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Habersham Village
147,182 Gross Leasable Area
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Habersham Village is one of Vanguard’s most recent acquisitions (March 2019). Located in Cornelia, Habersham County in northeast Georgia, Habersham Village is situated proximate to the strategic interchange of US Hwy 441 and US Hwy 23. The county has a population of approximately 44,246 with strong growth trends, and is located approximately 30 miles northeast of metro Atlanta. Habersham Village was developed in 1985 with Kmart as the anchor tenant until mid-2017. This 147,182 sq.ft, 15.925 acre project, along with its neighbors, forms the main retail hub of the market, which is clustered at the confluence of Business 441 and Highways 441 & 23. The center has great visibility and multiple points of access/egress, including a traffic signal at J. Warren Road.
Vanguard has initiated renovation efforts at the center and will include at completion parking lot light conversion to LED fixtures (complete), parking lot seal/stripe/crack fill, and an updating of the centers façade to include updated paint. In conjunction with these effort, Vanguard is working to fill the vacated K-Mart space and bring both new tenants to the market and a new vibrancy to the shopping center.
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Hibbett Sports, Big Lots, Anytime Fitness, GNC, H&R Block
1145 Highway 441 North Cornelia, GA 30531
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S. Vern Hakes was originally licensed to practice Real Estate in Georgia in 1989 and joined Vanguard Associates in 1994. He has extensive experience in commercial real estate sales and leasing transactions and property management. The early part of his..
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Vegetable Buyers Guide
Potato Buyers Guide
3Ms open new potato grading facility
3Ms (Three Musketeers) have been operating since 2001 and now have six farming shareholders who between them farm more than 34,000 acres. After nearly 18 months of careful investigation, they recently opened their new potato grading line, which is based at their site on the ex-USAF airbase at Bentwaters, near Woodbridge.
A large number of guests went along in mid-May to see the new operation officially opened by Dr Therese Coffey. Dr Coffey has been MP for the Suffolk Coastal region since 2010 and is currently the Conservative candidate in the next general Election. She has also been the Minister at DEFRA dealing with flooding and coastal problems.
Edward Blanchard, managing director for 3Ms, said: “This is a project that has been talked about for several years and has finally come to fruition. We’re a relatively small company, particularly in terms of our number of employees, so it’s a massive achievement to be able to put such a modern piece of equipment into our business. As a company owned by collaborating growers here in Suffolk and working to market their produce, it’s imperative that we generate the best return from every sale that we make”.
Mr Blanchard said the new grader will help sales to existing customers as well as opening doors to new ones. It will allow 3Ms to grade potatoes on behalf of other growers in the area which was of mutual benefit to everyone concerned.
Praising 3Ms investment and vision to bring this new grading line into operation, Dr Coffey said: “As a Minister for DEFRA, it is very encouraging to see farmers investing in the future in these difficult times. This equipment adds considerable value to this important potato growing region, with 3Ms having found a solution to increase their output while saving money. I know they are also keen to help other farms in Suffolk realise higher values for their crops.”
3Ms needed a new building to house the grading line, and this was erected in a “record-breaking” eight weeks by PFG Fabrication. 3Ms were successful in gaining a Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) grant in conjunction with the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) and received £250,000 towards the investment. This is one of the largest projects in the country to be funded by these grants and, after reviewing the business plan for 3Ms, HSBC provided the finance for the remaining investment.
Three Musketeers’ growers wanted to get their grading right and maximise their income from the smaller-sized fractions within the crops, while still adding value to the larger sizes that are no longer in demand from the UK retailers. 3Ms are looking to add more value to the sales they have currently, by serving the retail packers with specific sizes and selling the rest elsewhere.
The new SUPAFILL 600 potato grading line was supplied by Haith, with some equipment also coming from Tomra and Dijkstra. It will offer an increased hourly output, and will reduce the requirement for the older and less efficient graders on site to be used as much as they were previously. The inbuilt infra-red sorter removes stones and soil from the potatoes before they pass through visual grading by trained staff and are then sorted into sizes by the vertical grading module.
The early variety Swift is already being run through the grader with great success. 3Ms growers planted this, along with another 900 acres of crop under fleece to enable their crops to be ready for sale as early as possible in the season.
3Ms who were featured in The Vegetable Farmer in March last year, are a major supplier of new and early maincrop potatoes to the fresh potato market. Around 95% of their potatoes and onions go to major retailers and processors with the remainder being sold to local wholesalers and retailers. The group of six farms has expanded its business considerably in recent years, with an increased acreage and tonnage of potatoes. Each farm operates its own staff and planting/growing/harvesting equipment.
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DNEG hires New Head of Character Animation Andrew Gordon
Member News | 23 May 2019
DNEG has announced their appointment of Andrew Gordon, creator of iconic characters for Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo, as Head of Character Animation for their Feature Animation team in London.
Andrew Gordon, Head of Animation, DNEG
Andrew joins Managing Director of Feature Animation Tom Jacomb, Animation Director Troy Saliba and VFX Supervisor Philippe Denis in leading DNEG’s rapidly-growing Feature Animation team, at the company’s London headquarters.
With more than 20 years’ experience in feature animation at Pixar and Warner Bros., Andrew has an impressive credit list that includes many prestigious blockbuster animated franchises such as ‘Ratatouille’, ‘Monsters University’, ‘Toy Story’, ‘Finding Nemo’, ‘Cars’ and ‘The Incredibles 1 & 2’.
Commenting on the appointment, Tom Jacomb, said:
“It gives me great pleasure to welcome Andrew to our Feature Animation team. His natural and inspirational leadership style, combined with his knowledge and creativity, particularly when it comes to creating characters that audiences really connect with, are invaluable assets that will strengthen our capabilities and play a crucial role in the future growth of the team.”
Andrew has received global recognition for bringing to life iconic characters such as Mike Wazowski – the green, one-eyed star of the hugely successful ‘Monsters, Inc.’ and ‘Monsters University’ films, for which he was Animator/Character Designer and Directing Animator, respectively – and Marlin in ‘Finding Nemo’, for which he won a VES Award for Outstanding Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture.
Talking about his appointment, Andrew Gordon said:
“I am delighted to be joining such a dedicated and hardworking team, led by the amazing Tom Jacomb, at an exciting stage in its journey. Together we are creating a working environment where each film is not just treated as a task, but rather as a collaboration – a chance for everyone to input their individual creativity and character.
“I’m excited to be here in London, which is one of the most diverse capital cities in the world. I believe that London’s rich history provides the perfect environment for our team – a melting pot of creativity that lends itself perfectly to feature animation.“
Andrew will be delivering a masterclass entitled ‘Acting and Gesture in Animation’ at Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 11, 2019. https://www.annecy.org/home
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‘Media Company of the Year’ awarded to DNEG at the Evening Standard Business Awards 2019
Visual Effects company DNEG received the award at a ceremony celebrating companies making valuable advances in their fields.
DNEG team gains Production VFX Supervisor of ‘Aladdin’ and ‘Logan’ in London
Visual effects, animation, and stereo conversion company Double Negative welcomes Senior VFX Supervisor Chas Jarrett.
VFX Animation team at DNEG is bolstered with high-profile creative hires
DNEG has announced a series of strategic senior appaointmen to its VFX Animation team, in London and Montréal.
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View from the summit- Mt Maunganui- New Zealand
Aus/Pacific, Holidays, New Zealand
The Town of Maunganui from the top of the Mount ,cr-flicker
by Sarah Juggins,
Two hours south-east of Auckland is the coastal town of Mount Maunganui. The focal point of Mount Maunganui is the feature for which the area is named. Towering above the beach resort, the mount stands 232 meters high and is 3.2 kilometers in diameter around its base. Parts of it are easy level inclines, which allow the casual walker to smell the aromas of the trees, flowers and herbs that are growing but, at other points, the incline is so steep that it takes even the fittest person’s breath away.
At the very top of the mount there is a stunning view across the Pacific to the east; to the west is Manatakana Island; and to the south, the town of Maunganui.
The residents treat the Mount with a mixture of reverence and commercial interest. On the one hand, early mornings see people heading up the Mount in droves, sometimes walking, sometimes jogging, sometimes just walking up the mountain and meditating at the top. But then, in downtown Maunganui, the shops carry names such as ‘Mount Sushi’, ‘the Mount Surf and Ski’ shop, and ‘the Mount Pharmacy’.
Surfer’s Paradise in the Pacific:
The beaches are a surfers’ paradise. Split into two long, sandy expanses; challenging, lively waves roll up the beach and all along the roadside are spaces for the ubiquitous camper vans to park up and dispel their blond-haired, sandied-bodied athletes, clutching surf boards and never quite able to tear their gaze from the distant horizon, in case they miss the big waves. In the town itself, the residents go about their business with energy. Each house is immaculate, with well-tended gardens, clean wooden verandas and flowering pots that add color to the balconies and window boxes.
In one garden an eighty-year-old woman wields a chain saw to chop down the thickened branches of an over-grown rosemary bush. In another, a young mother plays catch with her toddler, throwing a beach ball, both of them laughing as the ball bounces gently off the toddler’s head, her arms grasping at empty air as the ball falls to the floor. Along the beach-front, men and women of all shapes, sizes and ages jog or run, enjoying the feel of sunlight, salty air and muscles stretching and releasing before they go about their daily business.
But if the visitor is conned into thinking that this is some health freak paradise, there are the usual characters who prop up the diner, the burger joint and order everything with fries and extra large. They just don’t appear on the sea front before 10am.
The town of Maunganui has three main areas. The east-facing beach has a road running parallel. Near the Mount, bars and cafes offer fresh fish, cold drinks, gelatos and coffees. As the road winds out of town, houses and apartments replace the cafes. Architectural masterpieces of glass and wood jostle side-by-side with bungalows and chalets that are stuck in the 70s and 80s, their local owners grimly hanging on, despite the inflated offers from the city dwellers seeking their idyllic weekend getaway.
Idyllic setting
Two small islands sit a hundred meters off the shore. When it is low tide, it is possible to walk across the sand to the island. At weekends, brides and grooms sit on rocks as a photographer flits around taking shots that reflect the romance of the day, the situation and the venue.
Bits of washed-up driftwood provide the furniture to the scene. Photographers stop and spend hours getting the perfect shot in the perfect light. Dogs cock their legs up the whitening bark and children clamber over the obstacle, their imagination turning the wood into ships, motorcars or fortresses.
The second and third areas are in the town itself. Two blocks from the beach is the strip of cafes, bars and restaurants. These are interspersed with expensive little boutiques selling the latest fashions, plus locally-crafted and highly over-priced locally-crafted jewellery. This is the area of picture postcards, luxuriously long breakfasts and dreams of aspirational lifestyles. It is here that the middle- aged couple talk of leaving their sales jobs and opening a coffee shop. Young newly-weds picture walking on the beach hand-in-hand while their toddlers play in the waves and the sixty-year-old man relives his youth as a surfer and rock-god.
And then you move in town. Here is the gritty reality of life in New Zealand. Oil companies, timber companies and fertilizer distributors dominate the industrial areas. Woolworths replaces the chic little food stores and cheap, practical clothing is sold in the mall.
This is the scene of the Chiefs rugby union ground, the local sports club and the motor racing track. It is where the locals come on a Friday night to watch their teams, wash away the week with Tui beer and tuck into ‘battered savs’ a saveloy sausage in a batter stuck on a stick. It is here that the mullet remains the hairstyle of choice and the body type is either flabby and over-sized or stunted and stick-thin.
Café culture in Mount Maunganui
Down on the sea front, from Marine Parade to Oceanview Road there is a selection of cafes and restaurants, all serving a range of coffees and sea food. It is here that a visitor can perch on a stool, order a locally-caught fish dish and wash it down with some of New Zealand’s citrusy sauvignon blanc. It is also where things cost the most.
Take a turn inland and hit the numerous cafes as they serve coffees and cakes, freshly baked spinach and feta cheese filo pastries and enormous fruit-filled muffins. Until noon there is a choice of brunch items – Eggs Benedict, pancakes with banana and bacon, mushrooms on toast. The emphasis is on local, sustainable and independent. There is a sole Starbucks, but it stands forlorn except for those tourists who search for something familiar before they pluck up the courage to venture into the unknown.
As with everything in life there is extraordinarily good and unbelievably bad. Café 88 is in the former category – small, intimate, friendly and with a range of products that would tempt a saint off a diet. Ambience in 88 is the key. The décor is artisan, slightly graffiti-styled and totally cool. A blackboard is peppered with messages from across the world and in this small, independent, non-corporate setting is an ironic pile of Coke cans.
The coffee culture is only three to four-years-old in New Zealand, but boy have they grasped the concept. Flat whites are the coffee of choice and the intricate patterns formed on top of the foamy milk seem to reflect the Maori fern etchings, rather than represent the US and UK influence on coffee drinking habits. The worse end of the Maunganui café culture is to be found in the coffee shops that try to bring a hint of somewhere else. The Swiss-styled Chalet and its neighbor Ambrosia were poor. In trying to bring a European feel to the New Zealand coffee scene these two cafes fell somewhere between the two and fared badly for it. In a land with so much to offer, there is little need to pretend to be anywhere else.
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YCSO: Woman falls asleep at wheel causing rollover
Authorities responded to the traffic collision Saturday on Boynton Canyon Road near Boynton Pass Road in Sedona, according to Dwight D’Evelyn, the media coordinator for the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office. Photo courtesy of Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office
Originally Published: October 2, 2018 3:45 p.m.
SEDONA -- A Cottonwood woman fell asleep at the wheel Saturday, causing a rollover collision on Boynton Canyon Road, according to the Yavapai County Sherriff’s Office.
Authorities responded to the traffic collision Saturday on Boynton Canyon Road near Boynton Pass Road in Sedona, according to Dwight D’Evelyn, the media coordinator for the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office.
According to D’Evelyn, Cottonwood Fire personnel reported a single-vehicle rollover at a ditch.
“The driver, a 29-year-old Cottonwood woman, later told deputies she had fallen asleep while driving to work,” D’Evelyn stated in a news release. “When she woke, she overcorrected the steering and went off the right side of the road then veered back to the left side of the road. At this point, the vehicle flipped and landed in a drainage culvert several feet below the roadway.”
D’Evelyn said the woman was wearing a seatbelt and had minor injuries from the crash. She was transported to a local hospital and later released.
“This incident could have resulted in horrific consequences if the driver had been ejected from the cab,” D’Evelyn stated.
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Vierhalbiert
Vierhalbiert is an unusual experiment in which four musicians probe the extremes of sound, culture, and chronology. In their programmes, Early Music meets Contemporary Music: historical and modern instruments are mixed and two sound worlds interact and confront each other. Sometimes they blend; other times, their differences are highlighted. A modern style of basso continuo accompanies baroque music by Biber and juxtaposing Xenakis and Dall’ Abacco allows to jump back and forth over a gap of 300 years.
The duos perform not only on instruments of different eras, but at two different pitches simultaneously! Boundaries between different styles and aesthetics are eviscerated. The audience is invited to celebrate with the musicians the inherent timelessness of music.
Vierhalbiert was chosen to be part of the The New Austrian Sound of Music programme 2018/19. An initiative from the Foreign Ministry of Austria to support and encourage musicians and groups to perform abroad. Future projects include world premiers of two fantastic young Austrian based composers Matthias Kranebitter and Lorenzo Troiani written specifically for the two Duos. Both pieces were premiered in Innsbruck in 2018. Further projects are in the making right now. One by composer Hannes Dufek and another one combining pieces by Simon Steen-Andersen and a selection of HIF Biber's Rosary Sonatas.
© Vierhalbiert 2018 | Quartet for baroque and contemporary music. All rights reserved.
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I-15 south closure near Joshua Street in Hesperia coming Thursday night
Martin Estacio Staff Writer @DP_mestacio
Caltrans officials said southbound lanes will be closed from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m. Friday for emergency repairs on the Highway 395 overcrossing.
HESPERIA — Emergency repairs will continue on the U.S. Highway 395 bridge that crosses over Interstate 15 on Thursday night, bringing a closure to southbound lanes.
Caltrans officials said southbound I-15 will be closed at Highway 395 from 10 p.m. Thursday until 4 a.m. Friday. Southbound Highway 395 and northbound I-15 will remain open during the closure.
A detour for the closure, from the Joshua Street offramp, will be a right turn onto Joshua, which leads to a stoplight at the intersection with Highway 395. Turn left at the light onto the southbound I-15 onramp.
The repairs are part of a $1.7 million project started after the overcrossing began to deteriorate Dec. 13, resulting in a shutdown of the connector route,, Caltrans spokesperson Terri Kasinga told the Daily Press last month.
Kasinga said construction would likely be completed at some time this year.
Visit www.District8.dot.ca.gov, or the Caltrans District 8 Twitter feed @Caltrans8, for updates on the project and traffic information.
Martin Estacio may be reached at MEstacio@VVDailyPress.com or at 760-955-5358. Follow him on Twitter @DP_mestacio.
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Golden Compass Sport Power Chair -
Golden Compass Sport Power Chair
The Compass Sport by Golden Technologies is a center-wheel drive power chair that offers many of the same features as its predecessor, the original Compass, but with sporty features like a 11.25 mph top speed and 60 amp shark controller.
With a weight capacity of 300 lbs., the chair is engineered to last over 11 miles on a single charge, guaranteeing all-day reliability and efficiency. It comes standard with a Dynamic Shark 60 amp controller as well as a set of desk-length flip-up armrests. Also featured are a comfortable set of footrests, which are adjustable from 3" to 7" off the ground, at an angle of 0 to 35 degrees. Backed by a lifetime warranty, the Compass Sport has a maximum speed of 4 mph and is available with either a Captain's Highback or Captain's Van/Pan seat.
* Desk-length flip-up armrests
* Center-wheel drive
* Fold-flat seat hinge for a compact fold
* Weight capacity of 300 lbs.
* Height and angle adjustable footrests
* Driving range of 11.25 miles
* Dynamic Shark 60 amp controller comes standard
* Two U-1 batteries
* Electronic speed control as well as electro-mechanical brakes
* Made in the U.S.
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Employing an ecosystem services framework to deliver decision ready science
Public land managers have limited information to allow for the integration and balancing of multiple objectives in land management decisions including the social (cultural and health), economic (monetary and nonmonetary), and environmental aspects. In this article, we document an approach to consider the many facets of decision making by...
Pindilli, Emily J.; Hogan, Dianna M.; Zhu, Zhiliang
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A spatio-contextual probabilistic model for extracting linear features in hilly terrain from high-resolution DEM data
This paper introduces our research in developing a probabilistic model to extract linear terrain features from high resolution DEM (Digital Elevation Model) data. The proposed model takes full advantage of spatio-contextual information to characterize terrain changes. It first derives a quantifiable measure of spatio-contextual patterns of linear...
Zhou, Xiran; Li, Wenwen; Arundel, Samantha
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The effect of resolution on terrain feature extraction
Recent increase in the production of high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) from lidar data has led to interest in their use for terrain mapping. Although the impact of different resolutions has been studied relative to terrain characteristics like roughness, slope and curvature, its relationship to the extraction of terrain features...
Arundel, Samantha; Li, Wenwen; Zhou, Xiran
U.S. Geological Survey accomplishments in cartography 2015-2019
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the United States' official national topographic mapping organization, is building and maintaining geographic databases for fundamental base geographic layers of land cover, structures, boundaries, hydrography, geographic names, transportation, elevation, and orthoimagery as The National Map. Data from the 3D...
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Semantically supported linked data mapping
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Supply chain infrastructure restoration calculator software tool—Developer guide and user manual
This report describes a software tool that calculates costs associated with the reconstruction of supply chain interdependent critical infrastructure in the advent of a catastrophic failure by either outside forces (extreme events) or internal forces (fatigue). This tool fills a gap between search and recover strategies of the Federal Emergency...
Ojha, Akhilesh; Kanwar, Bhanu; Long, Suzanna K.; Shoberg, Thomas G.; Corns, Steven
Ojha, A., Kanwar, B., Long, S.K., Shoberg, T.G., and Corns, S., 2019, Supply chain infrastructure restoration calculator software tool—Developer guide and user manual: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2019–1061, 17 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20191061.
Problems of Large Spatial Databases
Large spatial databases often labeled as geospatial big data exceed the capacity of commonly used computing systems as a result of data volume, variety, velocity, and veracity. Additional problems also labeled with V’s are cited, but the four primary ones are the most problematic and focus of this chapter (Li et al., 2016, Panimalar et al., 2017...
Attribution: Core Science Systems, National Geospatial Program, United States of America, Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS)
The 3D Elevation Program—Supporting California's Economy
IntroductionCalifornia faces unprecedented challenges presented by shifting weather patterns that are defining a “new normal.” The result has been extreme weather events, prolonged drought, flooding, and debris flows. These conditions drive severe tree mortality, increase wildfire occurrence and intensity, reduce water availability, and hasten...
Ostergren, Carol L.; Decker, Drew; Carswell,, William J.
Attribution: Mapping, Remote Sensing, and Geospatial Data, Core Science Systems, National Geospatial Program, United States of America, , 3D Elevation Program
Ostergren, C.L., Decker, D., and Carswell, W.J., Jr., 2019, The 3D Elevation Program—Supporting California's economy (ver. 1.1, June 2019): U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2019-3029, 2 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20193029.
Analysis for agreement of the Northern Gulf of Mexico topobathymetric digital elevation model with 3-Dimensional Elevation Program 1/3 arc-second digital elevation models
Topographical differencing and edge-matching analyses were used to evaluate agreement of the Coastal National Elevation Database Applications Project’s Northern Gulf of Mexico topobathymetric digital elevation model (TBDEM) with The National Map 3-Dimensional Elevation Program (3DEP) 1/3 arc-second digital elevation models (DEMs). In addition to...
Miller-Corbett, Cynthia
Attribution: Core Science Systems, National Geospatial Program, National Geospatial Technical Operations Center
Miller-Corbett, C., 2019, Analysis for agreement of the Northern Gulf of Mexico topobathymetric digital elevation model with 3-Dimensional Elevation Program 1/3 arc-second digital elevation models: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2019–1016, 44 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20191016.
Scale‐dependent effects of isolation on seasonal patch colonisation by two Neotropical freshwater fishes
The metapopulation paradigm has been central to improve the conservation and management of natural populations. However, despite the large number of studies on metapopulation dynamics, the overall support for the relationships on which the paradigm is based has not been strong. Here, we studied the occupancy dynamics of two Neotropical fishes (i.e...
Penha, Jerry; Hakamada, Karlo Y. P.; Hines, James E.; Nichols, James D.
Attribution: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Core Science Systems, Ecosystems, Wildlife Program, United States of America
Topographic mapping evolution: From field and photogrammetric data collection to GIS production and Linked Open Data
Whither the topographic map? Topographic mapping historically has been approached as a map factory operation through the period 1879-1990. During this time, data were field and photogrammetrically collected; cartographically verified and annotated creating a compilation manuscript; further edited, generalized, symbolized, and produced as a graphic...
Usery, E. Lynn; Varanka, Dalia E.; Davis, Larry
Attribution: Core Science Systems, National Geospatial Program, United States of America, Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS), National Geospatial Technical Operations Center
Validating the use of object-based image analysis to map commonly-recognized landform features in the United States
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Geospatial Program (NGP) seeks to i) create semantically-accessible terrain features from the pixel-based 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) data, and ii) enhance the usability of the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) by associating boundaries with GNIS features whose spatial representation is...
Arundel, Samantha; Sinha, Gaurav
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Little River is located in Horry County, SC near the Little River that travels between North and South Carolina before flowing into the Atlantic Ocean. Little River is the first known community to be settled in Horry County, and it was originally known for being a trading port as well as a fishing community. Currently, the area is home to the state’s only two casino boats.
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The town of Little River, SC, at Mile 344.3, has considerable pier space along its waterfront. Berths with electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, and marine supplies are available; engine repairs can be made. A marina at Mile 345.0, on the north side of the waterway, has berths, electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, water, ice, pump-out station, nautical supplies, and wet and dry storage; hull, engine and electronic repairs can be made. In 2010, the reported alongside depth was 6.5 feet.
Click the “Map View” button above to see a chart of this harbor.
The North Carolina-South Carolina State Line crosses at Mile 340.8 just before the waterway enters Little River.
The waterway joins Little River at Calabash River extends northeastward from Little River just north of the waterway cutoff and southward to connect the waterway with Little River Inlet. In 2008, the controlling depth was 2.9 feet to the town of Calabash, NC, 0.6 mile Calabash, NC, 0.6 mile above the entrance. The channel is marked by lights and daybeacons.
The mean range of tide at Little River is about 5 feet.
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Whose Look-Alike Sons Are Hotter: Jack Nicholson or Pierce Brosnan?
By Rachel Torgerson
The apple clearly doesn’t fall far from the tree! Photos of Jack Nicholson’s son, Ray, 23, at an event in the Hamptons on Saturday, Aug. 15, blew up on the Internet and only made our thirst for sizzling celeb offspring even stronger. Is it just Us, or is he looking a little like Leonardo DiCaprio circa Catch Me If You Can in his polka-dot short-sleeve button-up?
Ray Nicholson and Jack Nicholson attend an event in the Hamptons on Aug. 15 Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Apollo
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Good thing Pierce Brosnan rose to the occasion by also bringing his brood of sons to the premiere of his movie No Escape on Aug. 16. Brosnan’s son Dylan, 18, is a model (he’s booked campaigns with high-fashion labels like YSL), and a bona fide heartthrob in his dapper blue suit and skinny tie. And he’s definitely mastered the “blue steel” stare and artfully disheveled locks.
Pierce Brosnan poses with his three sons at the L.A. premiere of “No Escape” on Aug. 16 FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images
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The former Bond actor, 62, also brought along his eldest son, Sean, 31, and younger son Paris, 14, to the screening, and they didn’t disappoint either. Sean, who is the obvious sartorial expert of the group, wore a checkered black and white blazer to the event, while Paris mimicked his brother Dylan (and their father) in a tailored navy suit.
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Dosing Common Cold Products in Children: New Guidelines
W. Steven Pray, PhD, DPh
Bernhardt Professor, Nonprescription Products and Devices
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford, Oklahoma
Gabriel E. Pray, PharmD Candidate
US Pharm. 2011;36(3):12-15.
Pharmacists advising patients about the appropriate use of nonprescription products have often fielded a difficult type of question. Parents ask the pharmacist what dose of a nonprescription product to give their child. Upon questioning, the pharmacist discovers that the child’s age is below the youngest labeled age on the product. Pharmacists have several options, but patients may become angry if the pharmacist refuses to use guesswork to create a dose. If the pharmacist does guess at a dose, however, significant liability can be incurred if the child is harmed.
FDA-Established Doses
In its ground-breaking review of nonprescription products, the FDA solicited expert input and conducted numerous investigations to determine doses for children that would ensure safe and effective therapy.1 For common cold-related ingredients (e.g., nasal decongestants, cough products, antihistamines), the final rules of the FDA OTC review process were mostly published more than a decade ago, establishing those safe and effective doses.1 For Rx-to-OTC switched ingredients, ages and corresponding dosages are decided upon through collaboration of the manufacturers and the FDA.
Manufacturer’s Pediatric Dosage Charts
As early as the 1980s, manufacturers began to distribute “Professional Dosing Charts” with dosing of antidiarrheals, analgesics, antihistamines, and cough/cold products clearly below the ages known to be safe and effective.1 They were in the form of rigid charts with adhesive on the back, booklets of stickers to be filled out by the pharmacist, paper charts, and refrigerator magnets, among others. Companies providing these dosing charts and products promoted in this way included Burroughs Wellcome (Sudafed), Whitehall-Robins/Wyeth (Robitussin, Dimetapp), Bristol-Myers Squibb (Naldecon), Sandoz (Triaminic), and McNeil (Tylenol, PediaCare, Imodium A-D). In 1992, this author (Steve Pray) reported the practice to a congressional committee investigating poor OTC labeling, and the correspondence was published in the official record of its proceedings.2 However, nothing was done, and the practice continued until at least 2004. To this date, the charts seem to have escaped FDA criticism or scrutiny.
Manufacturers Market Infant Products
In spite of the fact that infant dosing was prohibited by the FDA, manufacturers had begun to market products targeting those under the age of 2 years. The packages clearly depicted infants under the age of 2 years, and often even included the word “infant” as part of the trade name. Examples included Dimetapp Infant, PediaCare Infant, Robitussin Infant, Triaminic Infant, and Tylenol Infant. The manufacturers were careful to omit the doses to be given to infants, a nonsensical decision that forced consumers to make dangerous guesses at appropriate baby doses in the absence of a physician recommendation. Of course, placing doses on the package would have required them to conduct actual safety and efficacy studies in infants, which they presumably were loathe to do. Apparently, the manufacturers intended pharmacists to use their dosing charts to create unapproved doses for these products.
A Citizen’s Petition to the FDA
On March 1, 2007, the FDA received a petition signed by a group of well-respected physicians and pediatricians (e.g., the commissioner of health for Baltimore).3 It asked the FDA to notify the public that antitussives, expectorants, decongestants, antihistamines, and cough/cold combinations are not known to be safe and effective in children under the age of 6 years. It also asked the FDA to notify manufacturers that the practice of using the terms “infant” or “baby” and showing photos of children under the age of 6 years is not backed by scientific evidence. The authors of the petition cited 900 cases of unintentional overdosing in children, and four deaths in Baltimore of children under the age of 4 years, as well as three additional deaths reported by the CDC. The physicians questioned the efficacy of these products in the lower doses generally given to babies (e.g., in the dosing charts).
The FDA’s 2007 Advisory
In August 2007, the FDA issued a Public Health Advisory.4 The FDA warned parents that cough/cold products should not be used in those under the age of 2 years unless the parents had been given specific directions to do so by a health care provider, and that overdoses could cause serious and life-threatening side effects, especially in those under 2 years. The FDA also provided measurement instructions and stressed that all directions must be followed exactly. Finally, the agency announced that the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee (NDAC) would meet in October 2007 to decide whether the benefits justified any potential risk to children, especially those under the age of 2 years.5
CHPA Defends the Products
The Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) is a group composed of OTC and dietary supplement manufacturers’ representatives that closely examines any new laws, rules, or regulations that would affect nonprescription products, in addition to its other activities. In response to the FDA’s advisory, the CHPA issued a lengthy document meant to influence the NDAC members in their deliberatons.6 The CHPA recommended that cough/cold product labels henceforth include a statement clearly stating “Do Not Use” in children from 0 to under 2 years of age. The CHPA did not, however, recommend recall or destruction of the unapproved pediatric dosing charts.
Recall of Infant Products
Manufacturers announced on October 11, 2007 (one week before the NDAC meeting), a “voluntary” recall of the infant products.7 The president of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) issued a “Special Alert” stating, “Infants younger than 9 months with symptoms of the common cold should always be referred to their physician, according to the APhA’s Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs.”8 The alert inexplicably failed to warn pharmacists that the doses down to the age of 9 months provided in the APhA OTC textbook were the subject of an FDA advisory, and not known to be safe or effective in babies, further confusing the issue.
The 2007 NDAC Meeting
The NDAC meeting held on October 18-19, 2007, confirmed all of the charges in the citizen petition, with the committee expressing concern that the products had been marketed for decades without pediatric data, when it would have long been feasible to have carried out the relevant studies.9 The committee clearly spoke against the common practice of making up pediatric doses by simply extrapolating from approved doses for older children. With this statement, the pediatric dosing charts marketed for decades were declared invalid, although they were still not recalled. The committee voted 13 to 9 to take immediate action against the use of cough and cold medicines in children under the age of 6 years.
FDA’s 2008 Advisory Warning and 2008 Public Hearing
On January 17, 2008, the FDA issued an advisory and several explanatory documents warning Americans not to use cough and cold products in children under the age of 2 years due to the risks of serious and potentially life-threatening side effects.10-12 The FDA held a public hearing on October 2, 2008, to consider a full ban of cold and cough medications in children under the age of 6 years.13,14 The FDA had expressed concern that a sudden ban would cause parents to administer adult medications to children. This author (Steve Pray) assisted Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD, who was then the commissioner of health for Baltimore (former principal deputy commissioner of the FDA, now Maryland’s secretary of health and mental hygiene) in preparation for discussing the latter question at the meeting by providing information on the low risk to public health a few years earlier when bismuth subsalicylate products underwent an abrupt change in the labeled ages from 3 years to 12 years. During the hearing, the FDA decided against an outright ban, and stated that it needed additional data regarding safety and efficacy in those aged between 2 and 6 years before it would take any action.
Voluntary Changes in Age Labeling
On October 7, 2008, pharmacists and the public were all taken aback by a statement from the CHPA.15 The organization’s president began by asserting that children’s nonprescription cough/cold medicines are safe and effective, although she offered no new studies to prove that assertion. The CHPA also stated, “Research shows that dosing errors and accidental ingestions—not the safety of the ingredients themselves when properly dosed—are the leading causes of rare adverse events in young children.” This was perhaps an attempt to divert the issue away from lack of safety and efficacy studies.
The CHPA also stated that, following FDA consultations, leading manufacturers agreed to a voluntary transition of labels to eventually read not to use them in children under the age of 4 years. Further, manufacturers would place a warning on sedating antihistamines not to use them to sedate children or to make them sleepy. The transition would occur during the 2008-2009 cough and cold season. The FDA did not require a recall of products with the older labeling down to the age of 2 years.
The story behind this surprise move demonstrated the complicated interactions between manufacturers and the FDA. News reports on October 11, 2008, revealed that the FDA conducted a review of data and carried out a vigorous debate regarding pediatric dosing.16 The FDA personnel then held private discussions with industry. The label changes represented a compromise that the manufacturers would accept. The FDA perhaps feared that trying to force a ban under the age of 6 years would cause a lengthy period of public comment and investigation, during which the 2-year age labeled products would continue to be marketed, an unsafe proposition. In an effort to prevent that scenario, the FDA apparently decided to make the best of a bad situation by splitting the difference and offering a compromise age of 4 years.
Manufacturers agreeing to the proposal and the companies/brands affected included McNeil (Tylenol, PediaCare, Sudafed), Novartis (Triaminic), Procter & Gamble (NyQuil, Vicks), Reckitt Benckiser (Delsym, Mucinex), and Wyeth (Dimetapp, Robitussin). Eventually, the label change was to extend to all products, a move endorsed by the FDA.17
A leading public interest organization criticized the move, characterizing it as a self-serving gesture of self-regulation, offering doses for those aged 4 to 6 years without proof of safety.18 As such, the group opined that this arose solely from a political compromise.
You may have recognized that those labels have been drastically revised. The allowed age limit is now 4 years. When the labels were changed, it signaled parents that cough and cold products should not be used in infants and children under the age of 4 years without the supervision and approval of a prescriber.
Why Did the Labels Change?
A growing number of children had been harmed by cough and cold products, and younger children were more at risk. For this reason, the FDA began an examination of whether those products were safe and effective down to the age of 2 years. During this process, manufacturers voluntarily agreed to raise the age limit to 4 years.
Can Those Selling the Products Make a Recommendation?
It is tempting to turn to the seller of the product to ask his or her opinion. Pharmacists are a logical choice for such a question. The highly professional training of pharmacists allows them to provide considerable advice as to when a physician should be consulted and when you can use nonprescription products. However, assessing a child in depth, creating a dose for a child, and monitoring the child are all considered only to be within the realm of a prescriber. Community pharmacists are not prescribers, and creating doses in these situations is an area for which they lack the resources. Typical community pharmacies do not have the basic tools or an appropriate area to assess patients by examining their throats and ears. Pharmacies also cannot provide monitoring.
As an example, suppose a 1-year-old child suffered an acute reaction or injury from a pharmacist-recommended, nonlabeled dose, and the parent called the pharmacy for help, assuming the pharmacy was even open. Pharmacists lack the ability to carry out such obvious interventions as ordering lab tests and admitting the child to a hospital.
A more precarious situation arises if you buy the product from a nonpharmacy outlet. In this situation, clerks and sales personnel are not trained to provide medical advice of any sort, such as when to see a physician or what dose to administer. Asking them to do so or heeding their advice would be a very bad idea.
Under no circumstances should you guess at a dose of your own. It is tempting to assume that the label dose for a 4-year-old can be cut in half for a 2-year-old. This is false and can bring about serious injury. Never guess at a dose. Always call the child’s physician for medical advice and measure the doses very carefully to ensure that the correct dose is given.
1. Pray WS. Nonprescription Product Therapeutics. 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2006.
2. Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities and Energy of the Committee on Small Business and the Subcommittee on Housing and Consumer Interests of the Select Committee on Aging of the House of Representatives, 102nd Congress, 2nd session. Washington, DC. April 28, 1992;319-322. Small Business Serial No. 102-75.
3. Sharfstein JM, Serwint J, North ML, et al. Citizens petition. March 1, 2007. www.baltimorehealth.org/press/ FDA%20petition%20PDF.pdf. Accessed January 28, 2011.
4. FDA public health advisory. Nonprescription cough and cold medicine use in children. August 15, 2007. www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ PostmarketDrugSafetyInformatio nforPatientsandProviders/ DrugSafetyInformationforHeathc areProfessionals/ PublicHealthAdvisories/ UCM051282. Accessed January 28, 2011.
5. Use caution with cough and cold medicines for children. FDA. www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ ConsumerUpdates/ucm048689.htm. Accessed January 28, 2011.
6. Untitled document. www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/ 07/briefing/2007-4323b1-01- CHPA.pdf. Accessed January 28, 2011.
7. Infant cold medicines pulled for overdose risk. MSNBC. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21247580/ from/ET/. Accessed October 11, 2007.
8. Gans JA. Special alert (letter). American Pharmacists Association. October 11, 2007. www.pharmacist.com/AM/ Template.cfm?Section=Search1& template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm& ContentID=14175. Accessed January 28, 2011.
9. FDA proceedings. Joint Meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee on Safety and Efficacy of Over-the-Counter Cough and Cold Products Marketed for Pediatric Use. Parts 1-4. October 18-19, 2007. www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/ 07/transcripts/2007-4323t1- Part1.pdf; www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/ 07/transcripts/2007-4323t1- Part2.pdf; www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/ 07/transcripts/2007-4323t2- Part3.pdf; www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/ 07/transcripts/2007-4323t2- Part4.pdf. Accessed January 28, 2011.
10. Public health advisory: FDA recommends that over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold products not be used for infants and children under 2 years of age. www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ PostmarketDrugSafetyInformatio nforPatientsandProviders/ DrugSafetyInformationforHeathc areProfessionals/ PublicHealthAdvisories/ ucm051137.htm. Accessed January 28, 2011.
11. OTC cough and cold products: not for infants and children under 2 years of age. FDA. www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ ConsumerUpdates/ucm048682.htm. Accessed January 28, 2011.
12. FDA releases recommendations regarding use of over-the-counter cough and cold products. FDA news release. January 17, 2008. www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/ Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ 2008/ucm116839.htm. Accessed January 28, 2011.
13. Public hearing for over-the-counter cough and cold medications. Beltsville, Maryland: FDA; October 2, 2008. www.fda.gov/cder/meeting/ cough_cold.htm. Accessed October 2, 2008.
14. FDA wants more time to study cold meds for kids. HealthDay News. October 2, 2008. http://asthma-allergy-news. com/art619932.asp. Accessed January 28, 2011.
15. Statement from CHPA on the voluntary label updates to oral OTC children’s cough and cold medicines. Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA). October 7, 2008. www.chpa-info.org/10_07_08_ pedcc.aspx. Accessed January 28, 2011.
16. Associated Press. Child remedy plan led by FDA. The Oklahoman. October 11, 2008:3A.
17. FDA statement following CHPA’s announcement on nonprescription over-the-counter cough and cold medicines in children. FDA. October 8, 2008. www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/ Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ 2008/ucm116964.htm. Accessed January 28, 2011.
18. Lurie P. Drug industry proposal for cough and cold medications will not protect children. Public Citizen. October 7, 2008. www.citizen.org/pressroom/ release.cfm?ID=2749. Accessed January 28, 2011.
19. Hyland’s teething tablets: recall—risk of harm to children. FDA. October 23, 2010. www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/ SafetyInformation/ SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalPro ducts/ucm230764.htm. Accessed January 28, 2011.
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Oxford and Cambridge Day Tour Golden Tours
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Visit two of the world’s most famous university towns in a single day and see beautiful architecture, famous buildings and some of the finest scenery in southern England.
The highlights of Oxford and Cambridge, with a guided walking tour of each city
Oxford’s ‘dreaming spires’ – discover the spectacular buildings that make up the city’s skyline
Christ Church College – the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland and the Great Hall at Hogwarts
The Bodleian Library, Oxford – one of Europe’s largest libraries, home to over 11 million items
King’s College Chapel – Cambridge University’s breathtaking Gothic chapel
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Entry to Christ Church College
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Walking tour of Oxford
As the tour departs London at 8.30am, sit back, relax and enjoy the scenery on the way to your first stop, the famous university town of Oxford.
Your expert guide will take you on a walking tour of the historic city streets, sharing facts about the magnificent sights along the way including the Bodleian Library, which contains over 11 million items, and many other magnificent, ornate university buildings.
Your tour includes entry to Christ Church – the college and cathedral where Hogwarts’ Great Hall was brought to life in the world-famous Harry Potter films.
The College’s architecture is beautiful, and its buildings make up the iconic skyline that the “city of dreaming spires” is famous for. See the intricate Tom Tower, a bell tower built by Sir Christopher Wren, and admire the glorious Cathedral Spire, perhaps Oxford’s most famous landmark.
Walk through the peaceful grounds in the footsteps of royalty and academics and hear from your guide how the college and the city of Oxford itself inspired the stories of Alice in Wonderland.
Afternoon in Cambridge
Once you’ve left Oxford, you’ll make your way to the beautiful city of Cambridge. It’s here that you will visit Senate House at the world-famous University of Cambridge. Before used by the Council of the Senate for important meetings, it is now the chosen location for students’ degree ceremonies. You’ll get to explore this special location and discover its important history before venturing onto the Corpus Clock!
The Corpus Clock is a unique invention outside the Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College. Revealed to the world by Stephen Hawking, it is made from a 24-carat gold-plated stainless steel disc and has no numbers to tell the time. Instead, it shows the time through lights that shine through individual slits. This unmissable innovation will stay in your mind long after you’ve left!
You’ll also get to see Cambridge’s Mathematical Bridge during your stop. Designed by William Etheridge, it is nearly 300 years old and has attracted visitors from all across the world. The design gives visitors an intriguing conundrum – it uses only straight timbers but the bridge arches. It’s an absolute must-see!
One of the main highlights of the trip is visiting the exquisite King’s College Chapel. Used as a symbol representing the city of Cambridge, the Chapel is a popular tourist attraction for people across the world. Taking a century to build, starting in 1446 on Henry VI’s demands, King’s College Chapel displays wonderful gothic architecture and huge, enchanting stained glass windows. Featuring the world’s largest fan vault and famous artwork from Rubens, there’s plenty to learn and discover at the home of the King’s College Chapel Choir.
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The road to success has been a rather long slope for Northern Irish alt-rockers Snow Patrol, but in 2012, they can look back and say they’ve come a long way. A new band record was set last year with Snow Patrol’s sixth studio album, Fallen Empires, debuting at #5 on the Billboard charts, followed by an international tour. But like many rising acts, it wasn’t always this way. Snow Patrol survived two name changes (“Shrug” and “Polar Bear” were already taken), local gigs and jobs at strip clubs, pubs and bars called Lucifer’s Mill and Nice N Sleazy, and the departure of a drummer (though the band did have better luck with drummers than Spinal Tap), before even getting signed. And once they had made it onto Scottish independent label Jeepster, home of Belle & Sebastian, they still didn’t see the progress they’d hoped for. With the freedom of an independent label came lax promotional efforts and the label dropped the band after the second album, which sold many critics but not enough copies to make a great profit. Since the band wasn’t selling enough records, lead singer Gary Lightbody had to sell his record collection to pay rent, and the band got by sleeping on fans’ floors and getting into nightclubs by pretending to be members of Belle & Sebastian. Though slightly disheartened, the band stuck with it, encouraged by manager Danny McIntosh and his gold colored splitter bus that the boys traveled in. During the band mates’ transition phase, they grabbed an acoustic guitar and wrote “Run,” which would be released on the ironically titled 2004 album Final Straw, their first success with Polydor Records. From there, “Chasing Cars” on 2006’s Eyes Open became a Grammy-nominated hit favorite and the band continued to lace more of their songs with pop hooks and radio-friendly melodies. On the band’s most recent Fallen Empires, walls of guitars are softened with simple synths and electro beats, but earnest lyrics and rock integrity remains.
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In this lesson, we're going to take a look at one of the most popular chord progressions in traditional blues music known as the 12-bar blues. The blues are.
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It’s hard to pick just a few from the many, but here’s a few to start. blues he’d honed his chops on. (“Goin’ Back to New.
We look at the different types of 12 bar we find in jazz, rock, blues and other. The bad news is that although the blues scale fits OK, so it is easy to start off.
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And if you don't, did you start with this method until it became second. Personally, I don't count on standard-pattern blues (12 bar, 8 bar), I do.
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Nov 11, 2015 · I received an email from a site member this week stating that he was recently at a jam session and wasn’t sure what to do when it came to playing rhythm. He knew the key the song was in and new how to make chords, but didn’t feel like he knew how to play a blues rhythm, so I’ve decided to.
All right, then, last time out we learned the standard patterns of twelve bar blues as well as the typical blues shuffle rhythm. Today we’ll take both of these ingredients, toss in a bit of theory and when we’re done you’ll be able to play an amazing number of straight ahead rock and roll songs.
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They really did suffer, nowadays it's beyond belief how these things could happen. To call attention to the audience that you start to play, a Blues song typically.
The 12 Bar Blues: Where to Start – Kodaly Corner Middle School Choir, 6. change tempo but it would be fun to see the chaos that would ensue if you did.
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Feb 17, 2018. A 12-bar blues is one of the most universally understood chord. you've never played with before, you'd soon start jamming on a blues.
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Feb 22, 2019. The 12 bar blues is one of the most iconic song forms ever!. just getting started to recording artists preparing their songs for the road. Heh, Jordan Your playing of 12 bar blues is truly mind blowing and did you say it was for.
From there, the music felt like it was living up to its potential. The 12-bar strut of “Unclaimed Freight” had a noticeable.
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I realized it's been a while since I've created a standard 12 bar blues (I, IV, Now how I did it was I took the Facebook lesson you posted then save it to me only. to get up from the guitar every 3 minutes to re-start the video on my laptop.
Turning Around. For the intent of this lesson, which is to make this as painless a process as possible, we will play this song in the key of E. So we will be using our standard twelve bar blues shuffle (and do feel free to review that in the last two “Easy Songs for Beginners” pieces – Before You Accuse Me and Roll Over Beethoven). In the simplest possible term, a “turnaround” is a.
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Jan 14, 2013. (If it did, it would make this a 13 bar blues pattern instead of 12.). et cetera) and songs that begin to push the boundaries and anticipate the.
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Blues has kept the same overall form since its growth in popularity during the early-mid 20th century. But its broad influence on jazz and modern rock music cannot be overstated. Every musician should have a good knowledge of the blues. This lesson will introduce you to the blues chord progressions.
Jun 23, 2016. The simplicity inherent in the blues lends freedom to its musicians to improvise; but. The 12-bar blues is the most important structural element in the history of. In the first phrase, Parker starts by modifying measure 4 to help.
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Apr 6, 2016. In the last blues lesson you learned how to play the 12-bar blues. It's time to take it to the next step and learn to improvise with the 12-bar blues.
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A Chord Progression that started out being used for blues songs (hence the name). Bob Dylan did quite a bit of 12-Bar Blues, most notably on " Subterranean.
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Sep 27, 2016. Add a little bit of spice to the 12 bar blues on ukulele with these. Let's start by looking at a simple 12 bar blues in A. The way it is. 2nd & 3rd frets again (2210 & 2310), much the same as it did for the A & D7 chords above.
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By 1920, three major formats of blues were common: The 8 bar blues, the 12 bar blues. to record their songs in uniform sets of twelve bars like jazz musicians did. you can begin to see how this tonally makes sense: (I I)(I), (I I)(I), (IV IV)(IV),
The 12-bar blues progression is important because it’s a starting point when musicians get together. If you all know the standard 12-bar blues progression, then everyone knows the starting point. That way if you do want to change things up, it’s easy because you all have that progression down.
But my root and my background will always be blues. So who knows what could happen? How many guitars do you current own? And.
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It is with great pleasure that I invite you all to participate at the 24th Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS) to be held in Mexico City (October 12 to 15, 2019). WAS is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and we invite all of you to join us in promoting Sexual health and Sexual Rights for All in Mexico City.
WAS is the world’s major umbrella organization in the field of sexual health / sexual rights, representing more than one hundred member organizations and several other global organizations from the five continents. Moreover, WAS is a truly multidisciplinary organization and the oldest global organization in the field of sexual health. Born in 1978 has been mostly concerned with sexual health and rights across the globe since then. Our mission statement summarizes this vision, emphasizing that WAS “promotes sexual health throughout human life spans all over the world by developing, promoting and supporting sexology and sexual rights for all”.
Participating at the WAS Congress in Mexico will be an opportunity to celebrate and share the diversity and richness of the science and practice of sexual health and sexual rights and meet experts and colleagues from all over the globe. Diversity is expressed by the array of scientific areas that contribute for the understanding of sexuality, including historical and social sciences, behavioural sciences, clinical and medical sciences, as well as educational sciences. Moreover, a wide range of applied areas and topics will be represented.
We will have a very intense, diverse, and global scientific program chaired by Alain Giami and Erick Janssen (vice-chair), together with the Local Organizing Committee (Osmar Matsui, Luis Perelman, Veronica Delgado, Eusebio Aurioles, and Esther Corona).
Finally, participating at the WAS Congress in Mexico is an opportunity to share and network with a truly multicultural audience from a variety of countries in the five continents while enjoying the atmosphere of one of the most historical UNESCO World Heritage cities in the world.
Welcome to Mexico City
Pedro Nobre
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On behalf of the Mexican Organizing Committee, we welcome you to the 24th Congress of the World Association for Sexual Health to be held in Mexico City, October 12–15, 2019.
Mexico is a country of pluralities, contrasts and surprises; rich in traditions and ancient culture. Mexico, and especially Mexico City, also surprises in advances in progressive policies. A new government is taking office at the local and federal levels and we expect further advances in Human and Sexual rights.
Since 1970, Mexican sexology has been continuously developed in different areas of human sexuality, sexual health and sexual rights. Postgraduate degree programs in sexuality education and sex therapy are available in several states, and recognized as valid studies by the government. World Sexual Health Day is celebrated in several cities and it is an official day in the State of Jalisco. The Federación Mexicana de Educación Sexual y Sexología (FEMESS) since 1995, comprises more than 50 organizations committed to sexual health throughout the country, which have contributed to sexuality education programs and sexual health public policies, as well as sexual rights.
This Congress is aimed to all those professionals in the field of Sexual Health, including education, public policies, therapy, social and cultural contexts, basic sciences, among others. The Congress theme “Building Bridges in Sexual Health and Rights” is a call to remind that overall general health cannot be achieved without attention to Sexual Health and Human Rights to all and every person on this world.
Plan your visit to Mexico along with tourism, according to the last World Tourism Organization ranking, we are the 6th country most visited in the world. Mexico has a fair weather in October, then you can combine science during this Congress with the splendors of Mexico City with 100 museums and world class food.
Right after the congress, Mexico City will host the Formula 1 race, and on November 1st our traditional and well-known Day of the Dead celebrations. Meanwhile you can visit and experience our colonial, archeological and beach destinations, with wonderful gastronomy, music and friendliness of Mexicans.
Come and enjoy all that the WAS Congress and Mexico have to offer you. We will welcome you with open arms and hearts!!!
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The principal and most vital part of the Congress of the World Association of Sexual Health (WAS) is its scientific program. The field of sexual health is complex and consists of a wide variety of disciplines, including education, psychological and other social sciences, medicine, public health, and activities ranging from research, therapy, education, and advocacy. WAS considers the link between sexual health and sexual rights a core focus and goal, and this forms the basis of a range of activities related to advocacy and the promotion and defense of human rights when they are under threat.
Every two years, researchers, clinicians, educators, policy makers, and activists with expertise and interest in human and sexual rights come together for the most important global event in the field of sexual health to present their work, their ideas and experiences, and to discuss them openly with colleagues that represent well over 70 countries and most continents and regions in the world. Delegates are invited to present their work to the Scientific Committee and their work goes through a careful process of peer review. The submission and evaluation of projects for the WAS Congress is the very first moment where participants and members of the Scientific Committee and the International Scientific Committee share their work and discuss them. Then, after additional evaluation, the papers are selected for symposia presentations, invited lectures, poster sessions, and workshops that will engage, educate, and hopefully inspire the participants during the 4 days of the WAS congress.
The WAS Congress is a festival of knowledge and sharing, a place where sexual science, sexual medicine, public health, sex education, and last but not least human and sexual rights meet and interact. In order to attract researchers, health professionals, educators, social workers, activists, and others to present their work at the Congress, the WAS Scientific Committee has created seven tracks which aim to represent most disciplines involved in sexual health and sexual rights. They are the following:
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Together with the WAS Scientific Committee, the WAS International Scientific Committee will help evaluate proposals and abstracts, and the Local Scientific Committee, in addition, will focus on the solicitation of proposals from Mexico and other Latin American countries.
We hope that this will be an attractive congress for all who have a desire or interest in exchanging and sharing ideas and experiences, and those who wish to hear about the newest developments in research, practice, and policy in sexual health and human rights.
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Firefox 4 has finally been released after an amazing number of Beta versions and 2 Release Candidates. It's about time! And while everyone has its idea on the number of Beta versions needed and how often a major version must be released - some find it reassuring that Firefox has had so many ones when others find it annoying and wish for a shorter release cycle - Mozilla said that Firefox 5 should be available in June 2011 after only 16 weeks of development. And we have been reminded why Mozilla has shortened its release cycle: they want more cakes from the Microsoft Internet Explorer team!
Google is actively pushing Chrome by providing a download link from the home page
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Up until now, the Google home page was meant to be as lite as possible. It only contained one image with the Google logo, some links to other Google tools, services and legal information. But that has changed recently as a new prominent image appeared to publicize the Google Chrome web browser. And this is quite huge as the overall advertisement's size is almost the same as the biggest element on the Google's home page: Google's logo itself!
The Shortest Way to Detect Internet Explorer in Javascript
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Through Ajaxian, the following 12 characters code seems to be the shortest way to detect any version of Internet Explorer, including IE 8. This is the result that came from a comment in a post from the Web Reflection blog. Very interesting!
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Gamasutra is running and interesting story about the biggest browser-based game sites where we can learn some pretty amazing numbers measured by ComScore such as "Total player time with browser-based online games increased 42 percent in 2008" ... interesting!
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Even though Microsoft promised the final version of Internet Explorer 8 for last year, it is only today that the first release candidate of Internet Explorer 8 is available for public download in 25 languages for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server customers. Changes between Beta 2 include platform completeness, reliability, performance, and compatibility improvements and security enhancements.
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Not happy to have the fastest JavaScript engine of any web browser thanks to SquirrelFish Extreme, Safari just hit the 100/100 bar of the Acid3 test. "Acid3 is a test page from the Web Standards Project that checks how well a web browser follows certain web standards, especially relating to the DOM and JavaScript" . Congratulations!
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If you haven't read it yet, here is the very funny history of browser user-agent string as narrated by Aaron Andersen of WebAIM. "In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing. And behold, then came a new web browser known as "Mozilla", being short for "Mosaic Killer", but Mosaic was not amused, so the public name was changed to Netscape, and Netscape called itself Mozilla/1.0 (Win3.1), and there was more rejoicing.
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These are the states with the most Christmas spirit
Abby Haglage
Yahoo Lifestyle December 19, 2019
A new study from GetCenturyLink ranked the states with the most Christmas spirit. See where yours stacks up. (Photo: Getty Images)
If it’s already beginning to look like Christmas in your hometown, it may have something to do with where you live. According to a recent study from GetCenturyLink, certain states are way more likely to get into the Christmas spirit than others. To figure out where Santa really comes to town, GetCenturyLink analyzed each state using a variety of metrics, falling under two categories: online activity and area culture.
For online activity, the team studied Google searches for a number of festive things including Christmas movies, gingerbread houses, wrapping paper, Christmas cards, Christmas ornaments and “Elf on the Shelf.” They also measured the number of Christmas songs streamed in each state as well as the number of tweets pertaining to Christmas put out in each state.
Area culture boiled down to the number of Christmas tree farms and the number of charitable donations made in the state. The results showed that the South and Midwest are both particularly festive. Coming in first with the highest Christmas spirit was Tennessee, followed by North Carolina, Utah, Ohio and Alabama. Rounding out the bottom five were states with overall warmer winters, including Arizona, Florida, California, Hawaii and — the state with the least Christmas spirit — Nevada.
It’s perhaps no surprise to Tennesseans that their state has the most Christmas spirit. Just this week, local law enforcement in Knoxville made news for pulling people over and then surprising them with gift cards. “The reason I stopped you is because you’re a good driver,” a cop is seen telling a U.S. Postal Service worker. “So, on behalf of the Knox County Sheriff’s Office and Academy Sports, I want to give you this $50 gift certificate.”
Measuring which states exhibit the most Christmas spirit, however, wasn’t the only information that GetCenturyLink shared in the study. Nationwide, there are 25 to 30 million Christmas trees sold each year — more than the population of Switzerland, according to the National Christmas Tree Association. Another interesting fact shared by the team was the most expensive ornament, a $130,000 18-carat white gold cylinder with over 1,500 individual diamonds.
To see where your state ranks, visit the full study here.
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Watch Anywhere but Here
"A story of a mother who knows best... and a daughter who knows better."
Anywhere But Here is a movie starring Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman. The mother daughter duo sets off to find fame and fortune in Hollywood. This 1999 comedy is directed by Chinese director Wayne Wang. Sarandon plays mother figure Adele August. Her daughter, Ann is played by Portman. Living in Bay City is not very exciting, so off to Beverly Hills for a more glamorous life. Ann doesn’t want to go, but they pack their stuff into the gold Mercedes Benz and head for a new adventure.
Not long into the movie, it becomes clear that Ann is the mature half of the starring duo. Adele moves into an apartment that they cannot afford and she is not grounded. Her free-spirited ways are not grounded in reality. She wants Ann to be an actress, even though she has no interest in being a star. She also wants her to marry money and make a name for herself in the community. However, Ann has different plans.
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Watch The Mighty Kong
This creative animated feature film brings a new twist to the King Kong story by transforming it into a musical. The mystique and inspiration from the original story are all alive and well, and the audience can expect some serious entertainment when the giant ape climbs the Empire State Building. Of course, there are a few omissions from the well-known story to provide the best family-friendly version of a legendary tale.
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Asian Games 2018: India to send 53-member athletics team
Reference: https://m.hindustantimes.com/other-sports/asian-games-2018-india-to-send-53-member-athletics-team/story-bfTQE8jwPhnSFsUk9TiS7O.html
International distance runner G Lakshmanan from Tamil Nadu, who narrowly missed the Asian Games qualifying norms during the four day National Inter State Athletics Championships that concluded at Guwahati on Friday, has got the nod of the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) selection panel.
In a meeting held here on Saturday, the AFI has selected 55-member team for Jakarta. The AFI has submitted the list to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to meet the June 30 deadline by name.
Despite 22 top athletes achieving the qualifying norms in Guwahati, AFI has given opportunity to those on the borderline.
Commonwealth Games champion in javelin throw Neeraj Chopra and seasoned discus thrower Seema Punia were exempted from the final selection trials and got direct entry for Jakarta.
But all those who are selected will have to attend confirmatory fitness test on August 15, said AFI president Adille Sumariwalla. ‘’The athletes don’t have to give their personal best before leaving for Indonesia but have to show that they are in good health and will be able to deliver their best during the Asian Games,’’ he said.
Considering hot and humid weather conditions prevailing in Guwahati, the AFI president said, some of the athletes who marginally missed the qualifying mark were given another chance.
Lakshmanan’s 10,000m winning time of 29 minutes 16.23 secs was just six seconds slower than the qualifying time of 29:10.
Likewise there were several others including shot putter Tejinderpal Singh Toor, whose best throw of 19.37m fell short of qualifying mark of 19.50m.
But not all were considered. ‘’We picked those athletes who have potential for podium finish,’’ said AFI president.
In the previous Asian Games in Incheon, Indian athletes bagged 13 medals two of them gold through discus thrower Seema Punia and 4x400m women’s relay squad.
The AFI think tank is targeting 20 medals this time. Traditionally India had been winning medals in the throwing competition. Besides field events, Indian women’s team had been winning medal in the longer relay. ‘’We have good bunch of 400m runners, it gives us edge over the other leading nations like Japan and China,’’ added AFI president.
India also stand a good chance in the mixed team event, it will be introduced for the first time.
Incidentally for relay team only those attending the national camp will be selected. ‘’Non campers have been debarred from the relay,’’ he said, adding the AFI had announced its selection policy six months ago.
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Woodlands firefighters quickly squelch Entergy transformer fires
By Jeff Forward
Updated 10:46 am CDT, Saturday, August 10, 2019
An Entergy Texas electrical transformer fire behind Los Cucos Mexican Cafe in The Village of Panther Creek at about 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 7, was quickly contained by firefighters from The Woodlands Fire Department. The transformer was one of two Entergy transformers to catch on fire on Wednesday. The other occurred at about 8:30 p.m. at the CVS Distribution Center.
An Entergy Texas electrical transformer fire behind Los Cucos Mexican Cafe in The Village of Panther Creek at about 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 7, was quickly contained by firefighters from The Woodlands Fire
Photo: Justin Ulmer/Special To The Villager
A fast response from The Woodlands Fire Department on Wednesday, Aug. 7, to two different Entergy Texas transformer explosions in The Woodlands resulted in both blazes being extinguished quickly and the fires being contained so that no structures were damaged.
Doug Adams, the interim fire chief for The Woodlands Fire Department, confirmed on Thursday that dozens of firefighters had responded to two different Entergy Texas transformer fires on Wednesday, one at 7:34 a.m. behind Los Cucos Mexican Cafe in the Panther Creek Shopping Center and another at 8:30 p.m. at the CVS Distribution Center, which is located at 100 S. Trade Center Parkway.
No one was injured in either incident and no structures were damaged, however Adams said at the Panther Creek incident, more than 300 gallons of mineral oil was leaked from the transformer, which was cleaned up by a hazardous materials team from the fire department and later by an Entergy team who arrived on the scene about an hour after the fire.
“(Entergy) Had a transformer fire, which are pretty common. While not daily, (transformer fires) happen regularly around the county,” Adams said. “We sent a (team) to the first unit (behind Los Cucos) and the first unit on scene quickly extinguished (the fire). We had a (second) transformer fire (Wednesday night) at the CVS Distribution Center. That was also an Entergy transformer. They kept units on the scene for a couple of hours.”
Justin Ulmer, a local student pastor from the Woodsedge Community Church, was drinking coffee at the Starbucks when the transformer fire at the Los Cucos restaurant happened.
“There was a large boom, then a fireball appeared (in the sky) behind Los Cucos,” Ulmer said. “I called 911 and the fire department arrived within minutes and quickly put it out. If anyone would have been within 30 feet of that, they’d likely have died.”
Ulmer said he stayed at scene for about an hour, taking photographs of the firefighters in action as well as the clean up of the hundreds of gallons of mineral oil that spewed from the damaged transformer afterward. The fireball caused surrounding trees and bushes to catch fire and also singed a nearby wall where dirty linens are stored. Power was knocked out to several businesses, including Los Cucos, which remained closed the remainder of the day, one employee verified.
Entergy Texas officials probing fires, causes
Allen East, the vice president of distribution operations for Entergy Texas, said in a telephone interview on Thursday that company officials did not know the exact cause of the two blazes, but said teams of experts are doing “forensic” examinations of the two transformers in an effort to determine what happened. East said transformers can catch fire due to several reasons.
“(The two incidents) Are very similar. It is really strangely odd that we had back-to-back transformer failures in the same day,” East said. “The higher temperatures often reveal some of the faults inside a transformer. (In these incidents) There was some internal failure. We’re still investigating what caused it.”
East said the oil spilled onto the ground from the Panther Creek transformer was “light mineral oil,” and that it was not dangerous to the environment like past oils used in much older transformers. Between the Entergy and Woodlands Fire Department teams, the oil was significantly cleaned up with a variety methods, including vacuums and absorbent booms.
“When (the transformer) begins to fail, it will build up pressure and the pressure inside the transformer will cause the mineral oil to begin to rupture,” East explained. “This is light mineral oil and not hazardous like oils used in the past.”
Adams said whenever firefighters arrive on the scene of a fire related to electrical infrastructure, they work closely with utilities such as Entergy Texas or CenterPoint to get the power turned off so that firefighters can safely battle the blaze.
“It is not uncommon to have these happen, sometimes (the transformer) goes ‘pop’ or ‘boom.’ I would call it a minor incident for us,” Adams added. “When we respond to these incidents, we want to get those (transformers) de-energized. If we can’t do that immediately, then we try to contain the fire until power is eventually turned off.”
Fires latest in a series of Entergy issues
Wednesday’s two transformer fires were just the latest in a series of incidents Entergy Texas officials have been dealing with in The Woodlands since mid-July.
Related:Power outages continue to frustrate Woodlands
The company has has repeated outages plague customers in Shenandoah for much of 2019, while the power issues in The Woodlands began becoming worse on July 16. There have been 10 significant power outages in The Woodlands from July 16 through Aug. 4, not including the incident Wednesday. Officials have said the outages have been caused by a combination of public digging and cutting lines, outside contractors accidentally damaging infrastructure and failed cables, among other reasons.
East said Entergy officials are concerned about the continued issues and again apologized to customers affected, saying that the firm has replaced more than 21 miles of underground cable as well as 300 transformers in the past three to five years. Those projects are continuing, he added, part of Entergy’s efforts to significantly upgrade service around the township.
“We do not want to be the people who interfere with our customer’s lives,” he said, adding that anyone who has suffered damage to an appliance such as refrigerator or air conditioning unit can call the company’s claims and complaint department at 1-800-Entergy and seek reimbursement.
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Real estate firm gets new home
Lepi and Associates will officially open their new office at 1257 Maple Ave. at 4 p.m. Thursday.
Real estate firm gets new home Lepi and Associates will officially open their new office at 1257 Maple Ave. at 4 p.m. Thursday. Check out this story on zanesvilletimesrecorder.com: https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/local/2019/04/16/real-estate-firm-gets-new-home/3411535002/
Chris Crook, Zanesville Times Recorder Published 2:29 p.m. ET April 16, 2019
Lepi and Associates’ new building on Maple Avenue in Zanesville. (Photo: Chris Crook/Times Recorder)
ZANESVILLE - When Bobbi Lepi, owner of Lepi and Associates, opened the company's Zanesville office in 2008, the little white house on the corner of Maple and Fairmont avenues was the perfect fit for her five employees.
A decade later, with more than 40 agents and staff spread across two buildings, it was time for a new home.
The realtor moved into their new home at 1257 Maple Ave., just down the street from the old location, during the first week of April. Their new 5,000-square-foot building fulfills Lepi's goal of getting everyone under one roof.
Bobbi Lepi, left, talks with realtor Katrina Cornell in Lepi and Associates’ new building on Maple Avenue in Zanesville recently. (Photo: Chris Crook/Times Recorder)
"Our old home was starting to feel a little disjointed, with people spread across two buildings. Here the staff and agents will get some amenities to help after a long day."
Remodeled after most recently housing a window installer by Zanesville construction company Lepi Enterprises, the new building features a kitchen and a gym as well as a patio, where agents and staff can decompress for a few minutes between meetings. Each agent has his or her own desk, and there are several conference rooms. The airy, open feel is thanks in part to large windows that look out on Maple Avenue.
"The old location was a great place to start from, we just outgrew it" Lepi said. "Our new home has an open, collaborative feel."
There are another 2700-square-feet in the building with bays and garage doors the realtor is not using, and hopes to lease out for storefronts or other uses.
Lepi and Associates will celebrate their new home with a ribbon cutting at 4 p.m. Thursday.
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Wings Etc. Asks “Which ‘Fest Is Best?” In Octoberfest Seasonal Beer Promotion
Sam Adams® Octoberfest and Yuengling® Oktoberfest To Be Featured this Fall
FORT WAYNE, Ind., Friday, Aug. 23, 2019 — While many celebrate Autumn because of the return of pumpkin spice latte season, Wings Etc. Grill & Pub customers get pumped for the best crisp, seasonal specialty beers. This Fall, there’s added anticipation.
From late August through October, participating Wings Etc. locations will let two popular Octoberfest beers—Samuel Adams® Octoberfest and Yuengling® Oktoberfest—battle for the love and loyalty of their specialty-beer-loving customers. The promotion asks Wings Etc. guests: “Which ‘Fest Is Best?” While Sam Adams Octoberfest is the more established, multiregional beer and is a seasonal favorite at Wings Etc., Yuengling’s Oktoberfest is a relative newcomer in many of the states where Wings Etc. Grill & Pub operates and is seeing seasonal sales momentum.
“We don’t think it will turn into a ‘one-or-the-other’ choice among our guests,” said Robert Hensmann, Wings Etc., Inc. CEO. “People really love beer options and offering more than one Octoberfest beer means more opportunities for tasting, comparing, recommending. It’s part of the continuing interest in specialty beers and will likely play out on social media channels, with lots of photos and even more opinions. It might be fun to watch.” If he has a favorite between the two October seasonals, Hensmann isn’t saying. “I like a lot of beer styles, and even do some of my own home brewing. Both of these Octoberfests are excellent, and our customers are anxious to enjoy them.”
If Octoberfest beers aren’t a guest’s preference, Hensmann says there a many more options at Wings Etc. “Each of our pubs have a minimum of 40 domestic, import and craft beer selections in bottles or on tap, and those selections are decided locally, by the people who own and operate each location. If you’re not an Octoberfest lover, we have dozens of other choices,” said Hensmann.
The “Which ‘Fest Is Best?” showdown starts and ends with seasonal availability. “Both of these beers start becoming available in late August, and sell until supplies run out in late October,” says Hensmann. “We think, through promoting the two brands, we’ll see more interest in seasonal Octoberfest beer than in recent years—and that’s pretty exciting for everyone.” Both beers will be available at Wings Etc. locations in Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina and Tennessee.
About the Wings Etc. Grill & Pub Franchise Opportunity
Founded in 1994 by Jim Weaver in the South Bend, Indiana area, Wings Etc. is a family-friendly grill and pub with a diverse menu featuring award-winning jumbo Buffalo wings, 22 signature sauces, fresh- never-frozen gourmet burgers, smoked ribs, sandwiches, subs, wraps, salads, kids meals, over 40 domestic and craft beer selections in bottles and on tap, dozens of large HDTVs tuned to the best sports programming, and a casual, non-corporate-y, laid-back "vibe" that makes people want to just come in and hang out. In addition to its popular sports programming, menu and beverage options, Wings Etc. offers weekday lunch and food specials, drink specials, online ordering and much more.
Franchising since 2004, Wings Etc. Grill & Pub has been named one of Restaurant Business Magazine’s “Future Franchises” for three consecutive years and has also been named one of Franchise Gator’s “Top 100 Franchises” for four consecutive years. Wings Etc. continues to grow and succeed by partnering with franchise operators who share the Wings Etc. Vision, Mission and Values, a commitment to building a successful business while helping build stronger communities and people (all while having fun!).
Wings Etc. offers single and multiunit franchise options. The initial franchise fee is $39,500, with a $292,847 liquid cash investment, and $500,000 minimum net worth requirement for interested prospects. Wings Etc. offers one of the lowest startup costs and break-even franchise opportunities in the full-service restaurant segment. Priority growth markets include Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee and Alabama.
For more information about the Wings Etc. franchise opportunity, visit www.wingsetcfranchise.com.
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N.Y. Auto Show Is Rife With Lithe Energy Savers
Author: Stuart SchwartzapfelStuart Schwartzapfel
There was no shortage of news surrounding reduced energy consumption during the press conferences at the 2010 New York International Auto Show. Even Infiniti’s new 8-passenger QX56 SUV gets 20 mpg on the highway. Among the many product introductions and company announcements, Ford, Hyundai and Chevy stood out with notable strides in vehicle efficiency and forward thinking technology partnerships.
We sat down to a packed press conference thinking that FoMoCo was simply going to unveil their new Lincoln MKZ Hybrid, tell us how it’s not the same as Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan Hybrids, and call it a day. Sure the new Lincoln promises to be the most fuel-efficient luxury sedan in America, with 41 mpg in the city (6 mpg more than 2010 Lexus HS 250h), but we knew bigger news was on deck when the turnaround king himself, Alan Mulally, walked out onto the stage. The former Boeing CEO and cost-cutter extraordinaire was there to announce Ford’s new tie-in with Microsoft's Hohm software application.
"Ford and Microsoft both share a strong commitment to contributing to a better world. Today, we begin the next major step in our working together and leading the way for energy efficiency and environmental sustainability," said Mulally. "For Ford, this is a needed step in the development of the infrastructure that will make electric vehicles viable."
Hohm is a free web-based service Mircosoft currently offers to consumers. It was designed to reduce energy costs and increase conservation by providing homeowners with insight into energy-use patterns. When Ford breaks cover on their Focus EV next year, an adapted version of Hohm will allow customers to connect with local utility providers to optimize vehicle charging.
They even piped Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer onto the big screen by satellite to chime in on the future impact of EVs. If you recall, Ford formally worked with Microsoft on SYNC, an in-car wireless connectivity platform that allows drivers to voice activate phone calls and MP3 tracks. It has been installed on more than 2 million Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles since its launch in 2007. Just like SYNC, Ford was not able to secure exclusive rights to the technology.
Hyundai ——-
On the heels of Hyundai's sixth generation Sonata mid-size sedan launch at last year’s L.A. Auto Show, the Korean automaker showed off new hybrid electric and turbocharged sport variants that add frugality, variety and performance to the Sonata family.
A palpable level of energy and eagerness emanated from the crowd as president and CEO of Hyundai America John Krafcik introduced the sleek new Toyota killers to flashing lights and high-energy music. As Krafcik pointed out, Hyundai and their Hybrid Blue Drive technology are a little late to the hybrid party (Toyota has been making hybrids for more than 10 years) but aren't without a laundry list of best in class specs and industry first technologies.
According to the EPA, Hyundai has led the in fuel economy for the last two years and is currently the only automaker with average fleet fuel economy of more than 30 MPG. Not bad considering that Sonata is the company’s first hybrid.
"The Hyundai Sonata Hybrid is the new kid on the block, but it’s not a follower,” says Krafcik. “Its full parallel hybrid configuration and breakthrough lithium polymer batteries offer a new take on traditional hybrid design, while its unique design sets it apart from the mid-size hybrid pack.”
As we have previously reported, Hyundai is breaking the mold by using lithium-polymer battery technology from LG Chem instead of the nickel-metal hydride and lithium-ion applications used by competitors. Lithium polymer offers a whole bunch of advantages next to lithium-ion batteries – higher energy density, lower manufacturing costs, higher resistance to physical damage and significant advantages in thermal robustness and safety. Compared with nickel-metal hydride batteries, lithium polymer delivers the same power with 20 to 30 percent less weight, 40 percent less volume and 10 percent greater efficiency.
Lithium-polymer batteries also hold their charge 1.25 times longer and offer 1.7 times more energy density than nickel-metal, allowing engineers to devote less space and weight to the battery pack. The Sonata Hybrid's battery pack weighs just 95.9 pounds versus the Camry Hybrid’s 123.9 pounds. Not surprisingly, Sonata Hybrid is the lightest vehicle in the segment, weighing 263 pounds less than the Fusion Hybrid.
Sonata's full parallel hybrid-drive system uses regenerative braking and can run on the 30-kilowatt (151 pound-foot) electric motor, 2.4-L Atkinson Cycle gasoline engine, and a combination of the two, depending on driving conditions and driver demands. The electric and gas motors develop a total output of 209 horsepower at 6,000 rpm, besting all mid-size competitors.
Different from the power-split system used by competitors, Hyundai decided against a CVT in favor the company's new 6-speed auto stick, which has been modified with hybrid starter-generator, electric motor and low-friction oil pump that together allow the elimination of the traditional torque converter. Not only does the transmission utilize electric power more efficiently, it allows it to be operated at significantly higher EV-only speeds (62 mph) than the competition and is also a key enabler of Sonata Hybrid’s best-in-class highway fuel economy of 39 mpg. Hyundai also made a point of mentioning that it's more fun to shift, albeit automatically, than to drone along using a fixed gear CVT.
In the looks department, Sonata Hybrid is visually differentiated from other, less green Sonatas thanks to a heavily redesigned front end that more efficiently channels air around the body. Other exterior design elements that make the sleek Sonata even more slippery in the wind tunnel include an aerodynamically enhanced front/rear fascia, rocker panels and Eco-spoke wheels. These enhancements will help Sonata Hybrid achieve a best in class coefficient of drag (.25 Cd target) when it goes on sale.
And let's not forget about the Sonata 2.0T introduced alongside Sonata Hybrid that adds sportiness to the family without compromising fuel economy. In fact, Hyundai's first four-cylinder turbocharged gasoline direct-injection engine manages to out-power all competitive V-6 engines while still achieving best in class highway fuel economy of 34 mpg, and a respectable 22 mpg in the city. Similar to BMW's twin scroll turbo engine, the Hyundai design minimizes turbo lag while maximizing combustion efficiency and power output. The best part is that all 274 ponies and 269 pound-feet of torque are available across a broad range of 1,800 rpm to 4,500 rpm, and the engine does not require premium fuel despite the use of turbo charging.
While other automakers were going out of business, Hyundai had a 2009 for the record books that included massive sales gains under their Assurance vehicle return program, North American Car of the Year honors for the Genesis luxury sedan and KBB owner-loyalty rankings that bested both Toyota and Honda. Considering the growing number of consumers who have become disillusioned with Toyota, it seems Hyundai is in prime position to lure them into the fold.
Chevrolet ———
Following up on the production debut in Los Angeles last year, Chevy also rolled out sport (RS) and eco-minded (Eco) variants of their Cruze compact sedan slated to hit market this fall. Cruze is set to replace Cobalt in Chevy’s lineup, and will sit alongside other current and future fuel-sipping Chevy compacts like Aveo, Beat and Volt PHEV. Both RS and Eco variants will use Chevy’s new 1.4-liter VVT turbo engine, while the base model is fitted with naturally aspirated 1.8-L engine. In fact, Chevy says 70 percent of all Cruzes will be equipped with the turbo four.
"The Cruze Eco delivers hybrid-like efficiency without the price tag," said Jim Campbell, U.S. vice president Chevrolet marketing. "Along with the Volt electric vehicle, it demonstrates how Chevrolet is working to bring new products to market that range from gas-friendly to gas-free."
The Cruze RS is essentially a sporty appearance package available for the LT and LTZ models that adds bigger aluminum wheels, more aggressive front and rear fascias and rocker panels, and fog lights with a tacky chrome bezel surrounding them. The Cruze Eco is a bit more substantial in that it provides an impressive 40 mpg, thanks to lightweight wheels, low-rolling resistance tires, lowered ride height and a redesigned front end that improves aerodynamics by splitting air differently at city and highway speeds. It is expected to deliver the best fuel economy in the compact segment when it hits the market shortly after the 1.8-L Cruze in the fourth quarter.
Images: 1) Ford CEO Alan Mulally and Microsoft Chief executive Steve Ballmer at the New York International Auto Show./Stuart Schwartzapfel, Man on the Move. 2) Hyundai CEO John Krafcik introduces the Sonata Hybrid./Hyundai. 3) The Chevy Cruze Eco./Chevrolet.
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GRANTY'S INFERNO: Farewell to an 'outstanding orator'
By Peter Grant TV critic
ORDERRR ... Orderrr.
It won't sound the same when John Bercow mothballs his Speaker's robe from October 31.
In a non-party political way, I will miss this outstanding orator who became the embodiment of the English language – a sub-titler for the bemused public at home and in the balcony.
He will be remembered for articulate, crystal clear clarity from the most famous chair in the country and gave backbenchers a voice.
His all party put-downs to pompous MPs were masterclasses in subtle, sit-down comedy. JB once finger-wagged cabinet minister Michael Gove with the wonderful quip: "You really are a rather over-excited individual.
"You need to write out 1,000 times 'I will behave myself at Prime Minister’s Questions.'"
Alas, the people I admire most in life - The Plain English Campaigners - will have their work cut out for the foreseeable future without Bercow's inspiring presence.
Our PM leads the way with his Johnson jingoisms.
He once illustrated his own muddled mission statement on Have I Got News For You in 2003 when he mumbled: "I could not fail to disagree with you less."
He has been using that in all negotiations ever since.
Now, while we cope with prorogation and other new words, we can enjoy a five-week breather from Brexit rhetoric.
We have the party political conferences to grate-crash.
And maybe Boris will arrive at Saturday's Last Night of the Proms flag-waving as he enters the Royal Albert Hall on a Zipline.
It's back to Parliament for the Queen's Speech on October 14 and another crunch EU summit three days later.
There won’t be a dry eye in our house when Bercow bows out – but I can't say the same for that other House on the Thames.
Not everyone will be sorry to see John Bercow departure (a real B-exit) yet in today's potpourri political world his achievements translate as a job well done and he leaves a lasting integrity of fighting gobbledegook.
TREES a jolly good fellow.
The short-list for Tree of the Year is a 1,000-year old woody wonder in Liverpool.
I have just twigged that it has a security system – its very own special branch.
Here in leafy Wirral now spruced up for the popular Heritage Days starting on Friday for a fortnight, we are no stranger to such celebritrees.
A famous Yew tree in Eastham Churchyard even made it in to the Guinness Book of Records.
HELLO, hello hello - what have we hear? On the Beat is 2,000 episodes old.
Broadcaster and author Spencer Leigh's music programme on BBC Radio Merseyside reaches a media milestone on Sunday.
The news of this admirable anniversary has actually solved a mystery for his wife Anne.
She has left a Facebook message declaring: "So that’s where he’s been all those Sat and Sunday nights?"
GLOBAL fame at last.
It would be a massive boost to Birkenhead if its famous Park receives World Heritage Status.
Following last weekend’s successful Food and Drink Festival, three-pronged Liverpool concert headlined by the Lightning Seeds and a performance by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra ... it's time to think even bigger.
Why not invite one of Birkenhead's famous sons, Elvis Costello, to stage a gig?
I hope the council use 2019 as a culture foundation stone and build on it – make 2020 the year of Home Grown Creatives, many of whom feel overlooked.
Why bring people in from outside the borough when all the talent you need is here waiting to be asked?
CRUISE sorry now?
According to a survey by Marella Cruises who actually have a 'smile psychotherapist' on board, we are smiling less.
They commissioned a new survey, detailing all the simple things that can brighten our stressed-out lives.
Hearing a baby laugh is at number eight in the top ten and 'a random act of kindness' tops the chart of free grin and tonics.
I can confirm that a 'no deal' Brexit was not on the list.
BUCKINGHAM Palace say that Prince Andrew, who has been linked with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, will not be using the services of a 'reputation management' expert or what I call a 'mud sticks' consultant.
That said, maybe the contact number of this modern day damage limitation service could be pinned to the House of Commons notice board with a discount for party bookings.
ONE wonders what Andrew's Mum is thinking with all the Brexit shenanigans.
Her majesty has had weekly meetings with fourteen PMs during her reign from Winston Churchill to the present postholder.
So does she have any favourites?
Sir Godfrey Agnew of the Privy Council said she doesn’t make fine distinctions between politicians of different parties.
At one such meeting of this royal advisory council, a senior politician was flustered when her own mobile phone rang loudly.
According to the book The Wit of Elizabeth 11, the Queen, cool as a crust-less cucumber sandwich, merely enquired: 'Oh dear, I hope it wasn't anybody important?"
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According to Men, These 8 Things Separate Average Sex from Great Sex
By Cosmo Frank
People love to say, "Sex is like pizza. Even if it's done bad, it's still good." The point stands: consensual sex is pretty much always good, because you're having sex. But there are some things that just make it that much better. Here's what it takes to go from "eh" to "AH!"
1. Chemistry. Okay, I hear you: "duh." But this is arguably the most important aspect of great sex. You've got to be into it. Sex without chemistry is like eating a bunch of pieces of white bread for lunch: you're just doing it to satiate a physiological response, but the act isn't exactly pleasurable.
2. Trying not to feel self-conscious. It's only awkward if you let it be awkward. And although the most intimate possible experience two people can have together is a potential awkward minefield, anyone who can roll with the punches and recover from A) strange bodily sounds, and B) strange bodily fluids, is the type of person you want to have sex with.
3. Really feeling like your partner cares about your pleasure. You can tell when your partner isn't into it. If they act like they aren't getting anything out of it, that's an immediate mood-killer. But if you're both enthusiastic and legitimately want to see the other person satisfied, that alone can make for great sex, regardless of your technique or experience.
4. Foreplay. For some people, it's more about the journey more than the destination. Plus, the longer you make out for, the more anticipation, and a slow build to sex is the best.
5. Discovering something new. This won't happen every time you have sex, but whenever you discover something new you're into, that's great sex. Whether you try it together, or your partner introduces you to scarves and blindfolds, learning "Hey, this turns me on" is awesome.
6. A partner who gets them hot. No, this is not the same as a "hot partner." This should go without saying, and yet... it's important to have a partner you're into physically, not just mentally. You need both! Sometimes it's nice just to grab someone who seriously turns you on and not really worry about whether or not you agree on parenting strategies.
7. Raw animal lust. It's the kind of sex that feels like it does in the movies, all photogenic and beautiful. The kind of sex where if someone walked in on you two having sex, it'd make that person question everything they knew about sex. They'd wonder if they'd been doing it all wrong.
8. Natural communication. Whether you just met or you've been having sex for years, having an immediate understanding of what the other person wants is huge. It's what keeps sexual partners from having to stop sex to explain, "here, move you leg like this... no, like this... this... just put it here." Of course, sometimes those explainers are necessary, and you should always be explicit about what you want, but the best sex feels spontaneous and natural.
From: Cosmopolitan US
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World Families Forums - New paper: R1b1b2 (R-M269) spread from Near East in Neolithic
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Re: New paper: R1b1b2 (R-M269) spread from Near East in Neolithic
Italy's ht35 variance should be slightly higher than what the maps show, because a significant percentage of the Italian samples that I predicted as ht35 are in fact ht15 with 393=12. This only applies to Italy, there's no such issue in southeast Europe or Turkey.
About 20% of North Italian R1b1b2 with 393=12 are probably ht15. I made a quick test of how this would affect North Italy's ht35 variance by calculating the variance of North Italian R1b1b2 with 393=12, and then adding a number of R1b1b2 samples with 393=13, to simulate ht15 samples, so that the new set of samples would presumably have 40% ht15. I did this several times with random sets of R1b1b2 samples with 393=13 and observed that this caused the variance of North Italy to drop between 0,01 and 0,03, from an initial value of 0,30. This is reasonable, since North Italy's ht15 samples have a low variance of 0,22; they're hidden presence amongst the 393=12 samples is dragging down the variance calculations for ht35. I'd presume if we could calculate North Italy's ht35 variance using SNP-tested ht35 samples only, the estimate would be higher by 0,01 to 0,03, or about 0,32. I did the same test after removing the 392=14/389B=15 samples, and the increase was the same, though this time it started off from an initial estimate of 0,28. Thus, all things considered, between the elimination of the 392=14/389B=15 cluster that was increasing the results and the elimination of the hidden ht15 samples in North Italy that are dragging down its results, North Italy will possibly have a notably higher variance than Turkey, by a margin of 0,05 (0,30 versus 0,25).
In Sicily and south Italy, as much as 10% of the R1b1b2 samples with 393=12 are ht15. So their estimates could also be slightly higher, by just 0,01.
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mtdna: U5
Dear Argiedude,
I have criticized many times this way to make clusters. What does it mean a “Jewish cluster” M269+L23- with DYS391=10, DYS426=11, DYS392=14 opposing to a cluster from Italy to Caucasus? And less a “Jewish cluster” M269+ L23+ which is the same with a cluster from Iberia to India except for DYS385b=15? I think having demonstrated many times that the “Jewish clusters” are due to a founder effect and that are very recent, then they have no autonomy.
The same for the Albanian cluster with DYS393=13 and DYS385b=11: you too have said that it is very recent. These clusters say only something about the origin of the cluster itself and nothing about the origin of the haplogroup. We can think that R-L23- with DYS 426=11 doesn’t go back to the origin of the haplogroup, but to an individual who had the rare mutation from 12 to 11, which may have been happened in any time between the origin of this particular cluster, also in recent times. Anyway only one individual survived with DYS426=11 and everybody is a descendant of him. Then this cluster was born in a precise place and not everywhere from Italy to Caucasus. And as you perhaps know I think in Italy.
The same is for R-L51+ with DYS426=13. Everybody in this cluster descends from an individual who had the mutation of DYS426 from 12 to 13, and also this happened probably in the Alpine Region, when R was coming out from Italy to Central Europe, passing to East, as your map of R-L51- is demonstrating: the exit from Italy happened first from the Rhaetian Region to Austria and South Germany. In fact I have found (and signaled) some probable Italian R-L51+s in the Rhaetian Region. It is meaningful what you have said: “And since Italy and southeast Europe will have slightly higher ht35 variance than Turkey or the Levant”.
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Quote from: argiedude on March 28, 2010, 02:18:09 PM
Good lord, how much torture can this data withstand? Hasn't it "confessed" enough?
Throw out this data, double-count out that data, redefine categories for this region but not that region, sample for one thing and call it another? That's a recipe for doctoring the experiment to suit your preferred conclusion.
Maliclavelli, I also think that the Jewish clusters are recent, but it's good to have them in the table because there are many Jewish samples of ht35 in public databases, and this can cause confusion. If there were thousands of Gypsy samples in public databases and they also had their own R1b clusters I would've included them, too, despite being obvious that the clusters must have been acquired only a few centuries ago.
Vineviz, I did only 2 things with the data. I chose the R1b1b2 samples that had 393=12, which mostly indicates an ht35 sample, and then I eliminated the samples that belonged to 2 obvious clusters, the Albanian 385=11/11 and the 392=14/389B=15 cluster. These 2 clades are clearly haplogroups who will eventually be properly identified with their own SNP mutation. By removing them, we can get a better estimate of the variance of the basal lineage, ht35* so to speak. As an example, the Arabian region seems to be split evenly between "normal" ht35 and the 392=14 cluster. Calculating the variance of all these samples together gives a result of 0,30. Calculating each cluster separately gives 0,20 for either. Same with the Irish M222+ cluster. By including this cluster in the estimate of ht15 variance, Ireland gets a high value, very different from its island neighbors, which makes it seem almost like the origin of ht15. But removing this cluster causes Ireland's variance to drop to 0,22 like its neighbors in Britain.
I have 393=12 and I am L21+ and R-L159.2+
The model for L21 is 393=13
Is there a model value for all R's at 393 ?
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My theory is that a marker mutates around a value with someone going to the tangent (plus and minus).
Then there isn't a modal, but a beginning's value for each cluster and haplogroup. You, as R-L21, derive from DYS393=13 and when a ancestor of yours had the mutation to 12, he began a new clade (yours), then probably 12 will be your modal and of your descendants for many time, being a slow mutating marker.
I am R1b1b2a-L23+/L150+ and I am DYS393=12 too, but probably my 12, derived from a previous 13, is the same from many thousands of years before your 12.
Quote from: OConnor on March 30, 2010, 11:35:08 PM
Probably 393=13, because that is the most common value in R1b and R1a, but for R2 it looks like it's 393=14, and there are even many who are 393=15.
Of course, for P310- (what we used to call HT35) guys it appears to be 393=12.
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For the love of mike... and this is exactly why I can't take your charts at face value. Why even mention ht15 and ht35?
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Quote from: vtilroe on March 31, 2010, 10:14:48 PM
What I said about Italy was a sidenote which I didn't include in the map because it's speculation. It's very reasonable, since Italy has a lot of ht15 samples, while southeast Europe and Anatolia don't, so I mentioned the possibility that its variance might be slightly higher than what appears in the map.
I've made the final update to the ht35 variance map. After discovering that there's a major clade of ht35 defined by 392=14 & 389B=15, I recalculated all the figures excluding this cluster. This still isn't good enough, because there are still 2 clades with different modal haplotypes: M269* and L23*. To tell them apart one needs samples that have tested DYS426 (the former has 426=11), but that would reduce my eligible samples to almost nothing, so that problem remains.
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k178/argiedude/R1b1b2variance-ht35excludeallcluste.gif
This map is very different from the ht15 map which had an easily discernable, obvious pattern. I haven't drawn any contour lines as in previous maps because of this. I'd say the map could justify just as much the point of view of those who think ht35 came out of Anatolia as those who don't.
The main haplogroups of ht15 have nearly identical modal haplotypes, so an estimate of each haplogroup individually is very close to an estimate of all of them together. But ht35's 2 major clades have notable differences in their modal haplotypes, to the point that the result depended on the proportions of each clade in the tested population. For example, in southern Arabia I found 12 samples of ht35. Their variance was 0,30, a high value. But 6 samples belonged to the "normal" ht35 haplotype, and 6 to the 392=14 & 389B=15 haplotype. Calculating each set separately, they both had a variance of just 0,17, a very low value.
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Argiedude writes on Rootsweb:
"L23+ L150- is apparently the result of cross-amplification of a distinct (previously unmapped) piece of DNA from someplace other than the Y"
Any truth to this?
Where are you quoting from?
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DNAForums was nothing but one argument after another for me. Glad I don’t even read the thing anymore.
By the way, you might want to edit your previous post throwing out the offensive language. Otherwise, you will probably be banished from WFN. I was threatened with banishment for a lot less.
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Quote from: argiedude on April 02, 2010, 02:10:08 PM
By the way, I said something funny to him, after he insulted me for the 8th or 10th time in the last 2 weeks:
Yeah, that's hilarious. The sophisticated wit just slays me.
First, I didn't insult anyone. I just pointed out a flawed analysis.
Second, that diatribe has so many factual errors I wouldn't know where to start correcting them. Fortunately, the abusive language will probably get the post deleted so there is no need.
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Not only posts are deleted. In my case also the persons, but certainly Ideas will survive. Some years ago I was alone, now we are many and you are always the same.
Very few postings have ever been deleted from this forum - other than spam. I would prefer that it was none - but a little decorum is necessary.
We've banned even fewer members for inappropriate postings.
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Wow, hopefully everybody's temperament has calmed down since the last posting of this thread. Starting from the beginning of the thread I really thought it was going to be interesting and then it just slowly eroded into a bloodbath of quips and attacks.
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Darren Young in the latest issue of PEOPLE Magazine
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WWE Superstar Darren Young is featured in the latest PEOPLE Magazine, with the mag doing a story on him about coming out and publishing a picture of him and his partner.
Young revealed publicly that he was gay during the SummerSlam week this past August after TMZ cameras caught up with him at LAX.
“I was terrified of losing friends, losing my job, just everything,” Young told PEOPLE. “I had no idea what would happen if I came out.”
Young’s coming out however had zero effect on his job and his co-workers and fans treated him like any other Superstar.
“They all embraced me, and that was just shocking to me. I truly love them. It was such a relief. I’m not hiding anymore and I’m living the dream,” he added.
The full story is available in the new edition of PEOPLE Magazine which comes out tomorrow.
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In stores: Dec. 7, 2010 (Mac and PC)
Can you smell what Blizzard Entertainment has been cooking? If so, the odor was probably caused by a dragon or fire bolt inside World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. As a gaming intercontinental champion -- holding the Guinness World Record for being most popular MMORPG game in the world -- WOW's latest expansion looks more than prepared to successfully defend its title.
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Cataclysm gives Azeroth Kingdom a complete makeover of devilish proportions, thanks to the destruction of the continents by Deathwing the Destroyer / Sort of like ringside at Night of Champions after Kane defeated The Undertaker in the No Holds Barred Match.
New races have been added to the game as playable characters for both of the game's chief groups. As the Hordes welcomed the Goblins with open arms, the Alliance gladly accepted the help of the beastly Worgens, resulting in, not one, but two powerful "Evolution-like" factions for the fantasy world.
With hundreds of new quests, skills, raids and player vs. player battlegrounds, Cataclysm presents more options than a Tables Ladders & Chairs Match. Warning: Don't be surprised if you call into work sick with an overload of Warcraft fever.
Hard Bumps
As Wade Barrett would probably say "You're either with WOW or against us" because whether you like it or not, the world of Azeroth is changing for everyone. If you don't plan on buying the latest expansion, your game is still getting the new look without any of the perks.
If you already achieved main event Superstar status by reaching level 80 in WOW, don't expect to climb the ladder of glory all that much in the new installment. The level cap for Cataclysm has only been increased by five levels rather then the usual 10.
Everybody has a price. And buying the new WOW expansion definitely means you'll have less "money in the bank." Not only do you have to pay around $40 for the latest in features, but you still have to pay the subscription fees in order to play the game.
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Trip'd Is AWESOME!!!
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Post by The_Legend » Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:53 am
Some time ago I tested out some 3DO games and came across Trip'd. I was wondering what the heck it was. I put the game in and played.
Wow! It was awesome! I got really far then quit. I figured it'd save but it didn't. Don't know if Trip'd saves.
I play it again tonight, excpet vs. CPU. Man, I stink! I was playing the easiest opponent and barely won 10 - 9!
Got alot more practice to put in, but I've got to say Trip'd is a great game! I'm guessing it's under rated considering I don't really see much talk of it, but it's a unique puzzle game and I think everyone who owns a 3DO should have this game!
Post by 3DOKid » Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:06 am
If you like Trip 'D then you will like this:
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It's in Japanese, but it plays brilliantly.
I'll be honest that I'm not really much of a puzzle guy. There are a few I"ll play and that's it.
If I had some money I'd get some 3DO games but alas...can't afford anything until maybe October or later! YIKES!
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Post by jesus 666 » Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:54 pm
Trip'd is a really great game, I've been playing a lot of puyo puyo recently too and I think that Trip'd is probably a better multiplayer game! when you start to lose in puyo it really snow balls and you're basically screwed, this doesn't happen in Trip'd, if you buckle down you can still come back from near death.
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Post by Trev » Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:48 am
Trip'd is far too easy to need a save function I think. (The main game I mean, not the cpu battles)
Short Warp had some Trip'd variations. My question to 3DO Kid though (or anyone else who owns it) does that game not allow full access on an NTSC machine? I can only play about 1/2 the modes (the others cause the machine to reset ... similar to 'Nice Body') Still cool to see the D2 demo on it though.
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Post by Martin III » Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:45 am
It's funny. My initial sessions with Trip'd left me rather unimpressed with both the 1-player and 1-player Vs. CPU modes. Yet the other day I felt an incredible urge for a quick pick-up-and-play, no progress game (which is very odd since I tend to play beginning-middle-end games almost exclusively), and Trip'd is the only 3DO game I have which fits that bill. And since the 3DO is what I had hooked up to my TV, that's what I popped in.
Since then, I've become almost addicted to the 1-player Vs. CPU mode. I've discovered some better strategies for playing the game against an opponent, so I've been able to win a majority of matches against the level 3 CPU, and this mode has become much less frustrating in general. It makes a great light break from playing Star Control II.
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Post by Austin » Sat Feb 02, 2013 10:16 pm
I think it would be really fun to play this in two player mode against someone that knows how to really play the game. The big blocks/aliens that you form have different attributes depending on their color, and that could potentially make or break a versus match. They don't seem to be of all that much help in the single player mode though (standard game, not vs. CPU).
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Post by Martin III » Wed Feb 20, 2013 2:41 pm
I'm starting to think the difficulty rankings on 1 player vs. CPU aren't quite right... A few days ago I tried a four star opponent for the first time, and wiped the floor with him, winning four out of four matches. The next time I played, I tried a five star opponent and won four out of five matches. Interestingly, the speed of the game is faster on the five star opponent, but they seem to have compensated for this with a weaker AI; glancing over, I couldn't believe how few superaliens this guy was forming. And a decent percentage of the ones he was forming were green!
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Post by NeoGeoNinja » Tue Apr 16, 2013 11:32 pm
ANOTHER POSITIVE VOTE HERE...
for Trip'd. had this one since I first owned my 3DO and I've always had a real soft-spot for it, and as a general rule, I don't particularly like puzzle games if I was honest.
But Trip'd, I like...
Post by T2KFreeker » Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:27 pm
TRIP'D is boss. I so miss WARP. Never come back either without Kenji. Just so sad. I even loved the Dreamcast D2 release. Great stuff.
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Nearly three-quarters of older Canadians agreed with the suggestion that it was because Canadians share common history, heroes and national symbols. By contrast, 37 per cent of the those between 18 and 34 said it was because there was no "strong national identity that individuals and groups are expected to adopt."
Oh yeah, this is going to carry a country far. This "post-modern" notion of a one-size-fits-all concept of nation: the political block of people who don't have to conform to anything; is one of the most dangerous and ultimately self-destructive notions that post-modernism has ever come up with.
And if its straight on Canada's doorstep, its as good a time as any to happily spend Dominion Day weekend happily reminding all of you:
I am not Canadian.
I am Albertan, and will never again lower myself
to the level of being some "Canadian".
If you want to have any moral and philosophical edge in the coming war(s) that post-modernism will inflict upon us, Alberta as the shining beacon in space all alone in the night is your best bet.
Mr. Griffiths noted that an attachment to national symbols such as Olympic hockey or the Timbit has remained strong even as knowledge of the country's history and practices — what he called "civic literacy"— has declined.
"Our nationalism becomes kind of sentimental," he said. "It becomes cheering for hockey teams, it becomes going to Timmy's."
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Suntech solar modules are installed in the largest natural habitat zoo in America。
North Carolina is situated along the Atlantic coast in southeast USA.
In 2008, 612 pieces of Suntech solar modules were installed in the approximately 2,000-acre North Carolina Zoo, which accommodated over 250 animal species from Africa and North America, making it the world's largest pedestrian zoo and the largest natural habitat zoo in the USA。 The zoo has won nationwide recognition as one of the best zoos of the country, due to its commitment to the concept of "Natural Habitat"。
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The Suntech solar system within the zoo, renowned for its commitment to sustainable development, serves as a project that saves approximately 130MW of electricity each year. This has slashed the carbon footprint of North Carolina and mitigated the risk of future energy price hikes for the local region.
Richard Harkrader from Carolina Solar Energy remarked that he believed that the consumer demand for green energy would quickly outstrip the current electricity supply, that the project would undoubtedly offer great benefits to the future energy development of North Carolina and the country at large, and that facts had proven the feasibility of large-scale installation of photovoltaic systems in North Carolina。
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SEOUL -- A consortium led by SF Marina System, a Swedish marina developer, signed a non-binding deal to participate in a delayed project to develop a mordern harbor housing resort facilities and accommodations along with a passenger terminal in a waterfront area on reclaimed land in the western port city of Incheon.
Incheon Port Authority (IPA) said Wednesday that a memorandum of understanding was signed with the marina consortium, which also involves MEC, a Philippine builder. IPA awaits other investors as it ill select the financial candidate through a public tender in the first half of next year.
In Songdo, an international business district in Incheon, IPA aims to open a passenger terminal for regular car ferry services between China and South Korea in June next year. As a backup project, IPA has proposed the development of Golden Harbor to house hotels, condominiums, a luxury resort, a shopping mall, a water park and convention centers, but it has not been in place due to weak interest from domestic and foreign investors.
Songdo is located in a vast free economic zone where various incentives such as tax reductions, estate support, and subsidies are given. The district now houses about 80 foreign companies, but development has been slow mainly due to a lukewarm response from foreign investors.
In Songdo, South Korea opened a cruise ship terminal capable of accommodating the world's largest cruise ship with a capacity of 225,000 tons in April.
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Posted: 21 Jul 2017, 13:11
French novelist Anne Golon, known all over the world for her popular stories about Angelique,
has died at the age of 95 in Versailles.
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French novelist Anne Golon, known all over the world for her popular stories about a heroine named Angelique, has died at the age of 95 in Versailles, west of Paris, her family announced Sunday.
The writer died on Friday of peritonitis, according to her daughter Nadine Goloubinoff, as cited by local media.
Golon was famous for the Angelique series, set in Louis XIV's 17th century France, which she wrote along with her husband Serge, who passed away in 1972.
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The Oxford University Student Union Alternative Prospectus
Picture this: It’s summer in Oxford. Students dressed in Subfusc, with differently coloured carnations attached to their gowns, are rushing around town to what can be overheard as ‘Schools’, some of them with piles of notes or flash cards in their hands, others vividly discussing peculiar subject matters with their friends and fellow students, but all looking slightly lost in thought... so much, in fact, that they don’t seem to notice (or maybe they’ve just got used to) the masses of tourists that are stopping (and staring) to take pictures of these scenes so rich in living history that everyone appears to forget we are currently writing the 21st century.
Regardless of the season, Oxford certainly is a place that attracts visitors. As a tourist you’ll see the facets of many beautiful streets and picturesque landscapes, but as a student here you’ll soon realise that Oxford has so much more to it than ‘just’ old buildings and Hogwarts libraries. Of all the students and representatives who got back to us in the process of creating this website, not a single answer was quite like another. Every student has their own individual version of Oxford as both a city and university, and with the countless courses available for undergrads and postgrads, as well as the range of different extracurricular activities to choose from, each one of the colleges is able to offer a completely unique experience to every single one of its students. What all answers we received did have in common, though, was the conclusion that Oxford - with all its quirky traditions - bears great potential in guiding you through your academic journey just as much as through your personal one.
With this prospectus, we aim to let prospective applicants (just like yourself maybe?) enjoy a glimpse into what student life at Oxford could really be like. We invite you to look beyond the stereotypical ideas surrounding this peculiar Oxford bubble, and hopefully, the prospectus will make for a useful resource aiding you in making your mind up about whether you can picture yourself as an Oxford student. And who knows... maybe it is you next exam season who fits nicely into the scene we imagined above. All we know as of now is that it could indeed, and without any doubt, be you - regardless of your background... for you will see there is no such thing as an ‘Oxford type’.
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Think ‘Oxford’, and you imagine academics, dusty books in labyrinthine libraries, and wearing a strange uniform for exams. As an applicant, my idea of Oxford was based largely on my long-harboured wish to go to Hogwarts! But the past two and a half years have dispelled that narrow impression. Sure, there're enough turrets to take the sting out of being a muggle, but there's far more to the University than its medieval buildings.
When I started looking for contributors for this prospectus, I was inundated with accounts of the opportunities Oxford affords beyond academics and dreaming spires. Of the 131 students who wrote back to me about their experience of studying and living here, not one person wrote about something ‘Oxford-y’. From acapella groups to improvisational comedy, student think tanks to women’s rugby, the breadth of activities the University offers attests to the enthusiasm of its varied student body.
From the website, I hope that you can get a glimpse of an exciting, vibrant environment which supports students getting involved. Oxford is full of possibilities, allowing you to develop your academic work alongside pretty much anything else you could possibly be interested in. It can promise more than beautiful buildings and Quidditch, so it's really about realising the University’s potential as much as your own. Oxford is well and truly what you make of it – and the students in this prospectus have made it their own.
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Gigabyte has also expanded its range of GeForce GTX Ti 1660. In contrast to MSI, which has released eight models, Gigabyte has decided to limit to five.
Like MSI, Gigabyte includes compact adapter, which is well suited for systems ITX format. The model is called GTX 1660 Ti Mini ITX OC 6G. Its length is only 170 mm, which is less than the MSI card. While there are more outputs (HDMI and three DisplayPort), and the frequency of the GPU reaches the acceleration 1785 MHz. However, refrigeration is compact WITH only one heat pipe, which does not affect the temperature.
Model 1660 GeForce GTX Ti OC 6G has the usual dimensions and cooler with a couple fans. PCB here, too, short, so, most likely, a reference. There are already GPU overclocked to 1800 MHz, the set of ports is the same.
1660 GTX Ti WindForce OC 6G has a core frequency 1845 MHz, slightly larger cooling system, but all the same a printed circuit Board. Judging by the models of ASUS and other manufacturers, many version Ti GTX 1660, even if they are very dimensional because of the coolers, based on a short reference PCB.
Model 1660 GeForce GTX Ti Gaming OC 6G even bigger. Here is the cooler with three fans, but the PCB is still the same. By the way, this printed circuit Board a total of six phases of the power subsystem. Core frequency then raised to 1860 MHz, in addition, there is adjustable lighting.
Well, top of the range is the model Gigabyte Aorus GeForce GTX Ti 1660 6G. This is the only model with monitored by PWM circuit Board. She's still short, but there are already OCTA-core power system, and the frequency of the GPU reaches 1890 MHz, which is higher than the top card MSI.
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Musical Performance: Persian Classical Music
Sat, December 8, 2007 9:00 pm at Alwan for the Arts
House opens at 8:30 Admission: $15 ($10 for students with valid ID)
A unique performance of
PERSIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC
Mehdi Layegh (Vocals)
Hedayat Shafei (Tar)
And Guests on Percussion
THE MUSICIANS:
Mehdi Layegh: Vocals Mehdi Layegh has been studying Persian music for over 20 years. In Iran Mehdi studied Santoor (Persian Dulcimer) with Nia Kosari for two years. After moving to the United States Mehdi studied Radife avaz, theory, and history of Persian music under Maestro Mohamad Reza Lotfi for eight years. He also studied Radife Avaz with Maestro Dariush Talai who is recognized today as one of the finest interpreters of traditional Persian music.
Hedayat Shafeei: Tar Hedayat Shafeei has been studying Persian music for over 20 years. Before moving to the United States he studied tar under Mansoor Seenaki at the Center for Preservation and Cultivation of Persian Classical Music (Markaze Hefz va Eshaeie Mosighie Sonati). In the Unites States, Hedayat studied tar, radif, theory, and history of Persian music under one of the greatest living masters of Persian music, Maestro Mohamad Reza Lotfi for eight years. He also studied tar and radif with Maestro Dariush Talai, who is recognized today as one of the finest interpreters of traditional Persian music. He is currently teaching tar and setar to students in the New York area.
Mehdi and Hedayat have been collaborating and performing Persian music together for the past nine years.
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The Columbian Exchange
De Las Casas and the Conquistadors
Early Visual Representations of the New World
Failed European Colonies in the New World
Successful European Colonies in the New World
A Model of Christian Charity
Benjamin Franklin’s Satire of Witch Hunting
The American Revolution as Civil War
Patrick Henry and “Give Me Liberty!”
Lexington & Concord: Tipping Point of the Revolution
Abigail Adams and “Remember the Ladies”
Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” 1776
Citizen Leadership in the Young Republic
After Shays’ Rebellion
James Madison Debates a Bill of Rights
America, the Creeks, and Other Southeastern Tribes
America and the Six Nations: Native Americans After the Revolution
The Expansion of Democracy During the Jacksonian Era
The Religious Roots of Abolition
Individualism in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”
Aylmer’s Motivation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark”
Thoreau’s Critique of Democracy in “Civil Disobedience”
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
The Cult of Domesticity
The Family Life of the Enslaved
A Pro-Slavery Argument, 1857
The Enslaved and the Civil War
Women, Temperance, and Domesticity
“The Chinese Question from a Chinese Standpoint,” 1873
Progressivism in the Factory
Progressivism in the Home
The “Aeroplane” as a Symbol of Modernism
The “Phenomenon of Lindbergh”
The Radio as New Technology: Blessing or Curse? A 1929 Debate
The Moral Vision of Atticus Finch
Advisor: Timothy H. Breen, William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern University
, National Humanities Center Fellow.
Copyright National Humanities Center, 2011
How was the American Revolution a civil war that turned neighbors into enemies?
Before becoming a war against the British, the American war for independence was a civil war, a street-level conflict that pitted neighbor against neighbor.
Tarring and Feathering, 1774.
Janet Schaw, account of Patriot–Loyalist conflict in North Carolina, 1775 (excerpts).
[For more primary sources on the American Revolution, see Making the Revolution: America, 1763-1791.]
Literary nonfiction (travel letters) with moderately complex purpose, structure, language features, and knowledge demands.
Tier 2 vocabulary words are defined in pop-ups (full list at bottom of page). Tier 3 words are explained in brackets.
Grades 11-CCR complexity band.
ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.2 (Determine two or central ideas of a text and analyze their development.)
Key Concept 3.1 (IIB) (arguments about rights of British subjects, the rights of the individual,…)
In this lesson students will explore excerpts from two letters by an educated young woman from Edinburgh, Scotland, named Janet Schaw, in which she describes a 1775 visit she made to her brother, a plantation owner, in southeastern North Carolina. A Loyalist, Schaw reports on the deep anti-British sentiment in the region. Her letters vividly illustrate ways in which the American Revolution caused people who knew each other well to resort to violence and intimidation against each other.
In the first passage Schaw describes how a group of Patriots turn on a “poor English groom” because he has, in her words, “smiled on” a Patriot regiment as they drilled. When you discuss this passage, set the scene. It is a hot day. The Patriots are probably drunk; they’ve been drinking grog, watered down rum, throughout their maneuvers. They are a rag-tag but potentially deadly bunch of ill-disciplined men. They believe the groom — an Englishman, not a local — insults them, and they decide to inflict a punishment that could kill him. Eventually, cooler heads, friends of the groom’s boss, prevail, and the crowd decides merely to banish the groom from town. This is a non-lethal punishment, but because it exiles the groom from his livelihood and sets him adrift in the unforgiving backcountry, it is still severe.
In the second passage Schaw encounters a group of her friends, Loyalists, some of “the first people in the town,” corralled in the middle of a street by a detail of armed Patriots. The soldiers are holding them because they have refused to sign an anti-British pledge. Like the display of military force in the first passage, the imprisonment in this one is an act of public intimidation. Note the powerful message it sends. Everyone in town knows the prisoners, and everyone can see that even the “first people” will not escape the Patriots’ wrath. Everyone knows the soldiers, too; in fact, Schaw just dined with one of the officers. When one of the prisoners asks by what authority the Patriots are holding them, the chilling reply indicates the brute force of arms. And it is that same force, or at least the threat of it, wielded by the Patriots’ Loyalist neighbors, that sets the prisoners free. At this stage the Revolution is a civil war that has turned friends into enemies. At the conclusion of the lesson, ask your students if these passages have changed their image of the American Revolution and the people who waged it.
This lesson is divided into two parts, both accessible below. Two excerpts with accompanying close reading questions provide an analytical study of the texts. An optional follow-up assignment enhances the lesson. The teacher’s guide includes a background note, the text analysis with responses to the close reading questions, and the optional follow-up assignment. The student’s version, an interactive PDF, contains all of the above except the responses to the close reading questions and the follow-up assignment.
Contextualizing Questions
Janet Schaw was a young, well-educated Scottish woman who, in March of 1775, traveled to North Carolina to visit her older brother Robert, the owner of a plantation on the Cape Fear River near the town of Wilmington. While there she witnessed, among other things, land clearing through controlled burning and the killing of an alligator. More important, she observed a society that was splitting asunder under the stress of revolutionary politics.
Resistance to the British crown was strong in the region. In 1765 Wilmington residents launched the first successful armed resistance to the Stamp Act. By 1775 anti-British sentiment had intensified. Wilmington had established a vigorous Committees of Safety that demanded allegiance to the Continental Congress and enforced the Congress’s call to boycott British goods. Decisions of the Wilmington Committee forced men and women along the Cape Fear to take sides. Patriots employed violence and intimidation and, Schaw suggests, even faked a slave revolt to unite their countrymen in opposition to the British.
Schaw recorded her experiences and observations in a series of travel letters, which were published in 1921. As the editor of Schaw’s journal reminds us, “such contemporary evidence makes us realize that our forefathers, however worthy their object, were engaged in real rebellion and revolution, characterized by the extremes of thought and action that always accompany such movements, and not in the kind of parlour warfare, described in many of our text books.” [Journal of a Lady of Quality, eds. E.W. Andres and C.M. Andrews, 1921]
Excerpts from Janet Schaw’s travel journal: North Carolina, 1775
1. Where are the maneuvers held? Why might the Patriots have chosen this space?
Apparently, the maneuvers are held on two fields, one “covered with… scrubby oak,” the other a “plain” field, which seems to have been an open field for marching. What matters, however, is that both are quite public, visible from balconies. The Patriots mean for these maneuvers to be seen; with them they are sending a message.
2. What messages do the Patriots intend to send with the maneuvers?
To their fellow Patriots the maneuvers are a show of strength. To Loyalists they are a warning and an act of intimidation.
3. How does Schaw’s account reveal the militia’s strength? Cite specific language.
She notes that “heated with rum,” the militia is “capable of committing the most shocking outrages.” She further points out that it is a force of 2,000 men, a large contingent, and that while those men are “unmartial” in many ways, they can still “shoot from behind a bush” and kill even the highest British officers.
4. What did the groom do to anger the Patriots? How does Schaw characterize his offense?
He apparently indicated in some way that he did not take the militia seriously. Schaw characterizes this as a minor, trivial act: he merely “smiled at the regiment.”
5. What does it suggest about the Patriots that they found the groom’s behavior offensive?
Allowing for the fact that many of the militiamen may be drunk and incapable of exercising the soundest judgment, their reaction to what appears to have been a minor insult suggests their hair-trigger sensitivity to any slight offered by someone of British sympathies or even presumed British sympathies. The severity of their ultimate response, banishment, also suggests the tension that has seized the Wilmington community.
6. Is Mr. Neilson, the groom’s master, a Loyalist of a Patriot?
We cannot be sure either way, but there are suggestions that he is a Loyalist. He employs an English groom, something that the Patriots would not look upon kindly, and Schaw expresses his friendship with the officers who rescue the groom in the past tense, they “had been Neilson’s friends,” suggesting that his British sympathies may have ended those friendships.
7. What does the action of the officers suggest about relations in the town?
The officers’ rescue of the groom may illustrate the conflicting lines of friendship and allegiance that run throughout the community. As noted above, Mr. Neilson may be a Loyalist. Thus for the officers, rescuing the groom from tarring and feathering may have pitted their friendship with Neilson, however weakened, against their patriotic sentiment, however strong.
8. What makes the groom an especially likely and vulnerable target?
He is English and of “humble station,” that is, working class.
9. What message does the groom’s punishment send to the community, and how do the Patriots make sure the message is widely heard?
The Patriots signal their intolerance for any behavior that suggests disloyalty to the cause of the Revolution. They emphasize that message with the groom’s public humiliation — they force him to mount a table and beg for pardon — and his very public and presumably very noisy banishment from town.
1. We came down in the morning in time for the review [of the local Patriot militia] which the heat made as terrible to the spectators as to the soldiers, or what you please to call them. They had certainly fainted under it, had not the constant draughts of grog [watered-down rum] supported them. Their exercise was that of bush-fighting, but it appeared so confused and so perfectly different from anything I ever saw, I cannot say whether they performed it well or not; but this I know, that they were heated with rum till capable of committing the most shocking outrages. We stood in the balcony of Doctor Cobham’s house and they were reviewed on a field mostly covered with what are called here scrubby oaks, which are only a little better than brushwood. They at last however assembled on the plain field, and I must really laugh while I recollect their figures: 2000 men in their shirts and trousers, preceded by a very ill beat-drum and a fiddler, who was also in his shirt with a long sword and a cue at his hair, who played with all his might. They made indeed a most unmartial appearance. But the worst figure there can shoot from behind a bush and kill even a General Wolfe [British general killed in the French and Indian War].
Before the review was over, I heard a cry of tar and feather. I was ready to faint at the idea of this dreadful operation. I would have gladly quitted the balcony, but was so much afraid the Victim was one of my friends that I was not able to move, and he indeed proved to be one, tho’ in a humble station [lower social class]. For it was Mr. Neilson’s poor English groom [stable man; caretaker of horses]. You can hardly conceive what I felt when I saw him dragged forward, poor devil, frighted out of his wits. However, at the request of some of the officers, who had been Neilson’s friends, his punishment was changed into that of mounting on a table and begging pardon for having smiled at the regiment. He was then drummed and fiddled out of the town, with a strict prohibition of ever being seen in it again.
10. Why have the Patriots decided to hold their prisoners in the middle of a street?
Just as the Patriots sent a message by holding the militia maneuvers in a public place and publicly shaming the English groom, here, too, they want to send a message by putting prisoners on public display in the middle of a street.
11. What message does this public punishment send to the town?
It indicates that everyone in town, even “the first people,” will be subject to the Patriots’ wrath if they sympathize with the British.
12. Why do the Patriots not punish these Loyalists as they did the English groom?
They may have considered the groom a foreigner. Moreover, he was of a “humble station,” not one of the “first people,” and thus he was far more vulnerable than these better known and better connected townspeople. So well known and connected are they that some residents along the Cape Fear River are ready to take up arms to rescue them. Apparently, no one was ready to defend the groom.
13. How does this passage illustrate how tight-knit the community of Wilmington is? Cite specific evidence from the text.
Schaw’s relationships illustrate how close friends and foes are. Not only does she know “most” of the prisoners, she recently had dinner with one of the officers guarding them.
14. How does Schaw indicate that the rebellion is sustained only through violence and intimidation? Cite specific language.
When one of the prisoners asks by what “authority” the Patriots are imposing the loyalty “Test” upon them, an officer simply points to the armed soldiers with him and asserts “There is my Authority… dispute it, if you can.”
15. Compare the image of the militiamen in this excerpt with the description of them Schaw offers in the first.
In the first excerpt Schaw presents them as rag-tag backcountry men, dangerous but undisciplined. Here the danger only mentioned in the first excerpt is illustrated concretely. In the first excerpt the Patriot soldiers were largely comic; here they are threatening. The seriousness and intensity of the rebellion are made plain.
16. Compare Schaw’s response to the Patriots in the first excerpt with her response to them in the second. Cite specific language.
In the first excerpt Schaw was patronizing and contemptuous of the Patriots, but she was wary of them, too. In the second she still looks down on the Patriots, calling them “ragamuffins” and noting that “not five men of property and credit are infected” by the “unfortunate disease” of revolutionary fervor. However, now that she sees what they are willing to do, she is “petrified with horror” at the threat they represent.
17. How does these two passages illustrate the way in which the American Revolution was a civil war?
They show how the Patriot–Loyalist divide split communities and turned people who presumably had been getting along for years against each other. Neighbors who had once dined together now face off in the streets and confront each other with guns. The passages indicate that local Patriots and Loyalists battled each other well before the Continental Army squared off against British troops.
2. I went into the town, the entry of which I found closed up by a detachment of the soldiers; but as the officer immediately made way for me, I took no further notice of it but advanced to the middle of the street where I found a number of the first people [elite, highest class] in town standing together, who… seemed much impassioned. As most of them were my acquaintances, I stopped to speak to them, but they with one voice begged me for heaven’s sake to get off the street, making me observe they were prisoners, adding that every avenue of the town was shut up, and that in all human probability some scene would be acted very unfit for me to witness. I could not take the friendly advice, for I became unable to move and absolutely petrified with horror. Observing however an officer with whom I had just dined, I beckoned him to me. He came, but with no very agreeable look, and on my asking him what was the matter, he presented a paper he had folded in his hand. If you will persuade them to sign this [a pledge to support anti-British actions] they are at liberty, said he, but till then must remain under this guard, as they must suffer the penalties they have justly incurred. “And we will suffer everything,” replied one of them, “before we abjure [reject] our king, our country and our principles.” “This, Ladies,” said he turning to me, who was now joined by several Ladies, “is what they call their Test, but by what authority this Gentleman forces it on us, we are yet to learn.” “There is my Authority,” pointing to the Soldiers with the most insolent air, “dispute it, if you can.”…
The prisoners stood firm to their resolution of not signing the Test, till past two in the morning, tho’ every threatening was used to make them comply; at which time a Message from the [Patriot’s] committee compromised [ended] the affair, and they were suffered [allowed] to retire on their parole [responsible for themselves] to appear next morning before them. This was not a step of mercy or out of regard to the Gentlemen; but they understood that a number of their friends were arming in their defense, and tho’ they had kept about 150 ragamuffins still in town, they were not sure even of them; for to the credit of that town be it spoke there are not five men of property and credit [men of wealth] in it that are infected by this unfortunate disease [support for anti-British action and independence].
From the perspective of a Patriot, retell the groom incident. Be precise. Schaw describes him as a “poor English groom” [caretaker of horses]. How would a Patriot describe him? Schaw says he “smiled at” the regiment. How would a Patriot describe his behavior? Schaw was horrified at his treatment. How would a Patriot have felt? Justify the original intended punishment of tarring and feathering. Describe why you and your comrades decided on the alternative punishment. Describe and justify it.
Describe the second incident from the point of view of the officer in charge of the prisoners. Again, be precise. Schaw describes the Loyalists as “much impassioned.” How would the officer describe them? Remember, the officer had dinner with Schaw just recently. In light of that, how might he respond to her questions? Justify holding the Loyalists in the street. Imagine how you felt when one of the Loyalists challenged your authority to hold them. Describe why you let them go.
unmartial: unmilitary, unprepared for war
tar and feather: an attack in which a crowd strips the victim, pours hot tar over his/her body, and then rolls the victim in feathers that adhere to the tar, after which the victim might be paraded around in a cart; done to intimidate and threaten the victim and others like him/her
prohibition: ban
Text: Journal of a Lady of Quality: Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776, eds. Evangeline Walker Andrews & Charles McLean Andrews (Yale University Press, 1921), 189-194. Full text online in Documenting the American South, Internet Archive, and Google Books.
Image: A New Method of Macarony Making, as practised at Boston, colored aquatint, British print, 1774. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, PAF3919. Reproduced by permission.
America in Class
by Daniel Bryant on America in Class
Need to be careful as sometimes these types of lessons can become so specialized with primary sources and topics that they remove themselves from becoming useful in classrooms with the limited time they have for curriculum. This is definitely a lesson for advanced students rather than standard levels simply because of the level of the primary source.
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Patrick Henry and “Give Me Liberty!” →
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Bruce Cockburn Bone on Bone
By Mark Dunn
There must have been a "no bad albums" clause in Bruce Cockburn's contract with True North Records. Nearly 50 years and 33 albums later, Cockburn has yet to release even a less-than-great album. And Bone on Bone, Cockburn's first in six years, stands with the best of his work.
Bone on Bone presents Cockburn's live sound better than any of his previous studio albums. The sound is immediate and polished, a testament to the calibre of the musicians here, and to Colin Linden's production.
Cockburn gives a typically stunning guitar performance. Adapting to the bone-on-bone arthritis referenced in the album's title, Cockburn brings his playing to a new level of accomplishment, proving that time and attrition need not diminish genius and mastery. There may be a few older songs he can no longer play, but this isn't a loss — it's evolution.
It is easy to hear that Cockburn had fun with this record; "3 Al Purdys," a song written for the documentary Al Purdy Was Here, could have been sung by a Muppet Tom Waits. On several tracks, Cockburn fronts a full gospel choir, to rousing effect. Even addressing grim matters, the songs are playful, hopeful and fun. The clever, bluesy "Café Society" offers a compendium of small talk, political rants and lamentations overheard at a coffee shop, while "False River," the one sustained ecological statement on the album, is gorgeous.
Fans of Bruce Cockburn (and that's everyone, right?) will freak out over Bone on Bone. It's his best since Small Source of Comfort. (True North)
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Kylee Smith signs with S-G Weiterstadt in Germany
Posted by Belmont Vision
Belmont women’s basketball alumna Kylee Smith has signed to play professionally in Germany with S-G Weiterstadt.
Smith announced her signing with the team on social media Thursday.
“I’ve always known playing professionally was a passion and dream of mine,” said Smith. “Being a Bruin is what gave me the confidence and passion I needed to pursue playing at the next level.”
Smith played an instrumental part in the Bruins’ success during her collegiate career, putting up 1,520 points, grabbing 564 rebounds and handing out 352 assists, according to the Belmont Athletics website.
Smith was also selected for the All-Ohio Valley Conference First Team three times.
Playing for current head coach Bart Brooks was a huge part of Smith’s success at Belmont and her continued love for basketball, she said.
“Coach Brooks brought an incredible new energy to the team and really made me fall in love with the game again,” she said. “He gave everyone a lot of confidence, and I really just fell in love with every little part of basketball all over again.”
Smith is excited to move to Germany and immerse herself in a new culture, she said.
“It’s crazy to think that I’m just packing up my life and moving,” she said. “I’m so excited to put myself in a new place and get out of my comfort zone — that’s how you grow.”
As she prepares for this transition, Smith is thankful for all the love and support that Belmont gave her.
“This team taught me how to live in the moment and truly love and appreciate every time I stepped onto the court,” she said. “Belmont has equipped me, challenged me, pushed me and encouraged me to pursue a career professionally.”
This article written by Marissa Avnaim.
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Footbridge, garden envisioned for Lizard Run Park in Surprise, AZ
September 9, 2008 September 9, 2008 by azheritage2
[Source: Tony Lombardo, Arizona Republic] — Surprise City Council is asking city staff to better define a costly footbridge project in the Original Town Site before it signs off on the expenditure. Lizard Run Park, two blocks south of Bell Road between Greasewood and Nash streets, is scheduled to receive a pedestrian footbridge and a community garden by June, according to the city’s Capital Improvement Plan. The footbridge would cross a wash and connect the park to nearby facilities for Rio Salado College and Interfaith Community Care.
The cost of the bridge has been estimated at $300,000 to $400,000. The city has $283,000 budgeted. City staff asked the council on Aug. 14 to transfer $81,000 to the Lizard Run project from a defunct alley-paving project in the Original Town Site. However, council members voted 5-1 against the move, instead placing the money in the council contingency fund. Members reasoned that there was not enough information about the project to make a smart decision. They agreed that the money should be placed in their contingency fund, which the council can allocate as it sees fit. [Note: to read the full article, click here.]
Categories Heritage Fund, Local ParksTags Councilman Joe Johnson, Councilman Roy Villanueva, Interfaith Community Care, Lizard Run Park, Mayor Lyn Truitt, Rio Salado College, Surprise City Council, Tony Lombardo
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Robert Parry | Democrats Legalize Bush's Crimes
http://www.truthout.org
t r u t h o u t | 06.21
http://www.truthout.org/article/democrats-legalize-bushs-crimes
Democrats Legalize Bush's Crimes
by: Robert Parry, Consortium News
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claims that a key positive feature of the new wiretap "compromise" is that the bill reaffirms that the President must follow the law, even though the same bill virtually assures that no one will be held accountable for George W. Bush's violation of the earlier spying law.
In other words, in the guise of rejecting Bush's theories of an all-powerful presidency that is above the law, the Democratic leadership cleared the way for the President and his collaborators to evade punishment for defying the law.
So, why should anyone assume that the new legislative edict demanding that the President obey the law will get any more respect than the old one, which established the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 as the "exclusive" means for authorizing electronic spying?
It wasn't that Bush and his team didn't understand the old law's language; they simply believed they could violate the law without consequence, under the radical theory that at a time of war - even one as vaguely defined as the "war on terror" - the President's powers trump all laws as well as the constitutional rights of citizens.
Essentially, Bush was betting that even if his warrantless wiretap program was disclosed - as it was in December 2005 - that he could trust his Republican congressional allies to protect him and could count on most Democrats not to have the guts to challenge him.
His bet proved to be a smart one. After the New York Times revealed the warrantless wiretaps 2½ years ago, Congress took no steps to hold Bush accountable. Before the 2006 elections, Pelosi declared that Bush's impeachment was "off the table."
Then, on the eve of the August 2007 recess, the Democratic-controlled Congress was stampeded into passing the "Protect America Act," which effectively legalized what Bush had already done and expanded his spying powers even more.
After that law was passed, U.S. news reports mostly parroted the White House claim that it "modernized" FISA and "narrowly" targeted overseas terror suspects who might call or e-mail their contacts in the United States .
However, it soon became clear that the law applied not just to terror suspects abroad who might communicate with Americans, but to anyone who is "reasonably believed to be outside the United States " and who might possess "foreign intelligence information," defined as anything that could be useful to U.S. foreign policy.
That meant that almost any American engaged in international commerce or dealing with foreign issues - say, a businessman in touch with a foreign subsidiary or a U.S. reporter sending an overseas story back to his newspaper - was vulnerable to warrantless intercepts approved on the say-so of two Bush subordinates, the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence.
Beyond the breathtaking scope of this new authority, the Bush administration also snuck in a clause that granted forward-looking immunity from lawsuits to communications service providers that assisted the spying.
That removed one of the few safeguards against Bush's warrantless wiretaps: the concern among service providers that they might be sued by customers for handing over constitutionally protected information without a warrant.
In short, the "Protect America Act" made warrantless surveillance legally cost free for a collaborating service provider, tilting the scales even further in favor of the government's spying powers. [For details, see our book, Neck Deep, or Consortiumnews.com's "Bush Gets Spying Blank Check."]
Catching On
A week after the "Protect America Act" was passed, the New York Times and the Washington Post published front-page stories explaining how the Bush administration had ambushed the Democrats.
Pressed up against the start of the August recess and the prospect of Republican taunts that Democrats were "soft on terror," the Democratic leaders abandoned earlier compromise proposals and accepted the more expansive law. Their one point of resistance was putting a February 2008 sunset provision into the law.
Still, the Democratic cave-in in August 2007 provoked an uproar among rank-and-file Democrats. Pelosi's office reported receiving more than 200,000 angry e-mails.
Stung by the reaction, House Democratic leaders balked at White House pressure to make even more concessions, including retroactive immunity for telecommunication companies that had collaborated with Bush's warrantless wiretaps in the years after the 9/11 attacks.
In February 2008, to the surprise of many observers, the Democratic leadership allowed the "Protect America Act" to lapse. Though Republicans attacked the Democrats as expected, the accusations seemed to have little political resonance.
Nevertheless, the Democratic leadership - behind Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia, and Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland - continued working on a compromise.
While the new version drops some of the more intrusive features of the "Protect America Act," such as allowing warrantless wiretaps of Americans outside the United States , the bill adds retroactive telecom immunity (only requiring the companies show they got a written order from the President).
The bill also would grant the administration emergency power to wiretap a target for up to one week before getting a warrant from the secret FISA court. But the bill bars the government from targeting a foreigner as a "back-door" way to spy on an American without a court warrant.
"Capitulation"
Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wisconsin, a strong constitutionalist, termed the new bill "not a compromise; it is a capitulation."
One of the bill's illusions would seem to be that the precedent of a President ignoring the FISA law and escaping any accountability can somehow be negated by restating what the original, violated law had declared.
In her June 20 floor statement, Pelosi said in her view this was a crucial feature of the bill, the statement that the President cannot ignore the FISA law again. However, Pelosi's position sounded like the words of an indulgent parent of a spoiled child: "This time I really mean it!"
The more powerful message from the latest Democratic compromise is that a President - at least a Republican one - can break the wiretap law under the cover of national security and expect to ride out the consequences.
Rather than reaffirming the rule of law and the Constitution's checks and balances, as Pelosi claimed, the new FISA "compromise" may have done the opposite, signaling that the President is above the law.
After Pelosi's speech, the House passed the bill by a 293-129 margin with 105 Democrats - including most of the leadership - voting in favor and 128 Democrats against. The bill then went to the Senate, which was expected to approve it.
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Because sometimes the data is stored locally on your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch. Some of the apps, of which Facebook is one of them, caches the data and stores them on the device, eating the precious space reserved for installing new apps, games, etc. Here’s a screenshot of iOS Facebook app, which happens to consume a lot of space on iPhone 5, iOS 6:
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Deathstyle by Dick Hafer – A Review
Possibly the most homophobic comic ever published, apart from Jack Chick’s little tracts. Now a part of the Casa del Garrett library of homophobia. I collect antigay pamphlets, tracts and assorted publications, even or especially when such like appear in the mainstream magazines I grew up with. It isn’t all fringe like this from religious right cartoonist Dick Hafer. Back in the day Everyone threw garbage at us. That was the pop culture environment this gay guy grew up in.
So why would a gay guy want to collect this awful stuff…I hear you asking. Many years ago I read an article about a collection of racist artifacts from the U.S. civil rights struggle gathered by a black gentleman over the years of his life. He kept it all he said, so people would remember what it was like fighting for equality in the days of separate but equal, and to insure that the hatred black Americans faced would not be erased.
That’s one good reason. I have another more personal one. Back in the days when I had my first Internet account, I followed a USENET newsgroup that was basically an unmoderated forum for gays and homophobes to argue with each other. I joined to better learn the methods of the enemy, and test myself against them. What I discovered, like those who would later follow the Proposition 8 trial, is there is no There there. They would lie shamelessly, then deny having lied. They would throw out this or that latest piece of junk science, which was pretty much the old junk science given a fresh coat of paint, demand our respect, then after it was debunked, throw something else equally vapid out…wash rinse repeat…over and over. They would thump the bible, then thump some junk science, then back to the bible. You came to understand pretty quickly that the argument was just an excuse to spit in our faces and remind us that we’re hated.
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Why dig up old wounds? Why keep revisiting an unpleasant past? Well for one thing it’s not all in the past. Yes, gay folk have made great progress. But if bigotry and hate have anything going for them it’s persistence. The old beliefs haven’t declined, they’ve dug in for the long war. Resentfully. Bitterly. What’s changed, and it’s only this, is anyone open to the evidence of our lives can see the haters for what they are now. But that’s only because now we’re able to live our lives openly. Thank Lawrence v Texas for that. And because of that, because we can live openly without the sodomy laws hanging over us, people can see the joy and beauty, the honor and the dignity of our love. The Proposition 8 trial, where we fought for the right to marry, all the way to the Supreme Court, opened a lot of eyes; not only to the depth of our commitments, but much more importantly to the utter vacuum of the case hate made against us. There was no there, there. It opened a lot of eyes. But not every eye will be opened.
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Soon after this arrived in the mail, I began flipping through its pages. I’d already seen many of them posted here and there in the Internet tubes, but I was unprepared for the unabridged wholeness of its contempt and hate. If Orson Scott Card was a cartoonist this would probably have been the comic book he’d have produced on homosexuals and homosexuality. It’s deeper in the dark night of the soul than even R. Crumb or S. Clay Wilson ever went. All the feelings of growing up gay while hearing this crap thrown at me over and over and over again came rushing out as I began reading it.
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Fasten your seatbelts and remember…there is no bottom to the human gutter. None.
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Sergeant First Class Josh Olson lost his right leg during a combat patrol in Iraq, but thanks to a rehabilitation program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and an USAMU initiative to retain wounded warriors, Olson continues to serve his country as a member of the Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU).
SFC Olson recently spent two days with USAMU teammates and fellow shooters at the CMP’s Dixie Double Precision Air Rifle and Air Pistol Event. There, as an out-of-competition air rifle participant, Olson fired the highest aggregate score in the match. However, as he fired from a seated position, he wasn’t officially competing against the able-bodied shooters. Though he wears a full leg prosthesis at the office and when competing in prone competition, SFC Olson said it gets uncomfortable when traveling or sitting for long periods of time. Hence he removed the artificial limb while shooting from the bench.
In 2003, while deployed in Iraq, SFC Olson was leading a motorized patrol when his vehicle was ambushed. He left the vehicle to return fire when an RPG rocked his truck and blew his leg out from under him. Severely wounded, Olson was med-evac’d, first to Mosul, then to Germany, and finally to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the USA. For the next 18 months, SFC Olson received inpatient and outpatient care at Walter Reed in Washington, D.C., prior to reactivating with the Army, eventually assigned to the USAMU.
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SFC Olson hopes to compete in the Paralympic Games or regular Olympic Games in London in 2012. He will try out for both events, either competing as a disabled shooter in the Paralympics or as an able-bodied competitor on equal terms with other Olympic marksmen. He said if he does not make the Olympic team, he’ll know he’s done his best to get there.
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This story has been edited for length. Read full story in the CMP Online Magazine.
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Defining Graph Database Schemas by using the GraphQL Schema Definition Language
SPARQL* Update
Position Statement: The RDF* and SPARQL* Approach to Annotate Statements in RDF and to Reconcile RDF and Property Graphs
Posted on January 10, 2019 by Olaf Hartig
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This post present my position statement for the W3C Workshop on Web Standardization for Graph Data.
Update (June 27, 2019): We now have a W3C mailing list to discuss question related to RDF* and SPARQL*.
Update (June 9, 2019): In the meantime, I have defined SPARQL* Update.
The lack of a convenient way to annotate RDF triples and to query such annotations has been a long standing issue for RDF. Such annotations are a native feature in other contemporary graph data models (e.g., edge properties in the Property Graph model) and there exist a number of popular use cases, including the annotation of statements with certainty scores, weights, temporal restrictions, and provenance information. To mitigate the inherent lack of a native support for such annotations in the purely triple-based data model of RDF, there exist several proposals to capture such annotations in the RDF context (e.g., RDF reification as proposed in the RDF specifications, singleton properties, single-triple named graphs). However, these proposals have a number of shortcomings and none of them has yet been adopted as a (de facto) standard.
We are proposing an alternative approach that is based on nesting of RDF triples and of query patterns. This approach has already attracted interest not only in the RDF and Semantic Web research community (as indicated by some blog posts and by winning the People’s Choice Best Poster Award at ISWC 2017) but also among RDF system vendors. In fact, the approach is already supported in two commercial RDF graph database systems (Blazegraph and AnzoGraph) and in an extension of the popular Open Source framework Apache Jena. Important properties of the approach are that
it allows for a compact representation of data and queries,
it is backwards-compatible with the aforementioned existing approaches,
it can serve naturally as a foundation for achieving interoperability between the RDF and the Property Graphs world, and
it can be employed as a common conceptual framework to capture more specific annotation-related extensions of RDF and SPARQL (such as temporal or probabilistic extensions).
The goal of this position statement is to bring the approach to the attention of the workshop attendees and to put on the workshop agenda a discussion regarding standardization opportunities for this approach.
In the remainder of this position statement we outline the approach and elaborate more on its properties.
Overview of the Approach
The basis of the proposed approach is to extend RDF with a notion of nested triples. More precisely, with this extension, called RDF*, any triple that represents metadata about another triple may directly contain this other triple as its subject or its object. For instance, suppose we want to capture a statement indicating the age of Bob together with the metadata fact that we are 90% certain about this statement. RDF* allows us to represent both the data and the metadata by using a nested triple as follows.
<<:bob foaf:age 23>> ex:certainty 0.9 .
Notice that we write the nested triple using an extension of the RDF Turtle syntax that captures the notion of nested triples by enclosing any embedded triple using the strings ‘<<‘ and ‘>>’. This extended syntax is called Turtle* and it is specified in Section 3.3 of our technical report.
Given the outlined notion of RDF* which supports (arbitrarily deep) nesting of triples, the crux of the proposed approach is to extend the RDF query language SPARQL accordingly. That is, in the extended query language, called SPARQL*, triple patterns may also be nested, which gives users a query syntax in which accessing specific metadata about a triple is just a matter of mentioning the triple in the subject (or object) position of a metadata-related triple pattern. For instance, by adopting the aforementioned syntax for nesting, we may query for all age-statements and their respective certainty as follows (prefix declarations omitted).
SELECT ?p ?a ?c WHERE {
<<?p foaf:age ?a>> ex:certainty ?c .
Notice that the query is represented in a very compact form; in particular, in contrast to the corresponding queries for other proposals (e.g., RDF reification, singleton properties), this compact syntax does not require users to write verbose patterns or other constructs whose only purpose is to match artifacts that these proposals introduce to establish the relationship between a triple and the metadata about it.
In addition to nested triple patterns, SPARQL* introduces a new type of BIND clauses that allows us to express the example query in the following, semantically equivalent form.
BIND (<<?p foaf:age ?a>> AS ?t)
?t ex:certainty ?c .
The latter example also highlights the fact that in SPARQL*, variables in query results may be bound not only to IRIs, literals, or blank nodes, but also to full RDF* triples. For a detailed formalization of SPARQL*, including the complete extension of the full W3C specification of SPARQL, refer to Sections 4-5 of the technical report.
Properties of the Approach
We emphasize three orthogonal perspectives on the proposed approach:
On one hand, RDF* and SPARQL* may be understood–and used–simply as syntactic sugar on top of RDF and SPARQL. That is, any RDF*-specific syntax such as Turtle* may be parsed directly into plain RDF data that uses RDF reification or any of the other approaches to annotate statements in RDF. Likewise, SPARQL* queries may be rewritten into ordinary SPARQL queries. Based on such conversions, RDF* and SPARQL* may be supported easily by implementing wrappers on top of existing RDF triple stores. Then, users can query either RDF* data or RDF data with other forms of statement annotations, both by using SPARQL*. The formal mappings necessary as a foundation of such wrapper-based implementations have already been defined and studied, and there exists an initial set of conversion tools.
On the other hand, the proposal may also be conceived of as a new abstract data model in its own right. As such, it may be implemented by developing techniques to execute SPARQL* queries directly on a physical storage model that is designed to support RDF* natively. The formal foundations of this perspective exist; that is, we have defined the RDF* data model and a formal semantics of SPARQL*. Moreover, the RDF graph database systems Blazegraph and AnzoGraph provide native support for RDF* and SPARQL*, and so does the aforementioned extension of Apache Jena.
A third perspective on the approach is that it presents a step towards closing the gap between the RDF and the Property Graphs world. That is, by extending RDF and SPARQL with a feature that is similar to the notion of edge properties in Property Graphs, the approach may serve as an abstraction for integrating RDF data and Property Graphs. In fact, in addition to the aforementioned RDF*-to-RDF mappings, there already exist formal definitions of direct mappings from RDF* to Property Graphs and vice versa, and these mappings have been implemented in conversion tools.
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Olaf Hartig
Cory, support of RDFS and/or OWL requires a definition of a model-theoretic semantics of the RDF* data model. I have started drafting one: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-star/2019Aug/0013.html
For the domain/range of such metadata properties, I think rdf:Statement could be used.
Discussions towards creating a specification as a W3C Community Group Report happen on the following mailing list: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-star/
Cory Casanave
How do you see this supported, or not, by RDFS and/or OWL? What would be the domain of these properties and is there active work on the specification side?
Thanks for taking this on!
Cory, in principle, the answer to your question is the as if your question had been concerned with standard (non-nested) triples only. In other words, your question is actually not specific to RDF* and statement-level metadata, but it is related to the meaning of named graphs. Then, in my opinion, a triple (nested or not) in a graph is to be considered within the context of that graph.
Do you see these statements bound to or independent of a graph?. E.g. where ?t ex: certainty ?c .is based on the certainty within that graph, another graph may have another certainty. for the same triple (but a different quad).
Paul, I see what you mean. RDF* can be used for both. Similarly, I have seen instances of both of these cases being captured via edge properties in Property Graphs.
Paul Warren
Olaf, thanks for your response. I understand you answer, but I think I did not well articulate my question. In particular, when I said “metadata which describes the predicate”, I probably should have said “metadata which describes the instantiation of the predicate”. To take a specific comparison, consider the two following RDF* statements:
1) <> created 01/01/2019
2) <> at 01/01/2019
(1) is a piece of metadata about the triple, stating when it was created. (2) is an annotation adding more specific information to the triple. These cases seem quite different to me – but perhaps I am making a false distinction here. I am assuming you would use RDF* in both situations?
Paul, I recognize this distinction and I think it is an important one to make. However, I disagree with your statement that “the latter is more typical of edge properties in property graphs.” In contrast, I would say that the former is more like edge properties in PGs. To me the predicate of an RDF triple serves a purpose similar to the label of an edge in a PG (that is, it represents the type of relationship captured by the edge/triple), and I do not see the edge properties to represent descriptions of the edge labels. Instead, edge properties represent additional information about the relationship captured by the edge, which may be metadata but also other sorts of annotations. So, to answer your question: The feature that RDF* adds to RDF (nested triples) is appropriate only for the former (capturing metadata and other forms of annotations about triples). You can do the latter (adding descriptions about the predicates in triples) in RDF, and thus in RDF*, by adding triples whose subject is a URI that is the predicate in other triples. Notice that this is not possible in PGs; I mean, there is no way to provide additional information about edge labels in a PG.
Olaf,
To my mind, there is a subtle (or not so subtle) distinction between metadata which describes a triple, e.g. its provenance, degree of certainty, or a datestamp for when it was created; and metadata which describes the predicate within the triple. The latter is more typical of edge properties in property graphs. An example might be the duration for which the predicate is true. Assuming you recognise my distinction, do you see RDF* as being appropriate to both cases, or only to the former?
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Robert, conceptually, the primary difference is that the Singleton Properties approach requires the creation of URIs to be used as triple identifiers whereas the RDF*/SPARQL* approach does not need such artificial artifacts; instead, in the RDF*/SPARQL* approach, a triple itself is used directly in the metadata about it. As a consequence, queries do not need to contain additional patterns whose only purpose is to access the triple identifiers in order to then find the corresponding metadata based on these triple identifiers.
Robert Wynne
In which way is this approach and/or implementation different to the Singleton Property?
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Hi Steffen, it is very similar. The only conceptual difference is that RDF* does not use explicit statement identifiers; instead, a triple itself is its identifier.
Steffen Staab
Hi Olaf,
is the underlying principle (aside from syntax) different than former proposals of using quads (or quintuples if one wanted to keep the graph name separate)?
E.g. http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/index.php/ps/article/view/168 but also work by Polleres.
Thanks Kurt. Indeed, we will work on the member submission next.
Kurt Cagle
This is very cool, and something I’ve actually been hoping to see for a while. The notion that a triple is a resource is an obvious one, but one that has been very difficult to put into practice, and its correspondence to attributional information on specific predicates does a very nice job of bridging the gap between PGs and RDF.
I’m hoping that you’ll follow through on this to make this a member note. This, along with the notion of fully implementing predicate variable paths would make me a happy camper indeed.
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Bryce Golden leads No. 18 Butler in 66-41 romp over Southern
Thompson, Golden execute perfect pick and roll (0:18)
Bryce Golden sets a screen for Aaron Thompson, who then bounces back to the driving Golden for the slam. (0:18)
INDIANAPOLIS -- Butler’s unselfishness translated into a healthy balanced attack.
Bryce Golden scored 12 points on 4-of-5 shooting Saturday to lead No. 18 Butler to a 66-41 romp over Southern. Also in double figures for the Bulldogs (10-1) were Sean McDermott with 11 points on 3-of-5 3-point shooting and Khalif Battle with 10. Twelve Bulldogs played and 11 scored.
Aaron Thompson had eight points and eight assists for the Bulldogs, who extended the nation’s longest nonconference home winning streak to 57.
“We have a really unselfish group,” Thompson said. “No one cares who takes the shot.”
Kamar Baldwin, Butler’s leading scorer with 17.1 average entering the game, missed his first six shots before finally scoring with 10:49 remaining in the second half. Baldwin finished with two points on 1-of-8 shooting and five assists and three steals.
“He gets a lot of attention,” Butler coach LaVall Jordan said. “The shots weren’t falling. He missed some open 3s he usually makes. He played a good floor game. He didn’t force it and found the open man.”
Jordan said the beauty of his team is everyone has the potential to have a breakout game.
“They do the work and equip themselves with the confidence and skill for when your time comes you are ready,” Jordan said. “Nobody cares who scores. We talk about moving the basketball and hitting the open man. They look for each other, share the ball and stay connected.”
Isaiah Rollins topped Southern (3-8) with 13 points.
After sitting out the first 10 games with a knee injury, graduate transfer Derrik Smits finally made his debut with Butler. Smits, a 7-foot-1 center who played at Valparaiso and son of ex-Indiana Pacers star Rik Smits, scored his basket with 11:46 left in the second half, drawing huge applause. Smits had two points and three rebounds in 11 minutes.
“I feel pretty good but I’m not back to where I was prior (the injuries),” Smits said. “I just got to keep working. The more practices I’ve had the better I’ve felt.”
Redshirt freshman forward Markeese Hastings also made his season debut after offseason hip surgery, scoring two points in nearly three minutes.
Butler never trailed, scoring the first eight points. The Bulldogs shot 46% to lead 34-16 at halftime while the Jaguars shot just 25%. For the game, Butler hit 45% and Southern 28%. The Bulldogs forced 18 turnovers.
“They don’t make any mistakes,” Southern coach Sean Woods said. “They don’t gamble a lot. They do two things really well, they defend the 3 and two, they keep the ball out of the paint.”
Jordan was not entirely happy with his team -- specifically, 13 turnovers.
“We have a ton of things to clean up,” he said. “We still have put together a full 40 (minutes) and that’s the challenge each time out, getting better every day and see if we can find that moment when we put it all together on the same day.”
Butler's lone loss this season came Tuesday at No. 11 Baylor. The Bulldogs’ ranking isn’t likely to change much.
Southern coach Sean Woods is a 1988 Indianapolis Cathedral graduate.
“It’s always good coming home,” said Woods, who played in college at Kentucky. “I played my last high school game in this building, so I have fond memories of Hinkle Fieldhouse since the time I was a freshman moving from East Chicago, Ind. It was good to bring my team here.”
Southern: The Louisiana school lost its fourth game in a row. The Jaguars have had just two home games, the last one Nov. 18. They don’t have another home date until Jan. 11 against Grambling State.
Butler: The Bulldogs have victories over Minnesota, Missouri, Stanford, Mississippi and Florida.
Southern is set for a two-game California swing with games at California Baptist Wednesday at UC Santa Barbara on Friday.
Butler faces Purdue on Saturday in the annual Crossroads Classic at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
No. 3 Duke visits Clemson bidding for 10th straight win
Duke has been on another roll and seems to be picking up steam in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
No. 21 Ohio State attempts to snap skid as Nebraska visits
After a promising start that included 11 wins in its first 12 games, Ohio State has hit a rough patch. The Buckeyes have lost four straight games, including three in a row in Big Ten play.
Baylor jumps to No. 2 in AP Top 25 poll after two big road wins
Baylor climbed to No. 2 in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll after resounding road wins over Texas Tech and Kansas last week. Gonzaga maintained the top spot after breezing to a pair of victories.
2019-2020 Big East Conference Standings
Seton Hall 6-0 - 14-4
Villanova 4-1 1.5 14-3
Providence 4-2 2 11-8
Butler 3-2 2.5 15-3
Creighton 3-3 3 14-5
Marquette 3-3 3 13-5
Georgetown 2-4 4 12-7
DePaul 1-4 4.5 13-5
Xavier 1-4 4.5 12-6
St. John's 1-5 5 12-7
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What’s a PLB and Why Do You Need One?
On September 21, 2016 | By thekiteboarder.com
Top female kite racer Gina Hewson with her Ocean Signal rescueME PLB1
You wouldnt go backcountry snowboarding without a beacon, why would you head offshore kiting without one? Safety equipment supplier Ocean Signal has teamed up with leading kite racer Gina Hewson to raise awareness about the benefits of wearing a personal locator beacon (PLB). One of the worlds top female competitors on the international kite foil circuit and a former professional sailor, Gina is urging participants in her discipline to wear a PLB due to the inherent dangers and unpredictable conditions encountered by kiteboarders in exposed offshore areas.
Photo: Toby Bromwich
Gina finished fifth overall and second in female master in this month’s Formula Kite World Championships in Weifang Binhai, China. She also finished third female in this years European Kite Foil Championships and was fourth female in last months third leg of the Hydrofoil pro tour in Mauritius, following another fourth-place finish in the Mexico round.
Gina first became aware of the importance of wearing a personal 406MHz beacon during her time as an offshore sailor and is keen to highlight how a beacon can save lives by accurately communicating the location of a survivor to search and rescue services.Kitefoilers often train in open water which can be very exposed, like Cowes on the Isle of Wight. But still a lot of them do not think about the dangers unless they have had a problem. The ram air kites used for hydrofoil racing do not have an inflatable bladder like the conventional kite used for recreational use. Additionally, the higher wind angles and faster speeds mean that foilboarders can travel longer distances in a very short time. The wind can change and the tide can turn and it can all go wrong very quickly. said Gina.
Ocean Signals rescueME PLB1 is the worlds smallest personal locator beacon at 30% smaller than other PLBs and is specifically designed to be small and light enough to carry or attach to clothing for instant access to emergency services at the press of a button. Gina added, With my experience in kite racing and also having done the Sydney-Hobart and Fastnet, I know how important it is to wear a PLB whenever you are heading offshore. I did have an incident when I was kiting with my sister in Perth when the wind turned as sunset approached. We were in the water for 3 or 4 hours. The helicopter was above me and I found out later that although they were using thermal imagery they were unable to locate us until they eventually found us by boat, by which time we were within 80m of the shore.
Weighing just 116g (4.1oz) and with dimensions of 77mm (3in) (height), 51mm (2in) (width) and 32.5mm (1.3in) (depth), the Ocean Signal rescueME PLB1 has been designed to withstand the harsh marine environment and is waterproof up to a market-leading depth of 15m, with an exceptional operating life of 30 hours (typical) even at -20C.Once activated, the PLB1 provides three methods of communicating the location of a survivor to search and rescue services the designated 406MHz Cospas-Sarsat satellite system with position provided by a 66 channel GPS, a 121.5MHz homing beacon, plus high intensity (1 candela) strobe light.
I, and my boyfriend and coach Fraser [Brown], will have extra reassurance due to the additional level of safety provided by using the Ocean Signal rescueME PLB1s. They are very compact and handy to wear, which is important for anyone competing or participating in a very physical sport.Andy Gratwick, British Kitesports Director of Training and Operations, said: As the national governing body for the sport, we set the safety standards and have structured guidelines on safety equipment for all activities and levels of participation. PLBs are good, valuable and essential in some longer distance and out of sight events. They would be used and required if covering distance in open coastal water, but they are not required on a standard race course for any discipline.
Ocean Signal sales and marketing manager James Hewitt said the PLBs are suitable for a range of water sports in addition to kiteboarding, including kayaking or canoeing, windsurfing, paddleboarding and diving among others.We are delighted to supply Gina with our PLBs and wish her the best of luck in her upcoming competitions, said James. We hope to continue to raise awareness about the benefits of using personal beacons for a wide range of activities, both on land and at sea, for professional athletes and leisure or amateur users. Our rescueME PLB1 is an exceptionally compact product which you can wear and then forget about. It is a relatively small investment which can provide peace of mind for many years and save your life in an emergency.
Read the full article: What’s a PLB and Why Do You Need One?
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CALM Energy continues to add to its deep portfolio of patents with USPTO’s approval of U.S. Patent No. 10,229,3769.
This patented invention reflects our expertise in applying scheduling and orchestration capabilities for electric utilities in need of managing distributed energy resources such as energy storage and curtailable load.
CALM Energy adds to its portfolio of patents with USPTO’s approval of its ‘Dynamic Contingency Avoidance and Mitigation System, U.S. Patent No. 9,395,707.
This patented invention reflects our expertise in applying machine learning based decision support systems for electric utilities in need of managing Distributed Energy Resources (DER). The invention drives utility decision support systems towards probabilistic machine learning based reliability analysis, taking into consideration the health of electric grid assets, and provides a means to measure and manage DER for the reliability of the electric grid.
CALM Energy, Inc. has been chosen by NYCEDC’s RISE:NYC initiative to deploy CALM Energy’s Energy Watchdog product with clean distributed generation for small businesses impacted by super storm Sandy.
New York, NY (PRWEB) May 01, 2015
CALM Energy, Inc. has been selected by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) RISE:NYC initiative to enhance the resiliency of small businesses in New York City by deploying its CALM Energy Watchdog™ product at multiple locations. Energy Watchdog™ is a smart controller that maintains ongoing awareness of building conditions, weather, and the state of the electric power supply. It uses that information to manage generators, HVAC equipment, lighting, and other building systems so as to improve energy efficiency, reduce costs, and mitigate the impact of power outages.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that CALM Energy, Inc. and 10 other organizations had been selected from a field of over 200 applicants to participate in the RISE:NYC grant whose purpose is to offer innovative resiliency-related technologies to at-risk and vulnerable small businesses in the area affected by Super Storm Sandy. “RISE: NYC is part of the City’s comprehensive suite of initiatives to mitigate the effects of severe weather and climate change on New Yorkers, and all of the winning technologies will help support and strengthen small businesses across the City,” said NYCEDC President Kyle Kimball. “Each of the 11 innovative winning technologies will make the City a safer, stronger and more resilient place, creating economic support and additional opportunities for New Yorkers and small businesses.”
CALM Energy will deploy clean distributed generation with CALM Energy’s adaptive control system at multiple buildings, offering resiliency to the buildings where the technology is deployed. The product will also provide the opportunity for individual buildings to interact with electric utilities’ demand response programs automatically, improving the resiliency of the grid used by all New Yorkers.
Through the use of machine learning and lightweight integration with widely available off-the-shelf products, Energy Watchdog™ makes sophisticated energy management available to the operators of small and medium sized commercial buildings. “We’re excited and thankful to have been awarded the opportunity to serve Sandy-impacted small businesses by installing our smart node technology with onsite generation ” said John Johnson, CEO of CALM Energy. “We look forward to helping these small businesses in becoming more resilient and energy efficient”.
CALM Energy, Inc., a New York City based smart grid technology company, was founded in part by Columbia University’s Center for Computational Learning Systems, with the objective of commercializing machine learning based smart grid technology, and is a trusted and innovative partner to building property managers and electric utilities. In addition to Energy Watchdog™, CALM has developed and deployed analytic and predictive systems that help utilities predict impending component failure, take remedial action, and minimize cascading failures.
CALM Energy adds to its deep portfolio of patents with USPTO’s approval of its ‘Decision Support Control Center’ patent# 8,972,066 shared with Columbia University and Con Edison.
The patented invention reflects our leadership in developing an integrated decision support “cockpit” or control center for displaying, analyzing, and/or responding to, various events and contingencies that can occur within an electrical grid.
CALM Energy’s affiliate, CALM Water, is awarded a European Commission Smart Water demonstration project to demo its C2SOS Platform and Energy Optimization Controller with four water utilities.
With CALM Water we intend to further build the functionality of our SUM Platform and Smart Node Controller Products. The European Commission gave the “SmartWater4Europe” proposal one of its highest ratings for depth of innovation and the strength of the European based team. The focus of the demonstration project is to apply CALM ‘s existing smart grid software developments for biological contamination, water leakage detection, and water system energy optimization using CALM’s Command and Control System of Systems (C2SOS) SUM platform software.
CALM Energy obtains U.S. Patent on Contingency Analysis for utility service network with Con Edison and Columbia University
Strengthening intellectual property protection for our demonstrated contingency analysis software module of our C2SOS decision support platform developed with Con Edison, U.S. Patent 8,543,405 was issued by the U.S. Patent office. CALM Energy’s contingency analysis software allows utilities and microgrids to predict in the future, through machine learning of grid simulations, resiliency concerns to the grid and provides a means to mitigate these vulnerabilities.
CALM Energy obtains a U.S. Patent on selling differentiated electric grid service reliability.
Our Watchdog Smart Node controller and targeted demand response module of our C2SOS platform products include the technology of our patent “Systems and methods for operating electrical supply”, U.S. Patent Office #8,521,337, which holds promise in transforming the electric smart grid by providing customers what they have not been provided in the past – choices of electric service reliability to save them money.
With our patented Smart Node technology, we enable a revolutionary type of customer demand response with no Customer Base Line (CBL) calculations and through NIST standardized interoperability between our Smart Node controller and the utility or ESCO, we allow buildings, electric vehicles, and electrical appliances to decided what level of reliability they are willing to pay for. As an example, a neon advertising sign outside of a building with our smart node controller technology can automatically sign-up for non-firm renewable electric power, which will automatically interrupt its use of electricity when communicated that renewable power is unavailable on the grid. As another example, if a manufacturing plant that needs to be ultra competitive in the global marketplace doesn’t need five-nines of electric service reliability (99.999% electric service availability) for 1/2 of its peak electric loads, the manufacturer can purchase non-firm electricity for loads above a certain level that can be interrupted if electric supply becomes unavailable or the distribution grid experiences an abnormal contingency situation, enabling the manufacturer to reduce electricity costs from the flexibility in its electric demand that would result in the business becoming more profitable and competitive.
“With this technology”, according to John Johnson, CEO of CALM Energy and twenty year veteran of one of the nations largest electric distribution companies in North America, “the overall T&D electric grid becomes more reliable, while costly electric grid infrastructure upgrades, traditionally needed to meet growing peak load demand, get deferred or eliminated, and just as important the entire grid becomes more energy efficient as a result of this higher utilization”.
The drive towards energy efficiency, one of the most pressing initiatives to obtain environmental sustainability are made possible through this grid efficiency enhancing technology both by raising the utilization of more efficient generation and by reducing congestion in the distribution and transmission grids that exist today. The smart node technology development and demonstration was part of the U.S. Department of Energy demonstration with Con Edison of New York.
CALM Energy successfully demonstrates its Targeted Demand Response, Vulnerability Simulator, and Watchdog Smart Node with Con Edison of NY to the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the Smart Grid Demonstration Project.
CALM Energy obtains a U.S. Patent on business process modeling associated with its C2SOS platform being demonstrated for the U.S. Department of Energy – “Computer methods for business process management execution and systems thereof”
U.S. Patent #8,458,723 describes technology which enables our proprietary BPM software to efficiently communicate with millions of nodes on the electric grid needing actionable guidance for demand response. As electric grids migrate towards a two way system with ubiquitous machine-to-machine demand response, this technology will allow electric utilities to orchestrate load curtailment down to the appliance level over millions of customers to improve reliability, energy efficiency, and safety of the electric smart grid. This technology was demonstrated as part of a U.S. DOE smart grid demonstration project.
CALM Energy enters into agreement with CEA List and Infratech to create CALM Water, SA.
CALM Energy enters into agreement with the French Government’s CEA List, focused on renewable technology research, and Infratech, an global expert in water utility systems, to further develop CALM Energy’s SUM platform for water through a new French Company called CALM Water, based in Paris. Through the development of this initiative, we intend to fully leverage our SUM platform developed and demonstrated for the electric smart grid for use in the water grid. In addition, our smart node controller technology will provide interoperability between electric grids and water grids
CALM Energy has been selected by NYSERDA to further develop its Targeted AutoDR product offering for mid-sized commercial customers.
December 1st, 2011– CALM Energy, Inc. announced today that it has been selected by NYSERDA to further develop its Targeted AutoDR product offering to complement its utility based ISM Decision Aid platform for the electric utility industry.
“Through our integrated ISM decision support platform, the additional value of providing a targeted demand response product offering for utilities to target customers to respond to system emergencies and to reduce their peak load”, according to CALM Energy’s CEO John Johnson, ” will enable the utility to improve its reliability, while keeping capital costs down”.
CALM Energy, Inc. is developing smart grid software solutions in the following areas:
Demand response and risk management software solutions for smart grid operations.
Intelligent decision aids for integrated transmission and distribution system asset management.
Micro-grid decision support systems that leverage interdependencies with the utility and electric market place.
June 1st 2011 -
CALM Energy to present at the New York Academy of Science’s Energy Infotech Forum. More information on this NYSERDA sponsored forum can be found at: http://www.nyas.org/Events/Detail.aspx?cid=ac2a63f8-b32d-4444-9abf-d0a2b9bdc7da
November 24th 2009 –
CALM Energy, Con Edison, and Other Partners have been selected by the Department of Energy to receive $45 Million for a Smart Grid Demonstration Project in New York and New Jersey.
August 31st 2009 –
CALM Energy partners with Consolidated Edison, Inc., The Boeing Company, The Prosser Group, and Others to Develop and Demonstrate a Smart Grid for New York City.
August 31, 2009 — CALM Energy, Inc. announced today that it is partnered with Consolidated Edison of New York, Inc. , Columbia University, The Boeing Company, The Prosser Group, and other energy experts in filing for smart grid stimulus funds from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Con Edison leads the team requesting approximately $46 million to help fund smart grid demonstration projects in the New York and New Jersey areas.
“By creating the smart grid through an integrated ‘transmission to distribution to customer’ foundation of information and intelligence,” according to CALM Energy’s CEO John Johnson, “utilities and consumers will have enhanced visibility and control over managing energy usage, reliability, and cost.”
CALM Energy, Inc. is leading the following aspects of the proposed demonstration:
Risk management for smart grid operations using machine learning.
Intelligent decision aids for integrated transmission and distribution systems.
Behavioral analytics to support intelligent demand-side management.
August 25th 2008 –
Founders of the CALM Energy have Published their book “Computer-Aided Lean Management for the Energy Industry for delivery”.
“Computer-Aided Lean Management for the Energy Industry” will provide infrastructure based energy companies with a road map on how to develop a smart business, which will enable these companies to develop smart grid infrastructure
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Cv pistol
Posted on 19.04.2019 19.04.2019 Author Keshakar Comments(1)
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Unlike most other semi-auto pistols, the slide rides inside the frame rails, similar to the SIG P , rather than outside. This provides a tight slide-to-frame fit and a very efficient barrel lock-up, both of which contribute to its accuracy. Most models have the capability of being fired in both single and double-action modes, and feature a frame-mounted manual safety. It comes with a decocker that can be easily swapped to a manual safety, with the included kit. CZ P Same as the P but in. Chambered for 9mm and. There is a version available chambered for the. It has a manual safety that is not ambidextrous. All non- double-action only CZ variants feature a "half-cock" notch. Variants and derivatives [ edit ] CZ variants of the CZ 75 include: This variant is quickly becoming the most common of the CZ 75B models, due to the additional safety the decocker safety provides. Most Police models have "Police" stamped on the slide. All of the "decocker" models decock to this position, and the manual advises not to attempt to place the hammer further on any model. It also has the hammer and the sights updated. The decocker or the safety are ambidextrous.
Unlike most other semi-auto pistols, the slide rides inside the frame rails, similar to the SIG P , rather than outside. The decocker or the safety are ambidextrous. Subsequent shots will be single-action unless the hammer is again manually lowered. D stands for decocker. Available in a high gloss and matte stainless finish. This allows the CZ 75 to be carried with the hammer cocked with safety applied and a round chambered, ready for use simply by switching the safety off, a configuration known as condition 1. Most models have the capability of being fired in both single and double-action modes, and feature a frame-mounted manual safety. This provides a tight slide-to-frame fit and a very efficient barrel lock-up, both of which contribute to its accuracy. It received NATO certification after undergoing extensive testing. Some recent models have a decocking lever that doubles as a manual safety. It uses the Browning linkless cam locking system similar to that used in the Browning Hi-Power pistol, where the barrel and slide are locked together on firing, using locking lugs milled into the barrel mating with recesses in the roof of the slide. Features a 3-inch barrel, aluminum frame and low-profile sights. It is the new weapon of choice for the Czech National Police since It has a manual safety that is not ambidextrous. This is not a safety position, but rather an operator aid to provide a safe place to manually decock the pistol. Chambered for 9mm and. It also has the hammer and the sights updated. Featuring no external safety or decocker as well as a bobbed hammer. Once lowered in this manner, a double-action first shot can be achieved in a similar manner to other double-action pistols without actuating any controls. The trade-off of this configuration is that to uncock the hammer for a double-action first shot, the hammer must be dropped manually by pulling the trigger while lowering the hammer with the firer's thumb under control. It comes with a decocker that can be easily swapped to a manual safety, with the included kit. All non- double-action only CZ variants feature a "half-cock" notch.
Most Police models have "Police" stamped on the slide. After the first few millimetres of the recoil stroke, the barrel is cammed downwards at the rear, enabling the slide to continue the recoil stroke and eject the spent cartridge. Subsequent shots will be single-action unless the hammer is again manually lowered. Most models have the capability of being fired in both single and double-action modes, and feature a frame-mounted manual safety. Some recent models have a decocking lever that doubles as a manual safety. This is not a safety position, but rather an operator aid to provide a safe place to manually decock the pistol. This provides a tight slide-to-frame fit and a very efficient barrel lock-up, both of which contribute to its accuracy. Learn how and when to remove this template message The CZ 75 is a short recoil operated, locked breech pistol. Available in a high gloss and matte stainless finish. Chambered for 9mm and. It comes with a decocker that can be easily swapped to a manual safety, with the included kit.
It is the new weapon of choice for the Czech National Police since This allows the CZ 75 to be carried with the hammer cocked with safety applied and a round chambered, ready for use simply by switching the safety off, a configuration known as condition 1. This variant is quickly becoming the most common of the CZ 75B models, due to the additional safety the decocker safety provides. Chambered for 9mm and. Was the basis of design for the RAMI series. It comes with a decocker that can be easily swapped to a manual safety, with the included kit. On current models, frames are cast and slides are machined from forgings, though forged frames have been used in very early production models. It received NATO certification after undergoing extensive testing. Most Police models have "Police" stamped on the slide. D stands for decocker. The decocker or the safety are ambidextrous.
Variants and derivatives [ edit ] CZ variants of the CZ 75 include: CZ P A CZ 75 Compact variant intended for law enforcement use, with an aluminum alloy frame, decocker and under-barrel accessory rail. Chambered for 9mm and. Features a 3-inch barrel, aluminum frame and low-profile sights. This allows the CZ 75 to be carried with the hammer cocked with safety applied and a round chambered, ready for use simply by switching the safety off, a configuration known as condition 1. Once lowered in this manner, a double-action first shot can be achieved in a similar manner to other double-action pistols without actuating any controls. Available in a high gloss and matte stainless finish. All stainless models feature ambidextrous safeties. Learn how and when to remove this template message The CZ 75 is a short recoil operated, locked breech pistol. A popular choice for a carry weapon, known for its inherent accuracy and weight distribution. All of the "decocker" models decock to this position, and the manual advises not to attempt to place the hammer further on any model. It has a manual safety that is not ambidextrous. Was the basis of design for the RAMI series. D stands for decocker. On current models, frames are cast and slides are machined from forgings, though forged frames have been used in very early production models. Starting in the early s, all CZ 75s have been made with firing pin blocks , designated by the letter B as in CZ 75B. A smaller amount exclude "Police" but have front slide serrations. CZ P Same as the P but in. There is a version available chambered for the. An enclosed cam track integral with the barrel is actuated by the slide release lever's transverse pin. The trade-off of this configuration is that to uncock the hammer for a double-action first shot, the hammer must be dropped manually by pulling the trigger while lowering the hammer with the firer's thumb under control. It uses the Browning linkless cam locking system similar to that used in the Browning Hi-Power pistol, where the barrel and slide are locked together on firing, using locking lugs milled into the barrel mating with recesses in the roof of the slide. Some recent models have a decocking lever that doubles as a manual safety. CZ 75 BD Police Variant of the CZ 75 BD equipped with loaded chamber indicator, reversible magazine catch, lanyard ring, checkered front and back strap of the grip and serrated trigger as standard. All non- double-action only CZ variants feature a "half-cock" notch. This variant is quickly becoming the most common of the CZ 75B models, due to the additional safety the decocker safety provides.
Some recent models have a decocking lever that doubles as a manual safety. The decocker or the safety are ambidextrous. All stainless models feature ambidextrous safeties. Most Police models have "Police" stamped on the slide. It uses the Browning linkless cam locking system similar to that used in the Browning Hi-Power pistol, where the barrel and slide are locked together on firing, using locking lugs milled into the barrel mating with recesses in the roof of the slide. There is a version available chambered for the. CZ P Same as the P but in. This variant is quickly becoming the most common of the CZ 75B models, due to the additional safety the decocker safety provides. This is not a safety position, but rather an operator aid to provide a safe place to manually decock the pistol. This provides a tight slide-to-frame fit and a very efficient barrel lock-up, both of which contribute to its accuracy. Unlike most other semi-auto pistols, the slide rides inside the frame rails, similar to the SIG P , rather than outside. Was the basis of design for the RAMI series. A popular choice for a carry weapon, known for its inherent accuracy and weight distribution. On current models, frames are cast and slides are machined from forgings, though forged frames have been used in very early production models. Chambered for 9mm and.
Was the basis of design for the RAMI series. There is a version available chambered for the. The decocker or the safety are ambidextrous. Available in a high gloss and matte stainless finish. It is the new weapon of choice for the Czech National Police since It also has the hammer and the sights updated. After the first few millimetres of the recoil stroke, the barrel is cammed downwards at the rear, enabling the slide to continue the recoil stroke and eject the spent cartridge. Once lowered in this manner, a double-action first shot can be achieved in a similar manner to other double-action pistols without actuating any controls. D stands for decocker. This provides a tight slide-to-frame fit and a very efficient barrel lock-up, both of which contribute to its accuracy. It has a manual safety that is not ambidextrous. Features a 3-inch barrel, aluminum frame and low-profile sights. Variants and derivatives [ edit ] CZ variants of the CZ 75 include: All stainless models feature ambidextrous safeties. Some recent models have a decocking lever that doubles as a manual safety. Most Police models have "Police" stamped on the slide. Learn how and when to remove this template message The CZ 75 is a short recoil operated, locked breech pistol. It uses the Browning linkless cam locking system similar to that used in the Browning Hi-Power pistol, where the barrel and slide are locked together on firing, using locking lugs milled into the barrel mating with recesses in the roof of the slide. The CZ 75 was one of the first high-capacity 9mm pistols with a manual safety similar to that of the Browning Hi-Power. Unlike most other semi-auto pistols, the slide rides inside the frame rails, similar to the SIG P , rather than outside. This is not a safety position, but rather an operator aid to provide a safe place to manually decock the pistol. A popular choice for a carry weapon, known for its inherent accuracy and weight distribution. CZ P Same as the P but in. Subsequent shots will be single-action unless the hammer is again manually lowered. An enclosed cam track integral with the barrel is actuated by the slide release lever's transverse pin. CZ P A CZ 75 Compact variant intended for law enforcement use, with an aluminum alloy frame, decocker and under-barrel accessory rail.
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A Very Blackwood November
a Mystery / Puzzle by MadHattersDaughter
Player Rating5.29/8
"Too few ratings to be ranked"
based on 20 ratings since 12/16/2019
played 116 times (finished 23)
Story Difficulty3/8
"trek through the forest"
Play Length2/8
"So short yo' momma thought it was a recipe"
Maturity Level3/8
"must be at least this tall to play"
Contains content that may not be suitable for persons under age 10. If this were a movie, it would probably be between G and PG.
Humor Puzzle
A rich folks' Thanksgiving dinner goes awry when Mister Eldon Winig is murdered. Can you figure out who dunnit?
A quick murder mystery/puzzle game created for poison_mara's Thanksgiving Writing Jam in like six hours.
Player Comments
Really liked the story and the puzzles involved with the mystery elements layered into it all. The endings were many and distinct and could be made clear with how it branched off into sections throughout the opening and ending apart. Really into investigation type games so this was something that I really enjoyed and was able to finish quite fast compared to other puzzle type games. Was also surprised by the reveal and wasn't what I was suspecting, which I really enjoyed. I was able to get it done with the suspect guessing pretty quicky and I liked it due to the fact that you could keep on retrying it without having it end so badly. I really hope that theres something in continuation with this because I would really enjoy reading it as well if it compares to something like this with puzzle elements and everything else that was also included in this. Really have no complaints or issues that I came across while reading this story other than the fact that I wish it was longer, but even then you managed to fit together everything in nicely so nothing was really left out in the span that you managed to write the story in. Also the grammar for the story was pretty good to and I enjoyed how you spliced together the words to bring some adjectives together while explaining and describing some aspects of the story. With all this being said I see no reason to not give it the highest rating possible. Again I hope you continue to make mystery type games for the site as reading them would really be something good to kill the time with. Also if it could also involve a murder mystery again which would come together very nicely. Nicely Done
-- Digit on 1/1/2020 9:18:57 PM with a score of 100
A cute story written as a play with you as the star;, this was certainly a cute one. It had fun art and was very well done for the time frame it was written in. This was a simple who-done-it with an introduction to the characters and setting, some exploration of the crime scene, choice based investigation, and picking who you think the murder is.
All the character were well made and the story was very simple but good. There wasn’t a lot of branching in the traditional sense, but it was entertaining none the less. I thought the difficulty was perfect, it took me two guesses to get it right. The best part was each characters embarrassing reveal when you picked the wrong killer. Everyone had some scandal that explained some level of suspicious activity on their part.
Ultimately a very fun well-written story. Relatively linear, but you could hardly do more for a who-done-it mystery written in ONE DAY. awesome work!
-- Shadowdrake27 on 12/25/2019 1:35:02 PM with a score of 0
A stylish, polished little mystery with some attractive bits of art to add to the theatrical and period feel. The capitalized names, as if this were a script was a brilliant touch, and the investigation had a satisfying number of options and red herrings.
There are lies to suss out that have nothing at all to do with the main mystery to throw you off, and things to examine that are just there to waste the limited time--you cannot investigate everything before you must name a culprit.
My only gripe is that there are a (very) few bits where the language is a little awkward--for example, there is an option for "Ask who is wearing gloves" when in fact you are just looking around to see who is wearing gloves as far as I can tell. And some of the responses from the suspects are too stilted to give me a good sense of their personality, like, "I lied to you. I was in the courtyard with Mister Deal."
Whether you misidentify a suspect or finger the guilty party, the game ends swiftly thereafter with one sentence or so about motive or some led they told that may have misled you; in a *slightly* expanded version, I would love to see just a bit more characterization, especially at this moment. It would have made the endings feel a little more like distinct endings. But as a puzzle game, it hangs together as a interesting and quick "catch the contradiction" investigation. Well worth a play!
-- Gower on 12/21/2019 4:09:30 PM with a score of 100
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD
Do not read if you have not already played the game.
I thought this was a cute little story. I enjoyed it, overall, and it's evident that the author put a fair amount of time into it. The plot is a bit short, but that doesn't detract from the overall plot. I didn't notice any spelling or grammar mistakes.
I liked how you included a cast of characters, introduced at the beginning, and how the play was split into different acts / scenes. I did have to keep notes of which character was which. If this had been a longer story, I'd recommend including the interviews with each of the five characters be kept as items (profiles). Since it was so short, though, I'm not sure that would do much benefit.
I'm not sure I really liked the final answer, in the end. Though I did suspect Godwin and Deal of having an affair, I thought that one of them was simply covering for the other, for this reason. Even if they were having an affair, why would Godwin lie about them being in the courtyard together? That doesn't immediately imply romance between the two, and it seems like an important detail during a murder investigation. Since Mr. Deal was the only occupant in the room not wearing gloves, this seems to imply that Godwin is the murderer, and that Deal is simply covering for her. (Either that, or they committed the crime together).
Moreover, Mr. Deal claimed that the roses in the garden were white, whereas Misses Englehardt claimed they were black. How would Misses Englehardt even know this? She claimed to have been in the dining room during the murder, not outside. It would've made more sense to me if Mr. Deal's answer was wrong, because he was truly with Miss Godwin - or if the two characters had the same answer because Mr. Deal had been outside, but not with Godwin.
Overall, I enjoyed this story. Keep up the good work.
-- Reader82 on 12/21/2019 4:25:54 AM with a score of 100
The play format of this story was interesting.
It was more of a one time puzzle game than anything. So there really isn't much replay value, but I enjoyed it.
I think the author did a good job in such a small word count.
I'd recommend playing this story once. It won't take too long, and it is amusing.
-- Cricket on 12/18/2019 12:47:52 AM with a score of 100
Nice. I liked this a lot. One flaw: why write all characters names in CAPITAL LETTERS? (I lost)
-- 325boy on 12/16/2019 11:22:33 PM with a score of 0
This is a very fun little diversion, easy to cycle through multiple times if you don't guess correctly the first time. The script-like format presents the information efficiently, and the clues pointing to the guilty party are subtle. The idea of getting to pick just three final questions at the end is clever. I enjoyed it. Thanks!
-- Bill_Ingersoll on 12/16/2019 5:17:41 PM with a score of 100
A good game, if short. The culprit is a little bit obvious at the end, but other than that, this is a solid game!
Not much of a CYOA, but for a mystery it's pretty good.
Ended up getting the culprit on the first try ;)
-- Guest on 12/16/2019 12:55:25 PM with a score of 100
Well, I didn't succeed in actually solving the mystery, but I do appreciate that you the reader have the option of putting the clues together to try and guess who murderer is. I probably need to go through the story-game again to see if I can figure out the guilty party. Fun and to the point. Very nice. PS I really think you're a very talented illustrator.
-- ThomasLaHomme on 12/4/2019 5:28:47 PM with a score of 0
it was a pretty good short thing
the clues were pretty nicely placed and the dialogue was well-written. the stageplay theme was pretty unique and I think fit well with the genre
-- Tim36D on 11/27/2019 10:14:45 PM with a score of 100
121 guests and timmytohns, LJacko, Elizon, zackmarkus7, KnuxEXE, BabyDog, ninjapitka, Chowdr321, rebelfe4r, aifab.
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Senate Should Put Stem Cell Research Money Where It Will Do Good Says National Priests Leader
Contact: Jerry Horn, Priests for Life, 540-220-0095
WASHINGTON, April 9 /Christian Newswire/ -- Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, issued a statement today on the upcoming U.S. Senate vote this week on the public funding of embryonic stem cell research.
"All of the successful advancements in stem cell research have come from using stem cells whose derivation did not require the destruction of lives," said Fr. Pavone. "A vote for S. 5 is not only a vote for killing human beings in the name of research; it's a vote for wasting money. Congress should invest the funds in research that will do moral and practical good."
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.
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Tim Cook Apple CEO hypocrite, Carly Fiorina Cook and other CEOs hypocritical for condemning Indiana new religious freedom law, Apple does business in China and Saudi Arabia where gays and women treated worse
Admin | April 3, 2015
From the Wall Street Journal April 3, 2015.
“Carly Fiorina: Tim Cook Opposition to Indiana Religious Freedom Law Hypocritical”
“Once a Fortune 50 chief executive herself, Carly Fiorina is disgusted with how CEOs rushed to condemn Indiana’s new religious freedom law.
Mrs. Fiorina, who is weighing a bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, called the week’s controversy over the Indiana statute the result of corporations bowing to “narrow special interests” rather than broad public anger.
CEOs like Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook, who publicly objected to the Indiana law, have engaged in “a level of hypocrisy here that really is unfortunate,” said Mrs. Fiorina, who was CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005.
“When Tim Cook is upset about all the places that he does business because of the way they treat gays and women, he needs to withdraw from 90% of the markets that he’s in, including China and Saudi Arabia,” she said Thursday afternoon during an interview with Wall Street Journal reporters and editors. “But I don’t hear him being upset about that.”
Mrs. Fiorina said there was “nothing objectionable” about the law Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed last week. The legislation drew an extraordinary backlash from local and national business groups. Lawmakers on Thursday amended the law, adding protections for gays and lesbians.
“I think this is a ginned-up controversy by people who play identity politics that has divided the nation in a way that is really unhelpful,” she said.”
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About the CIW
Campaign for Fair Food
Anti-Slavery Program
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Fair Food Store
The birth of Worker-driven Social Responsibility: 1/16-12/16
Expanding the Fair Food Program: 11/14 – 12/15
“A brilliant model” at work: 11/13-10/14
Fair Food Program to the Fore: 11/12-10/13
Fair Food Takes Root: 01/12-10/12
A New Day in the Fields: 09/10-12/11
A Year to Dine with Dignity: 05/09-08/10
A Year of Victories: 05/08-05/09
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Taco Bell Boycott: 04/01-03/05
“As people of faith… we pledge to join the boycott of Wendy’s until Wendy’s commits to justice for the workers that make your profits possible.”
Posted on May 25, 2016 January 24, 2017 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Religious leaders from across faith traditions, including author Brian McLaren, speak out in support of the Fair Food Program in 2014.
Major religious leaders from more than 12 faith traditions call out Wendy’s leadership in searing letter…
Adding to the growing drumbeat of support from the faith community, over twenty powerful religious leaders have penned an open letter to Wendy’s leadership, just ahead of tomorrow’s shareholder meeting in Ohio. Unequivocal in their support for the Fair Food Program and the new era of human rights for farmworkers it has delivered, denominational presidents, bishops, ministers, rabbis and authors are standing together to urge Wendy’s leadership to get with the Program.
From their positions within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the United Church of Christ, the Catholic Church, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and other mainstream faith communities, these spiritual and religious leaders hail from a diverse set of institutions that represent millions upon millions of followers.
Here is the letter in full:
Dear Emil Brolick, Nelson Peltz, and the Board of Directors of The Wendy’s Company,
As leaders of diverse national faith bodies who care deeply about human rights, we are writing to call on Wendy’s to join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ (CIW) Fair Food Program. In March, the CIW launched a national boycott of Wendy’s in response to the fast food company’s decision to reject a proven human rights program that is preventing violence, wage theft, sexual assault, and slavery in the Florida tomato industry and beyond. We as people of faith endorse the CIW’s boycott of Wendy’s.
As you know, the CIW has worked with growers and corporations to build the Fair Food Program, an innovative collaboration that today is transforming the agricultural industry. This Program ensures farmworkers will labor in safety and with respect, enables growers to be as proud of their working conditions as their products, and allows buyers to assure their customers that the produce they purchase has been fairly brought to their shelves.
Rev. April Blaine speaking at a rally in front of Wendy’s headquarters in 2014
The faith bodies we represent have been supporting this effort for many years through endorsements, resolutions and letters to corporations, 14 of which have now joined the Program. We have been calling on Wendy’s to join the FFP since 2013. We have joined farmworkers in countless vigils, marches, protests, and phone calls to your headquarters asking Wendy’s to respect the dignity of farmworkers. We deplore the conditions under which farmworkers were forced to work and must still work in fields not participating in the Fair Food Program — conditions of abuse, sexual harassment, and in extreme cases, modern-day slavery.
We are distressed that Wendy’s has not only refused to join the FFP, but has stopped buying tomatoes from Florida altogether following the implementation of the Program there. Rather than join a program that ensures respect for workers’ human rights, Wendy’s took its tomato purchases to Mexico, where workers continue to confront sexual harassment, child labor, and even slavery without access to remedy. Specifically, as revealed in an investigative piece from Harper’s Magazine last month, Wendy’s currently sources from a Mexican grower that was the subject of a massive slavery prosecution in 2013. What is more, your corporation promotes its own supplier code of conduct that contains no effective mechanisms for worker participation or enforcement. And of the five largest fast food companies, Wendy’s is the only one not participating in the FFP. Wendy’s has opted to profit from farmworker poverty and abuse by deriving a cost advantage over its competitors and continuing to provide an alternative market outside the FFP for less reputable growers.
As people of faith, we call upon you to join fourteen other buyers including McDonalds, Yum! Brands, Burger King, and Walmart and millions of consumers nationwide in protecting the human rights of farmworkers through the Fair Food Program – and we pledge to join the boycott of Wendy’s until Wendy’s commits to justice for the workers that make your profits possible.
Rev. Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Tony De La Rosa, Interim Executive Director, Presbyterian Mission Agency, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Carol Winkler, 2015-2018 Moderator, Presbyterian Women
Sara Lisherness, Director of Compassion, Peace & Justice, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer, General Minister and President, United Church of Christ
Rev. Dr. Traci D. Blackmon, Executive Minister, Justice & Witness Ministries, United Church of Christ
Rev. Peter Morales, President, Unitarian Universalist Association
Rev. Dr. Sharon E. Watkins, General Minister and President, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Rabbi Elyse Wechterman, Executive Director, Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association
Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Executive Director, T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
Most Rev. Steven M. Rosczewski, Presiding Bishop of the Communion of Synodal Catholic Churches
Rev. Dr. William Schulz, President and CEO, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Sr. Patricia Chappell, SNDdeN, Executive Director, Pax Christi USA
Brian D. McLaren, author and theologian
Dianne Aid, President, The Episcopal Network for Economic Justice
Paul Alexander, President, Evangelicals for Social Action
Christopher G. Kerr, Executive Director, Ignatian Solidarity Network
Patrick Carolan, Executive Director, Franciscan Action Network
Rev. Dr. Lee Barker, President, Meadville Lombard Theological School (Unitarian Universalist)
Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt, President, Professor of Unitarian Universalist Ministry and Heritage, Starr King School for the Ministry
Marya Axner, Regional Director, New England Jewish Labor Committee
Deaconess Darlene DiDomineck, incoming Interim Executive Director, Methodist Federation for Social Action
Jim Winkler, President and General Secretary, National Council of Churches
Patrick Carolan, Executive Director of the Franciscan Action Network
This letter is yet another significant wave in what has quickly become a rising tide of mobilization among people of faith to boycott Wendy’s.
Wendy’s leadership can rest assured that the signatories will not be satisfied with sending one letter, or simply cutting Wendy’s out of their own daily routine. Rather, they will be spreading the boycott far and wide among the millions of followers in their respective communities from the various pulpits and platforms they command. As the growing chorus of support among consumers of conscience grows ever louder in Wendy’s ears (and the boycott cuts ever deeper into their profits), the only question is when the fast food giant will realize what their competitors have known now for years: The future of social responsibility means an end to human rights abuses in the supply chain, not a PR-driven mirage of change — and 21st century consumers will accept nothing less.
CALL TO ACTION: National Wendy’s Call-in Day this Wednesday, 5/25, as farmworkers, allies prepare to protest at Wendy’s annual shareholder meeting!
BREAKING: United Church of Christ, representing one million followers, endorses Wendy’s boycott!
HOT OFF THE PRESS: The 2018 Fair Food Program Annual Report is here!
CIW receives Presidential Medal for Extraordinary Efforts in Combatting Modern-Day Slavery at White House Forum!
Time’s Up leader Alyssa Milano narrates powerful new Fair Food Program video!
CNN Freedom Project on the Fair Food Program: “... the most comprehensive social responsibility program in U.S. agriculture...”
UN expert: FFP “must be considered an international benchmark” in fight against modern-day slavery!
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2013 Franklin D. Roosevelt Freedom From Want Medal
Together, we fought to make the dream of enforceable human rights for farmworkers a reality. Now, we need your support to bring these critical human rights to thousands of workers in new crops and regions.
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Jewish Art in Its Late Antique Context
Texts & Studies in Ancient Judaism No. 163
Edited by: Uzi Leibner & Catherine Hezser
Distributed by Coronet Books
$210.00 Hardcover
The contributions of this book offer for the first time an interdisciplinary approach to a better understanding of the emergence and development of Jewish art in the Late Antiquity and Early Byzantine Period. By understanding Jewish art in the context of late pagan and Christian art, culture, and society, analogies and interactions can be identified that point to similarities as well as to different meanings. Why are there figurative representations only in Judaism of Late Antiquity? How is this art related to the Anikonism of the Bible and rabbinic Judaism? Is Erwin Goodenough right, who claimed there was a stark contrast between the art of the synagogue and the rabbis? The art of late-antiquity appears in a new light by the common consideration of literary and archaeological sources, as well as Jewish, Christian and pagan art.
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The Emerging "Neocon" Alibi on Iraq
Thread: The Emerging "Neocon" Alibi on Iraq
SteveMetz
I'm surprised it's taken this long, but the "neocon" architects of the Iraq disaster seemed to have agreed on an alibi and it is---drum roll--the "stab in the back."
Last week was the Post's story of Douglas Feith's forthcoming book; today the Times includes an essay by one of the movement's other ideologues-in-chief, Richard Perle, which lays it at the feet of, "Secretary of State Colin Powell; the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice; and the director of central intelligence, George Tenet."
This whole process is both nauseating--it sickens me that people like Perle and Feith without the slightest shred of honor or integrity shape our nation's policy--and almost humorous as both spin like dervishes to absolve the people who most shaped the decision: the President, the Vice President, and the Secretary of Defense.
Feith's "stab in the back" theory has evolved. I heard him give a talk at AEI a few years ago where he trial ballooned the idea of blaming the military. I guess once he figured that wouldn't fly, he had to settle on the State Department and CIA. Anything, of course, but placing the responsibility where it belongs--on his desk, that of the Deputy SECDEF, the SECDEF, the VP, and POTUS.
Last edited by SteveMetz; 03-16-2008 at 12:26 PM.
Tom Odom
DeRidder LA
Funny Gian G and I talked about this several months ago on here in a thread I could not find
It is much like being a sociopath, Steve, as they define anything they do as good for the country because they are the country--at least what is important in the country.
Originally Posted by SteveMetz
Back when I was studying politics, I came across a tactic labeled "The Big Lie". This involves putting out a Bravo Sierra story and then having it spun out via as many media streams as possible. It relies on the "if there's smoke, there's fire" meme that operates in most cultures, and takes advantage of the joy most humans get out of feeling they lie in a world governed by conspiracies. I can't remember where I heard the corollary, but it goes something like "we all love conspiracies because to wake up and realize that our governments are full of bunglers and twits who we elected" .
Needless to say, most politicians are well aware of this and know how to take advantage of it .
One of the underlying problems in the Middle East is a culture that has no innate grasp of cause and effect.
As in- "I was smoking a cigarette and pumping gas, the Allah (pbuh) caused an explosion".
Here, we take it the to the step after intellectual enlightenment and rationalize cause and effect, multiplying causes to match our world view.
As in- "The big tobacco industry has pressured me into smoking while the medical establishment failed to educate me adequately on the risks. The Oil corporations have simultaneously monopolized our automotive industry and destroyed our public transportation system, while allowing the retail gas industry to transition to fundamentally unsafe 'Self-Serve' gas pumps."
It doesn't change the fact that the guy who blew himself up at the gas pump was so self-serving and self-absorbed that he couldn't be bothered to put out the cigarette first.
And both of them were unwilling to accept personal responsibility for their actions.
John T. Fishel
Rancho La Espada, Blanchard, OK
Van--
That is one of the funniest things I have ever read!!!!!
I'm a bit peeved that this whole thing spewed out after my book went to press. Otherwise I would, in my own insignificant little way, have called out these slime pits for what they are.
What's really tragic is that this won't affect their income flows one whit. In fact, I suspect that the stab-in-the-back alibis would do exactly as intended and preserve their income flows.
Having gotten this spun up so early in the morning, I suspect my adrenaline will be depleted and I'll be ready for a nap by late morning.
Instead, we blundered into an ill-conceived occupation that would facilitate a deadly insurgency from which we, and the Iraqis, are only now emerging. With misplaced confidence that we knew better than the Iraqis, we sent an American to govern Iraq. L. Paul Bremer underestimated the task, but did his best to make a foolish policy work. I had badly underestimated the administration’s capacity to mess things up.
From Richard Perle whom I respect less than the gun toting Mall Ninja. Mr. Perle in contrast to the Mall Minja has never carried a gun and has seen less action than our wannabe warrior mall security guard.
To the Ninja's credit, he does not use the term "we" when he really means "you" as Mssr Perle does here as a ploy to avoid personal responsibility by sharing blame. In contrast, Mr. Perle has never had a problem using "I" when things go right. In using it in the above paragraph, he patronizingly glib in dismissing his own role as if he had merely suggested a bad play for a local softball team.
What an ass..
Originally Posted by Tom Odom
I find Perle less nauseating than Feith. Perle advocated just throwing the keys to Iraq to Chalabi and beating feet. I think that would have been immoral and a disaster, but at least he can credibly make a case that the Bush administration did not follow his advice. Feith, on the other hand, is trying to foist off responsibility for actions he DID have a hand in on other organizations and individuals. If by some miracle things work out in Iraq, I can easily imagine Feith then taking credit for the decisions.
No echo this side of the Atlantic
Rewriting history this side of the Atlantic has yet to appear, largely as Gordon Brown's government is trying to ignore Tony Blair's leadership. Few I think here will be brave enough to publically say "We were right to invade". Many of the politicians involved have left the limelight.
The impact of how intelligence is used to persaude the public may have a longer shelf life; many commentators here say the legacy of the Iraq invasion means the public will remain sceptical, if not hostile to intelligence.
Side issues, like the mysterious death or suicide of Dr David Kelly, a government scientist deeply involved in disarming Iraq, who spoke out of turn to the BBC, arouse some attention and a book on the subject is in it's fourth impression (since late 2007).
Originally Posted by davidbfpo
I gave a talk on insurgency week before last at the Royal College of Defence Studies and was surprised at how little interest there was in Iraq. All they wanted to talk about was Afghanistan. Iraq seems to be purely history.
Perle is out of the generation of cold warriors, with a world view shaped by that "competition." How much do you think that experience, in him and others, is shaping our current policy? i.e. Is this group that is referred to as "Neocons" shaped by strong experience that required a hard line in a competition of ideologies?
IMO, the problem is that people like Perle and Norman Podhoretz whose entire psyche has been was shaped by struggle against an evil enemy have simply shifted fire to "Islamofascism" (which I personally consider a nonsense word, at least the way they use it). Problem is that the notion of World War III or IV which they promote resonates with a lot of Americans, particularly but not exclusively evangelical conservatives.
I was relieved that Guiliani's defeat showed that as we move further from September 11, receptivity to this idea is declining. I don't think there is enough distance that whoever is president can come right out and reject it, but hopefully they can stop comparing the threat from Islamic militants to the the threat from the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. I am worried, though, that this group might become involved in the McCain campaign. But I think he's independent enough to make up his own mind rather than being seduced by misguided advisors.
There is that "We" again
But Mssr Perle will
We made mistakes in Iraq, but war was just
By Richard Perle
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 16/03/2008
For a government fighting an unpopular war, five years is an eternity. In the sight of history, it's just a blink, far too short for considered judgment or a balanced accounting. But judges and accountants won't wait, so the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq has renewed the debate about that action and its consequences - a debate dominated by the terrible costs, with almost no assessment of the benefits.
Amazing but not surprising that 5 years can be dismissed as somehow irrelevant without a blink or a hiccup..
And this has a long-standing history in American politics. Vietnam had its many examples, as has just about every conflict we've been involved in. No reason to suspect that Iraq would be any different, especially since our political machine is self-selecting in terms of who it lets through the rusty gates.
Marc, I think it was Hitler's machine that really perfected the "Big Lie." Goebbles in particular was a master of it; first for the Strassers in Berlin and later for ol' Adi himself down Munich way.
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
I believe you are correct. Big Lie has been a staple of the Hutu Power movement since the end of the genocide in Rwanda.
Originally Posted by Steve Blair
They certainly did a great job of it . Personally, I think Trotsky perfected the theory of it even earlier (aided by Lenin or vice versa depending on who published first ). Still and all, the tactic itself is quite old - take a look at Ramesses II and his spin on Kadesh .
Granite_State
The Green Mountains
Vlasov's Army
Feith is just disgusting. Whoever pointed out the blaring "Doug Feith is a patriot" quote on his website from General Peter Pace on a SWC thread a week or two back, that was great stuff.
Perle's been an open and shut case for me since reading Charlie Wilson's War last year. He, Oliver North, and a couple of other Reagan Administration guys had some ludicrous plan to spirit Red Army defectors out of Afghanistan and use them to form a second Vlasov's Army that would bring down the USSR. The experienced CIA guys were incredulous, said it was a joke, but the plan went ahead. In the end they got two shattered conscripts who had been repeatedly raped by the mujahideen, one of whom later robbed a convenience store in Tyson's Corner. Read the book's account of it, the story is hilarious.
I'm continually amazed at how think tanks, the chattering class, Capitol Hill, and even the upper reaches of the Executive Branch are populated by folks with no earned knowledge of the real world, or often even of their subject matter. Prime case is Michael Ledeen, the neocon "Iran expert." He's never even been to Iran. And people listen to this guy!
Power Point Did It
Fateful Choice on Iraq Army Bypassed Debate
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
....The plan was outlined in a PowerPoint presentation that Douglas J. Feith, a senior aide to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, gave at a National Security Council meeting that Mr. Bush convened on March 12, eight days before the invasion began. Republican Guard units, the forces deemed most loyal to Mr. Hussein, were to be disarmed, detained and dismantled.
Ok it is now clear to me. PPT that ubiquitous mind-numbing. intellect robbing deceptively alluring means of non-communications is really to blame...
I mean when you read this, everyone had the right idea but no one could execute it. Then this guy Bremer--and he apparently had the right idea too--just went and did the wrong thing. It had to have been PPT manipulation of decisionmakers. The research on PPT manipulation is well established in think tanks in DC. Typically PPT-M shows up when briefs have bullets of 3 to 5 words that can offer different meanings to the unwary decision-maker--who everyone knows has too much to read anyway.
What me worry? (3 words meaning no worries)
Ahhhh!
So it's really all Bill Gates' fault ! Got it !
Originally Posted by Granite_State
I think the real key here is no knowledge of their subject matter. I've seen people who've "been there" who have no real clue as to the history of where they've been (in other words, what was behind the "there" that they saw), and have no idea how to go about gaining that knowledge. Yet they still think they are "experts" based on their handful of trips.
We have far too many folks kicking around in these circles who don't understand even the basics of intellectual research and confuse .ppt and a few History Channel shows for real research and background.
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What is that Sally Struthers always whining about?
L.A. Times on the “Euphoria” of Being Starved to Death:
The L.A. Times has a story today about how much fun it is to be starved and dehydrated to death. I kid you not. The story describes the “characteristic sense of euphoria that accompanies a complete lack of food and water.”
Euphoria.
There is zero mention of the perspective provided by Kate Adamson, who was mistakenly diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state, had her feeding tube pulled, and lived to tell about it.
And the AP gets on the party train too, but doesn't even read it's own expert interview.
Job related injury alert!
(Via LGF) Mark Dodd in The Weekend Australian has a more detailed report on the UN "peacekeeper" scandal in Timor which features this gem:
The deployment of Jordanian peacekeepers to East Timor was probably one of the most contentious UN decisions to follow the bloody independence ballot. It was eclipsed only by the cover-up and inaction that followed when the world body learned of their involvement in a series of horrific sex crimes involving children living in the war-battered Oecussi enclave.
Children were not the only victims - in early 2001, two Jordanians were evacuated home with injured penises after attempting sexual intercourse with goats.
It's great to see the United Nations at work! It certainly gives me hope ... hope that'll we'll dump the chumps. And what do you bet that either the US or Australian taxpayers or both paid to fly these two beauties home?
Besides the low comedy, there's much more in the article about the United Nations "peacekeeping" in Timor. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride and the United Nations would be more than a sad, sick joke. In the meantime, why are we wasting time and money?
But wait, there's more! Even UN bigs are having work related trauma - Depressed Annan close to quitting over UN scandals:
KOFI ANNAN, the United Nations secretary-general, is said to be struggling with depression and considering his future. Colleagues have reported concerns about Annan ahead of an official report this week that will examine his son Kojo’s connection to the controversial Iraqi oil for food scheme.
Depending on the findings of the report, by a team led by the former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, Annan may have to choose between the secretary-generalship and loyalty to his son.
Sniff! Where's my violin?
American congressional critics of the UN are already pressing him to resign over the mismanagement of the oil for food programme, and even his supporters have been dismayed by the scandals on his watch, including the sexual abuse of children by UN peacekeepers in Congo.
And apparently just about everywhere else they've dropped by to "help".
One close observer at the UN said Annan’s moods were like a “sine curve” and that he appeared near the bottom of the trough.
Maybe he can compare notes with the little kids in Timor?
I'm so confused!
Yesterday, The Sun said Chirac stabs Blair in back, but today the PM says he conned ole Jacques:
TONY Blair yesterday claimed that Britain now has the power to force France and Germany to open up to foreign workers and accept the European Union Services Directive against their will.
The Prime Minister told MPs that, far from losing a battle with Jacques Chirac over the directive, he has returned home with an agreement that it will be decided by a vote in the enlarged European Union.
He believes this means Britain can join forces with Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Slovakia to force their vision of a reformed Europe on France and Germany - representing a landmark defeat of "New Europe" over "Old Europe".
Reporting on what is expected to be his last EU summit ahead of the general election, Mr Blair told the Commons that he was prepared for a battle over the future of the European "social model", to be defined for all 25 member states.
And here I thought the European "social model" mostly involved a leisurely lunch. But now they're going to do battle over it before enshrining the definition. Sounds like bureaucratic heaven to me!
"Some, notably France, believe this model should remain in its existing form. Some, like Britain, believe firmly in Europe’s social dimension but want it updated to take account of modern economic reality," he said.
Reports suggested that he had caved in to Mr Chirac’s demands, by agreeing to redraft the directive. But Mr Blair said: "Fortunately, the final decision will be by QMV [qualified majority voting]."
Mr Blair’s official spokesman said that at a dinner for heads of governments on Tuesday night, the Prime Minister became satisfied that he had enough support among the new members to win a vote.
"The opinion round the table was very much in our favour," said the spokesman.
When asked whether France and Germany would ever be forced to open their markets, he said: "It’s a Europe of 25, and it’s 25 who will decide."
Ruh roh! Sounds like a steel cage match is coming. Break out the pork rinds!
In case this is all rather impenetrable, the real argument is the following:
The EU Services Directive would mean that people who work abroad can abide by the regulations of their home state, not their host country. The aim is to create a free market in services, as exists with goods at present.
This has alarmed France and Germany, who have high labour protection laws and have secured higher salaries for their workers. This, critics argue, makes companies reluctant to take on staff and explains unemployment rates of 10 per cent in France and 11 per cent in Germany.
Still impenetrable? The idea is that a French company could hire an Eastern European worker and only pay the salary and benefits enshrined in law in his home country which would be rather cheaper than hiring a French worker. You can see why some knickers are nastily knotted.
I guess we should think of the MSM as the Strategic IQ Reserve
Here's proof.
All the phony news that fits
The Prowler:
It's Rathergate all over again, and the same vigilant entities that brought about to the collapse of CBS News could now also cause heads to roll among Democratic Senate leadership staffers and further shame multiple news organizations that would appear to have fallen for another document hoax.
Republican leadership staffers now believe the document was generated out of the Democratic opposition research office set up recently by Sen. Harry Reid, and distributed to some Democratic Senate staffers claiming it was a GOP document, in the hope -- or more likely expectation -- that it would then be leaked by those Democrats to reporters. In fact, the New York Times stated that it was Democratic staffers who were distributing the "talking points" document.
The NYT can congratulate themselves for dodging this bullet, but ABC and the rest of the talking heads who transmitted it ought to be ashamed of their stupidity. We know they won't get worked up over their bias. And did you think they would be quick to issue corrections? Well, they're in good company - Air America's new star, Jerry Springer, took time out from his busy transgender lesbian mudwrestling schedule to blather about "the memo".
UPDATE: Fred Barnes in The Weekly Standard - The ABCs of Media Bias.
Labels: Harry Reid
Always keep your eye on a snake
How about these two prime specimens Tony Blair has to keep an eye on? (Both links via BrothersJudd - here and here.)
Chirac stabs Blair in back:
BACK-STABBING Jacques Chirac last night repaid Tony Blair for helping him by trying to sabotage Britain’s £3billion EU rebate.
The double betrayal came only hours after Mr Blair rescued the French President from angry French unions.
FIRST Mr Chirac joined calls for Brussels to axe our refund.
THEN he accused British and American economic policy of exporting death to the Third World.
Wait for it.
Mr Blair had been banking on France to help save the 20-year-old rebate.
Even with the rebate Britain pays more than TWO AND A HALF TIMES as much as the French.
Without it, the Treasury’s share of running the EU would be a staggering 14 TIMES that of France.
Maybe Jacques left his wallet at home? But then he always does.
He went on to rub it in by accusing Britain and America of “fuelling dangerous global conflict” through free-market economic policies.
He claimed they create an “explosive” poverty gap between the West and the developing world.
And then he whines about where the money came from. I guess nothing breeds envy like success. Drat that pesky free market, eh Weasel Boy? Oh wait, we're doing snakes.
Hours earlier, the PM risked EU fury by helping Mr Chirac to delay new Brussels employment rules while they are reviewed.
French unions believe the laws — aimed at loosening controls over EU service jobs — will flood France with cheap east European labour.
Their threatened national strike would have increased Mr Chirac’s chances of defeat in his referendum on the EU Constitution.
Next time let him pick up the check.
And speaking of the "developing world," They may be continents apart, but Mugabe blames Blair for everything:
FORGET about education. Forget about job creation, even though unemployment is running at 80 per cent. The 2005 parliamentary election in Zimbabwe is all about the threat posed by a middle-aged man living thousands of miles away.
President Mugabe, who since 2000 has made no secret of his contempt for Britain, has dubbed next week’s vote the “anti-Blair election”. Demonisation of the Prime Minister has become the central platform of the ruling Zanu (PF) party’s campaign.
We all know Bobby Mugabe and his entourage aren't the sharpest tools in the drawer, but how's it playing with the little people?
The bizarre campaign has many urban voters perplexed. Foster, a security guard in Harare who did not want to give his full name for fear of reprisals, said: “Why is he talking about Blair when people are starving in this country?” Primrose, a young professional, said: “This has to be one of the most irrelevant platforms ever.” Munya, who owns an IT company, said the focus on Blair was “ nonsense propaganda”.
But Zanu (PF)’s campaign is designed to woo, or rather scare, rural voters by suggesting that if the opposition wins, Zimbabwe will became a de facto colony of Britain once more, and that land will be returned to white farmers. In a rally near the South African border on Tuesday, President Mugabe told the crowd: “Our heritage needs to be protected from neocolonialists like Blair.”
Sheesh, who would want the place? The poor UK taxpayers are already footing the bill for the layabout Frenchies!
Speaking of class acts
Original artwork from Glenn Beck, lyrics by Michael Schiavo.
Air America gets a touch of class!
Springer liberal talk radio show to expand nationwide:
Trash T-V talk show host Jerry Springer is taking his liberal radio program nationwide.
He has reached a deal today to go live weekdays on the Air America Radio network beginning April First.
Good choice of start date. But ole Jerry won't be the same if he doesn't have fodder like:
3/24/05 “I Got Your Man”
Devonte made a mistake by sleeping with Michelle! Not only is he gay, but he loves his transsexual girlfriend, Ashley. He's here to tell Michelle to back off! Next... Amanda believes Aaron is the love of her life, so she is devastated by the news he delivers. He’ll tell her that he loves his ex, Kristine, and he's going home with her, not Amanda! Then... Timmy promised Alice he'd treat her right after he pulled her out of an abusive relationship, then Alice finds out Timmy enjoys threesomes with her friend, Sky, and other girls from local bars. Not her idea of “treating her right!” Later… Arielle has been stripping for a year and now she wants out! Her friend,, Carmen and her pimp, Cody are livid and think Arielle is ungrateful given all that they have done for her.
Deviates, pimps and whores - good practice for Air America.
By the way, his radio show has a "blog" which, aside from some stale leftoid wingnuttery, has got gems like:
Megan caught it and leaned over to me and motioned something. So I killed my mic, lifted my headset and she whispered, "The caller's in the bathtub. I hear the water slurping."
So when June finished all her points with Jerry, I said that Megan wanted me to ask, "Are you calling our show from the tub?"
She laughed and admitted, yes. So she is definitely our caller of the month, maybe of the year.
If she e-mails me a pic, I'll post it.
It'd really be cool if she was using one of those vibrating cell phones, eh Jer?
No need to worry about a pondscum shortage
How about making up a phony "Republican" memo and publicizing it via the usual MSM mouth breathers? Oh wait, ABC is getting a tad nervous. As well they should - they're supposed to be push polling for euthanasia, not touting bogus documents. That job belongs to CBS!
Then ole Ernst Blofeld, er, George Soros is financing a smear campaign against Tom Delay via SPECTRE, er, his foundation, the Open Society Institute, with the help of the same media and Congressional dung beetles. Gosh, I thought the Open Society Institute was busy defending radical lawyers who play post office with Islamic terrorists. One thing you can say about ole George though, he really shaped up that SPECTRE organization.
A tax free, nonpolitical foundation, eh? That sounds familiar! Kinda like the nobs at the Pew "Charitable" Trust that Ryan Sager exposed last week. Other folks are noticing too, here and here:
And the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
Pew did not hide the fact it was supporting the ultimately successful attempt to limit free speech to a whisper before elections. But Mr. Treglia said Pew did everything it legally could to hide the $40.1 million donated to front groups.
Congress must demand that Pew's tax-exempt status be revoked for engaging in politics. And it must repeal this abomination to free speech. Otherwise, Congress cannot credibly claim it was conned if it continues acting like a co-conspirator.
These guys know how to party.
Why not pull the tax-exempt status from all of the members of the SPECTRE alliance?
Of course, if you want primo pondscum, there's always the United Nations. When their 3rd world peacekeepers aren't molesting all the local children, the higherups are busy raiding the till to pay the legal defense costs of their corrupt buddies. I mean, gosh, it's not as if the UN bigs didn't have other sources of income. But it's an equal opportunity ripoff as the Economist (via Viking Pundit) notes:
In the run-up to the Iraq invasion, there was the revolting spectacle of Britain and France sucking up to Lansana Conté, the tinpot dictator of tiny Guinea, because the UN’s rules had given him one of the Security Council’s rotating seats.
Now you know why Kofi's "big plan" involves expanding the "Security Council." There's gold in them thar seats!
I wonder what a job like this pays?
NRO's Beltway Buzz:
“I was walking through the Dallas airport with some colleagues and one of them recognized two of the same protestors we had seen outside the event in Albuquerque. We had some extra time, so we decided to talk to them. They were very polite and explained to us they had just come from protesting an event nearby. One of them very quickly identified themselves as professional protestors.”
“Not that they just liked to protest, but that they actually got paid by liberal interest groups to travel the country protesting. Here they were, sitting in the airport TGI Friday’s having a burger and getting ready to travel to New Orleans for another protest. They were good kids and wanted to talk. We tried discussing some of the benefits of Social Security reform. They listened, but weren’t too interested. Not because they had opposing views, they just said they weren’t too educated on the details. They even admitted they didn’t know who it was they were going to protest in New Orleans.”
And here I thought they put ads in the local counterculture and Socialist newspapers and the usual suspects turned up with their costumes and fleas.
Can I get a witness?
(Via Powerline) MoveOn held a tent revival meeting for wingnuts and Senator Foghorn, er, Bobby "Sheets" Byrd showed 'em how it's supposed to be done, much to their dismay:
At times during MoveOn.org's "Rally for Fair Judges," held yesterday at the Washington Court Hotel near the Capitol, it was hard to tell if the left-wing organizing group had planned a political rally or a revival meeting.
But the star of the show was the 87-year-old senator from West Virginia, Robert Byrd, who had been an advocate of the "nuclear option" back in the 1970s, when his party was in the majority. Now, he opposes it with every fiber in his body, and he portrayed stopping the GOP as a religious crusade.
"Praise God!" Byrd yelled as he waved the copy of the Constitution he famously keeps in his coat pocket. "Hallelujah!"
When other speakers came to the podium, Byrd sat in a front-row seat, thrusting a shaking fist in the air and engaging in a church-style call-and-response. As Durbin spoke, for example, Byrd called out during nearly every sentence.
"You started a movement," Durbin told the crowd.
"Yes!" shouted Byrd.
"When I look at the people assembled here, I'm looking at democracy."
"Tell it!" shouted Byrd.
"It's about freedom," Durbin said.
When Byrd began his performance, some in the audience didn't quite know what was going on — they were far back in the crowd and couldn't see who was calling out up front. The speakers didn't seem to get it, either. When MoveOn organizer Ben Brandzel warmed up the crowd by vowing that he would not surrender to a president trying to "sell out our democracy for right-wing corporate hack judges," Byrd yelled out, "No!"
"That's right, Senator Byrd," Brandzel said, looking a bit surprised.
Maybe ole Sheets would have calmed down if he had borrowed Ted Kennedy's pocket flask:
Kennedy, for example, referred to Barbara Boxer as Barbara Mikulski. He referred to William Myers, the Bush judicial nominee, as William Morris. And he kept telling the crowd to "speak truth to justice," apparently confusing that with the more common liberal exhortation to "speak truth to power."
More japery by following the link.
And speaking of international clambakes
President Bush is hosting one Wednesday for just our closest neighbors and the usual suspects are all atwitter:
Canada, the US, and Mexico should decide to hold annual trilateral summits. There is ample consensus on many issues that need constant refinement.
I mean, gosh, it's a summit right? It must be good! And it's right neighborly.
But there are a few flies in the love oil, particularly the neighbor on the south side who plays narcocorrido music all night; perennially wants to borrow stuff and never returns it; and whose kids are constantly playing in our yard and who we always seem to end up feeding. Like all bad neighbors, he has some rather strange fixations:
Mexico wants its North American neighbours to move more quickly towards integration on a continental scale, the country's foreign secretary said on Friday.
"We have been pushing for this. And we have been encountering a receptive ear both in Canada and the United States at a certain level of intensity," he said. "We would like to move more quickly. We would like to move more deeply."
Mexican President Vicente Fox has spoken in the past about those deeper moves, such as adopting a common currency, a customs union, and the entire elimination of border controls.
And he gets real mouthy about our lack of enthusiasm:
President Vicente Fox said Wednesday that walls along the U.S.-Mexico border, such as one approved last month by the U.S. House of Representatives, "must be demolished" because they are "discriminatory" and "against freedom."
"No country that is proud of itself should build walls . . . it doesn't make any sense"
According to him, it's not his fault he can't control his kids:
Still, Fox said, it was impossible for Mexico to post military or police patrols all along the border to prevent crossings.
"We can't keep them against their will by force," he said.
But he likes to threaten to sic the law on our kids:
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission recently issued a warning about several new grass-roots movements inspired by Arizona's Proposition 200. Other Mexican officials have cited the Minuteman Project, a plan by activists to patrol the Arizona-Mexico border during April, as a sign of rising extremism.
"There are signs of these kinds of problems present today, and (they are) progressing," Fox said during a news conference for foreign reporters. "We have to act quickly and on time to prevent these kinds of actions."
He said Mexico was watching the Minuteman Project carefully and would take action in U.S. courts or international tribunals if any of the activists break the law.
Organizers of the Minuteman Project say they have signed up more than 950 volunteers, including 30 pilots with aircraft, to patrol the border for 30 days beginning April 1. The activists say they will notify the Border Patrol if they see border-crossers and will not confront them directly.
Minuteman co-organizer Chris Simcox said participants were exercising their constitutional rights.
"Vicente Fox can rant and rave all he wants, but he obviously doesn't understand what a democracy means," Simcox said. "We have been working within the law."
But there is some good neighborhood news - Fox Calls on Bush to Halt Flow of 'Greenbacks':
Mexican President Vicente Fox today called on the Bush administration to increase patrols along the U.S.-Mexican border in order to halt the immigration of so-called 'greenbacks' into his country.
"If these greenbacks can't find anything to do in the United States, why would we want them in Mexico?" Mr. Fox asked. "Our pesos go unemployed while illegal, alien money does their job."
Oh wait, that's Scrappleface. Never mind.
Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic
Kofi Annan launched his big plan today and he had his butt boy, Mark Malloch Brown, out dispelling those nasty rumors:
He refuted press accounts suggesting that the report is “a panicked response to the current crisis affecting the UN.” To the contrary, he said the timing “is highly propitious because it allows us to lay out an ambitious agenda for the future.”
I guess "ambitious agenda for the future" is Mark's quaint term for putting lipstick on the pig. Oh wait, I mixed my metaphors!
What, we worry?
Wizbang! had a Weekend Caption Contest for this fetching snap with lots of good humor. But after the news today about the big EU summit coming up this week, a better line might be "Rules? What rules?":
Germany and France simply will not abide by the fiscal rules that they had once conceived as a tool to discipline the "Club Med" countries on Europe's southern periphery, not as a weapon to be used against themselves. As Germany and France are too powerful to be coerced into tightening fiscal policy against their wishes, it is obvious that the old Stability Pact is dysfunctional. Whether the document is ignored, buried, changed or just re-interpreted to suit Paris and Berlin is only a secondary matter, to be resolved with appropriate diplomatic finesse if possible.
The dynamic duo are real good at that finesse stuff. More here.
More proof that technology does not increase IQ's
Dial E for extortion:
After discovering that her cell phone went missing, according to KEPR-TV, a woman in Washington state dialed her own number, hoping a Good Samaritan had picked up the device and would offer its speedy return.
Instead, 33-year-old Jason Dawson answered and threatened to publish explicit pics from the phone on the Net if the woman didn't fork over $50.
She agreed to meet him, then called the police, who arrested her Not-So-Good Samaritan upon the exchange and charged him with second-degree extortion.
On the other hand, it does wonders for your fashion sense. More here. Hey, maybe I could do a geek version of SondraK's fashion reviews!
Build a better mousetrap...
Turn Them Off. Turn Them All Off. The subversive joys of TV-B-Gone.:
Mitch's invention is called TV-B-Gone. He carries one on his keychain, as, God willing, you will someday carry one on yours. It fits snugly in the palm, a near-weightless lump of black plastic. Its shape vaguely suggests the Batman logo. A tiny diode rests on the very tip of Batman's head, between his pointy bat ears. Press a button and from this diode a beam of invisible light escapes that can turn off any television--any television--within a radius of 45 feet.
Yes, yes, yes: Imagine the possibilities. You sit in a doctor's waiting room, casting your mind forward to the grisly procedures he has in store for you (you can almost hear the snap of the rubber gloves) and hung high above you in a corner near the ceiling, well out of reach, Maury Povich is interviewing an adulteress, her daughter, and her daughter's transgendered lover, as the studio audience whoops and yelps and stomps its hairy feet. You reach in your pocket and withdraw your key chain. You tilt Batman's head toward the screen: TV-B-Gone! And it's gone!
Or the airline has delayed your flight, again, and all you want is to go home, and as you pace the soulless terminal from one end to the other the voice of Wolf Blitzer trails you like a police siren, roaring out from the CNN television monitors which have been spaced every 10 yards, so you're never out of earshot. The TSA guards may have taken your Swiss Army Knife, but they've left you with your lump of plastic. You point and press. Wolf-B-Gone!
Be still, my heart!
"THE STENCH FROM PEW"
This story was broken last week by Ryan Sager and it's more than ripe. Today's NY Post editorial:
Reports in The Post last week con cerning the political activities of the supposedly above-the-fray Pew Charitable Trusts were, in a word, shocking.
A former program officer for Pew, Sean Treglia, was caught on videotape bragging about how the foundation worked behind the scenes to create the false impression that there was a "mass movement" afoot clamoring for campaign-finance reform.
The intent: to hoodwink Congress.
With more than a little help from other leftoid tax-free foundations, good ole George Soros, and the dung flies at National "Public" Radio.
What Treglia admitted to was an attempt to deceive Congress and the public within the limits of the law — quite a stunning bit of hypocrisy from a foundation ostensibly in favor of clean and transparent government.
Pew — not to put too fine a point on it — has some explaining to do.
And so do the politicians — such as Sen. John McCain, Sen. Russ Feingold, Rep. Chris Shays and Rep. Marty Meehan — whose speech-regulation schemes directly benefited from this scam.
So, what did they know?
When did they know it?
It's time to find out.
And put the hammer down on everyone associated with this monstrous attack on free speech.
UPDATE: John Fund hits this in today's WSJ and has some interesting stats:
Mr. Treglia admits that campaign-finance supporters had to try to hoodwink Congress because "they had lost legitimacy inside Washington because they didn't have a constituency that would punish Congress if they didn't vote for reform."
So instead, according to Mr. Treglia, liberal reform groups created a Potemkin movement. A study last month by the Political Money Line, a nonpartisan Web site dealing with campaign funding issues, found that of the $140 million spent to directly promote liberal campaign reform in the last decade, a full $123 million came from just eight liberal foundations. Many are the same foundations that provide much of the money for such left-wing groups as People for the American Way and the Earth Action Network. The "movement" behind campaign-finance reform resembled many corporate campaigns pushing legislation. It consisted largely of "Astroturf" rather than true "grass-roots" support.
More follow-ups at Ryan Sager's blog as well.
Today's Hoot!
I'll buy houses and a flash car, says yob awarded £567,000:
A teenage criminal who received £567,000 in compensation after falling through a roof while trespassing boasted about his wealth yesterday, saying that he was looking forward to buying "a few houses and a flash car".
Carl Murphy, 18, got the payout last week, nine years after being injured in a 40ft fall at a warehouse in Bootle docks, near Liverpool, prompting angry protests from crime victims and politicians.
In his first public interview since receiving the award, Murphy - who has convictions for robbery, burglary and assault - said that he did not care about the response.
"I deserve this money and I don't care what anybody says about me," he said. "I'm going to buy a big house so I have a place to live with me mum when she gets out of jail."
What a good, caring lad!
More United Nations fun with Mark Steyn and John Bolton
As I mentioned last night, tomorrow's the big day for UN weenies. You can just hear their hearts go pitter pat over the big bureaucratic doings at UN HQ. It's a summit, it's a commission, it's a Security Council resolution!
Anyhow, Mark Steyn provides a useful antidote in another column on John Bolton, President Bush's nominee for UN Ambassador. As usual, it's hard to quote just a little, but here are some highlights:
The New York Times wondered what Bush's next appointment would be:
"Donald Rumsfeld to negotiate a new set of Geneva conventions? Martha Stewart to run the Securities and Exchange Commission?"
OK, I get the hang of this game. Sending Bolton to be U.N. ambassador is like . . . putting Sudan and Zimbabwe on the Human Rights Commission. Or letting Saddam's Iraq chair the U.N. Conference on Disarmament. Or sending a bunch of child-sex fiends to man U.N. operations in the Congo. And the Central African Republic. And Sierra Leone, and Burundi, Liberia, Haiti, Kosovo, and pretty much everywhere else.
All of which happened without the U.N. fetishists running around shrieking hysterically. Why should America be the only country not to enjoy an uproarious joke at the U.N.'s expense?
Why, indeed?
Yet the assumption behind much of the criticism of Bolton from the likes of Kerry is that, regardless of his government's foreign policy, a U.N. ambassador has to be at some level a U.N. booster. Twenty years ago, Secretary of State George Schulz used to welcome the Reagan administration's ambassadorial appointments to his office and invite each chap to identify his country on the map. The guy who'd just landed the embassy in Chad would invariably point to Chad. "No," Schulz would say, "this is your country" -- and point to the United States. Nobody would expect a U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union to be a big booster for the Soviets. And, given that in a unipolar world the most plausible challenger to the United States is transnationalism, these days the Schulz test is even more pertinent for the U.N. ambassador: his country is the United States, not the ersatz jurisdiction of Annan's embryo world government.
And that's the part that really sticks in their craw.
The horror!
The WaPo laments the sad state of the nation in Conservative's Book on Supreme Court Is a Bestseller:
The Supreme Court is not often the stuff of bestsellers, but in recent weeks a conservative lawyer's full-throated attack on the court has been flying off the shelves, reaching as high as third place on the New York Times bestseller list.
The 288-page book, "Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America," by Mark R. Levin, arrived amid expectations of a pitched battle in Washington over a replacement for ailing Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. It argues that the court's decisions in favor of abortion rights, gay rights, economic regulation and affirmative action have created "de facto judicial tyranny" and an economy "lurching toward socialism."
"The judiciary, operating outside its scope, is the greatest threat to representative government we face today," writes Levin, a former Reagan administration official turned talk-radio host.
With endorsements for the book from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and other conservative media icons, Levin has also reached millions through appearances on radio and television, providing his audience with intellectual ammunition for the impending struggle over the court's future.
Yet this publishing phenomenon has gone almost completely unnoticed outside conservative circles.
What they really mean is in limousine liberal circles as the rest of the article reveals.
Mark Tushnet, a liberal law professor at Georgetown University who clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, said he has watched the rise of Levin's book with some bemusement.
Tushnet's own book, "A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law," was aimed at "the educated general public," he said. It argues that the court is a relatively moderate institution and chides writers who "cheer or boo" the court's rulings depending on their own ideology.
"A Court Divided" came out a week before "Men in Black"; it has been reviewed, mostly favorably, in the Los Angeles Times, The Post and the New Republic. Tushnet has been interviewed on National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" -- but not on conservative radio or television. Sales of "A Court Divided" have been respectable for a nonfiction book but still nowhere near "Men in Black's" numbers.
"This book is being sold just as would be expected for a serious, critically acclaimed, nonfiction book -- that is, under 10,000 copies," said Alane Mason, Tushnet's editor at the New York-based publisher Norton.
Asked about Tushnet's book at the reception for "Men in Black," Regnery's Carneal said he had not heard of it.
Tushnet said he has not read "Men in Black" and does not know anyone who has.
Perhaps Mark ought to broaden his horizons. And a Freeper recalls the famous Pauline Kael line - "I simply don't understand McGovern's defeat -- I don't know anyone who voted for Nixon!"
But I'm really a multilateral kind of guy
That's why this just brings a smile to my face - Government kills food ads as ‘too British’:
A £1m campaign to promote quality food has been scrapped after the government refused to support it, claiming a picture of Jersey cows in rolling green fields was “too British” and thus broke European regulations.
One photograph, headlined One Day with Daisy, was deemed to be too obviously of a British landscape and thus risked breaching articles 20 and 28 of the Treaty of Rome, designed to curb illegal state subsidies.
Should have used a snap of a mound of Daisy byproducts. That would provide the proper Euro atmosphere.
Monday's the big day!
For Kofi Annan's bodacious United Nations reform proposal, that is. And his toadies are out circulating drafts to the media. A few of the highlights:
LA Times:
Secretary-General Kofi Annan will propose restructuring a U.N. human rights panel, ask for a swift decision to expand the Security Council and request sweeping changes designed to prevent new scandals in a report Monday to the General Assembly on reforming the beleaguered United Nations.
The blueprint for reform, according to a draft copy obtained by The Times, also proposes ways to keep the U.N. the primary setting for global security decisions and the key player in international development issues.
And keep the UN gravy train on the tracks. But scandal prevention intiatives are way cool!
Annan has framed the plan as providing a historic opportunity to reinvent the U.N. to better meet the challenges of a changing world. But the plan is also seen here as a last-gasp bid to restore the organization's relevance at a time when both he and it are under heavy fire.
Last gasp and then bury it.
Many of the ideas in the document have been floated in recent months by special panels on U.N. reform and global development that Annan commissioned. But fierce reactions from some governments led Annan to temper a proposed definition of terrorism, stop short of requiring criteria for membership on the human rights panel and caused him to refrain from choosing between two options to expand the Security Council, U.N. officials said.
Er, what exactly are the big reforms? Sounds like a typical UN deal - all chaff and no wheat. There's a bulletized list of the "initiatives" at the end of the article for our edification. Keep it handy if you have trouble sleeping.
WaPo:
Secretary General Kofi Annan on Monday will propose establishing new rules for the use of military force, adopting a tough anti-terrorism treaty that would punish suicide bombers, and overhauling the United Nation's discredited human rights commission, according to a confidential draft of a report on U.N. reform.
Punishing suicide bombers? And Kofi is going to to have the thugocracies lay down rules for the United States on the use of military force? I can hardly wait.
Annan cast his report as an attempt to reconcile the security interests of wealthy countries, which want the world body to focus on combating terrorism and stemming weapons proliferation, and poor nations, which are more concerned with the consequences of poverty and disease. He noted that a catastrophic terrorist act in a major Western city could cripple the economies of poor nations on the other side of the world while an outbreak of disease in a poor region could spread to the developed world.
Annan said that wealthy countries must dramatically increase development aid and debt relief to poor countries that govern responsibly.
Let's just say the UN definition of "govern responsibly" is a tad flexible, but they have a firm grasp on the concept of cash.
UK Telegraph:
The security of America and other wealthy countries will for the first time be declared a key priority for the United Nations under reforms designed to restore confidence in the crisis-ridden international body.
You mean it wasn't before?
Chidyan Siku, Zimbabwe's ambassador to the UN, gave the proposals a cool reception. "My feeling, and the feeling of colleagues from developing countries, is that the Secretariat is trying to please America by slanting towards the strategic agenda of the North. That will not find favour with us," he said.
Gosh, months pass without my caring what the thugs ruling Zimbabwe want.
So there it is. Better get out the hip boots for the PR campaign - it's going to be deep. Which makes me even more glad that John Bolton is going to be the new United Nations ambassador from the USA.
What is that Sally Struthers always whining about?...
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Design Build Adventure
VOODOO MUSIC + ART EXPERIENCE 2013
Posted by Jack Sanders on December 13, 2013
Eleven members of the Design Build Adventure crew headed east to the Big Easy this past November for the Voodoo Music & Art Experience, a three-day festival that, over the years, has drawn more than 450 bands and 1 million music fans to New Orleans city park.
This year, as Voodoo celebrated its 15th birthday, Design Build Adventure was hired to create the site plan for and then manage the festival’s general admission and VIP camping areas. On the technical side, this entailed mapping out electrical and plumbing and staging locations for medical, security, hospitality, entrances and exits, and so forth. On the more creative side, it involved designing and furnishing the interiors of the VIP safari tents and hospitality area and then coordinating with all the vendors to make their vision a reality.
When it was all said and done, however, our guys found themselves gaining experience and expertise in areas well beyond what they were hired to do.
And that was intentionally so.
“From a DBA services standpoint, we were doing research for Voodoo on how to do this — how to staff the camping areas and how to create the right mood and spirit that’s conducive to good camping,” says Jack. “Our strategy was to do a little bit of everything so that our suggestions about how to do it even better in the future are not abstract opinions, but based on real, hands-on experience.”
There was really nothing that our crew didn’t do. Manned with walkie talkies and working closely with Voodoo production staff, they were at the ready to troubleshoot problems and keep everything running like a well-oiled machine.
They shuttled guests via golfcart, bartended, made beds, managed the trash, kept bottled water and beer on ice, cooked a brisket every day, spun records in the hospitality tent, performed live music around the campfire (thanks, Dan Dyer and Jesse Ebaugh!), hand-printed festival posters (thanks, Mishka Westell!), and all the while still managed to party and get up early the next morning to make the coffee, eggs and bacon!
And, of course, in true Design Build Adventure style, they maintained an ever-present campfire in the middle of it all. Good thing too, as one evening the campfire attracted none other than Reignwolf, who, accompanied by his drummer, jammed on his electric guitar for a cozy handful of fans, as the major headliners in the distance belted out songs for crowds of thousands.
“i think it’s interesting that even though we are designers and builders, we participated in all these other parts of it because they are important— from adjusting the lighting in the hospitality tent to serving a drink,” Jack says.
“We wanted to Intimately know what it takes. It parallels closely to the kind of logic we follow in most everything we do. We’re going to do whatever it takes.”
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2003 Awards, Part 7
Alex Lucard | October 10, 2006 | Archive, Features | No Comments
Gamecube-Game boy Advance Connectivity
Winner of 2003’s Best new feature/tech Award
Wow, this sure ended up being wasted, didn’t it? It was such an awesome concept, too: hook your GBA to your GC and play games with it. You could use the GBA screen to do things like display an item list or a map while you played, or in the case of some games (Four Swords, anyone?), you could go into additional dungeons and such that you could play on the GBA screen. It seemed like such a promising idea, and the few games that supported it were largely quite good.
Simple. The Nintendo DS happened.
Nintendo, approximately a year after announcing GBA to GC compatibility, announced the Nintendo DS, a brand new dual-screen handheld that could play GBA games, but couldn’t link up to the GC. Developers saw that and whatever interest might have existed in the idea of developing games that implemented such a technology dried up faster than most of my girlfriends after they’ve seen me naked.
Wait, shit… nevermind.
And that’s a damn shame, too. Four Swords was an awesome little novelty, and Shitty Game Series Crystal Chronicles remains one of those games I’m actively awaiting on the DS because it amused me so much with the GBA/GC incarnation. Hopefully when the inevitable DS/Wii connectivity is introduced it’ll be better supported than this was (Lord knows it couldn’t be supported any worse).
Alexander Lucard
Looking back, I still can’t believe this won. I mean back in 2000 we had the Dreamcast-Neo Geo Pocket Color being able to connect. This was just a furthering of that.
Don’t get me wrong. It was fun for several games, chief amongst them being Animal Crossing (for me) and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (For everyone else.) I just have to disagree with this simply because it wasn’t new or original. But then, how many people had both a DC and a NGPC?
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Alexander Lucard was the Editor-in-Chief of Diehard GameFAN and Director of Operations for the InsidePulse network. He has since retired from writing, but clearly shows up now and again. He has worked in video game journalism since 2002 and was also a paid consultant for Konami and The Pokemon Company. Alex has previously written for Tips N Tricks, Gamespot, White Wolf, TSR, Wizards of the Coast, Eden Studios, 411mania, Not a True Ending and more. His writing could also be found in the monthly periodicals Massive Online Gamer and Pokemon Collector Magazine.
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Small Group Exercises Power of Prayer, Internet
By Peggy Matthews Rose
Gloria Lee
Looking for fresh inspiration for your workout? One Daniel Plan-based small group has discovered it in the power of prayer—literally speaking.
The eureka moment began when small group host Gloria Lee of Hermosa Beach, whose health history includes limiting lung disease, discovered that "praying for others while walking . . . improves my breathing and stamina." Adding to her challenge is the fact that Gloria's house is on a somewhat steep hill—a fact that formerly forced her to stop at least once or twice on her way up.
"I can now make it up the hill without stopping and have shaved two to three minutes off my normal time. Although I do believe in the power of prayer, I think there is also something about not thinking of yourself and how miserable and out of breath you are that improves your overall results. There's the added bonus of feeling closer to your small group and the mental clarity that comes with exercise."
When fellow group member and Playa del Rey resident Minnie Lee (no relation) went on a 65-mile bike ride through Palos Verdes, she remembered previous rides and how praying for herself reminded her God was with her—and then she thought about Gloria's example. So she pedaled and prayed, this time with a new focus.
"It was time to climb the long hill that I dreaded, and I got nervous. I immediately started praying for each of our group members. As the incline got steeper, so did the speed of my prayer . . . and I realized my mind was more at peace than ever before, and that I was actually enjoying it."
Praying in this way, Minnie said, "filled my heart with joy, which energized me to keep going without focusing just on my pain. It was almost as if when I reached the top I was sad that it was over – trust me, that never happened before. I think this was simple proof that when we focus on others in the midst of our pain, God blesses us and gives us the strength to not just get through it, but do even more than our expectations!"
Jeff Jones of Plainwell, Michigan recently ran his first 5K, and credits his small group's prayers and support with helping "to calm my fears and self doubt that I could do something like this. Because of this group I have been uplifted in many ways including encouragement to live a healthy lifestyle through what I eat and regular exercise."
"The first day I walked, I prayed first and listened to my local Christian radio station as I walked," reported Carolyn Isom of Marrieta, Georgia, about her decision to follow Gloria's model. She logged five miles in an hour and 20 minutes. "It's been my inspiration every time I walk. "
When an ankle injury forced Louis Smith of Charlotte, North Carolina to slow down from a run to a walk, he found a way to add a few "decades of the rosary. Our small group, as well as all the Saddleback small groups, is included in those prayers."
Since taking on the plan at full speed, the group's Daniel Plan health champion Steve Hoffman of Atlanta, Georgia has seen his cholesterol numbers alone come down dramatically and he immediately dropped 16 pounds. A swimmer and mountain biker, Steve recently needed hip surgery. "I went into it more fit, thanks to The Daniel Plan." And he is recovering nicely.
Also growing and focusing on The Daniel Plan with this group are Geoffrey Shepherd from San Diego and Canadian resident Frank Barbin.
Jeff Jones / Minnie Lee
"We believe that the practice of praying for group members' needs while exercising creates a process that inspires and motivates the individual to persevere with the physical in completing our exercise," Steve said.
But Wait—There's More to the Story!
You may have noticed by now that this group is, quite literally, all over the map. That's because they came together, motivated largely by a desire to improve their health on The Daniel Plan, through Saddleback's Internet campus.
The group's members range in age from 30-something to 50-plus, reflecting several ethnicities including caucasian, African American and Asian American. They represent three U.S. time zones as well as from Canada.
Jeff speaks for many in his group when he says, "I am thankful for my small group and how God is working in all of our lives for better physical and spiritual growth."
Steve noted that there's a big hunger out there for those two things. "Thanks to the power of God through the Internet, we've become our own Saddleback Church online campus."
Daniel Plan Tips from the Group
Steve: I have been athletic my whole life and found that the secret to staying fit is consistency. My motto is to "just show up." I always feel a thousand times better after I'm done.
Gloria: Pray for others when you exercise. Put others' needs before your own. God will see that you get everything you need.
Minnie: Every endurance training starts with a 20 minute walk/jog on Day One. Just like our faith, focus on the improvements, not perfection, but with the end game in mind... and discover the intricacies of the amazing creation.
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How to be Meticulous in Your Craft with Ryan Edwards
closeup, design, handcrafted
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In episode 65 of Discourse in Magic we sit down with old friend Ryan Edwards.
We’ve known Ryan from once again, Sorcerers Safari, but we wanted to introduce him to all of you and give you a chance to get TOP NOTCH magic tools!
Ryan does it all! He’s written and performed two of his own magic shows. He’s advised and built props for top magicians around the world, and he most importantly he handcrafts tools (wallets, card clips, close up pads) for magicians looking to up their magic style at REhandcraftered.com
We started by chatting with him about his alternate path into magic. Ryan had an interest in magic, but the thing that helped get him noticed was his crafting skills. He was found on the scene because of a custom card clip that he made for himself.
After attending a large magic convention it all started. Endless demands from the magic community; an inbox full of request for their own hand crafter products.
With that, he launched his very successful business.
Here’s the twist. He’s not just a great craftsman.
He’s a fantastic magician too! Probably because he brings the same dedication to his show as he does his craftsmanship. All to help him craft an amazing show!
Just hearing him chat about the steps he took to have a successful show, makes it clear that he’s amongst the pros.
We discuss the importance of scripting, show design, and how to make sure that you’re doing a great job. If you’re in the process of making your own show you’ll like this episode.
If you want to be inspired to do something different with your magic, you’ll really like this episode.
Ryan has worked with friend of the podcast Patrick Kun, as well as advising for Steven Brundage during his run on AGT.
Ryan’s one of the guys who’s spent his years behind the scenes, crafting materials and sharing his ideas. Now that he’s been creating and producing his own shows, I think we’re going to see much more of him on the scene.
Let’s chat about what Ryan is known best for:
His hand crafted materials.
Ryan makes Close-up pads, card clips and everything in between for close up magicians looking to up the style of their most important tools.
He’s created things for Teller, for David Copperfield, and he’s even made a close-up pad for me…. AND I LOVE IT!
There’s very few people that do what he does…. and boy does he do a great job!
If you’re looking for a handcrafted close-up pad, card clip, wallet, or ANYTHING. Ryan is your guy.
You can check it out at : REhandcrafted.com
I usually put contact info…. But just Go to the website.
They’re gorgeous!!!!!
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John Buffalo Mailer to be a featured reader at the Somerville News Writers Frestival Nov. 2009
Somerville, Mass.
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Timothy Gager co-founder of the Somerville News Writers Festival announced that John Buffalo Mailer, son of the late Norman Mailer, will be a reader at the Somerville News Writers Festival this November. Earlier this month Gager announced that Rick Moody will be the featured reader. Doug Holder, co-founder, has selected Frank Bidart, Sam Cornish, Tino Villanueva, Richard Hoffman and Tam Lin Neville as the featured poets. Bidart will be the recipient of the Ibbetson Street Press Lifetime Achievement award.
John Buffalo Mailer (born April 16, 1978) is an author, playwright and journalist. He is the youngest child of American novelist Norman Mailer. Mailer is a graduate of Wesleyan University. He has written several screenplays and is a freelance journalist. In 2005 he co-wrote The Big Empty with his father.
Mailer was a founding member of Back House Productions, a theater production company in New York. He was also previously the editor of High Times, a magazine which advocates the legalization of cannabis.
Before graduating from Wesleyan University with a BA in Theater, John Buffalo Mailer published his first novella, Hello Herman, in The Reading Room, vol. 1, Great Marsh Press. The story centered around a sixteen year old mass murderer from a small suburban town in Iowa, and the cocky young journalist, trying to run from his own dark past, who is hired to interview him.
After graduating, John founded Back House Productions in New York City with three other Wesleyan grads. Within one year Back House became the resident theater company of The Drama Bookshop's Arthur Seelan Theater. In 2001, John's first play, an adaptation of Hello Herman, had its New York Premiere at the Grove Street Playhouse.
2003, he took a hiatus from Back House and theater in general to accept the position of Executive Editor for the infamous High Times magazine. Hired by Richard Stratton to help re-launch the magazine as an independent, outlaw version of Vanity Faire, Stratton, Mailer, and Annie Nocenti, the Editor, made national headlines with the stories they published. While there, John became active in the protest movement centering around the Republican National Convention. In addition to the "High Times Activist's Guide to the RNC", he also interviewed his father for New York Magazine, on the possible dangers and benefits of the protest.
His second play, Crazy Eyes, recently had its World Premiere in Athens, Greece, in March 2005. Crazy Eyes, which takes place in October 2001, in Park Slope, Brooklyn, centers on an actor, a day trader, an AIDS researcher, a bag of white powder,and a Palestinian American who owns the 99 cent store.
John is a member of The Dramatists' Guild Actor's Equity Association, and The Playwright/Director's Group of The Actors Studio. He has lectured at the University of Notre Dame, Wesleyan, and the University of Athens. He is also the American Cultural Dramaturge for Israeli actress Meital Dohan's one woman show, Bath Party. In addition to HeIlo Herman and Crazy Eyes, he has written several screenplays, one short play, and freelanced for Playboy, New York, Stop Smiling, and Lid Magazines.
John is the youngest child of Norman Mailer, with wife Norris Church Mailer, and was selected as one of People Magazine's sexiest men alive in 2002.
Labels: John Buffalo Mailer Tim Gager The Somerville News Writers Festival
"The Paris of New England: Interviews with Poets and Writers" Reviewed in New Pages
I am glad to see my book of interviews " From the Paris of New England: Interviews with Poets and Writers" got a pretty decent review on New Pages, a well-respected literary site for the independent press. Also glad that my fellow Bagel Bard and co-founder of The Somerville News Writers Festival Timothy Gager is listed as a literary luminary, as well as Bagel Bards: Miriam Levine, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Ibbetson poet Marc Widershien "The Life of All Worlds" ( Ibbetson Street Press 2001) I want to thanks Steve Glines for his excellent design work and for putting this book together. I included some excerpts:
From the Paris of New England
Interviews with Poets and Writers
Nonfiction by Doug Holder
Ibbetson Street Press, January 2009
Paperback: 133pp; $18.50
Review by Jeanne Lesinski
At a time when many newspapers – if not going out of business altogether – have cut arts coverage, it’s reassuring to see that poet Douglas Holder works as the arts editor for The Somerville News, in Somerville, Massachusetts, a city on the outskirts of Boston and Cambridge. From the Paris of New England is a collection of Holder’s “Off the Shelf” column interviews and Somerville Community Access television show “Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer” interviews with literary figures, many of whom live in this city. The literary luminaries in this volume include Martha Collins, Mark Doty, Timothy Gager, Miriam Levine, Dick Lourie, Afaa Michael Weaver, Marc Widershien, and twenty-two others.
Readers will likely find something of interest among the varied genres and experiences represented here, especially because Holder knows how to ask the important questions. He often inquires about inspiration, pivotal life experiences, themes, accessibility, talent, and craft. For example, when plied about his writing habits, Marc Widershien answered, “I wrote between the lines of my existence,” and about advice to novice poets, “Think of everything you do as grist. Talent is vital, but study, experiment, self-discovery through art are indispensable.” Other writers were equally forthcoming on subjects important to them...
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Literature and the Arts in the Transitional Living Center at McLean Hospital
By Doug Holder
Some years ago Alex Beam, The Boston Globe columnist came to my then home on Ibbetson Street in Somerville, Mass., to interview me about the role of poets and poetry at McLean Hospital. Beam was doing research on his book about the history of McLean: Gracefully Insane: Life and Death Inside America's Premier Mental Hospital.
McLean Hospital has a rich literary past and has been declared a national literary landmark. Poets Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and others had “residencies” at the hospital. Anne Sexton ran her famed poetry groups here and was briefly hospitalized at McLean shortly before her death by suicide. I had the privilege to interview Lois Ames, the social worker for Sylvia Plath and Sexton, and the author of the introduction to Plath’s novel “The Bell Jar” that was set on these grounds.
For 20 years I worked on the inpatient units of McLean Hospital as a mental health worker. And since I am a poet, I made of point of running poetry groups for patients who resided on the units. I worked with an eclectic group of clients on several units. I helped them with their poems, conducted informal readings and even publishing some of their work in the now defunct literary journal “The Boston Poet.”
When I took a new position at the Transitional Living Center at Waverly House at McLean I hoped to continue the literary tradition that I established, and that was inherent at the hospital. The Transitional Living Care Center at McLean, according to its website, is a “… private pay program designed for men and women, age 18, and older, who are involved in psychiatric treatment and require a staff supported setting. For many persons with psychiatric illness, brief hospital stays alone are not sufficient to full recovery and return to normal living. The Transitional Living Center provides a setting for comprehensive treatment, and support of family members by providing the intensive assistance that recovering patients require.”
Shortly after I was hired by Robin Weiss, the program director, Richard Wilhelm, a friend of mine and the arts editor for my small literary press “Ibbetson Street” came aboard. Richard is an artist and a poet, and another staff member at that time Jennifer Matthews was a vocalist and a poet, so it was like a writer’s retreat on the campus of the hospital.
On the inpatient unit you more or less had a captive audience. The patients had to have privileges to leave the unit, so a poetry group in the evening could be a welcomed change from the usual didactic groups in the day. At Waverly House it is vastly different. The house is loosely structured, and the clients for the most part can come and go as they please. I focused my efforts on clients who expressed strong interests in the arts and literature. Some clients who studied writing in college brought whole collections of their poetry to the house. Often Richard and I would sit down with folks and workshop their poems and some even saw their work appear in my literary column in The Somerville News.
Other clients expressed interest in literary journalism, and in this regard I was able to help as well. For many years I have been the arts/editor for The Somerville News, and I have frequently gotten internships for students, friends, etc… I can remember one client, a law school dropout, who seemed to have lost direction. He got an internship at the paper, secured a paid editorship, and then went on to the Boston Herald organization. Another client got her first clippings at the paper, which made her professional journalist father beam with pride.
I have also hooked up clients with literary internships, with magazines like “the new renaissance,” as well as other publications. One client was studying for his PhD in Psychology but also had a strong interest in mystery and science fiction writing. I introduced him to the world of little magazines and online publishing and he racked up an impressive number of publication credits in a short time. We even appeared in the same online journal: his story, my poem.
I also have an affiliation with a local art gallery in Cambridge, “The Out of the Blue Art Gallery.” A number of clients have held volunteer jobs there, helping with publicity, with sales, and other duties .One recent client volunteered at the gallery and made a connection with an organizer at a local film festival. She wound up getting valuable experience writing press releases for the festival.
I find that patients that are involved in the arts have a greater sense of self-esteem, and it helps them get involved with the community, the larger world, hopefully realizing the mission statement of our program, namely transitioning clients back into the community for a fruitful and productive life.
Labels: Waverly House McLean Hospital Doug Holder Transitional Living Center
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
By Grace Lin
The book "Where The Mountain Meets The Moon," by Grace Lin is a timeless story of a young girl (Minli) who leaves home in hopes of improving her family’s fortune. The reader joins Minli on this quest for future happiness, and is taken on an adventure that interweaves Chinese folklore and mythical creatures, while teaching lessons on tolerance, compassion, and patience.
Although the story focuses on the Chinese culture, it is easily for people of all cultures to relate to. The author’s beautiful illustrations combined with her wonderful story telling style make this a “page turner” for young and old alike.
------Robin Weiss.
*Robin Weiss is a photographer and program director at McLean Hospital. Her photographic work graced Ibbetson 23. This is her first review on the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene.
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"Anthem" by C.L. Bledsoe
C. L. Bledsoe
Cervena Barva Press
www.cervenabarvaress.com
Review by Renee Schwiesow
Beneath the madcap stitch Bledsoe takes us on from hopeful to sardonic there is a thread that unravels to offer us more as each month poem within “Anthem” reveals its season. I was drawn into his unique observations with “Awakening,” an appropriately titled opening work that leads us toward “January.”
This is the month of lying
to ourselves
on couches
Life is waiting
for the bone toes to clip-clip through the door
find us sprawled about the business
of next
Just before “February” he pulls me into the life of a school janitor who makes me ask myself if Schneider could, just possibly, have had an internal depth that we were unaware of during our viewings of One Day at a Time.
And as March, “the Wednesday of months” rolls by, television makes its appearance on the page in the work, “Growing Pains in Syndication.” I was grinning by the time I read “Dr. Seaver, you never came for me,” and tearing up with laughter when reading the line, “Mike, you bastard, I trusted you,” which led to
Sat through Left Behind, for your
special message at the end, and it was all about the marketing.
I have to admit that by the time I reached,
And Maggie, what is there to say
between the two of us? Is your hair even blond?
I was still rollicking, holding onto “Mike, you bastard, I trusted you,” when I was slammed with, “Your eyes, empty and waiting.” And I recollected myself to absorb the impact of the entirety of the work.
While Bledsoe has been published in over 200 journals and anthologies, “Anthem,” published by Cervena Barva Press, is his first full-length collection. He is a three-time Pushcart nominee and his poetic resume is well expanded upon with works such as the title work
slough it off like skin. . .
find a place or make it in yourself
they’ll never touch
wrap it in lead fire make it hot
to touch hate can motivate
but it burns out like a bad light bulb
and must be replaced. . .
Behind the frogs and death and absinthe squirrels, beneath a how-to on what to do with locked doors, Bledsoe’s words jar us from January’s couch, beg us to read between his lines before we become the aging starlet of December’s grey light. They beg us to sing from his Anthem
. . .if it helps
hot showers loosen muscles
cold showers loosen hate
Labels: Renee Schwiesow C.L. Bledsoe Anthem
These Poems are not Pink Clouds by Timothy Gager
These Poems Are Not Pink Clouds
by Timothy Gager
http://timothygager.com
Propaganda Press, $7.00
alt-current.com
alt.current@gmail.com
A review by Mignon Ariel King
It's finally truly Spring. The biting Atlantic breeze has subsided, and buds pop open while birds sing. But don't get too depressed if you're both a curmudgeon and a secret romantic who longs to crack open a satisfying poetry collection. "These Poems Are Not Pink Clouds" by Timothy Gager is the cure for Spring fever. In "Harvard Square":
boys sit high on the wall
laughing, to girls
below speaking up
in some open aired
mating ritual
The narrator remembers another time, when he was 16, watching his girl try on clothes "and a beaded dress/made you more/beautiful than/a haunted gypsy/made me kiss you...." The book is an interesting mix of music, wistful lust, and a philosophy that casually mentions how it all might float away even if we try not to blink, for "...no one/really sees the sun/by staring... (from "bull"). The narrator never quite stares at anything; he remembers, reflects on recent choices and interactions as well as those of the past.
Bordering on a mid-life complaint that the good ol' days of youth will never come again, the narrator swerves at the last minute to admit: "There were no cheerleaders/to kiss at Mooney's house/only bad habits..." (from "out with the cool kids"). There are a lot of surprise endings here, but nothing too crafty. The revelations seem natural, shaped by a voice that refuses to kid itself or the reader. The expert writing style is not bogged down by the poet being overly pleased with his own clever devices. There is plenty of humor, but nothing is cute about the collection other than its pocket size.
In "Howdy from Ohio" a "man breaks into a smile/which is fighting a duel with my wince...." The poem analyzes regional cultural differences, the Boston-dwelling narrator trying to stay in his emotional cocoon when feeling virtually assaulted by the Ohio man's habit of greeting total strangers with a smile and hand pump. Yet the crabby narrator has a soft spot for women. "The Things I'd Say" is a love poem so completely lovely that it's impossible to pick out a few memorable passages to quote. Then, a slight mood shift reveals "How Runs Are Scored" in a sorta love poem that manages to compare sex to baseball in a giggle-producing manner that does not offend the female reader. No small feat.
"$149.99 Per Week" is a dismal reference to a dismal hotel room from the narrator's childhood. It's important to the collection as a whole in that suddenly the reader notices the abundance of travel references here, and rarely are they positive. The totally unsentimental "I Heart NY" describes one rather unpleasant stay in New York in which "a man sneezes into a rack of clothes/on the sidewalk...." The literary-history-minded reader might get excited at the title "Summer Job, Concord Ma.," but don't. Is the Narrator shelving books? No. Working the bait shop near Walden Pond? No such luck. The hapless college kid is peeling onions and dumping trash at a fast fish shack in the middle of nowhere! Don't worry, though, things get worse in this narrator's journeys.
In my personal favorite of the collection, "Sweet, cold Chicago" is dirty, drizzly, lonely, hostile. The fantasy of going wherever one pleases, being left entirely alone, and sleeping in a car is shattered by this miserable narration. It's not the most cynical poem in the bunch, however. That honor goes to the title poem, which sums up the mood of much of the collection: disgruntled yet curiously hopeful. "My Poems are Not Like the Pink Clouds of Cardiff" also notes, "Water is not really blue." If you like your poetry both sweet and sour, this one's for you.
Labels: Mignon Ariel King Timothy Gager Leah Angstman
Dreaming in Black and White: Wisconsin Noir and the Justified Poem
Wisconsin’s First Form
Dreaming in Black and White:
Wisconsin Noir and the Justified Poem
By Michael Kriesel
Crossover poems are increasingly popular in Wisconsin’s thriving poetry community: a member of my online writing group is churning out a series of great science fiction poems, pithy vehicles for social comment; my own manuscript of occult-themed verse is making the rounds of the book contests; and at a recent writing conference a Milwaukee poet handed me his latest chapbook, Misadventures of the Paisley Cowboy.
Then there’s the hard-boiled crime genre being worked by Madison area poet John Lehman, who recently published a book of verse noir—Acting Lessons, Parallel Press, 2008. Filled with murky mazes and existential ambushes, the work is in a short form devised by Lehman a few years ago, called the Wisconsin justified poem.
Looking like cubes of newspaper column, the poems are defined not just by their form, but also by a noir-ish feel and tone. They usually explore Wisconsin topics, are often rural, and at heart “inspired” by Wisconsin winters.
Here’s a taste, from Closed Until Spring:
This is the season of Ed Gein
and Jeffrey Dahmer. Sleep days,
fish through ice, pry firewood
from frozen mounds of snow.
Buy wine at the gas station. Court
darkness. Speak to no one. This
is winter in Wisconsin. Write
horror stories. Embrace the cold.
John Lehman, Acting Lessons
“They give the impression of a rigid form,” Lehman explains, “so that the language within the poem can be casual and conversational…more Midwest, and yes, more Wisconsin. They resemble their larger cousin, the prose poem.”
Magic Lunch Box
If you’re unfamiliar with prose poems, here’s a quote by Louis Jenkins, an acknowledged master of the form:
“Think of the prose poem as a box, perhaps the lunch box dad brought home from work at night. What’s inside? Some waxed paper, a banana peel, and half a peanut butter-jelly sandwich. Not so much, a hint of how the day has gone perhaps, but magic for having made a mysterious journey and returned…the prose poem is a formal poem because of its limits. The box is made for travel, quick and light. Think of the prose rectangle as a small suitcase. One must pack carefully, only the essentials, too much and the reader won’t get off the ground. Too much and the poem becomes a story, a novel, an essay or worse…the trick in writing a prose poem is discovering how much is enough and how much is too much.” (Nice Fish: New & Selected Prose Poems, Holy Cow! Press 1995.)
The prose poem has a dual nature, as its name implies. “On the one hand, there’s the lyric’s wish to make the time stop around an image, and on the other hand, one wants to tell a little story,” comments Charles Simic, a former U.S. Poet Laureate. “It must dazzle, and it must also have a lightness of touch. I regard the comic spirit as its true Muse.” (The Poetry of Village Idiots, Verse 13, no. 1, 1996)
The God Of Flow
All of the above holds true for the Wisconsin justified poem. But John Lehman cites an additional element—flow. It’s what gives poetry its real dynamic, claimed Robert Frost.
“Most poets break lines by phrases or concepts,” says Lehman, “but Frost carries us with his flow from one line to the next, then stops us in our tracks. ‘His head carved out of granite O, / His hair a wayward drift of snow, / He worshipped the great God of Flow / By holding on and letting go.’ (These are lines about Frost by Robert Francis.)
“Frost believed we further enhance the dynamics of the poem’s flow by stretching the spoken sentence over the line of poetry,” Lehman explains. “Frost’s famous narrative poem The Death Of The Hired Man is a classic example.”
Pulled Around The Corner
The Wisconsin justified poem, unlike the standard prose poem, pays attention to line breaks and their relationship to sentences. It pulls the reader around the corner and only stops movement when the end of a line corresponds with the end of a sentence. In addition, the lines seldom end with prepositions or articles, but with nouns, adverbs and verbs.
As forms go, it’s a soft one. The rules are few and fluid: conversational style, noir tone and Wisconsin topic. Keep it short and justify the text.
“I think its informality seems particularly suited to the voice of a Wisconsin narrator who might romanticize a little more if the winters weren’t so long and so dark,” muses Lehman. “The mutterings of someone in a farmhouse kitchen alone, late at night listening to the wind.”
Film Noir’s Influence
Film noir’s a big influence on the poems. “In a way the noir films were not realistic,” observes Lehman, “but a kind of theatrical romanticizing of the forties. People enjoyed them partially because they were escapist.”
That escapism sometimes bleeds into a comic surrealism, as in The Nut Bread Murders:
A friend sends a loaf of nut bread that’s dense
as a kiln-dried brick. I tell my wife it reminds me
of something my first wife would bake. Is this
a mistake? No, because upon hearing it she
makes me a fluffy coffee cake with a brown-sugar
and chocolate-chip topping, and I deduce there
may be a lesson about women here (how one
can be played against another). So I call my
first wife who asks what the hell I want. Hmmm.
Later, I decide to put her in a novel I’m plotting
as a character out to poison everyone with her
goddamn nut bread while I, the hero, am saved by
a stripper named Brown Sugah. Writing comes fast.
It’s February in Wisconsin and I am going nuts.
Giving It A Try
As a poet who’s muttered his way through his share of Wisconsin winters, the first time I saw the form it intrigued me enough to try it. Eventually I had a short manuscript that won a nationwide book contest, demonstrating the form’s appeal even to non-cheese heads (though the judges were fellow Midwesterners, over in Indiana).
Here’s the title poem from that collection:
Soul Noir
I just walk out of the Neon Toad
when this big guy grabs my shirt,
spins me around like a carnival
ride and slams me up against the
bricks. All I see is cartoon stars
but his voice cuts right through.
“Lie to yourself on your own time,
punk.” Then I’m on the sidewalk
sitting up and no one’s there. It
was my conscience. Bastard finds
me anywhere.
Michael Kriesel, Soul Noir
Soon after I started writing in this form / genre, I came to understand that noir’s romanticism also can be viewed as starkly stripped-down realism. Its flavor is similar to the oddball existentialism running through Wisconsin’s landscape like a vein of smoky quartz. Maybe that’s why the two combine so well. I offer another of my own examples:
Wisconsin Noir
Waiting for the sheriff, Ed Gein forks
apple pie in Plainfield’s only diner.
Barns slump like slaughterhouse cows.
At the crystalline heart of the state, Rib
Mountain oscillates: quartz monadnock
tinting our dreams through winter nights.
In the end, spring arrives, green and gold.
The Packers win the Super Bowl.
Transcending Landscape
The Wisconsin justified poem transcends regionalism by combining a specific form with a specific tone. The form’s uniquely suited to the tone of the material expressed. But it’s the tone most of all that gives the poems their distinct character—not unlike the dialogue in noir films.
These poems work the way haiku and watercolor do to capture the mood of a place, expressing the way our lives resonate with our state and sometimes finding In the Middle of Nothing, Greatness:
I pass a sign on Highway 26 that states
Juneau is 5 miles away, Oshkosh 53.
I saw the same sign just ten minutes ago,
but listen, when I check my gas gauge
(then, it had been a little below a quarter)
now, I swear, it shows half full. And there,
around a curve, against the steel November
sky, in a field of cornstalks far as a crow can
see—are you ready—rises an assemblage
of grain elevators more magnificent than
the Cathedral at Reims.
In Sprecher’s Tavern Lehman observes: “Living in Wisconsin is a lot like the tavern that sells rifles and beer. It doesn’t make much sense but it feels right when you’re there.”
That’s how these poems work. But how well do they work? Does it feel right? That’s the final test…and something only poets and readers and time can decide. The best test of any form is whether the force it contains could manifest as well in any other shape.
Here’s hoping more Wisconsin poets add to this new genre—a form and tone unique to where we live.
By John Lehman
2008; 38pp; chapbook;
Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin-Madison
728 State St., Madison, WI 53706. $10.
Shorts: 101 Brief Poems of Wonder and Surprise
2005; 96pp, paper;
Zelda Wilde Publishing
315 Water Street, Cambridge, WI 53523. $11.95
Platonic 3Way Press
POB 844, Warsaw, IN 46581. $5.
I’d like to thank Carroll University Poetry Professor B.J. Best
for his help in preparing this article.
Labels: Mike Kriesel
JULIA CARLSON’S "DRIFT": BOOK REVIEW
JULIA CARLSON’S DRIFT: BOOK REVIEW
by Linda M. Fischer
Julia Carlson has few illusions about the “drifting slumbering lives” we lead—at best
a tenuous existence. Her thematic concerns are mortality and consequent loss, and the concomitant search for meaning or redemption. In her chapbook Drift she explores lives that have touched hers—a widower whose anguish over the loss of his wife is compounded by guilt, the spectacle of a neighbor’s house being burned to the ground upon his death, an aged Comanche in South Dakota reflecting on the tribal life obliterated within his living memory, her boyfriend’s grandfather leaving a lifetime of memories behind in Oklahoma and moving east to live out his twilight years, the passage of what we know of life in “Places to Go” (dedicated to Mike Amato), concluding with its redemptive final lines:
Life depends on forward movement
And walking upright towards the end
To the final demise where things no longer matter
Cannot matter and no further explanation counts
But most of all the great wall where standing
We breathe leap easily and fall laughing at last.
Attuned to the brevity of life, she chides the lovelorn in her opening poem: “Have you made up your mind about life (and/or) death…hurry up and decide…The sun is red-hot; it’s sinking fast and setting soon.” She affirms this urgency in “Kingdom,” enjoining a young girl to stop by a meadow of an afternoon and drink in its loveliness—“This moment belongs only to you/ You never know if you will see it again/ And some will never see it at all,” a carpe diem theme that reappears in “Stabbed to the Heart” where she is being driven by “relentless demons/ Hoping to beat them to the finish/ Before they finish me off/ Once and for all.” In taking stock of her own life (“Sixty”), her birth coinciding with the extinction of the Caspian tiger, Carlson would hold her inevitable demise at bay, praying fervently “that somehow somewhere/ A piece of his wildness lives in one still.” I can relate to that!
------Linda Fischer is a regular contributor to "Ibbetson Street" Her poetry has appeared in the Atlanta Review, Mobius, Byline, and others...
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Dragon Network: Environmental Paganism
Past Campaigns: Oxleas Wood
The campaign to save Oxleas Wood was where Dragon turned from an idea into a reality. Here was a local campaign which had been fought long and hard, but still seemed hopeless. At first we kept our Spiritual and magical work a secret from the campaigners who had been fighting for years to save the wood, but once we had earned their respect through good practical campaign work, we became more open.
Very little has been written about the magical work we did for Oxleas; perhaps the details are best left unspoken. But somehow, through a combination of hard work, intelligent campaigning and a bit of an eco-magical spin, we won. You may never have heard of Oxleas Wood; there are no dramatic pictures or tales of daring. But the Wood stands today as a beautiful as ever. Long may it stay so.
ALARM UK has more background.
There has been concern over the last few years that a new river crossing might threaten Oxleas again.
The Minutes of the London Assembly on 19 June 2002, Ken Livingstone said:
"I've made clear in all my meetings with ministers - there is no question of the road scheme being taken further south anywhere near Oxleas Wood. ... I will do everything possible to make it almost impossible for someone ever to actually build down to Oxleas Wood."
www.london.gov.uk/assembly/assemmtgs/2002/assemjun19/minutes/assemjun19appC.rtf
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Socialization of Soviet Youth during the “Thaw” Period: Examples of Alternative Identities in the Arkhangelsk Region. Summary
Dmitry Kozlov
Laboratorium. Журнал социальных исследований. 2012. № 2. С. 270-274.
Социология » Социология семьи
This paper considers the socialization of Soviet youth as a process of reevaluation of individual social identity in accordance with the offi cially prescribed one. During the “Thaw” period, the actions and statements of many young people were marked as political protests; however, these actions are better understood as ideological discussions about Komsomol autonomy. Activities of young people who never doubted their Sovietness and of those who constructed alternative identities are analyzed in the article. The rigidity of the prescribed Sovietness made even loyal youngsters question offi cial interpretations of the Soviet Union and, therefore, correct or altogether deny the Soviet core of their own identities. Thus, in the “Thaw” period we can see the beginning of the disintegration of Soviet society into numerous deideologized communities.
identity socialization Soviet Union youth
Вадим Валерьевич Радаев
Power Stratification in the Soviet-Type System: Socio-Economic Issues in Jerry Eades and Caroline Schwaller (eds.) Transitional Agendas: Working papers from the Summer School for Soviet Sociologists
John J. Condon
Social Class and Specialty Preference Among Medical Students
[Диссертация]
Ronnelle Paulsen
Education, Social Class, and Participation in Collective Action
Sociology of Education. 1996. Vol. 64. No. 2. P. 96-110.
Ирина Владимировна Костерина
Конструкты и практики маскулинности в провинциальном городе: габитус «нормальных пацанов»
Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии. 2008. Т. 11. № 4. С. 122-140.
Yulia Gradskova
“Internationalist Education” and Solidarity with Chile and Latin America in the Late Soviet Period—Between Geopolitics, Protest, and Self-realization? Summary
Andrea Jule Sachs, Elaine Tyler May
The politics of poverty: Race, class, motherhood, and the National Welfare Rights Organization, 1965--1975
Howard S. Becker, Blanche Geer
The fate of idealism in medical school
American Sociological Review. 1958. Vol. 3. No. 23.
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Publication #ENH1279
Topics: Environmental Horticulture | Ft. Lauderdale REC | Brown, Stephen H | Broschat, Timothy K | Sabal Palm | Palm Production
Regenerated Sabal/Cabbage Palms (Sabal palmetto): Why and How1
Stephen H. Brown and Tim Broschat2
Palms are woody monocots characterized by the production of adventitious roots from the base of the trunk. Unlike the woody roots of dicots, such as oaks, gumbo limbo, and sea grapes, palm roots have no secondary thickening. Also, unlike trees, palms are incapable of repairing damage to their trunks. Most importantly, the life of a palm is dependent upon the continued good health of the single growing bud known as the meristem. Thus, if the palm bud is killed, the entire palm or the palm cane will eventually die.
Harvesting and Transplanting Sabal Palms
The sabal or cabbage palms (Sabal palmetto) seen throughout Florida landscapes are typically not grown in nurseries from seeds. Instead, they are commonly harvested or dug from native stands, fields, and pastures and installed in a variety of landscapes. Roots of harvested sabal palms do not survive the digging process and new roots must be initiated from the trunk. During the period of root regrowth, the palm survives by moving water stored in its trunk to help it produce new roots and leaves. Losses associated with transplanting are due in large part to the loss of functioning roots and insufficient water stored in the trunk.
Cropped Transplants
The traditional way of transplanting sabal palms is to crop them when harvested, which is the removal of all of the palms’ leaves. This is done to eliminate leaf transpiration and conserve water to promote new root growth and palm establishment. Cropping is sometimes confused with “hurricane cutting.” Hurricane cutting is a drastic, damaging pruning process mistakenly carried out to reduce wind loading in palms. Unlike hurricane cutting, there is research that indicates cropping is an effective means of reducing transplant loss. That said, regrowth from a completely cropped canopy to a full and rounded crown in the landscape can take as many as two years. For some landscape situations, the usual wait for a fully or significantly formed crown may be unacceptable.
Ideally, sabal palms should be transplanted shortly after harvest. If quickly and properly transplanted, the survival rate can be high. However, in many cases, palms are held for an extended period in full sun and without the benefit of irrigation or wrapping the root balls. Transplant losses, as high as 50%, may in part be due to landscape irrigation failure, transplanting during extended dry periods, root suffocation in saturated soils, deep planting, and degraded palm health due to an extended holding period before transplant.
Regenerated Transplants
Palms to be regenerated are dug from native stands, fields, and pastures, as previously stated. These palms are cropped as radically as non-regenerated palms to conserve water and to assist them in their recovery. However, instead of being moved directly to a planting site, they are taken to a tree nursery for partial root and leaf regrowth. These palms are known as regenerated palms.
The regeneration procedure described here varies from nursery to nursery. Some nurseries may not include the whole process outlined in this publication, while others may take additional steps to ensure a quality product to be placed in the landscape.
Harvested sabal palms are taken to a tree nursery that has the capability to regenerate them. The sandy root balls are kept cylindrical and wrapped several times around and under in heavy black plastic. Forming a conical or pointed root ball is not recommended as it reduces the volume of soil available for maximum root regeneration. Plastic wrap helps to retain moisture in the excavated soil, bind the soil to the root ball, stabilize it for root regrowth, and confine the newly grown roots.
Black plastic wraps and cylindrical root balls.
Stephen H. Brown, UF/IFAS
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Boots (Leaf Bases)
After wrapping the root balls, the naturally exfoliating leaf bases called boots are removed. Leaf bases held firmly by palms are kept in place to protect the trunk from scarring that might occur in the mechanized debooting. A damaged trunk makes the palms more susceptible to insect and disease infections. Moreover, debooting removes a layer of tissue that would otherwise greatly reduce water loss from the trunks. Leaving old leaf bases attached avoids this damage and helps conserve internal moisture utilized for the process of regeneration.
On the Rack
Palms are next stacked in layers at an angle on a heavy-duty tree rack. The racks are equipped with sprinkler irrigation and the palms are irrigated twice daily to keep them from dehydration. Depending on the time of the year, they are usually held on the racks for six to eight weeks. During this time, root and leaf regenerations have already begun. Palms held too long on the rack will begin to show signs of gravitropism with the growing point bending upwards. If taken directly to the landscape, they usually have bent upper trunks and leaves that droop on the trunk.
Portion of a tree rack.
Sabal palms are held on a rack for six weeks.
In the Ground
From the racks, the palms are kept wrapped and moved to the field. The wrapped portion of the palm is placed in the ground to the top of the wrap. The hole is back-filled with the soil from the field and without the use of any amendments. They are not staked, as this would increase production cost. The palms are irrigated and held in place until the time of sale. Fertilization is usually not necessary. The regeneration time of a palm is dependent on the time of the year it was harvested and the numbers of regenerated leaves desired. Palms harvested in the fall or during cool weather will take longer to regenerate than palms harvested in the warm months of spring and summer. Those retaining their boots are observed to have a shorter regeneration time. The cost to produce a regenerated palm increases as more leaves are produced. Having more leaves, however, potentially improves its chance for landscape survival. Palms may remain in the ground for eight or more months before being considered regenerated.
Sabal palms in the ground.
Griffin Trees, Inc.
Regenerated Sabals
The Florida Grades and Standards for cropped sabal palms require no leaves at sale regardless of their grade. However, Florida Fancy regenerated palms must have at least four healthy leaves, while Florida #1 should have at least three healthy leaves, and Florida #2 are required to have no less than two healthy leaves at the time of sale. After removal from the ground, the root ball contains many visible new roots. However, many more are unseen within the root ball and are yet to emerge. The Florida Grades and Standards for palms require root balls that are a minimum of four inches larger than the trunk. Once at the job site, the plastic wrap is entirely removed and the palm is set in place without amending the soil. Irrigation is immediately and frequently provided until the palm is established. With adequate irrigation, establishment time for a regenerated palm may be as few as four or five months compared to a year or longer for cropped palms.
Regenerated roots.
Florida Fancy regenerated sabal palm.
Transplanted cropped sabal palms.
Just-planted Department of Transportation-approved regenerated sabal palms.
Broschat, T. K. 2013. Sabal palmetto: Sabal or Cabbage Palm. ST575. Gainesville: University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/st575
Broschat, T. K. 2015. Transplanting Palms in the Landscape. EP001. Gainesville: University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ep001
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. 2015. “Florida Grades and Standards for Nursery Plants 2015.” http://lake.ifas.ufl.edu/agriculture/nursery-production/documents/FloridaGradesandStandardsforNurseryPlants2015.pdf
Pittenger, D., A. J. Downer, and D. Hodel. 2000. "Palm root regeneration and its significance in transplanting." METRIA Conference Proceedings. Accessed on September 29, 2017. https://www.ces.ncsu.edu/fletcher/programs/nursery/metria/metria11/pittenger/
Steve Griffin, Griffin Trees, Inc., Lake Placid, Florida;
Bridget Majewski, Tree Planters of South Florida, Inc., Vero Beach, Florida;
Lisa Dougherty, Boggy Creek Tree Farms, Christmas, Florida
Differences between cropped and regenerated sabal palm transplants.
Delayed aesthetic acceptance
Immediate or short-term aesthetic acceptance
Lower landscape survival
Greater landscape survival
Longer time to landscape establishment
Shorter time to landscape establishment
More irrigation/water to establish
Less irrigation/water to establish
Increased pest potential
Reduced pest potential
More replaced palms
Fewer replaced palms
Cheaper per delivered palm
Costlier per delivered palm
This document is ENH1279, one of a series of the Environmental Horticulture Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date September 2017. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.
Stephen H. Brown, Extension agent IV, UF/IFAS Extension Lee County; and Tim Broschat, professor, Environmental Horticulture Department, UF/IFAS Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.
The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other UF/IFAS Extension publications, contact your county's UF/IFAS Extension office.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, UF/IFAS Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A & M University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Nick T. Place, dean for UF/IFAS Extension.
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PAX 2014 Highlights
Jo Wylie ‘16 / Emertainments Monthly Editor
PAX East 2014 – a bustling, exciting mix of fans, developers, innovators, and amazing ideas. The big Boston gaming convention this year was as exciting and important as always, and a number of your Emertainment video games writers were lucky enough to spend some of their weekend at the Boston Convention Center.
Milling amongst the surrounding rooms, the many theatres, and of course, the Expo floor – its indie games, big developers, tabletop sections, and technology companies – PAX was amazing for any breed of gamer. At the end of the weekend we collected together our highlights from corner to corner of the convention center….
Ben Sherry
The first thing I noticed about it was how ridiculously huge it was. I walked through the doors leading to the expo hall and was smacked in the face by the sheer bigness of the room. Below me I saw thousands upon thousands of people, all like me, ready to check out everything that this huge convention had to offer. I was at PAX East, and I was just a small dot in a sea of gamers. I walked around the show floor in a kind of daze at first, dumbstruck by the sheer magnitude of the stuff around me. I had loved video games since I was younger than I can remember, but this was the closest I had ever been to the industry. Here I was, seeing demonstrations of games that had never been shown to the public before, I was looking and reading about things that I had only read about online, like Watch Dogs or the Oculus Rift, it was surreal to say the least. As I walked around the shops, purchasing gifts for my like-minded friends, I realized that this was a truly exceptional place and that I should savor every last minute of it.
As a League of Legends fan, I spent the majority of my time at the Riot Games Booth at PaxEast 2014. Outfitted with a large display, a set of gaming computers, and smaller League of Legends hubs, the Riot stage dominated the front of the PaxEast expo hall. Dedicated League of Legends fans could earn League swag, including posters, little toy poros, lanyards, and in-game skins by talking to Rioters, or League of Legends employees. The great thing about this is fans had to engage with the creators of the game they love. Some cool things I learned from my time at the Riot booth: the next League of Legends will be a Support Champion that is similar to the ADC Graves. Also, the Beastial Huntress Nidalee has been hinted at getting a major re-work. The Riot booth was one of the most popular stands at PaxEast and a lot of this had to do with the friendliness of the staff and the openness of Rioters to engage with their players.
Jo Wylie
The highlight to PAX East for me was certainly the Bioware Base. Here, fans were given the chance to get a really in-depth dialogue going with developers, writers, and designers. Too big for a simple stall on the Expo hall floor, Bioware had taken an entire room elsewhere in the center – this meant that at every hour of every day you could go to the bas and find another panel, interviews, or photo shoot and autograph sessions. It also meant the place was less crowded and quieter, and it was easy to meet any Bioware idols and hearing what you wanted to hear.
Daniel Manning
Ascerbic party game Cards Against Humanity’s presence at PAX East was predictably fantastic. Attendees found packages of “Pwnmeal,” an “Extreme Gaming Oatmeal” with flavors like “MOBAnana Bread” and “Cinnamon K/D Ratioatmeal.” But inside held a surprise–oatmeal. And some exclusive cards! Those who showed up to the panel got to pitch card ideas to the Cards Against Humanity team. The worst were mocked, and the best were workshopped by the team–debate ensued over whether “A floor that is literally made of lava.” was funnier than “A floor made of lava.” Literally won out, by the way, and those cards were printed that night, able to be picked up by the panel attendance the next morning, with a special pin taped under their chairs.
The Gearbox panel was another wonderful high point of the PAX weekend. Situated first thing on Sunday morning, the main theatre was packed to the brim with hundreds of fans, all passionate and excited about the panel. The panel itself, where Randy Pitchford (CEO), Brian Martel (Executive VP) and Mikey Neumann (Chief Creative Champion), along with a number of guests, talked, was lively, involved, and welcoming. Featuring an exclusive trailer for the Pre-sequel, a gift draw, Randy Pitchford halting proceedings to show us his new magic trick, and ending with a free copy of the pre-sequel for every single guest, this panel was amazing.
Johann Sebastian Joust had one of the most unique video game environments around. A crowd surrounded a space where eight players with Playstation Move controllers–Sony’s Wii Remote/Mood Ring mashup – circle around each other, trying to jostle their opponent’s controller. There’s no screen–everyone’s in meat space. Players move to the tempo of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, and as the music speeds up and slow down, the amount of motion necessary to jostle the controller changes. Later in the night, they played rounds with the music replaced by Call Me Maybe. Watch a video of people playing–it’s funny and simple and social, in the best sense.
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I’m no stranger to the large scale convention–but PAX East was unlike anything I’d experienced. The huge attractions and amount of detail that the vendors went to for attention was incredible, and the venue obviously catered to the fans. But the companies present weren’t the only ones bringing their a-game; the cosplayers at PAX were few but proud, and certainly talented. From homemade key blades from Kingdom Hearts and classics like the Ghostbusters, to old favorites from Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy, every costume had creativity and heart, and shone on the show floor.
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After reviewing the Presidential Decree No. 38 for year 1989 concerning the establishment of Electronics Research Institute, also the Presidential Decree No. 142 for year 1990 to issue the executive regulation of the Electronics Research Institute and on what Prof. Dr. President of the Electronics Research Institute has presented:
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Prof. Dr. Mohammed Salah El Sobki Head of the new and renewable energy authority
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On the concerned authorities to implement the provisions of this resolution and it will be effective from the date of issuing
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Featured Speaker: Dr. Jalil Bishop, Vice-Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education
Sponsor: Center for Race and Gender
CRG Working Group "Critical University Studies" invites you to the first installment of the 2019-2020 Critical University Studies Speaker Series, featuring Dr. Jalil Bishop. Dr. Bishop will present on his latest research project which highlights how schools and colleges create precarity in Black communities. His findings show how underdevelopment in Black neighborhoods and unequal opportunity in... More >
Turkish Twilight: How Erdoğan Reversed his Country from Reform to War
Lecture | October 31 | 4-6 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Sultan Room, CMES
Speaker/Performer: Yavuz Baydar, Senior journalist, Editor-in-chief of the Independent Ahval News Online
Sponsors: Near Eastern Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Graduate School of Journalism
In a span of nearly two decades, Turkey under the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has seen it all. How Turkey’s hopes for democratic reform and membership in the European Union were cast away from dawn to twilight is a remarkable episode with consequences far beyond its borders and still open-ended, including potential for deepening tragedy. How Erdoğan's media capture evolved into... More >
On the October 13th Polish Parliamentary Elections and Their Human Rights Implications
Lecture | October 31 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Graduate Theological Union, Dinner Board Room
Speaker: Wanda Nowicka, Polish politician and activist
Sponsors: Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), San Francisco-Kraków Sister Cities Association, Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture
Wanda Hanna Nowicka is a Polish politician and activist who served as the Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland from 8 November 2011 to 11 November 2015. In the very recent, October 13, 2019 parliamentary elections, she was voted to be an MP representing in leftist party Lewica.
Born in Lublin, she attended the University of Warsaw, graduating with a degree in classical... More >
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Uğur Ümit Üngör | The Kurds in the Century of Genocide: From the First World War to ISIS
Speaker/Performer: Uğur Ümit Üngör, Associate Professor, Department of History, Utrecht University
Sponsor: Center for Middle Eastern Studies
First Annual CMES Kurdish Studies Lecture
The Kurds’ experience with modern mass violence, from civil wars to genocides, is long and complex. Whereas Kurds lived for centuries in pre-national conditions in the Ottoman and Persian empires, the advent of nationalism and the nation-state system in the Middle East radically changed the situation. This lecture examines the Kurds’ encounter with... More >
At ‘Home’ Away from ‘Home’? The ex-Ottoman Armenians and Spatial Belonging in Soviet Armenia
Lecture | October 31 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Aysenur Korkmaz, Katz Research Fellow in Genocide Studies at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, University of Southern California
Sponsors: Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program
This talk explores spatial attachments among the ex-Ottoman Armenians who survived the Armenian genocide and settled in their ‘new homeland’, Soviet Armenia. It addresses the question of how the refugees dealt with loss and displacement and reflected on their former hometowns, referred to as ‘Ergir,’ a spatial construct denoting a symbolic ‘Armenian homeland’ or a ‘local homeland’ in... More >
Pakistan's Education Conundrum | Zia Akther Abbas
Lecture | November 1 | 4-6 p.m. | Eshleman Hall, ASUC Senate Chambers, Floor 5
Speaker: Zia Akhter Abbas, Executive Vice President, The Citizens Foundation
Moderator: Shashi Buluswar, CEO, Institute for Transformative Technologies
Sponsors: The Citizens Foundation at Berkeley, Cal Pakistani Students Association, Institute for South Asia Studies
The Citizens Foundation's Executive Vice President will be speaking about the current education conundrum in Pakistan and TCF's Education Movement to enable access to quality education for the less privileged children and empowering them to achieve their dreams.
The Discovery of Pulsars: A Graduate Student's Tale: 2019 Emilio Segrè Lecture
Lecture | November 1 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Speaker: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Visiting Professor, Chancellor, University of Oxford, England, and University of Dundee, Scotland
Sponsor: Department of Physics
In this presentation Jocelyn Bell Burnell will describe how pulsars were inadvertently discovered, describe some instances where they were 'nearly' discovered, and outline the properties of these amazing objects.
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Jeffery A. Goad, PharmD MPH FAPhA FCPhA FCSHP FISTM
vaccine-preventable diseases
Session will be held on Friday, March 20, 2020 at APhA2020. We look forward to seeing you there!
Registration for Annual Meeting is not a requirement to attend.
APhA’s Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery certificate training program (14th Edition) is based on national educational standards for immunization training from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This practice-based curriculum represents a fusion of science and clinical pharmacy. The program, which emphasizes a health care team approach, seeks to foster the implementation of interventions that will promote disease prevention and public health.
The purpose of this certificate training program is to prepare pharmacists with comprehensive knowledge, skills, and resources necessary to provide immunization services to patients across the life-span
Activity Type: Practice-based
Target Audience: Pharmacists in all practice settings
Learning Level: Level 3
Educate pharmacists about:
The impact of vaccines on public health.
Pharmacists’ roles in immunization.
Immunologic principles of vaccine development and immunizations.
Vaccine-preventable diseases and the vaccines used to prevent them.
Strategies for improving immunization rates.
Requirements for pharmacists who provide immunization services.
Prepare pharmacists to:
Read an immunization schedule and identify appropriate vaccines for individuals across the life span and with special needs.
Educate patients about the benefits of vaccines and dispel myths about vaccines.
Safely administer vaccines to patients via subcutaneous, intramuscular, intranasal, and intradermal routes.
Operate an immunization service in compliance with legal and regulatory standards.
Partner with immunization stakeholders to promote immunizations and the immunization neighborhood.
Direct pharmacists to resources necessary to:
Promote public health through immunizations.
Access regularly updated information about vaccines and their use.
Effectively communicate with patients and other stakeholders about resources.
Click on the links below for more information
Self-Study Learning Objectives
At the completion of the self-study program, the participant will be able to:
The self-study learning activity is designed to ensure that all participants have an understanding of vaccine-preventable diseases and the role of pharmacists as vaccine advocates and administrators. There are five learning modules that present in-depth information on immunology, practice implementation, and legal and regulatory issues as noted below, with appropriate references to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resource publication, Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Disease. The self-study program includes a self-assessment test and real-life case studies that are designed to help reinforce and evaluate participants' understanding of key information and concepts.
Module 1. Pharmacists, Vaccines, and Public Health
At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
Describe the effects of immunizations on morbidity and mortality rates of vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States.
Discuss Healthy People 2020 goals for vaccination rates in the United States.
Explain the expansion of the role of pharmacists as vaccine providers and describe the status of pharmacists’ authorization to administer vaccines throughout the United States.
Describe strategies for pharmacists to advocate for pharmacy-based delivery of vaccines.
Discuss the role of pharmacists as immunizers in emergency preparedness activities.
Identify resources that are useful for immunization providers and educators.
Module 2. Overview of Immunology and Vaccine Development
Identify the differences between active and passive immunity and describe key elements of each process.
Explain how vaccines elicit an immune response and provide protection from disease.
Describe the characteristics of and distinctions among live vaccines, inactivated vaccines, polysaccharide vaccines, and recombinant vaccines.
Discuss the rationale for timing of vaccine administration and intervals between doses, including vaccine-vaccine spacing and vaccine-antibody spacing.
Describe principles of herd immunity.
Module 3. Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Describe the epidemiology, clinical features, and potential complications of diseases that can be prevented with vaccines.
Identify vaccines available in the U.S. market for each vaccine-preventable disease and describe their features.
Identify the contraindications and precautions for the use of vaccines available in the United States.
Use recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to identify target groups for receipt of each vaccine.
Module 4. Patient Care Considerations for Immunizing Pharmacists
Explain how to apply the pharmacists’ patient care process to immunization services.
Identify patients with immunization needs.
Given a patient case, select appropriate vaccines using an immunization schedule from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and identify appropriate timing, doses, and routes of administration.
Discuss the rationale for timing for vaccine administration and intervals between doses, including vaccine-vaccine spacing and vaccine-antibody spacing.
Recall recommended patient screening questions for vaccination and identify valid contraindications for vaccinations.
Educate patients about the benefits of vaccines and address common concerns about vaccines.
Provide accurate information that addresses common myths about vaccines.
Describe the roles of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System in managing vaccine safety.
Educate patients about potential adverse reactions following the receipt of a vaccine and how to manage them.
Explain appropriate techniques for intramuscular, subcutaneous, intradermal, and intranasal administration of vaccines.
Describe the signs and symptoms of adverse reactions to vaccines and procedures that pharmacists should follow to manage various adverse reactions.
Describe appropriate documentation and follow-up after vaccine administration.
Module 5. Operating a Pharmacy-Based Immunization Program
Describe important considerations when deciding which vaccines to offer.
Describe physical space requirements for a vaccine service.
Discuss Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations for the prevention of employee exposure to bloodborne pathogens and needlestick injury at worksites where immunizations are administered.
Outline principles and procedures for vaccine storage and handling.
Discuss workflow options for administering vaccines in pharmacy practice.
Identify marketing strategies that can be used to promote a pharmacy-based immunization service.
Explain potential options for obtaining reimbursement and compensation for vaccines and vaccine administration.
Describe liability issues related to vaccine administration, including the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
Live Seminar Learning Objectives
At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
The second component of the APhA’s Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery certificate training program (14th Edition) is an active learning seminar focusing on pharmacy practice implementation. The live training seminar is based on the experience of practitioners involved in immunization advocacy and administration. The training seminar reinforces and expands on the self-study program and addresses areas such as immunization needs, legal and regulatory issues, and injection-technique training. Participants will be expected to practice giving intramuscular and subcutaneous injections.
After participating in the Live Seminar, the participant will be able to:
Describe strategies for increasing immunization rates, including physician collaborations, community level activities, and immunization coalition activities
Describe pharmacy operations and a process for administering vaccines in various pharmacy practice settings
Evaluate patient histories and make patient-specific recommendations based on the appropriate immunization schedule
Demonstrate effective strategies for communicating with patients who have concerns about vaccines
Describe current evidence regarding vaccine safety
Recognize the signs and symptoms of adverse reactions that can occur after vaccination
Describe procedures for management of patients with adverse reactions to vaccination that constitute an emergency
List the steps for administering currently available intranasal and intradermal vaccines
Demonstrate appropriate intramuscular and subcutaneous injection techniques for adult immunization
All participants are strongly encouraged to obtain CPR or BCLS certification. However, certification is not a prerequisite of the program. A Certificate of Achievement is awarded to participants who successfully complete all program requirements. The Certificate of Achievement is invalid, however, without written proof of current CPR or BCLS certification.
Seminar Agenda
Check-in and Continental Breakfast
Welcome, Introductions and Acknowledgements
Managing a Pharmacy-Based Immunization Program
Strategies for Increasing Immunization Rates
Applying ACIP Immunization Schedules
Vaccine Administration Technique
Transitional/Summary Remarks
The American Pharmacists Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education (CPE). The home-study portion of the APhA Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery certificate training program is approved for 12 contact hours (1.2 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education credit (UAN 0202-0000-17-160-H06-P). The live training seminar is approved for 8 contact hours (0.8 CEU) of continuing pharmacy education credit (UAN 0202-0000-17-161-L06-P).
To obtain credit for Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery complete home study activities, complete both home study and final assessments with a grade of 70% or better, attend the live seminar, successfully complete the injection technique assessment, complete the evaluation, and CLAIM credit. To obtain credit, the Learner must CLAIM credit once each component is completed. Once credit is claimed, Transcripts of CPE will be available online within 24 hours on the Learner’s CPE Monitor profile at www.nabp.net. The Certificate of Achievement will be available online upon successful completion of the necessary activity requirements on the participant’s My Training page on www.pharmacist.com.
APhA's continuing pharmacy education policy provides you with two opportunities to successfully complete the assessments. Please note that you will not be permitted to submit the assessment a third time. All assessment questions are randomized. The current policy of the APhA Education Department is not to release the correct answers to any of our CPE tests. This policy is intended to maintain the integrity of the CPE activity and the assessment.
Expiration date: July 15, 2020 - PLEASE NOTE: NO Home Study credit granted after this date; Live Credit can only be granted within 60 days from the day of the seminar attended.
APhA’s Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery certificate training program (14th Edition), was developed by the American Pharmacists Association. Copyright © 2017 by the American Pharmacists Association
Acknowledgements and Disclosures
Stephan L. Foster, PharmD, FAPhA
CAPT (Ret) U.S.P.H.S.
Professor, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center
Lauren B. Angelo, PharmD, MBA
Assistant Dean, Academic Affairs
Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
North Chicago, Illinois
Jeff Goad, Pharm.D., MPH, FAPhA, FCPhA, FCSHP
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacy Practice
Chapman University School of Pharmacy
Jean-Venable “Kelly” R. Goode, PharmD, BCPS, FAPhA, FCCP
Professor and Director, Community-Based Pharmacy Residency Program
Vincent A. Hartzell, Pharm.D.
Hartzell's Pharmacy
Catasauqua, Pennsylvania
Carrie Foust Koenigsfeld, Pharm.D, FAPhA
Professor of Clinical Sciences
Drake University, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Adam C. Welch, PharmD, MBA, BCACP, FAPhA
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Assessment
Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy
APhA Staff Members
The following APhA staff members contributed to the development of this program:
Mitchel C. Rothholz, RPh, MBA, Chief Strategy Officer
Helen Ali-Sairany, PharmD, Associate Director, Content Development, Education
Kelly French, Director, Advanced Training
Misty Knack, Associate Director, Advanced Training
Bronhed Shaw, Associate Director, Advanced Training.
The original publication was prepared by Judy Crespi Lofton, MS, of JCL Communications, on behalf of APhA.
Stephan Foster, PharmD, FAPhA, FNAP, has served as a speaker for Merck Vaccines, Pfizer and Seqirus. He has served on advisory boards for Pfizer and Seqirus.
Jeffrey A. Goad, PharmD, MPH, FCPhA, FCSHP has served as a speaker for Merck Vaccines.
Carrie Foust Koenigsfeld, PharmD, FAPhA, has served as a speaker for Merck Vaccines and Pfizer.
Mitchel C. Rothholz, RPh, MBA, declares that his spouse is an employee of Merck and that he has served on advisory boards for Merck and Pfizer.
All other individuals involved in the development of this material declare no conflicts of interest, real or apparent, and no financial interests in any company, product, or service mentioned in this program, including grants, employment, gifts, stock holdings, and honoraria. APhA’s editorial staff declare no conflicts of interest or financial interests in any product or service mentioned in this activity, including grants, employment, gifts, stock holdings, and honoraria. For a complete list of APhA staff disclosures, please visit the APhA website at www.pharmacist.com/apha-disclosures.
Conflicts of interest have been resolved through content review by Helen Sairany, PharmD, BCACP, Associate Director of Content Development at the American Pharmacists Association.
The material presented here does not necessarily reflect the views of the American Pharmacists Association. Every attempt has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained herein at the time of writing; however, owing to the nature of pharmacy practice, standards and recommendations change regularly. Pharmacists are advised to verify all information and data before treating patients or employing the practices described in this educational activity.
Computer and internet access are required to complete this activity. Please visit our website to view the Technology System Requirements to have a positive learning experience.
Jeffery A. Goad, PharmD MPH FAPhA FCPhA FCSHP FISTM Instructor
Jeffery A. Goad is a Tenured Professor of Pharmacy Practice and the inaugural Chair of the Chapman University School of Pharmacy. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the USC School of Pharmacy in 1994 and Masters of Public Health from the Keck School of Medicine at USC in 2003. He completed a residency in pediatric pharmacy practice at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and holds the Certificate of Knowledge in Travel Health from the International Society of Travel Medicine. For over 15 years, Dr. Goad has maintained an active practice in Travel Health clinics and immunization services. He coordinates and teaches courses in travel medicine, immunizations, epidemiology, and parasitology. He is currently a national faculty and advisory board member for the American Pharmacists Association Pharmacy Based Immunization Training Program and chair of the APhA Travel Medicine Advanced Competency Training Course. He has presented at over 150 pharmacy and medical conferences and published more than 50 articles and book chapters. Dr. Goad is the past Chair for the International Society of Travel Medicine Pharmacist Professional Group and past President for the California Immunization Coalition and California.
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Many Pregnancy-Related Maternal Deaths Occur Months After Delivery: CDC
TUESDAY, May 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Too many women still die from pregnancy-related causes, some up to a year after delivery, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 700 pregnancy-related deaths occur in the United States each year, and 3 out of 5 are preventable, data show.
Nearly 31% of the deaths happen during pregnancy, and another 36% occur during delivery or the week after.
But a full third of deaths happen up to a year after a woman gives birth, the CDC found.
"These are women in their prime who leave loved ones behind often stunned at what has happened," CDC Principal Deputy Director Dr. Anne Schuchat said at a media briefing.
For the study, the CDC analyzed national data on pregnancy-related deaths between 2011 and 2015, and more detailed data from 13 states gathered between 2013 and 2017.
The CDC defines pregnancy-related death as one occurring within a year of the pregnancy's end. The cause could be a related complication, a chain of events initiated by pregnancy, or the aggravation of an unrelated medical condition by pregnancy.
Heart disease and stroke caused about 1 in 3 deaths, researchers found. Other leading causes included infections and severe blood loss.
"Our new analysis underscores the need for access to quality services, risk awareness and early diagnosis, but it also highlights opportunities for preventing future pregnancy-related deaths," said Dr. Wanda Barfield, director of the Division of Reproductive Health in CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
"By identifying and promptly responding to warning signs not just during pregnancy, but even up to a year after delivery, we can save lives," Barfield said in an agency news release.
The cause of death generally depends on timing, the CDC noted:
Obstetric emergencies such as severe bleeding caused most deaths during delivery.
In the week after delivery, new mothers were more likely to die from high blood pressure, infection and severe blood loss.
A weakened heart muscle (cardiomyopathy) caused most deaths up to a year after delivery.
These deaths were associated with several factors related to prenatal care, CDC said.
In some cases, women died because they lacked access to good health care, resulting in delayed or missed diagnoses of crucial medical problems. Women and their health care providers also appeared to lack knowledge about the warning signs of a troubled pregnancy, according to the report.
Serious racial disparities also exist. Black and American Indian/Alaska Native women were about three times as likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause as white women.
CDC officials said the data suggest that the majority of deaths, regardless of when they occurred, could have been prevented by tackling these key problems:
Providers can better help patients manage chronic conditions and teach them warning signs.
Hospitals and health systems can coordinate efforts between providers and support efforts to improve care during and after pregnancy.
States and communities can develop policies that improve access to care and ensure that women at high risk can give birth at hospitals with special training and equipment for troubled pregnancies.
"Making some of these improvements will not be easy. It could require reworking systems that have been in place for years," Schuchat said. "The good news, though, is that there are already systematic approaches being developed and implemented in many areas around the country that can be used as a model to support improvements to save the lives of women."
Dr. Megan Gray, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies in Florida, said obstetricians and nurse-midwives have work to do.
"It is crucial that hypertensive disorders during and after pregnancy, infections, sepsis, hemorrhage and cardiomyopathy be recognized early and promptly managed," she said. "This includes educating patients about early warning signs and providing pregnant women with access to quality care."
Gray said women should be seen sooner and more often after pregnancy than the standard six weeks after delivery, so that complications can be detected and addressed.
CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said ensuring quality care for mothers during and after pregnancy should be among the nation's top priorities.
"I urge the public health community to increase awareness with all expectant and new mothers about the signs of serious pregnancy complications and the need for preventative care that can and does save lives," Redfield said in the release.
The study appears in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
The U.S. Office on Women's Health has more about pregnancy complications.
SOURCES: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, media briefing and news release, May 7, 2019; Megan Gray, M.D., Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies, Orlando, Fla.
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The Mound Builders of North America
None of the prehistoric races that have inhabited North America have caused more interest and speculation than the Mound Builders. They possessed a highly scientific knowledge, for they perfectly understood the great Cosmic Sciences which today are just dawning on our scientific world. The Cosmic Sciences include the origin and workings of the Four Great Primary Forces, the parents of all forces. The Mound Builders and their Science came from Mu via Mexico.
Man first appeared on Mu. One of the names given to Mu was the Tree of Life. In this legend the man and the tree are combined in one. To be more specific, Mu was the Tree of Life and Man was its fruit. This corroborated where the Sioux legend tells of a great serpent biting off the trees at their roots. A serpent was always the symbol for the waters and when Mu was destroyed she was swallowed by the waters. Biting, in the Sioux legend, is a correct word to use symbolically, for Mu was certainly bitten off from the rest of the land above water. “From these have sprung all the people that now inhabit the earth” clearly shows that this refers to the migrated children of Mu and is confirmed by the saying, “They wandered off” for they had left the land of their birth where they grew up, to go to other lands where they might find living easier.
The Mound Builders were living in America after Atlantis went down about 11,500 years ago. Geographically they occupied what may be termed the Mississippi Watershed. This area before the sinking of Atlantis was a shallow inland sea extending north from the Gulf of Mexico. The sinking of Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean formed an immense hole in the Atlantic. To fill this in and level off the waters the surrounding waters were drawn in. This drew off the waters from various shallow inland seas, made them either dry habitable lands, or swamps. It also extended the coast lines. During the process of the readjustment of the waters the Mississippi Valley was drained.
The ancient Mound Builders as a people are gone, but they did leave descendants in America. They have descendents still among some of the tribes of the southwestern states.
There is evidence that the Mound Builders of North America had an advanced knowledge of the Cosmic Forces which they could have attained only by some connection with, or direct, from the Motherland. Thus it is shown that their forefathers came from Mu, but by what gate did they enter America? Among the traditions and lore of the Indians who now are on the lands where the mounds are found that: “The Mound Builders came to the Mississippi Valley from Mexico.”
The ancient prehistoric people of Mexico had the same symbols as the Mound Builders, conveying identically the same meaning in both cases. To further the point of the exceedingly strong link connecting the American Mound Builders with the prehistoric race of Mexico, note the following:
Both knew how the Forces of the Sun are generated and carried throughout the Solar System.
Both knew the Sun has a hard crust and a soft center.
Both knew that the Sun is being revolved by her Superior Sun from west to east.
Both knew the revolving hard crust carries around the soft center in the same direction, but not at the same velocity, thus forming a frictional line, a magnet. This is shown by the soft material in the center being curved.
This Mu-ab-ite Science refers to the Four Great Primary Forces by the central soft material being divided into four arms forming a cross, the first and original symbols of the Four Great Forces. Hence the Cosmic Sciences have not been entirely lost. Scraps of them are still known in the Orient and among the Polynesians.
The cross symbolizes the Sun as the Celestial Orb with a white cross in the center surmounted with a red cross (tau). The white open cross read U luumil, which translated is the Country of, the Land of, the Empire of – and being within the Sun, reads – the Empire of the Sun, Mu.
The Great Serpent Mounds
The serpent mounds were no doubt symbolical. Serpents of various patterns and designs have always, from the beginning of religion, played an important part in religious ceremonies, not among one particular race but among all ancient people from the time symbols were first used.
One of the most important of the American Serpent Mounds is situated at Brush Creek near Peebles, Ohio. This Serpent Mound could have been symbolically used as the Seven Great Commands of Creation, the Waters, or the destruction of Mu, the Motherland. Some of the serpent mounds have altars upon them, with the possibility that all had them at some time.
As Mu went down it was cast into “a fiery abyss,” fires of the underneath. It became a custom among all surviving peoples thereafter at various times and occasions to commemorate her destruction by fire. Fire is shown to have been used in commemorative services by the Mayas and Quiches who had their fiery house, and the Egyptians who used a fiery tank, and others who used burnt sacrifices of some description.
In England near Stonehenge there is a Serpent Mound said to be an exact duplication of the American at Peebles, Ohio. Thus, we find in England a specialized symbol of the same as used by the Mound Builders of America and in both cases the same meaning and conception is conveyed. Yet another question for the reader is: By what route did the Mound Builders get into England?
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Educate me: fixed function vs programmable pipeple in OpenGL
Not about OpenMW? Just about Morrowind in general? Have some random babble? Kindly direct it here.
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Post by raevol » 01 May 2019, 04:46
So I'm making this a new thread instead of burdening the active discussion in the Very Low FPS thread, but I've seen "fixed function" thrown around a few times and I want to learn some things.
I started teaching myself OpenGL a bit ago, and I'm barely a few hours and a few dozen lines into learning it (I rendered a triangle, that's it) so I'm very ignorant about everything here...
going off of the tutorial I am reading, it's trying to indoctrinate me into thinking that fixed function is a waste of time and programmable is the only worthwhile investment of my time. So now my questions:
Should I bother with fixed function?
What do we use with OpenMW?
What should we be using with OpenMW? And why?
Should we be having any discussions about things we should or should not be doing differently?
And apologies in advance if my ignorance of this subject has produced a topic that is a complete waste of time. But, fingers crossed or whatever.
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Re: Educate me: fixed function vs programmable pipeple in OpenGL
Post by wareya » 01 May 2019, 11:37
tl;dr: depth divide, the default texture sampler, non-geometry-shader tessellation, etc. are fixed function. "fixed function" is the parts of the pipeline that you don't program. however, in GL 1 and 2, pretty much the entire pipeline was fixed function, so it's called the fixed function pipeline.
Your tutorial is trying to tell you to use GL 3.3 with vertex buffers and vertex/fragment shaders instead of writing glVertex3f over and over again. And it's right.
paying attention to #1751 #2473 #3609 #3862/#3929 #3807 #4297 #4623
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Post by AnyOldName3 » 01 May 2019, 14:06
The only time you'd ever care about anything fixed-function is when you're working on an existing application that's had fixed-function stuff in it all along. If you're using fixed function stuff for anything in a new application, you're an idiot.
Only if you're going to be working on applications that already use it.
Most things OpenMW can do can be done entirely with the fixed-function pipeline, and unless you enable an effect that requires shaders, the FFP is what gets used. However, shadows, normal mapping and other fancy effects don't work with the FFP, so we use shaders, too.
The main benefits of the FFP are that:
It's supported on some pretty old hardware that doesn't support shaders. There isn't actually that much of that kind of hardware that works with operating systems we support, though.
We know that it's doing the same thing as vanilla Morrowind as that used the FFP for nearly everything (although via Direct3D instead of OpenGL).
OSG predates shaders, so lots of aspects of how it works are written with an FFP-first attitude. Its system to combine statesets works very, very well with the FFP, but can be a little janky with shaders. You can attach a whole shader program to a stateset, and you can attach uniforms (data that gets used by the shader and is the same for every vertex and pixel in a draw call) and as of OSG 3.4, you can attach preprocessor definitions, but this is messier than just saying you want to turn off fog for a subgraph. Also, things like OSG's light system assume you're either using the FFP or an old version of shaders that has access to FFP state.
Shaders are much more flexible, powerful, and likely to do what they're told on modern hardware. If the option to not use them were a new thing, no one would take it.
If we'd have started the OSG port after OSG 3.4 released, we'd probably be using its shader composition feature and could have more easily achieved certain things, but that's kind of a moot point now. Lots of things that are difficult are difficult because we don't want to unnecessarily break fixed-function compatibility. Some things that are difficult are difficult because we want to continue supporting older OpenGL versions, too.
We probably should, but only up to a certain point. If all the people who know about graphics programming are always busy rehashing the same debate, nothing will ever get done.
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Post by Chris » 01 May 2019, 18:33
raevol wrote: ↑
More or less, yes. Fixed-function was already on its way out a decade ago, and drivers implement the fixed-function pipeline with shaders.
Not if you're looking to get into serious or semi-serious 3D work. Aside from the fixed-function/programmable debate itself, GL3 and newer adds a number of features to more efficiently use hardware, and using GL3 with the fixed-function pipeline is a sketchy proposition (the FFP was deprecated with GL3, so you can only get it with a compatibility profile, but using a compatibility profile may lock you out of newer features, so its really one or the other).
Currently OpenMW uses fixed-function, though can switch to use programmable/shaders as needed. However, I would say this is more than backwards; rather than using programmable/shaders as a fallback for when fixed-function doesn't work for some feature, we should drop fixed-function and use only a programmable path, IMO.
At the time, I suppose the thinking was since vanilla used fixed-function, us also using it helped ensure similar results, and it is quicker to get stuff rendering with fixed-function. However, OpenMW is aiming to be a more modern engine for more modern systems, and no modern or even semi-modern system relies on fixed-function, and we're already hitting into stuff that can't work with fixed-function (at least, not without a much larger time investment). Having to support both a programmable shader path and a fixed-function paths increases maintenance cost, especially as we go into the future and the two paths diverge. Being that no modern system relies on fixed-function, supporting it along side a programmable path is going to take up time.
It's always good to have discussions about how things could or should be done. The computing landscape is always changing, so the things it makes sense to do now may no longer make sense in 5 to 10 years. As long as it doesn't get in the way of actually getting things done, we should always be open to discussion.
Thanks everybody, this is very informative.
For myself, I'm happy I am learning the shader pipeline after reading what you are saying. I'll keep going forward with that.
For OpenMW, please correct me where I am wrong with this statement, but it seems like if someone with the skills, time, and motivation to switch us off of OSG, or at least off of all of the fixed function parts of OSG (the extent of which I am not certain) that that work would benefit us a lot. But it would be a ton of work.
If we go shader-only, that'll make some things much easier going forward, but we'll stop supporting a chunk of hardware that people still use. It'll also make some things harder as OSG won't magically do them for us any more.
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Post by Stomy » 02 May 2019, 02:38
Yeah, my intention if I do end up making the dedicated system would be to make shaders the default behavior and fixed-function a legacy backup option rather than the way it is now. The idea would be that people could still use the old hardware but any further innovations would be on the shader-based approach, and the system would be optimized to assume it was in use.
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I was going to look at the Steam hardware survey to see how common old OpenGL support is, but the survey is down.
There's also the OpenGL report data from 0 A.D., might even be more representative of our player base being another open-source game.
https://feedback.wildfiregames.com/report/opengl/
AnyOldName3 wrote: ↑
If we go shader-only, that'll make some things much easier going forward, but we'll stop supporting a chunk of hardware that people still use.
I'm curious how many people actually use such hardware. The GeForce 8 series of cards was released in late 2006, and supported a fully programmable pipeline (GL3/D3D10). 12 and a half years later, that line of cards is considered ancient. I'd wonder if a system with that kind of card even has a good enough CPU or enough RAM to run OpenMW properly.
FWIW, GZDoom ran some surveys last year when they were deciding what needed supporting based on what people were using. Their last survey, from August last year, had the number of people with GL2-only cards at 2.5% (down from 6% four months prior). That was enough for them to essentially drop it and focus solely on GL3/4 (and recently, Vulkan), though even if they hadn't it would definitely be less than 2.5% now.
Considering Doom targets an even older demographic than Morrowind, I wouldn't be surprised if users with GL2-only devices is even less for us. However, I wouldn't use this alone as reason to drop FFP support. I would, though, use this as reason that focus should be on GL3+ devices, with FFP effectively being on life support (let it stay if necessary, and fix any glaring issue it may have, but don't have it as the default and don't worry about if it has every feature it potentially could) with potential to drop it if it becomes too much of a hassle.
* The survey was included in the engine and sent anonymous statistics (with user consent) to a server that compiled the stats, and took some minor steps to ignore attempts at artificial stat inflation (e.g. someone with a low- or high-end system sending a bunch of reports, to make it seem like there's more of that kind of system than there actually are). Hardly a flawless solution, but it was more than mere forum polls.
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LONDON, England (PNN) - April 8, 2013 - Margaret Thatcher, the first woman ever to serve as prime minister of Great Britain and the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century, has died at age 87.
"It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning," Lord Timothy Bell, her former adviser, said today.
Thatcher had significant health problems in her later years, suffering several small strokes and, according to her daughter, struggling with dementia.
During her long career on the political stage, Thatcher was known as the Iron Lady. She led Great Britain as prime minister from 1979 to 1990, a champion of free-market policies and adversary of the Soviet Union.
Many considered her Britain’s Ronald Reagan. Indeed, Reagan and Thatcher were political soul mates. Reagan called her the "best man in England" and she called him "the second most important man in my life."
The two shared a hatred of communism and a passion for small government. What Amerika knew as "Reaganomics" is still called "Thatcherism" in Britain.
Like Reagan, Thatcher was an outsider in the old boys' club. Just as it was unlikely for an actor to lead the Republicans, the party of Lincoln, it was unthinkable that a grocer's daughter could lead the Conservatives, the party of Churchill and William Pitt - that is, until Thatcher. She led the Conservatives from 1975 to 1990, the only woman ever to do so.
Thatcher was born Margaret Hilda Roberts on Oct. 13, 1925 in Grantham, England. She attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied chemistry and, later, in 1953, qualified as a barrister, specializing in tax issues.
She married Denis Thatcher on Dec. 13, 1951, and their marriage lasted for nearly 52 years until his death in June 2003. The couple had twins, Mark and Carol, in 1953.
When Thatcher was elected to Britain's House of Commons in 1959, she was its youngest female member. In 1970, when the Conservatives took power, she was made Britain's Secretary of State for Education and Science. In 1975, she was chosen to lead the Conservatives, and she became the prime minister in 1979.
Her policies were controversial. She took on the nation's labor unions, forcing coal miners to return to work after a year on strike.
"We should back the workers and not the shirkers," she said in May 1978.
She pushed for privatization, lower taxes and deregulation. She sought to keep Britain from surrendering any of its sovereignty to the European Union.
She had courage in abundance. In 1982, when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, she took Britain to war - and won.
In 1984, she narrowly escaped being killed when the IRA bombed her hotel during a party conference. The morning after, she convened the conference on schedule - undaunted.
She recognized Mikhail Gorbachev as a man who could help to end the Cold War, commenting famously, "I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together."
Ronald Reagan thought so, too. Together, Thatcher and Reagan savored victory in the Cold War as their proudest achievement. But while Alzheimer's forced Reagan to retire from public life, Thatcher kept on long after leaving Downing Street.
She became Baroness Thatcher, a symbolic leader for a party that struggled to find a worthy successor.
By the time of President Reagan's funeral in 2004, Lady Thatcher had already suffered several strokes. She was a silent witness at her friend's farewell, but she had the foresight to record a eulogy for Reagan several months earlier.
"As the last journey of this faithful pilgrim took him beyond the sunset, and as heaven's morning broke, I like to think - in the words of Bunyan - that 'all the trumpets sounded on the other side,'" she said.
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by Bella Books
Paperback (28 February, 2006)
list price: $13.95 -- our price: $10.74
Hoping for moreJake
This just doesn't make 4 stars, although I was rooting for it."Lesbian" or not it's competition is the general genre of "cop" or "detective thriller", and in that category it doesn't make it as anything new or original; actually it abounds with sterotypes.Sadly, it was too predictable for me, but I fell for Jake.Yes, the scenery descriptions are wonderful, but that "ain't" why I read thrillers.They are "thrillers", after all!I underestand (I think) the role sex plays in novels of this kind, and Ms Hill writes her explicit scenes quite well, too well.They are of erotica not "romance."Explicitness for its own sake is fine and I enjoy it, but here it was over-the-top and unnecessary.We do not need descriptions of digital explorations to have a novel unfold.No pun intended.
THE BEST I'VE READ IN A LONG TIME
this is one of the best books I have read in a very long time, once I started reading I couldn't put it down. Loving the characters i'm hoping for a sequel.
Great mystery and romance in Denver and the woods of Colorado
"Jake" McCoy is a detective, who has taken some leave time after being injured in the line of duty and Nicole Westbrook is a psychologist and closeted lesbian. The two meet in the wilds of Colorado where Jake is recuperating and Nicole is vacating. Nicole is hopelessly lost when she meets Jake. Their attaction sizzles and they have great sex in a hot spring.
Subjects: 1. American Mystery & Suspense Fiction 2. Fiction 3. Fiction - General 4. Lesbian 5. Mystery & Detective - General 6. Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths 7. Romance - Contemporary 8. Adventure / thriller
by Riverhead Trade
Paperback (01 October, 2002)
Once again Sarah Waters kept me enthralled, page after page.
Completely engrossing
I first read Sarah Waters book, Affinity, and had to read more of her work. I initially decided to go back to Tipping the Velvet but found something about Nan's narrative voice too similar to Margaret's and felt I needed a break from their meek, awkward, (sometimes girlish) obsessiveness and so decided to move to Fingersmith and return to Tipping the Velvet at another time. I am so glad I did! Fingersmith is a completely engrossing work of fiction with a bevy of unusual characters and unexpected twists that compell the reader forward - sometimes at a dizzying pace.
A tale of corruption and treachery
I've been indulging in historical novels lately, and one of the surprises that I have discovered is how much I have enjoyed the work of Sarah Waters. In particular, this book.
Subjects: 1. Fiction 2. Fiction - Historical 3. Historical - General 4. Lesbian 5. Mystery/Suspense 6. Thrillers 7. Fiction / General 8. Reading Group Guide
by Bold Strokes Books
Paperback (September, 2004)
Love this whole series!
Another hit by Radclyffe.This series needs to be made into a movie.I would certainly be in line to see it!
Justice Series Prevails
Det. Sgt. Frye and Dr. Rawling are joined by cyber gurus Sloan & Jason/Jasmin plus their significant others Michael & Sarah from the Trust Series.Officer Dell Mitchell joins the team.
Another Excellent Entry in the Justice Series
This outing in the series is less about Detective Sergeant Rebecca Frye and Dr. Catherine Rawlings and more about the minor characters who were introduced in previous outings.In this book, Rebecca is still trying to find the person who ordered the killing of her partner, Jeff Cruz, and another cop, who may be the same bad guy who ordered the hit on her friend JT Sloan (the hitman mistook Sloan's lover Michael for Sloan and nearly killed the wrong woman and Sloan wants revenge), and who may be the head of a porn ring plagueing Philadelphia.She has an unofficial official team working away from police headquarters trying to track down the perps.And a strange team it is - but they all work well together and make headway.
Subjects: 1. Fiction 2. Fiction - Mystery/ Detective 3. Lesbian 4. Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths 5. Mystery/Suspense 6. Crime & mystery
Paperback (30 June, 2006)
I always look forward to reading books by first-time authors.Sometimes the books are borderline and immature, but the good ones are exceptionally fresh and exciting.Such is the case with `Anticipation.'
Thrilling!
I read Anticipation in one weekend...needless to say, I was hooked from the get go! Ms. Breneman does an amazing job of leading her reader on a suspenseful adventure full of colorful characters and plot twists. She obviously knows the ins and outs of the justice system and keeps you guessing up to the very end! The romantic storyline is equally enthralling. The main characters are brought to life by Ms. Breneman's nimble attention to the details in life that make us all human: love, excitement, hope, fear and, not least of all, anticipation. I am very much looking forward to her next work!
I loved this book. It was well written,and fun to read. I could not put it down. You want them to get together from the first time they meet. I loved Anticipation by Terri Breneman. I really look forward to her next book.
Subjects: 1. American Mystery & Suspense Fiction 2. Fiction 3. Fiction - General 4. Lesbian 5. Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths 6. Modern fiction
by Bolds Strokes Books
Paperback (01 March, 2005)
Hunter's Pursuit is as Good as the Genre Get
Hunter is an enigma - an assasin by trade, but with a gentleness that is enchanting.While hunting for food, she witnesses a car accident.She saves the car's inhabitant.She later finds out that someone has put a million-dollar contract out on her.She has no idea who will come after her, why the contract was put on her, or who her mysterious visitor is.
It Came Highly Recommended
I picked up Hunter's Pursuit by Kim Baldwin while in Provincetown for Women's Week in October. I got a personal recommendation from Radclyffe herself. She said, "If you like action/adventure, Kim is our Gerri Hill." Well, I like Hill very much, so I was excited to read this book by Baldwin, especially because of the personal recommendation.
Suspense! Drama! Mystery!
Assassin Katarzyna "Kat" Demetrious, code name Hunter, rescues a woman seriously injured and stuck in a wrecked car in the snow.Who is this woman? Where did she come from? And why would she have been driving in such a remote area? Could she be one of the assassins Kat has been told is on her trail?
Subjects: 1. Fiction / Romance / Suspense 2. Crime & mystery 3. Fiction 4. Lesbian 5. Lesbian fiction 6. Mystery 7. Romance - Adult 8. Romance - Contemporary 9. Romance - Suspense
Paperback (27 July, 2006)
The Flames of Love with a Twist...
This reader was pleasantly surprised with the quality of writing delivered by Gina Dartt in `Unexpected Sparks,' a first-time novel that shows a maturity not often found from first-time authors.Not generally a big fan of mysteries, I thoroughly enjoyed the way the author wove a budding romance with a murder investigation... especially because neither of the protagonists are police detectives.
Fabulous novel - Wonderful romance and endearing characters
One of the best romances I have ever read. Like a breath of fresh air. Here is a writer who knows how to write. You never feel like you are reading a work of fiction. You are immediately engrossed by the first chapter. The words flow together and I wished it didn't have to end. You'll love the characters as if they were your friends.
Subjects: 1. American Mystery & Suspense Fiction 2. Fiction 3. Fiction - General 4. Lesbian 5. Mystery & Detective - General 6. Romance - Contemporary 7. Romance
by Intaglio Publications
Paperback (05 September, 2004)
A price worth paying for the Cost of this Commitment
This was an absolute jewel of a find. I purchased part one of the series due to a recomendation by Amazon,they could not have been more on target. This book,part two just shows that love is definetly everlasting. I found the story line to be believeable, and being a hopeless romantic, it touched me deeply. The author leaves no stone unturned, giving you mistery, suspense,drama and love all bound in a neat little package all the while leaving room for an on going story. The love senes are hot, and the suspense is action packed, and what makes it perfect is the main characters could be people you know. Looking forward to the next book.
Rollercoaster Quality
The pros... I like the story lines presented by Lynn Ames in the Kate/Jay series.They are interesting, keep the reader's attention, and present factual places and things.The characters of Kate and Jay are likable and lead interesting, yet almost unbelievable, lives.The romance is central to the story and is a great compliment to the intrigue presented throughout the book.
Suspenseful! Dramatic!
Katherine "Kate" Kyle and Jamison "Jay" Parker are two strong, dynamic women first introduced to readers in the dramatic book, The Price of Fame.As they try to recover from Kate's unexpected departure from her news anchor position, Jay and Kate unfortunately find themselves, once again, embroiled in a situation fraught with danger, suspicion and intrigue.
Subjects: 1. Fiction - General 2. Fiction / Lesbian 3. Lesbian 4. General & Literary Fiction 5. Lesbians 6. Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths 7. Romantic suspense novels
by Insomniac Press
Paperback (25 April, 2005)
list price: $7.95 -- our price: $7.95
A Tasty Treat!
I have to start by saying I think that Tony Bidulka is handsome and charming. But do I let that prejudice my opinion of his books?
Yummmmmmm
Amuse Bouche are little tastes served at the beginning of the meal - but this thriller by Canadian author Anthony Bidulka is a full and hearty meal that will leave you wanting more. Meet Russell Quant and his very real and human cast of friends and foes - someone for eveyone.
Alluring and Amusing Mystery for Everyone
Amuse Bouche is about Russell Quant, a young gay man celebrating his first year as a private detective with a bottle of passable champagne he retrieves from the mini fridge that holds up one end of his office desk. He is reminiscing about his less than exciting cases in the first twelve months when along comes the case of a lifetime - murder, deceit, international travel, and a client who may be the bad guy. What follows is an absolutely alluring and amusing romp of a mystery that anyone will enjoy. ... Read more
Subjects: 1. English Mystery & Suspense Fiction 2. Fiction 3. Fiction - Mystery/ Detective 4. Gay 5. Literary Criticism 6. Mystery & Detective - General 7. Mystery & Detective - Series 8. Mystery/Suspense 9. Fiction / Gay 10. Literary Criticism & Collections / General
by Renaissance Alliance Publishin
Paperback (05 May, 2003)
Radclyffe Keeps Getting Better and Better
I remember reading a Radclyffe interview where she said she didn't like writing series romances.I'm so very glad she doesn't "walk the talk" on that one!I have completely enjoyed her three series: Honor, Provincetown, and Justice.In fact, I've read through all of them for a second time this year.
Adventure,romance,intrigue,and more!
Rarely have I found a writer who can take so many different plot lines and weave them all into one book. You could take any one of at least three seperate tracks in this book and turn them into individual stand alone stories worthy of publishing. But such is the case with Radclyffe's writing. She gives you much more than your money's worth, and leaves you with enough questions to cause you to hunger for the next installment in the series. I recommend reading her "series" stories in order, and watch both the writer and the characters in her literature mature!
Another Winner
Whether you read Radclyffe's series books, like the Justice series or the Honor series or the Provincetown series, or you read one of her stand-alone romances, you can not go wrong.
Subjects: 1. Fiction 2. Fiction - Mystery/ Detective 3. Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural 4. Mystery/Suspense 5. Crime & mystery 6. Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural 7. Lesbians 8. Police
10. The Iron Girl: A Jane Lawless Mystery (Jane Lawless)
by St. Martin's Minotaur
Hardcover (14 July, 2005)
Sales Rank: 104238
Suspense and Drama at its Best!
Restaurant owner, Jane Lawless is embroiled yet again, in another mystery to solve. This one hits close to home.Very, very close in fact.
Tension, Suspense, Danger and a Dead Ringer
Jane Lawless has struggled and grieved over her partner Christine's death back in 1987, a long time ago, but now she's happy with someone else and after coming back from a vacation with new partner Kenzie, she finally decides she's ready go through Christine's things. However, as she's going through Christine's briefcase, she finds a gun that shouldn't be there and now she has questions that need to be answered.
Enjoyable but more coincidence than investigation
The murder had taken place years before. Two people were brutally killed, a young boy traumatized, and the surviving family members left in their disintegrating home, backbiting and squabbling, with a line down the middle of the house to make sure neither trespassed on the other. Jane Lawless's lover, Christine, had been involved in a real estate deal that was supposed to sell that house, but Christine's cancer and the murder put the real estate deal on permanent hold. Now, though, Jane is starting to see hints of that murder everywhere.
Subjects: 1. Fiction 2. Fiction - Mystery/ Detective 3. Lawless, Jane (Fictitious char 4. Lawless, Jane (Fictitious character) 5. Lesbian 6. Mass murder investigation 7. Minneapolis 8. Minnesota 9. Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths 10. Mystery/Suspense 11. Women detectives 12. Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
by Harrington Park Press
A witty mystery
The year is 1979 and Don Strachey is hired by a wealthy couple to find their son Billy. Billy is wanted for murder, and since both he and Strachey are gay, the detective must have some ideas as to where the young man has fled. Of course, because all gays know each other, right? Soon Strachey is drawn into a complex puzzle as he becomes determined to prove Billy's innocence. Now if he could just find the young man before it's too late. In this lively mystery, Stevenson introduces his plucky detective and spins a great tale that belies the social commentary contained within. "Death Trick" is not only a great example of the mystery genre, but also a compelling slice of gay literary history.
The gay storyline blends well with the telling of the events
around a murder.I like the angst that Donald feels when he becomes involved with a central figure in his case.The patronizing parents are a good, but overdone touch.In all, it is a pleasant read.
A fast-paced, witty, gay who-dunnit.
In the series opener Albany P.I. Donald Strachey takes on a sensational murder case within the gay community--which just happens to be right up his own alley.Read more
Subjects: 1. Albany 2. Fiction 3. Fiction - Mystery/ Detective 4. Gay 5. Gay men 6. Mystery & Detective - General 7. Mystery/Suspense 8. New York (State) 9. Private investigators 10. Strachey, Donald (Fictitious c 11. Strachey, Donald (Fictitious character) 12. General & Literary Fiction 13. Literature of special Gay interest
Paperback (31 January, 2006)
Amazing for the First Book!
Ali Vali has an amazing talent! I could not put this book down! The Devil Inside was an easy and very enjoyable read. For this being her first attempt at a novel, I think the work rates Vali up there with the likes of Radclyffe and Gerri Hill. I can not imagine anyone not liking this book and the great characters. Derby Cain is a tough and powerful woman with a soft side that lets you fall in love with her. Cain's family comes first especially her son Hayden.In the begining you doubt Emma, Cain's wife but by the end of the book you find yourself rooting for her.As the story unfolds Emma's character is transformed and it makes you wonder what level she will be taken to in the sequel.
So Anxious For The Sequel, I Could Burst!
This reader has enjoyed many stories the talented Ali Vali has posted online and was anxious to read her first published book.I am most definitely NOT disappointed!Vali leaves the reader hanging at the end of each chapter - heck, at the end of each sentence - thus making it difficult to make the pleasure last.It's impossible to put the book down once you start reading.
A Rare Gift - An Outstanding First Book
Cain is the head of one of New Orleans' mob families.She took over the job when her father was killed.Emma is her partner and the mother of her son.When Emma walks away from Cain and her son, both are devastated.When Emma returns four years later, all have to deal with the consequences of Emma's betrayal.
Subjects: 1. American Mystery & Suspense Fiction 2. Fiction 3. Fiction - General 4. Lesbian 5. Romance - General 6. Suspense 7. Modern fiction
Paperback (30 November, 2006)
Subjects: 1. American Mystery & Suspense Fiction 2. Fiction 3. Fiction - General 4. Lesbian 5. Mystery & Detective - General 6. Romance - Contemporary 7. Modern fiction
by Haworth Press
Paperback (01 August, 2005)
A Great New Detective Emerges in Kimo
How unusual to find a novel that combines a poignant coming out story with a mystery.The author intertwines the mystery and detection elements of the story with the character of Kimo dealing with his long suppressed homosexuality so brilliantly that neither element takes centre stage but rather they combine to make for a truly wonderful story.
Real and riveting
I'm not usually a reader of detective novels, but I loved this.
Try this for a little Aloha spirit
I love reading books that have a strong sense of place - especially when that place is somewhere I know well - in this case, Honolulu, Hawaii. And Mahu not only get the place right, but everything else as well, including the introduction of a most original and charming main character: surfer guy cop Kimo.
Subjects: 1. American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors + 2. Fiction 3. Gay police officers 4. Gay 5. Coming out (Sexual orientation) 6. Hawaii 7. Honolulu 8. Honolulu (Hawaii) 9. Mystery & Detective - General 10. Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural 11. Mystery fiction 12. Police 13. Literature of special Gay interest 14. Modern fiction
Lt. L.A. Franco from the LAPD has been going to AA and attending meetings faithfully.As part of the program, she's decided to put closure to the death of her mother.She goes to NYC to visit her mother's grave only to find someone has been placing flowers and candles on her father's grave.
Sometimes, Redemption Isn't an Option
LAPD Lieutenant L.A. Franco takes a weekend trip to New York on personal business. It shouldn't be hard to handle, just a quick trip to close the door on old memories. It was probably pointless to try tying up loose ends left dangling for a few decades, but still, she'd make the attempt.
Subjects: 1. American Mystery & Suspense Fiction 2. Fiction 3. Fiction - General 4. Lesbian 5. Mystery & Detective - General 6. Mystery/Suspense 7. Crime & mystery
by W. W. Norton & Company
A beautifully told love story
Therese works as a shopgirl in a large department store as it prepares fro the Christmas rush.But it's only a temporary job as she wants to become a set designer, with the help of contacts provided by her boyfriend Richard.She's content but life with Richard isn't quite what she's looking for.In fact, she's not sure what she needs until Carol, a handsome older woman, walks into her department to buy a doll for her daughter.Therese manages to strike up a conversation with Carol and soon, they begin to see quite a bit of each other.Their friendship changes while on a cross country trip and soon Therease and Carol must battle to keep their romance going despite the possible threat of Carol's husband and threats to keep her away from her daughter.
Coming Out in 1969
The Price of Salt changed my life. I used to drive an ice cream truck in Long Beach CA and would stop by the pier at a used book store to search the racks of pulp fiction for anything that had a modicum of same sex content.
One of this writers best efforts.
In 1952 Patricia Highsmith composed this personal and revelatory classic.Harper & Bros, publisher of Highsmith's "Strangers on a Train," refused to issue this novel due to its controversial subject matter.The powers that be convinced Highmsith that publishing under her own name would adversely impact her career the way Gore Vidal's had initially been by "The City and the Pillar." The Naiad Press out of Tallahassee, Florida published this volume under the pseudonym Claire Morgan.Ironically, "The Price of Salt" became one of this author's best sellers.All that seems so long ago - another lifetime.Indeed, it's hard to conceive of Michael Cunningham or Tony Kushner having to contend with such issues.So, now that all of the controversy has abated we can judge this novel on it's own merits, and the verdict is a happy one."The Price of Salt" is one of Highsmith's best efforts.This novel works on a number of levels.It is both a "coming out" story and a "love" story, with a bit of the author's trademark suspense thrown in for good measure.The story has an emotional honesty and autobigraphical sensibility; qaulities that are noticeably absent from much of her other work.I found myself pulling for Carol and Therese, and found the development of their relationship to be natural and true to life.The "happy ending" is achieved in an uncompromising fashion that doesn't feel false or contrived.I am reminded of a Stephen Sondheim lyric: "wishes come true, not free."These characters paid a price for their happiness - it wasn't free. ... Read more
Subjects: 1. Classics 2. Fiction 3. Fiction - General 4. Highsmith, Patricia - Prose & Criticism 5. Lesbian 6. Literary 7. Movie-TV Tie-In - General 8. Crime & mystery
by Alyson Books
Impressive debut
L.A. Heat is the kind of book that makes you wonder how this could be a debut novel. This suspenseful, carefully-plotted mystery has all the earmarks of some of the best (and more seasoned) mystery pros in the business. Its setting is realistic and at times seamy, its characters sympathetic and real, its attention to detail (especially police procedure) astonishing, and its pacing deft...definitely in the category of "can't put down." I look forward to more from P.A. Brown. She's a winner.
Page turner
This is by no means one of the "best written" books I've read but it's been a long time since I read one I had such a difficult time putting down.Highly recommended.
Fantastic first novel is a well-written, engaging, realistic gem!
David Laine is a 37 year old veteran Los Angeles police detective, who first meets Chris Bellamere, a gay partyboy in his early 20's with a good job as a computer systems professional, as an investigative lead (and possible suspect) in an ongoing series of rapes, maiming and subsequent murders of young gay men.While David's instincts tell him that Chris isn't the killer (much to the frustration of David's detective partner, Martinez, who didn't hide his resentment of gays), Chris' "gaydar" tells him that David's interest in him isn't entirely professional. Yet, there seems to be some connection, as most of the victims frequented the same gay cruise bar that Chris did, and he had been seen with them by the bartender.
Subjects: 1. Fiction 2. Fiction - General 3. Gay 4. Mystery & Detective - General 5. Crime & mystery 6. Fiction / Gay 7. Literature of special Gay interest
by GLB Publishers
Paperback (June, 2004)
Well done P.I. novel
Small town P.I. Dick Hardesty is vacationing in the Big Apple with his young lover Jonathan when he's asked by an ex-lover to investigate the murder of the leading actor in the play "Impartial Observer."
Subjects: 1. Fiction - General 2. Gay 3. Mystery/Suspense 4. Crime & mystery 5. Literature of special Gay interest
19. Everyone's Dead but Us (Tom & Scott Mysteries)
Not Up To Scratch...
For years, I have been a faithful reader of Zubro's Tom & Scott mysteries (and still am!), but sadly must agree with the previous reviewer that this one was just not one of Zubro's best. While I do love horror films & have nothing against gore, the level of violence in the novel seemed very out of place and overly jarring for a T & S mystery story (especially when the cute cover makes this look like it's going to be a fun romp). It was difficult to tell one character from another and the storyline was very difficult to follow. Usually character & story development are flushed out very well by Zubro, but, unfortunately, it just seems jumbled & messy in this one. Even the normally enjoyable stabs at humor T & S make at each other seem out of place in this novel with all the grisly killing going on.
Too brutal for a mystery!
I have been a faithful follower of Tom & Scott series for years.
Nail-biting suspense, but a bit too far-fetched for me.
Scott Carpenter, the openly-gay former baseball star, along with his longtime high school teacher spouse Tom Mason, are vacationing the week after Christmas on the remote Aegean island of Korkasi, site of a little known resort catering to rich gay men.Their "r&r" is broken permanently when, shortly after finding the resort manager shot dead in their room, an explosion in the resort's main building results in several other deaths, at a time when all communication is cut off from the main world due to a massive lightning storm.Tom and Scott try to organize the survivors they find to search the outlying villas, to inform others what happened and perhaps get some clues as to the cause of the explosion, but are soon frustrated by the selfishness and lackadasical attitude of their fellow guests.And, as other shooting victims are found, it becomes apparent that a dangerous killer is at large, perhaps one of their own, putting them all in danger, in a complex tale of greed, stolen art treasures and false identities.
Subjects: 1. Carpenter, Scott (Fictitious character) 2. Fiction 3. Fiction - Mystery/ Detective 4. Gay men 5. Mason, Tom (Fictitious character) 6. Mystery & Detective - General 7. Mystery And Suspense Fiction 8. Mystery/Suspense
Paperback (30 December, 2005)
Rose Beecham (aka Jennifer Fulton) has another great series going with star FBI agent Jude Devine at the helm.
Read It and Read It Again
After spending the last few years writing sexy romances as Jennifer Fulton, Fulton aka Rose Beecham has triumphantly returned to penning mysteries. With the award-winning Grave Silence, she mixes facts, surrounding the activities of the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS), with a riveting murder mystery and crafts a gripping story.
Hard to Read - Hard to Put Down
Jude Devine, a FBI agent, has been assigned to an undercover operation in remote Paradox Valley. She assumes the duties of Sheriff's detective for the Montzuma County Sheriff's office.While she is building a case for the FBI, a dead, mutilated woman shows up on her turf.She and her deputy begin an investigation.It leads them to a cult of Mormon polygamists. What follows is a web of secrecy,deception, abuse, and brainwashing.
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A Global Call to Embrace Free Neutrino Energy A Global Call to Embrace Free ...
A Global Call to Embrace Free Neutrino Energy
The Neutrino Energy Group is embarking on a new chapter in the legacy of neutrino energy. Holger Schubart and his international team are hard at work developing consumer-level devices that will supplement existing renewable energy infrastructures all over the world.
Everywhere we turn, geopolitics is in disarray. The old order is dying, and the current chaos is at least partially attributable to the critical role that energy production and consumption play on the world stage. Solving the looming energy crisis facing our global civilization would promote harmony, goodwill, and order among all the people of the Earth, and the time to get started is now.
The energy crisis affects everyone
The world is split on how it views energy. While Europe is the most forward-thinking sustainable energy powerhouse on the map, countries like China pollute recklessly in full disregard of existing agreements on climate change and ecological preservation. America, for its part, has experienced an economic revival partially due to its booming energy economy. The more fossil fuels America produces, however, the more pollution enters the environment, which is economically unsustainable in the long-term.
Put simply, no one cares enough about the energy crisis facing humanity. Grandiose gestures regarding climate change are often mere virtue signaling, the most progressive climate change proposals are transparent power grabs, and everyone else utterly ignores the problem and accepts the status quo.
The reason? Fixing the world isn't easy right now. What makes things easier? New technology.
Who holds the keys to the future?
It's time to determine who will lead the human race into the future. Will it be China, with its reckless disregard for individual sovereignty and utter lack of ecological conscience? Will it be the global fossil fuel industry, which cares only for itself? Or will it be today's greatest innovators in energy science?
Remember that it was the oil barons who reshaped the energy industry a century ago, and it was the automobile innovators who utterly changed the way that the economy operates. Great inventions always disrupt existing paradigms, and now, a new technology is poised to utterly reshape the landscape of our energy economy and provide humanity with a new direction regarding the climate, the environment, and the destiny of our species here on planet Earth.
Energy security leads to total freedom
An ongoing trade war between the United States and China emphasizes how reliance on outdated forms of energy leads to global conflict. China and America are aligned with different world powers in different ways, and they engage in many proxy economic and live-fire conflicts all over the world. Both the Chinese and American military-industrial complexes are heavily influenced by the major energy corporations, and as we're well aware, numerous recent wars have been nothing more than flimsy pretexts for petty conflicts over oil.
Warfare leads to deprivation and loss of freedom. The ultimate loss of freedom is death, and human beings should never have to inflict death on one another in the name of energy. We can all cooperatively face the future together if we develop our infrastructure to use neutrinos as a viable source of energy, which would return the keys to the destiny of humanity to the people.
Neutrino energy is needed to face our current challenges
Geopolitics aside, there is a multitude of other reasons that the era of fossil fuels must end soon. Firstly, we do not have a clear assessment of how long our fossil fuel reserves will hold out. Alarmists were convinced that we would run out of oil completely by 2010, so we may have enough fossil fuels to last us another hundred years.
But Fossil fuel use leads to population growth, which then leads to more fossil fuel use. Even when compared to our total dependency to fossil fuels, it's clear which future we'd like to see for our children. We want a future with limitless, clean energy.
The Neutrino Energy Group is pioneering the neutrino century
Everywhere you look, humanity is coming together instead of falling apart. While our technologies can alienate us when used incorrectly, the latest generation of electronic devices is bringing humanity closer together than ever before. Now, we just need an energy source capable of powering the technological revolutions that the remaining four-fifths of the 21st century will undoubtedly bring.
For years, the scientific community scoffed at German scientist Holger Schubart's attempts to derive energy from neutrinos. Conventional physics said that neutrinos don't have mass, which would make deriving energy from these ghostly particles impossible.
In 2015, however, two scientists received the Nobel Prize for proving that neutrinos do, in fact, possess mass. This discovery threw the world of physics into disarray, and it opened the path forward to investment into neutrinovoltaic research.
In 2017, the University of Chicago's physics department succeeded in deriving electrical energy from captured neutrino mass, and just recently, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology discovered the exact amount of mass neutrinos possess. Neutrinovoltaic science is progressing rapidly, and it won't be long until Neutrino Power Cubes light up our homes and neutrino-powered smartphones never have to be charged.
With the help of key investors and the cooperation of German and American companies and institutions, the Neutrino Energy Group will soon produce a device that will completely rewrite the map of modern energy production and its impact on geopolitics. Humanity has always dreamed of freedom, and we have always pursued the next frontier. With the help of contemporary renewable energy technologies, we will finally have the power to take the human story forward.
Source: The Neutrino Energy Group
Date: Oct 8, 2019
Interesting news item! A Global Call to Embrace Free Neutrino Energy
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What’s not to love about the hype around Booksmart? Well, the lateness of this review is one.
This movie I think had three screenings available for me to go to to see it early, and I just could not make any of them. One of them was a night I planned on going, but got bombarded with work and had to stay home. It sucked.
I wanted to see the first film directed by Olivia Wilde, who has had some great comedy moments in her career. I wanted the film that was described as the female equivalent of Superbad, but better and more PC.
More PC but just as raunchy.
Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein) are top of the line students at their high school. High grades, internships, activities, they want to go to a great college, get great careers, and have great lives.
They didn’t have time for getting high, or drinking, or partying. Very little socializing besides each other. They had crushes and never went after them. They are friends with their teachers, and Miss Fine (Jessica Williams) is their hero.
But it turns out that most of their school associates also have gotten into great schools. The ones who slacked, who partied who had fun. These two sacrificed for years for…nothing. Now it is time to change it. The night before graduation, they are going to experience parties and go for their crushes and lay it all out there, before Amy has to go to Africa for the summer. They need to go through the whole high school experience in just one night. Easy.
Also starring Skyler Gisondo, Victoria Ruesga, Billie Lourd, Molly Gorgon, Mason Gooding, Will Forte and Lisa Kudrow as parents, and Jason Sudeikis as a vice principal.
Okay, how can straddling a giant phallic object be more PC?
Booksmart was a breath of fresh air. Just like Long Shot felt like a breath of fresh air earlier in the year. Except Booksmart I have strong feelings will stay at my top of the year list the whole year. I can’t imagine seeing a funnier film this year, and that means a lot with so many months to go.
It is just hard to find good comedy films in general that can change the game and offer something new. That give believable reasons for vulgarity and strangeness. That have a plot and growth in the characters. That aren’t just goddamn slapstick.
Out leads have flaws, have arguments, and are people worth cheering for. They are very different and relatable, but more importantly, so are the other “bad” students in their eyes. It isn’t just two heroes here, there are a lot of characters that matter and have their moments of triumph for us to shout for. Not everyone is the bad guy.
I am talking a lot of hype about a movie that technically is a high school party movie, of which the genre is packed. But damn, does this not feel like it fits the current generation so well, without dumbing itself down to whatever-ist level jokes.
Clearly, women are just funnier than men.
Tags:4 out of 4, Beanie Feldstein, Billie Lourd, Booksmart, Comedy, Jason Sudeikis, Jessica Williams, Kaitlyn Dever, Lisa Kudrow, Mason Gooding, Molly Gordon, Skyler Gisondo, Victoria Ruesga, Will Forte
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Researchers in Germany are the first to separate double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) according to both their inner- and outer-wall . Here we report on the ion conductance through individual, small diameter single- walled carbon nanotubes. We find that they are mimics of ion .
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Idealistic Pragmatist
Resisting the pull of cynicism since 1969.
In the news: no to spring election, yes to proportional representation
A spring election grows less likely all the time. Chuck Cadman is now saying he'll probably vote with the government on a no-confidence vote, and if that doesn't work, Martin may try wielding the Sword of Senate Appointments:
Sunday on Question Period [the television show, not the parliamentary procedure], independent MP Chuck Cadman indicated he will likely vote with the Liberals and the NDP on a non-confidence issue. If two other independents -- both former Liberals -- also stick with the government, it's unlikely that a Conservative-Bloc Quebecois motion could pass. And there might be other moves in the works to deplete the opposition's strength. CTV's Ottawa bureau chief Robert Fife reported Sunday that Liberals have been talking to four Conservative MPs about accepting Senate seats in the coming weeks.
And the Globe and Mail is indicating that even some Conservatives are starting to doubt the need to unseat the current government, and even their deputy leader Peter MacKay seems more chastened than anything:
Tory deputy leader Peter MacKay struck a similarly ambiguous tone . "I wouldn't call it inevitable," he said yesterday. "I think that the leader will still want to hear from caucus and get a cross-section of feedback from right across the country." Mr. MacKay noted that, given the balance of forces in Parliament and several cases of ill health among MPs on both sides, the Tories may not be capable of toppling the Martin government.
As if that weren't enough, there's been a flurry of interest in proportional representation over the past few days. Be still, my MMP-loving heart. Last night on CPAC there was a documentary called "A Fair Race" (including Ed Broadbent declaring that we'll probably have MMP here in Canada within two elections). The Globe and Mail is also doing a huge spread on it this week, and to kick things off, we've got an editorial arguing "if it's broken, fix it":
Critics say all this talk about voting reform is a waste of time. The voting system works fine as is. If it ain't broke, why fix it? In fact, our current first-past-the-post system has grave failings. It is time to change it. [...] Federal elections regularly produce wildly disproportionate results. In the 1979 Pepin-Robarts report, the Task Force on Canadian Unity observed that in every federal election since 1896, the winning party had ridden to power with more seats than its portion of the national vote would have suggested. Slight shifts in voting could translate into massive seat accumulations, as in 1935, when the Liberals nearly doubled their seats from 91 to 173 even though their vote shrank by half a percentage point.
In the same paper, Geoff Read argues that the alliances we're seeing among federal parties lately are how things *should* work, and are in fact actually what the public wants:
Despite the predictable outcry from Canadian conservatives, the present alliance between the NDP and the Liberals is, in fact, the logical expression of the electorate's will. Were the Canadian electoral system more truly democratic, utilizing a form of proportional representation, the seats held by the Martin Liberals would have been significantly reduced and the NDP's increased. The Liberals would then have faced a choice between forming either a coalition government of the centre-right, incorporating the Conservatives, or the centre-left, in co-operation with the NDP.
Voters in British Columbia are in the middle of an election that includes, alongside the main aim of electing a new provincial government, a referendum on whether to stick with first-past-the-post or opt for a form of proportional representation. Polls have shown that the yes votes are in the majority among people who know about the referendum, but since an astonishingly low number of people do know about it, it's seemed doomed to failure. Here's hoping this sort of thing serves to educate a few more people.
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Steve Stroessner is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Psychology at Barnard College. His past research has been in the area of social cognition with a particular interest in the role that cognitive, affective, and motivational factors play in stereotyping processes. His current research focuses on social categorization processes and the relation between perceived threat and stereotype endorsement.
What led you to choose a career in personality and social psychology?
I was always interested in social and political issues at a societal level, but also wanted to understand how these factors affected individuals. I discovered that social psychology melded these perspectives by taking a fantastic class with my (eventual) undergraduate mentor at Hope College, Dr. Chuck Green.
How would you summarize your current research interests?
Traditionally, I have focused my research on social perception with an emphasis on cognitive and motivational processes in stereotyping and prejudice. In the last few years, I have begun to turn to the social perception of non-social entities. Specifically, I have become interested in how non-human entities (shapes, objects, robots) invoke social categorization processes with predictable downstream consequences (e.g., gender stereotyping and prejudice).
As an instructor, are there any strategies or techniques that you’ve found to be especially helpful?
I have always found it useful to remind myself what I used to not know. It is very easy to take for granted what we know, as a field, and this can easily become reflected in our teaching. I try to remember what it felt like to be exposed for the first time to the research in the field and to remember how transformative it was in my own thinking about the world.
Is there a particular class that you enjoy teaching?
Although I have not taught it for a few years, my favorite class to teach is Statistics. I love leading students through a topic that often is intimidating to them, to get them engaged in the topic despite these fears, and to get at least a subset of students to enjoy and appreciate it. It is also a class in which it is easy to see that students have learned.
How has SPSP membership helped support you professionally?
It has kept me informed of new developments in the field, long before these developments appear in journals. More important, it has allowed me to meet and get to know new generations who are entering the field and making exciting contributions to the field.
Do you have a particularly memorable SPSP convention experience?
I was present at one of the first sessions focused on “best practices” in 2012, and that session ended up being both memorable and consequential.
What are your passions outside of psychology?
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The Unbearable Heaviness of Being
Watching a movie in a completely empty theater is a strange experience vaguely evoking a post-apocalyptic seance. You get all the trappings of a bustling social venue, but none of the people; only a sequence of images on the silver screen and their acoustic spirits. Last week, when I went to see Robert Duvall's last movie Get Low with two of my friends, I finally got to observe it first hand. And maybe it was for the better. The movie was quite personal, in a way reading handwritten letters used to be, so I was glad that I did not have to watch it with a horde of strangers.
On the surface, the plot was a rather plain story from 1930s, revealed with an imaginative camera and impeccable sense for authenticity. But underneath the main narrative lurked something much more precious - Robert Duvall's subtly encoded message for the posterity. In that regard, it reminded me of Andrei Tarkovsky's last movie, The Sacrifice, which was also a personal manifesto as much as it was a work of art.
If you like fast paced movies glittered with special effects - this motion picture would not be your cup of tea - but if you are into finespun and deep reaching psychological probes, go for it. At one point during the movie I genuinely wanted to leave the theater and only having two friends with me made me stay. But at the end - equally genuinely - I was strongly tempted to ignore the empty auditorium and start applauding. That's how unusual and contradistinct this flick really was.
Get Low is a movie about conscience and its circuitous odyssey through the labyrinth of human mind. At first, it is barely audible, but as the story progresses you can hear a distant rumble behind the thick walls as it makes its way onto the surface. The missive is crystal clear - the forces of conscience may be weak and slow, but they are patient and persistent. They are like turfs of grass pushing their way through a layer of asphalt on an old road. It may be hard for the conscience to be heard through the insulating crust of human soul, but as the life nears its end and the hour of reckoning approaches, its voice tones up and eventually prevails. Duvall's dubbing of this voice is convincing and devastatingly pure.
Needles to say, it was a timely chosen intimation. The steadily deteriorating social and economic conditions of the past two years have shaken the common man and his belief in humanity and greater good. By illuminating the innermost skirmishes of day to day battles with one's past, Get Low shows how cathartic the eventual victory can be. I hope the Wall Street gazillionaires will get a private screening. They might learn a thing or two.
Sadly, in their brave new world conscience is no longer a predominant force. That distinction would go to its spaced out cousin - "con science".
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
When I was in High School my arts teacher had a mild obsession with pointilism. Georges Pierre Seurat was her idol and on the very first class she made us study, analyze and imitate his famous painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". For the rest of my life, I have had that image indelibly burnt onto my retina - pretty benign and unremarkable on the surface - just a bunch of easygoing Parisians relaxing among trees on a gently descending grassy slope next to a nondescript body of water.
Seurat, who painted it when he was 25, believed that dabbing the canvass with the brush tip brings colors out better than traditional strokes. Perhaps. But the painting's strength lies really in its underlying mood rather than in its technical innovation. The symbiosis of water, lawn, trees, blue skies and picnic accessories fills the scenery with a glow of unusually self-contained and tranquil disposition.
Every now and then, Sundays are just like that. No pressing issues on the foreground and crystal clear skies in the background.
Bunch of guys I used to play soccer with organized a little picnic at the Fletcher Boat house area in DC this Sunday. It wasn't exactly easy to find - the itinerary involved an unexpected and devilishly sharp turn from the Canal Street that was navigable only for Mini Cooper owners or persons above the laws of physics - but after I ran through a long and narrow tunnel, not unlike a rabbit hole, I discovered a hidden gem. A wooded meadow with plenty of picnic facilities and easy access to the Potomac river. Being separated from the mainland by the Ohio - Chesapeake canal, the area could easily pose as an island.
While the organizers readied spicy sausages for a caloric attack and a volleyball net for the subsequent defense, I took a short walk down to the lazy river. As I wended my way through groups of independent picnickers strewn all over the lawn, I realized that I am in the middle of the Georges Seurat's painting. The happy and carefree mood of the picnickers was the dead giveaway. Colors have instantly awoken from their slumber and in a donnybrook of a carnival dance spilled onto the palette - the green tones of the lawn and the trees joyously intertwined with the blue hues of the water and the sky.
Right then and there, all the worries and concerns of the work week were seized and handcuffed by my senses. Imagination spread its picnic blanket and vision became so viscous I could have poured it into a tea cup like honey. It felt as if my whole life had melted. Time itself had slowed down considerably. Those same wheels of history that I saw spinning wildly just a few hours ago on Meet the Press were now purring quietly like a dozing kitten.
As I watched the shattered image of Sun glittering on Potomac's mercurial surface, I spotted the true message of Georges Seurat amidst its reflections. Every so often, we have to make a Sunday jaunt to the island of La Grand Jatte and unhinge the soul from the body. Let it float.
Just to regain our sense of purpose. To refocus our internal perspective. To rebalance our poise. To restructure the debts accrued in the previous week. And in the process - to peck a few dots of beauty on the canvass of our consciousness.
What is the value of Value?
In the golden days of yore, economy was a much simpler fare than it is today. Shoemaker made a pair of shoes, took them to a local marketplace and obtained five loaves of bread from the baker, according to the agreed upon exchange rate reflecting the amount of effort necessary to produce the respective goods. To protect bakers from a potentially lethal overabundance of shoes, coins were later introduced in lieu of specific goods and the baker would just receive two pieces of silver from the shoemaker which he could exchange (at a later time) for vegetables, clothes, woods or any other non-footwear. Note that there was absolutely no inflation in that system. If the baker decided to use his 2 pieces of silver in 5 years, he'd still get the same amount of goods, as the intrinsic value of silver (or gold) does not decrease significantly over time.
Now imagine that there was a lazy and incompetent baker whose pastry was snubbed even by the toughest and least discerning pigs. His loaves of bread were stale, revolting and unsuitable for consumption. Even the king himself would be loathe to buy his products. Why would anyone in their right mind swap anything of value for something that is essentially worthless? But the crooked baker figured a way to get by. He ingratiated himself with the King's treasurer and asked him to reduce the silver content in his coins and from the spare silver mint a couple of extra coins that he could get for his bread. That was the day inflation - which is what debasing currency really is - was born. Those who cannot produce value have strong incentives to blur it. That's the only way how a wider economy can accommodate poor workmanship.
Needless to say that inflation invites fraud. What intelligent warm blooded mammal can withstand the allure of easy money? Inflation inevitably leads to overconsumption and shortly afterwards to overextension. At first, it feels like having discovered perpetual motion, but in the long term the resulting Ponzi scheme always crashes. It is not a coincidence that Roman Empire started to crumble when its rulers resorted to tinkering with the content of precious metals in their coins. Once the flow of gold (backing the value of their currency) from new provinces ceased and Romans still needed funds to support their enormous military apparatus they had no choice but start inflating. Little did they know that whittling down the silver content in Denarius would go hand in hand with the gradual decline and eventual demise of their whole Empire.
In modern days, we don't have to debase our currency by changing its metal composition. We use paper money that can be easily printed and even more easily electronically generated. Central banks have replaced the King's treasurer, but they still have plenty of unproductive bakers to cater to. Just think of all the gravy sloshing in political campaigns. Where does it come from and what value does it produce or represent? How about legions of redundant bureaucrats, corrupt public officials or failed businesses in permanent need of bailouts. Would James Cayne, Chuck Prince or Dick Fuld walk away with hundreds of millions of dollars for driving their companies into ground? Neither of them would make it in the market where they would have to show that their yearly labor is indeed worth a billion loaves of bread.
Our central bank, The Federal Reserve, would make you believe that it is fighting inflation, while it is in fact creating it. When the Fed officials crow that their target inflation is 2%, they are essentially admitting that we need to print extra 2% every year to support various parasitic industries. It is not a coincidence that since 1913, the year the Fed was created, the dollar has lost 95% of its purchasing power. Over the course of several generations your personal wealth would get wiped out by actions of this unelected cabal of dollar murderists. Of course the central bankers will tell you that you are not supposed to use money as a store of value. You are supposed to hand all your savings over to a casino - uhmm I mean the stock market - that has been rather conveniently operated by the friendly Wall Street shamans.
Yep, the same shamans that developed the little drinking problem that resulted in the credit hangover of the century. And we still need to print dollars with a vehemence of a spastic dog trying to scram from a slippery patch of ice just to stay afloat. Last month, the Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke strongly hinted that Quantitative Easing #2 (a fancy name for debasing the currency) is coming to a bank near you and markets reacted accordingly. Dollar tanked, commodities soared.
Ostentatiously, the purpose of this operation is to save the Main Street and stimulate jobs, but closer inspection reveals gaping cracks in this theory. What bank would lend to new businesses when they will be paid by worthless pieces of paper years later? What business would have the courage to hire new employees when the surging commodity prices - reacting to rapidly declining dollar - would eat most of the profits. What entrepreneur would be able to prepare any long term planning when the future currency value is essentially arbitrary? Once the money starts stretching wildly there is no way of telling what raw materials or labor would or should cost. And how about all the capital misallocated and idling in the successfully blown gold bubble? Not to mention that the current artificially low interest rates also hinder the formation of new capital which - in its most organic form - comes from people's savings. No capital, no jobs - it is very simple.
Whether Bernanke cares about this or not, his tormented tango with the US taxpayers is but a colossal wealth transfer from the responsible to the irresponsible. An unexpected pot of gold at the end of livid rainbow. And if you wonder who that pot of gold goes to - all you have to do is look at the size of Wall Street bonuses or at the most recent reading of income inequality stats.
There are two ways in which man can steal from other man. Either he steals the actual physical coins, or he steals their underlying value. Using the so called "elastic currency" (a term invoked quite often in years preceding the creation of the Federal Reserve) is like having a bony hand of the Central Bank planted permanently in your pocket, not knowing when it will pinch. Does the Fed ever think about the retirees who have lived within their means so they could save enough for decent retirement only to see their nest egg scrambled by the bank's panicky machinations. Probably not. Maybe they should put a little warning on the Federal Reserve Note: "second hand inflation can be hazardous to your financial health".
Cheap money is like a drug and our economy got a serious case of alcohol poisoning during the first decade of the new millenium. A life style change and a careful diet would be advisable in that situation. But Dr. Bernanke has no idea what the diet should be so he takes the easy way out: more free drinks on the house - at least for the big banks. He does not seem to understand that this is a structural problem. When a long distance runner breaks his leg, surgery is the proper solution, not pouring power drinks down the runner's throat, let alone with the help of a funnel. I hope when his big QE party is over, he'll look carefully through his mail. Perhaps he'll find in it a little postcard from a long lost friend.
Dear Ben,
I am not sure what was president Obama thinking when he reappointed you as the Fed Chairman despite the fact that you were sleeping at the wheel for most part of the housing and credit bubble. I don't care what voodoo magic you used. But, please, stop using me as a cheap mop for every spill and stinking puddle your banking buddies made on the floor. If they messed up, let them eat some crow. That should teach them what their core business should be. To prudently lend to selected businesses while making sure that they have enough capital reserves to cover the potential losses.
the Increasingly Duller Dollar
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Market Commentary - Week ending January 3, 2020
In the markets:
U.S. Markets: U.S. stocks ended the holiday-shortened week mixed after global markets pulled back on the news of the U.S. attack on Iranian military leaders the previous evening. The technology-heavy NASDAQ Composite fared the best, while the smaller-cap indexes underperformed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the week down just 10 points finishing the week at 28,634. The NASDAQ was the only major index to finish in the green, adding 0.2%. The large cap S&P 500 gave up -0.2%, while the mid cap S&P 400 and small cap Russell 2000 declined -0.4% and -0.5%.
International Markets: Global markets were mixed last week with Canada’s TSX and the United Kingdom’s FTSE off -0.6% and -0.3%, respectively, while France’s CAC 40 gained 0.1%. Germany’s DAX finished down -0.9%. In Asia, China’s Shanghai Composite rallied 2.6%, while Japan’s Nikkei finished down -0.8%. As grouped by Morgan Stanley Capital International, developed markets gave up -0.5% and emerging markets retreated -0.3%.
Commodities: Precious metals surged on the news of violence in the Mideast. Gold surged $34.30 to $1552.40 an ounce, a gain of 2.3%. Silver also rose, closing at $18.15 an ounce, a gain of 1.2%. Not surprisingly, crude oil had a fifth week of gains. West Texas Intermediate crude finished the week at $63.05 a barrel, a gain of 2.2%. But the industrial metal copper, viewed by some as a barometer of global economic health due to its wide variety of uses, finished the week down -1.5%.
December, 4th Quarter and 2018 major markets summaries:
U.S. Economic News: The number of Americans who applied for first time unemployment benefits fell slightly, finishing the year back at a near 50-year low. The Labor Department reported that initial jobless claims slipped by 2,000 to 222,000 last week. Economists had expected a reading of 223,000. The monthly average of new claims, smoothed to iron out the weekly volatility, rose by 4,750 to 233,250. The number of people already collecting unemployment benefits, known as continuing claims, increased by 5,000 to 1.73 million. With unemployment near a 50-year low and wages rising, Americans continue to spend enough to prolong a record economic expansion now in its 11th year.
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported their index of pending home sales increased 1.2% in November from the previous month. The index records the number of transactions in which a contract has been signed, but not yet closed. Analysts use the data for an early read of likely sales activity in coming months. Compared with the same time last year, contract signings were up 7.4%. By region, sales in the West increased 5.5%, while sales in the Midwest rose by 1%. The Northeast and South saw only fractional changes. Compared to the same time last year, sales were up in all four regions. Lawrence Yun, chief NAR economist noted in the release that a lack of inventory of homes for sale will remain a challenge. However, he added, “favorable conditions are expected throughout 2020 as well.”
As mortgage rates held steady at low levels, home-price growth accelerated in October according to the latest data from S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller. Case-Shiller’s 20-city home price index rose 2.2% in October, compared to the same time last year. Month-over-month, the index ticked up 0.1%. At a national level, home prices were up an annualized 3.3%--an increase from September’s reading. In the report, Phoenix saw the highest home-price appreciation in the country in October, up 5.8% year-over-year. Tampa was next with a 4.9% increase, followed by Charlotte, North Carolina up 4.8%. Of note, San Francisco experienced its third consecutive decline in home prices on an annual basis.
Americans felt more confident in the health of the U.S. economy at the end of the year, but not quite as optimistic as they were last summer, according to the latest survey. The Conference Board reported its index of consumer confidence fell slightly to 126.5 in December. Economists had expected a reading of 130.2. By historical standards, consumer confidence still remains quite high. The index hit an 18-year high of 137.9 in October 2018 and has remained near that level since. In the details, the measure of how consumers feel about the economy right now rose 4.4 points, however the index that tracks how Americans view the next six months declined. That prompted Lynn Franco, director of economics at the Conference Board to state, “While the economy hasn’t shown signs of further weakening, there is little to suggest that growth, and in particular consumer spending, will gain momentum in early 2020.”
Manufacturing in the U.S. contracted for a fifth consecutive month as America’s trade dispute with China continued. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported its manufacturing index slid 0.9 point to 47.2 in December—its weakest reading in ten years. While the manufacturing sector continued to remain under pressure tied to the ongoing trade war with China, December’s deterioration appeared to be primarily due to Boeing’s suspension of production of its troubled 737 Max jetliner. Economists had expected the index would be 48.8. Only three of the eighteen industries tracked by ISM reported their businesses expanded in December—the fewest since 2009. Readings below 50 indicate contraction.
The economy in the region around the Windy City improved in December for the second month in a row. However, analysts pointed out that the region is still suffering from the trade dispute with China that’s weighed on farmers and manufacturers. The Chicago Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose 2.7 points to 48.9, better than Wall Street had expected. However, as readings below 50 indicate contraction, the index showed the economy in the Greater Chicago area is still contracting. In the details, new orders and employment fell at a faster pace compared to the previous month, but those numbers were mostly offset by improved production numbers.
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Home › About Cypress › Investor Relations › Cypress Introduces USB-C Controller for High-Volume Segments in PC Market
Cypress Introduces USB-C Controller for High-Volume Segments in PC Market
New Cypress ACG1F Controller Brings USB-C Performance and Versatility to Mainstream and Entry-Level Notebook and Desktop PCs
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 2019-- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY), today announced its latest USB-C controller, ACG1F. Designed for mainstream and entry-level notebooks and desktop PCs, ACG1F is a cost-effective single-port USB-C controller used for systems which need to convert legacy USB Type-A ports to USB Type-C ports.
The Cypress ACG1F brings USB-C performance and versatility to entry-level PCs and notebooks (Photo: Business Wire)
ACG1F integrates a VBUS load switch for power and fault protection, enabling a more robust solution to accelerate USB-C adoption in PCs. ACG1F features a 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M0 processor with 16-KB flash for USB-C programmability. ACG1F also includes the latest USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface (UCSI) driver implementations and extensions from Microsoft to enable broader support for customers developing USB-C solutions.
The USB-C standard for connectivity is being widely adopted by the world’s leading manufacturers of PCs as well as makers of peripheral devices and accessories. USB-C offers a range of user benefits including reversible plug orientation as well as support for multiple standards including USB 3.1 (which delivers double the data transfer rates of USB 3.0 with speeds up to 10Gbps), Thunderbolt, DisplayPort, and HDMI.
“IDC anticipates that USB-C will continue its strong momentum and will be among the fastest growing technologies in personal computers over the next several years due to adoption by manufacturers and consumers alike,” said Linn Huang, vice president, Devices and Displays at IDC. “Fast, versatile, robust, and you’ll never have to wonder which way is up, USB-C is a game-changer and should eventually reach ubiquity. By 2022, USB-C will be embedded on greater than 80% of all notebooks with 25% of notebooks featuring only USB-C ports.”
“As the leading provider of USB-C controllers, Cypress is extending its leadership with ACG1F within the mainstream and entry-level PC and notebook market,” said Ajay Srikrishna, vice president of Cypress' Wired Connectivity Business Unit. “This high-volume market, which will continue to grow as USB-C continues to replace legacy USB Type-A ports on a large scale, represents a strong business opportunity for Cypress.”
The ACG1F controller is now sampling to major OEMs and will be in volume production this quarter.
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Where are you planning on building the new Shelby County Animal Shelter & Adoption Center?
On County donated land at 840 Gearhart Road in Sidney across the street from Shelby County Board of Developmental Disabilities. Click Here for Sidney Daily News Article
How did you arrive at the budget for the project?
The estimated total budget for the new state of the art Shelby County Animal Shelter & Adoption Center is $2.4 million. We acquired Shelter Planners of America to conduct a Needs Assessment Study. From that Needs Assessment Study SPA was able to then calculate size & design the layout of the new facility. The new Shelter will include a number of amenities including a Welcome Center & Reception Area, Indoor & Outdoor Get Acquainted Play Areas, Public Restroom, SCARF Community Outreach Center, Courtyard, Grooming Station, Proper Quarantine Area, Food Prep & Laundry Areas & so much more. It will be constructed with quality materials and ventilation systems, advanced technological equipment, infectious disease prevention features, acoustic design to control for barking and the largest possible animal housing areas to reduce stress on the animals.
How will the two partners operate & manage the new facility together?
The County will continue to own, operate and maintain the new facility as they currently do for the old Shelter. SCARF will continue our working partnership to support the animals housed at the Shelter with Vet care along with the needed supplies to keep the pets healthy & adoptable. We like to say that the County does the "have to" while the Foundation (SCARF) raises the money for the "want to".
Why is SCARF committed to staying LOCAL with the build?
We believe it is fair to say that this is a community wide project and that Shelby County has more than experienced companies that are able to do the job.
Current List of LOCAL Companies
Freytag & Associates Inc. Architects & Engineers
1157 design concepts - Donor recognition
Behr Design - new logo, Campaign collateral & website
Western Ohio Cut Stone - Donor bricks
Why should donors have confidence investing in this project?
Our past history has shown that we are good stewards of our donors giving. We are all Volunteers who are upstanding individuals & leaders within our Community. SCARF is a Proud Member of Sidney/Shelby County Chamber.
Will SCARF be able to reach its campaign goal?
Absolutely YES! Our Board, Committee members, Advisers & Volunteers are as committed to seeing this project through as we are & have been 100% committed to our mission to help ALL of the adoptable animals housed at the Shelby County Animal Shelter.
Why not just remodel the current Shelter?
The cost to make the needed upgrades would not be that beneficial to the animal care areas. Plus we would still have a Shelter that is too small, on a dead end road and next to the waste water treatment facility.
Once the money is raised how long will it take to build the new facility?
3 to 4 months to prepare the Construction Documents. 1 1/2 to 2 months to bid, prepare contract and acquire permits. 8 to 10 months to construct. So the total from start to finish is 12 1/2 months to 16 months.
*The following questions have been answered collectively by the Shelby County Commissioners
Can the County sustain a larger operation?
We feel that with the energy system upgrades, new energy efficiency windows, doors, lighting and so forth we believe that there will be a slightly higher cost than operating our current facility but that the impact will be minimal.
What will happen to the old Shelter?
The current shelter once the new shelter is opened may be used by another County Agency if need be or may possibly be sold off if it is deemed no longer needed by the County. There are no definite plans at this time.
What is the current value of the donated landed?
With current market value of rural land we feel that appox. $8,000.00 per acre would be a fair price range and that there is almost 4 acres involved so the area of $30,000.00 would be a close estimate.
Why cut down all of those trees?
We would only be cutting down trees that would be in the way of the new building and parking lot areas. It is our hope to keep as many of the trees standing as possible. Scrub brush and small trees that would be in the way of outdoor dog runs and play areas may also need to be trimmed and possibly removed however we are looking at that to be minimal.
What happens when regime changes hands in regards to the Commissioners & those new Commissioners do not make the Shelter a priority?
While our current Commissioners have more interest in the Animal Shelter than previous Commissioners, we are all tasked with the responsibility to care for neglected and abandoned dogs in our community. In the past, the community itself has demanded that the County take on the task of cats as well. I do not see the Community’s attitudes changing on this issue and the Commissioners respond to the best of their ability financially to respond to the Community’s priorities.
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Entravision Communications Corporation announced that it has realigned its local sales organization and promoted Eddie Melendez to President of Local Media Sales. These changes are designed to better reflect its comprehensive omnichannel marketing platform and enhance its ability to meet the needs of today’s advertisers. Mr. Melendez will oversee all of Entravision’s local sales and will have the top tier markets report directly to him including; Los Angeles, San Diego, El Paso, Las Vegas, Sacramento, Phoenix, McAllen, Orlando, Tampa and Denver.
“Entravision has a comprehensive offering of traditional and digital media assets, which provide a powerful omnichannel platform for advertisers to reach the growing U.S. Hispanic market,” said Karl A. Meyer, Chief Revenue Officer of Entravision. “With today’s announcement we now have a single holistic sales structure that fully aligns with our integrated sales strategy approach. This provides consistency for our team and our marketing partners which will improve productivity and enhance the service we provide to our advertising clients. Eddie is a proven and inspirational leader with almost 30 years of experience and we are excited to have him driving our local sales efforts.”
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You may send this item to up to five recipients. It changed character and emphasis almost decade-by-decade over that time. Elizabethan Puritanism contended with the Elizabethan religious settlement, with little to show for it. The Lambeth Articles of , a high-water mark for Calvinism within the Church of England, failed to receive royal approval.
The accession of James I brought the Millenary Petition , a Puritan manifesto of for reform of the English church, but James wanted a new religious settlement along different lines. He called the Hampton Court Conference in , and heard the teachings of four prominent Puritan leaders there, including Laurence Chaderton , but largely sided with his bishops.
He was well informed on theological matters by his education and Scottish upbringing, and he dealt shortly with the peevish legacy of Elizabethan Puritanism, pursuing an eirenic religious policy, in which he was arbiter. Many of his episcopal appointments were Calvinists, notably James Montague , who was an influential courtier. Puritans still opposed much of the Catholic summation in the Church of England, notably the Book of Common Prayer , but also the use of non-secular vestments cap and gown during services, the sign of the Cross in baptism, and kneeling to receive Holy Communion.
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The Puritan movement of Jacobean times became distinctive by adaptation and compromise, with the emergence of "semi-separatism", "moderate puritanism", the writings of William Bradshaw , who adopted the term "Puritan" as self-identification, and the beginnings of congregationalism.
The Puritan movement in England was riven over decades by emigration and inconsistent interpretations of Scripture, as well as some political differences that surfaced at that time. The Fifth Monarchy Men , a radical millenarian wing of Puritanism, aided by strident, popular clergy like Vavasor Powell , agitated from the right wing of the movement, even as sectarian groups like the Ranters , Levellers , and Quakers pulled from the left.
The Westminster Assembly was called in , assembling clergy of the Church of England. The Assembly was able to agree to the Westminster Confession of Faith doctrinally, a consistent Reformed theological position. The Directory of Public Worship was made official in , and the larger framework now called the Westminster Standards was adopted by the Church of Scotland. In England, the Standards were contested by Independents up to The Westminster Divines , on the other hand, were divided over questions of church polity and split into factions supporting a reformed episcopacy , presbyterianism , congregationalism , and Erastianism.
The membership of the Assembly was heavily weighted towards the Presbyterians, but Oliver Cromwell was a Puritan and an independent Congregationalist separatist who imposed his doctrines upon them. The Church of England of the Interregnum —60 was run along Presbyterian lines but never became a national Presbyterian church, such as existed in Scotland, and England was not the theocratic state which leading Puritans had called for as "godly rule".
At the time of the English Restoration in , the Savoy Conference was called to determine a new religious settlement for England and Wales. Under the Act of Uniformity , the Church of England was restored to its pre- Civil War constitution with only minor changes, and the Puritans found themselves sidelined.
A traditional estimate of historian Calamy is that around 2, Puritan clergy left the Church in the " Great Ejection " of The Dissenters divided themselves from all Christians in the Church of England and established their own separatist congregations in the s and s. An estimated 1, of the ejected clergy continued in some fashion as ministers of religion, according to Richard Baxter.
There followed a period in which schemes of "comprehension" were proposed, under which Presbyterians could be brought back into the Church of England, but nothing resulted from them. The Whigs opposed the court religious policies and argued that the Dissenters should be allowed to worship separately from the established Church, and this position ultimately prevailed when the Toleration Act was passed in the wake of the Glorious Revolution in This permitted the licensing of Dissenting ministers and the building of chapels.
The term " Nonconformist " generally replaced the term "Dissenter" from the middle of the 18th century. Some Puritans left for New England , particularly in the years after , supporting the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and other settlements among the northern colonies. The large-scale Puritan immigration to New England ceased by , with around 21, having moved across the Atlantic. This English-speaking population in America did not all consist of original colonists, since many returned to England shortly after arriving on the continent, but it produced more than 16 million descendants.
Puritan hegemony lasted for at least a century. That century can be broken down into three parts: Puritanism broadly refers to a diverse religious reform movement in Britain committed to the continental Reformed tradition. They believed that all of their beliefs should be based on the Bible , which they considered to be divinely inspired. The concept of covenant was extremely important to Puritans, and covenant theology was central to their beliefs.
After the fall of man , human nature was corrupted by original sin and unable to fulfill the covenant of works, since each person inevitably violated God's law as expressed in the Ten Commandments. As sinners, every person deserved damnation.
Puritans shared with other Calvinists a belief in double predestination , that some people the elect were destined by God to receive grace and salvation while others were destined for Hell. According to covenant theology, Christ's sacrifice on the cross made possible the covenant of grace , by which those selected by God could be saved.
Puritans believed in unconditional election and irresistible grace —God's grace was given freely without condition to the elect and could not be refused. Covenant theology made individual salvation deeply personal. It held that God's predestination was not "impersonal and mechanical" but was a "covenant of grace" that one entered into by faith. Therefore, being a Christian could never be reduced to simple "intellectual acknowledgment" of the truth of Christianity. Puritans agreed "that the effectual call of each elect saint of God would always come as an individuated personal encounter with God's promises".
The process by which the elect are brought from spiritual death to spiritual life regeneration was described as conversion. Over time, however, Puritan theologians developed a framework for authentic religious experience based on their own experiences as well as those of their parishioners. Eventually, Puritans came to regard a specific conversion experience as an essential mark of one's election.
The Puritan conversion experience was commonly described as occurring in discrete phases. It began with a preparatory phase designed to produce contrition for sin through introspection , Bible study and listening to preaching. This was followed by humiliation , when the sinner realized that he or she was helpless to break free from sin and that their good works could never earn forgiveness. For some Puritans, this was a dramatic experience and they referred to it as being born again.
Confirming that such a conversion had actually happened often required prolonged and continual introspection. Historian Perry Miller wrote that the Puritans "liberated men from the treadmill of indulgences and penances , but cast them on the iron couch of introspection". Puritan clergy wrote many spiritual guides to help their parishioners pursue personal piety and sanctification. Too much emphasis on one's good works could be criticized for being too close to Arminianism , and too much emphasis on subjective religious experience could be criticized as Antinomianism.
Many Puritans relied on both personal religious experience and self-examination to assess their spiritual condition. Puritanism's experiential piety would be inherited by the evangelical Protestants of the 18th century. The sermon was central to Puritan public worship. The sermon was not only a means of religious education; Puritans believed it was the most common way that God prepared a sinner's heart for conversion.
They rejected confirmation as unnecessary. Puritans unanimously rejected the Roman Catholic doctrine of baptismal regeneration , but they disagreed among themselves on the effects of baptism and its relationship to regeneration. Most Puritans practiced infant baptism , but a minority held credobaptist beliefs. Those who baptized infants understood it through the lens of covenant theology, believing that baptism had replaced circumcision as a sign of the covenant and marked a child's admission into the visible church.
In "A Discourse on the Nature of Regeneration", Stephen Charnock distinguished regeneration from "external baptism" writing that baptism "confers not grace" but rather is a means of conveying the grace of regeneration only "when the [Holy] Spirit is pleased to operate with it". Therefore, one cannot assume that baptism produces regeneration. The Westminster Confession states that the grace of baptism is only effective for those who are among the elect; however, its effects are not tied to the moment of baptism but lies dormant until one experiences conversion later in life.
Puritans rejected both Roman Catholic transubstantiation and Lutheran sacramental union teachings that Christ is physically present in the bread and wine of the Lord's Supper. Instead, Puritans embraced the Reformed doctrine of real spiritual presence, believing that in the Lord's Supper the faithful receive Christ spiritually. In agreement with Thomas Cranmer , the Puritans stressed "that Christ comes down to us in the sacrament by His Word and Spirit, offering Himself as our spiritual food and drink". While the Puritans were united in their goal of furthering the English Reformation, they were always divided over issues of ecclesiology and church polity , specifically questions relating to the manner of organizing congregations, how individual congregations should relate with one another and whether established national churches were scriptural.
The episcopalians known as the prelatical party were conservatives who supported retaining bishops if those leaders supported reform and agreed to share power with local churches. In addition, these Puritans called for a renewal of preaching, pastoral care and Christian discipline within the Church of England. Like the episcopalians, the presbyterians agreed that there should be a national church but one structured on the model of the Church of Scotland. The Westminster Assembly proposed the creation of a presbyterian system, but the Long Parliament left implementation to local authorities.
As a result, the Church of England never developed a complete presbyterian hierarchy. Congregationalists or Independents believed in the autonomy of the local church, which ideally would be a congregation of "visible saints" meaning those who had experienced conversion. Furthermore, the sacraments would only be administered to those in the church covenant. Most congregational Puritans remained within the Church of England, hoping to reform it according to their own views.
The New England Congregationalists were also adamant that they were not separating from the Church of England. However, some Puritans equated the Church of England with the Roman Catholic Church, and therefore considered it no Christian church at all. These groups, such as the Brownists , would split from the established church and become known as Separatists. Other Separatists embraced more radical positions on separation of church and state and believer's baptism , becoming early Baptists.
Based on Biblical portrayals of Adam and Eve, Puritans believed that marriage was rooted in procreation, love, and, most importantly, salvation. Puritan husbands commanded authority through family direction and prayer.
The female relationship to her husband and to God was marked by submissiveness and humility. Thomas Gataker describes Puritan marriage as:.
The paradox created by female inferiority in the public sphere and the spiritual equality of men and women in marriage, then, gave way to the informal authority of women concerning matters of the home and childrearing. I had eight birds hatched in one nest; Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up with pain and care, Nor cost nor labour I did spare. Bradstreet alludes to the temporality of motherhood by comparing her children to a flock of birds on the precipice of leaving home.
While Puritans praised the obedience of young children, they also believed that, by separating children from their mothers at adolescence, children could better sustain a superior relationship with God.
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2. De-monstering the 'tudes
Etudes that are five pages long?!
Continued from part 1.
If you've read Michel Debost's book "The Simple Flute" which covers so many important flute topics, you'll see more of his straightforward thinking based on teaching experience from the Sept. Flutetalk article on etudes; he makes some excellent points which I'd gladly agree with!!
Etudes vs. Scales
Etudes are not to be confused with your daily technique practice such as tone work, scales and what Debost calls "comfortably timed tonal arpeggios". (free pdfs of all these things are here on my blog: Fast fingers, Tone, Scales & Arpeggios).
When you practice scales, as the the relatively easy and familiar basics of flute playing you alternate restful playing with bursts of speed and brilliance.
Technique practice such as scales and such should be "freely and lovingly phrased with fingers".
Legato finger technique (low, curved and sensitive fingers) is the basis of a good technique.
Etudes for Weekly Flute Skill Development
By contrast to smooth finger work on daily skills, Etudes are changed much more frequently. Students often prepare one a week.
Here's how to prepare an Etude
Sometimes Etudes are not entirely perfected by the end of a week's practice, but the flutist can still move ahead to a new challenge and a new etude after having made a wholesome attempt at an etude to become familiar with it.
The student can return to a an earlier perused etude and master it months later, over the summer, or during holidays. If it's a good one, it might stay in your repertoire for decades, so mark the ones you especially enjoy and return to them!
Blasting Through - A problem since 1820!:
Most students start an etude by blasting through it from the beginning and then gradually they sort of poop out at the half-way mark, because by then, as we've seen, their concentration has poooped way past the focussed three minute mark.
Guess how long this has been happening to flute students?
Since time immemorial. Check out this quote from the 1820s, when Louis Drouet wrote in his flute method book:
Jen's paraphrase of Louis Drouet:
On the Method of Perfecting an Etude
The word perfecting here means to focus on a piece of music until it is executed with as much purity in the musical style, as well as neatness in the technique or 'execution' when it is played.
The wrong way to go about this is to simply play the piece to the end, then start again from the beginning, and repeatedly play it from start to finish over and over for several days.
And yet, that's what so many flute students do.
A student who plays from top to bottom of a piece, for several days in succession becomes blinded or deafened to the piece. They engrain their own habitual errors, the defects of execution which occur in the difficult passages become so familiar to them, that they become unfelt by the peformer, though they strike the ears of his audience in the most glaring manner.
The following is the shortest method to learn well and speedily a piece of music that is to be performed in public (or at your flute lesson as a "perfected" piece or etude):
One begins perhaps by playing through the etude once or twice to obtain a general understanding of what the style and quality of the work is. What musical notions identify it as belonging to the style of its composer?
After this first look-over, learning the music should commence slowly.
A pause can be made at the end of every period, every phrase, and even at every bar.
All the details should be focussed upon, but with the greatest possible ease, until the flutist has acquired the the skills to give the music every degree of elegance, grace and dignity; and to display the brilliant passages with the most striking neatness, energy and splendour.
Suppose a beginner working on a piece of music finds amidst the laboured passages several groups of three or four notes that sit amidst a group of four or eight bars, which embarrases him when he attempts to play them.
By starting the whole four or eight bar phrase again from the beginning in order to attempt to "train" those few notes, he wastes much time.
He should instead apply himself directly to those three or four notes and create an easy undulating exercise out of them which relieves any stress in his technique, and easily and smoothly co-ordinates the passage of these notes.
(examples shown)
Afterwards, from time to time, the etude or piece should be performed "as if" it were to be performed in public. This allows the performer to listen with the audience's ear, and to hear what yet needs to be polished and made easy to perform.
(from pgs. 13-14 Drouet's Method of Playing the Flute)
Of course, you may never perform etudes for an audience, ever, because of the breathing problems many of the advanced etudes introduce. Note that splicing together of overlapping recordings would have to be used in professional recordings.
Often there is no human way of producing the non-stop non-breathing that is printed in some of the advanced flute etudes.
When performing in your lesson, leave in a comfortable number of pauses and breathing breaks, and play your etude in a cadenza like and convincing way.
Don't stress, don't attempt to be super human. :)
Etudes as an Endurance Test?
Debost states that he used to think that at the professional and University level of flute playing that long arduous etudes were necessary to develop "endurance", but that he has changed his mind. Human beings only do work well in 3 to 4 minute long bursts of brilliance.
You need some training in endurance for performing, and this is because adrenalin and excitement use more caloric energy when you perform before an audience. When you practice, you are far more relaxed and do not become as tired as quickly.
Preparing to have endurance prepares the flutist to avoid becoming exhausted unexpectedly in performance.
The performer can sense the tiredness, and make corrections to release tension while they are continuing to play.
This is easier to practice by using a short, highly perfected etude, and play it twice in a row.
This is intellectually far more rewarding than making yourself complete a boring and difficult etude that's four pages (or more) in length.
(Here's how much fun that is to do):
Because the etude is short and well prepared, your ears will hear it more knowledgably and clearly, and you can actually listen to hear if you're playing WELL.
As you become slightly more tired on the repeat, you can discover what to do to release tension to return to your optimal tone and control.
Your well-trained ears will demand it.
Then you can truly experience the act of "endurance" vs. tiredness by discovering how to reduce excess tension as you play that particular etude.
You can use the scale of tension (10 is very tense, Zero is totally relaxed) to count down your perception of embouchure tension or shoulder tension, or even elbow tension, and learn to play at a lesser state of tension on command.
Alternately, if you sound "tired" when you repeat an etude, it may because your rib cage has collapsed, or your feet have shifted, or your posture has become soggy.
By playing an etude twice and video recording you can even SEE this.
Performers can build alot of easy endurance by using etudes.
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Human Rights Violations associated with EuroMaidan
Russia continues its revenge on Maidan activists, while giving shelter to Berkut suspected killers
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This sixth anniversary of the beginning of the Euromaidan protests is especially sombre as Ukraine’s President and parliamentarians appear unwilling to prevent the collapse of investigations into Maidan crimes. This could result in more suspects fleeing to Russia or occupied Crimea where a number of former Berkut officers suspected of involvement in the gunning down of protesters have already been given shelter and Russian citizenship. The anniversary must also be bitterly poignant for Andriy Kolomiyets, a young Ukrainian sentenced by a Russian-controlled court to 10 years’ imprisonment for being on Maidan in 2014.
There are two other Maidan activists – Mykola Shyptur and Valentin Vyhivsky – among the Kremlin’s Ukrainian political prisoners, however the case of Kolomiyets and that of another Ukrainian, Oleksandr Kostenko who was released in 2018 after serving his sentence, stand out for the openness of the reprisals against Maidan activists.
The ‘trials’ of Kolomiyets and Kostenko were not the first time that the Russian occupation ‘authorities’ in Crimea had fabricated charges against Ukrainians, including Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Akhtem Chiygoz, in connections with events over which Russia could have no jurisdiction. These ‘Maidan trials’ were, nonetheless, especially surreal as the entirely unprovable charges pertained to protests in Kyiv that ended before Russia’s invasion of Crimea.
Kolomiyets, who is from Kyiv oblast, was living in the Northern Caucuses (Russia) with his partner (now wife) Galina and her four children, when he was arrested on 15 May 2015.
Galina recalls that the first thing that the officers said was that Kolomiyets was a Maidan activist. During the search, they ‘found’ a small package with some hashish in her ex-husband’s safe. She understood not to touch the planted ‘evidence’ and the police were finally forced to leave without recording the hashish in the protocol, with this witnessed by a woman who was staying in their place.
The prosecution then claimed that Kolomiyets, who was then 22, had been ‘released’ in Nalchik where he was supposed to have stayed the night at the station, then gone to some field by one taxi, gathered some hashish growing wild, 150 grams of which the officers then ‘found’ in another taxi that he was driving in. ‘
This wildly implausible story was used as the pretext for arresting the young Ukrainian, however it was no accident that the officer mentioned Maidan at the outset. Kolomiyets was taken to Russian-occupied Crimea where he became the second Maidan activist to be charged on the basis of ‘testimony’ from former Ukrainian Berkut turncoats, now working for the Russian FSB.
It was claimed that Kolomiyets had thrown a Molotov cocktail at two Berkut officers, with this having allegedly ‘caused them pain’. Enough ‘pain’ to allow them in court to claim that they remembered Kolomiyets, though not enough for them to have reported it to anybody at the time. The prosecution was under Article 30 § 3 and 105 § 2 of the Russian Criminal Code, namely “attempted murder of 2 or more people in connection with their official activities … out of motives of political and ideological hatred”.
Despite the absurdity of the charges, he was sentenced by a Russian-controlled court in Simferopol on 10 June 2016 to 10 years’ imprisonment: six years for the alleged ‘attack’ and four for the supposed possession of hashish (Article 228). This was later confirmed at appeal level by ‘judge’ Halyna Redko from the de facto Crimean High Court who has already been involved in other political trials.
Both ‘courts’ had ignored the harrowing account given by Kolomiyets of the torture he had been subjected to, and there has never been any proper investigation.
The authoritative Memorial Human Rights Centre has declared Kolomiyets a political prisoner, and all UN, European Parliament and other resolutions on the dire human rights situation in occupied Crimea demand his release, together with that of the Kremlin’s other political prisoners (please write to Andriy at the address given below).
Rewards for Maidan repression
Former Berkut officers, involved in trying to crush Ukraine’s Euromaidan protests, have been handed keys to state flats in occupied Crimea and / or received praise for their supposed ‘courage and heroism’. Many are now working in Rosgvardia, the Russian ‘National Guard’ created by Russian President Vladimir Putin and widely viewed as a body created to crush mounting civic protest. It is known that the two Rosgvardia officers who caused the death of 83-year-old Crimean Tatar veteran activist Vedzhie Kashka were Berkut officers.
Two men, who held high-ranking posts in the Ukrainian enforcement bodies and who are suspected of serious crimes during Euromaidan, have been seen in Moscow, helping Putin’s regime violently disperse peaceful protesters.
Ten of the 23 ex-Berkut officers suspected of involvement in the killings are known to have received Russian citizenship, while a further two men have been given ’refugee’ status. These were the statistics before suspected Maidan killer Vitaly Honcharenko and three other Maidan crime suspects were left free to flee across the border into Russia.
As reported, in Ukraine Maidan investigations are now facing dangerous limbo or even suspension due to the transfer of investigations to the State Bureau of Investigations, without an appropriate department with continuity of investigators having been ensured. One consequence of any suspension is that those suspects currently under restraint measures will have all restrictions removed, leaving nothing to stop them also fleeing to Russia which is more likely to employ them in crushing protest than to return them to face a fair trial.
PLEASE WRITE TO ANDRIY KOLOMIYETS!
It is very important that he – and Moscow – know that he is not forgotten.
350039 Russia, Krasnodar Krai, Krasnodar, 58 Kalinin St, Prison Colony No. 14
Kolomiyets, Andrei Vladimirovych, born 1993
[In Russian: ФКУ ИК-14, 350039 Россия, Краснодарский край, г.Краснодар, ул. Калинина, 58, Коломийцу, Андрею Владимировичу, г.р. 1993]
The address can be in either Russian or English, but unfortunately letters, which will be checked, need to be in Russian and on ‘safe’ subjects. . If this is a problem, you could simply copy-paste the letter below, maybe with a photo or picture.
Желаю Вам здоровья, мужества и терпения, надеюсь на скорое освобождение.
Мы о Вас помним.
[Hello, I wish you good health, courage and patience and hope that you will soon be released. You are not forgotten.
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Odd Squad sold into Asia
The PBS KIDS live-action comedy will bow in Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Singapore-based prodco Bomanbridge Media has sold PBS KIDS series Odd Squad to a number of broadcasters across Asia.
The series, produced for PBS in the US and TVO and SRC in Canada by Sinking Ship Entertainment and The Fred Rogers Company, is heading to Taiwan’s Public Television Service Foundation (PTS), Thai Public Broadcasting, Television Broadcasting Limited (TVB) in Hong Kong and Mediacorp Pte in Singapore.
The live-action comedy follows two kids who work for a government agency and are equipped with the world’s most advanced gadgetry.
Odd Squad‘s second season is set to bow on PBS this month. The series earned multiple wins at last month’s Daytime Emmys, taking home statues for Outstanding Writing and Directing in a Children’s or Preschool Series, plus Best Costume Design/Styling and Outstanding Hairstyling.
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Lawsuit by US Sailors Against TEPCO: "Goshi Hosono,You Lied!"
It's very interesting to see the reaction of the Japanese people on Twitter. I'd say the overwhelming majority is highly approving of the US sailors (they were not the helicopter pilots who were actually contaminated with radiation), buying all their arguments and sympathizing with them, particularly with the female sailor who was pregnant at that time.
(What was she doing on a nuclear aircraft carrier, pregnant?)
Anyway, the court paper filed on December 21, 2012 is here, for those who are interested. I'm skimming through it right now. So far, very flimsy.
One of their basis that the TEPCO/Japanese government (they use them interchangeably) lied to them was no other than Goshi Hosono, then a personal advisor to Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
Page 21 of the court document says (emphasis is mine):
94. Upon information and belief, as a further direct and proximate result of Defendant's negligence, Plaintiffs have been and will be required to undergo further medical testing, evaluation and medical procedures, including but not limiting to chelation therapy and bone marrow transplants in an effort to seek cure, and will be required to employ extraordinary means to achieve cure.
95. As a further direct and proximate result of Defendant's negligence, the Plantiffs incurred losses and damages for personal injury and property damage, loss of use and enjoyment of life and their property, the need for periodic medical examination and treatment, and economic losses, including wage loss, and the expenditure of time and money, and will continue to incur losses and damages in the future.
96. Plaintiffs also face additional and irreparable harm to their life expectancy, which has been shortened and cannot be restored to its prior condition.
97. Solely as the result of the defendant's negligence, carelessness and recklessness, the Plaintiffs, were caused to suffer severe and serious personal injuries to mind and body, and further, that the Plaintiffs were subjected to great physical pain and mental anguish.
Mr. Paul C Garner, who represents the Plaintiffs, seems to be an attorney from New York, specializing in "General Litigation; Corporate Law; Negligence Law; Medical Malpractice; Wills, Estates and Trusts; International Corporate; Entertainment Law; Business Law; Civil Practice; Environmental Law; Asbestos Litigation; Real Estate" (from Martindale.com)
USS Ronald Reagan's Facebook post on that day (Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 11:52pm, probably the US time) by Commanding Officer Captain Thom Burke says (emphasis is mine):
Friends and Family of USS Ronald Reagan:
I want to take this opportunity to personally assure you that first and foremost all personnel aboard the USS Ronald Reagan are safe and healthy.
During our mission to assist our close allies of Japan, we were operating near the radioactive plume from Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant. As you may have already heard, radioactivity was detected on 17 personnel from our ship, however, we promptly took the proper precautions and the radioactivity was easily removed by using soap and water. The levels that were detected were very low levels. To put this into perspective, the maximum radiation dose received was equalt to the amount of natural background radiation one would receive in one month from sources such as rocks, soil and the sun.
Ronald Reagan has since repositioned away from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant.
As a nuclear-powered aircraft carrrier, we have extensive technical expertise onboard to properly monitor such types of risks, and if necessary, rapidly resolve the situation.
We have taken all the necessary precautions to ensure that everyone is safe. We have closely monitored spaces, evaluated everyone who has flown or worked on the flight deck and cleaned the aircraft.
I have not seen any levels of radiation or contamination that would cause me to have any significant concerns at all.
As we continue to assist Japan in this terrible catastrophe, our Sailor's--and your loves ones'-- safety will remain at the top of my priority list.
Capt. Thom Burke
The Japanese would take this as confirmation to their belief that all officials "lie".
All I can think of is how many bento would this money could buy for Futaba-machi evacuees in that abandoned high school building in Saitama. They could build a mansion for each and every one of them. Many of them, just like Mayor Idogawa, were there in Futaba-machi when Reactor 1 blew up and shiny, white particles were falling on them from the sky.
(H/T anon reader for USS Ronald Reagan's Facebook post)
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"All I can think of is how many bento would this money could buy for Futaba-machi evacuees in that abandoned high school building in Saitama. "
The Futabamachi evacuees should also file lawsuits!
The courts are supposed to be there to dispense justice in cases like this, where the powerful criminals are made to pay for their crimes. The sailors deserve compensation, the evacuees deserve compensation, and perhaps everyone in Kanto and Tohoku deserve compensation. Yes, in the end we may be paying each other through higher taxes. However, monetization of the losses is the only way the public, the government and the nuclear industry can be held accountable for the externalities of nuclear power.
If TEPCO and the Japanese government had learned the lesson - that there is no future in nuclear power - then perhaps some litigants could forgive. However the Japanese in-your-face insults, like electing the LDP, naming Ishihara as minister of environment, and TEPCO preparing to restart its other nukes are clear demonstration that they have no intention of making things right by their victims.
Sue I say! Sue until they are all bankrupt.
Thanks for the tweet.
To be honest I always have difficulties to imagine something like, 'equalt to the amount of natural background radiation one would receive in one month from sources such as rocks, soil and the sun' .
So lets try to convert this fluffy text to some numbers... According to Wiki ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_radiation ) in one year in the US you will be exposed to
2.28 mSv from inhaling
0.21 mSv from terrestrial ground
0.33 mSv from cosmic sources
One big question is, did he include inhaling in his calculation? For the beginning I will include this value, based on the argument that the main exposure form inhaling should be Radon, which 'originates' from rocks.
If we sum up these values and then divide by 12 we get 235 uSv/month (=0.235 mSv/month).
Thus the maximum exposure of each of these 17 sailors has been around 235 uSv.
The exposure probably occurred during less than 12h, but we have no information whether the personnel was exposed only shortly, e.g. passing through a 'hotter' cloud. So they were exposed to something between ~20 uSv/h (over 12h) up to maybe 40 uSv/h (over 6h) or a maximum of 235 uSv/h (if only for 1h).
Anyway, I think 235 uSv are quite little compared to what the general population in the Kanto area received during the first few weeks.....
Even though the exposure was quite limited and despite the fact that the Japanese tax-payer will have to pay any fine, I wish them luck with their law suite. It would be so important for NPP operators and politicians to know, that they will be held accountable personally. (I know, a dream)
Did anyone see the sailors wearing masks to prevent inhaling radiation particles? Also, bone marrow transplants--are any of the sailors showing blood diseases from their service in the disaster? One video did show dosimeters alarming on board the US Ronald Reagan. What about the US bases and citizens\/families deployed to Japan? Some figures would be good, data points. Would help in Japan too.
The point is not the external dose, but particles ingested from the plume. It is well known that a single alpha emitting nano-particle of plutonium can cause a deadly cancer, for example...
I thought Tamplin's plutonium hot particle theory had been long busted.
Unless the Captain told a boldfaced lie on facebook the premise of the lawsuit is totally ridiculous. It sounds like a standard over-exaggerated "slip and fall" suit. First and foremost TEPCO didn't deploy the USS Reagan the US president did, second off the US military doesn't rely solely on foreign nations (or businesses) for accurate environmental intelligence during an emergency. A nuclear powered ACC has the ability to accurately detect and quantify minute radiation fields inside and outside the vessel. They have this capacity to insure the ship isn't releasing an easily detectable radiation signature and to fight under NBC conditions. I'm also pretty sure TEPCO didn't personally "lie" to the crew members. I was in the military and I don't remember anybody especially foreign officials ever asking my opinion or offering any actionable assurances on any of my deployments, "not safe" is part of active deployment. If your commanding officer considers your area of operation safe then you are safe until otherwise notified regardless of the facts on the ground.
These people can't sue the US government so they are taking a wild shot at Japan. Unless they have some earthshaking indisputable new facts they'll be settling out of court for an undisclosed sum if they are lucky.
Presumably a shut up and die already was as far as it went in the USA.
If i lived downwind and wave i would as a State be suing the Federal Government over the proliferation of restricted materials to unstable feckless gamblers who cannot by any rational premise have the collateral.
The truth of which is self-evident to all impartial witnesses.
I'm surprised the Captain didn't measure the crews exposure level on the banana scale "less exposure than eating 1500 bananas in 12 seconds".
As for "a shut up and die already" that goes without saying as soon as you join the service. In the US you are bound by Sovereign Immunity you can't sue the government unless they allow you to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_United_States
In addition Feres v. United States "bars service members from collecting damages from the United States Government for personal injuries experienced in the performance of their duties."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feres_v._United_States
There is also the principle of Foreign Sovereign Immunity.
"Sovereign Immunity has long been the norm in U.S. courts. In an early case, the Supreme Court held that a private party could not sue the government of France. In that case, The Schooner Exchange v. M'Faddon, 11 U.S. 116 (1812), the Supreme Court concluded that a plaintiff cannot sue a foreign sovereign claiming ownership to a war ship which had taken refuge in Philadelphia. Relying on common law principles, U.S. courts routinely refused to hear claims against foreign governments, even where those claims related to commercial activities. In addition, courts generally relied on suggestions of immunity filed by the U.S. State Department in actions against foreign sovereigns."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Sovereign_Immunities_Act
After reading the complaint, it sounds to me more like a suit designed to make a point against the use of nuclear power in general than to actually claim damages.
From what one can deduct from the document itself, obviously without having seen any evidence, it 1. is weak in terms of damages experienced, putting in question the paintiffs' right to sue for compensation; 2. has at it's basis the hotly debated and probably impossible to proof issue of how much radiation exposure causes what/how much damage; and 3. is based on the equally difficult to proof assertion that TEPCO knew or should have known the actual amount of radiation released and should have notified the public. The latter being interesting since, I assume, TEPCO's only legal obligation was to notify the Japanese government, thereby bringing into focus what the Japanese government knew.
A complicating factor for the plaintiffs to proof their loss of enjoyment of life and property, i.e., damages, might be that they all worked on a nuclear carrier, meaning they work with or around radioactive material and probably not only had special training in that regard, but were also willing to accept a certain amount of risk in that respect.
The easier to proof basis for their claim of design and/or maintenance failures (intake pumps and generators inadequately protected, earthquake safety inadequately ensured, etc.) probably won't help all that much in light of the foregoing, I'm guessing.
If the plaintiffs were to be successful to any degree - and we all can only hope so as a matter of principle -, it could certainly have interesting ramifications on the nuclear industry as a whole. Of course, this lawsuit can just as easily backfire if unsuccessful: It would set precedence for NPP providers to be pretty much safe from liability claims, even in the face of negligence.
Lets all keep our fingers crossed.
The sailors are suing TEPCO and GoJ because they can't sue the US govt and fighting this through the Veterans administration would be a very long battle. The US govt has not been kind to the previous generations of Atomic Veterans. This suit is also in US court, not Japanese court so it will be interesting to see how that plays out.
The radiation levels on the Reagan are in the NRC FOIA documents. The levels ARE above background and officials express some concern about exposure and thyroid damage. The levels were elevated but not crazy high. So the issue of exposure may come down to any testing the individuals had done as they were monitored.
The US apparently had no clue as of March 13 exactly how bad things were at Daiichi and they were being lied to about the severity by the Japanese govt. The elevated levels on the Reagan that was 100 miles out to sea were higher than they expected. This caused discussion between US officials and the NRC about this disparity. That was on March 13. Then on March 14 suddenly the GoJ shares SPEEDI data with the US. I doubt that was coincidence. It was a few days later than Yokosuka went under voluntary evacuation for families on base and the USS George Washington was moved to a different location even though it was under maintenance.
There was enough information to concern the US into taking some action. I do not know if that is enough to justify the sailors case or not or if they hold additional information that could back up their claims.
I do agree that I would rather see than money go to the people stuck homeless getting no compensation first. I do not know if the sailors winning this case could do anything to improve the odds of Fukushima victims winning their cases or not. I hope more would sue rather than waiting on the govt and TEPCO to make good.
Nancy, the only plaintiff is TEPCO. I don't think they are or even can sue the Japanese government, unless you're inferring they're suing the government because meanwhile it owns a great part of TEPCO. From a legal standpoint, however, I don't think that's the same thing?
Anyway, agree with you on every other point. Especially, the communication between the USS Reagan and the NRC and/or DOE and the subsequent release of SPEEDI data by the Japanese government didn't seem like much of a coincidence to me either. After all, if I remember correctly, it was mentioned in the communication that the matter would be escalated up the command chain right away.
That issue with the SPEEDI data is something that's confusing me for a long time now anyway. I could have sworn that in one of the many press conferences with government representatives, etc., quite some time into the accident, someone asked why SPEEDI data weren't made available to the public in the early days. The response was that the SPEEDI system did not function and no data was available. But for the life of me I can't find a vidio of that press conference.
Does anyone else remember seeing/hearing that?
"The US apparently had no clue as of March 13 exactly how bad things were at Daiichi and they were being lied to about the severity by the Japanese govt."
Nancy, I have to disagree. The US military started flying its unmanned drone over Fuku-I, on March 12, 2011. They collected data for their own analysis, and they forwarded the data to the Japanese government with the express consent to release the data. The US weren't lied to, as they were the ones who had the data.
mscharisma, I remember that narrative, that SPEEDI didn't work. That's what the national government said. Herr Edano, probably, as chief cabinet secretary. It was a lie in substance, probably not a lie on technicality.
There were two other simulations being done, in addition to SPEEDI. One by NISA, the other by TEPCO.
A bunch of American mercenaries suing because of a few microsieverts. How ridiculous and wimpy!
The lawsuit will of course be dismissed, because it else would constitute a danger to the nuclear policy of the US. Imagine everybody affected by previous nuclear plumes, be them intentional or accidental, but of genuine US origin, being granted damages of $10 million...
And regarding the fact of pregnants doing duty on a nuclear-powered vessel... none of the women were forced to work there. They wanted to work there.
It's just wise from the government's perspective to have a bunch of nymphomaniac female soldiers on their ships, as this saves them for the need to provide govt-operated brothels. Honestly, one can expect quite some pregnants on an aircraft carrier with its five-thousand population, a large part of that being female. And only one of them sued.
Either way, it's amusing.
I wonder if there is an anti-nuclear activist group behind the soldiers, footing the bill for the NY attorney.
Blaming Hosono is lame.
LaPrimavera, thanks for pointing out again the important fact that the US government were the actual people who had the data.
Even the Japanese government thus depended on their data.
I agree with you. A Herr Edano, with his degree in applied physics, and who delved that much into accident micromanagement, will surely have known and understood the SPEEDI data. And for sure he had also the US data and understood it.
Ex SKF,
As usual you make these off the cuff statements that are very flimsy themselves. How is the lawsuit flimsy? By its very nature these kinds of lawsuits are hard to prove. You assert that but provide no evidence.
According to this source below, 370 million bq per cm3 is hardly flimsy but incredibly massive.
Of course, it that is the case why only 8 plaintiffs and I agree that the hypocrisy of this stinks to high Heaven, and that (you may agree) that the US military is using this to divert attention from their own incompetence; and they may even be using the data as part of ongoing experiments using sailors as white rats in a radiation experiment. The US military itself is the world's worst polluter.
"FOIA releases from the NRC document some of the radiation levels and reporting from those early days that may have been part of the reason for the lawsuit. FOIA documents report a level of 10,000 uCi/cm3 by air filter measurement on the USS Ronald Reagan while it was 100 miles out to sea. This would have been on March 13, 2011. This level converted to becquerels would have been 370,000,000 bq/cm3. The Navy said it was 30 times normal levels. A “Mr. Mueller” in the NRC transcripts reported this regarding the levels found “And so we thought — we thought based on what we had heard on the reactors that we wouldn’t detect that level even at 25 miles. So it’s much greater than what we had thought. We didn’t think we would detect anything at 100 miles.” The NRC discussions also considered this to be a thyroid risk to those on board."
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=8788
@Wilcox, I myself had to laugh when I read the section about "bone marrow transplant".
Your quote of Nancy's site, "The navy said it was 30 times normal levels", that's about what USS Ronald Reagan officer said in the Facebook page, about one month worth of radiation. For air filters to have high concentration, is that a surprise to you after 21 months?
It's something the Village People could not have anticipated,being as they were the flamboyant entertainer and not the competent authority on timebombs.
Aye,building and refueling reactors with gay abandon,i guess we all now know what the designers knew then.
@wilcox, "As usual"? That's rather severe, considering what crap you write.
@laprimavera: Thanks for clarification on the SPEEDI data/press conference. While they may not have been able to input actual radiation amounts, as I understand it, they were still - and DID - use SPEEDI to predict the distribution of the plume. Hence, they could and, in my opinion, should have released as much to the public with an appropriate explanation. In my book, telling the public it didn't work was deliberately misleading and, therefore, a lie.
Good point on the US drones, btw. The problem for the sailors is, of course, that they can't sue the US government.
@anon at 3:24:
The attorney studied and specializes, among other things, in environmental law. While I had thought I saw his name come up before somewhere in connection with the fight against the San Onofre restart, I must have been wrong since I now can't find any docs on the web anymore to verify that. Be that as it may, he may also be working on this case simply out of personal conviction? Besides, typically, no lawyer fee is due anyway unless or until the case is won. The big out-of-pocket cost to worry about for the plaintiffs are usually those for expert witnesses.
About the attorney, it depends. Some do it only on a retainer, others do it on contingency (what you're talking about).
OK I’ve been reading over the complaint and I almost stopped when I saw links from ENEnews.com, Fukushima diary, Washington’s blog and rense.com in the footnotes. While these sites are great for winning Internet arguments I doubt they’ll carry the same weight in a court of law. The complaint seems like it was researched and written by an anti-nuclear NPO I see lots of allegations with very, very little evidence to support them in a court of law. Footnotes aside if you look at the document in paragraph #41 the Plaintiffs claim they have never been exposed to harmful levels of radiation including their time aboard the USS Reagan. This is impossible for any of them to prove before their time in the navy radiation detection wasn’t part of a standard medical check-up. It is going to be hard to use the USS Reagan’s medical assurances that the crew wasn’t exposed prior to Fukushima and then ignore the official Navy assurances made during and after operation Tomodachi.
They also allege the USN was dependant on TEPCO for their situational awareness but the Global Hawk mission was run the day before the claim so the US was well aware of the facts on the ground. This doesn’t include the fact that all nuclear fighting ships are by their very nature designed to detect and respond to nuclear contamination emergencies without any help from external sources. A nuclear aircraft carrier is the perfect place to ride out a fallout incursion this vessel is designed to fight in a NBC environment 99.9% of vessels at sea would be totally in the dark about contamination much less what to do about it while the contaminated crewmembers of the USS Reagan were immediately detected and given swift medical attention. Some people may not be aware but the Reagan has a crew complement of about 6000 people 17 were detected with contamination and only 8 of them saw fit to file suit.
As a matter of fact according to this PBS article the ship continued operations:
“The aircraft carrier was 100 miles from the Fukushima nuclear power plant when it encountered the low-level radiation plume emitted by the plant. The radiation levels were determined to be low enough to continue humanitarian operations aboard the ship, including serving as a floating refueling station for the Japan Self-Defense Force in Operation Tomodachi”
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/the-daily-need/photo-a-super-size-scrub/8143/
I would love nothing better than a show stopping trial that exposes new and disturbing information but it looks to me like the plaintiffs want to use this case to establish their minimal exposure so they can have a payday and pin any future ailments on the accident but the law (in the US) doesn’t work like that they will have to prove actual damages not the possibility of injury in the future. They will also need to prove the damage was caused by the accident and not other factors. I agree with *mscharisma* this suit may backfire due to a lack of evidence.
I'm guessing the evidence would have to be deemed inadmissible for there to be the lack of it that has been hypothesized.
Reading your first sentence, I had to smile. When I saw the links, I too thought, "you got to be kidding." But then I was wondering if in a US law suit it is maybe the normal process that you don't throw all your hard evidence in right in the beginning, i.e., the initial complaint? Maybe only enough to show that there is a basis for your claims, followed by the hard evidence being presented during the trial?
Because if not, I totally agree with you. The references to claims made by the press or blogs as evidence aren't going to hold any water in court.
Coast to Coast AM radio... Fukushima Diary... So they are counting on all the mistranslations by you know who...
@anon 2:04 pm
I think you'd be guessing wrong, evidence doesn't need to be deemed inadmissible to be found lacking. I can tell you right now the court isn't going to accept internet blog news rehashes as evidence, what they will accept is the Navy's official version of the story regardless of how truthful it is. The nuclear industries both military and civilian have reams upon reams of data they use to discredit the medical claims of low dose plaintiffs. “My butt is bleeding” sounds pretty damning but it isn’t evidence maybe this guy’s boyfriend is a little too vigorous, maybe this guy eats too much meat whatever the reason it will need to be proven. If the highest exposure was really one month of background I don't see them winning but I could see an undisclosed settlement just so the suit will go away.
@*mscharisma*
I really doubt the plaintiff’s have much more evidence than what they have shown in their complaint but you are right the complaint doesn’t have to present all the evidence. That being said I don’t think the US wouldn’t have set up the Tomodachi registry if there were actionable data recorded.
According to the Tomodachi website:
“The registry will be used for medical treatment and diagnosis, inquires and exposure-related allegations, epidemiological health outcomes studies, medical surveillance and claims adjudication”.
Since the military claims that no one was overexposed what the statement above really means is the registry will be used to discredit any future attempts at claims adjudication.
I read that there is also a Japanese lawsuit against TEPCO it started back in June with a little over 1000 people it has recently swelled to 10,000 plaintiffs. Unfortunately it sounds like they'll have a steep uphill battle making any charges stick.
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN June 12, 2012
"FUKUSHIMA--More than 1,000 people filed a criminal complaint against officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co. and the government, saying they should be held responsible for the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Criminal complaints have been filed with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office and other organizations, but many investigative officials say it will be difficult to bring charges.
For example, it will be difficult to win recognition that the complainants were “injured” because the health impact of low-dose exposure has yet to be scientifically clarified.
In addition, investigators must establish the cause-and-effect relationship between the accident and the damage.
They also must show that TEPCO and the government were able to predict the accident and its damage, as well as show that measures were available to prevent such damage."
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201206120042
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on the lawyer, what could be found by a preliminary search:
http://williamgoingassociates.com/staff.html:
Katherine J. Beinkafner, Consultant/Associate, Geologist/Hydrogeologist unpublished publications
“Gulf Station NYS DEC Gasoline Spill Number 9406827 Route 52 and Lake Drive, East Fishkill, NY” for Paul C. Garner, Esq. Of New York City, Conklin vs Gulf (June 2008)
www.upenn.edu/gazette/0102/0102notes.html
Paul C. Garner C'67, an attorney, is board-certified as a trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy
lawyersonline.net/area.html:
General Law, Personal Injury, Malpractice
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-c-garner/8/366/536:
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Varan is there!
Really though it's which level of evidence is permissible as evidence.
Think of it as a banknote,you need to determine if what is proferred as tender is genuine or a forgery.
There are various levels of security,a suite of features for the everyman which are obvious,another for the retailer and his basic diagnostic tools,another for banks and the like,maybe even some other levels of security features which to be honest no one would really need to know about.
Not quite unknown unknowns.
How does this translate to your rice or tea from Fukushima?
Well it fails to be genuine rice as the everyman suspects it's contaminated.
The Shopkeeper has sussed what he has for sale is contaminated.
The department of agriculture knows it's contaminated.
The government knows it is contaminated.
The Nuclear regulator knows it's contaminated.
So we are looking for documented evidence of wrong doing on the part of those who anticipated more than a spilt cup of coffee in the parking lot of the reactor sheds.
What could go wrong,hmmm what about seismic events cascading to meltdown detonation and fire?
Ah yes,damn you for adding to the top-secret files!
As an everyman i put it to you that it could very well take presidential aproval to send an US Navy vessel into a radioactive plume to gather intelligence on tell-tale nuclides.
And not even the incumbent president,this directive may well have been the standard operating proceedure for the US Navy for decades,and not just for Japanese reactors.
If you want tangible evidence a contaminated sailor is worth more than a mere observational satellite.
But this is idle conjecture.
Suspecting or knowing your food is contaminated isn’t trial worthy evidence that your food is dangerous (and the nuclear industry knows it) the court is going to defer to nuclear regulatory agencies that sets the safety standards this means you are “safe” until they say otherwise regardless of the facts. Few people know it but the EPA may have already semi-secretly instituted a plan “to dramatically increase permissible radioactive levels in drinking water and soil following “radiological incidents,” such as nuclear power-plant accidents. The proposed radiation guides (called Protective Action Guides or PAGs) allow long-term cleanup standards thousands of times more lax than anything EPA has ever before accepted, permitting doses to the public that EPA itself estimates would cause a cancer in as much as every fourth person exposed”.
“Documents PEER obtained under the Freedom of Information Act indicate that EPA made a decision to approve the PAGs months ago but has yet to make an official announcement. Last fall the agency hired contractors to prepare a Communications Plan for it. Sources tell PEER that EPA is ready to send the PAGs over to the White House Office of Management & Budget for approval prior to publication in the Federal Register”.
http://www.peer.org/news/news-releases/2011/05/09/epa-halts-heightened-monitoring-of-fukushima-fallout/be
e-mail indicating EPA has approved the PAGs:
http://www.peer.org/assets/docs/epa/5_9_11_E-mail_EPA_approves_PAGs.pdf
If the PAG’s have been accepted then the sailors will be in for a surprise when they get to court. The EPA screwed a lot of 9/11 first responders and local residents by officially stating the dust in the air was safe this is how governments manage financial liability for themselves and their corporate masters.
"it could very well take presidential aproval to send an US Navy vessel into a radioactive plume to gather intelligence on tell-tale nuclides".
This was granted the moment the President ordered the USS Reagan into Japanese waters downwind from a heavily damaged reactor complex. We don't have a better surface vessel in the fleet for responding to a nuclear emergency. Data from the Reagan was an integral part of NARAC's early dispersal modeling. The President owns a TV I’m sure he was watching the reactors explode like the rest of us he can hardly be surprised there was a problem.
Once again proof of contamination isn’t proof of damage if it was this form letter prognosis wouldn’t be found after each dose estimate so far in the Tomodachi registry:
“ WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO YOUR HEALTH?
Your whole-body and thyroid radiation dose estimates ARE WELL BELOW levels associated with adverse medical conditions. Since the estimated radiation doses and health risks associated with this event are so low, no one is being placed in a medical surveillance program to monitor their long-term health outcomes. If you have medical concerns, please discuss these results with your health care provider.”
(No idle conjecture there)
It doesn’t matter if you melt into a pile of cancerous goo the Tomodachi registry disclaimer is pretty clear as far as officials are concerned your problems didn’t come from your time in Japan. If the plaintiff’s get a similar disclaimer with their dose estimate it will be a major hurdle in proving damages or linking them to current or future illness.
When there's obvious political and informational manipulation going on, I usually look at actions to determine the truth, rather than propaganda.
Here's the facts about the actions regarding the radiation the Reagan encountered:
Prior to the explosion of #3 reactor, USS Reagan and presumably the normal fleet of support ships was on orders steaming directly toward the Fukushima Daichi Complex with 5,000 able bodied soldiers, 1 million gallons of jet fuel (to power equipment) enough power generating capability to run a small city; enough pumps and equipment to drain a large flood; and the finest nuclear engineers in the world.
Unbeknowst to the crew, the Reactor #3 was experiencing meltdown and recorded over 1000 psi of internal pressure and it finally blew it's MOX core at 11:01 am. Ejecting a plutonium laced cloud into the atmosphere.
Less than two hours later, the USS Ronald Reagan abandoned its mission, and steamed north at maximum speed to get out of the fallout cloud. The air and water systems onboard were reportedly contaminated with radiation. The sailors spent a week scrubbing the ship, while token tsunami relief efforts were conducted on land, and the ship then hightailed it back to Pearl, then Home Port - where it was immediately sent for unscheduled refitment at Bremerton - which it is still ongoing 1 year later....
You tell me if that sounds like a "minor brush with radiation"?.
The Tepco workers on site at Daichi abandoned the plant - until the Prime Minister ordered them to return.
Within 1 day, the US government began plans to remove all family members of military personel from all military bases in Japan - and strongly urged the Japanese government to extend the evacuation zone to 50 miles. The president of the United States and his family were rerouted to South America for a two week unplanned vacation...
Later, the Navy changed the reports describing the time of the incident to US time zone - which indicated the Reagan retreat happened on Sunday night March 13th, , rather than Monday morning March 14th, Japan time - when it actually happened.
Every sailor onboard that ship - including the Captain himself, the officers, the crew, the air wing, and all the accompanying battle group ships were subjected to whatever spit out of the MOX core of the #3 reactor on March 14th. They were in exactly the wrong place at the exact right time.
They met up with something so horrible the President of the United States' advisors wouldn't tell him about it... Just as all the previous Presidents' advisors have lied to them...
The problem for those exposed is not external exposure which is what all the reports talk about, it's internal exposure.
I will leave it up to you to research the survivability of inhaled plutonium particles in mammals. I wish them Godspeed for the rest of their lives.
@anon at Dec. 31, 2 pm:
Thanks for the clarification re. evidence in the initial claim. And couldn't agree with you more on everything else you wrote, particularly the Tomodachi registry.
@anon at Jan 1, 1.27 pm:
"It doesn’t matter if you melt into a pile of cancerous goo ..." Correct imho re. the registry. And, of course, it doesn't matter even without the registry if you can't prove the causal effect. And no one can.
The attorney surely knows all this, so it will be interesting to see how he'll attempt to work it.
Japan is yet to fully develop a wonderful system of trial lawyers (aka ambulance chasers). Good luck TEPCO.
>You tell me if that sounds like a "minor brush with radiation"?
Why would I bother when that is the official story given by the Navy? It doesn’t matter what you or I think it matters what the Navy reports in official records. BTW, all your supposition about the Reagan “rushing home for a radiation refit” is wrong. The USS Reagan didn’t leave Japan until April 5 and they didn’t make Pearl until the end of Aug. then they return home Sept 2011 for a SCHEDULED refit. Read this article below it doesn’t have any of the hysteria you’re trying to portray there are pictures of the ship being met by family members they aren’t in space suits nor is the ship quarantined. The Captain is very clear:
“Being a nuclear-powered ship, we are pretty well-educated on how to deal with something like that. So we put a lot of controls in place to make sure that we weren’t dragging contamination all over,” Burke said.”
“But it’s a very tedious business,” he added, involving constant wash-downs of returning aircraft and the Reagan’s flight deck and island. Crew members were scanned before they were allowed below deck and contaminated items were confiscated.”
“We had a very small amount of exposure on one occasion. We dealt with it very carefully to be sure that we could do it over a sustained period of time if required, and that ended up not happening. So no, I have no concerns whatsoever for the health of this crew, zero.”
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2011/sep/08/carrier-ronald-reagan-due-home-after-eventful-depl/
USS Reagan Leaves Japan:
http://www.stripes.com/news/uss-ronald-reagan-ends-mission-as-u-s-military-relief-efforts-shift-in-japan-1.140061
USS Reagan stays on patrol after Japan:
http://homepost.kpbs.org/news/2011/apr/11/uss-ronald-reagan-commanding-officer-talks-about/
Reagan arrives in Hawaii:
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/128726263.html?id=128726263
Here is a letter from Congressman Norm Dicks welcoming the Reagan for a scheduled refit:
“The Navy informed the congressman today that the carrier, commissioned in 2003 and currently homeported in San Diego, will complete a series of scheduled repairs during the ”docking planned incremental availability” at PSNS.”
(So much for your "facts")
http://www.house.gov/list/speech/wa06_dicks/morenews1/ussreagan.shtml
>They met up with something so horrible the President of the United States' advisors wouldn't tell him about it... Just as all the previous Presidents' advisors have lied to them.
Obama wasn’t misled it took him a week to make sure he wouldn’t be outright contradicted then he gave the standard “everything is OK” speech. He didn’t recall the USS Reagan and he didn’t curse the Japanese for “lying through their teeth”. Obama is pro-nuclear he didn’t want to bring any attention to the issue because the US is full of the same crappy reactor designs all extended beyond their intended lifecycle.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-japan-nuclear-crisis-harmful-radiation-us/story?id=13158789
>The problem for those exposed is not external exposure which is what all the reports talk about, it's internal exposure.
No, the real problem is proving that ANY form of exposure has or will cause any damage the crewmembers didn’t have a full body assay before their exposure so they can’t even prove a baseline before the accident.
>I will leave it up to you to research the survivability of inhaled plutonium particles in mammals.
Why? Do you have any hard evidence anyone was exposed to Pu that originating from the plant? I’m pretty sure you don’t and neither do the plaintiffs. The court isn’t going to entertain the survivability of mammals after Pu inhalation until you prove people have inhaled and retained enough Pu to be statically above normal.
Look I know I’m being a killjoy and you feel any case is a good case but a weak case could set a negative precedent for future victims that are heavily contaminated.
to Anon 4:16 am:
Obviously you don't have access to all the facts.
Ask any person who was aboard the Reagan and they will tell you it was near panic aboard that morning when all the radiation alarms went off. The ship went through the cloud multiple times.
We know for a fact that Unit 3 was loaded with MOX fuel, which is produced with nano ground weapons grade plutonium particles.
We know for a fact that less than two hours before the Reagan declared an emergency that there was a very powerful explosion in the building which contained the reactor with MOX - about 100 miles away.
We know for a fact that for 24 hours prior to that explosion the workers on site were trying to deal with extreme pressures - which they logged at over 1000 psi in the RPV.
We know for a fact that after the explosion plutonium was found "several kilometers" from the plant.
We know for a fact from FOIA documents that the US NRC leadership spoke that evening about a US Navy ship reporting "Gamma shine from 100 miles out" after the event, and we also can plainly read the shock and dismay from those who heard that report and questioned whether they heard it correctly.
We know for a fact that the Reagan - one of the most powerful warships on earth - aborted a critical emergency mission, turned and ran at full steam. I have never heard of a nuclear powered US aircraft carrier abandoning a critical mission and running - never. They are built with the sole objective of accomplishing their mission. The only thing that would turn an aircraft carrier is if the captain felt the ship was in danger of being lost.
That is how dangerous it was that morning. That is how dangerous whatever was in the cloud was - it was threatening every life aboard.
We also know for a fact that about 4 days later the cloud reached the US west coast, and it contained plutonium particles, among many other substances.
I believe there will be no problem at all for a competent lawyer to establish that the sailors were very likely subject to inhaled plutonium from MOX fuel ejected in the explosion of the #3 reactor. Of course the Navy undoubtedly has the facts in hand and probably won't release them.
James, why do these sailors have to rely on rense.com, washingtonsblog.com and fukushima-diary.com for their lawsuit, if they are fact-based?
Also, what I heard from the navy guys was that a nuclear aircraft carrier has its own radiation monitoring system for its own nuclear reactors onboard, and radioactive materials from Fukushima I started to cause enough noise to affect their monitoring instruments. That's different from "the ship was in danger of being lost". The ship removed itself from the affected area so that its monitoring system wouldn't be affected.
If they are smart, they don't have to rely on any of those sources. All the facts are available from Tepco, the Japanese government, the US NRC and the United States Navy.
The ship had a mission to try and help avert a nuclear meltdown catastrophe. It was ordered to Fukushima Daichi to conduct that mission. 100 miles out, a helicopter crew landed hot with radiation. It was bad enough they were searching around the ship for a place to do the decontamination - they did it in the barber shop as i recall. Eventually both the air and water systems were contaminated with some unnamed form of radiation.
As I mentioned, the ship reported back to Washington gamma shine at a distance of 130 miles - which sounded incredible to the NRC experts. You tell me what would cause that?
The ship had been steaming toward Daichi to conduct that mission. A Navy ship on an emergency mission doesn't turn away in the face of nonlethal danger.
They knew full well the monitoring system would go off around melting down nuclear reactors - if you believe that's why they turned around I've got a bridge in Arizona to sell you...
The Navy has made all kinds of statements like " it wasn't dangerous", or it was a"months worth of background radiation". But I haven't once seen any factual data from them - just these broad statements.
Maybe the Navy should simply release their readings from their equipment, and explain the source of the gamma radiation, and make available the nuke officers to explain what was observed and recorded. After all, this isn't a wartime issue - there's no reason to hold the readings classified.
http://enformable.com/2012/03/uss-ronald-reagan-measured-0-6-mrhr-direct-gamma-shine-from-clouds-130-miles-from-fukushima-daiichi/
>Obviously you don't have access to all the facts.
None of your melodrama has anything to do with pertinent facts the crew's initial panic doesn't prove anything they are mostly young kids many on their first trip far away from home. Very few of them are experts in radiation or it’s effects so gripping youtube videos of them talking about dying while being told to shut off the camera won’t carry much weight in court. You have to show that the medical staff and command officers were panicked moving the ship isn’t proof of panic it’s proof of common sense. I've already refuted your "they abandoned the mission and fled” position. No they didn't, they officially detected radiation and repositioned then they continued their rescue support operations under contamination protocols for three more weeks. I’ve shown multiple examples of the official story the military has presented so far:
1) Nobody was injured or in danger they even setup a registry to cement this claim.
2) The Reagan didn’t leave Japan until April 5th
3) The ship is over 10 years old it is undergoing a ***scheduled*** refit a full 6 months after the accident. The vessel wasn’t quarantined when it made homeport and neither was any of the crew.
>We also know for a fact that about 4 days later the cloud reached the US west coast, and it contained plutonium particles, among many other substances.
We also know the EPA shut off the detection net and said everything was fine so it doesn’t matter what “we” know as far as a judge is concerned the EPA is going to be right. Nobody has any proof there was dangerous fallout on the ship much less California you need to accept the fact that when it comes to radiation proof of contamination isn’t proof of damage or injury. Everybody was so panicked but only 8 people out of the nearly 6000 people on the USS Reagan bothered to complain then of course there’s all the crews on the Reagan’s support vessels that didn’t lodge legal claims either.
>We know for a fact that after the explosion plutonium was found "several kilometers" from the plant.
So! We know for a fact the USS Reagan was well over 100 km from the plant and repositioned in a timely manner. Once again you don't have proof that Pu migrated to the ship or proof that the crew was contaminated with Pu you just assume it happened that won’t standup in court. You keep saying “we know” all kinds of stuff about the accident that won’t be supported by the Navy, EPA or IAEA a good lawyer would get his ass handed to him the lawyer they hired might get them deported to North Korea.
BTW, the gamma shine you’re talking about was from a nearby cloud and it was detected before any fallout deposition they go on to say that at this point the only contamination they have detected onboard has come from a Japanese sailor who’s ship was more directly in the plume. The only thing the full verbal exchange proves is that the Navy knew about radiation before they entered the deposition portion of the plume and they knew the plume had the capability to contaminated people who were more directly exposed.
MR. TRAUTMAN: The answer is it — well, I don’t know, I’m not sure what you are asking me. This is not a — we do not have deposition on the ship. This is coming from a cloud.
MR. TRAUTMAN: We had an individual who was on a Japanese ship that was more directly in the plume have some contamination on their feet, which we did detect as part of the process. But it was not from the deck on the aircraft carriers.
> All the facts are available from Tepco, the Japanese government, the US NRC and the United States Navy.
Yes and NONE of these sources are going to support the sailors case because it would undermine their hegemony. Since the NRC, EPA and the Navy aren't on trial their testimony won't be questioned. The Navy who has the most direct evidence has already spoken, they claim nobody was injured and they have the ability to classify any material they deem a national security risks so if they are hiding something earth shattering good luck with your FOIA request. The NRC booted Jaczko for “overstating” the situation and ever since they have been working to discredit his “opinions”. When TEPCO is subpoenaed you can be sure they’ll respond with a disorganized pile of take out menus and laundry lists written in the most obscure form of Japanese they can find. As far as the IAEA is concerned “Japan’s response to the nuclear accident has been exemplary… [and that the country’s] long-term response, including the evacuation of the area around stricken reactors, has been impressive and well organized.”
Oh, and you forgot the EPA they run the US monitoring stations and set US environmental safety standards. They shutdown the detection net and pretty much officially said, ”nothing to see here move along” so no help there. Nuclear power would have ceased to exist long ago if what you think was hard evidence were ever accepted in court. The international nuclear industry has gone to great lengths to establish a myriad of official agencies that precludes most legal action this enables them to explode reactors and dump nuclear waste in an officially “safe” manner (safe from prosecution). We can claim the EPA’s actions were done to cover up a fallout disaster but until that is proven in a court of law it is just an unsubstantiated claim that won’t be admissible. What will be admitted is the EPA assurance that “everything is OK”. Oh and they will be allow to use broad terms like " it wasn't dangerous" and it was a "months worth of background radiation" or “equal to x amount of air transport while eating x amount of bananas” and they won’t have to define x.
>no reason to hold the readings classified.
No, there isn’t so why hasn’t the crew offered them up in their complaint? Either the crew members knows their exact exposure burden or they have no basis for their complaint. If their story is the Navy won’t tell us then their first complaint is with the Navy if their story is the Navy got them wrong once again they need to sue the Navy to establish that fact. The question isn’t did they get exposed the real questions are, were they exposed to a level that most “industry accepted experts” would consider dangerous (no) and will “industry accepted medical experts” attribute the crews medical claims to their exposure (no)? I suspect they haven't made their exposure burden public because it is well below the accepted expert level of dangerous and the pro-nuclear MSM would rip their case to pieces before it ever made it to trial.
I find your compelling need to refute my posts in great volume interesting.
Your lack of ability to discern between fact and opinion or fact and propaganda indicates that you're not trained in logic, however it is certainly a commendable effort. I was thinking that you must be a paid professional of some sort, however I'm not sure a paid professional organization would trip over itself to deal with a lone internet commenter like me.
The facts of what happened on the morning of March 14th at Fukushima and onboard the Reagan have been slowly revealed, although sufficiently hushed that they are not widely known.
Whatever radiation the ship encountered, her crew will suffer accordingly - regardless of a lawsuit, and regardless of anything we type on these comments.
The lawsuit has to be a tremendous dilemma for the nuclear power industry. They simply cannot let the facts become a matter of public record, however they cannot settle it, because there are millions of other potential lawsuits behind this one.
About all they can really do is one of two things: pull strings and get it dismissed on a technicality of some sort; or agree to some sort of public admission of minor guilt, and have them drop the suit for an under-the-table payoff.
>I find your compelling need to refute my posts in great volume interesting.
No you don't, you find it very annoying that's why you have devolved into attacking my logic over not agreeing with you as to what will be accepted as facts in a court of law. The reason my posts are so voluminous is because I have to prove my case with the preponderance of evidence I know I won’t sway you but you might not be the only person reading this. I can't just say you're wrong about the USS Reagan turning tail and running and rushing for an emergency radioactive refit. I have to support every minute detail only to have you call it "propaganda" well I'm sorry but in a courtroom they will accept the Navy's version of events because the Navy isn't on trial.
>The lawsuit has to be a tremendous dilemma for the nuclear power industry.
Yeah that's what Karen Silkwood's supporters thought until Kee-MeGee (KMG) appealed the suit all the way to the Supreme Court where the judgment was upheld they settled out of court for a fraction of the original judgment ADMITTING NO LIABILITY (1.3 million vs 10.5 mil). Now keep in mind KMG purposely contaminated her and her home with dangerous levels of Pu and they probably had her killed in a car accident $1.3 million is just the cost of doing business. KMG was also responsible for a nuclear disaster at Churchrock New Mexico but they still managed kept control of Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site (where Silkwood worked) under a subsidiary named the Cimarron Corporation until 2006 when they spun it off to an independent company named Tronox. Tronox soon went bankrupt partially blaming KMG’s environmental debits. Now the poor suckers at Tronox are suing because KMG lied (good luck with that). KMG held onto Cimarron for decades because they knew it had environmental problems the sale to Tronox was made to defer liability and complicate future litigation but until it is proven in court appealed, proven, appealed then upheld by the supreme court and then settled out of court for peanuts (without an admission of guilt) it is just conjecture.
If lawsuits could adversely affect the nuclear industry as a whole the government would outlaw them. Oh wait, they did it's called the Price Anderson act in the case of a nuclear emergency the government decides who is contaminated and to what degree along with how much they will by paid this means they decide how bad an accident is period. There have been thousands of government allowed lawsuits over TMI but nothing industry stopping has come of it the remaining aging reactor still awaits the next human mistake. The USS Reagan never officially declared a dangerous nuclear emergency they detected radiation and moved to avoid it then they continued operations the US military hasn’t done or said anything to support the sailors account and without this support their case has little merit.
>About all they can really do…
Yes the technicality will be every officially recognized organization and agency involved will contradict the sailor’s position. A payoff settlement is a very big possibility but it will be a minor fraction of the claim and under no circumstances will there ever be an admission of guilt. You don’t pay some one to shut up and go away while admitting liability how logical would that be in the face of possible future litigation from other parties?
You keep droning about logic but the nuclear industry doesn't operate on logic and neither do the official agencies set up to "monitor" them (they operate on money and revolving doors). You are pretty naive about nuclear litigation and it's history in the US. Here are a couple of books that will enlighten you I’d add more but I don’t want you to get too “compelled”.
The Ambushed Grand Jury
http://www.ambushedgrandjury.com/
Insuring Against Disaster by John W. Johnson
http://books.google.com/books/about/Insuring_against_disaster.html?id=Kn1PAAAAMAAJ
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