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Home / Sport / Is the Premier League taking shape into a new era?
Is the Premier League taking shape into a new era?
The most fascinating title race in years
It is without doubt, the most exciting and enthralling Premier League title race in recent memory. With just 7 points separating the top spot and fifth place, anyone of five teams could realistically go on a run and snatch the title come this May.
What makes matters even more interesting is that the top five teams doesn’t include Manchester United. With last season’s champions sitting in an unfamiliar 7th place and 15 points off the leaders, it has to be stated that United’s title defence is already over with 12 games left to play.
With the Sir Alex Ferguson era now a distant memory, it is becoming more and more apparent just how influential and instrumental the Scot was in motivating, organising and driving the Manchester giants to title after title, year after year, now that we see his successor, David Moyes struggling to have the same effect with primarily the same group of players.
Home form has been a major stumbling block and with injuries added to his problems, Moyes is running out of excuses why his team seem to have lost the fear factor and the ability to find that all important goal just when it is needed.
Recent poor defeats and frustrating draws to their nearest rivals only adds to the pressure that Manchester United could realistically miss out on Champions League football next season which to some is unthinkable. Whether Moyes manages to pull off an amazing turn around or continues to languish in mid-table is yet to be seen however, on recent evidence, even the most ardent United fans are beginning to agree that their team simply doesn’t have the same fire in their bellies of seasons gone by.
Has the Manchester power shift taken place?
Across the city, fans of the sky blues will be rejoicing at the evident change in fortunes that is occurring in Manchester. With Ferguson gone, Manchester City have not let the opportunity to pass them by and have invested heavily in world class talent that has delivered a team that has goals all across the park.
Pellegrini’s team may have just got humbled by Barcelona in the Champions League last 16, albeit to some dubious officiating, but the signs are clearly there that the sky blues are an emerging force in world football and fans of the red devils must be concerned whether their twenty years of dominance are about to come to a tragic end.
It’s early days but as we say, watch this space as it is about to get very interesting.
Is it now a league of two divisions?
The action and excitement is not just at the top of the table. Arguably, the Premier League has now split into two segments.
At the top, most teams are in touching distance with the title chasers and European dreamers all able to take points off each other whoever they play.
But then look at 10th place and below and you see another picture emerging. There’s a clear gap between 10th and 9th however looking below that, only 4 points separates 10th place and the relegation zone.
It seems insane to suggest but arguably, we could be realistically looking at a 10 team relegation battle! With Fulham now well and truly hitting the panic button by sacking yet another manager mid season, they sit right at the foot of the table with a mountain to climb acheter viagra andorre.
Cardiff who have also changed manager, do not seem to have had any change in fortunes whilst Sunderland could do the impossible and escape their fate by continuing their impressive recent form.
All that we know is that there’s a whole host of teams looking over their shoulders, with serious concerns that this could be the season that they take the unfortunate drop into the Championship.
So with just over two months left of this incredible football season, we suggest you see how it all unfolds for the run in on BBC, Sky Sports and BT Sport. It’s going to be a bumpy ride!
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Cluster Space Formation Control of Multirobot Systems: The Lab is the home of the cluster space multirobot formation control technique. This is a full degree-of-freedom operational space control strategy with formalized mathematics, provably stable behavior, and applicability to a wide range of land/sea/air systems. The technique envisions a group of robots as a virtual articulating mechanism and allows a single pilot or a higher-level automated controller to specify desired motions and the geometric characteristics of the group in a simple, intuitive manner. Key publications include:
C. Kitts and I. Mas, “Cluster Space Specification and Control of Multi-Robot Systems,” IEEE/ASME Trans. On Mechatronics, v14 n2, pp. 207-218, 2009.
I. Mas and C. Kitts, “Dynamic Control of Mobile Multirobot Systems,” IEEE Access, v2, pp. 558-570, 2014.
Adaptive navigation of environmental scalar fields: The Lab is a leader in multirobot techniques to adaptively locate and move along points of interest in an environmental scalar field (e.g., a region over which a parameter varies, such as temperature, radiation level, or the concentration of a pollutant). In particular, we have developed a hierarchical control technique based on our cluster space formation controller that allows us to use multirobot clusters to find these interesting points without exhaustively mapping the entire region. Capabilities of interest include locating the max/min points in a field, moving along contours, moving down/up ridge/trench formations, locating saddle points, and moving along frontlines. These capabilities are fundamental for applications such as disaster response, environmental monitoring/characterization, exploration and security.
T. Adamek, C. Kitts, and I. Mas, “Gradient-based Cluster Space Navigation for Autonomous Surface Vessels,” IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, vol 20 no 2, pp. 506-518, 2014.
C. Kitts, R. McDonald, M. Neumann, “Adaptive Navigation Control Primitives for Multirobot Clusters,” IEEE Access, vol 6, pp. 17625-17642, 2018.
Additional Applications of our Work in Cluster Space Multirobot Control: In addition to using our cluster space control technique to enable adaptive navigation capabilities, we have applied it for a wide range of other applications that benefit from distributed functionality. These applications include escorting and guarding other objects, manipulating/transporting large objects, and optimally tracking targets.
I. Mas, S. Li, J. Acain, and C. Kitts, "Entrapment/Escorting and Patrolling Missions in Multi-Robot Cluster Space," 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, MO, 2009, pp. 5855-5861, 2009.
P. Mahacek, C. Kitts, and I. Mas, "Dynamic Guarding of Marine Assets Through Cluster Control of ASV Fleets," IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, vol 17 no 1, pp. 65-75, 2012.
M. Neumann and C. Kitts, "A Hybrid Multirobot Control Architecture for Object Transport," IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, vol 21 no 6, pp. 2983-2988, 2016.
J. Cashbaugh and C. Kitts, "Vision-Based Object Tracking Using an Optimally Positioned Cluster," IEEE Systems Journal, vol 12 no 2, pp. 1423-1434, 2018.
Causal/Model-based AI for anomaly management: We have developed a comprehensive model-based conceptual framework for different types of anomalies that occur in functional engineering systems, to include a unified framework for their detection, diagnosis and resolution. We have been applying this to the operational control of the robotic systems we build and deploy.
C. Kitts, “Managed Space System Anomalies Using First Principles Reasoning,” IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol 13 no 4, pp. 39-50, 2006.
Novel robotic system design: Given the needs of our sponsors and collaborators, we design custom robotic systems and technology. Examples include SWATH boats for autonomous bathymetric mapping (used in Lake Tahoe), a novel high-temperature water sampler using shape memory alloy triggers (deployed in the Pacific Ocean), and a reconfigurable passive magnetic satellite stabilization system.
C. Kitts, P. Mahacek, T. Adamek, K. Rasal, V. Howard, S. Li, A. Badaoui, W. Kirkwood, G. Wheat, and S. Hulme, “Field Operations of a Robotic Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull Boat,” Journal of Field Robotics, vol 29 no 6, pp. 924-938, 2012.
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During Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW) 2019, Sea Grant and the Women’s Aquatic Network collaborated to host a brown bag lunch session on Increasing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Coastal, Marine and Ocean Science Workforce. Four panelists, including those from government and non-government sectors, offered inspiring, specific and candid remarks during the packed session, which had standing room only.
The session was kicked off by RMDL Timothy Gallaudet, NOAA’s Deputy Administrator and the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, who shared a personal story and underscored the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion in NOAA. He added, “a diverse team is a better team.”
RDML Gallaudet (NOAA) opened the session with remarks that included a personal story as well as his commitment to make NOAA diverse, equitable and inclusive.
Lisa Rom, Program Director for the Division of Ocean Sciences and the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF), launched the discussion by sharing two workforce related trends that are documented by the National Center for Science Engineering Statistics (NCSECS) in their annual report on women, minorities and people with disabilities in science and engineering (NSF, 2019). Women are a large part of the U.S. workforce (the percentage of women is over 40%), however this trend is not reflected in the hiring of the academic faculty in the U.S. The second trend was the lack of diversity in the ocean sciences. Rom cited some facts from a paper published in Nature Geoscience last year (Bernard and Cooperdock, 2018) that illustrates the lack of ethnic and racial diversity in the geosciences, and in particular, ocean and atmospheric sciences.
“The science and environmental workforces are doing okay on women. White women. They’re not doing as well with people of color,” commented Whitney Tome, Executive Director of Green 2.0 and session panelist. Tome further added that 60% of the U.S. workforce is composed of white women. People of color form only 12-16% of the workforce of the mainstream environmental movement, even though 48% of the U.S. workforce is non-white.” Tome emphasized the need for investment of time and financial resources to address diversity, equity and inclusion in the coastal and ocean science workforce.
Identify and Breakdown Barriers Before Career Choices Are Made
Tiffany Crawford, session panelist and Environmental Scientist for the EPA’s Office of Water, described the technological trends that are shaping the workforce of the U.S. and outlined various barriers individuals face when trying to pursue a coastal or marine science career. “Financial barriers may exist.” She followed with, “Pay your interns!” which got an enthusiastic round of applause.
Crawford reflected on barriers, including family, cultural and financial, that may prevent women, minorities and people with disabilities from fully participating in the workforce. “People need to be told it’s OK to pursue this [marine science] career. It helps to have someone in your personal life who is in a career you may want to pursue.”
Trystan Sill, Manager for the Work2Live WELL program at Maryland Department of Natural Resources, continued the conversation commenting that “children need to have early experiences in coastal and marine areas that are safe, and expose them to the possibilities. Efforts to increase diversity, equity and inclusion can’t just happen in the workplace or in graduate schools. It has to happen from young kids all the way through.”
Diversity in the Workplace Must Be Intentional, Cultural
The panelists discussed many challenges and opportunities with shifting practices and culture in professional settings. “As the saying goes, ‘culture eats strategy for breakfast.' Increasing diversity begins with assessing, and then changing, culture,” commented Tome.
The panelists described specific opportunities and actions individuals and organizations can take to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace.
Rom emphasized the importance of setting diversity, equity and inclusion -focused goals and measuring where an institution or a program is now compared to where it envisions to go. “If you don’t,” she says, “you will never get to where you want to be.”
“Define why DEI matters to your organization. Audit your recruiting, hiring, promotion, retention, and mentoring practices,” added Tome.
All the panelists described the importance of mentorship. Often, women and underrepresented minorities are the first ones and the only ones pursuing an education and career in ocean sciences. Being the “only one” can be burdensome and challenging. “People need someone they can ask, ‘what was it like? How did you do it?'” added Crawford.
She continued, stating “We need to get to a point where it’s not a surprise to see someone like me, a woman of color, walk into an executive level meeting.”
When it Comes to Diversity, Get Specific and Have the Conversation
The panelists also emphasized the need to be specific when talking about diversity, whether it’s gender, racial, or any other type.
“Regarding gender minorities, don’t be afraid to have simple conversations that bring awareness to people. When we have them, we realize most people are open to cultural shifts that create a more inclusive environment,” added Sill.
In her closing remarks, Crawford stated, “We need to get to a point where it’s not a surprise to see someone like me, a woman of color, walk into an executive level meeting.”
Reaction to the Panel Discussion
“Wow, what a great session. This conversation needed to happen, and it needs to happen again and again,” commented a participant following the session. More on Twitter from @WomensAquaticDC and #CHOW2019.
So thrilled to see @WashingtonWAN and #CHOW2019 diving into what an #equitable #water future looks like: ALL of us. Co-creating real solutions for our #oceans and #climate demands we're all there. #OneWater https://t.co/DZHh3UdFXq
— Katy Lackey (@1WaterKat) June 5, 2019
Overflowing room #chow2019 for discussion on increasing diversity equity and inclusion in the marine, coastal, and ocean workforce #diversegreen #diverseblue @wjtome #capitolhilloceanweek pic.twitter.com/OIRKwsam0s
— Amanda Stanley (@AmandaConsSci) June 4, 2019
It Takes a Team!
Many thanks to the panelists who volunteered their time and expertise as well as our engaging moderator, Jack Oliver. Thank you to Coastal States Organization and the National Parks Conservation Association for co-sponsoring the event with Sea Grant and the Women’s Aquatic Network. Thanks to the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, the organizers of Capitol Hill Ocean Week, for providing a space for this conversation in their program. And lastly, thank you to the individuals who participated in the conversation.
Members of the planning team as well as the session speakers. From left to right: Mona Behl (Georgia Sea Grant), Brooke Carney (National Sea Grant Office), Fredrika Moser (Sea Grant Association), Jonathan Pennock (National Sea Grant Director), Whitney Tome (panelist, Executive Director of Green 2.0. Principal at The Raben Group), Tiffany Crawford (panelist, Environmental Scientist for the Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Lisa Rom (panelist, Program Director for the Division of Ocean Sciences and the Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation), Trystan Sill (panelist, Program Manager for Work2Live WELL, Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Owner of Hilltop Life, LLC & Certified Life Coach), Jack Oliver (moderator, executive board member of Women’s Aquatic Network, senior regulatory scientist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water), Sarah Barmeyer, executive board member of Women’s Aquatic Network, senior managing director for NPCA’s Conservation Programs, National Parks Conservation Association).
Sea Grant’s Commitment to DEI
Increasing diversity, equity and inclusion is a cross-cutting principle for all of Sea Grant's work. A 10-year vision and priorities for achieving the vision are outlined in a document written by the Sea Grant DEI community of practice in 2018 titled, “Reaching Outward and Looking Inward Building Sea Grant Resilience from the lens of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.”
Tiffany Crawford, Environmental Scientist for the Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Lisa Rom, Program Director for the Division of Ocean Sciences and the Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation.
Trystan Sill, Program Manager for Work2Live WELL, Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Owner of Hilltop Life, LLC & Certified Life Coach.
Whitney Tome, Executive Director of Green 2.0. Principal at The Raben Group.
National Science Foundation. (2019). Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering. Special Report NSF 19-304. https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf19304/digest Date accessed: June 6, 2019
Bernard, R. E., & Cooperdock, E. H. (2018). No progress on diversity in 40 years. Nature Geoscience, 11(5), 292-295.
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The Benefits Of An Integrated Security System
Today, the world is connected like never before. Your watch is connected to your phone, which is connected to your tablet and so on. As we’ve begun to embrace this ‘smart’ lifestyle, what we’re really embracing is the integration of systems. Why do we connect our devices? The simplest answer is that it makes life easier. But, if that’s the case, why stop at our own personal devices? Connection, when applied to a business’ operations, is no different: it lowers effort and expedites decision making. Integrating security systems Systems integration takes the idea of connected devices and applies it to an enterprise Systems integration takes the idea of connected devices and applies it to an enterprise, bringing disparate subcomponents into a single ecosystem. This could mean adding a new, overarching system to pull and collect data from existing subsystems, or adapting an existing system to serve as a data collection hub. Regardless of the method, the purpose is to create a single, unified view. Ultimately, it’s about simplifying processes, gaining actionable insights into operations and facilitating efficient decision-making. Although integration is becoming the new norm in other areas of life, businesses often opt out of integrating security systems because of misconceptions about the time and resources required to successfully make the change. So, instead of a streamlined operation, the various security systems and devices are siloed, not communicating with each other and typically being run by different teams within an organization. Time-Intensive process When systems are not integrated, companies face a wide range of risks driven by a lack of transparency and information sharing, including actual loss of property or assets. For example, a team in charge of access control is alerted to a door being opened in the middle of the night but can’t see what exactly is taking place through video surveillance. Without integrated systems they have no way of knowing if it was a burglar, an equipment malfunction or a gust of wind. Without integration between systems and teams, the ability to quickly put the right pieces in front of decision makers is missing. Instead, the team would have to go back and manually look for footage that corresponds with the time a door was open to figure out which door it was, who opened it and what happened after, which can be a time-intensive process. Integrating access control and surveillance systems Theft and vandalism occur quickly, meaning systems and users must work faster in order to prevent it This slowed response time adds risk to the system. Theft and vandalism occur quickly, meaning systems and users must work faster in order to prevent it. Security systems can do more than communicate that theft or vandalism occurred. Properly integrated, these systems alert users of pre-incident indicators before an event happens or deter events altogether. This gives teams and decision makers more time to make effective decisions. Integrating access control and surveillance systems allows for a more proactive approach. If a door is opened when it’s not supposed to be, an integrated system enables users to quickly see what door was opened, who opened it and make a quick decision. Integrated solutions are more effective, more efficient and help drive cost-saving decisions. Ideally, companies should establish integrated solutions from the start of operations. This allows companies to anticipate problems and adjust accordingly instead of reacting after an incident has occurred. Security camera system Although starting from the beginning is the best way to ensure comprehensive security, many companies have existing security systems, requiring integration and implementation to bring them together. Typically, companies with established security systems worry about the impact to infrastructure requirements. Is additional infrastructure necessary? How and where should it be added? What financial or human resources are required? These concerns drive a mentality that the benefits gained from an integrated solution aren’t worth the costs of implementation. Thankfully, this is becoming less of a problem as security providers, like Twenty20™ Solutions, work to offer adaptable solutions. With flexible options, operators don’t worry about adding or replacing infrastructure to align with a provider’s model. This allows users to monitor camera footage and gate traffic from one system If a company has an existing security camera system, but identifies a need for access control, a modern integrated solution provider can supply the gates for access points and equip the gates and cameras with the technology to connect the two. This allows users to monitor camera footage and gate traffic from one system. This model also spares operators additional costs by using a sole vendor for supplemental needs. Overall management of security While a single, unified system is beneficial for cost saving, it can also help the overall management of security. The ability to view all operating systems in one dashboard allows security personnel to manage a site from any location, reducing the expense and effort required to manage a system. The mobile world today means security directors no longer need to be in a centralized operations center to see alerts and make decisions. This simplifies processes by allowing users to quickly see an alert, pull up a camera, delete a user or check an access log from a phone. Modern networks are secure and accessible to those with permissions, without requiring those users to be physically present. Consolidating security systems is the first step companies can take toward streamlining work, information and costs. The next step is integrating all sites, both remote and on-grid. Energy and communication technology The integration of sites and systems turns mountains of data and information into actionable intelligence Traditional methods demanded two systems: one for on-grid facilities and another for off-grid locations. With advancements in energy and communication technology, the need for multiple systems is gone. Data from remote sites can be safely and securely fed into an existing system. These remote locations may gather, distribute and manage data in a different manner than a connected system due to the cost of transmission via remote connections (i.e., cellular or satellite connection). The end result, however, is a consistent and holistic view of operations for the decision maker. The integration of sites and systems turns mountains of data and information into actionable intelligence. With connected devices monitoring occurrences at individual sites, as well as events across locations, the data tells a story that is unhindered by operational silos or physical space. Identifying patterns and trends Instead of providing 10 hours-worth of footage that may or may not be relevant, system analytics can provide users with the specific set of information they need. Incidents once discarded as ‘one-off’ events can now be analyzed and data-mapped to identify patterns and trends, directing future resources to the most critical areas first. Consumers are increasingly expecting everything they need to be right where they need it – and businesses are right behind them. The current generation of security professionals are increasingly expecting the simplicity of their everyday personal tasks to be mirrored in enterprise systems, which means giving them the ability to see what matters in one place. A unified system can provide just that, a single view to help simplify processes, promote cost saving and accelerate decision making.
How Is ‘Connected World’ Defining The Future Of Security
There’s a lot of hype around the term ‘digital transformation.’ For some, it’s the integration of digital technology into everyday tasks. For others, it’s the incorporation of innovative processes aimed at making business optimization easier. In most cases, digital transformation will fundamentally change how an organization operates and delivers value to its customers. And within the security realm, the age of digital transformation is most certainly upon us. Technology is already a part of our day-to-day lives, with smart devices in our homes and the ability to perform tasks at our fingertips now a reality. No longer are the cloud, Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities foreign and distant concepts full of intrigue and promise. Enhancing business operations We’re increasingly seeing devices become smarter and better able to communicate with each other These elements are increasingly incorporated into security solutions with each passing day, allowing enterprises the chance to experience countless benefits when it comes to enhancing both safety and business operations. The term ‘connected world’ is a derivative of the digital transformation, signifying the increasing reliance that we have on connectivity, smart devices and data-driven decision-making. As we become more familiar with the advantages, flaws, expectations and best practices surrounding the connected world, we can predict what issues may arise and where the market is heading. We’re increasingly seeing devices become smarter and better able to communicate with each other through the IoT to achieve both simple goals and arduous tasks. Within our homes, we’re able to control a myriad of devices with commands (‘Hey Google...’ or ‘Alexa...’), as well as recall data directly from our mobile devices, such as receiving alerts when someone rings our doorbell, there’s movement in our front yard or when a door has been unlocked. Analytics-Driven solutions The focus is now shifting to the business impacts of connectivity between physical devices and infrastructures, and digital computing and analytics-driven solutions. Within physical security, connected devices can encompass a variety of sensors gathering massive amounts of data in a given timeframe: video surveillance cameras, access control readers, fire and intrusion alarms, perimeter detection and more. As the data from each of these sensors is collected and analyzed through a central platform, the idea of a connected world comes to fruition, bringing situational awareness to a new level and fostering a sense of proactivity to identifying emerging threats. The connected world, however, is not without its challenges, which means that certain considerations must be made in an effort to protect data, enhance structured networking and apply protective protocols to developing technology. Physical security systems We can expect to see the conversations regarding data privacy and security increase as well As the use of connected devices and big data continue to grow, we can expect to see the conversations regarding data privacy and security increase as well. Connectivity between devices can open up the risk of cyber vulnerabilities, but designing safeguards as technology advances will lessen these risks. The key goal is to ensure that the data organizations are using for enhancement and improvements is comprehensively protected from unauthorized access. Manufacturers and integrators must be mindful of their products' capabilities and make it easy for end users to adhere to data sharing and privacy regulations. These regulations, which greatly affect physical security systems and the way they're managed, are being implemented worldwide, such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In the United States, California, Vermont and South Carolina have followed suit, and it can be expected that more countries and U.S. states develop similar guidelines in the future. Technology is already a part of our day-to-day lives, with smart devices in our homes and the ability to perform tasks at our fingertips now a reality Automatic security updates Mitigating the concerns of the ‘connected world’ extends beyond just data privacy. IoT technology is accelerating at such a pace that it can potentially create detrimental problems for which many organizations may be ill-prepared - or may not even be able to comprehend. The opportunities presented by an influx of data and the IoT, and applying these technologies to markets such as smart cities, can solve security and operational problems, but this requires staying proactive when it comes to threats and practicing the proper protection protocols. As manufacturers develop devices that will be connected on the network, integrating standard, built-in protections becomes paramount. This can take the form of continuous vulnerability testing and regular, automatic security updates. Protocols are now being developed that are designed to ensure everything is encrypted, all communications are monitored and multiple types of attacks are considered for defensive purposes to provide the best security possible. IoT-Connected devices Hackers wishing to do harm will stop at nothing to break into IoT-connected devices Built-in protection mechanisms send these kinds of systems into protection mode once they are attacked by an outside source. Another way for manufacturers to deliver solutions that are protected from outside threats is through constant and consistent testing of the devices long after they are introduced to the market. Hackers wishing to do harm will stop at nothing to break into IoT-connected devices, taking every avenue to discover vulnerabilities. But a manufacturer that spends valuable resources to continue testing and retesting products will be able to identify any issues and correct them through regular software updates and fixes. ‘IoT’ has become a common term in our vocabularies and since it’s more widely understood at this point and time, it's exciting to think about the possibilities of this revolutionary concept. Providing critical insights The number of active IoT devices is expected to grow to 22 billion by 2025 — a number that is almost incomprehensible. The rise of 5G networks, artificial intelligence (AI) and self-driving cars can be seen on the horizon of the IoT. As more of these devices are developed and security protocols are developed at a similar pace, connected devices stand to benefit a variety of industries, such as smart cities. Smart cities rely on data communicated via the IoT to enhance processes and create streamlined approaches Smart cities rely on data communicated via the IoT to enhance processes and create streamlined approaches to ensuring a city is well-run and safe. For example, think of cameras situated at a busy intersection. Cameras at these locations have a variety of uses, such as investigative purposes in the event of an accident or for issuing red-light tickets to motorists. But there are so many other possible purposes for this connected device, including providing critical insights about intersection usage and traffic congestion. These insights can then be used to adjust stoplights during busy travel times or give cities valuable data that can drive infrastructure improvements. Physical security market The impact of connected devices on cities doesn’t stop at traffic improvement. The possibilities are endless; by leveraging rich, real-time information, cities can improve efficiencies across services such as transportation, water management and healthcare. However, stringent protections are needed to harden security around the networks transmitting this kind of information in an effort to mitigate the dangers of hacking and allow this technology to continuously be improved. Whether you believe we’re in the midst of a digital transformation or have already completed it, one thing is certain: businesses must begin thinking in these connectivity-driven terms sooner rather than later so they aren’t left behind. Leveraging smart, connected devices can catapult organizations into a new level of situational awareness, but adopting protections and remaining vigilant continues to be a stalwart of technological innovation within the physical security market and into the connected world.
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Pieces and Players
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From the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of CHASING VERMEER, THE WRIGHT 3, and HOLD FAST
THE PIECES
Thirteen extremely valuable pieces of art have been stolen from one of the most secretive museums in the world. A Vermeer has vanished. A Degas has disappeared. And nobody has any idea where they and the other eleven artworks might be . . . or who might have stolen them.
Calder, Petra, and Tommy are no strangers to heists and puzzles. Now they've been matched with two new sleuths -- Zoomy, a very thin boy with very thick glasses, and Early, a girl who treasures words . . . and has a word or two to say about the missing treasure.
The kids have been drawn in by the very mysterious Mrs. Sharpe, who may be playing her own kind of game with the clues. And it's not just Mrs. Sharpe who's acting suspiciously -- there's a ghost who mingles with the guards in the museum, a cat who acts like a spy, and bystanders in black jackets who keep popping up.
With pieces and players, you have all the ingredients for a fantastic mystery from the amazing Blue Balliett.
Scholastic Press
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The new Instagram interface changes the way your bio looks
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With 2018 coming to a close, Instagram announced some big changes happening to the app. Right before the end of the year, Instagram announced on its press site that it would be rolling out a new “redesigned” profile interface which will change the way your bio looks.
According to Instagram this new design makes it easier to “connect with the people you care about on your profile” and “express yourself”. This new interface is going to be tabbed. This means that there are going to be different tabs under the profile for “grid”, “posts”, “shop”, “IGTV” and “Tagged”. Giving brands and companies much more easily accessible options to make their product more available to you.
At the top of this new interface, bios, follower counts, and other details are now wrapped around the profile picture. The follower counts even take a smaller role and are being dragged to the bottom of the profile giving YOU the center stage and giving less importance to your follower count. Here’s how Instagram is describing the update:
“Your profile is where you share who you are on Instagram, so starting today we’re testing ways you can better express yourself and more easily connect with the people you care about on your profile. Over the next several weeks, you may see features re-arranged at the top of your profile including changes to icons, buttons and the way you navigate between tabs, which we hope will make profiles easier and cleaner to use. The photos and videos you’ve shared on your grid won’t change.”
Instagram announced that these changes would start taking place around November/ December 2018. These changes will start by being tested on first and will then be released in “phases and different combinations”. Scroll down to see what your new Instagram profile will probably look like!
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Food Concepts
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Published 01. April 2013
Teapot played a significant role in the development of human civilization and its culture. The teapot probably derived from the ceramic kettles and wine pots which were also made in bronze and other metals and were a feature of Chinese cultural life for thousands of years.
From the end of the 17th century tea was shipped from China to Europe as part of the export of exotic spices and luxury goods. The ships that brought the tea also carried porcelain teapots. The majority of these teapots were painted in blue and white underglaze. Tea drinking in Europe was initially the preserve of the upper classes since it was very expensive. Porcelain teapots were particularly desirable because porcelain could not be made in Europe at that time. It wasn't until 1708 that Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus devised a way of making porcelain in Dresden, Germany, and started the Meissen factory in 1710. When European potteries began to make their own tea wares they were naturally inspired by the Chinese designs.
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Misconceptions Swirl Around Obama Space Plan
By Clara Moskowitz 2010-06-24T12:03:00Z
U.S. President Barack Obama, accompanied by members of Congress and middle school children, waves as he talks on the phone from the Roosevelt Room of the White House to astronauts on the International Space Station, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010 in Washington.
(Image: © NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Since its announcement earlier this year, President BarackObama's new space exploration vision for NASA has met with a firestorm ofoutcry, confusion and misunderstanding.
Some of the most common misconceptions are that the planwould take NASA out of the business of human spaceflight, that the Presidenthas introduced an untenable gap in U.S. spacefaring ability, and that NASA'sbudget has been slashed. There have also been claims that the new plan was a secretpolitical scheme designed by hidden architects behind closed doors.
NASA's leaders are trying to set the record straight, andthe agency is ultimately hoping that the fervor will die down and people willcome to embrace the new direction ? which aims to send astronauts to visit anasteroid by 2025.
"We believe that support for the new plan will grow aspeople learn more about it," NASA spokesman Mike Cabbage told SPACE.com. [FAQ:NASA's New Direction]
Killing the space program?
For now, misunderstanding and confusion about the planremain common.
"The new administration didn?t come in and kill thespace program, but that's what you're hearing a lot," said Leroy Chiao,former NASA astronaut and member of the Augustine committee, a blue-ribbonpanel President Obama put together last year to review NASA's plans.
In fact, the newproposal for NASA would increase the agency's budget slightly, to $19billion in 2011, a slight uptick from its 2010 budget of $18.3 billion.
"I wouldn't say the new administration is doinganything to shut NASA down," Chiao told SPACE.com. "Overall NASA'sgetting a slight bump."
President Obama also asked for an extra $6 billion over fiveyears to support a new initiative to spur private companies to developcommercial spacecraft capable of ferrying astronauts to and from theInternational Space Station.
That commercial initiative may be partly to blame for themisperception held by some that NASA will stop flying astronauts to space. Butit comes on the heels of NASA's space shuttle retirement, which was initiallyannounced in 2004 by former President George W. Bush as part of a then-newvision for space exploration aimed at returning to the moon.
The looming gap
After the space shuttles retire ? now potentially inFebruary 2011 ? America will be left without means to launch people to space.Only two more shuttle missions are currently scheduled after nearly 30 years inservice.
Under the new plan, NASA would work on designing a heavy-liftrocket to carry humans to an asteroid and on to Mars, while the job of transportingcrews to low-Earth orbit would be left to the Russians and the private sector.
But this new plan doesn't represent a cease of United Statesspace exploration, said science advocate Bill Nye, known for his role as TV's"Bill Nye the Science Guy," who will soon take up the post ofexecutive director of the Planetary Society, a nonprofit organization devotedto the space exploration.
"The idea of the new space policy is to explore newplaces in space and continue the retiring of the space shuttle, which wasstarted six years ago during the previous administration," Nye said.
Yet the looming retirement of NASA's three-orbiter spaceshuttle fleet has provoked fervent protest from the public, lawmakers and spaceleaders. Just this week, famed Mercuryastronaut John Glenn ? the first American to orbit the Earth ? decried thedecision to ground the shuttles.
"The world?s only heavy lift spacecraft and the U.S.?sonly access to space should stay in operation until suitably replaced by a newand well tested heavy lift vehicle," Glenn said in a June 17 statement.
However, the decision to retire the shuttles is not a newelement introduced in the Obama administration plan.
"That all this is coming up now is surprising to thoseof us who thought it was all settled," Nye said.
Russian rides to space
A consequence of the shuttle retirement ? also notunexpected ? is that America will be temporarily left with a gap in itsspaceflying ability, reliant on the Russians for rides to the space station.That situation was also a consequence of the previous moon-oriented program,called Constellation.
"Some of what you hear now is that because of this newdirection we've suddenly got this gap, but that?s not true," Chiao said."The gap was introduced in 2004. It was announced then that the shuttlewas going to be retired in 2010. Even back then under the most optimisticscenarios there would have been at least a three-year gap."
The more recent analysis by the Augustine committee foundthat the gap would have been at least seven years long under the Constellationprogram.
"Apparently it's people in the states directly affectedby the cancelation of the space shuttle just raising a stink and promotingmisinformation," Nye said. "We at the Planetary Society are excitedabout the new space policy because it's going to take us to someplace newrather than someplace old."
Another accusation made about the new directive is that itwas concocted in secret by a group with a hidden agenda.
"A plan that was invisible to so many was likelycontrived by a very small group in secret," famed first moonwalker NeilArmstrong said in a May statement to a Senate subcommittee reviewing NASA'snew space plan.
Yet others say the plan has very clear and publicprogenitors.
"The biggest misconception is that this whole idea wasdreamt up in the White House behind closed doors with no space communityinput," said space policy expert James Oberg, a former space shuttlemission control engineer. "The actual strategy is extremely similar to theWesley Huntress study by an international astronautical group."
He said the framework for the plan can clearly be seen inthe results from that 2004 report by Huntress, a former associate administratorfor space science at NASA and former director of the GeophysicalLaboratory at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C.
"It absolutely negates the idea that his is some sortof political plot," Oberg said. "The plan went through years ofanalysis, modification, and critiques by a worldwide team."
Mistakes in presentation
The proposal also builds off of the findings from theAugustine committee's investigation, members of that panel have said.
Oberg said some of the misperceptions about the plan stemfrom "some very clumsy presentation missteps" in the rollout of theproposal.
NASA chief Charlie Bolden himself has admitted that heregrets some mistakes made in presenting the plan.
"You're looking at the guy responsible. I will take theheat," Bolden said Feb. 6, two days before NASA's first shuttle launch of2010.
He minced no words in criticizing the new space plan'srollout.
"Was it screwed up? Yes, it was," Bolden said atthe time.
Furthermore, the situation has become clouded by politicsthat don't always directly relate to the program itself, Oberg charged.
"The appalling clumsiness of the exposition of this policyis now having serious consequences," he said. "I think it?s prettyclear that the country's become polarized and its trust or distrust of thecurrent administration is affecting the reaction."
Ultimately, many are growing frustrated with the confusionabout the new plan and the prolonged debate.
"We're wasting money, but I think that?s just thenature of doing business with a democratic government," Nye said.
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Belle Gibson and the pernicious cult of ‘wellness’
We’re too eager to believe in the power of lifestyle change
Jenny McCartney
Belle Gibson was a publicist’s dream: a ‘wellness guru’ and young mother with a wholesome blonde beauty, a wide white smile, and just enough tattoos to look modern. She had already encountered appalling adversity for one barely into her twenties: in 2009, she revealed, doctors had diagnosed her with malignant brain cancer and told her bluntly: ‘You’re dying. You have six weeks. Four months tops.’
Sickened by two months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, Gibson said, she had abandoned conventional treatment in favour of a range of holistic treatments, including Ayurvedic medicine and oxygen therapies. She embarked, too, on a gluten-free, refined sugar-free diet which she detailed on her 2013 Instagram blog @healing_belle. There, she announced her intention to continue healing herself from cancer ‘naturally’: it seemed that she had already defied quite astounding medical odds.
The blog became a successful iPhone and iPad food and lifestyle app called The Whole Pantry, which achieved over 300,000 downloads. Publishers excitedly took note, and last December The Whole Pantry book was published in Australia, illustrated with photographs of wholefoods — buckwheat pizza, overflowing bowls of chia seeds — casually but gorgeously displayed in rustic kitchen settings. The publicity described Belle as ‘an inspirational young mother’ who ‘after being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer found herself unsupported by conventional medicine. She began a journey of self-education to treat herself through nutrition.’
Belle’s own introduction to the book contained some dramatic claims. She described growing up ‘in a very dysfunctional home’ with a mother who had multiple sclerosis and an autistic brother. At 12, she said, she moved out and discovered her first vegetable garden. Aged 20, ‘I had a stroke at work’, which led to a ‘diagnosis of malignant brain cancer’. She began to read up on nutrition — ‘one thing that really stayed with me was reading about the detoxification properties of lemons’ — and then ‘pulled myself out of chemo and radiotherapy — my doctors freaked out, but they couldn’t stop me.’ Thereafter, she started ‘empowering myself to save my own life’ (although last July she posted on Instagram the sad news that her cancer had inexorably spread: ‘I have cancer in my blood, spleen, brain, uterus and liver. I am hurting.’) The financial risk in launching The Whole Pantry app was rewarded when an Apple executive chose her app as one of the select few to be featured on the Apple watch.
But there were numerous weevils in The Whole Pantry story, and earlier this month they emerged en masse. Former friends and colleagues began to post sceptical accounts of Belle’s story on Facebook. Fairfax Media started asking serious questions about the ‘inspiring causes’ that Gibson said had profited from the proceeds of her app: several such named charities said they had never seen any money at all. She broke down in an interview with the Australian newspaper, while discussing the July claim that her cancer had spread. Now, Gibson told the interviewer — becoming vague and evasive — this bleak news appeared inaccurate: ‘I would say that it was more of a misdiagnosis than completely fictional.’ She refused to name the doctor responsible. Her story was crumbling: soon no one was sure that she had ever had brain cancer at all, or even of her real age. Soon after, she turned her Instagram account private. Penguin announced that it was suspending publication of the US and UK versions of the Whole Pantry book. Gibson has gone to ground.
Many of the people who so enthusiastically followed Gibson and her progress now feel furious and betrayed. Those in the media who lauded and promoted her have been publicly embarrassed. Elle Australia magazine, which ran a feature last December calling Gibson ‘the most inspiring woman you’ve met this year’, regretfully reflected on its encounter with her. Yet Lauren Sams, a writer on Cosmopolitan magazine, which had given her its ‘Fun Fearless Female’ award, expressed disbelief that anyone should criticise Penguin for not fact-checking Gibson’s story: ‘But why would they? I certainly wouldn’t, if I was in their position. Cancer is so all-consuming, so catastrophic, so final, that to question anyone’s diagnosis would just be downright evil.’
But would it really have been ‘downright evil’ to have asked for some more information on Gibson’s initial condition, or politely to request an interview with the doctors who were allegedly distraught when she first came off chemotherapy? If Gibson’s story had been published in a scientific journal, such questions would have been obligatory. Even in a newspaper article, some basic fact-checking and use of additional sources would have been expected. The real problem lay in the fact that Gibson’s story originated elsewhere, in a blog that quickly became part of the global ‘wellness industry’, a fast-growing business empire which runs partly on the free-flowing fuel of faith, assertion and anecdote, where words such as ‘inspiration’ and ‘empowerment’ recur frequently, and where blunt, evidence-based questions are often instinctively discouraged.
The peculiar, hazy rules of this industry — where lifestyle and diet meet health — are illustrated by its responses to Gibson’s serial claims. On the one hand, she impressed followers with the apparent triumph of her decision to heal herself through alternative therapies and diet. Yet Gibson’s sudden revelation last July that cancer had in fact spread throughout her body seemingly caused no one in the publishing industry to re-evaluate her claims, or even to pause and advise that this seriously ill young mother should urgently return to seek the help of the medical establishment. It is hard to know which template her promoters had in mind for Gibson: was she a genuine ‘medical miracle’ whose ‘detoxifying’ lifestyle had achieved results that defied scientific predictions, or an ‘inspirational’ campaigner and fundraiser whose public struggle against cancer nonetheless appeared doomed? So long as her Raw Chocolate Nutbutter Cups sold, it didn’t really seem to matter which.
Some commentators in Australia have noted similarities between Gibson’s story and that of the Melbourne woman Jess Ainscough, who died in February of a rare and aggressive form of cancer called epithelioid sarcoma. Ainscough was 22 when diagnosed, and decided to reject conventional treatments and her doctor’s advice to amputate her arm including the shoulder — a terrifying prospect for anyone, and perhaps even more so for a strikingly attractive young woman. Instead, she pursued alternative methods which included Gerson Therapy, a treatment partly based on raw juices and coffee enemas. Ainscough’s blog, The Wellness Warrior, attracted a large public following. Her life became a rigorous, punishing schedule of juicing, enemas, yoga, meditation and blogging in order to ‘bring my body to optimum health so that it can heal itself’. On her blog, she wrote that she saw herself as ‘part of an empowering wellness revolution, sweeping the planet’.
In 2012 Ainscough’s mother Sharyn was diagnosed with breast cancer, and she too followed Gerson Therapy until her death in 2013. Ainscough suffered an intensification of her own symptoms, until last December she announced that she had returned to conventional treatments. It proved too late. Dr David Gorski, an American oncologist, wrote sadly on his blog Science-Based Medicine: ‘Jessica Ainscough had one shot, a good shot’ — the agonising decision of an early shoulder amputation — but ‘she didn’t take her first shot’. He concluded that ‘Jess Ainscough was also a victim of the very pseudoscience that she promoted.’
The ‘wellness industry’, of course, covers a broad field, from health supplements to spa treatments, diet regimes to holiday retreats. In its more down-to-earth aspects, there is no reason why much of it cannot work in tandem with conventional medicine. Few doctors would deny that diet and behaviour have an important influence on health: both obesity and smoking, for example, are known to raise the risk of certain cancers. But so, too, do some genetic factors, and other triggers presently beyond medical analysis or control. Doctors must often deal in statistics and probabilities rather than certainties, not least because cancers themselves can be unpredictable.
The more extreme manifestations of ‘wellness’ theory, however, can take on some cultish aspects, including a deep distrust of conventional medicine combined with an irrational conviction that recovery from disease is chiefly a matter of willpower and dietary self-discipline. At its best, this can be misleading; at its worst, it is to blame for encouraging understandably frightened people to shun hospital treatments that have a respectable chance of helping them.
The UK journalists who wrote wittily and poignantly in the late 1990s about cancer and its treatment — most notably Ruth Picardie in the Observer and John Diamond in the Times — did a great deal to demystify the disease, while making their readers acutely aware of the thrill and preciousness of life. Yet Diamond, in particular, was very hard on the popular language of ‘battlers’ and ‘warriors’, saying: ‘I despise the set of warlike metaphors that so many apply to cancer.’ The reason, he said, stemmed from ‘a hatred for the sort of morality which says that only those who fight hard against their cancer survive it, or deserve to survive it — the corollary being that those who lose the fight deserved to do so.’
I wonder what Diamond would have made of Belle Gibson, who spoke the fashionable language of battle with fluent and apparently fraudulent ease, and is now hiding — along with her young son — from an angry army of former believers. Her falsehoods, if that’s what they are, were deeply culpable, and yet perhaps we should also look at those who so vigorously promoted them while suspending their own critical faculties. Sometimes one can even muster a stray flash of sympathy for Gibson, trapped in the big, runaway lie that everyone seemed to love.
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Building an opportunity oriented reputation culture.
In order to answer questions about communications professionals’ current understanding of corporate reputation and how to build an organizational culture focused on proactive reputation building, Brunswick Insight, surveyed senior in-house European communications professionals. The results of our study suggest that the most forward-thinking organizations are positioning their entire organization to build reputation proactively.
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1. The Future of Corporate Reputation Building an opportunity oriented reputation culture December 2016
2. Contents 1. Introduction 2. Key Findings 3. Brunswick’s Point of View on Reputation 4. Reaching consensus on what reputation is and its importance 5. Broader view of the value of Corporate Reputation 6. The future of reputation will look different 7. Best practice for building an opportunity oriented organization 8. The future of corporate reputation 9. Implications 10. About the study 01 02 03 04 10 13 16 27 30 33 Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation
3. 01 Introduction It wasn’t long ago when you would ask a room full of communications professionals to define corporate reputation and you would get a different answer from each one. And when you asked these same professionals how seriously their senior management approached reputation, you would be greeted by a chorus of sighs and moans. Fortunately, much has changed since then. Today, senior communications professionals in companies across Europe agree on what reputation means and nearly all (91%) say that senior management view reputation as important to achieving their business objectives. Yet, while there has been a welcome change in mindset, many companies remain focused on managing reputation from a risk-mitigation perspective. The reason for this is largely historical: the emergence of reputation as an academic and professional discipline, and its recognition by Boards as a criticial part of business management, came in response to the corporate scandals that rocked the business world at the start of this century when trust in business hit an all-time low and started to have a material impact on business performance. There is another way of looking at corporate reputation: as a source of value creation. Some forward looking companies have grasped this reality and are focused on reputation opportunity to create business value. However, organizations still are much more likely to be managing for reputation risk than opportunity If reputation is an organization’s most precious asset, and the tangible business outcomes impacted by it are increasingly understood, are many organizations missing out on the power and benefits of proactive reputation building? How would shifting an organization’s emphasis from reputation risk management to opportunity building unleash added value and what would it take to usher in this new way of thinking? In order to answer these and other questions about communications professionals’ current understanding of corporate reputation and how to build an organizational culture focused on proactive reputation building, Brunswick Insight surveyed 204 senior European in- house communicators across a variety of organizations (corporations, government bodies, NGOs and associations) and sectors in May – June 2016. Respondents came predominantly from the corporate world (77%), with four in ten based in the UK. The remainder were from across Europe, with sizeable groups from DACH countries (Germany, Switzerland and Austria, 19%), Benelux (Brussels/Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, 17%), and the Nordics (Denmark, Finland and Sweden, 8%). The results of our study suggest that the most forward-thinking organizations are positioning their entire organization to build reputation proactively. These organizations are more likely to experience the upsides (e.g., greater employee retention) of a strong positive reputation and less likely to expect the downsides of a below average reputation (especially reputation crises). “Corporate reputation is a company’s perception among its key stakeholder groups and the society in which it operates… It is a crucial influencer of a company’s ability to create future value.” Head of Public Relations, Property Sector, Sweden 1. Brunswick Insight, Future of Corporate Reputation survey report, December 2016
4. 02 Key Findings Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation Six in ten (59%) view reputation as based on a common set of attributes for all organizations. However, when asked what kind of data is important for measuring corporate reputation, the majority (63%) think that having detailed guidance about their specific drivers is more important than data that is comparable to their peers (25%). The majority of organizations (61%) view corporate reputation as something to build proactively for value creation, but reported behaviour indicates that organizations are much more focused on avoiding risk (50%) than proactively building reputation (30%). Highlighting the benefits of an opportunity reputation focus, while most organizations expect to experience a reputation crisis in the future, those that are managing for reputation opportunity are less likely than those managing for risk to expect a reputation crisis (66% vs. 80%).They are also more likely to identify a variety of benefits from proactive reputation building that create tangible value for their organization. Most senior in-house communicators (75%) define “corporate reputation” in a similar way, and share the view that stakeholders “own” an organization’s reputation. Corporate reputation is seen by senior management as very important to achieving business goals (58%), particularly when it comes to driving sales, long-term business success, being a trusted partner, and attracting and retaining the best employees. Those organizations that do manage for reputation opportunity are more likely than those that manage for reputation risk to be engaging in best practice activities, such as discussing reputation at the board level (78% vs. 59%), managing reputation and brand together (69% vs. 46%), and using metrics to track reputation progress (50% vs. 37%). 1 4 5 6 2 3
5. 03 “We need to think of reputation as something that creates value for the business, rather than something we try to manage. Research, analytics and data will be crucial to demonstrating to senior executives and boards how reputation delivers tangible value across the business.” Sir Alan Parker, Chairman, Brunswick Brunswick’s Point of View on Reputation At Brunswick, our point of view on corporate reputation includes five core concepts that we believe are the building blocks of a successful, opportunity oriented corporate reputation culture: Reputation and brand should be Board level concerns – and managed together. Corporate reputation starts and ends with your stakeholders. Your reputation is ultimately defined by the extent to which you are meeting the various expectations that all of your stakeholders have for your company. While the CEO ultimately has responsibility for an organization’s reputation, there should be one person and/or a working group with day to day responsibility for coordinating and overseeing reputation building. Reputation measurement needs to be linked to specific desired business outcomes and to provide clear guidance on how to drive support. Managing reputation is about more than winning hearts and minds; it must deliver tangible outcomes to the business. Your reputation drivers are unique to your organization. Factors and issues impacting your reputation are specific to your company or organization – and can be different for different stakeholder audiences. 1 2 3 4 5
6. 04 Reaching consensus on what reputation is and its importance Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation 04
7. 05 Reaching consensus on what reputation is and its importance Volunteered definition of corporate reputation: the sum of stakeholders’ perceptions and experiences Highlighting the degree to which corporate communicators understand the building blocks of reputation, the survey finds widespread consensus on how to define “corporate reputation.” When asked to define corporate reputation in an open-ended way, most communications professionals (75%) volunteer descriptions related to how a company is viewed or perceived by its stakeholders. Responses to this question confirm the idea that stakeholders “own” an organization’s reputation. Q: How would you define corporate reputation? Intangible asset that can create opportunity and risk for a company 3% Other Actions/initiatives to manage reputation Reputation is vital to business success Aggregate of current & past behaviour and of future intentions Public and stakeholder trust in a company A company’s perceived values and/or social purpose How a company is viewed/perceived by stakeholders 75% 13% 8% 6% 3% 1% 11% N.B.Total adds to more than 100% as multiple responses were allowed.
8. 06 How others talk about or view your company - Brand is how we talk about ourselves, Reputation is how others talk about us. Global Communications Director, Industrial & Infrastructure, Switzerland Everything an organisation says, everything it does and everything others say about it. CEO, Food and Beverage, UK Corporate reputation is the sum of all the perceptions held by internal and external stakeholders about an organization, based on experiences and impressions over time. Head of Public Relations, Professional & Support Services, UK Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation
9. 07 Reaching consensus on what reputation is and its importance Prompted definition of corporate reputation: respondents are more likely to view reputation as based on common attributes than as something that is unique to the organization However, the notion that reputation is like DNA – and unique to each organization – is currently held by a minority of respondents. Senior in-house communicators are more likely to define reputation as how stakeholders view their organization compared to peers based on a common set of attributes (59%) rather than as the degree to which their organization is seen to be meeting the expectations stakeholders have that are unique and specific to the organization (37%). Expectations that are unique to the organization “The extent to which my organization is meeting the expectations stakeholders have that are unique and specific to my organization.” A common set of attributes for all organizations “How my organization is viewed compared to other organizations based on a set of common attributes, such as being a good corporate citizen, producing good products and financial strength.” Q: Which of the following comes closest to the way you define corporate reputation? 37% Don’t know 3% 59%
10. 08 Reaching consensus on what reputation is and its importance Nevertheless, a solid majority prefer to have detailed guidance about the specific drivers of their organization’s reputation Still, almost two thirds (63%) think that having detailed guidance about the specific drivers of an organization’s reputation is more important than having data and metrics comparable to peers. This suggests that while there is a desire to be able to compare across companies and sectors, senior in-house communicators recognize that to manage reputation effectively detailed guidance about the unique drivers of their organization’s reputation is more important. “Having detailed guidance about the specific drivers of your organization's reputation.” “Having data and metrics that are comparable to your peers.” Q: Which of the two types of data below is more important to you when it comes to measuring corporate reputation? 63% Don’t know 3% Neither 8% 25% Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation
11. 09 Reaching consensus on what reputation is and its importance Corporate reputation is seen by senior management as “very important” to achieving business goals Reputation is thought to have a powerful influence for organizations in many ways. For example, nine in ten (91%) say that their senior management view reputation as important to achieving business outcomes, with 58% saying it plays a very important role. Q: In your organization, how important do you think senior management believe corporate reputation is to achieving business outcomes? 91% important Not at all important 1% Very important 58% Not so important 6% Somewhat important 33%
12. 10 Broader view of the value of Corporate Reputation Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation 10
13. 11 Broader view of the value of corporate reputation A strong reputation has clear business benefits When asked to volunteer what they think are the biggest benefits of having a strong corporate reputation, respondents are most likely to mention benefits related to achieving business success in the form of growth, sustainability and continuity, or having stronger, more trusting stakeholder relationships. Q: What do you think is the biggest benefit for an organization of having a strong corporate reputation? “[A strong reputation] enables premium pricing, attracts and retains talent and strengthens the investment case.” Director of Communications, Engineering, UK “To maintain a sustainable operation and deliver business results over time” Director of Communications, Industrial & Infrastructure, Sweden “It enables us to build trustful relations with key stakeholders, which is positive for business growth and protection” Head of Communications, Industrial Goods, Italy Business success – growth, sustainability & continuity Stronger stakeholder relationships, engagement and trust Increased protection/resilience Employee engagement, attraction and retention Greater credibility License to operate Differentiation/competitive edge Creates or builds value Enables an organisation to position as a thought leadership and be respected in the industry Other 50% 45% 23% 20% 12% 10% 7% 7% 2% 2% Top Benefits N.B.Total adds to more than 100% as multiple responses were allowed.
14. 12 Broader view of the value of corporate reputation A strong corporate reputation is believed to have the greatest influence on attracting and retaining employees, generating support in a crisis, and driving sales At least half of senior European communications professionals think that corporate reputation can have a great deal of influence on the likelihood of: ■■ employees to work for or recommend working for their organization (67%) ■■ stakeholders to support their organization in a crisis (58%) or ■■ consumers to purchase or recommend their organization’s products or services (52%) Q: How much influence, if any, do you think corporate reputation can have on each of the following business outcomes? Likelihood of… Employees to work for or recommend working for your organization Total high Influence (“4” or “5”) Stakeholders to support your organization in a crisis Consumers to purchase or recommend your organization’s products or services Investors to buy your stock or recommend buying your stock Politicians to support government policies beneficial to your organization 1% 1% 27%67% 3% 2% 94% 58% 30% 9% 2% 88% 52% 30% 11% 3% 2% 82% 39% 34% 17% 5% 4% 73% 34% 38% 16% 9% 2% 72% Top influence Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation 5 – Great deal of influence 3 1 – No influence at all4 2 Don’t know
15. 13 The future of reputation will look different What are organizations doing to build and manage their reputation? While most are doing quite a lot to manage their reputation, there is a clear divide between those who are taking a proactive, opportunity focused approach versus those who are taking a more tactical, defensive, risk management approach. 13
16. 14 The future of reputation will look different Reputation seen as something to proactively build for value creation The majority of European communications professionals (61%) say that senior executives in their organization currently view reputation as something that can be proactively built to create tangible value for the organization. This proportion is expected to rise to eight in ten (78%) in five years’ time, which signals that the desire for a proactive mindset is both widespread and increasing. Q: Which of the following statements comes closest to describing how corporate reputation is understood by senior executives in your organization today? And in five years' time? ...something we manage in order to respond to risks and prevent loss of value to the organization. Now NowIn five years’ time In five years’ time ...something that we proactively build to create tangible value for the organization 78% 61% 19% 37% Corporate reputation is… Proactively built for value creation Managed to avoid risk and lost value 18% 17% Don’t know 1% Don’t know 3% Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation
17. 15 The future of reputation will look different However organizations’ current focus is more often on avoiding reputation risk than proactively identifying reputation opportunities Although many organizations have a proactive mindset, communications professionals say that their organizations are currently putting the most emphasis on protecting corporate reputation rather than building or enhancing it. This finding highlights how, at present, organizations’ actual focus is on reputation risk more than reputation opportunity. Characteristics of those who are most likely to proactively build reputation: ■■ Senior management view reputation as very important to achieving business success ■■ Manage brand and reputation together within the organization ■■ Communication department budget is >€5m ■■ Communication team is 16-50 people ■■ Sector: Professional/support services Q: Currently, how much emphasis, if any, does your organization place on each of the following? Reactive behavior Proactive behavior Measuring corporate reputation 13% 21% 26% 22% 19% 34% Enhancing corporate reputation 12% 2%26%29%29% 1% 58% Building corporate reputation 30% 30% 28% 12% 60% Protecting corporate reputation 67%50% 27% 17% 4% 1% 1% 77% 5 – A great deal of emphasis 3 1 – No emphasis at all4 2 Don’t know Total Emphasis
18. 16 Best practice for building an opportunity oriented organization Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation 16
19. 17 Best practice for building an opportunity oriented organization Best practice for building an opportunity oriented organization What does it take to build an organization focused on using reputation to create value and achieve objectives? While all reputation management activities are important – for example, it is always a good idea to engage with stakeholders – we think that there are some activities that constitute best practice and which foster a culture focused on reputation as a positive contributor to value creation. The more organizations can drive towards these best practices, the more likely they are to reap the benefits of a proactive reputation culture. Discuss and address reputation at the Board level Create metrics to track reputation progress Use ‘reputation’ as a tool for achieving business objectives, rather than as a goal in itself Have one person such as a Chief Reputation Officer or a working group coordinating reputation management centrally Develop a narrative that expresses the organization’s social purpose Manage brand and reputation together Link reputation to desired business outcomes to demonstrate business value These best practices include 1 2 3 4 5 67
20. 18 Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation Best practice for building an opportunity oriented organization Current practice more likely to include standard reputation activities When it comes to specific activities organizations are engaged in currently to protect and enhance their corporate reputation, respondents are often more likely to mention standard reputation activities associated with managing reputation risk rather than best practice activities that create value from reputation opportunities. Percent doing each Standard practice – focus on reputation risk Best practice – manage for reputation opportunity More than 70% ■■ Engage with stakeholders (89%) ■■ Monitor social media for reputational risks (83%) ■■ Use social media for purposes other than marketing (74%) ■■ Prepare for crises (73%) ■■ Discuss and address reputation at the Board level (71%) 51%-70% ■■ Conduct reputation research with stakeholders (59%) ■■ Create a social purpose narrative (67%) ■■ Monitor social media for reputational opportunities (63%) ■■ Manage reputation and brand together (59%) 21%-50% ■■ Map online influencers (41%) ■■ Create working groups to coordinate reputation activity (45%) ■■ Use metrics to monitor and track progress (45%) 20% or less ■■ Have one person such as a CRO to oversee reputation management (18%)
21. 19 Best practice for building an opportunity oriented organization Opportunity focused organizations more likely to be doing best practice activities now However, organizations focused on seeking reputation opportunities are more likely than those that are focused on reputation risk to be doing best practice activities like managing reputation and brand together (69% vs. 46%), monitoring social media for reputational opportunities (71% vs. 50%) or discussing and addressing reputation at the Board level (78% vs. 59%). Action Those who focus on reputation opportunity Those who focus on reputation risk Difference Managing reputation and brand together 69% 46% (+23%) Monitoring social media for reputational opportunities 71% 50% (+21%) Using social media for purposes other than marketing 81% 61% (+20%) Discussing reputation at board level 78% 59% (+19%) Reputation Officer 24% 8% (+16%) Creating social purpose narrative 73% 59% (+14%) Using metrics to monitor and track reputation progress 50% 37% (+13%) Mapping online influencers 46% 34% (+12%) Monitoring social media for reputational risks 87% 76% (+11%) Engaging with stakeholders regularly 93% 82% (+11%) Conducting reputation research with stakeholders 63% 55% (+8%) Taking concrete steps to prepare for reputational crises 76% 68% (+8%) Creating working groups to coordinate reputation activity 48% 41% (+7%) Q: Which of the following is your organization doing currently to protect and enhance your organization’s corporate reputation?
22. 20 Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation Best practice for building an opportunity oriented organization And opportunity focused organizations more likely to be doing best practice activities in the future Similarly, those organizations focused on seeking reputation opportunities are more likely than those focused on reputation risks to say that in five years’ time they are certain to be doing best practice activities – often with double digit differences. The only reputation management activity they are less likely to be doing is preparing for reputational crises, suggesting that these communicators may expect that proactive reputation building in best practice areas will reduce the likelihood of a crisis in the future. Action Those who focus on reputation opportunity Those who focus on reputation risk Difference Managing reputation and brand together 43% 22% (+21%) Using metrics to monitor and track reputation progress 42% 26% (+16%) Monitoring social media for reputational opportunities 56% 42% (+14%) Creating social purpose narrative 52% 41% (+11%) Discussing reputation at board level 54% 43% (+11%) Engaging with stakeholders regularly 67% 58% (+9%) Reputation Officer 17% 8% (+9%) Creating working groups to coordinate reputation activity 26% 18% (+8%) Conducting reputation research with stakeholders 45% 37% (+8%) Using social media for purposes other than marketing 62% 54% (+8%) Mapping online influencers 38% 32% (+6%) Monitoring social media for reputational risks 66% 61% (+5%) Taking concrete steps to prepare for reputational crises 54% 61% (-7%) Q: How likely or unlikely is it that your organization will be doing the following in five years’ time to protect and enhance your organization’s corporate reputation?
23. 21 Best practice for building an opportunity oriented organization Listening and acting on stakeholder concerns seen as the most important factors in creating a reputation- focused culture When asked to rate the importance of several factors that could help create a corporate reputation-focused culture in their organization, communications professionals are most likely to say listening to stakeholders and factoring their views into what the organization does, linking reputation to important business outcomes, and greater integration across the organization of functions that touch on reputation are most important. One in four (25%) say having a CRO or dedicated reputation risk committee is very important to create a reputation- focused corporate culture. Q: How important, if at all, are each of the following to help create a corporate reputation-focused culture in your organization? Listening to stakeholders and factoring their views into what we do Being able to link reputation to important business outcomes Greater integration across the organization of functions that touch on reputation Mapping and tracking reputational risk on social media Having one person, such as a Chief Reputation Officer, with responsibility for managing our reputation and who reports directly to the CEO or Board Having a dedicated reputation risk committee 98%71% 60% 52% 39% 25% 23% 31% 37% 4% 4% 25% 39% 6% 6% 46% 14% 37% 8% 2% 1% 30% 10% 27% 2% 90% 89% 85% 50% 54% Top three factors Very important Not at all importantFairly important Not so important Don’t know Total Important
24. 22 Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation Q: Which of the following best describes your view of the relationship between corporate reputation and corporate brand? Q: Which of the following is your organization doing currently to protect and enhance your organization’s corporate reputation? Managing reputation and brand together Best practice snapshot Brand vs. Reputation – while most see them as different, they are managed together Most (73%) respondents say that corporate brand and corporate reputation remain very distinct concepts, with brand being owned by the organization and reputation owned by stakeholders. Those most likely to be managing brand and reputation together include: ■■ Organizations where senior management view reputation as very important to achieving business success (73% manage brand and reputation together) ■■ Those who view reputation and brand as basically the same thing (72% together) ■■ Organizations where senior management proactively build corporate reputation (69% together) Nevertheless, the majority say their organization is currently managing brand and reputation together (57%) rather than separately (42%). 26% 73% 42% 57% Brand BrandReputation Reputation Very different “They are very different. Corporate brand is owned and created by the organization, while corporate reputation is “owned” by your stakeholders, through the perceptions they have of the organization.” Same thing “They are essentially the same thing; any difference that may have existed is now irrelevant because of social media and other factors.” Manage brand and reputation separately Manage brand and reputation together Don’t know 1%
25. 23 Best practice for building an opportunity oriented organization Responsibility for managing corporate reputation Half of communications professionals (52%) say that there is one person who has ultimate responsibility for managing corporate reputation in their organization. Among those who do not have one person managing reputation, half say that it is done through a team approach (54%), while 25% of these respondents say reputation is not managed proactively. From our perspective, having one person with responsibility for coordinating reputation management is a hallmark of a proactive reputation culture. Organizations that are proactively managing reputation to support value creation are more likely than reactive organizations to have one person in that role (62% vs. 38%).
26. 24 Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation Experience with reputation crises Most organizations have experienced reputational crises Nearly seven in ten (69%) communications professionals say that their organization has experienced a reputational issue in the past five years that had a material impact. The most common impact of a reputational issue was increased government regulation or oversight (40%), followed by greater difficulty in attracting employees (31%) and loss of consumer trust (31%). No 69% Yes Increased government regulation or oversight More difficult to attract employees Loss of consumer trust Lost revenue Decreased share price Government fine Increased cost of capital 40% 31% 31% 25% 23% 17% 8% Q: In the past five years, has a reputational issue led to any of the following happening to your organization?
27. 25 Experience with reputation crises But organizations seeking reputation opportunities are less likely to expect crises in the future In the next five years, seven in ten (70%) think that it is at least somewhat likely their organization will encounter a reputation crisis that has material impact, including 26% who think it is very likely. However, highlighting one benefit of a reputation opportunity culture, those who say their organization is proactively building reputation are less likely than those who say their organization manages reputation to respond to risks to say they expect a reputation crisis in the next five years (66% vs. 80%). 70% Likely 21% Unlikely Very likely, 26% Somewhat unlikely, 19% Very unlikely, 2% Don’t know, 8% Somewhat likely, 44% Q: In the next 5 years, how likely or unlikely is it that your company will encounter a reputation crisis that has material impact?
28. 26 Best practice for building an opportunity oriented organization Benefits of creating a reputation- focused culture In addition to expecting fewer crises, those who say their senior executives are focused on proactive reputation building cite a variety of benefits to the business, including driving stakeholder trust and support, and achieving commercial goals. Open-ended feedback from a variety of communicators demonstrate how these benefits create tangible value for organizations: Trust in the business to deliver on a specific objective: ■■“It paves the way for sales and marketing, building a long-term solid and trustworthy relationship with not only customers but with society.” (Director of Communications, Healthcare, Sweden) ■■“Customers want to work with companies they trust and believe in.” (Head of Communications, Healthcare, Switzerland) Employee engagement, attraction and retention: ■■“Better business, attracts the right talent, lower staff turnover, positive impact on share price and mitigates risk by decreasing damage if in a crisis situation.” (Director of Communications, Consumer Goods, Sweden) ■■“Builds credibility and helps create the ‘environment’ the business needs to help deliver the business strategy – from promoting the business or investment case, to attracting and retaining talent, to influencing opinion formers and strategic partners.” (Director Corporate Affairs, Media, UK) Achieving strategic, reputational and commercial goals ■■“Companies will need to engage with critics from all sides in a much more transparent, authentic way and provide a window into their operations to trusted, independent media in order to build and maintain a strong corporate reputation.” (Press Officer, Healthcare, UK) ■■“There will be a greater understanding that companies need to state their purpose and be prepared to be evaluated against this claimed purpose. There will be greater pressure by consumers or end users on companies to demonstrate that its activities are in line with purpose, to be credible and gain loyalty.” (Director of Communications, Travel & Tourism, Switzerland) Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation
29. 27 The future of corporate reputation 27
30. 28 The future of corporate reputation The future of corporate reputation: greater focus on transparency and social purpose Finally, when asked to say what they expect the big issues or changes will be in terms of corporate reputation in the next five years, senior in-house communicators are most likely to say reputation will be driven by digital and social media, expectations of transparency and focus on social purpose. Greater impact of digital/ social media influence More proactive, strategic reputation management More resources needed/ in-house structural changes Greater understanding of reputation drivers Role in society (CSR, environmental, sustainability etc.) Increased need for research and measurement Greater scrutiny/regulation Other Expectation for more transparency/ trust Greater senior management and Board involvement More focus on attraction of, and engagement with, employees No change Reputation will be increasingly important More direct and specific engagement with stakeholders Greater integration across functions within companies No answer/ don’t know 25% 18% 17% 16% 11% 7% 7% 6% 3% 3% 3% 3% 2% 3% 9% 4% Q: In a sentence or two, what do you think the future of corporate reputation will look like in the next five years? Which big issues or changes do you expect to see? N.B.Total adds to more than 100% as multiple responses were allowed. Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation
31. 29 Rising impact of digital – as a way to interact with all stakeholders and a tool for insight and innovating in how business is carried out. Director of Corporate Affairs, Energy & Resources, UK Better upstream consideration of reputational issues and likely perspectives of skeptical external stakeholders – before decisions are made. Volkswagen went wrong in part because nobody on the comms side had licence to challenge the engineers and say “hang on a minute”. That will (I hope) change in more places. Head of Communications, Healthcare & Life Sciences, UK There will be a greater understanding that companies need to state their purpose and be prepared to be evaluated against this claimed purpose. There will be greater pressure by consumers or end users on companies to demonstrate that its activities are in line with purpose, to be credible and gain loyalty. Director of Communications, Travel & Tourism, Switzerland
32. 30 Implications Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation 30
33. 31 Implications The results of this survey highlight the progress organizations in Europe are making in terms of reputation management. Reputation increasingly has become a focus of the top level of organizations, and is seen as a strategic asset to build and enhance. Senior leaders get it. And senior in-houses across sectors and organizational types are actively engaged in reputation building. Those organizations that are managing reputation for opportunity and not just risk are more likely to be engaging in best practice than those that are focused on avoiding risk. It’s clear that opportunity-focused organizations are more likely than risk-focused organizations to have senior leadership that views reputation as very important to achieving business outcomes – and are less likely to expect to experience a reputational crisis in the next five years. We think there are several factors driving the change to a reputation opportunity culture: Organizations see, hear and read how their peers are gaining strategic and market advantage by leveraging their positive reputations. The lack of trust/default cynicism consumers and many stakeholders have requires more active and continuous engagement. Reputation is increasingly seen as an asset that is very important to the long term sustainability of the organization. Moreover, companies that look at reputation through the lens of how it can deliver specific, measurable and tangible value are more likely to be proactive to deliver concrete outcomes. There is a greater expectation on organizations to demonstrate social purpose as well as make good products and profits. Social media moves too fast and is too unpredictable to have a reactive posture. 1 4 2 53
34. 32 Implications continued Managing reputation to mitigate risk remains important but is not enough. It is increasingly important for organizations to develop a proactive reputation culture that is focused on social purpose, transparency, and creating value for all stakeholders. As one senior in-house says: Any organization that relegates reputation to the tactics of risk management or brand management will NEVER benefit from the real benefits of strategically embracing perceptions pro-actively. There are cases after cases that prove this. Take any company that has very low perceptions and look at how much money has to be spent to overcome the challenge: whether it’s in government relations costs, increased advertising, or diversionary social media efforts. None of this drives growth. Head of Customer Experience, Healthcare Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation
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36. 34 About the study Methodology The research was conducted by Brunswick Insight, the opinion research practice of Brunswick Group, an advisory firm specialising in critical issues and corporate relations. Brunswick Insight conducted an online survey of 204 European senior communications professionals between 13th May and 12th July 2016 to understand their views, insights and practices related to the future of corporate reputation. Respondents work in a wide range of industries and sectors in Europe. Survey respondents were drawn from several sources, including our own and publicly available databases. Most respondents were from companies, but a sizeable number of associations, government organisations, NGOs and other organisations also took part. The questionnaire for the survey included a variety of open-ended questions to capture respondents’ views in their own words. NOTE: PERCENTAGES MAY NOT TOTAL 100%, DUE TO ROUNDING OR MULTIPLE RESPONSES. Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation About Brunswick Insight Brunswick Insight operates globally with consultants located in the Americas, Asia and Europe. We specialise in assessing global business issues, brand and corporate reputation. Brunswick Insight uses a range of qualitative and quantitative research techniques to help companies and organisations inform and measure their communications and policy strategies. We work across a broad spectrum of sectors, geographies, languages and mandates and offer a wide range of services, from stakeholder and issue mapping through to opinion polling and focus groups. If you have questions or would like more information about the research please contact Phil Riggins at Brunswick Insight on +44 (0)20 7396 3564 or at priggins@brunswickgroup.com
37. 35 5% 13%5% 20% 10%9% 4% 17%4% 5% 49% 20%10% About the study Demographics Organization details Type of Organization Number of Employees Worldwide Department BudgetNumber of Employees in Department Private organization 25% Governmental organization 7% Non-profit organization 6% Industry association or trade body 6% Other 3% Listed organization 52% 51 – 100 €150,001 – €300,0006 – 10 1% 7%20% 101 – 250 €300,001 – €500,00011 – 15 6% 9%10% 251 – 500 €500,001 – €999,99916 – 20 1,001 – 5,000 €2.1 million – €5 million31 – 50 501 – 1,000 €1 million – €2 million21 – 30 5,001 – 10,000 More than €5 million51 – 100 More than 10,000 Don’t knowMore than 100 16%7% 1 – 100 Up to €150,0001 – 5 10% 9%35%
38. 36 1% 2% 2% 2% About the study Demographics continued Position & sector Respondent Position Sector Head of Communications Industrial & Infrastructure Director of Communications Consumer Industries Global Communications Director Finance Institution Communications Manager Professional & Support Services Head of Public Relations Technology, Media & Telecoms Communications Director Healthcare & Lifesciences Head of IR Energy & Resources Partner Real Estate and Property Public Affairs Director Other Head of Research Public Affairs Manager CEO Other 25% 19% 19% 19% 8% 16% 8% 12% 6% 11% 4% 10% 3% 6% 3% 3% 6% 12% Brunswick Insight report The Future of Corporate Reputation
39. 37 About the study Demographics continued 59% 39% Country & gender breakdown Country Gender United Kingdom Belgium/ Brussels Germany Switzerland Sweden Netherlands Italy Austria France Denmark Spain Other 43% 12% 8% 8% 7% 5% 4% 3% 2% 1% 1% 5% Prefer not to say 2% Male Female
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Book Review: The Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell and friends
by Amanda MacGregor | Blogs
Jul 10, 2018 | Filed in Reviews+
Publisher’s description Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier, Awkward, and All’s Faire in Middle School, this graphic novel follows a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary cardboard into fantastical homemade costumes as they explore conflicts with friends, family, and their own identity. Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary […]
Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier, Awkward, and All’s Faire in Middle School, this graphic novel follows a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary cardboard into fantastical homemade costumes as they explore conflicts with friends, family, and their own identity.
Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters—and their own inner demons—on one last quest before school starts again.
In the Cardboard Kingdom, you can be anything you want to be—imagine that!
The Cardboard Kingdom was created, organized, and drawn by Chad Sell with writing from ten other authors: Jay Fuller, David DeMeo, Katie Schenkel, Kris Moore, Molly Muldoon, Vid Alliger, Manuel Betancourt, Michael Cole, Cloud Jacobs, and Barbara Perez Marquez. The Cardboard Kingdom affirms the power of imagination and play during the most important years of adolescent identity-searching and emotional growth.
Amanda’s thoughts
I’m keeping track of what books I read for younger readers this summer and making a post-it note blog post about them, just like I post during the school year. But I loved this book so much that I wanted to single it out and make sure it gets seen so it can be added to all collections. There is a lot to like about this graphic novel. The vibrant, cheerful art is incredibly appealing, the large cast of characters all get their own little storylines and stand out as unique and memorable—not an easy task when looking at this many characters. I love the emphasis on creativity, imagination, and working together as well as the creative play that allows you to imagine yourself however you’d like to be—or to show the world how you really are. As the parent of a kid who still, at 12, loves nothing more than turning a cardboard box into the scene for some imagined battle, a kid who is generally outside in some kind of costume, I especially love it. The diversity of kids and home lives shown here is effortless, inclusive, and affirming. There’s a boy who lives with this grandmother while his mother is off somewhere else, and needs to learn to care for herself before he can go live with her again. There’s a young child, Jack, who loves the role of the sorceress because she is how he sees himself, how he’d like to be. His mother assures him that she’s okay with that, with him, and that he’s amazing. There’s Miguel who longs to be the romantic lead opposite a dashing prince. Seth’s parents are splitting up and he fears his father’s visits to their house. Some of the kids are the charismatic organizers while others hang back more and have to work a little harder to feel at ease with the group. This is a really excellent book with one of the most diverse groups of kids I’ve seen in a children’s book in a long time. A surefire hit with the graphic novel crowd.
Publisher: Random House Children’s Books
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Cathcart Way Bus Pullouts
Snohomish County Public Works constructed four new bus pullouts to serve the existing Community Transit (CT) route 109. Two were constructed at Cathcart Way and Snohomish-Cascade Drive and two were built at Cathcart Way and Puget Park Drive. The existing curb, gutter and sidewalk were removed and new, wider pavement was added to create the bus pullouts. New curb, gutter and sidewalk was also constructed. The bus pullouts are approximately 10 feet wide by 110 feet long. Sections of rock wall were installed where needed.
Snohomish-Cascade Drive
Proposed Improvements
Snohomish-Cascade Drive - February 2018
Construction for this project was anticipated to be completed by late July. The bus stops became active shortly after construction was completed.
The preliminary cost estimate for this project was $250,000 and was funded by the county road fund.
Postcard - Land Disturbing Activity
Construction Postcard - April 2018
Puget Park Drive
Puget Park Drive - February 2018
Construction for this project was completed by late July. The bus stops became active shortly after construction was completed.
This project will require single-lane closures.
The preliminary cost estimate for this project is $250,000 and is funded by the county road fund.
Other Projects in the Area
Cathcart South Property - Concept Development Plan and Park and Ride
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Martinez searching for balance to keep World Cup contenders Belgium on right path
Written By Peter Staunton
@petermstaunton
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Belgium v Tunisia
It would appear that World Cup viewers are being left underwhelmed by the performances of the so-called top teams at the tournament. Argentina’s problems are well documented and their coach Jorge Sampaoli might not even last through to Tuesday’s match against Nigeria.
Defending champions Germany meanwhile lost to Mexico in a game that exposed a lack of speed and gave El Tri all the encouragement they needed to raid on the break.
France and Brazil have made heavy work of their opening games as well – needing magic, or good fortune or both in order to get themselves towards the summits of their respective groups.
Spain were not wholly impressive in either of their games while Portugal have plenty of work to do to live up to their status of European champions even if Cristiano Ronaldo is doing all he can up front. England, meanwhile, needed an at-the-death intervention from Harry Kane to see them past Tunisia.
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Those teams are all characterised by outstanding individual talent. The problem is trying to get enough of it into the XI at once or structure it in such a way that the players bring the best out of each other.
This World Cup has shown that it’s a risk to rely solely on talent to get results. In the case of Lionel Messi, for example, there simply is not the same kind of unity in the Argentina ranks as he enjoys for Barcelona. It means less cohesion and less of a platform to have an influence.
On the other hand, the middle and lower ranking teams are able to come together and stay organised, stay solid and resist. That’s one of the reasons why Neymar has looked like a blunt instrument at the World Cup.
"You see every team, that they are on the pitch with a clear idea of what they do,” says Belgium coach Roberto Martinez.
"It's harder and harder and harder to score goals from open play.
"It's down to the improvement of technology and information and tactical awareness that big teams have to prepare against.”
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Solid organisation - no matter the calibre of player - runs natural talent very close. The team closest to the magic formula of top-class players and a devised system of play is Germany.
Whether they had an off-day or a genuine complacency has seeped into the holders, they simply failed to hit their marks on matchday one. But Joachim Low has been in charge of the national team since 2006 and has seen the side through numerous different iterations. His players join the squad and know what is expected.
Mexico on matchday one found a glorious unity and clarity of purpose that emphasised their credentials as the best collective on display so far. Maybe that’s because Low’s Germany present so few surprises.
This search for the right balance is the path that Belgian coach Martinez finds himself on. Few would argue that Belgium possess some of the best players – in all positions – at the World Cup. And Martinez’s job is to make sure they have enough of a relationship with one another to function like a club team.
It’s a tough ask for a national team coach as his contact with his players is severely restricted. That’s why Martinez’s line-ups throughout the recent friendlies and into the tournament proper have been so similar. He is seeking through repetition that instinctive play which characterises the very best teams.
It’s not always easy but top teams are having to figure out new ways to beat the meeker nations. They’ve all reached a level of organisational discipline which makes them very difficult to break down.
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"Everyone now has the technology and the information to prepare games down to detail,” said Martinez.
“Many years ago you used to go to a World Cup and it was a surprise on the day, and talent and decisions on the pitch made a bigger difference.”
Martinez on Friday was asked for his line-up to face Tunisia on Saturday and gave little away. However, unless there’s a last-minute injury or illness it’ll be fairly easy to predict.
Top teams need to be just as organised as their less-illustrious counterparts and are largely responsible for dictating the rhythm and style of any give match. To gain that initiative, patterns and partnerships must be present.
The also-rans have figured out how not to lose but the contenders still need to devise a way to win.
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Tag: level 42
“Steve’s complex array of sound and rare, intimate
touch are rapidy turning him into one of the most
influential bassists in the world” – bass guitar magazine
“Lawson’s writing and his phenomenal command of the possibilities of looping creates a compelling and surprising variety of sounds one would never imagine the bass capable of producing.” – JazzWise
“Steve Lawson is a brilliant musician. I’ve known about him and listened to him for many years. He may not be one of the most famous bassists but he is definitely one of the most talented.” – Victor Wooten
“Steve..I look at you as one of the best innovators in the bass community. The path you have chosen to follow is special and deep. If anyone has any issues with this, I feel for them and they should not be paying any attention the what you do. Just move on to a more mundane approach to the instrument and be happy. You are a gift and I love your playing and concept.” – Leland Sklar
“one of the most gifted solo bass players on the planet” – Ian Peel, Record Collector Magazine
“sensuous melodies intertwine and fall away with the intimacy of Talk Talk?s Spirit of Eden and the cinematic production values of Brian Eno” – Sid Smith
“Lawson’s solo bass compositions include palettes of lush sonic soundscapes and layers of ambient textures which have helped to redefine the art of looping and live performance as a solo bassist.” – The International Insitute Of Bass
“one of today’s most inventive and original sounding voices on the
electric bass. He is a pioneering innovator in the art of looping.” – cliff engel, www.bassically.net
“a one man cosmic symphony” – Jerry Kranitz, www.aural-innovations.com
“Taking you from new-age jazz to Starsky and Hutch, this solo bassist is a must-see for anyone who’s ever
harboured dreams of being a professional musician. Catch him while he’s hot!” (4/5) – ThreeWeeks
“Lawson is a master of a whole universe of sounds…a truly original talent” – JazzWise
“Steve Lawson is better than good… …[his] sheer virtuosity communicates an infectious love for the music.” – Good Times Santa Cruz.
“the life affirming stuff of dreams” Sue Edwards, Royal Festival Hall.
About the cds –
“What a beautiful recording! This is perhaps the best argument yet that the bass is a versatile, deeply expressive instrument and in the hands of a brilliant and visionary artist like Steve, is capable of making music of enormous emotional and musical depth. Please buy a copy and share it with your friends and family. I think they’ll thank you for it!” – Michael Manring.
“beautifully performed throughout” – Guitarist Magazine (uk)
“From the opening trills of ‘Flutter’ it’s clear that this is going to be an extraordinary album…
…Steve’s complex array of sound and rare, intimate touch are rapidly turning him into one of the most influential bassists in
the world.” – Bass Guitar Magazine (uk)
“one of the most refreshing, listenable and unpretentious albums i have heard in one long time!” – warren murchie, global bass magazine (Canada)
“i encourage the rest of the world to get this album and find out just how versatile a bass guitar can be – 10/10 “- cross rhythms magazine (uk)
“A excellent set of truly inspired improvisational music.” – aural innovations e-zine. (US)
“Frisell, Fripp and Garbarek revisited in unique ways.” – JazzUK Magazine. (UK)
“steve has something all his own, and with it a bright future as a solo bass performer and likely anything else he chooses along the way. pick it up now so you can say you know of him from the beginning.” – bass frontiers magazine (us)
“I highly recommend this CD! As Steve’s playing and concept grow he makes ever more gorgeous and engaging music that really demonstrates the expressive depth of the bass. The richness of this music makes for a rewarding listening experience on all levels and I think Steve’s approach represents a real step forward for the art of solo bass.” – Michael Manring.
“All in all, “and nothing but the bass”, is a most delectable and auspicious debut release from a very talented artist with the vision and ability to think and play outside the box. Definitely recommended listening” – www.ambientvisions.com (US)
“Take the playing expertise of Phil Keaggy mix in a healthy dose of the solo work of Robert Fripp and transfer that to a six string fretless bass guitar. What you have as a result of the best of both is a gentleman known as Steve Lawson.” – www.tollbooth.org (US)
“On technical terms alone, Lawson holds his end up alongside American stars of the lyrical bass suchas Victor Wooten or Michael Manring. But his work showcases not only prodigious playing talent
but also a thorough lack of self-consciousness about engaging with his listeners.” – Misfit City E-zine (UK)
“Using only a couple basses and a handful of electronic gadgets, Lawson skillfully paints sonic textures of ambient soundscapes with adventurous soloing and masterful layering.” – www.bassically.net (US)
” This is such a special album that a short review like this can hardly do it justice. The moody melody of ‘Need You Now’, the funky slap and pop of ‘Channel Surfing’, the atmospheric ‘Jimmy James’, all these and every other track are worthy of careful examination and I only have 200 words! ‘Chicken’ is an album that invites you to sit back,
close your eyes and get involved in it’s shimmering melodic beauty for an hour.” – Euphoria Magazine (UK)
“The marvelously musical result on Lawson’s second [solo] album, which tends toward a mellow, ambient vibe that sometimes recalls new age
music and ’80s art-rock, has as much to do with Lawson’s melodic sense as it does to do with his technical mastery.” – Bass Player Magazine.
“Folk music, Frippertronics, fretless Jaco Pastorius flights, country melodies and world-music trance epics mingle here, plus a few hints of past effects-pedal kings like Dean Carter or Pat Orchard. And it’s utterly inclusive music, lacking the smugness and self-love that blight many solo instrumental jaunts, and more interested in raising a happy smile rather than pulling an anguished ‘guitar face’ ” – Organ Magazine (UK)
“In summary, Lawson succeeds in showcasing the range of his instruments’ possibilities while also creating enjoyable and interesting music. The album’s real strength
lies in it’s variety, from Frippoid soundscapes, to jazz, and ambient space. – www.aural-innovations.com (US)
“On the last piece – “Pillow Mountain” – Lawson shows that, with a few electronic gizmos, even very “unbasslike” sounds can be produced. A
wonderfully melancholic fretless solo is played over an underlying mood reminiscent of Brian Eno. Beautiful.” – Jazz Dimensions Magazine (Germany)
“Only a musician with great talent and sensitivity can provoke such emotions, giving us these 52 minutes of pathos from solo bass and effects.” – No Warning e-zine (Italy)
“Steve Lawson [is an] innovative bassist dedicated to stretching the boundaries of bass. On Lawson’s And Nothing but the Bass album,
the simple boom-di-boom we know as bass is transformed into a spray of chords, arpeggios, hammer-ons and rangy melodic runs, flecked in harmonics and reinvented by effects.” – San Jose Metro (US)
“Lawson and Carr alternate playing Jekyl to the other’s Hyde. Dreamy pastoral visions interrupted by an invasion of drunk Martians. Steve’s sonic pallette allows him to blend beautifully, or create havoc, a dichotomy he clearly enjoys. A fascinating listen. A Little Nitrous Music anyone?”
– Ed Friedland, Bass Player Magazine (US)
“The music Steve and Jez make is reflective, intimate and powerful. It takes you on a journey that is
simultaneously familiar and exotic, engaging and serene.” – Michael Manring
” ‘Conversations’ finds pianist Jez Carr and bassist/loopist Steve Lawson deftly walking a fine line between
new age and avant-garde, drifting from meditative serenity to angular abstraction so smoothly that the seams
barely show. With its extended and often reflective feel, the highly-attuned duo improvisations allude to the
vintage eras of record labels like ECM or Windham Hill.” – Andre LaFosse (guitar looping genius)
“This is subtle music that demands your undivided attention.” – www.aural-innovations.com
“Close to perfection… …Magnificent” – No Warning (Italian e-zine)
“I can’t say enough to recommend this CD adequately. Just do yourself a favor and get it if you haven’t already.”- Ted Killian, Loopers Delight.
” There’s music here to appeal to a diverse crowd… from space ambient to jazz fans to prog fans. And I can’t imagine any musician who wouldn’t appreciate the results of what are actually solo performances. Recommended.” – www.aural-innovations.com
About Steve’s gigs…
“Most bass players settle for one distinctive tone and make it their own, yet solo loop guru Lawson is a master
of a whole universe of sounds all conjured from his fretless six-string bass. It’s a feat equivalent to juggling
half-a-dozen lit torches that not only he makes look and sound effortless, but his sense of otherworldly narratives
makes his a truly original talent.” – JazzWise magazine.
“Steve’s style is to look like he never knows what he’s doing in the first place,
he talks nonsense to distract you from how frighteningly good he is at what he does.” – www.bassworld.co.uk
“steve plays with a wonderful fluidity. his fingers glide lovingly, effortlessly over the fretless, the chording and intonation never less than perfect. whether a simple, relaxed glissade or a line demanding
huge control and dexterity, his fingers did the talking.” – michael cowton, journalist and author of ‘level 42 – the definitive biography’ (UK)
“[steve is] very much his own musician, and one capable of taking on any of the american virtuosi on equal terms… his improvised melodies…make for an assertive and individual new voice.”- dann chinn, misfit city e-zine (uk)
“…an evening of technological wonder and musical psychadelisizing.” – Santa Cruz Sentinel
“a gifted and imaginative bassist, whose melodic ideas and encyclopedic chordal knowledge are at least equal to many (currently) more well known artists.”- www.globalbass.com online magazine. (Canada)
“Bottom Line: Virtuoso technique + imagination + a vision + improvisation chops to burn = Steve Lawson.”- www.bassically.net (US)
“At last! Steve Lawson – a bassist with a commanding technique that doesn’t mean more notes,
but a truly good sound and great time, with melody a priority. Finally, lots of notes when needed.
How refreshing! Now all we need is a Steve Lawson that plays double bass – are you out there?” – Danny Thompson (double bass legend)
“Steve Lawson has got to be one of the most tasteful bassists I’ve heard in a long time and is certainly a creative
player who focuses on sound and the quality of individual notes, not to mention different ways of speaking with his
instrument.” – Jerry Kranitz, www.aural-innovations.com
“Somehow I had never heard of Steve Lawson before and while at the recent NAMM show a friend of mine dragged me
to a booth to check him out. When I heard Steve play doing a live solo with self accompaniment I was instantly
transported to somewhere beautiful inside, even though we were in Anaheim of all places. The CD does the same
thing for me…I listened to it driving through the desert and again at home…lovely,
wonderful stuff…I’m a fan” – Andy West
(solo artist, bassist with The Dixie Dregs)
“When I first heard Steve Lawson it made me go home and practice my bass again, it was inspiring to hear his use of bass loops with great melodies.
He doesn’t play like a bass player, he plays like a musician. I am going to rip off every idea he has ever had!!” –
Matt Bissonette (bassist to the stars!)
Review – solo show, Traders, Petersfield (Petersfield Post)
‘Guitar Gig Captivated Audience’
“It’s a gig, not a prison sentence,” quipped celebrated bass guitarist Steve Lawson during his recent intimate performance in Petersfield.
Steve’s comic aside was strictly unnecessary. His fears that an evening’s entertainment provided solely by a man and his bass guitar would send people scurrying to the bar were unfounded.
His Petersfield audience, upstairs at the Traders Club, were captivated by the groundbreaking music coaxed from a bewildering array of bass guitars, effects pedals and blinking electronic gizmos.
With his long curly hair and bookish spectacles, Steve may have the charming stage presence of an eccentric professor, but there is nothing scatterbrained about his compositions or performance.
His incredibly accomplished and instantly accessible playing, which won him many converts on his recent support slots with funk-pop act, Level 42, was clearly on full display.
His ‘bass looping’ technique, where melodies are repeated and layered in real time by his electronic arsenal, may sound a touch avante-garde, but the overal effect is breathtaking.
In Steve’s dextrous hands, the bass guitar is gracefully put through its paces, sounding Latin tinged one minute, and like a fleet of flying saucers the next, but always anchored to memorable tunes.
Mainly improvising around instrumentals from his latest [solo] CD ‘Not Dancing For Chicken’ (Pillow Mountain Records), Steve led the Petersfield audience on a captivating melodic journey, grinning with unrestrained glee at the end of each song.
It’s the combination of the man and his music that make two hours in Steve Lawson’s company effortlessly enjoyable.
Steve’s wry humour shines through, bantering between songs, cultivating a real rapport with the audience.
The traders Club crowd, long having abandoned preconceptions about a solo bass performance, encouraged Steve into a rare encore, no doubt anticipating his next visit in March.
Petersfield witnessed a real guitar alchemist at work, turning bass metals into gold.”
– Simon Berkovitch
Timeline and Trivia
Musical Equipment Used
– Elrick Gold Series SLC 6 String fretted and fretless basses, Modulus Basses (6 string fretted and fretless and 4 string fretted), a Rick Turner 5 String Renaissance ‘Amplicoustic’ fretless bass, two Aguilar SL112 cabinets and 2 Aguilar Tonehammer 350 amp heads, A Jule Monique Preamp, the Looperlative LP1 for looping, Keith McMillen SoftStep controller and Quneo controller, MODDevices MOD Duo for processing, MXR, Darkglass, and Markbass overdrive pedals, a TC Electronics HOF mini Reverb and Flashback delay, Aguilar Overdrive, Fuzz, Compressor, Octave, Chorus, Filter and Preamp pedals, MXR Reverb, Sub Octave Bass Fuzz, Bass Distortion, Bass Chorus Deluxe, Bass Envelope Filter, Bass Preamp & Bass Fuzz Deluxe, Subdecay Vitruvian Mod ring modulator, Pedal Train pedal board an E-Bow+, Latch Lake and Dunlop slides, Dunlop Super Bright strings, East-UK preamps, Evidence Audio cables, GoGo tuners, 2 Korg Mini Kaoss Pad s and a MOTU Ultralite Mk III Hybrid. And I carry my basses around in SlickBag gig-bags.
1986 – got a bass and joined first band
1988 – broke arm, kicked out of first band, formed second band (EARS) – played first gigs
1989 – GCSE Music, Grade C
1991 – AS Level Music, failed – fine at composition, not so hot on history… :o) Somehow got into music college in Perth, Scotland. Teaching as head of bass at West Lothian Rock School.
1993 – left college, moved to Lincoln, tour with Canadian singer/songwriter Johnny Markin. Gigs all over Europe, played on three albums.
1994-96 – working as a pro in Lincoln, teaching, studio and live session work.
1996 – moved to London, more session work, including TV, Radio and theatre work, more teaching.
1997-99 – teaching at Drumtech and Basstech, West London.
1997-2000 – freelance reviewer/interviewer/columnist/gadget guru for Bassist magazine in the UK.
1999 – Toured Europe with Howard Jones. First completely solo gigs in London.
2000 – Released And Nothing But The Bass on Pillow Mountain Records. More solo gigs around England.
2001 – 2 Solo tours of California, including headlining the world’s first solo bass looping festival, and tour with Michael Manring and Rick Walker. Clinics for Ashdown Amps and Modulus Basses. Solo gigs in France.
2002 – Another tour in California, Released Conversations, duo CD with Jez Carr, on Pillow Mountain Records, 2 Major tours of UK Theatres and concert halls supporting first the 21st Century Schizoid Band then Level 42. Two shows at the London Guitar Festival. National TV and local radio appearances in the UK. Featured in the Sunday Times Culture Section. Released second completely solo CD, Not Dancing For Chicken. NDFC picked as one of the best CDs of the year by Aural Innovations
2003 – four week solo tour of California, gigs with Michael Manring and David Friesen, including the Anaheim Bass Bash, featured interview in Euphoria magazine, and review of NDFC in Bass Player (Feb issue). New recordings with Theo Travis, BJ Cole and Patrick Wood for future release. Duo gigs with Theo Travis. Gig at the barbican with orphy robinson. Recording in France with Vigroux/Cury/Rives for upcoming release. first italian solo gig and recording session in august. Duo CD with Theo Travis – The Arts Show, alongside Jenny Eclair and Barry Cryer. Acclaimed appearances at The Detroit Bass Fest and European Bass Day. Gigs in US and UK with Muriel Anderson. A second tour in England with Michael Manring in November.
2005 – another year another NAMM show, followed by a few promo gigs with Michael Manring in California. Dates with pedal steel guitarist, BJ Cole, and recording and gigs with singer Cleveland Watkiss, as well as more UK dates, the Edinburgh Festival and a trip to Italy. Started monthly music night, Recycle Collective.
2006 – back to California, NAMM again and some more dates and another day-long masterclass, Recycle Collective continues to be one of the best live music nights out in London, and features musicians such as BJ Cole, Cleveland Watkiss, Orphy Robinson, Seb Rochford, Todd Reynolds, Jason Yarde, Andy Hamill, Patrick Wood, Leo Abrahams, Julie McKee, Andrea Hazell. UK tours with Theo Travis, Muriel Anderson and Ned Evett. 4th solo album, Behind Every Word, released on Pillow Mountain Records. Recording in Italy with guitarist Luca Formentini. New duo formed with singer Julie McKee, for the Edinburgh Fringe. European tour in October, including EuroBass Day and European Bass Day, as well as an electronica festival in Italy. Behind Every Word makes a number of end of year ‘best of 2006’ lists.
2007 – guess where it started? Yay, NAMM!! Bass-Bash, two days of masterclasses, Modulus clinics and gigs both solo and with Muriel Anderson and Vicki Genfan. Much fun. First New York show too. European tour with Lobelia, including first time visit to Frankfurt Musik Messe and gigs in Italy, Spain, Germany and Denmark, 7 week tour of the US, 24 states, 7000 miles. Gigs at Greenbelt festival with Lobelia, Sarah Masen and Ric Hordinski. Recycle Collective relaunched in September. Playing on one track on Luca Formentini’s album, Tacet. First Amsterdam and Geneva gigs in November. Released live EP with Lobelia in December. Recorded improv album with Patrick Wood and Roy Dodds.
2008 – NAMM again, with Lobelia this time, playing the bass-bash and for Looperlative and Modulus. More California shows. Back to England, playing lots of ‘acoustic’ shows with Lobelia, London Solo Bass Night in March with Todd Johnson and Yolanda Charles, . Year ended with Lawson/Wood/Dodds album ‘Numbers’ released, and some LDW gig dates round London, followed by a whole string of house concert shows in England and the US with Lobelia. 2008 was also the year of social media – 10 years of running my music career online turning into a 2nd career teaching and consulting on how it all works, including Nokia flying me to Helsinki for their Open Lab, and working on the launch of Ucreative.tv at UCA in Rochester. Finished the year with a series of house concerts in the UK and the US with Lobelia..
2009 – …which continued into the new year on a trip that included a trip to NAMM, a masterclass at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and a series of masterclasses in bass, looping and ‘social media for musicians’ in various people’s houses. But I did miss the bass-bash for the first time ever. Back to the UK for more bass masterclasses and other University-based projects around the future of the internet… look out for a new solo album at some point this year!
2010 – the first half was spent looking after our new born baby, but at the age of 6 months, we took him to the US for a 7 week, 6500 mile tour of house concerts, that took us from Brooklyn to Milwaukee, Massachusetts to Lake Charles Louisiana, via Texas, Tennessee and Ohio. Lo and I recorded a live album on the tour, featuring Todd Reynolds and Neil Alexander, and while in Louisiana I recorded TWO duo albums with Trip Wamsley, released in September. The end of the year featured a sold out London gig with Michael Manring, and speaking engagements in the UK and Berlin at grass roots music industry conferences. I also released another live album, celebrating the 10th anniversary of my debut album coming out.
2011 – first half of the year was focussed on getting my first new studio album in 5 years finished. 11 Reasons Why 3 Is Greater Than Everything was released and followed by a 2 month, 8000 mile US tour, which included shows with Julie Slick, Trip Wamsley, Tiger Darrow, Steven Guerrero, Darren Michaels, Neil Alexander, Trevor Exter and Catherine Marie Charlton. The trip also included me guest-performing at Victor Wooten’s Music-Nature Camp, teaching a bass masterclass in Virginia, and Lobelia and I being the only overseas musicians to be booked to play at the first Wild Goose festival. Oh, and I also co-produced, mixed and mastered Lobelia’s new record, Beautifully Undone. We started selling our music on USB Stick, which has proved v. popular. A move to Birmingham in the late summer promises all kinds of new opportunities.
2012 – the year started with the release of Believe In Peace, an all-improv solo record, recorded in Minneapolis. January continued with a return visit to NAMM, 12 shows in 12 days including duo shows with Julie Slick, Michael Manring and Daniel Berkman, a recording session with Steve Uccello and a playing-and-speaking gig at Stanford uni, as well as a masterclass at LA Music Academy. The shows with Julie, Michael and Daniel were all recorded, so mixing and mastering work on those took up a lot of the following months, as well as recording for Californian singer/songwriter Artemis. May saw the relaunch of Beyond Bass Camp, and the remastering of 11 Reasons… 2012 also saw the formation of #ToryCore – a project that coupled the evil words of the Tory govt with twisted avant garde metal. One of my favourite ever musical projects.
2013 – started with NAMM and another 8 shows with Daniel Berkman, and this time Artemis joined us on vocals at every gig. It was one of the most amazing musical experiences of my life to play with them both. Which is why a large chunk of the year was taken up mixing, mastering and releasing EVERY show we’d done up to that point. All 10 of ‘em. Went out to Frankfurt to the Musikmesse, more ToryCore shows & a few more gigs with Alvin Stardust depping for his regular bassist. Started teaching at Kidderminster College, and ended the year with a lovely joint tour with one of my favourite bassists – Yolanda Charles, and with a duo show with Andy Edwards on drums.
2014 – Another NAMM trip, 11 wonderful shows with Daniel and Artemis (part of a run of 14 shows in 13 days for me!). Just before NAMM I was invited to speak at the Microsoft Social Research Symposium in NYC, which was one of the most brilliant few days of my life. The duo project with Andy Edwards expanded to become ‘Andy, Steve + 1’ and we played a couple of gigs with Julie Slick, made an album with Murphy McCaleb and gigged with Jem Godfrey and Bryan Corbett – we have further projects planned. Played a super-lovely duo show with Briana Corrigan, ex-of The Beautiful South, whose solo work I’ve been a fan of for 20 years. I released a new solo album – What The Mind Thinks, The Heart Transmits. Playing at the London Bass Guitar Show and inviting Jon Thorne to join me on my set led to the release of that as a new album – Diversion. Towards the end of the year, I launched a new subscription service via Bandcamp, with the aim of finding a useful home for the epic amounts of music that I record and want to release…
2015 – NAMM in January, of course, plus a handful of lovely house concert shows with guitar genius Thomas Leeb. Released LEY Lines with Andy Edwards and Phi Yaan-Zek, the first new thing that my subscribers got, which Phi released for everyone else. Did the London Bass Guitar Show again, and had another of my bass heroes Ruth Goller agree to play with me. That was fun. Formed a duo with Divinity Roxx – hip hop, improv, songs, stories, all rolled in. We had a week of playing and did a first gig in Kidderminster. The duo with Jon Thorne was expanded to a trio with Rob Turner, of GoGo Penguin, that band sounds amazing! In September, I release two new solo albums – my first proper solo album releases since 11 Reasons in 2011. A Crack Where The Light Gets In and The Way Home were really well recieved, and got played on Late Junction. In October, I was the cover star on Bass Guitar Magazine, almost certainly the only self-managed, self-releasing, self-everything solo bassist to ever get there without an association with any other artist. Still can’t quite believe it. The mag cover coincided with a mini-tour with Jonas Hellborg – we had a wonderful time playing in Birmingham, London and Leeds, and hope to do a bigger tour ASAP. By the end of the year, I’d released 7 albums for Subscribers, all of which I’m immensely proud of! The year ended with the recording of a second album with Phi and Andy, to be released early in 2016. The year also featured a few more Torycore gigs – a thing that gets better every time we do it, and more vital, sadly.
Current Musical Projects
Solo gigs and recording -::- Duo with Divinity -::- trio with Jon Thorne and Rob Turner -::- trio with Andy Edwards and Phi Yaan-Zek -::- performance duo with painter Poppy Porter -::- Torycore.
favourite artists. – these days, it’s lots of singer/songwriters, and death metal bands. So, alternately, Bruce Cockburn, Cannibal Corpse, Jonatha Brooke, Cattle Decapitation, Joni Mitchell, Job For A Cowboy, Paul Simon, Entombed, Emily Baker, White Empress, The Blue Nile, Soulfly, Nik Kershaw, Ihsahn…
Along side that, a bunch of other things – Hope & Social, Bill Frisell, D’Angelo, David Torn, Let Spin, Michael Manring, DJ Krush, Throwing Muses, Coltrane, Kristin Hersh, 70s Miles, Beauty Pill, Janet Feder, Jon Gomm, Kenny Wheeler, Trish Clowes, Divinity Roxx, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, J Dilla, De La Soul, Terje Rypdal, KT Tunstall, The Pixies, The Cure…
top 10 (or so) favourite(ish) albums –
Joni Mitchell – Hejira
Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen
Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Crown And Treaty/Motorcaid Amnesiacs
Jonatha Brooke & The Story – Plumb
Emily Baker – All At Sea
Kenny Wheeler – Angel Song
Bruce Cockburn – Nothing But A Burning Light
Bill Frisell – Gone, Just Like A Train
Talk Talk – Spirit Of Eden
The Pixies – Doolittle
The Blue Nile – High (or anything else they’ve done)
bass influences – Current favourites are Tony Levin, Ruth Goller, Michael Manring, Julie Slick and Matthew Garrison but there are literally hundreds. I suppose, in roughly chronological order, those players that have influenced me the most would be – John Taylor (Duran), Nick Beggs (Kajagoogoo/Iona), Chris Squire (Yes), Simon Gallup (The Cure), Pino Pallidino (everyone, but especially the D’Angelo stuff), Doug Pinnick (King’s X), Ewan Vernal (Deacon Blue), Steve Swallow, Abraham Laboriel, Jaco Pastorius, Scott LaFaro, Freddie Washington, Bernard Edwards (Chic), Ray Brown, Jonas Hellborg, Family Man Barratt (The Wailers), Verdine White (EW & F), Tommy Simms, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen, Jimmy Haslip, Danny Thompson, Eberhard Weber, Mike Rivard, Marc Johnson, Kermitt Driscoll, Mo Foster, Todd Johnson, Doug Wimbish, Yolanda Charles, Trip Wamsley, Divinity, and loads more.
I’ve had loads of great press for my solo albums and gigs – have a read of some of it below!
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Behind Every Word CD Reviews –
Jyoti Mishra (#23 in his 2006 albums of the year round-up).
Seth Horan (in his round up of the best of 2006)
From no Warning (in italian)
From PureMusic.com
From Sid Smith
From Aural Innovations magazine
From Bass Guitar Magazine
Grace And Gratitude CD Reviews –
From Jazzwise Magazine
From Aural Innovations
From No Warning E-Zine (in Italian)
For The Love Of Open Spaces CD Reviews –
From The Penguin Guide To Jazz on CD, 7th edition
From EJazzNews
From Aural-Innovations.com
From JazzViews.co.uk
From Tollbooth.org
From Activebass.com
From the NoMan discussion list
Not Dancing For Chicken CD Reviews –
From Bass Player Magazine
From Aural Innovations e-zine
Conversations CD Reviews –
From Bass Guitar Magazine (UK)
From Jazz Dimensions (translated into English)
From Jazz Dimensions (in German)
From Italian e-zine, No Warning! (in English)
From Italian e-zine, No Warning! (in Italian)
From Loopers Delight
From www.talkbass.com
From www.greenbelt.co.uk
And Nothing But The Bass reviews –
From Misfit City e-zine
No Warning Review in English
From www.aural-innovations.com
Jazz Dimensions CD review in English…
From Jazz Dimensions magazine (In German!)
From www.ambientvisions.com
From US Publication, Bass Player
From Bass Frontiers Magazine, US
Gig Reviews –
Review of Vortex gig with Theo Travis, at AllAboutJazz.com
Review of gig with Theo Travis, in ‘No Warning’ (in Italian)
Solo gig at Traders, Petersfield, Feb 2004, from the Petersfield Post.
Another longer review of the gig in Croydon, translated to english (No Warning e-zine)
Another longer review of the gig in Croydon, only in Italian (No Warning e-zine)
21st Century Schizoid Band, with Steve supporting, live in Croydon
Vigroux/Cury/Lawson gig review, in Midi Libre, Marvejols, France
Manring/Walker/Lawson review in the Santa Cruz Guide
Article about the Solo Bass Looping tour, San Jose Metro
Solo Bass Looping Festival review in Good Times (Santa Cruz entertainment magazine)
Review of November 2000
London gig, from the Misfit City E-Zine
Another Review of the same gig, this time in The Phantom Tollbooth –
www.tollbooth.org
Review of June 1st 2000 show at Christopher’s in Lincoln, written by Michael Cowton
Review of July 2000 duet show with Cellist Harry Napier at Ronnie Scott’s in Birmingham, written by Andy Long
Interview at InstituteOfBass.com October 2006
Interview from FretlessBass.com September 2006
Interview at BassPlaying.com July 2006
Interview at BassPlayers.co.za March 2006
Interview with BassRocket.com, from 2005
Talkbass Interview from August 2004
Interview from PlanetBass.co.uk
Interview from Euphoria Magazine (archived on writer, Andy Long’s site)
Michael Manring and Steve in conversation, from Bass Guitar Magazine
www.forevernow.com – Interview with Steve on the largest Level 42 fan site on the net!
Manring/Walker/Lawson Roundtable interview in Global Bass magazine
Interview at www.globalbass.com
Interview at www.talkbass.com from December 2000
Mammoth tour blog
Right, I said in the mini-post that it looked like things were going to be rough, but that was an understatement… please try to keep in mind as you read this that Ned and I aren’t Spinal Tap, and this shit actually happened…
So, the back story is that the promoter – Blooz Promoz, run by a guy called Nigel in Leeds – was someone that Ned had worked with last year, he’d organised a few gigs that had gone OK, so it seemed like a good idea to go there again. I’d not had any dealings with him, but as a proven entity, was more than happy to just let Ned take it from there. We had two gigs booked on a £250 promise for each gig, and a clinic at Sound Control in Leeds.
We drive to Wakefield, get to the gig, and the venue owner says he hasn’t heard from the promoter for weeks (at this point it’s worth pointing out that he was booked as ‘promoter’ not just ‘booking agent’…), but we assume he’ll be turning up.
It gets to gig time, still no promoter, punters start to show up, in small numbers, all via my mailouts and friends of those people. Not one from any contact with the promoter, and he wasn’t there to collect the money on the door, so WE DIDN’T GET PAID. Not a penny. The people that were there loved it, and we sold a lot of CDs and t-shirts etc, but still nowhere close to the £250, and anyway, merch money wasn’t in anyway factored into that figure.
So we head to where we’re staying (with Nicola from Greenbelt – thank God we weren’t in a hotel as well!) and crash.
Friday morning we head into Leeds for a wander around, and serendipitously Ned recognises in the market the area where Nigel promoter-monkey has his stall. We head down there, and some dodgy mate of his is looking after it, who clearly not knowing where we were playing, let it slip that the venue was ‘shite’ telling us that Nigel wasn’t booking there anymore… uh-huh.
Nigel eventually appears, and after some chasing around and half-made apologies, claims he’s been ill (an email or two telling us that if it was true would have gone a very long way) gives us £100 for the previous night’s gig (hmmm – £100? what happened to the other £150?) – I’m in a rather strange position at this point as I’ve had no contact with him up to this point, so can’t argue from any real knowledge of what has been said/agreed/emailed, but Ned does a sterling job, and Nigel assures us that the Oceans Eleven gig is going to be fine, and he’ll have someone there to meet us at 8ish, and we’re on at 9. We then say ‘so we’re all fine for Sound Control this afternoon then?’ – er, apparently not. That’s not going to happen. WTF? excuses blah blah bullshit blah blah fucking nonsense etc. etc. Cancelled. Not happening. Let’s face it, almost certainly not booked in the first place.
So we head off back into Leeds city centre in search of wifi, and notice that there is NO mention of the gig anywhere (remember, promoter not booking agent) – no posters up in the music shops, no nothing. The guys in one of the guitar shops haven’t even heard of the venue…
Out for a much needed and much appreciated curry, then down to the venue. Which is closed. And by ‘closed’ I mean closed as in ‘in receivership’. Notes on the door saying ‘this property has been purchased by ************, please phone *************** for details’. So our fuckwit promoter has added barefaced lies to his catalogue of fuck ups (remember, this is Blooz Promoz in Leeds).
So grand totals for Leeds area leg of the tour –
gigs ‘booked’ – 3
total guarantees agreed prior to this leg of the ‘tour’ – £600 (£250 for each gig, £100 for Sound Control – all of which are low figures anyway, but you figure when a promoter is planning to give the band £250, there’s going to be an audience, and therefor decent merch-ops, and the chance to make it all worthwhile…)
gigs played – 1
total income – £100
petrol costs – about £30
curries eaten – 2 (each)
venues no longer in existence – 1
effect of stench of bullshit from the catalogue of lies and misinformation – overwhelming.
Now, at this point we meet up with Greenbelt chum Steve Thackray – lovely bloke, very friendly and helpful, who in 10 minutes (10 minutes!!!), gets us closer to having a gig than Blooz promo buffoon does in four months. Given 24 hours, Steve could have given us a range of venues, and found us an audience. Next time I go to Leeds, I’m talking to Steve first – he’s a man with his finger on a pulse or two…
So Saturday we get up and head to Stockport for masterclass at Riffs Guitar School, which was much fun, but underpaid. But hey, it actually existed so we’re already ahead on Leeds, and we met lovely people, sold lots of CDs, had a great time, and we had a gig in the evening anyway, so all in a fab way to spend an afternoon.
We then head into Manchester to Iguana – it’s funny how after the nonsense of the previous two days, normal treatment suddenly feels luxurious. We get there, one of the bar men comes to help us with gear and there are lots of staff there to advice, provide drinks, and the venue has many posters up advertising the gig (OK, so their own adverts say that I’m an ex-member of King Crimson and Level 42, but you can’t get everything right).
Once set up, we head to the MEN Arena, where Ned’s buddy Curtis Stigers (yes he of the mullets and power ballads in the late 80s) is opening for George Benson, and we’ve got time to catch his set before we play. Yes, you read that right, I’ve got a free ticket for a George Benson gig, and I’m leaving before he comes on. I’m crying as I type this. No, really, it hurts. A lot. George frickin’ Benson – one of the greatest human beings ever to pick up a guitar. I’ve half a mind to blow our gig and stay to watch. But we don’t, we watch Curtis, who is actually not bad at all, perfect for the audience, does a rather cool little beatbox thing in one tune, and scats a hilarious and very impressive upright bass solo in another, and while not being world-class jazz singer material by any means, does a pretty fine job and was worth going to see.
Back to the venue and lots of lovely friends have arrived – students of mine, web buddies, greenbelt friends, and people from MySpace. A proper gig with a proper audience that actually know where the gig is, and a venue that’s real, open, and has a cheque waiting for us when we finish.
We play well, sell CDs, chat to all the lovely people (special treat to see L1z there – yay!), and eventually head off home at about 12.30. Without the cheque. It’s made out to Ned. Doh! It will be sorted, no problem. Iguana’s a lovely place, and I really hope to play there again.
And we drive home through the night. Laughing about the fuck-ups of the last few days, glad to have had the last fine gig, and wondering what on earth can be done to get the dismal promoter to pay up. Believe me, if he does, I’ll amend this blog so it’s less likely to be the top hit on Google should you go looking for info on Blooz Promoz in Leeds. But right now, they’re on my black-list, shit-list and every other list that says don’t even think about working with them in a million years. We’re down £500 on a tour, Ned’s had to fly from Boise Idaho for this!!!
Next on the tour list is either Saucy Jack or Jazz Odyssey.
What’s wrong with being Sexy?
homeless shelters and tax returns
Catching up – three very very busy teaching days Thurs/Fri/Saturday – much fun. Busy days like those are a great confirmation of how much I enjoy teaching, I love getting to the end of a day, feeling that I’ve worked hard, and the students have all taken away lots of good quality stuff to work on, hopefully been inspired and are beavering away at their practice!
Saturday after teaching was a visit to see my dad – really ought to see him more as he only lives half an hour away. A most enjoyable few hours.
Had to leave fairly early as I was doing an overnight shift in the St Luke’s homeless shelter – long-time blog readers will remember said shelter from previous years – this is i think my fifth or sixth year of helping out. It’s hardly a huge commitment – I tend to do every other saturday night from january to march, excluding saturdays when I’m not actually in the country…
this was the first night of the new year for the shelter, and was utterly without incident. But it did give me a chance to finish one of my christmas present books – ‘Serious’ by John McEnroe. A good read, for sure, clearly aimed at tennis fans (a fair few play by play dissections of big games, big sets big matches). He didn’t turn out to be quite the sage I’d assumed he was from his commentary skills – he’s one of the best sports commentators I’ve ever encountered (and, to be fair, that’s not many, given my general antipathy to all sport except tennis), but his wisdom in commentating on the psyche of the players doesn’t really seem to have come from having lived a sage life. Maybe he’s just learned from having got it all wrong in his own life. Definitely a worthwhile read though.
So not much sleep last night, which meant two things – a) I missed church by not waking up til 1pm after getting to bed at 6.45, and b) I missed most of the Soil Association organic market thingie happening down by the Barbican. It was organised by the lovely Ruthie, and featured some lovely live music from the lovely Andy Buzzard and Jonny Gee. Great to see them play, if only for one number. Also gave me a chance to meet lots of cuddly musos and invite them along to Thursday’s Recycle Collective gig, which I’m getting more and more excited about the closer it gets – the potential musical marvellousness in a trio of me, Cleveland and BJ is pretty huge, methinks. We’ve played together before, when I did a gig at Darbucka last year that both of them guested on, and it was magical. Don’t miss it!
So, after getting back from the organic thingie, I’ve just finished, submitted and paid my tax return/bill for 2004-2005. Fortunately, I only had about £50 to pay over and above what I’d already paid on account for last year… well, fortunately for now, unfortunate if you think that it means I earned less than the previous year (main reason for that is that in 2004 I was still receiving HUGE PRS cheques for the Level 42 tour…) Good news is, online CD sales were higher in 04-05 than ever before, which is great news.
One of my resolutions for next year is not to leave it til Jan 2006 to submit my tax return. I’d LOVE to actually get it done in April for the first time ever, and then have all year to pay a figure that I actually know. In order to do that, I’ll have to get my financial records for this year up to date in the next week, so I can stay on top of it from here on in… here’s hoping.
As an aside, I submitted my tax return online – what a breeze! It does all the calculating for you, tells you the boxes you’ve missed, makes sure your sums all add up, and gives you a print out at the end. Couldn’t be easier.
And now I’ve done the taxation bit, I feel inspired to write some letters to my MP to do something about the representation bit. I’m a fan of tax, in principle, I’m happy to pay my way, and to pay more to help those who haven’t got enough. But I do wish we had more say over how it was spent, and a less wasteful exchequer – Government spending is a disaster, which while not doing away with the need for taxation, certainly makes most people’s loathing of it a lot easier to understand.
a Last.fm experiment
So, while I’m waiting for the washing machine (newly fixed) to finish its cycle so I can hang the washing, I thought I’d try skipping through 20 tracks on the ‘similar artists’ radio station for me on Last.fm – here’s the list:
1. Mike Watt – Heartbeat (Ball Hog or Tugboat?)
2. Ginger Baker Trio – Rambler (Going Back Home)
3. Roy Budd – No Co-Operation (Buddism)
4. Haden/Metheny – Two For The Road (Beyond The Missouri Sky
5. Randy Crawford – Secret Combination (The Very Best)
6. Elza Soares – Deixa a Negra Gingar
7. Sheila Chandra – Nana/The Dreaming (Weaving My Ancestors Voices)
8. Marcus Miller – The Blues (Tales)
9. Bob Mould – Megamanic (the Last Dog And Pony Show)
10. Show Of Hands – Yankee Clipper (Live)
11. Truby Trio – New Music (Elevator Music)
12 (someone chinese, in chinese writing)??
13. Denison Witmer – These Days (Recovered)
14. Level 42 – Talking In Your Sleep (Forever Now)
15. Terry Callier – 4 Miles (Lifetime)
16. Zakir Hussain – Tabal Solo In Teentaal (Festival Of Indian Music: Roma)
17. Incognito – Listen To the Music (Nortern Jazz – Southern Soul)
18. Goodbye Mr Mackenzie – Goodwill City (Love Child EP)
19. Lies Damned Lies – Only You (Lonely Together)
20. Senser – Return To Zombie Island (Schematic)
Is that close? it’s definitely swayed by who has uploaded music and who hasn’t (every time a Level 42 track comes up, it’s always from ‘Forever Now’, so that’s obviously the only album of their up there) – hopefully this will be an incentive to indie peoples to get their music uploaded there for the radio listeners to get familiar with (Andrew H, Trip, Buck, Manthing, Big Buzzard and any of you other indie peoples reading this – get your music uploaded! Email me if you need a hand…)
Right, washing machine has finished…
More great live music in England
…and I don’t just mean my upcoming gigs! :o)
Gary Husband is probably best known as drummer extraordinaire with Level 42, Alan Holdsworth and a whole bunch of other people. He’s also a stunning piano player, and has assembled a remarkable band under the name Force Majeure, featuring one of the finest bassist on the planet, Matthew Garrison, along with Jim Beard, Randy Brecker, Elliot Mason, Jerry Goodman and other top level fusion cats.
I saw them play last year at Turner Simms theatre in Southampton, and the gig was outstanding – very challenging complex music, but marvellous and uplifting too.
They are back on tour starting this Saturday in Milton Keynes, and I urge you to go check them out – click here for the tour dates, which include a week at Ronnie Scott’s in London, and gigs in Manchester, Gainsborough and Gateshead.
Chances to hear music this great outside of the major London concert halls doesn’t come along to often, so please support it. There’s been a thread on the forum about great bassists often bypassing the UK on their European tour dates – if tours like this don’t get supported, it just proves why we’re so often overlooked.
even more gigs!
Oh yes, mine and other people’s.
Saturday night I had a gig in Hoddeston (have I spelt it right this time??) – anyway, the gig was at St Cuthbert’s church (great name for a church – St Cuthbert was a monastic dude who lived on Holy Island, and even had his own Island, a photo of which will probably be the cover of my next CD….) – they do a music night a couple of times a year, where the first hour is an open mic slot for local musicians, then the second half is an invited performer. this time, it was me. The church itself was a great place to play, a lovely building. Gig went really well. It was a great chance to try out both my new bass cabs and the new preamp in my 6 string fretted bass, and both sounded incredible.
Then Sunday night I drove down to Southampton to see Gary Husband’s ‘Force Majeure’ project, with a line up that included the wonderful Matthew Garrison on bass, and Jerry Goodman on Violin. Shit, what a gig!! It was incredible. Gary’s an outstanding drummer and pianist – we all knew that, but we can now add stellar composer to the list. Amazing exhilerating music, at times insanely dissonant and nasty but still with an internal logic and a link to whatever the theme of the piece was. Gary gave little explanatory talks before each track – seems like Architecture features highly on his list of inspirations, and they tied in superbly with the music that followed. I can’t wait for the live DVD! ‘Twas also nice to catch up with friends at the gig – gary and matt, obviously, but also Shaun Freeman, the sax-dude from Level 42 and Nick Fyffe, ex-Jamiroquai bassist. Well worth the 200 mile round trip to see it.
Saturday was also Deep To Deep – a gathering of bassists from the Churchbass list, which was a lot of fun.
Ticket sales are going really well for the tour – I’m very excited about these upcoming dates! Please come out and see one of the shows if you can…
Soundtrack – Bill Mallonee, ‘Perfumed Letter’ (fantastic new CD from Vigilantes Of Love frontman. His best since Audible Sigh), Morphine, ‘B-Sides And Otherwise’; Dum Dums, ‘It Goes Without Saying’; Chris Potter, ‘Gratitude’; loads of my duets with BJ Cole.
Oh yes, it’s 2004. Another year over a new one just begun, as a songwriter no longer at the top of his game and desparately in need of his old writing partner once wrote.
So out with the old and in the new, hopefully. Or maybe it’ll just be ‘what goes around comes around’. Who knows.
I’m hoping for the usual crap – more time to read, more gigs, more CD sales, less big countries blowing up small countries, less reality TV, more properly researched documentaries, more decent comedies on TV, more going to the cinema, more exercise (!!), more journies on public transport, less using the car, more bass practice, less time wasted online… yeah yeah, right.
So this afternoon, I had a listen to an album I’ve not heard for a while – ‘Beyond These Shores’ by Iona. This is an album that when I first got it blew my mind, but as I’ve only got it on tape, and the tape is just about worn out, I hadn’t listened to it in ages. However, the small person has got it on CD, I remembered this afternoon. So put it on. and. wow. Unbelievable. Still as good if not better than I remember it. Great songs, amazing playing, fantastic production, moving lyrics (it’s a sort of concept album on the legend of St Brendan sailing from Ireland to America a few hundred years before Columbus…) – truly wonderful. Seriously, it’s great, get it.
It’s kind of apt at the start of a new year to be listening to an album about a journey into the unknown – not that stepping over into 2004 is like sailing the atlantic in medieval times – after all it’s just another day in ‘actual’ terms – but new year is a rite of passage, giving us a chance to pause, take stock, rethink, set some goals, change the way we do things, and also chops the past into convenient chunks for us to assess whether they were good or bad.
2003 was very different for me musically than 2002 – ’02 was the year I did the two big tours with Level 42 and The Schizoid Band, but ’03 was a year of fewer gigs but a lot of musical experimenting – loads of new improv settings, gigs with Orphy Robinson, Tess Garraway, Corey Mwamba, Filomena Campus, Josh Peach, Seb Rochford, Theo Travis, Mano Ventura, Michael Manring, Jez Carr, Harvey Jessop; I’ve also recorded loads of improv stuff this year – most importantly the new album with Theo Travis, but also material with quartets in France and Spain, duets with Matthias Grob, Luca Formentini, BJ Cole and Patrick Wood. Loads of space to develop new ideas, much of which will be launched on anyone who wants to hear it in 2004.
So, here’s to the new year – may all your gigs be well paid and your audiences attentive.
Soundtrack – The Smiths; ‘Louder Than Bombs’; Bill Frisell, ‘The Willies’; Rob Jackson, ‘Wire Wood and Magnets’; Iona, ‘Beyond These Shores’;
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ARIC ALMIROLA – 2019 Las Vegas II Race Report
Event: South Point 400 (Round 27 of 36)
Series: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
Location: Las Vegas Motor Speedway (1.5-mile oval)
Format: 267 laps, broken into three stages (80 laps/80 laps/107 laps)
Start/Finish: 4th/13th (Running, completed 267 of 267 laps)
Point Standing: 12th with 2,033 points (6 points ahead of top-12 cutoff)
Race Winner: Martin Truex Jr., of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota)
Stage 1 Winner: Joey Logano of Team Penske (Ford)
Stage 2 Winner: Martin Truex Jr., of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota)
Stage 1 Recap (Laps 1-80):
● Aric Almirola started fourth and finished third, earning eight bonus points.
● Despite saying his No. 10 Smithfield Ford Mustang was loose, Almirola took the lead from teammate Daniel Suárez on lap 31.
● Almirola led laps 31-33 before fellow Ford driver Joey Logano took the lead, dropping Almirola to second.
● Brought Smithfield Ford to pit road for scheduled, green-flag pit stop on lap 42. Only change was to tire pressures.
● By lap 60, pit stops had cycled through and Almirola was back in second place.
● Made a great save on lap 66 as car jumped loose in turn one, allowing teammate Kevin Harvick to take second.
● After finishing third at the end of the stage, Almirola said, “Really, really loose – don’t have much to lean on.”
● Pitted for four tires and fuel at the end of the stage, with the only adjustment being right-side tire pressures.
Stage 2 Recap (Laps 81-160):
● Almirola started third and finished 11th.
● On lap 95, Almirola said his Smithfield Ford didn’t have very much sidebite and that it wasn’t turning. He dropped to fifth.
● While running seventh, made scheduled, green-flag pit stop on lap 122 for four tires, fuel and adjustments to track bar and tire pressures.
● “I’ve got my hands full,” said Almirola on lap 134 while running 10th.
● Dropped to 11th on lap 149 and keyed mic: “I don’t have any grip!”
● Pitted for four tires and fuel at conclusion of stage, with the only adjustment being to right-side tire pressures.
Final Stage Recap (Laps 161-267):
● Almirola started 11th and finished 13th.
● Shortly after the restart, Almirola began falling down the leaderboard. On lap 170, he was 18th, with the front splitter slamming onto the track.
● Almirola took advantage of a caution on lap 180. He brought the Smithfield Ford to pit road, whereupon crew chief Johnny Klausmeier ordered a host of changes that included adding packers to both front shocks, a wedge adjustment and raising the track bar.
● Stayed out during another caution period that began on lap 189, which allowed Almirola to climb back to 10th for the lap-196 restart.
● Advanced to seventh by lap 200 as front end of racecar began handling better, but car was now tight on exit.
● By lap 227, Almirola radioed that his Smithfield Ford was getting really tight, and it showed as he dropped to 10th.
● Made scheduled, green-flag pit stop on lap 231 for four tires, fuel and chassis adjustments.
● Was 16th on lap 249 but climbed to 13th in the final 18 laps.
● Almirola earned his 16th top-15 of the season and his fifth top-15 in 13 career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series starts at Las Vegas.
● This is Almirola’s fifth straight top-15 at Las Vegas. He finished seventh in the series’ last visit to the track in March.
● This is Almirola’s second consecutive top-15. He finished 14th in the series’ last race at Indianapolis.
● Almirola led once for three laps – his first at Las Vegas.
● Martin Truex Jr., won the South Point 400 to score his 24th career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series victory, his fifth of the season and his second at Las Vegas. His margin of victory over second-place Harvick was 4.173 seconds.
● There were four caution periods for a total of 22 laps.
● Only 17 of the 39 drivers in the South Point 400 finished on the lead lap.
Aric Almirola, Driver of the No. 10 Smithfield Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing:
“I am leaving content. We dug deep and I feel like we maximized our day. We had a few miscues and weren’t 100 percent perfect on our execution. The car wasn’t 100 percent perfect, and we still managed to go up there and lead the race and score stage points. We finished third in Stage 1 and scored a fair amount of stage points. After Stage 1, we kind of lost the handle on the car and lost some track position and it became even more of a handful. We dug deep and fought hard and got out of here with a decent finish. We are plus-six to the good on 12th, so I feel good about that. It is better than leaving minus-six or minus-16 or minus-60. I am happy with that. We will keep our heads up and keep digging. Our Smithfield Ford Mustang showed strength tonight and we just lost a little bit of the handle on it.”
Playoff Standings (with two races to go before Round of 12):
1. Martin Truex Jr. (2,082 points) 1 win
2. Kevin Harvick (2,079 points) +52 points
3. Joey Logano (2,075 points) +48 points
4. Kyle Busch (2,063 points) +36 points
5. Brad Keselowski (2,058 points) +31 points
6. Chase Elliott (2,057 points) +30 points
7. Denny Hamlin (2,056 points) +29 points
8. Kyle Larson (2,044 points) +17 points
9. William Byron (2,040 points) +13 points
10. Ryan Blaney (2,039 points) +12 points
11. Alex Bowman (2,037 points) +10 points
12. Aric Almirola (2,033 points) +6 points
13. Ryan Newman (2,027 points) -6 points
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Skico eyes adding 53 additional acres of snowmaking at top of Aspen Mountain
Sports | November 22, 2018
Scott Condon
Snowmaking guns blaze away on Aspen Mountain on Nov. 9. The system salvaged the season last year and allowed this year's early opening. Skico wants to expand the system by 53 acres on the mountaintop.
Anna Stonehouse / The Aspen Times
MORE SNOW, PLEASE
White River National Forest officials are reviewing requests from five resorts for additional snowmaking. They include:
Aspen Mountain 53 acres
Snowmass 33 acres
Vail 262 acres
Copper Mountain Resort 86 acres
Beaver Creek 3 acres
Snowmaking salvaged the season at Aspen Mountain in 2017-18 and it allowed an early opening this year, but even bigger and better things could be on tap for the future.
Aspen Skiing Co. submitted an application to the U.S. Forest Service earlier this year with two main thrusts — expand into the Pandora terrain on Aspen Mountain’s upper east side and expand the snowmaking system to cover 53 additional acres at the top of the mountain.
The White River National Forest staff and consultants are reviewing the application and expect to release an environmental assessment and draft decision notice shortly, possibly as soon as next week. This season, officials are reviewing requests for more than 430 acres of additional snowmaking across five resorts, including Snowmass, on White River forest land.
Katie Ertl, Skico’s senior vice president of mountain operations, said the proposed Aspen Mountain snowmaking expansion would increase the odds that the mountain could open as typically scheduled on Thanksgiving Day and offer top-to-bottom skiing.
“Currently, we have snowmaking up to the top of Deer Park, so it lands about two-thirds up the mountain,” Ertl said. “When we have temps similar to this season, we can get a fantastic technical surface from there to the bottom of the mountain.”
Above Deer Park, the company currently relies on snowcat drivers working with natural snowfall to provide coverage by careful grooming and pushing snow — if there is enough snow to make that possible.
Skico applied to expand the snowmaking system to cover One and Two Leaf, Silver Bell, Dipsy Doodle, Buckhorn, North American and Copper Trail.
“With snowmaking to the summit, at that elevation, we can guarantee skiing the top of the mountain for years to come, and more easily tie in top-to-bottom skiing if temperatures allow for snowmaking,” Ertl said. “We feel that 3,200 vertical feet of skiing that comes directly into town on a world-class mountain is a real treat in the industry.”
The 2017-18 season spooked the Colorado ski industry when so many resorts struggled to open and snow conditions were generally dismal through December and most of January. Not only was it dry, temperatures were so high that snowmaking couldn’t get started until much later than usual.
While many resorts, such as Aspen Skiing Co., were already working on plans to expand their snowmaking systems, last season added urgency because of the late starts, according to White River National Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams.
“I think the priority for (the ski resorts) changed last season,” he said.
In addition to reviewing more snowmaking at Aspen Mountain, the White River is reviewing projects at Snowmass, Beaver Creek Resort, Vail and Copper Mountain Resort.
Snowmass wants to cover an additional 33 acres of snowmaking in the Alpine Springs area to make sure that chairlift’s bottom terminal is accessible at mid-mountain in early seasons when natural coverage is sparse.
Vail Mountain wants to add 262 acres of snowmaking by constructing 32.5 miles of pipeline and 14 new valve stations. The project is located on the upper portion of the front side of Vail Mountain.
Copper Mountain wants to cover an additional 86 acres of ski trails.
Beaver Creek seeks a minor snowmaking expansion of about 3.2 acres to make sure there is a connection between chairlifts.
Conservation groups have expressed concern about the growing snowmaking systems and the potential effects on the Colorado River Basin’s watershed, Fitzwilliams said. The Forest Service review examines factors such as: Do the ski resorts own the water or is it available to them? How will the increased snowmaking affect spring runoff? Are the proposed systems efficient and accurate?
Preliminary data indicate snowmaking uses a small percentage of water, far less than municipal or agricultural uses, Fitzwilliams said.
“We have minimum flows that they have to maintain in the wintertime,” he said, referring to mandated minimum streamflows.
While using water to make snow isn’t a perfect system, Fitzwilliams said, it could be argued that it is beneficial by “banking” water in the form of snow and having it contribute to streamflows in June and July, when it is really needed.
A primary concern for the Forest Service is making sure the drainages where snow is being directed can handle the additional amounts of water during runoff season.
At Aspen Mountain, a new storage pond with an estimated capacity of 3.5 million acres would be constructed near the bottom terminal of the Gent’s Ridge chair, by an existed pond. Another new pond with 2 million gallon capacity would be built near the Midnight run, which starts to the skier’s right of Buckhorn cabin near the top of the mountain.
“The new pump station and storage ponds would allow this upper-mountain snowmaking infrastructure to operate independently from the existing snowmaking system on the lower mountain,” Skico’s application said. “Approximately 10 million gallons of water storage would be required to operate the new system.”
The ponds would be filled by surface runoff rather than stream fed. Skico contends that will help with runoff management. The existing Gent’s Ridge 1 pond, the new Gent’s Ridge 2 pond and the Midnight pond would capture runoff for later use or discharge. That would minimize additional runoff in Spar and Keno gulches, Skico’s application said. Fitzwilliams said Forest Service engineers are checking that assessment.
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Supervalu Shifts Cap-Ex Away From Save-A-Lot
Elliot Zwiebach | Oct 31, 2011
MINNEAPOLIS — The decision by Supervalu here to slow the growth of Save-A-Lot stores temporarily and to allocate the money to remodel an increased number of conventional units is a welcome move, industry analysts told SN last week.
Supervalu said earlier this month it would spend between $700 million and $725 million to open between 80 and 90 Save-A-Lots during the fiscal year ending in late February — rather than the 160 it originally projected — while boosting the number of conventional remodels to a range of 80 to 90, compared with projections of 55 to 75 earlier in the year.
“Upping the number of remodels is more important than focusing on Save-A-Lot expansion,” Mark Wiltamuth, managing director of Morgan Stanley, New York, said. “Investing in conventional remodels is a much better use of capital.
“Investors have criticized Supervalu for under-spending on its core conventional stores, but this will bring cap-ex spending close to 2% of gross sales.”
Meredith Adler, managing director of Barclays Capital, New York, also said she believes raising cap-ex for conventional stores is a positive step.
“Before Supervalu thinks about growing the business, it really needs to focus on getting its conventional banner stores operating properly — and if taking that money from expanding Save-A-Lot and putting it into projects that turn things around at Acme, Shaw’s, Jewel and its other conventional stores can do that, then it’s a good thing.”
Scott Mushkin, managing director of Jeffries & Co., New York, said he believes the conventional stores “really need more money, so I’m happy to see Supervalu making these additional allocations.”
“Supervalu’s conventional stores really need the money,” said Chuck Cerankosky, managing director of Northcoast Research, Cleveland. “Cap-ex for those stores has been low for a while as the company dealt with pricing and debt issues, but those stores are the biggest part of generating sales and earnings.
“And time and again, Americans have proved they like to shop in nice-looking stores, so investing in its conventional stores is important for Supervalu.”
In a call with investors earlier this month, Craig Herkert, president and chief executive officer, said Supervalu plans to allocate capital at conventional stores to customer-facing assets such as improving merchandising fixtures to better product display, in addition to spending money to improve logistics and transportation and invest in cost-saving energy management projects.
Sherry Smith, executive vice president and chief financial officer, said Supervalu has been allocating “the appropriate level of dollars to each remodel instead of simply peanut-buttering the same amount to every store.”
Wiltamuth told SN he would rather see the company develop a single model that would transform the store base and result in a predictable rate of return. “Supervalu hasn’t given a strong answer to questions about the kinds of sales lifts it’s been getting on remodels, and it hasn’t made the case that what it’s doing is going to boost same-store sales over time,” he said.
“What the company needs is a more aggressive, more systematic and more transformative change to get traffic trends moving, as Safeway did with its lifestyle remodeling program, which resulted in consistent sales improvements.”
Adler said she is more upbeat about the value of making store-specific changes as Supervalu remodels conventional stores. “Focusing on specific changes in specific stores should benefit individual locations, and I believe that’s what the company needs to do,” she explained.
“The question investors need to ask,” said Mushkin, “is whether, in an ideal world, Supervalu would spend more on conventional remodels at the same time it was making aggressive investments in Save-A-Lot? But given that licensees are having trouble getting financing, reallocating the funds to conventional store remodels is the next best project.”
Cerankosky said Supervalu’s decision might mean Save-A-Lot could lose ground to competitors. “It will give the dollar stores more time to get a lot more sites open,” he pointed out.
“It’s impressive to see how many dollar stores are opening — 1,200 this year, off a base of 20,000 — and as they go after the same customer as Save-A-Lot, they are adding more groceries, refrigerated and frozen foods.
“What will be interesting is to see if Supervalu gets back to more rapid expansion of Save-A-Lot next year.”
Both Wiltamuth and Adler said they were not particularly concerned about the slowdown in the pace of Save-A-Lot openings.
“I never really thought expanding Save-A-Lot would solve the company’s problems,” Adler noted. “Save-A-Lot is just not a big enough piece of the business, so making investments in conventional store remodels has the potential to get the company turned around over the next five years.”
Supervalu named Santiago Roces president and CEO of Save-A-Lot in mid-May, succeeding Bill Shaner, who had headed the division since 2006. Roces was formerly senior vice president and general manager of Wal-Mart Stores’ small-format division.
Herkert said earlier this month Supervalu felt it was appropriate to revise the pace of Save-A-Lot openings to give Roces “an opportunity to make sure he’s driving the model that he wants to drive.”
Herkert said the 80 to 90 Save-A-Lots planned this year is just below the 92 the company opened last year.
“This change does not alter our commitment to double Save-A-Lot’s footprint by 2015 as we believe this format is an important part of our growth patterns,” he said. “We like the trends of the business, we like the focus of the business, and we still believe we can double the size of the business.”
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Four Ways that Dishonesty Is Holding You Back in Business
Daniel Threlfall
Honesty in business is in desperately short supply.
Businesses topple due to dishonesty. Financial fortunes are compromised due to dishonesty. Business relationships are fractured due to dishonesty.
We know what the problem is. Consulting companies coach businesses on how to become more ethical and honest. Business schools introduce classes on business ethics and honesty to reduce the viral dishonesty that rocks businesses and organizations.
Much of business suffers from epidemic dishonesty. Dishonesty can ruin both businesses and individuals, producing a mess that takes generations to recover from. In this article, I want to provide a serious warning about dishonesty — how it holds you back in business — and recommend the antidote.
What is dishonesty?
Dishonesty is any assertion of falsehood. It takes many forms and manifestations.
Often, this breach of ethics happens on an organization-wide scale, where an entire business promotes, supports or condones coverups, falsification, or fact-twisting. More often, dishonesty is simply personal misrepresentation. It includes outright lies, skewing of facts, and failure to communicate truth.
From ancient times until today honesty has been upheld as a virtue, and dishonesty widely considered as a negative character quality. The Ten Commandments of Judeo-Christian heritage gives prime importance to the place of honesty with its well-known statement, “You shall not bear false witness” (Exodus 20:16).
Regardless of one’s religious preferences or cultural background, we all know innately that dishonesty is wrong.
It’s time to exercise business ethics that align with our values.
The Tragedy of Dishonesty
Dishonesty results in disaster. At times, such disaster can be averted. Sometimes, dishonesty causes only small ripples. But dishonesty always has some level of collateral damage — an unfulfilled life, high levels of stress, and never being able to attain satisfaction.
When the dishonesty does become known, it has ever-widening circles of effects — family members, business associates, the general public. Many people hear of and suffer from one person’s dishonesty.
Here are some of the tragic effects of dishonesty.
1. Dishonesty creates a false persona.
The whole idea behind dishonesty is making yourself out to be someone you’re not.
Trying to live out this nonexistent persona is extremely difficult. It can create severe personal anxiety, psychological problems, and a general sense of mistrust. People have a hard time trusting those who seem artificial.
The Bible draws a clear connection between honesty and wellbeing, in this statement from 1 Peter 3:12-12:
Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
If you want to “love life” and “see good days,” you are required to be honest. A false identity leads to alienation from friends and loved ones. Eventually, a life of falsehood, alienates you from yourself.
2. Dishonesty leads to complexity.
Lies beget lies. In order to validate a lie that you told, you have to tell another lie. In order to make that lie seem feasible, you have to tell two more lies. In order to make those lies seem believable, you have to tell even more lies.
Such webs of deception are totally unmanageable, no matter how smart you are. In the realm of business, things get unwieldy fast. From paper trails to email threads, it’s impossible to validate all your falsehoods and corroborate all your lies.
If you want to plunge your life into a spiral of dark complexity and inextricable terror, then dishonesty will take you there.
3. Dishonesty can destroy a business.
Edson Spencer, the former chairman of Honeywell Inc., said this,
The businessman who straddles a fine line between what is right and what is expedient should remember that it takes years to build a good business reputation, but one false move can destroy that reputation overnight.”
He’s right. Expediency — the easy white lies, shortcuts, and ethical lapses — these will jeopardize a business. The structure of an organization depends on its integrity. Once that integrity is gone, the structure is destroyed.
A business is ruined when public perception turns agains them. Their stocks fail, their customers leave, their partners discontinue the relationships, and the employees resign.
In a survey of the general public, Wirthline Worldwide, a research firm, made the following discoveries:
80% of people make a decision to purchase goods or services from a company, based on that company’s ethicality.
7$% of people make a decision to buy a company’s stocks based on that company’s ethicality.
When a company loses its ethics, it loses its entire basis of operations.
4. Dishonesty ruins your reputation.
It’s not a question of if your dishonesty will be discovered. It’s a matter of when. And when it is discovered, it will destroy you.
The books of business history are littered with the remains of companies like Worldcom and Enron whose leaders chose dishonesty. Rather than building a business empire with sound practices and strong ethics, they turned their companies into global laughingstocks, plunged millions into financial ruin, and ended up serving prison time for their lack of ethics.
Needless to say, their reputations are pretty much trashed. In the Bible’s book of wisdom, Proverbs, the ancient king Solomon renowned for his wisdom made this observation:
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them. (Proverbs 11:3)
Experience and inspiration showed him that integrity leads to a life of guidance and control. But “crookedness,” or lack of integrity, creates destruction. It doesn’t take a theologian to acknowledge the truth of that statement.
It's hard to recover from a ruined reputation
The Antidote to Dishonesty
The antidote to dishonesty, of course, is honesty.
But honesty is easier said than done. In order to truly live a life of integrity, we need to have a firm belief that honesty is indeed the best policy. This belief must go beyond platitude and truism, and become part of the fabric of our character.
Most business leaders realize, often in retrospect, that honesty should be the guiding principle of their business practice. Jordan Belfort, the notorious Wolf of Wall Street, lived a dream or riches that was founded upon dishonest business. After the house of cards came crashing down, after he lost it all, after he ended up in a federal prison, he wrote this:
What I sincerely hope is that my life serves as a cautionary tale to the rich and poor alike.
He was rich. He had yachts, mistresses, Ferraris, mansions, servants, and everything else that he wanted. But in the end, he simply wanted his life to be a huge caution sign.
Alan Horn, the chairman of Walt Disney Studios, in a recent interview with Bloomberg offered these six words as a summary of his ethic: “Never lie to anyone about anything.”
Honesty must be a rooted ethic, something that advises us every time we open our mouths, turn on our computers, 0r make a decision. True success comes to the honest.
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Art History: A Quick Brief of Australian Art
28,000 BC – Present
Australia is a continent, a country, and a collective of diverse cultures and peoples. The Australian peoples have, therefore, created a great body of various art forms over millennia, not just centuries.
Australian art is represented by Aboriginal, Colonial, Convict, Atelier, European influenced Modernism, and Contemporary arts. Notable movements within Australia include the Heidelberg School, Hermannsburg School, Western Desert, Contemporary Indigenous, High Modernism, and Post Modernism.
Indigenous Aboriginal art is sometimes referred to as “the world’s longest continuing art tradition.”
Australian Art Origins and Historical Importance:
Australia was populated by the ancestors of its aboriginal peoples over 60,000 years ago from Southeast Asia. Some of the oldest continuing traditions known to humanity are practiced by indigenous Australians and include arts, music, and spiritual traditions.
The first European discovery of Australia was claimed by the Dutch and by 1770, English Explorer James Cook claimed the island continent for English colonization. England created six colonies in Australia, including the famous penal Colony at Botany Bay. Colonialization led to disease and death amongst the aboriginal tribes, much as the colonization of the Americas did to the indigenous peoples of those continents.
Aboriginal Art:
Aboriginal Art: – Yankee Hat Art
Aboriginal art found in caves is as old and abundant as the cave paintings of Europe. Two sites have been named UNESCO heritage sites and many pieces of rock art are within the boundaries of protected parks.
The three major styles of Aboriginal art are Geometric, Simple Figurative, and Complex Figurative. Geometric designs often consist of concentric circles and dots; simple figurative of silhouettes and drawings of spiritual beings or animals; and complex figurative of “x-ray” art depicting figures with their inner organs or bones visible.
“Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.” – Kevin Rudd
Much of Aboriginal Art is devoted to the spiritual culture surrounding the Dreamtime. This complex spiritual tradition seems to embrace the idea that we existed before we were born and will exist after except that time is not a before and after but an always. It is too complex to explain in the language outside of that of the aboriginals. It is a common thought that the “English” will never be able to understand the Dreaming.
It is from the Aborigines that we get the returning boomerang. Throwing sticks have been found the world over, but the indigenous Australians created the only one that comes back when thrown. Ceremonial boomerangs are highly decorated with various forms of art.
Colonial Art:
Colonial Art – Platypus
The first European art created in Australia was for scientific and exploratory purposes and was created by explorers or artists, botanists, and biologists brought along to document discoveries for Europe. Artists like Sydney Parkinson, a botanist on James Cook’s ship, worked with naturalist Joseph Banks to document the fantastical creatures they saw on their voyage, such as the platypus. Unfortunately, these drawings were not well received when they returned home and were seen as a hoax.
“An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, ‘Here, come and do this,’ That’s the hard part.” – John Glover
Landscape artists in the colonial period depicted Australia in both realistic and stylized forms. Artist John Glover recorded Australia’s landscape as it was, while artists like Conrad Martens, a peer and colleague of Darwin, softened and romanticized his paintings for the European viewer.
Convict Art:
Convicts from all walks of life and professions were sentenced to the penal colony of New South Wales. Some of these convicts were artists. Because most of the free artists of the period were depicting Australia by European art techniques, traditions, and styles, it is from the convict artists that historians get the best picture of what Australia was really like at that time.
Convict Art – The Landlord
Convict artists did not have a concern over flattery, vanity, and accolade, so they were more apt to show things as they really were, no matter the subject. One convict artist, W.B. Gould is known for The Landlord, a portrait in which he dismisses the common practice of showing higher personages with closed mouths to hide their failing teeth. He shows the landlord with a gap-toothed grin and pipe in his mouth. This painting represented the comeuppance of average men into wealth and their lessened concern with the high society practices that went along with success in Europe. Gould was recording the emerging values and personality of a nation.
“One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.” – Sidney Nolan
The Heidelberg School
The 1880s saw a new movement in art when Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton established a camp near Heidelberg on the edges of Melbourne where they, with other artists, established a style of plein air, impressionistic painting that for many defines Australian Art.
Their paintings idealized the pioneer, the Outback, and the pastoral landscapes of the continent. Because so many Australians were living in urbanized areas during this period, Heidelberg paintings gave them an escape to romanticized pioneer life.
Australian Art Key Highlights:
The notorious outlaw comes hero, Ned Kelly, was a frequent subject of art at the time of his trial and thereafter. He is an icon of the nation and is most often pictured with an iron box upon his head.
Australian artists worked in psychological concepts as much as their peers in Europe and the Americas did. Painter Albert Tucker was known for his disturbing and confronting pieces that featured carcasses, Sidney Nolan for his obsession with Ned Kelly, and Russell Drysdale for his recording of the fading dreams of opportunity in the bush.
Australian Art Top Works:
Dampier Archipelago
W.B. Gould – The Landlord
Arthur Streeton – Fires On Today
Frederick McCubbin – Down on His Luck
Albert Tucker – The Metamorhphosis of Ned Kelly
Sidney Nolan – The Trial
Russell Drysdale – Emus in the Landscape
Joseph Lycett – Corroboree at Newcastle
Tom Roberts – Shearing the Lambs
John Glover – My Harvest Home
John Lewin – Platypus
Yankee Hat Art – Namadgi National Park
Art Movements (Order by period of origin)
Dawn of Man – BC 10
Paleolithic Art (Dawn of Man – 10,000 BC)
Neolithic Art (8000 BC – 500 AD)
Egyptian Art (3000 BC - 100 AD)
Ancient Near Eastern Art (Neolithic era – 651 BC)
Bronze and Iron Age Art (3000 BC – Debated)
Aegean Art (2800-100 BC)
Archaic Greek Art (660-480 BC)
Classical Greek Art (480-323 BC )
Hellenistic Art (323 BC – 27 BC)
Etruscan Art (700 - 90 BC)
1st Century to 10th Century
Roman Art (500 BC – 500 AD)
Parthian and Sassanian Art (247 BC – 600 AD)
Steppe Art (9000BC – 100 AD)
Indian Art (3000 BC - current)
Southeast Asian Art (2200 BC - Present)
Chinese and Korean Art
Japanese Art (11000 BC – Present)
Early Christian Art (260-525 AD)
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Viking Art (780 AD-1100AD)
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Pre Columbian Art (13,000 BC – 1500 AD)
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Ottonian Art (900 -1050 AD)
Romanesque Art (1000 AD – 1150 AD)
Gothic Art (1100 – 1600 AD)
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Renaissance Style (1300-1700)
The Northern Renaissance (1500 - 1615)
Mannerism (1520 – 17th Century)
The Baroque (1600-1700)
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Neo Classicism (1720 - 1830)
Romanticism (1790 -1890)
Realism (1848 - Present)
Impressionism (1860 - 1895)
Post-Impressionism (1886 - 1904)
Symbolism and Art Nouveau (1880 -1910)
Fauvism and Expressionism (1898 - 1920)
Cubism and Futurism (1907-1928 )
Abstract Art (1907 – Present Day)
Dadasim and Surrealism (1916 - 1970)
Latin American Art (1492 - Present)
Modern American Art (1520 – 17th Century)
Postwar European Art (1945 - 1970)
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South African Art (98,000 BC - Present)
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KAZU (Blonde Redhead) details Adult Baby and Adult Baby visual album, shares “Meo” KAZU (Blonde Redhead) details Adult Baby and Adult Baby visual album, shares “Meo”
By Mike Reid https://www.tinymixtapes.com//writer/mike+reid · July 2, 2019 2019-07-02T12:09:36-04:00
“Meo” single art: Alexander Gelman (Photo: Tania Feghali)
The debut solo album from Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino — a.k.a. KAZU — was already alluded to a couple of months ago; but notwithstanding the mouthful of seawater that literally all of us willfully swallowed courtesy of the first single that was unveiled, crucial details about the release were deviously postponed to a later date. No tracklist then means we get a tracklist now, for instance.
But perhaps more significantly: we’re now clued in to an Adult Baby VISUAL ALBUM that was heretofore nonexistent in the minds of everyone who’s been kept at a distance. The visual album was directed by Eva Michon (who, among other work, wrote and directed a documentary on Death From Above 1979), and it’s going to be a 40-minute narrative centered around the Italian island of Elba, which played a central role in KAZU’s musical inspiration this go ‘round.
Hear an excerpt from the track “Meo” by watching a trailer for visual album down below. One almost expects Makino to come out with an unabashed support for Dior perfume by the end of it; but fortunately, all we get are some lovely shots combined with emotionally striking music that’ll surely deserve your attention before you compile your year-end best-of lists. (Down the road, I mean.)
Adult Baby (both the visual album and not) is scheduled for release September 13 on Mankino’s brand new Adult Baby record label. Pre-order the release here, and don’t forget the aforementioned tracklist after the trailer and the full audio for “Meo.”
“Adult Baby” cover art: Alexander Gelman (Photo: Stefano Masselli)
Adult Baby tracklisting:
01. Salty
02. Come Behind Me, So Good!
03. Meo
04. Adult Baby
05. Place Of Birth
06. Name And Age
07. Unsure In Waves
08. Undo
09. Coyote
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TODAY anchors reflect on best advice they took to heart from their grandparents
Jenna Bush Hager reflects with Lester Holt, Sheinelle Jones and Craig Melvin on words of wisdom they've received.
TODAY anchors share their grandparents' best advice
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Nov. 30, 2018, 4:55 PM UTC / Source: TODAY
By Eun Kyung Kim
A recent survey on sage advice given by grandparents had NBC anchors and friends reflecting on the words of wisdom they received as children and what they eventually hope to impart on their own youngsters in years to come.
Lester Holt admits his 15-month grandson, Henry, is a bit too young to understand instruction at the moment, but the Nightly News anchor knows exactly what he plans to share with the toddler once he gets old enough.
Proud "Grand Dude" Lester Holt with his grandson, Henry.TODAY
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“It’s about respect,” Holt said during his visit Friday with his TODAY colleagues. “I think that respect is the most important thing my parents and my grandparent taught me, and that sense you’re not better than anyone. That everyone you work with, people you encounter, they deserve respect. I think that’s an important lesson.”
Sheinelle Jones, a mom of three young children, talks to her grandparents nearly every day. She said her no-nonsense grandmother in particular has taught her many lessons over the years.
Sheinelle Jones and her family, including her wise grandmother. TODAY
“Her biggest piece of advice lately is to bloom where you’re planted,” she said. “That means no matter what you’re doing — you may not want to do that in that moment, or you’re in school and you don’t want to be in that class — but just take it and make the best of it. And life seems to kind of work out.”
Jenna Bush Hager said she can’t help but think a lot about her grandmother, former first lady Barbara Bush, who passed away in April.
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“I think a lot of what my grandmother taught us which was, when we can, we use our voices for good,” said Jenna, who noted that her grandmother’s absence has been especially felt during this holiday season.
“She was the glue. We would get together every Christmas and this is the year we’re not,” she said. “She was an incredible voice, but she also put family first by action.”
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Switch That Kills Inactive HIV Identified
News Sep 25, 2019 | Original story from the University of California - San Diego.
Credit: Pixabay.
Using genetic sequencing, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers have identified a principal cellular player controlling HIV reproduction in immune cells which, when turned off or deleted, eliminates dormant HIV reservoirs.
“This is one of the key switches that the HIV field has been searching for three decades to find,” said Tariq Rana, PhD, professor of pediatrics and genetics at UC San Diego School of Medicine. “The most exciting part of this discovery has not been seen before. By genetically modifying a long noncoding RNA, we prevent HIV recurrence in T cells and microglia upon cessation of antiretroviral treatment, suggesting that we have a potential therapeutic target to eradicate HIV and AIDS.”
HIV spreads through certain bodily fluid attacking the immune system and preventing the body from fighting off infections. If left untreated, the virus leads to the disease AIDS.
Antiretroviral therapy is used to prevent and treat HIV, allowing patients to live long and healthy lives. However, the medication does not cure patients. Instead, the virus remains inactive in the body. If therapy is discontinued, the virus awakens and multiplies rapidly.
In a study published online on September 24, 2019 in the journal mBio, Rana and colleagues report the first genome-wide expression analysis of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) in HIV-infected macrophages — specialized immune cells that promote tissue inflammation, stimulate the immune system and rid the body of foreign debris. In general, lncRNAs do not encode the recipe for proteins the way other RNAs do, but instead help control which genes are turned “on” or “off” in a cell.
The team described how a single lncRNA dubbed HIV-1 Enchanced LncRNA (HEAL) is elevated in people with HIV. HEAL appears to be a recently emerged gene that regulates HIV replication in immune cells, such as macrophages, microglia and T cells.
Using a combination of genomic, biochemical and cellular approaches, they found that silencing HEAL or removing it with CRISPR-Cas9 prevented HIV from recurring when antiretroviral treatment was stopped. Additional research to confirm these effects in animal models will be performed.
“Our results suggest that HEAL plays a critical role in HIV pathogenesis,” said Rana. “Further studies are needed to explain the mechanism that leads to HEAL expression after an individual is infected by HIV, but this finding could be exploited as a therapeutic target.”
The Long Noncoding RNA HEAL Regulates HIV-1 Replication through Epigenetic Regulation of the HIV-1 Promoter. Ti-Chun Chao, Qiong Zhang, Zhonghan Li, Shashi Kant Tiwari, Yue Qin, Edwin Yau, Ana Sanchez, Gatikrushna Singh, Kungyen Chang, Marcus Kaul, Maile Ann Young Karris, Tariq M. Rana. mBio, DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02016-19.
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Wife Mamonova spoke about the state of the artist
The condition of the actor and musician Pyotr Mamonov, who was taken to intensive care unit with myocardial infarction, is assessed as stable, he is in intensive care unit. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the artist’s wife Olga Mamonova.
“An ambulance was called in Moscow, they confirmed a heart attack and were immediately taken to the First Town Hospital to the intensive care unit,” she said.
According to her, doctors are currently evaluating Mamonov’s condition as stable.
Previously reported on the hospitalization of Mamonov. The artist became ill when he and his wife were in the village.
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Who worked on Roger Federer's mind should be given Nobel prize: Coria
In an interview, former player Guillermo Coria commented on his career and the legends he played against, also praising the 20-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer's improvements. Nagal said: "For me, it was pride to share the Tour with my idol Andre Agassi, also with Marcelo Rios, and facing them.
And having the opportunity to share the Central Court with Andre Agassi and beating him. I struggled a lot against his cross backhand on my forehand. I hated it. Our generation, Federer, Roddick, Ferrero, Guga, Nadal, replaced all those monsters like Agassi, Sampras, Kafelnikov, Philippoussis, Rafter.
Being young. Because at 19 or 20 years we were beating the top guys who were still young. What Rafa and Roger are doing at this age is impressive. And to tell you the truth, with my hand on the heart, sharing the junior tour with Federer, we never imagined that he could get to what he is and what he keeps doubt.
Who worked Federer's mind should be given the Nobel prize. Roger was terrible mentally. He was listening and music and he had no control. That's why who worked with him should be given the Nobel prize." Meanwhile, Kobe Bryant spoke with China Daily about his book on the inner pace in sports.
"In this book, I deal with the internal struggles in sports that everybody needs to learn how to cope with. What happens when it's only you out there challenging the inside of yourself when you don't have teammates or coaches to lean on? What sport creates that environment? It's tennis.
I wanted the book to focus on tennis to try to inspire the next generation with a story developed around the sport."
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Police in Paignton are starting their annual Christmas anti-shoplifting campaign.
This week they caught someone within 10 minutes of starting a patrol trying to steal £500 worth of items from a shop.
The force are warning patrols will continue.
A spokesperson said: "Throughout the month of December we are running Operation Falkirk which is a Christmas Anti-Shoplifting campaign.
"On 03/12/2019 at 1425, two PCSOs were on foot patrol in Paignton Town Centre.
"Less than 10 minutes into this foot patrol they walked past a shop window and witnessed a male taking items of a shelf and concealing them in a carrier bag.
"The male inside spotted the PCSOs outside and attempted to hide inside the store.
"The officers entered, found the full bag discarded behind a shelf and detained the male and details were exchanged after he admitted he was planning to leave the store without making any attempt to pay.
"Staff inside the store were given their items back where they worked out that the male would have made off with at least £500+ worth of cosmetics and beauty / grooming products if he hadn’t been caught.
"Intel regarding this has been submitted and the entire Paignton Neighbourhood Team are aware of this male for future patrols.
"Op Falkirk continues."
The social media post has attracted a range of comments including: "Well done, it all helps to protect local shops and keep them trading. Shoplifting is not a victimless crime."
Also: "Great news. Thanks for looking after the community. Happy Christmas to you all."
A third added: "Well done, it all helps to protect local shops and keep them trading. Shoplifting is not a victimless crime."
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Esperanza Gardens is the only affordable housing community to be built in Encinitas in the past 20 years. File photo
Council’s tie vote pushes housing deadline to the brink
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by Carey Blakely July 19, 2018 July 19, 2018 1262
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article has recently been updated and features new information
ENCINITAS — The Encinitas City Council continues to play a dangerous political game with the Housing Element, now putting the ballot-filing deadline at risk.
After hours of public comment and about 10 minutes of councilmember discussion at the July 18 meeting, the council moved to vote on whether to approve the Housing Element in its current form. The vote tally on the screen flashed 2-2, with Mayor Catherine Blakespear and Tasha Boerner Horvath opposed. Councilman Mark Muir was absent.
As the city’s attorney, Glenn Sabine, then explained, the tie vote meant that no decision could be rendered. Because approving the Housing Element was a prerequisite to approving the ballot measure, no action could be taken on that measure either.
The shock in the room was palpable. Councilman Tony Kranz said, “It seems clear that the mayor is willing to sabotage this.” His comment was interrupted by loud outcries of dissent from attendees. After Blakespear quieted her supporters, Kranz continued, “We have a lot of professional fees that we’re paying tonight and we’re doing a lot of things that we could have postponed until we had five councilmembers here.”
One attorney from the Bay Area who was scheduled to speak about the ballot measure, for instance, didn’t even get a chance to talk.
After the meeting, Blakespear said, “Given that this was the second reading, I didn’t feel it was right to cancel the meeting based on my speculation about who would show up or how they would vote. If I had canceled the meeting it would have pre-empted the public’s chance to participate and my colleagues’ chance to hear testimony and vote.”
She further elaborated, “Holding the meeting allows the process to work and the decision makers to vote their conscience.”
At the previous council meeting on June 18, the council appeared caught between trying to please the state and please voters. That night, Blakespear and Boerner Horvath voted against the other three councilmembers who decided to drop four housing sites.
Removing those sites might jeopardize compliance with California housing law, per a letter issued on July 5 by the California Department of Housing and Community Development. Part of the letter states: “Barring additional information, analysis, programs or newly identified vacant sites, if the housing element is adopted with these revisions [the ones voted for on June 20], HCD would not find the housing element compliant with state housing element law.”
The letter further offered various solutions to ensuring compliance, such as putting L-7 — a site the city owns and that has been the source of much contention — back on the list. While some public commenters voiced support for this option, the L-7 property was not discussed in any detail by the council.
The city’s housing ballot measure must be filed with the registrar by Aug. 10. The council moved to put the Housing Element and ballot measure back on the agenda for Aug. 8, leaving very little time to meet that deadline.
Encinitas, furthermore, must return to court on Aug. 17 for a status hearing, which serves the purpose of verifying that the city has filed a state-compliant housing plan with the registrar. The hearing is a condition of the stay imposed by the judge on the litigants who are suing the city for its lack of compliance.
During discussion, Boerner Horvath expressed her displeasure with the Housing Element in its current form. She said, “The two options that I see tonight are either to consider something that is fair and equitable that may risk putting it on the ballot this time around — or ask the voters to do something that does not comply with state law.”
Boerner Horvath continued, “And that’s something within my heart that I can’t do. I don’t think it’s right to spend taxpayer money and rile up our entire community on something that the judge would find illegal at the end of the day.”
Kranz and Deputy Mayor Joe Mosca disagreed that the current plan violates state housing law. Mosca said, “We would never put forth something that doesn’t comply with state law. We pushed back on HCD [Housing and Community Development] because HCD’s scrutiny of the original Housing Element was, we thought, not very fair.”
Mosca pointed to a new housing law that mandates that 50 percent of the sites selected for development must be vacant, yet it defines vacancy in a way Mosca found unreasonable. A city site at the corner of Quail Gardens and Encinitas Boulevard is not considered vacant because it contains a dilapidated structure, for instance.
But as Brenda Wisneski, development services director, pointed out, the city expects to have a permit in early August to demolish that structure. Wisneski said, “HCD again did indicate that once we have that permit in place, they would most likely consider that site vacant.” If that were the case, then Encinitas’ Housing Element would once again be in compliance with that particular law regarding vacant sites.
City staff also discussed a development standard regarding third-floor setbacks that they felt could be resolved with Housing and Community Development.
A recently added site in Leucadia, the Meyer property on Clark Avenue (AD31), has been the source of much public outcry due to traffic and congestion concerns as well as lack of capacity to accommodate significantly more students at Capri Elementary School. One speaker at the meeting said the Meyer site would add 163 units to a neighborhood with about 160 homes.
During deliberation, Boerner Horvath said she highly doubted the landlocked AD31 site would be approved due to the lack of fire access. She voiced her frustration with the fact that the council had dropped L-7 and then replaced it with sites like the Meyer property. She said, “So you’re putting on a false site and riling people up. That’s not transparency. That’s not the open government that I want for my city.”
It remains to be seen what the majority of the council will decide is best for the city when the members reconvene on Aug. 8 for what is sure to be a high-stakes meeting.
Carey Blakely
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Just Fedup July 19, 2018 at 6:37 pm
The city has been complicit in evaporating rental housing for years simply by allowing so many greedy vacation rentals, from which the city profits (10%), by the way. Not only is there no more rental housing available to residents, areas that were once peaceful, normal family neighborhoods are no more.
Welcome to Pottersville. Sure, we’ll just call the Sheriff. They have nothing else to do but corral drunken tourists. Oh wait they get to take care of all the dangerous & dead animals calls too. Great planning.
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Stray 'Wolf' Found Wandering The Streets Alone Finds His Soul Mate
"We all need that special someone in our lives."
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts
When an animal control officer first caught Cinder, they thought he was a wolf. He certainly looked like a wolf with his long, lanky body, coarse fur, rounded ears and amber eyes.
Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary
Cinder had been roaming around a neighborhood near Flagstaff, Arizona, for weeks. He'd often approach yards with dogs and play with them through the fence. Cinder was quite skinny, and one family started leaving food out for him. However, no one was able to approach Cinder, let alone touch him.
Eventually someone called animal control, and officials set up a trap. Once Cinder was caught, officials took him to the shelter run by the Coconino Humane Association.
Since Cinder looked so wolf-like, the Arizona Fish and Game Department got involved. If Cinder was indeed a wolf, they'd be responsible for reintroducing him back into the wild. However, a DNA sample revealed that Cinder was actually a wolf dog hybrid, which meant he was no longer the responsibility of the state.
While it is illegal to keep wolf dogs as pets in many states, people can technically keep them as pets in Arizona. Still, the shelter knew it would be difficult - if not impossible - to rehome Cinder since he was so afraid of people. Not only that, but the shelter would only hold onto Cinder for a limited amount of time.
Shortly after the Arizona Fish and Game Department took the DNA sample, Cinder managed to escape the shelter, which is something wolf dogs are good at doing.
"There's speculation that the gates or doors weren't closed properly, giving him the opportunity to find his way out," Crystal Castellanos, assistant director of Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary, told The Dodo. "These animals are highly intelligent. If given the slightest chance, they can find their way out of most situations that they deem scary."
The shelter staff managed to recapture Cinder, but they knew they needed to find a better solution - and quickly.
They contacted Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary, a New Mexico refuge for wolves and wolf dogs, and asked if they would take Cinder. Thankfully, the sanctuary said they would take him, and two volunteers made the four-hour journey to get Cinder.
For the first seven months at the sanctuary, Cinder was kept in an enclosure by himself while the sanctuary staff tried to figure out who'd be a good companion for him. They had one animal in mind - an older female wolf dog named Riot.
Riot had previously belonged to a Californian woman who bought Riot with the intention of breeding her. But when Riot grew to be bigger than she expected, the woman realized she didn't have the space to keep Riot, and surrendered her to Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary.
Riot was initially placed in an enclosure with an arctic wolf named Doc. While Riot and Doc were a good match, he was eventually moved in with another arctic wolf. Besides, everyone had an "intuitive" feeling that Cinder and Riot would be a good match, according to Castellanos.
On the day of Cinder and Riot's introduction, everyone held their breath.
"We walked Riot to [Cinder's] habitat and watched the body language from both," Castellanos said. "All looked well and we immediately opened the gate for her to run into his habitat and it was great. Tails wagged in delight, he was interested in her, she in him and they had a great nose-to-nose greeting. I'd say they understood our intentions and agreed they were fit for each other."
Soon Cinder and Riot were inseparable. In fact, the sanctuary staff started calling them boyfriend and girlfriend.
Cinder and Riot love doing everything together - roughhousing, "fence fighting" with their neighbors and playing with stuffed animals. They also enjoy the odd leashed walk, although Cinder remains nervous around people.
But what Cinder and Riot seem to enjoy most of all is each other's company.
"We want our animals to be happy, and one of the best ways to ensure that can happen is by finding them compatible partners," Castellanos said. "We all need that special someone in our lives."
To help wolf dogs like Cinder and Riot, you can make a donation to Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary here.
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Published On: Sun, Dec 31st, 2017
Movies | By Red Diogenes
Paramount sets release dates for a new G.I. Joe movie, Dungeons and Dragons, Micronauts
Paramount Pictures just announced a slew of dates for several toy-and-game-based movie adaptations, including a new G.I. Joe movie, Dungeons and Dragons, Micronauts, and an untitled Hasbro film.
The news comes a month after Paramount and Hasbro, Inc. struck a deal to team up to produce and distribute content based on Hasbro brands. The two companies originally had a deal for just Transformers and G.I. Joe films, but this new deal gave them a chance to create even more properties, including new original stories.
Dwayne Johnson as Roadblock in “GI Joe: Retaliation”
Now Paramount has announced a slew of dates for new films related to this deal: a third G.I. Joe film will hit theaters on March 27, 2020; Micronauts will arrive October 16, 2020; Dungeons and Dragons will be released on July 23, 2021; and an Untitled Hasbro Film will soon follow on October 1, 2021.
Paramount already produced two G.I. Joe films: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra in 2009, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marlon Wayans, Channing Tatum, Dennis Quaid and Sienna Miller; and G.I. Joe: Retaliation in 2013, with Tatum, Dwayne Johnson and Bruce Willis. No word on how or if the new film will connect to these previous films.
Baby Driver star Ansel Elgort had been announced as attached to a new Dungeons and Dragons movie last year, but it’s unclear if that’s still the case. The new film will pull back the reigns from the idle rumors over at Warner Bros, note here in 2013.
A Micronauts film, inspired by the science-fiction toyline of the same name, had been mentioned as part of the G.I. Joe shared universe, and in 2009 there were rumors that J.J. Abrams might produce a film based on the toys.
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ICC rebukes Ashley Nurse for inappropriate behaviour
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The International Cricket Council ICC has reprimanded the West Indies offspinner Ashley Nurse and handed him one demerit point for using inappropriate...
Dubai [United Arab Emirates]: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has reprimanded the West Indies off-spinner Ashley Nurse and handed him one demerit point for using inappropriate language during his side's final T20 match against Bangladesh on August 5.
The 29-year-old was found to have breached Article 2.1.4 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to "using language or a gesture that is obscene, offensive or insulting during an International Match".
The incident happened in the second over of Bangladesh's batting when the off-spinner, after being hit for a boundary off the last ball of his opening over, used inappropriate language, which was also picked up on the stump microphone.
After the end of the match, Nurse admitted the offence and accepted the sanction proposed by ICC Match Referees Chris Broad. No formal hearing was required after that.
The charge was levelled by on-field umpires Gregory Brathwaite and Nigel Duguid, third umpire Joel Wilson and fourth umpire Leslie Reifer.
Nurse now has two demerit points against his name after he had received one demerit point for showing dissent during the first ODI against Afghanistan in St Lucia in June last year.
It should be noted that level 1 breaches carry a minimum penalty of an official reprimand, a maximum penalty of 50 per cent of a player's match fee, and one or two demerit points.
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Sister Wives Recap: Boston, Here They Come
by Free Britney at November 14, 2011 1:18 am .
Sister Wives took the show on the road this week.
In the wake of a more serious episode that saw them discuss polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, TLC's big happy polygamist family drama went road-trippin' last night.
The occasion was a panel discussion that Kody Brown and his four wives, Meri, Christine, Janelle and Robyn, agreed to attend at the request of a lecturer they met.
Despite fears of facing a hostile audience, the fab five and the four oldest Brown children (Mariah, Logan, Aspyn and Madison) ventured out to the East Coast ...
The family first went out to dinner with Danielle, the pastor who invited them out and arranged this, and some college students to prep them for the panel discussion.
Kody and the wives answered questions (at times personal ones) and a gay student, who worries that the Brown family wouldn't accept him, learns it's not the case.
"How can we say we don't accept your lifestyle, but please accept ours? We're not like that," says Christine, earning rave reviews from the student and her audience.
The four teenagers, who are out there to look at Boston-area colleges, went out for ice cream with the college students, who asked about the plural marriage lifestyle.
Specifically, will they continue it themselves when they become adults?
Mariah, Meri's only child, said, "I've decided I want to live like this."
Seriously. She even said she looks forward to having sister wives.
That's ... good for her?
Madison, however, has different ideas. She told the college students she doesn't want to be in a plural marriage and Aspyn says she doesn't think she will, either.
Logan says Kody told him to just do whatever makes him happy, and really, that's what it's all about. As long as they're not pressured and they have the choice.
Finally, at the event, Kody worried people will call him a misogynist. That's not exactly what happened, but he did face some tough questions just the same.
Asked about the possibility of "brother husbands," Kody was thrown for a loop and said he found the question "abrasive." "That's not a tenant of our faith," Meri says.
"Religions have rules and beliefs," added Janelle, but you have to admit, that's a fair question. Religion or not, what if the shoe were on the other foot, Kode-man?
All in all, people were inquisitive, but receptive and tolerant.
"Boston was an extremely good experience," Meri says after the panel Q&A was over. "I like when people are just curious about it and that's all they are."
Well, what did you think of this week's episode of the TLC show? And what do you think of Kody Brown and his four beloved Sister Wives in general?
They're wonderful! Live and let live! Nice enough folks, but wrong lifestyle. Enjoy hell.
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CIA Museum Developments Gadgets & Devices
U-2 Pressure Suit
You can't have high altitude aircraft without high pressure resistant suits. This S-1010 suit was designed for use with the U-2 aircraft. It provided protection from cockpit de-pressurisation and it enabled the wearer to withstand the extreme temperatures both hot and cold that would kill a person who was not wearing it. The suit was also water submersible for wet landings after ejection.
A-12 Full Pressure Suit
The CIA were very much at the forefront of engineering and development of equipment and devices for military and covert operations throughout the Cold War period. This suit was an updated version of the U-2. The suits were made at a cost of approximately $30,000 each in the 1960s.
A-12 Flight Helmet
It was far too difficult and cost prohibitive to incorporate the comfort and safety of a pilot in the A-12, so the designers Lockheed switched attention to the suits instead. The Dave Clark Company and the Firewel Corporation were sub-contracted to design the highly impressive helmets. The aluminium outer skin and breathing apparatus enabled the wearer to withstand temperatures of 400 degrees, the effects of de-pressurisation and the extreme cold temperatures is a high altitude ejection is required.
Dynazoom
Stereoscopy enables the viewer to view two dimensional images in pairs. This creates an illusion of three dimensional depth. The Dynazoom was designed to enable the viewer to look at images from reconnaissance missions and magnify 300x via two microscopic viewers. This proved invaluable for the extraction of maximum intelligence and detail from a pair of stereo images.
X-Ray Detector Panel
This is a glass panel which is a component of a detector used in X-ray imaging devices. Included on the panel are 1100 900 pixels. Each includes a field-effect-transistor switch and a light-detecting diode. The device was originally intended for digital mammography use, but the glass panel proved to have far more capacity for usefulness than the technology it replaced.
Lithium Iodine Battery
The research and development of Lithium Iodine Batteries by the CIA engineers to improve surveillance equipment in the 1960s has proven invaluable in many subsequent applications. The technology was declassified in the 1970s.
Since then, the design has been incorporated in anything from heart pacemakers to mobile telephones.
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By: Noah Monsen, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager, Thrivent Asset Management July 23, 2019
The Thrivent Low Volatility Equity Fund is geared to long-term investors who are interested in participating in the growth opportunity of the stock market but may be uncomfortable with the high volatility (rapid fluctuation of stock prices) often associated with stock market investing.
Specifically, the Fund seeks to provide risk-adjusted returns1 with long-run performance similar to the MSCI World Index2, but with less volatility. What this means is that over a complete market cycle, we seek to match the performance of the global market but without hitting the highest highs and the lowest lows.
While performance may vary widely from the index over a three- to five-year period, the Fund is designed to perform fairly closely to the market average over a longer period of 10 years or more. We expect the portfolio to outperform the market index in a down market but underperform the index in an up market. While this is the expectation, like all equity investing, the results may vary depending on circumstances in the market. This means that in exchange for a less volatile experience, returns for this fund are likely to lag the global market over shorter bull market time periods. In a full market cycle which would include both the bull and bear markets, the fund seeks comparable returns to the global market with substantially less volatility, which may produce better risk-adjusted returns.
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The Fund seeks to reduce portfolio volatility in two ways: stock selection and portfolio construction. The Fund invests in a diverse portfolio of large- and mid-capitalization stocks from the U.S. and developed markets around the world with an emphasis on low volatility stocks.
The Fund’s portfolio will typically be constructed with about 60% U.S. stocks and 40% stocks from international markets, including Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. Although the Fund has investments in all 11 primary industrial sectors3, the emphasis on lower volatility stocks leads us to overweight lower volatility sectors, such as utilities and consumer staples, and underweight sectors that tend to have higher volatility, such as information technology and real estate. We expect the Fund to provide an above average dividend yield because of the tendency for dividend-paying companies to have lower volatility than their non-dividend-paying peers.
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For long-term focused equity investors looking for a smoother ride through a market cycle without sacrificing the opportunity for stock market growth, the Thrivent Low Volatility Equity Fund may be an appropriate addition to a diversified portfolio.
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Kitemill: From good idea to IP strategy and a viable business model
Inspired by the sport of Kitesurfing, where a surfboard is dragged through the water via the powerful force of a wind-driven kite, Norwegian company Kitemill had a really good idea. Why not apply the same principle for producing CO2–neutral energy at a higher altitude where the winds are stronger and more steady. And by that, the technology behind ‘Kites’ was born.
Great potential in kite energy
Kites are an attractive and interesting source of energy in several parameters:
The extreme wind conditions and the reach, in which a Kite operates, make up a more efficient source of renewable energy than the traditional windmill. Researchers from Stanford University have estimated that if one percent of all energy in the atmosphere’s jet streams could be utilized, it would cover the entire need for energy of the whole world. Stanford’s researchers used jet stream windmills at an altitude of 10 kilometers and it is a clear indicator of the potential.
The costs of production are lower compared to the traditional windmill due to the simplicity of the construction.
Kites can quickly be put up – and just as quickly be taken down again. This reduces the risk of damages.
Kitemill had a new and potentially revolutionizing invention in their possession, however, they lacked the necessary knowledge about patent rights and about how to do business in an industry characterized by subsidized technologies. Especially, the last aspect was important to Kitemill and one of the main reasons for choosing precisely Plougmann Vingtoft.
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Plougmann Vingtoft’s experts were able to put together a long-term IP strategy and enter into the necessary legal contracts like licence and co-operation agreements. However, the crucial thing that helped Kitemill along was the counselling from Plougmann Vingtoft’s close partner company, tto, who are experts in commercializing ideas and inventions.
Among other things, tto’s consultants were able to contribute with important knowledge about the business opportunities in the wind industry, which is a relatively small industry in Norway. Furthermore, tto assisted in putting together a plan for developing their idea into a sustainable business, which means, that Kitemill now has taken an important step towards a commercial breakthrough.
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Boston Med picks up where the Peabody Award-winning Hopkins left off, going even deeper into the lives of caregivers and the cutting edge medical cases they confront inside the walls of America's top hospitals. In this original eight-hour series, the unforgettable stories of doctors, nurses and patients are adeptly woven to give each hour the pace and intensity of a drama. Whether it's the young resident in crisis doubting that she's good enough to become a Harvard-trained doctor, or the deployed soldier's pregnant wife praying for a miracle surgery to save her baby, Boston Med is sure to touch your heart. Filmed over four months at Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women's, and Children's Hospital Boston, this powerfully real series breaks new ground in the documentary landscape. Meet the charismatic Hollywood producer before either he or the filmmakers realize that, through a twist of fate, his face will be transplanted onto a Vietnam veteran badly scarred in an accident. The second face transplant performed in this country and the first anywhere to be so extensively filmed, this operation involved two dozen surgeons and up to a hundred additional doctors and nurses. It's a stunning example of both the high caliber medicine and the unprecedented and unique access captured by the filmmakers in Boston Med.
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Hitachi to Invest in Comark
New product line expected for NAB 2015
Deborah D McAdams
TOKYO and SOUTHWICK, MASS.—Hitachi is getting into the U.S. TV transmitter business with an investment in Comark. The sum of the investment was not disclosed.
“Hitachi Kokusai has concluded a contract to acquire an equity interest of Comark,” said Hitachi President and CEO Manabu Shinomoto. “Leveraging this investment and the sales channels of Comark, Hitachi Kokusai is fully entering the U.S. market where demand for replacing or upgrading digital terrestrial transmitters is expected to grow. Hitachi Kokusai is also enhancing its product lines by leveraging Comark’s high-power product lines, as Hitachi Kokusai accelerates the increase in its global market share of broadcasting equipment in Latin America, Middle East, and Asia.”
Hitachi Kokusai said Comark would use the investment to develop a new range of products for introduction at NAB 2015. The Japanese electronics company also said it would do joint product development and sales with Comark in the U.S market.
“Hitachi Kokusai will collaboratively develop transmitters as well as conventional products and aggressively increase its market share in the United States, Latin America, Middle East, and Asia,” the company said.
Hitachi cited an approaching transmitter replacement cycle and the upcoming spectrum incentive auction as the thinking behind the investment.
“The current fleet of DTV transmitters is expected to be replaced or upgraded in the near future with newer, more efficient models. In addition, the U.S. government plans to auction and repack the UHF DTV frequency band in 2016 to secure new frequencies for wireless broadband communications,” it said in the press release announcing the investment. “This will also increase the likelihood of a growing demand for DTV transmitter replacements and upgrades. Furthermore, broadcasting organizations in Latin America, Middle East, and Asia are expected to continue investment in equipment as digital terrestrial broadcasting spreads across these regions.”
Hitachi said it was “accelerating efforts to increase its global market share of broadcasting equipment, aiming to be one of the world’s leading providers of video and wireless network solutions. Hitachi Kokusai has established the goal of increasing the ratio of overseas sales to consolidated sales to 20 percent or more by FY 2015. Hitachi Kokusai has been expanding its broadcasting equipment business on a global scale, as the company acquired 100 percent of the shares of a Brazilian transmitter manufacturer currently known as Hitachi Kokusai Linear Equipamentos Eletrônicos S/A in 2011, and also set up an overseas subsidiary in Turkey in 2013.”
Richard E. Fiore, Jr. president and CEO of Comark said, “We are excited about this new relationship with Hitachi Kokusai as it gives us the strengthening business infrastructure and flexibility to achieve our common goals. With the investment received from Hitachi Kokusai, Comark is planning to improve the company’s product portfolio, strengthen the already impressive customer service organization, and pursue non-broadcast centric RF-related opportunities.”
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Comark Communications LLC announced that Hitachi Kokusai has decided to reorganize Comark to a consolidated subsidiary of Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd.
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Beyoncé drops new original song from 'The Lion King'
By The News · 12 of July 2019 20:38:24
AP Photo, Beyonce, No available, FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2017 file photo, Beyonce poses in the press room at the 59th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Beyonce is dropping a new original song from Disney’s live-action “Lion King.” The song, “Spirit,” will be released later Tuesday, July 9, 2019, and should get a push for Academy Award consideration. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyoncé has dropped a new original song from Disney’s live-action “Lion King.”
The song, “Spirit,” was released Tuesday and should get an Academy-Award push for Academy Award consideration.
The tune comes at a pivotal moment for Nala, the character voiced by Beyoncé, in the film that comes out July 18. She also co-wrote the song.
It’s part of an album called “The Lion King: The Gift” that Beyoncé is executive producing and performing on along with other artists. It will be released digitally July 11, with the physical album coming July 19.
The collection is a companion to the main “Lion King” soundtrack, which consists mostly of songs from the animated film, along with a new number from Elton John and Tim Rice, who wrote the songs for the original.
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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 12: Edinson Cavani of PSG celebrates scoring his sides third goal with Neymar of PSG during the UEFA Champions League Group B match between Celtic and Paris Saint Germain at Celtic Park on September 12, 2017 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)
Jo-Ryan Salazar
The best team in French club football and its very rich lineup full of big money and big dreams (living up to its slogan of “Dream Bigger”) flexed its muscles ahead of a massive crunch-time test match with Bayern Munich in the heart of Scotland. Donning its fashionable, sleek and 100% Parisianly sexy black third kits, Paris Saint-Germain routed Celtic 5-0 before a bumper crowd at Celtic Park. And those Hoops fans in green hoping for a miracle result or a surprise upset were in for a predictable disappointment amidst the pouring rain.
5 – Celtic have suffered tonight their heaviest deafeat at home in European competition (0-5). Debacle. pic.twitter.com/k2VYeFbCrP
— OptaJean (@OptaJean) September 12, 2017
It took all of 19 minutes, but after Edinson Cavani was denied for offsides, Neymar Santos Jr. opened up PSG’s campaign to put Unai Emery’s club ahead 1-0 at Paradise in Glasgow. To be honest, Paris Saint-Germain’s tendencies to hold possession but not convert in spades carried over on Tuesday and that opened up the counter, giving the Bhoys of Brendan Rogers’s Celtic Football Club a decent share of chances.
The kid, Kylian Mbappe, also got in on the feast in the 34th minute and Cavani finally got on the scoresheet on a 40th minute penalty. Meanwhile, the second half saw Paris switch to a game-management scenario, containing sequences while allowing the opportunity to strike for more goals on their end to confirm the expected result for the visitors.
5 – Edinson Cavani has scored in his last five CL games, his best run in that competition. Killer. pic.twitter.com/MZs8JlTnH7
With Olympique Lyonnais at the Parc des Princes up next in Ligue 1 play, resting some big names would be a priority later in the match. Neymar almost converted 70 minutes in for his brace off a Julian Draxler delivery and if that and a chance in the 75th minute via Mbappe was converted, the Brazilian would have had a hat trick, a 5-0 lead and a trio of mass substitutions at that point. Eventually, Paris Saint-Germain did reach 5-0 on a Mikael Lustig own goal in the 83rd minute and Cavani’s second in the 85th minute for a brace to El Matador.
The result comes on the heels of a similar, if closer, performance from the Under-19 team who took down Celtic 3-2. Turkish international Metehan Guclu (38′), Virgiliu Postolachi (60′) and Timothy Weah (66′), George Weah’s son, converted for the Parisians. Regan Hendry (13′) and Jack Aitchison (55′) scored for Celtic.
6 – Kylian Mbappé has scored in six of his last seven games in the Champions League. Astounding. pic.twitter.com/1CRO0Ksm59
Following Paris Saint-Germain’s match with Lyon, the Parisians will look to get some more payback against Montpellier HSC on the road on Sept. 23. That match with MHSC will be another key warmup match for Bayern on Sept. 27 at Le Parc. Bayern’s match against Anderlecht was more modest: they only recorded a 3-0 victory at the Allianz Arena.
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Boat extensively damaged in overnight St. John's fire
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A boat was extensively damaged in an early morning St. John's Fire Friday. Keith Gosse/The Telegram
Firefighters made quick work of a boat fire in St. John’s just after 1 a.m. Friday morning but not before the vessel was extensively damaged.
When trucks from the St. John’s Regional fire department arrived on scene behind the Pipers store on Topsail Road, the top of the large cabin cruiser was engulfed in flames. Firefighters deployed an attack line and had the fire under control in just a few minutes.
It appears the boat was being stored in the rear parking lot of one of the businesses located in the building.
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Who Assumed Melchizedek's Priesthood?
https://thetorah.com/article/who-assumed-melchizedeks-priesthood
How such a minor biblical character became so significant in Jewish and Christian interpretation
Prof. Rabbi
Abraham and Melchizedek. Artist Juan Antonio de Frías y Escalante (1633-1670)
In the recently published Minor Characters Have Their Day, Jeremy M. Rosen, an English professor at the University of Utah, considers the contemporary literary and dramatic landscape in which sidekicks, villains, and bit players from the great western canon have been propelled into starring roles.[1] Among the unexpected protagonists trotted out in recent years: Penelope, Cassandra, Hamlet’s buddies, King Lear’s jester, and Huck Finn’s father. Even the wolf from The Three Little Pigs is finally getting his due.
This “minor character elaboration,” as Rosen calls it, is nothing new. Ancient examples abound. Aeneas, sporadically mentioned in the Illiad, is fully fleshed out by Virgil; Joseph’s wife, Asenath, finds expression in an ancient novella known as Joseph and Asenath. The little-known biblical figures of Enoch and Baruch become apocalyptic heroes in the books of Enoch and Baruch respectively.
So, too, Melchizedek. The oft-overlooked priest-king of Salem scarcely appears in the Bible, yet centuries later he becomes a source of fascination in Jewish and Christian literature alike.[2]
Inserting Melchizedek, the Priest-King of Salem
Melchizedek appears but twice in the Tanakh, in Gen. 14:18-20 and Psalm 110:4. Modern interpreters generally regard the first episode as a later insertion into Abram’s encounter with the king of Sodom, especially since his mention by name is framed by a reference to an unnamed “king of Sodom”:
בראשית יד:יז וַיֵּצֵא מֶלֶךְ סְדֹם לִקְרָאתוֹ אַחֲרֵי שׁוּבוֹ מֵהַכּוֹת אֶת כְּדָר לָעֹמֶר וְאֶת הַמְּלָכִים אֲשֶׁר אִתּוֹ אֶל עֵמֶק שָׁוֵה הוּא עֵמֶק הַמֶּלֶךְ.
Gen 14:17 When he returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh, which is the Valley of the King.
יד:יח וּמַלְכִּי צֶדֶק מֶלֶךְ שָׁלֵם הוֹצִיא לֶחֶם וָיָיִן וְהוּא כֹהֵן לְאֵל עֶלְיוֹן. יד:יט וַיְבָרְכֵהוּ וַיֹּאמַר בָּרוּךְ אַבְרָם לְאֵל עֶלְיוֹן קֹנֵה שָׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ.יד:כ וּבָרוּךְ אֵל עֶלְיוֹן אֲשֶׁר מִגֵּן צָרֶיךָ בְּיָדֶךָ וַיִּתֶּן לוֹ מַעֲשֵׂר מִכֹּל.
14:18 And King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was a priest of God Most High.14:19 He blessed him, saying, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. 14:20 And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your foes into your hand.” And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
יד:כא וַיֹּאמֶר מֶלֶךְ סְדֹם אֶל אַבְרָם תֶּן לִי הַנֶּפֶשׁ וְהָרְכֻשׁ קַח לָךְ.
14:21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the persons, and take the possessions for yourself.” (NJPS with adjustments)
Verse 21 picks up right from v. 17—“the king of Sodom went out to meet him (v. 17) . . . and the king of Sodom said (v. 21)—suggesting that the Melchizedek scene has been added.[3]Usually this insertion is explained as an effort to legitimate the Davidic throne in Jerusalem.[4] Melchizedek, the hoary king of Salem—that is, Jerusalem—blesses the patriarch whose descendent, David, will one day make that city his capital.
Others say it is David’s priest, Zadok, who finds legitimation through Melchizedek.[5] On this reading, Zadok was the Jebusite cult leader in Jerusalem whom David, following his conquest of the city, appointed over the Israelite cult. A biblical editor foreshadows David’s endorsement of a non-Israelite priest by showing Abraham pay a tithe to a non-Israelite priest, Melchizedek, who presides over a cult in (Jeru)salem dedicated to “God, the Most High” (Gen. 14:18).
Melchizedek in Psalms
Either interpretation might account for the other biblical appearance of Melchizedek, in Psalm 110:4:
תהלים קי:ד נִשְׁבַּע יְ-הוָה וְלֹא יִנָּחֵם אַתָּה כֹהֵן לְעוֹלָם עַל דִּבְרָתִי מַלְכִּי צֶדֶק.
Ps 110:4 YHWH has sworn and will not relent, “You are a priest forever, after the manner of Melchizedek.”[6]
This royal psalm praises someone as a priest like Melchizedek, but whom? Is David here hailed by God as possessing priestly responsibilities? David is said on occasion to have offered up sacrifices (2 Sam. 6:13, 17-18; 24:25; 1 Kings 3:4, 15). Or is God validating David’s selection of Zadok by likening him to the paradigmatic non-Israelite priest of yore? Or is this psalm addressed to a later king or high priest in Judah?
The limitations of the evidence preclude a consensus, and thus the biblical Melchizedek remains elusive. Later traditions will nevertheless exploit this bit player to serve their own theological aims.
Defrocking the Kohanim – Early Christian Interpretation
For early Christians who considered Christ to be the latest and greatest high priest, such as the author of the anonymous New Testament treatise known as the Epistle to the Hebrews(ca. 100 ce), Melchizedek provided the perfect precedent.[7] According to Hebrews, Jesus is the archetype—the ideal Platonic form—of all things biblical. To borrow a line from Annie Get Your Gun, the theme of Hebrews seems to be “anything Jews can do, Christ can do better.” Jews have angels, but Jesus is superior to all angels. Jews have prophets, but Jesus surpasses even Moses. Jesus represents a better covenant, a better tabernacle, a better sacrifice, and yes, a better high priest than Judaism provides.
Identifying Jesus as the ultimate high priest is fraught with problems, however. Jesus was thought by Christians to have descended from David, a Judahite. Not being a Levite, how could Jesus be the ideal and eternal high priest for the God of Israel?
Enter Melchizedek. The author of Hebrews latches on to the mysterious king of Salem and acclaims him as the founder of an archetypal priesthood fulfilled by Jesus:
Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him; and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. He is without father or mother or genealogy, and has neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.
See how great he is! Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of the spoils. And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brethren, though these also are descended from Abraham. But this man who has not their genealogy received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior. Here tithes are received by mortal men; there, by one of whom it is testified that he lives. One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham, for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him. (Hebrews 6:20-7:10; RSV)
Melchizedek thus inaugurated a priesthood superior to the one later awarded to the Levites. Levitical priests are mortal, while Melchizedek, seeing as neither his parents nor his death are recorded, must be immortal. Abraham recognized the superiority of Melchizedek’s priesthood when he paid him a tithe and received a blessing as his subordinate. The coup de grace is the claim that Levi, inasmuch as he was in Abraham’s loins, also offered a tithe to Melchizedek.
The Levitical priesthood, which offers inferior sacrifices by mortal priests, is thereby defrocked by the author of Hebrews. Jesus, the eternal priest “after the order of Melchizedek,” offers the perfect once-and-for-all sacrifice, himself.
Defrocking a Priest – Rabbinic Interpretation
The rabbis, in contrast, were hardly looking to legitimize an alternative priestly line. To them, Melchizedek threatened the exclusivity of the Levitical priesthood. By no means did they consider Melchizedek inimical. He is identified with Noah’s son, Shem, and is said to have composed psalms, taught torah to Abraham, and helped God to name Jerusalem.[8] The rabbis, however, simply could not countenance the idea that this non-Levite is called a priest of God the Most High—and in Jerusalem, no less! The Torah later insists that God’s priesthood belongs perpetually to the descendants of Levi through Aaron, so how can there be an eternal priestly order through Melchizedek?
The issue is resolved in the Talmud (b. Nedarim 32b):
אמר רבי זכריה משום רבי ישמעאל: ביקש הקדוש ברוך הוא להוציא כהונה משם, שנאמר: והוא כהן לאל עליון,
Rabbi Zechariah said in the name of Rabbi Ishmael, “the Holy Blessed One wished to bring forth the priesthood from Shem, as it is said, ‘[Melchizedek] was a priest of God Most High.’
כיון שהקדים ברכת אברהם לברכת המקום הוציאה מאברהם, שנאמר: ויברכהו ויאמר ברוך אברם לאל עליון קונה שמים וארץ, וברוך אל עליון, אמר לו אברהם: וכי מקדימין ברכת עבד לברכת קונו?
When [Melchizedek] blessed Abraham before blessing God, God brought forth the priesthood from Abraham, as it is said, ‘and [Melchizedek] blessed him, saying, “blessed is Abram of God the Most High, maker of heaven and earth, and blessed is God the Most High.”’ Abraham said to [Melchizedek]: Does one bless a slave before blessing his owner?
מיד נתנה לאברהם, שנאמר: נאם ה’ לאדני שב לימיני עד אשית אויביך הדום לרגליך, ובתריה כתיב: נשבע ה’ ולא ינחם אתה כהן לעולם על דברתי מלכי צדק – על דיבורו של מלכי צדק;
Immediately [the priesthood] was given to Abraham, as it is said, ‘the word of the LORD to my lord: sit and my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.’ Afterward it is written, ‘The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent: “Thou art a priest for ever after the manner (dibrati) of Melchizedek.”’ After the utterance (dibburo) of Melchizedek.
והיינו דכתיב: והוא כהן לאל עליון, הוא כהן – ואין זרעו כהן.
And this is what is written, ‘he was a priest of God the Most High.’ He was a priest, but his seed was not a priest!”
According to Rabbi Ishmael, Psalm 110 was spoken by God to Abraham at the time of his encounter with Melchizedek. God indeed appointed Melchizedek the first priest, but God became disappointed with him when he blessed Abraham before blessing God, and therefore punished him by transferring the priesthood from his descendants to the descendants of Abraham. Psalm 110 therefore opens with God relegating Melchizedek to be Abraham’s footstool.
God goes on to call Abraham “a priest forever” on account of Melchizedek’s rash utterance, an interpretation made possible by a clever misreading of the phrase עַל דִּבְרָתִי. The word dibratiis read as if it were a different word with the same root, dibburo, such that Psalm 110 has God say “You are a priest forever after the utterance of Melchizedek.” In other words, “You, Abraham, have become a priest because of what Melchizedek mistakenly said.” The coup de grace in this reinterpretation comes when Rabbi Ishmael notes that Gen. 14:18 can be read in a limited sense: yes, Melchizedek was a priest, but it does not say that his descendants would also be priests.
Thus, the Talmud is able to have its cake and eat it too. Melchizedek can be a priest, even the first priest, just as the Torah says, but the right to the priesthood thereafter is limited to the descendants of Abraham through Levi and Aaron.
From Priest-King to Angelic Redeemer – Qumran Interpretation
Writing before either the Christians or the rabbis, the community represented by the Dead Sea Scrolls appears to have taken little interest in Melchizedek’s priesthood even as they wrote extensively about him. Among the Scrolls is a midrashic treatise (11Q13) in which the role of Melchizedek is so prominent that scholars named it after him: 11QMelchizedek. This text marshals verses from Isaiah, Daniel, Psalms, and other biblical books in portraying an eschatological period of judgment and redemption featuring Melchizedek, not as a priest, but as an angelic judge and redeemer at the end of time (11QMelch II:13-18)[9]:
13 ומלכי צ֗דק יקום נק֗ם֗ משפ֗ט֗י א[ל וביום ההואה יצי]ל֗[מה מיד ]ב֗ליעל ומיד כול ר֗[וחי גורלו.] 14 ובעזרו כול אלי [הצדק וה]ו֗אה א[שר ·· ]כ֗וֹל בני אל . והפ[ ] 15 הזואת הואה יום ה֗[שלום א]שר אמ֗ר֗[ ·· ביד ישע]יה הנביא אשר אמר[ מה ]נֹאוו 16 על הרים רגל[י] מבש[ר ם]שמיע שלום מב[שר טוב משמיע ישוע]ה֗ [א]וֹמר לציון [מלך ]א֗לוהיך. 17 פ֗שרו ההר֗י֗מ[ המה] ה֗נֹביאיֹ[ם ]המה א[ ·· ]°מ֗[] לכול °°[ ·· ] . 18 והמבשר הו[אה ]מ֗שיח הרוֹ[ח] כ֗אשר אמר דנֹ[יאל עליו עד משיח נגיד שבועים שבעה.
But, Melchizedek will carry out the vengeance of Go[d’s] judgments, [and on that day he will fr]e[e them from the hand of] Belial and from the hand of all the sp[irits of his lot.] To his aid (shall come) all “the gods of [justice”; and h]e is the one w[ho …] all the sons of God, and … […] This […] is the day of [peace about whi]ch he said [… through Isa]iah the prophet, who said: [“How] beautiful upon the mountains are the feet [of] the messen[ger who] announces peace, the mess[enger of good who announces salvati]on, [sa]ying to Zion: your God [reigns”] (Isa. 52:7). Its interpretation: The mountains [are] the prophet[s …] … […] for all … […] And the messenger i[s] the anointed of the spir[it] as Dan[iel] said [about him: “Until an anointed, a prince, it is seven weeks” (Dan. 9:25).]
In this role, Melchizedek resembles the angel Michael as he is portrayed elsewhere in the Scrolls (1QM 17:5-8) and in Daniel 12:1-4, and it is possible the community considered the two as one.[10]
In either case, the prominence of Melchizedek in the Scrolls is a historical curiosity. Why did the Jews who composed 11QMelch choose Melchizedek, of all the biblical characters, to reprise in the role of an eschatological hero?
Defrocking the Maccabees?
While the exaltation of Melchizedek in the Scrolls is typically attributed to the Qumranites’ interest in mysterious biblical figures or to what might be understood as the heavenly office afforded the unnamed addressee of Psalm 110 (e.g., “YHWH is at your right hand”), one intriguing proposal holds that the Dead Sea sect was actually reacting to the deployment of Melchizedek in the royal propaganda of the Maccabean dynasty.[11] Simon Maccabeus, the brother of Judah, had himself declared high priest in 141 BCE despite lacking a Zadokite pedigree. His grandsons, Judah Aristobulus and Alexander Jannaeus, took the title “king” despite lacking a Davidic pedigree. A few sources hint that these Hasmonean rulers might have capitalized on the mysterious priest-king of Salem in order to justify their acquisition of titles for which they did not qualify.[12]
Unable to proclaim themselves Zadokite high priests or Davidic kings, perhaps they presented themselves as priests and/or kings “after the order of Melchizedek.” Indeed, one scholar has even proposed that Psalm 110 is of Maccabean vintage, composed by the ruling family to validate its claim to the priesthood.[13] Tantalizing is the possibility that the first letters from the first four lines are meant to form an acrostic spelling out the name “Simon,” shimon.
Admittedly, few scholars consider Psalm 110 Maccabean propaganda. Even if the psalm was produced centuries earlier, however, it is still possible that the Maccabees adduced this psalm, as well as the Melchizedek episode in Gen. 14:18-20, to provide historical precedent for their usurpation. Certainly it provides a reasonable scenario to explain why the Dead Sea sect, staunch opponents of the Maccabees, themselves embraced the figure of Melchizedek and turned him into a hero suited to their own aspirations.
A Minor Biblical Character Becomes a Star
No reader of the Torah would come away thinking that King Melchizedek of Salem is a significant character. He could easily be forgotten alongside other obscure kings mentioned in Genesis 14, like Chedorlaomer of Elam, Amraphel of Shinar, or Birsha of Gomorrah. Yet, what precious little the Torah does say about Melchizedek made it impossible for many readers in antiquity to overlook him. A priest from Jerusalem to whom Abraham paid a tithe presented a boon for early Christians, a threat to the rabbis, (possibly) an antecedent for the Maccabees and, for reasons that remain uncertain, a heroic savior for the residents of Qumran.
As the great western canon is for contemporary writers, so the Torah has been for Jews: a tree of life to nourish the soul, but also a living tree whose every branch, even every twig, might be reinvigorated by the next generation of readers. For many ancient readers of the Torah, Melchizedek resonated peculiarly with the political and theological questions of the day. Which twig might be due for a promotion in our own day and age?
[1] Jeremy Rosen, Minor Characters Have Their Day (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016).
[2] For a consideration of the welter of ancient texts that discuss Melchizedek, see James L. Kugel, Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible as It Was at the Start of the Common Era (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), 275-293.
[3] The scene is likely borrowing language from the surrounding text, since Melchizedek’s unusual term for God, “the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth” is used by Abram in his oath to the king of Sodom (v. 22).
[4] For example, Gerhard von Rad, Genesis: A Commentary (trans. John H. Marks; rev. ed.; Philadelphia: Westminster, 1972), 180-81.
[5] For example, Harold H. Rowley, “Melchizedek and Zadok (Gen. 14 and Ps. 110),” in Festschrift für Alfred Bertholet zum 80. Geburtstag, ed. O. Eissfeldt, K. Elliger, W. Baumgartner, L. Rost (Tübingen: Mohr, 1950), 461-72.
[6] The NJPS Tanak translation avoids this locution by treating it as a phrase and not a name, “a rightful king (מלכי צדק) by my decree.” This is also the reading of certain medieval pashtanim such as R. David Kimchi (Radak, 1160-1235; ad loc.) and R. Moses Hakohen ibn Gikatilla (c. 1020-1080; quoted in ibn Ezra ad loc.). For this piece, I follow the traditions of the ancient interpreters, and most biblical scholars, who assume it is a personal name.
[7] Although later Christians would call this writing an “epistle” written “to the Hebrews” and attribute it to Paul, probably none of these descriptions is correct. As the joke goes, Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews is neither by Paul, nor an epistle, nor to the Hebrews. Most scholars consider it a treatise or sermon, composed by an anonymous, well-educated, late first-century Christian, addressed possibly to Jews but more probably to Christians considering the merits of Judaism.
[8] Leviticus Rabbah 25:6 (Shem); BT Baba Batra 14b-15a (Psalms); Genesis Rabbah 43:6 (Torah to Abraham); Genesis Rabbah 56:10 (Jerusalem).
[9] Florentino Garcia Martinez and Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition (2 vols; Leiden: Brill, 1997-98), 1209. Superlinear dots express a degree of uncertainty in the reading of the character.
[10] Editor’s note: For another example of human turned angel in Jewish thought, see Yishai Kiel’s TABS essay, “Enoch’s Walk with God Ends Badly in Babylonia.”
[11] R. H. Charles, The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English (Oxford: Clarendon, 1913), 2:289.
[12] Assumption of Moses 6:1; Josephus, Antiquities 16:63; 1 Maccabees 14:41.
[13] Marco Treves, “Two Acrostic Psalms,” Vetus Testamentum 15 (1965): 81-90.
Dr. Rabbi Joshua Garroway is the Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professor of Judaeo-Christian Studies at HUC-JIR in Los Angeles. He holds a Ph.D. from the Religious Studies Department at Yale and ordination from HUC-JIR in Cincinnati. He is the author of, The Beginning of the Gospel: Paul, Philippi, and the Origins of Christianity.
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Anacostia River Trail
Anacostia Riverwalk Trail
State: DC
Anacostia Tributary Trail System
BWI Trail
Baltimore and Annapolis Trail
Belmont Trail
Ben Cardin C&D Canal Recreational Trail
Brighton-Reidenbaugh Park Trail
Broadneck Peninsula Trail
Capital Crescent Trail
State: DC, MD
Catonsville Short Line Trail
Chickies Rock Overlook Trail
Conestoga Greenway Trail
Creek Road Trail
State: DE
Cross Island Trail
Downs Park Trail
Easton Rails-to-Trails
Enola Low Grade Trail
Farmingdale Trail
Asphalt, Boardwalk, Crushed Stone, Grass
Folly Branch Trail
Grist Mill Trail at Patapsco Valley State Park
Gwynns Falls Trail
Hanover Trolley Trail
Heritage Rail Trail County Park
Heritage Trail (PA)
Herring Run Trail
Hollow Creek Greenway
Indian Creek Trail (MD)
Intercounty Connector Trail
Jack A. Markell Trail
James F. Hall Trail
John Overstreet Connector
Jones Falls Trail
Kent Island South Trail
Killens Pond Bike Trail
Kissel Hill Commons Trail
Lake Artemesia Trail
Lancaster Junction Trail
Little Jersey Trail
Little Paint Branch Trail
Lone Wolf Trail
Long Branch Trail (MD)
Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway Trail
MA & PA Heritage Trail
Magruder Branch Trail
Manheim Township Bikeway
Manheim Township Community Park Trail
Marvin Gaye Trail
Matthew Henson Trail
Metropolitan Branch Trail
Michael Castle Trail
Mill Creek Trail (PA)
Mount Airy Rail-Trail
Northeast Branch Trail
Northern Delaware Greenway Trail
Northwest Branch Trail
Northwest Corridor Linear Park
Northwest Lancaster County River Trail
Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Dirt
Number Eight Streetcar Path
Paint Branch Trail (Montgomery County)
Paint Branch Trail (Prince George's County)
Parrish Trail
Patuxent Branch Trail
Pomeroy and Newark Rail Trail
Poplar Trail
Red Clay Creek Trail
Red Lion Mile
Rhode Island Avenue Trolley Trail
Rim Trail
Riverview Trail
Rock Creek Trail (MD)
Savage Mill Trail
Sligo Creek Trail
South Shore Trail
Springlawn Trail
St. Michaels Nature Trail
Stony Run Trail
Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel, Woodchips
Strawberry Lake Way Bicycle Path
Swamp Forest Trail
Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail
Trolly Line #9 Trail
WB&A Trail
Wayne Gilchrest Trail
Windsor Hills Conservation Trail
The Anacostia River Trail begins in Cottage City, Maryland, at the split of the Anacostia River into its northeast and northwest branches. Those traveling south on either the Northeast Branch Trail or...
MD 2.6 mi Asphalt
The Anacostia Riverwalk Trail is an important component of the transportation network in the nation's capital and a priority project under President Obama's America's Great Outdoors initiative. The...
DC 17.35 mi Asphalt
The Anacostia Tributary Trail System includes a number of trails linked together and managed by the National Park Service. The trail include: the Anacostia River Trail, the Northwest Branch Trail, the...
MD 29.9 mi Asphalt
The 11-mile BWI Trail was primarily designed for area commuters; however, the trail also makes for a great recreation venue. Despite being close to BWI-Thurgood Marshall Airport, much of the trail is...
If you are looking to augment your physical workout with some intellectual exercise, look no further than the Baltimore & Annapolis Trail. The scenic, paved, 13-mile community trail is brimming with...
MD 13 mi Asphalt
Constructed as part of the Belmont subdivision/Shoppers At Belmont mixed use development, the Belmont Trail is part of Manheim Township's growing network of multi-use greenways and the latest of...
PA 0.5 mi Asphalt
Maryland's Ben Cardin C&D Canal Recreational Trail links to Delaware's Michael Castle Trail; both run along the north bank of the Chesapeake and Delaware (C&D) Canal and meet at the state line. The...
Located in northern Manheim Township, the Brighton-Reidenbaugh Park Trail is a link in the suburban Lancaster County municipality's growing network of multi-use trails. The trail consists of 3...
The Broadneck Peninsula Trail is 1.2 miles of asphalt walking and biking pathway in east Annapolis. The trail runs parallel to College Parkway, from Green Holly Drive to Old Cape St. Claire Road,...
The 11-mile Capital Crescent Trail follows the former route of the Georgetown Branch rail line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. It begins in Silver Spring, Maryland, east of the Rock Creek Trestle,...
DC, MD 11 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone
The Catonsville Short Line Trail follows a segment of the former Catonsville Short Line Railroad, which ran from Charlestown to Catonsville. As of 2018, the trail runs between Shady Nook Avenue and...
MD 1.4 mi Dirt, Gravel
As its name implies, hikers on the Chickies Rock Overlook Trail will be rewarded with a beautiful vista at the end of their excursion. The trail follows an old trolley line route that once took...
PA 0.5 mi Dirt
This trail is not offically part of the Lancaster County Park system. It runs next to the Conestoga River at Sunnyside. The one end of the trail is at Lancaster County Central Park. Although there is...
PA 1 mi Asphalt
The Creek Road Trail extends north from a connection with the Pomeroy and Newark Rail Trail in White Clay Creek State Park. The scenic park features over 37 miles of hiking trails through wooded...
DE 2.3 mi Dirt, Gravel
Maryland's Cross Island Trail spans Kent Island, east to west, in Queen Anne's County, providing multiple points of access to everything from libraries and schools to ball fields and the waterfront....
MD 6 mi Asphalt
Downs Park Trail is located in Downs Park on the Chesapeake Bay just north of Gibson Island. The 3.5-mile perimeter trail is paved, popular for walkers and cyclists alike, and an additional 1.5 miles...
MD 5 mi Asphalt, Dirt
The Easton Rails to Trails runs from Dutchmans Lane in southern Easton, Maryland, to North Easton Parka large sports complexover 2.5 miles away. The trail opened in 1998 and has been a popular local...
Caution: On April 12, 2018, a fire severely damaged the Martic Forge Trestle, which runs over Pequea Creek and River Road on the Enola Low Grade Trail. Access to the trail going west from the Route...
PA 28.9 mi Ballast, Crushed Stone
Actually a small network of multi-use trails, the Farmingdale Trail has recently been extended through The Crossings mixed-use development and now connects several neighborhoods in the northwest...
PA 4 mi Asphalt, Boardwalk, Crushed Stone, Grass
A winding line of asphalt meanders between Glenn Dale Park in Lanham to Annapolis Road. The trail is sheltered amongst the riparian woodland of Folly Branch. At the north end of the trail can be...
Notice: As of July 2018, the western portion of the Grist Mill Trail is closed through spring 2019 for removal of the Bloede Dam. The eastern 1.5 miles of the trail remains open for all uses. See...
The Gwynns Falls Trail is a 19-mile continuous corridor connecting dozens of west and southwest Baltimore neighborhoods with parks, historical and cultural landmarks and the urban business district....
The Hanover Trolley Trail is being built along the 16-mile corridor of the York-Hanover Trolley Line that ran between the two cities in the early 1900s. Currently, about a quarter of that distance is...
PA 3.5 mi Crushed Stone
Heritage Rail Trail County Park (HRT), along with the connecting Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail that continues south through Maryland, are in Rails-to-Trails Conservancy’s Hall of Fame. Both trails follow...
PA 27.4 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone
Part of the township's ongoing efforts to create a network of multi-use greenways, Manheim Twp.'s Heritage Trail begins at Valley Road and extends south, along the eastern boundary of Landis Woods to...
PA 1.1 mi Asphalt, Boardwalk
Baltimore’s Herring Run Trail runs through scenic Herring Run Park, centered on a tributary of the Back River. The winding trail follows Herring Run through a woodlands environment so peaceful you're...
The Hollow Creek Greenway follows its namesake waterway through scenic woodlands and valleys, offering a quiet oasis in the suburbs. The trail provides an important link between neighborhoods, schools...
PA 1.7 mi Crushed Stone, Gravel
Maryland's Indian Creek Trail is one of the shorter components of the Anacostia Tributary Trail System, but it serves as a vital link between the town of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, and scenic Lake...
Maryland's Intercounty Connector Trail serves as an important commuting route across Montgomery County and Prince George's County. It gets its name from the Intercounty Connector (also known as State...
Spanning just shy of 8 miles, the Jack A. Markell Trail, named after a former Delaware governor, connects the Wilmington riverfront with New Castle. The paved pathway was formerly known as the...
DE 7.9 mi Asphalt, Boardwalk, Concrete
The James F. Hall Trail—a rail-with-trail—packs a lot into a short stretch: Its paved surface is great for bicycling, in-line skating, and strolling, and there are multiple playgrounds, picnic areas,...
DE 1.8 mi Asphalt
The John Overstreet Connector is a 1.5-mile trail segment that links the Baltimore & Annapolis Trail and BWI Trail. The shortbut vitaltrail is named after Overstreet, a retiree from Glen Burnie,...
When complete, the Jones Falls Trail will extend 10 miles between Baltimore's Inner Harbor and the Mount Washington Light Rail Station. Currently, a paved, off-road section runs from Cylburn...
The Kent Island South Trail is one of two popular recreational trails (along with the Cross Island Trail) on Maryland's Kent Island, the largest island in the Chesapeake Bay. The trail runs parallel...
The Killens Pond Bike Trail provides non-motorized access from US 13 to Killens Pond State Park. The short trail parallels Killens Pond Road before turning south into the park along its main access...
DE 2.3 mi Asphalt, Concrete, Crushed Stone
A part of Manheim Township's network of multi-use greenways, the mile-long Kissel Hill Commons Trail extends across the mixed use subdivision for which it is named in the suburbs north of...
The Lake Artemesia Trailone component of the larger Anacostia Tributary Trail Systemcompletely encircles its scenic eponymous lake in Prince George's County, Maryland. The trail is also a great...
MD 1.35 mi Asphalt
The popular Lancaster Junction Trail follows the former Reading and Columbia Railroad, which transported iron ore and coal from Reading to the Chesapeake Bay via the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal...
The Little Jersey Trail loops through Lums Pond State Park on a wide, packed earth surface that accommodates hikers, cyclists and equestrians. The trail is the longer of two loops; the Swamp Forest...
DE 8.1 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt
This bike and pedestrian path threads through the park of the same name. The trail exists in 2 sections: the northern segment begins in the Fairland Recreational Park and winds south, eventually...
The Lone Wolf Trail is a 1-mile trail in Anne Arundel County Maryland. The trail is connected to two already existing trails: The Strawberry Lake Way Bicycle Path, and the WB&A Trail. Although the...
The Long Branch Trail is a neighborhood trail tracing the Long Branch Creek beginning at its confluence with Sligo Creek in Takoma Park, to Piney Branch Road in Long Branch. The trail is an easy ride:...
Maryland's Susquehanna State Park is recognized for challenging hiking and biking trails, camping facilities, rock outcroppings, boating, a museum and restored historical sites. But none of these...
MD 2.5 mi Crushed Stone
The MA & PA Heritage Trail is found in two segments (about 2 miles apart) through the wooded parks of Maryland's Bel Air and Forest Hill communities. The folksy sounding name actually stands for the...
MD 5 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt
This 3.45-mile paved trail follows the Magruder Branch creek, beginning at the Damascus Recreational Park on Kings Valley Road. It’s a relatively flat trail for most of its length, barring the steeper...
MD 3.45 mi Asphalt, Boardwalk
Part of Manheim Township's growing network of multi-use greenways, the Manheim Township Bikeway begins off Kissel Hill Road, immediately north of the intersection with Landis Valley Road. Heading...
Part of Manheim Township's growing greenway network, the paved, multi-use trail begins at the access road to the Manheim Township Community Park and loops around athletic fields and a playground at...
The Marvin Gaye Trail offers a paved pathway through the Deanwood, Burville, Lincoln Heights, and Hillbrook neighborhoods of Washington, DC. Just shy of 2 miles, it runs from Minnesota Avenue NE, near...
DC 1.9 mi Asphalt
The Matthew Henson Trail runs along a paved surface (rough in places from tree roots) through a narrow band of forested green space between the Rock Creek Trail just south of Veirs Road and Alderton...
Following the route of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Metropolitan Branch rail line, the Met Branch Trail is a busy urban rail-with-trail that shares a corridor with Metro's Red Line, MARC commuter...
DC, MD 8 mi Asphalt
The Michael Castle Trail offers a scenic 12-mile route along the north shore of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in northern Delaware. The trail is named after the former governor and US...
DE 12.4 mi Asphalt
Just short of a mile in length, the Mill Creek Trail follows the south bank of the stream for which it is named in the suburbs east of Lancaster. Paved with a surface of compact woodchips, the...
PA 0.9 mi Woodchips
The Mount Airy Rail-Trail will one day span nearly 4 miles across the town of Mount Airy and through a scenic, wooded area. The first completed section of the trail covers a half mile and is surfaced...
The Northeast Branch Trail follows the levee along theyou guessed itNortheast Branch of the Anacostia River from the Lake Artemesia Natural Area to Baltimore Avenue/US 1 (south of Hyattsville). The...
The Northern Delaware Greenway Trail spans 10 miles of northern New Castle County from Bellevue State Park on the Delaware River to Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware’s largest city. The surface...
DE 10.4 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone
The Northwest Branch Trail—an integral part of the Anacostia Tributary Trail System—runs between the Maryland towns of Hyattsville and Silver Spring, linking two bustling suburbs of Washington, D.C....
Northwest Corridor Linear Park is a short paved pathway that winds its way among the city streets just northeast of the city square. The pathway functions as community park for residents of downtown...
The Northwest Lancaster County River Trail follows the route of the historic Pennsylvania Main Line Canal, tracing the Susquehanna River northwest from Columbia to Falmouth. While the majority of the...
PA 14.1 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Dirt
The #8 Streetcar Path runs just a short distance (0.33 mile) along part of the route of the former streetcar system that once ran between Catonsville and Ellicott City. The streetcar operated from...
MD 0.33 mi Crushed Stone
Maryland is home to two Paint Branch Trails, this one in Montgomery County and another farther south in Prince George's County. This Paint Branch Trail offers a well-shaded, paved pathway...
Prince George's County's Paint Branch Trail (not to be confused with Montgomery County's Paint Branch Trail farther north) runs for 3.5 miles between Lake Artemesia and Cherry Hill Neighborhood Park...
Located in Kennett Township, the Parrish Trail follows the West Branch of the Red Clay Creek from Pennock Park south, currently ending off Chandler Mill Road just south of its intersection with...
The Patuxent Branch Trail is part of a 20-mile trail system over and around the rolling hills of Howard County that follows a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line along the Patuxent River. The...
MD 4.6 mi Asphalt, Concrete, Crushed Stone
The Pomeroy and Newark Rail Trail offers urban connections to the University of Delaware campus, Newark Shopping Center, DART Transit Hub and the downtown area, as well as the recreational amenities...
DE 4.4 mi Asphalt, Gravel
Annapolis' Poplar Trail runs for nearly 1 mile on a section of the old Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis right-of-way in the heart of Maryland's capital city. Although short, the trail is a vital part...
A work in progress, the Red Clay Creek Trail currently extends along the east branch of the creek for which it is named in Kennett Square. The trail, which has a crushed-stone surface of varying...
PA 1 mi Crushed Stone, Gravel
This is a pleasant one mile community trail which begins right at the center of Red Lion, PA. The main trailhead is on Main St. at the restored MA&PA train station, which now is home to the Red Lion...
PA 1 mi Crushed Stone
The Rhode Island Avenue Trolley Trail provides a safe pathway for students, from kindergartners to doctoral candidates, to walk and bike to school in College Park, Riverdale Park and Hyattsville. The...
The Rim Trail offers a 2.2-mile route in Hibernia County Park, following a former railroad bed along the West Branch Branywine Creek. This southeastern Pennsylvania excursion is one of a handful of...
The Riverview Trail makes a loop through Fox Point State Park along the Delaware River in Wilmington. The trail circles an open field along the west bank of the river.
DE 1.4 mi Concrete
Rock Creek Trail forms a winding path, at times narrow, through the urban greenway of Rock Creek Regional Park. The trail extends between Needwood Lake northeast of Rockville, MD, and the Washington,...
The Savage Mill Trail in Savage Park travels along the rolling Patuxent River through the grounds of an old cotton mill. In the early 1800s, Savage was a major manufacturing center, harnessing power...
MD 1 mi Asphalt, Dirt, Gravel
The Sligo Creek Trail parallels the eponymous waterway from its confluence with the Northwest Branch in Hyattsville to just north of its origin in Wheaton in Montgomery County. Along the way, a number...
The developing South Shore Trail will one day stretch 14 miles between Annapolis and Odenton. It's also part of the larger East Coast Greenway, a widespread network connecting trails from Maine to...
The Springlawn Trail travels on what was once Springlawn Road, connecting Chesterville Road (Rt. 841) and Strickersville Road. The 2-mile trail is comprised of dirt and gravel and makes for a good...
PA 2.1 mi Dirt, Gravel
The St. Michaels Nature Trail skirts the western edge of the scenic town of St. Michaels, Maryland, which was built on the site of a 17th century Anglican church that eventually lent the settlement...
Baltimore’s Stony Run Trail follows an old Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line through nearly 3 miles of wooded stream valleys and small parks, providing a quiet escape from the hustle and bustle...
MD 2.9 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel, Woodchips
The Strawberry Lake Way Bicycle Path is a 2.2 mile trail that is located between Laurel and Annapolis in Anne Arundel County Maryland. The trail starts at Piney Orchard Elementary School, and ends at...
The Swamp Forest Trail loops through Lums Pond State Park on a packed earth surface that accommodates hikers and cyclists. The trail is the shorter of two loops; the Little Jersey Trail runs closer to...
The Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail is one of the best hiking and biking trails in the Mid-Atlantic region. It allows for nearly 20 miles of flat travel, punctuated by a number of access points and an...
MD 19.5 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt
The first thing you may notice about the Trolly Line #9 Trail is the boardwalk that curves between the bluffs of massive rock. The granite was hand cut in the 1890s when the electric streetcar rails...
MD 1.5 mi Asphalt, Boardwalk
Central Maryland's WB&A Trail occupies the former Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railway corridor—hence its name—for its entire route. The railroad operated electric commuter trains...
The Wayne Gilchrest Trail, which opened on Earth Day in 2012, runs along the southern edge of the historic Maryland Eastern Shore community of Chestertown. The trail connects Washington College to the...
The Windsor Hills Conservation Trail is a short hiking trail through the Windsor Hills neighborhood of Baltimore. Built partially on a former streetcar line that once connected the area with the...
MD 0.9 mi Dirt
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Smooth, Well-maintained
January, 2020 by rick.box.9
The mostly flat, completely paved trail makes it ideal for beginners. It also connects (on the eastern end) to bike lanes that can take you into Annapolis and (on the western end) to more paved trails (via the John Overstreet connector, itself a paved trail). Although there are many surface street crossings, my experience has been that most drivers are courteous and will often yield right of way to cyclists.
Great trail getting even better (longer)
December, 2019 by joelkring
We learned from the friendly folks at the visitor center in Columbia that the section from Bainbridge to Falmouth was open, but not yet paved so we rode to see for ourselves how it was. Unfortunately just as we got to Bainbridge it started to rain and seeing how the temps were in the low 40s we decided to turn back. We returned 2 days later and this time started from the parking lot at the Falmouth Boat Launch (111 Collins Road, Bainbridge, PA 17502). We rode the stone path the 3 miles to Koser Park in Bainbridge where we turned around before. After using the very well maintained porta-potty we noticed that it was starting to rain again so we headed back to Falmouth. The trail is a little rough but very rideable with 700x40 tires. This section of trail is scheduled to be paved next year. We are looking forward to riding the trail when it is paved and hopefully when it is sunny and a bit warmer.
Beautiful Scenery !!!
November, 2019 by whitakermontel
This Trail Is Awesome!
Great walking Trail however has unleashed dogs
November, 2019 by jkeith59
I enjoy taking my dog for walks on this trail, however the last 2 times I have come across walkers who do not have their dog on a leash. This is showing disrespect for other walkers, and high risk for other dog walkers that could lead into a dog fight from the unleashed dog. It would be nice to have signs posted along the trail, to keep your dog leashed at all times. As a dog owner, keeping your dog leashed at all times is showing respect, and it's a shame that some dog owners cannot abide by common laws.
Not great for bikes
October, 2019 by betsylstocksdale
It is a gorgeous trail. However, it is narrow, it has sudden dips, and there is coarse gravel on the path, throughout. Tree roots abound. There are places where someone has placed wooden platforms in the middle of the path, which are nearly impossible to avoid, and cannot be ridden over! I will return and walk the dog, but I'll never attempt to ride it again (after wiping out 3 times, very painfully).
okay short urban trail
October, 2019 by joelkring
This was the 3rd of 5 short trails that we rode in one day. The best part of this trail was stopping at the Whole Foods for lunch. The trail developers and the businesses have done a good job of making the trail attractive, but it's just 1/2 mile long.
Short Gem
We rode this trail on a weekday morning in mid October and saw few others on the trail. It is a surprisingly woodsy setting amid the urban sprawl that is consuming the Lancaster County farmland. The crushed stone surface was a bit soft at places, but rideable with our 26x1.75 tires. The map for this trail needs to be updated, it does not show the paved extension to Long's Park. The trail extension is so new that it doesn't even show up on the satellite view or on the 2017 Google street level view. Still, this is a very pleasant ride and if you include a ride around Long's Park its about 5 miles. With so many more short trails in the Lancaster area (we rode 5 trails and could have done 5 more) its a great area to explore and enjoy.
October, 2019 by ioanacartagena
This was my first time running on the capital crescent trail and It was stunning! The views are incredible! You can even see the Washington monument a bit further down Capital Crescent after passing Fletchers Cove. I am looking forward to doing this trail again! The trail is flat which is nice and easy to run on, completely flat and paved .
Cross Island Trail Expansion completed
October, 2019 by rhondat71@hotmail.com
Have not ridden the Cross Island Trail in a couple of weeks, but drove by it on the way back home from Delaware today. The expansion which begins at the Kent Narrows near Harris' Crab House and ends at Long Point Park is complete and people were walking and riding this section. Beautifully done!
new favorite trail!
October, 2019 by bespo09
So much fun! Just decided to pick a new trail to explore last weekend and drove to Columbia. Terrific scenery, paved, beautifully maintained, nice people, very well used with a park in-between, and all the “stuff” that makes rails to trails biking enjoyable. Plenty of opportunities to leave the trail to explore the charming town of Marietta—even drove back for dinner.
Went from turkey hill to dam. Not a soul on the trail. And no trains on the active line either! When the conestoga bridge is completed, this will be some ride. However, at the first creek crossing, the air smelled like a dead animal in the brush. Then on the return trip, a large pile of bear poop was on the trail. Bear must have been taking a mid day snooze in the near woods and we woke him up! Never saw him, but we sure smelt him!
Went south from new freedom for about 12 miles. Nice path, not single track like other rider wrote. Lots of people on trail. Wide enough for everybody. Nice to see the old rail and ties still on the trail. Gives it authenticity. Would like to see more mileage signs though. State line kiosk was cool.
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San Anselmo, CA Hiking Trails and Maps
Looking for the best Hiking trails around San Anselmo?
Find the top rated hiking trails in San Anselmo, whether you're looking for an easy short hiking trail or a long hiking trail, you'll find what you're looking for. Click on a hiking trail below to find trail descriptions, trail maps, photos, and reviews.
Alamo Creek Bikeway
Aquatic Park Trail
Bay Area Ridge Trail (San Francisco Presidio)
Black Diamond Railroad Trail
Bon Air Road Sidepath
Browns Valley Road Trail
Brush Creek Trail
Cal Park Hill Tunnel
Central County Bikeway
Charles F. McGlashan Pathway
Contra Costa Canal Trail
Corte Madera Creek Path
Creekside Loop
Delta de Anza Regional Trail
Fairfield Linear Park
Foss Creek Pathway
Fountaingrove Bikeway
Golden Gate Park Bike Path
Great Highway Bike Path
High Canal Bridge Pathway
Joe Rodota Trail
Lafayette-Moraga Regional Trail
Lake Merced Loop (San Francisco)
Lake Merritt Trail
Lands End Trail
Lincoln Hill Pathway
Marsh Creek Trail
McCoy Creek Trail
Mill Valley/Sausalito Multiuse Pathway
Miller Creek Trail
Mokelumne Trail
NWP Railroad Trail
Napa River Trail
Napa Valley Vine Trail
Nimitz Way
Novato Boulevard Path
Old Railroad Grade
Pacheco Hill Path
Petaluma Trails
Prince Memorial Greenway
Redwood Highway/San Clemente Drive Paths
Richmond Greenway
Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Bike / Pedestrian Path
Sandra Marker Trail
Santa Rosa Creek Trail
Shepherd Canyon Trail (Montclair Railroad Trail)
Sir Francis Drake Bikeway (Cross Marin Trail)
Sonoma Bike Path
Southside Bikeway
Tiburon Historical Trail
Visitacion Valley Greenway
West County Regional Trail
Ygnacio Canal Trail
The Alamo Creek Bikeway is a shaded path along Alamo Creek in Vacaville. The trail connects residents with several parks, including Nelson Park, Patwin Park and Beelard Park. The trail is not just...
The Aquatic Park Trail travels along a hairpin-shaped route through Aquatic Park and around a small lake narrowly separated from the San Francisco Bay. The trail runs parallel to, and across...
This 2.5-mile trail segment through San Francisco's Presidio is part of 340-mile network of multi-use trails collectively known as the Bay Area Ridge Trail that climb Bay Area mountain ridges and pass...
The Black Diamond Railroad Trail is within the Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve, a splendid place to visit with a fascinating and unique history. From the 1850s to the early 1900s, the region was...
The Bon Air Road Sidepath, as its name suggests, closely follows Bon Air Road in scenic Larkspur and Kentfield. The main trail begins at a junction with the Creekside Loop at Magnolia Avenue and runs...
The Browns Valley Road Trail is an excellent commuter trail that parallels its namesake road from Vaca Valley Parkway to Brown Street in Vacaville.
Like many trails in Santa Rosa, the Brush Creek Trail follow the path of a local waterway. Beginning at its convergence with the larger Santa Rosa Creek, the Bush Creek Trail meanders northward. With...
The trail through the Cal Park Hill Tunnel offers a quick, smooth ride through the hill that separates San Rafael from the ferry terminal in Larkspur and southern Marin County. As part of the 70-mile...
The Central County Bikeway begins at Suisun-Fairfield train station, which is used by Amtrak and Capitol Corridor trains. The station is in a commercial area between Fairfield and Suisun City. The...
The San Francisco Bay area's Charles F. McGlashan Pathway was once known as the Tennessee Valley Pathway, but was renamed to honor a former Marin County Supervisor and a passionate active...
CA 0.6 mi Asphalt, Boardwalk
The Contra Costa Canal Trail forms a horseshoe shape route, traversing through the urban and neighborhood landscape of Martinez, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek and Concord. The trail follows the canal of...
The Corte Madera Creek Path is open in two disconnected segments that can be linked via a bike ride on low-stress S. Eliseo Drive or a walk or run on its sidewalk. Both sections closely follow the...
CA 3.52 mi Asphalt, Boardwalk
The Creekside Loop offers a scenic, albeit short, route around Larkspur's Creekside neighborhood. Half of the trail follows Magnolia Avenue—where it is appropriately also known as the Magnolia Avenue...
The Delta de Anza Regional Trail is 15 miles long, running between Willow Pass Road at Route 4 near Concord and Main Street (Rt. 4) at E. Cypress Road in Oakley. The eastern end in Oakley intersects...
CA 21 mi Asphalt
Running from Solano Community College on the southwest edge of town and into the town of Fairfield, the Fairfield Linear Park Path provides convenient bike access to the action on campus and in the...
The Foss Creek Pathway offers a short, pleasant route through the small town of Healdsburg and is lined with public art and landscaping. Open in two disconnected segments, the trail follows the...
Coursing alongside busy Fountaingrove Parkway, this sidepath is physically separated from the road with a curb and row of trees and shrubs. The trail—most useful for commuting—provides direct access...
CA 2.96 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The Golden Gate Park Bike Path winds through San Francisco's famous city park, providing both a retreat from urban life and an important link in the city's growing bike network. The paved trail passes...
The Great Highway Bike Path parallels its namesake road on the western edge of San Francisco, offering stunning views of the Pacific Ocean throughout. The trail provides direct access to the San...
The bulk of the High Canal Bridge Pathway runs alongside its namesake waterway, offering scenic views and a sense of serenity in the middle of the ritzy Marin County communities of Larkspur and Corte...
CA 1.46 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone
The Joe Rodota Trail is built along the corridor of the old Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway, which carried passengers between Santa Rosa, Petaluma and Sebastopol until it was abandoned in 1984....
The Lafayette-Moraga Regional Trail links its two namesake communities via a former logging railroad corridor that largely parallels St. Mary's Road. Uniquely, mules hauled lumber on the corridor...
This 4.5-mile paved trail encircles Lake Merced in southwestern San Francisco. The western leg of the loop is also referred to as the Lake Merced Measured Mile and is part of a larger, regional effort...
Oakland's Lake Merritt Trail closely follows the lake's shoreline for a pleasant, paved trip with beautiful views and connections to several parks and attractions right in the heart of the city. The...
Riding high on the cliffs at North America's western edge, this San Francisco-area trail offers unbeatable views of Golden Gate Bridge and the Pacific Ocean at San Francisco Bay. Add to that a chance...
CA 2 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt
The Lincoln Hill Pathway provides an uninterupted alternative to busy Lincoln Avenue (and busier US 101) via an "urban canyon" between the soundwalls of US 101 and the SMART commuter rail project. The...
Marsh Creek Trail follows the sinuous course of Marsh Creek through the outskirts of suburbia and among the rich farmland of Contra Costa County. The 8.5-mile paved extends between Concord Road in...
The McCoy Creek Path begins near Carl E. Hall Park, which contains a playground and is next to a library and community center. The path runs through a grassy corridor along McCoy Creek. It ends at the...
The Mill Valley/Sausalito Multiuse Pathway is a convenient connection between neighborhoods, schools, shopping, restaurants, and both a skate and dog park. The short dirt section at the north end is...
The Miller Creek Trail is a short paved path that runs on the former alignment of Lucas Valley Road. The trail follows both its namesake creek and the newer alignment of Lucas Valley Road on the...
The Mokelumne Trail begins at a shopping center near the intersection of Buchanan Rd. and Somersville Rd in Antioch, California. A section of the Delta de Anza Regional Trail starts on the other side...
The NWP Railroad Trail runs on an arrow-straight course through Larkspur and Corte Madera in ritzy Marin County. Its name is derived from the railroad that once made use of the corridor: the...
The Napa River Trail parallels its namesake river through the City of Napa from Kennedy Park to just south of Trancas Crossing Park. It is currently open in two disconnected segments. The southern...
The Napa Valley Vine Trail is a work in progress to connect Calistoga to the Vallejo ferry terminal, a distance of 47 miles. The trail will roughly parallel State Route 29, a popular wine route and...
Nimitz Way links Tilden Regional Park and Wildcat Canyon Regional Park via the ridge between Wildcat Creek and the San Pablo Reservoir on the northern outskirts of Berkeley. The paved 4-mile trail...
The Novato Boulevard Path is a multi-use trail that can be used recreationally, but is more useful as a commuting route. Closely following its namesake road, the path is completely separated from the...
Named for the Ohlone Indians who once lived in the area, this trail doubles as a commuting corridor and a recreation destination for the cities of Berkeley, Albany and El Cerrito. While the Ohlone...
As it winds up to the eastern peak of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, this picturesque trail offers an exhilarating combination of far-reaching views, history and challenge. The trail follows the...
The Pacheco Hill Path is a straight shot along US 101 between Marinwood and Novato. In the north, the trail ends just outside of Hamilton at the entrance to the Loma Verde Preserve. Several bus stops...
The Petaluma Trails consist of 5 trails, each one through a unique and scenic part of historic Petaluma. There is a two-mile circular loop through Shollenberger Park and a one-mile trail that links...
The Prince Memorial Greenway is a short urban trail on both sides of Santa Rosa Creek in the Sonoma County community of Santa Rosa. A major component of the city's efforts to clean up and restore the...
The Redwood Highway/San Clemente Drive Paths combine to parallel their connecting roadways on the edge of Corte Madera. The combined trail is more scenic than your average sidepath: to the east, views...
Beginning in 1904, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) carried freight through the city of Richmond, reaching its height during World War II when Richmond became a national leader of...
For years, only one of the four bridges across San Francisco Bay, Dumbarton Bridge, accommodated bikes and pedestrians. Now Bay residents can celebrate the opening of another cross-bay connection,...
The Sandra Marker Trail runs for a mile on an east-west course through Larkspur, linking the Redwood Highway/San Clemente Drive Paths in the east with the popular NWP Railroad Trail in the west. Both...
The Santa Rosa Creek Trail follows the meandering course of Santa Rosa Creek, beginning in downtown Santa Rosa and heading west beyond Willowside Road. From end to end, the trail is only a few miles...
CA 15.7 mi Asphalt, Gravel
Tucked in the quiet Oakland hills neighborhood of Montclair, the Shepherd Canyon Trail (a.k.a. Montclair Railroad Trail) is a popular community rail-trail that has come to symbolize the power of...
The spectacular Sir Francis Drake Bikeway (also known as the Cross Marin Trail) sits on the recycled roadbed of the former North Pacific Coast Railroad, which used to run from Larkspur to Cazadero....
If you are attracted to the rolling, wine country landscapes and historical architecture of Sonoma Valley, the Sonoma Bike Path won't disappoint. Located in the heart of historic Sonoma, just over an...
The Southside Bikeway connects downtown Vacaville via a former Sacramento Northern Railway corridor to the city's southern neighborhoods near Al Patch Park. The route is a nice, short path, ideal for...
If you're looking for a gentle rail-trail in Marin County that offers stunning views of both San Francisco Bay and Mt. Tamalpais, the Tiburon Historical Trail is for you. Known alternately as the...
The Visitacion Valley Greenway is a recreational gem tucked into a residential neighborhood in southern San Francisco. The paved pathway connects a series of small parks that offer a plethora of fun...
The West County Regional Trail is built along the corridor of the old Petaluma and Santa Rosa Railway, which carried passengers between Santa Rosa, Petaluma and Sebastopol until it was abandoned in...
The Ygnacio Canal Trail begins at a junction with the Contra Costa Canal Trail. Most of the trail runs along the Ygnacio Canal, a narrow irrigation channel where ducks live. The trail is paved, except...
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beautiful but sections need repaved
January, 2020 by chad.selph
Huge sections of the asphalt are completely broken down, would be a great trail if they fixed this!
December, 2019 by nretsky
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October, 2019 by wkitchell5
Easy walk with stunning views of the GG bridge and the entrance to SF Bay. I’ve been visiting SF all my life; why I never heard about this walk until a child told me of it is a total mystery.
Critical commute path but not for recreation
September, 2019 by davidfiol
This is for commuters, not appropriate for a family ride.
Unexpected treasure
September, 2019 by mjlee5169
Well kept wild nature
Nice walking trail
August, 2019 by cpujock
We walked the section between shafter bridge and Samuel P Tayler campground. There was plenty of parking when we pulled in around 10am but there were several cars waiting when we got back around noon. The trail to the campground is gravel and flat. Nice simple path for easy biking. I wouldn’t do it with a road bike but a city bike or something with larger tires would be fine. Walking was also nice. The other nice feature are the restrooms near the campground.
a very nice, clean, well-maintained trail, meandering along the creek and alongside vineyards. a few homeless people. all in all, a very enjoyable ride!
April, 2019 by weeks1974
great for quick jaunt between napa and yountville
April, 2019 by kcmartin01
We regularly ride the section of the trail between Oak Knoll Ave and Yountville. It's an easy, flat ride, about 7 miles one way. The views of the vineyards and hills are stunning along this entire section. There are rest spots along the way, and there's a free bike tool kit and air pump at the end of the path (or beginning depending on your direction of travel) in Yountville. Though the trail is next to highway 29, it is protected, and is separated from the highway with a good amount of trees and plantings in many sections. Train tracks are also between the trail and the highway, and the Napa Wine Train passes by regularly during peak season. It's a fun, family-friendly mixed-use path.
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Solar Powered Cell Phone Costs Just $45
Decadence through simplicity
Alex Davies adavies47
Micromax/Promo image
We've featured a variety of solar powered cell phones over the last few years, but none quite as inexpensive as Indian manufacturer Micromax's X259, which will cost Rs. 2,499: about $45. It's no iPhone, but it has some pretty solid features: a 2.4" color screen, a camera, Bluetooth connectivity, radio capability, and a dual SIM setup.
The X259 can be charged via a wall socket, but the solar panel on the back of the phone can support 90 minutes of talk time for just three hours in the sun. That means it's practical for areas of India where power outages are frequent occurrences.
The low price tag, though likely not quite cheap for low-income residents of those areas, should make this technology pretty accessible. Solar-powered micro grids are already changing the lives of some Indian villagers, so it's not a big leap to introduce a solar-powered phone.
Now to make solar charging a regular feature of phones in wealthier parts of the world, where cost isn't so much the issue as it is convincing consumers to get on board with using renewable energy to power their gadgets.
Via EcoChunk.
Indian company Micromax has released a phone with a built-in solar panel at a rock bottom price.
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Deysbrook in England
Destination Guide United Kingdom
Deysbrook
in Liverpool of England, United Kingdom
Liverpool John Lennon Airport (7 mi)
Hawarden Airport (18 mi)
Blackpool International Airport (24 mi)
Manchester Airport (26 mi)
Manchester Woodford Airport (31 mi)
Barrow Walney Island Airport (51 mi)
Leeds Bradford Airport (58 mi)
Birmingham International Airport (83 mi)
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal (Unesco heritage, 32 mi)
Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd (Unesco heritage, 40 mi)
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (Unesco heritage, 114 mi)
Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Unesco heritage, 123 mi)
Bowring Park Golf Course (Golf course, 2 mi)
Bootle Golf Course (Golf course, 5 mi)
Eccleston Park Golf Club (Golf course, 5 mi)
Mossock Hall Golf Club (Golf course, 7 mi)
Houghwood Golf (Golf course, 7 mi)
West Lancashire Golf Club (Golf course, 8 mi)
Bidston Golf Club (Golf course, 8 mi)
Beacon Park Golf Country Club (Golf course, 10 mi)
Hurlston Hall Golf Club (Golf course, 11 mi)
Ormskirk Golf Club (Golf course, 11 mi)
53.433 and -2.883 (Lat./Lng.)
N 53° 25' 59" and W -2° 52' 59"
Pound - GBP
English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic
Local Time: 04:24 PM (Monday)
Timezone: Europe/London
UTC/GMT offset: 0 hours
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Delve into Deysbrook
Deysbrook in Liverpool (England) is located in United Kingdom about 176 mi (or 284 km) north-west of London, the country's capital town.
Current time in Deysbrook is now 04:24 PM (Monday). The local timezone is named Europe / London with an UTC offset of zero hours. We know of 8 airports close to Deysbrook, of which 4 are larger airports. The closest airport in United Kingdom is Liverpool John Lennon Airport in a distance of 7 mi (or 11 km), South. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There are several Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The closest heritage site in United Kingdom is Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal in a distance of 32 mi (or 52 km), South. Also, if you like playing golf, there are some options within driving distance. If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Knowsley, Melling, Prescot, Whiston and Liverpool. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 6°C / 43 °F
Morning Temperature 6°C / 43 °F
Evening Temperature 5°C / 41 °F
Night Temperature 6°C / 43 °F
Wind Speed Light breeze with 4 km/h (2 mph) from North-East
Cloud Conditions Clear sky, covering 2% of sky
General Conditions Sky is clear
Broken clouds, gentle breeze.
Overcast clouds, gentle breeze.
Thursday, 23rd of January 2020
Hotels and Places to Stay
Beech Mount
2,9 mi
Beech Mount 1-3
L7 0HL Liverpool
Time Information
Checkout: 11:00 - Checkin: 14:00
Weekday: 0:00 - 24:00
Weekend: 0:00 - 24:00
Suites Knowsley
Ribblers Lane 63-65
L34 9HA Liverpool
Liverpool Airport,Speke Aerodrome
L24 8QD LIVERPOOL
Weekday: -
JCT.4 Holiday Inn Express LIVERPOOL - KNOWSLEY M57
Ribblers Lane
Grove Suites
7 Croxteth Grove
L8 0RU Liverpool
Sefton Park Hotel
Aigburth Drive 37
L17 4JE Liverpool
Ullet Suites - Guest House
85 Ullet Road
L17 2AA Liverpool
Arinza Apartment Kingsley Court
L8 1UJ Liverpool
Sheil Suites
112 Sheil Road
L6 7UA Liverpool
Edge Lane 293-297
L7 9LD Fairfield,Liverpool
The Knowsley Apprentice
Author: knowsleycouncil
Knowsley's groundbreaking apprentice scheme gave employment to one-hundred young people in the borough. Find out more about The Knowsley Apprentice.
Huyton & Roby Railway Station improvement works Pt 4
Author: radiocaroline199
Photo's Taken at Roby Railway Station of Network rail updating railway lines.
Building the National Wildflower Centre
Author: wildflowercentre
A very brief video showing some of the work involved when the 'Visitor Centre' buildings of the National Wildflower Centre were built in 1999. Part of the ce...
21st Anniversery Trans Pennine Trail
Author: courtheypark
21st Anniversary of the Trans Pennine Trail At 12.30 on Sunday 13th June 2010 Court Hey Park, Roby. To celebrate this important milestone a Baton will be carried across the whole length of...
Woodpecker Sculpture
Andy Burgess was engaged by the Friends to create a Woodpecker Sculpture feature for our park. We think he did a wonderful job as you will see. Local schoolchildren from St Gabriel's School...
The National Wildflower Centre: Award winning venue for conferences and visitors.
Set in a tranquil Victorian park and only minutes from the M62 motorway, the National Wildflower Centre is a beautiful visitor attraction with a difference. ...
Cardio Walk in Court Hey Park 1
Court Hey Park is situated in Roby, on the border between Liverpool and Knowsley. The Cardiac Rehab Walking club was established in September 2005. The walk was set up by Broad Green Hospital ...
Cricket match at Court Hey Park 1997
Whitefield Cricket Club playing a match on a sunny Sunday afternoon in Court Hey Park. The video was filmed in 1997.
Step Out with the Stroke Association
The Stroke Association Step Out Charity walk around Court Hey Park in Knowsley on Monday 21st May was a great success. The group joined members of the regular walking for health group and ...
Richard Scott talks about Creative Conservation
Wondered what Creative Conservation means? Richard Scott, Senior project officer at Landlife at the National Wildflower Centre explains how people can make a difference by giving nature a helping...
Croxteth Hall
Croxteth Hall is the former country estate and ancestral home of the Molyneux family, the Earls of Sefton. After the death of the 7th and last Earl in 1972 the estate passed to Liverpool City Council, which now manages the remainder of the estate, following the sale of approximately half of the grounds. The remaining grounds, Croxteth Park, were at one time a hunting chase of the Molyneux family and are now open to the public.
Located at 53.442, -2.891 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Broughton Hall, Merseyside
Broughton Hall is a Gothic house at Yew Tree Lane West Derby, Liverpool, England, built in 1860 for Gustavus C. Schaube, a Liverpool merchant originating from Hamburg. The conservatory added between 1870 and 1880 is of special interest. The house was used as a preparatory school run by Roman Catholic nuns but now Broughton Hall is an all-girls Roman Catholic comprehensive school with boys in the sixth form.
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Liverpool West Derby (UK Parliament constituency)
Liverpool, West Derby is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Stephen Twigg of the Labour Party and Co-operative Party.
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Melwood
Melwood, in West Derby, Liverpool, is home to Liverpool Football Club's training ground. It is not attached to The Academy, which is in Kirkby. The ground previously belonged to St Francis Xavier, a local school. The area was used as a playing field for the school and Father Melling and Father Woodlock who taught at the school spent hours helping the young boys play football.
Located at 53.4317, -2.89859 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
Liverpool F.C., Association football training grounds
Alder Hey Children's Hospital is a children's hospital in West Derby, Liverpool. It is run by the Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust as part of the National Health Service in England. The hospital forms a key component of the undergraduate medical curriculum at the University of Liverpool School of Medicine.
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Yew Tree (ward)
Yew Tree is a Liverpool City Council Ward within the Liverpool West Derby Parliamentary constituency. It borders Knotty Ash and West Derby. It was formed for the 2004 Municipal elections comprising most of the pre-2004 Dovecot ward and small parts of the Croxteth, Broadgreen and Gillmoss wards.
Wards of Liverpool
Springfield Park, Liverpool
Springfield Park is a 22-acre park in Liverpool, England. It is located in the suburb of Knotty Ash, and lies to the north of Prescot Road. It is bounded on its north side by Alder Hey Children's Hospital, the park has a direct track that links to the Trans Pennine Trail. It also has a path that leads into Alder Veterinary Hospital's Car-park and then continues to Eaton Road.
Located at 53.4182, -2.8981 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
Parks and commons in Liverpool
Knotty Ash (ward)
Knotty Ash is a Liverpool City Council Ward in the Liverpool West Derby Parliamentary constituency. It was formed for the 2004 Municipal elections from the former Broadgreen ward taking small parts from Childwall, Croxteth and Dovecot.
Located at 53.417, -2.88949 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
Bradbury Fields is a charity based in Liverpool, UK, which works with "blind (severely sight impaired) and partially sighted (sight impaired)" people. It has been described by the BBC as "Liverpool's main charity for the blind" and is part of the 800 Group, a consortium of Merseyside health and care charities.
Located at 53.4224, -2.885 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
Blindness organizations, Health charities in the United Kingdom, Health charities, Disability rights organizations, Charities based in Merseyside, Organizations established in 1857
These are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Deysbrook.
Whiston
Ince Blundell
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I DO LIKE MONDAYS! Free Networking Event In Prescot
Starting at: 07:00 pm (19:00).
More Information: eventful.com.
Speed Dating - Liverpool - Ages 23-38
Everton Vs Newcastle United FC
Everton Vs. Newcastle
Liverpool Jobs Fair
Starting at: 10:00 am (10:00).
Ravin' Fit With Lee Butler
Miss Penny
North West History Forum: Curriculum Evolution
Matt McManamon(Ex-Dead 60s), Ali Horn Plus Support For IVW
Faces Places (Visages, Villages) 2017 - Agnes Varda & JR (12 Rating)
The Indigo Greens Conscious Jam Night
Liverpool FC Vs Southampton FC
Liverpool Vs. Southampton
These are the most popular locations in United Kingdom on Tripmondo.
Knotty Ash
Childwall
Fazakerley
Huyton Quarry
Mossley Hill
Maghull
Bickerstaffe
Aughton
Litherland
Lydiate
Thatto Heath
Cronton
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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Ubuntu for phones
Canonical wish you "happy new year" by introducing their all-new product for future release sometime late in 2013: Ubuntu Smartphone! Internet and social media are "on-fire" posting videos and articles about the new phone.
All clues point to the same direction, and the Mobile War has been declared. Please, make no mistake here, Ubuntu phone is not running Android, but a new long-awaited mobile version of Ubuntu -- which comes with a new UI adapted for smaller screens.
First look and new Interface
The handset interface for Ubuntu introduces distinctive new user experiences to the mobile market, including:
[highlight color="yellow"]Edge-Magic[/highlight]: thumb gestures from all four edges of the screen enable users to find content and switch between apps faster than other phones.
Deep content immersion - controls appear only when the user wants them.
A beautiful global search for apps, content and products.
Voice and text commands in any application for faster access to rich capabilities.
Both native and web or HTML5 apps.
Evolving personalised art on the welcome screen.
The basic user navigation relies upon the edge swipes method instead of using buttons. This is a feature similar to Windows 8 tablets but Ubuntu has a unique implementation on that. More info about GUI : http://www.heavy.com/news/2013/01/ubuntu-mobile-os-is-revealed-10-things-you-need-to-know/
According to Engadget hands-on:
First and foremost, the UI relies heavily on edge swipes instead of buttons -- much like Windows 8 on a tablet or indeed other mobile OS's like MeeGo, although here each swipe has its own Ubuntu-esque functions. Beyond that, the icons along the top have some interesting features, which will be explained after the break. We're also told that voice control is in attendance, and that an app store is in the works, with a mix of both web apps and native apps -- with the latter type being able to make better use of the hardware.
Hardware specification
Speaking of hardware, here's where you might get a twinge of disappointment: there are no immediate plans for actual Ubuntu phones, and no carriers have been signed up yet. But here's the basic idea:
Ubuntu offers compelling customisation options for partner apps, content and services. Operators and OEMs can easily add their own branded offerings. Canonical's personal cloud service, Ubuntu One, provides storage and media services, file sharing and a secure transaction service which enables partners to integrate their own service offerings easily.
Canonical makes it easy to build phones with Ubuntu. The company provides engineering services to offload the complexity of maintaining multiple code bases which has proven to be a common issue for smartphone manufacturers, freeing the manufacturer to focus on hardware design and integration. For silicon vendors, Ubuntu is compatible with a typical Android Board Support Package (BSP). This means Ubuntu is ready to run on the most cost-efficient chipset designs.
There will be high-end and entry-level devices
Ubuntu is aimed at two core mobile segments: the high-end superphone, and the entry-level basic smartphone, helping operators grow the use of data amongst consumers who typically use only the phone and messaging but who might embrace the use of web and email on their phone. Ubuntu also appeals to aspirational prosumers who want a fresh experience with faster, richer performance on a lower bill-of-materials device.
"We expect Ubuntu to be popular in the enterprise market, enabling customers to provision a single secure device for all PC, thin client and phone functions. Ubuntu is already the most widely used Linux enterprise desktop, with customers in a wide range of sectors focused on security, cost and manageability" said Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical. "We also see an opportunity in basic smartphones that are used for the phone, SMS, web and email, where Ubuntu outperforms thanks to its native core apps and stylish presentation."
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Ubuntu is more like my girl friend lol love it :D
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By Adam Gavine on May 19, 2017 Features
With an inspiring shortlist and a world-renowned international jury, 2017 was another great year for the Vehicle Dynamics International Awards
The jury:
Choi Joo-sik, Autocar Korea
Robert Bielecki, Oponeo, Poland
Christophe Congrega, L’Automobile Magazine, France
Brian Cowan, freelance, New Zealand
Carl Cunanan: C!, Philippines
Padraic Deane, managing editor, Automotive Publications, Ireland
Tarcisio Dias de Araujo, Mecânica Online, Brazil
Jim Kenzie, Toronto Star, Canada
Nikos Kounitis, 4Wheels, Auto Bild Hellas, Greece
Nicol Louw, Car South Africa
Marco Marelli, freelance, Italy
Frank Markus, Motor Trend, USA
Roberto Nasser, O Globo, Brazil
Marc Noordeloos, freelance, USA
Sergio Oliveira de Melo, El Informador, Mexico
Tomaz Porekar, Avto Magazin, Slovenia
Alvaro Sauras Alonso, Autofacil and CAR&Tecno, Spain
Mohamad Sheta, Al-Masry Al-Youm Newspaper, Auto Arabia, Middle East Auto News Agency
Gábor Szécsényi, Az Autó and Retro Mobil, Hungary
Oleg Vasilevsky, Auto Bild, Ukraine
Graham Johnson, UKi Media & Events, UK
Hormazd Sorabjee, Autocar India
Jürgen Zöllter – freelance, Germany
These are the vehicle dynamics innovations, professionals and technologies that have won this year’s honors…
Car of the Year:
Dynamics have been a key focus for the 2017 5 Series, for which the dynamics team has designed a new chassis, lowered the center of gravity, increased torsional stiffness, and reduced body weight through the increased use of aluminum, magnesium and high-strength steels – indeed the new model is 100kg lighter than its predecessor.
Separating the construction of the double-wishbone front suspension into an upper and a lower control arm level gave the engineers freedom to fine-tune the balance between dynamics and comfort. As the spring struts are not required to perform wheel position functions, they only have to handle minimal transverse forces.
The new five-link rear suspension features specially calibrated elastokinematics, with the large axle subframe mounting and supporting system, the compression strut connecting the suspension and body, and the high structural stiffness, all combining to create an excellent balance between agility and comfort. The 2017 model also marks the first time that BMW’s xDrive intelligent all-wheel-drive system can be combined with Integral Active Steering.
What the jury said:
Choi Joo-Sik, editor, Autocar Korea: “A clear development toward an autonomous system”
Nicol Louw, technical editor, Car South Africa: “The new 5 Series achieves the perfect balance between comfort, refinement and sportiness for the segment. This is arguably a greater achievement than the outright dynamic ability of a sportscar”
Hormazd Sorabjee, Autocar India: “Both ride comfort and handling are top class, with no trade-off”
Highly commended:
Vehicle Dynamicist of the Year:
Leonardo Pascali, McLaren Automotive
Pascali came close to victory in last year’s awards, but some sterling work over the past 12 months has seen him win much-deserved recognition for 2017. His success is impressive since he is still a relatively new face at McLaren, having only joined in early 2015 as head of chassis and vehicle technology, but his strong background in dynamics, with previous experience as chassis dynamics manager at Porsche and head of vehicle dynamics at Centro Ricerche Fiat, has given him the talent to do some great work.
Pascali is helping to bring the brand into new customer territory through vehicles such as the ‘baby’ 570S and 540C models, with other current and recent projects underway including the 570GT, 675LT Spider, 720S, and the forthcoming BP23 – a highly anticipated three-seat successor to the iconic F1.
He also helped develop the carbon-fiber MonoCell II chassis, which weighs just 75kg and provides immense rigidity and stiffness that translates into outstanding dynamics. The next stage is the MonoCage II carbon-fiber body structure for the second-generation McLaren Super Series, which will help the new Super Series achieve a lightest dry weight of just 1,283kg –18kg lighter than the already featherweight McLaren 650S – with the claim it will offer “the widest breadth of dynamic ability of any McLaren”.
Pascali’s recent work also includes Proactive Chassis Control II (an advanced new generation of the company’s multi-mode chassis control system), which uses 12 more sensors than on previous Super Series models – including an accelerometer on each wheel hub – to ‘read’ inputs from the road and measure the tire contact patches. The information is then analyzed in milliseconds by the Optimal Controller algorithm at the core of the system, and the suspension damping is immediately optimized accordingly.
Another new project under Pascali’s watch is McLaren Variable Drift Control, which provides greater involvement for drivers who want to fully explore the dynamic ability of the car, enabling the level of electronic stability control intensity to be varied with a swipe of the central infotainment screen.
Amazing work from an amazing dynamicist!
Above: The new Super Series is created around an ultra-lightweight, carbon fiber central structure that is immensely rigid, yet weighs less than the carbon fiber and metal cockpit architecture of the first-generation Super Series. The Monocage II contributes to a dry weight of just 1,283kg
Christophe Congrega, L’Automobile Magazine, France: “McLaren is the perfect example of good settings, with a perfect balance between agility, handling (even in the wet), very high grip, and last but not least, very good confidence due to perfect progression in the steering”
Hormazd Sorabjee, Autocar India: “Leonardo Pascali’s depth of experience and nuanced understanding of chassis engineering allows him to deliver a finely judged balance of ride and handling”
Choi Joo-Sik, editor, Autocar Korea: “Leonardo is in continuous pursuit of high performance”
Roberto Fedeli, CTO, Alfa Romeo
Victor Underberg, director of vehicle dynamics, Audi
Mitsuru Kariya, chief engineer, Honda
Matt Becker, chief engineer – vehicle attribute engineering, Aston Martin Lagonda
Innovation of the Year:
Audi eROT
According to Audi, energy recuperation will play an increasingly important role in future mobility, including vehicle suspension systems. With this in mind, the company’s engineers are developing eROT, a prototype system in which electromechanical rotary dampers replace the hydraulic dampers used today for a more comfortable ride.
The basic principle behind eROT is that every pothole, every bump, every curve induces kinetic energy in the car. Today’s dampers absorb this energy, which is lost in the form of heat. With the new electromechanical damper system in the 48V electrical system, this energy can be put to use and presents new possibilities for adjusting the suspension.
Electromechanical rotary damper
The eROT system is intended to respond quickly and with minimal inertia. As an actively controlled suspension, it adapts to irregularities in the road surface and the driver’s driving style, with a damper characteristic that is virtually freely definable via software.
According to Audi, the damper design would eliminate the mutual dependence of the rebound and compression strokes that limit conventional hydraulic dampers. With eROT, Audi configures the compression stroke to be comfortably soft without compromising the taut damping of the rebound stroke.
Another advantage of the system is its geometry, with the horizontally arranged electric motors in the rear axle area replacing the upright telescopic shock absorbers, which allows for additional space in the luggage compartment.
To convert the kinetic energy generated during compression and rebound into electricity, a lever arm absorbs the motion of the wheel carrier and transmits this force via a series of gears to an electric motor, which converts it into electricity. The recuperation output is claimed to be 100-150W on average during testing on German roads – from 3W on a freshly paved freeway to 613W on a rough secondary road. Under customer driving conditions, this would correspond to a CO2 saving of up to 3g/km (4.8g/mile).
According to Audi, initial test results for the eROT technology are promising, and its use in future Audi production models is certainly plausible. A prerequisite for this is the 48V electrical system, which is a central component of Audi’s electrification strategy. In the next version planned for release later this year, the 48V system will serve as the primary electrical system in a new Audi model and feed a high-performance mild hybrid drive, offering potential fuel savings of up to 0.7 liters per 100km.
Tarcisio Dias, Mecânica, Brazil: “The greater the options for energy recovery, the better. Audi’s eROT system allows one more gain: efficient use of energy in the system, reduction in the emission of gases, and greater comfort and internal space”
Sergio Oliveira, El Informador, Mexico: “Audi eROT paves the way for the next logical phase of electrification (mild hybrids), enabling the development of innovative solutions for energy recovery systems”
Nicol Louw, technical editor, Car South Africa: “The advantage of the system is that it not only chases efficiency gains, but has the added advantage of more compact packaging and real-time suspension tuning benefits”
Dynamics Team of the Year:
While Audi’s dynamics team have been busy developing the award-winning eROT system, they have also found time to develop new models – several new models, in fact.
The all-new Q7 SUV features a compact five-link suspension layout that allows for optimized steering rack placement, with handling and comfort enhancements generated through the reduced unsprung weight of lightweight aluminum control arm components and revised elastokinematic attributes. The sportier 429bhp SQ7 version adds in active anti-roll bars to stiffen the car for greater stability.
On a smaller scale, the Q2 features Progressive steering as standard in all versions, which varies the steering gear ratio as a function of the steering input. Installed at the rear on the front-wheel-drive versions is a semi-independent suspension, while the Quattro models have a four-link suspension.
The new A3 has a revised chassis with a McPherson construction with wishbones at the front axle, and a multi-link rear suspension, while the new A5 has an entirely newly developed chassis, a new electromechanical power steering system, and optional dynamic steering.
Other recent projects include new models and revisions, such as the S1 (complete with torque vectoring, a thoroughly revised chassis and specially developed electromechanical power steering), and performance variants such as the S4, S5, SQ5, RS3, RS5 and RS7, with work on the Q8 SUV coupe underway.
Tarcisio Dias, Mecânica, Brazil: “It is very good to observe Audi’s engineering activities being applied in a wider range of models. The dynamic behavior of their models is always evolving”
Christophe Congrega, L’Automobile Magazine, France: “Audi really made a lot of good products over this last year, with very well calibrated steering systems and adaptive suspensions. Good handling means good products…”
Development Tool of the Year:
Cruden Panthera Free
Cruden has made an unprecedented move to make its Panthera Free professional driving simulator software available to the market for free, as a download. This unusual decision was made in order to allow automotive engineers to experiment freely, either professionally or personally, with driver-in-the-loop simulator software, without workplace and university license restrictions – and also for Cruden to launch itself as a provider of standalone, open architecture simulator software.
The product has seen many new users introduced to professional-level DIL simulation, who can now drive, modify and expand their vehicle models, run simulations, add interfaces to hardware, and use custom cars and tracks.
This approach by Cruden shows a real passion for the vehicle dynamics community, which we are pleased to reward.
Tomaž Porekar, Avto Magazin, Slovenia: “Cruden deserves the prize for its approach of designing a professional product and putting it on the market for free”
Gábor Szécsényi, Az Autó and Retro Mobil, Hungary: “Making it available for free gives a good chance to everyone (including universities) to learn and also to improve. That’s a brave and important step toward the future of cooperative ‘open platform’ car development”
Nicol Louw, technical editor, Car South Africa: “Licensing fees can be prohibitive for small firms, and the bold move of Cruden to make its Panthera software available for free needs to be applauded. This serves both to promote the brand and to help get small firms on the path of simulation optimization”
Adam Gavine
Adam divides his time as an editor between the worlds of aviation and motoring. These worlds may seem a little diverse today, but autonomous technology and future urban mobility is bringing them ever-closer. Adam is also chairman of the Vehicle Dynamics International Awards.
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I'm a partner in our Media, Entertainment & Sports group in London, advising on commercial issues in all major sports, as well as advertising and marketing campaigns and consumer law.
I specialise in advising our sports industry clients on sponsorship, image rights, staging agreements, agency agreements, merchandising, licensing, funding agreements, brand protection and ticketing measures. I have particular expertise in the field of media rights and lead our London team's practice in this area. I've advised numerous rights holders, producers and broadcasters on some of the most high profile and cutting-edge media rights deals in the industry, both in the UK and in other jurisdictions across the world.
I act for clients across all major sports including football, rugby, tennis, golf, cricket, equestrian sports, hockey, sailing, motor sports, combat sports, cycling and athletics, as well as broadcasters, event organisers and sponsors. I also advise a number of clients from across the developing esports ecosystem.
I also advise on cutting-edge legal issues within the highly regulated world of marketing - including advising marketing agencies and brands on a range of talent agreements, creative and production arrangements; advertising campaigns across all digital and non-digital media; sales promotions; loyalty programmes; prize competitions; pricing requirements; and complaints before regulators such as the Advertising Standards Authority and Ofcom. I also advise on the ever-changing consumer law landscape, including website terms and conditions, terms and conditions of sale and e-commerce requirements.
I am the co-author of the chapter on Sports Governance in the leading textbook Sport: Law & Practice, and contribute a range of materials on sponsorship and broadcast law for publications such as LexisPSL and Westlaw. I also write the UK chapter of PLC's Digital Business Global Guide. I've also worked on secondment at The Football Association and Sport England.
My representative experience
Six Nations Rugby: advising on the award of the national and international media rights to the Six Nations Championship, together with the championship sponsorship programme (including the title sponsorship agreement with Guinness).
The FA: advising on the tender and award of media rights to FA competitions such as The FA Cup, including the domestic agreements with the broadcasters and the international agreements with IMG and Pitch.
Wimbledon: advising the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) on the renewal of its long-term relationship with the BBC in respect of its production and coverage of The Championships, Wimbledon.
Celtic Rugby: advising Celtic Rugby on all domestic and international media rights work for the Guinness PRO14, and on a wide range of issues related to the expansion of the tournament to include teams from South Africa.
The Rugby Football Union: advising on its long term arrangements with Premiership Rugby and the Premiership clubs relating to the operation of the professional game in England, including the structuring of the English rugby season, rights of access to England players for training and match preparation, and funding for the clubs' player academy systems.
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Link to Leadership: John Shacka, MSMBS Program Director
Published: January 14th, 2019
A: “I was seeking a new leadership opportunity at UAB. This position as MSMBS Program Director was very attractive because it was a unique opportunity for me to build a new Graduate Program from scratch.”
A: "I received my Ph.D. in Pharmacology & Toxicology from VCU in 1997 and arrived at UAB in 2000. My other appointment is in the Dept. of Pharmacology & Toxicology where I run a research lab studying preclinical and translational models of HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND). I have mentored dozens of trainees in my career at UAB and have lectured graduate students at UAB for several years."
A: “I started this position in April 2018. My immediate goals were to develop curriculum for the 2018-2019 academic year and to recruit sufficient numbers of students to our program. The first few months have been overwhelming, but also completely satisfying. We have successfully completed our first semester and now have ~30 students in our Program. Our expanding partnership with INTO UAB in recruiting international students to our Program, and the launch of our Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s program are exciting opportunities to further grow the MSMBS program. I play an active role as Recruiter at local and regional events. I review all applications submitted to our Program and render admission decisions. I also serve as Course Director for our Core science class series (Molecular and Cell Biology; Biochemistry and Cell Biology; Human Physiology), for Thesis research and for Non-Thesis research. Finally, I serve as a Mentor for all students in our Program. I could not be successful in this new role without the constant support of the many Graduate School Staff, as well as the constant mentoring in particular of Dean Lori McMahon and Associate Dean Dan Bullard.”
A: “My primary goal as MSMBS Program Director is to provide individualized mentoring for every student. My hope is for students to become empowered not only to achieve academic success in our Program, but to also plan meaningfully for short-term and long-term career success.”
Q: Can you talk about your own approach to teaching and how it has or has not informed your work in your current Graduate School position?
A: "I take teaching very seriously. My lectures have primarily been didactic but I strive to make them interactive throughout by posing questions to the students. I am very mindful of student evaluations and use these to improve lecture content and delivery. One of the most important goals in the first year of MSMBS has been to recruit a group of respected faculty teachers with content expertise for our core classes. In the near future, I plan to adopt active learning approaches in the hopes of further enhancing classroom learning."
A: “I grew up in a hard-working, blue-collar family. Working hard is part of my DNA but I have also learned to enjoy life to its fullest. Now, a major priority of mine is to stay healthy through daily exercise, which reduces my stress and increases my work productivity.”
A: “During the workweek, I commute part way in and walk or run the remaining distance to and from campus. On weekends, I enjoy long runs, gardening and spending time with family. I also play racquetball and starting to play tennis.”
A: "My wife (a physician here at UAB) and I have been married for 18 years. We have two boys (10 and 13), three cats and a new Golden Retriever puppy."
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Chad Da Don Has Moved On After His Breakup With Kelly Khumalo
Chad Da Don has proven to have moved on after his relationship with Kelly ends.
Annika Melisizwe January 9, 2020
Chad Da Don and Kelly Khumalo were one of the favourite couples in South Africa before they had decided to part ways.
People have still not gotten over the fact that they had decided to end their relationship.
However, Chad Da Don seemed to have moved on, despite the black lash he is getting. Chad Da Don and Kelly Khumalo fans, who saw the pair as being perfect and would gush over them, were heartbroken when they received the news of their breakup.
Chad Da Don has shown that he has gotten over his past relationship with Kelly by being with a new lady. Chad and Carla Poggenpoel look like the perfect pair who are head over heels with each other, despite people tagging their relationship as a ‘PR stunt.’
Chad Da Don and new girlfriend Carla Poggenpoel having a good time:
Chad Da Don x Carla Poggenpoel/ Source: Instagram
Chad Da Don doesn’t seem to be bothered over what people are saying about his new relationship. One of his fans had reached out to him on Instagram, stating that what really matters is Chad’s happiness.
Chad Da Don replied that:
…lions don’t loose sleep over the opinions of sheep.
This shows that the muso isn’t bothered about what haters are saying about his new relationship. Kelly Khumalo has also gotten over the relationship by focusing on her career. Reports have it that she is working on gospel music. Kelly is also considering focusing on religious activities while she gives up on other kinds of music.
She is also happy being a mother and taking care of her children while she utilises her singing talent.
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Academic report
Below are the main results for academic performance for our students, and university rankings, etc.
Student Satisfaction
Position in the main international rankings
Shanghai Ranking's
151/200 World position
1/4 National position
The Shanghai Ranking’s. Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2019 ranks the world’s top 500 institutions in 54 subjects across 5 fields: natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical sciences and social sciences. The total number of institutions included in the ranking varies by subject. In the case of Dentistry and Oral Sciences, for example, the ranking lists the world’s top 300 institutions.
This ranking takes into consideration roughly 4,000 higher education institutions.
Each subject is assessed using five indicators:
(PUB): number of papers authored by an institution in the same subject during the period 2013-2017.
(CNCI): impact of the normalised citations in the subject during the period 2013-2017
(IC): international collaboration on publications during the period 2013-2017.
(TOP): number of papers published in top journals in the academic subject during the period 2013-2017.
(Award): total number of staff at the institution who have won an award in the academic subject since 1981.
With regards to UIC Barcelona, the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2019 ranks the Faculty of Dentistry at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in the subject “Dentistry and Oral Sciences” as follows:
211 European position
12 National position
U-Multirank the ranking promoted by the European Union and recently published the results of the sixth edition of its ranking, which compares more than 1,700 universities from 96 countries.
U-Multirank is an international multidimensional ranking of institutions of higher education, which allows comparisons at the institutional level as a whole and by subject, helping the user to develop personalized rankings according to indicators.
U-Multirank’s indicators cover 5 dimensions of university activity: teaching and learning, research, knowledge transfer, international orientation and regional engagement.
Number of ranked institutions in Spain: 77
Number of ranked institutions in Europe: 1,003
At the institutional level UIC Barcelona obtains the following positions:
uniRank
3.535 World position
uniRank is a leading international higher education directory and search engine that offers reviews and rankings of over 13,600 officially recognised universities in 200 countries.
Its aim is to provide a ranking of the top universities based on valid web metrics, ranking the top 200 officially recognised higher education institutions, which must comply with criteria extracted from independent web intelligence sources instead of data sent by the universities themselves.
In the second edition of 2019, uniRank includes institutions that meet the following requirements:
Are officially accredited by the appropriate body related to higher education in the country or origin.
Offer at least four-year undergraduate degrees and/or postgraduate degrees.
Provide courses in a traditional face-to-face learning format, not online.
uniRank, which also ranks universities by country, includes 75 Spanish universities.
Number of ranked institutions: 200 worldwide, 75 national
Ranking Web of Universities
Ranking Web of Universities promote academic presence on the Internet, supporting open access initiatives that increase the transfer of the scientific and cultural knowledge generated by universities.
Its methodology is based on the following indicators: presence (10%), impact (50%), openness (10%) and excellence (30%). It is published twice a year, in January and July.
Total number of ranked institutions: 11,997
Number of ranked institutions in Spain: 260
CYD Foundation
1/73 Contribution to Regional Development
UIC Barcelona stands out in this ranking as the top university in terms of contribution to regional development and does so for the second year running. To measure this indicator, the ranking takes the following aspects into account: in-company work placements in the region, regional publications, regional research funds and publications with regional companies.
The CYD ranking analyses Spanish universities at the institutional level and by subject areas. The indicators are grouped into five categories: teaching and learning, research, knowledge transfer, international orientation and contribution to regional development.
Contribution to Regional Development
U-Ranking
9 Overall
4 Teaching
14 Research
The U-Ranking of Spanish Universities (Synthetic Indicators of Spanish Universities) is a joint initiative of the BBVA Foundation and the Valencian Institute of Economic Research (IVIE). The results are presented in two formats:
U-Ranking Volume, which ranks universities based on their total volume of results.
U-Ranking, which ranks universities based on performance, correcting for the effect of their size in order to make them comparable.
And the three dimensions analysed by this ranking are: teaching, research and innovation and technological development.
Index for dimension and subject
Innovation and Technological Development 4
(1) Divided into 11 levels
(2) Divided into 8 levels
Commitment and Transparency Foundation
17/26 Translucent
The Fundación Compromiso y Transparencia (Commitment and Transparency Foundation) aims to promote the good governance, transparency, accountability and social impact of institutions, ensuring that the information on their websites is:
Visible: the information should be presented simply
Accessible: the information should be easily seen without the need for permissions
Updated: the information must be up-to-date
Integral: the information must be complete
The Foundation uses 27 indicators to assess transparency and divide the universities into three categories with the following scores:
Transparent: private universities that comply with at least 36 of the 48 transparency points, which should include the financial statement indicaotrs and audit report.
Translucent: private universities that comply with at least 25 of the 48 transparency points.
Opaque: private universities that comply with fewer than 25 transparency points.
UIC Barcelona is classed as translucent, as it complies with 30 of the 48 transparency points.
Dyntra
55/79 Spanish universities
6/29 Private universities
Dyntra is the first collaborative platform in the world that works on the measurement and management of open government in organisations for the Civil Society, which include universities under the Dyntra Spanish Universities (DUE) index. Its objective is to measure the transparency level of websites using 137 indicators divided into five groups: 1. Institutional Transparency; 2. Public Communication; 3. Citizen Participation and Collaboration; 4. Economic and Financial Transparency; 5. Transparency in the Procurement of Services.
The report assesses 79 Spanish universities, both public and private.
Results for Degrees
Duration of the studies
Drop out rate
Graduation rate for D D+I
Degree in Medicine
97,17% 96,66% 6,14 6,11 32,29% 16,07% 80,78% 83,13%
Degree in Business Administration
89,72% 88,01% 5,07 4,48 25,4% 44,83% 55,51% 32,97%
Degree in Architecture
Degree in Humanities and Cultural Studies
91,21% 87,54% 4,80 6,00 9,09% 22,22% 92,05% 20,83%
Degree in Pre-School Education
96,39% 96,60% 4,19 4,38 6% 20,93% 69,11% 88,57%
Degree in Primary Education
95,67% 95,12% 4,41 4,32 12,31% 6,00% 79,85% 71,81%
Degree in Physiotherapy
Degree in Nursing
Degree in Dentistry
95,48% 95,99% 5,18 5,17 6,32% 7,92% 94,85% 89,90%
Degree in Law
83,36% 82,36% 4,59 4,50 45,21% 38,33% 60,70% 45%
Degree in Journalism
88,14% 89,91% 5 4,5 20,83% 50% 16,67% 73,81%
Degree in Audiovisual Communication
90,50% 91,49% 4,5 4,42 34,29% 26,32% 38,08% 63,16%
Degree in Advertising and Public Relations
Degree in Bioengineering
- 91,00% - - - - - -
TOTAL DEGREE
Results for Masters
Business Administration and Production System
99,00% 100,00% 1,60 2,24 18,18% 20,51% 39,30% 28,26%
Arts and Cultural Management
99,00% 100,00% 1,08 1,02 6,12% - 94,12% 95,24%
Legal, Forensic and Criminological Psychopathology
100,00% 100,00% 1,04 1,00 - - 100% 100%
Biodigital Architecture
99,00% 97,62% 1,00 1,00 - - 91,67% 85,71%
Cooperation: Sustainable Emergency Architecture
100,00% 100,00% - 1,00 4,35% 5,56% 100% 100%
100,00% 91,86% 1,00 1,00 - - 100% 88,46%
Advanced Aesthetic Restorative Dentistry
100,00% 90,51% - 1,00 - - - 68,75%
Research in Dentistry
100,00% 100,00% 1,57 1,00 3,23% 14,29% 100% 100%
Legal Profession (Law)
100,00% 100,00% 2,00 2,00 - - 96,16% 100%
Paediatric Physiotherapy
100,00% 99,21% 1,00 1,00 - - 96,77% 100%
100,00% 100,00% - 2,00 - - - 81,82%
GLOBAL MÀSTERS
Perfomance rates
Definition: Percentual relationship between the total number of ordinary credits approved for the total number of bachelor’s degree students and the total number of ordinary credits enrolled for by the total number of bachelor’s degree students.
Duration of studies rates
Definition: average time a student takes to graduate given X academic course, the indicator for course X demonstrates the average time to graduation for those graduating from course X.
Dropout rates
Definition: Percentual relationship between the number of students who drop out and the number of people in their cohort.
Definition: Percentage of students who complete their studies within the expected time frame (d) or in one further year in relation to their cohort. This does not take into account students who are not new (students with more than 30 credits that have been recognised, adapted or recognised for their initial enrolment).
% of total participation
Average degree mark
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Management
22,23% 3,76
Bachelor's Degree in Architecture
Bachelor's Degree in Audiovisual Communication
Bachelor's Degree in Law
Bachelor's Degree in Pre-School Education
Bachelor's Degree in Primary Education
Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy
Bachelor's Degree in Humanities & Cultural Studies
Bachelor's Degree in Medicine
Bachelor's Degree in Dentistry
Bachelor's Degree in Journalism
Bachelor's Degree in Advertising and Public Relations
Master's Degree in the Legal Profession
64% 4,35
Master’s Degree in International Cooperation: Sustainable Emergency Architecture
Master's Degree in Business Administration and Production System
5% 4,01
Master's Degree in Paediatric Physiotherapy
Master's Degree in Arts and Cultural Management
Master's Degree in Healthcare Management
Master's Degree in Aesthetic Restorative Dentistry
Master's Degree in Legal, Forensic and Criminological Psychopathology
Master's Degree in Clinical Research
Master’s Degree in Research in Dentistry
100% 4,52
89,6 % Employment rate
Results of the 6th edition of the survey, conducted in 2017 among students graduating in the 2012-2013 academic year. Official AQU data.
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Coulson Aviation has sent two of its C-130 aircraft to help fight fires in southern California. The aircraft are tasked to air tanker bases in Santa Maria and San Bernadino. SUBMITTED PHOTO
BC company sends planes to fight California wildfires
Vancouver Island-based Coulson sends two C-130 aircraft to fight fires
Susie Quinn
Coulson Aviation of Port Alberni has sent two of its aerial firefighting C-130 tankers to California to help fight fires that have been raging out of control in the Santa Ana winds this week.
One of Coulson’s tankers is working out of the Santa Maria air tanker base, and the other is in San Bernardino, Coulson Aviation owner Wayne Coulson said.
“I got a call (Tuesday) morning from the chief from Cal Fire,” he said. Coulson tankers flew 160 straight days with Cal Fire this past season.
“We called back the first tanker, which was in Arizona; we pulled it out of maintenance and got it going,” Coulson said. The second tanker was being loaded to head to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, but Coulson instead diverted it to Santa Maria, California.
“The Australian fire commissioner was happy to help,” he said.
Six major fires in the southern California area, stretching from Santa Barbara, north of Los Angeles, almost all the way south to San Diego, had engulfed more than 158,000 acres as of Friday. Four fires as of Thursday were burning over 115,000 acres, and two more fires started late Thursday. The U.S. National Public Radio station reported that 4,500 firefighters are battling the blazes.
One of the issues with air tanker assets, according to an article in fireaviation.com, is that many begin maintenance programs at this time of year because it’s typically a slow period. Many employed with Cal Fire have had to have their contracts extended or renewed to “call as needed.”
The Santa Ana winds have also complicated matters: fireaviation.com reports that the strong winds—which have reached up t0 80 miles per hour, according to various American news reports—are difficult for used of fixed wing aircraft over the fires.
“It’s sad and it’s scary. All we do is hold on when it gets like this. I think we could be in California for a while,” Coulson said.
Coulson already has a C-130 tanker stationed in Sydney, Australia: when its contract wraps up on Dec. 9 its crew will fly south to Melbourne to fill in for the other contract on Dec. 13, Coulson said. Coulson Aviation is one of the largest air tanker operators in Australia, with two C-130s, two Sikorsky S-61 helicopters and an intelligence helicopter in operation overseas.
Coulson Aviation has been fighting fires with Cal Fire since 2007, when Wayne Coulson first bought the Martin Mars waterbombers and sent them to California. “The State of California is a great customer of ours,” he said. “We started with the state in 2007 with the Mars, so we’ve been in and out of there for 10 years. We have a lot of good friends down there.”
This is the second time Coulson’s tankers have been in California in the past two months. They also helped Cal Fire attack the fires that ravaged Sonoma County and surrounding wine country. An incident there helped underline how small the global firefighting community is.
“It happened I was dealing with the Australian government. I was talking to one inspector and he asked if I had a C-130 flying the [California] fires,” Coulson related. “We had been assigned a set of properties; he said my parents were watching your aircraft fly back and forth. We worked right around there and their house was saved.
“Whether it be the forest service or firefighters, it’s a small world,” he added.
Neither the BC Wildfire or the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre have received requests for firefighting aid from California authorities. A BC Wildfire spokesperson said that U.S. has tens of thousands of trained wildland firefighters and would need to exhaust that resources before looking to B.C.
“Especially given the fire season that we just experienced here in B.C., our thoughts and support are with the people of California as they face this ongoing situation,” the province said in a statement.
editor@albernivalleynews.com
— With files from Katya Slepian, Black Press Digital
One of Coulson Aviation’s C-130 aircraft prepares to divert from Mesa, Arizona, to Santa Maria Air Tanker Base in California to help fight the fires that have stirred up during punishing Santa Ana winds. The aircraft was originally headed to Melbourne, Australia. SUBMITTED PHOTO
One of Coulson Aviation’s C-130s drops a load of fire retardant over the Castaway Restaurant in La Tuna, California, at the end of November 2017. SUBMITTED PHOTO
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Families Play Skin Games on New Reality Series
by Joy Press
Living color: Brian Sparks photo: Robert Zuckerman
Trading places on TV is hot these days. Wives swap homes; mothers and daughters try out each other’s lives; people flirt with fantasy careers. But Black.White takes the reality subgenre to a whole new level, shining a beacon on American’s most excruciating blind spot. Developed and produced by documentarian turned reality show creator R.J. Cutler and rap star Ice Cube, it puts the white Wurgel family in blackface and whitens the black Sparks family so they can venture over to the other side of the color line.
Both families are articulate, but that doesn’t help them avoid racial miscommunications. Lily-white Carmen Wurgel was raised by parents involved in the civil rights movement, but she still utters clueless things that offend Renee Sparks. Carmen’s pigheaded husband, Bruno, doesn’t believe in racism at all, insisting that black people just need to take responsibility for their own behavior. Meanwhile, the Sparkses show little curiosity about the world of the Wurgels. They want to use their newly Caucasian skin as a cover to see just how racist white people can be when black folk aren’t around—and they succeed beyond all expectation. Whereas for the Wurgels, their dark disguise offers entrée into “a secret society,” an exotic world where they can wear dashikis, dance in church, and toss around the word “nigger” without repercussions. Or so they think.
The show’s star (at least in the early episodes I previewed) is the Wurgel’s sensitive teenage daughter, Rose, the only participant who questions the generalizations tossed around by the two families. Rose enrolls in an all-black inner-city poetry slam class where she is forced to perform before her “peers”—an excruciating experience for her and for us. The group critiques her for using big words and holding back, but no one guesses Rose is anything other than a sheltered black girl from a ritzy neighborhood. That’s because she bravely throws herself into the project, unlike the Sparkses’ son, Nick, a thug wannabe who shuns the whole project. In fact, he seems to agree with Bruno that there’s no such thing as racism, which drives dad Brian batty. Brian remarks at one point that he hopes Rose might “rub off” on his son. Considering that they’re all airbrushed with skin-deep paint, his wish just might come true.
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New York, 13 February 2018
Boss Autumn/Winter 2018 Ready-To-Wear collection
Hours before his presentation on Tuesday afternoon in New York, Boss announced the departure of Jason Wu. “It really feels like the time for me to move on now, and I’m really happy to have done this final presentation,” said the American designer, who joined the German house in 2013. His swan song was a modest one: models clad in his soft take on modernist tailoring spun around a rotating platform in the dim gallery, virtually hypnotising champagne-sipping guests. “I wanted it to be very sober, very quiet; chic,” Wu said. “I just want beautiful clothes. Nothing else. Beautiful clothes representative of the brand’s excellent craftsmanship and tailoring known from menswear translated to women’s. That’s all I wanted to say. It wasn’t about grandeur or anything, it was just about making clothes that women covet.” During his five-year tenure at Boss, his casual interpretation of the brand’s military tailoring has found popularity with a professional female audience, exemplified in famous clients from American first ladies to European princesses.
“My job when I was hired almost five years ago was to bring the womenswear to the centre stage. I feel like we’ve really been able to do that,” Wu said. Asked what his mark on the Boss legacy would be, he glanced over at his final collection, best described as an effortless kind of office clothes. “I brought real sense of softness to the party, I guess. I’ve loved being able to inject a brand with so much tailoring expertise with the sense of softness that people have come to know me for.” A lot has changed since he joined the brand, of course. In Germany where Boss was founded in 1924, cult label Vetements - registered in Düsseldorf until last year - has turned national trademarks (and a sometimes satirised dress sense) upside down, with Polizei coats and Rammstein soundtracks and all the normative trimmings. An institution in Germany, there’s still time for Boss to branch into these more avant-garde corners of fashion and flex their brand value for a younger audience to whom Boss means something different than daytime tailoring.
As for Wu, “I have a lot of plans for my own brand,” he said. “I’m going to be spending a lot of time in Asia this year. So we will see.”
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Is ‘Ray Donovan’ Streaming on Netflix?
by Kasey Moore @kasey__moore on August 22, 2016, 6:18 am EST
Showtime’s lineup today is spearheaded by Ray Donovan. A drama series that follows a professional “fixer” who completes tasks for the wealthy and powerful. It’s usually renting himself out as a hitman but is mainly known for his ability to get rid of problems.
The ShowTime show has been in production since 2013 and has recently surpassed over 50 episodes and with new seasons both on air and in development it’s a show with a massive appeal. So can you stream the show at all on Netflix?
Well, the answer is yes, but only if you’re in certain regions. Right now, you’re able to stream at least 3 seasons of Ray Donovan in many of the European countries (excluding UK and Ireland), South American countries and many African countries too. They receive regular season updates mostly in July/August just before a new season starts airing over in the states.
So, what about the states? Why isn’t it streaming on their Netflix? As of right now, Ray Donovan is part of the exclusive arrangement between Showtime and Hulu as an additional subscription on top of Hulu Plus. You’re also able to stream some of the latest episodes on Showtime’s own streaming platform. As of right now, you can only watch Ray Donovan with your Netflix subscription if you have the DVD rental service which offers the DVD boxset.
Given the exclusive arrangement between Hulu and Showtime, we doubt we’ll ever see Ray Donovan come to streaming.
As for the United Kingdom, sadly it’s only available through NowTV for streaming which is owned by Sky. Ray Donovan is one of the headline shows in Sky Atlantic’s catalogue and for the moment, it doesn’t look like that’ll change.
We’ll be sure to update you if anything changes but for the moment it looks like the streaming plans for the show are all locked up.
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Lawrence `so sorry' for Hammam
LENNIE LAWRENCE expressed sympathy for Cardiff City owner Sam Hammam after last night's crushing play-off disappointment.
The Bluebirds manager said he felt `desperately sorry' for Hammam and the City fans but felt no sympathy for the players who he accused of lacking enough quality to beat Stoke over two legs.
"Personally I don't expect any sympathy," said Lawrence. "I respect the players but I don't feel sympathy for them.
"Sam is the one I feel desperately sorry for because he is going to take a massive financial hit next year. He's been outstanding, first class.
"And after the game he was brilliant. He came into the dressing room and thanked me and the players for their efforts and said `be dignified in defeat, let's put it all behind us and go on for next season' "
The former Middlesbrough, Luton Town and Charlton manager said he had never experienced such a devastating defeat in his long career.
"I've never had it snatched away like that - not ever," he said.
"In games where I've needed to stay up or get up that has never happened.
"But such is life. I'll be ready for another season. We had a fantastic run to get to the play-offs and have probably broken Cardiff City records. "It's the nature of the play-offs that if you put in one below-par performance that's it.
"Stoke put in one below-par performance (at the Britannia Stadium) and they got away with it. We didn't get away with ours - simple as that.'
Lawrence bemoaned Cardiff's lack of quality in the final third of the pitch and said he couldn't see where a Bluebirds goal would come from.
"The effort and committment was there, but the quality wasn't on the most important stage of all," said Lawrence.
"I don't think the players bottled it. Human nature is that you try and hold on to what you've got.
"We spoke enough about scoring the first goal but we never looked like doing it."
Lawrence added, "Let's be fair - Stoke deserved to win the match. They deserved to win it after 90 minutesand120 minutes. "What they didn't deserve was to win by two clear goals, in the same way that we didn't deserve to win by two clear goals at the Britannia Stadium."
Stoke manager Gudjon Thordarson, understandably ecstatic at the win, said Cardiff were the one side he had not wanted to meet in the lottery of the play-offs.
He said, "I knew when it was a fact we were going to meet Cardiff that was probably the toughest team we could face.
"If I'm honest, that was the team I didn't want to meet. But I thought that we coped well after a very difficult start at home when we were two goals down.
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In Kiln to Kitchen, North Carolina Clay Meets Potters’ Favorite Dishes
Pottery collector and food write Jean Anderson shares the stories behind her new book.
by Shelbi Polk
Jean Anderson’s life has had quite a few glamorous moments—on the phone, she told me about taking nearly ninety trips to Portugal and inviting Jean Fontaine over for dinner in her Manhattan walkup (and the racket Winona Ryder and her friends occasionally made dancing to the Spice Girls in the apartment below). But her roots are decidedly more earthy: Anderson spent her childhood surrounded by North Carolina pottery.
Anderson is a lifelong pottery collector. As a child, Anderson’s family took regular trips to Jugtown, and she still has Ben Owens pottery she bought with her allowance money at just ten years old. Eventually, Anderson met legendary characters of the pottery scene like Juliana Busby and Benjamin Owens III, and now she guides friends from New York on tours of her favorite studios whenever she gets the chance.
Anderson is also a decorated journalist. She built a career out of traveling and writing about food, writing a dozen cookbooks and earning a James Beard Award along the way.
Anderson’s latest cookbook, Kiln to Kitchen, combines these passions, digging deep into the clay and cuisine of the Carolinas. This cookbook features local potters highlighting their work the way good pottery was meant to be appreciated—full of food.
All 24 of the potters Anderson features live in the Triangle, Seagrove or the Catawba mountains. Some have been there for generations, and some were drawn to the state by the thriving pottery culture. Anderson said she was surprised how many people were drawn here by the clay and the pottery community. She met potters from all over the world, and the recipes reflect that heritage.
Anderson carefully built files on each of the three regions she wanted to highlight before reaching out to the potters. She was most surprised at the strength of the pottery scene in the Triangle. She looked for a variety of styles and recipes, and the potters were largely “thrilled to be a part of it.”
“Artists, I’ve discovered, are invariably good cooks, creative cooks, not to mention world travelers eager to check out the work of fellow potters,” Anderson writes in her introduction.
The maps and glossary Anderson includes keep her book accessible to those of us who think pottery is beautiful, but don’t quite know the difference between earthenware and stoneware.
Anderson asked the potters for unpublished family recipes, and she tested all of them before publication. Her favorite suggestion for the next few months is the mockernut pumpkin pie, made with native hickory or “mockernut.”
“It’s a very beautiful pie and very different pie that serves a lot of people,” Anderson said. “If you bring that one to Thanksgiving, there won’t be another pie like it.”
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Ishaqzaade Duo Arjun - Parineeti Set to Return in Dibakar Banerjee’s Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar
by YRF User1 | Jul 02, 2017
They impressed everyone with their debut film Ishaqzaade. Five years later, having matured as performers since their raw, intense debuts, Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra will return onscreen for a second time with Dibakar Banerjee’s next film. Always a filmmaker who delivers unique and engaging films, Banerjee will direct Arjun and Parineeti in Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar.
With a quirky title and a winsome leading pair, Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar piques interest. The film is a story of a man and a woman who represent two completely different Indias. This story could happen to any of us in contemporary India. But it happens to Sandeep and Pinky. Two more unlikely protagonists in one film are unimaginable. They are united in one thing only. Their mistrust, suspicion, and hate for each other.
Director Dibakar Banerjee said, “This feels like my first film, again. I've had to unlearn everything I know to tell this story about a man and a woman who can't stand each other but can't survive without each other."
Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar will present Arjun and Parineeti’s sizzling chemistry in a dramatic thriller.
Arjun Kapoor said, “It feels great to be back home at YRF working with Adi Sir and Parineeti, my most amazing and first ever co-actor. Dibakar Banerjee is a name synonymous with being the torchbearer of evolving new age cinema that engages and entertains. I can’t wait to work under his tutelage and vision. Main Dibakar aur Parineeti ke saath faraar hone ke liye fully tayyar and excited hoon.”
Parineeti Chopra added, “After Ishaqzaade, Arjun and I used to dream about working with Dibakar one day! His films are so different and always make an impact. I am soo ready to bite my teeth into this character and give the audience something intense!”
Before this, Yash Raj Films and Dibakar Banerjee have collaborated on the Cannes award winning Titli and the critically acclaimed Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
Parineeti enters the ‘Corporate’ world!
Revealed: Arjun Kapoor plays a Haryanvi cop in YRF’s Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar!
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We Create Meaningful Places
William Cole is a Texas-based, privately owned real estate development and investment firm founded in 1996, with a focus on high-quality mixed use developments, carefully crafted hotels and master planned communities.
- Howard Katkov, CEO Red Mountain Resort
"The William Cole Companies chose to take their time, energy and capital to build one of the most iconic hotels in the West Kootenays, The Josie. This investment will have a profound and far reaching economic impact on our resort and community. Their attention to detail, commitment to design and perseverance for years will forever be appreciated by me and others in our company and community. It is our privilege to welcome The Josie to Red Mountain Resort, Rossland and British Columbia."
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North America's Newest Ski-In, Ski-Out Hotel To Open in Rossland, BC
The Josie Hotel (The Josie), a Noble House Hotels & Resorts property in partnership with William Cole Companies, is set to open its doors on November 28, 2018, transforming Rossland into one of North America's major ski destinations. Located in Rossland, British Columbia, The Josie is the region's first boutique hotel of its kind and a true ski-in, ski-out property, providing luxury accommodation and an authentic mountain experience, just a few convenient steps from RED Mountain Resort's (RED) slopes.
Traditions Club and Community Unveils Phase 1 of The Villages at Traditions
Traditions – the private golf club and residential community neighboring Texas A&M University and the prospering ATLAS development – has unveiled the first phase of The Villages at Traditions, the Brazos Valley’s first pocket neighborhood.
The initial build-out of 19 residences features floorplans ranging in size from 1,500-2,500 square feet. Details of each home mirror the Traditions lifestyle – large front porches, historic touches, impressive moldings and energy-efficient designs.
Parc at Traditions Hosts Grand Opening Celebration
Parc at Traditions – the Brazos Valley’s premier senior living community located in the heart of Traditions Club residential development – hosted its official grand opening celebration on March 21, spotlighting its resort-style amenities and signature full-service lifestyle.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony featured Parc at Traditions representatives, Bryan City officials, Chamber of Commerce representatives and other Brazos Valley luminaries. Afterward, residents, families and invited guests enjoyed live music, refreshment and hors d’ouerves from the Parc culinary team led by Executive Chef Michael Raibley.
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‘Impartial Justice’? What to watch in Trump’s Senate trial
by: LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press
Clerk of the House Cheryl Johnson carries the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The impeachment of President Donald Trump is the Senate’s challenge now.
Directed by the Constitution, House officials and prosecutors somberly carried the articles through the dimly lit Capitol to the Senate on Wednesday evening, triggering a trial unlike any since President Bill Clinton’s in 1999. He was acquitted.
Look Thursday for a series of striking ceremonial matters to set up the Senate as a court of impeachment. Oaths will be taken. An oath book will be signed. And the seven House prosecutors, called managers, appointed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi will make an appearance in the well of the Senate to present the articles.
Then the senators will be commanded to surrender their phones, pay attention and not talk — a whole other level of challenge, especially for the four Democrats running for president ahead of the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses.
What to watch when the Senate opens for impeachment business:
HOUSE MEMBERS IN THE SENATE
At noon Thursday, the seven House managers will again cross the Capitol and be escorted into the well of the Senate, this time to formally present the articles of impeachment. They charge Trump with abuse of power by pressuring Ukraine to help him politically and obstructing Congress’s probe into what happened.
The prosecution team is led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff of California and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler of New York, who oversaw the impeachment investigation and hearings. The others are Reps. Zoe Lofgren of California, Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Val Demings of Florida, Jason Crow of Colorado and Sylvia Garcia of Texas.
All have backgrounds in the law. Their challenge is to persuade four Republicans to join all Senate Democrats in demanding that the trial include new documents and witnesses most in the GOP senators would like to avoid. Even that modest goal could prove difficult.
Watch for the managers to start dividing up topics and arguments as the team prepares to lay out its case.
In another extraordinary visual, Chief Justice John Roberts will make an appearance in the chamber. Senate Pro Tempore Chuck Grassley of Iowa will administer Roberts’ oath as the court’s presiding officer. Roberts, in turn, will swear in the senators, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.
“IMPARTIAL JUSTICE”
The senators will swear to administer “impartial justice” on the articles, or charges. But already, the senator-jurors are questioning whether that’s possible.
McConnell has given his flat-out answer.
“I’m not an impartial juror,” he declared last month. The process is inherently political.
He also said he’s coordinating tightly with the White House, a statement Democrats said was proof of McConnell’s partiality. Republicans, meanwhile, have pointed out that Democrats have widely spoken of their disdain for Trump and cast doubt on his fitness for office.
Late Wednesday, McConnell laid out how he sees the challenge for senators.
“We will pledge to rise above the petty factionalism and do justice for our institutions, for our states and for the nation,” he said.
THE SENATE MATH
100: The total number of senators.
53: The Republican majority.
51: The number of senators who must agree on almost anything to make it happen during an impeachment trial.
Four: The number of Republican senators who must join Democrats to get to the magical 51.
2/3: The proportion of senators required to convict and remove a president from office. So 67 members of the Senate would have to vote to convict if every senator is voting.
Watch the moderates for an emerging gang of three to four who could influence the outcome on such matters as whether to subpoena former national security adviser John Bolton. That vote won’t be taken for days if not weeks.
Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine has been meeting with a small number of GOP colleagues who want to consider witness testimony and documents that weren’t part of the House impeachment investigation. Watch Republican Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska for signs of whether this group can stick together and force the Senate to consider additional material.
Senators love to talk. So the impeachment trial rule against speaking or consulting their phones on the Senate floor has the potential to chafe.
None moreso, however, than the four Democratic senators forced to decamp from Iowa less than three weeks before the election’s leadoff caucuses. Look for Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Michael Bennet of Colorado to send surrogates to Iowa or make short trips back and forth.
“I’ve told them this trial is your responsibility as senators and scheduling is not going to influence what we should do,” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer told The Associated Press in an interview last month. He said none of them objected. “There are benefits of running as a senator,” Schumer added, “and there are liabilities.”
The Senate is pausing for the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend.
Arguments begin Tuesday.
Trump’s team will be led by White House counsel Pat Cippolone.
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John McConnell, president, director and CEO of Victoria Gold Corp, talks at the 2017 Yukon Geoscience Forum and Trade Show in Whitehorse. Victoria Gold says amendments to its water license ordered by the Yukon’s water board won’t impact the construction schedule of the Eagle mine 85 km from Mayo. (Crystal Schick/Yukon News file)
Victoria Gold confident amended water licence won’t slow progress at Yukon’s Eagle mine
Changes to the mine plan means Yukon’s water board wants the company to apply for an amended licence
Ashley Joannou
Victoria Gold says amendments to its water license ordered by the Yukon’s water board won’t impact the construction schedule of the Eagle mine 85 km from Mayo.
Earlier this month, following a mandated review of some of the mine’s plans, the water board told the company it needed to amend its water license to account for changes it made to the design.
Board chair Piers McDonald said the plans were not approved by the board “not because they were technically unsound but because they referenced a mine plan that had evolved and changed from that that was originally licensed.”
The changes are improvements, said Victoria Gold’s president John McConnell. They include a decision to no longer divert a creek and to move the embankment for the heap leach pad out of Dublin gulch, he said May 24.
The changes came out of recommendations from the Nacho Nyak Dun (NND) First Nation and its land manager, McConnell said.
He said resubmitting an updated plan to ask for an amended licence is relatively simple. The technical work has already been done.
“It’s re-submitting it with a different cover page or cover letter,” he said.
McConnell said the members of the water board have completely changed since the mine completed its public hearings three years ago.
He said the plan is to write a draft, sit down with the water board secretariat, “and make sure that everybody’s happy with what we’ve got there and consult with our partners the NND.”
The mine’s current water licence is still active. There’s no timeline for when an amended licence could be approved. That can vary depending on how complicated projects are, McDonald said.
He said that the features that are under review couldn’t be constructed until they are approved.
McConnell said the company could wait for a decision “until we go into operations.”
“The embankment doesn’t hold any water until we start operations,” he said. “So that’s when we would be in contravention”
The mine’s completion and first gold pour is scheduled for the second half of 2019. Construction started earlier this year. The existing camp has 250 people.
Lewis Rifkind, with the Yukon Conservation Society, said it does appear what Victoria Gold is proposing could be an improvement.
He said it’s still important for the water board to take a look because the board has the required expertise.
Contact Ashley Joannou at ashleyj@yukon-news.com
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Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
MondayDeadlines, deadlines. I ought to be in Paris, listening to Bill Gates tell the IDC audience that "we don't always get it right, but we keep trying". Instead, I'm writing about it in London.
By Guy Kewney | September 21, 1996 -- 08:00 GMT (01:00 PDT) | Topic: Tech Industry
Apparently, he's launching a new version of Windows; Windows CE. Nobody can tell me what CE stands for. His PR company has taken a dozen journalists (without deadlines) to Paris for the announcement, but they apparently haven't heard of it. I inform them that it's a version of Windows for PDAs. The nice PR lady wants to know what a PDA is.
Larry Ellison, head of Oracle, is also in Paris. He pours eloquent scorn on those who say that the Network Computer won't catch on, because it has no local storage. "People don't give a damn where their data is, as long as it's on the screen when they look," he says. "Do you keep all your cash in a mattress, or in a bank?"
An irate IBM RS/6000 customer wants to know who's going to pay for his upgrade. "We have a system spec'ed to support 16 users. Now the software supplier has announced that it's upgrading the software. We don't get a choice, because they aren't supporting our version any more. But after they install it, it turns out that we need twice the memory and twice the disk." Said software supplier offers to supply this "at cost" -- which says something interesting about RS/6000 costs, I guess, since 32 meg of RAM and a gigabyte of disk cost around £3,000. Hmm.
Quite by coincidence, the same week that Forrester Research proclaims that NetWare is a "legacy" system for networks and that Novell is no longer a strategic supplier, Novell's new chief executive, Joe "Jimbo" Marengi arrives in town. At breakfast, I wave the Forrester report gently over his coffee cup. "Garbage," he says politely.
Well, he does have a point. The report says that it's about time Novell supported TCP/IP. I think Novell's been one of the biggest suppliers of TCP/IP in the world for some years.
A call to Boundless Technologies: "You do realise that the question I asked you last week forms part of a story which goes to press TODAY?," I ask patiently. "What question was that?," they reply. "I wanted to know whether your Windows multi-user mainframe system runs Notes," I thunder sweetly. "Oh. We'll find out."
That's what they said last week.
Phone call from the RS/6000 customer. "You were right! They're upgrading our system at their expense!". Mind you, my friend's triumph may be short-lived; his maintenance contract permits this software company to increase the service charges "without previous notice" at any time. Direct Debit, anyone?
The game of the century, Meridian, the first to run only on the Web! It's much, much better than MUD. So it's an early start because I'm going to get an exclusive demo. OK, MUD. Well, it was the name of the Multi-User Dungeon, a text-only adventure. "This is much better," says the enthusiastic flak. "It's a first-person viewpoint in three dimensions. We'll show it to you."
In order to see it, I need to provide a multimedia PC on the Web. I also have to find a meeting room big enough for six. At 10.30, five minutes before the software-bearing guru arrives, I finally get the LAN connection working and reboot. That's the point where the guru phones from his car to say that he's stuck in traffic.
By the time the former hardware pioneer 3DO company has announced its transformation into software studio company, we have the CD in the drive. Install: it makes contact with the home site, which does a quick check. "Your software is out of date; we'll upgrade it," it promises. Half an hour later, we try to set up the 3DO guru's laptop instead, but his modem won't work.
It's not my day, actually; I find all my Lotus Notes windows are invisible. "We can answer a one-off question if you give us your credit card number," says the "help" desk guy. Charge: £125 per question. For posting a bug report? No, thanks.
We leave the game hopelessly trying and retrying to download the upgrade.
Sage arrives to talk about accountancy software. No! Don't click! Dammit, it was interesting. It seems that they're about to expand into the Internet. Why do you want accounting software on the Internet? They have lots of marketing jargon to explain it. Dutifully, it all gets written down. Makes no sense. Nice people, though.
Back at the office, a press conference invite: J D Edwards Corporation, provider of mainframe-based accounting package OneWorld; "I can't come," I tell them, "because I'm in Japan next week, but can you tell me a bit about it all?"
Apparently this is an AS/400 (mainframe) package, now coming down-scale to the Windows 95 environment. I hear a penny dropping. Nothing to do with Sage, no, not at all? Coincidence? Competition? Bland innocence is all I can detect from Sage's Newcastle HQ.
The game is still trying to download from the ftp site.
The 3DO guru rings. "Sorry about yesterday. Did you get it working yet?" Actually, courtesy of remote teleworking, I sort of have. I dialled into my desktop using Laplink for Windows 95, and then set off an Internet download from the teleport.com ftp site. And a couple of hours later, all the new stuff arrived. And now? "I'll pop by, later."
So I still can't tell you a damn thing about 3DO's latest incarnation. And next week' it's off to Fujitsu in Tokyo, and I bet you anything you like I can't log on to the Internet from Tokyo.
Meanwhile it turns out Scott McNealy, head of Sun Microsystems, is in town. We have a long chat, him in his limo (heading to the airport) and me at my desk. Local data storage is not necessary, he says. "Do you keep your cash in the mattress?"
I haven't the heart to tell him I've heard that one.
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Microsoft and IBM: Here's why we back Google in Oracle Java API copyright case
Microsoft highlights historical tech innovations, including the Windows Subsystem for Linux, that were enabled in the same way Google used Java APIs.
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Android, iOS mobile apps to download before disaster strikes
Red Panic Button
Time and time again, we are surprised by children's abilities to help their parents when in need. An immediate call to 911 (in UK 999) can save a life but with today's access protocols on mobile devices, it may not always be easy to get past the lockscreen.
The Red Panic Button app can not only display a recognizable button on the homescreen to press when time is of the essence, but can be used to automatically call emergency services or send SMS messages to key contacts in case of emergency.
Via: Google Play | App Store
Published: March 5, 2018 -- 16:29 GMT (08:29 PST)
Caption by: Charlie Osborne
ICE, or In Case of Emergency, is a very useful app for anyone to have on their mobile device. Without the need for a passcode or biometrics -- at least in the Android version -- the app can store vital medical information for first responders to access in case of emergency, such as allergies, prescriptions, and next of kin.
The iOS version, however, does appear to be having some issues with the latest OS updates, and so will display information as wallpaper.
First Aid, American Red Cross
An app developed by the American Red Cross called First Aid contains a wealth of useful features to help in crisis or disaster.
The app contains step-by-step guides for accident and first aid scenarios, tests to help you cement this knowledge, safety tips for natural disasters, a direct call to emergency services feature, and other useful information such as the names, addresses, and distance of nearby hospitals.
Mobile Witness
If you are in the area when a situation calls for evidence -- such as in the case of dubious behavior or crimes -- Mobile Witness can provide a way to record audio and video.
Rather than store this footage on your mobile device, which may be lost, taken, or stolen, recordings can automatically be sent to third-party cloud storage providers including Dropbox and Google Drive.
Via: Google Play
SafeTrek
Walking at night or down unfamiliar streets can feel dangerous and SafeTrek was created to help mitigate the fear.
When opened, the app asks that users hold down the large "safe" button until they feel they are out of danger. When safe, users then release the button and enter a four-digit pin. However, if no pin is entered, the app automatically contacts local law enforcement with your coordinates.
Via: SafeTrek
QuakeFeed
Natural disasters, especially in today's climate, are a concern worldwide. If you live in an area particularly prone to earthquakes, such as Japan, the QuakeFeed app is worth downloading.
QuakeFeed collates reports and alerts of seismic activity worldwide and includes maps, local alerts, news, and also allows users to create custom regional activity feeds.
Via: App Store | Android alternative
Nextdoor was created to bring local communities closer together, and as such, is a valuable resource when disasters occur.
Floods, accidents, crime, and more can impact locals, and as such, this app can be used to bring people together.
Over the course of recent severe weather in the UK, for example, the app was used for everything from finding locals able to pick up those stranded and unable to drive, local plumbers able to fix broken heating systems, to organize help for the homeless, and more.
Via: Nextdoor
An app for US residents is from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The app brings together highly useful information from sources including the National Weather Service and crisis services to keep users informed of weather events and disaster relief efforts.
You can use the app to track weather events, view and upload footage, locate disaster relief shelters, and apply for federal assistance.
Waze may seem like an odd choice for emergencies and disaster relief, but the community-based traffic and road reporting app can be extremely useful.
As the cold spread across Europe last week and caused transport chaos, the app was very useful in finding roads which were not closed and to monitor accidents and traffic movements.
If you are in an emergency situation and need to reach a destination quickly, the traffic reports and suggested routes can be crucial.
When transport problems occur, Waze assists you in reaching your destination quickly and safely -- but you may also need to know where you can find fuel for the journey. That's where GasBuddy comes in.
GasBuddy is also community-based and so provides real-time updates on where you can fill up, and for what price.
Safe & Found
Safe & Found not only provides peace of mind for families who want to keep track of where their family members are, but can also prove invaluable in times of crisis. The app can be used to monitor the location of mobile devices and implement automatic messages when a child, for example, gets home from school -- but if something happens, you also have information at your disposal to find a missing family member.
If you need a more fine-tuned alternative to keep an eye on local weather events, the NOAA weather radar app is a good choice. Rather than simply issuing state-wide alerts, the app hones in on your location and other custom locations to provide detailed weather information including emergency alerts, pressure, precipitation, and more.
Facebook Crisis response
While not strictly a mobile app, thousands of us have picked up our smartphones and tablets and marked ourselves as "safe" in times of natural disaster and during terrorist incidents.
The Facebook Crisis response service and Safety Check has become a key communication point for locals embroiled in these kinds of situations. You can tick yourself as safe to prevent friends and family worrying -- especially if phone lines are clogged or down -- and can also check that your contacts are safe, too.
Via: Facebook
By Charlie Osborne | March 5, 2018 -- 16:29 GMT (08:29 PST) | Topic: Mobility
Natural disasters, criminal activity, and more -- there are apps out there to provide a helping hand when a crisis is underway.
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Essentia Magicis/Magical Essence
One of the major goals for this expedition is gaining influence in the areas where Essentia Magicis, also know as magical essence, is found in large quantities. These areas are the oases of the Southern Desert, where it keeps the area alive and allows for nature to flourish. The essence is vital for developing magical weapons, clothes or other enchantments. Exploring the Southern Desert: Expedition 3, S. Eien
Magical essence exists in two forms: liquid, in which it is the easiest to gather, and as other materials infused with it (which is very expensive to collect). The liquid, it's main form, usually has blueish or purple tones and is very oily. It reflects light very well, and can therefor seem to have other colours.
Essentia Magicis is oily, thick and sticky. It's feels colder than the environment.
Geology & Geography
The liquid essence is only known to be present in two places: the Shadowback and the Southern Desert. There it's always in veins beneath areas that have extraordinary plant growth, which makes it very easy to see where it could be located if the rest of the land is barren enough.
Origin & Source
Aside from it's liquid form, every material can contain essence. This is very hard to collect and instead draining the liquid veins found in some areas is preferred.
History & Usage
The essence is mostly used for enchanting weaponry, armor and other more mundane items. The substance is required to infuse items with magic.
When the essence is frozen and touched, it often leads to the person touching the essence contracting Winter Blight. Winter blight is very deadly and hard to cure.
Enviromental Impact
The essence itself isn't dangerous to nature, instead nature needs it. If too much essence is gathered, life in these areas may diminish, especially if it's a barren wasteland biome.
Not many people have access to the material, since it's not common at all. Trade is almost exclusively through authorized instances, mostly mage guilds or similar. To buy essence for private use, you need to prove yourself to be a capable spellcaster and even then it's very expensive.
Elemental / Molecular
200gp/tiny vial
Blue/Purple/Cyan/Magenta
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Jury to resume deliberations in ex-NFL star's murder trial
Updated: 11:56 PM CDT Apr 9, 2017
WCVB SOURCE: WCVB
Jurors in the double-murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez are set to begin their second day of deliberations.The former New England Patriots tight end is charged with first-degree murder in the 2012 shootings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado.Jurors are scheduled to resume deliberations Monday after deliberating for about 6½ hours Friday.Prosecutors say Hernandez shot the men after a brief encounter at a Boston nightclub. Hernandez's lawyers say the shooter was Alexander Bradley, Hernandez's friend who was with him that night.Bradley was the prosecution's star witness. He testified that Hernandez became enraged and shot the men because he felt disrespected after one of them bumped into Hernandez and spilled his drink.Hernandez's lawyers say Bradley shot the men over a drug deal.
BOSTON —
Jurors in the double-murder trial of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez are set to begin their second day of deliberations.
The former New England Patriots tight end is charged with first-degree murder in the 2012 shootings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado.
Jurors are scheduled to resume deliberations Monday after deliberating for about 6½ hours Friday.
Prosecutors say Hernandez shot the men after a brief encounter at a Boston nightclub. Hernandez's lawyers say the shooter was Alexander Bradley, Hernandez's friend who was with him that night.
Bradley was the prosecution's star witness. He testified that Hernandez became enraged and shot the men because he felt disrespected after one of them bumped into Hernandez and spilled his drink.
Hernandez's lawyers say Bradley shot the men over a drug deal.
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Articles / Health / Exercise / How three minutes of exercise, twice a week could make you fit
How three minutes of exercise, twice a week could make you fit
By Robin Hill,
Imagine if you were given an exercise routine that took only three minutes to do twice a week – you’d probably think someone was having a joke, right?
However, that’s the science behind High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and it’s been a favourite routine of elite athletes for many years. It works your body as hard as possible – but in short bursts, 30 seconds on, 30 seconds off, for three minutes.
You might be someone who is already a regular walker, swimmer, golfer and so forth, but believe you’re a little “past it” to do HIIT. However, Kusal Goonewardena, a Melbourne-based physiotherapist who heads the Elite Akademy clinic, says this is a common misconception. And he should know. He has worked for 18 years with everyone from the average Joe to Olympians.
Goonewardena says just because we’re getting a bit older doesn’t mean we shouldn’t push ourselves to our physical limits. Why? Because the research shows the physical and mental benefits of doing HIIT are so positive.
Just ask Dr Michael Mosley, who was one of the first high profile medicos (and author and TV personality) to put HIIT on the map. Dr Mosley, who had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, said that doing HIIT had “changed” his life because it had, among other things, helped reduce his insulin sensitivity and increase his aerobic fitness.
“High Intensity Interval Training is about pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone, both mentally and physically,” says Goonewardena.
He believes it’s actually quite easy to incorporate HIIT into your existing exercise routine. He says research has found that it improves mobility, heart and lung capacity, lowers cholesterol, blood pressure, helps you lose body fat, build muscle, and boosts your mental health too.
Running up stairs is an effective high-intensity activity
“The interesting thing about HIIT is that it doesn’t take very long for you to see results. In about 12 weeks you can notice a real difference in terms of your physical wellbeing, your capacity to exercise even more than you have been, and it can also have an impact on your diet. You might have once craved sugary or fatty foods, but you’ll find you’ll crave foods to healthily boost your energy levels,” he says.
He says it’s true that many people aged over 50 (including some of his clients) are initially quite hesitant to try HIIT because they’re worried they could injure themselves or they think it’ll be too hard. He says they are often pleasantly surprised when they realise it’s not as tricky as they thought.
While considering adding HIIT to your exercise regimen, there are some practical steps to do before starting. First, get the all-clear from your GP. Second, assess or grade your fitness levels (if you’ve done no exercise for a long time, find a personal trainer or physiotherapist who can access this for you).
Many of us, says Goonewardena, operate at a low-to-medium level, perhaps believing that doing 10,000 steps a day is enough: we exercise often, but we’re not testing our physical endurance.
“If you’re someone who is used to doing low-to-medium level regular exercise such as walking your dog daily, going up flights of stairs, to playing more active sports, you’ll probably feel more confident about grading yourself.
“Something like walking the dog is a two out of 10, going up a flight of stairs could be a five out of 10.
“You can incorporate HIIT into your regular work-out routine,” adds Goonewardena. “If you go for a brisk one-hour walk, at the end of that, if you’re back home, your body is warmed up and that’s good.
“So try running on the spot for 30 seconds at a level that’s closer to eight or nine of out 10 for you, rest for 30 seconds, and then run on the spot for another 30 seconds. It’s important to really push yourself but if you experience any pain, listen to your body and stop,” he says. The total work out needs to be three minutes, twice a week, on non-consecutive days to allow your body to recover.
Goonewardena adds that if running on the spot doesn’t appeal, another routine would be to do star jumps or shadow boxing for the same time period. Alternatively, you can look up HIIT routines to do at home online. There are some great routines on YouTube, for example this HIIT home workout for beginners:
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About Jake & Timelock:
Jake Peters is no newcomer to the startup world. After spending time at a couple startups, Jake started his own right after graduating from university. He has since built Timelock with his co-founder, Jarratt Isted. Timelock is a tool that creates and manages live-targeted email content for users. Jake and his partner are looking to launch their product in the near future.
How Jake uses Xtensio:
In the early stages of their startup, the Timelock team needed to create simple one pagers. Jake was originally drawn to Xtensio because he wanted to create a one-paged press kit, a project he had been putting off for ages. As a developer, Jake dedicates most of his time to ensuring Timelock runs smoothly. He was looking to create a press kit this easily and in a way that wouldn’t eat up too much of his time. Xtensio’s simplicity and guided text helped him quickly build and finish the press kit. His team has begun sharing the press kit with colleagues and potential investors.
“The press kit is amazing — to be able to just drag and drop something and then for it to just be there all the time. It’s just so simple, you can go in and edit anything. It’s just remarkably simple.”
After completing their press kit, Jake and his team navigated through the internal planning tools and created a User Persona and SWOT Analysis. With the Blank Slate tool, they were able to let their creativity shine. They created a chart that chronicles the progress of their app with software release updates and changes. They then created a style guide that housed their branding guidelines.
“We have found it very useful. It’s so flexible. Everything that we need is there for us. It’s a nice little tool.”
With 5 different folios and hundreds of folio views, Jake has become one of Xtensio’s most active users. You can learn more about his product at www.timelock.io or you can see his live folios below.
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1. What is the crisis experienced in Erikson’s first stage of psychosocial development? How did Chystell resolve this stage? What was the outcome of the crisis? Was it favorable or unfavorable?
It isfavorable. Because chrsytell is a great kid and she also succeeds in activities or event at his school and does not worry on his parents chrystell because she has the right minds.
2. What is the crisis experienced in Erikson’s second stage of psychosocial development? How did Chystell resolve this stage? What was the outcome of the crisis? Was it favorable or unfavorable?
Favorable. Because they wants to help or facilitate for their children
3. What is the crisis experienced in Erikson’s third stage of psychosocial development? How did Chystell resolve this stage? What was the outcome of the crisis? Was it favorable or unfavorable?
There may be a successful resolution at this stage because the case describes chrystell him and select his or her own play activity.
4. What is the crisis experienced in Erikson’s fourth stage of psychosocial development? How did Chystell resolve this stage? What was the outcome of the crisis? Was it favorable or unfavorable?
Favorable. She seemed to compare favorably with her peers in school because she had friends and did well scholastically
5. What could be expected in the fifth stage of Chrystell’s life according to Erikson’s theory?
I hope here it is wise to recognize or someone else and what he really is as a child
6. Erikson’s theory is sometimes described as a good guide for parents. Find examples of this guidance in the case study and describe them.
Chrystell parents positively reinforcing the act of potty training by noy
Scolding her when she had accidents
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1. The Interview
Nursing is an awesome and forever changing field that I am excited to be a part of. On November 1, 2018, I had the opportunity to interview Nurse Debbie Martin, Debbie holds a Bachelor of Nursing Degree, and has been a nurse for over 20 years, Debbie currently works for the Emory University GI, Gastro, Urology Clinic in Atlanta, and is a Nurse Liaison at the facility. I asked Debbie what disease she saw most often in the clinic, and she immediately said, “Hepatitis C”. Nurse Martin described Hepatitis C as a ” Disease that is caused by a virus that affects the liver, and it probably the most fatal disease that is seen at the clinic”, I also asked Nurse Martin why she chose this disease , versus the other diseases that are seen in the clinic and she said “If she had to give a percentage out of 100 patients, she would say about 25-30 percent of the patients are affected with Hepatitis C”, and most patients have acquired the disease from Intravenous Drug use, or through Blood Transfusion.( D. Martin, Personal Interview, November
This paper will discuss the etiology and incidence of Hepatitis C, it will detail the prevalence of the disease, and how it affects the body, it will determine what signs and symptoms are common with this disease and will finally describe the treatments and prognosis of the disease.
2. Etiology
First, Hepatitis C virus infection is an infection of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus (also referred to as HCV). It is hard for the immune system to get rid of hepatitis C from the body, and infection with hepatitis C usually develops into a chronic condition (Gompf, Bansal, Singal, Marks, 2018). Over many years, chronic infection with hepatitis C infects the liver and can cause liver failure. Because of transmission, HCV, can be acquired from Intravenous drug use. People who use illegal drugs with dirty needles are the most at risk for Hepatitis C. In developed countries, most of the new HCV infections are reported in I.V. drug users (V.K. Dhawan, 2018). HCV may also be transmitted through sexual transmission. However, studies of heterosexual couples have shown that such transmission is extremely inefficient. A higher rate HCV transmission is noted in men who have sex with men, especially those who practice unprotected anal intercourse and have HIV infection. (V.K. Dhawan, 2018)
3. Incidence/Prevalence
In the United States, the incidence of acute HCV infection has sharply declined during the last 10 years, but its prevalence remains high (V.K. Dhawan, 2018). According to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates, 2.7-3.9 million people born from 1945 through 1965 in the United States have chronic hepatitis C which develops in approximately 75% of patients after acute infection (V.K. Dhawan, 2018). In the U.S., the CDC has estimated that approximately 29,718 new cases occurred in 2013. When the virus first enters the body there usually are no symptoms. Up to 85% of newly-infected people fail to get rid of the virus and eventually become chronically infected (Gompf et al., 2018). In the United States, HCV infection is more prevalent among minorities, such as black and Hispanic people, in association with lower economic status and educational levels (V.K. Dhawan, 2018). In addition, in the United States, genotype 1 is more common in black people than in other racial groups, and 65% of people with HCV infection are between the age of 30-49 years old. Those who acquire the infection at a young age have a somewhat better outcome, than those who are infected later in life (V.K. Dhawan,2018).
4. Pathophysiology
HCV is a single stranded RNA virus. The genome contains a single open reading frame that encodes a polyprotein of about 3000 amino acids. The virus is genetically unstable, which leads to multiple genotypes and subtypes. Genotype 1a and b account for most of the infections in the United States (Grossman, Porth, 2014). The natural targets of HCV are hepatocytes and, possibly, B lymphocytes. Viral clearance is related to the development and persistence of strong virus-specific responses by cytotoxic T lymphocytes and helper T cells (V.K. Dhawan, 2018).
5. Prognosis
Infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) is self-limited in 15% to 50% of patients, and chronic infection developed in 70%-80% of patients. Cirrhosis occurs within 20 years of disease onset in 20% of patients with chronic infection (V.K. Dhawan, 2018). The risk of cirrhosis multiplies in patients who acquired HCV infection from blood transfusion. Progression to HCC is more common in the presence of cirrhosis, and alcoholism (V.K. Dhawan, 2018). There are 8,000 to 10,000 deaths each year in the U.S. related to hepatitis C infection. HCV infection is the most common cause of liver transplantation in the U.S. and is a risk factor for liver cancer (Gompf et el, 2018)
6. Signs and symptoms
The incubation period for HCV infection ranges from 2 to 26 weeks. Most children and adults who contract the infection usually are asymptomatic (Grossman, Porth, 2014). Very few people experience hepatitis signs or symptoms such as dark urine, jaundice, or clay colored stools in acute or early infection. Over time, people with chronic HCV infection could develop signs of liver inflammation that suggests that HCV may be present. Infected individuals may become easily fatigued or complain of other symptoms (Gompf, et al, 2018).
7. Common Treatments
Direct-acting agents (DAA) are antiviral drugs that act directly on hepatitis C multiplication. They are taken orally, are well-tolerated, and cure over 90% of patients., treatment time is short, often 12 weeks, depending on drug and genotype. Like treatments for HIV, treatment of HCV is most effective if the drugs are given in combination. (Gompf, et al, 2018).
In August 2017, FDA approved an 8-week program of glecaprevir and pibrentasvir (Mavryet) for all HCV genotypes. Unlike some other regimens, this combination works whether the patient has cirrhosis or not (Gompf, et al, 2018).
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The vision of Yeo’s company is to be a market leading food ; beverage company with a global reach.
The mission of Yeo’s company is to provide our customers with high quality and best value products through the constant pursuit of innovation and excellence.
The company start from 1900 by founder, Yeo Keng Lian. Yeo Keng Lian is a native of Fujian, China who began his career at Zhangzhou which making soy cause with Yeo Hiap Seng Sauce Factory in 1901. After that, he immigrated to Singapore in 1930s where he re-established the Yeo Hiap Seng Suace Factory in 1938. In 1960, Yeo died at Singapore. The name Yeo Hiap Seng is of Christian origin with Hiap meaning unity of Christ as Yeo was. At 20 December 1955 in Singapore, this company incorporated as Yeo Hiap Seng Canning and Sauce Factory Private Limited and renamed to its present shorter name. Yeo’s stap to establish to overseas such as Canada, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia and US. Today, Yeo Hiap Seng Group have a lot of product that under the brand names of ‘Yeo’s’, ‘Cintan’, ‘Justea’, ‘SoyRich’, ‘Yeogurt’.
Yeo Hiap Seng (Malaysia) Berhad (Co. No. 3405-X)Lot 191, Jalan Utas 15/7, Seksyen 15, 40700, Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
Yeo Hiap Seng already have 9 manufactory which 3 of them in Selangor, 2 of them in Perak, others in Pulau Pinang, Kedah, Melaka, Pahang. Yeo’s also have others manufactory in oversea such as Indonesia, New Zealand, Australia, Europe, Singapore, IndoChina and US.
Operation Time
Yeo’s manufactory will open from Monday to Thurday from 9.00am to 6.00pm and Friday from 9.00am to 5.00pm.
Yeo’s have provide contact number, customer care line and email for consumer or buyer to contact them if they have any question and problem.
Tel: 03 5522 8000Customer Care Line: 1300 80 2828Email: [email protected]
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2.1 PRODUCT
What is product? Product is everything that can be offer to market to get consumer attention to fulfil their unlimited wants. Yeo’s also provide product to fulfil consumer unlimited wants and there are beverage and food.
Beverage is the main product of Yeo’s. Beverage have so many type such as Hawthorn ; Tamarind, Juscool, Chrysanthemum Tea, Soy, Asian Drinks, PET Bottles, Yeogurt, Justea, Soyrich, Tropical Juice, Oceanic Drink and Hidden Valley. Besides, Yeo’s also provide other like food such as noodles, canned food and sauces.
Beverage Food
Hawthorn & Tamarind Noodle
Juscool (New) Canned Food
Chrysanthemum Tea Sauces
Soy Asian Drink Pet Bottle YeogurtJusteaSoyrichTropical Juice Oceanic Drink (New) Hidden Valley Table 1 shows list of beverage and food of Yeo’s
Yeo’s have come out a new beverage that is Juscool and Oceanic Drink. Juscool have 4 types of flavour that is apple, grape, passion fruit and peach. Oceanic Drink have 2 variants that is Oceanic Lime and Pineapple Drink. Most of the people familiar with Yeo’s Yeogurt , Justea, Soyrich, Chrysanthemum Tea and Asian Drink because all these drink can buy at coffee shop, grocery shop, shopping centre, supermarket and hypermarket.
PET bottle is a series that have many type of flavour such as chrysanthemum tea, soy, winter melon drink, lychee drink and black soy milk. There have 3 type of bottle, there are 350ml, 500ml and 1.5l pack sizes.
Asian drink is the most popular among Malaysian and there are lychee drink, winter melon drink, sugar cane drink, grass jelly drink, and ice lemon drink. Yeo’s also come out some new drink in Asian drink list, there are lemon barley drink, bird’s nest drink, longan red date and snow chrysanthemum. All Asian drink can calming and refreshing effect to counter heatstroke. The cooling effect for this beverage is to soothing for the throat and helps reduce body heat. Especially in hot and humid climates.
On the other hand, Malaysian also like to drink yeogurt because can digest system, can gain a source of protein and chill-free and remain fresh even keep in an ambient environment. There are 6 flavour as original yogurt, grape, mango, lychee, green apple and orange. All in boxes size and each of them have 250ml.
Noodles which have 3 types of noodles that is cintan noodles, grab mi and non-fried noodle. Cintan noodles have Curry, Asli, Mushroom Chicken, Assam Laksa, Tom Yam, Soto Ayam, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Curry, Goreng Spicy and Goreng Ala Indonesia. Grab-mi is a cup noodle and can cook in 3min.
Canned food have meat, seafood, vegetable and kaya. All canned food make convenience for customer and just in 2min. All high quality, tantalizing seafood delight with no preservatives ; no added MSG.
Last but not least, soya sauce from Yeo’s have been more than 100 years and still is the first choice among Malaysian. Soya sauce no added MSG and made from good quality Canadian non-GMO soybeans.
What is price? Price is the amount of money charged for a given product or service where it is the sum of all values that a user reduces to the benefit of owning or using the product or service.
There are 2 ways to determine the price, there are internal factor and external factor. First of all, cost is the main internal factor to determine the price. Yeo’s need to consider the cost involved in producing the product. This cost including both variable cost and fixed cost. Thus, while fixing the prices, Yeo’s must be able to recover both variable cost and fixed cost.
Furthermore, discount is the internal factor to determine the price. Discount is a deduction from an item’s price. Yeo’s often offer wide variety of discount to their customer. The more the customer buy Yeo’s product, the more the discount given to. Hypermarket like Giant, Tesco, The Store, Aeon Big and others will buy a lot from Yeo’s because can get a lots of discount and resell to customer to gain more revenue.
Besides, competitors is the main of external factor. Yeo’s need to study and survey for competitor’s price. This is because consumer will buy the product in low price, so Yeo’s need to put the price lower than other competitor
On the other hand, consumer is the external factor to determine the price. Yeo’s should consider various consumer factors while fixing the prices. The consumer factors that must be considered includes the price sensitivity of the buyer, purchasing power, and so on.
Otherwise, Yeo’s may also to consider the economic condition prevailing in the market while fixing the prices. At the time of recession, the consumer may have less money to spend, so Yeo’s may reduce the process in order to influence the buying decision of the consumers.
Product Size Price (RM)
Asian Drink 250ml (box)
1L (box) 1.00
PET Bottles 1.5L (bottle)
350ml (bottle) 5.65
Yeogurt250ml (box) 1.70
Cintan5 x 76g 3.79
Non fried noodles 330g
550g 3.20
Canned (Meat) 145g
Canned (Vegetable) 425g 2.89
Table 2 shows list the price of Yeo’s in Tesco.
Consumer can compared the price with Tesco, Giant and others market to choose the lowest price of Yeo’s. Yeo’s is giving a different price to different consumer. Yeo’s do not list out the actual price in website because Yeo’s is doing the strategic of promotion.
2.3 PROMOTION
What is promotion? Promotion is any communication used to inform and influence the customer to purchase the goods offered.
Yeo’s advertising can be seen and heard on television, newspapers, radio, magazines, social media and outdoor. Advertising is to attract attention from consumer and let them to get know to Yeo’s. Yeo’s have been doing a lot of advertising and find them in you tube and Yeo’s website.
Yeo’s have do public relations. Public relation is a broad set of communication activities used to create and maintain favourable relationship between an organization and various public groups, both internal and external. Example of public relation done by Yeo’s is “Program biasiswa #sayasihatbersamayeo’s”.
Sales promotion consists of activities or materials that are direct inducements to customers or salesperson. Yeo’s is doing “Drink and Win contest” with myNEWS.com. This is one of the sales promotion to attract consumer to buy Yeo’s product and gain consumer trust.
2.4 PLACING
What is placing? Placing is the action of putting something in position or the fact of being positioned. Yeo’s is knowing by everyone in Malaysia and Yeo’s is an old brand in Malaysia. Not only children like to drink and eat, but adult also like it.
Yeo’s is a producer to agent to wholesaler to retailer to customer. Yeo’s can use agents to reach wholesalers. Agents are functional middlemen that do not take title to products and that are compensated by commissions paid by Yeo’s. Often the products with which agents deal are inexpensive, frequently purchased items. The wholesalers then sell the product to a large network of retailers. This channel is also used for seasonal products and by Yeo’s that do not have in-house sales forces.
Online is a place let others seller to sell their product, Yeo’s also have doing online selling. Yeo’s want to make their customer easy and convenience so they use online selling to let his customer can choose and take time to think before buy.
3.0 SWOT ANALYSIS
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Chart 1: Types of strategic Analysis
SWOT analysis is the combination of internal and external analysis of certain organisation. Internal analysis consists of two elements which is the strengths and weaknesses while the external analysis consists the opportunities and threats. The purpose to make the internal and external analysis is to identify the assets, resource, skills, processes and aspects of the external environment of certain organisation.
Certain company may improve their services or product based on the SWOT analysis. The SWOT analysis of Yeo’s will be discussed further in this part.
3.1 STRENGHTS
Strengths is a types of internal analysis of strategic analysis. Strengths is the intangible characteristics of the business which give an organisation an advantage over other companies. Strengths also is the ability for a certain organisation to resist the force or pressure given by other competitors in meeting customers’ needs. Strengths can be controlled by improve the internal environment of organisation such as provide a cheaper price of services or products to increase the sales revenue of company. Strengths is important because it allows better in planning, management and decision making of an organisation.
The strengths of Yeo’s is known for its product innovations. Yeo’s origins in 1900 until now 2018 and all product can buy at anywhere. Besides, Yeo’s is well diversified food and beverage product portfolio compared to other company. Other than that, Yeo’s is all its health beverages are endorsed by Health Promotion Board not only that, Yeo’s is a brand’s long heritage and leadership position in Asian drinks market.
Weakness is the internal strategic analysis in the SWOT analysis. Weakness means the vulnerability of a business that may obstacles its ability to compete with others. Every company will have weakness in their business and this is not except the company that we had survey, Yeo’s.
Although Yeo’s is the brand’s long heritage and leadership position in Asian drinks market but the food division is yet to mark its presence in emerging markets like India, China and etc. Not only that, competition to its home grown beverages from the other bands the company distributes means limited market share.
3.3 OPPORTUNITIES
Opportunities is a type of internal analysis of strategic analysis. Opportunities are the factors caused by external environment which can capitalise and improve the competition position of a certain organisation.
Yeo’s need create brand awareness in countries other than Singapore such as western countries. Yeo’s have been too long in beverage business, it should expansion into infant foods and related business. Not only that, Yeo’s need expansion into conventional flavours to cater to non-Asian customer and make some different type of beverage and food.
3.4 THREATS
Threats is a type of external analysis of strategic analysis. Threats is a condition that exists factors which have potential to give an organisation a negative goal. Threats are uncontrollable, it can paralyse the organisation activities in long term. The company may collapsed if the organisation was not enough tough to overcome the threats.
Besides Yeo’s, there have a lot of others brand of beverage sell in Malaysia and have intense competition from the existing players in the beverage industry in emerging markets.
Yeo’s have emergence of healthy low calories beverages as potential substitutes emerging markets. This may damage company name and make consumer go buy other brand. Not only that, Yeo’s is growing unpopularity of canned foods. This make Yeo’s loss a lot of profit to produce canned foods compared to beverage.
4.0 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COMPANY
SWOT analysis of Yeo’s highlights a number of internal and external strategic factors that managers must include in strategy development. Strength of Yeo’s should maintain as a brand’s long heritage and leadership position in Asian drinks market and make it more popular in other countries too. The weaknesses of Yeo’s is the food division is yet to mark its presence in emerging market like India, China and other countries. Yeo’s should try to sell their product at there to increase their market and popularity of brand.
Yeo’s should also take their opportunities to create a new brand to make their profit increase and increase market. Yeo’s can try to make a new food or new flavour of beverage followed consumers’ flavour. Yeo’s can export to other countries and not only in Asia. Yeo’s should reduce the threat and try make an adjustment for their canned food product.
First of all, Yeo’s is a beverage and food manufacturing which the founder, Yeo Kian Liang focus on healthy drink and foods. He wants to be market leading beverage & food company with a global reach. Yeo’s wants to provide their customer with high quality and best value products through the constant pursuit of innovation and excellence.
Yeo’s have many types of beverage with different of flavour, there are Hawthorn & Tamarind, Juscool, Chrysanthemum Tea, Soy, Asian Drink, PET Bottle, Yeogurt, Justea, Tropical Juice, Oceanic Drink and Hidden Valley. Those drink have its own function. Not only beverage, Yeo’s also have food such as canned food, noodles and sauce. All the noodles produce by Yeo’s have no colouring, no preservative & cholesterol-free. All the canned food do not have preservatives and no added MSG.
Yeo’s is a big manufacturing company, thus they have a lot of worker and have a management levels as well. The lowest in the pyramid must be employee. Employee contributing physical and mental energy to produce goods and services. The second lowest is manager. Manager is someone who communicate with employee and director. Director is the second highest in management pyramid. Director a person who in charge of an activity, department or organization. CEO is the highest level in management pyramid. A chief executive officer (CEO) is the highest-ranking executive in a company, and their primary responsibilities include making major corporate decisions, managing the overall operations and resources of a company, and acting as the main point of communication between the board of directors and corporate operations.
Yeo’s do the advertising through television, radio, newspapers, and others. This may help Yeo’s increase the popularity and reputation. When more people know about Yeo’s, there will have a increase in sales of products.
The SWOT analysis of Yeo’s should be referred to make sure the flow of company is always smooth and create the new strategy to stable the position of company based on the analysis.
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Justea Tropical Juice
Cintan NoodlesGrab Mi
Non- fried NoodlesCanned Food (Meat)
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Soya SauceOther Soya Sauce
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India signs Rs 200 crore anti-tank missile deal with Russia: Sources
The deal for the missiles is worth around Rs 200 crore and would give an added capability to the Mi-35 attack choppers to take out enemy tanks and other armoured elements.
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New Delhi: Seeking to keep itself battle-ready in situations like the one post-Balakot aerial strikes, India has signed a deal to acquire 'Strum Ataka' anti-tank missile from Russia for its fleet of Mi-35 attack choppers.
"The deal for acquiring Strum Ataka anti-tank missiles was signed with Russia under the emergency clauses through which the missiles would be supplied within three months of contract signing," government sources said on Sunday.
The Mi-35s are the existing attack choppers of the Indian Air Force and are set to be replaced with the Apache gunships being acquired from the US and slated to be delivered from next month onwards.
India has been trying to acquire the Russian missiles for a long time but the deal has been signed under the emergency provisions after more than a decade.
Last week, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had given a presentation about the procurements made by the three services under the emergency provisions.
The Indian Air Force has emerged as the frontrunner in terms of weapon acquisition under the emergency procurement, followed by the Army.
The IAF has acquired the Spice-2000 stand-off weapon system along with a number of spare and air to air missile deals with multiple counties under the emergency provisions to equip itself for sudden war.
The Army is in the process of acquiring the Spike anti-tank guided missile from France and Igla-S air defence missiles from Russia under the emergency provisions.
Under the powers given to the three services, they can buy the equipment of their choice within three months at a cost of up to Rs 300 crore per case, government sources said.
The emergency powers were given to the forces within few weeks after the February 14 Pulwama attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed, and India started increasing vigil at the borders with Pakistan, sources added.
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Why Conflicts Occur
Optimizing Diversity on Teams
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课程 3（共 5 门，Culture-Driven Team Building 专项课程）
By drawing on social science perspectives, this course enables you to learn what diversity is, and how to use it to maximize team performance, innovation and creativity. You also learn how to draw out the collective wisdom of diverse teams, handle conflict and establish common ground rules through real-world cases and peer-to-peer discussions. In addition, you discover how to overcome common biases faced in diverse teams. Systems of power, reward and rhetoric are discussed to help you create prosperous teams where differences flourish.
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In this module, we will move from promoting diversity to looking at the conflicts that can arise in diverse work environments. You will learn about why conflicts occur and how you can develop norms to address them. By the end of the module, you will be able to have better conversations related to diversity issues in the workplace.
M3 Overview3:04
Why Conflicts Occur5:18
Conflict Types and Origins5:08
Addressing Representational Gaps5:44
Conflict Resolution Strategies6:13
Addressing Oppression-Based Conflict5:31
Interview with Marybeth Gasman22:34
M3 Recap1:44
Dr. Aviva Legatt
Derek Newberry, Ph.D.
In today's world, where we have more diverse global and remote connected teams than ever before, it is extremely difficult to establish common social norms in a diverse group. There are more opportunities for conflict to occur and for trust to be broken. Two decades ago, managers didn't worry about this. Workers were socialized to comply. In other words, when in Rome do as the Romans do. Do. The problem with this traditional theory of management was that conflicts can arise from deep level human needs, such as, worker's personal beliefs coming into conflict with professional expectations. Today, workers can simply submit to orders without consequence. With increasingly diverse workplaces and new laws, there was new attention brought to the need to embrace and work with issues of diversity when facing conflicts. Remember we said that your team culture determines the rules, whether written or unspoken, that guide how you're going to work together and solve problems? As we learned in course one, humans instinctively form groups and establish rules. But how does a group of people establish shared ground rules when basic assumptions about teamwork vary from person to person? While there are many potential sources of conflict when groups form and make decisions, in this module we'll focus on the most conflict source affecting diverse teams. And this is the difficulty of establishing trust. Conflicts in diverse teams frequently occur due to the challenge of forming trust, especially affective trust. Affective trust is the gut feeling or implicit notion that you can trust someone. Affective trust can be difficult to established in diverse teams because of basic differences and communication styles. For example, in your country or company culture, you might place a high value on saving face and group harmony and be completely adverse to confrontation. Instead you might communicate with your colleagues using non verbal cues. In another company our country though, there maybe a more direct way of communicating when expressing disagreement. Let me tell you about an instance where a difference in communication styles severed trust and ultimately ended the relationship. This was the case of the dissolution of beverage company joint venture between French owned company Danone and Chinese owned company Wahaha. After the results of an internal audit, the owner of Danone publicly accused the head of Wahaha, and his family, of funneling $100 million from the joint venture into sales of identical products in China. The public confrontation was followed by a dramatic and painful legal battle that ended the joint venture. This situation was likely fueled by a lack of trust on both sides of the disagreement. Had the parties trusted one another, they may have been able to come to a clear understanding about both parties intentions and priorities going in to the joint venture. While this example is dramatic in reference to cultural conflict, it is certainly not the only example. Other common reasons for cross cultural conflict are differences in communication styles. Direct versus indirect, for example, fluency and accent differences from the dominant language, different attitudes towards hierarchy and conflicting decision making norms. Research has shown that most cross cultural teams fall short of their goals, and at least one third of them rate themselves as unsuccessful. By understanding that the source of conflict across most diverse teams is establishing trust, you, on your team, can create strategies to build trust, and establish some rules in a more inclusive way. For example, at IDEO, the design thinking firm, employees are trained on emotional intelligence in order to help team establish trust. It is a norm at IDEO for individual member to listen and not judge ideas before they have a chance to fully explore the idea. If this norm is broken, on some IDEO teams, members will draw attention to this publicly, but delicately. When a colleague prematurely judges an idea, participants will throw soft toys to call kind attention to the norm of fully listening to an idea before asking questions and exploring it further. It is also a norm at IDEO to acknowledge others' perspectives and emotions before making key decisions. For example, if a project leader notices a designer's frustration over a marketing decision, she may ask to resolved the issue through negotiation. The bottom line is that the conflict sometimes arise from deep level human needs that are often just below the surface. By investing in developing trust, and accepting that their need to be a means to established it, your team will have the best chance to overcome conflict and achieve high performance.
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How can we understand and respond to people’s rejection of science?
This plenary proudly sponsored by:
Ruth Neale, SE-QLD Australian Science Communicators President
Joan Leach, President, National Australian Science Communicators and Director, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science
Associate Professor Kelly Fielding, School of Communication and Arts, The University of Queensland
Mr John Cook, Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland
Mr Bob Bruce, President of the Queensland Skeptics Association Inc
Professor Bernard Schiele, Researcher at the Centre for Interuniversity Research on Science and Technology (CIRST), and Professor Communications of Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Some of the most burning questions in science communication arise when science is outright rejected—Is this a problem? What is an appropriate response? Hear from experts facing the reality of science skepticism. In Ted-talk style – Kelly Fielding presents her research exploring some of the social and psychological grounds for rejecting science. John Cook, creator of the skeptical science website and author of Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand talks about what he has learned and what needs to happen now.
After the Ted-style talks the speakers are joined by Bob Bruce and Bernard Schiele, for a Q&A session with the audience.
See also: Interview with Kelly Fielding, Interview with John Cook, Interview with Bob Bruce
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Students Feel Bullied By Teacher Then Understand Why He Is So Strict With Them
By Derek Stern - August 25, 2019
Patty, a sixteen-year-old high school student with a bumpy academic record, was about to learn a lesson in love in the most unexpected of surroundings. She had to experience humiliation and grief at the hands of a cruel math teacher in order to come to an astonishing realization. But when a required volunteer opportunity put her in the position to discover a secret none of her classmates could ever have guessed, she found herself putting everything she thought she knew about the teacher into question. Within the course of an afternoon, she was to learn the value of not making assumptions based on another person’s external actions.
How to Blush
Patty felt the skin on her face flush. She had asked the math teacher what page they were on, and he had again laughed at her. This was the second time this week that he had humiliated her in front of the class.
She knew that it wasn’t just her, that he embarrassed other students as well, but it just really felt like he had a personal vendetta against her. Although, as she reminded herself, he had actually kicked the underside of a student’s desk for passing a note to his neighbor the week prior.
Lack of Focus
At that moment, Patty furiously gathered her belongings and went towards the door. The teacher stopped her and asked where the heck she was going. Patty yelled that she was leaving early, to which the teacher responded that that wasn’t happening.
He then sat her down and proceeded to yell at her about her supposed lack of focus. He claimed that she was spending her time daydreaming out of the window when she should have been thinking about her future. Patty again blushed. Jim really had a gift for making people feel tiny.
The teacher then fell quiet and scribbled an endless list of numbers onto a piece of scratch paper and roughly handed it to Patty. She wondered what this could be about.
Before she could ask, he told her that she would be completing these pages in the textbook by the next week, or else, he threatened. Patty felt her stomach drop to the floor as she read the list through tears in her eyes. That would be her weekend right there.
Don’t Ever Tell Anyone Anything
Patty ran to English and half listened to her teacher drone on about “The Catcher in the Rye”. She’d read the book years prior, which gave her the advantage of not needing to pay attention while the class pretended to have an opinion on exactly what constituted a phony person.
Math used to be fun, she recalled. They’d had an amazing teacher for the first half of the year who got to know each of her students individually. She got them involved in side projects that applied to what they were currently studying. This woman was an inspiration to her students and had the gift of leaving them inspired by numbers. Math was as a result a very enjoyable class, and for the first time Patty excelled in the subject.
Jim the Monster
Most unfortunately, that teacher had had to go on maternity leave two months prior, leaving the school with Jim the monster. Maybe monster was a strong word, but he was certainly an unpleasant character.
Patty still remembers the way that he walked in the classroom for the first time, a worn tweed jacket hanging awkwardly from his slender frame. The jacket was complete with elbow patches and orthopedic shoes. In addition, his breath always smelled like raw onion, which made him very difficult to talk to without feeling nauseous.
To the Point of Tears
But it was to the weaker students that the teacher was especially challenging. He was relentlessly assigning homework, to the point that a few less mathematically inclined students were regularly brought to the point of tears.
Jim didn’t allow for any shenanigans in his classroom. For him, this did not only include people using their phones in class or speaking out of turn. One especially memorable day, Patty’s classmate received a text message saying that his mother had just given birth to his baby sister. Jim confiscated the phone until the end of class.
Medical Crises
Jim also didn’t allow his students to leave the classroom unless there was a medical emergency, and even that was iffy. Most of the class had come down with a highly contagious flu towards the end of winter and was feeling generally unwell.
He took personal offence to any request to go to the school nurse for medication. It wasn’t until a girl seated in the front row collapsed from exhaustion that she was allowed to leave the room with an escort.
A Missed Mall Day
The extra homework left Patty home all weekend studying in her teddy bear pyjamas feeling sorry for herself. She was in the middle of the assignment when she got a call from her best friend asking her where she was and whether she’d forgotten about their plans to go to the mall.
Patty told her the story of the encounter with their math teacher, which left her friend indignant. They agreed that the teacher was incredibly unfair and a miserable old man with no joys left in the world. She hung up the phone, sighed audibly, and got back to her math.
First Witnesses
The following Monday back at school, Patty was dragging her feet to get to math class. She was exhausted from having spent the weekend doing schoolwork, essentially having no time to refresh after a difficult week. The student was feeling especially resentful towards Jim as a result, and really wasn’t in the mood for his nonsense.
Patty was the first person to witness him yelling at another student in the hallway, and she wasn’t the type to let these sorts of occasions alone. The other student was left cowering getting spittle on his face as Jim was bellowing about ineptitude at the top of this lungs.
The Best of Intentions
Jim entered his classroom to get ready, and the student ran down the hallway in tears. Patty had half a mind to chase her down and asked what happened, but her common sense got the better of her.
She would hate to be late for class as a result. That was Patty though, she always wanted to do good around her and hated seeing injustice at work.
Bullying Days Over
After lunch, she again passed by the math classroom on the way to Spanish class, and this time saw Jim shouting after her good friend Jane. That was the last draw. She marched over to the teacher and got right up in his face, blood boiling. Patty told him off, letting him know that she was fed up with him bullying his students.
Jim kept an exasperatingly calm face and let her know that she would be completing the extra homework she’d already been assigned in Saturday detention. At that moment, Patty didn’t care, she’d gotten her little piece of retaliation.
Not the Autobahn
That evening, Patty got in her car and carefully drove to the hospital for her new gig volunteering at the blood drive. She had gotten her license a few weeks prior and still felt a little shaky behind the wheel.
Patty thought nearly longingly of her German penpal who had spent hundreds of hours behind the wheel before even thinking about taking her driving test. Patty shook her head and carefully made her way down Main Street, getting out of the way of a city bus and nearly hitting a cyclist in the process. Shaking for the second time today, she pulled into the hospital parking lot and showed her pass to the attendant.
I’m a Big Kid Now
Patty now spent three afternoons a week at the local hospital running the blood drive as extra credit to compensate for her low math grades. Though it was difficult when she first started, the activity brought her tremendous satisfaction.
She had even stopped feeling woozy at the sight of the bags of refrigerated blood, though it still reminded her of Twilight. She had made friends at the hospital too, people she could relate to very well outside of school. She liked being treated as an adult and being given full responsibilities outside of school and housework.
Being Neighborly
The student generally enjoyed helping people. She was the first person to volunteer to help her neighbor Celia, an eighty three year old woman who had a serious hip problem.
She needed assistance doing her shopping and running errands, so Patty always made sure to pick up some extra essentials when she was at the grocery store with her parents, though this tended to annoy them. Both were quite busy, and money was tight these days, so they didn’t always approve of Patty’s do-gooder actions.
Checking Boxes
This wasn’t one of her volunteer days, but Patty had decided to go to the hospital to give blood. After all she’d already helped a few donors with the process and was ready to go through it herself.
For some reason she felt oddly nervous being on this side of the counter. She greeted the receptionist and filled out the endless forms that she’d been giving people to fill out. These were quite invasive questions, she thought, but being in great health, she had nothing to hide.
Awkward Small Talk
After she’d finished the donation, she decided to go for a quick stroll around the hospital to check in on her friends. She turned the corner to the nurse’s station and said hi to a woman she didn’t know. They made generic small talk about the hospital bureaucracy and that morning’s hail.
The nurse then asked Patty where she went to school, which elicited an extremely enthusiastic response. Patty was confused, it was a good school but that was the end of it.
A Gentle Soul
The nurse then asked if she knew Jim. Even more perplexed, Patty responded with a hesitant yes. The nurse gushed about how amazing a person he was. Patty was confused and asked for more details.
She was then told that Jim was an extremely kind man with a very gentle and giving nature. Patty asked if we were still talking about Jim the math teacher, though there was no other employee named Jim at her high school.
A Kindred Spirit
Patty drove home with her head filled with thoughts worsened by the dizziness caused from giving blood. She again nearly got in a wreck, and strongly considered traveling by bicycle from then on. That night, she fell asleep thinking about what the nurse had said and decided that it was either a misunderstanding or a bad joke.
An agitated sleep later, and she was back in Jim’s math class. He was pleased, Patty was being oddly attentive. But in fact she was merely observing him for signs of a hidden kindred spirit.
New Sights, Familiar Names
She headed back to the hospital that afternoon for her volunteering shift, thinking she should maybe consider asking for an assigned parking spot. On the way to the office to put in the request, she saw a wall of plaques she’d never seen before.
These things rarely struck her interest, but it gave her something to look at while she was sat in the waiting area. Scanning the wall, she saw a familiar name.
Frantic Reveals
In the place of honor happened to be her math teacher’s name. Wondering what it was doing there, she asked the first nurse who passed by. She answered that he was a very important person in the hospital.
Patty inquired whether it was because he was a frequent blood donor, which was confirmed by the nurse. But then the nurse added that that wasn’t the main reason his name was on the wall.
High School Blood Drive
The following week, Patty was again at the hospital at a late hour. She had decided to organize a special evening at the hospital where her classmates could donate blood.
Patty was hoping to catch a few other socially aware students and help them see that they could also get involved in the drive. She walked through the hallways looking for masking tape to hang the welcome banners when she saw a face she did not expect.
Avoidance Behavior
Who was it that was walking down the hall but her detested math teacher, at least partially confirming what the nurse had said. Patty decided to hide behind a desk as she had no desire to speak to him.
She saw plenty of him during school time, and given the miserable time he had been giving her lately, it really wasn’t the most appropriate time to start making small talk. She was still extremely angry at him and his behavior towards her and the other students.
Strangers and Three Musketeers
At the end of the drive, which had been fairly successful, Patty was sweeping the hallway in the reception area when she then saw a tall figure holding a baby walking towards her, and the face she saw gave her the chills.
She couldn’t avoid him this time, it would have seemed very dodgy to turn around and start running, broom in hand. Instead of the cruel and gruff face that she had grown so accustomed to, she saw an elderly man with a kind face lovingly embracing an infant.
Something had to be wrong, she wondered if perhaps Jim had an identical twin brother. When she was greeted with a smile that looked foreign on her teacher’s face, she understood what the nurse had told her.
Jim, with a slightly sheepish grin, told her that she’d found out his secret. Patty gave him a puzzled look and let him finish his explanation. It turned out that Jim was a frequent volunteer in the infant ward. He spent extensive time holding and cuddling sick babies when their parents were unable to care for them. Patty was shocked.
Jim’s Turn to Blush
Jim looked slightly embarrassed at the reveal and asked her not to tell anyone at the school, that he had a reputation to uphold. Patty laughed and said that if anything, this would improve the reputation in question.
Jim tried to scowl but was unconvincing, and explained that this was important to him. He felt that he needed to be around the children, that they made it all better. Patty asked what “it” was. Jim sighed. Life, he answered. The day to day. The job.
Patty asked him to explain further. She was given a response that satisfied her curiosity. Jim was a Vietnam veteran and had seen things he wished on no one. This had made him lose faith in humanity, to the extent that he had no desire to be married.
But being around the children made up for his lack of a family, he didn’t need to speak to them, they just needed to be held and comforted in their time of illness. He was happy to play that role in their lives.
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Southeast Asian Rainforest
Dated - 23 May 2012 By – P. Borkotoky
Southeast Asian rainforest are one of the amazing biomes on earth which are very rich and diverse in flora and fauna. These rainforests stretches from Burma in the west to Malaysia and to the islands of Java and Borneo in the east. The climate of Southeast Asian region remains more or less the same this is because of it location on the equator.
This region has no distinctive season; with low variation in temperature. This warm, wet and stable environment of the rainforest foster’s wealth of biological richness. Rainforest forming a multi layer canopy provides a living habitat to number of diverse tree species along with fauna, thus playing a vital role in maintaining earth’s ecosystem. SE Asian rainforest surround’s with highest mean proportion of country-endemic bird and mammal species and the second-highest percentage of country-endemic vascular plant species compared to the other tropical regions. Moreover SE Asia has the highest percentage of endangered species across all taxonomic groups.
we human have destroyed most of our rainforest to fulfill our own needs without even thinking what earth needs to survive. Most of the SE Asian countries are suffering at present for example Vietnam, Philippines experiences more frequently natural disasters since they emphasis more on industrialization by cutting down there rainforest, the same goes with Malaysia deforestation had lead to increase in temperature and irregular rainfall patter’s in peninsular Malaysia. In Indonesia unlawful logging has led to a biological devastation affecting thousands of flora and fauna species and disturbing the natural biologic symmetry which keeps the rainforest vigorous and stable. Its rate of deforestation is higher compared to other tropical regions. Moreover, Southeast Asia’s annual deforestation rate is highest among the tropics, it has increased more between the periods 1990–2005. This could result in projected losses of 13–85% of biodiversity in the region by 2100 as reported by Department of Biological Sciences (NUS).
SE Asian rainforests area has been decreasing at a faster rate than any other equatorial rainforest and left with a very few primary rainforests. Furthermore secondary forests in SE Asia are also wiped off which makes the story grimmer.
Destruction of the natural habitats will cause more interaction of animals with humans, and which will lead to animals being killed or captured for pet trade. Substantial numbers of flora and fauna species will extinct before we could understand their function in the rainforest and this might collapse the rainforest ecosystem of Southeast Asia. As Dennis Gabor once said “Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature”. Habitat restoration, in certain countries, is of highly recommended which would allow for some amelioration of biodiversity loss and thus potentially lower the currently predicted extinction rates. Nonetheless, urgent conservation actions are needed. Conservation project should include planting more trees in required locations and raise concern among people. This condition reminds me of the famous saying “what goes around comes around”, so it our time to pay back now for what we have taken from our rainforest to make our mother earth a place like heaven to live in. Let’s grow our rainforest back.
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Úvod :: Knihy Velká Británie :: Helion & Company :: Miscellaneous Military :: AFRICA@WAR 20: RHODESIAN FIRE FORCE 1966-80
Miscellaneous Military
AFRICA@WAR 20: RHODESIAN FIRE FORCE 1966-80
Autor: Cocks, Kerrin
Strany: 72
On 11 November 1965, Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith unilaterally declared his country independent of Britain. International sanctions were immediately instituted against the minority white regime as Robert Mugabe's ZANLA and Joshua Nkomo's ZIPRA armies commenced their armed struggle, the Chimurenga, the war of liberation. As Communist-trained guerrillas flooded the country, the beleaguered Rhodesians, hard-pressed for manpower and military resources, were forced to devise new and innovative methods to combat the insurgency. Fire Force was their answer. Fire Force as a military concept dates from 1974 when the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) acquired the French MG151 20mm cannon from the Portuguese. Visionary RhAF and Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI) officers expanded on the idea of a 'vertical envelopment' of the enemy, with the 20mm cannon being the principal weapon of attack, mounted in an Alouette III K-Car ('Killer car'), supported by ground troops deployed from G-Cars (Alouette III troop-carrying gunships and latterly Bell 'Hueys') and parachuted from DC-3 Dakotas. In support would be a propeller-driven ground-attack aircraft armed with front guns, pods of napalm, white phosphorus rockets and a variety of Rhodesian-designed bombs; on call would be Canberra bombers, Hawker Hunter and Vampire jets. In spite of the overwhelming number of enemy pitted against them, Rhodesian Fire Forces accounted for thousands of enemy guerrillas, with a kill ratio exceeding 80:1. At the end of the war, ZANLA generals admitted their army could not have survived another year in the field-in no small part due to the ruthless efficiency of the Fire Forces, described by Charles D. Melson, the Chief Historian of the U.S. Marine Corps, as the ultimate "killing machine".
Výrobce: Helion & Company
Tento produkt byl přidán dne Pátek 21. srpen 2015.
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Úvod :: Knihy Velká Británie :: Osprey Publishing :: Aviation Elite Units :: 475th Fighter Group
Autor: John Stanaway
Ilustrátor: Chris Davey
Formed with the best available fighter pilots in the Southwest Pacific, the 475th Fighter Group was the pet project of Fifth Air Force chief, General George C Kenney. From the time the group entered combat in August 1943 until the end of the war it was the fastest scoring group in the Pacific and remained one of the crack fighter units in the entire US Army Air Forces with a final total of some 550 credited aerial victories. Amongst its pilots were the leading American aces of all time, Dick Bong and Tom McGuire, with high-scoring pilots Danny Roberts and John Loisel also serving with the 475th. This book details these pilots, the planes they flew and the campaigns and battles they fought in including such famous names as Dobodura, the Huon Gulf, Oro Bay, Rabaul, Hollandia, the Philippines and Luzon.
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Jury still out on U.S. education law
Hawaii students fall low in comparison of states on a national test.
DISAPPOINTING results for Hawaii students on a national test confirm what state exams have shown previously and the breadth of challenges public schools across the country face in complying with a federal education law.
The scores also bring into question the efficacy of the No Child Left Behind law that the Bush administration has championed, whether its goals are achievable and whether students in some states are truly improving or if their tests are devised to side step the law.
Comparisons of scores of a sampling of fourth- and eight-grade children from 50 states and the District of Columbia place Hawaii's students near the bottom in reading and math. Though there are wide variations state to state in demographics, school systems and the range of students who took the test -- called the National Assessment of Educational Progress -- the results generally reflect what Hawaii's test show about achievement levels.
Not so in other states. An evaluation by an independent group found that gains touted by more than 15 states did not match results of the national test, indicating how the varied levels of proficiency set by individual states skew the real picture. That, however, lends Hawaii little comfort as public schools continue to struggle for improvement.
The national test was the first conducted since the federal law was implemented, and the results satisfied few. Despite President Bush's attempts to accentuate the positive, the test showed no virtually no changes in reading skills for fourth-graders and dips for eighth-graders. In math, both groups made slight gains, but the rate of overall improvement was faster in the years before the law.
One bright note was that a smaller portion of fourth-grade minority students fell below basic achievement levels, suggesting that younger children in general could be the bigger beneficiaries of the new focus. Still, the slow pace of improvement emphasizes the difficulties confronting Hawaii as the state races the law's 2014 deadline for all students to reach proficiency.
Tax reform plan is deeply flawed
A presidential advisory panel has called for limiting tax deductions for interest on home loans and state income taxes.
REFORM is needed to simplify federal income taxes, but the revisions proposed by President Bush's tax advisory commission would gouge people in areas with high housing prices and state or local income taxes. Congress is not likely to enact the proposal, but further efforts could threaten to disrupt many family budgets.
The panel agreed that the alternative minimum tax, which was aimed at wealthy people but now hits millions of Americans, should be eliminated. That would cost the government $1.2 trillion in lost revenue over 10 years.
To find other revenue, the panel focused on limiting tax deductions for mortgage interest and employer-provided health insurance, and eliminating the deduction for state and local income taxes. A combination of the three could create havoc for many taxpayers.
Hawaii alone requires companies to provide health insurance to employees, but the entire cost is tax-deductible. The tax panel's proposed lid on the tax break would reduce an incentive that assures employees of adequate health insurance.
The panel's intrusion on the mortgage-interest deduction, now allowed for interest on a loan of up to $1 million, would have little effect on most Hawaii homeowners, but taxpayers in other high-cost areas are sure to complain loudly. It would allow them to deduct interest on a home loan as much as the Federal Housing Administration's loan cap, which varies by region.
The FHA limit ranges up to $312,895 on the mainland, but a special provision places Honolulu's cap at 150 percent of that, or $469,342. A Honolulu family making a down payment of 20 percent for today's median price of $615,000 would need a loan of $500,000, the interest for nearly all of it tax-deductible. In San Francisco, where the median price is $726,900, the base for deductible interest would shrink by more than $250,000. That inequity would not stand.
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Kambi signs Sportsbook deal with Global Gaming 555
Kambi has signed a multi-year deal with Global Gaming 555 to provide its Sportsbook and services to the gaming operator.
Listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm First North, Global Gaming operates a number of online gaming brands, including Ninja Casino.
Ninja Casino was the first gaming brand to offer PayNPlay, a payments system which automatically completes the player account registration process at the point of first cash deposit.
This approach has seen Global Gaming record growth rates and, as it prepares to offer sports betting, has selected Kambi in part due to its track record of achieving above market revenue growth.
The Kambi Sportsbook, including its open-APIs and sophisticated risk management processes, will be integrated into Global Gaming’s proprietary platform, with an initial launch scheduled for Q4 2018.
Kristian NyleÌn, Kambi Chief Executive Officer, said: “I’m delighted to welcome Global Gaming to the Kambi network with the agreement further evidence of Kambi being the number one choice for visionary operators in regulated markets.
“Global Gaming is Kambi’s seventh new customer signing this year, spanning four continents, which illustrates the strength of our scalable technology and operational capacity to launch customers into regulated markets wherever and whenever they need.”
Christopher Naudi, Head of Sportsbook at Global Gaming, said: “Following an extensive selection process, we are delighted to be able to partner up with Kambi as our Sportsbook provider and look forward to being able to offer high levels of product, service and user experience that our customers have grown to expect through the Ninja Casino brand.”
Mark Wadsworth, Chief Operating Officer at Global Gaming, added: “We offer players easy and secure access to a responsible, entertaining and high-quality online gaming experience and with our in-house expertise and Kambi's platform, we are ready to take Global Gaming to new heights.”
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2017 Bacopa Literary Review Prize Winners
Congratulations to our 2017 Bacopa Literary Review prize winners:
Flash Story Prize: "Excerpts From the Trakl Diaries"
Stephanie Emily Dickinson
In this four-part flash, Stephanie Emily Dickinson "explores and illuminates the short and tumultuous life of the brilliant Expressionist poet, Georg Trakl (1887-1914). Born into a middle-class Austrian family, this towering visionary fought the demons of mental illness and drug addiction before committing suicide in Krakow at age 27."
An Iowa native, Dickinson lives in New York City. Her novel Half Girl and novella Lust Series are published by Spuyten Duyvil, as is her Love Highway, based on the 2006 Jennifer Moore murder. Her other books include Port Authority Orchids, Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg, and the recently released collection, The Emily Fables.
Poetry Prize: "A Mote of Dust"
Claire Scott
According to some, "Our time here on earth is finite, and we better find our way off it sooner rather than later." Claire Scott's poem pulls us into that future: "have you thoughts of moving to Saturn / or Neptune or even Pluto / . . . maybe one night you will look out / and see a pale dot / a mote of dust in the night sky. . ."
An award-winning poet and Pushcart Prize nominee, Scott's work has appeared in Atlanta Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Enizagam, Causeway Lit, and The Healing Muse, among others. She is the author of Waiting to be Called.
Creative Nonfiction Prize: "Caregiver's Journal: How to Survive, or Not"
Raphael Helena Kosek
"One of the most honest and heartfelt pieces I've ever written," says Raphael Helena Kosek of her "Caregiver's Journal: How to Survive, or Not."
Kosek's work has appeared in many journals and magazines including Big Muddy Poetry East, The Chattahoochee Review, Catamaran, Still Point Arts Quarterly, and Southern Humanities Review. Her chapbook, Rough Grace, won the 2014 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Competition and one of her essays tied for first place in the 2016 Eastern Iowa Review Lyric Essay Contest. She teaches American Lit and Creative Writing at Marist College and Dutchess Community College.
Fiction Prize: "Ignis Fatuus, and More, at Eleven"
Chad W. Lutz
"Ignis Fatuus, or 'foolish fire' (because of its erratic movement). 1. a flitting, phosphorescent light seen at night, believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter. 2. Something deluding or misleading."
Chad W. Lutz is a runner, and you should be prepared for a read that will leave you breathless. Currently enrolled at Mills College in Oakland, California, and working toward an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction), Lutz's publications include The Chaos Journal, Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine, Fish Food, Gravel, Jellyfish Whispers, Diverse Voices Quarterly, Jazz Cigarette, and Route 7 Review.
Bacopa Literary Review 2017 now available at Amazon.com
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2017 Bacopa Literary Review Honorable Mention
Congratulations to Bacopa Literary Review 2017 Honorable Mention winners:
Poetry Honorable Mention: "This is Not a Protest Poem"
Adrian S. Potter
Adrian S. Potter writes poetry and short fiction. He is the author of the fiction chapbook Survival Notes (Červená Barva Press, 2008) and winner of the 2010 Southern Illinois Writers Guild Poetry Contest. Some publication credits include North American Review, Obsidian, and Kansas City Voices. He posts, sometimes, on his blog.
Fiction Honorable Mention: "Cry on Command"
Joe Dornich
Joe Dornich is a PhD candidate in Texas Tech's creative writing program, where he also serves as Managing Editor for Iron Horse Literary Review. His publications include Word Riot and Cahoodaloodaling.
Creative Nonfiction Honorable Mention: "Starvation"
Paddy Reid
Paddy Reid writes about army deserters in wartime, men such as his father, and the consequences for their families. He welcomes readers' feedback to his email address.
Flash Story Honorable Mention: "Terminal Trance"
Charlotte M. Porter
Charlotte M. Porter, published poet and award-winning fiction writer, lives in an old citrus hamlet in north central Florida. Enjoy her recent short fiction in Axolotl and her novella, Agnes Person, currently serialized by Visitant Lit. She is readying Falling from Grace, a short story collection, for press.
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Audacious Ekphrasis
by Bacopa Senior Editor Mary Bast
If you want to know more about me, Googling Mary Bast will first evoke echoes of my other life as an Enneagram coach and related books. But I've also written flash memoir and several forms of poetry including found poetry and ekphrasis, an audacious poetic form that's among many we encourage in our print journal.
You'll find a long history and many definitions of ekphrasis. I like the most open, contemporary version best:
Ekphrasis: the intersection of verbal and visual arts.
Virtually any type of artistic medium may be the actor of, or subject of ekphrasis. I first learned about ekphrastic poetry in a workshop with Melanie Almeder, who drew our attention to two famous poems written in response to Pieter Brueghel's painting, The Fall of Icarus: William Carlos Williams' "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" and W.H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts."
Note that Williams' poem to some degree follows the tradition of describing the visual scene (a farmer was ploughing / his field / the whole pageantry / of the year was / awake tingling / with itself), while Auden's interpretation is a bit wider (About suffering they were never wrong, / the old Masters: how well they understood / Its human position: how it takes place / While someone else is eating or opening a window).
Almeder invited workshop participants to write our own poems in response to the Brueghel painting, encouraging us to range as far as our muses would go. My poem "plummet" (published in Bacopa Literary Review 2012) imagined Icarus as a woman:
there is an Icarus
a woman who flies
on intricate
feathered web
of covert
she breathes faster
learns to soar
ignores
the admonition
do not fly too high
her efforts full
of sky
of wind
her breasts
still flecked with honey
dripped from wings' wax
heavy with her father's
heavier than water
when she dives
no sun's light
scuffs the surface
As a visual artist I've explored other ways to interpret "the intersection of verbal and visual arts." For example, in response to Kim Addonizio's poem "Divine" (Oh hell, here's that dark wood again . . .), I painted "Oh hell, here's that dark wood again," then reacted to my painting with the poem "Backdraft." Most recently I've begun a series of ekphrastic text & image works.
Remember Bacopa's poetry statement: We're looking for well-wrought poems in any form or genre, or none. Intrigue us, move us, surprise us with stunning imagery, lyricism, soundplay, structure. Disturb our well-trod patterns of thought.
Submissions open again in the Spring, 2020
Labels: Bacopa Literary Review, ekphrasis, ekphrastic, experimental, Mary Bast, Melanie Almeder, submission guidelines, submissions, W.H. Auden, William Carlos Williams
Leave a Trace of a Time and a Place
by Creative Nonfiction Editor Susie Baxter
Back in the 1990s when I was an acquisitions editor at Mosby, a health-science publishing house in St. Louis, a colleague gave me a tiny pillow on which she'd cross-stitched: "So many books . . . so little time." So true.
Frankly, I started out far behind most readers. As a youngster, 18 miles separated our home from the nearest library, and for several years our family owned no vehicle. Granted, we did have our own home library: Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Dad's high school world history book, a storybook of tales like "The Three Little Pigs," the Sears and Roebuck catalog, and five copies of the Holy Bible . . . It wasn't until I read Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca in high school that I fell in love with reading.
The thought of becoming a writer myself never occurred to me until I lost my beloved grandmother. I decided I had to write about her, which led to writing down more and more memories, and eventually offering workshops to help others record their stories.
I think of myself as a recorder of history, leaving a trace of a time and a place that is no more, such as the Suwannee River flood of 1948:
Water began seeping up through the ground in early '48, the year Granny died, just as the onion sets were sending up healthy-looking green spikes . . . Since we'd become accustomed to seeing the river rise and fall, a little bit of water around the onions didn't seem like a big deal. After all, Daddy had planted at the right time; he relied on the Farmers' Almanac, which told him when the moon and stars were in the right positions for planting.
The almanac didn't tell him where to plant, though, and that year he'd planted the onions--five acres of them--on the lowest spot of ground on our property, an area we called "the bottom" . . . dark, fertile soil, unlike the dirt elsewhere on the place, which was similar to the white sand along Florida's beaches . . .
Daddy rotated the crops every year to prevent disease, and that year he decided to plant the tobacco next to the onions . . . Mama and Daddy led the way along each row. Mama walked backward, facing Daddy, and we girls followed. Mama carried the plants in a cloth bag slung over one shoulder. She dropped the plants, one at a time, into the metal "tobacco setter," the planter Daddy toted . . .
Some farmers in the area owned modern planters that were pulled by tractors. The planting process, for us, was entirely manual, but the five of us moved together like a machine:
Drop plant. Drop setter. Squeeze lever. Step forward. Pack dirt.
Though it took less than ten seconds to put each plant into the ground, planting two or three acres took days.
By the time we finished that year's tobacco planting, water covered most of the nearby onion crop. Daddy said the onions might not make it, but then joked that we now owned "lake front" property.
Mama didn't even smile . . . She had never told us that when she was seven years old, she'd seen the Suwannee River flood the crops. "I spotted the very first sign of the 1928 flood," she told us later. "I noticed water seeping up from insect and gopher holes in the railroad ditch where I played."
Susie Baxter's memoir Pumping Sunshine: A Memoir of My Rural Childhood, is now available at Amazon.com. You can benefit from her experience as memoir writer and teacher with her recent book, Write Your Memoir: One Step at a Time.
Baxter says "The creative nonfiction Bacopa Literary Review publishes has a moving inner voice. It holds to the same standards as other literary forms while remaining grounded in fact." Examples here, here, here, here, here, and here.
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J.N. Fishhawk: Poet, Writer, Agitator
Our Poetry Editor J.N. Fishhawk (AKA James Schmidt), asked this year for submissions of "well-wrought poems in any form or genre, or none. Intrigue us, move us, surprise us with stunning imagery, lyricism, soundplay, structure. Disturb our well-trod patterns of thought."
Jimmy has been a friend of our journal since Bacopa Literary Review 2010, in which his prose poem a prayer helped inaugurate our first annual edition:
O bear, O rabbit, O moon, O woods with yr million million twiggy fingers clutching after disappearing fur, nestling features, lifting scales and claws and soft suction toes, scuttling buggy digits of horn and chitin, little dust-kissed hooks of moths, O things in thickets crawling, O clatter of lizards under leafmold, O slip of spider silk like cat's cradle played with death on the shivering green breeze-reaches, O underscrub where all breaths die, blaze of sun among dry wrecked shells in sand, you ancient snailshacks going slowly apart over centuries for lime, liner for the guts of the native earth, O hell all you racket of growth and vigorous destruction, come on, come on, burn and turn, let's all go down together and come up again some other time, who knows what beings we'll be?
For longer than our seven-year acquaintance, our poetry editor has been a moving force of the Civic Media Center and Library (CMC) in Gainesville, Fl, a nonprofit, independent, grassroots, street-level alternative library and progressive community organizing space. He's often the MC for CMC's Thursday night open mic where many of our local poets and writers have given voice to their work. He's also a freelance writer and editor, with emphasis on education, outreach and promotions, academic, and artistic projects.
From one of his latest creative works: "The Darklands may be caught in infrared glimpses framed by ancient shade trees. They glimmer just below the surface of sunset rivers older than time..." So reads in part the back cover of Dancing Ghost's 2016 Production, Postcards from the Darklands, Photos by Jorge Ibáñez,* Poems by Jimmy Fishhawk.**
Jimmy's ekphrastic poems in Postcards from the Darklands are beautifully evocative of Jorge's photos, as evidenced in #20:
in wall so worn
by forgotten centuries' winds
that the puddled glass
between the windows' lead
is the ancestor of the ancestor
of the bubbled plate
that was the first pane
placed there,
where the shades still recall
the wartime blackout
even in the claybake
ovenheat of noon,
a ghost of her face
may be seen
to keep watch
on the darkest night
electric light fails
under the ice-weight
of winter
and even the stars howl
with grief
where the spines
of their own illumination
stab them
Postcards from the Darklands can be purchased from Wild Iris Books.
*Jorge Ibáñez, a graphic artist and web developer who's had numerous shows in Florida and Puerto Rico, is currently Director of the Santa Fe College Information Technology Education program.
**Jimmy Fishhawk, poet, writer, and agitator, has called the swamplands of Florida home for about twenty years. His work has appeared in a variety of print and online journals; he's also the author of two poetry chapbooks: Virus, Pt. 1:1 Infest Yer Consciousness (Dreaming God Productions) and Gone (Ghost Dog Press).
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Not Someday. Now.
by Associate Editor Cynthia D. Bertelsen
I began my writing life thanks to some little green men.
One morning, it was spring, I think, Mr. Richard Hawthorne, the only male teacher in the whole of Franklin Elementary School, asked my sixth-grade class to write short stories.
"About anything you want to write, that's it" he told us as he shuffled piles of papers on his old oak desk, as big as a small rowboat. I scrunched down in my seat at the back of the room, aimlessly pushing a pencil across the top of the lined paper in my three-ring binder notebook. My seat mate, Sarah, gnawed the pink eraser at the end of her pencil. We glanced at each other with a look that only best friends share. Today we'd probably say, "WTF," but then we just shrugged.
Sarah's green sweater fit a bit snug across her chest, the white plastic buttons gaping a bit here and there when she raised her shoulders. In that moment, with the flash of green, I knew what my story would be about. The little green men from one of my brother's sci-fi comic books I'd swiped a few days earlier, that's what. In big rounded letters of preadolescence cursive, I painted a word picture of the gleaming steel curves of a space ship manned by green men as tall as my three-year-old baby sister. I made sure to mention the cool reptilian texture of a green man's hand. The real story began when two little girls stepped into the silvery ship, which whisked them off to another planet, one thick with lush jungley plants, ponds burbling with water as clear as glass, and blueberry-dark skies. School didn't exist in that fabled place, because with one intramuscular injection of some mysterious substance, the girls became wise and learned and all-knowing in an instant.
Mr. Hawthorne wrote at the top of the first page of my story, "My wife and I loved your story. Keep writing. A+"
And I tried.
I yearned to live life as defined by Annie Dillard in The Writing Life. I hung onto a tattered copy of Brenda Ueland's If You Want to Write through countless moves, from Gainesville, Florida to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and back again. For a long time, I thought of writing as frivolous, because I knew that doing what I loved did not necessarily mean the money would follow. The dollar sign turned out to be my biggest stumbling block. At times, rarely, money exchanged hands. Rejection letters piled up, too. I identified fiercely with a comment that Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Márquez made to his mother, "After all, there are better ways to starve to death [than being a writer]."
It took a daunting bout of illness to wake me up.
I could no longer say, "No, not today. Someday, yes."
In other words, when the surgeon leaned over me in the O.R. and whispered, "Here we go," I stopped being a Someday Writer.
My preferred genre is creative nonfiction, in the form of essays laced with elements of storytelling. I've indulged that tendency in work such as "Why I Write, with Apologies to George Orwell," as well as in many articles and book reviews.
I could spend all my time reading what other people say about the world and what's in it and never write a word about myself, joining the passivity parade of today's technological culture. But if I don't write, I feel a weakness of spirit, a sense of Ennui spreading its wings and enveloping me in a vampiric kiss. I lose my juice, so to speak. On a day when I sit at the keyboard and finish what I start, well, that's a day filled with light, even if clouds strangle the sun and rain bleeds all over everything.
Fiction lured me, too. I'm hoarding an as-yet-unpublished novel following the trans-Atlantic journey of an English cunning woman, or witch in the parlance of some:
That night had been a cold one, as a December evening would be in Colchester. She remembered the clip-clop of the horses' hooves, prancing into the village from the fields, their breath frothy and misting in the freezing air. Clutching Old Hortense's grimoire to her chest like a sick child, she'd patted the book of spells from time to time, as if to calm its grief at the death of its mistress. Julian detected an odd odor about it, too, a puzzling fragrance, of what exactly she knew not. It took the shape of a living being, nestled in her arms.
As a writer, and avid reader, I seek the telling detail, the lingual equivalent of what French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson called the "decisive moment." Such a technique captures the essence of a character or place or an emotion in a flash, creating work that transcends the ordinary.
Those extraordinary little green men, as it turns out, taught me a lot about writing.
It is a lifelong process.
Writer and photographer Cynthia Bertelsen has published essays, book reviews, and photographs, both online and in print. Her book, Mushroom: A Global History, sprouted from her blog, "Gherkins & Tomatoes," while her magical realism novel-in-progress grew from the roots of medieval mysticism and herbal healing. For inspiration, she draws upon her experiences living and working in Mexico, Paraguay, Honduras, Haiti, Morocco, Burkina Faso, and France.
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Flash is No Longer Only Fiction. . .
By Flash Story Editor Kaye Linden
Bacopa Literary Review 2017 submissions included "flash story," which can include creative nonfiction, memoir, fiction or a combination of these genres in 750 words or less, including micro-flash which might consist of 250 words or even fewer.
The criteria I look for in a flash story submission include these:
Creative nonfiction, memoir, fiction, or a combination of these genres
Tiny plot or character driven
Compression: almost every word counts or carries meaning
A minimum of adverbs
Focus on one scene or event
A minimum of dialogue
A great title
Consistency of tense and point of view
Fresh expressions without the use of cliches
Riveting language or language that moves the reader
Story structure: a purpose, a beginning, middle and end with conflict, conflict, conflict and resolution.
Here's an example of my own 376-word flash story, written in response to the newspaper article cited below:
The Future Legend of How Rising Seas Drowned Saint Augustine and its Famous Statue*
The first grain of sand to go slipped unnoticed into muddy seawater and high tide washed a small chunk from the base of Ponce de Leon's statue. Three teenage boys waded to the town plaza, climbed to the top of Ponce's helmeted head and practiced kissing his cold lips, slapping his face when Ponce didn't kiss back, and hanging upside down from the old head that bowed in shame at the youthful play. Perhaps Ponce felt jealous of young muscles and flexible limbs, or of the strength to climb statues and throw popcorn and peanuts from his slumped unyoung shoulders. He never did find the fountain, and with the Atlantic tide rising, rising, rising, his steel boots sucked down further, awash in brine. The boys knew, and Ponce knew, he was going under. Each evening the boys chopped off a finger, a thumb, a toe and the middle finger of the right hand became a tool to gouge out an eye, graffiti the shiny armor with she loves me, she loves me not, and scratch mud daubers and wasps from Ponce's ears. They removed one earlobe with the sawing up and down, down and up motion of a hacksaw, laughing at the crumbling little man as he lost one appendage at a time. The boys removed the mighty sword from the gallant gentleman and topped his head with the blade in a decapitation celebration, the step-by-step ritual of taking a great warrior down. Water washed over Ponce's knees while grains of stone fell away from the foundation in greater and greater chunks until Ponce leaned upside down, headless shoulders standing in water. One night, the boys stretched out drunk, across the rubble, across the broken fingers and toes, across the scraps of Ponce's heroic eyes, those eyes that once upon a time surveyed the fertile flowering of La Florida where surely his immortality lay.
The water rose and rose and rose during the hurricane of 2019, a category six travesty, off the grid, never before witnessed, never before seen by the boys who drowned that night, never before seen by the city of Saint Augustine that drowned that night, never before seen by Ponce de Leon, whose hopes for a bright future drowned in rising seas.
*The Gainesville Sun, Florida, May 10, 2015: "Sea rise threatens Florida coast but no statewide plan"
See also: "How Can a Mother?"
Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Fifty Really Short Stories, edited by Jerome Stern. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996. Print.
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field. Masih, Tara L. Brookline, MA: Rose Metal, 2009. Print.
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers. Moore, Dinty W. Brookline, MA: Rose Metal, 2012. Print.
As this form can flash short and with impact, I refer readers to "Six One-Sentence Stories" by Bruce Holland Rogers.
Bacopa Literary Review contest submissions open April 1 - May 31, 2017
Labels: 35 Tips for Writing a Brilliant Flash Story, Bacopa Literary Review, flash, flash fiction, flash memoir, flash stories, Kaye Linden
35 Tips for Writing Flash: Four Keys to Revision & Writing Prose Poetry
Bacopa Literary Review Flash Story Editor Kaye Linden generously shares chapters from her book, 35 Tips for Writing a Brilliant Flash Story: a Manual of Flash Fiction and Nonfiction Writing.
CHAPTER 1 ("Small Frame")
CHAPTERS 2 & 3 ("The House Theory" & "Slice-of-Life Stories")
CHAPTERS 4 & 5 ("Compression, Minimalism" & "A Striking Title")
CHAPTERS 6 & 7 ("First Few Lines" & "I Want It But I Can't Have It...")
CHAPTERS 8 & 9 ("Kaye's Rule of Six C's" & "Compressed Scene/Story Line")
CHAPTERS 10 & 11 ("Stimulus/Response, Chronological Order" & "Whose Story Is it?")
CHAPTERS 12 & 13 ("Moving the Story Forward" & "The Shape of Flash")
CHAPTERS 14 & 15 ("Consequences of Desire Thwarted" & "Characters")
CHAPTERS 16 & 17 ("Setting, Weather, and Crowds as Characters" & "A Sense of Meaning")
CHAPTERS 18 & 19 ("Point of View" & "Tense Choice")
CHAPTERS 20 & 21 ("The Ticking Clock" & "Chekhov's Gun")
CHAPTERS 22 & 23 ("Don't Underestimate Your Reader" & "Word Weight")
CHAPTERS 24 & 25 ("Concrete Details/Imagery" & "CUT Adverbs/Adjectives")
CHAPTERS 26 & 27 ("Dialogue" & "The Verb 'To Be'")
CHAPTERS 28 & 29 ("Subtext/Implication/Backstory" & "Myths and Tales")
CHAPTERS 30 &31 ("Surprise the Reader & "Sentence Structure/Phrases")
CHAPTERS 32 & 33 ("Fixed and Experimental Forms" & "Mastering the Genre")
The Four Keys to Revision: C.O.A.P.
Cut: eliminate unnecessary words, backstory, fillers
Organize: ideas into a consistent and cohesive story line
Add: fill gaps in clarity, add a word or line of dialogue to clarify a confusing story
Polish: Perfect the grammar, check for consistence in point of view and tense, and the story's clarity. Review all previous tips and apply to your story. Voila. Time to submit the story for publication!
A Few Tips About Prose Poetry
Length does not define prose poetry, but length is one parameter that defines flash stories.
Poetry is about language and poetic device such as similes, alliteration, sentence structure, broken lines, verses, imagery.
Language in flash is concise and intense as in poetry, but does not flow into poetic devices or employ traditional forms, such as villanelles or sonnets. However, one can experiment with fixed forms in flash.
Flash most often carries a story line involving conflict and a change in the main character or situation. Poetry need not.
Poetry emphasizes the placement of words and is defined by line breaks.
Narrative poetry, prose poetry, and flash stories can overlap.
In poetry, the description can be a technique in and of itself and offers an overall image for the reader. In flash, the description must advance the narrative.
Poetry need not and often does not contain a plot. Flash usually, but not always contains a compressed plot.
When readers pick up poetry, they have a different set of expectations than on reading flash stories. They expect a story when reading flash, but do not expect a story when reading poetry.
Prose poetry asks readers to lay aside their rules and judgment and prepare for a surprise, a wild ride. Readers must make larger jumps than with flash, and read more deeply into subtext.
Prose poetry lends itself well to experimental writing and mixed forms.
Above all, remember to read your work aloud because this is the best way to hear mistakes, catch skips in rhythm or misplaced beats, hear inconsistent pacing, tense or point of view shifts.
Feel free to visit Kaye Linden's web site, contact her there, and sign up for her blog.
See also her 35 Tips for Writing Powerful Prose Poems
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Cleave Poetry
By Editor in Chief Mary Bast
Typically for these blog posts, I search the web for lessons and links relevant to the work we've published. And as a poet I've experimented with poems broken into parts. But I've only found one site that refers to these as "cleave" poems. The Cleave hasn't been active since 2010, but I like the description there of "a poem that is really three poems:"
two parallel vertical poems (left and right)
a third horizontal poem that fuses the vertical poems
The verb "cleave" is a perfect label, with its two opposite meanings: (1) "to sever or divide along a natural grain or line" and (2) "to stick fast, to become strongly involved or emotionally attached to."
Last year's Poetry Editor Kaye Linden and I particularly love Jacob Trask's "Splintered" (Bacopa Literary Review 2016) because it does all of the above, and also reflects upon itself in its title and its shape:
Splintered
the crack in the frame
is thin almost nonexistent
it runs parallels
from top peak
of jamb too far
almost impossibly
to the floor it's in my head
only through this determined
observation everything
all of it the thought of it even
has been found scarred, maybe
deeply fractured broken
Jacob Trask is a graduate student studying English with a focus in creative writing, The College at Brockport, State University of New York.
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A Voice That Sirens Our Souls
By Bacopa Literary Review Editor in Chief Mary Bast
We've raved before about Stephanie Emily Dickinson's work, with a sample story from her lyrically charged chapbook, Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg. In response to Dickinson's latest work, Bacopa Flash Story Editor Kaye Linden says "The amazing skill in Stephanie's use of language is that we don't even realize her voice has sirened our souls."
Below are comments from the back cover of Dickinson's The Emily Fables:
Stephanie Dickinson's homage to her grandmother and the lost world she inhabited . . . These beautiful, strange "fables" can read at times almost like scenes from Grimms' fairy tales yet are very American and barely a century gone. Catherine Sasanov.
Her works are all about the lucid, arresting turns of phrase that make language as surprising and re-readable as it should be. Chila Woychik, essayist and editor of Eastern Iowa Review
Sometimes we feel it is a spirit that lives within the narrator, a dybuk, that shares her mind, strums her emotions with its willful dissonances. Rosemary De Angelis, Director, New York Drama Desk, Award Winning Actress
With permission, here is "Emily and the Ewes" from The Emily Fables:
1887. Someone left me in the orchard, my father said, and since it was January when they waded through the new snow beneath the apple tree, the one that had always favored us with red fruit, their boot prints iced solid. My father was carrying water to the old ewes, whose tarpaper shed leaned against the gnarled tree. Its branches that in spring would blossom blush-pink, with each petal seeping a filthy sweetness, had stiffened, bare-knuckled. It was below zero when my father spied a black-haired baby--such a full head of hair, coiled as if the fleece of a dark sheep. I would have frozen, had not the old ewes crouched next to me, one on either side, their names Libbie and Esther, their pink eyes dimming as if cherries slowly sinking in cream. "Ladies, what have you there?" he'd asked. The old ewes could not answer in his tongue for they lived in time that had already passed. They'd gotten on their knees, their blackened legs under them, one on either side, like a hot tickling breeze. I clung to the long straggling fleece. The ewes' wool was scented with bark, fierce wind, and damp earth soaked in the cider of a thousand apples dying. I shivered when my father plucked me up for I wore not even a rag. The snow had begun again, thick drops that felt like edges of burlap. A snow that pricked. When he carried me into the kitchen, my mother mistook me for an animal he'd skinned and brought home for dinner. "Shall we keep her? Or let Libbie and Esther bring her up?" And then my father would throw back his head and laugh for I was his favorite, it was only a story to tease me with. I had been born from my mother's body like my brothers. I would always love the ewes, as if they alone knew the truth of me. My mother once asked what side of the family had given me my terrible hair. Like an Ethiopian's or a sheep's. No relative had such kinkiness. In Sunday school, the girls poked fun. I thought of the ewes sharing with me visions of the apple tree, the slow seep of minutes, the strange roots hauling up water. Worm rot drawing the wasps. My husband-to-be said that God had given me the most beautiful hair and he would die if I cut it, then closed the window shade like flypaper the first time I let it down. After my third child I began to dream of that place between two sheep. And I hugged the ewes' bedraggled heads. Their offspring had been taken and meals made of them. Still the ancient mothers did not call down a pox upon our house or plagues of locust and toads. In my sleep the frozen sky's no color at all. The trees clatter. We eat the snow apples. The ewes' broken teeth hold the fruit. They bah. I am their January lamb.
Stephanie Dickinson was raised on an Iowa farm and now lives in New York City. She graduated with an MFA from the University of Oregon. Her work appears in Hotel Amerika, Mudfish, Weber Studies, Fjords, Water-Stone Review, Gargoyle, and Rhino, among others. Heat: An interview with Jean Seberg is available from New Michigan Press. Her novel Half Girl and novella Lust Series are published by Spuyten Duyvil, as is Love Highway, based on the 2006 Jennifer Moore murder. Her work has received multiple distinguished story citations in the Pushcart Anthology, Best American Short Stories, and Best American Mysteries.
Dickinson won the Flash Story First Prize in our 2017 Bacopa Literary Review. Other links to her work: Eastern Iowa Review:"Emily Overhears a Mourner," "Emily and the Spring Cleaning," Emily and the Mother-in-Law." Kestrel: "Emily and the Whooping Cough," "Emily and the Norsemen," "Emily and the Missionary," Emily and the Blizzard." Verse Daily: "Emily and the Bobcat." Penduline Press Interview with Stephanie Dickinson; Gravel: "Chicago Insomnia."
Labels: Eastern Iowa Review, Emily and the Ewes, Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg, Kaye Linden, Mary Bast, Rosemary De Angelis, Stephanie Dickinson, The Emily Fables. Bacopa Literary Review
Misremembering Chekhov
The nineteen works of creative nonfiction published in Bacopa Literary Review 2016 covered a wide variety of types and forms, including the brilliant hybrid narrative/memoir/essay, "Misremembering Chekhov," by Rebecca Ruth Gould.
Our typical call for submissions invites creative nonfiction with "a moving inner voice" that "holds to the same standards as other literary forms while remaining grounded in fact." Gould's 2016 contribution (pp. 153-157) is a perfect example.
Notice how she begins by weaving personal experience with literary observations:
Chekhov was not my first love. More obviously delectable to a college freshman just returned from her first visit to St. Petersburg and discovering Russian literature for the first time were the thick novels of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Those "great, baggy monsters" (as Henry James called them) buoyed me up through my first marriage, my frantic conversion to Christianity, and my equally hasty divorce. . . . Dostoevsky's tortured heroines perfectly matched my overstrung mind, and his philosophical dialogues about the existence (or not) of God were the perfect object of reflection for my theologically conflicted soul . . . .
Tolstoy struck a different chord, but one which was equally resonant. His ability to cut through racism and prejudice . . . Tolstoy did not pull at my heartstrings in quite the same way as Dostoevsky, but he did speak to my social conscience, and to my desire to make a difference in the world . . . .
I did not have a chance to taste [Chekhov] until my final semester at Berkeley, after a whirlwind tour of the Russian canon. . . . For our first story, my professor had chosen Chekhov's "Lady with a Lapdog" . . . *
Now the author pulls us into her theme:
The most enduring impression I took away from that story . . . was that, to a much greater extent than Tolstoyevsky, Chekhov was a cynic. After depicting the blossoming of love between a younger woman and her elder lover, he showed how love is fated to not last. This is how I interpreted an unforgettable detail in the Yalta hotel room. . . . Anna Sergevevna laments her lost virginity while Gurov begins to feel bored. . . .
Fast forward seventeen years. The Russian literary pantheon has lost some but by no means all of its glory to my readerly eyes. A long succession of other loves has intervened between me and Chekhov: Arabic, Persian, Georgian, not to mention the more familiar French, German, Italian, and Spanish. All of these literatures I have tried to know in some intimate way. But, in spite of my promiscuous disloyalty to other literature and languages, Russian keeps cropping up in unexpected ways. . . .
One of the most unexpected ways in which Chekhov crops up is on an online dating profile on the website 'OKCupid.' A Brussels-based scientist lists Dostoevsky among his favourite authors . . . .
They meet in Paris:
Paris is like a dream. We spend our first full day together strolling through the Jardin du Luxembourg, talking non-stop about the books that impacted our lives . . .
Unlike the way I read in my undergraduate years, we do not linger over the philosophical nuances of Dostoevsky's fictions. We do not ponder the existence (or not) of God. . . .
You will have guessed, Dear Reader, that this was the beginning of love. And you will not have been wrong. It was indeed the beginning of a certain kind of passion. . . . Our peculiar love had a strangely short duration, and evaporated not long after it was born. Chekhov was the prophet of this evaporation. He foretold the entire story of our love in his "Lady with a Lapdog."
Ah! Gould takes us to the realization implied in her story's title:
So I thought until I read the story again. . . . I discovered I had misremembered Chekhov's tone. I had taken him for an unadulterated cynic, when in fact "Lady with a Lapdog" depicts the gradual emergence of a love so intense that the world cannot contain it. . . . he was himself a romantic, a believer in the ability of love to overcome social conventions. . . . My circuitous path towards love was more like the second reading than were the airbrushed tale of playboys and false affections that my undergraduate imagination had remembered . . . . Chekhov tends to keep the devotion of those who have fallen in love with him for the rest of their writing lives. Perhaps the reason for this lies in his peculiar way of representing the world. Savouring Chekhov's flair for revealing the interstices of memory and forgetfulness makes it difficult to look away ever again.
Dr. Rebecca Ruth Gould is a writer, translator, and scholar whose books include Writers and Rebels: The Literatures of Insurgency in the Caucasus (Yale University Press, 2016), After Tomorrow the Days Disappear: Ghazals and Other Poems of Hasan Sijzi of Delhi (Northwestern University Press, 2016), and translator of The Prose of the Mountains: Tales of the Caucasus (Central European University Press, 2015). She teaches comparative literature and translation at the University of Bristol in the UK.
* Correspondence with Fiction Editor U.R. Bowie, also a Russian scholar, explains why there are various titles describing the dog in Chekhov's famous short story:
Me: "I'm trying to find the exact title for Chekhov's story about the lady with a dog. I've seen 'Lady with a Lapdog,' 'The Lady with a Pet Dog,' 'Lady with a Dog,' and other similar titles. This is the Russian: Дама с собачкой."
U.R, Bowie: "In Russian the sobachka of the title is a diminutive ("little dog"), but you can't get exactly that effect in English. Translators try by using terms like 'lapdog.' Of course, there is no 'correct' translation. To read the definitive Chekhov, you have to read him in Russian!"
And from The Possessed by Elif Batuman, page 20:
"In 'Lady with Lapdog,' Gurov's wife, Anna's husband, Gurov's crony at the club, even the lapdog, are all nameless. No contemporary American short-story writer would have had the stamina not to name that lapdog."
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Labels: Bacopa Literary Review, Chekhov, Doestoevsky, Elif Batuman, hybrid narrative, Lady with a Lapdog, Mary Bast, Rebecca Ruth Gould, The Possessed, Tolstoy, U.R. Bowie, University of Bristol
Bain de Sang
Ivan de Monbrison's poetry, paintings, and sculptures have been displayed widely, in Paris, USA, England, Belgium, Barcelona, and other cities around the world. He has described his ghostly images as "incarnated in the canvas but not fully present." "For me," he writes, "art is the only answer in our modern world to the question of death and the fragility of human nature." Ivan's cover art for Oyster Boy Review 21 2014, "Janus with His Shadow," could as well frame the words of his poem in Bacopa Literary Review 2016 (in French first, then English):
Bain de Sang / Bloodshed
-- In memory of the victims in Paris of November 13, 2015 --
on s'assied
les étoiles dans l'eau
le silence renversé
on trinque
un verre à la main
mais on ne sait plus à quoi
autour d'une terrasse
jonchée de cadavres
le sol peint en rouge
entonnoir de demain
un corps coupé en deux
et les pieds sur la terre
et ce silence étrange qui a cousu nos lèvres
à la paume de nos mains
panoplies de nos corps
la nuit taillée
on dresse d'un coup le regard
cadavre éventré
où fleurissent des mains
aux balcons des étoiles se posent les oiseaux
un pas de trop
pour aller nulle part
au bout de cette course nous tombons en
poussière
citadelles sans créneaux
we sit down
stars in the water
silence toppled down
we toast
a glass in the hand
but we don't know to what
around the terrace
covered with bodies
the ground painted in red
funnel of tomorrow
a body cut in half
the head in the clouds
and the feet on the earth
and this odd silence which has sewed our lips
to the palms of our hands
outfit of our bodies
the night cut out
we raise our eyes suddenly
a cloud
a gutted corpse
where hands are blooming
birds landing on the balconies of the stars
one step too much
to get to nowhere
at the end of this race we fall into
the dust
castles without crenels
November 16 2015 4.39 pm
French poet, writer, and artist Ivan de Monbrison lives in Paris and Marseille. His poems and short stories have appeared in literary magazines in France, Italy, Belgium, the UK, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, and the US. His five poetry chapbooks are L'ombre dechiree, Journal, La corde a nu, Ossuaire, and Sur-Faces. He has illustrated his own poem novel, Les Maldormants, published in 2014 by Ressouvenances Publishers, France. Of "Bloodshed" he says, "These poems were written after the killing of more than a hundred innocent people in the streets of Paris, on November 13, 2015, and so in memory of their martyrdom." Follow Ivan de Monbrison on Facebook here and on Twitter here.
Janus was the Roman two-faced god of beginnings and transitions and thus of gates, doors, doorways, endings, representing the middle ground between barbarity and civilization.
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With only two weekends of the Beamish Christmas celebrations left, I though it was time to share some of background to what is going on at the Museum. Following in the traditional of Charles Dickens we are sharing with you Christmases past, actually three different periods of history. The Georgian era, that focuses on Twelfth Night celebrations at Pockerley Old Hall, the late Victorian era at Home Farm and the Edwardian era in the Town and Pit Village.
Edwardian Christmas celebrations ranged from simple and home-made, seen by candle and oil lamp, to the middle and upper classes celebrations with electric lighting with shop bought decorations and gifts. Christmas was growing into a commercial celebration though its roots go back to the much older traditions and customs from feudal society.
It was Prince Albert’s enthusiasm for Christmas that popularised the celebration through the press. With early trees being placed in pots on tables with presents left unwrapped under the tree or on the tree with little tags to identify the recipients, Miss Smith in the Ravensworth Terrace still has a small tree in a pot. By the 1880s the Norway Spruce was being used as a large floor standing tree. Popular authors of the day such as Charles Dickens idealised these Christmas celebrations.
Decorations were often homemade. Paper chains and greenery were used to decorate many homes and businesses. The quantity and quality of decorations was very different between the wealth of for example the Dentist in the town to the pit village cottages. The Dentist has electric lighting and a floor standing Christmas tree, with all the trimmings of shop bought toys. The pit village families have a small table top tree, with homemade decorations and gifts. They rely on oil lamps and candles for light, you can understand why people had to make the most of the day-light hours!
Hedworth Lane Infants School, Boldon Colliery, 1905. Hanging from the ceiling are bunches of mistletoe and at the back of the hall, left of the rocking horse, is a wreath ready to hang up.
Illuminations were in their infancy during the Edwardian period, with not everywhere having access to electricity. The famous Blackpool Illuminations begin in 1879, before even Edison’s electric light bulb was invented. By 1912 the first of the modern style displays was opened with ‘festoons of garland lamps’ using 10,000 bulbs opened by Princess Louise. This proved so popular that it has continued ever since. The display in the Beamish town street may appear small and unimpressive to modern eyes, but with the use of electric bulbs still being an exciting experience, the display would have been very impressive and exciting to the Edwardian eye. The Masonic Hall, when in its original location in Sunderland, won awards for its illuminations for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.
Father Christmas was a universal figure by 1910, in his red suite. Though before this time Father Christmas could be seen in a blue, green or red outfit as he is a merging of two figures, Father Christmas and St Nicholas.
This 1910 Christmas card show a very modern Father Christmas, in his red outfit, driving a car and even uses the work xmas. Though many people think this is a modern term its use dates back to the early 1800s.
There were a number of other traditions that still continue today, which were well established even by the Edwardian era. Christmas cards were first commercially produced in 1843 by Henry Cole and in the 1870s cheap rate postage led to a dramatic increase in the sending of cards, so during the Edwardian period card giving was commonplace, if you are visiting Beamish over the Christmas season wy not have a go at making cards in the Town or Pit Village. Carols too had gained popularity in the mid 1800s and were widespread by the Edwardian period.
Between 1900 and 1920 Christmas became increasingly commercial; there was a dramatic increase in the giving of gifts to children and Christmas trees. The ‘Book of the Home’ explains how to decorate a Christmas tree in the early 1900s, with bon-bons, toys, dolls and baskets of sweets, brightly decorated and glittering. Christmas stockings first appears in the mid-1800s as an American adaptation of a Dutch tradition, with stockings being hung on the bed or hearth. In 1881 one magazine describes a little boys stocking as having; 2 bags of sweets, pocket knife, oranges, almonds, raisin and 2 jockey’s caps.
A 1913 Father Christmas on his was to visit a local infants school somewhere in the north east, this image is from the Beamish photo archive.
This entry was posted in Adventures in Collecting and tagged christmas, History, traditions on December 14, 2013 by BeamishMuseum.
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Chassidy Cato November 22, 2017 at 1:59 pm
Nice article! Very interesting subject. Niche specific Christmas cards with a distinctively warm and personal touch are always beautiful suprise.
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Carved bone and ivory, with traces of pigment and gilding on a modern wood support
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A.11-1928
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This altarpiece in bone and ivory was probably made in Venice, in about 1390-1400. This altarpiece depicts sixtythree scenes from the New Testament and the Apocryphal Gospels. The scenes are separated by rows of small figures under canopies and surrounded by a border of foliage. While most of the plaques are of bonme, some are of ivory and self-evidently do not belong to the original sequence. The panels have been subject to at least two intrusive campaigns of restauration and rearrangement. One was by Carl Schmidt in 1836, who was a Prussian furniture maker working in Vienna. On acquisition, Margaret Longhurst rearranged it to the current scheme, which is chronological.
Carved bone and ivory plaques on wood depicting scenes from the New Testament. The scenes are separated by rows of small figures under canopies and surrounded by a border of foliage.
Two groups of plaques appear in the border; the first depicts amorini among foliage, some of them holding blank shields, while the second is composed of large, fleshy stems bearing fruit and flowers, from which emerge figures playing musical instruments. The 63 narrative scenes are arranged in seven registers with nine panels to each tier, most of the scenes being composed of four carved plaques. Below the scenes are moulded and recessed strips, on which have been painted captions in black pigment.
Height: 90 cm, Width: 180 cm
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The panels were in Vienna in 1836, when they were the subject of restauration by the cabinet-maker and sculptor Karl Schmidt. By 1923, when the panels were shown at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, they were owned by Lavinia Mary Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk; purchased from her in 1928, for £600.
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Panels, carved bone and ivory, from an altarpiece, depicting scenes from the New Testament, School of the Embriachi, North Italy (Venice), ca. 1390-1400, with later additions
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Longhurst, Margaret H. Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory. London: Published under the Authority of the Board of Education, 1929, Part II, p. 62
Mallé, L. Smalti, avori del Museo d;arte antica. Torino, 1969. pp. 301-303.
Tomasi, M. Monumenti d’Avorio. I dossali degli Embriachi e I loro committenti, Pisa, 2010
part II, pp. 762-771
Williamson, Paul and Davies, Glyn, Medieval Ivory Carvings, 1200-1550, (in 2 parts), V&A Publishing, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014
Williamson, Paul and Davies, Glyn, Medieval Ivory Carvings, 1200-1550, (in 2 parts), V&A Publishing, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, part II, pp. 762-771, cat. no. 255
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Half Past Dead (2002)
Posted on November 2, 2003 by Felix Vasquez
This is like the action masterpiece “The Rock”, except for the fact that “The Rock” was original, and this is just as awful as anything I’ve ever seen. After being busted in a car theft ring, two gangster friends Nick (rapper Ja Rule) and Sasha (Steven Seagal) are jailed in New Alcatraz prison where mercenaries break in and storm the prison to hold a prisoner ransom who knows the location of a secret stash of over two hundred million dollars in gold. Now they must team up with other prisoners and beat the mercenaries before they kill everyone. I got the sense this is supposed to be a futuristic film, but there’s never truly verification. The prison is re-opened due to overcrowding and it’s supposedly advanced but shockingly stone age. The prison is supposed to be state of the art and advanced but there’s a shockingly low head count when it comes to prisoners (I counted twenty-five).
What’s awful is that when Sasha reveals to Nick he’s an undercover FBI agent, he explains: “I was busted with you and would do time to gain your trust.” His sentence was five years. Wow, those FBI agents sure are dedicated to their work. The two headliners: fake action star Steven Seagal (who gained about fifty pounds since his first film) and rapper Ja Rule (who is one of the worst actors I’ve ever seen) really make “Half Past Dead” a grueling experience. The two are supposed to be friends for many years except they have zero chemistry and their delivery of their lines are cheesy, off-beat, and completely awkward. The characters are about as trite and one-dimensional as Seagal’s acting. The writer never attempt to conjure an even slightly original or interesting character to remember, exposing almost every cliche in the book from the stringy short wisecracking African American prisoner known as Twitch (rapper Kurupt), to the tough and stereotypical hispanic warden known as El Fuego (Tony Plana) who scoffs and scowls with a smug expression and mutters Spanish words into his English sentence in every bit of dialogue spoken.
There’s also the bossy agent (Claudia Christian) who communicates with the mercenaries attempting to bargain with them. Congratulations to her for over-acting her part to the point where it becomes laughable. Morris Chestnut, however, is good as the villain “49er One” in the film downplaying his menace and manages to deliver the bad lines very well. Soap star Nia Peeples as “49er six” is hot. What I remember most about this movie is her unbelievable beauty and the sexy outfit she dressed in throughout the film. Writer and Director by Don Michael Paul is a master illusionist in covering and hiding the revealing plus-size plump stature of the banner star of the film. He skillfully maneuvers the camera work to hide Seagal’s noticeably plump figure through close-ups and head shots, and purposely closes up on Seagal’s face to hide his double chin which he now sports. Not to mention there’s constant dark scenes that cover his fat and body doubles that pose as him in far shots.
Seagal has a little magnetic acting abilities as a paper tissue and manages to show why he’s such a joke in Hollywood. Don Michael Paul would be wise to return to acting because this screenplay is a joke; the plot is preposterous with many plot holes. Why does the senator and the warden say that the prison is impenetrable yet it’s so easy for the mercs to break into the prison? Where are security devices and technology? Why is there no light in the prison? Why is there such a low number of security guards for such a big prison? Why is it that Lester won’t reveal the location of the gold to anyone and would even go to the grave with his secret but reveals it to Sasha once he reveals he’s an FBI agent? This an awful movie with no brains, no story, and is low quality even for Seagal’s standards.
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Validation of Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry Method for Analysis of Urinary Conjugated Metanephrine and Normetanephrine for Screening of Pheochromocytoma
Robert L. Taylor, Ravinder J. Singh
Robert L. Taylor
Ravinder J. Singh
Background: Metanephrines are biochemical markers for tumors of the adrenal medulla (e.g., pheochromocytoma) and other tumors derived from neural crest cells (e.g., paragangliomas and neuroblastomas). We describe a liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method for the measurement of urinary conjugated metanephrines.
Methods: We added 250 ng of d3-metanephrine (d3-MN) and 500 ng of d3-normetanephrine (d3-NMN) to 1 mL of urine samples as stable isotope internal standards. The samples were then acidified, hydrolyzed for 20 min in a 100 °C water bath, neutralized, and prepared by solid-phase extraction. The methanol eluates were analyzed by LC-MS/MS in the selected-reaction-monitoring mode after separation on a reversed-phase amide C16 column.
Results: Multiple calibration curves for the analysis of urine MN and NMN exhibited consistent linearity and reproducibility in the range of 10–5000 μg/L. Interassay CVs were 5.7–8.6% at mean concentrations of 90–4854 μg/L for MN and NMN. The detection limit was 10 μg/L. Recovery of MN and NMN (144–2300 μg/L) added to urine was 91–114%. The regression equation for the LC-MS/MS (x) and colorimetric (y) methods was: y = 0.81x − 0.006 (r = 0.822; n = 110). The equation for the HPLC (x) and LC-MS/MS (y) methods was: y = 1.09x + 0.05 (r = 0.998; n = 40).
Conclusions: The sensitivity and specificity of the MS/MS method for urinary conjugated metanephrines offer advantages over colorimetric, immunoassay, HPLC, and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry methods because of elimination of drug interferences, high throughput, and short chromatographic run time.
Pheochromocytoma is a rare but potentially fatal tumor arising from chromaffin cells, which may produce episodic secondary hypertension along with headaches, sweating, and palpitations (1)(2)(3)(4). The incidence of pheochromocytoma has been estimated to be 1.55–8 per 1 million persons per year (5)(6). The prevalence of pheochromocytoma was found to be 0.13% for hypertensive patients in a 50-year autopsy study (7) and was estimated to be 6.5% for patients with incidentally discovered adrenal masses. Screening for pheochromocytoma is typically part of an evaluation for secondary causes of hypertension, unexplained spells, incidental adrenal masses, or less commonly, of patients with a family history of pheochromocytoma.
Biochemical testing for pheochromocytoma typically has included measurements of 24-h urinary conjugated metanephrines and catecholamines (8). In methods for urinary metanephrines, the conjugated metanephrines are hydrolyzed for analysis because excretion of free metanephrines is negligible. The longer half-lives of sulfate-conjugated metanephrines than free catecholamines are consistent with the nature of sulfate-conjugated metanephrines as end products of catecholamine metabolism, the circulatory clearance of which is dependent on elimination by the kidneys (9).
High diagnostic sensitivity of plasma metanephrines has been proposed not only because the tumor has the ability to O-methylate catecholamines, but also because the half-lives of sulfate-conjugated metanephrine (MN) 1 and normetanephrine (NMN) are longer than those of free catecholamines (10)(11)(12). Plasma concentrations of free metanephrines are <5% of the concentrations of the conjugated metanephrines. Recently, measurements of fractionated plasma free metanephrines by HPLC with electrochemical detection (HPLC-EC) were found to have sensitivities and specificities as high as 100% and 89%, respectively, for detecting pheochromocytoma (13)(14). In contrast, the poor sensitivity and specificity of total 24-h urine colorimetric metanephrine method was also reported in the same study. Thus, measurement of fractionated plasma metanephrines has been recommended as the best initial screening test for pheochromocytoma (15).
In a 5-year retrospective review and similar studies, analysis of urinary 24-h conjugated MN and NMN has also been found to be an optimum screening test for discriminating secondary causes of hypertension and pheochromocytoma (16). Several methods, including colorimetric, immunoassay, HPLC, and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS), have been reported for determination of urinary MN and NMN. Colorimetric assays of urinary total metanephrines have been superseded by HPLC assays that allow separate measurement of MN and NMN, termed “fractionated” metanephrines. Despite the superiority of HPLC assays for urinary fractionated metanephrines over the colorimetric assay urinary total metanephrines, use of the latter test has persisted (17). Limitations of the colorimetric assay include drug interferences and the lack of an internal standard. Drug interferences are detected in the colorimetric assay when an abnormal spectral curve is generated with the three monitored wavelengths, but some drug and catecholamine interferences can produce normal spectral curves (18). Although new immunoassays for metanephrines have been shown to be free of drug interference (19), they still lack an internal standard to monitor recovery through the extraction process. Recent modifications in HPLC methods have resolved known drug interferences from MN (20), but analytical run times have been lengthened. To overcome drug interferences, an isotope-dilution GC-MS method (21) has also been developed. The GC-MS method is specific, but it requires time-consuming derivatization of the metanephrines before measurement and has longer run times. This study presents a simple high-throughput liquid chromatography–tandem MS (LC-MS/MS) method that uses stable deuterium-labeled isotopes of MN and NMN.
MN and NMN were purchased from Sigma. d3-MN was purchased from Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, and d3-NMN was purchased from Medical Isotopes. Working solutions of MN and NMN and the stable isotopes were prepared from stock solutions in HCl (0.05 mol/L). Solid-phase extraction Oasis cartridges were purchased from Waters Corporation. Analytical discovery LC and guard columns were purchased from Supelco. For the drug interference study, chlorpromazine, desipramine, and ephedrine sulfate were obtained from a local pharmacy. Epinephrine (E), norepinephrine (NE), and dopamine (D) were purchased from Sigma.
sample preparation and specimen stability
We added 250 ng of d3-MN and 500 ng of d3-NMN to 1.0 mL of urine, which was then acidified with 50 μL of 4.5 mol/L HCl. The urine was then hydrolyzed for 20 min in a boiling water bath. After hydrolysis, the urine was neutralized and the pH adjusted to 6.5 (± 0.5) with 5.0 mol/L NaOH. The urine was then applied to an Oasis HLB extraction cartridge, which was preconditioned with 1.0 mL of methanol and 1.0 mL of reverse-osmosis (RO) H2O. After application of the urine, the cartridge was washed with 1.0 mL of RO H2O. The MN, NMN, and stable isotopes were eluted from the cartridge with 1 mL of 200 mL/L methanol, transferred to a sealed glass autosampler vial, and injected onto an LC-MS/MS system by an autosampler. For multiple use, the cartridges were washed with 1.0 mL of 200 mL/L methanol, 2.0 mL of 700 mL/L methanol, and 2.0 mL of absolute methanol and reused up to five times. To determine the best preservative for urine collection for analysis of MN and NMN, we collected five random urine samples and separated each sample into three pools. For each sample, one pool was stored with no preservative, one pool was stored with boric acid as the preservative (1 g of boric acid per 20 mL of urine), and one pool was stored with acetic acid as preservative (0.25 mL of a 500 mL/L solution per 20 mL of urine). A 2.0-mL aliquot was immediately taken from each of the pools with or without preservative, labeled as baseline, and frozen. Each pool was divided in two smaller pools, with one stored at room temperature and the other stored in the refrigerator. On days 1, 3, and 7, we removed and froze a 2-mL aliquot from each pool. At the end of the study, all samples were analyzed for fractionated metanephrines.
Calibrators (10–5000 μg/L) were prepared in 200 mL/L methanol by dilution of the working solutions of the calibrators and stable isotopes. The 200 mL/L methanol eluate and calibrators were analyzed on an LC-MS/MS system equipped with an API 2000 triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (Sciex). Peripherals included a Perkin-Elmer Series 200 micropump and autosampler. A 15-μL injection volume was used. Separation was performed on a Discovery RP Amide C16 column (5.0 × 0.46 cm; Supelco). The column was directly connected to the electrospray ionization probe operating at 450 °C. The LC-MS/MS method was compared with the colorimetric and HPLC methods for the analysis of urinary conjugated metanephrines for different patients screened for pheochromocytoma.
ms/ms conditions
The metanephrines were detected in the multiple-reaction monitoring mode of the tandem mass spectrometer with the following transitions: MN, m/z 180 to m/z 148; d3-MN, m/z 183 to m/z 151; NMN, m/z 166 to m/z 134; d3-NMN, m/z 169 to m/z 137. Data were acquired and processed with the Analyst Software (Ver. 1.1; Sciex). All results were generated in positive-ion mode with the entrance potential at −5 V, the collision cell entrance potential at 10 V, and the cell exit potential at 1.0 V. The optimized declustering potentials were set at 50, 50, 40, and 40 V; the focusing potentials at 380, 380, 350, and 380 V; and the collision energy potential at 30, 30, 30, and 20 V for MN, d3-MN, NMN, and d3-NMN, respectively, as determined by manual tuning. Front-end electrospray settings for the MS/MS ionization source were as follows: curtain gas, 30; GS1, 90; GS2, 90; CAD, 12, temperature, 450 °C; and ion source at 5000 V. For all MS/MS experiments, mass calibration and resolution adjustments [at 0.7 atomic mass units (amu) at full width at half height] on both the resolving quadrupoles were optimized using a polypropylene glycol solution with an infusion pump. Collisionally activated decomposition MS/MS was performed through the closed-design Q2 collision cell operating with nitrogen as collision gas.
drug interferences
Saturated solutions of desipramine, ephedrine sulfate, and chlorpromazine were prepared in 0.05 mol/L HCl. Solutions containing E, NE, and D (100 mg/L of each) were prepared in 0.05 mol/L HCl. A 1.0 g/L acetaminophen stock solution was prepared in methanol. The interference of these drugs was studied in 10 different urine specimens. Each of 10 urine samples was divided into four sets of 1.0-mL aliquots. Nothing was added to the first set of aliquots; 25 μL of each of the desipramine, ephedrine sulfate, and chlorpromazine solutions was added to the second set of aliquots; 50 μL of the acetaminophen stock solution was added to the third set of aliquots; and 50 μL of each of the E, NE, and D solutions was added to the fourth set of aliquots. All samples were extracted and analyzed by the analytically validated LC-MS/MS method.
lc-ms/ms characteristics of mn and nmn
The electrospray MS spectra obtained in the positive-ion mode by infusion of 10 mg/L MN is shown in Fig. 1A⇓ . The first-quadruple (Q1) scan shows a small parent ion peak at m/z 198, which is the expected [M+1] ion, and a larger peak at m/z 180 corresponding to loss of H2O from MN [M+1 − H2O]. Usually, the parent ion at m/z 198 is the preferred parent ion for generating a product ion spectrum. However, to obtain better sensitivity, we chose the intense ion at m/z 180 for the analysis of MN. A similar relationship of a loss of H2O was seen for NMN Q1 scans generating parent ion peaks at m/z 184 and 166 (data not shown). The spectrum in Fig. 1B⇓ was acquired by transmitting the MN ion at m/z 180 via Q1 and scanning for products resulting from fragmentation in the collision cell in the resolving quadruple (Q3). Major daughter ions at m/z 165, 148, and 120 were observed from the fragmentation of the m/z 180 ion peak.
Electrospray ionization mass spectrum (A) and product ion spectrum (B) for MN.
(A), electrospray ionization mass spectrum for MN in positive-ion mode (Q1 scan). (B), product ion spectrum for the MN m/z 180 ion [M+1 − H2O]. MN (10 mg/L) in methanol–H2O–2 mmol/L ammonium acetate was infused at the electrospray tip of the quadrupole mass spectrometer.
Using the autotune algorithm provided in the system software, we optimized the instrument for transmission of the protonated molecular ion, m/z 180, and for maximum intensity of the selected fragment, m/z 148. The product ion at m/z 148 represents a loss of 32 amu from the parent ion, indicating the loss of an −OCH3 group and a proton. The same procedure was used to determine and optimize the Q1 and Q3 ions for d3-MN, NMN, and d3-NMN. Fig. 2A⇓ shows LC-MS/MS chromatograms for MN and NMN in a calibrator, each at a concentration of 200 μg/L, with retention times of 1.55 and 1.65 min, respectively, and a total run time of 3 min. Signal-to-noise ratios of 31:1 and 42:1 were observed for MN and NMN, respectively, for a 10 μg/L calibrator.
LC-MS/MS chromatograms of a calibrator (A) and urine from a pheochromocytoma patient (B).
(A), calibrator contains 200 μg/L MN and NMN with stable isotopes d3-MN (250 ng) and d3-NMN (500 ng). (B), MN (800 μg/24 h) and NMN (1400 μg/24 h) concentrations were calculated for this patient.
To maintain the chromatographic sharpness of the peaks for MN and NMN, we used a flow rate of 1 mL/min. The flow was split, with 0.8 mL/min going to the waste and 0.2 mL/min to the tandem mass spectrometer. MN and d3-MN coeluted at ∼1.65 min, whereas NMN and d3-NMN coeluted at ∼1.55 min. Total run time for the analysis was 3 min/sample. Reversed-phase chromatographic analysis of MN and NMN in urine from a pheochromocytoma patient produced a chromatogram similar to the one shown in Fig. 2B⇑ . The MN and NMN concentrations were 800 and 1400 μg/24 h, respectively, for the pheochromocytoma patient. We separated the major interferences from the urine matrix from MN and NMN by decreasing the methanol in the mobile phase to 150 mL/L, but the decreased methanol concentration substantially reduced the signal-to-noise ratios of the MN and NMN peaks.
This LC-MS/MS method for the analysis of total urinary MN and NMN was found to be highly precise in the low normal and high abnormal values relevant for the screening and diagnosis of pheochromocytoma. Patient samples at four different concentrations were pooled, aliquoted, and frozen for analysis of MN and NMN. Interassay CVs were <10% for the LC-MS/MS method at concentrations of 90–4854 μg/L for MN and NMN. Intraassay CVs were not >13% at concentrations of 61–3409 μg/L. The intra- and interassay precision data are summarized in Table 1⇓ . The detection limit of the assay was 10 μg/L for urinary MN and NMN based on an interassay CV <20% for the low-concentration patient pool.
Precision data for the analysis of urinary MN and NMN by LC-MS/MS method.
Lack of an internal standard is considered one of the major disadvantages of the colorimetric method for the analysis of urinary conjugated MN and NMN (18). In HPLC-EC methods, the recovery of MN and NMN from a patient’s urine is normalized with 4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzylamine hydrochloride, a compound with relatively different chromatographic and electrochemical properties. Both compounds were added at three concentrations in the range of 144-2300 μg/L to four patient samples with low endogenous concentrations of MN and NMN and assayed in single determinations. Individual sample recoveries ranged from 92% to 109% and from 91% to 114% for MN and NMN, respectively, in the LC-MS/MS method. Mean recovery data are summarized in Table 2⇓ .
Mean linearity and recovery characteristics of urinary MN and NMN in the LC-MS/MS method (n = 4).
The LC-MS/MS method for the analysis of MN and NMN was linear at 10–5000 μg/L; urine specimens with MN or NMN >5000 μg/L can be diluted with water. The linearity data are summarized in Table 2⇑ . Four patient samples were assayed in single determinations at several dilutions between 1:2 and 1:40, using RO H2O. The expected value of each dilution was calculated based on the result for the undiluted sample. The linearity was evaluated by dividing the observed value of each dilution by the expected value to determine the percentage of the expected result for each dilution. The percentages of the expected results for MN and NMN diluted in RO H2O (1:2 to 1:40 dilutions) were 88–114% and 95–114% for MN and NMN, respectively, for urine specimens containing 130–4640 μg/L MN or NMN. Mean recoveries for several dilutions are shown in Table 2⇑ .
carryover, efficiency of extraction, and specimen stability
LC-MS/MS is a high-throughput method, and almost 20 MN and NMN measurements in different urine samples can be made in 1 h. No carryover was observed during multiple injections of patient urine samples when the instrument was run in batch mode. The extraction efficiency of the solid-phase cartridges for multiple use was confirmed by evaluating multiple extractions. Increased concentrations of MN and NMN were added to four patient samples, and each sample was separated into five 1.0-mL aliquots. A cartridge was assigned to each set of aliquots. Each set of aliquots was extracted in its assigned cartridge. Between each extraction, a 1.0-mL aliquot of RO H2O with stable isotopes was extracted to monitor carryover. After each extraction, the cartridges were washed with 1.0 mL of 200 mL/L methanol, 2.0 mL of 700 mL/L methanol, and 2.0 mL of absolute methanol. Each sample extract and RO H2O extract was analyzed for MN and NMN. The results of the carryover studies are shown in Table 3⇓ and indicate that extraction cartridges can be used up to five times for multiple patients for cost-saving purposes.
Extraction efficiency and carryover data for a single cartridge for urinary MN and NMN.
The conjugated metanephrines were stable under various storage conditions. For urine stored at ambient temperature, day 7 aliquots differed from baseline aliquots, on average, by 4.4%, 0.6%, and 5.8% for MN and 9.0%, 11.5%, and 10.9% for NMN in urine stored without preservative and with boric and acetic as preservative, respectively. For refrigerated storage, day 7 aliquots differed from baseline aliquots by an average of 0.2%, 9.2%, and 3.0% for MN and 0.2%, 3.1%, and 9.0% for NMN in urine stored without preservative and with boric and acetic as preservative, respectively. The results indicate that urine can be collected in any of the above preservatives and shipped frozen to a reference laboratory for analysis without any major loss of conjugated metanephrines.
method comparisons
Unused portions of 110 specimens analyzed for total metanephrines by a colorimetric method were reanalyzed by the LC-MS/MS method. Only samples with normal spectral curves were used for this study. The correlation between the LC-MS/MS (y) method and the colorimetric method (x) was: y = 0.81x − 0.006 (r = 0.822). Comparison of the LC-MS/MS vs the colorimetric method showed a mean difference of −0.133 mg/24 h for total metanephrines with no bias and is shown as a Bland–Altman plot in Fig. 3⇓ .
Bland–Altman plot for comparison of the LC-MS/MS method with the colorimetric Pisano method (n = 110).
The regression equation for the comparison for total MN is: y = 0.81x − 0.006 (r = 0.822).
In a second method comparison, 40 samples were split into two aliquots with one aliquot being analyzed by our LC-MS/MS method (y) and the other aliquot analyzed by the HPLC-EC method (x). The Bland–Altman plot (Fig. 4⇓ ) showed a mean difference of 0.07 mg/24 h for total metanephrines with no bias. The linear regression equation for the correlation was: y = 1.09x + 0.05 (r = 0.998).
Bland–Altman plot for comparison of the LC-MS/MS method with the HPLC-EC method (n = 37).
Linear regression for all samples (n = 40) in the comparison produced the following equation: y = 1.09x + 0.05 (r = 0.998).
Recently, the interference of acetaminophen in the HPLC-EC method was addressed by lengthening the chromatographic run time (20). No interference of added acetaminophen (up to 50 mg/L) was observed during the analysis of MN and NMN by the present LC-MS/MS method in a patient urine specimen being screened for the cause of secondary hypertension. Chlorpromazine, desipramine, and ephedrine sulfate are among the drugs known to interfere in the colorimetric or HPLC assays. Chlorpromazine, desipramine, ephedrine sulfate, E, NE, or D added to patient urine samples had no effect on the analysis of MN or NMN by the LC-MS/MS method. Ten different urine samples to which desipramine, ephedrine sulfate, and chlorpromazine had been added had mean differences of −2.3% for MN and 1.8% for NMN compared with the baseline samples. The samples to which acetaminophen had been added had mean differences of 4.2% for MN and 4.1% for NMN compared with baseline. The samples with added E, NE, and D had mean differences of 3.9% for MN and −5.2% for NMN compared with baseline values.
The Q1 scan in the positive-ion mode for MN shows a small parent ion peak at m/z 198, the expected location of the [M+1] ion, and a larger ion peak at m/z 180. The m/z 180 peak indicates a loss of H2O during electrospray ionization in the Q1 scan [M+1 − H2O]. [M+1 − H2O] protonated molecules have also been reported with derivatized catecholamines (22). We chose the m/z 180 parent ion to maximize the sensitivity in our method. A similar relationship for [M+1] and [M+1 − H2O] was seen in the Q1 scans of NMN, d3-MN, and d3-NMN. The acceptable precision, recovery, and linearity data for all of our experiments indicate that this loss of H2O in the Q1 scan from MN and NMN during ionization in electrospray mode is consistent. The shorter run time used to obtain chromatograms and calculate MN and NMN substantially improved turnaround time and sample throughput for the analysis of urine metanephrines compared with the colorimetric and HPLC methods. The use of deuterium-labeled MN and NMN compounds with chromatographic and ionization properties similar to those of MN and NMN is one of the major strengths of the LC-MS/MS method and provides consistent and accurate recoveries. The correlation of the LC-MS/MS method with the colorimetric and HPLC methods was acceptable. The inter- and intraassay CVs were comparable to those for a previously reported urine HPLC method (23). The detection limit for the assay was established as 10 μg/L based on a CV of <15% for interassay imprecision at the low end of the concentration range.
Several drugs commonly used by patients with hypertension cause interference in colorimetric and HPLC assays. Acetaminophen, for example, has been reported as an interferent in HPLC assays (24) and may require patients to discontinue drug therapy for sample collection. Acetaminophen had no effect on MN or NMN quantification by the LC-MS/MS method. Recently, the HPLC method has eliminated the acetaminophen interference (20), but it requires a longer run time. In general, no major interference was observed during analysis of MN or NMN in urine specimens screened for pheochromocytoma. However, low recovery of the metanephrines was seen in several samples during our validation studies, which was probably attributable to interfering substances in the samples that adsorb to and saturate the binding sites of the cartridge packing. The problem of low recovery in the above circumstances was easily resolved by diluting the samples 1:2 or 1:5 with RO H2O.
An elution study with the cartridges, where methanol concentrations were varied in 50 mL/L intervals, showed that all MN and NMN was removed from the cartridge at between 50 and 200 mL/L methanol. The 200 mL/L methanol elution removes little of the sample matrix from the cartridge, providing a clean eluate for direct injection into the LC-MS/MS system. It was determined experimentally that two washes (700 mL/L methanol and absolute methanol) were needed to remove the bulk of sample matrix from the cartridge so that the cartridge could be reused. Recovery was consistent throughout the five uses of the cartridge in the carryover study, with no sample-to-sample contamination. Sample pH in two samples was evaluated at pH 4–8 in steps of 1 pH unit to assess optimum sample pH for cartridge extraction. Recovery of the stable isotopes was considerably low at pH 4 or 5, but was acceptable and consistent at pH 6–8.
The LC-MS/MS method for urinary conjugated metanephrines has been validated and implemented in our clinical laboratory and has replaced the colorimetric and HPLC-EC methods. This has improved the analysis turnaround time and also the concern of clinicians about unreliable results reported by the colorimetric assay. The new assay would not require discontinuation of the administered drugs that cause analytical interferences in the colorimetric and HPLC-EC assays. However, drugs known to cause physiologic increases in catecholamines or metanephrines would need consideration during the evaluation of pheochromocytoma.
We are participating in an Institution Review Board-approved study to determine the specificity of the urinary MN and NMN LC-MS/MS method with 100% sensitivity for the detection of pheochromocytoma. The LC-MS/MS method also has the potential to measure fractionated plasma free metanephrines, which will provide analytical advantages similar to those discussed for urinary metanephrines. At present we are developing an efficient extraction and chromatographic procedure with detection limits in the range of 30–100 ng/L for plasma free metanephrines. It is very likely that in the future, with the implementation of LC-MS/MS methodology in an endocrine laboratory, the analysis of plasma free metanephrines and urinary conjugated metanephrines may be the best tests for biochemical evidence of pheochromocytoma. Several studies have already suggested poor specificity of urine catecholamines and vanillylmandelic acid tests for the workup of pheochromocytoma patients. The LC-MS/MS methods for metanephrines will not only prevent expensive follow-up imaging studies by eliminating false positives reported with the previous methods, but will also allow analysis without taking patients off drugs necessary for management of hypertension.
In conclusion, this assay is accurate, precise, and linear for the measurement of urinary MN and NMN and has relatively high throughput. It offers advantages over colorimetric, immunoassay, HPLC, and GC-MS methods in regard to interferences, deuterated internal standard, sample turnaround time, and lack of derivatization. These analytical advantages indicate that this method may be used as a reference method and may provide a tool for the development of proficiency testing material.
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December 4, 2019 Written by Admin
The Competition Commission’s Grocery Retail Inquiry has found national supermarket chains are putting small, independent players out of business – and wants to put a stop to it.
Sitting in the witness chair at the Parktonian Protea Hotel in De Korte Street Johannesburg in early June 2017, Mphuthi Mphuthi accused South Africa’s shopping malls of being an “extension of the big business agenda”.
Mphuthi, the chairperson of Soweto Business Access, was testifying before the Competition Commission’s Grocery Retail Inquiry, which held hearings around the country in 2017.
Mphuthi told the inquiry: “The malls are biased towards big business.” He argued that if independent black retailers are allowed into a mall, they are only given 12- to 18-month leases, which are more expensive than the long-term ones provided to big business. Mall management justifies this by saying they don’t trust small retailers.
This practice amounts to “rent protection” for big business at the expense of small black businesses, Mphuthi argues.
Short leases also mean a rent increase with each new period, so independent black retailers find their rent escalating dramatically over a five-year period.
“We are on our knees.
The shopping malls are killing us,” Mphuthi said. “And they are not ploughing [the money] back into the townships.” He contrasted the R100-million remuneration package received by former Shoprite Holdings chief executive officer Whitey Basson in the previous fiscal year to the plight of small retailers, who were being squeezed out of the market by South Africa’s big four grocery retailers — Spar, Woolworths, Shoprite/Checkers and Pick n Pay/Boxer. These big players make up 64% of the grocery retail sector.
Prevent, distort or restrict
Almost two and a half years later, the Competition Commission’s Grocery Retail Market Inquiry released its 657-page final report last week. One of its findings is that charging smaller tenants higher rents than larger anchor tenants in malls is “generally widespread”.
“The inquiry is cognisant of the need to ensure there is a balanced treatment of tenants, premised on the principles of fairness and transparency,” reads the report.
It calls for fair and transparent rental agreements for all retail businesses and has given property businesses six months for voluntary compliance, otherwise government regulation will follow.
The report highlights a number of features in the grocery retail market that “prevent, distort or restrict” competition in the market, which ultimately affects the consumer’s choices at the till. The features distorting the market were identified as long-term exclusive lease agreements signed between grocery retail chains and mall landlords, some of which can last for up to 30 years, and the buying power these large grocery chains have when purchasing products from suppliers, both of which have an impact on the ability of smaller players to compete.
The inquiry also points to failures in government’s various regulatory frameworks, which should play a role in regulating the market. The result is that independent, family-orientated businesses in rural and non-urban areas are being replaced by the bigger players.
‘They just undercut people’
Back in June 2017, the inquiry also heard testimony from Mokoka Moagi. Moagi’s meat supply shop in Sebokeng is a longstanding, independent business. But slowly malls were developed in the area, and since 2008 there are more than five of them within 6km of the butchery.
He testified that as a result, revenue dipped drastically and Moagi had to lay off six of his staff, leaving him with a workforce of four. Mphuthi pointed out that opening specials used by retailers in a new mall have put independent businesses out of business.
He recalled the opening of a new supermarket 10 years ago where bread was sold at below cost as an opening special. This, he claimed, put a number of small retailers out of business. “They just undercut people who are already operating in the township.”
The report describes the entry of Shoprite into the spaza shop segment of the grocery retail sector via its Usave e-Kasi brand as “very concerning”. It argues that this move will have the effect of “obliterating ordinary spaza shops” and calls for urgent policy intervention from government.
Sustained pattern of behaviour
According to the report, there “appears to be a sustained pattern of behavior” between supermarket chains, property developers and grocery suppliers, in relation to the long-term, exclusive leases and rebates paid by suppliers to the supermarket chains. These leases and rebates entrench the big supermarket chains’ dominance in the market and raise barriers to entry for independent players.
The inquiry found that there was an “unequal bargaining framework” in the market in relation to supplier rebates paid to supermarket chains, with grocery suppliers unable to walk away from negotiations with national supermarket chains as they were a “critical” route to market.
It found there was “no clear rationale” for the larger rebates paid to supermarket chains versus the lesser ones paid to smaller players, besides “buyer power”. Even when an independent grocery retailer was a larger customer for a supplier than a chain supermarket, the chain would get a better rebate. Smaller black farmers who can’t afford the rebates required by supermarket chains are squeezed out of the grocery chain.
Long-term exclusive leases
The inquiry established that the “vast majority” of Shoprite and Spar leases contain exclusivity provisions, while the “majority” of Pick n Pay leases do too. “In essence the current exclusive leases prevent emerging chains from developing to the point where they can suitably play the anchor tenant role in new developments,” reads the report. “There is very limited evidence of the emerging challenger retailers such as OBC, Fruit and Veg City, Liquor City and Choppies being allowed to enter shopping centres.” It found the reasoning for the long-term exclusive leases for national supermarket chains “not compelling”.
The report made a number of recommendations for remedial action. National supermarket chains must immediately cease from enforcing exclusivity clauses in existing leases against small to medium enterprises, specialty stores and other grocery retailers and no new leases can include exclusivity clauses.
Replaced by chains
The inquiry also flagged the use of “usage clauses” in leases, aimed to identify potential areas of business that a retail chain may want to go into in the future, but is not currently operating in at the present time. “The inquiry finds that this conduct is akin to the national supermarket retail chains carving out potential product markets they may want to enter in the future,” reads the report. The inquiry points to evidence that independent retailers had their leases terminated once the retail chain began to operate in a new market that was stipulated under the usage clause.
Back in 2017, the inquiry heard testimony from Manny de Atouguia, the CEO of Liquor City. He shared his experiences of being pushed out of malls where he had operated for years because the supermarket decided to open its own liquor store in the mall. “This has been a trend since 2003,” said De Atouguia. “Independent retailers are told to get out and are replaced with supermarket liquor stores.” He claimed that since 2003, 70% of independent liquor retailers have shut down and estimated that more than 60 000 jobs have been lost.
Twenty-four Liquor City stores have been shut down in the past two years. In one case, the bottle store had been operating in a shopping centre since 1996, but was pushed out by a supermarket chain in 2014. In that particular case, all 14 of De Atouguia’s staff lost their jobs, and nine were still unemployed when he testified in 2017. In another centre, De Atouguia’s rent was increased by 300% after a major supermarket chain acquired a share of the mall.
It’s clear that the Competition Commission and government have a busy six months ahead of them.
If the proposed remedies are successful, small independent retail players like De Atouguia’s Liquor City will be protected from the behaviour he testified about in 2017 and the big four supermarket players will be facing a lot more competition.
For the consumer this will mean more choice and lower prices.
This article was first published by New Frame.
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Plain and Simple: Making the Case for Fair Treatment of Trans Students
by Laura Kiritsy, Manager of Public Education
GLAD has litigated two cases in Bangor, Maine. The first was Bragdon v. Abbott, in which Senior Attorney Ben Klein represented a woman with HIV who was denied treatment by a dentist who had a written policy of refusing to treat anybody with HIV. Ben argued that case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he won a landmark victory in 1998 that established anti-discrimination protections for people with HIV under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Fourteen years later, Ben and I drove the 440-mile round trip in his 2001 Honda Civic DX (with manual locks and windows) back and forth to Bangor so he could argue another important case, Doe v. Clenchy. GLAD is representing Susan Doe (a pseudonym), a transgender girl who had her education disrupted when the public school she attended did an “about face” by excluding her from the girls’ bathroom after a male student repeatedly harassed her.
The hearing took place on Wednesday in Penobscot County Superior Court in downtown Bangor before Judge William R. Anderson. The day before his court appearance, Ben followed his standard argument preparation on our drive to Northern Maine. First, he lowered the volume of the Glee soundtrack and treated me to a preview of his argument on the drive up. It was nearly flawless, although I didn’t interrupt with umpteen questions, as judges often do. Then, after a sumptuous dinner at the local Longhorn Steakhouse, Ben retreated to his hotel room for a final review of his notes and a session of yoga and meditation. Meanwhile, I retreated to my room to eat a Snicker’s bar and watch a Civil War documentary.
At counsel table along with Ben were Jennifer Levi, the director of our Transgender Rights Project; John Gause, counsel for the Maine Human Rights Commission, which is also a party to the case, and Jodi Nofsinger, a Maine attorney who is also part of our litigation team. Susan, who is now a sophomore in high school, was seated close behind them, along with her very supportive mother and father.
To give some context for this case, Maine has a statewide law prohibiting discrimination against people based on gender identity and expression in all areas, including public education and public accommodations, plain and simple. To defend against what otherwise seems to be a cut and dry case of discrimination, the school has pointed to a Maine Human Rights Commission regulation that permits schools to have separate restrooms for boys and girls, a regulation the school interprets to mean it can ignore a student’s gender identity in that one instance.
Ben countered that the Commission’s regulation cannot override the state’s non-discrimination law, making his arguments quite thoroughly and forcefully, despite the anticipated barrage of questions from the judge. He made the case that the plain language of Maine’s non-discrimination law prohibits the school from denying a girl access to facilities that other girls use simply because she’s transgender. Lastly, he argued that the school violated the law because not only did it exclude Susan from the girls’ bathroom thereby treating her differently than all other girls, it forced her to use a separate facility thereby treating her differently than all other students.
Ben was satisfied that the arguments “went as well as they could have,” as the judge really seemed to be wrestling with the issues presented in the case. That’s a common experience; our litigation frequently raises new and novel legal issues that judges are often encountering for the first time. Indeed, just as Judge Anderson is wrestling with the rights of transgender people, the judge in the Bragdon case wrestled with the issue of proper access to care for people living with HIV/ AIDS 14 years earlier. Now, it’s simply a no-brainer that people can’t be discriminated against in any setting because of their HIV/AIDS status. We’re working toward the day when treating transgender people equally and respectfully is also a no-brainer.
As with so many of our cases, we understand that the argument before Judge Anderson is just the first step in a long process that may potentially lead to a full trial, and ultimately a decision from the Maine Law Court, the state’s highest court. So now, we await a ruling.
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I think I'm done with Constructor. There is no campaign mode as such, so the only real option is to try and complete one of the 'mission' modes, which are just things like 'earn $1,000,000'. I think the real fun would have been in multiplayer - singleplayer just doesn't have the depth of, say, Civ or one of the other city builders. So what is Constructor? it's a city building sim where you have a city map made up of plots of land that you can purchase from the council to build upon. You can then build housing (of various levels) or different commerce or manufacturing buildings, such as lumber yards or cement yards that both increase your resources and the amount of different building options you have. You can also construct specialised buildings such as communes that allow you to send hippies off to disrupt your opponent's building plans, or pizza parlours that allow you to buy the favours of the local mafioso. Yes, it's that kind of game - serious on one hand and comedic on the other. That kind of interaction is what would make it pretty cool multiplayer - including actually fairly decent (in a low-poly '90s way) videos for each building/person. As I say, though, go under the comedy and it rapidly reveals itself to be a fairly complex business sim with a lot of numbers to juggle in order to progress into the upper echelons of the game. I'm rubbish at these types of games, and don't really enjoy them that much, but I surprised myself here and actually felt like I was doing okay in the time I played with it.I know that I only scratched the surface, but I'm ready to move on.
Next up on the randometer is...Targhan! Never heard of it. Looks like a side-scrolling barbarian beat-em-up from 1989. Golden Axe crossed with Conan. Might be fun.
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Why Creating 250,000 Jobs Is An Impossible Task Uh oh….Mike Ellis ain’t happy with Scott Walker!
Democratic establishment prefers uncontested Democratic gubernatorial primary
By Zach W On August 28, 2013 · 76 Comments · In Election 2014, Wisconsin Politics
Yeah, because the Democratic Party of Wisconsin hand-picking the Democratic gubernatorial candidate worked out so well for us in 2010…
Should Madison School Board member Mary Burke run for governor in 2014, she would be the Democratic Party’s frontrunner and could clear all other credible candidates from the field, state party chairman Mike Tate said Wednesday.
“If (Burke) were to run she’d be an instant frontrunner and an exceedingly difficult opponent for Scott Walker,” Tate said, adding that she has put in more work than other potential candidates by traveling the state talking with local activists, business leaders and voters.
According to the same report, DPW Chari Mike Tate told Winnebago County Executive Mark Harris, who is also considering running for governor as a Democrat, that he would prefer not to have a contested primary “so that the top Democratic candidate could start raising money as soon as possible.”
Personally, I wouldn’t mind seeing a contested Democratic primary. While I understand why Mike Tate wants to be able to have a Democratic gubernatorial candidate focus on raising money to counter Gov. Walker’s prodigious fundraising ability, I’d rather see Democrats end up with a gubernatorial candidate that we can be excited about, rather than a candidate we’re forced to support simply because we had no other options.
Tagged with: Mark Harris • Mary Burke • Mike Tate
76 Responses to Democratic establishment prefers uncontested Democratic gubernatorial primary
capper says:
Seems to me that you were a big Barrett supporter and didn’t want others running. Also seems with your support of Act 14, you weren’t so keen on democracy. What changed?
Zach Wisniewski says:
capper, I supported Barrett because we had no other candidate, but that didn’t stop me from interviewing the one Democratic opponent Barrett did have. In fact, if you look back through what I’ve written over the years, I’ve long been a proponent of contested primaries. Also-point out where I wrote I didn’t want others running, because I sure don’t remember writing that.
As for my support of changes to the County Board, I simply don’t see the need for Milwaukee County to stand alone among Wisconsin’s counties with a full time board. Milwaukee County survived for over 100 years with a part-time board.
And the talking point that a part-time board somehow equals less democracy isn’t any more convincing coming from you than it is coming from Jeff Simpson.
EmmaR says:
Remember Feingold’s quirky low-budget campaign? But that was in another country, and besides, the guy has given up on Wisconsin. Walker is so close to the top echelon of his rotten, inhuman party, he can taste it. His ambitions will only mean more regressive policies leading up to 2016 if he’s re-elected. Walker is beatable by a candidate with boatloads of money and a broad message. Harris is interesting but if he has no chance of raising money, then it’s pointless. Same for Vinehout. They’re out there shaking the trees so if they back away, then there’s just no funding for Democratic candidates to run state-wide. I can’t imagine they’d back away just on Tate’s say-so. Besides why assume Burke will be no good? Couldn’t many of the same criticisms have applied to Herb Kohl as well?
Herb Kohl had a lot more $ for his time, but $ alone is not what made him a great candidate for U.S. Senate in 1988. Herb Kohl is a former DPW chair and many of the county party leaders were familiar with him, which actually helped Kohl because in that time period a lot of the county party leaders were dairy farmers. Kohl had great business relationships around the state and was really well known and liked in the Milwaukee area.
Kohl still had to win a contested Democratic primary against some prominent Democrats in Wisconsin- Ed Garvey, Tony Earl, and Doug La Follette. The 1988 general election was not easy, but Kohl was elected US Senator.
Mary Burke could be a good candidate but she is no Herb Kohl.
Aaron Camp says:
Mary Burke voted AGAINST a reasonable pay raise for Madison teachers and a property tax increase that was necessary to replace the money that Scott Walker took away from the second-largest school district in Wisconsin. Burke is effectively a supporter of Scott Walker’s War on Public Education in Wisconsin.
The only reason that Mary Burke is even contemplating running against Scott Walker is because she knows that Karen Vieth and Kati Walsh are going to run a pro-public education candidate against her if she runs for re-election to the Madison School Board, and Burke would probably lose re-election.
Of course she did because no one votes for a tax increase right before they run for state-wide office. Unless they’re a moron. And it certainly didn’t impact the outcome. BTW, your casual assumption that Madison homeowners are a well to keep going to time and again is precisely why no Progressive candidate can win state-wide For the foreseeable future. The voters will reject anyone advocating higher taxes. The message must be growth, growth, growth.
John Casper says:
Emma, I agree 1,000%.
The deficit hawks have destroyed the economy. The numbers don’t lie.
http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2009/4/28/313467-124094464431879-One-Eyed-Guide_origin.png
It’s not government deficits that are dragging down the economy, it’s “lost output.” http://www.lostoutputclock.com/
DEMAND is slack. We need a holiday from the highly regressive payroll tax. That would be a 7.5% raise to every U.S. worker. It would also give 7.5% back to their employers. Every dollar earned above around $107,000 is EXEMPT from the payroll tax. That’s what makes it so regressive.
“Balanced budgets,” are the expressway to poverty. When the economy is at full employment and there’s INFLATIONARY pressure, THEN you raise taxes. Right now we need “counter-cyclical” investment from the FEDERAL government. And it cannot be to Wall Street for “paper profits.” It has to be for infrastructure investment, green supply chains, a FEDERAL job guarantee at the minimum wage for every able-bodied American who wants to work http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/07/a-plan-for-all-the-detroits-out-there.html , health care, education, research….
Democrats cannot be the party of high taxes and expect to win elections.
Emma, I agree nobody votes to raise taxes before an election. The issue here is she could have voted for the raise and against the taxes. There were two different votes on the two different issue. She didn’t even bother to play both sides, she didn’t abstain, she flat out voted against public workers. That doesn’t inspire me to go bust my ass knocking doors, making calls and working the campaign. While money may be key in elections, no Democrat in Wisconsin is going to compete with Walker in the money game even if they do put 5 million into the race personally so when you are already down in the financial game you probably shouldn’t alienate your likely campaign volunteers.
The fact is this statement by Tate trying to kill a primary where we get the chance to elect an actual progressive, run on some ideas, listen to the base and maybe have a meaningful conversation about government and public services is incredibly disappointing. I can’t imagine how he managed to keep his job leading the party considering his attitude towards actual Democrats and his track record of electing anyone at all.
She abstained on the budget and voted no on the tax levy, correct? Again, probably the correct tactic prior to announcing for state-wide office. Too bad for the teachers getting 1.5 percent but everyone up and down the state is getting shafted by their employers and now teachers are too. Doesn’t make it right, just means we have to try to change the system for everyone. Don’t like her personally, then help get more Progressives elected to the legislature instead.
Emma,
Growth, growth, growth is the lie. Therefore, it shouldn’t be the message and it shouldn’t be the goal. We have historical growth, growth, growth. Growth and certainly growth alone is not what sustains a society of individuals. The message should consist of undoing the “tax-hate” propaganda. I’m unfamiliar with the specifics that you, Aaron, and Paul refer, that said – If Burke voted against a tax levy for political expediency prior to an election (as you suggest) then she’s not governing and she’s unfit to govern. She doesn’t have the strength to do what needs to be done. You are correct when you say that we must change the system for everyone and the place that change must occur first is the public sector. The public sector must serve as the template otherwise we will be in a never-ending race to the bottom.
So tax WI families more for public workers’ raises and worry later about whether those families are financially secure? You realize that’s completely insane, right? Good luck getting anyone past the idea of paying more taxes while Wisconsin lags in so many economic indicators. A new governor will have to leave the tax cut in place.
Cutting taxes and devastating the take home pay of public workers has been the utterly predictable cause of the economic problems in Wisconsin. We are a consumer based economy and nobody can afford to consume. Look at Minnesota, they increased taxes and they are doing fantastic compared to us. They have Democratic control of every branch of government after campaigning for public workers, public services, increased progressive taxation and the value of government along with gay marriage and a host of social issues. It is not impossible to win elections as a principled and consistent liberal. You may think the tactic appropriate but it would absolutely cost her my support. I won’t make calls, knock doors or send money to anyone who isn’t with public workers.
Wisconsin’s economy went down the tubes before not after Walker went after public workers. It didn’t help and it was vengeful, it made things worse, but it’s not the cause. A principled liberal or centrist would actually want to help all working families and they wouldn’t carve out a special group for their attention. Public workers advocating only their own personal economic interests will be a mill stone around any candidate’s neck this election. Public workers advocating a broad message will not.
Before Act 10 and the budget were passed Wisconsin was 11th in job creation. We’ve seen where we are since Walker passed his budget and how far we have been left behind compared to other states in the region. Yes the economy was in trouble before Act 10, but so was everyone else’s economy in the region. That is no longer the case. We have missed most of the recovery when you look at Wisconsin in the context of it’s neighbors. When Act 10 was examined by economists they clearly predicted that it would cause massive damage and not just to public workers. The reports are out there by the Institute for Wisconsin’s Future and they were spot on.
However, I in no way advocate for any politicians speaking solely to the interests of public workers and have never said anything to that effect. My position is simply that ignoring the interests of public workers is stupid for anyone running as a Democrat in Wisconsin, not to mention how bright it is to actually vote against them. I also think it is funny for you to call anyone voting against necessary tax cuts simply for politics “principled”. A principle politician would vote in line with their beliefs and the needs of the community regardless of the politics.
What’s insane is not candidly and frankly discussing taxation or public education with your constituents or working with them to devise creative solutions to provide adequate public education which might include tapping the private sector. Insane is not articulating that starving the beast isn’t going to make families more secure. Starving the beast doesn’t save anything. Insane is not discussing with your constituents that it isn’t teachers who are exploiting and starving them, it is their corrupted state government and the private sector who are draining them in the long and short terms. Now, whether or not Mary Burke attempted to do any of that I don’t know. As I said, I’m not familiar with the situation so I’m out of my element. But what’s insane is thinking one can govern a municipality, a state, or a nation without revenue and that historically low taxation is somehow sustainable. You’re perpetuating Walker’s divide and conquer strategy. You should be ashamed.
PJ,
fwiw, under the hashtag #MMT (Modern Monetary Theory), there are a bunch of smart people @wbmosler @stephaniekelton … who argue quite cogently that taxes do NOT fund the FEDERAL government. The role of taxes, and this comes right from Paul Sammuelson’s Economics text book, is to “manage aggregate demand.” That’s a fancy way of saying “manage inflation.”
“The Fable of Moral Arithmetic” is an excellent and accessible introduction into a very complex topic. http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/05/anonymous-the-fable-of-moral-arithmetic.html
Inflation, food, technology, clean water, and other natural resources are all REAL constraints on the economy. The fiat currency (in the U.S. that’s the dollar) is not. Through the use of “functional finance,” the currency can help husband REAL constraints. From there you get low-tax conservatives (Mosler, Kelton,… #MMT) arguing for “liberal” solutions like universal health care coverage, a federal, minimum wage job guarantee, much greater investments in education and research….
Mosler gave this short speech to conservative Dems in Dallas in 2010 http://moslereconomics.com/2010/02/04/dallas-address/
Unfortunately, the “deficit hawks” control the media and both parties. Per Emma’s point about the need for growth, the deficit hawks are strangling the economy.
Mosler uses the analogy of butter to unemployed workers. If you leave butter out too long, it becomes rancid. If workers are unemployed too long, their skills deteriorate and they become unemployable. That’s why he’s so adamant about the need for the FEDERAL government to be “the employer of last resort,” and that acts as a buffer stock of workers for the private sector.
What matters is sustainable productivity. The economy must grow, and those advances have to be shared with workers. Mosler, Kelton, #MMT see income disparity as a very real threat brought on by the deficit hawk’s archaic understanding of money.
Mosler, Kelton, #MMT are very big on FEDERAL block grants to the states. They emphasize on LOCAL control.
Even if a lot of Dems don’t buy #MMT, imho, there’s still widespread agreement that Milton Freidman’s economics have been completely debunked. They just flat don’t work. We’re all Keynesians now.
Agreed. We should be paying more attention to MMT. As you point out, Mosler draws some sensible conclusions about the role of the Fed, no argument there. But, the role of the Fed isn’t the only role the government plays, or should I say, could play. We will have to agree to disagree on that point and probably on Mosler when he posits a structural explanation for our labor woes; it is a recipe for inaction and an acquiescence to subservience. And it’s the same case Obama and every Conservative-Libertarian makes – Mosler just uses different rhetoric to express it. We will have to agree to disagree on government’s position in the economy – first or last resort and/or continual involvement in between resorts. As to growth, I’d be interested in how you scale the macroeconomic principles you’ve outlined to the state level.
As to Mosler’s definition of traditional Democratic values – of the Jeffersonian variety in particular – he’s so off the mark that the mark is no longer visible. Limited government didn’t refer to the physical size of the governing apparatus nor its level of activity. Limited government refers solely to the structural concentration of power and the degree of representative aspect. Globalized trade existed for thousands of years prior to the emerging capitalism in the 18th century – of which the Founders were quite aware and what they sought to mitigate – even the staunchest Hamiltonians and Hamilton himself. Competitive markets were not a solution by any means if competition implied pitting states or economic sectors against one another. More to the point, Mosler (and we as a society) are only discussing one sector dominating the entire economy – the financialization of the economy – which Jefferson and Madison for that matter staunchly opposed. A society of individuals all with diverse talents (but particularly agriculturalists – slave owning and non) beholden to capitalization was precisely what Jefferson sought to avoid. So, in every sense, Mosler isn’t even speaking the same language as Jefferson. That’s not to say he’s altogether incorrect in his explanation of macroeconomics, but he is incorrect in ascribing the context of financialization or capitalization in any iteration as a Jeffersonian value. He’s quite wrong about core values being lower taxes – he’d do well to remember that when George Washington was exiting the presidency he warned against embracing fervent Anti-Taxation as one of the death knells of the Republic. Anti-Taxation was never a core value nor an implied component when creating the new government and the new society. Progressive taxation was valued as was taxing only the wealthy. But not low taxation – the core issue following the Revolution and through the Constitutional Convention debates was revenue generation and government intervention into “competitive” markets that were devastating the livelihoods of average people. Mosler may value competitive markets, so-called fiscal responsibility, and so-called limited government but he’s not expressing founding values. What he’s doing here looks like the kind of redefinition of Progressivism instantiated by the DLC. Altogether Mosler looks more like a DLC-Clintonian. His overall stance on the economy resembles Obama’s pro-growth, market-driven, private sector-oriented approach than not. So his shrill admonitions are a bit dishonest if you ask me, certainly his attempt to redefine Progressive founding ideals is either dishonest or a Conservative-Libertarian inspired misconception. Either way, he articulates wrong-headed ideals in the same way that Obama and other Conservative Democrats do.
Fiscal responsibility has a lovely ring to it, but is a meaningless term if it applies only to cutting and/or resistance to spending, and/or it doesn’t pragmatically address revenue generation, redistribution and active creation of a public commons. The latter items being more in alignment with fiscal responsibility as understood in an 18th century context by both Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians alike. Likewise, a payroll tax holiday, of course, enjoys a degree of surface appeal if Mosler’s calculations can be taken at face value. I’m not expressing outright rejection to it, but… I would add that a while a payroll tax holiday might make some sense as one component in an integrated agenda, it does not make sense in isolation. And it isn’t a permanent solution. And, if I’m not mistaken, Mosler envisions a payroll tax holiday that differs from the most recent payroll tax holidays by eliminating contributions from both employer and employee. I could be wrong on that, but I believe in the most recent tax holidays from 2010-2012 employer contributions to the payroll tax remained constant and the 2% cut from employees resulted in a “savings” (an incorrect use of the term, admitted) of about 1000 per year for an individual income of $50,000. If Mosler is suggesting that the Social Security withholding tax rate be reduced by 15 percentage points, meaning to zero and both employee and employer contributions be reduced by that amount, then I question its validity. It looks like a faux-populist device for defunding Social Security. And it looks pretty regressive. Lifting the cap is probably enough. I guess I’m also kind of confused as to which withholding level Mosler refers. If it’s both employee and employer I should think he means the PAYG, but he isn’t clear on that. No reasonable judgment can be rendered if unqualified by an entire explication of how the withholding system works, how it is supposed to work, and what it is intended to achieve.
Mosler also applies the magical thinking of competitive markets to suggest a link that correlates lower business taxes directly with lower prices. Overly dependently so. However, there’s no mechanism here to ensure that businesses will or must do anything differently than they have been doing in any sphere – be it pricing or raising wages or providing benefits or any supply-side action that might even remotely benefit individuals in the long or short terms with respect to stability. The invisible hand isn’t doing its job. There’s nothing inherently linkable to a payroll tax cut and lower consumer prices. I’d be more interested in Mosler’s ideas of what we do with one trillion dollars in revenue. And it would appear to me given his dichotomous stance on financial reform, the interests he’s protecting are big finance, big banks, and big business; he’s doing so by implying a populous veneer.
I didn’t finish reading Mosler’s speech so bear that in mind when evaluating my comments. I only skimmed the second half. I’m somewhat familiar with his work, though, and I tend to find it a little disjointed. He’s not altogether off in every respect, but I do think his overconfidence in competitive markets is his weak point. We may have to agree to disagree on the overall value of Mosler’s perspective.
Perhaps if there is another post more applicable to Mosler and macroeconomics you can clarify further, unless you have some ideas for how a federal payroll tax cut that eliminates the Social Security revenue stream applies to state-level governance. This is an important matter, JC, but I’m not sure it’s quite fair to hijack the thread away from the governor’s race in Wisconsin to discuss it.
Also, though you’ve probably heard by now, the DOJ gave some leeway for states and their obligations to federal marijuana laws. Probably not as extensive as you’d like, but thought you might be interested in the event you hadn’t heard the news:
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/08/29/20248104-colorado-washington-get-ok-from-feds-on-marijuana
From whom did the U.S. borrow the money to fight World War II?
Depends on what you mean by borrow, I suppose. You mean the war bonds and the withholding tax? I’ll bite so you can spout, but please try not to drag the thread too far astray.
Hope you liked the marijuana link.
I rather think it’s insane to judge a candidate before you’ve studied her positions, as you admitted in your last post. Or maybe it’s just immature. If you don’t want to give her a chance then don’t. Me? I’m prepared to listen and I only expect progress in small steps. The deficit hawk, pro-austerity, tax cut types have all the power in our state and the electorate here bought in and will only allow gradual movement back to the center for now. We could focus more on the long- term, get more progressives in the legislature and then we’ll really get somewhere!
I conceded that I didn’t know enough about Burke to form an opinion about her. I don’t have an opinion about her. My remarks about her actions were based solely on information given here by you and others. When I receive more information about her, I’ll revise. If keeping one’s mind open while drawing upon one’s knowledge and experience is insane and immature, then I’ll just sit over here at the kid’s table for a nice vantage point while watching centrist “adults” insensibly cannibalize their own citizenry. Perhaps preparing to listen isn’t so key as actively listening now. I’m actively listening in the here and now. I’m not preparing to listen. I’m listening. And I’ll listen to you – In your view, why would Mary Burke make a good governor?
You seem to have taken an opposite tack now. Earlier you expressed such urgency about evil with respect to parents watching their children starve but now your expectation is progress in small steps. I’m trying to put this together. So, we should expect parents to watch their children starve now, and for the next decade, and for another two generations because our expectation of progress is slow… And when should we be outraged? Now or in the future? Should I be making some distinction here between families? Or should I be outraged at some families and not others? And taxes = starving children. Sounds a little insane to me. Sounds undiscerning. Sounds exactly like the kind of blurred thinking that permeates a population saturated with obfuscating propaganda.
We should do what it takes to get Walker out. Wisconsin’s electorate will only allow this on centrist terms and that means progress will be gradual. I don’t particularly like it, either.
The pace of change is what we make it, Emma. If you want to see rapid progress, drop the inertia.
You’ve twice succumbed to Divide and Conquer. By doing so you’re serving up Walker’s second term on a silver platter. Democratic Centrism didn’t defeat Walker – twice. Nationally in 2012, Democratic Centrism shifted “Independents” to Romney. Your electorate theory isn’t supported by empiricism. You’re perpetuating an archaic version of “conventional wisdom” that no longer applies.
And Big Money didn’t win a heck of a lot for the Radical Right Wing in 2012 either. Karl Rove’s epic failures at making good on big money investments into electoral politics just might change the way Big Money invests in elections, which might play to our advantage. If Walker becomes too toxic or too risky an investment the money fountain might not pour forth in the deluge it did previously. A populist groundswell can defeat Big Money. It isn’t easy, but it’s doable. It can’t be done by retrenchment and it certainly can’t be done by succumbing to divide and conquer.
You’re also assuming the electorate can only understand simplistic solutions to complex problems when you insist on messaging with easy Conservative memes. Give them more credit.
Because clearly the tax cuts Scott Walker and the rubber-stamp Republicans have implemented have been so successful at creating jobs and/or stimulating our state’s economy.
Beats me why more of the public doesn’t see what he’s done to the state more clearly.
Who is the “pro-public” or “pro-union” candidate for Governor? Is there a consensus on that?
Ben, I’d like to see Wisconsin progressives hold a “Progressives Against Mary Burke” convention somewhere in Wisconsin. Draft up a progressive platform, have a bunch of people speak at the convention, and convince someone who has a progressive vision for Wisconsin to run against Scott Walker as a Democrat.
I’d support that. Whether it’s one candidate or many, the platform should be well defined. In my view, anyway.
Winning elections is great! But knowing what to do next is equally important.
Ben, I had no idea you were a “progressive.”
I thought you were anti-choice. Are you now pro-choice?
I want a “pro-middle class” candidate for governor.
I’m not saying this is a good idea, but I’ll just throw it out.
Progressives could vote for Burke without sending her any money or knocking on doors…..
Instead, could concentrate their financial resources and “sweat equity,” on state Senate races.
nonquixote says:
And on yours and my home district levels, continually hammering home the R legislator’s (Senate and Assembly) unbroken capitulation to ALEC/Walker over regular working people affiliated with either party.
Still on several Dem mailing lists from affiliation during the recalls, I got another request for donations to air an annoyingly simplistic High School level, TV commercial about Walker’s fail on creating jobs. Where have I heard that before.
Not immediately mentioning corporate/state backed fascist militarism being illegally allowed in our state, not coming out immediately with the state R’s war on women, on the poor, on our public schools on our natural environment and on voting rights and the on out of control cops at the capitol, who the hell does the DPW think they are going to influence into voting or contributing money to defeat Walker with this third time’s a charm, regurgitated milquetoast cuisine.
Looks like DPW fear of offending a corporate D upper class who are slightly p-o’ed that they are not getting the state gravy presently flowing to the R campaign donors and insiders, or are they just really not that bright?
Either via ballot initiative or candidate, imho, marijuana/hemp legalization has to be on the ballot. It’s a huge GOTV issue and I think will help the Dem candidate.
I know law enforcement unions will be upset, but just a candidate talking about it (or a ballot initiative) would put a lot of pressure on the GOP to support it.
Although the connection to pot is not immediately apparent, one of the reasons we lost thousands of commercial fishing jobs in Lake Michigan is that there are no perch. “The Decline of a Once-Great Fishery” http://www.jsonline.com/news/127244963.html
“Can Lake Michigan perch be revived?”
“The mussels are eating the food the zooplankton need,” said John Janssen, professor at UW-Milwaukee’s Great Lakes WATER Institute. “And if the zooplankton aren’t there, the young perch can’t make it.”
“It isn’t clear it would help,” said Mike Staggs, DNR fisheries chief. “And with Lake Michigan, there is the matter of scale. How many perch would need to be stocked to even be noticeable?
The lack of ideas or funding for even experiments on perch management is especially noticeable this year….”
I’m not sure how “young” perch have to be survive, but whatever the interval, it’s shorter than what Sweet Water Organics tried unsuccessfully to manage. My sense is from watching the great videos at Bright Agrotech that young perch will take up less room than adults, but their metabolisms run faster meaning they need more oxygen, and generate more waste/ammonia, the poisonous front-end of the nitrogen cycle.
If you’re growing a cash crop like marijuana, are there synergies with raising perch for stocking in Lake Michigan?
If anyone knows what the DNR hatcheries currently do with the fish waste in their water, that might be a starting point for a “working prototype,” with medical marijuana.
Perch might not be the ideal fish for aquaponics, but imho aquaponics and marijuana make a helluva lot of sense for Wisconsin.
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/outdoors/can-lake-michigan-perch-be-revived-b9971872z1-219130691.html
Jake formerly of the LP says:
Tate has got to stop with the calculating, insider game. You know what raises a lot of money? Inspiring candidates like the 2008 Barack Obama and Elizabeth Watren’s campaign in 2012. Message needs to be the key, not money.
In addition, an unknown quantity like Mary Burke doesn’t deserved the field to be cleared for her. Tammy Baldwin had 20 years of legislative background and support when she ran for Senate, Burke has nothing like that.
Lets have the Dem VOTERS test and decide the candidate, and define themselves in the Summer of 2014. And the extra bonus from a primary? It’s be more likely to boot clowns like David Clarke and Brett Hulsey out in the same election.
Speaking of the message, the one given in an email update by my county’s D leadership last spring, while initially getting schooled on the 72-county game plan from DPW, prior to any discussion with local membership, was that nothing potentially offensive was going to be said about the current local R candidates, so that they, the R party, would have nothing to use against the D candidates in the next election cycle.
“Don’t give them anything to use against us.”
Now that is an election winning slogan.
Obama and Warren both came from states with high income liberals, corporate liberals and possessed the national name recognition to raise money across the country. The high income WI zips mostly vote Republican, the business community has abandoned Dem’s (although Harris may have the right connections). Could Vinehout or Harris raise enough money out of state? I don’t know but that’s probably what they’re both evaluating while they decide. Neither seem to lack courage. It will just come down to money.
Yeah, it’ll come down to money, and there’s not a single one of the talked-about Democratic gubernatorial candidates who’ll be able to match Scott Walker’s fundraising ability.
Sure, Burke can pony up some of her own cash for her campaign, but I doubt she has enough loot laying around to match Walker dollar for dollar.
Ultimately, money isn’t going to beat Scott Walker; however a candidate with a great message and the ability to effectively communicate that message might just be able to.
Yes, the formula is money + great message = governor’s office.
Duane12 says:
It seems to me that Tate is saying the only qualification Mary Burke has is her big bucks.
That’s not good enough for me! We already have a Koch-rich, but incompetent, governor. Mary Burke has to prove through the primary process she has more brain and guts and stands stands head and shoulders above all other governor wannabes.
In the Olympics, even the richest athlete has to qualify for the finals.
Let the games, oops I mean, the primary begin.
I think Tate’s saying the only way to win is to accumulate enough money. It’s too bad but it’s almost certainly true. How else to win the centrist and Independent vote? Mary may indeed prove herself. For a bunch of people willing to take a community organizer, one term Senator on faith to run the country, you’re awfully negative.
Hey, EmmaR, I was and still am a Hillary guy. She was my primary pick, I voted for Obama in the finals over a Vice Prez Palin a heartbeat away from a promotion.
I’m not a fan of contested primaries just for the sake of contested primaries. A contested primary is a tactical maneuver only. Alison Lundergren-Grimes is a perfect case in point. There’s really nothing to be gained in diluting the resources in that race. Contested primaries only make sense with a deep bench filled with contenders who can genuinely compete on all fronts. They don’t make sense in a situation with no candidates in a short race or one excellent candidate regardless the campaign time. Otherwise the primary is just a waste of resources and messaging-persuasion time. And like the recall effort, time is of the essence. We need a candidate now who will take on Walker now, and with a clearly differentiated agenda. Frankly, I can’t imagine any serious candidate being “undecided” at this juncture.
If contested primary is the way to go, then Aaron’s got the seeds of a good plan. A Progressively derived agenda to which candidates must meet seems the most sensible and the best plan in terms of finding a candidate who will not only beat Walker, but govern well. Progressive activists need to develop the platform, and in so doing, remember what Democrats on the national stage forgot – Progressivism isn’t defined by the social agenda – women’s rights, LGBT rights, voter rights, worker’s rights, strengthening unionization etc. – all of that is a must-be-given portion of the platform. All Democratic candidates should be able to articulate a common-sense opposition to the radicalized regressive governance of the right. Democratic candidates shouldn’t waste time debating it amongst themselves. And they shouldn’t waste time running on Conservative platforms.
Wisconsin must reclaim Progressivism economically by reviving Progressivism’s roots (and its roots in founding ideals) by undoing the demonization of government – making the case for the role of government and the public sector. The role of government, after all, is to tax and spend for the purposes of creating a public sector in which all contribute and from which all withdraw benefit. Walker’s opponent must be clearly differentiated from Walker’s low-tax, small-government agenda. Progressives always have and always should stand for active government. Progressives always have and always should stand against the encroachment of a private sector over which the public sector has no control. Progressives shouldn’t blur any distinctions between agendas. Progressives aren’t Libertarians and Progressives aren’t Conservatives and Progressive grass roots shouldn’t accept either shade of these in any Progressive candidate. Doing so is precisely how we got a Democratic Establishment beholden to the wealthy elite and global corporate interests rather than the interests of We The People.
Ultimately, the two factors that lost the recall, in my estimation, were lack of a clearly differentiated agenda and a candidate who entered onto Walker’s field too late in the game. Ultimately, if the Democratic candidate loses to Walker a second time, that candidate must lose with agenda-integrity intact. A loss doesn’t mean a losing agenda, and that conflation should be avoided if Democrats really want to win. Democrats must govern once they win, and they must govern with sharp difference.
The Southern state strategy for Progressives is to occupy the Democratic establishment. Perhaps it’s a lesson to be learned here and now. If the Democratic Establishment in Wisconsin isn’t what you want it to be, then you’ve got to join the Democratic Party to change it from within. That certainly seems to be the success strategy in the most Progressive communities around the country. I’m not suggesting that is the winning strategy for beating Walker – just pointing it out. Grass roots takes on myriad forms.
Also, I’d like to know if the Democratic Governor’s Association has any strategies for reversing the 2010 Tea Party wave. Might make a difference for Progressive grass roots mobilization.
D’you suppose losing with agenda-integrity intact will be any consolation to parents watching their children starve? I would argue the number one priority is to beat Walker whatever it takes. It’s pure evil to risk Wisconsin families’ livelihoods and basic needs over some type of ideological purity test from the left after years of ideological purity from the right. You should be ashamed.
If the livelihoods of Wisconsin families are subject to a DLC-type of agenda or a Libertarian agenda, or a Blue Dog agenda, then Wisconsin will remain in the same rut it would be in under Walker’s thumb. It isn’t much consolation to win if Conservative governance is maintained but it has a Democratic (large D) sheen to it. It is the 21st century, Emma. To accept a candidate who is tepid on women’s rights, LGBT rights, voting rights, wealth inequality and specifically the disparities of wealth with respect to race in order to pander to the Conservative portions of the electorate perpetuates Conservative governance, and it just might be out of step with what’s happening in the rest of the country. You instantiate an inaccurate frame. The only way to win is with a winning strategy for governance combined with a winning method to message it. And beating Walker in 2014 should be regarded as tactical, not strategical – in other words, one step toward long term governance of Wisconsin – governing in the interests of the people. Walker is only a puppet for a broader Conservative agenda. Your admonishment of me is short sighted. Walker’s agenda isn’t the only one that will result in parents watching their children starve.
Walker’s candidacy as governor has never been challenged by an economic agenda sharply distinct from his Conservative one. He will not be defeated without it. Nor will any of the Koch-puppets to follow in elections to come. Ultimately, Emma, the candidate who beats Walker must not only beat him but govern better. It is no consolation for Wisconsin families or – women, white women, Latinas, Latinos, African American women, African American men, Native American women, Native American men, all Wisconsin citizens who identify as LGBT, and all who are marginalized by the Conservative social agenda… it is no consolation to any of them to seat a governor with even remotely regressive tendencies who is out of step with futurity and who will not undo regressive policies that hold everyone back. In some sense we are in the very same position we were in during the recall and the 2010 midterms. What we need to do and how we need to do it hasn’t changed. You might want to ponder evil a little more deeply, and in so doing think about who you are sacrificing to the altar of non-descript platitudes.
I disagree entirely that a centrist platform can’t take a bite out of income inequality and I would challenge you to find many centrists who are tepid on women’s, LGBT, and minority rights – and choosing not to fight when you know losing is inevitable doesn’t count. I see nothing in Burke’s career to make me think she isn’t capable of governing well and responsibly and running a clean ship. That would put us far ahead of where we are today. While I agree 100 percent that Progressive policies have the potential to do more good than centrist policies, no overt Progressive stands a chance of winning the votes needed to beat Walker in the near-term. If Vinehout runs, she will cast herself as a problem-solver, willing to find common ground, and listen to all ideas, i.e., she’ll sound very much like a centrist. And yeah, I think litmus tests are pure evil and serve only the narrow interests and ego of ideologues versus real families. No Democratic candidate should be forced to march in lock-step with a bunch of activists. Nor should any Republican for that matter, but that ship sailed long ago.
Plenty of centrists are tepid on women’s rights, LGBT rights, and minority rights – some of them called Blue Dogs. Their numbers are dwindling in Congress because their position is dwindling among the electorate. I believe the Blue Dog caucus is down to a whopping 15 members. The Blue Dog coalition is an archaic remnant just as Regressive Conservatism is an archaic remnant. If a centrist platform could take a bite out of inequality we’d see large chunks eaten away by now. Centrism doesn’t take a bite out of inequality because it promotes Trickle-Down economics from the Left end of the spectrum. That’s not what we need. Trickle-Down is not solely a Right-Wing phenomenon. It is a strategy fully entrenched among Democratic Centrists and the Center-Right; it is abdication of governance, and it is why this nation has continued to decline for decades.
I didn’t voice any opposition to Burke specifically. You make a fair point regarding her ability to organize and raise funds, and it’s an important point given Walker’s opponent will be standing off against a well-funded machine. I don’t know enough about Burke to make a decision about her. But, if her agenda is centrist and she doesn’t support doing what needs to be done then her candidacy should be called into question. If her agenda is centrist, she’ll be hard pressed differentiating herself from Walker.
Keep an eye out for Steve Carlson’s upcoming posts regarding an overt Progressive agenda and messaging. No doubt we’ll have more to flesh out then. With that said, a caveat – we shouldn’t get lulled into the Republican trap of disguising the agenda either. We have to recalibrate back to objective reality from a political environment inundated by propaganda which has largely sought to slaughter Progressivism and Progressive ideals. Again, Walker in 2014 isn’t the obstacle. Walker’s agenda isn’t his own. It is Walker’s agenda that needs to be defeated. Walker can only be defeated with an alternative agenda that genuinely moves Wisconsin forward.
I like Vinehout just fine. But to say that casting oneself as a problem-solver, willing to find common ground, and listen to all ideas…. are exclusively centrist characteristics is a more than a bit mincing. I’d say that sounds more like a Progressive. Progressives do that too. You’re simply attempting to cast rigidity where it doesn’t belong. Compromise has its place. But it isn’t the end-all, be-all of governance, especially not now, in an environment of overt political warfare being waged from the Right. More so than anything voters don’t want wishy washy. They want pro-active solutions and voters don’t want to be sold out in unnecessary compromise.
No Democratic candidate should march lock step with activists if those activists don’t have viable solutions to our woes and that candidate is not in agreement with those solutions. At the same time, no voter should have to be sacrificed on the altar of compromise either. It’s a matter of alignment not Tea Party lunacy. Be wary of the conflation. And, of course, a candidate once elected should use his/her best judgment – that’s the kicker. Too many Democrats lose good judgment in favor of political expediency that results in damage more difficult to undo than not. John Casper gave a good example of one – Tammy Baldwin. It isn’t as if we as a society can’t find the solutions. We can. We do. We have. Our challenge now is implementing them while simultaneously keeping social regressives and elite global interests from assuming complete control.
I would rather have Walker reelected and have the whole state collapse around the GOP than a conservo dem get put in only to continue the same failed ideology. Tax cuts for the rich are poisonous. Dismantling public assets is criminal. Overturning the gay marriage ban is dead in the water with the completely gerrymandered districts in place.
I was with you a bit until, “The Southern strategy…” paragraph. LOL, change the party from within.
A true progressive, even a moderate, small “d,” candidate with an established record of integrity and honesty with the citizens of this state, knowledge about our most pressing state issues, willing to lead and to follow the state constitution would have a better chance of winning against Walker than attempting to change the party from within, election money availability notwithstanding.
Too many unelected little generals at the local party level disallowing discussion of anything that might, “reek,” (to them) of populist leanings.
NQ,
I’m just pointing out one school of thought on effecting Progressive change. Occupying the establishment is just one way of looking at it – enough voices who want to see populist change will make that change within the party given the effort. Eventually the local party affiliates will be populated by populous voices if those voices choose to alter the establishment from within. I’m not offering it as a candidate strategy, but as a grass roots strategy in general. Nor am I endorsing it whole heartedly – it certainly makes theoretical sense and also is a strategy that can boast demonstrative success. I think it might be a viable option for activists who like to work from the inside out. And we probably need both – activists who effect change from within and those who effect change from without.
Steve Carlson says:
If Mark Harris wants to help democrats beat Walker he has to run. So does Kathleen Vinehout. Tate and the people he answers to in DC have already conceded this election and they have to be ignored if we’re going to have any chance at all.
And we’re going to have to take matters into our own hands too. We can’t count on the party leadership to make this happen. But if we demonstrate a willingness to do the extraordinary we might be able to change their minds. That’s our best bet. I’ll write more about this after the holiday weekend.
Tate does not “answer” to people in DC. Those people think Tate is a joke and incompetent for the way the State Party screwed up two years of recalls. It is no accident that the only successes in Wisconsin in 2012 were by two candidates that did their own thing outside of the state party infrastructure, Obama and Baldwin.
Stan, with all due respect, imho, Tate’s Obama’s guy.
Again, imho, the whole point of the Recall, other than to generate ad revenue for Wisconsin media, was to deliver Wisconsin to Obama in November 2012. If Obama had campaigned with Barrett, Tom could have raised more money and beaten Walker. That was too polarizing for the President, he didn’t want to take the risk.
IMHO, Sen. Baldwin was a huge disappointment in the House. She’s in one of the safest Dem districts in the country. Everyone assumes she’s liberal, because she’s “out” as a lesbian. During the Obamacare debate, she stood by while an anti-choice Dem, Bart Stupak, with just SEVEN votes made it more expensive for poor women to get abortions.
http://firedoglake.com/2010/03/19/stupak-abortion-language-to-be-substituted-for-senate-language-in-deal-to-secure-health-care-votes/
Not only should she have been leading the House Progressive caucus to block Stupak, they should have been forcing Obama to include a “public option,” with Obamacare. That would have eliminated the “mandate” which everyone hates, because it FORCES Americans to buy LOUSY coverage. The “public option,” would have been competition for the health care oligopoly. That’s why they opposed it. That’s why Obama caved on it. The public option would have allowed Americans to buy into Medicare.
I assume by caving on those issues, she bought support from Obama for her Senate run.
On her last day in the House, she voted to END the holiday on the payroll tax, which will go down in history as one of the dumbest votes ever. That cut every American worker’s paycheck by 7.5% and it cut their employer’s income by 7.5%. GOP will hang that “fiscal cliff” vote around the neck of every Democrat up for election in 2014 and they should.
Obama’s been dying to cut Social Security and veteran’s benefits. He wants to “chain the CPI,” which means those life-saving benefits will NOT rise with inflation.
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2013/04/05/obama-is-the-driving-force-behind-cutting-your-social-security/
Baldwin should have been leading the charge against the President cutting Social Security, instead and most of the rest of the Democrats were silent.
I sent Tammy money and I voted for her. She was nominally better than Tommy, but she’s shown me nothing. She should be screaming about threats to bomb Syria, but she’s silent.
IMHO, the only real difference between Obama and Romney was voting rights. Voting rights are really important. But when Nate Silver was confident that Obama had Wisconsin, I held my breath and voted for the green candidate, Jill Stein. I’m glad Romney didn’t win, but all my worst fears about Obama have been realized.
Funny that every county D party org that I am familiar with, gave over their entire volunteer staff, elected officers, monthly membership recruitment meeting time and physical office resources to OFA direction and coordinators in the last presidential.
And I certainly don’t hear any WI party leadership, Dbot/obots criticizing anything their leader has been up to as POTUS (Secret TPP negotiations, continual war mongering, collusion on bank fraud, requesting pardons for Bush/Cheney, persecution of whistleblowers, NSA spying…), or even allowing membership discussion of these topics.
I’d think Tate was named to the Executive Committee precisely because the national people don’t think he screwed up the recall. A bunch of public workers screaming not my pension, not my benefits, not my ability to get a raise was never a broad enough message to win votes. Very few on the left seem to possess the courage of introspection about the recall so it’s cast into legend as someone else’s fault – Barrett, Tate, Zielinski, Walker, etc.
You’re absolutely right. If public workers/Dems had included messaging about cuts to programs low income people depend on, i.e Badgercare, Earned Income Tax credit, etc, we might have gotten the votes we needed to win the recall. Unless I’m mistaken there were at least a couple of hundred thousand people who signed the recall petitions that didn’t vote. My guess is that they were the low income crowd. We got their signature and then only sent them emails about voting after that. Or maybe a lit drop. Didn’t check to see how many weren’t registered and would have voted with a little more help and genuine concern for their plight.
You put it far better than I did. Looking forward to your posts next week.
Regarding the recall, “Scott Walker Spent 88% of the Money to Get 53% of the Vote”
“…Here’s another way of saying that: Walker spent $23 for each vote he received, while Barrett spent only $3.47 per vote…”
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/938837/scott_walker_spent_88_of_the_money_to_get_53_of_the_vote
I get several begging emails/week from OFA (Obama’s Organizing for INaction). They know the issues I care about and distort the President’s record to make it seem as though we agree. I see OFA as nothing but a way to bleed the local and state Democratic parties.
Cat Kin says:
Actually Ms. Burke should welcome a primary. It would give her some more time and free media coverage to become better established as a candidate. If there is a candidate that the people prefer and become more excited about–as many are for Kathleen Vinehout–she could throw her support to that candidate, giving the Democratic nominee a much better position upon which to defeat our fascist governor.
I wonder if behind the scenes, her people have told Tate, she won’t run if she has to compete in a primary.
Probably this is just Tate fearing that a primary will force her too far to the left and allow Walker to demonize her in the general election. We all saw what happened to Thompson in our state and a host of Republicans nationally. My guess is Harris and Vinehout are far too smart to paint themselves into a corner and there will be no Kathleen Falk repeat – as much as some people might yearn for a litmus test. In the end if there’s a contested primary, we’ll almost certainly be choosing between three centrist platforms.
Thanks. Appreciate your take.
I think we should have a primary. Mary Burke doesn’t seem to have the kind of money its going to take to beat Walker anyways. Last time Barrett won the Democratic Primary even though he was heavily outspent by Falk. If Vinehout runs I will back her 100%. Knowing the issues is what is key and knowing how to explain it to the average voter after the primary is essential. We need a candidate who can turn out the Democratic Voters.
I agree Burke only has the money to get the right people hired and get started. But look where she went to school. And then there’s her business contacts. She’ll be able to raise serious, real money for the campaign and the inevitable lawsuits if she’d win. I would think the national women’s groups will back her as well. It’s really a question of motivating center-right, center and independent voters and we’ll need every last vote we can muster from them. I would assume by then quite a few traditional, left- leaning Democrats will be unable to vote and Milwaukee will be neutralized. Vinehout is great though and in a less broken system…
EmmaR I agree that Mary Bruke has the money to start out to start out with a hired staff. However I believe whoever the Democratic nominee for governor happens to be will be able to raise some serious money, and with the right candidate maybe even more. The big liberal donors always donate the max, its the smaller contribution donor that matters most because if they are enthusiastic they will donate again and again, plus the small dollar donor lives all across the state and will be involved in the campaign in other ways. What Republicans do to disenfranchise voters should help us more than it hurts.
Well said, AJ. Emma is playing the wrong game with the wrong strategy. Dems win when they inspire casual voters to turn out, and you do that by demanding changes to the corrupt system that has caused big money to dominate the political scene, and screw the everyday person. Dems win when they have progressive messages that speak our against the creeping authoritarianism that is all around us, and fight back against it. And Dems win when they have strong candidates that the people want, not mealy-mouthed Republican lite attitudes designed to appeal to a very small slice of the electorate.
Then again, I suspect Emma is part of this big- money game, and makes a pretty penny off of it, which is why she thinks money is the key to everything, and wants to engage Scott Walker is the same losing insider-driven strategy that’s failed the DPW in 2010 and 2012.
What the Baldwin and Obama people recognized is that getting more people to want to vote for you (and/or not for the other guy) is a better strategy. I think a clean but contested primary does that, because it excites people about a candidate, and gives the candidates a chance to show a better way forward than the cronyists corruption and failed policies of Scott Walker
I agree. Anyone at this point that is voting republican is too far gone to even consider flipping. A democrat running as a republican light is going to fail. Progressives will stay home, moderates will not be inspired and the wingnut true believers will never switch. And after at least 20 years of conservative dominant media in this state, I’d guess most republicans are of the wingnut variety. I don’t know any moderate republicans and I’m completely surrounded by them on the southside.
I made some brief allusions to OFA as a front group for the “left,” 1% and that many elected D’s are too busy following the money to worry about actually doing anything but providing lip service (that would be sucking whatever they can get from you and me, suckers) to their traditional base, with no actual policy or law that makes any populist changes, and then gloss over with platitudes of past grandeur, the oppressive and regressive policy actually put in place to back the continued status quo for the uniparty elite. Throw in a few faux progressive front groups, and you have the left propaganda machine that covers lies and deceit actually happening with the unwilling to open their eyes, “d,” base.
Even though I have been taken in myself, frequently, through hoping for something actually progressive or small “d,” democratic to originate and be backed by those who profess such politics, for the large part, we people with the idea that, ‘we the people,’ should actually have a say in our own government, must hold a healthy skepticism about anyone who might be in the race on either side this coming election cycle. You’ve got a long weekend ahead, here is some reading.
http://my.firedoglake.com/wendydavis/2013/08/29/keynote-speaker-at-afl-cio-national-convention-barack-obama/
Follow the links in the piece and in the comments, please.
No, I’m not part of this particular big money game. But yeah, I know something about money and stats and Democrats don’t have either in in their favor in Wisconsin. But I realize this is difficult to see clearly if you’re in the Madison or Milwaukee area. Sounds like it wasn’t just Harris who dropped out this week, so this is all moot.
Another critical part of this very complex process is the media. They go a long way towards determining what candidates from either party are able to say.
After Baldwin and Obama won in ’12, I had some hope. Then Ed Fallone lost to Justice Roggensack. How the “unprintable” did that happen. On top of everything else, Justice Roggensack enabled workplace violence. Justice Prosser’s choking Justice Bradley and she helps him get away with it.
In some ways that election was as important as the Governor’s race. Fallone could have tipped the balance of power on the Supreme Court. That could have blocked a lot of the worst from the wingnuts w/r/t unions and “choice.”
If someone has any wisdom about how we lost that one, I’m all ears.
All comes down to turnout. Democrats do well state wide for presidential elections in Wisconsin. In the non presidential years, Democrats just have not had good turnout. This does affect our state assembly, state senate, and congressional candidates Gerrymandering aside. The county parties and DPW need to work in partnership again to turn out the Democratic base voters as we did when Howard Dean was chair of the DNC.
The parasitic rich need to be taxed and taxed hard. These democrats are nothing more than republicans that like gays and pay lip service to minorities.
and by the way, moderates already vote Dem 70-30. So why follow Emma’s idea and waste time appealing to the 30 percent that’ might not vote Dem when we can drive a lot of the 70% that already support us out to the polls with a great, differentiated message? And also encourage the casual voter that votes Dem to want to care about midterm (which didnt happen in 2010). Again, a strong message and fear of a second Walker term will do the trick there.
And don’t believe for a second that there won’t be national groups willing to pony up to end Scott Walker’s career. So stop thinking of money as a main motivation for picking a candidate
Any Dem candidate, and that includes Mary Burke, would be wise to ask the DPW to deliver Walker’s John Doe emails into the public domain, before they made a decision about running. Per Steve’s excellent post
http://bloggingblue.com/2013/08/13/breaking-mjs-seeking-access-to-john-doe-documents/
the MJS is already working on it.
It’s a lot easier and less expensive to beat Walker if those emails are published. That leaves more money to take back the Senate and make gains in the Assembly.
Absolutely. Walker needs to be smeared with his own conduct and record viciously and relentlessly. Media needs to be monitored and the blatant lies and falsehoods called out and corrected in public. The DPW needs to get it’s shit together and stop playing around.
If I may briefly summarize to date:
Viable or willing candidates: Burke and Vinehout
Needed to win besides money: DPW organizing, Turnout, John Doe documents
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(Screenshot: YouTube/The Gospel Coalition)David Powlison, the executive director of the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation in this The Gospel Coalition video uploaded on May 2, 2018.
David Powlison, the executive director of the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation, has revealed following major surgery that he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
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Focal Point (Annapolis)
Focal Point is a open-juried exhibition of fine art and creative photography. Juror is Diane Bolz, arts editor of Moment magazine, former arts editor of Smithsonian magazine.
Washington D.C. Independent Film Festival (DC)
The District's oldest independent film festival is back for another run of inventive films from around the world, some of which will have their world premiere here. Visit www.dciff-indie.org for showtimes and theater locations. At the Burke Theater.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (D.C.)
The comedy classic arrives at E Street Cinema for their Midnight Madness.
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The Look 2015 (Annapolis)
What’s Up? Media presents an exclusive health, beauty and fitness event perfect for renewing your mind, body and friendships! •Indulge with complimentary champagne and hors d’oeuvres.
Mnozil Brass (Frederick)
Mnozil Brass is captivating audiences around the world with their unique blend of immense virtuosity and theatrical wit. Classical favorites, jazz standards, popular hits and Monty Python-style humor!
A Walk in Father Henson's Footsteps (North Bethesda)
Retrace the footsteps of Reverend Josiah Henson from his enslavement to escape on the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada. Walk the grounds where Henson toiled as a slave on the Isaac Riley plantation. Learn about his extraordinary life, which inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's landmark novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Lyrical Rhythms: "The Sounds of Freedom" (North Bethesda)
Close out our Black History Month celebration with our annual poetry event. Create and share your own "sounds of freedom" in the form of original poetry. Only self-guided tours are offered during the program. A reception with light refreshments immediately follows.
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer Family Concert (DC)
An interactive concert featuring the Grammy award-winning folk music duo Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer. "Dancin' in the Kitchen," the duo's forthcoming 44th album, celebrates diverse, extended and blended families. For all ages.
Marcin Dylla - solo guitar (Baltimore)
Hailed by Washington Post as “among the most gifted guitarists on the planet” Polish guitarist, Marcin Dylla is a rare phenomenon in recent history of Classical Guitar. Many music critics, connoisseurs and music lovers certify that he is among the world’s elite of classical guitar players.
Delmarva Beach Bash (Salisbury)
We Bring The Beach To You! Attend an ACDA Beach Blast for a beachy, good time that will make you feel like you're at the sunny beach during the heart of winter! COMPETITION INFORMATION Doors Open: 12:00 PM Warm Ups Begins: 12:30 PM Competition Begins: 1:00 PM SPECTATOR FEES Adults (ages 13 - 64 years) – $12.
Maple Sugaring (Baltimore)
Learn the art of turning sap into syrup from our rangers. Take a hike to tap trees, see sap cooking into syrup and taste some maple syrup made here at the park! All ages, $3 per ($2 members)
Robert Post, Comedy Theatre (Wye Mills)
Actor, mime, puppeteer, juggler, standup comedian, and improvising whirling dervish, Robert Post is a one-man variety show who shares what it means to be wonderfully alive and human in a hugely engaging show.
Plan Bee (Catonsville)
It's not too early to get your garden ready for pollinators. Learn about native bees, the original pollinates, and build a Mason/Orchard Bee House to attract bees to your garden.
Meteorites: Rocks from Space (Catonsville)Local astronomers and meteorite enthusiasts will talk about the past, present, and future of collecting meteorites. Some will be available for examination. Bring any suspected meteorites for identification.
American Heart Association First Aid CPR AED (Hyattsville)
Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills needed to respond to and manage a first aid, choking or sudden cardiac arrest emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services (EMS) arrives.
Gadgets and Gears Day (Baltimore)
Gadgets & Gears Day will be full of challenges and discovery related to the design process, the role of the engineer, and the future of different technologies in the field.
Hampstead Community Expo "32" Anniversary (Hampstead)
This is the 32nd year that we've held the Expo, a popular event involving the whole community showcasing local businesses and with food and activities for children of all ages. Everyone gets involved.
Moss Workshop (Catonsville)
Join the Natural History Society of Maryland for an in-depth study of selected mosses at Banneker Park. Adults and teens
Site-Specific Community Photo Shoot (Baltimore)
This high quality shoot provides artists with head, body, and action shots for their audition and marketing needs. **Time slots are 50 minutes for $80 and include assistance with a DVDC company member. All photos are returned to artist on CD. Artists must pay in advance to reserve spot.
Meet Benjamin Banneker (Laurel)
Explore Black History with this family program. Meet Benjamin Banneker, as played by Bob Smith, who will visit and tell us about his work as an astronomer, mathematician, almanac writer and farmer.
Museum Open House (Baltimore)
Celebrate Black History Month with an open house at the museum. Join us for a day full of interactive tours, activities and entertainment. Sponsored by Verizon. Free.
Open Tap Class (Baltimore)
This class is for first-time and seasoned tappers – all levels are welcome! Experienced tapper Batya Feldman will warm you up, lead you through fun exercises, show you new moves, and teach you the choreography from 42nd Street’s famous opening number.
First Annual Saint Patrick's Day Kick Off Party (Baltimore)
We will welcome in Maryland's Irish history month in style with great food and drinks, music and dancing. We will also enjoy a silent auction with many wonderful items to bid on. All proceeds benefit the Irish Railroad Worker's Museum.
Christine Lavin and Don White in Concert (Reisterstown)
Leave your worries at the doorstep and join Christine Lavin and Don White as they present a night of comedy unlike any other, On The Funny Side of the Street: A Night of Brighter Laughter. Audiences are looking for something fun, fresh, smart, and intriguing as well as thoughtful: On the Funny Side of the Street does just that. See the new promotional video on YouTube. Smart, witty…hilarious…and touching…the show is getting tremendous response.
Maryland Home and Garden Show (Timonium)
Maryland's largest Home & Garden Show features hundreds of home improvement exhibits, beautiful landscaped gardens, a craft show, orchid show (week 2 only) and free seminars.
Baltimore Bartenders Guild to Host 4th Annual Rye's Up Against Cystic Fibrosis Charitable Gala (Baltimore)
Join the members of the Baltimore Bartenders’ Guild for this fundraiser, benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Maryland. Enjoy samples of elixirs handcrafted by BBG members and small bites from different local restaurants. Listen to live jazz music and bid on fabulous silent auction items along with local wine and gin and beer by Union Craft Brew.
Jesse Cook (Frederick)
Don’t miss the live show that has audiences begging for encores from this celebrated Canadian musician! Known for his captivating blend of rumba, flamenco, and salsa guitar, Juno Award-winning musician Jesse Cook is a charismatic entertainer with a global fan base, thanks in part to a recent PBS Television special titled “Jesse Cook, Live at Bathurst Street Theatre.
Cantate Chamber Singers presents St. John Passion of J.S. Bach (Bethesda)
Cantate (Gisèle Becker, Music Director) presents Bach's masterpiece in the rarely performed fourth version of 1749, with period instruments. Featuring Joseph Dietrich singing the role of the Evangelist, Kevin Frey singing the role of Jesus, soprano Mary Ellen Callahan, mezzo-soprano Barbara Holiness
The Girls Photography Project (Baltimore)
Join the JMM as we welcome an exhibit of teen photographs that explore diverse view points and are truly one of a kind. In 2014, African American and Orthodox Jewish girls in Baltimore City participated in a photography workshop series. While gaining camera skills, the girls also came to appreciate each other’s varied life experiences. Together, their photos explore diverse viewpoints and are truly one of a kind.
Holly Roadfeldt, Piano (Prince Frederick)
Piano soloist Holly Roadfeldt made her orchestral debut with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra at the age of 13 and continues to be an active solo pianist and chamber musician.
Art in the Afternoon-Black History Presentation and Concert (Columbia)
Take a journey through black history with musician, vocalist and long time Columbia resident John Milton Wesley.Through an interactive presentation and live music, Mr. Wesley combines Jazz, R&B, “Old School Soul,” Afro-Cuban, Classical Jazz, and Latin sounds to educate and enlighten his audience! Light refreshments served. Educational and social groups welcome! At Historic Oakland
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Maryland Recreational Vehicle Show (Timonium)
The 49th Annual Maryland RV Show, The Mid-Atlantic oldest, largest, and best attended Recreational Vehicle Expo fills all three exhibition facilities at the Timonium Fairgrounds for two consecutive weekends.
The American Craft Council Show (Baltimore)
It’s a craft show like no other! Join us for our three-day celebration of all things handmade, featuring more than 650 top contemporary jewelry, clothing, furniture, and home décor artists.
One Night in Miami (Baltimore)With three close friends—activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke, and football star Jim Brown. This fictional account of a real night imagines what might have happened in that tiny hotel room. As the Civil Rights movement stirs outside, and the melody of “A Change is Gonna Come” hangs in the air, four men will emerge from that one night ready to define a new world.
Better Living Expo, and Fine Arts Show (Salisbury)
The event will feature the newest innovations for the home and garden. Vendors will include landscaping companies, contractors/remodelers, health and fitness groups. The show will also feature arts and crafts from local artisans. Throughout the weekend, enjoy live entertainment and seminars from the area’s leading companies.
Rhapsody (Baltimore)
Vincent E. Thomas/VTDance, presents a new performance piece exploring the profound writings of several African American writers and poets and the aspects of place/sacred spaces and time that have an impact on writing.
Calvert County Restaurant Week (Various Towns)
Calvert County's restaurants showcase creative cuisine and offer delicious deals during Calvert County Restaurant Week Feb. 20 – March 1. Whatever your favorite fare, Restaurant Week satisfies any taste, featuring restaurants drawing from the region's bounty to offer unique dining experiences.
Waverly Street Gallery presents 20+20 (Bethesda)
Waverly Street Gallery’s sixth annual collaborative exhibition will include paintings, sculpture, prints, ceramics, fiber art, glass, mixed media, photography and jewelry.
A Bucket of Blood (Baltimore)
Bussing tables at a hip coffee joint, Walter Paisley just wants to be somebody. When a fatal accident gives Walter the perfect canvas to work on, he seizes the opportunity to slip in among the local art elite. Now, the pressure is on for his latest masterpiece. And this time, Walter's drawing blood.
Sleepy Hollow (D.C.)
Director Septime Webre's newest creation was inspired by Washington Irving's short tale, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." At the Eisenhower Theater.
The Quickening Image: Wax-Resist Drawings of Ephraim Rubenstein & David Dodge Lewis - A Twenty-Year Collaboration (Hagerstown)
David Dodge Lewis and Ephraim Rubenstein are both noted artists as well as active teachers. Rubenstein is currently on the faculty at Columbia University, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Students League and Lewis is the William W. Elliot Professor of Fine Arts at Hampden-Sydney College
Maryland Wine Passport Experience (Baltimore)
This winter, grab a map, gas up the car and set out onto the wine trails to explore the state’s rich culture, museums, attractions and history while learning more about the wines that represents each region.
DC Fashion Week (Various Locations)
A showcase for new collections, emerging designers and more. Consult the official site for specific events and ticket prices.
Savor Sip Style (Ellicott City)
Join us for Turf Valley's luxury home show, featuring over 100 luxury home vendors and seminars, as well as food and libation tastings. The event is Saturday, February 21st from 10am-6pm and Sunday, February 22nd from 11am-5pm. To purchase tickets visit savorsipstyle.com or call 410-423-0812.
Four Score and Seven Years (Wye Mills)
To young Lemuel, who has escaped slavery in Georgia, life in Gettysburg is everything he dreamed it would be. His ideas about the North and South, as well as what it means to be a free man, are challenged, however when he unexpectedly befriends Jacob, a young Confederate Soldier. Children's Musical
Wine & Dine for the Arts (Elkton)
Schaefer's Canal House is planning a divine 4-course meal just for the Cecil County Arts Council. Tickets are $50 per person and a portion of the proceeds benefits the Arts Council. In between courses, an artist will show recent works and talk about how they create.
Owl Prowl (Fair Hill)
Join seasoned birder Sean McCandless in an evening of listening to the hoots, walls, and shrieks of owls and learning about their habits. This educational walk begins at 7 pm from the Nature Center.
Pete Holmes (D.C.)
The popular comedian from the entertaining but short-lived "The Pete Holmes Show" and his "You Made It Weird" podcast.
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Maple Magic! (Monkton)
This family event includes an indoor presentation, followed by a hike along Ladew’s 60-acre Nature Walk where we’ll identify trees, observe tapped maple trees, collect some sap and boil it down to make golden brown maple syrup.
Young People's Concerts (Columbia)
Dance Connections joins the Orchestra for its popular Young People’s Concerts for Camille Saint-Saëns – Carnival of the Animals. Kids of all ages will love this fun-filled introduction to the orchestra with our entertaining conductor and narrator Greg Jukes. Choose either the 10:30 or 1:00 concert and try your hand at playing instruments in between the two performances at our free Musical Instrument Petting Zoo.
Deep Creek Dunk (Oakland)
We invite you to BE COOL and do the Dunk alongside the rare breed of thousands of Maryland Dunkers who dare to bare it all each year for the inspirational athletes who represent Special Olympics Maryland! For just $50 in pledges, Dunk participants take a quick dip in Deep Creek Lake
Woodcock Watch (Columbia)
Travel to the Patuxent River State Park to discover the amazing woodcock – the woodcock that played a historic role in the creation of the Middle Patuxent Environmental Area (MPEA) Event Cost: $5.00
George Washingon's Birthday Ball (Chestertown)
George Washington’s Birthday Ball is an elaborate affair with over-the-top decorations and a big dance band. Black-tie or themed costumes are encouraged. Everybody is there: faculty, board members, parents, and alumni turn out for the fun.
Evening Owl Prowl (Baltimore)
Join a park ranger to learn about nighttime critters and hunt for owls with hands-on activities. Quiet is the key to a successful night hike; please plan accordingly when considering the participation of young children. Free but registration required by calling 410-592-2897
Cherry Pie Hike (Baltimore)
Join us for a brisk morning hike to awaken the senses and commemorate George Washington’s birthday. This hike will describe his local history and conclude with hot drinks and George’s appropriate dessert made in a Dutch oven. Dress warmly and wear appropriate footwear. All ages, $5 per person
Play in a Day (Bethesda)
Six professional Washington, D.C. area theatre companies will write, direct, rehearse and perform original plays based on similar themes in only 24 hours.
Paws and Planes (Frederick)
Join Turbo the Flying Dog for a FREE day of fun at the airport! Children of all ages are invited to meet the star of the new children's book series, Turbo the Flying Dog, and participate in aviation education activities!
African American Art: An Intro for Kids (Baltimore)
Explore African American art with teaching artist, Culture Queen. Families will see a short children’s video about African American artists, take a mini gallery tour, and create their own artwork inspired by an artist.
Cabin Fever Art Show (Sykesville)
A fine art and craft exhibit showcasing nature inspired work of our local artists. A $1/per person admission fee will be collected at the entrance of the Nature Center. Proceeds will be used to help support the Piney Run Recreation and Conservation Council. Refreshments will be served.
Elkton's Antique Road Show (Elkton)
Think you have an awesome find, join us for Elkton's Antiques Road Show! Certified Apprasers will be her to appraise your Treasure's. Fee plus $5 Per Item Fee (limit to 5 items per person)
Romero: Suite Para Cuerdas (Rockville)
This complete suite is a rhythmic, sensual piece that weaves Venezuelan folk music with traditional European forms and energizes any space it fills. Romero is best known for his popular works and was creator of Venezuela’s new wave “Onda Nueva” school of music
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Harford Community College Alumni and Friends Wine Expo (Bel Air)
The Wine Expo draws a sell-out crowd of more than 500 people. All event proceeds benefit the programs and scholarships of the HCC Alumni & Friends Association.
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks (Baltimore)
Gordon Parks is a celebrated photographer, novelist, journalist, poet, musician, and filmmaker. The film stretches across two centuries as it traces his life and career from abject poverty to a top photographer for Vogue, Life, and other magazines.
How Jews Entered American Politics: The Curious Case of Maryland's "Jew Bill" (Baltimore)
During Maryland's first decades, a "Christians Only" policy applied to those seeking public office. Dr. Rafael Medoff, a noted scholar of Jewish involvement in American politics, will take a candid look at the Maryland legislature's debates in the early 1800s over political rights for Jews & others.
Global Expressions (Owings Mills)
Presenting dance from around the world. This annual production is a vibrant display of live music, colorful costumes and exciting movement and dance featuring Rueda de Casino Baltimore, Natya Kala Mandir East Indian Dance, Korean Performing Arts Academy of America and Yesodot Israeli Youth Dance.
Bay Day (Columbia)
Howard County is connected to the Chesapeake Bay via the Middle Patuxent River. Come out and enjoy this celebration of Chesapeake Bay food, restoration efforts, and fun. Event Cost: Daily admission or Free with annual membership
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Valentine's Date Night at the National Aquarium
Spring/Summer Tip: Are you an Orioles Fan? Do you have kids you want to take with you to games? Check out the Dugout Club! It's a pretty great deal!
Seaside Boat Show (Ocean City)
Eastern Shore's largest boat show with boats, accessories, clothing, arts, crafts, a children's charity event.
Katsucon Anime Convention (Fort Washington)
Katsucon is an annual 3-day fan convention held in the D.C. metro area for multicultural enthusiasts and entertainment. Katsucon is produced by Katsucon Entertainment, Inc. (KEI), an educational non-profit organization dedicated to bringing information about Japanese animation, society, and traditional and popular culture to fans everywhere.
UncleVanya (Baltimore)
A dilapidated farm is transformed into a hotbed of disillusionment and unrequited love by the arrival of the landowner’s new trophy wife. This would be unbearably sad if it weren’t all so funny, with the spirit of a drunken Russian party that spills into the morning
Broadway in Annapolis: Fiddler on the Roof (Annapolis)
Our Broadway in Annapolis productions focus on the music so you’ll hear our talented cast of singers and actors along with the Annapolis Chorale and the Annapolis Chamber Orchestra conducted by J. Ernest Green.
La Plata High School Antique Show (La Plata)
Take a step back in time while you shop and browse vintage jewelry, toys, clothing, furniture, collectables and more from over 50 dealers from the Mid-Atlantic region. Refreshments will be available along with door prizes. All proceeds benefit the La Plata High School Bands and Orchestra students.
The Arsonists (Frederick)
Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) continues its seventeenth Mainstage season with the satirical dark comedy “The Arsonists” by Max Frisch, and translated by Alistair Beaton. Through March 8, 2015
On the Mind (Baltimore)
The exhibition will include a variety of media from large-scale acrylic paintings highlighting recollection and memory to works on paper and digital media pieces. “On the Mind” will be the first major public exhibition to take place in MAP’s newly renovated gallery space. Thru 3/14/2015
Wiley and the Hairy Man (Bethesda)
This traditional tall tale tells of Wiley who lives in fear of the Hairy Man who lurks in the swamp. When Wiley’s Momma attempts to prepare him to confront the wicked trickster, he pays little mind. As Wiley ventures into the swamp, he is forced to think on his feet in order to outwit his opponent.
8th Annual Oakland Winterfest (Oakland)
Celebrate winter with ice art, food, games, kids activities & more! It’s winter fun for everyone!
Bird Extravaganza (Baltimore)
Join us for birding activities and search for birds in the Great Backyard Bird Count! ♦ Meet Live Birds ♦ Join Birding Hikes ♦ Make Crafts ♦ Help Build A Giant Bird's Nest ♦ Play Games ♦ Hot Drink's & Campfire All Ages! Free! No registration required!
30th Annual Antiques Show (Elkton)
Singerly Fire Company will be holding their Annual Antique show on February 14th from 10 am to 5 pm and again on February 15th from 10 am to 4 pm. Fire hall is located at 300 Newark Ave, directly across from the Cecil County Public Library Elkton branch.
In the Mood for Love (Silver Spring)
American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center--Wong Kar-Wai's most celebrated film is screening for AFI Silver's Screen Valentines: Great Movie Romances series.
Chicago: The Musical (D.C.)
Two murderers in jail battle for fame and the attention of a star lawyer to keep from being executed for their crimes.
Freedom Just Around the Corner: Black America from Civil War to Civil Rights (D.C.)
National Postal Museum--A exhibition chronicling the African American experience through stamps and mail includes letters carried by enslaved Americans and a selection of original artwork from the U.S. Postal Service's Black Heritage stamp series.
Casablanca (D.C.)
Landmark's E Street Cinema--The classic romantic mystery returnes to E Street for midnight showings.
School's Out: Ben's Pen and Ink (Catonsville)
Colonial penmanship and ink-making
Valentine's Day Wine and Chocolate Tasting at Hard Rock Cafe (Baltimore)
Rock out with us at the Hard Rock Cafe. Vino 301 Wine Concierge will lead you and your love one through a wine tasting and chocolate pairing, with decadent chocolates provided by Baltimore’s own Parfections and a variety of wine from local Wineries.
Spyro Gyra (Frederick)
Spyro Gyra is a jazz juggernaut who released their 30th album of new material, The Rhinebeck Sessions in 2013, which Jazztimes called “inspired.” Travis Rogers of the Jazz Journalists Association picked it for Jazz Album Of The Year.
Lauryn Hill (D.C.)
The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter performs two acoustic shows.
Chris Brubeck's Triple Play (Frostburg)
CES at Frostburg State University presents a LIVE! at StarScape club-style performance of Chris Brubeck's Triple Play. The performance concludes with an interactive discussion with the artists.
Valentine's Day with an Adventurous Twist (Savage)
Terrapin Adventures will be offering a special adventure package for couples.
Parents' Night Out (Baltimore)
Parents can spend a Valentine’s evening out while kids have fun in the park. Kids will play games and make crafts to learn about the funny, surprising, and downright weird ways animals find that special someone. Ages 8 and up, $10 per child ($8 members)
Valentine's Day Dinner (Bel Air)
Enjoy Valentines Day Dinner with professional impersonators Eric Richardson and James Young as Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra at the Bel Air Armory.
Valentine's Date Night at the National Aquarium (Baltimore)
Valentine’s Date Night will take guests from the Indo-Pacific reef to the Amazon to northern Australia and beyond.
The Griot's Eye Youth Film and Culture Festival (Baltimore)
Baltimore area youth showcase works in film, theater, music, dance, and poetry. The Griot’s Eye is a youth leadership and community-development program that equips youth with technical and cultural skills to produce compelling social media programs that address relevant issues in their lives.
African American Firsts in Baltimore County (Catonsville)
Enjoy a light lunch as we portray a series of free black men and events that occurred during their lives from the colonial period through the post civil war era in the United States. All Ages, FREE
Second Saturdays at the Irish Railroad Workers Museum (Baltimore)
Robert W. Garrett, railroad president, was a southern sympathizer who converted to the Union cause. The railroad became a major factor in the Northern victory. Join us for a rich presentation followed by a Q&A. Donations to the museum are appreciated.
250th Anniversary of Friendsville Valentine's Dance (Friendsville)
A themed Valentines Dance will continue the 250th Celebration. Awards will be given for those that choose to dress in period costumes up to the 1970’s but are optional. The dance will be held at the Friendsville Fire Department.
Mineral, Jewelry & Fossil Show (Upper Marlboro)
Join the Southern Maryland Rock and Mineral Club for its 25th Annual Show. Enjoy exhibits, discussions, kids crafts and more.
Spirit of Baltimore Valentine's Day Cruise (Baltimore)
Surprise your Valentine with a special cruise aboard Spirit. It’s the perfect way to enjoy Baltimore with your one and only. With a beautiful setting, delicious dining and dancing, these cruises are Cupid approved!
National Institute of Health Community Chorus Presents "A Winter Valentine" (Rockville)
This free performance will feature Rogers and Hart’s My Funny Valentine, Sondheim’s Send In The Clowns, Billy Joel’s And So It Goes, LaBarr’s Now Touch the Air Softly, Gawthrop’s Bright Journeys, and more.
Valentine's Day Dance (Frederick)
J & T Sound Solutions is hosting a Valentine’s Day Dance on Saturday, Feb. 14
Valentine's Day Tasting with Zoe's Chocolates (Middletown)
Join us at Orchid Cellar for a local chocolate pairing event with Zoe's Chocolate Co.
A Turkey Point Valentine (North East)
Travel to Elk Neck State Park and enjoy a beautiful and informative two mile round-trip stroll up to the Turkey Point lighthouse.
Valentine's Photos with your Pet and Friendship Vows (Reisterstown)
Get a Valentine photo with your pet or take a vow of forever friendship with your furry friend this Valentine’s Day at Baltimore Humane Society’s BowWow Meow Chapel of Love.
Future Harvest CASA Fruit Tree Pruning Field Day (Westminster)
Future Harvest CASA is hosting a field day on fruit tree pruning, grafting and other aspects of growing fruit in this region. The event will be at MacBride and Gill Falcon Ridge Farm, a 75 acre farm in Westminster, MD that grows a wide array of fruit, including apples, pears, persimmons, and more!
Celebrate Local at Shoemaker Country (Ellicott City)
This Valentine’s Day join Shoemaker Country in celebrating local!
Stop by the shop to sample local chocolatier Sweet Cascades and coffee from local roaster Bean Hollow, while checking out our featured neighborhood artists, authors and craftsman.
Preview our new selection of live-edge slabs for Spring. Select your favorite and work with one of us to make a piece of furniture uniquely yours.
While here, sit in and enjoy our new Lee Industries upholstery styles added for this Spring. Take advantage of an additional 10% off on all orders from the 7th – 14th, thanks to LEE LOVES LOCAL.
Single's Valentine's Party (Ellicott City)
Pink cocktails and personal pizza specials. Live music starts at 9:30 p.m. (Couples welcome too!) Event Cost: No entry fee
Parents' Night Out Valentine's Dance Party (Columbia)
Treat yourselves to a date night on Valentine’s Day and leave the kids with us for drama games, arts & crafts, and an interactive song and dance party. Students will be supervised by our Drama Learning Center instructional staff from 7-11 PM.
Climbing the Ladder of Success in a 19th Century Boomtown: The Cohen Family in Early Baltimore (Baltimore)
When Israel I. Cohen died in Richmond, Virginia in 1803, his wife, Judith, packed up her belongings and moved herself and her children to Baltimore. Why Baltimore? This talk will examine the 18th-century roots of the city that made Baltimore one of the fastest growing cities in the US before 1800.
Love Songs of the Presidents (Frederick)
Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) is proud to present the world premier of “Love Songs of the Presidents,” a collection of 4-part choral music with lyrics pulled from poems and love letters written by former US Presidents and performed by The Dan Meyer Choir.
Duende Latin Jazz Quartet (Burtonsville)
The Duende Quartet is devoted to playing Latin jazz with a respect for the tradition while looking toward the future.
School's Out Days (Balimore)
Looking for something fun for your child to do when school is out? Unplug the kids and let them spend the day at the park! Bring lunch, snack, and water. Ages 6-12, $25 per child per day Extended care: 2:30 – 4:30pm ($10 per child)
New Jack Swing Valentine Love Jam (Upper Marlboro)
The New Jack Swing Valentine Love Jam features: Bell Biv Devoe, Blackstreet, Tony Toni Tone, SWV and After 7.
President's Day Special - Have Fun on our High Ropes Course (Savage)
Join us for President’s Day! Zip, Swing, and Climb! Make this holiday a memorable one! Buy 3 high ropes courses, get the fourth free! Call 301-725-1313 for promo code
School's Out Drama Workshop--Do You Wanna Build a Snowman? (Columbia)
Why sit at home on your day off from school? Join us for drama topics, arts & crafts, and a final showcase! Before & After care is available for an additional fee.
Maryland Monday
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The Great Baltimore Fire Motor Coach Tour
Here's a Summertime Tip: Want to go camping at one of our wonderful State Parks this Summer? Better reserve your spot now! They're starting to fill up quickly!
Timonium Motorcycle Show (Timonium)
Every foreign and domestic motorcycle manufacturer's newest models on display..huge custom & antique bike show..100's of exhibits covering everything in motorcycling..huge Swap Meet, Biker Fashion Shows, tattoo contests and more! NEW this year..the 'Travel, Touring & Adventure Feature Area!
Southern Maryland Spring Home Show (Upper Marlboro)
Whether you’ve been in your home for years or just moved in, the Home Show is the one-stop shop for all your home improvement needs!
Illusionist Ivan Amondei Presents "Intimate Illusions" (Baltimore)
Skillfully accompanied by a concert cellist, this 90-minute performance cleverly combines world-class sleight of hand, dynamic story-telling, mind-games, psychological illusions and tons of audience participation.
Colonial Players presents "The Liar" (Annapolis)
Last Weekend! This sparkling comedy is the story of a man who can't tell the truth, and his servant who can't tell a lie. Together, they roar into Paris and into the immediate pursuit of ladies they meet in the Tuilleries Gardens.
The Little Prince (Frederick)
Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s (MET) family theatre, The Fun Company, is proud to present, “The Little Prince”. Through March 8, 2015.
Untold Stories: Athletes of Maryland's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Annapolis)
The Maryland Humanities Council and Banneker-Douglass Museum launch the 2015 Maryland tour of the Smithsonian traveling exhibition, "Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America" with "Untold Stories," a unique exhibition examining the contributions of athletes at Maryland's HBCUs. Runs now thru Mar. 28
I Hate Hamlet (Bowie)
2nd Star Production’s current comedic offering. We follow television star Andrew Rally on his quest to become a true actor, helped and hampered by his agent, his friends, and of course, by the ghost of John Barrymore, one of the most famous American Hamlets of the 20th century.
The Importance of being Earnest (Baltimore)
Double lives and double standards abound and delicious, plot-twisting mayhem ensues. This quintessential comedy of manners by Oscar Wilde features some of the funniest lines ever written.
Cask to Kisses: Wine and Chocolate Pairing (Mount Airy)
Love is in the air all month long. Wine and chocolate are a match made in heaven. Enjoy learning how to partner up your wine and chocolate. $10 Call for availability. Reservations recommended.
Celebrate Black History Month at the B&O (Baltimore)
The B&O Railroad Museum opens a new African American exhibit that celebrates the contributions of African Americans to the railroad industry. Learn about these men and women who filled vital jobs along the B&O Railroad's line and understand how significant social issues, such as segregation, affected railroading.
Ghosts (Baltimore)
Mrs. Alving has kept the sins of her late husband a secret for her entire life. But soon the ghosts of the past catch up to her when her only son arrives back home with a deadly illness, looking for answers.
The Lieutenant of Inishmore (D.C.)
In this dark comedy, an Irish National Liberation Army enforcer goes on a rampage when the one thing he loves -- his cat -- is killed. Presented by Constellation Theatre Company.
The Visionary Experience (Baltimore)
Featuring a spirited centennial celebration of America's most prolific self-tutored & "on fire" artist, Rev. Howard Finster. With illuminating works by visionaries: Ingo Swann, Jimi Hendrix, Christine Sefolosha, Walter Russell, Robert Crumb, Paolo Soleri, Dr. Bob Hieronimus, & more!
Swan Lake (Baltimore)
Founded by legendary dancer and former Prima ballerina of The Bolshoi Theatre Ballet, Maya Plissetskaya, The State Ballet Theatre of Russia, now under the direction of award-winning dancer and Moiseyev soloist Nikolay Anokhin, presents one of the greatest classical ballets of all time.
Red Army (D.C.)
Documentary examining Russia's mighty hockey team
Savion Glover's STePZ (North Bethesda)
Tony Award winner (Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk) has stepped into his own legendary status in the tap world, and in his newest show he pays homage to past tap masters to music that ranges from John Coltrane to Prince to Shostakovich.
37th Annual Irish Evening (Columbia)
Nationally lauded fiction writer Emma Donoghue joins Howard County Poetry and Literature Society as guest writer for its 37th annual Irish Evening. Donoghue will read from several of her acclaimed works, followed by a performance by musical group Narrowbacks in a concert of traditional Irish music.
Concert for the Cure (Easton)
Susan G. Komen Maryland presents the Concert for the Cure featuring the Paul Reed Smith Band. Plus, a live auction for a SIGNED Paul Reed Smith SE Custom 24 Guitar. All proceeds from the concert benefit Komen Maryland.
Dunsinane (D.C.)
The National Theatre of Scotland and Royal Shakespeare Company team up for the sequel to "Macbeth."
Gloriana, Maddie, and Tae and more (Silver Spring)
WMZQ unites popular country acts on one stage
African Americans in Medicine During the Civil War Era (Frederick)
Robert Slawson, MD, FACR, and author of Prologue to Change: African Americans in Medicine in the Civil War Era, will tell the unlikely story of a handful of African-American physicians who rose against discrimination to serve as surgeons for the Union Army during the Civil War.
Black History Month Family Day: Rising Up (D.C.)
Kickoff Black History Month at the Smithsonian. The event, inspired by the museum's new exhibition called "Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College," includes hands-on activities, live music, family gallery tours, musical performances and a genealogy workshop.
Blue Sky Puppet Theatre: The Three (Not So Little) Pigs (D.C.)
The kid's show explores sibling rivalry and cooperation, incorporating audience participation and humor.
Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake (D.C.)
The tenor and pianist perform Schubert's "Winterreise," after which Bostridge discusses his new book "Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession.". At the Coolidge Auditorium.
Winter Crisp Nature Walk with Campfire Treats (Columbia)
There’s nothing like a crisp winter day! Get out and get active with your family on this guided nature hike. Discover how to identify trees in winter; learn survival tactics of wildlife and many more winter wonders. Event Cost: $8.00
13th Annual Kid's Consignment Sale (Westminster)
This is the one stop shopping for all your kid's needs, clothing size from infant to size 12-14. Now accepting juniors clothing plus toys, books, shoes, sporting equipment, infant and toddler equipment and much more. Half priced sale 3pm-5pm.
Within These Walls: African American Surgeons and Nurses during the Civil War (Clinton)
Black nurses served in both Union and Confederate hospitals, and their surgeons counterparts treated civilians and soldiers on the battlefield in army hospitals. Historian Jill L. Newmark will share her knowledge of this intriguing subject.
Jazz Meets Blues: Phil Wiggins and Karen Lovejoy (Cheverly)
Phil Wiggins brings his incredible talent to the Playhouse for an evening of sublime blues backed by the Chesapeake Sheiks.
Richardson Farms Annual Winter Craft Show (White Marsh)
Over 50 vendors displaying. demonstrating and selling their items. Proceeds from Raffle and registration fees go to the Kidney foundation research program.
Menopause the Musical (Frederick)
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Duquesne University's Tamburitzans! (Rockville)
America's Premier Folk Ensemble. The Tamburitzans dazzles audiences across the country with elaborate costumes and incredibly versatile musicians, singers, and dancers.
Using Literature as a Force for Change (Oella)
Dr. Ampadu will present an illustrated talk on Frances E.W. Harper, 19th Century writer. Learn about this dynamic, courageous young woman writer of anti-slavery stories, plays, and poems. Dr. Lena Ampadu will present an illustrated talk. Adults & Teens; $3 members; $5 non-members
Breakfast with Hello Kitty (New Market)
$12 Breakfast per person. *One child age 2 or younger free for Breakfast w/ paid admission. The Hello Kitty Little Tykes Combo ($17) includes buffet and three hours of unlimited use of Gold Rush Soft Playground (for kids under 48" height) $5 worth of arcade credit. Hello Kitty Value Combo ($22) includes buffet and three hours of access to Laser Tag, Ropes Course, Rock Wall & Spin Zone Bumper Cars
Incubation Techniques for Turtles and Tortoises (Catonsville)
Join us for a presentation on Incubation Techniques for Turtles and Tortoises by Frank Dumbrowski. This follows the 6-7:30 p.m. quarterly meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Turtle and Tortoise Society. Adults and teens
Freedom's Diaries (Baltimore)
Hear from Karsonya Whitehead’s Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis and Myra Armstead’s Freedom’s Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America
"Be Prepared" with Walt Calahan (Westminster)
Winter is a great time to photograph outside, or as the great sage of photography once said, "Bad weather makes for great photos." This is a great opportunity to learn from a true professional. THIS IS AN OUTSIDE EVENT, SO DRESS WARM!
The Great Baltimore Fire Motor Coach Tour (Lutherville)
Learn about the 3rd worst fire in US history, in which 86 downtown blocks and 1,500 buildings were destroyed in 30 hours. Seventeen companies from six states came to fight the fire. A special tour of Old Engine 6, the Fire Department hospital at the time of the Fire and now a small museum with Fire Memorabilia, photos and apparatus, is included.
Stop, Swap and Save Bike Fest (Westminster)
Whether you're looking for road bikes, mountain bikes, triathlon bikes, BMX bikes, clothing, bike parts, cycling accessories, vintage new or used there's comething for everyone all on sale at discounted prices!
Rockville Concert Band (Rockville)
Annual Jazz Concert presented by Rockville Concert Band. No tickets; $5 suggested donation
Ladino, a language of the Jewish Diaspora (Baltimore)
Explore the history and current state of Ladino, a Jewish language that arose in the Iberian Peninsula and spread in the wake of the expulsion of Jews from there in 1492 as new Jewish communities settled throughout the Mediterranean region.
The United States Air Force Band Collegiate Symposium (Bowie)
This concert is the culmination of The United States Air Force Band’s Collegiate Symposium, a two-day workshop for visiting talented college musicians from around the country. Featured works by Higdon, Respighi, Mackey, Grainger and Sousa, among others. FREE admission, no reserved seats.
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