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Academic journal article Ethnology
Political Institutions and the Evanescence of Power: Making History in Highland Bolivia
By Rockefeller, Stuart Alexander
The Bolivian Quechua community of Quirpini appears to be governed by a number of political institutions whose activities have little capacity for historically transformative action. An analysis of actions by each institution reveals that they either never mobilize people or are set up so that collective action is possible only with the assent and cooperation of the Spanish-speaking elite of the nearby regional capital. What appears to be Quirpini's system of self-governance is in practice the means by which the village is dominated. (Politics, Bolivia, power, mediation, action)
Until approximately 1984, the major political role of the kurajkuna (political authorities) of the indigenous Quechua community called Quirpini was to perform menial services for the leading officials in the town of San Lucas, the regional capital. Most of the authorities were required to go to town on a weekly basis to do tasks such as sweeping the mayor's patio, taking eggs to the authorities, and gathering and cutting firewood for them. One of the commonplaces of political anthropology about the Andes region is that a key, if not the central, role of communal authorities is to represent the community to those outside, particularly neighboring communities and to elements of the dominant Hispanic society and government (Abercrombie 1986; Rasnake 1988). Seen in this light, the services provided by the kurajkuna to the officials of San Lucas were not only perquisites enjoyed by members of the central town's Spanish-speaking elite, but an unmistakable representation of the subordination of Quirpini to San Lucas. By performing menial tasks and giving minor tribute to the authorities of San Lucas, the communal authorities were repeatedly concretizing, if not embodying, the submission of Quirpini to the regional center.
This was the state of affairs before a new priest was assigned to the San Lucas region in the early 1980s. He began a systematic program aimed to reduce the campesino(1) communities' subservience to San Lucas, a key part of which was to put an end to the kurajkuna's services to town authorities. In Quirpini, the form this change took was an attack on the kurajkuna as the institution then existed. He allied himself with the young head of the communal peasant union (sindicato), Justiniano Cruz. According to Cruz, who provided most of the information about these events, the official leader of the community at the time (the cacique) was ineffective. The union, with the padre's support, got the community to remove the kurajkuna (including the cacique) from their positions and declare that whereas in the past an incoming authority had been chosen by his predecessor, from then on they would all be chosen at a community meeting by popular vote. Furthermore, where in the past each authority changed at a different date, according to the cycle of fiestas, now all the kurajkuna would be chosen together, and take office together. There was no specific date on which the offices changed hands; rather, the transition was gradual, as marked by the presence of both old and new authorities at the weekly meetings of authorities for some weeks after the vote in January. Finally, the community unilaterally declared that the kurajkuna would no longer perform services for the town authorities.
The change was instigated by the church and union together, and made the system by which the kurajkuna were selected more similar to that of the union. It would be reasonable to suppose that the change initiated a period of union domination over the traditional authority structures, as happened in the ex-hacienda communities of the highlands and elsewhere (Rivera Cusicanqui 1990; Izko 1992). In fact, however, the union local had virtually no political significance at all, and the position of local sindicato head was a rotating one-year position treated as a rather minor requirement of male adulthood, comparable to a lesser position in the school or kurajkuna hierarchy. …
Publication: Ethnology
Publication date: Spring 1998
Rockefeller, Stuart Alexander
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Confessed Nevada child killer seeks parole, cites immaturity
Attorneys for Jeremy Strohmeyer said their client lacked the emotional and intellectual maturity at the time he killed Sherrice Iverson to control adolescent impulses.
Confessed Nevada child killer seeks parole, cites immaturity Attorneys for Jeremy Strohmeyer said their client lacked the emotional and intellectual maturity at the time he killed Sherrice Iverson to control adolescent impulses. Check out this story on rgj.com: http://www.rgj.com/story/news/crime/2018/06/01/confessed-nevada-child-killer-seeks-parole-cites-immaturity/664667002/
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LAS VEGAS — A confessed killer who has lost several appeals of his life-without-parole sentence in the May 1997 rape and strangulation of a 7-year-old girl in a southern Nevada casino restroom is trying now for a chance at parole.
Attorneys for Jeremy Strohmeyer asked a state court judge in Las Vegas on Thursday for a new sentencing hearing because they said their client lacked the emotional and intellectual maturity at the time he killed Sherrice Iverson to control adolescent impulses, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Prosecutor Marc DiGiacomo said that if Strohmeyer gets a new sentencing hearing, the state will seek the death penalty.
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Strohmeyer was a high school senior in Long Beach, California, and was not yet 19 years old when he strangled Iverson at a casino near the Nevada-California state line.
The case drew intense media attention, and prosecutors said Strohmeyer was seen on casino security videos following Iverson into a restroom where the murder occurred. Strohmeyer's DNA also was found on a cigarette butt in the stall where the girl's body was found.
Strohmeyer avoided death row by pleading guilty, and confessed to police that he killed and sexually assaulted the girl because he "wanted to experience death," the state attorney general said in an appeal that the Nevada Supreme Court rejected in 2006.
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His current lawyers, Tom Pitaro and Ozzie Fumo, noted Thursday that U.S. Supreme Court rulings in 2012 and 2016 mean that juveniles who received life sentences for killing a single person should have a chance at parole.
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Steinberg told Clark County District Court Judge Douglas Smith that personalities stabilize when people are in their 20s.
The psychologist acknowledged under questioning from DiGiacomo that he did not analyze Strohmeyer, and said he could not gauge Strohmeyer's level of maturity at age 18, the time of the killing.
The judge did not make an immediate ruling.
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More than five years may have passed but Pakistan's top off-spinner Saeed Ajmal still can't ‘understand’ how Sachin Tendulkar was adjudged not out when he was rapped on the pad by him during the 2011 World Cup semi-final.
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From the recent Dokken reunion to his own Lynch Mob, KXM, Sweet & Lynch bands, and now the new project Ultraphonix with Living Colour’s Corey Glover [HERE], George is a creative dynamo. Now, one of his projects possessing a philanthropical element to it, Shadow Train, will see the Shadow Nation semi-documentary receive a DVD release on August 14th.
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In print and available at the usual sources. You can find a complete listing of my work in the curriculum vitae.
A Hugo Award finalist.
"Rich, lucid and literate . . . Comparable to Philip K. Dick or A. E. van Vogt. Remarkable indeed." -- Publishers Weekly
"Wilson starts Darwinia at a brisk clip and never slackens the pace. What starts as a variation on Conan Doyle's The Lost World develops into an intricate meditation on morality and duty." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"A remarkable book, worthy of the highest honors of our field. Don't miss it." -- Locus
Julian Comstock
"Politically astute, romantic, philosophical, compassionate, and often uproariously funny, Julian Comstock may be Wilson's best book yet."
-- Cory Doctorow
"Post-apocalyptic power struggle from Hugo Award winner Wilson... Expertly handled prognostication with more than a touch of somber magnificence."
-- Kirkus (starred review)
"Julian Comstock is beautifully written, populated with engaging and sympathetic, if conflicted, characters, and unlike anything else [Robert Charles Wilson] has done to date." -- Locus
"[Julian Comstock] is a sprawling, gorgeous meditation on the inexplicable ways that history mutates culture, from its religious institutions to its pop culture."
-- io9.com
"Wilson's 14th novel is unlike anything else we've seen from the author. The only traits that mark it as a Robert Charles Wilson novel are its nearly flawless writing and pitch-perfect characterizations... The narrative moves without hurrying, and the voice, both colloquial and formal, is irresistibly pleasant. Julian Comstock is science fiction with a broad appeal, from a writer who continues to surprise." -- The Globe and Mail
A Philip K. Dick Award winner.
"Suspensful in the best sense." -- The New York Times
"Wilson blends science, religion, philosophy and alternate history into an intelligent, compelling work of fiction." -- Publishers Weekly
"A dystopian thriller . . . Wilson deals with the intellectual drives that propel the best SF." -- Locus
The final volume of the Spin trilogy.
"It's rare that the concluding volume of a trilogy can easily draw in newcomers unfamiliar with the back-story, but Hugo-winner Wilson does so without breaking a sweat . . . With relentless momentum Wilson's plot will propel readers along, and the subtle characterizations and sophisticated plotting elevate this to the top ranks of the genre." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review.
"A stunningly good work of science fiction . . . This novel, this series, reveals a thoughtful, seasoned author who went deep and came up with gold." -- The Globe and Mail
"Vortex is Wilson's final, bittersweet farewell to a soaring science-fiction conceit that has provided his readers with so many small, thoughtful -- and compellingly human -- pleasures."
-- NPR Books
"Wilson’s ideas and imagery evoke a wide-eyed, childlike feeling of awe and wonder in the reader. Not to mention the fact that all the characters are very well drawn, something which far too few science fiction writers pay attention to." -- National Post
"Robert Charles Wilson [has] nearly perfected a narrative technique which had already defined him as one of the most distinctive voices in modern SF: juxtaposing stunning high-concept SF spectacle with intimate personal dramas and closely observed characterization . . . As a conclusion to one of the most important series in recent SF, [Vortex] does not disappoint, and attains moments of true brilliance."
-- Locus
"A compelling read and a great series ending. SF that combines far-future sense of wonder with human interest and great characters does not come around that often, and I strongly recommend not to miss it in Vortex." -- Fantasy Book Critic
Hugo Award winner in the Best Novel category, Spin has also won the French Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, the Japanese Seiun Award, the Israeli Geffen Prize, and the German Kurd Lasswitz Prize, among others. A Locus Bestseller.
"Here's a book that features speculative conceits as brash and thrilling as those found in any space opera, along with insights into the human condition as rich as those contained within any mainstream mimetic fiction, with both its ceonceits and insights beautifuly embedded in crystalline prose." -- The Washington Post
"Breathtaking!" (Starred Review) -- Publishers Weekly
"Spin is many things: psychological novel, technological thriller, apocalyptic picaresque, cosmological meditation. . . Another triumph for Robert Charles Wilson in a long string of triumphs." -- Locus
A sequel to Spin.
"This absolutely worthy, abundantly marvelous sequel to Spin (2005) conjures humanity after an event so strange it's almost unimaginable." -- Booklist
"The various science and thriller plot elements are successful, but this is first and foremost a novel of character. Turk and Lise, who might well be played by Bogart and Bacall, are powerfully drawn protagonists, and their strong presence in the novel makes the wonders provided all the more satisfying. Those unfamiliar with Spin may flounder a bit, but Wilson's fans will be ecstatic."
-- Publishers Weekly, starred review
The Chronoliths
John W. Campbell Memorial Award Winner, Hugo Award finalist, and New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
"Superb." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"One of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary science fiction... The Chronoliths stands with Wilson's best."
-- The New York Times
A Bridge of Years
"A rewarding time-travel fantasy, which compares favorably with such classics as Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson and Jack Finney's Time and Again." -- Atlanta Constitution
"I very much doubt you'll find a finer, more compelling science fiction novel this year." -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"A marvelous blend of adventure and serious themes, in a very unconventional story of time travel. With each book, Wilson futher establishes himself as one of the major new writers of the 1990's."
-- Science Fiction Chronicle
A Hidden Place
My first novel, in a handsome trade-paper reprint edition from Tor Books. This is where my career as a novelist began, more than a quarter of a century ago.
"Toronto author Robert Wilson’s A Hidden Place is an astonishing debut. Set in the American Depression, it is first and foremost a novel of character -- of Travis Fisher’s coming of age when he is transplanted to the Midwest; of his girlfriend Nancy Wilcox, trapped in a small town with its small town bigotries; of Travis’s uncle, a strong man forced to accept his limitations; and most of all the strange hobo, Bone, and the mysterious boarder that Travis’s uncle has taken in.... Whether dealing with such dramas, or the quiet moments between Travis and Nancy, Wilson proves his remarkable talent on every page. Recommended." -- Charles de Lint, The Ottawa Citizen
"A Hidden Place is an impressive first novel, and Wilson is clearly a writer to watch." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"A Hidden Place will please you, and Wilson has a good deal to say to us all -- let’s hope for more of it." -- Locus
A New York Times Notable Book and Hugo Award finalist.
" Wilson (The Chronoliths) grapples with the ineffable in a superior SF thriller notable for credible characters and a well-crafted plot. ..
Thoughtful and deliberately paced, this book will appeal to readers who prefer science fiction with substance." -- Publishers Weekly
"An expert creator of sf thrillers provides another superior example. Wilson builds suspense superlatively well, to a resolution that packs all the emotional wallop anyone could wish. Wilson's fans will come looking for this one, and others will follow. -- Booklist
"Another triumph from one of the most amazing authors writing science fiction today." -- Rocky Mountain News
"Wilson's most tightly constructed pure adventure tale to date."
The Perseids and Other Stories
My first (and to date, only) short story collection. The stories are all set in Toronto -- in the words of the jacket flap, "a haunted, numinous Toronto of past, present and future, buzzing with strangeness."
"Beautifully observed, skillfully worked out: stories that flow subtly, almost imperceptibly, from the prosaic to the preternatural."
"There is in these tales such an affection for the numinous, the astronomical sublime, the ineffable -- for the basic stuff of SF and fantasy -- that they are . . . well-nigh irresistable. Wilson sets out to remind us, and possibly himself, of what there is to fall in love with in SF, and he succeeds." -- Locus
"These stories by the author of the prizewinning best-seller Darwinia (1998) are mostly urban fantasies set in Wilson's hometown, Toronto. Readers familiar with that other Canadian master of urban fantasy, Charles De Lint, will certainly find echoes of him in them, and they will enjoy a feast. " -- Booklist
Burning Paradise
Hugo-winner Wilson (The Chronoliths) casts a cold eye at SF clichés in this powerful novel... This is a deeply thoughtful, deliberately discomfiting book that will linger long and uneasily in the reader’s mind.
-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The Hugo Award-winning author of Spin has written a story of gradual suspense and quiet terror, with believable characters and a compelling plot.
-- Library Journal
Robert Charles Wilson is a Canadian writer whose work combines finely nuanced character development with some very high-concept sci-fi ideas... The serious issues Wilson raises involve the cost of freedom, the value of free will, and the question of whether we ought to accept a peaceful world at any price.
-- The Chicago Tribune
The Affinities
An intriguing and seriously innovative attempt to grapple with some of the issues raised by the 21st century's obsession with social media.
Wilson works a fascinating transformation on one of the oldest plot devices in SF: people who are widely hated for their inherent difference from the rest of humankind... Wilson's trademark well-developed characters and understated but compelling prose are very much in evidence in this quietly believable tale of the near future.
In this thought-provoking novel, Wilson deftly explores the drawbacks of groupthink and social networks that come to replace more inclusive, complex personal relationships. What’s chilling is how closely this futuristic plot mirrors our current reality.
Wilson must have tapped into the Zeitgeist because whenever I shared the premise of The Affinities with others, they were instantly intrigued . . . Wilson takes readers from the mundane to a surreal future in just 300 pages . . . I was hooked from start to finish.
-- Fantasy Literature
Robert Charles Wilson’s latest describes a social network that has evolved into something even more invasive and threatening than Facebook and Google . . . As always, Wilson has grounded his speculations in a suspenseful story focused on real people coping with these changes. It’s a troubling vision of the future, made all the more so by the ambiguity at its heart: are the affinities a good thing? Is this progress, or regression to a more primitive state?
-- Alex Good, The Toronto Star
Wilson has always written strongly humanistic tales of relationships within SF frameworks, and sometimes the SF itself is mostly a way of exploring the ways in which we cope, or fail to cope, with change. This may be Wilson’s grand theme, and it’s no less skillfully handled here.
-- Gary Wolfe, Locus
The distinguishing features of a Robert Charles Wilson novel are a deep and abiding humanism and empathy; delicate yet robust prose; and a commitment to taking core tropes of the SF field, turning them inside out, and then pursuing the implications of their new shapes . . . Wilson’s newest, The Affinities, does not depart from his usual high standards. Beyond the social media hook, there lies a family drama akin to something Karen Joy Fowler or Mary Rickert might write, as well as multiple love stories and the coming-of-age of our protagonist . . . [This is] bedrock science fiction that earns its eternal classicism by embodying human values and concerns as old as the species, no matter what futuristic trappings they wear.
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If all goes to plan, 2013 should see the first human trial of “rewound” cells. These are produced by turning adult cells back to a stem cell state and then coaxing them into becoming another type of cell. It will mark a milestone in our ability to generate new tissue – and maybe whole organs – from people’s own cells.
In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka reverted skin cells to an embryonic state. He called these cells induced pluripotent stem cells. iPSCs can grow into any tissue in the body by exposure to natural growth factors.
The long-term goal of the pioneering trial of iPSC-derived cells is to provide blood platelets to people undergoing cancer therapy, who need platelet transfusions to repair damaged tissues and prevent uncontrolled bleeding. Initially, however, platelets grown from iPSC will be given to healthy volunteers. Researchers in charge of the proposed trial, planned by Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) of Marlborough, Massachusetts, want to ensure that the cells are well tolerated before moving on to people with cancer and other blood-related conditions.
Some studies of iPSCs have suggested that they may have a higher risk of becoming cancerous. “Since platelets don’t have nuclei they can’t form tumours, which makes them ideal for the first iPSC clinical trial,” says Robert Lanza, chief medical officer at ACT.
Volunteers will be given platelets made from pre-existing stocks of iPSCs, but if the trial goes well, Lanza says they will create platelets from cancer patients’ own cells.
Lanza Named One of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World
Dr. Robert Lanza selected for the 2014 TIME 100 list of the hundred most influential people in the world, along with Pope Francis, Beyoncé, Vladimin Putin, Robert Redford, and other artists, pioneers, leaders, titans and icons.
Lanza Featured in Fortune Magazine
“…he’s the standard-bearer for stem cell research”
“Lanza published a paper in The Lancet earlier this year detailing the results of early clinical trials involving two women suffering from macular degeneration. A UCLA ophthalmologist
injected each woman with 50,000 retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, and according to the paper, both claim to have better vision as a result. They’re not 20/20. But after a single injection one now walks the mall alone, uses her computer, and can pour a cup of coffee. The other sees colors and can read five letters on the eye chart. If Lanza is remembered one day as the man who saved millions from blindness, his story will provide a ready-made biopic for Ben Affleck. Born in the hardscrabble town of Roxbury and raised by a professional gambler, he escaped the economic underclass through intelligence and imagination. At 13, he altered the DNA of a chicken to make it change color; the experiment was published in Nature. His sisters never graduated from high school. He received an MD from Penn and a Fulbright scholarship, and has collaborated with giants, including B.F. Skinner and Jonas Salk. He was the first ever to clone an endangered species, and now he’s the standard-bearer for stem cell research.”
Dr. Robert Lanza Featured on ABC’s Barbara Walters Special
Robert Lanza featured on “Live to be 150, Can You Do It?”.
by ABC News
Lanza Named One of the Top 50 "World Thinkers"
Dr. Lanza selected as one of Prospect Magazine’s “World Thinkers 2015.” The thinkers were chosen for “engaging in original and profound ways with the central questions of the world today,” as well as for their continuing significance for “this year’s biggest questions” (in economics, science, philosophy, cultural and social criticism and in politics).
Lanza Considered One of the Fathers of Applied Stem Cell Biology
“Robert Lanza is widely acknowledged as one of the fathers of the field of applied stem cell biology.”
– Mark S Blumenkranz, MD, MMS
HJ Smead Professor, Stanford University, and Trustee, Brown University
h-index for Lanza = 74
From Wikipedia: The h-index measures both the productivity and impact of a scientist or scholar. A value for h of about 12 might be typical for advancement to tenure (associate professor) at major [US] research universities. A value of about 18 could mean a full professorship, 15–20 could mean a fellowship in the American Physical Society, and 45 or higher could mean membership in the United States National Academy of Sciences. According to Hirsch (who put forward the h-index), an h index of 20 is good, 40 is outstanding, and 60 is truly exceptional.
Lanza has published extensively in leading scientific journals. Here is a sampling of his papers:
Science (207: 543, 1980)
Science (283: 1849, 1999)
Nature (252: 597, 1974)
Nature (308: 61, 1984)
Cell (11: 115, 1977)
Lancet (365: 1636, 2005)
Lancet (379: 713, 2012)
Robert Lanza Featured in Financial Times
At Home with Robert Lanza, stem-cell and cloning pioneer
Professionally, Lanza works at the cutting edge of human discovery, but the majority of his domestic space looks like a museum from a bygone era.
Lanza Voted Top 4 “Most Influential People on Stem Cells”
Lanza featured in the 2013 “TOP 50 Global Stem Cell Influencers.” It is the result of a global survey of the stem cell community, which yielded thousands of votes. The 50 personalities were picked based on their career achievements whether this was groundbreaking discovery and research, innovation, or lifetime dedication. Lanza was among the top four on the list, alongside James Thomson and Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka.
Lanza Featured in Der Spiegel, Europe’s largest news magazine
The Dawning of a New Era of Hope
Stem cell researcher Robert Lanza hopes to save thousands of lives — and for a long time this caused him to fear for his own… At the time, a doctor was threatened at a nearby fertility clinic, and a pipe bomb exploded at a bio lab in Boston. “Back then I thought that there was probably a 50-50 chance that I was going to get knocked off because I was so visible,” says the doctor. “I said, okay, try to kill me — I’m still going to do what I think is right.” In Lanza’s case, doing what is “right” involves working with therapies based on human stem cells. The blind shall see again; the paralyzed shall walk again; the hemophiliac shall not bleed anymore. That may sound like something out of the Bible, but Lanza is no faith healer. In fact, the US business magazine Fortune called him “the standard-bearer for stem cell research.” Lanza is often compared to the main character played by Matt Damon in the film “Good Will Hunting,” a highly talented outsider who, like Lanza, comes from a humble background.
Initial Success: “We have some surprisingly good visual outcome,” says Steven Schwartz, an eye surgeon at UCLA. He says that one of his patients can read a clock again and go shopping, while another can recognize colors again. Lanza is a “genius” and his work is “stellar,” Schwartz says.
DISCOVER Interview: Robert Lanza
Growing new body parts, reversing paralysis, stretching the limits of the human life span: This trailblazing stem cell researcher believes it is all within our reach.
Discover Magazine
Biocentrism / Robert Lanza’s Theory of Everything
BIOCENTRISM
How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
“Like “A Brief History of Time” it is indeed stimulating and brings biology into the whole. Any short statement does not do justice to such a scholarly work. Almost every society of mankind has explained the mystery of our surroundings and being by invoking a god or group of gods. Scientists work to acquire objective answers from the infinity of space or the inner machinery of the atom. Lanza proposes a biocentrist theory which ascribes the answer to the observer rather than the observed. The work is a scholarly consideration of science and philosophy that brings biology into the central role in unifying the whole. The book will appeal to an audience of many different disciplines because it is a new way of looking at the old problem of our existence. Most importantly, it makes you think.”
– Nobel Prize Winner E. Donnall Thomas
Beyond Biocentrism
Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death
Biocentrism shocked the world with a radical rethinking of the nature of reality … but that was just the beginning.
The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself
The Biocentric Universe Theory: Stem-cell guru Robert Lanza presents a radical new view of the universe and everything in it.
Lanza’s Research Featured on the Cover of U.S. News & World Report
Lanza’s team cloned the first human embryo. How American scientists made history by creating lifesaving embryos cells.
Lanza’s Team Clones First Endangered Species
Endangered Species Cloned
Lanza Receives “Rave Award” for Medicine
Robert Lanza Receives Award for Eye-Opening Work on Embryonic Stem Cells
Robert Lanza Featured in People Magazine
Send in the Clones. Biologist Robert Lanza has a plan to help endangered species fight extinction.
Lanza’s Research Featured on Front Page of New York Times
Biologists have developed a technique for establishing colonies of human embryonic stem cells from an early human embryo without destroying it.
Robert Lanza Featured on Front Page of New York Times
Stem Cell Test Tried on Mice Saves Embryo. Technique Could Shift Debate on Humans.
A New Theory of the Universe
A New Theory of the Universe: Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by adding life to the equation.
Featured on the Cover of Wired Magazine
Seven Days of Creation. The inside story of a human cloning experiment.
Lanza’s Early Cloning Research Featured on the Front Covers of Scientific American, Wired Magazine, and U.S.News & World Report, Among Others
U.S. News & World Report Cover Story
“…his mentors described him [Lanza] as a “genius,” a “renegade” thinker, even likening him to Einstein.”
“Robert Lanza is the living embodiment of the character played by Matt Damon in the movie Good Will Hunting. Growing up underprivileged in Stoughton, Mass., south of Boston, the young preteen caught the attention of Harvard Medical School researchers when he showed up on the university steps having successfully altered the genetics of chickens in his basement. Over the next decade, he was to be “discovered” and taken under the wing of scientific giants such as psychologist B. F. Skinner, immunologist Jonas Salk, and heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard. His mentors described him as a “genius,” a “renegade” thinker, even likening him to Einstein.”
Research with B. F. Skinner
“Greatest Psychologist of All Time”
Most Influential Psychologists
(American Psychological Association)
1. B. F. Skinner
2. Jean Piaget
3. Sigmund Freud
Symbolic Communication Between Two Pigeons
SCIENCE 207; 543 (1980)
Lanza (with Skinner & Epstein)
“Self-Awareness” in the Pigeon
“Lying” in the Pigeon
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 38; 201 (1982)
Lanza (with Skinner & Starr)
Lanza & Skinner’s Work Featured in TIME Magazine
Pigeon Talk − A triumph for bird brains
Lanza & Skinner’s Work on Symbolic Communication Featured in New York Times
Pigeons’ ‘Conversation’ Triggers a Debate About Language
Lanza & Skinner’s Work on Self-Awareness in New York Times
Science Watch: ‘Self-Awareness’ in Animals
Lanza and Skinner’s Work Featured in My Weekly Reader
Pigeons Punch Buttons. Talking or Training?
My Weekly Reader
Research with Jonas Salk and Christiaan Barnard
Work with Jonas Salk
Developed Polio Vaccine
J. Supramol. Struct 182;33 (1979)
Lanza (with Salk)
Work with Christiaan Barnard
Performed the World’s First Heart Transplant
New England Journal of Medicine 307; 1275 (1983)
Lanza (with Barnard & Cooper)
JAMA 249; 1746 (1983)
Lanza (with Barnard, Cooper & Cassidy)
American Heart Journal 107; 8 (1984)
Lanza (with Barnard, Cooper & Boyd)
Research with Rodney Porter and Gerald Edelman
Work with Professor Rodney Porter
Recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology
Lanza worked with Porter at Oxford University in 1977
Work with Dr. Gerald Edelman
Nobel-winner was “The Father of Modern Immunology”
Lanza worked with Edelman at Rockefeller University in 1976
Books by Dr. Robert Lanza
Facts about Dr. Robert Lanza
Dr. Robert Lanza – Beyond Biocentrism
Dr. Robert Lanza on The Huffington Post
Robert Lanza - Science & Nonduality
Dr. Robert Lanza on Psychology Today
Biocentrism Site for Robert Lanza, M.D.
Robert Lanza Interview By Deepak Chopra
Robert Lanza's Theory of Everything
Robert Lanza Quotes
Robert Lanza Afterlife
Robert Lanza, Professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine
biocentricity.net: Exploring the theory of the biocentric universe
Robert Lanza on Huffington Post
Why Does Life Exist?
Why Are You Here? A New Theory May Hold the Missing Piece
Who Are We? Experiments Suggest You’re Not Who You Think
Time and Death
Does Death Exist? New Theory Says ‘No’
What Happens When You Die? Evidence Suggests Time Simply Reboots
Does the Past Exist Yet? Evidence Suggests Your Past Isn’t Set in Stone
Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time
Do You Only Live Once? Experiments Suggest Life Not One–Time Deal
Five Reasons You Won’t Die
Why You Will Always Exist
Anything Beyond the Universe? New Theory Changes Our Destiny
Are We Part of a Single Living Organism?
Have Aliens Left The Universe? Theory Predicts We’ll Follow
Are Dreams An Extension Of Physical Reality?
Death is Only the Beginning
If death doesn’t exist, then what happened to your dog?
Robert Lanza takes the Ice Bucket Challenge
"Before I did the #icebucketchallenge, I challenged the leader of Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), Dr. Bob Lanza, to do the Ice Bucket Challenge. He did it and leading up to it he provided a quite articulate message for context (see video). Bob is one very cool guy even without ice water."
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Entire Company takes the Ice Bucket Challenge. Click Here to See Video.
Lanza Featured in OMNI MAGAZINE’s Collector’s Edition
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What if you could travel through time just like you navigate space? The journey starts here
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Case Study: Why Ford Deployed AMRs to Automate Spanish Factory
Mobile robots from MiR used to automate internal logistics processes.
Image: Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR)
Neal Weinberg
The cavernous Ford Motor Co. assembly facility in Almussafes-Valencia, Spain, is one of the most innovative factories in Europe, and plant managers there are always looking for ways to improve efficiency by automating manual processes.
The body and stamping plant has multiple industrial robots working on its busy assembly line, where 2,000 vehicles per day are produced, including the popular Kuga, Mondeo and S-Max. But the delivery of fresh industrial and welding materials to the various robot stations were being handled manually, a repetitive and time-consuming task for Ford employees that added no value.
Ford began investigating the use of internal logistics robots to transport materials from the warehouse section of the 300,000-square-meter facility to the factory floor. Ford had several requirements: the robot had to be easy to program, easy for plant staffers to operate, and it had to be able to safely navigate the plant floor autonomously.
“For us, it was important that the robots had one key feature – that for the navigation of the robot, no external elements were needed, such as external beacons, magnets or tapes on the ground,” said Miguel Montana, a maintenance control analyst for Ford. The robot had to avoid unforeseen obstacles, modify its route or stop when necessary and work safely alongside people and other vehicles in the plant, such as forklifts.
Around 18 months ago, Ford purchased its first collaborative robot from Denmark-based Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR). “The first one that arrived at our factory was baptized with the name Survival because it has survived in a very hostile environment,” said engineering manager Eduardo Garcia Magraner.
He added, “We programmed it to learn the entire plant and this, together with the sensors with which it is equipped, means that it does not need any external help to circulate safely.” Ford conducted initial tests of the MiR 100, and Garcia Magraner reports that “it worked flawlessly and has become a very valuable member of the team. Hopefully, we can take it to other Ford facilities,” he adds.
Flexibility for a variety of applications
The MiR 100 is designed to carry up to 220 pounds (100 kg) of materials, and the robot can be mounted with customized top modules such as bins, racks, lifts, conveyers, or even a collaborative robot arm. In other words, it can be set up to handle a variety of specific applications, depending on business needs.
For example, Teamvantage, an injection molding and contract manufacturer, recently implemented a MiR100 robot with a hook at its warehouse in Forest Lake, Minn. “Teamvantage recently embarked on a warehouse optimization project, part of which was to implement an autonomous robot to efficiently transport product between our warehouse and production floor and to enable our employees to focus on more value-added tasks,” said Kelly Stichter, general manager at Teamvantage. “The MiR solution was most appealing for our application due to its ease of use, including mapping features and web-based interface; its flexibility, the available hook accessory and small footprint; and its safety features, which include cameras, sensors and sounds. Another plus was the simplicity of its design (that is, use of standard components) that makes it easy to maintain.”
The mobile robots need to be able to stop and avoid things like forklifts and work alongside humans. Image: Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR)
At the Ford Spain facility, “One of the first applications that we developed with the MiR autonomous collaborative robot was to transport spare parts for production equipment from the warehouse to the production lines. And now we can say that Survival has survived in this hostile environment and today continues to distribute these items from the warehouse to the production lines,” said Garcia Magraner.
The MiR robot was equipped with an automated shelving system with 17 slots to accommodate materials of different weights and sizes. To avoid errors, the opening and closing of these slots is automated, meaning that operators in each area only have access to the materials assigned to them. “The incorporation of the MiR robots has allowed us to turn a routine distribution of spare parts into a highly qualified job,” said Helios Alvarez, plant manager.
Tests conducted by Ford showed that one mobile robot alone frees up 40 manhours per day, allowing workers to dedicate themselves to more complex tasks. Today, Ford Spain has three MiR robots in operation.
The ease of use of the mobile robots has proven to be especially valuable. “The robot is well configured so that it can be used by anyone, even if they are not familiar with the world of collaborative mobile robots,” said Garcia Magraner. “The system is very user-friendly, as the three MiR robots have their own routes throughout the extensive factory area.”
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The MiR robots are the first collaborative autonomous mobile robots to be used in a Ford production plant in Europe, but that may change as other plants recognize the benefits. “The satisfaction we have achieved with the implementation of these three MiR robots in the distribution of industrial materials is allowing us to open new fields of expansion to incorporate new MiR robots with the scope of the Body and Stamping plant and even going beyond to other areas within the factory,” said Alvarez. “We have been able to demonstrate that these robots are capable of learning their way by themselves and also interacting perfectly well with our employees and forklift trucks or any other moving element with total safety.”
MiR purchase considerations
Edward Mullen, vice president of sales at MiR, said the Ford implementation is significant because it signals that the world’s largest and most successful manufacturers are choosing to deploy autonomous mobile industrial robots for intra-logistic functions.
He said companies considering MiR robots should identify business needs and specific use cases that can deliver the fastest ROI. “The big thing is understanding what the customer wants to do,” said Mullen.
Beyond the technology itself, companies need to think about how the robot will interface with existing business processes and a variety of stakeholders need to be brought into the conversation, including IT managers, change management personnel, business process leaders, and line operators on the factory floor. The rollout process includes pilot projects, training, followed by full implementations. Mullen said the mapping of the environment can be completed within a day, and the user interface of screens and buttons can be quickly and easily mastered by employees.
Pepe Perez, corporate communications manager at Ford Spain, sums it up this way: “We are proud to have one of the most innovative factories in Europe and to be pioneers in the use of collaborative mobile robots for the distribution of industrial materials that allows us to be more efficient in our intra-logistics.”
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Autism charity celebrates Christmas at Beam Park development
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Staff from the Sycamore Trust, parents, and young people came together for a Christmas lunch at Beam Park on December 23. Picture: Tony Mitchell.
Tony Mitchell
Young people, parents and Sycamore Trust staff came together to celebrate Christmas at Countryside's Beam Park development.
Organised by autism charity Sycamore Trust UK, the lunch on December 23 was attended by Councillor Michael Deon-Burton, the mayor of Havering.
The charity provides support and services for families and individuals on the autistic spectrum in Havering, Redbridge and Barking and Dagenham. It operates the Autism Hub from Romford's Liberty Centre, and also has premises in Dagenham.
Beam Park is a £1billion regeneration scheme being delivered by Countryside and L&Q, which is transforming a former Ford manufacturing plant into a development with a c2c station and 2,500 homes.
Steve Dixon, from Sycamore Trust UK said: "We really appreciate the efforts that Countryside staff have made to make us very welcome and it's clear that our young people really enjoyed the day.
"We know that Countryside are here for the long-term, so we're hoping that we will be able to do plenty more together in the future."
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My safety story began in 2012 as an electronic warfare technician, working on a B.S. in occupational safety and health. The Air Force asked me to retrain and, excited about the possibility to match my degree and career, I accepted. I was sent to safety apprentice school, where I earned the Top Graduate Award before getting assigned to the 20th Fighter Wing Safety Office at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina.
There, I was provided great training and exposure to a plethora of industrial programs and management opportunities. This allowed me to gain a significant amount of experience in a short amount of time. Quickly accomplishing all required upgrade training, I was sent to safety craftsman school, where I again earned the Top Graduate Award. Mishap investigations, program assessments, facility inspections and teaching various safety courses were my primary tasks on duty – all while completing my B.S. degree off duty.
In 2014, I received orders to the 735th Air Mobility Squadron at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI. Here, I managed the Squadron Commanders Mishap Prevention Program, as the single point of contact for all flight, weapons and occupational safety. Through effective risk management and proactive safety practices, we were able to establish a “Safety 1st” culture, resulting in zero safety deficiencies from any external inspector/agency for an unprecedented four consecutive years. I spent a significant amount of time working with other safety offices and agencies around the installation to build relationships and mend broken programs/processes.
Additionally, I was able to start and finish my M.S. in occupational safety and health/environmental management. Our “Safety 1st” culture drove us to receive various individual and team recognition. Our unit personnel took home 22 of 26 group and Wing safety awards, two MAJCOM awards and two Air Force Safety Well Done Awards. Our squadron received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Occupational Safety, and I received additional recognition to include Air Mobility Command’s Safety Professional of the Year in 2015 and 2016, and the 2018 National Safety Council Rising Star of Safety Award.
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This sequel to Kurt Neumann's The Fly (1958) is peculiar, to say the least. Producer/director Neumann had passed away during the summer of 1958, and the studio needed a sequel. The resulting film, Return of the Fly, was directed by Edward L. Bernds, a filmmaker (and former sound man at Columbia Pictures) most closely associated with the Three Stooges, but who had lately moved successfully into popular science fiction, with movies such as World Without End, Space Master X-7, and Queen of Outer Space to his credit -- not that this last, in particular, seemed to qualify him for anything but tongue-in-cheek satire. Curse of the Fly was shot in CinemaScope but in black-and-white, an unusual combination that is usually associated with artier movies, as a compromise for discriminating directors who can't avoid the widescreen format but want to present something serious; in this particular case, however, it was purely a budgetary decision. Vincent Price is the nominal star as Francois Delambre, the brother of Andre Delambre, who died as a result of his experiments with a matter transmitting device in The Fly. It is now a dozen years later, and Andre's son, Philippe (Brett Halsey), has just laid his mother to rest, having witnessed the final years of her life blighted by the memory of the horror of Andre's death. He convinces Francois to tell him what happened and of the device that destroyed his parents' happy life together. Philippe vows to perfect the matter transmitter, so that all of the heartache and sacrifice by his parents will not have been in vain. He employs as his assistant a scientist friend, Alan Hinds (David Frankham), who, unbeknownst to him, has shady business connections and a dark secret in his own past. Alan conspires to steal the secret of the matter transmitter, but first he must dispose of a detective who has come to arrest him for an earlier crime, and then eliminate Philippe, who doesn't know what Alan has done, only that he's hiding something. Thus, the same disaster that befell Philippe's father now occurs again, to him -- his body parts are transposed with those of a house-fly. The human-sized fly, even nastier looking than the monster in the original film, goes on a rampage, trying to catch Alan and get revenge for what has happened to him, using what faculties he has. Meanwhile, Francois gets help from the surviving detective on his brother's case, who knows the truth, and the two try to trap the monster alive and also find the fly-sized creature with Philippe's head and features, so they can try and unscramble the atoms of both. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
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Edward Bernds
Aug 28, 1959 wide
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Dan Seymour
as Max Berthold Underworld Fixer
Danielle De Metz
as Cecile Bonnard
Janine Grandel
as Mme. Bonnard
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Richard Flato
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Critic Reviews for Return of the Fly
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The first two-thirds are superior to the final stretch.
Dec 15, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Matt Brunson
Film Frenzy
Disappointing sequel to the classic horror film, "The Fly."
Nov 1, 2014 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Paul Chambers
Movie Chambers
Makes for passable 'killing time' entertainment.
May 3, 2010 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Continuação pouco imaginativa que reutiliza a base do original sem alcançar os mesmos ótimos resultados.
Sep 11, 2006 | Rating: 2/5
Pablo Villaça
removes most of the romantic melodrama that characterized the first film and replaces it with a plot involving criminal intrigue and revenge-inspired murder
Feb 27, 2001 | Rating: 2.5/4
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk
Audience Reviews for Return of the Fly
The return!! even though there is no real reason for why or how the humanoid fly hybrid could return, unless done deliberately. Why? because the original fly hybrid was a horrible accident, human error, and the chances of another fly just happening to zip into a teleportation cabinet again are surely very slim. None the less here we are again with good old Vincent Price in the same role from the previous movie as Francois Delambre, the brother of the late Andre Delambre, and uncle of our new protagonist, Philippe Delambre, Andre's son (seen as a young boy in the original movie). The story follows on from the first movie with Andre's son, Philippe, deciding to take up his fathers old work and carry on developing the teleportation device from where it was last left off. Francois is not happy about this decision but eventually, after some wrangling, agrees to help Philippe in funding the work. All is trundling along fine, but alas all is not rosy behind the scenes. Philippe's best mate and work associate actually turns out to be an industrial spy after the teleportation secrets which he can then sell off. At first his snooping around goes unnoticed, but in time he is found out resulting in fisticuffs, equipment damage and of course...the fly hybrid monster. Yep there appears to be lots of fly's in this particular area of Montreal. Naturally the humanoid fly hybrid goes off on a rampage after the man that messed with his atoms, whilst Francois must go after the fly with a human head so that the process can be reversed. Will they manage it this time? The basic story outline is the same, the only real main advancement in this film is the fact that the Delambre's have developed the teleporter to be able to store objects within subspace in atom/molecule form, until they are ready to bring them back (generally small animals). Its amusing how this movie seems to have given many future horror thrillers the same general theme. The old plot line of the father character working on something sinister, getting killed by said sinister project, and then having the son carry on that work in the sequel whilst having an abject fear of the projects contents. In the original movie Andre is partly transformed into a fly and eventually killed, his work almost tainted by a curse of...the common housefly. Now in this sequel his son carries on his work, but he also has a tremendous fear of flies, even thought in the first movie he didn't really see what happened to his father, and having a fear of flies is pretty stupid. So the plot is pretty thin and in need of a hot action injection, this is brought in by the caddish Ronald Holmes (David Frankham), a very dapper British industrial spy who is not afraid to kill to get his hands on the teleportation plans. Now this guy is a real rotter of epic proportions plus a real joy to watch as he charms and slimes his way into the Delambre's home. He's trying to sell the device plans to a stereotypical, fat Al Capone-esque type chap (Max), who will then in turn sell it on to outside interests. Both of these two are totally cheesy cliches in every way possible but are there purely to move the plot along, its just fun to watch these guys and how bloody obvious they are, its like watching a children's panto and wanting to shout out...he's behind you! Once again Price kinda plays second fiddle to the proceedings although having more of a main role than in the first movie. This time he is more involved with the experiments and the finale, yet the main focus is solely on the young Philippe played by Brett Halsey. I was actually impressed with Halsey as he does convey a good range of emotions without hamming it up, I admit I fully expected a second rate actor with no real skills, merely hired because of his looks (it being a lesser, cheaper sequel to a much bigger movie). But lets be honest here, its was all about Frankham and his dastardly spy, yes that's right, he even outdid Price with his debonair scoundrel. The fact that Holmes is the one who purposely sends Philippe through the teleporter, purposely putting a fly inside with him, makes him even more of a dirty, rotten (sadistic?) recreant, but that's why he is so gloriously fun to watch. Again I wasn't expecting much in the form of continuity but again I was pleasantly surprised. The basement lab set is actually the same set used from the original movie which is a real plus point allowing the viewer to slip back into the story with ease. On the effects side of things its another mixed bag really, with the sets being the same, that meant everything was visually spot on such as props, gadgets, lighting, camera angles etc...but for some unknown reason they utterly fudged up the fly head. Sure it looks good, it looks like a giant fly head with big emotionless eyes, coarse black hairs and antennae, but it was huge! Now when I say huge I mean ridiculously over-sized, to the point that it almost looked like a mistake or outright joke. Its comical to watch Halsey (or whoever) walk and run around with this big fat fly head on his shoulders, clearly way too big for his body, the movie completely loses any suspense or thrills. On the other hand (no pun intended), when Holmes thwarts an enemy agent (a goodie Brit agent trying to apprehend Holmes for previous crimes) and sticks him into the teleporter, when the guy is brought back he has the hands and feet of a guinea pig that had been previously stored in subspace by Philippe as a test run. Even though these guinea pig paws are clearly rubber gloves, it is a well created, eerie bit of makeup, especially with the petrified expression left on the dead agents face. In turn we also see a goofy yet acceptable guinea pig with human hands, and later on a fly with Philippe's human head (both superimposed I think). As I've already said, the plot is generally the same as before, but it unfortunately degenerates into a generic monster movie towards the finale. Somehow Philippe the fly mutant manages to find Max and kill him despite the fact that Philippe didn't even know anything of Max, what he looked like, where to find him etc...Also Max never actually did anything to Philippe, he was just buying information off this Holmes guy, it was Holmes that betrayed him so badly, but Philippe kills Holmes too naturally so its all good. Price is clearly having fun with the project judging by his facial expressions throughout, naturally nothing in the film is even remotely scary and the plot is stretched to the limit. Yet its still a relatively enjoyable B-movie mainly for the odd performances and (in my opinion) the continuity. Its also filmed in black and white (unlike the first movie) which I also think looks much better and adds to the atmosphere, whilst hiding dodgy effects, which is always handy.
Phil H Super Reviewer
The fly shouldn't have returned, the story is horrible and so are the special effects, this movie is nothing like the original, and I don't recommend seeing it, unless you're a big fan of Price and just want to see him in another movie.
Aj V Super Reviewer
Obviously, this sequel is nowhere near as good as the original 1958 film 'The Fly', but despite obviously being a cheap follow-up and working from a story that basically just rips off the first film, there are some good ideas here and the film is definitely worth watching. The only actor to return from the original movie is Vincent Price, but the story does lead directly on as in true horror sequel style, in this film we follow the fortunes of the original scientist's son, who naturally decides to follow on his father's experiments. Price isn't the only thing that was recycled for this film, however, as the film was apparently written to incorporate sets from the original, although this does make sense considering how the story follows on. The hapless scientist this time is Philippe Delambre, son of Andre Delambre, and a man who has decided to rebuild the transportation device. Along with his friend Alan Hinds and uncle Francois Delambre, they conduct a series of experiments in the hope of succeeding where Andre failed...but naturally, as nothing runs smoothly in a horror film, events take a turn for the macabre... I'm guessing that black and white film was cheap around 1959 as despite the fact that the original film was shot in colour, this one is in black and white. However, I actually prefer films like this in black and white, so this wasn't a problem for me. Vincent Price took a backseat in the original film, but as his star was rising by the release of this follow-up; he gets a more central role, although he still doesn't appear enough if you ask me. His role here isn't one of his strongest, but anything that features a performance from the great Mr Price is well worth seeing if you ask me. It has to be said that most of the performances (and dialogue) in this film are pretty ridiculous, but among the rest of the cast Brett Halsey, an actor who would go on to make Italian films along with this likes of Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci, stands out as the unlucky scientist. The film obviously isn't very graphic; although it's slightly more violent than the first film, and the transporter machine is put to much better use here. The special effects are inventive too, and work well despite obviously not costing much. Overall, this is at least a worthy follow-up, which while not as great as the original; has its moments and is worth seeing.
Cassandra M Super Reviewer
Originally made for television, cheesier and less resounding than its predecessor. Still a great B movie for a Friday night.
_kelly . Super Reviewer
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Garry Hynes Award Winning Theatre Director 1986
David Hanly talks to founder of the Druid Theatre Company Garry Hynes about her upbringing, her initial interest in theatre and setting up Druid.
Born in Ballaghaderreen in county Roscommon in 1953, Garry moved to Galway at a young age and it quickly became her home and the place where she would establish herself in the world of theatre setting up the Druid Theatre Company and winning awards.
David Hanly begins by congratulating Garry Hynes on her latest smash hit success at the Dublin Theatre Festival with her adaptation of Tom Murphy's 'Whistle in the Dark' at the Abbey Theatre. Hanly takes the conversation back to find out how a 33 year old woman from Roscommon became Ireland's foremost theatre director.
Garry talks about her attachment to Galway and that
When the family moved to Galway in 1965, it was really a homecoming.
She talks about her parents and family and while they are very close, there was no particular background in theatre.
Neither of my parents had any particular interest in the theatre.
It was really her interest in reading that brought her to writing and theatre. Libraries played an important role in developing her interest in poetry, drama and literature.
It wasn't until Garry went to university that her interest in drama took root when she joined the Drama Society at University College Galway (UCG) and by second year was the head of the society.
This episode of Hanly's People was broadcast on 13 October 1986.
GARRY HYNES
Druid Theatre 1986
Druid Takes Synge to Inis Meáin 2005
Tom Murphy and Druid 1985
Galway Oyster Festival 1981
Pádraic Ó Conaire Statue 2006
Eyre Square Centre 1991
Galway Busking Festival 1985
Galway Arts Festival 2000
Major Survey of Medieval Galway 1985
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Wallaby Hall of Famer recognised for commitment to rugby
Geoff Shaw played 68 games for Australia. Photo: AFP
by Matt Lewis
The ARU’s top community coaching gong will be renamed in honour of Wallabies Hall of Famer Geoff ‘Bunter’ Shaw.
The Geoff “Bunter” Shaw Community Coach of the Year Award recognises coaches around the country who give up their time to develop rugby talent in their communities.
‘Bunter’ played 68 matches for Australia, including nine Tests as captain before transitioning into a coaching career. Bunter was inducted into the Wallaby Hall of Fame in 2012.
ARU General Manager of Community Rugby & Participation Growth Andrew Larratt said the award was a way to acknowledge the hard work of those in the community.
“This award is a fantastic opportunity for the ARU to recognise the great commitment of our coaches within local communities. They are the unsung heroes of our game, and are the people who are shaping the future of rugby in Australia,” he said.
Entries for the 2016 Geoff ‘Bunter’ Shaw Community Coach of the Year Award close on October 14 2016. Nominate here.
UPDATE: McInerney happy to earn another year at home with new contract
Today at 2:03 PM Super Rugby
UPDATED: Cherry ripe for World Series return in Hamilton
Today at 1:44 PM Womens - Hamilton
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2018 Spring Convocation Q&A: Ly Pham
Ly Pham has always been interested in a career that would allow her to work towards building better communities. Drawing from her background in sociology, she knew that a Master of Public Administration would prepare her for the career she desired.
As this year’s group of 86 graduands prepare for convocation, we asked Ly Pham (Master of Public Administration ‘18) about her time with the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy. Here is what she had to say.
Q: What interested you in an MPA?
Ly: I was first introduced to policy issues, specifically social policy, while working as a summer student at a correctional centre in Saskatoon. My undergrad is in sociology, so naturally I was drawn to the Johnson Shoyama’s Master of Public Administration program, especially after learning that I it would provide me with the knowledge and skills required to make an impact in my community, and prepare me for a career in the public sector.
Q: How did the MPA challenge your perspectives and schools of thought?
Ly: I struggled the most with theory and reality. I learned a lot about theory in the classes, but after having the opportunity to experience the actual landscape of the public sector through my internship, I realized that theory may not always be applicable. It challenged me because while the theory is very important and needs to be considered, one must be aware of all of the factors that affect the theories.
Q: Where did you work during your Executive Internship?
Ly: During my internship, I was fortunate to work with Innovation Saskatchewan. I feel as though my skill have grown ten-fold and I really appreciated the opportunity to have been given work under a mentor in the public service.
Q: What did you find most valuable about your time with the JSGS, and what did you learn about yourself?
Ly: I truly valued my internship experience. I also enjoyed meeting my fellow classmates from all different backgrounds. The international students really challenged my perspectives, but they opened my mind and taught me things, and I believe I became a better student for it.
I discovered that I had better public speaking skills than I had thought. The JSGS provided multiple opportunities to learn how to prepare for presentations effectively. This used to be something I consistently strayed away from, but I am leaving the JSGS much more comfortable in public presenting.
Q: How do you plan to put your knowledge to use in your career?
Ly: With the knowledge I gained, I hope to have the opportunity to share my ideas regarding diversity issues for women and Indigenous peoples in Saskatchewan. I am leaving the JSGS with an open mind and I am excited to gain more real world experience and to continue building my skill set.
Q: What would you suggest to new JSGS students?
Ly: My advice to incoming students is to take full advantage of all of the opportunities that the School has to offer! The JSGS has numerous networking opportunities, like the Wine and Cheese event and the Tansley Lecture. These chances to network are important because they are great opportunities to build a strong contact list of people in government that may come in handy in the future.
Also, do not be afraid to reach out to professors or executives-in-residence for mentorship. They have a wealth of knowledge about theory and valuable experience in the public sector. They are always willing to assist you when you struggle and they are great supporters in helping you prepare for life after graduate school.
Q: What are you looking forward to after convocation?
Ly: I am most looking forward to taking all my skills and knowledge that I have gained in the last two years and finally putting them to the test. It will be my first opportunity to showcase my capability in the public sector. I don’t expect the next steps in my career to be easy, but I know that the JSGS has prepared me well for the real world.
On June 5, Ly Pham will be one of 22 MPA students to graduate from the University of Saskatchewan campus, joined by five Master of Public Policy, three Master of Northern Governance and Development, and 2 Ph.D. in Public Policy graduands. The University of Regina campus will see 20 MPA, 19 Master of Health Administration and 15 Master's Certificate graduands cross the stage the next day, on June 6. These 86 graduates will be joining over 800 JSGS alumni worldwide.
The Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy would like to extend congratulations to all graduating students from the University of Regina and University of Saskatchewan.
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Why networking feels so ‘icky’
By Beryl Lieff Benderly Nov. 4, 2014 , 4:15 PM
Credit: G. Grullón
Givers of career advice constantly remind ambitious professionals that networking is essential to advancing a career. But cultivating the acquaintance of influential or knowledgeable people in the hope that they can help boost you up the ladder of success can, as our colleague Adam Ruben noted in a recent column, feel “icky.” He’s not the only one who finds the process of ingratiating oneself to potentially useful strangers slimy and distasteful.
In an article entitled “The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty,” published last month in Administrative Science Quarterly, Tiziana Casciaro of the University of Toronto (UT) in Canada; Francesca Gino of the Harvard Business School; and Maryam Kouchaki of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, explore the emotional effects of purposely seeking contact with people in order to gain career benefits, which they term “instrumental networking in pursuit of professional goals.” They explain that “unlike networking in pursuit of personal goals and unlike networking that emerges spontaneously, instrumental networking for professional goals can impinge on an individual’s moral purity—a psychological state that results from a person’s view of the self as clean from a moral standpoint and through which a person feels virtuous—and thus make him feel dirty.”
[I]nstrumental networking for professional goals can impinge on an individual’s moral purity—a psychological state that results from a person’s view of the self as clean from a moral standpoint and through which a person feels virtuous—and thus make him feel dirty.
—Tiziana Casciaro and colleagues
So, the desire to take a shower that often follows a round of befriending important individuals for career-related gain isn’t something you just imagined, these three social scientists assure us. Rather, it reflects the moral discomfort that comes from knowing we are using (or attempting to use) others for selfish ends. “[P]eople feel that they cannot justify their actions to themselves, and the lack of justification comes from the difficulty people have in framing some forms of networking as motivated by a concern for other people versus a selfish concern,” Casciaro explains in a UT release.
Their discomfort may be justified, but, the researchers add, networking’s ickiness discourages people from taking part, and their failure to seek out connections can impede career advancement. The yuck factor, furthermore, does not strike randomly. Rather, the researchers found from behavioral studies, it tends to impact those who most need to develop their networks. “[T]he greater the power that people have when they engage in instrumental networking, the less dirty such networking can make them feel,” the researchers write in the article. They add that “[t]he powerful are more likely to reciprocate help, favors or support, and their networking tends to yield more balanced relationships, with the powerful potentially giving as much or more than they take from others. The greater capacity for reciprocated and balanced exchanges should make the power-advantaged feel less dirty about instrumental networking.” Anyway, “power makes people feel self-sufficient, free from dependency, and capable of achieving personal goals without aid from others.” Consequently, “the powerful will not feel as dirty as the powerless when they approach others because, in their minds, others are not as instrumental to their goal,” the researchers write.
The bottom line: The people who have the most to gain from networking are the ones likeliest to feel worst about doing it. To overcome such moral qualms, it helps to see networking as something other than naked self-promotion—by, for example, viewing it as a source of knowledge that can also benefit co-workers, Casciaro suggests in the release. Also useful is realizing that such relationships need not be inherently one-sided, because others could benefit from knowing you, she adds. “Don’t underestimate what you can give,” Casciaro says in the release.
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SCOOP & SPOON Digital Classics
Historic brands are strong, but they can face the risk of looking outdated, unless they engage with succeeding generations of customers. This is partly a matter of style but it is also – and increasingly – a matter of technology. The challenge was to help these four traditional brands to use multiple channels – both digital and classic – to communicate the same brand values in new and exciting ways.
Our strategy in all cases was to integrate communication channels so the digital experience of the brand is completely compatible with every other experience.
The digital version of Sacher should have precisely the same values as someone visiting the hotel in Vienna. Print products also had to be integrated into the digital offering. Target audiences should have the feeling that they can now engage with these famous companies on their own terms – wherever they are and whenever they want.
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“Audiences should feel that they can now engage with these famous companies on their own terms”
These businesses have lasted for so long because they are built on firm foundations. The goal was not to change those foundations but to communicate them in a new way; to make the same brand values digitally accessible so people experience the feeling of engaging with the brand – either in person or by using a tablet or smartphone.
In the digital age, brands are increasingly losing their distinctiveness; we knew that it was most essential for brands to retain their distinctiveness – and this we made our top priority.
700years of history
4classic austrian brands
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The Hotel Sacher is more than just a hotel. It is an icon of Vienna and Austria, renowned for its history, its style and its grand luxury. SCOOP & SPOON has helped to transfer all the great, iconic brilliance of a traditional brand onto a modern, multi-channel digital platform, including a print magazine and app that are all connected to one another.
The Spanish Riding School is one of the great Austrian institutions. As a traditional riding school for Lipizzan horses, it is also a major tourist attraction, and in 2015 it celebrates its 450th anniversary. SCOOP & SPOON updated the website of the riding school and turned it into a cornerstone of a wider multi-channel communication platform.
Hotel Bristol is a beautiful, historic hotel in the heart of Vienna. SCOOP & SPOON helped the hotel to develop a wine menu app that showcases their commitment to their customers and the use of modern technology to improve the service they offer.
Konditorei Oberlaa
Oberlaa, a traditional Viennese bakery and confectionary store with ten branches spread across the city, offers premium quality cakes and patisserie to its discerning customers. SCOOP & SPOON has managed to provide the confectionary store with a fantastic platform, with which the business can showcase its beautiful products and great locations.
Although these four clients each have very different brands and different challenges, they have a shared appreciation of how we got to deeply understand them and their values. We have used technology as an enabler for all four customers, using solutions across multiple channels to ensure the elements that distinguish each of them – their brand values and history – are communicated in an integrated way.
So in all cases modernization did not dilute the brand – it strengthened it. And innovation increased distinctiveness rather than diminishing it.
Helmut List Halle Website Relaunch
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My Son (Mon Fils A Moi)
By Dan Fainaru2006-10-02T00:00:00+01:00
Dir: Martial Fougeron. France. 2006. 90mins
Martial Fougeron's modest family drama went almostunnoticed during the San Sebastian film festival but certainly ended the eventcausing a storm of controversy when it was declared the ex aequo winner of theGolden Shell, a decision that was greeted by boos by some critics. An intimatefamily drama focusing on a domineering mother, played with a vengeance byNathalie Baye, and her indolent family which eventually fight back, the filmrisks losing its audience by playing all its cards too early. A better fit forTV screens than theatrical ones, the San Sebastian award will generateexpectations that will remain unfulfilled by this disappointing film.
Baye, playing against type,is an apparently happily married woman whose academic husband (Gourmet) isremote and absent. With her older daughter (Kremer) in high school, herattentions are focused on her angelic younger son, Julien (Sevaux), whopatiently submits to her stern pronouncements about everything that affects him,from the shirts he wears to the relationship he begins with a girl. Somerespite is offered by visits to his kindly liberal granny (Riva), butotherwise, there is very little sunshine in the young adolescent's life. Hisfather refuses to listen to his calls for help; he even tries the police and asuicide attempt before the family finally reacts to save him.
Working with concepts ratherthan characters and cliches rather than inspiration, Fougeron deals withserious problems in a pedestrian fashion. The motivation for the mother'smonstrously egotistic conduct beg further exploration - is it because of thelack of physical intimacy with her husband, or because of sexual attractionbetween mother and son (there are hints of Louis Malle's Le Souffle Au Coeur at one point), or because of perfectly understandablesymptoms of empty nest syndrome' These are all possible explanations but noneis dealt with in depth.
With her dour, stubborn anduncompromising presence, Baye does not contribute much to the role, and it isonly a pity that the Gourmet's potential is not exploited more.
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Fall arts preview 2018: Top 10 classical music picks this season
Lang Lang performs with the San Diego Symphony on Oct. 4 as it opens its 2018-19 season.
(Robert Ascroft / Sony Classical)
By Beth Wood
Of the many stellar classical-music events coming up this fall, here are 10 standouts.
San Diego Symphony opening concerts
Launching its 2018-2019 season on Oct. 4, the symphony celebrates with piano superstar Lang Lang, back on tour after a sidelining injury. The esteemed Edo de Waart will conduct the concert and the orchestra’s following two weekend programs, both featuring pianist Joyce Yang. (And for a special treat, on Oct. 24, St. Petersburg’s famed Mariinsky Orchestra plays with the symphony as one combined ensemble). Lang Lang: 8:30 p.m. Oct. 4. $35-$105. Edo de Waart and Joyce Yang: 8 p.m. Oct. 6,7,12,14. $20-$100. Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., downtown. (619) 235-0804. sandiegosymphony.org
ArtPower: Quatuor Van Kuijk
This up-and-coming Paris string quartet, formed in 2012, has won several prestigious competitions and toured internationally. Their UC San Diego ArtPower concert will include works by Ravel and Schubert. 8 p.m. Oct. 5. Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla. $9-$54. (858) 534-8497. artpower.ucsd.edu
La Jolla Music Society: Seong-Jin Cho
The rising 24-year-old South Korean pianist returns to La Jolla Music Society’s piano series, this time playing Bach, Chopin and Mussorgsky. Cho has been praised for combining technical mastery with unique musical insight. 8 p.m. Oct. 18. The Auditorium at TSRI, 10620 John J. Hopkins Drive, La Jolla. $35-$85. (858) 459-3728. ljms.org
A world premiere, this multimedia chamber opera is a joint effort by UCSD’s music department and others. Composer Lei Liang, music director Steven Schick and producer Susan Narucki are among the dynamic collaborators, along with librettist/poet Matt Donovan. The four-person cast is led by acclaimed soprano Narucki, who plays Sarah Winchester, eccentric heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune. 7 p.m. Oct. 24, 26, 27. Conrad Prebys Experimental Theater, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla. $9-$25. (858) 534-8497. musicweb.ucsd.edu/concerts
Sacra/Profana: “RetroX: a retrospective eXperience”
For its 10th anniversary, Sacra/Profana, San Diego’s adventurous professional chorus, performs its “greatest hits.” Founding Artistic Director Dr. Krishan Oberoi and Artistic Director Juan Carlos Acosta co-conduct. 7:30 p.m. Nov. 2, location TBA; 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3, Water’s Edge Faith Community, 1984 Sunset Cliffs Blvd, Point Loma. $10-$35. (619) 566-6584. sacraprofana.org
Art of Élan: “Collective Memories”
Art of Élan’s first concert of the season opens with Renaissance madrigals sung by Bach Collegium vocalists. In true Art of Élan fashion, the program travels through eras and genres, including Schubert’s “Quartettsatz,” a Duke Ellington tribute and “The Consolation of Rain” by noted contemporary composer David Bruce. 7 p.m. Nov. 6. San Diego Museum of Art, 1450 El Prado, Balboa Park. $40-50. (619) 692-2081. artofelan.org
San Diego Master Chorale: “Charpentier & The French Baroque”
Of the San Diego Master Chorale’s several fall performances, this foray into early music will be a little more intimate. The chorus partners with the San Diego Baroque Soloists, a group of five accomplished chamber musicians. Conducted by chorale director John Russell, the program includes vocal works by French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier and French-oriented instrumental sonatas. 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9. St. James by-the-Sea, 743 Prospect St., La Jolla; 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10. All Saint’s Episcopal Church, 625 Pennsylvania Ave., Hillcrest. $10-$40. (858) 581-2203. sdmasterchorale.org
Camarada: “Bach, Bebop & Blues”
Dedicated to an eclectic repertoire, Camarada’s kick-off concert showcases two jazz greats, pianist Mike Wofford and flutist Holly Hofmann, with a top-notch backing band and Camarada flutist Beth Ross-Buckley and pianist Dana Burnett. Together, they’ll put some swing in classical-music gems, adapted by master arranger Wofford. 6:30 p.m. Nov. 11. Museum of Photographic Arts, 1649 El Prado, Balboa Park. $15-$55. (619) 231-3702. camarada.org
La Jolla Symphony & Chorus: “Celebrating Tradition”
La Jolla Symphony & Chorus’ second concert of the season will be conducted by Steven Schick and feature its co-concertmaster David Buckley in the Second Violin Concerto of Florence Price, a prolific 1930s-era African-American composer. The symphony also performs its 2018 Thomas Nee Commission by young composer Qingqing Wang and closes the program with Mozart’s arrangement of Handel’s Messiah. 7:30 p.m. Dec. 8; 2 p.m. Dec. 9. Mandeville Auditorium, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla. $15-35. (858) 534-4637. lajollasymphony.com
It’s beginning to sound like …
The holidays come to San Diego in several sonic forms in mid-December. The seasonal romance movie “Love Actually” receives live-orchestra treatment at the symphony’s Fox Theatre Film Series. Sacra/Profana presents “Xmas (a holiday concert)” at Christ Lutheran Pacific Beach, while Bach Collegium performs “J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio” twice. The San Diego Symphony and San Diego Master Chorale collaborate on four “Noel Noel,” performances, while the symphony’s Family Concerts series offers a holiday concert, complete with audience sing-along. For times, dates and venues: sandiegosymphony.org; sdmasterchorale.org; sacraprofana.org; bachcollegiumsd.org
Wood is a freelance writer.
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Under the baton of Edo de Waart, the San Diego Symphony and guest soloist Emanuel Ax shined. Ax’s ‘intelligent musicianship commingled with an effortless technique’
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UCSD grad returns to La Jolla every year to see his musical partners and their loyal audience
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The Spanish-language production, debuting in 2021 at San Diego Opera, is about married Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
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“I want to report that my grandson’s bicycle was stolen from my house,” I told the policeman at the desk.
At that time a man stumbled into the police station with tears running down his face.
“Excuse me,” the policeman said to me. Then he said, “Sir, all you all right?”
“No,” the man sniffled. “My wife went to the city yesterday and hasn’t come home.”
“How tall is she?”
“I’m not really sure,” the man said. “Maybe five feet or five feet six inches.”
“How much does she weigh?”
“I don’t know. She’s not skinny but she’s not real fat.”
“What color are her eyes?”
“Uh. . . I never really noticed.”
“What color is her hair?”
“Well, she seems to change it about twice a year. Maybe reddish-brown.”
“What was she wearing?”
“Either a dress or shorts. I’m not really sure.”
“Which water taxi did she take”
“She didn’t take a water taxi. She took my boat.”
“What kind of boat was it?”
“It was a brand new Mexican lanchon, white with blue and red trim and a 115 horsepower four-stroke inline four cylinder engine. It has computerized multiport fuel injection and a separate throttle valve for each intake runner with double overhead camshafts and four valves to a cylinder and . . .”
At this point the man choked up and couldn’t say anything more.
“Don’t worry, sir,” the policeman said to him. “We’ll find your boat.”
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Seducing America: The Relationship between the Mexican Government and American Intellectuals in the 20th and 21st Centuries
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Enlightenment and revolution: The making of Modern Greece
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Dr Kerem Oktem (European Studies Centre, Oxford University)
Towards modular regionalism in Latin America?
Dr Gian Luca Gardini, University of Bath
Productive Motherhood: Women’s Labor and Japan’s Lowest-Low Fertility
Professor Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
7 February 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
DUE TO BAD WEATHER IN THE UNITED STATES THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Productive Motherhood: Women’s Labor and Japan’s Lowest-Low Fertility
British, French and American Attitudes and Policies Towards the Rebirth of Poland, 1914-1921
Denis Clark (Faculty of History, Oxford)
7 February 2014 - 12:30pm
African Studies and OCAF Seminar: Staying Out of Place: The Dialectics of Being and Becoming in Exceptional Spaces
Simon Turner, Aalborg University, Denmark
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in two exceptional spaces, namely among Burundian refugees living clandestinely in Nairobi and living in a refugee camp in Tanzania, the article argues that... Read more
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Understanding Informal Employment Relationships in Indonesia: A Pilot Study in Restaurants in Yogyakarta
Petra Mahy (Oxford)
Dahrendorf Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College
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Lenin's Gulag hospitals: caring for prisoners on the Solovetsky Islands in the 1920s
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Amy L. Blackmore, Esq.
Amy focuses her practice in healthcare litigation, representing doctors, hospitals, nurses, long-term care facilities, and post-acute care facilities. She also has experience at successfully arbitrating and trying medical malpractice cases. In the best interest of her clients, Amy heavily invests her time by intently prepping them for depositions and trial. Amy excels at taking on the firm’s most complex cases in the evidentiary, motion practice drafting, and arguing stages.
Amy has practiced for several years in the Philadelphia, Chester, and Berks counties gaining familiarity with the judges and their procedures.
Amy has been awarded with many prestigious awards, including being recognized in 2016 as a Lehigh Valley Legal Leader as published in Lehigh Valley Magazine. In law school, she was recognized for Outstanding Oral Advocacy in Trial Advocacy and was a Barrister Award Winner.
Healthcare Litigation and Mitigation
Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2008
Muhlenberg College, B.A., summa cum laude, 2005
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Tried defense verdict in favor of seven physicians in Berks County in complicated matter involving alleged failure to timely diagnose patient with a brain abscess. After a two week trial, the jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the physicians after merely 1 hour of deliberation
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SIUE’S URCA Program Recognizes Faculty Mentors and Student Researchers
Each semester, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) program recognizes excellent faculty mentorship and student work through four awards.
The fall 2019 Vaughn Vandegrift URCA Research Mentor of the Semester Award was presented to Darron Luesse, PhD, assistant chair and associate professor of the Department of Biological Sciences.
Jane Barrow, head of the painting program in the Department of Art and Design, earned the URCA Creative Activities Mentor of the Semester Award.
URCA students Henry Schilling, of Alton, and Haley Inyart, of Belleville, were also recognized for their phenomenal work. Schilling, a senior psychology major, received the Research Assistant of the Semester Award. Inyart, a senior drawing major, earned the Creative Activities Assistant of the Semester Award.
The URCA program provides opportunities for undergraduate students to participate in research and creative activities under a faculty advisor. At the introductory level, URCA assistants work on faculty-led research and creative activities to gain hands-on experience throughout various disciplines. URCA associates work one-on-one with faculty mentors to develop their own projects by honing their research and technical skills under professional guidance.
“All URCA assistant faculty members have to ‘try out’ each semester, and it is not uncommon to receive well over 120 faculty applications for around 90 funded positions,” said Laura Pawlow, PhD, URCA coordinator and professor in the Department of Psychology. “Those who make it are excellent mentors and dedicated to helping their students achieve specific learning outcomes. To be recognized within this fantastic pool as an award winner is incredibly noteworthy.”
URCA student Kyle Warnecke nominated Luesse for instilling a research environment fostered by curiosity, encouragement and determination for his students.
“I feel incredibly fortunate to have an URCA faculty member like Dr. Luesse,” wrote Warnecke. “He is patient, understanding, and unbelievably knowledgeable. Each time I leave his office, I walk back to the lab confidently, anxiety dissipated and armed with encouragement, determined to try again.”
Art student Sutton Allen nominated Barrow for her unending dedication to all of her students.
“By dedicating herself to her student’s success, Professor Barrow is the kind of professor that propels our entire program forward,” said Allen. “I am sincerely grateful to have the opportunity to invest myself in her work the way she has mine, though it is only for a fraction of the time she has spent on my work.”
As for the students, faculty mentor Elora Voyles, PhD, assistant professor of psychology, describes Schilling as driven, intelligent, and passionate about research. After being approached by Schilling with a developed research idea, Voyles invited him to join her URCA lab to earn credit while conducting his study.
“Going beyond his contributions to lab work, Henry contributes to the development of other students,” said Voyles. “It is clear that other students look to Henry. Given his tenacity, positive attitude, humor and intelligence, it’s not surprising that he is an excellent leader and mentor to other students.”
Since completing his own URCA project, Schilling was promoted to lab manager in Voyles’ research lab. As lab manager, he oversees eight other undergraduate students and assists them in coordinating schedules and offers guidance on ideas and proposals for research conferences.
Meanwhile, Inyart’s professionalism, breadth of skills, creative inspiration, and ambition all constitute her receipt of the creative activities award according to faculty mentor Brigham Dimick, professor of drawing.
“Haley has proved to be invaluable to me as a talented and efficient assistant, as well as an inspiring co-creator,” said Dimick “In fact, it is highly probable that I am learning more from her than she is from me.”
Inyart is extremely active in applying to juried exhibitions throughout the country, and her efforts have been rewarded by a long list of exhibitions and awards. Recently, Inyart found an exhibition for her and Dimick to apply as collaborators, whose theme focused on the conversation between the artworks of mentors and their students.
For more information on SIUE’S URCA program, visit siue.edu/urca.
Photo: Upper Right - Darron Luesse, assistant chair and associate professor of the SIUE Department of Biological Sciences.
Middle Right - Jane Barrow, head of the painting program in the SIUE Department of Art and Design.
Lower Right - Haley Inyart, a senior drawing major.
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eastern milksnake (Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum)
CHARACTERISTICS: This is a moderate-sized, slender snake with
a blunt head that is only slightly wider than the neck. It grows to lengths
of 24-36 in. (61-90 cm). It has a tan or gray ground color and three to
five rows of reddish-brown, black-edged blotches. The center row of
blotches is the largest and alternates with smaller lateral blotches. There
is a gray or tan Y- or V-shaped mark just behind the head. The belly has
a black and white checkerboard pattern. The juvenile is similar to the
adult but has much redder blotches. This snake shows a lot of geo-
graphic variability in scale pattern, number of blotches, or number of
body rings. The females lay 4-12 eggs in rotting wood and beneath
rocks and logs, and the eggs hatch 2 to 2 1/2 months later. This is a
secretive burrower that spends most of its time underground or beneath
rocks, logs, stumps and boards.The maximum known age is 21 years 4
months and 18 days. Humans kill many individuals on the highways,
through destruction of habitat, and because of a slight resemblance to
the copperhead.
DISTRIBUTION: This snake occurs throughout the higher elevations
of western Virginia and in scattered locations in the piedmont and coastal
plain. In the lower elevations, it inhabits hillsides, wooded areas, open
fields, and stream and river floodplains. At higher elevations, this snake
is found in deciduous hardwoods, mixed pine-hardwoods, fields, grassy
balds, and rock outcrops and ledges. This snake is well-know for turning
up around barns and old buildings where mice are plentiful.
FOODS: The main foods of this species include small snakes, lizards and
mice. They will also take earthworms, insects and small frogs.
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Relatives in "Cider With Rosie" by Laurie Lee
par Matt | vendredi 6 juillet 2007 | Littérature | 0 comments
I. The 3 half-sisters
II. The girls' lovers
III. The 2 half-brothers
IV. The 2 true brothers
Laurie Lee belongs to a large family, due to his father's two marriages.
The first time, his father got 8 kids but only 5 survived: Marjorie, Dorothy, Phyllis, Reggie and Harold.
The second time, with Laurie's mother, he got 4 kids and just 3 survived: Laurie, Tony and Jack. There are 8 members in the family and Laurie is one of the youngest.
Marjorie: is the eldest. She's a blonde Aphrodite. She's tall, long-haired, and dreamily gentle, and her voice is low and slow. She's quite unconscious of the rarity of herself, moving always to measures of oblivious grace and wearing her beauty like a kind of sleep. (p.61-62)
Dorothy: is a wispy imp, pretty and perilous as a firework. She is an active forager who lives on thrills, provoked adventure, and brought home gossip. She is agile as a jungle cat, quick limbed, entrancing, noisy. In repose she is also something else: a fairy-tale girl, blue as a plum, tender and sentimental. (p.62)
Phyllis: is the youngest of the three. She's cool, quiet, tobacco-haired, fragile girl, who carries her good looks with an air of apology. She is an odd girl, an unclassified solitary, compelled to her own devices, quick to admire and slow to complain. (p.62-63)
Laurie gives us an account of his sisters' personalities with a very detailed description. He seems to admire his sisters :
"These half sisters I cherished", p.63
"Generous, indulgent, warm-blooded and dotty, these girls were not hard to admire. They seemed wrapped as it were in perpetual bloom, the glamour of their grown-up teens, and expressed for us boys all that women should be in beauty, style, and artifice. For there was no doubt at all about the beauty or the naturalness with which they wore it", p.61
A lire : Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee : chapter analysis
Laurie's sisters protect and rescue him:
"Faces of rose, familiar, living; huge shining faces hung up like shields between me and the sky; faces with grins and white teeth (some broken) to be conjured up like genii with a howl, brushing off terror with their broad scolding and affection", p.9
"Marjorie, the eldest, lifted me into her long brown hair, and ran me jogging down the path and trough the steep rose-filled garden", p.10
"How magnificent they appeared, full-rigged, those towering girls, with their flying hair and billowing blouses, their white-mast arms stripped for work or washing; at any moments one was boarded by them, bussed and buttoned, or swung up high like a wriggling fish to be hooked and held in their lacy linen", p.15
Moreover, when Laurie's mother went to see his father, the sisters played a preponderant role. They played a part in Laurie's education. They appeared as a second parents and formed a microcosm closer to their brothers than their mother :
"Suddenly there where only girls in the house, tumbling about with brooms and dishcloths, arguing, quarrelling, and putting us to bed at random. [...] Marjorie was breathless and everywhere; she was fourteen, with all the family in her care. [...] But we ate; and the girls moved about in a giggling flurry, exhausted at their losing game. [...] All this time the sisters went through the house, darting upstairs and down, beset on all sides by the rain coming in, boys growing filthier, sheets scorching, saucepans burning, and kettles boiling over. The doll's-house became a mad house, and the girls frail birds flying in a wind of chaos. Doth giggled helplessly, Phyl wept among the vegetables, and Marjorie would say, when the day was over, "I'd lie down and die, if there was a place to lie down in", p.20-21
A lire : English Literature
Marjorie's is Maurice. Dorothy's is Leslie, "a shy local scoutmaster, at least until he met her". Phyllis's is Harold the Bootmaker, "who had fine Latin books, played the piano by ear, and sang songs about old-fashioned mothers", p.225
"The sisters, as I said, were about to get married. Harold was working at a factory lathe. Brother Jack was at grammar school, and his grammar was excellent; and Tony still had a fine tremble voice. My mother half-knew me, but couldn't help, I felt doomed, and of all things wonderful." p.231
"Marjorie was off to her Milliners' Store. Dorothy was off to her job as junior clerk in a decayed cloth-mill by a stream. Phyllis was off to her Boots-and-shoes" p.68
Reggie : the first born, is only once mentioned because "he lived apart with his grandmother", p.63
Harold : "was handsome, bony, and secretive, and he loved our absent father. He stood somewhat apart, laughed down his nose, and was unhappy more often than not. Though younger than the girls, he seemed a generation older, was clever with his hands, but lost.", p.63
Jack: "was the eldest. He was the sharp one, bright as a knife, and was also my close companion. We played together, fought and ratted, built a private structure around us, shared the same bed till I finally left home, and lived off each other's brains." p.63
Tony: "the baby, strange and beautiful waif, was a brooding, imaginative solitary. Like Phyllis he suffered from being the odd one of three; worse still, he was the odd one of seven. He was always either running to keep up with the rest of us or sitting alone in the mud. His curious, crooked, suffering face had at times the radiance of a saint, at others the blank watchfulness of an insect. He could walk by himself or keep very still, get lost or appear as wrong moments. He drew like an artist, wouldn't read or write, swallowed beads by the boxfull, sang and danced, was quite without fear, had secret friends, and was prey to terrible nightmares. Tony was the one visionary amongst us, the tiny hermit no one quite understood...", p.63
A lire : Introduction to The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald: from the Lost Prairies to the Realist Jungle
Laurie seems to be very close to Jack:
"My brother Jack, who was with me in the Infants, was too clever to stay there long. Indeed he was so bright he made us uncomfortable." p.47
"Jack, already the accepted genius, was long past our scope or help. It was agreed that his brains were of such distinction that they absolved him from mortal contacts. So he was left in a corner where his flashes of brilliance kept him twinkling away like a pin-table." p.52-53
"He was jumpy, shifty, and quick-off-the-mark, an electric flex of nerves, skinny compared to the rest of us, or what farmers might call a 'poor doer'. If they had, in fact, they would have been quite wrong, for Jack did himself very well. He had developed a mealtime strategy which ensured that he ate for two. Speed and guile were the keys to his success, and we hungry ones called him The Slider." p.69
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‘I should not be dismissed as some cutesy thing that likes to play with numbers’
20 Feb 2019673 Views
Aisling Connolly, a researcher in information security based in Paris. Image: Aisling Connolly
Aisling Connolly is a researcher in information security in Paris who really wants you to take control over your own data.
After obtaining her degree in maths and economics at NUI Galway in 2012, Aisling Connolly went on to complete a master’s degree in simulation science at University College Dublin.
In 2015 she made the move to Paris to pursue a PhD in information security at the École Normale Supérieure. She is currently completing this PhD as well as working as a privacy engineer in the advanced research team at Ingenico Group.
What inspired you to become a researcher?
Since I was a kid, I loved to solve puzzles and there were various events throughout my studies that led me to develop an interest in the intersection of maths, computer science and engineering. But there was one definite event that immediately and unquestionably made me decide that I would devote my life to research.
In 2014, former CIA employee Edward Snowden released a series of documents that outlined some of the projects conducted within the NSA. The documents detailed grave privacy violations of entire populations, and it was through these that I learned the potentially lethal dangers of proprietary knowledge and information.
This was the catalyst that made me level-up from being someone who enjoys doing maths, to being someone who needs to deeply understand maths and use it to make a positive change.
Can you tell us about the research you’re currently working on?
This begs for a joke about how my work is all ‘highly classified’. When I started my PhD, I wanted to deeply understand privacy with respect to information and technology. I quickly learned that, actually, we don’t really have a notion of what privacy is as it has not been defined yet, but there have been some efforts to understand it recently.
I spent the past few years gobbling up as much information as I could about things we do understand, like secrecy, fairness and what it means to break an information system. I started by getting a very high-level overview of what is currently in use and what is needed, and began to dig down to try and understand the theoretical foundations underpinning these systems.
The goal is then to build this back up and try to form a more user-centric, modern understanding of information security. Currently I am working on the provable security of ciphers and I never want to stop.
In your opinion, why is your research important?
“Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what.” This is the opening statement from an essay written by cryptographer Phil Rogaway, who sums up the importance of this type of research better than anyone.
We have seen data companies grow so large that they monopolise huge amounts of citizen data. We’ve seen that this affects all aspects of our lives from the things we buy, to who we vote for, to what we believe. By giving big companies such a clear view of our data and our lives, we allow them to dominate and construct society in the way that they wish. By bringing cryptography to people, we redistribute power and we regain technological and societal freedom.
What commercial applications do you foresee for your research?
This is one of the fields of research where we are lucky enough to have an infinite list of commercial applications. Pretty much every single thing that communicates needs some level of security and privacy built in – from fridges to cars, to Facebook and phones, to weapons and wars, to clouds and beyond.
Just take a look around your immediate vicinity, find an electronic device, and I guarantee you there is a commercial application of security needed to be built for that device. We’ve a lot of catching up to do!
What are some of the biggest challenges you face as a researcher in your field?
Immediately, the biggest challenge that comes to mind is that of being a woman. The matters in this field are serious and technical, matters traditionally dealt with by men. It seems a constant struggle to convince people that I am worth listening to, that I indeed comprehend the seriousness and complexity of the topic, and that I should not be dismissed as some cutesy thing that just likes to play with numbers.
Gender aside, the biggest challenge for me is the pace at which we must work in this field. Technology has advanced and has been brought to market alarmingly quickly. Security needs to be faster, cheaper, stronger and more diverse, and all of this needed to be done a decade ago. At the same time, we need to plan for future quantum computing threats.
Are there any common misconceptions about this area of research?
‘Crypto’ means cryptography! All these cryptocurrencies became immensely popular and stole the show by calling them crypto and cryptos. Now, whenever we say we work in crypto, the immediate response is ‘Oh? You’re bitcoin people too?’ No, when we say crypto, we mean cryptography.
More seriously, I think there is a common misconception that cryptographers all communicate very securely. This is often not the case! We are all very busy people and enjoy the benefits and ease of technology, even if it comes at the cost of weaker security. Although, messaging apps like Signal allow us to use encryption very easily, so we’re getting better.
What are some of the areas of research you’d like to see tackled in the years ahead?
This type of work is very cool and it’s seriously fun, but because of this many researchers focus on the ‘sexy’ side of security and neglect some of the most necessary topics.
Look at email. Do you know how to send an encrypted email? It’s quite difficult and even if you manage to generate all your keys correctly and encrypt the message, the only part of the email that gets encrypted is the message body. Things like the sender, receiver, subject line and date are all sent in the clear.
With this metadata, you can already infer a lot of information about the situation. There may be ‘bigger’ problems, but solving the metadata problem is of vital importance for information flows as they exist in the world today.
Are you a researcher with an interesting project to share? Let us know by emailing editorial@siliconrepublic.com with the subject line ‘Science Uncovered’.
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Fervid few show for Sweden’s Cup win
It was setting up to be a nice lunch break at Shanghai Kelly’s on Wednesday afternoon.
The bar was airy and clean, the drinks, er, Cokes were free, and the Sweden-Paraguay World Cup game was on the TV, which meant that, theoretically, there would be Swedish fans at this Nob Hill pub.
“It was a sea of yellow on Saturday [for Sweden’s first game],” said Fog, the bartender, referring to the Swedish jersey. “And Sweden definitely has the best-looking fans.”
But the problem was quantity, not quality, when the first whistle blew Wednesday, as there were just four fans in the bar.
“A bunch of people told me they’d be here for this game,” Minnesota native Kelly Bjorklund said. “I don’t know what’s going on.”
After waiting for a crowd and a goal, throughout a scoreless first half, the party shifted up the road to Shanghai’s sister bar, The North Star, in North Beach.
It was hard to vouch for the attractiveness of many of the Swedish partisan patrons at the North Star, as their faces were distorted with frustration for much of the game as Sweden squandered scoring chance after scoring chance. Finally, in the 88th minute, Freddie Ljunberg knocked in a header to give Sweden a 1-0 win, provoking a bar stool to be flipped over and putting the team in great position to advance to the next round.
Sitting outside relaxing after the tense victory was Barish, a native of Gothenborg, Sweden, who now lives in Russian Hill.
“There’s a law in Sweden, kind of a law of humbleness,” he said, when asked to discuss his team’s chances. “But if we overcome that and get some confidence and cockiness, we’re a dangerous team.”
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Elton John Approves of Rocketman‘s First Trailer & the Actor Portraying Him
by Samantha Puc
Oct 01, 2018 at 1:30 pm EDT
Image: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Rocket Entertainment.
Kingsman actor Taron Egerton is playing the role of a lifetime: Sir Elton John. In the upcoming biopic, Rocketman, which chronicles John's rise to fame ahead of the 1972 release of the film's titular song, Egerton transforms into a younger John so completely that in the film's first trailer, it's hard to believe that's not actually just John transformed back into a younger version of himself with some magic technology.
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John is clearly already a big fan of both the film and Egerton's transformation and has been throwing his weight into helping promote Rocketman at every step. On Monday, John tweeted out the link to the first Rocketman trailer, writing, "Here it is, the official teaser trailer for #Rocketman! The epic musical fantasy arrives in cinemas Summer 2019."
Here it is, the official teaser trailer for #Rocketman! The epic musical fantasy arrives in cinemas Summer 2019. 🚀 https://t.co/1w4TEuLYrX
— Elton John (@eltonofficial) October 1, 2018
On Friday, three days before he shared the trailer on Twitter, John shared the first photo of Egerton on the Rocketman set on Instagram. He wrote, "Hold onto your glasses, this is going to be a wild ride!! Here's Taron Egerton (portraying me!) on the set of the #Rocketman movie." He added a rocket ship emoji for good measure.
Hold on to your glasses, this is going to be a wild ride!! Here’s Taron Egerton (portraying me!) on the set of the #Rocketman movie. 🚀 #film #comingsoon
A post shared by Elton John (@eltonjohn) on Sep 28, 2018 at 4:42am PDT
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Eugene "Gene" Derricotte is a former American football player who played with the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1944 to 1948. He was one of the University's first African American athletes in the era when NCAA Division I college football was beginning to integrate. Derricotte established school records that still stand as a punt returner for the Michigan Wolverines football team. He also established several short-lived school interceptions records. Derricotte also served as a Tuskegee Airman and later had a successful career in dentistry while continuing to serve in the military.
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Mean adult waist circumference in Scotland 1995-2017, by gender
Published by Conor Stewart, Oct 30, 2018
This statistic displays the mean waist circumference of individuals in Scotland from 1995 to 2017, by gender. In the year 2016/17, men had a waist circumference of 98.8 centimeters and women had a waist circumference of 94.1 centimeters.
Mean adult waist circumference in Scotland from 1995 to 2017, by gender (in centimeters)
1995 90.2 78.5
2008/09 95.3 87.2
United Kingdom (Scotland)
January to December 2017
1,778*
CAPI interview, questionnaire
* Weighted bases: n (1995)=6,755, n (1998)=6,390, n (2003)=4,176, n (2008/09)=1,763, n (2010/11)=1,572, n (2012/13)=1,703, n (2014/15)=1,659, n(2015/16)=1,778.
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A raised waist circumference is more than 102 centimeters for men and more than 88 centimeters for women. These are equivalent to 102.75 centimeters and 91.35 centimeters using the interviewer measures.
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Ugonna Okegwo is one of the most distinctive and sought-after jazz bassists in the world. Critics across the globe have praised him for his rich tone, supple sense of swing, stylistic range and inventiveness. These qualities have not only earned him a place on the bandstand with jazz legends as diverse as Clark Terry, Benny Golson, Pharoah Sanders and Joseph Jarman they have established him as one of the leading lights of a younger generation redefining jazz for the new century.
"He is very individualistic, both in his soloing and accompanying. I love the way he plays in the ensemble, says Tom Harrell, with whom Okegwo has worked for several years. Ugonna does some really creative things that I haven't heard anyone do with his articulation and timing."
Born March 15, 1962 in London to a German mother and Nigerian father, Okegwo was raised in Germany and grew up listening to African-American music -- James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and, eventually, the great Charles Mingus.
"What I always heard first in funk and rock 'n roll were the bass lines, the ostinato, and later, in jazz, the walking bass," he recalls. "That's what first got me playing bass. The fusing of funk and jazz bass conceptions is a foundation of Okegwo's unique approach, making his sound instantly recognizable.
In 1986, he moved to Berlin to study with the American expatriate bassist Jay Oliver, and with the American pianist Walter Norris. There Okegwo caught the attention of many prominent jazz musicians, most notably the trombonist and Mingus alum, Lou Blackburn, who invited Okegwo to tour Europe with his Afro-Jazz group Mombasa . While working with Blackburn, Okegwo met and played with trumpeter Joe Newman, drummer Oliver Jackson, and the bassist Major Holley, who encouraged him to move to New York.
In 1989, Okegwo made the leap to Manhattan and began playing with musicians like saxophone legends Big Nick Nicholas, Junior Cook, and James Spaulding. In 1992, a call from legendary vocalist Jon Hendricks led to steady work as a sideman - on stage and in recording studios. In 1994 Hendricks even took Okegwo to the White House to perform for the President. During this time, Okegwo's artistry attracted two other gifted young musicians -- pianist Jacky Terrason and drummer Leon Parker. The trio joined forces and at famous clubs like the Village Gate and Bradley's, developing one of the most creative and explosive group sounds of the nineties.
Recently, Okegwo expanded his horizons and became a bandleader. In 2002 he took his quartet to Europe and documented the group with a recording entitled "UOniverse" [Satchmo Jazz]. The material, which consists of his compositions and brilliantly arranged standards, draws from a wide range of influences, including jazz, African, funk, and classical music.
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Why the Bottled Variety Might not be Your Best Choice for Clean Drinking Water
By Zsambeky, Chaney & Associates Family Dentistry
Tags: oral health nutrition
In recent decades civilization's millennia-long search for clean, safe drinking water has become much easier with modern purification methods. Today, there are few places in the United States without adequate access to potable water. And about three-fourths of the nation's tap water systems add fluoride, credited with helping to reduce tooth decay over the past half century.
But in recent years some have voiced concerns about the safety of tap water and popularizing an alternative: bottled water. Manufacturers of bottled water routinely market their products as safer and healthier than what comes out of your faucet.
But is that true? A few years ago a non-profit consumer organization called the Environmental Working Group (EWG) performed a detailed, comprehensive study of bottled water. Here's some of what they found.
Lack of transparency. It's not always easy to uncover bottled water sources (in some cases, it might actually begin as tap water), how it's processed, or what's in it. That's because unlike water utilities, which are rigorously monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversees bottled water production with less strenuous guidelines on labeling. Eight out of the top 10 selling brands were less than forthcoming about their water's contents in EWG's investigation.
Higher cost. According to the EPA, the average consumer cost in the last decade for tap water was $2.00 per 1,000 gallons (0.2 cents per gallon). The retail cost for even bulk bottled water is exponentially higher. It can be a costly expenditure for a family to obtain most of their potable water by way of bottled—while still paying for tap water for bathing and other necessities.
Environmental impact. Bottled water is often marketed as the better environmental choice. But bottled water production, packaging and distribution can pose a significant environmental impact. EWG estimated the total production and distribution of bottled water consumes more than 30 million barrels of oil each year. And disposable plastic water bottles have become one of the fastest growing solid waste items at about 4 billion pounds annually.
While there are credible concerns about tap water contaminants, consumers can usually take matters into their own hands with an affordable and effective household filtering system. EWG therefore recommends filtered tap water instead of bottled water for household use.
If you would like more information on drinking water options, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more about this topic by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article “Bottled Water: Health or Hype?”
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Giants QB Daniel Jones hears boos at Yankee Stadium
Fans not giving first-round pick much of a chance
May 4, 2019; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Giants quarterback draft pick Daniel Jones (8) looks on during rookie minicamp at Quest Diagnostics Training Center. Mandatory Credit: Sarah Stier-USA TODAY Sports (Sarah Stier)
It did not take long for Giants QB Daniel Jones to experience his first Bronx Cheer.
Big Blue's rookie quarterback was at Monday's Yankees game against the Rays when he was showed on the Yankee Stadium jumbotron and was welcomed with a chorus of boos, according to those in attendance at the game.
Jones, 22, has not even been a member of the Giants for two months despite the harsh greeting by New York.
The Giants selected the Duke quarterback with the No. 6 overall pick in this year's NFL Draft, a controversial decision by GM Dave Gettleman that has been met with much criticism.
#Giants first-round pick Daniel Jones is here at Yankee Stadium, was shown on video board between innings, and received lukewarm reception to say the least. #TheyAreSayingBoo #Yankees #Rays
- Eduardo A. Encina (@EddieInTheYard) June 18, 2019
Yet Jones has mostly been immune to that criticism, with most of the vitriol directed at the Giants GM and front office, whom many thought could have taken Jones later at 17.
Jones is expected to sit behind Eli Manning this season, although head coach Pat Shurmur seemed to give a non-answer when asked if Jones could eventually take the job from Manning this year.
Whatever the plan may be for Jones, it is evident he has an uphill battle ahead of him for winning the fans over.
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Scouting Report for NFL Draft prospect Jonah Williams
Apr 21, 2019 | 4:11PM
Scouting Report for NFL Draft prospect Jonah Williams: Should Giants draft the Alabama product?
Williams started every game of his college career
By Chris Bumbaca | Apr 21, 2019 | 4:11PM
Jan 7, 2019; Santa Clara, CA, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide offensive lineman Jonah Williams (73) against the Clemson Tigers during the 2019 College Football Playoff Championship game at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports (Mark J. Rebilas)
It's no secret Dave Gettleman loves big guys. Or, as he calls them, "hog mollies." The Giants general manager maintains the old-school philosophy that the game is won in the trenches, and he's done all he can during his tenure in charge to make the team fit that mold.
To protect quarterback Eli Manning's blind side, Gettleman signed All-Pro tackle Nate Solder from New England. Another notable move was selecting guard Will Hernandez, who started all 16 games at guard last season, in the second round. But Solder took a step back from his Patriots days, Hernandez had to learn on the fly as a rookie, and an injury to center Jon Halapio early in the year left the Giants thin at the position.
Plus, a hole still exists at right tackle.
Enter Jonah Williams, perhaps the "hoggiest" "molly" in the 2019 draft class. The Giants will have two first round picks come Thursday. Will Gettleman be able to pass on the Alabama product with more than one pass at him?
Projected Pick: First round
Height: 6-foot-4 Weight: 302 pounds
College: 44 consecutive games, started every one (29 left tackle, 15 right tackle)
Combine: 5.21 40-yard dash, 22 bench reps
A durable lineman who can step into a starting role from Day 1? There's a lot to like with the former Crimson Tide lineman. For one, the former five-star recruit started for Nick Saban's program during his freshman year -- 15 games at right tackle, before starting the next two seasons at left tackle.
That ability to play both sides of the line surely raises Williams' stock. He's modeled his game after perennial All-Pro and future Hall of Famer Joe Thomas, and has improved every season. He focuses on the fundamentals and possesses a quick first step. The California native has commendable body control and combines that with formidable strength in the trenches.
Williams also has the intangibles covered. He's a heady player who has been called a "football addict" by his former coaches. The level of commitment to the game is on display through the spreadsheets he compiles to assess opponents' strengths and weaknesses.
Some talent evaluators have expressed concern over Williams' arm length -- the arms measured at 33 5/8 inches with 10 1/8-inch hands. Size, in general, could be considered a weakness for him, since he's a little smaller than traditional tackle standards in the NFL.
The measurables may leave him exposed to the most explosive pass-rushers. But Williams appears to enter each matchup with a mental edge. Will it always be enough to come out on top?
Moreover, from his NFL Draft profile,"inconsistent outside hand" placement and an occasional lean into edge rushers are also considered cons for Williams.
The Giants know that after the Odell Beckham Jr. trade -- the reason they picked up No. 17, after all -- they will need to draft a pair of prospects who both immediately shed that tag and can step in to be high-impact starters.
Williams has all of the potential to fit that bill. However, the biggest hurdle for the Giants will be whether they decide to take him at No. 6, which would probably be considered a reach, or hope he falls all the way to No. 17. The Giants believe better protecting Manning will lead to a resurgence under center and an offensive line upgrade can only improve running lanes for Saquon Barkley.
One thing is clear, though: this Hog Molly has Gettleman's attention entering the week of the draft.
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This thread is dedicated to "true heroes and defenders of White Christian Europe", who fought and are fighting against the evil Serbo-chetniks, vatniks, Putinists, gibanichars, novocommia supporters, Serbian propagandists, Russian aggressors and others who want to destroy the White Christian Europe.
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For White Christian Europe, Geroyam Slava!!!1
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The great hero and defender White Christian Europe, Ante Pavelic and his beautiful mosque:
For homeland ready!!!!!1
Douglas Pearce, a great hero and defender of White Christian Europe. He is the man behind the band Death In June. In 1992, he was at the front line with HOS militia, fighting against evil Serbian aggressors. Douglas P. is openly gay, but that doesn't matter, that is stupid argument used by evil low-IQ Serbian propagandists and vatniks, the important thing is that he defended White Christian Europe!!!!1
Oleksandr Muzychko was a great defender of White Christian Europe. He defended White Christian Europe during the First Chechen War and during the Euromaidan, by fighting against evil Russian commie aggressors.
Geroyam Slava!!!1
Jimmy Lyggett Sr, a boxing trainer and a man who has contributed to sport in Independent State of Croatia which was defender of White Christian Europe. He prepared young defenders of White Christian Europe for the Olympics.
While he lived in Vienna, Austria, he met a Croatian woman, Roza, whom he married. The couple moved to Zagreb, Croatia in the 1930s.
There, he opened his boxing school in Ilica street.
At the age of 33, he ended his career as boxer. He trained many young boxers in several boxing clubs in Zagreb, starting with boxing club Croatia, and later with clubs Herkules, Makabi and Radnik.
After a while, he became a friend with a neighboring tavern owner. He gave him his warehouse in Preradovićeva as a training hall.
When the Independent State of Croatia was formed, its Minister of Sports, Miško Zebić talked Lyggett into training the Croatian national boxing team.
Lyggett was an anti-Communist.
Ante Gotovina, a great hero who (with the little help of his African-American mentors) defended White Christian Europe against evil Serbs in the 1995 Operation Storm. During the war:
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Elizabeth Nincevic, a war heroine and a true defender of White Europe. She is wife of Croatian defender of White Christian Europe who fought against evil Serbo-chetniks during the 90s:
Defenders of White Christian Europe, heroes who fought against evil Serbian schismatics!!!
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Croatian Ustasha Movement - Fight for white Europe!
Let's start with famous Pavelic. Pavelic was a high school student when he joined the Party of Rights , whose ideology served as basis for the formation of the Ustasha movement . The Right party has been founded in 1861. by Ante Starcevic , a Croat from around Gospic , and Eugen Kvaternik, converted Jew from Zagreb. The basic principle of the Party of Rights was, ” Neither under Vienna nor the Pest, but for a free and independent Croatia “. However , since its inception, one of the main characteristics of the Rights Party ideology was the hatred for Serbs. For Starcevic, who is now in Croatia praised as the “father of the nation” , the Serbs are ” garbage people” , ” spawn “, which stinks, eats feces , good only as servants to Croats ” that should be exterminated from the Earth .” However , in other occasions, Starcevic states that Serbs do not exist, that they are ” Orthodox Croats ” . According to him , the greatest Serbs in history were actually ” Hervat ” (Croats) while ordinary Serbs were ” slavoserbske breed .” But we have to be aware of the fact that Ante Starcevic was at least partially of Serbian origin. His mother, Milica Bogdan was Serbian , and his father was of Serbs from Herzegovina. However , just as many Ustasha were of Serbian origin, it didn’t prevent them from conducting horrific crimes against Serbian children, nor his background prevented him from creating the slogans ” Serbs (to be hanged) on the willows ,” and “Serbian heads go under ax .”
Neither Eugen Kvaternik didn contribute less in establishment of that gruesome ideology .
In 1868. he published one his most important writings – The East issue and Croats , where he states that Croats has an exclusive right on Bosnia and Herzegovina . He assured the Croatian public that ” Yugoslavism ” /South Slavic version of panslavism/ is actually the same as ” Serbism” ” and ultimately the same as “Russianism”.
However, the writer of the first real political program of the Prava party was one financial expert from Osijek , Jew , Joshua – Joseph Frank . After the death of Ante Starcevic (1896 ) , Frank takes over the leadreship of the party , but , regardless of their affiliation to independent Croatia , in 1898. he was a member of the Committee on Financial Affairs of the Kingdom of Hungary. Under Frank’s leadership , ” HSP ” further enhance Serbophobia in its ideology. Hence, the members and supporters of the Ustasha movement initially called themselves ” Frankists ” .
Another one Osijek Jew and ” Frankist ” , who joined the Ustasha movement in 1935. was Dr. Ivo Korski . He is still considered one of the most influential ideologue of the Ustasha movement .
Thus , the ideology of the Party of Rights, later represented and implemented by the Pavelic regime , there was nothing that could be described as German National Socialism . The main objectives of the Party of Rights and subsequent Ustasha movement were:
1 ) the creation of the Croatian state , which would cover a good part of the Balkan Peninsula, and
2) the destruction of the Serbs in the territory of such a Greater Croatian state .
The ‘Ustashism’ was heir and continuation of the ” Party of Rights .” Unlike fascism and national socialism , the Yugoslav communists (under – surprise! – the Croat Tito leadership) movement didn’t see the Ustasha as an enemy , but a welcome ally in the ” breaking the spine of Orthodoxy and Serbdom,” as literally stated in the second point of agreement between the Ustasha movement and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia signed in Sremska Mitrovica, 1935 . by the Ustasha leader Mile Budak and Tito’s emissary Mosa/ Mose Pijade.
Three years earlier ( 1932) , the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia issued a proclamation in which they” welcome the Ustasha movement and keeps entirely on his side .” Dr. Serge Trifkovic in his book The Ustashe : Balkan Heart of Darkness on the European political scene , writes: According to the pre-WWII Ustasha were treated as separatists and pro (Yugoslav) communist movement in Hitler’s Germany even, therefore they were often arrested and imprisoned . Later, the apparent similarity of the Ustasha movement with fascism and National Socialism were solely a mean of gaining support from Italians and Germans , who were then – masters of the Balkans.
At the end of the 1930-ies Ante Pavelic founded a terrorist organization ” Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Organization ” ( UHRO ) in Italy. Pavelic’s closest associates at the time were Ivan Ivic Frank , son of Joseph Frank , and Slavko Kvaternik . Moreover he himself came from a family of converted Jews; Kvaternik married Olga Frank , daughter of Joseph Frank. In camps for military training , founded in Italy by Pavelic, Hungary and Austria , the Jews were trained as well. In Janka Pusta, Hungary , not far from present-day Novi Knezevac , was the main Ustasha training center for diversants and assassins .
Commander and one of the butchers of death camp Jasenovac, Vjekoslav Max Luburić testified about the Jews who were trained there, and who were at the top of the early Ustasha movement : ” At Janka Pusta there were , what a coincidence , Vlado Singer , and Srecko Kremzir , both Jews … the spiritual leader of the Jewish emigration was John Frank , the son of the rightist leader Dr. Joseph Frank. It was no secret to anyone that the wife of Pavelic, Mara , was from a Jewish family . Also the most famous persons among the Ustasha diaspora and the entire younger teams, Eugen- Dido Kvaternik was of Jewish blood , as well as the pre-eminent figure in his homeland and later Colonel Slavko Kvaternik. “
“What can we say about the elite of the Homeland (satelite ISC) who married Jews. And the state leadership , and the military and political leadership , even in the Ustasha movement – we all had ‘our Jews ‘ . Nobody never occurred to look for Jewish ancestors among the Croatized middle class in the Croatia. “
Ivan Mužić, Croatian historian and Roman Catholic journalist , in his essay ”On statehood of the Dinarian Croats” explains ” Pavelic was not antijudaist . It was only in his memorandum about the ‘ Croatian Question’ ( 1936 , written in German for the German political leadership in order to gain their support ) that he treated Judaism t as an enemy of the Croats. The text is clearly inspired by political pragmatism so it is understandable that there is no anti-Judaism in his other inter-war writings . Also at the top of the Ustasha movement were numerous persons of Jewish origin. “
As soon as the Independent State of Croatia was declared , 10 April 1941 , the establishment of state apparatus, civil service , army , police , and all other supporting civil authorities started . There were numerous high positioned Jews in all of these structures; significant number of the top government , military and police positions were occupied by Jews.
Jew Vlado Singer was Chief Commissioner Ustasha , the supreme organ of the Ustasha movement , and the head of the Ustasha supervisory services . The Supreme Ustasha and doglavnici ( deputies) of Ante Pavelic were, among others, Jews Slavko Kvaternik and Andrija Bethlehem . Jew was and Ivo Heinrich , one of the managers of the Jasenovac death camp and close friend of Ante Pavelic. The head of the Ustasha secret police was Otto Krezimir , also a Jew . Member of the Croatian Parliament , prof . Dr. David Karlovic was a Jew , just like Dr. Stipe Mösner , Plenipotentiary Representative to Bulgarian government . In the cultural life of the ISC/ NDH the important role was played by Jewish prof . Mirko Breyer and Dr. Zdenko Vinsky . The official governmental printing house in the Independent State of Croatia was owned by the family Schulhoff, who were Jews from Zagreb.
In the Nazi Croatia military forces there were 28 Jews senior officers, such as: : Nikola Steinfel , admiral and the last minister of the armed forces of NDH, general Ladislav Aleman , assistant chief of the administrative staff and deputy commander of the garrison in Zagreb, Richard Kubin , NDH navy admiral ; Edgar Angeli , Navy Rear Admiral, NDH general Julius Fritz, commander of the Tenth Defense Division , general Milan Praunsperger , commander of the legal department of the NDH armed forces general staff , Colonel Ferdinand Hall , Colonel Dragutin Helbis , Colonel Julio Res, commander of the garrison in Koprivnica , later commander of Pag brigade based in Karlobag ; Emanuel Balei , Colonel of Homeguard the first infantry division ; engineer Hinko Alabanda ,Ustasha Army colonel , Oton Ćush , Ustasha Homeguard Colonel , Colonel Ivan Sharnbek , commander of the Sixth Infantry Division ; Colonel Joseph Scholz , deputy commander of the First Croatian Impact Division , Colonel Rudolf Vaner , head of the Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Armed Forces, NDH ; Colonel Juraj – Djuro Iser , commander of the Second Homeguard corps , Colonel Joseph Metzger , commander of the fourth Croat Association , Colonel Julio Sash commander of the Second National area protection ; Colonel Mirko Zgaga , commander of the First infantry Division ; Colonel Bozidar Zorn , first commander of the Second Mountain Brigade , and later of Ninth Mountain Brigade , and finally commander of the Second Division of the Croatian striking , Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Gamberger , motorized battalion commander based in Slavonski Brod , Lieutenant Colonel Dragutin Rubler , liaison officer with Italian army , general Milan Miczler , commander of Constabulary ( gendarmerie NDH ) . No verifiable information about the features that are in the military NDH performed the following Jewish Croatian officers: general Ivo Snur , Colonel Kvintijan Tartaglia , Oskar Kirshbaum , Rudolf Kraus Tudić and Julio Simovic. The names of the Jews and Croats of Jewish origin who were the Croatian Ustasha members are published on the official site of Roman Catholic church of St . Jelena Krizarica of Kastav near Rijeka.
According to the Yugoslav National Commission for the Investigation of the Crimes of the Occupiers and their supporters , the list of those who should be held accountable for the terrible misdeeds committed in Jasenovac , are also the Jews: the Ustasha lieutenant Ante Altarac, well known for the brutality of the liquidation of Serbs, then Bruno Dijamantstajn , Herman Spiler , Vladimir Bornemisza and certain person called Viner, – all of them Ustasha trustees or members of the internal administration of the Jasenovac concentration camp.
The veracity of the 4547-1945 document of National Commission for the Investigation of the Crimes of the Occupiers and their supporters from 15 December 1945 , confirmed the data later revealed by Ante Ciliga , then – member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Ciliga was the author of the book Sam kroz Europu u ratu 1939 – 1945, and in the chapter ” Jasenovac : ljudi pred licem smrti – Jasenocav – people in the face of death ” he described the period he spent as an inmate at death camp Jasenovac (more than one year, from 14 December 1941 – 31 December 1941); he was released on the intervention of Rome , as he was an Italian citizen as well.
Vice Vukojevic, a former judge of the Croatian Constitutional Court , recently stated that ” Jews controlled the Jasenovac camp , the Croats only provided the security, and that there is an agreement between the Government of the monstrous Independent State of Croatia and the Jewish community in Zagreb on Financing Administration of the Jasenovac death camp ” . The president of the Jewish community in Zagreb , Ivo Goldstein replied that Jewish community in Zagreb only tried to help their members who were imprisoned in Jasenovac , but they helped almost nobody.” Vukojevic in turn accused Goldstein for plot and hiding the “documents and evidences about the Jewish finacing of Jasenovac.
What was really the attitude of the Ustasha regime towards the Jewish population in the genocidal Independent state of Croatia? As we can see , the Jews took up some of the most important positions in the Ustasha government. One of the greatest Serbian intellectuals in exile , Dr Laza M . Kostic , in his famous sermon on Vidovdan 1958. in Ontario (Canada ) said : ” We should not forget that most of the leading Ustasha were of Jewish origin, or has been married to Jewish women , and they all reluctantly took measures to exterminate the Jews , just to curry favor with the Germans or at the German explicit order. Meanwhile the measures of extermination of Serbs they took all the means to exterminate them, sometimes even against the will of the Germans and Italians. The whole of the Croatian people are the most responsible for the genocide “
This has been confirmed by the last words of Slavko Kvaternik : ” The persecution of the Jews began in Osijek. For me there is no doubt that the initiators were Germans , aggressive German Volksgroup. … These persecutions were resumed in various places in Srem and Slavonia in which they were settled , or where they lived among Jews and Germans . These persecutions surprised everyone, including Pavelic. They were rushed to donašanju Jewish law . In government, no one thought the persecution of the Jews , because it was built thinking on the solution of the Jewish problem … I know for sure that Germans were not happy , as I was told by the captain Kojentinski from the German embassy, who says that there is a general opinion that the Croats were too soft and judehcrig . I was even called judenprotektor because of hiding Jews in the Ministry of the armed forces , hospitals and units, and even issued certificate that they cannot be touched (distrubed).”
Eugen Dido Kvaternik supplemented his father’s statement: “As for the Jews , the court in Jerusalem at the hearing against Eichmann, established that the persecution of Jews in Croatia was led by the Germans , as well as that it started on 11.04.1941 . Back then I was still in Italy . A rabbi of Zagreb after describing the persecution and suffering of Jews in the area of NDH openly admitted that if a considerable number of Jews was saved from Croatia, then it was thanks to corruption of the Ustasha officials and “close family ties between Kvaternik and the Jews” . Only apolitical brain can from personal – sectarian motive for the persecution of Croats blame the Jews , instead of pointing out what was done by the Croatian side to save the Jews . And very much was done. “
Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and philosopher of Jewish descent , in her book on trial of Adolf Eichmann stated that the government of Ante Pavelic, three weeks after its establishment- passed the anti-Jewish laws . However , the Germans observed ” an interesting paragraph” in 1943. where all the ustasha Jews were given the title of ’ honorary Aryans ‘ – all the Jews who contributed to ‘ Croatian thing’ . Of course , the number of the ‘honured’ Jews meantime greatly increased . ” Arendt continues: ” Even more interesting was the fact revealed by SS intelligence ( … ) , that almost all the members of the rulling clique, the Prime Minister and the Ustasha leaders were married to Jews ” . 6
The pro-Ustasha author, Croat Mladen Ivezić on its website claims that he was ” the first in the world who has found and published the two letters (previously hidden by anti-fascists the archives ), both sent during 1943. from Zagreb by Grand Rabbi Frajberger to Kaptolu and Croatian authorities , asking to set up camps for those Jews who are not citizens of the puppet state Independent state of Croatia but have no place to go. The Croatian Jews would have feed them, according to the letter . ” Ivezić adds : ” Since the Jews were under severe pressure from the German regime in Germany and the war zone , many have apparently brought the good news about the NDH , so they came here , having neither our nationality nor belonging to the Independent State of Croatia. They were coming from Hungary and Italy trusting in the indulgence of their regimes.”
The Ustasha regime was quite protective to the members of Freemasonry . Specifically an SS noncommissioned officer , in his report of 2 December 1942 , wrote that the top of then – Croatian regime ” are – almost all – Freemasons “
The report states that the anti-Masonic propaganda of the Ustasha regime is very light , and that the Nazi Independent state of Croatia was hostile to Freemasonry . This member of the SS particulary accused Slavko Kvaternik that ” in the interest of ‘ higher purpose ‘ Ustasha carried out protection of Freemasonry at the expense of the German Reich ,” and that before the war in Zagreb a Masonic Lodge ” Libertas ” was founded; Libertas is connected with the Jewish lodge Nobbe ( Independent Order of Bnai Brit ) , and that the numerous leaders of the Ustasha movement were members of the Longe Libertas: Eugen Kvaternik , Dr. Budak , Dr. Puk , Benak , general Bale , SABLJAK Colonel , Košak Tot .
The connection between Jews and the Ustasha movement is not just a thing of the past , but is alive even today the example of Mladen Schwartz , a Jew who led the ” New Croatian Right” organization confirmes. Schwartz is one of the loudest Ustasha, Serb hater in Croatia today . In an interview published on their website , Schwartz says : ” If Ivo Goldstein acknowledges the fact that the whole Ustasha families were closely related to Judaism , impregnated with Judaism , by renowned historian inadvertently admits that the Independent State of Croatia was not anti-Semitic country , since Poglavnik (Pavelic) had a Jewish wife, Mary, born Lovrenčević; and Pavelić neither killed her nor put her in a camp . Imagine you are in a country where the official policy is anti -Semitism of racist type; but still the entire top leadership has strong family and other ties with Jews. Moreover , there has always been the Jews who felt themselves Croatian patriots . It’s an old tradition of HSP (Croatian Right) , which pulls the strings of the converted Jew from Osijek, Josip Frank . In the old Party of Rights was baptized many Jews , but there were mojsijevaca , who were Jewish believers . “
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Gonzaga women get off to fast start, rout Saint Mary’s 74-49 in WCC clash
Gonzaga forwards LeeAnne Wirth, center, and Jenn Wirth, right, laugh between possessions with guard Jessie Loera during the first half Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, at McCarthey Athletic Center. (Tyler Tjomsland / The Spokesman-Review)
By Jim Allen jima@spokesman.com(509) 459-5437
WCC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
At McCarthey Athletic Center, Spokane
BULLDOGS74
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➤Saturday, Jan. 11: Pacific Tigers at Gonzaga Bulldogs, 2 p.m. PST TV: SWX
Surely, the coaches will find a few things to nitpick from Gonzaga’s resounding 74-49 win over Saint Mary’s on Thursday night.
They’ll point to those early back-to-back 3-pointers from the Gaels, cold shooting by GU late in the first half and some lackluster defense in the fourth quarter that already caught the eye of head coach Lisa Fortier.
“I told them, ‘I’m not ever going to stop coaching you, and I’m not crazy, because that was a bad play,’ ” Fortier said, referring to an incident early in the fourth quarter.
By then, the 16th-ranked Zags were protecting a 30-point lead, one they’d built with their best overall performance of the season.
And it couldn’t have come at a better time, as Saint Mary’s came into the Kennel with a perfect record in the West Coast Conference. Now the Gaels (4-1) are looking up at the Zags, who are alone in first place at 4-0 after putting up some incredible numbers in front of an appreciative crowd of 5,611 at the Kennel.
Most of them came on the defensive end in the first half, which ended with GU up 39-12. That’s right, 12 points for the Gaels, who came in averaging a conference-high 76 points a game.
“I was surprised,” said GU guard Katie Campbell, who had 10 points by intermission. “We thought this was going to be a really difficult game, and we had a really strong game plan for them.
“We scouted them really well,” added Campbell, who finished with 14 points to share team honors with LeeAnne Wirth.
Jill Townsend added 11 points and Jenn Wirth 10 to lead a balanced offense that shot 47% and also had 23 assists.
But it was defense that carried the Zags to a 15-1 record after knocking off their biggest league rival.
GU took a 7-0 lead, but Saint Mary’s (9-6 overall) came back with a pair of 3s to make it 8-8.
GU ramped up the defensive intensity, and Saint Mary’s never responded. The 12 points were the product of 4-for-27 shooting and a 27-12 rebounding advantage for GU.
Even Fortier was surprised by those numbers.
“They’re a really good team,” Fortier said. “You can say they were off a little bit, but we contributed to that.
“We were really focused on defense. We were turning our heads in the right direction, and they threw a couple of balls to us because we were right there.”
GU quickly broke away from the 8-all tie. Two layups from Melody Kempton and another from LeeAnne Wirth made it 14-8, and Campbell took a steal the other way for a layin.
Townsend drained a 3-pointer and Jenn Wirth added a layup to give GU a 21-10 lead after the first quarter.
By then, the Zags had five steals, which fueled the offense.
“You can’t transition without stops,” said Fortier, warming to the topic of defense.
“Early on (this season), we were slicing and dicing opponents with our offense, but the last three games we’ve really been able to rely on our defense as well.”
That’s been especially true in the second quarter of the last three games against BYU, San Diego and Saint Mary’s, who’ve scored a combined 14 points in the second period.
Things got out of hand in the second quarter as GU held Saint Mary’s to 0-for-15 shooting.
Gonzaga is home Saturday against Pacific, which is 10-5 overall and 3-1 in the WCC after winning 77-73 at Portland on Thursday night.
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Last week: 9-5. Season totals: 80-79-2, Pct. .503. Best Bets: 15-18, Pct. .455.
Kansas City 27, OAKLAND 17 (+6 1/2) - During their current 16-game losing streak, the Raiders are 1-7 against the spread at home, compared with 5-3 on the road, counting the Week 4 London game against Miami as a "home" game since it would have otherwise been played at Oakland. True, the Chiefs could be looking ahead to next week's Sunday nighter at home versus Denver which will very likely decide the AFC West; but even with a win in that game KC will need to win here to maintain their edge in the tie-breakers - and edge they would hold because one of their losses was in the season opener to Tennessee, a non-common opponent with the Broncos.
BUFFALO 17, N.Y. Jets 10 (+4) - The Bills have one of the two most venerable late-season angles in their favor: They're at home, playing a team they have already beaten on the road earlier in the year (the other such angle, of course, involving warm-weather and domed-stadium teams having to play on the road in cold weather), plus they have outscored the Jets 65-23 in the last two at home. But I would feel a lot better about them if Doug Marrone were to do the right thing and go back to E.J. Manuel at quarterback.
PHILADELPHIA 30, Tennessee 23 (+11) - What a difference relocation has made for the Oilers/Titans franchise, at least as regards how they have fared against the Eagles: 0-6 both ways in Houston, 4-0 outright and 3-1 pointwise in Tennessee; and coming off a 33-point loss at Green Bay last week, it would take a 45-point reversal for Philadelphia to cover.
NEW ENGLAND 27, Detroit 13 (+6 1/2) - Won-lost records aside, the top-ranked Lions defense must move way up in class here, going from facing - and losing to - Drew Stanton last week, to taking on Tom Brady this week; and Detroit is 1-21 straight up since 2001, and also 15-25-1 against the line since 1994, as a visitor in cold weather.
Cleveland 31 (+3), ATLANTA 21 - The Browns get Josh Gordon back this week - and bet against Cleveland 2.0 in domes at your peril - they're 12-2 against the spread indoors! Furthermore, the AFC North is 8-1-1 straight up (and 7-3 against the spread) versus the NFC South, and the 4-6 Falcons - who if they're 4-0 within the NFC South must necessarily be 0-6 outside the division (and they're 1-5 against the spread) - appear poised to do the same thing the Saints (over whom Atlanta now holds the division lead on tie-breakers) have just done: Finally break through and win on the road, only to come home and lose.
INDIANAPOLIS 62, Jacksonville 7 (+13 1/2) - And I am totally serious about this score: In Week 3, the Colts won 44-17 at Jacksonville, and the game wasn't even that "close" - and that made it four in a row both ways for Indianapolis over the Jags by a combined 138-40; and Andrew Luck is 18-1 straight up and 16-3 against the spread in his last 19 games against sub-.500 teams (including teams with such records so far this season), and after playing four of their last five against .500 or better teams, look for the Colts to register the biggest blowout of the entire season.
CHICAGO 17, Tampa Bay 14 (+5 1/2) - Bears defense rebounded last week and should be well motivated facing ex-teammate Josh McCown, but the Bucs are two for two at covering in cold weather this year and the visiting team has covered the last four in the series (counting Chicago's 24-18 win in London as a 1 1/2-point underdog three years ago as a "road" victory because else that game would have been played in Tampa) so take the points.
Green Bay 28, MINNESOTA 20 (+10) - Before you scoff, the Packers are 2-3 straight up and 1-4 against the spread on the road this year, and they're 4-11 against the line on artificial turf since 2012, including 0-2 both ways this season. Despite the loss at Chicago last week, the Vikings are one of two NFL teams that is colossally overachieving in 2014, considering their overall circumstances (the Rams are the other). Willing to take a shot on Minnesota with the points in this spot.
HOUSTON 24, Cincinnati 17 (+1) - Who knows? Maybe Ryan Mallett is the answer at quarterback for the Texans, who have won and covered five in a row over the Bengals, who will be playing on natural grass for the first time this season here after having gone 1-4 straight up and 1-3-1 against the spread on it in 2013.
SAN DIEGO 31, St. Louis 10 (+6) - You know the drill by now: The Rams pull off a big upset one week, then crash to earth in a thumping letdown the next - and the fact that the home team in this series has won the last six meetings and covered in five of them is merely icing on what figures to be a highly lucrative cake.
SEATTLE 17, Arizona 16 (+6 1/2) - Remember that kitchen remodeling commercial from a while back in which the wife asks her husband, "Honey, what year is it?" Well apparently the oddsmakers have the same problem: The year is 2014 - a year in which the Seahawks trail the Cardinals by three games. On principle, you can't lay this number - and not for nothing, but even last year it was Arizona that was the only opponent to win in Seattle in ten games, including playoffs.
DENVER 34, Miami 20 (+7) - The Dolphins may have reached their high-water mark with last Thursday night's win over Buffalo, as three of their next four games are in cold weather, in which Miami is 16-35 straight up and 22-28-1 against the spread since 1995, and the lone home game is no slam-dunk for them either, against Baltimore in two weeks. And if we're damning the looking ahead and going full speed ahead with the Chiefs in this week's Thursday nighter, we might as well do the same thing with the Broncos.
SAN FRANCISCO 28, Washington 10 (+8) - Maybe Rodney Harrison is right about RG3; and now DeSean Jackson has joined the D.C. slimefest, going online with this thought: "You can't do epic s--- with basic people" - and could it be that Jay Gruden would have to improve, and improve massively, to be even a basic head coach (see David Shula)? The 49ers haven't exactly been doing it to death of late but should have little trouble rewarding both those who root for them and those who bet on them this week.
Dallas 31, N.Y. GIANTS 24 (+3) - The last of Eli Manning's five interceptions last week was Tom Coughlin's fault, in that Coughlin clearly should have attempted a field goal on that play (this of course being Coughlin's second play-calling blunder along these lines this year, the first one costing the Giants Victor Cruz for the rest of this season, and perhaps beyond, in Week 6). Would tend to believe that the fact that Tony Romo is 25-5 lifetime in November - and that the Cowboys are an NFL-third-best 17-8 outright and second-best 18-6-1 pointwise off the bye - trumps the 17-31 straight-up record Dallas has hung up since 1995 as a visitor in cold weather, especially at this price.
Baltimore 28 (+3), NEW ORLEANS 21 - As alluded to in the Cleveland-Atlanta pick, it's hard to give points on an NFC South team against an AFC North team - and The Modell/Bisciotti Franchise is 5-1 straight up in the last six against the Saints, and 6-1 versus the points in the last seven, and the Ravens have won and covered four in a row indoors.
BEST BETS: CLEVELAND, INDIANAPOLIS, SAN DIEGO
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Social Sciences Sociology
The Difficult Flowering of Surinam
Ethnicity and Politics in a Plural Society
Authors: Dew, Edward
In the months immediately preceding Surinam's independence, November 25, 1975, warning signals went up on both sides of the Atlantic. This small, ethnically plural society was torn by severe political conflict. Elections in November 1973 had brought an end to political collaboration between Creoles and Hindustanis, the country's two largest ethnic groups; and the Creoles, now in control of the government, were resolutely pushing (over Hindustani opposition) to sever their colonial ties with the Netherlands. But defections from the Creole benches during the summer of 1975 had produced a virtual stalemate in the legislature, heightening fears that the government would act unilaterally. The failure of Creole and Hindustani leaders to resolve their differences led many observers in both the Netherlands and Surinam to predict a collapse of democracy and/or violent conflict once independence was proclaimed. Ironically, the dramatic, last-minute resolution of the struggle precipitated not only general jubilation and relief, but also self-congratulation, as the leaders of Surinam's multiethnic society, long priding themselves on achieve ments in harmonious understanding, pulled out all stops in their indepen dence day oratory. No-one could forget the nightmare of the preceding few years. But neither could anyone familiar with Surinam's historical develop ment flatly reject the rhetoric as being without some foundation. In fact, Surinam, while severely tested by the most complex multi-ethnic population in the Caribbean, does have a record of which she can be proud and which deserves to be more widely known.
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The Struggle for Independence (1973–1975)
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Amin Bhatia
Emmy nominated composer Amin Bhatia has a dual career both as synth programmer and orchestral film composer. His prizes at the Roland International Synthesizer competitions won him international fame in his youth, leading to projects with David Foster and Steve Porcaro.
His "Interstellar Suite" (Capitol/Cinema) became a landmark album for analog synthesizers when he created an orchestral epic without using any samplers. The sequel "Virtuality" is the first album to be endorsed by the Bob Moog Foundation. Of note is "Bolero Electronica," Ravel's masterpiece performed on 75 years of synthesizers in chronological order.
Though he now uses real players and orchestral ensembles in his writing, his days with a Roland sequencer and a Minimoog have given him an unusual insight into the subtleties of arranging and orchestration for both real and imagined instruments.
Film credits include "John Woo's Once a Thief," "Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees" (IMAX), "Get Ed" (Disney), and the hit TV series "Flashpoint" on CBS and CTV.
Amin has worked as a consultant and programmer for many synthesizer companies including Roland, Q Sound, Arturia and now Spectrasonics.
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Aeschylus: Persians Paperback / softback
by Edith Hall
Part of the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series
A ghost summoned with bizarre rituals from the underworld, the elaborate protocol of the Persian court, desperate lamentation, self-mutilation, and a thrilling eye-witness account of the battle of Salamis - these are some of the features of Aeschylus' Persians which make it one of the most exciting examples of ancient theatre.
As the earliest surviving European drama it is of incalculable interest to students of ancient literature: as the only extended account of the Persian wars by an author who fought in them, it is a unique document of the Athenian historical imagination.
In this, the first English language edition of the text with a commentary for thirty-five years, the particular focus is on the visual and aural effects Aeschylus created, his extraordinarily rich imagery, and the play's unique contribution to Athenian democratic ideology. [Greek text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes.
This edition was reprinted in 2007. Although it was not substantially revised or updated, a short bibliographic update describing important contributions to scholarship on Persians has been included.]
Pages: 210 pages, 6 Illustrations, black and white
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Category: Plays, playscripts
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SPINNING REEL GUIDE
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Venterior Portable Review
If you’re looking for an affordable, simple, yet efficient fish finder, you’ll find none better than the Venterior Portable one.
It’s also quite versatile as you can go ice fishing with it or spot fish while paddling on a boat.
Let’s take an in-depth look into its features.
The Venterior fish finder comes with a single-beam transducer.
And while most fish finders on the market will be dual-beam models, for its price, the Venterior finder does what it does pretty well.
It’s equipped with a 45-degree angle beam that can spot fish at depths ranging between 2.3 feet to 328.08 feet. These numbers are quite big for its size and price range.
Moreover, the transducer is attached to the control unit through a 25 feet cable.
You can also cast it into the water to fish onshore, attach the Side-Scan Adapter to the boat with the mounting tabs to fish from a boat, or even attach the sensor to a handle and dip it in the water.
On top of that, the transducer comes with a removable float with a rubber stopper.
The only downside is that it doesn’t indicate readings regarding the water temperature. But then again, you can only expect so much from a low-budget gadget.
Fish Detection Capabilities
The transducer on the Venterior Portable Fish Finder doesn’t deliver you data on underwater objects and structs, rather, it only shows you targets in motion.
On top of that, you can’t use it to find where your bait is.
These are things that may steer you away from the finder, but you shouldn’t be so fast to judge.
The Venterior Portable fish finder can detect fish that are bigger than 10 cm.
It also allows you to adjust the sensitivity settings in order to set the size of the fish you want the sonar transducer to spot.
The detection should work fine as long as your boat speed is lower than 5 MPH. Otherwise, the quality of the sonar wouldn’t be as satisfactory.
The Sensitivity
Coming with 5 different sensitivity settings, the Venterior fish finder allows you to choose the setting that best suits you.
You can choose the battery-saving mode or the one that will display the maximum range of information.
There’s also a battery-saving mode that turns the display off and a fish alarm setting that notifies the user when there’s a nearby fish detected.
Furthermore, the backlight mode facilitates fishing at night.
The Venterior Portable fish finder comes with a TN/anti-UV LCD black and white display.
The green LED backlight is a nice addition that enables you to read it even in direct sunlight or during the dark.
And in all frankness, there won't be many details to worry about the readability of the screen anyway.
The only data you get to receive is the position of the fish and the depth.
You can choose between meters and feet as a depth measurement.
However, you’ll need to switch to your preferred measuring unit every time you restart the device as it doesn’t save the settings you’ve selected.
Controls and Settings
The Venterior Portable fish finder comes with 3 buttons through which you can give commands including setup, enter, and switch on or off.
You can also adjust the sensitivity, activate battery saving mode, or change the unit of measurement through the buttons.
It’s quite minimalistic so it spares you the convoluted control panels and the confusing user interfaces.
Ease of Use and Portability
The simplistic design ensures the ease of use.
All you need to do is turn it on, adjust the sensitivity, cast the transducer into the water or mount it to your boat. After that, you're ready to start your fishing.
The dimensions of the Venterior Portable fish finder are 9.6 x 2.2 x 5.9 inches and it weighs only 1.1 pounds.
The Venterior Portable fish finder operates on 4 AAA batteries. However, they’re not included with it.
They’re not that long-lasting, so you can work with rechargeable batteries.
You can trust your fishfinder to work in a wide range of temperatures ranging between -20 C° and up to 70 C°.
The fact that it has a year’s limited warranty should help you rest assured that you’ll get your money’s worth from this device.
Great value for the money
Superb and accurate performance
The backlight makes it more readable
Comes with 5 settings to save battery life
Can spot fish of sizes bigger than 10 cm
Great for ice fishing
The LCD screen isn’t a color display
Loses all of its settings when it’s turned off and on again
Lacks temperature data
Doesn’t show the size of the fish
4-hour battery life
Easy to operate and boasting the great build quality that is typical of Venterior with its equipment, the Venterior Portable is an amazing fish finder.
With a compact design that makes it portable and audible fish alarms, it’s the ideal choice for beginners and occasional fishers.
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Anti-Muslim figure John Guandolo posts ‘cruel and inappropriate’ tweet about Southwest employee
Anti-Muslim activist John Guandolo recently caused an uproar on social media after he tweeted a picture of an unsuspecting Southwest Airlines employee and accused them of being a “sharia-adherent” Muslim.
Guandolo, a disgraced former FBI agent who now provides anti-Muslim training courses to law enforcement and civilians, was traveling to speak at the Western Conservative Conference in Phoenix when he encountered a bearded employee of the airline.
He snapped a picture of the employee and posted it with the caption: "I wish this were shocking...a sharia adherent muslim (aka jihadi) at my plane," he tweeted on March 23 with the accompanying hashtag "#shariakills."
The tweet, which has since been deleted, sparked enough outrage online that Southwest responded on Twitter, calling Guandolo’s post “cruel and inappropriate.”
In the post, Guandolo tagged President Donald Trump and newly appointed National Security Advisor John Bolton along with the Department of Homeland Security. Despite Guandolo’s penchant for espousing anti-Muslim conspiracy theories and rhetoric, he is often invited to speak at events featuring mainstream political and public figures.
In 2015, Guandolo spoke alongside Bolton — who he tagged in the inflammatory tweet — at an event in South Carolina sponsored by Frank Gaffney and his anti-Muslim hate group Center for Security Policy. Gaffney is a close ally of Guandolo’s and regularly features him on his program, “Secure Freedom Radio.”
On March 24, Guandolo was one of the speakers at the Western Conservative Conference alongside U.S. Reps. Dave Brat, Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar. Jeff DeWit, Arizona’s state treasurer and Trump’s recently appointed chief financial officer of NASA, also spoke and helped organize the event.
This is not the first time Guandolo has taken pictures of unsuspecting airport employees and accused them of being “jihadis.” Last year, Right Wing Watch reported a similar instance of him tweeting pictures of TSA employees at LaGuardia Airport that he thought looked to be Muslim.
“Am I the only 1 who sees a problem w/ Terrorists (jihadis/sharia adherent muslims) ‘protecting’ us,” he wrote in one post.
Guandolo is close to others in the organized anti-Muslim movement, including Brigitte Gabriel, founder and president of ACT for America. Guandolo spoke at ACT’s 2013 national conference and worked with the anti-Muslim hate group to launch a web tool for law enforcement. Gabriel made headlines last year when, after boasting of having ties to officials in the Trump administration, announced she had a visit with the White House. She was also reportedly dining with Trump and others last year at Mar-a-Lago the day the president ordered an airstrike against Syria.
Guandolo has a history of falsely accusing individuals of being converts to Islam or agents of the Muslim Brotherhood, a foreign political entity the former FBI agent and his cohorts believe are working to overthrow the U.S. government.
In 2013, he accused CIA Director John Brennan of being a secret Muslim convert. Last year, he got in a physical altercation with a Minnesota sheriff at a law enforcement conference in Reno, Nevada. The altercation, which later led to a restraining order against Guandolo, stemmed from him accusing Sheriff Richard Stanek of working “with jihadis in the community.” The charges against Guandolo have since been dropped.
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Brighton defender Shane Duffy determined to keep his place for Liverpool test
Brighton and Hove Albion defender Shane Duffy will hope to keep his place for their trip to Liverpool
Published: 10:16 Wednesday 27 November 2019
By Alex Robertson
Brighton and Hove Albion defender Shane Duffy will hope to maintain his place in the starting XI as they travel to Premier League leaders Liverpool.
Duffy, 27, has started the last two matches against Manchester United and Leicester due to an injury to Adam Webster and a suspension to Lewis Dunk.
The Irish defender began alongside Dunk at Old Trafford and was part of a back three - with Webster and Dan Burn - against Leicester as Webster returned ahead of schedule from an ankle injury.
When Webster and Dunk have been available this season, Duffy has had to settle for a place on the bench. The Irishman is pleased his skipper is back to face Jurgen Klopp's Champions League winners but is also determined to keep his place in the defence.
Duffy said, "We need all the competition at this level and for these kind of games we need our best players. Dunky is one of our best players, It'll push everyone on."
Anfield hasn't been a happy hunting ground for Brighton in recent years, with the last win for the Seagulls coming in 1984 in the FA Cup. One positive that the Seagulls can focus on is Liverpool's lack of clean sheets this season, as the Reds have conceded in every home game so far.
However, scoring goals has not been Brighton's strong point, having only netted 15 times in 13 Premier League games.
Despite the record, Duffy is still positive that Brighton can test the league leaders, a side who have won 12 of their 13 league games this season.
"You've just got to believe and be positive. Every game is difficult in this league and you've got to prepare like every game is the same. It's going to be a difficult night so, we will go there positive and confident".
Much like Leicester, Liverpool's attacking front three in Mo Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino are lightning quick on the counter and can catch defenders off guard at any moment.
Duffy cited Brighton's biggest problem in last week's 2-0 home loss to Leicester was as dealing with their pace.
"Obviously the game was sloppy from our point of view," Duffy added. "The counter-attacks, we should have learnt from the first couple which were from corners. But it was disappointing."
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Brighton striker Aaron Connolly will also hope to shake off a groin injury sustained against Manchester United. Connolly, 19, missed the Leicester match but head coach Graham Potter is hoping to have him available for Liverpool.
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Singing for better mental health!
Published: 06:44 Friday 09 March 2018
A Brighton choir is championing singing as a way of tackling mental-health issues head on.
Kirsty Martin, musical director of Hullabaloo Quire, said: “At this time of year in particular, as the dark morning and nights drag on, we all need reasons to be cheerful and Hullabaloo Quire are encouraging you to ‘sing yourself happy’ at their next gig VOX POP! with male a capplla group The B Naturals.
“Improving mental health and wellbeing has been identified as a key priority by the Brighton and Hove Wellbeing Board and singing is the creative cure-all, good for your body, mind and spirit.
“Recent research reaffirms the impressive mental-health benefits of singing, particularly group harmony singing - the ancient adrenalin rush. Singing is also known to be the best form of lung exercise as singing gets you breathing deeper and gets that diaphragm working.
Hullabaloo Quire, one of Brighton’s longest established and much loved community choirs, is happy to help. Community singing remains one of the purest and strongest creative bonds that can be shared by groups of people. Even those (and especially those) who feel they can’t sing. Even those (and especially those) who were told to ‘stand at the back of the choir and mime’.
Sarah Gordon, new choir member this term and new to singing, said: “I joined the choir to combat some mental-health struggles I was experiencing. I was very lonely but choir has given me purpose, somewhere to be and people to speak to each week. It's virtually impossible to leave our regular rehearsal session without a smile on your face.”
The Vox Pop! workshop with The B Naturals takes place on Sunday, March 18 from 10am to 4.30pm. The Vox Pop! evening concert has doors from 7pm and the show starts at 7.30pm. Both events are at One Church, Gloucester Place, BN1 4AA.
Full price and concession tickets are available from hullabalooquire.brownpapertickets.com.
1917 offers mesmerising descent into the horrors of World War One
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Sympathetic Vibratory Physics
Bridging Science and Spirituality
Sympathetic Vibratory Physics » Thought
"All motion is thought, and all force is mind force." [Keely, Keely and His Discoveries, pg 252]
"Desire is the cause of motion."'' Russell, [The Secret of Light]
Thought is of the compound interetheric subdivision and active within the interetheric subdivision.
"We are what our thoughts have made us: so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far." [Swami Vivekananda]
Thoughts directed inward develop harmony and power (syntropy). Thoughts directed outward disperse harmony and power (entropy). So the science supports this in-looking process. The ultimate source of power is from within but only when one goes there. [Dale Pond see As A Man Thinketh]
"Electricity is the motivative force which projects the One Light of Mind two ways to create cycles of light waves for the purpose of expressing thought cycles." Russell, [The Secret of Light]
"The centering conscious Mind of man's Soul-will alone thinks by projecting desire for creative expression through the brain machine.
"Desire in Mind is electrically expressed. Electricity is the motivative force which projects the One Light of Mind two ways to create cycles of light waves for the purpose of expressing thought cycles.
"Desire is not in the brain. It is in the centering conscious self. Desire is the cause of motion." Russell, [The Secret of Light]
Dialogue on Awakening
"Begin by accepting completely that you are the perfected thought of God. You may intellectually say that you understand this, but you do not believe it. How could you possibly say that you did believe it and then in the next breath say, "I am struggling to be Awake." It is a matter of acceptance of what already is and that requires no struggle. It does require a sense of surrender with the sure Knowledge that you are surrendering to your Self..." [Dialogue on Awakening]
"Well that the entity, or all, know that the law of love, or love as law, is cause and effect; or each impulse has its own corresponding reaction in thought, life, mental, physical and material. Not understood by some! This: "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." [(Galatians 6:7)]
"Each thought, as things, has its seed, and if planted, or when sown in one or another grounds, brings its own fruit; for thoughts are things, and as their currents run must bring their own seed." [Cayce (288-29)]
"What then ye may ask, ARE the purposes for a soul manifesting in flesh in ANY individual entity? In the beginning, all souls that were as portions of the thought of God were given the opportunity for expression, as to be companions for the creative Force - or God." [Cayce (2420-1)]
"That builded by thought and deed becomes the active particles, atoms, that make up that soul body, see?" [Cayce (5756-4)]
"THOUGHTS ARE DEEDS, and are children of the relation reached between the mental and the soul, and has its relation to spirit and soul's plane of existence, as they do in the physical or earth plane. What one thinks continually, they become, what one cherishes in their heart and mind they make a part of the pulsation of their heart, through their own blood cells, and build in their own physical, that which its spirit and soul must feed upon, and that with which it will be possessed." [Cayce (3744-4)]
"He that hateth his brother has committed as great a sin as he that slayeth a man" (1 John 3:15), for the deed is as of an accomplishment in the mental being, which is the builder for every entity." [Cayce (243-10)]
"Arguments gain little. The mental attitude and prayers gain much; for thoughts are things and their vibrations reach those in every sphere and walk of life as related to self and to others." [Cayce (1438-2)]
"For mind is the builder and that which we think upon may become crimes or miracles. For thoughts are things and as their currents run through the environs of an entity's experience these become barriers or steppingstones, dependent upon the manner in which these are laid as it were. For as the mental dwells upon these thoughts, so does it give strength, power to things that do not appear. And thus does indeed there become that as is so oft given, that faith is the evidence of things not seen." [Cayce (906-3)]
"The constant thought of hate, malice, jealousy - results - (in) warring conditions of nations... (and) physical disturbances in a body." [Cayce (3246-2)]
"God's Thoughts" refers to us. We are the Thoughts of God, and Creation is "the sum of all God's Thoughts," the sum total of all beings of all time.
"The Course makes an amazing assertion here: "God's Thoughts are given all the power that their Creator has." In the Bible it is recorded that Jesus said, toward the end of his life, "All power is given to me in heaven and in earth." The Course says all power is given to us as the Sonship, not just to Jesus. What this is saying is that, what God can do, we can do. We are simply His extensions. Therefore, as He creates, we create also.
"The reason God shares His power with us is that "He would add to Love by its extension." In other words, we have power in order to extend love. One short definition of creation might be the extension of love. But the form of love we share in this world is not Love's reality; it is only a reflection of Heaven's love. Our earthly experience of love is always in the context of separate beings exchanging love; in Heaven is only the awareness of perfect oneness. We can only imagine what love is like in that context. We can have glimpses of it in a holy instant, when the barriers between minds seem to disappear. In that moment, there is an awareness that the other person is you and you are the other person. You are the love in 'you' extending to them; you are the love in 'the other person' extending towards 'you;' and you are the love in yourself loving yourself. It can be a disorienting experience because you literally start to lose track of who you are, in the context of individuals, while simultaneously you become aware of something much larger and more all-inclusive that is what you really are. [See Sympathy, Mind to Mind]
"Those experiences are wonderful, and asking for them is not discouraged in the Course. But the main thing to realize here is that Creation, as the Course talks about it, is not an experience on earth; it is an experience in Heaven. It is something that is always going on, and our dream of separation has not interrupted Creation at all. Nothing has been lost or stopped by our illusion of separation. That is why the Course can tell us, as in last week's topic (Last Judgment), that the final judgment on this world is, "It is meaningless and does not exist."
"If Creation in Heaven means the extension of Love, what is its parallel in our earthly experience? The Course says that the parallel to the extension of Love is forgiveness. I think of it as recognizing creation, rather than actually creating." [A Course in Miracles]
"There is a borderland of thought that stands between this world and Heaven. It is not a place, and when you reach it it is apart from time. Here is the meeting place where thoughts are brought together; where conflicting values meet and all illusions are laid down beside the truth, where they are judged to be untrue. This borderland is just beyond the gate of Heaven. Here is every thought made pure and wholly simple. Here is sin denied, and everything that (is) received instead.
"This is the journey's end. We have referred to it as the real world. And yet there is a contradiction here, in that the words imply a limited reality, a partial truth, a segment of the universe made true. This is because Knowledge makes no attack upon perception. They are brought together, and only one continues past the gate where Oneness is. Salvation is a borderland where place and time and choice have meaning still, and yet it can be seen that they are temporary, out of place, and every choice has been already made.
"Nothing that the Son of God believes can be destroyed. But what is truth to him must be brought to the last comparison that he will ever make; the last evaluation that will be possible, the final judgment upon this world. It is the judgment of truth upon illusion, of Knowledge on perception: "It has no meaning, and does not exist." This is not your decision. It is but a simple statement of a simple fact. But in this world there are no simple facts, because what is the same and what is different remain unclear. The one essential thing to make a choice at all is this distinction. And herein lies the difference between the worlds. In this one, choice is made impossible. In the real world is choosing simplified." [A Course in Miracles Chapt. 26, p. 546]
"As far as my researches have gone, I find that there is but one condition approaching reliability, and that is in computing the intermittent periodic disturbances along a nodal vibratory transmitter - the nodes of gold, silver and platina - a fixed number placed at such different distances along its line, as to take up and equalize (by a certain order of vibratory transmissions) the chord masses of the nodal interferences between the triple metals of which the nodes are composed, and also the acoustic introductory impulse of whatever chord is set. This will determine the rate of their accelerated molecular oscillation, so induced beyond their normal standard, and give us some definite figures in the computing of vibration, thousands of billions of times more than those of light." [Keely]
"Light is induced by electromagnetic percussion emanating from the ether, and in its action represents the plane of magnetism. In fact, it is the plane of magnetism when under polarization. (Platina wires the thickness of a fine hair associated with each of the nine nodal beads, and concentrated towards a general center of focalization, attaching the other end of the wires to the focal center, will determine, by the magnetic conduction, the number of corpuscular oscillations per second induced by a thought, either positive or negative, in the central centers. These are the only conditions - those of magnetic conduction - whereby the evolution of a thought can be computed in regard to its force under propagation, as against the amount of latent energy set free to act as induced by such thought on the physical organism.) Some scientific theories of the past have taught us that electricity and magnetism are one and the same thing. Sympathetic vibratory philosophy teaches that they are two distinct forces of one of the triune sympathetic family." [Keely, circa 1893, PHYSICAL VIBRATIONS]
"In Scientology it has been discovered that mental energy is simply a finer, higher level physical energy. The test of this is conclusive in that a thetan "mocking up" (creating) mental image pictures and thrusting them into the body can increase the body mass and by casting them away again can decrease the body mass. This test has actually been made and an increase as much as thirty pounds, actually measured on scales, has been added to, and subtracted from, a body by creating "mental energy". Energy is energy. Matter is condensed energy." [Hubbard, (Understanding the E-Meter, page 50) (underline added)]
Bruce Director
"The empiricist rejects Leibniz's notion, because he accepts Aristotle's doctrine that "physics concerns only objects of sense", whereas Plato, Nicholas of Cusa, Leibniz and Riemann emphasized, physics concerns objects of thought. These thought-objects, or "Geistesmassen" as Riemann called them, refer to the universal principles which (cause) the objects of sense to behave the way they are perceived to behave. Not being directly accessible to the senses, such principles appear to come from "outside" the visible world. However, a great mistake is made if one concludes from this, as the sophists do, that these principles come from outside the universe itself. In fact, these principles, being universal, are acting everywhere, at all times, and in every "infinitesimal" interval of action, osculating the objects of sense as if tangent to the visible domain." Riemann for Anti-Dummies Part 59 Think Infinitesimal by Bruce Director
"If the universe is a universe of thought, then its creation must have been an act of thought. Indeed the finiteness of time and space almost compel us, of themselves, to picture the creation as an act of thought; the determination of the constants such as the radius of the universe and the number of electrons it contained imply thought, whose richness is measured by the immensity of these quantities. Time and space, which form the setting for the thought, must have come into being as part of this act." [Sir James Jeans, The Mysterious Universe]
"Thought, like the blossom of the rose or tree, contains all the elements of the tree or rose. Now as the law of vegetation governs the tree or rose, so the law of mind acts upon the idea or spiritual tree, known by the name of good or evil. Now although this tree differs from all other trees in the garden of man, it cannot be detected except by its fruits, and as the fruits appear pleasant to the eye of the mind and are supposed to make men happy, it is cultivated without knowing the peculiar properties it contains.
"Now as this tree grows it sends forth its thoughts like blossoms, and as it is looked upon as a fruit much desired to make one well, it is received with joy and cultivated in the garden of our minds. Now in the beginning of the creation of man this tree was a tree that differed from all others in men and was very like the tree of life. The fruits of this tree have been the foundation of all the philosophy of man ever since man was created.
"Now as man's natural body contains the soil for this tree to grow, as the earth is the soil for the rest of the trees and herbs and creeping things that have life, it is the duty of man to investigate this tree and see what its fruits contain. The tree is to be known by its fruits. This tree is an idea like all other ideas in man, but differing in one peculiarity, happiness and misery. All the rest of the trees of knowledge contain right and wrong without any regard to happiness or misery. This is the difference between the trees.
"Now as this tree can bear the fruits of other trees, it is another reason for its being cultivated, but to understand the tree or idea is to understand its fruits or thoughts.
"I shall now call this tree an idea which contains happiness or misery and also truth and error. Now as error, like the serpent, is more subtle than any other idea in man, it acts upon the weaker portion of our thoughts and ideas and engrafts them into the idea of happiness and misery. Now as this idea grows and sends forth its fruit, it is conveyed by error to other trees or ideas in others, and thus spring up false theories, false doctrines, etc. Now as this tree or idea sends forth such a variety of thoughts or fruit, it is like Joseph's coat of many colors, hard to tell what was the original color or idea. This throws man into darkness and doubt and he wanders about, like a sheep without a shepherd, running after false ideas. Being blind, he is not capable of judging for himself and suffers himself to be led by the blind.
"Now as the tree of knowledge of good and evil was an idea of happiness and misery, it is easy to detect its fruits. All other ideas are spiritual, and the fruits or thoughts are spiritual and are not perceived till they come within our senses. We are very apt to get deceived by them, for they come like a thief in the night when man is off his guard. Now as health and happiness is the greatest blessing that can be bestowed on man, and this was the original fruit of the tree, it can be very easily detected from the grafted fruit or ideas. The original fruit is spiritual and cannot be detected by the eye, for it does not contain even spiritual matter. Its qualities are sympathy, harmony and peace; the fruit of evil contains matter, and has form and can be seen and felt." [Quimby]
Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth
"When I had moments of doubt that this could be so, the changes in the phenomena stopped taking place, and much later, I discovered that:
my thoughts, if strongly imbued with CONVICTION
could effect changes in the 'shimmer of motes'
(what science presently calls electrically charged particles)
and therefore produce changes
in the appearance of the rock or whatever I was studying.
It was at this point, that I came to realize the powerful effect that CONVICTION or unwavering FAITH had on the environment when stating a command or even a belief.
What was even more startling was my mind-opening, 'cosmic consciousness' realization that all I had been witnessing was really the 'Creative Power' of Divine Mind Itself made visible in the 'shimmer of tiny motes'.
Not only this, its appearance could be profoundly affected by the activity of human thought." [Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth, Letter 1, page 11]
"With this vision I learnt a most valuable aspect of existence. Man himself is born with all the potential to make a beautiful life for himself but he, himself, by indulging his selfish desires and hatreds, creates a prison of misery for himself from which there was no escape until such times as he realizes the TRUTH OF EXISTENCE.
All the problems of harsh existence lay within the thought processes of man himself!
Only people's 'consciousness forms', their thoughts, words, feelings, actions created a dense barrier between their consciousness and the Universal Creative Consciousness interpenetrating the universe in every leaf, tree, insect, bird, animal and human being." [Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth, Letter 1, page 17]
"I was also shown the LAWS OF EXISTENCE controlling the human ability to create new circumstances and environment, relationships, achievement or failure, prosperity or poverty.
Whatever man profoundly BELIEVES himself to be, good or bad, that will he become.
Whatever man FEARS others will do to him, so will they do.
Whatever man HOPES that others will do to him, he must first do to them, since he is then creating a 'consciousness pattern' which will return to bless him to the extent he has blest others.
Whatever disease man DREADS so will he become prey to it for he will have created a 'consciousness pattern' of the very thing he least wants to experience.
Whatever is sent forth from man's mind and heart - returns to him in due course in some form or another, but remember that like always breeds like. Strongly emotional thoughts are 'consciousness seeds' planted within a man's own orbit of consciousness. These will grow, bearing a like harvest for his reaping.
These are the fruits of free will." [Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth, Letter 1, page 18]
"Who had ever suspected the human mind could be so highly creative, that a strongly-held thought or desire would actually manifest itself in the visible realm? I realized that Moses must have known something of this, because he had accomplished some strange things when the Israelites were in dire need.
He became a leader and changed the course of the Israelites previously enslaved in Egypt. I could return now and free my people from the rigid control of their own Teachers." [Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth, Letter 1, page 19]
"I knew then that a Divine messenger had come to succor with good bread and meat - and compassionately give me warning that I might not find my mission so simple, despite my enthusiasm. I was deflated by his word of warning. My enthusiasm waned. The way to the first village on my road seemed endless. How a change in human thought produces a change of mood!" [Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth, Letter 1, page 20]
"However, it clearly demonstrated, for my disciples, the power of THOUGHT for good or evil. It showed them that the more spiritually evolved a person is, the greater is the impact of their words on the environment." [Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth, Letter 3, page 14]
"I - We - say to men and women everywhere - true Purity is only attained when you can be surrounded with every form of temptation and yet remain untouched by desire, unmoved by earthly feelings, untainted by earthly lusts, free of craving and longing for possession.
Purity in its every form transcends all earthly physical hungers. Purity is the ability to see temptation for what it is - grossness of thought and feeling which traps the senses of men and women into doing unclean things. A truly pure person desires only the clean and honest environment suited to their innate longing for spiritual love and beauty of self expression in every facet of their lives. That is true Purity.
However, true purity cannot be achieved unless there have first been the long years of temptation. It is a necessary part of your spiritual development; unless you have been sorely tempted at times, and have eventually come to understand that there is a higher road to walk, a road of self-denial, and of sincere concern and caring for a good woman, you will never attain a state of true purity.
You will be enslaved by desire and will be in a constant turmoil of inner conflict." [Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth, Letter 4, page 15]
"PURPOSE is entirely different to INTENTION since purpose comes down from the mental plane of intention and becomes an emotional drive, a desire to formulate 'a means to achieve the intended end'.
A 'powerful INTENTION to do something' becomes a PURPOSE behind continued existence. In this way, thought and feeling are married to perform the work of creation." [Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth, Letter 4, page 18]
"I want you to notice that the equilibrium is impossible the moment that thought is introduced." [Christ Returns - Speaks His Truth, Letter 5, page 19]
"Remember, at all times, that what you THINK about is what you are tuning into.
"Your thoughts are 'searchlights' making contact with what you seek.
"Remember that every 'thought' has its own frequency of vibrations in consciousness. Believe, know this, for this is true. The more spiritual the thought, the higher the frequencies of vibration.
'Consciousness forms' embodied by words are not visible but are 'specific entities of being'.
"They have the life of consciousness within them. They are magnetised to like 'consciousness forms'. Like is drawn to like.
"Think 'dog' and visualise what you mean, and your thoughts are attuned to the dog species." [Letter 8, page 24]
"The physicist tells you that "you cannot make something out of nothing;" that "in the economy of nature profit and loss must balance;" that "no matter what the nature of the force may be, its production must necessarily be accompanied by a corresponding expenditure of force in some form or other," etc., etc. But, in the prodigality of nature, this energy flows, without measure and without price, from the great storehouse of the Infinite Will. From the sympathetic portion of the etheric field, all visible aggregations of matter emanate, and on the same order that molecular masses of all living organisms are vitalized by the sympathetic flow from the brain." [Bloomfield-Moore in Vibratory Sympathetic and Polar Flows]
Neutral Center is Source of Continuous Motion
(courtesy University of Science and Philosophy)
"When this great scientific and religious truth has been made known, and established by demonstration, all controversy as to the source of energy will be for ever silenced. If I am the chosen instrument to develop this knowledge, and to make known the conditions which surround this pure truth, it is only that I may hand the key to those who will use it to enter the doorway that opens into the inaudible, and thus gain an insight into the now invisible region of the operation of Nature's most powerful governing forces, in the control over terrestrial matter by celestial mind." [Keely in Keely and His Discoveries pg. 365-367]
Affinity to Neutral Center
Continuous Motion
Disturbance of Equilibrium
Dynaspheric Force
Energy-Source
First Cause
gravity shaft
Infinite Exciter
latent neutral
neutral attraction
Neutral Center
Neutral Equilibrium
Neutral Negative Aggregation
Neutral Negative Attraction
omnipresent zero
Prime Neutral Center
stillness of gravity
Supreme Neutral Center
Sympathetic Neutral Affinity
9.16 - Neutral Center Dynamics
Compound Interetheric
creating thought-ring
Dynamics of Mind
electric thought-record
electric thought-rings of motion
electric thought-rings
Etheric Elements
Figure 15.06 - Thought Rings of Motion
Figure 3.2 - Thinking Mind Creates a Universe of Motion
Interetheric
matter is pure thought
Mind and Mind-thought universe
Mind Force is a pre-existing Natural Force
Mind Force
Mind Thought Rings of Motion
Mind-thought
Pattern of Motion
PHYSICAL VIBRATIONS
Power of Thought
Recording Unuttered Thoughts
thought form
Thought Machine
Thought Transference
thought wave amplitude
thought wave
thought-form
thought-image
thought-imaged form
thought-motion
thought-pulsation frequencies
Thought-reading
thought-recording image
thought-recording
thought-ring planes
thought-ring
Thoughtsphere
Will Force
14.21 - Russell on Thought and Idea
6.14.1 - Mirror Cube
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PAPER ON HINDUISM
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Read at the Parliament on 19th September, 1893
Three religions now stand in the world which have come down to us from time prehistoric — Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Judaism. They have all received tremendous shocks and all of them prove by their survival their internal strength. But while Judaism failed to absorb Christianity and was driven out of its place of birth by its all-conquering daughter, and a handful of Parsees is all that remains to tell the tale of their grand religion, sect after sect arose in India and seemed to shake the religion of the Vedas to its very foundations, but like the waters of the seashore in a tremendous earthquake it receded only for a while, only to return in an all-absorbing flood, a thousand times more vigorous, and when the tumult of the rush was over, these sects were all sucked in, absorbed, and assimilated into the immense body of the mother faith.
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists, and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hindu’s religion.
Where then, the question arises, where is the common centre to which all these widely diverging radii converge? Where is the common basis upon which all these seemingly hopeless contradictions rest? And this is the question I shall attempt to answer.
The Hindus have received their religion through revelation, the Vedas. They hold that the Vedas are without beginning and without end. It may sound ludicrous to this audience, how a book can be without beginning or end. But by the Vedas no books are meant. They mean the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws discovered by different persons in different times. Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery, and would exist if all humanity forgot it, so is it with the laws that govern the spiritual world. The moral, ethical, and spiritual relations between soul and soul and between individual spirits and the Father of all spirits, were there before their discovery, and would remain even if we forgot them.
The discoverers of these laws are called Rishis, and we honour them as perfected beings. I am glad to tell this audience that some of the very greatest of them were women. Here it may be said that these laws as laws may be without end, but they must have had a beginning. The Vedas teach us that creation is without beginning or end. Science is said to have proved that the sum total of cosmic energy is always the same. Then, if there was a time when nothing existed, where was all this manifested energy? Some say it was in a potential form in God. In that case God is sometimes potential and sometimes kinetic, which would make Him mutable. Everything mutable is a compound, and everything compound must undergo that change which is called destruction. So God would die, which is absurd. Therefore there never was a time when there was no creation.
If I may be allowed to use a simile, creation and creator are two lines, without beginning and without end, running parallel to each other. God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed. This is what the Brâhmin boy repeats every day: “The sun and the moon, the Lord created like the suns and moons of previous cycles.” And this agrees with modern science.
Here I stand and if I shut my eyes, and try to conceive my existence, “I”, “I”, “I”, what is the idea before me? The idea of a body. Am I, then, nothing but a combination of material substances? The Vedas declare, “No”. I am a spirit living in a body. I am not the body. The body will die, but I shall not die. Here am I in this body; it will fall, but I shall go on living. I had also a past. The soul was not created, for creation means a combination which means a certain future dissolution. If then the soul was created, it must die. Some are born happy, enjoy perfect health, with beautiful body, mental vigour and all wants supplied. Others are born miserable, some are without hands or feet, others again are idiots and only drag on a wretched existence. Why, if they are all created, why does a just and merciful God create one happy and another unhappy, why is He so partial? Nor would it mend matters in the least to hold that those who are miserable in this life will be happy in a future one. Why should a man be miserable even here in the reign of a just and merciful God?
In the second place, the idea of a creator God does not explain the anomaly, but simply expresses the cruel fiat of an all-powerful being. There must have been causes, then, before his birth, to make a man miserable or happy and those were his past actions.
Are not all the tendencies of the mind and the body accounted for by inherited aptitude? Here are two parallel lines of existence — one of the mind, the other of matter. If matter and its transformations answer for all that we have, there is no necessity for supposing the existence of a soul. But it cannot be proved that thought has been evolved out of matter, and if a philosophical monism is inevitable, spiritual monism is certainly logical and no less desirable than a materialistic monism; but neither of these is necessary here.
We cannot deny that bodies acquire certain tendencies from heredity, but those tendencies only mean the physical configuration, through which a peculiar mind alone can act in a peculiar way. There are other tendencies peculiar to a soul caused by its past actions. And a soul with a certain tendency would by the laws of affinity take birth in a body which is the fittest instrument for the display of that tendency. This is in accord with science, for science wants to explain everything by habit, and habit is got through repetitions. So repetitions are necessary to explain the natural habits of a new-born soul. And since they were not obtained in this present life, they must have come down from past lives.
There is another suggestion. Taking all these for granted, how is it that I do not remember anything of my past life ? This can be easily explained. I am now speaking English. It is not my mother tongue, in fact no words of my mother tongue are now present in my consciousness; but let me try to bring them up, and they rush in. That shows that consciousness is only the surface of the mental ocean, and within its depths are stored up all our experiences. Try and struggle, they would come up and you would be conscious even of your past life.
This is direct and demonstrative evidence. Verification is the perfect proof of a theory, and here is the challenge thrown to the world by the Rishis. We have discovered the secret by which the very depths of the ocean of memory can be stirred up — try it and you would get a complete reminiscence of your past life.
So then the Hindu believes that he is a spirit. Him the sword cannot pierce — him the fire cannot burn — him the water cannot melt — him the air cannot dry. The Hindu believes that every soul is a circle whose circumference is nowhere, but whose centre is located in the body, and that death means the change of this centre from body to body. Nor is the soul bound by the conditions of matter. In its very essence it is free, unbounded, holy, pure, and perfect. But somehow or other it finds itself tied down to matter, and thinks of itself as matter.
Why should the free, perfect, and pure being be thus under the thraldom of matter, is the next question. How can the perfect soul be deluded into the belief that it is imperfect? We have been told that the Hindus shirk the question and say that no such question can be there. Some thinkers want to answer it by positing one or more quasi-perfect beings, and use big scientific names to fill up the gap. But naming is not explaining. The question remains the same. How can the perfect become the quasi-perfect; how can the pure, the absolute, change even a microscopic particle of its nature? But the Hindu is sincere. He does not want to take shelter under sophistry. He is brave enough to face the question in a manly fashion; and his answer is: “I do not know. I do not know how the perfect being, the soul, came to think of itself as imperfect, as joined to and conditioned by matter.” But the fact is a fact for all that. It is a fact in everybody’s consciousness that one thinks of oneself as the body. The Hindu does not attempt to explain why one thinks one is the body. The answer that it is the will of God is no explanation. This is nothing more than what the Hindu says, “I do not know.”
Well, then, the human soul is eternal and immortal, perfect and infinite, and death means only a change of centre from one body to another. The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present. The soul will go on evolving up or reverting back from birth to birth and death to death. But here is another question: Is man a tiny boat in a tempest, raised one moment on the foamy crest of a billow and dashed down into a yawning chasm the next, rolling to and fro at the mercy of good and bad actions — a powerless, helpless wreck in an ever-raging, ever-rushing, uncompromising current of cause and effect; a little moth placed under the wheel of causation which rolls on crushing everything in its way and waits not for the widow’s tears or the orphan’s cry? The heart sinks at the idea, yet this is the law of Nature. Is there no hope? Is there no escape? — was the cry that went up from the bottom of the heart of despair. It reached the throne of mercy, and words of hope and consolation came down and inspired a Vedic sage, and he stood up before the world and in trumpet voice proclaimed the glad tidings: “Hear, ye children of immortal bliss! even ye that reside in higher spheres! I have found the Ancient One who is beyond all darkness, all delusion: knowing Him alone you shall be saved from death over again.” “Children of immortal bliss” — what a sweet, what a hopeful name! Allow me to call you, brethren, by that sweet name — heirs of immortal bliss — yea, the Hindu refuses to call you sinners. Ye are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye divinities on earth — sinners! It is a sin to call a man so; it is a standing libel on human nature. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter.
Thus it is that the Vedas proclaim not a dreadful combination of unforgiving laws, not an endless prison of cause and effect, but that at the head of all these laws, in and through every particle of matter and force, stands One “by whose command the wind blows, the fire burns, the clouds rain, and death stalks upon the earth.”
And what is His nature?
He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. “Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou art our beloved friend, Thou art the source of all strength; give us strength. Thou art He that beareth the burdens of the universe; help me bear the little burden of this life.” Thus sang the Rishis of the Vedas. And how to worship Him? Through love. “He is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.”
This is the doctrine of love declared in the Vedas, and let us see how it is fully developed and taught by Krishna, whom the Hindus believe to have been God incarnate on earth.
He taught that a man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world — his heart to God and his hands to work.
It is good to love God for hope of reward in this or the next world, but it is better to love God for love’s sake, and the prayer goes: “Lord, I do not want wealth, nor children, nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth, but grant me this, that I may love Thee without the hope of reward — love unselfishly for love’s sake.” One of the disciples of Krishna, the then Emperor of India, was driven from his kingdom by his enemies and had to take shelter with his queen in a forest in the Himalayas, and there one day the queen asked him how it was that he, the most virtuous of men, should suffer so much misery. Yudhishthira answered, “Behold, my queen, the Himalayas, how grand and beautiful they are; I love them. They do not give me anything, but my nature is to love the grand, the beautiful, therefore I love them. Similarly, I love the Lord. He is the source of all beauty, of all sublimity. He is the only object to be loved; my nature is to love Him, and therefore I love. I do not pray for anything; I do not ask for anything. Let Him place me wherever He likes. I must love Him for love’s sake. I cannot trade in love.”
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is therefore, Mukti — freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.
And this bondage can only fall off through the mercy of God, and this mercy comes on the pure. So purity is the condition of His mercy. How does that mercy act? He reveals Himself to the pure heart; the pure and the stainless see God, yea, even in this life; then and then only all the crookedness of the heart is made straight. Then all doubt ceases. He is no more the freak of a terrible law of causation. This is the very centre, the very vital conception of Hinduism. The Hindu does not want to live upon words and theories. If there are existences beyond the ordinary sensuous existence, he wants to come face to face with them. If there is a soul in him which is not matter, if there is an all-merciful universal Soul, he will go to Him direct. He must see Him, and that alone can destroy all doubts. So the best proof a Hindu sage gives about the soul, about God, is: “I have seen the soul; I have seen God.” And that is the only condition of perfection. The Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realising — not in believing, but in being and becomin.
Thus the whole object of their system is by constant struggle to become perfect, to become divine, to reach God and see God, and this reaching God, seeing God, becoming perfect even as the Father in Heaven is perfect, constitutes the religion of the Hindus.
And what becomes of a man when he attains perfection? He lives a life of bliss infinite. He enjoys infinite and perfect bliss, having obtained the only thing in which man ought to have pleasure, namely God, and enjoys the bliss with God.
So far all the Hindus are agreed. This is the common religion of all the sects of India; but, then, perfection is absolute, and the absolute cannot be two or three. It cannot have any qualities. It cannot be an individual. And so when a soul becomes perfect and absolute, it must become one with Brahman, and it would only realise the Lord as the perfection, the reality, of its own nature and existence, the existence absolute, knowledge absolute, and bliss absolute. We have often and often read this called the losing of individuality and becoming a stock or a stone.
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
I tell you it is nothing of the kind. If it is happiness to enjoy the consciousness of this small body, it must be greater happiness to enjoy the consciousness of two bodies, the measure of happiness increasing with the consciousness of an increasing number of bodies, the aim, the ultimate of happiness being reached when it would become a universal consciousness.
Therefore, to gain this infinite universal individuality, this miserable little prison-individuality must go. Then alone can death cease when I am alone with life, then alone can misery cease when I am one with happiness itself, then alone can all errors cease when I am one with knowledge itself; and this is the necessary scientific conclusion. Science has proved to me that physical individuality is a delusion, that really my body is one little continuously changing body in an unbroken ocean of matter; and Advaita (unity) is the necessary conclusion with my other counterpart, soul.
Science is nothing but the finding of unity. As soon as science would reach perfect unity, it would stop from further progress, because it would reach the goal. Thus Chemistry could not progress farther when it would discover one element out of which all other could be made. Physics would stop when it would be able to fulfill its services in discovering one energy of which all others are but manifestations, and the science of religion become perfect when it would discover Him who is the one life in a universe of death, Him who is the constant basis of an ever-changing world. One who is the only Soul of which all souls are but delusive manifestations. Thus is it, through multiplicity and duality, that the ultimate unity is reached. Religion can go no farther. This is the goal of all science.
All science is bound to come to this conclusion in the long run. Manifestation, and not creation, is the word of science today, and the Hindu is only glad that what he has been cherishing in his bosom for ages is going to be taught in more forcible language, and with further light from the latest conclusions of science.
Descend we now from the aspirations of philosophy to the religion of the ignorant. At the very outset, I may tell you that there is no polytheism in India. In every temple, if one stands by and listens, one will find the worshippers applying all the attributes of God, including omnipresence, to the images. It is not polytheism, nor would the name henotheism explain the situation. “The rose called by any other name would smell as sweet.” Names are not explanations.
I remember, as a boy, hearing a Christian missionary preach to a crowd in India. Among other sweet things he was telling them was that if he gave a blow to their idol with his stick, what could it do? One of his hearers sharply answered, “If I abuse your God, what can He do?” “You would be punished,” said the preacher, “when you die.” “So my idol will punish you when you die,” retorted the Hindu.
The tree is known by its fruits. When I have seen amongst them that are called idolaters, men, the like of whom in morality and spirituality and love I have never seen anywhere, I stop and ask myself, “Can sin beget holiness?”
Superstition is a great enemy of man, but bigotry is worse. Why does a Christian go to church? Why is the cross holy? Why is the face turned toward the sky in prayer? Why are there so many images in the Catholic Church? Why are there so many images in the minds of Protestants when they pray? My brethren, we can no more think about anything without a mental image than we can live without breathing. By the law of association, the material image calls up the mental idea and vice versa. This is why the Hindu uses an external symbol when he worships. He will tell you, it helps to keep his mind fixed on the Being to whom he prays. He knows as well as you do that the image is not God, is not omnipresent. After all, how much does omnipresence mean to almost the whole world? It stands merely as a word, a symbol. Has God superficial area? If not, when we repeat that word “omnipresent”, we think of the extended sky or of space, that is all.
As we find that somehow or other, by the laws of our mental constitution, we have to associate our ideas of infinity with the image of the blue sky, or of the sea, so we naturally connect our idea of holiness with the image of a church, a mosque, or a cross. The Hindus have associated the idea of holiness, purity, truth, omnipresence, and such other ideas with different images and forms. But with this difference that while some people devote their whole lives to their idol of a church and never rise higher, because with them religion means an intellectual assent to certain doctrines and doing good to their fellows, the whole religion of the Hindu is centred in realisation. Man is to become divine by realising the divine. Idols or temples or churches or books are only the supports, the helps, of his spiritual childhood: but on and on he must progress.
He must not stop anywhere. “External worship, material worship,” say the scriptures, “is the lowest stage; struggling to rise high, mental prayer is the next stage, but the highest stage is when the Lord has been realised.” Mark, the same earnest man who is kneeling before the idol tells you, “Him the Sun cannot express, nor the moon, nor the stars, the lightning cannot express Him, nor what we speak of as fire; through Him they shine.” But he does not abuse any one’s idol or call its worship sin. He recognises in it a necessary stage of life. “The child is father of the man.” Would it be right for an old man to say that childhood is a sin or youth a sin?
If a man can realise his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin? Nor even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. To the Hindu, man is not travelling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions, from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realise the Infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress; and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength, till it reaches the Glorious Sun.
Unity in variety is the plan of nature, and the Hindu has recognised it. Every other religion lays down certain fixed dogmas, and tries to force society to adopt them. It places before society only one coat which must fit Jack and John and Henry, all alike. If it does not fit John or Henry, he must go without a coat to cover his body. The Hindus have discovered that the absolute can only be realised, or thought of, or stated, through the relative, and the images, crosses, and crescents are simply so many symbols — so many pegs to hang the spiritual ideas on. It is not that this help is necessary for every one, but those that do not need it have no right to say that it is wrong. Nor is it compulsory in Hinduism.
One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots. On the other hand, it is the attempt of undeveloped minds to grasp high spiritual truths. The Hindus have their faults, they sometimes have their exceptions; but mark this, they are always for punishing their own bodies, and never for cutting the throats of their neighbours. If the Hindu fanatic burns himself on the pyre, he never lights the fire of Inquisition. And even this cannot be laid at the door of his religion any more than the burning of witches can be laid at the door of Christianity.
To the Hindu, then, the whole world of religions is only a travelling, a coming up, of different men and women, through various conditions and circumstances, to the same goal. Every religion is only evolving a God out of the material man, and the same God is the inspirer of all of them. Why, then, are there so many contradictions? They are only apparent, says the Hindu. The contradictions come from the same truth adapting itself to the varying circumstances of different natures.
It is the same light coming through glasses of different colours. And these little variations are necessary for purposes of adaptation. But in the heart of everything the same truth reigns. The Lord has declared to the Hindu in His incarnation as Krishna, “I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.” And what has been the result? I challenge the world to find, throughout the whole system of Sanskrit philosophy, any such expression as that the Hindu alone will be saved and not others. Says Vyasa, “We find perfect men even beyond the pale of our caste and creed.” One thing more. How, then, can the Hindu, whose whole fabric of thought centres in God, believe in Buddhism which is agnostic, or in Jainism which is atheistic?
The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son. And he that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also.
This, brethren, is a short sketch of the religious ideas of the Hindus. The Hindu may have failed to carry out all his plans, but if there is ever to be a universal religion, it must be one which will have no location in place or time; which will be infinite like the God it will preach, and whose sun will shine upon the followers of Krishna and of Christ, on saints and sinners alike; which will not be Brahminic or Buddhistic, Christian or Mohammedan, but the sum total of all these, and still have infinite space for development; which in its catholicity will embrace in its infinite arms, and find a place for, every human being, from the lowest grovelling savage not far removed from the brute, to the highest man towering by the virtues of his head and heart almost above humanity, making society stand in awe of him and doubt his human nature. It will be a religion which will have no place for persecution or intolerance in its polity, which will recognise divinity in every man and woman, and whose whole scope, whose whole force, will be created in aiding humanity to realise its own true, divine nature.
Offer such a religion, and all the nations will follow you. Asoka’s council was a council of the Buddhist faith. Akbar’s, though more to the purpose, was only a parlour-meeting. It was reserved for America to proclaim to all quarters of the globe that the Lord is in every religion.
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians, give strength to you to carry out your noble idea! The star arose in the East; it travelled steadily towards the West, sometimes dimmed and sometimes effulgent, till it made a circuit of the world; and now it is again rising on the very horizon of the East, the borders of the Sanpo,1 a thousandfold more effulgent than it ever was before.
Hail, Columbia, motherland of liberty! It has been given to thee, who never dipped her hand in her neighbour’s blood, who never found out that the shortest way of becoming rich was by robbing one’s neighbours, it has been given to thee to march at the vanguard of civilisation with the flag of harmony.
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ADDRESS AT THE FINAL SESSION
BUDDHISM, THE FULFILLMENT OF HINDUISM
RELIGION NOT THE CRYING NEED OF INDIA
WHY WE DISAGREE
RESPONSE TO WELCOME (11th September, 1893)
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Back to the Championship
Caretaker manager Steve Agnew will address the media tomorrow ahead of Saturday’s clash with Wigan at Hillsborough.
Following Wednesday’s return to winning ways in the FA Cup in midweek, the Owls turn their attention back to the Championship with the visit of the Latics.
The 1-0 win over Luton has set up a fourth round tie with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge but before then, the Owls host Wigan in the Championship and Agnew said:
“People say, ‘does success in the cup get in the way of your league form,’ but I think the opposite.
“It builds momentum, we had a good result on Tuesday night and we’ll want to take that into our league game on Saturday.
“We’re back to the league for a really tough fixture against Wigan.
“The players came out with major credit from the Luton game and now we move on to the next challenge which is Wigan on Saturday.”
Supporters can watch the pre-match press conference live on the SWFC Facebook page from 12 noon on Friday.
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ECA Shareholders Executive Board review includes new proposal for FIBA windows
The ECA Shareholders Executive Board convened in Barcelona on Tuesday to confirm the positive sporting and economic results of Euroleague Basketball competitions as well as to affirm the steps being taken under the five-year strategic plan agreed upon in July 2017 .
The economic results that closed the 2016-17 season proved to meet the previsions of the ECA Shareholders’ business plan in the first season of its 10-year joint venture with IMG. The strategic plan, meanwhile, has hit the ground running with a series of initiatives centered on serving clubs and fans.
For example, the board heard that the EuroLeague Business Operations & Club Services (BOCS), a comprehensive in-house and personalized consulting service for clubs, has started its activity, meeting with licensed clubs to provide a number of short- and mid-term recommendations.
Additionally, Euroleague Basketball and IMG continue to work on a new digital platform to aggregate, gather, segment and distribute data that all clubs can use to enhance their business practices.
On the subject of giving fans more of what they want, outreach programs to better engage millennials and bring them the excitement of basketball in the formats they like best are being put into place, including the implementation of an eSports entry strategy commencing in 2018 to broaden the fan base and bring it to new audiences.
Euroleague Basketball executives presented the latest development on the mandate they received from the clubs to further strengthen league and club efforts to engage with young basketball fans and players through grassroots initiatives such as the partnership that was recently announced with FBC in Spain, which actively supports school basketball competition.
Finally, the board also undertook preliminary discussions on the future expansion of the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague.
With regards to the conflict generated over national team competitions recently being held at the same time as club competitions, the board reiterated its respect for the decisions taken by players under the circumstances and restated its commitment to finding a solution. The board emphasized its willingness to proactively find a solution that respects national teams and their importance to the fans, while ensuring sports integrity and avoiding national teams being impacted differently based, for example, on how many players each country has playing in NBA clubs. During the meeting, three distinct calendar alternatives were analyzed, with board members unanimously agreeing that additional collective efforts are needed to correct this situation for the good of the sport.
Executive Board members ratified a proposal that has been elaborated over the past two months with the participation of multiple European basketball stakeholders. The proposal will address the calendar as well as other concerns that, in the opinion of Euroleague Basketball clubs, would contribute to the growth of basketball, such as youth-to-senior player pathways; the economic sustainability of clubs and leagues; the number of international club competitions, including their management; requirements regarding player participation with national teams; and others. The proposal will be presented later this month to a domestic league meeting in order to grow consensus.
Euroleague Basketball remains committed to establishing a constructive dialogue with the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) that avoids situations such as those produced during the most recent national team games in November, and hopes that the latest proposal will achieve this.
Source: EuroLeague
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He said that Lily was hurting a little bit when she passed urine – Jason wasn’t to know that she had a urine infection! Also said that she preferred living here and the air was cleaner. Again Jason was not to know that we had moved a couple of years ago from a very industrial English town to a cottage on a hillside in the Highlands of Scotland. Can’t get much cleaner! Jason said that Solo had pain in the right hip and a slight limp on the left hind leg. Solo has some degree of hip dysplasia and has always had a weak left hind leg. Jason said ‘quirky character and fairly laid back and relaxed in nature’. That could not be more true.
I will be using Jason again and I will be recommending him to everyone I know.”
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Demi Lovato Defended Scooter Braun Following Taylor Swift's Tumblr Post
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Following Taylor Swift's Tumblr post that addressed the news that Scooter Braun has acquired her former record label and masters, Demi Lovato has spoken out in support of her current manager.
In a post shared on Sunday to her Instagram Story, Demi defended Scooter, writing, "I have dealt with bad people in this industry and Scooter is not one of them. He's a good man. Personally, I'm grateful he came into my life when he did. Please stop 'dragging' people or bullying them. There's enough hate in this world as it is."
Demi's comment comes after Taylor accused Scooter of "incessant, manipulative bullying." In Taylor's Tumblr post, the singer referenced some instances of bullying in which she attributed Scooter's involvement. She wrote, "When Kim Kardashian orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked and then Scooter got his two clients together to bully me online about it" and "When his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked. Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.”
Through a second post on her Instagram Story, Demi wrote that she'll "always stay loyal to my team." She explained why she had chosen to speak up, writing, "I value loyalty more than most people in this world and if my name is gonna be brought into conversations I'm gonna stand up for myself and the ones on my team."
Since Taylor made her statement on Sunday, other celebs and those in the industry have responded. Justin Bieber, also a client of Scooter Braun, accused Taylor of using her blog to "get sympathy," and said, "Neither Scooter or I have anything negative to say about you; we truly want the best for you." Meanwhile, Halsey and Danielle Haim shared their support for Taylor.
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Tejanos look to make playoffs
By Abel Carrillo
Making playoffs was something that Tejanos head coach Dominic Bouvier had talked about at
the start of the season.
March 13 was an opportunity for the team to begin the charge to finish in the top four of the WJCAC.
New Mexico Junior College had been red hot with only one conference blemish before coming into town to take on EPCC.
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El Paso Community College Tejano Rigoberto Aguilar dives safely to 3rd base.
The Thunderbirds showed no mercy, recording two victories that Friday afternoon 13-3 and 12-2.
It would be a crucial second day for the Tejanos to comeback with some kind of answer for the explosive offense the Thunderbirds were showcasing.
Saturday, March 14, was a much improved Tejano squad.
With strong pitching and excellent game management, EPCC swept the doubleheader 3-2, 7-5.
The wins were in the Tejanos’ favor for a step in the right direction.
“Winning the last two games of that series was a huge morale booster,” said centerfielder Greg Popylisen. “We started off slow in our first two series of conference play, so being able to split with NMJC was really important.
”Before the series split with New Mexico Junior College, EPCC had been in a tiny bit of a slump, starting WJCAC play at the end of February going 1-3 against Odessa College.
Similar results would occur a week later against New Mexico Military Institute, pushing EPCC’s conference record with only two wins and six losses.
It was clear proof the competition was stiff.
With no games being played this past weekend,EPCC had an opportunity to regroup and iron out some wrinkles.
At the moment, the Tejanos sit in seventh place in conference and four games back of fourth place NMMI.
“We had a bye week where we could rest and rejuvenate and now we are ready to get back at it,”Popylisen said.
This weekend, the Tejanos will be traveling to Luna Community College, which is tied for last place in the conference with a 2-6 record.
EPCC and Luna will play a four-game series.
The Tejanos return home on April 3 for a crucial four-game series with Frank Phillips College.
Frank Phillips is currently a game ahead of the Tejanos in the race for the playoffs.
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Make GCSEs 'accessible', say AQA's new pupil advisers
"I firmly believe that it is only through listening and engaging with young people in groups such as this that we will be able to make any real or meaningful change," says chair of exam board's new student group
By Catherine Lough
A new student group set up to advise England's biggest school exam board on GCSEs and A levels wants exams that are both "accessible" and "relevant" for young people.
Speaking at an event at the House of Commons last night, the chair of the group, Ellen Blacker, who recently sat the reformed GCSEs, said she wanted to help develop exams that felt more "approachable" for young people.
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The group, set up by AQA, was developed to provide a student's perspective on the exam process. The board began recruiting students for the group in November last year.
"As a student from a rural state school in Devon, the area I personally feel strongly about in our exams system is to make the process not only rigorous but accessible," Ms Blacker said.
There have been growing concerns about the level of difficulty in the intentionally tougher, more academic reformed GCSEs sat from 2017.
Last year, heads warned that the qualifications were "detrimental" to lower-ability students.
Ms Blacker said: "I firmly believe that it is only through listening and engaging with young people in groups such as this that we will be able to make any real or meaningful change.
"This ability to help shape the future of exams into something more relevant and approachable for young people is why I am so excited and proud to be part of this group.
"As we move into a new decade, it is vital that exams reflect the diversity of young people, from academic ability to social background to those who have made the UK their home."
Ms Blacker said she also hoped the group would help AQA exams to "reflect those technological advancements that we have been seeing recently".
Elizabeth Kitcatt, a trustee of AQA and the headmistress of Camden School for Girls in North London, said she had noticed that many of the group's application statements "expressed concern about students who might be struggling and who might need additional support".
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Why You Should Always Ask for a Receipt at McDonald’s
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A former McDonald's employee spills the beans.
If you catch a craving for burger and fries, McDonald’s is always a short drive away. But to ensure you get a fresh meal every time, you might need to take one extra step. Or you could just make these McDonald’s copycat recipes.
Kamran Adnan, who says he worked for the fast-food chain for one year, claims the staff gives extra perks to customers who ask for a receipt. Doing so will practically guarantee you’re served the freshest food, he wrote in a Quora post.
According to Adnan, McDonald’s employees are trained to watch out for “mystery shoppers” or “Gapbusters”—people who are paid to visit McDonald’s restaurants and rate their experience—at certain points in the day. These shoppers tend to dine between 12 to 2 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m., he says. (Psst…did you know about these McDonald’s secret menu items?)
Because their reviews factor into the store’s rating, “every store manager will do everything to ensure this rating is as positive as possible,” Adnan said. Here’s what the McDonald’s menu looked like the year you were born.
These undercover diners are typically reimbursed for their purchase, so they will ask for a receipt. This signals to employees that they might have a “Gapbuster” on their hands. Not only will they make sure to serve that customer first, but they will also give them the freshest food possible.
While McDonald’s has not confirmed Adnan’s claims yet, it can’t hurt to ask for a receipt next time. Nothing beats a tray full of steaming hot French fries, after all. Next, find out the 17 things McDonald’s workers won’t tell you.
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13 Spooktacular apps for Halloween!
It’s Halloween, and that means time for fun and a few playful pranks placed into our daily routines. Many Ed apps have updates that include holiday play, so you may want to take a peek in the update section on your devices. By seasonally updating their apps, developers provide something new and help to generalize skills. So go ahead, try on new identities and keep the exploration and discovery at its peak with these Spooktacular apps.
Sago Mini Monsters by Sago Mini never disappoints, and even the youngest of kids quickly learn how to play independently. Rescue a mini monster out of the green slime, design your monster, then feed it with yummy tasty treats like candy and old boots. But watch the toll it takes on your teeth as after eating, even monsters brush their teeth!
Toca Boo by Toca Boca is a gas! Hide out and wait to scare unsuspecting family as they wander by the hiding spot. There are 6 rooms to explore and objects to interact with to throw your family off finding you first. The kids that I played with had as much fun exploring the objects in a room as they did scare people. I played this with kids as young as two. Of course, they needed more support, but half the fun is playing with kids and making the holiday special. Watch out for the peppers in the kitchen…they’re HOT!
StoryToys Entertainment Limited has really embraced Halloween with their all-inclusive activity app Haunted House~3D Pop Up Activity Book. There are a wide variety of challenges, and kids cannot get enough play with this app. It opens as a book, and kids can it can be rotated for a view from a different perspective. Get loads of practice with motor planning by avoiding getting caught by goblins, visually scanning for pumpkins, and following the witch’s directives to name a few of the 11 different activities. The IAPs for packs of puzzles and stickers is well worth the asking price. (StoryToys has also updated My Very Hungry Caterpillar with fall pumpkins and is worth checking out too).
Star Gurus by Colto is a dot-to-dot counting game that has added play screens for Halloween. Using dot-to-dots not only provides a one to one correspondence when learning to count, but also brings the motor system on board to help with retention. In Star Gurus you are mapping out constellations, and a scary thing or two up in the sky. It has a calm but playful vibe to it that is really appreciated for sensory sensitive kids.
Catch the Wally – Hide and Seek Game for Curious Kids by Funny Yummy Studio UG was reviewed by TWA here. Gameplay consists of finding Wally, the purple spider. Great graphics and atmospheric music add to the fun. Use of the app is great for visual scanning, building attention to detail, and persistence. The game is short in duration, and this can help begin to build focus and task completion. And for some kids, this would serve as a great motivator or reward for work well done.
Addendum, 10/21/2015...Catch the Wally has a Halloween edition of their app. It adds spooky Halloween features and animations with the same great gameplay. I have to say it was hard to put down. I did discover a tip. but am not sure if it is predictable. When watching the eyes after the lights go out, helped me to find Wally a little easier. Also look at everything in an animation. He may be hiding in a pot! Are these good observations? or just a case of guessing? Feel free to weigh in your tips!
For older kids, Haunt the House: Terrortown by SFB Games provides goal directed play. The gameplay centers on haunting your way through town and reclaiming what has been lost to the little ghost by people inhabiting different spaces and places. The game has an old timey feel and is quite challenging. There are many points of interest to keep track of, and that directly translates to improving working memory and other executive functioning skills.
Artgig, never disappoints, and creeping your way through Mystery Math Museum is a great place to spend some holiday fun. Touring these sometimes-spooky museums helps to hone your skills and recall, and the illustrations are first rate. Gameplay revolves around saving the dragonflies from different museums in town, and then watch as the cast of new characters on your portrait wall accumulates. Kids actually have to build equations, sometimes using a different operation than expected to achieve the right answer. The customization features really rock, and parents and teacher’s can select the focus for practice.
Two of my favorite storytellers, The Happy Dandelion team of Joshua and Donna Wilson have created one great interactive book, Who is the Ugliest of All? It is the story of a girl, who has a difficulty accepting, who she is and is overly concerned about what others may think. This ground breaking the social story with its unique storyline and beautifully executed illustrations is a must have book for kids. It is a nice launching pad to set the seeds or discuss issues on self-esteem and diversity.
My Naughty Shadow by GOOD KNIGHT STUDIOS PTY LTD, although not specifically made for Halloween, is a wonderful surprise. Thanks to the iMums for showcasing this, read their review here. It’s complete with spooky atmospheric music, storyline, and illustrations. It’s about a girl, whose shadow is full of mischief, and interactive opportunities. It also lends itself to tons of off-screen play activities and experiments. I love the use of flashlights in treatment and teaching. They not only help improve visual focus, tracking and attention; but also are a lot of fun to explore in a darkened room.
It’s not Halloween with out The Great Pumpkin. Loud Crow Interactive Inc.’s version is true to the special that we’ve been watching for at least a generation. The wait for the Great Pumpkin and all the Peanuts gang’s antics are brought to life with great interactive features that pull you into this classic. All voices, dialogs, and music are from the 1966 TV special. There are opportunities to go trick or treating with the gang, carve pumpkins, and play with tilting the iPad to watch what happens with characters. The app is not only nostalgic but brings Charles Shulz’s vision to life!
Labo Halloween Car – Design & Race Your Own Halloween Car by Labo Lado Inc. is just simply a joy. Based on their original Car Designer, which led the pack for an app that covered many learning domains in one package; use it as an exercise in problem-solving, a prewriting tool, or as a reward. Labo Lado Inc. really cares about developing creativity in children and makes some of the most innovating and motivating apps. In this app, after designing a car, kids take it for a spin. On the road, they have many obstacles to overcome to get to the finish line, and helps work out thinking and doing outside the box. See our recent reviews of Labo Lado Inc. here.
Jump App, always a favorite, gives kids a creative outlet with drawing with tools found in Nature Workshop. Fall is such a ripe time to use found objects on nature hikes to create all sorts of wondrous stories from pieces of art. Controls are intuitive and kids readily grasp the concept in a snap. The ability to transfer skills to off screen play is what makes it a winner, and that is especially helpful for special needs kids who have difficulty processing, sequencing, or motor planning.
Spooky Letters by madebyeducators brings a haunting and spooky take on handwriting. They have recently updated their settings for cursive style in settings. The thing that makes this app rock is the focus on joining letters. By joining letters it facilitates the flow of thought and that builds retention and the ability to sequence ideas. Cursive handwriting is one of the most important tools to teach a child developmentally and especially for kids with special needs. It is based on the book by Samuel Blumenfield about teaching cursive first. Check out their website, madebyeducators.com. They have made many apps for seasons or preferences which help keep the practice of subjects fresh and challenging.
This list is by no means all-inclusive, so explore the app store, google play, and Amazon for apps for some holiday hijinks. Most of all enjoy the time you spend and play with your kids. Happy Halloween!
Jo Booth OTR/L has been an Occupational Therapist for over 35 years, and currently practices at EasterSeals of Sepa, Montgomery County Division mainly focusing on Early Intervention. It is an APS (Approved Private School) and home outreach based setting. She has also worked in Adolescent and Adult Rehabilitation. Writing reviews for Teachers With Apps have been a tremendous opportunity and experience to share and learn with others.
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you missed these there great Apps:
Holidays Junior: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id827797752
Holidays 2: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id970703021
easy! A deluxe brainteaser!: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id990554894
They are also available in a cool Bundle called Halloween Games Box: https://itunes.apple.com/app-bundle/id1048147258
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Fantino under fire to explain CIDA direction
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International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino in his office on Parliament Hill, Dec. 3, 2012.
Fred Chartrand/The Globe and Mail.
Kim Mackrael
Published December 4, 2012 Updated May 11, 2018
Canada's minister for international co-operation is facing questions about the ability of the country's foreign-aid agency to focus on its mandate as it moves to increase ties with the private sector.
Julian Fantino has drawn attention in recent weeks after he began publicly championing a philosophical shift in the way his government approaches aid. He says the Canadian International Development Agency will work more openly to promote the country's interests abroad, a strategy that includes helping Canadian businesses become more competitive in developing countries.
CIDA already funds several non-governmental organizations in Africa and Latin America to work with Canadian mining companies on development projects, something Mr. Fantino has suggested could be a template for future private-sector engagement.
Appearing before a House of Commons committee Tuesday morning, the minister said his plans to increase partnerships with the private sector will help – not hurt – CIDA's ability to deliver effective foreign aid.
"As we look to the future and strive to maximize our results, we must also look to innovative solutions to development challenges. This includes using any and all legitimate tools and all partners available to us to meet this critical objective," he said. "Working with the extractive sector is just one of the ways CIDA can work with private companies to make a bigger difference in the lives of those most in need."
But Mr. Fantino, who has overseen Canada's foreign-aid portfolio since July, faced criticism from opposition MPs when he appeared unfamiliar with some aspects of CIDA's work. He was unable to provide an immediate estimate of the number of non-mining related projects that CIDA has approved since he became minister. And during a brief exchange with NDP MP Hélène Laverdière, he said he was unaware of the Paris Principles, which underpin CIDA's and other donor countries' commitments to aid effectiveness. (A spokesman for Mr. Fantino later said the minister is aware of the Paris Declaration that contained the principles and accused the NDP of "playing games with terminology.")
Paul Dewar, the NDP's foreign affairs critic, said the minister's comments on Tuesday suggest aid decisions are being made for reasons of ideology rather than effectiveness.
"There was never any evidence from anyone that they should have gone the direction of their program on the extractive industry. These are coming from the ideological centre of this government, which is the Prime Minister's Office," Mr. Dewar said. "They set the agenda, [Mr. Fantino] follows it through. That was clear when he was asked questions [and] he couldn't answer basic questions."
Last month, the House of Commons committee on foreign affairs published a report recommending that CIDA revamp its policy on engagement with the private sector and look to companies in Canada and abroad to foster development. It's a strategy several other donor countries, including the United States, have already embraced, and one that some development experts say Canada should pursue.
But others worry that deep cuts to CIDA's budget leave little room for the agency to juggle new priorities in addition to its core mandate, which is to reduce poverty in the developing world.
CIDA faces $319-million in cuts over the next three years, and a November analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Officer suggests that low-income countries will be hit hardest, representing about 41 per cent of the overall cuts.
"If CIDA decides to pursue new projects and new paths it means they have to allocate resources to that," said Chantal Havard, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Council for International Co-operation. "So it means less resources for other programs and projects that have been working well and have been producing quite interesting results."
The Paris Declaration
Ownership: developing countries take a leadership role in coming up with their own national development strategies and donors respect that leadership.
Alignment: donors match their support to developing countries with those countries’ strategies, institutions and procedures.
Harmonization: donors work together to ensure their aid is transparent and collectively effective.
Managing for results: aid resources are managed in order to achieve the best results.
Mutual accountability: Accountability for development results is shared by donors and developing country governments.
Source: CIDA
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The journey of a Kannada film icon
K.N. Venkatasubba Rao Muralidhara Khajane
Bangalore, December 30, 2009 11:38 IST
Besides acting in 197 Kannada films, Vishnuvardhan starred in Tamil movies such as “Viduthalai” and “Sri Raghavendra” with Rajnikanth. He also co-starred with ace Malayalam actor, Mammooty in “Kauravar”
Kannada superstar Vishnuvardhan, who died in Mysore early on Wednesday, arrived on the Kannada silver screen in 1970 as Sampath Kumar (or “Kumara” in theatre circles) in a film by the late B.V. Karanth, based on S.L. Bhyrappa’s novel Vamshavruksha in which he acted with Girish Karnad.
His next assignment was the commercial film Nagarahavu directed by the veteran director S. R. Puttanna Kanagal. The film was launched at a time when the new wave cinema had announced its presence with Pattabhirama Reddy’s film based on U.R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara, and Vamvashavriksha.
Instead of banking on lead artistes and stars, Puttanna Kanagal launched fresh faces like Vishnuvardhan in Nagarahavu, which had a powerful script that discussed the caste system and inter-religious marriage. Kumara was rechristened Vishnuvardhan, after the famous Hoysala king, by Puttanna Kanagal. Interestingly, Vishnuvardhan never acted again in any of Puttanna Kanagal’s subsequent films.
Born on September 18, 1950 in Mysore, Vishnuvardhan completed his primary and secondary education in Mysore, later graduating from the National College, Basavanagudi. He married Bharati, the reigning heroine of South Indian cinema at the time on February 27, 1975.
Known for his composure and keen sense of humour, Vishnuvardhan also acted in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi films. He occasionally sang for his movies and more recently, took to devotional singing. Vishnuvardhan won seven Film Fare awards for best performance, and an equal number of the State awards in the best actor category.
He also received the Film Fare award for life time achievement in 2004, and the Dr. Rajkumar award in 2008. His film Suprabhata created a record of sorts in 1988 by bagging awards in eight categories.
Right from Nagarahavu to Dinesh Baboo’s Ballari Naga, Vishnuvardhan acted in more than 200 films. His last film Aptha Rakshaka is yet to be released. He acted in two films with Rajnikanth ( Galate Samsara and Sahodarara Savaal) and a number of films with his close friend Ambarish. In the film Diggajaru, the protagonist Vishnuvardhan dies on the lap of his friend played by Ambarish. His major films include Bootayyana Maga Ayyu, Hombisilu, Sahasa Simha, Devara Gudi, Nagarahole, Malaya Maruta, Simha Jodi, Bandhana, Muthina Haara, Jimmi Gallu, Simhadriya Simha, Nishkarsha, Aptha Mithra, Suryavamsha, Mathad Mathad Mallige and Yajamana. Vishnuvardhan, who stayed away from active politics, once said that he was not against politics but certainly not after power.
Kannada film actors, several political leaders and organisations have deeply mourned the sudden demise of the superstar.
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The Future of Phones
Did you may a video call today? How about a video conference call?
Although both technologies have been around for a good few years, it has been world news reporters that have taken best advantage of the technology. The phone pictures are still a bit rubbish, but soon, we won’t just be chatting to people with our I-Pads as a novelty.
Soon, it will be the primary form of home communication.
By the time of finished writing this article I expect someone to have improved technology sufficiently so that I can take that telephone call me on my television. I don’t mind the programme I was watching being interrupted, everything will pause to my command.
Home phones will surely phase out soon.
I am looking forward to wallpapering my house with Sony Wallpaper Screens. It would be lovely to talk with family and friends whose living room looks like it’s connect to mine.
With an ageing population, the lonely and elderly will consider this a life saver.
Internet Internet – The Future of the Internet
The Internet only seems to have been in existence for about five minutes, but already it is difficult to imagine its future. Already, people use the internet instead of their memory, “What was that actor in? Oh, I’ll just look it up.”
Some of us remember Encyclopaedia Britannica salesmen. Not only do they no longer exist, the paper it was all printed on is dwindling in usage.
In his paper, “Collective Intelligence and its Implementation on the Web: algorithms to develop a collective mental map”, Belgian physicist Francis Heylighen, discusses the future of the internet – human beings, are, after all, adding to its intelligence every day.
Many futurists and experts believe the World Wide Web will achieve human consciousness at some stage in the not too distant future.
To conclude, I would say I now know who that actor is - I have just checked in with my brain to find out. Before long I fully expect my brain to perform its physical duties, while I speak to my computer to access my memory.
From Mind Melding to Future Thinking
The science is called Future Thinking and researchers are developing a tech that could see your brain communicating on the phone.
University of California scientist, Robert Knight, is working on a process that could enable us to transmit thoughts via the Internet using a translator chip implanted in our brain that converts thoughts into synthesized words.
The potential is theory, but the research is to help stroke patients or communication impaired people speak their thoughts directly. As brain stimulation neural implants are already in place to help patients with Parkinson's disease and clinical depression, this could be considered a next step.
The implants decipher and replicate the neural code that one part of the brain sends to another. By observing how the neurons communicate with each other will help unravel the mysteries of consciousness.
Nanotechnology has been called upon to improve brain implants to tackle other illnesses and disabilities.
The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain with human intelligence and capability. Extraordinary amounts of funding has been allocated to a variety of brain mapping projects. In tight fiscal time, even the American President has bought into the potential of such research.
Future Communication Technology
Microsoft's Bill Gates has already said that voice-enabled technologies will allow us to converse naturally with computers, TVs, and therefore, people. There will be no mouse, keyboard or remote controls.
We are already able to speak to our machinery to a certain quality. Google is able to translate all of those foreign websites we always wanted to look at, but couldn’t understand. Speech recognition and translators will develop towards what Captain Kirk becomes used to in the 23rd century.
Silicon based computers will surely soon be a thing of the past. Quantum computers with superconductors made from carbon Nanotubes will be able to harness atoms and molecules and operate billions of times faster than their predecessors.
This will undoubtedly be the revolution futurists and technologists have been waiting for. The possibilities are limitless, and included will be a way to communicate that seems quite fanciful to us mere early 21st century mortals.
The article below was written seven years ago, but we are clearly edging closer and closer to this reality.
After flexible screens, the natural selection process of inventions could well see those Harry Potter style moving newspapers. In fact, the paper replacement style technology has appeared in so many films and TV shows that it is likely common thinking is abound on this particular advancement.
Haptics is a study in the ability to interact with a virtual environment through physical touch. You may not be able to hug a relative in a different country for a while yet, but this impressive explanatory video shows us the early steps in the process that will surely eventually lead us to that point.
As Nano technology edges us closer and closer to network enabled telepathy, I am already wondering how on earth I am going to explain that to my ageing relatives. I am sure many of us recall our pained expressions at the inadequacies of our parents with a TV remote control, let alone a headband that will enable them to communicate with us via their thoughts.
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Wood Thrush, Hylocichla mustelina
The ethereal flutelike ee-oh-lay song of the Wood Thrush is one of the most hauntingly beautiful sounds in the Eastern forest. Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "Whenever a man hears it, it is a new world and a free country, and the gates of heaven are not shut against him."
The Wood Thrush is found in larger woodlands across Tennessee from mid-April through mid-October, and though its population has been declining, it is still fairly common. The breeding range extends across the eastern half of the United States and Wood Thrush migrate to Central America for the winter.
Description: This large forest thrush is just slightly smaller than an American Robin. The back of the head and nape are a bright orange-brown fading to olive-brown on the back and wings. The underparts are white with bold black spots; the legs are pink, and there is a bold white ring around the eye. Sexes are alike.
Wingspan: 13"
Voice: The song is a melodic series of flute-like ee-oh-lay phrases, ending in a trill either higher or lower in pitch. The call is a rapid pit pit pit.
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Veery are reddish, not bright orange-brown, on the head and nape, and have few indistinct spots on the chest.
Hermit Thrushes have a reddish tail, but the rest of the upperparts are brown-olive. The spots on the chest are relatively indistinct and do not reach the belly.
Brown Thrashers are similar in color but have a long tail, wingbars, and streaks, not spots, on the chest. They live in scrubby areas rather than forests, but the two species can overlap on migration.
Habitat: Breeds in a wide variety of deciduous and mixed forests but needs a well-shaded understory, small trees with low, exposed branches, and a fairly open forest floor with leaf litter. Winters mostly in primary, broad-leaved forests at lower elevations.
Diet: Invertebrates and fruits; the latter are especially important during migration.
Nesting and reproduction: Wood Thrushes often raise two broods of young in a single nesting season. In fragmented forests they are a fairly common host to the Brown-headed Cowbird resulting in lower nesting success.
Clutch Size: Usually 3 or 4 eggs with 2 to 5 being rare.
Incubation: The female alone incubates the eggs for about two weeks.
Fledging: Both parents feed the nestlings, and the young leave the nest when about two weeks old becoming independent in 3 to 4 weeks.
Nest: The female builds the cup-nest of dead leaves and grasses held together with mud and lined with rootlets and grasses. It takes her approximately 3 to 6 days to complete the nest. It is usually placed in the fork of a horizontal or upward-sloping branch, often the lowest branch of a tree. In Tennessee nest heights range from 5 to 25 feet, with an average of 10 feet.
Status in Tennessee: While the Wood Thrush is still a relatively common summer resident across Tennessee, the Breeding Bird Survey reports a significantly declining population trend since 1966 when the survey began.
Destruction and fragmentation of forests in both breeding and wintering areas are factors in this decline. Wood Thrushes are present in the state from the first half of April until mid-October. The National Audubon Society has included the Wood Thrush as a Watch List Species.
Dynamic map of Wood Thrush eBird observations in Tennessee
Thrushes have a complicated syrinx (song box) that allows them to sing two notes simultaneously, thus harmonizing with their own voice.
Wood Thrushes are site faithful, often returning to the same breeding and wintering territory annually.
Recent studies at Cornell indicate that increased amounts of acid rain make the Wood Thrush less likely to breed. One reason is that acid rain can cause calcium to leach from the soil, and in an environment of reduced calcium, female birds may lay eggs that are thin, brittle, and porous.
The oldest known Wood Thrush in the wild was 8 years 11 months old.
Obsolete English Names: wood robin
Best places to see in Tennessee: Wood Thrushes may be found in most large tracks of deciduous forest across the state. High densities have been recorded in the Smoky Mountains and Cumberland Mountains.
Nicholson, C. P. 1997. Atlas of Breeding Birds of Tennessee. Univ. Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
Roth, R. R., M. S. Johnson and T. J. Underwood. 1996. Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina), The Birds of North America (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C.
Sibley, D. A. 2000. The Sibley Guide to Birds. A. A. Knopf, New York, NY.
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The Week That Was: State Of The State, Executive Orders, Oscar Nominations And More
Editor's Note: Every Friday, Tom Keane offers up assorted observations, conundra and miscellanea about the week that was. Here's his round-up for the week ending January 27, 2017.
It was the first week of the apocalypse, yet the sun still rose, the earth spun on its axis and most lived their lives as they had before. There were exceptions, however.
No apologies. Stunned by a massive turnout of demonstrators in Washington, Boston and other major cities across the country and the globe, a chastened Donald Trump reached out to women’s groups, immigration advocates and environmentalists, vowing to find common ground and … no, o f course not. The president dismissed the protests -- I “was under the impression that we just had an election!” he tweeted -- and the Trump agenda proceeded apace.
Hooray for us. Meanwhile, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s State of the Commonwealth speech was optimistic. “We worked to fix state government, passed groundbreaking legislation and focused on growing our economy,” he said. “(T)he state of our Commonwealth is strong.” Pleased members of the House and Senate, certain they deserved most of the credit for this wondrous state of affairs, promptly moved to increase their compensation by up to 40 percent. Baker, obviously disagreeing with the legislators’ assessment, said he’d veto the raises.
Booze beats bongs. A few weeks ago, state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg successfully pushed for a delay in the voter-passed legalization of pot, arguing she just didn’t have the staff and resources to implement the new law. Just recently, however, Goldberg announced that she did, in fact, have the staff and resources to conduct a wholesale reassessment of state alcohol rules. Take that, potheads!
Hackney hell. MassPort just cut a deal with Lyft (and soon, Uber) to allow the so-called network transportation companies to pick up customers at the airport. Price to take Lyft from my Fenway home to Logan: just under $20 – including tip. Price to take a cab from Logan to home: $34 – also including tip. It’s that $14 difference that will make for yet another nail in the almost-finished coffin of the traditional taxicab industry.
Diversionary tactic. In his first few days on the job, President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, reinstated the “global gag rule” on abortion, pushed forward the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, and did a host of other important things, all of which were ignored because Trump also complained about media estimates of inauguration crowds which really are far, far more interesting to talk about.
Popularity contest. Anti-Trumpers took great solace in the president's historically low approval numbers and stories of infighting among White House staff. When else have we seen Trump performing so poorly in national polls and disarray throughout his organization? Oh yeah, during the general election. And we know how that turned out.
Us versus him. As part of his crackdown on immigration, Trump vowed to punish cities that set themselves up as “sanctuaries.” Democratic mayors around the country pretended to be frightened, but in truth were delighted with the opportunity to take a big, bold stand on an issue of consequence. “We will not be intimidated by a threat to federal funding. We will not retreat one inch,” proclaimed Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, using soaring rhetoric hearkening back to abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (“I will not retreat a single inch”). Such high-minded clarion calls sure beat the normal humdrum of filling potholes and negotiating zoning appeals.
Forgiveness. Even though they were helmed by Trump-loving Tom Brady, coached by Trump-loving Bill Belichick, and owned by Trump-loving Robert Kraft, the heavily Democratic, true-blue Bay Stater nonetheless cheered on the Patriots AFC win, reasoning that some things are more important than the imminent upending of the U.S. Constitution.
Traitors in his midst. This week Trump put in place a government-wide hiring freeze. If you’re wondering why he’s so hard on the folks he ostensibly now supervises, check out an interesting poll from Government Executive: Just 29 percent of civil servants voted for the new president. Seen in this light, Trump’s motivation may be less the traditional conservative attitude that big-government per se is a problem, and more a fear that federal workers – or at least 71 percent of them – are his problem.
Kiss Flix Best Pix. California gave us the upbeat and romantic “La-La Land” and Massachusetts offered up the brooding and sad “Manchester by the Sea.” Both snagged multiple Oscar nominations. Who wins Best Picture? Sorry, Beantown boosters. In these grim times, my bet’s on frivolous fun over frowny faces. Hollywood’s just not in the mood for another downer. Nor is the rest of America.
This column was first published by Cognoscenti on January 27, 2017.
The Notable, The Quotable And The Otherwise Irresistible From The Week That Was
Editor's Note: Starting today, Cognoscenti contributor Tom Keane will round up the week in local and national news and offer assorted observations, conundra and miscellanea about all of it.
It was the week before everything changed.
Short-fingered. All hail the Vulgarian-in-Chief! The term was invented by the late, lamented Spy Magazine, the 1980s humor publication that, three decades ago, so aptly described the real estate mogul (the full moniker was “short-fingered vulgarian,” an observation GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio seized upon with little success). What was true then – the crass and sexist behavior, the obsession with wealth and its trappings, the unparalleled egotism – is even more true now. So too, Trump back then was endlessly fascinating and newsworthy. Same today.
Flush. Washington, DC, was on edge this week, awaiting the inauguration and the massive demonstrations promised as its accompaniment. Everywhere one could see the two sure signs of any large-scale event: rows of temporary security fencing and lots and lots of porta- potties. Amusingly enough, the supplier of one, Don’s Johns, found its name being taped over, ostensibly by event organizers. One Don Trump, apparently, is wary of the association and, more importantly, the inevitable wordplay. Dump Trump, anyone?
BFFs. City councilor Tito Jackson says he’s running for mayor of Boston, but I’m wondering if he really means it. At an MLK Day breakfast, he appeared with incumbent Marty Walsh, and the two were grinning and hugging. Tito, Walsh averred, is a friend: “We’re friends in the beginning. We’re friends in the end.” Hmm. Real friends don’t try to take other friends’ jobs, which leads to the suspicion that Jackson may be the political equivalent of a false flag, a ruse that gives the illusion of a fight while sparing the incumbent any risk of loss. We’ll see. If a year from now a victorious Walsh rewards the newly unemployed Jackson with a job at City Hall, it won’t be because he’s magnanimous. It’ll be payback.
Mayor for life. One reason for Walsh’s confidence is the economic wind at his back. His “State of the City” speech was chock full of wonderful ideas, all of which cost money. No problem. The city’s in the midst of a building boom; every new tower means more taxes in city coffers. And when you’re in a position to hand out money, people – read, voters — like you back.
All wet. I’m pretty sure this week was the first time ever that the term “golden showers” has ever been used in the national political discourse. May it be the last.
Working 9 to 5. The inauguration may be Friday, but Trump has said “day one” of his administration “is gonna be Monday.” He just got the job and already the guy is taking off weekends? Didn’t anyone tell him it’s 24/7/365?
Fake medicine. The Massachusetts legislature just passed legislation licensing the quackery known as naturopathy, and despite pleas from the real medical community – which feared a license was tantamount to an imprimatur — the normally rational Gov. Charlie Baker signed the bill. And why not? After all we already license fortunetellers. Indeed, why not license astrologists and exorcists as well? It’s easy to mock the anti-science views of Trump and conservative Republicans but, as Massachusetts just proved, et tu.
Manchurian candidate. On one matter, Trump is right. BuzzFeed’s decision to release the unexpurgated 35-page dossier of Russian kompromat on the president-elect was shameful, a “total political witch hunt.” The report was almost certainly false, seemingly a blatant smear by the intelligence community jabbing back at a tormenter. I was as outraged as any that the document was posted verbatim. So of course I immediately went to the website and read it in its entirety.
Desperate gestures. It once was the case that companies were boycotted for supporting apartheid. Now it’s for supporting Donald Trump. Such was the plight of LL Bean after Bean heiress and board member Linda Bean donated $60,000 to a Trump political action committee. The outdoor clothing maker is in good company, however. GrabYourWallet.org — the organizer of the action against LL Bean — is also urging boycotts against a host of businesses, including Amazon, Macy’s and TJ Maxx (they sell Ivanka’s accessories!), Kawasaki and Welch’s (they advertise on Celebrity Apprentice!), and People Magazine (reporting on Trump “normalized” him!). Good news, though. GrabYourWallet says it’s still okay to shop at bookstores that sell pro-Trump books – as long as they also sell anti-Trump books. It’s stuff like this that makes the left so easy to mock – and, ahem, vote against.
In with the…. As the new year dawned, many professed to be happily rid of 2016. As 2017 wears on, that may be worth a rethink. Just compare Trump’s first press conference to Barack Obama’s last. Perhaps 2016 was less annus horribilis and more the last of a string of golden years, our new president's taste for gilt notwithstanding.
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Massive Galaxy S20 leak reveals new camera features and up to 16GB of RAM
By Richard Priday 2020-01-14T13:38:37Z
The Galaxy S20 and S20 Plus have got plenty of camera toys for users to play with.
(Image credit: Future)
After we got our first alleged real-life look at the Galaxy S20, a massive series of leaks have painted a picture of the new flagship's internal specs. This includes lots of information about the phone’s cameras, as well as rumors about things like the battery, display and memory.
First off, the cameras. Thanks to leaks from an unknown source in possession of an S20, (via XDA Developers) we have detailed specs for the S20 and S20 Plus versions of the new phone.
Galaxy S20 camera specs
The basic sensors include a 12MP main camera, a 64MP secondary camera and a third sensor of unknown resolution (although we know its a Samsung ISOCell S5K2LA sensor). There's also a fourth unknown sensor, and a 10MP selfie camera on the front. One of these unknown sensors features a 3x optical zoom lens that maxes out at 30x hybrid.
As we’ve seen from the recent pictures, there are six slots in the camera bump on the back of the S20. In addition to the four cameras, there’s the flash module (the same one from the S10 and Note 10) in the top right corner, and a hole for a microphone in the bottom right, since the S20 Plus will feature the same Zoom-in microphone feature seen on the Note 10.
Smart Selfie Angle
A new software feature has also been discovered: Smart Selfie Angle. This automatically changes your front-facing camera’s image from a standard angle shot to a wide angle shot when the phone detects more than one person in the image. Since there’s only a single camera on the front, we can assume that Samsung’s changed the lens on its normal 10MP selfie camera, and is using software magic to crop the image and make it look like a normal angle lens when needed.
8K video with Single Take photos
Other assorted features confirmed by XDA Developers’ source are the 8K@30FPS max video quality, and video evidence of Single Take photo mode. This mode lets you pan around the environment while the phone records video and takes what it considers the best still shots for you simultaneously, before you can review the images in the gallery. This apparently works with selfies, too.
The returning Pro Video mode, which enables users to control additional settings but has been missing from Samsung phones since the Galaxy S9, is confirmed to be present. But Director’s View, the rumored feature to record a scene with all available cameras and then swap between the footage, isn’t. It’s unlikely Samsung’s cancelled this feature since it appears in the code for its camera app, so it's possible that it'll arrive after the phone's February launch.
No quad HD 120Hz display?
This wasn’t the only leak to happen of late. Ice Universe recently took to Twitter to claim that the S20 can't use the full (WQHD) 120Hz display at 120Hz. They therefore claim the S20 can either use the display at a lower FHD resolution at 60HZ or 120Hz , or the full WQHD resolution at just 60Hz.
This is unfortunate -- a WQHD 120Hz panel would almost certainly be class leading, but now there’s a chance Samsung will be quickly surpassed whichever other option it picks. For example, OnePlus is due to reveal more about its own 120Hz panel soon, and given the existing OnePlus 7 Pro has a QHD 90Hz display, it’s likely that it won’t be taking a step back on resolution.
It can now be said with certainty that Samsung has cancelled the WQHD 120Hz option of the Galaxy S20 series, leaving only FHD 60Hz, FHD 120Hz, WQHD 60Hz. this means that we can't have the best resolution and the best refresh rate at the same time. What is your opinion on this? pic.twitter.com/GaYJuOubw8January 14, 2020
Up to 16GB of RAM
Furthermore, XDA Developers’ Max Weinbach had a leak to reveal about the memory specs of the S20 Ultra, the range topping version of the S20 series. He claims that it will have 12GB or 16GB of RAM , 128GB, 256GB or 512GB of storage, and an SD card storage option of up to 1TB extra.
The S20 Ultra 5G is going to keep the SD Card slot. Support for up to 1TB. It will also be available in 128GB/256GB/512GB and have a 12GB and 16GB RAM option. 108MP main, 48MP 10x optical, 12MP ultra wide. 5000 mAh battery with 45W option fast charge. 0 to 100% in 74 min.January 13, 2020
As for its cameras, he again repeats the rumor that it will include a 108MP main sensor, a 48MP 10x optical sensor and a 12MP ultra wide sensor. Finally, he again back up older leaks that the S20 Ultra will use a 5000-mAh battery, and will be compatible with 45W fast charging, achieving a 0 to 100% charge in 74 minutes. These specs were backed up by MySmartPrice, who worked with another notable leaker, Ishan Agarwal.
While the news about the display is disappointing, the S20 is shaping up to be one of Samsung's best phones based on these leaks, and a big leap forward from the already excellent S10 series.
Make sure you keep up to date with all the latest new with our Galaxy S20 rumors page, which we will keep updated regularly with new developments all the way until the S20's expected February 11 reveal.
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Best Power Rangers Series
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1 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is an American superhero children's television series that premiered on August 28, 1993, on the Fox Kids Network.
MMPR had the best costumes and zords hands down. When the dinozords were replaced by the animal type ones I was devastated. The 3 power rangers that replaced the original red, black and yellow were fine but the chemistry, in my opinion, didn't come close enough to the original. Jason in my opinion again, (all my opinion) had the voice to be the leader. If you compare Rocky to Jason you may get what I mean, no offense to Rocky though. I didn't like how Tommy became leader and Jason got brushed aside, I think they should have both shared that position because Jason was a morphinominal leader too and again he had the voice.
Tommy, Jason, Zack, Billy, Trini and Kimberly were all awesome. The Show
Speaks for itself.
I can't believe Power Rangers is still around in 2019!
It was amazing I thought it was boring but best thing I seen in live and they make moltly this cind of toys
2 Power Rangers Dino Thunder
Loved it my favorite season
I think this one was the best because they had really good actors, it was funny but not too much of a joke. And I grew up watching this. I loved the ending it had a good mix of people and I loved Keira's style. Very Awesome show. by the way they have the power ranger series (most of them) on netflix instant no so you can watch.
I loved dino thunder because the rangers were all so different. I think that made them stronger. I also didn't like because Tommy comes back as the black ranger. It also has the biggest lie in power rangers history. Conner says I can't believe our teacher is the oldest living poer ranger and then Haley comes in and says not the oldest just the best. That is so not true. Jason was so much better than Tommy. Tommy was always getting beaten by the putties and captured. I love how the season developes Conner's personality. The season had it's ups and down, but it's still one of my favorites.
Dino thunder has the best theme song
3 Power Rangers in Space
The epic and unforgettable Zordon Era couldn't had a better ending. In my opinion, the best plot of the entire saga, with Astronema/Andros story, the not-so-slow-but-still-slow shipper of Andros and Ashley (finally the Yellow Ranger got some attention), Ecliptor and Darkonoma rivalry and the mind blowing side of events on the end involving Zordon; the costumes were one of the most cool (the only one I think that beats them is Tommy's White Ranger costume); the cameos of Adam, Justin and the Teenage Mutant Turtles were satisfactory and, of course, the character Andros, in my opinion, was the most natural Red Rangers I've ever seen. He REALLY was born to do that, great character with a great development throughout the season. And to those who claim Lost Galaxy to be the best because of the deaths involving: ZORDON DIES. JUST ZORDON. Do you need anything else? By the way, the opening theme is the best, along with Turbo. If you don't think it's the best, it gotta be on your Top 3. Truly, ...more
It's the best power rangers series - good plot, nice animation and its ahead of its time.
In my opinion the best season
Absolutely my favorite PR season, even though MMPR will always be in my heart, In Space brought character, drama, adventure, humor all leading into the greatest finale ever. Mention my favorite moment of this season, when for the first time the Power Rangers were revealed to the public, upon their struggle to fight off the invasion.
This season also had very interesting characters, Andros is indefinetly the best red ranger followed by the hottest villain: Andromeda. Ecliptor is my favorite villain. He is agressive and very powerful, not like the previous villains from the other series who act more like a joke. Bulk and Skull are still funny along with the new proffessor.
This show also does a fun job joining other seasons and other characters like the Ninja Turtles.
Overall 10/10. Season its on netflix so rewatch and enjoy your childhood memories
4 Power Rangers Ninja Storm
I grew up with this one and loved every minute of it. Besides MMPR, Ninja Storm had the best theme song. Also the story with the Thunder Rangers was amazing. I also liked Morphing in this series better than any of the others, especially the thunder rangers. Cam is a bad ass. He was cool enough when he was just their tech, but when he became Green Ranger, the show got even better. Also the abilities of the Rangers are more obvious in this series. Blue Ninjas could walk on water, Red could walk in the air, and yellow could tunnel under ground and destroy their targets from below (it's cooler than it sounds).
I think Ninja storm was the best ever. I love the characters and the story line. I have always been a fan of the ninja movies and series. This one drew my attention straight away. The best ever... Love the Cain character and how he fights his way to become the green ranger.
I personally think it was the best because it had the master's and had students at the school for the replacements or such as back-up for the rangers like in the last episode and simply because it was more like real life, not like MMPR, MMPR all the characters were just sitting around waiting for the trouble, and in ninja storm they actually had activities and things like the dirtbikes and surfing and the jobs like everyday life
5 Power Rangers Time Force
Time force because they travel do time
Time Force is from a critic's point of view, the only season of Power Rangers that could actually stand toe to toe with your standard Prime Time television drama series. Underneath all the power-ups, morphing and action sequences, was a fantastic and well-written storyline with a well-rounded likable cast. Although, MMPR will always get props for being the ancestor of the Power Rangers Series, Time Force was truly the best season of the series!
Definitively the best season for the audience that were no longer the kids that watched Mighty Morphin. For the first time the writers saw that the audience may not just be kids below twelve, but teenagers and young adults. If "In Space" teach them something was that family issues was a topic this audience where interesting in, so they gave a bit of more maturity to their plot. For the first time the villain had a proper reason to hate humanity, and a very clever plan to destroy it, however his biggest weakness was not 5 teenagers and a huge Megazord but the love he had for his daughter. We see a young man defying his father, not because he is a teen and is on his rebel years, but because he hates the power and influence that by, being a millionaire, corrupted his father. So, rather than runaway, get drunk and chase girls, he stumbles over 4 people who he shelters even though they are practically strangers. We had the first real anti-hero who, through economic and self-value ...more
Time force is the best PR series of because the plot is simply amazing! It has the best writing of the series and I love how not only is it more realistic than other series it also focuses on the pink ranger which is the best can also be the leader and just how everything plays off so smoothly and an ending like no other series.
6 Power Rangers S.P.D.
Best theme best character development best song
Loved how all the rangers came together and had to coexist for the greater good. Jack, the reluctant leader, had a real chip on his shoulder and by the end of the series, put his stake in on being one of the best red rangers ever! You really saw why Doggie chose him to be the red ranger over Skye. I hate he left the force, but he wanted to help others in a different way. Great series; I really enjoyed it!
It is good they are two bad guys and there were two power ranger sqauds and one is evil
I really liked the ending. I think it was awesome that Sky got to be the red ranger. I just don't understand the part about his father. The helmet that Sky has looks exactly like the time force helmet. I think it was one of the best series because it was a little darker than the other series, but not to dark. Bridge is kind of the comedic relief. I think it's awesome that not even the other rangers understand him. This is a series I will never forget.
7 Power Rangers Zeo
Zeo in my opinion was the greatest PR series ever, Greatest Red Ranger, one of the Greatest Pink Rangers ever, One of the greatest if not the greatest assembly of rangers ever not to mention the greatest zords ever especially the Zeo Ultrazord!
One of the most epic seasons. - Gehenna
Zeo definitely isn't one of the best seasons. I hate that Tommy's the red ranger and that Billy's not a ranger and Katherine is the pink ranger. The only episode I ever watch is A Golden Homecoming because Jason is the best.
I admit I like zeo but it is not the best because kat is a ranger and billy isn't I do like Jason though
8 Power Rangers Mystic Force
Awesome first ever season with capes and first-ever magic-themed series and still the only one so far
Best series ever
I love this Season and it's all mystical and the ten terrors they are the best mostly Itassis
The only one I know
9 Power Rangers RPM
One of the best hands down I have nothing more to say
Power Rangers RPM had excellent characterization, with each character developing and growing as the season went on. The Zord battles, while cheesy, weren't the main focus of each episode; indeed, as the season progresses, less and less time was spent showing the Zord battles and transformations, and more time was devoted to the ongoing plot. This is I season even non-Power Rangers fans won't want to miss.
Without a doubt one of the best PR series, if not THE best. The story telling was some of the best in the shows history, the dialogue was fantastic. Lots of the fights and the villains were very creative. And best of all this series was not afraid to try something new such as the villians had already destroyed the Earth, one of the Rangers slowly dying, one episode which I thought was well done see's the Rangers go on the offensive for once to take out a Venjix facility.
For me this was Power Rangers at it's best had it been the finale it would have been a fitting end to the series.
Very different from the average season. Manages to show the optimism of humanity, despite the post-apocalyptic-ness. Most of the characters were very well characterized, the only exceptions being Scott & Summer. The virus-taking-over-humanity thing was very well done as well. Love the finale, and how that, though it's not billed as such, it really is a 4-part finale.
10 Power Rangers Wild Force
I loved it because the cast the animals the only thing bad is that the red ranger is a criminal
Best power ranger ever. Best cast and best costume. Agree? Vote please.
This is just epic the best characters zords and the characters the best personalities they should of kept broadcasting it
For the love of Animals
11 Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
Lost Galaxy Is So Awesome.
Great series better than time force and sod.
Time force and sod are the fartily
I Love Lost Galaxy So Much.
I like it because their costumes have zig zags on 'em. That's what I remember it for.
12 Power Rangers Jungle Fury
Awesome first ever Purple ranger and the rangers are awesome
Should be higher in my opinion.
Very best series
13 Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
What makes this season interesting is that this show is the first season where humans made their own Power Rangers
It's technology to battle evil.
Technology vs Magic.
This is the first season where secret identities are omitted
Everyone knows who the Power Rangers are
Power rangers light speed rescue repeat that about 100 more times then you have the theme song.
The best! It's the most logical series. It's the first series were the rangers did not know each other before. Which makes sense because the best candidates shouldn't be necessarily friends. We see that the Red isn't as smart in the first few episodes. Which again makes sense because experience is needed to be successful. Rivalries between Demons themselves to gain the top spot. Here, everything makes sense! And it's in my opinion, THE BEST! And plus, Diabolaco was just a badass lol!
The acting was better than a lot of the the other power rangers (it wasn't perfect). The plot was realistic (compared to others). It was the one I grew up with and always nostalgic for me to watch it again.
14 Power Rangers Super Megaforce
Best power rangers
This season had great story, likable charachters (orion and Prince Vekar were better than roboknight and vrak) and all the charachters showed emotion.
Acting = cardboard
Plot = Trash
Legendary battle = I never been more
disappointed in my life
Worst Pr season ever - Silence4101
Power rangers super Megaforce was really good. The best part in this season its to watch the legendary battle where all the seasons of PR to help the rangers to fight. It's really a tribute to watch the power rangers itself. The best part was the keys which help to morph into others rangers..
15 Power Rangers Dino Charge
The theme song has a good meaning and the characters are awesome.
I love Power Rangers Dino Charge because I mean the theme song is the best and it's the best series hands down.
I like the aqua ranger
Best PR series! Caracters are just great!
16 Power Rangers Turbo
The idea of a kid ranger is awesome, it let every kid out there feel like we could eventually become a power ranger. The cheesy story lines fit power rangers as well. Plus, the departure of the originals really had you on the edge of your seat to think "What happens next? " It was great, people need to stop being babies just because they weren't selected to be the 12 year old power ranger and take the show for as great as it was.
Turbo is my 2nd favorite series of power rangers
Turbo is the bet action and its a run off of mighty morpen
If you don't like Turbo, you don't like any vehicular zord Power Ranger team, not even "In Space"!
17 Power Rangers Ninja Steel
Their costumes are awesome
Loveable characters they don't have specific elements and the others are repetitive
Dino charge along with super charge was SO BORING!
But when this season came along, it really made up for 2015-16
Sarah was my favourite character.
Best power ranger season ever (in my opinion)
18 Power Rangers Beast Morphers
Amazing, something new, and much true stuff stated about all power ranger seasons
Awesome I LOVE IT GREAT ACTING
AND THE FIGHTS ARE SO GOOD 10/10
19 Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel
only fr n
20 Power Rangers Dino Super Charge
Awesome just awesome
Are you going to make another Power Rangers season
Really good series that made me like power rangers
Super charge have come tyler chase prince phillips riley ar best from all
21 Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers
They can't even talk propoly
It was the best, because they fight for the galaxy from space aliens
Doesn't really count as a season. - AnonymousMann
22 Power Rangers Cyber Corps
Can't wait to see
23 Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
Should be 1
Operation brought a new idea to the table with more than one main antagonist group. The costumed are cool and the theme song was catch
Forget animals! In this season of power rangers they brought out the trucks hence the name and brought saving lives and construction to a new level
Drive should be higher on this list because it has one of the biggest secrets ever: Mack is an Android! Also very much about geology and archaeology
24 Power Rangers Samurai Power Rangers Samurai is the eighteenth season of the American children's television series Power Rangers.
I grew up with this series!
I have no Idea why is it's underappreciated. It even had a plot twist in the second season. I love it to death
Grew up with this masterpiece, It should be #1, Especially Antonio, Best character.
For me these power rangers should be number 1.i mean if you hate these rangers then probably you are not power rangers fan at all
25 Power Ranger Megaforce
I love power ranger megaforce I grow up with this I couldn’t stop watching it.
I love it and I'm a girl some people think its stupid but if you don't like it stop watching and deal with it. No one wants your bad review and no one cares about what you think. This is a good show and by the way troy the red ranger is not dramatic and is a good actor he is also a good leader and very brave enjoy watching!
You know, to be fair, even though Troy's acting was rather unbalanced, you have to admit, it fit his character at times, and the other characters turned out pretty well. Also, Robo Knight kicks ass
I think it's the second best season first is super megaforce
26 Power Rangers Super Samurai
Best Power Rangers Series Ever. This Power Ranger Series Help Me Go Through Lots Of Things.This Is My Most Favourite Power Rangers Series. For Me This Series Will Always Stay Number One For Me No Matter What. I Am A Huge Fan Of This Series. I Really Hope I Could Meet The Cast Of Power Rangers Super Samurai. A Huge Special Thanks To Team And Cast Of The Power Rangers Samurai.
My dad cuss and gets angry very easily and he cussing like a horrible lunatic
no wonder why he had a heart attack
This is the best power rangers series for me
2nd worst pr season - Silence4101
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"LIKE EVERYONE ELSE": VP Robredo drove with expired license?
The opinions expressed in this article are solely of ThinkingPinoy (TP) and do not reflect the stance of any government agency.
Yesterday, Land Transportation Office – Bicol (LTO-Bicol) posted a status update, which states:
“JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. Today, Vice President Leni Robredo came to the Land Transportation Office (LTO) Naga District Office to renew her driver's license. Just like the rest of our clients, VP Robredo took a queueing number and waited for her turn in order to complete her transaction... The office practices fairness in dealing with its clients. It delivers the same kind of quality and efficient service to all… Dios Mabalosa po sa LTO Naga! #ParaSaBayan #LTOBicolHappyToServeYou👊🏼”
The update, posted on 11 July 2017, basically said Robredo renewed her driver’s license yesterday.
Driver’s licenses, by law, expire on the license holder’s birthday [Politiko]. Robredo’s birthday [INQ] is on April 23rd, so her driver’s license must have expired on that day.
Driving without a license?
Despite the expired driver’s license, Facebook user Benjie Daisy Contreras pointed out that VP Robredo drove a car on 21 June 2017 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Robredo drives a car in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
As Mark Lopez pointed out, the Registry of Motor Vehicles of the US State of Massachusetts [MassRMV] honors Philippine-issued driver’s licenses so Robredo, in theory, can drive cars in the state provided that her Philippine license is still valid, which is not the case.
Note that Mass RMV, like most DMVs in the United States, does not honor International Driving Permits (IDPs) or Licenses [MassRMV].
Given that Robredo does not have a valid Philippine driver’s license at the time she drove in Massachusetts, and that the State doesn’t honor IDPs, there could only have been two other ways for her to drive legally in the US, and that is through a US-issued driver’s license
The United States issues driver’s licenses to the following:
Resident Aliens
Diplomats (issued by the Department of State, not a State DMV)
Clearly, the Robredo is neither a Citizen nor a Resident Alien, as both would disqualify her from assuming the vice-presidency, so we are left with the third possibility: a driver’s license issued to diplomats.
Like everyone else?
However, diplomatic driver’s licenses are issued only to members of diplomatic missions, and I do not exactly see how Robredo can be considered a “member of a diplomatic mission”, especially since insiders in the Department of Foreign Affairs themselves told me that Robredo did not notify some diplomatic missions in the United States about her Boston trip.Moreover, affixing the seal of a diplomatic mission is required in the application form for diplomatic driver’s licenses [DoS], so which seal would Robredo use?
She’s not part of the DFA, to begin with.
However, assuming that Robredo indeed has a diplomatic driver's license and that she used it when she was doing personal errands in Boston (which, by the way, was not an official visit of any sort), then she is not "like everyone else." [ThinkingPinoy]
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Cars Reviews Chevrolet Chevrolet Corvette Chevrolet Corvette C7 Coupe Auto shows Geneva Motor Show Sports cars 2016
A purist’s C7 that bridges gap between the standard Corvette and Z06
by Ciprian Florea, on April 29, 2016, 14:30
Concerned about Ford’s racing program and what it was doing with the Shelby Cobra, Chevrolet’s Zora Duntov launched the Grand Sport program in 1962. The plan was to build lightweight, race car around the second-generation Corvette and use it for international grand touring events. The project was kept secret from GM executives, who thought that Chevy shouldn’t go racing, and was stopped as soon as rumors about Duntov’s brainchild started to spread. Fortunately, Zora managed to complete five cars, giving the world some of the most coveted and valuable Corvettes ever built. More than five decades have passed since then and the Grand Sport nameplate returns on the seventh-generation Corvette.
Rumored ever since the current Vette was unveiled in 2013, the C7 Grand Sport broke cover at the 2016 Geneva Auto Show. Pretty much a Z06 with a naturally aspirated engine under the hood, the new Grand Sport is aimed at purists that know power isn’t everything. Is it a coincidence that the C7 Grand Sport was revealed at the same event that brought us the Porsche 911 R? Most likely, but this is probably the beginning of a beautiful rivalry that should spawn many battles on the road and at the track.
The C7 Grand Sport is actually the fourth generation to wear the iconic badge. After Duntov’s program was cancelled, the nameplate returned in 1996 as final edition of the C4. The third model arrive in 2010 as an LS3-equipped, C6 Z06 with a steel frame instead of aluminum. Is this new version of the C7 worthy of Grand Sport name? Keep reading to find out.
Updated 04/29/2016: Chevrolet dropped prices for the 2017 Corvette Grand Sport which will be put on sale later this summer. Check the "Prices" section for more details.
Continue reading to learn more about the 2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport.
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Much like the C6-based model before it, the C7 Grand Sport is essentially a Corvette Z06 on the outside, borrowing most of the aerodynamic kit seen on Chevy’s high-performance sports car. Upon closer inspection though, the Grand Sport stands out thanks to its specific front fender inserts and custom wheel design.
Much like the C6-based model before it, the C7 Grand Sport is essentially a Corvette Z06 on the outside
Those who don’t want their Grand Sport to be confused with the Z06 need to opt for the available Heritage package, which adds hash-mark fender graphics in one of six colors. Full-length stripes in the same colors are also offered. The hash-mark and the stripes can be paired with any exterior color from the Corvette palette, which includes four standard paints, two premium tintcoat hues, the new-for-2016 Admiral Blue Metallic, and new-for-2017 Watkins Glen Gray Metallic, Black Rose Metallic, and Sterling Blue Metallic.
The Grand Sport Collector Edition, set to be launched later in 2016, will feature an exclusive Watkins Glen Gray Metallic exterior with Tension Blue hash-mark graphics, satin black full-length stripes, and black wheels. This model is shown above and was used to launch the car at the Geneva Motor Show.
Chevrolet described the Tension Blue color as "a bold, modern take on the hue historically associated with the Grand Sport." Specifically, it is based on the blue color used on all five original Grand Sports, either as a full body paint or as stripes on white-finished cars.
The cabin can be had with either the GT or Competition sport seats
Just like the exterior, the interior of the Grand Sport is based on the Z06’s. Notable differences from the standard Corvette include more premium materials, extra carbon-fiber inserts, magnesium seat frame structures, and a flat-bottom steering wheel with the "Grand Sport" logo on the lower spoke. The cabin can be had with either the GT or Competition sport seats and in any of the color combinations available with the standard Corvette. Models selected with the Heritage package will also get brushed aluminum trim with hash-marks.
The Grand Sport Collector Edition will feature a Tension Blue full leather and suede interior and the original Grand Sport race car embossed in the headrests. The same shape is used on the instrument panel plaque with build sequence number from "0001" to "1000," though Chevy has no plans of limiting production numbers.
It may look like the Z06 inside and out, but the Grand Sport is a Corvette for purists, as the front hood hides the same LT1 found in the standard model. The unit cranks out 460 horsepower and 465 pound-feet of torque, which means the car is equipped with the optional performance exhaust system (the standard Corvette comes with 455 horses and 460 pound-feet).
The LT1 unit cranks out 460 horsepower and 465 pound-feet of torque
Transmission options include the same seven-speed manual with active rev match and eight-speed automatic with paddle shifters. The latter has been optimized for the Grand Sport.
Standard features include magnetic ride control, revised stabilizer bars, bespoke springs, an electronic limited-slip differential, Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires and Brembo brakes. The optional Z07 pack, also taken from the Corvette Z06, adds ceramic brakes and Pilot Sport 2 Cup rubber. The chassis and cooling systems of the Z06 have been specifically tuned for the Grand Sport
Chevrolet has yet to release performance data, but said the Grand Sport with the Z07 package is less than one second slower than the previous Corvette ZR1 on its Milford Proving Ground track, which is downright impressive since the ZR1 had 178 more horsepoewer. Considering the improved aerodynamics and the Z06-sourced gear, the Grand Sport should be about two tenths quicker than the standard Vette. Look for a 0-to-60 mph sprint of 3.5 seconds with the eight-speed automatic.
Pricing for the Corvette Grand Sport Coupe starts from $66,445, which accounts for a healthy $10,050 premium over the standard Stingray. The Convertible starts from $70,445, an identical $10,050 increase over the base model. Chevy had nothing to say about the Collector Edition model, but it’s safe to assume that it won’t be much more expensive than the Grand Sport.
The First 2017 Chevy Corvette Grand Sport Collector’s Edition has rolled off the line and was auctioned off at the Barrett-Jackson Auction in Palm Beach, Florida in April 2016, fetching $170,000. All proceeds were donated to the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute.
2017 Corvette Grand Sport Coupe $66,445
2017 Corvette Grand Sport Convertible $70,445
Porsche 911 R
Also unveiled at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show, the 911 R is a GT3 RS made for purists. Built using retuned GT3 underpinnings, the GT3’s body sans the massive rear wing, and stuffed with a GT3 RS engine paired to a manual transmission, the 911 R is essentially the three-pedal GT3 enthusiasts have been asking for years. The 3.8-liter flat-six pumps 500 horsepower and 339 pound-feet of torque to the wheels, enabling the German coupe to hit 60 mph from a standing start in 3.7 seconds. This figure puts the 911 R on par with the manual Grand Sport, but makes it slightly slower than the automatic-equipped Vette. The big difference between the two lies in the pricing and availability departments. While the Grand Sport is likely to cost less than $70,000 before options, the 911 R is the most expensive 911 to date at $184,900. What’s more, all 991 units of the 911 R have been sold out before the car’s official unveiling, whereas Chevrolet will build as many Grand Sports as it can sell. Granted, the 911 R is cool and all, but buying a Grand Sport is significantly easier and cheaper.
Find out more about the Porsche 911 R here.
Throughout its history, the Corvette gave birth to many exciting sports cars, including the L88, ZR1, and Z06. However, none created more stir than the Grand Sport, essentially the first factory-built race-spec Corvette and the spiritual successor to Chevy’s iconic C3-based motorsport weapons. In 2016, the nameplate returns on a bespoke Corvette than can be described as a road-going version of the C7.R race car. Much like the 911 R, it’s a purist driver’s race car for the road without the aerodynamic elements needed on the track. It’s by far the most track-focused Grand Sport since the 1963 original and a vehicle that will enable the C7 Corvette to expand its customer base even further.
Corvette Z06 body over a naturally aspirated V-8
Heritage package inspired by the original Grand Sport
A true driver’s car
Significantly more affordable than competition
Not as exclusive as the 911 R
Updated 04/05/2016: The first 2017 Chevy Corvette Grand Sport will be auctioned off at the Barrett-Jackson Auction on April 8th to benefit the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. Read the details in the pricing section below.
Updated 03/04/2016: We added a series of new images taken during the car’s official presentation at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show. Click the "Pictures" tab to check them out!
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Ciprian's passion for everything with four wheels (and more) started back when he was just a little boy, and the Lamborghini Countach was still the coolest car poster you could hang on your wall. Ciprian's career as a journalist began long before earning a Bachelor's degree, but it was only after graduating that his love for cars became a profession. Read More
With Corvette Racing in its DNA, the all-new 2017 Corvette Grand Sport is a pure expression of the car’s motorsports-bred pedigree. It was introduced today at the Geneva International Motor Show.
Like the 2015 Le Mans-winning Corvette C7.R GTE Pro race car, the new Grand Sport combines a lightweight architecture, a track-honed aerodynamics package, Michelin tires and a naturally aspirated engine.
The 2017 Corvette Grand Sport offers an estimated 1.05g in cornering capability – and up to 1.2g with the available Z07 package.
Heritage-inspired design cues and exclusive features acknowledge the historic Grand Sport legacy, established in 1963 to take on the world’s best sports cars. Only five were built before a corporate decision suspending direct motorsports involvement ended the project.
“Racing has been part of Corvette’s essence for more than 50 years and that track experience has helped us build better, more capable cars,” said Mark Reuss, executive vice president of Global Product Development and Global Purchasing and Supply Chain. “The global acclaim for the seventh-generation Corvette validates that direct link and the 2017 Grand Sport takes its track-bred technology to a new, exciting threshold.”
The Corvette Grand Sport coupe and convertible go on sale this summer in the U.S. and in the fall in Europe.
Engineers adapted the chassis tuning, upgraded cooling systems, and performance technologies of the Corvette Z06 to give the new Grand Sport capability commensurate with its racing-derived history.
“We didn’t hold back with the new Grand Sport,” said Tadge Juechter, Corvette chief engineer. “For the first time, buyers can equip the Grand Sport with a Z07 performance package – which adds carbon-ceramic brakes, Michelin Sport Cup 2 summer tires, and carbon-fiber aero package that delivers true downforce.”
The result is a potent track car. In fact, the Grand Sport with the Z07 package is less than one second off the track record for the previous-generation Corvette ZR1 on the road course at GM’s Milford Proving Ground.
Content highlights for Grand Sport include:
Michelin Pilot Super Sport summer tires: 285/30ZR19 (front) and 335/25ZR20 (rear)
Specific Grand Sport wheel design: 19x10 inches (front) and 20x12 inches (rear)
Brembo brake system with (355 mm) 14-inch rotors and six-piston calipers in front and (340 mm) 13.4 inch rotors and four-piston calipers in the rear
Standard magnetic ride control, specific stabilizer bars and unique springs
Standard electronic limited-slip differential
LT1 V8 engine rated at (343 kW) 460 hp, with dry-sump oiling system and active exhaust
Seven-speed manual transmission with active rev match and available eight-speed paddle-shift automatic with specific performance calibration
Available Z07 package adds carbon ceramic-matrix brakes and Michelin Pilot Sport 2 Cup tires.
In addition to track-focused aero elements, the Grand Sport also features specific front fender inserts, a Z06-style grille and wider rear fenders – a distinctive design package that gives the car a track-ready attitude.
Grand Sport models are offered with the Stingray’s full exterior and interior color palette. An available Heritage package includes hash-mark fender graphics in six colors, with the hash-mark detail carried onto the interior’s brushed aluminum trim. Full-length stripes are also offered.
“The choices are almost endless,” said Harlan Charles, Corvette product marketing manager. “The packages take personalization to an unprecedented level, enabling customers to create their own Corvette Grand Sport statement like no other.”
Grand Sport Collector Edition
The Grand Sport Collector Edition features an exclusive Watkins Glen Gray Metallic exterior with Tension Blue hash-mark graphics, satin black full-length stripes, black wheels and a unique Tension Blue full leather and suede-wrapped interior.
The Tension Blue color is a bold, modern take on the hue historically associated with the Grand Sport. Inside, a three-dimensional representation of an original Grand Sport race car is embossed in the headrests and that shape is also used on an instrument panel plaque that carries a unique build sequence number.
The Collector Edition will be offered later in the model year in the U.S. and Europe.
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Auburn Trail
Cato-Fair Haven Trail
Cinder, Dirt
Catskill Scenic Trail
Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt
Concrete, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Corkscrew Rail Trail
Corry Junction Greenway Trail
State: NY, PA
Delaware and Hudson Rail-Trail
State: NY, VT
Asphalt, Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
East Ithaca Recreation Way
Asphalt, Cinder, Gravel
Erie Attica Trail
Boardwalk, Crushed Stone
Genesee Valley Greenway
Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Gorge Trail
Cinder, Crushed Stone
Groveland Secondary Trail (York to Alexander)
Hook Mountain/Nyack Beach Bikeway
Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
Jim Schug Trail
Grass, Gravel
Keuka Outlet Trail
Asphalt, Ballast, Dirt, Gravel
Lehigh Valley Trail
Mosholu-Pelham Greenway
O&W Rail Trail
Asphalt, Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass
Old Croton Aqueduct Trail
Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Old Erie Path
Ontario Pathways Rail Trail
Oswego County Trail
Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt
Parksville Rail Trail
Pat McGee Trail
Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Grass
Rivergate Trail
Rochester, Syracuse and Eastern Trail
Samuel G. Fisher Mount Ivy Environmental Park
Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Woodchips
South Trail
Uncle Sam Bikeway
Verona Beach State Park Rail Trail
Walden-Wallkill Rail Trail
Asphalt, Ballast, Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Wallkill Valley Rail Trail
Asphalt, Cinder, Dirt, Gravel
There are so many reminders from the heyday of the railroad age on the nearly 10-mile Auburn Trail that visitors might imagine they’re chugging through villages and countryside at the throttle of a...
NY 9.6 mi Crushed Stone
The Cato-Fair Haven Trail (a.k.a. Cayuga County Trail) travels a little more than 14 miles through forest, wetland and tree farm.
NY 14.51 mi Cinder, Dirt
The Catskill Scenic Trail lives up to its name as it winds through a broad farming valley and small towns in New York's Catskill Mountains. The West Branch of the Delaware River is often in sight,...
NY 26 mi Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt
Though mostly a continuous system of trails from Sherman north to Brocton, some segments of the Chautauqua Rails-to-Trails system go by other names (see below). All the trails are primarily grassy but...
NY 28.56 mi Concrete, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The first section of the Corkscrew Rail Trail opened in June 2015. It begins at Knapp Road in Stephentown and heads south under a shady tree canopy towards New Lebanon, near the New York/Massachusetts...
NY 3.8 mi Dirt
Crossing the state line into New York near Erie, Pennsylvania, the 7-mile trail runs through the beautiful Brokenstraw Valley, passing small streams, a tamarack swamp, deciduous woods and...
NY, PA 5.8 mi Crushed Stone
The Delaware and Hudson Rail-Trail follows the flowing contours of the western Vermont countryside, rambling in and out of New York state, where you’ll find a 4-mile gap. This border area is known as...
NY, VT 25.8 mi Asphalt, Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The East Ithaca Recreation Way on East Hill is primarily built upon the rail bed of the old Ithaca and Cortland Railroad, which later became part of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The trail skirts the...
NY 2.2 mi Asphalt, Cinder, Gravel
The Erie Attica Trail lies in the Finger Lakes region of New York along the former railroad for which it's named. A glimpse of this past can be seen in the beautiful truss bridge that spans 220 feet...
NY 1.3 mi Boardwalk, Crushed Stone
The Genesee Valley Greenway rolls through towns and countless landscapes from Rochester south to Cuba, New York. The greenway is a work in progress, but there is a long, continuous segment (37 miles)...
NY 68.8 mi Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Gorge Trail is makes for a scenic walk or mountain bike ride near the town of Cazenovia. The trail runs between the old railroad buildings on William Street and Bingley Road to the north. From...
NY 2.2 mi Cinder, Crushed Stone
The Groveland Secondary Trail follows a portion of abandoned right-of-way of the old Groveland Branch of the Erie Lackawanna between York and Alexander. The York terminus begins just east of Main...
NY 20 mi Ballast
While not a "rail-trail," the Hook Mountain/Nyack Beach Bikeway is a very scenic trail along the Hudson River in Rockland County. The southern half of this trail is flat and runs right along the...
NY 4.9 mi Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
The Jim Schug Trail offers a short, sweet excursion in New York's Finger Lakes region. The trail was known as the Dryden Lake Trail until it was renamed in 2002 in memory of the late town supervisor...
NY 4.2 mi Grass, Gravel
The Keuka Outlet Trail offers a sinuous route of nearly 7 miles between Penn Yan and Dresden in New York’s Finger Lakes region. The rail-trail follows a railroad corridor that traced a former canal...
NY 6.7 mi Asphalt, Ballast, Dirt, Gravel
Located in the majestic Finger Lakes region, the Lehigh Valley Trail is a well-used gem with a sparkling future. Wandering 16.4 miles through beautiful landscapes and rich greenery, the trail connects...
NY 16.4 mi Crushed Stone
The Mosholu-Pelham Greenway connects several parks and recreational opportunities in New York City's north and central Bronx neighborhoods. A portion of the trail is also part of the growing East...
NY 10.3 mi Asphalt
The O&W Rail Trail provides a glimpse into the area’s history from the perspectives of both a historical canal and a railroad. The Delaware & Hudson (D&H) Canal carried coal from Honesdale,...
NY 25.9 mi Asphalt, Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass
At first glance, there’s no evidence that an aqueduct ever existed along the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail. The trail is often a singletrack dirt pathway that winds through communities and trees and...
NY 26.5 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Old Erie Path reveals spectacular views of the Hudson River Valley as the rail-trail rolls along cliffs that border the river’s western shore. Although fairly short, it joins two other...
NY 3 mi Dirt, Gravel
The Ontario Pathways Rail Trail is the crown jewel of the trail system managed by the organization for whom it is named in Ontario County, New York. Comprising two disconnected segments, including a...
The Oswego County Trail follows an abandoned right-of-way of the old New York Ontario & Western Railroad between Cleveland and Fulton. The trail passes among scenic countryside on a sometimes rough...
NY 28 mi Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt
This rustic unpaved trail, just over three miles in length, runs along a route formerly used by the New York, Ontario, & Western Railway's Main Line through Parksville in Sullivan County, NY. The...
NY 3.2 mi Cinder
The key word in describing the Pat McGee Trail in western New York is variety. The rail-trail rolls for more than 12 miles across the Allegheny Plateau between Cattaraugus and Salamanca, passing...
NY 12.1 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Grass
The Quarry Trail is currently a 600-foot long unimproved strip of land along what is known as Quarry Road in the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. The trail links Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic...
NY 0.1 mi Dirt, Grass
Note: The Rivergate trail is closed from Theresa to English Settlement Road because of a washout. Contact the Rivergate Wheelers for updated information. The Rivergate Trail, also called the Sissy...
NY 30.2 mi Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The town of Perinton, New York, has been hard at work improving the Rochester, Syracuse and Eastern Trail, and it shows. Since 1996, when the American Hiking Society designated Perinton as a Trail...
A former right-of-way of the NY & NJ Railroad. Near historical Mount Ivy which was the center of a Quaker settlement in the 18th century. Hiking along railroad bed and wildlife observation and...
NY 2 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Woodchips
The South Trail stretches over 2 miles between Ballina Rd. and New Woodstock in Cazenovia, New York. The trail sits on the former right-of-way of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The rail-trail takes users...
Inland and east of the Hudson River, the Uncle Sam Bike Trail (also called the Uncle Sam Trail or Uncle Sam Bikeway) largely serves as a trail for residents of Troy. If, however, you are traveling in...
NY 3.1 mi Asphalt
Verona Beach State Park is located on the eastern shore of Oneida Lake. Shaded picnic areas and the campground are adjacent to the beach with an excellent view of the water. The lake, Black Creek,...
The Walden-Wallkill Rail Trail is built on a former Conrail right-of-way. Conrail and its predecessors, Penn Central, New York Central, and The Wallkill Valley Railway, provided service to farmers...
NY 4.3 mi Asphalt, Ballast, Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
While the Wallkill Valley Railroad no longer carries fruits and vegetables from Ulster County to New York City, trail users can still discover small, family-owned farms and farmers markets serving up...
NY 21.3 mi Asphalt, Cinder, Dirt, Gravel
Hook Mountain trai
January, 2020 by josephinevitiello
My favorite trail for nice long walks. Beautiful views of the hudson.
William R. Steinhaus Dutchess Rail Trail
Walk on Sunday
November, 2019 by rose.burrus
Great trail for biking and just walking. So nicely maintained!
Setauket-Port Jefferson Station Greenway Trail
Very well maintained trail
November, 2019 by rickschmidt0325
Plenty of curves and turns not to mention hills. Visiting from Florida and fairly new to cycling so the hills were a good challenge! Most of the street crossings have detectors that automatically stop traffic. Good signage for approaching hills. Pavement in excellent condition.
Lackawanna Rail Trail
Great trail to run on
November, 2019 by roblyerandrew
Great trail for running. I use this trail often to help complete workouts and long runs. Always nice to avoid traffic and have a beautiful view along the way. Trail includes having ability to start in multiple locations.
Jones Beach Boardwalk
Jones Beach Trail Extension
November, 2019 by fboynj
The trail along the boardwalk has been extended west by an asphalt path to the west end and to the nature preserve.
great walk with the pup
November, 2019 by dewhite27
Perfect walk for our standard poodle. Just the right length. Friendly people . A few hills
Started in New Paltz
October, 2019 by michaelberlin66
What a nice ride. If your not use to gravel trails your going to be bounced around a bit but overall it is a great ride. Had a nice snack and glass of wine when we got back to where we started.
Used to be great. Closed indefinitely
October, 2019 by mkimble515
I used to love running this trail as it is in my neighborhood. They closed it to lay some pipe and I doubt it will open again until some time next year. Hopefully the don't ruin the surface of it by using the large gravel they placed along the sides.
Heritage Trail (NY)
October, 2019 by dirtp1
I have biked about two-thirds of this trail, and it's great. There are several access points, and many places where you can exit the trail to ride on local roads.
Harlem Valley Rail Trail
trail ends in Millerton
October, 2019 by peas67_tl
Beautiful and no crowded from Amenia to Milerton - 8 plus miles from the parking lot indicated on the map. Trail ends in Millerton - I did not ride along rite 22 to pick up the rail trail again for the final five r so miles, as it is crazy town to ride on Route 22. Overall, a pleasant there and back (I went past the parking lot to make a twenty mile ride). I hope that the trail does get connected and soon.
Goshen Section Disjointed
October, 2019 by strategy
I parked at the westernmost parking area and rode west. Nothing much to see (other than the Orange County prison) and fairly populated on a Monday.
I then rode East towards Goshen. Just before the town, a resident has put up several "No Trespassing; Private Property" signs and the trail is no more although the map shows it jagging left and coming back into town.
What you have to do is ignore the signs for about 10 yards and make a u-turn onto a road that leads up to West Main Street. Take that through town to North Church and then to St. James. You'll find the rest of the trail headed to Harriman.
The trail is excellent and well-maintained. I only went as far as Chester. That will be my starting point next time. From Goshen to Chester there were a lot of walkers and dog-walkers -- all extremely polite and practicing trail etiquette. It's a little too tame and populated for my taste, but I am guessing as you go further east, it is less so.
I will be returning.
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22353 Patna - Banaswadi Humsafar Express Route and Schedule
Patna - Banaswadi Humsafar Express
Patna Junction/PNBE
Banaswadi/BAND
Humsafar Rake
22353/ Patna - Banaswadi Humsafar Express is one of the prominent train of Indian railways that runs between Patna Junction and Banaswadi. The total distance covered by the train is 2640km and average speed of the train is 54km/hr Train departs from Source station at time and it reaches at Destination station at time. 22353/ Patna - Banaswadi Humsafar Express has 22 stoppages. Train runs on following days (Thursday) and consists of coaches – (3A)
Patna Junction(PNBE)
Ara Junction(ARA)
Buxar(BXR)
Pipariya(PPI)
Renigunta Junction(RU)
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22353 Patna Junction 20:15 Banaswadi 21:00 Thusday
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Clear Cut acquires Edit Store and Sound Store
Member News | 05 February 2019
Clear Cut Pictures has acquired the post production companies The Edit Store and The Sound Store. All three companies will continue to trade in their own names, servicing their long standing clients at their respective sites and with the existing cohort of staff.
Chris Rodmell and Howard Bradburn, who established the business over 25 years ago, will be providing support to the business to ensure a smooth transition period for both clients and staff. They are moving on to focus on their other interests.
‘We are delighted to welcome the Edit Store and Sound Store teams to the Clear Cut family. Edit Store has forged a fantastic reputation in hard hitting documentaries and current affairs. They have a highly respected creative staff, a beautiful building, and lovely suites. We have needed to offer our increasing client base more choice in the Central London area and this deal broadens our offering perfectly.”
– Rowan Bray, MD of Clear Cut
Edit Store offers 20 suites on Bedford Square, in beautiful, light inter-connected Georgian buildings. Offering three online and three audio suites, plus grading, as well as nearly 20 offline suites this will mean that the Clear Cut Pictures group of companies will now offer over 90 offline suites in Central London and Shepherds Bush facilities, and an even greater range of finishing suites in all four sites; 10 online, 4 grading theatres and 12 dubbing theatres.
“The Edit Store and The Sound Store have been and always will be, close to our hearts, but we are very pleased to be leaving the company in the capable hands of our loyal and dedicated staff, with the support and guidance of the new owners Clear Cut Pictures. “
– Chris Rodmell and Howard Bradburn, Co-founders of The Edit Store & The Sound Store
Some programmes recently produced at The Edit Store include Trump: What Next? (Panorama/BBC One); Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70 (Crux Productions/BBC One); Nile Rodgers: How to Make It in the Music Business (1212 Productions/BBC Four) Undercover: Britain’s Immigration Secrets (Panorama/BBC One); China’s Pop Idols (Quicksilver Media/Channel 4); Inside No 10: Deal or No Deal? (Panorama/BBC One); House of Saud: A Family at War (BBC Current Affairs/BBC Two); Weinstein: The Inside Story (Panorama/BBC One).
“We have always prided ourselves in offering a very tailored and personal service in post-production, and we are confident that this will continue with the same talented Edit and Sound Store teams who you know and trust. We feel that this will be a positive move not just for new clients but our existing clients that have remained loyal to us over the past 25 years.”
Some programmes recently post produced at Clear Cut Pictures include Louis Theroux Altered States: Take My Baby (BBC Studios/BBC Two); The Paras: Men of War (Avanti/ITV); Morecambe and Wise in America (Double Yellow/Gold Channel); The Cruise: Shanghai to Sydney (Wild Pictures /ITV); Faking It: Tears of a Crime (Shearwater Media/Investigation Discovery); Kilauea: Hawai’i on Fire (Atlantic Productions/NOVA I PBS); The Farmers’ Country Showdown (Sidney St/BBC One); Roast Battle (Fulwell 73/Comedy Central UK) to name but a few.
Clear Cut Pictures
Audio department expansion at Clear Cut Pictures
Clear Cut Pictures have announced the appointment of new Dubbing Mixer, Cecile Janet, to their creative team.
Clear Cut Pictures welcomes new Online Editor
Catherine Preece joins the creative team as Online Editor at the London-based post house.
Clear Cut Pictures expands Post Producing team
Post Production house Clear Cut Pictures announces a new addition to their Post Producing team, as Abi South joins as a Senior Post Producer.
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Grampians ban follows claims of rock art damage in 'mecca for climbers'
By Liam Mannix
April 26, 2019 — 11.59am
Climbers have been banned from some parts of the Grampians amid an increasingly vocal battle over disputed claims that they're damaging ancient rock art.
Park rangers say a huge influx of climbers is destroying the fragile and unique environment, smashing new trails through protected areas and peppering the wilderness with human waste.
Climbers are being accused of damaging the environment.
Traditional owners say rock art is being destroyed. Climbers are stepping on the art, covering it in chalk, and drilling holes and bolts into the rock.
But the climbers – who consider themselves environmentalists – say they are being framed.
They’ve been climbing the Grampians for 40 years, often at the invitation of Parks Victoria, they say. No rock art has been damaged. Now, legal action is being threatened.
It all came to a head on the Easter long weekend, the busiest time of year in the Grampians as thousands head west for a break.
Climbing has been banned in the Grampians' "special protection areas" since 2003 – but for years Parks Victoria turned a blind eye.
No longer. Rangers are now out in force at eight key rock climbing sites across the park to enforce the new climbing bans. Anyone spotted faces a fine. Three climbers were fined on March 9.
Rock climbers are drawn to the Grampians by the park’s unique environment: hard but weathered sandstone walls with lots of potential handholds.
In the past decade, Parks Victoria claim, its popularity has exploded as it has become recognised as one of the world’s top-five climbing locations. “It’s a mecca for climbers,” said Simon Talbot, Parks Victoria’s chief operating officer.
This image, supplied by Parks Victoria, shows what they claim is damage to vegetation caused by 'bouldering mats' at the Venus Baths. Credit:Parks Victoria / Supplied
In 2003, about 8000 climbers came to the park. In 2018, some 80,000 came, he said (climbers deny this). “It’s really caught us by surprise, to be honest,” Mr Talbot said.
Some of the best climbing is in the special protected areas of the park, around the Northern Victoria Range.
More damage at the Venus Baths, in this image supplied by Parks Victoria. Credit:Parks Victoria
Climbers have been bashing hundreds of kilometres of paths through this virgin bush, Mr Talbot said. The mats boulderers use – laid at the bottom of large rocks to catch a falling person – have destroyed the undergrowth, he said. Human faeces dumped in the bush is encouraging weeds to grow, he said.
“Sometimes they don’t know. Sometimes they don’t care,” he said. “There is a real entitlement mentality that’s unhealthy.”
The older generation of climbers were true conservationists, Mr Talbot said. The new ones carry portable drills to make holes in the rock face, some trying to ascend as fast as possible and beat each other’s records, he said. They damage the sandstone, which is home to many endangered animals – and climbers crumble it on the bush below, killing it, he said.
Then there is the rock art; the Grampians is the richest site in Victoria, with some red-ochre paintings 20,000 years old.
“There are many areas where there are significant sites and rock art is being damaged. I’ve seen it,” said Dylan Clarke, chairman of the Barengi Gadjin Land Council which represents the traditional owners.
“Fixed bolts that are drilled into the rocks. It’s stuff that’s really hard to see.
“There are things like graffiti and racist drawings on sacred colours. That just makes a mockery of our culture and heritage. When you see that stuff in our sacred areas, it really impacts you – that’s heartbreaking.”
That is simply not true, said Mike Tomkins, who represents the newly-formed Australian Climbing Association Victoria.
“The climbers are not damaging the environment. I very firmly believe there has been no damage to any Aboriginal artwork anywhere in the region.”
Some rock art is almost impossible to see, he said. Climbers had been using one route for 30 years, but only a week ago were told they were climbing near rock art, he said.
Climbing chalk and rock climbing bolts at a Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Registered Quarry. Climbers claim they had never been told this was an important site. Credit:Parks Victoria / Supplied
Climbers were told a week ago a key climb used for 30 years, The Gallery, was an Aboriginal quarry by Parks Victoria.
Protecting rock art poses a real challenge for Parks Victoria, because many sacred sites are sensitive and legally cannot be revealed.
Mr Tomkins said climbers were “mortified” they had offended traditional owners, and wanted the chance to “walk the country” with them to identify art sites to avoid.
But the biggest stoush is over a single picture, released by Parks Victoria when they announced the bans. It shows what looks like a climbing bolt in rock art.
Aboriginal rock art in the Grampians. Parks Victoria is not suggesting this site has been damaged. Credit:Parks Victoria / Supplied
But Parks got it wrong. The bolt was part of an old safety cage installed to protect the rock art. Parks apologised and pulled the image, but it soured the relationship.
Parks Vic Frame Climbers – Get Caught Out, one website posted, while another climbing site termed it a "dirty war".
A petition to stop the bans has already reached almost 23,000 signatures since being opened a month ago.
The Victorian Climbing Club is meant to work with Parks Victoria on climbing access – and has, for many years. But they feel shocked and frozen out by the sudden bans, and say they have begun the legal process.
“It's a surprise they want to go to the press to make climbers look bad again, when we are trying to work with them. It’s frustrating,” said Mark Gould, the club's spokesman.
This image was supplied by Simon Carter, to show the low impact of climbing on the Grampians. Used with permission. Credit:Simon Carter
Liam Mannix
Liam is The Age and Sydney Morning Herald's science reporter
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Parks not safe for women, says homicide squad boss
By Marissa Calligeros
Updated March 20, 2015 — 11.52am first published March 19, 2015 — 11.29am
COMMENT: Top cop not the problem
Victoria's Minister for Women has criticised comments made by the homicide squad chief that women were not safe alone in parks after the killing of Melbourne schoolgirl Masa Vukotic.
Homicide squad chief Detective Inspector Mick Hughes told ABC Radio National on Thursday the "chilling" case had highlighted the need for people, particularly women, to remain vigilant.
Masa was stabbed to death in a park, less than a kilometre from her Doncaster home, in Melbourne's east, about 6.50pm on Tuesday.
The 17-year-old Canterbury Girls' Secondary School student had been out on her evening walk in Koonung Creek Linear Reserve. She was found injured at the base of a footbridge near Stanton Street and Heyington Avenue.
The footbridge leading to Koonung Creek Linear Reserve near where Masa Vukotic was found. Credit:Joe Armao
"I suggest to people, particularly females, they shouldn't be alone in parks," Inspector Hughes said.
"I'm sorry to say that is the case."
But Minister for Women and Minister for Prevention of Family Violence Fiona Richardson said on Thursday that the community's focus should be on stopping offenders, not the behaviour of victims.
"Detective Inspector Hughes undoubtedly has the best interest of women in mind and made comments on radio this morning out of care and concern for women who are all too often victims of crime," she said.
"However, hearing a senior police officer say that as a woman, you are not safe going about your leisure activities or daily business, is a sad indictment on our society.
"The community conversation needs to be about stopping men from committing these terrible crimes in the first place, not just about women needing to protect themselves."
Asked at a later press conference after a man handed himself over to police in relation to Masa's killing, Inspector Hughes refuted that police were victim-blaming by telling women not to walk alone.
"We've never actually said that," he said.
He encouraged people to walk together, "females" to walk together.
"But if you're by yourself you need to be aware of your circumstances and take reasonable precautions. I think it's a travesty that we have to do that, we should be able to walk anywhere at any time, but reality says that we can't," he said.
Earlier, Inspector Hughes told the ABC that said people needed to be more security conscious, particularly when travelling alone.
"We just need to a be little bit more careful, a little bit more security conscious and we, as a public, need to look after each other," he said.
Inspector Hughes urged girls and women to jog with a friend if possible, or at least remain aware of their surroundings.
"Jog with a friend, make sure your family know your route, exercise in daylight if you can, if you see any suspicious activity please ring triple-0 [and] never be embarrassed … just be aware of your surroundings," he said.
Masa was wearing headphones and may not have heard her attacker approaching, but Inspector Hughes said that should not have made her more vulnerable.
"People should be allowed to do that," he said.
"I don't think we can live our life in fear. We really just need to look after each other."
The inspector's advice that women "shouldn't be alone in parks" has also been criticised as "victim blaming" by women's safety advocates.
"This is yet another example on what women need to do to avoid being victims of crime as opposed to what men can do not to commit them," said Dr Lauren Rosewarne, a Melbourne University academic who has written about fear of crime in public space.
"We've seen this every time there's a public crime; we are always given information about what we need to do as women to stay safe. I'd like to see the debate shifted."
The Doncaster killing was "an embodiment of our bogeyman fears," Dr Rosewarne said. "We've grown up believing the world is dangerous for women."
While studies show that what women fear most is rape by a stranger, Dr Rosewarne noted that "it's the person lying next to you that is most likely to be the perpetrator".
"Women turn up dead all the time and they haven't even left their homes," says sexual violence worker Karen Pickering, one of the founders of the Melbourne Slutwalk.
"The idea that we can somehow change women's movements and somehow prevent violence against women is just patently false...There are always spikes in self defence classes after brutal murders but it doesn't protect women. No amount of lighting and CCTV is going to stop men attacking women."
Family violence featured in a third of all sexual assault and related offences in Victoria in 2014 (3282 of 9806 offences), according to police statistics released Thursday morning, and almost half of all assault offences (17,544 of 37,639 offences) .
with Tammy Mills, Vanessa Desloires and Michelle Griffin
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Adverse Events, Comorbidities, and HIVCancer
Lung Cancer Risk and Screening With HIV -- and an Intriguing New Treatment Opportunity
Mark Mascolini
The Center for AIDS Information & Advocacy
Keith M. Sigel, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Mount Sinai Medical Center -- New York, New York
Division of General Internal Medicine
Division of Infectious DiseasesThe Center for AIDS Information & Advocacy
Highly regarded for his contributions to cancer research in people with HIV, Dr. Sigel is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. With a focus on two non-AIDS-defining malignancies -- lung cancer and anal cancer -- Dr. Sigel has led numerous innovative studies on these conditions and others in people with HIV. His work addresses unique aspects of HIV-related malignancy, including risk, prevention, treatment, and prognosis. He cochairs the Cancer Core of the Veterans Aging Cohort Study, a large longitudinal comparison of HIV-positive and -negative veterans with equivalent access to care and a high lung cancer burden. With an MD and a Masters in Public Health from the University of North Carolina and a PhD from Mount Sinai, Dr. Sigel devotes time to the primary care of people with HIV infection and hepatitis C infection. His many speaking invitations include talks at Yale University, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of North Carolina.
Mark Mascolini: Is suspicion of lung cancer high enough among HIV clinicians?
Keith Sigel: In general I think many HIV clinicians are aware of the prominence of non-AIDS-defining cancers in the HIV population. Several large cohort studies have shown that non-AIDS-defining cancers have become a leading source of morbidity and mortality in the HIV population.1-3 And it's hard for any HIV clinician to ignore the persistently high rates of smoking in the US HIV population.
I'm not aware of any literature that specifically addresses HIV clinicians' awareness of the higher risk of lung cancer with HIV, but my suspicion is that clinicians across the country have become highly aware of this risk. When I go to national meetings, lung cancer gets good coverage in well-attended sessions. Because HIV clinicians function in a specialty area with lots of intragroup communication, I do think they tend to be aware of the threat of lung cancer.
Lung Cancer Incidence and Risk
Mascolini: Is lung cancer incidence flat or falling in people with HIV, and what are the factors determining this trend?
Sigel: A study from the Kaiser Permanente healthcare system a few years ago looked at trends in lung cancer incidence over the antiretroviral era and found essentially a flat curve as we've had more time in the antiretroviral era.4 That being said, the HIV cohort in the United States is aging, so much of the current incidence trend reflects the graying of the HIV population and the increasing lung cancer risk with aging.
But lung cancer incidence rates are still high in relation to the general population,4-6 and I haven't seen any data to refute that. There's been some interesting data showing that, particularly in the early combination antiretroviral therapy era, immunosuppression with HIV was driving some portion of the excess in lung cancer incidence seen in people with HIV. I think the impact of immunosuppression has lessened and aging has become a big factor.
Mascolini: Smoking and prior lung disease are clear risk factors for lung cancer in people with HIV. But evidence on nadir or current CD4 count seems more complicated. How do you interpret those data?
Sigel: This is something I've spent a lot of time looking at, and there's a decent amount of data out of Europe addressing this question as well.5,7,8 The relationship between CD4 count and lung cancer risk is complicated because looking at a single CD4 measurement in time can lead to the conclusion that CD4 count is not related to lung cancer risk or is very weakly related. It does seem that longitudinal trends -- long periods of low CD4 count or low CD4/CD8 ratio -- appear to have a much stronger association with lung cancer risk.
I published a paper from the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) in the US that showed a much stronger relationship between long periods of low CD4 count and lung cancer risk,9 and research on the large French HIV cohort found similar effects.5,7 These findings are not a big surprise because the immune system is responsible for immune surveillance for lung cancer. We always suspected that some degree of immunosuppression was going to be related to some portion of the excess lung cancer risk with HIV. So I do believe, based on the larger published studies, that longer periods with low CD4 count do play a role in lung cancer risk. It would be great to create an HIV-specific lung cancer risk index using some of that information. But such an index has not emerged yet.
Mascolini: In that VACS study you found an independent association between lower CD4/CD8 ratio and lung cancer risk.9 What's driving that particular association?
Sigel: CD4/CD8 ratio is an interesting measure. The ratio was used a lot more clinically earlier in the HIV epidemic. But it's gotten much more attention in the past few years because it does appear to be a strong marker of continued immune dysfunction during HIV suppression. You can have patients who are reasonably adherent to antiretroviral therapy and who may even return to a normal CD4 count. But some people nevertheless maintain a low CD4/CD8 ratio, and it's not clear why.
We found a lower CD4/CD8 ratio was actually the strongest immunologic predictor of lung cancer incidence.
There's some suggestion that a persistently low CD4/CD8 ratio reflects later initiation of antiretroviral therapy. But it certainly seems to be a marker of many poor outcomes. Several studies show that low CD4/CD8 ratio is associated with mortality in general as well as with non-AIDS-defining cancer risk.10,11 In the Veterans cohort we were able to look at it specifically with lung cancer because we have so many lung cancer cases.9 We found a lower CD4/CD8 ratio was actually the strongest immunologic predictor of lung cancer incidence. That finding is really interesting because it underlines the possibility that overall immune dysfunction -- not just immunodeficiency -- plays a role in lung cancer development. Whether the CD4/CD8 ratio could be a biomarker included in lung cancer risk assessments is still not clear. We still have this issue of whether or not a single measurement in time (as opposed to a longitudinal average) is an effective lung cancer predictor.
Mascolini: Why are prior pneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) risk factors for lung cancer in people with HIV?
Sigel: COPD is an acknowledged risk factor for lung cancer in the general population because it signifies an inflammatory state in the lung that lies on the pathway to the local dysfunction required to create the mutations that drive lung cancer. So it's not a surprise that COPD emerged as an independent lung cancer risk factor in HIV-infected patients.
We also have data suggesting that HIV is associated with a higher risk of COPD.12 And one thing that we've been trying to determine with spirometry data in the VACS is whether COPD is associated with excess lung cancer risk in people with HIV. We're presenting a study at the American Thoracic Society in a few months looking at that issue. We found that COPD seems to be an equal-magnitude risk factor for lung cancer in both HIV-infected and uninfected veterans. So it appears to be an independent risk factor with HIV but doesn't seem to be a stronger risk factor with HIV, which is something that hadn't been assessed before.
Prior pneumonia also has some association with lung cancer in the general population. It's a difficult exposure to untangle epidemiologically because sometimes pneumonia is the initial presenting factor for lung cancer. But our VACS study9 and others assessed the impact of pneumonias much more distant to the cancer diagnosis and did find a positive association. The suspicion has been that pneumonia may trigger a strong inflammatory injury that then spurs oncogenic mutations as one of the hits needed to cause cancer.
Lung Cancer Screening Advice in HIV Patients
Mascolini: There are lung cancer screening guidelines for the general population13 but not specifically for people with HIV. When do you consider screening people with HIV?
Sigel: I generally stick to the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) inclusion criteria,14 which informed the Preventive Services Task Force guidelines13 and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) guidelines. Those low-dose CT criteria are to start screening at age 55 in persons with a 30 pack-year smoking history. This includes current smokers or former smokers who quit within 15 years. With HIV infection, deciding on screening gets complicated because it's hard to get your screening scan covered by insurance if you don't meet these national guidelines.13 Clinicians will have trouble if they try to screen outside of those guidelines just because there's such limited data on screening HIV-infected patients.
Until we have stronger evidence, I think it's difficult to make a strong suggestion that we veer from those \[general-population lung cancer screening\] criteria.
One common complicating issue is that we have consistent epidemiologic evidence suggesting lung cancer emerges at an earlier age in people with HIV -- on average about 3 to 5 years earlier.15 More limited evidence suggests that lung cancer develops with less smoking in people with HIV. This has prompted researchers and clinicians to ask whether we should be screening HIV patients with a little bit less than a 30-pack-year history and at an earlier age.
I don't think we have a great answer to that question yet. We have a study coming out in AIDS in which we used a highly validated lung cancer simulation -- the Lung Cancer Policy Model -- to try to determine appropriate criteria for screening for lung cancer in people with HIV.16 What we came up with is that the most efficient solution based on available data is the NLST criteria14,15 -- yearly screening starting at age 55, 30 pack-years, current and former smokers within 15 years. Until we have stronger evidence, I think it's difficult to make a strong suggestion that we veer from those criteria.
Lung Cancer Treatment and Survival Disparities
Mascolini: Should clinicians use the same criteria to determine whether people should get treated for lung cancer regardless of HIV status?
Sigel: This is an area that has even less data than the screening question we just considered. We know there are lung cancer treatment disparities in people with HIV. Several large national studies suggest lower receipt of stage-appropriate treatment in HIV populations.17,18
Our own recent analysis of practice within the Veterans Administration system -- where care is accessible regardless of HIV status -- found very limited lung cancer treatment disparities by HIV status,19 suggesting that a lot of these treatment disparities are probably structural. Gita Suneja from Duke did an interesting study a few years ago in which she surveyed US oncologists nationally about their perspective on treating HIV-infected patients with non-AIDS-defining cancer, and 20% of respondents said they do change practice when treating HIV-infected patients.20 So we do need more information in this area.
Table 1. Two Studies of Chemotherapy and Surgery for Lung Cancer With HIV
Chemotherapy study: Makinson et al.21
Design: Retrospective analysis of non-small-cell lung cancer patients in large French HIV cohort
Study period: 1996-2008
Participants: 52 people, 81% men, median age 48; 40 in toxicity substudy, 78% men, median age 50
Toxicity: 14 of 68 chemotherapeutic combinations (21%) complicated by grade 4 hematologic toxicity in 13 people (33%); 6 deaths (15%) due to hematologic toxicity
Toxicity factor: Protease inhibitor therapy associated with 5-fold higher odds of grade 4 hematologic toxicity
Surgery study: Sigel et al.22
Design: Linkage of VACS cancer data to Veterans Administration surgical database
Participants: 424 early-stage lung resection patients, 151 with HIV, 273 without HIV; mean age 60 in both groups; no differences by sex, race, year of surgery/cancer diagnosis, surgical risk class, cancer stage or histologic type
Outcomes: Frequency of any complication did not differ by HIV status; no difference in 30-day mortality (2% with HIV); 180-day mortality nonsignificantly higher with HIV (11% versus 6%, P = 0.07)
In patients with well-controlled HIV, if you pay attention to potential antineoplastic drug interactions ... you should be able to treat lung cancer as you ordinarily would.
Randomized controlled trial data on lung cancer therapy specific to HIV-infected patients are very limited. What data there are suggest lung cancer treatment is well tolerated and does not seem to cause excess harm in people with HIV. But there are some observational data from Alain Makinson in France on a large series of HIV-infected patients who received chemotherapy, and there was a high rate of serious complications in that HIV cohort (Table 1).21 So the question about appropriate lung cancer therapy for people with HIV is difficult to answer. My personal feeling is that in patients with well-controlled HIV, if you pay attention to potential antineoplastic drug interactions with antiretroviral therapy and other medications, you should be able to treat lung cancer as you ordinarily would.
In 2017 we presented data at the International Conference on Malignancies in HIV/AIDS looking at HIV-infected and uninfected patients with early-stage lung cancer who were undergoing surgery for their early-stage lung cancers.22 We found that the rate of surgical complications was identical by HIV status (Table 1), suggesting that lung-cancer surgery is very well tolerated in this group. So in terms of surgical treatment, in this era there should be little reluctance to treat, almost as if the HIV wasn't there. We need more information on chemotherapy.
Mascolini: Is antiretroviral therapy improving the lung cancer survival disadvantage reported in people with HIV?
Sigel: I do think so. The association of HIV with poorer lung cancer survival has been complicated for a few reasons. Number one, a lot of the data is still from the early 2000s, when people were not having HIV-related outcomes as good as they do now. So competing risks were influencing the poor prognosis we saw in many of the bigger studies.
I also think that treatment disparities, which can be difficult to measure, were playing a role in survival outcomes. Some HIV-infected patients were not getting optimal lung cancer treatment and that led to the appearance of worse lung cancer outcomes. I presented survival data last year at CROI looking within the Veterans Administration, where there are many fewer lung cancer treatment disparities by HIV status than in the general population.19 In the latest study period, 2009-2015, we found no difference in lung cancer survival by HIV status in a large group of lung cancer patients, almost 600 with HIV and almost 900 without HIV. So I think antiretroviral therapy does mitigate the poorer-prognosis issues identified in some older studies.
Lung Cancer Pitfalls and Opportunities
Mascolini: What's the biggest mistake HIV clinicians make in lung cancer management?
Sigel: I think it's reluctance to offer stage-appropriate treatment. Based on our data,22 I definitely think there should be very limited reluctance to refer for surgery, which for early-stage lung cancer can be curative. Make that referral -- don't let the HIV stand in your way. In terms of prevention, the two big potential areas of benefit are focusing on smoking cessation and screening patients who meet national screening guidelines.13
Mascolini: Are there other issues we haven't addressed that you would like to raise?
Sigel: There's a big one: the role of immunotherapy. The question is whether immunotherapy is appropriate for HIV-infected patients with lung cancer. I'm not an oncologist, I'm an HIV clinician and infectious disease specialist. So I don't treat cancer. But I've followed the immunotherapy story closely because it's very interesting in relationship to lung cancer with HIV.
The checkpoint inhibitors are becoming very important tools,23,24 particularly in certain advanced lung cancer cases. They target PD-1, which has been an important immune exhaustion marker in HIV for a long time. It manifests itself prominently in patients with HIV. A small study in Japan suggested that HIV-infected lung cancer patients with higher PD-1 expression have worse outcomes.25
There has been some question about whether checkpoint inhibitors and other new immunotherapies are safe in HIV patients. Very preliminary case-study data -- including a retrospective review of veterans with HIV and cancer26 -- suggest checkpoint inhibitors do appear safe. But these early results need confirmation. An ongoing National Cancer Institute-sponsored trial is evaluating checkpoint inhibitors in HIV-infected patients.
There's another large question beyond safety of checkpoint inhibitors. We think immune dysregulation plays at least a small role in driving the excess lung cancer incidence in people with HIV. Is it possible that checkpoint inhibitors may be even more effective than current therapies or that this might be a group of tumors that particularly exhibits local immune exhaustion? These are important and interesting areas to explore as we continue to learn more about the role of the immune system in managing lung cancer.
Finally, I should reiterate something we discussed before: Another big area that needs clarification is whether and how we should modify lung cancer screening recommendations to be more inclusive when it comes to people with HIV infection.
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[Note from TheBodyPRO: This article was originally published by The Center for AIDS Information & Advocacy in June 2018. We have cross-posted it with their permission.]
Mark Mascolini writes about HIV infection.
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A Family Scandal (Paperback)
Kitty Neale
**A gritty and emotional family drama, from the Sunday Times bestseller. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Katie Flynn.** You can never leave a bad man behind...Mavis Pugh has had a hard life. Despised and abused throughout her teenage years, she turned to the first man who showed her kindness. But her new husband, Alec, quickly revealed himself to be a violent bully. When Mavis escapes from Alec, she thinks the worst is behind her. Moving to a large family house with her two children is more than she ever dreamed of, and when handsome sign-writer Tommy takes an interest in her, she can't believe her luck. But Alec is far from a distant memory and, unbeknown to Mavis, he's watching her and her happy family closely. Just waiting for the right time to make his next - and final - move...
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Dubai 2017 | FINANCE | B2B
While some investors are merely keen on absorbing—or simply avoiding—structural downturns in the economy, others want to be a part of real, thriving businesses they can witness emerge from the sand.
SHAILESH DASH
Founder & Member of the Board
Al Masah Capital
ROHIT WALIA
Executive Chairman1
Alpen Capital
Which sectors hold the most promising opportunities?
Shailesh Dash When Al Masah started six years ago, it assumed it would be involved in consumer-related segments like healthcare, logistics, and education, where it can provide services with value while assessing where demand will continue to come from. The reforms we are seeing on the back of the drop in oil prices is why we still strongly believe in healthcare, education, logistics, and retail. It is a great time to enter these businesses because there are many legislative changes that have had positive impacts on these segments. As a group we will continue to be in these areas, looking at investors' needs as they change with structural changes to the economy and the wealth that is being created. We will continue to tailor our products to the market's needs. The best businesses to be in today are sectors where you can add value to the economy, create employment, and provide quality services for the right price. That is what populations need, and this is what we have to create or invest.
Rohit Walia Tourism is the country's biggest growth sector. There is nothing specific; we see a lot of hotels coming up, so the expected room rates are a little soft but there is a lot of demand and that is what HH Sheikh Mohammed's philosophy has been; if you create the infrastructure then people will come and use it, and this seems to be what is happening. Our airports are still seeing high levels of arrivals, which adds credence to this philosophy.
What does a typical customer currently want?
SD They look at asset management as financial advice that will help them to diversify their wealth at a lower risk. Every institution has its own particular demand or need. For example, an institution might have had very low returns for the last seven years and might want to invest in alternatives or private equity, while some institutions might only want a fixed return and are therefore very happy with bonds or commercial real estate property. At the same time, some people might only want to invest in real businesses that they can see and feel to be growing, so they can be a part of it. We work with investors, high net-worth individuals, family offices, and young companies that want to be part of the venture capital or SME segment. This is why everybody is needed in the market, because there is space for everybody, whether it is an institution, a high net-worth individual, or a family office. Increasingly, we have seen a lot of bankers changing out of their jobs with the private banks and starting their own boutique firms because they believe the banks do not meet the needs of investor demand. Investors do not want to invest into a lot of debt products and do not only want to be involved with structured products. They want to be part of a real business where they can see and feel that they have a yield. These are the kinds of needs that are not being met by many of these private banks.
RW: In every business, there are some good companies so there is not any one particular area that we are avoiding. In real estate, for example, there are bits and pieces that are doing very well, such as the downtown and canal areas, but there are other areas that are struggling. It depends on which business the client is in. Some of the commodity trading businesses are suffering, which has been a little dangerous due to the huge fluctuation in commodity prices. However, this is purely trading and does not affect the businesses that are driving the economy, per se.
A Font of Achievement
A key figure on the international stage, Dubai has proven its mettle in commerce, economic stability, and innovation, while extending a brotherly hand to nations less fortunate.
Raúl Fernando Sendic Rodriguez, Vice President , Uruguay
TBY talks to Raúl Fernando Sendic Rodriguez, Vice President of Uruguay, on using Uruguay's vast productive powers to supply new markets, leveraging its status as a hub to help UAE firms penetrate Latin America, and solidifying UAE-Uruguayan legal structures.
Manuel Antonio González Sanz, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship, Costa Rica
TBY talks to Manuel Antonio González Sanz, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica, on forging renewable ties between the Gulf and Caribbean, triangular cooperation, and how to improve connectivity.
Focus: Dubai-Latam Relations
Hello From the Other Side
Connectivity is key to facilitating trade, and the sizable potential for trade with Latin America has justified investment in logistics from the UAE. As the markets for consumer goods grow, growth in trade between the two is expected to expand in the years to come.
Gustavo Leite, Minister of Industry and Commerce, Paraguay
TBY talks to Gustavo Leite, Minister of Industry and Commerce of Paraguay, on the advantages of being an agricultural hub, streamlining tax policy, and its advantages as a country for supplying the Brazilian market
The Great Push
A diversified economy and commitment to education and innovation has seen Dubai scale heights unimaginable mere decades ago.
HE Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansoori, UAE Minister, Economy
TBY talks to HE Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansoori, UAE Minister of Economy, on investing in science and technology, supporting young local entrepreneurs, and the growth of high performing non-carbon sectors.
Focus: Bonds
Hello, Mr. Bond
Due to widening fiscal deficits, the Gulf has flocked to the bond market, with 2016 marking many first-off and record-breaking issuances.
HE Sami Al Qamzi, Director General , Department of Economic Development (DED)
TBY talks to HE Sami Al Qamzi, Director General of the Department of Economic Development (DED), on transforming Dubai into a smart economy, creating the happiest city in the world, and securing a knowledge-based economy for the future.
Fahad Al Gergawi, CEO , Dubai FDI
TBY talks to Fahad Al Gergawi, CEO of Dubai FDI, on the advantages of doing business in Dubai, sustainable investment, and being future ready.
HE Hamad Buamim, President & CEO , Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry
TBY talks to HE Hamad Buamim, President & CEO of Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry, on boosting trade with Latin America, digitizing government services, and capitalizing on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
HE Abdul Baset Al Janahi, CEO , Dubai SME
TBY talks to HE Abdul Baset Al Janahi, CEO of Dubai SME, on the new bankruptcy law, the role of SMEs, and incentivizing people to start businesses in non-traditional sectors.
Smart Cities / Smart Solution
TBY gathered some key thought leaders in Dubai to discuss the growth and development of the smart cities concept.
Dubai's largest holding companies are ensuring the viability of the Emirate's critical relevance in the global economy.
HE Hani Al Hamli, Secretary General, Dubai Economic Council (DEC)
TBY talks to HE Hani Al Hamli, Secretary General of the Dubai Economic Council (DEC), on the importance of building the knowledge economy, how the Emirate is looking to benefit from the One Belt, One Road initiative, and the effect of PPP legislation.
Sami Touma, Managing Partner , Eptalex – MEG LEGAL SERVICES
TBY talks to Sami Touma, Managing Partner of Eptalex – MEG LEGAL SERVICES, on the evolution of the firm, things companies setting up in Dubai should keep in mind, and the outlook for the year ahead.
Why Dubai?
Dubai's tactical importance as an emerging hub for African, Asian, and European ventures has won it a hard-fought economic dexterity.
Review: Banking
Leveraging Hub Status
Despite stubborn global headwinds, not least the flaccid prices of the post-commodity era, Dubai has continued to march onward and upward, driven by its diversified economy and international reputation as a financial hub.
Shichito Tobari, Managing Director & Regional Head for the Middle East, MUFG’s core banking unit, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
TBY talks to Shichito Tobari, Managing Director & Regional Head for the Middle East, MUFG's core banking unit, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, on the subject.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair, CEO , Mashreq Bank
TBY talks to Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair, CEO of Mashreq Bank, on the importance of diversification, digitization, and the growth of e-commerce.
Julian Wynter, CEO , Standard Chartered
TBY talks to Julian Wynter, CEO of Standard Chartered, on the fundamentals that still make the UAE a great place to invest in, banking on Islamic finance, and burgeoning opportunities in wealth management.
Focus: Bankruptcy
A new rule book
The new bankruptcy law is a boon for the UAE's Doing Business ranking. It is expected to aid the flow of capital to start-ups and SMEs, segments that have been targeted as catalysts for innovation.
These companies are aggressively adopting new technologies to ensure their customers get the most out of their wages.
Robust and diversified
<em></em>Dubai's capital markets, like its wider financial universe, have established themselves as a globally relevant center for diversified trading.
Dubai's mandatory healthcare law has led to growth in the insurance sector, but firms still see significant untapped potential in a number of markets.
Michel Khalaf, President, US & EMEA , MetLife
TBY talks to Michel Khalaf, President, US& EMEA at MetLife,Inc., on how the UAE's needs have changed and how the company is adding value and a wider range o services to a growing population.
Though a difficult market at times, insurance in Dubai is far from a saturated one. In combination with recent laws in Dubai and Abu Dhabi that mandate health insurance for individuals, the time has never been better to be in insurance.
Review: Health
Healthy and Happy
With one of the most advanced healthcare systems in the region and a commitment to world-class care, Dubai is setting new standards for health and wellness.
Michael Pomerance, Managing Director, Cerner, Middle East and Africa
TBY talks to Michael Pomerance, Managing Director, Cerner, Middle East and Africa on integrating IT into healthcare, the UAE's fragmented market, and new methods of diagnosis.
David Hadley, CEO, Mediclinic
TBY talks to David Hadley, CEO of Mediclinic, on bridging gaps and facing the realities of healthcare provision in Dubai and beyond.
Dr. Misho Ravic, CEO, Dubai London Clinic (DLC)
TBY talks to Dr. Misho Ravic, CEO of Dubai London Clinic (DLC), on the clinic's evolution, prospects for medical tourism, and the merger and acquisition market.
Joe W. Henein, CEO & President , NewBridge Pharmaceuticals
TBY talks to Joe W. Henein, CEO & President of NewBridge Pharmaceuticals, on the importance of increased access to medicine in the region, role of SME's high-end specialty pharmaceutical services, and ambitions for growth and expansion.
Focusing on quality care and specialized services, hospitals continue to place the patient at the center of their plans.
Calculating the Risk
The healthcare sector represents a changing landscape for insurers specialized in ensuring Dubai is covered today and tomorrow.
Focus: Healthcare M&As
Service Provider M&As
The consistent stream of investment into healthcare has not necessarily been a boon for provision, and the fragmentation of the sector has created a market ripe for consolidation, which experts anticipate to continue through to 2018.
After making significant advances in school quality in recent years, government and educational leaders are working to strengthen international ties and turn Dubai into a new hub for research, better equipped to increase human capital and create a knowledge-based economy.
Dr. Abdulla Al Karam, Chairman of the Board of Directors-Director General, Dubai Knowledge & Human Development Authority (KHDA)
TBY talks to Dr. Abdulla Al Karam, Chairman of the Board of Directors-Director General, Dubai Knowledge & Human Development Authority (KHDA), on preparing the groundwork for a smarter and more entrepreneurial future.
Mohammed Abdullah, Managing Director, Dubai Knowledge Park and Dubai International Academic City (DIAC)
TBY talks to Mohammed Abdullah, Managing Director of Dubai Knowledge Park and Dubai International Academic City (DIAC), on changes in the employment market and how the education infrastructure is changing to cater for that.
In order to keep up with the needs of a diversifying economy, universities are adopting new strategies to provide the Emirate with a generation qualified to carry the economy forward.
Already less dependent on oil exports than its neighbors, heavy investment in renewables has Dubai well positioned to achieve a stable energy future.
Anita Nouri, CEO & Business Development Director, Green Energy Solutions & Sustainability (GESS)
TBY talks to Anita Nouri, CEO & Business Development Director, Green Energy Solutions & Sustainability (GESS), on the sector.
Marwan Abdulaziz, Executive Director, Dubai Science Park (DSP)
TBY talks to Marwan Abdulaziz, Executive Director, Dubai Science Park (DSP), on the sector.
HE Dr. Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, UAE Minister , Climate Change and the Environment
TBY talks to HE Dr. Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, UAE Minister of Climate Change and the Environment, on sustainability, cooperation, and partnership with regards to climate change policy.
HE Saif Humaid Al Falasi, Group CEO, ENOC
TBY talks to HE Saif Humaid Al Falasi, Group CEO of ENOC, on Dubai's expanding energy demands, retail innovations, and the role of young Emiratis in the industry.
Gridlock No Longer
With ambitious goals to produce 75% of the Emirate's energy from clean sources, one key aspect will be reducing unnecessary consumption and system wastage.
HE Ahmad M. Bin Shafar, CEO, Empower
TBY talks to HE Ahmad M. Bin Shafar, CEO of Empower, on the potential of district cooling services, Empower's competitive advantage, and industry competition.
Tarek El Sakka, CEO, Dubai Refreshment
TBY talks to Tarek El Sakka, CEO of Dubai Refreshment, on its new facility, competition in the region, and Dubai's strengths as a hub for the food and beverage industry.
Recent regulations are changing the business landscape in Dubai but still favor the Emirate's steady growth as a regional economic hub.
The UAE signed a Multilateral Convention under the OECD: Now what?
Eptalex – MEG LEGAL SERVICES looks at the latest developments in the UAE regulatory landscape.
Dubai’s business environment
A range of best practices and revamping strategies are changing the expectations for doing business in Dubai.
Ships Ahoy
Dubai's undisputed status as a global maritime hub, reinforced by a recent Menon Economics report that ranked Dubai fifth in the world in maritime capitals in terms of attractiveness and competitiveness, benefits from a regulated sector where investment keeps it at the cutting edge.
Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Group Chairman & CEO, DP World
TBY talks to Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Group Chairman & CEO of DP World, on developing multimodal transport links and its various projects around the world.
Amer Ali, Executive Director , Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA)
TBY talks to Amer Ali, Executive Director of Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA), on the newly launched DVMC, the strengths of the sector, and transforming Dubai into one of the world's most important maritime centers.
Kitack Lim, Secretary-General, International Maritime Organization (IMO)
TBY talks to Kitack Lim, Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), on overcoming economic headwinds in 2016, creating a forum for a more sustainable sector, and strategies to be expected in the future.
Focus: Dubai Water Canal
Making Waves on Dubai’s Coastlines
The Dubai Water Canal is the most recent megaproject to alter Dubai's natural harbors, creating new waterways to connect the city's bodies of water and make waves in economic development.
Vijay Rangachar, Regional Managing Director , Maersk Training
TBY talks to Vijay Rangachari, Regional Managing Director of Maersk Training, on training clients on operational efficiency, the challenges of providing training, and programs in great demand.
Though the industry is picking up, the road to a solid recovery will be long and bumpy.
Focus: Global Reach of DP World
The familiar strategy of strong centralized leadership coupled with envious capital reserves and an aggressive acquisition strategy has lead DP World to global recognition within two decades. Today, the company's global positioning can be used as a tool for developing infrastructure in high-growth markets for larger benefits of UAE investment and trade.
Dubai's vast transport and logistics industry, supported by economic diversification, benefits from multimodal transportation, while green technologies counter future congestion.
HE Khalifa Al Zaffin, Executive Chairman, Dubai Aviation City Corporation (DACC) & Dubai South
TBY talks to HE Khalifa Al Zaffin, Executive Chairman of Dubai Aviation City Corporation (DACC) & Dubai South, on being a catalyst for business, the free zone's priorities, and supplying the right infrastructure.
Geoff Walsh, Country Manager, DHL Express UAE
TBY talks to Geoff Walsh, Country Manager of DHL Express UAE, on providing quality service, driving enhanced connectivity, and his outlook for the logistics sector.
Madhav Kurup, CEO (MENA & South Asia), Hellmann Worldwide Logistics
TBY talks to Madhav Kurup, CEO (MENA & South Asia) of Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, on solutions for the renewables sector and areas of future growth.
Despite a global slowdown, car companies are optimistic given the popularity and quality of their vehicles.
Focus: Hyperloop
Loopy heights
Dubai has agreed upon a deal with US start-up Hyperloop One to evaluate the construction of a near-supersonic transport link that could slash travel times between Dubai and Abu Dhabi to minutes
Rob Lloyd, CEO, Hyperloop One
TBY talks to Rob Lloyd, CEO, Hyperloop One, on the sector.
As a hub for business and tourism, the Dubai rental car market thrives as locals and foreigners alike look for the best solutions to get about.
TELECOMS, IT & MEDIA
The future of Dubai is smart, as even abstract concepts like happiness are assigned a numeric value.
TBY talks to Peter Hall, Managing Director of Global Exhibitions, on Middle East strategy.
Abdulqader Obaid Ali, CEO, Smartworld
TBY talks to Abdulqader Obaid Ali, CEO, Smartworld, on the sector.
HE Dr. Aisha bin Butti bin Bishr, Director General, Smart Dubai Office
TBY talks to HE Dr. Aisha bin Butti bin Bishr, Director General of Smart Dubai Office, on smart technology in the public sector, Dubai's partnerships with the private sector, and the ultimate goal of making Dubai the happiest city on earth.
HE Wesam Lootah, CEO, Smart Dubai Government
TBY talks to HE Wesam Lootah, CEO of Smart Dubai Government, on Dubai's unique smart city investments, the savings from these investments, and its magnetic pull for private-sector investment.
Focus: Happiness
According to a UN-affiliated survey, the UAE is home to the 28th happiest citizens in the world, and now the government is aiming to achieve 95% happiness by 2021 and become the world's happiest country.
Osman Sultan, CEO, Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company PJSC-du
TBY talks to Osman Sultan, CEO of du, on its disruptive market entry, multi-stakeholder ecosystems, and being at the center of this revolutionizing ecosystem.
Majed Al Suwaidi, Managing Director, Dubai Media City (DMC), Dubai Studio City (DSC), and Dubai Production City (DPC)
TBY talks to Majed Al Suwaidi, Managing Director of Dubai Media City (DMC), Dubai Studio City (DSC), and Dubai Production City (DPC), on fostering media innovation, growing the gaming industry, and supporting the film industry.
Ammar Al Malik, Director , Dubai Internet City (DIC)
TBY talks to Ammar Al Malik, Director of Dubai Internet City (DIC), on DIC's community and how it caters to both multinational companies as well as SMEs and start-ups.
Mutual Connections
As the ICT sector experiences a digitalization transformation, companies in Dubai are helping people connect and build connections.
Chris Govier, General Manager, Xerox Middle East
TBY talks to Chris Govier, General Manager of Xerox Middle East, on the company's strategy to diversify, invest in new technologies, and grow the market in the Middle East.
Santosh Varghese, Middle East & Africa, Toshiba Gulf
TBY talks to Santosh Varghese, General Manager, Middle East & Africa of Toshiba Gulf, on the company's brand in the region, new innovations, and the evolution of IT in Dubai.
Salem Al Marri, Assistant Director General , Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC)
TBY talks to Salem Al Marri, Assistant Director General of Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC), on the UAE's space program, training future astronauts, and developing earth observation satellites.
App, app & Away
This decade has seen the development of a new business model. It is one that has seen internet-based companies becoming multi-million dollar entities without owning any assets, their only service being the easing of usability.
Review: Construction
Building A Tomorrow
Dubai's construction sector has weathered slow years and looks poised to begin growing again thanks to a new wave of large-scale projects linked to Expo 2020.
The Real Estate
TBY talks to Rizwan Sajan, Founder & Chairman of DANUBE Group, on buying trends.
Wael Allan, CEO, Drake & Scull International
TBY talks to Wael Allan, CEO, Drake & Scull International, on the sector.
Yu Tao, President & CEO, China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) Middle East
TBY talks to Yu Tao, President & CEO of China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) Middle East, on working despite the construction slump and areas of interest to CSCEC.
Mohammed Al Rais, Senior Vice President & Managing Director , Hill International (Middle East)
TBY talks to Mohammed Al Rais, Senior Vice President & Managing Director of Hill International (Middle East), on diversifying its projects during downturns, its projects in Dubai, and upcoming prospects.
Dubai's real estate sector has slowed in recent years due to regional and global economic circumstances, but new growth in the affordable housing sector and the city's well-diversified economy have kept it in an enviable position.
Nick Maclean, Managing Director, CBRE Middle East
TBY talks to Nick Maclean, Managing Director, CBRE Middle East, on the sector.
J. Antonio Antoli, Managing Director, WIRED Corporation & Design plus Art
TBY talks to J. Antonio Antoli, Managing Director, WIRED Corporation & Design plus Art, on the sector.
Ali Lootah, Chairman, Nakheel
TBY talks to Ali Lootah, Chairman of Nakheel, on the development of the retail sector, growing interest in the middle-income sector, and cultivating steady income.
Building for Tomorrow
In spite of market volatilities and competition, real estate in Dubai offers opportunities for those prepared to invest in quality and to listen to the market's needs.
Having an integrated and solutions-minded approach to servicing real estate is key to growth and development within a competitive sector.
Our house, in the middle -income street
Dubai is renowned for its chart-topping growth rates in the real estate sector and eye-watering prices. But as the economy matures, a burgeoning middle class is looking for the more affordable options, a trend that the market is reacting to.
TOURISM, SPORTS & RETAIL
Already one of the world's premiere tourism destinations, Dubai is working on broadening its scope of offerings in order to expand into new markets.
Colm McLoughlin, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO, Dubai Duty Free
TBY talks to Colm McLoughlin, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of Dubai Duty Free, on expanding its core operations and minimizing wastage.
HE Saeed Mohammed Hareb, Secretary-General, Dubai Sports Council (DSC)
TBY talks to HE Saeed Mohammed Hareb, Secretary General of Dubai Sports Council (DSC), on what is being done to inspire the next generation of athletes in Dubai.
Focus: Golf tourism
A Top Tee
Long part of Dubai's sporting fabric, the Emirate's stunning golf greens are becoming a key focal point for the burgeoning tourism sector.
Patrick M. Chalhoub, CEO, Chalhoub Group
TBY talks to Patrick M. Chalhoub, CEO of Chalhoub Group, on riding the wave of e-commerce, trends to watch for the future, and the importance of trust.
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When Can I Swim After Getting a Bad Burn?
by Carol Brzozowski
Swimmers should avoid swim practice after a second-degree burn until healing is complete
Whether from too much sun or an accident that causes damage to your skin and deeper tissues, a second-degree burn is not only painful but can sideline swim practice until the skin is healed.
You can swim with burns while wearing a waterproof bandage within one to two days of the injury, says Lauren Ploch, a board-certified dermatologist in Augusta, Ga. Otherwise, the wait time depends on where the wound is located and its width, as some body areas heal faster than others, she adds.
If you don’t want to wear a waterproof bandage, you should avoid swimming until the burn is fully healed and no blistered or broken skin remains, says Dana Ellis, a board-certified dermatologist practicing in Newport Beach, Calif., who represented Canada in the pole vault at the 2004 Olympic Games.
There could be a higher risk of infection if you swim before the burn is fully healed, says Hayes B. Gladstone, president of the Gladstone Clinic in San Ramon, Calif., and former director and associate professor of dermatologic surgery at Stanford University.
Swim practice with broken skin should be avoided, whether it’s done in a chlorinated pool or the open water, Ellis says.
“Exposing broken skin to the chemicals in pool water or the high salt content of ocean water can cause irritation and possible infection,” she says.
Gladstone says there is a higher risk of infection with open water swimming.
“However, there is still bacteria in a chlorinated pool, and the chlorine can cause further irritation of the skin,” he adds.
Swimming after a second-degree burn can lead to complications when chemicals penetrate the layer of disrupted skin and cause problems with healing and possibly lead to infection, Ellis says.
Swimmers should first treat a blister or second-degree burn by soaking it with cold water— a cold compress—held to the skin to decrease pain, Ellis says.
“Ice should never be applied directly on a burn,” she says. “Antibacterial cream and a nonstick dressing or bandage applied and changed daily can be used to prevent infection. Ibuprofen or acetaminophen can be taken to help control pain and swelling.”
Ploch recommends washing wounds daily with warm water and a mild soap, followed by a rinse and a pat dry. Apply a healing ointment such as Vaseline, Vaniply Ointment, or CeraVe Healing Ointment and apply a bandage.
For those who do not have an allergy to sulfa, a silver sulfadiazine cream such as Silvadene can be prescribed, Gladstone says.
“Initially applying an antibiotic ointment for the first 48 to 72 hours twice per day to the burn and using Vaseline or Aquaphor at least twice per day will help reduce the risk of infection and aid in healing,” he adds. “Your skin likes to be moist.”
With treatment, second-degree burns usually heal with little or no scarring within about three weeks, Ellis says.
While accidents leading to second-degree burns sometimes cannot be avoided, there are measures swimmers can take to prevent second-degree burns from the sun.
“Many people develop second-degree burns from extended exposure to the sun,” Ellis says. “Sunburns can be prevented through the regular application of sunblock. A broad spectrum, water-resistant sunblock of at least SPF 30 is best, and frequent reapplication is key.”
It’s crucial to reapply sunblock every two hours, Gladstone says.
Choosing sunblock offers better protection against UVA and UVB rays that can cause burns and skin cancer, he adds, recommending products containing zinc oxide and titanium dioxide.
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The Indie Bestseller List, 8-31-16.
Originally Published: August 29, 2016 8:37 p.m.
The Indie Bestseller List
American Booksellers Assn.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
2. The Girls, Emma Cline
3. Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty
4. The Woman in Cabin 10, Ruth Ware
5. All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
6. The Black Widow, Daniel Silva
7. Heroes of the Frontier, Dave Eggers
8. Before the Fall, Noah Hawley
9. Dark Matter, Blake Crouch
10. The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy Schumer
2. When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
3. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
4. Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance
5. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo
6. American Heiress, Jeffrey Toobin
7. White Trash, Nancy Isenberg
8. Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
9. Hamilton: The Revolution, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter
10. Crisis of Character, Gary J. Byrne
TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION
1. The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
2. A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
3. After You, Jojo Moyes
4. In a Dark, Dark Wood, Ruth Ware
5. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, Fredrik Backman
6. Me Before You, Jojo Moyes
7. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
8. The Girl in the Spider's Web, David Lagercrantz
9. The Little Paris Bookshop, Nina George
10. See Me, Nicholas Sparks
TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION
1. Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg
2. Barbarian Days, William Finnegan
3. The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
4. You Are a Badass, Jen Sincero
5. Dead Wake, Erik Larson
6. The Wright Brothers, David McCullough
7. Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow
8. H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
9. Sully, Chesley Sullenberger, Jeffrey Zaslow
10. The Oregon Trail, Rinker Buck
1. Rogue Lawyer, John Grisham
2. X, Sue Grafton
3. Fool Me Once, Harlan Coben
5. Alert, James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
6. The Bone Labyrinth, James Rollins
7. Worth Dying For, Lee Child
8. Gray Mountain, John Grisham
9. A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
10. Doctor Sleep, Stephen King
EARLY & MIDDLE GRADE READERS
1. The BFG, Roald Dahl
2. The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle, Rick Riordan
3. Wonder, R.J. Palacio
4. Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson
5. Pax, Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.)
6. Smile, Raina Telgemeier
7. Drama, Raina Telgemeier
8. The Candymakers and the Great Chocolate Chase, Wendy Mass
9. The War That Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
10. Sisters, Raina Telgemeier
1. Nerve, Jeanne Ryan
2. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
3. An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Tahir
4. The Giver, Lois Lowry
5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.)
6. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer, Rick Riordan
7. The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaptation), Daniel James Brown
8. Paper Towns, John Green
9. Looking for Alaska (Special 10th Anniversary Edition), John Green
10. Nimona, Noelle Stevenson
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED
1. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.)
2. Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
4. The Day the Crayons Quit, Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.)
5. Pat the Bunny, Dorothy Kunhardt
6. Good Night, Gorilla, Peggy Rathmann
7. Little Blue Truck, Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry (Illus.)
8. Day Dreamers: A Journey of Imagination, Emily Winfield Martin
9. School's First Day of School, Adam Rex, Christian Robinson
10. The Day the Crayons Came Home, Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers (Illus.)
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Jetpacks may return in Call of Duty 2020, even though director hates them
by entertainment January 7, 2020, 9:23 am 137 Views 0 Comments
Call of Duty 2020 may bring jetpacks back, but the director despises them due to the negativity surrounding their use in previous entries (via DualShockers).
A fan asked Treyarch game director David “Vahn” Vonderhaar if jetpacks would be added to the next Call of Duty title. He emphatically answered, “NO.” As fans continued to press the issue, he joked that he was “hung from the highest branch” by the community with the mechanic that was used in each Call of Duty game between 2014 and 2017. Vonderhaar has since softened his stance and poked fun at people who are taking his words literally, so it seems the jury is still out on jetpacks.
Did I? I love tabloids.
— David “Vahn” Vonderhaar (@DavidVonderhaar) January 5, 2020
Call of Duty 2020 is being kept under wraps, but sources speaking to Kotaku allege that the game will be Black Ops V and will likely land on current and next-generation consoles. Moreover, the new game’s campaign may span the entire 40 years of the Cold War, featuring the Vietnam War and the Korean War. It is also said to be more graphic and more uncompromising than the soft reboot of Modern Warfare. We thought that Call of Duty game was all right: “a popcorn blockbuster that will satiate your hunger while you’re stuffing the baddies’ faces with bullets, before your tummy grumbles for something more substantial shortly after the credits roll.”
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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Home >Blog >Mozambique >The Outside-In Perspective
The Outside-In Perspective
Joelle Birge
MBA/MA in International Studies Candidate, The Wharton School
In late August, VillageReach welcomed a team of Wharton Business School students to work on a short-term pro bono consulting project, aiming to develop a diversification strategy for VillageReach in Mozambique. Although the team spent only nine days on the ground in Maputo, the project had been months in the making, starting with an initial dialogue between Ruth Bechtel, the Mozambique Country Director, and Wharton team leader Joelle Birge back in fall 2015. Coming from a variety of backgrounds, these four students were inspired to travel to Mozambique by their common interest in international development and global health. Joelle describes the work this team accomplished:
Project planning began with a series of calls between VillageReach and the Wharton team to refine the project scope and map out work plans and deliverables. Together with VillageReach, we decided that one of the best ways to leverage the team’s time in Maputo would be conducting interviews with public health stakeholders to gain an outside-in perspective on current areas of need and opportunity. Over the course of the spring and early summer, we conducted research on donors, NGOs and government organizations operating in Mozambique public health and used this research to work with VillageReach on defining a list of priority stakeholders to interview. This interview list served as the jumping off point for structuring the our on-the-ground work in Maputo.
Once our team arrived in Maputo on August 22, we got straight to work on a packed and growing schedule of meetings. We conducted interviews with a number of public and private donors, NGOs and government organizations, including UNICEF, CDC, UNFPA, USAID, Save the Children, Embassy of Ireland, NAIMA, World Vision, CMAM and more. Each meeting focused on discussing areas of greatest need in Mozambique public health, opportunities to address these needs, perceptions of VillageReach strengths, and logistical details such as funding, timelines and partnerships. Throughout the interviewing process, we were joined by former VillageReach Malawi Country Director Barbara Singer, who helped to provide detail on VillageReach’s Malawi projects. In between meetings, we met with VillageReach employees to learn more about current projects such as SELV, mVaccination and the transportation partnership with Medecins Sans Frontiers. Each conversation brought us one step closer to weaving together various recurring themes and ideas into a set of cohesive recommendations.
In addition to conducting interviews, we also had the opportunity to visit a community health facility in Boane and the provincial health center in Matola. These visits helped bring to life some of the challenges which interviewees had described: long lines in the maternal and child health ward, mothers clutching their children’s paper vaccination records, stacks of binders holding several years of patient health data.
It was incredibly interesting and valuable to witness firsthand some of the issues facing Mozambique’s community health facilities and to envision how VillageReach can help address these difficulties.
At the end of a short yet enriching nine days in Maputo, we delivered a diversification strategy report: suggestions to VillageReach about potential future projects and recommendations of how they might move forward. From our interviews and research, we identified recurring themes around areas of greatest need in the Mozambique public health system. Taking a high-level look at these needs helped us create a list of projects VillageReach could consider working on in the future. We took our recommendations one step further, using five key criteria to rank these ideas. We looked at the urgency of the unmet need, how well it fit with VillageReach strategy, VillageReach’s experience and capacity to work on the idea, potential partners and funding sources, and how interested the Ministry of Health was. These were all used to help VillageReach identify short, medium, and long-term areas of potential impact. Finally, our report provided some perspective on the current economic situation in Mozambique, and how this might impact funding of these potential projects.
Overall, it was an incredibly enriching and valuable experience for everyone involved. We very much enjoyed our time in Mozambique and look forward to seeing some of their work put into action as VillageReach continues to grow and expand.
Categories: Mozambique
Tags: Mozambique, Partnerships, public health
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London at the Shows: The Comebacks
By Mark Holgate
“We're all about dressing real women,” said Kim Winser, CEO of Aquascutum, today at the British brand's show at the Saatchi Gallery on the King's Road. To prove her point, Aquascutum continued the trend seen on New York runways of bringing back the models of yore, with a roll call of British megafaces: Stella Tennant (left), Yasmin LeBon, Cecilia Chancellor, Susie Bick, Lorraine Pascal, Alek Wek, and perhaps most anticipated, Jenny Howarth, whose peroxide crop, boyish frame, and Bodymap wardrobe predates Agyness Deyn by about 25 years.
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Recital Requirements
Recital Request Form
Pre-Recital Audition and Recital Repertoire Form
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All music majors and minors are required to present a senior recital according to the guidelines presented in this handbook. Students completing a Bachelor of Music degree in music performance must also present a recital during their junior year.
Students preparing for these degree recitals must be enrolled in lessons with their major teacher for a minimum of two quarters immediately preceding the performance as well as during the quarter in which the recital is given.
Senior music major recitals may be given only after the student has had upper division standing for at least one academic year.
Minors must complete three credits of upper division applied studies prior to giving their senior recital.
1) Initial recital request
Six months prior to proposed date
Due: Completed Recital Request form
Recitals are scheduled in consultation with the music faculty. A recital request form listing the proposed date and repertoire must be completed and submitted for faculty approval at least six months prior to the proposed recital date.
Students also must remember to register for their recital in the appropriate quarter. The recital is listed as a zero-credit course, and it is a graduation requirement. Students should register as follows:
Majors: MUPF 387 Junior Recital (required of BMus in performance only)
Minors: MUPF 486 Senior Recital
Majors: MUPF 487 Senior Recital (BA and BMus)
2) Pre-recital audition
One month prior to approved recital date
Due: Pre-recital Audition form
The planned program must be performed in its entirety in a pre-recital audition for a panel of no fewer than three faculty members. Upper-division status must be achieved and all music major requirements for piano proficiency completed prior to the pre-recital audition.
The pre-recital must take place no later than one month prior to the recital. It is the student’s responsibility to contact and confirm the availability of three faculty members with sufficient notice (a minimum of two weeks prior) regarding the upcoming pre-recital audition. The faculty should be selected in consultation with the student’s applied lesson teacher and include at least one full-time faculty member. The student also must schedule a time in the auditorium with the music office and confirm the availability of collaborative musicians.
A separate pre-recital form must be submitted. It requires the department chair’s signature prior to the pre- recital as well as complete repertoire information in program order. The student gives the completed form to the applied music teacher who will then submit the form to the music office no later than the day after the pre-recital.
3) Posters and programs
Two weeks prior to scheduled recital date
Due: Completed poster and program each following an approved template
Printed Programs
Students are required to prepare the printed programs for all degree recitals. Programs must have approved recital request and pre-recital forms, along with accurate and complete titles of all compositions, movement names, and complete names of composers and their birth and death dates. Program information must be submitted to the music office for copying no later than two weeks before date of performance.
Printed programs must follow a specific format, so please use approved template. Failure to meet the deadline will constitute a $50 late fee.
Text translations and program notes, if desired, must be prepared by the student in consultation with his or her applied lesson teacher well in advance of the recital. Final approval of these additions must be granted by the student’s teacher in order to be included in the program.
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Students may design their own recital posters with approval from the music administrative assistant or department chair. (Guidelines for designing a poster are available in the music office.) Students wishing to design their own posters must notify the administrative assistant immediately after the pre-recital approval, and the finished design should be submitted to the music office at least two weeks prior to the approved recital date. Students who do not wish to create their own poster design should confirm after their pre-recital that one will be produced by the music office.
The Music Department provides punch, napkins, and cups for senior recitals. Students are welcome to bring additional items to serve at their reception.
Non-Degree Recitals
Students wishing to perform a non-degree recital should submit a request for their preferred time and date of the recital to the music department chair at least one month in advance of the proposed recital date. The chair will discuss the proposed date and time with the music faculty, and if the date is approved, the student may confirm the recital with the administrative assistant in the music office. Printed programs and posters may be prepared by the student if the recital date is approved.
Scope of Degree Recitals
Bachelor of Music in music performance
A full recital (minimum of 45 minutes of performance time) must be presented in both the junior and the senior year.
Bachelor of Music in music education
A full recital (minimum of 45 minutes of performance time) must be presented in the student’s chosen performance area in the senior year.
Bachelor of Arts in music
Majors may choose to present a full solo recital (45 minutes minimum) or a collaborative recital, or with departmental permission, they may do a research or theory project instead. Students interested in completing a project are encouraged to consult with their adviser and the department chair well in advance of their senior year, and they must submit their request to pursue this option no later than the time of their jury for upper-division status. (Please consult the Undergraduate Bulletin, 2016- 2017, p.177 and p.309, regarding guidelines and the course description for MUHL 479 Directed Research/Project.)
Minor in music
Minors will perform a joint recital as they conclude their performance studies. A minimum of 20 minutes of music from at least two eras is required. Voice students will perform texts in at least two languages, including French, German, Italian, or English.
Recital Repertoire
Students select their recital repertoire in consultation with their applied lesson teacher. The recital program must include repertoire from at least three contrasting periods and styles. The following classifications are intended to provide some guidance:
Brass, Strings, Woodwinds: Baroque and earlier, Classical, Romantic, 20th- or 21st-century
Classical Guitar: Renaissance, Baroque, Classical or Romantic, 20th- or 21st-century Organ: Baroque and earlier, Classical or Romantic, 20th- or 21st-century
Percussion: One movement of a major work for solo performer and orchestra may be included. The program should include one transcribed work by a pre-20th-century composer. Percussionists must perform works on all of the following instruments: marimba (xylophone and/or vibraphone), timpani, multiple percussion, snare drum.
Piano: Baroque, Classical (including Beethoven), Romantic, 20th- or 21st-century
Voice: Songs or arias written before 1800 (including at least one in Italian), German Lieder, French art songs, contemporary songs with original English text
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Virginia Politics
Fairfax board pledges to weigh ‘equity’ when making decisions
Fairfax board of supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova (Tom Jackman)
By Antonio Olivo
Antonio Olivo
Reporter covering government, politics and demographics in Northern Virginia
Virginia’s largest jurisdiction resolved Tuesday to approach decisions surrounding police, schools and even land-use through a prism of racial and social equity.
A resolution unanimously approved by Fairfax County’s Board of Supervisors aims to address disparities in the county of 1.1 million residents by allocating more funds in some areas and considering the importance of diversity in hiring and other decisions.
“We want to make sure that when we’re making a decision we’re thinking in terms of: Does this acknowledge the importance of equity?” said board chair Sharon Bulova (D).
The policy, which county officials said they had been working toward for about a year, comes in the wake of a series of protests fueled by anger among African Americans over fatal police shootings.
[Dallas police chief describes stress, threats against family]
Locally, four people were arrested and charged Monday for obstructing traffic outside the county jail during a protest over the 2015 stun gun incident that killed Natasha McKenna, a mentally ill woman who was struggling with county sheriff’s deputies inside the jail.
The county is in the process of adopting a series of police reforms stemming from that incident and the 2013 fatal police shooting of John Geer.
But Fairfax officials said they also hope to address frustrations that go beyond interactions with the police.
For example, the resolution could mean allocating more funds toward turf playing fields in low-income areas that do not have wealthy athletic associations footing the bill, Bulova said.
It could also mean ensuring that children in low-income families get access to preschool and other tools to help them succeed, said Supervisor Cathy Hudgins (D-Hunter Mill,) who was part of a task force that helped develop the resolution.
Though some residents may be against using county funds to help some areas over others, Hudgins argued that the policy will ultimately benefit all of Fairfax County.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re over here or over there; if you get to third grade and you’re still not reading, you’re going to be a problem for all of us as a community,” she said.
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Hope Hicks: The quiet one in Trump’s White House suddenly feels the glare
Mary Jordan and
Mary Jordan
National political correspondent
Josh Dawsey
Reporter covering the White House
February 10, 2018 at 11:46 AM EST
In a White House full of noise, she is the quiet one. Not the TV gladiator, not press room warrior, not a general. Certainly not the Mooch.
Hope Hicks, the discreet aide always at President Trump’s side and whose desk is just outside the Oval Office, is his right-hand woman. Improbably, the former model, at only 29, has worked with Trump longer than anyone he is not related to at the White House.
But now Hicks is suddenly frying under the spotlight of scandal, a central figure in two White House controversies — the Russian investigation and the departure of a senior White House aide accused of physically abusing two ex-wives.
Hicks has been dating Rob Porter, 40, who left his job Wednesday, and was involved in crafting the widely condemned initial White House defense of him. Chief of Staff John F. Kelly called him “a man of true integrity.”
After Porter began dating Hicks, an ex-girlfriend brought accusations to the White House about Porter’s abuse of his ex-wives.
In recent days, Trump has complained about Hicks — a rare occurrence for a president who rages about others but rarely about her. Her colleagues have quietly accused her of looking out for Porter and not the White House, and she has been visibly upset in recent days as her personal life becomes a national news story. West Wing aides say she has glanced at the TV screens, seen her face and quickly looked away.
It was Hicks’s quiet judgment that had been her most valuable currency in Trump’s world. Now, she is attracting so much unwanted attention that paparazzi are even following her. But it is a sign of her influence with Trump, and her unusual role in the West Wing, that no one is seriously talking about removing Hicks even as the turmoil is threatening Kelly’s job. “Hope is absolutely fantastic. She was with the campaign from the beginning, and I could not ask for anything more,” Trump said Saturday. “Hope is smart, very talented and respected by all.”
“Trump has seen her loyalty on the campaign and during the turbulent beginning of this administration, and he relies on her,” said Christopher Ruddy, a close friend of the president and chief executive of the conservative website Newsmax.
Hicks knew an ex-girlfriend had called and made allegations to White House Counsel Donald McGahn in late 2017 but continued to date Porter. She told others she was not aware of the extent of the allegations. She did not make the president aware of the developments.
When the allegations became public earlier this week, Kelly initially said: “Rob Porter is a man of true integrity and honor, and I can’t say enough good things about him.” That response, which was partially orchestrated by Hicks, caused outrage among many. The National Organization for Women called Kelly an “enabler of domestic violence.”
Others in the White House said Kelly believes that Hicks did not tell him all the facts about Porter — and should have recused herself from the matter because she was dating him. A White House spokesman said Kelly and Trump remain confident in her performance.
A former Rhodes scholar with a Harvard law degree, Porter has called the allegations “vile” and “simply false.” Hicks has told others in the White House she is upset about the accusations but has not publicly criticized Porter, White House aides say. As White House aides scrambled to respond, Hicks has told others it would be entirely out of character for him to hit an ex-wife.
Hicks declined to comment for the story.
Porter departed the White House after the Daily Mail published a photo this week of one of the women he was married to, Colbie Holderness. She said Porter punched her in the face, and she produced a photo of her eye with a yellow and purple bruise, which she said was evidence of the violence. A second former wife, Jennie Willoughby, also said Porter was physically abusive.
Second White House official departs amid abuse allegations, which he denies
Hicks, whose father is a public relations executive who worked with the National Football League, has more experience in public relations and fashion than politics. As a teen, she modeled for Ralph Lauren. After graduating from Southern Methodist University, she worked for a PR firm that counted the Trump Organization as a client. The Trumps persuaded her to work directly for the family business; among other duties, she helped publicize Ivanka Trump’s fashion and accessory line.
During the election, Hicks was romantically linked to Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager. Trump fired Lewandowski, who at one point was accused of physically pushing a female news reporter.
In his campaign memoir “Let Trump Be Trump,” Lewandowski described the unusual breadth of Hicks’s responsibilities.
“When we landed, it was Hope’s job to steam him. ‘Get the machine!’ he’d yell,” Lewandowski wrote. “And Hope would take out the steamer and start steaming Mr. Trump’s suit, while he was wearing it! She’d steam the jacket first and then sit in a chair in front of him and steam his pants.”
Lewandowski also described her as having a photographic memory, and others praised her savvy. Ruddy said Hicks’s good looks cause some to overlook her ability.
“She’s really quite talented and able,” he said.
Hicks wields considerable power as Trump’s gatekeeper and is often the last to see him every day as she walks him back to his residence.
Last summer, Trump tapped her to succeed Anthony Scaramucci, also known as “The Mooch,” who was fired after only 10 days. By all accounts, she was communications director anyway — dealing with the most sensitive stories about Trump, the special counsel probe and his family.
Kelly offers account of Porter exit that some White House aides consider untrue
Hicks has little experience in Washington and is quick to admit it.
During meetings, she has asked basic questions about the health-care law or how Congress might work on any given issue, according to two people at the White House. “Most people in Washington aren’t going to ask a question in front of their peers in a large meeting. They are going to wait, keep quiet, go look it up and go learn about it,” one aide said. “I actually respect her for it because she got answers.”
Trump has been known to turn to Hicks while he is talking to reporters and ask her which poll showed him with high favorable ratings. He analyzes TV coverage and individual pundits with her. In a move that shows his trust in her, Trump will even occasionally preview one of his tweets with Hicks — although she does not tweet herself.
Trump often shouts for Hicks to come immediately to the Oval Office. She rarely leaves the West Wing during the day, aware he could want her to come in the office at a moment’s notice.
“He’ll say, ‘Hope, remember when we did this? Tell the guy over here what it was like when we won New Hampshire,’ ” another official said. “ ‘Hope, get in here!’ ”
Recently, Hicks’s name has surfaced relating to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into whether Trump sought to obstruct a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. She helped draft a news statement on Air Force One, partly at the direction of the president, that misrepresented the purpose of Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer during the campaign, according to multiple administration officials.
Hicks has been interviewed by Mueller’s investigators.
She has also raged against those who leak to the news media and has defended Trump even in situations where other aides rolled their eyes. She has frequently told others that Trump is charming and that she wishes others saw him as she does.
“To the public, she remains in the background,” said Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president. ‘To the president, she is front and center.”
Carol D. Leonnig contributed to this report.
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Florida sheriff blasts Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'I'll lock the rascal up'
Law_Crime
Grady Judd
Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County, Florida, has refused to back down after an atheist group complained he violated the First Amendment by giving a church sermon in his law enforcement uniform. (Screengrab via churchatthemall.com) ** FILE ** more >
By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times - Friday, March 11, 2016
A Florida sheriff said Wednesday that he’ll arrest Apple CEO Tim Cook if the tech company ever refuses to unlock an iPhone for his investigators.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd issued the warning at a press conference this week where authorities discussed the arrests of five individuals accused of being linked to the brutal January 2015 death of Robert Banks, an alleged drug dealer.
Polk County sheriff’s deputies on Tuesday night arrested three brothers — Brian Johnson, Jr. 25, Anthony Johnson, 19, and Nathan Johnson, 17 — and their friend, Michael Gunn, 25, in connection with the January murder. Brian Johnson Sr., the 47-year-old father of the brothers, was arrested Wednesday and charged as an accessory after the fact, The Ledger reported.
Sheriff Judd told reporters that the murder suspects took pictures of Banks’ lifeless body and that the images are believed to still be on one of their smartphones. The suspects are cooperating with authorities and have given up the passcodes to their devices so investigators can search for the grisly pictures, the sheriff said.
But amid the Justice Department’s ongoing efforts to access the contents from an iPhone at the center of an unrelated terrorism probe, Sheriff Judd said he’s ready to do whatever it takes if Apple stonewalls any similar attempts out of Polk County.
“Let me tell you, the first time we do have trouble getting into a cellphone, we’re going to seek a court order from Apple, and when they deny us, I’m going to go lock the CEO of Apple up,” Sheriff Judd said at Wednesday’s press conference. “I’ll lock the rascal up.”
Justice Department attorneys last month asked a District Court judge to force Apple into giving investigators access to content stored on an iPhone 5c belonging to Syed Farook, half of the husband-and-wife duo blamed for killing 14 people during a December shooting spree in San Bernardino, California.
Lawyers for the U.S. government believe Farook’s iPhone may have evidence critical to their investigation and could potentially link the couple to international terrorism, but require Apple’s assistance since the couple died during a shootout with police, leaving authorities unable to access the phone’s data.
Apple said that assisting the FBI any further would involve writing and deploying new, exploitable code that would compromise security for millions of customers and set a dangerous precedent.
“You cannot create a business model to go, ‘We’re not paying attention to the federal judge or the state judge. You see, we’re above the law,’” Sheriff Judd said, the Orlando Sentinel reported. “The CEO of Apple needs to know he’s not above the law, and neither is anybody else in the United States.”
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Home / The Webstix Blog / Who is Visiting Your Website?
Who is Visiting Your Website?
Tuesday, 21 April 2009 11:41 am | Written by Tony Herman
Ever wonder that? Not everyone comes in through the home page, you know. Many people see an inside page first - which makes you want to check if your contact information is on every page and if every page of your site tells people what you do. If you're site's using frames, you're even in more trouble - but that's another story altogether.
So how do you know? You can try to ask people on your contact us form where they heard of you - and you should be doing that, but that's only getting a tiny bit of information. There's a whole world of information available about every single visitor that comes to your site. It's almost scary how much information is available - although it doesn't get too personal, thank God.
You can find out things like:
Which pages people are entering your site.
What country, what state and what city your website visitors are coming from.
What search terms / keywords people are using to find your website (this is VERY useful).
What websites people are coming from.
What time of day you get the most traffic / which days you get the most traffic.
How many people come to your home page and instantly leave (your bounce rate).
How long people are on your site and how many pages they visit.
Which pages people are leaving your site.
And LOTS more information. Lots more.
With this information, you'll be able to:
Fine tune your website and add in more "call to action" statements where needed - to convert more sales.
Make changes to your home page and see what difference it makes - it's all trackable.
Know if any web advertising you're spending money on is worth it.
Fine tune your website's copy, adding in more keywords that relate to your website.
This service is provided by Google and it's called Google Analytics. The cool thing is, it's free. Yeah, free!
Getting it installed is not always easy if you don't know how to do it or the person you'd ask to do it is overwhelmed with work and won't get to this for weeks. The way we see it, you're losing valuable information every day you delay adding Google Analytics to your website. That's why we install this on every website we make.
We now offer a service where we can add this to virtually any website out there. We'll just need FTP access to your site and we'll set up an Google Analytics account for you and install the code on up to 40 pages on your website for $99. On some template-based websites, this code only needs to be added to a few files. On other websites, it needs to be manually added to every page. If you need the code installed on more then 40 pages, we can work out a price for your website (since you do want it on every page) but the 40 page price will work for many websites out there.
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Australian police make record meth haul; 8 arrested
Authorities in Western Australia have seized a record 1.2 metric tonne shipment of methamphetamine, a...
Posted: Dec 22, 2017 3:05 PM
Authorities in Western Australia have seized a record 1.2 metric tonne shipment of methamphetamine, a statement from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) says.
The meth haul, worth 1.04 billion Australian dollars ($800 million), is the largest in Australian history and is believed to have originated in China. The swoop required months of work and the cooperation of multiple Australian agencies.
Police arrest number of suspects while offloading tonne of meth from a ship into a van
Record-breaking haul has a value of over $1 billion Australian dollars
After being transferred from a ship off the coast, the drugs were allegedly offloaded from a vessel, the Valkoista, in the early hours of Thursday morning and were being packed into a white hire van in the Port of Geraldton, 400 km (around 250 miles) north of Perth.
Agents swarmed the van and the ship simultaneously, arresting six Australians.
Two other Australian nationals were arrested at a hotel in northern Perth following the operation. All eight were charged with either importing or possessing a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug. Both charges potentially carry a life sentence.
The six-month long operation focused on a organized crime group operating in the country.
Twenty search warrants across three states have also been served.
Western Australia Police Commissioner Chris Dawson told a press conference in Perth that the seizure represents a "tremendous interruption of the supply chain," noting that the haul represents "13 million deals, that has now been prevented from hitting our cities, our communities, and most importantly, impacting the lives of everyday Australians."
Police seized 59 bags of meth, also referred to as ice in Australia, each weighing 20 kg (44 lb) from the van, as well as one additional 20 kg bag from the Valkoista.
The total haul of 1.2 tonnes of the drug outweighed Australia's previous biggest methamphetamine seizure in Melbourne -- 903 kg -- at the beginning of the year, and is the biggest-ever drug seizure in Western Australia.
"The success of this operation is a testament to the patience and dedication of our investigators, who have been working around the clock in the lead-up to Christmas to disrupt this record importation," AFP Deputy Commissioner Operations Leanne Close said.
"The AFP will allege in court these men intended to distribute the drugs along the east coast of Australia -- what these men didn't count on was a calculated, intelligence-led response from the WA Joint Organised Crime Task Force which drew on the strengths and capabilities of the different agencies involved."
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4 Things You Need to Know About Yesterday's Boston Marathon
By Alison Goldman
Nicolaus Czarnecki/Corbis Images
Yesterday's Boston Marathon was an incredible display of speed, strength, and endurance. It was also a remarkable show of compassion and peace. Congratulations to all who participated in the event, from the runners to the organizers to the spectators. It's tough to pick out the most moving aspects of the day, but we did our best:
An American Man Won the Boston Marathon for the First Time Since 1983
Rita Jeptoo of Kenya defended her title and took home the women's win. The major talker, though, was Meb Keflezighi: Yesterday, Meb (who won the New York City Marathon title in 2009 and got a silver medal in the 2004 Olympics) became the first American man to nab the Boston title in 31 years—and the first American overall to get it since Lisa Larsen-Weidenbach won the women's portion in 1985. Meb wore the four names of last year's victims on his bib. "I wanted to run…for Boston and for the United States and for the world," he told the Universal Sports Network after crossing the finish line.
And an American Woman Won the Women's Wheelchair Division
Tatyana McFadden, who also won this race last year (She swept the Boston, Chicago, New York City, and London Marathons in 2013, and she won the London Marathon again last week—no biggie.), took home this year’s title in a time of one hour, 35 minutes, and six seconds. Oh, and yesterday was her 25th birthday.
People Showed Up
A whopping 35,755 people registered for this year's Boston Marathon. And according to the New York Times, a crowd of one million people cheered them on. Why that's especially amazing: That's double the usual turnout, per the Times.
…And So Did the 'Boston Strong' Spirit
It was alive and well yesterday when, as The Washington Post pointed out, runners stopped to help another finish the race:
And Patrick Downes and Jessica Kensky, who had only been married a few months when they each lost a leg in last year's bombings, crossed the finish line this year holding hands:
PHOTO: Marathon bombing survivors Patrick Downes and Jessica Kensky cross the finish line. http://t.co/1S6eAUNh5h pic.twitter.com/WZm9zV54rB
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) April 21, 2014
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Woody Guthrie Elementary School Curriculum
Annotated by Theresa Kubasak
Bell, Judy and Nora Guthrie, ed. Woody Guthrie Songs. 1994.64p. Ludlow Music
All ages. A collection of Woody Guthrie's original artwork as well as biographical photographs embellish this music book containing nearly fifty songs. An extensive discography exemplifies the legacy of Guthrie, reaching back to Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry and the Weaversthrough the folk movement of Peter, Paul and Mary, Judy Collins and Tom Paxton and onto contemporary performers Holly Near, Bruce Springsteen and Michelle Shocked. Easy chords and all the verses make this a valuable Woody resource.
Brimner, Larry Dane. A Migrant Family. 1992.40p. Lerner Publications Company (0-8225-2554-2)
Gr. 3-6. Evocative of the Woody Guthrie ballad, "Deportee", this is a realistic portrayal of current migrants in California. Black and white photos taken in 1991 parallel the work of Dorothea Lange in the thirties, particularly the plaintiff images of children and families at work camps. The twelve-year-old protagonist, Juan, states, "They want us to work. And they want us to disappear."
Christensen, Bonnie. Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People. 2001.32p. Alfred A. Knopf (0-375-81113-3)
Gr.3-6. The legacy of American folksinger-songwriter Woody Guthrie is furthered by this biography accompanied by song lyrics and lovely woodcut-like illustrations. From "This Land is Your Land" to "So Long, it's Been Good to Know Yuh," it is formatted as a picture book yet has an abundance of information per page. It includes a timeline of important events in Guthrie's life. More than a read-aloud, this is an accessible resource for students seeking information about the dustbowl era, unions, migrant workers and social issues of the time.
Coombs, Karen Mueller. Woody Guthrie: America's Folksinger. 2002.120p. Lerner (08225-3750-8)
Gr. 6-8. Typed snippets of Woody Guthrie songs embellish the journalistic writing of this biography, part of the Trailblazer Biography series. The addition of audio resources in the bibliography strenghtens this books use as a resource for middleschoolers.
Durbin, William. Journal of C.J. Jackson : A Dust Bowl Migrant. 2002.175p. Scholastic (0-439-15306-9)
Gr. 4-6. Historical fiction from the Dear America series follows the format of a well-kept journal, revealing realities affecting a family from Oklahoma as they suffer the dust storms of the thirties and travel west on Route 66, only to suffer more from prejudice on the part of Californians. A child's version of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath except for an inconsistent ending during the last dozen pages of the book. Photos from the Farm Security Administration and a foldout map of Route 66 enrich the story.
Guthrie, W. and Marjorie Mazia Guthrie. Woody's 20 Grow Big Songs. 1992. 46p. Harper Collins (0-06-020282-3)
Preschool-3. Clap and sing and "Put Your Finger in the Air" with this collection of twenty children's songs by Woody Guthrie. Playfully written for daughter Cathy Ann, Guthrie's rhymes and rhythms draw in even the youngest child. What adds special charm to this book is the extensive use of Woody's own illustrations, used with permission from the Woody Guthrie Archives. Includes a special invitation to create music for the lyrics to "Little Bird", a song Guthrie "never did get around to making up music for."
Guthrie, W. and Vladmir Radunsky. Bling Blang. 2000.18p. Candlewick Press (0-7636-0769-X)
Preschool-3. Animated collage work blasts color over every page as the lyrics of Woody Guthrie's "Bling, Blang, Hammer With My Hammer" run around. The catchy tune and chorus make it impossible to read just once. As a clever surprise there is sheet music on the underside of the book jacket. Information on contacting the Woody Guthrie Archives is included.
Guthrie, W. and Vladmir Radunsky. Howdi Do. 2002.18p. Candlewick Press (0-763-1261-8); $12.99 with CD (0-7636-0768-1)
Preschool-3. Radunsky's wacky cat and dog are as funny as Guthries's silly lyrics in this song-story book. Readers are beckoned to jump in and sing on the chorus as it appears in different colored fonts. Available with CD featuring polka-like accordion, klezmerish violin and tuba accompanied by children's voices from P.S. 89, New York.
Guthrie, W. and Vladmir Radunsky. My Dolly. 2001.18p. Candlewick Press (0-7636-0770-3)
Preschool-3. Colorfully jubilant collage characters dance across the pages in too-big shoes to the lyrics of Woody Guthrie's "My Dolly." Children's drawings and printing in the final pages welcome even the youngest readers to sing. Special appearances by Radunsky's own two cloth dolls bring a 3-dimensional surprise.
Hall, Barbara. Woody's Music, Appleseeds , Jan. 2000. Vol.2 #5 Cobblestone, (038-2444-752)
Gr. 2-6. The Woody Guthrie Archives provided a picture of the original "This Land is Your Land" as well as early photos of Guthrie playing with his children at the beach and playing for an audience of children in New York to accompany this article introducing students to Woody Guthrie. Full of family anecdotes from daughter Nora Guthrie, the up tempo tone entices children to find out more about Guthrie on their own. This volume of Appleseeds is a thematic issue based on the guitar and is an excellent classroom resource, especially for literarture circles based on nonfiction.
Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. 1997. 227p. Scholastic (0-590-36080-9)
Gr. 4-6. The harsh reality of the dustbowl is revealed in the poetic journal of a young girl growing up in Oklahoma. The shock of a family member on fire is evocative of Woody Guthrie's own sister. Hopeful strains remain in this Newberry Award winner as Billie Jo writes, "Hard times are about losing spirit and hope."
Jakobsen, Kathy. This Land is Your Land. 1998.36p. Little, Brown and Co (0-316-39215-4)
All ages. Sing along with these famous lyrics as beautiful quilt-like paintings of U.S. geography roll by, framed by traditional woodcarvings done by Guthrie-esque hobos, miners, lumberjacks and workers from the early and mid part of the 1900's. Tiny captions inserted into corners bring insight into the life of Woody Guthrie. A special foldout page shows people "from California to the New York island" celebrating with song. The flip side is a tribute by musician and friend Pete Seeger, with photographs from the Woody Guthrie Archives. Bright end-papers are an annotated map of Route 66.
Lindop, Edmund. The Turbulent Thirties. 1970.90p. Franklin Watts (531-01945-4)
Gr. 3-6. A traditional book with historical photos of breadlines, Hooverville shanties and dust clouds rolling darkly over Texas gives a view of the crises in the thirties. Students used to Internet and CNN may view these images as ancient as Gettysburg. For this reason the pictures and captions are valuable resources even though the text is unremarkable. A provocative view of American citizenry shows veterans protesting at federal buildings in 1932 and frustrated voters challenging Roosevelt's interpretation of the Constitution.
Partridge, Elizabeth. This Land Was Made For You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie. 2002.218p. Viking (0-670-035-35-1)
Gr. 6-adult. Written by an author who immersed herself in everything Woody, this is an harmonious and attractive blend of narrative, first-hand interviews and archival material exuding the essence of Woody Guthrie. An honest and loving portrayal of Woody's vulnerability and creativity that deserves Pete Seeger's superlative recommendation: "The best book about Woody ever written."
Rogovin, Paula. The Research Workshop: Bringing the World Into Your Classroom. 2001.2224p. Heinemann, (0-325-00370-X)
Gr. K-2. Any teacher can develop a research workshop. And in this new, reader-friendly book, Paula Rogovin shows how to do it. Demonstrating how children's interests and questions become the central focus of the curriculum, she offers dozens of easy-to-use techniques for organizing the classroom and the school day to support student research. She also provides explicit guidelines for finding a wide range of resources, fostering family and community involvement, and dealing with assessment, homework, and diverse student interests and abilities. As examples of how to follow the guidelines, two complete research studies are included. Includes an entire section on Woody Guthrie.
Stanley, Jerry. Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp. 1991.86p. Crown Publications (0-517-58781-5)
Gr. 4-6. This compelling true story of migrants from Oklahoma and their lives as workers in California reads like a family scrapbook because of the intimacy of the narrative and the informal photographs of the time. Most valuable for its inspirational biography of Leo Hart and his amazing foresight, energy and dedication in providing dignity for migrant children by establishing a progressive school for them at Weedpatch Camp, Arvin, California. An excellent teacher resource with an extensive bibliography.
Thompson, K. and MacAustin, H., ed. Children of the Depression. 2002.194p. Indiana University Press (0-253-34031-4)
All ages. This oversize picture book is intriguing in its moving portrayal of children and families living, learning, playing and working. Indeed, these are the chapters into which photos from the Farm Security Administration are arranged. The authors state that they have been changed by these photos and write in the introduction "that children should not starve." This politicized viewpoint of putting the depression in a modern-day context is what differentiates this resource book from other compilations. The bibliography includes atypical books and articles as well as sources for oral histories.
Turner, Ann. Dust for Dinner. 1997.64p. Harper Trophy (0-06-444225-x)
Gr. 2-4. Historical fiction from the I Can Read Series presents the severe effects of the dustbowl on a typical Oklahoma family. Children will identify with the young siblings and their dog on long trip to California. The contrived ending with Papa getting a fine job and the family moving from migrant camp to a two story blue shuttered house is disappointing. However, this story is still a good first exposure for a young reader to the issues of the thirties.
Venezia, Mike. Dorothea Lange. 2000.32p. Children's Press (051-627-1717)
Gr. 2-6. In typical Venezia fashion, a combination of nonfiction narrative and photos is juxtaposed with a cartoon style describing the life and times of photographer Dorothea Lange. This delightful biography gives lots of detail in a relatively short time enabling young children to learn about the famous woman who documented "dustbowl refugees" in California. A list of places where Lange's work can be seen is provided in the back of the book.
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Quiet Torrential Sound Literature Review Example
Type of paper: Literature Review
Topic: Relationships, Energy, Life, Entertainment, Criticism, Belief, Sex, Women
In Joan Ackermann’s short play “Quiet Torrential Sound,” two sisters, Claire and Monica, sit down for a lunch while on vacation, after having seen an outdoor performance of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Monica talks her sister’s ear off while criticizing her, while Claire finally opens up about a sex workshop she took some time ago, in which she began to experience the thrill of orgasm. Throughout the scene, the power relationship between the two sisters changes and shifts, all the while tackling issues of sibling rivalry and sexual liberation.
In the opening conversation, Monica clearly dominates the scene – Claire merely responds with “mm”s and small, one-word responses while Monica drones on, passive-aggressively criticizing Claire about her appearance, her taste and her behavior. She proves herself to be the dominant force in the relationship, as Claire merely wishes to go about her business, while Monica feels the need to prove her superiority to others. Seeing the classical concert affirms her perceived good taste. In the beginning of the scene, Monica cattily derides the restaurant, through the flowers and vase, and sarcastically calling the place “charming.” She then proceeds to deride Claire’s assumed lack of vocabulary and her plain features, all under the guise of helping her.
The food that each of the characters orders is indicative of their characters and their outlooks. Monica orders decaffeinated coffee, with Sweet & Low; she makes a tremendous point to Nathan, the waiter, that she will be upset if he gives her caffeinated coffee. Throughout the scene, she continues to reference light, fat-free foods, like frozen light yogurt, indicating an ardent, obsessive desire to not get fat. Claire, on the other hand, orders a Coke and a hot fudge sundae, but changes her order to Diet Coke after a remark from Monica. Given her choice of beverage and the attitude with which she greets Claire’s choice, Monica is overly neurotically concerned about her figure and appearance, choosing to stress herself out by refusing to eat things that are caloric. Claire, on the other hand, simply wishes to get something that she will enjoy, regardless of whether or not it is fattening.
Monica, as a character, is a deeply abrasive yet conflicted woman who masks her insecurities through a thick veneer of snootiness and arrogance. In her constant criticism of Claire, she wishes to prove herself to be better-looking, more fashionable, and more tasteful than her sister. She misses no opportunity to mention the brand of bug repellant she uses, as well as the fact that they just went to a classical concert. Monica, in her dialogue, reveals a desperation to be a cultured woman; one can infer that she does not actually enjoy classical music as much as she claims, but goes to it in order to feel as though she is a cultured, sophisticated woman. Monica’s perspective is that excellence comes with perfection; she expresses her utter confusion at the fact that Beethoven went deaf, even though he was a genius.
Claire, on the other hand, is a much more confident, self-possessed person, though seemingly submissive on the outside. Claire, instead of actually feeling bad about herself, or buying Monica’s press, simply knows how to handle Monica; she lets Monica go on and on, and talk about herself. However, when the moment comes, Claire decides to mention the sex workshop that Monica had pointed her to (likely in another passive-aggressive putdown). Claire goes on to describe the positive turn her life has taken now that she has figured out how to orgasm.
The subject of the orgasm and the Beethoven concert are two parallel subjects within the play; these are two topics that Claire and Monica, respectively, latch onto as their means of power over the other. Monica is completely convinced that she is validated as a sophisticated, cultured person who can feel better about herself by listening to a classical music concert. Meanwhile, Claire is experiencing an honest, freeing experience through her sexual awakening. At the same time, both of these characters use their topics as weapons against the other. Claire is uncomfortable (or at least soft-spoken) when Monica insists on discussing the concert. Monica then attempts to distract herself with reading the brochure while Claire goes on about her new sex life and her incredible happiness. Claire goes on to compare an orgasm with Beethoven; she says that having an orgasm, and sharing that feeling with someone else, is better than “distant rolling hills,” or “Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony” (p. 1094).
Monica, despite her arrogant veneer, is jealous of Claire’s sexual accomplishments, and the fact that her orgasms are better than anything she aspires to experience. She then takes it out on Nathan, who has purposefully given her caffeinated coffee (likely due to her poor attitude). This is her attempt to gain power back in the relationship, as she tries to strong-arm her way into dominance. However, once that episode ends, Monica starts to calm down, especially as Claire gets up to leave. It is not until Claire reiterates the fact that Monica is her “only living sister” that Monica wakes up and realizes how she has been treating her own family. At that point, Monica apologizes (what is likely a challenging feat for her), finally using the same kind of short language that Claire used in the beginning. It is at this point that the power in the relationship has fully transferred to Claire.
In the end of the play, it is clear that there is a somewhat better understanding between the two, and the power gets equalized, more or less. Monica opens up and requests that Claire forward her any pertinent literature for the workshop, indicating a willingness to learn. At the same time, she still manages a small comment when she derides Claire for using “geez Louise”; however, the tone is different, as it comes from a more positive, teasing place instead of true criticism. Monica has accepted Claire as an equal in this moment – something Claire knew all along – and they begin a more equitable, amicable relationship.
In conclusion, “Quiet Torrential Sound” is about two sisters finding equity in their relationship through different means. All throughout their life, Monica has seemingly held the power in the relationship, as Claire unassumingly goes about her life, secure in herself. However, when she finally experiences her first orgasm, the start of a new sexual life that Monica has lacked, she feels the need to express that to her jealous sister, in order to demonstrate that she is her equal. At the end of the play, Monica realizes that she should tone down her attitude somewhat and humble herself, for once, to the possibility that her sister may have something to teach her.
Ackermann, J. (2010). Quiet Torrential Sound. Literature to Go, ed. Meyer. Bedford/St.
Martin’s.
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Snakeskin Road
By: James Braziel
Reviewed by: Andrew McNamara
Bantam, 2009
$15, Paperback
Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
At once the recognizable inscription marking the entrance gate of hell in the Inferno, Dante’s warning is equally appropriate for the apocalyptic vision of America depicted in James Braziel’s haunting new novel Snakeskin Road. Set in 2044, Braziel’s dystopian world is plagued by government corruption, and the southern United States—or more appropriately, what’s left of it—is ravaged by harsh, inhospitable deserts created by gaping holes in the earth’s ozone layer. As if that wasn’t enough, the government controls access to and from the aptly named Southeastern Desert, receding and redrawing the border between the desert and the "saved world" as the vast wasteland slowly eats its way north.
Caught in the midst of the rampant death and decay, Jennifer Harrison’s only ticket out of Birmingham, Alabama—at one time the last gateway to the "saved world"—is through indentured servitude. She leaves behind the only life she’s ever known, one marked by an austere living in bleak desert camp towns, where the only working life most know—including her husband—is deep within government controlled clay mines and labor camps. Along with her unborn child and Mazy, a teenage refugee left in her care, Jennifer begins the arduous journey along Snakeskin Road, the series of obscured roads and backwoods passages employed by smugglers dealing in human trafficking, in hopes that—after her contract expires—she’ll reach Chicago, one of the remaining autonomous, fortified city-states, and ultimately her freedom.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire—the climate and surroundings quickly change for Jennifer and those in her care, but the outlook in the Midwestern "free" territory is as corrupt and unwelcoming as the desert she leaves behind. The roads through the area are dangerous and dominated by roaming gangs, feuding farmers, ruthless bounty hunters, and black market profiteers dealing in organ and human trafficking. The terrain is littered with casinos, brothels, and ghost and shanty towns, and high stakes gang violence runs rampant through the area, constructing a disheartening gauntlet between Jennifer and her ultimate goal of freedom.
Braziel’s harrowing tale is not for the faint of heart, and a gripping sense of urgency is present from the onset, continuously driving the narrative forward. Each page displays Braziel’s ability to carefully craft characters who are at once as authentic and multidimensional as they are distinctive. The narrative’s point of view continuously jumps back and forth, providing keen character insights through Jennifer’s letters to her mother and husband, and the first person narration of Rosser, the obsessively opportunistic bounty hunter set on a payday at the expense of both Jennifer and Mazy’s freedom. Braziel’s prose is urgent, immediate, and at times whisper-thin and elegant, elevating his depictions of death, destruction, and poverty to ephemeral heights before crashing down just as quickly into the ever-present despair coursing through the pages.
One aspect notably missing from Snakeskin Road that is a staple of most futuristic dystopian works is the presence of a back story. No explanation as to how or why the government becomes so oppressive and corrupt is offered, and neither is any elucidation given into the causes of the damage to the ozone layer—an important factor to the novel’s setting, the desert. Braziel misses a golden opportunity to properly ground the narrative in his own rich, fictional history and provide the novel with a significant layer of added depth.
Despite this drawback, Braziel’s efforts are successful, and he’s blended elements of apocalyptic and southern gothic literature to brand his own unique style of fiction. Braziel creatively utilizes grim subject matter and strong characterization to explore the depths and nature of death, despair, desperation, and the preservation of hope in a seemingly hopeless world. Nov 2009
Andrew McNamara is a writer and editor living in Montgomery.
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