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That will be £470 please – Uber takes man home to Croydon… via Bristol!
by Sarah Oladokun/ March 1, 2017/ Croydon, News, Transport/ No Comments/
Aaron was charged £470 for a £20 journey. Pic: Mark Warner (Flickr)
An Uber passenger was taken home to Croydon via Bristol and charged £440 for a trip that should have cost £20.
Aaron Wray fell asleep in his Uber ride, hoping to be home in 20 minutes, but was shocked when he woke up to a five hour and 21 minute journey to Bristol.
The 18-year-old instantly messaged his friend, to let her know of his confusion. “My phone was dead so I just had to sit there. I tried to ask the driver a few questions but he couldn’t really speak English,” he told the Sun newspaper.
Wray had only realised he had been to Bristol and back after receiving his £467 receipt, which his friend, Grace, later tweeted and became an internet sensation for with just over 15,000 shares in under two hours.
He said in a text to her: “Woke up and it said 2hrs and 30 mins to get home”. She replied: “So you were actually in the uber when it went to Bristol?” To which he said: “Yeah, I was in it for five hours and 21 minutes.”
The driver, known only as Abdi by the app, only received a rating of one star for the five and a half hour trip.
It seems like the app registered Croydon St in Bristol rather than Croydon itself. However, Wray insisted that the correct location was confirmed just before the journey began so he was unaware as to where it all went wrong.
According to the Sun, Uber only agreed to reimburse Aaron after his experience went viral.
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5 Ways to Cure That Too-Full Thanksgiving Feeling
And no, we're not talking about curling up on the sofa. We've got some natural remedies you might want to try instead.
By Anna Stockwell
Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Anna Stockwell
We've all been there on Thanksgiving: that moment when you feel so full that you discreetly unbutton the top of your pants and untuck your shirt to hide it, or retreat for a moment to stash your control-top tights in your purse and hope that no one notices your bare legs. Or maybe your tummy is so bloated with second helpings of pecan pie that all you want to do is lie down on the sofa in the fetal position. Sure, that might help, but it's not exactly...socially appropriate. Instead of disrobing or curling up in a ball in front of guests after the holiday meal, you might want to try one of these natural remedies:
Chew some ginger
There's a reason ginger is often turned to for stomach upset: it works. According to Dr. Josh Axe, a clinical nutritionist, chiropractor, and doctor of natural medicine, ginger has been highly regarded as a digestive aid for thousands of years. "It’s effective for everything from nausea, to gas and bloating to a standard tummy ache," says Dr. Axe. "And if you’re like most people who go all-out on Thanksgiving, chances are you’ll be suffering from at least one of those conditions." Gingerol, an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compound that naturally occurs in ginger, can "relax the gut lining," explains Dr. Axe, which helps that enormous meal, um, move along more quickly.
Some hot ginger-lemon tea might just do the trick.
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I know what you're thinking now—do we have to chew it? No, but Dr. Axe has found that chewing a slice of fresh, raw ginger is the fastest way to get results. If that's too intense for you, you can make some fresh ginger juice or warm ginger tea.
Drink some aloe vera juice
Dr. Axe also recommends drinking 2-3 ounces of aloe juice immediately after your Thanksgiving feast. Aloe juice can be found at most natural foods stores, but look for one that has been certified pure to make sure you're getting the full benefits. Aloe juice, explains Dr. Axe, contains natural enzymes that aid in digestion and help to break down sugars and fats. "It also normalizes the body’s pH balance which can be thrown off by a large carb- and protein-heavy meal," he says. Also, he notes, "aloe vera has a mild laxative effect that can help move all of that excess food gently through the colon."
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If you're looking for a pill to pop, Dr. Axe recommends seeking out a natural digestive enzyme to keep on hand for after the feast. "The too-full feeling we experience after Thanksgiving dinner is a sign that we’ve eaten more food than our body can efficiently digest at any one time," he says. Dr. Axe explains that taking natural digestive enzymes can help relieve that discomfort "by helping to break down large molecules of food into smaller particles that the body can more easily absorb or expel."
Resist the urge to lie down
I know all you want to do when you're over-stuffed is lie down and take a nap. But it's been clinically proven that taking a brief walk after eating will have a better effect on your digestion than having an espresso or drinking a digestif. A stroll might be just the thing you need to take a quick break from your family anyway, or a good way to finally get the secret gossip from your cousin Jane. Plus, if you're lying down you're more likely to get heartburn, so try to keep yourself upright for a couple hours after the meal, if possible.
A dash of bitters in soda water can be tremendously tummy soothing.
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Drink a bitter digestif
Ok, so I couldn't find any hard science or doctors to back me up 100% on this one, but centuries of tradition have to count for something. Almost every European country has its own version of a bitter herbal digestive liqueur that's sipped after meals. (Italy alone produces hundreds of types of Amari, bitter liqueurs made with everything from artichokes to wild herbs.)
I'm personally partial to Becherovka, a 200-plus-year-old Czech liqueur that tastes a bit like Christmas. The grandmother with whom I lived with briefly as a student in Prague used to give me shot glasses full of Becherovka, which is made from a secret blend of herbs, to cure any ailment. I'm not so sure it helped my head colds, but I swear it makes me feel better after an overly indulgent meal.
On the less boozy side of this category lie herbal bitters. Although most people think of bitters only as the crucial ingredient in a Manhattan, I find a splash of bitters in soda water can be tremendously tummy-soothing. I actually keep a bottle of Urban Moonshine's digestive bitters at my desk at work for times when I have to taste four different dinners in the test kitchen in one day.
Bon Appétit deputy editor Andrew Knowlton, a professional eater by trade, swears by German Underberg bitters. My dad happens to hold the same opinion, and we keep them on hand at all our family holidays. They taste great, and might be just what you need to stay upright—and fully clothed—until your guests leave.
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First Galileo satellite travels to launch site
ESA / Applications / Navigation / Galileo / First Galileo Launch
GIOVE A, the first Galileo satellite, departed from ESA’s test facility at the European Space Research and Technology Centre in The Netherlands on the morning of 29 November, bound for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The spacecraft, packed in its transport container and accompanied by its support equipment, was taken by road from the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) to Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, where it was loaded onto an Antonov transport plane.
GIOVE-A was flown first to Moscow and, after customs formalities had been completed, made the second leg of its air journey to Baikonur, arriving in the early hours of 30 November. It will be placed in orbit by a Soyuz/Fregat launch vehicle, with lift-off scheduled for late December.
GIOVE A is the first of two Galileo In-Orbit Validation Elements, which with its sister spacecraft GIOVE B and their associated ground segment make up the first stage of the in-orbit validation (IOV) of the Galileo system.
The main mission objectives of the GIOVE satellites are to:
Validate new technologies for operational use
Demonstrate the feasibility of broadcasting near-real-time orbit determination and time synchronisation data with high accuracy (uncertainty less than 50 cm), as envisaged for the full Galileo system
Secure the Galileo frequency filings
Characterise the radiation environment of medium earth orbit that the operational satellites will occupy
GIOVE-A being loaded for its journey by road
GIOVE-A has been developed by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (UK). Galileo Industries (GaIn) is developing the GIOVE-B satellite. GaIn is a European consortium including Alcatel Alenia Space (F/I), Astrium (D/UK) and Galileo Sistemas y Servicios (E).
GIOVE B is undergoing final integration and testing at the Rome facilities of Alcatel Alenia Space, prior to moving to the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) for its environmental test campaign. It is due to be launched in 2006.
Experience gained from the GIOVE missions will support the development of the Galileo IOV system. The next phase of Galileo IOV will be the deployment of the first four of 30 fully representative Galileo satellites that will be required for full system operation.
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MILAN, Ind. -- Chrissy Lanham stood next to a cardboard cutout of her husband as the final seconds ticked off the clock inside Cincinnati's Paul Brown Stadium.
The flesh-and-bone version of Jeff Lanham was watching roughly 45 miles west in the makeshift tent atop the couple's restaurant and bar in Milan, Indiana. After two months, he was ready to get off the roof.
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An offhand comment about living above the Lanhams' Hog Rock Cafe until the Cincinnati Bengals won a game turned into a 57-day period that unexpectedly transformed Lanham into his town's biggest celebrity since the basketball team that inspired the movie "Hoosiers."
When the Bengals finally picked up a win by beating the New York Jets in Week 13 to improve to 1-11, everyone around Chrissy celebrated with "Cardboard Jeff" while the real person was surrounded by screams and flying beer at the bar in southeastern Indiana.
A few drinks, a tree-trimming truck and belief in one of the worst teams in the NFL put Lanham on the roof of his own restaurant. Resolve kept him there.
"I didn't do it, really, for anything," said Lanham, 42. "I just made a comment and owned up to a comment and did it."
Back in 1991, Dennis "Wildman" Walker spent 61 days on a Cincinnati billboard under similar circumstances, a feat that inspired Lanham's comments.
Cincinnati was 0-4 when Lanham said he would live on the roof until the Bengals won. It was hours before the Bengals hosted the Arizona Cardinals, the NFL's worst team last season. Jeff and Chrissy watched from the usual spot in the stadium as Arizona won 26-23 on a last-second field goal. Cincinnati started its course toward the NFL cellar, with six consecutive losses to come.
Jeff Lanham sits in the tent he spent 57 days in waiting for a Bengals victory. Ben Baby/ESPN.com
When they drove back to the Hog Rock in their black and orange party bus, Lanham knew where he had to go. A friend grabbed a tent; someone else fetched their tree-trimming truck; and Lanham headed to the roof on a rainy night. Once he woke up the next morning, he realized he might be stuck up there for a while. He moved down a story to the lower portion of the roof so he wouldn't have to use an extension ladder to climb down to the bathroom and shower.
Decades earlier, people actually paid to live in the building. Back then, it was called the Railroad Inn, a reference to the train tracks that are less than 100 feet from the entrance. But when he and Chrissy started the restaurant, Milan (pronounced MY-lan) was vastly different.
Phyllis Coe, 72, said she bought the building at a sheriff's auction after the previous owner let the building rot. She charged the Lanhams $500 rent. Lanham, who hadn't worked for a year after a leg injury forced him to stop working in a mill, poured all of his money into fixing the place up.
"You can't discount the kid," Coe said.
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When Lanham received international media attention for his stay on the roof, it was the biggest thing to happen to Milan since the high school's boys basketball team won the Indiana state title in 1954 against Muncie Central, which inspired the 1986 film "Hoosiers."
Lanham said he used his growing media exposure to remind people about the '54 champions. He also used his brief window of stardom to raise money for the medical costs of a friend's daughter who was born with spina bifida. He came down for roughly 12 hours during a benefit event.
During his time on the roof, he held 50/50 raffles during Bengals games and sold $5 raffle tickets for people to eat in a tent that was donated by a friend's company. He donated most of the things he received, including a pallet of soup from Campbell's.
He had heaters and plenty of people to keep him company, but it was still tough.
Jeff and Chrissy watched Netflix simultaneously in different places, calling to start shows at the same time and see whether they liked them. She, along with others, brought laundry and food up to his tent, including meals from Skyline Chili topped with habanero cheese. They put up another tent and had Thanksgiving up there.
After nearly two months, he came home. The Bengals easily trounced the Jets, 22-6 on Sunday, for their first win of the season. People near Chrissy at the stadium gave Jeff's cardboard cutout high-fives, while the watch party back in Milan erupted when the game ended. By the time Chrissy arrived home, Jeff was celebrating with everyone at Hog Rock. They stayed until 11:30 that night.
"Jeff was ready to come home," Chrissy said.
After the victory, Bengals running back Joe Mixon said he'd like to give Lanham something for staying up there that long. Lanham said that's not necessary.
"I can't say I want something from somebody because I didn't do it for that," he said.
When the Hog Rock opened at 4 p.m. Monday, the tent was still up behind the restaurant as a few regulars came in for drinks. Eventually, the tent will be donated to the local Boy Scouts chapter. Lanham plans to go to the Bengals game against the New England Patriots on Dec. 15. The next week, he might follow the team to Miami and take his wife as a way to say thanks for the past couple of months.
"I'm happy that he's a loyal fan," Bengals safety Jessie Bates said. "Hopefully next time he can stay on the roof until we lose or something like that."
That's not going to happen, Lanham said. Fifty-six nights was more than enough. He won't be making any more bold predictions any time soon. But that doesn't mean he won't have the same belief that led him to the roof or that he doesn't hope the franchise will be a winner again someday.
"Maybe it won't change," Lanham said. "Maybe it will. But I'll still be a Cincinnati fan."
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NHL experts buy/sell Kessel scoring 30 goals, Bobrovsky buyer's remorse and more
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NHL experts buy/sell Phil Kessel scoring 30 goals, buyer's remorse on Sergei Bobrovsky and more
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December has started with a roar in the NHL, as we've seen some monster individual performances and another coach fired. It's time to pull together a panel of experts to discuss some of the hot topics as the third month of the 2019-20 campaign goes into full swing.
In this edition, we're buying or selling the following:
Phil Kessel will finish the season with 30 or more goals
The Panthers already regret the Sergei Bobrovsky contract
The New York Rangers will make the playoffs
Jack Eichel has graduated to being one of the NHL's top 10 players
Someone other than the Blues will be the West's No. 1 seed
1. Phil Kessel will finish the season with 30 or more goals.
Emily Kaplan, national NHL reporter: Sell. Kessel should hit 20, though, something no Yotes player did last season. While Kessel's production isn't where we expected (and overall, he hasn't given the Coyotes' power play the boost they had hoped for despite two goals Thursday), he brings other intangibles that will help Arizona actually make the playoffs this spring.
Vince Masi, ESPN Stats & Information: Sell. There have been 54 forwards over the past five seasons who had at least 60 shots and a shooting percentage through the first 30 games of a season near Kessel's this season, and they finished with an average of 16 goals. According to Moneypuck, Kessel's expected goals is right around what his total has been this season, so he appears to be underperforming, even with a shot pace around what he's posted in his career.
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Ben Arledge, NHL editor: Sell, but I do buy what Emily suggests. Kessel will score 20-25 goals this season. Only one of his six goals has come at even strength this season, and Arizona's power play won't be anywhere near the top-five unit that the Penguins boasted over the veteran's last three seasons in Pittsburgh. So 30 isn't happening. But he's too talented a scorer to suddenly miss the 20-goal mark for the first time since 2007-08, and his 8.1% shooting percentage is due a few upward ticks.
Sachin Chandan, fantasy hockey editor: Sell. I believe he'll have a strong second half, but 30 is out of reach, as he'd need a 19% shooting rate over his next 140 shots to hit 30. If he can hit it, he'd be a must-buy fantasy player.
2. The Panthers already regret the Sergei Bobrovsky contract.
The early portion of the Sergei Bobrovsky-as-a-Panther era has not gone so well. Sergei Belski-USA TODAY Sports
Kaplan: Buy. Many worried how Bobrovsky's contract would age in Years 5, 6 and 7 of the deal, but few could have predicted we'd see these struggles this early (he's still at a sub-.900 save percentage and 3.48 goals-against average, by far career-worsts). Florida is looking like a playoff team in spite of Bobrovsky, not because of him.
Masi: Buy. He has the second-lowest overall save percentage in the NHL. According to Corsica Hockey, he has the second-worst goals saved above average total at 5-on-5, and Moneypuck has him with the third-worst save percentage below expectation in that setting. Imagine what the Panthers' record would be if they weren't averaging just over 3.5 goals in support of him.
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Arledge: Sell. We're two months into a seven-year deal, and the only reason anyone is panicking is because it's the first two months. There was an immediate acknowledgement that the Panthers would take a hit for the 31-year-old goalie's lengthy deal on the back end of the term, and even an MVP-caliber start to 2019-20 wouldn't have changed that. Sure, no one expected such a hit on the front end, but goaltenders run into rough patches, and I don't foresee this being telling of Bobrovsky's level of play over the next few seasons. Save the regret for four years down the line.
Chandan: Sell. It's too early to say regret, but there is concern. I still believe he could regain his typical late-season form, in which he has averaged a .929 save percentage in March and April over his career.
3. The New York Rangers will make the playoffs.
Kaplan: Sell. Unfortunately for Rangers fans, this team is going to tantalize with their potential over the next few months (like that recent stretch we saw where they won four of five). New York's atrocious defensive play will be their ultimate undoing.
Masi: Sell. According to Natural Stat Trick, the Rangers' expected goals against per 60 minutes is last in the league, and their Corsi against per 60 minutes is almost five shot attempts worse than any other team's mark. Bad news for the Rangers, they only have two games left against the Devils this season.
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Arledge: The heart says buy, but the brain says sell. There's always a young surprise team with tons of talent in the playoff field, and the Rangers do fit the bill there. They are ahead of their rebuild schedule and are at least making some noise in the East. But the Rangers seem lost in the defensive zone and, worse, don't seem to know how to exit it when they do gain possession. Then you look at the other teams in the conference -- there aren't any pretenders currently in a berth, and the Lightning and Leafs are both outside the field right now -- and it just doesn't look feasible.
Chandan: Buy. It's possible, as the Rangers have managed to remain in the playoff race despite facing the 10th most difficult strength of schedule and despite Mika Zibanejad missing much of their November run. They sit four points back with two games in hand on each of the teams above them in the wild-card race.
4. Jack Eichel has graduated to being one of the NHL's top 10 players.
Kaplan: Sell. He's on the cusp, but I'm not quite ready to put him there yet. I'd still put these 10 forwards ahead of him (in no specific order) Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Sidney Crosby, David Pastrnak, Brad Marchand, Nathan MacKinnon, Patrick Kane, Alex Ovechkin, Aleksander Barkov, Auston Matthews.
Masi: Sell. There are some encouraging signs that maybe he's ready for his elite player card, as his total points per 60 minutes at 5-on-5 has increased each season. This season may be an overwhelming outlier, though, as he has posted a 5-on-5 shooting percentage of 14% on his lowest shots per 60 minutes rate since his rookie season.
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Arledge: Sell. He's elite, but not top-10 elite. There are too many ridiculous talents in the game today. That said, his numbers aren't fraudulent: His 18 goals (tied for fourth in the NHL) are coming on a 16.5% shooting percentage that exceeds his career averages by a good deal but isn't any form of anomaly among the league's best scorers; moreover, only five of his tallies have come with the man advantage. A full extra minute of average ice time certainly helps the raw numbers, but it also shows an increased confidence in Eichel from the Sabres' coaching staff.
Chandan: Buy. If we're taking the temperature for this season, I'd say he deserves a place. He's been an elite scorer this season at even strength and for your fantasy team, and the only players I'd put ahead of him right now are McDavid, Draisaitl, Pastrnak, MacKinnon, Marchand, Ovechkin, Kane, Panarin and John Carlson.
5. Someone other than the Blues will be the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference.
Ryan O'Reilly and the Blues sit atop the Western Conference as of Dec. 6. Will they be there at season's end? Brett Holmes/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
Kaplan: Buy. The Blues have played admirably considering how banged-up they are -- they're 12-4-3 since Vladimir Tarasenko went down and have weathered injuries to Oskar Sundqvist, Alexander Steen, Sammy Blais and others -- but it might catch up to them eventually. The Avalanche are getting healthier, faster, and could make a big splash at the trade deadline considering they have the cap space and assets for it.
Masi: Buy. While it's impressive the Blues have been able to get off to this start with all their injuries, this is the Avalanche's conference -- and they've been hit by the injury bug as well. Colorado is second in Moneypuck's power score rankings behind the Boston Bruins, and the Avs have seen an uptick recently in their five-game moving average in expected goal differential.
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Arledge: Buy. While the Blues hold a nice four-point lead on the Avalanche in the Central Division, they also have two games in hand. No team is going to run away in a race that'll go down to the season's final week, but I've got the Avs taking the top seed when the dust settles. Even though Colorado missed Mikko Rantanen and Gabriel Landeskog for a good deal of time, it still leads the NHL in scoring by a healthy margin, with 3.68 goals per game.
Chandan: Sell. The Avs are charging fast on their heels, but the Blues hold slight edges over Colorado on the power play, penalty kill, Corsi differential, and expected goals. The Blues have been able to withstand their injuries thanks to their offensive depth, along with goalie Jordan Binnington's .925 save percentage.
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Relive Outdoor Adventures with a New App and Esri Maps
An image from this Relive video shows the route taken during a cycling trip in San Francisco, California.
Are you a cyclist or runner who wants to relive your athletic adventures or share the experience with friends, relatives, or the public? Thanks to a new, free app from a Netherlands-based company, your rides and runs can now be shared via virtual 3D video tours that display the route you took on an Esri World Imagery basemap.
The Relive app combines performance tracking data from cyclists or runners with Esri digital maps and makes a short animation video in 3D that shows about a minute’s worth of highlights of the athlete’s treks. The animation includes the route traced in yellow on the basemap, metrics such as terrain elevation and the length and average speed of the ride or run, and popups with photographs that were taken during the activity.
You can watch your cycling, running, or hiking videos on mobile devices.
The app was developed by the startup Relive, which creates 3D video stories of bike rides and runs using GPS data collected from its users’ tracker apps, such as Garmin Connect and Strava, and their personal photographs. Relive currently has 1.2 million users around the world.
“People love to share [the videos] with their family and friends,” said Joris van Kruijssen, who cofounded Relive with developers Lex Daniels and Yousef El-Dardiry.
Daniels, van Kruijssen, and El-Dardiry came up with the idea for the Relive app during a bike trip in the Canary Islands in 2016. “We were cycling in Tenerife and figured it would be amazing if there was an app to capture our cycling holiday in a movie,” said El-Dardiry, who is also Relive’s technical lead.
The Relive team includes (from left to right) Ralf Nieuwenhuizen, Yousef El-Dardiry, Joris van Kruijssen, Ronald Steen, and Lex Daniels. Not pictured are Thomas Meijers and Jochem Lugtenburg.
While van Kruijssen, Daniels, and El-Dardiry were using the Strava app to record performance metrics on their rides in Tenerife, the three friends realized something was missing: the visual aspect of their adventures. “It didn’t fully capture the experience we had—the nice views, discovering the terrain, and the fun we had. We saw a great opportunity,” van Kruijssen said.
Talk soon turned to action. After fleshing out the idea during a barbecue in Tenerife, Daniels and El-Dardiry began writing code, and the app started to take shape later the same day.
Back home in the Netherlands, they created what van Kruijssen called “a good working prototype” within two months and shared it with a few friends. “After a week, a thousand people were using our app,” he said.
Today, Relive employs a team of seven people and continues to refine its mobile app, available for download from Google Play or the Apple App Store. The app takes activity-tracking data from apps such as Strava, Garmin Connect, Endomondo, and Polar Flow and maps it on satellite imagery from the World Imagery basemap, which Relive obtained from Esri Netherlands. (Users who sign up for Relive accounts give Polar Flow, Endomondo, Strava, and Garmin Connect permission to share their data with the Relive app.)
During the app development phase, El-Dardiry searched for digital map technology to visualize the adventures. He found Esri’s World Imagery basemap in the Living Atlas of the World to be a great fit with the app.
An image from this video displays statistics about a cycling trip, including the distance ridden in kilometers and how long the ride took in hours and minutes.
“We wanted to give everyone the opportunity to create a beautiful video of their adventures, so it was important to find a high-quality map with global coverage,” said El-Dardiry. “Esri’s Living Atlas of the World was the best solution. And the involvement of Esri is great. They understand the unique needs and challenges of our startup and are always thinking of how they can help us.”
During a recent trip to San Francisco, California, van Kruijssen, an avid bike rider, said he tracked his performance metrics as he cycled across the Golden Gate Bridge to Marin County. Within a half hour after his trip, he had used the Relive app to create a video of the journey to send to his mother in the Netherlands. “I immediately shared it with my mom to show her what great views I had,” he said.
This map, created by Relive and Esri Netherlands, shows where cycling, running, and hiking videos have been made globally. Green symbolizes cycling, blue symbolizes running, and purple symbolizes hiking.
Relive is already a success, with more than 200,000 new videos being made each day around the world including from countries such as South Korea and Brazil. The company recently launched a premium service for paying members called Relive Club, which lets users do more with their videos such as add music.
Maps, however, are a staple in the app. And because Esri’s digital maps are scalable, the Relive founders feel confident that their company can continue to grow.
“Every adventure starts with a map,” El-Dardiry said. “We want to provide people with the opportunity to relive their adventures, whether they’re cycling, hiking, running, skiing, or going on a road trip. It’s great to see our idea spread globally…and it’s just the beginning of our adventure.”
Watch the video of a cycling trip created with the app or make your own virtual tour at Relive.
ArcWatch November 2017
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How to Cook Frozen Pork Roast in a Slow Cooker
Cynthia Au | updated on August 31, 2017
Cynthia Au
Cynthia Au has studied at the Cordon Bleu in Paris and currently works as a chef instructor specializing in food styling. She has worked as a writer and editor with a focus on food and food science since 2007 and regularly teaches both adults and young children about the joys of home cooking.
Pork roast in a slow cooker can make for a satisfying meal that is warming, hearty and requires minimal attention. For the best results, choose a cut of pork that takes well to slow cooking at low temperatures. Browning and seasoning your meat before or during cooking gives the flavors time to penetrate the meat. Store slow-cooked pork in the fridge for several days to be reheated for a fast, homemade meal.
Choosing the Right Cut
Because of the long, slow, low-temperature cooking method, certain pork roasts are not as ideal for cooking in slow cookers. In general, choose fattier, tougher cuts with a lot of connective tissue, such as a pork shoulder. The fat keeps the meat moist during the long cooking time and the connective tissue breaks down after several hours, creating an unctuous, velvety roast.
Leaner cuts, such as pork tenderloin, can be successfully cooked in the slow cooker, but they require a shorter cooking time and a lot of added liquid to keep them moist.
Defrosting the Roast
Frozen pork roast, no matter which cut, must be defrosted prior to cooking in a slow cooker. Safe thawing methods that follow the guidelines set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture are crucial for food safety reasons.
The appropriate methods for defrosting are:
Keep in the fridge until fully thawed;
Submerge in cold water, changing the water every 30 minutes, until thawed; and
Defrosting in the microwave.
All three methods have their pros and cons. Thawing in the fridge is the safest method and the thawed meat can be stored for several days or refrozen if you change your mind. However, it can take up to 3 days to fully defrost a 3-pound pork roast.
A cold water bath is faster than the fridge method, but it requires changing the water every 30 minutes. It will still take between 2 to 3 hours for a 3- to 5-pound roast to fully thaw. The meat must be cooked that day and cannot be refrozen.
Microwave defrosting is the fastest method -- your roast can be thawed in a matter of minutes -- but it may lead to uneven warming. This can cause parts of your roast to become cooked rather than just thawed. Roasts defrosted in the microwave must also be cooked immediately and cannot be re-frozen.
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Because the pork roast is slow roasted over several hours, it naturally absorbs the flavors of seasonings added directly to the slow cooker. However, marinating the roast before cooking can help tenderize it further, as well as add greater depth of flavor.
Use a mix of fresh and dried herbs, rubbed onto the exterior of the roast, and add only a minimal amount of acid and fat to the marinade. More seasonings can be added during the cooking process. Common flavor combinations include:
Fresh garlic with minced thyme, oregano, rosemary, and lemon juice and zest
Dijon mustard, brown sugar, hot sauce, and ginger and garlic powder
Apple cider vinegar, beer, onion powder and tomato juice
Benefits of Browning
Browning the roast before slow cooking adds depth of flavor. This is because slow cookers can't caramelize the roast, as it only cooks at low temperatures.
To Brown a Roast
Heat a Dutch oven or heavy-bottomed pan large enough to hold the roast over high heat. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Pat the roast dry with a paper towel and place it in the pan when the oil is smoking. Leave untouched for 2 to 5 minutes, until the outside turns a rich brown color.
Flip the roast, browning it on all sides. Remove from the pan and transfer it directly to the slow cooker.
Adding the Ingredients
Add vegetables -- or even fruit -- to the slow cooker when you add the roast, as this will add to the overall flavor of the dish.
Layering the bottom of the slow cooker with root vegetables, sliced onions, fresh herbs or even sliced fruit -- such as apples -- helps the roast cook more evenly, as it will not be directly touching the hotter part of the cooker.
Watch Your Added Liquid
Keep the amount of added liquid to your slow-cooked roast to a minimum. Vegetables, fruits and the roast itself will all exude juice during cooking. Adding too much liquid -- such as wine, stock or water -- can create a flavor imbalance.
Start with 1 to 2 cups of liquid per 3- to 5-pound roast. If the pot begins to look dry, add a small amount of extra liquid, no more than 1/4 cup at a time.
Doneness and Slow Cooking
Cook your roast until it reaches the desired degree of doneness. Tough cuts, such as pork shoulder, will be fork-tender when done, meaning the meat can be shredded easily with a fork. Leaner cuts, such as a tenderloin, will be ready when the internal temperature reads 145 degrees Fahrenheit.
If you are adding dairy products to your slow-cooked roast, such as cheese, yogurt or cream, wait until the roast is finished to mix them in. Adding dairy products too early can cause them to curdle because of the low temperature and long cooking time, or in contact with any added acid.
Avoid opening the slow cooker during the cooking process. Every time you do so, heat is released from the cooker, leading to uneven heating and longer cooking times.
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Landscaping Trees
Small Worms on Mulberries
Christine McLachlan
Christine McLachlan has been writing professionally since 2010. Before starting an e-commerce business, she worked as an urban planner/landscape designer for five years. Mrs. McLachlan has a Bachelor of Science in English and political science, as well as a Master of Science in urban planning, from Florida State University. In addition, she holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Florida.
The small worm-like creatures on mulberries are most likely fruit fly larvae. Fruit flies frequently infest thin-skinned fruit such as mulberries, blackberries, grapes, raspberries and blueberries. They are particularly drawn to over-ripe, decaying fruit. Adult female fruit flies lay eggs inside fruit. The eggs hatch within three days, and the larvae will mature in the fruit within a matter of days. The larvae can live inside the fruit for as much as 13 days, ingesting and softening the fruit as it grows.
The fruit fly undergoes many transformations in its brief existence before it evolves into a brownish-colored adult, with red eyes and transparent, fly-like wings. It starts as an oval, white egg, approximately 0.6 millimeters long. Once hatched, it forms legless, headless, white or transparent larvae. Larvae, which are as much 6 millimeters long, are readily observable by the naked eye. These worm-like creatures are commonly observed in and around mulberry fruit before they turn into brown, football-shaped pupa.
Female fruit flies deposit eggs in the late summer, shortly before harvest. The fly will make a hole the size of a pin prick. The larvae will begin to feed on the mulberry fruit from the inside as they hatch. This accelerates fruit softening and collapse. Besides contaminating fruit with their larvae, the small fruit fly egg entry point provides an opening for other insects and disease-causing organisms.
Fruit Solutions
Some debate exists concerning whether it is good idea to eat mulberries infected by fruit flies. Freezing fruit or soaking it in cold water will kill the larvae, but their dead carcasses will remain inside the fruit. Soaking fruit in salt water draws out the larvae and brings them to the surface. Once the larvae are skimmed, the majority of gardening professionals seem to consider the fruit safe, sanitized and in every way edible. Some gardeners, on the other hand, will suggest throwing away the fruit because of possible secondary infections.
End the fruit fly cycle. Remove affected fruit from the tree, seal in bags and place in sunlight for a few weeks to suffocate immature fruit flies. Address adult population using protein bait and male annihilation bait. Some lures and insecticides are effective only at killing male fruit flies. These male annihilation baits will eliminate only males but will prevent future mating and egg production. Protein bait techniques use protein made from yeast as bait for spot-sprayed insecticide. For best results, combine treatments and use a high density of bait stations to lure the pests.
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The Big Gay Musical DVD review
Pip Ellwood-Hughes April 4, 2010
Paul (Daniel Robinson) is openly gay and trying to find the perfect boyfriend. Eddie (Joey Dudding) is in the closet, still a virgin and trying not to let his parents find out he’s gay. Both men are starring in a new musical titled Adam and Steve: Just The Way God Made ‘Em when their lives start to follow the lives of the characters they are portraying. Can Paul find the man of his dreams and will Eddie learn to embrace his sexuality?
The Big Gay Musical is the latest offering from directors Casper Andreas and Fred M. Caruso; the two previously worked together on A Four Letter Word with Andreas directing and Caruso producing. The movie was screened at the recent BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival ahead of its DVD release and is a comedy drama that mixes campness, emotion and real issues for a winning film.
Gay interest movies can often be arduous to watch as you see more stereotypical gay men shagging around and doing little else. The Big Gay Musical isn’t like that thankfully and actually creates an interesting juxtaposition in its two main characters. Paul is good-looking but lacks confidence whereas Joey is eager to embrace his sexuality but doesn’t know how to do it. The two characters ultimately form a close bond that helps the other deal with their situation as they prepare to take to the stage for the opening night of their new show. Paul looks for love in all the wrong places whilst Eddie jumps into bed with the first man that offers and winds up regretting it.
The Big Gay Musical succeeds due to the hilarious songs and the strong performances from its too leads. Firstly the musical numbers provide comic relief in the movie with Paul’s rendition of I Want To Be A Slut being particularly memorable. Secondly the two leading men Robinson and Dudding are easy on the eye and perform impressively. Robinson is the standout of the two and his mixture of good looks, talent and strong vocals make him perfect for the role of Paul. We’ll also admit that the fact he takes his clothes off frequently is another bonus.
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Pip Ellwood-Hughes December 5, 2016
Daniel Robinson interview part 2
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Evaluation of a community-based comprehensive epilepsy prevention and treatment programme in onchocerciasis endemic villages in South Sudan
Research into epilepsy prevention and treatment in South Sudan
Mental Heath and Psychosocial Support
Amref Health Africa
Amref International University, Kenya; Ministry of Health, South Sudan; Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Belgium; University of Oxford, UK; Light for the World, Germany; OVCI la Nostra Famiglia, South Sudan; Mentor Initiative Sight Savers, South Sudan; and CUAMM, South Sudan
Maridi, Mundri and Mvolo Counties, South Sudan
Principal Investigator: Richard Lako, Ministry of Health, Government of South Sudan & Jane Carter, Amref Health Africa
The study will evaluate a community-based programme to protect children from developing epilepsy and improve the treatment and care of persons with epilepsy in onchocerciasis (‘river blindness’) endemic regions in South Sudan
The research should fill a significant evidence gap concerning the management of people with epilepsy in remote and conflict affected settings, a highly neglected and stigmatised condition in lower income settings. The study will also improve knowledge of community-based intervention methods which can apply to other remote or humanitarian contexts. Finally, the study will increase knowledge concerning the association between onchocerciasis-related epilepsy and nodding syndrome.
Richard Lako
Principal Investigator, Government of South Sudan
Nodding syndrome is another mystery for the people of South Sudan, the aetiology remains unknown, the magnitude of the problem and the treatment protocol are yet to be established and developed respectively but on other hand the relatives of the affected children cannot afford waiting for psychosocial support.
Jane Carter
Principal Investigator, Amref Health Africa
This study will provide the evidence needed to halt the epidemic of epilepsy that is causing such misery to the people of South Sudan as well as affecting the economic growth of the country
Robert Colebunders
Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Antwerp
With this project we will identify new strategies to sustainably improve the prevention and management of epilepsy in onchocerciasis endemic regions.
Research Methodology (summary)
The current community directed approach to annual mass distribution of ivermectin will be changed to 6 monthly distribution and vector control, in one of the 3 study sites. The impact will be measured over the life of the project in terms of transmission of onchocerciasis and its effect on the incidence of nodding syndrome and epilepsy. Parallel studies will use the same community structures to identify and manage the many cases of epilepsy, and the impact on persons with epilepsy and their families, as well as school attendance.
Children in Mvolo, South Sudan
Children in Mvolo playing in the river at a blackfly (the transmitter of onchocerciasis) breeding site
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To find out what motivates Helen to run this charity, click here.
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Love Letters From Elvis (FTD)
By ElvisNews.com/ Lex, Aug 11, 2008
One of the releases in the recent FTD flood is another album in the classics series: Love Letters From Elvis. Some doesn’t regard it as a classic, does this release change that?
As we are get used to by now, the classic album series are way above the normal releases regarding design. The original front and back of the album, CD pressed with the album labels and a nice booklet with a lot of nice pics and information… they are all here again. The only minus on my copy was that the CD-holders are not centered on the label on the cover… so if the CD is fixed to it, you’ll still see a lot of the label behind it.
Let’s start with a review on the original CD ElvisNews published in 2001:
“The eleven songs on this album were recorded in the same recording sessions (June 4 to 8 1970) as the tracks released on Elvis Country and tracks for the That's The Way It Is soundtrack. With this selection of songs Elvis shows his focus on ballads, the kind of material that fitted his voice at the time.
Listening to the songs you can hear him lifting even lesser songs like When I'm Over You and I'll Never Know to an higher level, pure with his performance and the quality of his voice.
Next to the ballads on this album there also are two rockers, the Muddy Waters classic I Got My Mojo Working, in a medley with Keep Your Hands Off Of Her and the up-tempo Cindy Cindy.. The first is one of the most interesting songs on this release. It is an accidentally recorded pulverizing studio jam in which Elvis lays down his version of Muddy Waters veneration of the metaphysical macho-man.
A strange choice on this release is Heart Of Rome, a weaker song of which the best "dirty" version (I take a piss in every fountain) is released on the bootleg Brightest Star on Sunset Boulevard. Besides the hit Love Letters, previously a hit for Kitty Lester, which reached the Top 10 all over the world, the single Life was a strange attempt to set Darwinism to music ... but Elvis got away with it.
With this release Elvis used the remaining songs of a great recording sessions which were used on three albums, Elvis Country, That's The way it Is and this one. We won't say these were the "leftovers", but this album cannot stand in line with the other two albums on which songs from these sessions were used.”
I still think this sums up the original album pretty well. What do we get more on this release? First of course: there are some bonus tracks added: The Sound of Your Cry, Sylvia, Rags to Riches and Something. Especially the last one is a strange addition, since it was also on the recent TTWII-release in this series, and it is the only live song on an album full with studio tracks. Further more we get 33 previously unreleased outtakes of the songs on the album (and bonus songs). Highlights? The full version of Got My Mojo Workin/ Keep Your Hands Off Of It, including the M*F* phrase, which was only available on bootleg so far; the fun Elvis obviously had with Rags to Riches, and every second of Sylvia. I don't know why, but this one has always been one of my favorite 70's tunes.
Even if you call it an album with leftovers, it is still a very enjoyable album. The bonus songs make it only stronger. All together you get a lot of quality time with this FTD-outing, fitting perfectly in this great series.
When I'm Over You
Got My Mojo Working/ Keep Your Hands off of It
Heart of Rome
Only Believe
This Is Our Dance
Cindy, Cindy
I'll Never Know
It Ain't No Big Thing (but It's Growing)
The Sound of Your Cry
The Sound of Your Cry (takes 1, 2, 3)
Cindy, Cindy (take 1)
I'll Never Know (take 1)
It Ain't No Big Thing (but It's Growing) (takes 1, 2)
Life (takes 1, 2)
Heart of Rome (take 1)
If I Were You (take 1)
Rags to Riches (rehearsal, take 2)
Cindy, Cindy (takes 2, 3 (undubbed master))
Got My Mojo Working/ Keep Your Hands off of It (take 1 (undubbed master))
I'll Never Know (takes 2, 3)
It Ain't No Big Thing (but It's Growing) (takes 3-6)
This Is Our Dance (takes 6, 7, 9, 11 (undubbed master))
Life (take 10)
Heart of Rome (take 2 (undubbed master))
Love Letters (takes 3, 1)
If I Were You (takes 2-5)
Only Believe (takes 1-4 (undubbed master))
Sylvia (takes 1, 2, 3, 4, 9)
Rags to Riches (take 3)
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Sandman (profile/ contact) wrote on Feb 1, 2010report abuse
Here it begins to go downhill. Leftovers from a marathon session in Nashville.
mature_elvis_fan75 (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 6, 2008report abuse
I agree,ttwii and Elvis Country were far better.Elvis Country being on of my favorites,this is an ok album,but the other 2 far surpass it in content, & steve we know your a fan,yourl ike me you speak your mind,i get the same flack,but its fine,coudnt care less!
Steve V (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 5, 2008report abuse
Hey oldscudder - not a problem and I respect your candor. At least you still think Im a fan unlike some others on this site. I dont totally dislike the album, I just felt the best of the June 1970 songs were put on TTWII & Elvis Country leaving this as a sort of leftover album. It was also more geared to the ladies. Hey it was a lot better than what was to come. If you read the review in the new Man & His Music, thats how I view it. Once again they are 100% on the money with their review.
theoldscudder (profile/ contact) wrote on Sep 4, 2008report abuse
Sorry Steve V. this is one of the few times I have to disagree with you. As a proud card carring cockster this guy was not enbarressed to buy this wonderful Lp. In fact it did wonders for my Love Life in that the ladies thought I was the sensitive type when I spun it on the turntable.
JerryNodak (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 29, 2008report abuse
I've always enjoyed this album and now there's even more to like. I'm behind on my FTD purchases, but I will be picking this one up in a few months.
Jim Berkeley (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 29, 2008report abuse
A new edited (3rd) master of "Rags To Riches" can be found on this release. The original single master is take 4 (+ piano intro overdub) with the vocal parts ("hold me and kiss me and tell me you're mine evermore") from take 3. "70's masters Box" version is take 4 with the short vocal parts ("kiss me") from take 3 (or take 2 ???). FTD master is take 4 (+ piano intro overdub) with the long vocal parts ("that I'm living for, hold me and kiss me and tell me you're mine evermore") from take 3. I cheched these out digitally.
Jim says hello (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 27, 2008report abuse
Listening to this album as I write... some fantastic moments - how powerful is take one of "the Sound of your Cry"! Sylvia fantastic too. Still can't come at the title track - his original 1966 version runs rings around this... and I reckon he misses his first note in this version - the alternate take had a better start.
bajo (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 27, 2008report abuse
Again a top notch delivery from Ernst and Roger. I may not have been Elvis' greatest album, but good enough for a pleasant listen then and even more so now. I must admit that I never really got hold of the "new" version of the title track! But, it doesn't prevent me from putting this album on now and then. Now I dig it even more!
Martin DJ (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 25, 2008report abuse
The inclusion of all the takes of Sylvia seems to indicate we won't get an Classic Album version of Elvis Now...
I read recently on another Elvis website that Rags To Riches heard on Love Letters (FTD) is the original single version. I pass along the info for what it's worth.
Jay (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 18, 2008report abuse
Is it just me or is the master version of rags to riches different to say the one used on HitStory? It's either a different mix on the sound or a different take has been used. Give it a listen, i'm sure i'm right?
Natha (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 17, 2008report abuse
Never did I hide an Elvis album and I definitely never cared about music lists. You either like it or you don't. The majority in my youth didn't (dare to) appreciate Elvis. Some of them have changed that attitude by now. So ... Anyway, I am happy with the release of this album. Not one of my all time favorites, yet one that's in the machine every so often.
mature_elvis_fan75 (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 17, 2008report abuse
Glad to have some new banter between songs and some outtales but what im more excited about is Elvis Country do NOT screw this up ernst and company,its one of my favorite all time albums,and keep yopur hand off the edit button!
vegaselvisfan (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 17, 2008report abuse
one of my favorite all time albums. i loved the re-recording of Love Letters. instead of emulating kitty lester, elvis puts his complete stamp on it. and it shows how with passage of time (life experience) a song has new meaning. as a young girl, i adored this album with the love songs. (this is our dance. ah!) and Heart of rome --- crank up the volume, what a voice! Mojo-let's rock!glad to see this album get a full treatment. i don't analyze, i just enjoy. in the 70s i was glad to snap up all these releases as they came out, as i was a new record buying fan.
Edel Elvissveis (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 16, 2008report abuse
I am one of those, who hid the album under my jacket and now I am ashamed of doing so. Love letters is one of my absolute favourites. To ALL you negative so-called Elvis expetrts: grow up.This is not a game for you!! Write me a love letter. Miss Edel (Lovely)
Smile:-) (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 16, 2008report abuse
Amen to that! Bravo Jerry Novak. Just enjoy the parts of his legacy you like the most (and now even more than he left behind 31 years ago). Love Letters, When I'm Over you, If I Were You, Got My Mojo Working, CindyCindy and (on this version) The Sound Of Your Cry and Sylvia are some of my all time favourites. Every one of them with the warm perfect voice of Elvis in 1970. All of them from the same legendary "Nashville Marathon sessions". This is an album that would be on the top 10-15 of Evis' best STUDIO-albums and one of the albums (along with Country) that made me an Evis fan for ever. Litterarly Love Letters from Elvis:-) But I have to admit (like Jerry is pointing out): with the knowledge and the increasing amount of material to listen to, I have forgot to listen to Elvis like I did when I was 12 yers old. I have to learn once again how to hear the magic to the same extent I did then. In essence I know less now than then... Which in turn means that I can look forward to a lot more to enjoy and less to criticise:-) But is only me;-)
I enjoyed the album then and I enjoy the album now. I didn't hide it under my jacket when I bought it back in '71 either. The stuff that you FAN(atics) constantly yammer on about just makes me shake my head in amazement. Chart placings. critical derision, '70s rot. Whatever! It's ancient history. Get over it!! You know what the problem with Elvis' music is? The Fans! Elvis' music has been sliced, diced, dissected and over analyzed from every angle. It's gotten so bad that 99% percent of you have forgotten how to listen for the simple joy of just listening. Now I'm going to go and put on a cd and not worry about the mixing or mastering. I not going to wory about the drums here or the guitars there or the background singers over there. I'm not going to worry about he recorded this when he should have recorded that. I'm just going to enjoy what he left us and not worry about it.
John4126 (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 16, 2008report abuse
Something was probably included because Parker had suggested it's inclusion at the time of it's conception. Chart placing, sales figures and critical derision at the time of it's release accurately reflect this album. This, to my mind was the start of the 70's rot. With the odd exception, Elvis would never again reach the dizzy heights of quality studio albums that The Memphis albums and Elvis Country had set.
circleG (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 16, 2008report abuse
i'm surprised Ernst hasn't come on here to explain why 'something' was included on this set.
SuziB (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 15, 2008report abuse
The original album was amongst the weakest orginal non-soundtrack of Elvis' career, possibly the weakest. Love Letter stands head and shoulders above anything else on this album, with the only other redeeming factor being Life, but which would have been much better saved for He Touched Me. Yes, soft country ballads were close to Elvis' heart and whilst the likes of If I were You,When I'm Over You and I'll Never Know are well done, the raw material is incredibly weak. I can't even bear to listen to Cindy Cindy which is amongst the top 5 of Elvis' worst ever recordings, simply awful and Only Believe is the worst gospel recording he ever made. Of the 'bonus' songs, Rags to Risches is passable and I guess the forerunner of Hurt, but The Sound Of Your Cry is an overlooked classic - with some of the non-overdubbed versions even better, allowing us to hear the haunting soprano backing. I prefer this version of Love Letters to that from 66 but both are top nothch - this version is the one Alison Moyet based her (incredibly inferior) interpretation upon.
NONE000000 (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 15, 2008report abuse
I am in Memphis right now and bought this tonight. Mine was sealed but is missing the booklet! I thought maybe it didn't come with one--glad it was mentioned in the review; now I can exchange it tomorrow (after I fight my way thru all the ETAs across from Graceland....)
The redone version of Love Letters is one of my least favourite Elvis recordings - can't stand the way he drags out 'the name that you si-i-i-i-i-i-gned'. Absolutely love the 66 original though - much subtler and appropriately restrained. Funny that - as Elvis in the 70s is my favourite period.
Steve V (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 15, 2008report abuse
An OK album, but one a guy didnt want to be caught with buying at the register. The title and songs like This Is Our Dance didnt exactly win many new male fans. Reminded me too much of Humperdink. As for the song Love Letters, I like Kitty Lester's version better than both of Elvis'. A nice, easy , smooth listening album for summer nights, but not much more. I didnt have it in my car very much compared to the prior two albums.
I enjoy both versions of "Love Letters" equally. It's like hearing two different Elvis voices. '66 is controlled, sincere, almost reverant. '71 is deeper. More resonant. More Vegas-like. Fits the time frame.
NOSTAB92 (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 14, 2008report abuse
Morris, as I understand it the keyboardist on both sessions (66 & 70) was David Briggs and he asked Elvis if they could re-record Love Letters in 70 as he felt he could do a better job on the keyboards than he had done in 66.
Morris (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 14, 2008report abuse
Can someone tell me why did he rerecord Loveletters when he had already done a god better recording 1966
This album is an absolute classic! Not equal to TTWII and Country quality-wise but maybe the third best album of the 70's. I rank it close to the Today album. Even if the standard is not of the two first mentioned albums it should not be considered as a "leftover" album. It is a classic in it's own right just as Back in Memphis is after From Elvis In Memphis.
Life may be an odd track (especially regarding the lyrics), but it was a single in it's time and is relatively catchy. Fits in well with the other songs. The most out of place tune is This Is Our Dance in my opinion. What the live-tack Something is doing on this edition, is a mystery to me though...
Johnny (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 13, 2008report abuse
Yeah schemies take 3 is definately part of the master take, I must have listened to this hundreds of times now, can't get enough of it! This release is right up there with Nashville Marathon for me. Can't wait for the Country album, this is what FTD is all about!!
Jerry 79 (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 13, 2008report abuse
"The only minus on my copy was that the CD-holders are not centered on the label on the cover… so if the CD is fixed to it, you’ll still see a lot of the label behind it" - It started with "Pot Luck" FTD. It is really sad that we pay so much money and we receive a product that is not made good... Sorry but I have a felling that they (Sony/BMG) do not treat us seriously and they think that they can sell any crap to us with Elvis name on front cover. Anyway Love Letters was always one of my favorite albums.
schemies (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 12, 2008report abuse
Hey there, isn't take 3 (spliced with work part take 1) the undubbed master of "Heart of Rome" ?
emjel (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 12, 2008report abuse
I totally agree with this review. It is a good album, but does lacks the quality of TTWII and Country. Still not sure why Elvis re-recorded Love Letters as I do not think the version here improves on the'66 original. Maybe RCA should have held back the release date by a month and included I'm Leavin' which I think is a very underrated recording and kept Only Believe for a later album - perhaps He Touched Me.
theoldscudder (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 12, 2008report abuse
One of The Kings stronger 70's efforts. Only real clunkers on this are Life & Only Believe. I really enjoy the rest of this Lp.
Ton Bruins (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 12, 2008report abuse
Good release with an excellent sound I must say. "If I Were You" is a sincere, beautiful balad. Just like the song. Especially the lines: "Wind and rain and storm closin' in on me; I've walked the streets alone with my self sympathy"..beautiful lyrics. The rehearsal of "Rags To Riches" is strong en enjoy full to hear. Elvis is having fun in tackle this beautiful song; always liked that one.
Funny are Elvis' comments after the surprise "Got My Mojo Working/Keep Your Hands Off Of It" : "We grew up on this mediocre s***t, man", "It's the type of material that's not good or bad-it's just mediocre s***, you know". Before the song "This Is Our Dance" Elvis is getting impatient calling out: "Okay, Charlie, we gotta hurry, we gotta eat". When you listened carefully someone (James Burton ?) asks: "This isn't Lamar's song, is it ?".."Definitely not" Elvis replies. "If it is, I am gonna kill him" someone says (JB ?)
Before "Life" Elvis comments: "That goddamn thing is as long as life itself". "Sylvia" I always loved, beautiful sung by Elvis. Very nice release from FTD indeed, but the overall song material..? mmm..it's indeed as Elvis said:"it's mostly mediocre stuff"...
I've always liked thias album and never regarded it as 'leftovers'. My only regret was the cover, as a red blooded male I had to hide it as I left the shops. I mean if it said 'Love letters BY Elvis' that would have been a different matter :)
Lex (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 12, 2008report abuse
No Matthias, no sarcasm at all. In general it is regarded as a weaker song (it ended up as leftover on an album nearly two years after recording it) and I think I would have ignored the song by any other singer. I just can't put my finger on it why I do like it so much...
Matthias Kuenzer (profile/ contact) wrote on Aug 12, 2008report abuse
"...every second of Sylvia. I don't know why, but this one has always been one of my favorite 70's tunes." - ah, sarcasm hits again!
Also thrilled about this one! I don't know if "Heart of Rome" is a fan favorite, but I love it. I enjoyed hearing Elvis' perfect and powerful voice take on these huge ballads, much like "Padre" and "Where Did They Go Lord"...the ones that just build and build. I actually listen to this album more than Elvis Country and That's The Way It Is, though I wouldn't try to claim this album is better, but I think it does hold up alongside them. And certainly when you add "Sound Of Your Cry" and "Rags To Riches" into the mix. I also love "This Is Our Dance" and I know a lot of fans do not like this song. I enjoy the few Elvis ballads that were given very lush arrangements--like "Almost" and "Almost in Love." Tracks like that show Elvis' voice was as good as Sinatra or Nat Cole or Bobby Darin. I can understand the criticism though--it sort of may seem like lounge singer territory. Fair enough, but I like hearing another side of Elvis (I was so blown away on "In A Private Moment" by the "Fools Rush In" and "It's a Sin To Tell a Lie"....) Anyway---classic album; welcome addition.
Now this is what I have been waiting for!! Agree with ya again Lex, Sylvia is a very underrated performance in my opinion, also love Heart of Rome... Bring it on!!!
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Malcolm Arnold conducting the Wymondham Symphony Orchestra. Photo: Submitted/Anna Meek.
It was in May of 1985 when a group of about a dozen nervous musicians sat down in the United Reformed Church at Wymondham and, under the beady eye of patron, the internationally acclaimed composer Dr Malcolm Arnold, started to play.
They called themselves the Wymondham Community Orchestra and they had been inspired by Dr Arnold, who lived at Attleborough until his death in 2006.
The original idea was to simply encourage local musicians to play together and provide an outlet for the musical aspirations of talented schoolchildren and adults who wanted to play with others.
Founded in 1984, this year represents the 25th year of what is now Wymondham Symphony Orchestra and they will be celebrating by putting on a summer concert on Saturday, July 4, as part of the town's music festival.
It was a combination of the enthusiasm of its founder Adrianne Cleary and the skill and professionalism of the first conductor Kenneth Hytch which resulted in the orchestra laying down solid foundations.
New members arrived and the orchestra grew and flourished, developed musically and began to set ever higher standards of performance with an ever increasing challenging repertoire.
In 1989, a performance of Peter and the Wolf brought the distinguished narrator Ian Wallace in contact with the orchestra. He suggested changing the name from Wymondham Community Orchestra to Wymondham Symphony Orchestra and set higher standards to broaden its musical boundaries.
As a result of its vision the orchestra built up quite a reputation and it was - and still is - able to attract soloists of the highest calibre. Alan Brind, winner of the BBC's Young Musician of the Year competition, was the first of many talented Norfolk young musicians the orchestra supported before they embarked on their professional careers. And Emma Johnson, the clarinettist, was the guest soloist in a performance of Sir Malcolm Arnold's Concerto No 2 to celebrate his 70th birthday which was a rare treat in front of a full house.
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Posted by Kym Pressley Friday, September 5, 2014
The Umbra Witch, Bayonetta, returns soon in Bayonetta 2. In an only 30-minute direct, Nintendo has released an immense amount of bewitching information.
For those who never played the original Bayonetta, the game stars a curvaceous, long-legged vixen whose tongue is as sharp as the blades that dismember her foes. By default she wields the Scarborough Fair, four guns (parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme), one in each hand and on each heel. As you play you unlock a multitude of other weapons in which she uses her magic-infused martial art, Bullet Arts, to viciously take down anything in her wake, leaving destruction and hilarious one-liners in her wake. I won't say too much though, since the first game comes with the purchase of Bayonetta 2.
The first thing the direct drew notice to was the main characters. Alongside Bayonetta, Jeanne—her best friend, Rodin—a powerful arms dealer, Luka—a journalist, and Enzo—a gangster with connections also return. In addition, they introduce two characters who are new and heavily involved in the plot: a masked Lumen sage who is often seen battling Bayonetta and a mysterious boy named Loki.
The story of the game revolves around Jeanne being captured while trying to save Bayonetta from a fatal attack. In the process, Jeanne's soul is dragged to Inferno. Bayonetta goes on a journey to literally go through heaven and hell to rescue her. Throughout the game, you will have to fight adversaries from Paradiso—angels—and for the first time, enemies from Inferno—demons.
The story, settings, and looks are very similar to the Divine Comedy written by Dante Alighieri. In this epic poem, Dante travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven (named Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso respectively in the poem) to rescue his love, Beatrice, having to conquer many trials and tribulations along the way.
The game will have the same quick, climactic combat as its predecessor, with some upgrades. First there will be new weapons such as the Kafka, a bow that causes poison damage; Rakshasa, which are powerful dual swords; and Alruna, a whip. These weapons can be equipped not only in the hands, but attached to her heels as well. You can preset two weapon sets before heading into a stage and switch them on the fly. This leaves great potential to combine weapons to create devastating combos. With the use of halos, the game's currency, you can buy duplicates of these weapons and attach them to your hands and heels simultaneously.
To unlock new weapons, you need to find Angelic Hymns. In the game they appear to be records; however, when brought to Rodin, they can be transformed into powerful weapons of mass destruction.
In addition to weapons, you will have powerful magic in your arsenal. One such ability is witch time. By dodging at the last second, this ability automatically activates and slows time around Bayonetta for a short period. This will present openings to unleash combos and position you to dodge attacks and deal more damage once it wears off.
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As a part of her combos, Bayonetta will use the power stored in her hair to summon powerful beings from Inferno to deliver powerful finishers. The demonic being will change form depending on what weapons you are using.
There's also the magic gauge, which is filled as you battle enemies. The first uses of the gauge, which is also present in the original game, are torture attacks. The witch will summon a torture device once used to prosecute witches and sadistically destroy the enemy. The device used will be different dependent on the enemy.
The second use for the gauge is brand new. It's called Umbran Climax. When used, Bayonetta's power is unleashed. Her attacks gain more power and range for a limited time. This allows her to clear weaves of enemies with relative ease; however, she will be attacked more violently by enemies when they sense the threat.
Aside from being used to purchase new weapons, halos can be used to purchase trinkets. These can do anything from enhancing damage to helping to avoid damage. If you've played The Wonderful 101, these would be similar to custom blocks.
Costumes can also be purchased. Costumes fully change Bayonetta's attire. Who doesn't want to unleash a torrent of decimation while looking stylish? In addition to these purely cosmetic costumes, Bayonetta 2 introduces Nintendo Costumes. These costumes are crossovers and not only change your appearance but some also alter animations, add moves, and even change drops. In the direct, one such costume was Link's green tunic. When adorned, the halo currency drops were turned to rubies and when a chest was found, you heard the iconic 4-note discovery melody heard in Zelda games. Another costume featured was Samus' power suit. During the live stream, Bayonetta curled in the a small ball and rolled around Metroid style. Other costumes shown were Princess Peach, Daisy, and Fox McCloud.
The game modes discussed were really exciting. Of course you have your story mode where the heart of the game lies. There are epic battles, both hilarious and epic cut scenes, challenging boss battles, and sick visuals. Alongside that you, true to Platinum Games, have a rating system for each section in each chapter. The rating is based on the time it took you to complete the stage, the combo points you gained, and the damage you took. If you're really good, you can get pure platinum on a stage.
The game will feature different difficulty modes. There's even a mode where there's Auto Battle where you partly direct the battle. With this, the game pad can be used to play. As with many other Wii U games, you can also use the game pad as a screen instead of the television.
Aside from the story missions there are hidden missions named "Muspellheim." When discovered, these bring you to special battle fields where you must defeat your enemies under specific conditions. Conditions can include anything from time limits to only being able to use certain kinds of attacks.
During the direct, a new mode was introduced that will add hours of fun and gameplay, Tag Climax. This mode is a 2-player co-op mode where players can pick characters and complete VS Card campaigns. There are characters other than Bayonetta; those confirmed are Jeanne and Rodin. Each will have their own skill set. For example, during the direct, Rodin lacked witch time and used slower but very powerful attacks. Also, if one player dies, the other can revive them to continue the battle.
Each campaign includes 6 stages where you can earn halos to use in your story mode. The halos you receive are based on the points you get on each stage. You can increase the amount of halos you receive at the end by betting them initially. However, this will increase difficulty and if you lose, there are no refunds. To add some competitiveness, whichever player receives the most points is declared the winner.
The direct ended with a new trailer that showcased the hectic and truly awesome game play, including mounted battles! I think this game will be a perfect addition to the first. What do you think? Will you be getting the game?
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FLAVOURS OF SPAIN LAUNCHES 2nd INTERNATIONAL SPANISH PAELLA CHAMPIONSHIPS
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WHAT: 2nd International Spanish Paella Championships
WHEN: Saturday 30 May 12pm – 4pm – Winners will be announced at 3pm
WHERE: The Corso corner with Sydney rd. Manly
COST: General Public: Free – Participants: $350 per restaurant/caterer
Sydney, April 2015 – Flavours of Spain, the Australian-based catering company that provides delicious, authentic Spanish paella to different events in Australia, will host the 2nd International Spanish Paella Championships in May 2015. The competition takes place on Saturday 30 May as part and opening event for food and wine festival A Taste of Manly. The contest invites the best Australian and international chefs to cook and fight for the title of Best Paella in Oceania. The top three winners in Manly will be recognized as the best paella chefs in Oceania and then go on to compete in another internationally renowned paella festival in Spain, for the chance to be recognised worldwide as the world’s leading paella chef.
The final contestants are from,
Bali, NSW, Queensland, Singapore, South Australia, Sydney and Victoria.
The judges are
Miguel Cuevas – Paella Ambassador to Australia
Emile Gomez, Director – Nomad Distribution and leading paella chef
Dane Richards Director, Le Bon Vivant Food Blog
Milo Elder – food critic for SydneySocial101
“We are very proud to be organizing this international contest in Australia again and look forward to receiving applications from the most qualified chefs and paella lovers throughout Australia and other places in Oceania,” says Miguel Cuevas, Paella Ambassador to Australia and founder of Flavours of Spain Catering.
“It’s an opportunity to present a truly unique food festival to the Australian community. Visitors who come to Manly to enjoy the Oceania’s second international paella contest will experience a vibrant and memorable gastronomic journey to Spain.”
The event is organized by Flavours of Spain and the Council of Manly.
For more information contact www.flavoursofspain.com.au
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Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel, earns the nickname "The CityThat Never Sleeps" for its 24-hour cosmopolitan lifestyle includingbars, restaurants and world-famous beaches.
Tel Aviv, the country's financial capital, is the richest andsecond largest city in Israel after Jerusalem. Located on the IsraeliMediterranean coastline, Tel Aviv was voted Third Best City in theMiddle East by Travel + Leisure Magazine in 2010.
The name Tel Aviv is derived from the Hebrew word "Aviv" forspring and "Tel" for mound, the city's name is symbolic for thehistoric significance of the city as an archeological site revealinglayers upon layers of civilization.
Travelers can visit the adjoining ancient port city of Jaffatraced back as far as the Middle Bronze Age. Shop in the local fleamarkets and bargain with local vendors. Jaffa is mentioned in the Bibleseveral times and is believed to have been an ancient port for 4,000years.
Choose from a variety of hotels in Tel Aviv includingworld-renowned brands such as Crowne Plaza, Sheraton, Dan Isrotel andHilton.
Established as the first Hebrew city,Tel Aviv is rich in history as well as modern activities. The city islocated 37 miles northwest of the historic city of Jerusalem, thereligious Mecca for Judaism, Christianity and Islam. As a majorMediterranean center, Tel Aviv is a magnet for international tourismlikened by some to Barcelonaand Miami.
Tel Aviv offers authentic Israeli cuisine including falafel,hummus and shwarma at a variety of dining options ranging from streetvendors to elegant restaurants like Cordelia, Orca and Messa.
October through April is the besttime to visit as summer heat picks up May through September.
BenGurion International Airport is the international airport in Tel Aviv.The airport is the main hub for El Al, Arkia Israel Airlines, IsrairAirline and Sun D'Or International Airlines. It was rated the BestAirport in the Middle East by the World Airport Awards in 2009.
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Taste the Tel Aviv nightlife at the Tel Aviv Sea Port. Set on thebeach overlooking the Mediterranean, travelers can bounce from pubs,restaurants and clubs all next door to each other. It is a popularhotspot for locals and travelers alike.
Ben-Yehuda Street has many souvenir shops including Judaicapieces and jewelry. Travelers can also visit a variety of museums suchas the Eretz Israel Museum - known for its Israeli archaeological andhistory exhibits and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
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Sunday at the Art Gallery With Linda
This past Sunday, these two women met for brunch, and then went off to Museum London to see a presentation by Little Ray's Reptile Zoo, a privately funded zoo and animal rescue that has a travelling reptile show. Linda and I find snakes, lizards and other scaley critters rather fascinating so we thought it would be an interesting way to spend an hour.
When we arrived a few minutes after the show had started, we found ourselves at the back of a large crowd of children and adults. The man in the hat in the upper left of the photo was holding, and talking about a particular salamander that is on the endangered species list. Unfortunately, the noise level in the room was so loud that you could barely hear what he was saying, even though he was almost yelling. At one point, a man standing near me put up his hand and asked if the presenter could speak louder, and without thinking, I said out loud, to no one in particular, "maybe if everyone shut up, we could hear him". In that moment, I officially became a crochety old lady. I recalled that if I was ever taken to a show or exhibit when I was a kid, there was a conversation beforehand about the behaviour that was expected of me - pay attention and be quiet. Apparently that talk isn't had by many parents and children anymore. When we realized we were never going to be able to hear what the poor reptile guy was saying, we decided to explore the rest of the gallery.
We crossed into the large main gallery and saw this, prompting us to both exclaim "DRESSES!"
The dresses were part of an exhibit titled "In Full Flower", featuring women's dresses, decorative objects, and paintings with a floral motif from the Museum's collection. Flowers have been used extensively throughout history as a decorative motif by artists, fashion designers, and crafters and have held a variety of symbolic meanings. They are usually associated with femininity, and thus are a popular choice for fabrics for women's clothing, hence the dresses on display. Unfortunately, the paintings that were chosen for the exhibit were mostly dark and featured rather droopy flowers (notice the two on the wall behind the dress) which made them not worth documenting. The silk dress in the photo from around 1915 was owned by Marjorie Stevenson Morphy, and is an example of a very fashionable outfit of the time period.
This late 1920's chiffon dress was one of my favourites for the colour combination and the shape
A very welcome, and quite fascinating addition to the exhibit was the display cards below each dress that not only described the dress and how it was made, but also gave some information about the woman who had owned it. The cards in the photo above are for the chiffon dress in the previous photo. I love the name Eloise!
Details of some of the dresses on display (clockwise from top left): Lace detail on the collar and pocket of a 1940's cotton dress donated by Western's Brescia College; waist detail of Arnold Scaasi silk dress purchased by Judith Roger in 1964 for her wedding trousseau. Judith's daughter Milisa Burns then wore the dress as a going away outfit after her own 1991 wedding; vibrant floral pattern and draped bodice and waist of a 1980's dress owned by Isabel Wilson Roger; ruffled capped sleeves on a 1930's georgette dress worn by Bertha "Mabel" Riether when she was in her 50's.
The 1960's were represented by the polyester dress on the left, which was purchased in Toronto in 1969, and the PVC dress on the right designed by Canadian-born Karen Moller
Linda and I were intrigued by the description for these two dresses, both owned by Sophie Skaith. Skaith made the mini dress on the left in 1970 and according to the information card, she wore it a lot because "it just made me feel so good and I just loved to wear it". We were surprised to see that the rather dumpy Laura Ashley dress with the lace collar was also owned by Skaith, and it was noted that it was one of her favourites. Linda and I were very tempted to try to contact Ms. Skaith, who is still alive, and find out how the same woman that made the bold flowered minidress on the left could also be so enamoured with the drab, shapeless dress on the right.
In Full Flower: Handpicked From the Collection
is on view at Museum London until April 19th
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Labels: floral print textiles, floral prints, In Full Flower exhibit, Little Ray's Reptile Zoo, London Ontario history, Museum London, vintage dresses
Melanie February 25, 2015 at 12:16 AM
Oh yes, reptiles and floral dresses. I see the connection...? Haha. I'm glad the dresses were there. What's up with audience behaviour? I went to a concert a while ago and it was like a sports event, everyone talking, getting up randomly to go to the lobby for drinks and food. I couldn't believe it. You weren't being crotchety at all. It's too bad you were compelled to leave.
I like the personal stories with each dress. What a difference it makes to the connection with these pieces. About Ms. Skaith, the mini was 1970 and Ashley was big in the mid- to late-'80s? It's possible the Ms. Skaith started to dress more "age appropriately"? Or she simply loved the colours and lace of the Ashley. Let me know if you find out. I love the photos of you and Linda.
Sheila February 25, 2015 at 1:36 AM
I would have muttered loudly about being respectful to the guest and shutting the f**k up. :-) Actually, once I heard the hubbub and saw all the kids I'd be all over that dress exhibit!
I love hearing about who owned the dresses! I'd love to know about that gawdawful shapeless Laura Ashley monstrosity.
You and Linda look fabulous!
Radostin February 25, 2015 at 2:00 AM
What a lovely exhibition! I too really enjoy exhibitions that include a personal touch. I found your musings on Mrs Skaith's varied tastes interesting, too. Of course Ms Bag's explanation makes sense, but, being one such myself, I must point out that some people simply like to vary their style a great deal. I certainly enjoy wearing skirts of all lengths, sometimes when I dress I fancy showing off my legs and sometimes I feel like being mysteriously enveloped in enormous quantities of dark fabrics, my form barely, if at all, discernible beneath. Sometimes I may like a whole dress largely because of it's lace collar, say, and not give a damn about how conventionally attractive I appear in it. Sometimes that can be just as much of a f***-off to the world as super skinny jeans, massive boots, and a leather jacket.
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Vix February 25, 2015 at 3:38 AM
Reptiles and dresses, two of my favourite things!
I'm dying over that 60s PVC mini and its polyester companion and love how the museum documented details of the owners, that's something I wish all vintage clothes could come with.
I can't bear parents who allow their children to behave like that, I'd have done like Sheila suggested and told them to shut the f*ck up, too. xxx
Bobbi February 25, 2015 at 7:46 AM
Other people's kids have no respect for the rest of the world. My kids would be told to shut up or leave.
The dresses are great! I love the two from the Sixties. How uncomfortable would PVC be after a night of dancing? It's great that the displays told of the dress owners. It makes the clothes come alive in a way.
Suzanne February 25, 2015 at 7:58 AM
What a mix of exhibits! LOL It would be amazing if you contacted that woman. I sure hope it isn't because she wanted to dress "age appropriate" as Melanie suggested.
Patti February 25, 2015 at 8:04 AM
Oh the dresses - I would've abandoned the snakes (and children) too : > The 1920's georgette floral is gorgeous. xo
The Style Crone February 25, 2015 at 9:37 AM
I too would have rushed right over to the dresses! Reptiles are interesting, but rude behavior not so much. Love the 1920's number and I would never tire of the chiffon floral print. Another great museum review, Shelley.
Curtise February 25, 2015 at 12:07 PM
Looking at the crowd, there are more adults that children present, so I would be more inclined to be disappointed with the lack of parenting rather than with the kids' behaviour; they learn from us what is and isn't appropriate, don't they? And increasingly adults appear to disregard the guidelines of communal events which I was brought up with (ie. you shut up and listen when at a talk, you don't chat through a film or play, etc). I've seen parents at school on the phone chatting while their kids are performing on stage. Unbelievable. And if that makes me a crotchety old lady too, then so be it!
The dress exhibition was a worthwhile alternative to the reptiles though, I always love hearing women's stories about their clothes. Some beautiful pieces to admire, look at those gorgeous floral prints. Funnily enough, we had three 1980s Laura Ashley dresses donated to the charity shop today, very similar in style to the one in the display. Not my cup of tea, but someone will buy them, I'm sure! xxx
Forest City Fashionista February 25, 2015 at 3:05 PM
You can't see the kids because they are all sitting at the front near the speaker in low chairs or on the floor. The adults were as noisy as the kids, so it was just bad behavior all around
PinkCheetahVintage February 25, 2015 at 4:59 PM
The dress exhibit looks so fun!!!!
thorne garnet February 25, 2015 at 9:18 PM
why even go to a public lecture if you're not going to SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LISTEN? It's rube to the other people who came to hear the lecture and it's ruder to the person standing up there giving the lecture. I hope it was a free event
on the other hand, those dresses are beautiful.
pao March 2, 2015 at 9:01 AM
As luck would have it, you were able to roam the dress exhibit unencumbered by clamoring kids, et.al. It is sort of homey that the museum or gallery would put up such extensive info on ordinary dresses. But that adds to its charm immensely. For a show that was gathered together from their own collection of floral items, they did a bang up job. And you, of course, did a most excellent review.
Hvit March 3, 2015 at 9:53 AM
That's such a shame about the reptile show. I'm a very young adult and I would have still been the crotchety old lady hissing at kids to shhh. Huh. I love lizards. But it's great you found such an interesting exhibition!
You both looked great. :D
Idiosyncratic Fashionistas March 4, 2015 at 11:11 PM
Really love what you're wearing. And loved the range of fabrics and prints on the clothes in the exhibit.
Indigo Violet March 16, 2015 at 3:04 AM
I'm with you. Recently I went to a protest and the women and children in front of me were very noisy. They were treating it as a social event rather than an opportunity to learn from the speakers. In contrast, when I went to a Sharon Van Etten gig the audience was spellbound, despite having chatted loudly through the support act. Granted, the two events didn't have much in common, but there is an increasing tendency for audiences to lack concentration, shall we say.
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Forsaken Review
If you're without a PC or N64, pick up the PlayStation version without fear.
By Jeff Gerstmann | @jeffgerstmann on April 28, 2000 at 11:05PM PDT
Remember Descent? You know, the crazy zero-g first-person shooter that put you in the cockpit of a small ship and forced you to reenact the end of Return of the Jedi over and over again? Forsaken is, at its core, a Descent clone. The game's great weaponry and above-average graphics go a long way to make it feel fresh, but the control is what eventually brings the game to a grinding halt.
The game's simple scenario is set on a postapocalyptic Earth. Most of the planet is in ruins, complete with loads of goodies, ripe for the taking. You play a scavenger on a hoverbike, and you'll traverse military installations, nuclear reactors, refineries, temples, and more in search of gold and crystals. This may sound like a cakewalk, but Earth's automated defense systems are still intact, littering your path with all kinds of annoying drone ships, tanks, and turrets. Rival scavengers will also pop by from time to time in an attempt to take out their competition. While none of the enemies proves to be a threat on its own, their sheer numbers make the game incredibly difficult. The shaky control also hurts, as it makes drawing a bead on your enemies a bit more difficult than it should be. While most of the levels are of the "just get to the exit" variety, a few are timed. The time given, however, is incredibly generous, so there's never a real race against the clock.
The weaponry in Forsaken is unique. Each weapon has three levels of power, depending on how many power pods you've found. The Suss gun is a spread-fire weapon that quickly shoots a mess of projectiles in your enemy's direction. The Trojax is a charged weapon that gains power (and sucks ammunition) when you hold down the fire button. The Pyrolite is a short-range flamethrower. Transpulse shots can bounce off walls, making them good for surprise attacks in multiplayer games. The Beam Laser simply emits two monstrous beams of death. It requires pinpoint accuracy, but it does insane amounts of damage. Secondary weapons include the Scatter missile, which causes the victim to drop all of his weaponry. The Multiple-Fire Rocket Launcher quickly spits out tons of small missiles. The Solaris homes in on its target. The Gravgon missile creates a vacuum at its point of impact, sucking enemies into its gravitational field and holding them in place for you to take out at will. The Titan is the most devastating weapon in the entire game and will frequently take you out as well if you aren't careful. There are also three different types of mines that will help you keep enemies off your tail and a nitro boost that will allow you to escape from sticky situations.
The control in Forsaken isn't as tight as it should be. Also, the bike moves significantly slower in the PlayStation version when compared with the PC and N64 versions. It moves too slowly to dodge most of the enemy fire effectively. The analog control helps a bit, but it still feels too loose. The graphics in the game are pretty good, with very little slowdown and nice use of colored lighting. The sound effects are very good, although the multiple bike computers of the PC version have been cut.
The PlayStation version of Forsaken is on the bottom of the pile. Both the PC and N64 versions surpass it in almost every category. However, the PlayStation version is still a good game once you get past the control problems, so if you're without a PC or N64, pick up the PlayStation version without fear.
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GamesRadar Photoshop Mash-up #3 - Games meet... TV shows
By Andy Hartup 2013-05-02T11:30:00.121Z
Great gaming puns made real. Ish
Games vs TV shows
Hello and welcome back to a semi-regular feature we like to call GamesRadar Photoshop Mash-up. Over the next few pages we've taken a bunch of game-based puns--in this instance, they're all about TV shows--and used our crazy Photoshop skills to tinker with existing box art and make them a reality. We've even included a few words on our creative process too.
Sadly, some didn't make the cut. We didn't think the likes of 30 Rock Band, Super Meat Boy Meets World, or Total Wipeout 2048 were quite as strong. If you like what we've done here, please let us know in the comments and we'll make more. For now, though, enjoy--and if you want to get a closer look at our masterful work, just click on the top right of the images to enlarge them.
Want more Photoshop Mash-ups? Here is our entry on Games vs Food, and here is our entry on Games vs Clothes. Enjoy.
Breaking Bad Dudes
Inspired by Bad Dudes. Let's face it--Walter and Jesse are already bad dudes, so this is a perfect fit. In terms of which Walt to pick, we had to go for Heisenberg...
My So-Called Half-Life
Inspired by Half-Life. We tried to imagine how different the events at Black Mesa would be if seen through the eyes of a moody teenage girl. We reckon there would be less crow-barring people's faces in, and more musing about why boys don't like our hair.
Army of Two and a Half Men
Inspired by Army of Two. It isn't a Photoshop feature without an Army of Two pun. We reckon this Sheen-lead version would feature Tiger Blood pick-ups, a level set on the set of Oprah, and the word 'Winning' flashing on screen every time you make a kill.
Return to Takeshi's Castle Wolfenstein
Inspired by Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Despite his rigorous military training, and extensive experience fighting undead Nazis, we reckon even Sergeant B J Blazkowicz would have trouble winning that game at the end of Takeshi's Castle with the water-cannon cars.
The Big Bangai-o Theory
Inspired by Bangai-o. In a break from the normal Bangai-o action, new character Leonard makes a duff attempt to win back Penny, while Sheldon succeeds in making himself a robot. There are also jokes about Raj and Howard being a married couple.
Sabrina The Teenage Witcher
Inspired by The Witcher 2. Geralt is tired, old, and he just wants a quiet life. So he hands his monster-slaying, assassin-catching, witching duties to a spunky teenager with a wise-cracking cat. Hilarity ensues.
Sex and the Operation Raccoon City
Inspired by Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City. Oh no! What have those glamorous girls got themselves into!? Mistaken for a dessicated old zombie, Carrie is taken hostage by the Umbrella Security Squad, but is soon released when the team grow tired of her gushing monologues about Mr Big. Rampant cougar, Samantha, spends the whole game ruthlessly pursuing Leon S Kennedy for sex, making Nemesis look like a happy-go-lucky kind of guy. The other two have story-lines too, but they're just filler.
Jak & Dexter
Inspired by Jak & Daxter. The pair set off on another crazy platforming adventure, although Jak becomes concerned when his partner begins to wrap up Lurker enemies in plastic and stab them through the heart. Contains bonus levels where you need to dump body parts off the side of The Slice of Life, without being accused of being the Bay Harbor Butcher.
Dynasty Warriors
Inspired by, er, Dynasty Warriors. In this inexplicably violent reunion episode, the Carringtons decide to bring the pain to Denver by arming themselves to the teeth with samurai weapons, and fighting off endless waves of business rivals. We would totally watch this episode, by the way. Are you listening ABC?
Enslaved By The Bell
Inspired by Enslaved. In a post apocalyptic future, the gang still haven't graduated--largely because at no point in the TV show do any of them actually do any work. Belding takes to leading Screech around like a pet, while Zack and Kelly form their own tribe, ousting Jessie and--after months without food--cooking and eating AC Slater.
Now it's your turn...
So, you've seen what we've created. You've likely sighed at the awful puns, and thought you could do much better. Well, we'd love you to get involved. Why not create your own TV-based gaming puns and show them to us via Twitter. If you're not familiar with Photoshop, just let us know your Games vs TV Show puns in the comments below.
Want to see more episodes in this series? Why not check out our first Mash-up, which shows Games vs Food. Alternatively switch to a different channel for our Games vs Clothes feature. The puns never get any better, by the way...
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Under MS Dhoni, India had greater clarity on batting positions, says Virender Sehwag
Economic slowdown hits employment generation; remittances register decline in a few states: SBI report
Business Press Trust of India Jan 13, 2020 15:06:19 IST
In FY19, India had created 89.7 lakh new payrolls as per the EPFO data and in FY20, this number could be at least 15.8 lakh lower, the report said
Over the years, migration has been an important livelihood option for both the poor and the non-poor in the country
For a large number of migrants, New Delhi is a much-favoured destination due to the abundance of job opportunities, the report said
Mumbai: The economic slowdown has adversely impacted employment generation in the country as nearly 16 lakh less jobs are projected to be created in FY20 as compared to 89.7 lakh fresh jobs in FY19, a report said.
According to the SBI research report- Ecowrap, there is a decline in remittances in a few states like Assam and Rajasthan, reflecting downsizing of contractual labourers.
"In FY19, India had created 89.7 lakh new payrolls as per the EPFO data. In FY20, as per current projected this number could be at least 15.8 lakh lower," the report said.
Representational image. PTI
The EPFO data primarily covers low paid jobs as the salary is capped at Rs 15,000 per month. As per the calculation done by the report, during April-October 2019, the actual net new payroll was 43.1 lakh which annualised comes out to be 73.9 lakh for FY20.
The EPFO data does not cover government jobs, state government jobs and private jobs as such data have moved to National Pension Scheme (NPS), beginning 2004.
"Interestingly, even in the NPS category, state and Central governments are supposed to create close to 39,000 jobs less in FY20 as per current trends," the report said.
It said a sample of data on remittances by migrant labourers to selected states in the last one year showed that there is a decline in remittances in states like Assam, Bihar, Rajasthan, Odisha and UP.
"The delay in resolution of cases under bankruptcy proceedings may have prompted companies to downsize their contractual labourers," it said.
Over the years, migration has been an important livelihood option for both the poor and the non-poor in the country.
As a result of unequal growth, people from agriculturally and industrially less-developed states migrate to more developed states in search of job opportunities - for example from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, the southern part of Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and Rajasthan to states like Punjab, Gujarat, and Maharashtra.
For a large number of migrants, New Delhi is a much-favoured destination due to the abundance of job opportunities, the report said.
"These migrants have been making significant financial contributions to their families in their places of origin," it said.
The report further said in the last five years, the overall productivity growth has remained relatively stagnant between 9.4 percent to 9.9 percent.
This slow growth in productivity manifests in low wage growth, it said.
The report also cautioned the policymakers of such slower productivity growth as it could encourage over-borrowing by corporations and households, which can create a big risk to economies and fiscal systems.
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Auckland Open title lifts pressure off Serena Williams as tennis star prepares for Australian Open
The Auckland Open title win was highly significant for Serena Williams as it ended the worst title drought of her career.
Since winning her 23rd Grand Slam at the 2017 Australian Open, Williams had lost all five of her five previous finals.
Williams’s next target is joining Margaret Court on a record 24 Grand Slams.
Wellington: The length of time Serena Williams held her arms aloft after clinching her first WTA title in almost three years spoke volumes on Sunday as the American prepares for the latest tilt at a 24th Grand Slam title in Melbourne next week.
The celebration after her Auckland Classic victory was not as effusive as some of her previous 72 title wins, and the $43,000 winner’s cheque, which she donated to Australia bushfire relief efforts, was a drop in the ocean for someone who has won almost $93 million in career prize-money.
Serena Williams defeated Jessica Pegula in final to win Auckland Open. AP
But the victory was highly significant in that it ended the worst title drought of her career.
Since winning her 23rd Grand Slam at the 2017 Australian Open, Williams had lost all five of her five previous finals, four at majors, a run that made the most dominant player in the modern era look fallible.
“It’s pretty satisfying to get a win in a final,” Williams told reporters. “That was really important for me.
“I want to build on it. Obviously it is a step towards the next goal in Melbourne.”
Williams’s next target is joining Margaret Court on a record 24 Grand Slams, and as much as she says it is the love of the game that keeps her going at the age of 38, surpassing the Australian is still something that drives her.
She did not play a warm-up tournament ahead of last year’s Australian Open and fell in the quarter-finals, and her appearance in Auckland was designed to get more matches under her belt before she headed to Melbourne.
Williams also played doubles with Caroline Wozniacki in Auckland, losing in the final to Asia Muhammad and Taylor Townsend, and while she appeared exhausted on Sunday it was clear the trip to New Zealand had been worthwhile.
She looked rusty early on but then produced arguably the performance of the tournament as she thrashed American teenager Amanda Anisimova 6-1 6-1 in the semi-finals.
Williams had to dig deep in the final before winning it 6-3, 6-4 against fellow American Jessica Pegula, who matched the top seed from the baseline and attacked her powerful serve.
“I feel like I didn’t get any free points,” said Williams.
“It was good, because it’s good for me to win matches where I’m not getting too many free points and I have to rely on my groundstrokes.”
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EP Reviews 2020
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EP Review: Black Rabbit – Warren of Necrosis (Self Released)
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EP Review: Necropsy – Exitus (Xtreem Music)
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Stranahan House
What to Do in Fort Lauderdale (That Isn't the Beach)
More than 4 million cruise passengers pass through Fort Lauderdale's Port Everglades a year. This southeastern Florida city may have high tourism arrivals on paper, but in practicality, it actually gets short shrift—most of those cruise visitors zip directly between the pier and the airport, missing a golden chance to explore. We throw no shade at the good science and art museums, but Fort Lauderdale has always thrived from a mix of pioneer, Seminole, and tourist influences. Visitors have always been a pillar of the city, so many of its most distinct things to do are, in a way, bits of tourism history that still are still waiting to be found—if only the cruise line shuttle bus didn't whisk visitors straight from baggage claim to the ship gangway.
Besides, contrary to legend, Fort Lauderdale can get chilly in the winter. What are you going to do if you won't swim?
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he Jungle Queen riverboat has been plying the New River since 1935, when the still-undeveloped area was thick with trees and worthy of the reference. Now the open-air faux paddlewheel passes multimillion-dollar yachts, waterfront mansions, and a tower-studded downtown. But its destination, an onshore eat-with-your-hands barbecue and vaudeville-style show deep inland, keeps this family-friendly South Florida tradition comfortably rooted in Florida's riverboating past.
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Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Indian Museum
In the mid 20th century, a popular tourism trend in Florida was the Indian tourist camp. Families would pull over and wander into re-created Seminole villages to watch modern-day Seminole demonstrate the way their people once lived. One of those old attractions, the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Indian Museum on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, is still operating. An hour west of Fort Lauderdale, reached by a mile-long boardwalk under Cypress trees, villagers still greet tourists to demonstrate traditional arts and crafts, which they also sell. (Call ahead to make sure the village is populated on the day you're there.) There's also a substantial museum on Seminole history—its library is one of the best archives in the world on the topic.
Mai-Kai Restaurant
Not gonna lie. It's touristy, cheesy, and overpriced—but it's also a lot of fun. The Mai-Kai opened in 1956 at the height of the Hawaiian-Tiki craze, poaching recipes and staff alike from the famous Don the Beachcomber's. There's a 50-minute island-themed floor show (which costs extra) and the food is nothing to hula about, but the real reason to go is the intensity of the kitsch: powerful rum cocktails in souvenir goblets, sarong-wrapped waitresses, and the thick atmosphere of dark wood and foliage that is now six decades old. It's on the National Register of Historic Places.
Bonnet House
If you want to understand why Florida became so popular, drop by for a guided tour of the idyllic Bonnet House estate, which was built a century ago right on the beach. You can't tell from outside its walls, but it's a virtual Eden of leafy gardens, palm trees, ponds, breezy verandahs, and fantastic art left behind by Gilded Age bohemians—do not miss the exquisite and nearly impossible-to-accomplish bust of a veiled woman by sculptor G.B. Lombardi. So this is what the good life in Florida was supposed to be about. But because Florida can be Florida, rapacious developers are persistently trying to knock down this slice of heaven and knock up some luxury condos.
Bonus pop culture trivia: If you're a fan of CBS's The Amazing Race, this cloistered spot was the finish line for the season that Uchenna and Joyce won.
Billie Swamp Safari
An alligator pit! Florida panthers! Hour-long swamp tours aboard "swamp buggies"! For crying out loud, the Venomous Snake Show! Really, this 2,200-acre Everglades-themed Billie Swamp Safari nature park sells itself.
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LaSpada's Original Hoagies
LaSpada's, operating since 1973, has a location right by the cruise port on 17th Street near Port Everglades. It's probably the best sandwich shop in the state, if not the country. Ask a local—they'll tell you. Squeeze past the line out the door and you'll see why: Clerks slice meat to order and toss it across the room to a colleague who catches it in the bread and piles it so high with fixings that you'll need two hands to lift it and several stomaches to fit it. Upon departure from Fort Lauderdale, many a cruise cabin has been humming with the aroma of onions from these mystically delicious—and massive—masterpieces.
They come by the busload—to a mall. A mighty big one: the seventh-largest in America, with 350 stores and retail space that's equivalent to 40 football fields. But it's an oft-repeated claim that Sawgrass Mills, 13 miles west of Fort Lauderdale in Sunrise, FL, is Florida's secondmost-visited tourist attraction after the Mouse, and judging by the swarms of out-of-towners (especially South Americans) lugging new purchases into its parking lot that holds 11,000 cars, that indeed may be true. With so many people flooding the state from overseas and looking for bargains, outlet malls have become a Florida staple, and Sawgrass Mills is their king.
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Remember 1960's Where the Boys Are? When Fort Lauderdale was heaving with coed flesh and you could barely move? When George Hamilton was young and nubile?
It can all be hard to remember, and you probably also don't remember the part of the movie when one of those drunk college girl characters was sexually assaulted and spent the rest of the movie in the hospital. Well, never mind. The Elbo Room bar had a large presence in that film, and fortunately for it, people have pretty much forgotten all the awful aspects of Where the Boys Are and simply cherish the slice-of-time bar, which still stands on the corner of Las Olas Boulevard and the beach road, A1A. It's just a beer hall across the road from the beach, but it honors its past, and in an increasingly consumeristic Florida, both of those things are refreshing.
Not so long ago, Florida was as much as a frontier as the American West, with very few European-descended people putting down stakes to forge new communities in untamed, native-held areas. Fort Lauderdale's oldest building was built on the New River in 1901 by Frank Stranahan, who ran it as a trading post back when there was nothing else around—visiting Seminole would dock their canoes and sleep on the porch before heading back into the Everglades with their goods. In time, the tall buildings of the city grew around it, partly thanks to the bank that Frank founded—and when that went bust in the Great Depression, he walked through his back yard and drowned himself in the river. The Stranahan House is deservedly on the National Register of Historic Places, and there are daily guided tours.
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Riverwalk and the New River
Archeologists frequently dig up signs of prehistoric life all around the New River, but there's one thing that eludes them: Where D. W. Griffith shot. The cinema pioneer, thinking Florida might be an ideal place to film, set up somewhere on the river in 1919 for his follow-ups to The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance, called The Idol Dancer and The Love Flower. Back then, the New River was so thick with tropical vegetation it stood in for Polynesia, but now it's a pleasant place to walk and pause at cafés and bars, especially in the developed Riverwalk district downtown. A free city trolley criss-crosses the sites, and a Water Taxi fleet does the same thing from the beach area by water, passing the city's biggest mansions and yachts.
The Idol Dancer exposed Fort Lauderdale to a global audience and helped launch its reputation, but this day, no one is sure exactly where Griffith's crew worked. He soon realized muggy Florida was no substitute for dry Hollywood and went back to California to kick United Artists in high gear with Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford. If you can figure out where Griffith shot, Fort Lauderdale (and film historians) will thank you.
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There, we said it. The two cities tend to exist in their own orbits and a subtle rivalry simmers, but as a traveler, you don't have to care about that. Forty-five minutes down I-95, you'll find the larger Miami, one of the most vibrant cities in the American South, alive with a blend of cultures, including Caribbean, Cuban, and club. No sense ignoring its riches just because the people of Fort Lauderdale would rather have you to themselves.
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Staff Close-Up: Meet Tim Smith, Juggler Extraordinaire
He manages relationships with past, present and prospective Members, helps direct programs, and wears a plethora of hats in his role at Full Circle Fund. The question is, what can Tim Smith not do? Get to know our very own in-house superhero and Director of Programs & Engagement here in our Staff Close-Up!
FCF:What drew you to Full Circle Fund?
TS: I was actually interested in becoming a member as I heard about it through a friend from undergrad. I was wanting to enter the nonprofit sector, and found the bridge between public and private sector people at Full Circle Fund really appealing. Plus, I liked that the office was dog friendly!
FCF: Where were you before Full Circle Fund?
TS: I lived in Boston (go Red Sox and Celtics!) for 6 years after college (go Colby!), then moved to the Bay Area in 2008. I was considering becoming a lawyer, but decided I wanted to work in the nonprofit sector instead. I spent some time working in management at some public interest law firms, focused on helping refugees and immigrants.
FCF: In three words, how would you describe Full Circle Fund?
TS: Welcoming, iterative, ambitious
FCF: What has been the highlight of the year (thus far)?
TS: Seeing how many people are interested in our model, especially through the Rising Leaders program. The Idea Jamathon was pretty awesome!
FCF: Where was the last memorable place you visited in San Francisco or the Bay Area?
TS: Having a Manhattan (okay, two) at the bar at Cavallo Point on a clear night with good friends. I literally said, “life is so good right now, and so is this drink.”
FCF: If you could switch places with anyone, who would it be & why?
TS: I would actually switch places with my husband for a day; I think it is really useful to be able to “live in the others’ shoes” and get a sense of their work.
FCF: What’s the #1 most played song on your iPod?
TS: “Treasure” by Bruno Mars
FCF: In one tweet, how would you sum up your job?
TS: So grateful to get to work with/know so many amazing members with diverse perspectives. #lucky.
Thanks, Tim, for sharing a bit more about yourself. Stay tuned for more interviews with Staff, Members, & Alumni!
Announcing Our 2019 Grant Cycle Focus Areas
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Osaka beats Kvitova to win Australian Open and become new world number one
Melbourne (AFP)
Japan's Naomi Osaka battled past Czech eighth seed Petra Kvitova 7-6 (7/2), 5-7, 6-4 to win her first Australian Open crown Saturday and become the new world number one.
The fourth seed and US Open champion made it two Grand Slam titles in a row after a see-sawing 2hr 27min match.
The hard-fought victory made Osaka the first Asian, male or female, to hold the world's top ranking, taking over from Romania's Simona Halep.
A rattled Osaka almost blew her title hopes with one hand on the trophy when she failed to convert three championship points when up 5-3 in the second set.
The never-say-die Kvitova won four straight games to force a deciding set before Osaka finally edged ahead with a decisive break early in the third.
The Japanese youngster fell to one knee in celebration, head bowed, after her epic win as Melbourne Park erupted in thunderous cheers.
It was a marked contrast to her maiden Slam win last year, when Osaka cried as boos rang around Flushing Meadows following losing finalist Serena Williams' tirade at the umpire.
This time, Osaka wept tears of joy and smiled as she became the youngest woman to win back-to-back majors since Martina Hingis in 1998 and the youngest number one since Caroline Wozniacki in 2010.
Her performance confirms her status as the leading light of tennis' new generation.
Predictions of a slugfest between two of the game's biggest hitters proved accurate as Kvitova hit 16 winners to Osaka's 14 in the first set.
The pair had never met before and Osaka initially struggled to unlock the lanky left-hander's serve, while Kvitova at times could not handle her opponent's powerful returns.
The Czech mixed up her game with drop shots and changes of pace but blew three break chances in a crunch sixth game.
Serving to stay in the set, Kvitova saved two set points to force a tie-break, which Osaka ran away with 7-2 after finally appearing to get a read on Kvitova's serve.
It was the first set the Czech had conceded in the entire tournament.
Kvitova regrouped and kept her hopes alive with the first break of the match to go up 2-0 in the second after going after Osaka's second serve.
Osaka was frustrated but did not panic, earning three break-back points in the next game, the decisive one off a Kvitova double fault, which she conceded with a poorly hit drop shot to put the set back on level terms.
Osaka, who went into the match with a record of winning 59 straight matches after taking the first set, broke again to take control as Kvitova's error rate climbed.
Osaka then brought up three championship points off Kvitova's serve but the Czech saved all of them, forcing Osaka to serve for the title.
Nerves took hold as Osaka conceded a break to make it 5-5, smashing a ball into the ground and putting her hands over her ears.
She was rattled further after losing a challenge in the next, bringing up break point with a cross-court backhand but was unable to stop Kvitova holding.
The Czech then broke again to seize momentum with her fourth straight game, claiming the set as Osaka left the court with a towel draped over her head.
She regained her cool and came out firing in the third, backing herself and clipping a clean backhand winner after another Kvitova double fault brought up break point in the third game.
She still had to see off a Kvitova break opportunity in the next but held comfortably, her mental demons put to bed.
Kvitova would not surrender, saving three break points before again forcing Osaka to serve it out. Osaka managed it on the second attempt for a famous victory.
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Franklin LifeSmart 2045 Retirement Target Fund - R
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Financial Results Q3 2014: Gigaset significantly improves EBITDA and consolidated net income
EBITDA from continuing operations in the third quarter: €4.4 million (Q3/2013: €3.8 million).
Consolidated net income from continuing operations in the third quarter: minus €0.2 million (Q3/2013: minus €3.8 million).
Consolidated revenue from continuing operations in the third quarter: €72.0 million (Q3/2013: €76.6 million).
Free cash flow from continuing operations in the third quarter: €7.6 million (Q3/2013: minus €9.9 million).
Initial revenue from the smart home system Gigaset elements...
11.11.2014 - 08:00 AG Press Releases door Stefan Zuber, Head of Corporate Communications Gigaset AG
AGM confirms strategy: Executive and Supervisory Boards' course approved by large majority
Around 150 shareholders, shareholder representatives and guests attended the AGM of Gigaset AG at the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Munich. The investors present were asked to vote on six agenda items, which were approved by a large majority.
12.08.2014 - 17:00 AG Press Releases door Raphael Dörr, Press Spokesman Gigaset AG
Gigaset posts consolidated profit and positive free cash flow in Q2. Significant improvement in the funding base
Thanks to successful implementation of the efficiency programs and the elimination of negative one-off tax effects from the previous year, Gigaset AG was able to again post positive consolidated net income of €1.3 million from continuing operations in the second quarter of 2014. The company made a net loss of €9.4 million in the same period of the previous year.
CFO Dr. Alexander Blum to leave Gigaset at the end of the year
Dr. Alexander Blum, the Chief Financial Officer of Gigaset AG, today informed the Supervisory Board that he will terminate his contract of employment by the due date effective December 31, 2014. Dr. Blum will fully discharge his duties until the end of the year so that a successor can be appointed and become familiarized with the tasks. That will ensure a smooth handover.
Gigaset repays all bank debts and completes extensive restructuring of its funding base
Gigaset AG today repaid all its financial liabilities, including all unpaid interest, totaling €25.0 million. This was made possible by the proceeds from the capital measures that were successfully placed recently and brought Gigaset in a net sum of €33.9 million. "The Gigaset Group is now completely free of financial debt and so has a raft of new options to ensure that its growth strategy can be financed further," says CFO Dr. Alexander Blum.
Gigaset AG obtains around €33.9 million from successful placement of the capital increase and convertible bond
As part of the rights offers made by Gigaset AG (ISIN DE0005156004) and completed as scheduled on July 14, 2014, 3,5% of the subscription rights to shares and 1,5% of the subscription rights to convertible bonds were exercised.
Gigaset consolidates its leading position in the market and completes its orientation toward telecommunications business
Despite the continuing decline in the market in its core business of cordless phones, Gigaset was able to increase its market share in Europe year on year by a total of 1 percentage point in terms of units sold in the first quarter of 2014. The overall market for cordless phones in Europe declined in the months January to March 2014 by almost 13 percent in terms of revenue in the markets observed by Gigaset. The picture was the same in almost all the observed markets.
22.05.2014 - 07:55 AG Press Releases door Stefan Zuber, Head of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations, Gigaset AG
2013 annual results: Gigaset rigorously continues its reconstruction. Crucial steps to stabilize the company reap success.
Gigaset AG has been able to report a positive EBITDA – of €11.0 million – in 2013 for the first time since fiscal 2011. This is due in particular to the positive effects to an amount of €30 million a year from the efficiency program that was announced in 2012. The program has been accomplished to its full extent. These effects will now be fully felt as of fiscal 2014. The declining market for cordless phones meant revenue from continuing operations fell by 11.5 percent to €371.2 million. Capital...
26.03.2014 - 08:15 AG Press Releases door Stefan Zuber, Corporate Communications, Gigaset AG
Preliminary results for 2013
EBITDA sharply improved – Company presses ahead with entry into new business segments
06.02.2014 - 07:00 AG Press Releases door Raphael Dörr, Press Spokesman, Gigaset AG
Gigaset to sell SM Electronic
The Gigaset Group is selling its subsidiary SM Electronic GmbH. The company is being sold to Microelectronic NH GmbH, which is adding SME to its company group as a strategic investment. Both parties have agreed not to disclose any information on the purchase price.
22.01.2014 - 08:00 AG Press Releases door Stefan Zuber, Head of Corporate Communications, Gigaset AG
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Toe Trilogy Termination
My toe has been getting progressively worse. A week or so ago, a bunch of skin started peeling from the previously infected edge, presumably the result of sloughing off skin damaged by extensive Epsom salting and de-swelling. While all well and good on the one hand, this apparently exposed my wounded toe to yet more infection, so over the course of the week it has been getting redder and oozier (though not as swollen as before) and ever more tender. I went back to the 2-3 times daily soaking, which has helped alleviate some symptoms by drawing out gunk and pus--or at least for as long as my foot was in the water, after which the edges would crust back over and start collecting gunk again.
By Friday the toe was very uncomfortable and I was starting to have little shooting pains every so often. I finally decided that I was getting pretty much over it all and was ready to let my lovely F doctor (or F.M.D., as one friend dubbed him) have his way with it. I figured the cure couldn't hurt any worse than the daily pain, never mind the break which originally caused all this drama, and would probably be a slightly different, more manageable pain anyway.
While at the SCA Twelfth Night festivities on Saturday, I called the minor med on my highly anachronistic phone to see if the FMD was there like he has been on every other Saturday in which I've gone. He wasn't. Bummer. Then I asked if he would be there today. Score! So I decided to tough it out for one more day just so I could let the FMD look after my troublesome toe, because I have infinitely more faith in him after our short acquaintance than I do with Dr. Earnest, the Asshat Medical Queen or some other unknown doctor.
So after church today I went home and had some lunch, then goofed off for a bit because I'd arranged a chat time with a friend for some undetermined time in the afternoon. She seemed to be otherwise occupied for the day, so I decided to go ahead and zip off to see the FMD. I woke my napping husband and dragged him out of his papasan chair (aka the "Posture is for Pansies" chair), telling him that he needed to come with me just in case I couldn't drive afterwards. I had no idea what exactly today's procedure would entail; all I could think about was the time when I had a mucous cyst aspirated from my index finger by a dermatologist, during which I felt each and every needle used, even after the numbing agent took effect (did the same thing with my epidural, actually), as well as the cautery iron used afterwards to decrease the chances of it coming back. Ah, the smell of burning skin--especially one's own. Yup. Anyway, I figured it would just be sensible (and infinitely safter) to bring a backup since I know how what a wienie I can be when there are needles involved.
We got to the minor med, which was largely dead--only one other person was there--and checked in. Maybe five minutes later the nurse called me back, stuffed me in a room, and ordered me to discard my Band-aid while I waited. A couple minutes later, in walked the FMD. My hero. My knight in white-coated armor. Let's just say I am now in love with the FMD, and I want to marry him and have his little Jewish babies. But I'm getting a little ahead of myself.
When the FMD walked in, I looked up at him and said, "CUT ME." He smirked, then asked, "So, did it get any better at all?" I told him that it had indeed, but that after the Great Skin Slough of 2012 it all started going pear-shaped again. He sighed and said it was cutting time. I told him that was fine, because I was over it. I asked what precisely would be involved and whether it meant removing the whole nail, which I was dreading. He said no, then explained the procedure in detail, saying that he would basically remove a vertical slice of nail nearest the infected edge, then remove a wedge of skin from the tip of my toe to make a smooth, unobstructed "runway" on which the new nail could grow without catching. After that, he would cleanse the exposed area, sucking out any remaining infection and gunk and spraying down the nail root, which would "cure" me. Afterwards, I would have a dressing like a cap, which I would leave on untouched and dry for 24 hours, after which I could again begin the thrice-daily soaking, dressing it afterwards with a little Neosporin and a regular bandage. He also told me that if this didn't work I would have to go to a podiatrist, who would basically kill that section of nail root then do the same basic procedure, after which my nail would die and the exposed skin would eventually toughen and just be uncovered. I asked what the likelihood was that this could happen. He said maybe 20%. Cool. I like those odds. Finally, he said it would take 3-4 months for the toenail to grow back out. Geez, dude--it's already been 7 months, and I still have a quarter inch of old toenail humped over the newer nail like a WWI bunker. Seriously--my toenail has a hunchback. It's awesome. Maybe by the one-year anniversary of the break I'll once again be able to get a freaking pedicure.
Anyway, after this instructive little lecture, the FMD started to go get his implements for the procedure. I stopped him, saying:
"If we're gonna do this, then there are three things you need to know."
"Okay...?"
"First, I am a giant pansy when it comes to needles, especially needles shoved into non-squishy body parts."
"Ooooh, and this is a nasty one, too." (This said without humor...)
"Second, I have very sensitive skin--I tend to react to adhesives (I described the after effects of my appendectomy) and I tend to feel every.single.needle shoved in my flesh, even when I'm not supposed to, so if you really want me to be numb, you're gonna have to give me enough anesthetic to fell a Clydesdale."
"We can do that." (Talk about your "can do" attitudes...)
"Lastly, because of those first two items, there is a distinct possibility that I will let loose a string of obscenities that would make a sailor blush."
"We're ready for you!!"
The last he said while laughing. Seriously. This man ROCKS. I told him he needed to be my GP. He just smiled. Afterwards, he went off to collect the necessary surgical items while I sat and waited, slightly less apprehensive, bathed as I was in the glow of his awesomeness.
When he returned, the FMD told me to "try to..." but before he could finish saying "relax," I answered that I would try, but no promises. The FMD said he would describe every single thing he was going to do to me before he did it so it would be easier for me to relax. (I love you, FMD. You understand the way my brain works better than my own husband. Run away with me.) Then he gave me a pillow and had me lie back and put my feet on the little pull-out shelf.
Next, because FMD is so awesome, he told me that he was going to numb my skin with a cold spray to make the needle prick less painful. He warned me that it would be very cold, but I didn't care. I've had plantar's warts both burned off and frozen off of my feet. I can deal with that kind of pain, I'm just not so big on the sharp and pointy kinds. The FMD said he was actually going to stick me between my first two toes, then down the other side of my big toe which surprised me both because I didn't know there were two nerves that needed to be hit and because I'd just assumed he was going to jam it in the tip of the toe, which I was dreading. The FMD shot the cold spray between my toes till the cold was nearly unbearable, then he stuck me with the needle--which I BARELY FELT. He warned me that the numbing agent was the worst part and would start to burn, which it did, but compared to a semi-shattered toe, it just wasn't that big a deal. He told me every step of the way, as promised. When he was gonna spray me, when the needle went in, when he was shooting the meds, when the needle was out. Both times. (Marry me, FMD. I make awesome cookies and can sew you every white doctor coat you'll ever need).
The FMD told me he was gonna leave me there in the room to numb up good for five minutes or so, saying that oftentimes when someone felt everything during a procedure it was because doctors tended to start said procedures before the anesthetic has fully taken effect. I told him again that he totally needed to be my GP. He just snorted. (I'm not joking, FMD. Rise to the bait. You know you want me. My bluntness entertains you.)
When the FMD came back he did the standard poking-of-my-toe-in-various-spots to make sure I was good and numb. I felt nothing. So he started the procedure. Stab. I told him I felt whatever he was doing (I'm just annoying like that). He asked what kind of pain it was, since he'd warned me there would be pressure, etc. "Pressure etc." I can deal with...I told him this pain was "pointy." He said "Okay, let me numb you a little more..." (I love you, FMD. You actually listen to me.) He started again. I said it was still pointy, then said "TOLD you I was a pain in the ass." He replied, smirking, "You aren't a pain in the ass...you're a pain in the toe." (You are a god, FMD.) I don't know if he jabbed me again with anesthetic or what, I sort of lost track--but I didn't feel anything else afterwards other than a little pressure or some vaguely burning (but not really painful) sensations. He continued to describe what he was doing. You gotta love a man who keeps his promises.
Turns out it was just as well that I went in to see the FMD. A couple of friends had suggested I soak in eucalyptus Epsom salts and/or tree oil and lavender and such. I considered it, and probably would have done if I could have located the items in question, but mostly I just wanted this over and done. This was just as well, because in the process of performing what amounted to a hangnailectomy, the FMD told me that I had quite a lot of nail jammed up in there, hiding as though under the tip of an iceberg. Thank you, broken/damaged toenail! As a result, my toe would have only continued to fester around this ninja hangnail until this procedure was done anyway. This was the same conclusion I had rapidly come to myself during the course of the week, though of course I had no idea that it would be the result of my toe was being poisoned from the inside out by a giant sliver of nail. I thought it was just some sort of infection abscess. Whoops.
While the FMD continued his slice and dice on my big toe, I queried if I could ask an unrelated question. I told him about the whole CT report and renal mass thing. I realized he hadn't seen the scans or report, but figured he'd have some idea how likely it was that I should be concerned. Also, since he's always been very straight with me (to which I respond extremely well--I despise the beating around of bushes), I figured he'd tell me like it really is, which is all I wanted. He more or less snorted in derision over my question, basically suggesting that far too many radiologists freak out over every little thing on a scan, which is why he himself only orders them when he absolutely has to (like for my appendicitis). He also told me they do the same thing to him, though as a doctor he has the advantage of knowing how to hack into the computers to access his results and read them, so he knows when the reports are full of crap and when they aren't. The FMD told me that in all probability it was merely a small benign cyst, which doesn't grow, doesn't change, doesn't really do much of anything except sit there. I mentioned the part about the possible gallstones, and he said that could possibly be bad, though he still seemed somewhat skeptical about whether there were any or not. And while I didn't intend to rag out one of his (indirect) colleagues (though I totally did, but at least I didn't mention names), he agreed the way they informed me was totally mishandled and done in an alarmist way. He said it might be related to recent issues dealing with customer satisfaction and such, which I guess has been a significant problem of late in the medical profession. I gather it's becoming increasingly more difficult to balance good healthcare against the demands of the ever-increasing sense of entitlement polluting our society. Ironically, one of my friends posted this article not long after I got home today, which in part addresses what the FMD was referencing. Read it--it's a good article. And I say that, securely smug in the knowledge that I'm usually pretty good about this sort of thing. I agree that some people overuse the system, but I really think that most just don't know when to go to a doctor and when not to, so they always go by default.
At any rate, I felt much better about the whole "renal mass" thing after having the FMD more or less corroborate what I thought about it probably being not a big deal given the circumstances. He continued to work on my toe while we chatted, finally getting to the "cleansing" part, during which he flushed out the exposed nail root and tidied up from my flesh wedging. He said he was going to let me sit for a couple of minutes to finish oozing/bleeding, after which he'd send in the nurse to bandage me up. Then I thanked him sincerely (how often do you genuinely thank someone for hacking away chunks of your flesh?) and he left the room. Shortly after, a couple of nurses did indeed come in to clean me up and wrap my toe, which now looks distinctly cartoon-like. They even used paper tape to wrap my toe because the FMD told them too; he decided not to take chances with my having a reaction to the tape, even though I'd told him my toes would probably be fine since my extremities tend to react less. I LOVE MEN WHO LISTEN TO ME. The nurses finished up, gave me my post-op instructions and another prescription for antibiotics (from the tetracycline family, since he remembered I didn't like Keflex!), and sent me on my way. As I walked out, I told the FMD that he was my hero, and that I had never experienced a less painful procedure. (Marry me, FMD...right now! Or at least consent to be my GP in perpetuity...)
All cartoon toes need to be embellished with dog hair and significant needle bruising.
I went up to the checkout window to surrender my co-pay, laughing (much to the hubs' surprise) and feeling FABULOUS. The procedure was over, my toe was numbed to non-existence--they said it could take up to eight hours to wear off--and my relief was palpable. I all but danced out of the office, less than an hour after I went into it. Once in the car I informed my husband that I would be divorcing him in favor of the FMD. He just raised his brows. You'd almost think he was used to my dramatic tendencies. We drove across the street to Publix to cash in my prescription and to pick up a few groceries and another bag of Epsom salts. Once home, I put on some jammies and spent the rest of the evening chilling with my foot elevated. The pangs of shooting pain didn't start till 10 or 11 pm, and even then they were very sporadic and short-lived.
So now you know why I love the FMD and want to run away with him and have his little Jewish babies, or at least kidnap him until he consents to be my personal physician full time. How can you not love a man with a wicked sense of humor who actually listens to you and who goes out of his way not to hurt you? That's often a rare commodity these days--even the most fabulous of men (whether doctors or not) don't always listen. And let's face it, medical competence is just hot. But hands off. He's my doctor...
So what is it that makes a doctor great for all of you?
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Be Brave: approaching a pivotal election on Nov. 6
Janson Wu, Executive Director
We’re approaching a pivotal election on Nov. 6—one that will determine whether we continue down a path of fear and hatred, or turn back to building a country that is more fair, inclusive, and mindful of science, truth, and morality.
It’s been a politically chaotic and scary two years, especially for marginalized people, including the LGBTQ community.
In the midst of the chaos and fear, I’ve been thinking a lot about bravery. And I keep coming back to one quote.
It’s from a prominent journalist and later government official from the first half of the 20th century, Elmer Davis. Davis was committed to seeking and telling the truth. He took principled positions against Japanese internment, government censorship, and McCarthyism.
Davis said: “This nation will remain the land of the free, only so long as it is the home of the brave.”
Now, I would revise that slightly: This nation can only truly become the land of the free if we really commit to being the home of the brave.
Thankfully, right now, people who exemplify bravery are all around us. They’ve been working to build a more just world for us and for future generations through acts of courage large and small.
At GLAD’s recent Spirit of Justice Award dinner, I had the incredible fortune to celebrate some of these brave people: Sarah Huckman, a transgender New Hampshire teen and an inspiring young leader; GLAD founders Richard Burns and John Ward; and Jose Antonio Vargas, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has publicly chronicled his experiences coming out as both gay and undocumented. Their inspiring stories electrified the crowded ballroom at the dinner on Oct. 12.
I had the joy of watching Sarah advocate for herself and her community at the New Hampshire State House earlier this year, when she was active in the successful effort to pass a statewide trans non-discrimination bill. She testified before a legislative committee of Republicans, Libertarians, and Democrats, told her story to legislators and reporters, and listened to hours of hateful arguments from our opponents. Not once did I see her flinch. Sarah is not just one of the bravest youth I know. She is one of the bravest people I know.
Back in 1978, the bravery of Richard and John might have appeared to some as lunacy. They fought against a wave of anti-gay hysteria sparked by right-wing celebrity Anita Bryant’s crusade to overturn gay rights ordinances around the country, and a massive sting operation by the Boston Police Department that targeted gay men for arrest and humiliation.
Richard and John set about realizing their vision of creating a more just world for LGBTQ people. Brazenly they named the organization “Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders,” at a time when having those words in your name invited hostility and derision, especially in the legal community.
And I was thrilled to present the Spirit of Justice Award to Jose, who decided seven years ago that he could no longer live a lie, and wrote a moving, deeply personal essay about his life as an undocumented immigrant in America, at great risk to his career and his U.S. residency.
To borrow Jose’s words from his new book, “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen” these brave individuals “refuse to live a life of fear, defined by a government that doesn’t even know why it fears what it fears.”
But you don’t have to take on an entire government to be brave – though we have plenty of reason and need to resist a federal government that is actively working to roll back civil rights.
And bravery isn’t the same as fearlessness.
No, bravery includes everyday acts to do right, despite that flicker of fear we feel in our chest.
Perhaps you’ve reached out to a relative since the last election to talk about an issue that’s important to you.
Or maybe you’ve done canvassing or phone banking for the first time for a political candidate in a swing district or as part of the Yes on 3 campaign to preserve trans rights in Massachusetts.
For me, I’ll admit, it’s every time I’m in a cab, and a driver asks me what I do for work, and I have to decide in the moment whether to come out as the head of an LGBTQ rights organization.
We’re all brave, every day. Every time we leave our comfort zone in the service of truth and justice. Yes, it can feel scary. But doing the right thing is always worth it.
In her remarks at Spirit of Justice, Sarah spoke of the fear she felt coming out as trans to her seventh grade classmates. She said she took courage in knowing she had the support of family, trans youth organizations, and GLAD’s legal advocacy. Her activism, she said, stems from her desire for “the LGBTQ kids coming up behind me to have an even better experience. No more kids being rejected by their families. No battles over restrooms, or what sports team to play on. The idea that I could impact somebody’s else’s life for the better gives me the strength and courage to speak up.”
That’s the beauty of activism. Generation after generation, we struggle so that others don’t have to struggle as much. I was born the year that GLAD was founded. Thanks to GLAD’s early, groundbreaking legal work, paved the way for a next generation of LGBTQ activists – myself included – to come of age and come out in the 1990s. My generation then built upon this foundation to make it easier for Sarah’s generation to live freely and be treated fairly, and whose shoulders will lift the next generation even higher.
As Jose has said, “All I know, is we are stronger when we’re together.”
Indeed, there is safety in numbers. The more of us who get involved in our electoral process, by donating and volunteering for causes and candidates dedicated to fairness and justice, by talking to our neighbors and loved ones about the people and issues we care about, and, above all, by voting and getting everyone around us to vote, the better life will be for us and for those who come after us. And the closer we will get to truly making this country the land of the free.
There is so much at stake, with this next election and beyond. And we will only succeed in meeting the challenge of this moment, if we’re all just a little bit braver than usual.
Janson Wu
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Apple Q2 2013 Earnings: ‘Amazing’ Products Planned for 2013
The Apple Q2 2013 earnings are now available with Apple reporting a $9.5 billion net profit thanks in part to 37.4 million iPhones and 19.5 million iPads sold.
Tim Cook boasts there are “amazing new hardware, software, and services” on the way.
Despite the good year-over-year numbers, iPad and iPhone sales are down from the holiday season. iPhone sales are down 22% and iPad sales are down 15% after the busy holiday season.
The iPod touch did not fare well in early 2013 with a 56% decrease in units sold after the holiday season. The iPod sales are also down 27% year over year, possibly due to more users moving to smartphones. Mac sales are down slightly from Q1 2013 and Year-over year.
The iPhone, iPad 4 and iPad mini drove Apple to big Year-Over-Year gains.
Even with the lower than holiday sales numbers, Apple sales are helped by the late 2012 iPad launch selling 7.76 million more iPads in the Q2 2013. This is without a new iPad hitting store shelves. In 2012, consumers were eagerly anticipating a new iPad as Apple wrapped up Q2, which is one reason sales numbers dip.
AAPL stock is up $7.46 in after hours trading based on the Apple Q2 earnings release.
Tim Cook addressed the barren Spring product lineup, telling investors,
Our teams are hard at work on some amazing new hardware, software, and services and we are very excited about the products in our pipeline.
Cook did not address any specific products or timelines, though analysts are sure to ask during the Apple Q2 2013 earnings call which starts soon.
Apple’s 2013 Products and Services (Rumored)
Consumers are still waiting for the iPad 5, Apple’s fifth generation iPad, but rumors indicate it may not arrive until later this year. Analysts also estimate the iPad mini 2 will arrive in late summer or early fall, but could fall as late as November according to one source.
One of these new products is the iPhone 5S. Consumers and pundits alike expect the next iPhone sometime after June 2013. Rumors peg the iPhone 5S as similar in appearance to the iPhone 5. Speculation suggests Apple is planning a fingerprint reader and NFC for a mobile payments app, a better camera and a new processor.
The iPad mini 2 and iPad 5 could join the iPhone 5S later this year. Concept by Martin Hajek
There is also talk about Apple launching a music service which is often called iRadio later this year. This service may be tied into iOS 7. Apple is expected to announce iOS 7, a new version of the iPhone and iPad software at WWDC 2013. The company is reportedly facing delays thanks to a massive overhaul of the user experience, but estimates point to a WWDC 2013 date in early June.
Analysts are also talking about an iPhone 5S with a Galaxy Note 2 sized display option and about an iPhone 6. Two analysts claim the iPhone 6 will not arrive in 2013, which is not much of a surprise given Apple’s preference to announce one major iPhone model a year.
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In praise of Eric Clapton’s extensive Patek Philippe and Rolex collection
By Alfred Tong 10 January 2020
Just as he does with fashion, Eric Clapton has a museum-quality taste for watches...
When it comes to watches and fashion, Eric Clapton is a man of refined and esoteric tastes. During the 1980s, when most ageing rock stars were beginning to look a bit clapped out and embarrassing, Clapton wore Armani and Versace, much to the chagrin of British rock purists, who wanted their heroes to wear tight jeans and leather jackets. And as if that weren’t enough, in the 1990s he mixed those lovely draping Italian suits with the very best British things: shoes from Northampton’s Crockett & Jones and Sanders, raincoats from country outfitter Cordings (a company he owns), alongside vintage Levi’s jeans bought from the influential London store American Classics.
During the latter half of the 1990s he flipped the script yet again by wearing Supreme, Bape and Hiroshi Fujiwara’s seminal Visvim brand, a good decade before everyone else. All of what he wore during that period is eminently fashionable right now. That mix of essential British kit, Italian stallion tailoring and Japanese and American streetwear is how men of taste dress in 2020. No wonder he was tapped by the British Fashion Council last year to perform a set in honour of Armani, who was receiving a lifetime achievement award.
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I first learnt of Clapton’s love of watches in the early 2000s, when he could be spotted whiling away afternoons with the owner of American Classics, Adam Cooper, with a suitcase filled with pieces from his extensive collection. Just as he does with fashion, Clapton demonstrates museum-quality taste and discernment.
In 2012, Christie’s auctioned off Clapton’s Patek Philippe Ref 2499 in platinum, considered by collectors to be the holiest of holy grail watches, much more so than the Gerald Genta-designed Nautilus, which many now believe to be somewhat oversubscribed. First introduced in 1951, the Ref 2499 was Patek’s first post-War perpetual calendar with chronograph and moon face. Clapton’s one is extra special because it’s one of only two made in platinum. Originally ordered for the personal collection of brand owner Phillppe Stern, the other example now resides in Patek Philippe’s watch museum in Geneva. It eventually went for $3.6 million, with none of the value attributed to Clapton being the previous owner.
Clapton also collects some of the rarest and most important Rolexes, including the "Albino" Oyster Daytona, so-called because the dials are white and the tachymeter black, instead of the other way round. There are only four in the world and Clapton's was auctioned off in 2015. When on stage, he has been seen wearing a Submariner, Day-Date, GMT-Master II, and Milgauss, a tool watch designed for engineers and scientists who work near magnetic fields, but also rather good for guitar wizards.
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Cullen set for general election hustings
By Alan Beresford
- alan.beresford@hnmedia.co.uk
THE candidates vying to represent Moray at Westminster will have a chance to pitch to local voters at a hustings in Cullen tomorrow (Friday) evening.
The candidates for the Moray seat at Westminster will be under the spotlight at the Cullen hustings.
Hosting the hustings will be Cullen and Deskford Community Council (CDCC) with the event due to get under way at 7pm in the community and residential centre.
A total of five candidates have thrown their hats into the ring: Fiona Margaret Campbell Trevor (Scottish Liberal Democrats); Jo Kirby (Scottish Labour Party); Laura Mitchell (Scottish National Party); Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservative and Unionist); Rob Scorer (UKIP).
There will be a short presentation by each of the candidates, followed by a question and answer session, which will deal with the issue of Brexit first before moving on to other matters.
There will be a chance for those who are not able to personally attend to forward questions to the candidates via the CDCC e-mail address at cullendeskfordcc@gmail.com
If time allows, a selection of those questions will be put to the candidates.
The community council have stressed that while this event is primarily for constituents in the Cullen and Deskford area, people from further afield will be welcome to attend.
Voting in the general election will take place on Thursday, December 12, with polling stations open from 7am until 10pm.
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Jessica Simpson Truth About Hanging With Fred Durst in Las Vegas
May 4th, 2005 by Karen Marie Shelton
Over the past several years Las Vegas has become the go-to playground of the Hollywood crowd. It’s a short flight from LAX to Las Vegas and celebs are often flown in via private jets.
Since the celebs have been hanging out in Las Vegas the gossip columnists have followed to record any naughty happenings. Such was the case with the gossip columnist for the Las Vegas Review Journal had some troubling new details to reveal about Reality TV Star, Jessica Simpson.
(Image of Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson – The Young Hot Hollywood Style Awards – 04-13-05 – DailyCeleb.com – All Rights Reserved).
He reported “If Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey weren’t officially over, they could be after this hits the headlines: she and Limp Bizkit horndog Fred Durst were all over each other in the Body English VIP booth during the Hard Rock Hotel’s 10th anniversary celebration.”
What did Team Jessica have to say about the rumors of her hanging out with Fred and being a little too friendly while they were hanging out together?
A spokesman for Simpson told the World Entertainment News Network that Simpson and Durst “had mutual friends at the event” and “the rest is absolutely untrue.” What was also reported at the same time was the fact that Jessica and her husband Nick Lachey, who starred in MTV’s “Newylweds” recently bought a $1 million condo in Las Vegas.
Jessica has also spoken out about the fact she is often the subject of untrue rumors and if she so much as talks to a male for a few minutes the paparazzi and gossip columnists put out untrue information. So while Jessica and Fred have friends in common. they have no personal connection and all reports of hanky panky were apparently untrue.
It should also be noted that Fred Durst claimed to have had a relationship with Britney Spears which was never publicly acknowledged by Britney or her camp.
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Rosenberg J, Dreisbach T, Donovan C, Weintraub R. Positive Outlier: Sri Lanka’s Health Outcomes over Time. Harvard Business Publishing. 2018.Abstract
Download ghd-041 Positive Outlier Sri Lanka
This case describes the development and structure of Sri Lanka’s health system, which has yielded health outcomes far superior to any of its South Asian neighbors. The case highlights factors supporting the health outcomes, including the availability of free health services to all citizens, government investment in the health workforce, and the care-seeking behavior of Sri Lankan citizens. After providing an overview of Sri Lanka’s history, geography, demographics, and economy, the case traces the evolution of the public sector health system from the precolonial era through the period of heavy investment in health from the 1930s through 1950s and on into the 21st century. The case describes the management of the system and the relationship between the national health ministry and provincial and local governments. It examines how health professionals are trained and deployed throughout the system, the supply chain, and financing. The case then examines the growing private health sector, its relationship with the public sector, and the role of innovation. After a summary of the country’s health outcomes, readers are pushed to think about what it will take to address the changing epidemiological burden to continue to boast exemplary health outcomes and provide quality health care to those who need it.
Teaching Note available to registered faculty through Harvard Business Publishing or the Case Centre.
A productive class discussion will allow readers to appreciate the capabilities of a public payer system to improve the health of the population; the influence of the private sector in a “single payer system” and the downstream effects on demand and supply of services; the return on investment for a country offering free public medical and nursing education; and the relationship between literacy, demand generation, and health outcomes.
Keywords: Universal health care, health care delivery, health system, health outcomes, social determinants of health.
Cuneo CN, Rosenberg J, Madore A, Weintraub R. Improving Mental Health Services for Survivors of Sexual Violence in the DRC. Harvard Business Publishing. 2017.Abstract
Download GHD-038: Improving Mental Health Services for Survivors of Sexual Violence in the DRC
This case explores the implementation and evaluation of mental health treatment for victims of conflict-related gender-based violence (GBV) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a humanitarian organization based in New York City. Following the contextual background, the case traces the IRC’s work developing a psychosocial support program for GBV survivors starting in 2002. When the Applied Mental Health Research Group (AMHR) at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health evaluates the program in 2008, the IRC begins to consider the potential for its work to inform similar interventions. In 2011, the IRC team collaborated with AMHR to implement two concurrent randomized control trials (RCTs): one on the mental health effects of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and the other on the mental health and financial impact of a social and economic empowerment intervention called the Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA). While the time and resources that went into completing the trials expanded the monitoring and evaluation capacity within the IRC and added important evidence to the lean body of global mental health literature, conducting the studies stretched the IRC’s local staff thin and required clarification of priorities and purpose. Had the RCTs had been worth it, and for whom? How could the study findings contribute to improving services for vulnerable populations in the region and beyond?
Teaching Note available through Harvard Business Publishing.
Source: Study of Effectiveness of a Social-Economic Intervention for Sexual Violence Survivors in Eastern DRC, November 2014.
Source: Group Cognitive Processing Therapy: A Specialized Mental Health Intervention that Supports Improvements in Well-being for Sexual Violence Survivors. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, International Rescue Committee.
Learning Objectives: A productive class discussion will allow students to appreciate the challenge of meeting human resource needs to provide mental health care, the complexity of implementation and empirical study of mental health services, and the ethics and challenges of conducting randomized controlled trials in conflict settings.
Keywords: public health, human resources, health care delivery, information management, mental health, scale-up, resource-limited settings, health care policy, data collection, public administration
Hashimoto K, Rhatigan J. Chagas Disease Vector Control in Honduras. Harvard Business Publishing. 2017.Abstract
Download GHD-037 Chagas Disease Vector Control in Honduras
This case describes how the Honduran Ministry of Health developed and implemented a Chagas disease control program with the assistance of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and others from 2003 to 2012. After providing background information about Honduras and Chagas disease, the case examines the work of the Guatemalan Ministry of Health and JICA to implement a Chagas disease control program that provided the template for the program in Honduras. The case then describes the adaptation of this model for the Honduran context, including details of the surveillance model and vector control interventions. The case concludes with the program considering how it would maintain its success in spite of decreased funding and changes in leadership.
Main vector species of Chagas disease in Central America. Source: Biblioteca Virtual en Salud de Honduras.
Training community members for indoor residual spraying in the first trial in Intibucá 2004. Source: Case writers.
Learning Objectives: A productive class discussion will allow students to appreciate strategies in control of neglected tropical diseases; Chagas disease vector control and surveillance; the role of bilateral cooperation to strengthen health systems management; and how regional disease control initiatives are implemented locally.
Keywords: Information management, scale-up, health care policy, public administration, government policy, resource-limited settings, data-collection
Madore A, Rosenberg J, Weintraub R. Project ECHO: Expanding the Capacity of Primary Care Providers to Address Complex Conditions. Harvard Business Publishing. 2017.Abstract
Download GHD-036 Project ECHO: Expanding the Capacity of Primary Care Providers to Address Complex Conditions
This case takes place in the United States (US) and traces the inception and growth of Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO)—a web-based "guided practice" model for primary care providers—from 2003 to 2016. After providing background on the US health system, including medical education, health care financing, and the supply and distribution of primary care and specialist providers, the case explores what motivated Project ECHO founder and liver specialist Sanjeev Arora, MD to train primary care providers in rural New Mexico in hepatitis C treatment and management. It describes early replication of the ECHO model in the US and across medical conditions and what the Project ECHO model entailed—including leveraging technology to expand access to specialty resources, best practices, case-based learning, and outcome monitoring, as well as good will among participants. A professional communications campaign, ongoing research, and persistence supported Project ECHO’s growth. The case displays three dimensions of Project ECHO’s early work: creating a new mode to redistribute the expertise of specialists to primary care practitioners, scaling this new care delivery model and measuring its impact, and identifying sustainable funding sources. The case concludes with the US Congress passing the ECHO Act to promote research on the model and Arora contemplating what else he might need to continue to scale to reach his goal of touching 1 billion lives.
TeleECHO Clinic. Source: Case writers.
ECHO Institute. Source: Case writers.
Learning Objectives: To understand what is needed to design a service model; the potential for redistribution of expertise among practitioners to enhance value; the role of operational effectiveness in enabling scale up; and the importance of measuring impact for stakeholders.
Keywords: Public health, health care delivery, scale-up, resource-limited settings, human resource, information technology, primary care, information management, data collection, mentorship
Brooks P, Rosenberg J, Weintraub R. The Global Trachoma Mapping Project. Harvard Business Publishing. 2016.Abstract
Download GHD-035 The Global Trachoma Mapping Project
This case explores what it took to map the prevalence of trachoma infection in 1,531 districts across 26 countries by directly examining 2.39 million individuals in just three years. Dozens of organizations worked together on the largest standardized mapping project in the world as part of an effort to eliminate blinding trachoma globally by the year 2020. After providing some background on trachoma, early control efforts, and the formation of a global coalition, the case explores the events, strategies, technology, and stakeholders that enabled the mapping project. It describes how the stakeholders worked together, the coordination and management mechanisms used, and the investments required. Given that disease elimination had been achieved only once before, in the case of smallpox, the case asks students to consider how the project’s leaders, Tom Millar and Anthony Solomon, could help maximize returns from trachoma mapping so that the campaign could achieve its ultimate goal of global trachoma elimination within the next five years. Were there ways in which they could leverage efforts to map this neglected tropical disease to inform other disease control programs?
Life Cycle of Trachoma. Source: The Carter Center/Al Granberg, International Trachoma Initiative. Available at http://www.neglecteddiseases.gov/target_diseases/trachoma/.
Learning Objectives: A productive class discussion will allow students to appreciate what contributes to the development of a productive coalition; what it takes to collect quality data at scale; the challenges and benefits of identifying your target population for public health programming; and the tradeoffs between a targeted campaign addressing one disease and bundling efforts for multiple diseases.
Keywords: Disease mapping, disease elimination, multi-sectoral collaboration, electronic data capture
Sue K, Rosenberg J, Weintraub R. Addressing Tanzania’s Health Workforce Crisis Through a Public-Private Partnership: The Case of TTCIH. Harvard Business Publishing. 2016.Abstract
Download GHD-034 The Case of TTCIH
Set in rural Tanzania, this case traces the founding and development of the Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health (TTCIH) from the early 2000s through 2015. It begins with an overview of the political, socioeconomic, and epidemiological context of Tanzania, followed by a detailed description of the human resource for health crisis in Tanzania and the landscape of available health care training programs. The case then explores the origins and evolution of TTCIH, launched through a unique collaboration between private industry, a public health institute, local stakeholders and educators, and the Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. It describes the evolution of TTCIH as leaders strive to make it self-sustaining and responsive to Tanzania’s health workforce crisis. The case highlights the challenges of successfully integrating corporate management practices and values into a global health program and the role of strategic leadership to sustain TTCIH.
TTCIH Income and Number of Students, 2005–2013
Learning Objectives: A productive class discussion will allow students to appreciate the challenges of designing sustainable, high-quality health training institutions in low-resource settings; the training and resources needed to support task shifting and to address health workforce shortages in health care delivery; and, the importance of maintaining a sound strategy for medical education programs in the midst of changing national health needs and the evolving medical education landscape.
Keywords: Global health, public health, health care delivery, education, government, value creation, Human Resources for Health, health care, nongovernmental organizations, Public-Private partnerships, learning, revenue growth, organizational effectiveness
Madore A, Yousif H, Rosenberg J, Desmond C, Weintraub R. Political Leadership in South Africa: National Health Insurance. Harvard Business Publishing. 2015.Abstract
Download GHD-032 South Africa NHI
This case traces the development of national health insurance (NHI) in South Africa under Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi. After providing background on health financing and health insurance policy in South Africa, the case explores Motsoaledi’s approach to realizing universal health coverage by establishing a government-administered NHI system and overhauling primary health care in the public sector. The case highlights the importance of strategic communication and stakeholder engagement in the highly political process of health system reform. It focuses on the complexity of the NHI policy process and the steps Motsoaledi and his team took to increase standards and accountability for public primary health care facilities. It concludes with the national health department rolling out new tools for monitoring facility progress and Motsoaledi awaiting approval of his team’s 19th draft plan for NHI, wondering what to do in the meantime to improve health care.
National Department of Health, South Africa (Source: Global Health Delivery case writers)
Learning Objectives: A productive class discussion will allow students to appreciate the relationship between policy development, financing, and implementation of public health care delivery; the complexity of implementing standards and accountability for primary care infrastructure; and the work and negotiation needed to build consensus among private and public payers and providers with competing financial interests to generate greater value in health care delivery.
Keywords: Political leadership, health system strengthening, stakeholder engagement, primary health care reform, policy development, politics and health care, health care financing, health insurance, strategy
Madore A, Rosenberg J, Weintraub R. “Sin Taxes” and Health Financing in the Philippines. Harvard Business Publishing. 2015.Abstract
Download GHD-030 Philippines Tobacco Control
This case traces the implementation of tobacco tax policy and health system reforms in the Philippines from 2009 to 2015 in the context of the global tobacco control movement, the economic and political influence of the Philippine tobacco industry, and the Philippine health system. After providing background on the prevalence and costs of smoking in the Philippines, the case follows the steps taken by a diverse group of actors to design, promote, and implement higher taxes on tobacco and alcohol products, the primary goals of which were to reduce smoking and raise funds to achieve universal health care. The case highlights the strategies used to counter opposition from the tobacco industry and allied politicians. It focuses on Health Secretary Enrique Ona’s efforts to support sin tax reform and how the country used the resulting revenues to try to improve health care and health insurance coverage. It ends with Ona contemplating the impact of his investments in national health insurance and public health infrastructure as a new health secretary takes his place.
From left to right: House of Representatives; Woman selling cigarettes. Source: Global Health Delivery Project case writers.
Learning Objectives: A productive class discussion will allow students to appreciate the complexity and trade-offs governments may face in stimulating their economy, regulating industry, and improving public health; the importance of data in driving and sustaining policy reform; the role of financing policies and funding as tools for health system strengthening and value creation when leveraged strategically; and the potential for health to unify different actors and sectors to generate new policy and restructure fiscal and financial systems.
Keywords: Health insurance, health care financing, tobacco control, smoking, universal health care implementation, policy, cross sector collaboration, health system reform, political leadership, management
Wachter K, Talbot JR, Weintraub R. Partners In Health in Neno District, Malawi. Harvard Business Publishing. 2013.Abstract
Download GHD-029 PIH in Malawi
Set in Neno District, Malawi from 2007–2012, the case focuses on the economic impact of investing in health care infrastructure. It examines management decisions that leaders of Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo (APZU) and its founding organization—Partners In Health (PIH)—made as they supported the Government of Malawi in building a hospital and scaling up the delivery of APZU clinical and social programs across Neno district. The case highlights how a non-governmental organization can navigate the politics and local culture to improve Malawi’s health care system in close partnership with a strong, protocol-driven government. The case begins with Ophelia Dahl, co-founder and executive director of Partners In Health, reflecting on her December 2011 trip to Neno, nearly four years after her first visit. She observed signs of progress unrelated to health—bank branches had opened in town, a new road had been built, and the market had expanded dramatically. Ultimately, the case explores what this demonstrates about the value of her organization’s investments in health.
In the foreground: One-story original structures of Neno Rural Hospital used for outpatient and maternity services. In back: Two-story building constructed by APZU and partners used for inpatient wards, meetings, computer use, laboratory work, and government offices. Source: Keri Wachter, 2012.
Learning Objectives: To understand the challenges of hiring and retaining local and expat staff, the complexity of an international NGO partnering with the government to improve health care, how leadership acumen and approaches impact scaling up and sustaining health care delivery, the relationship between the district hospital and the local economy, and how to assess impact beyond health measures.
Keywords: Global health, social equality, project management, business and government relations, partnerships, strategy, economic development, health care policy, health care delivery, public health, human resource management, developing countries, innovation
ole-MoiYoi K, Talbot JR, Weintraub R. Roll-Out of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria in Swaziland. Harvard Business Publishing. 2012.Abstract
Download GHD-025 Roll-Out of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria in Swaziland
After outlining the history of malaria in Swaziland, this focused case study examines the implementation of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria in Swaziland to improve case management and to strengthen the national malaria surveillance system as the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) aims to implement a national elimination strategy. In addition to information on RDT selection, the case details Swaziland's quality assurance program-the first of its kind in the region, the public health benefits of the immediate disease notification system for active case detection, and Simon Kunene's leadership qualities as the manager of the NMCP for 24 years. The case addresses the necessary increases in financing and human resources to support the strategy and evaluates the impact of RDTs on the strategy. Challenges the NMCP faces in achieving malaria elimination include sustaining political will, interest, and financial commitments from donors and strengthening health workforce training and RDT procurement and distribution.
Milestones toward Malaria Elimination. Source: The Global Malaria Action Plan: For a malaria-free world. Roll Back Malaria Partnership, 2008. (Exhibit 4 from "Roll-Out of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria in Swaziland" case.
Learning Objectives: To understand the role of diagnostics in a malaria elimination strategy, what it takes to effectively integrate a new diagnostic into care delivery, how leaders generate social and political capital over time, and the intricacies of managing a national disease program.
Keywords: National strategy, supply chain management, diagnostic testing strategies, malaria eradication and control
Talbot JR, Cole C, May M, Weintraub R. Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Harvard Business Publishing. 2012.Abstract
Download GHD-027 Kenya's VMMC Program
This case traces the development of the voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) campaign in Nyanza Province, Kenya as it transformed from the subject of a randomized clinical trial into national policy. After providing some background on the cultural, political, and scientific context surrounding male circumcision, the case traces the PEPFAR-funded implementers' advances in delivering male circumcision in Nyanza. It examines the various delivery models used in Nyanza and the evolution of the relationship between implementers as well as on the development of the national strategic plan for VMMC released in 2009. The case ends with the implementers having come together successfully for two rapid, aggressive, 30-day implementation campaigns and the head of Kenya's National AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control Programme wrestling with how to make such campaigns sustainable and what lessons from the campaign to pass on to the national program.
(A) Group counseling on male circumcision; (B) mobile circumcision counseling site; and (C) circumcision being conducted in tented delivery site. Source: Nyanza Reproductive Health Society.
Learning Objectives: To understand how a randomized controlled trial may be translated into a large-scale public health program; how a surgical campaign was designed and implemented for rapid impact; the role of national and international collaboration in large-scale health delivery; and the ethical tradeoffs that arise in large-scale public health programs.
Supporting Content: There is a shorter version of this case titled Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Nyanza Province, Kenya (Condensed Version).
Keywords: Project management, AIDS, policy, supply and demand, partnerships, strategy, innovation
ole-MoiYoi K, Rodriguez W. Investing in Global Health: Botanical Extracts Ltd. Harvard Business Publishing. 2011.Abstract
Download GHD-016 Investing in Global Health: Botanical Extracts Ltd.
This case traces the establishment of Botanical Extracts (BE) as a manufacturer of artemisinin, the active pharmaceutical ingredient in artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) for malaria in East Africa. After providing background on the disease and its epidemiology and history, the case delves into the malaria eradication and control efforts of the past 50 years, with emphasis on treatment with anti-malarials. It describes how artemisinin made the transition from a traditional Chinese medicine to Novartis’ largest pharmaceutical product by volume. The case presents background information on the artemisinin industry, with emphasis on the WHO, Novartis, artemisinin extractors, and Artemisia farmers. The case details the founding of BE, its role in the ACT industry, and the complex supply chain for ACTs from the cultivation of the raw material to the delivery of ACTs as well as the public private partnership that was driving the manufacturing and delivery of ACTs. The case ends by describing the challenges faced by BE in June 2008, asking how best the company should move forward.
The Artemisia Plant and Cultivation. Image A Source: Advanced Bio-Extracts. Image B Source: Farmer in Central Kenya, June 2008. (Exhibit 7 from "Investing in Global Health: Botanical Extracts Ltd." case.)
Learning Objectives: To understand 1) the challenges of manufacturing necessary healthcare commodities for a populace that is unable to afford them, 2) how risk is distributed among actors in public-private partnerships, and 3) how investment in health commodities in developing countries can promote sustainable economic development.
Keywords: Public-private partnerships, pharmaceutical supply chains, malaria eradication and control, health commodity manufacturing
ole‐MoiYoi K, Rodriguez W. Building Local Capacity for Health Commodity Manufacturing: A to Z Textile Mills Ltd. Harvard Business Publishing. 2011.Abstract
Download GHD-009 A to Z Textile Mills Ltd
This case focuses on the establishment of the Olyset® Consortium—a public-private partnership that was created to facilitate the manufacture of long-lasting insecticidal bed nets to prevent malaria infection in sub-Saharan Africa—and A to Z Textile Mills (“A to Z”), the manufacturer of the nets in Arusha, Tanzania. The case examines how the public-private partnership was developed, its use of an incentive-based supply chain, A to Z’s business model and impact, and the sustainability of the venture. The case reveals that despite significant success in attaining objectives, the misaligned incentives of the many partners presented major obstacles to the overall sustainability of A to Z’s Olyset® production line.
Long Lasting Insecticide Nets and Olyset Production Process. Source: A to Z Textile Mills Ltd., Arusha, Tanzania (Case Exhibit 9).
Learning Objectives: To understand the potential for public-private partnerships to leverage innovation and scalability from the private sector and quality and equitable access from the public sector and to examine the costs and benefits of local manufacturing of technologically complex global health commodities in resource-limited settings.
Keywords: Public-private partnerships, incentive-based supply chain, global health commodity manufacturing, malaria prevention
Park P, Bhatt A, Rhatigan J. The Academic Model for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS. Harvard Business Publishing. 2011.Abstract
Download GHD-013 AMPATH
This case traces the development of the Academic Model for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS (AMPATH), and its founding organization, the Indiana University – Moi University (IU-MU) Partnership in Eldoret, Kenya. The case opens with a discussion of AMPATH’s new Home-Based Counseling and Testing Program (HCT) and its prospects for improving HIV care in Western Kenya. After providing some background on the general political, economic, and health situation in Kenya, it follows the development of the IU-MU Partnership from 1990 to 2000, its subsequent entry into HIV care services through AMPATH in 2001, and AMPATH’s rapid growth to become the largest provider of HIV services in Kenya. It then describes the organizational and operational characteristics of AMPATH and concludes with the organization wrestling with the opportunities and operational challenges that HCT presents.
AMPATH Center in Eldoret, Kenya. Source: Case writer. (Exhibit 12 in "The Academic Model for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS " case.)
Learning Objectives: To understand the development and design of a large scale HIV care program in a resource-limited setting and to examine how HIV treatment programs can effectively configure their services to provide maximum value to the populations they serve.
Keywords: Service expansion, the role of academic medical centers, HIV treatment and prevention, home-based counseling and treatment
May M, Rhatigan J. BRAC’s Tuberculosis Program: Pioneering DOTS Treatment for TB in Rural Bangladesh. Harvard Business Publishing. 2011.Abstract
Download GHD-010 BRAC's TB Control Program
This case examines the development of a tuberculosis (TB) treatment program in Bangladesh by the non-governmental organization, BRAC, from 1984 to 2006. After providing background about Bangladesh, the burden of TB there, and BRAC, the case examines how this program was piloted and grew to cover a population of 80 million people. It details how BRAC was able to create a TB control program that utilized community health workers to perform most of its essential functions including case finding, directly-observed therapy, identification of complications, and record keeping. The case concludes with a brief summary of BRAC’s expansion to Afghanistan and recently, Africa, and asks the reader to consider the feasibility of this TB care model in other contexts and in other conditions, such as HIV/AIDS.
Timeline of BRAC TB Program Expansions. Source: From One to Many: Scaling Up Health Programs in Low-Income Countries. Edited by Richard A Cash, A Mushtaque R. Chowdhury, George B. Smith, and Faruque Ahmed (2010). Ch 13. Islam A and May MA. Decentralized Management in the Expansion of BRAC's Rural Tuberculosis Program (DOTS). Pgs. 207-214. (Exhibit 3 in "BRAC’s Tuberculosis Program: Pioneering DOTS Treatment for TB in Rural Bangladesh" case.)
Learning Objectives: To understand effective strategies for effectively engaging community health workers to deliver complex medical and public health interventions to large populations in low resource settings.
Supporting Content: The sequel to this case is titled Tuberculosis in Dhaka: BRAC’s Urban TB Program.
Keywords: Community health workers, tuberculosis control, rural nongovernmental organizations, social enterprise
May M, Cash R, Rhatigan J. Tuberculosis in Dhaka: BRAC’s Urban TB Program. Harvard Business Publishing. 2011.Abstract
Download GHD-011 BRAC's Urban TB Program
This case examines BRAC’s experience expanding its rural TB program to the urban environment of Dhaka between 2002 and 2008. The case provides background information about Dhaka and describes what TB services existed at the time. The case then describes the expansion of BRAC’s TB program into Dhaka and details innovations in the Urban program. Students should gain an understanding of how these program modifications were a response to the specific challenges the program faced in the urban setting. The case allows an exploration of how successful health care delivery program adapt to new environments.
Map of Dhaka. Source: Available at http://www.urpnissues.com/webpage/maps/Districts/13.GIF. (Exhibit 1 in "Tuberculosis in Dhaka: BRAC’s Urban TB Program" case.)
Learning Objectives: To understand how a successful health care delivery program that is uniquely tailored to a particular setting can adapt its operations in a new environment.
Supporting Content: This case is a sequel to BRAC’s Tuberculosis Program: Pioneering DOTS Treatment for TB in Rural Bangladesh.
Keywords: Service delivery innovation, tuberculosis control, urban nongovernmental organizations
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The True Meaning of Smekday
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It all starts with a school essay.
When twelve-year-old Gratuity (“Tip”) Tucci is assigned to write five pages on “The True Meaning of Smekday” for the National Time Capsule contest, she’s not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens were sending through a mole on the back of her neck? Maybe on Christmas Eve, when huge, bizarre It all starts with a school essay.
When twelve-year-old Gratuity (“Tip”) Tucci is assigned to write five pages on “The True Meaning of Smekday” for the National Time Capsule contest, she’s not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens were sending through a mole on the back of her neck? Maybe on Christmas Eve, when huge, bizarre spaceships descended on the Earth and the aliens – called Boov – abducted her mother? Or when the Boov declared Earth a colony, renamed it “Smekland” (in honor of glorious Captain Smek), and forced all Americans to relocate to Florida via rocketpod?
In any case, Gratuity’s story is much, much bigger than the assignment. It involves her unlikely friendship with a renegade Boov mechanic named J.Lo.; a futile journey south to find Gratuity’s mother at the Happy Mouse Kingdom; a cross-country road trip in a hovercar called Slushious; and an outrageous plan to save the Earth from yet another alien invasion.
Fully illustrated with “photos,” drawings, newspaper clippings, and comics sequences, this is a hilarious, perceptive, genre-bending novel by a remarkable new talent. the planet from a really big catastrophe. ...more
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Kat Stiles Can't imagine it. I love the movie, but the book is so much more fun! :) I'm reading it to my 6 year old and enjoying every page.…moreCan't imagine it. I love the movie, but the book is so much more fun! :) I'm reading it to my 6 year old and enjoying every page. (less)
This the movie Home in book form isn't it?
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Feb 12, 2010 Stephen rated it liked it
Shelves: world-in-the-shitter, ya, comfort-food, award-nominee-andre-norton, audiobook, invasion, 2006-2010
Before reading Adam Rex’s delicious banquet of pop culture skewers dipped in saucy social commentary and served alongside a heaping helping of warm, filling comfort food, the phrase "I love J.LO" had NEVER been part of my working vocabulary. Well folks…*burp*…I love J.LO. Now, I’m not referring to "Ms. Diva from the Block junky trunk", but rather the sweetest, charmingest, most Booviful Boov ever to invade Earth in search of oranges and urinal cakes:
Smekday is definitely a feel gooder with Before reading Adam Rex’s delicious banquet of pop culture skewers dipped in saucy social commentary and served alongside a heaping helping of warm, filling comfort food, the phrase "I love J.LO" had NEVER been part of my working vocabulary. Well folks…*burp*…I love J.LO. Now, I’m not referring to "Ms. Diva from the Block junky trunk", but rather the sweetest, charmingest, most Booviful Boov ever to invade Earth in search of oranges and urinal cakes:
Smekday is definitely a feel gooder with smarts. The story is structured as an essay entitled “The True Meaning of Smekday” being written by 11 year old Gratuity Tucci (aka Tip) for a contest. The winner of the contest will have their essay placed in a time capsule to be opened in 100 years. Because of her unique experiences during the Boov invasion, Gratuity decides to write her essay so that future kids will understand what really happened.
The essay begins by describing the Christmas invasion of Earth by the Boov. Upon taking over Earth, the Boov rename it Smekland after their leader, Captain Smek. The day of the invasion (i.e., Christmas) is renamed Smekday…hence the title of the book.
Following the invasion, all humans in America are required to relocate to Florida on “Moving Day.” The parallel to our treatment of Native Americans is very intentional and well done.
'Noble Savages of Earth,' [Captain Smek] said. 'Long time we have tried to live together in peace.' (It had been five months.) 'Long time have the Boov suffered under the hostileness and intolerableness of you people. With sad hearts I now concede that Boov and humans will never to exist as one.'
I remember being really excited at this point. Could I possibly be hearing right? Were the Boov about to leave? I was so stupid.
'And so now I generously grant you Human Preserves - gifts of land that will be for humans forever, never to be taken away again, now…So that's when we Americans were given Florida. One state for three hundred million people. There were going to be some serious lines for the bathrooms.
Well it turns out Gratuity’s mom, who disappeared prior to the invasion, was actually abducted by the Boov and so Tip heads off to Florida hoping that her mom will be there. Now Tip loves to drive (yes, she is only 11 but she has mad driving skills) and so rather than be transported by the aliens, she decides to make her own way to Florida.
This decision is total sweetness for us, the reader, because that leads to Gratuity quickly meeting up with the aforementioned J.Lo and the two travel together across America where zaniness and madcapery ensue. Much of the fun (as well as the problems they run into) stem from Tip and J.Lo not being able to communicate effectively as a result of both language and cultural difference.
YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.
‘Get off of the car,' J.Lo huffed. 'I am an English superstar.'
Uh-uh. There's no comparison. 'Gratuity' in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place. 'J.Lo' in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it 'M-smiley face-pound sign.’
I had a lot of fun with this. In fact, I may have had such an enjoy on that I missed some of Rex’s subtle social commentary. No matter, I definitely intend to read/listen to this with my two daughters (6 and 11) and so will have a chance to pick up on anything I missed. By the way, the daddy/daughters re-read may definitely lead to a ratings up tick.
In the meantime, this is a quality, quality children’s book that adults should enjoy as much as their kids. If you are still not convinces, I will leave you with the two stars of the book breaking down the 10 reasons why you should read this. Enjoy!!
3.5 stars. RECOMMENDED!!
P.S. I really enjoyed listening to the audio version of this story performed by Bahni Turpin. Her narration was like a one woman stage play, greatly enhancing the pleasure factor. I highly recommend it for fans of audio books.
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Mar 18, 2011 Catie rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: audio, middle-grade, read-in-2011, sci-fi, graphic-illustrated-novels
If someone had told me that there’s a book about an alien invasion, featuring a girl on the run from the internment of humans in camps while she searches for her abducted mother, and it’s funny, and it’s for kids, I think that I would have called shenanigans. But, that’s exactly what this book is. Thank goodness I had no idea what this was about before I started, or I may not have given it a chance. Now that I’ve read it, I just want to push it off on everyone I know.
Gratuity “Tip” Tucci is only If someone had told me that there’s a book about an alien invasion, featuring a girl on the run from the internment of humans in camps while she searches for her abducted mother, and it’s funny, and it’s for kids, I think that I would have called shenanigans. But, that’s exactly what this book is. Thank goodness I had no idea what this was about before I started, or I may not have given it a chance. Now that I’ve read it, I just want to push it off on everyone I know.
Gratuity “Tip” Tucci is only 11 ½, but she’s more practical and down to earth than your average grandma. She’s the one that takes care of her dreamy, impulsive mom. When her mom develops a strange mole, starts dreaming out loud in two languages, and is eventually abducted by an invading alien race (the Boov), Tip finds herself all alone and faced with a directive to report to Florida, where the “noble savages of Earth” have been allotted land. On her way down to Florida, she meets a lone Boov who calls himself J.Lo. After he soups up her old car “slushious” they reluctantly team up.
Okay, so I am not very familiar with what “the kids” are into these days (my two girls are barely out of the toddler years) but I was surprised by the sophistication of the humor in this book. Sure, there were also boob, fart, and poop jokes (which I may or may not have laughed at hysterically and repeatedly), but I found myself wondering if kids would even get 50% of the humor. He essentially uses the Boov as a not-so-flattering mirror of the human race, with hilarious results. One of my favorite quotes is Gratuity’s realization that the Boov “weren't anything special. They were just people. They were too smart and too stupid to be anything else.” In many ways, the Boov end up proving themselves more humane and benevolent than humans. So, I’m not sure if kids will get what he’s saying here (Guess what? Human history ain’t pretty folks.). But I really hope that they do.
I think that this is a perfect book for parents and kids to read together – there’s much to enjoy on both sides. I absolutely loved Tip and J.Lo by the end of this book. I loved Tip’s frank and practical assessment of everything around her. Nothing magnifies the idiocy of adults like seeing it through the eyes of an eleven year old girl. I loved J.Lo’s sweetness and courage. Also, I think that my standard response to any question of “Why? Why would people do that?” will now be, “Because they are Poomps!”
I have to mention something here about the narrator of this audiobook, Bahni Turpin. Wow! Nothing could have made up for me not being able to see the illustrations except Bahni Turpin’s genius with voices. I enjoyed every minute; she truly captured J.Lo’s crazy squeaky voice and Gratuity’s dry sarcasm.
Jun 18, 2017 Lata rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: scifi-fantasy, x2017-read, kids-and-ya
4.5-5 stars. This book was such a hoot! (No, I didn't see the movie.) I've been meaning to read this book for ages, and when I stumbled across the audiobook narrated by Bahni Turpin (I'm a big fan of her work), well, it was a no-brainer.
Bahni Turpin does a wonderful job voicing Gratuity "Tip" Tucci, really giving me a great sense of the character's humour, determination, integrity and love. As far as J.Lo was concerned, once I got over my initial surprise over his odd sentence construction and 4.5-5 stars. This book was such a hoot! (No, I didn't see the movie.) I've been meaning to read this book for ages, and when I stumbled across the audiobook narrated by Bahni Turpin (I'm a big fan of her work), well, it was a no-brainer.
Bahni Turpin does a wonderful job voicing Gratuity "Tip" Tucci, really giving me a great sense of the character's humour, determination, integrity and love. As far as J.Lo was concerned, once I got over my initial surprise over his odd sentence construction and accent, I really enjoyed Ms. Turpin's interpretation of this character, too.
The story is full of humour, and I found myself frequently chuckling, and occasionally laughing out loud (yes, I got odd looks!)
I enjoyed the way Gratuity and J.Lo got along, gradually growing close over their road trip across the U.S., and I loved their interaction with Frank (Shouting Bear). How Gratuity and J.Lo figured out how to deal with the alien invasion was often funny and surprisingly touching, too, at times.
This was definitely one of my more enjoyable audio reads so far this year. ...more
Aug 02, 2008 Paul rated it it was amazing
Pretty much my favorite children's book of the past few years, and one of my favorite books overall. It has such a sense of gamboling fun, even with the aliens are busy herding up humanity and shunting them off to states that they themselves don't particularly like.
J-Lo, the alien character is charming, and I wish he could be my own friend. Rex put a lot of emotion into that lovable squat fireplug, and my only "J-Lo" related dismay is that while readers of this book might know that J-Lo named Pretty much my favorite children's book of the past few years, and one of my favorite books overall. It has such a sense of gamboling fun, even with the aliens are busy herding up humanity and shunting them off to states that they themselves don't particularly like.
J-Lo, the alien character is charming, and I wish he could be my own friend. Rex put a lot of emotion into that lovable squat fireplug, and my only "J-Lo" related dismay is that while readers of this book might know that J-Lo named himself after a popular earthen star, hopefully making himself more acceptable to the people he would soon conquer, lots of OTHER people (here I speak of foolish non-readers of this book) might get the wrong idea of ME, Paul Tobin, when I'm out in public and suddenly say, "Boy, I really like J-Lo!"
Still, having casual passers-by believe that I'm into Jennifer Lopez is a small price to pay for such an overly solid and completely enjoyable book. How much did I love this book? Well, shortly after finishing it, I was flipping through an art dealer's table at the San Diego Comic Convention, and to my surprise came across the original art for the very last page in the book, with Gratuity and her mother and J-Lo all together. And I snapped the art up, and now it's on my wall. I'll have a little piece of J-Lo forever.
Umm...you understand I'm not talking about Jennifer Lopez, right? ...more
Jan 02, 2019 Debbie Zapata rated it really liked it
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On one of my twice yearly bus trips to visit Mom I saw parts of a movie called Home. Parts because I tend to sleep most of the time on the bus and could not get myself awake enough to watch the whole thing. But I did see it on cable once I got back down to the casa. I learned then that the movie was inspired by this book (and its sequel, which I am reading now) so I made a note and ordered them both but never took them back to Mexico with me. The idea of me moving back to Arizona to be with Mom On one of my twice yearly bus trips to visit Mom I saw parts of a movie called Home. Parts because I tend to sleep most of the time on the bus and could not get myself awake enough to watch the whole thing. But I did see it on cable once I got back down to the casa. I learned then that the movie was inspired by this book (and its sequel, which I am reading now) so I made a note and ordered them both but never took them back to Mexico with me. The idea of me moving back to Arizona to be with Mom had already come up and I decided to wait until I was here to read these books.
So to make a long story longer, I'm here now and I chose The Real Meaning Of Smekday as my first official book of the year. Considering the movie title and the fact that in the book all Americans were sent by the Boov to Arizona, I think it was an appropriate choice.
So, the alien Boov come to the planet, take it over, shove all the people off first to Florida and then to Arizona. Our main character is an awesome young lady by the name of Gratuity Tucci, whose mother has disappeared. Gratuity (or Tip, as her friends call her) is all alone and knows she needs to find Mom, so she sets off with her cat Pig to drive to Florida. Along the way she meets J.Lo, a Boov who is also on the run because of a terrible mistake he has made. They form an unlikely but wildly entertaining partnership.
I loved their conversations and the slowly growing awareness between them that maybe they could actually become friends. I also liked the way serious topics were introduced in ways that easily contribute to good conversations about them, which is good for both younger and adult readers.
There are of course differences between the movie and the book, but each format has points in its favor. I'm off to read the next book now, and then I think I'll watch the movie again. Might as well, I've been hearing the soundtrack in my head most of the time while reading!
Jul 01, 2019 Connor rated it really liked it
Shelves: middle-grade
I really enjoyed this novel. Tip's story was a blast to follow, and I really enjoyed her and J.Lo's friendship throughout it. I thought it was so fun to see how different people would react to a hostile alien invasion and Tip's reactions to them. The ending actually made me laugh, but I won't spoil it. If you like plucky characters, I think you'd like Gratuity "Tip" Tucci
I listened to this on audio, and honestly, Bahni Turpin is becoming one of my favorite narrators. She made the experience that I really enjoyed this novel. Tip's story was a blast to follow, and I really enjoyed her and J.Lo's friendship throughout it. I thought it was so fun to see how different people would react to a hostile alien invasion and Tip's reactions to them. The ending actually made me laugh, but I won't spoil it. If you like plucky characters, I think you'd like Gratuity "Tip" Tucci
I listened to this on audio, and honestly, Bahni Turpin is becoming one of my favorite narrators. She made the experience that much more enjoyable, so I definitely recommend picking up the audiobook if you get the chance. ...more
Jul 19, 2011 Terence rated it liked it · review of another edition
Recommends it for: My nieces
Recommended to Terence by: Ceridwen's GR review
Shelves: sf-fantasy, for-the-younger-generation
The critics have spoken:
"This is the bestest book in the whole widest world!!!" - Felix, The Other New York Review of Books
"Two thumbs up! Way up or this one!" - Roger Fleabert & Gene Whiskel, At the Libraries
I leave it to the reader of this review to go and find out why the cat world raves about this book, and I'll leave it to Steve's and Ceridwen's reviews to clinch the intention to read this funny, touching and intelligent book.
For my part, I'm going to send this off to my nieces ASAP as The critics have spoken:
For my part, I'm going to send this off to my nieces ASAP as soon as I can pry it from the claws of Puck:
Jan 04, 2008 babyhippoface rated it it was amazing
Shelves: fantasy, kids-fiction, young-adult
"The Boov jumped off his antler spool and went back inside the MoPo...."
I think I'm going to memorize this line. And next time someone asks me a question I don't want to answer, I'm gonna hit 'em with the Boov.
Smekday is funny, silly, and entertaining. Gratuity/Tip is a terrific heroine, spunky and anxious and bold. But my favorite character was J.Lo. Who knew Boov could be so big-hearted? (Plus, who knew urinal cakes were apparently so delicious?)
Although it's a bit long for a read-aloud, I "The Boov jumped off his antler spool and went back inside the MoPo...."
Although it's a bit long for a read-aloud, I can't help but think kids would roll every time J.Lo opens his mouth. Especially if I could get my Latka-from-Taxi voice down just close enough. That's what J.Lo sounds like in my head: Latka. With a touch of Stitch, of "Lilo &" fame.
The conversations between Gratuity and J.Lo were far and away my favorite part of the book. They're funny enough reading silently, but read them aloud, and I just start to giggle like a... silly giggling thing (nods to Georgia Nicolson). I particularly enjoyed reading random bits of dialogue out loud to my family, who always laughed and looked at me like I was a Boov. "WHAT are you READING?" was usually the next thing to escape their lips. >smurrfle< Still makes me giggle.
Love that M:-)#. ...more
Jul 13, 2007 Brandy rated it liked it
Shelves: 2007reads, middle-grade, childrens, friendship, adventure
If I had to describe this book in a word, I'd call it a romp. It's fun, it's funny, it's a fast-paced adventure. And it's very clever. Too clever, in fact; one gets the impression that the author is very impressed with himself, and cracks himself up with how witty and clever he can be.
Somewhere on GoodReads, I saw a description of a book (don't recall which one) as "it's like a friend's little brother--he's really funny and entertaining for a little while, and then you want him to go away." If I had to describe this book in a word, I'd call it a romp. It's fun, it's funny, it's a fast-paced adventure. And it's very clever. Too clever, in fact; one gets the impression that the author is very impressed with himself, and cracks himself up with how witty and clever he can be.
Somewhere on GoodReads, I saw a description of a book (don't recall which one) as "it's like a friend's little brother--he's really funny and entertaining for a little while, and then you want him to go away." That's an excellent synopsis of this book. ...more
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Oct 22, 2009 Trin rated it it was amazing
Shelves: ya, american-lit, sci-fi
As a reader, there's a certain type of book I dream about: one that somehow manages to be smart and funny and meaningful. Adam Rex's The True Meaning of Smekday is—wonder of wonders!—just such a book. Don't feel bad if you've never heard of it, however, because it also happens to be a kids' book. But it's one that can be appreciated just as easily by adults, who are just as likely to enjoy the novel's fantastic narrative voice and sharp sense of humor, and may get even more out of Smekday's As a reader, there's a certain type of book I dream about: one that somehow manages to be smart and funny and meaningful. Adam Rex's The True Meaning of Smekday is—wonder of wonders!—just such a book. Don't feel bad if you've never heard of it, however, because it also happens to be a kids' book. But it's one that can be appreciated just as easily by adults, who are just as likely to enjoy the novel's fantastic narrative voice and sharp sense of humor, and may get even more out of Smekday's central metaphor: the story follows precocious 12-year-old Tip after aliens land on Earth and claim it for their own. The Boov then force the human population to relocate—in the case of the residents of the U.S., first to Florida, then to Arizona. (Sound familiar?) Tip, however, is separated from her mother at the beginning of the invasion, and so must travel on her own, encountering on her way one of the aliens who, in fantastic Ford Prefect tradition, has christened himself with the human name of J.Lo. Further—utterly delightful—shenanigans ensue.
Both Tip’s narration and all the characters’ dialogue are a constant source of amusement and a sly cleverness, and Tip and J.Lo’s blossoming friendship made me happy in the way that only a truly epic literary friendship can. I never wanted this book to end. Sadly, it had to, so I shall have to console myself by recommending it to as many people as I can, adults and children—and even Boov—alike. ...more
Oct 19, 2010 Shep rated it it was amazing
I got this book at one of my favorite bookstores of all time: A small, charming little shop in Redlands, CA called The Frugal Frigate. I don't live there anymore, but back in 2008 my mom and I were in town and I stopped by the store for old time's sake.
The store had since been bought out by an older couple, but they had maintained its comfortable, cozy charm. Nothing had changed since I'd last visited, and that meant more to me than anything in the world. I'd be heartbroken if anything was I got this book at one of my favorite bookstores of all time: A small, charming little shop in Redlands, CA called The Frugal Frigate. I don't live there anymore, but back in 2008 my mom and I were in town and I stopped by the store for old time's sake.
The store had since been bought out by an older couple, but they had maintained its comfortable, cozy charm. Nothing had changed since I'd last visited, and that meant more to me than anything in the world. I'd be heartbroken if anything was different.
The new owners were warm and friendly people, I probably spent over a half an hour chatting books with them. The man, who went over some of his favorite fantasy and sci-fi reads, recommended this book. It seemed odd; the cover was cool, an interesting idea. I knew it would be something unique. I was a bit unsure, but I went on feeling and purchased the book.
And you know what? I'm so happy I did. The True Meaning of Smekday is funny, smart, and unlike anything I've ever read. A true treasure. Everyone should read it. ...more
Jan 14, 2014 Lightreads rated it it was amazing
Shelves: science-fiction, fiction, young-adult
In the wreckage of America post alien invasion, an eleven-year-old girl sets off on an epic road trip with one of the invaders and a cat.
OMG. OMG OMG my feels, I can't. This is hilarious and sad and wonderful and quirky. I giggled, I sniffled, I gasped. I got my feels everywhere, which doesn't happen for just any old book.
Basically, if you are a sucker for very brave, very angry little girls; if two people tentatively reaching out from opposite sides of a war and a language barrier and a lot of In the wreckage of America post alien invasion, an eleven-year-old girl sets off on an epic road trip with one of the invaders and a cat.
Basically, if you are a sucker for very brave, very angry little girls; if two people tentatively reaching out from opposite sides of a war and a language barrier and a lot of rage to find their best friend on the other side will leave you verklempt; if you will enjoy the use of alien ethnic jokes to make a joke about human ethnic jokes; if you love cats. Run, do not walk.
Nov 14, 2007 Christopher rated it it was amazing
Shelves: kids-books-for-adults, read-aloud-to-mulzer, ya
This is one of the funniest, constantly entertaining books I've read in a long time, kids book or otherwise. The narrator is a brilliantly sarcastic young girl, the alien J-Lo is a riot, and the premise never gets tired. I kept waiting for some sappy "kids book" ending to mar the climax, but it never got bad. I'm going to buy a copy to own, just so I can re-read it to Mulzer again.
Apr 04, 2015 Jasmine rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Shelves: disney-hyperion, find-a-way-to-buy-this, middle-grade
Oh my word. I need to have children so I can read this to them. Who wants to make some reading-ready children with me? Stephanie? Stephanie?
May 30, 2018 Monkiecat rated it really liked it
Shelves: family-read-aloud
This book was hilarious. If you haven't yet watched the animated movie "Home" - don't! Read this book instead. If you have watched it, I'm sure you'll join me in sending condolences to the author for the way they completely butchered his book. I'm not sure how he managed to pack in so much social commentary while still keeping me and my 10 yr old in hysterics.
Also, this book requires - REQUIRES! - you to have both the audio version and the text version. The audio narrator was absolute gold, but This book was hilarious. If you haven't yet watched the animated movie "Home" - don't! Read this book instead. If you have watched it, I'm sure you'll join me in sending condolences to the author for the way they completely butchered his book. I'm not sure how he managed to pack in so much social commentary while still keeping me and my 10 yr old in hysterics.
Also, this book requires - REQUIRES! - you to have both the audio version and the text version. The audio narrator was absolute gold, but the text has pictures you don't want to miss! Bahni Turpin (I had to look her up) did the narration and she. was. amazing. ...more
Jul 06, 2012 Kathleen rated it it was amazing
Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, read-in-2012, childrens
"Most everyone thinks of Smekday as the day the Boov arrived, and as the day they left, one year later. But the longer they've been gone, the less I care about that. The Boov weren't anything special. They were just people. They were too smart and too stupid to be anything else."
This is the best, funniest allegory for Manifest Destiny, colonialism, and privilege that you will ever, ever read. Yes, there are cartoons. Yes, there is an entire page that is only the word "meow" repeated. Yes, the "Most everyone thinks of Smekday as the day the Boov arrived, and as the day they left, one year later. But the longer they've been gone, the less I care about that. The Boov weren't anything special. They were just people. They were too smart and too stupid to be anything else."
This is the best, funniest allegory for Manifest Destiny, colonialism, and privilege that you will ever, ever read. Yes, there are cartoons. Yes, there is an entire page that is only the word "meow" repeated. Yes, the allegory is silly space aliens. None of that matters, except in the way that may very well make you start laughing so hard the people around you give you funny looks. You should read this book.
Other reasons to read this book: *POC main character
*Awesome main character
*Three dimensional writing because Letters Are Confusing
*Died of asphyxiation
*Cat named "Pig" actually excuse to turn whole book into a shaggy dog story
*How they really keep Happy Mouse Kingdom so clean
*Chief Shouting Bear Is Not A Crazy Indian
*At least 424 other reasons not listed here (no. pages in book)
Seriously, read it. Or at least make your children read it.
Sep 20, 2017 Becky rated it it was amazing
So get this:
This is a book about colonization and cultural appropriation that predominantly features People of Colour as the main characters.
IKR! Wuuuuuuuut.
Rex is a genius. He’s pulled from historical (and current day) examples of colonialism and violent takeovers and just imported them into an alien invasion. You’re reading along thinking “WTF, they can’t ‘give us’ Florida and pretend it’s a huge gift, it was ours to begin with and we won’t all…”
There are a couple of things that happened in So get this:
There are a couple of things that happened in the book that smack of real events that I can’t place. Like pulling out random citizens who have no cultural or political authority (and possibly no education) and making them sign treaties with you that you can wave around and insist you have the right to do anything. When did that happen IRL? Because I’m absolutely sure Rex pulled that from real life. Another example is when people would leave their houses (maybe they were evacuated or maybe they only to went for groceries or something) and they’d come back and the Boove would have just moved in and the person would now be homeless, that kind of thing happened all the time early on in the Israel/Palestine conflict at least, probably elsewhere too at different times.
The whole thing SEEMS ridiculous when framed as this over-the-top, hilarious alien invasion by a people who can’t even decipher pig Latin, and that’s kind of the brilliance of it. It’s not at all subtle about anything and there’s no room for misunderstanding, and yet it is so fun. It’s a freaking work of art, is what it is.
Gratuity is an incredible character who is navigating not only alien invasions, but racism and sexism too. More than once she’s accused of being bossy (once by a pair of the most obnoxious boys we’ve all met), and people’s racial assumptions almost cost her the search for her mother. She also makes friends with Chief Shouting Bear (aka Frank) who has no shortage of racism to deal with himself.
All the while she’s driving her hovering car Slushes across the country, keeping her cat Pig and her best friend JLo out of trouble (or at least keeping them all together as they get IN to trouble), and figuring out how to save the world.
Basically:
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I just want to add, the bit where JLo explains the history of the Boove world is maybe the most amazing part of the book. The part where the scientists are exiled for saying God was unclean (ie. Discovering climate change) and then God dies of asphyxiation (ie. The ocean can no longer support life) was incredible. I laughed so hard because it was that or cry. (hide spoiler)] ...more
Mar 03, 2017 Abigail rated it it was amazing
Shelves: adapted, 2019-march-reading, favorites, books-i-own, sci-fi-dystopian, friendship-is-the-best-ship, heart-happy-books, the-re-read-jar
"Pass to me the flocked bootpunch."
"Can you describe it?"
"Pink. Fur. Twisty parts."
"That's like, three things in here."
"It will be quivering a little."
"Aha. Here."
Two hours passed and I had to admit I wasn't good for anything except handing J.Lo tools that had been described really well beforehand.
This is one of my heart-happy books. It just brings me joy. There's no other way to describe it. Tip and J.Lo's friendship owns my entire heart, I just love the way they go from not really "Pass to me the flocked bootpunch."
This is one of my heart-happy books. It just brings me joy. There's no other way to describe it. Tip and J.Lo's friendship owns my entire heart, I just love the way they go from not really caring about one another to being willing to do almost anything to keep the other safe. Ahhh, okay, we're gonna try to do a real review here.
This is such a wonderful representation of what humanity would do if our world was invaded by aliens. Most of them go along with it, but several just don't budge. And that, I feel, is so accurate to humanity. Tip is the coolest and the most determined kid and yet still acts exactly like some of the eleven-or-twelve-year-olds I know in my life. Just like "ok, guess i'm going to florida by myself because i'm not getting in that giant ship they want me in" and I love that about her.
I just have a lot of emotions about this story, okay. It's funny, it's bittersweet, it's ridiculous and yet it's wonderful. It's got goofy moments and it's got a lot of heart. And it's got lines like this:
I didn't know how to ask what I was asking. So I just asked it.
“Do you have love?”
“Maaa-aa-aa-aa-aa!” J.Lo laughed. “Of course the Boov love. The Boov love everything!”
I didn't feel up to arguing about it, but I was pretty sure if you loved everything you didn't really love anything.
And it just makes my heart happy.
(just as a side note, there is some language. this is a secular book about secular people, so just be forewarned)
Five stars. Forever and always. ...more
Sep 10, 2009 Siria rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 21st-century, american-fiction, fantasy, young-adult
This is a delightful book—one that manages to not only be engaging and funny, but also smart! How many young adult books are there that are really biting, clever satires on the colonisation of foreign cultures, race and ethnicity which aren't Books With a Moral? (Same goes for adult books, I suppose.) Set in 2013, it follows eleven-year-old Gratuity Tucci, her cat Pig and a renegade alien called J.Lo who set off across America in an attempt to save the world from the alien Boov, and from This is a delightful book—one that manages to not only be engaging and funny, but also smart! How many young adult books are there that are really biting, clever satires on the colonisation of foreign cultures, race and ethnicity which aren't Books With a Moral? (Same goes for adult books, I suppose.) Set in 2013, it follows eleven-year-old Gratuity Tucci, her cat Pig and a renegade alien called J.Lo who set off across America in an attempt to save the world from the alien Boov, and from another, even scarier enemy. Along the way, there are encounters with New Age UFOlogists in Roswell, elderly Native-American men who pointedly defy stereotypes and point out white liberal hypocrisy, and a wryly amusing look at what it means to conquer and be conquered.
There are a few pacing issues, and I think editing it down a little bit would have made The True Meaning of Smekday a stronger book—I would have said that it's perhaps a little too long for its target age group, but I think length has become a guideline more than a rule after the Harry Potter books—but I'm willing to forgive a lot of pacing wonkiness for lines like "You are not a fan of ethnical jokes, ah? Look, is okay if I tells it, I am one sixteenth Habadoo—" ...more
Aug 18, 2012 Rachel Brown rated it it was amazing
Shelves: science-fiction, children-s
A marvelous and very funny science fiction comedy in which eleven-year-old Gratuity "Tip" Tucci tells the story of how Earth was colonized by aliens, and she ended up traveling cross-country in search of her mother in a flying car called Slushious, in the company of a conflicted alien named J. Lo.
This book has all sorts of elements which I normally hate, from cutesy pop culture references to heavy-handed messages ("colonialism is bad") to mocking Disneyland (easy target). Amazingly, I loved it A marvelous and very funny science fiction comedy in which eleven-year-old Gratuity "Tip" Tucci tells the story of how Earth was colonized by aliens, and she ended up traveling cross-country in search of her mother in a flying car called Slushious, in the company of a conflicted alien named J. Lo.
This book has all sorts of elements which I normally hate, from cutesy pop culture references to heavy-handed messages ("colonialism is bad") to mocking Disneyland (easy target). Amazingly, I loved it anyway. It's very, very, very funny, the messages are on-target, and Tip is an extremely likable heroine, if a tad mature for eleven. There are some comic strips incorporated which tell the history of the aliens, and I nearly died laughing reading them.
I also liked that Tip is biracial (African-American/Italian) and it comes up believably, but that's not the subject of the story. Though I have to register my usual annoyance that while she is accurately depicted in the interior illustrations, she's not present on the cover. Seriously, would it kill publishers to occasionally depict people of color on the covers of books in which they are the protagonists?
I think anyone over about eight could appreciate this one, if their reading level is up to it. ...more
Mar 05, 2008 Colleen Venable rated it really liked it
Shelves: books-that-made-me-cry, mid-grade-fiction
It took me a bit to get into this one, but perhaps that was because I picked it up 100% convinced it was going to be my new favorite book in the world before I read a single character. As soon as J.Lo appeared I was HOOKED. His Balki-an charm, urinal cake eating habits, and hysterical integrated "The History of the Boov" mini-comics won me over in no time. I've been a fan of Rex's picture books for years with a lovely collection of signed books on my shelf, each one received while I was It took me a bit to get into this one, but perhaps that was because I picked it up 100% convinced it was going to be my new favorite book in the world before I read a single character. As soon as J.Lo appeared I was HOOKED. His Balki-an charm, urinal cake eating habits, and hysterical integrated "The History of the Boov" mini-comics won me over in no time. I've been a fan of Rex's picture books for years with a lovely collection of signed books on my shelf, each one received while I was red-faced and mutter-y at the face of THE REX, and each one awesome. I think everyone in the world should read this book if only for the broom closet joke (which made me laugh much longer than I should have) and the lovely map of the "new united states" which is simply Arizona with a large Texas-shaped middle. Rex's illustrations are particularly at their best here and Gratuity is a unique and likable narrator. Like the sap I am, I teared up happily at the last line. Man I think I need to make a bookshelf for things that made me cry! I'm pathetic, but this book, this book is pretty darn fantastic. ...more
Sep 09, 2011 Kezermezer rated it liked it
Shelves: read-with-the-boy
It's been a year since the aliens left, and the National Time Capsule committee is collecting essays on The True Meaning of Smekday, one of which will be chosen to go into the capsule and unearthed in one year.
What aliens? What is Smekday? We're about to find out, through the essay of (then) 11-year-old Gratuity Tucci, who lived through the invasion.
The True Meaning of Smekday has been described as "truly wonderful" and "snappy". I was really hoping for a story like that, but I try to keep my It's been a year since the aliens left, and the National Time Capsule committee is collecting essays on The True Meaning of Smekday, one of which will be chosen to go into the capsule and unearthed in one year.
The True Meaning of Smekday has been described as "truly wonderful" and "snappy". I was really hoping for a story like that, but I try to keep my expectations neutral as reviews are just personal opinions, after all.
In my experience, this book was only occasionally wonderful and infrequently snappy. It started out promisingly but never really delivered. My ten-year-old son and I laughed out loud a few times (mostly in the very first section), and I was sometimes struck by a well-written and vivid scene or sentence (eg "So we watched the storm, watched the wind push the rain around in billowing sheets like the ghosts of old oceans.") but I wanted the whole book to be like that. It was a shame and a frustration to catch these glimpses of laugh-out-loud humor and lovely prose but to most of the time be stuck in average writing and meandering plot work.
This is not to say it was all bad, just that it could and should have been so much better. There was a thread of fun running throughout, most especially because of Gratuity's partner in crime, a Boov named J.Lo who is very fun to read aloud if you're one of those parents who does the voices. It's also peppered with well-done illustrations, including some cartoon-strip-esque narratives in which J.Lo explains things about Boovish culture and history.
A note about the cussing - there is cussing, and it's not (just) 'turd' or 'oh my God'. It's 'ass' and 'hell' and the like. Appropriate words for an 8 year old? That's up to the parents of course, but for that reason and because it was sometimes intensely wrenching (I'm thinking particularly of the scene where Tip's mom gets abducted [the second time]) I felt like it was only borderline appropriate for my ten year old and better suited for 11 or 12 and up. ...more
Feb 01, 2008 Eva Mitnick rated it it was amazing
Shelves: children, science-fiction
This book is actually a very very long essay written by Middle School student Gratuity Tucci for a contest, the winning essay of which will be placed in a time capsule to be opened in 100 years - in 2113. In it, Gratuity (Tip to her friends) describes the invasion of the Boov and the subsequent relocation of all humans to Florida (and then to Arizona, as the Boov decide they want Florida for themselves). Tip's mother was taken by the aliens early on, and so 12-year-old Tip takes her cat and This book is actually a very very long essay written by Middle School student Gratuity Tucci for a contest, the winning essay of which will be placed in a time capsule to be opened in 100 years - in 2113. In it, Gratuity (Tip to her friends) describes the invasion of the Boov and the subsequent relocation of all humans to Florida (and then to Arizona, as the Boov decide they want Florida for themselves). Tip's mother was taken by the aliens early on, and so 12-year-old Tip takes her cat and drives (yes, drives) off in search of her. Early on, she meets up with a stray handyman Boov, who reengineers her car to fly. Gradually, Tip and the Boov, who calls himself J.Lo, become uneasy friends and allies, as they avoid the Boov, meet all sorts of strange humans, and then find themselves dealing with an even more fearsome set of aliens, the Gorg.
This is an extremely funny book - the dialogue, whether tongue-in-cheek or absolutely outrageous, is snappy and Tip and J.Lo are both loveable, if often irascible and just plain nuts. J.Lo speaks English with a distinctly Boovian and very ludicrous accent - when he first meets Tip and is bluffing her, he says, "Then...then...I will have onto shoot with my gun!" and when that doesn't work, he tries "NO GUN! So I will have to...have to...SHOOT FORTH THE LASERS FROM MY EYEBALLS!" Tip carries around an antique polaroid camera, and so the book is illustrated with drawings depicting the polaroids, messily taped into the book.
First-rate, tip-top SF for all ages - Read This Book!! ...more
Jun 13, 2016 R.J. rated it really liked it
[Review originally posted on LiveJournal, 2007/08/09]
I loved this book SO MUCH I can hardly find words to tell you.
An 11-year-old girl named Gratuity, her cat Pig, and an utterly adorable alien who answers to "J.Lo" end up taking a road trip across the southern USA in a souped-up hovercar to find Gratuity's missing mother and incidentally maybe save the world -- this is a book full of quirky delights and unexpected depths, not to mention some pretty incisive social commentary (albeit deftly [Review originally posted on LiveJournal, 2007/08/09]
An 11-year-old girl named Gratuity, her cat Pig, and an utterly adorable alien who answers to "J.Lo" end up taking a road trip across the southern USA in a souped-up hovercar to find Gratuity's missing mother and incidentally maybe save the world -- this is a book full of quirky delights and unexpected depths, not to mention some pretty incisive social commentary (albeit deftly handled and never preachy). The cast is diverse without falling into stereotypes, and the writing is smart, funny and in places unexpectedly beautiful.
The moment I was done I wanted to read the book again -- preferably out loud to my middle son so I could watch him enjoy it as much as I did. Since it was first released in 2007, it's available in paperback and at 425 pages, it's a nice meaty read without ever feeling padded or stretched thin. Plus it comes with delightful illustrations (including many in comic book form) by the author, who is clearly one of these people with more talent than anyone has a right to.
[P.S. Since this is an old review it deserves an update: I read the book to my middle son and he loved it. Then I read it again a couple years later to my youngest son and he loved it as well. We went to see the movie ("Home") when it came out and all agreed that it was cute but nothing like the book, and that it really just made us want to read the book over again.] ...more
Jan 07, 2015 thefourthvine rated it it was amazing
Shelves: sff, favorites, ya
Oh, Smekday, my forever girl. I love this book. I adore it. I'm always an obnoxious book proselytizer (mention a book and watch me rec! forever!), but this book cranked me up to 11. I forced people to read it. I bought a copy for a bed-bound friend. I read this out loud to my Best Beloved. I LOVE THIS BOOK.
I love Tip, I love the alien races, I love the humor, I love the edges hidden inside the humor. I love all the characters, particularly J.Lo, hapless alien repairperson and brave friend to Oh, Smekday, my forever girl. I love this book. I adore it. I'm always an obnoxious book proselytizer (mention a book and watch me rec! forever!), but this book cranked me up to 11. I forced people to read it. I bought a copy for a bed-bound friend. I read this out loud to my Best Beloved. I LOVE THIS BOOK.
I love Tip, I love the alien races, I love the humor, I love the edges hidden inside the humor. I love all the characters, particularly J.Lo, hapless alien repairperson and brave friend to Tip. I love the cartoons and the illustrations and basically every word of the book. Basically, I love this book so much someday my kid is going to HATE it. (And I will still read it to him. Because I love it.) ...more
Jan 18, 2008 Jessica rated it really liked it
Shelves: science-fiction, middle-grade
This is a hilarious "essay" by Gratuity Tucci on what "Smekday" means to her since the alien Boov took over the world. Rex is also an illustrator, and there are lots of fun pictures and comics to tell parts of the story. I did think that it needed to be divided up into more parts. The first hundred pages is one segment, and the last three hundred are another, with no chapter breaks at all. I could have used a couple of breaks. But it was very, very fun, and I absolutely loved J.Lo the Boov.
Mar 31, 2012 April rated it it was amazing
Shelves: middle-grade, audio, own, highly-recommended, sci-fi
I am for reals on an audiobook roll. The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex narrated by Bahni Turpin is one of the most hilarious, heartfelt, and engaging audiobooks that I’ve had the pleasure to listen to. Seriously, if you aren’t sure about audiobooks, introduce your ears to The True Meaning Of Smekday.
Read the rest of my review here
Aug 25, 2012 Sean Williams rated it it was amazing
Brilliantly hilarious, moving, clever, exciting, witty, surprising . . . I've run out of adjectives! A superb book. Read it immediately, if you haven't already.
(It has teleporters in it too, as an added bonus.)
Apr 30, 2018 Sam rated it it was ok
Shelves: scifi
My two girls are tired of it's overly long, cutesy, descriptions but I'm going to muddle on through it on my own for the sake of completion. Which is too bad since they really enjoy the animated series. It's for the best I guess; my wife probably mishears me every time I read aloud what "the alien Boov J-Lo" does next. Also some parents and children might not appreciate all of the adult language. Or get the jokes.
“Noble Savages of Earth,” he said. “Long time have we tried to live together in My two girls are tired of it's overly long, cutesy, descriptions but I'm going to muddle on through it on my own for the sake of completion. Which is too bad since they really enjoy the animated series. It's for the best I guess; my wife probably mishears me every time I read aloud what "the alien Boov J-Lo" does next. Also some parents and children might not appreciate all of the adult language. Or get the jokes.
“Noble Savages of Earth,” he said. “Long time have we tried to live together in peace.” (It had been five months.) “Long time have the Boov suffered under the hostileness and intolerableness of you people. With sad hearts I now concede that Boov and humans will never to exist as one.” “And so now I generously grant you Human Preserves—gifts of land that will be for humans forever, never to be taken away again, now.” I stared at the TV, mouth agape. “But we were here first,” I said pathetically.
“…So then the Habadoo, he says: ‘That’s not your purp, that’s my poomp!’” J.Lo hiccuped with laughter. “You are not a fan of ethnical jokes, ah? Look, is okay if I tells it, I am one-sixteenth Habadoo—”
Sep 04, 2018 MargaretDH rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: alternative-reality, sci-fi, children, audiobook
This was really good! And really funny! And smart! How would we all feel if we were colonized tomorrow by aliens with superior technology who thought that made them better than us? But did I mention it's funny?
I listened to the audiobook, and Bahni Turpin does an outstanding job. Her J. Lo is just wonderful. I didn't realize that this book has so many pictures and comics, so in retrospect, I wish I'd read the print version. But the audiobook is definitely one of the better productions I've ever This was really good! And really funny! And smart! How would we all feel if we were colonized tomorrow by aliens with superior technology who thought that made them better than us? But did I mention it's funny?
I listened to the audiobook, and Bahni Turpin does an outstanding job. Her J. Lo is just wonderful. I didn't realize that this book has so many pictures and comics, so in retrospect, I wish I'd read the print version. But the audiobook is definitely one of the better productions I've ever heard. ...more
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Madison Mega-Mara...: Book #48: The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex 1 1 May 10, 2013 08:25PM
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About Adam Rex
Adam Rex grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, the middle of three children. He was neither the smart one (older brother) or the cute one (younger sister), but he was the one who could draw. He took a lot of art classes as a kid, trying to learn to draw better, and started painting when he was 11. And later in life he was drawn down to Tucson in order to hone his skills, get a BFA from the University of Adam Rex grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, the middle of three children. He was neither the smart one (older brother) or the cute one (younger sister), but he was the one who could draw. He took a lot of art classes as a kid, trying to learn to draw better, and started painting when he was 11. And later in life he was drawn down to Tucson in order to hone his skills, get a BFA from the University of Arizona, and meet his physicist wife Marie (who is both the smart and cute one).
Adam is nearsighted, bad at all sports, learning to play the theremin, and usually in need of a shave. He can carry a tune, if you don't mind the tune getting dropped and stepped on occasionally. He never remembers anyone's name until he's heard it at least three times. He likes animals, spacemen, Mexican food, Ethiopian food, monsters, puppets, comic books, 19th century art, skeletons, bugs, and robots.
Garlic and crosses are useless against Adam. Sunlight has been shown to be at least moderately effective. A silver bullet does the trick. Pretty much any bullet, really. ...more
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“Woah,' I said, blocking the doorway. 'You can't come in here. This is the girls' room.'
Even as it came out of my mouth, I knew it sounded dumb. Dumb, I thought and maybe even wrong.
You...are a boy, aren't you?' I asked. 'I mean, don't take that the wrong way or anything -'
J.Lo is a boy, yes.' I let that go.
So...you Boov have boys and girls...just like us?'
Of course,' said J.Lo. 'Do not be ridicumlous.'
I smiled a wan little smile. 'Sorry.'
The Boov have seven magnificent genders. There is boy, girl, girlboy, boygirl, boyboy, boyboygirl, and boyboyboyboy.'
I had absolutely no response to this.” — 35 likes
“Is there a short-eared koobish, then?'
Mmmyes ...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.'
We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.” — 29 likes
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Kia Niro: Subcompact Hybrid Urban Concept At Chicago Auto Show
Antony Ingram February 6, 2014 Comment Now!
Kia's Niro concept, a subcompact-sized urban hybrid, is making its U.S. debut at the Chicago Auto Show today.
First unveiled at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show, the Niro points the way to possible future models for Kia, a potential rival for models like the Nissan Juke and upcoming Honda Fit-based crossover.
It's the latest take on Kia's ever-evolving design language, so while the front grille will be familiar to owners of existing Kia products, the rest of the car is very different.
Kia describes it as "ready to take on the city environment with style and a fun-to-drive attitude", which translates as unique styling and that popular raised crossover stance, wrapped around a potent but efficient hybrid drivetrain.
At its heart is Kia's 1.6-liter 'Gamma' four-cylinder engine, equipped with a turbocharger to deliver 160-horsepower through the front wheels.
As part of a through-the-road hybrid system the back wheels add their input now and again to the tune of 45 horsepower, ready to propel the car or offer extra traction when required.
There's no plug here, so the car's battery pack--of unspecified type and capacity--is charged through regenerative braking.
Exterior styling is dominated by dark 'Nightfall' exterior paint and a contrasting brushed stainless-steel roof. Running-board style 'blades' erupt from the car's flanks, a style echoed in the front and rear valences.
Small details are highlighted in anodized 'Limelight' aluminum, with a bright yellow-green tint that extends to the car's brake calipers and a line around each tire's circumference.
Perhaps the car's stand-out visual features are the two dihedral "butterfly" doors, swinging up high to allow access to the car's cabin.
Inside, the two-plus-two seating layout would likely be rendered more practical in a production equivalent, as would the unusual molded one-piece front seats. The rear seats, while small, do have the ability to fold down providing a flat, carbon-fiber clad rear load area.
For the driver, both seat and pedals can be adjusted--the driver's seat itself is fixed.
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Tesla Model X Update, Toyota 'Prius Prime,' Used Electric Cars: Today's Car News
Stephen Edelstein June 10, 2015 Comment Now!
Today, we've got news from Tesla's annual shareholder meeting, including an update on the Model X electric crossover, Toyota's trademark of the name "Prius Prime," and the best and worst used electric cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports.
A trademark for the name Toyota "Prius Prime" is registered. What hybrid model could it be attached to?
See how five cities are getting free electric-car charging through a startup that works only with "socially-responsible" businesses.
The 2015 Chevrolet Impala bi-fuel natural-gas vehicle has been delayed for over a year, but General Motors won't elaborate on why.
The Tesla Model X will arrive in "three to four months," and "autopilot" testing is underway, Elon Musk said at Tesla's annual shareholder meeting.
A new report claims the Ford EcoSport will be sold in the U.S. beginning in 2017. That would make it the first car to be imported here from India.
More and more used electric cars are turning up on dealer lots. Find out which ones are the best bets to buy.
The National Transportation Safety Board wants front collision-avoidance systems to be standard on all new cars, but is that goal realistic?
Finally, the G7 world leaders call for an end to fossil-fuel use by 2100, and deep cuts by 2050.
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The Woodlands honors Upstate seniors
Three Greenville seniors, volunteers honored by Greenville retirement community
The Woodlands honors Upstate seniors Three Greenville seniors, volunteers honored by Greenville retirement community Check out this story on greenvilleonline.com: https://grnol.co/1p5ppsD
Angelia Davis, davisal@greenvilleonline.com Published 12:11 p.m. ET March 8, 2016
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The Woodlands at Furman recognized three senior adults for continuing to better themselves and the community as they age.
The Woodlands at Furman is a not-for-profit Life Care retirement community owned by Upstate Senior Living, its website said. It offers independent living and continuing care , including assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing, the site said
George Fletcher, Don Cockrill and Robyn Zimmerman were honored by The Woodlands for their success in various categories.
Cockrill was presented with an award in the intellectual category.
A retired attorney with Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak and Stewart, Cockrill is a member of Furman University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI).
He became an instructor with the program in 2013, teaching a variety of history courses. Cockrill is also the co-founder of Camperdown Academy in Greenville.
Zimmerman, known as a television personality and the recently retired director of public relations for the Greenville Health System, was honored in the spiritual category.
Zimmerman currently serves as the executive communication strategist for Crawford Strategy, a full-service public relations, marketing and advertising agency in Greenville.
She is also on the faculty of Furman University and Greenville Technical College. She is the founder of the St. Peter's Player's ministry at St. Peter's Episcopal Church. The ministry, which brings performers of all denominations together, has performed nine different plays, musicals and original works in its 15-year history.
Fletcher, a professional engineer, received the overall award. He founded The Fletcher Group, a Greenville-based environmental engineering firm.
Fletcher was recently elected to an at-large seat on Greenville City Council. He has held many chairmanships and board appointments, including the Greenville Chamber, United Way of Greenville County, Renewable Water Resources, Clemson Board of Visitors, and the SC Research Authority.
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The most recorded jazz bassist is Ron Carter (USA) with 2,221 individual recording credits, as verified on 15 September 2015.
Ron Carter (USA) performed on the soundtrack to a number of films including Midnight Cowboy (1969) and the seminal TV series Twin Peaks (1990)
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Oxford United chairman Darryl Eales reflects on season to remember
By David Pritchard
Darryl Eales cannot hide his delight after the 3-0 success over Wycombe Wanderers on the final day of the season achieved their ambition – promotion to League One
Positive thinking has reaped rewards and United chairman Darryl Eales tells DAVID PRITCHARD he can now relax
GIVEN his relentlessly upbeat personality it is striking to hear Darryl Eales refer to Oxford United’s season as nine months of stress.
Alongside head coach Michael Appleton’s composure, the chairman’s cheery outlook has been the great constant throughout the campaign.
While so many aspects have come together to create the successful season, above all else this has been a victory for positive thinking, which has flowed from the top.
United openly set out to achieve promotion from the moment they returned for pre-season – and it became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
“You’re always in danger of being knocked down,” Eales said.
“But why not give an open, honest appraisal of what you’re trying to achieve?
“The benefit of that is if you keep saying something people start to believe it and they act accordingly.
“There’s a sense of satisfaction on a job well done across the club, allied to a sense of disbelief that it’s actually happened.
“In some ways my whole career in business has been like that in my own head.
“I’ve always felt ‘I’m not sure why this happens to me’, but I think I’m just one of those people that I pick a general direction and just say ‘we’re going there’.
“I’m very fortunate that by luck or good judgement I end up being surrounded by fantastic people and their talent delivers it.”
Eales’s credit for what has happened should go far beyond the fact he has been the one writing the cheques.
Not many clubs enjoy success without a sense of unity between the first team and the fans – at different times they need to lean on each other to get through.
That bond is stronger at United than it has been for years and Eales’s approach has been key.
Some board members across the country would run a mile if they walked into a pub full of their fans on an away game, whereas the U’s owner’s instinct is to get a round in.
He is at heart a fan and had total confidence United’s season would have a happy ending, even if when promotion was confirmed it came with a sense of surprise.
Eales said: “This is the first time I’ve not been stressed for nine months. You don’t actually realise that until it goes.
“A lot of people, including my daughters, say to me ‘I don’t understand how you stay so calm’.
“I think it’s because you’re always legislating for the worst.
“A lot of my thought process during the Wycombe game on the final day was ‘how do I need to behave if we are in the unfortunate position of going into the play-offs?’
“That compounds the disbelief when you get the success, because you have to move from pretending everything was OK to ‘blimey, we’ve succeeded’.
“If you look at the season, promotion was the primary objective.
“But to ally that with scoring four at Brentford, beating Swansea in the FA Cup and getting to Wembley in the JPT, you couldn’t really make it up.
“I think the success of this season will only dawn on me fully over the summer.”
This story is part of today's 32-page supplement in the Oxford Mail reviewing Oxford United's promotion-winning season. To order a copy, call 01865 425262
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Oakland Raiders 1994
The outer mat is a rich textured black acid-free mat with a decorative inset white v-groove, while the inner mat is a complimentary colored acid-free mat reflecting one of the team’s primary colors. The website image of this framed piece shows the mat color that we suggest (Silver), but since each piece is custom framed, we are happy to use whatever color mat you wish (depending on availability) – our standard mat colors are:
This original, one-of-a-kind watercolor painting of the 1994 Oakland Raiders uniform is the original artwork that was used in the creation of this Oakland Raiders uniform evolution print and tens of thousands of other Oakland Raiders products that have been sold across North America. This original piece of art was painted by artist Tino Paolini for Maple Leaf Productions Ltd.
Please note that all reproduction rights for this original work are retained in perpetuity by the National Football League unless specifically stated otherwise in writing by the NFL. For further information, please contact Heritage Sports Art at questions@heritagesportsart.com .
This is the final season for the Raiders in Los Angeles before Al Davis would relocate the team again, this time back to its original location in Oakland (who says you can't go back!).During the 1994 season, the NFL and its franchises were showcasing throwback jerseys, or replicas of older uniforms to help commemorate the NFL's 75th anniversary. The 75th anniversary was signified by the large, diamond patch on the left shoulder. This uniform, a throwback to the look of the '63 Raiders, captured a similar jersey design feel all the while keeping the teams modern silver & black color schematic. We're not sure, but it may have been an oversight on the part of the NFL uniform design folks that saw this 1994 throwback jersey, designed to honor the '63 Raiders, use silver uniform numbers instead of gold. Oh well, well all far from perfect, and it makes for a good discussion. (PS - A few fans have contacted us and said that the Raiders throwback used in 1994 was actually honoring/depicting the 1970 uniform - this wasn't the case and we have NFL documentation showing that the 1994 throwback was honoring the 1963 uniform.)One other note about the uniform: If you look closely at almost all NFL uniforms worn from 1991 on, you'll note a small NFL shield patch on the jersey's neckline. Most NFL uniforms added the NFL logo patch to the neck, and to the upper left thigh of the pants, beginning in 1991. The only major exception to this practice was in 1994 when the teams wore their throwback uniforms in almost all of these cases, the throwback jersey did not have the small NFL patch. Yet once again, the Raiders jersey is a bit of an anomaly in their case the throwback jersey does in fact have the NFL patch on the neck and upper left thigh. AS we said earlier, everyone loves a good mystery.
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Frank Ocean Shares His Fashion Obsessions in New Interview: Read
Frank Ocean Shares His Fashion Obsessions & Keeping Music Offline for ‘W Magazine’
By Isabelle Hore-Thorburn in Music
Getty Images / Jamie McCarthy
Frank Ocean rarely gives interviews and his W Magazine feature was as surprising, thoughtful, and as occasionally mystifying as you’d expect from the enigmatic artist.
The interview is peppered with the kinds of tidbits that keep Ocean fan’s fascinated between social media hiatuses and the often lengthy stretches between new projects. For example, the 31-year-old singer-songwriter is working on “doing four underwater laps in the pool” and is reconsidering his long-held belief in the idea of “strength in vulnerability.”
Each of his answers is as refreshing and unexpected as the next. Browse some of his best responses below.
On his fashion obsessions
I was feeling how Keanu Reeves looked in The Devil’s Advocate. He would wear a sports coat and tie with a button-collar Oxford sort of deal—the best hair, and the light-wash denims and the belt that matched the shoes.
On his uniform
I start with the shape and then I just slot in the pieces, so I get that shape and go about my day.
W: What are some of the themes or ideas you’re exploring in your new music? FO: I believed for a very long time that there was strength in vulnerability, and I really don’t believe that anymore. “Strength” and “vulnerability” sound opposite as words. And so to combine them sounds wise, but I don’t know if it is wise. It’s just this realization that hit me: “Oh, right, it’s a choice whether you will be truthful or a liar.” If I start to tell a story and then I decide not to tell the story anymore, I can stop. It’s my story. The expectation for artists to be vulnerable and truthful is a lot, you know?—when it’s no longer a choice. Like, in order for me to satisfy expectations, there needs to be an outpouring of my heart or my experiences in a very truthful, vulnerable way. I’m more interested in lies than that. Like, give me a full motion-picture fantasy. W: So you mean a fantasy, not a lie. FO: They’re the same thing. W: A fantasy could be hopeful. FO: Some people have dark fantasies. [Laughs] Link in bio. @Blonded – Photography: Tim Walker Story: @DianeSolway Hair: @dat_barber_nat @mobettercutz Grooming: @celiaburtonmakeup W VOLUME SIX 2019, THE NEW ORIGINALS
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The expectation for artists to be vulnerable and truthful is a lot, you know?—when it’s no longer a choice. Like, in order for me to satisfy expectations, there needs to be an outpouring of my heart or my experiences in a very truthful, vulnerable way. I’m more interested in lies than that. Like, give me a full motion-picture fantasy.
On keeping projects under wraps
There’s something that happens when you say what you’re doing before it’s done, and most of it is not positive. You’re accountable for that version that you talk about, when it very well may undergo change. It’s usually better for me to make what I make, put it out or don’t, and then talk about it freely.
On the shift from Channel Orange to Blonde
I feel like from Channel Orange to Blonde was a big jump for me in terms of not just the way things sounded but the way things looked and were glued together. I’m not speaking only to the creative part of it, but to executing a strategy that took a lot of balls.
“I do something every day just to rebel against this nonverbal part of my personality that would have me be unproductive. So whether it’s taking a cold shower or a new physical challenge, it’s something to activate the other part of myself that wants to be productive and get things done.” – @Blonded Link in bio. – Photography: Tim Walker Story: @DianeSolway Hair: @dat_barber_nat @mobettercutz Grooming: @celiaburtonmakeup W VOLUME SIX 2019, THE NEW ORIGINALS
On new directions
I’ve been interested in club, and the many different iterations of nightlife for music and songs. And so the things I look at now have a lot to do with those scenes: Detroit, Chicago, techno, house, French electronic… I think for a while I’d like to get away from work that’s solitary by nature. I’ve never been in a band or had a songwriting partner or been with a group…I’ve been trying to make time to do more of that sort of thing, and be in spaces where I’m not the expert.
On rapping with A$AP Rocky
I remember doing the “Raf” verses… He said, “Man, you rappin’ like it’s 2003.” And I was just like, “Oh, shit!” I understood why he was saying it, because the flow was more complicated. I thought, All right, we want the bouncy today thing.
On keeping his music offline
I’m working with a string arranger right now in Rio, and every time we go back and forth, because I don’t put things on the Internet, I have to send a drive with someone to Rio, or I have to go myself.
W: Who is an Original to you? FO: The answer to that is, everyone was original. It’s important to say “was.” – Photography: Tim Walker Story: @DianeSolway Hair: @dat_barber_nat @mobettercutz Grooming: @celiaburtonmakeup W VOLUME SIX 2019, THE NEW ORIGINALS
Ocean recently penned the foreword to A24’s limited-edition ‘Moonlight’ book by Barry Jenkins.
On this week’s episode of The Dropcast, we are joined by the Patta dons Edson Sabajo and Guillaume Schmidt who are marking the Dutch brand’s 15th anniversary with historical milestones.
Words by Isabelle Hore-Thorburn
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More movie titles this month than in our first total year!
Welcome to the October episode of Historic Artcraft Theatre blog / podcast "The Monthly Minute."
Listen again to our office film maestro, George Chimples, and FHI media/marketing man, Dave Windisch chat and nerd out over the month's slate of films - and it's a big one!
We discuss all the weekend films, plus the ever-growing slate of weekday events happening at the theater - including a pair of FREE movies courtesy of JCPL through a Festival Country Indiana grant, as well as the six films we'll be showing during the Heartland Film Festival!
Give it a listen, let us know what you think.
The outro music this month is from the Friday the 13th theme music composed by Harry Manfredinin - and yes, we chat a little bit about that as well.
Enjoy
Who's talking?
George Chimples is the man behind the desk at the Artcraft office.
George has a serious film background and past experience as a staff writer reviewing movies for majorspoilers.com as well as critical and fanatical knowledge of Shaw Brothers martial arts films, Russian cinema, and 1970s horror films.
Dave Windisch runs the social media and digital channels for FHI and The Historic Artcraft Theatre. He also handles all branding, visuals, and marketing within the organization.
He has a love of film ranging from Alfred Hitchcock to John Carpenter, and cites "Some Like it Hot" and "Apocalypse Now" among his top ten non-Star Wars films.
He collects movie posters and built this page - so his bio is longer than George's.
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Selena Gomez Is Launching a Beauty Line Too
The superstar is joining the celebrity beauty club.
By Jenna Rosenstein
Aug 13 2019, 5:21 pm EDT
Selena Gomez is joining Lady Gaga and Rihanna—not in the recording studio, but in the ever-growing celebrity beauty line space. Women's Wear Daily reports that Gomez filed paperwork with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to create a line of "Selena Gomez" beauty products including “fragrances, cosmetics, skin-care preparations, hair-care preparations, soaps, moisturizers and essential oils."
Me, Italy -trying desperately to look like a Fellini film
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Gomez is the latest celebrity to join the beauty world, following Rihanna's Fenty Beauty, Lady Gaga's Haus Beauty, Jennifer Lopez's line with Inglot Cosmetics, and Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian's namesake brands.
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This isn't the actress and singer's first foray into beauty, though. Back in 2011, she had fans vote on what would ultimately become Selena Gomez Eau de Parfum. "I want something that's very romantic. I want something that is very sweet but at the same time very mature," she told Racked at the time. The winning scent included a fruity raspberry top note, freesia in the middle, and vanilla in the base.
Gomez also has an extensive list of fashion partnerships under her belt. She launched a clothing line dream Out Loud at K-mart stores in 2010. Gomez is currently the face of Coach and collaborated with the brand on accessories and a ready-to-wear collection in 2018. She's also currently the face of athletic brand Puma and is working with them on a line of apparel, shoes and accessories.
Gomez hasn't commented on the new beauty line, but we'll update this post when we know more about the launch date, products, prices, and where to shop.
Jenna Rosenstein Beauty Director Jenna Rosenstein is the Beauty Director at BAZAAR.com.
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'You make the work, you blow life into the work and it becomes an animate, living entity on its own.'—Bharti Kher. From September to December 2017, Hauser & Wirth Somerset welcomed Bharti Kher as artist-in-residence.
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by Laura Diep | Oct 24, 2019 | News | 0 comments
With Christmas fast approaching, there’s no more festive foliage than that of the holly tree. However, holly is not just for Christmas, it’s one of the most benevolent and valuable trees in the Forest.
Helpful holly
Despite its prickly leaves, usually found on the lower branches to deter unwanted guests, holly is an invaluable woodland asset. Providing dense cover for nesting birds, its dry leaf litter is a favourite material for hibernating hedgehogs and small mammals. Robins, waxwings and jays vie with squirrels, dormice and deer for the vivid red berries, which provide an important survival food in the depths of winter.
Holly leaves have a high calorific value and were once used as fodder for cattle or sheep when food was in short supply. The leaves are also eaten by the caterpillars of the holly blue butterfly, along with those of various moths including the yellow-barred brindle, double-striped pug and the holly tortrix.
Holly is dioecious, meaning that male and female flowers occur on different trees. The white flowers bloom any time between early spring and the beginning of summer, depending on the climate. The flowers provide nectar and pollen for bees and other pollinating insects. Once pollinated, the female flowers develop into the familiar scarlet berries which can remain on the tree throughout winter.
An ancient history
Long before the Victorians introduced the firs that we now know as ‘Christmas trees’, holly provided the traditional decorative greenery of the season. In pre-Christian times evergreen leaves were placed at the entrance of a house and were thought to stop evil forces from entering. In the Roman festival of Saturnalia, holly branches were used to symbolise ‘good wishes’, while Christians saw them as a symbol of Christ’s ‘crown of thorns’.
Holly was also used extensively for hedging in gardens as it is both impenetrable and durable. Holly wood was used in joinery, the manufacture of mathematical instruments, wood engraving and veneering. When dyed black, it was sometimes used as a substitute for ebony on the handles of tea pots or in making whip handles and walking sticks.
Winter weather forecaster?
In folklore it was said that if holly trees were bursting with bright red berries during November then this was a sign of a hard winter to come. Of course, this actually depends on the insects being available to pollinate the flowers earlier in the year, and warmth in early autumn to help the berries ripen.
The last time the berries were particularly plump and abundant was in 2009 and the winter that followed was the coldest for 30 years, so perhaps only a true sceptic should discount the theory!
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Certified Master Chef exam returning to Schoolcraft College next week
The American Culinary Federation is bringing its Certified Master Chef exam back to the Livonia college.
Certified Master Chef exam returning to Schoolcraft College next week The American Culinary Federation is bringing its Certified Master Chef exam back to the Livonia college. Check out this story on HometownLife.com: https://www.hometownlife.com/story/life/food/2019/02/27/certified-master-chef-exam-returning-schoolcraft-college-next-week/2917816002/
David Veselenak, Hometownlife.com Published 8:44 a.m. ET Feb. 27, 2019
Watching the testing from the hall outside the kitchen in this 2017 file photo, Nicky Pullen is and alumna of Schoolcraft's culinary program, Kevin LaFave, a native of Westland now living in North Carolina, is a Schoolcraft culinary grad. He traveled back to Michigan to support Chef Shawn Loving. Taarika Singhal, of Canton, also watches. (Photo: Bill Bresler | hometownlife.com)
If you ever find yourself binging episodes of Iron Chef on a Saturday, Chef Brian Henson assures you you'll want to stop in at Schoolcraft College this upcoming week.
That's because the American Culinary Federation is bringing its Certified Master Chef exam back to the Livonia college to test some of the country's best chefs seeking their Certified Master Chef title, one of the most prestigious titles a chef can hold.
"This is like the real deal. You can stop by and you can see the real deal," said Henson, the chairman of the board for the Michigan Chefs de Cuisine Association and a Wixom resident. "You can see the real pressure, you can see the real judges. It's the real thing."
The exam, taking place March 1-10 in the kitchens of the VisTaTech Center, 18600 Haggerty, brings four chefs into town seeking the top certification. All four will test in several areas of the culinary arts. If they perform well, they'll join the 72 other chefs nationwide who have passed the test.
While not a competition between the chefs, each chef will be tested in several categories throughout the week. Chefs that pass each day will continue on throughout the week to determine if they meet the threshold.
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Members of the public are invited to watch the proceedings from the VisTaTech Center. Testing takes place each day next week beginning in the morning and wrapping in the afternoon.
The ability to host members of the public played a big factor in the ACF returning to Livonia for its testing, Henson said.
"The facility is outstanding," he said. "They have a kitchen setup there that's perfect for this kind of environment."
The four chefs testing at Schoolcraft include:
Tim Bucci, a member of the 2012 ACF Culinary Team USA who works as a culinary educator in Illinois;
Michael Matarazzo, the 2010 American Culinary Federation Chef of the year and first runner up representing the United States in the Global Chefs Challenge. Matarazzo is a New York native who works at a country club in Virginia;
William Rogers, the executive chef at a city club in Washington, D.C., who has won multiple medals in ACF culinary competitions;
Seth Shipley, the executive chef at a prominent Nashville country club who has earned multiple ACF Competition medals.
The exam returns to Schoolcraft College after it first came in 2017. There, Chef Shawn Loving, chairman of the college's culinary arts department, earned his Certified Master Chef credentials.
Loving, who has helped with some of the prep for the exam, said while he's happy he's not having to do the same kind of prep he did in 2017, he still feels and understands the pressure the four candidates will face.
Chef Shawn Loving earning his Certified Master Chef certification. (Photo: Bill Bresler | hometownlife.com)
"I'm very excited for the candidates. And have that same sort of feeling," he said. "I think that's embedded in you forever when you do it. I know what they have coming down the pipe."
In addition to seeing the competition, members of the public have the chance to dine on some fine foods from some of the areas executive chefs Monday night at Meadowbrook Country Club, 40941 Eight Mile in Northville. There, an event entitled "Dining with the Masters" will take place and feature chefs such as Mark Dixon from Meadowbrook Country Club, Rich King from the Birmingham Country Club, Daniel Vallone from Oakland Hills Country Club and more. Non-MCCA members are $20 and must buy tickets in advance. They are available on a first-come, first-serve basis at mccachef.org.
"We've blown this one up to include 300 people," Henson said. "We're going to have all the CMC evaluators there."
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If you're looking for a place to get away, look no further than Obernhof. Whether you're planning to stay for a night or for the week, the area around Obernhof has accommodations to fit every need. Search for hotels in Obernhof with Hotels.com by checking our online map. Our map displays the areas and neighborhoods around all Obernhof hotels so you can see how close you are from landmarks and attractions, and then refine your search within the larger area. The best Obernhof hotel deals are here with our lowest price guarantee.
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• Mainz (QFZ-Mainz Finthen), 27.4 mi (44.1 km) from central Obernhof
Things to See and Do in Obernhof
What is there to see near Obernhof:
• Limeskastell Pohl (4.8 mi/7.7 km from the city center)
• St. Lawrence's Church (7.8 mi/12.6 km from the city center)
• Great Market Square (8.1 mi/13 km from the city center)
• Neo-Gothic Town Hall (8.1 mi/13 km from the city center)
• Oranienstein Castle (8.2 mi/13.2 km from the city center)
What is there to do near Obernhof:
• Motorcycle Museum (7.5 mi/12 km from the city center)
• Westerwald Wildlife and Amusement Park (2.8 mi/4.4 km from the city center)
When is the best time to visit Obernhof?
• Rainiest months: July, August, June, and May (average 3.44 inches of rainfall)
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ZDNet – ‘Complicated’ SharePoint loses out to Igloo for Children’s Hospital Foundation intranet
Eileen Brown, social media consultant and writer for ZDNet recently covers why Children’s Hospital Foundation selected Igloo Software to power their corporate intranet.
An Enterprise solution like Microsoft’s SharePoint is easy to install. Easy that is, if you prepare your infrastructure appropriately. You need to prepare your administrative, domain and service accounts, set the SQL Server agent service account and configure the setup user account.
You then need to configure the SQL Server instances to listen on the correct port, configure the firewall and performance tune your Windows Server.
Finally you start the installation itself. You need to decide whether you want to install SharePoint in a stand alone server configuration or a server farm. You need to consider whether you want to set up application pools of web application collaboration sites, community or team sites.
You need to add apps for extra functionality. You can build apps for SharePoint itself, or if you prefer, go to the App Catalog or online store to install apps on the system.
Your IT team needs to have developer knowledge, infrastructure knowledge and web developer knowledge for a really effective deployment.
They also need to have time to go through over 600 pages of the SharePoint 2013 Deployment guide before they start to proceed.
There is a lot to do.
The problem is, most small and medium sized businesses do not have access to these types of resources.
The Children’s Hospital Foundation in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area is one such business.
It wanted something that went beyond e-mail and a difficult to manage shared drive to enable its users to collaborate with each other.
Children’s Hospital Foundation (the fundraising division of Children’s National Medical Center CNMC) has served the nation’s children as a provider of paediatric care for over 140 years.
It has an ‘aggressive philanthropy goal’ to double philanthropy from $45 to $90 million in the next five years. Currently its 127 employees, interns and consultants relied heavily on e-mail, meetings, and pen and paper.
Management had a vision for the intranet to not just be a place to store files, but to facilitate collaboration, foster innovation, and breakdown silos. Another critical factor for the foundation was ease of use, including the capacity for single sign-on.
Applications used included Wufoo’s online form builder, Logi Analytics as a dashboard client, Google Apps, Google Analytics, TeamGantt and MerlinOne.
Whilst the CNMC intranet was based on SharePoint, the foundation found that it did not meet the foundation’s requirements.
“We would never have the devoted, specialized team that a SharePoint installation requires, nor would we get buy-in from staff with such a complicated tool”.
~ Ken Fonzi, Children’s Hospital Foundation
Although SharePoint was considered as an option, the foundation also evaluated Igloo, Yammer, Box and Noodle.
Microsoft Sharepoint is a platform but it is often deployed by companies that expect an application. It is also considered complex to manage effectively without specialised skills.
Ken Fonzi, Associate Director of online Information systems said that the “complicated giant” would require a “devoted, specialized team” if they were to install it.
‘One of the key requirements was that the intranet needed to have a strong brand identity, in look, feel and functionality’ said Fonzi.
Yammer, Box and Noodle were discounted early on in the evaluation and planning process. The foundation felt that the layout was too ‘templated’ with little opportunity to customise with CSS,HTML or Javascript.
The foundation chose Igloo software citing that Igloo gave the foundation an information portal where employees can access all of the different applications used at the foundation. Igloo integrated with the online tools the foundation used – serving as a hub to collaborate.
“I think it is important to define the “what’s in it for me?” for each user. You need to find and articulate the practical business reasons for using the new platform – workers won’t use it just to be social”. said Fonzi.
Intranet deployments need to be carefully considered as we move towards the social business, but with many companies sometimes the all-singing, all-dancing solution does not give them everything they want.
Learning how the users actually will use the proposed system is something that often matters the most.
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History and Spirit
The Understanding of Scripture According to Origen
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Origen (185-ca. 254), one of the most prolific and influential of the early Church Fathers, is best known to us for his Scripture exegesis. Henri de Lubac's History and Spirit is a landmark study of Origen's understanding of Scripture and his exegetical methods. In exploring Origen's efforts to interpret the four different senses of Scripture, de Lubac leads the reader through an immense and varied work to its center: Christ the Word.
As Hans Urs von Balthasar said in discussing this seminal work: "The theory of the senses of Scripture is not a curiosity of the history of theology but an instrument for seeking out the most profound articulations of salvation history..." (From the book The Theology of Henri de Lubac.)
What the reader finds on this journey is not only, then, a fascinating view of the mind and spirit of an important Father of the Church, but an essential key to a more profound understanding of the way in which Christ speaks to us through Scripture.
Henri De Lubac
Henri de Lubac, S. J., was considered as one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century. Together with the works of other towering modern theologians (and friends) Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) and Hans Urs von Balthasar, the writings of de Lubac stand out as crucial to twentieth-century Catholicism. Among his other famous books are Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man, The Splendor of the Church, The Christian Faith, The Drama of Atheist Humanism, and The Motherhood of the Church.
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The Holy Spirit, Fire of Divine Love
By: Fr. Wilfrid Stinissen
Product Code: HSFDLP
Acclaimed spiritual writer Fr. Wilfrid Stinissen presents insightful reflections on the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Holy Trinity, emphasizing the importance of the Spirit in the life of a Christian. He illustrates that the Holy Spirit desires to live in us so that we can love God and others with God's own love. As the Holy Spirit descended upon the early Church at Pentecost to set the world ablaze with the fire of divine love, so He wants to do with us.
God, who is One, also desires the Church to be one, Fr. Stinissen writes. The Lord wants to unify all Christians in one holy Church, and all people in one body. The Holy Spirit is the great unifier, he says, for it is he who makes the Father and the Son one God. If Christians let him live within them, they will grow in unity.
Fr. Wilfrid Stinissen
Fr. Wilfrid Stinissen, O.C.D., was born in Antwerp, Belgium, where he entered the Carmelite Order in 1944. He was sent to Sweden in 1967 to co-found a small contemplative community. His many books on the spiritual life have been translated into multiple languages. Among his works available in English are Into Your Hands, Father and The Holy Spirit, Fire of Divine Love.
"Fr. Stinissen masterfully illustrates how the Holy Spirit helps us with discerning and following God's will, constructs bridges of reconciliation, and builds up the Body of Christ. His powerful reflections invite the reader to experience deeper intimacy with the Lord."
— Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, Author, Behold the Man
p>"From the theoretical to the practical, from Scripture and Sacred Tradition to the lives of the saints, this book comes as close as possible to explaining the Holy Spirit in all his mystery and ministries."
— Steven Ray, Author, Crossing the Tiber
p>"Fr. Stinissen's writing is profound enough for theologians, yet accessible enough for anyone seeking a fuller and more meaningful life. This is an important, inspiring, and timely book."
— Vinny Flynn, Author, 7 Secrets of Divine Mercy
"We believe in the Holy Spirit, but how well do we know him? In language both simple and profound, Fr. Stinissen gives us a truly delightful and spiritually enriching book."
— Fr.Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life
p>"Fr. Stinissen offers us the kind of deep wisdom we would expect from our own personal spiritual director."
— Fr. Gary Lauenstein, C.Ss.R., Author, The Heart of Holiness
The 'One Thing' Is Three
The Spirit of the Liturgy -- Commemorative Edition
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Foreword by: Cardinal Robert Sarah
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Eternity in the Midst of Time
Mercy's Gaze
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By: Jean-Pierre De Caussade S.J.
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Clayhall murder: More than 100 residents attend street meeting with police to discuss neighbourhood safety
Matthew Clemenson
Senior Metropolitan Police officers and Cllr Jas Athwal, leader of Redbridge Council, joined residents at a street meeting on Wednesday night.
More than 100 residents met with senior police and Redbridge Council officials last night to express their fears after a teenager was murdered during a fight in a Clayhall street.
Clayhall resident Khalid Sharif organised the emergency meeting, which took place outside Owen Waters House on Wednesday, November 20, just yards away from where 19-year-old Mohammed Usman Mirza was stabbed to death the night before.
Khalid wanted to try to give residents a stronger voice in the wake of the teen's murder, and in his rallying call to others pledged to "keep meeting until something is done".
After the meeting, he told the Recorder: "I honestly didn't expect so many people to come - I thought maybe there would be 10.
"The fact we had more than 100 just shows how strongly this community feels that something needs to be done.
"There is a real frustration here that it has taken something as awful as this for people to come and listen to us."
Khalid was quick to point out that, first and foremost, the group had wanted to pay its respects to Mohammed, who was pronounced dead at 10.53pm on Tuesday after police and paramedics battled for more than 30 minutes to save his life after he suffered multiple stab wounds.
He added: "People are really scared that this was able to happen. This was just a kid. It could have been any one of our kids.
"If there is one positive to come out of his tragic death it's that all of a sudden we have neighbours who have lived here for years coming out and meeting and talking to each other.
"I'm really glad the police were there to speak with us, and that councillors came too.
"We're all agreed that something needs to change, and that it needs to change soon."
One of the concerns Khalid raised was a lack of proper CCTV in the area - highlighting the fact that a bike shed created a blindspot which had become a regular venue for anti-social behaviour.
The meeting was attended by senior police officers and Fullwell ward councillors Cllr Sadiq Kothia and Cllr Sham Islam.
The leader of Redbridge Council, Cllr Jas Athwal, was also there, and spoke to onlookers.
Speaking after the meeting, Cllr Athwal told the Recorder: "It was tragic circumstances to have to come together as a community, and you could see the fear and the hurt in residents' eyes.
"I had to say to everyone there 'now is not the time to discuss what we do next' because everything is still so raw. This is a time for reflection and to remember the young man who has tragically lost his life.
"But we are going to have a meeting with senior police officers, senior council officers and myself to try and work out what we can do to try and make things better for our residents.
"I am hoping we can pull that together and have that meeting in the next three weeks or so and that we can get something done."
Mohammed's next of kin have been informed and a post-mortem examination will be scheduled in due course.
At this early stage in the murder investigation no arrests have been made.
Anyone with information, pictures or video footage that could assist police is asked to call 101 quoting CAD 9907/19 Nov, Tweet @MetCC or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
If there are any young people who either have information about violence or knife crime, they can visit fearless.org where they can pass on information anonymously.
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How to Turn Off Tab Previews in Microsoft Edge
Walter Glenn @wjglenn
August 17, 2016, 11:23am EDT
Now that it has extension support, Microsoft Edge is becoming a more and more viable browser. One feature people seem to either love or hate is the pop-up preview you get when you hover over a tab. There’s no built-in setting that lets you turn tab previews off, but you can do it with a simple Registry hack.
RELATED: How to Install Extensions in Microsoft Edge
Turn Off Tab Previews by Editing the Registry Manually
To turn off tab previews in Edge, you just need to make an adjustment to one setting in the Windows Registry.
RELATED: Learning to Use the Registry Editor Like a Pro
Standard warning: Registry Editor is a powerful tool and misusing it can render your system unstable or even inoperable. This is a pretty simple hack and as long as you stick to the instructions, you shouldn’t have any problems. That said, if you’ve never worked with it before, consider reading about how to use the Registry Editor before you get started. And definitely back up the Registry (and your computer!) before making changes.
Open the Registry Editor by hitting Start and typing “regedit.” Press Enter to open Registry Editor and give it permission to make changes to your PC.
In the Registry Editor, use the left sidebar to navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\MicrosoftEdge\TabbedBrowsing
Next, you’re going to create and name a new value inside the TabbedBrowsing key. Right-click the TabbedBrowsing folder and choose New > DWORD (32-bit) Value. Name the new value TabPeekEnabled and then double-click the value to open its properties window.
In the value’s properties window, enter 0 in the “Value data” box and then click OK.
Tab previews should now be disabled in Microsoft Edge, though if you had the browser open while doing this you’ll need to exit and restart Edge. If you ever want to turn tab previews back on, just return to the TabbedBrowsing key and set the TabPeekEnabled value to 1.
Download Our One-Click Hack
If you don’t feel like diving into the Registry yourself, we’ve created some a couple of registry hacks you can use. The “Turn Off Tab Previews in Edge” hack creates the TabPeekEnabled value and sets it to 0. The “Turn On Tab Previews in Edge (Default)” hack sets the TabPeekEnabled value to 1, its default setting. Both hacks are included in the following ZIP file. Double-click the one you want to use and click through the prompts. When you’ve applied the hack you want, the changes will take place immediately. If you had Microsoft Edge open when you applied the hack, you’ll have to exit and restart it.
Tab Preview in Edge Hacks
RELATED: How to Make Your Own Windows Registry Hacks
These hacks are really just the TabbedBrowsing key, stripped down to the TabPeekEnabled value we talked about in the previous section and then exported to a .REG file. Running either of the enable sets that value to the appropriate number. And if you enjoy fiddling with the Registry, it’s worth taking the time to learn how to make your own Registry hacks.
Love them or hate them, tab previews are not so hard to turn off and on in Microsoft Edge if you’re willing to make a mild Registry edit. And it super easy to toggle the setting if you use our one-click hacks.
Walter Glenn
Walter Glenn is the Editorial Director for How-To Geek and its sister sites. He has more than 30 years of experience in the computer industry and over 20 years as a technical writer and editor. He's written hundreds of articles for How-To Geek and edited thousands. He's authored or co-authored over 30 computer-related books in more than a dozen languages for publishers like Microsoft Press, O'Reilly, and Osborne/McGraw-Hill. He's also written hundreds of white papers, articles, user manuals, and courseware over the years.
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How to Enable and Use the Virtual Touchpad on Windows 10
Chris Hoffman @chrisbhoffman
Updated July 12, 2017, 10:44pm EDT
Windows 10’s Creators Update added a new virtual touchpad that works like the touch keyboard. You can use this touchpad to control the mouse cursor on a device with a touch screen.
To enable the virtual touchpad, either long-press or right-click the taskbar and select “Show touchpad button”. This option isn’t available on devices without a touch screen.
You’ll see a new touchpad icon on your taskbar, near the touch keyboard button. Tap or click it to open or close the virtual touchpad.
To use the virtual touchpad, just place your finger on the touchpad on your touch screen and move it around like you would on a normal touchpad. The mouse cursor will move around the screen as you move your finger.
You can move the virtual touchpad window wherever you like on your screen. Just touch the title bar of the window and move your finger to move the window.
The virtual touchpad works exactly like a physical touchpad. You can left-click or right-click by tapping the left or right mouse buttons at the bottom of the window, but you can also perform a single-finger tap to left-click or a two-finger tap to right-click.
More advanced actions work, too. Place three fingers on the virtual touchpad and swipe them upwards to open the Task View interface for switching windows, for example. Place three fingers on the touchpad and swipe downwards to show your desktop.
RELATED: How to Use and Configure Windows 10's Gestures on a Laptop Touchpad
You can configure the virtual touchpad’s settings from the standard Settings > Devices > Touchpad screen.
For example, to change the cursor’s speed, adjust the “Change the cursor speed” slider here. It will adjust the cursor speed on both the virtual touchpad and any physical touchpads the system may have.
The standard tap and swipe touchpad actions you can view and configure here will also work exactly the same on both a virtual touchpad or physical touchpad.
Chris Hoffman
Chris Hoffman is Editor in Chief of How-To Geek. He's written about technology for nearly a decade and was a PCWorld columnist for two years. Chris has written for The New York Times, been interviewed as a technology expert on TV stations like Miami's NBC 6, and had his work covered by news outlets like the BBC. Since 2011, Chris has written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than 500 million times---and that's just here at How-To Geek.
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KUNDUZ AND OTHER PROVINCES
Human Rights Watch researchers did not visit Kunduz province, but interviewed some Pashtuns displaced from Kunduz province on the problems faced by Pashtuns there. In addition, Human Rights Watch has received detailed information from a variety of sources that similar abuses against Pashtuns are also taking place in a number of other provinces, including Herat, Badghis, Sar-i Pul, Jawzjan, and Takhar provinces.
M.A., a fifty-two-year-old farmer from Haji Ghudamdar Shinwari village in the Dasht-e Archi region of Kunduz, fled his home after enduring fifteen days of looting. He told Human Rights Watch: "Some armed people entered my compound and looted my mattresses, five cows, and ten to fifteen sheep and goats.... The men belonged to Commander S., and other commanders from Rostok and Chayab [regions]. They are controlled by Jamiat."188 He estimated that out of the original 300 Pashtun families living in the village, only about twenty remained there now. Nearly forty Pashtun families from the same area were living in his displaced persons camp on the outskirts of Baghlan city.
P.M., aged thirty, fled in early February 2002, from another village in the Dasht-e Archi area called Idgah Masjid. Just prior to fleeing the village, P.M. had been beaten unconscious by ethnic Uzbek soldiers loyal to Jamiat, and his wife had been raped:
Commander Qari Amin's men, Uzbeks belonging to Jamiat, came to our village about three to four weeks ago. His men were from neighboring villages. It was noon and I was in my compound. Five men entered and beat me. They tied my hands behind my back. They hit me with their weapons, and hit me in the face with my fists. They hit me on the back with the butts of their rifles. They beat me for about thirty minutes. Then I lost consciousness. When I came to, I found myself inside my room. I had been carried there from the courtyard by my wife.
[During the raid], my children were scared and ran. My wife had been raped. It happened to the women of all the villagers.
The men stole about 200,000 Afghanis [about U.S. $9], three kilims, and took jewelry and women's clothing. They beat people and looted in all of the homes in the village.189
P.M.'s wife took him to the hospital after his beating, and had to sell his donkey to pay for the medication. Then, he left for a displaced persons camp on the outskirts of Baghlan city. He said Uzbeks had taken over his village: "Uzbek people have taken our places, have taken our houses. They are living there now."190
In addition to the eyewitness accounts gathered by Human Rights Watch from Balkh, Faryab, Baghlan, Samangan, and Kunduz provinces, a variety of confidential sources and newspaper accounts suggest that similar abuses are taking place in other provinces in northern Afghanistan, including Herat, Badghis, Sar-i Pul, Jawzjan, and Takhar. Although these reports require further investigation to establish the scope and nature of the abuses, they indicate that abuses against ethnic Pashtuns may be occurring throughout northern Afghanistan.
On March 21, 2002, a group of some sixty Pashtun elders from Herat and Badghis provinces traveled to Kandahar province to appeal for international help to stop abuses against Pashtun communities there. Haji Abdul Hameed, a Pashtun elder from Badghis province, told a journalist: "They took our people to prison. They killed our people. They looted our homes and livestock."191
An international assessment team found significant displacement of rural Pashtun villagers to larger urban centers in Sar-i Pul province in January 2002. In Sar-i Pul city, Pashtun displaced persons had been forced to leave a major IDP camp by other ethnic groups. The displaced Pashtuns, mostly from Sozma Qala district, claimed that their communities had been raided by armed groups. Pashtun families had also fled from Sayeed Abad in Sar-i Pul, fleeing similar abuses. At least one Pashtun man had died in the custody of a local commander in Sar-i Pul city, according to confidential sources. The displaced populations from both Sozma Qala and Sayeed Abad claimed that the abuses had been carried out by ethnic Arab Afghans (a community which has lived in Afghanistan for hundreds of years) who had seized power in Sar-i Pul province. 192
Sayed Mohammad, a resident of Farkhar district in Takhar province, told a reporter of the Institute of War and Peace Reporting: "We were driven out of our houses and told by commanders there was no place in the district for us to live."193 Confidential sources estimate that over a thousand Pashtun families have been displaced from Farkhar district because of looting and threats of violence by Jamiat forces. The displaced families claimed that local Tajik Jamiat commanders had engaged in a campaign of expulsion of Pashtun villagers whom they believed had provided support for the Taliban, and that most of the property of the Pashtun communities had been confiscated by Jamiat troops and neighboring armed Tajik communities.194 A spokesperson for the U.N. high commissioner for refugees confirmed that residents of Farkhar province are among new refugees arriving in Pakistan, and that a significant number of the new refugees claim to be fleeing attacks against Pashtuns in northern Afghanistan.195
Confidential sources also report that nomadic Pashtuns in Jawzjan province have faced serious problems. Nomadic Pashtuns claim that thousands of their sheep have been taken, and that seventeen of their elders are being held in detention in Shiberghan.196 Armed groups have also raided Pashtun nomadic sheep herders in the Dasht-i Laili desert, located between Jawzjan and Faryab provinces, stealing many herds of sheep and beating some of the herders.197
188 Human Rights Watch interview with M.A., aged fifty-two, Charshembe Tepa camp, March 1, 2002.
189 Human Rights Watch interview with P.M., aged thirty, Charshembe IDP camp, March 1, 2002.
190 Ibid.
191 "Pashtun Elders From Northwest Tell of Persecution, Appeal for UN Help," Associated Press, March 22, 2002.
192 Confidential information on file at Human Rights Watch.
193 Abdul Zarmalwal, "Afghanistan: Kabul Officials `Play Down' Pashtun Atrocities," IWPR's Reporting Central Asia, No. 110, March 26, 2002.
195 Louis Meixler, "Thousands of Ethnic Pashtuns Fleeing Northern Afghanistan," Associated Press, February 21, 2002.
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It is a programme of work which builds on the existing child health programme, strengthening a cohesive, integrated child health and wellbeing service for children aged 0-2 years and their families. The aim of the programme is to support parents and healthcare professionals in their caring and service provisions to give each baby the best start in life - we want to make every contact count. You can find further background information at www.hse.ie/nurtureprogramme
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Develop a new parenting and child health website, for parents and for healthcare staff. This will be the trusted source for all health and wellbeing information that parents, and health care professionals, need.
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HTML Goodies: Script Tip: Week 92
By Joe Burns
Scripper...
This script amazed me the first time I saw it. I was very impressed with not only the roll overs but the full tables that popped up. The author, Peter C. Trenholme used the effect on his online resume. You'll notice the example is made up of his programming expertise.
So, take a look, smile at how impressive it is, and then come back to see how it all gets put together.
The Script's Effect
Here's the Code
The script is in a format that is hard to display in HTML, I have set the script to display using <XMP> tags. If the script renders rather than displaying, look at the source code.
Like all other very large scripts, there's no easy way to attack it. This script has HTML in it. That's where I usually start, but since the HTML is rendered by the script, we'll simply start from the very top and get some variable names out of the way:
Titles=[ "General Programming",
"Testing",
"Windows",
"Assembly",
"Data Base",
"Statistical",
"Graphical",
"Text",
"Spreadsheet",
"Command"];
var nCols = 4;
var bgColor = "Yellow";
var fgColor = "Black";
We begin with an array of titles. The author didn't feel the need to hand number each element because they will be called on later by a loop. JavaScript has numbered them already, so it'll just stay that way. Note that each is a text string (the double quotes) and separated by a comma.
The variable "nCols" represents the number of columns in the pop up tables. (But there are only three displaying! - Just wait.)
The variables "bgColor" sets the background of the pop up tables and "fgColor" sets the color of the text that appears in the pop up table.
I need to keep the next blip of code in the same format as the code shows. It won't be red because I'm using the <XMP> flags to display it:
Text = new Array(10); // // Language Years Last Used Bold // ----------- ----- --------- ---- Text[0] = new Array( "C", 13, "Current", 1, "C++", 5, "Current", 1, "FORTRAN", 30, 1986, 1, "BASIC", 20, 1987, 1, "PROLOG", 1, 1990, 1, "ADA", 1/2, 1985, 0, "LISP", 2, 1975, 0, "PL/1", 1, 1978, 0, "APL", 2, 1971, 0, "COBOL", 1/4, 1967, 0);
A new array is starting. The array will be named "Text" and there will be ten elements to it. What you are looking at here is element number one. Remember that JavaScript starts counting at zero, so this is number one.
The array is a series of lines, each themselves broken into four parts. Notice there are ten lines in the first array element. Each of those lines has four elements, the name of the programming language, how many years the author has known the language, last time he used it, and then if he wants the line bolded or not.
Later on, you'll understand that the number one means bold.
Now do you see why "nCols" reads four, but three display? One is only there to set the text to bold.
That format is followed again and again through the next nine array elements. The number of lines may vary, but the four elements in each line stay the same throughout.
Note the text must be contained within quotes or JavaScript will see it as a command. The numbers can sit just as you see them. Yes, you could put them in quotes, but there's no need.
There are two very small functions that will call up and then lose the pop-up tables. They look like this:
function eShow(name)
document.all(name).style.display = "inline";
function eHide(name)
document.all(name).style.display = "none";
The first, eShow(name) is triggered when the mouse passes over the blue link. The effect is that "name" (which will become "Titles" next week) is to display inline. in plain English, it'll show up.
The second function, eHide(name), does the same thing except it sets the display to "none". That loses the table.
OK, we know all the part, next week we'll build the table that first displays on the page. You'll also learn how the number one sets text to bold.
Next Week: Build the Table!
Do YOU have a Script Tip you'd like to share? How about suggesting a Script Tip to write about? I'd love to hear it. Write me at: jburns@htmlgoodies.com.
Learn to write your own JavaScripts with the HTML Goodies 30-Step Primer Series
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IEnova and Chevron sign contract for refined fuels terminal in Mexico
Hydrocarbon Engineering, Friday, 14 September 2018 09:00
Sempra Energy has announced that its Mexican subsidiary, Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.B. de C.V. (IEnova), has signed a long-term contract with Chevron Combustibles de México S. de R.L. de C.V. (Chevron) for 50% of the initial capacity of the Topolobampo refined fuels marine terminal in Sinaloa, Mexico.
Under the agreement, subsidiaries of Chevron will have storage capacity of 500 000 bbls of refined fuels and the option to acquire up to 25% of the equity in the terminal after commercial operations begin.
IEnova signed a separate long-term contract for the remaining half of the facility's initial storage capacity with another US large independent refiner that will be announced at a later date.
The Chevron contract for the Topolobampo terminal is the second announced by IEnova this week. On Tuesday, IEnova announced that British Petroleum would use 50% of the 1 million bbls initial capacity of the refined fuels Baja Refinados terminal to be constructed in Baja California.
Earlier this year, IEnova signed an agreement with Chevron to utilise the other 50% initial capacity of the Baja Refinados facility.
IEnova will be responsible for financing, obtaining permits, engineering, procurement and construction, as well as maintenance and operations. Operations of the Topolobampo facility are expected to commence in 4Q20.
Sempra Energy announced in August that it formed a new operating group, Sempra North American Infrastructure. The new group's operations include IEnova, as well as Sempra LNG & Midstream development and marketing activities.
Read the article online at: https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/tanks-terminals/14092018/ienova-and-chevron-sign-contract-for-refined-fuels-terminal-in-mexico/
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Investigating the glassy to rubbery transition of polydextrose and corn flakes using automatic water vapor sorption instruments, DSC, and texture analysis
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Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Li, Qingruisi
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Title: Investigating the glassy to rubbery transition of polydextrose and corn flakes using automatic water vapor sorption instruments, DSC, and texture analysis
Author(s): Li, Qingruisi
Advisor(s): Schmidt, Shelly J.
Department / Program: Food Science & Human Nutrition
Discipline: Food Science & Human Nutrition
Degree Granting Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree: M.S.
Subject(s): critical relative humidity
glass transition temperature
dynamic vapor sorption (DVS)
Abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate the usefulness of automated sorption isotherm methods for determining the glassy to rubbery transition in a model amorphous food material, polydextrose. The automated sorption isotherms were obtained from 20 to 40°C at 5°C intervals using dynamic vapor sorption (DVS). The DVS ramping isotherm was obtained at a linearly increasing relative humidity (RH), 2%RH/hr, from 10 to 85%RH. The DVS equilibrium isotherm was obtained at twelve RH values using a dm/dt criterion of 0.0005%. The traditional saturated salt slurry isotherm was obtained at 25°C using ten saturated salt slurries, with RH values ranging from 11.3 to 84.3%. The RHc was defined as the %RH that exhibited the fastest change in slope determined by the maximum of the second derivative of the isotherm curve. The RHc and temperature values were plotted in a state diagram and compared to the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) glass transition temperature (Tg) values. As predicted from theory, RHc values decreased as temperature increased. As plotted on the state diagram, the RHc values were similar to the DSC Tg values. At the same temperature, the RHc order for the isotherms was traditional < DVS equilibrium < DVS ramping, with the RHc values depending on the time the material was exposed to the different RH conditions. Since the automated sorption isotherm methods showed promise for being a practical tool to determine the location of the glassy to rubbery transition for polydextrose, the model was applied to a complex amorphous food system, corn flakes. In addition, textural analysis was conducted in order to relate the mechanical properties of corn flakes to the glassy to rubbery transition results from the thermal method and the automated sorption isotherm methods. The results from corn flakes showed that the AquaSorp dynamic dewpoint (DDI) and DVS ramping isotherms represented the non-equilibrated isotherm whereas the DVS equilibrium and saturated salt slurry isotherms represented the equilibrated isotherm. The difference between the isotherms was most likely associated with the very dense laminated corn flake matrix and the time-dependent nature of the sorption process. The results from the textural analysis performed at ambient temperature (25°C) and the saturated salt slurry method were similar, indicating the glassy to rubbery transition for corn flakes at 25°C occurred at a relative humidity of 37.75±0.64%. The DVS equilibrium method coupled with textural analysis might be a useful tool to replace the traditional saturated salt slurry method to routinely determine the location of the glassy to rubbery transition for complex food systems.
Rights Information: Copyright 2010 Qingruisi Li
Date Available in IDEALS: 2010-08-20
Date Deposited: 2010-08
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois
Dissertations and Theses - Food Science and Human Nutrition
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Uday Deshpande
L&T Group of Companies
John Buzzard
CO-OP Financial Services
Incident Response: How to React to Payment Card Fraud
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Payment card fraud is one of the fastest-growing crimes, and fraudsters are constantly searching for new ways to gain illegal access to card data, whether in your hands or those of a third-party service provider.
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NBA Trade Rumors: Celtics Might Trade Up To Draft Mo Bamba, According To ‘Sporting News’
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With the NBA Finals currently ongoing, trade rumors regarding potential draft day transactions are beginning to swirl in earnest. One such rumor suggests that the Boston Celtics are planning to shore up their weakness at center by trading up for University of Texas center Mo Bamba.
Citing unnamed sources familiar with the situation, the Sporting News wrote that the Celtics are interested in Bamba, and had gone as far as interviewing him two weeks ago at the Chicago pre-draft combine. As a college freshman, the 6-foot-11, 225-pound Bamba averaged 12.9 points, 10.5 rebounds, and 3.7 blocks per game for Texas, according to Sports Reference. The Sporting News added that he is projected to be the “most [NBA-ready] rim protector” in the 2018 NBA Draft, thanks to his impressive 7-foot-10 wingspan.
As the Boston Celtics will be drafting 27th overall this year, the challenge, according to the Sporting News, would be trading up to the top six or so, where Mo Bamba is expected to be selected. With Arizona big man DeAndre Ayton and Slovenia’s Luka Doncic shaping up as likely top two draft picks, Bamba is projected to go as high as third-overall to the Atlanta Hawks, or as low as sixth to the Orlando Magic. The Vancouver Grizzlies and Dallas Mavericks, who are picking fourth and fifth respectively, are reportedly open to offers for those picks, and the Celtics, with their “multiple assets,” could theoretically swing a deal with either one of those teams.
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Given how well rookie forward Jayson Tatum played in the regular season, and how he turned things up in the playoffs with a team-leading 18.5 points per game, the third-overall pick in last year’s NBA Draft is almost sure to stay in Boston, the Sporting News speculated. And while not a trade rumor, per se, the publication hinted that things are “less certain” with guard/forward Jaylen Brown and point guard Terry Rozier, the latter of whom averaged 16.5 points, 5.7 assists, and 5.3 rebounds in the playoffs while filling in for the injured Kyrie Irving.
As Brown and Rozier are expected to see less playing time when Irving and small forward Gordon Hayward, who missed all but the first five minutes of the 2017-18 season due to injury, return, that could mean a trade featuring one or both of them is possible, despite their fan favorite status.
According to the Sporting News, Brown would be the more desirable of the two in a theoretical trade-up for Mo Bamba, as the Grizzlies and the Mavericks already have Mike Conley and Dennis Smith, Jr., respectively, as their starting point guards. With the Celtics strong at all positions except center, this could also mean Boston gives up this year’s 27th overall pick, and at least one potentially high selection in the 2019 draft, based on the publication’s proposed scenario.
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Long Line Of Presidential Candidates Trying To Emerge In Caucus-State Iowa
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Montana Gov. Steve Bullock speaks to a Des Moines Register political soapbox audience at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 8, 2019.
Former Vice President Joe Biden drew more people but Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, a presumptive long-shot in a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, still was able to rouse Democrats and generally curious Iowans who heard both men speak at the Iowa State Fair Thursday.
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Democratic presidential candidate Steve Bullock casts a kernel ballot in the WHO straw poll at the Iowa State Fair on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019.
Such is the landscape in Iowa, the state with the nation’s first precinct caucuses that start gauging real delegate support for selecting a party’s 2020 presidential nominee: first-time national candidates, in this case seeing an opportunity to defeat a controversial Republican president in Donald Trump, vie with national figures more familiar to voters to gain support for higher office. Iowa gets them all before the winnowing process begins.
Bullock told fairgoers the election must be about more than defeating Trump. “Look, I’m a pro-choice, pro-union, populist Democrat that won three eletions in a red state, not by compromising our values but by getting stuff done,” he said.
Bullock and Biden kicked off the fair’s election season political soapbox, a Des Moines Register-sponsored feature that gives candidates time to make stump speeches at the fair’s main concourse. The fair started Thursday.
Biden, the summer 2019 opinion poll leader – for what that’s worth at this point in time in the nomination race for the November 2020 election — hit common themes for him and the other Democratic candidates: preserve and improve the Affordable Care Act, support wages that reward workers, give more federal dollars to public education, enact controls on purchasing assault weapons and background checks for gun purchases, and repeal tax cuts enacted by the Republican-controlled Congress after Trump became president.
Photographers and reporters crowd around Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as Biden meets with audience members at the Iowa State Fair on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019.
“We can afford to change this if we can get rid of that god-awful tax cut that was passed,” Biden said when talking about having a strong economy that rewards workers.
The stakes are high for each of the more than 20 Democrats seeking the party’s nomination because voters have plenty of time to weigh whom they will support when caucusing the night of Feb. 3, 2020. That is when party members gather in voting precincts to select delegates to county conventions in a nominating process that has the delegates supporting a particular presidential candidate.
Mary Madsen of Sioux City said she was 75 percent sure she would support Joe Biden for president in 2020 but wanted to reserve final judgment for a few months.
“I’m going to leave myself open for the next few months,” Mary Madsen, 63, of Sioux City, said. Madsen said she is 75 percent sure she’ll support Biden but wants to hear more.
“I’m listening for someone who can stand up against Trump. I’m listening for someone that looks presidential, for someone that sounds presidential,” she said.
Tony Broeker cautioned Democrats against putting all of their hopes into opposing Trump. Broeker, 47, of Burlington, voted for Trump in 2016 but said he is keeping open, for now, his support in 2020. He said he is weighing the Democratic candidates against whether or not they measure up to Trump.
“The Democrats, themselves, they need to not worry about the Trump thing, like he (Bullock) said,” Broeker said after Bullock’s stump speech. “Don’t chase Trump because, if you chase Trump, you’re going to fall into the same trap that they did last election.”
Tony Broeker, Burlington, supported Donald Trump in 2016 but is checking the field for 2020.
While Bullock touted having a public option for health care, affordable college, fair wages and supporting a woman’s right to chose an abortion, he had choice words for what Democrats see as a political opportunity: talking about Trump’s controversial and combative Twitter messages, bombastic attacks on opponents and sometimes allies, and Trump’s frequent efforts to focus on himself.
“We expect more out of our preschoolers now than we do the president of the United States,” Bullock told the Des Moines audience.
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Bullock also criticized Trump and Republicans for being unwilling to enact legislation that he said would lessen the influence of dark money– funds that are hard to trace to the donors who seek to influence public policy secretly — in political campaigns. “We’ve got to change the money in our system,” he said.
He said any of the Democrats can guarantee winning party strongholds California, Massachusetts and Minnesota but that he also could deliver Montana, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, states that went for Trump in the 2016 Electoral College. Noting his underdog status in the nomination race, he urged voters to place him in the top three of their choices for the caucuses.
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock makes a point at the Des Moines Register political soapbox on Aug. 8, 2019, at the Iowa State Fair.
Here is what Bullock faces: He got less than 1 percent of support from those questioned in the most recent Des Moines Register/Mediacom/CNN Iowa Poll reported in June. Biden led the field with 24 percent support, that poll showed. The poll was conducted June 2-5 with 600 likely 2020
Democratic caucus participants and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Bullock had raised $2.1 million and spent $581,000 as of June 30, Federal Elections Commission statistics show. That’s a far cry from the $22 million raised this year by Biden, who had spent $11.1 million this year through June 30. Bernie Sanders leads the Democratic candidates in money raised and spent so far this year: $46.4 million raised and $23.7 million spent as of June 30, FEC records show.
Donald Trump’s campaign had raised $56.8 million this year out of the $124.4 million his campaign has raised overall. It had spent $19.4 million in 2019 — $75.2 million overall since he announced the start of his campaign in January 2017 upon taking office.
Bullock is not alone in the underdog role. Plenty in the crowded field face the tough reality of early opinion polling showing them with scant support and raising relatively little money to compete with heavier hitters. Democrats Seth Moulton, Bill De Blasio, Timothy Ryan, Henry Hewes, Hart Cunningham and Maurice Gravel all had raised less than Bullock as of June 30. So had Trump’s Republican challengers William Weld and Joe Collins III, FEC records show.
Democrats Eric Swalwell, Marianne Williamson, John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet were less than $1 million ahead of Bullock in funds raised, FEC data show.
National media were at the first day of the Des Moines Register political soapbox at the Iowa State Fair on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019.
During Thursday’s soapbox event, Biden renewed his theme of being in a fight for the country’s soul. He said he also is running for president to unite the country and push for policy that, he said, restore the middle class as the country’s backbone.
“The idea that we don’t reward work as much as wealth is bizarre,” he said. “The middle class built this country. Wall Street didn’t build this country.” [Ed. Note: This quote was typed incorrectly in an earlier version. It was corrected 8/9/19.]
That kind of talk appeals to people like Mazie Stilwell, 28, of Des Moines. Stilwell, communications specialist with Council 61 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), said she was interested in issues that connect with workers. “He does a good job of connecting to working people,” she said about Biden, “and talking about those issues.”
Other candidates are to speak at the fair through Aug. 17. One scheduled candidate, Beto O’Rourke of Texas, canceled his scheduled appearance Friday because of the mass murders in El Paso over the weekend. O’Rourke formerly represented El Paso in Congress. President Trump is not scheduled to appear at the fair. Weld and Collins are.
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Distraught Husband Looking For Answers At Wife’s Inquest
The heartbroken husband of a mum-of-two who died after complications during a routine operation to remove her gallbladder is hoping an inquest into her death provides him with answers as to why he’s been left without a wife after 48 years of marriage.
Patricia Franks, from Burntwood in Staffordshire, died on 9th February 2011 aged 67 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, following a routine procedure to remove her gallbladder at Good Hope Hospital two days earlier. The inquest takes place on 12-15 March at Birmingham Coroner’s Court.
The family were told she suffered complications during the surgery and her husband John, 69, and their two grown up children Lesley, 48, and Lynne, 45, hope to discover why this happened.
Speaking on behalf of Mr Franks, before the inquest, Medical Law and Patient Rights Expert Lindsay Gibb from Irwin Mitchell’s Birmingham office, said: “Mr Franks understandably wants answers as to why his wife died.
“He has concerns after being told of complications during his wife’s surgery and wants to know why these happened during an operation which he was led to believe would be straight forward.
“Though nothing can bring Patricia back, the family cannot begin to move on until it is clear exactly what happened during surgery and in Patricia’s after care and we hope the inquest will go some way towards obtaining the answers they need.”
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DOME CD 306
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Wednesday, 14th July, 2010 (United Kingdom)
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01. Lowdown
02. Everything That We Are
04. Your Sun My Sky
05. Line In The Sand
06. Gotta
07. Let's Fall In Love Again
08. The Song
09. Put A Little Lovin' In Your Heart
10. All Of My Life
11. Expresso Madureira
12. Life Ain't Nothing But A Good Thing
13. Make Room For Love
14. Can't Get Enough
15. The Winter Of My Springs
16. Tell Me What To Do
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Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick and Incognito have become an insitution on the British groove scene, for their jazz-funk and nu-soul hybrid. Transatlantic R.P.M. marks Maunick's 30 years in the music biz and celebrates with 14 new songs, 13 of them originals. Bluey enlisted a slew of friends to join the party. The set opens with the album's lone cover: a convincing reading of Boz Scaggs' "Lowdown," featuring Italian clubjazz singer Mario Biondi and Chaka Khan. The arrangement doesn't differ all that much from Scaggs' version (thankfully) but the meld of Biondi's and Khan's rough-edged lead vocals juxtaposed with a smooth backing chorus, a slightly faster tempo, and a popping bassline after the bridge, distinguishes it. Another notable cut is Bluey's funky name checking homage to the 70s and his youth entitled "75"; it's sung by Joy Rose with a gorgeous horn arrangement by Kevin Robinson. Leon Ware puts in a fine performance on the babymaker, makeup number "Line In The Sand." Bluey's guitar work is, as usual, tasteful and understated, but adds immeasurably. Ursula Rucker sings and speaks on the stepper "Gotta," while Khan gets her own showcaseon the jazzy, string and Rhodes laden, "The Song." Longtime vocalist Maysa shines on the summery "Your Love My Sky," with beautiful guitar work from Bluey and a fine brass arrangement by Trevor Mires. The lone instrumental on the set "Expresso Madureira," mixes Brazilian and Afro Latin rhythms in a heady, funk brew with popping percussion and horns. A Stevie Wonder meets Roy Ayers vibe distinguishes the '70s groove at work in "Life Ain't Nothin' But A Good Thing" sung by Vanessa Haynes. Biondi returns on the breakbeat clubjazz of "Can't Get Enough," backed by Incognito's stellar chorus. Bluey even takes a vocal on the closer, "Tell Me What To Do." While he's no match for the other singers here, the track's breaking, cut time rhythm, breezy atmosphere, and lithe, sensual melody makes it a nu-soul winner. Incognito may not be innovating on Transatlantic R.P.M., but in showcasing the many places they've been, and the wide vein they've mined, they don't need to. This is a summeritme party record with fine songs and good vibes in abundance.
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This is the best album ever, cant stop rockin! Check out "1975".
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Just the most beautiful and soulful album of the summer...no, the year! Bluey has done it again.
A great album *****
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Incognito feat Mario Biondi, that's fantastic..and Chaka Khan as well! Hopefully that will have to play live somewhere, don t miss the event!
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UPSC: Civil Services Exam Eligibility Criteria
The eligibility criteria for the UPSC Civil Services Examination is explained below.
Only Indian nationals are eligible for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Police Service (IPS). For other services a candidate can be either of the following:
a. a citizen of India, or
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Up to five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe.
Up to three years if a candidate belongs to Other Backward Classes who are eligible for reservation.
Up to five years if a candidate was living in the State of Jammu & Kashmir between 1 January, 1980 to the 31 day of December, 1989.
Up to three years for Defence Services personnel disabled in operations during hostilities with a foreign country (or in a disturbed area) and released as a result.
Up to five years for ex-servicemen, including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least five years of military service as of 1 August, 2013, and have been released (1) on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment will be completed within one year from 1 August, 2013) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency, or (2) on account of physical disability from military service, or (3) on impalement.
Up to five years in the case of ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years military service as of 1 August, 2013, whose assignment has been extended beyond five years, and in whose case the Ministry of Defence issues a certificate that they can apply for civil employment and that they will be released on three month's notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer of appointment.
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Candidates should have a degree from any of the universities incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956, or have an equivalent qualification.
A candidate who is in the final year of his/her degree course can apply for and appear in the Prelim Test. However, he/she should submit proof of the qualification while applying in October/ November 2015 for the Main Examination, if selected.
In exceptional cases, the Union Public Service Commission may treat a candidate who has not any of the foregoing qualifications as a qualified candidate provided that he/she has passed the examination conducted by the other Institutions, the standard of which in the opinion of the Commission justifies his/her admission to the examination.
Candidates possessing professional and technical qualifications which are recognised by the Government as the equivalent to a professional and technical degree are also eligible for admission to the examination.
Candidates who have passed the final professional MBBS or any other medical examination, but have not completed their internship by the time of submission of their applications for the Civil Services (Main) Examination, will be provisionally admitted to the examination (provided they submit along with the application a copy of the certificate from the concerned authority that they had passed the requisite final professional medical examination). In such cases, the candidates will be required to produce at the time of their interview the original degree or certificate from the concerned competent authority of the University/Institution that they had completed all requirements (including completion of internship) for the award of the degree.
Number of attempts:
Every candidate appearing for the Civil Services Examination, who is otherwise eligible, will be permitted six (6) attempts at the examination.
There is no such restriction on the number of attempts for eligible Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates.
The number of attempts permissible to candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes (OBC), who are otherwise eligible, shall be nine(9). This relaxation will be available to the candidates who are eligible for the applicable reservation.
An attempt at a Preliminary Examination shall be considered to be an attempt at the examination. If a candidate actually appears for any one paper in the Preliminary Examination, this will be considered the equivalent to having made an attempt at the examination. Notwithstanding the disqualification/cancellation of candidature, the fact of appearance of the candidate at the examination will count as an attempt.
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In case such a candidate is appointed to the IAS/IFS after the Preliminary Examination of Civil Services Examination, 2019 is over and he continues to be a member of that service, he shall not be eligible to appear in the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2020 despite his/her having qualified in the Preliminary Examination, 2019.
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Facebook 'to be fined $5bn' for privacy violations
Facebook faces a record $5bn fine following an investigation over data privacy violations, US media has reported. Credit: PA
Facebook faces a record $5bn fine following an investigation over data privacy violations, US media has reported.
US regulators at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) were looking into breaches of data laws and political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica, who reportedly obtained the data of up to 87 million Facebook users improperly.
The settlement was reached by the FTC by 3-2 votes in favour along US party lines.
Facebook fined over privacy violations
France could be latest to face Trump tariffs after approving tax on tech giants
According to the US media, the Republican commissioners voting in favour while the Democrats opposed.
If the fine is ratified by the Justice Department's civil division, it would be the largest ever levied by the FTC on a tech company.
Neither Facebook or the FTC has commented on the fine.
Cambridge Analytica's actions came to light following an investigation by Channel 4 in March 2018.
Their report found that the company was using improper means to obtain information of Facebook users.
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An Oconomowoc financial adviser has been barred after police received a dozen complaints alleging fraud
Ed Matthes, a financial adviser, has been barred after the Oconomowoc Police Department received around a dozen complaints involving fraud.
An Oconomowoc financial adviser has been barred after police received a dozen complaints alleging fraud Ed Matthes, a financial adviser, has been barred after the Oconomowoc Police Department received around a dozen complaints involving fraud. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/lake-country/news/oconomowoc/2019/03/28/oconomowoc-financial-advisor-barred-practicing/3299171002/
Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 2:16 p.m. CT March 28, 2019 | Updated 4:34 p.m. CT March 29, 2019
Ed Matthes, a former Oconomowoc financial adviser, has been barred from practicing after the Oconomowoc Police Department received fraud complaints concerning Matthes. (Photo: Submitted)
Ed Matthes, a former independent contractor for Mutual of Omaha who resided in Oconomowoc, has been barred by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
According to Oconomowoc Police Department Director of Safety Ron Buerger, in March the department received about a dozen complaints against Matthes alleging fraud. The investigation has been turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Buerger said.
Leonard Peace, the public affairs officer with the FBI Milwaukee Division, said the FBI cannot confirm or deny investigations as a matter of U.S. Department of Justice policy.
A statement from Mutual of Omaha stated it had terminated their affiliation with Matthes.
"We discovered that Mr. Matthes may have misappropriated clients' deposits and provided false account statements to his clients," the statement read. "Mutual of Omaha has alerted several law enforcement agencies and is fully supportive of investigative efforts. Mutual of Omaha is committed to our policyholders, and we are proactively working with impacted customers."
Matthes was also the president of the Downtown Oconomowoc Business Association. The association confirmed Matthes resigned on March 13.
According to a brokerage report by FINRA, Matthes has 20 years of experience with five firms. After Matthes was barred, FINRA stated in a report that "without admitting or denying the findings, Matthes consented to the sanction and to the entry of findings that he failed to provide documents and information requested by FINRA in connection to an investigation that FINRA initiated based on an external tip."
The brokerage check also said Matthes was discharged from Mutual of Omaha "for creating fictitious account statements and diverting customer funds for his own personal use."
Contact Evan Frank at (262) 361-9138 or evan.frank@jrn.com. Follow him on Twitter at @Evanfrank_LCP.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's best suburban photos from February
University of Wisconsin-Madison Varsity Band Director Michael Leckrone leads the band through its 23rd "Show and Revue" at Oak Creek High School on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Nicolet's Jalen Johnson (1) eyes the hoop on a break-away dunk attempt at home against Whitefish Bay on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Brynn Dux of Wauwatosa and her 2-year-old daughter, Andi, enjoy a nature hike during the Winter Wonderland Family Event at Hoyt Park in Wauwatosa on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019. The free event featured guided nature hikes, winter-themed activities, crafts, movies, marshmallow toasting and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Arrowhead gymnast Nina Morrison dismounts off the beam during the Division 1 sectional at Oconomowoc on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Morrison finished third in the all around, placing second on the floor and fourth on the bars. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Seven-year-old Charlotte Yawney of Sussex gets a smooch from Sebastian, a Siberian Husky/Malamute mix, during the Door County Sled Dogs educational event at the Town Hall Library in North Lake on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. The event is linked to the library's youth winter reading program "Idita-Read". Scott Ash/Now News Group
Players from Oak Creek and Mukwonago react to a loose ball getting away during a WIAA sectional semifinal on Feb. 28, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Mukwonago High School drama students Lucas Schreiber and Kayleigh Ruzga perform a scene from the Addams Family Musical during dress rehearsal on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Public performances will be Feb. 22, 23, 24 and March 1 and 2. Visit mukwonago.revtrak.net for times and tickets. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Mukwonago forward Dru Henning's hair flies in her face as she pulls down a rebound against Oak Creek during a WIAA sectional semifinal on Feb. 28, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Seven-year-old Leila Glorioso of Oconomowoc cuddles with one of the furry ambassadors from Door County Sled Dogs during an educational event at the Town Hall Library in North Lake on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. The event is linked to the library's youth winter reading program "Idita-Read". Scott Ash/Now News Group
Two-year-old Cole Lampman of Oak Creek finds a suitable ride during the 57th annual O'Reilly Auto Parts World of Wheels at State Fair Park in West Allis on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. The event features over 300 vehicles, celebrity appearances, vendors, a charity auction and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Nicolet's CJ Hayes (24) dunks one at home against Whitefish Bay on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Mukwonago High School drama students Niko Dulin and Cecilia Fleischer perform a scene from the Addams Family Musical during dress rehearsal on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Public performances will be Feb. 22, 23, 24 and March 1 and 2. Visit mukwonago.revtrak.net for times and tickets. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Waukesha co-op gymnast Caroline Wayer dismounts from the beam during the Division 1 sectional at Oconomowoc on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Wayer placed second on the beam. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Mukwonago High School drama student Jessica Cotturone performs a scene from the Addams Family Musical during dress rehearsal on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Public performances will be Feb. 22, 23, 24 and March 1 and 2. Visit mukwonago.revtrak.net for times and tickets. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Sixteen-month-old SJ Laturi of Milwaukee samples a paczek with a little assistance from his mom Jamie during the Wisconsin Bakers Association's Paczki Preview Party at the Polish Center of Wisconsin in Franklin on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. The event, which showcases some of the best paczki from the area, also features live music, a special guest appearance by Little Miss Polish Fest and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Bob Nelson of Franklin gets ready to sample a variety of flavors during the Wisconsin Bakers Association’s Paczki Preview Party at the Polish Center of Wisconsin in Franklin on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. The event, which showcases some of the best paczki from the area, also features live music, a special guest appearance by Little Miss Polish Fest and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Arrowhead girls hockey player Mae Myers helps four-year-old Meridyth Stewart of Merton get her footing during the Try Hockey For Free Day at the Howard G. Mullett Ice Center in Hartland on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. The event, sponsored by USA Hockey, provides children ages 4 to 9 a completely free opportunity to try youth hockey. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Five-year-old Luke Maduscha of Ixonia runs out of energy and gets a tow by his dad Andy during the Try Hockey For Free Day at the Howard G. Mullett Ice Center in Hartland on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Instructors Brian Kobasick and Janel Martens pose for a photo during the Zoological Society's Zumba Fitness Party at the Milwaukee County Zoo on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. Proceeds from the event benefit the Zoological Society's Sponsor an Animal program. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Three-year-old Logan Husslein of Germantown tries on a cowboy hat he made with his dad Jason during the Hometown Hoedown NEA Big-Read Kickoff Event at the Tri County YMCA in Menomonee Falls on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. The event featured live music, food, games, and western themed activities for the whole family. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Mukwonago's Luke Eliszewski flexes to the crowd after securing a pin to win third place at the WIAA state wrestling meet on Feb. 23, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Andrea Shoop of Saukville makes some new friends at the petting zoo during Cedarburg’s Winter Festival on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. The annual event features a grand parade, bed racing, ice carving, camel rides, a petting zoo, food, games and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Nicolet gymnast Abbe Hansen competes on the floor during the Division 1 sectional at Oconomowoc on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Six-year-old Leighana Rakun of Hingham rides a camel during Cedarburg’s Winter Festival on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. The annual event features a grand parade, bed racing, ice carving, camel rides, a petting zoo, food, games and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Menomonee Falls co-op gymnast Ava Truckenbrod competes on the floor during the Division 1 sectional at Oconomowoc on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Emma Gabriel (left) and Moira Brown, both 17 of Wauwatosa, toast marshmallow during the Winter Wonderland Family Event at Hoyt Park in Wauwatosa on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019. The free event featured guided nature hikes, winter-themed activities, crafts, movies, marshmallow toasting and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Artist Max Zuleta of Art Below Zero works on an ice sculpture during Oak Creek Winterfest at Drexel Town Square on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. The event featured ice carving, a petting zoo, horse-drawn carriage rides, games, food and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Brookfield co-op gymnast Molly Meves competes on the floor during the Division 1 sectional at Oconomowoc on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Menomonee Falls co-op gymnast Madeline Durand competes on the floor during the Division 1 sectional at Oconomowoc on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Wendy Krosinski and her granddaughter Adelina Orosz, 1, pet a giant bunny during Oak Creek Winterfest at Drexel Town Square on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. The event featured ice carving, a petting zoo, horse-drawn carriage rides, games, food and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Five-year-old Ellie Fenelon of Brookfield holds a live walking stick during Retzer Nature Center's Wild Winter Night on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. The event featured candlelit hikes, snowshoeing, a campfire, educational programs and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Hamilton's Tanner Resch (2) tips in his own rebound for two during the game at home against Germantown on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Arrowhead's Keegan O'Toole (left) holds Nicolet's Angelo Morgano during a 145-pound match at the WIAA sectional championship hosted by Milwaukee Riverside on Feb. 14, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Arrowhead teammates congratulate Noah Ross (right) after his pin in the final match during a WIAA sectional final on Feb. 14, 2019 sent the Warhawks to the WIAA state team meet. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Nicolet's Parker Keckeisen cheers on a teammate during the WIAA sectional championship hosted by Milwaukee Riverside on Feb. 14, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Waukesha co-op gymnast Jami Balicki dismounts off the beam during the Division 1 sectional at Oconomowoc on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Brookfield co-op gymnast Riley Feng competes on the vault during the Division 1 sectional at Oconomowoc on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Dominican High School drama student Noel Rubalcava performs a scene from Disney’s NEWSIES during dress rehearsal on Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. Public performances are Feb. 15-24, Thursday through Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Visit www.dominicanhighschool.com for info and tickets. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Dominican High School drama students perform a scene from Disney's NEWSIES during dress rehearsal on Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. Public performances are Feb. 15-24, Thursday through Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Visit www.dominicanhighschool.com for info and tickets. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Wauwatosa East/West's Ian Kruse celebrates after seeing his time was good enough to qualify for state at the WIAA sectional meet at Homestead High School on Feb. 9, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Michael G. checks his appearance after receiving the royal treatment during the Night to Shine Prom hosted by Brooklife Church in Mukwonago on Friday, Feb. 8, 2019. Every guest of Night to Shine receives the royal treatment, including hair and makeup, limousine rides, corsages and boutonnieres, a catered dinner, karaoke and dancing, all leading up to the moment when each guest is crowned king or queen of the prom. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Mukwonago's Tyler Goebel pins his opponent at 113 pounds in a WIAA sectional final on Feb. 13, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Muskego guard Wes Kwapick gets a steal against Franklin guard Jacob Vonderwell on Feb. 11, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Franklin guard Zach Martens and Muskego guard Richard Wauer collide while going after a loose ball during a game on Feb. 11, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Two-year-old Donovan Holahan of Pewaukee tinkers with an electronics project during the open house event for the new Innovation Lab technology/engineering space at Lake Country School in Hartland on Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Nicole Kielman of Milwaukee dances with her 5-year-old daughter Emily during the University of Wisconsin-Madison Varsity Band's 23rd "Show and Revue" at the Oak Creek High School gymnasium on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
University of Wisconsin-Madison Varsity Band Director Michael Leckrone breaks through a Wisconsin banner to kick off the band's 23rd "Show and Revue" at Oak Creek High School on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019. Leckrone has announced he will retire at the end of this season, his 50th year leading “The Badger Band.” Scott Ash/Now News Group
Homestead's Tyler Brown competes in the 100 yard backstroke at the WIAA sectional meet at Homestead High School on Feb. 9, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Wauwatosa West/East's Elliott St. Amour competes in the 100 yard breaststroke at the WIAA sectional meet at Homestead High School on Feb. 9, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Liza Weber of Waukesha and her daughter Ruby, 1, feed an alpaca at the petting zoo during the Milwaukee Kids Expo at State Fair Park in West Allis on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019. The two-day expo featured bounce houses, a petting zoo, a rock climbing wall, pony rides, caricature paintings, a maze challenge and much more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Three-year-old Kaely Krakau of Franklin sits for a face painting by Oconomowoc artist Leea Woolard of Life's a Party - Face Painting during the Milwaukee Kids Expo at State Fair Park in West Allis on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019. The two-day expo featured bounce houses, a petting zoo, a rock climbing wall, pony rides, caricature paintings, a maze challenge and much more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Elsie Ludwig, 7, of Oconomowoc speeds down the sledding hill during the annual Winterfest at Lisbon Community Park on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019. The free event includes ice skating, sledding, skiing, a bonfire, a warming tent with free refreshments, hot dogs and s'mores. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Aubri Schaefer, 9, of Lisbon skates with her mother Sarah during the annual Winterfest at Lisbon Community Park on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019. The free event includes ice skating, sledding, skiing, a bonfire, a warming tent with free refreshments, hot dogs and s'mores. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Milwaukee Lutheran guard JaVeon Tolliver puts up a shot as he is fouled against Greenfield on Feb. 8, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Greenfield forward Makale Jones loses the ball after being fouled while going up for a shot against Milwaukee Lutheran on Feb. 8, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Greenfield guard Elijah Rosario (middle) takes a blow to the face from a Milwaukee Lutheran player while defending in a game on Feb. 8, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Guests and their chaperones enjoy a festive atmosphere during the Night to Shine Prom hosted by Brooklife Church in Mukwonago on Friday, Feb. 8, 2019. Night to Shine is a unforgettable prom night experience for people with special needs sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation. The event is hosted by local churches in all 50 states across the globe all on one night. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Crush Wine Bar in Waukesha is hosting a Girl Scout cookies and wine pairing at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 28. The event sells out in advance every year. Hannah Kirby/ Now News Group
Cudahy guard Camryn Kratt gets hit in the face by a Whitnall defender during a game on Feb. 8, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Cudahy guard Sarah Hansen cross over her dribble on a Whitnall defender during a game on Feb. 8, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Cudahy guard Camryn Kratt (front) ties up a loose ball against Whitnall on Feb. 8, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Shorewood's Ta'Niya Robinson (left) battles for a rebound with Brown Deer's Olivia Sellers (12) during the game at Shorewood on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Wauwatosa East forward Brooklyn Blackburn gathers before going up for a shot against Germantown on Feb. 5, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Germantown head coach Matt Stuve (middle) puts up three fingers as his team's bench celebrates a late three-pointer by Natalie McNeal against Wauwatosa East on Feb. 5, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Chocolate-covered strawberries at Ultimate Confections come in three flavors including milk, white and dark chocolate. Geoff Bruce/Now News Group
Joslin Albiter, 6, of Lannon zips down the hill backwards during the annual sledding party in Sussex Village Park on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The family-friendly event, hosted by the Sussex Parks & Recreation Department, features sledding, music, crafts, refreshments and a snowman contest. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Katie Schwebke of West Allis cuddles with a Beagle named Gabby from Midwest Beagle Rescue during the Great Lakes Pet Expo at State Fair Park on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The non-profit event, celebrating its 15th anniversary, benefits Wisconsin animal rescues and shelters. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Bennett Hensley, 7, of Hartford, holds a dove from Waukesha's Center for Animal Rehab during the Great Lakes Pet Expo at State Fair Park on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The non-profit event, celebrating its 15th anniversary, benefits Wisconsin animal rescues and shelters. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Sarah Bittner, sponsored by PDQ Tooling, competes in the Swimsuit talent of the 55th annual Miss St. Francis Scholarship Competition at St. Thomas More High School on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Sarah won the competition and was crowned Miss St. Francis 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Kristynne Hock, sponsored by Advance Products, competes in the talent segment of the 55th annual Miss St. Francis Scholarship Competition at St. Thomas More High School on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. Scott Ash/Now News Group
A large United States flag hangs in the background as St. John's Northwestern Military Academy guard Gerald Gittens (5) watches his layup drop against Brookfield Academy on Feb. 2, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
St. John's Northwestern Military Academy forward DC Jensen leans as he watches his three-point attempt sail toward the basket in a game against Brookfield Academy on Feb. 2, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Brookfield Academy forward Logan Landers goes up for a layup between St. John's Northwestern Military Academy defenders during a game on Feb. 2, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Amanda Steele of Mequon and her daughter Everly, 2, zoom down the Mee-Kwon Park sledding hill in Mequon on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The park is open 7 days a week from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. but is not lighted. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Three-year-old Silas Newsted (left) of Cedarburg and his brother Gavin, 8, take a tumble while sledding at Mee-Kwon Park in Mequon on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The park is open 7 days a week from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. but is not lighted. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Gibson Herbst, 6, of Mequon holds on tight as he launches off a jump at the Mee-Kwon Park sledding hill in Mequon on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The park is open 7 days a week from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. but is not lighted. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Jason Beaumont of West Allis teaches Molly Flint, 9, of Oconomowoc how to balance a juggler's pin during the 9th annual St. Joan of Arc Carnival in Nashotah on Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. The family-friendly event features carnival games, food, face painting, balloon animals, a fortune teller and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Sarah Paulson of Oconomowoc and her daughter Ava, 5, take a seat in the photo booth during the 9th annual St. Joan of Arc Carnival in Nashotah on Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. The family-friendly event features carnival games, food, face painting, balloon animals, a fortune teller and more. Scott Ash/Now News Group
Arrowhead's Keegan O'Toole checks the clock as Waukesha West's Devon Townsend grimaces during a match at the Classic 8 Conference meet on Feb. 1, 2019. O'Toole won the conference title at 145 pounds. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Arrowhead forward Carter Gilmore tries to save a loose ball from going out of bounds against Waukesha West on Feb. 1, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Waukesha West guard Chris Bready goes up for a shot over Arrowhead guard Tyler Gouin during a game on Feb. 1, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Arrowhead guard Tyler Gouin goes up for a reverse layup as Waukesha West forward David Skogman attempts to block the shot on Feb. 1, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Arrowhead's bench celebrates after Tyler Gouin scores and draws a foul against Waukesha West on Feb. 1, 2019. Curt Hogg / Now News Group
Brookfield co-op gymnast Sophie Latona competes on the beam during the Division 1 sectional at Oconomowoc on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Latona placed fifth on the beam. Scott Ash/Now News Group
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Nazi Organ Sees Germany Free of Jews in 20 Years
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In 20 years Germany will be free of the bulk of its Jewish population, Das Schwarze Korps, organ of Chancellor Hitler’s elite guards, declareds in its current issue in a leading article accusing the Jews of not wanting to emigrate.
“Twenty years ago,” the periodical states, “it would have been considered utopian to dream of forcibly separating the Jews from the spiritual and political life of the nation. It is no chimera that 20 years from now there will also be a separation in space, at least as far as the greater number of Jews here are concerned.”
The organ insists that the Jewish problem is an international one, to be solved not with the cooperation of the Jews, who would attempt to sabotage it, but against the wishes of the Jews.
“The Jews,” the article contends, “do not recognize the existence of a Jewish problem; they do not like it when anyone speaks of it; they know the character of their people, they know that Jews, neither in Poland, Germany, Rumania nor anywhere else suffer from the exceptional treatment accorded them by any public-spirited proscription. Jews do not fear that their brethren in Germany will not earn enough to get along.”
Referring to the comparatively “small number” of Jewish emigrants, Das Schwarze Korps charges the Jews do not want to emigrate. “For those who say the Jews would like to leave but cannot because of foreign exchange and other difficulties,” it declares, “we say the Jews nowhere lift a finger to give the emigrants or would-be emigrants a home.”
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Amblygonite is quite possibly one of the most beautiful pastel colored gemstones that you may have never heard about. It belongs to a class of minerals known as phosphates and forms a solid-solution series with montebrasite. Industrial grade amblygonite isn't that rare; however, when it comes to facet grade material, it quickly moves up on the hard-to-find list. Colors for amblygonite include pale yellow to greenish yellow and various shades of green to blue. On rare occasions, pink to light purple specimens may be found. Colorless material also is available.
Amblygonite Classification
Common Name Amblygonite
Species Amblygonite
Amblygonite Optical Properties
Transparency Transparent
Dispersion Strength: Weak Fire Value: 0.014
Refractive Index 1.612-1.636
Tolerance:-0.034
Birefringence 0.02-0.027
Optic Character Biaxial
Optic Sign Positive or Negative
Polariscope Reaction Doubly Refractive (DR)
Fluorescence SWUV: Inert to moderate orange
LWUV: Inert to moderate yellowish white
Pleochroism None
Amblygonite Characteristic Physical Properties
Hardness 5.5-6
Streak White
Specific Gravity 2.980-3.600 Typical:3.020
Toughness Poor
Inclusions Amblygonite might show liquid inclusions has a screen like appearance. Stones might also have a hazy parallel bands along the cleavage planes.
Luster Vitreous, Greasy
Stability Poor
Fracture Conchoidal
Cleavage Perfect, in one direction, Good in one direction
Amblygonite Chemistry & Crystallography
Chemical Name lithium aluminum phosphate fluoride hydroxide
Chemical Formula (Li,Na)Al(PO4)(F,OH)
Crystal System Triclinic
Chemistry Classification Phosphate
Amblygonite Colors
Countries of Origin
Unknown; Brazil; Spain
Be romanced by the lovely colors of amblygonite. From soft, seawater blues to verdant springtime greens, this cool beauty can easily become a favorite. The mineral amblygonite is fairly common, but clear, gem-quality stones are extremely rare. This rarity helps to keep amblygonite relatively unknown and somewhat costly. The name amblygonite derives from the two Greek roots that translate to blunt angles, a reference to one of its crystal habits or the way the crystal grows.
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Silent Saturday by Helen Grant
Silent Saturday is the first in a planned trilogy by Helen Grant, author of The Glass Demon, which I reviewed here, as well as a number of other acclaimed dark, mysterious YA thrillers. If you don’t generally consider yourself fan of YA fiction, don’t let the label put you off as there is nothing about Grant’s books that doesn’t stand up to the scrutiny of adult readers and if you hadn’t been told in advance that Silent Saturday was YA fiction, the only clue you’d find is the age of the protagonist. The plot is complex, the characters are often ambiguous and we see some of the action unfold from the point of view of a psychopathic murderer, with few holds barred. Above all, unlike far too many YA authors, Helen Grant never, ever patronises her intended audience.
Seventeen-year-old Veerle lives on the outskirts of Brussels with her neurotic mother Claudine, who not only worries obsessively about Veerle’s safety but also relies on her as an interpreter. Bored with her suburban life and stifled by the over-protective Claudine, Veerle is understandably attracted to risky pursuits such as scaling practice walls at the local climbing centre. On her way home one winter night, she decides on impulse to investigate a flickering light in an abandoned building, and it’s there that she becomes involved with the Koekoeken, or Cuckoos, a secret society dedicated to breaking into empty properties. They don’t rob them, or vandalise them, or even squat in them – in fact, they generally perform a small maintenance task or improvement before they leave. What the Koekoeken have in common seems to a fascination with the very emptiness of the buildings they enter, from crumbling castles to the modern homes of holidaying millionaires or absent expats, and the thrill of the forbidden.
The very concept of the Koekoeken would probably have been enough to hold my interest as a subject for a novel in itself, so fascinated was I by the idea, but in fact, Silent Saturday also sees Veerle and her old childhood friend Kris pitted against a possible serial killer and raises intriguing questions about Veerle’s past that Veerle herself is strangely unable to answer. The plot is gripping, the atmosphere chillingly creepy, the characters extremely well-drawn. Veerle herself, for instance, is a likeable but utterly believable 17-year-old on the cusp of adulthood, defiant without being stereotypically rebellious, shrewd without being boringly sensible, capable of falling for a good-looking boy without losing her mind over him, occasionally vulnerable but never in need of rescuing.
Helen Grant also somehow manages to make everything that happens in Silent Saturday remarkably plausible. If you’ve read novels with teenage/child detectives battling adult criminals and thought ‘But why the hell haven’t they just told the police?’ you won’t find yourself similarly irritated here: while the decisions Veerle and Kris make are not always wise ones, there is a clear and credible logic to them.
I loved the Brussels setting of Silent Saturday. Helen Grant builds a tremendous sense of sinister, foreboding atmosphere in the key scenes that makes this a genuinely chilling, tense read. The unique atmosphere of places – specifically empty places – is perfectly evoked with a fine-tuned eeriness.
But there’s more than that: as a child, nothing fascinated me more than novels which revealed the casual everyday details of life in other European countries, and the Flemish setting of Silent Saturday is absolutely spot-on here. I am the sort of person who will never tire of visiting a foreign city and marvelling over small details like metro maps, the ranges of things sold by newsagents, TV commercials for mysterious sandwich spreads and weirdly unfamiliar fast-food chains. The very revelation that in Belgium, the church bells don’t ring on Easter Saturday because children are told that the bells have flown to Rome to collect the Easter eggs was frankly enough to make me hop up and down with joy. I realise it’s possibly odd to get so excited about other people’s Easter traditions or a reference to someone having a 'cellophane-wrapped sweet roll with jam in it' for breakfast, and maybe it’s just me, but anyway – Silent Saturday evokes that very feeling of slight unfamiliarity, that little insight into lives that differ in so many small but somehow significant details from our own. I also enjoyed the importance of language in the book, which comes partly from it being set in a country divided by its inhabitants’ mother tongues. Veerle’s French-speaking mother Claudine is isolated and frustrated by her inability to understand Flemish, making her a bitter outsider in her own native country, and the plot is kicked into action by Veerle losing her temper with a non-Flemish-speaking expat who criticises her English.
As I mentioned at the start, Silent Saturday is book one of a planned trilogy, so although it does work as a standalone read, don’t expect all your questions to be answered on the final page. There’s plenty of intrigue left for books two and three – and I for one can’t wait. If you have a teenager, particularly a teenage daughter, get them hooked on the Forbidden Spaces trilogy now; if you haven’t, enjoy Silent Saturday for yourself.
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Nikki-ann 28 April 2013 at 14:36
I finished reading Silent Saturday yesterday and loved it :)
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THE ENERGY 202: NASA AND NOAA ARE STILL TALKING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE. THAT'S NOTABLE...
Posted by David Pike 27sc on December 19, 2017
This enhanced infrared satellite image made available by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Nate in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. (NOAA via AP)
NASA and NOAA are still talking about climate change. That's notable...
So, why the difference across agencies?
One potential explanation is that unlike at EPA or Interior, both NASA and NOAA continue to operate without confirmed leaders in place.
Barry Myers, chief executive of the private forecasting firm AccuWeather, is President Trump's choice to head NOAA. But he has drawn sharp criticism from past agency leaders over potential conflicts of interest. Trump's pick to head NASA, former pilot and conservative Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), has expressed doubts on the House floor about the extent to which humans contribute to climate change. Both have said that they will not interfere in the work of agency scientists, but the Senate has yet to confirm either nominee.
Aside from leadership, there's another reason NASA and NOAA have experienced relatively little political meddling this year: They are not policymaking agencies. Environmental rules and regulations emanate largely from the EPA and the Interior Department, and the Trump administration has focused its energy there in an effort to scale back Obama-era efforts to regulate climate change and reduce drilling on public lands.
The White House might not care for some of the scientific conclusions coming out of NASA and NOAA, but it appears to have made few attempts to censor those findings. It even signed off last month on a dire government report calling human activity the dominant driver of global warming.
Even so, says Michael Halpern, deputy director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Trump administration is attacking science on a broader scale.
“NOAA and NASA scientists’ work does not happen in a vacuum,” he said in an email. “Scientists work on projects across agencies, so political interference in scientific work at the Department of Energy has a ripple effect at NASA and NOAA. At NOAA and NASA, targeted budget cuts and staffing reductions would further imperil the federal research enterprise. If the money and people aren’t there to do the research and collect the data, there’s no science to censor or spin.”
He added that the Trump administration's proposals to slash scientific budgets could have far-reaching consequences, making researchers “less likely to propose ambitious projects, or to pose innovative research questions, when they feel that their entire field of research is about to get hacked to pieces.”
For now, the Trump administration's mixed reactions to climate science and the effects of climate change continue.
Last week, Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, the acting administrator of NOAA, said the findings in a new report from federal scientists about unprecedented warming in the Arctic were important for reasons that “directly relate to the priorities of this administration” — namely, its implications for national and economic security.
On Monday, however, Trump unveiled his national security strategy. In a notable break from the past, climate change was no longer listed as a serious threat.
This former foreign policy adviser to then-President Obama responded this way:
EPA chief Scott Pruitt. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
--EPA starts process of replacing CPP: The Trump administration formally announced that it's considering replacing the Clean Power Plan -- a landmark effort by the Obama administration to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
In an "advanced notice of proposed rule-making," which is the first step in the lengthy process of issuing new policy, EPA requested public comment for 60 days "on the proper and respective roles of the state and federal governments" in establishing limits on greenhouse gases, reported Inside Climate Wire. Before the notice, it was unclear whether EPA would simply seek to repeal the plan without trying to replacement (always the trickier part, politically speaking). Read the notice here via E&E News.
“Today’s move ensures adequate and early opportunity for public comment from all stakeholders about next steps the Agency might take to limit greenhouse gases from stationary sources, in a way that properly stays within the law, and the bounds of the authority provided to EPA by Congress,” EPA head Scott Pruitt said Monday.
The notice's "main effect may be to leave the Obama rule in limbo," writes Georgina Gustin. "The Clean Power Plan was put on hold by the Supreme Court pending litigation that was under way before Donald Trump took office on a promise to undo it.
Pruitt has said he wants to repeal the Obama plan, but it's clear the agency is also weighing replacement options—options that would weaken regulations. The [CPP] allows states to design their own strategies for cutting emissions, but Monday's notice signals that the Trump EPA believes states have 'considerable flexibility' in implementing emissions-cutting plans and, in some cases, can make them less stringent."
The EPA is required to regulate emissions in some fashion after a 2009 "endangerment finding" by the Supreme Court ruling that carbon dioxide is a threat to human health.
This a high-stakes process with strong advocates and detractors on both sides.
Here's how it’s playing:
David Doniger, director of the Climate and Clean Air Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, called the move “just another ‘repeal and replace’ scam.”
Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen said the EPA is “stubbornly marching backwards” and warned the notice suggests Pruitt “may not put anything at all in the Plan's place — or may delay for years and issue a do-nothing substitute that won't make meaningful cuts in the carbon pollution that's driving dangerous climate change.”
From the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association's Jim Matheson: “We are pleased that EPA has taken this necessary step to replace the Clean Power Plan. America’s electric cooperatives support the development of a common-sense, durable policy that is focused on improvements that are specific to each electric-generating unit."
Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber’s Global Energy Institute said the move would start “the process of developing a better way to approach greenhouse gas regulations than the Clean Power Plan.”
Some colorful tweets were also making the rounds:
Ouch, from the Sierra Club:
From the group founded by Al Gore:
-- Anybody there? Meanwhile, Pruitt reportedly had his office swept for listening devices, reports The Hill. "The EPA paid $3,000 in March to Edwin Steinmetz Associates to do a “sweep for covert/illegal surveillance devices” documents provided to the publication show, reports Timothy Cama. "The EPA source who provided the documents on the condition of anonymity said the sweep, which came weeks after Pruitt’s arrival at the agency, did not uncover any bugs ... Like other security measures, the EPA defended the surveillance sweep as a response to unprecedented threats against Pruitt, whose aggressive deregulatory agenda has angered environmentalists and many others.
'Administrator Pruitt has received an unprecedented amount of threats against him and security decisions are made by EPA’s Protective Service Detail,' EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox said, noting Obama EPA head Lisa Jackson also conducted a similar security sweep.
Key moments from Trump's national security speech
-- Climate change, omitted: In a speech yesterday focused on U.S. global economic dominance, and an “America First,” strategy, President Trump dropped climate change and global warming from his new national security strategy. The move signaled a departure from the Obama administration, which in 2015 listed climate change as an "urgent and growing threat to our national security," the Associated Press reported. Meanwhile, Trump boasted of his intention to withdraw from the “very expensive and unfair Paris climate accord,” report The Post’s Anne Gearan and Steven Mufson.
Gearan and Mufson note that “supporters of the accord say it is a small step toward slowing global warming that could prove catastrophic economically as well as from a climate view. And Obama repeatedly argued that denial of climate science would undercut renewable energy technologies that the U.S. economy needs to remain competitive in the future.”
The AP notes that Trump's new strategy does reference the environment in some parts, pointing out the document "recognizes the importance of environmental stewardship" and says "climate policies will continue to shape the global energy system."
Read more about the speech from The Post here
Puerto Rico governor orders a recount of the hurricane death toll
--Movement on hurricane relief aid: House lawmakers last night released a massive a $81 billion disaster aid package, Politico reported, noting it would be the largest single funding request in response to natural disasters in the nation’s history. The package, if passed by, would bring the total aid approved by lawmakers to more than $130 billion in response to this year’s hurricanes and wildfires, exceeding the amount of funding that was passed following Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, Politico reported.
The package also far exceeds the $44 billion in relief funding the White House requested last month.
It’s not clear, Politico’s Sarah Ferris and John Bresnahan report, whether lawmakers will be able to pass the package before leaving Washington at the end of the week. Ferris reported last week that Texas and Florida lawmakers were anxious about the possibility of relief aid being delayed until next year. (Congress just has a few other small items on its to-do list like passing its tax overhaul and a bill to keep the government open).
-- Meanwhile, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló has ordered a review of the deaths caused by Hurricane Maria, warning that the government’s official count may be drastically underestimating storm fatalities. It's been 90 days since the storm touched down on the island, and the official toll has remained at 64. But several news organizations, including the New York Times, CNN and Vox.com, have reported that the number of storm-related deaths could be more than 1,000 people.
“This is about more than numbers, these are lives: real people, leaving behind loved ones and families,” Rosselló said in a statement, the Times reported early Monday.
Times reporter Patricia Mazzei noted that until now, Puerto Rico’s local government has defended its death count:
But Rosselló called for the Demographic Registry and Public Safety Department to reexamine all the deaths since the storm.
The Times noted that the methodology for storm death tolls can differ by state and locality -- some locations may only include direct deaths, such as drowning in storm floodst. In Puerto Rico, the report adds, some indirect deaths such as suicide are also included.
Ben Carson, then-secretary of HUD nominee, pauses while answering questions in Washington. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
-- Two members of President Trump's administration, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, will visit the island on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
-- FEMA pushes back on relief criticism: A spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency is dismissing a report from Refugees International that criticized the hurricane response in Puerto Rico. The Associated Press reported over the weekend that Refugees International had found sub-par relief efforts were to blame for the residents still in urgent need of housing and other resources. But agency spokesman Daniel Llargues defended the federal response, noting that FEMA approved $1 billion in assistance, and had delivered more than 120,000 tarps, 920 generators, 56 million liters of water and 49 million meals, per the AP.
From Limbaugh to Trump: How Climategate Spread Through the Media
-- “Why does this story sound so darned familiar?:” Mother Jones’s Rebecca Leber and AJ Vicens flash back to the 2009 "Climategate" scandal, during which emails from climate scientists were hacked and shared online in an effort to discredit the scientists who wrote them. That year, Donald Trump called into Fox News to mock the hacked emails and dismiss climate change, Leber and Vicens write.
“In hindsight, the Climategate hack, clearly timed to disrupt the Copenhagen negotiations, looks like a precursor to the hack that helped shape the outcome of the 2016 election,” they continue. “The parallels go beyond the hacks themselves… At the time, some observers openly wondered whether Russia might have orchestrated the Climategate hack. Investigators and other experts haven’t found much to support that hypothesis—the true culprit remains a mystery. [Penn state professor Michael] Mann himself has pointed to the incident’s “curious connections” to Russia and WikiLeaks, but he, too, notes there’s no specific evidence that Moscow was to blame. Still, Mann sees other ways in which the episode was similar to what Hillary Clinton experienced in 2016. Both hacks, he notes, were “intended to impact the global political scene in a significant manner.”
Here's what Mann tweeted last June, days after President Trump announced he planned to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, as stories poured in about Russia’s meddling in the presidential election:
AP FACT CHECK: The energy boom didn't start with Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump falsely accused his predecessors Monday of locking up U.S energy. Production actually soared under President Barack Obama, bringing the co
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Senate intel committee investigating Jill Stein campaign for possible collusion with the Russians
The inclusion of the Green Party candidate suggests the committee’s probe is far from over, even as lawmakers worry the House Intelligence Committee is winding down.
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Puerto Rico governor vows to make Florida Republicans pay for supporting tax bill
Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said Florida Republicans will pay in 2018 if they choose to support a tax bill that he says hurts the island’s economy as it recovers from Hurricane Maria.
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A firefighter takes a cell phone picture during a wildfire Saturday. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
-- California is still burning: The Thomas Fire, which has raged across Southern California for two weeks, was halfway contained on Monday. Calmer winds allowed fire crews to make progress on the blaze, which still remains on track to become the largest wildfire in the state’s modern history, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Cal Fire officials said the fire had burned through 271,000 acres:
The National Weather Service warned of stronger winds starting on Wednesday:
Here’s an image of the fire from the NOAA’s satellites:
Cal Fire officials said Monday that they are not expecting the fire to be fully contained until Jan. 7.
Weather forecasting faces a new world of challenges ahead
Different parts of the weather enterprise must work together to sustain progress.
Eric Webster • Read more »
LOCAL ENVIRONS
People cheer as power is restored at Atlanta airport
--The latest in Atlanta: Georgia Power said Monday that the major power outage at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was the result of failed switchgear that caused a fire to spread to cables coming in from two substations, per the Associated Press. The switchgear helps manage the flow of electricity.
The Washington Post’s Dana Hedgpeth reported the Department of Homeland Security said it didn't think the outage was the result of an “attack or other nefarious act.”
But it did lead to another 400 canceled flights after more than 1,000 flights were grounded Sunday.
Georgia Power said the utility’s backup equipment was damaged in the fire, with a spokesman saying the company was working to “make sure this never happens again,” per The Post’s Lori Aratani.
Local WSB-TV reporter Aaron Diamant shared a video from Georgia Power as crews made repairs:
The Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy holds a U.S. Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium Informational Webinar on Wednesday.
The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Transportation & Infrastructure will hold a hearing on freight movement on Wednesday.
EXTRA MILEAGE
Donors lined up Monday to give blood to the Amtrak derailment victims in Washington state:
After tragedy strikes, blood donors line up to help Amtrak derailment victims
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro said there is a “criminal cabal” in the FBI and the Justice Department:
‘Criminal cabal’ and Jeanine Pirro’s other controversial statements
Thousands participated in a Christmas-themed charity race to buy presents for children of low-income families in Mexico:
Thousands of Santas make a run for it during Mexico Christmas race
Trevor Noah reflects on the first year of the Trump administration:
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Candidates in Kansas races face off over tax cuts, school money
Education funding likely to be major issue for Kansas Legislature next year
Micheal Mahoney
WEBVTT MICHEAL: THE DOMINANT ISSUES IN JOHNSON COUNTY STATEHOUSE CAMPAIGNS ARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE STATE BUDGET THE LEGISLATURE'S BIG ISSUE IN 2017 IS CREATING A NEW PLAN TO PAY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. REPUBLICAN STATE SENATOR MARY PILCHER COOK REPRESENTS MUCH OF NORTHERN JOHNSON COUNT SHE SAYS SHE VOTED AGAINST THE SCHOOL SPENDING BILL AIMED AT AVOIDING A COURT-ORDERED SCHOOL SHUTDOWN. >> BECAUSE IT TOOK $1.7 MILLION FROM THE SHAWNEE MISSION DISTRICT AND SENT IT TO WICHITA FOR PROPERTY TAX RELIEF. MICHEAL: SHE BEING OPPOSED BY DEMOCRAT VICKI HIATT, A RETIRED TEACHER, IT IS MORE THAN JUST -- A RETIRED TEACHER. >> IT IS MORE THAN JUST NOT LETTING MONEY SLIP OUT OF JOHNSON COUNTY. WE NEED TO PROVIDE ENOUGH MONEY FOR ALL OVER OUR STATE. MICHEAL: THE TWO ALSO DISAGREED OVER A KEY BROWNBACK POLICY-THE TAX EXEMPTION FOR SOME SMALL BUSINESSES KNOWN AS LLC'S. >> WE NEED TO GO BACK AND ROLL BACK AND REPEAL THOSE TAX CUTS OF 2012. >> KANSAS CITIZENS ARE TAXED ENOUGH. I HAVE A RECORD OF OPPOSING TAX INCREASES. MICHEAL: IN ANOTHER DEBATE, DISTRICT 18 DEMOCRAT CINDY NEIGHBOR SAYS THE BROWNBACK ECONOMIC PLAN IS A FAILED EXPERIMENT. >> WE HAVE WORKED IN A PETRI DISH LONG ENOUGH. IT IS TIME WE GET BACK WITH OUR TAX POLICY MICHEAL: NEIGHBOR'S OPPONENT, SHAWNEE CITY COUNCILMAN ERIC JENKINS SAYS THE CONTROVERSIAL EXEMPTION MAY NEED TO BE REPAIRED. >> DO WE NEED TO GIVE AWAY FREE MONEY TO PEOPLE MAKING $2 MILLION, LIKE BILL SELF? THAT'S WHERE THE PROBLEM IS COMING IN WHEN PEOPLE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THA MICHEAL: THE DEBATE BETWEEN SENATOR COOK AND VICKI HIATT WAS THE FIRST TIME THE TWO EVER DEBATED EACH OTHER, IN A TOUGH
Money for Kansas schools and tax breaks for some businesses were both big topics at a meeting of Johnson County political candidates Wednesday. The dominant issues in the local races for the Kansas Legislature are public schools and the state budget. Lawmakers will have to create a new plan to pay for public schools during next year’s session. Republican state Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook represents much of northern Johnson County. She said she voted against the school spending bill aimed at avoiding a court-ordered school shutdown last summer. “Because it took $1.7 million from the Shawnee Mission District and sent it to Wichita for property tax relief,” she said. Her opponent in the race is Vicki Hiatt, a retired teacher. “It is more than just not letting money slip out of Johnson County. We need to provide enough money for all over our state,” Hiatt said. The two also disagreed over a key policy of Gov. Sam Brownback, the tax exemption for some small businesses known as limited liability corporations. “We need to go back and roll back and repeal those tax cuts of 2012,” said Hiatt. “Kansas citizens are taxed enough,” Pilcher-Cook said. “I have a record of opposing tax increases.” The debate between Pilcher-Cook and Hiatt was the first time they’ve debated each other. In another debate, District 18 Democrat Cindy Neighbor said the Brownback economic plan is a failed experiment. “We have worked in a petri dish long enough,” she said. “It is time we get back with our tax policy.” Neighbor’s opponent, Shawnee City Councilman Eric Jenkins, said the controversial exemption may need to be repaired. “Do we need to give away free money to people making $2 million, like (University of Kansas basketball coach) Bill Self? That’s where the problem is coming in, when people take advantage of that,” Jenkins said. Lawmakers may also make changes next year to the state’s tax code and how the budget is handled.
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Money for Kansas schools and tax breaks for some businesses were both big topics at a meeting of Johnson County political candidates Wednesday.
The dominant issues in the local races for the Kansas Legislature are public schools and the state budget. Lawmakers will have to create a new plan to pay for public schools during next year’s session.
Republican state Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook represents much of northern Johnson County. She said she voted against the school spending bill aimed at avoiding a court-ordered school shutdown last summer.
“Because it took $1.7 million from the Shawnee Mission District and sent it to Wichita for property tax relief,” she said.
Her opponent in the race is Vicki Hiatt, a retired teacher.
“It is more than just not letting money slip out of Johnson County. We need to provide enough money for all over our state,” Hiatt said.
The two also disagreed over a key policy of Gov. Sam Brownback, the tax exemption for some small businesses known as limited liability corporations.
“We need to go back and roll back and repeal those tax cuts of 2012,” said Hiatt.
“Kansas citizens are taxed enough,” Pilcher-Cook said. “I have a record of opposing tax increases.”
The debate between Pilcher-Cook and Hiatt was the first time they’ve debated each other.
In another debate, District 18 Democrat Cindy Neighbor said the Brownback economic plan is a failed experiment.
“We have worked in a petri dish long enough,” she said. “It is time we get back with our tax policy.”
Neighbor’s opponent, Shawnee City Councilman Eric Jenkins, said the controversial exemption may need to be repaired.
“Do we need to give away free money to people making $2 million, like (University of Kansas basketball coach) Bill Self? That’s where the problem is coming in, when people take advantage of that,” Jenkins said.
Lawmakers may also make changes next year to the state’s tax code and how the budget is handled.
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Woman claims her ex-partner used smart home gadgets to harass her
By Francis Navarro, Komando.com
The connected smart home has quickly become the big thing in tech right now, wouldn’t you agree? Smart gadgets like light bulbs, smart assistant speakers, thermostats, cameras and door locks arguably make life more convenient.
That futuristic “Back To The Future” vibe can be Marty McFly cool, but are we trading convenience for our privacy and security? Can smart appliances be used for other misdeeds like domestic abuse? Don’t look now, but harassment via smart appliances is a real threat and is actually a growing concern.
Read on and see how this woman may have been a victim of tech abuse from her ex-partner.
Tech wonderland turned into a nightmare
Canadian website CBC recently told the story of Ferial Nijem, a woman whose life was turned upside down when her ex-partner used their former home’s smart tech to torment and harass her.
She said that their home was outfitted by her ex with numerous web-connected amenities – from connected door locks, smart lights, thermostats, speaker systems to 24/7 security cameras – all of which can be monitored and controlled remotely.
But this seemingly futuristic tech wonderland was turned into a modern living nightmare when the same smart appliances that were supposed to give them convenience, comfort and security were used as tools for abuse.
She said that her ex-partner exploited his control over their home’s technology to terrorize her. At one difficult point in their relationship, while they lived separately, Nijem recalled that her ex constantly manipulated the appliances remotely to cause her anguish and grief.
Like a house possessed, lights flickered on off, loud music blared over the home’s speakers, TVs turned on and off – all in the middle of the night.
“If anybody would walk into this situation, they would think they were walking into a horror movie,” Nijem told CBC.
Maybe due to the lack of tech know-how nor technical skills to deal with the problem, Nijem admitted that she was powerless to stop the abuse. Since her ex had set up the system himself, she wasn’t able to override his control. (Hmm, just flick the light switches to off and simply unplug the rowdy appliances, perhaps?)
“Shutting down the system meant shutting down the house, shutting down the lighting system for myself as well,” she confessed.
The signs of abuse started early
But what led to this road of techno-trauma? There were early signs of abuse, Nijem recalled. She said that during the early years of their relationship, she noticed that his controlling personality manifested occasionally.
She recalled that he would always monitor her remotely using the web-connected security cameras he had installed in their home.
He also rarely texted, but rather called her on FaceTime instead to check who she was with at any given time.
This paranoid fear of being cyberstalked – the relentless feeling of being watched all the time – can be understandably troubling.
“He was able to monitor me, you know, using the security surveillance cameras, even remotely, from thousands of miles away,” Nijem told CBC. “You’re never outside the reach of your abuser.”
And from there, as their relationship deteriorated, Nijem’s ex-partner gradually turned from the subtle control freak he was to finally the cyber-boogeyman who haunted their smart home from afar.
What this is telling me is that, technology or not, judging by his apparent personality, he would’ve found a way to torment her anyway – however, the smart home appliances he solely controlled just made it so much easier for him, giving him a heightened sense of power over her.
Domestic abuse via technology is a real problem
Nijem’s story is not a rare occurrence. In fact, with the booming popularity of smart home appliances and web-connected gadgets, marital abuse using technology as a leverage is starting to become commonplace.
Although smart appliances do offer many conveniences in the modern home, this level of connected control can have dangerous consequences for domestic abuse victims.
According to interviews conducted by The New York Times months ago, domestic abuse perpetrators are using a home’s connected appliances like smart speakers, security cameras, smart doorbells, smart lights and smart thermostats to harass, stalk and control their victims.
These revelations indicate that there are emerging occurrences of domestic abuse that leverages the technology inherent in smart home appliances.
Armed with the technical know-how and the apps required to control smart appliances remotely, the person who installs the equipment in a household can abuse this knowledge to intimidate and harass intended victims.
In fact, according to organizations who work with domestic abuse victims, smart home device exploits have ramped up in these cases over the past year. Even lawyers are now trying to figure out ways to include smart home technologies in restraining orders.
Similar to Nijem’s case, the smart appliance/domestic abuse stories range from the remote operation of lights to fiddling with the thermostat to raise a house’s temperature to uncomfortable levels to sudden playback of loud music by smart speakers.
Other dangers include spying and covert surveillance via smart security cameras. Although this kind of monitoring is covered under existing “revenge porn” laws, it is only illegal if the abuser distributes the video taken by a connected security camera.
Turning your house into a smart home is exciting but be careful! Listen to my Komando On Demand podcast to learn how to watch for the warning signs so technology doesn’t take over your home.
How to deal with these dangers?
Of course, the best recourse for smart home appliance abuse victims is to completely disconnect or reset these smart appliances.
However, since neither non-tech savvy victims nor their friends know how these gadgets work, it may be difficult to discern that there’s a pattern of abuse until considerable emotional damage has been done.
Furthermore, potential victims can fight back by learning more about smart devices and by seeking advice on how to operate them. Most of the time, a simple factory reset and a change of passwords is all it takes to regain control of smart appliances.
Conveniences aside, being well-informed and savvy about your smart home is your best defense, not just against hackers, but against domestic abusers, as well.
Note: If you are in an abusive relationship, you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 and 1-800-787-3224 for 24/7 support.
Source: CBC
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Each participant in the SpaceTech workshop would have participated in 3 projects geared toward developing stronger leadership skills in STEM programs. Had the session been held, participants would have received a kit with all the materials needed to create these projects. The projects that were planed were:
* Fizzy Rockets
* Straw Rockets
* A Simple Altitude Tracker
On November 16th and 17th, Kansas 4-H and the Cosmosphere offered a Robotics Experience to youth and adults across Kansas.Thank you to everyone who was able to Join us at the SpaceTech Robotics experience at …
On April 6th Kansas 4-H in conjunction with the Kansas Cosmosphere held an Alien Experience. For those that attended the experience you can access the gallery of pictures from the event at https://kansasspacetech.com/gallery. To access …
Congratulations on participating in the 4-H Rocketry project. In this blog post I want to provide you with some tips on picking out a rocket for the county fair. These tips apply to most counties …
Today I got the question: Is a robot with a remote control that takes a step with each press of the remote (walks) the same as a remote controlled car? Rule 9 in robotics for the Kansas State Fair states: “Remote controlled robots are allowed under certain conditions provided that the robot is not drivable. Remote controlled cars, boats, planes and/or action figures, etc. are not allowed.”
Here is my interpretation of Rule 9 for the Kansas 4-H SpaceTech Robotics as published for 2019 Kansas State Fair.
The big question on this is what are the “series” of actions that occur each time you press the button?
If you press the button and the logic for the button press, for example, is spin motor for 5 seconds or 200 degrees or until you let go of the button and that’s all that happens. Then it’s the same logic as a remote controlled car. You press the button and it moves forward and that is the only thing in the logic “series” that happens.
Now, if the robot has more sets of logic in the series, like spin motor 1 for 200 degrees, spin motor 3 for 90 degrees, leave motors 2 and 4 stationary, and then motors 2 and 4 repeat the 200 and 90 degree spins while motors 1 and 3 remain stationary. That’s a logic series of tasks, and that’s really the dividing line. If when you press the button more than one thing is happening for that button click (preferably with some form of condition like an “if” or a “while” statement) then there is a clear difference between remote control cars. In other words a whole series of things has to happen correctly for it to move forward, not just spinning a motor till you let go of the button.
For example if you built a remote controlled robot that did a figure 8 when you hit a button, that is a series of actions: turn left, keep left, keep left, turn right, keep straight, turn right, keep right, keep right, turn left, keep straight, repeat. The operator with the remote doesn’t have to know all the steps to perform a figure 8, the robot already knows them and the operator just has to know to push the button.
Example of a car’s, boat, action figures logic:
Example of more sophisticated logic or a “series” of events that goes beyond a typical “remote control car” setup:
This is why the rules ask for the copies of the code used for the robot. That way the judges can see the logic of how a robot functions, is it just a single thing that happens with the push of a button or is there more happening, something that shows the robot completing a task? (In this example 4 motors being logically orchestrated in a specific sequence to “walk” in a given manner.)
This is my interpretation of: Is a robot with a remote control that walks the same as a remote controlled car? Other judges and superintendents may interpret this rule differently and that is their desecration to do so.
If you need guidance feel free to post your remote control specific questions in the comments below or use the contact page to send your question to us.
By Wondernerd in Events
Here are the materials that were to be presented at the 2019 Northeast Leadership Event (NELE). Due to weather the NELE was canceled. Enjoy the material below and should you have questions please use the contact us page or add a comment at the bottom of the page.
Fizzy Rockets
Straw Rockets
A Simple Altitude Tracker
Fizzy Rocket
1 – Foam Rocket Cover Optional, or build a better performing rocket with paper
1 – Film Canister https://1drnrd.me/FilmCanister
1 – Packet of Alka-Seltzer tablet(s) https://1drnrd.me/seltzer
https://tra.extension.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2017/05/3.Alka-Seltzer-rocket.pdf
Straw Rocket
1 – Large Straw https://1drnrd.me/BigStraw
1 – Small Straw Just about any will work
3 – Mailing Labels Use various sizes to experiment with flight
Altitude Tracker
1 – Protractor https://1drnrd.me/protractor
2 – Mailing Labels Tape works as well, just needed to attach the straw
1 – String Any string will work
1 – Washer Used as a weight, any item that can keep the string tight works
Altitude Tracker Instructions
Straw Rocket Instructions
Safety glasses are strongly recommended for the above projects.
1 – Pair Safety Glasses https://1drnrd.me/glasses
Links to products are provided as examples and do not constitute endorsement of these products or sellers.
Capitalization on the links above matter.
https://1drnrd.me/protractor is not the same as https://1drnrd.me/Protractor
Fizzy Rocket, NELF, Protractor Rocket Tracker, Rocketry, Simple Altitude Tracker, Straw Rocket
By Wondernerd in Events, Experience
On November 16th and 17th, Kansas 4-H and the Cosmosphere offered a Robotics Experience to youth and adults across Kansas. Thank you to everyone who was able to Join us at the SpaceTech Robotics experience at the Kansas Cosmosphere. We hope everyone had a great time at the event. Photos from the event are available through the online gallery once you have requested a login. You can request one by using the contact form for the website. Videos taken will be posted at a later time as they require additional processing.
Robotics, SpaceTech
On April 6th Kansas 4-H in conjunction with the Kansas Cosmosphere held an Alien Experience.
For those that attended the experience you can access the gallery of pictures from the event at https://kansasspacetech.com/gallery. To access the pictures please use the contact page and in the comments page request an account for the gallery. If you did not attend the Experience you will not be able to access the gallery. Your email will be validated prior issuing an account.
Cosmosphere, Gallery, Kansas 4-H, Pictures
By Wondernerd in Rocketry
Congratulations on participating in the 4-H Rocketry project. In this blog post I want to provide you with some tips on picking out a rocket for the county fair. These tips apply to most counties in Kansas but possibly not all. These tips will also help you if you are eligible to take your rocket to the Kansas State Fair.
If the rules for rocketry seem really really long you are right they are. The rocketry project is really complex. After all it is rocket science. 🙂 Luckily in this post and the ones to follow I will try to break it down so you can get started building really cool rockets for the county fair.
The first thing we have to figure out is where should we go to purchase a rocket. There are several choices. I recommend you try one of of the following.
A local hobby store or science center. These will have the best selection and will be the most knowledge about rocketry.
A hobby chain store, like Hobby Lobby. These will have a good selection of rockets you can choose from. Big box stores don’t typically carry a good selection of rockets so you may want to skip them.
Online. There are many hobby stores online that have rockets you can order. It can be hard to get a good idea of what the rocket looks like.
Now that you know where to buy your rocket lets think about what type of rocket you might want to build. You probably know there are all sorts of rockets to choose from, from rockets that are 6 feet tall to rockets that are shorter than 4 inches. Which is the best rocket for your first or second year at the fair?
First thing we want is a rocket that has cardboard or balsa wood fins. DO NOT get one that has plastic fins, even if they snap together. Most counties and the state fair do not allow plastic fins of any sort. The reason for this is the judges want to see your ability to construct a rocket not the company that makes it. That said there are a lot of good rockets to choose from that have balsa wood or cardboard fins.
It’s ok if you want to build one with plastic fins, just don’t bring it to the fair unless you know your county allows them.
Now that we have the fins taken care of what other things should you look for when choosing a rocket?
The next thing you want to check is if the rocket is a “scale model” or not. What’s a scale model? In simple terms its any full sized rocket you’ve seen before. For example the space shuttle, AMRAM missiles, Atlas missiles, the Star Trek Enterprise, etc. What the Enterprise isn’t a real rocket? Your right, but the TV series defined the dimensions of the full sized ship so it counts as a scale model. At this point you’re probably wondering if there is an easy way to figure out if a rocket is a scale model. In most cases there is. If you look at the package it will say something like “1:25 Scale” or “Replica” or “Scale Model.”
If its a scale model I recommend avoiding that model for your first year. The reason for this is judges are more picky on these rockets especially with how they are painted. There is a rule in most fair books that says “scale models” are to be painted like the real thing. That means if the rocket has red paint on the fins and the rest of the rocket is white the judges will expect it to have red fins and a white body. So skip the “scale models” for your first year.
It’s my personal preference to get an Estes model rocket your first year. The reason for this is that most of the time their instructions are very complete and they are really good if something was damaged when you open up the model kit to start constructing it.
So which model to choose? Pick something fairly simple. 3 or 4 fins that’s about a foot long. I know you want something that has a lot of fins and looks really cool. The best way to impress the judges your first few years in the project is build a high quality simple model. To judges that is more cool than a complex rocket. As a rocketry judge I have seen simple rockets that have received a purple and an average looking complex rockets that got a Red. It’s not about how cool a rocket looks, it’s about how well you construct it.
So go and pick a rocket with balsa wood or cardboard fins that’s not a “scale model.” Then get ready to blast off!
In my next post I’ll cover picking up the supplies you will need to build your rocket.
Balsa Fins, Cardboard Fins, First Rocket, plastic fins, Scale Model, Skill level 1, snap together fins
National Association of Rocketry High Power Rocket Safety Code (Aug 2012)
This is a copy of the NAR High Power Rocket Safety Code and is only listed here for referance. The original document can be found at http://www.nar.org/safety-information/high-power-rocket-safety-code/ Please refer to this link for the most up to date version of the High Power Rocket Safety Code.
High Power Rocket Safety Code
Effective August 2012
Certification. I will only fly high power rockets or possess high power rocket motors that are within the scope of my user certification and required licensing.
Materials. I will use only lightweight materials such as paper, wood, rubber, plastic, fiberglass, or when necessary ductile metal, for the construction of my rocket.
Motors. I will use only certified, commercially made rocket motors, and will not tamper with these motors or use them for any purposes except those recommended by the manufacturer. I will not allow smoking, open flames, nor heat sources within 25 feet of these motors.
Ignition System. I will launch my rockets with an electrical launch system, and with electrical motor igniters that are installed in the motor only after my rocket is at the launch pad or in a designated prepping area. My launch system will have a safety interlock that is in series with the launch switch that is not installed until my rocket is ready for launch, and will use a launch switch that returns to the “off” position when released. The function of onboard energetics and firing circuits will be inhibited except when my rocket is in the launching position.
Misfires. If my rocket does not launch when I press the button of my electrical launch system, I will remove the launcher’s safety interlock or disconnect its battery, and will wait 60 seconds after the last launch attempt before allowing anyone to approach the rocket.
Launch Safety. I will use a 5-second countdown before launch. I will ensure that a means is available to warn participants and spectators in the event of a problem. I will ensure that no person is closer to the launch pad than allowed by the accompanying Minimum Distance Table. When arming onboard energetics and firing circuits I will ensure that no person is at the pad except safety personnel and those required for arming and disarming operations. I will check the stability of my rocket before flight and will not fly it if it cannot be determined to be stable. When conducting a simultaneous launch of more than one high power rocket I will observe the additional requirements of NFPA 1127.
Launcher. I will launch my rocket from a stable device that provides rigid guidance until the rocket has attained a speed that ensures a stable flight, and that is pointed to within 20 degrees of vertical. If the wind speed exceeds 5 miles per hour I will use a launcher length that permits the rocket to attain a safe velocity before separation from the launcher. I will use a blast deflector to prevent the motor’s exhaust from hitting the ground. I will ensure that dry grass is cleared around each launch pad in accordance with the accompanying Minimum Distance table, and will increase this distance by a factor of 1.5 and clear that area of all combustible material if the rocket motor being launched uses titanium sponge in the propellant.
Size. My rocket will not contain any combination of motors that total more than 40,960 N-sec (9208 pound-seconds) of total impulse. My rocket will not weigh more at liftoff than one-third of the certified average thrust of the high power rocket motor(s) intended to be ignited at launch.
Flight Safety. I will not launch my rocket at targets, into clouds, near airplanes, nor on trajectories that take it directly over the heads of spectators or beyond the boundaries of the launch site, and will not put any flammable or explosive payload in my rocket. I will not launch my rockets if wind speeds exceed 20 miles per hour. I will comply with Federal Aviation Administration airspace regulations when flying, and will ensure that my rocket will not exceed any applicable altitude limit in effect at that launch site.
Launch Site. I will launch my rocket outdoors, in an open area where trees, power lines, occupied buildings, and persons not involved in the launch do not present a hazard, and that is at least as large on its smallest dimension as one-half of the maximum altitude to which rockets are allowed to be flown at that site or 1500 feet, whichever is greater, or 1000 feet for rockets with a combined total impulse of less than 160 N-sec, a total liftoff weight of less than 1500 grams, and a maximum expected altitude of less than 610 meters (2000 feet).
Launcher Location. My launcher will be 1500 feet from any occupied building or from any public highway on which traffic flow exceeds 10 vehicles per hour, not including traffic flow related to the launch. It will also be no closer than the appropriate Minimum Personnel Distance from the accompanying table from any boundary of the launch site.
Recovery System. I will use a recovery system such as a parachute in my rocket so that all parts of my rocket return safely and undamaged and can be flown again, and I will use only flame-resistant or fireproof recovery system wadding in my rocket.
Recovery Safety. I will not attempt to recover my rocket from power lines, tall trees, or other dangerous places, fly it under conditions where it is likely to recover in spectator areas or outside the launch site, nor attempt to catch it as it approaches the ground.
MINIMUM DISTANCE TABLE
Installed Total Impulse (Newton-Seconds)
Equivalent High Power Motor Type
Minimum Diameter of Cleared Area (ft.)
Minimum Personnel Distance (ft.)
Minimum Personnel Distance (Complex Rocket) (ft.)
0 — 320.00 H or smaller 50 100 200
320.01 — 640.00 I 50 100 200
640.01 — 1,280.00 J 50 100 200
1,280.01 — 2,560.00 K 75 200 300
2,560.01 — 5,120.00 L 100 300 500
5,120.01 — 10,240.00 M 125 500 1000
10,240.01 — 20,480.00 N 125 1000 1500
20,480.01 — 40,960.00 O 125 1500 2000
Note: A Complex rocket is one that is multi-staged or that is propelled by two or more rocket motors
Revision of July 2008
High Power Rocketry, HPR, Rocket Safety Code, Rocketry, Safety Code
National Association of Rocketry Model Rocketry Safety Code (Aug 2012)
This is a copy of the NAR Model Rocket Safety Code and is only listed here for referance. The original document can be found at http://www.nar.org/safety-information/model-rocket-safety-code/ Please refer to this link for the most up to date version of the Model Rocket Safety Code.
Model Rocket Safety Code
Materials. I will use only lightweight, non-metal parts for the nose, body, and fins of my rocket.
Motors. I will use only certified, commercially-made model rocket motors, and will not tamper with these motors or use them for any purposes except those recommended by the manufacturer.
Ignition System. I will launch my rockets with an electrical launch system and electrical motor igniters. My launch system will have a safety interlock in series with the launch switch, and will use a launch switch that returns to the “off” position when released.
Launch Safety. I will use a countdown before launch, and will ensure that everyone is paying attention and is a safe distance of at least 15 feet away when I launch rockets with D motors or smaller, and 30 feet when I launch larger rockets. If I am uncertain about the safety or stability of an untested rocket, I will check the stability before flight and will fly it only after warning spectators and clearing them away to a safe distance. When conducting a simultaneous launch of more than ten rockets I will observe a safe distance of 1.5 times the maximum expected altitude of any launched rocket.
Launcher. I will launch my rocket from a launch rod, tower, or rail that is pointed to within 30 degrees of the vertical to ensure that the rocket flies nearly straight up, and I will use a blast deflector to prevent the motor’s exhaust from hitting the ground. To prevent accidental eye injury, I will place launchers so that the end of the launch rod is above eye level or will cap the end of the rod when it is not in use.
Size. My model rocket will not weigh more than 1,500 grams (53 ounces) at liftoff and will not contain more than 125 grams (4.4 ounces) of propellant or 320 N-sec (71.9 pound-seconds) of total impulse.
Flight Safety. I will not launch my rocket at targets, into clouds, or near airplanes, and will not put any flammable or explosive payload in my rocket.
Launch Site. I will launch my rocket outdoors, in an open area at least as large as shown in the accompanying table, and in safe weather conditions with wind speeds no greater than 20 miles per hour. I will ensure that there is no dry grass close to the launch pad, and that the launch site does not present risk of grass fires.
Recovery System. I will use a recovery system such as a streamer or parachute in my rocket so that it returns safely and undamaged and can be flown again, and I will use only flame-resistant or fireproof recovery system wadding in my rocket.
Recovery Safety. I will not attempt to recover my rocket from power lines, tall trees, or other dangerous places.
LAUNCH SITE DIMENSIONS
Installed Total Impulse (N-sec)
Equivalent Motor Type
Minimum Site Dimensions (ft.)
0.00–1.25 1/4A, 1/2A 50
1.26–2.50 A 100
2.51–5.00 B 200
5.01–10.00 C 400
10.01–20.00 D 500
20.01–40.00 E 1,000
40.01–80.00 F 1,000
80.01–160.00 G 1,000
160.01–320.00 Two Gs 1,500
Revision of August, 2012
Launch Site, Rocket Safety Code, Rocketry
Rocketry Crib Sheet (Finding height & other math)
This is a quick crib sheet to help you as you build model rockets. There is much more to be found on the Internet. If you find a helpful link please share it in the comments section below.
To Convert Inches (in) to Centimeters (cm): (in) * 2.54 = (cm’s)
Example: 5 in * 2.54 = 12.7 cm
To Convert Feet (ft) to Meters (m): (ft) / 3.281 = (m)
Example: 7 ft / 3.281 = 2.1335 m
To Convert Meters (m) to Feet (ft): (m) * 3.281 = (ft)
Example: 30 m * 3.281 = 98.43 ft
Added 1-19-19, for a guide to build your own altitude tracker using a protractor review this guide we put together.
Updated 7-20-16, some of the links below have changed the content and no longer include the simple altitude calculation so we have added it below.
To calculate the height of a right triangle: tan(angle) * distance = height
(yes, use a calculator to find the tangent)
Example: tan(59°) * 100 feet = 166.43 feet
Example: Sandy is launching her rocket. Her cousin, Tim, is standing 300 feet away with a protractor when Sandy launches her rocket. The protractor angle reads 127° when the rocket reaches its highest point, known as apogee. Tim knows he needs to subtract 90° from the angle on the protractor to get the correct angle. How high did the rocket go?
tan(127° – 90°) * 300 feet = height
tan(37°) * 300 feet = height
~0.75355 * 300 feet = height
~226.07 feet = height
Sandy’s rocket flew about 226.07 feet in the air. (We round off the extra digits after .07)
Finding a side in a right-angled triangle
https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/trig-finding-side-right-triangle.html
How to measure model rocket altitude
http://www.hobbizine.com/rocketaltitude.html
Rocket Center of pressure calculator
http://physics.gallaudet.edu/tools/rocketcop.html
Rocket Altitude Calculator
http://www.unm.edu/~tbeach/flashstuff/RocketAltitudeFixedSize.html
Determine Maximum Altitude
http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/rkthowhi.html
OpenRocket Model Rocket Simulator – Freeware
http://openrocket.sourceforge.net/
Altitude Tracking
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/teachers/rockets/act9.html
Flight Simulator Programs (List of different software)
http://www.thrustcurve.org/simulators.shtml
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NCAA selects Arkansas as No. 5 seed in NCAA Baseball Tournament
FILE - In this June 11, 2018, file photo, Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn is shown in the dugout before the Razorbacks game against South Carolina at an NCAA college baseball tournament super regional baseball game in Fayetteville, Ark. Arkansas will make its ninth College World Series appearance this weekend, the school's fifth in 16 seasons under coach Dave Van Horn. The Razorbacks believe it's time they finally won their first national championship. (AP Photo/Michael Woods, File)
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (News Release) – After receiving the No. 5 for the second-straight year, Arkansas baseball now knows its opponents for the upcoming 2019 NCAA Fayetteville Regional as it looks to return to the College World Series in back-to-back years.
2019 NCAA Fayetteville Regional
1. (5) Arkansas (41-17)
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3. TCU (32-26)
4. Central Connecticut (30-21)
Baum Stadium was announced as a host for the third-straight season Sunday, as the full 64-team field was announced live on ESPNU Monday morning. No. 1 seed Arkansas is scheduled to play the day game against the No. 4 seed Central Connecticut at 1 p.m. CT on Friday, June 1 while No. 2 seed California will face off against No. 3 TCU at 6 p.m. CT.
The No. 5 overall seed matches the seed last year’s team received, which is its highest in program history. Arkansas will head into tournament play as a top-8 national seed for the fourth time in school history and is making its 31st overall appearance in the tournament. It’s also the 16th appearance for Arkansas in the last 17 years and it’s the first time Baum Stadium has been selected as a host site in three-straight seasons.
Arkansas is 83-66 (.557) all-time in the NCAA Tournament, including a 57-41 (.582) record in regional action. The Razorbacks have advanced to the College World Series nine times and have advanced to a Super Regional seven times. Head coach Dave Van Horn has led Arkansas to the NCAA Regional Final in each of his last eight tournament appearances.
The team advancing from the Fayetteville, Arkansas Regional will play the winner of the Oxford, Mississippi Regional.
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Will The Charter Commission Begin To Act Responsibly?
by Larry Lee | Aug 9, 2019 | Charter Schools |
The state charter commission held their organizational meeting on August 27, 2015. At best, one can only conclude that they have conducted business since then in a very haphazard manner.
For instance, a close examination of commission minutes (some of which are posted on-line and some of which are not) shows the only election for chair and vice-chair was at the first meeting in 2015. However, their bylaws clearly state that terms of both are for one year. Which means there should be an election each year.
Ed Richardson was picked as chair at the first meeting. Thomas Rains and Gloria Batts were picked as co-vice-chairs. But when Richardson became interim state school superintendent in 2017 minutes say that Mac Buttram moved from vice-chair to chair But when was he elected vice-chair? The minutes don’t say.
Minutes from April 25, 2017 say the commission would elect officers at the May 2017 meeting. But if an election was held in May 2017, the minutes say nothing about it.
The only mention of another election came at the September 22, 2017 meeting when Mac Buttram called for a motion to elect a vice-chair since he had moved to chair. Henry Nelson of Birmingham was elected.
Complying with by-laws is basic behavior for any organization. Let’s hope the five new charter commission members just selected will insist on doing so.
And speaking of minutes, ones for the commission are simply not thorough enough for the public to understand what is really going on For example, the minutes of February 4, 2019 say Mac Buttram introduced David Marshall as a new commissioner. Who did he replace? The minutes don’t say.
I am secretary of the board for the national Rural Schools Collaborative. Minutes are not distributed to the board without me first reviewing them for accuracy and for making sure they reflect what happened at a particular board meeting. The charter commission is a public body. They should be held to a higher standard than they have exhibited in the last four years.
They should also post their agenda publicly at least one week prior to a meeting. This has not been the case. In fact, the agenda is not available to the public until they show up for a commission meeting.
When Woodland Prep was given a one-year extension on June 7, board member Henry Nelson asked why no one from Washington County attended the meeting.
It was because they did not know discussion of an extension was on the agenda. Had they known, they would have been there. But it is 175 miles from Chatom to Montgomery and you don’t hop in your car and make that drive unless you have a good reason.
This is a 10-member commission. Five new members were chosen August 8. Two others have been selected since the first of the year. In other words, there is a new sheriff in town. Let’s hope he demands this commission show more accountability and act professionally..
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Young producers jump to the front of the Oscar contender line with ‘Moonlight,’ ‘La La Land’ and more
Fred Berger, left, and Jordan Horowitz are among a handful of young producers who may be in line for Oscar nominations this season.
(Christina House / For The Times)
By Gregory Ellwood
When producers Jordan Horowitz and Fred Berger sat down with Damien Chazelle at Hugo’s in West Hollywood six years ago, they realized the young filmmaker’s pitch for “La La Land” was beyond ambitious. An old-fashioned musical that was a love letter to Los Angeles and jazz? There was only one way to describe the potential project.
“There is this dirty word in the film business called ‘execution dependent.’ We love that word,” Berger, 35, says. “What it means is the concept alone and the package alone isn’t enough to salvage it if you don’t nail the movie. Anything less than what Damien and our team pulled off here would make original musicals dead forever.”
That might seem a bit dramatic, but considering Horowitz and Berger’s long journey with what is now expected to be a leading best picture contender, a film that has brought them to the forefront of up-and-coming producers, it makes a lot of sense. Chazelle had made only one small film at the time, 2009’s “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench,” and both producers suggested he make another to prove he could execute on a larger level. That turned into “Whiplash,” which went from short to Sundance prize winner to a surprise Oscar player a year later.
“Seeing [‘Whiplash’] beforehand we knew it was going to be a thing, so with ‘La La Land’ we had this robust package ready to go and Damien knew he wanted to do that as his next picture,” Horowitz, 36, says. “So when ‘Whiplash’ hit at Sundance we had that already seeded into all the various companies you have to seed it into and they were able to say, ‘OK, let’s take this journey now.’”
That road including a much-lauded scene in which the film’s two leads (Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling) perform a musical dance number in the Hollywood Hills as the sun sets behind them. It would have been tough to pull off even had there been multiple edits. But Chazelle wanted it in one shot, which meant one long six-minute take that could be attempted only six times over two days.
“It had been so rigorously rehearsed. It’s just a crazy shot and a crazy number and at the end of it, after she does the thing with her car and it beeps and she walks [out of frame] there was this amazing cheer from the crew,” Horowitz recalls. “And every time I see that walk-off on screen I expect to hear it before the cut.”
Adele Romanski is also enjoying a breakout year. A 2011 Independent Spirit Award nominee for “The Myth of the American Sleepover,” producer Romanski, 34, teamed up with fellow Florida State alum Barry Jenkins to bring critic’s favorite “Moonlight” to life. That meant coordinating the schedules of an ensemble cast that could only participate on specific days of the 25-day Miami shoot.
“Moonlight” producer Adele Romanski.
(Christina House / For The Times )
“Naomie Harris’ visa thing was difficult. She only ended up on set with us for three days, which was a direct result of her doing her Bond press tour and then Mahershala [Ali] was also shooting ‘Luke Cage’ and also shooting ‘House of Cards,’” Romanski recalls says. “There were definitely schedule complications, but this is what I’m used to on the independent level. Your schedule always becomes like a nasty game of twister. “
Romanski ended up co-producing with Plan B’s Jeremy Kleiner and Dede Gardner, who came on right before production began. She says it turned out to be the “purest professional creative experience” in her career so far.
“Everyone was on the same page at all times and had the same vision and the same motivation, which was always love of this project,” Romanski says. “Love of this script. Love of this director. It was sort of an ego-less environment. I think it was recognized we had a particular skill set, they had a particular skill set and I think everybody was excited about the opportunity to learn from one another. And we did all learn from each other.”
“Manchester by the Sea” has its own newcomer to the scene in Kimberly Steward. The founder of K Period Media had previously financed and produced two documentaries before jumping on board to fund and produce Kenneth Lonergan’s first film since 2011’s “Margaret.”
“Manchester by the Sea” producer Kimberly Steward.
(Michael Nagle / For The Times )
“Sometimes financiers are a little bit shy,” Steward, 35, says. “If you’re only involved in investing the money and kind of sitting back and letting it happen that’s a very scary thing. I think in some ways I am grateful that I am interested in being a creative producer — from that perspective I am wearing two different hats. It’s easier to swallow the pill when you are maybe spending a little extra money here or there or you have to shut down for a few hours because of snow. You are not really looking at the bottom line, you are looking at what you are creating.”
Steward’s company is 2 ½ years old and with “Manchester” she may become just the second African American woman after Oprah Winfrey to pick up a best picture nomination.
“We are very drawn to elevated material and just love to create,” Steward says. “It was really about being able to support young and up-and-coming filmmakers but also to go after that difficult material that often doesn’t get the spotlight shown on them.”
Speaking to all four producers, a consistent thread is their unwavering support of their directors and belief in the creative process. Kerber likely speaks for Horowitz, Romanski and Steward’s feelings on all three films when he notes, “It’s very emotional for us to see the film because even at times when we believed the movie would happen we never really thought it would be the movie we dreamed about, which is actually what is on screen.”
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Cravath Advises on More Than $100 Billion in M&A Activity Over Two Weeks
The Wall Street firm advised on deals worth a combined $100 billion in just two weeks.
By Patrick Smith | May 14, 2019 at 07:27 AM | The original version of this story was published on The American Lawyer
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Home » News & Opinion » Pregnancy Safe for Women With Breast Cancer History
Pregnancy Safe for Women With Breast Cancer History
Robin Warshaw, Contributing Writer
Elizabeth S. Ginsburg, MD
Analysis of studies conducted over 40 years suggests pregnancy does not increase risk for recurrence
For years, conventional wisdom and medical advice said pregnancy after breast cancer could lead to cancer returning. In this analysis of studies over 40 years, an international research team found that pregnancy is safe for women with a history of breast cancer and does not hurt overall survival.
The study, published in the European Journal of Cancer, also looked at related issues, including why some research has shown a possibly protective effect of pregnancy.
Reason for Study
With many postponing pregnancy until they are older, more women could be diagnosed with breast cancer while still wanting to have children.
Levels of the hormone estrogen are very high during pregnancy. Many breast cancers have estrogen receptors, and the length of estrogen exposure may be related to breast cancer incidence. For that reason, some women affected by breast cancer are told to avoid becoming pregnant, or fear having a pregnancy.
Yet there is no “strong supporting evidence” to show that pregnancy is unsafe, say the authors of this study. They undertook this analysis to find out if becoming pregnant after breast cancer affects overall survival.
The researchers included 14 studies in their analysis. They looked at data on 1,244 women who became pregnant after breast cancer and compared them to a control group of 18,145 women who did not become pregnant after diagnosis. The researchers also used unpublished statistics from some studies to gain more details.
Each woman in the control group was matched with a pregnancy group woman. Some control group women had survived at least as long as their counterparts before becoming pregnant. Others survived without a breast cancer recurrence for that same time. Most of the included studies analyzed overall survival for at least 10 years.
Overall, the study suggested pregnancy is safe after breast cancer. It also showed that women who became pregnant after breast cancer had a significantly lower risk of death than those who did not.
The latter finding suggests pregnancy protects women from recurrence. But the differences between groups could be due to the healthy mother effect, or when women with earlier stage cancers, who have a lower risk of recurrence, may be encouraged by their doctors to become pregnant (and do), while women with more aggressive cancers may be advised against it (and do not).
To remove the influence of healthy mother effect, the researchers analyzed a smaller control subgroup whose cancer had not returned. That analysis found that overall survival for women who became pregnant after breast cancer was not significantly better than for women who did not become pregnant.
To see whether pregnancy’s hormonal changes might affect women with ER+ cancers, several of the authors and others conducted a later study of 333 women, presented at the 2012 European Breast Cancer Conference. They found no difference in the length of survival without cancer return between women with ER+ and ER- diagnoses following pregnancy.
This study demonstrates the long-term safety of pregnancy. Other studies have shown higher recurrence rates for women who become pregnant less than two years after diagnosis. For that reason, the authors suggest waiting two years before trying to conceive. They also advise women with estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer to complete the recommended five years of hormonal therapy (tamoxifen) after primary treatment before attempting pregnancy.
If you want to become pregnant, it may reassure you to know pregnancy is safe to consider after breast cancer. Make sure your doctor clears you before you start trying.
Talk with your providers soon after diagnosis or early in your care. Here are questions to ask:
What can be done to preserve my fertility for a later pregnancy?
How long will my breast cancer treatment last?
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February 14 2020 - February 16 2020●The Fairmont Hotel and the Masonic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
May 1 2020 - May 3 2020●The Sheraton NY Times Square Hotel, New York, NY
May-7-2020, ●Dedham, MA
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July 7-10, 2020●Cambridge, MA
July 13-17, 2020●Boston, MA
Applying Learning Sciences for Deeper
Reasoning, Retention, and Reflection
The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA
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TEACHING STUDENTS HOW TO LEARN
Today's knowledge-based, rapidly changing world requires that students have deeper knowledge, skills, and competencies in order to succeed at work and life. But how should schools promote deeper learning skills, such as problem solving, critical thinking, reasoning, inquiry, reflection, retention, transfer, and mastery? Fortunately, insights from the brain and learning sciences are providing the most effective ways to teach and learn these skills. Join us for our 20th anniversary event to explore the science of learning and deeper learning. Discover how the brain learns, ways to teach students how to learn, and strategies to make learning stick. Learn new ways to improve student reflection, reasoning, and critical thinking skills; engage deeper learning and reading through science, digital tools, gaming, projects, and problem-based learning; and deepen content knowledge and mastery by boosting retrieval practice and memory retention.
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You will gain knowledge about:
Helping students understand how they learn
More effective and efficient instructional strategies
Using the science of learning for deeper student learning
Ways to promote deeper thinking, inquiry, and reasoning
The science of reading, writing, and language learning
How to make learning stick to remember more and forget less
Engaging students with digital tools, badges, projects, and problems
Strategies, blueprints, and examples of successful deeper learning
Using practice and spacing to boost retention, retrieval, and recall
Teaching students critical thinking, metacognition, and reflection
Providing rigorous, relevant, and engaging learning experiences
The science of motivation and ways to increase student engagement
This conference is applicable for K-12 teachers, administrators, curriculum and staff developers, learning specialists, school psychologists and counselors, early childhood professionals, reading, language, science, and technology teachers, superintendents, principals and school heads, staff development trainers, project-based learning professionals, testing/assessment staff, college and university professors, and other educators that support classroom instruction.
David B. Daniel, PhD
L&B Conference Chair; Professor of Psychology, James Madison University; Former Managing Editor, Mind, Brain, and Education Journal; Winner of the 2013 Transforming Education Through Neuroscience Award; Co-Author, "Educational Neuroscience: Are We There Yet?" (2019, Wiley Handbook on Education) and “Promising Principles: Translating the Science of Learning to Educational Practice” (2012, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition)
Linda Darling-Hammond, EdD
Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus, Stanford University; Faculty Sponsor, Stanford Teacher Education Program; President, California's State Board of Education; Co-Author, Preparing Teachers for Deeper Learning (2019), “Implications for Educational Practice of the Science of Learning and Development” (2018, Applied Developmental Science), Empowered Educators (2017), Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success (2016), and Teaching in the Flat World: Learning from High-Performing Systems (2015)
Barbara A. Oakley, PhD
Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, Oakland University; Co-Author, Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying; A Guide for Kids and Teens (2018); Author, Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential (2017) and A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (2014)
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, PhD
Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK; Editor-in-Chief, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience; Author, Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain (2018); Co-Author, The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education (2005)
David H. Rose, EdD
Founder and Chief Education Officer Emeritus, Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST); Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Recipient, Special Education Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council for Exceptional Children; Co-Author, Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice (2013) and Teaching Every student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning (2002); Co-Editor, Universal Design for Learning in the Classroom: Practical Applications (2012)
John T. Almarode, PhD
Co-Director, Center for STEM Education and Outreach; Associate Professor in the Department of Early, Elementary, and Reading Education, James Madison University; Co-Editor, Teacher Educator’s Journal; Co-Author,Clarity for Learning (2018), From Snorkelers to Scuba Divers: Making the Elementary Science Classroom a Place of Engagement and Deep Learning (2017), Visible Learning for Science (2017), and Captivate, Activate, and Invigorate the Student Brain in Science and Math, Grades 6–12 (2013)
1) THE SCIENCE OF DEEPER LEARNING: TEACH STUDENTS HOW TO LEARN
Teaching for Deeper Learning: Implications of Science of Learning and Development
In Search of Deeper Learning
Jal D. Mehta, PhD
Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Co-Editor, Learning Deeply Blog, Education Week; Author, The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling (2013); Co-Author, Education in a New Society: Renewing the Sociology of Education (2018) and The Futures of Education Reform (2012)
Learning How to Learn: Helping Students Succeed in School
The Science of How We Learn
Stanislas Dehaene, PhD
Professor, Experimental Cognitive Psychology, College de France; Director, INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit; Author, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine... for Now (Forthcoming), Space, Time, and Number in the Brain (2018), Consciousness and the Brain (2014), The Number Sense (2011), and Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention (2009)
The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education
Diving Into Deeper Learning and the Science of Learning: Putting It All Together
How Knowledge of Learning Sciences Has Influenced Teacher Practice and Efficacy Beliefs
Mariale M. Hardiman, EdD
Co-Founder and Director, Neuro-Education Initiative (NEI); Professor of Clinical Education and Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Education, Johns Hopkins University; Co-Author, “Exploring Teacher Efficacy Beliefs in Puerto Rico: Results From a Neuroeducation Professional Development Study” (2018, AERA) and “Neuroeducation, Neuroethics, and Classroom Teaching: Where Brain Sciences Meet Pedagogy” (2012, Neuroethics)
Digging Deeper Into How to Learn and the Science of Learning (Follow-Up Session)
Deeper Learning: Transforming High School Education in the Twenty-First Century
Monica R. Martinez, PhD
Education Strategist; Senior Advisor, XQ Institute; Former Deeper Learning Senior Fellow, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Presidential Appointee to the White House Commission of Educational Excellence for Hispanics; Co-Author, Deeper Learning: How Eight Innovative Public Schools Are Transforming Education in the Twenty-First Century (2018, Reprint Edition)
The State of the Onion: Peeling Back Twenty Years of the Science of Learning and Instruction
A Blueprint for Deeper Learning
Lissa Pijanowski, EdD
Founder and Chief Learning Officer, Innovate 2 Educate; Senior Fellow, International Center for Leadership in Education; Author, Architects of Deeper Learning: Intentional Design for High Impact Instruction (2018); Contributor to Educational Leadership, Journal of Staff Development, Edutopia; Blogger, Shaped: The Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Education Blog
Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning
Pooja K. Agarwal, PhD
Cognitive Scientist; Former K-12 Teacher; Former Director of K-12 Student Assessment, Illinois State Department of Education; Founder, RetrievalPractice.org; Assistant Professor, Berklee College of Music; Former Project Lead, HarvardX (Massive Open Online Courses), Harvard University; Author, Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning (2019); Co-Author, "Benefits from Retrieval Practice Are Greater for Students with Lower Working Memory Capacity" (2017, Memory), "Both Multiple-Choice and Short-Answer Quizzes Enhance Later Exam Performance in Middle and High School Classes" (2014, Journal of Experimental Psychology), and "Advances in Cognitive Psychology Relevant to Education" (2012, Educational Psychology Review)
2) THE SCIENCE OF DEEPER THINKING: BOOST CRITICAL THINKING & REASONING SKILLS
Think Like Socrates: Create a Culture of Inquiry, Critical Thinking, and Deeper Learning
Shanna Peeples, MEd
Doctoral Candidate in Education Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Former Teaching Fellow, Harvard University; Former Educator in Residence for TED Conferences; 2015 "National Teacher of the Year" Winner; Author, Think Like Socrates: Invite Wonder and Empathy Into the Classroom (2019)
Knowledge and Practice: The Real Keys to Critical Thinking
Daniel T. Willingham, PhD
Cognitive Scientist; Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia; Blogger, Science and Education Blog; Writer, “Ask the Cognitive Scientist” Column, American Educator; Associate Editor, Mind, Brain, and Education Journal; Author, "How to Teach Critical Thinking" (2019, Education: Future Frontiers), "Should Teachers Know the Basic Science of How Children Learn?" (2019, American Educator), Cognition: The Thinking Animal (2019, 4th Edition), When Can Your Trust the Experts? (2012), and Why Don't Students Like School? (2010)
Dispelling the Myths: Understanding Neuromyths and Misconceptions About Learning and Thinking
Laura T. Germine, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director, The Many Brains Project; Director, Laboratory for Brain and Cognitive Health Technology; Technical Director, McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital; Co-Author, "Dispelling the Myth: Training in Education or Neuroscience Decreases but Does Not Eliminate Beliefs in Neuromyths" (2017, Frontal Psychology) and "When Does Cognitive Functioning Peak? The Asynchronous Rise and Fall of Different Cognitive Abilities Across the Life Span" (2015, Psychological Sciences)
Brain Briefs: Do Schools Teach the Way Kids Learn and Think?
Arthur B. Markman, PhD
Annabel Iron Worsham Centennial Professor of Psychology and Marketing, The University of Texas at Austin; Former Executive Editor, Cognitive Science; Author, Bring Your Brain to Work: Using Cognitive Science to Get a Job, Do it Well, and Advance Your Career (2019), Smart Change: Five Tools to Create New and Sustainable Habits in Yourself and Others (2014), and Smart Thinking: Three Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done (2012); Co-Author, Brain Briefs: Answers to the Most (and Least) Pressing Questions About Your Mind (2016) and Tools for Innovation (2009)
How Does Education Shape Reasoning and the Brain?
Silvia A. Bunge, PhD
Professor of Psychology; Professor, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute; Director, Building Blocks of Cognition Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley; Co-Author, “Eye Gaze Patterns Reveal How Reasoning Skills Improve With Experience” (2018, Science of Learning), “Neuroscientific Insights Into the Development of Analogical Reasoning” (2018, Developmental Science), and "Analogical Reasoning in the Classroom: Insights From Cognitive Science" (2015, Mind, Brain, and Education)
Boosting Cognitive Engagement and Critical Thinking in K-12 Classrooms
Rebecca Stobaugh, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Teacher Education, Western Kentucky University; Former Principal and Classroom Teacher; Author, 50 Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement: Creating a Thinking Culture in the Classroom (2019), Assessing Critical Thinking in Elementary Schools: Meeting the Common Core (2013), and Assessing Critical Thinking in Middle and High Schools: Meeting the Common Core (2013); Co-Author, Critical Thinking in the Classroom: A Practitioner's Guide (2018)
How to Be an Effective Skeptic: Critical Thinking Strategies to Evaluate Research-Based Practice
Andrew C. Watson, MEd
Former Classroom Teacher; Founder/President of Translate the Brain, a professional development consultancy; Author, Learning Grows: The Science of Motivation for the Classroom Teacher (2019) and Learning Begins: A Teacher's Guide to the Learning Brain (2017); Blogger, Learning & the Brain Blog
3) TEENS BRAINS: PROMOTE DEEPER SELF-REFLECTION & MOTIVATION
The Secret Life of the Teen Brain
Adolescent Learning and Goal-Directed Behavior: Developing Brain Advantages and Challenges
Juliet Y. Davidow, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Affective Neuroscience and Development Lab, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University; Co-Author, “Neurodevelopmental Processes That Shape the Emergence of Value-Guided Goal Directed Behavior” (2019, The Cognitive Neurosciences), “Development of Prefrontal Cortical Connectivity and the Enduring Effect of Learned Value on Cognitive Control” (2019, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience), “An Upside to Reward Sensitivity: The Hippocampus Supports Enhanced Reinforcement Learning in Adolescence” (2016, Neuron), and “Transfer of Learning Relates to Intrinsic Connectivity Between Hippocampus, Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex, and Large-Scale Networks" (2014, Journal of Neuroscience)
Metacognition, Mindsets, and Motivation: The Keys to Teaching College Students How to Learn
Saundra Y. McGuire, PhD
Director Emerita, Center for Academic Success; Former Professor of Chemistry, Louisiana State University; Awarded the 2007 US Presidential Award for Excellence in Mentoring; Author, Teach Yourself How to Learn: Strategies You Can Use to Ace Any Course at Any Level (2018), Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation (2015), and "Metacognition: An Effective Tool to Promote Success in College Science Learning" (2014, Journal of College Science Teaching)
STEM Education: Using Labs to Teach Critical Thinking to Teens and Young Adults
Natasha G. Holmes, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics; Primary Researcher, Cornell Physics Education Research Lab, Cornell University; Researcher, Cornell Virtual Embodiment Lab; Co-Author, "Examining and Contrasting the Cognitive Activities Engaged in Undergraduate Research Experiences and Lab Courses" (2016, Physical Review Physics Education Research) and "Teaching Critical Thinking" (2015, Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences)
What Stress Does to Memory, Monitoring, and Regulation of Learning in Teens and Adults
Ayanna K. Thomas, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology; Principal Investigator, Cognitive Memory and Aging Laboratory, Tufts University; Co-Author, "Reducing the Consequences of Acute Stress on Memory and Retrieval" (2017, The Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition) and "Retrieval Practice Protects Memory Against Acute Stress" (2016, Science)
Engaging Brains: Increasing Student Engagement in the Classroom
Emotions, Engagement, Empowerment: Brain-Based Instruction That Makes Learning Stick!
Joelle Hood, EdD
Co-Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer, Thriving YOUniversity; Certified Life Coach; Consultant; Professional Learning Designer and Facilitator; awarded Teacher of the Year and Principal of the Year; passionately committed to empowering individuals and organizations to THRIVE
Janeen Antonelli, MA
Co-Founder and Chief Culture Coach, Thriving YOUniversity; Former Teacher, Principal, and County Office Administrator with expertise in reaching and teaching at-promise youth; Consultant; Professional Learning Designer and Facilitator; passionately committed to empowering individuals and organizations to THRIVE
4) DIGITAL MINDS: USE TECHNOLOGY & PROJECTS FOR DEEPER INQUIRY
Deeper Learning for EVERY Student: Neuroscience, Technology, and Diversity
Inquiry-Based Learning: Promoting Critical Thinking and Reflection Through Technology
Teresa L. Coffman, PhD
Professor of Education, College of Arts and Science, University of Mary Washington; Author, Inquiry-Based Learning: Designing Instruction to Promote Higher Level Thinking (2017), Using Inquiry in the Classroom: Developing Creative Thinkers and Information Literate Students (2013), and Engaging Students Through Inquiry-Oriented Learning and Technology (2009, 2nd Edition)
The Science of Learning: Mind, Brain, and Technology
John D.E. Gabrieli, PhD
Director, MIT’s Integrated Learning Initiative; Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience; Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Co-Director, Clinical Research Center; Associate Director, Athinoula A. Martinos Imaging Center, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Co-Author, “Evidence of Stable Individual Differences in Implicit Learning” (2019, Cognition), “Enhancing Workplace Digital Learning by Use of the Science of Learning (2018, PLoSONE), and “Language Exposure Relates to Structural Neural Connectivity in Childhood” (2018, Journal of Neuroscience)
Real-World Learning: Using Digital Tools and Projects for Deeper Learning
Using Technology for Motivation, Transfer, and Deeper Learning
Christopher J. Dede, EdD
Professor of Learning Technologies, Technology, Innovation, and Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Co-Principal Investigator, ecoMOD, ecoMUVE and ecoMOBILE -- 3-D worlds that helps students learn about ecosystems and science thinking; Author, "The Role of Digital Technologies in Deeper Learning" (2014, Jobs for the Future); Co-Editor, Teacher Learning in the Digital Age: Online Professional Development in STEM Education (2016); Co-Author, Digital Teaching Platforms (2013), Scaling Up Success: Lessons From Technology-Based Educational Improvement (2005), and The Virtual High School (2003)
Using Learning Sciences to Understand How Making, Micro-Credentials, and Gamification Promotes Deeper Learning
Samuel Abramovich, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Learning and Instruction, Graduate School of Education, The State University of New York at Buffalo; Co-Author, “Taking Badges to School” (2016, Computers & Education)
Demonstrating Student Mastery Through Technology, Digital Badges, and Portfolios
David Niguidula, EdD
Founder, Richer Picture/Ideas Consulting; Former Researcher, Coalition of Essential Schools; Former Researcher, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Author, Demonstrating Student Mastery With Digital Badges and Portfolios (2019) and “Documenting Learning With Digital Portfolios” (2005, Educational Leadership)
Developing Deeper, Authentic Learning and Critical Thinking Through Project-Based Learning
Dayna Laur, MEd
Founding Partner, Project ARC, LLC; Former Buck Institute for Education Senior National Faculty; Former High School Social Studies Teacher; Author, Authentic Project-Based Learning (2019), Developing Natural Curiosity Through Project-Based Learning: Five Strategies for the PreK-3 Classroom (2017), and Authentic Learning Experiences: A Real World Approach to Project-Based Learning (2013)
5) THE SCIENCE OF MEMORY & RETENTION: MAKE LEARNING & INSTRUCTION STICK
Make Learning Stick
Mark A. McDaniel, PhD
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences; Director, Center for Integrative Research on Cognition, Learning, and Education (CIRCLE); Principal Investigator, Memory and Complex Learning Lab, Washington University in St. Louis; Author, Prospective Memory: An Overview and Synthesis of an Emerging Field (2007); Co-Author, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (2014); Co-Editor, Prospective Memory: Cognitive, Neuroscience, Developmental, and Applied Perspectives (2015)
Harnessing Successive Relearning: The Power and Pitfalls of Self-Regulated Strategies for Improving Student Success
John T. Dunlosky, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences; Director, Science of Learning and Education Center, Kent University; Author, “Strengthening the Student Toolbox” (2013, American Educator); Co-Author, The Cambridge Handbook of Cognition and Education (2019), "Why Does Interleaving Improve Math Learning?" (2019, Memory & Cognition), "Investigating and Explaining the Effects of Successive Relearning on Long-Term Retention" (2018, Journal of Experimental Psychology), “Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques” (2013, Psychological Science in the Public Interest) and Metacognition (2008)
Learning in Context: Considering Student Identity, Attitudes, and Working Memory Capacity
LaTasha R. Holden, PhD
Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, Department of Psychology and Florida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University; Former Postdoctoral Fellow, National Assessment of Educational Progress, Educational Testing Service; Co-Author, "Working Memory Capacity and the Spacing Effect in Cued Recall" (2017, Memory) and "Individual Differences in Stereotype Threat: The Role of Working Memory Capacity" (2015, International Association for Psychological Science)
Instructional Strategies for Deeper, Unforgettable Teaching and Learning
Marcia L. Tate, EdD
Chief Executive Officer, Developing Minds, Inc.; Former Executive Director of Professional Development, DeKalb County School System; Author, 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning (2019), Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom: How Do We Really Know They’re Learning? (2016), Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain (2015), and Preparing Children for Success in School and Life: 20 Ways to Increase Your Child’s Brain Power (2011)
A Historical Perspective of Memory Research and Learning & the Brain®
Kenneth S. Kosik, MD
Co-Director, Neuroscience Research Institute; Harriman Professor of Neuroscience Research, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara; Co-Founder, Learning & the Brain; Author, Outsmarting Alzheimer's: What You Can Do to Reduce Your Risk (2017); Co-Author, The Alzheimer's Solution: How Today's Care is Failing Millions and How We Can Do Better (2010)
Connect the Dots: An Educators' Guide to Teaching Students How to Maximize Memory
Nina Dibner, MEd
Educational Consultant; Founder and Executive Director, PowerTools; Former Teacher, EBC Bushwick High School; Contributor, Connect the Dots: The Collective Power of Relationships, Memory and Mindset in the Classroom (Forthcoming, 2019)
Tricia Taylor, MEd
Founder and Executive Director, TailoredPractice; Former Lead Practitioner, Dunraven School; Former Associate Lecturer, Goldsmiths University; Author, Connect the Dots: The Collective Power of Relationships, Memory, and Mindset in the Classroom (Forthcoming, 2019)
MBE and Teacher Professional Learning: Measuring the Impact
Glenn Whitman, MALS
Director, Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School; Co-Author, Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education (2016) and "Assessment and the Learning Brain: What the Research Tells Us" (2014, Independent School)
Kristin M. Gagnier, PhD
Assistant Director of Dissemination, Translation, and Education, The Science of Learning Institute; Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Cognitive Sciences, Johns Hopkins University; Co-Project Director, "The Science of Learning: Exploring Goals, Methods, and Educational Practice" with the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, St. Andrew's Episcopal School; Co-Author, "Understanding and Improving Reasoning of Spatial Representations: Implication for Education" (2016, STEM and GIS in Higher Education)
6) THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE: HOW THE BRAIN LEARNS TO READ & SPEAK
The Reading Mind
The Science of Language: Why Language Learning Gets Harder As You Get Older
Joshua K. Hartshorne, PhD
Director, Language Learning Lab; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Boston College; Co-Author, “The Effect of Working Memory Maintenance on Long-Term Memory” (2019, Memory & Cognition), “A Critical Period for Second Language Acquisition: Evidence From 2/3 Million English Speakers” (2018, Cognition), and “The Causes and Consequences Explicit in Verbs” (2015, Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience)
Dynamic Teaching for Deeper Reading
Vicki Vinton, MFA
Literacy Consultant; Award-Winning Writer; Blogger, To Make a Prairie; Author, Dynamic Teaching for Deeper Reading: Shifting to a Problem-Based Approach (2017); Co-Author, What Readers Really Do: Teaching the Process of Meaning Making (2012) and The Power of Grammar: Unconventional Approaches to the Conventions of Language (2015)
Bridging the Gap Between Science of Reading and Best Classroom Practices
J. Richard Gentry, PhD
Independent Researcher; Educational Consultant; Former University Professor, Western Carolina University; Blogger, Psychology Today; Co-Author with Psychologist Dr. Gene P. Ouellette, Brain Words: How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching (2019); Author, Raising Confident Readers: How to Teach Your Child to Read and Write--from Baby to Age 7 (2010) and Step-by-Step Assessment Guide to Code Breaking: Pinpoint Young Students' Reading Development and Provide Just-Right Instruction (2008)
Understanding and Overcoming Dyslexia
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What Is the Significance of the First 10 Days of Dhul Hijjah?
Important Principles
Prayer Salat
Ramadan and Eid Al Fitr
Hajj and Eid Al Adha
Abrahamic / Middle Eastern Islam
Worship, Good Deeds, and Repentance
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by Huda
Huda is the author of "The Everything Understanding Islam Book: A Complete and Easy to Read Guide to Muslim Beliefs, Practices, Traditions, and Culture."
Dhul Hijjah (the Month of Hajj) is the 12th month of the Islamic lunar year. During this month the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, known as hajj, takes place. The actual pilgrimage rites occur on the eighth to 12th days of the month.
According to the Prophet Muhammad, the first 10 days of this month are a special time for devotion. During these days, preparations are underway for those who are undertaking the pilgrimage, and most of the actual pilgrimage rites occur. In particular, the ninth day of the month marks the Day of Arafat, and the 10th day of the month marks the Eid al-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice). Even for those who are not traveling for the pilgrimage, this is a special time to remember Allah and spend extra time in devotion and good deeds.
The significance of the first 10 days of Duhl Hijjah is that followers of Islam get the opportunity to sincerely repent, get closer to God, and combine acts of worship in a way that is impossible at any other time of the year.
Allah attaches great importance to the 10 nights of Duhl Hijjah. Said the Prophet Muhammad, “There are no days in which righteous deeds are more beloved to Allah than these 10 days.” The people asked the prophet, “Not even Jihad for the sake of Allah?” He replied, “Not even Jihad for the sake of Allah, except in the case of a man who went out, giving himself and his wealth up for the cause [of Allah], and came back with nothing.”
It is recommended that the worshiper fast during the first nine days of Duhl Hijjah; fasting is prohibited on the 10th day (Eid ul-Adha). During the first nine days, Muslims recite the takbeer, which is the call of Muslims to cry out, "Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest. There is no deity besides Allah and Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest; all praises are for Allah only." Next, they recite the tahmeed and praise Allah by saying, "Alhamdulillah" (All praise belongs to Allah). They then recite the tahleel and declare oneness with Allah by saying, "La ilaaha il-lal-laah" (There is none worthy of worship except Allah). Finally, worshipers declare tasbeeh and glorify Allah by saying, "Subhanallah" (Glory be to Allah).
Sacrifice During Duhl Hijjah
On the 10th day of the month of Duhl Hijjah comes the obligatory offering of the Qurbani, or the sacrificing of livestock.
“It is not their meat, nor their blood, that reaches Allah. It is their piety that reaches Allah.” (Surah Al-Haj 37)
The significance of Qurbani is traced back to the Prophet Ibrahim, who dreamed that God ordered him to sacrifice his only son, Ismail. He agreed to sacrifice Ismail, but God intervened and sent a ram to be sacrificed in Ismail's place. This continued act of Qurbani, or sacrifice, is a reminder of Ibrahim's obedience to God.
Good Deeds and Character
Performing as many good deeds as possible, an act beloved by Allah brings great reward.
"There are no days in which righteous deeds are more beloved to Allah than these 10 days." (Prophet Muhammad)
Do not swear, slander, or gossip, and make an extra effort to be courteous to your friends and family. Islam teaches that having respect for parents is second in importance only to that of prayer. Allah rewards those who perform good deeds during the first 10 days of the month of hajj, and he will grant your forgiveness for all of your sins.
A Breakdown of the Steps in Hajj, the Islamic Pilgrimage to Mecca
When Is the Hajj Pilgrimage Held Each Year?
What Holidays Do Muslims Celebrate?
Why the Prophet Abraham Is So Important to Islam
What Is the Definition of Jannah in Islam?
A Brief Introduction to the Quran, the Holy Book of Islam
The Islamic Holiday of Eid Al-Adha, Explained
How Do Muslims Celebrate Ramadan?
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
What Are the Quran's Celebratory Ramadan Greetings and Quotations?
What Is the Main Theme of Juz' 26 of the Quran?
What is the Significance of Ashura in the Islamic Calendar?
What is Yawm Al-Qiyamah in Islam?
When is the Day of Arafat Between 2017 and 2025?
What Are Some Common Myths About Islam?
How and Why Do Muslims Celebrate the Holy Month of Ramadan?
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Foothill Ranch, CA Cremation Services
What to Expect from Cremation Services in Foothill Ranch, CA
Cremation services in Foothill Ranch, CA completely understand how you will be devastated by the loss of a loved one and will need help and assistance in arranging a cremation.
One of the main reasons that people regularly choose a cremation over a burial is linked to the cremation costs in Foothill Ranch, CA. The final bill for cremating a person is usually far lower than the cost of arranging a burial because you do not have to pay for the land, its preparation and then the long-term upkeep.
Across all of America cremations are rapidly increasing as the most popular choice of interment and it is predicted that over 50% of people will choose cremation within the next 20 years or so. An exact and full price list will be passed to the person organizing the cremation so that you fully understand all of the cremation costs in Foothill Ranch, CA.
Why Do People Choose Cremation in Foothill Ranch, CA?
When you have experienced standing around a graveside as the body is lowered into the earth, it is an experience that many prefer to forget. The very different, and less dramatic experience of attending a cremation, focuses more on the person who has died rather than the events organized by Foothill Ranch, CA cremation services.
Some religions will only accept a cremation as the only option for interment and this will be explained by cremation services in Foothill Ranch, CA. In the past, other religions would not accept a cremation as an alternative, but in modern times, the majority of religions are completely accepting of the cremation method being used.
Were you to cast a survey, you would find that modern cemeteries are regarded as extremely sterile and lacking of great character and if you live in a colder area, a grave is a difficult place to visit because of the weather, especially the snow and even more so in a northern state. This explains why many people look at the Foothill Ranch, CA cremation costs and choose it as their best option
In the majority of states, you can care for the deceased at your own home, but the majority of people will prefer that cremation services in Foothill Ranch, CA will undertake the facility.
Foothill Ranch, CA cremation services will explain that the body of the deceased is placed into a container which can be a coffin or casket, but a simple and suitable container is all that the law requires. At the crematorium, the employees will remove jewelry and medical devices, like pacemakers, to reduce the safety hazards for the cremation process. An efficient tagging system is used so that the individual can always be properly identified.
The individual will be cremated in the furnace at temperatures between 1400?F and 2000?F during the course of 2 to 3 hours, when the body will be reduced completely to fine powder, mostly a grey color. These are the ashes that are then returned to the nominated person as part of the cremation costs in Foothill Ranch, CA.
All of the options related to the memorial service will be carefully discussed with Foothill Ranch, CA cremation services.
The Foothill Ranch, CA cremation costs will detail whether the crematorium will be supplying a standard urn to return the ashes to you or whether you have opted to purchase a model for display which you may decide to use for a number of years.
The individual is always cremated alone, so you can rest assured that the ashes being returned to you are always correct and all of the procedures will be explained in detail by Foothill Ranch, CA cremation services.
Religious Questions in Foothill Ranch, CA
Some religious groups will require for a cremation to be completed inside 24 hours after the death of the person. This will be arranged by the funeral director and included within the Foothill Ranch, CA cremation costs, once all of the legal documentation is complete.
There are so many things that you need to think about after someone has died so you should not be worried about leaning heavily on the skills and experience offered by Foothill Ranch, CA cremation services.
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HomeNewsLatest NewsVotes for 16 year olds in Wales as Welsh Government unveils legislative plans
Votes for 16 year olds in Wales as Welsh Government unveils legislative plans
Posted by: Lesley Griffiths AM
New measures to improve local bus services, lower the voting age and pressing ahead with a radical new school curriculum are some of the Welsh Labour Government’s key priorities for the upcoming year.
First Minister, Mark Drakeford AM revealed his government’s latest legislative programme yesterday (16 July) and Wrexham’s Assembly Member, Lesley Griffiths, has backed the proposals.
She said: “There can be no doubt the Welsh Government is in a precarious financial situation. The Tory UK Government’s debilitating austerity measures have led to a lack of clarity surrounding future budgets. This has been amplified by ongoing Brexit uncertainty and exacerbated by the increasingly likely prospect of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit.”
“In spite of the unprecedented circumstances, the Welsh Government is continuing to deliver on its commitments and remains more determined than ever to protect the people of Wales.”
“I believe the new Public Transport Bill will be of particular interest to Wrexham residents as it will change the way buses are operated in Wales, allowing councils to run or reintroduce certain routes.”
As part of the commitment to create a more equal Wales, the Welsh Government will introduce a Public Transport Bill to reform the planning and delivery of local bus services. Across Wales, certain routes have been stopped due to operators being unable to make them commercially viable but under the new proposals, councils will be given more freedom, being granted the power to franchise or run bus services directly to best suit local needs.
The reforms will also help the Welsh Government achieve their ambition of creating a truly integrated public transport network, helping ensure bus and train services are better co-ordinated.
Further measures have been outlined aimed at progressing Wales’ ground-breaking new school curriculum, which will be rolled out from September 2022.
A Local Government and Elections Bill will give 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote in local government elections, as well as strengthening accountability in local authorities.
A Housing Bill will be introduced to tackle no-fault evictions and a Social Partnership Bill will help ensure businesses and trade unions work together to “deliver a fairer and more prosperous Wales.”.
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Can Taking Tonalin CLA Help With Weight Loss?
By Henry Halse Updated January 18, 2019
Reviewed by Janet Renee, MS, RD
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Janet Renee has over a decade of experience as a registered dietitian. Renee attended the University of California, Berkeley and holds an M.S. in Nutrition and Dietetics.
Henry Halse
Henry is a freelance writer and personal trainer living in New York City. You can find out more about him by visiting his website: henryhalse.com.
Losing weight is difficult, and anything that can give you an edge is worth considering. Supplements are tempting because they're easy to take and promise big payoffs. Conjugated linoleic acid, or CLA, promises to help you burn fat. Researchers haven't been able to prove that it works, however. Until they do, it's best to spend your dollars on something else.
Conjugated linoleic acid, or CLA, promises to help you burn fat, but there is no research to back this up.
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An article from Science Direct states that conjugated linoleic acid is a conjugated fatty acid that typically comes from beef, lamb or dairy. Fatty acids are the product of digested fats. One of the most efficient forms of conjugated linoleic acid is from a brand called Tonalin. It uses CLA from safflower oil, which is extracted from a safflower plant.
CLA Animal Benefits
The health benefits of conjugated linoleic acid are well documented in animals. In mice, CLA was able to slow the growth of cancer cells, according to an article from Beef Research. CLA can also reduce the spread of cancer, also called metastasis.
As if that wasn't enough, the same article presents evidence that CLA can reduce the risk for heart disease in rabbits, mice and hamsters. Taking CLA lowers cholesterol and blood lipid levels, thereby reducing the risk for heart attack or stroke.
The benefit that most people are after when they take CLA is weight loss. More specifically, they want the fat-burning boost that CLA claims to provide. In mice it's particularly effective. CLA can reduce body fat and even increase muscle mass in mice, something many people long for.
CLA Supplementation in Humans
Unfortunately, studies in humans fail to show the same miraculous results as in animals. There's some evidence that CLA can help you burn fat, but there's enough evidence to the contrary to make it seem ineffective. Examine.com, a supplement research review website, claims that the results thus far in humans are lackluster.
Lack of Health Benefits
A 2015 research review published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition concluded that CLA supplementation doesn't show any health benefits. After reviewing dozens of studies on the supplement, the researchers concluded that it's better to eat CLA-rich foods, like dairy, if you want to reap the weight-loss benefits.
Read More: Foods That Are High in CLA
The researchers also showed that there might be adverse effects of CLA supplementation. They noted that it could raise LDL cholesterol, the bad kind, and lower HDL cholesterol, which is the good kind.
CLA and Body Composition
When it comes to taking CLA for aesthetic purposes, there's scant evidence that it can help lower body fat and build muscle, according to an article from Science Direct. However, a supplement research review published in the Journal of the International Society for Sports Nutrition shows that even studies that showed some fat loss and muscle gain were conclusive.
Supplementing With CLA
There's simply not enough proof that taking a CLA supplement like Tonalin will benefit your health or your physique. It's possible, however, that researchers are missing something. If you're interested in trying it out yourself, you can safely take CLA.
Read More: What Are the Dangers of Tonalin CLA?
Using Tonalin CLA
It's generally recommended that you take 3,200 to 6,400 milligrams daily, according to Examine.com, and it should be taken with food. Tonalin CLA is one of the most popular forms, since it's cheaper to extract the fatty acid from safflower than from beef or dairy.
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2017 in film: Breaking the rod of the oppressor
By Joe George January 23, 2018
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Valeria Cotto (left) and Brooklynn Prince in The Florida Project.
“Star Wars” movies love it when tiny spaceships destroy moon-sized super-weapons, so it’s no surprise that the series’ latest entry places its sympathies squarely among the underdogs. But Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, written and directed by Rian Johnson, finds a whole new love for losers, as Gen. Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) and her new band of rebels are defeated not by a Death Star but by their own mistakes and myopia. The heroes win only symbolic victories against the fascist First Order, but The Last Jedi finds greater power in giving hope to the hopeless than in dominating the weak.
The Last Jedi’s perspective makes it an appropriate capper to the year in movies. Even as the events of the real world seemed to do the opposite, critics and audiences sought out stories that focused on the dejected and downtrodden.
Take the year’s most talked-about film, writer-director Jordan Peele’s conspiracy horror Get Out. The image of Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) dropping into “the sunken place,” his face contorting in terror as his arms flail against a blue void, succinctly captures the debilitating dehumanization that systemic racism inflicts upon black psyches.
Viewers respond so passionately to Get Out, attending theaters in record numbers and live-tweeting home-video showings, in part because it dramatizes experiences often ignored by popular media or directly dismissed by those in power. When the killing of unarmed black people made repeated headlines and the voices of people of color felt silenced, audiences came to the movies to affirm with one another, or learn from one another, the reality of life in the United States.
Catharsis has always been part of communal storytelling, but for the Christian viewer, it can also have a prophetic element: Our stories tell us how things can or should be, not just how they are.
Catharsis, argued philosophers like Aristotle and Nietzsche, has always been part of communal storytelling, but for the Christian viewer, it can also have a prophetic element: Our stories tell us how things can or should be, not just how they are. In the same way that Jeremiah’s poetry insisted that those who trusted in Babylon’s apparent might were “stupid and without knowledge,” and Isaiah’s poetry transformed “swords into plowshares,” movies can remind people that exploitative power is not inevitable, that other ways of life are possible.
This desire to see differently drives co-writer and director Sean Baker’s indie critical favorite The Florida Project, which features family life in Orlando not as sanctioned by Disney but as experienced by those living below the poverty line in cheap motels outside the famous resort. The movie never romanticizes the dire outlook for 6-year-old Moonee (Brooklyn Prince) and her friends, nor does it moralize about the sometimes self-destructive behavior of her young mother, Halley (Bria Vinaite). Rather, Baker finds human dignity in the characters’ struggles, even when they have to resort to petty transgressions.
The film’s final scene indicts the promises of the Magic Kingdom as oppressive and unsatisfying and recalls Jesus’ teaching that the kingdom of heaven is open to those who approach it like children. Like many of the year’s best movies, The Florida Project reminds us of the kingdom Jesus describes in the Sermon on the Mount, where the poor in spirt, the mourning and the meek are called blessed. It reminds us of the kingdom we celebrated at year’s-end during Advent in which the Prince of Peace takes the government on his shoulders and breaks the rod of the oppressor.
Injustice and abuse can make these promises hard to see, but the movies of 2017 helped us remember that God adores his creation and cares for the forgotten, whether they live in a galaxy far, far away or in the here and now.
Joe George
Joe George's writing has appeared at Think Christian, Tor.com, and is collected at joewriteswords.com. He hosts the web series Renewed Mind Movie Talk and tweets nonsense from @jageorgeii.
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