Street attack TPD looking for suspect in West Tennessee Street attack Check out this story on tallahassee.com: https://on.tdo.com/1J8pm2u
Sean Rossman, Democrat staff writer Published 12:07 p.m. ET Jan. 20, 2015 | Updated 1:10 p.m. ET Jan. 20, 2015
The Tallahassee Police Department is searching for this man, a suspect in a West Tennessee Street attack.(Photo: Tallahassee Police Department)
An argument between men at a Tallahassee bar in November led to an attack, and now police are hoping the public can help them identify a suspect.
The incident started with an argument at Ken's Tavern on West Tennessee Street between the victim and unidentified men. The three were separated and kicked out of the bar by management. After the club had closed, the Tallahassee Police Department says the suspect identified in a surveillance video, along with the other suspect , a white man, followed the victim to the corner of Macomb and West Tennessee streets and beat him.
Officer David Northway, TPD spokesman, said he did not know how severe the victim's injuries were.
There have been no arrests in the case.
TPD's Criminal Investigation Division is asking anyone with information to call at 891-4200 or Crime Stoppers at 574-5477.
The Tallahassee Police Department is looking for this man, a suspect in an attack on West Tennessee Street. (Photo: Tallahassee Police Department)
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Todd Rundgren / Coloured vinyl reissues
July 11, 2019 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1970s, coloured vinyl, thesdeshop, todd rundgren
Music On Vinyl kick off a Todd Rundgren vinyl reissue campaign with limited coloured vinyl editions of his 1970 solo debut Runt and 1972’s acclaimed Somthing/Anything?
Both are limited editions of only 1000 units with Runt pressed on gold-coloured vinyl while Something/Anything? is a 2LP pressing on a purple/red mix.
‘We Gotta Get You A Woman’ from Runt and ‘I Saw The Light’ from Something/Anything? were both US top 20 hits, while ‘Hello It’s Me’ peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100.
Both reissues are pressed on 180g vinyl and come with printed inserts. These are released on 16 August and these limited editions can be pre-ordered from the SDE shop, with a specially priced bundle of both available. Further releases are planned for 2019.
Runt limited edition coloured vinyl
1. Broke Down And Busted
2. Believe In Me
3. We Gotta Get You A Woman
4. Who’s That Man?
5. Once Burned
6. Devil’s Bite
1. I’m In The Clique
2. There Are No Words
3. Baby, Let’s Swing The Last Thing You Said Don’t Tie My Hands
4. Birthday Carol
Something/Anything? limited edition coloured vinyl
2. It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference
3. Wolfman Jack
4. Cold Morning Light
5. It Takes Two To Tango (This Is For The Girls)
6. Sweeter Memories
2. Breathless
3. The Night The Carousel Burned Down
4. Saving Grace
5. Marlene
6. Song Of The Viking
7. I Went To The Mirror
1. Black Maria
2. One More Day (No Word)
3. Couldn’t I Just Tell You
4. Torch Song
5. Little Red Lights
1. Overture: Money / Messin’ With The Kid
2. Dust In The Wind
3. Piss Aaron
4. Hello It’s Me
5. Some Folks Is Even Whiter Than Me
6. You Left Me Sore
7. Slut
14 responses to Todd Rundgren / Coloured vinyl reissues
Strange they’d reissue Something/Anything on coloured vinyl so soon after the recent RSD red/blue release. I’d have preferred they did Todd or A Wizard A True Star. Then again, they just might…
mitchell w feldstein says:
not sure how these are “sourced” but for my money todd’s first 5 albums are as good as it gets. i wonder why they skipped “ballad of todd rundgren” which may be the best of the lot. i guess there were no hits. i have the two being re released so don’t need to get these . but man this is a masterclass in songwriting. hooks and all. enjoy.
Sorry to hijack Todd’s comments… I was introduced to ‘I Saw The Light’ by The New Seekers’ excellent version from their 1972 ‘Circles’ album. Great vocal by Lyn Paul
Link below – PLAY IT LOUD!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxxUCr8n008
Jarmo Keranen says:
Will they release Todd’s 1975 record Initiation as original was? It is one of the longest vinyls. It contains music almost 68 minutes. In original pressing there was warning that if your record players needle is worn or damaged, it destroys vinyl at first playing time!
You are right Jarmo & it goes on to say that if the LP does not play loud enough re-record onto cassette. I did this using a Nakamichi 1000 II 3 head deck and it is a little louder. Also, the first press cassette has a note that there are 3 minutes of silence @ the end of side 1. The total time of the first press 8 track is actually shorter than the LP or cassette (clocking in @ 66.98 minutes). Gosh, don’t you wish Todd would explain the history of all of this to us? Here is hoping that Todd is watching the SDE site and awaiting his pithy observations
OK fine so I will probably pick this up to add to the pile as I already have:
1st pressing 10 song version
1st pressing 10 song version w/ hype sticker
2nd pressing 12 song version
3rd pressing 11 song hybrid version (Side A is from the 10 song & B is 12 song version)
4th pressing with misprint (‘”…writtne by”)
The white label Ampex promo
The Bearsville yellow label version
The Bearsville brown label version
Both 1st pressing promo singles
Plus other versions (sealed, in shrink, etc.)
Very cool note: the new gold one has “We Gotta Get You A Woman” on the label vs first press where it reads “We Got To Get You A Woman” & hype sticker with “Gotta”
Your killing my wallet Paul. Please don’t tell my wife that I need a 10th version of the LP
J, you made me laugh :-) I know exactly what you mean.
I think to myself, “Okay, now I have the absolute best collection of music by this artist, so I can confidently move on to my next favourite recording artist for gems of limited edition items. Then something like this very tempting Todd Rundgren coloured vinyl is announced! Oh, no dreaded temptation again!
Like you, I’m at that stage of the game where I’m sneaking vinyl and CDs into the house and hiding them from my family members. If they discover new music hidden in the back of the closet, behind the desk in the den, etc., then I say nonchalantly “Oh, I’ve had that for many months now — I just forgot to file it away”. Of course, then I get that raised eyebrow look of “who do you think you’re fooling”?
Love these Todd Rundgren albums, so now is the time to start finding a NEW hiding place in the house :-)
I tried listen to Something/Anything way back in the day as I love the track I saw the light (first introduced to it via the Yukihiro Takahashi version). Couldn’t get into it…
Tried again when Rundgren worked with XTC on Skylarking as I love that album. Still couldn’t get into it…
Maybe time for another try…
Paul, just a suggestion but how about an option for those of us who don’t have a record player to be able to opt out of vinyl alerts?
george glazener says:
Well, Todd’s OK, but I’m still waiting for the BIG announcement for this fall. Something to do w/ 4 guys strolling across a zebra crossing, or something to that effect….?
These albums are both masterpieces of pop music. Too often that word gets thrown around easily, but these just are.
If I was still into vinyl, I’d be on these damn fast.
Jeff G. says:
S/A has been reissued to death, including on colored vinyl (I bit on the blue and red version they released for Black Friday RSD last fall), but Runt on colored vinyl might be worth it.
Margaret (margie) Gale says:
I still have the version of Runt that Gary is talking about. It is a treasure to me, and ive always kept it hidden away, so i will always have it. A charming collection of songs from a teenage Todd. Hits my heart. Which ever Runt version you can get is wonderful. I reccomend it highly. Several of the songs still make my eyes misty.
Something Anything is a masterpiece too. I still love it and listen to it frequently. Todd Rundgren has a depth of feeling few people posess. He is a wonderful lyricist, musician, and producer. A rare talent in so many ways.
As soon as these works come out on vinal i will get them again. My original vinal of Something Anything has been played til its white. I have all of these on cd now, but i cannot wait for the vinals.
If you’ve never checked Todd out solo or with Nazz or Utopia, you are missing a unique talent. Todd and both bands are far and above everyone else in the musical field in my opinion. I hope these new vinals inspire many more people to turn on to his long and brilliant career! I’ve been crazy about Todd Rundgren and his bands since i was 14 years old and I just celebrated my 61st birthday. Everyone should hear these works! Margaret Gale
Gary Thompson says:
It would’ve been nice if they’d made Runt a double by also including the early version that was accidentally released with different tracks/mixes, but hey ho.
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By John Williams Last updated Dec 16, 2019
After the Redmi Note 8 went on sale a similar model, but with a slightly different name – Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T – the Chinese company launched in the markets of Europe. Despite the letter “T” appearing in the name, in general, it is the same device, but with NFC support.
Can this model stand out with something special among its budget competitors? For review, I was provided with a Redmi Note 8T with an MIUI Global 10.3.1 processor. A version designed for the European market, equipped with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal memory for storage, there is also a model with 4 GB and 64 GB of memory, respectively.
Characteristics Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T
Display 6.3-inch IPS LCD with 19.5: 9 aspect ratio, Full HD + resolution (2340 × 1080), 88.3% screen with Gorilla Glass 5
CPU Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 (4 × 2.0 GHz Kryo 260 Gold and 4 × 1.8 GHz Kryo 260 Silver)
Graphic Adreno 610
RAM 3/4 GB
ROM 32/64/128 GB expandable via microSD up to 256 GB
Cameras Basic: 48-MP main (Samsung QW1), f / 1.8, 26 mm, 0.8 microns, PDAF + 8-MP ultra-wide, f / 2.2 + 2-MP macro, f / 2.4 + 2 -MP depth sensor, f / 2.4. Shooting 4 k-video at 30 fps, Full HD-video at a speed of 30/60 frames and slow-motion at a speed of 120 frames per second.
Front: 13-MP, f / 2.0, 0.9-micron, Full HD video at 30 fps.
Battery 4000 mAh, 18 W, Quick Charge 4.0 fast charging and support for USB-PD, USB-C
IP rating No, spray protection nanocoating
Sensors Approaches, external lighting on the screen, accelerometer, gyroscope, electronic compass, Vibro motor, IR blaster
Communication and Connections LTE FDD: B1 / B2 / B3 / B4 / B5 / B7 / B8 / B20 / B28
LTE TDD: B38 / B40 WCDMA: B1 / B2 / B4 / B5 / B8 GSM: B2 / B3 / B5 / B8
Wi-Fi ( 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz): 802.11a / b / g / n / ac
Wi-Fi Direct / Wi-Fi Display
Dimensions and Weight 161.1 × 75.4 × 8.6 mm, 200 g
Features and differences
Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T is the latest model in Xiaomi’s Redmi line. The phone combines good performance, four customizable cameras, long battery life, the ability to expand the memory using a microSD card and fast charging. All this from about $200.
However, the main difference between this model is NFC support. But, if you do not belong to the category of people using NFC, then you can choose another, more suitable model for yourself, based on your needs. For example, Redmi Note 7 with the same performance, but without an ultra-wide lens, and it will cost you less.
Design and appearance
Externally, Redmi Note 8T is similar to Note 7. Its front glass panel is curved with a small drop-shaped notch on top, the frame on the sides is metal, in addition, both panels are covered with Gorilla Glass 5 protective glass. The volume rocker and power button are pressed easily and are very convenient for use.
The only thing that I didn’t like in the design was that the camera module protrudes strongly beyond the body, which is why the lenses are scratched and when you put the phone on a hard surface, it staggers. On the back of the Redmi Note 8T is also a capacitive fingerprint scanner. During testing, he worked flawlessly. Definitely, this is a more reliable identification option than a reader on the screen.
On the bottom of the device, you will find a USB-C port, a speaker and a 3.5 mm jack for headphones, the presence of the latter will please those who have not switched to Bluetooth headphones. This model is sold in three colors – Starscape Blue (blue), Moonshadow Gray (black * gray) and Moonlight White (white).
Smartphone display
The 6.3-inch panel of Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T is made using IPS TFT technology, has a resolution of 2340 × 1080 pixels and 409 PPI. The minimum and maximum brightness of a good level, although, of course, visibility in the sun will not be too comfortable. The selfie camera is hidden in a drop-shaped neckline.
In the settings you will find a reading mode that changes the color temperature of the display to a warmer one, we can also set the schedule for turning it on and off. It is possible to adjust the contrast (automatic, enhanced and standard) and colors (default, warm). A nice addition is a dark mode, which changes the appearance of the phone interface. This is the solution that we usually find on AMOLED screens, not IPS.
Redmi Note 8T Cameras
The phone boasts a new four-camera system. On the back, there is a 48-megapixel main lens, the same as in Note 7. In standard mode, pictures taken with a 48-megapixel lens have a resolution of 12-megapixel. However, with this camera, you can get an image with a resolution of 8000 × 6000 pixels, although at the same time it will have excessive sharpness.
In my opinion, the standard model in low light gives the best result, and the photos were taken in this case weigh much less. The presence of an ultra-wide lens can not but rejoice, but a macro camera, which has a resolution of only 2 MP, gives very mediocre results.
Since Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T does not have a special telephoto lens, a depth sensor is used for portrait mode, which I did not like. The phone hardly distinguished the background from the object, and in low light, the frames were not of the best quality.
The operation of the front camera is not satisfactory, well, except that the bokeh effect does not precisely determine the edges every time. Selfie lovers will appreciate the panoramic selfie mode. With it, you can easily accommodate a large number of friends in the frame.
The main camera of the Redmi Note 8T can shoot video in 4K resolution (30 frames per second), and Full HD (30/60 fps). Given the cost of the phone, the video quality is not bad, if you do not pay attention to excessive sharpness.
The cameras have a convenient and easy to use application. True, when you switch from one to another or to night mode, it feels that there is non-flagship performance. But, on the other hand, the camera has a pro-mode that allows you to control the sensor.
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The Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T smartphone runs on Android Pie with Xiaomi MIUI 10 custom overlay. MIUI is a lot like iOS. Here you will not find the application box, and the forms of the icons do not have a single shape. The only thing I don’t like about MIUI is the availability of pre-installed applications and a lot of advertising.
If you are looking for an alternative to Redmi Note 8T for about the same money, but always with the Android One operating system, then several options are available on the market. For example, Xiaomi Mi A3 has the same universal camera, runs on Android One, but it does not have NFC. There is also the Moto G7 Power with the Android One and NFC operating systems, although the device does not have a 48MP camera, only a 12MP lens.
Iron performance
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T phone runs on Qualcomm’s eight-core processor – Snapdragon 665 (4 × Kryo 260 Gold, 2 GHz + 4 × Kryo 260 Silver, 1.8 GHz). The device has 3 GB (in the test version) or 4 GB of RAM. The amount of internal memory is 32 GB, 64 GB or 128 GB, depending on the version. In AnTuTu Benchmark, this chipset scored 162 779 points.
During testing, the device basically worked without failures, although from time to time small lags of the interface or animation were noticeable. In this class, theoretically, the device has the right to this, however, in my subjective opinion, smartphones with pure Android, available for similar or a little more money, work more smoothly. With 3 GB of RAM, the device can save 3.4 tabs in memory without rebooting.
The new Redmi Note 8T easily handles simple games and is slightly worse with more demanding ones. The “Game Acceleration” mode helps here, and, for example, PUBG went without problems for me.
Sound and multimedia
The Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T has one speaker, located on the bottom edge, sounds surprisingly clean and loud. You won’t miss a single call, thanks to the high volume of the converter, when watching YouTube videos and music videos will be a pleasant experience.
After connecting the headphones through the 3.5 mm jack, we have at our disposal a number of settings for sound, known from other Xiaomi smartphones. The quality through the headphones is pretty nice.
Communication and Security
The fingerprint scanner in Redmi Note 8T, as I already wrote, works without reservation, and the face recognition system also copes well with the task. After activating the “Raise to wake up” option in the display settings, the phone will automatically begin to light up the screen when the camera detects our face even in the dark and transfers us directly to the desktop. Everything works smoothly, at a very high level, and most importantly, conveniently.
GPS also does not have any reservations when the cherry on the cake will be – NFC. I am glad that Xiaomi noticed the growing popularity of contactless payments in our country and decided to add this module to the device, costing less than 15 thousand. Payment also works without reservation.
WiFi is dual-band here, although Bluetooth version 4.2, instead of 5.0, and the location is carried out using A-GPS, GLONASS, and Beidou. The set of sensors includes accelerometer, proximity sensor, light, magnetometer, gyroscope, and gravity, there is also an FM radio.
Autonomy Xiaomi Redmi Note 8T
Redmi Note 8T is equipped with a 4000 mAh battery, which lasts for a whole working day. Recharge the device through a quick 18 W charge. It took me 30 minutes to charge the device from 5 to 40%, after an hour the level reached 80%. Usually, by the end of the day, I had at least 30% of the battery power left.
However, competitive gadgets already offer models with a similar price and large energy-intensive batteries, which last for two days or more.
Xiaomi produces so many phones that it has long been competing with itself in certain price ranges. After the U.S. sanctions imposed on Huawei and Honor, Xiaomi only won – after all, only Motorola and Samsung remained on the battlefield. The addition of NFC significantly increased the chances of the Chinese company to win, because this was not enough in Xiaomi Redmi phones.
Redmi Note 8T, in principle, does not disappoint anywhere, and if I complained about something, it would be a bit rude interface work. But perhaps a quick update will fix some of the bugs. However, good battery life, photo quality, audio, a decent display and workmanship combined with an attractive price will make the Note 8T another hit in the budget smartphone market.
Redmi Note 8T is a great phone for a reasonable price. The presence of NFC support, which makes it possible to use Google Pay, four customizable cameras and a battery, make it an attractive offer for any user.
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When's a van a van and when's it a car?
By Szu Ping Chan Business reporter
Image caption Ford exports its Transit Connect to the US with rear seats and windows, only to remove them once the vehicle has gone through customs
Have you heard the one about the chicken and the van?
As a way to get around a 55-year-old 25% tariff on the import of vans or light trucks into the US, carmaker Ford takes a novel approach.
Ford may be an American company, but it makes its smallest van, the Transit Connect, in Spain, exporting tens of thousands of them to the US every year.
To dodge the tariff Ford fits rear seats and windows to the vans going to the US, only to then remove both once they have gone through customs. The makeover from nominal car (just 2.5% import tariff) to van is said to take two-and-a-half hours per vehicle.
The practice has saved Ford $250m (£190m) since the van was debuted in 2002, according to an estimate by US Customs and Border Protection.
The tariff on vans is colloquially known as the "chicken tax". While this may seem bizarre, it takes its informal name from the fact it was introduced in 1963 in retaliation for the then-European Economic Community (the precursor to today's European Union) bringing in a tax on US poultry imports.
Image caption The "chicken tax" on the import of vans into the US was introduced in retaliation to European tariffs on American poultry
In introducing the levy, the government of Lyndon Johnson was aiming specifically at German carmaker Volkswagen, which had started to break into the American van market.
Ford's way of getting round the import tax is a good example of what is known as "tariff engineering" - adapting the item you are importing so that you don't have to pay any levy. And the company is far from alone in doing it.
In fact, with the US last month imposing tariffs on a further $200bn worth of Chinese products, and China retaliating with levies on $60bn of US goods, we may be about to enter a new era of tariff engineering.
Yet with Ford now continuing a legal battle with US Customs over the issue of it transforming its Transit Connects, authorities do regularly fight back.
Deborah Stern, a trade lawyer at Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg in Miami, says that "tariff classification is as much of an art as it is a science".
But first, a history lesson. Tariff engineering in the US began more than 100 years ago, in a battle over sugar.
In the late 19th Century, US sugar tariffs were based on colour. The lighter the shade, the more refined the product, hence the higher levy.
Image caption The US used to tax sugar according to its colour
When New York duty collectors discovered that one company had dyed its sugar to secure a lower levy, they weren't happy.
The case, Merrit v Welsh, went all the way to the US Supreme Court, which ruled in the importer's favour.
The court noted that Congress had applied a colour test to classify the product, not a chemical test.
The product was sold as seen, and the court ruled that an importer could change its product to meet the lower rate of duty as long as there was no "resort to disguise or artifice".
In other words, if the product - at face value - is as described when inspected, then the tariff engineering in question is legal.
Today there are thousands of examples of tariff engineering.
Take a closer look at Converse trainers imported into the US and you might find they have a fuzzy, fabric material covering part of the sole of each shoe.
Image caption The next time you buy a pair of Converse see if there are strips of fabric stuck on to the soles
This is because mixing textiles into the soles of athletic shoes qualifies them for the lower duties charged on bedroom slippers in the US. Nike-owned Converse declined to comment.
Other examples of tariff engineering are even more blatant. When anti-dumping tariffs on candles from China were introduced in the 1980s, importers started bringing in wickless wax cylinders with holes drilled into the middle instead, for wicks to be added at a later date.
By importing them as "wax, moulded or carved articles" instead of "candles", they could legally avoid a 108% anti-dumping tariff.
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While the US National Candle Association complained, US Customs said that when inspected at the border the products did not "possess the essential character of a candle".
They were not shipped with a wick, nor did they have the "ability to provide illumination", therefore US Customs could not assume the wax was an unassembled candle.
But modifications aren't always successful.
For example, one company reprimanded in the 1990s had been importing what it claimed were South African feather dusters.
Image caption Is that a feather duster or part of a future feather boa?
While they looked like feather dusters, an investigation found the products were later manufactured into feather boas and other items of clothing.
US Customs noted the "flimsy construction" of the feathers, which were stuck "one on top of the other", contrary to the "normal feather duster configuration". This was seen as an example of "disguise or artifice".
Back at Ford, the company tells the BBC that it is open about how it transforms its Transit Connects from passenger vehicles to cargo vans.
But US Customs claims the company is deliberately disguising the true purpose of the vehicles, citing that the rear seat frames are unpainted, the seats don't have headrests and that the covers are made of cheap fabric.
As a result, in 2013, US Customs forced Ford to start paying a 25% tariff on all Transit Connect imports, instead of the previous 2.5%.
Ford immediately challenged this decision at the US Court of International Trade, which ruled in its favour.
US Customs is currently appealing against that decision. In a recent regulatory filing, Ford said: "If we prevail on appeal, we will receive a refund of the contested amounts paid, plus interest."
Lawrence Friedman, a partner at Barnes, Richardson & Colburn in Chicago, says that new tariffs on Chinese imports could spark a fresh wave of tariff engineering.
He uses the example of a football or soccer goal frame. "It's essentially aluminium tubes held together by a net and some fixings."
Image caption Do you see goalposts or a lovely bit of Chinese aluminium?
"If I'm an importer of aluminium tubes, those tubes are now subject to duties.
"But if I put them in a box with a soccer net and some cheap connecters, instead of bringing them in as aluminium, I can bring them in as sporting goods, which are currently not subject to extra tariffs."
However, Deborah Stern cautions that some items are very difficult indeed to tariff engineer.
"Hats are on the latest US tariff list, and you can't fashion a hat not to be a hat," she says.
"Almost every chemical is listed on the tariff list too, and if you need a raw material you can't mess with a chemical too much.
"So while tariff engineering will work with some products in some industries, it's definitely not for every product in every industry."
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The twisted story of Love, Actually’s creepiest scene
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10 December 2019 • 2:14pm
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Sweet or stalkerish? What Boris Johnson needs to know about that Love, Actually scene
Like the illumination of Oxford Street and the flurry of big-budget supermarket ad campaigns, the annual rehashing of upset over Love, Actually has become one of Britain’s great festive traditions.
The 2003 Richard Curtis film has become part of the Christmas Movie Canon, but increasingly laden with guilt. Every year its heartwarming qualities are picked over for political correctness, sexism, ageism and general creepiness. As of 2019, the year of the diabolical Brexmas Election, Love, Actually’s glittery coffin received yet a further nail: being used as inspiration for political party campaign videos.
The much-reviled – and widely memed – Andrew Lincoln-silently-woos-Keira Knightley scene was the muse in question. Lincoln plays Mark, the Best Man of Knightley’s character’s new husband, but is, somewhat inconveniently, in love with his mate’s new bride. He decides Christmas is the time to tell her this, on her doorstep, via a series of cards upon which his declaration of love has been written.
Labour’s Rosena Allin-Khan, of Tooting, was first, delivering a spoof on November 22 in which she converts a Conservative voter to give her a vote. Then, three days before polling day, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did his own version. As Hugh Grant – Love, Actually’s star as the fictional Prime Minister (that’s his character name: “The Prime Minister”) – pointed out on Radio 4’s Today Programme, Johnson missed one vital line from the original script: “And at Christmas you tell the truth”.
But did either politician realise the long and divisive history of the cinematic parody they were getting into? Did anyone in either side’s campaign team raise the problems that have been identified with that Doorway scene? Let us illuminate them:
Love, Actually creator Richard Curtis’s intentions were actually fairly democratic – not to say revolutionary. The scene was inspired by Bob Dylan’s iconic video for Subterranean Homesick Blues, in which the singer spelled out the rapid-fire lyrics to the song on sheets of card.
The Love, Actually version was the result of a bit of writers’ block, during which, Curtis says, “I write [the numbers] one through five on a piece of paper and come up with five ideas, so I can allow myself the option of choice.” In this case, the ideas were for typically romantic gestures deployed by a man who has lived, silently, in unrequited love.
Curtis then, he told Elle in 2013, “went out to the four girls who were in my office. I told them, ‘There’s this guy, he’s never told you he loved you. Which of these ideas are romantic and which are off-putting?’ [I had ideas like] filling the courtyard outside her house with roses, and they went ‘yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck,’ for the first four. Then I had the idea of the Bob Dylan signs,” Curtis said, which went down rather better. “The scene was selected by group research.”
In hindsight, it was perhaps always doomed – I’d be curious to talk to these “girls” who, presumably, were employed by Curtis and were therefore pressed to pick the best of a bad bunch. Plus, the central concept: that a man is in love with his best friend’s wife, was always there from the start.
Andrew Lincoln and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Love, Actually
Anyway, roll on 2003, and a fresh-faced, pre-Walking Dead Andrew Lincoln is busily scribbling out the phrases “JUST BECAUSE IT’S CHRISTMAS” and “TO ME, YOU ARE PERFECT”. Yes, the actor wrote those cards himself. “It’s funny, because the art department did it, and then I said, ‘Well, can I do it?’ because I like to think that my handwriting is really good,” Lincoln modestly told EW in 2013.
“Actually,” he continued, “it ended up with me having to sort of trace over the art department’s, so it is my handwriting, but with a sort of pencil stencil underneath.”
Lincoln, then best known for playing the neurotic and hapless Simon Casey in Channel 4 sitcom Teachers, was chuffed with the script for his biggest blockbuster role to-date. “I remember vividly when I got the part,” he said in 2013. “It was such a good script. When I read it, I knew in my heart that that was such a beautiful scene at the doorway with Keira. I just thought, ‘This is marvelous’.”
He went on to explain that the moment “sort of sent shivers because I just loved it. It’s always nice, being in a romantic film, but playing the only guy who doesn’t get the girl – not getting the girl in that manner is absolutely beautiful.”
When it finally came around to shooting, Lincoln remembered the scene as being “very sweet and honest”, not least because having “to be infatuated with Keira Knightley’s character… [was] not one of the greatest challenges I’ve been posed as an actor.”
It’s a good job that Lincoln got so much out of the role, as the original reviews barely mentioned him. In general, they were lukewarm - the film has a critics score of 64 per cent - and largely praised Bill Nighy’s performance as lecherous old rocker Bill Mack and Grant as the PM, while occasionally dismissing the rest of the film as “a slog”, “an embarrassment” and “rubbish”.
Such was the plethora of plotlines in the film that Lincoln’s was too often overlooked for that of Emma Thompson’s (sombre infidelity), Colin Firth’s (bizarre pan-European romance) or Thomas Brodie-Sangster’s (airport-dashing schoolboy crush).
Indeed, the Doorway scene was something of a sleeper controversy, the kind that needed the perfect storm of a timely anniversary, the emergence of film Twitter and an awakening sense of sexual politics to achieve re-appraisal.
Ooh, it's the awkward Andrew Lincoln/Keira Knightley scene in Love Actually.
— Bim Adewunmi (@bimadew) December 19, 2009
The first online suggestion that the scene was anything other than swoon-inducing was from culture writer Bim Adewumni in 2009, less than a week before Christmas. But hers was a lone voice for several years. In 2012, Australian journalist Adam Liaw stepped up and called the storyline “creepy”, and had a few people agree among the tidal wave of fans deeming it “lovely”. Within a year, the tide had started to turn: “One mistake Love Actually defenders are making is not throwing the Keira Knightley story overboard. It's an anchor and will sink you all,” warned prescient film critic Christopher Orr.
Eight days later and the first dagger had been thrown: the famously acerbic culture writer Lindy West, already famed for her 2010 viral takedown of the Sex and the City movie, released another humdinger on Jezebel, titled: “I Rewatched Love Actually and Am Here to Ruin It for All of You”.
Arguably, nobody comes off well in West’s revised critique, but few are deemed as responsible for patriarchal gaslighting as Lincoln’s character. “Thanks, Love Actually,” she writes. “Thank you for telling a generation of men that their intrusiveness and obsessions are 'romantic’, and that women are secretly flattered no matter what their body language says.” As for the Doorway scene? West is succinct: “I know it’s early, but I’m calling it. Artistic low point of the 21st century.”
The piece acted as a torch paper of revelation. The term “cancelled” may not have existed in 2013, but that was certainly what was happening to Love, Actually. Other awkward snippets about the film – and that particular scene - bubbled up through social media: Keira Knightley was just 17 when she was acting as the fought-over wife (Chiwetel Ejiofor was seven years her senior, which is arguably still young to be married).
From 2014 on, advent was marred by some deliberation over whether it was or wasn’t acceptable festive entertainment. This was, it should be said, a largely online habit: Knightley (who later became known for her feminist principles) described Love, Actually as “obviously the greatest movie ever made” while on the promo trail for romcom Begin Again.
When a study came out, the next February, called I Did It Because I Never Stopped Loving You: The Effects of Media Portrayals of Persistent Pursuit on Beliefs About Stalking, several media publications – including this one – saw it as further evidence that the Doorway scene was problematic.
Mark returns for Comic Relief
By 2017, Lincoln – now a global star thanks to starring in zombie TV juggernaut The Walking Dead – had been practically forced to admit that his character hadn’t aged well. He also confessed – seemingly for the first time – that he was a bit skeptical from the off: “My big scene in the doorway felt so easy. I just had to hold cards and be in love with Keira Knightley. And that was my own handwriting on the cards, thank you for noticing,” he told EW. “But I kept saying to Richard [Curtis], ‘Are you sure I’m not going to come off as a creepy stalker?'”
EW also spoke to Curtis: “Retroactively, I’m aware that Andrew’s role was on the edge. But I think because Andrew was so openhearted and guileless, we knew we’d get away with it.”
And, in some ways, they did: a survey done by EW in 2017 found that two thirds of participants still see Lincoln’s character as lovestruck sap rather than a stalker. The weirdness of the Doorway was also dealt with fairly deftly in the 2018 Comic Relief special, in which Lincoln reveals (to Knightley, still happily married to Ejiofor) that he did, indeed, marry Kate Moss – one of the women he would have taken instead of her.
Does that make Love, Actually’s Doorway scene an acceptable source for political canvassing? Probably not. But it’s probably a more deserving target – after all, nobody would want such a fate to befall The Muppets Christmas Carol.
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Imperial War Museum (1)
Set in a park and heralded by two huge 15-inch naval guns from 1914, this formidable museum looks at the horrors and heroics of modern war. In July 2014 it completed a major £40m refurbishment including new galleries created to mark the centenary of the start of the First World War. One particular strength is the way works by artists are interwoven with the exhibits, and another is its fearless display of colossal war machines, including a Harrier “jump-jet” hanging over the atrium and a “Humber Pig” armoured truck parked on an upper level. Powerful and thought-provoking, the galleries include one devoted to the Holocaust (no children under 14) and another to the brave stories that lie behind the awarding of the Victoria Cross and George Cross. Allow plenty of time.
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Address: Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ (020 7416 5000; iwm.org.uk).
Opening times: 10am-6pm daily
Price: free with a charge for special exhibitions
Soaring 135 metres above the River Thames, this slowly rotating observation wheel is a wonder to look at – and on a clear day the half-hour round trip is a memorable way to get a fine view over London. It is expensive, though, and the queues can be long. Tickets are sold in timed slots (buy a “Flexi” if you don't want to be tied down), and they include entry to a short “4D Experience” − worth seeing if you have children with you. Capsules can take up to 28 people, so try to go at a quiet time.
Address: London Eye, South Bank, London SE1 7PB (tickets 0871 781 3000, information 0800 093 0123; londoneye.com)
Opening times: typically 10am-8.30pm daily from September to March and 10am-9pm or 9.30pm from April to September, plus 10am-11.30pm on Fridays during July and August. There are occasional variances so check in advance of your visit.
Price: full standard price £21.50
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Three outstanding attractions stand in and beside Greenwich Park, forming the nucleus for a rewarding day out. The Royal Observatory has been home to the Meridian Line, 0º Longitude, since 1884 and has a planetarium and exhibitions about the measuring of time and distance. The National Maritime Museum celebrates Britain's love of seafaring. The Queen's House, designed by Inigo Jones in 1638, exhibits fine art amid splendid interiors.
Address: National Maritime Museum, Park Row, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF (020 8858 4422; rmg.co.uk).
Opening times: daily 10am-5pm. Some late night openings for exhibitions Wed-Thurs. Check website for details
The Royal Observatory has been home to the Meridian Line, 0º Longitude, since 1884
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Set beside the Thames, this is a “best guess” reconstruction of a 1599 playhouse where Shakespeare worked and for which he wrote many great plays. It is both educational and enjoyable - after taking one of the 40-minute guided group tours, often led by an actor, you may well want to see a performance in this open-air theatre, which includes both seated and standing areas.
Address: 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, London SE1 9DT (exhibition 020 7902 1500; tickets 020 7401 9919; shakespearesglobe.com)
Opening times: exhibition open daily 9am-5.30pm. Tours run every half-hour. Opening times may change according to performance and rehearsal schedules, so check in advance
Price: full price £13.50
This former riverside power station is now an immensely popular museum devoted to modern and contemporary art since 1900. Major exhibitions are mixed with permanent collections featuring work by many well-known names from Monet to Pollock. The building is huge and often packed but it still delivers – it is a good idea to invest in the multimedia guides, and take advantage of late opening hours two nights a week.
Address: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG (020 7887 8888; tate.org.uk)
Opening times: Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri-Sat 10am-10pm
Price: free with a charge for major exhibitions
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This light and airy riverside museum is devoted to modern design. There is no permanent collection, but if one or both of the temporary exhibitions on show catch your eye a trip here can make a rewarding centrepiece for an outing. There is a good shop and café, plus the Blueprint restaurant above, and the views to Tower Bridge and Canary Wharf are exhilarating.
Address: 28 Butler's Wharf, Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD (020 7940 8790; designmuseum.org)
Opening times: 10am-5.45pm daily
There is a good shop and café plus the Blueprint restaurant above the Design Museum
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Eltham Palace & Gardens (7)
If the weather is favourable, it is well worth making the effort to visit this 1930s art deco residence, which also has attractive moated gardens and the remains of a Tudor royal palace. A dream home created for Stephen and Virginia Courtauld – and their pet lemur – Eltham has a period glamour that is quite swoon-making. Gorgeous circular carpets, exquisite marquetry, natty chrome bath-taps - a free audioguide and home movie footage explains all. Opening hours are currently restricted as the Palace is undergoing renovation works; it is due to re-open fully in spring 2015 with additional rooms, replanted gardens and a new visitor centre.
Address: Court Yard, Eltham, London SE9 5QE (020 8294 2548; english-heritage.org.uk)
Opening times: Sunday 10am-4pm. Closed Monday-Saturday
Fashion and Textile Museum (8)
Founded by fashion designer Zandra Rhodes, this appropriately vibrant orange and pink museum is the flagship attraction in Bermondsey Street. There is no permanent collection, just a sole changing exhibition related to fashion, textiles or jewellery, plus a small shop showcasing work by young designers.
Address: 83 Bermondsey St, London SE1 3XF (020 7407 8664; ftmlondon.org)
Opening times: Tue-Sat 11am–6pm, Thu 11am-8pm, Sun 11am–5pm. Closed Monday and when there is a change of exhibitions
Price: full price £8.80
Garden Museum (9)
Devoted to gardens and their design, this relaxed museum sits inside St Mary’s at Lambeth church. As well as a changing exhibition, there is also a permanent display of historic gardening tools that includes such unexpected sights as a glass cucumber straightener and a tin of Corry's “Slug Death”. There's an excellent café and gift shop, while at the back is a small 17th century-style knot garden and the tomb of Admiral Bligh of “Mutiny on the Bounty” fame.
Address: Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7LB (020 7401 8865; gardenmuseum.org.uk)
Opening times: Sun-Fri 10.30am-5pm; Sat 10.30am-4pm. Closed first Monday of the month
The Garden Museum sits inside St Mary’s at Lambeth church
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Tower Bridge Exhibition (10)
Opened in 1894, Tower Bridge took eight years to build and is now a much-loved London landmark. A visit here is not just about enjoying the splendid views from its 42m-high walkways – it's also an engrossing insight into Victorian engineering and life on the Thames. The bridge is raised around 80 times a month – see the website for a schedule.
Address: Tower Bridge Road, London SE1 2UP (020 7403 3761; towerbridge.org.uk)
Opening times: April-September 10am-5.30pm daily, October-March 9.30am-5.00pm daily
Price: full price £9
The Tower Bridge took eight years to build and is now a much-loved London landmark
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Emirates Air Line (11)
Opened in June 2012, the Emirates Air Line is a 1,000-yard cable car ride that stretches above the River Thames and links the Greenwich Peninsula with the Royal Docks. Integrated into Transport for London's passenger services (you can pay by Oystercard), it is an intriguing mix of aerial sightseeing trip and commuter link. Weekends are particularly busy, with some 10,000 passengers a day at peak times, so you may have to queue. The ride takes five minutes (ten at weekends) and reaches a maximum height of 295ft – high enough to enjoy panoramic views over the river, the O2 arena and the towers of Canary Wharf. It helps to go on a clear day, and the cable cars take 10 passengers. The southern terminal is a short walk from North Greenwich Underground station, and includes a cafe, souvenir shop and the mildly interesting Aviation Experience – a small room with some aircraft-related exhibits, such as a jet engine made from 165,000 Lego bricks, plus simulator rides for an Airbus A380 and Boeing B777. On the north side you can pick up the DLR line at Royal Victoria station, and while the area can seem quite bleak there is a cafe in the nearby The Crystal, which has an exhibition about sustainable cities, and you can walk east and back across a footbridge to see the restored 1890 steamer SS Robin.
Address: Emirates Greenwich Peninsula Terminal, Edmund Halley Way, London SE10 0FR (emiratesairline.co.uk)
Opening times: April-September Mon-Fri 7am-9pm, Sat 8am-9pm, Sun 9am-9pm. October-March Mon-Fri 7am-8pm, Sat 8am-8pm, Sun 9am-8pm Aviation Experience 10am-6pm daily
Price: single ride £4.50, plus various combination tickets available. Aviation Experience £3, simulator £45
Cutty Sark (12)
Launched in 1869, Cutty Sark is one of the world's great sailing ships, a “clipper” that sailed at record speeds from London to China (to pick up tea) and Australia (for wool). Since 1954 it has been moored at Greenwich as a mighty attraction; in 2012 it was given a new lease of life when, following a fire and restoration, it was reopened to the public by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. This fresh and dramatic display, which enables visitors to walk right under its copper-clad hull, is almost as astounding as the ship itself with its towering masts and complex network of ropes and sails. Visitors follow a one-way self-guided tour through its decks, with much to contemplate from the small bunk beds where the crew slept to a lively collection of 49 ship's figureheads amassed by Sidney “Long John Silver” Cumbers.
Address: King William Walk, London SE10 9HT (020 8858 4422; rmg.co.uk/cuttysark)
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Former Cumberland, Hunters Lane wrestler Trenton Bell found guilty of killing girlfriend
Former Cumberland University and , Hunters Lane wrestler Trenton Bell found guilty of killing his girlfriend in Wilson County
Former Cumberland, Hunters Lane wrestler Trenton Bell found guilty of killing girlfriend Former Cumberland University and , Hunters Lane wrestler Trenton Bell found guilty of killing his girlfriend in Wilson County Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/wilson/2019/03/28/former-cumberland-hunters-lane-wrestler-found-guilty-killing-girlfriend/3297675002/
Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean Published 11:18 a.m. CT March 28, 2019
A former Cumberland University and Hunters Lane High School wrestler was found guilty Wednesday of killing his 19-year-old girlfriend in Wilson County, according to the district attorney’s office.
Trenton Bell (Photo: Wilson County Jail)
Trenton Bell, 25, was arrested in February 2015 for the death of Sydney Green who was found unresponsive in a bathtub at an apartment on Peyton Circle near the Wilson County Fairgrounds, investigators said.
Bell was accused of staging Green’s suicide in the investigation.
Green threatened to kick Bell out of the apartment because he was apparently text messaging other women, Assistant District Attorney Jimmy Lea said.
Prosecutors believe a note found in Bell’s phone labeled “Stickin2it” laid out a plan to kill Green that the defendant carried out the following day, Lea said.
Bell was sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder by Criminal Court Judge Brody Kane.
The jury also found Bell guilty of abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence. He will be sentenced on those counts at a later date.
Bell would have to serve a minimum of 51 years before he is eligible for parole. Bell is credited for the approximate four years he’s been in custody, Lea said.
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The public defender’s office, which represented Bell, did not comment on the case.
Reach Andy Humbles at ahumbles@tennessean.com or 615-726-5939 and on Twitter @ AndyHumbles.
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The Nutley Community Interfaith Thanksgiving Service will be held on Monday evening, November 25, at 7:30 at Vincent United Methodist Church located at 100 Vincent Place in Nutley. Rabbi David Greenstein of Congregation Shomrei Emunah will give the message, area clergy will participate, there will be the blowing of the shofar, Mayor Scarpelli will share remarks, a Nutley Congregations Choir will ...
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St. Jean de Brebeuf Catholic School was built in 1982 and opened the doors to 163 students. Today it houses almost 300 students. The school is named after the French Jesuit martyr, St. Jean de Brebeuf, who wrote the first dictionary of the Huron language, and the beautiful Christmas Carol Huron Carol. He is also credited with the modern name of the North American Sport of lacrosse because the sticks reminded him of a bishop’s crosier (with the feminine definite article, la crosse). St. Jean de Brebeuf was a man of deep faith, hugely strong yet gentle in character. We celebrate his virtues of Peacemaking, Charity, Courage, Love, Forgiveness, Compassion and Faithfulness.
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You'll be able to charge your car wirelessly from 2017
By John McCann 2014-08-21T15:02:00.232Z
Say no to cable constraints
Wires are so 2013
Electric cars certainly have potential, but it's a pain having to plug them in to charge - give it three years though and you'll be able to ditch those annoying cables.
Wireless car charging technology is already up and running on the safety cars of the new Formula E championship - the world's first fully electric racing series - and from 2015 even the race cars will charge wirelessly.
The cars use Qualcomm's Halo charging technology, which sees wireless charging pads bolted to the ground and the base of the car. All the driver has to do is park over the pad for the car to start charging.
Anthony Thompson, VP of Development and Marketing for Electric Vehicles at Qualcomm, spoke during the final pre-season practice days at Donnington Park and revealed that we'll see "the first wireless charging [consumer] cars by 2017."
It won't come cheap
"These won't be cheap cars," Thompson noted, "the first [consumer] wirelessly charging electric cars will be premium vehicles, and the technology will then filter down to other models in lower price brackets."
And you won't be ditching those cables right away either, "for a time you'll probably have to have a dual-charging system with the wireless technology complemented with a backup cable system," Thompson explained.
That's due to the infrastructure limitations of installing wireless charging pads at enough locations to make the system viable without the need for any wired charging.
Just drive over to start charging
"One car manufacturer has told me that [wireless car charging] is a 10 year game for them. They predict that about 50% of their vehicles will have an electric power train in the next 10 years and they seriously doubt by then any of those will be plug ins."
The technology works by the pad on the floor generating an electromagnetic field in the space above it - and an average height of around 150mm for the field currently provides the best efficiency.
A maximum height of 250mm has been achieved, which should allow high-riding SUVs (sports utility vehicles) to use the wireless charging pads and the larger field will be key if pads are to be installed under road surfaces, driveways and racetracks in the future.
The wireless charging pad
Efficiency and safety
One of the problems with wireless charging has been its efficiency compared to a wired connection, but the Qualcomm Halo technology is getting close.
"Wireless loses around 10% over the whole system," Thompson said. "As you increase the power some inefficacies don't actually increase, allowing us to get 95% efficiency from our highest power unit."
Qualcomm currently provides its Halo system in 3.3kW, 6.6kW and 20kW units, with the first two providing an overnight charging solution, while the latter can provide a healthy blast of charge in just half an hour.
More efficient than you might think
This brings the technology close to Tesla's Superchargers, which offer the firm's Model S owners the ability to fully charge their vehicle in 75 minutes (or by 80% in 40 minutes) via a wired connection.
Of course an electromagnetic field isn't a particularly safe thing to have just hanging around your drive, but there are several safety measures in place.
The pad won't activate until your vehicle is parked over it and lined up correctly, and there are two safety systems in place when it is on: foreign object detection and living object protection.
Foreign object detection checks for any metallic objects that may be on the pad, and automatically shuts the system off if metal is detected. If it didn't turn off the metal would heat up and could potentially case some serious issues including fire.
Alerts sent to your phone is there's a problem
Living object protection meanwhile, as you may be able to guess, is constantly on the look out for any humans or animals which may stray close to the electromagnetic field.
That means your pet moggy or the kid from next door retrieving their ball from under your electric vehicle won't be fried by the pad.
The system can also notify you on either problem via your smartphone, so you can go out and remove the metallic object/poke the cat to clear the pad, allowing charging to resume.
The are a number car manufacturers working on wireless charging vehicles, but just who will be first to offer cars with these capabilities is being kept under wraps for now. We saw the technology in action on a BMW i3 and i8 - so it's probably safe to say the German manufacturer is working on something. Roll on 2017.
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LG G8X ThinQ release date and price confirmed for dual-screen smartphone
By Mark Knapp, John McCann 2019-10-23T08:47:26Z
And it's surprisingly affordable
You might have your eyes on the Samsung Galaxy Fold, but are biding your time for the foldable phone revolution to release models that don't break so easily.
In the meantime, LG has forgone the intricacies of bendable displays with its LG G8X ThinQ smartphone - which can be paired with the LG Dual Screen case, providing a secondary display.
The new LG G8X ThinQ release date is set for November 1 in the US, and the LG Dual Screen case will be available alongside it, so customers won't have to wait to experience the exciting possibilities offered by a second display.
Better still is the announcement of the LG G8X price at $699 (around £540, AU$1,020). Considering the LG G8 started upwards of $800, the price of the LG G8X feels far more reasonable. What's more, this price also includes the LG Dual Screen in the package.
It will launch simultaneously at major US retailers and on mobile carriers, with pre-orders beginning October 25.
In the following weeks LG will then bring the LG G8X ThinQ to more key markets, including Brazil, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Spain and Turkey. We're still waiting to hear whether the handset will make it to the UK or Australia.
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We've already had an opportunity to go hands-on with the LG G8X ThinQ. It offers a definite degree of quality and polish, but still feels a tad bland when compared with the killer cameras or upgraded displays coming from other flagship phones.
The Dual Screen offers some novel uses and handy features. You can use it to house a large keyboard or video game controls. It can display photos as you take them while the main display continues to offer a live view of the camera. And, of course, you can run two apps side-by-side without having to cram them onto one display, instead giving each app a full 6.4 inches of screen space to stretch out.
It's plenty powerful, too, with a Snapdragon 855 chipset and 6GB of RAM. It comes with Android 9 Pie, instead of the newer Android 10, but LG should have an update in short order. Unfortunately, there's no 5G to help future-proof the LG G8X, but that is surely helping to keep the price below that of the $999 LG V50.
For the price - and potential utility - the LG G8X is shaping up to be a very interesting phone for 2019.
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Chicagoans can borrow one of 12 artworks for three months, free.
By Lauren Weinberg | Posted: Tuesday April 24 2012
Photograph: Courtesy of threewallsLaura Mackin, Nightstand, 2009-11.
Photograph: Courtesy of threewallsConrad Bakker, Untitled Project: PRODUCE (potato), 2011.
Photograph: Courtesy of Hull-House MuseumA Hull-House program brings art reproductions to Chicago Public Schools, date unknown.
We’re strongly tempted to borrow the potato. Conrad Bakker’s Untitled Projects: Produce (Potato) (2011) is a hand-painted wooden sculpture available through Jane Addams Hull-House Museum’s new Art Lending Library. But my husband and I decide to check Laura Mackin’s photograph Nightstand (2009–11) out of the library instead. Mackin’s collected still-lifes of her nightstand seem more likely to make us think about what living with art means.
I recently visited Hull-House Museum (800 S Halsted St) to pick up my library card and request Mackin’s photograph, which I’ll be able to keep for three months. I sat down with Heather Radke, the museum’s project and exhibit coordinator, to find out how the library operates.
The initial collection comes from the Community-Supported Art program that threewalls, a nonprofit gallery in the West Loop, launched last year. Threewalls’ CSAs offer four to eight local artists’ works for less than what one of their pieces would normally cost. The Art Lending Library purchased more than one share of threewalls’ spring 2011 CSA, so that it owns multiple editions of 12 artworks by Bakker, Mackin, Edie Fake, Jason Lazarus, Jessica Labatte and seven other emerging and midcareer artists. (Once patrons “are clamoring for new stuff,” Radke says, threewalls’ Shannon Stratton and Abigail Satinsky will curate more materials for the library.) Anyone in the Chicago area may borrow one artwork at a time, for free. Delivery, installation and pickup are also free.
Radke traces the library to Hull House’s rich history of art programs, such as outreach in public schools. A few years after Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr cofounded the settlement house in 1889, Starr opened a library that circulated reproductions of canonical works. “We think of those things as being very accessible to everyone now, but they weren’t at the time,” Radke says.
Addams and Starr believed “people who are living in poverty didn’t just need social services,” Radke adds. “They also needed to have experiences with art and beauty. They talked about cultural rights, not just workers’ rights.”
Hull-House Museum revived the library in late March because so few people have access to original art. Ensuring that patrons come from all over the city and all walks of life is crucial to the initiative, Radke says, noting that the library may lend art to the Night Ministry. It’s important “that we bring the piece to you,” she says. “That’s about building relationships and providing this bit of hospitality that doesn’t often enter our lives, across lines of difference and in diverse parts of Chicago.”
The library’s volunteer installers reduce the risk that artworks will be damaged: Most are M.F.A. students with professional art-handling experience. (Unfortunately, their busy schedules preclude prompt delivery. It took a couple of weeks to arrange the installation of Mackin’s photo.) When Radke took over the project in July 2011, she had to determine how to protect the museum’s investment without traditional loan agreements or deposits. She consulted Seattle’s Art Lending Library and San Francisco’s Tenderloin Art Lending Library, which assured her they have had no problems more serious than a broken frame. “There’s just a level of trust,” she concludes. “You’re providing this artwork to people for free, and you’re trusting them to treat it with as much care as they can.”
Learn more about the Art Lending Library at uic.edu/jaddams/hull/hull_house.html.
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London transport's 10 greatest designs
From intuitive maps to bafflingly brilliant feats of engineering, the people behind our buses and tubes never cease to amaze. Here's our pick of 10 design classics
By David Clack | Posted: Friday October 18 2013
The next time you see an unruly youth using a tube seat as a foot rest, give them a stern warning and a history lesson about London transport's gloriously durable moquette seating, which was introduced in 1938 and produced by lauded textile designers, rather than factory grunts. Then run away before they start shouting dubstep lyrics at you.
Back before the days when carriages were dominated by ads for dating websites and mobile phone deals, buses and tubes were decked out in a more subtle class of signage. The best are currently being celebrated at the London Transport Museum's Poster Art 150 exhibition, which includes designs by Man Ray, Graham Sutherland and Harry Beck - the chap behind the tube map.
Charles Holden – the architect behind the imposing design of Senate House – was commissioned to build several Underground stations in the 1920s and '30s. Though no two are alike, Holden's modernist touches in the facades of Arnos Grove, Wood Green and Northfields stations (among others) are hard to miss. Here's Southgate station, making absolutely no apologies for looking a bit like a flying saucer made of bricks.
London's tube stations are full of nifty little nods to their surroundings – especially those on the Victoria line, where each stop sports a tiled tribute to the local area on its platforms. Some are pretty self explanatory, (like the portrait of Queen Victoria at Victoria), but others require the sort of attention you're unlikely to find in your average rush-hour commuter. A maze at Warren Street? Think about it…
We appreciate it can be difficult to get excited about what's essentially a page of sans serif lettering. But then again, just LOOK AT IT. What's that? Northern line down all weekend? We don't even care.
While the new batch of air-conditioned, walk-through trains doing the business on the Circle line are pretty slick, aesthetically speaking, the 21st century's got nothing on these classic trains, which ran on the District line from 1949 to 1983. Inside that pioneering aluminium shell the colours were muted, the floors wooden and absolutely nobody played 'Angry Birds' at full volume.
Used as part of station signage as early as 1908 (incorporating a solid red circle, rather than the more familiar ring), the London Underground roundel became the network's official logo in 1917. It's since become one of the most instantly recognisable images in London, as well as the preferred signifier of English pubs in foreign countries.
Passenger numbers at Piccadilly Circus rose more then ten-fold between 1907 and 1922, necessitating major reconstruction work that included an underground ticket hall of the sort London had never seen before. And while these days tourists have made sure there's rarely room to swing a kitten, Piccadilly Circus quickly became an internationally renowned feat of engineering, with town planners and architects from across Europe seeking consultancy advice from London on underground construction.
The 1950s Routemaster may get all the nerdy love, but it was the 1939 RT type bus that defined the shape of London's 20th century street-level commuting. Over 7,000 of these beauties were built in total – that's a lot of red paint.
It's unlikely that when Harry Beck produced his diagrammatic overhaul of the tube map back in 1933 he ever imagined it'd become such an iconic design. These days, the modern evolution of Beck's map can be found on everything from tea mugs to boxer shorts, and continues to spawn endless spoofs and mash-ups.
The problem with design classics is that, by merit of their brilliance, they become so ubiquitous that they practically disappear from the public consciousness. Still, if someone took away our Oyster cards, say, or changed the tube map, there'd be a torch-bearing mob encircling City Hall before you could say 'mind the gap'.
As new book 'Frank Pick's London: Art, Design and the Modern City' illustrates, London's transport network changed the face of the city throughout the 20th century. Not simply by getting us from A to B, but also with its constant stream of innovative, pioneering world-leading design. Here's our pick of ten of the best for your appreciation.
'Frank Pick's London: Art, Design and the Modern City' by Oliver Green is out in November from V&A Publishing, priced £25.00 (hardback). Available from the V&A Shop or online at www.vandashop.com. All images are copyright London Transport Museum
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Steller crash rumbles through the suburbs
By Nicole Lindsay
The fall-out from the Steller property development collapse rolls on with a Darebin Creek development site the latest property to hit the market.
22 Wood Street in Preston.
The 1.83 hectare site behind Northland shopping centre, at 22 Wood Street, Preston, comes with an aged care permit.
The now-failed property developer, spearheaded by Nicholas Smedley and Simon Pitard, bought the site at the peak of the market in 2017 for $14.96 million, settling in January 2019.
The vendor was the Islamic Co-ordinating Council of Victoria, an organisation which provides certification services for halal foods.
The site has not one, but two caveats on its title, lodged back in June and July - One Managed Investment Funds and Atlas Advisors - reflecting the developer’s two main sources of funds.
KordaMentha is acting for Sydney-based Atlas Advisors and brought this property to market, while McGrathNicol is acting as receiver on behalf of Asian-based financier OCP.
There are dozens of properties all over Melbourne to dispose of - many bought at the top of the market and settled as the market and values slumped.
JLL agents Alex McColl, James Thorpe and Steve Kelly, along with Alternative Investment directors David Hill and Noral Wild are running the Preston expressions of interest campaign which closes on December 6. It’s expected to fetch around $15 million.
The permit allows a multi-level retirement village and aged care facility across four buildings.
Mr McColl said "Very little by way of aged care has been available in the inner north. Most new development has been in the south-eastern suburbs so we're expecting strong interest."
Steller started teetering in May, a few weeks following the death of Mr Smedley’s businessman father Peter Smedley. It was put into administration in July.
The Continental hotel redevelopment in Sorrento was the most high profile gig on their books, but they had also bought the demolished Greyhound Hotel in St Kilda.
Julian Gerner has taken back control of the Continental, while the Greyhound site is on the market. Other sites recently listed include the Healthscope hospital in Parkdale, a row of shops at 9-21 Station Road, Cheltenham which Savills is selling and a large site at 314-320 Swan Street, Richmond which Colliers is marketing.
On November 28, John Castran is auctioning two shops Steller bought at 427A & 427B Hampton Street, just down the road from one of their development sites and Mr Pitard’s office.
The auction won’t be held on site though. Mr Castran will be running a board room auction and expects around $2 million for the properties.
Beehive building
Taking advantage of the booming strata market, property investor David Cox has listed level six of the art-deco Beehive Building at 94 Elizabeth Street for sale.
The art-deco Beehive Building at 94 Elizabeth Street.
The distinctive 11 storey tower was built in the mid-1930s in the functionalist-moderne style by architect Joseph Plottel, who designed the Footscray Town Hall.
The 200 sq m level six office occupies the whole floor and will be vacant in weeks.
“The 200 sq m size is the sweet spot for boutique office and there’s been some fantastic results recently,” Mr Cox said.
Allard Shelton agent Joseph Walton is handling the expressions of interest campaign. It’s expected to fetch around $2 million.
Mr Cox and his late business partner John Mazzone paid $8.8 million for the building in 2004. It had been strata-titled by former Carlton football club chairman and Crawfords Group managing director Mark Loguidice.
Soon after, Mr Cox sold the ground floor shop to the then nut-importer Nabil Grege for $5.6 million. (Mr Grege, a convicted tobacco smuggler, has recently attempted to sell the shop.)
“The retail was very tightly held back then and no-one was interested in the office upstairs,” he said.
Mr Cox, who also owned Carlow House in the early 2000s, is a keen enthusiast of Melbourne’s heritage buildings.
“They’re the soul of Melbourne and should be protected,” he told Capital Gain.
The Beehive features steel-framed bay windows, a terrazzo-tiled fire stairwell and internal light well.
It’s next door to the Cohen family’s Block Arcade and a couple of doors from the Brashs building, also owned by the Cohens, which has also been recently refurbished.
Across the street, the office floors at No.107 have undergone renovation after lying idle for decades. The facade’s rather garish paint scheme has raised some eyebrows.
Garden Avenue
There’s yet more art deco architecture available this spring. On the East Melbourne fringe, two apartment buildings in the Garden Avenue cul-de-sac are for sale.
Garden Avenue in East Melbourne.
A private investor, who mostly lives overseas and is looking for a more passive investment, is selling No.6 and No.12 Garden Avenue. Architect Illiffe Anderson designed the properties in the mid-1930s.
No.6 has six one-bedroom apartments and returns around $105,000 a year; No.12 has nine large studio apartments and returns $135,000 a year.
CBRE agents Dylan Kilner, Julian White and Chao Zhang are handling the December 6 auctions. Each of the properties is expected to fetch between $3-3.5 million.
In 2017, a block of 12 apartments at 2-4 Garden Avenue sold for $5.95 million, a yield of around 3.3 per cent on the groww rental of $230,736.
Fringe owners
Owner occupiers are taking advantage of low interest rates and putting their feet down on city-fringe properties.
Buyers gather for the auction of 118 Moray Street in South Melbourne.
Allard Shelton’s Joe Walton has sold 11-17 Jeffcott Street in West Melbourne for $7.6 million on a 2.9 per cent yield. The double-storey 868 sq m building is on a 468 sq m site with a short-term lease to the Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society.
Mr Walton said the $16,230 a sq m price for land was approaching CBD prices.
Also in West Melbourne, 1/617 Spencer Street was snapped up by an owner-occupier who paid $2.8 million through CBRE.
An office at 118 Moray Street, South Melbourne fetched $1.953 million and 59 Johnston Street, Port Melbourne sold for $3.01 million.
CBRE’s Mr Kilner said rents in the city fringe market have risen 16 per cent in the past year and the vacancy rate is hovering around 3.5 per cent.
“Many groups who enquired and bid on these properties indicated it was going to be cheaper for them to buy, rather than rent, even taking into account associated capital costs,” Mr White said.
Nicole Lindsay
Nicole Lindsay is a property reporter at The Age.
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PASSAGE THROUGH LIGHT AND SHADOWS: THE CHILDREN OF ARARAT
Genre: Dance
Anahid Sofian
Anahid Sofian is proud to announce the World Premiere of her new dance/theater work "Passage through Light and Shadows: The Children of Ararat," which she describes as "an ethos of the Armenian people, their culture, history, religion, arts and folklore." Sofian, who will appear as "The Rememberer," will present a large cast of actors/dancers, special choreography by guest Gagik Karapetian, director of the Armenian State Ensemble, and extensive video integrations created by Jeremy Haik. This very special season will also include two Saturday 4 PM showings of the long-lost 1919 silent film, Ravished Armenia, which was based on the autobiography of Aurora Mardiganian, who at age 15 escaped the massacres of the Armenians in 1915 Ottoman Turkey.
Anahid Sofian, an acclaimed specialist in dances of the Near and Middle East, has worked for several years on this ambitious production, of which she states: "It is my artistic vision of being Armenian. I want to express my love for our ancient and rich culture, and honor my parents, who survived the Armenian Genocide."
A few of the highlights of the evening are
Enactments of The Legend of Akhtamar, an Armenian-style Romeo and Juliet, and an Armenian fable The Black Dog of Fate;
Dances that range from the traditional, going back to pagan times, to dances inspired by Armenian poetry;
A portion of the Armenian Liturgy will also be enacted, dating back to 301 A.D. when Armenia became the first Christian nation on earth. Video projections will display the magnificence of the Armenian churches, which influenced the Gothic churchs of Europe.
October 22-31 (total of 10 performances)
Friday & Saturday October 22 & 23 at 8 PM
Sunday, October 24 at 3 PM & 7 PM
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday October 26, 27, 28 at 7:30 PM
Friday & Saturday, October 29 & 30 at 8 PM
Sunday October 31 at 3 PM
Showings of Ravished Armenia, Saturdays October 23 & October 30 at 4 PM
Theatre of St. Clements Church, 423 West 46 Street
Tickets:$35; $25 for students & seniors
Donation: for Ravished Armenia, $15
Reservations: 212-352-3101 or www.theatermania.com, or on website www.childrenofararat.net
Choreography, Artistic Direction, and Script: Anahid Sofian
Associate Director: Jeffrey Lewonczyk, Brick Theatre
Guest Choreographer: Gagik Karapetian, Armenian State Ensemble
Lighting Design: Kia Rogers
Videographer: Jeremy Haik
Costumes: Meganne George
Scenic Design: Joseph Spirito, Castillo Theatre/All Stars Projects
Consultant: Joyce Tamesian-Shenloogian, Artistic Director, Antranig Armenian Dance Ensemble
Performers: Harout Barsoumian, Carlos Fittante, Olsi Gecji, Zobeida Ghattas, Erin Jennings, Sira Melikian, Carolin Melkonian, Nadia Maria Michael, Jean Musacchio, Janet Poriadjian, Anahid Sofian, Harout Takvorian, Stephanie Vartanian
Narrative: Saro Jahani, Gilda Kupelian, Rosine Tanashian, Vaghenag Tarpinian
Open: 10/22/10
Close: 10/31/10
Click for Schedule
Theater: Theatre at St. Clements
Google Maps Cost:$35 ($25 students/seniors)
Buy Tickets Online or Call: at 212-352-3101
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Here’s How This Lt Col Went Above and Beyond to Honour His Martyr Brother’s Life
No one can truly understand the life of an Indian army soldier better than someone who has made the same commitment, faced the same challenges and – truly – runs the same risks.
Vidya Raja
Armed Forces / North East India
India stood united, in worry and relief, over the fate of the IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman. A million prayers went up, a million tears were shed and a million smiles lit up across the country on the night he crossed the border and came home—safe and sound. The handshake between the returning hero and the army personnel waiting to receive him spoke a billion words.
His story had a happy ending, but it is the rarest-of-the-rare. For every Abhinandan, there are countless others who never returned home. Their loss is irreplaceable to their families, their friends, loved ones, and last but not the least their fellow soldiers.
Lt Col Sandeep Ahlawat, a third generation army man, has, at various forums said that for an Indian Army officer, the loss of a brother hurts more than the loss of a blood brother.
Lt Nongrum and Lt Col Ahlawat
It is hard to reconcile with the fact that you will never again see the one with whom you laughed and cried through the gruelling army training, cracked jokes over bruises, strains, wounds and sometimes even broken bones.
When an army soldier dies, the loss is irreparable for the family who have to find ways to live with the pain. But how do comrades of the slain soldiers cope with the bereavement?
Lt Col Ahlawat gives an insight into how the officers face such losses, and what they do to celebrate the memory of their fallen brothers.
With Lt Nongrum’s parents in Shillong.
In a Facebook post, Lt Col Ahlawat wrote about Lt Keishing Clifford Nongrum (MVC) who acquired martyrdom during Operation Vijay while clearing and recapturing Point 4812 in June 1999. Lt Nongrum was also awarded the second highest gallantry award – Mahavir Chakra.
Batch mates at the Officers Training Academy (OTA) in Chennai, Lt Col Ahlawat and Lt Nongrum grew a strong bond of friendship during their time there. Lt Col Ahlawat remembers the young, fun-loving man with a soulful voice and dextrous fingers that could weave magic with a guitar.
They last spoke to each other before Lt Nongrum’s platoon was called for the Kargil War. The next he heard of Lt Nongrum was the news of his death. Lt Col Ahlawat felt as if he had lost a brother.
And the pain still lingers.
Such was the love between the friends that Lt Col Ahlawat and four of his batch mates travelled to Lt Nongrum’s home in Shillong, Meghalaya.
Lt Nongrum’s course mates.
Regaling the time spent at the academy, sharing anecdotes, reliving the memories they all had of their beloved friend and son, the people in the room strung with the same rope of sorrow, felt stronger in their shared love for Lt Nongrum.
The company visited his grave. The old batch mates fell to the ground and performed push-ups near the slain soldier’s final place of resting in remembrance of the young boys they had been at the academy, burning with the passion to serve their country.
The whole idea behind the gesture, in Lt Col Ahlawat’s words, is to honour his memory and make the pain of loss bearable by sharing. The friends wanted the parents of their lost brother to know that they stand together in this unbearable time.
Just before being called back to duty, Lt Nongrum had agreed to visit St. Anthony’s college and deliver a lecture to the students there. He had made a promise to the principal of the college there, who was of the belief that not many students from the North East chose to be a part of the armed forces.
Unfortunately, he was unable to keep up his word and that was when Lt Col Ahlawat stepped in and delivered the lecture instead.
Honouring Lt Nongrum
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As Lt Col Ahlawat says, a soldier wears his heart on his sleeve and his resume on his body (the uniform). In difficult times, it is often those who stand with you, that makes all the difference for the families of martyrs.
(Edited by Vinayak Hegde)
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The BIG Movie Company
MAD MAX (1979)
SYNOPSIS~
The film is set in the near future of a bleak, dystopian and impoverished Australia that is facing a breakdown of civil order primarily due to widespread oil shortages. (This is not explained in this film but in the sequel, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.) Central to the plot is a poorly-funded national police unit called the Main Force Patrol (MFP, derogatorily called “The Bronze” by their enemies), which struggles to protect the Outback’s few remaining townspeople from violent motorcycle gangs. The MFP’s “top pursuit man” is a young police officer, Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson), badge number MFP4073.
A member of one of the motorcycle gangs, Crawford Montazano (nicknamed Nightrider), escapes from police custody by killing an officer and stealing his vehicle. MFP officers chase the Nightrider in a high-speed chase that results in several serious wrecks. Among those involved is a cocky motorcycle cop nicknamed Goose (Steve Bisley), who radios Max. Max pursues Nightrider in a high-speed chase which results in Nightrider’s death in a fiery crash. After the dangerous chase, Max’ police chief, Fifi McAfee, warns Max that Nightrider’s gang will be out for him now because of Nightrider’s death.
Nightrider’s gang, which is led by Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne), plans to avenge Nightrider’s death by killing MFP officers. Meanwhile, they vandalize property, steal fuel, and terrorize the citizenry. While chewing up a town where the Nightrider’s remains arrived by train, the gang brutalizes a civilian couple that tried escaping to the road; the couple is overtaken, then both of them are raped and the car is wrecked. Max and Goose are informed about the incident and go to the crime scene. They find Toecutter’s young protegé, Johnny the Boy (Tim Burns), and the girl of the couple in the middle of the wreckage. Johnny’s drug-fueled rantings reveal him as a member of Nightrider’s gang; Goose looks on Johnny with particular disdain, as his leg was broken during the Nightrider pursuit. However, they do not kill Johnny, but arrest him and drag him away in chains.
Johnny is held at the MFP’s dilapidated Halls of Justice pending a visit from the Court. However, when the attorneys arrive, Johnny is ordered released: the judge has set Johnny free because no witnesses showed up for the trial. (Without the testimony of witnesses, no charges could be filed; the courts declared “no contest” for the case.) A shocked Goose attacks Johnny and must be physically restrained; both Goose and Johnny shout threats of revenge at each other. The second-in-command of the biker group, Bubba Zanetti (Geoff Parry) arrives at the courthouse to pick up Johnny, on orders from the Toecutter. Bubba does so begrudgingly, because he hates Johnny for his rowdiness, lack of style and drug addiction, and hates the Toecutter’s favoritism towards Johnny.
Shortly thereafter, Johnny the Boy sabotages Goose’s MFP motorcycle while Goose is shacked up with a singer he met at a cabaret. His rear wheel locks up at high speed the next day, throwing Goose from the bike; Goose, however, survives without even suffering “road rash”. Goose borrows a ute to haul his bike back to civilization. Unfortunately, Johnny ambushes Goose, throwing a brake drum through the ute’s windshield, causing Goose to roll the vehicle over, Gas leaks from the fuel tank, soaking the ground around the truck; Johnny, at the belligerent urging of the Toecutter himself, then burns Goose alive in the wreckage. Goose survives, but after seeing his charred body in the hospital’s burn ward, Max becomes angry and disillusioned with the police force and resigns from the MFP with no intention of returning. He takes a road trip with his wife and infant son in the relatively peaceful coastal area north of their home.
While on holiday, Max’s wife, Jessie, (played by Joanne Samuel) runs into Toecutter’s gang, who harass her. She escapes, but the gang manages to track her to the home where she and Max are staying. While attempting to escape from the gang again, Jessie and her son are run down by the gang, who leave their crushed bodies in the middle of the road. Max arrives too late to intervene. His son is pronounced dead on the scene, while his wife suffers massive injuries. (It is revealed in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior that she later died from her injuries.)
Filled with obsessive rage, Max once again dons his police outfit, straps on his sawn-off shotgun, and steals a supercharged black Pursuit Special to pursue the gang. He methodically hunts down and kills the gang members: several gang members are forced off a bridge at high speed while others spill their bikes; Max shoots Bubba off his cycle with his shotgun (Bubba shoots Max in the leg with a pistol first, though, giving Max a limp that is consistent throughout the series, then runs over his exposed arm). Max struggles back into his car and pursues the Toecutter into a forbidden area. Max forces the gang’s leader into the path of a speeding tractor trailer and he is crushed in a head-on collision.
Max later finds Johnny the Boy taking the boots off a dead driver at the scene of a crash. Johnny desperately tries to convince Max that the man was dead when he found him and that his drug addiction has made him mentally unbalanced. Max doesn’t listen and handcuffs Johnny’s ankle to the wrecked, overturned vehicle with a ruptured petrol tank. Max lights a crude time-delay fuse and gives Johnny a hacksaw, leaving him the choice of sawing through either the handcuffs (which will take 10 minutes) or his ankle (which will take 5 minutes), and then drives off into the desolate outback, ignoring Johnny’s frantic ramblings. The camera shows Max’s car from the front, with a large and fiery explosion in the distance behind it, leaving Johnny’s fate unknown. Max blankly continues to drive in a rainstorm into the Outback, a shell of his former self.
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Team 3668 - TroBots
Part of the FIRST In Michigan District
From Whitmore Lake, Michigan, USA
aka State of Michigan / Soar Technology / Arvin Sango / RheTech / Lance and Nola Shew / Thomson Reuters / Kiwanis of Whitmore Lake / Flexible Metal & Whitmore Lake High School
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Robot Name: Elevatron
Team 3668 was 24-21-0 in official play in 2016.
As a member of the FIRST In Michigan district, Team 3668 ranked 85 having earned 105 points.
FIM District - Southfield Event
in Southfield, MI 48033, USA
March 3 to March 5, 2016 Week 1
Team 3668 was Rank 2 with a record of 10-5-0 and won the following awards:
Excellence in Engineering Award sponsored by Delphi
District Points Earned
Qual Points 21
Alliance Points 15
Playoff Points 0
Award Points 5
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FIM District - Howell Event
in Howell, MI 48843, USA
March 31 to April 2, 2016 Week 5
Team 3668 was Rank 25 with a record of 10-8-0 and won the following awards:
District Event Finalist
Alliance Points 6
Playoff Points 20
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Michigan State Championship
in Grand Rapids, MI 48544, USA
April 13 to April 16, 2016 Week 7
Team 3668 was Rank 75 with a record of 4-8-0
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A Simple Beauty...
A Welcoming Home...
There is a simple beauty to a welcoming home... "Home" is a sort of "workshop" for learning what it means to "live" -- and to do that living in relationship with a community. While lifestyle fashions change -- not often enough for advertisers and big business! -- a welcoming home should aim for an environment that concerns itself with essentials: bareness perhaps reflects a certain monastic discipline: but "home" normally means the occasion of children: as such, an "ordered chaos" is part of the essential. Color, games, plants, pets, and books cultivate the essential... Here, in this home, the Divine Presence is not separate from gathered dust balls of dog hair, soup cooking on the stove, music on the radio, and the humble bliss of good conversation...
Simple living is a closer opposite to poverty than is gaudy wealth. Simple living is the epitome of good taste: if it ain't tasty, then who the hell is doing the cooking? Good taste recognizes the beauty in "things": things such as photographs of contemporary heroes and saints, like Dorothy Day, Nelson Mandela, Amma, and Ram Dass serve as inspirational models for children and adults both. An altar looking out a west-facing window, if such window exists, is another essential: perhaps adorned with a figurine of an ancient Goddess, perhaps with icons of Yeshua the Poet of Nazareth, the Little Brown Lady of Guadalupe, St. Francis and St. Hildegard, or other personal / family favorites, along with a smattering of special found rocks, wood, and potted plants... A welcoming simple beauty inevitably leads to contemplative moments: for simple living is a sacrament of the Divine Beloved: always present...
Our vision is steadily focused in an environment of a welcoming home. The members and guests of this household might steadily awaken to their living radiance: "what if?" is the first step in transformation... inevitably followed by "why not?"... A welcoming home has within its very walls the seeds of artful possibilities: beauty and kindness are the growing plants -- the vigorous vines -- in the souls that are in the care of this home... The inexpressible speaks volumes in the welcoming home...
The location of the walls of a welcoming home are not as important as the removal of the walls bordering the hearts of those who live there. Is this welcoming home out in the country? Is it in a little town, or in a big city? The location is incidental if those who live there are living in remembrance of the Divine Beloved who is as near as their in-and-out-flowing-breath... A living spirituality sees no separation in the secular and the sacred: this "no separation" makes the family table an altar: this "no separation" makes the sexual a mirror of the cosmic bliss: this "no separation" becomes the simple living declaration of a world and universe pregnant with the Divine... Finally, a welcoming home, becomes for each member a little school of love, where the daily curriculum is love, where the homework is love, and where there is neither a "pass" nor a "fail", but a simple celebration of "Ah..." All of this, and more, is in the simple beauty of a welcoming home...
A New Saint...
"Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself without precedent." -- Simone Weil
"The saintliness demanded by the present moment..." What is "this" present moment? Perhaps, this present moment can best be defined as a time of "great division": it seems that the "I" is no longer emergent: it is fully entrenched as "righteous opinion": everyone has one: the "I" is now "Opinion"... And! It is worth fighting over: separation without end! Rich versus Poor, Right versus Left, Religion One versus Religion Two, White versus Black and Brown, Male versus Female, Here First versus Here Later, Heterosexual versus Homo / Bi / Inter / Whatever-sexual, Mine versus Yours, Not Climate Concerned versus Climate Concerned... Afraid versus Not Afraid... and On and On... Is this not "the present moment"?
If "division" is the fundamental problem, wouldn't the solution then be the celebration of the differences? By dwelling on the differences, aren't we actually amplifying them? And doesn't this amplification, in a profoundly shocking way, become for us "our" reality? We are all guilty of privatizing reality: as if we are the only "I" that matters in a universe of "I's"... It is as if we are all de-volving into the proverbial self-oriented teenager: stuck in an endlessly repeating "Groundhog" day (see Bill Murray's "Groundhog Day")...
"The saintliness demanded by the present moment..." Besides an adult ability to honor and celebrate differences, doesn't this present moment require of each of us an unparalleled turn towards the practice of active compassion? This, more than anything else is what turns us from "self-oriented teenager" into an adult: becoming an adult is really not about going to college, getting a job, making money, having sex, or buying things: an adult is one who can "walk a mile" in his brother's shoes: an adult is one who sees in her sister her very self: it is this very precise miracle that marks us as an adult: we have learned the supreme value of every single "other": this, and really only this, is the "saintliness demanded by this present moment: anything else will only be, in one way or another, more of the same: compassion is the "difference maker" that insists there be "no difference", no "separation": we are all worthy of the very best: we are all worthy of love and loving...
Who first? Why not you and I together?
The Interior Garden...
Every person who lives in the Mystery of Faith, to some extent, lives in the solitude of an "Interior Garden"... Each moment of gentle awakening, as it were, plants a seed in one's consciousness: when those seeds are "watered" by sacred reading and meditation, by intentional compassion, one can increase the likelihood of that garden becoming a thriving oasis of beauty...
To what are the Sources that you turn? Do you hear the daily call to Remembrance? Do you remember and practice the Sabbath? Do you pocket a Scripture sacred to you as you go about the business of your day? Do you have on your wrist a mala, or a string of prayer beads around your neck? Do you listen to Gregorian chant at your desk or listen to the kirtan sung by Krishna Das? These question-promptings are a gentle nudge to consider the meaning of your daily life: for it is precisely out of our "ordinary" days that we either encounter the Divine Beloved -- or fail to... It is only by cultivating our intention to cultivate our Interior Garden that it will be fruitful...
To whom are you cultivating a tender, loving, devotion? Neither you nor I can pretend to be lovingly devoted to the Divine Beloved if we are not similarly tender, loving, and devoted to the human beings in our daily midst. Literally, if we spit in the face of anyone, we spit in the face of the Divine: no difference, no separation! It is exactly to the degree that we love the person that we love the least, that we in fact love the Holy One: no difference, no separation. Sure, most of us can smugly profess, "I have never spit in anyone's face!" But it is only the "smug" in us that can make such a profession: the ruggedly honest person can't. We spit every single time that we judge or hate or harm another. We spit every single time that we vote for people who foster bigotry, intolerance, hate, disrespect, and violence in order to get elected. It is always fear that makes us live as strangers in this world, just as it is always love that waters our soul garden and gives us the courage to love others as we say that we love the Holy One...
Many people do not have partners in their lives with whom they can practice loving kindness, and so they live "separate" even if married... Many people are profoundly lonely even in the midst of a crowd... Many people are so empty and hopeless in love that loving has become for them an impossibility: fear and anger then become their operational principles: and so their gardens are overcome with the thorns of hopelessness -- which then becomes a justification for "becoming" hate... Unfortunately, most of these folks are also not "talkers": neither priest nor therapist ever hears their real story and feelings... On the other hand, we have all been Divinely Constructed to be "containers" of Infinite Bliss: "We have been created by love, for love, to become love." (Simone Weil) The solution, as Dorothy Day taught, is community: a community of sisters and brothers with whom we can "water our gardens" and practice love by loving... Isn't this the Divine Way of Yeshua the Poet of Nazareth?
Cultivating the "feminine" characteristics of listening, humility, gentleness, tolerance, kindness, and compassion -- whether one is male or female -- is essential to awakening. Cultivating devotion to the Divine Feminine: to the Little Brown Mother of Guadalupe, to the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Kuan Yin, to the Holy Wisdom of the Source, Sophia, or to the Divine Beloved as Mother Herself is a sure way to feed one's Interior Garden... One need only to watch either CNN or Fox News to see that everything that we are now doing as a specie is not working! We need to change our minds before it is to late for all life on this precious blue Planet!
Finally, everyday we must return -- several times -- to our Interior Garden to feel and adore the hidden presence of the Divine Beloved. We need to work there as we need to rest there. Can there be a better analogy than that of human lovers? Read the Song of Songs! That is the "true" story of both Creation and Re-Creation! As we kiss and lick our lover's back, chest, and genitals we breathe onto her / his skin our breath of adoration... As our bodies merge in wonder and bliss, we breathe out into the Universe the Mystic Song of Redemption: this kiss here and this kiss there is the Holy Mantra of Surrender: truly, truly, "We were created by love, for love, to become love"... You cry that you have no one to kiss? There are many different ways to kiss! Surely you could volunteer somewhere! Surely someone, besides you, is in need somewhere near you! Is there a hospital, retirement home, school, homeless shelter, animal shelter, or soup kitchen anywhere near you? Volunteer! Do you eat? Skip a meal and send the cost saved to a charitable organization! Our Interior Gardens become havens of contemplative bliss as we practice loving others -- even as we are learning to love ourselves... Every breath is as holy as it is going to get: so why wait?
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MEDTECH HOTSPOT
Costa Rica 2017 | INDUSTRY | FOCUS: MEDICAL DEVICE & INNOVATION HUB
Costa Rica has positioned itself as a world leader in the life sciences industry, attracting the world's top medical device companies and becoming the second-largest exporter in Latin America.
Over the past two decades, the medical devices sector has experienced incredible dynamism in Costa Rica, growing to represent 23% of the country's total exports in 2015. Medical device activity began in Costa Rica back in 1987 when the American firm Baxter Healthcare first set up shop. Since then, the industry has only been evolving and growing in size and complexity, gaining a positive reputation that has encouraged more firms to start producing in the country.
With a cluster of 68 companies divided between OEM's and suppliers, Costa Rica is home to six of the 20 largest medical device companies in the world. The country's strategy to drive innovation and become a regional actor in the global medical devices industry has been stimulated primarily by large corporations' export-oriented strategies, which established operations in the country to take advantage of competitive labor and favorable trade and investment regimes. Today, the sector plays a key role in Costa Rica's economy, accounting for 4% of GDP.
Costa Rica's medical devices production has grown significantly, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24% since 1998. Nowadays, the life sciences cluster in Costa Rica consists of around 40 multinational companies, including Boston Scientific and Hospira, which have recently upgraded both their manufacturing processes and the products they export. The production lines have become increasingly sophisticated and cover a wide range of market segments, including drug delivery systems, cardiovascular and orthopedic devices. On the other hand, local firms made their contribution by mainly participating in packaging functions.
In the last decade, exports of medical equipment have grown by almost 280% and were rapidly moving toward becoming Costa Rica's first industrial export good in 2015, accounting for USD2.2 billion. Moreover, employment in the industry is 13 times higher than in 2000, and the number of companies has increased nine times over. These figures illustrate the government's decision in 2012 to declare the investigation, development and production of Medical and Biotech Devices in the public and national interest.
In this sense, the government has worked to foster an ideal ecosystem for expanding Costa Rica's lead in the sector and ensuring there is a sound supplier base that offers solutions in many areas. Fast track immigration procedures, online customs expedited with transparency, and one of the most attractive tax incentives in Latin America are some of the additional stimulus for multinationals. In addition, several industrial free zone parks located throughout the country offer robust infrastructure in which to operate. Moreover, hosting the Latin American headquarters of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) facilitates cooperation with regulatory authorities, industry, and academia.
Private organizations like the Costa Rica Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE) are also working to promote the country as a medical device hub. Over the last three years, CINDE has been organizing the Life Sciences Forum, an exhibition that gathered more than 450 players in the sector in 2016.
In order to continue to support growth and make a significant impact on the local population, Costa Rica is moving toward product development by strengthening linkages between multinationals and suppliers. As innovation requires a high level of education, another priority must be to invest more in human capital with an eye toward improving the quality of its engineering graduates, increasing the number of PhDs, and encouraging business graduates to become the workforce required for upgrading into higher-value segments of the development chain. In addition, the quality of scientific research done by over 3,800 researchers in 32 institutions gives Costa Rica room to enhance its presence in the global life sciences industry and attract even more medical device companies to invest in the country.
What A Year
The world has much to envy about Costa Rica, from its sterling green credentials to praiseworthy human capital, yet there is work to do to prevent widening inequality across the country.
A Steady Ship
Costa Rica has established a strong network of foreign relations and seeks to continue to develop ties around the world, especial in the Far East, with China playing a pivotal role in the country's development.
Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera, President , Costa Rica
TBY talks to Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera, President of Costa Rica, on strategies for increasing FDI, tackling the fiscal deficit, and accession to the OECD.
Focus: REGIONAL INTEGRATION
The Ties that Bind
Though a late partner to some of the regional alliances that are defining Central American integration, Costa Rica has been a strong and outspoken member that will continue to play a critical role in ensuring these pacts unite the region on a sound footing.
Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas, President , Oriental Republic of Uruguay
TBY talks to Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas, President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, on the expansion of trade between the two countries and where more potential for further strengthening these connections lies.
Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado, President , Honduras
TBY talks to Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado, President of Honduras, on strengthening four key pillars of the economy and what that could mean for Costa Rica.
Bonds of Friendship
Salvador Sánchez Cerén, President of the Republic of El Salvador, on the values that tie the two nations together, and the opportunities for more cooperation.
Irina Bokova, General Director, UNESCO
TBY talks to Irina Bokova, General Director of UNESCO, on the common values shared with Costa Rica.
Manuel Antonio González Sanz, Minister, Foreign Affairs and Worship
TBY talks to Manuel Antonio González Sanz, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship, on what the ministry hopes to achieve before the end of its term and the government's stance on the Pacific Alliance.
Costa Rica's political stability and regional integration have led to a rise in FDI and tourism, but continued work is needed to ensure the gains from trade reach all sectors of the population.
Welmer Ramos, Minister, Economy, Industry and Commerce
TBY talks to Welmer Ramos, Minister of Economy, Industry and Commerce, on sectors that will spearhead growth in 2016 and where FDI can be deployed to further boost growth going forward.
Alonso Elizondo Bolaños, Executive Director, Chamber of Commerce
TBY talks to Alonso Elizondo Bolaños, Executive Director of the Chamber of Commerce, on the strongest performing sectors, the challenges in attracting FDI, and the prospect of the Pacific Alliance.
Dennis Whitelaw, President , Costa Rican-American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM)
TBY talks to Dennis Whitelaw, President of the Costa Rican-American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM), on some of the successes seen in bilateral business across a number of sectors, and what else AMCHAM can do to help develop sustainable growth.
Focus: CAFTA
Stronger Ties
Though Costa Rica has benefitted from CAFTA-DR more than any other regional signatory, adding high-tech jobs and increasing exports to the US, it should be careful not to rely too heavily upon an asymmetrical relationship with its northern neighbor.
Jorge Brenes, President , AZOFRAS
TBY talks to Jorge Brenes, President of AZOFRAS, on how Costa Rican free zones differentiate themselves, and what incentives can be offered to bring new companies into the fray.
Focus: Free Trade Zones
A Working System
Free Trade Zones are proving one of Costa Rica's most essential strategic advantages for increasing the productivity and diversification of the country's economic output.
Marco Garro, General Manager, Z GROUP
TBY talks to Marco Garro, General Manager of Z GROUP, on the group's facility expansion plans, the make up of the companies it hosts, and how to attract more companies to the zones.
Costa Rica Sustainable Model & Investment Opportunities
TBY gathered together three prominent businessmen in Costa Rica to discuss economic growth and the challenges going forward.
Helio Fallas Venegas, Vice President & Minister , Finance
TBY talks to Helio Fallas Venegas, Vice President & Minister of Finance, on how the ministry is combatting the fiscal deficit and building a stronger platform to support future growth.
Silvio Lacayo, General Manager, Desyfin
TBY talks to Silvio Lacayo, General Manager of Desyfin, on building a family business into a bank, services that are in demand, and expectations for the future.
Focus: Green Credit
Costa Rica has become a leader in green credits, forming agreements both domestically and internationally to trade carbon offsets in its quest to become fully carbon-neutral by 2021.
Oscar Hidalgo Chaves, General Manager, Coopeservidores
TBY talks to Oscar Hidalgo Chaves, General Manager of Coopeservidores, on evolving the cooperative, incorporating values of sustainability, and what the signing of an agreement with Procomer means for customers.
My Nickel
Costa Rica's relatively small size represents an interesting trait of a domestic capital market with ambitions bigger than its body.
New entrants are increasing competition in the insurance market, but the National Insurance Institute (INS) remains the dominant entity.
Elian Villegas, Executive President, Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS)
TBY talks to Elian Villegas, Executive President of Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS), on becoming a more competitive and stronger company and the need to increase awareness of insurance.
Rafael Monge Chinchilla, General Manager, Seguros del Magisterio
TBY talks to Rafael Monge Chinchilla, General Manager of Seguros del Magisterio, on the company's history, its portfolio, and his expectations for the coming year.
Perpetual Generation
Costa Rica sets global records for the second year in a row for the length of time its national energy grid relied entirely upon renewable energy sources, with 99% of electricity coming from sources other than fossil fuels.
Dr. Edgar E. Gutiérrez-Espeleta, Minister, Environment, Energy, Oceans, Coasts and Wetlands
TBY talks to Dr. Edgar E. Gutiérrez-Espeleta, Minister of Environment, Energy, Oceans, Coasts and Wetlands, on the highlights of the National Energy Plan and attracting FDI to the sector.
Focus: Reventazón Hydroelectric Dam
Costa Rica is hoping that the Reventazón Hydroelectric Dam, the largest in the region, will assuage its high energy costs while preserving the country's dedication to clean energy generation.
Carlos Obregón Quesada, CEO, Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE)
TBY talks to Carlos Obregón Quesada, CEO of Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), on its upcoming projects, achieving 100% energy from renewable sources, and its CSR initiatives.
Focus: Green Energy
Greener Than Ever
Nowadays, Costa Rica has the cleanest energy matrix in the world. 2021 is set to be a historic date as it marks the bicentenary of independence and the year that Costa Ricans expect to become the first carbon-neutral country in the world.
Enrique J. Egloff, President , Chamber of Industries
TBY talks to Enrique J. Egloff, President of the Chamber of Industries, on encouraging greater investment, increasing the country's competitiveness, and stimulating economic growth.
Peter Ossenbach Kröeschel, General Manager , Grupo Capris
TBY talks to Peter Ossenbach Kröeschel, General Manager of Grupo Capris, on the company's evolution over time, the areas with great potential, and the growing popularity of its online store.
Focus: Highly Skilled Workforce
Ready, steady… go!
Despite being a small country, Costa Rica tops the world in several important categories; it is considered the “greenest" country on the planet, is number one on the World Happiness Index, and has one the most qualified labor forces in the region.
Paulo Maia, Country Manager, Bosch
TBY talks to Paulo Maia, Country Manager of Bosch, on its plans for Costa Rica, ways to boost FDI into the country, and his outlook of the sector.
Focus: Medical Device & Innovation Hub
Completing The Puzzle
While Costa Rica is demonstratively an upper-middle-income nation, it is a given that the condition of a country's transport matrix determines whether its growth potential is met.
Carlos Villalta Villegas, Minister, Public Works and Transport (MOPT)
TBY talks to Carlos Villalta Villegas, Minister of Public Works and Transport (MOPT), on improving public transport, overcoming hardship, and reducing urban congestion.
Kenneth Waugh, Managing Director, APM Terminals
TBY talks to Kenneth Waugh, Managing Director of APM Terminals, on strategic collaboration, managing logistics, and transoceanic trade.
Focus: Moín Port Terminal
Billion-Dollar Port
Costa Rica is undertaking the largest infrastructure project in the country's history with the development of Moín Container Terminal.
Rafael Mencía, CEO, Aeris
TBY talks to Rafael Mencía, CEO of Aeris, on master plans, capacity duplication, and regional integration.
A strong economy means strong automotive demand, with dealers and assemblers reporting growing profits.
Marcelo Jenkins Coronas, Minister, Science, Technology and Telecommunications
TBY talks to Marcelo Jenkins Coronas, Minister of Science, Technology and Telecommunications, on enhancing the country's development, the national 2015-2021 plan, and opportunities for foreign investors.
Jaime Palermo Quesada, General Manager , kölbi
TBY talks to Jaime Palermo Quesada, General Manager of kölbi, on service penetration, investment in technology, and the broader trajectory of the market.
Carlos Ríos Briseño, General Manager, Claro
TBY talks to Carlos Ríos Briseño, General Manager of Claro, on products in the pipeline, the need for commercial innovation in the sector, and its priorities for the coming year.
Johanna Escobar Guerra, Country Manager, Telefonica
TBY talks to Johanna Escobar Guerra, Country Manager of Telefonica, on its rapid success, its upcoming launches, and the challenges of the market.
Focus: National Plan 2015-2021
Bicentennial Vigor
Costa Rica's PNCTI is a nationwide strategic plan that aims to apply technological solutions to the nation's most pressing issues.
Rubén Rivera M., General Manager , GBM
TBY talks to Rubén Rivera M., General Manager of GBM, on how the IT sector is performing and ways to close the digital gap.
José Miguel Monge Gómez, General Manager, Data Center Consultores
TBY talks to José Miguel Monge Gómez, General Manager of Data Center Consultores, on South American expansion, clean energy, and carbon neutrality.
José Ignacio Jenkins Moreno, President , Anphora
TBY talks to José Ignacio Jenkins Moreno, President of Anphora, on the Internet of Things, consolidating the Wi-Fi market, and custom-made solutions.
Rosendo Pujol Mesalles, Minister, Housing and Human Settlements
TBY talks to Rosendo Pujol Mesalles, Minister of Housing and Human Settlements, on inclusive housing, social peace, and the benefits of bonos.
Focus: Green Housing
The construction sector is one of the key sectors in a country focused on sustainability and carbon neutrality. Green buildings are in the spotlight for current and future real estate developments. A sustainable building is one that achieves a balance of financial, social, and environmental requirements.
Fernándo Sánchez Sirias, General Manager, Constructora Sanchez Carvajal
TBY talks to Fernándo Sánchez Sirias, General Manager of Constructora Sanchez Carvajal, on diversifying one's portfolio, adapting to the country's needs, and synergizing with the public sector.
Low interest rates have helped spur development of both low-income and high-rise housing, sparking a second boom that has brought a new influx of foreign investment into the country.
Daniel Álvarez, Principal & Senior VP, Cushman & Wakefield
TBY talks to Daniel Álvarez, Principal & Senior VP of Cushman & Wakefield, on long-term strategy, the economic value of culture, and crafting the right business plan.
Focus: Condo Boom
Having fully recovered from the global economic slowdown, a new wave of high-rise housing development is transforming Costa Rica.
Manuel Terán J., President , Urbanizadora La Laguna
TBY talks to Manuel Terán J., President of Urbanizadora La Laguna, on spotting long-term trends, building for the future, and lowering carbon footprints.
Luis Felipe Arauz Cavallini, Minister, Agriculture and Livestock
TBY talks to Luis Felipe Arauz Cavallini, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, on its major projects in agriculture, helping the sector adapt to new innovations, and encouraging people to work in the sector.
Didier Rodríguez González, General Manager, Agrocosta SA,
TBY talks to Didier Rodríguez González, General Manager of Agrocosta SA, on the importance of innovation for the company, its expansion plans, and the future of the sector.
Victor Pérez Pérez, Commercial Director, Grupo Calvo
TBY talks to Victor Pérez Pérez, Commercial Director of Grupo Calvo, on the company's operations in Costa Rica, its CSR projects, and his projections for the sector.
Focus: GMO Economics
Grow Ahead
Anti-biotech draft laws currently being discussed in legislative committees could reduce FDI inflows into agriculture, a key sector in Costa Rica's continued transition to a knowledge-based economy.
Focus: Coffee
The Coffee Capital
With its unique topography, ideal climate, and unwavering government support, Costa Rican coffee has earned a reputation as one of the world's most highly regarded varieties.
Dr. Fernando Llorca Castro, Minister, Health
TBY talks to Dr. Fernando Llorca Castro, Minister of Health, on working to attract more FDI to the sector, current projects, and enhancing Costa Rica's attractiveness in medical tourism.
Dr. María del Rocío Sáenz Madrigal, Executive President, Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS)
TBY talks to Dr. María del Rocío Sáenz Madrigal, Executive President of Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), on its initiatives to increase life expectancy in Costa Rica, address long patient waiting lists, and its priorities for the year.
Focus: Medical Tourism
A Cure For All Seasons
Increased private hospital development and well-trained medical professionals have led to a rise in medical tourism.
Skills To Learn
High state investment has improved education levels considerably over the past decade, but more work needs to be done to increase school quality and reduce the dropout rate.
Sonia Marta Mora, Minister, Public Education
TBY talks to Sonia Marta Mora, Minister of Public Education, on making education more accessible and equitable, its work with UNESCO, and her goal for education in Costa Rica.
Prof. Dr. Henning Jensen Pennington, Rector, Universidad de Costa Rica
TBY talks to Prof. Dr. Henning Jensen Pennington, Rector of Universidad de Costa Rica, on the social and historic role of the university, biodiversity, and international cooperation.
Focus: High Standards in Education
One of the first countries in the world to provide free public education, Costa Rica has the highest literacy rate in Central America and now competes with the world's most industrialized nations. Since 1970, it has invested 28% of its national budget in education, a percentage unthinkable were the military still in existence.
Fernando Ocampo, Dean, Lead University
TBY talks to Fernando Ocampo, Dean of Lead University, on kick-starting world-class academic programs, PPPs, and innovation.
Business schools are highly popular in Costa Rica, prompting the country's schools to be leaders in the region.
Beaches & Trees
Costa Rica has one of the most developed tourism industries in the region; not only does it provide a solid foundation for the economy, it acts as a catalyst across all sectors.
Mauricio Ventura A., Minister, Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT)
TBY talks to Mauricio Ventura A., Minister of the Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT), on leveraging the booming tourism industry, tackling the seasonality challenge, and contributing to social progress
Gustavo Araya, President , Costa Rican Hotels Chamber (CCH)
TBY talks to Gustavo Araya, President of Costa Rican Hotels Chamber (CCH), on improving security, building public-private coalitions, and dealing with structural changes
Focus: MICE Tourism
Meet Me in Costa Rica
The uniquely rich offerings of Costa Rica's tourism sector make it an increasingly competitive destination for the MICE segment.
Focus: Ecotourism
Ecotourism is quickly emerging as a driving force behind the sustainable development of tourism in Costa Rica, which has long been the country's most important contributor to GDP.
The Costa Business
A quick look at what it takes to get set up in business in Costa Rica, and what makes it such an attractive place to invest.
Review: Legal
Humberto Pacheco A. and Gloriana Alvarado C. run down everything investors need to know about setting up shop in Costa Rica.
Review: Accountancy
By the Books
Deloitte provides an overview of the local tax and accountancy landscape for investors looking to establish a business operation in Costa Rica.
Alan Saborío Soto, Chairman & OMP, Deloitte
TBY talks to Alan Saborío Soto, Chairman & OMP of Deloitte, on maintaining growth in mature markets, opportunities across Central America, and becoming the region's largest legal firm.
Despite being a small country, Costa Rica tops the world in several important categories; it is considered the “greenest” country on the planet, is number one on the World Happiness Index, and has one the most qualified labor forces in the region.
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Three taken to hospital after fire at Toowoomba home
THREE people, including two children, have been taken to hospital after a fire at a Toowoomba home on Saturday afternoon. Jonno Colfs
by Tobi Loftus
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Tobi graduated from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) with a Bachelor of Journalism in 2015. From there he began his career at the Central and North Burnett Times in Mundubbera, before moving to the South Burnett Times in Kingaroy in 2017. He joined The Chronicle’s news team in January 2018.
THREE people, including two children, have been taken to hospital after a fire at a Toowoomba home on Saturday afternoon.
A Queensland Fire and Emergency Service spokeswoman said the fire at a Norman St home was reported just after noon.
"It's all under control, crews have left," the spokeswoman said.
"It started in the bedroom... but (crews) aren't sure how it started."
The spokeswoman said crews had to clear out smoke from the building, though there wasn't much structural damage reported.
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman said an adult female and two children were taken to Toowoomba Hospital following the incident.
"They were transported in a stable condition," she said.
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Arts District ready to sculpt its next chapter
The Millville Development Corp. recently held its final meeting with city representatives.
Arts District ready to sculpt its next chapter The Millville Development Corp. recently held its final meeting with city representatives. Check out this story on thedailyjournal.com: http://vineland.dj/1SfPq27
@ChrisTorresDJ Published 5:04 p.m. ET June 14, 2015
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MILLVILLE – The organization behind the Glasstown Arts District may have formally ended its relationship with the city, but city officials say they will still support the organization as it ventures into a new direction.
The Millville Development Corp. held its final meeting with city officials last week, and will spend the summer reorganizing and finding new funding streams.
The city ended its standing with the MDC due to funding issues from both sides. The MDC has been in existence since 1994, and launched the Arts District five years later.
The city was a major source of funding for the MDC’s marketing and operations, providing more than $935,000 since 2010. But the organization this year has operated without any city money.
MDC Chairperson Kim Ayres said the organization is set to meet with potential investors soon, as it tries to makeup for the loss of city funding.
“We feel very positive that this is going to work out for us,” Ayres said. “There’s still a purpose for us.”
The MDC owed the city loan money, and both parties mutually agreed on a $45,000 settlement that has since been repaid to the city, according to MDC Executive Director Marianne Lods.
Vice Mayor Jim Quinn, who’s been an avid supporter of the Arts District for years, said he would remain supportive of the MDC in the future.
The vice mayor recalled what the downtown area was like in the late 1990s.
“This town was embarrassing in 1999,” Quinn said. “There was nothing here. This block was nothing. There were four people working the whole block.”
There are now around 150 businesses in the Arts District.
According to Lods, the vacancy rate within the Arts District was around 60 percent in 2000, and dropped to around 7 percent in 2008. The Arts District, like many other areas locally and nationwide, took a significant financial tumble that year at the Great Recession hit.
The vacancy rate in the Arts District now stands at around 15 percent.
“The taxpayers got a great bang for their buck,” Quinn said. “We were able to take that and make an almost five-time increase on taxes paid on this block from the 1990s until 2008. Marianne’s the reason Andrea (Trattoria Italiana) is here. She’s the reason El Guacamole is here, because she brought Andrea’s, and that’s their family that now has the Mexican restaurant.”
Quinn said attractions such as Bojo’s Ale House and the Levoy Theatre in recent years have helped establish a new base of loyal patrons, but admitted the area is still recovering from the economic downturn.
“We’ve done a good job,” Quinn said. “Has setback come a little bit because of 2008? You darn right it has.”
In the meantime, Lods has been seeking additional operating grants, corporate sponsors and fundraising ideas to help close the financial gap.
The MDC began the “Art Bar” last year as a fundraiser where the public attended painting sessions with local artists, while settling down with a meal and a beverage.
The Arts District launched the crowd-funding campaign “Tile the Town” this year, which raised more than $3,000 in less than a week, for local artists to paint ceramic tiles that will be hung from downtown businesses this summer.
“We’re off and running in a new direction,” Ayres said. “We’ll see how far we can take it.”
Chris Torres; (856) 563-5264; ctorres@thedailyjournal.com
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Man dead in accident at Safeway Fresh Foods
Drugs, weapons finds keep Bridgeton man in jail
Affidavit: Woman meant to scare, not kill, man
Probation, suspended jail term for ex-officer
Retired Vineland principal honored as "Hero"
VHS fundraiser to benefit earthquake victims
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iPhone SE 2 Reportedly Launching Early 2020
iPhone 8 body with iPhone 11 power
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All you iPhone SE fans could soon be facing a critical question about your favorite Apple phone. Was it the compact 4-inch screen size that drew you to the iPhone SE? Or was it the phone's $400 price tag?
That issue could come to a head as soon as early next year, when Apple will reportedly release a successor to the much loved iPhone SE. But according to a new rumor, this version would feature a slightly larger screen while potentially coming in at the same price that Apple introduced the iPhone SE at in 2016.
The latest word on Apple's iPhone SE plans comes from analyst Ming Chi-Kuo, who's built a reputation for figuring out what Apple has coming down its product pipeline. In his new report, found at 9to5Mac, Kuo says to expect the iPhone SE 2 at some point during the first three months of 2020.
This would not be your classic iPhone SE, though. According to Kuo's report, Apple would instead adopt the design of the iPhone 8. That means a 4.7-inch screen surrounded by bezels on the top and bottom of the display. iPhone SE fans are familiar with that latter design approach, but the larger screen size may take some getting used to.
iPhone 11 vs iPhone 11 Pro vs iPhone 11 Pro Max: What should you buy?
What's reportedly inside the larger iPhone SE may ease concerns about a slightly bigger phone. Kuo says that the iPhone SE 2 would run on Apple's A13 Bionic processor — the same chipset you'll inside the new iPhone 11 lineup.
That would be consistent with how Apple approached the original iPhone SE. That device appropriated the iPhone 5's design, while turning to then-current A9 chip as its processor. Apple cut corners in other areas with the original SE, going with older cameras. Kuo doesn't say if that will be the case this time, but it seems like a safe bet.
Kuo's report doesn't say how much Apple would charge for a midrange iPhone, but there's plenty of speculation that the price would be around the same $399 mark where the original iPhone SE debuted. (Apple eventually cut the starting price to $349.) For what it's worth, the cheapest iPhone currently available at Apple is the aforementioned iPhone 8, which you can get for $449.
Rumors of an iPhone SE 2 have been percolating for years, as the compact smartphone still has a devoted following among users who haven't really gotten behind the iPhone's move toward larger displays. Kuo's report mirrors a lot of what Nikkei claimed in a report last month, including the device's 4.7-inch screen size and the presence of an A13 processor. In fact, rumors of a larger iPhone SE date date back to last spring, with that report promising a March 2020 ship date for the new model. But a report backed by someone with Kuo's reputation makes an iPhone SE 2 seem all the more likely.
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Basic Particle System and Sprite Emitter
See the Basic Particle Setup that Jean-Loïc added to his scene from the Node Library and modified. Learn some of the basic parameters of the Sprite Emitter for generating particles.
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1. Introduction and Node View — 5m
2. Basic Particle System and Sprite Emitter — 4m
3. Move and Kill Nodes — 2m
4. Sprite Emitter Rendering — 5m
5. Planar Region — 4m
6. Gravity Based Particle System — 5m
7. Baker and Composite — 4m
8. Gravity and Sink — 5m
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Hi, it's Jean-Loic Fontaine again for the second video of the particle system tutorial, and we're going to jump a bit more into the basic particle system. If you can see, I can drag one into my scene right now. By default, it will create just small particle systems like that, which pretty much looks like nothing. But with the good adjustment, you can turn it into something quite interesting. So I'll just delete that and jump into the basic particle system that I have here which is exactly the same thing as the one that just appear on the screen before with a bit of modification that I made in order to make it look better.
So for the scene, if you click on the small arrow here, you go into another layer of the Node View, which is the basic particle system. Okay, so the first thing you want to know about basic particle system is this node in here. It's the sprite emitter. If I turn it on, you can see right now that there's small dots that appear. The sprite emitter is a bit of a jack of all trade of particle. If you click on the little square here, you can open properties. This is the node that is responsible for generating all your particle and also managing all which is rendered. So if you see right now, when I open it on generation, you can see number of particle. This is the number of particle per frame that are going to be generated. Right now, it's set up to 40, so you can see that if I move the slider over here, there's way more particle systems that appear.
Here, there's the probability of generating any particle. By default, it is set to 100. I set it to 80. This view that at each frame, there is an 80% chance of generating 40 particles. If I will put zero, there won't be any particles generated. That is creating a bit of randomness, I feel, into a particle generation so I tend to always put it at on like 60 or 80 depending on the amount of particle I want.
There is also initial parameter. I haven't touched that. I am more using the 10th version of Harmony and initial parameter more than that. So I didn't use it for that example, but if you are curious about more what is do, always go in to the help and see it all, everything, each setting do. Here in the rendering, it's how the particles are visible on the screen. Right now, I set it render as dot, so you can see just bunch of white dots that doesn't look like anything, but it's really good in a view to see the exact effect of your particle system. Right now, I can see that there's crowding on the area. I'll come back after for the other properties and rendering.
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A Tennessee woman was denied a cake for a gay wedding. But she's applauding the baker
By: Jason Lamb
There are new details in a debate pitting religious freedom against discrimination, surrounding the question of whether a mid-state baker should have to make a cake for a gay couple's wedding.
NASHVILLE — There are new details in a debate pitting religious freedom against discrimination, surrounding the question of whether a Tennessee baker should have to make a cake for a gay couple's wedding.
Brandi Ray from Dickson County in Tennessee first posted a text conversation on the Hip Dickson Facebook page last weekend. In it, the owner of Susie's Sweets, baker Susie Dennison, tells Ray: "I truly wish you the best but after realizing that your union will be of the same sex, I cannot with my spiritual conviction and beliefs, do your cake!"
Since then, Ray says, someone else has offered to bake a wedding cake for her.
And she says she understands why the baker said no.
"I understand that beliefs are important to hold on to, and I applaud her for sticking to those," she said.
The U.S. Supreme Court stopped short of issuing a broad ruling on a similar case out of Colorado last year, leaving the possibility of a case like Ray's to head up to the court again.
But Ray says she has no plans of filing a lawsuit.
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How can you make the most of your postdoc years at Cambridge? What does a strategic postdoc look like? What could you be doing now to be more strategic, intentional and agentive during your time at Cambridge?
This workshop explores how to navigate the research landscape, how to think and act strategically, and how to develop mental and emotional discipline for coping with the demands of the competitive research environment. We will explore the career journeys of former postdocs and see that there’s no one recipe for success, but there are common ingredients. This workshop is for postdoctoral researchers who want to get to and be prepared for the next step in their careers, whether that’s within academia or beyond.
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1 Thu 21 Nov 2019 14:00 - 17:00 14:00 - 17:00 Postdoc Centre @ Biomedical Campus, Newman Library map Dr Steve Joy
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ABCNT is a Los Angeles based artist. His art has a voice and its message is very present. Creating street art is about a lot more than art. This is a visual protest. Read ABCNT’s Interview
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Masked Businessman
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Caressed Ronald Reagan.
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Location: Valencia @ 18th Street in San Francisco, Ca Artist: ABCNT.
Muffled Voices.
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Business Bandit Strikes Again.
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What Is Calendula? How Does It Benefit You? Swathi Handoo Hyderabd040-395603080 January 20, 2020
With bright yellow and happy flowers, calendula plants are difficult to miss. This marigold doppelganger treats chronic ailments while being an excellent aesthetic addition.
Calendula has proven anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiviral, antioxidant, analgesic, antiplaque, vulnerary, and astringent effects on your body. Read this article to know the ways this plant can benefit you.
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Calendula (Calendula officinalis) or pot marigold belongs to the Asteraceae family. It is closely related to field marigold, and its flowers share a close resemblance too (1).
The flowers and leaves of this plant have been used in traditional medicine. The medicinal properties of calendula have also been mentioned in Ayurvedic and Unani sciences. In 2008, the European Medicines Agency recognized it as an herbal medicinal product (2).
Folk medicine uses calendula leaves and flowers to treat wounds, rashes, bruises, stomach ulcers, edema, and several other inflammatory conditions. Its mother tincture is used in homeopathy to relieve mental tension and insomnia (1), (3).
The following sections will give you a detailed insight about calendula and its therapeutic benefits. Start scrolling!
Calendula is used to heal skin rashes, deep wounds, and ulcers. It can also reduce fever, microbial infections, menstrual irregularities, and varicose veins.
1. Heals Wounds, Burns, And Scars
Calendula contains alkaloids, triterpenoids, flavonoids, and carotenoids. These phytochemicals trap the free radicals in your body and accelerate the process of healing of wounds and burns (thermal and sun). The plant controls the levels of compounds that promote inflammation, including nitric oxide and cytokines (4).
Animal studies were conducted to study the effects of oral and topical use of calendula extracts. The percentage of wound closure was about 90% in the group treated with the extract. Almost no skin toxicity was reported in any of the studies (4), (5).
Calendula ointment can also be used by women who have undergone C-section (Cesarean procedure). It considerably speeds up recovery and can be used to support post-surgical care/treatment (6).
2. May Relieve Menstrual Discomfort
This flower was used to calm painful menstruation (dysmenorrhea) and menstrual irregularities in traditional and homeopathic medicine. Calendula oil, combined with other essential oils, is a common remedy (1), (7).
These oils prevent the transmission of nerve signals between the uterus and the brain. They also cause a transmission delay of the pain signal from the brain to the uterus.
Topical calendula lotions can help in controlling excessive menstrual bleeding and other related symptoms (7).
3. Treats Diaper Rashes
Diaper dermatitis or diaper rash is a common inflammatory reaction observed in infants, children, and adults wearing diapers. Painful skin eruptions occur in the areas covered by the diaper (8).
Not changing the diaper when needed and prolonged exposure to urine, feces, and moisture may cause this acute condition. Zinc deficiency and microbial infections may also lead to such rashes (8).
Generally, a mild cream/ointment or oral antibiotics can clear this allergy. Medications based on calendula and aloe vera have also shown promising results. These herbs have anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effects (8).
Moreover, no side effects of these herbal preparations have been reported so far (8).
4. May Help In Managing Inflammatory Skin Diseases
The tannins, triterpenoids, and saponins in calendula exert a deep-cleansing effect on your skin. When applied topically, its flower extracts may even heal acne and atopic dermatitis (eczema) (9), (10), (11).
Calendula also reduces radiodermatitis, which is skin damage caused by radiation. Radiodermatitis is one of the side effects of radiation therapy. Patients may develop redness (erythema) and skin toxicity (12).
Thanks to its antioxidant and astringent effects, this plant extract can reduce the levels of free radicals in your system. Using calendula cream/ointment with medical consent is a good option in such cases (9), (12).
However, in rare cases, calendula can induce contact dermatitis in these patients (13).
5. Maintains Dental Health
The antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties of this plant can be employed to treat dental issues as well. Periodontal disease, gingivitis, dental plaque, and other such inflammatory conditions turn chronic and painful in no time (14), (15).
You could use products with herbs like calendula, clove leaf, thyme, and eucalyptus to restore oral hygiene. These herbs can prevent the build-up of tartar and plaque on the teeth (14).
A mouthwash made of calendula extract significantly reduced gingivitis. Its active molecules could fight throat infections too. This plant extract can treat canker sores, aphthous ulcers (stomatitis), and sore throat (15).
Calendula has almost no side effects if orally consumed. It can be added as a component in candies, beverages, dental chew, toothpaste, lozenges, and whitening molds for better results (14).
6. Reduces Pain And Inflammation
Calendula inhibits the production of pain-inducing chemicals (prostaglandins) in your body. Animal studies show a 33% reduction in swelling/edema when treated with 250 mg/kg of its extract (16).
The plant prevents the release of histamines, which are chemicals known to cause redness, pain, allergies, and inflammation. The flavonoids, saponins, and triterpenoids in calendula are responsible for this property (17).
Different calendula formulations are used to treat women who underwent episiotomy during labor. Muscle spasms and injury can also be managed with them (16), (17).
You can apply calendula ointment/lotion/tincture to heal hemorrhoids. It may even control the severity and pain in the affected areas to a certain extent (18).
Rosacea is another skin condition you can treat with calendula flower extracts. The phytochemicals clear the eruptions and redness of the skin (10).
The anti-inflammatory, cleansing/astringent, antioxidant, and pain-relieving properties of calendula are responsible for these effects (1).
Pot marigold flowers are colorful and vibrant. Their extracts are often used to color food products.
You can grow calendula at home too. All you need is good sunlight, ventilation, shade, a pot/patch of fertile soil, and moderate amounts of water. Once it germinates and establishes, calendula happily self-sows!
7. May Fight Cancer
Calendula can be a strong candidate for cancer treatment and palliative care in alternative medicine. Its phytochemicals have cytotoxic (cell-killing) effects on human cancer cells (3), (19).
The roots and flower extracts have shown positive effects on skin cancer (melanoma), breast cancer, and leukemia cells. The active molecules have been identified to be polysaccharides, proteins, fatty acids, carotenoids, flavonoids, triterpenoids, and saponins (3), (20).
These molecules inhibit the cell division in cancer cells to prevent metastasis (spreading). Calendula also induces programmed cell death (apoptosis) in these cells to ensure 100% growth inhibition (20).
8. Exhibits Anti-HIV Effects
This flower extract has antiviral properties. Researchers have recognized/identified anti-HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) activity, in particular. In a study, about 90% of the target cells were protected from HIV infection in the presence of 10-30 mcg/mL of calendula flower extract (21)
The flavonols in the flowers block the initial-stage interactions between viruses and cells. The extract inactivates several HIV proteins, even when present in small concentrations (21).
Calendula prevents the activity of a crucial viral protein called reverse transcriptase (RT). The RT enzyme allows HIV to survive in human host cells, thereby causing AIDS (21).
Further research would help isolate the principle molecules behind this property (21).
Lab experiments and chemical analyses have revealed a unique biochemical profile of this plant. We will explore that in the following section.
Calendula officinalis contains high amounts of triterpenes, flavonoids, carotenoids, phenolic acids, fatty acids, sterols, tannins, quinones, and carbohydrates (1), (22).
Triterpenes glycosides/Monoterpenes/conjugated terpenes Calendulaglycoside A, B, CD, F, G. Esters like taraxasterol, faradiol, heliantriol, arnidiol, lupeol, calenduladiol, ursadiol, brein, amyrin, maniladiol, erythrodiol; limonene, cineol
Flavonoids Quercetin, kaempferol, isorhamnetin, rutin, astragalin, isoquercitrin
Carotenoids Lutein, zeaxanthin, flavoxanthin, auroxanthin, ß-carotene, luteoxnathin, violaxanthin, ß-cryptoxanthin, mutaxanthin
Phenolic acids/Fatty acids Chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, coumaric acid, vanillic acid, linoleic acid, calendic acid
Quinones 𝛼-tocopherol, phylloquinone
Volatile oils 𝛼-copaene, 𝛼-ionone, 𝛼-humulene, geranylacetone, β-ionone, ledene, 𝛼-murolene, 𝛼-cadinene, 𝛼-calacorene, viridiflorol, ledol, limonene, 𝛼-cadinol and cadalene
These phytochemicals enhance the therapeutic value of calendula flower heads. Using them in the right way and amount will put the molecules to action.
Is there a recommended way of using calendula? Scroll down to know.
A recommended dose for calendula has not been framed yet.
However, a 2%-5% calendula ointment can be applied topically to heal wounds. If using a tincture (1:9 in 20% alcohol), 2-4 ml per ¼-½ cup of water can be taken three times a day (22).
Another option could be using 1-2 g of Calendula powder per cup of water (22).
Depending on the condition/ailment, this herbal medicine can be taken in different/multiple ways. The most suitable dose and mode of administration have to be decided by your healthcare provider.
Avoid self-medication.
Calendula may induce acute adverse effects in certain individuals. Find more on this in the next section.
If you are allergic to plants from the Asteraceae family, calendula may trigger a cross-reaction/hypersensitivity in your body. Keep your doctor informed of such symptoms (22).
There is a >1% chance of developing contact dermatitis if you have frequent skin contact with this herbal preparation (22).
Also, you may be advised against using calendula products if you are on tranquilizers (23).
No herb-drug interactions have been reported with this plant yet (24).
The safety of calendula products in pregnant and lactating women is not clear yet. There is insufficient data to establish dosage in these cases (24).
Calendula is used as an herbal remedy to treat wounds, skin burns, microbial infections, and menstrual issues. It has carved its niche in traditional, folk, naturopathic, and homeopathic medical regimens.
Its flower heads have abundant active molecules that give you these health benefits. Moreover, it is safe to be used orally or topically.
Discuss calendula with your doctor and understand its usage and dosage.
Until next time, happy healing!
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This would move lapped cars, like Hunter-Reay, out of the way and to the back of the field once the race got going again. There would be two laps of a straight fight for the win.
After a lap behind the safety car, the field was set free to race with two laps to go. Rahal was leadind, followed by Newgarden, Power, and Sato. Rahal instantly pulled out an almost two second gap over Newgarden and held on for the win.
While the decision to red flag the race took away the gap that Rahal worked for, it was the right thing to. IndyCar made sure the fans got to see a race that ended with racing, rather than under a yellow flag. It's not always possible to do this when a safety car comes out so close to the end, but kudos to IndyCar for making it happen. It was good for the fans. It was good for the drivers. It was good for IndyCar.
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Nobel Prize Winning Economist Blasts America’s ‘Rent-Seeking’ Economy
March 10, 2017 This article was posted by TLB Staff COMMENTARY, FINANCIAL, FREEDOM 1
by Michael Krieger
I’m really grateful Angus Deaton was willing to come out and state the obvious. That is, the fact this economy isn’t what we’ve been told. In reality, it’s largely a rent-seeking based system, in which a meaningful percentage of the people who earn the most money are not only not adding value to society, they’re in fact parasites feeding off the general public.
Market Watch reports:
Income inequality is not killing capitalism in the United States, but rent-seekers like the banking and the health-care sectors just might, said Nobel-winning economist Angus Deaton on Monday.
If an entrepreneur invents something on the order of another Facebook, Deaton said he has no problem with that person becoming wealthy.
“What is not OK is for rent-seekers to get rich,” Deaton said in a luncheon speech to the National Association for Business Economics.
Rent seekers lobby and persuade governments to give them special favors.
Bankers during the financial crisis, and much of the health-care system, are two prime examples, Deaton said.
Rent-seeking not only does not generate new product, it actually slows down economic growth, Deaton said.
“All that talent is devoted to stealing things, instead of making things,” he said.
Another prime example of rent-seeking is that the Medicaid is funding opioid prescriptions for low-income workers, Deaton said. The results are workers who are becoming addicted and overdosing while profits are going to the Sacker family which owns Purdue Pharma that makes OxyContin.
But Jeff Sessions swears it’s all the fault of the evil marijuana.
Deaton said he favors a single-payer health system only because our current part-private and part-public system is exquisitely designed to give opportunities for rent-seeking.
“So I, who do not believe in socialized health-care, would advocate a single-payment system…because it will get this monster that we’ve created out of the economy and allow the rest of capitalism to flourish without the awful things that healthcare is doing to us,” he said.
Raising taxes on the wealthy is not a good way to combat rent-seeking because it taxes the legitimate profits of entrepreneurs along with rent-seekers.
“The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption legal and illegal and build fairer, more equal society without compromising innovation or entrepreneurship,” he said.
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Don’t call the Exploiters “rent seekers” or “Investors”; call them what they really are: The Blood Suckering Elite Parasites and tax the Hell out of them.
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Administrative Partner
and Practice Development
Partner Tony Haines
Wenn Townsend were established in 1876 and have
benefitted from the vast experience accrued over this
impressive stretch of time. Operating as a general
accountancy practice, they serve a varied range of clients, some
of whom they have been working with for over 100 years.
Currently based in Oxford with additional offices in Abingdon
and Cirencester, they have combined their historical pedigree
with technological advancements to deliver the best service
for their customers. Oxford Practice Development Partner
Tony Haines elaborates on this illustrious history and shares his
thoughts on what the future will bring.
Our partnership was established in 1876 by Arthur Preston in Abingdon, and we
have now been providing accountancy services for over 140 years. To put this into
perspective, the Institute of Chartered Accountants was established four years later,
with Arthur Preston personally involved in its conception. Throughout our long and
accomplished history, we have always adhered to our central principle of providing
our clients with the highest level of care and commitment. We strive to be proactive
and efficient when dealing with the varied needs of the businesses we work with,
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We are a multidisciplinary accountancy practice offering a varied range of services
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clients for over a hundred years.
Our partner-led approach allows us to promote personal contact between ourselves
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The challenges of new
The key piece of legislation that will
affect the accountancy sector is the
upcoming implementation of the
Making Tax Digital programme. Before
this programme is instituted, we are
educating all the businesses we work
with on their new obligations and
requirements. They rely on us to inform
them of all developments within the
sector. Most are ill prepared for these
changes, so this new legislation has
significantly increased our workload.
Alongside personal meetings, we
have recently designed a simple but
effective flowchart, which we have
sent out to our clients. This increases
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to inform our customers of these
upcoming changes and includes all the
information they require. This includes
whether their software programs are
compatible with MTD, as well as a
section on how we can assist them
in becoming compliant. Our clients
expect us to be proactive rather than
reactive, so these measures are vital
to keep ahead of sector changes. Our
outsourced bookkeeping department
is experienced in the transfer of paper
records onto computerised systems.
Alternatively, clients can transfer their
entire bookkeeping functions to us
and we can implement these changes
in-house. MTD will also change the
frequency with which we have to
submit the records of our clients.
Clearly, the biggest issue that our
sector, and indeed all sectors, must face
is the uncertainty that surrounds Brexit
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of the form that Brexit will take, and
this type of uncertainty is very difficult
to navigate. This issue is clearly more
pronounced for our overseas clients,
and one of the largest companies that
we work with have recently contacted
us to ask for advice. Crashing out
without a deal would be catastrophic
for many of our customers.
To try to prepare our customers as well
as we can, we advise that they draw
up plans for every possible outcome.
While this may be expensive and time-
consuming, it is a far better alternative
than being left unprepared. This
preparation includes potential software
changes and more general anticipatory
measures. Much like our preparations
for MTD, it is crucial that we are
proactive rather than reactive, and this
type of active service helps to reassure
Our ability to plan for the future is
significantly impacted by this uncertainty.
Although we are devising multiple
different short-term plans for coping
with various Brexit scenarios, longer-
term planning is becoming increasingly
difficult. Whatever the outcome, we
know we will be operating in a changed
business environment. Leaving an
economic group that we have been
associated for such a long period of
time will always lead to new challenges.
Having been continuously operating for
over 140 years, we are not inexperienced
with navigating a changing business
landscape. We will continue to adhere to
our founding principles while adapting
to any new challenges that may arise,
and we are confident that we will be a
fixture of the accountancy profession
for many more years to come.
A team meeting at
the Oxford office
expect us to be
proactive rather
than reactive, so
these measures
are vital to keep
ahead of sector
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How Obama emboldened terrorists in Israel, PLUS: Streep’s disability double standard
Tiffany GabbayRebel Staff
Tonight, on the heels of the Obama administration’s betrayal at the UN, terrorism hits Israel once more.
PLUS: Hollywood leftists are back again to denounce — not ISIS or slain police officers or tortured disabled kids – but Donald Trump.
My guest is former NYPD officer turned broadcaster John Cardillo.
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Peter Toth commented 2017-01-13 19:04:48 -0500
What Obama did to Israel is unforgivable, but it is done. What he will do with the upcoming vote in France, where he will vote to destroy Israel, is clearly what Obama has been working for all these years. Fortunately Donald Trump will have none of that, and the UN will be disbanded soon afterwards. Unfortunately we have a feckless and inept Prime Minister in Canada, who is a complete puppet of radical Islam. So no help will be coming from Canada, at least until we kick the Liberals out of office in 3 years.
Space Moose commented 2017-01-12 02:15:01 -0500
Tiffany said that drivel about Hitler on one of her shows.
It is a good thing that Tiffany does not represent all Jews.
Anonymous try going there yourself and see reality.
Lee Horsman commented 2017-01-11 21:26:08 -0500
Glenn Craig, “Don’t be afraid to see what you see” is a direct quote from Ronald Reagan’s farewell speech as President.
Peter Netterville, don’t hold your breath.
I was interested in the comment about the 1956 fatwas against Israel by Egyptian Al Azhar. I am currently reading a book by islamophile Keith Kyle about the Suez crisis of 1956, where the Brits, French and Israelis warned it was a bigger crisis than a canal, which he belittles. Seems they were correct.
Deborah Graupner commented 2017-01-11 10:04:02 -0500
Kerry is looking and acting more like the demon that he is! Lecturing a free and democratic country like Israel. I can’t wait until the Lord wipes him off the face of the earth.
BILL ELDER
Obama , Kerry , Biden and others will form a opposition mock government that the LUGENPRESSE press will report on tv every day
They’ll wait a little while of course
Good one TIFFANY
I have watched all of Tiffany’s videos and I cannot remember a time she said “that Hitler would not have killed the Jews had it not been for some Muslim influencing Hitler.”
I admit that it may just be my memory, so would you be so kind and post a link to where she said that, please?
Shebel Raj said, “I don’t under stand how Israel can be Jewish and embrace Democracy at the same time. Honest to God— I thought that is what they are doing.”
Shebel, would you explain to me how you came to this decision?
Let me be more specific in my question: Why cannot Israel be democratic and Jewish at the same time? What is it that would hinder such an occurrence?
I don’t trust Tiffany on how evil the Palestinians are. Don’t forget, Tiffany thinks that Hitler would not have killed the Jews had it not been for some Muslim influencing Hitler.
Tiffany logic: Hitler is not that bad, but the Muslims are responsible for the Holocaust.
Rod Bach commented 2017-01-11 02:53:48 -0500
What will be next for the snake Kerry? How can this man do more damage?
Well Kerry you look like a wimpy Frankenstein monster and are still married to an actual woman. Which is much harder to believe than being Jewish and a Democracy.
Rae Fraser commented 2017-01-10 23:53:20 -0500
Israel- Might be at Peace if they did not have to contend with a Moronic Piece of Shit—- like YOU
John Kerry.
Bill Elder commented 2017-01-10 23:14:43 -0500
I have to keep reminding people who are flipping out over Obama’s 11th hour sabotage – relax, a year from now it will be like he never existed – Americans will be too busy working and deciding what to do with their new disposable income to give a damn.
Paul McCullough commented 2017-01-10 22:51:46 -0500
- Obama & his administration are going to do as much damage as they can on the way out. Hollywood elite are basically just globalist elite for the most part. They live in a bubble.
I don’t under stand how Israel can be Jewish and embrace Democracy at the same time.
Honest to God— I thought that is what they are doing.
Everybody that favours the of Israel——
Is attempting to Understand.
Glenn Craig commented 2017-01-10 22:08:37 -0500
“Don’t be afraid to see what you see”….Tiffany…are you Jewish or are you buddhist?
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New M&M’s flavours debut at Toronto Union Station pop-up
By Serena WilloughbyToronto Star
Mon., April 22, 2019timer2 min. read
While it’s true that there is no accounting for taste, sometimes, irrationally, you just want others to like what you like.
Take the new flavours from M&M’s.
From April 22 to May 10 they’re offering Mexican Jalapeño Peanut, English Toffee Peanut and Thai Coconut Peanut in stores and at a pop-up at Union Station.
We tried them at the office and, sure enough, battle lines were drawn.
I enjoyed the Thai Coconut Peanut. It had a nice coconut taste that gave way to lemongrass and Thai curry flavour on the finish. But many found the coconut flavours off-putting and many just plain don’t like coconut. How can you not like coconut? I found some kindred spirits who joined me on Team Coconut, and have the utmost respect for their obviously superior palates.
The jalapeño flavour was definitely a fan favourite. The sweetness of the chocolate and peanut gave way to a pop of jalapeño that lingered on the finish. Some wondered if they’d be able to eat a whole bag because the heat might become overpowering. While I’m a fan of chocolate and heat together, I felt the combination was just a bit obvious.
There was a very strong reaction to the English Toffee. Many found it too sweet. The toffee was overpowering. One person suggested that since M&M’s already has a caramel flavour, toffee was perhaps a bit redundant. But nevertheless, some championed the toffee and I’m trying hard not to judge.
Many people agreed that the flavours were as billed, they weren’t manufactured or artificial tasting — they were true to what they purported to be.
M&M’s Flavour Vote first launched in the U.S. in 2016 and the program expanded to Canada in 2018.
Last year’s Flavour Vote focused on three crunchy flavours: crunchy raspberry, mint and espresso. Crunchy mint was the winner.
This year, M&M’s took an international approach to the Flavour Vote after finding trends that suggested Canadians want to try bolder, unexpected flavours.
You can vote online at flavourvote.mms.com/home or on social media using #VoteMexicanJalapeno, #VoteEnglishToffee and #VoteThaiCoconut.
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Guns for Beginners
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Gender Reveal Announcements With a Bang – Some Turn Dangerous, Even Deadly
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(U.S. Forest Service via AP)
Some people feel the need to make a big production out of announcing the sex of their impending bundle of joy with as much fanfare as possible. Many concoct elaborate ceremonies that don’t always work out so well.
As we’ve noted in the past, you can now buy Tannerite-like explosives that go boom in either pink or blue when you shoot them.
Chris Heuss for TTAG
Just be careful, because one guy started a hell of a fire with one of these and it cost him an awful lot of money as a result.
Of course, it could always be worse . . .
By Grant Schulte, Associated Press
It was supposed to be a happy moment, a chance to declare the sex of a soon-to-be-born baby with a blast of color and burst of attention on social media.
But the gender reveal party explosion that killed an Iowa woman this weekend highlights the extreme lengths some families go to advertise on social media that they’re expecting a boy or a girl.
Gender reveal parties have grown increasingly popular and elaborate, with smoke, confetti or colored treats to symbolize the soon-to-be-born child’s biological sex. But what began as a lighthearted, intimate gathering with family and close friends has morphed into a spectacle with guns, explosives and wild animals to maximize shock value — with sometimes dangerous consequences.
“There’s this huge pressure to publicize these once-private moments,” said Carly Gieseler, an associate professor at the City University of New York’s York College, who has studied the rise of gender-reveal parties. “You get that outside validation that what you did was unique, that it was extra special. It drives celebrations to the extreme because you’re trying to do the thing that no one’s done before.”
Gieseler said the number of gender reveal parties has risen over the last decade but speculated that the recent string of accidents could cause it to decline.
The homemade explosive that killed 56-year-old Pamela Kreimeyer in Knoxville, Iowa, on Saturday was just the latest example. The device was meant to spray colorful powder into the air, but instead exploded like a pipe bomb. Kreimeyer, who was standing 45 feet away, died instantly when a piece of debris struck her head.
Two years ago, an off-duty Border Patrol agent accidentally started a 47,000-acre wildfire in southern Arizona when he shot a target filled with an explosive powder and blue coloring to signal that he was expecting a son. Agent Dennis Dickey was charged with a misdemeanor and sentenced to probation for triggering the fire, which caused more than $8 million in damage.
In Australia, a car that spewed blue smoke to announce the arrival of a boy burst into flames last year, forcing the driver and passengers to abandon it.
And in separate instances over the last two years, couples announced their child’s sex by putting items into the mouths of their pet alligators — a watermelon filled with blue Jell-O in Louisiana and a pink-powder-filled balloon in Florida.
The use of homemade explosives is particularly concerning to fire officials, who worry about one-upmanship and copycats.
“These explosives are very unpredictable,” said Ron Humphrey, a special agent in charge of the Iowa State Fire Marshal Division. “You can set 10 off and get 10 different results. If we can get any message across to people, it’s to tell them simply not to do it.”
Just one day after the deadly Knoxville explosion, authorities in nearby Waukee, Iowa, received multiple calls about a blast outside of town. No one was injured, but the shockwave from the commercially available “gender reveal kit” rattled homes as far as 2 miles away. Waukee Fire Department Captain Tomme Tysdal said one neighbor complained about broken windows.
Event planners say they’ve seen an increase in formal gender reveal parties in recent years. Most draw between 30 and 50 people, and some couples even rent event halls for their announcement, said Bonnie Rosa-Mosena, a Des Moines-area wedding and event planner.
“It’s not enough just to have grandma and grandpa there,” she said. “They want all of their friends. It’s a big party.”
Rosa-Mosena said one of her client couples used a confetti cannon for their gender reveal party, but guests stood far away when it was fired. Another client revealed the baby’s gender while skydiving with a blue aerial flare, signaling a boy.
Gender reveal parties have been a social media staple since 2008, when an expectant mother, Jenna Karvunidis, posted a blog item on a parenting website about a family barbeque where she had baked a cake with pink icing inside to reveal that she was having a daughter.
The story was picked up by The Bump, a pregnancy magazine, and placed in OB-GYN offices throughout the country. It quickly spread online.
Karvunidis said she was horrified to see her idea co-opted with dangerous activities, and she chose not to have any ceremony when she was pregnant with her younger daughters.
“The whole thing is just absolutely insane,” said Karvunidis, now a law student in Los Angeles.
Even so, shooting an exploding target for a gender reveal party appealed to Jon Sterkel, the owner of a tree care business in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Sterkel’s celebration in 2017 drew international media attention, but authorities ticketed him for detonating the kit without a state permit. Sterkel apologized, saying he didn’t realize he needed one, and prosecutors dropped the citation.
Sterkel said he and his wife bought the target because they had shot similar explosives in the past with proper safety precautions. They named their son Wesson, after the gunmaker Smith & Wesson.
“It’s just an everyday thing out here,” said Sterkel, who lives 20 miles from the Wyoming border. “We’re just a bunch of rednecks who love hunting and shooting, and we thought this was going to be pretty unique way to do it. If it’s done in the right way, in the right environment, then it’s totally enjoyable.”
NORDNEG says:
The problem is the pea brains out there trying to outdo what they’ve seen on tv,,, most of the time it’s the copycats that gets it wrong & then everyone pays for it with new laws because of the local idiots… wait & see, they will soon ban or severely restrict Tannerite type materials…
Porridgeweasel says:
I bet you are right Nord. Where I live, two idiots had grass fires that got out of control during a drought. One was a charcoal grill left outside in the brown, dry grass that had the bottom filter left open and the other was a guy using military smoke grenades to flush out gophers.
End result? We are now supposed to call the village and get permission to have a fire on our own property in our own fire pits. FFS! 15 years of everything being fine and two twits screw the entire community.
neiowa says:
Don’t hyperventilate Nancy. In MANY/most areas you are required to NOTIFY the 911 center/PSAP that you are going to burn. The reason being, that your ditch/trash/brush fire results in every moron driving by with a cellphone calling 911 to report the fire (then credits themselves with a gold star for civic service/did something). On a busy road may be dozens of calls. They never actually STOP to DO anything. The Vol FD then has to drop their lives in order to respond to a nothing BS call. If it conditions are such that only a moron would be burning, the Fire Chief IS going to tell you that only a moron would be burning. If you do anyhow and burn down your neighbors house you ARE going to have a BIG problem.
Jim Morgan says:
None of the aforementioned incidents used Tannerite, you are being fed “Fake News” eat up, you seem to enjoy it…
Gadsden Flag says:
I don’t get it. Even though we could have known we didn’t “gender reveal” until we were in the delivery room. As for the explosives. They’re dangerous. I used C-4 and TNT when Uncle Sam gave them to me. As well as the odd hand grenade. Great fun, but not for the uneducated. We use Tannerite on the farm to take out the occasional beaver dam/lodge. We shoot it from as far away as possible.
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NJ2AZ says:
Elaborate gender reveals are stupid. The “look at me” generation in full bloom.
When my spawn were still in the oven, we just told people what they were after the ultrasounds.
LifeSavor says:
Yes, full-tilt narcissism.
I Haz A Question says:
I never wanted to know our kids’ genders until they were born (old school, like God intended, I guess you could say). But the first child was a slip-up on the part of the OBGYN ultrasound technician who assumed we wanted to know, and the second was because my wife insisted she wanted to know. So I never got my wish to be surprised.
That OBGYN office, by the way, was sued later by another couple who bought all “boy” related things for their baby room, including wall paint, clothes, baby showers, etc. Then their child turned out to be a girl. They sued for financial damages and won.
I’m surprised one can sue over that. When we were told, they said it wasn’t a guarantee.
I respect people who want the surprised, but dang it’s not for me. I had infrastructure to purchase! 😂
Calm down. I don’t think there’s anything wrong in wanting to share the joy of a new addition to the family.
Share joy, yes.
Plan some big elaborate reveal of something completely common….pass 🤔
No one of consequence says:
Sure there is, if you’re among the people upon whom the sharing is forced but don’t want to be.
Like, say, neighbors to a far-too-large Tannerite (or similar) detonation.
Mike V says:
Forty five feet, c’mon really? People use Tannerite to playfully disassemble cars…from hundreds of yards away. I don’t even like shooting steel plates less than twenty five yards away, let alone something like this.
Last time my buddies and I went to the desert to shoot, we set up the usual AR500 targets 75 yds out, but placed one about 50ft from the line for handgun. One of the rounds ricocheted and grazed one of the guys along his cheek, and we determined that all steel targets from then on would always be set a minimum of 100 ft out.
Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR says:
“Forty five feet, c’mon really? People use Tannerite to playfully disassemble cars…from hundreds of yards away.”
(Kinda a shame the truck missed, eh?)
Like somebody commented at the time – “You could practically smell the feces…”
Rusty - Molon Labe - Chains says:
What ever happened to that guy…..assuming he didn’t blow himself up.
Jerms says:
Not sure how involved he actually was but the owner of the store that sponsored all this mustve been into some shady stuff. Ended up murdered under mysterious circumstances
TickTalk says:
The gin shop owner was part of the show, some kind of producer, and was the gu th who had the licenses to get the stuff used on the show.. the atf tried to get the main guy, Myers? Because they didn’t like the explosives used. Even though they were legally obtained and used under some kind of pyrotechnic or special effects licenses.. same thing Hollywood uses.. years later they tried again, searching everything, and ‘found’ like a tiny amount of hash oil residue… so of course guy loses all weapons
Silentbrick says:
Much as I hate all the gender talk, I want to point something out. My wife mentioned this to me and I feel its an important point to make.
Dads. Don’t forget your daughters. My wife lamented the fact her family never taught her. My daughter will learn pretty much the same stuff her brother does. How to use tools, how to use guns, bows, how to ride horses, how to cook, how to change a tire, etc.
I know many here do take their daughters shooting and hunting, but let’s try to get that to all of them that want to. I doubt I’ll ever get my wife to go hunting, but she does like the end result. The more we can spread this via our families and friends, the more we can hold onto what makes us Americans.
(Both my kids were born here in Texas, so I’m not sure how to teach them the proper Appalachian ability to hold grudges across multiple generations:p)
That is good parenting and good advice.
Dani in WA says:
It’s a precious parenting moment when your 10yo daughter proudly holds up a Barbie doll and exclaims “I got her right between the eyes!”
(Crickett .22lr, 10 yds, iron peep sight)
I *laughed*.
There’s one momma who won’t worry if daughter’s boyfriend tries to go too far… 😉
Did the Appleseed thing with my daughter with a new to her 10/22.
She picked out the colorful laminated stock for it that we put on it a few years later and I really enjoyed telling her it had arrived when I was picking her and the “boyfriend” up from school. She was enthusiastic and he had this look on his face like, yikes!
The Crimson Pirate says:
You think it’s bad when people don’t teach their daughters to shoot and hunt and fish stuff? I know a guy who had to teach his wife to cook, clean, and do laundry. I asked the lady how did she not learn that stuff, because my mom made sure my brother and I knew how to do all that too. She told me her mom would try to teach them, get frustrated that they weren’t doing it to her standards yet, and then just do it herself. Eventually their mom stopped trying to teach them. Neither this lady nor her brother knew how to do almost anything useful until they got married and their spouses taught both of them.
edward kenway's ghost says:
It’s a common problem.
Kids can go to the gym for two hours but can’t take five minutes out of their day to take out the trash. Worse still, they get a driver’s license and have zero ambition to learn how to fill the damned gas tank or change a tire. Forty years ago there were no cell phones or computers hooked up to an Internet to distract people, but I lay a lot of the blame on parents and zero personal incentive to learn or be independent.
DDay says:
Why can’t people just say we’re having a boy or girl? These reveal parties with their events are stupid.
Guesty McGuesterson says:
It’s a modern day wife/soi boi thing.
Napresto says:
Everybody seems to think they’re a media conglomerate these days. Of course in actuality, they’re just narcissistic Instagram addicts who derive meaning in life from forcing themselves into the limelight as often and as pathetically as possible. It used to be that we talked about how great it was that the Internet and WWW let “anyone become a publisher!” Honestly, though, I’m losing my faith… for every instance of modern media letting something truly amazing break through into the public sphere, there are about a thousand examples of self-absorbed idiots spouting off, cancelling others, typing illiterate screeds, or otherwise wasting our time and energy on trivial, inconsiderate garbage.
Inconsiderate: like, for example, setting off explosives near your friends, family, and uninvited neighbors who must really enjoy the noise.
Announcing that your kid is a boy or girl or toaster or whatever isn’t amazing, it’s completely and totally ordinary. It’s boring, actually, and the clue is that you had to use EXPLOSIVES to make people care about it.
Danny Griffin says:
“There’s this huge pressure to publicize these once-private moments”
Really? Who is exerting all this pressure? Is threat of violence involved?
Joatmon says:
Pressure comes from social media sites like FB, Twitter and Instagram. People seem to want as many views, likes and whatever else they can get.
Pure neediness IMO.
Narcissism, in my opinion.
I’ve never had or needed a FarceBook or MySpace account but some people feel their whole lives revolve around posting their lives or hobbies to the world. Personally, outside your sphere of friends no one really has a need to know what you’re eating for lunch.
Back in the day when an idiot chewed on blasting caps, ate Tide pods, or played with Tannerite it was never a media event. Now it’s an Idiocracy and tech makes the dissemination of stupidity universally available for consumption.
WI Patriot says:
I hope these people use better judgement when raising their child(ren), or we’re all in trouble…
Specialist38 says:
We’re in trouble.
Dale Menard says:
Better stick to cakes people.
Cknarf says:
Gender reveals are for people who name their kids stuff like Aschleigh and Braxlyn.
RCC says:
So many fails:-
Steel container not cardboard or plastic like fireworks displays use.
Way to close – from memory 200 metres was dangerously close with 81 mm mortars, about the same explosives content of multiple tanerite. Once at range for a TOT shoot we had shrapnel go over 500 metres not feet.
The me too I need it now on Facebook likes etc. As above we found out sex in the delivery room even 25 years ago. My niece this year told her mother and us about 6 weeks before it’s a boy. Not the whole world.
Accur81 says:
Look at all the safety nannies come out! Just shoot tannerite from a safe distance and a reasonable amount. Want to blow something up with a heavy load? Check downrange 360 and shoot it at 1/4 or 1/2 a mile. Don’t start big fires in a desert. I love fun things like 650 hp plus cars, ARs with 100 round mags, full auto machine guns, smoky scotch, tannerite, crossbows, scuba diving, motorcycles, and the occasional dare. If you aren’t an idiot, you can have a lot of fun.
Wood says:
Half he people out there are below average intelligence. That’s an awful lot of potential idiocy…
UpInArms says:
Not in Lake Wobegon.
…but the women are strong and the sheep are scared. Or something like that…
former water walker says:
While I think spending lots of dough on “gender reveal” is silly at least it’s pro-baby and pro-life. I sorta wanted a daughter but ended up with 4 sons and 3 granddaughters. As far as I KNOW…are the 4 Rules applicable for tannerite?😄
Jay in Florida says:
While Im a bit to old to be a daddy willfully anyway.
It sure takes a pea brain to use 2 pounds of an explosive to say Its a Boy!!!!
Im also not at all surprised to have read about some women being killed at one of these parties.
What ever happened to sending out a card for a birth announcement??
Or an email as Id expect today instead.
Gov. William J Le Petomane says:
Serves them right for assuming the child’s gender. In fact, who are they do assume it’s even a child? It’s really more of a choice than a human…
RGP says:
Whatever happened to something old fashioned, like “It’s… it’s… it’s… an Addams!” – Gomez Addams, Addams Family Values.
Sam Hill says:
Can not be said better than Mr. James White. “You can have plastic surgery to fix ugly, take pills to fix fat, but, you can not fix stupid! “
Jablome says:
…a fact you prove day in and day out.
Ron. Ron White.
Sven79 says:
Tannerite is getting a bad rap. I think the problem is that some people are using other brands, or mixing it up with other substances. Tannerite used to say that it doesn’t start fires if used as directed. I think they’ve since backed away from that, and now say that it isn’t designed to start fires, or something like that.
In my experience, it doesn’t come closer to starting a fire, even when placed inside a flammable plush figure of Kenny from South Park (you bastards!)
I also recall viewing a YouTube video of a guy using Tannerite brand explosive on dry grass, dry hay bales, and even dry hay bales with an open container of gasoline next to it, and it never started a fire.
If memory serves, the reaction produces nitrogen gas, not flames. The speed of the blast wave would tend to blow out any existing flames in the area. It does generate some heat, but I doubt enough to ignite anything. It is possible the detonation could cause one object to strike another and produce a spark, I suppose.
With the exception of a *rapidly* expanding gas, Tannerite is pretty beguine stuff…
Anymouse says:
Even with real Tannerite, you need to heed the instructions for minimum safe distance (100 yards+), don’t place it inside objects, and use a pound or less. There’s an infamous case where a Georgia man lost his leg while shooting a 3 pounds of Tannerite inside a riding lawn mower from 25 yards.
",keep yur paws off my dead guy" possum says:
a big can of gasoline
Michael Stilinovich says:
Huh….what ???? Doesn’t everyone know that there are no genders anymore….
F’n silly people.
you ain’t woke! there’s 57 genders now!
i’m waiting for the article, “gender-reveal pyrotechnics party results in inadvertant gender reassignment surgery”
Jamie in North Dakota says:
Natural selection. I’ve shot hundreds of pounds on Tanny Without incident.
Jonathan-Houston says:
Basic explosives seem simple enough, but you can get in over your head and, well, get your head blown off, a lot more easily than I suspect many people would appreciate.
I’ve worked a lot of years in and around the oil & gas industry, specifically the hydraulic fracturing segment, and have experience working with explosive engineers developing purpose-built charges. I’m not even talking about military applications, although military grade explosive powders are used. Even with sophisticated measurement equipment and testing facilities run by doctorate degreed engineers, things can go sideways sometimes.
Guys mucking around with tannerite or black powder or ammonium nitrate as they saw on a Youtube could get themselves hurt. If you’re going to do the gender reveal thing, you might want to stick to cakes or balloons or something else fun, but harmless.
As a native resident of some miles North of Knoxville, IA we should just stipulate that the gene poor is rather shallow in that area of Iowa. The is a strong Missouri influence in Southern Iowa.
MyName says:
I always heard there was a strong Iowa influence in Northern Missouri. 😉
BusyBeef says:
Trash people doing trash things.
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Saying yes to accept the charge of an office, only because people offer it, simply rebels. Who will provide the elements of competence never known to the people as well as to the person surrendering their offer?
Every person of letters, howsoever professionally successful, is not at all capable to take the responsibilities of the destiny of the nation, which is a subject drastically beyond the scope of books’ knowledge. A high speed motor bike certainly cannot replace a railway engine to pull a whole train.
Undertaking the responsibility of future of a nation without possessing a vision of stability of its generations is merely vim for personal exposures. Concerns for a people are displayed by vision based performances which speak considerably loud and clear about the helm man and his group, who are totally devoid of yearn for fame and popularity.
Barrister Mohan Das Karamchand Ghandi (Mahatma), is the supreme architect of India freedom and independence. No section of Indian citizens ever asked Mahatma to lead them for freedom. He proceeded as a single warrior of Bharat Mata with courage and determination that could not be seen or felt by anybody. After the success of his mission in South Africa he came back to India in 1915 with all the affirmative sentiments for the British colonial rule for some justifications of his own self. During that very year some intuition urged him to justify his favour for the colonial rule. He undertook extensive travelling on foot, by bullock cart and by train to personally view the plight of rural Indians who formed majority of population. He travelled for hundreds of miles. This rigorous exercise introduced to him to a picture never imagined by him ever before. He honestly concluded and sincerely declared ‘Free India’. He announced freedom for India at convocation of Hindu university and that announcement followed a series of revolution devices to soundly convince the British government that he was determined to achieve freedom for all circumstances to follow.
By all definitions of freedom, liberty and independence Mahatmas Ghandi personally happened to be a free person in an occupied country. He courageously announced what he felt. He was self reliant. He supported truth wherever it was. As a free person by nature he could not tolerate to see his fellow countrymen under rule by foreign powers. He wanted to uproot the colonial rule for achieving freedom for India.
In Bihar State he started with Satyagraha’ (Truth Force) movement against the excesses of British plantation owners. In Ahmadabad Satyagraha movement was against the owners of textile mills. Massacre of Jallian Wala Bagh in Amritsar, by the order of General R. Dyer, very seriously affected Mahatma. In Retaliation to that he started Non Cooperation Movement asking the citizens to stop use of foreign woven cloth. The movement served a serious blow to the British textile industry. Mahatma was arrested and imprisoned along with thousands of Indians. Thus total period of his imprisonment in various jails, due to various agitations, got over eight years period.
Even short period imprisonments dissolve or dilute the resolves of a person compelling him to soften his attitudes. A few weeks’ confinement appears to be stopping the clock hindering the normal passage of time. This was not at all the case with Mahatma. Years of imprisonments, in various jails, fortified his attitude and he proceeded with new strategies for getting his nation liberated to freedom.
After getting released from jail, Mahatmas travelled from village to village pressing upon equality for women. In the meantime the British government’s salt monopoly hit his mind. In March 1930 he started for a 240 miles walk to the seacoast. Reaching the seacoast he picked up a lump of natural salt in token of his own possession to defy British monopoly of sale / purchase of salt, and asked his countrymen to prepare and store salt for their own use. Thousands of Indians were arrested for violating the government’s order. Mahatma Ghandi was also among those arrested and jailed.
Now Mahatma started a movement against discriminations of low caste Hindus, the ‘Untouchables’ as they were called. In 1932, from his prison cell, he strongly opposed separate electorate for the untouchables and forced the British government to drop the idea. Mahatma made extra ordinary efforts to banish Untouchability.
During 1946 Mahatma walked barefoot 116 miles to calm down the bloodshed and riots flared up in Calcutta as a result of Mr. M. A. Jinnah’s call for Direct Action Day. His efforts worked and the riots subsided.
Mahatma had been blessed with success toward freedom of India. He was a real patriot who lived and died for the motherland and all categories of its citizens. He never held a position in a government body of the country. He never recommended any of his relatives for a position in the government. He became the origin source of incentive for fair democracy and state’s most judicious political system. He died in a state that his attire resembled as that of a rural Indian. For quite some time he lived in the quarters of Untouchables in Delhi.
Anything Mahatma proceeded for and anything he accomplished was exclusively for the motherland and its citizens, without any personal or family interests. This line of services to the people is unknown to vast majority of politicians of internationally declared excessively corrupt states, who proceed with dogma, that after getting elected, all misappropriations are legalized under coverage of democracy.
Barrister Mohan Das Karamchand Ghandi stands to be the only political leader of his era who can be crowned with honour of true meaning of patriotism and devotion to his countrymen of all categories. His support for truth will always stand to be exemplary.
When a person strictly in favour of unity of Indian Territory supports the partitioned part for its financial share against the government of remaining part of the territory, there is hardly a device available for measuring his greatness.
In January 1948 Mahatma was murdered by a young man who was against his favor for Pakistan and Muslims. The cause of his murder was factually to achieve future cordial and humanitarian relationships in pursuit of peaceful coexistence of the two countries. The subcontinent as whole lost a leader rare and outstanding, in its history, and maybe in its far future. He is greater than all the appreciations brought forward in his honour. His personality produced quite a number of political leaders about whom no intelligence agency of the world can raise a finger in context with their honesty and sincerity for the nation. And his footsteps will keep rearing groups of selfless public servants and selfless politicians in the course of time to come.
On the bases of the above short account of concern for India and sections of Indian citizens, Mahatma Ghandi the supreme architect of India’s freedom, stands to be the supreme source of learning patriotism and devotion for welfare of fellow countrymen. Approach of his struggle for freedom was unique and indigenous in its character and effectiveness. Political leaders of declared corrupt states of the world can learn honest straight politics from Mahatma. They can also learn the unprecedented process of retaliations without hatred against the wrong oppressor.
Hereunder are a few references in honour of Mahatma Ghandi from MANKIND magazine (September-October 1969), Los Angeles – California:-
‘He was the bridge over the chasm between the intellectual and unaltered villagers. Unlike them, yet he was one of them servant of all, he spoke as India’s poor had rarely heard anyone speak before’.
‘To Ghandi, Satyagraha “Truth Force” was more powerful than war or violent revolution. Victory was assured because, in the words of one of India’s elder statesmen, “it is resistance to evil based on God and faith in His ultimately sovereignty”. The opposor must not feel hatred toward the one who wrongs him and evil must not be returned for evil. Disobedience must be announced in advanced, and one must be willing to suffer even death believing that the truth he stands for is more important than life itself.’
‘But on March 12, 1930, he undertook what British historian Geoffrey Ashe calls the “weirdest and most brilliant political challenge of modern times”, the famous 24 days Salt March… he would defy the ban, he told the Viceroy of India (“Dear friend”, he called him), and advise his countrymen to do like wise’.
‘Almost every day, new ideas, new ambitions, new visions, were unfolded before the eyes of the nation’ (G. D. Birla a friend of Mahatma).
‘For perhaps the first time in centuries, Caste Hindus and Untouchables sat at a meal together. “If any single act can be said to have broken he back of Untouchability, it was this feast”, wrote an Indian observe.’
“Generations to come, it maybe, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth”. (Albert Einstein speaking of Mahatma Ghandi).
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Sarcoma Genomics
In comparison to many other tumour types, the molecular classification of sarcoma is relatively mature. There are more than 50 subtypes of sarcoma with many more benign mimickers, the vast majority of which are defined by molecular events such as gene amplifications (e.g. MDM2 amplification in dedifferentiated liposarcoma), chimeric fusion genes (e.g. EWSR1-FLI1 fusion in Ewing’ sarcoma) and point mutations (e.g. KIT in gastrointestinal stromal tumours). Whilst this molecular classification is invaluable for diagnosis the mechanism of action of the various genetic events is poorly understood. In part this has contributed to the slow progress in development of new treatments and survival rates for sarcoma patients.
Also there are still a proportion of sarcoma types where the molecular underpinnings are yet to be clearly defined. In such cases there is a lack of objective diagnostic criteria upon which to classify these tumours resulting in a lack of treatment options.
Circos plot demonstrating the wide repertoire of genome complexity in a high grade sarcoma.
Genomic characterisation of undifferentiated sarcoma
Funded by Cancer Research UK
One such tumour is undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS), which is the current focus of the lab. In order to address the unmet need to develop a systematic molecular classification of UPS to stratify these patients for suitable clinical trials we undertake comprehensive genomic profiling complemented by other techniques such as methylation and gene expression analysis using patient samples. The material for study is of high quality from an established biobank established by Prof. Adrienne Flanagan and supported by rich pathological annotation by clinical colleagues at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. This work is led by Dr Christopher Steele and is being conducted in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and The Francis Crick Institute and is supported by generous funding from Cancer Research UK.
Models of undifferentiated sarcoma tumourigenesis
Digital pathology imaging of sarcomas for clinical benefit
In parallel with the work above we have an exciting new collaboration with Dr Kevin Bryson (UCL Computer Science) in order to better understand the genotype-phenotype correlations and the cellular spatial dynamics of sarcomas. This is accomplished by applying conventional learning machine techniques as well as newer deep learning methods on digitised histological images to unravel the unique architectural and cytological nuances of these enigmatic tumours. Our first project is currently being undertaken by a PhD student Dr Binghao Chai.
Left: Undifferentiated sarcoma with severely pleomorphic cells. Right: Atypical mitotic figures are common in undifferentiated sarcomas.
Molecular signatures in sarcoma
Funded by Sarcoma UK
Mutational signatures are emerging biomarkers for prognosis and prediction in multiple cancer types. In sarcomas with complex genomes the predominant mutational repertoire consists of large scale rearrangements and copy number alterations. This group of patients have a poor prognosis with limited treatment options. With sarcoma patients being enrolled on the 100,000 genomes project there is an opportunity to investigate their genomes for mutational signatures that could be predict which patients could benefit from immune modulation strategies and for prognostic utility. However, this evidence still needs to be generated in sarcomas. This exciting new project leverages a copy number signature framework developed in our lab by Dr. Christopher Steele and brings together leaders in the field of sarcoma biology (Prof Adrienne Flanagan - UCL ), genomics (Dr Peter Van Loo - Francis Crick Institute, Dr Sam Behjati - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Dr Javier Herrero - UCL) and mutational signatures (Dr Ludmil Alexandrov – University of California San Diego). The aim of this work is to optimise rearrangement and copy number signature mathematical models and implement mutational signature frameworks in sarcoma for clinical benefit.
Methylation tumour heterogeneity in sarcoma
Our sarcoma genomic studies and work from other cancer types has shown that genomic changes such as mutations, copy number alterations, and genomic rearrangements fuel tumour heterogeneity and cancer evolution. Increasingly it is being shown that there is a dynamic inteplay between these genomic aberrations and changes in DNA methylation. In tumours such as undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcomas which are dominated by copy number changes and structural rearrangements it is still unknown how these genomic changes impact on methylation or vice versa and ultimately how this plays itself out in terms of cancer evolution.
We aim to address this work using the innovative techniques in genome and DNA methylation sequencing using a unique resource of high quality undifferentiated sarcoma samples. This work is being undertaken in collaboration with Dr. Andy Feber (UCL) and Dr. Peter Van Loo (Francis Crick Institute) and is funded by CRUK.
Last updated March 2019
Dr Nishalan Pillay
Email: n.pillay@ucl.ac.uk
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E.ON chief - Europe's gas suppliers to retain position within market
E.ON - one of the big six energy companies - has claimed that Europe's traditional gas suppliers won't be challenged by new sources delivering gas into the continent, according to an article published by Reuters.
Klaus Schaefer, chief of both Ruhrgas and E.ON Energy Trading, made the claim whilst speaking at the Reuters Global Energy & Environment Summit.
He said: "I do believe we will see Caspian gas in Europe. I also believe we will see more LNG (liquefied natural gas) arriving in the future.
"The traditional suppliers will mostly keep their position," he added.
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Recent data provided by Eurogas has displayed that Europe produces 35 per cent of gas requirements; while Russia and Norway hold the majority of the EU-27 market share - with 22 per cent and 19 per cent respectively.
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On behalf of the United States Tennis Association, thank you for your interest in Net Generation programming! Your support and feedback is incredibly important as we continue to create the most developmentally appropriate tennis experiences.
Team Challenge and Team Tournament are new programs offering low pressure team environments for children of all ages to gain match experience. These experiences help players develop their skills through level based play, and demonstrate good sportsmanship.
These programs and their supporting resources will help you deliver a fantastic introduction to the sport of tennis to youth all over, which can lead to a lifelong love of tennis from the very first play opportunity!
Team Challenge is a low pressure team environment that allows children to develop their skills through level based play without an emphasis on instruction or results!
Team Tournament is an innovative way for children to gain match experience, develop their skills through level-based play, and demonstrate good sportsmanship!
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"Our community tennis association has hosted four separate Red Ball Team Challenge events this year. As a former physical education teacher, I immediately recognized the value of the provider’s manual. The directions were easy to follow and included an event program schedule for providers, which included skill activities, cooperative play, and character development. With the access to these teaching tools, I observed that the providers were on task and the students were engaged in a fun learning environment.” -Kaye Cochran (Shreveport, Louisiana)
“Red Ball Team Challenge was a great way to introduce kids to competitive tennis and the kids had a lot of fun. We definitely want to do it again and we hope to be involved in the Orange Ball pilot program and Green Ball pilot program as well.” -Peter Green (Schenectady, New York)
"The kids and parents loved the team challenge. Every kid was asking when the next one was and we already have word of mouth interest from kids that heard about it. It is a great retention tool and recruitment tool to introduce tennis to new young players." -Adam Moulda (Andover, MA)
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"The team challenge was a game changer not only for our facility, but our community. The strucuture of the red ball team challenge allowed our staff to hit a winner every week by providing a first class experience for the youngest of players and their parents. I would highly recommend facilities to try it!" -Mark Faber (Toledo, OH)
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In 2010, Lucy graduated with First Class Honours in Journalism. Only a few years later she found herself sitting behind the news desk bringing the news to Tasmania for the first time.
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Studying Honours in Media is your chance to get an edge in the media industry while investigating a project you’re truly passionate about.
Honours combines units of study with a thesis focused on a topic you devise yourself. Your research can investigate virtually anything in media, from politics to podcasts.
You will complete your project supported by your supervisor, an academic whose expertise aligns with your topic, and whose combination of research and industry experience will guide you through.
Research skills are vital to any career in the media industry, from journalism to corporate communications. Honours is an excellent way to get an advantage in the job market, lay the foundation for a higher research degree, or work towards becoming an expert in your chosen field.
Critically analyse media texts, industries, and audiences from both theoretical and practical perspectives, showing advanced awareness of local, national, and international contexts
Demonstrate coherent and advanced knowledge of key media studies principles, concepts, approaches, and methods
Integrate and apply knowledge with initiative and judgement to the production of media content and to workplace practice
Demonstrate advanced analytical, practical, technical, and research skills in one of the following areas: News and Journalism; Screen; Strategic Communications; or Media Practice and Analysis
Communicate effectively and ethically across a variety of media platforms, showing advanced abilities in a specific area of media production and/or the ability to communicate scholarly ideas in a meaningful and coherent way
Respond effectively and creatively to a changing media environment, demonstrating industry-level problem solving, creative thinking, and critical analysis skills
Demonstrate the capacity for independent scholarship and advanced critical reflection by undertaking a research project that makes original contributions to media research and/or media practice
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What skills are needed to push the media industry forward? Find out from professionals working across film, print, digital and animation who all share a connection to Tasmania. Discover why a media career is so rewarding and why Tasmania is the place to get your start.
Understanding the media is now an essential role in a range of careers. By combining analysis of media industries, and the production and consumption of media, you will gain the knowledge and skills needed to work in a broad range of professions and environments.
The Bachelor of Media offers a wide variety of possible careers such as:
Advertising creative director
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In Honours you will complete 100 credit points (cp), equivalent to one year of study, comprising;
a research project completed over two semesters (50cp);
a compulsory research-focused coursework unit (25cp);
and an elective coursework units (25cp).
In your first semester you will complete the first research project unit alongside the compulsory coursework unit. In your second semester you will complete the second research project unit and an Honours coursework elective.
In your second semester you will also enrol in XSB400 which will record your final Honours result. This unit is administrative only and does not have classes or assessments.
Honours Research Core
Complete all of the following units (75cp)
HEJ412
Researching Media and Communication
This unit summarises key developments in journalism, media and communications theory, approaches and methods. It reviews the work of significant theorists and addresses a range of approaches. Various methodological resources are outlined for students, helping them to both undertake their…
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Complete one of the following units (25cp):
Theory to Practice in Journalism, Media and Communications
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This unit equips students to produce content and tell stories across multiple media platforms. A range of digital tools, delivery options and conceptual approaches will be explored as students design, research and produce media content. Academic and technical staff with…
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Media Writing
This unit introduces students to the practical skills of media writing. It is intended to provide students with a strong foundation for participation in the media industry in a variety of forms. A fundamental appreciation of language will enhance writing…
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Media engagement is a central component of contemporary communications strategies. The unit provides contexts for historical and current media and public relations practice. Students are equipped to interact professionally with the media, to set clear communications goals and strategies, and…
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Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Media with Honours:
must have qualified for admission to the degree of Bachelor of Media, or another approved Bachelor degree, in this
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institution, a standard of proficiency, a weighted average of 70% or higher, in the 200 and 300 level units in their
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Exemptions regarding entry requirements may be made at the discretion of the Head of School.
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The English department facilitates the rigorous study of literature and writing through Christian perspectives on ethics, imagination, diversity, and truth; informed analysis of creative literature, and advanced strategies and techniques of written communication, rhetorical analysis, aesthetic appreciation, and literary theory. The English department promotes spiritual development through the integration of faith and learning.
English majors may choose one of two emphases within the major: literature and textual analysis or writing. The English curriculum provides a single-subject matter program approved by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. A minor in English is also offered.
This emphasis develops students’ understanding and application of fundamental concepts including period focus, children's literature, and script analysis.
This emphasis develops students’ understanding and application of topics such as creative writing, digital writing and design, and journalism principles.
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The English minor consists of 21 units in English. Students may choose courses according to their interest. ENGL 120C and ENGL 220C do not count towards the minor.
In an increasingly digital world, students with skills in media production and writing for online contexts will be prepared to work in a variety of industries. The Journalism and Digital Media minor provides students with fundamental journalism training, while also equipping them to create in multimodal environments, including audio and visual production and social media platforms.
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The single subject matter programs allow students to complete their subject matter competence through undergraduate coursework, in preparation for pursuing a teaching credential.
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Prerequisite ENGL 220C. In this course, students will prepare for the types of digital writing and design required in today’s job market and learn to use digital tools to write for diverse audiences on various platforms. Students will produce resumes, personal websites, and online portfolios to showcase their academic and professional experiences, and they will collaborate on contemporary professional writing projects such as social media campaigns, content marketing, and visual data creation.
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Prerequisite: ENGL 220C or consent of the instructor. Students learn and implement the basic techniques and theory specific to the three genres: fiction, poetry, and drama. Lecture and workshop combined.
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Fanstastical Forebears: CS Lewis, Tolkien, and the Tradition of Fantasy and Faery
Prerequisite: ENGL 240C. The intensive study of the literary achievement of a single author. Content will vary according to instructor, but might include Margaret Atwood, Jorge Luis Borges, William Faulkner, James Joyce, C. S. Lewis, Clarice Lispector, John Milton, Toni Morrison, J. R. R. Tolkien, or Mark Twain. May be repeated for credit.
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Annual Teen Maze guides youngsters to positive life choices
Bill Helm
Originally Published: March 3, 2016 11:06 a.m.
COTTONWOOD - Life is like a puzzle. Sometimes, the answers are obvious. Much of the time, it is unclear what lies ahead.
For the past nine years, Yavapai County Community Health Services and the Verde Valley Sanctuary have partnered to make the future seem a bit more navigable for Verde Valley's young people.
With the annual Teen Maze event in the Verde Valley, schools from across the Valley are invited to bring their seventh- through 12th-graders to participate in a series of nine booths within the maze, to spend approximately 10 minutes at each station.
The purpose of the Teen Maze is to provide young people with the information and skills that are necessary in making positive life choices," says Lizbeth Fullbright, Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Program Coordinator for Verde Valley Sanctuary and the Teen Maze Coordinator.
"We bring this information to them in a fun interactive, fast moving pace so as to keep them interested," Fullbright says. "We take a flash look into the future so to say, discussing consequences of choices that can have long lasting effects. We believe what they don't know could hurt them."
The nine stations will have information on nutrition, tobacco education, the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, and the realities of teen pregnancy.
Other booths will be led by local agencies, such as law enforcement covering the effects of alcohol and drug use, MatForce covering marijuana use, Yavapai County Sheriff's Office covering cyber safety, and the Verde Valley Sanctuary covering healthy relationships.
The YES program, a five- to six-week outreach program that updates Verde Valley schools on subjects such as self-awareness, defining stress and recognizing its effects, as well as incorporating healthy coping skills.
"It is truly a community-wide effort to reach the youth in our community with topics vital to their development into healthy adults both in mind and body," Fullbright says.
The vision that teen maze partners have for the students of the Verde Valley is to "empower them to lead productive, healthy, non-violent lives and thereby ensure safe and a healthy community for the future," says Jennie Underwood of the Verde Valley Sanctuary.
Yavapai County Community Health Services and Verde Valley Sanctuary have partnered to offer Teen Maze 2016 at the Clemenceau Heritage Museum, located at 1 N. Willard St. in Cottonwood, March 8 and 9 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. and March 10 from 9 a.m. until 10:30 a.m., with a special parent-only preview night from 5:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. March 7.
This year's Teen Maze will have 12 participating schools, including Camp Verde and Beaver Creek schools.
-- Follow Bill Helm on Twitter @BillHelm42 and on Facebook at @CampVerdeBugle
Annual Teen Maze educates Verde’s youth for past 10 years
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WPGM Recommends: Jefe – The World Is Yours (EP Review)
Posted on January 6, 2017 by Andrew Watson
Marquis Amonte King, usually known by his stage name, Jefe (also known as Young Jefe, and formerly as Shy Glizzy), is a rapper, 24 years old, from Washington, DC, capital of the United States.
In 2012, Jefe released mixtape, Law. Then in 2013, Jefe put out mixtape, Law 2, a direct sequel. It featured Migos, Yo Gotti, Kevin Gates, Starlito and others. Come 2014, Jefe released his mixtape, Young Jefe.
The latter had hit single, “Awwsome”, which turned into the biggest song of Jefe’s career and peaked at number 45 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The A$AP Rocky and 2 Chainz remix got more than 750,000 streams on Soundcloud, in the first week it was released.
Under this more current guise, Jefe has released debut EP The World Is Yours, which came out today (January 6). Jefe’s style is hip-hop very much in its modern incarnation.
Opening gambit, “Get Money 4Life”, features YoungBoy Never Broke Again, and starts grave and foreboding, with what sounds like church organ. Then there’s the rattle and clap of drum, and the singsong raps begin. “I’m big dog, you a lower n*gga” is like a statement of intent, and apparently his stage name is defined, funnily enough, as “a boss or leader; a person in charge of something”.
An interesting aside appears just past the midpoint in the form of piano, piano that eventually swirls skywards into the ethereal.
Jefe’s “Errywhere”, and it, in turn, swirls, before fatal piano tinkles its melody and forces your feet to remain firmly on the ground. The clap of the drum lends further feel of the moody, a brooding track. A lyrical highlight is, “I come from DC, ask about it, we ain’t scared/Take them pistols errywhere”. Putting their city on the rap map, indeed.
Perhaps the listener is the “One”, which also has piano prominent, though hinting towards happy rather than desolate and frustrated. The bass slides up and down, like the ignition cough of a super expensive sports car.
The imploring “Give It Up”, featuring 3 Glizzy, sees the EP turning towards a more serious note, again. The singsong raps appear to have a hint of autotune, not excessive but noticeable. The echo of the backdrop fades in and out, the only constant the rapped vocals.
It goes on to seemingly ring deeper than before, really doomy. Another lyrical highlight appears in the form of, “Made a promise to my mama, we gon’ live it up”. You can’t accuse the rapper of not loving his favourite woman, his mother.
Seeming sequel, “Take It Off”, sounds menacing, which’s strange given the largely tinkling backdrop. Akin to the shimmer of The Exorcist film score, in some respects. Like the track previous, it seems to concern itself with the ladies. Asking them to give it up and take it off.
The urging of “Love Me”, featuring Ralo, has an interesting vocal melody akin to singing with the rhythm of a rapper imploring, “I just want you to love me”. The backdrop really seeks heavenwards, your soul ascended not the whole way because your work on Earth, however testing, isn’t over.
Second from last is “Over The Hills”, featuring Kash Doll, and has an epic backdrop, as if to signify striving towards aforementioned ascension. “Now, n*gga, be real with me/Would you kill for me?/If sh*t got too real, would you steal for me?/If I’m hungry, would you share your last meal with me?” arguably some of the best lyrics on the EP, courtesy of the cameo appearance. Kash’s is probably the best verse so far.
The World Is Yours ends with “Congratulations”, and is like striving against all odds, with an air of tragedy and suffering.
“When you’re shinin’ too hard, you can see it in they faces/Still standin’ on them couches, with no muhf*ckin’ aces” seems to imply having no backup plan, no rabbit in the hat. Almost, perhaps equalling, Kash’s lines from the song before.
“I came from the bottom, had to muhf*ckin’ take it” perhaps best displaying struggling and striving from nothing.
The key tracks are “Give It Up”, “Take It Off”, “Over The Hills” and “Congratulations”. This is a good return, half of the entire project, for an EP. An only slight criticism is that, from the highlights selected, it’s very much bottom heavy and you’re waiting the duration of three songs before it really kicks off.
Indeed, track four, “Give It Up”, is when it truly starts for this reviewer. With things turning serious, again, by this point, you know there’s a good mix of light and shade. The echoing backdrop fades in and out, almost complementing the vocals with its intermittency. The lyric of, “Made a promise to my mama, we gon’ live it up” perhaps a tad refreshing in the genre as of late.
Following track, “Take It Off”, asks the ladies, partly, to give it up and take it off. The seeming paradox of the largely tinkling backdrop, like the shimmer of The Exorcist theme tune, courtesy of Mike Oldfield, is intriguing. The way it’s paired with the track prior isn’t exactly a progressive feat of sequencing or theme, but is satisfying enough when you make the connection from previous to current.
You only have to quote the following to justify the selection of “Over The Hills”, courtesy of a cameo appearance arguably stealing the limelight and upstaging the main artist: “Now, n*gga, be real with me/Would you kill for me?/If sh*t got too real, would you steal for me?/If I’m hungry, would you share your last meal with me?” The delivery is so unlike much of the album, she spits forth pure rap.
To be fair, the last track, “Congratulations”, sees Jefe redeem himself: “When you’re shinin’ too hard, you can see it in they faces/Still standin’ on them couches with no muhf*ckin’ aces”. Lyric-wise, especially the last segment, expertly conveys not having an ace in the hole, just sheer determination. “I came from the bottom, had to muhf*ckin’ take it” a summation of his life story.
Even elsewhere, with first three tracks “Get Money 4Life”, “Errywhere” and “One”, there are examples of sequencing and linking theme, in particular. “Get Money 4Life” at midpoint has a soundscape swirling. “Errywhere”, in turn, swirls similarly, too. It also, with fatal piano, links to following track, “One”, which also has prominent piano. In fact, all three have piano to some extent.
Last track to be covered in any further detail, “Love Me”, also helps sequence and link theme. Its backdrop seeks to ascend, but not getting the whole way. Follow-up, “Over The Hills”, has an epic backdrop, indicative of striving towards aforementioned ascension. In fact, the general story of struggling, striving, suffering and tragedy before success, with minimal help, is repeated throughout.
Jefe and his certain strain of rap are usually something quite alien to this reviewer. In fact, a lot of it can be quite irritating. Thankfully, the autotune is kept to a reasonable minimum, and you don’t find yourself cursing Nelly too much for the scourge of the singsong rapper. The balance of singing and rapping’s a lot better than you’d expect. Jefe’s The World Is Yours EP can be purchased on iTunes, here.
Also visit his Twitter, YouTube and Spotify pages to keep tabs on Jefe.
Words by Andrew Watson
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I've always wanted to be involved in the media since before I even left school; to write for a living.I feel most eloquent when mapping out my thoughts on paper or on a computer screen.I studied media at college for two years, and went straight into university at third year studying publishing with journalism.After a range of work experience, I did a magazine journalism course at Bournemouth, a long way away from my hometown of Aberdeen, achieving my NCTJ qualifications.Now I spend my time gladly writing about music.
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Under the agreement, Astra will gain the global rights for development and marketing the treatment.
It is part of a drive by Astra to move into new areas and comes less than a week after news that it was buying cancer treatment research firm KuDOS Pharmaceuticals for around £121m.
Astra will pay Targacept an initial £5.8m and the pair will start a four-year research collaboration.
Astra has been trying to bolster its new drugs pipeline after US regulators rejected its blood-thinning drug Exanta last year. Concerns were recently revived by the revelation that two treatments under development were being discontinued.
California-based Targacept specialises in treatments for nervous system diseases and disorders by targeting receptors known as neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, or NNRs. Its current pipeline includes treatments for hypertension and depression.
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The Nats want Strasburg and Rendon, but keeping their culture is an even higher priority
Nationals GM Mike Rizzo before Game 7 of the World Series in Houston. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Thomas Boswell
Sports columnist
December 5, 2019 at 6:33 AM EST
On Monday night, 3,000 fans stood in drizzle on the Southwest Waterfront to get into the first showing of Major League Baseball’s annual documentary on its latest World Series winner — this time, the Washington Nationals. When people will pay $35 to watch highlights of games they already have seen in their entirety, you have a hot product.
But how do you keep it that way? And build on it?
There were cheers, laughs and even gasps at key Nats home runs in October, as if the results were still a shock in hindsight. But there were also yells of “Sign Strasburg” and “Sign Rendon” aimed at principal owner Mark Lerner and General Manager Mike Rizzo onstage. Those loud outbursts seemed to be equal parts an entreaty and a blunt order.
If you think last season was riveting and a constant illumination of people’s characters, then this offseason won’t be far behind.
The Nats know they can’t define the life choices of others. On Monday, Rizzo said there had been no recent meetings with either Anthony Rendon or Stephen Strasburg but added, “We’ve been talking to them for 10 years.” Meaning: They know all about us, including how much we value them. But we can’t control them, only ourselves.
“We really can only afford to have one of those two guys,” Lerner told Donald Dell of NBC Sports Washington in an interview, part of which was posted on the outlet’s website Thursday evening. “They’re huge numbers. We already have a really large payroll to begin with. So we’re pursuing them, we’re pursuing other free agents in case they decide to go elsewhere.”
So what can the Nats control, especially in an offseason when agent Scott Boras, who usually draws out the free agency process into January or February to milk the last drop of leverage, represents the winter’s top prize, pitcher Gerrit Cole, as well as both Rendon and Strasburg?
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The Nats need to focus on three areas while looking for their chance to re-up either Strasburg or Rendon.
They need to pursue a long-term market-value contract extension with Rizzo, who has been the Nats’ architect and central personality for the past dozen years. This should be obvious because Rizzo is in his lame-duck walk year in 2020. But is it obvious to the Lerners?
On Tuesday, Rizzo was chosen executive of the year by Baseball America. His résumé is now top-shelf. Which means, in baseball’s goofy world, you can still get him for roughly the annual salary of part-time catcher Yan Gomes. You want a “market inefficiency” to exploit? Try “GM salaries for $100, Alex.” Why does this even require thought?
Rizzo might even be the GM whom Boras respects the most — because Boras thinks a key to his success is that, as an ex-player, he has a scout’s eye. The scout’s scout? Rizzo.
Many Nats believe, especially after this past season, that Rizzo could fix the hull of the Titanic with a toothpick. He signed Kurt Suzuki and Gomes as a new catching duo, when neither was in high demand. They combined for 29 homers and 106 RBI. He assembled platoons at first and second base out of driftwood; they produced 37 homers and 128 RBI and 30 homers with 96 RBI, respectively. He built a bullpen that stunk. Then he saved it at the trade deadline with Daniel Hudson and a playoff plan to have his aces help out in the bullpen. He got Gerardo Parra and Asdrúbal Cabrera free — ex-teams paid ’em.
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Next on the agenda is preserving the team’s culture. The Nats did not just win a World Series last season; they redefined their clubhouse. That was a conscious Rizzo/Lerner project. Now they need to reassemble as much of that fun-loving, team-first, low-cost, hard-nosed, aged bunch as possible.
No one at Nationals Park will say that subtracting Bryce Harper was needed to improve chemistry, increase accountability, banish baseball’s typical big-ego star system and make room for who-knows-what — maybe even a Baby Shark — to bloom. But it was a key. Everyone knows it, and the lesson only is reinforced by Harper having a typically productive slugging season in Philadelphia yet the Phillies finishing .500 and firing their manager.
The Nats can’t just round up every 2019 “glue personality” who’s now free on the street and say, “How much do you want?” But they need to give extra intangible weight to the value of Howie Kendrick, Ryan Zimmerman, the versatile Cabrera, Brian Dozier, Matt Adams and the modest but must-re-sign Hudson.
You won’t keep them all. Rendon may come back. For sure, rookie Carter Kieboom will be asked to take over an infield spot. But keep as many of the men who experienced the grit and magic of 2019 as possible. Team cultures can last decades. From 1960 through 1985, Baltimore won the most games in the majors with modest budgets by preaching the Oriole Way. Now every team in every sport brags about its “Way.” The O’s really had one — with pitching, fundamentals, defense and brains.
The Nats are now eight seasons into such a tradition. They can’t let it slip. Some years will stink. After the O’s won their first World Series in 1966, they went 76-85 the next year. But their methods stayed intact. And they won 409 games the following four years with three pennants.
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Finally, as the Nats cope with their options in a market in which they may lose Rendon or Strasburg, they can’t overlook the chance to grab a star — and close a door on a popular hero — if that player perfectly mirrors the current D.C. culture. Third baseman Josh Donaldson, 33, a former AL MVP with a .900 on-base-plus-slugging percentage last season, fits that definition and may cost $75 million for three years. He’s not Rendon, but he’s the right personality type if Anthony seems to be drifting away.
Among free agent starting pitchers, Madison Bumgarner has a champion’s pedigree and temperament.
Also, the Nats tend to think bigger and bolder than those of us who analyze them. Nobody spotted Jayson Werth, Max Scherzer or Patrick Corbin as new Nats. If the Nats conclude both Strasburg and Rendon will leave, would Cole, a better bullpen and Kieboom at third do just as well?
Baseball games are fluid, constantly changing before our eyes. But as these mind-bending permutations show, so are winter negotiations. Last year, the Nats struck more quickly and often than any team. By signing Corbin, the top target, at this time last December, they effectively (and soon publicly) said so long to Harper.
This offseason, the Nats seem committed to keeping their door open longer to give one of their home-grown products, either Strasburg and Rendon, every chance to stay. But now it’s clear: not both. There’s complexity everywhere, including the motivation for one of them to take the Nats’ money while it’s still available.
What cannot and need not be lost is the culture that this Finish the Fight team brought to life. Rosters change. Lucky and luckless seasons both arrive. But once a team sees what values it wants to embody — and what kind of players and people make that possible — then that’s the lodestar to follow.
For more by Thomas Boswell, visit washingtonpost.com/boswell.
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Watching the trailer...
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Desperately Seeking Trailers?
We circulated this survey in order to better understand why audiences view trailers. Unlike other commercials, the trailer is one that audiences regularly and repeatedly seek out, engage with and claim to “love.” Given our assumptions about where and through what media trailers are commonly viewed, we anticipated that results would confirm simple and familiar motivations while revealing other complex and eccentric ones.
We knew, or rather believed, that a great deal of trailer viewing occurs in an unmotivated and unfocused fashion—the audience is accidental, the screening is random. While the data broadly affirmed our suppositions, it also underscores the importance--for trailer makers and distributors—of designing trailers for the range of viewing situations, attitudes and demands. The diversity of motivation and the breadth of investment, the variety of contextual and subjective positions inscribed in the responses, deserves to be addressed within these critical and expensive marketing tools.
After asking the name of the last trailer viewed in Question 3, Q4 of our survey asked “Did you seek out this trailer?”
On a purely quantitative basis, more people chose to view the specific trailer mentioned (53%) than did not (47%). Yet that number must be considered alongside a later question (Q10) which asked whether respondents had EVER sought out / searched for any trailer. 81% said yes; only 12% said no. In this post, we combine the findings from Questions 4 & 10 to itemize and describe the reasons given for choosing to view a trailer.
As is well understood within the industry, an effective trailer should keep the wrong audience out while drawing the right one in. This is not done cynically, but in a sincere attempt to minimize negative reactions from an identifiable demographic or group who might otherwise return to the cinema to view a film which they are unable to appreciate. In practice, however, most trailer makers edit for an audience imagined as eager, engaged and able to enjoy the proposed entertainment. For the purpose of this post, we will focus on the 53% and the 81% who actively seek out trailers and examine the reasons they give for why they do so.
(Negative responses, and the views of what we colloquially call “trailer haters,” will be covered in later post.)
Within the group responding positively to Q4 and Q10, a range of locations and media platforms was described. Here, the category of “specific search” includes everything from entering the title into a search engine and deliberately being in the theatre to view the trailers, through clicking on a link in a news article, choosing to watch some (if not all) trailers on a site or DVD, to the minimal and liminal position of deciding “not to skip” the previews at the cinema, on a website or on a DVD. For our respondents (some more discriminating than others), all these activities were considered as demonstrations of positive decision making.
Q4 also invited ‘Yes’ respondents to explain (in 140 characters) why they sought a particular trailer, an option that drew an array of comments about what trailer audiences find most appealing. Information (“learning”) about a film was among the most common reasons adduced, although many other needs, wants and desires characterize the knowledge sought. Q10 followed up this subject of audience demand or expectation, seeking to tease out particulars. The answers provide a more granular account of how audiences use trailers to ‘know more’.
Together, answers to Q4 and Q10 disclose the following, commonly expressed demands, uses and expectations:
1. Responses that play variations on the phrase “so I know what to see,” position trailer viewing as entertainment curiosity and research; knowing more was also valued in order to “confirm” a viewing choice already proposed, whether by the respondent or her viewing partners. Although the demand for reliable evidence is often disappointed (as a result of watching the feature, for example), that possibility appears to be more irritating than surprising to audiences. (We explore this fascinating topic in other posts and research).
2. Audiences want basic factual information, including the nature and sophistication of the content, release date, cast, rating, genre and production information. Often this demand relates to entertainment research pertaining to quality (production value), suitability (whether for a child, a friend, a parent or a date) and fandom.
3. Audiences are motivated by pre-existing interests: a star, a favorite actor, a director, a book that’s been adapted, a genre, sequel or franchise. Here, the trailers are expected to deliver a pleasurable reminder and/or savory taste of a “known” pleasure.
4. Audiences want the trailer to prepare them for the emotional and intellectual experience of the film, imagining and anticipating the film through the surrogacy of the trailer footage. The intensity of the psychological investment in the phenomenology of reception makes it one of the more volatile, not to mention powerful, appeals.
5. Audiences look forward to and anticipate the art and craft of a good trailer. For the high percentage of respondents who self-identified as fans and a significant number who indicated a vocational/educational interest (media-related students and professionals), trailers are conceived as independent film experiences, offering aesthetic pleasures and entertainment rewards distinct from their commercial obligations and derivation.
6. Viewers watch/listen for the sounds and star-power of the cues and the feature soundtrack.
7. Many respondents describe exploring recommendations from peers and the media. Familiarity with the latest trailers is the dues of membership within a social media community or milieu. The film industry has long known the power of “word of mouth. ” Social media has developed and exacerbated the effect. Whatever the “reality” of this communal experience, it points to the trailer’s social exchange value as cultural capital. (The explanation: “I’m a geek” was one clear expression of this tendency, suggesting that trailer viewing may be mandatory within certain subcultures).
8. An interest in independent / foreign film trailers was notable, indicating a persistent curiosity for features that aren’t likely to have “in-theatre” trailers. An urge to support smaller films (by consuming, at least, their marketing) was commonly overdetermined by the emotional / intellectual demands of trailer viewers, described in #4 above.
Information, curiosity, cultural knowledge, a range of pleasures and social pressures: these, then, are the recurring answers to why audiences choose to watch specific trailers. While trailer makers and researchers know these expectations and demands exists, certain of them (aesthetic and cultural ones, for example) are harder to fulfill, perhaps, than evidentiary and informational ones.
Coming Soon: In comparison to the diversity of curiosity and expectation among trailers aficionados, we’ll consider how indifferent and even hostile audiences relate to the trailer they consume.
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The Meterboard as a Burning Platform
Preventing an old meterboard going up in smoke might help strata managers turn the meterboard into a leaderboard.
In a sleepy suburb in Sydney’s south west, the meter board recently became an issue.
Over the past two years, the building had stayed with the same strata management company but had a stream of 5 different strata managers “looking after the property.”
Before the meterboard became top dog, the key strata issues were tenants dumping junk into the common storeroom and smokers using that storeroom, full of old mattresses, as a smoking room. While the “smoking room” was a fire hazard in itself, the burning platform was actually next door in the switchroom.
As a strata scheme with a very low strata scheme number….we are talking in the hundreds, the main switchboard could be considered a relic from another era. Ceramic fuses, spinning disc meters, asbestos….the lot.
The early indicator sign that something was going wrong on the main switchboard was a single apartment losing power. Calls to Ausgrid showed that there was no power outage in the local area. Checking with the apartments next door showed that other apartments still had the lights on.
Next…..a persistent “buzzing” sound during the early hours of the AM was the sign something was seriously wrong….this was followed by a smell and a visit to the switchroom by the resident whose apartment had lost power.
A smouldering switchboard prompted a call to Fire Services. Before the residents knew it, two firetrucks had lined up outside. In the middle of winter, the residents were evacuating their units in their dressing gowns, waiting for the burning switchboard to be contained.
The upgrade to a new switchboard was overdue and could have been avoided if the strata had paid for a routine inspection by an electrician as preventative maintenance or investigated a smart meter upgrade of the common meter.
Contributor, Strata Energy News
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The Schneiderman Allegations Make the TV show Billions Look a lot More Like Real Life
By Eve MacSweeney
Maggie Siff, Condola Rashad, and Malin AkermanPhoto: Jeff Neumann / Courtesy of Showtime
One of the credibility stretching conceits of the Showtime drama Billions is that one of its lead characters, a high-ranking government lawyer played by Paul Giamatti, is a hard-core sexual masochist. We meet him in the pilot, bound, gagged, and hooded, cringing under the heel of a dominatrix. (That she turns out to be his wife is another of the rapid plot twists that keep the series’ heart pumping.)
With the accusations breaking this week of the physical abuse of four women by former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, that high-concept premise is starting to look less contrived. Schneiderman is the alleged perpetrator, not the recipient, of violence in news accounts, but the disconnect common to both characters—the real and the fictional—is unsettling. Giamatti’s Chuck Rhoades, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, is so possessed by the desire to nail his nemesis, hedge-funder Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) that he is willing to sacrifice friends, family, ethics, and his own financial interest in its pursuit. This punitive zeal makes an ironic contrast with his sexual preference. Schneiderman’s apparent hypocrisy lies in his support of #MeToo, taking action against Harvey Weinstein, and, as a legislator, introducing specific laws against verbal threats and physical choking, two of the crimes of which he now stands accused.
Billions was recommended to me by the same friend who got me hooked, some years back, on Breaking Bad, a series that stayed good to the last drop of its staggering five seasons. As I began binge-watching it from the first episode to now a few weeks ago, it was hard to see where the plot—the legit lawyer circling the insider trading bad boy—would go. Yet as the series progressed, that circle just grew tighter as the two men, Giamatti’s character now increasingly mired in corruption, faced off like a pair of T. rexes before a fight. It helped that Lewis, with his singular white-skinned, red-haired coloring and swimming-pool blue eyes, is always mesmerizing to watch.
Even better, the female characters are interesting. For one, the sublime Condola Rashad is cool and tenacious as an assistant D.A. in Chuck’s office. Though there are glimpses of model-pretty groupies naked in Jacuzzis at parties around the billionaire bankers, both Bobby and Chuck are married to powerful, no-nonsense women. Lara Axelrod, played by the gorgeous Swedish-Canadian actress Malin Akerman, is as ruthless as her husband, and as good at calling the shots. There’s no socialite she can’t crush with a sweet smile, a clear threat, and a well placed phone call, and no white lie she can’t catch her husband in. Maggie Rhoades (Wendy Siff), another beauty, is notable for her severe demeanor—she wears a permanent frown and rarely smiles—as well as her black outfits in various degrees of bondage chic. The in-house psychologist at Axelrod’s firm, Axe Capital, she is a woman in control with seemingly ironclad boundaries. Far better paid than her husband (as she doesn’t hesitate to point out), she is not about to compromise her integrity, even if it puts her marriage in jeopardy.
Until now. Past the tipping point of season three, something disconcerting has happened. Not only has Rhoades brutally framed an innocent man, browbeating him with threats intended to play on a Jewish sense of guilt and the need to atone, Wendy also colludes with Chuck and Bobby, to convince an Axe Capital colleague to lie about a trade that implicates her. I get that Billions shows that everyone is corruptible, but the way she does it? With sex! In this world of strong women, the writers—Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Andrew Ross Sorkin, three men—saw fit to turn one of the female leads into a virtual whore.
That, according to the claims of Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, is Schneiderman-style thinking, and it slams a gripping series with complex characters right back in the world of a jaded, stereotypical—and dangerous—“macho” mindset. Nonconsensual sex, claims Schneiderman, “is a line I would not cross.” Nonconsensual sexism, at least according to this viewer, is a line Billions just crossed.
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Resort 2019Zac Posen
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NEW YORK,May 21, 2018
by Nicole Phelps
Zac Posen has been on 40 planes since January 1, laying the groundwork for the imminent launch of his Delta uniforms. It’s a project with global scale. He’s designed kits for upwards of 60,000 of the airline’s employees, from flight attendants to the ground crew and all posts in between. Everything had to be stress tested, and as for sizing, it’s a whole lot more complicated than the department store standard 0 to 12.
All that is to say, the project has been no flight of fancy. You could even argue that the three years he’s been working on it have made him a different kind of designer. There’s a certain orderly strategy to his ready-to-wear collections now, everything categorized: crepe suiting, clingy compact jersey dresses, high evening tulle, et cetera. (Then again, that could just be a side effect of no longer showing on the runway.)
What was exciting about his new Resort collection was seeing him venture off script with a magnificent gown in ombré silk jacquard featuring voluptuously draped sleeves and fraying details at the shoulders, which he described as having a new “in construction” quality. There was an appealing freedom to it, an almost, but not quite, sense of letting loose, though Posen insisted that the inside was just as pristine as anything his atelier ever makes. He also promised more along these lines for Spring 2019.
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Lady Gaga’s Latest “Leather” Dress Is 100% Vegan
By Janelle Okwodu
Photo: Backgrid
No one loves a new label more than Lady Gaga. Pop’s foremost chameleon keeps her style current by embracing fresh talent, and last night at the launch of her latest project, cosmetics brand Haus Laboratories, she put the spotlight on a rising label from Tbilisi, Georgia. Gaga arrived at West Hollywood eatery A.O.C. in a black leather column gown from Anouki’s Fall 2019 collection that continued her exploration of head to toe leather, while adding a new verve.
Founded in 2013 by Anouki Areshidze, the label has become a favorite of celebrities like Jessie J. and Khloe Kardashian, who’ve taken to Areshidze’s embellished, feminine designs. Created with vegan leather and detailed with crystal-covered chains on one shoulder, Gaga’s look was glamorous, and she amped up its drama by adding a pair of death-defying platforms from Pleaser. Blinged out thanks to pieces from Helene Zubeldia, Bare Fine Jewelry, and Rodrigo Otazu, she carried the sparkling theme of the dress from head to toe as she partied the night away.
See How Lady Gaga Pulled Off the Greatest Met Gala Entrance of All Time:
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B1 Intermediate AU 131 Folder Collection
Hello, and welcome again to Study English, IELTS Preparation. I'm Margot Politis.
Today we're going to look at intonation- how we use a rising or falling tone of voice to
convey meaning - and we'll also have a quick look at how to use commas.
But first, let's watch a clip about sleep. We'll see a researcher doing some tests on
a subject, to see just what the benefits are of an afternoon nap.
Researchers at Flinders University say a short sleep in the mid afternoon could actually
increase a worker's productivity.
Each subject performed a series of tests before and after their mid afternoon sleep.
Some subjective tests of alertness, fatigue, vigour, and also some cognitive performance
tasks, some which are pencil and paper and some that are done on the computer, and also
an objective measure of alertness, which is how long it takes someone to fall asleep.
So if it takes them a long time to fall asleep, that would suggest that they're quite alert,
and a short time to fall asleep would mean that they're quite sleepy.
Do you think you were asleep?
Yes, hard to tell but I think so. I think I did for a bit.
For how long?
It felt like probably a couple of minutes, I reckon.
I want you to do exactly the same thing now. I want you to start here and want you to go
as quickly and as accurately as you can until I tell you to stop.
So in that clip we heard a researcher talking to the subject of her tests.
You'll notice her intonation changed a lot.
Intonation refers to the changes in pitch in our voice as we speak - whether our voices
go up, or down.
Intonation is very important to learn. It has many functions in a language.
It conveys emotion. We can tell immediately listening to someone how they feel.
Someone can sound happy, or sound sad.
Intonation also conveys meaning. It let's the listener know whether something is a question
or a statement, or it can indicate different levels of certainty or uncertainty.
Hello, are you well?
Learning intonation is especially helpful for learning to ask questions, and indicating
what sort of answer we expect.
Watch part of the clip again, and listen closely to the intonation as the doctor talks to her
subject.
It felt like a couple of minutes, I reckon.
The doctor says to the subject, "Do you think you were asleep?"
Does this have a rising or falling tone?
Listen again.
Her voice goes up at the end of the sentence. We call this a rising tone.
The rising tone is used for yes/no questions - questions that need a yes or no answer.
Listen now to the second question. Does it have a rising or falling tone?
The doctor says, "For how long?"
This is a question too, but it has a falling tone.
A falling tone is used with information questions.
They're questions that need information as an answer, not just a yes or no answer.
The man answers with a statement: A couple of minutes, I reckon. This takes a falling
tone.
In English, statements usually end in a falling tone.
The falling tone at the end tells the listener that the statement is finished.
Listen to the intonation used to give instructions.
I want you to start here and I want you to go as quickly and as accurately as you can
until I tell you to stop.
Did you hear the falling tone at the end?
She said, "until I tell you to stop".
This tells the listener that this is the end of the instruction.
So, let's look at when to use rising and falling tones again.
A rising tone is used at the end of yes/no questions, and a falling tone at the end of
information questions.
Falling intonation is also used with statements.
These are very general rules, but they can help you to work out what you, as a listener,
are expected to say, and can help you, as a speaker, to convey your meaning.
Now, let's look at one last example of intonation.
Listen to what happens when we have a list in a sentence. Here's a very complicated list.
So she uses a variety of intonation. She uses rising and falling tones, and a tone that's
neither rising nor falling - just a flat tone, for the items in the list.
This tells the listener that she hasn't finished her list of tests.
And then, for the very last item in the list, how long it takes someone to fall asleep,
she uses falling intonation. This is how we know the list is finished.
We use generally use falling intonation for the last item in a list.
So you can see there are some rules for intonation, but of course it varies according to the situation,
and our attitudes to the topic.
OK, so when we're talking, we use intonation, pauses and body language to convey meaning.
But what about when we're writing?
Well, we need to use punctuation.
Let's look at one of the most common but difficult punctuation items - the comma.
Commas are used to help readers understand the exact meaning of a sentence. They're like
pauses in speech.
A comma in the wrong place can give the wrong meaning to a sentence.
For example, look at these two sentences:
Stop, Jane!
Stop Jane.
In the first sentence, the comma shows where there is a pause in speech, "Stop, Jane",
and this tells us that the speaker wants Jane to stop.
In the second sentence, there is no pause and no comma - "Stop Jane."
With no pause, we know that the speaker is telling someone else to stop Jane.
Let's look at some rules about using the comma.
First, commas are used to separate items in a list.
Look at the way commas are used here
Some subjective tests of alertness, fatigue, vigour,
and also some cognitive performance tasks.
OK, so notice that when we write down her speech, we put commas where she uses pauses
and we use intonation to separate the items in a list.
We write alertness, fatigue, vigour. We read this as alertness fatigue vigour.
Adding a comma between items in a list tells us clearly how many different items there
A second use of commas is to separate clauses in a sentence.
We use a comma to separate dependent and independent clauses, but only when the dependent clause
is first in the sentence.
This sounds complicated, but it's not really. Here's an example of a dependent clause:
because he was very tired
followed by an independent clause:
he went to bed.
Notice that we use a comma.
Because he was very tired, he went to bed.
But let's swap the clauses around:
He went to bed because he was very tired.
In sentences like this, with the independent clauses first, we don't need a comma.
Listen to the different way they're read out, and you can hear why:
Because he was very tired, he went to bed. Notice the pause.
He went to bed because he was very tired. There's no pause.
So sometimes when you're writing, it helps to think that if there's a pause, you might
need a comma.
And that's where we're going to pause today. Hope you enjoyed Study English, I'll see you
next time. Bye bye.
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VRobot Developer Luden.io Reveals AR Tribe Made with Apple’s ARKit
Today, Luden.io, the developer behind virtual reality (VR) titles such as InMind 2 and VRobot, has announced its first foray into the world of augmented reality (AR), unveiling AR Tribe, a videogame that utilises Apple’s ARKit technology.
AR Tribe is a god simulator where players have to look after and guide their tribe, just this time it’s using AR, so these digital folks are in the real-world as well. Still in its early stages, the videogame will allow players to choose from a range of options to improve the prosperity of their tribe whilst at the same time the tribe comes to them for advice.
Luden.io hasn’t revealed much more than that and the couple of gifs you can see above and below.
“We want to make your first app, which will help you to get acquainted with ARKit technology and have a lot of fun,” commented Oleg Chumakov, CEO of Luden.io in a statement. “But if you look deeper, this game is about how to adapt to a rapidly changing environment, and how to help others to adapt. Even if you are not a patron with your tribe”.
For those interested in getting a first look at the title the studio will be running an early access test towards the end of the summer. All you need to do is subscribe and Luden.io will notify you accordingly.
While some developers have likely had access to ARKit for sometime, the software was only announced during Apple’s annual WWDC 2017 conference in June. The keynote featured a couple of demonstrations such as a LEGO model that could be exploded and Wingnut AR Studio with an interactive scene.
As further details on AR Tribe are released, VRFocus will keep you updated.
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How Hanukkah came to America
Dianne Ashton | Professor of Religion, Rowan University | Via The Conversation
Hanukkah may be the best known Jewish holiday in the United States. But despite its popularity in the U.S., Hanukkah is ranked one of Judaism’s minor festivals, and nowhere else does it garner such attention. The holiday is mostly a domestic celebration, although special holiday prayers also expand synagogue worship.
So how did Hanukkah attain its special place in America?
Hanukkah’s back story
The word “Hanukkah” means dedication. It commemorates the rededicating of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem in 165 B.C. when Jews – led by a band of brothers called the Maccabees – tossed out statues of Hellenic gods that had been placed there by King Antiochus IV when he conquered Judea. Antiochus aimed to plant Hellenic culture throughout his kingdom, and that included worshipping its gods.
Legend has it that during the dedication, as people prepared to light the Temple’s large oil lamps to signify the presence of God, only a tiny bit of holy oil could be found. Yet, that little bit of oil remained alight for eight days until more could be prepared. Thus, each Hanukkah evening, for eight nights, Jews light a candle, adding an additional one as the holiday progresses throughout the festival.
Hanukkah’s American story
Today, America is home to almost 7 million Jews. But Jews did not always find it easy to be Jewish in America. Until the late 19th century, America’s Jewish population was very small and grew to only as many as 250,000 in 1880. The basic goods of Jewish religious life – such as kosher meat and candles, Torah scrolls, and Jewish calendars – were often hard to find.
Until the late 19th century, basic goods of Jewish life were hard to find in the U.S. Zoltan Kluger
In those early days, major Jewish religious events took special planning and effort, and minor festivals like Hanukkah often slipped by unnoticed.
My own study of American Jewish history has recently focused on Hanukkah’s development.
It began with a simple holiday hymn written in 1840 by Penina Moise, a Jewish Sunday school teacher in Charleston, South Carolina. Her evangelical Christian neighbors worked hard to bring the local Jews into the Christian fold. They urged Jews to agree that only by becoming Christian could they attain God’s love and ultimately reach Heaven.
Moise, a famed poet, saw the holiday celebrating dedication to Judaism as an occasion to inspire Jewish dedication despite Christian challenges. Her congregation, Beth Elohim, publicized the hymn by including it in their hymnbook.
This English language hymn expressed a feeling common to many American Jews living as a tiny minority. “Great Arbiter of human fate whose glory ne'er decays,” Moise began the hymn, “To Thee alone we dedicate the song and soul of praise.”
It became a favorite among American Jews and could be heard in congregations around the country for another century.
Shortly after the Civil War, Cincinnati Rabbi Max Lilienthal learned about special Christmas events for children held in some local churches. To adapt them for children in his own congregation, he created a Hanukkah assembly where the holiday’s story was told, blessings and hymns were sung, candles were lighted and sweets were distributed to the children.
His friend, Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, created a similar event for his own congregation. Wise and Lilienthal edited national Jewish magazines where they publicized these innovative Hanukkah assemblies, encouraging other congregations to establish their own.
Lilienthal and Wise also aimed to reform Judaism, streamlining it and emphasizing the rabbi’s role as teacher. Because they felt their changes would help Judaism survive in the modern age, they called themselves “Modern Maccabees.” Through their efforts, special Hanukkah events for children became standard in American synagogues.
20th-century expansion
By 1900, industrial America produced the abundance of goods exchanged each Dec. 25. Christmas’ domestic celebrations and gifts to children provided a shared religious experience to American Christians otherwise separated by denominational divisions. As a home celebration, it sidestepped the theological and institutional loyalties voiced in churches.
For the 2.3 million Jewish immigrants who entered the U.S. between 1881 and 1924, providing their children with gifts in December proved they were becoming American and obtaining a better life.
But by giving those gifts at Hanukkah, instead of adopting Christmas, they also expressed their own ideals of American religious freedom, as well as their own dedication to Judaism.
A Hanukkah religious service and party in 1940. Center for Jewish History, NYC
After World War II, many Jews relocated from urban centers. Suburban Jewish children often comprised small minorities in public schools and found themselves coerced to participate in Christmas assemblies. Teachers, administrators and peers often pressured them to sing Christian hymns and assert statements of Christian faith.
From the 1950s through the 1980s, as Jewish parents argued for their children’s right to freedom from religious coercion, they also embellished Hanukkah. Suburban synagogues expanded their Hanukkah programming.
As I detail in my book, Jewish families embellished domestic Hanukkah celebrations with decorations, nightly gifts and holiday parties to enhance Hanukkah’s impact. In suburbia, Hanukkah’s theme of dedication to Judaism shone with special meaning. Rabbinical associations, national Jewish clubs and advertisers of Hanukkah goods carried the ideas for expanded Hanukkah festivities nationwide.
In the 21st century, Hanukkah accomplishes many tasks. Amid Christmas, it reminds Jews of Jewish dedication. Its domestic celebration enhances Jewish family life. In its similarity to Christmas domestic gift-giving, Hanukkah makes Judaism attractive to children and – according to my college students – relatable to Jews’ Christian neighbors. In many interfaith families, this shared festivity furthers domestic tranquility.
In America, this minor festival has attained major significance.
Dianne Ashton, Professor of Religion, Rowan University
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by Hallam Whitehead · Published January 10, 2020 · Updated January 10, 2020
IP Top 10: December – Twitch’s lack of oversight on those streaming on their network may have resulted in a serious “own goal”…
Now that the festive season has drawn to a close and the wheels of business have begun to turn again around the world, we cast our eye over the big stories that would not wait until the New Year in December’s IP Top 10.
Liam Hemsworth sued for using paparazzi picture to promote film
In December, Liam Hemsworth became the latest celebrity to fall victim to a copyright infringement claim, having shared paparazzi photographs of himself on Instagram.
Splash News and Picture Agency are seeking $150,000 per infringement due to the actor posting a series of images to promote his upcoming film “Isn’t It Romantic” which is due for release next month.
This latest claim evidences the common lack of understanding surrounding image rights and copyright in photographs, which make high profile claims of this nature so common.
USA Today have a snapshot of the proceedings here.
Kim Kardashian West sues Vampire Facial Doctor
In one of our most unique headlines ever…
Remaining on trend with celebrity image rights, December also saw Kim Kardashian West file a claim against Dr Charles Runels over claims that he misused her image to promote his ‘Vampire Facial’ cosmetic procedure.
The reality star is seeking an injunction to bar any further use of her image to promote the procedure, along with damages from the doctor and any others that also profited from its circulation.
There is some irony to the claim, as Ms. West had previously shared an image of her face after completing the procedure – attracting over 150,000 likes on Instagram.
The defending Dr Runels has slammed the hypocrisy of the claim, given Ms. West had referenced his registered ‘Vampire Facial’ trade mark in her Instagram post without any permission; “First she works to let everyone in the world know she had a Vampire Facial and now she doesn’t want anyone to talk about it.”
We’re not sure what else to say about this one…
More incisive information on this from ABC news.
Twitch faced with $2.9 billion Premier League copyright claim
December saw one of Russia’s top internet companies threatened to sue streaming platform Twitch for over £2 billion due to alleged pirate broadcasts of English Premier League matches.
Rambler Group contended that its exclusive broadcasting rights were breached by Twitch more than 36,000 times between August and November and sought to permanently ban the streaming service throughout Russia.
Twitch initially argued that the claims were entirely unfounded, as the company’s terms and conditions expressly state that users cannot share content without permission from the copyright owners.
However, a settlement was reached swiftly between the two parties and the action was dropped within two days of filing. Head of Rambler Group sport projects Mikhail Gershkovitch stated, “[W]e are glad that we reached the common understanding and closed the trial proceedings, we are also grateful to Twitch for a constructive dialogue.”
The BBC have the scoop here.
Nokia halts patent litigation against Daimler with mediation olive branch
The dispute over technology licencing fees between Finnish telecoms company Nokia and German automotive company Daimler was suspended in December in an attempt to resolve the issue via mediation.
The action represents a broader conflict between tech companies and car manufacturers over royalties due for vital tech elements incorporated within car models – such as navigation and vehicle communication systems.
Nokia have previously issued ten claims against Daimler for alleged patent infringement, whilst Daimler have duly responded with counterclaims of their own.
A statement from Nokia surmised, “[T]o ensure there is time for this mediation to be successful, we have unilaterally chosen to postpone the pending hearing on 10 December in Germany… We trust that Daimler and its tier 1 suppliers will now engage in these meaningful efforts to reach settlement.”
More behind what is driving this claim here.
Dolce & Gabbana feel the wrath of God in image misappropriation action
In a ruling which exemplifies the strict degree of protection afforded to personality rights under Italian law in comparison with most European counterparts, the Milan Court of First Instance ruled in favour of footballing icon Diego Armando Maradona, ordering Dolce & Gabbana to pay around €70,000 in damages.
The dispute centred on a football shirt adorned with Maradona’s name, which was prominently displayed on the runway as part of Dolce & Gabbana’s Fall 2016 Alta Moda Collection in Naples.
Whilst the damages awarded are considerably less than the initial sum of €1 million claimed, the decision evidences the strength of the Italian Industrial Property Code and its extensive protection of image rights.
The superb The Fashion Law has more information here.
Bruce Lee’s daughter claims against fast food chain over image use
Meanwhile a case in China has raised familiar questions surrounding the protection of image rights and how such protection is balanced against the protection afforded under coexisting intellectual property rights.
Bruce Lee Enterprises, led by Bruce Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee, allege that the use of Lee’s image is entirely without permission and subsequently seek over £20 million in damages.
The image in question is of a dark-haired martial artist, over which the Real Kungfu fast-food chain have held a registered trade mark since 2007.
The complexity arises in the fact that Article 32 of the Trademark Law of the People’s Republic of China states that a sign cannot be registered as a trade mark if it prejudices the existing prior rights of others. Article 101 of the General Rules of the Civil Law of the People’s Republic of China also grants individuals the right to their name, portrait and reputation.
It appears that the Lee estate did not oppose the registration in its infancy, and whilst they own various trade marks features Lee’s name and likeness, they do not hold any marks in China.
On this basis, it seems unlikely that the claim will succeed. However, given China’s shift in attitude in relation to the protection of intellectual property, it remains to be seen whether the fast food chain will have a fight on its hands…
The BBC report here outlines the tale of the tape.
Sony reveals raft of new patents in anticipation of PS5
The close of 2019 saw Sony file for a number of patents relating to the new PlayStation 5 controller, as the company look to gear up for the launch of their most advanced gaming platform to date.
The latest controller patent reveals a raft new features, which suggest it may be marketed as an expensive model in order to compete with Microsoft’s XBOX Elite controller series, which retail for around £150.
Given the recent growth in VR gaming and the e-sports industry, the filing of new patents offer a curious insight into the direction the gaming industry is looking to take in the coming decade.
Business Insider take a peek at this impending future here.
USPTO publish Samsung patent application for extendable screen display
Further patent developments in December arose from South Korean tech giant Samsung, as documents disclosed by the US Patent & Trademark Office revealed a Samsung smartphone concept that will have the ability to expand its screen display.
With this innovation, Samsung could deliver a single smartphone solution which offers multiple display sizes.
Naturally this could provide a vital competitive edge, and the technology promises a transferable model which could be implemented across a range of tablets and display screens.
Whilst the patent was filed in June 2019, the concept has gained significant exposure in wake of the USPTO reveal.
Patently Mobile have the full story here.
Vera Lynn trade mark dispute
Dame Vera Lynn was awarded £1,800 in costs in a dispute with Halewood International, arising from their attempts to trade mark ‘Vera Lynn’ for alcoholic beverages and spirits.
The company, who are behind notable drinks brands such as Crabbie’s ginger beer, unsuccessfully argued that the name was cockney rhyming slang as opposed to a direct reference to the renowned entertainer.
In this case, “Vera Lynn” was argued to be used as cockney rhyming slang for… gin. Clever!
They also claimed that there would be no confusion with the Dame, as the name would be seen as a mere play on words by the relevant public.
However, the trademark hearing officer roundly rejected these arguments, concluding that the use of the name could be misconstrued as an endorsement.
Lynn has been using her name as an unregistered trade mark for music and charity work throughout her career, and has since sought to register her own ‘DAME VERA LYNN’ trade mark.
The Gaurdian have the full story here.
European patent office refuse patent application with AI as the sole inventor
The European Patent Office have rejected an attempt to register an AI as an official inventor on a patent application.
This occurred after the AI created two concepts submitted for patent approval, including a new type of drinks container and a device to assist during search and rescue operations.
The group behind the application, led by Professor Ryan Abbott of the University of Surrey, argued “the right approach is for the AI to be listed as the inventor and for the AI’s owner to be the assignee or owner of its patents. This will reward innovative activities and keep the patent system focused on promoting invention by encouraging the development of inventive AI, rather than on creating obstacles.”
However, the European Patent Office failed to agree, concluding that “an inventor designated in an application must be a human being, not a machine.’
This conflict of opinion evidences the complex debate surrounding AI invention, which is set to heighten in the coming years as AI technology increases in prevalence.
Whilst the EU has previously considered the addition of ‘electronic personality’ to the categories of accepted patent owners, the notion has been greatly derided by experts in robotics, IP and AI.
IP Watchdog have this story covered here.
IP Top Ten December – That’s it!
This is it for December, and with January, a new year and decade well underway, we look forward to next month’s IP Top 10.
If you would like to speak to any of the Virtuoso Legal team do not hesitate to call, or submit a query using the contact form below.
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Clients of the network pay to use some of the company’s 15 early-stage quantum-computing machines via the cloud. The service also offers access to developer tools and expertise from IBM’s quantum-computing staff.\nOther technology companies, including Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp., also allow customers to experiment with quantum-computing hardware over their respective clouds. Microsoft and Amazon announced quantum-computing services late last year.\nMore From CIO Journal\nNasdaq CIO Sees Serverless Computing as a 2020 Tech Trend January 16, 2020\nIT Spending on Track to Hit $3.9 Trillion in 2020, Gartner Says January 15, 2020\nRetailers Hope In-Store Tech Will Keep Shoppers in Stores January 15, 2020\nQuantum computers are potentially much more powerful than traditional computers, but they are also more delicate and prone to faults. The technology is still in its early stages and no commercial-grade quantum computer has been built yet. Technology companies and startups developing quantum machines face engineering challenges that are making the road to market longer than planned.\nStill, clients are learning about what the technology can do for specific use cases, said Dario Gil, director of IBM Research. “Value is being created today,” he added.\nIBM said its quantum-computing clients include Delta Air Lines Inc., Daimler AG , JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Anthem Inc. and span industries ranging from energy to electronics.\nIBM’s client announcement suggests that quantum computing is no longer a lab or university experiment, said Matthew Brisse, an analyst at research and advisory firm Gartner Inc. who covers quantum computing. “[Chief information officers] and technical professionals are looking at quantum computing today to provide a competitive differentiator in the future,” he said.\nBy 2023, a fifth of organizations, including businesses and governments, are expected to budget for quantum-computing projects, up from less than 1% in 2018, according to Gartner.\nQuantum computers, by harnessing the properties of quantum physics, have the potential to sort through a vast number of possibilities in nearly real time and come up with a probable solution. While traditional computers store information as either zeros or ones, quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, which represent and store information as both zeros and ones simultaneously.\nThe research-and-development division of Mercedes-Benz, a Daimler brand, has been using IBM’s quantum-computing services over the past year to learn how the technology could help create advanced batteries for electric cars. The company also has a quantum-computing research partnership with Alphabet Inc.’s Google.\n“The technology will unlock some potential that we don’t have right now,” said Benjamin Boeser, director of innovation management at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America.\nToday, battery development and testing is a physical process that requires experts to build prototypes first because there is no simulation software. A quantum computer could help Mercedes-Benz find new materials or combinations of materials that could result in better electrochemical performance and longer battery life.\nSome of those innovations could include lithium-sulfur batteries, which could be more affordable than today’s lithium-ion batteries, as well as more energy efficient and environmentally friendly, said Andreas Hintennach, head of battery research and technology at Daimler.\nOver the past year, researchers at Mercedes-Benz have used an IBM quantum computer to learn more about the chemical reaction between lithium and sulfur by modeling the energy between certain molecules, among other experiments, he said.\nMercedes-Benz researchers have also identified certain quantum algorithms that could eventually help with simulating battery chemistry once a commercial-grade quantum computer becomes available, he added.\nWrite to Sara Castellanos at sara.castellanos@wsj.com\nCopyright ©2019 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. 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Johnson Says U.K. Will Cut EU Ties by End of 2020
The British prime minister’s pledge once again raises the prospect of a no-deal Brexit
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Fresh from a convincing election victory, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government said it would leave a post-Brexit transition period at the end of 2020, with or without a trade deal with the European Union, raising new fears of a disruptive break with the bloc.
Last week’s election gave Mr. Johnson the parliamentary majority to pass his withdrawal agreement, putting the U.K. on track to leave the EU on Jan. 31. After that, the two sides will enter a standstill phase in which their practical relationship stays virtually...
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July 31, 2018by Kaylyn ChristopherNo CommentsFood, Summer 2018, Taste, Tastemakers
Panhandle Provisions
From crab cakes to hot dogs, the owners of the Purple Iris and Dogs 11 in Martinsburg are serving up fresh-made fare that’s sure to please your palate.
The Hartwood Mansion in Martinsburg has long been the Eastern Panhandle’s go-to venue for formal events. With towering trees and lush gardens, the 17-acre property boasts sophisticated style and colonial charm in a country setting, making it a coveted location for special occasions like anniversary celebrations, wedding ceremonies, and rehearsal dinners.
The mansion was originally built in 1929 and fully restored in 1998. But when Tiffany and Daniel Harshbarger purchased the property 16 years ago, the husband and wife duo had a grand vision to bring something new to the old house.
Daniel—a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native and graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in New York City—previously worked at the Sheraton Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C., the Lakewood Country Club in Rockville, Maryland, and Catoctin Inn and Catering in Buckeystown, Maryland. He purchased a home in Martinsburg in 1998 while he was part owner of the Catoctin Inn. An avid outdoorsman and fisherman, he fell in love with West Virginia and his new home near the Potomac River and immediately knew the community would have an appetite for his made-from-scratch American cuisine. He also knew the Hartwood Mansion was just the place to bring his idea to life. So, in 2002, he and Tiffany bought the mansion, renamed it The Purple Iris, and added fine dining to its amenities.
On the second level of the 10,000-square- foot mansion, former bedrooms have been converted into dining rooms that now serve diners looking for quality, freshly made food. “We bake our own bread and make all dressings and sauces, and our pastry chef makes all of the desserts in-house,” says Tiffany, who oversees the restaurant’s front-of-house operations while Daniel manages the kitchen. The couple even grows their own herbs to use in dishes and garnish guests’ plates.
Customers can expect an ever-changing menu and Tiffany invites them to try seasonal specials like the Yulebe Shellfish: a delectable combination of lobster, shrimp, crab, fettuccine, and lobster prawn bisque. The menu also features beloved standards like the Slammin’ Salmon filet, the Whoa Cowboy! ribeye steak, and the always popular Pride and Joy jumbo lump crab cakes.
The Purple Iris’s fresh and appetizing food is complemented by superb hospitality. “Our service is friendly and inviting,” Tiffany says. “We want people to come as they are and to enjoy a good meal. We believe in giving good portions and good, honest service.”
And that service doesn’t end at the dinner table. Under the direction of the Harshbargers, The Purple Iris has not only flourished as a restaurant but now also offers three carriage rooms for overnight accommodations. “We also get a lot of customers from outside West Virginia,” Tiffany says. “They like the fact that we are close to Harpers Ferry and Berkeley Springs. The Eastern Panhandle has so much to offer, and they can enjoy a slower pace of life here.” Each room features a king-size bed, a gas fireplace, and a whirlpool tub.
While reservations are required for a night’s stay or an evening of fine dining at the Purple Iris, Tiffany and Daniel also have something for those seeking a more informal meal—Dogs 11, their hot dog and hamburger joint, located right next door. “Daniel wanted to offer the community a local place to go get an iconic hot dog, hamburger, or kielbasa on a fresh homemade bun,” Tiffany says. “Dogs 11 also serves hand-cut fries, and we make a lot of our own accompaniments.”
Simply put, no matter your craving, the Harshbargers have got you covered. The Purple Iris is open 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday. Dogs 11 is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. 1956 Winchester Avenue, Martinsburg, 304.262.6110 thepurpleirisathartwood.com
written by Kaylyn Christopher
Kaylyn Christopher is a West Virginia University alumna who ran track and cross country for the Mountaineers while earning her journalism degree. Now a college track and cross country coach in Salem, West Virginia, she’s grateful for the opportunities her home state has provided to pursue her two greatest passions: running and writing. She resides in Fairmont with her boyfriend, rescue dog, and three cats.
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Public divided on Cheney ‘Restoring Public Input’ bill
Adobe Town in Sweetwater County is one of the BLM wilderness study areas that U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney would release for multiple use management (Bob Wick/BLM)
October 30, 2018 by Angus M. Thuermer Jr. 3 Comments
U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney last month introduced a bill to extinguish half the wilderness study acreage in Wyoming to the cheers of some officials and the dismay of supporters of county-level citizen working groups. Perhaps nowhere is the divide so evident as in Sweetwater County, site of more than half the acreage affected by Cheney’s bill.
Titled the “Restoring Public Input and Access to Public Lands Act of 2018,” HR 6939 would remove wilderness study designation and associated protections from approximately 400,000 federal acres in Lincoln, Big Horn and Sweetwater counties (see the bill below). The three counties declined to participate in a years-long consensus-based investigation of the wildlands.
Saying the wilderness-study designation “prevents access, locks up land and resources, restricts grazing rights, and hinders good rangeland and resource management,” Cheney introduced her measure Sept. 27. It marked the third time she bypassed the Wyoming Public Lands Initiative sponsored by the Wyoming County Commissioners Association. Across the state, 777,766 acres of BLM and Forest Service property are protected by wilderness study designation.
WPLI sought a single statewide wilderness bill to resolve study-area status. A majority of commissioners in the three counties, however, responded to Cheney’s early 2018 call for legislation before the WPLI process played out. In Sweetwater County the request to abolish the environmentally protective designation came on a 3-2 vote.
On that margin, the board asked Cheney to support re-designation of 234,224 acres of BLM wilderness study areas — more than half the WSA acreage in the three counties (see letter below).
The home of oil and gas fields, mines, ranches, motorized recreation and an avid outdoor recreation community, Sweetwater can be seen as a microcosm of the larger conflict.
“It’s time for Congress to act,” Sweetwater County Commissioner Wally Johnson said. If politicians had moved earlier, he could have supported a recommendation that included some wilderness designations, he said.
Now, however, “I strongly support what Rep. Cheney has done,” he said.
Not all of his colleagues agree.
“When Rep. Cheney decided she was going to introduce a bill, it kind of forced us into taking a position,” commissioner Reid West said.
Sweetwater declined in 2016 to try and resolve the matter locally through the the WPLI process — in part because of an ongoing BLM resource management plan update and fears that WPLI could lead to a selloff of public property. Conservationists criticized a Utah public-lands initiative as having that goal.
The Wyoming Wilderness Association helped assemble this map of lands — even those beyond wilderness study areas in three counties — that would be affected by U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney’s latest wilderness study bill. The conservation organization estimates the bill could affect some 4 million acres of pristine federal land in the state. (Wyoming Wilderness Association)
“We thought [WPLI] was premature,” West said. Subsequently Sweetwater was pushed by Cheney’s legislative timeline, he said.
Although Johnson said some 200 persons commented to the commission before his colleagues voted for action by Cheney, West was unsatisfied and opposed her involvement. “I felt we should not take a position without taking more public comment,” he said.
Whose input?
Cheney’s critics deride the bill, starting with its title’s nod to public input, which they called misleading. Instead of being carried on a wave of inclusive, local support, the Wilderness Society characterized it as a “top-down, one-sided measure.” Barry Reiswig of Wyoming Back Country Horsemen said in a statement the measure was dead on arrival for his organization because Cheney “failed to engage a diversity of Wyoming sportsmen, backcountry users and other citizens.”
All told, the bill would abolish WSA status across 61,379 acres of BLM property in Big Horn County, 95,740 acres of Forest Service and BLM property in Lincoln County, and the 234,445 acres in Sweetwater County. (WyoFile calculations of the affected acreage differ slightly from those of conservationists; Cheney didn’t specify an acreage in announcing the bill and WyoFile did not receive a response to interview requests from Cheney’s office.)
The bill also would require all federal lands in Wyoming classified as “lands with wilderness characteristics,” or identified through federal planning as “having wilderness characteristics” to no longer be managed under a “non-impairment standard.”
WyoFile did not receive responses to requests to several federal agencies to outline the extent of those additionally affected lands. But Shaleas Harrison of the Wyoming Wilderness Association calculated that the clauses in Cheney’s bill cover 700,000 acres of BLM land and 3.3 million acres of inventoried roadless areas on national forests in Wyoming.
Because they are federal properties, the areas shouldn’t be managed solely at the direction of area residents, said Tim Preso, managing attorney for the Northern Rockies Office of Earthjustice.
“This is land that belongs to all Americans just as much as Valley Forge,” Preso said. “I think it’s an odd result to have these local sentiments override that interest.”
Cheney’s bill “has a lot of support in the state from county commissioners,” said Harrison, whose work focuses on BLM lands. “The county commissioners really want control of federal lands. This is a movement that is not new. This has been going on for 30 years.”
The public wants some elements of preservation in Sweetwater County, she said, counting all but five of some 60 letters to commissioners as supporting protection of study areas. Public comment at a hearing was divided, she said, an assessment disputed by other stakeholders.
“There’s only one Adobe Town,” she said. “There’s only one set of shifting sand dunes, only one Devil’s Playground.
“This is our history,” she said. “These are cultural relics. To disallow them for industrial, motorized use, it is just really tragic and devastating.”
Industry is on board
In announcing her legislation, Cheney included endorsements from numerous entities. “The interest of our members, as ranchers, out on these lands, has been negatively impacted by the WSA designation because these lands have been managed as de facto wilderness,” Jim Magagna, Wyoming Stock Growers Association Executive Vice President, is quoted as saying in a Cheney-office statement.
A review and recommendation by a former federal recreation specialist shows unsuccessful drill sites in his proposed Adobe Town National Monument in Sweetwater County. A bill by U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney would extinguish the wilderness study designation, which Sweetwater County Commissioners said have hindered multiple use activities such as petroleum development. (Vernon Lovejoy/WPLI)
Wilderness-study designations “have needlessly limited access and multiple-use,” the Petroleum Association of Wyoming told Cheney, according to her press release. “…[H]opefully they will become a much-needed revenue source for Wyoming and the Federal Government.”
Many of those quoted supported Cheney’s assertion that limiting development on lands with “wilderness characteristics” constituted an abuse of federal authority. “Federal lands that have not been formally designated by Congress as wilderness should be managed under the multiple-use mandate to provide for the public good,” she quoted Zippy Duval, the president of American Farm Bureau Federation, as saying.
Jonathan Schick, owner of High Mountain Heli-Skiing, also backs Cheney’s bill in the congresswoman’s announcement. Cheney’s measure is supported by “many constituents whose chosen form of recreation has been gradually litigated and pushed to the point of being fazed [sic] out,” his statement said. The Wyoming Mining Association added, “our federal land resources should always be managed in a manner consistent with the policy of multiple-use to allow for a variety of activities such as mining, agriculture and recreation.”
Cheney critics say federal laws required creating special designations and mandate that the acreages are catalogued, updated and kept track of. “The agencies are just implementing what Congress directed,” Preso said.
Wilderness Association staffer Harrison said land managers “have to keep an inventory of all the resources,” a requirement Cheney’s bill would abolish. As an employee in such a position, “that’s your job,” she said.
Cheney’s bill also would bifurcate ecological units, Preso said, making county boundaries “the key delineation,” in land-use management. The Forest Service’s 134,417-acre Palisades Wilderness Study Area, for example, set aside by Cheney’s father, then Rep. Dick Cheney, in the 1984 Wyoming Wilderness Act, would lose 62,637 acres of protection in Lincoln County, but not in Teton County.
“The Palisades is one intact unit of national forest roadless [country] of extreme natural values that don’t stop at county lines,” Preso said. He called Cheney’s bill “an extreme, arbitrary approach,” to managing a block of wild ecosystem.
Development prospects
Whether there’s a ton of money to be made or resources to be extracted from wilderness study areas is unknown. Wyoming State Geologist Erin Campbell’s website maps numerous oil-and-gas fields and mines in southwest Wyoming, including Sweetwater County. Five large natural gas developments are underway in the Green River Basin that extends into Sweetwater County and surrounding lands, she reports. Anadarko’s Blacks Fork project and Jonah Energy’s Normally Pressured Lance project alone would drill 11,000 wells.
But nobody’s asked her what resources Sweetwater’s wilderness study areas hold. It would be a difficult question to answer without millions of dollars in exploratory investments. “We have not had a request for that,” she said of a Sweetwater resource accounting.
A map assembled by a recreation consultant shows roads, including some that have been closed, in Sweetwater County. Wilderness-study-area opponents oppose permanent wilderness protection that would generally prohibit motorized and mechanized travel from the untrammeled lands. (Vernon Lovejoy/WPLI)
One recreation specialist believes there isn’t much of value that’s been kept off limits. Vernon E. Lovejoy, a consultant and former federal employee with the Department of the Interior and Bureau of Land Management, assembled an exhaustive inventory of BLM wilderness study areas in Wyoming that’s available on the WPLI website.
“The WSAs have restricted some efforts at mineral exploration over the past 35 years,” he wrote. “However, based on the GIS analysis in this report, the WSAs have never been valuable production areas. Even before the WSA program was established, wells were drilled in WSAs, but none were ever productive and all are now abandoned.”
The BLM itself in the early 1990s recommended at least 68,303 acres in Sweetwater county be designated as wilderness, plus the Honeycomb Buttes which are partly in Fremont County.
Sweetwater’s Johnson agreed petroleum reserves in one site — Adobe Town — may be limited, but nearby there are real plays with “great oil-and-gas potential.” To be sure, “I’d have to defer to those people in the oil and gas business,” he said.
Johnson appears frustrated with federal management, pointing to the designation of “lands with wilderness characteristics” as overreach. “Where that came from is beyond me,” he said. “Somebody in the BLM is making that decision. I don’t agree with that.”
As far as WPLI, he doesn’t see that undertaking by nine counties as a solution. “Look at all the other counties,” he said, many of which remain locked in disagreement or have deviated from the original WPLI charter. “Have they made a recommendation yet?”
Carbon County has recommended a mix of wilderness, special management, wilderness study and other designations.
“I believe we’re elected to make decisions and that’s what we’ve done,” Johnson said.
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Sweetwater County Commission Chairman West understands where his colleagues are coming from. “They also felt there are some other designations [besides wilderness or wilderness study] that could be applied to those lands,” he said. “They could possibly have some other protections put on them by the BLM.”
“I just felt like we were rushed into making a decision that has big ramification,” West said. “It’s the type of subject matter we needed to take a lot of public comment to make it right.”
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Angus M. Thuermer Jr. is the natural resources reporter for WyoFile. He is a veteran Wyoming reporter and editor with more than 35 years experience in Wyoming. Contact him at [email protected] or (307) 690-5586. Follow Angus on Twitter at @AngusThuermer
Craig Thompson says
Representative Cheney’s Bill Mocks Public Input
Four percent – the unemployment rate in Sweetwater County. Ninety-six percent of us are working. Four percent – the percentage of public land in Sweetwater County being considered for wilderness. Ninety-six percent of our public lands are working and available for development. But ninety-six percent is not enough. Rep. Liz Cheney’s bill wants it all for development.
With the stroke of a federal pen, Cheney’s bill, HR 6939, would release Wilderness Study Areas (WSAs) in Sweetwater, Lincoln, and Bighorn Counties. The bill opens them up to mining, oil and gas development, and gravel pits. It would also release roadless areas statewide. Further, it prevents the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from ever inventorying for wilderness on public land in the future.
Entitled the “Restoring Public Input and Access to Public Lands Act of 2018,” Cheney’s bill instead mocks public input by bypassing the Wyoming Public Lands Initiative sponsored by the Wyoming County Commissioners Association. Cheney did not hold one public hearing or meeting in the state to get feedback from Wyoming residents. Instead, she asked development-friendly county commissioners.
True, the Sweetwater County Commission declined to participate in the initiative, preferring to wait for the BLM planning process to play out. Why then did the Sweetwater County Commission narrowly approve a measure to release the WSAs, instead of waiting for the BLM plan?
While the bill may have support from industry and other consumptive users, it sure didn’t consider sportsmen and sportswomen, anglers, hikers, and hunters. The written comments submitted to the Sweetwater County Commissioners indicate an overwhelming majority of Wyoming residents, including Sweetwater County residents, disapproved of Cheney’s bill.
Why wilderness at all? In three words, demand, rarity and science. As population increases, the number of people seeking wilderness experiences increases. Wilderness is important because it is rare. Wilderness is important for science. I once hosted two young European glacier researchers in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness. After supper, one student climbed a nearby peak and started cheering. Upon returning, he elatedly expressed his astonishment that as far as he could see in any direction, he could not see a single light. Such rare wilderness experiences should also be preserved in Sweetwater County.
Wilderness is important because it belongs to more than just us – the WSAs are held in trust for all Americans. WSAs are important because they contain ecologically unique and undiscovered scientific information.
There is only one Adobe Town on the planet. Our fast-shifting Sand Dunes are unique in North America. Devils’ Playground is the only place like it in the world. But these places are fragile. Our WSAs are not resilient for many reasons – aridity being one. A mine, a road, a pipeline or a gravel pit would destroy these lands, and the WSA would be gone forever. Gone like the bison from the Red Desert.
I ask the public and our commissioners, why not protect our remaining wild country – the four percent? I oppose Cheney’s bill and ask Wyoming to advocate for the wilderness we have left!
Dennis Knight says
Thank you for an excellent update. I place great value on both multiple-use management AND wilderness on public lands. They are not in conflict. The Multiple Use-Sustained Yield Act of 1960 specifies that multiple use “is not necessarily the combination of uses that will give the greatest dollar return or the greatest unit output.” The Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984 refers to the “high values” of wilderness and lists the various uses that are compatible with and made possible by wilderness. Livestock grazing, hunting, fishing, and camping are allowed. Contrary to what is implied by Representative Cheney’s title, access is easy—except for mechanized travel and commodity extraction. Nearly all of Wyoming is already available for that.
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Frank Prevedel says
Sweetwater County Commissioners were dead wrong in the decision they made, Apparently three of them felt that “Washington Know Best”. Among those who testified for the commission letter were ranchers, and their good friend the Sweetwater Conservation District, which the commission supports financially. The rank and file Sweetwater residents were ignored. Time for new commissioners and elimination of the SCW.
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The Servant - 50th Anniversary
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Adapted from Robin Maugham's short story, 1963 drama The Servant marked the first of three collaborations between director Joseph Losey and celebrated playwright Harold Pinter.
Experienced manservant Barrett (Dirk Bogarde) starts working for foppish aristocrat Tony (James Fox) in his smart new townhouse. Much to the annoyance of Tony's girlfriend (Wendy Craig), Barrett slowly initiates himself into the house and begins to manipulate his master. Nominated for five BAFTA's and winning three, including best actor for Dirk Bogarde, The Servant is notable for its ambitious technique and its willingness to engage with what were, at the time, issues never before seen in British cinema.
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This was my first Losey and it was brilliant. Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles and Wendy Craig were all excellent and Pinter's screenplay (first one, I believe) was outstanding. The Studio Canal disc looked great and was packed with so many supplements that it took a few days to go through. Great buy!
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DNR Offers Four Multicultural, Family Fishing Events on Mississippi River
Original news release by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: http://news.dnr.state.mn.us/2019/07/25/dnr-offering-four-multicultural-family-fishing-events-on-mississippi-river/
Anyone who wants to try fishing is invited to multicultural, family fishing events happening at four locations in four days along the Mississippi River from Coon Rapids to Hastings, where people can get a chance to fish for many types of fish at close-to-home locations.
“These events are a way to get people excited about fishing, especially from communities traditionally underrepresented in our angling public,” said Ray Ruiz, Department of Natural Resources fishing and hunting skills liaison. “I see a lot of people fishing the river, and if you think about it, the river connects everybody – from Coon Rapids to Hastings, they all share the same water.”
The events will include fun, interactive and practical fishing methods and techniques and are geared toward anyone who doesn’t much have experience with fishing, lacks fishing equipment or wants to learn how to fish on the river’s edge. Attendees will learn how to tie fishing knots, practice casting, making baits, and fishing, with fishing gear and bait provided. People can attend one or more of the four days of events, scheduled as follows:
Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park in Coon Rapids, 4-8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15
Boom Island Park in Minneapolis, 4-8 p.m. Friday Aug. 16
Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17
Lake Rebecca Park in Hastings, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18.
The events will let people try river fishing, which can be different from lake fishing because of the moving water and the variety of fish to catch. Each location includes playgrounds, places to grill and amenities near the river. Ruiz also plans to go over fishing techniques and how to fish for different species of fish – from smallmouth bass to panfish to catfish.
“The river flows through our major metro area and it’s a tremendous resource for anyone who wants to give fishing a try,” Ruiz said. “We’re bringing fishing to the people, all you have to do is show up.”
The fishing events are possible through participation of the city of Hastings, city of Minneapolis, National Park Service, city of St. Paul and Three Rivers Park District.
Potential anglers who want to learn how to fish can visit the DNR website at mndnr.gov/GoFishing. The page covers fishing basics, where to fish, how to catch different types of fish, fishing programs to join, and the importance of fishing ethics and being stewards of Minnesota’s natural resources.
On the North Shore, many hands work to help a dying forest
Credit to Cody Nelson of MPR News for the original article: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/07/25/north-shore-forest-restoration-white-pine
From bugs to invasive species to hotter temps, a host of factors are laying waste to Minnesota’s northeastern forests.
Emily Krulc, center, and her Minnesota Conservation Corps crew take a lunch break while planting white pine seedlings in the Moose Creek area near Schroeder, Minn., on June 24.
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Northern Minnesota once boasted stands of massive white and red pine — giants that lived up to 350 years, with trunks 4 or 5 feet in diameter.
When they were logged out, trees with shorter life spans, like birch, took their place. Now, those trees are dying off.
What’s the answer? For now, it’s plant more trees.
“There’s so much destruction,” said Emily Krulc as she and her Minnesota Conservation Corps team planted white pine seedlings on a recent, wet day in Minnesota’s Arrowhead region. “How can we find a balance between our needs, human needs, and also still caring for the lands that essentially [are] going to be what sustains us?”
A Minnesota Conservation Corps member loosens the dirt from a white pine seedling before planting it in the Moose Creek watershed near Schroeder.
Efforts to restore Minnesota’s iconic forests face numerous obstacles — from invasive species competing for space to deer eating tree seedlings before they get a chance to grow. But they’re crucial to the Arrowhead region’s ability to continue providing environmental and economic benefits for decades to come.
Planting is the painstaking, unheralded work that will give the forests a chance.
‘We have to get out there and make it happen’
Krulc and her team descended on a football field-sized patch of forestland west of Schroeder, Minn., to plant 350 tree seedlings — mostly white pine — one morning last month.
Using planter bars and chainsaws to clear out any undesired growth, they planted a tree every 10 to 12 feet. Figuring out exactly where to plant a tree is something of a guessing game.
“Humans don’t always know where trees want to go,” Krulc said, “so we’re kind of doing our best to guess you know where these white pines might like to grow and getting them in the ground.”
Sometimes it works best to plant a baby tree among fallen branches lying on the ground, she said. Other times, trees just go where the soil is soft enough to get them in the ground.
When the seedlings get a little older, workers plan to install fencing around the tree or attach bud caps, paper stapled over the top of the tree. These measures protect the young trees from hungry deer.
The Conservation Corps crew was working on land owned by the Rajala Woods Foundation, a nonprofit established by the electrical utility Minnesota Power.
Water flows down Moose Creek near Schroeder. Twelve-hundred acres along Moose Creek are owned by the Rajala Woods Foundation.
This 1,200-acre plot sits along Moose Creek, about a 30-minute drive inland from Lake Superior. The landscape is a thick, relatively young forest. Utility towers stand out above the trees, slinging wires above the trees.
“If you look around, you’re challenged to see any white pine or red pine or jack pine,” said Kurt Anderson, the foundation’s chair.
Anderson’s job is to change that. Rajala Woods is in the early stages of a project to plant 3 million white pine and other trees with long lifespans in forests in central and northeastern Minnesota.
Kurt Anderson of the Rajala Woods Foundation, left, watches a trout feed in Moose Creek.
Its namesake, Jack Rajala, was a white pine advocate who planted some 3 million trees in his own lifetime. He also made his living from the timber industry that was responsible for cutting most of the trees in the first place.
Logging of the huge white pine began in Minnesota in the mid-19th century.
Many white and red pine were harvested and sent to market in the following decades. “At that time the forest supply of these long-lived tree species seemed inexhaustible. And that obviously wasn’t the case,” Anderson said.
Some major wildfires and droughts took a toll on the woods, too.
As the forest grew back, it was different. Birch and other trees with shorter life spans, like aspen and balsam fir, became abundant. Long-lived pines, more scarce.
Anderson said people realized white pine preservation and restoration needed attention as early as the 1920s. But early efforts to restore white pine backfired.
“White pine was brought over to Europe to grow in some nurseries to bring back over here,” Anderson said, “and during that overseas trip, blister rust was introduced to white pine.”
Blister rust, a fungus that can infect and kill white pine, became a veritable enemy. So did a growing population of whitetail deer, which found an ideal habitat in forests that had been cleared out by logging.
Modern forest restorers have learned from past mistakes. In 1997, Rajala published a guidebook for how he believed restoration should happen.
“If we want to bring [the white pine] back, we have to do far more than wait for it to just happen —we have to get out there and make it happen,” Rajala wrote in “Bringing Back the White Pine.”
A large white pine stands over Highway 61 on the North Shore on June 25.
Today, Anderson said, the short-lived tree species are reaching the end of their lifespan. That explains the declining birch stands along Lake Superior.
As this continues, he said a worst-case scenario means an unrecognizable forest.
“You end up with a scrubland, a brush scrubland that doesn’t provide a lot of ecological benefit. It doesn’t provide a lot of economic benefit,” Anderson said. “There’s not much timber there to harvest, it doesn’t host a lot of wildlife habitat.”
Some scientists have projected a savanna-like habitat in northeast Minnesota’s Arrowhead region.
Jim Manolis, forest conservation program director at The Nature Conservancy, said a “perfect storm of factors” are leading to this dying forest — from bugs to invasive species to hotter temperatures to the deer.
“Forests along the North Shore are dying,” he said. “I think it’s safe to say there’s hundreds of thousands of acres that are in poor condition and need some help.”
While there’s no measurement on exactly how much forest is dying or at risk, Manolis said, the Nature Conservancy is working on a comprehensive map using lidar and other data sources.
Forest advocates say there’s hope for the white pine, but not without a lot of human intervention.
“We have to be a little smarter as a society about trying to think out not just 50 years in advance,” Anderson said, “but maybe 150 years in advance.”
This forward thinking would prime the forest to withstand climate change and economic changes. It’d also make it a continued haven for nature lovers, and the creatures that keep them coming back.
‘You can feel the age of a forest’
Shawn Perich prepares to fly fish in a creek off of the Gunflint Trail near Grand Marais, Minn. on June 25.
Shawn Perich caught his first brook trout at age 4 and was instantly hooked on fishing.
When he’s fly-fishing, Perich switches off the outside world.
“There’s really nothing else going on for me except being here in the river and feeling the current wrapping around me as I wade in the stream,” he said, “and just being entirely focused on where I’m placing that fly and whether I can get a fish to strike.”
Perich has fished for trout across North America, he said, but he always finds himself drawn back to the North Shore.
He lives with his dog, Rainy, in Hovland, Minn., and works as a publisher of Northern Wilds magazine.
Perich spends a lot of time in the North Shore streams that feed into Lake Superior. He and Rainy were visiting one of his favorite spots — he swore a reporter to secrecy on its exact location.
He caught two brook trout in as many casts one recent morning. Then he pulled in several more of the color-spotted golden fish, releasing each back to the stream.
“They’re so pretty, it’s just hard to keep ‘em,” he said after pulling in a fish.
A brook trout leaps out of the water after biting a fly in a creek down the Gunflint Trail near Grand Marais.
A seasoned angler, Perich knows what makes a good home for brook trout.
For one, they need cool water — he said one brook felt like an “ice cube” once out of the stream. And that cool water comes from shade.
Tall, old trees like the white pine can provide shade for these Lake Superior tributaries their entire length through the forest.
Being in a stand of white pine that could be centuries old feels different, Perich said. And indescribable.
“That’s a hard thing to put into words, really,” he said. “But you can feel the age of a forest. When you walk into a standard white pine you can tell you’re in a special place.”
Perich ties a fly onto his line while fishing.
Perich recognizes the forest will never return to how it was before Europeans arrived. It’s critical that forest restoration efforts continue to look forward, he said.
Even if current restoration projects succeed, the forest won’t be what it used to be. But, planners hope, it’ll be a diverse, healthy forest that’s more resistant to climate change and one that resembles the nature Minnesotans cherish.
“The land was here before us, the land will probably be here after us. And we have to work with nature,” Perich said. “And nature itself really hasn’t changed that much over that period of time.
“And if we can continue to perpetuate what’s here, what’s supposed to be here, I don’t know if there’s anything better we can do.”
Minnesota Weekly Fishing Update
Credit to Explore Minnesota for the newsletter.
Fishing at sunset on Leech Lake
Most species continue to bite despite recent above-normal temperatures. Bass and muskie action has kicked into high gear. The crappies are schooling and eager to bite. Walleye anglers are still taking nice numbers of fish.
The forecast for most of the state this weekend calls for mostly sunny skies with highs in the 70s — ideal for a fishing outing!
For rules, regulations and other helpful information on fishing in Minnesota, consult the DNR’s Fish Minnesota web page.
[Northeast] [Northwest] [Central] [Minneapolis-St. Paul Area] [Southern]
Northeast Minnesota
International Falls – Rainy Lake
Walleye remain in a transition phase on Rainy Lake. They are beginning to show up on the main lake reef tops, breaklines and deeper points. Most of this activity is in 12 to 24 foot depths. Walleyes at the reefs are generally holding on the top or near the top of the structure. Jigs, lindy rigs and slip bobbers with a leech have been turning lots of fish. Many walleye remain shallow and continue to be caught in and around weedlines. Traditional spinner rigs with a crawler or minnow continue to be effective. More walleye will show up on the main lake structure in the coming weeks or even days.
While most smallmouth bass are done nesting, many remain shallow in 2 to 5 feet of water. Others are further along in the transition, holding in and around the deeper boulders in 5 to 10 feet of water. As always, weed growth and wind make good rock structure better.
Some crappies continue to be caught on small jigs and slip bobbers in 4 to 6 feet of water. The weeds or a combination of rock structure and weeds are generally best. Other crappies are beginning to school up on the breaklines, points and sunken brush piles.
Like walleye, northern pike are transitioning out to the main lake structure, showing up at the deeper points and reef tops in 12 to 25 foot depths. Walleye anglers report that it is not uncommon for a pike to attack walleye as they are being reeled in. Other pike are still being caught when casting the weed structure, shorelines and points with spoons, spinner baits and larger stick baits. 800-325-5766; www.rainylake.org
Kabetogama
The sun is out and water is warm! Blueberries and raspberries are starting to ripen. If you search the lake islands, you will find them first. The first major mayfly hatch is over on Lake Kabetogama so fishing should take a turn for the better. The next challenge is the abundance of forage as this year’s minnows are abundant. Water temperatures have risen into the high 70s which will send fish deeper on calm, sunny days.
Last week, 8 to 14 foot depths gave up lots of nice walleye, with live bait rigs and leeches and spinners with half of a crawler producing best. On days with wind and during low light hours, these tactics should continue to be productive. On sunny, calm days, check 20 to 30 feet of water using rigs and leeches. Walleye fishing has also been great at the windblown shorelines and muddy bottom weedlines. Anglers pulling bottom bouncers with a spinner and crawler are having lots of success. On bright days, use orange or chartreuse; on cloudy days, whites and pinks work better. The shallow weedlines on Lake Namakan are beginning to produce as well. Northern pike have been aggressive, responding to large, soft plastics and spinnerbaits worked at the rock piles and rocky shorelines. 800-524-9085; www.kabetogama.com
Ely Area Lakes and Rivers
The walleye bite remains fairly consistent throughout the area. Most of the walleye are coming from 6 to 8 feet of water at the weed beds and windy shorelines. A jig tipped with a leech or half a crawler has been best. Shallow-diving crank baits are also worth trying. A few large walleye are being pulled from the sunken islands on spinner rigs tipped with a leech or crawler, as well as on a jig and leech worked in 12 to 15 feet of water. Blue, pink and gold remain the best colors.
Smallmouth bass fishing remains excellent as fish begin to stage on the edge of the first break. Anglers should continue to work the shoreline, fishing a bit deeper in roughly 10 feet of water for the bigger bass. Topwater fishing remains good early in the morning, but anglers will want to switch to spinner baits, jerk baits or senko rigs as the sun rises. Pink, white and chartreuse remain the top colors. Anglers are having to fight off the northern pike at times.
Crappies remain shallow in the weed beds. Anglers casting a simple jig and twister, close to thick stands of weeds, are catching lots of nice fish. During evening hours, crappies are hitting crappie minnows under a bobber, small crank baits, and jigs and twisters out on the weed edges. White, yellow and pink colors have been working best.
Lake trout fishing has been good, with anglers taking fish on flashy spoons and down riggers trolled through 40 to 80 feet of water. Stick baits trolled with 3 to 4 colors of lead core line out have also produced lake trout.
Northern pike remain very active, but most have been on the smaller side. Spinnerbaits, buzz baits and suspended jerk baits fished in and around the weed beds have accounted for the majority of pike. Many large pike are now coming from the deep reefs where they are accidentally being caught by walleye anglers. Anglers targeting these fish are having luck with large minnow baits fished right on top of the humps. 800-777-7281; www.ely.org
Grand Rapids Area Lakes
The heat of the summer has kicked in and the muskie bite is heating up! Watch for muskie as they cruise the top of the cabbage weeds. They can also be caught in deeper waters on certain lakes. Many times the pike are suspended, awaiting whitefish and tullibee that may be feeding on bug hatches. The cabbage fish are often the most visible and active. Fast-paced cowgirl buck tails (double bladed) or noisy top water baits can be the key for hot summer muskie fishing. Lakes in the Grand Rapids area to chase muskie include Deer, North Star, Spider and Moose, along with the Mississippi River between the dams. Each of these have great habitat and abundant trophy-sized fish.
Largemouth and smallmouth bass fishing has also been good. Anglers will want to target the outside weedlines for consistent action. For smallmouth bass, use chatter baits and drop shot in areas with a mix of weeds and rocks. For largemouth bass, use swim baits with action tails and plastics over the top of the weeds and around docks. www.visitgrandrapids.com
Northwest Minnesota
Baudette – Lake of the Woods & the Rainy River
It has been an excellent week of summer fishing on the south end of Lake of the Woods. Walleye are responding well to jigging with frozen shiners or leeches. Drifting spinners with crawlers is also working well. The best depths remain 29 to 32 feet of water. The basin is filling with walleye, and crank baits are turning fish.
Anglers are taking a mixed bag of fish from the Rainy River and Four Mile Bay. Spinners and jigs are both working well. Some walleye are coming from the river channel edge of Four Mile Bay. Smallmouth bass are being pulled from the rocky areas, weed beds and bridges.
At the Northwest Angle & Islands Area, a combination of eating-size walleye and slot-sized fish are responding to spinners drifted west of Little Oak. Hammered gold and silver blades remain strong. Some walleye can be found on the structure, while others are holding over the mud. Fishing is still strong for smallmouth bass, large northern pike and muskie. 800-382-FISH; www.lakeofthewoodsmn.com
Walker – Leech Lake
Some days have been good for walleye anglers on Leech Lake, but overall, walleye fishing has been inconsistent now that we’re in the midst of summer. There is still a lot of bait in the water as the yearly bug hatches drag on. Anglers having the most success are trolling crank baits in a perch or crayfish pattern over the 12 to 17 foot flats. Pay attention to your locator and fish the areas where bait is coming up off the bottom. In the evenings, slide up to the shorelines in 7 to 10 feet of water and continue to pull crank baits to catch actively feeding walleye.
Some of the weedlines are still producing some walleye. Pulling spinner rigs tipped with a crawler or leech has been producing walleye, as well as perch, northern pike panfish and bass. Green, yellow and gold spinners or a plain live bait rig are good choices. The cabbage and coon tail weeds in 9 to 15 foot depths are almost certain to produce some sort of action.
Muskie fishing is still a bit slow, but some anglers are starting to turn lookers into biters. Buck tails and jerk baits seem to be the best baits, and the cabbage beds are giving up a few more fish than the rock.
Panfish are being pulled from the cabbage beds on 1/32 ounce jig stipped with a leech, crawler or plastic. Please release the large 9.5 to 10 plus inch fish as they are the prime spawners — the 8 to 9 inches are perfect for a fish fry. 800-833-1118; www.leech-lake.com
Mid-summer crappie action is in full swing. Crappies can be found schooled in and around the heavy, shallow weed beds in 8 to 12 feet of water. Anglers using 1/16 ounce tube jigs about halfway down along the weed edges or through the weed tops are taking lots of fish. In the middle of the day, these fish can be grouped tight together inside the weeds.
Walleye are being caught on the weed lines and secondary breaks in water ranging from 12 to 25 feet deep. Fast-moving live bait rigs such as a crawler/spinner combination worked along the weed edges will put fish in the boat, along with some really nice bluegills.
Largemouth bass are also schooling on the deep weedlines found on the points or inside turns in depths of 15 to 20 feet. It’s hard to beat a black 7 inch power worm rigged Texas-style. 800-247-0054; www.parkrapids.com
Walleye are holding in 13 to 28 feet of water in Detroit Lakes area lakes. The walleye are shallower on the stained lakes. The clear lakes are giving up walleye at the deeper weed edges. Long bars, extending points and sunken islands are all holding fish. Fish the windswept structure whenever possible. Rigging, jigging, pulling spinners and crank baits, and jigging raps have all turned fish.
Crappies have been roaming the flats in 9 to 13 feet of water, with many relating to the cabbage weeds. Sunfish are active at the weed patches, but some of the bigger bluegill are coming from water as deep as 24 feet off the sharp beaks.
Bass are also relating to the weeds out on the edges of the large flats or extending shoreline points.
Northern pike action remains mostly shallow, but some of the larger pike have come from deeper water off the edges and on the first breaks to deep water and basin areas. Muskie catches have improved over the last week or so with more summerlike temperatures. Fish are active and chasing high-action baits. 800-542-3992; www.visitdetroitlakes.com
Otter Tail Area Lakes
Hot summer temperatures have kicked the bass action into high gear! Lots of presentations, including stick worms on jigs, wacky rigs and swim jigs are turning fish on the deep weed edges on nearly every lake in the county. This is also a great time of year to try some topwater fishing. Frogs fished on top of the slop and in the lily pads will trigger bass.
Even some large bluegills are responding to the topwater lures, but the best way to catch them is by vertically jigging and casting bobbers at the deep weed edges. The points and inside turns at the deep weeds, cabbage and coontail are generally best.
Crappies are heavily related to the cabbage, especially on the main lake humps. Try working tubes over the tops of the cabbage leaves, as well as under deep swim rafts.
The walleye bite seems to be best when the wind blows. Walleye can be found stacked up on the main lake saddles, and at the deep weed edges. Spinner rigs and snells with a half a night crawler fished on a bottom bouncer is a great way to cover water and take your limit. 800-423-4571; www.ottertailcountry.com
Brainerd Area Lakes
Most species are biting in the Brainerd Lakes area! Despite the heat wave, the majority remain fairly shallow.
Walleye can be found in 6 to 20 feet of water on the larger lakes, and in 12 to 25 feet of water on the smaller lakes. For the most fish, check the green weeds on the points and inside turns. Some fish can also 0be found on the tips of points on the gradual sloping areas.
Panfish remain very active, hitting crawlers and leeches worked in 10-15 feet of water. The largemouth bass are very aggressive in the shallows. Some of the best bites are early in the morning on top water lures. Northern pike are active and feeding mostly during low light periods at the dense, weed-covered sharp edges. 800-450-7247; www.visitbrainerd.com
Isle/Onamia – Lake Mille Lacs
Late last week, roughly 17 people head out on a night launch on Lake Mille Lacs. The group took lots of large 18 to 20 inch bass, along with roughly 50 walleye. Crayfish-colored lures have been good for the smallmouth. 888-350-2692; www.millelacs.com
Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Three Rivers Park District – Carver, Hennepin, Ramsey and Scott counties
The Three Rivers Park District offers fishing at 18 parks in the Twin Cities area with a chance to reel in muskie, northern pike, sunfish, bass and walleye. Launch your boat at a lake access site, rent a boat or stay on land as you fish from a pier or on shore. There are also free fishing adventures. Learn more.
Stillwater – St. Croix River
A number of large catfish were pulled from the St. Croix River this week. For most, a 10 pound channel cat is a big cat, and the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers are filled with them. These daytime fish are feeding heavily and they don’t play games when they strike. Fishing for catfish is always fun, especially when the cats are biting like they are right now. 651/351-1717; www.discoverstillwater.com
Lanesboro – Southeast Bluff Country Rivers and Streams
Water temperatures near the springs in the spring fed streams are in the high 50s. The larger streams are in the mid- to upper 60s so it has been really refreshing to wade in the cold water at the end of a hot day.
Some areas did not receive heavy rainfall this week. Streams and rivers roughly 10 miles north and south of I90 had much less rain and not much runoff to spoil the fishing conditions. As always look for the small spring fed streams that don’t get as much runoff and that clear quickly. The North Branch Whitewater and South Branch Root River at Carimona are good examples.
Muddy waters have slowed many hatches but little midges, a few caddis, and an occasional large mayfly are still being seen. The trout fry are growing so larger crank baits and spinners are a more realistic mimic for the large bite items and frogs and toads are dropping into the streams attracting larger fish. The first grasshoppers are also being seen so hopper patterns should be considered as well.
Consider attending the Twin Cities Trout Unlimited Fish Camp at Whitewater State Park, August 2-4. Participants will enjoy fishing, as well as lessons and instruction, camping, children’s activities, snacks and four meals.
For years, the MN DNR has maintained assessable fishing sites in Whitewater State Park, near the Lanesboro Hatchery on Duschee Creek, and at the Lanesboro Park and Dam. Online maps are available.
Check out the DNR’s Stream Flow Report for the most current conditions. Before you go, check out the “Area Highlights” section of the Lanesboro Area Fisheries web page for stream maps. 800-944-2670; www.lanesboro.com
Herbicide applications help reforestation efforts in Remer area
News release comes from the Minnesota DNR: http://news.dnr.state.mn.us/2019/07/16/herbicide-applications-to-help-reforestation-efforts-in-the-remer-area/
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will begin herbicide applications on select state lands to improve reforestation efforts. Applications will begin around August 15 and continue through approximately September 20 on select parcels in the Remer State Forest in the vicinity of the Pine Tree Hunter Walking Trail.
Signs will be posted on all herbicide treatment sites. Adjacent landowners within a quarter mile of the treatment sites have already been notified. Herbicides will not be applied within 100 feet of any waterbody, following DNR herbicide application guidelines.
The DNR plants trees on state lands to reforest harvested areas, provide wildlife habitat, protect watersheds, and maintain healthy forests. Part of the reforestation process involves applying herbicides to the harvested areas prior to or following tree planting.
Herbicides are sprayed on the ground after reforestation to reduce competing woody vegetation.
This gives tree seedlings a better chance to grow and survive. In smaller treatment areas, herbicides are sprayed from the ground. In large treatment areas, helicopters do aerial spraying using precise GPS-guided mapping. The DNR uses minimal amounts of herbicide only when absolutely necessary. The DNR uses a non-neonicotinoid herbicide that has been proven safe for bees and other pollinators.
This past spring in the DNR’s Deer River work area, the Forestry Division planted more than 14,000 seedlings on 60 acres, and an additional 118 acres were seeded. Statewide, more than 1.9 million seedlings were planted on state forest lands and more than 5,300 acres were seeded this year.
For additional information on sites treated with herbicide in the Deer River work area, contact John Segari at 218-246-8343.
More information about the DNR’s Forestry Division can be found on the DNR website at mndnr.gov/forestry.
DNR seeks input on managing Mille Lacs fishery
Credit to Kirsti Marohn of MPR News for the article: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/07/16/dnr-seeks-input-on-mille-lacs-lake-management
The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe is using acoustic telemetry technology to study the walleye population on Lake Mille Lacs. Researchers launched the study from Shah-bush-kung Bay in Vineland, Minn., in July 2018.
Paul Middlestaedt for MPR News 2018
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is gathering public input on its first management plan for Lake Mille Lacs.
About two dozen people gathered at Mille Lacs Kathio State Park Tuesday evening to hear about the lake’s changing fish population and share their opinions about how it should be managed.
DNR fisheries chief Tom Heinrich said the agency’s goal is to get input from anglers, business owners and others with an interest in the lake’s fishery. A draft plan is expected to be complete by this fall or winter.
It will be the first such management plan for Mille Lacs, which is co-managed by eight Ojibwe bands that retain fishing rights on the lake. The DNR has completed similar plans for other large Minnesota lakes.
The DNR sets the amount of fish anglers are permitted to harvest each year, using estimates of the number of fish in the lake. In recent years, anglers on Mille Lacs have faced tighter restrictions on when and whether they’re allowed to keep walleye they catch as the DNR has sought to boost the walleye population.
Heinrich said a management plan should help reduce surprise regulations.
“The types of management actions that we’re going to take on the lake are going to be much more predictable than they’ve been in the past,” he said. “Without any really clear guidance, we don’t really know how people want us to manage things.”
Heinrich said there are several factors behind the lake’s changing fishery. Among them is the fact that water clarity on the lake has improved over the past few decades. It began in the 1990s, likely due to sewage treatment improvements.
It happened again after zebra mussels infested the lake in 2005. Increased clarity is a problem for walleye, because the fish prefer low light and cooler water. But zebra mussels are filter feeders: They clear the water and strain out microscopic algae important to the food web.
Beyond walleye, which Mille Lacs has become known for, Heinrich said the lake’s smallmouth bass population has increased, and northern pike also remain plentiful. But yellow perch numbers are very low.
Heinrich said the management plan won’t just focus on the lake’s signature fish.
“We recognize that walleye are the big player on Mille Lacs Lake and probably always will be,” he said. “But this plan is really designed to give us some guidance in how we manage a variety of fish species.”
A similar community meeting was held last week in Brainerd, Minn. The DNR’s third and final meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Indian Mounds Regional Park pavilion in St. Paul.
People who can’t attend one of the meetings can fill out an online questionnaire on the DNR’s website.
Weekly Events in Minnesota
Credit to Explore Minnesota
Don’t miss the Lowertown Blues and Funk Festival at Mears Park in St. Paul, July 19-20 / Minnesota Blues Society
Event highlights this week include:
July 18-20, New Ulm
Bavarian Blast
July 18-21, Stillwater
Stillwater Lumberjack Days
July 19-21, Battle Lake
Art of the Lakes Studio Tour
July 18-20, Walker
Moondance Jam
July 20-21, Duluth
Duluth Airshow, presented by St. Luke’s
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[Minneapolis-St. Paul Area] [Southern]
June 30 – July 21, Winona
Minnesota Beethoven Festival
The Minnesota Beethoven Festival offers a broad range of concerts to satisfy a variety of musical tastes. There are 11 concerts planned including headliner Joshua Bell. Other guest artists to perform include clarinetist Julian Bliss, the Venice Baroque Orchestra, the Parker Quartet, and 2017 Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Yekwon Sunwoo. Various venues in Winona. 507-474-9055
July 5-20 (Fridays & Saturdays), Walnut Grove
Wilder Pageant
The Wilder Pageant is a family-oriented outdoor drama based on the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder in Walnut Grove. Nightly live performances feature all the characters from the Walnut Grove area. Laura narrates the story, reflecting on her life in Walnut Grove in the 1870s. Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum. 507-859-2174
July 17-21, Kasson
Dodge County Free Fair
The Dodge County Free Fair is Minnesota’s oldest county fair. The 162nd Dodge County Free Fair will feature carnival rides and games, the Bull Riding Challenge, Thunderbird Stock Car Races, truck and tractor pull, demolition derby, Kiddie Power Wheels Demo Derby, Dodge Mayhem Trailer Races, great fair food, a dance party, live music, and hula hoop, cow milking and other contests. Dodge County Free Fair grounds. 507-634-7736
In its 14th year, Bavarian Blast returns to celebrate Bavarian heritage and culture. Surround yourself with all things German and enjoy a wide variety of German food, German-American music under big top tents, Schell’s Beer, 1919 Root Beer, the famous Bavarian Blast Parade and uniquely German contests such as the stein holding contest, sauerkraut eating competition and barrel rolling races. On Sunday, don’t miss the Polka Service. Brown County Fairgrounds. 507-233-4300
July 24-28, Madison Lake
Paddlefish Days
Madison Lake’s Paddlefish Days features a wide array of fun activIties and events including Bands & Burgers at Lucky Lure, Kiddie and Grand parades, Sheephead Fishing contest, a Foam Party, 5K race/walk, children’s games, car show, kiddie tractor pull, Kiss-A-Fish contest, street dance, live music by IV Play, food vendors and much more. 507-243-3216
July 26-27, Wabasha
Riverboat Days
Join in the fun at the biggest party of the summer on the Upper Mississippi! Highlights include live music acts, the Rubbery Ducky Derby, bouncy houses, parade, children’s activities, performance of Jack & the Beanstalk, the Grumpy Old Men Walleye Tournament, Yoga in the Park, Wabasha Sings, tractor pedal pull, volleyball tournament, 10K, 5K & 1K runs, firemen’s chicken feed, beer tent, farmers market and more. Heritage Park, under the bridge. 651-565-4158
July 26-28, Montgomery
Montgomery Kolacky Days – Czech Festival
Kolacky Days celebrates Montgomery’s Czechoslovakian heritage and culture by blending the Czech traditions of the past with today’s festival favorites. From authentic Kroj costumes, Czech dancing, Bohemian tractor pull and classic car show to a Grand Day Parade, U.S. National Prune Spitting Championships, Tour de Bun Bicycle Classic and 5K Bun Run Road Race, there’s something for everyone! Complete list of events. Memorial Park and downtown Montgomery. 507-953-0094
August 2-4, Red Wing
River City Days
Red Wing’s annual summer festival is tons of fun for all ages! Events include live entertainment by the Fabulous Armadillos and other popular bands, a large arts and crafts fair, 43rd annual Drive-In/Fly-In Pancake Breakfast, River City Ramble 5K & Kids’ Fun Run, River City Days Parade, Mystery of Chemistry Family Show, performances by the Royal Order of Klondike Kates, beer gardens, vintage car & truck show, antique boat & motor show, Cookies on the Cannon Valley Trail, Kids’ Treasure Hunt, sidewalk sales, Human Foosball Tournament, children’s games and activities, the Taste of Red Wing and fun activities such as archaeological dig boxes, dunk tank, climbing rock wall, goldfish pond, environmental games, dunk tank and so much more! Bay Point Park & Levee Park. 651-388-5934
March 1 – Sept. 28, Chanhassen
One mom. One daughter. Three possible dads. And a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget! Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. 952-934-1525
May 17 – Oct. 27, Minneapolis
The Vikings Begin
This extraordinary new exhibition features dozens of early Viking artifacts from boat graves, organized by Uppsala University in Sweden and its museum, Gustavianum, which is home to one of the world’s finest collections of Viking and pre-Viking objects. The exhibition at ASI is the Midwest premiere of a collection that has never been outside of Scandinavia until this year, with many finds that are around 1400 years old. American Swedish Institute. 612-871-4907
July 13-21, Hopkins
Hopkins Raspberry Festival
The Hopkins Raspberry Festival has become a Twin Cities institution as a family friendly event. Highlights include the Hunt for the Golden Raspberry, Raspberry Festival of Bands, street dance, marketplace and craft fair, children’s activities, big wheel races, ice cream social, car show, Grande Day Parade, Raspberry Run, fireworks and so much more! Sites throughout Hopkins. 952-931-0878
Stillwater Lumberjack Days is filled with fabulous events such as Lumberjack competitions and demonstrations, live music concerts by numerous bands, Grand and Little Lumberjack Days parades, medallion hunt, vendors, gondola, pontoon & helicopter rides, Karaoke contest, minnow races, petting zoo, fly fishing demonstrations, games and activities for all ages. Lowell Park/St. Croix Riverfront. 651-351-1717
July 19-20, Eagan
Minnesota Scottish Fair & Highland Games
Visit Scotland in your backyard, where the “Highlands Meet the Prairie.” Enjoy everything Scottish such as Highland & Country Dancing, a living history area, Scottish vendors & clans, pipers, traditional athletic competitions, non-stop music, children’s activities & prizes, sheepherding demonstrations and hands-on curling activities. Great food, both ethnic and American, will also be available. Kids should bring their swimsuits and visit the splash pad. This fair and the parking are free. Eagan Central Park festival grounds. 952-994-8355
July 19-20, St. Paul
Lowertown Blues and Funk Festival
The Lowertown Blues and Funk Festival returns with a night of soul and funk on Friday, July 19, followed by a night of blues on Saturday, July 20. This is the Twin Cities’ largest free blues festival (with an extra dose of funk). Mears Park. 612-308-5785
July 19-21, Hastings
Rivertown Days
This citywide festival includes many great events including Rivertown Days carnival rides & games, Heavy Metal Rodeos sponsored by Extreme Sandbox, Machinery Hill, Rivertown Days Arts & Crafts Fair, Fishing for Life Trout Pond, River of Life Kiddie Carnival, Model Aircraft Flying demonstration, Bubble Park, Black Dirt Improv Show, Daisy Dillman Band, Rivertown Days Grand Parade, Giant Duck Race on the Vermillion River, Hastings Sings Competition, sidewalk sales, petting zoo and fireworks display. Levee Park and Jaycee Park along the Mississippi River. 651-437-6775
July 20, Chanhassen
American Soul – A Tribute to James Brown, Ray Charles & The Blues Brothers
This is the show that never happened, but should have! Get on up with the most electrifying tribute to soul music with Ty Stone! Celebrating the legendary Ray Charles, Blues Brothers and the Godfather of Soul, James Brown. Hear hits like “Unchain My Heart,” “Georgia On My Mind,””Soul Man,” “Living In America,” “Super Bad,” “I Got You (I Feel Good),” and many more! Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. 952-934-1525
July 20, Burnsville
International Festival of Burnsville
The annual International Festival of Burnsville celebrates the city’s rich cultural diversity. Enjoy a wide array ethnic foods and vendor tents, ongoing performances and cultural displays. Kids’ Village will feature craft projects, games, crazy hair, face painting and henna tattoos. Nicollet Commons Park. 952-895-4509
July 20, Anoka
Anoka Food Truck Festival
More than 45 food trucks will be selling their special concoctions with global cuisines ranging from Indian to British to Japanese to locally grown pork. Also enjoy live music by various bands, games, give-aways and handcrafted beers. Proceeds from all wristband sales will benefit a local charity. Downtown Anoka. 763-220-2380
July 24-27, Minneapolis
Minneapolis Aquatennial Festival
Join in the fun during The Best Days of Summer and enjoy activities for the whole family, Minnesota’s largest night-time parade, the Top 5 Fireworks Display in the nation, Loring Park Art Festival, Twin Cities Carifest, AquaFest, Wilderness Inquiry Voyageur Canoe Rides, Life Time Torchlight Parade After Party, Twin Cities River Rats Water Ski Show, Go Outside Trivia Night, great local food and so much more! Sites and venues throughout Minneapolis. 612-376-7669
July 25-27, Prior Lake
The Great Midwest Rib Fest
Summer sizzles as The Great Midwest Rib Fest returns with three days of food, music and fun! Get your groove on with free outdoor concerts by national and local acts. Bib up and chow down on ribs from the country’s top pitmasters competing for bragging rights and thousands in prizes. Mystic Lake Resort & Casino. 952-445-9000
July 26-28 & Aug. 2-4, Minneapolis
2019 Minnesota Family Fringe
Adventurous art, family-sized. Don’t miss this made-for-families festival of adventurous performance. With relaxed seating accommodations, accessibility services and more, all will enjoy the adventure of Fringe in an environment for adventurers of all ages. Shows are geared toward young people 12 and under and their families and caretakers. Barbara Barker Center for Dance on the University of Minnesota West Bank Campus. 612-872-1212
July 26 – Aug. 11, St. Paul
Circus Juventas presents Twisted
Comedy, magic and romance abound this summer at Circus Juventas as the renowned youth circus presents Twisted – a return to the world of international fairy tales for the first time since 2011. Circus Juventas. 651-699-8229
Upcoming Twin Cities’ concerts and performances include:
Lynyrd Skynyrd at Treasure Island Resort & Casino in Welch, July 19
Backstreet Boys at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, July 20
Khalid Free Spirit World Tour at the Xcel Energy Center, July 23
Jeff Lynne’s ELO at the Xcel Energy Center, July 25
Jon Bellion at The Armory in Minneapolis, July 28
Tony Bennett – The I Left My Heart Tour at the Historic Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, July 28
Fiddler on the Roof at the Historic Orpheum Theatre, July 30 – Aug. 4
O.A.R. at Mystic Amphitheater in Prior Lake, Aug. 2
Santana: Supernatural Now at the Xcel Energy Center, Aug. 3
Slash Feat. Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, Aug. 3
John Mayer at the Xcel Energy Center, Aug. 5
Justin Hayward – All the Way at Ames Center in Burnsville, , Aug. 6
Kid Rock at Treasure Island Ampitheater in Welch, Aug. 10
Queen + Adam Lambert: The Rhapsody Tour at the Xcel Energy Center, Aug. 10
Zakk Sabbath at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis, Aug. 13
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, Aug. 14
Rent (Touring) at the Historic Orpheum Theatre, Aug. 14-18
Bill Maher at the Historic State Theatre in Minneapolis, Aug. 17
Reba McEntire at Treasure Island Ampitheater, Aug. 17
Small Town Murder Podcast at the Pantages Theatre in Minneapolis, Aug. 17
Minnesota Vikings vs. Seattle Seahawks at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Aug. 18
The Stray Cats – 40th Anniversary Tour at Treasure Island Resort & Casino, Aug. 18
Tickets are available through Hennepin Theatre Trust and Ticketmaster
July 18-21, Sauk Centre
Sinclair Lewis Days
Sinclair Lewis Days is four days of fun for everyone with parades, fireworks, a craft fair, Family Day in the Park, ice cream social, 5K and kids’ one mile run, Miss Sauk Centre Pageant, soap box derby races, raffle and more. Sinclair Lewis Park. 320-352-5201
The Art of the Lakes Studio Tour is a scenic, drive-yourself tour of 56 artists in 24 studios on curvy, hilly roads around lakes and through valleys with views that go on for miles. Many of the artists are tucked away on gravel roads scattered throughout Ottertail, Douglas and Grant counties. Look for the yellow signs to help guide you to your destination. Not all studios are open on Sunday. 218-864-8606
July 20, St. Joseph
HIKE@Night
There is nothing like viewing nature at night, especially with glow sticks, bonfires and specialty s’mores! Explore a Stearns County Park through night vision and enjoy a night out for less than the cost of a movie and popcorn! Kraemer Lake and Wildwood Park.
July 25-28, Glenwood
Waterama
Glenwood Waterama, located on the beautiful shores of Lake Minnewaska, features a 100-unit parade, kiddie parade, lighted pontoon parade, water shows, pageants, dances, sporting events, running races, great food, Crazy Days sales, an arts & crafts fair, fireworks and more! Learn why this is the largest community celebration of its kind in West Central Minnesota. Glenwood and Lake Minnewaska. 320-634-3636
July 26-28, Hutchinson
Orange Spectacular
The Orange Spectacular is considered the largest all Allis-Chalmers tractor show in the world, and it is dedicated to preserving the Allis-Chalmers name and its legacy. Don’t miss the many field demonstrations, lawn and garden demonstrations, all Allis-Chalmers Tractor Pull, seminars, swap meet & flea market, toy farm scene displays, large toy vendor show and children’s activities area. McLeod County Fairgrounds. 320-587-5252
Aug. 2-4, Pennock
Pennock Fun Days
Pennock Fun Days festivities include a hog roast, street dance, Movie in the Park, Grand Parade, antique tractor pull, craft show, kiddie parade, bean bag tournament, vendors, musical entertainment, children’s activities, classic car cruise-in, tractor parade, beer garden, scavenger hunt, bingo and more. 320-599-4546
July 17-21, Thief River Falls
Pennington County Fair
The very popular Pennington County Fair includes a concert by Hairball, huge midway, Thunder On Hooves P.B.R. Bull Rides, the demolition derby, parade, fireworks display, grandstand acts, Talent Show, Beard & Mustache competition, chainsaw sculpting, raffle, wide variety of food and vendor booths and much more. Pennington County Fairgrounds. 218-681-5922
Moondance Jam is a classic rock and roll music festival held annually on the 300-acre Moondance Fairgrounds. This event features open festival seating, camping, well-kept facilities, two indoor regional stages, excellent security and an organized staff so fans are treated to great music and camping in a clean, safe and friendly atmosphere. Headliners for the 2019 Moondance Jam include Lynyrd Skynyrd, Train, Rick Springfield, The Sweet, Skillet, Goo Goo Dolls, Gov’t Mule and Molly Hatchet! Moondance Fairgrounds. 218-836-1055
July 20-21, Bemidji
Art in the Park features over 100 artists, live entertainment and a dozen food vendors, all within walking distance of downtown art galleries, including the premiere Watermark Art Center. This juried fine arts and craft fair is held on the shores of Lake Bemidji in the beautiful, tree-lined Library Park. 218-444-7570
July 26-27, Nevis
Nevis Muskie Days Music Festival
This annual celebration honors the big lunker that once ruled the waters of Lake Belle Taine. Highlights include music on three stages, parades, the 5K Muskie Race, fish fry, inflatables, children’s games, kids’ money dig, kids’ fishing contest, street dance, beer garden, lots of food stands and more. 218-652-3115
July 27-28, East Grand Forks
Cats Incredible Catfish Days
The 32nd Annual Cat’s Incredible Catfish Days will once again be held on the banks of the Red River of the North in East Grand Forks. The tournament is a two day event with cash paid to the top 15 teams. There will also be door prizes, beer gardens, food vendors, live entertainment and a Kids’ Fun Zone. Great fun for participants and spectators alike! Downtown East Grand Forks, adjacent to Cabela’s. 701-746-0444
Aug. 1-3, Detroit Lakes
WE Fest is considered by many to be America’s best camping and country music festival! Headliners for this year’s WE Fest include Chris Stapleton, Keith Urban, Brooks & Dunn, Jake Owen, Big & Rich, LeAnn Rimes, Billy Currington and Jimmie Allen. Soo Pass Dude Ranch. 800-493-3378
July 19-21, Ball Club
Mii Gwitch Mahnomen Days Traditional Pow Wow
Just some of the highlights of the Mii Gwitch Mahnomen Days Traditional Pow Wow include Grand Entries, Flag Raising Ceremonies, parade, the open fire frybread contest, parade contest, Rez Car contest and walk/run. Ball Club, west of Deer River. 218-335-8395
July 20, Duluth
Bayfront Reggae & World Music Festival
The 14th Bayfront Reggae & World Music Festival showcases internationally touring performers, along with ethnic foods, beverages and a variety of artisans displaying their wares. This celebration of world music whose artists spread the message of love, hope and equality for all people worldwide — bring your flag and wave it proudly! Bayfront Festival Park. 218-525-8099
July 20, Pine City
Art Fest 2019
The annual Pine City Art Fest is a unique outdoor arts and crafts fair. In addition to quality artwork and hand-crafted items, enjoy a Children’s Corner, music by Freeway Jam, a petting zoo and great fair food. Robinson Park and downtown Pine City. 320-322-4040
The U.S. Navy Blue Angels headline the largest airshow in Minnesota! Arrive early to take in all of the static displays, a host of other aerial acts, and rides such as a 36′ inflatable turbo shuttle slide, an inflatable aircraft carrier obstacle course, a Blue Angels bounce inflatable and the extreme air power jump ride at the Duluth Airshow Kids Zone! Additional charges may apply. Duluth International Airport. 218-628-9995
July 26-28, Ely
Blueberry Art Festival
This three-day event in beautiful Ely features more than 260 artists and crafters, 30 food vendors, activities for the children, a variety of musical entertainment and fresh blueberry pies. Whiteside Park. 218-365-6123
July 26-28, Grand Rapids
Northern Minnesota Car Show & Swap Meet
This car show & swap meet is considered the largest in Northern Minnesota with lots of vendors, morning breakfasts and free admission at the Itasca County Fairgrounds. On Sunday, July 28, don’t miss the 35th Annual Northern Cruisers Weekend of Wheels Car Show at the IRA Civic Center. 218-326-6470; 218-259-3799
July 31 – Aug. 4, Grand Marias
Fisherman’s Picnic
The 88th Annual Fisherman’s Picnic is filled with crazy days sales, a craft show, daily contests and prizes, live music, food trucks, children’s activities and so much more! Also enjoy Cutest Puppy, log rolling and loon calling contests, demonstrations, the Fish Toss and the Fisherman’s Picnic Trail Run 5K. Downtown Grand Marais & Harbor Park. 218-387-2524
Zebra mussels confirmed in Hand Lake in Cass County; Upper Cormorant Lake in Becker County
Credit to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for the source: http://news.dnr.state.mn.us/2019/07/11/zebra-mussels-confirmed-in-hand-lake-in-cass-county-upper-cormorant-lake-in-becker-county/
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has confirmed reports of zebra mussels in Hand Lake in Cass County and Upper Cormorant Lake in Becker County. Two smaller lakes and an unnamed wetland connected to Upper Cormorant Lake will also be listed for zebra mussels.b
A Cass County watercraft inspector found a plant with attached zebra mussels on a boat coming from Hand Lake. Divers then found a 1-inch, adult zebra mussel in Hand Lake. The DNR is conducting further analyses to better determine the distribution of zebra mussels in the lake.
DNR divers conducted a search of Upper Cormorant Lake and found seven adult zebra mussels in four locations. Nelson Lake, Middle Cormorant Lake and an unnamed wetland connected to and downstream of Upper Cormorant Lake will also be listed for zebra mussels. The wetland flows into Big Cormorant Lake, where zebra mussels were confirmed in July of 2015.
Whether or not a lake is listed as infested, Minnesota law requires boaters and anglers to:
Clean watercraft and trailers of aquatic plants and prohibited invasive species.
Drain all water by removing drain plugs and keeping them out during transport.
Dispose of unwanted bait in the trash.
Some invasive species are small and difficult to see at the water access. To remove or kill them, take one or more of the following precautions before moving to another waterbody:
Spray with high-pressure water.
Rinse with very hot water (120 degrees for at least two minutes or 140 degrees for at least 10 seconds).
Dry for at least five days.
Zebra mussels can compete with native species for food and habitat, cut the feet of swimmers, reduce the performance of boat motors, and cause expensive damage to water intake pipes.
People should contact an area DNR aquatic invasive species specialist if they think they have found zebra mussels or any other invasive species that has not already been confirmed in a lake.
More information is available at mndnr.gov/ais.
Once-threatened peregrines flying high across Minnesota
Original article written by Euan Kerr at MPR News: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/07/11/peregrines-make-a-remarkable-comeback-in-minnesota
Two adult peregrine falcons pestered climbers Mark Mussell and Cody Benz as they prepared to rappel down the cliff at Shovel Point, near the birds’ nest in Tettegouche State Park. The birds flew by screeching, putting on high-speed aerobatic displays just feet from the climbers’ heads.
It was a remarkable sight, considering the peregrine was wiped out in Minnesota in 1964, a victim of widespread use of the pesticide DDT after World War II.
“In less than 20 years’ time they went from endangered to fully recovered,” said Jackie Fallon, vice chair of field operations for the Midwest Peregrine Society. “And there is no other endangered species program worldwide that has had that amount of success in such a short time period.”
Staff and volunteers at Tettegouche State Park, on Lake Superior’s north shore, just wrapped up their peregrine banding program.
That’s what Mussell and Benz were doing cliffside, temporarily kidnapping a pair of chicks to take them up top to Fallon who would attach bands that would allow them to be tracked over time.
Tettegouche’s interpretive naturalist Kurt Mead enjoys meeting each new batch of peregrine chicks. “It gives me goosebumps every time,” he said. “It does not get old.”
Last year Tettegouche celebrated the 30th anniversary of its first wild peregrine nesting post-recovery. This year there are two peregrine pairs nesting in the park, and possibly three, although Mead said no one had actually located that nest.
Peregrine falcons are the fastest moving living things on the planet. While hunting they can dive at 150 mph.
But they weren’t equipped to deal with DDT, which made its way up the food chain from bugs eaten by small birds, then to the falcons and eagles that consumed the smaller prey.
“It was a wonderful pesticide which did what it was supposed to,” Fallon said. But, “the eggshells became so thin that just the adult birds sitting on the eggs would cause the shells to crack and therefore the birds weren’t able to replace themselves.”
“So by the 1960s peregrines were completely extirpated east of the Mississippi,” she said.
The government banned DDT in 1972, and the next year peregrines made the endangered species list. In 1982 efforts began to reintroduce the peregrine on cliffs along the Mississippi.
In time organizers began releasing birds elsewhere around the state. They included downtown Minneapolis and St Paul, and on the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, all places where Fallon says the tall buildings mimicked cliff habitat.
“And then in 1987 we had our very first successful wild peregrine fledge off of City Center or Multifoods,” Fallon said.
That bird was banded as a chick and named Maude. She headed north to Canada and helped establish a new peregrine colony there.
Releases in northern Minnesota established birds here at Tettegouche, as well as at some iron ore pits in the area.
This is a busy time of year for Fallon, moving between nesting sites around the state, to count and band as many chicks as possible. She estimates between 120 to 135 baby peregrines have been produced this season.
The two newly banded chicks at Tettegouche should be flying off the cliffs and skimming the pristine waters of Lake Superior by the end of this month.
One of the climbers who rappelled down the cliff wore a GoPro video camera on his helmet. During the climb, the camera fell off and into Lake Superior. (See the end of the video to watch the plunge!)
“As soon as his head emerged above the ledge, I noticed the GoPro was gone,” wrote the camera’s owner, photographer Derek Montgomery in an email to MPR News. “Nervously I told myself ‘Don’t worry. He just put it in a bag on his side.’ But then when I approached him after he was topside, he went to retrieve the GoPro and when it wasn’t there the look on his face told me all I needed to know.”
Montgomery immediately thought to ask Christian Dalbec for help. Dalbec is a well-known underwater photographer, and Montgomery saw news reports that he had just reunited a couple with a camera and photos they lost off the Two Harbors breakwater three years ago.
Montgomery sent Dalbec a Facebook message and received a quick response: He would try to find the camera.
“So I went home hopeful it would be found, but not too confident because the lake is big and a GoPro is really tiny,” Montgomery said.
The next day, Dalbec took a boat to the area below the cliff where it was lost. He was able to find it sitting on a ledge about 18 feet down — a lucky break since if it had shifted a few more feet, it would have fallen to an area that was 80 feet deep.
“I was lucky on a lot of fronts that day and extremely thankful for Christian being willing to search for it on such short notice,” Montgomery said.
A peregrine falcon flies over Lake Superior near its nesting site July 1 as climbers retrieve two chicks from its nest at Tettegouche State Park near Silver Bay, Minn. Derek Montgomery for MPR News
Volunteer climber Mark Mussell prepares to descend onto the cliffs at Tettegouche State Park while a sign warns visitors about a peregrine falcon nesting site in the area. Below Mussell is fellow climber Cody Benz, wearing the blue helmet. Derek Montgomery for MPR News
Ropes supporting two climbers descend off the cliffs toward Lake Superior July 1 at Tettegouche State Park near Silver Bay, Minn. Derek Montgomery for MPR News
Kurt Mead, interpretive naturalist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, holds a peregrine falcon chick while Jackie Fallon, vice president of field operations with the Midwest Peregrine Society, applies a band to the chick’s leg. Derek Montgomery for MPR News
A peregrine falcon flies over Lake Superior near its nesting site. Tettegouche State Park has been the site of up to three nesting pairs in any given year, which researchers say is significant. Derek Montgomery for MPR News
Volunteer climber Cody Benz lifts a black box containing two peregrine falcon chicks. Derek Montgomery for MPR News
Kurt Mead (left) holds a peregrine falcon chick while Jackie Fallon (right) applies a band to the chick’s leg. Bands cannot be applied if the chicks are younger than 14 days old and they try to avoid banding chicks older than 22 or 23 days old. Derek Montgomery for MPR News
Erin Hall, a naturalist intern at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, holds a rope for climbers Mark Mussell and Cody Benz (not pictured because they were on the cliffs). Derek Montgomery for MPR News
Volunteer climber Cody Benz prepares to descend onto the cliffs at Tettegouche State Park while a sign warns visitors about a peregrine falcon nesting site. Derek Montgomery for MPR News
Two peregrine falcon chicks rest on the ground after researchers placed bands on them. The banding is part of an ongoing effort to monitor the peregrine falcons, which had disappeared from the region by the mid 1960s due to the pesticide DDT. Derek Montgomery for MPR News
Birding Update
Credit to Explore Minnesota for this Birding Update.
Trumpeter swans with cygnets / Travis Novitsky
July Nature Notes
This is a special time of year when abundant warm and sunny days are enhanced by the sights and sounds of birds with their fledglings. Birders and non-birders alike are delighted by the sight of common loon parents with chicks on their backs. While loon chicks can swim just after hatching, they usually ride on their parents’ backs where they are most safe. Listen for the distinctive calls echoing across large Minnesota lakes. Haunting wails are used to communicate and relay location, and the laughter-like tremolos are used as an alarm call and to defend territory. Hear these and other calls at All About Birds’ Common Loon Sounds.
Common loon with chick / Don Dammert
Minnesota lakes, rivers and wetlands offer the sights and sounds of many waterbird species and their young. Look and listen for ducks, grebes, swans, geese, mergansers, herons and egrets. Also enjoy the interesting antics of the American white pelican. These graceful fliers work together to corral fish into the shallows of southern and western Minnesota’s prairie pothole lakes. Some of the better locations to view pelicans are within the Western Minnesota Prairie Waters region such as the spillway on Marsh Lake near Appleton, the dam near Watson and the Minnesota River dam in Granite Falls.
Great blue heron / Liz Stanley
If you find yourself near a floodplain forest (low-lying areas at the bottom of river valleys), look upward and scan the tree canopies for rookeries where great blue herons, great egrets and double-crested cormorants nest. The Friends of the Mississippi River explain more about rookeries and great blue herons at Now Showing at a Rookery Near You.
Little blue heron / David Cahlander
Consider renting a row boat, canoe or kayak to get close-up views of shorebirds, waterfowl and wading birds. This is an excellent way to introduce a child to birding. Explore Minnesota offers a list of businesses and sites that offer boat rental. For watercraft rental at Minnesota’s state and regional parks, check out Minnesota’s Great Outdoors.
Green heron / Al Ferber
Each summer, following nesting season, most waterfowl lose and replace their feathers. During this molting process, ducks, geese and other waterfowl species are unable to fly. They are also much more vulnerable. But towards the end of July, these birds will be able to fly once again. This is also when their young will be attempting to fly for the first time.
Great egret / Stanley Adrian
While the fall migration seems a long way off, a few shorebird species are already heading to wintering grounds in Central and South America. Some of the earliest species to migrate include lesser yellowlegs, short-billed dowitchers, least sandpipers, solitary sandpipers and pectoral sandpipers. Many of these birds have completed their short nesting period and their young are now self-sufficient. A second migration occurs in September when the young begin their journeys south. To view these early migrants, check the shallow wetlands and mudflats.
Roosting egrets / Liz Stanley
According to The Birding Wire’s Water Attracts All Birds, the best way to draw a variety of birds to your backyard is to provide a reliable source of water. Not only do birds need a consistent source of water to drink from, they need water to maintain healthy feathers. Partially filled bird baths offer a supply of shallow water so all birds, including smaller bird species such as finches and warblers, can drink and bathe. Try to place your birdbath in a shady area near trees and/or shrubs to keep the water cooler on hot summer days and to provide the birds an easy escape if threatened.
American white pelican / John Morrison
Birding Events and Programs
July 6, 13, 20 & 27, Ely
Birding at Bear Head
Enjoy a guided walk to listen and look for the variety of bird species. A limited number of binoculars will be available for free checkout — please bring your own if possible. Insect repellent is recommended. Bear Head Lake State Park. 218-235-2520
Swans in a row / Wayne Bartz
Bird Watching: Summertime Songbirds
Get up with the birds during this Wednesday morning series to discover what to look for when identifying birds in the field. Learn about bird songs, calls and other behaviors while strolling through prairie, woodland and along the river with a naturalist and keeping eyes and ears open for our feathered friends. Binoculars available. Coffee, tea and treats provided. Kroening Interpretive Center, part of North Mississippi Regional Park, at 4900 Mississippi Court. 612-230-6400
Canada geese and goslings / David Cahlander
July 13, Altura
Live Eagle Program
Want to see a live bald eagle up close? Staff from the National Eagle Center in Wabasha will be at Whitewater to share the tremendous comeback story of our national bird. They will introduce the bald eagle’s life history and why the Mississippi River and the blufflands are so important to the eagle’s survival. Whitewater State Park. 507-312-2300
Western grebe / Dan Tallman
July 13, Marine on St. Croix
Bird Nest Mystery
Head to the nature station for a chance to see and hear some of the incredible feathered creatures that live at William O’Brien State Park. A naturalist will take you on a journey into the secret lives of these mysterious animals. Binoculars provided. William O’Brien State Park. 651-539-4986
Female hooded merganser / Danielle Porter Born Photography
July 18, Minneapolis
Nightime Nature Fun
Join park ranger Sharon Stiteler and entomologist Jessica Miller as they use black lights and sheets to see what moths and insects visit Coldwater Spring at night. Also look and listen for other night active critters like deer, owls, raccoons or even coyotes. Take the trail from the main entrance at Coldwater toward the dog park. Head toward the big lights. Coldwater Spring, part of the Mississippi National River & Recreation Area. 651-291-8164
Male hooded merganser / Danielle Porter Born Photography
July 20, Meadowlands
Bog BioBlitz: Bog to Ridge BioBlitz VII
Friends of Sax-Zim Bog have made this a populra annual summer event. In 2018, more than 40 folks went in the field to learn about birds, orchids, butterflies, dragonflies, spiders, moths, wildflowers, fish and bog ecology. Over 400 species were recorded on that single day in July! Sax-Zim Bog. 218-341-3350
Cormorants at Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge / Cristine Nicholson
July 20, Taylors Falls
Guess That Bird: Investigation Station
Minnesota is filled with a variety of birds of all colors, shapes and sizes. How well do you think you know them? Can you guess based on their looks or their songs? Some of them even sing their own name. Drop by the investigation station near the visitor center and test your skills with a naturalist. Interstate State Park. 651-465-5711
Lesser yellowlegs / David Cahlander
July 20, Roseville
Birds and Trees
Join the staff at Langton Lake Park for a stroll to observe and identify birds and trees, and consider their interactions. Meet at the parking lot on County Road C2 at the west side of the lake. Langton Lake Park. 651-636-6475
Least sandpiper / Larry Sirvio
July 23, Bloomington
Bass Ponds Bird Walk
Attend a bird walk with Craig Mandel, Volunteer Refuge Naturalist, and search the Bass Ponds area for birds that call the Refuge home for the summer. Birders of all skill levels are welcome on these walks. Bring along your binoculars and favorite field guide. Preregistration is not required. For a map of the location and information on the numerous sites within the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge to view birds, check out Birding Spots. Bass Ponds at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. 952-240-7647
Solitary sandpiper / Bruce Lees
Who Soars Here?: Investigation Station
Look up above the river and you’ll see a variety of birds soaring in search of food. Who are these birds. Drop by this ongoing investigation station to find out. Interstate State Park. 651-465-5711
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Determining the best candidates for Natural Area protection is a complex process. Natural area conservation planning focuses on areas of high biodiversity. We use the following tools, concepts and resources to evaluate and manage sites.
The value of biodiversity (the variety of life and its processes)
Minnesota’s biodiversity has evolved over millennia into complex ecosystems. A myriad of species interact with each other and environmental factors such as soils, topography, hydrology and climate within these ecosystems.
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Aconitase
Not to be confused with Aconitine.
aconitate hydratase
File:7ACN.jpg
Illustration of pig aconitase in complex with the [Fe4S4] cluster. The protein is colored by secondary structure, and iron atoms are blue and the sulfur red.[1]
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metabolic pathway
PDB structures
RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum
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Aconitase family
(aconitate hydratase)
File:PDB 1aco EBI.jpg
Structure of aconitase.[2]
PDOC00423
1aco
Available protein structures:
RCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj
PDBsum
Aconitase (aconitate hydratase; EC 4.2.1.3) is an enzyme that catalyses the stereo-specific isomerization of citrate to isocitrate via cis-aconitate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle, a non-redox-active process.[3][4][5]
Aconitic acid
Isocitric acid.svg
Isocitric acid
2.1 Mechanism
3 Family members
4 Interactive pathway map
Aconitase, displayed in the structures in the right margin of this page, has two slightly different structures, depending on whether it is activated or inactivated.[6][7] In the inactive form, its structure is divided into four domains.[6] Counting from the N-terminus, only the first three of these domains are involved in close interactions with the [3Fe-4S] cluster, but the active site consists of residues from all four domains, including the larger C-terminal domain.[6] The Fe-S cluster and a SO42− anion also reside in the active site.[6] When the enzyme is activated, it gains an additional iron atom, creating a [4Fe-4S] cluster.[7][8] However, the structure of the rest of the enzyme is nearly unchanged; the conserved atoms between the two forms are in essentially the same positions, up to a difference of 0.1 angstroms.[7]
In contrast with the majority of iron-sulfur proteins that function as electron carriers, the iron-sulfur cluster of aconitase reacts directly with an enzyme substrate. Aconitase has an active [Fe4S4]2+ cluster, which may convert to an inactive [Fe3S4]+ form. Three cysteine (Cys) residues have been shown to be ligands of the [Fe4S4] centre. In the active state, the labile iron ion of the [Fe4S4] cluster is not coordinated by Cys but by water molecules.
The iron-responsive element-binding protein (IRE-BP) and 3-isopropylmalate dehydratase (α-isopropylmalate isomerase; EC 4.2.1.33), an enzyme catalysing the second step in the biosynthesis of leucine, are known aconitase homologues. Iron regulatory elements (IREs) constitute a family of 28-nucleotide, non-coding, stem-loop structures that regulate iron storage, heme synthesis and iron uptake. They also participate in ribosome binding and control the mRNA turnover (degradation). The specific regulator protein, the IRE-BP, binds to IREs in both 5' and 3' regions, but only to RNA in the apo form, without the Fe-S cluster. Expression of IRE-BP in cultured cells has revealed that the protein functions either as an active aconitase, when cells are iron-replete, or as an active RNA-binding protein, when cells are iron-depleted. Mutant IRE-BPs, in which any or all of the three Cys residues involved in Fe-S formation are replaced by serine, have no aconitase activity, but retain RNA-binding properties.
Aconitase is inhibited by fluoroacetate, therefore fluoroacetate is poisonous. Fluoroacetate, in the citric acid cycle,can innocently enter as fluorocitrate. However, aconitase cannot bind this substrate and thus the citric acid cycle is halted. The iron sulfur cluster is highly sensitive to oxidation by superoxide.[9]
File:Arrow Pushing Aconitase Final draft.tif
Aconitase arrow-pushing mechanism [10][11]
File:Citrate Zoom Final.png
Citrate and the Fe-S cluster in the active site of aconitase: dashed yellow lines show interactions between the substrate and nearby residues[12]
Aconitase employs a dehydration-hydration mechanism.[10] The catalytic residues involved are His-101 and Ser-642.[10] His-101 protonates the hydroxyl group on C3 of citrate, allowing it to leave as water, and Ser-642 concurrently abstracts the proton on C2, forming a double bond between C2 and C3, forming a cis-aconitate intermediate.[10][13] At this point, the intermediate is rotated 180°.[10] This rotation is referred to as a "flip."[11] Because of this flip, the intermediate is said to move from a "citrate mode" to a "isocitrate mode."[14]
How exactly this flip occurs is debatable. One theory is that, in the rate-limiting step of the mechanism, the cis-aconitate is released from the enzyme, then reattached in the isocitrate mode to complete the reaction.[14] This rate-liming step ensures that the right stereochemistry, specifically (2R,3S), is formed in the final product.[14][15] Another hypothesis is that cis-aconitate stays bound to the enzyme while it flips from the citrate to the isocitrate mode.[10]
In either case, flipping cis-aconitate allows the dehydration and hydration steps to occur on opposite faces of the intermediate.[10] Aconitase catalyzes trans elimination/addition of water, and the flip guarantees that the correct stereochemistry is formed in the product.[10][11] To complete the reaction, the serine and histidine residues reverse their original catalytic actions: the histidine, now basic, abstracts a proton from water, priming it as a nucleophile to attack at C2, and the protonated serine is deprotonated by the cis-aconitate double bond to complete the hydration, producing isocitrate.[10]
File:Isocitrate Zoom Final.png
Isocitrate and the Fe-S cluster in the active site of aconitase[12]PDB: 1C97;
Aconitases are expressed in bacteria to humans. Humans express the following two aconitase isozymes:
aconitase 1, soluble
Alt. symbols
IREB1
Chr. 9 p21.1
aconitase 2, mitochondrial
ACONM
Interactive pathway map
Click on genes, proteins and metabolites below to link to respective articles. [§ 1]
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TCA Cycle edit
↑ The interactive pathway map can be edited at WikiPathways: "TCACycle_WP78".
↑ PDB: 7ACN; Lauble, H.; Kennedy, M. C.; Beinert, H.; Stout, C. D. (1992). "Crystal structures of aconitase with isocitrate and nitroisocitrate bound". Biochemistry. 31 (10): 2735–48. doi:10.1021/bi00125a014. PMID 1547214.
↑ PDB: 1ACO; Lauble, H; Kennedy, MC; Beinert, H; Stout, CD (1994). "Crystal Structures of Aconitase with Trans-aconitate and Nitrocitrate Bound". Journal of Molecular Biology. 237 (4): 437–51. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1994.1246. PMID 8151704.
↑ Beinert H, Kennedy MC (Dec 1993). "Aconitase, a two-faced protein: enzyme and iron regulatory factor". FASEB Journal. 7 (15): 1442–9. PMID 8262329.
↑ Flint, Dennis H.; Allen, Ronda M. (1996). "Iron−Sulfur Proteins with Nonredox Functions". Chemical Reviews. 96 (7): 2315–34. doi:10.1021/cr950041r.
↑ Beinert H, Kennedy MC, Stout CD (Nov 1996). "Aconitase as Ironminus signSulfur Protein, Enzyme, and Iron-Regulatory Protein". Chemical Reviews. 96 (7): 2335–2374. doi:10.1021/cr950040z. PMID 11848830.
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Robbins AH, Stout CD (1989). "The structure of aconitase". Proteins. 5 (4): 289–312. doi:10.1002/prot.340050406. PMID 2798408.
↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Robbins AH, Stout CD (May 1989). "Structure of activated aconitase: formation of the [4Fe-4S] cluster in the crystal". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 86 (10): 3639–43. doi:10.1073/pnas.86.10.3639. PMC 287193. PMID 2726740.
↑ Lauble H, Kennedy MC, Beinert H, Stout CD (Mar 1992). "Crystal structures of aconitase with isocitrate and nitroisocitrate bound". Biochemistry. 31 (10): 2735–48. doi:10.1021/bi00125a014. PMID 1547214.
↑ Gardner, Paul R. (2002). "Aconitase: Sensitive target and measure of superoxide". Superoxide Dismutase. Methods in Enzymology. 349. pp. 9–23. doi:10.1016/S0076-6879(02)49317-2. ISBN 978-0-12-182252-1.
↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 Takusagawa F. "Chapter 16: Citric Acid Cycle" (PDF). Takusagawa’s Note. The University of Kansas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2011-07-10.
↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Beinert H, Kennedy MC, Stout CD (Nov 1996). "Aconitase as Ironminus signSulfur Protein, Enzyme, and Iron-Regulatory Protein" (PDF). Chemical Reviews. 96 (7): 2335–2374. doi:10.1021/cr950040z. PMID 11848830. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-11. Retrieved 2011-05-16.
↑ 12.0 12.1 PDB: 1C96; Lloyd SJ, Lauble H, Prasad GS, Stout CD (December 1999). "The mechanism of aconitase: 1.8 A resolution crystal structure of the S642a:citrate complex". Protein Sci. 8 (12): 2655–62. doi:10.1110/ps.8.12.2655. PMC 2144235. PMID 10631981.
↑ Han D, Canali R, Garcia J, Aguilera R, Gallaher TK, Cadenas E (Sep 2005). "Sites and mechanisms of aconitase inactivation by peroxynitrite: modulation by citrate and glutathione". Biochemistry. 44 (36): 11986–96. doi:10.1021/bi0509393. PMID 16142896.
↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Lauble H, Stout CD (May 1995). "Steric and conformational features of the aconitase mechanism". Proteins. 22 (1): 1–11. doi:10.1002/prot.340220102. PMID 7675781.
↑ "Aconitase family". The Prosthetic groups and Metal Ions in Protein Active Sites Database Version 2.0. The University of Leeds. 1999-02-02. Archived from the original on 2011-06-08. Retrieved 2011-07-10.
Frishman D, Hentze MW (Jul 1996). "Conservation of aconitase residues revealed by multiple sequence analysis. Implications for structure/function relationships". European Journal of Biochemistry / FEBS. 239 (1): 197–200. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1996.0197u.x. PMID 8706708.
Aconitase at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Proteopedia Aconitase - the Aconitase structure in interactive 3D
Metabolism: Citric acid cycle enzymes
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Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II
Uncoupling protein
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Oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complex
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Health, Regulations, Scotland, U.K. •
Report on the Health Impacts of Wind Farms
Author: National Health Service Shetland
“It is generally accepted that the primary effect of low frequency noise on people is annoyance. Annoyance is recognised as a critical health effect, and is associated in some people with stress, sleep disturbance, and interference with daily living. There is an increasing body of evidence that noise levels associated with wind farms cause annoyance, in a dose-related response. … A range of symptoms are attributed to the noise of wind turbines in people living close to them, which are those associated with general environmental noise exposure, and are often also described as stress symptoms. They include headache, irritability, difficulty concentrating, fatigue, dizziness, anxiety, and sleep disturbance, and are often described in relation to annoyance. … [I]t is recognised that low level noise from wind turbines is more often found to cause annoyance than similar levels from other sources. Some consider that the common cause of complaints from wind farms is not associated with low frequency noise but with the audible modulation of the aerodynamic noise, especially at night. There is also evidence that some people perceive the low frequency noise components of wind turbine noise, and that these are more significant at night and with large wind turbines. … Regardless of whether the perceived impacts of noise from wind farms are physiological or psychological in nature, they are considered to cause adverse health effects through sleep disturbance, reducing the quality of life and as a source of annoyance which sometimes leads to stress related symptoms. … Conclusions: Wind turbines are known to cause a number of effects that have an impact on health: risks from ice throw and structural failures that are minimised by appropriate setback distances; noise and shadow flicker that are sources of annoyance, sleep disturbance and symptoms of stress in some people. Current mitigations do not entirely deal with the annoyance caused by wind farms, the results of which are a cause of distress and related ill health for a number of people living in the vicinity.”
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Date added: July 11, 2013
Scotland, Sweden, U.K., Wildlife •
Does fatal attraction of hirundines to wind turbines threaten populations and species?
Author: World Council for Nature
The fatal impact of a white-throated needletail with a wind turbine in Scotland (1) raises serious concerns, with ramifications far beyond the sad loss of a single, spectacular vagrant. As a rare visitor, this individual bird was being very carefully observed, and thus there was a far higher chance of a turbine impact being detected than is the case for most small birds. Only a minuscule fraction of birds are intensively monitored in this way, and if the movements and fates of many other individual birds were being monitored, then what appears to be a rare event might prove to be frequent – or indeed probable. The death of this needletail should remind us that numerous small birds are being hit by turbines without detection or raising alarm. However, other hirundine deaths have already been documented amongst Europe’s wind turbines (2).
The needletail encountered a small, lone turbine. On the face of it, this is highly unlikely – unless the bird was actively attracted to the vicinity of the turbine. Indeed, some insects are attracted to wind turbines, and some bats are attracted to their deaths by unknown features of the turbines – possibly the food concentration around them (3, 4, 5). Remarkably, there are reports of bats commuting to wind turbines up to 14 km offshore for such food resources, as well as others stopping, perching and feeding around them during migration (4). This attraction exerted by wind turbines extends their ecological footprint to new, unsuspected dimensions.
We hypothesise that hirundines (including swifts, swallows, martins, swiftlets and needletails) might also be attracted to insects flying around these machines – onshore and offshore. Indeed, awareness has already been raised about the potential attraction of insectivorous birds to wind turbines (5). Reports (5, 6) that hirundines can comprise a third of turbine victims in Sweden and are being killed by domestic microturbines in Britain merit further investigation. Another consideration is that certain landscape features and air flows might attract both wind farm developers and hirundines, putting them on a collision course as they do with raptors.
We propose that wind turbines, let alone wind farms, may create extensive population sinks which could deplete and exterminate populations of birds and bats. We doubt the woeful amount of independent monitoring of turbine impacts would be capable of detecting this threat in most regions or for most species.
In the circumstances, a precautionary approach would be particularly appropriate in areas with populations of already threatened endemic hirundines, bats and other species – as in Seychelles or the Mascarenes for instance. For such areas, irreversible global extinction might be caused by wind turbines, yet even the highest standards of monitoring (including videos and radio transmitters) might be insufficient to alert us in time. We predict the extinction legacy of wind turbines will become an increasing source of concern, as ecological traps are set in vast numbers across the planet.
Clive Hambler (Lecturer in Biological and Human Sciences, Hertford College, University of Oxford)
Mark Duchamp (President, Save the Eagles International; Chair, World Council for Nature)
(1) – http://blog.birdguides.com/2013/06/white-throated-needletail.html
(2) – Photos of a sample of bird fatalities due to wind farms, including hirundines, from the Save the Eagles International website: http://savetheeagles.wordpress.com/birdkill-pictures/
– More pictures of birds killed by wind turbines may be seen here: http://savetheeaglesinternational.org/multimedia/
– And there are many more.
(3) – Video monitoring of bats flying between turbine blades, showing some getting struck: http://www.epaw.org/multimedia.php?article=b6
(4) – “We recorded 11 species (of a community of 18 species) flying over the ocean up to 14 km from the shore.” Ahlén, I. et al. (2009). Behaviour of Scandinavian bats during migration and foraging at sea. Journal of Mammology, 90, 1318-1323
http://www2.ekol.slu.se/Personliga_filer/Ahlen/JmammBatsatSeaDec09.pdf
– “The bats did not avoid the turbines. On the contrary they stayed for shorter or longer periods hunting close to the windmills because of the accumulation of flying insects. Hunting close to the blades was observed, why the risk of colliding might be comparable to land-based turbines. Bats also used wind turbines for resting. Insects were collected at places and times when bats were observed feeding.” Ahlén, I. et al. (2007). Bats and offshore wind turbines studied in southern Scandinavia. Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. Report 5571. http://www.naturvardsverket.se/Documents/publikationer/620-5571-2.pdf
(5) – “Increased risks depend on insect hunting (swifts, swallows), carrion search (crows, ravens, some raptors), and hangwind gliding (red kites, eagles, and buzzards).” – Ahlén, I. (2010). Fågelarter funna under vindkraftverk i Sverige. Var Fågelvärld, 4/2010, 8-12 http://www.slu.se/PageFiles/8390/artiklar/BirdsWindPowerVF2010.pdf
– Long, C. V. et al. (2011). Insect attraction to wind turbines: does colour play a role? European Journal of Wildlife Research, 57, 323-331 http://peer.ccsd.cnrs.fr/docs/00/62/51/48/PDF/PEER_stage2_10.1007%252Fs10344-010-0432-7.pdf
– http://windfarmaction.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/brief-summary-of-recent-international-research-on-the-risk-to-bats-from-wind-turbines/
(6) – “Almost one third of the birds (killed) were swallows and swifts, species that like bats hunt flying insects”. Ahlén, I. (2002). Wind turbines and bats – a pilot study. Report to Swedish National Energy Association. http://publikationer.slu.se/Filer/08WindBatFinalReport.pdf
Date added: September 9, 2012
Health, Human rights, Noise, Scotland •
Submission to Renewables Inquiry
Author: Jackson, Aileen
Dear Mr Lang
We are the Jackson Family (Aileen, William, Andrew and Brian). We have lived here for 28 years and always enjoyed excellent relations with our immediate neighbours and other landowners in the area until March 2010 when a Proven 35-2 (15m hub height, 15kw) turbine, the first of three granted planning permission, was erected by our neighbour 300m from our house, 600m from his own property.
Within days we realised we had a problem with noise every time the prevailing wind turned the turbine to face our house (depending on wind speed, it could sound like anything from a diesel engine ticking over to a helicopter or a washing machine on spin). The noise was clearly audible with the windows shut, particularly in two of our bedrooms, conservatory and bathroom. We were unable to sleep, causing us to move to other rooms in the house to gain respite from the noise. In warm weather, forced to keep our windows shut, we overheated. We informed our neighbours who agreed the noise was much worse than they had anticipated but unfortunately no help from them was forthcoming and in desperation we contacted Environmental Health which led to a deterioration in our previous excellent relationship.
Environmental Health were very sympathetic. Our EHO installed a Matron* to record the noise in our bedroom, made frequent visits to our home and confirmed the noise was audible in our house with our double glazed windows firmly shut. Unfortunately EH did not have the equipment or the expertise to confirm whether it was breaking the planning condition of 35dB or background +5db (whichever is the greater) but they were certain that it was.
East Renfrewshire Council put pressure on the Agents to commission noise testing, by refusing to accept any further applications for that particular type of turbine and 7 months after installation we were visited by a consultancy of noise experts (allegedly) on behalf of the turbine manufacturer. They tested for only 2 hours in the wrong location at the wrong time of day and tied a plastic carrier bag around the noise testing equipment. This rustled in the wind raising background noise levels and as a result they arrived at the conclusion that “the turbine made little or no noise”. Having taken pictures of the aforementioned “plastic bag” and consulted our own acoustician Dick Bowler regarding their methodology, he prepared a report which was sent to Environmental Health who refused to accept the outcome of the test. It took a further 4 months for the manufacturers of the turbine to commission another company to monitor the noise at our property. The consultant was only available to attend on four occasions, none of which being when the noise was at its worst. He concluded in his report that the noise was 4.4dB above background, 0.6dB below the condition (9 dB above background at low wind speeds when it did not quite reach the 35dB limit) and therefore although the two other turbines with planning consent could not be erected, this one would be allowed to remain.
We were distraught. Two members of the family were on medication and one moved out.
As planning applications were resubmitted, there was a great increase in the number of objections as many local residents were now aware of the noise from this one erected turbine. It was at this time we began to experience some disturbing incidents ranging from vandalism to threats. We discovered that other objectors were suffering the same kind of treatment and as a result a number reluctantly gave up submitting objections as they feared for their family’s safety as well as the effect on their businesses/careers/friendships.
The flurry of applications were all refused again on noise grounds but after further resubmission with different, quieter models of turbines, repositioning and appeals, most were eventually consented. An appeal by neighbours against the refusal of planning permission
for three P35-2s, 500m from our house, which was refused by Councillors on noise grounds was allowed by a Reporter after a public hearing, despite us already suffering a noise nuisance, neighbours giving evidence that the one already erected beside our house could be heard at up to 1250m and the acoustic consultant who assessed the noise at our house admitting that the Matron in our bedroom failed to record , the data had been flawed by the noise from the cows in our neighbour’s cow sheds, he had not managed to attend to test the noise by turning the turbine on/off when the noise was at its worst despite my emails and texts and there was no accurate assessment of background noise at our property on which to base his conclusions! None of this had been mentioned in his report which had already been accepted by the Council. The Reporter informed us that he wished to hear the noise in our bedroom himself and that he would return on a day when the wind direction was favourable. He failed to return despite my phone call to DPEA. He concluded in his Decision that a further 2.5dB from the proposed development would not have a further adverse effect on our residential amenity.
We were left in a desperate situation where greatly against our will, we had no option but to take our neighbours to court to force the removal of the turbine which was causing us most problems. After seeking legal advice, we first of all approached our neighbours in an attempt to come to a compromise. After seeking advice themselves, they are cooperating with us and we are in the process of identifying an alternative site for the turbine which will be of benefit to us noise wise and not too costly for both ourselves and our neighbours.
Since the outcome of the appeal, landowners in the area have grown in confidence, with the certainty that even if their applications are refused by POs and Councillors, they will be allowed at Appeal. The number of applications has increased so dramatically that the local authority cannot cope. Landowners, not happy with one turbine are submitting applications for up to three at a time and singularly thereafter as this increases their chance of approval and lessens the likelihood of needing a full EIA assessment. With those already consented, there is no window in our house which will not have a view of turbines. More applications arrive on a weekly basis and shortly it will not just be Uplawmoor which disappears under turbines but the whole of East Renfrewshire as ERC has outlined 34.7% of ER’s greenbelt for windfarm development. The rest of the greenbelt appears to be earmarked for vast housing developments in Newton Mearns.
Our once peaceful and happy family life has been destroyed, our health and financial situation has deteriorated and good neighbourly relationships are a thing of the past. It has split the community apart, putting strain on once firm friendships and dividing families and I see no respite from the misery inflicted upon us and other communities in similar positions.
Aileen Jackson
*A Matron is a noise nuisance measuring instrument that records sound but does not measure noise levels in decibels. It is used by Environmental Health to establish if there is a justified complaint.
[Submission to the 2012 Inquiry into the Scottish Government’s Renewables Targets, by Communities Against Turbines Scotland (CATS) – Annexe 4]
Date added: June 16, 2012
Aesthetics, Environment, Scotland •
Protecting our mountains – manifesto on onshore wind farms
Author: Mountaineering Council of Scotland
Summary and introduction
The mountains and wild places of Scotland are a national asset beyond price, yet they risk being irrevocably damaged by commercial wind farm developments.
This document reflects the determination of the Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) to defend this precious resource. It examines some of the issues and proposes practical action to balance the need for clean energy with the need to conserve our natural heritage.
As the recognised representative body for Scottish mountaineers and hill walkers we believe our uplands and wild places are at risk from climate change. They are also in danger from our response to climate change – industrial-scale wind farms in landscapes which should remain wild. The threat is not just from individual schemes, but from their cumulative impact. With ever-more schemes in the pipeline we need urgent action.
Scotland can achieve its aims for renewable energy without industrialising our most important mountains. We should lead the world in clean energy good practice as well as generation. As a pragmatic response the MCofS is calling for an immediate moratorium on commercial wind farms which encroach on our highest mountains, the Munros (peaks over 3,000ft) and Corbetts (2,500-3,000ft). These are among our finest mountain landscapes and are vital to our cultural and historical identity. They form a clearly identifiable group and are among the last parts of the UK free from obvious, or extensive, human presence.
The MCofS calls for clear policy statements by the Scottish Government, local authorities, political parties and developers that commercial wind farms will not be permitted to impinge on the Munros and Corbetts – or their visual amenity (ensuring the visual quality of these areas remains exceptionally high). Policies must be tightly defined to end the current situation where piecemeal regulation allows varied and subjective interpretation, sometimes putting the interests and profits of energy companies and landowners ahead of our countryside, and ultimately, Scotland’s national interest.
Our mountains are of essential importance for many reasons including:
Scenic beauty and Scottish culture – they are among our defining features
Recreation – for activities like hill walking and ski touring
Employment – sustainable jobs in remote communities
Tourism – Scotland’s countryside is a leading attraction
Wildlife – providing habitats for threatened species
Health – getting people out of doors and active
The MCofS wishes to engage with all those who have an interest in conserving our natural heritage in order to strike a proper balance between the need for clean energy and the conservation of our natural heritage.
Scale of the issue
No technology can be considered truly green if it harms the very environments we seek to conserve. The SNH wind farm footprint map of July 2011, while incomplete, gives some idea of the huge extent of development proposals.
It is claimed that SNH has recorded some 400 wind power projects of 3MW or more, with 130 operational or approved and the rest in the consent process (for Scottish Government figures see also 2020 Routemap for Renewable Energy in Scotland).
The norm is increasingly for turbines of 100-125m from base to blade tip. Wind farms may also require many kilometres of service tracks, usually 6m wide, to be cut through unspoilt countryside. Transmission cables and pylons can cause further damage. Construction work can harm some bird species and the removal of peat releases carbon into the atmosphere. Large schemes occupy many square miles of land, transforming their character and degrading the visual amenity for miles around.
In 2011 the Scottish Government raised the country’s renewable energy targets to 100% of domestic demand by 2020. Wind power generation is now big business with large profits available to companies and land owners. But a heavy price is being paid – the industrialisation of our countryside. The profit motive must always be constrained by wider public and national interests.
The Scottish Government’s claim that strict planning guidelines are preventing unacceptable harm to the environment looks increasingly questionable. We would cite the RSPB’s concerns about the scale of the Viking development in Shetland, and our own objections to proposals such as those for Sallachy and Dalnessie, which are based on existing planning policies, as examples.
The James Hutton Institute asserts that climate change is having a lasting impact on the Scottish landscape. Much marginal land will become viable for agricultural use – potentially increasing pressure on our wild places. More generally we face an erosion of our natural capital with habitat loss and over-exploitation of land. We strongly agree with the institute’s emphasis on balancing economic, cultural and environmental demands to achieve more sustainable use of land.
In common with the Scottish Government we are impressed by the prospects for renewables in Scotland – with an estimated 10% of Europe’s wave power and 25% of its tidal potential, combined with tremendous offshore wind capacity. We welcome the investments being made to make Scotland a pioneering force in the exploitation of these resources.
So great is Scotland’s renewables potential that it can choose the best way ahead. The MCofS suggests that this opens the way for a new strategy to determine how to reach its renewables targets while keeping onshore wind farm developments away from the Munros and the Corbetts.
A strategic approach
The Scottish Government has been quick to recognise that our planning policies and guidance need updating. We welcome the ongoing process in which local authorities are drafting new local plans.
However, Scotland needs a national strategy to protect its mountains from unwelcome developments and to provide clear guidance on where wind farms will and will not be permitted. In some cases we would be keen to see a distinction drawn between types of project, recognising the value of certain small-scale developments which bring power and some income to local communities. At present there is little consistency about which landscapes are designated for protection. This is despite the admirable work of many planners, and organisations such as SNH, and efforts at standardisation using Special Landscape Areas.
Change is needed urgently, with clear and firm protection for the Munros and Corbetts in particular. Their futures should not depend on factors such as whether they happen to be in a National Park.
Scotland’s Munros and Corbetts form a coherent and internationally-recognised group and are of great worth to the tourism industry. Access is relatively easy yet they provide a real sense of wildness, tranquility, adventure and solitude. They are also places where the local communities are very small, so weight of public opinion cannot be relied on to deter unwelcome development proposals. The Munros and Corbetts hold some of our highest-quality environments and must remain free from further major visual intrusion.
The Scottish Government has a strongly stated belief in the contribution that wind farms can make to our clean energy needs. This can encourage decisions which favour the desires of developers and landowners over the interests of our natural heritage, despite the emphasis on landscape conservation in the National Planning Framework 2 (NPF2) and the 2010 Scottish Planning Policy. Indeed, there are cases where implementation has failed to meet the aspirations of policy.
We also share with SNH, and others, a deep concern that the scenic value of our landscapes can be corroded by an accumulation of wind farms within sensitive areas, or around their edges. With so many proposals going through the planning system the reality of their cumulative impact may only be recognised when it is too late. As a result we are joining the RSPB in its call for an evidence-based strategic energy policy taking a holistic view of all relevant economic, social and environmental factors.
A central plank of such a policy would be the explicit protection of Corbetts and Munros as landscapes which are, to use the words of SNH, ‘recognised as being rare, unusual, highly distinctive or the best or most representative example in a given area’.
In this way Scotland can be even more effective in championing the cause of renewable energy. As WWF says, wind farms must avoid causing environmental harm and need to have public acceptance. It is essential to build and maintain a consensus in favour of renewables, the poor siting of wind farms can undermine public support – which is already showing signs of strain.
The Scottish Government claims that research shows wind farms are not incompatible with tourism. This is probably true, so long as the developments do not encroach on landscapes specifically valued for their openness, wildness and absence of obvious human presence and industrialisation.
But it is a potentially serious error to give too much weight to the findings of reports such as The Economic Impacts of Wind Farms on Scottish Tourism or the VisitScotland survey commissioned in 2011. Such work tells us little as it is being conducted at a time when relatively few wind farms have been built in the locations of key interest to tourists.
The MCofS wants to ensure that wind farm developments do not damage our tourism and recreation industries. The value to the economy, especially in remote and fragile communities, is enormous. Wind farms create few lasting onsite jobs, but Scotland’s reputation as a place for relaxation and adventure leisure pursuits underpins many permanent and sustainable jobs which our rural areas desperately need. These jobs are highly dependent on the fact that visitors enjoy our wild landscapes.
The country attracted 14.7 million visitors in 2010, spending £4.1 billion. The top reason for visiting Scotland was the scenery and landscape (58%). Some 40% of visitors went on longer walks (two miles and above). For 35% of visitors long walks, hikes and rambles were among the most popular activities.
Mountaineers and hill walkers are often young people from the most affluent social groups – a valuable tourism market as HIE’s Economic Impact report of 2003-04 underlined. Scottish Government figures show that 5% of Scots go hill walking on a regular basis.
Our tourism industry has suffered serious and unexpected shocks in the recent past which show that visitor perceptions are sensitive to change. Nowadays Scotland faces tough competition from overseas markets which offer wild mountain areas and superb countryside at lower cost. Scotland has to compete at the premium end of the market on quality of experience. Our international image is of a country offering beautiful and open mountain landscapes. We cannot allow a situation to emerge where visitors are disappointed because the countryside is seen as spoiled by industrialisation.
Most mountaineers see Scotland’s landscape and wildlife as being as important as adventure and physical challenge. The great scenic beauty of our mountains gives them a powerful appeal. Nature-based tourism and recreational activities in the mountains are of immense value to Scotland overall, and to our more rural communities in particular. The Macaulay Institute found that hill walkers and climbers contributed an estimated £245.7 million in expenditure to Scotland’s rural economy in the HIE area in 2002-03. In order for this contribution to be sustained and enhanced, the landscape quality of our mountain areas must be conserved.
The sparsely populated areas we seek to protect from wind farm industrialisation have small or no local populations so weight of local opinion cannot be relied on to resist undesirable change. As the representative body for Scottish mountaineers and hill walkers (with a membership of more than 11,000 and a 40-year track record) the MCofS fights to protect our mountains.
Far from opposing wind farms, we argue that it is in the interests of Scotland and of the renewables sector to get their location right so they are a popular and accepted part of life. In mountain areas we also appreciate that low capacity, small-scale projects sited sensitively (and probably close to existing buildings) may well be more acceptable if their primary role is to generate power and income for the community. In order to balance the need for clean energy with the interests of our natural heritage the MCofS is calling for:
A halt to all commercial wind farms encroaching on the land of the Munros and Corbetts or having an adverse or significant impact on their visual amenity.
Clear, unequivocal national and local policy statements declaring that there will be no future commercial wind farm developments in these areas
A holistic Scottish energy strategy which includes the siting of wind farms
Firm commitments by parties, politicians, planners and wind farm developers that they will protect Scotland’s mountains from unwelcome change.
The MCofS will be supportive of planning authorities in preparing positive policies and supplementary guidance to protect our upland landscape. It will also seek to influence how such policies are implemented.
Scotland’s upland landscape is under threat from many directions. The proliferation of wind farms is one of them and must be controlled. Our mountains have a scenic, cultural and economic worth which needs to be balanced with their value to renewable energy companies and their marginal contribution to the reduction of Scotland’s carbon footprint. Preventing wind farm developments that encroach on the Munros and Corbetts – among the finest Scottish landscapes – would be a bold step forward.
The mountain landscape provides venues for recreation, exercise and participation in a wide range of outdoor sports – as such is of huge benefit to public health and wellbeing. It is also an asset for the tourism industry, supporting thousands of local jobs.
Scotland’s renewable energy targets can be achieved without recourse to extensive wind farm industrialisation. But urgent action is needed to secure the future of our mountains and wild places so they can be enjoyed for recreation and relaxation.
Scotland needs coherent policies, strategies and implementation to replace the current piecemeal and subjective approach. These must guarantee that the Munros and Corbetts are protected. In doing this, the country can become a leader in renewable energy best-practice, contributing to the long-term success of the switch to clean energy by maintaining public support and by protecting places that are of irreplaceable scenic, cultural, social and natural significance.
Published 6 June 2012
For further information please contact David Gibson, Chief Officer
davidg@mcofs.org.uk
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Preston, 33, an astrobiologist based at Birkbeck, University of London, recently wrote a book, Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe, about her research. She studies these habitats and organisms as analogues for how life might survive on planets such as Mars.
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Louisa Preston: I'm studying different environments across Earth, like sub-glacial volcanoes, ancient rivers and impact craters, which look like what might be on Mars. On Earth, these types of environments have extreme-loving organisms that can live in harsh conditions that may have the potential to live on Mars today, or to have lived there in the past. So I'm studying them on Earth to figure out how they could survive on Mars.
How do you define what you're looking for?
The good thing about looking for organisms that might live on Mars is that chances are, they're going to be quite simple organisms like bacteria, which means there's only a certain number we're looking at. Ones that can survive the cold, extreme radiation, or acid conditions - those, we are interested in.
The tardigrade, or water bear, features in the title of your book. What makes it a prime example of an extremophile?
Tardigrades are found across the Earth in rainforest canopies, on mountain summits and beneath the frozen desert of Antarctica. Yet I've personally found many happily living in regular garden moss. If it feels itself under stress, in an environment without enough water or oxygen, it rolls into a tight ball called a tun, and expels about 97 per cent of its body moisture. It essentially becomes a mummified ball of the ingredients of life. We don't actually know how long it can stay in that state - at least 100 years, possibly longer. It just waits until conditions improve.
A project called Biokis, sponsored by the Italian Space Agency, took water bears into space - albeit in the tun state - and when they came back to Earth they uncurled in minutes and carried on with their lives. So if there was ever
an organism that was able to survive on Mars, it would be a water bear.1
Preston runs analogue missions to see how life survives in harsh environments on this planet, and what it means for future space exploration
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What's the purpose of running analogue missions on Earth?
Analogue missions were created to be the drivers of technology, and for us to practise going to other worlds. The Apollo astronauts did the same thing in Iceland to practice for the Moon. I spent a number of years running missions where we would simulate sending astronauts and rovers to impact craters, asking, what does that tell us about how we could refine operations on the Moon? That just gets extended to Mars.
I'll be working this year in Utah's desert, in a collaboration between the UK, Canada, America and Europe, to run another analogue mission to figure out how we can make rovers and mission control teams more efficient at their jobs, when we do send them on real-life missions. But also, we want to get our own science done. Quite often when we do these analogue missions, we choose alien-like on purpose, with geology or extremophilic organisms that mimic where we
might do research on other planets.
Does our growing knowledge of space shape how this plays out on Earth?
Absolutely. We're lucky to live in a time where we've got such wonderful images of Mars. We see signs on them and think, "I wonder if there's something like that on Earth?" whereas in the past it was about understanding the Earth and thinking, "That thing on Mars actually looks like this thing on Earth." They're interchangeable - the more we learn about Mars, the more we learn about Earth, and vice versa.
In October, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Schiaparelli Mission will arrive on Mars to look for evidence of life. How important is this mission to you?
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It's really important. It's got two missions: the first is to deliver Schiaparelli, an entry-descent module, to Mars. Its main job is to land safely and test all the procedures for landing that will be used when we send the ExoMars rover in 2020. Then the Orbiter is going to orbit Mars until 2022, effectively sniffing the atmosphere for methane and other types of carbon gases.2
The goal of TGO is, first off, to find the methane and map it. It's also to figure out if that methane is biological or not. If it is, we have two options: either, once there was life on the surface of Mars that produced methane, which got trapped inside ice in the ground and as it started to melt the methane got released in bursts. Or, the more exciting option is that there is methanogen and methane-loving organisms under the surface of Mars, pumping it out.
How are you involved?
I'm more involved with the ExoMars rover that's being sent in 2020 than this mission. I'm using my knowledge of extreme Mars-like environments on Earth and their diverse ecosystems to test an instrument that mimics that of ExoMars's infrared spectrometer. The goal is to identify signatures of life within Mars-like samples using Mars-like equipment, ahead of time, so that once we're on the surface we know what we're looking for.3 So I'm involved in helping to scout out environments where we might be able to test this instrument, to provide samples and help interpret the data.
I'll be heading to Iceland soon to look at hot springs and outflow deposits from volcanoes that have erupted underneath ice sheets. We'll be using some of the prototypes going on ExoMars to see what we can identify.
I'm also diversifying a bit: I'm going to Lake Tirez in Spain, and instead of Mars we're using it as an analogue for Europa, the icy moon of Jupiter. The hyper-saline waters here may bear chemical similarities with Europa's hidden liquid ocean - and there's extremophilic life living inside these salty waters and sediments. So we're going to see how life survives and is preserved here, and, if we simulate the environment on Europa, what happens to this life and its biosignatures.
1. Angela Maria Rizzo, 2015. "Space Flight Effects on Antioxidant Molecules in Dry Tardigrades: The TARDIKISS Experiment," BioMed Research International Volume 2015 Article ID 167642
2. ExoMars trace gas orbiter
3. Louisa J. Preston, 2015. "Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) Spectral detection of life in polar subsurface environments and its application for Mars exploration," Applied Spectroscopy, Volume 69 Number 9, 1059-1065
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