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Indonesia exceeds world aviation safety standard: minister
15 November, 2017 | Source: Antara News
Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said that Indonesia has surpassed the world aviation safety standards, based on the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO USOAP), from 50 to 80.
"Thanks to God, it is now finalized; I am grateful that we achieve good qualification, which is high above the average. It is an increase of 60 percent, from about 50 to about 80," Budi stated at the 14th anniversary of Sriwijaya Air Group in Tangerang on Friday.
After the achievement, Sumadi called on all stakeholders, both operators and regulators, to jointly maintain the reputation.
"The most important issue is about how we can maintain the qualification. The world of aviation is very complex, and Indonesia is vast country with more than 500 airports and hundreds of aircraft. Besides expressing my gratitude, I would like to invite aviation stakeholders to improve what has been developed, always concentrate on good performance, and maintain it as well," he noted.
Previously, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation at the Ministry of Transportation had expressed optimism that it would exceed the safety standards of the International ICAO.
Director General of Air Transportation, Agus Santoso, remarked that the on-site audit process was conducted by ICAO auditors on Oct 18, 2017.
I am optimistic about getting a good score," he added.
Agus mentioned that despite the world standard value for the passing category was at an average of 60, he was optimistic about exceeding the grade.
"I appreciate friends who have worked day and night to achieve this. The results will be announced next month," he remarked.
He admitted that he was optimistic because Indonesia had already gained the category 1 flight safety standards of the US Aviation Authority, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
"We have achieved category 1 FAA, meaning it has met the global safety plan," he revealed.
In addition, Agus stated that the results of the audit by the ICAO Team were satisfactory. "Not many records are submitted from ICAO," he said.
Meanwhile, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has already pocketed the value of the International Aviation security standard, which is at 94.5.
President of ICAO Council Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu explained that the Indonesian government has succeeded in implementing effective aviation safety, enabling it to score above the global average, based on the result of an on-site audit conducted by the ICAO last October.
Aliu made the remarks during a meeting with Santoso during a diplomatic reception held to mark the 72nd anniversary of Indonesian independence at the ICAO office in Montreal, Canada.
According to the Indonesian Embassy in Ottawa, in a press statement released on Friday, Aliu also congratulated Indonesia for scoring above the global average, thanks to its hard work to implement aviation safety effectively.
During his working visit in Montreal, Santoso also met a number of top officials of the ICAO head office.
The reception was attended by more than 150 guests, including Aliu, permanent representatives of ICAO Council member states, officials of ICAO head office, and Indonesian diaspora in Montreal.
In his opening address to the reception, Indonesian Ambassador to Canada and Permanent Representative to ICAO, Teuku Faizasyah, stressed the Indonesian government′s commitment to strengthen cooperation with ICAO and its all members, particularly in Asia and the Pacific, in increasing international civil aviation capacity.
He further highlighted the progress achieved in the development of national air transportation in the five goals of ICAO strategy; improving aviation safety; strengthening aviation security; advancing aviation navigation capacity; developing the economy in the air transportation sector; and protecting the environment from civil aviation activities.
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2019′s CPI inflation stays at target corridor: BI
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Home Software Google Docs Add More File Storage Options
Google Docs Add More File Storage Options
By David Needle | January 13, 2010
Google is expanding the storage capabilities of its Google Docs and online Apps Suite with a larger file size and more flexible storage options. In a blog post today, Google said its Google Docs will soon be able to upload all file types to the cloud up to 250MB per file in size, a limit greater than most e-mail applications typically allow.
The search giant said the new capability would be rolled out to Google Docs users over the next few weeks. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) said the change will let users store large files, such as graphics and image files, in the cloud rather than transporting them on a USB drive or other storage device or off the corporate network.
Google Docs users can currently upload files, such as documents, which are converted into one of the Google Docs editors -- documents, spreadsheets, presentations. The new feature will let users upload any file type or ZIP folder.
The news comes as Google continues its push to make inroads on the entrenched Microsoft Office suite used by most businesses. Google has pushed its own Google Apps Premier suite as a more flexible, collaborative alternative and has garnered some big customer wins such as biotech giant Genentech.
In September, research firm reported that one in five businesses use Google Docs, up from only five percent in 2007. The figures do not break out how many companies have standardized or widely deployed the online suite, merely that they are in use.
On the collaboration side, Google gave some examples of how the new storage options could help facilitate teams.
"For example, an architect can share large schematic files with her construction firm, while a P.T.A. member can share large graphic files for posters with other members. You can even add these files to the same shared project folder your team has already been using to collaborate on documents and spreadsheets," Vijay Bangaru, product manager for Google Docs, said in the blog post.
The standard Google Apps suite is free, while Google Apps Premier costs $50 per user/per year. Bangaru said Apps Premier customers will now be able to upload many files at once and sync them with their desktop files in real time using third party applications.
Google's Enterprise Blog describes three programs – Memeo Connect for Google Apps, Syncplicity and Manymoon –that offer various file management, organization or synchronization features.
Google Docs users will be notified at sign-in when the new file storage features are available, the company said.
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Hugh at home among All-Stars
North Ballarat Rebels midfielder Hugh McCluggage again showed why he will be selected in the top couple of picks on draft day with a strong performance in the All-Stars game at Punt Road Oval.
Hugh McCluggage
McCluggage gathered plenty of the ball and in typical fashion hit the scoreboard –kicking four goals.His impact on the match helped his side, team Judd, to defeat team O’Loughlin 15.7 (97) to 8.11 (59).
The match is a one-off hit-out between the nations best under-18 players. Making McCluggage’s great performance further reinforcement of his ability to mix it with the very best following his standout TAC Cup season and national championships.
Rebels coach Gerard FitzGerald said his ability to impact the game was something he again displayed –without necessarily accumulating huge numbers.
“I think what was most impressive about his game was the impact hehad on the match,” FitzGerald said.
“His ability to win the ball, find space and finish well.He continues to do a lot of things right and that’s all you can do.”
Rebels captain Jarrod Berry returned to field after a long lay-off with a kidney injury. He played through the midfield and moved well and won his usual quota of inside football.
Top-ten draft candidate Willem Drew took on his usual role in the middle but also played off the half-back line at times -highlighting his versatility.
“It was good for him to get an opportunity to play behind the ball and show the recruiters that he’s got some other attributes to his game.”
While Cedric Cox played on a wing and utilized his leg speed and beautiful skills on both sides of his body.
FitzGerald said it was a great endorsement of the club’s system to have four players in the All-Stars game.
“It’s a really good endorsement of the football pathway. Two teams selected nation-wide and four have come through our program.”
Sandringham Dragons’ Tim Taranto was best afield.
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Top Five (DVD REVIEW)
DVD Review by Kam Williams
Chris Rock Romantic Romp Released on DVD
In Birdman, Michael Keaton played a fading star trying to revive a career that had been in decline since he’d become typecast after playing a superhero in a series of blockbusters on the big screen. That plotline wasn’t all that far off from the arc of Keaton’s real-life fate following an outing as Batman back in 1989.
The similarly-themed Top Five features Chris Rock as Andre Allen, a comedian who has become too closely associated with “Hammy the Bear,” the popular protagonist of a humor-driven film franchise. Consequently, he’s been having a hard time making the transition to dramatic roles.
At the point of departure, we find Andre in the midst of promoting his newest movie, Uprize, an historical drama about a slave insurrection on the island of Haiti. He’s allowed New York Times reporter Chelsea Brown (Rosario Dawson) to tag along for the day, since she’s been assigned by the paper to prepare a profile on him.
Sparks fly, the two flirt, and it’s pretty obvious right off the bat that the two are attracted to each other. Trouble is, he’s already engaged and about to marry Erica Long (Gabrielle Union), a shallow, self-centered reality show star.
It’s equally clear that Andre and his high maintenance fiancée are ill-matched, so anybody who’s ever seen a romantic comedy can figure out where this one’s headed. And while the plot does everything to prevent Andre from wising up until the very end, it simultaneously affords the acid-tongued funnyman ample opportunities to point out show business’ shortcomings.
Besides being peppered with plenty of inside jokes and pithy comments about Hollywood, Top Five is memorable for boasting the most star-studded cast of the year. The dramatis personae includes J.B. Smoove, Kevin Hart, Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld, Cedric the Entertainer, Tracy Morgan, Whoopi Goldberg, Charlie Rose, DMX, Jay Pharoah, Taraji P. Henson, Romany Malco, Gabby Sidibe, Luis Guzman, Sherri Shepherd and Ben Vereen.
As you might imagine, many of the celebs are limited to blink and you missed it cameos, though the production does manage to milk a little magic out of each one’s brief moment in the limelight. Nevertheless, make no mistake, this is a Chris Rock vehicle, and the picture is at its best when the irreverent comic is at his cockiest.
A clever, laff-a-minute adventure worth the investment for the hilarity, even if it telegraphs where the love story might be headed.
Excellent (3.5 stars)
Rated R for sexuality, nudity, crude humor, pervasive profanity and drug use
Distributor: Paramount Home Media Distribution
Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Extras: HD version of the film; Commentary by Chris Rock and JB Smoove; It’s Never a Movie: Chris Rock and Top Five; The Making of Top Five; Top Five Andre Allen standup outtakes; Top Five moments you didn’t see in the film; and deleted scenes
To see a trailer for Top Five, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jejCmmawzLY
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In addition to a BA in Black Studies from Cornell, he has an MA in English from Brown, an MBA from The Wharton School, and a JD from Boston University. Kam lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife and son.
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Summary: A semi-synthetic macrolide antibiotic structurally related to ERYTHROMYCIN. It has been used in the treatment of Mycobacterium avium intracellulare infections, toxoplasmosis, and cryptosporidiosis.
Ray W, Murray K, Hall K, Arbogast P, Stein C. Azithromycin and the risk of cardiovascular death. N Engl J Med. 2012;366:1881-90 pubmed publisher
..several macrolide antibiotics are proarrhythmic and associated with an increased risk of sudden cardiac death, azithromycin is thought to have minimal cardiotoxicity...
Medina C, Rowe A, Yun H, Knickelbein J, Lathrop K, Hendricks R. Azithromycin treatment increases survival of high-risk corneal allotransplants. Cornea. 2013;32:658-66 pubmed publisher
To test the therapeutic efficacy of azithromycin (AZM), a macrolide antibiotic for prolonging murine "high-risk" corneal allograft survival...
Trivedi N, Shah P. A meta-analysis comparing the safety and efficacy of azithromycin over the alternate drugs used for treatment of uncomplicated enteric fever. J Postgrad Med. 2012;58:112-8 pubmed publisher
..A meta-analysis was planned to determine the strength of evidence supporting use of azithromycin over the alternate drugs available for treatment of uncomplicated typhoid fever...
Gaynor B, Amza A, Kadri B, Nassirou B, Lawan O, Maman L, et al. Impact of mass azithromycin distribution on malaria parasitemia during the low-transmission season in Niger: a cluster-randomized trial. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014;90:846-51 pubmed publisher
We assessed the effect of mass azithromycin treatment on malaria parasitemia in a trachoma trial in Niger. Twenty-four study communities received treatment during the wet, high-transmission season...
Keenan J, See C, Moncada J, Ayele B, Gebre T, Stoller N, et al. Diagnostic characteristics of tests for ocular Chlamydia after mass azithromycin distributions. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2012;53:235-40 pubmed publisher
..Organization (WHO) simplified grading system for trachoma to monitor the clinical response after repeated mass azithromycin treatments, the programmatic relevance of this evaluation after multiple rounds of antibiotic treatments is ..
Hahn D, Grasmick M, Hetzel S, Yale S. Azithromycin for bronchial asthma in adults: an effectiveness trial. J Am Board Fam Med. 2012;25:442-59 pubmed publisher
..performed a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded effectiveness trial of 12 weekly doses of adjunctive azithromycin, with follow-up to 1 year after randomization, in adults with persistent asthma...
Amza A, Kadri B, Nassirou B, Stoller N, Yu S, Zhou Z, et al. Community risk factors for ocular Chlamydia infection in Niger: pre-treatment results from a cluster-randomized trachoma trial. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012;6:e1586 pubmed publisher
Trachoma control programs utilize mass azithromycin distributions to treat ocular Chlamydia trachomatis as part of an effort to eliminate this disease world-wide...
Mal P, Dutta K, Bandyopadhyay D, Basu A, Khan R, Bishayi B. Azithromycin in combination with riboflavin decreases the severity of Staphylococcus aureus infection induced septic arthritis by modulating the production of free radicals and endogenous cytokines. Inflamm Res. 2013;62:259-73 pubmed publisher
To determine alternate therapeutic measures to combat Staphylococcus aureus induced arthritis. Thus, azithromycin was combined with riboflavin, which may combat the ROS production and inflammation.
Laufer M, Thesing P, Dzinjalamala F, Nyirenda O, Masonga R, Laurens M, et al. A longitudinal trial comparing chloroquine as monotherapy or in combination with artesunate, azithromycin or atovaquone-proguanil to treat malaria. PLoS ONE. 2012;7:e42284 pubmed publisher
..Participants were randomized to receive chloroquine alone or combined with artesunate, azithromycin or atovaquone-proguanil for all episodes of uncomplicated malaria for one year...
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Chang A, Grimwood K, Robertson C, Wilson A, Van Asperen P, O Grady K, et al. Antibiotics for bronchiectasis exacerbations in children: rationale and study protocol for a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Trials. 2012;13:156 pubmed publisher
..Our study tests the hypothesis that both oral azithromycin and amoxicillin-clavulanic acid are superior to placebo at improving resolution rates of respiratory ..
Han M, Tayob N, Murray S, Dransfield M, Washko G, Scanlon P, et al. Predictors of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation reduction in response to daily azithromycin therapy. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2014;189:1503-8 pubmed publisher
Daily azithromycin decreases acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD), but long-term side effects are unknown...
Pinto L, Pitrez P, Luisi F, de Mello P, Gerhardt M, Ferlini R, et al. Azithromycin therapy in hospitalized infants with acute bronchiolitis is not associated with better clinical outcomes: a randomized, double-blinded, and placebo-controlled clinical trial. J Pediatr. 2012;161:1104-8 pubmed publisher
To test the hypothesis that azithromycin reduces the length of hospitalization and oxygen requirement in infants with acute viral bronchiolitis (AB)...
Twin J, Jensen J, Bradshaw C, Garland S, Fairley C, Min L, et al. Transmission and selection of macrolide resistant Mycoplasma genitalium infections detected by rapid high resolution melt analysis. PLoS ONE. 2012;7:e35593 pubmed publisher
..The MG treatment failure rate using 1 g azithromycin at an Australian Sexual Health clinic in 2007-9 was 31% (95%CI 23-40%)...
Muldoon E, Walsh A, Crowley B, Mulcahy F. Treponema pallidum azithromycin resistance in Dublin, Ireland. Sex Transm Dis. 2012;39:784-6 pubmed
This study aimed to reassess rates of syphilis azithromycin resistance in Dublin. Of the 104 samples, 36 (34.6%) were positive for Treponema pallidum DNA by polymerase chain reaction...
Chen X, Yin Y, Wei W, Wang H, Peng R, Zheng H, et al. High prevalence of azithromycin resistance to Treponema pallidum in geographically different areas in China. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2013;19:975-9 pubmed publisher
..This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of azithromycin resistance to T. pallidum in China...
Svanström H, Pasternak B, Hviid A. Use of azithromycin and death from cardiovascular causes. N Engl J Med. 2013;368:1704-12 pubmed publisher
b>Azithromycin use is associated with an increased risk of death from cardiovascular causes among patients at high baseline risk. Whether azithromycin confers a similar risk in the unselected general population is unknown...
Lin S, Yan D, Lee W, Kuo M, Hsiao H, Lee P. Effect of azithromycin on natural killer cell function. Int Immunopharmacol. 2012;13:8-14 pubmed publisher
b>Azithromycin (AZM), a macrolide antibiotic for treating mycoplasma infections, may exhibit anti-inflammatory activity aside from its antimicrobial effect, providing additional therapeutic benefit...
Ssemanda E, Levens J, Mkocha H, Munoz B, West S. Azithromycin mass treatment for trachoma control: risk factors for non-participation of children in two treatment rounds. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012;6:e1576 pubmed publisher
..We examined risk factors for households with at least one child who did not participate in two MDAs compared to households where all children participated in both MDAs...
Pomares X, Montón C, Espasa M, Casabon J, Monso E, Gallego M. Long-term azithromycin therapy in patients with severe COPD and repeated exacerbations. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 2011;6:449-56 pubmed publisher
The aim of this study was to determine whether long-term intermittent azithromycin therapy reduces the frequency of exacerbation in severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...
Saint Criq V, Ruffin M, Rebeyrol C, Guillot L, Jacquot J, Clement A, et al. Azithromycin fails to reduce inflammation in cystic fibrosis airway epithelial cells. Eur J Pharmacol. 2012;674:1-6 pubmed publisher
..Cystic fibrosis pulmonary pathophysiology is characterised by chronic inflammation and bacterial infections. Azithromycin, a macrolide antibiotic, has shown promising anti-inflammatory properties in some inflammatory pulmonary ..
Starnino S, Galarza P, Carvallo M, Benzaken A, Ballesteros A, Cruz O, et al. Retrospective analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility trends (2000-2009) in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from countries in Latin America and the Caribbean shows evolving resistance to ciprofloxacin, azithromycin and decreased susceptibility to cef. Sex Transm Dis. 2012;39:813-21 pubmed
..to 2009, aggregated ciprofloxacin resistance increased from 2% (19/784) to 31% (311/1015) in 9 countries and azithromycin resistance increased from 6% (39/646) to 23% (225/962) in 4/6 reporting countries...
Nujić K, Banjanac M, Munić V, Polancec D, Erakovic Haber V. Impairment of lysosomal functions by azithromycin and chloroquine contributes to anti-inflammatory phenotype. Cell Immunol. 2012;279:78-86 pubmed publisher
b>Azithromycin and chloroquine have been shown to exhibit anti-inflammatory activities in a number of cellular systems, but the mechanisms of these activities have still not been clarified unequivocally...
Chen C, Chi K, Pillay A, Nachamkin E, Su J, Ballard R. Detection of the A2058G and A2059G 23S rRNA gene point mutations associated with azithromycin resistance in Treponema pallidum by use of a TaqMan real-time multiplex PCR assay. J Clin Microbiol. 2013;51:908-13 pubmed publisher
..A total of 129 specimens PCR positive for T. pallidum that were obtained from an azithromycin resistance surveillance study conducted in the United States were analyzed. Sixty-six (51...
Luntamo M, Kulmala T, Cheung Y, Maleta K, Ashorn P. The effect of antenatal monthly sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine, alone or with azithromycin, on foetal and neonatal growth faltering in Malawi: a randomised controlled trial. Trop Med Int Health. 2013;18:386-97 pubmed publisher
..and reproductive tract infections with monthly sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), alone or with two doses of azithromycin. We enrolled 1320 women with uncomplicated second trimester pregnancies into a randomised, partially placebo ..
Wong C, Jayaram L, Karalus N, Eaton T, Tong C, Hockey H, et al. Azithromycin for prevention of exacerbations in non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis (EMBRACE): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2012;380:660-7 pubmed publisher
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To determine whether 2-day dosing of azithromycin may improve the efficacy of azithromycin dosing in children with severe trachoma.
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Although azithromycin promised to be a safe and effective single-dose oral treatment of early syphilis, azithromycin treatment failure has been documented and is associated with mutations in the 23S rDNA of corresponding Treponema ..
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Southern K, Barker P, Solis Moya A, Patel L. Macrolide antibiotics for cystic fibrosis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012;11:CD002203 pubmed publisher
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The second-generation macrolide azithromycin is available as a 1.5% ophthalmic solution for use in the treatment of bacterial or trachomatous conjunctivitis. This article reviews the pharmacological properties of azithromycin 1...
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..Oral azithromycin is effective for syphilis...
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..Greenland reports the highest rates of chlamydial infection and gonorrhea in the Arctic. Our objective was to determine the presence, and describe the basic epidemiology, of Mycoplasma genitalium for Greenland...
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..The best way to treat these districts, and the optimum role of testing for infection in deciding whether to initiate or discontinue MDA, are unknown...
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An electrochemical method has been successfully demonstrated for sensitive determination of azithromycin (Azi) with room temperature ionic liquid (IL) of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate (BMIMPF(6)) - graphene (Gr) ..
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We report the first pediatric case of drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms associated with azithromycin use in the setting of acute Epstein-Barr virus infection in an 8-year-old boy...
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..we assess anthropometry measurements in children 6-60 months in 24 communities randomized to one or two mass azithromycin distributions over a 1-year period in Niger...
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..In this study, we report the occurrence of azithromycin resistance among clinical P. aeruginosa DK2 isolates...
. Prevalence of the 23S rRNA A2058G point mutation and molecular subtypes in Treponema pallidum in the United States, 2007 to 2009. Sex Transm Dis. 2012;39:794-8 pubmed
..The 23S rRNA A2058G point mutation in Treponema pallidum is associated with macrolide antibiotic treatment failure. Its prevalence and potential association with a molecular subtype within the United States are unknown...
Buyck J, Plesiat P, Traore H, Vanderbist F, Tulkens P, Van Bambeke F. Increased susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to macrolides and ketolides in eukaryotic cell culture media and biological fluids due to decreased expression of oprM and increased outer-membrane permeability. Clin Infect Dis. 2012;55:534-42 pubmed publisher
..Nevertheless, azithromycin is successfully used in cystic fibrosis patients, supposedly because of "nonantibiotic effects...
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..one was allocated to receive, during 9 months, a monthly antibiotic (alternatively ciprofloxacin or azithromycin, n = 296 FSWs) and the other a placebo (n = 340 FSWs)...
Balaskas K, Vaudaux J, Boillat Blanco N, Guex Crosier Y. Azithromycin versus Sulfadiazine and Pyrimethamine for non-vision-threatening toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis: a pilot study. Med Sci Monit. 2012;18:CR296-302 pubmed
The purpose of this pilot study is to compare the efficacy and tolerance of azithromycin alone as opposed to standard treatment with sulfadiazine and pyrimethamine for active, non-vision-threatening toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis...
Coles C, Levens J, Seidman J, Mkocha H, Munoz B, West S. Mass distribution of azithromycin for trachoma control is associated with short-term reduction in risk of acute lower respiratory infection in young children. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2012;31:341-6 pubmed publisher
We evaluated the effect of a single mass distribution of azithromycin for trachoma on the risk of acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) during a 6-month period among young children living in 8 communities in rural Tanzania...
Berkhof F, Doornewaard ten Hertog N, Uil S, Kerstjens H, van den Berg J. Azithromycin and cough-specific health status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic cough: a randomised controlled trial. Respir Res. 2013;14:125 pubmed publisher
..Their effects on health status has not been assessed as primary outcome and is less clear. This study assessed the effects of prophylactic azithromycin on cough-specific health status in COPD-patients with chronic productive cough.
Luntamo M, Rantala A, Meshnick S, Cheung Y, Kulmala T, Maleta K, et al. The effect of monthly sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, alone or with azithromycin, on PCR-diagnosed malaria at delivery: a randomized controlled trial. PLoS ONE. 2012;7:e41123 pubmed publisher
..The participants received SP twice (controls), monthly SP, or monthly SP and two doses of azithromycin (AZI-SP)...
Coles C, Mabula K, Seidman J, Levens J, Mkocha H, Munoz B, et al. Mass distribution of azithromycin for trachoma control is associated with increased risk of azithromycin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage in young children 6 months after treatment. Clin Infect Dis. 2013;56:1519-26 pubmed publisher
Emerging evidence suggests that the mass distribution of azithromycin for trachoma control (MDA) may increase circulation of macrolide resistance in bacteria associated with severe pediatric infections in treated communities.
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..The incidence of overanticoagulation in patients prescribed azithromycin stabilized on a warfarin regimen is controversial...
Vos R, Vanaudenaerde B, Verleden S, Ruttens D, Vaneylen A, Van Raemdonck D, et al. Anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory properties of azithromycin involved in treatment and prevention of chronic lung allograft rejection. Transplantation. 2012;94:101-9 pubmed publisher
..However, the introduction of the neomacrolide antibiotic azithromycin (AZI) in the field of LTx as of 2003 made it clear that some patients with established BOS might in fact ..
Nitschke M, Sayk F, Hartel C, Roseland R, Hauswaldt S, Steinhoff J, et al. Association between azithromycin therapy and duration of bacterial shedding among patients with Shiga toxin-producing enteroaggregative Escherichia coli O104:H4. JAMA. 2012;307:1046-52 pubmed publisher
..In the German outbreak, a substantial number of patients received prophylactic azithromycin treatment as part of a therapeutic regimen with the C5 antibody eculizumab...
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To investigate the effect of azithromycin (AZI) on small bowel activity in patients with gastrointestinal dysmotility (GID). Manometric data on a consecutive series of 21 patients was reviewed...
Fernando S, Molland J, Gottlieb T. Failure of oral antibiotic therapy, including azithromycin, in the treatment of a recurrent breast abscess caused by Salmonella enterica serotype Paratyphi A. Pathog Glob Health. 2012;106:366-9 pubmed publisher
..abscesses, resistant to ciprofloxacin, which relapsed despite surgery, aspiration and multiple courses of antibiotics, including co-trimoxazole and azithromycin. The patient was cured after a prolonged course of intravenous ceftriaxone.
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..decorated with MgCr(2)O(4) nanoparticles were used as a new mediator for voltammetric determination of azithromycin. The oxidation peak of azithromycin was appeared at a potential of about 720 mV at a surface of the modified ..
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The instrumental show Bel Suono (in Italian – «beautiful sound») consists of three professional pianists - graduates of the best Russian music universities and winners of the national and international music contests. The participants not only masterly play the grand piano, but also have excellent skills in composition and improvisation, as well as charismatic appearance.
Bel Suono is a new word in the world of music!
Bel Suono is the original mix of modern technologies with the best forms of the classical and modern musical culture, new interpretation of the well-known music pieces and execution of the original music pieces composed specially for the project.
Combination of impudent youth, nobility of grand pianos sounding, modern arrangements and incredibly sensual light on the stage – this is a brief description of PianoMagicShow - Bel Suono!
Bel Suono is the only project in the world performing this music format. This is a high quality artistic product with the modern visual component.
Three incredibly artistic, virtuosic and really beautiful young pianists perform absolutely different music - from very popular to absolutely new pieces, created for the project.
During the recent four years two successful albums “Megapolis” and “Upgrade” were released. They included both the classics masterpieces interpreted by Bel Suono and the authors’ original compositions.
Bel Suono successfully performs all over the country. Some places have been already visited several times. In 2016 Bel Suono regularly performed in the most prestigious concert halls of Moscow - Svetlanov’s (Great) Hall of the Moscow International Performing Arts Center (three shows) and the Great Concert Hall of the Moscow Conservatory named after P. Chaikovsky (two shows). The tickets were sold out and the live shows turned out to a real triumph. This year Bel Suono will play in Moscow and many other cities. On the 8th of November 2017 the Piano Magic Show for the first time will perform on the stage of the Crocus City Hall – one the biggest and most important halls in Moscow and Russia.
Within the recent two years Bel Suono has also successfully performed abroad in Germany, Monaco, Malta and twice in Bulgaria. In 2016 it was welcomed in Austria, Switzerland and in the United Arab Emirates. Israel, China and other countries are on the list for the 2017 tour.
The program introduces the new interpretations of the best classic pieces of Chaikovsky, Borodin, Ravel, Vivaldi, Saint-Seans, Bize, as well as the extraordinary deep and melodic original solo and trio compositions “Megapolis”, “Lonely Heart”, “Reminiscence”, “Safari” and others. The XX century world hits like Queen and ABBA will also become a pleasant surprise. And of course every time something new is added to the program. The “Upgrade” show is a concentration of passion, professionalism, temper and love. It is a wonderful journey from classic masterpieces to modern dancing rhythms!
Classical compositions performed by Bel Suono sound so modern that those who are not familiar with them will definitely open the world of classical music. While judges of classics will hear the brilliant interpretations of favorite masterpieces adopted for three grand pianos.
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Kettle Moraine Lutheran Adult Chorale
Johnold Strey, Director
The first rehearsal of the 2020 winter/spring concert season will be held at Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School on Sunday, January 12, 2020, at 3:00 PM.
The next concert will be the Lent/Easter Concert on Sunday, April 26, 2020, at 4:00 PM at Christ Alone Lutheran Church in Thiensville.
Rev. Johnold Strey, Director
jstrey@crownoflifehubertus.com
About the Chorale:
The Kettle Moraine Lutheran Adult Chorale is an adult choir affiliated with Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School. Members of the KML Adult Chorale come from WELS and ELS churches in the area, especially those that belong to the federation that supports Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School. WELS and ELS members who belong to churches outside the KML Federation are also invited to join the KML Adult Chorale.
The KML Adult Chorale performs two concerts annually: a Christmas concert in early December, and a spring concert in April. The choir also occasionally sings for other special services or events at nearby congregations in the KML Federation. Rehearsals take place on Sunday afternoons—starting at 4:00 PM in the fall/Christmas rehearsal season, and 3:00 PM in the winter/spring rehearsal season. The group rehearses in the choir practice room at Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School.
The director of the KML Adult Chorale is Johnold Strey. He is a KML alumnus (1993) and is the pastor of Crown of Life Lutheran Church in Hubertus, a congregation in the KMLHS Federation. Pastor Strey is a 2001 graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, and also earned a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Liturgy (worship) and Liturgical Music (church music) from Santa Clara University in 2009. He is a member of the Rites Committee of the WELS Hymnal Project and recently finished a book on the subject of Christian worship that will soon be published by Northwestern Publishing House.
Members of WELS and ELS congregations in the area are invited to join the KML Adult Chorale. An audition is not required, but choir experience and singing ability are necessary to be a contributing member of the choir. If you would like to join the group, contact the director, Johnold Strey (262-628-2520 x210; jstrey@crownoflifehubertus.com), or simply attend the first rehearsal of a concert season.
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Carbimazole-induced agranulocytosis – A rare case report
R Siddeswari, Sikandar Mohan, K Swamy
Department of General Medicine, Siddhartha Medical College, Government General Hospital, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Date of Web Publication 10-Jan-2019
Dr. R Siddeswari
Department of General Medicine, Siddhartha Medical College, Government General Hospital, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
DOI: 10.4103/JDRNTRUHS.JDRNTRUHS_60_18
A 30-year-old lady with hyperthyroidism for the past 1 year was initially on carbimazole 30 mg twice orally and then changed to 30 mg once daily. She presented with intermittent fever since 3 weeks, h/o oral ulcers, difficulty in swallowing, and palpitations. Routine investigations showed anemia, neutropenia, leucopenia, and C-reactive protein elevation. Peripheral smear showed normocytic normochromic anemia with leucopenia. Widal test, RA factor test, immunoglobulin M (Ig M) dengue, Ig M Lepto, antinuclear antibody screen, cytoplasmic antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies, and perinuclear anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies tests were negative. Viral markers are negative.
Keywords: Agranulocytosis, carbimazole, hyperthyroidism
Siddeswari R, Mohan S, Swamy K. Carbimazole-induced agranulocytosis – A rare case report. J NTR Univ Health Sci 2018;7:305-7
Siddeswari R, Mohan S, Swamy K. Carbimazole-induced agranulocytosis – A rare case report. J NTR Univ Health Sci [serial online] 2018 [cited 2020 Jan 20];7:305-7. Available from: http://www.jdrntruhs.org/text.asp?2018/7/4/305/249831
Carbimazole, a prodrug which gets converted into an active form methimazole, is used alone or in combination with other medications for the treatment of hyperthyroidism.[1] This therapy usually starts with two to three divided doses totaling 30–60 mg/day, but the maximal blocking dose should be 120 mg/day.[2]
Usually, within 4–8 weeks of initial therapy, thyrotoxic symptoms will diminish and circulating thyroid hormone levels will return to normal.[2],[3] If a patient was unconscious or uncooperative, carbimazole was administered rectally with good effect. No parentaral therapy is available.[4]
The typical range of daily maintenance dose is 5–30 mg/day. Common side effects associated with this drug are minor but sometimes it can cause serious blood disorders. Higher doses of methimazole taken by a patient, greater than 30 mg/day, and/or age of greater than 40 years have got higher chance for development of agranulocytosis. It can happen within 2 months of therapy which was rare and most important side effect[2],[3]; on early diagnosis and treatment, the condition is reversible.
A 30-year-old lady presented with hyperthyroidism for the past 1 year and was initially on Tab. carbimazole 30 mg twice daily and then changed to 30 mg once daily. She presented with intermittent fever (100–101°F) since 3 weeks. She also complained of difficulty in swallowing, oral ulcer palpitations, and loss of appetite with weight loss of 6 kg within 1 month (54–48 kg).
On examination, oral candidiasis, oral ulcers, and ulcer on hard palate were present [Figure 1],[Figure 2],[Figure 3]. The other parameters were as follows – temperature: 102°F; pulse rate: 140/min, regular; blood pressure: 80/50 mm of Hg; respiratory rate: 30 cycles/min. Cardiovascular system examination revealed the following: JVP not raised, no carotid bruit, S1 and S2 were normal, and no murmurs. Respiratory system showed normal vesicular breath sounds. Per abdomen showed no organomegaly.
Figure 1: Oral candidiasis and ulcers
Figure 2: Ulcer over palate
Figure 3: Healed ulcer
Routine investigations were done which showed anemia, neutropenia, leucopenia, and high C-reactive protein (CRP). Peripheral smear showed normocytic normochromic anemia with leucopenia. In view of hard palate, ulcer VDRL and Mantoux tests were also done which were negative. She was empirically started on intravenous antibiotics twice daily in view of neutropenia, tachycardia, and elevated CRP. In view of hypotension, inotropes along with other supportive measures were continued.
Complete Blood Picture (CBP) dated 2018 March 10 – Hb: 8.2 g/dL, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR): 46 mm; red blood cell (RBC): normocytic normochromic, total counts: 1800 cells/cu.mm; differential count: neutrophils 8%, lymphocytes 87%, monocytes 3%; platelet count: 1.15 lakhs/cu.mm
Blood cultures, both aerobic and anaerobic, urine culture Widal test, RA factor test, immunoglobulin M (Ig M) dengue, Ig M Lepto, and antinuclear antibody screen were found to be negative. All viral markers were negative. Carbimazole was withheld in view of leucopenia
In this case, differential count showed reduced neutrophils (8%) and predominant lymphocytes
As the patient symptomatically recovered within short duration after stopping carbimazole and total counts became normal, bone marrow aspirate was withheld
Endocrinology opinion was sought during the hospital stay for modification of anti-thyroid medications. Thyroid function test was done twice and it was within the normal range; anti-thyroid medications were not started for the time being. White blood cell (WBC) count and neutrophil count became normal within 2 weeks. With the treatment she received, her counts gradually showed an improving trend and she got discharged
CBP dated 2018 Mar 20: Hb: 11.2 g/dL, ESR: 28 mm/h, RBC: normocytic normochromic, total counts: 8000 cells/cu.mm; differential count: neutrophils 65, lymphocytes 35%, monocytes 2%, eosinophils 3%, platelet count: 2.24 lakhs/cu.mm.
Hyperthyroidism is a common endocrine disorder which affects mainly women with a prevalence of 1%–2% and 0.1%–0.2% in men.[3] Anti-thyroid drug therapy is the main treatment for this condition.[1] A serious rare side effect of carbimazole is agranulocytosis with an incidence of 0.1%–0.3%.[3] This drug-induced agranulocytosis is a lethal condition but reversible if recognized early and treated accordingly.[1],[2],[3]
The first mechanism for this agranulocytosis was explained by Sprikkelman et al. First, when the drug gets attached with granulocyte, antibody production starts resulting in the destruction of granulocytes. Second, antibodies may target the drug metabolite complex adsorbed on the neutrophil granulocyte in the presence of plasma component. Third, the drug may trigger autoantibodies. Finally, the interaction between granulocyte antigen and the drug may induce the production of antibodies.[5]
Drug-induced agranulocytosis occurs within 1–2 months of taking the anti-thyroid medication but the onset can get delayed.[3] Usually, the WBC count returns to normal over a period of 1–2 weeks after discontinuing the offending drug and the time taken can range from 7 to 56 days. Recovery of neutrophil count depends on the number of myeloid precursor cells present in the bone marrow and may get prolonged if there is granulocyte precursor aplasia.[6]
The prognosis of this event depends on a variety of factors such as age, comorbidity, duration of severe granulocytopenia, and immediate antibiotic treatment. Successful treatment of anti-thyroid drug-induced agranulocytosis by Granulocyte Colony stimulating factor (GCSF) has been reported. It enhances the recovery of the peripheral blood granulocyte lineage which results in faster normalization of peripheral granulocyte count and reduction in chances of fatal complications such as bacterial infections.[2],[3],[5]
We can render euthyroid state by radio-iodine treatment also.[7] In 1983, a study conducted by Cooper et al. concluded that methimazole in higher doses of 30 mg/day and above 40 years of age caused greater risk for development of agranulocytosis.[8] This diagnosis is still not applicable for patients who are on chemotherapy or patients with chronic neutropenia including congenital and chronic autoimmune neutropenia.[6]
Granulocytopenia that developed during first few weeks of therapy may be difficult to interpret. In these circumstances, serial measurements of the leukocyte count should be made. If they display a downward trend, the anti-thyroid drugs should be discontinued. When serial measurements of white blood counts remain constant or return to normal, treatment need not be interrupted.[3]
Carbimazole-induced agranulocytosis occurs generally within few weeks or months of taking the anti-thyroid medication, but onset may be delayed by 1 year with an incidence of 0.1%–0.3%. Agranulocytosis is a serious rare side effect of carbimazole. This drug-induced agranulocytosis is a lethal condition but reversible if recognized early and treated accordingly.[2],[3] De-challenge resulted in normalization of blood parameters.[2]
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Now that the Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2016 has announced their class has done the same. We were hopeful to do this prior to the announcement of the actual inductees, but life, as it often does simply got in the way!
Saying that, we felt it was worth our time to take a look at the 2016 Nominees and debate whether they should have gotten in (or not) and look to the future of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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The Pro Football Hall of Fame has announced the 97 men who comprise their Preliminary Nominees.
Let’s get right to it and take a look at the complete list.
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+ Denotes First Year of Eligibility
Quarterbacks:
Drew Bledsoe: 1993-2006. New England Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Dallas Cowboys. 1 Super Bowl, 4 Pro Bowls, 44,611 Passing Yards, 251 TD Passes, 137 PFRAV. Ranked #72 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Randall Cunningham: 1985-2001. Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys, Baltimore Ravens. 1 First Team All Pro, 4 Pro Bowls. 29,979 Passing Yards, 207 TD Passes, 134 PFRAV. Ranked #43 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Doug Flutie: 1986-2005. Chicago Bears, New England Patriots, San Diego Chargers. 1 Pro Bowl. 14,715 Passing Yards, 86 Touchdowns, 58 PFRAV.
+ Donovan McNabb: 1999-2011. Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, Minnesota Vikings. 6 Pro Bowls. 37,276 Passing Yards, 234 Touchdown Passes, 138 PFRAV. Ranked #30 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Steve McNair: 1995-2007. Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans, Baltimore Ravens. 1 MVP, 3 Pro Bowls. 31,304 Passing Yards, 174 Touchdown Passes, 126 PFRAV. Ranked #89 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Phil Simms: 1979-1993. New York Giants. 2 Super Bowls, 2 Pro Bowls. 33,462 Passing Yards, 199 Touchdown Passes, 118 PFRAV. Ranked #46 on Notinhalloffame.com.
* Kurt Warner: 1998-2009. St. Louis Rams, New York Giants, Arizona Cardinals. 1 Super Bowl, 2 MVPs, 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 4 Pro Bowls. 32,344 Passing Yards, 208 Touchdown Passes, 113 PFRAV. Ranked #22 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Running Backs:
Shaun Alexander: 2000-2008. Seattle Seahawks, Washington Redskins. 1 MVP, 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 3 Pro Bowls. 9,453 Rushing Yards, 100 Rushing Touchdowns, 1,511 Receiving Yards, 12 Receiving Touchdowns, 79 PFRAV.
Ottis Anderson: 1979-1992. St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants. 2 Super Bowls, 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 2 Pro Bowls. 10,272 Rushing Touchdowns, 81 Rushing Touchdowns, 3,062 Receiving Yards, 5 Receiving Touchdowns, 98 PFRAV. Ranked #51 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Tiki Barber: 1997-2006. New York Giants. 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 3 Pro Bowls. 10,449 Rushing Yards, 55 Rushing Touchdowns, 5,183 Receiving Touchdowns, 12 Receiving Touchdowns, 118 PFRAV. Ranked #77 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Roger Craig: 1983-93. San Francisco 49ers, Los Angeles Raiders, Minnesota Vikings. 3 Super Bowls, 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 4 Pro Bowls. 8,189 Rushing Yards, 56 Rushing Touchdowns, 4,911 Receiving Touchdowns, 17 Receiving Touchdowns, 115 PFRAV. Ranked #11 on Notinhalloffame.com.
* Terrell Davis: 1995-2001. Denver Broncos. 2 Super Bowls, 1 MVP, 3 First Team All Pro Selections, 3 Pro Bowls. 7,607 Rushing Yards, 60 Rushing Touchdowns, 1,280 Receiving Yards, Receiving Touchdowns, 78 PFRAV. Ranked #19 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Eddie George: 1996-2004. Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans, Dallas Cowboys. 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 4 Pro Bowls. 10,441 Rushing Yards, 68 Rushing Touchdowns, 2,227 Receiving Yards, 10 Receiving Touchdowns, 91 PFRAV.
* Edgerrin James: 1999-2009. Indianapolis Colts, Arizona Cardinals, Seattle Seahawks. 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 4 Pro Bowls. 12,246 Rushing Yards, 80 Rushing Touchdowns, 3,364 Receiving Yards, 11 Receiving Touchdowns, 136 PFRAV. Ranked #14 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Eric Metcalf: 1989-2002. Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons, San Diego Chargers, Arizona Cardinals, Carolina Panthers, Washington Redskins, Green Bay Packers. 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 3 Pro Bowls. 2,392 Rushing Yards, 12 Rushing Touchdowns, 5,572 Receiving Yards, 3 Receiving Touchdowns, 3,453 Punt Return Yards, 10 Punt Return Touchdowns, 5,813 Kick Returns Yards, 2 Kick Return Touchdowns, 77 PFRAV.
+ LaDainian Tomlinson: 2001-2011. San Diego Chargers, New York Jets. 1 MVP, 3 First Team All Pro Selections, 5 Pro Bowls. 13,684 Rushing Yards, 145 Rushing Touchdowns, 4,772 Rushing Yards, 17 Rushing Touchdowns, 157 PFRAV. Ranked #2 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Herschel Walker: 1986-1997. Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants. 2 Pro Bowls. 8,225 Rushing Yards, 61 Rushing Touchdowns, 4,859 Receiving Yards, 2 Receiving Touchdowns, 5,084 Kick Return Yards, 2 Kick Return Touchdowns, 98 PFRAV. Ranked #36 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Ricky Watters: 1992-2001. San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks. 1 Super Bowl, 5 Pro Bowls. 10,643 Rushing Yards, 68 Rushing Touchdowns, 4,248 Receiving Yards, 13 Receiving Touchdowns, 125 PFRAV. Ranked #38 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Fullbacks:
Larry Centers: 1990-2003. Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals, Washington Redskins, Buffalo Bills, New England Patriots. 1 Super Bowl, 3 Pro Bowls. 2,188 Rushing Touchdowns, 14 Rushing Touchdowns, 6,797 Receiving Yards, 28 Receiving Touchdowns, 67 PFRAV.
Daryl Johnston: 1989-1999. Dallas Cowboys. 3 Super Bowls, 2 Pro Bowls. 2,227 Rushing Yards, 14 Rushing Touchdowns, 753 Receiving Yards, 8 Receiving Touchdowns, 30 PFRAV.
Wide Receivers:
Isaac Bruce: 1994-2009. Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams, San Francisco 49ers. 1 Super Bowl, 4 Pro Bowls. 15,208 Receiving Yards, 91 Receiving Touchdowns, 137 PFRAV. Ranked #24 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Henry Ellard: 1983-1998. Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins, New England Patriots. 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 3 Pro Bowls. 13,777 Receiving Yards, 65 Receiving Touchdowns, 1,527 Punt Return Yards, 4 Punt Return Touchdowns, 364 Kick Return Yards, 133 PFRAV. Ranked #91 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Torry Holt: 1999-2009. St. Louis Rams, Jacksonville Jaguars. 1 Super Bowl, 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 7 Pro Bowls. 13,382 Receiving Yards, 74 Receiving Touchdowns, 123 PFRAV. Ranked #8 on Notinhalloffame.com.
+ Chad Johnson: 2001-2011. Cincinnati Bengals, New England Patriots. 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 6 Pro Bowls. 11,059 Receiving Yards, 67 Receiving Touchdowns, 104 PFRAV. Ranked #26 on Notinhalloffame.com.
+ Derrick Mason: 1997-2011. Tennessee Titans, Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets. 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 2 Pro Bowls. 12,061 Receiving Yards, 66 Receiving Touchdowns, 1,590 Punt Return Yards, 2 Punt Return Touchdowns, 3,496 Kick Return Yards, 1 Kick Return Touchdown, 114 PFRAV. Ranked #59 on Notinhalloffame.com.
* Terrell Owens: 1996-2010. San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys, Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals. 4 First Team All Pro Selection, 6 Pro Bowls. 15,934 Receiving Yards, 153 Receiving Touchdowns, 165 PFRAV. Ranked #6 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Sterling Sharpe: 1988-1994. Green Bay Packers. 3 First Team All Pro Selection, 5 Pro Bowls. 8,134 Receiving Yards, 65 Receiving Touchdowns, 78 PFRAV. Ranked #47 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Jimmy Smith: 1992-2005. Dallas Cowboys, Jacksonville Jaguars. 5 Pro Bowls. 12,287 Receiving Yards, 67 Receiving Touchdowns, 135 PFRAV. Ranked #99 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Rod Smith: 1995-2006. Denver Broncos. 3 Pro Bowls. 11,389 Receiving Yards, 68 Receiving Touchdowns, 125 PFRAV. Ranked #60 on Notinhalloffame.com.
+ Hines Ward: 1998- 2011. Pittsburgh Steelers. 2 Super Bowls, 4 Pro Bowls. 12,083 Receiving Yards, 85 Receiving Touchdowns, 118 PFRAV. Ranked #21 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Tight Ends:
Mark Bavaro: 1985-1994. New York Giants, Cleveland Browns, Philadelphia Eagles. 2 Super Bowls, 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 2 Pro Bowls. 4,733 Receiving Yards, 39 Receiving Touchdowns, 45 PFRAV.
Offensive Lineman:
Tony Boselli: 1995-2001. Jacksonville Jaguars. 3 First Team All Pro Selections, 5 Pro Bowls. 70 PFRAV.
Ray Donaldson: 1980-1996. Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts, Seattle Seahawks, Dallas Cowboys. 1 Super Bowl, 6 Pro Bowls. 113 PFRAV.
* Alan Faneca: 1998-2010. Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets, Arizona Cardinals. 1 Super Bowl, 6 First Team All Pro Selections, 9 Pro Bowls. 148 PFRAV. Ranked #4 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Jay Hilgenberg: 1981-1993. Chicago Bears, New Orleans Saints. 1 Super Bowl, 7 Pro Bowls. 105 PFRAV. Ranked #73 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Chris Hinton: 1983-1995. Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts, Atlanta Falcons, Minnesota Vikings. 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 7 Pro Bowls. 101 PFRAV. Ranked #65 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Kent Hull: 1986-1996. Buffalo Bills. 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 3 Pro Bowls. 107 PFRAV.
* Joe Jacoby: 1981-1993. Washington Redskins. 3 Super Bowls, 2 First Team, All Pro Selections, 4 Pro Bowls. 103 PFRAV. Ranked #56 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Mike Kenn: 1978-1994. Atlanta Falcons. 2 First Team All Pro Selections. 5 Pro Bowls. 138 PFRAV. Ranked #100 on Notinhalloffame.com.
+ Olin Kreutz: 1998-2011. Chicago Bears, New Orleans Saints. 1 First Team All Pro Selections, 6 Pro Bowls, 96 PFRAV. Ranked #69 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Jim Lachey: 1985-1995. San Diego Chargers, Los Angeles Raiders, Washington Redskins, 1 Super Bowl, 3 First Team All Pro Selections, 3 Pro Bowls. 92 PFRAV.
Kevin Mawae: 1994-2009. Seattle Seahawks, New York Jets, Tennessee Titans. 3 First Team All Pro Selections, 8 Pro Bowls. 154 PFRAV. Ranked #18 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Tom Nalen: 1994-2007. Denver Broncos. 2 Super Bowls, 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 5 Pro Bowls. 131 PFRAV.
Nate Newton: 1986-1999. Dallas Cowboys, Carolina Panthers. 3 Super Bowls, 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 6 Pro Bowls. 105 PFRAV.
Steve Wisniewski: 1989-2001. Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders. 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 8 Pro Bowls. 140 PFRAV. Ranked #29 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Defensive Lineman:
Leslie O’Neal: 1986-1999. San Diego Chargers, St. Louis Rams, Kansas City Chiefs. 6 Pro Bowls. 3 Interceptions, 132.5 Quarterback Sacks, 115 PFRAV.
Simeon Rice: 1996-2007. Arizona Cardinals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Denver Broncos, Indianapolis Colts. 1 Super Bowl, 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 3 Pro Bowls. 5 Interceptions, 122 Quarterback Sacks, 106 PFRAV.
Fred Smerlas: 1979-1992. Buffalo Bills, San Francisco 49ers, New England Patriots. 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 5 Pro Bowls. 2 Interceptions, 18.5 Quarterback Sacks, 101 PFRAV.
+ Jason Taylor: 1997-2011. Miami Dolphins, Washington Redskins, New York Jets. 3 First Team All Pro Selections, 6 Pro Bowls. 8 Interceptions, 139.5 Quarterback Sacks, 160 PFRAV. Ranked #10 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Bryant Young: 1994-2007. San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns. 1 Super Bowl, 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 4 Pro Bowls. 3 Interceptions, 89.5 Quarterback Sacks, 118 PFRAV.
Linebackers:
Carl Banks: 1984-1995 New York Giants. 2 Super Bowls, 1 Pro Bowl. 39.5 Quarterback Sacks, 83 PFRAV.
Cornelius Bennett: 1987-2000. Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons, Indianapolis Colts. 7 Interceptions, 71.5 Quarterback Sacks, 121 PFRAV.
Tedy Bruschi: 1996 -2008. New England Patriots. 3 Super Bowls, 1 Pro Bowl. 12 Interceptions, 30.5 Quarterback Sacks, 89 PFRAV.
Seth Joyner: 1986-1998. Philadelphia Eagles, Arizona Cardinals, Green Bay Packers, Denver Broncos. 1 Super Bowl, 3 Pro Bowls. 24 Interceptions, 52 Quarterback Sacks, 108 PFRAV.
Levon Kirkland: 1992-2002. Pittsburgh Steelers, Seattle Seahawks, Philadelphia Eagles. 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 2 Pro Bowls. 19.5 Quarterback Sacks, 104 PFRAV.
Clay Matthews: 1978-1996. Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons. 4 Pro Bowls. 16 Interceptions, 69.5 Quarterback Sacks, 137 PFRAV.
Willie McGinest: 1994-2008. New England Patriots, Cleveland Browns. 3 Super Bowls, 2 Pro Bowls. 5 Interceptions, 86 Quarterback Sacks 106 PFRAV.
Karl Mecklenburg: 1983-1994. Denver Broncos. 3 First Team All Pro Selections, 6 Pro Bowls. 5 Interceptions, 79 Quarterback Sacks, 113 PFRAV. Ranked #64 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Sam Mills: 1986-1997. New Orleans Saints, Carolina Panthers. 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 5 Pro Bowls. 11 Interceptions, 20.5 Quarterback Sacks, 126 PFRAV. Ranked #84 on Notinhalloffame.com.
+ Joey Porter: 1999-2011. Pittsburgh Steelers, Miami Dolphins, Arizona Cardinals. 1 Super Bowl, 4 Pro Bowls. 12 Interceptions, 98 Quarterback Sacks, 111 PFRAV. Ranked #96 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Zach Thomas: 1996-2008. 5 First Team All Pro Selections, 6 Pro Bowls. 17 Interceptions, 20.5 Quarterback Sacks, 152 PFRAV.
Defensive Backs:
Eric Allen: 1988-2001. Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans Saints, Oakland Raiders. 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 6 Pro Bowls 54 Interceptions, 3 Quarterback Sacks, 132 PFRAV. Ranked #45 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Steve Atwater: 1989-1999. Denver Broncos, New York Jets. 2 Super Bowls, 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 8 Pro Bowls. 24 Interceptions, 5 Quarterback Sacks, 99 PFRAV. Ranked #17 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Joey Browner: 1983-1992. Minnesota Vikings, Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 3 First Team All Pro Selections, 6 Pro Bowls. 37 Interceptions, 9.5 Quarterback Sacks, 85 PFRAV.
LeRoy Butler: 1990-2001. Green Bay Packers. 1 Super Bowl, 4 First Team All Pro Selections, 4 Pro Bowls. 38 Interceptions, 20.5 Quarterback Sacks, 111 PFRAV. Ranked #83 on Notinhalloffame.com.
+ Brian Dawkins: 1996-2011. Philadelphia Eagles, Denver Broncos. 4 First Team All Pro Selections, 9 Pro Bowls. 37 Interceptions, 26 Quarterback Sacks, 140 PFRAV. Ranked #7 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Rodney Harrison: 1994-2008. San Diego Chargers, New England Patriots. 2 Super Bowls, 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 2 Pro Bowls. 34 Interceptions, 30.5 Quarterback Sacks, 92 PFRAV.
Ty Law: 1995-2009. New England Patriots, New York Jets, Kansas City Chiefs, Denver Broncos. 3 Super Bowls, 5 Pro Bowls. 53 Interceptions, 5 Quarterback Sacks, 113 PFRAV. Ranked #48 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Albert Lewis: 1983-1998. Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders. 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 4 Pro Bowls. 42 Interceptions, 12.5 Quarterback Sacks, 108 PFRAV.
* John Lynch: 1993-2007. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Denver Broncos. 1 Super Bowl, 9 Pro Bowls. 26 Interceptions, 13 Quarterback Sacks, 118 PFRAV. Ranked #42 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Frank Minnifield: 1984-1992. Cleveland Browns. 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 4 Pro Bowls. 20 Interceptions, 71 PFRAV.
+ Bob Sanders: 2004-2011. Indianapolis Colts, Dan Diego Chargers. 1 Super Bowl, 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 2 Pro Bowls. 6 Interceptions, 34 PFRAV.
Darren Sharper: 1997-2010. Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints 63 Interceptions, 7.5 Quarterback Sacks, 118 PFRAV. 1 Super Bowl, 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 5 Pro Bowls. Ranked #79 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Dennis Smith: 1981-1994. Denver Broncos. 6 Pro Bowls. 30 Interceptions, 15 Quarterback Sacks, 98 PFRAV.
Troy Vincent: 1992-2006. Miami Dolphins, Philadelphia Eagles, Buffalo Bills, Washington Redskins. 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 5 Pro Bowls. 47 Interceptions, 5.5 Quarterback Sacks, 118 PFRAV.
Everson Walls: 1981-1993. Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, Cleveland Browns. 1 Super Bowl, 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 4 Pro Bowls. 57 Interceptions, 3 Quarterback Sacks, 105 PFRAV.
Darren Woodson: 1992-2003. Dallas Cowboys. 3 Super Bowls, 3 First Team All Pro Selections, 5 Pro Bowls. 23 Interceptions, 11 Quarterback Sacks, 96 PFRAV.
Kickers/Punters:
Morten Andersen: 1982-2007. New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons, New York Giants, Kansas City Chiefs, Minnesota Vikings. 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 7 Pro Bowls. 565 Field Goals Made, 849 Extra Points Made, 97 PFRAV. Ranked #62 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Gary Anderson: 1982-2004. Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers, Minnesota Vikings, Tennessee Titans. 1 First Team All Pro Selection, 4 Pro Bowls. 538 Field Goals Made, 820 Extra Points Made, 91 PFRAV.
Sean Landeta: 1985-2005. New York Giants, Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles. 2 Super Bowls, 3 First Team All Pro Selections, 2 Pro Bowls. 1,401 Punts, 50 PFRAV.
Nick Lowery: 1978-1994. New England Patriots, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Jets. 2 First Team All Pro Selections, 3 Pro Bowls. 383 Field Goals Made, 562 Extra Points Made, 81 PFRAV.
Brian Mitchell: 1990-2003. Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants. 1 Super Bowl, 1 Pro Bowl. 4,999 Punt Return Yards, 9 Punt Return Touchdowns, 14,014 Kick Return Yards, 4 Kick Return Touchdowns, 1,967 Rushing Yards, 12 Rushing Touchdowns, 2,336 Receiving Yards, 4 Receiving Touchdowns, 49 PFRAV.
Steve Tasker: 1985-1997. Houston Oilers, Buffalo Bills. 779 Receiving Yards, 9 Receiving Touchdowns, 7 PFRAV. Ranked #86 on Notinhalloffame.com.
Coaches:
Don Coryell: 1973-1986. St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Chargers. 111-83-1 Record, 3-6 Playoff Record.
Bill Cowher: 1992-2006. Pittsburgh Steelers. 161-99-1 Record, 12-9 Playoff Record, 1 Super Bowl.
Tom Flores: 1979-1987, 1992-1994. Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders, Seattle Seahawks. 97-87 Record, 8-3 Playoff Record, 2 Super Bowls.
Mike Holmgren: 1992-2008. Green Bay Packers, Seattle Seahawks. 161-111 Record, 13-11 Playoff Record, 1 Super Bowl.
Jimmy Johnson: 1989-1999. Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins. 80-64 Record, 9-4 Playoff Record, 2 Super Bowls.
Chuck Knox: 1973-1994. Los Angels Rams, Buffalo Bills, Seattle Seahawks. 186-147-1 Record, 7-11 Playoff Record.
Buddy Parker: 1949-1964. Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions, Pittsburgh Steelers. 104-75-9 Record, 3-1 Playoff Record.
Richie Petitbon: 1981-1992. Washington Redskins (Defensive Coordinator)
Dan Reeves: 1981-2003. Denver Broncos, New York Giants, Atlanta Falcons. 190-165-2 Record. 11-9 Playoff Record.
Clark Shaughnessy: 1948-1949. Los Angeles Rams. 1951-1962. Chicago Bears (Defensive Coordinator)
Dick Vermeil: 1976-1982, 1997-1999, 2001-2005. Philadelphia Eagles, St. Louis Cardinals, Kansas City Chiefs. 120-109 Record, 6-5 Playoff Record, 1 Super Bowl.
Please note that we do not rank Coaches.
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In November this group of 97 Modern Era Nominees will be reduced to 18. In January of 2017, it will be shrunk to 15. They will join the Senior Finalist and Contributor Finalists and on February 4, the day before the Super Bowl, the respective committees will decide the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2017.
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Volume 65, Issue 20, May 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.03.002
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Original Investigation
Long-Term Effect of Goal-Directed Weight Management in an Atrial Fibrillation Cohort
A Long-Term Follow-Up Study (LEGACY)
Rajeev K. Pathak, Melissa E. Middeldorp, Megan Meredith, Abhinav B. Mehta, Rajiv Mahajan, Christopher X. Wong, Darragh Twomey, Adrian D. Elliott, Jonathan M. Kalman, Walter P. Abhayaratna, Dennis H. Lau and Prashanthan Sanders
Author + information
vol. 65 no. 20 2159-2169
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2015.03.002
Received February 9, 2015
Revision received February 26, 2015
Accepted March 1, 2015
Published online May 26, 2015.
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American College of Cardiology Foundation
Rajeev K. Pathak, MBBS∗,
Melissa E. Middeldorp∗,
Megan Meredith∗,
Abhinav B. Mehta, MActSt†,
Rajiv Mahajan, MD, PhD∗,
Christopher X. Wong, MBBS, PhD∗,‡,
Darragh Twomey, MBBS∗,
Adrian D. Elliott, PhD∗,§,
Jonathan M. Kalman, MBBS, PhD¶,
Walter P. Abhayaratna, MBBS, PhD#,
Dennis H. Lau, MBBS, PhD∗ and
Prashanthan Sanders, MBBS, PhD∗∗ (prash.sanders{at}adelaide.edu.au)
∗Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders (CHRD), South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
†Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Applied Statistics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
‡Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
§School of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
¶Department of Cardiology, Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
#College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University and Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australia
↵∗Reprint requests and correspondence:
Dr. Prashanthan Sanders, Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia.
Background Obesity and atrial fibrillation (AF) frequently coexist. Weight loss reduces the burden of AF, but whether this is sustained, has a dose effect, or is influenced by weight fluctuation is unknown.
Objectives This study sought to evaluate the long-term impact of weight loss and weight fluctuation on rhythm control in obese individuals with AF.
Methods Of 1,415 consecutive patients with AF, 825 had a body mass index ≥27 kg/m2 and were offered weight management. After screening for exclusion criteria, 355 were included in this analysis. Weight loss was categorized as group 1 (≥10%), group 2 (3% to 9%), and group 3 (<3%). Weight trend and/or fluctuation was determined by yearly follow-up. We determined the impact on the AF severity scale and 7-day ambulatory monitoring.
Results There were no differences in baseline characteristics or follow-up among the groups. AF burden and symptom severity decreased more in group 1 compared with groups 2 and 3 (p < 0.001 for all). Arrhythmia-free survival with and without rhythm control strategies was greatest in group 1 compared with groups 2 and 3 (p < 0.001 for both). In multivariate analyses, weight loss and weight fluctuation were independent predictors of outcomes (p < 0.001 for both). Weight loss ≥10% resulted in a 6-fold (95% confidence interval: 3.4 to 10.3; p < 0.001) greater probability of arrhythmia-free survival compared with the other 2 groups. Weight fluctuation >5% partially offset this benefit, with a 2-fold (95% confidence interval: 1.0 to 4.3; p = 0.02) increased risk of arrhythmia recurrence.
Conclusions Long-term sustained weight loss is associated with significant reduction of AF burden and maintenance of sinus rhythm. (Long-Term Effect of Goal directed weight management on Atrial Fibrillation Cohort: A 5 Year follow-up study [LEGACY Study]; ACTRN12614001123639)
cardiac risk factors
Recent epidemiological data confirmed the emergence of obesity and atrial fibrillation (AF) as global epidemics (1,2). In the United States, the prevalence of obese individuals has risen 3-fold since 1960, with 1 in every 3 persons being obese (3). If such trends continue unabated, it is estimated that 164 million Americans will be obese by 2030, with an additional health care cost of $66 billion annually (4,5). The prevalence of AF is projected to reach 15.9 million in the United States by 2050 (2,6,7). Because obesity is independently associated with AF, these dual epidemics confer an enormous management and economic burden (8–11).
Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic comorbidities, such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and sleep apnea have been proposed as contributors to the expanding epidemic of AF (8,12,13), and are thus potential targets for intervention to stem the expanding AF epidemic. Weight loss in the short term results in a reduction in the symptomatic AF burden (14). Recent data demonstrated that aggressive weight and risk factor management improves maintenance of sinus rhythm after AF ablation (15).
Whether a critical weight loss threshold is required, or if benefits conferred by the initial weight loss are sustained in the long term is unknown. Furthermore, obese individuals frequently oscillate in weight over time, and the impact of such weight fluctuation on the arrhythmia burden is not known. We hypothesized that weight loss, if sustained, will be of incremental benefit in rhythm control. In this study, we assess the long-term impact of weight loss and weight fluctuation on rhythm control in obese individuals with AF.
The study included consecutive patients who were referred for management of symptomatic paroxysmal or persistent AF to the Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. All patients with a body mass index (BMI) ≥27 kg/m2 were included in this analysis. Exclusion criteria were permanent AF, history of myocardial infarction or cardiac surgery in the previous 12 months, significant cardiac valvulopathy or ventricular dysfunction, active malignancy, autoimmune or systemic inflammatory diseases, severe renal or hepatic failure, and <24 months of follow-up.
The study protocol was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Royal Adelaide Hospital and University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
Study protocol and design
All patients were counseled on the importance of weight and risk factor management, with optional participation in a dedicated physician-led weight management clinic or self-managed weight loss program.
The weight and other risk factor management protocols have been presented previously and are outlined in the Online Appendix (15). In brief, a structured motivational and goal-directed program using face-to-face counseling was used for weight reduction. Patients were reviewed regularly (every 3 months in the initial phase), and encouraged to use support counseling and schedule more frequent reviews as required. Initial weight reduction was attempted by a meal plan and behavior modification. Participants were required to maintain a diet and physical activity diary. Meals consisted of high protein and low glycemic index, calorie-controlled foods. If patients lost <3% of weight after 3 months, they were then prescribed very-low-calorie meal replacement sachets (Prima Health Solutions, New South Wales, Australia, or Nestle Health Science, Vevey, Switzerland) for 1 to 2 meals/day. The initial goal was to reduce body weight by 10%. After patients achieved the initial goal, meal replacement was substituted to high protein and low glycemic index, calorie-controlled foods to achieve a target BMI of ≤25 kg/m2. Low-intensity exercise was prescribed initially for 20 min thrice weekly and increasing to at least 200 min of moderate-intensity activity per week. Hypertension, glucose intolerance, sleep apnea, alcohol, and tobacco use were screened for and managed individually according to American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology guidelines. Changes in metabolic (lipid profile and fasting insulin) and inflammatory state (high-sensitivity C-reactive protein hsCRP) levels were monitored.
Weight loss definition
A stadiometer and digital weighing machine were used to record height and weight in light clothing without shoes, and BMI was calculated. Anthropometric values measured at annual follow-up were utilized for weight loss and weight fluctuation assessment. The American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology guidelines recognize that any weight loss ≥3% is considered a meaningful reduction (16). To determine the dose–response effect of weight loss on AF burden, groups were divided as follows: ≥10% weight loss (group 1), 3% to 9% weight loss (group 2), and <3% weight loss or weight gain (group 3).
Weight trend definition
Weight trend was determined by percentage change in annual weight over the course of the study. Linear weight loss was defined by continuous weight loss at each annual follow-up with no interim weight gain of ≥1%. Linear weight gain was defined by continuous weight gain at each annual follow-up with no interim weight loss of ≥1%. Weight fluctuation was defined by ≥1% weight cycle (“gain–loss” or “loss–gain”) between 2 consecutive annual follow-ups.
Quantification of weight fluctuation
To assess the effect of the magnitude of weight fluctuation, patients were divided on the basis of yearly follow-ups: >5% weight fluctuation (wide), 2% to 5% weight fluctuation (average), and <2% weight fluctuation (stable).
Arrhythmia management
Management of AF was undertaken in a dedicated AF clinic independent of the weight management clinic. Usage of rate and rhythm control strategies was at the treating physician’s discretion. The drugs used for rhythm control included sotalol or flecainide. Amiodarone was not usually used. Ablation was advocated in patients who remained symptomatic despite use of antiarrhythmic drugs. The ablation technique used at our institution was previously described and is outlined in the Online Appendix (17). AF was determined at least annually by clinical review, 12-lead electrocardiogram, and 7-day Holter monitoring. In patients who underwent ablation, procedural success was determined after a 3-month blanking period. AF was considered any atrial arrhythmia ≥30 s. The earliest date with documented AF was set as the date of arrhythmia recurrence.
Cardiac structural parameters were monitored by serial echocardiographic examinations. All echocardiographic and rhythm evaluations are detailed in the Online Appendix and performed by operators blinded to the patient’s weight management regimen.
The primary outcome was AF burden as determined by symptom burden and AF freedom. AF symptom burden was determined by the AF Severity Scale (AFSS) (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), which quantitates 3 domains of AF-related symptoms: frequency, duration, and severity (18). The AFSS has been clinically validated and used for assessment of AF burden (14,15). In addition, it provides a symptom subscale and global well-being score. The AFSS questionnaire was administered at baseline and final follow-up. AF freedom was determined with 7-day Holter monitoring. Secondary outcomes included structural parameters of left atrial volume and left ventricular wall thickness from echocardiographic studies.
Categorical variables are represented by frequencies and percentages. Continuous variables are summarized by mean ± SD. Differences between the weight loss groups were assessed using analysis of variance procedures for baseline characteristics. A repeated measure analysis of variance was used to assess change over time. For categorical variables, change in status at follow-up was compared between groups using a chi-square test. Time-to-recurrence and event-free survival curves following the last ablation procedure were estimated by the Kaplan-Meier product-limit method. Differences between curves were tested with the log-rank test. Predictors of recurrent AF were assessed using proportional hazards Cox regression models. Candidate variables with p < 0.1 in univariate analyses were considered in multivariate regression models. Two-tailed p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Statistical analysis was performed with SPSS version 21.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, Illinois).
Baseline characteristics
Of 1,415 consecutive patients with symptomatic AF, 825 patients had a BMI of ≥27 kg/m2. After screening for exclusion criteria, the final cohort consisted of 355 patients (Figure 1): 135 in group 1 (≥10% weight loss), 103 in group 2 (3% to 9% weight loss), and 117 in group 3 (<3% weight-loss). Baseline characteristics and follow-up duration (48.4 ± 18.2, 46.0 ± 16.7, and 48.3 ± 18.4 months, respectively; p = 0.3) were similar for all groups (Table 1).
Flow diagram demonstrating patient recruitment and attrition. AF = atrial fibrillation; AV = aortic valve; BMI = body mass index; Dx = diagnosis; WF = weight fluctuation; WG = weight gain; WL = weight loss.
Weight loss and maintenance
Weight change was greater in group 1 than in groups 2 and 3 (–16.0 ± 3.0 kg vs. –6.0 ± 0.4 kg vs. +2.0 ± 1.0 kg, respectively; p < 0.001). This corresponded with higher participation in the dedicated weight management clinic (84% in group 1 vs. 57% in group 2 vs. 30% in group 3; p < 0.001). The weight loss was largely durable over time with 66% (34 of 52 patients) who lost ≥10% body weight in the first year maintaining their weight loss at 34.5 ± 15.5 months. Importantly, 85% of these patients attended the weight management clinic (p < 0.001). In contrast, only 2 of the 18 patients who had regained weight after initial weight loss of ≥10% in the first year attended the weight management clinic.
Effect of weight loss on risk factor profile
Table 2 shows the impact of weight management on various cardiac risk factors.
Blood pressure control
There was a stepwise improvement in mean systolic blood pressure (BP) with weight loss (−18.0 ± 5.0 mm Hg vs. −10.0 ± 3.0 mm Hg vs. −7.0 ± 2.0 mm Hg for groups 1, 2, and 3 respectively; p < 0.001). This was despite reduced, unchanged, and increased antihypertensive agent use in groups 1, 2, and 3, respectively (p = 0.037).
A greater reduction in low-density cholesterol, triglycerides, and total cholesterol levels was seen in group 1 compared with groups 2 and 3 (p < 0.001) in conjunction with reduced use of lipid-lowering therapy (p = 0.04).
Glycemic control
Diabetic patients demonstrated improved glycemic control (glycosylated hemoglobin <7%) from group 3 to group 2 to group 1 (p < 0.001). This was in conjunction with a decrease in fasting insulin in group 1 (p < 0.001) and group 2 (p = 0.06) as opposed to an increased insulin level in group 3 (p = 0.03).
Patients in groups 1 and 2 demonstrated a decrease in mean hsCRP (p < 0.001 and p = 0.004, respectively) as opposed to increased hsCRP levels in group 3 (p = 0.001).
Effect of weight loss on cardiac structure
Table 2 shows the effect of weight loss on cardiac structure. Left atrial volume indexed for body surface area decreased significantly with weight loss in group 1 (p < 0.001) and group 2 (p < 0.001), yet increased in group 3 (p = 0.02). Likewise, interventricular septal (IVS) thickness decreased significantly with weight loss in both group 1 (p = 0.001) and group 2 (p = 0.03), but remained unchanged in group 3 (p = 0.33). A similar trend was seen in left ventricular end-diastolic diameter and E/E′ for group 1 and group 2, with subjects in group 3 showing an increasing E/E′ (p = 0.001).
Effect of weight loss on atrial fibrillation symptom burden
AF frequency, duration, symptoms, and symptom severity were improved in groups 1 and 2 compared with group 3 (p < 0.001) (Table 2). The global well-being score improved by 5.9 ± 0.9 in group 1 and was higher than in groups 2 and 3 (p < 0.001).
Freedom from AF without the use of rhythm control strategies
Figure 2A demonstrates the “ablation and drug free” AF freedom. At final follow-up, 45.5% of group 1, 22.2% of group 2, and 13.4% of group 3 (p < 0.001) remained free from arrhythmia without antiarrhythmic drugs or ablation. Univariate predictors of AF recurrence were the following: group 2 ([compared to group 1]: hazard ratio [HR]: 1.8; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.3 to 2.5); group 3 ([compared to group 1]: HR: 2.1; 95% CI: 1.6 to 3.0; p < 0.001); interventricular septal thickness (HR: 0.44; 95% CI: 0.23 to 0.86; p = 0.01); and E/E′ ratio (HR: 1.4; 95% CI: 1.2 to 1.7; p < 0.001). On multivariate analysis, group 2 (compared to group 1): HR: 2.0; 95% CI: 1.4 to 2.9, and group 3 (compared to group 1): HR: 3.0; 95% CI: 2.0 to 4.3; p < 0.001), IVS (HR: 0.2; 95% CI: 1.1 to 2.1; p < 0.001), and E/E′ ratio (HR: 1.5; 95% CI: 1.2 to 1.9; p < 0.001) remained independent predictors of AF recurrence.
Atrial Fibrillation Freedom Outcome According to Group
(A) Kaplan-Meier curve for AF-free survival without the use of rhythm control strategies. (B) Kaplan-Meier curve for AF-free survival for total AF-free survival (multiple ablation procedures with and without drugs). Abbreviations as in Figure 1.
Total arrhythmia-free survival
Figure 2B demonstrates the total arrhythmia-free survival with significant attrition in group 3 compared with groups 1 and 2. At final follow-up, total arrhythmia-free survival rates were 86.2% in group 1 compared with 65.5% in group 2 and 39.6% in group 3 (p < 0.001). There were no differences in the mean number of ablation procedures among the 3 groups (p = 0.8). At final follow-up, the mean number of antiarrhythmic drug use was significantly lower in group 1 compared with groups 2 and 3 (p < 0.001). Univariate predictors of AF recurrence were the following: group 2 ([compared to group 1]: HR: 2.8; 95% CI: 1.5 to 5.2); group 3 ([compared to group 1]: HR: 5.5; 95% CI: 3.1 to 9.6; p < 0.001); diabetes (HR: 1.6; 95% CI: 1.1 to 2.3; p = 0.013); and current smoking status (HR: 1.4; 95% CI: 1.0 to 2.1; p = 0.048). On multivariate analysis, group 2 ([compared to group 1]: HR: 3.1; 95% CI: 1.7 to 5.6; p < 0.001); group 3 ([compared to group 1]: HR: 5.9; 95% CI: 3.4 to 10.3; p < 0.001) and history of diabetes (HR: 1.8; 95% CI: 1.2 to 2.7; p = 0.002) remained independent predictors of AF recurrence.
Effect of weight loss trend
Of 355 patients, 141 had linear weight loss, 24 had linear weight gain, and 179 had weight fluctuation. Eleven patients were excluded from analysis, due to missing yearly weight data. Figure 3 demonstrates total arrhythmia-free survival on the basis of weight change trends. At final follow-up, 76% of patients with linear weight loss remained free of arrhythmia (p < 0.001). Weight fluctuation offset some of the benefit conferred by weight loss, with 59% patients remaining free from AF. However, this remained higher than the no weight loss or weight gain group, where only 38% remained free of AF (p < 0.001).
Outcomes of Atrial Fibrillation Freedom According to Weight Trend and Weight Fluctuation
(A) Kaplan-Meier curve for total AF-free survival (multiple ablation procedures with and without drugs) according to weight trend. (B) Kaplan-Meier curve for total AF-free survival (multiple ablation procedures with and without drugs) according to weight fluctuation. Abbreviations as in Figure 1.
Effect of weight fluctuation
Of 179 patients with weight fluctuation during the annual follow-ups, 54 had ≤2%, 68 had 2% to 5%, and 57 had >5% weight fluctuation. Patients attending the dedicated weight management clinic had smaller weight fluctuation: 69% of the <2% group, 55% of the 2% to 5% group, and 30% of the >5% weight fluctuation group (p < 0.001). Table 3 shows the impact of weight fluctuation on various cardiometabolic risk factors. More than 5% weight fluctuation was associated with significantly increased requirement of antihypertensive medication (p = 0.04). Significantly lower systolic BP was seen in patients with <2% weight fluctuation compared with 2% to 5% weight fluctuation and >5% weight fluctuation groups. Mean fasting insulin (p = 0.01), hsCRP level (p = 0.05), and serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (p < 0.001) levels were significantly higher in patients with >5% weight fluctuation. Similarly, >5% weight fluctuation was associated with an adverse impact on cardiac structural remodeling, with left atrial volume indexed for body surface area, IVS, and left ventricular end-diastolic diameter remaining largely unchanged compared with patients with <5% weight fluctuation.
Weight Fluctuation
Figure 3 shows total arrhythmia-free survival on the basis of degree of weight fluctuation, with significant attrition seen with >5% compared with ≤5% weight fluctuation. At final follow-up, 85.2% of patients with <2% weight fluctuation, 59% with 2% to 5% weight fluctuation, and 44% with >5% (p < 0.001) remained arrhythmia free. After adjustment for baseline BMI, the effect of weight fluctuation remained statistically significant for total AF recurrence (p = 0.03). On multivariate analysis, >5% weight fluctuation was associated with an increased risk of AF recurrence compared with <2% weight fluctuation (HR: 2.06, 95% CI: 1.0 to 4.3; p = 0.02).
This study demonstrates that in overweight and obese individuals with symptomatic AF, progressive weight loss has a dose-dependent effect on long-term freedom from AF (Central Illustration). Long-term weight loss maintenance is achievable in these patients and is associated with a 6-fold greater freedom from AF. Notably, weight fluctuation of >5% had an adverse effect on overall freedom from AF, with a 2-fold greater likelihood of recurrent arrhythmia. Weight loss was also associated with beneficial structural remodeling, including significant reductions in left atrial volumes and left ventricular hypertrophy. Importantly, achieving and maintaining weight loss was facilitated by a dedicated physician-led clinic that was focused on the management of weight and risk factors. These findings underscore the importance of treating underlying causative conditions when attempting to maintain sinus rhythm in obese AF patients.
Central Illustration
Weight Management and Atrial Fibrillation
(Left) Obesity is associated with a variety of associated comorbidities. These are all associated with progression of the atrial substrate and the development of atrial fibrillation (AF). (Top) A dedicated weight management program with weight loss (WL) is associated with reverse remodeling of the atrial substrate and a dose-dependent reduction in the AF burden, which is sustained in the long term. (Bottom) The consequence of weight fluctuation, which somewhat curtails the beneficial effects of WL.
Epidemiological data have shown an incremental risk of AF with a progressive increase in BMI (8). Obesity is associated with structural and electrical remodeling of the atria that forms the substrate in the development and progression of AF (19,20). Weight loss results in reversal of atrial dilation and left ventricular hypertrophy, as well as a marked reduction of AF symptoms and arrhythmia burden (14). However, controversies exist regarding the long-term sustainability of weight loss (21). In the present study, progressive and linear weight loss of ≥10% was associated with marked improvement in long-term freedom from AF. Previously symptomatic AF patients (45.5%) no longer required antiarrhythmic medications or ablation. In this study, 66% of the patients who lost ≥10% weight maintained the weight loss at long-term follow-up. Notably, participation in a dedicated weight management clinic was associated with higher weight loss maintenance. These results highlight the central role of a dedicated weight management clinic in treating overweight and obese patients with AF.
Our data provided a unique opportunity to ascertain the effect of weight fluctuation during the weight loss process. Our results revealed that >5% weight fluctuation lessened the benefit conferred by weight loss. This effect of weight fluctuation on AF recurrence risk remained significant despite adjusting for baseline weight, and was in accord with previous studies that showed that weight fluctuation was associated with an increased risk of hypertension and diabetes, as well as an increase in other cardiometabolic traits (22–25). Weight fluctuation occurred significantly less often in patients who regularly attended the dedicated weight management clinic. Patient engagement and collaborative involvement improved treatment plan adherence and persistence, and might be “the forgotten piece” in the compliance puzzle.
It is probable that multiple mechanisms contributed to the impact of weight loss on reduction of AF burden. Obesity clusters with other cardiovascular risk factors, including impaired glucose tolerance, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and sleep apnea (26,27), which are all associated with an increased AF risk in the general population (12,13,28). Intentional weight loss in obese patients systematically reduces these allied risk factors (29–33). In this study, we observed the beneficial effects of weight loss on BP, diabetic control, the lipid profile, and inflammation, all of which might have contributed to reduction of the AF burden. Our previous work demonstrated that short-term weight loss and other risk factor management resulted in a reduction of the AF burden (14,15). The present study demonstrated that these beneficial effects on AF burden persisted during long-term follow up, were dose-dependent, but were also partially offset in the face of significant weight fluctuation.
Study limitations
This study has the potential for bias inherent to observational studies. However, measurement bias was reduced through standardized processes in our clinic, and the evaluation by operators was blinded to the patient’s weight management regimen. AF burden assessment using 7-day Holter monitoring might miss some AF episodes. However, this was utilized for AF freedom assessment in both the groups and was a limitation for all groups. Ascertainment bias was reduced through the routine collection of outcome data. Importantly, the impact of weight fluctuation on AF burden could not be evaluated by a randomized design. Finally, weight loss resulted in improvement in various associated risk factors, such as sleep apnea and BP. This study did not provide insight into the relative contribution of each risk factor.
Sustained weight loss, particularly with avoidance of weight fluctuation, is associated with a dose-dependent reduction in AF burden and maintenance of sinus rhythm. This occurs in conjunction with favorable changes in the cardiometabolic risk factor profile, inflammatory state, and cardiac remodeling.
COMPETENCY IN MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE: Weight loss is associated with a reduction in the burden and symptomatic severity of AF, but weight fluctuations >5% have an adverse effect that is associated with a greater likelihood of recurrent AF.
COMPETENCY IN PATIENT CARE: A physician-led clinic focused on engaging patients in management of excess body weight and related cardiovascular risk factors promotes sustained weight loss, reduces weight fluctuations, and is associated with greater long-term freedom from recurrent AF.
TRANSLATIONAL OUTLOOK: Additional studies are needed to determine whether weight loss programs and/or procedures in susceptible individuals could prevent or delay the onset of AF, ameliorate the associated atrial pathology, and avoid or reduce the need for anticoagulation to prevent stroke.
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For details on the various protocols used in this study, please see the online version of this article.
This study was supported by the Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. The sponsor has had no direct involvement in the design and conduct of the study, collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data, preparation, review or approval of the paper, or the decision to submit the paper for publication. Dr. Pathak is supported by a Postgraduate Scholarship from the Lion’s Medical Research Foundation and an Australian Postgraduate Award from the University of Adelaide. Drs. Pathak and Twomey are supported by Leo J. Mahar Electrophysiology Scholarships from the University of Adelaide. Dr. Wong is supported by a Rhodes scholarship and a Postgraduate Medical Scholarship from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. Dr. Mahajan is supported by the Leo J. Mahar Lectureship from the University of Adelaide. Drs. Kalman and Sanders are supported by Practitioner Fellowships from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. Drs. Abhayaratna and Sanders are supported by the National Heart Foundation of Australia. Dr. Lau is supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.
Dr. Kalman has received research funding from St. Jude Medical, Biosense-Webster, Medtronic, and Boston Scientific. Dr. Sanders has served on the advisory board of Biosense-Webster, Medtronic, St. Jude Medical, Sanofi, and Merck, Sharpe and Dohme; has received lecture and/or consulting fees from Biosense-Webster, Medtronic, St. Jude Medical, Boston Scientific, Merck, Sharpe and Dohme, Biotronik, and Sanofi; and has received research funding from Medtronic, St. Jude Medical, Boston Scientific, Biotronik, and Sorin. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.
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AFSS
Atrial Fibrillation Severity Scale
apnea–hypopnea index
high-sensitivity C-reactive protein
interventricular septum
left atrium
Received February 9, 2015.
Revision received February 26, 2015.
Accepted March 1, 2015.
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Brand Innovation: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
By Marty Neumeier
When Everybody Zigs, Zag
Brand or Bland?
Those Crazy New Names
Icons and Avatars
It's All Packaging
Does Our Website Look Fat in this Dress?
All brand innovation, whether for a website, a package, a product, an event, or an ad campaign, should be aimed at creating a positive experience for the user. The trick is in knowing which experience will be the most positive—even before you commit to it.
Brand Gap, The: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design
A combination of good strategy and poor execution is like a Ferrari with flat tires. It looks good in the specs, but fails on the street. This is the case for at least half the brand communication done today. Don't take my word for it—pick up a copy of your favorite magazine and leaf through the ads. How many actually touch your emotions? Will you remember any of them tomorrow? If not, it's probably the fault of execution, not strategy. Execution— read creativity—is the most difficult part of the branding mix to control. It's magic, not logic, that ignites passion in customers.
Our cultural distrust in creativity goes back to the Enlightenment, when we discovered the awesome power of rational thinking. The movement became so successful that rational thinking became the only thinking—at least the only thinking you could trust. Yet in spite of our continuing reverence for rationality, we don't really do many things by logic. Our best thinking depends more on the "illogical" skills of intuition and insight, which may explain why logical argument rarely convinces anyone of anything important.
Benjamin Franklin, despite being a child of the Enlightenment, showed both intuition and insight when he observed: "Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason."
Innovation requires creativity, and creativity gives many business people a twitch. Anything new, by definition, is untried, and therefore unsafe. Yet when you ask executives where they expect to find their most sustainable competitive advantage, what do they answer? Innovation. Because the truth is, innovation lies at the heart of both better design and better business. It magnifies drive inside the organization. It slashes the costs of inefficiency, duplication, and corporate ennui. It confers the ability to produce uncommon, yet practical, responses to real problems.
When Everybody Zigs, Zag.
Would-be leaders in any industry must come to grips with a self-evident truth—you can't be a leader by following. Admittedly, it's difficult to zag when every bone in your body says zig. Human beings are social animals—our natural inclination is to go with the group.
Creativity, however, demands the opposite. It requires an unnatural act. To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions. In the world of branding, creativity doesn't require reinventing the wheel, but simply thinking in fresh ways. It requires looking for what industrial designer Raymond Loewy called MAYA—the Most Advanced Yet Acceptable solution. Creative professionals excel at MAYA. While market researchers describe how the world is, creative people describe how it could be. Their thinking is often so fresh that they zag even when they should zig. But without fresh thinking, there's no chance of magic.
An effective use of the MAYA principle was the career of The Beatles. They began in the early 1960s with songs that were commonly acceptable, then raised the bar of innovation one record at a time. By the end of the decade, they had taken their audience on a wild ride from the commonplace to the sublime, and in the process created the anthems for a cultural revolution. Their formula? As one critic observed: "They never did the same thing once."
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Be My Pike Place Valentine ❤
We know it can be tough to find just the right thing for your main squeeze for Valentine's Day. Time runs out, panic sets in and you find yourself eyeing the forlorn single roses at the gas station. But wait, there's still time to get the perfect gift!
Join us on a stroll through Pike Place Market as we show you where to score beautiful flowers, artisan sweets, handmade jewelry, romantic restaurants, dazzling entertainment and boutique lodging for the ultimate Seattle staycation. Ready? Let's go!
Local, Seasonal, Personal: The Confectional
Meet The Confectional's Destiny Sund and Paul Verano
Everyone knows how amazing the cheesecakes are at The Confectional (and if you don’t, stop reading and go there now!), but few know how the specialty bakery came to be. According to co-owner Destiny Sund, it all started when she invited her best friend Paul Verano over for dinner one night in 2005. “If I’m remembering correctly, we were in business together before we finished dessert!”
Paul and Destiny met at the University of Oregon where Paul first got serious about cheesecakes. Word got out and friends started paying him to make them. Since then, he’s perfected his original recipes with Destiny as chief taste tester.
At first, opening a store in Pike Place Market seemed intimidating, but after meeting and become friends with other shop owners Destiny soon found a whole community that was welcoming and supportive. They started sourcing ingredients from other Market tenants like Frank’s Produce, the Pike Place Creamery and MarketSpice.
Over the years, The Confectional has been named one of America's "top 5 chocolate desserts" by Food Network and one of Whoopi Goldberg’s "favorite things," plus Destiny personally handed out mini cheesecakes to Jimmy Fallon and The Roots! But the most impressive feat to Destiny and Paul is the fact that they’ve kept “a small business alive and kicking for eleven years!”—a testament to how delicious their desserts truly are! (Pro tip: Pick up some heart-frosted cheesecakes for Valentine's Day.)
Seeing the smiles on people’s faces as they watch cheesecakes being made in the “Chocolate Theater” and the even bigger smiles they have when they eat one, is reward enough for two friends who together have created a true Pike Place Market gem.
Visit The Confectional at 1530 Pike Place, 10 am-6 pm daily.
Robot vs Sloth Opens on First and Pine
Located on the corner of First and Pine, Robot vs Sloth is the new shop of owner/artist Lauren Rudeck. Though the shop is a Market newcomer, Lauren is no stranger to Pike Place. For the past five years, she was half of the duo behind Ugly Baby and La Ru on Western Avenue.
Now with more space to showcase her handmade art of "cute animals fighting each other," Lauren's original designs be found throughout the shop on t-shirts, buttons, pins, magnets and totes. Robot vs Sloth also features an expanded selection of paintings, jewelry, plush creatures and DIY craft kits from other local artists such as Starheadboy, Care It Bites, Narboo and more. For those who are artistically inclined, a variety of workshops will also soon be offered in a new classroom space in the back of the store.
Meet the Artist: Wais Ali
Meet Wais! Pike Place artist Wais Ali first became interested in visual arts while growing up in Djibouti, his home country in East Africa. Now a Seattleite, Wais has been selling original acrylic paintings and prints in the Market since 2015. Stop by his table in the North Arcade and meet the artist behind these stunning paintings!
Behind the Scenes: Pike Market Senior Center
For 40 years, the Pike Market Senior Center (PMSC) has served low-income and homeless seniors in the immediate downtown Seattle area. PMSC provides a safe place for seniors (55 years and older) to participate in activities such as yoga, dancing, acupuncture, receive assistance with housing and social security, and perhaps the most important thing of all - a place to eat two meals a day. Behind the scenes planning activities, scheduling wellness services and cooking meals is a dedicated team of staff and volunteers.
Feeding approximately 200 seniors daily is no easy feat, especially when 90% of food needs are reliant on donations! Brenda Neuweiler, senior nutrition program manager and chef, plans and cooks meals based on weekly donations that not only taste good but meet the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA). The Senior Center serves breakfast and lunch daily, which means that if a senior eats both meals at the center they will have received ⅔ of RDA for the day. Neuweiler has only been at the center for 2 years, but says, “I realized the needs within this demographic and immediately knew that through my cooking I could bring positive change and was confident that I could elevate the food being served. I couldn’t be more pleased with the staff and how we’re able to make such a positive impact on people’s lives.”
Running and operating a senior center takes money, and while about 75% of the funding comes from Pike Place Market Foundation grants and city contracts, there’s still a 25% funding gap that needs to be filled. That's where Mason Lowe comes in. Lowe is PMSC's grant writer and bookkeeper, and has been with the organization for the past 8 years. “I love it," said Lowe about working with seniors. "Everyone here has had a really interesting life. Anytime I’ve been able to sit down and have a one-on-one, I leave blown away.”
(Brenda Neuweiler and Mason Lowe, PMSC staff)
Located under the famous Public Market Center sign and clock and down the hallway from the infamous Gum Wall is a place where passion and commitment ensures the wellbeing of some of the most important and vulnerable people in our community. To learn more about PMSC and how you can volunteer and donate, visit pikemarketseniorcenter.org.
Produce Spotlight: Winter Citrus
Did you know that, in addition to our many farmer stands, Pike Place Market has seven independent produce highstalls? (Highstalls are named for their elaborate displays of sumptuous fruits and vegetables that were traditionally built higher up from the floor than the metal tables used by farmers.) Each of these businesses provide a large selection of fresh, high-quality and seasonal fruit and vegetables—both locally grown and from around the world. Winter is the perfect time to enjoy delicious and vitamin C-rich citrus!
Fun fact: Before they can be considered a true heirloom variety, navel oranges need to have seed strains dating back at least 25 years!
For this spotlight, we talked to Jodi at Manzo Brothers, where she’s worked for the past 27 years. Want help deciding between a satsuma or a sumo mandarin? Can you really eat the skin of a kumquat? Jodi is your gal! Here are her takes on the best citrus and various uses for each of them.
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The 20th Legislature will convene today, Monday, with the Senate having the same nine members while the House will have eight new and 12 returning ones.
Both dominated by Republican members, the House and the Senate will elect their officers when the session starts.
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Marshall Islands, Former Minister DeBrum Named 'Arms Control Person Of The Year'
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The Republic of the Marshall Islands and its former Foreign Minister Tony de Brum, garnered the highest number of votes in an online poll to determine the "2016 Arms Control Person of the Year." Over 1,850 individuals from 63 countries participated in the selection.
Ten individuals and groups were nominated by the staff of the Arms Control Association for their leadership in advancing effective arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament solutions or for raising awareness of the threats posed by mass casualty weapons during the past year.
The government of the Marshall Islands and Ambassador de Brum were nominated for pursuing a formal legal case in the International Court of Justice in The Hague against the world's nuclear-armed states for their failure to initiate nuclear disarmament negotiations in violation of Article VI of the 1968...
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Poll: Younger Americans express shift in values
Beck Westrem October 31, 2019 Features, Talon 11 Views
Teens’ values are shifting
Rutger Hoekstra, a junior, considers patriotism, having children and religion as “very important” values. These views actually put Hoekstra in the minority among his generation.
According to an August 2019 poll by The Wall Street Journal, young generations consider values like those much less important than older generations do.
Views varied sharply by age. Nearly 4 out of 5 people (79%) who were 55 or older said patriotism was very important, compared with 2 of 5 people (42%) aged 18 to 38; two-thirds of people (65%) aged 39 to 54 said patriotism was very important.
Two-thirds of the older group recognized religion as very important, compared with fewer than one-third of the younger group.
While it is obvious that Americans are currently more politically divided than they have been in decades, many people would not anticipate that what used to define America is now becoming insignificant.
“I am both surprised and saddened to see such fundamental American values being ignored by many across our nation,” said junior Nate Sundeen after he saw the poll.
So then what is causing younger people to dissent from the ideology held by their parents and grandparents?
One possibility could be that Millennials and members of Generation Z, who are significantly more progressive than any other age group, associate patriotism and God with conservative ideals. Even though those ideals once crossed party boundaries, many progressives eventually overlooked them because of their traditional nature.
When the United States was founded, not only did the country have a Christian aspect, but church attendance and religious involvement was far higher. Now, even though a smaller portion of America is religiously involved, society has still indisputably advanced morally since the time of the Founding Fathers.
David Hoffner, executive director of faith formation and AP Economics teacher, believes it’s a possibility that church attendance has declined because society no longer expects people to attend, not because of less care for the
values that define Christianity and other religions.
“There’s no social pressure to do it, so they don’t, and before there might’ve been slight expectation or pressure to do it, so they did. But they were probably never that fervent,” said Hoffner.
If this is true, the decline in true religious worshippers has not declined much; it’s just that fewer people attend religious services because of the status it gives them or the social pressure on them.
Andrew Root, professor at Luther Seminary and author of The Pastor in a Secular Age (Baker, 2019), thinks churches and other religious organizations can appear constraining to teens and young adults.
“I think some young people perceive that what religious communities do is tell young people how to live their lives,” said Root.
There are few explanations for why children are less of a priority for Gen X and Millennials, but a strong case is the growing uncertainty about the future of the country and environment. They may not want children growing up surrounded by the current events, or they may not want to have to redirect their focus to raising children.
Root believes one factor could be that younger people nowadays value their independence to such an extent that they don’t want to risk sacrificing it for children.
“The dream of living a good life used to include having children in it, and now it doesn’t,” said Root.
He also thinks that because people are going to school for longer and getting full-time jobs later than previous generations, they are delaying having children.
“People are having a harder time entering into a lot of the economic structures that a few generations ago they could’ve,” said Root.
Additionally, another recent study found that birth rates, not just sentiments towards having children, are falling in the US. The data show that the birth rate is the lowest it has been in 32 years, according to the National Center for Health Statistics at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Regardless of the causes of devaluation in religion, family and patriotism, the fact remains that all three have strongly united people for centuries. If this trend continues, the country could lose several key sources of unity, which could have unknown consequences.
Hoffner believes that Americans will not benefit from individualism without being members of communities.
“If you don’t replace these things with other communal practices, America could look like a really lonely place,” said Hoffner.
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SACRAMENTO — A 14-3 run in the final minutes of Saturday afternoon’s CIF Division IV Championship broke open a back-and-forth game and gave the Ribet Fighting Frogs a 69-63 win over Immanuel, sealing a state championship for a team that won just one game a year ago.
With new head coach Reggie Howard, a brand-new staff and a roster full of transfers, the Frogs were able to quickly construct a top team, and that team was able to finally pull away to win a game that had seen 16 lead changes and six ties.
Aside from an early 10-3 Ribet lead, the teams were inseparable for the better part of three quarters,, and even after the Frogs took a 44-37 lead late in the third, their foes from the outskirts of the Fresno area responded with a 7-0 run to tie it, with Jordan Rodriguez draining a 3-pointer from beyond the NBA line and Kaleb Daglish evening the score with a jumper from the free throw line. Barrington Hargress scored off a turnover, one of Ribet’s 16 steals on the day, to put his team back on top, but a designed play after a TV timeout gave Winston Williams an open layup to tie the game.
It would be the last time Immanuel (26-9) drew even. On a day where the Frogs shot just 3-for-19 on threes, Tyler Powell hit one from the corner to give his team the lead for good. Xavier Williams hit a jumper from the free throw line to bring the lead to five, and a layup by Snookey Wigington made it 53-46. Though 13 of Snookey’s 19 points came in the first half, his six late points were critical.
It was a big day all around for the Wigington family, with Snookey’s father, Pookey, an assistant on Howard’s coaching staff. Pookey’s younger son, Tookey, is playing in the Open Division Championship to wrap up the night for Sierra Canyon. After Daglish missed two free throws, Snookey drove to the hoop to put the Frogs up nine, and an unforced turnover, one of the 23 times Immanuel gave the ball up on the day, led to a pair of Powell free throws for Ribet’s first double-digit lead of the day.
Powell scored 15 despite going just 1-for-7 on threes, with his one make coming when it was needed most.
“Our goal is to hold teams to 44 points,” Howard said. “You can never replicate the exact same shot, but you can replicate defense.”
Though the Eagles did shoot 41.7% from the field and 36.8% on threes, Ribet (27-3) was able to stay in a tight game with turnovers before finally hitting a few shots to put the game away. Hargress was the third weapon to join Powell and Wigington, shooting just 1-for-5 in the first half but finishing the day with 10 points off the bench.
One of the few non-transfers at Ribet, Hargress was still a fresh face, finishing his freshman year with a bang.
His performance was one of the biggest reasons the Frogs were able to cap off their astronomical climb while Immanuel’s run ended short.
“Our big thing is getting stops and buckets,” head coach Chris Woods said. “Whether it’s a turnover or forcing a bad shot, we have to turn around and capitalize on it, and there was a stretch in the where we didn’t do that.”
The Eagles still went deeper in the state tournament than any prior team had, and with 46 wins in Woods’ first two seasons, the future is bright for a sophomore-heavy team.
“These guys have such a high basketball IQ, and the coaching staff puts in hours to add to the gameplan,” Woods said. “It’s a combination of a good coaching staff working hard and guys that can just go out and execute.”
One of the three sophomores in the starting lineup, Shawn Rodgers, led Immanuel with 14 points, while the two seniors, Daglish and Rodriguez, each scored 10.
“They’re very talented and they practice just as hard as the seniors,” Daglish said of the sophomore class.
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Course and Prevalence of Panic Disorder
Over a quarter of all people in the general population will experience a Panic Attack at some point in their lives [ref]. Panic Disorder begins most commonly in people's 20's and affects anywhere from about 2% [ref] to close to 5% [ref] of all people in the general population, with women experiencing the condition about twice as often as men [ref]. About 20% of individuals with Panic Disorder will have Agoraphobia [ref].
Most adults with Panic Disorder report that their first Panic Attacks occurred in adolescence [ref]. As many as 18% of adolescents experience Panic Attacks, though only about 0.5% of all adolescents suffer from Panic Disorder [ref]. It is rare for Panic Disorder to begin before puberty [ref]. Panic symptoms in childhood and adolescence are frequently a predictor of later onset psychiatric disorders [ref].
The course of Panic Disorder tends to be quite variable, with periods of weeks or months when Panic Attacks can be very frequent and other periods when they become rare or absent. Flare-ups usually occur in response to stressful life events. During those times when the condition becomes acute, it can interfere in a very substantial way in a person's life, especially when the individual feels unable to participate in regular activities for fear of having Panic Attacks. Some people may quit their jobs or even refuse to leave their homes for these reasons, especially when they also suffer from Agoraphobia. Having Agoraphobia thus predicts a more difficult course of the disorder, with higher levels of impairment [ref].
Follow-up studies [ref] have shown that about a decade after being diagnosed and treated for Panic Disorder without Agoraphobia, over 80% of individuals will have recovered from the disorder, meaning that for at least a two-month period they no longer suffer from the symptoms of the condition. In cases of Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia, only about half of all individuals reach full recovery after a decade of treatment. In either case, over half of those who recover will have a relapse at some point within the decade following their initial diagnosis.
Over a third of all individuals with Panic Disorder will suffer from Major Depression during their lives [ref]. Fifteen percent of individuals with Panic Disorder without Agoraphobia, and one third of those with Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia, will also have Bipolar Disorder [ref]. Two-thirds of people with Panic Disorder without Agoraphobia, and over 90% of those with Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia, will suffer from another type of Anxiety Disorder [ref]. Over a quarter of individuals with Panic Disorder without Agoraphobia, and over a third of those with Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia, will suffer from Substance Abuse or Dependence [ref]. Having Panic Disorder or even just Panic Attacks increases one's chances of attempting suicide [ref].
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Hey Everybody, Putin is putting the band back together!
So way back in 1917, this Russian guy named Vlad wanted to unite Russia with some other places with funny names like the Ukraine and Belarus. He was successful, and in 1922 the Soviet Union was born. General hilarity then ensued for the next 69 years as the Soviets waged a Cold War against the United States, and a very hot war against their own citizens. When Vlad died in 1924, he turned his little party over to his friend Joe. Joe was a real hoot, causing the deaths of somewhere between 10 and 60 million people before he was done in 1953.
Hitler's Nazis tried and failed to defeat the Soviet Union. Unfortunately George Patton never got his chance to take on the Red Menace, one of the great strategic mistakes in the history of the United States. Nope, it was left to a B movie actor from Illinois, a Polish priest, and an English lady to rid the world of the Soviet scourge. In December 1991, the Soviet Union was declared dead.
Fast forward 20 years to the present. Another Russian guy named Vlad wants to unify Russia and some other places with funny names like Belarus and Kazakhstan. The former and soon to be current President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, thinks his "Eurasian Union" is a great idea and surely won't make American schoolchildren practice nuclear attack drills anytime soon. In the eurasiaorg.net article here, Putin is quoted as wanting to set "a more ambitious goal" and "achieve a higher integration level" for his Eurasian Union.
Now you millenials out there may think I am overreacting, but pay heed to the Crew. When former KGB strongmen talk about "ambitious goals", there is no such thing as overreacting. Putin will reclaim the Russian presidency in March of 2012, and begin spreading the Russian sphere of influence again throughout eastern Europe. Freedom lovers in the former Soviet satellite states should be very concerned. Unfortunately, this time they don't have the moral strength and resolve of the actor, the priest, and the lady to buttress them against this new threat.
By the way, do you know what Vladimir Putin called the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union, the most brutal and ruthless totalitarian regime in the history of man? He called it "the greatest geo-political catastrophe of the 20th century". Now that's comforting.
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Yes, with a community organizer and his plagiarist VP in the White House and a German priest who seems eager to cozy up with the Iranians (http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10701#.TpMJZ6RxDGQ), what could we possibly have to worry about?
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HomeMedia Releases and Statements2018MarchNo assurance for welfare or disease control for Saudi market: RSPCA
Thursday, 22nd March 2018
Australia’s leading animal welfare organisation has expressed grave concerns over the health and welfare of sheep to be exported to Saudi Arabia under a secretive new proposal revealed this week.
News reports this week indicate live exporters have struck up a deal with Saudi Arabia, and live exports of Australian sheep could commence again from July this year.
Live sheep have not been exported to Saudi Arabia from Australia since the introduction of the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance Scheme (ESCAS) in 2012, after the country refused to comply with Australia’s regulations.
It’s not clear how Saudi Arabia’s reported concerns about the Australian Government’s ESCAS regulations impinging on its sovereignty have been addressed.
“Before the trade was halted in 2012, Saudi Arabia has previously rejected numerous entire shipments over disease concerns,” said RSPCA Australia Chief Scientist and Strategy Officer, Dr Bidda Jones.
“The system has not changed – there is still no reliable process in place to individually check sheep for disease before they leave for the Middle East and the risk of another major incident remains very high,”
Dr Jones also said the sketchy details available of the proposed ‘special agreement’ revealed an alarming but predictable lack of basic understanding or concern for animal health and welfare by the exporter.
“Sheep traveling on long-haul voyages during the Middle Eastern summer are also at high risk of suffering and dying from heat stress”, said Dr Jones.
“The alleged exporter, Emanuel Exports, already has a terrible public record on animal welfare,” said Dr Jones.
“This includes 3,000 sheep that collapsed and died in heatwave conditions on a July journey to the Middle East in 2016, and a further 2,400 that died en route to the Middle East in August 2017, and which prompted an investigation by the WA Government,
“Government records show that in the past five years, 62,279 sheep have died on journeys to the Middle East. We should be doing all we can to avoid these journeys, not adding to them.
“It’s well recognised the future for Australian farmers is meat exports, and there’s no reason why we shouldn’t process these animals humanely in Australia, providing a much-needed economic boost to rural and regional communities,” she said.
The RSPCA has previously flagged that any watering-down or exemptions for Saudi Arabia to Australia’s ESCAS regulations would be the first steps in bringing the entire scheme undone.
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Street parties over the weekend in Hartland, Creighton and Radnor Roads.
Community picnic to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the opening of the park 7pm Saturday 2nd June in the park (bring a dessert to share) and free screening at 9.30pm of “The King’s Speech” – a great film if you haven’t seen it (or even if you have). Read more on Lexi website
Bird Walk in the Park and Paddington Old Cemetery also on Saturday 2nd June. Meet outside the cafe in Queen’s Park at 9.45am. If you’re late, join the walk in the woodland walk, or in the Paddington Old Cemetery, Willesden Lane. Total time about 90mins. All welcome, but under 8s may get bored. Bring binoculars if available. Children please bring an adult with you. If you can, let Robin Sharp know you’re coming (tel 0208 969 0381 or robisharp@gmail.com). We might see this greater spotted woodpecker.
Bio-bags for Brent food waste collection Message from Brent council:
“From 11 June 2012 we will be delivering a roll of 26 kitchen caddy liners to you with a guidance leaflet.
These kitchen caddy liners will help you to easily separate your food waste from the rest of your household waste.
Please continue to wrap your food waste in newspaper or paper until you receive your delivery of free kitchen caddy liners from us.
Do not use any types of bags to wrap your food waste until you receive your free delivery. The guidance leaflet will provide you with a step by step guide on how to use your new kitchen caddy liners and what to do when you run out.
Kensal Rise Library stripped of books, historic murals and Mark Twain plaque by Brent council at 2am. Campaigners shocked and betrayed. Read more
Kilburn Library closed for refurbishment until 10th September. Books not due back until 17th September, but you can return them to another Brent library (if you can find one still open – try Willesden Green Library Centre). Another possibility is to join Camden Libraries (with proof of address and your Brent Library card) and use the new Kilburn Library Centre at 12-22 Kilburn High Road. Just go in and fill in the form online. Very helpful staff.
Nicolas Kent, Artistic Director of the Tricycle Theatre for 28 years, was the first person to be given the Freedom of the Borough of Brent. This was in recognition of his transformation of the Tricycle into an internationally renowned venue, particularly for the political reconstructions. Read more on Kilburn Times website
New Mayor of Brent appointed. None other than one of our councillors, Michael Adeyeye. His chosen charities for his year in office are The Brent Association for Disabled People, the Sickle Cell Society and Rays of Sunshine, a children’s charity.
Book Festival 19th and 20th May.
Great piece in the Kilburn Times online about the Book Festival. Thanks to reporter Tara Brady and enthusiastic students at Queen’s Park Community School
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Book Festival tickets on sale at QPARA’s stall at the Farmers’ Market TODAY Sunday 13th May, 10am to 2pm. £15 for a weekend ticket (advance only), or £10 (£8 concs) for a day ticket. All under 18s free.
Book Festival Opening Gala at the Lexi Friday 18th May. The Remains of The Day
To launch the Book Festival, local actress & writer Jessica Hynes (formerly Jessica Stevenson) will be presenting her personal choice of The Remains of The Day at the Lexi cinema on Friday May 18th. The film, from 1993, stars Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins and is a wonderful adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel. Book tickets before they sell out. Read more
Queen’s Park Book Festival tickets now on sale at Queen’s Park Books. Tickets consist of Festival Wristbands and programmes. Don’t miss the amazing value weekend ticket – only £15 – in advance only and only from the Bookshop. If you can’t easily get to the shop, phone them on 020 7625 1008 and ask for a Weekend Ticket to be reserved. Payment by cash or cheque only please.
And if possible, order your Festival books in advance. Read more
Today is World Book Night. Join campaigners for a candle-lit event between 7.30 and 9.30pm this evening at Kensal Rise pop-up library. Junction of College Road and Bathurst Gardens.
Brent Libraries apparently want suggestions of books, cds and dvds to stock. Not that they normally take any notice of consultation responses, but there’s a short survey if you want to try to make your views known
Shocking news on Kilburn Times website about Kensal Rise and Cricklewood Libraries. Please contact our councillor James Denselow if you disagree with the step Brent council has taken cllr.james.denselow@brent.gov.uk
Willesden Green Library Centre Re-development
Today is the last day to sign the e-petition calling on Brent council to “pause the Willesden Green Library Centre regeneration plans to allow for full consultation with residents in order to ascertain their views on how the area should be developed and the amenities that should be provided or retained”
On the Agenda at the QPARA meeting on Thurs 12th April
Re-development of British Legion/ Albert Road Day Centre area – Ben Martin to present LB Brent outline proposals
Brainstorming session on membership Who should we be trying to recruit? How should we go about it?
7 new bike stands installed on Salusbury Road opposite Fitness First
The hosepipe ban means that we will not be using our hose to water the olive trees in the terracotta pots on Salusbury Road. We usually water them once a week during the warmer months. If you can help us to water the trees outside the Police Station using watering cans, please contact Elaine ispyinqp@gmail.com
Beware of turning right into Harvist Road from Chamberlayne Road (there is a “no right turn” sign, sometimes illuminated), as one QPARA member has recently been fined for this manoeuvre
Kensal and Kilburn ACF on Wednesday, 4 April 2012
at Kensal Rise Primary School, Harvist Road, London NW6 (new venue). 7pm prompt.
“The council’s ward working team would like your ideas to help shape their funding priorities in the new financial year – 2012/13. Attendees will be invited to break into their respective wards to share their suggestions. This is an excellent opportunity for residents and service users to contribute positively to their local area”. Come along and see if you get that opportunity!
For further information, please contact Bola Olatunde on 020 8937 1073 or email consultation@brent.gov.uk.
Queen’s Park Day Stall Application Forms now available to download and print on this site
Quiz Night success
The Quiz night to launch the Book Festival was a great evening all round. Excellent questions – tricky but not too tricky and across a broad range of topics by Simon O’Hagan, delivered with style by Jamie Newall, while around 16 teams battled it out sustained by snacks and drinks. Some photos already on twitter, more on the Book Festival page.
Book Festival Quiz Tickets on sale at Queen’s Park Books
Still a few tickets remaining. £10 (£8 concessions). Make up a team of up to 6 or just come along and join a team on the night. Ticket price includes glass of wine and nibbles. More wine and soft drinks on sale. We will be announcing author names for the Book Festival. 7.30pm at Salusbury School Electric Hall (corner of Lonsdale Road). See you there later!
Transition Town team grow Queen’s Park allotment
Local group, Transition Town Kensal Kensal to Kilburn have just made the allotment in Queen’s Park bigger. Watch them at work!
The Quiz is at 7.30pm on Friday 30th March in Salusbury School’s Electric Hall. Tickets £10 (£8 concessions) to include a glass of wine and nibbles. More drinks on sale. General knowledge with a slight bookish bias (but not as fiendishly difficult as last year). Teams of six – organise in advance or join a team on the night. We’ll be announcing some of the authors appearing at the Festival. We’d also love you to sponsor us by joining as a Festival Friend for £25 either at the Quiz or any time at the bookshop. Hurry and your name will be listed in the Book Festival Programme.
Brent Borough Biking Project. HGV Exchanging Places Event
Brent and Camden Councils are jointly organising an Exchanging Places event on Thursday 22 March between 2 and 5:30pm at the College of North West London (Kilburn Campus), Priory Park Road, NW6 7UJ.
Exchanging Places events are aimed at cyclists and involve an HGV parked in a location that allows cyclists to climb into the cab and watch another cyclist ride up the left side of the vehicle to see the restricted view from the driver’s seat. The aim of these events is to raise awareness of HGV drivers’ blind spots and reduce the number of accidents involving cyclists and HGVs.
In addition to the HGV, there will be a couple of stalls with Dr Bikes, Cycle Security Marking and general cycle promotion and information materials.
Brent Streetwatchers scheme update
Message from Chris Whyte of Brent’s Environment and Neighbourhood Services:
“A number of you have asked about the current status of the Streetwatchers scheme. The officers who administered the scheme chose to leave during the council’s recent restructuring programme. The scheme, therefore, no longer enjoys dedicated officer support and cannot be administered in the same way. That means that whilst we are still keen that you make us aware of any street scene problems in your area, we are no longer in a position to recruit new members, to host the Streetwatcher conference or to issue newsletters and organise trips.
I hope this helps explain the situation. Your regular contribution will still be helpful and if you have any issues that you would like to raise, please continue to do so. These should now be directed to environmentandprotection@brent.gov.uk And can be marked as ‘Streetwatcher Issue’.”
Brent’s draft Food Growing and Allotments strategy
This time a message from Aine Ryan, Strategy and Service Development Officer in Brent’s Sports and Parks Service:
“Brent Council is undertaking a programme of public consultation on its draft Food Growing and Allotments Strategy from 12th March to 31st May. The draft strategy unites food growing and allotment provision in Brent under a single vision, set of objectives and action plan. It covers all 22 Council owned allotment sites and 30 independent food growing spaces in the borough and seeks to provide a range of opportunities accessible to all parts of the community. Stakeholders will be able access a copy of the strategy, action plan and give their views online at www.brent.gov.uk/consultation. In addition you can hear more about the draft strategy at the council’s Area Consultative Forums in April or attend a drop in session on Wednesday 28 March from 4.30pm to 6.30pm in Committee Room 4, Brent Town Hall, Forty Lane, Wembley, HA9 9HD.
Paper copies of the strategy, action plan and questionnaire will be made available on request by telephoning Support Services on 020 8937 5619.”
QPARA Traffic, Transport and Parking Report
QPARA has now prepared a Report summarising our views. It covers traffic and road safety, the CPZ and public transport serving our area. Read the QPARA Transport Report March 2012
43 Lonsdale Road (formerly Lonsdale Press), Planning Applic ref 12/0049
Approved with one ammendement that relates to the storage of waste. It should be such that it doesn’t allow odours to pass up to NY Pilates Studio upstairs. The force with which the exhaust kitchen gases/smells is/are emitted is said to be such that they are unlikely to spill in Hartland Road gardens. The opening hours are as in the report (8am-11pm)and not extended as requested by the applicant.
Jubilee Sports Centre closure/ Moberly expansion
I am writing from Westminster City Council to let you know about our plans to merge Jubilee and Moberly Sports Centres. We will create one new improved centre at Moberly for all residents and businesses in the area.
The new centre will be larger than both Jubilee and Moberly combined offering a new swimming pool and improved facilities including an eight-court sports hall, dedicated learner pool, health and fitness suite, exercise and dance studios, a synthetic turf pitch and boxing hall. There will also be community facilities.
The £18 million redevelopment will be funded by the sale of residential properties at both sites.
Jubilee Sports Centre will remain open whilst Moberly is being refurbished, which is expected to take approximately 18 months. We aim to reopen Moberly in 2014.
You can find out more about our proposals and let us know what you think of them at our drop-in session:
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6.30 – 8pm
You can also email newmoberly@westminster.gov.uk with your feedback on our plans or visit www.westminster.gov.uk/newmoberly for more information.
Ward Working Fund doubled to £40,000 per ward
Although Brent Council’s 2012/13 budget aims to make savings of £14m, the Ward Working Fund has been doubled from £20,000 to £40,000 per ward. Read more in the Kilburn Times
Parking Shop Closures
Brent’s latest money saving idea is to close the two remaining Parking Shops, including the one which is very useful for us at 84 Walm Lane. They intend to enable permits to be applied for online and scratch cards online and by post. Read more and give your views in the Consultation which runs until 11th March
Queen’s Park Farmers’ Market wins award
Our local Farmers’ Market joint winner of Farmers’ Market of the Year. We know it’s the best. Now it’s official. Read more
The decision of the Court of Appeal on the Judicial Review application was handed down on Monday 19th December at 2pm in Court 72 Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand. The Appeal was dismissed, but the fight goes on read more. To refresh your memory about the grounds of the Appeal read more.
Meanwhile the team within Brent Council who masterminded the “Libraries Transformation Project” were named “Team of the Year”. Read more about this extraordinary decision in the Kilburn Times
You’ll remember that Kilburn Library had a narrow escape from closure as its user figures were lower than Neasden’s, but special considerations were found to apply, so we need to keep an eye on this topic. Keep supporting Kilburn Library by borrowing books there – as part of the Libraries Transformation Project it’s now open 7 days a week.
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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
J. Michael Straczynski American Producer
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Brazilian Journal of Biology
Braz. J. Biol. vol.65 no.2 São Carlos May 2005
Extensive consumption of Tabebuia aurea (Manso) Benth. & Hook. (Bignoniaceae) nectar by parrots in a tecoma savanna in the southern Pantanal (Brazil)
Consumo massivo do néctar de Tabebuia aurea (Manso) Benth. & Hook. (Bignoniaceae) por psitacídeos em uma savana de ipês (Paratudal) no Pantanal Sul (Brasil)
Ragusa-Netto, J.
Departamento de Ciências Naturais, Campus Três Lagoas, UFMS, C.P. 210, CEP 79600-000, Três Lagoas, MS, Brazil
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Neotropical parrots forage for various food items such as seeds, fruit pulp, flowers, young leaves, and even arthropods. While foraging, many species wander over large areas that include both open and closed habitats. In this study, I examined parrot foraging activity during a brief synchronous and massive flowering in August 1998 in a tecoma savanna (dominated by Tabebuia aurea) in the southern Pantanal. Six parrot species, ranging from the small Brotogeris chiriri to the large Amazona aestiva, foraged for T. aurea nectar, but Nandayus nenday was by far the major nectar consumer, and the results of each of their visits, like those of the other species, was damage of a substantial proportion of the existing flower crop. Parrots foraged mostly during the afternoon, when nectar concentration tended to be higher. Nevertheless, compared to bird-pollinated flowers, which produce copious nectar, T. aurea had a smaller mean nectar volume per flower. Hence, presumably the amount of damage wreaked by these parrots resulted from their efforts to obtain part of their daily energy and water requirements. Thus, the synchronous and massive flowering occurring in such a brief period in the dry season may be related to, among other factors, the necessity of satiating predators such as parrots, which are still abundant in the Pantanal.
Key words: parrots, Pantanal, flowering, Tabebuia aurea, Nandayus nenday.
Papagaios e periquitos neotrópicos utilizam amplamente recursos como frutos e sementes. No entanto, flores, brotos e mesmo artrópodes podem ser alternativas alimentares importantes. Usualmente, essas aves forrageiam por amplas áreas, que incluem tanto formações vegetais abertas como fechadas. Neste estudo examinei o padrão de consumo de néctar por psitacídeos em uma savana dominada por ipês-amarelos (Tabebuia aurea) durante um episódio de floração massiva e sincrônica no sul do Pantanal em agosto de 1998. Seis espécies de psitacídeos, incluindo desde o pequeno periquito Brotogeris chiriri, até o papagaio Amazona aestiva, consumiram intensamente o néctar das flores dos ipês. Nandayus nenday, de longe, explorou a maior proporção do total de flores utilizadas, e bandos desse periquito, bem como das outras espécies, destruíam, a cada visita, parcela substancial das flores presentes em uma dada copa. Os psitacídeos consumiram néctar com maior freqüência durante a tarde, principalmente no final, quando a concentração tendeu a ser maior. O volume, no entanto, foi comparativamente baixo em relação às flores de espécies polinizadas por pássaros. Dessa forma, aparentemente, os psitacídeos foram acentuadamente destrutivos ao explorar T. aurea, uma vez que o néctar de muitas flores era requerido para suprir parte da demanda diária de energia e água dessas aves. Portanto, a floração massiva e sincrônica em T. aurea durante curto período no auge da estação seca, dentre outros fatores, pode estar voltada a saciar predadores, como os psitacídeos, ainda abundantes no Pantanal.
Palavras-chave: Psitacidae, Pantanal, floração, Tabebuia aurea, Nandayus nenday.
Dry neotropical woody vegetation usually sheds leaves and flowers from the middle to late dry season (Frankie et al., 1974; Bullock & Solis-Magallanes, 1990; Ramirez, 2002). Furthermore, many tree species briefly flower synchronously and massively, potentially to enhance the attraction of pollen vectors and/or to avoid losing too many flowers to nectar robbers (Janzen, 1971; Augspurger, 1981). Although in markedly seasonal habitats such intensive flowering tends to occur during part of dry season, fleshy fruit production sharply declines in this period (Griz & Machado, 2001; Ramirez, 2002). Thus, fruit scarcity imposes on heavy frugivores either dietary shifts, in which other plant materials are used, or forces displacement to more favorable areas (Terborgh, 1986; van Schaik et al., 1993). As flowers may be abundant while fleshy fruits are scarce, some frugivores rely mostly on nectar up to the return of fruit availability (Terborgh, 1986).
Many parrot species forage over large areas composed by a mosaic of habitats that may range from dry to wet vegetation, as well as from savannas to dense forests (Roth, 1984; del Hoyo et al., 1997; Renton, 2001). Such birds usually exploit massive and varied resources as they become available; hence, their diets are often markedly seasonal. Thus, flowers may be a useful food item during a substantial portion of the dry season, when fruit production is reduced (Cannon, 1984; Galetti, 1993; Wermundsen, 1997; Ragusa-Netto, 2004). Apparently, flowers are particularly important for some neotropical parakeet species that recently have been recorded pollinating tree species (Vicentini & Fischer, 1999; Cotton, 2001; Ragusa-Netto, 2002), or destroying a very large proportion of flower crop to access the nectar (Galetti, 1993; Cotton, 2001; Ragusa-Netto, 2002).
The Pantanal is a large floodplain whose semi-arid vegetation is a mosaic in which grassy areas are interspersed with savannas and patches of deciduous forest (Pott & Pott, 1994). Among the savannas are the tecoma savanna (Paratudal) dominated by Tabebuia aurea (Manso) Benth. & Hook. (Bignoniaceae), which presents a synchronous and massive flowering, usually between July and September (Barros, 2001). In this study I describe the extensive use of T. aurea nectar by parrots in a tecoma savanna in the southern Pantanal during a massive flowering from the middle to the late dry season in 1998.
Study site
This study was carried out in the southern Pantanal flood plain in a tecoma savanna cut by the Miranda River (19º35'S, 57º2'W; altitude ± 100 m; 80-100 km east of Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul State). The vegetation in the area is a mosaic of the dense Miranda river gallery forest, patches of deciduous forests interspersed with open grassy areas, and both palm (dominated by Copernicia alba) and tecoma savanna (dominated by Tabebuia aurea). In the latter, trees are 4-8 m high, although some individuals may reach 12 m. Trees develop on small mounds (± 0.5-1.0 m) where they remain safe in floods. Such mounds are interspersed with open grassy areas, in which common species are Panicum laxum, Hymenachne amplexicaulis, and Hemarthria altissima. Individuals of Byrsonima orbignyana are often mixed with T. aurea, although in smaller number (Oliveira, 1993). T. aurea trees loose their leaves just before flowering, generally from the middle to the late dry season. Annual rainfall is around 1,000 mm, mostly from November to March (wet season). In this period average temperature is 27ºC, while in the dry season (April to October) average temperature is 20ºC. In the cold months (June-July) frosts may occur. In this area of the Pantanal, flood pulses typically occur from January to March. During floods, standing water in the tecoma savanna rises to 1.0 m.
Field procedures
In order to evaluate parrot foraging activity in the tecoma savanna, I used three 10 km permanent access trails (separated each from the other by 5 km). From August 2 to 10 of 1998, during a massive and synchronous flowering I walked these trails from 6 to 18 h to examine daily foraging activity of parrots, their rate of flower use, and the proportion of flower crop damage at every parrot visit. Whenever parrots were detected arriving at a flowered crown, I observed them foraging for nectar until they flew away. I then noted time and date, length of visit, number of parrots and, for the most visible individuals (2 to 5), I recorded the number of flowers exploited per minute. To evaluate the proportion of flower crop damage per visit, I estimated the total of flowers destroyed by a flock during a visit using the following calculations: mean number of flowers used per min. by a species x time of visit x flock size. Also, the remaining flower crop size was estimated (following Chapman et al., 1992), and the result added to the number of destroyed flowers. From this total I calculated the percentage of crop damaged by parrots at every visit.
To sample nectar availability and concentration (during day 4), at the beginning of each hour (from 7 to 17 h) I took 10 flowers from three trees and measured nectar volume (with a microsyringe) and concentration (with a hand refractometer). Both results (mean volume and concentration) were correlated (Spearman correlation) with the hourly parrot-foraging activity.
I totaled 60 h of direct observations on parrot foraging activity when most crowns were intensely flowered and, therefore, apparently Tabebuia aurea was experiencing a flowering peak. My records show a total of 74 parrot visits to flowered crowns of T. aurea. Nandayus nenday made the most visits (54%), while large parrots (Amazona aestiva and Propyrrhura auricollis) visited the crowns only a few times (each species: 5% of visits; Table 1). Parrots visited crowns in flocks that ranged from two to 15 individuals, although usually 2-4 individuals foraged for nectar (Table 1). During most visits parrots spent from five to 10 min. drinking nectar, but A. aestiva spent 15 min. or even more, while P. auricollis rarely foraged for more than 5 min. at a given crown (Table 1). Parrots removed the flowers and pierced the calyx to drink the nectar. Only A. aestiva sometimes ate the petals in addition to drinking the nectar. These parrots together with Brotogeris chiriri exhibited the highest rates of flower exploitation per minute (11-12 flowers), while the other species exploited 6-7 flowers per minute (Table 1). As parrots visited flowering crowns in flocks during several minutes and destroyed numerous flowers per minute, every foraging bout resulted in substantial crop damage. During their visits, all parrot species damaged a similar proportion of flowers which corresponded to 6-7% of the flower crop available during a foraging bout (Table 1). However, during long visits made by more than four parrots, usually up to 15% of the flower crop was lost, while exceptionally large flocks (15-20 Nandayus nenday) damaged almost 30% of the crop in some visits.
Parrots foraged for nectar during the day, including the hot noon hours. However, most foraging activity was recorded during the afternoon, especially from 16 to 17 h (Fig. 1). The two largest parrot species exhibited an inverse hourly pattern of visits, since A. aestiva performed all visits from 7 to 8 h, while P. auricollis exploited T. aurea flowers only during late afternoon. On the other hand, parakeets foraged for nectar all day, although Aratinga aurea made no visits in the morning, Brotogeris chiriri made only one, and Myiopsitta monachus was observed paying two visits in this period. Thus, N. nenday was almost the only species that often foraged for T. aurea nectar during the morning hours (Fig. 1).
Nectar availability varied hourly, so that the smallest mean volume (10.0 ± 8.0 ml) was recorded at 7 h, while the highest (21.0 ± 9.0 ml) was obtained at 12 h, although mean nectar volume per flower most of time was around 15.0-16.0 ml (Fig. 1). Nectar concentration was also not uniform throughout the day, so that concentration increased from morning (at 8 h, only 14.0 ± 8.0%) to afternoon (± 28.0% most of the time; Fig. 1). Similarly, parrots foraged more often during the afternoon, when nectar concentration tended to be higher. Thus, the hourly pattern of parrot foraging activity and the hourly variation of nectar concentration correlated significantly (rs = 0.67, p < 0.05). On the other hand, the hourly variations of nectar volume were unrelated to the hourly pattern of parrot foraging activity (rs = 0.48, p = 0.13).
In markedly seasonal habitats, wind-dispersed species flower during mid dry season, so that winged seeds may be efficiently dispersed later during windy months. This, flowering pattern was found in several Central and South American Tabebuia, that are leafless most of the time while flowering and fruiting (Frankie et al., 1983; Bawa & Webb, 1984; Barros, 2001). During the 1998 dry season, T. aurea massively flowered from mid July to mid August, remaining leafless up to fruit maturation during the latter part of August and early September (pers. obs.), which is the windiest part of the year (source: International Airport of Corumbá). Hence, although on a savanna within a flood plain, T. aurea apparently exhibited a flowering pattern like this same genus in forests.
Mobile frugivores often wander over large areas searching for appropriate sources of fruit, since such resources usually exhibit an erratic spatial and temporal pattern of availability (Leighton & Leighton, 1983; Terborgh, 1986; van Schaik et al., 1993). Also, nectarivorous birds are well known for their movements towards variably flowering patches (Feinsinger, 1980; Stiles, 1980, 1985). In neotropical forests many frugivorous vertebrates wander in search of flowers and resort to feeding on nectar in the absence of fleshy fruit during the harshest part of the dry season (Terborgh, 1986; Terborgh & Stern, 1987; Ferrari & Strier, 1992). In spite of the low nutritional value of nectar when compared with fruit rich in fats and/or protein, this resource may be useful to frugivores during harsh periods (Terborgh, 1986). Neotropical parrots that inhabit seasonal areas include flowers and nectar in their diet more often as the dry season progresses (Galetti, 1993; Wermundsen, 1997; Ragusa-Netto, 2004). The parrots recorded using T. aurea nectar rely mostly on fruits and seeds. Consequently, none of them are specialized in exploiting nectar, as are the lories and lorikeets (Loriinae) from Australasia and southeast Asia, which present morphological adaptations for efficient use of nectar and pollen (Forshaw, 1989; del Hoyo et al., 1997). Hence, massive T. aurea nectar availability during the driest period of the year, when fruits and seeds are scarce, constitutes an alternative food resource. In the Miranda river gallery forest (southern Pantanal), most of the parrot species recorded using T. aurea nectar heavily also used Inga vera nectar during the late dry season when fleshy fruits had almost vanished (Ragusa-Netto, unpublished). Thus, apparently from the middle to the late dry season parrots made substantial use of nectar in this region of the Pantanal, which is annually exposed to a long dry season (early April to late October). Such heavy nectar consumption is very conspicuous particularly in N. nenday, since this species was also the major consumer of Inga vera nectar (Ragusa-Netto, unpublished), and is probably among the most abundant parakeet in the Pantanal (Sick, 1997).
Usually bird-pollinated flowers produce copious and dilute nectar (Bruneau, 1997; Vicentini & Fischer, 1999; Cotton, 2001; Ragusa-Netto, 2002). But, T. aurea is pollinated by hymenopterans (Barros, 2001) and, although its nectar concentration is higher, the volume available per flower is comparatively small. Thus, in spite of these unusual features with respect to utility of these flowers to birds, probably the massive flower availability made consuming nectar advantageous, and perhaps by exploiting a very large number of flowers, mainly in the afternoon when nectar concentration tended to be higher, parrots obtained a satisfactory amount of energy.
However, this entailed damage by parrot flocks to a substantial proportion of the flower crop at every visit. These birds, which are well known as important pre-dispersal seed predators in the Neotropics, usually damage from 5% to 10% of a given seed crop (Janzen, 1972; Howe, 1980; Galetti & Rodrigues, 1992), although they may destroy a large proportion or even an entire seed crop of some tree species (Coates-Estrada et al., 1993; Francisco et al., 2002).
Exploiting flowers destructively, parrots potentially reduce the amount of fruit set and act as pre-dispersal seed predators. As at every visit, T. aurea trees lost an average of 7% of their flower crops to the parrots, individuals may have suffered reduced fruit production after successive visits. Although evaluating the major selective forces that cause synchronous and massive flowering in T. aurea is out of the scope of this study, a consequence of this flowering pattern may be the maintenance of swamp predators such as parrots, which are still abundant in the Pantanal.
Aknowledgements — I am grateful to Propp/UFMS for financial support as well as to an anonymous reviewer for improving the English manuscript.
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José Ragusa-Netto
Departamento de Ciências Naturais
Campus Três Lagoas, UFMS, C.P. 210
CEP 79600-000, Três Lagoas, MS, Brazil
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Received August 4, 2003 — Accepted October 21, 2003 — Distributed May 31, 2005
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NMC recently merged with other monitoring companies around the globe—Netwatch, based in Ireland, CalAtlantic in the United States, and Onwatch Multifire in the United Kingdom—to create Netwatch Group. The combined company announced a focus on proactive video monitoring capabilities.
Niall Kelly, CTO of Netwatch Group, told SSN via email, “We see proactive video monitoring as the future of our industry. The models of video verification and video clip monitoring are good, and have served us and our dealers well, but with the technology available now with really intelligent video analytic software enabled to make decisions about scenes and situations at the subscribers’ premises, we see that this type of ‘before the event’ monitoring makes sense to the subscriber, preventing crimes from happening rather than trying to verify that an incident has happened.”
Jim McMullen, president and COO of Lydia Security Monitoring, the company that includes the COPS Monitoring and UCC brands, is also noticing the rise in video monitoring. “We’re also seeing more and more enquiries coming in from dealers, whereby the dealers actually then do go out there and sell the video services,” he told SSN. “We are getting more business out of video now than we have any time in the past five years.”
Daniel Oppenheim, executive vice president for Affiliated Monitoring, said, “We are seeing a consistent increase in demand, and we are offering services in a few different ways,” including traditional video verification, as well as interactive video services, such as virtual guard, and virtual concierge offerings.
Peter Brass, dealer support technical manager for CMS, told SSN that video is a small portion of CMS’ business. “Our hope is that the industry’s renewed focus on video verification will help to increase our dealers awareness and desire to enter the lucrative video market,” said Brass.
Several factors, ranging from user perception to advancements in the technology, have helped the increased use of video monitoring, according to those interviewed by SSN.
Oppenheim credits the rise to factors such as comfort and increased broadband. “Real, true penetration of smart phone adoption and people’s increasing comfort levels with remote accessing of video cameras in their own homes has given customers an appreciation of video’s value in a commercial context,” he said. “The ubiquity of high speed internet access has made it practical to offer interactive video.”
Anthony Iannone, director at Affiliated Monitoring, commented that video equipment has changed within the market in recent years. “The equipment itself has become less expensive and easier to obtain,” he said. “It’s meant that integrators large and small now can both get into this business.”
Iannone continued, “Also, video analytics have come a long way in the last couple of years. In the past you were limited by what you could do by the technology. …Now that video analytics have become less expensive and more powerful, savvy dealers can use them to address problems that would have been otherwise difficult, expensive or impossible.”
McMullen also said that video monitoring tech has improved, as has manufacturer education. “The quality is much clearer, much sharper, under—particularly—low light situations. I think that the traditional installers out there have been becoming more educated. The video companies are doing a much better job in educating the installers [on] how to put the cameras in to ensure under almost all conditions you’re going to get a decent picture coming back to the central,” he said.
“The thing I was most concerned about before would be bandwidth coming into the various offices, that we would have enough bandwidth to sustain the video. With the way that video works today, and technology, it’s not really too much of a big deal,” said McMullen.
Another change in recent years is that more information is coming in from a subscriber’s site, meaning there’s more information to be processed, Kelly observed. “For example, with video clip monitoring, or video verification, we really only had one alarm from an event; now with the modern megapixel HD cameras, and multifunctional video analytics generating huge amounts of data, its critical that our software systems can filter out all the unnecessary events, and present operators with the real data to enable them to make a decision.”
Video comprises a very small portion of the business for Lydia Security Monitoring, less than 1 percent, McMullen estimated. “The majority of our business … is residential,” he added. “Video still hasn’t caught on in a material way in the residential market place for [services] like video verification.”
As companies like Nest and Ring have entered the market over the past few years, video cameras are being installed in more homes, but sometimes these aren’t quite designed for video monitoring applications.
Much of the time when a homeowner installs video with their security system, they are the ones to look in on the house through that camera, McMullen said. Some residential users might have privacy concerns about letting outside persons, such as a central station, view the camera feeds. “I think that in the future, that as algorithms further develop, some of the issues that homeowners are concerned about with having a central station look in on them … will be mitigated,” he said.
According to Brass, the MIY side of the residential market can turn into more profitable business. “A customer who self-monitors finds it difficult to stay connected 24 hours a day, that’s where CMS comes in, we receive an alarm and have the added ability to view the event that caused the alarm. It definitely reduces false alarm dispatches and associated fines.”
Whether in homes or businesses, one common use for video monitoring is alarm verification.
“We are seeing an increase in verified dispatch so video monitoring is on the rise. Also, with many manufacturers offering video verification to the customer where they can monitor their own video, we are seeing more requests to back them up,” Brass said.
“We use I-View Now Video verification. I-View Now allows CMS to train our operators on one platform and as new DVR’s, NVR’s and IP cameras are added to the platform there is no need to retrain our operators,” said Brass. “This is a huge advantage for us and the end users we serve.”
McMullen also lauded I-View Now and its use of the cloud. “It has taken a lot of the stress and load off of us and it makes a lot of sense.”
Brass said: “The video cloud services have made it much easier to add new video without having to retrain operators on different video platforms and portals.”
NMC similarly utilizes the SureView platform. “The biggest challenge for a central station is to keep up with, and being able to handle, as many as possible of the various DVRs and NVRs and IP cameras out there. To that end, we rely on SureView to integrate the various platforms,” Andrawos said.
Training is essential in video monitoring, Andrawos noted, “especially for proactive video monitoring where we have to train our agents to be Intervention Specialists. There is a separate skill level required and essentially a more advanced training in order to be able to handle the different situations and scenes that can come up.”
What have been some of the challenges for the video monitoring market? Professionals pointed to cybersecurity and intergrations. “Of course from time to time, we have to tell a dealer that we cannot monitor certain equipment as we will not do stand-alone platforms for many reasons, chief among those is the threat of cyberattacks through open network ports,” Andrawos said.
Iannone said that sometimes integration challenges don’t come from newer technologies but instead from older ones. “From time to time we have dealers that are taking over existing systems that may have been in place for years or even a decade. And sometimes those older technologies actually present a bigger hurdle from an integration standpoint than the new, modern technologies,” he said.
Gaining video business takes a lot of initiative from the dealer’s side, Oppenheim noted. “To do it right and to do it profitably requires a certain amount of focus from a dealer. It requires a dealer to have certain discipline within their company.”
He continued, “True interactive video monitoring has really tremendous recurring revenue opportunities for a dealer, but the initial set up of an account requires a lot of coordination between the customer, the dealer and Affiliated. So, there has to be an investment there and a commitment from the dealer.”
Some of the factors that caused the video monitoring market to grow stand to continue in the future, according to some, with expanded offerings and opportunities on the horizon.
Lower costs, better analytics, increasing quality, and even more ubiquitous broadband will keep driving video adoption, according to Iannone. “Ultimately, we’re probably going to be doing a lot of the things that we’re doing now, but we’ll be doing them in more diverse situations and doing them for even more verticals and types of customers. We do a lot of wide-area monitoring now, but that is limited by having ready access to broadband. With 5G and less expensive equipment, maybe we’ll find ourselves monitoring national parks, or very rural or very difficult to access locations.”
Brass shared a similar idea: “As the technology gets better and with analytics we will see an increase in video monitoring services.”
Looking down the road, Kelly predicted that “more artificial intelligence will take the ‘grunt work’ out of handling high alarm volumes,” and operators will be free to handle other matters. SSN
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“Baba just fall my hand! Ha, wetin.”
“Which Baba?”
“Baba Bubu, the President of all Nigeria.”
“In the spirit of this season, may Almighty Allah (SAW) grant him good health and quick recovery. It is part of our duty to pray for our leaders. Only infidels pray for evil.”
“My friend, the fasting season has ended. Stop fasting after Ramadan. I am saying something serious. Was it right for the President of Nigeria to address the Nigerian people in Hausa?”
“Hausa? Me no hear am oh. Have they changed the country’s official language?”
“Yes. Hausa.”
“Baba just enter radio begin speak Hausa to over 400 Nigerian ethnic nationalities”
“In the spirit of this season, my brother, we must thank God for everything”
“You have started.”
“Do you know if there is a medical reason? Suppose Baba’s diagnosis is that he can only speak Hausa from now on, what if something has happened to his English language? Impairment of the ability to speak English.”
“Are you okay? Some yeye people said Baba was suffering from speech impairment and that he would no longer be able to speak. They didn’t say anything affected his ability to speak English.”
“So, they organized a national broadcast in Hausa to convince us that the President of Nigeria can still speak. But by making him speak Hausa, they simply confirmed the speech impairment. They have just told us that the President can no longer speak the country’s official language.”
“No. Well, I don’t think so. Hausa is actually an official language of Nigeria.”
“You have started. I say you have started. Even one of their aides said the whole thing could have been handled better.”
“I don’t believe that”
“That’s what I heard”
“He didn’t know his boss was going to speak Hausa?”
“Dey there.”
“But no problem. Section 55 of the Nigerian Constitution actually says when the business of Nigeria cannot be conducted in English, you can speak three other languages: Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo.”
“The Constitution of Nigeria says that? I don’t believe that.”
“Yes, you don’t ever believe anything.”
“Does it also say that when a President is on medical vacation abroad, he can choose to address Nigerians in his mother tongue?”
“The thing is you never know. Some illnesses manifest in certain ways. There is a way you will feel sick, and the best way out is to speak in vernacular. We as Nigerians should show some understanding. Some people will fall sick now and they will do strange and unique things. That is the way I see it.”
“I hope the day will never come when a Nigerian President will speak Igbo on my television set. I swear, I will carry that TV set and smash it on the ground.”
“You see your problem? Are you saying Igbo is not a constitutionally recognized Nigerian language? You are an Igbo-hater, you this guy. One of those people Nnamdi Kanu refers to as idiots. So, if tomorrow a Nigerian leader decides to speak Fulfulde, what will you do? You will hang yourself? ”
“I have said my own.”
“You have not said anything. If language is your problem, then ask your ngbati brother in the Villa, to also start speaking Yoruba at Federal Executive meetings and other state functions. If he likes, let him speak Ijebu-Remo dialect. It is, I keep telling you, constitutional.”
“What are we running then? Some kind of linguistic zoo where anyone that gets to Aso Rock can speak in tongues?”
“Not in tongues. Three languages. Hausa, Yoruba and Hausa. And for your information, someone that I know once said that there is a spiritual side to that seat of power. You can’t ever predict how the spirit moves people in that place. We should just thank God for everything. We are talking about change. When you vote for change, you don’t know how God will change things. Our God works in mysterious ways. He speaks all languages, and he can do his miracles in any language he chooses.”
“But I don’t speak Hausa.”
“There is actually a transcript of the Presidential message. It is nothing harmful in any way.”
“After almost 50 days of absence?”
“Medical vacation. Try and be humane, this man.”
“Hausa language? At a time Hausa youths are telling Igbos to get lost and get out of Nigeria.”
“Don’t worry. We should just keep praying to God.”
“This is not about God. This is about us. Why will my President speak to me in a language that I don’t understand?”
“Everything is about God. Go and sit down and stop forming. Is English your language? Do you understand English? You are better off learning Hausa, if I may say so. See as you are losing sweat over the President speaking a constitutionally recognized Nigerian language”
“What of my own language, my own mother tongue? Is it also in the Nigerian constitution? This is about my identity, my Nigerian-ness, my sense of belonging. You don’t get it.”
“I get it. I say stop forming. If your language is not there, then your local government must be there. That is what you need, afterall, it is not everybody in your clan that speaks English.”
“We don’t speak Hausa either, and I am sure that I have the right to ask that I should be addressed in a language that I understand as a bona-fide Nigerian citizen.”
“It’s okay. This is not a big deal. I’ll get you a transcript of what the President said.”
“In my local Ejagham language, with a broadcast in my people’s voice.”
“This man, what is your problem? It is people like you who want to break up Nigeria. How many of you are in that your Ejagham village sef, that you are making wahala like this?”
“Why must the President speak sef? The acting President has been speaking English to various groups in Nigeria. I was in fact hoping that he will get round to some of us and invite us to Aso Villa, and now from nowhere, the President releases a message that makes nonsense of the Acting President’s efforts at promoting unity in the country.”
“The Acting President is what Yoruba people call Adele, get it right, he cannot be the Baale, the village head, when the village head is alive. Adele is Adele. Baale is Baale.”
“We don’t have such a stupid saying in my village. Good for you Yoruba people who speak from all sides of the mouth. You will see the truth korokoro like this, you will start speaking from all sides of the mouth.”
“Why korokoro?”
“ I speak small Yoruba.”
“I will ask Senator Musiliu Obanikoro then to sue you for using that phrase koro koro. This one that everybody is likely to start speaking in mother tongue, you better watch what you say. Stick to your own mother tongue.”
“Isn’t that what some people want in any case? They want to turn our country into a Tower of Babel. Let everybody speak his or her mother tongue.”
“Your interpretation. Whatever language the President speaks, should not be a problem.”
“Fine. Donald Trump should also start speaking German then since his ancestors are from Germany, and the Windsors in England should start speaking French.”
“It is not the same thing. We are dealing with a peculiar situation here. What if the President is going through a special kind of therapy? New things are being discovered in the field of medicine everyday. This may be one of those cutting edge things. In the spirit of the season, you and other Nigerians should just chill.”
“You are just talking. I think at some point, we just have to restructure this country and get certain things right. There is something called protocol in governance.”
“I am not against restructuring, but restructuring for me is not about secession, break up or hate speech. Restructuring means making this country work for all of us, a country of great potentials where the aggregate of our country, resources, people, talents and diversity can put us on the world map. We are a blessed country. We just have to get things right, yes.”
“We do well as individuals, take Evans, the kidnapper, but not as a country because we are not yet a nation.”
“You can’t say some people are doing well like Evans. We can’t define our country with negativity. Evans is a kidnapper who made millions of dollars from making other people unhappy. We are a country in search of good role models and standards. By the way, Evans’ father says he needs to be taken to a spiritual home for deliverance, but I think he should have his day in court.”
“The truth is that we are actually a country of kidnappers. Right now, I feel as if I have been kidnapped in this country of my birth. They told me change begins with me, but I actually feel as if I have been kidnapped.”
“My friend, stop that drama. Don’t be a drama king. Be a positive citizen. Your mates are winning international prizes and doing well on the international stage, promoting Nigeria and Africa, you are here whining about village issues, my friend, you got to wake up. This is what we mean when we say change begins with you.”
“Which of my mates has won international prize?”
“Akinwumi Adesina, President of the Africa Development Bank, Nigeria’s former Minister of Agriculture. Something big. Really big. The Nobel Prize of Agriculture.”
“Nobel Prize?”
“It is called the World Food Prize. It is the biggest thing in Agriculture.”
“Adesina. He did it as Minister of Agriculture. He has done it again globally. Up school!”
“Hel–looo. What is that?”
“Up school! Great of the greatest Ife! Ife gbogbo! Ife gbagba! Gre-at Ife!”
“You see yourself? You just must reduce everything to the level of the village and yet you complain about someone else speaking a local language.”
“Adesina is a product of the University of Ife, Obafemi Awolowo University.”
“Sorry, the World Food Prize is not about the university that you and Adesina attended, it is something bigger, it is about his accomplishments in promoting food security and by extension global security, his life-long distinction in the field of agriculture.”
“What I am saying is that this is Great Ife’s achievement.”
“It’s an achievement for Nigeria, for Africa, for the world. The security of the world is tied to the security of food. The point is clear: if the people of the world are hungry, the world cannot be safe.”
“Correct point, there. When I am hungry, I cannot guarantee that I will be a good person.”
“I hope you have eaten today.”
“It has been a very dry Sallah, my brother. I visited a friend of mine who usually slaughters a cow at a season like this. The man, this year had only fish, chicken and turkey. For a moment, I thought it was Christmas.”
“May be you are mixing up things. Muslims don’t usually slaughter rams after Ramadan. They do so during the main Sallah, the eid-el-kabir.”
“My own Muslim friends slaughter rams and cows all the time, but I see that this year, things are different, very very different. Recession palaver, I think.”
“You too should learn to give your friends rams and cows, instead of going from house to house to eat free meat, so stop complaining my friend.”
“Am I a Muslim? When it is Christmas, you can come to my house to eat turkey and chicken”
“We are all children of God, indivisible under the umbrella of God, that is all that matters.”
“I hope some people know that in the spirit of the season. I wish they knew.”
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Holy Box Office Batman!
I know that the title has probably already been used by a million other reviewers and reviewer wannabes, but hey, it is useful!
On a serious note, and that's pretty much the only note in this movie, The Dark Knight is an amazing piece of cinema, to get right to the point. Let's start from the beginning.
Most of the cast was already in place from Nolan's previous installment Batman Begins. However, luckily Katie Holmes was busy becoming a scientologist (I'll let you form your own translation...hey who said brainwashed...that's not nice), thus freeing up the role for a far superior Maggie Gyllenhaal. No lie, at the end, my dad goes to me "That wasn't the same girl playing Rachel was it?" I said "No Dad, you must have only noticed the difference because Maggie Gyllenhaal is actually an actress, not a marionette waiting for the next string to be pulled". Again, sorry Katie, but I did LOVE you on Dawson's Creek! Anyway, aside from the upgrade, we do, in addition get to finally meet the Joker, played, of course, in an already oscar-buzzworthy-performance, by the late Heath Ledger. Does anyone else still have a hard time writing "late" it just doesn't make any sense.
Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman are all fantastic, just restrained enough to let Heath Ledger's Joker shine in every scene. Let's face it, everyone knew that, with a Batman movie, if the Joker's involved who's really paying attention to that nocturnal homosapien?!
Christopher Nolan is enough of a genius to know that you can't alienate all of the Batman fans. There are plenty of people who love the camp of the tv series starring Adam West and there are small hints at it towards the beginning and middle of the film. One of the scenes at the beginning of the film has Batman rounding up friend and foe alike and something about seeing a certain villain from Batman Begins having quick-witted banter with his would-be nemesis is reminscent enough to conjure up a "Pow!" and "Whack!" and a "Holy Cow Batman!" But the conductor of the camp train is Eric Roberts' whose turn as a mob boss reminds me of a cross between a character in Dick Tracy and Pauly Walnuts. That's as crazy as it gets though.
From the opening scene until the riveting climax and through to the jolting end, The Dark Knight weaves a tragic, heartbreaking, and almost beautiful tale of humanity, insanity and the heroes that can pull us through. I love the fact that Nolan thought to himself "Hey doesn't even Batman need a hero?" and he delivers in this film.
Every scene is crafted with nothing left to chance, or so it seems. Nolan strikes me as the kind of director that already knows where the scene is going before he even co-writes the script. The setting of Chicago, sadly one of the cities in the U.S. that seems to be often overlooked, is a fantastic choice lending a more authentic feeling of isolation to Gotham as well as establishing a somewhat film-noir feel throughout the entire piece. The costuming, especially for Rachel, is straight from the 40s (Greta Garbo anyone?), with beautifully tailored, 3 piece suits for most of the guys. Humphrey Bogart would be proud. The effect is that these are real men and real criminals and you have to decide which side you're on, because they mean business. Normally, we would think that an easy decision, but Ledger's Joker makes the dark side look almost inviting, that is until he asks if you want to see a magic trick.
I really don't know what else there is to say about this film. People are lining up and buying tickets ahead of time, shows are selling out and all for good reason. This is the best film I've seen in 2008, thus far, and if you haven't seen it yet, please do, it's definitely not your Grandpa's superhero movie.
5 Batwings awarded for this standout summer blockbuster!
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Applications open for the 2012 Fringe Festival Award for Sustainable Production at the Hollywood Fringe #lathr #hff12
June 12, 2012 Announcements, Fringe, Open CallsAwards Ceremony, Basic Questions, Calarts, California Institute Of The Arts, CSPA, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Education Resource, Feature Article, Fringe Festival, Independent Producer, Miranda Wright, Olelo, Public Communication, Public Transportation, Resource Use, Sustainable Practice, Sustainable Production, Theater Communications Group, Transportation Lines
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE 2012 HOLLYWOOD FRINGE QUESTIONNAIRE
The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CSPA) announces the 2012 Fringe Festival Award for Sustainable Production at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. The CSPA Fringe Festival Award for Sustainable Production is designed to reward sustainable practice in the production of a fringe show. The winner will be announced at the Fringe Awards Ceremony on June 24th at 7:00pm, and will receive a plaque and a feature article in an upcoming edition of the CSPA Quarterly, the CSPA’s print publication highlighting the most exciting work being done in sustainability and the arts.
The award will be adjudicated by the CSPA Directors, Ian Garrett and Miranda Wright, along with a number of CSPA affiliates. It will be looking at public communication and education, resource use and transportation in support of presenting a fringe show based on methodology developed by the CSPA itself and San Diego’s Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, who has created a comprehensive Green Theater Choices Toolkit with a generous grant from the Theater Communications Group.
To be considered for the award, a production fills out an online questionnaire. Questions range from an inventory of materials used to what public transportation lines run close to venues to how themes about sustainability are addressed in their shows. Because venues vary so greatly, all but the most basic questions are optional. Shows are encouraged, but not required to provide a CSPA affiliate with tickets to their production to allow a trained eye to look at shows and projects as they exist in the real world.
As an independent producer and designer, outside of the CSPA, Garrett has produced dozens of shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Garrett also serves as the Festival Producer for CalArts Festival Theater, a program of California Institute of the Arts’ School of Theater that enables students and alumni to bring work to the Edinburgh Fringe, now in it’s 9th year.
“Even more so than we want someone to score perfectly on the questionnaire we use to evaluate shows, we want theater artists to look at the questions and think about how it helps to guide their thinking about sustainability in the their art. There may be questions asked in ways they hadn’t thought, and we hope they ask these questions of their next project and the project after that.”
To apply, fringe show producers can head over to the CSPA’s website at http://www.sustainablepractice.com/fringe or email fringe@sustainablepractice.org. Applications for evaluation will be taken up until the end of the festival, though it is encouraged to apply while it is still possible for a CSPA affiliate to view the show. All questions regarding the award by also be be directed to fringe@sustainablepractice.org.
The CSPA Award for Sustainable Production at the Fringe launched in 2010 at the Hollywood and Edinburgh Festival Fringes. Previous recipients include: The Pantry Shelf a satirical comedy that takes place in any ordinary pantry shelf, produced by Team M&M at Sweet Grassmarket; Presque Pret a Porter, produced by Dreams by Machine; and Allotment by Jules Horne and directed by Kate Nelson, produced by nutshell productions at the Inverleith Allotments in co-production with Assembly.
The CSPA was founded by Ian Garrett and Miranda Wright in early 2008 after individually working on each of the programs that now make up the multi-faceted approach to sustainability separately. It provides a network of resources to arts organizations, which enables them to be ecologically and economically sustainable while maintaining artistic excellence. We support the infrastructure of this network by supplying artists with the information, education and intellectual community they need to make the best choices for their sustainability. We do this through three independent programs: CSPA Knowledge Network, CSPA convergences, workshops and granting. We extend these efforts with key partnerships with like minded organizations. Past and Present partnerships have included the University of Oregon, Ashden Directory, Arcola Theater, Diverseworks Artspace, Indy Convergence, York University, LA Stage Alliance and others. Under the umbrella of the CSPA, each program and partnership uses different tactics with their own mission to create a comprehensive and cooperative synthesis in artistic sustainability.
Trailer Trash at PACT Zollverein
October 19, 2011 Spartan TrailerAp Photo, Breen, Calarts, Collapse, Contemporary America, Creative Work, Culture Centers, Economic Crisis, Emilio Morenatti, Essen Germany, Fellow Artists, Fragile Symbol, Gallery Space, Hurricane Katrina, Jonah, Old Testament, Refugee Agency, Trailer Project, Trailer Trash, Travel Trailer, White Whale, Zollverein
Sam Breen joined a group of students and graduates presenting “CalArts Plays Itself” (September 29 – October 2, 2011) at PACT Zollvereinin Essen, Germany, one of Europe’s up-and coming culture centers. The show featured original, cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary work, including Breen’s “Trailer Trash Project: Life Meets Art in a Tin Can.” Using a 15-foot inflatable model of a travel trailer he told the story of how he lost his family home after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans. He explained how his mother—a former filmmaker for the United Nations refugee agency—was left without a place to live after the storm. A few years later, he took on unlikely
Musician Archie Carey presented at "CalArts Plays Itself," part of PACT-Zollverein 2011
project: he began transforming a 33-foot long trailer into a green place to live (for his mother) and a moveable place for him and his fellow artists to showcase their work. Even in its un-restored state, the 1951 Spartan trailer soon became a emblem at CalArts for student-driven creative work, the backdrop and the catalyst for many cultural events around the
AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti
institution. In Essen, Breen’s gallery space was crammed with the oversized blow-up model, making it hard for guests to ignore his invitation to step inside. The inflatable served as a dominating yet fragile symbol, a reminder of those who turn to transient living as a last resort.
” Sam Breen’s inflatable trailer project … lays bare contemporary America’s white whale: the housing problem, its connections to the current economic crisis, and to Hurricane Katrina. Like Jonah in the Old Testament, Breen was swallowed up by the whale. Several months later, he has been vomited out: the whale has turned into a screen onto which new stories are projected. The contemporary state of collapse has turned into a space of play, where new individualities and collectivities emerge”
Breen, who recently received an MFA in acting from CalArts, considered his 10-
Sam Breen in Essen with his inflatable trailer by sculptor Michael Darling
day stay at the PACT-Zollverin festival as a residency, using the opportunity to develop his presentation with his audience. He invited fellow artists— musicians taking part in other performances at the festival— to impromptu jam sessions inside the trailer. Daily conversations with patrons helped shape the installation. Many noted how the inflatable, sustained by two household fans, appeared to “breathe” as people entered and exited. It had a similar effect on Breen, who returned to Los Angeles energized with a new perspective on his project. He is planning to conduct more residencies, this time inside his actual trailer, which he will bring to the parking lots of cultural institutions in and around Southern California to continue renovating the trailer and performing art.
The Trailer Trash Project is a recent recipient of an Investing in Artists grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation.
This post is part of a series documenting Sam Breen’a Spartan Restoration Project. Please see his first post here and check out the archive here. The CSPA is helping Sam by serving in an advisory role, offering modest support and featuring Sam’s Progress by syndicating his feed from http://spartantrailerrestoration.wordpress.com as part of our CSPA Supports Program.
Volunteers Take Center Stage In Trailer Restoration
July 21, 2011 Spartan TrailerAdvisory Role, Angeles National Forest, Breen, Calarts, Center Stage, Closets, Coyote, CSPA, Kyoto University, Lizards, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Reactor, Outskirts, Plywood, Restoration Project, Santa Clarita, Spartan, Trailer Restoration, Trailer Trash, Wooden Strips
Sam and his cousin Sasuke make templates for plywood that will be used to cover the walls and ceiling.
With graduation over, work on the Trailer Trash restoration has heated up. The 1951 Spartan Royal Mansion left it’s CalArts home on June 15 and was towed 10 miles to a canyon on the the outskirts of Santa Clarita, where lizards and coyote are almost as plentiful as motorcycles rushing to the Angeles National Forest.
In June, Sam’s cousin, Sasuke, came from Japan to help out. A recent graduate in geology from Kyoto University, he spent a month working with Sam inside the trailer. (Sasuke has an interest in nuclear energy and hekept us posted on recent happenings at the Fukushima nuclear reactor.)
The task at hand was to the walls and ceiling. First, Sasuke attached wooden strips to along the ribs where the cabinets and closets will eventually be installed. Then he fashioned carboard templates which will be used as a pattern for the plywood that will cover the walls. The job isn’t as easy as it looks; it requires lots of measuring, precision and patience. Although he had little building experience, it is hard to imagine how Sam would have gotten the job done without Sasuke’s help!
If you are considering volunteering your time with The Trailer Trash Project, this slideshow might show you the kind of work we’re involved with now:
Hot Times at the Silver Bullet
July 19, 2011 Spartan TrailerAdvisory Role, Angeles National Forest, Breen, Calarts, Cardboard, Coyote, CSPA, Geology, Hot Times, Kyoto University, Lizards, Outskirts, Restoration Project, Santa Clarita, Sasuke, Silver Bullet, Spartan, Studs, Trailer Trash, Wooden Strips
With graduation over, work on the Trailer Trash restoration has heated up. The 1951 Spartan Royal Mansion left it’s CalArts home on June 15 and was towed 10 miles to a canyon on the the outskirts of Santa Clarita, where lizards and coyote are almost as plentiful as motorcyclists roaring up the road to the Angeles National Forest.
Sam’s cousin, Sasuke Breen, came from Japan to help out. A recent graduate in geology from Kyoto University, he spent a month helping Sam get ready to install the walls and ceiling. He crafted and installed wooden strips to reinforce the studs on the walls and ceiling. Then he made cardboard templates for the walls and ceiling – not as easy as it looks. The job requires lots of measuring and patience. It’s hard to imagine how the job would have gotten done would have gotten done without Sasuke’s help.
Sam’s Post #9 -Trailer: New Mascot for Cal Arts?
May 28, 2011 Spartan TrailerAcademic Calendar, Booms, Breen, Cal Arts, Calarts, Cast And Crew, Central Character, Collaborative Nature, Computer Speakers, Dance Piece, Gun Fight, Mascot, Mfa, Mobile Landmark, Nomad Project, Outdoor Stage, Photo Credit, Professional Speakers, Spartan, Visual Effects, Water Gun
Photo credit: 24700, CalArts blog
by Sam Breen
This week I will graduate with my MFA in acting, so we are turning the page on the last chapter of the trailer’s involvement at CalArts.
Every year, the Theatre School sets aside the last two weeks of the academic calendar for New Works Festival, an event by and for the students. The trailer was chosen to be a venue for the event. Three shows were performed in and around the Spartan: “The Nomad Project”; a dance piece about the transformation of the dancer’s body; “True Love,” a reading of Chuck Mee’s play that also involved a BBQ and water-gun fight; and “Outbound to Wonderland” a play written with the trailer in mind about a 9-yearl-old girl’s subway journey to a stop called Wonderland.
As with Arts in the One World in January, I was amazed at how people came together to make this event happen. When one of the artists was worried that her computer speakers wouldn’t be powerful enough to be heard, she made a phone call and an hour later she had a sound designer – a PA system and a couple of professional speakers on booms – in time for the performance of her show.
Another example: the cast and crew of “Outbound to Wonderland” decided it would be best to set up their outdoor stage in the middle of the night, when they could properly test their lights and visual effects, and still everyone involved in the production (actors, designers, crew etc.) showed up to help out.
New Works took care of much of the logistics and the scheduling at the trailer, so I was able to relax a little and be a spectator. I watched the shows and witnessed how, over the course of the semester, the trailer had become much more than an elaborate backdrop—it was now a central character. The Spartan had evolved into something of a mobile landmark at CalArts and a symbol for the creativity and unique collaborative nature of this school.
I think CalArts just found its new mascot.
Trash Piles On the Acts
May 3, 2011 Spartan TrailerAow, Art Space, Breen, Calarts, California Days, Erik Ehn, Graffiti Artist, Hinkle, Interdisciplinary Artist, Jose Estrada, Kenyatta, Lollie, Repeat Performances, Sister Arts, Space Ship, Subfloor, Sunny California, Time Performances, Trailer Trash, Trash Piles
Graffiti artist Jose Estrada
Click Here The events at Sam’s trailer kept on coming throughout the Arts In the One World Conference, January 27-29. The 1951 Spartan trailer moved to the CalArts’ front lawn for the event. The trailer is still a work-in-progress; the scheduled completion date is June, 2011. Some of the artists were so happy with the trailer they returned to the stage for repeat performances – film, dance, music and multi-media productions – throughout the weekend.
Many remarked that the space was inviting – even the inside in its unfinished state seemed to welcome artists and audiences alike. Night time performances inside the trailer were especially intimate and light-hearted. Daytime events staged outside under an awning in the warm provided a welcome space to relax on three sunny California days. Several dancers mentioned that they liked the way the floor (still only a subfloor) swayed with their movements during indoor performances. Multimedia Interdisciplinary Artist Kenyatta Hinkle said as she worked inside the trailer, she felt it had a life of its own.
Arts In the One World is a gathering of artist-activists interested in using their art to help bring about social change. First convened in January 2006 by Erik Ehn, AOW at CalArts is linked to it’s sister Arts in the One World conference at Brown University.
The CalArts blog Seen and Heard recently posted two articles about The Trailer Trash Project. Tatiana Williams wrote that many students at CalArts have gotten involed with the project. And Lindsey Lollie wrote this post about an encounter she had at the trailer during the Arts In the One World Conference:
This past weekend Sam Breen and his amazing trailer was a great hit. He renovated an old trailer which kind of looks like a space ship and transformed it into an art space. Musicians, dancers, artists, singers, animators, filmmakers and photographers came to gaze and participate in what was a series of performances and installations. It started on Thursday and ended Saturday. I along with some other dancers choreographed small pieces to be performed inside and around the trailer. meanwhile, in between performances, a bunch of us were waiting for more people to arrive and we started our own little dance party/show on the stage. We took turns going up and making a fool of ourselves. We were having fun in the moment. There was a stage, and nobody around to judge us, just close friends and the opportunity was taken. I filmed various people dancing and I hope you will enjoy.
Contemporary Art On Wheels
February 15, 2011 Spartan TrailerAdvisory Role, Alum, Art Gallery, Breen, Calarts, Contemporary Art, CSPA, Delivery Truck, Gallery Art, Gallery Photo, Hostess, Matthew Chase, Mobile Art, Ny Times, Nytimes, Photo Credit, Restoration Project, Santa Fe, Wellman, Wheels
Axle Contemporary's gallery on wheels. Photo credit: Matthew Chase-Daniel, published in the NYTimes Feb. 3, 2011.
CalArts alum Jerry Wellman and Matthew Chase-Daniel transformed a Hostess delivery truck into a mobile art gallery of contemporary art in Santa Fe, NM. Check out the story in the NY Times. See also Axel Contemporary’s web site.
On The Subject Of Freedom
February 13, 2011 Spartan TrailerCalarts, Collaborations, Communist Regime, Confines, Conflict Zone, Cosom, Fellow Students, Former Yugoslavia, Gap, Javier Gonzalez, Lollie, Matt Schumacher, Mendoza, Miriam, Multimedia Art, Multimedia Artist, Oppressive Atmosphere, Restraints, Robert Etienne, Social Justice
“On The Subject of Freedom” performed at the Arts In The One World Conference, 2011. Directed by Mersiha Mesihovic, Created with and performed by following: Lindsey Lollie, Amanda McNussen, James DiBrandon Lewis, Andy Robert, Etienne Rivera, Max Mendoza, Javier Gonzalez, Miriam Connor, Jahcobie Cosom and Matt Schumacher.
Growing up under a communist regime in the Former Yugoslavia, CalArts student Mierisha Mesihovic never really felt free. Her life became even more restricted when civil war broke out in her country. Although her childhood may seem unimaginable to many of her fellow students at CalArts, she thinks the gap between them is not all the wide.
Multimedia artist Mierisha Mesihovic
“Many of us struggle with being truly free. We are afraid to express ourselves, to put ourselves in certain situations,” she says, explaining people often feel at war with themselves. “The conscious self confines us to what we should be and our subconscious self tells us to act on who we really are.”
Mierisha started out as a dancer at CalArts but switched her major to multimedia art in work with a broader palette. “As an artist interested in social justice, I felt I needed more tools than dance to express myself.”
A shared sense of community has helped her find her voice, take risks and break through boundaries.
“On the Subject of Freedom,” performed at Arts In The One World 2011 was a collaborations between Mierisha and fellow students. An exploration of the restraints on freedom, the piece combines dance, live music and projected images. It begins in a conflict zone with a duet about the oppressive atmosphere of war. The dancers gradually learn to carry on their lives with dignity in spite of the fear and hate surrounding them. They begin to confide in each other, questioning whether the war is just. The piece ends with liberation, resolution and peace.
Dancer and choreographer Lindsey Lollie
CalArts dancer Lindsey Lollie was one of the collaborators on the dance; she and Mierisha have been friends for three years. Lindsey says the piece is about some of the restrictions people face based on their nationality, gender, race, religion or personality.
“Not everyone is free to walk outside if they are in a war zone,” she writes in an explanatory note to the piece. “Not everyone is free to speak up and address real issues. “We need to believe in something that is not forced upon us but discovered within our soul. Everyone deserves to live in the comfort of their own thoughts…”
Mersiha seems clear about the direction she wants to take her art: “My wish is to make the audience part of my work. I would like to inspire people to act. A sense of community can help us jump over boundaries. We are many and we are stronger that the fear. The positive always prevails over the negative.”
February 10, 2011 Spartan TrailerAdvisory Role, Aow, Brandon Lewis, Calarts, CSPA, Erik Ehn, Erin Mccarthy, Graffiti Artist, James Brandon, Jose Estrada, Kevin Robinson, Media Artists, Multimedia Artist, Outdoor Stage, Repeat Performances, Restoration Project, Sister Arts, Trash Piles, Videographers, Working Artists
Musicians James Brandon Lewis and Erinn Horton play on the Spartan's outdoor stage while multimedia artist Kenyatta A.C. HinkleHinkle works on a current piece.(Not pictured: musician Kevin Robinson)
Dancers Ariana Daub (right) and Erin McCarthy (left)
Events at Sam’s trailer kept on coming throughout the Arts In the One World Conference, January 27-29. Some artists were so happy with the space they retruned
for repeat performances. Acts included jazz, salsa, multimedia presentations involving old time movies and country hip. Graffiti and mixed media artists were in residence along with filmmakers and videographers who screened their productions at night inside and outside the trailers. Two playwrights presented reading with actors.
Students, teachers, working artists and others gathered on the lawn by the entrance to the main building at CalArts. Arts In the One World is a gathering of artist-activists interested in using their art can help bring about social change.
First convened in January 2006 by Erik Ehn, AOW at CalArts is linked to it’s sister Arts in the One World conference at Brown University.
Border Art in the War On Difference
February 6, 2011 Spartan TrailerAcupuncturist, Artistry, Batik Cloth, Body Politic, Border Art, Border Region, Calarts, Different Nationalities, Iconic Images, Immigrant Experience, Mexterminator, Naked Body, Narco, Performance Artist, Performance Artists, Poncho, Sexual Preferences, Trailer Trash, Transgressions, War On Terror
El Mexterminator
When Sam presented The Trailer Trash Project at the Arts in the One World Conference (Jan. 27-29) he heard Guillermo Gómez-Peña give the keynote talk. We thought you might like to read more about this extraordinary performance artist, poet, playwright and teacher.
In the border region between the United States and Mexico who are the insiders and who are the outsiders? Guillermo Gómez-Peña puts borders – between people of different nationalities, ethnicities, religions and sexual preferences – at the center of his work. This “stubborn Aztec hipster” plays with some of the iconic images that invade our subconscious and feed our fears. His personas include a Narco-Dandy, El Mexterminator and San Poncho Aztlaneca, a shaman/saint from an unknown border region.
Earlier pieces explored the loneliness of the immigrant experience in the United States. While still a student at CalArts he wrapped himself in a batik cloth and lay down on the floor of an elevator. Another time he dressed as a homeless Mexican and begged for food. (No one stopped.)
The human body is often used as a metaphor for the body politic. In the Mapa Corpo Series, performed with Violeta Luna and an acupuncturist, he re-created a ritualistic sacrifice in which members of the audience were invited to help stick needles topped with flags into Luna’s naked body. The piece is a statement against the War On Terror which Gómez-Peña calls “the War On Difference.”
Using his artistry, wit, intellect and considerable compassion, Gómez-Peña invites us to examine the transgressions of western society and overcome our fear of the other.
In a seven-hour workshop held at the conference, he gave the participants a suitcase full of simple props, telling them to improvise. “Think of it as a performance jam,” he said. “Performance artists jam just like musicians.”
Next he invited the group to transform each other into icons representing the sacred and profane. With an eccentric selection of music playing while the actors got into character, he likened the exercise to a cabaret where the audience is invited to participate: “Think of it as an obscure German lounge bar where the images connect in a common theme.”
At the end of the workshop he encouraged aspiring performance artists to create “a borderless ethos,” experimental laboratories for change where divisions between outsiders and insiders begin to fade away. “The way forward requires hospitality across the divide,” he said.
Participants emerged with huge smiles on their faces. CalArts multimedia artist Mersiha Mesihovic said she felt the workshop changed the way she would approach her work in the future. Dancer Lindsey Lollie agreed, adding she hopes to attend the International Summer Workshop in Oaxaca, hosted by Gómez-Peña’s troupe, La Pocha Nostra.
( Merisha and Lindsey collaborated on another AOW performance, “On The Subject Of Freedom,” which you can read about by clicking this link.)
Sidebar: “On The Fear Of the Other”
do you hear the police sirens? beautiful, eh?
Ammmeeeeeeerica, what a beautiful scary place to be
but then living in fear is normal for us
we are all scared shitless of the immediate future
by the way, are you scared of me?
of my accent, my strange intelligence,
my obnoxious capability to articulate your fears?
an articulate Mexican can be scarier than a gang member
que no?
are you scared of my moustache?
my unpredictable behavior?
my poetic tarantula,
my acid politics,
my criminal tendencies,
my tropical diseases,
my alleged ancient wisdom?
my shamanic ability to exorcise the evil out of white people,
yes or no? que si que no; que tu que yo
’cause I’m scared of you,
of your silence pinche mustio
your silence makes you really scary
& the distance between you and I makes it even worse.
For more on GGP’s workshops, see this link . For resrouces, check out La Pocha Nostra’s bookstore. See also this article, “Disclaimer: Notes on the death on the American artist,” from In These Times (May 19, 2006).
[1] Reprinted in Dangerious Border Corssers. (200: 61)
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Celebrating Women’s History Month 2012: Tadias Q&A with Dr. Mehret Mandefro
Published by Tadias Magazine March 8th, 2012 in Featured and Profiles. 13 Comments
Physician Mehret Mandefro is co-founder of Truth Aid, an organization that produces multimedia content about social issues affecting vulnerable populations around the world. (Courtesy photo)
By Tseday Alehegn
Published: Thursday, March 8, 2012
New York (TADIAS) – In celebration of Women’s History Month, Tadias is interviewing extraordinary Ethiopian women who are blazing trails in various fields including science, art, philanthropy, and business. We launch our series with a Q&A with Dr. Mehret Mandefro, physician, film producer, anthropologist and social change activist. She is a former White House Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, and currently teaches at the Department of Health Policy at George Washington School of Public Health & Health Services.
Mehret is also the co-founder of Truth Aid, an organization that produces visual ethnographies of health and social issues. Their current film project entitled Oblivion is based on a true story about a legal precedent-setting case that outlawed abduction for marriage in Ethiopia.
Below is our Q&A with Dr. Mehret Mandefro:
TADIAS: What do you most enjoy about your work?
Mehret Mandefro: I love teaching and working with students. I find the next generation to be very inspiring. I also like having the time to think, write, and create new forms of knowledge that will challenge audiences to think different about health and human rights.
TADIAS: Who are your female role models?
Mehret: My mother, Tsedale K. Mandefro, Abebech Gobena, Sister Zebider, Meaza Ashenafi.
Tadias: What challenges have you faced as a leader and how did you overcome those hurdles at work or life in general?
Mehret: In some work environments where I have been the youngest and happen to be the only woman sometimes it was a challenge to have my voice heard. So I went to great lengths to be very clear about what I thought. Learning to express your opinions in forums that are not necessarily friendly is an important skill for women to develop.
TADIAS: What are some practical tips you can give for young women who want to follow in your footsteps?
Mehret: You have to believe in your vision above all and be willing to put in hard work to execute. You also have to surround yourself with a support network that can nurture your growth. That’s very important.
TADIAS: Please tell us more about yourself (where you were born, grew up, school and how you developed your passion for your work?)
Mehret: I was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and I grew up in Alexandria, VA. I attended Harvard for college and medical school. I also received a Masters in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. My passion for public health and medicine emerged out of a study abroad trip I took to Kenya as a junior in college.
TADIAS: What would like to share on Women’s History Month with Tadias readers that we have not asked you about?
Mehret: Dream big. Work hard. But most of all never be afraid to do something different.
Thank you Dr. Mehret and best wishes with your endeavors.
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13 Responses to “Celebrating Women’s History Month 2012: Tadias Q&A with Dr. Mehret Mandefro”
1 mimi Mar 19th, 2012 at 4:25 pm
Meheret you are my hero. You are amazing. As an undergrad global health major with interest in HIV and AIDS your work and effort has inspired me. I have seen your documentary and it was amazing. I love your work. Thankyou
2 Addis Mar 19th, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Dr Meheret, I like what you are doing with Truth Aid. You are a very talented, smart woman with a vision for positive change! Go Girl!!
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Quarrels Arise in Ukraine, France, Russia
by JOHN THURSTON » Sat Nov 15, 2014 7:28 pm
Hi You Bunch of silent folk:
I imagine you are partially not responding because John Thurston is often out of touch. A valid point. Nevertheless, I will do what, when, where and as much as I can. I apologize to all. I was down for nearly 18 months due to two complete (well as complete as they can be, I saw the x Rays of before and after.) but it is only respectful to explain and apologize.
!. Check you e mail new where picture of "the Malaysian aircraft" are shown. Two unnamed bodieds of experts say: a. Evidence points to Russia as downing the aircraft and/or b. Evidence points to the Ukranians as downing the aircraft. I will attempt again to learn how to imbed pictures in the posts. Kind of 'Bland' doing it without pics.
Who can fail to suspect the Russians. They shot down a US RB-47 and a KAL flight during cold war 1. Now It seems, as I may have eruditely noted (joke after about 2 or 3 millions folk had come to the same conclusion.) the KAL shoot down prompted Ronald Reagan's famous "evil empire" speech (known as Ronald Rayguns to, among other, Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane on a Live Cut) I wonder if they still bear the same opinions. I think they should not, but that rarely means anything.
However some hypothesized that this admonishing speech on and of pure Reagan bravado, did somber the Russian people to reconsider the "humanity and fairness" of their own government, then sliding from "perestroika" thru "Glasnost" to disintegration.
2. Russia states that there self imposed deadline for the two "Mistrale" helicopter carriers, about the size of an Essex carrier of WWII, but with the mission choice similar to the "illustrious" "thru deck cruiser" helicopter and harrier capable class that played a pivotal part in the retaking of the Falklands. They are reputed to also be capable of matching the Mission of the 4 "Nassau" type US amphibious assault ships. Note that this class followed another smaller class. I will add comment below.
Russia also deployed ships of the "Moskva" (Moscow) class helicopter/missile/stoval capable ships during Cold War 1. They where of Approximately 18,000 tonnes loaded displacement and thus smaller than (mea culpa) an Essex.
Based on information of the age and genre the Moskva could operate the Yak Forger. You could call the forger "cold dead meat" against convenient aircraft launched from land or sea based assets of the UK or US at the time (I refer to the height of the cold war days so to speak.
The picture I have of is was taken by two shadowing British "Nimrod" maritime surveillance aircraft used in the same role as the TU-20 "Bear" (Russian) the US P-3 Orion and and the French "Breguet Atlantique and much smaller "Alize' which falls well short of the US S-3 which, like the Hawkeye, may still be in service.
The Moskva and Leningrad struck me as very very capable ships for their displacement. Just to analyze the ships Cold War1 missile batteries would take me a while. The ship of that class also sported 10 21inch torpedo tubes, presumably for ASW work.
The correct name of the US class mentioned was the "Tarawa" class, displacing 39,000 loaded tonnes. The one I actualy encountered off Race point, heading for the open sea was deceptively fast at 24 knots, and we, in a fairly fast and seaworthy Bertram could not overtake her. I believe the one I encountered was the Nassau itself, bearing the Hull Number 4.
The other US amphibious assault ships of the time were considerably smaller and I will mention these perhaps during the planned "Carriers in Review" post.
The acrid atmosphere between Russian and the Ukraine and France seems like a scenario vitriolic enough to produce a hot war.
I will attempt to get more info on the (note the lack of press coverage during the building stages, somewhat like France's deal to build the Osirak reactor, for which they were paid, and which the Israeli's obiligingly destroyed.
Post war combat aircraft air categorized in "generations" (like Corvettes Fred has a C-3, which, a 1969, I also owned. I rely only on the last pictures that crossed my desk. Mine is a C (or generation) 5.
Probably it is a fair guess to say that the F-22 was the first generation five aircraft and the previously noted Shenyang product as the latest. I am some what unsure where to place many aircraft, but I guess that can be discuss (sic) in a later post.
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CAR T-Cell Therapy Associated with Unique, Acute Adverse Events Requiring Vigilant Monitoring
TOP - May 2019, Vol 12, No 2 - Immunotherapy
San Francisco, CA—Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is associated with unique adverse events that require vigilant monitoring, aggressive care, and specialized management. Marco L. Davila, MD, PhD, Medical Oncologist, Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Immunotherapy Program, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, provided an overview of this topic at the 2019 ASCO-SITC Clinical Immuno-Oncology Symposium.
The early experience with CD19-targeted CAR T-cell therapy included a recognition that patients with morphologic residual leukemia, defined as >5% blasts in their bone marrow, had higher-grade fevers for a longer duration than patients with minimal residual disease or remission. In addition, hypoxia and neurologic events were associated with a broad spectrum of features, from obtundation to seizures and cytokine release syndrome (CRS).
“When we looked into the serum of these patients, we were able to see between those who had no toxicity versus those who did, what was unique was a large upregulation of cytokines within their serum,” Dr Davila said. “We classify this toxicity as cytokine release syndrome.”
In addition to CRS, “on-target, off-tumor” toxicities were recognized, “meaning that the CD19-targeted T-cells are killing CD19-positive targets that aren’t malignant B-cells but are normal B-cells,” he said.
Understanding CRS
CRS is caused by immune activation of T-cells, resulting in elevated levels of inflammatory cytokines and activation of other immune cells. CRS and other neurologic adverse reactions normally occur early during the treatment cycle, within the first 7 days of CAR T-cell infusion, and typically peak within the first 14 days. Delayed-onset neurologic toxicity, including CRS, can sometimes occur, “and that’s one of the main reasons that we try to keep patients close to our center for the first 30 days,” he said.
Late events associated with CAR T-cell therapy are infections, prolonged cytopenia, and B-cell aplasia, which will most likely be managed by the primary medical oncologist, Dr Davila said.
CRS is potentially life-threatening, and deaths do occur despite the use of best standards of care. “We were able to recognize some factors that we can use to be able to identify patients who are at high risk for severe CRS,” Dr Davila said. “These include high disease burden.” Patients with early-onset CRS and with rapid and high T-cell expansion are also at high risk for severe CRS.
Preinfusion biomarkers that can identify patients at high risk for CRS are baseline levels of C-reactive protein, ferritin, and interleukin (IL)-6.
The clinical signs and symptoms of CRS can range from the constitutional to the specific, such as azotemia. Apart from fever, the most common side effects of CAR T-cell therapy are respiratory, including tachypnea and hypoxemia, and cardiovascular, including hypotension, tachycardia, and changes in cardiac output.
A CRS grading scheme of 1 to 4 was developed in 2014, and vigilant intervention was recommended for higher grades of CRS. This system has been replaced by a movement toward early intervention at grade 2, “with the goal of trying to prevent these patients from developing more severe CRS and mortality,” Dr Davila said.
A harmonized CRS grading scheme from the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation has emerged, in which fever is no longer required to grade subsequent CRS toxicity; instead, it relies on hypotension and hypoxia as drivers of grading CRS severity.
Rates of CRS between the 2 CD19-targeted CAR T-cell therapies are similar among patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The rate of grade 3 or 4 CRS in these patients is between 22% and 23%. For patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the rates of severe CRS in clinical trials were 13% with axicabtagene ciloleucel (Yescarta), 22% with tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah), and 1% with lisocabtagene maraleucel, an investigational CAR T-cell therapy.
CRS Management
The goal of management with CAR T-cell therapy is to prevent life-threatening complications, while preserving its antitumor effects.
The mainstay of CRS management is IL-6 inhibition using tocilizumab (Actemra) or corticosteroids (dexamethasone or methylprednisolone) to suppress inflammatory responses.
IL-6 blockade demonstrates a rapid reversal of CRS symptoms in most patients. If no response is observed in 24 to 48 hours, consider a second dose of tocilizumab or the initiation of steroids, Dr Davila advised.
Additional Adverse Events
Additional toxicities associated with CAR T-cells are B-cell aplasia and hypogammaglobulinemia, which are “on target, off tumor” adverse events for which intravenous immune globulin replacement may be used to mitigate the risk for infection.
Patients with high grades of CRS are at increased risk for subsequent infection, Dr Davila said, highlighting the increased likelihood of B-cell aplasia as a result of rapid expansion and persistence of CAR T-cells.
Prolonged cytopenia after CAR T-cell therapy has also been documented. Day 90 neutropenia was observed in 11% of patients who received treatment with axicabtagene ciloleucel in a clinical trial of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and in 17% of pediatric patients and young adults with ALL who received treatment with tisagenlecleucel in the ZUMA-1 clinical trial. The 90-day rates of thrombocytopenia were 7% with axicabtagene ciloleucel and 38% with tisagenlecleucel in the JULIET clinical trial.
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Milky Way Liberation Front
Baffling and rather poor... well, can't narrow it down much further than 'film', really.
Released in 2007, certified UK-Not Yet Rated. Reviewed on 17 Jun 2008 by Scott Morris
Korean films. love 'em or hate 'em, they're certainly from Korea. This year's first K-outing to impinge upon the festival happens to be the Milky Way Liberation Front, a film for which the words 'whacky', 'zany' and 'oddball' seem custom built. 'Pish' is also a good one, come to think of it.
The haphazard collection of skits that could, with a bit of latitude and squinting be called a plot concerns a young writer / director attempting to get his first film off the ground, despite the slight handicap of it not actually having been written yet. Never one to let this dissuade him, he continues on casting an ex-children's telly actor and assembling, by narrative convenience more that effort, a team.
If that sounds worrying conventional for your tastes, rest assured that the bulk of this story is quite effectively obscured under several layers of completely impenetrable film student level bullshit, with things lapsing into black and white, odd framing changes and at one point the director's character having his voice replaced by a harmonica. Much as we generally welcome callbacks to those lovable Clangers, it's not enough to raise the standards of what we'll politely call this shambolic mess.
I'd love to say that this all makes sense when you're sat in front of it, but quite frankly it doesn't, nor does it seem to want to. If there was ever an actual point to be made about the film-making process then it has been so completely buried under forty odd foot of pretension that it might as well not have existed in the first place. All that's left to enjoy this as is a screwball comedy, and on that level it just isn't funny enough often enough to warrant viewing.
Even in my current generous mood, the first hour or so is tortuous viewing and while there is perhaps more good-natured charm and inventiveness on show in the latter portions of the film, by that point it's pissed any goodwill away and might as well pack up and go home.
This might be intended more as a demo reel for the young group of filmmakers, and on that basis is shows off that they have indeed seen different types of film and can copy them. What it doesn't work as is as anything particularly enjoyable. Back to the drawing board, lads.
YOON Seong-ho
IM Ji-gyu (Young-jae)
SEO Young-ju (Eun-ha)
PARK Hyuk-kwon (Hyuk-kwon)
KIM Bo-kyung (Eun-kyung)
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Sports Enthusiast Calls For Regular Tournaments
In a bid to curb cultism in Nigeria, particularly in Rivers State, sports enthusiast in the State, a Tonye Harry, has called on the state government to organise different sporting competitions to divert the attention of youth from social vices.
He stated that if sports tournaments are organised in the state, it will drastically reduce cult activities and other social vices.
Harry made the call last Friday at the boxing gym at Niger/ Bende Street in Old Port Harcourt township, during Inter-Club Boxing Championship in the State.
According to him, there are a lot of talents over there begging for help.
“Our country does not encourage sportsmen and women. I can describe the country as a destiny killer.
What I saw today was wonderful,” Harry said.
He noted that the two amateur boxers are talented, if given the opportunity they will perform well.
He used the forum to appeal to government to provide stipends for young sportsmen and women, especially when there is a tournament to encourage them.
Kiadum Edookor
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RSG Partner SWAN For School Sports Development
Rivers State Government has expressed commitment to partner Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) Rivers State chapter towards development of school sports in the state.
The Special Adviser (SA) to the State Governor, Barr. Nyesom Wike, on school Sports, Aribitonye Okiri stated that it is important to partner SWAN to achieve the desired results.
Okiri, said this at the weekend in a media parley with members of the association at the Ernest Ikoli Press Center, Moscow Road, Port Harcourt.
He explained that government is poised to bring back school sports as it was in 1970s, saying that sports create wealth.
“ School sports is dead in our schools. I want to say that SWAN has important role to play in terms of sports development”, Okiri said.
According to him, the state government has the youth at heart as to redirect them to sporting activities, adding that the focus is not going to be football only.
“ With sports activities in our school, crime and poverty rate will be drastically reduced in our society. We can use the power of sports to create wealth”, he said.
The Special Assistant, noted that there are a lot of talents at the rural areas that are begging for help, but with SWAN partnership hidden talents would be exposed to limelight.
He disclosed that his office would draw up a time table for school sports, so that there would be competitions to discover hidden talents. He used the medium to appeal to well meaning individuals, cooperate bodies and multi-nationals to support the government to sponsor sporting activities in the state. .
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We Need To Work Hard For Success – Eguma
The Technical Manager of Rivers United Football Club of Port Harcourt, Stanley Eguma has said the victory against Lobi Stars FC, at the ongoing Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) is not the end of the road.
He stated that they have a task to achieve good results in every match they play.
Eguma said this last Wednesday, while briefing sports journalists shortly after they defeated Lobi Stars 2-1 in match day 15 of the NPFL at the Yakubu Gowon Stadium, in Port Harcourt.
“We are need to work harder. We taking it match after match, God willing, we can sing praises at the end of the League”, Eguma said.
He commended his players for their efforts, saying that they deserved the victory.
“ It was a good game. We played well and deserved victory. It was a tough one. we need to celebrate it because we worked for it”, he stated.
He further explained that the League is still halfway, it would be too early to start thinking of winning the League.
According to him, my team is not built around one particular player saying that every player in the team is part of his programme.
Also speaking, the head coach of Lobi Stars, Gbenga Ogubote, expressed sadness over the loss, saying that it is painful, because he did not intend to lose in Port Harcourt.
According to him, every team in the NPFL have equal chance of winning the league.
“Rivers United FC is a house hold name in the league”, Ogunbote said.
The Lobi coach equally said they would go back and correct their mistakes.
MFM FC Declare Oriyomi Murtala Lawal AWOL
Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries FC, wishes to inform the general public, most especially the clubs in Nigerian Football Leagues about one of its players, Oriyomi Murtala Lawal who is presently AWOI
The player left the club on the 15t, January, 2020, a night before our home game against Jigawa Golden Stars without the knowledge nor approval of the club’s management.
MFM FC warned that any club or agent approaching the player for the purpose of transfer without the Club’s approval would face the risk of a lawsuit, as the player is contracted to MFM FC.
Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries FC has declared one of its players, Oriyomi Murtala Lawal, missing and has warned clubs in the Nigerian Professional Football League from signing the player.
Oriyomi Murtala Lawal was said to have left the club on the 15th, January 2020, a night before their home game against Jigawa Golden Stars without the knowledge nor approval of the club’s management.
The player is also said to be interested in a move to another club and willing to force the transfer through.
MFM FC, however, claimed Oriyomi still has a valid contract with the club and warned clubs or agents against approaching the player for the purpose of transfer without the club’s approval.
MFM FC is currently seventh on the log of Nigeria Professional Football League with 22 points from 14 matches, but have a game in hand.
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AccessAbilities Expo to feature unified sports
Dubai Club for People of Determination will facilitate unified sports, bringing people with and without disabilities together in a dedicated sports area during the upcoming AccessAbilities Expo 2017 in Dubai, UAE. AccessAbilities
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Free & Cheap Things to Do in Shipshewana, IN
The list below includes 30 free or cheap things to do in or near Shipshewana, Indiana, including 59 different types of inexpensive activities like Art Gallery, History Museums, Nature & Wildlife Areas and Flea Markets.
From Dutch Creek Farm Animal Park to Menno-Hof Mennonite - Amish Visitor Center, there are a variety of budget-friendly attractions in Shipshewana and in nearby cities within 25 miles like Elkhart, Goshen, Middlebury and Leland.
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Action Park Paintball
Paintball 11951 Harrison Road, Mishawaka, IN 46544 MoreLess Info
Providing for casual play as well as tournament competitions, Action Park Paintball is a full-service facility. And to accommodate parties and gatherings, the facility offers both individual and group rates.
The Nappanee Center
Historic Buildings 302 W. Market Street, Nappanee, IN 46550 MoreLess Info
With volunteers that specialize in quilt gardening, The Nappanee Center is host to displays of potted plant creations that are arranged to look like words and symbols in a carpet design.
Amish Acres
Historic Sites Nappanee, IN MoreLess Info
A historic farm and resort, the Amish Acres welcomes its visitors with lodgings, traditional menus, children's activities, and theater. There are several packages the visitor can choose from.
Henry Frank Park
Parks Day Road, Mishawaka, IN 46545 MoreLess Info
Located on 12.8 acres, Henry Frank Park features handicap accessible trails that can be used for walking and jogging. The park also has picnic tables with grills, a pavilion and a softball field.
Miami Monkey Island
Parks 801 N State Street, Mishawaka, IN 46544 MoreLess Info
Accessible over a stone bridge or by boat, Miami Monkey Island covers five acres of land on the small island itself. Standard park features like children's playground equipment, picnic tables with grills, and a boat launch are available.
The Riverwalk
Scenic Walks Along St. Joseph River, Mishawaka, IN MoreLess Info
Open to the public for cycling, walking, and jogging, The Riverwalk has a path that circles the St. Joseph River. One section of the path takes visitors over the river on a bridge.
Movie Theaters Mishawaka, IN 46530 MoreLess Info
Popular second-run films are presented at the small Movies 6. With showings across six individual screens, the movie theater features digital projection, a game room, and films in RealD 3D when available.
Merrifield Pool
Swimming Pool 1000 East Mishawaka Avenue, Mishawaka, IN MoreLess Info
Merrifield Pool is an Olympic-sized pool. Its main attractions are the 160 ft. water slide, water basketball net, figure-8 wading pool with water umbrella. It also has a snack bar for the hungry.
Shiojiri Niwa
Gardens 1000 E Mishawaka Avenue, Mishawaka, IN 46544 MoreLess Info
Dedicated to the city's sister city, Shiojiri City, Shiojiri Niwa is a Japanese garden with a bridge, pond, and walking paths. The park also has a tea house pavilion that is often used for weddings.
Trine State Recreation Area
Recreation Centers 145 W Feather Valley Road, Fremont, IN 46737 MoreLess Info
Visitors can enjoy a variety wildlife, open meadows, wooded hills, and fishing at Trine State Recreation Area. The park also has hiking trails, family cabins, picnic areas, and a lodge with a kitchen.
HAVE SUGGESTIONS FOR COOL AND INTERESTING THINGS TO DO IN THE Shipshewana AREA?
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VST - The New VLT Survey Telescope
http://www.facebook.com/ScienceReason ... ESOcast 30: First Images from the VLT Survey Telescope - VST and OmegaCAM start work. This ESOcast introduces the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), the latest addition to ESO's Paranal Observatory. This new telescope has just made its first release of impressive images of the southern sky. The VST is a state-of-the-art 2.6-metre telescope, with the huge 268-megapixel camera OmegaCAM at its heart. It is designed to map the sky both quickly and with very fine image quality. It is a visible-light telescope that perfectly complements ESO's VISTA infrared survey telescope. New images of the Omega Nebula and the globular cluster Omega Centauri demonstrate the VST's power. --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceTV • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker --- A new telescope for mapping the skies is about to start work at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. The VLT Survey Telescope, or VST, with the 268 megapixel OmegaCAM camera at its heart, is the latest addition to the observatory. It is the largest telescope in the world designed to survey the sky in visible light. The special thing about the VST is that it has a very wide field of view — about twice as broad as the full Moon. It's dedicated to mapping the skies both very quickly and with very high image quality. The VST is housed in an enclosure right next to the VLT Unit Telescopes on the summit of Cerro Paranal under the pristine skies of one of the best observing sites on the planet. Over the next few years the VST and its huge camera OmegaCAM will be busy making some very detailed maps of the southern skies and in this episode you'll get to see the very first released images from this brand new telescope. The VST is a visible light telescope that perfectly complements the VISTA infrared survey telescope. The unique combination of the VST and VISTA will allow many interesting objects to be identified that can then be studied in detail with the powerful telescopes of the VLT. The VST is a state-of-the-art 2.6-metre telescope equipped with an active optics system that keeps the two mirrors of the telescope perfectly aligned at all times in order to ensure the highest possible image quality. Now, at its core, behind huge lenses, lies the OmegaCAM camera which was built around no less than 32 CCD detectors which, together, create a whopping 268 megapixel image. The camera also contains some extra CCDs that help with the telescope guiding and the active optics system, as well as some absolutely enormous colour filters. Both the telescope and the camera were designed to take full advantage of the excellent observing conditions on Paranal. The VST will make three public surveys over the next five years. One survey, called KIDS, will image several regions of the sky away from the Milky Way. It will help astronomers understand more about dark matter, dark energy and galaxy evolution, and find many new galaxy clusters and high-redshift quasars. The VST ATLAS survey will cover a larger area of sky and will focus on determining the properties of dark energy. Like KIDS, it will also hunt for far-away galaxies and quasars. The third survey, VPHAS+, will image the central plane of the Milky Way to map the structure of the Galactic disc and its star-formation history. It will yield a catalogue of around 500 million objects and will discover many new examples of unusual stars at all stages of their evolution. The VST has just made its first release of images: The spectacular Omega Nebula, also known as Swan Nebula, is a region of gas, dust and hot young stars that lies in the heart of the Milky Way. The VST field of view is so large that the entire nebula, including its fainter outer parts, is captured — and retains its superb sharpness cross the entire field. Omega Centauri is the largest globular cluster in the sky. But the VST, with its very wide field of view, has no problem in capturing the whole object in a single image, including its very faint outer regions. This image contains about 300 000 stars and it highlights the impressive sharpness of the VST's images. The combination of large field of view, excellent image quality, and the very efficient operations scheme of the VST will produce an enormous wealth of information that will advance a number of different fields of astrophysics. Many astronomers — including myself, actually — are really looking forward to the first results from the VST surveys. Credit: ESO .
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A Telescope's Wire To The World
http://www.facebook.com/ScienceReason ... ESOcast 23: A telescope's wire to the world. Stretching 100 kilometres through Chile's harsh Atacama Desert, a newly inaugurated data cable is creating new opportunities at ESO's Paranal Observatory and the Observatorio Cerro Armazones. Connecting these facilities to the main Latin American scientific data backbone completes the last gap in the high-speed link between the observatories and Europe. --- Please SUBSCRIBE to Science & Reason: • http://www.youtube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.youtube.com/ScienceTV • http://www.youtube.com/FFreeThinker --- EVALSO: A New High-speed Data Link to Chilean Observatories This new cable is part of the EVALSO (Enabling Virtual Access to Latin American Southern Observatories) project, a European Commission FP7 co-funded programme co-ordinated by the University of Trieste that includes ESO, Observatorio Cerro Armazones (OCA, part of Ruhr-Universität Bochum), the Chilean academic network REUNA and other organisations. As well as the cable itself, the EVALSO project involves buying capacity on existing infrastructure to complete a high-bandwidth connection from the Paranal area to ESO's headquarters near Munich, Germany. Project co-ordinator Fernando Liello said: "This project has been an excellent collaboration between the consortium members. As well as giving a fast connection to the two observatories, it brings wider benefits to the academic communities both in Europe and Latin America." The sites of Paranal and Armazones are ideal for astronomical observation due to their high altitude, clear skies and remoteness from light pollution. But their location means they are far from any pre-existing communications infrastructure, which until now has left them dependent on a microwave link to send scientific data back to a base station near Antofagasta. Telescopes at ESO's Paranal observatory produce well over 100 gigabytes of data per night, equivalent to more than 20 DVDs, even after compressing the files. While the existing link is sufficient to carry the data from the current generation of instruments at the Very Large Telescope (VLT), it does not have the bandwidth to handle data from the VISTA telescope (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, see eso0949), or for the new generation of VLT instruments coming online in the next few years. This means that for much of the data coming from Paranal, the only practical way to send it to ESO Headquarters has been to save it onto hard drives and send these by airmail. This can mean a wait of days or even weeks before observations from VISTA are ready for analysis. Even with this careful rationing of the connection and sophisticated data management to use the connection as efficiently as possible, the link can get saturated at peak times. While this causes no major problems at present, it indicates that the link is reaching capacity. ESO Director General Tim de Zeeuw said: "ESO's observatory at Paranal is growing, with new telescopes and instruments coming online. Our world-class scientific observatories need state-of-the-art infrastructure." In the place of the existing connection, which has a limit of 16 megabit/s (similar to home ADSL broadband), EVALSO will provide a much faster 10 gigabit/s link — a speed fast enough to transfer an entire DVD movie in a matter of seconds. Mario Campolargo, Director, Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures at the European Commission, said: "It is strategically important that the community of astronomers of Europe gets the best access possible to the ESO observatories: this is one of the reasons why the European Union supports the deployment of regional e-infrastructures for science in Latin America and interlinks them with GÉANT and other EU e-infrastructures." The dramatic increase in bandwidth will allow increased use of Paranal's data from a distance, in real-time. It will allow easier monitoring of the VISTA telescope's performance, and quicker access to VLT data, increasing the responsiveness of quality control. And with the expanded bandwidth, new opportunities will open up, such as astronomers and technicians taking part in meetings via high-definition videoconferencing without having to travel to Chile. Moreover, looking forward, the new link will provide enough bandwidth to keep up with the ever-growing volumes of information from Paranal and Armazones in future years, as new and bandwidth-intensive instruments come into use. Immediate remote access to data at a distant location is not just about saving money and making the observatory's work more efficient. For unexpected and unpredictable events, such as gamma-ray bursts, there is often not enough time for astronomers to travel to observatories, and EVALSO will give experts a chance to work remotely on these events almost as if they were at the observatory. • http://www.eso.org .
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Hubble Space Telescope Directly Observes Exoplanet
Science & Reason on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ScienceReason Hubblecast 22: Hubble Space Telescope Directly Observes Exoplanet Orbiting Fomalhaut. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered an extrasolar planet, for the first time using direct visible-light imaging. The strange world is far-flung from its parent star, is surrounded by a colossal belt of gas and dust, and may even have rings more impressive than Saturn's. --- Subscribe to Science & Reason: • http://www.YouTube.com/Best0fScience • http://www.YouTube.com/ScienceMagazine • http://www.YouTube.com/ScienceTV • http://www.YouTube.com/FFreeThinker --- Credit: - ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen) - Visual design & Editing: Martin Kornmesser - Animations: Martin Kornmesser & Luis Calçada - Web Hosting: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) - Web Technical Support: Lars Holm Nielsen & Raquel Yumi Shida - Written by: Lee Pullen & Lars Lindberg Christensen - Host: Dr. J - Narration: Bob Fosbury - Cinematography: Peter Rixner - Music: movetwo - Footage and photos: A. Fujii, Digitized Sky Survey 2, NASA, ESA, and P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley). Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble) - Directed by: Lars Lindberg Christensen Dr. J is a German astronomer at the ESO. His scientific interests are in cosmology, particularly on galaxy evolution and quasars. Dr. J's real name is Joe Liske and he has a PhD in astronomy. Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre Garching/Munich, Germany • http://www.eso.org • http://www.spacetelescope.org • http://hubblesite.org .
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Hubble Space Telescope Chapter 9 pt.2
Part 9 1/2 in a series of videos produced by the ESA for public distribution about the Hubble Space Telescope and much more. This video is Copyright Free material with some restrictions. Find out more at: http://www.spacetelescope.org
Hubble Space Telescope ESA NASA VLT Universe Galaxy
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Hubble Space Telescope - Chapter 1
Part 1 in a series of videos produced by the ESA for public distribution about the Hubble Space Telescope and much more. This video is Copyright Free material with some restrictions. Find out more at: http://www.spacetelescope.org
Hubble Space Telescope Galaxy Universe Webb VLT Mars Moon Nebula Jupiter Saturn
Part 3 in a series of videos produced by the ESA for public distribution about the Hubble Space Telescope and much more. This video is Copyright Free material with some restrictions. Find out more at: http://www.spacetelescope.org Interested in scientific theory relating to the creation of our universe and beyond? Try some of these links: http://scienceline.org/2006/08/21/ask-snyder-bang/ http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/white_hole_030917.html http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/03/16_hawking_text.shtml Wrap some brain cells around that!
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REASONS TO SUPPORT FIRST BIAEXIT REFERENDUM JUST LIKE THE BREXIT
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Referendum by simple definition means votes of citizens of a country to freely give practical democratic opinion or decision about their future. For instance, a referendum was conducted by the British to determine their continued membership of the European Union.
The Guardian newspaper screenshot as displayed in this article, will help you understand that referendum can be conducted up to three good times. The Guardian newspaper under reference, has an article written by one Vernon Bogdanor. He gave detailed accounts of how Britain carried out her first referendum on the 23rd of June, 2016 and is yet making plans for the second attempt. He stated in one of his articles: "we are heading for the second referendum and may be, the third".
Following recent news making it's rounds globally, about the upcoming first Biafra referendum, all the concerned must galvanize effort to get the needed goal actualised. The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) globally, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who recently arrived the United Kingdom from Israel, pointedly made the announcement for the date of Biafra referendum. He has his reasons for tactically adopting a "Sit-At-Home" approach as the first attempt of the exercise. This is wisdom coded following the antecedents of the tyrannical Nigerian government. The agents of the Nigerian government are devilishly prepared to further spill the blood of innocent Biafrans who have on past occasions been tortured, maimed and killed for legitimately expressing their rights to freedom, peaceful protests and rallies. To avert such despicable scenarios, the IPOB leadership had to announce a total boycott of the upcoming Nigeria presidential election through the observance of a "Sit-At-Home". This in my view, is the first referendum of Biafrans for the world to see the readiness to exit Nigeria albeit peacefully.
The best Biafrans could do is to tenaciously apply themselves to the wise instructions of the IPOB leadership concerning the referendum. It is clearly important that we gain our total freedom on our first referendum attempt as we boycott the forthcoming presidential election of Nigeria, come Saturday 16th February 2019, by observing a "Sit-At-Home". Miracles only occur when instructions are obeyed. The IPOB leader, in one of his recent posts outlined the benefits derivable from our total support for the referendum which include:
* Trial by Jury
* Free and compulsory education
* Absence of military presence on the streets to kill or force you to drink stagnant/stinking water on trumped up charges
* Undue immunity for political office holders
* Consistent and verifiable infrastructural development
* Community police service
* No presence of armed police officers and those who await poor commercial drivers on motorways to extort money due to poor remuneration by the government
* Regional political autonomy
* No arrest or intimidation arising from free speech unlike what obtains in Nigeria even when a serving Senator is being harassed because he spoke against the lawlessness of the President
* One hundred percent resource control. This means that each State within Biafraland, will exclusively manage what it has and only pays the central government, specified taxation and not the other way round like what obtains in Nigeria, where a privileged few live in frivolities at the detriment of disadvantaged majority.
It is however, better to be late than be the late. It will be very bad and evil for any Biafran to mortgage his/her future and that of upcoming generations by selling his/her vote for shameful two thousand naira (N2,000), to this bunch of criminal elements clamouring for Nigerian leadership. They will turn around to kill you someday with hunger as they assume power. They will arrest you, torture you and throw you into prison for daring to open your mouth to speak against their evils. It is encouraging to see the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, recently and courageously speaking out publicly about the need to get Nigeria divided in the light of the foregoing.
The leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide, has clearly made it open that the more you come out to vote in Nigeria elections, the more enslaved you become to the Hausa-Fulanis. Atiku Abubakar and Muhammadu Buhari "Jubril Aminu Al-Sudani", are all the same with one overriding agenda. Looking at the next eight years of hunger and impoverishment after casting your votes for them and taking their two thousand naira (N2,000), amount to being dead already. Join the IPOB come Saturday 16th February 2019, being our first referendum date to show the world that we are fed up with the expired amalgamation of Fredrick Lugard. Join the IPOB to show the world that the killing of our people by Fulani killer herdsmen is enough. Join the IPOB on the referendum exercise to prove to the world that we are tired of our students staying at home due to lecturers' incessant industrial actions. Nigeria is a fraud and will so remain until she totally dismembers.
Written by Ben Alvin Obi
Edited by Peter Oshagwu
For Family Writers Press
DEAR BIAFRANS , I AM THINKING THE BEST WAY TO IDENTIFYING THE ENEMIES OF BIAFRA WITHIN IS TO CAREFULLY WATCH OUT FOR TOWNS,CITIES AND THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WHO WILL VIOLATE THE IPOB INSTRUCTIONS COME FEBRUARY 16. URS BIAFRAN RABBI.
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Guidelines for Data Point Modeling
Revision as of 08:30, 10 October 2013; Anna-Maria.Weber (Talk | contribs)
CEN WS XBRL Experts: Anna-Maria Weber (Deutsche Bundesbank)
1 Foreword
4 Terms and definitions
4.1 data point
4.2 default member
4.3 dictionary element
4.4 dimension
4.5 dimensioned element
4.6 domain
4.7 domain member
4.8 enumerable dimension
4.9 fact
4.10 hierarchy
4.11 non enumerable dimension
4.12 sub-domain
4.13 taxonomy
4.14 templates
5 What is a data model
5.2 The term “model”
5.3 Data-oriented process of modelling
5.4 The conceptual data model as a first step aiming for a database system
5.5 Description of data modelling approaches for supervisory purposes
5.5.2 Using the “form centric” modelling approach
5.5.3 Using the “data centric” modelling approach
5.6 Description of dimensional modelling
5.7 The concept of normalisation
6 Why use a multidimensional data model
6.2 Multidimensional data model
6.3 Operations that can be carried out on a multidimensional data model
7 Why data modelling is essential for collecting supervisory information
7.2 Objective of Data Point modelling
7.3 Main features
7.3.1 Increase of knowledge and understanding
7.3.2 Improvement of integration of changes
7.3.3 Reduction of risk of duplicate information
7.3.4 Higher harmonisation
7.4 Classification of Data Point modelling in the data modelling concept
7.5 Area of application
7.6 What are the technical constraints
8 How do you proceed in creating a Data Point Model
8.2 Define dictionary elements
8.3 Specify hierarchies
8.4 Define Data Points
8.5 Define normalised tables and ensure quality of Data Point Model
8.6 Distribute Data Point Model
8.7 What the future holds for us
This document has been prepared by CEN/WS XBRL, the secretariat of which is held by NEN. CWA XBRL 001 consists of the following parts, under the general title Improving transparency in financial and business reporting — Harmonisation topics: Part 1: European data point methodology for supervisory reporting Part 2: Guidelines for data point modeling Part 3: European XBRL Taxonomy Architecture Part 4: European Filing Rules This document is currently submitted to a public consultation.
The purpose of this document is to support supervisory experts in the creation of a Data Point Model (DPM). By definition of the European Banking Authority (EBA) a DPM “is a structured formal representation of the data [...] identifying all the business concepts and its relations, as well as validation rules, oriented to all kind of implementers.”1 The underlying rules for the creation of such methods were initially introduced by the Eurofiling Initiative and developed further by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA). The main objective of data point modelling, the process of creating a DPM; “[it] should help to produce a better understanding of the legal background to the prudential reporting data and make data analysis much easier for both the institutions and regulators”2. Further goals are to prevent redundancies, lower maintenance efforts and, in general, to facilitate working with national extensions on the European agreed upon data set to facilitate the descriptions of requirements that are sharable across national legislations. It is a requirement to have all the information collected by the national supervisory agencies, particularly in Europe, transformed into the same data structure with the same quality in order to be able to carry out standardized analysis of the data across Europe. The current implementations are not able to meet these European requirements for supervision “to achieve higher quality and better comparability of data”3. The main reasons for this are the differences between the data definitions and the data formats of the various national supervisory agencies, making comparison of reported data virtually impossible.
The aim to harmonise the European supervisory reporting is to be able to carry out more comprehensive analysis and an increase of comparability of data. The supervisory agencies are already acquainted with the representation of regulations specified in laws, this document is going to introduce the reader to the concept of Data Point modelling methodology as well as to its main terms and definitions that will enable you to create Data Point Models that contain “all the relevant technical specifications necessary for developing an IT reporting format” on your own.
In general you as banking supervisor are responsible to communicate with Information Technology (IT) experts in order to support the transfer of the essence of regulatory reporting to IT systems. In 2009 the Eurofiling Initiative has published the concept of Data Point modelling. Structures of data represented in supervisory tables as well as underlying laws and guidelines were defined in order to enable the interpretation of the reporting information by IT applications. IT specialists are responsible for the development of software, however most of the time they do not have the special business knowledge needed to gather reporting requirements from various sources such as legal texts like Solvency Regulations and National Banking Acts for building a faultless system. Therefore the task of creating a DPM is assigned to you. This document introduces basic principles deemed necessary in the modelling process. On the basis of the explanations given in this document you will be able to provide prerequisites for deriving data formats on the basis of a DPM as well as setting up a powerful data warehouse. This implies that the model is issued in a format that is understood by both parties, involved in transforming legislation into a model: business experts and IT specialists. The topics regarding supervisory reporting are kept short and limited to the content relevant for this paper. The idea is to convey the creation of the Data Point Model to you, as you are a supervisor with analytical capabilities and personal interest in this topic. No special IT knowledge is expected. The first sections will give you an overview on the required IT knowledge. National banking supervisors have a mandate to evaluate the financial situation of financial institutions in their country. To be able to perform the necessary analytics, financial data is required from these institutions. The requirements are described in the form of texts and tables of data. To make a comprehensive model from these texts and tables a model is being created to enable IT support in communicating and storing the necessary data. A common problem with the NSA's is that IT staff has little financial background and financial specialists have little IT background. This makes data modelling a problematic area as both specialities are needed. This document is aimed at providing the tools and knowledge of creating a DPM by the financial specialists. The result, a model, can later in the process be perfected by IT staff.
This paper is a handbook for supervising experts. The main body consists of four sections. The interrogative form helps in choosing which section promises most answers to your problem. After this first introductory section the main part starts to provide basic knowledge about different types of data models and data modelling approaches. The second and third section provide an overview of data models in general in contrast to the fourth section that highlights the necessity of data modelling for supervisory data. This fourth section derives the objectives based on the background information of the preceding sections. Furthermore one paragraph classifies the Data Point Model introduced by the Eurofiling Initiative and elaborated by EIOPA and EBA where many new terms related to DPM are introduced. A paragraph, which explains the areas of application for the DPM follows. The fourth section concludes with a paragraph introducing a subset of the technical constrains that need to be considered in the creation process of the DPM. The fifth section gives step by step instructions to create a DPM. The paper concludes with remarks on the progress achieved so far and provides an outlook on the software that is being developed at the moment to support you during the creation process. The last section also evaluates the DPM process to more traditional approaches. New terms are introduced throughout the text when they come up for the first time and can additionally be looked up in the glossary, which can be found in the appendix at the end of the paper.
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
NOTE The terms definitions used in connection with Data Point modelling are inspired by vocabulary already known through their use for describing multidimensional databases and data warehouses. IT specialists originally introduced these terms. However, for an understanding and creation of Data Point Models they are now established in the language of business specialists as well.
data point
a Data Point can be compared to a cell in a table that holds reportable information and the row- and columnheaders characterising the Data Point can be regarded as the dimension and member combinations that apply to the Data Point
default member
a member in an enumerable dimension that will represent the dimension-member combination on a Data Point when that dimension is not explicitly associated
dictionary element
an abstract term for dimensioned elements, dimensions, domains and members
a dimension represents the “by” condition of a Data Point
Note 1 to entry: Dimensions literally describe the dimensioned element in order to limit the range of interpretation and thereby qualify the dimensioned element. One dimension either has a definite (i.e. countable) number of members, which is called an explicit dimension, or an infinite number of members represented as values, that follow a specific typing pattern, which is known as a typed dimension.
dimensioned element
a dimensioned element shows the nature of the data by typing it. It holds information about the underlying structure of the cell that is specified. In IT contexts a dimensioned element is referred to as metadata
a domain is a classification system to categorize items that share a common semantic identity
Note 1 to entry: A Domain provides therefore an unambiguous collection of items in a value range. The items of a Domain can have a definite, and therefore countable, number of items, or an infinite number of elements that follow a specific (syntax) pattern.
domain member
each element that is part of a domain is called a domain member
Note 1 to entry: It is also possible to have members that do not belong to a domain; they can refer to a dimension directly.
Note 2 to entry: Domain members can either be explicitly named or defined by a type.
enumerable dimension
an enumerable dimension is a dimension that “specifies a finite number of members
a fact describes the quantitative aspects of data reported
EXAMPLE An amount, a number, a string of text, a date.
a non-enumerable dimension “specifies an undefined number of [members] [...] [it] defines syntactic constraints on the values of the members, i.e. a data type or a specific pattern
non enumerable dimension
sub-domain
a sub-domain is a subset of the members of a domain
a taxonomy describes a valid Data Point Model
graphical representation of a set of supervisory data
What is a data model
Data models outline the relationships between data. It is important that the person responsible for modelling takes time to capture all relations between data that can be shown in the model. It is essential that the model is reviewed by third parties involved. Thereby errors can be identified in advance. Furthermore it helps to get a clearly structured model that can save time and costs later.
The term “model”
The term model has its origin in the French noun “modelle”. In IT context a model pictures a target-oriented system instead of directly intervening in the complex system. Specifically in terms of data models this means a real system, a system from the domain comprised of real components that are tangible and dynamic, is mapped to a model to reduce complexity. This may help to find a suitable solution to an existing problem. The model needs to be created as close to reality as possible with attention to requirements regarding structure and behaviour. Nevertheless, in order to raise the comprehensibility, aspects irrelevant for the purpose of modelling may be left out. The importance of a single aspect and whether it is worth being specified in the model is depending on the decision of the domain experts. This strongly depends on the modeller’s understanding, creativity and capability to associate the object system with the model. The challenge of data modelling is that a data model “must be simple enough to communicate [it] to the end user [...] [and] [...] detailed enough for the database design to use to create the physical structure“. The same principle applies to message design and its physical representation. In the following paragraph the procedure of data-oriented modelling is presented.
Data-oriented process of modelling
The data-oriented process focuses on describing the static structure of the reporting system in contrast to the function-oriented process, which begins with modelling the functions of the reporting system and adds the data in a later stage. As data is the focuspoint of the banking supervisors the data-oriented process is applied. Additionally, in the course of time, data [objects] do not change as much as functions do. Functions are not being taken into account here. Applying the data oriented process, data objects are specified first as well as the attributes that belong to each data object. The next step is to put the objects in relation to each other. Furthermore the data model can imply integrity conditions and define operations that can be carried out on the data.
The conceptual data model as a first step aiming for a database system
The data-oriented modelling takes place on 3 different levels that are built upon one another.
Figure 1 - Levels of data-oriented modelling.jpg
The conceptual data model reflects your reporting requirements. You are in the best position to know what pieces of information are requested. The conceptual model helps you in the communication with your IT specialists. This is an important step to avoid unpleasant surprises later when the model is implemented in the IT department. The model is built regardless of the database system or data warehouse to be used. Relevant facts of the object system are to be specified without loss of information. However, you, as the creators of the conceptual model do not need to be technically skilled as the succeeding steps of data modelling are carried out by IT specialists. They should be concerned about the technical requirements. It is very important that this first step of preparing the conceptual data model is carefully elaborated before transferring the information to the IT. This can be ensured by early reviews, which include all parties concerned. The logical data model as well as the physical data model are prepared by the IT specialists. In essence, the logical data model immediately follows the conceptual model (see Figure 1). When aimed at a database approach in contrast to the conceptual model it also takes the requirements of the database or the data warehouse into account. The physical data model as a final step describes the actual implementation into an existing database system.
Description of data modelling approaches for supervisory purposes
This paragraph deals with the methods that are used to disseminate data and identify all of its appropriate aspects. The two most appropriate methods of expressing regulatory data in a structure to determine the context this information is associated with, will be discussed here. Both modelling approaches refer to metadata.
Definitions for data and metadata are given below:
Data is “information processed or stored by a computer. This information may be in the form of text documents, images, audio clips, software programs, or other types of data. Computer data may be processed by the computer's CPU and is stored in files and folders on the computer's hard disk.”
Metadata “describes data. It provides information about a certain item's content.“
While data is a number like “50” the metadata adds qualifying information to the number. The explanation on the “form centric” and the “data centric” modelling approaches will clarify the difference.
Using the “form centric” modelling approach
The “form centric” approach is an ordinary table format with information held in a cell of a predefined table called a template. Here a template is understood as a graphical representation of a set of supervisory data. This approach identifies reporting data by their position in the templates. In this case each datum is defined by its coordinate in the table that is represented by the combination of columns and rows of a template. Each coordinate has a code that is based on the row code and the column code. This means that the data reported on basis of coordinate codes is meaningless without the context of the template. In the following example, each cell that represents a data requirement is described by a code combination of its column and its row of the table Market Risk: Standardised form for position risk in equities (MKR SA EQU) of the COREP framework. The form represents market risk equity positions of the institutions that are subject to mandatory reporting. Throughout the whole document this table serves as an example to introduce terms and concepts of Data Point modelling to you. The table with annotations can be found in the appendix in full size in order to deliver better clarity.
Figure 2 — Table MKR SA EQU as an example of a form centric approach
The “form centric” approach is oriented at the visualization of the data. Dependencies between the codes of the data are only shown in the templates, i.e. by identifying the appropriate headlines or by the indents of the label rows. A report based on the “form centric” approach, which uses codes for the identification of data, is not able to incorporate the dependencies visible.
Figure 3 — Close up of table MKR SA EQU for higher visibility on important aspects
On the basis of the section of sample table MKR SA EQU shown in Figure 3 the “form centric” approach is explained. The value reported by the monetary institution in each cell is called a fact. Facts are classified as data. Let us say the oval circled cell defined by the row position r021 and the column position c010 holds the monetary value 50. The coordinate code r021c010 in the red circle is the combination of the row position followed by the column position. Taking the template into account we realise the number “50” represents a value for derivatives as a gross position. When we include additionally the headline above column c010 we can conclude that a long-term position is reported. Looking at the excerpt it is not specified to which year this information belongs. Neither do we know whether 50 represents a value in thousands or millions nor can we conclude its currency. We can imagine that it would be really hard for a non-supervisor to correctly classify this information 50. Now if you think about the table shown in Figure 3 again, what would that numbers tell you if you would not have any headlines labelling the rows and the columns? Obviously the information would be useless. As a conclusion we see that the “form centric” approach doesn’t include information about the data reported, which is assumed to be known (like all figures are in thousands). Moreover without the context of the row and column position of the datum the information content is essentially zero.
Using the “data centric” modelling approach
In the “data centric” approach, data is identified by a set of characteristics. It is considered independently of its graphical representation by adding information that unambiguously defines the datum. Therefore no positional alignment is needed in order to give the datum a specific meaning. Any datum is expressed in terms of the categories necessary for their identification.
Information available is divided into two groups:
- qualifying information;
- quantifying information.
Qualifying information is represented by attributes to certain categories while quantifying information describes the object evaluated.
Figure 5 shows a dimensioned element which holds the information about the main character of the datum to be reported. A dimensioned element shows the nature of the data. It holds information about the underlying structure of the cell that is specified. In IT contexts a dimensioned element is referred to as metadata. In our example the dimensioned element specifies the amount type of the datum as a gross value. The corresponding categories called dimensions contain further information on the datum and therefore increase the quality of the datum to be reported. The dimensioned element as well as the dimensions belongs to the group of qualifying information, i.e. metadata. The number itself, “50” in our example, is called a fact and represents the quantifying information of the datum.
Figure 4 — Example of a dimensioned element with corresponding dimensions for the cell r021c010 marked in MKR SA EQU
One Data Point is represented by one cell of the table in the “form centric” approach. Going back to the example above used to explain the “form centric” approach defining the cell by a combination of row and column codes (like r021c010) we have got a Data Point specified by a dimensioned element with its corresponding dimensions. One possible dimension for example that can be derived looking at the table in Figure 3 is the risk type dimension. Various types of risk are listed in the rows of this table. “general risk” and “specific risk” are reasonable attributes for the risk type dimension. To identify the risk types business knowledge is needed. We cannot rely on the nesting (tabs) in the table as they might be used differently amongst table creators for presentation purposes. Each dimensioned element is characterised by a variable number of dimensions. Each dimension is linked to one attribute, called a member, to characterise the Data Point. The dimensions represent the “by” conditions. Dimensions literally describe the dimensioned elements in order to limit the range of interpretation and thereby qualify a dimensioned element. One dimension either has a definite (i.e. countable) number of elements, which is called an enumerable dimension, or an unknown list of members to the regulator, which is called a non enumerable dimension. Members are attributes that can be assigned to a dimension. As members are often used for various dimensions, domains are introduced in order to reduce redundancy. Each domain contains semantically correlated members that can be used throughout the whole of the reporting framework. The dimension represents the semantic relevance for the specific use on the dimensioned element. All members are added to at least one domain that can be reused by a variety of dimensions. Returning to the difference between metadata and data, the definitions are transferred to the vivid example of MKR SA EQU. The Data Point identified by the row and column code combination r021c010 in the table format holding a fact “50”, which can be referred to as data. The metadata is described by the dimensioned element specifying 50 to be a gross value and the selected domains, one for each applied dimension. It should be ensured that each Data Point is defined only once in a reporting framework, regardless of whether it is included in more than one table. One major benefit is that the information can be assembled in various ways based on the preference of the supervisory expert. Therefore the form of the tables can be aligned with the previously used “form centric” tables. This results in a minimum adaptation time for the filers.
Description of dimensional modelling
Dimensional modelling is the innovative modelling type to create multidimensional data models. Depending on the conditions, the dimensional model may be “simpler, more expressive and easier to understand” than divergent modelling techniques. Dimensional modelling is used by the data centric approach introducing dimensions to qualify the information that consists of numeric data at the forefront like values, counts, weights, balances and occurrences. The main information about the datum, i.e. the data type of the fact, is held in the dimensioned element, which is verified here by the amount type dimension as it contains crucial information about the Data Point to be specified. Further qualifying information that is associated with the Data Point is specified by the members of the applied dimensions.
Figure 5 — Dimensional model for MKR SA EQU
The term ‘metrics’ is used as a synonym for ‘dimensioned element’ in other sources.19 However for the rest of this paper the term dimensioned element is used. Taken literally it is the one that is defined by the application of dimension-member combinations.
The concept of normalisation
As stated before the redundancy is to be reduced by the use of the Data Point Model. The most popular approach to achieve this is the process of normalisation. As this is an IT specific proven concept it will be introduced to you in this paragraph. Figure 6 shows what a typical table created by business users looks like. The values are reported in order to store them in a database and carry out analysis.
Figure 6 — Table MKR SA EQU created by business users
Scanning the table many questions remain unanswered for the untrained reader. Hereinafter is a list of questions that shall serve as a set for thoughts:
- Unit of measure: What does “50” mean? Units? Currencies?
- Reporting entity: Are the values of a single country or institution?
- Definition of the used members: What is considered as derivatives?
This set of questions was developed in very short time only. It is obvious that it is important that the reporting entity and the supervisor share the same vision. In order to avoid discrepancies in the interpretation of the figures the table must be unambiguous. In order to leave no room the questions above need to be answered. The information held in the figures of this table must be made explicit to all users on both ends of the communication process. Another way to express the same facts in order to answer some of the questions raised, could be in plain text. The cell r021c010 of MKR SA EQU holds the, for you as banking supervisors obvious, following information: 50,000 € worth of derivatives were held by a certain institution at a certain date. All the cells in the table are reported by one institution and each Data Point in that table is to be sent for one reporting date.
It is obvious in this method of representation that for all facts stored in the example table MKR SA EQU are
- of monetary value;
- in one common currency;
- reported in the precision of thousands.
It is still not yet known who reported the figures. Furthermore there is no definition of the axes´ members. The members that add qualified information about a single value need to be specified in order to prevent discrepancies in the interpretation of readers. The task now is to check what level of detail is required for the facts reported in order to carry out the demanded analysis at a later stage. On the basis of this decision abstract categories are created. It is advised to carry out this task in a team of experts. For example if we want to analyse the credit risks taken, it might be interesting to not only obtain knowledge about the countries where the risk was taken but also about the different regions within the countries as this might reveal a difference in the risk aversion of the various regions. Therefore it is not sufficient to name a category “country” and list below all countries. Referring to the mentioned example a further breakdown is needed that lists the regions of each country. For these different levels of detail a hierarchy can be defined in order to derive aggregated information about one country or one continent later. A sample breakdown with selected continents, countries and regions is shown below.
Figure 7 — Hierarchy of countries to show different levels of detail
The country category is just an example to make you aware of the level of abstraction you may choose for the categories identified.
A list of the identified categories to the facts reported in the table above (Figure 6) follows.
- A monetary value: some numeral data type.
- In a currency: closed list of currencies allowed.
- In thousands: closed list of precision types allowed.
- A reporting period or a point in time: A closed list of periods as all reports are required to cover predetermined periods.
- If the figure was reported by a single bank, a closed list of all banks that report to the national supervisor may be a good way to categorise the fact.
- An explanation document of the axes´ members is needed to be referred to, where each member of each dimension applicable for MKR SA EQU is unambiguously defined.
Each member must be created only once and allocated to one domain. The members must be created consistent and without doubling of logically same elements under different labels. The domains can be assigned to dimensions. Suppose we created the full hierarchy like visualised above, we could assign a (sub)domain called 'European countries' to a dimension named 'country of market'. In this domain all the European countries would be listed. Also there could be another (sub)domain called 'BRIC' containing the countries Brazil, Russia, China and India. This BRIC (sub)domain could be assigned to two dimensions, the 'country of origin' dimension and the 'country of production' dimension. Last but not least we could build another domain called 'all countries' where all the members that are already assigned to other (sub)domains as well as remaining countries are included. This domain can again be assigned to multiple dimensions. The figure below pictures this scenario.
Figure 8 — Pool of shared domains
Once domains are created, domains can be assigned to a variety of dimensions. That prevents redundancy of members and defines them uniquely for satisfying the requirements of communication via computers. This step is called normalisation. A technical definition for normalisation is as follows: Normalisation is the transfer of a data model to a certain state. The various states are differed by levels of the 'normal form' and achieved by applying them on the data model. The third normal form is enough to prevent redundancies and inconsistencies. Therefore the maintenance of the held data is facilitated applying the third normal form.
To achieve this, the two main aims are:
- arranging data into logical groups such that each group describes a small part of the whole;
- restrict to the level of detail needed.
In order to bring your data model into the third normalised form you need to group members in domains and make sure that the domains do not overlap. It must be possible to unambiguously assign the members to a single domain. Therefore it is important to use meaningful names for members, domains and dimensions. It is also advised to prepare a handbook where the names are differentiated. Following these rules, consistency throughout the model can be achieved.
Why use a multidimensional data model
The data in the conceptual model can be modelled dimensionally as well as hierarchically23. The reason it is advised to create a multidimensional data model, is that it is closer to the presentation form that the user is accustomed to and therefore easier to understand for him.
Multidimensional data model
The multidimensional data model supports the “data centric” approach with its two groups: qualifying and quantifying data. In order to make it clear we go ahead with the example of MKR SA EQU that you are already familiar with. We simplify the model below to show three categories only in order to improve the clarity displaying it on paper.
Figure 9 — Multidimensional model
The multidimensional data model visualised by a cube in Figure 9 is specified by three categories: risk type, reporting period and country of market. These categories are referred to as dimensions and, as stated before, serve as examples for qualifying information. The single cells that make up the cube carry quantifying information. Most of the time Data Points hold values that can be summed upon demand. The dimensions risk type, reporting period and country of market that show a semantic relationship between them are used to specify an orthogonal structure to the data space. It is possible to carry out arithmetic operations on the numeric values in each cell.
Two major advantages with this modelling technique are:
- firstly, the collected figures are each represented once in the model, and
- secondly, the ratios on a higher level of aggregation can be computed by means of the existing values.
Operations that can be carried out on a multidimensional data model
It is possible to create individual views on the present extensive multidimensional data model. One approach is to look at slices of the large whole. This is often visualised by referring to a single selected domain of one of the dimensions and therefore receiving figuratively a slice of the cube. Actually one might say that one dimension is not taken into account with this view on the cube.
Figure 10 — Slicing visualised
Referring to the example cube shown in Figure 10 we focus on the orange highlighted part. By slicing we get all reported risk types of all countries of market at a certain reporting period. Whether the reporting period situated on this dimension is a domain describing days, months, quarters of the year or even whole years remains to be seen. With dicing in contrast to slicing all dimensions remain considered. The process of dicing figuratively cuts a hexahedron out of the big cube.
Figure 11 — Dicing visualised
Adhering to the same example Figure 11 pictures the effect of dicing. According to the model cube one attribute on the reporting period dimension is excluded for the analysis. Therefore dicing results in a new hexahedron smaller than the original cube. Figure 11 represents the idea of looking at the more recent reporting periods leaving out the figures of reporting periods long ago. As the exemplary Figure 11 is much larger in reality it is also representative for analyses that are carried out to compare the figures of a given period of years, like certain decades. The difference to the slicing is visualised in Figure 11. By having multiple attributes of each dimension coloured in orange, the dicing process takes multiple characteristics of all dimensions into consideration.
Why data modelling is essential for collecting supervisory information
The massive amount of information reported and the request to analyse this data in many different ways appears to be problematic if the data is not structured in any way. A new type of data modelling was introduced by the Eurofiling Initiative called Data Point modelling. It is meant to combine the advantages of the various data modelling types in regard to supervisory reporting. Data modelling is essential for all participants to enable the communication of clear and unambiguous definitions of terms used in the reporting framework.
Objective of Data Point modelling
The Eurofiling Initiative is about to set a syntax standard for collecting information for supervisory and statistical reporting. The aim is to benefit from international solutions instead of proprietary ones. E.g. validation software for data received, mapping software for transforming the received data into databases and rendering software to make the exchanged data visible to parties that are not directly involved in the communication like accountants and actuaries. The data format to which a DPM can be transferred later is variable. At present the preferred standard syntax is a format called Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). It was chosen because of its characteristics being adapted to the requirements of the financial sector. The use of XBRL does not imply an enforced standardisation of business reporting. On the contrary, the syntax is a flexible one which is intended to support all current aspects of reporting in different countries and industries. Its extensible nature means that it can be adjusted to meet particular business requirements, even at the individual organization level. Moreover the EBA has given signals that XBRL will be the format that it will require to receive the data collected by national authorities in. The four main reasons for modelling Data Points (whether using XBRL or not remains to be seen) are illustrated in the following paragraphs. The DPM is a multidimensional model. As an example the figure below represents the cell r021c010 of Figure 12 of the table MKR SA EQU. The dimensions are coloured in dark red. The members of the domains that are assigned to the dimensions are coloured in a light red colour. The applicable domain members for each of the dimensions are made visible in the centre of the figure in green colours.
Figure 12 — Example of Data Point Model visualised
Increase of knowledge and understanding
As the Data Point Model is built by you, the supervising experts, it is ensured that the know-how is transferred in a data model which shows data required in the appropriate detail. In order to create a sustainable system it is important to gather not only the information needed at present, but all details to the collected data that can be specified and might gain in importance in the future. Using the concept of Data Point methodology it is ensured that the data is arranged comprehensible for the supervisory department. It is not only the data that business specialists are most familiar with. The relations within the information is another reason for the transfer of the task of building a Data Point Model to you as supervisory experts. The creation of the Data Point Model underpins the already existing knowledge held by you and makes the transformation of the information to the IT specialists possible.
Improvement of integration of changes
With a well designed Data Point Model it can be ensured that the data structure is defined explicitly and without redundancies. This means that no single fact is described in two different ways. Therefore every single piece of information is unique. If more information is required qualifying aspects may be added to the fact in conjunction with the construction of a new dimension as needed. Figure 13 shows this case.
Figure 13 — Extensibility of Data Point Model is shown by adding a portfolio-dimension
The portfolio dimension (framed a light blue) was added as requirements in relation to distinct trading book and banking book have to be applied. It is unproblematic to add new dimensions when they are requested. This is very important for analysis by the data warehouse later as well as slicing and dicing, which is explained in Section 4.3. The out-dated requests do not have to be modified. They are still showing the same results on an expanded Data Point Model. This makes integration of changes very easy.
Reduction of risk of duplicate information
This goal refers to the avoidance of duplicate information. With normalization on Modelling Data Points, dimensions and members can be reused. As explained in previous sections, it is advised to combine members in a domain possibly also sub-domains, which can then be associated to a dimension. Hierarchies are defined to group sub-domains of already existing domains. Most of the time we can identify different levels of detail for members of one domain. This means a kind of natural hierarchy is formed. You can represent these members of different levels of detail by sub-domains. We try to picture these relationships as hierarchies as this information can be reused for the definition of rules for calculations (total has individual facts). Hierarchical presentation and understanding how members are interrelated are further purposes of defining hierarchies. In hierarchical modelling this is called a parent-child relationship, which is figuratively shown below.
Figure 14 — Shows the relations of the parent-child relationships with Germany in the focus
With Germany as an example for one country at the forefront of our thinking we can identify each one of the 16 German states like Bavaria, Saxony and Hesse as children of the country Germany. However, Germany can also take the place of a child if we add the continents to our context. This means that one continent consists of several countries. Each single country may be composed of states. The advantage that can be derived from hierarchies is better explained by another explicit example. If we store the data at a level of detail that represents every state, the figures for country as well as continent can be computed. It is possible to aggregate the states of each country simultaneously. If required we can also aggregate the countries of one continent in order to receive the information on continental basis. As it is possible to compute the lower levels of detail from the higher levels of detail it is advised to store the information in the highest level of detail accessible. In order to build a Data Point Model, which can be used and maintained in the future, hierarchies should be built. The information about the nesting of members in a hierarchy improves its understanding by humans and helps to arrange potential new supervising criteria. Another use for hierarchies is to express the possible mathematical relationships between members if they are assigned to numerical dimensioned elements. A 'total' dimensioned elements can be comprised from multiple 'detail' dimensioned elements all carrying a different member. The validation rules shown below in the Excel file provide a basis for possible hierarchies.
Figure 15 — Validation rules for MKR SA EQU
Figure 16 shows a hierarchy for the risk type domain. Having the excerpt from an Excel file above as well as the belonging table MKR SA EQU with its row and column positions listed, we are able to derive a clearer view of the hierarchy of the members contained in the risk type dimension.
Figure 16 — Hierarchies of risk type domain depicted
Moreover from the second and third row of the validation rules depicted Figure 15 we can derive further information about the composition of the general risk listed in row 020 of table MKR SA EQU. With a new risk to be reported the decision is to be made whether the risk is at top level contrary to the equity risk or below the equity risk member and therefore in the same level as the four types of risks depicted above in Figure 16, which builds up the equity risk. It is also possible that there is a change in regulation that requires splitting up one of the lower level risks if additional consideration is demanded. According to this scenario a third level of equity risks will be introduced further breaking down one of the second level equity risks like the example visualised in Figure 17.
Figure 17 — Further breakdowns for general risk for equity instruments
Furthermore sub-domains can clarify relations between members. A sub-domain is a subset of the domain containing a part of the whole. A sub-domain, just like a domain, can be assigned to a dimension. If we want to restrict the choice of members of a given domain to be assigned to a dimension, we can build a sub-domain containing selected members of the whole in order to reduce redundancy. One conceivable sub-domain for the country of market dimension can be labelled “European countries”, represented by the domain 'EUC', which is an acronym for the whole name. Its members would be all countries in European Union. Spain, Portugal, Germany as well as France and all other countries that belong to the European Union in a political point of view would be members of this sub-domain. Other domain keys contain different countries or additional ones, or parts of the ones in the example. Any, until now, non-existent combination of countries can be expressed by a new domain or sub-domain. However there might be another dimension like for example country of production. This dimension logically needs countries as members as well. It is possible to use any domain or sub-domain defined for any dimension. Figuratively, a pool of domains and sub-domains is created, which contains the domains and sub-domains to be chosen from for the dimension to specify.
Higher harmonisation
Especially, the use of the “data centric” as well as the multidimensional approach, it is possible to carry out extensive queries in a data warehouse. The sharing of Data Points, equals in various reporting frameworks like COREP and FINREP, support the harmonisation process. Based on the reporting frameworks COREP and FINREP as well as some other, smaller ones, common dimensions between these frameworks were identified to reach a higher degree of harmonisation by sharing dimensions and members across frameworks. The following figure shows the interlinkage between common dimensions across the universe of European reporting frameworks.
Figure 18 — Dovetail connection between different common reporting frameworks
Classification of Data Point modelling in the data modelling concept
With the knowledge about data modelling gained in the previous sections we are now able to describe the characteristics of a Data Point Model. The concept of Data Point modelling is based on the “data centric” approach described in Section 3.5.3. This data structure eases the comprehensibility by business experts responsible for the creation of the Data Point Models. The “data centric” approach has further advantages. Moreover the gain in uncomplicated extensibility and the reduction of risk of duplicate information plead for the data centric design. Associated to these gains also is the next characteristic of Data Point Models that can be stated. Without doubt supervisory reporting focuses on the data collected of the monetary institutions obligated to report. The modelling of Data Points is part of the creation of the conceptual data model. The logical data model and the physical data model rely on a well-designed Data Point Model in the conceptual modelling stage. This is visualised above in Figure 1. The DPM is therefore to be created, well thought out and reviewed by interested parties. A greatly simplified view of the Data Point representing the cell r021c010 of MKR SA EQU with only 3 associated dimensions is visualised in the following figure. Possible combinations of members of the three chosen dimensions country of market, risk type and reporting period as visualised simplified in Figure 9 are presented below.
Figure 19 — Shows Data Point and three applicable dimensions
country of market, risk type and reporting period
A Data Point is a combination of dimensions with each dimension pointing to one of its domain members. In a table a Data Point is represented by a cell. For example we gain knowledge of the MKR EQU General risk taken by all monetary institutions belonging to the German market in the reporting period reported by 30th of March 2013. Information can be filtered in many ways. Also, the information about any other risk type applicable for the table MKR SA EQU that was taken by the German monetary institutions by the reporting period of the 30th of March 2013 is available to us. Moreover we can find out the risk aversion for the different risk types of each countries´ monetary institutions by the reporting period 30th of March. According to this scheme the information is clearly identified and therefore leaves less room for interpretation.
The advantages of Data Point Models in the segment of supervisory reporting are especially recognised by the visualisation of reporting data in different views by using pivot tables. The tables can be aggregated, which allows compressed analysis.
Figure 20 — Excerpt from the reporting table MKR SA EQU
A fact, in most cases, is a numeric value accompanied by dimensional properties in the form of dimension member combinations. The assignment of a Data Point to a cell may not be allowed. The cells coloured in dark grey show this case. For instance, when a Data Point would not make sense, as the type of content does not exist in reality, the cell is greyed out. Another reason for the regulator to not allow to report values for cells and therefore grey them out is if the regulator is just not interested in the value or is able to cumulate it. The views enabled by pivot tables omit unnecessary detailed information for the analysis. The very detailed facts are aggregated in order to provide an overview for the user. Nevertheless the numbers represented in the table are of high quality as the facts that are once reported are broken down into their smallest possible units and can be cumulated subsequently if desired. Moreover the data and its metadata reported are in machine readable form, which leads to a benefit as the gathering of data only takes place once.
What are the technical constraints
Attention should be paid to some rules of which an excerpt is listed below. The source of these constraints is a Wiki that started off as a joined venture of XBRL Spain and the University of Bucaramanga.32 As its aim is to develop a standard that is adopted by all parties, anyone interested is welcome to contribute ideas to the wiki. Amendments and additions to the content of the wiki are still possible and therefore the rules listed below are not final. It is assumed that additional constraints will evolve in the future as more and more people determine points of contact with the concepts of Data Point modelling and XBRL. It is strongly recommended that you follow these rules described below as well as the ones in the wiki. For the DPM a couple of constraints, which are considered very important, were specified in connection with hierarchies.
1) All members must be part of some hierarchy being built by a domain and its members.
2) Any single member can only appear once in any single hierarchy.
3) The hierarchy is built upon rules that are defined in a set of hierarchy relationships.
4) Each hierarchy has to be built from exactly one root element. Moreover when using XBRL, additional rules to the ones defined for the DPM must be considered. Especially working with domains is further specified.
5) Each member has to be referenced by a domain.
6) For each domain one member is set as default.
7) One dimension has to point to at least one domain or sub-domain.
8) Each member must be unique.
The most current and complete list of all constraints can be found at the wiki, which is ”regularly updated with the help of the Eurofiling initiative and XBRL Spain”. The filing rules in particular are updated by a CEN (European Committee for Standardisation) workshop.
How do you proceed in creating a Data Point Model
As it is likely that the reporting requirements will increase in the future, the Data Point Model has to be extended continually. This section gives you an understanding of an iterative process for modelling a Data Point Model for a delimited supervisory reporting area mostly represented by one or more templates. The process flowchart is pictured below.
Figure 21 — Process of creating a Data Point Model
Your aim is to transfer the reporting data into the data model with regard to new analysis capabilities. An IT expert may contribute to the normalisation of tables and might carry out the quality assurance of the data model as he needs a complete and consistent data model in order to derive the taxonomy from it. Moreover, data modellers must have the knowledge on how to create DPMs. We use an example again to explain the essential process.
Define dictionary elements
First of all we need to define dimensioned elements, dimensions as well as domains and their members. They form the dictionary elements of the model. We start off with one business template. As we are already familiar with MKR SA EQU, we stay with this template.
Figure 22 — MKR SA EQU template
Distinction between quantitative and qualitative aspects
Having chosen a template, we have to distinguish between quantitative and qualitative aspects for each Data Point. Quantitative are the figures reported. Like “50” for the cell identified by the row label “derivates” and the column “gross positions; long” (r021c010). We could also say the data, as defined in Section 3.5, belongs to the quantitative aspects. Qualitative aspects are pieces of information given in order to reduce interpretability of the datum reported. Characteristics that specify the datum belong to this information, which are also called metadata.
Summary of quantitative aspects
The measurement to the dimensioned element needs to be added. There are two different types of time to be distinguished: “stock” and “flow”. Flows, in contrast to stocks, are representing durations, i.e. measures reported for a period like cash flows, revenue and costs. Stocks are, for example, assets and liabilities representing an instant for stocks. Therefore the measure is of a certain date. The quantitative aspects in this template have the property of stock values as the numbers represent the market risk at a certain date.
Classification of the qualitative aspects in categories
Now we figure out domains by which the data can be grouped. We have for example different risk types, which categorise the data. General risk for equity instruments, specific risk for equity instruments, market risk not look-through CIUs risk and non-delta risk are the risk types that can be identified in the table.
Creation of domains
In order to prevent redundancies, domains are being created. Members that share the same semantic aspect are assigned to a domain, expressing this aspect. The different risk types can be assigned to one common domain, as they consist of the same semantic identity. We call the domain “risk types for market risks for equity instruments” in order to give it a meaningful name. Moreover a domain that includes all countries should be created. To ease recognition we call the domain containing all countries “all countries”. The domains can be directly and indirectly derived from the template. A lot of information is obvious to you as banking supervisors, however the topic of defining domains should not be kept out here. One further example is given by using Euros for identifying the currency of figures. We may also add US-Dollars, Pound and names for other currencies that come to our mind to add them to a domain named “all currencies”. We could also introduce a domain that holds information about the multiplier the figure is related to. We see that most of the information can only be derived by supervisory experts, especially those pieces of information that are not explicitly given in the template. This step is successfully completed once all members for the description of the Data Points in a template are part of one domain.
Definition of dimensions
The next step is to define dimensions that refer to at least one domain. They provide a specific meaning for a domain when linked to a Data Point. A domain member and its corresponding dimension form one qualitative aspect of a Data Point. The dimension for our MKR SA EQU template that refers to the “all countries” domain is called “country of market”. We give the dimension for risk types the same name as given to the domain. Finally we want all domains applicable in the MKR SA EQU template to refer to one dimension.
Definition of a default member for each explicit domain
For explicit dimensions (dimensions that carry a closed list of members) a default member must be defined. The default member is implicitly applied when a dimension is not explicitly associated to a Data Point. This is the case when a Data Point that has a dimensional context of 9 dimensions but only 6 dimensions are explicitly associated with according members, then the three further dimensions are implicitly included with their members set as default.
Specify hierarchies
The next step is the specification of hierarchies regarding to a set of members as well as the definition of calculation rules and concepts for presentation purposes.
Definition of hierarchies between domain members
The relations between domain members must be specified by building hierarchical relationships. Three types of hierarchies are forseen:
- parent-child relationships for presentational purposes (presentation relationship)
- summation-item relationships for aggregation purposes (rule relationship), and
- domain-member relationships that explain the semantics amongst members (basic relationship).
These can all be added in later stages.
Now the difference between risk types of the lower level of detail and risk types of the higher level of detail is specified. As shown in figure Figure 16 the members of the “risk types” dimension can be formed in a hierarchy with supervisory knowledge in order to allow the aggregation of members adding up to “general risk” or even “equity risk”. Furthermore in this step of the DPM creation process the sub-domains are defined. A good example, which was introduced before in S Section 5.3.3 (see Figure 9) is the “all countries” domain. Sub-domains are the EUR sub-domain containing all European countries, as well as the BRIC sub-domain that include the Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Define Data Points
In our case the dimensioned element is based on the dimension amount type. For our sample in cell r021c010 the dimensioned element specifies a “value used for market risk, gross”. The applicable dimensions of the Data Point pictured in Figure are as follows: type of risk, country of market, position in the instrument, main category, portfolio, base items and approach. When a Data Point is reported as fact it holds additional information about reporting entity and the period type. Also information about the unit, the decimals or precision and the language, if the fact is string based.. The identifier is a string of characters representing one reporting entity. The reporting entity is represented by an identifier. The period type gives information about the validity of the value reported. A value can be reported for a specific point in time or for a period in time.
Define normalised tables and ensure quality of Data Point Model
The fourth and the fifth step are carried out with the help of the publisher of the taxonomy.
Figure 23 — Annotated template MKR SA EQU
The task now is to define normalised tables derived from templates and with regard to the dimensional possibilities within the table. The table above that can be found in the appendix in full size, was created by supervisory experts and is now available for the taxonomy publisher to check the quality requirements. All specified dimensions can be found in the table. The taxonomy publisher is not perfectly acquainted with the business requirements derived from the new legislation however he checks the table for comprehensibility and the technical constraints needed to be met in order to deduct the taxonomy from the DPM. The business requirements need to be reviewed by supervisory experts. In the table shown in Figure 23 redundancies can be recognised. Looking at the annotations on the right hand side of the table, we detect the redundancy of MKR EQU in two dimensions: MC and RT, which stands for main category and risk type. The risk type differs in some cases between MKR EQU risk, MKR EQU general risk, MKR EQU specific risk and MKR not look-through CIUs risk. The information that the members of the domain “risk type” refer to, the approach “market risk for equities” is repeated on each member. If those members are combined in one Data Point with the member “market risk” of the domain “approach”, then the information is redundant in both domains. It needs to be ensured where the approach dimension is stored, i.e. together with the risk type to reduce the number of domains or in separate domains, one for risk type and one for approach. If a taxonomy publisher detects such inconsistency, he should get in contact with you to put his concerns forward and ask for a justification of the different domains and respective dimensions used for this table. After the data model is finalised it should be checked that it fully reflects all requirements for the generation of the corresponding taxonomy.
Distribute Data Point Model
Finally, the DPM can be forwarded to the appropriate department for creating a taxonomy and initiating the following process steps. The creation of the taxonomy will be followed by a quality assurance process before its storage and publication. If the quality assurance for the taxonomy fails due to an erroneous DPM, the process of DPM modelling will be iterated until the taxonomy is approved for publication.
What the future holds for us
In order to help you in your task to create and review Data Point Models, software was programmed. As the market realises the possibility of new levels of sales, new applications for the creation of XBRL taxonomies will be introduced soon. One program that is considered as user-friendly for the purpose of creating a DPM is DPM Architect for XBRL, developed by the Banco de España and introduced firstly at the XBRL Week in May 2012.37 The software can not only help you to build up and review the DPM, it is also intended to generate XBRL taxonomies, which is the next step in the process. The MKR SA EQU template is used again as an example to show some excerpts of the implementation of the process of creating a DPM with DPM Architect. The amount type dimension was selected to serve as dimensioned element. Applicable characteristics of the amount type of the MKR SA EQU framework are shown below.
Figure 24 — The attribute for amount type and period type of the dimensioned element of MKR SA EQU
For each member of the dimensioned element, also known as metric, an amount type as well as a period type have to be defined. The period types are stock and their data types are monetary. Meaningful names were chosen for the metrics (net value, subject to capital value, own funds requirements and total risk exposure amount). Moreover the list of dimensions and domains specified can be retrieved.
Figure 25 — View of dimensions and domains specified for MKR SA EQU
Figure 25 shows a helpful view to check the completness of the DPM. Also, the informative value of the naming of the dimensions and domains can be examined. An example of a presentation hierarchy is given by the next screencapture (Figure 26).
Figure 26 — Summary of hierarchies specified for MKR SA EQU
The domain member hierarchies can be modified in a more detailed view which is pictured below. The tool also provides the possibility to define aggregations for calculation purposes.
Figure 27 — Hierarchies for selected domains of MKR SA EQU
Finally, a table can be visualised. Figure 28 shows the row column codes of each cell which correspond to a Data Point defined with the help of the DPM Architect. Not existing combinations are greyed out so they cannot be reported. If the table shown by the tool corresponds to the template originally defined by you, you have done a great job creating a faultless DPM.
Figure 28 — Table generated by DPM Architect to summarise the information given during the creation process of the DPM
The tool is already available for testers and is used to produce taxonomies in production in Banco de España. DPM Architect will be published on Banco de España´s website this year. Currently Banco de España is providing the tool only upon request. Personally I expect more software support in the future. In order to transfer knowledge about the DPM to IT specialists the CEN workshop published a Data Point Meta Model in order to show the “components for the construction of a formal model that describes sets of Data Points relevant to European supervisory frameworks”39 that can be viewed via their wiki. I hope this paper helped you to gain an overview on the preparation of Data Point Models. The methodology is very new and needs training and experience. I would be delighted to receive positive feedback that the thesis provides an efficient guidance for the task of creating and understanding DPMs. The reasonable training time for IT specialists as well as you, banking supervisors, needed to gain knowledge about the new methodology is worthwhile, as the DPM eases the communication about the required data by you. This offers additional opportunities for better analysis by slicing and dicing through the pool of supervisory data.
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I was fortunate as a boy, because lots of little boys dream of tugboats--bright red wooden boats with painted smiles and horns that go "toot, toot". But when I was a boy I got to play on the real thing and pilot them as well. Let me tell you something of my adventures and introduce you to the port of Georgetown.
The Port of Georgetown
The small town of Georgetown is one of three port cities in South Carolina--the other two are Beaufort and Charleston. The town was officially founded in 1729 while historians speculate that there might have been a failed attempt to settle there as early as 1526. Georgetown is 40 miles south of Myrtle Beach and 60 miles north of Charleston on Winyah Bay. When I was a boy there you only had to dial 5 digits to make a phone call and the town only had one zip code. Today you have to dial the full 7-digit phone number but any letter addressed to anyone in Georgetown will carry the same single postal code: 29440.
Georgetown was a sleepy town in the 1960s and is still a sleepy town today. It is largely unaffected by the rampant development of the nearby beach towns of Pawley s Island and Litchfield Beach. While the names of the businesses along the wide avenue of Front Street have changed over the years, the storefronts still look the same. Gone is Nancy s dress shop where my mother once worked. She said that hookers from the whore house south of town would come there with wads of cash in their hands to buy clothes. Gone is the Strand movie theater where I saw my first film, Mary Poppins. Gone is the Pepsi machine at the Gulf marina where you could buy a glass bottle of Pepsi for 25 cents. The soda was so cold that it was partially filled with ice.
People who have briefly passed through Georgetown on the way to the beach might have noticed the smell that comes from the paper mill. But for people grew up there or live there still the odor that sometimes wafts from the International Paper Company is not unpleasant at all. For this is the smell of money since so many people work there.
You cannot really say that Georgetown has a skyline since there are no tall buildings. But if you did, you would say that it is dominated by the towering clock of the Rice Museum. This was a former market where rice and slaves were bought and sold. Rice and indigo (used to make dye) farmed by slaves and their overseers made the area prosperous as did its proximity to navigable waters.
Georgetown like much of South Carolina was the site of Civil and Revolutionary War battles. During the Revolutionary war the British occupied the town. The town leaders who did not profess loyalty to the crown were exiled for a time to Edisto Island. Just South of Georgetown at Belle Isle Plantation is where Francis Marion was born. He harried the British troops in a guerilla-style campaign whose efficacy earned him the moniker "The Swamp Fox". Mel Gibson recognized this local hero when he made a movie called the "The Patriot" based loosely on the same character.
In Georgetown, the Black, Sampit, Pee Dee, and Waccamaw rivers join together to form the Winyah Bay. From the town of Georgetown to the ocean the bay runs about twenty miles.
As far as ports go, Georgetown is not large. Only a few ships come there each month and the harbor is not very deep. There are two factories in Georgetown, one state-owned pier, and an oil and gasoline depot where cargo is shipped and received. The paper mill in Georgetown receives much of its raw material (pine trees) by barge while the steel mill receives much of its raw material (coke and iron ore) by ship. My grandfather oversaw the fleet of barges and tugs at the paper company while my father handled the ships in the harbor with his tugs.
The harbor is not very deep, but it is deep enough for ships up to 600 feet in length. Like all East Coast harbors, Winyah Bay tends to get clogged with sand that is shifted about by the perpetual motion of the tides and the silt in the rivers. So the harbor must be dredged to keep it deep enough for shipping. The official depth of the channel is 29 feet. This means that a ship drawing 29 feet of water can sail into the port without running aground. Of course the harbor is deeper in some spots.
The Kathy Ann and the Wal-Row
My father had two tugboats: the Kathy-Ann and the Wal-Row that he kept at his company at the foot of Hazard Street. My grandfather father built both boats. The Kathy-Ann is 65 feet long and has 600 horsepower. The Wal-Row is 86 feet long and has 900 horsepower. My grandfather named the Wal-Row after himself. The Kathy my father named for John Burnette s daughter Kathy and my mother whose name is Ann. John owned White Stack towing in Charleston. For a time he owned half of the Kathy Ann until my dad bought him out. (White Stack is no longer in business having been bought out by Moran which is another mega-company like McAllister which bought my Dad s business.)
Both the Wal-Row and Kathy-Ann are built of steel. Both have twin screws meaning they have two propellers. A tugboat with twin screws is easier to control than a single-screw vessel. With a twin screw boat you can go ahead on one engine and go astern on another and spin the boat around in a tight circle. Single boat screws cannot do that, so they require a lot of back and forth action with the propeller and rudder to make the boat turn around. Next time you see a shrimp boat come up to the dock watch closely as the boat sallies up to the pier with a great profusion of noise and prop wash.
Tugboats generally have a round bottom and sit low in the water. The are designed to be low and heavy so that they have lots of momentum. Momentum, say the physicists, is mass times velocity. So a heavy boat will have more pulling power than a light one.
The propeller on the Wal-Row is 8 feet long and made of brass. It is fastened to the engine by a propeller shaft made of stainless steel. When you combine these two metals in saltwater it produces a small electric current which corrodes metal. This is called "electrolysis". To counter that you put zinc strips on the hull. Since zinc is softer than either brass or stainless steel the zinc corrodes first thus protecting the expensive propeller and propeller shaft.
The propeller shaft sticks through the hull of the boat and floats on a film of water that is housed in a device called the "stuffing box". This is a bearing of sorts. Every time that we docked the boats we had to check to make sure that the stuff box was not leaking too much water into the bilge.
The engines are head-high diesel powered engines that are cranked using an air-powered starter. When you press the starter button it makes a high-pitched squeal. I always enjoyed starting the engines on the boats. Each tugboat had two generators to power the lights. You need two in case one breaks down. That s another reason why two engines are preferred to one in you are going to work far offshore.
The bow of the Wal-Row is fitted with an enormous tractor-trailer tire, split lengthwise, and then held in place by turnbuckles. The idea of this fender is to let the tug push against the side of the ship without doing damage to either vessel. Some tugs have fenders made out of hemp, nylon, or other types of rope. But most people use tires since they are cheaper while they perhaps do not last as long. Fenders made of used tires held in place by chains are hung along the entire length of the hull on each tugboat.
The Wal-Row and Kathy Ann were similar is design. The only difference was the engine room on the Wal-Row was two floors high whereas the engine room on the Kathy Ann was much smaller. On the front deck of each boat was three towing bits and a bull nose or staple where the towing line was held in position directly over the stem of the boat. Behind that is the superstructure of the vessel. The wheelhouse is on the second floor. To get from the front deck to the wheelhouse you could either climb a ladder or go inside the galley and then climb the stairs or you could climb a ladder from the back deck. The top of the wheelhouse is covered with running lights, antennae, towing lights, and a searchlight which is a powerful light that you use to peer into the darkness.
The decks of the tugs slant backward giving the tug an upturned profile. The stern sits low in the water and is open area with lots of room to walk around and lay coils of heavy lines. At the stern are scuppers. These let water that runs onto the deck wash overboard. On the stern are also three towing bits--one mounted amidships and one mounted on each gunwale--and a capstan. The capstan is an electric wench that is used to haul in heavy towing lines.
We rarely used the stern of the tugboats when handling ships. When you work with ships we always connected the towing hawser to the ship from the bow except on the rare occasion when the pilot wanted us to put up a stern hawser. When we worked with barges--which was less frequently than ships--we used the stern towing bit. Barges are generally towed aft of the tugboat although certain tugs with square bows--called "pusher tugs"--push them in front.
The wheelhouse of the tug is where the captain stood to steer the vessel. The Wal-Row did not have a traditional steering wheel but had twin electric-switches with large handles. You flipped the handle right or left to turn the vessel s rudder one way or the other. There were two such steering devices so that you could steer the vessel from either side of the boat. The Kathy Ann, on the other hand, had a traditional wooden steering wheel. I prefer the steer wheel since the handle was somewhat confusing.
The clutch and the throttle were connected to the same handle. (I say this because the throttle and clutch on some boats are separate levers. This like the electric steering handles I always found somewhat cumbersome.) With the single levers, you push the handle forward to make the boat go ahead and pull it backwards to make it go astern. Going from one direction to the other you are supposed to pause the clutch at neural and let the gear box come to a halt. Otherwise it will put too much strain on the transmission and it will wear out more quickly.
Behind the wheelhouse was the captain s quarters and where we kept the logs and the first aid kit. Behind that was a smokestack that vented exhaust from the engines. The smokestack is the item that defines the familiar profile of the tugboat. Think of, say, the Titanic and what you notice first is the towering smokestacks. So it goes with tugboats. Yet the stack always seemed to be constructed larger than is necessary, for the actual exhaust pipe inside is not very large.
On the main deck of the vessel was the galley and three staterooms with bunk beds. To go inside you had to open heavy watertight doors. The windows of the galley and staterooms were round port holes designed to take a heavy pounding from the sea. On a boat, the kitchen is called a "galley" and the bathroom is call the "head". The galley included a refrigerator, a stove, and a sink. The staterooms had bunk beds.
Ship Handling
To "dock" a ship means to push it up to the dock and to "undock" a ship means to tow it away. Both activities are collectively called "ship handling". Let me explain to you how this is done.
When a ship approaches Georgetown from the ocean it is met offshore by the river pilot. The river pilot s job is a tough one. When the ocean is rough and the winds are blowing, sport fishermen can stay home in their warm beds. But with some 11,000 tons of cargo bearing down on the coastline, the pilot must get out to the ship. It s dangerous work too. One of the pilots in Georgetown, Wright Skinner, fell overboard and drowned in the frigid Atlantic.
The pilot s boat is a fast-running vessel that is designed to take waves over the bow without capsizing or being swamped. The pilot uses a ladder to climb onto the bridge of the ship and then takes control from the captain. The reason for this is the pilot knows the local waters whereas the ship captain does not. Also pilots are given licenses based on a particular river or bay. So a pilot who is licensed in, say, Charleston might not be able to work in Georgetown. My brother is licensed as a harbor pilot in Wilmington, North Carolina. To earn his license he had to draw from memory every submerged cable, buoy, and bar for the entire length of the Cape Fear River.
As the ship enters the inlet it sails 15 miles or so up the Winyah Bay where it is met by the tugboat. At this point a harbor pilot climbs onboard the ship. When the ship nears the harbor, the harbor pilot takes over from the river pilot. The harbor pilot s skill is maneuvering the ship up to the dock. He takes command of the ship and directs the tugboats that assist him.
When I sailed with my father, I always enjoyed the point where we first met the ship out in Winyah Bay. If we were on the Wal-Row, the larger vessel, we would head out to meet the ship first while the Kathy Ann, the smaller vessel, remained behind. We would turn right out of the Sampit River and head south down the Intracoastal Waterway and wait there for the ship to arrive. The ship would loom up over the horizon--you could see the stack and superstructure above the distant islands long before you could see the hull. At first it was a small distant speck, but as it got closer it grew larger and larger. When the ship was just behind us, my father would put the engines in gear and bring the tugboat along side. Taking care to match the speed of the ship, her steered the tugboat to starboard until it bounced gently off the port side of the ship and then came to rest there. The fenders of the tugboat kept the steel of the tug and ship from rubbing together.
My job at this point was to put up a ladder so the docking pilot could climb up to the ship. The harbor pilot we used was Morgan Futch. Once the pilot was one board my father would turn the rudder to port and rush toward the bow of the ship. There I would use a heaving line to put a hawser up on the ship.
The heaving line is a rope made of hemp or nylon. It is a small line that is used to lift the larger towing line, the hawser, up to the ship. The heaving line has a monkey s fist at the end. This is cleverly-spliced ball with a piece of steel inside. It looks sort of like a baseball. You coil the heaving line loosely and then put half of the coil in one hand and the other half in the other. Then you thrown the line hard and high so it will sail high enough to reach over the gunwale of the ship. Ships are quite tall so it takes a strong throw to toss the line up to the deckhands working on the deck there.
On the deck of the ship, the deckhands stick the heaving line through a chock which is a hole on the side of the ship. Then they use a capstan or winch to lift the heavy hawser up to the deck then fit the eye of the hawser over the bit.
The hawser is a huge line of usually three strands. It is maybe 6 or more inches in diameter. You attach the hawser to the tugboat by slipping it through the bull ring at the bow and then making the hawser fast on the towing bit. When you tie off a hawser this is called "making it fast".
The towing bit is steel and is shaped like an H or the letter "T". The bit is welded to the ship s deck or gunwales. The larger bit is fastened to the tug s bulkhead and keel so it won t break off under heavy load. A hawser is too large to tie it into a knot so you coil it around the bit in a figure-eight pattern to hold it tight. As the hawser begins to carry the weight of the slip these coils slip a little but then friction holds it all together. You have to take care to wind it properly so that it does not slip nor get pinched on itself which would cause it to break. I have seen a hawser break and the noise and shock is quite frightening not to mention dangerous.
After I put the line on the bow, my Dad would put the tugboat into idle and we would let the ship tow us toward the left-hand turn where the Sampit River empties into Winyah Bay. If we were on the Wal-Row, then the Kathy-Ann at this point would be standing by usually along the starboard quarter i.e. along the other side and toward the stern.
A ship is too big and cumbersome to make an abrupt left-hand turn by itself. So when we got close to the Sampit River, the docking pilot would come on the radio and order the Wal-Row to back down full or back down half . (In the days before radio the pilot and ship communicated these instructions by steam-powered whistle or horn.) At the pilot s command, my father would put the tug s engines into reverse and carefully add tension to the towing line. When the tug was backing at full power, the hawser drew incredibly tight. If it had fallen into the water, the tension put on it now would literally wring it dry. I always stepped back out of the way and usually joined my dad in the safety of the wheelhouse. For if the hawser were to break it would certain kill you.
There were four docks in Georgetown where a ship could tie up. If we were heading to the state dock then we would turn left and follow the Sampit River to just below the highway 17 bridge. We would go past the dock so that the ship could be turned around. One tug would be on the bow and another on the stern. At the command of the harbor pilot my father would turn the rudder to starboard swinging the stern of the tug away from the ship until the tug and ship were perpendicular. Then he would go ahead full on the engines. At the other end of the ship the captain of the Kathy Ann would do the same except he was pushing from the other side. This would cause the great ship to swing around in place.
Working on the tug you cannot see much of the ship since the ship is so tall. Only occasionally would a small ship--such as those that carried mahogany lumber--come in port whose deck was almost reachable from the bridge. Even standing on the roof of the wheelhouse the deck of the average ship was far above your head. The stern of the ship to me was always more interesting than the bow, because there you got to see the huge propeller in action. When the river pilot wanted the ship to back down the propeller would move slowly chop, chop, chop churning up great eddies and swirls in the water. And then the propeller would fall silent again as the ship put the propeller into neutral. Sea gulls always were in the ship s wake to snatch up the fish that were caught up in this commotion.
When we had turned the ship around we would head slowly back down the Sampit River and the Wal-Row would drop her line and race around to the other side. I would retrieve the hawser from the deckhands and then put it up again on the starboard bow. The deckhands were too far away to talk to so we just waved at each other or blew the horn to get their attention. Most did not speak English anyway so we could not have communicated had we been side-by-side.
With both boats now on the starboard side we would push against the ship and press it up against the pier. Then longshoreman on the dock would take lines from the deckhands on the ship and the ship would be tied up to the dock. At this point we would retrieve the pilot--unless he had parked his car at the dock--and head back to our own dock.
Undocking a ship is obviously just the reverse of docking it. This time the pilot climbs the gangplank from the dock to get to the bridge of the ship rather than climbing a ladder. Then two tugboats, or sometimes one, come along side the ship and press their bows against the ship s side. Some times one of the tugs would come in stern first and put out a stern hawser. All of this varied with the size of the ship, the wind, the hide, and the pilot s discretion.
The pilot would signal the tugs to go half ahead or slow ahead to push the ship up against the pier. Then the longshoremen would pick up the hawsers that held the ship in place and lift them over the heavy bit. Deckhands on the ship used winches or capstans to haul the lines aboard and then they coiled them neatly on the deck.
When the vessel was free the pilot would order the tugboats to back down hard to pull the vessel away from the dock. Plus he would order the ship s captain to come ahead or astern with the ship s propeller to assist in moving the ship.
If the ship was pointed toward Winyah Bay then undocking her would be fairly quick as all we did was pull her away from the dock and then the ship moved out on her own power. But if the ship was pointing in the wrong direction then she needed to be turned around. So one of the tugs would let go her lines and zip around to the opposite side of the vessel. Then one tug would push from one side of the ship at the bow and the other tug would push on the stern and the ship would spin around slowly. The pilot backed the ship s engines or put them in forward gear to prevent the ship from drifting with the current the wrong way up the river while we turned her around.
As the ship left the Sampit River we would pass the small town of Maryville on the right and the baseball park on the left--beyond that is the open waters of the bay. One tug would let go and head back to the dock while the other tug hung on to assist the ship with its right-hand turn into Winyah Bay and then picked up the pilot.
The Girl was a Jinx
Handling ships is normally uneventful even if as a boy I always found it quite fun. Perhaps the only variation on the same theme was the variety of ships that came into harbor. Some ships hauled lumber, some carried oil, and some even carried bananas. Some were German, some American, some from South America. But on otherwise uneventful day--as we turned a ship loose into Winyah Bay--there was a calamity. I was sure a girl I had brought on board caused this disaster since we all knew she was a jinx.
My dad lived for many years on a farm on the Black River but then moved out to Pawley s Island with his third wife. (He sold his farm to pay off his second wife.) Then they moved moved from Pawleys Island to Belle Isle Marina. There I made friends with Duffy Connelly and his family. Duffy, like myself, spent much time fishing with his father on the ocean. We hung out together at the marina and managed to get in trouble with Ed Braynard, the marina owner, on more that one occasion. For example, I hot-wired the marina s electric cart and we got caught driving it around the neighborhood.
I was enamored with the entire Connelly family. The patriarch of the family was a Doctor from Kingstree who I understand now practices medicine in Charleston. In our youth Duffy was always certain of his future. He said he wanted to get a good job, go to college, et cetera while I speculated that I might become a charter boat captain. But I was the one who took the white-collar route: university, graduate school, and the corporate culture while Duffy farmed hogs on an industrial scale.
The Connelly s had three daughters. The eldest was perhaps two years older than me and certainly out of my league as far as my romantic aspirations were concerned. Still she agreed to go with me to a seafood restaurant in Georgetown. I wouldn t exactly call it a date, because the restaurant where I took her was a brightly-lit family restaurant. The next time I took her somewhere was to ride on my father s tugboats.
I am not sure why we got the notion the Connolly girl was a jinx. But she certainly brought back luck to that tugboat trip where we had never had bad luck before. Never in my many years of riding tugboats had I seen anything go wrong. (Of course, my brother and father have much more experience. They have had collisions with bridges, run aground, and, in short, experienced the usual sort of things that can happen when you are pushing something you cannot see around ahead of you in the dark or journeying in a hurricane.) But on this particular day as we let go the ship that we were undocking, it proceeded to make the right-hand turn out of the Sampit River unescorted by a tugboat. But the ship made the turn too wide and ran hard aground on a sand bar. So we scurried around to the port side of the ship with both tugboats and tried to push her off. But the heavy ship stuck in the mud would not budge.
There could have been no worse time for this ship to run aground for the tide was high. This meant that instead of lifting her to freedom, the falling tide would worsen her fate. When the tide started to fall the ship started to list fairly steeply to starboard. So the crew of the ship used the cranes on board to lift heavy cargo-filled nets over the port side to put weight on the opposite side and perhaps stop the ship from leaning over any further. (Today most cargo is carried in containers that are ferried to the port by tractor-trailer trucks. It those days cargo was packed neatly in the hull by longshoremen. Such mechanization is one reason that longshoremen have lost so many jobs)
This transpired over a couple of days. By this time "The Georgetown Times" newspaper had sent out their photographer who snapped pictures of the stuck ship and the tug s feeble attempt to set her free. When a ship is not moving it is costing its owners a fortune in lost revenue. So the owners sent for two larger tugboats to steam all the way from Charleston. That took about two days. By this time a flotilla of small boats had gathered to watch the unfolding spectacle. Finally, two heavy tugboats came into view on Winyah Bay and joined the Kathy Ann and Wal-Row on the port side of the ship. We waited until high tide then the four tugboats pushed the ship back out into the ship channel with relative ease to a cheer from the crowd.
A Boy at the Helm
A captain needs a license to pilot a boat. When we went to dock or undock a ship there were always 4 people: two captains and two deck hands on each boat. The deckhand worked as the engineer as well meaning his job was to stop and start the engines and monitor their temperature. But one day we came to work and there were only three: my brother, my dad, and myself.
I had had lots of experience running the tugboats under the watchful eye of my dad, Ben Walker, or Wayne Thigpen. This is how a new captain gets trained. Ben and Wayne let me take the helm frequently while my father usually took over in the tight spots. But never had I taken a boat out alone, since I was not licensed to do so. But we had an oil tanker waiting to sail and one crew member failed to show up. So my father turned to me.
No doubt nervous about this endeavor my Dad asked Lester Larimore to ride the tug with me. Lester was an 80-plus year old fellow who lived on his boat docked off Front Street in Georgetown right near our tugs. His back was bent crooked from many years of bad posture and hauling heavy fishing nets. Lester had many years of piloting boats, but I am not sure if he had tugboat experience.
So we set out for the oil terminal with myself at the helm and Lester standing by my side. Following the usual routine I drove the Kathy Ann to the stern of the oil tanker and pushed her up to the dock. We did not need to put a line on the ship since the Wal-Row could simply pull her bow away from the pier. But the harbor was a little crowded that day since a dredge was working to deepen the harbor. So I was wary to keep clear of the dredge and not get crushed between it and the tanker.
When the tanker pulled free from the terminal I opened the throttle and raced between the tanker and the state dock so that I could push on the port bow if necessary. The boat pushed up a big wake while we made perhaps 10 knots.
Looking back on this trip I think it remarkable that a boy with no license would handle an oil tanker. There was no real risk since I had experience but the Coast Guard would have certainly frowned on my unlicensed trip. Today after the Exxon Valdez oil spill there are lots of rules concerning oil tankers and ship crews so what I did then would not have been possible now. And since the 9/11 terrorist attack I can no longer get onto the Navy base in Charleston so that I can get out to McAllister Towing to ride the tugs with my brother who works there.
I did not know this when I was a boy, but having watched my brother work in the tugboat industry for the past 15 years I have come to understand the a tugboat crew is a motley one. On more than one occasion my brother has had to disarm drunken, surly deckhands who have come at him with knives. But such rough men are usually found on the ocean-going tugboats where my brother used to work and where my dad worked in the early years of his business. People who work in the harbor get to go home and sleep in their own bed are usually less distraught or dangerous. One guy I recall that worked with my brother started drinking Vodka at 3:00 o clock in the morning and then drank beer all day long. While he was a bad alcoholic he made me laugh. I cooked lunch for him and my brother. I was running the boat as we sailed into Jacksonville harbor while they were down below eating fried fish. Since that boat likewise had electric handles for steering I could not keep the boat in a straight line. (Beginners have a tendency to overcorrect when steering.) So the boat heeled over slightly with each steering correction. That surly captain joked that I was going to "spill his beer".
I don t recall any knife-wielding drunks working for my dad. Rather they were men that I most the most part admired perhaps as any young boy would. My father has had various people work for him over the years as full-time or part-time crew, business partners, or contractors.
Ben Walker worked as a tug captain for my father for many years. (My father ran into him a few years ago and told him "I thought you were dead". I thought he was dead too.) I remember Ben helping to build a dock at our house at Litchfield Beach around 1966 when I was 5 years old. Ben was a gentle giant of a man with a prominent nose. He had three boys, two of which were twins, and one daughter. The twins were Ernie and Ronnie. I forget the elder boy s name. He was the only one I had even seen who could ride the somewhat-wild horses that we kept at our Rose Hill farm on the Black River. The only time that my brother and I tried to ride those horses they tossed us off promptly leaving my father to chase them down.
Ben spent much time looking after my brother Andy and I when he was not busy running the boats. I helped him put splices in the hawsers using a marlinspike (that s like a needle albeit much larger). He taught me much about steering the boat and handling lines. And he made sure my brother and I stayed out of trouble as we hammered away at toy wooden boats we built in the shop or played with welding rods and discarded pieces of metal.
Wayne Thigpen was another tugboat captain who worked for my father. Wayne was also a business partner for he and my dad operated the ship chandler business. A ship chandler buys duty-free goods for the ship. Wayne kept the tankers and cargo ships well-stocked with booze, dry goods, did their laundry for them, and even took them to dinner. On more than one occasion I used Wayne s van to haul a van-load of foreign nationals to some restaurant for dinner. Or I took them to Charleston where they could buy equipment they could not find in Quayaquil or whatever foreign port they hailed from.
Wayne had some kind of license to be a cop for he carried a badge and a gun. He smoked disgusting menthol cigarettes whereas as a teenager or college student I smoked Marlboro Lights. Wayne liked my brother more than me I am sure. He was always poking about my business including making a fuss when he found marijuana cigarettes on my Dad s houseboat where I was living one summer. Since he wasn t a real cop I had nothing to fear. He just tried to make me feel uncomfortable. Still Wayne s office is where I met Renee Crib who I dated for one glorious summer. She even stuck with me when I went off for a weekend with Vera Glidewell. from Sumter, who I met at my college fraternity. So I probably deserved my fate when Renee tossed me over the side (not in the marine sense of course.) Renee was prone to lots of outward display of affection. She grabbed me about the neck in tears one dark night as I got off the Kathy-Ann and Wayne lit up the whole scene for everyone to see using the searchlight of the Wal-Row.
When I was in college drug-smuggling was big business along the South Carolina coast. Everyone knew someone whose brother or cousin had been caught smuggling pot aboard a shrimp boat or fishing boat. My own father had bought a sportfishing boat that had been impounded by the coat guard for smuggling marijuana. The Coast Guard let it sit for several years and it practically fell apart before my father bought it at a bargain price. The Ben Walker and other men working for my dad went to work refitting the engines and replacing the propellers to make her seaworthy again.
Anyway my friend Jeff Andersen lived next door to us at Belle Isle. Jeff was a popular boy who all the girls loved. So I was surprised when he opted out of college, joined the navy, and got married early. Jeff s father owned the local lumber company and had a passion for boats without knowing how to operate them. He would buy these fast speed boats but never venture out onto the ocean preferring to blast along at 50 miles an hour in the relative safety of the waterway.
Jeff was a surfer which in the realm of highschool defines a social circle rather than a sport. So Jeff and his female hangers-on spent much time at the beach where the sun worked to make their beach blond hair even blonder. One day Jeff was surfing at what was then a vacant stretch of Litchfield Beach (it s developed now) when he found a water-logged bail of marijuana sitting on the sand. No doubt some smuggler had dropped his load and the bail had floated up on the beach.
Because the bail was water-logged it was too heavy to carry so Jeff and the friends that were with him grabbed what they could and they carried it in their arms. Since Jeff had no where to keep his windfall find I stashed on my dad s houseboat where I was living at the time. My father was away for the summer fishing at his house at Cape Hatteras so that boat was a place we could hide out away from the prying eyes of parents.
The irony of this story is we never did smoke that pot. It would never dry out to a point where it would stay lit when burned. We tried for hours to dry it out with a blow drier but it just stay black and moldy.
For a few years my father had a tugboat captain who had been a schoolteacher and had served in the coast guard. I don t remember his name but this poor fellow with sad eyes and frizzy hair was ill served for any job involving stress. For when he drove the tug up under the side of the ship to put up or take down a line his nerves took over and his hands shook violently. Certainly the stern of a ship with its menacing propeller and dangerous overhang was unnerving. So it required an even-tempered chap to steer the boat in position and take orders from the pilot. But this guy was had such delicate nerves that he made me nervous as he shook as violently as a bent propeller shaft. He finally had a heart attack--I am not sure if it was work-related--so my father paid him his salary anyway while someone else did the work.
Another man who we worked with was Morgan Futch. He was the only docking pilot who worked in Georgetown when I was a boy. He was old when I first met him and even older when I saw him last. Since Georgetown was not very busy Morgan worked both the ports of Charleston and Georgetown. I know his age know now because he filed a lawsuit against McAllister Towing for back wages and I found that on the Internet. That suit was appealed to the South Carolina Supreme Court. It lists his age at 88 years in 1993. Further it gives the date that my dad pulled out his company and moved it to Wilmington as 1981. So Morgan was 75 years old in the last year that my father was in Georgetown. (My father pulled his company out because both the paper mill and steel mills shutdown for some time. The paper mill shut down to remodel, and the steel mill went broke. During that time few ships came into harbor so instead of making money my father started to lose it. He told me he could not sustain this loss indefinitely so he moved to another port.)
Morgan s girlfriend owned a liquor store in town that was just in front of the new location where we started docking our tugs. Since it was on the same parking lot he did not have far to go to see his paramour when he was done with work.
Morgan fits the definitely of a hard-drinking, cursing, rough, old salt. He was full of tales of the sea from his many years working on boats. Most remarkable of all was he could climb the ladder to a ship in the rain, at 3:00 o clock in the morning, or whenever at 70 years of age.
I understand that Morgan and his prot駩 Norman Assie borrowed some money and attempted to operate a tugboat company in the vacuum of Georgetown after my father left town. They too sold out to the big guys as did most of the other small tugboat companies on the East Coast.
Dredging Bell Isle Marina
My dad used his tugs to dredge Bell Isle Marina. I spent much of my youth hanging out at the docks there.
Ed Braynard was the owner of Bell Isle Marina. He was a hard-drinking fellow from New York who I much respected and admired. He had had colon cancer and quipped that he went to the bathroom "by his watch" since much of his colon was gone. When Ed had a few drinks he would get on the VHF radio and start with his humorous jokes albeit on the public airwaves. Sitting offshore on our fishing boat we just thought this was funny. One surly boat captain who was the target of this riposte did not think this was funny and punched Ed in the nose.
My father kept two of his boats at Bell Isle and I spent many happy hours polishing the teak decks or scrubbing fish blood out of the cockpit after a rough day at sea. I had many friends there and think back on this time with whimsical affection. One of most surreal images is that of me leaning against a gas pump smoking a cigarette. I was there with my friend Johny Kornegy who had played football at Wofford. Johny was living at the marina on his dad s 28-foot Bertram. Now s he a mortician. (That s rather macabre.)
Another chap who spent much time at the Marina was Dave Odum. He was the local mechanic. Being a diesel mechanic at a marina is like having a "license to steal" as the old clich鍊goes. For millionaires with no mechanical aptitude would turn to Dave to fix their broken down luxury yachts. Dave had lots of girlfriends. Once I drove a small boat all the way from McClellanville to Belle Isle via Cape Romain in the middle of the night with a fraternity brother. This is perhaps 50 miles. I needed a dime to make a phone call so I tapped on the cabin of Dave s sailboat and out popped his head. I knew he would be in there with his latest girlfriend and sure enough he was. Dave helped me on more than one occasion. My senior year of college my money to finish school ran out and my mother, father, and step-father cut off my funds so I could not fix my car nor pay my tuition. My car was broken for my brother had driven it back from Myrtle Beach with a broken rod. Having no money I unbolted the engine and hung it from the limb of a live oak tree. Months later I gathered enough cash to take it to a repair shop where they rebuilt the engine. But when I put it back into the car it would not start. Do Dave drove 35 miles down to our farm to take a look at what was wrong.
Anyway, regarding the tugboats Belle Isle Marina was nothing more than a hole cut into the marsh. So it filled up with sand and Ed had to spend lots of money to dredge it back to the 5 to 7 feet depth needed to float the yachts that docked there. So taking a short cut he simply got my father to come into the marina with his tugboats. Tugboats are so powerful and heavy that they can literally plow through the mud even when there is not enough water. So like some fat lady making her way to the buffet for dinner, we waddled around in the mud until the marina was deep again. Certainly this was legal because the Coast Guard station was right there--they would have spoke up if we needed some permit.
The Journey with the 8th Grade
When I was in the 8th grade I told my mother that I wanted to go live with my father. My father still had his tugboat business in Georgetown but had branched out into aquaculture. He raised catfish on his farm on the Black River and eels with a partner in Monks Corner. So for that year we found ourselves living in Monks Corner near the eel farm.
The rural south had de factor segregation in public schools in those days and to a certain extent still does. My father sent me to the Lord Berkeley private school, because that is where all the white children went. The public school in town was all black or whites who were too poor to go to the private school.
Monks Corner is located where the Cooper and Santee Rivers join Lake Moultrie. Lake Moultrie along with Lake Marion are two enormous man-made lakes that were built to generate electricity for the Santee Cooper Electric Cooperative. Engineers years ago actually diverted a large part of the flow of the Santee River over several miles to the Cooper River in a project they call the "diversion canal". And when they dammed the Santee River it created the two aforementioned lakes. These lakes provide sport to the fisherman and duck hunters. It is also well-known as the first lakes in the world where the saltwater striped bass first learned to live in fresh water. Blocked from returning to the ocean by the new dam, these big fish simply learned to breathe fresh water year-round instead of only during their annual spawning migration.
My father had a friend who lived in Monks Corner called Willie Iselin. His family owned Mulberry plantation on the Cooper River where they practiced a somewhat antiquated sport in an annual rite. Horse riders came dashing across the lawn and then put lances through steel rings hung from tree limbs. It was a test of dexterity as to who could best control their lance in this jousting contest. There Live Oak trees were so old that their limbs actually grew down to the ground.
Willie also was in the catfish farming business along with father. They were not partners, rather they just both had catfish farms. Catfish were rather clever. We fed them Purina Catfish food which they dropped into the water by tapping on a wire rod which hung from a feeder. My father was a bit premature in this business for he lost money and eventually drained all his ponds. But catfish farming now is a major business. Practically all the catfish you buy in the store are farm-raised.
Less clear is why my father got into the eel business. His business partner claimed to be the only person in the world who knew how to catch fingerling eels. These he transported to tanks by the billions where they would be raised to adulthood. But that business did not prosper. Either the eels all died or there were no profits. My dad s grand plans including flying the eels alive to Japan where hungry Japanese would eat them as sushi. I recall a Japanese buyer and importer meeting with us in Monks Corner. I though the guy was rich because he bought me an ice cream and gave me 5 dollars.
Beyond the genteel mansion at Moultrie Plantation, Monks Corner was basically a red neck town. I easily breezed through school there earning straight A s because it was so simple. Perhaps the only useful thing I learned at school there was how to play spin the bottle. The only person I remember from that school was George Washington from Jamestown which is between McClellanville and Moncks Corner. I later ran into his grandfather when I leased a duck hunting pond in the area. I got in trouble for laughing at George in class when he didn t know the answer to some problem. I guess I was sort of a big city snob having gone to the 7th grade in Greenville.
The other reason we were in Monks Corner was my dad married a woman who was from there, Fay Anne Droze. She was nice to me but I think one reason their marriage fell apart was she was a simple country girl. (I believe one should only marry in their own cultural and economic strata. I learned that the hard way having married and divorced a South American whose mother moved into my house hastening the demise of my marriage.) Fay Anne s father had chickens running around the yard--that would not have been strange in the country--except he lived in the city. Like the rural blacks in Chopee, Mr. Droze swept his grass-free yard with a broom. The marriage between his daughter Fay Anne and my dad did not last long.
But while I was there in Monks Corner I had the idea to take the entire 8th grade for a history tour tugboat ride as part of our history class. Georgetown, after all, was the site of civil and revolutionary war battles as well as being a very old town. So somehow I convinced my dad to take me and 30 or so of my classmates around Winyah Bay.
I am sure it cost a good bit of money as tugboats guzzle down fuel, but we sailed around Winyah Bay for a few hours turning around at the wreck of the Harvest Moon. This was a boat that had been sunk in a Civil War battle. I forget whether it was Union or Confederate but standing there above the waves it was a rusting tribute to nautical history. This trip did much to endear me to my father as well as heighten my standing among the pretty girls at school.
I thought my father generous because in the days when the minimum wage was $3 dollars my father paid my brother and I $5 to work as deckhands. When we were not docking ships nor hanging out at North Inlet we were chipping rust.
Rust is the perpetual bane of ship owners the world over. Left to its devices in the presence of saltwater steel will rust and crumble into powder. So you must hammer or chip out the rust and then paint over the wound with rust-preventing primer and then apply regular paint over that.
A few years ago I went on board one of the tugboats that my father had bought when he moved his company to Wilmington, North Carolina and then later sold it to McAllister Towing. This tug was called the "Titan". It had been an ocean-going boat and had sailed to Vietnam a few times during the war. We used it to handle ships in the Cape Fear River. But McAllister perhaps thought they no longer wanted the boat so they quit painting it. It quickly began to rust. The deck was so full of holes that I was afraid to let my kids walk across the deck for fear they would fall in.
I am sure that men in the navy or those who have worked on ships will tell you that when a sailor s hands are idle someone will usually toss them a paint brush and chipping hammer to combat this perpetual problem. So it was with my brother and I. It was a lot of work to hammer at the iron oxide then use an industrial strength grinder to burnish off the cancerous rust from the boats. We got smarter later and bought a pneumatic chipper that jabbed at the rust with air-powered fingers. But it made such a racket that it rattled your bones and if we had not worn ear plugs would have ruined out ears.
My father, Walker E. Rowe, Jr.
My father is a big man. He is more than six feet tall and deeply suntanned. He spent much of his life on the ocean. All of that sun has taken its toll for he suffers from skin cancer. Surgeons have sliced away portions of his nose and ears. The pain is such that he is reminded of it each day.
I ve always told my father than he has been lucky because he has never had to punch a clock meaning his unconventional life had given him much leisure. He used to spend the entire winter in the Florida Keys fishing while other boy s fathers worked at their desks or hammer houses together in the cold. When he was not docking ships he was hunting duck, deer, or turkey. My father insists that he has worked hard and, having owned my own business, I understand now that the burden of entrepreneurship was always with him.
I am sure my Dad s early years in the tugboat business were tough as he and my mother had little money. My Dad was gone frequently on long ocean trips and once moved all of us to San Juan, Puerto Rico where he had a year-long towing contract.
Like many kids from broken homes, I am often angry that he was not there to raise me all the time. I only spent the summers and holidays with him. But I am grateful for the many experiences he gave me fishing on the ocean, hunting ducks, or riding the tugs.
My Dad is retired and spends his days fishing and hunting on Edisto Island. He recently built by hand a small wooden fishing boat of the type that I often watched him and his father build. Since boats today are fiberglass a wooden boat is a novelty.
My grandfather the boat builder
As I said before my grandfather, Walker E. Rowe, Sr., built the two tugboats that my father used in his business. He was a self-taught boat builder who was also in charge of the marine railways at International Paper Company. He had a pencil thin mustache and usually smelled of cologne. He once smoked cigars but other than that he was a teetotalling Baptist.
My grandfather worked for 40 years at International Paper Company taking care of their fleet of tugs and barges. He would work on the top deck of a 100-foot barge then flip it over in the water to work on the bottom. When the work day at International Paper Company ended he would head off to work some more building tugs, shrimp boats, and pleasure craft out of steel, fiberglass, or wood. He built these for various customers including many who never paid him. Sometimes he worked alone. Sometimes he seemed to have all the craftsmen in town working for him at once.
When I got out of college I did not know what to do so I moved in with my grandfather and helped him build a 65-foot fiberglass fishing boat. He built it for the man, Bill McClain, whose brother founded the giant shipping firm Sea Land. Bill was so enamored of my father and this boat that he named it the "Rowe Boat." There s a bit of irony here because Sea Land is only one of three U.S. flagged steamship companies left in America. The others have fled offshore where labor wages and taxes are lower.
My grandfather said that he had patented a couple of inventions. One was called a "flexible-coupling". This device kept the engine and the propeller shaft properly aligned in a wooden-hulled boat. When you filled a wooden tugboat with fuel the hull changes shape slightly, so the propeller shaft gets out of alignment. Then the propeller and shaft vibrate. The flexible couple took care of that problem.
Another of his inventions was the Dixie Scooter sailboat which was a pre-cursor to the popular Sunfish. The man who owned Williams Furniture company paid my grandfather to manufacture these small sailboats that could be handled by one sailor.
My grandfather also said that he built a jet engine out in the front yard of his house when he was a boy. It was a turbine design--the more kerosene you poured into it the faster it went. It howled and made a terrible racket. But his father was jealous that his son was such a mechanical genius so smashed the machine to bits.
When my grandfather grew to be a man it was the Great Depression and there was no work where he lived on the coast of North Carolina. So he built a wooden fishing boat which he named "Jean" after his daughter. To make money he took people on fishing charters.
There wasn t much else to do there except work on the water or perhaps work in the lumber business as my great-grandfather did. My grandfather lived with his wife in my Aunt Daisy s house in Swansboro, North Carolina. Her husband, Guy Stanley, worked on a dredge and a cargo vessel that ferries groceries and supplies from Morehead City to Swansboro. My grandmother s brother, Willie Canady, worked in the merchant marines as a mate on cargo ships. He died this year at 97 years of age. Across the street were cousins that owned a fleet of shrimp boats in Texas. And then other cousins sold seafood or bait.
Building boats was my grandfather s profession. He only went to the sixth grade, but I marveled how he could sit in his study, draw out his design, then hammer and weld it into a working idea. He worked mainly with steel once dropping a piece on his finger than that crushed off the end. But it was more impressive how he could bend stiff wood planks into the curve of a hull and not buckle the same. He built racing boats that my father raced in competitions when he was a boy. These boats were so small that their heavy motor would sink them. So you had to crank them up then drop them in the water.
Epiloque
I am not sure what happened to the Kathy Ann, but as of 2001 the Wal-Row was working the harbor of New York from McAllister Towing s Staten Island office.
Posted by Walker Elliott Rowe at 5:29 PM
I am administrative officer for the Long Bay Power Squadron, a division of the United States Power Squadron in Myrtle Beach, SC, and would love to have a tug boat captain come speak with our group. Can you please direct me as to where I could go to speak with someone in reference to this? Your stories are awesome!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Renee Elvis
mrswoody61904@aol.com
Copyright © 2008 Walker Elliott Rowe
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Now in the Ancient Language of Rome
AGEod’s new Grand Strategy game set in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, is nearing its release date: on July 11th, Armchair Imperators will have a new game to test their wits and conquer the known world, from the Mediterranean sea, up to chilly Caledonia or beyond the limes with German feral tribes.
To celebrate this event, a few weeks back Slitherine published a “Two minutes trailer” explaining the major traits of the game. The same trailer is now officially released in old Latin, the language of Cicero and Tacitus.
Marketing Director Marco Minoli, from his seat in the Mediolanum Slitherine Headquarters and wearing his nicest Consular red robe, said “Empires melior quam Imperator ludus est” (Empires is a better game than Imperator), just minutes before appointing his horse as the new Global PR Manager – the previous one was last seen dragged into the Capital’s prison by Pretorian guards. Marco also promised, “If Field of Glory: Empires will sell more than 250.000 copies worldwide, we will release a full Latin version of our game“.
Field of Glory: Empires is developed by AGEod. It developed cornerstone strategy games like American Civil War, Wars of Succession and Birth of Rome.
Field of Glory: Empires is set to release only on PC on July 11th.
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Where to find Xur in Destiny 2 - September 20, 2019
All the info you need to find Xur and browse his inventory of Exotic items in Destiny 2.
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It’s that time of the week again in Destiny 2, when Xur emerges from hiding and loiters around a random location. Starting on Friday, Xur will pick a location and stay there for a few days as an Exotic goods vendor. Given that his location is random, it can be troublesome to sort through all of his previous spawn points in order to track him down.
Furthermore, because Xur sells new Exotic items each week, it can also be helpful to preview a list of what he has up for sale before you spend time trying to find him. During the week of September 20, Xur can be spotted at one of his regular locations selling a new array of Exotic armor pieces as well as an Exotic weapon. After September 24, you’ll need to wait until the following Friday to meet up with Xur again.
At that time, Xur will have moved to a new location and will offer a refreshed inventory of Exotics. Needs help finding Xur in Destiny 2, or simply want to know what he’s selling out of curiosity? Below, we’ve put together a comprehensive guide explaining where you can find Xur and what Exotic items he’s selling during the week of September 20 in Destiny 2!
During the week of September 20 through September 24, Xur can be found in the Winding Cove area of the EDZ on Earth in Destiny 2.
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In Destiny 2, Xur chooses the locations he spawns at randomly, though he will cycle through a familiar rotation of areas each week. Starting on Friday, Xur will appear at one of his main haunts. Once there, you can speak with Xur and browse through his collection of Exotic goods, with all items available for purchase in exchange for Legendary Shards.
Starting on Friday at 10:00 a.m. (PST), 1:00 p.m. (EST), and 6:00 p.m. (BST), Xur will be available to all players as an Exotic goods vendor in Destiny 2. Xur will remain at this location until Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. (PST), 1:00 p.m. (EST), and 6:00 p.m. (BST), and won’t return until the following Friday at the same time.
During the week of September 20, you can find Xur in the Winding Cove area of the EDZ on Earth. To reach him, you’ll need to spawn in at Winding Cove, then make your way north towards the rocky cliff area. Follow the narrow path towards the back area, near a downed Fallen ship, and nearby you should spot Xur near a section of trees.
What Xur is selling in Destiny 2 - September 20, 2019
Xur has Exotic items like The Colony available for purchase this week in Destiny 2.
During the week of September 20 through September 24, Xur can be found selling a curated mix of Exotic items. In Destiny 2, everything sold by Xur can be purchased in exchange for Legendary Shards, with most items priced at or around 23 Legendary Shards in total. Along with Exotic armor pieces for Warlocks, Titans, and Hunters, you can also purchase a new Exotic weapon from Xur as well as a Fated Engram.
Wondering what Exotic items are in Xur’s inventory this week in Destiny 2? Below, we’ve listed everything Xur has up for sale from September 20 through September 24 in Destiny 2!
The Colony (Exotic Grenade Launcher) - 29 Legendary Shards
Karnstein Armlets (Exotic Warlock Gauntlets) - 23 Legendary Shards
Orpheus Rig (Exotic Hunter Legs) - 23 Legendary Shards
Ashen Wake (Exotic Titan Gauntlets) - 23 Legendary Shards
Fated Engram - 97 Legendary Shards
Along with Exotic armor pieces like the Orpheus Rig, Xur also has a Colony Exotic grenade launcher this week, which is always a fun weapon to have. While there’s no Invitation of the Nine or anything like it, you can always pick up a Fated Engram for 97 Legendary Shards and a Five of Swords challenge card.
Now that you know all of the Exotic items Xur is selling this week in Destiny 2, we’re eager to hear what you think. Are you planning to pick up a Colony, or would you rather save your Legendary Shards and check back with Xur next week? Comment below! For a visual guide on Xur’s location and Exotic inventory this week, we’ve included a helpful video courtesy of YouTube user Ebontis.
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‘Fascism, American Style’ by John W. Whitehead
Tags: 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump, fascism
“If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.” ― Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States
This is an indictment of every politician who has ever sold us out for the sake of money and power, it is a condemnation of every politician who has ever lied to us in order to advance their careers, and it is a denunciation of every political shill who has sacrificed our freedoms on the altar of Corporate America.
They’re all fascists.
If Donald Trump is a fascist—as nearly half of Americans surveyed believe—then so is every other politician in office or running for office in America who has ever prioritized money and power over human beings.
Truly, apart from Trump’s virulently bombastic comments and his metaphorical willingness to spit in the wind in order to garner media coverage and notoriety, how is he any more of a fascist than Hillary Clinton and the millions she has amassed from the financial sector?
How is Trump any more of a fascist than Barack Obama, whose willingness to march in lockstep with the military industrial complex has resulted in endless wars, covert drone strikes that have killed hundreds of civilians abroad, andmilitarized police who have killed thousands of American citizens here at home?
How is Trump any more of a fascist than Congress, the majority of whom are millionaires and who are more inclined to do the bidding of their corporate sponsors and benefactors, all the while remaining deaf to their less affluent constituents?
For that matter, how is Trump any more of a fascist than the Supreme Court whose decisions in recent years have beencharacterized most often by an abject deference to government authority, military and corporate interests?
Writing for the New York Times in 1944, Vice President Henry A. Wallace noted that “American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy. They use isolationism as a slogan to conceal their own selfish imperialism. They cultivate hate and distrust…”
As Wallace concluded, American fascists are not pro-Constitution:
“They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead… They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
We are being played for fools. Again.
The United States of America, that dream of what a democratic republic ought to be, has become the Fascist States of America. We have moved beyond the era of representative government and entered a new age. You can call it the age of authoritarianism. Or fascism. Or oligarchy. Or the American police state.
Whatever label you want to put on it, the end result is the same.
Driven by our fears, we have entered into a corporate-controlled, militaristic state where all citizens are suspects, security trumps freedom, and the U.S. government does not represent the majority of American citizens but instead is ruled by the rich and powerful.
Any semblance of constitutional government that we might still enjoy today is a mere shadow, a mockery of what the founders envisioned. Constitutional government today—much like the farcical circus that purports to be the presidential election—is a sham, a hoax, an elaborate ruse maintained by the powers-that-be to mollify us into believing that we still have a say in the workings of our government. We do not.
Shortly after World War II, historian William L. Shirer predicted that America may be the first country in which fascism comes to power through democratic elections.
Former presidential advisor Bertram Gross also warned that we would not recognize fascism when it took over:
Anyone looking for black shirts, mass parties, or men on horseback will miss the telltale clues of creeping fascism… In America, it would be supermodern and multi-ethnic—as American as Madison Avenue, executive luncheons, credit cards, and apple pie. It would be fascism with a smile. As a warning against its cosmetic facade, subtle manipulation, and velvet gloves, I call it friendly fascism. What scares me most is its subtle appeal.
They were both right.
However, what we failed to realize is that the fascist coup took place long ago. It was that subtle and that incremental.
We are now ruled by the velvet-gloved, technologically savvy, militarized iron fist of what Gross termed “friendly fascism” or fascism with a smile. Having studied Shirer and Gross, tracked the rise of fascism in past regimes, and assimilated the necessary ingredients for a fascist state, I can attest to the fact—as I document in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People—that the parallels to modern America are impossible to ignore.
Under fascism, the government:
is managed by a powerful leader (even if he or she assumes office by way of the electoral process)
assumes it is not restrained in its power (this is authoritarianism, which eventually evolves into totalitarianism)
ostensibly operates under a capitalist system while being undergirded by an immense bureaucracy
emits powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism through its politicians
has an obsession with national security while constantly invoking terrifying internal and external enemies
establishes a domestic and invasive surveillance system and develops a paramilitary force that is not answerable to the citizenry
and its various agencies (federal, state, and local) develop an obsession with crime and punishment (this is overcriminalization)
becomes increasingly centralized while aligning closely with corporate powers to control all aspects of the country’s social, economic, military, and governmental structures
uses militarism as a center point of its economic and taxing structure
and is increasingly imperialistic in order to maintain the military-industrial corporate forces.
Compare that to America today where, as economist Jeffrey Tucker rightly observes, “every industry is regulated. Every profession is classified and organized. Every good or service is taxed. Endless debt accumulation is preserved. Immense doesn’t begin to describe the bureaucracy. Military preparedness never stops, and war with some evil foreign foe, remains a daily prospect.”
Fascism thrives by hiding behind the entertainment spectacle that is partisan politics. As Tucker points out, “It’s incorrect to call fascism either right wing or left wing. It is both and neither… fascism does not seek to overthrow institutions like commercial establishments, family, religious centers, and civic traditions. It seeks to control them… it preserves most of what people hold dear but promises to improve economic, social, and cultural life through unifying their operations under government control.”
In this way, American-style fascism is deceptively appealing.
It appears friendly.
The news media covers the entertainment and political trivia. The basic forms of government remain intact. The legislators remain in session. There are elections.
Consent of the governed, however, no longer applies. Actual control has finally passed to the oligarchic elite controlling the government behind the scenes.
Yet the most crucial ingredient for fascism to succeed in America is that the majority of the people would have to agree that it’s not only expedient but necessary for the government to assume greater powers in order to keep them safe and secure, whether it’s by militarizing the police, stripping them of basic constitutional rights, criminalizing virtually every form of behavior, or spying on their communications, movements and transactions.
When you really drill down to what the various presidential candidates believe about the issues that will impact the future of our freedoms long-term—war, surveillance, civil liberties—you’ll find that most of them support the government’s position, which conveniently enough, profits the corporate sector.
This is not freedom.
It is despotism, which Gross refers to as “faceless oligarchs [who] sit at command posts of a corporate-government complex that has been slowly evolving over many decades.” Gross explains:
In efforts to enlarge their own powers and privileges, they are willing to have others suffer the intended or unintended consequences of their institutional or personal greed. For Americans, these consequences include chronic inflation, recurring recession, open and hidden unemployment, the poisoning of air, water, soil and bodies, and, more important, the subversion of our constitution. More broadly, consequences include widespread intervention in international politics through economic manipulation, covert action, or military invasion…
It is, in Gross’ words, “pretended patriots who desecrate the American flag by waving it while waiving the law”:
I see at present members of the Establishment or people on its fringes who, in the name of Americanism,betray the interests of most Americans by fomenting militarism, applauding rat-race individualism, protecting undeserved privilege, or stirring up nationalistic and ethnic hatreds.
It is, concludes Gross, Big Business and Big Government in bed together:
In this present, many highly intelligent people look with but one eye and see only one part of the emerging Leviathan. From the right, we are warned against the danger of state capitalism or state socialism, in which Big Business is dominated by Big Government. From the left, we hear that the future danger (or present reality) is monopoly capitalism, with finance capitalists dominating the state. I am prepared to offer a cheer and a half for each view; together, they make enough sense for a full three cheers. Big Business and Big Government have been learning how to live in bed together and despite arguments between them, enjoy the cohabitation. Who may be on top at any particular moment is a minor matter-and in any case can be determined only by those with privileged access to a well-positioned keyhole.
When the votes have all been counted, “we the people” will be the losers.
The joke will be on us. Whether we ever realize it not, the enemy is not across party lines, as they would have us believe. It has us surrounded on all sides.
Even so, we’re not yet defeated.
We could still overcome our oppressors if we cared enough to join forces and launch a militant nonviolent revolution—a people’s revolution that starts locally and trickles upwards—but that will take some doing.
It will mean turning our backs on the political jousting contests taking place on the national stage and rejecting their appointed jesters as false prophets. It will mean not allowing ourselves to be corralled like cattle and branded with political labels that have no meaning anymore. It will mean recognizing that all the evils that surround us today—endless wars, drone strikes, invasive surveillance, militarized police, poverty, asset forfeiture schemes, overcriminalization, etc.—were not of our making but came about as a way to control and profit from us.
It will mean “voting with our feet” through sustained, mass civil disobedience. As journalist Chris Hedges points out, “There were once radicals in America, people who held fast to moral imperatives. They fought for the oppressed because it was right, not because it was easy or practical. They were willing to accept the state persecution that comes with open defiance. They had the courage of their convictions. They were not afraid.”
Ultimately, it will mean refusing to be divided, one against each other, as Democrats versus Republicans, and instead uniting behind the only distinction that has ever mattered: “we the people” against tyranny.
Published originally at www.rutherford.org.
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World Aviation Defense and Security Industry News - Textron
Successful live-fire demonstrations for Textron Systems' Fury lightweight precision weapon
Textron Systems Weapon & Sensor Systems, a Textron Inc. business, announced yesterday, September 23, a pair of successful live-fire demonstrations of its new Fury lightweight precision guided glide weapon off of a Shadow® Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.
Textron Systems Fury lightweight precision guided weapon
The combined Textron Systems Weapon & Sensor Systems and Unmanned Systems team dropped Fury last month from a Shadow 200, engaging and detonating on the target. This marked the first live drop of the Fury and the first live weapon drop from the Unmanned Systems Shadow 200 aircraft configuration. The Textron Systems team, along with partner Thales UK, achieved this milestone within 15 months of initiating work on the small, lightweight weapon system.
“Our team is focused on quickly bringing new and affordable capability to the war fighter,” explains Weapon & Sensor Systems Senior Vice President and General Manager Ian Walsh. “Based on an understanding of our customers’ needs, we demonstrated – in a short period of time – Fury’s full TRL 7 capability in a realistic environment. Not only is the weapon simple to use, accurate and attractively priced, it’s an ideal complement to the trusted Shadow platform as well as other UAS or light attack aircraft. We’ve also proven that the lightweight weapon and carriage system creates very little drag, resulting in minimal operational impact to aircraft performance and endurance.”
Fury is equipped with a mature and proven warhead. The weapon’s tri-mode fuzing – impact, height of burst and delay – further enables a single Fury to address a broad target set, ranging from static and moving light armored vehicles to small boats and personnel.
The precision weapon uses a common interface for rapid integration on multiple manned and unmanned aircraft systems. Fury is guided by a GPS-aided inertial navigation unit system with a Semi-Active Laser Seeker terminal guidance capability. This enables the weapon to engage both stationary and moving targets within 1m accuracy, or fly to specific target coordinates.
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Damian Pattinson – 2017 December 14
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I was invited recently to present parliamentary evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee on the subject of Research Integrity. For those not familiar with the arcane workings of the British Parliamentary system, a Select Committee is essentially the place where governments, and government bodies, are held to account. So it was refreshing to be invited to a hearing that wasn’t about Brexit.
The interest of the British Parliament in the integrity of scientific research confirms just how far science’s ongoing “reproducibility crisis� has reached. The fact that a large proportion of the published literature cannot be reproduced is clearly problematic, and this call to action from MPs is very welcome. And why would the government not be interested? At stake is the process of how new knowledge is created, and how reliable that purported knowledge is.
The other issue driving this overview of research practices are the cases of deliberate fraud and wrongdoing that have recently created headlines (e.g., the STAP papers concerning the reprogramming of stem cells). While these cases are clearly dramatic outliers, they nevertheless serve to diminish public confidence in scholarly research and the findings that come out of this enterprise.
As with most inquiries, the question quickly boiled down to: who is to blame? As Bill Grant MP asked me directly, “Where does the responsibility lie?�
My answer was lifted from an article by Ginny Barbour and colleagues in F1000Research this November (https://0-doi-org.lib.rivier.edu/10.12688/f1000research.13060.1): publishers are responsible for the integrity of the published literature, while institutions and employers are ultimately responsible for the conduct of their staff. Misconduct entails intent, usually to deceive the reader into believing a conclusion that the researcher wishes them to believe. But journal editors can never know, and are not in a position to investigate, whether a researcher has deliberately falsified their data.
However, there are things that publishers can do to ensure high standards of integrity. Much of this involves making a study’s authors publish as much information about what they have done as possible - the more the reader can see of how data were generated, the more that reader can trust the findings communicated in the published article.
Article metadata directly supports this function. It provides structure and transparency to information pertaining to ethics and integrity. And because metadata is independent of the main article, it can be readable even if the article itself is locked behind a paywall.
Crossref already provides metadata that can demonstrate the integrity of published articles. The metadata collected on 91+ million scholarly works across publishers and disciplines is open and freely accessible to all. Bibliographic information, for example, allows readers to see who the authors of the article are, where they are from, and what else they have published. Similarly, funding data allows readers to identify potential conflicts of interest, for example if the funder has commercial or political affiliations. Even if the reader cannot see the conflict of interest statement (or if the journal has not provided one), they can use the funding statement to surface potential conflicts.
And if they wanted, publishers could provide additional metadata to add still more transparency to the research process. Ethical approval by institutional review boards, for example, could be captured, and any protocol numbers traced back to the original ethics committee approval. At present the process of ethical approval varies from country to country, and from institution to institution. Encouraging authors and journals to deposit information on the approval process would both demonstrate the high ethical standards the author is working to, and also improve the standards themselves, since institutions would have to encode their approval processes in a way that is understandable to others. This could pave the way to significantly higher international ethical standards, all through a simple addition to the indexed metadata underlying the scholarly literature.
One key recommendation that I and many others made to the Committee was, in short, “show your work”. As a researcher, that means showing your data. As a publisher, that means showing what checks you have done. In both cases, metadata can help.
A major issue that publishers and researchers can – and should – address is the provision of actual scientific data. Most papers, today, present only the end results of the authors’ (often quite extensive) analyses. The case for sharing data is an obvious one - many recent cases of misconduct could have been identified earlier, or even avoided altogether, if editors and readers had had access to underlying datasets.
With images, a requirement to submit raw images alongside the edited figures would dramatically reduce the cases of manipulation that are rife in the literature (studies suggest up to 20% of papers have some kind of inappropriate figure manipulation, with around 1 in 40 papers showing manipulation beyond that which can be expected to be a result of error). Similarly, providing the numbers that a paper’s analyses are based upon would allow readers to fully assess if datasets are distributed as would be expected through random sampling, and, if they choose, to determine if the data are sufficient to support the statistical inferences made in the paper. The Crossref schema – by providing unique identifiers to data citations - makes this link between data and paper possible. (See the recent blog post on the Research Nexus for more information.)
For publishers, showing your work also means being transparent to your readers about the editorial checks that a manuscript has undergone. Crossref has a tool that enables this editorial transparency: it’s called Crossmark. Crossmark allows readers to see the most up-to-date information about an article, even on downloaded PDFs. In most cases it is used to show whether the version of an article is most recent one, or whether any corrigenda or retractions have been subsequently added. But it can also be used to provide whatever information a publisher wishes to share about the paper. Some journals have experimented with using Crossmark to ‘thread’ publications together, for example, by linking all the outputs generated from a single clinical trial registration number (blog post here). But publishers could go further and display metadata pertaining to the editorial checks they have performed on a paper. So Crossmark could tell readers that the paper has been checked for plagiarism, or figure manipulation, or reporting standards such as CONSORT or ARRIVE guidelines. Here at Research Square we have been addressing this with a series of Editorial Badges that publishers can apply to their papers to demonstrate what checks have been performed.
Together, these implementations would provide value to the reader, who can see exactly what has been checked, and to the publisher, who can show how rigorous their editorial processes are. It would also serve to highlight the integrity of the authors who have passed all of these checks.
Research integrity is not something that can be easily measured but, unlike wit or charm, it is something that people generally know that they have.* This means that they just need to be transparent in their output to demonstrate this to the world. Metadata provides a simple way of doing this, so researchers and publishers should make sure they provide it as openly as they can.
*with apologies to Laurie Lee for the mangled quote
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Johnny Depp Sued For Allegedly Punching City Of Lies Location Manager
Mat Whitehead
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The crew member alleged Depp berated him and punched him twice after drinking all day on the set.
Johnny Depp is being sued for allegedly assaulting the City of Lies location manager in early 2017.
According to Variety Gregg "Rocky" Brooks sued Depp this week for an incident that occurred on April 13, 2017.
Brooks claims that filming was occurring outside a hotel in downtown Los Angeles and he was asked several times to extend the permit the production had to shoot outside the establishment. After doing so twice, the permit official informed Brooks the production would have to wrap things up around 11pm.
When Brooks informed the 1st AD on the film he was told, "Why don't you tell that to Johnny Depp" with the production knowing the troubled star wouldn't be happy with the time restraints.
When Brooks went to inform Depp the location manager was allegedly met with the 55-year-old shouting, "Who the fuck are you? You have no right to tell me what to do!" punching the man twice in the lower left side of his rib cage.
Depp has been accused of assaulting a crew member on the film after allegedly drinking all day. Image: Getty Images.
Depp reportedly continued to insult the man saying, "I don't give a fuck who you are and you can't tell me what to do" as well as allegedly offering the man $100,000 to punch him back.
Brooks claims Depp continued to scream and insult him in front of the production until his own bodyguards had to physically remove him from the set.
In the suit Brooks also alleged that he could smell alcohol on Depp's breath at the time of the altercation and claimed he believed the actor had been drinking and using drugs throughout the day.
According to Brooks, when he returned to film's offices the following Monday, he was asked to sign a declaration stating he wouldn't sue the production -- when he refused he was immediately terminated.
City of Lies is scheduled for release in September and stars Depp as a detective attempting to solve the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.
In May the film's director Brad Furman responded to the initial claims of an altercation onset with Depp saying, "He always treats the crew and people around him with the utmost respect".
"Movies can be stressful, and nonevents often become exaggerated. We all love stories -- there isn’t one here."
Depp was recently featured in a highly controversial Rolling Stone article where the actor was found drinking a "never-ending reservoir of wine poured into goblets" while smoking "piles of tobacco and hash". The actor also discussed his past drug and stronger substance use including mourning the lack of quaaludes in circulation.
Last month fans of the troubled actor feared for his health when images began circulating of the Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald actor looking sick and gaunt.
Representation for Depp claimed the actor had simply transformed for a role in an upcoming project.
Depp is also currently in a $25 million lawsuit with his former business managers where the actor believes his attorney swindled him out of nearly $35 million -- while his former manager claims the star's extravagant spending is to blame.
Featured image: Getty.
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Living Story: Story in Times of Change
“I will tell you something about stories. They aren’t just entertainment. They are all we have to fight off illness and death. You don’t have any thing if you don’t have stories….” –Leslie Marmon Silko
Recently I was told a story. It did not begin with “once upon a time” and it did not end with “…and they lived happily ever after.” It was more like a conversation. And it was told to me via Facebook. My friend’s daughter had come home from school one day and asked “when did the world start and when is the world going to end?”
This story came to me as I was beginning to make notes in my journal about our myths and legends. It made me wonder, are we ready for this question?
How would we answer this?
What does the mother tell her child?
I am sure that homosapiens have carried this question from the beginning of time, we sang it, we danced it, we carefully drew it in colored clays on rocks and we made up stories. The stories were our maps, they guided us in how to answer such questions. They showed us the way and kept us on track. The aborigines with their song lines to guide them through the rough terrain of the Australian desert, the Native Americans guided by the star stories, the indigenous peoples of the world received their inner compass bearings from their stories.
What story did the flame tell to the log?
What story did the grasshopper tell to the blade of grass?
What story did the wind whisper to the woman?
I remember as a young girl, growing up in Scotland, playing in my mother’s rhubarb patch. I had all these strange looking marionettes and if they were not strange I made them so. I was fascinated with the way they worked, all those strings that when pulled in a certain way would move arms and legs and lips. I could bring these beings into life with a flip of my wrist and I could take away life by a drop of my hand. I made my own world my imaginary world. I could conjure up anything my inner self would allow.The rhubarb patch became my world, a large damp green leaf became a roof of a house or a palace, the reddish stalks became trees in a huge dark forest, the damp rich soil soft places to rest. I spent hours in that world; I spent hours in that living story which would shift and change with the wind and rain. It was my story.Could that story also be someone else’s?
How do we tell that story?
Do we keep it to our selves? If so, how is that story heard? Who listens?
What does it take to be truth tellers? To understand a story one must listen with the same intent that it takes to discover that story.
Where are the stories of now to guide us?
What story did I tell to the rhubarb?
The world we live in now is a different place to that time in the garden in Scotland. The sun still sets and the sun still raises. The moon waxes and wanes, the seasons go in and out, the green leaves bud forth in distilled warmth and fall brown and wrinkled in the harsh cold. But all is rapidly changing, the world as we know it, as we have storied it, is not the same, it is spinning to a different tune, it is turning in another direction. It is turning inside out and our stories are not making sense any more. Our stories are misaligned and we cannot see or feel into another.
If stories are living do they have to keep changing? How do we feel our way back into story?
I still make up stories. I see them and feel them but where do they come from? Who told the first story?
These days I am far away from my mother’s rhubarb patch and far away from my homeland. Now without that patch in the garden I set out on long walks when I need to see my story living. When my feet touch the ground I wake up. When I get into that repetitive motion of putting on foot in front of the other, I begin to see and feel again. I see the grasshopper telling the story to the blade of grass and know what it is, the voice of the flame in the fireplace informs my story, the spiral in the tree trunk reminds me that my story should not be straight, the blue birds iridescent wings reflect the story back to me.
Does one need to have endless timeless wanderlust to keep the story alive?
The beads of sweat forming on my brow as I write, what story do they tell to the dry skin?
When we remember to “see” again, and I mean to really see, see with not only our eyes but with all our senses. When our antennae are up and fixed in the right direction we can sense the signs, these beginnings of our story. There are plenty of portals, entry points waiting to be shaped by our intuition and it is up to us to take agency to create a new path into the dark forest to rid it of the monsters, to trick the wolf and to find our grandmothers. However, I do not think that it will end with “and they lived happily ever after”, they lived happily until the need of another living story.
Chrissie Orr is the co-founder of El Otro Lado in the Schools, and the co-founder of the Academy’s Living Story Collaborative. Both programs engage story and its transformative powers to cultivate connection and belonging, strengthen community capacity, and renew our guiding narratives in this time of radical transitions.
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Ooh Kill ‘Em!: Black Male Mentoring and Fictive Kinship
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I love the South. I love country folks. I love country Black folks from the South. I have two of them for parents. And if you have them southern roots (pronounced “ruhtz”) like I do, you probably have more “play cousins” than you can count.
“Play cousins?”
For those of you without it, I’ll give you some cultural capital in context. Stick with me, because I’m about to engage in come circuitous storytelling:
I’ve been outside the country for the latter part of the last few months, so I missed a rack of happenings in American popular culture. Amongst the movies, new songs, and references I noticed when I got back was this “Ooh kill em”, often used in hashtags. A quick internet search had me landing on this gem:
First of all, if you’re not familiar, Vine is the latest phone app that allows you to overshare things in your life no one else wants to see. Thankfully you can only film these “events” for six seconds at a time. However, every once-in-awhile one of these videos is so funny/clever/bizarre/annoying that it deserves our six seconds of attention. Or more.
Since posting their Vine videos, lil-dancin’ Terio and his co-signing cousin Maleek have become internet-famous, inspiring everything from NBA point guard copycats to hip hop diss records.
So what does all of this have to do with cultural capital, play cousins, and fictive kinship? Maleek and Terio aren’t related by blood.
In this epic Complex interview (you gotta listen to the audio. Nobody short-sells answers like a nervous six-year-old!), the following exchange occurs with Maleek, Terio’s 16-year-old cousin who provides the footage and the soundtrack for his dancing and hooping protégé:
Interviewer: And so, how’re you guys related?
MALEEK: That’s my lil’ cousin.
Interviewer: Is there like, a parent’s sister’s son or something?
MALEEK: Nah, we like…he like, stay next door to me
Translation: they play cousins. (Not a grammatical error).
Brotha and Sistah vs Brother and Sister: Are y’all Really Related?
In academic-speak, this is an example of the formation of a fictive kinship, a relationship in which people who aren’t related by blood claim a familial bond. These relationships occur between and within all races of people. African Americans in particular have a long-held desire to unify through shared experiences, largely due to a unique and sordid American history of having their cultural practices denied and ridiculed. For example, during American enslavement, Black family structures were routinely destroyed by the trade of humans across the Atlantic and between colonists. This African American practice of identifying each other as “brotha”, “sistah”, and yes, “play cousin” developed as a valuable way to ascertain who was “down”, as well as in creating extended functional families. These ties were especially important when blood bonds between Black people had been broken. Today, Black Americans still use these fictive kinships in the same way.
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I don’t know what the day-to-day interactions between Maleek and Terio look like. I do know from my own experiences with the teenaged “old-heads” in my neighborhood where I grew up in Ypsilanti – and with my older play cousins in North Carolina who I saw when I visited my parents’ homes – that these dudes were excellent part-time role models and informal mentors. They were flawed no doubt (I’m thinking right now about the time when this old-head named Tim tried to tell how you had great sex with girls. Looking back, there’s no way in hell he had learned anything for himself; that bullshit had to have come from sneaking into someone’s porn collection), but they were well-meaning and had nobly taken on a role passed down to them by older play cousins who had done the same for them. To be clear, I’m not talking about some Big Brother, Big Sister-type of relationship where these dudes provided daily and guided interactions. I’m talking about those times when me and the rest of the young bucks had our bikes in a circle talking about girls/bikes/cars/sports and a couple of the older dudes would roll up on their bikes and start schooling us. Just from reading and hearing the interview, I could hear at least the same type of bond between Maleek and Terio. Are they closer than that? Maybe. But I know play cousins when I hear them.
Ideally these two kids maintain a healthy relationship and Maleek becomes or remains an important mentor for Terio. It doesn’t have to be some “wonderful story” where Maleek becomes the main influence in Terio’s life, deters him from joining a gang, pushes Terio to go from wannabe rapper to English professor, Terio writes a best-selling novel, and Tyler Perry directs the movie version of his life (starring a light-skinned dude, of course). Maybe Maleek is just the fun “cousin” whose video-based encouragement plays a small part in helping Terio feel just that much better about himself. That’d be a realistic and important outcome. Hell, despite Tim’s ridiculous sex advice, he always told me how smart I was, and he taught me how to pop a wheelie. It’s that type of mentorship that makes play cousins special.
This article originally appears on alineinthesand.com.
Maurice “Mo the Educator” Dolberry has taught grades 6 through 20, and has worked at both public and independent schools from Minnesota to Florida to Washington and other places in between. He is currently an adjunct college instructor while working on his PhD in multicultural education at the University of Washington. Maurice has been a mentor, old-head, and play cousin for a long time, but refuses to give bad sex advice. Ooh kill ’em!
Maurice “Mo the Educator” Dolberry ©2013
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Maajid Nawaz takes down caller who said Hamas are not terrorists
Maajid Nawaz pulls apart caller who claims Hamas isn't a terrorist group
When this caller claimed Hamas were "resistance fighters" against the terrorist state of Israel, Maajid Nawaz gave him a few facts.
Khalid from Swindon insisted that Hamas were simply trying to protect and free the Palestinians.
But when he claimed that they were peaceful and only "throw rockets here and there", Maajid decided to teach him a few things.
Maajid told him: "Sheikh Qaradawi is an Egyptian Muslim brotherhood cleric, based in Qatar. That extremist gave a fatwa to Hamas, saying it's ok to kill Israeli civilians.
"The reason I'm explaining all this to you is because you said Israel does that.
"I asked you to point to the specific law where Israel does that and you said you can't. I then pointed to the specific fatwa - because for Hamas, a fatwa is law.
"So Hamas admits to killing Israeli citizens. Israel doesn't have a law that justifies killing Palestinian civilians.
"So therefore, Hamas is a terrorist group. Israel may be many things, but isn't targeting Palestinian civilians."
Maajid enjoyed his row with Khalid. Picture: LBC
Maajid asked if Khalid condemned that and he responded that he condemns anyone who is killing civilians, an answer that reminded the LBC host of Jeremy Corbyn's claim that he is against all forms of racism when asked about anti-Semitism.
Watch the remarkable exchange at the top of the page.
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oxidoreductase complex Gene Set
Dataset COMPARTMENTS Curated Protein Localization Evidence Scores
Type cellular component
Description Any protein complex that possesses oxidoreductase activity. (Gene Ontology, GO_1990204)
78 proteins localized to the oxidoreductase complex cellular component from the COMPARTMENTS Curated Protein Localization Evidence Scores dataset.
Standardized Value
NDUFB10 NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone) 1 beta subcomplex, 10, 22kDa 0.009517
NDUFA8 NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone) 1 alpha subcomplex, 8, 19kDa 0.009517
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What’s the (Instagram) story with IGTV?
by Anna Lundberg
You may have noticed a new little icon at the top of your Instagram. At first, it might look like a news alert or maybe some kind of broadcast. It’s actually Instagram’s new long-form video feature, that finally lets you post videos that are longer than just 60 seconds.
Instagram is already everyone’s favorite image app. Now, thanks to the launch of IGTV, it might just become our favorite video app too. We’re taking a look at Instagram’s new video platform, how it works, what it means for its key competitors—and how you can get started with IGTV for your brand.
Instagram takes a seat among long form video platforms like Youtube. Who’s here to stay?
IG—what?
Instagram launched IGTV at an event in San Francisco—just one day before the start of VidCon, a conference for online video creators—as they also announced that Instagram has grown into a community of one billion signed-up users. Although these kinds of announcements of changes and new features can often be unpopular with a platform’s existing users, this one has been met as a welcome improvement.
With IGTV, creators can now go beyond the limited ‘stories’ videos that were capped at one minute to upload anything from ten minutes to a full hour-long piece of content. There are no ads on the platform at the moment and Instagram has also said that they won’t be paying influencers to create videos for IGTV.
Getting competitive
The IGTV interface—controversially vertical. Via Instagram.
This move by Facebook-owned Instagram brings the platform into direct competition with YouTube—the #1 platform for online video content—and Snapchat—the network that first brought us disappearing stories and vertical video. The platforms are really converging, with YouTube’s version of Instagram stories (in turn copied from Snapchat) and its version of Facebook Premieres both in the works; Facebook focusing on video and in particular live video, favoring it in the news feed algorithm; and Snapchat also looking into commissioned programming.
The Youtube video experience as we know and love it. Via Youtube.
YouTube really is the go-to platform for video content but there are some differences. YouTube acts as a search engine—that’s why ‘how-to’ videos like make-up tutorials and instructional videos are so prolific, as this is what people are searching for. To do well there, you need to research what people are looking for, create focused and unique content and then optimize your titles, descriptions and tags, as well as designing thumbnails.
In contrast with YouTube, where people are searching for something specific, Instagram is a channel where you are there effectively to ‘waste time’—in the US, almost an hour a day, which is only likely to increase now with the introduction of longer videos. You’re on the app browsing while waiting at the bus stop, looking for inspiration and open to discovering new content. IGTV makes this easy with the autoplay feature along with discovery sections ‘For You’, ‘Following’ and ‘Popular’. You can also send videos to your friends via DM. Content tends to be a bit more of the ‘behind-the-scenes’ type, less formal and more lifestyle focused than necessarily informational.
Snapchat’s video interface, complete with some fun emoji options. Via Snapchat.
Although there are some things to keep in mind with marketing yourself on Instagram vs. Facebook, it’s unlikely that Instagram will pose a direct threat to Facebook, given that Instagram is owned by the mammoth social network. Snapchat, however, is a different story. Popular with a younger demographic, Snapchat just doesn’t have the same scale as Instagram; Instagram’s ads are cheaper and its analytics tools are more developed; and discoverability is much better on Instagram and now on IGTV, compared to Snapchat, where a user has to have added you in order to see your content.
The choice to focus IGTV on vertical video challenges Snapchat while also distinguishing itself from other video channels. Vertical is what a lot of newbies do anyway, despite pros always having recommended landscape format. More than that, it truly makes this video format ‘mobile first’.
How to get started with IGTV
Instagram has always been about posting pics of your meals so now with IGTV it’s all about posting videos of you eating your food, right? Err… not quite!
1. Download the IGTV app
This is what the new IGTV app icon looks like, presented by Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom. Via Instagram.
IGTV comes both as a standalone app and as an integration into Instagram. To start using IGTV, you don’t need to create a separate account, but you do need to download the new IGTV app. As long as you’re signed into the main app (and you’ve downloaded the latest version), you’ll be able to simply hit ‘continue’ with your existing account. The app will take you right to recommended videos, where you can then click on your profile pic in the corner to create your IGTV channel. You may want to optimize your Instagram bio (and possibly even your name) as only the first two lines are visible on the new app.
2. Get inspired
IGTV is so fresh that there aren’t a lot of articles online on best practices right now, but you can still have a look at what others are doing before you start creating your own videos. In the IGTV app, you can browse videos selected For You, videos from the accounts that you’re Following, as well as Popular videos. Make a note of what you think works, what you like and don’t like. This will give you ideas for what to include and what to avoid when you make your own videos.
3. Plan your content
Consider how IGTV is going to fit into your existing marketing ecosystem. Design by LittleFox.
If you have a lot of followers, you may already have access to the full 60-minute format; for the rest of us, we’ll have to make do with 10 minutes. Have a think about what role this new platform can play in your brand ecosystem. Consider:
How will you differentiate this content from the videos that you’re already sharing on other platforms?
What do you want people to do after watching a video—what call to action can you include?
Consistency is key here to build trust and engagement—how often are you going to post videos and on which day of the week?
4. Post your first video
There’s always going to be a bit of a hurdle when it comes to using a new platform like this and the best thing to do is to step right out of that comfort zone and get something up as soon as possible. To post a video, you’ll need to:
Hit record—To create your first video, all you need is your phone. Make sure you hold it in the vertical position; look for good lighting, for example, you might face a window; and avoid background noise.
Up your game—If you want a more professional look, you can use a stand or a gimbal for more stability; get a small lapel mic and a proper lighting set-up; and use a camera shutter remote control to avoid having to edit out your flabby arm turning on and off the recording.
Upload your video—You’ll be uploading your creation in the IGTV app (or on the web), although people can watch directly from the main mobile app. You’ll be able to add a title and a description, including a link, as well as a compelling cover photo for the video.
5. Engage—and learn
IGTV gives you an even better opportunity to engage with your audience in an authentic way than just by posting pics with long captions. Podcast cover design by designRays.
Just as you would do on a Facebook Live, you want to make sure that you’re engaging with your audience. People viewing your content can like and comment on your videos, as well as potentially clicking on the link in the description. Make sure that you involve the audience, ask questions and include that explicit call to action in the video. Since it’s all so new, you’ll also want to see what resonates and what your audience really wants. Check the analytics to see what people are watching and to help you optimize your content and make it even better.
Make sure that you also check out our article with 9 Instagram growth hacks for your small business as these all still apply!
What does the future of online video look like?
Who’s going to come out on top in the future of online video? Design by LittleFox.
Although there are definitely similarities in the moves that the leading platforms are making in the video space, there could well be a world in which there’s space for more than one player. It’s possible and even likely that YouTube will continue to be the main platform where people host their content and focus on more polished work, while Instagram might own the more personal, spontaneous and ‘behind-the-scenes’ type of content.
It’s always best practice to build a ‘platform-agnostic’ brand if you want to be protected from the ups and downs of any one platform, so for now at least it’s best to not put all your eggs in one basket.
So what do you think? What’s your first IGTV video going to be? Have you already been posting videos? And what do you think is the future for these video platforms? Leave a comment below!
Anna Lundberg
Anna is a success coach and business strategist who helps people create businesses and build a lifestyle that allows them an unimagined sense of freedom, flexibility and fulfilment across different areas of their lives. Follow her on Twitter @annaselundberg
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the Indian Farmer League, but why?
June 27, 2015October 9, 2015
A quick project update:
The Vidarbha project to help the farmer: https://milaap.org/campaigns/help-the-vidarbha-farmers. A total of 6.91 lakhs has been raised thus far towards our initial target of 10 lakh.
We are who we are, because of the opportunities we got. Farmers, on the other hand, have become what they are today, because of the opportunities they were denied. Starting from access to loans to access to technology to access to markets to access to food storage to access to insurance, the farmers are denied the basics of farming and yet we have the food on our plates, while they continue to struggle for just one meal a day.
The most difficult and skillful job and yet so poorly rewarded
A software engineer has requirements, a missile scientist has even more precise requirements, a teacher has a syllabus to go by, a doctor, by and large has a procedure to follow, a farmer knows only what crop he has to grow. But everything else that goes into growing that crop is a variable such as the weather, the pests, the peoples life styles and a government that is indifferent to his needs. Unlike other professions there is no or very little margin of errors and there are no dry runs either.
After managing all the variables if he manages to produce a good crop, there is no guarantee that it will fetch him a good price. The farmer then needs to depend on the market and worst of all, yet again the government to guarantee a certain minimum price and protect its interests in the global market.
All these coupled with the lack of a proper support structure often pushes the farmer to take the extreme step. What else can explain an almost 3 lakh #farmer suicides since 1995 till date.
The government has shown no signs or intent to do anything about this situation. Take a look at an excerpt from Question hour session in Loksabha.
It isn’t like the government doesn’t have policies, programs and proposals to address the issues. The problem is however, that they just remain as policies, programs and proposals and are never implemented.
The farming crisis is no doubt a very serious and a very grave crisis and the most unfortunate part is the fact there isn’t enough focus on these issues. Be it the government or the media or even ordinary citizens like us. And while the scale of these problems are huge, there is still something you and I can do. The Vidarbha region is often referred to as the suicide capital of India, so why not start with Vidarbha. Below is an action plan as to what we citizens can do.
To facilitate and help create awareness to take this forward, the Indian Farmer League has been launched. The goal is to make it easier for people to understand the issues and help contribute so together we can help make a difference.
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Listen to the music: Are we wide awake
So I can’t listen to Supertramp because it takes me back to high school and I don’t wanna go back, but sometimes I get pulled back and it’s. . . okay?
I am not the first to contradict myself.
Anyway, Charlie Pierce linked to Nena so yes I clicked on it and yes, I enjoyed it. And even felt a bit wistful (as opposed to dread-ful) while listen-/watching.
Then I looked for ‘Soviet Snow‘ (couldn’t remember that it was Shona Laing) and I watched and listened to that as well. (The vid is bit crowded; better just to listen.)
Then I wondered: why don’t I mind going back with this and not that?
And then I figured: because this is not that.
Supertramp was a part of my coming-to-music, and while I did listen to it through college, it’s very much anchored in that transition to adolescence, to making my way into high school.
The other music—post-punk? New Wave?—hooked me later in high school and carried me out.
That’s a little too neat, but I think that’s what happened. If Supertramp was about going deep—into the music, into myself—the new stuff was about getting out. MTV hit Sheb Falls at some point in the early 1980s, and for the first time I was exposed to music which wasn’t either album-oriented rock (which was my thing) or Top 40 (which was not). There was the Eurythmics and The Police and the B-52’s and the Violent Femmes, the Call and the Fall and the Clash and the Jam and none of it sounded like home and all of it sounded like somewhere else.
And, oh, by mid-high school I was ready for somewhere else.
So here I am, decades older, and even if I have landed in my ultimate Somewhere Else, I am still restless, still wondering what else is out there.
Tags: high school, Listen to the music, MTV, New Wave, restlessness, Sheboygan Falls, Supertramp
Categories : Music, Musing
Listen to the music: And when I’m dead
Listen to the music is dead; long live Listen to the music.
Okay, so I had this idea to listen to all of my alt-blues-jazz-pop-punk (i.e., whatever wasn’t classical) cds from A to Z. I hadn’t really been listening to enough music, and thought this project would get me back to garden.
It worked, for a bit. And then it didn’t. And then it kinda did, and then it really didn’t.
If I wasn’t in the mood to listen to the next cd in rotation, I didn’t listen to anything at all. I’d occasionally pop in a rogue disc, but mostly, my player went unplayed.
For awhile I thought I’d lost my music mojo: All that had moved me no longer did. I mean, that was kinda the point of starting the project, to reconnect to something which had for all of my life mattered to me.
But it wasn’t true. Music did still move me. I’d occasionally listen to my Mp3 player on the train and BAM, I was right back in it. Or I’d hear a stray song and maybe bounce around, maybe mouth the words, maybe sit as still as still can be.
In other words, I have no earthly idea why I stopped listening to the music in the first place, and whatever my previous sense of Needing-to-see-this-through, well, sometimes persistence is its own obstacle.
I am trying to listen to more of my own music. It’s a connection for me—tho’ to what, I couldn’t tell you—and helps to quiet my distractions.
Maybe I’ll get more writing done; maybe I won’t get anything more done than I would, otherwise. Regardless, I’ll bounce around, maybe mouth the words, maybe sit as still as still can be.
Some of what I’ve listened to recently: Hem, Jayhawks, Rickie Lee Jones, Katell Keineg.
I’ll never get married, but if I get married, I’ll dance to this at my wedding:
And this one, well, I like the undertone of menace:
Tags: Hem, Katell Keineg, Listen to the music, something more
Listen to the music: It’s an inconvenient time
It’s been awhile, hasn’t it?
I’ve dabbled in summersongs (fallsongs—or autumnsongs?—coming up!) and kicked around a song or two here and there, but after the disquisition on GY!BE and Miss Holly, the lacunae is noticeable.
I have been listening. This fistful of cds was, like the last, dominated by two names (albeit three performers): David and Macy Gray, and Nanci Griffith (and rather a lot of Nanci Griffith). Unlike the last time, I zipped right through my listening of them, and ended with some lovely Charlie Haden.
The music wasn’t the problem: I just couldn’t be arsed to write about them.
Both of the Grays have the kinds of voices I like: a bit low, and skritchy. I mean, I’m not a Dave Matthews fan, but when he sings with, say, Emmylou, I dig that rasp.
Mr. Gray is another bloke I was introduced to while (whilst?) in Canada. He’s a bit of a mope, but what saves him, most of the time, from emo-overload are the bites he’ll snap out of the woe. There aren’t really any laughs in his songs, but there’s a sardonic sensibility which, again, cut against the despair.
I do wish for alternate production on some of his songs—he’s a sucker for the big whoomp—but when I’m havin’ one of those days, Life in Slow Motion goes down well with a beer or whisky and a slouch in the couch.*
And Nanci? Yeah, man, lotta cds. Her voice has a bit of the kewpie to it, but she’s a hell of a songwriter and I appreciate the hell out of the bottom-line humanness of her tunes.
And her cd, Flyer, helped get me through my dissertation. All hail Flyer!
234. David Gray, Life in Slow Motion
235. David Gray, a new day at midnight
236. Macy Gray, On How Life Is
237. Macy Gray, Id
238. Nanci Griffith, Storms
239. Nanci Griffith, Blue Roses from the Moon
240. Nanci Griffith, clock without hands
241. Nanci Griffith, Heart in Mind
242. Nanci Griffith, The Dust Bowl Symphony
243. Nanci Griffith, Flyer
244. Nanci Griffith, Other Voices, Too
245. Charlie Haden, The Montreal Tapes
246. Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny, beyond the Missouri Sky
*I don’t currently own a couch, but the line doesn’t work as well with “my one upholstered chair”.
Tags: David Gray, Listen to the music, Nanci Griffith, skritchy voices
Listen to the music: God don’t like it
That’s just a great title for a cd: direct, not quite right—God doesn’t like it—but somehow exactly right.
Yeah. God don’t like it. Even an apostate like me can say that.
Speaking of: Holy freakin’ hell, I gotalotta Holly Golightly cds.
This is an almost*-all-Canada post, by the way: I heard about Holly Golightly in Montréal, I think from my St Denis (or was it St Laurent? Damn!) Music Man, and her jangly post-punk appealed to me.
I just hadn’t realized, until I pulled the mid-G’s to listen to them, exactly how much she sucked me in: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 cds! Seven cds! And that doesn’t even count the Thee Headcoatees disc!
I mean, she’s good, but seven? Really? I must have been deep in obsession to have collected so many in such a short time—I’m guessin’ a year or two. (I have a lot of Emmylou, for example, but that’s over decades.) It took me a while to get through ‘am all.
Anyway, Holly Golightly, performs one of my favorite covers, of a Bill Withers (also a short-time obsession of mine) tune. Now, Withers is a peerless singer, so it really shouldn’t work, but it’s one of his lesser tunes—“Use Me”—and Miz Golightly just strips that baby down to its skittering and frayed wire, then coos and flirts her way across and around the beat:
If God don’t like that, God don’t like nothin’.
The other band is Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a band which, unlike our Miss Holly, is actually Canadian. Music Man might have shoved them in my hand, too, but I think I found them on my own.
Not that I can go all hipster-early-adopter on you: I only started listening after the exclamation point had migrated westward.
Only three GY!BE cds proper, but I also have three The Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra La La Band (tho’ they apparently now go by Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra), which contains a number of Godspeed members.
Anyway, GY!BE is loud, very loud. Very very loud. In concert. My friend J. and I saw them at some Mile End (I think) theatre and even in the balcony (which I, unwilling to be blasted off the ground floor, dragged J. to) we were crushed under the cascade of gorgeous, heartbreaking, menacing sounds. They played two hours proper, then offered up another hour of encore.
I don’t know that I could have stood up had they decided we were worthy of a second encore.
The music, by the way, is strange and familiar and fills the space from the ground to the sky. Highly recommended.
223. Godspeed You Black Emperor!, “lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven!”
224. Godspeed You! Black Emperor, xxx f#a#~xxx
225. Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Yanqui U.x.o.
226. Holly Golightly, The Good Things
227. Holly Golightly, God don’t like it
228. Holly Golightly, The Main Attraction
229. Holly Golightly, “Up the Empire”
230. Holly Golightly, truly she is none other
231. Holly Golightly, Singles Round-Up
232. Holly Golightly & Dan Melchior, Desperate Little Town
233. Jose Gonzalez, Veneer
*I forgot about Jose Gonzalez. He’s nice, too.
Tags: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Holly Golightly, Listen to the music, Montreal
Listen to the music: The beat goes on
I bought a lot of albums, and then a lot of cds, from the Electric Fetus on Fourth Avenue, in Minneapolis.
It was right across the bridge over 34W separating Phillips from Whittier, although it didn’t really seem like Whittier until you crossed Nicollet. I lived in and around Stevens Square for a few years, and the feel in that neighborhood was different from—gritter than—Whittier.
Anyway, 4th Ave near Franklin Avenue was kind of shitty, what with cars screaming by on the interstate below. Above Franklin there was a huge brown wall to try to block out the noise, but it wasn’t clear that the wall was much of an improvement.
The Fetus was on the other side of Franklin, on the southwest corner. It was, initially, right on that corner, crammed into this tiny space next to an Ace Hardware. When the hardware store moved (into a space in a mini-mall on Nicollet & 18th), the Fetus stretched itself into that new space. It was a bit discombobulating, at first, but they made good use of all that room, expanding both the head-shop portion at the front of the store and the music in the rest. The classical section was the most spare, but the jazz and blues kicked ass, and the international selections were a revelation.
In addition to African and Brazilian music, I got into Nordic and Scandinavian tunes when I lived there (it didn’t hurt that NorthSide Records mainlined that stuff into the city): Hedningarna. Hoven Droven. Väsen. Garmana—have you listened to “Gamen”? Jesus. Go listen to it!—and my beloved, and still missing, Finnish Ambient Techno Chant.
I bought both new and used cds, and a lot of them. The Fetus had a policy that if you bought 3 or more cds, you’d get 10 percent off; three or four times a year everything in the store would be 20 percent off. It wasn’t my only record store, but they did get a lot of my money.
The folks who worked there were the Minneapolis version of the stereotypical sullen music snob, which is to say, not that sullen, and not that snobbish. And every once in a while they’d throw a free promo cd into your bag, sometimes because it was there, and sometimes because there was something you bought that made them think you’d like this new music, too.
They tossed in an Esthero ep, which worked: I bought the full-length cd. A Beth Orton ep led me to multiple cds, and if you asked what they were playing on the store’s sound system, they’d toss you the jewel case and let you inspect if for yourself.
They didn’t do the hard sell; the music was enough.
I found that same attitude in the guy who ran the used cd shop on lower St Denis in Montréal. I bought a lot at a shop on Mont Royal, but had almost no interaction with that shop’s staff; at this store—and I cannot remember it’s, or his, name—the owner loved to talk early punk and new wave. I was the right age (if a bit young) to have caught that music when it first hit, but, boxed in by AOR stations out of Milwaukee, I wasn’t exposed to most of it until I left Sheboygan Falls.
(I’ve told you the story about my first extended exposure to Patti Smith, right? Where the fuck was she when I was in high school?!)
He’s almost certainly closed up shop by now; he was thinking even back in 2003 that he wouldn’t last long, so I’d guess the collapse of the cd market has since wiped him out.
I can get any cd (or cd’s worth of music) I want online, now, so as a music consumer I don’t really need the music store any longer.
But as a music lover, I miss the curators.
188. esthero, breath from another
189. Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
190. Eurythmics, Be Yourself Tonight
191. Eurythmics, Revenge
192. Eurythmics, Savage
193. Everything But The Girl, Walking Wounded
194. The Falcon and the Snowman
195. Marianne Faithfull, Kissin’ Time
196. feelies, Time for a Witness
197. Feist, The Reminder
198. Christine Fellows, the last one standing
199. Aretha Franklin, Spirit in the Dark
200. Aretha Franklin, The First Twelve Sides
201. frente! marvin the album
202. Peter Gabriel, So
203. Peter Gabriel, Us
204. Peter Gabriel, Shaking the Tree
205. electronica gainsbourg
206. Gang of Four, A Brief History of the Twentieth Century
207. garbage, G
208. Garmana, Vengeance
209. Garmana, Hildegard von Bingen
210. Marvin Gaye, What’s Going On
211. Gear Daddies, Billy’s Live Bait
212. Gentle Waves, The Green Fields of Foreverland
213. Lisa Gerrard, Duality
214. Stan Getz and Joao, Gilberto, Getz Gilberto
215. Giant Sand, Chore of Enchantment
216. Giant Sand, cover magazine
217. Giant Sand, Swerve
218. Giant Sand, Is All Over the Map
219. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man, out of season
220. Astrud Gilberto, eponymous
221. Bebel Gilberto, tanto tempo
222. Estair Godinez Band, Live from the Dakota
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Listen to the music: If songs were lines In a conversation
I don’t know how I got so many Steve Earles.
I like his music, sure, but 1,2,3,4,5 cds by him? I didn’t know I liked him that much.
That happens sometimes. You find an artist you like well enough, come across his or her cds in a used bin, and if feeling sufficiently expansive, think Why not? I like the music. This is different from completism; more like what-the-hellism.
Others you hunt down because goddammit that song twanged something in your brain and if you don’t find every last note and lyric by that artist you will suffocate or burst or both. (Again this is different from completism, which is more bureaucratic: this is full-on obsession).
Nick Drake was one of those for me. As with most of my obsessions, it faded after time, but I still stop when I hear him, still think Oh!
“Pink Moon”, the erstwhile Volkswagon commercial was my introduction to him, and it is a marvelous song, but I think I’ll have to go with “Hazey Jane I” for the win.
I’m fighting the urge to reprint all of the lyrics, so will restrain myself and leave you with, not the loveliest of the lines, but the ones that sliced through me:
Do you hope to find new ways
Of doing better than your worst.
I’m tryin’, Nick, I’m trying.
167. Tanya Donnelly, beautysleep
168. Dave Douglas, a thousand evenings
169. Nick Drake, bryter layter
170. Nick Drake, Pink Moon
171. Nick Drake, Five Leaves Left
172. Drugstore, White Magic for Lovers
173. Drugstore, Songs for the Jetset [missing disk]
174. Bob Dylan, Greatest Hits
175. Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks
176. Steve Earle, El Corazon
177. Steve Earle, guitar town
178. Steve Earle, Transcendental Blues
179. Steve Earle, Sidetracks
180. Steve Earle, Jerusalem
181. Earth Wind & Fire, The Best of
182. Mark Eitzel, West
183. Duke Ellington, Caravan (The Jazz Giants Play Duke Ellington)
184. Missy Elliot, This Is Not A Test!
185. En Vogue, Funky Divas
186. Enya, Watermark
187. Eschellon, A Sample
Tags: Hazey Jane I, Listen to the music, Nick Drake, obsession, Steve Earle, what-the-hellism
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Listen to the music: the sound of silence
The weekend after the burgarly, still trying to get over the fact I’d been burglarized, I heard Chet Baker on CBC Radio.
My Funny Valentine—that slow narcotic tenor, simple, soft. A November day in Montréal and I was bereft.
I don’t think I cried about what was taken—I was too pissed—but I was very sad about the Chet Baker.
Of course, the cd could be replaced, and was. I got to know the Plateau and Mont Royal neighborhoods very well in hitting all of the cd shops, and became friendly with one proprietor on St Denis—got some great stuff on his recommendation.
In that sense, the burglary wasn’t all bad: it got me prowling about some near-east side neighborhoods, made me comfortable with the Métro, and I ended up picking up a fair number of Canadian artists. I’d still rather never have been burgled, but there were pleasures in the recovery.
I do miss some cds which, it turned out, were irreplaceable. Some were local discs I’d picked up in Minneapolis, but one loss in particular pains me: Chris Lowe.
No, not that Chris Lowe, which is the problem.
My Chris Lowe was (is?) a singer/songwriter from New York who played and sang at my friend M.’s wedding. He gave out copies of his cd at the wedding (the artwork for which won some kind of marketing award), and I listened to the shit l out of that cd.
It was a bit uneven—it sounded as if the songlist stretched back a ways—but he had a nice way with a lyric, and I’m a sucker for sandpaper voice. It was lovely and lilting and sad.
I did make a tape of it, and I do still have a boombox that plays tapes, but I want that damned cd—which I can’t find, because my Chris Lowe shares a name with another musical Chris Lowe, super-famous Chris Lowe.
Well, maybe some night I’ll sit down with a bottle of something and dig my way through the cyberverse until I bump into that eponymous cd and take it home with me, where it belongs.
Again, this list is a bit out of sorts since I started it before the great cd mash-up, but as I’d only posted once previously on lost cds, it’s only a little disordered.
7. Afro Blue Band, Impressions
8. Chet Baker, in a soulful mood
9. Tony Bennett, Perfectly Frank
10. Bettie Serveet, Palomine
11. Andy Bey, Ballads Blues & Bey
12. Mary J. Blige, Mary
13. Blue Up? Cake and Eat It
14. BoDeans, home
15. David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust. . .
16. Billy Bragg, Back to Basics
17. billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue
18. T Bone Burnett, The Criminal Under My Own Hat
19. Cannonball Adderly Sextet, In New York
20. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, The Good Son
21. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Henry’s Dream
22. Exene Cervenka, Running Sacred
23. Bill Charlap, All through the night
24. Barbara Cohen & Little Lizard, Black Lake
25. Leonard Cohen, The Future
26. John Coltrane, The Art of John Coltrane
27. John Coltrane, Live at the Village Vanguard
28. Elvis Costello, Brutal Youth
29. Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet, The Juliet Letters
30. Mary Coughlan, Live in Galway
31. Cranberries, No Need to Argue
32. Celia Cruz, Queen of the Rumba
33. D’Angelo, Brown Sugar
34. Miles Davis, Birth of Cool
35. Miles Davis, Bitches Brew
36. Dead Can Dance, Into the Labyrinth
37. digable planets, reachin’ (a new refutation of time and space)
38. Dire Straits, Making Movies
39. John Doe, Meet John Doe
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Doctoral Researcher in Psychology (m/f)
Luxembourg, Luxemburgo febrero 16, 2020
The University of Luxembourg is a multilingual, international research university.
The University of Luxembourg invites applications for the following vacancy in its Luxembourg Centre for Educational Testing (LUCET) at the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE):
Initial 14 months fixed-term contract (extendable up to 36 months)
Full time (40 hours/week)
Employee and student status
The doctoral researcher will conduct research under the guidance of a supervisory team including local and international experts, with the aim of studying towards a doctoral degree (cumulative; i.e., based on peer-reviewed publications) in Psychology. The doctoral researcher will investigate the possibilities of intelligence assessment in early childhood in the heterogenous Luxembourgish context (i.e. diverse language and cultural backgrounds). The doctoral researcher will develop a new instrument for intelligence assessment to be used in Luxembourgish schools.
The doctoral researcher will review research on intelligence as well as existing assessment tools. The following general research tasks are included in the responsibilities of the doctoral researcher:
apply state-of-the-art research techniques and psychometric methods
develop a new assessment tool
evaluate the psychometric qualities of the new tool
(co-)author peer-reviewed scientific publications and present research outcomes at international conferences
contribute to and support (on-going and future) research projects within LUCET
Master in psychology
Competence in psychometrics
Research or professional experience in the fields of educational/psychological assessment is a plus
Very good oral and written competences in English
Motivation to work with children in schools
Ability to work in a multidisciplinary and multicultural team
A friendly international interdisciplinary team
Modern, newly equipped labs
Please upload your complete application (letter of motivation, CV, copy of diplomas) by 16/02/2020.
The University of Luxembourg is an equal opportunity employer.
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Título Doctoral Researcher in Psychology (m/f)
Employer University of Luxembourg
Job location 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, L-1359 Luxembourg
Publicado enero 14, 2020
Fecha límite de solicitud febrero 16, 2020
Tipos de trabajo Doctorado
Campos Evaluación Educativa, Psicología Aplicada, Psicología Educativa, Psicoanálisis
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Author Christopher LynnPublished on January 27, 2016 February 2, 2016 Leave a comment on Lectures & Workshops
Dr. Abrams meets Dr. Jim Bindon, who helped develop our Biocultural Medical program and in whose honor the lecture series was started.
In the fall, we hosted several in-house lectures and workshops and were graced by talks by a few visiting scholars.
On October 8, we were able to take advantage of a visit to Tuscaloosa by Dr. Natilee A. McGruder, Director of the River Region Food Policy Council (RRFPC), who graced us with an Extemporaneous Talk called "The Local Food System: Getting to Know Your Neighbor." On November 6, we inaugurated our new "Biocultural Anthropology and Health Lecture Series" with a talk by UAB Professor of Philosophy Marshall Abrams entitled "Modeling the Development of Sustainable Rice Production and Religious Practice in Bali."
Lynn Funkhouser presented on the history, archaeology, and bioarchaeology of the nations first VA hospital, located outside of Pascagoula, MS for the falls first FABBL.
Several speakers participated in the FABBL (Friday Afternoon Brown Bag Lunch) series, hosted by the Anthropology Club. On September 25, doctoral candidate Lynn Funkhouser presented "The Mexican Soldiers of Greenwood Island, Mississippi." On October 9, doctoral student Courtney Andrews presented "Finding Culture in Acculturation: Does Cultural Consonance Mediate the Relationship between Acculturative Stress and Health Outcomes among Mexican Immigrants?" On October 23, doctoral candidate Rachel Briggs presented "Public Archaeology in Western North Carolina: Recent Excavations at Spanish Fort San Juan de Joara." On November 6, doctoral candidate Daniel LaDu presented "Interaction Spheres and 'Circle-Maps': Considering the Role that Extra-Regional Exchange Plays in the Process of Culture Change."
On December 4, Dr. David Meek was kind enough to give a department workshop on spatial ethnographic research design.
The line for Bill Nye tickets, day 1.
Finally, the Department of Anthropology is affiliated with the Alabama Lectures on Life's Evolution (ALLELE) speaker series, which hosted four lectures in the fall. On September 28, ALLELE co-hosted a talk by science personality Bill Nye the Science Guy called "The Importance of Teaching Evolution." This was the biggest ALLELE talk to date, with thousands of people turning out for three successive giveaways for roughly 5,000 tickets. Dr. Lynn wrote a summary of the event for the EvoS Consortium (http://evostudies.org/2015/10/how-exactly-is-evolution-a-crosscutting-concept-enter-bill-nye-the-science-guy/). Geologist Linda Ivany (Syracuse University) gave a talk on October 15 called "The Pace of Life---The (Often) Missing Element in Studies of Evolution Using Fossils." On November 12, historian Ron Numbers (University of Wisconsin-Madison) gave a talk called "Baptizing Dinosaurs: How Once-Suspect Evidence of Evolution Came to Support the Biblical Narrative." And on December 3, evolutionary psychologist Rebecca Burch (SUNY Oswego) gave a lecture rescheduled from the spring entitled "Semen Chemistry: Implications, Innovations, and Controversy."
Our students and faculty also gave talks around the University. Dr. Marysia Galbraith gave a talk about her experience in Poznan, Poland for the Fulbright Scholar Program on September 3 entitled "Memory in Fragments: Reassembling Jewish Life in Poland." On December 4, undergraduate Lauren Pratt presented "Status and Stature in Two Prehistoric Burial Populations" in the Computer-Based Honors Program. (faculty advisors, Drs. Blitz and Jacobi).
Published on January 27, 2016 February 2, 2016 Author Christopher LynnCategories LecturesTags ALLELE, Bill Nye, Courtney Andrews, Daniel LaDu, David Meek, FABBL, Lauren Pratt, Linda Ivany, Lynn Funkhouser, Marshall Abrams, Marysia Galbraith, Natilee McGruder, Rachel Briggs, Rebecca Burch, Ron NumbersLeave a comment on Lectures & Workshops
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National Public Radio: Top Ten List/ Antje Duvekot
Great News ... Antje is being included on a number of 'Best of 2006' lists... including #1 Folk Release of 2006 in the Boston Globe and National Public Radio's 'Folk Alley'... WUMB in Boston and WXPN in Philadelphia and out in Chicago, Rick Warren's "Midnight Special" show...
Rick Warren's Midnight Special Favorites for 2006
"First, an explanatory note:
I refrain from calling these "The Best of 2006" because the following list is but one man's biased opinion. I have culled these from the many good recordings that crossed my CD player this year. I'm sure I forgot to include a few notable recordings. All told, I estimate The Midnight Special received at least 600 new recordings, and I listened to about 400 new recordings, of which about 250 made it into the WFMT library, and about 100 received airplay. I do not include reissues and most compilations among these favorites. As the cut-off date is November 15, some of the newest recordings will not be considered until next year.
Once again, this year failed to overwhelm me with great new releases, so there are just 11 recordings on the list. There was no lack of good music, but only these grabbed me. While I thought about these choices long and hard for several weeks, if not most of the year, had I made the list a day earlier or a day later it might have been slightly different.
If a good friend visited from out-of-town with only an hour or two to spare, and asked me to play my favorites from 2006, I would play the following in no particular order. Actually, I have purchased quantities of several of them to give to friends for the holidays.
By way of explanation, I have annotated the CDs on the list, arrange alphabetically.
ANTJE DUVEKOT: Big Dream Boulevard (Black Wolf)
Young, quirky, poetic and powerful, Antje Duvekot sings her mind. Her political/social observations are clever and piercing and her song about aging incredibly poignant.
Here's the WXPN (Philadelphia) Staff Picks for 2006
Helen Leicht, Midday and Philly Local Host
Amos Lee / Supply & Demand
• Ray Lamontagne / Till The Sun Turns Black
• Citizen Cope / Every Waking Moment
• Gnarls Barkley / St. Elsewhere
• Melody Gardot / Worrisome Heart
• Slo Mo w/Mic Wrecka / My Buzz Comes Back
• Rodrigo Y Gabriela / Rodrigo Y Gabriela
• Matt Duke / Winter Child
• Birdie Busch / The Ways we Try
• Antje Duvekot / Big Dream Boulevard
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Judge to Nassar: Nothing as ‘harsh’ as victim treatment
Sarah Rahal, The Detroit NewsJanuary 18, 2018 GMT
Lansing – The attorney for disgraced Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar presented the judge presiding over his sentencing with a letter expressing concern for his mental health as he listens to four days worth of victim impact statements.
Judge Rosemarie Aquilina refused to be swayed by the six-page, single-spaced, typed letter from Nassar, reminding him he is required to sit there and pay attention.
“You may find it harsh that you are here listening,” she said. “But nothing is as harsh as what your victims endured for thousands of hours collectively, you spent thousands of hours perpetrating criminal sexual conduct on minors.”
Aquilina spoke directly to Nassar in court, saying not only did she want to provide time for the victims to heal by giving their impact statements, it was required as part of his plea deal.
That list of victims included at least 125 women who could speak, she said.
“I didn’t want one victim to lose their voice,” Aquilina said. “It allows for the healing of victims so that they can move forward.”
Then, she reminded him of his crimes.
“Spending four or five days listening to them is significantly minor considering the hours of pleasure you’ve had at their expense and ruining their lives.”
Victim impact statements continue today, and Aquilina says she will allow the sentencing to continue into next week so that everyone who wants to speaks will have time.
srahal@detroitnews.com
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Cablebus. Cablebus is an approved assembly of insulated conductors with fittings and conductor terminations in a completely enclosed, ventilated, protective metal housing.
Cell line. An assembly of electrically interconnected electrolytic cells supplied by a source of direct current power.
Cell line attachments and auxiliary equipment. Cell line attachments and auxiliary equipment include, but are not limited to, auxiliary tanks, process piping, ductwork, structural supports, exposed cell line conductors, conduits and other raceways, pumps, positioning equipment, and cell cutout or bypass electrical devices. Auxiliary equipment also includes tools, welding machines, crucibles, and other portable equipment used for operation and maintenance within the electrolytic cell line working zone. In the cell line working zone, auxiliary equipment includes the exposed conductive surfaces of ungrounded cranes and crane-mounted cell-servicing equipment.
Center pivot irrigation machine. A center pivot irrigation machine is a multimotored irrigation machine which revolves around a central pivot and employs alignment switches or similar devices to control individual motors.
Certified. Equipment is "certified" if it: (a) Has been tested and found by a nationally recognized testing laboratory to meet nationally recognized standards or to be safe for use in a specified manner; or (b) is of a kind whose production is periodically inspected by a nationally recognized testing laboratory; and (c) it bears a label, tag, or other record of certification.
Circuit breaker.
(a) (600 volts nominal, or less.) A device designed to open and close a circuit by nonautomatic means and to open the circuit automatically on a predetermined overcurrent without injury to itself when properly applied within its rating.
(b) (Over 600 volts, nominal.) A switching device capable of making, carrying, and breaking currents under normal circuit conditions, and also making, carrying for a specified time, and breaking currents under specified abnormal circuit conditions, such as those of short circuit.
Class I locations. Class I locations are those in which flammable gases or vapors are or may be present in the air in quantities sufficient to produce explosive or ignitible mixtures. Class I locations include the following:
(a) Class I, Division 1. A Class I, Division 1 location is a location:
(i) In which hazardous concentrations of flammable gases or vapors may exist under normal operating conditions; or
(ii) In which hazardous concentrations of such gases or vapors may exist frequently because of repair or maintenance operations or because of leakage; or
(iii) In which breakdown or faulty operation of equipment or processes might release hazardous concentrations of flammable gases or vapors, and might also cause simultaneous failure of electric equipment.
This classification usually includes locations where volatile flammable liquids or liquefied flammable gases are transferred from one container to another; interiors of spray booths and areas in the vicinity of spraying and painting operations where volatile flammable solvents are used; locations containing open tanks or vats of volatile flammable liquids; drying rooms or compartments for the evaporation of flammable solvents; locations containing fat and oil extraction equipment using volatile flammable solvents; portions of cleaning and dyeing plants where flammable liquids are used; gas generator rooms and other portions of gas manufacturing plants where flammable gas may escape; inadequately ventilated pump rooms for flammable gas or for volatile flammable liquids; the interiors of refrigerators and freezers in which volatile flammable materials are stored in open, lightly stoppered, or easily ruptured containers; and all other locations where ignitible concentrations of flammable vapors or gases are likely to occur in the course of normal operations.
(b) Class I, Division 2. A Class I, Division 2 location is a location:
(i) In which volatile flammable liquids or flammable gases are handled, processed, or used, but in which the hazardous liquids, vapors, or gases will normally be confined within closed containers or closed systems from which they can escape only in case of accidental rupture or breakdown of such containers or systems, or in case of abnormal operation of equipment; or
(ii) In which hazardous concentrations of gases or vapors are normally prevented by positive mechanical ventilation, and which might become hazardous through failure or abnormal operations of the ventilating equipment; or
(iii) That is adjacent to a Class I, Division 1 location, and to which hazardous concentrations of gases or vapors might occasionally be communicated unless such communication is prevented by adequate positive-pressure ventilation from a source of clean air, and effective safeguards against ventilation failure are provided.
This classification usually includes locations where volatile flammable liquids or flammable gases or vapors are used, but which would become hazardous only in case of an accident or of some unusual operating condition. The quantity of flammable material that might escape in case of accident, the adequacy of ventilating equipment, the total area involved, and the record of the industry or business with respect to explosions or fires are all factors that merit consideration in determining the classification and extent of each location.
Piping without valves, checks, meters, and similar devices would not ordinarily introduce a hazardous condition even though used for flammable liquids or gases. Locations used for the storage of flammable liquids or a liquefied or compressed gases in sealed containers would not normally be considered hazardous unless also subject to other hazardous conditions.
Electrical conduits and their associated enclosures separated from process fluids by a single seal or barrier are classed as a Division 2 location if the outside of the conduit and enclosures is a nonhazardous location.
(c) Class I, Zone 0. A Class I, Zone 0 location is a location in which one of the following conditions exists:
(i) Ignitable concentrations of flammable gases or vapors are present continuously; or
(ii) Ignitable concentrations of flammable gases or vapors are present for long periods of time.
Note to the definition of "Class I, Zone 0": As a guide in determining when flammable gases or vapors are present continuously or for long periods of time, refer to Recommended Practice for Classification of Locations for Electrical Installations of Petroleum Facilities Classified as Class I, Zone 0, Zone 1 or Zone 2, API RP 505-1997; Electrical Apparatus for Explosive Gas Atmospheres, Classifications of Hazardous Areas, IEC 79-10-1995; Area Classification Code for Petroleum Installations, Model Code—Part 15, Institute for Petroleum; and Electrical Apparatus for Explosive Gas Atmospheres, Classifications of Hazardous (Classified) Locations, ISA S12.24.01-1997.
(d) Class I, Zone 1. A Class I, Zone 1 location is a location in which one of the following conditions exists:
(i) Ignitable concentrations of flammable gases or vapors are likely to exist under normal operating conditions; or
(ii) Ignitable concentrations of flammable gases or vapors may exist frequently because of repair or maintenance operations or because of leakage; or
(iii) Equipment is operated or processes are carried on of such a nature that equipment breakdown or faulty operations could result in the release of ignitable concentrations of flammable gases or vapors and also cause simultaneous failure of electric equipment in a manner that would cause the electric equipment to become a source of ignition; or
(iv) A location that is adjacent to a Class I, Zone 0 location from which ignitable concentrations of vapors could be communicated, unless communication is prevented by adequate positive pressure ventilation from a source of clean air and effective safeguards against ventilation failure are provided.
(e) Class I, Zone 2. A Class I, Zone 2 location is a location in which one of the following conditions exists:
(i) Ignitable concentrations of flammable gases or vapors are not likely to occur in normal operation and if they do occur will exist only for a short period; or
(ii) Volatile flammable liquids, flammable gases, or flammable vapors are handled, processed, or used, but in which the liquids, gases, or vapors are normally confined within closed containers or closed systems from which they can escape only as a result of accidental rupture or breakdown of the containers or system or as the result of the abnormal operation of the equipment with which the liquids or gases are handled, processed, or used; or
(iii) Ignitable concentrations of flammable gases or vapors normally are prevented by positive mechanical ventilation, but which may become hazardous as the result of failure or abnormal operation of the ventilation equipment; or
(iv) A location that is adjacent to a Class I, Zone 1 location, from which ignitable concentrations of flammable gases or vapors could be communicated, unless such communication is prevented by adequate positive-pressure ventilation from a source of clean air, and effective safeguards against ventilation failure are provided.
Class II locations. Class II locations are those that are hazardous because of the presence of combustible dust. Class II locations include the following:
(a) Class II, Division 1. A Class II, Division 1 location is a location:
(i) In which combustible dust is or may be in suspension in the air under normal operating conditions, in quantities sufficient to produce explosives or ignitible mixtures; or
(ii) Where mechanical failure or abnormal operation of machinery or equipment might cause such explosive or ignitible mixtures to be produced, and might also provide a source of ignition through simultaneous failure of electric equipment, operation of protection devices, or from other causes; or
(iii) In which combustible dusts of an electrically conductive nature may be present.
This classification may include areas of grain handling and processing plants, starch plants, sugar-pulverizing plants, malting plants, hay-grinding plants, coal pulverizing plants, areas where metal dusts and powders are produced or processed, and other similar locations which contain dust producing machinery and equipment (except where the equipment is dust-tight or vented to the outside). These areas would have combustible dust in the air, under normal operating conditions, in quantities sufficient to produce explosive or ignitible mixtures. Combustible dusts which are electrically nonconductive include dusts produced in the handling and processing of grain and grain products, pulverized sugar and cocoa, dried egg and milk powders, pulverized spices, starch and pastes, potato and woodflour, oil meal from beans and seed, dried hay, and other organic materials which may produce combustible dusts when processed or handled. Dusts containing magnesium or aluminum are particularly hazardous and the use of extreme caution is necessary to avoid ignition and explosion.
(b) Class II, Division 2. A Class II, Division 2 location is a location in which:
(i) Combustible dust will not normally be in suspension in the air in quantities sufficient to produce explosive or ignitible mixtures; and dust accumulations are normally insufficient to interfere with the normal operation of electrical equipment or other apparatus; or
(ii) Dust may be in suspension in the air as a result of infrequent malfunctioning of handling or processing equipment, and dust accumulations resulting therefrom may be ignitible by abnormal operation or failure of electrical equipment or other apparatus.
This classification includes locations where dangerous concentrations of suspended dust would not be likely but where dust accumulations might form on or in the vicinity of electric equipment. These areas may contain equipment from which appreciable quantities of dust would escape under abnormal operating conditions or be adjacent to a Class II, Division 1 location, as described above, into which an explosive or ignitible concentration of dust may be put into suspension under abnormal operating conditions.
Class III locations. Class III locations are those that are hazardous because of the presence of easily ignitible fibers or flyings but in which such fibers or flyings are not likely to be in suspension in the air in quantities sufficient to produce ignitible mixtures. Class III locations include the following:
(a) Class III, Division 1. A Class III, Division 1 location is a location in which easily ignitible fibers or materials producing combustible flyings are handled, manufactured, or used.
Such locations usually include some parts of rayon, cotton, and other textile mills; combustible fiber manufacturing and processing plants; cotton gins and cottonseed mills; flax-processing plants; clothing manufacturing plants; woodworking plants and establishments; and industries involving similar hazardous processes or conditions.
Easily ignitible fibers and flyings include rayon, cotton (including cotton linters and cotton waste), sisal or henequen, istle, jute, hemp, tow, cocoa fiber, oakum, baled waste kapok, Spanish moss, excelsior, and other materials of similar nature.
(b) Class III, Division 2. A Class III, Division 2 location is a location in which easily ignitible fibers are stored or handled, except in process of manufacture.
Collector ring. A collector ring is an assembly of slip rings for transferring electrical energy from a stationary to a rotating member.
Competent person. One who is capable of identifying existing and predictable hazards in the surroundings or working conditions that are unsanitary, hazardous, or dangerous to employees and who has authorization to take prompt corrective measures to eliminate them.
Concealed. Rendered inaccessible by the structure or finish of the building. Wires in concealed raceways are considered concealed, even though they may become accessible by withdrawing them. See "Accessible. (As applied to wiring methods.)"
Conductor.
(a) Bare. A conductor having no covering or electrical insulation whatsoever.
(b) Covered. A conductor encased within material of composition or thickness that is not recognized as electrical insulation.
(c) Insulated. A conductor encased within material of composition and thickness that is recognized as electrical insulation.
Conduit body. A separate portion of a conduit or tubing system that provides access through a removable cover(s) to the interior of the system at a junction of two or more sections of the system or at a terminal point of the system. Boxes such as FS and FD or larger cast or sheet metal boxes are not classified as conduit bodies.
Controller. A device or group of devices that serves to govern, in some predetermined manner, the electric power delivered to the apparatus to which it is connected.
Cooking unit, counter-mounted. A cooking appliance designed for mounting in or on a counter and consisting of one or more heating elements, internal wiring, and built-in or separately mountable controls. (See "oven, wall-mounted.")
Covered conductor. See "conductor."
Cutout. (Over 600 volts, nominal.) An assembly of a fuse support with either a fuseholder, fuse carrier, or disconnecting blade. The fuseholder or fuse carrier may include a conducting element (fuse link), or may act as the disconnecting blade by the inclusion of a nonfusible member.
Cutout box. An enclosure designed for surface mounting and having swinging doors or covers secured directly to and telescoping with the walls of the box proper. (See "cabinet.")
Damp location. See "location."
Dead front. Without live parts exposed to a person on the operating side of the equipment.
Deenergized. Free from any electrical connection to a source of potential difference and from electrical charge; not having a potential difference from that of the earth.
Device. A unit of an electrical system which is intended to carry but not utilize electric energy.
Dielectric heating. Dielectric heating is the heating of a nominally insulating material due to its own dielectric losses when the materials are placed in a varying electric filed.
Disconnecting means. A device, or group of devices, or other means by which the conductors of a circuit can be disconnected from their source of supply.
Disconnecting (or isolating) switch. (Over 600 volts, nominal.) A mechanical switching device used for isolating a circuit or equipment from a source of power.
Dry location. See "location."
Electric sign. Fixed, stationary, or portable self-contained, electrically illuminated utilization equipment with words or symbols designed to convey information or attract attention.
Electrolytic cell line working zone. The cell line working zone is the space envelope wherein operation or maintenance is normally performed on or in the vicinity of exposed energized surfaces of electrolytic cell lines or their attachments.
Electrolytic cells. A tank or vat in which electrochemical reactions are caused by applying energy for the purpose of refining or producing usable materials.
Enclosed. Surrounded by a case, housing, fence or walls which will prevent persons from accidentally contacting energized parts.
Enclosure. The case or housing of apparatus, or the fence or walls surrounding an installation to prevent personnel from accidentally contacting energized parts, or to protect the equipment from physical damage.
Energized. Electrically connected to a source of potential difference.
Equipment. A general term including material, fittings, devices, appliances, fixtures, apparatus, and the like, used as a part of, or in connection with, an electrical installation.
Equipment grounding conductor. See "grounding conductor, equipment."
Explosion-proof apparatus. Apparatus enclosed in a case that is capable of withstanding an explosion of a specified gas or vapor which may occur within it and of preventing the ignition of a specified gas or vapor surrounding the enclosure by sparks, flashes, or explosion of the gas or vapor within, and which operates at such an external temperature that it will not ignite a surrounding flammable atmosphere.
Exposed. (As applied to live parts.) Capable of being inadvertently touched or approached nearer than a safe distance by a person. It is applied to parts not suitably guarded, isolated, or insulated. (See "accessible" and "concealed.")
Exposed. (As applied to wiring methods.) On or attached to the surface or behind panels designed to allow access. See "Accessible. (As applied to wiring methods.)"
Exposed. (For the purpose of WAC 296-24-95713(5), communications systems.) Where the circuit is in such a position that in case of failure of supports or insulation, contact with another circuit may result.
Externally operable. Capable of being operated without exposing the operator to contact with live parts.
Feeder. All circuit conductors between the service equipment, or the generator switchboard of an isolated plant, and the final branch-circuit overcurrent device.
Fitting. An accessory such as a locknut, bushing, or other part of a wiring system that is intended primarily to perform a mechanical rather than an electrical function.
Fountain. Fountains, ornamental pools, display pools, and reflection pools.
Note to the definition of "fountain:" This definition does not include drinking fountains.
Fuse. (Over 600 volts, nominal.) An overcurrent protective device with a circuit opening fusible part that is heated and severed by the passage of overcurrent through it. A fuse comprises all the parts that form a unit capable of performing the prescribed functions. It may or may not be the complete device necessary to connect it into an electrical circuit.
Ground. A conducting connection, whether intentional or accidental, between an electrical circuit or equipment and the earth, or to some conducting body that serves in place of the earth.
Grounded. Connected to earth or to some conducting body that serves in place of the earth.
Grounded, effectively. (Over 600 volts, nominal.) Permanently connected to earth through a ground connection of sufficiently low impedance and having sufficient ampacity that ground fault current which may occur cannot build up to voltages dangerous to personnel.
Grounded conductor. A system or circuit conductor that is intentionally grounded.
Grounding conductor. A conductor used to connect equipment or the grounded circuit of a wiring system to a grounding electrode or electrodes.
Grounding conductor, equipment. The conductor used to connect the noncurrent-carrying metal parts of equipment, raceways, and other enclosures to the system grounded conductor and/or the grounding electrode conductor at the service equipment or at the source of a separately derived system.
Grounding electrode conductor. The conductor used to connect the grounding electrode to the equipment grounding conductor and/or to the grounded conductor of the circuit at the service equipment or at the source of a separately derived system.
Ground-fault circuit-interrupter. A device whose function is to interrupt the electric circuit to the load when a fault current to ground exceeds some predetermined value that is less than that required to operate the overcurrent protective device of the supply circuit.
Guarded. Covered, shielded, fenced, enclosed, or otherwise protected by means of suitable covers, casings, barriers, rails, screens, mats, or platforms to remove the likelihood of approach to a point of danger or contact by persons or objects.
Health care facilities. Buildings or portions of buildings and mobile homes that contain, but are not limited to, hospitals, nursing homes, extended care facilities, clinics, and medical and dental offices, whether fixed or mobile.
Heating equipment. For the purposes of WAC 296-24-95611(7), the term "heating equipment" includes any equipment used for heating purposes if heat is generated by induction or dielectric methods.
Hoistway. Any shaftway, hatchway, well hole, or other vertical opening or space in which an elevator or dumbwaiter is designed to operate.
Identified. Identified, as used in reference to a conductor or its terminal, means that such conductor or terminal can be readily recognized as grounded.
Identified (as applied to equipment). Approved as suitable for the specific purpose, function, use, environment, or application, where described in a particular requirement.
Note to the definition of "identified (as applied to equipment):" Some examples of ways to determine suitability of equipment for a specific purpose, environment, or application include investigations by a nationally recognized testing laboratory (through listing and labeling), inspection agency, or other organization recognized under the definition of "acceptable."
Induction heating. Induction heating is the heating of a nominally conductive material due to its own I2R losses when the material is placed in a varying electromagnetic field.
Insulated. Separated from other conducting surfaces by a dielectric (including air space) offering a high resistance to the passage of current.
Insulated conductor. See "conductor."
Interrupter switch. (Over 600 volts, nominal.) A switch capable of making, carrying, and interrupting specified currents.
Irrigation machine. An irrigation machine is an electrically driven or controlled machine, with one or more motors, not hand portable, and used primarily to transport and distribute water for agricultural purposes.
Isolated. Not readily accessible to persons unless special means for access are used.
Isolated power system. A system comprising an isolating transformer or its equivalent, a line isolation monitor, and its ungrounded circuit conductors.
Labeled. Equipment is "labeled" if there is attached to it a label, symbol, or other identifying mark of a nationally recognized testing laboratory which: (a) Makes periodic inspections of the production of such equipment; and (b) whose labeling indicates compliance with nationally recognized standards or tests to determine safe use in a specified manner.
Lighting outlet. An outlet intended for the direct connection of a lampholder, a lighting fixture, or a pendant cord terminating in a lampholder.
Line-clearance tree trimming. The pruning, trimming, repairing, maintaining, removing, or clearing of trees or cutting of brush that is within 10 feet of electric supply lines and equipment.
Listed. Equipment is "listed" if it is of a kind mentioned in a list which: (a) Is published by a nationally recognized laboratory which makes periodic inspection of the production of such equipment; and (b) states such equipment meets nationally recognized standards or has been tested and found safe for use in a specified manner.
Live parts. Energized conductive components.
(a) Damp location. Partially protected locations under canopies, marquees, roofed open porches, and like locations, and interior locations subject to moderate degrees of moisture, such as some basements, some barns, and some cold-storage warehouses.
(b) Dry location. A location not normally subject to dampness or wetness. A location classified as dry may be temporarily subject to dampness or wetness, as in the case of a building under construction.
(c) Wet location. Installations underground or in concrete slabs or masonry in direct contact with the earth, and locations subject to saturation with water or other liquids, such as vehicle-washing areas and locations exposed to weather and unprotected.
Medium voltage cable. Type MV medium voltage cable is a single or multiconductor solid dielectric insulated cable rated 2000 volts or higher.
Metal-clad cable. Type MC cable is a factory assembly of one or more conductors, each individually insulated and enclosed in a metallic sheath of interlocking tape, or a smooth or corrugated tube.
Mineral-insulated metal-sheathed cable. Type MI mineral-insulated metal-sheathed cable is a factory assembly of one or more conductors insulated with a highly compressed refractory mineral insulation and enclosed in a liquidtight and gastight continuous copper sheath.
Mobile X-ray. X-ray equipment mounted on a permanent base with wheels and/or casters for moving while completely assembled.
Motor control center. An assembly of one or more enclosed sections having a common power bus and principally containing motor control units.
Nonmetallic-sheathed cable. Nonmetallic-sheathed cable is a factory assembly of two or more insulated conductors having an outer sheath of moisture resistant, flame-retardant, nonmetallic material. Nonmetallic sheathed cable is manufactured in the following types:
(a) Type NM. The overall covering has a flame-retardant and moisture-resistant finish.
(b) Type NMC. The overall covering is flame-retardant, moisture-resistant, fungus-resistant, and corrosion-resistant.
Oil (filled) cutout. (Over 600 volts, nominal.) A cutout in which all or part of the fuse support and its fuse link or disconnecting blade are mounted in oil with complete immersion of the contacts and the fusible portion of the conducting element (fuse link), so that arc interruption by severing of the fuse link or by opening of the contacts will occur under oil.
Open wiring on insulators. Open wiring on insulators is an exposed wiring method using cleats, knobs, tubes, and flexible tubing for the protection and support of single insulated conductors run in or on buildings, and not concealed by the building structure.
Outlet. A point on the wiring system at which current is taken to supply utilization equipment.
Outline lighting. An arrangement of incandescent lamps or electric discharge tubing to outline or call attention to certain features such as the shape of a building or the decoration of a window.
Oven, wall-mounted. An oven for cooking purposes designed for mounting in or on a wall or other surface and consisting of one or more heating elements, internal wiring, and built-in or separately mountable controls. (See "cooking unit, counter-mounted.")
Overcurrent. Any current in excess of the rated current of equipment or the ampacity of a conductor. It may result from overload (see definition), short circuit, or ground fault. A current in excess of rating may be accommodated by certain equipment and conductors for a given set of conditions. Hence the rules for overcurrent protection are specific for particular situations.
Overhaul. To perform a major replacement, modification, repair, or rehabilitation similar to that involved when a new building or facility is built, a new wing is added, or an entire floor is renovated.
Overload. Operation of equipment in excess of normal, full load rating, or of a conductor in excess of rated ampacity which, when it persists for a sufficient length of time, would cause damage or dangerous overheating. A fault, such as a short circuit or ground fault, is not an overload. (See "overcurrent.")
Panelboard. A single panel or group of panel units designed for assembly in the form of a single panel; including buses, automatic overcurrent devices, and with or without switches for the control of light, heat, or power circuits; designed to be placed in a cabinet or cutout box placed in or against a wall or partition and accessible only from the front. (See "switchboard.")
Permanently installed decorative fountains and reflection pools. Those that are constructed in the ground, on the ground, or in a building in such a manner that the pool cannot be readily disassembled for storage and are served by electrical circuits of any nature. These units are primarily constructed for their aesthetic value and not intended for swimming or wading.
Permanently installed swimming pools, wading and therapeutic pools. Those that are constructed in the ground, on the ground, or in a building in such a manner that the pool cannot be readily disassembled for storage whether or not served by electrical circuits of any nature.
Portable X-ray. X-ray equipment designed to be hand-carried.
Power and control tray cable. Type TC power and control tray cable is a factory assembly of two or more insulated conductors, with or without associated bare or covered grounding conductors under a nonmetallic sheath, approved for installation in cable trays, in raceways, or where supported by a messenger wire.
Power fuse. (Over 600 volts, nominal.) See "fuse."
Power-limited tray cable. Type PLTC nonmetallic-sheathed power limited tray cable is a factory assembly of two or more insulated conductors under a nonmetallic jacket.
Power outlet. An enclosed assembly which may include receptacles, circuit breakers, fuseholders, fused switches, buses and watt-hour meter mounting means; intended to supply and control power to mobile homes, recreational vehicles or boats, or to serve as a means for distributing power required to operate mobile or temporarily installed equipment.
Premises wiring system. That interior and exterior wiring, including power, lighting, control, and signal circuit wiring together with all of its associated hardware, fittings, and wiring devices, both permanently and temporarily installed, which extends from the load end of the service drop, or load end of the service lateral conductors to the outlet(s). Such wiring does not include wiring internal to appliances, fixtures, motors, controllers, motor control centers, and similar equipment.
Qualified person. One familiar with the construction and operation of the equipment and the hazards involved.
Note 1:
Whether an employee is considered to be a "qualified person" will depend upon various circumstances in the workplace. It is possible, and in fact likely, for an individual to be considered "qualified" with regard to certain equipment in the workplace, but "unqualified" as to other equipment. (See WAC 296-24-970 for training requirements that specifically apply to qualified persons.)
An employee who is undergoing on-the-job training and who, in the course of such training, has demonstrated an ability to perform duties safely at their level of training and who is under the direct supervision of a qualified person is considered to be a qualified person for the performance of those duties.
Raceway. A channel designed expressly for holding wires, cables, or busbars, with additional functions as permitted in this part. Raceways may be of metal or insulating material, and the term includes rigid metal conduit, rigid nonmetallic conduit, intermediate metal conduit, liquidtight flexible metal conduit, flexible metallic tubing, flexible metal conduit, electrical metallic tubing, underfloor raceways, cellular concrete floor raceways, cellular metal floor raceways, surface raceways, wireways, and busways.
Readily accessible. Capable of being reached quickly for operation, renewal, or inspections, without requiring those to whom ready access is requisite to climb over or remove obstacles or to resort to portable ladders, chairs, etc. (See "accessible.")
Receptacle. A receptacle is a contact device installed at the outlet for the connection of a single attachment plug. A single receptacle is a single contact device with no other contact device on the same yoke. A multiple receptacle is a single device containing two or more receptacles.
Receptacle outlet. An outlet where one or more receptacles are installed.
Remote-control circuit. Any electric circuit that controls any other circuit through a relay or an equivalent device.
Sealable equipment. Equipment enclosed in a case or cabinet that is provided with a means of sealing or locking so that live parts cannot be made accessible without opening the enclosure. The equipment may or may not be operable without opening the enclosure.
Separately derived system. A premises wiring system whose power is derived from generator, transformer, or converter winding and has no direct electrical connection, including a solidly connected grounded circuit conductor, to supply conductors originating in another system.
Service. The conductors and equipment for delivering energy from the electricity supply system to the wiring system of the premises served.
Service cable. Service conductors made up in the form of a cable.
Service conductors. The supply conductors that extend from the street main or from transformers to the service equipment of the premises supplied.
Service drop. The overhead service conductors from the last pole or other aerial support to and including the splices, if any, connecting to the service-entrance conductors at the building or other structure.
Service-entrance cable. Service-entrance cable is a single conductor or multiconductor assembly provided with or without an overall covering, primarily used for services and of the following types:
(a) Type SE, having a flame-retardant, moisture-resistant covering, but not required to have inherent protection against mechanical abuse.
(b) Type USE, recognized for underground use, having a moisture-resistant covering, but not required to have a flame-retardant covering or inherent protection against mechanical abuse. Single-conductor cables having an insulation specifically approved for the purpose do not require an outer covering.
Service-entrance conductors, overhead system. The service conductors between the terminals of the service equipment and a point usually outside the building, clear of building walls, where joined by tap or splice to the service drop.
Service-entrance conductors, underground system. The service conductors between the terminals of the service equipment and the point of connection to the service lateral. Where service equipment is located outside the building walls, there may be no service-entrance conductors, or they may be entirely outside the building.
Service equipment. The necessary equipment, usually consisting of a circuit breaker or switch and fuses, and their accessories, located near the point of entrance of supply conductors to a building or other structure, or an otherwise defined area, and intended to constitute the main control and means of cutoff of the supply.
Service raceway. The raceway that encloses the service-entrance conductors.
Shielded nonmetallic-sheathed cable. Type SNM, shielded nonmetallic-sheathed cable, is a factory assembly of two or more insulated conductors in an extruded core of moisture-resistant, flame-resistant nonmetallic material, covered with an overlapping spiral metal tape and wire shield and jacketed with an extruded moisture-resistant, flame-resistant, oil-resistant, corrosion-resistant, fungus-resistant, and sunlight-resistant nonmetallic material.
Show window. Any window used or designed to be used for the display of goods or advertising material, whether it is fully or partly enclosed or entirely open at the rear and whether or not it has a platform raised higher than the street floor level.
Sign. See "electric sign."
Signaling circuit. Any electric circuit that energizes signaling equipment.
Special permission. The written consent of the authority having jurisdiction.
Storable swimming or wading pool. A pool with a maximum dimension of fifteen feet and a maximum wall height of three feet and is so constructed that it may be readily disassembled for storage and reassembled to its original integrity.
Switchboard. A large single panel, frame, or assembly of panels which have switches, buses, instruments, overcurrent and other protective devices mounted on the face or back or both. Switchboards are generally accessible from the rear as well as from the front and are not intended to be installed in cabinets. (See "panelboard.")
Switches.
(a) General-use switch. A switch intended for use in general distribution and branch circuits. It is rated in amperes, and it is capable of interrupting its rated current at its rated voltage.
(b) General-use snap switch. A form of general-use switch so constructed that it can be installed in flush device boxes or on outlet box covers, or otherwise used in conjunction with wiring systems recognized by this part.
(c) Isolating switch. A switch intended for isolating an electric circuit from the source of power. It has no interrupting rating, and it is intended to be operated only after the circuit has been opened by some other means.
(d) Motor-circuit switch. A switch, rated in horsepower, capable of interrupting the maximum operating overload current of a motor of the same horsepower rating as the switch at the rated voltage.
Switching devices. (Over 600 volts, nominal.) Devices designed to close and/or open one or more electric circuits. Included in this category are circuit breakers, cutouts, disconnecting (or isolating) switches, disconnecting means, interrupter switches, and oil (filled) cutouts.
Transportable X-ray. X-ray equipment installed in a vehicle or that may readily be disassembled for transport in a vehicle.
Utilization equipment. Utilization equipment means equipment which utilizes electric energy for mechanical, chemical, heating, lighting, or similar useful purpose.
Utilization system. A utilization system is a system which provides electric power and light for employee workplaces, and includes the premises wiring system and utilization equipment.
Ventilated. Provided with a means to permit circulation of air sufficient to remove an excess of heat, fumes, or vapors.
Volatile flammable liquid. A flammable liquid having a flash point below 38°C (100°F) or whose temperature is above its flash point.
Voltage (of a circuit). The greatest root-mean-square (effective) difference of potential between any two conductors of the circuit concerned.
Voltage, nominal. A nominal value assigned to a circuit or system for the purpose of conveniently designating its voltage class (as 120/240, 480Y/277, 600, etc.). The actual voltage at which a circuit operates can vary from the nominal within a range that permits satisfactory operation of equipment.
Voltage to ground. For grounded circuits, the voltage between the given conductor and that point or conductor of the circuit that is grounded; for undergrounded circuits, the greatest voltage between the given conductor and any other conductor of the circuit.
Watertight. So constructed that moisture will not enter the enclosure.
Weatherproof. So constructed or protected that exposure to the weather will not interfere with successful operation. Rainproof, raintight, or watertight equipment can fulfill the requirements for weatherproof where varying weather conditions other than wetness, such as snow, ice, dust, or temperature extremes, are not a factor.
Wet location. See "location."
Wireways. Wireways are sheet-metal troughs with hinged or removable covers for housing and protecting electric wires and cable and in which conductors are laid in place after the wireway has been installed as a complete system.
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L’etage
by ADRIANA SASSOON on Thursday, February 21, 2019 Thursday, February 21, 2019
http://www.letagemagazine.com/you-need-a-password-to-enter-this-billionaire-party-in-miami/
http://www.letagemagazine.com
PERKINS ST
by ADRIANA SASSOON on Thursday, October 18, 2018 Thursday, October 18, 2018
NEW CONSTRUCTION TOWN-HOUSE like CONDO!
Adriana Sassoon Design & Team at Franklin St Development LLC
Showcasing the highest attention to detail inside and out the units.
Mature professional landscaping frames the home.
You will love the architectural detailing throughout. Coffered ceilings and wainscoting extends from the living area into the well-equipped kitchen.
The kitchen features custom cabinetry, a granite waterfall island, and Jenn Air stainless steel appliances.
The floor plan is excellently laid out for entertaining and perfectly suits a family with its 4 levels of living and storage spaces.
You’ll love the plentiful closet space, including multiple walk-in closets.
Nestled on a corner lot, conveniently located with easy access to all major routes, .5 miles to Sullivan T and more! WELCOME HOME!
Sold By Santana Properties Team with Keller Williams Realty
LES JARDINS D’ETRETAT
by ADRIANA SASSOON on Sunday, April 29, 2018 Sunday, April 29, 2018
Visit Les Jardins d’Etretat
Explore the Jardins d’Etretat
A renowned landscape architect Alexandre Grivko heard about the project and was instrumental in their design.
In 2015, Alexandre Grivko and his talented team of architects recreated the historical landscape. Les Jardins d’Étretat expanded their borders, hosted new objets d’art and were given new life.
Etretat Gardens appear to have no beginning or end. They comprise different components united by one idea.
The graphics and perfect architecture can be seen from any viewpoint.
These are futuristic gardens, working with dimensions of live sculptures and streamlined forms, as if borrowed from the nature of the Normandy coast itself.
The first part, the Garden of Avatar, welcomes visitors and takes them to a magical land where you can imagine yourself a character from Avatar or Alice in Wonderland.
Intertwined here are the roots of century-old trees and plants nurtured by gardeners (holly ilex aquifolium, osmanthus burkwoodii and osmanthus heterophillus).
Life was created by nature; the philosophical and extraordinary gardens of Etretat have been shaped by man.
The Power Garden symbolises the movement of the ocean. The images of rising and ebbing tide, waves and whirlpools have been skillfully sculpted from Phillyrea angustifolia shrubs to rise in waves or descend in spirals, framed by blue Agapanthus africanus.
Here, you can enjoy the most spectacular view of the Aval Cliff and the famous needle protruding from the ocean.
Garden of Emotions and Bottom of the Ocean.
You can see how Enkianthus japonicas (imported from Japan) and Buxus sempervirens have been cut to represent shells of mollusks, recreated in honor of Etretat’s oyster farm, well-known since the 18th Century.
The impression is complemented by unique rubber sculptures made by Spanish artist Samuel Salcedo, depicting faces of people experiencing an intense range of emotions.
Tree Huggers’ Garden. In this sculpture composition by Wiktor Szostalo, people line up to hug the last tree on Earth. The project was conceived in 2005 and has since travelled around the world. Through a variety of images, the artist calls for the protection of nature. The sculptures were made with materials found in parks, including dried stems.
Wiktor has created various characters for different countries; for France, he fashioned a sculpture of Claude Monet painting the sunset at Etretat – “Soleil Couchant à Etretat”. The artist appears to be looking on from a huge ship and painting the ocean with large strokes. Monet’s masterpiece, like Etretat Gardens, should be viewed from different distances and angles.
The founder of the garden, Madame Thébault, in 1907 assembled rare species of orchids that symbolized concubines in sultan Suleiman’s harem, where every “flower-concubine” expressed its special beauty and temper.
While taking care of it, she got into Roxelana character, who had eclipsed her husband’s power (sultan). As the result, Madame Thébault got international prominence in cinema.
Since, garden and villa were named Roxelane (the first name of the garden). Whole of Madame Thébault’s orchids are collected nowadays.
The Parnassus Garden incarnates Alabaster Coast of Normandy. Plants create a rock layers pattern of the cliffs. The mythological “Parnassus” is a tribute to the sacred mountain on top of which muse of art dwells, giving an inspiration to Garden’s guests.
Inspired by famous Etretat cliffs, Claude Monet wrote his painting series “Les Falaises à Étretat”.
This famous canvas was painted on one of Etretat Gardens’ terrace in 1886 and now is a part of Shchukin’s eminent collection exhibited in Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.
In 2016, Polish artist Wiktor Szostalo (www.facebook.com/wiktor.szostalo) installed at this place a monument to the impressionist who is working on the famous paysage. Take a look at spectacular view from Etretat Gardens through Monet’s eyes!
Sasha Frolova (b. 1984) lives and works in Moscow. On a different level, Sasha Frolova is known as the former student and now a female artistic counterpart to
Andrey Bartenev – the celebrated artist and eccentric arbiter elegantiae of the alternative fashion world in Russia. In
2014 Sasha Frolova won the AlternativeMiss World competition in London .
Avenue Damilaville, 76790
Étretat, France
Email: info@etretatgarden.fr
Mon-Sun 10:00am-7:00pm
Adult: 8,5€
Group 20+ persons: 7,5€
Children aged 2-12: 5€ (aged 0-2: free)
Disabled visitors: 6€
http://etretatgarden.fr/en/
by ADRIANA SASSOON on Friday, April 27, 2018 Friday, April 27, 2018
Battersea Power Station Redevelopment: Five Facts
£20bn injected into UK economy from regeneration of Battersea Power Station site 180,000 tonnes of construction material for recycling being moved by river saving 16,000 lorry journeys
Prices in phase 1 from £338,000 to £10m 20,053 jobs created
Total sales across Nine Elms £18 – £20 billion
A rooftop infinity pool boasting views over Battersea Power Station has been unveiled for the Foster + Partners-designed building proposed beside the historic London structure (+ movie).
The outdoor swimming pool will form part of a 160-room hotel that will be housed within The Skyline – a large mixed-use block designed by Foster + Partners as part of the third phase of development for the 17-hectare Battersea Power Station development site.
Billed as “the jewel” in the hotel’s crown, the pool will be located at the southernmost end of the building, right beside one of the old power station’s four iconic chimneys.
It will be set within a 250-square-metre roof garden designed by New York landscape firm James Corner Field Operations, which was also behind the High Line.
According to the Architect’s Journal, Copenhagen and New York-based BIG will makes its UK debut with the so-called Malaysia Square – a key public space within the £8 billion redevelopment of the decommissioned power station site.
Battersea Power Station Development Company has signed lifestyle hotel operator art’otel at its redevelopment of London’s iconic Battersea Power Station to be managed by PPHE Hotel Group and including an outdoor pool and bar overlooking the famous chimney stacks.
The final construction contract will have a value of more than £1 billion, making it one of the largest private building contracts ever to be awarded. Works are due to start on site in early 2016, alongside the on-going construction of Circus West (Phase 1) and the regeneration of the Power Station itself (Phase 2). Together, Phase 1, 2 and 3 will be the largest single development project in central London since Canary Wharf.
A show apartment designed by Frank Gehry at the Battersea Power Station Development in London.
A rendering of the villas at the renovated Battersea Power Station, set to open in 2021, in London.
3D Battersea Power Station
FIDM DEBUT
by ADRIANA SASSOON on Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Supporting MY School !
FIDM #alumna FASHION Walk!
Proceeds from #FIDMDEBUT go to:
@ladygagas
@BTWFoundation
Fri, April 6, 2018
12:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
919 South Grand Avenue
This is an all-day event that begins with lunch and tours at our Los Angeles campus, followed by a round-trip bus ride to the Barker Hangar to enjoy the premier fashion runway show on the West Coast as graduating FIDM students make their debut in the fashion/design industry. FIDM’s DEBUT Runway Show features the work of FIDM Advanced Fashion Design, Digital Media, Interior Design, Textile Design, and Theatre Costume students.
Your $10 [non-refundable] ticket includes Open House, lunch, bus transportation, and DEBUT Runway Show admission. All ticket proceeds go to this year’s charitable organization, The Born This Way Foundation.
The agenda is as follows:
12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. OPEN HOUSE AT FIDM LOS ANGELES CAMPUS.
The day begins at our flagship college campus where attendees have the option to tour campus, learn about our 26 creative majors, meet staff, faculty and students, and hear from FIDM Alumni panelists. Lunch will be provided.
DEPART FIDM CAMPUS FOR THE DEBUT RUNWAY SHOW.
Attendees depart from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica as a group. Round-trip bus service from FIDM Los Angeles to the Barker Hangar is provided as there is no self-parking available at the Barker Hangar.
5:00 p.m. DEBUT RUNWAY SHOW BEGINS AT THE BARKER HANGAR
7:30 p.m. DEPART BARKER HANGAR FOR FIDM LOS ANGELES CAMPUS
For questions about this event please contact Spencer Williams at 213-624-1200 ext. 1990.
#fidm #fidmalumni #fidmlife #fidmmuseum #fidmdebut #fidmla #losangeles #la #fashion #fashiondesigner #educationfirst #college @fidm @fidmmuseum
Eventbrite:
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TRULL ST
This is Trull just another property we delivered in Somerville Massachusetts.
You ascend the stairs at 36 Trull and enter into an absolutely stunning, open concept living space. The European oak floors coupled with the coffered ceiling are show stopping.
The kitchen offers a large island, top of the line stainless steels appliances and stone countertops. From the kitchen you can see into the dining & living areas, ideal for entertaining. The floor to ceiling gas fireplace is another feature in this open concept space that really captures your attention.
Down the hall is your first bedroom as well as the first full bathroom, which can be accessed from the hallway or the bedroom. As you make your way up the stairs to the second level of this home you are met with a wide hallway, a bedroom and a laundry room that leads to another full bathroom.
On the other end of the hallway is the Master Bedroom with an en suite bathroom and two closets. During the day this unit is saturated with natural light. Includes two parking spaces as well as deeded outdoor space
Adriana Sassoon Design & Team Building The Art of Simple Living
Sometimes we have to give up the Artist the Perfectionist personality ” The Dreamer” without loosing the Vision of the essence of the dream in order to deliver what’s asked in reality by the consumer demands. Not everyone wants the ultra modern architecture or design .
Perhaps…. Maybe they don’t even know what it means!
Each individual evolve differently, but since I am an investor and real estate developer, I’m still a Designer .
But I also have a niche to supply this specific demand. I’m not going to let someone else take my business opportunity to supply what’s asked of me.
Maybe one day the same person who bought one of my projects will come back requesting the futuristic, edgy design aesthetics that I can deliver through my work and visionary mind.
At least I know I can make my customers happy at the moment.
That’s called #Gratitude
Thank you !!!!!!
by ADRIANA SASSOON on Saturday, March 10, 2018 Saturday, March 10, 2018
The New Living Revolution Micro Apartments
The Carmel Place NYC
The Apartment Aesthetics are amazing and very Comfortable
We’ve heard a lot about Carmel Place, New York City’s micro-apartment building, in the past few years. I recently was able to get a preview tour of the finished project.
The Interior Design is gorgeous and supper functional .
Location is in a Great area :Carmel Place, at 335 East 27th Street.
The apartments have neutral, pallets with a minimalistic style with lots of white and shades of grey.
The Lifestyle Brand is called Ollie.
The essence of Ollie’s Properties is to bring micro studios to the market and eliminate all the hassles and conveniences that come with that.
Designed by nARCHITECTS, the project is the first micro units apartment building in New York and consists of 55 studio apartments for both market rate and affordable tenants. Each apartment is one module, offering 260 to 360 square feet of space. All modules were fabricated at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
While it may have garnered some controversy for its price tag (although 40% of the 55 apartments are affordable, market-rate rents start at $2,600 a month), Carmel Place is an extraordinary accomplishment for its design, modular construction.
During Construction
http://www.ollie.co
http://www.carmel-place.com
by ADRIANA SASSOON on Friday, December 15, 2017 Friday, December 15, 2017
This groundbreaking 3D printing technology, developed by the MIT Self-Assembly Lab + Swiss Designer Christophe Guberan, will be co-presented at Design Miami by the Patrick Parrish Gallery and swissnex Boston.
The technology is a futuristic manufacturing facility based on Rapid Liquid Printing, a breakthrough 3-D printing technology developed in collaboration with Steelcase, which can rapidly produce objects of almost any size or shape using a robot and a tank of gel.
The space serves as a manufacturing facility in which a robot instantly prints tote bags and art objects inside a glass tank of translucent gel. After printing, each product is removed, cleaned, and put on display.
https://youtu.be/5M_tpiiYGxk
This exhibit is the first public demonstration of MIT’s rapid liquid printing technology.
Rapid liquid printing can produce large-scale objects out of high-grade materials like rubber, foam, or plastic in a matter of seconds or minutes by “drawing” them in a gel suspension.
Traditional 3-D printing is restricted by slow speeds, scale constraints, and poor material quality, which makes it unreliable as a mainstream manufacturing process. With rapid liquid printing, manufacturing can be reimagined as an artistic experience unlimited by scale or gravity, asking us to rethink design, production, uniformity, and product life-cycles.
A strong attraction for the different materials and their intrinsic features has always guided my work as a designer. I have decided to dedicate a few years to research on materials. My intent is to try and rethink the way materials are used, as well as the production processes, using the possibilities made available by the new technologies.
To me, those technologies (Computer Numerical Controlled machines, 3D printers) are an integral part of the creative process. I like the idea of hijacking the use of those complex machines, to turn them into manual experimenting tools. I favor an instinctive approach, working more on hardware than software. The primary aim of my research is to produce knowledge, to generate new aesthetics. When working on a process, I try to explore it in depth, in order to create a rich repertoire of shapes and possibilities. This inventory then nourishes my world as a designer.
Implementation comes only after research, in particular through collaborations with companies, that see potentialities in my work to develop a product.
by ADRIANA SASSOON on Sunday, December 10, 2017 Sunday, December 10, 2017
Design Miami 2017 Unveiling Audi A8L 55
sits at the vanguard of the changing auto industry with its hybrid powertrain assist as standard equipment and a laundry list of production-vehicle firsts.
The biggest design change appears inside the cabin, where Audi’s MMI infotainment system trades its large control knob and best-in-the-business interface for a second touchscreen at the front of the center console.
The fourth-generation A8 will introduce drivers to a truly active suspension, a 48-volt primary electrical system, and—in select markets—Level 3 autonomy by which Audi becomes the first automaker to sanction hands-free, Facebook-’til-your-face-melts driving.
My Passion for cars it’s obvious. Love for speed !
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Amazon Appstore Opens, Without AT&T Support
By Keith Ward
The Amazon Appstore for Android is officially open for business.
The long-anticipated app store, which stands in direct competition with Google's own Android Market, launched today, with one big caveat: AT&T users can't use it. Amazon broke the bad news this way:
"If you have an AT&T phone or tablet, you currently can't install the Amazon Appstore or purchase apps from it. AT&T is working to allow customers to install the Amazon Appstore and purchase apps from it."
No date was given for when AT&T might allow its users to purchase apps from Amazon, nor was any explanation as to why their customers were excluded from the store.
For those Android users who can access the store, Amazon is offering a number of interesting features. First, as previously reported, the store is offering an exclusive version of the mega-popular game Angry Birds, dubbed Angry Birds Rio. In addition, Amazon is giving it away free, but only for Tuesday's launch day. It's being called the "free app of the day," implying that a new free app (which will eventually cost money) will be featured daily.
Amazon is also offering a unique app "test drive." With test drive, apps a user is considering downloading can be used from a computer's web browser. The app is streamed from Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to the desktop. Not all apps are available to test drive; a logo indicates which ones are.
Users can search and browse apps either from the "Amazon for Android Appstore" app on a phone, or from the web site. Apps can only be downloaded, however, from the phone-based app. The site itself lists six initial app categories:
Like most other app stores, it also lists the most popular apps, broken down by paid and free apps. The Amazon store, though, updates these lists hourly.
Amazon undoubtedly hopes to capitalize on past dissatisfaction the Android Market has had with developers and users; in fact, the frustration has led to a number of upgrades in the Market. With Amazon's Web presence and profile, however, it's clear that Google faces serious competition in the rapidly-expanding Android universe.
Keith Ward is the editor in chief of Virtualization & Cloud Review. Follow him on Twitter @VirtReviewKeith.
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Reading Pop-Up Cinema by Ella Harris
Carnival of Souls: Are we ghosts in the city?
Introducing Herk Harvey’s Carnival of Souls (1962) at A Nos Amour’s pop-up screening this Thursday, Rodger Clarke began by contextualising early cinema within other historical technologies of entertainment. He outlined the early competition between X-ray and Cinema as forms of amusement and explained that, at the turn of the 20th century, both were features of pop-up urban spaces, found mainly at travelling fairs. Alongside ghost shows and mechanised rides, cinema and X-ray evoked awe and astonishment, poised half way between feats of science and enigmatic apparitions. That early film was emerging in these transient spaces, alongside X-ray and ghostly spectacles, goes some way to explaining film’s long fascination with the ghoulish; an obsession which is at the heart of Carnival of Souls. It was therefore an apt choice for a pop-up film showing; the ghosts on screen, as illusionary as the shadows of cinema, were in turn as fleeting as the happening itself.
The history of these contending technologies of entertainment betray two converse urban epistemologies; one, a gaze which sees through to the dry bones of reality, and the other; a world of shadows and illusions. Whilst X-ray (now) maps the body objectively, cinema, as its counterpart, layers parallel realities over one another. Extended to urbanism, we can understand mapped city spaces as the equivalent to the X-rayed body, known and chartered, whilst pop-up comes nearer to the world of cinema and indeed, to the world of ghosts; a spatiality across which plural temporary worlds flicker, real only in the moment they are seen.
The scenes that haunted me longest from Carnival of Souls were the ones in which a bewildered Mary stumbles around a town which she can no longer engage with, which no longer sees or hears her. Harvey’s simple but effective method of cutting the sound drives home the fact (if we hadn’t already guessed it from the endearingly suggestive opening scene) that Mary is a ghost in the city. Confused and alone Mary flees first to and then from Utah, but finds herself repeatedly shut out. Unlike the traditional ghost, able to transcend walls, doors, etc. Mary is trapped by a sensory disjuncture which holds her back from the normal, human world. Her footsteps remain amidst the silence, but the clash of her heels against the city streets only reiterates the border between herself and the living.
Yet her separation is not absolute. Suffering a delayed and gradual death, Mary flickers in and out of focus, at one with the world, and then horribly at odds with it, one moment pumping holy organ music to her appreciative neighbours and the next trapped in an oppressive silence, accompanied only by the most unholy of ghosts. The same can be said of pop-up cinema. Temporary and permanent city spaces co-exist like Mary and the good people of Utah, separated by different rhythms of time (pop-up VS permanent, life VS endless death) but falling into sync at certain junctures to meet each other.
Are pop-up cinema goers, then, the ghosts of the city? We find ourselves, like Mary, in the empty space of entertainment; we, the cinema after hours, she the dilapidated pavilion. And just as the ghosts are raised from the lake by Mary’s presence for one last dance at the end of Carnival of Souls, A Nos Amours drag up un-dead celluloid footage to resurface in the light of the contemporary city. Perhaps it is telling that whilst X-ray disappeared as a form of urban entertainment to become the objective vision of science, cinema, the world of illusion, won out. The screen and the city are natural companions, both spaces of multiplicity, transience and imagination. Escaping from the mapped city, A Nos Amours offers a returned attentiveness to the ghostly, a re-engagement with buried films and a throwback to the moving spaces of the travelling fair, to the urban experience as one of intense, fleeting, spectral moments.
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Dividing the Nile
Egypt’s Economic Nationalists in the Sudan 1918–56
David E. Mills
Most scholarship has attributed Sudanese independence in 1956 to British dominance of the Condominium, historical animosity toward Egypt, or the emerg
Most scholarship has attributed Sudanese independence in 1956 to British dominance of the Condominium, historical animosity toward Egypt, or the emergence of Sudanese nationalism. Dividing the Nile counters that Egyptian entrepreneurs failed to develop a united economy or shared economic interests, guaranteeing Egypt’s ‘loss’ of the Sudan. It argues that British dominance of the Condominium may have stymied initial Egyptian efforts, but that after the First World War Egypt became increasingly interested in and capable of economic ventures in the Sudan. However, early Egyptian financial assistance and the seemingly successful resolution of Nile waters disputes actually divided the regions, while later concerted efforts to promote commerce and acquire Sudanese lands failed dismally. Egyptian nationalists simply missed opportunities of aligning their economic future with that of their Sudanese brethren, resulting in a divided Nile valley. Dividing the Nile will appeal to historians, social scientists, and international relations theorists, among those interested in Nile valley developments, but its focused economic analysis will also contribute to broader scholarship on nationalism and nationalist theory.
David E. Mills is professor of Middle East history at Marshall University. His research interests revolve around nationalist theory and the economic history of the Nile valley, concentrating on the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium period.
Dividing the Nile Reviews
"A work of seminal and extraordinary scholarship, "Dividing the Nile: Egypt's Economic Nationalists in the Sudan 1918-56" is enhanced with the inclusion of fifty-nine pages of Notes; an eighteen page Bibliography; and a six page Index. Informed and informative, "Dividing the Nile: Egypt's Economic Nationalists in the Sudan 1918-56" is a strongly recommended addition to academic library 20th Century Egyptian and International Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists."—Midwest Book Review. “The author is to be congratulated on what was evidently patient and extended archival work, which has yielded some interesting material on a range of issues.”—Justin Willis, African Affairs.
An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
Edward William Lane
Introduced by Jason Thompson
An Arab Philosophy of History
Selections from the Prolegomena of Ibn Khaldun of Tunis (1332–1406)
Translated and arranged by Charles Issawi
From Cairo to Baghdad
British Travelers in Arabia
James Canton
Doria Shafik, Egyptian Feminist
A Woman Apart
Cynthia Nelson
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Categories: Avengers, Punk, Superior Viaduct
The Avengers “American In Me” (Superior Viaduct)
7 inch. Few first wave California punk bands burned as brightly as The Avengers. Formed in San Francisco during 1977’s Summer of Hate, they swiftly ascended to the top of the West Coast scene and earned the coveted support slot for The Sex Pistols’ final concert in January 1978. The […]
Categories: Crime, Punk, Superior Viaduct
Crime “San Francisco’s First And Only Rock N Roll Band” (Superior Viaduct)
Double 7 inch and DVD! One of the most savagely cool and confrontational punk acts in history, CRIME famously dubbed themselves “San Francisco’s First And Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Band.” This inflammatory claim was supported by unpredictable live shows that often ended in riots. In 1978, film producer Larry Larson […]
Categories: Experimental, Jazz, Superior Viaduct, William Hooker
William Hooker “…is Eternal Life” (Superior Viaduct)
Drummer, composer and poet William Hooker has been a tireless force in free improvised music for over 40 years. He emerged from New Yorkwi’s loft jazz scene in the mid-’70s, part of a generation of artists fueled by the social, political and cultural frustrations of their era. This second wave […]
Categories: Indie Rock, Mekons, Post-Punk, Superior Viaduct
The Mekons “The Quality Of Mercy Is Not Strnen” (Superior Viaduct)
After two singles for Fast Product, Leeds art-punk collective The Mekons signed with Virgin Records in 1979. The band would have to borrow gear from their mates Gang Of Four to record their major label debut. In classic Mekons style, the album’s back cover featured a photo of Gang Of […]
Categories: Jazz, Marion Brown, Mark's Picks, Superior Viaduct
Marion Brown “Three For Shepp” (Superior Viaduct)
In 1966, when Marion Brown was ready to make his first record as a leader, he was standing on the shoulders of giants. Formative associations with Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra established Brown as a saxophonist to watch, and he had already appeared on free jazz landmarks Archie Shepp’s Fire […]
Categories: Indie Rock, Superior Viaduct, This Kind of Punishment
This Kind Of Punishment “In The Same Room” (Superior Viaduct)
With This Kind Of Punishment, Graeme Jefferies and Peter Jefferies produced some of most adept DIY sounds to emerge from New Zealand’s 1980s post-punk scene. After their phenomenal self-titled debut and classic A Beard Of Bees, the brothers would make one last album together, In The Same Room. Originally released in […]
Categories: Electronic, Kevin Harrison, Minimal Wave, Post-Punk, Superior Viaduct
Kevin Harrison “Inscrutably Obvious” (Superior Viaduct)
Hailing from Nuneaton, England, Kevin Harrison recorded both solo and collaboratively throughout the late ’70s and early ’80s. While his early recordings would come out in hyper-limited editions or go unreleased for decades, Inscrutably Obvious remains his sole LP—a lost gem of Britain’s ’80s cassette culture and DIY bedroom aesthetics. Originally […]
Categories: Jazz, Joe Mcphee, Mark's Picks, Superior Viaduct
Joe Mcphee “Nation Time” (Superior Viaduct)
“It’s been nearly five decades since Joe McPhee assembled a group of musicians to perform the weekend concerts that would become Nation Time, his debut LP. It was December 1970, thirty-one-year-old McPhee was inspired by Amiri Baraka’s poem ‘It’s Nation Time,’ and the students at Vassar College didn’t know what […]
Categories: Electronic, Richard Pinhas, Superior Viaduct
Richard Pinhas “Iceland” (Superior Viaduct)
Originally released in 1979, Iceland is Richard Pinhas’ third solo album and his first following the breakup of Heldon. While moving away from the maximalism of his old band, paring down Heldon’s hybrid of otherworldly sci-fi imagery and pummeling psych-prog riffs, the journey through Iceland is decidedly more inward. Consisting of […]
Categories: Post-Punk, Superior Viaduct, The Fall
The Fall “Totale’s Turns” (Superior Viaduct)
Given The Fall’s penchant for iconoclasm, it’s no surprise that they decided to say goodbye to the ’70s with a series of gigs at Northern England’s gruffest halls. The band’s formidable live show was met with even more derision and disorder than customary during these late ’79 and early ’80 […]
Categories: Dub, Reggae, Scientist, Superior Viaduct
Scientist “In The Kingdom Of Dub” (Superior Viaduct)
Hopeton Brown, better known as Scientist, has been a pioneering figure in the world of dub for 40 years. His early love of electronics proved fruitful when (still a teenager) he was hired at King Tubby’s studio in Kingston. Brown quickly ascended the ranks and became heir to Tubby’s throne, […]
Categories: Electronic, Experimental, Superior Viaduct, Takehisa Kosugi
Takehisa Kosugi “Catch-wave” (Superior Viaduct)
Composer, multi-instrumentalist and mixed-media artist, Takehisa Kosugi has stood on the forefront of the Japanese avant-garde for over six decades. In the 1960s, he was part of Japan’s first improvisational music collective, Group Ongaku, and contributed to Fluxus in New York. In 1969, he founded the influential, experimental ensemble The […]
The Fall “Rough Trade Singles” (Superior Viaduct)
The Rough Trade Singles collects The Fall’s four singles recorded for this influential label in 1980 and 1983 – How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’ / City Hobgoblins, Totally Wired / Putta Block, The Man Whose Head Expanded / Ludd Gang and Kicker Conspiracy – none of which appeared on any […]
Categories: Experimental, Phill Niblock, Superior Viaduct
Phill Niblock “Niblock For Celli” (Superior Viaduct)
Composer, filmmaker and photographer Phill Niblock is a true pillar of the New York avant-garde. In the past 50 years, he has curated over 1,000 performances at his Centre Street loft and steadfastly built a massive, multidisciplinary body of work. While his earliest musical compositions date back to 1968, Niblock […]
Categories: John Bender, Post-Punk, Superior Viaduct, Synth
John Bender “Pop Surgery” (Superior Viaduct)
Following the release of lo-fi electronic masterpiece I Don’t Remember Now / I Don’t Want To Talk About It and his brilliant follow-up Plaster Falling, Cincinnati-based artist John Bender began assembling his third and last album, Pop Surgery, in late 1982. While all of Bender’s work draws from intimate home recordings—featuring […]
Categories: Experimental, Faust, Superior Viaduct
Faust “The Faust Tapes” (Superior Viaduct)
Faust stand among the most influential creative forces to have emerged from Germany in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Along with Can, Agitation Free, Neu! and others, Faust rejected the Anglo-American norms of rock ’n’ roll to start a back-to-basics and uniquely Teutonic revolution in sound—later dubbed by the […]
Categories: Experimental, Francesco Messina, Raul Lovisoni, Superior Viaduct
Raul Lovisoni & Francesco Messina “Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo” (Superior Viaduct)
Of all the releases on Italy’s legendary Cramps Records, Raul Lovisoni and Francesco Messina’s seminal LP from 1979 has long remained among the most beloved. Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo not only introduced the world to the work of two gifted composers, but also is notable for being produced by […]
Categories: Alice Coltrane, Jazz, Superior Viaduct
Alice Coltrane “Lord Of Lords” (Superior Viaduct)
Originally released in 1972, Lord Of Lords was Alice Coltrane’s final album for Impulse! and the last installment in her awe-inspiring trilogy that also included Universal Consciousness and World Galaxy. While all three records featured strings alongside a jazz ensemble, Lords Of Lords stood apart from its predecessors due to […]
Categories: Corey's Picks, Experimental, Steve Reich, Superior Viaduct
Steve Reich “Drumming” (Superior Viaduct)
Steve Reich’s Drumming is regarded as one of the most important musical works of the last century. Distilled through his studies of African percussion in Ghana during 1970 and Balinese gamelan music, Reich revolutionized our understanding of polyrhythms, sculpting a new sonic territory to illuminate the radical potential of Minimalism. Divided […]
Categories: Psych, Spacemen 3, Superior Viaduct
Spacemen 3 “Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To” (Superior Viaduct)
Amidst the swirl that is Spacemen 3’s discography, Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To occupies a pivotal position — one right at the nexus between their garage beginnings and their expansionist future. While much of this material is expanded upon via Sound Of Confusion and The Perfect Prescription, many devotees consider these urgent, minimally treated recordings as the prime document of Spacemen […]
Spacemen 3 “Playing With Fire” (Superior Viaduct)
Spacemen 3 began assembling their third album, 1988’s Playing With Fire, at perhaps the freest, most confident point in their career. Recording began with the band road-tested and rugged, even amidst the functional volatility that famously motivated their course. The sessions’ first offering came in the form of “Revolution,” a […]
Spacemen 3 “Recurring” (Superior Viaduct)
1990’s Recurring, the fourth and final studio album by Spacemen 3, is often considered the introduction of two brilliant solo projects (Spectrum and Spiritualized) rather than the work of a functioning band. While Spacemen 3’s departing statement surely reveals a deep divide within the S3 camp—each side of the LP […]
Categories: Experimental, Psych, Rock, Spacemen 3, Superior Viaduct
Spacemen 3 “Dreamweapon” (Superior Viaduct)
August 1988, Spacemen 3 embark on one of the strangest events in the band’s already strange history. Billed as “An Evening Of Contemporary Sitar Music” (although consciously omitting the sitar), the group would play in the foyer of Watermans Arts Centre in Brentford, Middlesex to a largely unsuspecting and unsympathetic […]
This Kind Of Punishment “Beard of Bees” (Superior Viaduct)
In the fertile terrain of New Zealand’s 1980s post-punk scene, few figures loom as large as the Jefferies brothers. Graeme Jefferies and Peter Jefferies—the primary forces behind This Kind Of Punishment—wrote some of the best music to come out on Flying Nun, Xpressway or elsewhere. A dizzying mix of pastoral […]
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Universidá de Qarawiyyin
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La Universidá de Qarawiyyin o Al-Karaouine (n'árabe جامعة القرويين; en bereber: ⵜⵉⵎⵣⴳⵉⴷⴰ ⵏ ⵍⵇⴰⵕⴰⵡⵉⵢⵢⵉⵏ) ye una universidá islámica y mezquita allugada na ciudá de Fez (Marruecos). Esta institución foi fundada como madrasa de Qarawiyyin nel añu 859,[1][2][3] mientres el reináu de la dinastía idrísida, por dos muyeres tunecines, ente elles Fatima al-Fihri, orixinaries de la ciudá de Cairuán (n'árabe Qairawan), que yera daquella la capital de Tunicia. Les belles residencies de los estudiantes inda se topen alredor de la universidá y tán siendo restauraes pol gobiernu de Marruecos.
Ye considerada –anacrónicamente– la institución universitaria más antigua inda en funcionamientu pol Llibru Guiness de los récors,[4] anque en realidá la universidá ta considerada por espertos como una institución europea clásica[5][6][7] y la madraza de Qarawiyyin solo convirtióse nel añu 1947, so l'alministración colonial francesa, nuna universidá verdadera.[8]
↑ Andrew Petersen: "Dictionary of Islamic architecture, Routledge", 1996, ISBN 9780415060844, p. 87: Al Karaouine foi fundada en 859 como mezquita:
The Qarawiyyin Mosque, founded in 859, is the most famous mosque of Morocco and attracted continuous investment by Muslim rulers.
↑ James Fergusson: "Taliban: The Unknown Enemy", Da Capo Press, 2011, ISBN 9780306820335, p. 69: Al Karaouine fundada en 859 como madraza:
The oldest madrasah in the world, the Jami'at al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco, has been operating benignly – and continuously – since it was established in 859.
↑ Esposito, John (2003). The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Oxford University Press, 328. ISBN 0-1951-2559-2.
↑ The Guinness Book of Records, 1998, ISBN 0-553-57895-2, P.242
↑ Nuria Sanz, Sjur Bergan (eds.): The Heritage of European Universities, Council of Europe, 2002, ISBN 92-871-4960-7, p. 119:
In many respects, if there is any institution that Europe can justifiably claim as one of its own inventions, it is the university. As proof thereof and without wishing here to recount the whole history of the birth of universities, it will suffice to describe briefly how the invention of universities took the form of a polycentric process of specifically European origin.
↑ Rüegg, Walter: "Foreword. The University as a European Institution", in: Ridder-Symoens, Hilde de (ed.): A History of the University in Europe. Vol. I: Universities in the Middle Ages, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-36105-2, pp. XIX–XX:
The university is a European institution; indeed, it is the European institution par excellence. There are various reasons for this assertion. As a community of teachers and taught, accorded certain rights, such as administrative autonomy and the determination and realization of curricula (courses of study) and of the objectives of research as well as the award of publicly recognized degrees, it is a creation of medieval Europe, which was the Europe of papal Christianity...Non other European institution has spread over the entire world in the way in which the traditional form of the European university has done. The degrees awarded by European universities – the bachelor's degree, the licentiate, the master's degree, and the doctorate – have been adopted in the most diverse societies throughout the world. The four medieval faculties of artes – variously called philosophy, letters, arts, arts and sciences, and humanities – law, medicine, and theology have survived and have been supplemented by numerous disciplines, particularly the social sciences and technological studies, but they remain none the less at the heart of universities throughout the world. Even the name of the universitas, which in the Middle Ages was applied to corporate bodies of the most diverse sorts and was accordingly applied to the corporate organization of teachers and students, has in the course of centuries been given a more particular focus: the university, as a universitas litterarum, has since the eighteenth century been the intellectual institution which cultivates and transmits the entire corpus of methodically studied intellectual disciplines.
↑ George Makdisi: "Madrasa and University in the Middle Ages", Studia Islamica, Non. 32 (1970), pp. 255-264 (264):
Thus the university, as a form of social organization, was peculiar to medieval Europe. Later, it was exported to all parts of the world, including the Muslim East; and it has remained with us down to the present day. But back in the Middle Ages, outside of Europe, there was nothing anything quite like it anywhere.
↑ Kevin Shillington: "Encyclopedia of African history", Vol. 1, New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2005, ISBN 1579582451, p.1025
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Immunotherapy in Transplantation: Principles and Practice
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it's not a phone—yet—but it's a linux —
Librem 5 backers have begun receiving their Linux phones
The first Librem 5 backers have begun receiving mostly working prototype devices.
Jim Salter - Dec 2, 2019 7:05 pm UTC
98 with 69 posters participating, including story author
Lifting the lid off the Librem 5's box, you see the phone and a "getting started" manual.
Azdle
The Librem 5's accessories nestled beneath the phone: a charging cable, headphones, and a USB wall wart.
The backplate to the Librem 5 removes easily, exposing the battery, Wi-Fi module, and cellular modem.
Removing the battery is also a trivial task. Hopefully, this means easier battery upgrades down the line: this is a 2000mAh battery, not the originally promised 3500mAh.
Powering on the Librem 5 for the first time walks you through a standard-looking welcome-and-setup process, beginning with language selection.
The Librem 5 has been “shipping” for a month—but not to backers
When Ars spoke to Purism founder and CEO Todd Weaver two weeks ago, the Librem 5 had been "shipping" for a month but not to backers—only to Purism employees and inside developers. Weaver talked a little about the unexpected hardware issues the company had been experiencing late in the game, including a batch of phone boards missing a 10kOhm resistor, and he gave us an updated schedule for when the phones would resume shipping. More importantly, Weaver said backers would begin receiving their phones by the first week of December.
Thankfully, the company met this latest deadline on time. On November 27, Ars reader Azdle posted a comment to the thread—"Just because I can, hello from my freshly-received Librem 5 phone! (And, no, I don't work for Purism, I'm just an early backer." Azdle was also kind enough to share some unboxing pictures and some commentary about what, exactly, a Librem 5 phone from the Birch shipment is—and what it's not.
What the Librem 5 isn't (yet)
First of all, it's not really a "phone" yet. There's no audio when attempting to place a phone call. The cameras also don't appear to work yet. Azdle reports "installing and opening up Cheese"—Cheese is a very basic Linux video application, installed by default in many distros—"I just get a message saying 'no device found.'" There's also effectively no power management yet, so the Librem doesn't last long on battery. It takes a long time to charge as well.
The software needs polish in lots of places: Azdle notes that few apps so far understand mobile screen layouts, and there's no obvious indications as to which apps have or have not been updated. The charging LED doesn't light up when the phone's off—although the phone is actually charging. And fine-tunables like kinetic scroll—the ability to flick a scroll-thumb down hard, and expect it to keep scrolling for pages and pages like a thrown rock—still need tuning.
With that said, we recommend putting down the pitchforks and snuffing the torches for now. This isn't supposed to be a finished, working, retail-ready phone—it's a (mostly) working prototype, made available in very small numbers to extremely early backers who knew what they were getting into.
Listing image by Azdle
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Snark218 Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
reply Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:12 pm
My question is, even if you knew what you were getting into, why would you get into it? I mean, okay, you really want to see Linux phones for some reason, fine, but this isn't even a beta. Why release this to the world, at this point?
Last edited by Snark218 on Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:14 pm
Jim Salter Technology Reporter et Subscriptor
My question is, even if you knew what you were getting into, why would you get into it? There's no price I would take this for beyond "free."
We covered this.
the article wrote:
you are not placing an early order for an existing retail product—you're getting in on the ground stages of producing a product. You're voting with your wallet on the directions you think an industry should take and seeing if it works out in practice.
If you don't want to produce products, you just want to buy products, then you 100% should not get in on this or any other crowdfunded project. Kickstarter, Indiegogo, et al are not stores.
core_dump Ars Centurion
What's Ron's take on the bezel size? After all, that is the most important thing in the phone. \s
r3ersx wrote:
Wouldn't even use it for free. I value having a phone that works beyond the "freedom" or ability to tinker.
I even get that this is a prototype, and so it makes sense that not every feature would necessarily work, but this isn't even functional enough to tinker with.
A viscerally strong hatred of Apple and Google being the two gatekeepers of smartphone OSes and all the vendor-lock, privacy, etc. issues that come with them wielding the power they do?
sapphir8 Ars Scholae Palatinae
Will backers actually get a 100% working, production phone or this is it?
1029 posts | registered Oct 6, 2007
Jim Salter wrote:
I'm aware, but providing a product this rudimentary even to backers seems like kind of a waste of time for everyone involved. Doesn't it need to be a little more sorted even to tinker with and provide meaningful feedback? This seems like pre-alpha software and beta hardware, at best.
sprockkets Ars Legatus Legionis
"Freedom" and "a phone that works" aren't mutually exclusive...
17959 posts | registered Aug 12, 2005
Deputy Cartman wrote:
It would be nice if we had a third option. Or 4. Until then its AOSP running F Droid or some sort of mix of it with some Google stuff.
sapphir8 wrote:
This is not it. This is a very early prototype; the timeline for everything to be fully operational and working is around the end of Q1 2020, with slipping to Q2 entirely possible.
That said, the majority of what's wrong with the early prototypes like this one should be fixed along the way. The software development is still a work in process, and most of what's wrong with the phone in its current condition comes down to "software problems."
In theory, the Librem 5 should have a 3,500mAH battery by Evergreen (the production batch), and that's something backers who chose to get early prototypes like Azdle's Birch may not just get for free—but hopefully, they'll at least be able to just buy the battery and replace it, since it's easily user removable as seen in the pics above. The only thing that could potentially get in the way of that is if the form factor of the battery itself changes, but that strikes me as unlikely at this stage of the game.
Probably the biggest risk is that Purism might run out of money prior to finishing all the remaining work on the phone.
Please tell me I wasn't the only person to accidentally read the headline as "5 Librem Backers Receive Their Linux Phones".
Still, it's good to see that it's making its way into consumer hands. It may be a beta product, but virtually no product gets it entirely right on the first try, and even a mildly modest success with Librem could open up the possibility for later Linux phones. $700 is a bit rich for my blood, but I do like the feature set (user-replaceable battery, 3.5mm jack, mSD card slot and USB-C in one device).
bittermann Ars Scholae Palatinae
A phone that doesn't have audio for calls...wtf?
1216 posts | registered Apr 13, 2011
melgross Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
In other words, they shipped a few not really working devices, so they could say they met their shipping date, and promise.
And no, if a device doesn’t have most of the basic functions working at the time of shipment, such as voice for a phone call, then it isn’t really working. No matter how minimally some people use their phones for an actual phone call, everyone does make calls at least from time to time, and receives them more often than that.
Considering how basic some of these non working functions are, to not have them working after all this time, is worrying. A concern everyone who is considering this phone should have is when these functions will work, or whether they will work at all.
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H. Pylori Ars Centurion
What was the point in shipping a basically useless prototype "phone" that doesn't even function at the most rudimentary level? "Mostly working"? In what sense?
276 posts | registered Nov 29, 2018
Niles Gazic Smack-Fu Master, in training et Subscriptor
I greatly respect this endeavor. The open-source nature of Linux has changed the world, and I would hate to live in a world without it. A functional Linux phone, with even just a minimal number of apps, can't come soon enough for me.
74 posts | registered Dec 23, 2016
darkbitt Smack-Fu Master, in training
Ooh, seems nice. I wouldn't lose much since I only use my phone when on the toilet or not at home, and I purposefully purge Google apps from my phones anyways.
41 posts | registered Oct 17, 2017
H. Pylori wrote:
In the sense that there's an entire functional operating system, with a massive repository of software, most of which does work and can at least be farted around with. Casual OSS contributors who have this phone can start installing apps, seeing usability problems with mobile layouts, and contributing patches upstream. Just-plain-enthusiasts can, well, just play with that.
Personally, I don't really expect even the final Librem 5 to be a full replacement for my Pixel device—but I do expect it to be a useful digital swiss-army-knife I can do things like scan wifi networks with, which is becoming increasingly more difficult on Android (and was never really usefully possible on iOS). And I am interested in putting my tiny bit of dollar-weight behind the project, as the work it does not only produces (hopefully) this phone, but opens the door for other projects down the road to build on what it's started.
The Librem 5 probably won't ever be my daily-driver phone, but if it's reasonably successful, one of its successors very well might.
Again, we're talking about the difference between production and retail purchase. They really, really aren't the same thing, and not everybody wants to be a producer, even on a small scale. But a lot of people do, and crowdfunded production can change entire industries (look at what Obsidian has done in the gaming industry, for example).
Ralf The Dog Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
bittermann wrote:
Voice chat is so 20th Century. When is the last time you talked to a person when you could send a perfectly respectable text?
Edited to say:
This could be it's greatest marketing feature, "No more annoying voice calls."
Last edited by Ralf The Dog on Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:51 pm
3274 posts | registered Feb 2, 2008
Mk.II Ars Praetorian et Subscriptor
That welcome screen is funny. Deutsch is written in Deutsch, English is written in English, Español is written in Español, Français is written in Français, Русский is written in Русский. Then Arabic is written in English...
487 posts | registered Nov 6, 2014
Mk.II wrote:
I wonder if that was deliberate, to keep the Fox News types from howling about "terrorist writing" on phones?
cosmotic Ars Centurion et Subscriptor
For such a thick phone, that sure is a low-capacity battery.
jgee43 Ars Centurion
This is what I was thinking with the Librem--its use cases beyond its use as a phone. While the iPod touch went out of favor that's exactly the kind of device I'm looking for as an educator--but without being locked into the Android or Apple ecosystems. For a lot of my level (see, low-level) science and educational applications, I want a device that is incredibly flexible and can be tinkered with, but with a small form factor. In fact, if they released a version of this that didn't include voice calling at all (again, like an iPod touch), I'd be all in on buying one for our department to tinker with and see if we can hack it into a useful piece of science equipment.
Right now, no matter where we purchase (with the exception of Arduinos and Raspberry Pis), we are locked into someone's ecosystem: Apple's, Google's, Vernier's, Pasco's, etc. That makes the flexibility we need as educators difficult, because we're not in a world of unlimited budgets (or even sufficient budgets), and being locked in puts us at the mercy of one company's whims.
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LosAngelesPandas Ars Praetorian
Wanting the 30th year of saying Linux on X to be the one for real this time is also up there.
885 posts | registered Oct 9, 2017
Русский is written in Русский.
And the snozzberries taste like snozberries.
acastanza Smack-Fu Master, in training
They probably should have made sure voice calls work on the prototype phone. But I also get that this is a really early prototype, and it looks like they've done some good work towards their goal of an open phone mostly free of the big tech companies iron grip.
An endeavor I 100% endorse.
47 posts | registered Jul 29, 2016
cosmotic wrote:
It has lots of outside connectors. That makes it wider. It also lacks power management. That runs the battery down fast and makes it a bit more likely to go boom when charging. At a minimum, the battery will need to be changed sooner.
LosAngelesPandas wrote:
Linux is on almost everything today. You can't buy a toaster or a TV that is not running it.
cervier Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
Another point, it's not clear from the screenshot if you can choose a different country to associate with a language, if not that's retarded, not everyone speaking French live in France, and so on...
896 posts | registered Jul 6, 2007
Ralf The Dog wrote:
Charge protection isn't the same as power management.
Power management is stuff like "the CPU is idle, drop to minimum clock speed and pause for ultra low power mode"
Charge protection is what keeps the battery from over-charging and turning into a firecracker.
Plenty of things don't have power management and are totally fine. This isn't' much different than if you left a phone running intensive apps all day and kill the battery in a few hours.
Maybe I should have been a little more clear. As in this is it for the early backers. I know the company plans to complete their phone, I was more wondering if the early backers will get their early prototypes replaced with 100% complete devices.
Why would you expect them to get a second device free?
acastanza wrote:
The problem is that you don’t ship prototypes, or alpha level devices with basic functions not working. They shipped just so they could say they did in this last round of promising to do so.
I hope they get this functioning, but they may not.
JustVisitingThisPlanet Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Is there a way to run Android apps in an isolated container? Otherwise I wish most developers would embrace PWA apps. They are platform independent and would allow another mobile phone platform to have a chance (beyond iOS and Android). And PWA apps run on Android/iOS as well.
247 posts | registered May 14, 2019
Roonski Ars Centurion et Subscriptor
I would have thought getting the actual audio phone part to work was one of the hardest and therefore most important parts. Seeing as it depends on getting approvals from carriers in some fashion. If you haven’t got that, you’ve just got another Linux SBC, with a phone-shaped case, which doesn’t seem like very much these days.
Similarly having software that actually suits being used on a small touch screen is a hard challenge, every app you want to run has to be redesigned. That’s why Android ignored existing Linux toolkits and wrote their own.
So what have they achieved here other than Linux in a small case?
290 posts | registered Mar 4, 2013
jgee43 wrote:
Going down your checklist, I see that you want something cheap, something incredibly flexible, and something not locked into any ecosystem.
This is like the cheap/good/fast dilemma, except that instead of being able to pick only two, you can only pick one.
Boskone Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
Seems like the lacks now are software, and so can be updated on these early models.
I think it’s extremely unlikely they will get everything working by Q1 2020. This level of operation is basically just boot, display, touch input, the kind of thing you get working in the first stages of a project. They’re not mostly done, they are more like 20% done. Being at this stage also means it’s quite likely the hardware will need significant changes, so it’s not that likely the early adopters will end up with a fully working phone just from software updates. This comes from experience designing embedded systems. Whoops, we forgot to connect the power management control line to the cpu...
Niles Gazic wrote:
Probably 99% of my phone use is a browser, SMS, and Kindle. The second can be handled by the first, so all I immediately need is a Linux Kindle app and a dialer.
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Moreover, Artangel fulfilled the dream of the epic closure of the “Polish” trilogy by Yael Bartana, Israeli artist who presented her films in the Polish Pavilion during the Art Biennale in Venice. The institution produced several dozen most coddled and celebrated works of art of the 20th and 21st centuries – from a theatre performance to a musical composition in a lighthouse, to be played for 1000 years. To present the effects of its work, Artangel selects unique places, like shop floors, closed underground stations or underground hangars.
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Judge Garaufis Is In Denial
U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis, who presided over the relatively brief but gut-wrenching trial of Keith Alan Raniere, is apparently not in the mood to grant any requests on behalf of Raniere.
Perhaps the best example of this is his recent denial of what appeared to be a fairly benign request by Raniere’s attorneys, Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos (Interestingly enough, Raniere’s other two attorneys – Paul DerOhannesian II and Danielle R. Smith – were not even listed on the request).
Marc Agnifilo
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In their two-sentence request dated July 5, 2019, Agnifilo and Geragos simply asked that the deadline for the submission of Raniere’s post-trial motions be pushed back from July 10th to July 30th – and that the deadline for the government’s response to those motions be pushed back from July 24th to August 13th.
They even noted that they were making the request “with the consent of the government”.
No big deal, right?
It’s summertime, no real need to make everyone work extra hard during the month of July.
Everybody just got done with a very emotional trial that ended with a jury deliberating less than 5 hours before finding Raniere guilty on all charges.
So, let’s take a few extra days to file these motions that no one expects to be granted anyway.
Ehh…not so fast.
On Monday, July 8th, Judge Garaufis issued an order flatly denying the request.
Which means that all of Raniere’s post-trial motions are due today.
It must have been a couple of fun days back at Brafman & Associates P.C. as they scrambled to get done in two days what they thought they had three more weeks to do.
Another Denial For Nancy Salzman
Judge Garaufis also denied Nancy Salzman’s requests that she no longer have to wear an ankle monitoring device – and that she have no curfew.
MK10ART’s fabulous painting of the three faces of Nancy Salzman.
As was noted in an earlier post, there was absolutely no reason for Judge Garaufis to grant either request unless Nancy is near death.
In fact, even Nancy’s attorneys couldn’t come up with any plausible reason for the requests.
Which is why they wrote this to the judge: “We make this request at this time because the trial in this matter has been completed and therefore many of the reasons justifying these conditions no longer exist”.
Labeling that a “weak argument” does not do justice to the word “weak”.
Lauren Salzman Asks For Same Relief – May Get A Different Response
On the same day that Judge Garaufis was denying Nancy’s requests, Lauren Salzman’s attorneys submitted a request that she also be allowed to ditch her ankle monitoring device and have no curfew. They also wanted her to be able to travel to New Jersey whenever she wanted to do so.
The requests submitted by Lauren’s attorneys at least made a stab at providing a reason why they should be granted.
“This proposed modification to the Court Order setting release conditions is to afford Ms. Salzman a more fulsome opportunity to integrate into her community. Ms. Salman’s request to travel to the State of New Jersey is to allow her to continue to care for her elderly and ailing grandparents who depend on their immediate family for assistance”.
While “a more fulsome opportunity to integrate into her community” sounds eerily like Raniere word salad, I do not believe that he authored this request.
Nor do I think it will necessarily get turned down as Nancy’s did.
To begin with, Lauren entered into a cooperation agreement at the time she pleaded guilty. Nancy did not.
In addition, Lauren also appeared as a witness for the prosecution – and, according to many courtroom observers, was the most effective witness they called (Even Raniere reportedly holds her most accountable for the “Guilty” verdicts rendered by the jury in his case).
Lastly, the prosecution and her Pretrial Officer have no objection to Lauren’s request.
Meanwhile, on an unrelated note, tensions continue to grow in the anti-NXIVM community as some individuals continue to exaggerate their role in NXIVM – and their involvement in the takedown of the cult.
One well-known member of that community recently commented “It’s a lot like those phony war heroes who go around wearing medals they never earned – and claiming responsibility for deeds they never did. Luckily for them, the Stolen Valor Act doesn’t cover this sort of situation”.
The Frank Report is continuing to gather information about people who are re-writing history in order to make themselves appear to be more important than they actually were – both in terms of the cult’s formation and its takedown. Depending on what else we learn, we may have a lot more to say about this situation at some point in the future.
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dianne Lipson says:
Regarding folks exaggerating their role in the takedown of NXIVM, I am reminded of this quote from President John Kennedy,
“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”
West Village Dianne
Great quote!
yes, great, appropriate quote, but says:
Popularized by President John F. Kennedy , but coined by the Italian diplomat, and son-in-law of Mussolini, Count Caleazzo Ciano
Pea Onyu says:
Judge Garaufis is a mean one. He is the Pontus Pilate of today.
Pea:
Is Judge Garaufis a “mean one” like Mr. Grinch?
NXIVM/DOS is the Manson family of today.
Scott Johnson says:
NXIVM is a weak shadow of the Manson family. They didn’t kill anyone and none of Raniere’s codefendants stood by him, they all pleaded guilty.
We only wish. If that was true, the judge would crucify your “lord.” LOL
Big J says:
Pea, you can make up any word salad you want, but it doesn’t change the freight train of punishment barreling down the tracks of life, destined to cream your master into a fine paste of whining and crying. And maybe sodomy!
Thor Raniere says:
You left out performing fellatio
Pyriel says:
The only thing Judge Garaufis has in common with Pontius Pilate is that Pontius Pilate washed his hands after his judgement of Jesus and Judge Garaufis no doubt needed a good long shower after every day of the trial to remove the feeling of accumulated filth from listening to the evidence against the perverted conman Raniere.
Dearest Pea Onyu,
Congratulations my dearest Frankreport troll for you have finally made me laugh.
“Judge Garaufis is Pontus Pilate”. LOL
The tensions have always been present in the anti-NXIVM crowd, it’s why it took Frank to be the most responsible for ending Raniere’s reign.
Nancy Salzman without an ankle monitor? The bipedal demented monster must be made to wear the monitor on its death bed!!! Hopefully she does not get to see January 2020 above ground!
P.S. Scum like her have forfeited their right to being referred to as a human being even in grammar terms! In truth she should be dragged to prison together with her tumours!
How do we know the prosecution is in support of Lauren’s request? Does that just mean they didn’t offer up any objections or they actually stated they were in support? I’m a little surprised. Yes she did cooperate and testify, but she still pleaded guilty for serious charges.
Joe O'Hara says:
My “is supported by” phrasing is, in fact, a little overstated. The actual language in the letter from Lauren’s attorneys is as follows: “Additionally, the Government and Michael Dorn, Ms. Salzman’s pretrial officer, have no objections to these proposed modifications.
I will make an appropriate edit to the post.
Michael Dorn? Is Lieutenant Worf moonlighting? Just imagine Lauren trying to shake off a Klingon. 🏃♀️👾👽
Pyriel, obviously Lauren Salzman is joining Starfleet. It’s like old times when rogues joined the French Foreign Legion to forget their past.
Anyone-
Does anyone know who O’Hara is alleging? Perhaps a hint.
O’Hara needs to disclose this information.
The NY Post also reported on Nancy’s application being denied. OMG – they didn’t airbrush the photo.
https://nypost.com/2019/07/09/nxivm-co-founder-nancy-salzman-must-keep-curfew-ankle-bracelet-judge/
Something I came across earlier. Hearst and NXIVM.
https://www.voat.co/v/pizzagate/3325601
That’s not defect. That’s Cruella Deville without her makeup.
J. Lanzke says:
Prefect Nancy Salzman isn’t perfect.
Pyriel,
Cancer certainly put some milage on old Nancy.
I honestly had no idea the other news outlets were air brushing her photos. LOL
Yeah, she isn’t wearing those “someone- advised-me-to-wear these-to-appear-contemporary/hey I am a cool intelkectual” glasses lately
Adam Hayes says:
What is a post-trial motion? Why w’ont the author explain?
There’s all kinds of potential post-trial motions. They can appeal, they can ask to let Raniere out of jail until the new trial, they can ask the judge to throw out the jury’s decision, they can protest various things that occurred during the trial, such as cutting off the Salzman testimony, etc.
K.R. Claviger wrote a separate piece about post-trial motions. You can access it at: https://frankreport.com/2019/07/06/even-before-he-appeals-his-conviction-raniere-will-be-seeking-relief/
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Five women’s soccer players earn NEWMAC awards
From left to right, Jess Frost, Amanda Benavente, Paige Haley, and Megan Rose all earned NEWMAC All-Conference honors. Photos by Kyle Bray and Anissa Gardizy / Beacon Staff
By Arturo Ruiz
The women’s soccer team capped off a historic year as five players earned postseason awards in the New England Women’s Athletic Conference.
Paige Haley, Jess Frost, and Amanda Benavente all achieved First Team All-Conference honors while Megan Rose earned Second Team All-Conference honors. Senior Alexandra Hanson earned the All-Sportsmanship award for the Lions—an award given to a player from each team who displays the values of the conference. Each head coach in the NEWMAC votes for the All-Conference and All-Sportsmanship teams.
Haley, a senior captain and attacking threat, earned First Team for the Lions with six goals—two of which were game-winners. Haley also made the First Team in her sophomore season.
“It’s a really big honor that I definitely was not expecting,” Haley said.
The Lions finished their season with a semi-final playoff run and a record of 11-7-1.
“We hit most of the goals that we set in the preseason, and we even did better than we were expecting. It was a very fulfilling season, and I’m super proud of how we did,” Haley said. “I think our team is taking a big step in the right direction, and I’m excited to see more people’s names come up on that list as the years go by.”
Frost scored eight goals and had eight assists, earning her a spot in the First Team.
“For our team and the history of the school, this run was historical,” Frost said. “It was a lot of fun too. We were winning and we were also having fun. Everything came together and it was amazing.”
Benavente started in all 19 games in her sophomore season and tallied three goals and three assists as a defender—enough to earn her First Team honors.
“I was so happy and surprised,” Benavente said. “It was one of my goals going into the season to get some sort of recognition. I wanted that to prove myself in the conference.”
Rose earned Second Team All-Conference honors with 102 saves in her freshman season as the team’s starting goalkeeper.
“It was really rewarding to receive the award as a freshman,” Rose said. “I am just excited to go up from there and get the first team next year.”
Haley said winning these awards helped cap off a great season.
“It was really special. I think it was even more special to win it with Amanda and Jess on the first team and Meghan on the second team, as well as for Ali to get the sportsmanship award. It was a huge group effort,” Haley said.
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You have to control two runners in the game. You have to be careful with your way on which there are different traps to stop you. Different characters are included in this game. Up to eight players can set their controls.
Farball
Farball is a basketball game. It is a single player game where you have 10 balls to shoot. One basket counts 1 score.
You should play this game if you want to have a great tennis experience. You can play tennis legends 2016 against the computer or with a friend. The winner of the first 2 sets wins the game.
Indonesia Soccer League
This is a wonderful soccer game. Click on the start button to start the game. You can play whether the exhibition or a new league game. Select your player and team. You can also select their kits. You can also select your formation in this game.
You have a different type of color balls. In this game, the color of the ball matters a lot. You have to pass the ball through the same color of which the ball is. When you start the game, a type of PLAY button will appear to start the game.
World Basketball Challenge is a basketball game where you need to select international team. Each team has 5 balls to shoot and the team which secures higher points win the game.
Trick Hoops Challenge
Trick Hoops Challenge is a sports game. It has only one rule, if your opponent score you are challenged; you will have to do the same otherwise you will lose one point.
Kopanito All Stars Soccer
This is a modern soccer game. The game will start after the loading. You can also play advanced moves like the chipshot and lob to outplay your opponents. You can play against strongest soccer teams.
Puppet Soccer La Liga
La Liga is a Spanish football league. Pick your favourite teams and your favourite players and start scoring to win the games. You can play with the computer or 2-player mode. In this game, you have to train your free kicks, defense and penalties to become a soccer champion.
Click on the play button to start the game. You are controlling a bird. Collect the money by flying higher and try to go fast. Clear different levels to proceed in the game. You can also purchase boosters.
Bmx Stunts 3
Stickman is out for killing and in for stunts, control them through tricky stunt courses where you will catch big air and do extreme stunts while collecting many stars as possible… how many points can you score on each level?
Gold Digger Frvr
Feel the gold fiver alive! Dig anywhere you want and get yourself ready to discover treasures and lots and lots of gold, then use it to save your progress, upgrade your gear and dig deeper when the gold shines and the most ancient treasures appear!
Ultimate Swish
Ultimate Swish is an amazing sports game where you need to get as many baskets as possible within the limited time.
100m Race
By clicking play icon, we have given two frames one is online save in which login is important and in another local save is not important. Click the local save’s button play to move the next menu. Then click the local save button and it will appear select trackand only one will be highlighted that name is settled, click it and on the next frame they guide you about the race and click the panel.
Bazooka Boy 2
with the big bazookas also big adventures will be found! On each level try to destroy the required blocks while you try to avoid the threat, traps and try to get advantage of your big weapons and skills to clear all the levels.
Real Freekick
The game will start after the loading. Compete to become the best freekick taker in the world. Select your favourite team to play the game. You will get a chance to play with the best soccer teams in the world. Score more goals and win.
the apocalypse is now… and mankind needs your help! Use your driving skills to transport food, medical supplies, ammo and weapons to the army and help them to combat aliens and rogues… each run will grant you money and the farther you go, more money you earn.
It is a sports game published by Colin Lane Games. There are 3 modes in the game. These are arcade, career and 2 player mode. Select your player to start the game. You will have matches with different players. The game gets complicated at higher levels.
Basket Champ
Basket Champ is an inter-nation basketball game that allows you to choose your team and then play the game. Each team will have one turn to shoot the ball.
Click anywhere on the screen to start the game. You are controlling a bird by clicking on the space button. You will cross through different obstacles and do not let your bird touch the obstacle.
Fire And Water 5
The game will start after the loading. Click on the play button to start the game. There are 2 characters in this game. Fireboy and Watergirl. The game is also available on the App Store and Google Play.
12 Yards Penalty Challenge
12 yards lays between you and the glory… are you able to reach it? On each level try to beat the goalkeeper with your powerful shots… aim wisely, net the ball and score enough points to advance to the next level and the next goalkeeper.
Basketball Tribe
Basketball Tribe is a sports game where you are required to earn bonus baskets in the form of bonus time, power etc.
March Mayhem is a basketball game. You need to score as much as you can within the predetermined time. You can pick up extra items that allows you to dunk from anywhere, to double your speed and perfect shoot from anywhere in the court.
when clicking the play button, we will move to the next frame where we have to play the game, then the game began. In this game we have to take a free kick from some distance and different direction to the goal. If we miss total three free kick the game will finish, so carefully don’t miss three free kick.
92 Second Basketball
92 second basketball is a sports game. You have to dunk the ball into the basket within 92 seconds. The more you dunk the more you score.
After failing to fly after hitting an iceberg, this stubborn and injured penguin is back for more action, this time not only to fly, this time he will also destroy anything that lays between himself and his flying dream… can you help him to achieve it?
Neymar Can Play
You are controlling the Soccer Brazilian star, Neymar. Help Neymar to get ready for the 2014 World Cup. He is injured but didn't want to give up. You have to make him score different goals to make him ready. He is injured so it is bit difficult to score a goal.
Challenge the most famous big headed football players in exciting 1vs 1 matches to see who the best player is… take advantage of the power ups to give yourself an edge and make your opponent lose! Do you have what it takes to bring your footballer to the top?
There are a lot of teams in this game. This game features 360 teams from 12 leagues. To move forward, you have to play the group stage and them move to the knockout stage. Score penalties and stop your opponents for scoring goals.
Fireboy Watergirl Elements
Join fireboy and watergirl through an exciting adventure through the elements temples, think wisely and gather forces between them to avoid the threats and solve the puzzles in order to reach the final door to clear the level, all this while you try to collect many gems as possible to maximize your score.
Hyper Dunker
Hyper dunker is a basketball game. You need to dunk the ball. There are different levels and to clear each level you will need to reach the required score.
Bob The Robber 4 Japan
After click the play button you will play the game. In this game we have to rob some thing and also open some of the gates that are locked. We also have to careful from some detective things like camera and lazier. There would be guard and man to busted you.
Click on the play button to start the game. There are two modes in the game. Tournament mode and party mode. You can also play a multiplayer match. Select your team and player to start the match.
Do you want to play a great basketball game with realistic graphics? Then you are on the right site. You can also play this amazing game on android. More professional basketball players appear at every level. Show your mastery, surprise your opponent and win the scores by basket.
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Cartoon network heroes have a great match on a football staduim. In Toon cup 2017, you can make an exciting match with your favorite cartoon characters.
You compete to win gold medals in the Hammer throw game Olympics. To throw the hammer in the game, first adjust the angle by pressing the spacebar.
Renegade racing game you are racing crazy. You jump from high hills and sometimes go underground. You need to keep your balance as you fall to the ground every jump.
Roll The Ball
Roll the ball game is a game that can help you improve your intelligence. In this puzzle game you must pass the ball by connecting pipes.
Football legends 2016 is one of the most popular football games. The most fun part of the game is that you can play with two players. So you can have a fun time with your friend.
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How an Anti-Intellectual Elite Are Turning the World Upside Down
The controversial author predicted the rise of Trump by placing "a ruthlessly ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain sporting makeup and coloured hair" in his new book, written before the election. But can he explain the hate of knowledge that persists in the world today?
Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and writer, author of ten novels including Midnight’s Children (Booker Prize, 1981), Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, and The Golden House. The publication of his fourth novel "The Satanic Verses" in 1988 led to violent protests in the Muslim world for its depiction of the prophet Mohammad. The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a death fatwa against Rushdie, which sent him into hiding for nearly a decade. Rushdie weathered countless death threats and many assassination attempts.
Salman Rushdie: Well, I saw a really alarming newspaper article just a week or so ago in which it was—some survey had shown that more than 50 percent of self-identifying Republicans believed that universities were bad for America, really that universities were actually a negative, harmful force in American life.
I mean I had never seen any group of people saying that before, so that was shocking.
And I do think this is not unique to America, because also in England there is a similar kind of distrust of expertise.
In the Brexit vote there—one of the things that came up over and over again was a dislike of experts “telling you what to think”.
And so somehow this mistrust of “people who know things” has become internationalized, it’s not just something about the American Right.
Obviously to somebody who has seen knowledge as being a great virtue and who has spent his life trying to accumulate little bits of it and somebody who thinks of knowledge as a kind of beauty, it’s very discomforting to say the least to have people who think of it as being suspicious. You know, um...
Because what’s happening it seems to me is a strange distortion of the idea of the elite.
If you ask me “What’s an elite?” I would think more about the many, many billionaires sitting in the Trump administration.
Here’s a government with more super-rich people in it than has ever been in any American government, and that government calls college professors and journalists elites.
We’re not the ones with private planes and golf courses in the Bahamas—relatively few novelists have these things. And the idea that we’re the elites, whereas that group, that kind of 0.1 of the 1 percent that considers itself to be in some way possessing the common touch, that just seems like an absurd comic inversion of reality.
I think one of the things we see at the moment, and I tried to in a way capture in the novel, is this idea of a world turned upside down, in which things that one thought of as being normal—solid, believable descriptions of reality—are being stood on their head everyday.
The idea of reality itself, the idea of truth is something verifiable and objective, all these things are being inverted and knocked off their pedestals.
Well, I mean there is a terrible thing which writers sometimes say to each other, which is, “The worse it is the better it is,” because when the world is in a terrible condition there’s a lot to write about.
I mean one demonstration of this is the literature, very often underground literature—the Samizdat literature of the Soviet Union was of an extraordinary quality when there was this colossal adversary of Soviet authoritarianism. Many writers, both in a fiction and nonfiction, rose to that challenge and created extraordinary work.
And I think it’s not unfair to say that the literature of the post Soviet Union, the literature of Russia since 1989, that there is a somewhat of a falling off, that it’s not quite as intense and extraordinary as that earlier work because of the lack of the adversity.
To put it in another way it seems to me that spy fiction was enormously damaged by the loss of the Soviet Union because suddenly, who were the enemy?
So I do think that in times this, which are very adversarial and in which the question of the truth has become so central, there’s a big place for art, there’s a really big role for art to speak up in such a time.
And I think more or less every writer I know in America is considering how best to respond to the place we find ourselves, including me.
Most of this book was written before November the 8th, I mean the vast bulk of it was finished before the election. And I’m sorry to say that I guessed right, that’s to say that I always knew that if things had gone another way that there would’ve had to be some reshaping of a part of the book. (But actually anyway I needed to do a bit of reshaping because things don’t always turn out exactly as you foresee.)
But I wanted to try and capture this strange moment and to tell the truth that part of the novel is very much background rather than foreground, so the actual storyline of the book, what happens to the characters and how they resolve their particular dilemmas, that would not have been altered in any way if the election had gone in another way. I mean the story is the story, but the context of the story, the way in which America developed from the beginning of the Obama administration to the present moment, what happened in that arc of time, that’s the context against which the story takes place.
And there I had to guess and gamble a little bit and then try and fix things right up till the moment the book went to the presses, so that’s more or less—there’s a moment when they take your fingers off the keyboard and say “we’re printing the book today, so you can’t do anymore!” But until that moment I was trying to fix things.
Well! Salman Rushdie pretty much predicted the future in his new book, The Golden House, wherein the antagonist is "a ruthlessly ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain sporting makeup and coloured hair." Read into that what you will, but Rushdie here posits that he's baffled by the sudden worldwide rejection of knowledge and the elites. He says that it's not just an invention of the American right wing — that it's a worldwide problem that's helped in large part by the likes of Fox News et al — and he wonders both what gave rise to that and how it will stop. Perhaps he'll have to write a sequel.
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15 inspiring nature words you didn't know you needed
Hundreds more are documented in Robert Macfarlane's Landmarks.
Derek Beres
Photo: Ahmed Saeed / Unsplash
In Landmarks, Robert Macfarlane revives hundreds of nearly-forgotten words to remind us of our relationship with nature.
New dictionaries are deleting nature words while adding technology terms, which Macfarlane states further separates us from the environment.
The words we speak shape the reality we understand, making it essential to aptly describe what is happening on the planet.
<p>To create what he termed a "psychedelic society," the ethnobotanist Terence McKenna declared that we must completely remake "our fundamental ontological conceptions of reality." In order to accomplish this, he suggested a new language to address the new reality we are embarking upon. "A new reality will generate a new language," he wrote in his essay, "Psychedelic Society." "A new language will make a new reality legitimate and a part of this reality."</p><p>Humans structure reality by how we name things. A language is not only a means for transferring ideas and directives to others; it serves as a guiding philosophy for how you understand reality. McKenna was imagining a new future, yet he also knew that the archaic techniques of ecstasy provided by shamanism was a means for looking back to reconstruct our present reality. In some ways he was suggesting the resurrection of an old language for new purposes. </p><p>Likewise, British writer Robert Macfarlane (<a href="https://bigthink.com/podcast/robert-macfarlane" target="_blank">recently featured</a> on the Think Again podcast) has devoted his career to understanding and, at times, translating the natural world (for us novices, at least). His book, <em>Landmarks</em>, is an attempt to create a dictionary of forgotten languages that describe the world in ways that help us to understand reality differently and, perhaps, more perceptively.</p><p>"We inhabit a post-pastoral terrain, full of modification and compromise," he writes, noting that we now have difficulty imagining reality outside of a "user-value framework." Indeed, environmental decimation would be impossible if we had a better way of discussing what is actually happening to the planet. The problem is the language of technology has displaced discussion of nature. A recent edition of the <em>Oxford Junior Dictionary</em> added words such as broadband, chatroom, and voice-mail while deleting actor, dandelion, and heron—words the gatekeepers decided were no longer relevant to the experience of childhood.</p>
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="YKJKQ71579535058"><iframe type="lazy-iframe" data-runner-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2a7cjq_N3dE?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p>Yet, as Macfarlane writes, "language does not just register experience, it produces it." We educate children by the words we teach them. Australian environmental philosopher, Glenn Albrecht, coined the term <em>solastalgia</em> to describe "the pain or distress caused by the loss or lack of solace and the sense of desolation connected to the present state of one's home and territory." That's a word millions of his countrymen are feeling at this very moment.</p><p>When I <a href="https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/glenn-albrecht-earth-emotions" target="_self">asked Albrecht</a> about <em>Landmarks</em>—Macfarlane offered an overwhelmingly positive blurb on Albrecht's book, <em>Earth Emotions</em>—he replied, </p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"One of the major things is the recovery of language, which is being lost in a world which is transforming so rapidly that the old words for the way that humans have culturally and bio-physically evolved are being lost. He's reviving them and putting them back into the language."</p><p>We can only see what we name. A culture deficient in terminology is incapable of registering what is being destroyed in terms of environmental as well as personal awareness. Below are 15 words from <em>Landmarks</em> that remind us of what is possible to imagine—and experience—when we have names for it. </p>
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Researchers believe that the practice of sleeping through the whole night didn’t really take hold until just a few hundred years ago.
The Bed by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
She was wide awake and it was nearly two in the morning. When asked if everything was alright, she said, “Yes." Asked why she couldn't get to sleep she said, “I don't know." Neuroscientist Russell Foster of Oxford might suggest she was exhibiting “a throwback to the bi-modal sleep pattern." Research suggests we used to sleep in two segments with a period of wakefulness in-between.
Melanie Katzman has 30 years of experience in her field, yet was advised to tell people she had just 20 years of experience so she wouldn't seem too out of touch.
Katzman strongly disagrees with that assessment of age in the workplace. Rather than see it as a liability, older professionals should embrace their age and experience. They can see patterns more broadly, plus they have deep network connections, information, and the desire to be generous.
"Research shows us that generativity flows downhill," says Katzman. "... New recruits and aging boomers can really change the world together but we have to not be afraid of stating our age."
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Palestine is considering cryptocurrency to replace Israeli shekel: PM confirms
In the latest turn of events, the government of Palestine is considering cryptocurrency to replace the Israeli shekel. Local English media reports that the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has confirmed the news.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Palestine Center for Computer Emergency Response (PCCER) he expressed that his government will use every available way to ensure the freedom of Palestinian people and its economy.
Shtayyeh came into power with the agenda that he will transform Palestinian economy and independent of shekel despite the fact that about twenty-five billion shekels or about seven billion dollars ($7B) are in circulation within Palestine. This was also the subject of his opening remarks back in April 2019.
Why Palestine uses Israeli shekel?
Palestine has been bound to the Israeli shekel since the Paris protocol which was signed back in the April of the year 1994.
The protocol where grants the Palestinian Monetary Authority (PMA) the legal status of a bank it also binds the country to use Israeli shekel for all official transactions.
Can Palestine reject shekel?
Experts, however, believe that the shekel is embedded so deep in the Palestinian economic system that the currency cannot completely be wiped from Palestine.
Al-Monitor report explains that over one hundred and seventy thousand (170,000) Palestinians are earning their monthly salaries in Israeli new shekels which leads to about eighty-percent of the transaction volume in shekels within Palestine.
On the other hand, despite the inception of a currency, the economic dependency runs deeper than just the use of a specific currency.
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Rockwell acquires Chinese manufacturer
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Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. announced it has agreed to purchase the assets of the medium voltage drives business of Harbin Jiuzhou Electric Co. Ltd. of China for $83 million.
The closing of the transaction is expected in October.
The acquisition strengthens Rockwell Automation’s presence in the Asia-Pacific motor control market by adding significant capabilities in design, engineering and manufacturing of medium voltage drive products. It also provides access to grid-tie inverter technology. Jiuzhou has successfully served as Rockwell Automation’s contract manufacturer for seven years, in addition to its own well-established customer base.
“Jiuzhou’s medium voltage drives business accelerates our emerging markets strategy,” said Mike Laszkiewicz, vice president, general manager, Rockwell Automation power control business. “It will enhance our position in the critical Asia-Pacific region by strengthening capabilities in the mid- and higher-power rated product lines.”
“This acquisition demonstrates an evolution and commitment to growing the long-term customer relationships we established as a contract manufacturer for Rockwell Automation,” said Li Yin, Jiuzhou chairman of the board. “Our customers will benefit from Rockwell Automation’s advanced manufacturing, research and development capabilities, and global distribution. Our employees will now join a successful, global leader in technology that offers a competitive and comprehensive product and service portfolio in the automation industry. We’re pleased to culminate our successful business relationship with Rockwell Automation.”
“As China expands the consumer side of its economy, investment will continue to grow, requiring energy-saving measures in factories and integrated power applications across many industries,” said Bob Ruff, president, Rockwell Automation Asia-Pacific. “Subsequently, the market opportunities for power control in OEM, process, and heavy industry markets in Asia are expected to provide significant growth potential for this acquisition. Medium voltage drives are integral to many large automation projects. These drives help to maximize asset availability and manage energy consumption.”
Rockwell Automation employs more than 1,900 people in China, working among its 35 sales offices, five training centers, manufacturing facilities, a global research and development center and a software development center.
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YWCA Youth Learn about Urban Planning and Engineering on a Highway Construction Tour
25 Jun 2019 • 3 min read
Earlier this spring, participants in the Girls Inc. Eureka! program boarded a yellow school bus and joined Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) for a tour of the 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown project.
The bus tour took the youth to three significant stops throughout the construction project corridor: the Green Crescent and new transit station at Lake Street and 35W, the Franklin Avenue bridge over 35W and Franklin Steele Park.
Urban Planning and People-Focused Design
At the Lake Street stop, the Eureka! participants learned about the profession of urban planning and how the intersection is being redesigned to be more people-focused. A new connection to the Midtown Greenway, called the Green Crescent, will make it easier for walkers and bikers to get from the Greenway to Lake Street and vice versa. Project staff explained the community engagement process behind the construction project and how MnDOT had worked with community members from underrepresented groups in the community to find out how the redesigned intersection could better serve them. The youth were excited to hear that the new transit station will feature better lighting and an elevator from Lake Street up to the 35W roadway, where currently there are just stairs.
Learning about Bridge Engineering
The group then boarded the bus and traveled north to the Franklin Avenue bridge, where the youth got a beautiful view of the downtown Minneapolis skyline. Participants learned about the many different engineering and construction jobs involved in the large project, and spoke with a MnDOT engineer about bridge engineering.
Reusing Construction Materials
At the final stop at Franklin Steele Park, the youth were able to look out over a large portion of the project and watch dump trucks working to move materials from one part of the construction zone to the other. They learned that all of the concrete and asphalt that is removed when taking apart existing roads is ground up in a concrete crushing machine and repurposed as gravel on the construction site! By reusing all of the old road material, the project is able to save energy.
Exposed to New Careers and How Projects are Planned
Once they returned to YWCA Minneapolis, the youth played a fun trivia game that tested their knowledge of project facts they learned on the bus tour. The group reflected on what they learned and the new careers they were exposed to.
They were passionate about how important community engagement is a project like this is. They discussed how parts of the project – like the Lake Street Transit Station – might have been different if only one kind of person was involved in the project design. For example, if only older white men who work in large corporations in downtown Minneapolis and drive to work every day were asked what they thought the Lake Street and 35W intersection should look like, the youth said they might not have identified the need for a warm, well-lit transit station with public art and elevator access. However, if young women who ride the bus to work or school – like the youth themselves – were asked about the intersection, they would have easily shared the need for these improvements to make it a more comfortable and accessible space.
Overall, the youth enjoyed the opportunity to take a behind-the-scenes look at a project that affects them on a daily basis as they travel across town and were excited to discover another way STEM skills are used to impact their community.
Bike Tours at Lyndale Open Streets
The 35W@94: Downtown to Crosstown project team participated in Lyndale Open Streets on June 2nd. We offered three tours during the morning and early afternoon with a total of
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Presenting to Future Engineers!
On Wednesday May 1st, the University of Minnesota’s Interdisciplinary Transportation Student Organization (ITSO) hosted University of Minnesota alumni and MnDOT engineer Aaron Tag to present to students about the
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Kris Shaw Tour Dates & Show Tickets
Kris Shaw Tour Dates and Show Tickets
World Famous Kris Shaw is being demanded!
If you haven't seen Kris Shaw lately, you haven't seen Kris Shaw. Kris is one of the quickest rising stars of today. Only having been doing comedy a little over three years, Kris's climb through the comedy ranks has taken off and it won't be long before he's at the top! He has quickly become a... read more
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If you haven't seen Kris Shaw lately, you haven't seen Kris Shaw. Kris is one of the quickest rising stars of today. Only having been doing comedy a little over three years, Kris's climb through the comedy ranks has taken off and it won't be long before he's at the top! He has quickly become a popular headliner at many venues where he works. Kris has a unique style and outlook on life...growing up a Jehovah's Witness and having five kids will do that to someone. Kris brings that flavor into his jokes, which will leave you laughing and shaking your head all the way home. Kris combines his talent and quick wit to deliver a sure hit every time. Kris's likeability and versatility has allowed him to perform in nearly 40 states and around the world. He recently returned from a tour of Japan and Korea where he entertained our troops. He has worked with acts ranging from Larry the Cable Guy, Bob Zany, Nick DiPaolo, Christian Finnegan and Rocky LaPorte, to Bruce Bruce, Adele Givens and Rickey Smiley. Kris has recently been seen in several national television commercials and has a recurring extra role on the CBS series "Close To Home". If you haven't seen Kris Shaw, then it's time that you did!
Comedy Performances
The Stardome, Birmingham, AL
The Funny Bones Cincinnati, Huntington, South Bend, Evansville, Shreveport
Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh, NC
Zanies, Chicago,IL
JD's Comedy Cafe, Milwaukee, WI
Nitwits Comedy Club, Sioux Falls, SD
Go Bananas Comedy Club, Cincinnati, OH
Jokers Comedy Cafe, Dayton, OH
One Liners Comedy Club, Indianapolis, IN
Laffs Comedy Club, Albuquerque, NM
The Funny Farm, Atlanta, GA
Joeys Comedy Club, Livonia, MI
The Comedy Cabana, Myrtle Beach, SC
Penguins Comedy Clubs, Bettendorf and Cedar Rapids, IA
The Loony Bin Comedy Clubs, Oklahoma City, Little Rock and Wichita
Wits End Comedy Club, Westminster, CO
Loonees Comedy Club, Colorado Springs, CO
Bart Reeds Comic Strip, El Paso, TX
Comedy Showcase, Houston, TX
Rivercenter Comedy Club, San Antonio,TX
Comedy Playhouse, Geneva, NY
Laugh In Comedy Cafe, Ft. Myers, FL
Bonkerz Comedy Clubs, various national locations
The Comedy Zones, various national locations
The House of Blues, Myrtle Beach, SC
Comedy House Theatre, Columbia, SC
The Plaza, Las Vegas, NV
The Comic Strip, Edmonton, AB Canada
*Does work at many colleges, casinos and with Mancow radio.
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Amazon Is Everywhere
While in Manhattan for meetings recently, I walked past this shelf of Amazon packages being prepared for delivery. While, I admittedly have my fair share of Amazon boxes at home and the office, seeing it at this scale was eye opening. From watching Amazon Fire TV to my kids streaming Amazon Prime cartoons to asking Alexa to check today's weather forecast, Amazon.com, now in its 20th year as a public company, is everywhere.
Prime Member Growth
Amazon keeps its Prime membership data pretty close to the vest, but Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimates that Amazon has 80 million Prime customers in the United States, up 37.9% from 58 million this time last year. Prime membership is an interesting feature of Amazon's business because it's a subscription fee that provides recurring revenue and it allows the company to deliver added value to customers via video and music. As seen in the graph below, Prime members tend to spend more than Non-members, on average -- that's in addition to the $99 per year membership fee.
Last week, Amazon opened its first New York brick and mortar store. Located at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan, it carries 3,000 book titles and looks like a traditional bookstore. Interestingly, though, books do not list a price. Rather, Amazon Prime members use the Prime app to check the price while Non-members will pay the book's list price. The store does not accept cash. Shoppers may either charge their purchase to their Prime account or pay with a credit card. Think Amazon is trying to drive new Prime membership? It certainly appears that way.
Multiple Business Lines
Annual revenue rose 27% to $136 billion in 2016, operating profit rose 87% to $4.2 billion, and the company surpassed 240,000 global employees as of the end of the year. Amazon has battered rivals with low pricing enabled by its economies of scale, smart logistics, and its never-ending drive toward efficiency. Amazon has been a leader in warehouse robotics and dreams of delivering packages to your doorstep via drone.
Areas to watch:
Big box retail, grocers, and drug stores
On-demand and logistics
We Can't Rest on Our Laurels
At the company's annual shareholder meeting on May 23, CEO Jeff Bezos was asked about his biggest concerns and the potential hurdles for the company over the next 5 to 10 years.
“There’s no rest. We can’t rest on our laurels,” Bezos reponded. “Over the last 20 years, there has never been a time when we looked into the future and thought it was clear sailing,” Bezos said. “We look into the future, and we see always an intensely competitive environment, a world that is awash with high rates of change and new technologies, all kinds of disruptive influences. It never looks like smooth seas to us from the inside, no matter what it might appear from the outside.”
Amazon's success has often been attributed to its obsessive focus on the customer, an eagerness to invent and pioneer, and a willingness to take a long-term approach. This philosophy of never resting, to continously innovate and adapt, should help Amazon continue its growth in the years ahead.
Are you an Amazon customer and Prime member? Please share your thoughts and experiences in the comments.
By Andrew Wang |May 30, 2017 | Categories: investing | 0 Comments
Turning Concentration into Diversification with an Exchange Fund
Commission-Free Trades and What It All Means
Are you about to lose your Facebook and Google exposure? The sector shuffle explained
US stocks outpacing international again in 2018
Visual of the World's Money and Markets [infographic]
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The key to a greater digital audience might be simpler than most think
When a Norwegian newspaper found an answer so simple everyone had overlooked it.
With all the humming and hawing that has gone into ‘cracking’ the formula which can provide growth in digital media, Hilegunn Soldal, Digital Editor of Norwegian tabloid, Dagbladet, explains how the paper stumbled upon something that seemed so obvious no-one had thought of it.
“The real development and growth for Dagbladet, didn’t come from flashier graphics or more sensational stories” says Soldal. “The one thing that saw figures shoot up was when they refined their system which gave the mobile app a much faster loading time”
Discovering this was not as easy as it might first seem. As Soldal notes, this has come from years of trial and error in a medium which is constantly in flux: “Minute by minute we were changing [the style of] our homepage. It’s never the same. We changed something, and did something which is far from normal, but it was a huge success. We started shifting the adverts around in the layout and users started acknowledging them, rather than just ignoring them. But that was in 2008; things are different now because almost everything’s on mobile.”
But Soldal believes there can be a way to bringing in – and maintaining – regular viewers: “Every time you get a peak in social media, you can get some of them to stay and keep coming back to your homepage. We’ve been going for 20 years and we’ve built the brand and created habits, and I think that’s key: creating habits. So people will keep coming back to your homepage, but that’s constantly changing so we have to keep on adapting to the changes and people’s needs, and to stay ahead of our competitors.”
And this turnaround, Soldal was also quick to note, is one of the keys to maintaining share in the media market: “If you look at the Norwegian newsrooms they are ten, fifteen minutes faster than the NYT or the Guradian. We have to compete with the broadcasters, and we have to be faster than them. We can have on person running out into the field with livefeeds, and this has changed how people consume news.”
Hilegunn Soldal
Norwegian media
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Michelangelo's Mountain
by Eric Scigliano
Crossing the Pomerium
Crossing the Pomerium (eBook)
by michael koortbojian (Author)
A multifaceted exploration of the interplay between civic and military life in ancient Rome
The ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city—a division marked by the pomerium, an abstract religious and legal boundary that was central to the myth of the city's foundation. In this book, Michael Koortbojian explores, by means of images and texts, how the Romans used social practices and public monuments to assert their capital's distinction from its growing empire, to delimit the proper realms of religion and law from those of war and conquest, and to establish and disseminate so many fundamental Roman institutions across three centuries of imperial rule.
Crossing the Pomerium probes such topics as the appearance in the city of Romans in armor, whether in representation or in life, the role of religious rites on the battlefield, and the military image of Constantine on the arch built in his name. Throughout, the book reveals how, in these instances and others, the ancient ideology of crossing the pomerium reflects the efforts of Romans not only to live up to the ideals they had inherited, but also to reconceive their past and to validate contemporary practices during a time when Rome enjoyed growing dominance in the Mediterranean world.
A masterly reassessment of the evolution of ancient Rome and its customs, Crossing the Pomerium explores a problem faced by generations of Romans—how to leave and return to hallowed city ground in the course of building an empire.
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This selection of quotes will appear in a very personal interview on Friday, featured at Jean the Book Nerd’s great site, but as that interview is quite extensive, I thought it would be a good idea to share them with you today in a separate post. I hope you enjoy this little glimpse into Deadmarsh Fey.
~Melika
“This beast, like the greater evil we faced later on, went by many names. When he invaded Everl’aria, the Moarteans christened him Groaza. Others called him The Devourer of the World. And to those on Sviddheim, he was The Bottomless, for his savagery had no end.”
“I’ve seen its other side. I know what lives here, what’s been slumbering for so long.”
A hollow pit opened up where Roger’s heart was supposed to be. “How would you know that?”
“I woke it up.”
He blinked in surprise and was even more startled when the dragon mimicked the action, but did so sideways. A clear membrane coated its eye, then drew back to reveal hues infinitely more searing than before—so vibrant it was painful for Roger to look into them. Orange pulsating like a lava flow, yellow glistening brighter than a city made of gold, green flashing like St. Elmo’s fire. All these colors danced not a foot in front of Roger’s face, flickering within that gigantic orb…
“Why should I not know what he’s really called?”
“Tell a man your name and he will have power over you forever,” Carver muttered.
“I don’t know how else to explain this, but I could feel her age, almost as if the weight of her years were pressing against me like a great mountain of corpses that would collapse onto me if I so much as looked at her the wrong way.”
Gryffyn looked as though he were about to have some sort of fit. “It’s far too dark in here for you to be taking this so calmly. Anything could be creeping up on us at this very moment, and we’d be none the wiser till it had us by the throat! We can’t see a foot in front of our faces, not one foot! Why are you not afraid?”
“Because I am the monster lurking in the shadows,” Incendiu snarled.
“They were all children, yes, as were the fiends who allowed themselves to be Hosted.”
“But that happened in a wilder age, a less enlightened time,” Roger argued.
“Do not make the mistake of thinking present society is so highly advanced that they have forgotten their baser instincts, Roger Knightley. Evil is evil no matter the century, or the world.”
“There are more things in Heaven and earth…” Uncle Gryffyn muttered.
“Now ain’t the time to be quotin’ old Bill Shakes, guv,” Bellows shot in.
“You’re not allowed in church!”
The Jagged One squinted at him. “Sez who?”
“Says God!”
Carver tsked. “I thought you Christians welcomed everyone.”
“We make exceptions for demons like you.”
“Will you not bid me welcome, Brother?” the beast mocked. The dragon’s voice paralyzed Roger where he stood. Hearing it sapped his strength, stole his will, made him feel as though his mind had been crushed between slabs of stone. There was chaos in it, and destruction—a voice crafted of darkness and the death of worlds.”
Flesh and bone and hearts unknown, lead to the rath and your fate will be shown…
Deadmarsh. The name struck terror into the hearts of all who heard it. But to Roger Knightley, neither Deadmarsh the house, nor Deadmarsh the family, had ever been anything to fear. Nearly each summer of his young life had been spent in that manor on the moors, having wild adventures with his cousin, Lockie, the Deadmarsh heir. This year should have been no different, but when Roger arrives, he finds everything, and everyone, changed. The grounds are unkempt, the servants long gone. Kip, the family cat, has inexplicably grown and glares at Roger as if he is trying to read the boy’s mind. Roger’s eldest cousin, Travers, always treated as a servant, now dresses like a duchess and wears round her neck a strange moonstone given to her by someone known as Master Coffyn, who has taken over the teaching of Lockie at a school in Wales called Nethermarrow.
And soon after he crosses the threshold of Deadmarsh, Roger discovers that Coffyn has overtaken Lockie. The boy is deceitful, riddled with fear, and has returned bearing tales of creatures called Jagged Ones that claim to be of the Fey and can somehow conceal themselves while standing in the full light of the moon. What they want with Lockie, Roger cannot fathom, until the horror within his cousin lashes out, and it becomes savagely clear that these Jagged Ones and the Dark Wreaker they serve are not only after Lockie and Travers, but Roger, too.
Joining forces with an ally whose true nature remains hidden, Roger seeks to unravel the tapestry of lies woven round his family’s connection to the death-haunted world of Everl’aria—and the Dark Wreaker who calls it home. The deeper Roger delves into the past, the more he begins to suspect that the tales of dark deeds done in the forest behind Deadmarsh, deeds in which village children made sacrifice to an otherworldly beast and were never seen or heard from again, are true. And if there is truth in these outlandish stories, what of the rumor that it was not an earthquake which rocked the moors surrounding Deadmarsh sixteen years ago, but a winged nightmare attempting to break free of its underground prison? Enlisting the aid of a monster equipped with enough inborn firepower to blast his enemies into oblivion might be as suicidal as Roger’s friends insist, yet the boy knows he needs all the help he can get if there is to be any hope of defeating not only the Dark Wreaker and his servants, but an unholy trinity known as the Bear, the Wolf, and the Curse That Walks The Earth.
And then there is the foe named Blood Wood, who might be the deadliest of them all.
Racing against time, Roger must find a way to end the battle being waged across worlds before the night of Lockie’s eleventh birthday—two days hence. If he fails, blood will drown the earth. And Roger and his entire family will fulfill the prophecy of fey’s older, more lethal meaning…
Fated to die.
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It’s been a while since I last posted any updates, but today, I am happy to share with you a new and very in-depth (possibly my most in-depth one to date) interview. Many thanks to author Sonya M. Black for providing me with such insightful questions. I hope you enjoy reading not only my thoughts on writing and other subjects, but also learning more about a few special books that have impacted my life in very different ways. Maybe you’ll be inspired to invite them into your lives and let them work their magic on you, as well.
A dragon lands in front of your Main Character, what would they do?
It just so happens that my main character in Deadmarsh Fey, Roger Knightley, is obsessed with dragons, and has been since he was practically out of the womb, cutting his teeth on his mother’s fanciful stories about them, blazing through the Mabinogion by the time he was six, and venturing onward to further fill his head with even more fantastic legends, his favorite being the one about Merlin and Vortigern and the fortress that had been toppled again and again by the red and white dragons battling in a pool beneath its foundations.
Given all of that, if a flesh and blood dragon landed in front of him, Roger wouldn’t scream or scarper away in fright, but would rather shriek in delight and run forward to hug one of the dragon’s foreclaws, then try to convince the beast to fly him back to Wraxhall, Roger’s boarding school, to equalize the playing field, as it were, by teaching his headmaster a lesson—turning Master Crisp into Master Ash…literally. But once Roger came to his senses, he would do all in his power to enlist the dragon as an ally against the Dark Wreaker of Everl’aria, and the curse this fell being has laid upon Roger’s family. You’ll have to read Deadmarsh Fey to find out if any of this really does happen in the book, or if I’m just letting my imagination rocket upward like a dragon soaring through the night sky, its black wings blotting out the light of the moon.
What literary pilgrimages have you gone on?
It’s not the main focus of my upcoming trip to England, but when I’m there, we’ll be spending a day in Oxford, walking in the footsteps of two authors who have had a significant impact not only on my writing, but upon my life, as well—J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. I expect to be awed the entire time I’m there, and quite emotional, too. Oh, and a visit to the Eagle and Child is also on the agenda! 6,900 pictures of the snug where the Inklings used to meet will be taken, so as not to miss a single angle, of course. I can’t wait!
What is the first book that made you cry?
I’m sure other books got to me before this one did, but the first book I can remember which made me cry was The Turn of the Screw—and that was because it horrified me, my tears bursting forth at the very end when Miles screams, “Peter Quint, you devil!” I didn’t appreciate the ambiguity and brilliance of that line till many years later, so as a child of eight, my reaction was sheer terror. And yet I loved that little novel! I even owned a Classic comic book type edition of it that I read so often the spine broke. It’s my favorite “ghost” story of all time, and a masterful psychological study that I do not think any film adaptation has done justice to yet, although The Innocents comes close to capturing the unsettling “otherness” of Miles and Flora, and the paranoia (or does she have just cause to fear?) of the Governess.
But the first book that truly touched something deep within my heart and made me not only cry, but bawl, was David Copperfield, which I read at the age of twelve. It didn’t matter that one hundred and forty years separated me from David’s world. I identified with him, was outraged by every injustice he suffered—especially the betrayal of those he’d considered close friends—rejoiced with him when he succeeded, and felt like I was living his life alongside him as I devoured the pages of that book. Till this day, I find myself smiling when I remember Aunt Betsy screeching, “Donkeeees!” or how Mr. Micawber was always sure something would turn up. But don’t get me started on Uriah Heep. I have no fond memories of him!
Looking back, I see how the cruelty David endured at the hands of Mr. Murdstone stayed with me and inspired some of Master Coffyn’s qualities in Deadmarsh Fey, especially his penchant for harsh and often violent discipline against children. And now that I think of it, that fey quality of Miles and Flora so hauntingly delineated in The Turn of the Screw found its way into Deadmarsh, too, coloring certain aspects of Lockie’s character, so even though both books made me cry for very different reasons, they both impacted my writing in their own unique ways.
Did you ever consider writing under a pseudonym?
No, never. I’ve always wanted to be known as the author of my novels, not because I have a thirst for fame—I prefer the focus to be on my stories, not me—but because I worked hard on them. The funny thing is, though, that many readers have thought Melika Dannese Lux is a pseudonym, but I can assure you that’s exactly the name printed on my birth certificate.
Do you try more to be original or to deliver to readers what they want?
I think what readers want is originality. We can all be inspired by the fantasy greats, of course, and I freely admit that Tolkien and Lewis are my literary “fathers,” but to be derivative to the point of copying them is not something I’ve ever wanted to do. I’m a little fanatical when it comes to being original, so much so that when I created the name of my main villain and Otherworld in Deadmarsh Fey, I typed both into Google and Amazon to make certain they hadn’t been used before! I understand that, according to conventional wisdom, you should compare your works to those of other fantasy authors to hook readers, or even get an agent. But that’s the problem with conventional wisdom—it’s conventional, stultifying, and only interested in preserving the status quo, leaving no room for the unexpected, and very dismissive of that which it does not understand or cannot fit into a neatly designed mold. Why can’t a fantasy book stand on its own without having to be compared to anything that’s come before? Isn’t that what people really want, to read something unlike anything they’ve ever read? To get lost in a world they can discover and explore for themselves, make their home in, without being encumbered by any preconceived notions? That would be a wondrous thing, I think, and much more gratifying than reading yet another Game of Thrones clone.
How do you balance making demands on the reader with taking care of the reader?
The philosopher Nicholas Malebranche once said, “Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul.” Laziness of mind is bad enough, but having an unengaged soul makes attentiveness, and really anything else, impossible. This is why I don’t believe asking my readers to fully invest themselves—mind, heart, and soul—into Deadmarsh Fey is being unduly demanding, since I invested my entire being into writing this book. As the author, I see myself as the facilitator, and it is my job, through my storyweaving, to remind my readers that it is incumbent upon them to take care of themselves. I won’t spoon feed you, neither will I string you along, but you should know at the outset that I will not be your Virgil, guiding you through the darkling night. I want my readers to discover things for themselves in this world I have offered to them, a world in which they can lose themselves entirely—a world it is my greatest hope they will make their own. And to achieve this, attentiveness—concentration—is a must, not because Deadmarsh Fey is some labyrinth you need Ariadne’s Thread to find your way out of, but because giving not only my book, but any book, a cursory reading shows not only a lack of respect for the author, but for the reader’s own self, as well. How can you be moved, touched, inspired, if your only objective is to race through a book to finish it as fast as you can? What chance is there for you to experience wonder if you don’t let the story absorb you, if you cut yourself off from allowing the tale to strike a chord in your soul and make your spirit take flight? The opportunity to connect with something beyond you has been neglected, the moment for discovery, expanding your imagination, and knowing yourself deeper, lost when your overriding ambition is how many pages you can read in a day to reach a quota for the year, or some other such arbitrary marker that robs you of the chance to be seized by wonder. It makes the act of reading no act at all, but a passive disengagement that seems completely pointless—and dreadfully hollow.
With every book I have written, but never more so than with Deadmarsh Fey, my goal has been that my readers become active participants in the experience. If this happens, I believe they will feel as if they are sharing in the recreation of the novel and will be able to capture the essence, the atmosphere, in which the work was first written. By becoming a part of the story, they are truly making it into something new and theirs, which is what I want most of all. I want them to lose themselves in a tale that seems fantastical at first, but the deeper they read, the more engaged they become, they realize that the truths in this book mirror the truths in their own lives, that these characters are not so unlike them, and that they, the readers, will miss these kindred souls after the final page is turned. When total immersion occurs, my readers will see Roger and the other characters not as I do, no longer as I’ve described them, but through their own eyes, the images I’ve created meeting the images my words have birthed in their minds, catching fire, and taking flight, burning like a phoenix across their imaginations and hopefully inspiring them to create unexplored worlds of their own, or at least to never be the same after reading this book because it has touched them in some deep and meaningful way and possibly revealed to them their true “home.” That is my wish for everyone who reads Deadmarsh Fey—that they will be open to receiving what the book has in mind for them, and be changed for the better once their journey with my characters comes to an end.
Do you view writing as a kind of spiritual practice?
When you invent something out of nothing, you are, in a sense, sharing in the act of creation. I’m not trying to be blasphemous or presumptuous by saying that, but I truly feel, and have done so for many years, that writing is as close as I come to touching the divine, to brushing up against the world that shimmers just beyond our own. My beloved says that all true art is a spiritual practice, and I agree with him wholeheartedly, as I do with his christening my work dream-sagas, for that is where my original inspiration for Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light came from—in the chaos of a dream that quite frankly was almost a nightmare, a vision of two young girls, sisters, cowering at the end of a corridor in a small cottage on an fog-encircled island, flattening themselves against the wall and scarcely breathing for fear any sound would alert the gargantuan demonic bear snuffling down the hallway, growing ever nearer, to their presence—the bear that was hungering for their blood.
In many ways, I also view writing as a prayer, a reaching up toward my higher self, my angel, if you will, the self I am meant to be but have been separated from here in my exile upon this earth. It’s a constant striving to make sense out of the thoughts in my head, the inspirations, the “why” of life, and to weave them into a tapestry of light and shadow, of good and evil and the grey areas in between where heroes may doubt their valor but choose to fight on nonetheless, often against seemingly insurmountable odds, because they are dedicated to saving that which they hold dear, their world, the people they love and are willing to lay down their lives to defend. That call to fight for something greater than yourself is also very spiritual at its core, and was a vital thread I wove into the fabric of Deadmarsh Fey in ways I had never done with any other book I had written before. In this novel, in this Otherworld, I feel as though I truly am writing what I dream, both literally and in a deeper sense. I have now found my “home,” at least where writing is concerned, the place where I have finally been able to fulfill the maxim that changed my life many years ago: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Sixteen years old, was I, when Gandalf’s wisdom pierced my heart and set me on this trajectory. The journey has been hard, frustrating, and often incredibly lonely, but it has brought me joy, too, never more so than now, and I would not trade the experience for anything in the world, nor, if given the chance to go back and choose differently, would I diverge from this path that was presented to me. I believe in my soul that despite all the obstacles, it was the path I was destined to take…and how things were always meant to be.
I also think that there is something intensely, almost ecstatically, spiritual about being seized by a story, which happened to me when writing Deadmarsh Fey. From a certain point onward, I was no longer in control of this book. My characters quickly and not too subtly disabused me of the notion that I knew what was best, and since I really had no choice in the matter, I let them take over, and Deadmarsh Fey became a much better tale because I got out of my own way. And that is something I would encourage every writer to do, whether you believe our craft is a spiritual practice or not…let your ego go. It is your worst enemy, will shut you down, choke your creativity. You must diminish for inspiration to increase, and only when you do this will your story have the potential to take wing, blaze across the heavens, and transform into something unique and rapturous. Something you and you alone were born to write.
Do you read your book reviews? How do you deal with bad or good ones?
Yes, I do read them. No author likes to receive bad reviews, and at one time, they had a powerfully negative effect on me, but as I’ve gotten older, and grown as a writer, they don’t influence me anymore. I know the value of my work, and nobody’s negative opinion is going to make me doubt it or love it any less, especially people who abandon my book after only reading a fraction of it. Additionally, if somebody is just spewing vitriol, I don’t take it to heart. And if they completely miss the point of the book, I don’t internalize that, either.
I do appreciate good reviews, of course, especially when the reader invests him- or herself into the world I have created—living through my characters, even becoming them for the short while they are in their company—and therefore is able to truly comprehend what I am trying to say instead of simply glossing over details that were not included as filler, words that weren’t written to pad the pages, just to get things over with for whatever reason, as I mentioned above. It’s a very rewarding feeling when a reader “gets” my work, as happened recently with the wonderful Dianne Bylo at Tome Tender. Her review has become my favorite, and the best, of any of my books thus far, not only because it was erudite and well-written, but also because it revealed that Dianne had let herself be seized by Deadmarsh Fey and thereby connected with it in a profound way, which is what I hope the experience will be for everyone who reads this book.
Do you hide any secrets in your books that only a few people will find?
I do, but when it came to Deadmarsh Fey, everything that I hid within its pages was built up and eventually revealed in a rather shocking manner a few chapters from the end of the novel. Even at the eleventh hour—and by that I mean some of the very last scenes of the book—I was still unraveling secrets I had woven throughout the story from the beginning. Nearly all of them found resolution in Deadmarsh Fey, though I did leave a few open ended enough to be explored further in the three successive novels in Dwellers of Darkness, Children of Light. Each one of these secrets, every arc that was created in Deadmarsh Fey to be spooled out into the other books, however, did have a suitable ending when its furtherance of the plot in this tale had served its purpose. This was a conscious choice, because I despise loose ends, and even though I think that in some cases it is fine to be ambiguous—as with The Turn of the Screw—I believe that ambiguity for its own sake, or as an attempt to be “edgy,” ruins the integrity of a story.
In the sequel to Deadmarsh Fey, which I’m working on now, there is a sort of inside joke for most of the novel, but it is revealed at precisely the moment when it counts most and is quite earthshattering. And yet…when readers get to that point, I have a sense they will most likely feel that if they’d just thought about it a bit more, they would have been able to solve this riddle fairly early on. I’m hoping the reaction will include a fist to the forehead and a dramatic exclamation of, “Good gad! How could I have been so blind?!” I’m incredibly eager to interweave this plot point throughout the novel—palming the ace where I can, scattering false clues, then finally lowering the boom and blowing the lid off this secret when the time is right. I confess to taking a little enjoyment in being tricksy like this when crafting my books. All right, it’s more than a little. It’s a LOT! But it makes things tremendously exciting for me, and I hope this excitement will transfer to everyone who reads my novels, this one especially.
What is your favorite childhood book?
The Ivy Cottage by E. J. Taylor. Even though it was very short, and I first read it at the age of four, I still remember the feeling of warmth with which this book enveloped me—as cozy as a sheltering blanket, as soothing as a mug of hot chocolate enjoyed by a roaring fire. The illustrations were entrancing, and I was completely captivated by the idea of living in a cottage in the woods, or one just on the borders of it. After all these years, this is still my dream.
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I am beyond thrilled to share with you today my featured interview for the Fantasy Hive! It’s a fun and wonderful site
I’m so happy to be back at The Fantasy Hive this week, but instead of an interview, one of my most favorite excerpts from Deadmarsh Fey is being featured! Thanks once again go to Laura and the great people at this fantastic site for allowing me to showcase my work.
I hope this excerpt will intrigue and unsettle you, and make you insatiably curious to find out what happens to Roger next!
When wandering through a forest, one expects to see many things. Trees, squirrels, maybe even a bear…
A feast laid out solely for you in the middle of a clearing…
That last one shouldn’t have made the list, you say? Try telling that to Roger Knightley, then, for it is exactly what he stumbled upon while sojourning in the woods behind Deadmarsh.
Here, on this whimsical table, were found treats stuffed to bursting with enough luscious flavors to satisfy the cravings of a boy possessed of a sweet tooth the size of the North York Moors. How could he resist such a temptation? I feel safe in saying most anyone would find it difficult to do so…assuming you could actually seewhat had been set out to entice you. Forgot to mention that small detail. The feast is invisible, unless you look at it through a glass darkly, which, for Roger, means peering through the two halves of a cracked, milky blue moonstone known as The Eye of Arianrhod. Without this, there’d be no hope of piercing the glamour that hangs over such a fey place. But is it a glamour of enchantment?
Or of evil?
I invite you to read on and discover for yourself…
The Feast in the Forest, excerpted from Deadmarsh Fey
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History of the M1 Garand Rifle
by Tim Zurko | May 16, 2017 | News | 2 comments
By Bob Seijas
In 1888, an American named Hiram Maxim invented the machine gun, a wonder of the age: a gun that used the power of the bullet to extract and eject the empty brass casing, feed another bullet into the chamber, recock the hammer, and fire again as long as there was ammunition. All over the world, arms designers scrambled to adapt the auto-loading principle to rifles and pistols. Because of the low power of its small bullet, the pistol was relatively easy, and semi-automatic handguns began to appear five years later. The rifle, however, was much more difficult, because the power of the cartridge was so strong it usually broke the rifle after only a few shots.
WWI taught the Army the value of heavy firepower, and as soon as the war ended in 1918, U.S. Ordnance began to search aggressively for an auto-loading infantry rifle. Over the next ten years, many inventors submitted designs for testing, but none proved acceptable. If they could stand up to the punishment, they were too heavy, and if they were light enough to be portable, they had to be in a small caliber.
One of the more promising designs was submitted by a young, Canadian-born inventor named John Cantius Garand. He was quickly employed by the main U.S. arms factory, Springfield Armory in Massachusetts, to
develop his design further. Although promising, this rifle eventually reached a dead end, and the self-taught Garand set about on a new design. His new rifle derived the power to operate by tapping off the propellant
gases of the fired bullet and using it to cycle the rifle. This design eventually beat out all the competition and was adopted as the standard U.S. infantry rifle in 1936.
Mass production of the M1 Garand began at Springfield Armory in 1937, and the first rifles were delivered to the Army in 1938. Production rates gradually increased and early bugs were worked out in these pre-war years.
In 1940, a second source was enlisted when the Winchester Repeating Arms Company was contracted to manufacture the M1 Garand. The expanding war in Europe and the increasing tensions with Japan increased
the sense of urgency to equip our forces with this modern rifle. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the M1 Rifle became top priority. Both Springfield and Winchester operated around the clock, producing more than 4,00 0,000 M1 rifles by the end of the war in 1945.
The United States was the only country to equip its troops with an auto-loading rifle as the standard infantry weapon of WWII. It gave our troops a tremendous advantage in firepower, and led General George Patton to call the M1 Garand, “The greatest battle implement ever devised.”
After the war, many M1 Garand rifles were mothballed and put into storage. Others were loaned to allies as the Cold War with The Soviet Union heated up. When North Korea attacked South Korea in 1950, M1 rifle production was resumed. Although the primary source remained Springfield Armory, two new manufacturers were contracted: International Harvester Corporation and Harrington & Richardson Arms. Almost 1,500,000 new M1’s were produced in the 1952–1957 period. It was the main United Nations infantry weapon of the Korean War.
In the early 1950’s, U.S. Ordnance began developing a new infantry rifle, one that would have a larger capacity magazine and selective fire capability. That is, it could be fired fully automatically like a machine gun, in
addition to semi-automatically like the Garand. After much trial and error, an updated M1 was adopted in 1957 as the M14 Rifle.
Although the M1 Garand was officially obsolete from that time forward, it remained in service around the world through the Viet Nam era. It was and is truly an amazing rifle, and its inventor John C. Garand ranks among the very best of patriots. A 2008 article in NRA’s American Rifleman magazine rated the M1 Garand the #1 infantry rifle of all time
JustMeHere on January 9, 2018 at 9:08 am
I know, if I had to give up all my firearms but one, my M1 Garand would be that one.
Tom Powers on July 11, 2019 at 5:39 pm
I was introduced to the “M-1” at age fourteen (in 1947) as a cadet at a (High School Level) military academy. I “carried the M-1 as a cadet for four years followed by three years as a Regular Army enlisted man. I came to know it both as a Drill Weapon and as a weapon of war.. (I was attached to the 40th Inf. Div. in Korea during the Korean War)
I learned many things about the M-1 and today (I am now 85 years old) I own one and consider it among my most prized possessions.
What one must realize about the M-1 is that, for the first time in Infantry warfare, the average grunt Rifleman was able to get off eight rounds in “semi-automatic” sequence (without re-bolting) after each round was fired
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Fusion primer and nested integrated PCR (FPNI-PCR): a new high-efficiency strategy for rapid chromosome walking or flanking sequence cloning
Zhen Wang1,
Shafei Ye1,
Jingjing Li1,
Bo Zheng1,
Manzhu Bao1 &
Guogui Ning1
The advent of genomics-based technologies has revolutionized many fields of biological enquiry. However, chromosome walking or flanking sequence cloning is still a necessary and important procedure to determining gene structure. Such methods are used to identify T-DNA insertion sites and so are especially relevant for organisms where large T-DNA insertion libraries have been created, such as rice and Arabidopsis. The currently available methods for flanking sequence cloning, including the popular TAIL-PCR technique, are relatively laborious and slow.
Here, we report a simple and effective fusion primer and nested integrated PCR method (FPNI-PCR) for the identification and cloning of unknown genomic regions flanked known sequences. In brief, a set of universal primers was designed that consisted of various 15-16 base arbitrary degenerate oligonucleotides. These arbitrary degenerate primers were fused to the 3' end of an adaptor oligonucleotide which provided a known sequence without degenerate nucleotides, thereby forming the fusion primers (FPs). These fusion primers are employed in the first step of an integrated nested PCR strategy which defines the overall FPNI-PCR protocol. In order to demonstrate the efficacy of this novel strategy, we have successfully used it to isolate multiple genomic sequences namely, 21 orthologs of genes in various species of Rosaceace, 4 MYB genes of Rosa rugosa, 3 promoters of transcription factors of Petunia hybrida, and 4 flanking sequences of T-DNA insertion sites in transgenic tobacco lines and 6 specific genes from sequenced genome of rice and Arabidopsis.
The successful amplification of target products through FPNI-PCR verified that this novel strategy is an effective, low cost and simple procedure. Furthermore, FPNI-PCR represents a more sensitive, rapid and accurate technique than the established TAIL-PCR and hiTAIL-PCR procedures.
The advent of the genomics era has had a massive impact on almost all fields of biological enquiry. However, it is still necessary to employ chromosome walking and flanking sequence cloning procedures in order to determine full gene structure. Such methods are also required to identify T-DNA insertion sites, and this is particularly relevant for species where large T-DNA insertion libraries exist, eg. rice and Arabidopsis [1–3]. Currently, a number of PCR-based methods are available for these purposes, including random PCR, inverse PCR, panhandle PCR, and cassette PCR. However, each of these methods has drawbacks when considered for wide use in the amplification of target regions. For example, inverse PCR is rarely used for chromosome walking due to problems with the availability of restriction sites in the unknown/known regions, and/or poor circularization of the template molecule [3, 4]. Ligation-mediated PCR has proved to be too inefficient for routine use in flanking sequence identification, with non-specific amplified products accounting for the major proportion of the final PCR products [2, 4, 5].
In recent years, improved methodologies have been developed to address the problems outlined above [3–11]. The most successful of these involve PCR procedures using random primers, notably, the thermal asymmetric interlaced (TAIL)-PCR method. Such methods are relatively low cost and have the advantage of being relatively direct, i.e. there is no requirement for intermediate steps involving restriction enzyme digestion of the DNA template or ligation reactions [3–5]. Consequently, TAIL-PCR has been widely used, notably for the amplification of junction DNA at T-DNA insertion sites [1, 12–14], the rapid isolation of promoter sequences [6], and the cloning of full length functional genes [9, 15]. However, TAIL-PCR is a time consuming procedure that usually involves three rounds of amplification with each round consisting of multiple PCR cycles. The method often produces nonspecific amplification products due to the short arbitrary degenerate (AD) primers and low annealing temperatures, and may also achieve non-efficient amplification of target sequences [2, 4]. Furthermore, conventional TAIL-PCR tends to produce small amplification products [5, 16, 17]. TAIL-PCR has subsequently been adapted, but the improved high-efficiency (hi) TAIL-PCR version still remains time consuming, and is expensive in terms of primer design and synthesis. The hiTAIL-PCR technique also poses a great challenge to the activity of DNA polymerase, and so is frequently associated with inefficient amplification results.
Recently, several alternative methods have emerged to perform chromosome walking or flanking sequence cloning. However, such methods still have the drawback that they are either restriction enzyme-dependent, Phi29 DNA polymerase-dependent, or require a series of template DNA purification steps [2, 6, 17]. Thus, these alternative methods are still laborious and do not display the wide application potential of conventional TAIL-PCR. Therefore, it is highly desirable that further novel methods are developed for rapid and efficient chromosome walking or flanking sequence cloning.
In order to acquire precise flanking fragments rapidly, we have developed a novel efficient method, namely fusion primer and nested integrated-PCR (FPNI-PCR). We believe that this method has the potential to have wide-spread application in genetics and genome walking studies, and is applicable throughout diverse organisms. In order to demonstrate the power of FPNI-PCR, we performed long PCR walking tests on various genomic targets namely, FT, TFL1 and SOC1 orthologs from the Spiraea cantoniensis, Pyracantha fortuneana, Photinia serrulata, Fragaria ananassa, Rosa hybrida, Prunus mume and Prunus yedoensis species of Rosaceace, 4 MYB genes of Rosa rugosa, 3 promoters from MADS-box transcription factors of Petunia hybrida, and 4 flanking sequences of T-DNA insertion sites in Nicotiana. In each case, successful amplification was achieved of the unknown genomic DNA fragments (> 100 kb sequences). In addition, comparison with genomic sequence databanks confirmed that FPNI-PCR successfully amplified various lengths of the flanking regions of 3 members of the wuschel gene family from Arabidopsis, also the flanking regions of the Osft, Osmads1 and Ostuba1 genes from rice, and an archived flanking sequence from the pCAMBIA2300 vector. Furthermore, a comparative analysis with conventional TAIL-PCR indicated that our novel FPNI-PCR method is more flexible, time saving and powerful than TAIL-PCR or hiTAIL-PCR. Thus, FPNI-PCR has high potential for application in identifying tagged sequences, or for genomic walking from known DNA regions toward unknown regions in organisms with a large genome.
Principle of FPNI-PCR
The basic principle of FPNI-PCR is outlined in Figure 1 and 2. The method centers on a series of primers encompassing sequence-specific primers (designed on regions of known DNA sequence), and fusion primers which contain an arbitrary degenerate (AD) section fused to a section of determined sequence (fusion primers). The fusion of a known adaptor of determined sequence to the 5'-end of an AD (or other short site-dependent primer) is the main characteristic of FPNI-PCR (Figure 1a), and it is this trait which differentiates FPNI-PCR from TAIL-PCR (Figure 1b). The FPNI-PCR protocol contains three key steps. In the first step, a large complex mixture of DNA reactions is prepared using 0.4 μL of a gene-specific primer (SP1) designed to the genomic region of known sequence, and 2.0 μL of a combination of nine fusion arbitrary degenerate primers (eg. FP1-9; Table 1); other designed primers for FPNI-PCR are presented in Additional files 1 Tables S1-S5. The details of cycling parameters and PCR conditions used in this study are listed in Table 2. This first step consists of 3-6 repeats of two high stringency cycles followed by a low stringency cycle. Theoretically, single stranded PCR products from the gene-specific primer are generated during the high stringency cycles, and double-stranded products utilizing the FP primers (FPs) are developed during the low stringency cycle. After 3-6 repeated cycles of this PCR regime, it is predicted that the intended target products are partially synthesized and are accompanied by other, nonspecific, products (Figure 2). In the second and third steps, nested PCR is conducted using 1 uL of target-specific primers (SP2/SP3, respectively) and FP-specific primers (FSP1/FSP2, respectively). These steps are high stringency PCR using high annealing temperatures so that target products are selectively amplified. Nonspecific products are not amplified in these steps, in part due to the nested approach with different primers. In addition, the large hairpin structure employed in some nonspecific products also contributes to prevent to further amplification (suppression PCR). Thus, the nonspecific products generated from the first PCR step in FPNI-PCR are not amplified in the second and third steps, and become substantially diluted in the final mix (Figure 2).
Schematic outline of the differences in amplification of target and non-target sequences using FPNI-PCR (a) and TAIL-PCR (b). Black and dotted lines represent the target and non-target regions, respectively. Red lines represent the region of known genomic sequence (or known sequence of T-DNA or transposon elements integrated in the genomic DNA). Each red arrow denotes a specific primer designed from the known nucleotide sequence. A blue/green chimeric arrow denotes the FP primer used in the FPNI-PCR method. Each blue arrow denotes a specific primer designed from the known adaptor sequence.
A general (theoretical) scheme for FPNI-PCR (PCR based method for genomic walking or tagged flanking sequence cloning). In the first PCR step, single stranded copies of the target template are generated in the high stringency cycles, and double stranded products are produced in the low stringency cycle (in total, involving 3-5 repeated PCR cycles); in this primary step, amplification of the target products is likely to be accompanied with other, nonspecific, products. In the secondary and tertiary PCR steps (nested PCR), the target DNA is exponentially amplified by the gene specific and adaptor specific primers, while non-target genes are not amplified because there is no corresponding gene specific primer (and/or amplification was suppressed by the stem-loop structure of the DNA).
Table 1 FP primers (no hair pin structure) and universal primers used in FPNI-PCR.
Table 2 Cycling parameters and PCR conditions for FPNI-PCR.
Parameters in the design and optimization of FPNI-PCR
We compared two types of AD primers. In the basic form, i.e. type I primers, the AD primer was fused to the 3' end of an adaptor of known sequence (Table 1). Type II primers included a hairpin structure at the 5'end of the single-stranded adaptor (Additional files 1, Table S2). We compared the results from such type I and type II primers by testing them in combination with the same gene-specific (SP) primers and under the same cycling parameters. The final results of amplification of the target products indicated no obvious differences between the two primer types, i.e. they presented similar sizes of products on the agarose gels (data not shown). Thus, the hairpin structure at the 5'end of the type II single-stranded adaptors had no apparent impact on amplification of the target. Type III primers describe arbitrarily degenerative primers with 4-6 fixed nucleotides at the 3' end (Additional files 1, Table S3), and these primers were also successfully used to amplify the flanking regions of known fragments, with the various sizes of the product fragments relating to the given fusion primer.
The primary round of PCR in the FPNI-PCR procedure includes an optional low stringency PCR cycle (eg. 94°C for 15 s, 28°C for 1 min, ramping to 72°C over a period of 3 min, 72°C for 2.5 min), to follow the two high stringency PCR cycles (Figure 2). We tested six different annealing temperatures in these low stringency cycles, using SP1 and various FP primers (Table 1), and found an effect on the final products obtained (see Additional file 2, Figure. S1 and Figure 3 for example of products obtained during cloning of the FT ortholog of Fragaria ananassa). However, all of the reactions yielded flanking regions and the patterns of amplified fragments after the secondary round of PCR (Figure 3) exhibited strong similarities despite the differences in annealing temperatures of the first PCR step. In many cases, lower annealing temperatures in the low stringency cycles of the first PCR step yielded fewer amplified products (Figure 3). This influence of annealing temperature of the low stringency cycle was confirmed by repeated experiments for the cloning of various genes and T-DNA insertion loci. However, if the low stringency cycle of the first FPNI-PCR step was entirely omitted, successful amplification of the target product was still achieved (data not shown).
The effect of annealing temperature during the low stringency PCR cycles of the primary PCR step. Illustration of the effect of annealing temperature during the low stringency PCR cycles of the primary PCR step in FT ortholog cloning of Fragaria ananassa using FPNI-PCR (amplified products shown after the tertiary round of PCR). M: molecular marker; number in the lanes: the 1-9 FP primer; number in the bottom right corner: annealing temperature. -: control.
Effectiveness and accuracy of FPNI-PCR
Using the FPNI-PCR approach, we have successfully isolated 21 complete genomic sequences containing the FT, TFL1 and SOC1 gene orthologs from seven Rosaceace species, namely Spiraea cantoniensis, Pyracantha fortuneana, Photinia serrulata, Fragaria ananassa, Rosa hybrida, Prunus mume and Prunus yedoensis. In addition, we have used FPNI-PCR to isolate four MYB genes of Rosa rugosa, three promoters from the MADS-Box transcription factor family of Petunia hybrida, and four T-DNA flanking sequences in transgenic tobacco lines. All of these reactions were conducted using a total of just nine FP primers (FPs), in conjunction with specific primers designed to the conserved/partially known genomic fragments or known T-DNA sequences. Sequences have been deposited in the Genbank library, as shown in Table 3.
Table 3 Submitted genomic DNA sequences (genes) in varied species and T-DNA insertion flanking sequences in transgenic tobacco using FPNI-PCR.
Figure 4 shows examples of the products amplified following the tertiary round of PCR in the FPNI-PCR method. Figure 4 shows the products relating to cloning of the FT-Like gene of Rosa rugosa. Figure 4b and 3c show the products arising during the cloning of T-DNA flanking sequences using forward and reverse sequence-specific primers, respectively, in three different transgenic tobacco plants and using various FPs. In addition, based on known genomic sequence fragments, we used FPNI-PCR to amplify the various lengths of products from the expected flanking regions of 3 different members of the wuschel gene family of Arabidopsis (Additional file 2, Figure. S2a), and sequence from the flanking regions of Osft, Osmads1 and Ostuba1 genes of rice (Additional file 2, Figure. S2b). Even for the small DNA molecular size of the pCAMBIA2300 vector, the flanking DNA fragment was amplified successfully using FPNI-PCR (data not shown).
Amplified products after the tertiary round of PCR in genomic walking and T-DNA flanking sequence cloning using FPNI-PCR. (a) Cloning of the FT-Like gene of Rosa rugosa using 3 gene-specific and 1-8 FP primers. (b) T-DNA flanking sequence cloning in three transgenic tobacco individual plants using forward primers corresponding to the known T-DNA border; various fragment sizes were obtained from the use of different FP primers (1-9) in the three tested tobacco plants. (c) T-DNA flanking sequence cloning using backward primers. Only target specific fragments were amplified by using an appropriate annealing temperature during the low stringency cycles of the first PCR step (similar T-DNA sequences were present in each of the tested transgenic tobacco plants). Note: M: molecular marker; number: 1-9 FP primers; -: control.
Comparative experiments using the same specific primers showed that, in most cases (data not shown), longer products could be obtained by FPNI-PCR than by TAIL-PCR (Figure 5a and 5b). Furthermore, FPNI-PCR was found to be more reliable as a method of amplifying target genes and unknown flanking sequences. Thus, in a comparative test using several appropriate AD primers, TAIL-PCR frequently failed to amplify the predicted DNA fragment. Figure 5a shows the results of TAIL-PCR in the cloning of the FT ortholog from Pyracantha fortuneana using 3 gene-specific primers and the FP1-9 arbitrary degenerate primers. In this experiment, a 510 bp fragment was obtained from TAIL-PCR with just one (i.e. the fourth) AD primer. By contrast, Figure 5b shows the products generated by FPNI-PCR using the same primers for the same genome walking experiment. Here, four of the FPNI-PCR reactions amplified specific fragments, and the longest fragment was ca. 1.7 kp. Genomic walking for the SOC1-like gene in Pyracantha fortuneana provided another situation in which we encountered "off-target" results using TAIL-PCR, whereas, using the FPNI-PCR method we obtained two specific fragments of 2068 bp and 683 bp (Figure 5c and 5d). Sequence analysis of 102 amplified DNA fragments resulting from the FPNI-PCR technique showed that they corresponded with 100% accuracy to the target products.
Comparison of PCR amplification products generated in typical genomic walking experiments using TAIL-PCR and FPNI-PCR methods, respectively. (A) Products generated by 3 gene-specific primers and 1-9 arbitrary degenerate primers in FT ortholog cloning of Pyracantha fortuneana using TAIL-PCR; a 510 bp fragment was obtained using the fourth AD primer, only. (B) Products generated by the same 3 gene-specific and 1-9 FP primers in FT ortholog cloning of Pyracantha fortuneana using FPNI-PCR; four specific fragments were amplified by FPNI-PCR and the longest fragment was ca. 1.7 kp. (C) Products generated by 3 gene-specific and 1-9 arbitrary degenerate (AD) primers in SOC1 ortholog cloning of Pyracantha fortuneana using TAIL-PCR. (D) Products generated by 3 gene-specific and 1-9 FP primers in SOC1 ortholog cloning of Pyracantha fortuneana using FPNI-PCR. Note: M: molecular marker; number: 1-9 arbitrary degenerate primers (FPs); -: control.
Efficiency of FPNI-PCR
FPNI-PCR facilitates the rapid identification of target genomic sequences by permitting the use of short-cuts for a number of the steps between tissue isolation and target product sequencing, thereby reducing the input of time and effort compared to other current methods of flanking sequence cloning. For example, FPNI-PCR can be employed to generate target genomic products when cell lysates are used to supply the DNA templates (Figure 4). For this procedure, we extracted cell lysates from the young leaves of transgenic tobacco, petunia hybrida and Rosa hybrida using the rapid NaOH extraction method. We found no difference in the success of target product amplification from these cell lysates compared to that from the higher quality DNA templates as purified by the CTAB method. In addition, we found no differences between the results of direct sequencing of the FPNI-PCR products compared to indirect sequencing of the cloned products within the PMD18-T vector. FPNI-PCR has the advantage that, after the first step (12-15 cycles), we can proceed to the second step directly, without requiring the prior dilution of the products from the first PCR step. When using such practices, we commonly achieved > 85% positive cloning of target products following the secondary PCR reaction. Thus, we were able to amplify target products using just 42-45 PCR cycles, and this was completed in less than 3 hours from the start of tissue extraction. When proceeding through the third PCR and final sequencing steps, FPNI-PCR was found to provide 100% positive results in our working tests of genomic cloning. In total, the procedure was completed in just 54-57 cycles, taking less than 4 hours.
FPNI-PCR involves a novel strategy of amplification
The FPNI-PCR strategy is based on the following technical points. (1) The arbitrary degenerate oligonucleotides forming the 3' section of the FP primers (FPs) have been designed with the intention of maximizing the level of similarity with common genomic oligo sequences throughout the various taxa. (2) During the first PCR step, the 3'-ends of the oligos forming the arbitrary degenerate portions of the FPs (which also include several fixed bases at the 3'-end) need to pair effectively with selected sites of high similarity in the single-stranded DNA template. A lower annealing temperature may be used to increase mismatch sites and, thereby, enlarge the universality of the designed fusion primers. Between 1 and 6 cycles in the first PCR step are used to ensure that the desired target products are present within the amplified mix. (3) In the secondary and tertiary PCR steps, the target DNA should be exponentially amplified via high stringency cycles, while non-target products are not amplified by the gene-specific and FP-specific primer pairs. Off-target amplification may also be suppressed by the stem-loop structure of nonspecific DNA products. The use of high stringency PCR cycles encourages the efficient and specific amplification of the target products, while off-target PCR products are progressively diluted. This aspect of the FPNI-PCR strategy represents a key difference from the TAIL-PCR method developed by Liu and Whittier [1]. TAIL-PCR employs multiple low stringency annealing cycles and, thus, nonspecific products are readily amplified. In TAIL-PCR, enrichment of the target products relies upon the difference in amplification velocity between the target and non-target products. Thus, the TAIL-PCR protocol involves two rounds of laborious DNA dilutions and numerous (approx. 110) cycles of PCR [1]. An improved method, named hiTAIL-PCR, similarly involves two rounds of laborious DNA dilutions and multiple low and high stringency PCR cycles, thereby still providing opportunities for nonspecific product amplification [3]. In addition, hiTAIL-PCR is uneconomical in terms of primer design, with the secondary gene-specific primers requiring the addition of > 20 nucleotides [3].
FPNI-PCR represents a very powerful tool in genomic walking and flanking sequence cloning
TAIL-PCR has been widely used for genome walking and flanking sequence cloning in plants and other organisms. Commonly, however, specific products appear in the second round of PCR only to disappear during the third round of PCR [17]. Liu and Chen reported that just 60% of reactions yielded specific products [3]. Our own tests of the TAIL-PCR method found that, on some occasions, no product was observed even after three rounds of PCR. Generally, smaller and fewer products were generated by TAIL-PCR as compared to the corresponding reactions using FPNI-PCR (Figure 5).
For inverse and ligation-mediated PCR-based genome-walking methods, successful amplification of target products relies on the restriction fragmentation of genomic DNA. When employing such techniques, we also encountered some "off-target" situations, possibly due to the location of the available restriction sites relative to the locus-specific primer [6]. By contrast, repeated tests of the FPNI-PCR method using the nine given FP primers revealed no "off-target" cases, and more than 80% of FPNI-PCR reactions yielded DNA fragments larger than 1.0 kb. Thus, our results indicate that FPNI-PCR is a more powerful technique for genomic walking and flanking sequence cloning studies. In addition, the FPNI-PCR method makes it feasible to amplify large sections of specific DNA fragments. This can be achieved through the control of annealing temperatures during the low stringency cycles of the first PCR step. The control of this parameter can also be used to avoid the cloning of "off target" flanking sequences.
FPNI-PCR is a simple and rapid method of genomic walking and flanking sequence cloning
Methods involving inverse PCR and ligation-mediated PCR techniques suffer from the requirement for complicated manipulations, such as restriction cleavage, ligation, or tailing before PCR amplification [6, 7, 9]. Consequently, the use of such methods to successfully amplify and clone the target product usually requires a time-scale exceeding one working day. Similarly, the successful application of TAIL-PCR or hiTAIL-PCR methods is also time-consuming, with the time taken to perform the necessary number of PCR cycles (approx. 110) requiring a full working day (and this is even before the time taken to perform the various dilution steps is considered) [1, 3]. Using FPNI-PCR, a total about 42-45 cycles (requiring less than two hours) can be adequate to produce a good rate of success in target product amplification and, in our hands, a total of 54-57 cycles (completed in less than 4 hours) ensured a successful result in 100% of cases. Both TAIL-PCR and FPNI-PCR methods demand only extremely modest levels of quantity and purity of the template DNA, thus, they can work well with both cell lysates and crude DNA extracts. Using FPNI-PCR, however, we were able to choose a wider range of annealing temperatures during the low stringency cycles of the first PCR step, thereby extending the scope of target product that could be successfully amplified. The currently widely used Genome Walker Kit from Clontech employs restriction enzyme cleavage of DNA and adaptor-ligated genomic DNA construction, and also involves a nested PCR strategy. The procedures of integrated restriction cleavage, ligation and tailing make the Genome Walker Kit a substantially more complicated and time-consuming process than the first PCR step of FPNI-PCR. Thus, we believe that in comparison to the other reported methods of genomic walking and flanking sequence cloning [[3, 15, 18, 19], and references as above], FPNI-PCR is technically less demanding and is more time-efficient.
FPNI-PCR is highly effective and accurate
We conducted 60 rounds of FPNI-PCR reactions using the nine given FP primers, and in each case we successfully amplified products and experienced no "off-target" results. This contrasts to the experiences when employing ligation-dependent PCR methods, when it is often a problem to find available restriction sites and obtain ligation products [16]. In addition, sequence analysis of 102 amplification products from FPNI-PCR indicated that the accuracy of positive cloning in our experiments was 100%. By comparison, 60-80% of reactions yielded specific products according to the original TAIL-PCR technical report [1], and a success rate of 93% was recorded for the improved hiTAIL-PCR procedure [3]. Thus, we conclude that FPNI-PCR shows a substantially higher level of effectiveness than the established TAIL-PCR procedures. We suggest that the high rate of positive amplification results, at least partially, from the high stringency PCR cycles in the second and third PCR stages of the FPNI-PCR protocol.
To date, TAIL-PCR has been widely used for genome walking and flanking sequence cloning in molecular biology research, but it is still laborious and time-consuming. Recently, several alternative methods have been introduced [2, 6, 17], including the Genome Walker Kit from Clontech, but these methods still involve the use of restriction enzyme-mediated digestion, Phi29 DNA polymerase-mediated amplification, and a series of template DNA purification steps. Here, we report a simple and effective PCR method namely, fusion primer and nested integrated PCR (FPNI-PCR). This method is based on the use of arbitrary degenerate nucleotides reflecting natural restriction sites or site-dependent nucleotides in the genomic DNA to design universal primers. These FP primers are used to conduct the first round of PCR, which is followed by two to three rounds of nested PCR. We undertook a large number of experiments using FPNI-PCR in order to robustly demonstrate that this novel method has the capability to be more powerful, effective and accurate than the established TAIL-PCR method. Furthermore, the FPNI-PCR method is completed in a shorter time-scale than other widely-used genome-walking techniques, and is significantly less technically complex to perform.
Genomic DNA of seven Rosaceace species, namely, Pyracantha fortuneana, Prunus mume, Photinia serrulata L., Prunus persica, Spiraea cantoniensis L., Rosachinensis and Fragaria × ananassa, was extracted from young leaves according to the procedure of Yang et al [20]. In addition, genomic DNA of tobacco, Petunia hybrida, Arabidopsis and rice was isolated from young leaves according to the NaOH fast extraction method, as reported previously [21].
Oligonucleotide primers
All sequence specific primers were designed using Primer5 software (see Additional files 1, Table S4), and annealing (Tm) temperatures ranged from 60°C to 72°C. For the design of the arbitrary degenerate primers (ADs), AD sequences were either collected from the existing literature or were designed by us (Additional files 1, Table S1). The AD oligos were fused to the 3' end of an adaptor oligo which supplied a known sequence of 31 fixed (i.e. non-degenerate) nucleotides, thereby forming the fusion primers (FPs). The simplest form of these FPs is termed type I primers (Table 1). Type II primers are designed to include a hairpin structure within the 5' end of the single-stranded adaptor regions (Additional files 1, Table S2). Type III primers are arbitrary degenerative primers that contain just 4-6 fixed nucleotides at the 3' end (Additional files 1, Table S3). Figure 1a illustrates the schematic relationship between the sequence-specific and arbitrary degenerate primers with the target genomic sequence or flanking sequence of a T-DNA insertion. All primers used in this study were synthesized by Invitrogen Co. Limit, and are summarized in Table 1 and Additional files 1, Tables S1-S5. The annealing (Tm) temperatures of the arbitrary degenerate primers (ADP) used in this study ranged between 36°C and 48°C. Tm values were estimated by using the formula: Tm = 81.5 + 16.6 × Log10[Na+] + 0.41 (%GC) - 600/total number of nucleotides.
PCR conditions, procedures and gel analysis methods
All FPNI-PCR procedures were arranged in three stages. The first stage involved a PCR step which was performed in a total volume of 20 μL, and contained 1-2 μL of the DNA products (i.e. 2 μL DNA extraction solution from the NaOH fast extraction method), 0.2 μM gene-specific primers (SP1), 1.0 μM fusion arbitrary degenerate primers and 1 U rTaq (Takara). Between 9-18 PCR cycles were performed using annealing temperatures ranging between 28°C and 52°C (full details of the conditions used are given in Table 2). In the second and third PCR stages, gene-specific primers (SP2 and SP3) and adaptor-specific primers (FSP1 and FSP2) were used in place of the SP1 and fusion arbitrary degenerate primers, respectively; the schematic arrangement of these primer pairs with respect to the target genomic DNA is illustrated in Figure 2a. Due to the exact primer-template match for the primer pairs used in the second and third PCR steps, high stringency cycles were employed in these two latter stages (details shown in Table 2). For the second PCR step, a 1.0 μL aliquot of the first PCR product pool was used as the template. Following this second round of selective amplification, the secondary PCR products were diluted 50-fold with MQ water and 1 μL of the dilution was added as template to 20 μL volumes of the tertiary PCR mixtures. For visualisation of the products amplified following the second or third FPNI-PCR steps, a 5-8 μL aliquot was separated by electrophoresis in a 1.5% agarose TAE gel, then stained with ethidium bromide and observed under a UV illumination system.
For direct sequencing, the remaining 12-15 μL of PCR products were purified through a Sephadex G-50 column and subjected to sequencing procedures using SP3 primers designed to known sections of the target sequence, or FSP2 primers designed according to the original FP primers. For indirect sequencing, bands corresponding to the largest products were excised from the agarose gels, purified and cloned into a pMD18-T TA cloning vector (TaKaRa), and then sequenced with M13 forward or reverse primers.
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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 30800761) and the International Foundation for Science (Grant No.D/4349-1). We thank Dr. Alex McCormac (Mambo-Tox Ltd., UK) for critical editing of the manuscript.
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Additional file 1: Tables for listing different used primers. Table S1. AD primer (arbitrary degenerate primers) and universal primers used in this study. Table S2. FP primers (exhibiting restriction site) and the corresponding universal primers used in FPNI-PCR. Table S3. FP primers (exhibiting hair pin structure) and the corresponding universal primers used in FPNI-PCR. Table S4. Gene specific primers used to generate the electrophoresis patterns presented in this paper. Table S5: Gene specific primers used to generate the electrophoresis patterns presented when conducting genomic walking in Arabidopsis and rice. (PDF 72 KB)
Additional file 2: Supporting figures employed in main text. Figure S1. Illustration of the effect of annealing temperature during the low stringency PCR cycles in the primary PCR step in FT ortholog cloning of Fragaria ananassa using FPNI-PCR (amplified products after the secondary round of PCR). M: molecular marker; number in the lanes: 1-9 FP primer; number in the bottom right corner: annealing temperature. -: control. Figure S2. Amplified products after the tertiary round of PCR in genomic walking and T-DNA flanking sequence cloning using FPNI-PCR for the 3 genes of wuschel family from Arabidopsis (a), and Osft, Osmads1 and Ostuba1 genes from rice (b) (FP primer indicated by number in photos). (PDF 524 KB)
Wang, Z., Ye, S., Li, J. et al. Fusion primer and nested integrated PCR (FPNI-PCR): a new high-efficiency strategy for rapid chromosome walking or flanking sequence cloning. BMC Biotechnol 11, 109 (2011) doi:10.1186/1472-6750-11-109
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Lactobacillus acidophilus ameliorates H. pylori-induced gastric inflammation by inactivating the Smad7 and NFκB pathways
Yao-Jong Yang1,4,
Ching-Chun Chuang4,
Hsiao-Bai Yang2,5,
Cheng-Chan Lu2 &
Bor-Shyang Sheu4,3
BMC Microbiology volume 12, Article number: 38 (2012) Cite this article
H. pylori infection may trigger Smad7 and NFκB expression in the stomach, whereas probiotics promote gastrointestinal health and improve intestinal inflammation caused by pathogens. This study examines if probiotics can improve H. pylori-induced gastric inflammation by inactivating the Smad7 and NFκB pathways.
Challenge with H. pylori increased IL-8 and TNF-α expressions but not TGF-β1 in MKN45 cells. The RNA levels of Smad7 in AGS cells increased after H. pylori infection in a dose-dependent manner. A higher dose (MOI 100) of L. acidophilus pre-treatment attenuated the H. pylori-induced IL-8 expressions, but not TGF-β1. Such anti-inflammatory effect was mediated via increased cytoplasmic IκBα and depletion of nuclear NFκB. L. acidophilus also inhibited H. pylori-induced Smad7 transcription by inactivating the Jak1 and Stat1 pathways, which might activate the TGF-β1/Smad pathway. L. acidophilus pre-treatment ameliorated IFN-γ-induced Smad7 translation level and subsequently reduced nuclear NF-κB production, as detected by western blotting.
H. pylori infection induces Smad7, NFκB, IL-8, and TNF-α production in vitro. Higher doses of L. acidophilus pre-treatment reduce H. pylori-induced inflammation through the inactivation of the Smad7 and NFκB pathways.
Helicobacter pylori infection is considered a major factor inducing chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, and even gastric cancer in humans [1–3]. In mice and human studies, the gastric mucosa of H. pylori-infected subjects show up-regulated NF-κB pathway and Th1 type cytokine responses [4–9], which may disturb the integrity of the gut epithelial barrier [10]. Accordingly, the inactivation of the NF-κB pathway and its downstream immune cascades may be helpful in preventing serious H. pylori-induced complications.
Probiotics are known to inhibit enteric pathogens likes Salmonella, Shigella, and Citrobacter rodentium in both in vitro and animal models [11–13]. Their potential clinical benefits in preventing or resolving gastrointestinal diseases have been emphasized [14, 15]. There are several mechanisms through which they provide gut protection, including decreasing the luminal pH value by producing lactic acid [16, 17] or by competing with gut pathogens for host surface receptors [18].
Nonetheless, Coconnier et al. have shown that probiotics may inhibit H. pylori growth independent of pH and lactic acid levels [19] while Tien et al. report that Lactobacillus casei may down-regulate Shigella flexneri-induced pro-inflammatory cytokines, chemokines, and adherence molecules by inhibiting the NF-κB pathway [12]. Another critical mechanism involving probiotics relates to changes in host immune responses to infection via reduced TNF-α and IL-8 but increased IL-10 [20, 21]. Regarding the brief contact between the flora of probiotics and the gastric epithelium, an intake of probiotics by H. pylori-infected patients has anti-inflammation benefits resulting from a change in host immune responses.
Transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 negatively regulates Th1 cell such that TGF-β1/deficient mice spontaneously develop gastritis [22, 23]. It is well accepted that the TGF-β1 signaling pathway is positively regulated by receptor-associated Smad 2/3, but negatively by Smad7 [24, 25]. H. pylori infection is reportedly associated with increased expression of gastric Smad7, but controversial results in TGF-β1 levels [26, 27]. These suggest that the TGF-β1/Smad signaling pathway plays an important role in gut inflammation. However, the exact mechanism of probiotics reducing H. pylori-induced gastric inflammation remains unclear. Thus, this study aimed to examine whether probiotics could regulate the Smad- and NFκB-mediated signaling pathways to reduce the down-stream inflammatory cytokine production after H. pylori infection.
Cell lines and culture condition
This study was approved by the Ethical Committee of National Cheng Kung University Hospital (ER-98-208). Two human gastric epithelial cancer cell lines (MKN45 and AGS) were obtained from the Health Science Research Resources Bank in Japan and maintained in RPMI 1,640 medium (GIBCO BRL, Grand Island, NY) and F-12 medium (GIBCO BRL, Grand Island, NY) containing 10% FBS at 37°C in a humidified atmosphere (95%) with 5% CO2. The cells were sub-cultured every second day. Prior to the bacterial infection study, the cells were incubated in antibiotic-free RPMI 1,640 medium containing 10% FBS overnight at 37°C in 5% CO2.
Bacteria and culture condition
Bacterial strain (HP238) isolated from a clinical patient was used. The HP238 expressed CagA, VacA, and BabA proteins in previous studies [28, 29]. The bacteria were maintained on a Brucella agar plate containing 10% horse serum and incubated under micro-aerophilic conditions (10% CO2, 5% O2 and 85% N2) for 24-48 hours. The bacteria were then transferred to PBS before infecting the cells. Growth density was measured spectrophotometrically at 600 nm. The infectious dose of bacteria was 1 × 108 bacteria/ml at an OD of 1.
The MKN45 cells were infected with a multiplicity of infection (MOI) 1-100 for various time periods. A probiotic strain, one contained in AB-yogurt, Lactobacillus acidophilus (LA5®, originated from the Chr. Hansen, Denmark, provided by the President Corp., Tainan, Taiwan) was used. The bacteria were maintained on a Brucella agar, incubated in anaerobic conditions, and then harvested and suspended in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) before infection. The viable density of L. acidophilus was 1 × 108 bacteria/ml at an OD of 1.
MKN45 cells viability after exposure to H. pylori and L. acidophilus
The cytotoxicity of MKN45 cell exposure to H. pylori and L. acidophilus was determined by percentage of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) leakage (Cytotoxicity Assay, Promega Co., Madison, WI, USA) and by assessing viable cell counts using non-stained trypan blue. The culture supernatant and remaining MKN45 cells were collected after incubation with variable doses (MOI 1-1000) of L. acidophilus and H. pylori (MOI 100) for 8 and 4 hours, respectively. Cell cultures without bacterial infection served as controls. The procedures were performed according to the instruction manuals and post-infection cells with non-stained trypan blue staining were directly counted.
Enzyme-linked immuno-sorbent assay (ELISA) for cytokines
To determine the optimal dose and incubation time of various bacteria, bacteria (H. pylori and L. acidophilus) were cultured with MKN45 cells (MOI 1-100) in an antibiotic-free RPMI 1,640 medium (5 ml) containing 10% FBS at 35°C in micro-aerophilic conditions for up to 8 hours. In the experimental study, L. acidophilus were added to MKN45 cells and incubated for 8 hours under the same conditions. After PBS washing and removal of the bacilli, an equal volume of H. pylori was added and the cells were incubated for another 4 hours. The final culture supernatant was centrifuged at 12,000 rpm for 5 min to remove bacteria and cell debris. Concentrations of TNF-α, IL-8 (R & D System, Minneapolis, MN), and TGF-β1 (eBioscience, San Diego, CA) were measured by ELISA according to the manufacturer's instructions. The absorbance of each micro-plate was read on a spectro-photometer using 450 nm as the primary wave length and 570 nm as the reference wave length. All tests were done in triplicate.
Preparation of cytoplasmic and nuclear extracts
The MKN45 and AGS cells were pre-treated with L. acidophilus for 8 hours followed by various doses of H. pylori for 1 hour; then cytoplasmic and nuclear extracts were isolated by a Nuclear Extract Kit (Active Motif, Japan). Briefly, cells were washed with ice-cold saline containing phosphatase inhibitors and pelleted. The cell pellets were then re-suspended in a hypotonic buffer and incubated for 15 min on ice. They were lysed by the addition of detergent and vortexed vigorously for 10 s. After the nuclei were pelleted and re-suspended in complete lysis buffer, the tube was vigorously shaken at 4°C for 30 min on a shaking platform. The nuclear extracts were then centrifuged and the supernatants were aliquoted and stored at -80°C.
RT-PCR for cytoplasmic Smad7
Total RNA was isolated from MKN45 cells using a commercial kit (ImProm-ll™ Reverse Transcription System, Promega, USA) after H. pylori and L. acidophilus incubation. The RNA was quantified by determining absorbance at 260 nm. One μg RNA was converted to cDNA, which was stored at -72°C until use. The human Smad7 primer sequences were forward 5'-CATCACCTTAGCCGACTCTG-3' and reverse 5'GTCTTCTCCTCCCAGTATGC-3', generating a 224 bp fragment [30]. For Jak1 and Stat1, the primer sequences were forward 5'-GCAGCCAGCATGATGAGA-3' and 5'-GTGGACGAGGTTTTGTAAGGA-3' and reverse 5'-CTCGGAAGAAAGGCCTCTG-3' and 5'-CAGACACAGAAATCAACTC-3', generating fragments of 607 bp and 518 bp, respectively [31, 32]. The PCR condition was as follows; 95°C for 5 min, followed by 25 cycle of 95°C for 1 min, 56°C for 1 min, and 72°C for 1 min, and finally 72°C for 7 min. The primer sequences for human β-actin was forward 5'-GTCTTCCCCTCCATCGTG-3' and reverse 5'-GTCATCTTCTCGCGGTTG-3', generating a 272 bp fragment. The amplification conditions were as follows: 95°C for 5 min, then a 20 cycle of 95°C for 1 min, 50°C for 1 min, 72°C for 1 min, and 72°C for 7 min.
Western blotting for NF-κB, IκB-α and Smad7
Interferon gamma (IFN-γ) (PeproTech Inc., NJ, USA) 50 μl (100 ng/ml) was added to each dish in the experimental studies. The cytoplasmic and nuclear extracts were washed with ice-cold PBS and lysed in a 0.5 ml/well lysis buffer (150 mmol/l NaCl, 20 mmol/l Tris, pH 7.5, 0.1% Triton X-100, 1 mmol/l phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride [PMSF] and 10 μg/ml aprotonin) as modified from the reports of Kim et al. and Moon et al. [33, 34]. Protein concentrations in the lysates were determined using the Pierce BCA Protein Assay Kit (Thermo scientific, USA). Protein/lane 10 μg was then size-fractionated into a denaturing, non-reducing 10% polyacrylamide minigel and electrophoretically transferred to polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) (0.45-μm pore size) (Millpore Corparation, USA).
Specific proteins were detected using rabbit antihuman NF-κB p65, rabbit anti-human IκB-α (1:1000, Cell Signaling, Boston, MA, USA), and mouse anti-human Smad7 (1:500, R&D System, USA, MN) as primary antibodies, and peroxidase-conjugated anti-rabbit IgG, anti-mouse IgG (1:10000) as a secondary antibody. Specifically bound peroxidase was detected by Chemiluminescent HRP Substrate (ECL system, Millpore Corparation, USA) and then exposed to x-ray (GE Healthcare, UK) for 10-30 s.
The Student's t test and paired t test were used, as appropriate, for parametric differences. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Bonferroni's correction was applied for the multiple testing of data. The Mann-Whitney U test was used for the difference between non-parametric data while Pearson's χ2 test was used for non-parametric proportion difference. All tests were two-tailed and a P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Cell viability after incubation with H. pylori and L. acidophilus
The cytotoxicity and viability of MKN45 cells incubated with H. pylori (MOI 100) and L. acidophilus (MOI 1-1000) were determined by assessing the percentage leakage of LDH and non-stained trypan blue at the 4th and 8th hours, respectively (Table 1). Plasma membrane damage assessed by the percentage of LDH leakage from MKN45 after H. pylori incubation (18.1%) was not different to those of control cells (18.0%). Moreover, the viable cell count calculated by non-stained trypan blue did not markedly decrease. When L. acidophilus was incubated with MKN45 cells for 8 hours, the cytotoxicity and viable cell count at MOI 1-100 were not significantly affected. However, LDH leakage and cell death slightly increased as incubation with MOI 1,000 for 8 hours. Therefore, the optimal dose of bacteria used for the experimental study was limited to MOI 100.
Table 1 Cell cytotoxicity and viable cell counts of MKN45 after co-incubation with H. pylori and L. acidophilus determined by the percentage of LDH leakage (in triplicate) and non-stained trypan blue (single)
H. pylori stimulated IL-8 and TNF-α but not TGF-β1 production in vitro
In MKN45 cells incubated with H. pylori (MOI 100) at various time periods, the IL-8 level increased from the 4th to the 8th hour after co-incubation, as determined by ELISA (Figure 1A). For TNF-α, the post-incubation level rose after the 4th hour and maintained a plateau until the 8th hour (Figure 1B). However, the TGF-β1 level did not increase after H. pylori incubation for 4 hours (data not shown).
(A) IL-8 and (B) TNF-α concentrations in the supernatant of MKN45 cells culture after variable duration of H. pylori and L. acidophilus infection (MOI = 100). Data were expressed as means ± standard deviation (SD) (in triplicate).
In contrast, L. acidophilus did not induce IL-8, TNF-α, and TGF-β1 expressions of MKN45 at least within the 8-hour co-incubation period.
Pre-treatment of L. acidophilus attenuated H. pylori-induced IL-8
Because the IL-8 level of MKN45 cells could be induced by H. pylori challenge for 4 hours, the time- and dose-dependent effects of probiotics in reducing pro-inflammatory cytokines and TGF-β1 on the 4th hour were studied. The IL-8 and TGF-β1 concentrations were shown for MKN cells challenged by H. pylori and with variable doses of L. acidophilus pretreatment for 8 hours (Figure 2). Compared to the control group, L. acidophilus pre-treatment with higher bacterial colony count (MOI 100) reduced H. pylori-induced IL-8 expressions in MKN45 cells (P < 0.05). The TGF-β1 level did not change (P > 0.05).
The concentrations of IL-8 (blank column) and TGF-β1 (black column) in the supernatant of MKN45 cells pre-treated with different MOI (0: control; 1: 1 × 106 c.f.u.; 10: 1 × 107 c.f.u.; 100: 1 × 108 c.f.u.) of L. acidophilus. The cells were washed thrice with PBS to remove the L. acidophilus and then infected with H. pylori (MOI = 100) for 4 hours. Data are expressed as means ± SD (in triplicate). Statistical analysis was performed in each measurement with comparisons to the controls (cells treated H. pylori only; IL-8 2034 ± 865 pg/ml and TGF-β1 587.2 ± 39.8 pg/ml) (*P < 0.05).
L. acidophilus reduced H. pylori-induced NF-κB by increasing IκBα
The study determined that MKN45 cells (MOI 100) incubated with H. pylori led to a peak increase of nuclear NF-κB production within one hour. Thus, nuclear NF-κB levels of MKN45 cells co-incubated with H. pylori, after prior pre-treatments by various MOIs (1-100) of L. acidophilus were tested for anti-inflammatory effects of probiotics. Pre-treatment of L. acidophilus increased cytoplasmic IκBα but decreased the nuclear NF-κB levels induced by H. pylori in a dose-dependent manner (Figure 3). Because IκBα level could be mediated by activating the TGF-β1/Smad signaling pathway, the role Smad7 played in L. acidophilus restoring TGF-β1/Smad activity after H. pylori challenge was tested.
The IκBα and NFκB expressions after various doses of L. acidophilus pretreatment for 8 hours followed by H. pylori co-incubation for 1 hour. N, MKN45 cell only; P, H. pylori, 1 × 108 c.f.u. treatment for 1 hour; MOI 1, pre-treatment with L. acidophilus 1 × 106 c.f.u. for 8 hours followed by H. pylori treatment for 1 hour; MOI 10, L. acidophilus 1 × 107 c.f.u. followed by H. pylori treatment for 1 hour; MOI 100, L. acidophilus 1 × 108 c.f.u. followed by H. pylori treatment for 1 hour (*P < 0.05).
L. acidophilus inhibited H. pylori-and IFN-γ-induced Smad7 expression
The Figure 4A shows that pre-treatment with high-dose L. acidophilus (MOI 100) for 8 h prevented H. pylori-induced Smad7 production by semi-quantitative RT-PCT. Compared to positive controls (AGS cells co-incubated with H. pylori at MOI 100), L. acidophilus pretreatment as high as MOI 100 significantly reduced the H. pylori-induced Smad7 production at the RNA level (P < 0.05) via inactivation of Jak1 and Stat1 transcriptions. L. acidophilus pre-treatment also inhibited the expression of IFN-γ-induced Smad7 protein (P < 0.05) in vitro, with a subsequent increase in cytoplasmic IκBα (P < 0.01) and a decrease in nuclear NF-κB (P < 0.01) (Figure 4B).
Pre-treatment of L. acidophilus significantly reduced JAK1 (MOI 1-100), STAT1 (MOI 10-100), and SMAD7, and subsequent NFκB production after (A) H. pylori and (B) IFN-γ treatment. N, AGS cell only; P, H. pylori, MOI = 100 (A, black column) and 100 ng/ml IFN-γ (B, black column) treatment for 0.5 hour; MOI 1, 10, and 100 meant pre-treatment with L. acidophilus 1 × 106, 1 × 107, 1 × 108 c.f.u. for 8 hours, respectively, followed by H. pylori treatment for 0.5 hour (* P < 0.05; ** P < 0.01).
Human immunity plays an important role in the development of more serious clinical diseases after H. pylori infection because of increased pro-inflammatory cytokine expressions on the patients' gastric mucosa [6, 8]. H. pylori infection can activate NF-κB in gastric epithelium cells and subsequently up-regulate IL-8 gene transcription [4]. Consistent with previous human studies [6–9], the present study reveals that H. pylori infection can induce TNF-α and IL-8 pro-inflammatory cytokine expressions in vitro. In agreement with the animal study reported by McCarthy et al. [35], the present study illustrates that yogurt-containing probiotics, L. acidophilus does not stimulate pro-inflammatory cytokines after an 8-hour incubation with MKN45 cells. This suggests that probiotics can exert anti-inflammatory effects in vitro. Accordingly, it will be interesting to test how the inflammatory cascades can be counteracted by probiotics.
The antimicrobial activity of Lactobacillus against enteric pathogens is, in part, due to the accumulation of lactic acid [17, 21]. The ability of lactic acid production varies in the Lactobacillus spp. and L. acidophilus is a low lactic acid-production strain [34]. Experimentally, L. acidophilus decreases the viability of H. pylori in vitro independent of pH and lactic acid levels [19]. The pH value of each suspension in this study is around 6.8-7.0 (data not shown). Other mechanisms like immuno-modulation should therefore contribute largely to the anti-inflammatory effects of L. acidophilus.
The current study demonstrates that L. acidophilus pre-treatment can decrease the H. pyloriinduced nuclear NF-κB expression in the 1st hour and IL-8 in the 4th hour, after co-culture with H. pylori and MKN45 cells. Furthermore, the TNF-α level is also decreased although its value is quite low (data not shown). This study further confirms that such suppression occurs in a dose-dependent manner and is mediated through the stabilization of IκBα. The finding is compatible with the results of Tien et al. showing that anti-inflammatory effects can only be achieved at an adequate bacteria count in probiotics [12]. Data from the present study indicate that L. acidophilus can counteract H. pylori-induced gastric inflammation specifically by mediation through the IκBα/NF-κB pathway in a dose-dependent manner.
In normal intestinal mucosal cells, the TGF-β1 signal may negatively regulate NF-κB activation by stimulating the negative regulator, IκBα [36]. H. pylori infection reportedly may inhibit the TGF-β1 signal pathway via activation of the gastric Smad7 expression [26]. This study also declares that both H. pylori and L. acidophilus do not affect the TGF-β1 production of gastric epithelial cells, which again confirm that L. acidophilus regulates TGFβ1/Smad3 downstream activity by restoring Smad7. The present study is the first to demonstrate that L. acidophilus can down-regulate Smad7 production to restore the TGFβ1/Smad activity and to ameliorate the H. pylori-induced gastric inflammation in vitro (Figure 5).
Schematic diagram to illustrate possible pathways of L. acidophilus inhibition of H. pylori -induced inflammation on gastric epithelium through TGF-β/Smad3, IFN-γ/Smad7, and NFκB signals.
Smad7 can also be induced in normal gastric specimens by IFN-γ through a STAT1 dependent pathway [26]. In fact, the gastric epithelium does not secret IFN-γ. Therefore, H. pylori (up-regulation) and L. acidophilus (down-regulation) both significantly regulates Smad7 in epithelium cells through the mediation of the STAT1-dependent Smad7 pathway. Inhibiting Smad7 can restore the TGF-β1/Smad3 signaling and result in the suppression of inflammatory cytokine production in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases [37, 38]. The data here reveals that probiotics contained in yogurt can inhibit Smad7 to diminish H. pylorirelated gastric inflammation. Such probiotics can be quite promising for the improvement of H. pylori infection control.
Yogurt-containing L. acidophilus can improve H. pylori-induced gastric inflammation through the inactivation of the Smad7 and NF-κB mediated pathways. Intake of L. acidophilus-containing yogurt may improve gastric inflammation in H. pylori-infected patients.
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This study was supported by grants from National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan (NCKUH-9701013 and NCKUH-9904011), the National Science Council, Taiwan (NSC97-2314-B-006-032), and the Department of Health, Taiwan (DOH99-TD-C-111-003). The authors declare that there is no financial relationship with any company involved in this study and that there is no conflict of interest.
Department of Pediatrics, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Yao-Jong Yang
Department of Pathology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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& Cheng-Chan Lu
Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Bor-Shyang Sheu
Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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Department of Pathology, Ton-Yen General Hospital, Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan
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YYJ conducted this study and wrote the first manuscript. CCC correlated the sera of subjects and performed the tests. YHB and LCC gave suggestions for the interpretation of results, while SBS provided the critical revision of the manuscript and reviewed the statistical analysis. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Yang, Y., Chuang, C., Yang, H. et al. Lactobacillus acidophilus ameliorates H. pylori-induced gastric inflammation by inactivating the Smad7 and NFκB pathways. BMC Microbiol 12, 38 (2012) doi:10.1186/1471-2180-12-38
Accepted: 19 March 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-12-38
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Mel Pearson is a winner, no one thought he could get the Huskies to this point this year.
I just hope we can keep keep him in Houghton long term. No knocks to Jamie
but no way this happens without Mel.
If you do the math, with the increase in ticket prices and the increase in average attendance, Tech will make up the $190K in salary and make a profit this year; that doesn't even include the increase in parking and concessions from the increase in attendance. Pretty good investment that pays off the first year.
From a player last year in October "it already feels like a long season"
From a player this year in October "having a blast playing for the most positive coach he's ever played for".
It didn't happen soon enough IMO but I'd say it all has worked out pretty well.
On another note in a hypothetical situation that Tech got invited to join the NCHC after this year, I'd decline.
uhm, Michigan Tech does not make more money by hosting playoffs.
hmmm... so the league gets the revenue after expenses, IF we were to have home ice?
hmmm... so the league gets the revenue after expenses, IF we were to have home ice?correct, which we get a slice of as members of wcha.
oldish husky
That's it. Throw the season. We'd make more money playing on the road in Omaha or UND!
If tech gets home ice, they at least get to keep the profits from ice cream sales, right?
And those evil windfall parking profits too, I'm assuming.
Mel's stated intention is to retire from MTU
He has a 5 year contract I believe
Yes he did sign a 5 year contract.
http://www.techhockeyguide.com/2011/06/mel-pearsons-contract-revealed/
To save some time, the longer he stays the more he gets paid, in the way of bonuses, IIRC
HuskyNation
Gawd, that's depressing... :(
Although, it probably will lead to a more harmonious home life. :)
Meaning I don't have to hear "Don't touch me" after Tech wins? :D :)
That's divadork. ;)
Red Wings beat writer Ansar Khan has an update on the outdoor games (http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index.ssf/2012/02/red_wings_4.html) coming to Day-twah:
"The baseball park also will host the Great Lakes Invitational, which will include Michigan, Michigan State and two other schools..."
IT'S OUR TOURNAMENT!! KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!!!!!
IT'S OUR TOURNAMENT!! KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!!!!!Don't worry, I ripped him on twitter.
With the recently announced plans for the "Minnesota Beanpot" where the Gophers will use 8 of their non-conference games to play the other 4 Minnesota schools, i don't see much left there unless MTU is willing to play Mariucci without a return trip. Minnesota is likely to have 20 conference game, 8 games vs MN schools, 2 bought home games, and 4 games against other teams, those teams are probably UND, DU, BC, BU, Miami, etc...not MTU.
My impression of the Minnesota Cup is that it's UMn+three other schools for a two game tourney like the beanpot/gli/icebreaker/mariucci tourney. The "leftout" team from being invited seems to be receiving a two game NC visit from the Gophers. At least in the first year Bemidji will.
Don't worry, I ripped him on twitter.
Ha ha...he, or more likely an editor, changed it to include Tech and St. Cloud State. Gosh, if three of us could make that happen, it might only take 50,000 to get Fox Sports Detroit to televise the games...
My impression of the Minnesota Cup is that it's UMn+three other schools for a two game tourney like the beanpot/gli/icebreaker/mariucci tourney. The "leftout" team from being invited seems to be receiving a two game NC visit from the Gophers. At least in the first year Bemidji will.Minnesota said all 4 teams will play minny each year, min: 2 cup games, 2 vs each of the schools in cup bracket, 2 @ team left out, that's 8 games.
Wow, I'm hitting the big time now! Article reposted in The Woodbury Home Owners Daily! http://paper.li/TruthInR_Estate/1317152082 haha :D
I'm guessing Olympia probably told the GLI committee to ditch St. Cloud if they wanted in on the outdoor action. A couple thousand Western fans is better for the bottom line than a handful of SCSU parents and fans.
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Discuss The Soaps: Archive (2007 - 2009)
OLTL: Discussion for the week December 21
By Scotty, December 21, 2009 in Discuss The Soaps: Archive (2007 - 2009)
EricMontreal22
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Nah I think the bad on this show (and all the good) can be blamed on Valentini and Carlivati. Frons likes his blondes and I think likes John, but really saying the bad is cuz of him--when he seems to micromanage this show way less than any other, is similar to the AMC fans who think any good is due to Agnes.
All My Shadows
Member since June 2003
That's what happens, I guess, when you don't allow characters to evolve...or even better, leave town.
Seriously, does anyone else believe certain characters' continued presence (and annoyance) on this show is a Frons mandate, pure and simple? The writers have exhausted every story possibility for Todd, Blair, Tea, John, Rex, Gigi, and a number of others; yet, there they are, still stinkin' up the joint. Even worse, now they're violating rules of daytime (not to mention, mathematics) in the creation of daytime's newest insta-child, Danielle. You can't ask me to believe Carlivati is excited still to be writing for these characters, especially when his most successful storyline thus far (IMO) is a love story between two male supporting characters who haven't been on for very long.
I don't think that it's necessarily the characters that need to go. It's the storylines. This Rex/Gigi/Stacy thing has been going on way. too. long. There are plenty of things that they could do with Rex and Gigi. Same for Todd/Tea/Blair. Those two women need extensive therapy so that they can realize what dumbasses they are in regards to this idiot.
Also, I have to disagree with Kyle and Oliver being Carlivati's most successful storyline so far...well, it depends on what we're judging his success by. It's all JMO, but there have been better-written storylines (and strands) under RC. I can think of a number of couples that get better writing.
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I think there are different levels of what Ron enjoys. I don't believe he cares about John/Natalie, I doubt he cares about John at all. He seemed to initially want to phase him as much out of Marty's return as he could, and have Marty on her own or with Todd, then suddenly, almost like a mandate, Marty/John were back together. Then, after a year of being phased out of the canvas, Jared is killed, and John is back to being Natalie's protector after he had barely interacted with her for two years.
I do think Ron loves Tea and has heavily rewritten stories to try to prop her. Anything from the past which ever worked against her, like going out the window, or the island story, has now been made into some sort of triumph for her. She has a cadre of supporters to tell her how wonderful she is in all her muggy martyrdom. This also ties in to Todd, because Ron didn't seem to realize, if his comments are any indication, how some fans might turn against Todd last year. Now as a result we have had a do-over for Todd's character, where, if you are a new viewer, you might believe that Todd loved Marty, then loved Tea, with the rest of his time spent having kids (who are OK because they love Tea too!) with some pathetic woman he barely tolerates. They've set up this whole alternate universe where Todd and Tea are soulmates and now they have the overaged miracle child to complete their love.
I think if they wrote for Blair in a way which isn't about Todd or some other man they need to remind us she's not good enough for, then she would be fine as a character. I think if they wrote for Tea as someone who is cutthroat and fun and not weeping and wailing about her husband and daughter, she would be fine.
I put the Todd/Tea/Blair crap on Ron but I wouldn't be surprised if Rex and Gigi are more Frons. Rex seems like a Frons favorite. I'm just tired of seeing two people who can't do any dramatic material constantly put in dramatic stories, and in too many stories. Gigi is a cipher, and Rex, for all the ties they keep inventing to make him more relevant, is also a cipher.
Cranky S.O.B.
Gigi is a cipher, and Rex, for all the ties they keep inventing to make him more relevant, is also a cipher.
Ann_SS
I think that OLTL and GH have similar problems. RC started off strong, but he is not a good storyteller. The show is full of characters who do illogical things as plot points. Like Guza loves Sonny and Jason, RC loves Todd and will write any story that makes him a type of anti-hero. Tea and Blair fighting over Todd and Marty in love with him is incomprehensible.
OLTL also features too many bad actors. The show would be better if RC would recognize the limitations of his actors, but he refuses to so they constantly get dramatic material that they cannot handle. I give RC credit for having the police force full of good guys who get to be heroes and I find his male characters far less misogynistic than those on GH.
You're Soaking in it
Look, this is the first time Rachel has gotten laid in at least 11 or 12 years. You people ain't gonna ruin it for me.
Sorry, no tears for Destiny and her phonetic line delivery.
x2! (also x2 on the comment about rooting for Clint and Bo & Nora simultaneously!)
[OLTL] would be better if RC would recognize the limitations of his actors, but he refuses to so they constantly get dramatic material that they cannot handle.
MichaelGL
Would the Rex/Gig/Stacy story be getting as much flack today, if three different and capable actors were in these roles?
The Todd's raping Marty for a second time and hitting rock bottom as well, seems to defy logic seeing how he seems to have come out smelling like a rose. IMO it should have been the exit story for the character of Todd Manning, rather than some attempt at redemption for the character.
You could have Alfred Lunt as Rex, Lynn Fontanne as Gigi, and Eleonora Duse as Stacy, and IMO, the story would still make all the characters involved look incredibly stupid.
It would from me. It's a lame story that's been dragging on too long. I'm not even sure who this triangle is written for. I liked it at first, but once "bag of blood" became a daily piece of dialogue, it was too much. None of the three are written as mature adults.
Let's put it this way: when the story is so bad you don't even root for Rex and Gigi anymore...? You know it's time for everyone involved to move the hell on.
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No bc the triangle just plain sucks especially since the whole premise with Stacy being in love with him for more than 10 years bc he helped pick up her belongings after they fell out of her backpack was stupid as hell
Well said. Couldn't they have given her a backstory where she honestly WAS with Rex in SOME real way back then? And he chose Gigi instead? It wouldn't even need sex to make some sort of weird sense--but I sense RC and crew felt that would tarnish thepurity of this Rex/Gigi super couple...
Stacy's motivation for wanting Rex all to herself was "stupid as hell," to quote Cheap; but I think Stacy's introduction, in and of itself, was what really doomed the story.
When it comes to introducing new characters, what's true for life is, I think, also true for soaps - meaning, first impressions are everything. ATWT's Lisa, for example, came on as this polite, dowdy, mousy-haired girl from Rockford whom Bob was "getting serious about"; yet, even in those first few appearances, there was a glint of mischief in Eileen Fulton's eye that made you think, "Hmmm, what is she really about?" She came across as "normal," but she also had a little mystery to her to keep you intrigued. Subsequently, the more we got to know the "real" Lisa, the more we relished in her basic dichotomous nature.
Now, compare that with CH's Stacy, who strolls into Llanview and immediately steals her sister's dress, shows up at some swank party, and (IIRC) has cheap sex with some dude she picks up @ the ball on her sister's floor. Immediately, it's telegraphed to us that we're supposed to hate her. What's more, though, is the fact that she's already too obvious and OTT. There isn't that similar dichotomy to hook us in or keep us guessing.
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Shah Rukh Khan to have a cameo in Salman Khan’s Dabangg 3?
Salman Khan & Katrina Kaif all set to host a segment of IPL 2019 finale today!
Deepika Padukone to replace Jacqueline Fernandez in Salman Khan’s Kick 2?
This is the reason Salman Khan will never get married!
Salman Khan is currently busy with the shoot of Prabhu Dheva’s Dabangg 3, which is slated to release on Christmas 2019. It will reunite all the characters we saw in the first part as the film is touted to be a prequel that traces the rise and rise of Chulbul Pandey and how he became a Police Inspector. However, it’s now being reported that the action drama may have a cameo by none other than Shah Rukh Khan. There’s a special role in the film that Salman is likely to offer to SRK.
A source says, “Dabangg 3’ has a few flashback portions which will trace Salman’s journey before he became the Robinhood of the area. There’s a character of a man who helps Salman during an important scene. The team was thinking of a few names when Salman decided to call his good friend Shah Rukh to shoot for it. Salman and SRK did a Face Time call a few weeks back, which is when Salman asked him if he can make an appearance in ‘Dabangg 3’. SRK happily said yes to it.”
Well, both the actors have been unlucky for each other over the last few years. SRK’s cameo in Tubelight and Salman’s special appearance in Zero didn’t help the films in anyway, and the audiences rejected both the outings. If the news is indeed true, hope the Khans find some luck this time around!
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Boris Johnson refuses to answer questions about ‘row with partner’
Media captionBoris Johnson refuses to answer questions about the reported row with his partner
Boris Johnson has refused to answer questions about reports of a row between him and his partner in which police were called.
Speaking at a Tory Party hustings in Birmingham, Mr Johnson said people did not “want to hear” about the reported row between him and Carrie Symonds.
The Guardian had said Ms Symonds was heard telling the Tory MP to “get off me” and “get out of my flat”.
Police said they spoke to all occupants of the address, who were safe and well.
In the first of 16 hustings events, Mr Johnson and Jeremy Hunt made their pitches to an audience of party members to succeed Theresa May as prime minister.
Mr Johnson was asked about the incident a number of times by hustings moderator Iain Dale, an LBC radio presenter, but each time avoided answering the question.
After being accused by Mr Dale of ducking the question, Mr Johnson did not respond directly, instead saying: “People are entitled to ask me what I want to do for the country.”
Boris Johnson told members of the audience not to boo Iain Dale
Mr Dale pressed again, telling Mr Johnson: “If the police are called to your home it makes it everyone’s business.
“You are running for the office of not just Conservative Party leader, but prime minister, so a lot of people who admire your politics do call into question your character, and it is incumbent on you to answer that question.”
In response, Mr Johnson accepted this was “a fair point” and said he “was a man who keeps to political promises”.
Pressed another two times on the issue, Mr Johnson said it was “pretty obvious from the foregoing” he would not be making further comments on the incident.
Mr Dale was jeered by members of the audience at one point during the exchange, but Mr Johnson responded by telling the crowd “not to boo the great man”.
Carrie Symonds pictured with Mr Johnson’s father, Stanley, at a demonstration earlier this year
The report of the row between Mr Johnson and Ms Symonds in the Guardian said a neighbour had told the newspaper they heard a woman screaming followed by “slamming and banging” in the early hours of Friday.
It said that in the recording – heard by the Guardian, but not by the BBC – Mr Johnson was refusing to leave the flat and telling the woman to “get off” his laptop before there was a loud crashing noise.
Ms Symonds is reported to be heard saying that the MP had ruined a sofa with red wine, adding: “You just don’t care for anything because you’re spoilt. You have no care for money or anything.”
‘Important public interest’
The neighbour who made the recording has since come forward to explain his reasons for contacting the Guardian about the row.
Tom Penn, 29, said he and his wife had concerns for their neighbour’s safety.
He told the paper: “Once clear that no one was harmed, I contacted the Guardian, as I felt it was of important public interest.
“I believe it is reasonable for someone who is likely to become our next prime minister to be held accountable for all of their words, actions and behaviours.
“I, along with a lot of my neighbours all across London, voted to remain within the EU. That is the extent of my involvement in politics.”
A poster opposite Boris Johnson’s London home shows not everyone supports his leadership bid
Mr Johnson’s relationship with Ms Symonds – a former director of communications for the Conservative party – became public after Mr Johnson and his wife, Marina Wheeler, announced they were divorcing in 2018.
Ms Symonds was seen in the audience during Mr Johnson’s leadership campaign launch on 12 June.
By BBC News political correspondent Jonathan Blake
Nobody can say that Conservative Party members don’t have a choice.
The contrast between the two candidates to be their new leader and the UK’s next prime minister was clear to see on stage in Birmingham.
Both men gave performances which reaffirmed their strengths and weaknesses as politicians.
Boris Johnson delivered soaring rhetoric, swerved the specifics and worked the room with cheeky asides and shameless flattery.
Jeremy Hunt stressed his serious side, played it straight and gave carefully considered answers.
Mr Johnson looked a little uncomfortable at times, asking at one point “how much longer have we got?”
Mr Hunt seemed keen to convey a softer side – his best friend coming out on the last day of school was one of many anecdotes.
Supporters of each will have likely left the event further convinced that their favourite is the man for the job – and those yet to decide have some food for thought.
One down, 15 to go.
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A Taste of Tea
Abstract: Originating in Southeast China, tea is one of the most consumed beverages in the world, second only to water with coffee in third. Though tea has many names, they all come from the same plant, Camellia sinensis. There’s white, yellow, green, oolong, pu-erh, and black or red tea; each has its own variants and processing methods to distinguish them. Tea has spread throughout the world and each culture took these leaves and made it their own in different ways. The journey it has taken is an interesting one with a lot of controversy, conflict, and corruption once introduced to the British Empire.
Major: Culinary Arts, Culinary Arts and Service Management
File Attachments: 1. Cover Page.rtf , 2. Research Paper.docx , 3. Capstone Menu.doc , 4. Recipes.docx , 5. Capstone Ordering and Costing Sheets.xlsx , 6. Production List.rtf , 7. Plating Duties.rtf , 8. Self Analysis.docx , Presentation Poster.pptx
Authors: Darren Sheftic
Loopy's Diner: A business Plan
Abstract: Loopy's diner is a proposed eatery in the Auburn, NY area. Loopy's diner looks to put a healthy spin on casual fare such as burgers, fries, etc while integrating locally sourced ingredients.
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Authors: Adam Lupien
The Application of Silvicultural Treatments to Establish and Maintain Early Successional Habitat in the Adirondack Forests of New York State
Abstract: Early successional habitat (ESH) in New York state can be described as young forests comprising trees, shrubs, grasses, and other herbaceous plants that form relatively open canopies with dense understories. ESH has decreased due to nearly ninety percent of the naturally occurring shrublands of North America having been destroyed. The destruction of this habitat is of top concern due to the threatened and endangered species whom rely on these sorts of habitats to thrive. Considering the future climate projections, population models, and theoretical species distribution, responsible stewardship is needed to manage in favor of ESH types. A meta-analysis of various journals and databases was performed to synthesize information into a general management plan for establishing ESH in the Adirondacks. Through combining methods and silvicultural management practices from past plans in the northeastern United States, as well as background knowledge of the area, this management plan has been tailored specifically for an Adirondack forest. These outlined silvicultural treatments may also be extended to a variety of other forest types in the eastern U.S.A. Re-establishing young forests throughout the region is the goal of this plan. In doing so, these practices will enhance the health, resiliency, and biodiversity of the Adirondack region, and New York State by creating critical ESH which the fauna and flora of this region depend upon.
Major: Integrative Studies, Natural Resources Management and Policy
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Authors: Nicole Morin, Ryan Baker, Ora Bice
Flight of 5 Food Truck Company
Abstract: The Flight of Five Food Truck Company is run by Catherine Bergman and her colleague Malik Pryce. They are both hard working and determined business workers. Catherine Bergman has her degree in Food Service and Beverage Management and Culinary Arts and Malik Pryce has worked in many restaurants where he has been on his way into a management position and has been working with Catherine since 2015. The Flight of Five Food Truck Company is located and run in Lockport New York. Where weIt has a plan on selling items named after local colleges’ and universities’ names and mascots. The Flight of Five Food Truck Company is named after the 5 five locks on the Erie Canal, we and this company wanted to have a historical tie in to our business and the town.
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Authors: Catherine Bergman
Jenkins Café
Abstract: Jenkins’ Café will be a quick service café establishment located at the base of Jenkins Mountain, along the trail systems of the Visitor’s Interpretive Center (VIC). The VIC has recently become an entity of Paul Smith’s College, allowing greater flexibility of management, away from State jurisdiction. About three miles into the VIC’s trail system is the base of Jenkins’ Mountain, the location for Jenkins’ Café. Jenkins’ Café will serve local residents, Paul Smith’s College students, and VIC visitors’ quick meals consisting of sandwiches, soups, and salads while they utilize the VIC trails. Warm and cold beverages will also be available for service, including a small selection of beer and wine. Hikers, cross-country skiers, bird watchers, snowmobilers, and anyone participating in any VIC activities, can enjoy these fares when they arrive at Jenkins’ Café.
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Pair and Compare Capstone
Abstract: Pair and Compare is a business concept that came from the culmination of a four year degree in Food Service and Beverage Management at Paul Smiths College. This capstone is broken into two parts. The first is a wine/tea tasting and food pairing prototype event that showcased possible pairings to collect data. The second part is to use the data and research to determine if a viable and profitable business similar to this event can be realized
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