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The connectome manual slide show.
manual - 3d in the diagram
Connectome user interface
1) After opening the connectome in Acrobat Reader, a view similar to the image below should be visible on your computer screen. The connectome consists of 14 large, color-coded boxes, which represent the sub-regions of the hippocampal formation, parahippocampal region and retrosplenial cortex. In this figure, the user interface elements of the connectome are indicated with color-coded outlines and their meaning/purpose is explained in the slide show. (press > to continue)
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In the white outlines here, the hippocampal formation, pre- and parasubiculum are shown.
The 14 anatomical sub-regions are three-dimensionally organized. However, the origin and termination of connections are not always described in full detail in the literature.
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Area boxes are divided into four quadrants: Example CA1
QI displays full topological information. QII displays information about the septo-tempral/dorso-ventral axis and layers, but not about the proximo-distal/rostro-caudal axis. QIII displays information about the proximo-distal/rostro-caudal axis and layers, but not about the septo-tempral/dorso-ventral axis. QIV displays information about the area and layers, without topological information.
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Diagram Toolbar
The interactive connectome allows visualization of detailed connectivity patterns within and between sub-regions. To search for connections, use the search button on the toolbar. (You can safely ignore the JavaScript warning)
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Re-open the toolbar.
If the toolbar is closed, clicking the ‘open menu’ button will restore it. In Acrobat X, the search toolbar can also be displayed on the side of the document.
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Press search on the toolbar to open the search dialog. Select the areas of interest and press OK to execute the search. After a search is carried out, the retrieved connections will be drawn in the diagram between the appropriate areas and quadrants.
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This search will retrieve all outgoing connections from the dentate gryrus to CA3.
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Search results.
Displayed are all known anatomical connections running from DG to CA3.
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Clear all button.
Use the toolbar buttons to clear all lines from the canvas, to start anew. Alternatively, open the search dialog again and start adding connections to the network.
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Figure Panel on interactive connectome.
The connectome pdf has 4 figure panels, which can be accessed using the buttons. The panels provide information about the anatomical regions displayed in the diagram, and the synonims used for these areas in the literature.
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The nitty gritty manual
The tabs below contain a guide to different aspects of working with the diagram. In case you do not find what you were looking for, please log in to the website and ask your question in the forum.
Figure 1: The Connectome
Area boxes
3D position
Area boxes: details
Searching Connections
After opening the connectome in Acrobat Reader, a view similar to the image above should be visible on your computer screen. This first section in the manual provides a quick overview of the connectome. The connectome consists of 14 large, color-coded boxes, which represent the sub-regions of the hippocampal formation, parahippocampal region and retrosplenial cortex. In this figure, the user interface elements of the connectome are indicated with color-coded outlines and their meaning/purpose is explained.
(A) In the white outlines, the 14 anatomical sub-regions are displayed.
(B) The 14 anatomical sub-regions are three-dimensionally organized. However, the origin and termination of connections are not always described in full detail in the literature. Therefore, area boxes are divided into four quadrants. Quadrant I has full topological information, whereas the other quadrants have less topological detail. In quadrant I, the vertical axis in the connectome represents the septotemporal axis of dentate gyrus (DG), Cornu Ammonis (CA3 and CA1), subiculum (Sub), presubiculum (PrS) and parasubiculum (PaS), and the dorsoventral axis of medial and lateral entorhinal area (MEA and LEA), retrosplenial cortex (A29 and A30), perirhinal cortex (A35 and A36) and postrhinal cortex (POR). The sidebars (B) display the dorsoventral and septotemporal axes of the anatomical sub-regions. The horizontal axis within quadrant I and III represents the proximodistal axis in CA3, CA1, Sub, PrS and PaS; the rostrocaudal axis in A29c, A30, A35, A36 and POR and the DG is subdivided into the inner/outer blades and crest region. Within the area boxes, the layers for each specific subarea are outlined. In quadrant II, the information of the vertical axis and the layers are specified, but no details of the horizontal axis are presented. In quadrant III the horizontal axis and the layers are represented, while in quadrant IV, only layer information is present.
(C) The interactive connectome allows visualization of detailed connectivity patterns within and between sub-regions. To search for connections, use the search button on the toolbar (C). The toolbar has 8 buttons (from left to right): Search for connections, show all connections, clear all connections, a short tutorial on how to search for connections, a help section, contact information, a link to the project website www.temporal-lobe.com and information about how to support this project.
(D) If the toolbar is closed, clicking the ‘open menu’ button will restore it.
(E) After a search is carried out, the retrieved connections will be drawn in the diagram between the appropriate areas and quadrants. Additionally, an eye-icon will appear in the layers panel on the left (E). This is an alphabetically sorted list of ‘from–>to’ connection groups that can also be switched on or off manually. In front of each group is a ‘+’ icon. Clicking this icon expands the list of individual connections that make up the group, allowing one to select connections originating from a specific cortical layer or according to a specific three-dimensional projection pattern.
(F) The figure panel provides a detailed anatomical description of the retrosplenial cortex, the hippocampal formation and the parahipppcampal region, together with translation tables for nomenclature. Use the buttons in this panel to switch between the figures.
The connectome canvas (figure 1, white outline) consists of 14 large, color-coded area boxes, which represent the sub-regions of the hippocampal formation, parahippocampal region and retrosplenial cortex. To keep the connectome orderly, area names are abbreviated. The areas included are:
Hippocampal formation:
Dentate gyrus (DG)
Subiculum (Sub)
Parahippocampal region:
Presubiculum (PrS)
Parasubiculum (PaS)
Lateral Entorhinal Area (LEA)
Medial Entorhinal Area (MEA)
Perirhinal cortex Area 35 (A35)
Postrhinal cortex (POR)
Retrosplenial cortex Area 29a (A29a)
Retrosplenial cortex Area 29b (A29b)
Retrosplenial cortex Area 29ab (A29ab)
Retrosplenial cortex Area 29c (A29c)
Retrosplenial cortex Area 30 (A30)
Brain regions are three dimensional shapes and displaying these in a 2D visualization requires some visual tricks. Moreover, the origin and termination of connections are not always described in full detail in the anatomical literature. Both these facts make it neccesary to display areas at different levels of spatial detail next to eachother. Area boxes are therefore divided into four quadrants (white dotted lines in Figure 1). In sum:
Quadrant I displays full topological information (Figure 1 I).
Quadrant II displays information about the septo-tempral/dorso-ventral axis and layers, but not about the proximo-distal/rostro-caudal axis (Figure 1 II).
Quadrant III displays information about the proximo-distal/rostro-caudal axis and layers, but not about the septo-tempral/dorso-ventral axis (Figure 1 III).
Quadrant IV displays information about the area and layers, without topological information (Figure 1 IV).
Watch the video tutorials on this website - especially video tutorial 2 - to find out how 3D space is represented in the diagram.
The vertical axis in the connectome represents the septotemporal axis of dentate gyrus (DG), Cornu Ammonis (CA3 and CA1), subiculum (Sub), presubiculum (PrS) and parasubiculum (PaS), and the dorsoventral axis of medial and lateral entorhinal area (MEA and LEA), retrosplenial cortex (A29 and A30), perirhinal cortex (A35 and A36) and postrhinal cortex (POR).The sidebars (Figure 1B, marked in red) display the dorsoventral and septotemporal axes of the anatomical sub-regions.
The horizontal axis within quadrant I and III represents the proximodistal axis in CA3, CA1, Sub, PrS and PaS; the rostrocaudal axis in A29c, A30, A35, A36 and POR and the DG is subdivided into the inner/outer blades and crest region.
Now that you are familiar with the four quandrants that make up an area box, you will now be introduced to the visual elements within area boxes. The Subiculum (Sub) area box and A35 will serve as examples.
Figure 3: Top part of the Subiculum area box with proximo-distal axis.
Let us first take a look at the top part of the Subiculum area box (Figure 3). At the very top the word "Sub" is written, which is the abbreviation for Subiculum. In the next row, the words "prox", "int", "dist" and "unsp" are written. These labels specify the proximo-distal axis of the Sub, with "prox" meaning proximal, "int" meaning intermediate and "dist" meaning distal with respect to the DG. The label "unsp" (unspecified) indicates that no information is available on the proximo-distal distribution of these connections. Below the proximo-distal axis three rows of smaller boxes are displayed. These columns of smaller boxes represent the cortical layers that are defined in the Sub at the three levels of the proximo-distal axis or at the unspecified proximo-distal level. The layers in the Sub are the stratum moleculare and the stratum pyramidale. In the Sub the stratum moleculare is subdivided into a superficial (sup) and deep part of the layer.
Figure 4: Subiculum area box with septo-temporal and proximo-distal axis
As explained, a septo-temporal axis is also present in the connectome (Figure 4: grey bar). Therefore, the cortical layers are repeated for the septal (top rows), intermediate (middle rows) and temporal level (bottom rows) of the Sub (Figure 4). This information is once more repeated for the unspecified level of the Sub, in which no septo-temporal subdivision is made (Figure 5):
Figure 5: Unspecified level of the Subiculum area box
Figure 6: The diagram toolbar
The interactive connectome allows visualization of detailed connectivity patterns within and between sub-regions. To search for connections, use the search button on the toolbar (see above). The toolbar has 8 buttons (from left to right): Search for connections, show all connections, clear all connections, a short tutorial on how to search for connections, a help section, contact information, a link to the project website www.temporal-lobe.com and information about how to support this project. If the toolbar is closed, clicking the ‘open menu’ button will restore it (Figure 1D, green outline). You can safely ignore the JavaScript warning. It is related to security management of Acrobat PDF. To keep the pdf userfriendly and flexible, we decided to not require an installation of the document on your local system. Therefore Acrobat does not know if the Javascripts in the documents can be trusted and therefore it issues a Warning. In Acrobat X, the search toolbar can also be displayed on the side of the document.
There are two ways of showing connections in the connectome:
Use the search menu, from the toolbar.
Use the layer navigation pane.
Search Method 1: Search box.
Open the search menu by pressing search in the toolbar.
Select a brain area from the ‘Area’ listbox (top box in search window). For example, the lateral entorhinal area (LEA).
The search and display of the connections can be limited to a particular 3D subregion. For example, in the entorhinal cortex, a dorsolateral-to-ventromedial axis is described. In the 3D axis fields, a selection can be made for the available subdivision of the selected area. In the ‘3D axis 1’, you can select a ‘vertical axis’, e.g. temporal-to-septal, dorsal-to-ventral or dorsolateral-to-ventromedial axis. In the ‘3D axis 2’, you can select the ‘horizontal’ axis, e.g. the proximo-distal axis.
The search can also be limited in to include only a particular cortical layer. When you leave the ‘-‘ in the field, connections to / from all layers will be searched for.
Select ‘afferent’ of ‘efferent’. If you select ‘efferent, you get the connections that are running from the area selected in the first Area box. If you select ‘afferent’, you get the connections that are running to the area you selected in the first Area box. If you are interested in both the afferent and the efferent connections, you need to perform the search twice.
Search results can be filtered to include only a particular area.
If you want the add connections to your search, repeat the steps 1-6. If you want to start again, please first clear all connection (‘Clear all’ button in the toolbar).
Search Method 2: Layer Navigation Pane
On the left hand side, the layers navigation pane should be visible. If no layers are visible, please check your version of Acrobat Reader (see System Requirements). The layers are alphabetically organized. At the top of the list, a checkbox ‘options’ is available. This layer must be checked, to see the connectome. to select or deselect the figures in the left top corner of the connectome.
In order to show or hide connections between areas, you need to use the layers navigation pane on the left side of the screen (Figure 1). By checking a box, you can switch on or off all the projections from a specific sub-area to another (Figure 6). The "eye"-icon appears when the connection is displayed in the diagram area. Layers that are marked with a "lock"-sign are inactive (for instance "areas" in Figure 6) and cannot be selected or excluded ("deselected").
Figure 6: Layer pane - icons
By clicking the "+" icon in front for the projection of interest, the list of layer-by-layer connections expands and the "+" icon changes into a "-" icon. Clicking the "-" icon again will collapse all layers again under their main folder.
Figure 7: Layer pane - expanded
When the layer-by-layer connections are expanded (Figure 7), a list allows you to individually switch on and off connections. In order for Adobe to draw individual connections, the top checkbox (Figure 8), which in this example is Sub->A35, needs to be selected. This may mean that you need to deselect many individual layers when you wish to view only a specific layer in a "From->To" connection.
The reference table on this website provides a way to look up references between two specific areas. In addition, a complete list of all used references with hyperlinks to "PubMed" is provided.
Figure 8: Layer pane - expanded - icons
If you deselect the top checkbox, all individual layers underneath the deselected connection will be hidden from the diagram.
The layer names in the layer panel follow a regular syntax which explains what is drawn:
From -> To
Area_axis1_axis2_layer -> Area_axis1_axis2_layer
Area_axis1_layer -> Area_axis1_layer (only for LEA and MEA)
Area: abbreviation of the area name
Axis 1: septo-temporal axis, dorsolateral-ventromedial or dorso-ventral axis
Axis 2: proximo-distal axis or rostro-caudal axis
Layer: abbreviation of the cortical layer name
After a search is carried out, the retrieved connections will be drawn in the connectome between the appropriate areas and quadrants. Additionally, an eye-icon will appear in the layers panel on the left (Figure 1E, yellow outline). This is an alphabetically sorted list of ‘from–>to’ connection groups that can also be switched on or off manually. In front of each group is a ‘+’ icon. Clicking this icon expands the list of individual connections that make up the group, allowing one to select connections originating from a specific cortical layer or according to a specific three-dimensional projection pattern.
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Mulch Madness a success
Lacrosse team members helped out in assisting the delivery of mulch orders.
Elias Moura
Jude Nanaw, Editor in Chief
April 16, 2019|18 Views
As many fundraisers take place throughout the year for the funding of school events, a traditional fundraiser that takes places each year is the annual Mulch Madness drive.
With the help of the Atoms Boys Lacrosse team, over 3000 bags of mulch were collected and delivered to homes across Annandale resulting in an approximated amount of over $8,000 that was raised.
Mulch bags were available for purchase on the PTSA website up until March 28. Proceeds and sales went towards the All Night Grad Celebration. Upon ordering mulch, buyers were able up their order on April 6 from between 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. or have it delivered to them by the lacrosse team.
The cost for each mulch bag was $5 if picked up and $6 if delivered with a minimum of 10 bags for delivery. 3076 bags of mulch were sold with 3016 units being delivered by the lacrosse team.
“The lacrosse team helping out with Mulch Madness really brings the team closer,” senior Alex Bellem said. “It helps build a bond because we have to work together to finish the job.”
The lacrosse players broke up into teams of four or five and followed the U-Haul trucks and began dropping off mulch at various locations. The team began delivering purchases as early as 7:30 a.m.
The All Night Grad Celebration which was funded via the drive will be taking place on June 6.
“The support of the community is the best part,” PTSA Vice President Rita Zimmerman said. “Buyers were very enthusiastic and eager to support the cause and many added donations on top of their mulch order.”
Jude Nanaw, Co-Editor in Chief
Senior Jude Nanaw is the current Co-Editor in Chief of The A-Blast. He has been on staff for four years where in previous years he has held the positions...
Elias Moura, Editorials editor
Senior Elias Moura is one of the editorials editors for the A-blast. This is his 2nd year on staff and enjoys watching everyone argue and loves the environment...
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Tippett wins Liz Ellis Diamond as Ingles earns stellar farewell
By Roy Ward
Australian goal attack Gretel Tippett capped off her best year in netball with the prestigious Liz Ellis Diamond award at the 11th annual Australian Netball Awards in Sydney on Saturday night.
The 26-year-old attacking ace impressed at every level in 2019 shooting 267 goals at 95 per cent for the Diamonds and claiming the Laura Geitz Medal as best-and-fairest player for the Queensland Firebirds, shooting 394 goals at 96 per cent and giving out 130 goal assists during the Super Netball season.
Goal attack Gretel Tippett has been rewarded for her outstanding season. Credit:Getty Images
Tippett scored a hat-trick of honours on Saturday night with the Ellis Diamond for the best overall player at both international and Super Netball level, the international player of the year award and the goal attack position in the Super Netball team of the year.
Jamaican import shooter Jhaniele Fowler topped the votes for team of the year so was named Super Netball player of the year for the second year in a row. Fowler shot 709 goals at 94 per cent for West Coast Fever this season.
The team of the year is voted on by players, coaches and high performance staff with the highest vote getter in each position winning a place in the side.
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Fowler was named at goal shooter, Tippett at goal attack, 2018 Liz Ellis winner and Melbourne Vixens star Liz Watson was the wing attack, Vixens centre-court Kate Moloney was named centre and Ingles at wing defence while Sunshine Coast defender Karla Pretorius was goal defence and Vixens player Emily Mannix goal keeper.
NSW Swifts shooter Sam Wallace was named attacking reserve, Collingwood’s Ash Brazill centre reserve and Adelaide’s Shamera Sterling defensive reserve.
Super Netball team of the year: Goal shooter: Jhaniele Fowler (West Coast Fever). Goal attack: Gretel Tippett (Queensland Firebirds). Wing attack: Liz Watson (Melbourne Vixens). Centre: Kate Moloney (Melbourne Vixens). Wing defence: Renae Ingles (Melbourne Vixens). Goal defence: Karla Pretorius (Sunshine Coast Lightning). Goal keeper: Emily Mannix (Melbourne Vixens). Bench: Attack reserve: Sam Wallace (NSW Swifts), Centre reserve: Ash Brazill (Collingwood Magpies), Defence reserve: Shamera Sterling (Adelaide Thunderbirds).
Roy Ward
Roy Ward is a Sports writer for The Age.
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Employee Commuter Benefits and Your Business Taxes
Car Deductions
Deductions A to Z
Business Law & Taxes Deductions & Credits
Parking, Transit Passes, Transportation, and Bicycling
••• Justin Case/Getty Images
UPDATE: The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has eliminated the business tax deduction for employers who provide mass transit and parking benefits. Employers may still provide these benefits to employees, but they don't qualify as deductible business expenses for employers.
More and more employers are providing some kind of commuting benefits for employees. From bicycle or electric scooter commuting to vanpooling to parking and transit passes, new possible benefits are appearing every day.
And the IRS is looking at the tax consequences of these benefits, both to employers and employees. Some of what the IRS is doing is intended to promote energy-efficient means of transportation, like bicycling to work or vanpools. Other benefits are included by employers as incentives to recruit employees, particularly those in urban areas.
Commuter Benefit Solutions says:
By using commuter benefits, commuters can save up to 40% on commuting costs, including transit, parking and biking costs. And, companies can save 7.65% on payroll taxes.
Commuting Expenses are Typically Non-Taxable
Let's start with the basics: The cost of commuting back and forth between your home and work is not deductible, whether you are an employee or the owner of a business.
What this article looks at are exceptions to this IRS regulation, for two purposes:
To allow employers to deduct the cost of reimbursing employees for these costs and
To allow employers not to include these reimbursements as taxable benefits to employees. This is usually an exclusion from income tax withholding and FICA taxes.
General Transportation Benefit and Limits
The IRS allows employers to exclude (from income tax withholding and FICA taxes) the value of transportation benefits provided to employees for qualified transportation costs, up to these limits. Basically, if these expenses qualify, they become pre-tax dollars to the employee. Effective for 2016, the limits on these benefits are:
$255 per month for combined commuter highway vehicle transportation and transit passes.
$255 per month for qualified parking.
Note that up to a combined total of $510 a month can be pre-tax benefits to employees for qualified parking and transportation/transit passes.
Parking Benefits
Up to $255 a month can be excluded from employee taxes for qualified parking facilities. The parking benefit includes "parking on or near the location from which your employees commute to work using mass transit, commuter highway vehicles, or carpools. It doesn't include parking at or near your employee's home."
Transit Passes
Transit passes and fares for commuter vans are qualified up to $255 a month. A transit pass is any pass, token, fare card, voucher, or similar item entitling a person to ride, free of charge or at a reduced rate, on a transit system or a commuter van for hire that seats 6 adults (not including the driver.
What's Deductible/What's Taxable?
Just to be clear, here are the details on these benefits:
Benefits from Employers. Your business can give employees a benefit up to $255 a month for qualified parking, and $255 a month for qualified transportation. These benefits are tax deductible to you as the employer.
Pre-tax Income for Employees. Even if you don't provide these transportation benefits, you can allow employees to use up to the limits each month as pre-tax income. In addition, you as the employer may also reduce your withholding for FICA taxes by this amount. That's the 7.65% cost reduction mentioned above.
Bicycle Commuting Benefits
A 2009 change in the tax laws allows employers to reimburse employees for specific bike-related expenses. In addition, the law doesn't require the employer to include these reimbursements as taxable expenses to the employees.
David Fieldler, Bicycling Expert says ...
You are considered a bike commuter and eligible for reimbursement of qualified expenses in a given month if you regularly use your bike for a substantial portion of travel between home and work.
The IRS law allows employers to reimburse bike commuting employees up to $20 per month for each month that the employee is a bike commuter. The benefit applies to all "reasonable" costs of commuting by bicycle, including the cost of the bike itself. This benefit can't be provided for any month in which the employee receives another transportation benefit, like transit passes or parking benefits.
How your company chooses to qualify and reimburse employees for this benefit is up to you. And you can certainly reimburse more than the $240 a year limit, it's just that the additional benefit will be taxable to the employee.
Benefit Exclusion for S Corporation Employees
These benefits don't apply to S corporation employees who are 2% shareholders.
For more information on these commuting and transportation benefits, see IRS Publication 15-B - Fringe Benefits.
Disclaimer: Of course, these benefits are complicated and this article is not intended to be tax advice. The IRS has exclusions and restrictions and qualifications. If you are considering offering these benefits to employees, be sure you check with a tax professional or your benefits advisor first.
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ZIP code 53012 Education Attainment Charts
This section of charts contains Education data using using the latest 2018 American Community Survey data. In the first chart, Figure 1 shows the number of people age 25 years or older who have graduated from high school or completed the GED or equivalent credential. 53012 illustrates it has 98% percent high school graduates or better which is the most of all zip codesin the area.
The number of people aged 25 years or older who have graduated from college with a Bachelor's degree is shown in Figure 2. ZIP code 53012 indicates it has 52% percent with a bachelors degree or higher which is the 3d most of all other zip codes in the area. The zip code with the highest percent with a bachelors degree or higher in the area is 53092 with a percent with a bachelors degree of 64% is 22.2% larger.
Figure 4 shows the percentage of people aged 25 years or older who either have no schooling or dropped out of school before completing high school. 53012 indicates it has 2% percent who dropped out of school which is the 4th smallest percent who dropped out of school of all the other zip codes in the area. The zip code with the highest percent who dropped out of school in the area is 53080 with a percent who dropped out of school of 8% is approximately 3.2 times bigger.
ZIP code 53012 School Enrollment Charts
The next section of charts looks at school enrollment. Figure 14 shows the overall school enrollment by detailed grade groupings. ZIP code 53012 has the largest proportion of percent of people in Graduate or professional schools at 8.8% of the total and is ranked #1.
The next charts look at public versus private higher education schools starting with Figure 18. ZIP code 53012 Wisconsin has the largest proportion of percent enrolled in a Public college at 83% of the total and is ranked #1.
The next chart in Figure 20 looks at the total number of students enrolled in each place shown. (Enrollment includes all students from preschool to graduate school.) ZIP code 53012 shows it has 4,890 Total population enrolled in school which is the 3d most of all other zip codes in the area. The zip code with the highest Total population enrolled in school in the area is 53092 with a Total population enrolled in school of 5,330 is 9.0% larger. Comparing Total population enrolled in school to the United States average of 81,751,797, ZIP code 53012 is only about 0.0% the size. Also, versus the state of Wisconsin, Total population enrolled in school of 1,442,264, ZIP code 53012 compares as only about 0.3% the size.
In Figure 22, the proportion of children enrolled in public versus private preschools is shown. ZIP code 53012 Wisconsin has percent enrolled in a private preschool in the middle of other zip codes in the area at 59% of the total and is ranked in the middle of the group.
ZIP code 53012 Area Schools Charts
Figure 23 lists the schools in the area along with the school district and other information. Some of the Area Schools are: Parkview Elementary, Webster Middle, Cedarburg High, Westlawn Elementary, and Early Learning Center. The next illustration in Figure 24 shows the total school enrollment for all grades at the school using NCES Common Core data. Looking at Enrollment for Area Schools we find that Homestead High ranks the largest with a value of 1,336 enrolled students. The next largest values are for: Cedarburg High (1,150), Kennedy Middle (918), Grafton High (779), and Webster Middle (685). The difference between the highest value (Homestead High) and the next highest (Cedarburg High) is that the enrolled students is about is 16.2% larger.
Figure 25 show the ratio of the number of students to the number of teachers. Good measures are lower because they indicate less students for any one teacher to educate. Looking at Student to Teacher Ratio for Area Schools we find that Early Learning Center ranks the largest with a value of 12.7 Student to Teacher Ratio. The next largest values are for: Grafton Elementary (13.7), John Long Middle (14.2), Kennedy Elementary (14.5), and Saukville Elementary (14.7). The difference between the lowest value (Early Learning Center) and the next lowest (Grafton Elementary) is that the Student to Teacher Ratio is is 7.7% larger.
Zip code 53012, Wisconsin Education Data
Education Attainment
Figure 1: 53012, WI At least High School Education
Figure 2: 53012, WI Bachelors Degree or Better Education
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Figure 4: 53012, WI School Dropout Rate
Figure 5: 53012, WI Education Attainment Breakdown
Figure 6: Higher Education Attainment (100%=All People with Bachelor or better)
Figure 7: 53012, WI Bachelors Degrees Field of Study
Figure 8: 53012, WI Bachelors Degree Obtained
Figure 9: 53012, WI Education Attainment by Level Comparison (Age 25+)
Figure 10: 53012, WI Education Attainment Detailed Comparison (Age 25+)
Figure 11: 53012, WI Detailed Education Attainment Breakout by Age Group (Age 18+)
Figure 12: 53012, WI Detailed Education Attainment Breakout by Race (Age 25+)
Figure 13: 53012, WI Detailed Male and Female breakdown of Educational Attainment
Figure 14: 53012, WI School Enrollment by Aggregate Categories
Figure 15: 53012, WI Overall Public vs. Private School Enrollment
Figure 16: 53012, WI Public vs. Private K-8 School Enrollment
Figure 17: 53012, WI Public vs. Private High School Enrollment
Figure 18: 53012, WI Public vs. Private College Enrollment
Figure 19: 53012, WI Public vs. Private Graduate or Professional School Enrollment
Figure 20: 53012, WI Total Enrolled in Schools
Figure 22: 53012, WI Public vs. Private Preschool
Figure 23: List of Schools in the 53012, WI Area (2013)
Figure 24: 53012, WI School Enrollment (2013)
Figure 25: Student to Teacher Ratios (2013) - Low Scores Are Better
Figure 26: 53012, WI School Racial Mix (2013)
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Who is Emmanuel Epenu?
I am a sports presenter aged 26-years-old. I was born to Peruth Epenu, a businesswoman and the late Nathan Epenu who was a journalist. I have four siblings including a twin sister called Elizabeth Epenu with whom I share a really close relationship.
I attended Shimoni Demonstration School where I attained my primary education, then went to Comprehensive College Kitetikka in Gayaza where I studied from my Senior One to four and then joined Faith High School in Mukono for my Senior Five and Six. I then joined UMCAT School of Journalism and Mass communication in 2010 and graduated in 2013.
You do have such a striking resemblance with your brother, Gabriel Epenu, a former News Anchor at NTV. Do people tend to confuse you two?
(Laughs) Yes, people confuse me a lot with my older brother, Gabriel. People say that we look like twins. Besides the way we look, they say that we walk and talk the same way.
How is he, by the way? (Gabriel was involved in a car accident in 2013)
He is improving. In fact, doing well and who knows, very soon, he will be back on air.
What does your work entail, as a sports presenter?
It requires me to do a lot of research and be informed about all the different existing sports activities happening in and out of the country. I do this by reading a lot of sports related literature in the library, on the internet as well as watching different sports channels on television.
And what does it require for one to stand out in your kind of profession?
Passion is very important in this profession. If you love what you do, you will always succeed at it. In fact, it is this same passion that drives me on a day-to-day basis.
Are you in a relationship?
Is that all? You could atleast tell us who the lucky lady is?
I am not going to reveal her name because I do not like putting my relationship out in the open. But we have been dating for about nine months now and I got attracted to her because she is down to earth, understanding, caring and very open.
It was in 2013. This was after receiving a phone call at about 3am in the morning from one of my sisters that Gabriel had been involved in an accident. The news really hit me hard and I broke down.
Were you ever bullied as a child?
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Is that how you would describe yourself even now?
Yes, I am still down to earth, laid back and approachable.
You are easily irritated by women who are
Nagging. I mean the type of women who are always on your case (disturbing). I am also easily irritated by dirty and lazy women.
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Judging from your good looks, do you get hit on a lot by women?
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Do these women include the older ones?
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Here's how PS4 and Xbox One stack up
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Despite new consoles on the way this year, the PS4 and Xbox One are still well worth buying. Both consoles have amassed huge game libraries full of great exclusives and third-party titles, and offer tons of extra features for folks who want to game in VR or binge on their favorite entertainment services. You can even get powerful 4K versions of each console for the best visual experience possible.
Both Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Sony's PS5 are slated to arrive next year, complete with fancy features such as instant SSD load times, 8K support and ray tracing. But with hot titles such as The Last of Us II, Cyberpunk 2077 and Doom Eternal on the horizon, full backward compatibility confirmed for Series X and PS5 and some of the lowest prices on PS4 and Xbox One available now, this is a great time to score a current-gen console.
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Both PS4 and Xbox One play many of this generation's best titles, from third-party blockbusters such as Red Dead Redemption 2, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Resident Evil 2 and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order to beloved indies like Celeste, Stardew Valley and Dead Cells. Battle royale titles like Apex Legends, Fortnite and PUBG are available on both systems, and highly anticipated third-party releases such as Watch Dogs Legion and Cyberpunk 2077 will come to both.
Still, PS4 is winning the exclusives war by a mile. Between big hits such as Uncharted 4, Marvel's Spider-Man, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and God of War, the PS4's exclusive offerings include some of the biggest and highest-rated AAA titles of this generation. The much-hyped Death Stranding has gotten mixed reviews, but PS4 owners still have The Last of Us II to look forward to May 29, 2020.
Despite a few middling releases like Days Gone and Detroit: Become Human, the vast majority of Sony's first-party PS4 output has been excellent.
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That's not to say the Xbox One is devoid of great first party games — titles such as Gears 5, Forza Horizon 4, Halo 5, Ori and the Blind Forest and Sunset Overdrive are all major standouts. Xbox fans can also look forward to Ori and the Will of the Wisps as well as a brand-new Battletoads game by 2020.
There's also Halo: Infinite, which will come to both Xbox One and Xbox Series X in 2020. Microsoft also keeps scooping up top developers such as Double Fine and Ninja Theory, which should lead to some compelling exclusives in the coming years.
Most sports games come to both systems. Sony's MLB: The Show series has long been exclusive to PlayStation, though the company recently announced that its popular baseball sim is going multiplatform.
Winner: PS4. Both systems play tons of great games, but Sony's system has more hit games that you can only play on a console.
Backwards compatibility and services
You don't necessarily need an Xbox One to play some of Microsoft's biggest first-party games. As part of Microsoft's Play Anywhere initiative, you can buy digital versions of games such as Sea of Thieves and Forza Motorsport 7 once and play them on Xbox One and on Windows 10. While this is a great value, those who have a decent gaming PC arguably have no reason to buy an Xbox One.
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If you have a massive library of old Xbox games, however, the Xbox One might be a better buy for you. More than 400 Xbox 360 games are currently playable on Microsoft's new console, including Mass Effect, Splinter Cell: Conviction and the entire Gears of War series. The system even plays a handful of games from the original 2001 Xbox, including such classics as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Ninja Gaiden Black and Jade Empire.
You can play older games on PS4, but not without paying up. A small selection of digital PS2 classics are available on Sony's new console, each scaled up to 1080p with earnable trophies and support for features such as Share Play and Remote Play. While the PS4 lacks direct backwards compatibility with older PlayStation games, Sony has already confirmed that the next-gen PlayStation will support PS4 games when it revealed the first PS5 specs.
The PS4 plays PS3 games via PlayStation Now, which allows you to stream hundreds of last-gen titles (and a few PS4 games) from the cloud for $9.99 a month or $45 for three months in the US, £84.99 for a year in the UK. As of Sept. 2018, you can also download PS2 and PS4 titles from the service directly. PlayStation Now recently gained top PS4 hits such as God of War, Grand Theft Auto V, Uncharted 4 and Infamous Second Son, likely in a bid to better compete with Microsoft's red-hot Game Pass.
In contrast, Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass grants access to over 100 Xbox One and Xbox 360 games that you can download for $10 (£7/AU$10) a month. Game Pass has truly become a game changer since it first launched, providing access to big titles such as Forza Horizon 4 and Gears 5 at launch while also delivering AAA and indie hits such as Dishonored 2, Devil May Cry 5 and Hollow Knight.
Xbox One is also the exclusive home of EA Access, which lets you play an ever-growing library of EA games for $29.99 (£19.99/AU$39.99) a year or $4.99 (£3.99/AU$6.99) a month a month.
Xbox One has a much better track record when it comes to supporting cross-platform play, allowing you to play games like Minecraft, Fortnite, Ark: Survival Evolved, Rocket League and Astroneer with friends on other platforms such as Switch and PC. After years of fan demand, Sony finally jumped on the cross-platform train in 2018, with cross-platform betas currently available for Fortnite and Rocket League. Monster-hunting game Dauntless supports PS4-Xbox crossplay, and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will get crossplay between both consoles by the end of 2019.
Winner: Xbox One. Xbox One plays hundreds of Xbox 360 games, offers cross-play with PC and lets you binge on three generations' worth of games for a good price.
The PS4 Slim and Xbox One S are both impressively sleek, offering attractive designs that look great under a TV and can fit into a backpack without a problem. The newest PS4 has a slight edge in terms of sheer smallness, though it lacks an optical input for high-end gaming headsets.
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Sony's 4K-ready PS4 Pro has a chunkier, hamburger-like design, while the Xbox One X, which is even more powerful than the Pro, is somehow slimmer than the Xbox One S.
Both consoles start with 500GB of storage that you can easily expand by connecting an external hard drive. PS4 owners also have the option of opening up their consoles to swap in a new 2.5-inch or SATA drive.
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Each controller has its perks — the Xbox One pad has textured grips and can be customized via the Xbox Design Lab, while Sony's DualShock 4 is highly ergonomic and has a touchpad and reactive lightbar. The PS4 controller is the only one that supports micro USB charging right out of the box — Xbox One owners will need to rely on AA batteries or buy a $25 charging kit.
Thanks to the $299 PlayStation VR headset, PS4 is the only of the two consoles to currently support virtual reality. The PSVR's game lineup has grown quite compelling over the years, too, headlined by such major titles as Tetris Effect, Resident Evil 7, Astro Bot: Rescue Mission and Moss.
There's currently no equivalent for Xbox One, and it doesn't look like Microsoft plans to bring VR to Xbox anytime soon.
Microsoft's console is currently the only of the two to support mouse and keyboard controls for gaming, with select titles such as Fortnite and Warframe supporting PC peripherals such as the Razer Turret.
Winner: PS4. Sony's console is more attractive, packs a more feature-rich controller and currently is the only of the two to support virtual reality.
Performance and graphics
If you're concerned about nuts and bolts, the starting versions of both consoles have an 8-core x86-64 AMD Jaguar processor with 8GB of RAM, an AMD Radeon GPU and a 500GB hard drive.
While games generally look and play great on both systems, PS4 has the edge in terms of resolution. For example, according to IGN's database, games such as Batman: Arkham Knight and Shadow of Mordor all run at full 1080p on PS4, while Xbox One gamers have to settle for 900p on those titles. If getting the best possible crispness for most games is a priority, PS4 comes out on top.
However, when it comes to the premium versions of both consoles, Xbox has an edge. The $499 Xbox One X plays many titles in native 4K, and has the most powerful overall specs of any console out there. The $399 PS4 Pro technically plays games in 4K, but the experience is oftentimes upscaled rather than true 4K. For a detailed look at how these consoles stack up, check out our Xbox One X vs. PS4 Pro face-off.
Folks with HDR-ready TVs should also consider High Dynamic Range support, which allows for richer colors and better brightness. The Xbox One X, Xbox One S, PS4 Pro and standard PS4 all support HDR, though the list of HDR-enabled games varies by console.
Winner: PS4. Games look stunning on both systems, but the stock PS4 offers better resolution for many titles.
User-friendliness
After years of updates, the Xbox One interface has gone from sluggish and messy to snappy and highly customizable. Microsoft continues to roll out useful new features, such as the ability to gift games to friends, get instant tech support with Xbox Assist and even avoid those pesky notifications with Do Not Disturb mode. And thanks to the new Xbox Skill, you can even control your Xbox One with your voice using Alexa devices such as the Amazon Echo Dot.
Still, the PS4 menu simply feels better to navigate, and Sony's console is still king in terms of capturing gameplay moments and sharing them with friends. A quick tap of the DualShock 4's Share button lets you record a clip, broadcast your gameplay or take a screenshot. And the PS4-exclusive Share Play feature lets you give control of your game to an online friend for up to 60 minutes, so long as that person has Plus.
Both consoles can broadcast gameplay directly to Twitch, though only PS4 can stream to YouTube. PS4 players can share their screenshots and videos to Facebook and Twitter, whereas Xbox owners are limited to the latter network. Xbox One gamers have the option of streaming to Microsoft's Mixer service.
Both systems also permit off-TV play, for those times the family is hogging the living room. Sony's Remote Play feature lets you stream PS4 games to a PlayStation Vita handheld, select Xperia devices, or your PC and Mac. Xbox One players, on the other hand, can stream their games to their Windows 10 laptops or tablets.
Winner: PS4. The PS4 interface is slightly more user-friendly, and has better options for sharing gameplay with friends.
For sheer options, Xbox One is the superior entertainment machine. The system has the unique ability to transmit your cable box's TV signal, allowing you to quickly switch between playing a game and watching a show. The Xbox One S, Xbox One X and PS4 Pro can all stream 4K content, but only Microsoft's consoles can play 4K Blu-rays. However, the new Xbox One S All-Digital Edition has no disc drive at all, and is limited to 4K streaming.
Unlike PS4, Xbox One supports Dolby Atmos, allowing folks with compatible home theater products to enjoy immersive spatial sound, and will soon support Dolby Vision for improved HDR quality.
The Xbox One is also the only console that features Kodi, a highly popular media server app that lets you access any movies, TV shows, images or songs you have stored on any of your devices around the house.
Other than that, both PS4 and Xbox One cover most entertainment essentials, from major apps like Netflix and Hulu to more niche stuff like WWE Network and Crunchyroll. PS4 and Xbox One both offer Spotify, which lets you rock out to tunes in the background of whatever you're playing. Xbox One features a few other notable music services such as SoundCloud, Pandora and Deezer.
Winner: Xbox One. The Xbox One offers a 4K Blu-ray option, better media apps and Dolby Atmos support.
Xbox Live Gold vs. PlayStation Plus
Microsoft's Xbox Live Gold ($60 yearly, $10 monthly) and Sony's PlayStation Plus ($60 yearly, $10 monthly) online services are both required for you to play any game's online multiplayer mode, and both come with their fair share of extra goodies. Xbox owners also have the option of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ($15 per month), which bundles together Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass for a modest discount.
PlayStation Plus members get two free games per PlayStation console per month, while Microsoft's Games with Gold provides the same service for Xbox gamers. Both programs have given away everything from new indie games to older blockbusters from franchises like Assassin's Creed and Metal Gear Solid.
The value of each of these free-game programs largely depends on the hardware you own; PlayStation Plus covers PS4 (the program stopped supporting PS3 and Vita in March 2019) while Games with Gold applies to Xbox One and Xbox 360. Xbox One has a slight edge here, as all Xbox 360 Games with Gold games are backward-compatible. The free games offered by either service will remain in your library for as long as you're subscribed to Xbox Live Gold or PlayStation Plus.
Both services offer frequent discounts on digital games, and both provide cloud storage in different capacities. PlayStation Plus provides 100GB of cloud storage, whereas all your Xbox One saves are backed up to the cloud regardless of whether you have Xbox Live Gold.
Even more important than free games and cloud storage is online stability, an area in which Xbox Live's reputation is better. The PlayStation Network has suffered some pretty infamous outages, including a few recent ones that occurred after Sony hiked the annual price up to $60 (£49.99/AU$70).
Xbox Live has long allowed users to change their gamertags -- free for the first change, and $10 (£10/AU$15) for any change after that. Sony has finally followed suit as of April 2019, with same basic rules and pricing for its PSN name changes (though there are some caveats around potentially losing some online data).
Winner: Xbox Live. Xbox Live is more stable, has better cloud storage, and gives Xbox One players more to play every month.
The Xbox One S starts at $299 (£300/AU$399), putting it on par with the $299 (£300/AU$399) PS4 Slim. However, it's worth noting that both consoles go on sale all the time, and you can often find them both for as low as $200 (£200/AU$320). The One S doubles as a 4K Blu-ray player, so you're arguably getting the most tech for your money with that machine.
If you're on an extra-tight budget, you can opt for the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition ($249), which has no disc drive and includes Forza Horizon 3, Minecraft and Sea of Thieves. However, the standard Xbox One S drops to that price frequently, so you're probably better off waiting for a sale and getting the 4K Blu-ray drive for cheap -- especially if you don't want to rely entirely on digital downloads.
Microsoft has recently brought back the Xbox All Access program. This lets you lease an Xbox One S, Xbox One X or Xbox One S All-Digital Edition starting at $19.99 a month for 24 month. According to Microsoft, this program saves you more than $100 compared to purchasing the console and bundled games separately. All Access members can upgrade to the upcoming Xbox Series X console starting late 2020, though there's no word yet on how much the upgrade will cost.
If you want 4K gaming, Sony's PS4 Pro costs $399 (£399/AU$600), while the Xbox One X runs a hefty $499 (£499/AU$649). That's a pretty big price gap, though Microsoft's console offers a richer 4K gaming experience.
Winner: Xbox One. The $249 (£300/AU$399) Xbox One S is the cheapest console out there and doubles as a 4K Blu-ray player.
The Sony PS4 is our overall favorite game console, but only by a hair. The PS4 edges out the Xbox One thanks to its stellar exclusives, with titles like God of War, Uncharted 4 and Spider-Man being some of the best you can find on any platform. Its comfortable, versatile controller, intuitive interface and handy social and sharing features certainly help too.
That said, the Xbox One is still well worth the money if series such as Halo, Gears of War and Forza are more your thing. Microsoft's console still gets most key multiplatform games, and Xbox Game Pass is the single best value in gaming. Microsoft also wins on the hardware front in some key ways, with a value priced Xbox One S that can play 4K Blu-rays and an Xbox One X that offers the best performance of a current-gen console.
It's also worth keeping in mind which console you plan on jumping to next generation. The PS5 and Xbox Series X will both be backwards compatible, so if you buy a PS4 or Xbox One now, you'll be building your game library for the future.
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No Advice for the Lovelorn
He said goodbye for the last time in a cafe in
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, over a glass of Chablis.
She lingered over cheese and fruit before requesting
the check. “Is there anything I can do?” the waiter
asked. “Yes,” she replied. “Meet me at eight
in the lobby of my hotel.’’
“Come to the Yukon,” he said. “We’ll travel by dogsled.
Wrapped in furs, we’ll sleep by a cedar fire.’’ “Better yet,”
she said, “we’ll get married; then we’ll sleep by a cedar fire.”
“O. K.,” he said, “but I must be honest. There were one-hundred
eighty-one marriages in the Yukon last year, and forty-seven ended in
divorce. We’ll be taking a chance.” “Yes,” she agreed,
“but your wife—what about her?” “Won’t know till the thaw,”
he replied. “If they don’t find her then, they won’t ever.”
She noticed him in the crowd, in the vertigo of plumed
heads, oiled and undulating arms. His eyes danced
with a sparkler’s light. “O Rio night,” he wrote.
“You are my golden light, my wildly painted dream
of jungle bright, my river deep and green.” The next
day he received a note. “My love,” she had written, “I
will always remember the carnival, the night we spent
together, and you really are a poet, but I can’t see you
again on my honeymoon.”
She had first seen him at the Palace of Congresses.
The opera was long. Her attention slipped to his gloved hands.
At entre-acte they had shared caviar and champagne. She
waited now for him in the drawing room of his apartment.
From the window there was a view of Saint Basil’s. “I
am quite wealthy.’’ His voice sounded from the recesses of
the far bedroom. “I would imagine so,” she replied. “Yes,
fortunately I am,” he continued. “What about your Marxist ideals?”
she asked. “Not at all incongruous, my dear,’’ he replied. “My
father was wealthy. It’s simple heredity. I have whatever
I really want.’’ “And I am something you want?’’ He emerged
from the bedroom, slipping into his jacket. “Not at all that,”
he said, smiling. “You are quite unique. You are, I admit,
not the Great Catherine, Tolstoy’s Natasha, a Romanoff princess,
or even the Volga by starlight. But in a city where so little
comes at so dear a price, you will certainly do.”
“Look out the window,” he said. “This is Marrakech. Souks,
djellabas, snake charmers, holy men, street hawkers, Berber
bangles, Couscous, caravans, and caftans. The soothsayer at
Jemaa el Fna said I would meet a tall olive-skinned woman
with the reflection of gold in her eyes. She is there
somewhere. I can feel it. Among all those people, veiled,
robed, turbaned. Near a minaret, a mosque, in the medina,
she is there. I have only to search to find her. You must help
me. You are my nurse, companion, guide. I’ll not be well until
I find her. You know that.” “Look at me,” she said. “Do I not
have skin like sands struck by noonday sun, eyes like a dove’s.
Are not my robes perfumed for pleasure.’’ “Yes, yes,” he said.
“But I don’t want to see you just yet. Later, by moonlight—say
eleven o’clock by that wall, under the flowering tree. Wear a veil,
and for god’s sake, take off those white shoes.”
She gave him a note in the courtyard of the palace
of Holyroodhouse. The note read: “I’ll not be continuing
this trip in your company. Keep the room overlooking the Firth
and don’t forget your cheques are under the dresserscarf.’’
When he looked up, she was walking through the iron gate
toward the crags. “But hold up, ” he shouted. “I don’t know
your name.” “Mary, Queen of Scots,” she replied, through cupped
hands, “and I’m on my way home.”
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Punjab Crop Burning: How Smog of Confusion is Spread by ‘Experts’
Image of crop burning in Punjab used for representational purposes.(Photo: Altered by The Quint)
Vivian Fernandes Updated: 27.11.19
Opinion 8 min read
A visit to some villages in Karnal and Ludhiana districts of Haryana and Punjab respectively, showed extensive adoption of no-burn-no-till agriculture, indicating that with access to the appropriate machines, guidance and enforcement of the law, the issue of paddy crop waste can be managed without polluting the air, and with profit to farmers.
But it is also important to cut through the smog of ill-informed news reports and commentary, that attribute paddy stubble and straw burning to a law that prohibits the seeding of rice nurseries before 10 May, and transplanting of rice before the middle of June.
The law was enacted to reduce loss of groundwater to evaporation when summer is at its peak. Influential voices like those of the agricultural scientist MS Swaminathan, who is credited with ushering in India’s Green Revolution in wheat, and NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand, have also sent mixed messages that can affect the adoption of no-burn-no-till agriculture.
In a series of tweets, Swaminathan said farmers should not be blamed for burning paddy crop residue. This goes against the ‘polluter pays’ principle. It may not be politically expedient to blame them, but it is not wise to condone irresponsible behaviour either.
Swaminathan has also proposed an impractical solution. He says ‘rice bio-parks’ should be set up to process the straw into paper and cardboard.
Punjab produces about 20 million tonnes of paddy straw of which about 15.5 million tonnes is burnt. To rake, bale and transport all of it from 3 million hectares within a time-frame of three weeks, during which wheat has to be planted, is logistically daunting.
Paddy field harvested by combines with attached straw spreader, BISA.
(Photo: Vivian Fernandes)
Also Read : Playing With Fire: Why Punjab’s Farmers Are Forced to Burn Stubble
The Issue of Storage
There is also the issue of storage. Straw from 400 acres needs one acre to store, says Punjab’s Agriculture Commissioner Balwinder Singh Sidhu. If not covered, episodic showers that occur in December and January, can quicken the degradation of straw.
Chand’s suggestion that straw be converted into compressed natural gas is also impractical for these reasons. Baldev Singh Dhillon, the Vice Chancellor of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) is fine with “ex-situ management” of rice crop residue “for the time being but ultimately it must be managed in-situ” to nourish the soil depleted by the extraction of so much grain.
It is possible to plant wheat without removing or burning paddy stubble and straw because of two devices.
Conventional combine harvesters cut paddy about a foot above the ground. After threshing, they leave behind loose straw in rows as they advance. Spreading this straw evenly over the field by hand is tedious and expensive. But new combines cut paddy closer to the ground. They are also equipped with a device that chops the straw after threshing and blows it evenly across the field. Combines are required by regulation to be mandatorily equipped with straw spreaders but the rule is not enforced.
Baldev Singh Dhillon VC, PAU.
Also Read : We Know Burning Stubble Pollutes, Govt Won’t Help: Punjab Farmers
Is the ‘Happy Seeder’ Beneficial?
A Happy Seeder developed by PAU in 2007 but put into active operation from 2014 onwards makes slits in the field for sowing of wheat seed, after parting the straw cover. The straw mulch helps retains moisture, suppresses weeds and allows beneficial insects and microbes to thrive. Over time it degrades, and enriches the soil.
Manoj Kumar Munjal, 46, of Taraori village in Karnal district’s Nilokheri tehsil, practices no-burn-no-till agriculture on 130 acres, 80 of which is leased. He has not ploughed his fields since 1995, but has been burning loose straw. Since 2010, he says, he has not set his fields on fire. He uses the Happy Seeder.
His friend, Vikas Chaudhary, was introduced to the Happy Seeder during a demonstration by CIMMYT, the Mexico-based institute from where Normal Borlaug initiated the Green Revolution in wheat.
CIMMYT had a programme called Cereal System Initiative for South Asia. He has been a convert to no-burn-no-till agriculture since then.
In Ludhiana’s Bagga Khurd village, Jagdev Singh Toor, 63, has not been burning paddy crop residue for six years. For 12 years before that, he would burn loose straw but not the stubble. He finds using the Happy Seeder beneficial: “kharcha kum, ‘proft’ zyada,” (less expenditure, more profit) he says, compressing the second syllable of the word ‘profit’.
Wheat amid paddy straws
Also Read : Why Farmers Are Forced to Choose Stubble Burning Over Happy Seeder
How to Address the Fear of Risk in ‘No-Till’ Agriculture
In nearby Garha village, Harwinder Pal Singh Gill, 39, came to use the Happy Seeder by chance. An impending visit to Canada in 2016 left him little time to prepare the fields for wheat. He took a chance with the Happy Seeder, and has not regretted the decision.
Conventionally, farmers prepare the fields for wheat planting by running the disc harrow, the plough, and a planking device multiple times.
But this exposes the soil and dries it. The pores made by roots of the previous crop are also destroyed. If the stubble is set on fire, insects and microbes die. It is not only costly but also wasteful, as nutrients in the straw go up in smoke.
An article jointly published by several agricultural scientists and engineers in August in the respectable Science journal said that farmers saved, on average, Rs 5,300 a hectare, if they planted wheat without tilling the field. The article was based on a survey of farmers and an analysis of various studies.
If the villages one visited in Karnal and Ludhiana could adopt no-burn-no-till agriculture, there is no reason why the rest of villages in the two states cannot do so.
ML Jat, who oversees ‘sustainable intensification’ for BISA in India, says farmers need guidance and a mindset change. They also perceive a risk in no-till agriculture when there is none. This fear needs to be addressed.
Wheat field prepared conventionally.
Also Read : Is Stubble Burning Avoidable? Odisha Has the Answer
How to Popularise ‘No-Burn-No-Till’ Agriculture
BISA or the Borlaug Institute for South Asia, is a joint venture of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research [ICAR] and CIMMYT. It has been demonstrating conservation agriculture at its 500-acre campus in Ludhiana for over five years. Conservation agriculture has three principles: minimal mechanical soil disturbance, permanent soil organic cover and crop rotation. According to a paper cited by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), conservation agriculture has been spreading at the rate of 10.5 million hectares annually since 2008-09. In 2018, it covered 180 million hectares or 12.5 percent of the global cropland.
For no-burn-no-till agriculture to catch on, combine harvesters with the straw spreading device, and Happy Seeders must be readily available.
This is because wheat is ideally sown in the last week of October and the first week of November. The villages that one visited have been adopted by BISA and ICAR’s Central Soil and Salinity Research Institute. They provide machines sponsored by corporate trusts, and their staff guides the farmers.
Manoj Kumar and Vikas Chaudhary in their field in Karnal.
Reasons for Slight Increase in Stubble Burning in Punjab in 2019
There has been a slight increase in stubble burning incidents in Punjab this year. Official figures show there were 50,967 events between 23 September and 19 November this year, as compared to 50,576 during the year-ago period. “Late transplanting may be one reason, but a small reason,” says Sidhu responding to reports that blame Punjab’s Preservation of Sub-soil Water Act of 2009.
A PAU note on ‘Clearing the Smog over Paddy Transplanting Date,’ says the groundwater table is falling by 50 cm a year across the state and by almost double that rate in the central districts.
According to Punjab’s economic survey, the number of tube wells has increased nearly 48-fold to 1.47 million over the past 50 years. In 44 of 150 blocks, it says, the water level is below 25 metres.
“Our worry is that these influential voices (who blame late transplanting) can seriously set back the groups attempting to address these (crop residue management) issues through technology development and dissemination,” PAU notes. Those who cite late transplanting for stubble-burning fail to note that the share of short-duration varieties in Punjab’s rice area has increased from 32.6 percent in 2012 to 81.7 percent in 2018.
Why Cash Incentives to Farmers Won’t Work
PAU says it is necessary to stick to the transplanting date of 20 June so that farmers do not revert to long-duration varieties that require more irrigation. The reprieve of one-week this year has resulted in just this: area under short-duration varieties fell by nearly 14 percentage points to 68 percent. The date for rice transplanting was pushed back by a week to 13 June this year from 20 June last year and 15 June during the previous four years, he says.
On the Supreme Court’s direction, Punjab and Haryana are offering cash incentives to farmers to not burn paddy stubble.
But incentives will not work if the law prohibiting crop residue burning is not enforced.
Farmers who refuse to get out of their comfort zone through persuasion will have to be goaded into making the effort.
(Vivian Fernandes is a senior journalist and runs a website called Smart Indian Agriculture. He tweets @VVNFernandes. This is an opinion piece and the views expressed above are the author’s own. The Quint neither endorses nor is responsible for the same.)
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This is the first-ever photo of a black hole
Scientists have, for the first time, captured an image of a black hole.
The image, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, "shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun," according to EHT officials.
The image is the first visual evidence of a supermassive black hole. The shadow of a black hole is the closest scientists are able to get to taking a photo of the black hole itself, since black holes are completely dark.
"This is an extraordinary scientific feat accomplished by a team of more than 200 researchers," said Sheperd S. Doeleman, the director of the EHT project.
The black hole in the image is at the center of Messeir 87, a galaxy 50 million light years from Earth. It's one of the biggest known black holes.
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SXSW 2018: catching Brits and Europeans Wednesday night – 14th March 2018 (Part 3)
By Mary Chang on Wednesday, 28th March 2018 at 2:00 pm
After getting our drink on at the Focus Wales drink reception, I left Carrie to catch two Welsh acts before running down nearly to the other end of the busy part of East 6th Street, ending up at the very colourful Esther’s Follies for my first visit in 7 years. In its normal, non-SXSW form, the place puts on comedy and vaudeville shows. As you should expect, there’s theatre-type seating in this venue, which offers the unique opportunity for a photographer to get real close to the artists while the rest of the audience, well, is comfortably seated and a good distance away from the stage.
The 8 PM slot isn’t always a great one at SXSW 2018, but it worked out wonderfully for Austrian duo Leyya and their live band. I featured them in one of four preview write-ups I did for the Music Bloggers Guide to SXSW 2018. Even though they were classed in the avant / experimental genre in this year’s SXSW schedule, in reality what Sophie Lindinger and Marco Kleebauer are doing is putting together the best bits of pop, soul, electronic and percussive music. This is music designed to get your body moving and grooving but without the pretension of intellectual electronic but with more bite and presence than the average pop band. They’re exactly the kind of act who make me excited about the future of music: artists who are willing to take chances, stepping out of the mainstream box and trying something different, with amazing results. My only wish for their performance was to have more people swinging their partners to and fro to their music!
I got hung up at Esther’s Follies for longer than I expected – I indulged a Leyya superfan and took a photo of her and Sophie after their set – so I decided a nice saunter over to the Waller Ballroom was better than trying to rush off somewhere else. The Waller Ballroom was Dutch New Wave’s venue for the week, having an indoor space plus a nice biergarden outside. I’m sure it was something else previously, but the door staff couldn’t tell me what it used to be. Once inside, I was surprised by the weird, rectangular shape of the room, the stage more than twice as long as the room’s depth. It made for strange options for photography, that’s for sure.
A parade of white and black Dutch people came through the doors after I arrived, talking up a storm, slapping each other on the back. While I couldn’t understand what they were saying, it was clear they showed up to provide support to their friends The Homesick from Dokkum. Living in a country so divided by race like ours, such a simple thing between friends was heartwarming to me. Then it was time for the band to take the stage. While going through all the bands scheduled to appear in Austin from the Continent, The Homesick were in my top five bands I definitely wanted to see. They’re a young band, but they’ve already figured out how to write a compelling song, compelling in the sense that their songwriting captures your imagination and keeps you wanting more. The driving guitars and drumbeats in their rock songs are simultaneously weird and wonderful. Watching Elias Elgersma wail on his guitar with awe-inspiring dexterity, I realised I was experiencing something special indeed. Read my preview of their appearance in Austin through here.
Having gotten an appropriate Homesick fix, I intended to catch American duo Bat Fangs at Barracuda’s indoor stage as part of the Ground Control Touring showcase there. Oddly, my press pass didn’t let me in. Rebuffed, instead of waiting, I thought I’d just go around the corner to the 720 Club and wait for The RPMs to start their set. Brighton’s newest hope for the next big British guitar band were setting up in the hole in the wall club.
Which I mean quite literally. The band are a five-piece and only the keyboardist and drummer could fit on the stage. This was definitely an opportunity to get up close and personal with your musical idols! Although the rough and tumble nature of the venue seemed more appropriate for a punk band, the RPMs filled the room with their brand of glittery synthpop and rock and this show, along with their appearance at the British Music Embassy Friday afternoon, showed they have loads of potential to be as big as their own influences. Read my SXSW 2018 preview piece on The RPMs through here.
As you can see, the stage was brightly lit at the 720 Club, but the floor wasn’t.
Then it was time to pop back to the British Music Embassy. I didn’t need to see Frank Turner there, as I knew uber fan Carrie would catch him during the week some point. However, I did want to get into Latitude 30 early enough for Sam Fender and not have to jockey for a good position to see him and his band playing. As you might imagine, Frank Turner was a huge draw for Brits and Americans alike, so the place was one in, one out when I arrived. I’m not sure why this hadn’t occurred to Latitude 30 staff until that moment – maybe it was because it had been unseasonably cold in Austin since we arrived? – but they decided that night to open up the windows so those in the queues could hear Turner play. He ended his set with a rousing version of ‘Polaroid Picture’ that had nearly everyone inside and outside singing along. I recognised the song but not knowing the words, I just bobbed my head to the beat. Good enough, right? For more photos from my Wednesday at SXSW 2018, visit my Flickr.
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Report: Leafs offered Marner $11M AAV in June
Josh Wegman
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Mitch Marner apparently declined an offer that would've made him one of the highest-paid players in the NHL.
The Toronto Maple Leafs offered the restricted free-agent winger contracts of seven and eight years with a cap hit of $11 million in June, according to TSN's Darren Dreger. The average annual value would've tied Marner with Drew Doughty and teammate John Tavares as the fourth-highest paid player in the league.
The offer was not deemed palatable to Marner's camp due to the longer term and the AAV being lower than teammate Auston Matthews, according to TSN's Bob McKenzie. Matthews inked a five-year extension with an $11.634 million AAV in February.
The $11-million offer to Marner also included performance bonuses that the club wouldn't pay during his entry-level contract, according to Dreger.
The Leafs have no incentive to do a three-year bridge deal, since it would still cost around $10 million per season, McKenzie added. This would be problematic for Toronto as Marner could then accept a hefty qualifying offer and walk into unrestricted free agency after the fourth year.
San Jose Sharks forward Timo Meier, one of the few premium RFAs to get a deal done, signed a similar contract earlier this offseason. He inked a four-year, $24-million backloaded deal to assure he gets a $10-million qualifying offer in his final year of restricted free agency.
The Leafs currently have a projected cap hit of $85.35 million - nearly $4 million above the cap ceiling, according to CapFriendly. However, the dead contracts of David Clarkson and Nathan Horton (combined $10.5M AAV) are projected to hit long-term injured reserve, and Zach Hyman and Travis Dermott (combined $3.13M AAV) could join them on LTIR to begin the season.
The Leafs can also option a couple of players to the minors to create additional cap space.
Marner finished 11th in league scoring in 2018-19 with 94 points.
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Ian Rush predicts where Liverpool FC are going to finish
Ian Rush looks ahead to Liverpool FC's chances of challenging Man City this season
By The Sport Review staff Tuesday 7 August 2018, 23:45 UK @thesportreview
Liverpool FC manager Jurgen Klopp Photo: New Balance
Ian Rush believes that Liverpool FC are capable of being Manchester City’s closest Premier League title challengers this season.
The Reds earned plenty of praise for their strong performances last season as Jurgen Klopp’s men ended up in fourth place in the Premier League table and reached the Champions League final.
Liverpool FC ended up losing the final 3-1 to Real Madrid but the Merseyside outfit still earned plenty of new admirers for their free-flowing attacking football.
Klopp is still aiming to guide Liverpool FC to their first major trophy since his appointment at Anfield back in October 2015.
The Reds have strengthened this summer, with Liverpool FC having brought in Fabinho, Naby Keita, Xherdan Shaqiri and Alisson Becker ahead of the new campaign.
And Liverpool FC legend Rush seems to think that the Reds have what it takes to be able to challenge Manchester City’s dominance at the top of the table next term.
Speaking on the Second Captains podcast, Rush said: “We need to win a trophy. It doesn’t matter what trophy… Liverpool could run Man City real close.”
Liverpool FC will kick off their new Premier League campaign with a home clash against West Ham United at Anfield on Sunday afternoon.
It remains to be seen whether the Reds will bring in any more players before the close of the transfer window on Thursday.
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Home / Cities / Siliguri / Northeast Frontier Railway gears up for monsoons
Northeast Frontier Railway gears up for monsoons
Patrolmen will be equipped with the latest state-of-the-art equipment like GPS tracker, luminous jacket, raincoat and separate water-proof trousers, safety helmet with attachable miners light and safety shoes.
Statesman News Service | Siliguri | May 21, 2019 2:37 pm
Northeast Frontier Railway Headquarter Malgaon, Guwahati. (Photo: Twitter/@RailNf)
To tackle monsoon complications, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has started pre-monsoon preparedness and patrolling along the tracks. The patrolling will continue till 15 October, railway officials said on Monday.
More than 1600 personnel will patrol the 6400-km long railway tracks spread over the entire Northeast, West Bengal and Bihar for five months, it is learnt.
According to the railway officials, despite precautions, there have been occasions when bridges were washed out, embankments breached and landslides have occurred. To face such a situation and to carry out restoration within a minimum possible time, monsoon-reserved stocks of materials like boulders, sand, sandbags, and various pre-fabricated components of bridges are kept loaded in wagons and kept at strategic locations.
A total of 235 wagons have already been placed at 27 locations spread over the entire zone ready for movement at any time, the NFR said.
Additional reserve materials are also stockpiled at 162 more locations, it added.
NFR Chief Public Relations Officer, Pranav Jyoti Sharma, said the monsoons are challenging for the operations of the railways.
“The challenges come in the form of landslides, breaching of embankments, washout of bridges. The south-west monsoon brings 90 per cent of the annual rainfall (varying from 2000 to 5000 mm) to the region during April to late October every year. A detailed strategy is adopted to ensure that the tracks are protected and kept in good condition so that safety of passengers is not compromised,” he said.
“Pre-monsoon preparedness like stacking of materials as monsoon reserve, cleaning of drainage, and ensuring marking of danger levels in bridges has been completed. A total of 813 parties of patrolmen (each consisting of two persons) have been deployed to secure the tracks round the clock. The patrolling will continue till 15 October, depending on the weather forecast warrants,” he added.
According to him, these patrolmen will be equipped with the latest state-of-the-art equipment like GPS tracker, luminous jacket, raincoat and separate water-proof trousers, safety helmet with attachable miners light and safety shoes.
Every patrol party is provided with one ‘walky-talky’ and a mobile phone to communicate with the nearest station in the eventuality of any condition posing danger for train movement. They will also be equipped with fog detonators to alert train drivers, the NFR said.
“During night time, the entire track is patrolled twice from 08 pm to 11:30 pm and again from 12:30 am to 04 am. These patrolmen are monitored by five divisional control offices with the help of GPS trackers. Moreover, stationary watchmen are also deployed in vulnerable locations like areas susceptible to landslide, bridges where the water level is nearing danger level etc. Currently, 13 such stationary watchmen are deployed in the vulnerable location of the Lumding Division,” Mr Sharma said.
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3 Doors Down bring honest rock’n’roll to the Hammersmith Apollo
3 Doors Down bring honest rock’n’roll to the Hammersmith Apollo | Live review
Giulia Frigieri
It has been almost a decade since 3 Doors Down started rocking around, but nothing seems to have changed really. The band performed on Thursday 15th March, at the Hammersmith Apollo, keen on showing the same engagement, same energy and same vibe as it has always done. In their fifth studio record, 3 Doors Down appeared anything but nostalgic or outdated. The dedication of the band seems to have strengthened even more… it is all about romance and honest rock ‘n’ roll on the stage.
The venue is packed. Time of My life, from their new eponymous album released in June 2011, opens the show and everyone shares the excitement straight away. A collection of old charts such as Duck and Run, The Better Life and Away from the Sun mixed with brand new tunes, are listed one-by-one among hands shaking in the air and bodies freely dancing in the space. Fans don’t stop cheering, video installations are surrounding the passionate performance of the band and the memories are coming out from old songs; past and present, old emotions and new rhythms are tunefully fused together, forming a whole new rock entity out there on the stage.
The longer the live performance goes on, the more intimate the connection between the band and the crowd becomes; it turns into crowd surfing, led by the front man, singer Brad Arnold. He jokes and says this is the first time he hasn’t had his watch stolen from fans while crowd surfing!
This is 3 Doors Down, an honest rock band who still enjoy playing tunes such as When You’re Young, or Here Without You, as well as being challenged by creating brand new raw material from recording sessions in the studio.
Maybe the climax reached with Kryptonite will never be repeated again, maybe the band will always be compared to those records and remembered through them… but 3 Doors Down wouldn’t really care, would they? “Oldies but goldies” will always be played in between brand new tracks and nostalgia will always be a false friend to cope with, but if new emotions and experiences will be successfully put down in melodic words again and live shows will be attended by thousands of fans, would it really matter?
Photos: Chiara Ceccaioni
Check out our interview with 3 Doors Down guitarist, Chris Henderson here.
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PHOTOS: VW enthusiasts raise more than £1,000 for worthy cause in Weston
Jayne and Martin Townley have transformed their 1987 VW Wedge in to the Mystery Machine. Picture: Will.T.Photography
Volkswagen enthusiasts shrugged off the changeable weather on Sunday to enjoy an annual charity event in Weston.
Barry Rickards stands with his 1960 splitcreen camper. Picture: Will.T.Photography
Cruise To The Prom was held at the Beach Lawns on Saturday, with more than 450 VWs on show as hundreds of pounds were raised for a life-saving organisation.
A huge range of cars and vans were on show, as the group cruised en masse from Sanders Garden Centre in Burnham to Weston's seafront.
The event has been running for more than a decade, collecting thousands of pounds for good causes.
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Each year, the organisers award the Spirit of Clive award in memory of Clive Allen - who was instrumental in the event's early years - and on Sunday that prize was handed to Joe Chadney.
He received it from last year's winner Jason Swan.
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6 Ways to Pay for Private School
For Students and Parents
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by Robert Kennedy
Robert Kennedy has extensive experience in the private school educational setting as a parent, teacher, administrator, and reviewer.
Attending a boarding school isn't cheap, we all know that. And today, many tuitions can cost a family as much as $70,000 a year (now multiply that by four years). Most private schools seem to be topping out around $45,000 to $55,000 a year, but some go well above that amount. Day school tuition typically runs about half that cost, or even less, depending on where you live. Even the primary grades cost a fortune these days. Paying for a private school education requires tremendous sacrifice for most parents. So how do you do it? How do you manage to pay for private school tuition over the course of your child's education? Here are six ways you can manage those large tuition bills.
Earn Cash Back on Tuition Payments
Most schools expect payment of fees in two installments: one due in the summer, typically by July 1, and the other due in the late fall, typically by the end of November of the current academic year. Other schools may do their billing by semester or term though, so it varies. But, a little tip that not many families know is that schools will permit payment with a credit card. Simply make your tuition payment twice a year on a credit card with a rewards program, like a cash back card or one that will earn miles, and then make your regularly scheduled monthly payments on the card.
Lump Sum Discounts
Schools always hate chasing down families who are late on their bills, which can have some negative results. But if you work with the school and pay your bill upfront, it's often met with a discount. If you're able to pay your tuition bill in full by July 1, the school may offer you a five to ten percent discount on the overall amount. Discount plus earning cash back with credit card payments? That sounds like a deal to me.
Tuition Payment Plans
Not everyone can make lump sum payments and use a credit card to do so. For those families, there are still plenty of options. Most schools participate in tuition payment plans which are offered by outside providers, if not the school itself. The way these plans work is that you pay one-tenth of the expenses each month to the payment plan provider, which in turn pays the school on an agreed basis. It can be a real boon to your cash flow by allowing the payments to be spread equally over a number of months. The schools like the fact that they don't have to manage your billing. It's a win-win.
Almost every school offers some form of financial aid. You have to file an application for aid with the school and also file a standardized form, such as the Parents' Financial Statement. The amount of aid which you can reasonably expect depends to a great extent on the size of the school's endowment, how much the school really wants to recruit your child, and how the school allots its scholarships. Several schools now offer a virtually free education if your family income is below $60,000 to $75,000 annually. So, if you need financial aid, see what the various schools on your short list can offer. Finally, be sure to ask around in your community. Many civic and religious groups provide scholarships.
Just like in college, loans are an option to pay for private school, though these are usually in the parents' names, while college loans are often in the students' names. Families have the ability to borrow against their assets to pay for private school education. There are also some specialized educational loan programs available, and your private school might offer or contract with a loan program, as well. It is always a good idea to consult your tax adviser and financial planner before making a major financial decision such as this.
Company Benefits
Many major corporations will pay for tuition and related educational expenses for dependent children of expatriate employees. So if you are posted to Belgium tomorrow, the main issue you will face is getting your children into the local international school. Fortunately for you, the tuition expenses will be paid for you by your company. Ask your Human Resources department for details.
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Praise for some journalists in wake of Rangers FC scandal
By Hamish Mackay-08 August 2012 07:24am
Scottish writer and commentator Gerry Hassan has praised a number of journalists and broadcasting pundits for their part in the “Scottish spring” of football.
In his weekly column in The Scotsman, Hassan reflected on how in a momentous period in Scottish history, the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Labour Party and Rangers FC …”have hit crisis, lost their way and suffered ignominy and humiliation.”
And he points out: “What has been called by some ‘the Scottish spring’ of football has consequences well beyond the boundaries of the game.
“Just to recap for non-football fans, it was only due to the unprecedented gathering of fan power that the football authorities were prevented from keeping a Rangers who went into liquidation in the top flight Scottish Premier League (SPL); they then stopped Rangers being ‘parachuting’ into Division One rather than Division Three.
“This is a historic moment. For time immemorial our society has been run by an intricate network of elites, professional groups and vested interests. The Scottish Parliament and the arrival of the SNP Government haven’t done anything major to jeopardise this.
“Fascinatingly, football is the first arena in our public life where the fresh, cleansing air of democracy has shown itself. Over the summer, football fans across Scotland have come together, agitated and organised and overturned the time honoured stitch-up which would have kept a newco Rangers in the SPL.
“They did this through a variety of forums from supporters’ trusts and associations to the internet and social media - creating an informal, powerful fans movement.”
Hassan names “a few courageous journalists who decided to spend time investigating the affairs of Rangers and questioning the football authorities.
“Alex Thomson of Channel Four News, the BBC’s Jim Spence and Stuart Cosgrove in particular are worthy of note. In the longer run in leading up to the events of this summer, the Orwell Prize winning RangersTaxCase website and Phil Mac Giolla Bhain, earned numerous plaudits.
“However, these people were the exceptions. What was the norm was collusion with the way football and Rangers were being misrun.
“This has become known as ‘succulent lamb journalism’ after the habit of numerous scribes who feasted at the table of the big football clubs and David Murray’s Rangers in particular, refusing to risk their access and rights by asking difficult questions.
“A whole generation of football journalists grew up with this attitude while the events of the last few months have illustrated the scale of their self-deception. Step forward Jim Traynor, Chick Young and Hugh Keevins.
“Time and again they have declared Scottish football needs ‘a successful Rangers’ and that any move to put them into Division Three would signal ‘the death of Scottish football’.
“The hugely respected Archie Macpherson has played into this, going on about the ‘bile’ shown to Rangers as an institution, omitting to acknowledge that they have practised industrial scale cheating for over a decade.
“This sort of attitude, of colluding with power, of silences and omissions in relation to abuse and illegality, is one we have seen across wider society, whether the corruption of one party Labour local government, or the corporate doublethink of banking and related services.
“We have now seen something stupendous and yet already the football authorities are attempting to engage in restoration of the old order. They are looking at league reconstruction this year to aid getting Rangers back into the SPL as early as possible.
“More damning is that they are actively trying to conserve the old failed ways. Football has become infected by the short-term, massive debt and an addiction to Sky TV money which is related to the unsustainable bubble of the economy.
“Scottish clubs for the last decade have spent more than they could, binged on expensive second-rate imports, and ignored community and youth development. And yet this is the model the authorities and most of the teams are desperate to keep on the road.”
“What links the world of football and the economy is the failed business models of the last few decades, the MBA culture that Neil Doncaster, head of the SPL and Stewart Regan, head of the SFA have articulated in the corridors of power of Scottish football. A culture and mindset that our political classes of every hue have unconditionally bought into.
“Little wonder that Henry McLeish, former First Minister, talks the insipid language of football as ‘a brand’, ‘reputation’ and ‘a product’. It has to be all of those things, but it would be great if we could raise our aspirations, utilise the newfound fan power and be more daring.
“Whatever difficult and painful roads Scottish football faces and it is going to have quite a few, things will never completely be the same again, and no matter how hard the football authorities and some of the myopic football old guard try to turn back time.
“Democracy has finally broken out in a part of Scotland; it is messy, uncontrollable and uncontainable. It will ultimately prove to be intoxicating, and we need to celebrate this opening, and spread and encourage this force far and wide across our society.
“It has been a long time coming, but finally the dam of institutional control and contempt has broken; it shouldn’t be too surprising that it happened on the football field.”
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Source: Gerry Hassan
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Wed., October 09, 2019
As Legion Arts regroups, Cedar Rapids agrees to release funds
City had placed $17K on hold as NewBo arts group deals with finances
F. John Herbert (left) and Mel Andringa are the co-founders of Legion Arts, which bought the historic CSPS Hall in Cedar Rapids’ NewBo neighborhood after the 2008 flood. The nonprofit organization they founded presents cutting-edge art and artists, music, theater, film, dance and exhibitions there and at other area venues. (The Gazette)
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Days after the executive director of Legion Arts announced his resignation as the arts organization based at CSPS Hall retools, the Cedar Rapids City Council agreed Tuesday to release $17,000 in hotel-motel tax proceeds it had on hold.
Legion Arts, a performance and visual cornerstone of the New Bohemia District, has been in a leadership transition and struggling with debt — which led the council to withhold the hotel-motel money in August.
“It’s to show ‘thank you for what you are doing,’” Cedar Rapids Mayor Brad Hart said of releasing the money, noting the city wanted to see the organization succeed and pay its bills.
“Now they have people in place taking this very seriously,” Hart said. “It’s a wonderful organization, but it wasn’t working the way it was.”
Legion Arts sought $35,000 per year for the latest three-year funding cycle for hotel-motel tax proceeds. The organization received $17,000 last year. But when the funding for year two came up for approval in August — more than 20 nonprofit organizations receive money through a competitive application cycle — Legion Arts was left off the list.
Legion Arts was founded 29 years ago by two artists, F. John Herbert and Mel Andringa, who ran the organization as it grew. Over time, the organization came to possess CSPS Hall and the adjacent fire house building, which added responsibilities for maintaining a more than 100-year old building and serving as a landlord to retail tenants.
In recent years, particularly as debt mounted, the founders faced pressure to develop a leadership transition plan and step aside. The organization owes more than $100,000 to some 25 vendors and artists.
Andringa largely had pulled back his role, while Herbert had continued to run the day-to-day operations, including managing the performance lineup.
Herbert notified friends and colleagues on Sept. 27 that his last day would be Sept. 29. He resigned his seat at the board’s Sept. 24 meeting.
Matthew Steele, publisher of the Little Village magazine, was named chairman of the Legion Arts board this summer and has taken an active role in stabilizing the organization. One of his first orders of business was to replenish a depleted board of directors, which was no longer meeting regularly.
Steele said Tuesday the board has appointed six new members, bringing the total to 11. He expected to announce an update Wednesday on an interim executive director. He previously said an interim likely would serve through the end of the year, with a permanent executive director taking over at the beginning of 2020.
“It’s very apparent that they are making the kind of progress internally that council wanted to see,” said council member Dale Todd, who has served as a liaison for the city on the matter.
Musicians Greg Brown and Karen Savoca are performing a benefit to support the Legion Arts at 8 p.m., Saturday at CSPS Hall, 1103 Third St. SE. Tickets are $30.
Comments: (319) 398-8310; brian.morelli@thegazette.com
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Real Madrid's run ends while Barcelona shoot themselves in the foot
Real Madrid’s winning run was finally ended by Valencia, but Barcelona missed out on the chance to go top of La Liga
Sid Lowe
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Mon 5 Jan 2015 10.46 EST Last modified on Mon 20 Feb 2017 08.16 EST
Valencia’s Antonio Barragán, second left, celebrates after scoring against Real Madrid and helping to stop the club’s 22-game winning streak. Photograph: Alberto Saiz/AP
First Valencia laid on a guard of honour for Real Madrid, then they laid into them. 2015 began with a bang and a crash. It also began in celebration, and another glimpse that a fourth power may be re-emerging in Spain. New owners, new players, new manager, new atmosphere, Valencia are on their way back: the team that defeated champions Atlético Madrid and were unfortunate to lose to Barcelona in the 93rd minute began the new year by ending Madrid’s run of 22 consecutive wins, going back almost four months. When Nicolás Otamendi’s thumping header clinched a 2-1 victory, they roared inside Mestalla. An hour later, they were still roaring outside Mestalla, thousands gathered long after the game had ended.
A state of optimism has been declared. The day before the game, 5,000 fans had turned up at Valencia’s Paterna training ground and the day before that 8,000 had come to the presentation of Enzo Pérez, whose arrival for €25m from Benfica takes Valencia’s spending under their new owner Peter Lim over €100m. This time there was real hope. Desire, too. A banner at Paterna declared: “For the mothers that gave birth to you, beat Madrid!”, which they did for the first time in five years at home. This morning, the headline in Super Deporte lauds: “The mothers that gave birth to you!”
Before the game Valencia had been obliged to line up to applaud Madrid onto the pitch for having recently won the Club World Cup. Fans weren’t happy – if there is a team they dislike, it is Madrid – and up in the stands, some turned their backs and whistled. But the emotional management at Mestalla has been clever and here was another example. “Of course it doesn’t bother us,” the manager Nuno Espírito Santo had insisted, “the best way to recognise your own merits is to recognise those of others.” Almost immediately afterwards, Valencia’s Under-12s came out, recent winners of the Arona tournament, and walked the same guard of honour. Madrid’s moment had been just a moment, quickly replaced. The fans turned swiftly and applauded, chanting “Champions! Champions!”
Besides, Enzo Pérez had promised: “We’ll applaud them but when the game starts it will be different.”
Nicolas Otamendi
Shots blocked
As usual, Valencia came out flying. Usually, that requires them to get the first goal and kill the game off while their energy lasts. Instead, Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring with a penalty – for the fifth time this season – but Valencia didn’t fold. Madrid could not escape the organisation or intensity; Valencia played with three central defenders and two wing backs, one of two systems the manager said can be “useful” but still needs “perfecting”. Here, the organisation appeared near-perfect already. Madrid were not awful by any means, and they had chances in a game that was fast and exhilarating, that wore you out just watching it, but they did complete fewer passes than in any other match. Cristiano Ronaldo attempted just 13. Otamendi and Lucas Orban were everywhere, flying into tackles, closing every gap.
“The key was not letting them play,” Nuno said, but that was not the whole story. If the first half had been bruising, packed with cards (seven of them, five for Valencia), and if the final minutes were tense, the second half had opened up and so had Valencia. The wingbacks were more wings than backs; José Gayá and Antonio Barragán combined for the equaliser. Then Otamendi got what would prove the winner. Over on the touchline, Nuno leapt and spun and shouted. “The best day?” he said afterwards, repeating a line he had used after Valencia beat Atlético. “I’m an optimist and I keep saying that I believe that the best day is in the future. This is just the start.”
For Madrid, it was the end. The end of the run, anyway; the surprise was that it was not the end of their time on the top of the table. Coritiba, holders of the world record for consecutive wins, quickly put out a message. “Thanks Valencia,” it said. For Madrid there may be some concerns: they have not played as well without Luka Modric, even if they have kept winning, and the front three disappeared almost entirely, while some worry that the lack of rotation may cost them. But Ancelotti was calm as ever. “It had to happen sooner or later,” he said, voice barely audible over the chanting coming from beyond the walls, where Valencia fans were gathering to celebrate, chanting and bouncing up and down.
“We weren’t singing before and nor are we going to throw in the towel now,” Sergio Ramos added.
As it turned out, he was more right than he could have imagined; the pessimism passed in a matter of hours. When Real Madrid’s bus left Mestalla last night it nudged its way slowly through the thousands of fans that had gathered to cheer the team that had finally defeated them, before pulling out onto Avenida Suecia and heading towards Manises airport, where the players boarded the plane thinking that they had lost top spot in the league. But by the time they had got off at Barajas, reached Valdebebas and climbed into their cars to head home, turning on the radio to listen to the last few, dramatic minutes of the night’s final game, FC Barcelona had helpfully handed it back.
3 Atletico Madrid 17 19 38
4 Valencia 17 17 34
5 Sevilla 16 9 33
For the first time since September, Madrid had been beaten. But for the first time since April 2011 Barcelona had been beaten too, in the same week. An own goal from Jordi Alba after ninety seconds – the fastest own goal in their history – saw them lose 1-0 to David Moyes’s Real Sociedad at Anoeta. Instead of climbing back to the top, they still trail Real Madrid, having played a game more. “It’s a lost opportunity,” Andrés Iniesta said. La Vanguardia called it “the road to hell.” They didn’t like where this is heading.
Leo Messi, Neymar, Dani Alves, Gerard Piqué and Ivan Rakitic were all left on the bench. Messi, Neymar and Alves had all arrived back from Christmas just two days before. All of them came on in the second half but still there was no way through and nor did it ever really look like there would be, even if Moyes did admit that when the goal went in he turned to Billy McKinley and said: “We could do with the full time whistle now.” Sure, there were saves, and a couple of penalty shouts, but Barcelona did not play well. “Luis Enrique throws away three points,” complained the cover of Sport.
“I didn’t want to risk them,” Luis Enrique said afterwards, as if they had just turned up late, unannounced. The decision was, in fact, his – on the grounds that they have the Copa América at the end of the season. Unlike, say, Javier Mascherano or Claudio Bravo. “What a pity,” lamented El Mundo Deportivo. Marca called it “suicide.” The cause of death: “Luis Enrique shot himself in the foot,” said AS.
In fairness to Luis Enrique, once they had come back two days later than the rest, perhaps leaving them on the bench was logical, but he had insisted before the game that they were all “fresh and fit.” And anyway, here’s an idea: if it is a risk to play someone who has got back late, don’t decide to let your best players come back late in the first place. Equally, letting Messi come back late and not starting him in the first game in January is nothing new: Pep Guardiola did it four years in a row and Tata Martino did the same.
But it’s a little different when you’re going away to Anoeta, where you have not won for five years; when Real Madrid have just unexpectedly handed you a rare chance to close the gap; and when leaving them out is just another indication of a much deeper problem; when for much of the season only Messi and Neymar have hidden how poorly your team is playing; when Barcelona have no identity and when know one knows what the system is except that the system is Messi. This was Barcelona’s 17th league game and their 17th different lineup.
It is also a little different when the club is adrift at boardroom level and fractured socially – with football director Andoni Zubizaretta sacked; when after the game, the sporting director, so often the shield for his superiors, publicly points the finger at the president for the first time; when the current regime is getting less popular by the day; when this team has come off the back of a first trophyless season in five years; when there are new players who need to settle swiftly; when the manger had already claimed weeks ago it is “hunting season” and now the knifes are out more than ever before; and when it widens fault lines that are already opening up.
On Monday morning Barcelona had a special open training session for kids to attend in celebration of Kings Day, when the three wise men supposedly reached Bethlehem carrying gold, frankincense and myrrh. Messi missed it. He had gastroenteritis, they said.
Up in San Sebastián and down in Valencia, they were nursing sore heads. “It’s the happiest day since I have been here,” Moyes admitted, while El Diario Vasco called it a “magical night.” Nuno was trying to keep a lid on the euphoria. “I keep saying this, to the point of become a bore,” he insisted after Valencia’s victory. “If there are any celebrations, they will only be at the end.” Outside, the fans didn’t hear him. They were too busy celebrating.
The Real Sociedad coach David Moyes helped steer his club to victory over Barcelona. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images
• Happy hogmanay. The opening weekend of 2015 was a special one for Scottish coaches. Sitting next to Nuno on the Valencia bench was his assistant Ian Cathro, while up in San Sebastián, Real Sociedad’s win over Barcelona means they have now beaten Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid and Barcelona ... (plus Oviedo, of course). Those three victories have come under three different managers, the latest of them of David Moyes, whose Real Sociedad side have now scored in the opening three minutes three home games in a row.
• Things could hardly have gone better for Atlético Madrid, for whom this was a nine-point weekend, drawing them to within a point of the top, and who in 24 hours welcomed 90,000 people and one icon into the stadium. The Kid is back at the Calderón. Fernando Torres was signed last week. On Saturday, he sat in the directors’ box at the Calderón as Atlético defeated Levante 3-1, with Antoine Griezmann scoring twice and celebrating by doing the archer gesture that Torres always did in homage of Kiko (whose No19 shirt he has taken). And then on Sunday he was presented in the same stadium ... and over 40,00 turned up to welcome him home. “One day you’ll have to tell me what I have done to deserve this,” he said, holding the mic.
• The first half of Elche-Villarreal: fun.
• There is a box on Getafe’s web site which says “get your tickets here.” When you click on it takes you to a new page ... which is empty. How sadly appropriate.
• Speaking of Getafe, it’s not unusual to have to get rid of someone because of your financial crisis. But when that someone is your manager, you know something is seriously wrong.
• New year, same Eibar. They just keep on keeping on.
• Sevilla beat Celta. Somehow.
* Málaga lost for only the third time in 11 … and against Almería. Erm, yeah, sorry about that …
Results: Atletico 3-1 Levante, Sevilla 1-0 Celta, Elche 2-2 Villarreal, Deportivo 1-0 Athletic, Málaga 1-2 Almería, Getafe 1-2 Rayo, Valencia 2-1 Madrid, Espanyol 1-2 Eibar, Real Sociedad 1-0 Barcelona
Monday night: Córdoba v Granada.
6 Villarreal 17 13 31
7 Malaga 17 4 30
8 Eibar 17 -2 23
9 Celta Vigo 17 -2 20
10 Espanyol 17 -5 20
11 Rayo Vallecano 17 -13 20
12 Athletic Bilbao 17 -7 19
13 Real Sociedad 17 -4 18
14 Getafe 17 -9 17
15 Almeria 17 -10 16
16 Deportivo La Coruna 17 -13 16
17 Levante 17 -20 15
18 Granada 16 -16 13
19 Cordoba 16 -16 11
20 Elche 17 -19 11
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ITV buys US production company Thinkfactory Media
UK broadcaster continues US spree, paying £19m for 65% stake in producer behind Kevin Costner drama Hatfields & McCoys
Jason Deans
Wed 19 Jun 2013 04.59 EDT First published on Wed 19 Jun 2013 04.59 EDT
Hatfields & McCoys: the Kevin Costner drama was produced by Thinkfactory Media, which has been acquired by ITV. Photograph: Chris Large/Channel 5
ITV has made its third foray into the US TV production sector, paying $30m (£19m) for a controlling stake in the company behind Kevin Costner drama Hatfields & McCoys.
The UK broadcaster is buying 65% of Los Angeles-based Thinkfactory Media, with a "put and call" option for the remaining 35% that can be exercised in three to five years. The total ITV will pay is linked to the company's performance over that period.
Thinkfactory is the third US production company ITV has acquired in the past six months, following deals for Cake Boss producer High Noon Entertainment and Duck Dynasty maker Gurney.
The latest addition was founded in 1992 by producer Leslie Greif, who will stay with the company as chief executive, reporting to Paul Buccieri, managing director of ITV Studios International and chief executive of ITV Studios America.
Thinkfactory makes reality and entertainment shows for US cable channels including R&B Divas, Preachers' Daughters and Marriage Bootcamp, as well as drama such as Texas Rangers.
"We're gathering real momentum in building a substantial US presence, which is central to our strategy of creating a strong international content business," said ITV chief executive Adam Crozier.
Greif said: "While retaining the independent spirit that keeps Thinkfactory Media creative, this relationship not only allows us to continue producing top-quality scripted and unscripted content, but enhances the potential for global distribution and our continued success in the marketplace."
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Renault Kwid rival Fiat Mobi enters Brazil dealer stores
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The hatchback is powered by a 1.0-litre flex-fuel engine which puts out 75 PS while running on ethanol.The Fiat Mobi small car which is all set to be...
The hatchback is powered by a 1.0-litre flex-fuel engine which puts out 75 PS while running on ethanol.The Fiat Mobi small car which is all set to be launched in Brazil on April 13 has already started arriving at dealerships in Sao Paulo. Quatrorodas has managed to click some close-up shots of the mid-variant.
To be available in six variants – Easy, Easy On, Like, Like On, Way and Way On – the Mobi will replace the low-cost Uno Vivace. According to Quatrorodas’ dealer sources, the Uno Vivace ran out of stock and the company has stopped producing it. The regular Uno, however, will continue to be sold.
The Mobi would be targeting the Renault Kwid which is expected to go on sale in the Latin American market later this year. The new Fiat small car derives the front half of its platform from the Uno while the rear half has been developed from scratch, in a bid to offer a better crash rating.
The hatchback has a tall stance like its rival. While the basic shape is not far away from that of the Uno, the Mobi is slightly smaller and adopts fresh design for its front and rear fascias. Inside, the dashboard design has a simple yet modern appeal. The all-black color theme is further enhanced by piano black finishes on the centre console and steering wheel. Equipment list of the fully loaded Way On variant includes dual airbags, ABS, fog lamps, alloy wheels, touchscreen infotainment system, reverse parking sensor, multifunction steering wheel etc.
The Fiat Mobi is expected to have a starting price of 29,000 Brazilian reals (around INR 5.25 lakhs). The top-end variant is said to have a price tag of around 40,000 reals (around INR 7.24 lakhs).
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Declare Your Rebel or Imperial Allegiance With Columbia Sportswear’s New Star Wars Jackets
By Steven John November 25, 2019 9:00AM PST
Whether you’ve chosen the easier path — the path of power, the Dark Side — and thrown in your lot with the Empire or you’re boldly fighting along with the Rebellion and walking on the Light Side of the Force, there’s one thing people on both sides of the struggle can agree on: It’s no fun being cold.
On Friday, December 6, Columbia Sportswear is releasing a special run of collectible jackets that will not only keep you plenty warm this winter, but will also let you show off your Light Side or Dark Side allegiance to fellow Star Wars fans. The new coats, made in collaboration with Lucas Film, come in two variations: a black coat emblazoned with Imperial icons or an off-white and gray jacket with the Rebel logo.
Both jackets also feature additional Star Wars references and coded messages, like the vehicle ID for Luke’s X-Wing Fighter and the Death Star written in Aurebesh, the language of the Star Wars universe. The lining of the coats features a lightsaber schematic print and colors modeled from the Star Wars archives.
Hardcore Star Wars fans will love these jackets, but thanks to the overall subtlety of their design, even people who can’t tell Mos Eisley from Grand Moff Tarkin will appreciate them as good-looking, warm coats more than suitable for use during cold weather here in our corner of this galaxy. The jackets feature a half-zip design with a large kangaroo pocket and an insulated hood. The cuffs feature adjustable velcro bands and there’s a pocket on one sleeve perfect for a phone, a lift pass, or a copy of the Deathstar plans.
Columbia produced an initially limited run of these coats, which will retail for $200. If past Lucas Film and Columbia Sportswear partnerships are good predictors, they’ll be gone fast. Some will be available in stores, but starting at 12:01 a.m. EST on Friday, December, your best bet is shopping online.
Good luck! Or rather, may the Force be with you! Unless you’re on the Dark Side, in which case may it not.
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The Wildwood Trail is a seven-mile off-road hiking, biking and snowmobiling trail on a former railroad right-of-way, which runs from the Village of Woodville south to the St. Croix/Pierce County line, through the Town of Eau Galle. St. Croix County purchase the railroad grade from the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company in 1970.In addition to winter snowmobiling, there is consistent, regular usage by joggers, bicyclists and hikers during the spring, summer and fall. All motorized vehicle traffic, except snowmobiles, is prohibited on the trail.
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Villa 55 Marrakech
Douar Makina Marrakech 40000 Morocco
This secluded complex is set in lush gardens overlooking the Atlas Mountains
It’s a 20-minute drive from the bustling Medina
The restaurant serves local dishes made from ingredients grown on site
There’s an outdoor pool lined with palm trees
Villa 55 offers traditional Moroccan accommodation in a secluded spot on the outskirts of Marrakech. Set in the tree-filled Palmeraie oasis area with views of the Atlas Mountains, the hotel occupies a cluster of terracotta-toned buildings linked by leafy courtyards and surrounded by gardens planted with bougainvillea, rose bushes and olive groves. It’s around a 20-minute drive from the city’s historic Medina, packed with landmark architecture, colourful souks and vibrant restaurants, a 10-minute drive from Musée de la Palmeraie contemporary art gallery and 25 minutes by car from elegant Menara Gardens, dating from the 12th century. Amelkis Golf Club is approximately 20 minutes’ drive from the hotel.
There’s a relaxed Moorish-style atmosphere to Villa 55’s interiors, which feature carved wood furnishings, low-slung sofas and rustic fireplaces. Guests wake up to a complimentary breakfast of Moroccan pancakes, and can dine on local specialties made with ingredients grown in the hotel’s vegetable garden and take a dip in the palm-lined outdoor pool. The hotel also offers three relaxation areas including a library, a TV lounge and a poolside bar, and other amenities include massages and beauty treatments, as well as tours of the local area, cycling excursions and cooking classes (surcharges may apply).
The hotel’s individually decorated guestrooms continue the Moorish vibe, with touches including wrought-iron bedsteads, fireplaces and private gardens; there’s one room with a sofa bed. Suites sleep up to four people and come with distinct features such as private mountain-view terraces, sunken baths, glass-walled showers and separate living space. All include air conditioning and free Wi-Fi.
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Children and additional guests: Extra guest charges apply as follows: €40 per person, per night for children aged 4 to 11; €50 per person, per night for children and adults aged 12 and over. This includes breakfast.
Children aged 3 and under stay free of charge, on request, when sharing parents' room. This includes breakfast. Extra beds and cribs are on request and must be requested upon booking in the Special Requests field.
Supplements are not included automatically in the total price and will be charged directly by the hotel. See room descriptions and rate policies for information about room occupancy levels.
Pets: Small pets are allowed free of charge and on request; please enquire directly with the hotel should you wish to bring a pet.
Fees: City tax not included in the total price: 2.50€ per person, per day payable at the hotel.
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Within days after giving birth, parents normally order a birth certificate for their child. This document is necessary for transactions such as making medical decisions, enrolling a child in school, etc. One of the most important pieces of information required is the name of the parents. However, what happens when you are told that one parent can’t be listed on the birth certificate? What do you do when you are told that as a parent, your name can’t be listed or associated with your child on what should be a legal document?
Earlier this year, the United Supreme Court ruled that the Arkansas birth certificate law, A.C.A § 20-18-401, is unconstitutional to the extent that it treats similarly situated same-sex couples differently from opposite-sex couples.
Leigh and Jana Jacobs, and Terrah and Marisa Pavan, both same-sex married couples decided to have a child. In 2015, Leigh and Terrah each gave birth in the State of Arkansas. After each couples’ child was born, both couples attempted to receive birth certificates for their child by completing the required paperwork. Although each couple completed the paperwork, Leigh listing Jana as the other parent and Terrah listing Marisa, the Arkansas Department of Health issued the certificates only listing the birth mother as the parent and purposely excluded Jana and Marisa. The State’s department decision was based on A.CA. § 20-18- 401, which supports displaying only the mother or in some cases mother and father on birth certificates. This provision specifically excluded the same-sex couples. However, to the Jacobs’ and the Pavans; this meant that the Arkansas birth certificate law was a violation of the United States Constitution.
As a result, the couples filed a suit in Circuit Court against Nathaniel Smith, Director of the Arkansas Department of Health, claiming that by not allowing them to list their same-sex spouse violated the mandate of Obergefell v. Hodges, which provided that states may not deny same-sex married couples the same rights, benefits, and responsibilities as opposite-sex couples. The trial court agreed with the Pavan’s. However, when this case went before the Arkansas Supreme Court, the Justices were divided on this issue and reversed the judgment viewing that “the statute centered on the relationship of the biological mother and biological father to the child, not on the marital relationship of husband and wife”. This meant that it was not in violation of constitutional rights or Obergefell v. Hodges.
A petition for writ of certiorari was granted, (a document filed by the losing party asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision of the lower court) and the records of this case were sent to the United States Supreme Court for review and the decision by the Arkansas Supreme Court was reversed. On October 19, 2017, the case was sent back to the Arkansas Supreme Court, and the ruling was made to ensure that circuit courts allowed same-sex spouses the same right as opposite-sex spouses, to be listed on a child’s birth certificate in the State of Arkansas.
However, things did not go as smoothly as some would hope. Two months passed after the ruling on October 19th and birth certificates still were not being issued to same-sex couples in the State of Arkansas. In December of last year, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Timothy Fox ordered the State and the parties of the case to mediate on this issue in hopes to amend the law, and comply with the U.S. Court’s ruling.
After resistance from Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, Judge Fox ordered the State Department to halt from the issuance of birth certificates until state officials complied with the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court. According to the Associated Press, Judge Fox stated in his order that “he was hopeful that the governor could fix the law by executive action.” The same day on December 8, 2017, Governor Asa Hutchinson directed the state department to commence with the issuance of birth certificates, and to list both spouses on birth certificates issued to same-sex married couples.
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Man Fired From Job Keeps Turning Up And Getting Paid For Four More Years
by : Lucy Connolly on : 07 Oct 2019 11:31
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A subway maintenance man in New York was arrested last week after collecting approximately $250,000 in wages after he had been fired from his job.
Ronald Berry, 47, claims he didn’t know he had been fired six years ago, insisting he has been on sick leave since 2015 for high blood pressure and asthma.
As such, the cleaner travelled to a city Transit office every two weeks to pick up his earnings, and up until now had been able to do so without any problems.
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However, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) recently realised something was up and notified the authorities, resulting in Berry’s subsequent arrest for trespassing when he arrived to collect his paycheck on Thursday (October 3).
Berry told the New York Post:
I never got a call that I was terminated. I’ve been collecting checks for four f*cking years. How am I still collecting checks? It’s a fault on the MTA side.
When he asked his boss how he was still getting paid if he’d been terminated in 2013 as claimed, they allegedly told him: ‘That’s not my problem, that’s payroll’s problem.’ It’s not known how Berry ended up back on the payroll in 2015, two years after he was let go from the company.
Berry was even more confused by the predicament he found himself in because he claims the agency have been sending him letters in recent months, telling him he needs training.
If I’m terminated why am I getting letters from them? The last one I got was at the end of last month and I believe it was for asbestos training or track training.
Now if they would’ve sent me a termination letter, f*ck going to pick a check up… I’m terminated already, let me file for unemployment.
Sources from the MTA said the agency now uses biometric fingerprint technology for ‘clocking in and clocking out’, which they suggested would have put a stop to Berry’s claims sooner.
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The paychecks Berry collected were also found to note ‘hours worked’ without any mention of disability, according to MTA sources – suggesting he would not have been able to mistake them for sick pay.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) confirmed Berry was charged with criminal trespassing after ‘being observed inside an employee-only NYC transit facility’.
The MTA is also investigating, with spokesperson Tim Minton saying ‘anyone who inappropriately took public money will be held accountable to the full extent of the law’.
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The force of only 7,000 men which crossed the straits was commanded by Tariq ibn Zeyad. In 711, Tariq disembarked at the foot of the mighty rock whose familiar modern name of Gibraltar distorts and abbreviates its Arabic designation of Jabal-e-Tariq. He ordered the burning of the vessels of the fleet which had brought them to Spain. Striking Westwards towards the lake or lagoon of Janda, Tariq took up a strong defensive position on the river Barbate, and awaited the march of the Gothic army from the North.
Gothic King Roderick who had hastened thither with an army of 100,000 which on a single day of July was beaten by Tariq. The King disappeared, probably drowned in the river and then swept to the sea. Tariq reached the capital Toledo and occupied without resistance. Later Musa ibn Nusayr also crossed the straits and after successful attacks against a number of fortified cities across the central uplands, he finally joined Tariq at Toledo. Musa ordered coinage to be struck with formula of the Muslim faith. Musa and Tariq set out once more on the conquests, but when the former had occupied Saragossa and was about to achieve fresh success, the Caliph ordered both him and Tariq to return to Damascus. After the occupation of the Cantabrian Massif and neighbouring districts, Musa and Tariq complied with the order. At Damascus, the Caliph al-Wahid received the victors with all due ceremony in the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque, an occasion which was long remembered.
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Beacons' business potential lures entrepreneurs
Laura Baverman
A smart earpiece under development at the AlphaLab Gear start-up accelerator in Pittsburgh could be a lifesaver someday.
It's equipped with an accelerometer, compass, gyroscope, GPS and infrared sensor. The device knows the direction and speed a person is moving and if there are objects nearby.
It also measures a person's alertness. Placed over the ear of a tired truck driver, it will send an audible warning to wake up or pull over.
Technology called Bluetooth low energy allows the earpiece to collect and transmit data. But a hardware device called a beacon may be key to making the data relevant in places like the home, a workplace or inside a store, restaurant or hotel. It's a technology that venture capitalists are closely watching — and increasingly funding.
One is Nick Solaro, a venture capitalist at Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio, who's attracted to technologies that promote the Internet of everything, enabling devices that can talk to one another and help people be more efficient. He's an investor in NoWait, a start-up focused on restaurant guest-management technology, which is testing beacons for managing wait lists.
The term beacon originated with Apple. Its iBeacon technology introduced in 2013 allowed iOS devices to serve as transmitters and receivers. Manufacturers have since built physical beacons to communicate with Apple's devices. Typically affixed to a ceiling or wall, they are low-cost sensors powered by Bluetooth low energy that detect devices within a close radius and send information back to them.
Earpiece inventor Avishai Geller of Maven Machines, along with several classmates at AlphaLab, has just begun to experiment with the technology. Geller plans to initially market his earpiece in the trucking industry, but he envisions it transmitting messages from mobile apps and smart home devices through beacons in the home, making it "the personal assistant in your ear."
For example, a weather app might alert to a rainy forecast and instruct the earpiece-wearer to grab an umbrella. Or a smart trash can might remind its owner to take out a full bag.
A restaurant beacon might sense a passerby outside and deliver a coupon to that person's smartphone to lure him inside. A diner could be prompted to settle her bill using mobile payment.
"It's important to know what a person is doing and provide valuable assistance at the right time," Geller says.
Business Insider's BI Intelligence recently studied trends associated with beacons and found that retail and payments are the most common applications, and that consumers have been receptive to their use so far.
But like any new technology, there are issues preventing widespread adoption.
Some companies hesitate to build applications around beacons because there are many different platforms and no technical standard. Especially for a young start-up with limited resources, says Geller, it's difficult to decide which platform to choose. Some might be gone in a year. The winners might not have even launched yet, Geller says.
Mobile users also have to turn on Bluetooth, accept location services in an app and opt-in to receive messages transmitted through beacons. Lack of familiarity may make users slow to go through those steps.
Jeff Rieger of the Pittsburgh start-up FreshTemp suggests that businesses may be the best market for beacon applications. He's developed Bluetooth low-energy sensors for food producers, restaurant chains and the medical industry. They attach to packages of food or vaccines and monitor the temperature throughout transport to ensure federal regulations are met and the items are safe to use, reducing waste.
"If businesses use them, it's forced upon the end user, so it makes adoption a bit easier," he says.
Privacy is also a concern. Anyone using beacon technology has to consider the implications of data being transferred in the cloud between devices and companies gathering more information about their customers' everyday lives and actions.
"If your TV is talking to you through this technology, do you want Samsung to know how much time you spend watching it or who is in the room with you?" Geller says.
But research shows beacons will continue to proliferate. ABI Research projects 60 million will be in use by 2019. That means sometime soon, start-ups must move beyond testing and start implementing.
Geller agrees. "You have to try to look ahead to see what the world will look like in five years for this," he says.
Baverman can be reached via e-mail at lbaverman@gmail.com or Twitter @laurabaverman.
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Report: Pentagon official gave out $280K in fraudulent bonuses
Alan Gomez
A senior Pentagon official approved $280,000 in fraudulent bonuses to seven officials preparing to leave the department, according to a report released Thursday by the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General.
Ellen Ardrey served as the director of human development at the Pentagon's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), a massive agency based in Springfield, Virginia, that employs 14,500 people who provide situational intelligence on everything from counterterrorism and weapons of mass destruction to wildfires and Super Bowls.
According to the report, Ardrey allowed senior officials at the NGA to downgrade their positions for one pay period, which in turn allowed them to leave the agency with a $40,000 early-retirement buyout incentive. Such "early out" packages can be quickly approved by agency directors such as Ardrey for non-senior officials when an agency goes through downsizing, but they must receive clearance from the undersecretary for defense for all senior officials.
After a two-year investigation that included interviews with 16 witnesses and the review of more than 31,000 emails, the Inspector General's Office found that Ardrey complained that the process to receive approval for buyouts for senior officials was "onerous" and "slow," telling leadership, "The juice ain't worth the squeeze on this."
Instead, Ardrey suggested to senior officials that they downgrade their position for one pay period to speed up the process. She told investigators that she believed she was acting legally and that there was no law or policy that prohibited her from temporarily downgrading senior officials to hasten their buyout packages.
"However, DoD buyout incentive subject matter experts that we interviewed told us that Ms. Ardrey’s downgrade and buyout incentive plan for senior officials was 'gross mismanagement,' 'improper use of government resources,' 'looks like a shell game just to get them the opportunity to get an incentive,' and would only make sense 'if somebody wanted to get around the onerous approval process … for senior officials,' ” the report concluded. "We agree."
In a response to the report, Ardrey wrote that she had conducted similar downgrades at another government agency and that other employees at the NGA told her the process "was not prohibited."
"The investigation’s preliminary conclusion is based on inference and opinion, with insufficient evidence to substantiate intentional circumvention of DoD policy," Ardrey wrote. "The recommendations I developed … were consistent with policy and followed established authorities."
Ardrey could not be reached for comment.
An NGA statement on Thursday said Ardrey is still employed at the agency, and that officials there are dealing with the report internally.
"NGA encourages its employees to report misconduct and sets a high standard of conduct for all employees, regardless of grade," the statement read.
The investigation into Ardrey's actions started in 2017 when four anonymous complaints were filed against her, according to the report.
More:Sexual assault, harassment spikes at military academies, strategies fail to stem crisis
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Kim Jong Un poses for photos riding a white horse up a mountain. The internet has thoughts
Adrianna Rodriguez
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un staged a photo shoot atop a snowy, symbolic mountain that the country claims he rides often before making key decisions.
The photos show a bespectacled Kim wearing a long, light-brown coat and riding on horseback up snow-covered Mount Paektu. The mountain, the highest point on the Korean Peninsula, is sacred to North Koreans, and both it and the white horse are symbols associated with the Kim family's dynastic rule.
The images were released by North’s official Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, days after North Korea’s first nuclear talks with the U.S. in more than seven months fell apart.
Kim previously visited Mount Paektu before executing his powerful uncle in 2013 and entering into diplomacy with South Korea and the U.S. in 2018.
Although meant to portray a powerful statement, many users took to Twitter to mock the world leader.
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The snowy backdrop of Mount Paektu reminded many of the hit HBO show “Game of Thrones.”
Others took the liberty of editing the photos to include their favorite movie and TV show characters.
Many Twitter users drew comparisons between the North Korean leader and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In 2009, Russia released images that depicted a shirtless Putin riding horseback through southern Siberia.
The Russian leader staged another photoshoot in Siberia last week as he celebrated his 67th birthday by hiking through the forested mountains.
The white horse is a propaganda symbol for the Kim family, which has ruled North Korea for seven decades with a strong personality cult surrounding family members. State media have occasionally shown Kim, his sister and his father riding white horses. The symbolism goes back to Kim Il Sung, who according to the North's official narrative rode a white horse while fighting Japanese colonial rulers.
Contributing: Kim Tong-hyung, Associated Press. Follow Adrianna Rodriguez on Twitter: @AdriannaUSAT.
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10 amazing Prime Day deals everyone is obsessing over
Amazon Prime Day is in full swing, and these are the products that seem to be the most popular among shoppers.
10 amazing Prime Day deals everyone is obsessing over Amazon Prime Day is in full swing, and these are the products that seem to be the most popular among shoppers. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/reviewedcom/2019/07/15/amazon-prime-day-2019-most-popular-prime-day-deals-so-far/1693769001/
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Prime Day has arrived, ladies and gents! From now until 11:59 p.m. PT on Tuesday, July 16 (2:59 a.m. for East Coasters), Prime members can score amazing discounts on items they've been eyeing all year long, whether it be a cult-favorite Instant Pot, or a coveted pair of Sony noise-canceling headphones.
More: The best Amazon Prime Day deals you can get right now
To help you shop the absolute best deals, we've analyzed our consumer data, combed through the Amazon best-seller list, and researched current reports to present you with a list of the most popular deals of Prime Day that everyone is buzzing about. Here are the most popular Prime Day deals you don't want to miss.
1. Sony WH-1000XM3 Wireless Headphones
These headphones are THE best-selling product among our readers right now. (Photo: Reviewed / Jackson Ruckar)
Everyone seems to agree with us that the Sony WH-1000XM3 are now the best noise-canceling headphones on the market, beating out the Bose Quiet Comfort 35s. For Prime Day, you can join the movement and get them for 15% off.
Get the Sony WH-1000XM3 Wireless Headphones for $298 (Save $52)
2. Eufy RoboVac 11S
You can finally take a break from your weekly floor cleanings with the Eufy RoboVac 11S. (Photo: Reviewed / Jonathan Chan)
It's a universal truth that vacuuming sucks (pun intended), which is why this robot vacuum is so incredibly popular. The Eufy RoboVac 11S is our favorite affordable vacuum and will literally transform your floors, and right now if you act quick, you grab it as a Lightning deal on Amazon for just $149, which matches the lowest price we've ever seen it at.
Get the Eufy RoboVac 11S for $149 (Save $80.99)
3. Fire TV Stick
Streaming all your favorite shows is about to get a whole lot easier. (Photo: Amazon)
Clearly more and more people are making the economical switch from cable to streaming devices, as the Fire TV Stick is flying off the shelves right now for Prime Day. Currently you can save $25 on it, and gain access to Prime Video, Netflix, HBO, Hulu, and more in 4K ultra HD, all at the touch of a button (or a voice command to Alexa).
Get the Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote for $24.99 (Save $25)
4. Instant Pot DUO Plus 60
This deluxe Instant Pot is crazy cheap right now. (Photo: Instant Pot)
Everyone and their mother seems to own an Instant Pot these days, and for good reason. Whether you want to cook rice, sauté vegetables, make some pulled pork, or even bake a cake, this pressure cooker can do it all, in a fraction of the time it would usually take. From now until Tuesday at midnight, you can get it for the lowest price we've ever seen.
Get the Instant Pot Duo Plus 6 Qt Pressure Cooker for $55.99 (Save $73.96)
5. Echo Dot
The Echo Dot was one of the most popular deals last Black Friday and it's back again for Prime Day! (Photo: Reviewed / Betsey Goldwasser)
We didn't think Amazon would drop the price of the Echo Dot any lower, but we were wrong! Right now you can get our favorite affordable smart speaker for the new lowest price ever—just $22. Alexa can help you set alarms, add things to your shopping list, play your favorite songs, and check the weather—just to name a few of her 80,000 skills!
Get the Echo Dot (3rd Gen) for $22 (Save $27.99)
6. Ring Video Doorbell 2
With the Ring Video Doorbell, you can also see, hear, and talk to visitors using phone, tablet, or computer. (Photo: Amazon)
Join the legions of shoppers who are making their home more secure with the Ring Video Doorbell 2. This doorbell is one of the best smart home devices money can buy, and will instantly make you feel more safe when someone comes a-knocking. Right now, you can save 30% and get it for just $139, which also includes a Free Echo Dot if you click that option on the product page.
Get the Ring Video Doorbell 2—$139.99 (Save $60)
7. Kindle Paperwhite
Catch up on your beach reads this summer with the all-new Kindle. (Photo: Reviewed / Michael Roorda)
This best-selling e-reader is not on sale all that often, and has certainly never been available at this low price of $85 before. Prime members are currently taking advantage and buying these in droves, which we're happy to report as this is the best Kindle we've ever tested.
Get the Kindle Paperwhite (newest model) for $84.99 (Save $45)
8. Apple Airpods
Get the best wireless headphones at their lowest price. (Photo: Reviewed / TJ Donegan)
Okay, so I know this isn't the biggest price drop in the world, but Apple products are rarely, if ever, on sale. Shoppers are well aware of this, and are acting on this 9% discount on AirPods. When we tested the best true wireless earbuds of 2019, we were wowed by their impressive audio quality, which was leaps and bounds better than their wired counterparts.
Get the latest Apple AirPods with Charging Case for $144.99 (Save $14.01)
9. AncestryDNA
Find out more about your family's genetic makeup with this popular kit. (Photo: Reviewed / Jackson Ruckar)
With over 10 million members in its database, it's safe to say that the majority of us are curious about about our genetic makeup and ancestry. If you've ever wondered about the regions your family came from, or perhaps you're interested in finding a long lost relative, Ancestry DNA can help. Right now you can get this popular DNA testing kit for just $49, which matches the lowest price it's ever been (on Black Friday).
Get the AncestryDNA Test Kit for $49 (Save $50)
10. Sonos Beam
This deal on the Sonos Beam includes two $50 Amazon gift cards. (Photo: Reviewed)
What's better than a discount on Sonos products? Few things, most would agree. Right now for Prime Day you can get the Sonos Beam, which is the best soundbar we've ever tested, for $359. This is a fantastic deal on its own as the Beam usually retails for $499, but to sweeten the pot even more, Amazon is also offering $100 worth of Amazon gift cards included in the offer.
Get the Sonos Beam for $359 (Save $135.99)
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Sands Cares Ambassadors Spend Day with Fuhong Society of Macau
Service activity at two centres and buffet lunch at Sands Macao
(Macao, May 29, 2019) – A group of around 30 Sands Cares Ambassadors spent time with about 65 members of the Fuhong Society of Macau May 17, doing a service activity together before enjoying a buffet lunch at Sands® Macao.
The outing is one in a year-long series of celebratory activities leading up to the 10th anniversary of the Sands Cares Ambassador programme in August 2019, with the theme Spreading Love and Embracing Our Community. It’s also part of the celebrations for the 15th anniversary of Sands Macao, where a ceremony was held May 16.
The day began with Sands Cares Ambassadors visiting Fuhong’s Pou Choi Centre, where they made Vietnamese delicacies. The Sands volunteers then walked to Fuhong’s nearby Long Cheng Centre, where they shared the treats with the members there. Afterward, the entire group travelled to Sands Macao, where they enjoyed lunch together at 888 Buffet.
The Fuhong Society of Macau is one of the first NGOs that the Sands Cares Ambassador programme began collaborating with, going back to 2009. Sands China’s donations to Fuhong over the years have included a large-format A3 printing system – which gives Fuhong the ability to print its own promotional materials – and industrial-sized washers and dryers for Fuhong’s Happy Laundry Social Enterprise, including a platform constructed by Sands China’s facilities department.
“We have been collaborating since the opening of Sands Macao,” said Jennifer Chau, Fuhong’s director. “I still remember when we were invited to the Las Vegas-style buffet at 888 for the first time around 10 years ago, and how we were in awe because Macao had never seen anything like that before – and here we are again today! I’m really grateful that our partnership has remained strong and that we’re still serving the community together. It’s a pleasure to work with the volunteers from Sands China, and we thank them for taking the time to build relationships with and create positive experiences for our members.”
The Sands Cares Ambassador programme was established in August 2009 to give Sands China team members an outlet for serving the local community by organising community activities and initiatives that work toward creating a better Macao. With membership of more than 3,300 volunteers from across all Sands China properties – Sands Macao, The Venetian® Macao, The Plaza® Macao, Sands® Cotai Central and The Parisian Macao – the Sands Cares Ambassadors have contributed 100,000 hours of voluntary community service since the programme’s founding.
The Sands Cares Ambassador programme is part of Sands Cares, the global corporate citizenship programme of parent company Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Photo caption: Sands Cares Ambassadors visit the Fuhong Society of Macau’s Pou Choi Centre May 17, where they made Vietnamese delicacies to share with the members of Fuhong’s nearby Long Cheng Centre. The event is one of the celebratory activities leading up to the 10th anniversary of the Sands Cares Ambassador programme, and part of the celebrations for the 15th anniversary of Sands Macao.
Photo caption: Sands Cares Ambassadors and Fuhong members enjoy lunch together at Sands Macao’s 888 Buffet May 17. The outing is one of the celebratory activities leading up to the 10th anniversary of the Sands Cares Ambassador programme, and part of the celebrations for the 15th anniversary of Sands Macao.
About Sands China Ltd.
Sands China Ltd. (HKEx: 1928, Sands China or the Company) is a Cayman Islands registered company and is listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. Sands China is the largest operator of integrated resorts in Macao. The Company’s integrated resorts on the Cotai Strip comprise The Venetian® Macao, The Plaza® Macao, Sands® Cotai Central and The Parisian Macao – with Sands Cotai Central to be reintroduced as The Londoner Macao. The Company also owns and operates Sands® Macao on the Macao peninsula. The Company’s portfolio features a diversified mix of leisure and business attractions and transportation operations, including large meeting and convention facilities; a wide range of restaurants; shopping malls; world-class entertainment at the Cotai Arena, The Venetian Theatre, The Parisian Theatre, the Sands Cotai Theatre and the Sands Theatre; and a high-speed Cotai Water Jet ferry service between Hong Kong and Macao. The Company’s Cotai Strip portfolio has the goal of contributing to Macao’s transformation into a world centre of tourism and leisure. Sands China is a subsidiary of global resort developer Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS).
For more information, please visit www.sandschinaltd.com.
Sands Cares
A firm believer in the importance of corporate social responsibility, Sands China Ltd. engages with the local Macao community as a part of Sands Cares – the charitable giving programme of parent company Las Vegas Sands Corp. Sands Cares integrates the company’s philanthropic work worldwide in four key areas: financial giving, community problem solving and collaboration, in-kind donations, and team member volunteerism.
Key areas of Sands Cares in Macao include the Sands Cares Ambassador programme for volunteering in the local community; charitable contributions to NGOs and community organisations; and sponsorship of community events.
For more information, please visit www.sands.com/sands-cares/our-commitment.html.
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'The Deeper You Dig' Review: The supernatural horror thriller from the Adams family makes its US premiere at Fantastic Fest this weekend
By Joe Friar
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Beneath a blanket of snow in an isolated section of the Catskill Mountains, secrets refuse to remain buried in the supernatural horror thriller “The Deeper You Dig” from filmmaking family Toby Poser, John Adams and Zelda Adams.
The beautifully shot slow-burner revolves around the tragic death of a 14-year-old girl, her psychic con artist mother and a mysterious loner. Haunting images, nods to ’80s horror and an atmosphere that fluctuates between the real and surreal keep the audience engaged in what can be described as the Coen brothers meet Stephen King.
14-year-old Echo (Zelda Adams) is an Emo girl who’s into hunting, old-timey music and wearing dark lipstick, which in this case matches her blue parka. In a car ride home with her mother Ivy (Toby Poser), Echo expresses her excitement for going hunting this weekend, where she predicts she’ll get her seventh buck in under 20 minutes. Ivy doesn’t doubt it.
It’s winter in the Catskills, which means Echo gets to engage in another of her favorite pastimes: sledding. Usually, mom keeps an eye out for traffic during the recreational activity, but tonight, she’s busy with a client or in this case, an easy target. Ivy was once an astute psychic, but her gift is gone and now she scams clients by pretending to contact their loved ones after predicting their futures by reading tarot cards.
Tragedy strikes when Kurt (John Adams), a newcomer to the area, who’s renovating an old farmhouse, drives home at night after taking shots and drinking beer at a local restaurant. After narrowly missing a couple of bucks, the loner runs something over with his truck as evident by the loud thump. When Kurt gets out to check, he discovers Echo’s body lying on the desolate road. He panics, throws Echo’s body in the bed and heads home to dispose of the dead girl.
Ivy contacts the police after Echo disappears, and while they wait to see if the teenager turns up after possibly running away, Ivy’s motherly intuition kicks in and she begins to investigate her daughter’s vanishing, fearing the worst.
“The Deeper You Dig” keeps the audience engaged with good performances by the Adams family, especially Toby Poser as the concerned mother and former medium.
The film moves at a moderate pace as the tension builds and the violence becomes more graphic. The nontraditional score by director John Adams is made up of various sonic landscapes that tie in nicely with the film’s creepy theme, while the color blue becomes the film’s palette as it emerges in clothing, lipstick, the sled and the High Priestess tarot card.
The Adams family is a talented bunch of filmmakers who are usually a foursome, but eldest daughter, Lulu, is off at college leaving John, Toby and youngest daughter, Zelda, to carry on their passion for indie films.
This is the fifth and best feature by the clan, who write, produce, direct, act and score the film. The group has been in Victoria several times representing one of their projects at the Victoria TX Independent Film Festival (VTXIFF), where their band Hellbender performed an incredible set at Rosebud Records Grill and Theater. By the way, Zelda’s vocals are featured in the song during the closing credits. The youngest member of the family is also listed as the film’s co-director.
You catch the U.S. premiere of “The Deeper You Dig” this week at Austin’s Fantastic Fest with screenings scheduled at 11:30 p.m. Sept. 22 and at 8 p.m. Sept. 24.
For tickets, badges and information, go to fantasticfest.com.
Joe Friar is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (Los Angeles) and the Houston Film Critics Society. He co-founded the Victoria Film Society and reviews films for Hit Radio 104.7 and the Victoria Advocate.
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THE DEEPER YOU DIG (2019)
Toby Poser, John Adams, Zelda Adams, Shawn Wilson, Joan Poser, Inderpreet Singh Khangura, Bob Lane, Izzy Figueredo, Milli Lupinetti.
Directed by Toby Poser and John Adams. Co-directed by Zelda Adams
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Rocky v. Ahmadinejad
by Rob Nelson
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The sweatsuit still fits. MGM
Bankrupt and brain-damaged in Rocky V, a bout fought so long ago that the other Bush was still sucker-punching Saddam, Sylvester Stallone’s titular pugilist returns to issue another beating in Rocky Balboa.
How much punishment can an audience take? Even 007 gets his license renewed by younger models every decade, but not Rocky, who by now has arthritis in his neck, calcium deposits in his legs, and as before, pebbles in his head. But, yo, those arms are like tree trunks. And pushing 60 or not, this fighter is all heart. As for Stallone, he tends to lead with his chin—and I don’t mean that metaphorically. Leaning forward when he speaks, the veteran actor projects as if he’s looking to get hit, particularly in the scene with the Philly athletic commission, which threatens to deny ol’ Rocky’s application for a new boxing license. “Maybe you’re just doing your job,” sputters Rocky, his aching neck stretched from here to Palookaville, “but why you gotta stop me from doing mine?” Not that Stallone’s comeback compares to the Greatest’s for pure provocation, but it gets you thinking: Does life imitate the ring or vice versa? And speaking of jobs to do, how different was the dialogue when the stallion known as Sly stood toe-to-toe with MGM’s roaring lion and begged its commissioners for another round?
Rocky Balboa, effortlessly reflexive and patently, even proudly, absurd, is a tough movie to dislike—and believe me, I’ve tried. Stallone’s “deez, dem, doze” routine truly echoes a bygone era even as his most famous character continues to epitomize the times. In ’76, the tough guy went the distance and lost, like our troops in Vietnam. In ’85, he fought the Cold War in the form of Dolph Lundgren’s red Drago and, like Reagan, he won—wrapped in the American flag, yet. Now
Rocky VI equals Bush II: However bloody things get, the born fighter refuses to throw in the towel. “Nuttin’ hits harder than life,” the Stallion surmises. “It’s about how much you can take and keep movin’ forward”—chin-first, presumably.
Things have changed for this great white hope since he first fought for freedom against the tellingly named Apollo Creed in our bicentennial year. In ’06, Balboa’s belated return to the ring can be blamed, like this DVD-ready sequel, on the digital revolution: The ESPN Boxing channel’s computer simulation program predicts that the Italian Stallion, at least as he was in his prime, could take the current heavyweight champ, Mason “the Line” Dixon (Antonio Tarver) by K.O. Naturally, neither Rocky, now a restaurateur, nor Mason Dixon (named for the thin line between drama and comedy?) can resist when a promoter’s Vegas exhibition offer follows.
Other things are different too. Rocky’s sidekick Adrian has succumbed to what he calls, with characteristic sensitivity, “the woman cancer.” The site of the odd couple’s legendary ice-skating date is now a vacant lot strewn with garbage, the old neighborhood looking more than ever like a white ghetto. “Whole world’s fallin’ apart,” claims Adrian’s astute brother Paulie (Burt Young), still clock punching at the meatpacking plant but painting like van Gogh in between slab inspections. Still, some things never change. Our hero’s training outfit is a gray hoodie with matching sweatpants; his vitamin water is a raw egg, his punching bag a side of beef. His new muse is a shy bartender (Geraldine Hughes)-—Rocky likes the shy ones—and as in matches past, we know our boxer is getting serious about payback when, halfway through the film, he starts talking to himself, sparring with the more existential aspects of brawling. “Am I just tryin’ to replace old pain with new pain?”
Ask a narcissist a stupid question and you get a stupid answer, but that’s not to say it won’t be funny. Maybe all-out parody would’ve better suited Rocky Balboa—Stallone getting Rocky to start reading Henry James and dreaming of a tenure-track gig in the lit department at Penn or something. But earnest as it is, the movie hardly resists laughs. Identifying solely with a forlorn old mutt named Punchy, Rocky has become a philosopher in his old age. “A few too many birthdays,” he says, “shouldn’t be a reason not to fight.” Nor to write and direct and star—shirtless, even! Stallone would like us to think that Rocky hasn’t aged at all, although, gazing at the old buildings in the ‘hood, the fighter does allow that if he were 150 years old, he’d be falling apart too. We’ll know for sure in about 90 years, when the Stallion trains for his nursing- home rematch against China Man.
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Dr. Jill Biden’s Electability Argument Shows Weak Strategy
Will the electability argument keep working for Biden?
Perhaps the alternate headline could read something like, “Jill Biden offers fragile electability defense of husband, Joe Biden,” or similar. The backstory is that speaking at a campaign event on Monday, Dr. Jill Biden offered Democratic primary voters a rather blunt and meager train of logic for why her husband is the best-positioned candidate to take on President Trump in 2020. The bottom line, for Jill Biden, is about electability and “holding your nose” to pull the lever for her husband even if you might like another candidate better.
Nothing about her husband’s accomplishments or ability to stand firm on the issues, just the basic argument that Joe Biden, unlike the rest of the field, according to Jill, has the best chance of beating Donald Trump:
“I know that not all of you are committed to my husband, and I respect that,” she said at a campaign event in Nashua, N.H. “But I want you to think about your candidate, his or her electability, and who’s going to win this race.”
“Your candidate might be better on, I don’t know, health care, than Joe is,” she continued. “But you’ve got to look at who’s going to win this election. And maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say, ‘OK, I personally like so and so better,’ but your bottom line has to be that we have to beat Trump.”
She added: “So I think if your goal — I know my goal — is to beat Donald Trump, we have to have someone who can beat him.”
The argument boils down to a “shut up and get in line” defense of Joe Biden’s candidacy. Yes, Jill tacitly acknowledges, my husband is not the sharpest debater in the shed, nor does he have the cleanest political track record in this “woke” age of 2019, but, gosh darn it, he can beat Donald Trump and that’s what we’re all here for, right? It’s the kind of endorsement that most politicians would rather have left unsaid, but there it is, all laid out on the campaign trail by the woman who knows Joe the best.
The New York Times reports that Jill Biden’s argument is along the lines of the narrative being pushed by the Biden campaign in their advertising as well:
His campaign is slated to start airing its first television ad on Tuesday, part of what his team said was a “high six-figure” ad buy aimed at several Iowa media markets over the next few weeks. The one-minute spot, called “Bones,” hits some of the same electability themes that Dr. Biden had raised.
“We know in our bones this election is different,” the ad says. “The stakes are higher. The threat more serious. We have to beat Donald Trump, and all the polls agree, Joe Biden is the strongest Democrat to do the job.”
This all sounds eerily similar to the argument made by Hillary Clinton in 2016 about her battle with Sen. Bernie Sanders. Hillary, as the conventional wisdom told, was the “most electable” Democrat in the field, the only one capable of beating Donald Trump. Most Democrats eventually bought it given that the 2016 Democratic primary boiled down to a binary choice between Clinton and Sanders. The option was either taking a big risk on Bernie’s democratic socialism, something that most analysts believed would be a hard-sell nationally, or stick with the familiar Clinton brand and hope for the traditional political calculus to hold up. The end result was a Hillary Clinton loss to Donald Trump.
That’s not to say that Bernie would’ve beat Trump, but it does at least help argue against Biden’s “most electable” defense as not being proven out in recent electoral history.
Up to this point, at least, the electability argument has continued to work for Biden. He’s holding around 30 percent of Democratic primary voters, an amount which could easily hand him the nomination in a large splintered field.
Biden is still holding the right type of primary voters who continue to stick with him despite continued gaffes and lackluster debate performances. The real test will be September when more Democratic voters start getting serious about which candidate they feel can truly bring it to Donald Trump next year. Biden’s electability argument has started to take on water, but the ship is still sailing. However, Jill Biden’s defense of her husband almost sounded like a partial admission that there are “better” candidates in the field, but they don’t stand as good a chance as her husband does in 2020.
That’s a tough sell, and at some point, other campaigns will begin to chip away at the “most electable” strategy and push back against the same narrative that nominated Hillary in 2016.
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Ted Gasser August 21, 2019 at 10:05 am
I remember the phrase: “there is a place in hell for you if you don’t vote for Hillary”!! I am seeing the same kind of politicking by the Democrats now.
hgb August 22, 2019 at 8:48 am
Why not have Jill be the assistant President? She can carry out the day to day presidential commitments and Joe can just nod his approval.
Goethe August 22, 2019 at 9:52 am
One of the lessons of 2016 is that Americans like dramatic change. It’s true that they rejected Goldwater, but that was mostly because they were still mourning JFK. And they rejected McGovern, but that was due to his incompetence, including the Eagleton affair.
Reagan won on a promise of change. Ross Perot would have won if he had not been so incompetent in his campaign, including getting out of it. The polls were showing him with a solid lead over GHW and Bill, and growing. Later, W was going to be the “compassionate conservative,” certainly a new idea–and he won.
Dems picked a “moderate,” thinking people were afraid of change, which is just not true. They re-elected FDR three times! It would have been marvelous to have had Trump vs. Bernie, with promised change on both sides, and the opportunity to decide what kind of change the people wanted.
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Valve Announces "The Lab" - A Compilation of VR Experiments Set in Aperture Science
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Valve has announced today a new set of VR experiments called The Lab. Featured in the Aperture Science universe, these experiments offer "multiple ways to enjoy room-scale VR." The Lab will be free of charge on Steam and is slated to release this spring. More information about The Lab will be given during next week's GDC.
Here's Valve's official announcement of The Lab:
VALVE ANNOUNCES THE LAB
March 7, 2016 -- Valve has announced plans to debut "The Lab," a compilation of new VR experiments, at next week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA. Set in a pocket universe of Aperture Science, "The Lab" offers multiple ways to enjoy room-scale VR. It will be offered free of charge via Steam this spring. More information will be made available next week at GDC.
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Expected something like this and looking forward to hearing more details. I'm getting really damn excited about the Vive.
User With No Name
Exciting! I had a hunch Valve was crafting a VR game of their own, but I didn't expect to see it so soon. So what's this "pocket universe of Aperture Science" that the game will be set in? Is it the universe Bendy is from?
I'm not sure this is a "game." Sounds like similar demos to Robot Repair all rolled into one package.
I took "pocket universe" to mean a "little relevance to the world at large."
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-smash- said:
Portal 2's final DLC introduced the multi-verse, which featured an infinite number of pocket universes. While it was never used much in Portal 2, it gives Valve the narrative freedom to do just about whatever they want with Aperture and the universe without messing up the main "canonical" storylines of Portal and Half-Life.
The Lab clearly takes place across numerous several of these universes, with one of the server cabs in Robot Repair even mentioning this directly (including in builds that are well over a year old).
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Watches & jewellery | 3 Jul 2015 | By Caragh McKay
What’s in the box?: London smitten by Tiffany’s New York Minute
Tiffany & Co's new immersive exhibition at the Old Selfridges Hotel, London, creates New York’s Deco cityscape from hundreds of pristine-white architectural square boxes
It takes chutzpah to unravel the classic codes that your brand is built on and reform them as something new. Especially if you happen to be Tiffany & Co, a name synonymous with a box in a colour that no-one else can replicate – the famous bird’s-egg blue has its own Pantone reference (PMS number 1837).
But the New York fine jeweller’s installation ’Fifth & 57th’ – currently on show at the Old Selfridges Hotel, a dilapidated, industrial space to the rear of the eponymous London department store – does just that. Naturally, the famed Tiffany box is the pivot around which this temporary immersive exhibition revolves but in a delightfully witty move, it has been stripped of the colour that is one of the most distinguishable calling cards of all time.
Instead, towers of hundreds of pristine-white architectural square boxes represent New York’s Deco cityscape. This orderly melange forms a backdrop for a brilliantly noisy video installation capturing the flavour of a typical Fifth Avenue day, from sunrise to sunset, played on a 13-minute loop. So, rather than the blue box representing the glamour of New York, the city itself becomes a reflection of the famed luxury house that was established on the corner of Fifth & 57th in 1837 (hence that bespoke Pantone reference).
This smidgeon of subversive humour goes a long way to making ’Fifth & 57th’ a richer visitor experience, providing the element of surprise that can do much to bring over 100 years of heritage to life. But of course, this is not just any history, this is New York history – Tiffany style. And so all this abstract thinking must be tempered by the sweetness of romance.
Hence, a stroll down the ’Avenue’ is designed to reassure visitors with classic notions of NYC: a pretzel and coffee cart; a secluded bench in Central Park, where a smitten lover might pop the question under the boughs of a perfectly pink magnolia; Charlie’s Bar – a speakeasy humming with low chatter, laughter and smoky jazz.
The house’s formidable design heritage is also celebrated. A master engraver is installed in his studio on site, referencing Tiffany’s reputation for decorative silver and expert craft techniques. And a homage to the genius of the late, great designer Gene Moore – who, for 40 years (until 1994) beguiled millions of passers-by to take a closer look into Tiffany’s windows by way of his beautifully intriguing displays – is an unexpected delight.
’Fifth & 57th’ is in keeping with the current trend for luxury houses to bring their heritage to life but none has done it with quite so much humour and sass as Tiffany & Co has here. Now we all know what is really inside that Little Blue Box.
Watch a video tour of the installation
A master engraver is installed in his studio on site, referencing Tiffany's reputation for decorative silver and expert craft techniques
The melange of boxes forms a backdrop for a video installation capturing the flavour of a typical Fifth Avenue day, from sunrise to sunset
The ubiquitous Tiffany box is the pivot around which the exhibition revolves but in a delightfully witty move, it has been stripped of the colour that is one of the most distinguishable calling cards of all time, reconfigured as a canvas for the installation
A stroll down the 'Avenue' is designed to reassure visitors with classic notions of NYC, including a speakeasy humming with low chatter, laughter and smoky jazz...
... a secluded bench in Central Park, where a smitten lover might pop the question under the boughs of a perfectly pink magnolia...
... and a surreally geometric pretzel and coffee cart
The Old Selfridges Hotel is a dilapidated, industrial space to the rear of the eponymous Oxford Street department store
'Fifth & 57th' also makes subtle reference to Tiffany & Co's trademark colour, Pantone 1837
'Fifth & 57th' is a rich, characterful visitor experience, bringing over 100 years of cultural and commercial heritage to life
Old Selfridges Hotel
1 Orchard Street
London, W1H 6HQ
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ELKINS, W.Va. – Governor Jim Justice and the Division of Transportation has awarded the next contract for construction of Corridor H.
The low bid of $175.6 million will help to build more than four miles of the highway between Kerens and Parsons in Tucker County.
The bid was awarded to Kokosing Construction, who is already working on the first seven miles of the road starting in Kerens.
Staff at the Randolph County Development Authority said the remaining few miles of that stretch of the highway is likely to be awarded in three separate bids.
“It sounds like DOH is going to do the interchange in one contract. You then have a massive bridge across the cheat which is going to be a project in and of itself because of the length of that bridge, and then you have the section from the end of that bridge up to Mackeyville Road,” RCDA Director Robbie Morris.
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A flexible solution produces batch after batch of smooth, gleaming mayonnaise very accurately and consistently. A clear focus on quality is the key for Salsa Rica.
“It’s a smart process that gives perfect quality every time,” comments Marcos Ochagavía, who is responsible for the company’s national sales and marketing. Recently, he and his sister Sara took over the business from their father Virgilio Ochagavía, who started the company in 1995. Since the start in a small warehouse producing sauces with second-hand machines, the company has increased production to become the leading manufacturer of mayonnaise for the food service market in Spain.
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Tetra Pak becomes the first company in the food and beverage industry to offer packaging made with fully traceable plant-based polymers
Tetra Pak, together with its supplier Braskem, has become the first company in the food and beverage industry to responsibly source plant-based polymers using the Bonsucro standards for sustainable sugar cane. This move is yet another reinforcement of the company’s commitment to drive ethical and responsible business practices across global supply chains.
Tetra Pak invests €25 million in world-class cheese production centre in Poland
Tetra Pak has announced the opening of a €25 million site with sales, engineering and manufacturing facilities for cheese production solutions. Building on the company’s global expertise in cheese, the centre has full scale engineering capabilities.
Tetra Pak wins Product Footprinting award at the Carbon Trust's Annual Corporate Sustainability Summit
Tetra Pak has been recognised for its industry leading work in the Product Footprinting category at the Carbon Trust’s Annual Corporate Sustainability Summit in London. Tetra Pak was awarded for its role in reducing the carbon impact of a customer’s packaging.
Tetra Pak celebrates customers' global recognition at 16th Global Bottled Water Congress
With bottled water growing at a fast pace, players around the world are driving innovation focussing on natural ingredients and health value, sustainability and packaging functionality. Tetra Pak would like to congratulate its customers on their excellent performance and recognition at Zenith Global’s 16th Global Bottled Water Congress.
Tetra Pak explores Graphene material for the food and beverage manufacturing industry
Tetra Pak has joined the European Commission Graphene Flagship project as the exclusive representative from the packaging industry to explore possible future applications of graphene in food and beverage manufacturing. Graphene is a carbon-based material, one of the thinnest known to mankind.
Tetra Pak offers best-practice yoghurt lines to help customers capture growing demand
Tetra Pak has launched new best-practice lines for yoghurt products - a suite of expert services which support a wide variety of yoghurt innovations to address growing consumer demand. Leveraging more than 45 years of experience in processing and packaging solutions with deep knowledge of yoghurt, enabling Tetra Pak to offer support for designing processes that do not compromise on production economy or flexibility.
Tetra Pak research study reveals the convergence of environment and health is growing, and the Food and Beverage Industry is first to see this trend
Tetra Pak today reveals the findings from a global research study in partnership with Ipsos1 on the two most pressing consumer demands: the environment and health. They have historically been seen, and communicated, as separate areas: however they are increasingly converging, creating pivotal opportunities for food and beverage brands in how they market their products over the next 12 months.
Sustainable JNSD line pays off – Tetra Pak wins IFU 2019 Innovation Award
"In 2011, we realized that something could be done differently in the Juice-Nectar-Still Drink (JNSD) industry and decided to focus on how to make juice production more sustainable. To achieve that we needed to find innovative solutions which save energy and water", says Maria Norlin, Subcategory Manager JNSD & Other Beverages. On October 1st, this ground-breaking initiative was recognized by International Fruit and Vegetable juice Association.
Sumol+Compal rejuvenates product range and attracts shoppers' attention with new Tetra Stelo Aseptic carton package
Portuguese food and beverage company Sumol+Compal has launched its premium brand Compal in Tetra Pak’s sleek, fresh new Tetra Stelo Aseptic 1000 Edge with Bio-based WingCap 30. The uniquely-designed package will allow Sumol+Compal to bring to market a range of popular juices distinguished by an easy-grip carton, one-step opening and with a smoothly-rounded, slim shape.
Tetra Pak surpasses 500 billion FSC labelled package milestone
Tetra Pak has now delivered more than 500 billion packages labelled with the Forest Stewardship Council logo globally, marking a significant milestone in the company’s journey to promote responsible sourcing and contributing to a low-carbon circular economy. Consumers looking for environmental logos when shopping is a growing trend, with over half of consumers saying they are always and often looking for environmental logos on the products they buy.
Tetra Pak becomes first carton packaging company to launch paper straws in Europe
Tetra Pak has announced that customers have started field testing its paper straws for beverage products in Europe. The move means Tetra Pak is the first carton packaging company to provide such straws for beverage cartons in the region. Made from FSC certified paper and recyclable with the rest of the package, the new paper straw will be available initially for two small size carton packages commonly used for dairy and beverage products for children.
HelloFresh selects Tetra Recart food packaging for European markets
Tetra Pak has announced that HelloFresh, a leading meal kit company, has chosen Tetra Recart carton package for use in European markets for its environmental advantages. Successfully used by HelloFresh in the US since 2017, Tetra Recart offers a better packaging alternative with 80% lower carbon footprint and significant weight and space savings compared to tin cans and glass jars.
Tetra Pak and FOSS combine expertise to deliver industry first in-line standardization analyser
Tetra Pak and FOSS have today launched an advanced version of the Tetra Pak Standardization unit. With continuous accurate measurement and control of protein and fat in dairy products, the new unit has been designed to help customers ensure consistent product quality and strengthen their profitability by removing the uncertainty of sampling techniques.
Case study: Hellenic Dairies sees the benefits of integrated plant management
Greek dairy producer Hellenic Dairies is a longstanding Tetra Pak customer with seven filling lines and extensive processing equipment. The company holds a strong position in south-east Europe for liquid dairy products, cheese, yoghurt and juices, nectars and still drinks. In 2016, a major investment in their plant in Brasov, Romania, working closely with Tetra Pak and our strategic supplier Elettric80, resulted in the installation of a comprehensive range of end-of-line and warehousing equipment.
The changing role of packages as digital tools
Digitalisation is changing the role of packaging. The Tetra Pak Connected Package platform allows food and beverage producers to turn their packages into full-scale data carriers offering increased traceability, product information and cool experiences for consumers.
Success for Tetra Recart test factory
What should bean soup taste like in China? And how would Americans like their hummus? Or Spaniards their ratatouille? For the answers to these and many other questions, we turn to the team working with the Tetra Recart test factory in Lund. This is where increasingly more customers are coming to develop their products in terms of both taste and packaging.
Tetra Pak's cartons will become full-scale data carriers and digital tools
Tetra Pak has announced the launch of its connected packaging platform, which will transform milk and juice cartons into interactive information channels, full-scale data carriers and digital tools. Driven by the trends behind Industry 4.0, and with code generation, digital printing and data management at its core, the connected packaging platform will bring new benefits to food producers, retailers and shoppers.
Tetra Pak's digital energy assessment programme helps food producers reduce environmental impact and cut costs
Tetra Pak has announced that it is developing an energy assessment programme in collaboration with ABB to help food and beverage producers lower their environmental impact and cut costs. The programme provides an assessment of the entire plant, helping customers minimise their environmental impact and maximise profitability.
Tetra Pak introduces the 'factory of the future' with human and Al collaboration at its core
Tetra Pak is unveiling its “factory of the future” where digital technology revolutionises the way food manufacturing plants operate. Machines will be able to communicate with each other as well as with the digital systems of the entire operation, automatically taking on tasks such as diagnosing problems, ordering and delivering parts, and looking for an engineer who is most suitable for the service needed. The technology builds on previous measures to bring the benefits of digitalisation to the food and beverage industry
Tetra Pak package enhances distribution efficiency
Tetra Pak has launched the Tetra Classic Aseptic 65ml Cube package, offering an efficient packaging solution for dairy, juice and liquid food. The dimensions of the package have been designed to allow every six packages to form a cube, hence optimising the use of space in distribution and storage. This has brought significant improvement in cost efficiencies and the environmental footprint.
Tetra Pak's Ko Hoepman highlights upcoming trends in the food sector
Health has been a top trend for a long time, but it is now reaching new heights. Consumers are seeking a healthy lifestyle across all areas and food & beverage plays a key role. We’re now seeing an evolution of this trend, providing opportunities to create a wider variety of products for different occasions.
Tetra Pak to offer new levels of customisation and flexibility with digital printing technology
Tetra Pak is to become the first company in the food and beverage carton industry to offer full-colour digital printing on its carton packages, working in collaboration with Koenig & Bauer, a global leader in the field.
Tetra Pak demonstrates how partnerships are the cornerstone of digitalisation, bringing value to food and beverage manufacturers
Tetra Pak will be joining forces with leading Swedish technology companies at Hannover Messe 2019, the world's largest industrial technology fair, providing insights on its experience and demonstrate how partnerships are the cornerstone of digitalisation, bringing value to food and beverage manufacturers.
Tetra Pak and Veolia partner to get all beverage carton components recycled
Tetra Pak has joined forces with global resource management company Veolia in a game-changing partnership that will enable all components of used beverage cartons collected within the European Union to be recycled by 2025.
Al Rabie, Tetra Pak’s biggest customer in a world first with new holographic packaging material
Al Rabie, Tetra Pak’s biggest customer in the Greater Middle East and Africa, has scored a world first with the launch of its new sports drink. Al Rabie, which has long been a byword for quality and innovation in the region, is also looking to strengthen its brand equity and reinforce its reputation for embracing the new.
JUST Water wins Global “Best Packaging Solution” award with Tetra Pak carton bottle
JUST Water, the innovative global water brand from the United States, has received the “Best Packaging Solution” award at the 2018 Global Bottled Water Congress with its unique Tetra Top carton bottle. JUST Water was launched in the US in October 2015. With the brand’s high success in North America, it has now reached Europe with a launch in the UK in August 2018 and has further global expansion goals in 2019 and beyond.
Tetra Pak publishes 2018 Sustainability Report
Tetra Pak has published its 2018 Sustainability Report online, marking 20 years of sustainability reporting. Over the past two decades, the company’s approach to sustainability reporting has evolved significantly: from focusing solely on environmental commitments and actions, to evaluating every part of the business and its impact, including societal and supplier governance.
Bright future for spreadable processed cheese: The growth of cream cheese
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Mengniu revitalises organic milk using Tetra Pak solutions
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Tetra Pak achieves 50% renewable electricity consumption in just two years since RE100 commitment
Tetra Pak now obtains half of its global electricity supply from renewable sources, putting the company firmly on course to meet its RE100 commitment of using only renewable electricity across all global operations by 2030. In the past two years alone, the company’s use of renewable electricity has increased by a factor of 2.5 through a combination of initiatives, including the purchase of International Renewable Energy Certificates (I-RECs) and solar power installations at its own facilities.
Tetra Pak Index 2018 says smart packaging offers exciting opportunities in fast growing online grocery
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Tetra Pak rejuvenates drinking yoghurt with inclusion of large fruit pieces
Thanks to its expertise in ambient yoghurt processing, particle heating and a new Tetra Top system Tetra Pak today announced that it has helped Yili, a leading Chinese dairy manufacturer, to produce the world’s first ambient drinking yoghurt with large fruit and cereal pieces.
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Cecilia Fox | Weekly Record Herald Becca Mason and her service dog Quinn have graduated from training. Community support helped to make Becca’s goal of owning a medical alert dog become a reality.
WEST MILTON — After months of hard work and fundraising, a girl and her dog have finally been united.
Of course, the bond between Milton-Union highschooler Becca Mason and Quinn is no ordinary one. Quinn has been especially trained as a service dog to be Becca’s constant companion.
Due to asthsma and other medical conditions, Becca qualified for a service dog and has worked with SIT Service Dogs to make that goal a reality.
Because service dogs are so highly trained, that reality is an expensive one. Since last year, the Mason family has been hard at work rasing funds to meet their goal of $10,000 to bring Quinn home.
“We just wanted to thank the community for all of their support,” Becca’s mother Michelle Mason said. “We wanted to let people know that everything they’ve helped us with has happened.”
A quarter auction was held last June, and in October a special concert was offered by Elvis impersonator Ryan Roth at Hoffman United Methodist Church.
“The change in Becca has been immediate,” SIT program director Lex Dietz said. SIT is a smaller training program based in Illinois. She has been helping train Becca and Quinn to work together. “Becca’s been amazing.”
The process of being matched with a service dog can take months or even a year, Dietz explained. The dogs are European labradors, a breed selected for the size and temperment.
While the dogs are undergoing specialized training, potential owners are screened through an application process, which includes interviews and a personality profile.
“Each dog is personalized for each person,” Dietz said. “We match them up a little like a dating website.”
The Masons traveled to Illinois last year to meet Quinn, who finally came home a few weeks ago. After some in-home training sessions for both humans and dog, Becca and Quinn have graduated from training and are ready to begin their journey together.
Becca and Quinn have been working hard to form their bond and learn about one another. Though her shirt reads ‘Keep Calm, it’s just a service dog,” Becca is excited to finally have her dog with her.
Dogs can be trained for clients with all types of needs. SIT trains medical alert dogs, seizure response dogs, and mobility assistance dogs.
Quinn for example has been trained to observe Becca’s breathing and alert when an asthma attack is beginning. Quinn can also fetch Becca’s medicine and help her walk when she’s feeling weak, Dietz said.
“Not all disabilities are visible,” Dietz said.
Becca and Quinn will become a familiar sight to the community and Dietz noted that it’s important to remember that service dogs have an important job to do. Petting or distracting service dogs at work can have serious consequences for their humans.
“Dogs can do amazing things for people,” Dietz said. “Anyone who’s ever owned one knows that.”
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Touchstone Flexible Income Fund
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The Fund seeks a high level of income consistent with reasonable risk by investing primarily in income-producing securities.
Flexible Income Fund Commentary
Because we anticipate volatility across many markets due to the large variance of economic forecasts, Fed uncertainty and trade disputes, the Fund remains nimble and flexible in order to actively adjust to these potentially changing market conditions.
Primarily invests in investment grade corporate bonds, high yield corporate bonds, preferred stocks, U.S. municipal bonds and U.S. Treasuries
Actively manages the portfolio by rotating among asset classes and tactically hedging during various interest rate and market environments
Seeks to identify relative value across asset classes and capture opportunities primarily within the corporate, U.S. Treasury, municipal and preferred security markets
Analyzes and targets the portfolio’s level of risk and interest rate sensitivity
Selects individual positions based on security credit metrics and structures
Focuses on liquid securities with transparent pricing and actively-traded capital structures
A WORD ABOUT RISK
The Fund invests in fixed-income securities which can lose their value as interest rates rise and are subject to credit risk which is the risk of deterioration in the financial condition of an issuer and/or general economic conditions that can cause the issuer to not make timely payments of principal and interest also causing the securities to decline in value and an investor can lose principal. When interest rates rise, the price of debt securities generally falls. Longer term securities are generally more volatile. The Fund invests in investment grade debt securities which may be downgraded by a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (NRSRO) to below investment grade status. The Fund invests in non-investment grade debt securities which are considered speculative with respect to the issuers' ability to make timely payments of interest and principal, may lack liquidity and has had more frequent and larger price changes than other debt securities. The Fund invests in U.S. government agency securities which are neither issued nor guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury and are not guaranteed against price movements due to changing interest rates. The Fund invests in mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities which are subject to the risks of prepayment, defaults, changing interest rates and at times, the financial condition of the issuer. The Fund invests in municipal securities which may be affected by uncertainties in the municipal market related to legislation or litigation involving the taxation of municipal securities or the rights of municipal security holders in the event of bankruptcy and may not be able to meet their obligations. The Fund invests in equities which are subject to market volatility and loss. The Fund invests in foreign securities which carry the associated risks of economic and political instability, market liquidity, currency volatility and accounting standards that differ from those of U.S. markets and may offer less protection to investors. The Fund invests in preferred stocks which are relegated below bonds for payment should the issuer be liquidated. If interest rates rise, the fixed dividend on preferred stocks may be less attractive, causing their price to decline. The Fund invests in convertible securities which are subject to the risks of both debt securities and equity securities. The Fund’s investments in other investment companies will be subject to substantially the same risks as those associated with the direct ownership of the securities comprising the portfolios of such investment companies, and the value of the Fund's investment will fluctuate in response to the performance of such portfolios. In addition, if the Fund acquires shares of investment companies, shareholders of the Fund will bear their proportionate share of the fees and expenses of the Fund and, indirectly, the fees and expenses of the investment companies. The Fund invests in derivatives such as futures contracts. Derivatives can be highly volatile, illiquid and difficult to value, subject to counterparty and leverage risks and there is risk that changes in the value of a derivative held by the Fund will not correlate with the Fund’s other investments. Gains or losses from speculative positions in a derivative may be much greater than the original cost and potential losses may be substantial. The Fund may experience higher portfolio turnover which may lead to increased fund expenses, lower investment returns and higher short-term capital gains taxable to shareholders. Current and future portfolio holdings are subject to risk. The Advisor engages a sub-advisor to make investment decisions for the Fund’s portfolio; it may be unable to identify and retain a sub-advisor who achieves superior investment returns relative to other similar sub-advisors.
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Total Share Class Net Assets as of 12/31/2019
Total Fund Net Assets as of 12/31/2019
Income, Multi-Asset
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Distribution Frequency
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Fiscal Year End
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Daily Returns as of
NAV $ Change
Touchstone Flexible Income Fund -
HISTORICAL DAILY NAV
Historical Daily NAV on
Including Sales Charge
Excluding Sales Charge
-0.07% 0.18% 8.72% 8.72% 4.03% 3.05% 3.75% --
Performance data quoted represents past performance, which is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted. The investment return and principal value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. From time to time, the investment advisor may waive some fees and/or reimburse expenses, which if not waived or reimbursed, will lower performance. Returns are not annualized for periods of less than one year. Assumes reinvestment of all dividends and capital gains. The maximum front-end sales charge for Class A Shares of Touchstone Fixed Income Funds including Touchstone Flexible Income Fund is 2.00%.
Performance data quoted represents past performance, which is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted. The investment return and principal value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. From time to time, the investment advisor may waive some fees and/or reimburse expenses, which if not waived or reimbursed, will lower performance. Returns are not annualized for periods of less than one year. Assumes reinvestment of all dividends and capital gains. Performance for Class C Shares is adjusted for the contingent deferred sales charges (CDSC) in effect at the end of the specified period. The CDSC for Class C Shares is 1.00% the first year you hold the shares and declines to 0% after the first year.
Performance data quoted represents past performance, which is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted. The investment return and principal value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. From time to time, the investment advisor may waive some fees and/or reimburse expenses, which if not waived or reimbursed, will lower performance. Returns are not annualized for periods of less than one year. Assumes reinvestment of all dividends and capital gains. Class Y Shares are sold at net asset value (NAV), without an initial sales charge and are not subject to a 12b-1 fee or contingent deferred sales charges.
Performance data quoted represents past performance, which is no guarantee of future results. Current performance may be higher or lower than the performance data quoted. The investment return and principal value of an investment in the Fund will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. From time to time, the investment advisor may waive some fees and/or reimburse expenses, which if not waived or reimbursed, will lower performance. Returns are not annualized for periods of less than one year. Assumes reinvestment of all dividends and capital gains. Class INST Shares are sold at net asset value (NAV), without an initial sales charge and are not subject to a 12b-1 fee or contingent deferred sales charges.
Class A, Class C and Class Y shares performance was calculated using the historical performance of the Fifth Third/Maxus Income Fund Investor shares, with an inception date of March 10, 1985, for periods prior to April 1, 2004, October 29, 2001 and September 1, 1998, respectively. Institutional Class shares performance information was calculated using the historical performance of Class Y shares for the periods prior to September 10, 2012. The returns have been restated to reflect sales charges and fees applicable to Class A, Class C, Class Y and Institutional Class shares.
8.72% 4.03% 3.05% 3.75% --
Consider Touchstone Flexible Income Fund for Your Portfolio
Touchstone Flexible Income Fund invests primarily in income-producing securities including debt securities, common stock, and preferred stock. It seeks to provide a high level of income consistent with reasonable risk.
Morningstar as of 12/31/2019
Touchstone Flexible Income Fund - Shares
Funds in Multisector Bond Category -- 262 220 120
Benchmark Holdings 11037
Portfolio Composition
Bond Sector Allocation
Full Holdings
% of Portfolio
Preferred Equities 31.1
U.S. Treasury 23.2
High Yield Bonds 9.9
Cash Equivalents 8.1
Investment Grade Bonds 8.0
Municipal 0.6
Other Derivatives 0.2
Other Common Equity 0.0
Data may not total due to rounding.
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Structured Products 31.9
Corporates 28.7
Other 0.0
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U.S. Treasury N/B 2.50% 05/31/20 9.6
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. 5.38% 11/10/2167 3.9
Citigroup Inc. 5.88% 09/27/2168 3.4
Morgan Stanley 5.55% 07/15/2168 2.8
General Motors Co. 2.79% 09/10/21 2.2
Energy Transfer Operating LP 7.60% 11/15/2168 2.1
Wells Fargo & Co. 5.66% 09/15/2168 1.9
Ares Management Corp. 7.00% 12/31/2168 1.9
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Benefits of Variable Frequency Drives
A Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) is an instrument used to control and regulate the speed and torque of an appliance through the variance of speed and voltage. VFDs are used in a variety of machinery ranging from small appliances to heavy mill drives and compressors. Industrial motors consume around 25 percent of the worlds electricity supply; therefore VFDs would be of particular value in terms of electricity and cost savings.
Over the last 40 years the cost and size of Variable frequency drive has significantly reduced and performance greatly enhanced through improvements in semiconductor switching devices, simulation and control techniques, drive topologies and control hardware and software. VFDs have three main components: AC motor, controller assembly and operator interface.
The AC motor in a Variable Frequency Drive can be single-phase or three-phase. There are also synchronous motors. Of these three, three-phase motors tend to be the most frequently used as they are the most economical. The voltage stresses imposed upon induction motors that are controlled by VDFs require that the motors serve a definite purpose inverter fed duty and meet specific standards.
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The Controller has three components: the rectifier bridge converter, a direct current link, and inverter. Advances in the controller have seen great improvements in the current ratings and switch frequency of power devices. For example, the insulated gate bipolar transistor has come to be particularly popular as an inverter switching device.
The operator interface enables the operator to start and stop the motor and adjust the operating speed as necessary. Additional functions include reversing, automatic control and manual speed adjustment.
If you have an application that does not have to run at full speed then a Variable Frequency Drive can greatly reduce energy costs by controlling the motor speed to match the load requirement. This can reduce energy consumption in a business facility by as much as 70 percent, not to mention reducing production costs.
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You will also see increased production due to the fact that your motor is running at an efficient speed. There will be fewer mistakes and conveyor belts will not be as frequently interrupted.
The life of your equipment will be extended and you will see less downtime due to maintenance issues. Variable Frequency Drives offer protection from issues that motors commonly face such as electrical thermal overloads, phase protection, undervoltage and overvoltage. Also, with a Variable Frequency Drive the motor will not be exposed to instant shock but have a smooth start which further reduces the process of wear and tear. Water hammer will also be reduced or eliminated because of smooth acceleration and de acceleration cycles. VDFs are also consume less energy than other speed control techniques when the load is below that of the usual requirement.
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Haiti's President Moise Asserts Innocence in Corruption Scandal Amid Massive Protests
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Jovenel Moise during his investiture ceremony in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 7, 2017. | Photo: EFE
PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI, June 14, 2019 - Embattled Haitian President Jovenel Moise on Wednesday denied his involvement in corruption acts and public funds mismanagement during an event on the 24th anniversary of the Haitian National Police.
"Your president, the one you voted for, is not corrupt and never will be," Moise said, making reference to a Court of Accounts report which argues that there were cases of irregular management of funds in the Petrocaribe program.
Since the publication of the report at the end of May, the Haitian president faces a strong popular pressure demanding his resignation.
However, he maintains that forces from the Haitian opposition are trying to misrepresent what his administration has really done.
"The political, economic and social system is very hard. It has the capacity to resist and reproduce itself each time we try to overthrow it. It knows how to transform victims into executioners and executioners into victims," Moise said and explained that when he ran the company Argitrans, which is mentioned in the Court of Accounts report, he was not a public employee, candidate or ruler.
"If there is any accusation against Agritrans, let justice do its job because the company is there and all the documents still exist. Meanwhile, I will not let anyone cause chaos in the country," he said.
More anti-government protests are now underway outside of #Haiti’s national palace less than 24 hours after President Moïse stated that he wouldn’t resign. pic.twitter.com/Erqr5Lh8Cq
— Etant Dupain (@gaetantguevara) June 13, 2019
He reiterated that the only path Haitians must take today is that of peace and development, and urged intellectuals, businessmen and politicians to come together, "because you all have a plan for the common homeland."
The Haitian president's statements come after Sunday's large anti-government protest on Sunday, which saw tens of thousands of people across the country calling for his resignation and was preceded by a general strike.
Before taking office in February 2017, Moise was in charge of Agritrans, a banana exporting company that received over US$700,000 in state funds for a road project, a charge revealed by a Senate special investigations in 2016 and 2017.
Since the summer of 2018, Haitians have held demonstrations demanding the Court of Accounts to investigate how four successive administrations spent over US$1.6 billion, which should have been used exclusively in the Petrocaribe program.
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Father of four killed by joyriding Audi thieves
Police issued earlier warning about increasing Audi thefts
Updated: 6:10 PM CDT May 11, 2017
Colleen Henry
Thieves joyriding in a stolen Audi Wednesday night slammed into an innocent driver, killing a Milwaukee father of four. "All I know is that I had to go home and tell my daughters that their dad was gone," Angela Oglesby said. The reality is still sinking in. Philip Franklin, 46, isn't coming home. Police said Franklin was driving his Grand Am, turning onto Greenfield Avenue at 13th Street around 10 p.m., when a stolen Audi flew up the street and T-boned him. Franklin died at the scene. The Audi driver and his two passengers ran off. "I just want my daddy back. I just want my daddy back," said Franklin's daughter, Candase. Two weeks ago, Milwaukee police informed the public of a growing fad -- thieves targeting Audis. Police said the Audis are particularly desirable to car thieves because there's a valet key inside the glove box. Police don't track car thefts by make, but said the overall rate has nearly doubled since last year. In 2016, there were about 178 cars stolen each month. This year, that rate has jumped to 366. "Audi thing, car thing, all of that doesn't matter," Oglesby said. For Franklin's family, this is no fad. This is the end of life as they know it, and they want the car thieves to think about that. "It hurts. It hurts real bad," Oglesby said. "These kids don't know what they're doing to families." Police said the Audi involved in this crash was stolen Wednesday morning on Milwaukee's south side. It has since been impounded as police look for prints and DNA in hopes of proving who killed Franklin.
MILWAUKEE —
Thieves joyriding in a stolen Audi Wednesday night slammed into an innocent driver, killing a Milwaukee father of four.
"All I know is that I had to go home and tell my daughters that their dad was gone," Angela Oglesby said.
One killed in fiery crash on Milwaukee's south side
The reality is still sinking in. Philip Franklin, 46, isn't coming home.
Police said Franklin was driving his Grand Am, turning onto Greenfield Avenue at 13th Street around 10 p.m., when a stolen Audi flew up the street and T-boned him. Franklin died at the scene. The Audi driver and his two passengers ran off.
"I just want my daddy back. I just want my daddy back," said Franklin's daughter, Candase.
Two weeks ago, Milwaukee police informed the public of a growing fad -- thieves targeting Audis.
Police said the Audis are particularly desirable to car thieves because there's a valet key inside the glove box.
Police don't track car thefts by make, but said the overall rate has nearly doubled since last year. In 2016, there were about 178 cars stolen each month. This year, that rate has jumped to 366.
"Audi thing, car thing, all of that doesn't matter," Oglesby said.
For Franklin's family, this is no fad. This is the end of life as they know it, and they want the car thieves to think about that.
"It hurts. It hurts real bad," Oglesby said. "These kids don't know what they're doing to families."
Police said the Audi involved in this crash was stolen Wednesday morning on Milwaukee's south side. It has since been impounded as police look for prints and DNA in hopes of proving who killed Franklin.
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Teen activist back at Swedish parliament, where it started
Posted: Dec 20, 2019 / 05:54 AM EST / Updated: Dec 20, 2019 / 05:54 AM EST
Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg attends a climate strike arranged by the organization “Fridays For Future” outside the Swedish parliament Riksdagen in Stockholm, Friday Dec. 20, 2019. (Pontus Lundahl/TT via AP)
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is back where her campaign started – on her perch outside the Swedish Parliament.
After months of travelling by train and boat to different climate events in Europe and the United States, the 16-year-old Swede is raising her concerns back home, just as she did over a year ago when she skipped school to begin her climate protest, a stance that proved an inspiration to kids around the world.
Thunberg, who last week was named Person of the year by Time magazine, posted a photo of herself on social media Friday holding a sign with the accompanying text of “School strike week 70. Stockholm!”
Thunberg told Swedish news agency TT that she hoped to encourage more climate activists beyond those she has already inspired.
“Perhaps it also means that the word climate activist is no longer seen as a belligerent word and that more people are praised,” she said.
Thunberg is back in Sweden after attending the U.N. climate change conference in Spain.
Italy’s Salvini dares lawmakers to vote to put him on trial
ROME (AP) — Italy's right-wing opposition leader Matteo Salvini is daring fellow senators to vote to put him on trial for alleged kidnapping for keeping migrants aboard a rescue ship for days last year when he was interior minister.
The Senate commission on parliamentary immunity meets later Monday to decide. But no matter the outcome of that decision, no immunity can be lifted until the entire Senate votes in February.
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Sheriff: Man with rifle storms into restaurant, opens fire
An Alabama sheriff says a man with a rifle has stormed into a restaurant and opened fire, killing the owner and wounding three other people.Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor said the suspect came into the City Grill in the east Alabama town of Hurtsboro on Wednesday morning. Taylor says the man yelled out a name and opened fire with the .22-caliber rifle. Taylor said the wounded were taken to hospitals, and one of them was in surgery. The sheriff tells The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer that 69-year-old Donny Hughes, who owned the restaurant, was killed. Taylor says the suspect is in custody. He declined to release his name.
HURTSBORO, Ala. (AP) —
An Alabama sheriff says a man with a rifle has stormed into a restaurant and opened fire, killing the owner and wounding three other people.
Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor said the suspect came into the City Grill in the east Alabama town of Hurtsboro on Wednesday morning. Taylor says the man yelled out a name and opened fire with the .22-caliber rifle.
Taylor said the wounded were taken to hospitals, and one of them was in surgery.
The sheriff tells The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer that 69-year-old Donny Hughes, who owned the restaurant, was killed.
Taylor says the suspect is in custody. He declined to release his name.
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In: Facts In the Cell
What is meiosis?
Meiosis is a process where a single cell divides twice to produce four cells containing half the original amount of genetic information. These cells are our sex cells – sperm in males, eggs in females.
During meiosis one cell divides twice to form four daughter cells.
These four daughter cells only have half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell – they are haploid.
Meiosis produces our sex cells or gametes (eggs in females and sperm in males).
Meiosis can be divided into nine stages. These are divided between the first time the cell divides (meiosis I) and the second time it divides (meiosis II):
Meiosis I
1. Interphase:
The DNA in the cell is copied resulting in two identical full sets of chromosomes.
Outside of the nucleus are two centrosomes, each containing a pair of centrioles, these structures are critical for the process of cell division.
During interphase, microtubules extend from these centrosomes.
2. Prophase I:
The copied chromosomes condense into X-shaped structures that can be easily seen under a microscope.
Each chromosome is composed of two sister chromatids containing identical genetic information.
The chromosomes pair up so that both copies of chromosome 1 are together, both copies of chromosome 2 are together, and so on.
The pairs of chromosomes may then exchange bits of DNA in a process called recombination or crossing over.
At the end of Prophase I the membrane around the nucleus in the cell dissolves away, releasing the chromosomes.
The meiotic spindle, consisting of microtubules and other proteins, extends across the cell between the centrioles.
3. Metaphase I:
The chromosome pairs line up next to each other along the centre (equator) of the cell.
The centrioles are now at opposites poles of the cell with the meiotic spindles extending from them.
The meiotic spindle fibres attach to one chromosome of each pair.
4. Anaphase I:
The pair of chromosomes are then pulled apart by the meiotic spindle, which pulls one chromosome to one pole of the cell and the other chromosome to the opposite pole.
In meiosis I the sister chromatids stay together. This is different to what happens in mitosis and meiosis II.
5. Telophase I and cytokinesis:
The chromosomes complete their move to the opposite poles of the cell.
At each pole of the cell a full set of chromosomes gather together.
A membrane forms around each set of chromosomes to create two new nuclei.
The single cell then pinches in the middle to form two separate daughter cells each containing a full set of chromosomes within a nucleus. This process is known as cytokinesis.
Meiosis II
6. Prophase II:
Now there are two daughter cells, each with 23 chromosomes (23 pairs of chromatids).
In each of the two daughter cells the chromosomes condense again into visible X-shaped structures that can be easily seen under a microscope.
The membrane around the nucleus in each daughter cell dissolves away releasing the chromosomes.
The centrioles duplicate.
The meiotic spindle forms again.
7. Metaphase II:
In each of the two daughter cells the chromosomes (pair of sister chromatids) line up end-to-end along the equator of the cell.
The centrioles are now at opposites poles in each of the daughter cells.
Meiotic spindle fibres at each pole of the cell attach to each of the sister chromatids.
8. Anaphase II:
The sister chromatids are then pulled to opposite poles due to the action of the meiotic spindle.
The separated chromatids are now individual chromosomes.
9. Telophase II and cytokinesis:
A membrane forms around each set of chromosomes to create two new cell nuclei.
This is the last phase of meiosis, however cell division is not complete without another round of cytokinesis.
Once cytokinesis is complete there are four granddaughter cells, each with half a set of chromosomes (haploid):
in males, these four cells are all sperm cells
in females, one of the cells is an egg cell while the other three are polar bodies (small cells that do not develop into eggs).
Illustration showing the nine stages of meiosis.
Image credit: Genome Research Limited
What is a cell?
Cells are the basic building blocks of living things. The human body is composed of trillions of cells, all with their own specialised function.
What is a chromosome?
Chromosomes are bundles of tightly coiled DNA located within the nucleus of almost every cell in our body. Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes.
What is mitosis?
Mitosis is a process where a single cell divides into two identical daughter cells (cell division).
What is DNA?
DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid is a long molecule that contains our unique genetic code. Like a recipe book it holds the instructions for making all the proteins in our bodies.
Mitosis versus meiosis
Cells divide and reproduce in two ways, mitosis and meiosis. Mitosis results in two identical daughter cells, whereas meiosis results in four sex cells. Below we highlight the keys differences and similarities between the two types of cell division.
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Adam Schiff Just Saying Trump's Lawyers Better GET A LAWYER
Over the course of the Trump administration, a running theme has been that it's very hard to find real lawyers willing to represent America's Shittiest Client. He lies to them, he doesn't pay them, he doesn't do what they say, and as we saw yesterday in the courtroom of DC District Court Judge Amit Mehta, they have to make the silliest arguments, the kind that would have gotten them laughed out of their law school classrooms. But a few real lawyers have signed up for the task, and pretty much every one of those real lawyers has ended up doing untold damage to their professional reputations in the process.
We'd feel sorry for them, but that's not how our heart works.
On that note, some of those lawyers might just get to be the latest invitees to the House Democrats' subpoena party, because some of those lawyers may have, knowingly or not, helped Trump commit crimes just a tiny, as anybody in his orbit is apparently expected to do.
In recent weeks, the [House Intelligence Committee] sent lengthy document requests to four lawyers — Jay Sekulow, who represents the president; Alan S. Futerfas, who represents Donald Trump Jr.; Alan Garten, the top lawyer at the Trump Organization; and Abbe D. Lowell, who represents Ivanka Trump. The lawyers all took part in a joint defense agreement by the president's allies to coordinate responses to inquiries by Congress and the Justice Department.
"Among other things, it appears that your clients may have reviewed, shaped and edited the false statement that [Michael] Cohen submitted to the committee, including causing the omission of material facts," the Intelligence Committee's chairman, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, wrote to lawyers representing the four men in a May 3 letter obtained by The New York Times.
He continued: "In addition, certain of your clients may have engaged in discussions about potential pardons in an effort to deter one or more witnesses from cooperating with authorized investigations."
Womp womp!
Of course, so far the lawyers are reportedly all telling Congress to fuck off, because this is the Trump administration, and even lawyers in good standing who (for now) have law licenses are telling Congress to fuck off, if they work for the Trumps. Adam Schiff, of course, will not hesitate to subpoena them if they continue being insolent.
(SIDENOTE: Speaking of just now when we said lawyers who "for now" have law licenses, we think a funny historical list in the future will be all the lawyers who got disbarred because of Donald Trump. It started with Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, but we don't think it'll end there! We can call it the "Roy Cohn list of losers who got disbarred for Trump.")
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As the Times notes above, it all started with Michael Cohen's recent testimony to Congress, which is still causing earthquakes throughout the Trump regime. In his opening statement, describing his previous testimony to Congress, where he LIED LIKE A RUG about the Trump Tower Moscow project, Cohen explained that Trump didn't directly tell him to lie, but that he was simply toeing the party line and staying on message, because everybody in the crime family knew they were supposed to stay on message. He also testified that Trump's lawyers "reviewed and edited" his statement to Congress, as he and Trump were in a joint defense agreement at that time.
He also testified, under questioning by a member of Congress, that one of the lawyers he was referring to specifically was Jay Sekulow. As the Mueller Report explains, when Cohen noted before his original testimony that actually he had left a lot of parts out, parts that might look bad for the president who claimed NO RUSSIA, it was Sekulow who told him to just keep his pretty little mouth shut (at least in so many words) and that this, too, shall pass.
It's interesting that the list of lawyers to receive Schiff's document requests includes not only Sekulow, but the attorneys representing Trump's grown-ass idiot children. But it makes sense, particularly in context of Cohen's testimony, when you remember that Ivanka's lawyer Abbe Lowell was reportedly also involved in the editing of Cohen's lie testimony to Congress, which minimized Ivanka's involvement in the Trump Tower Moscow project. According to the Mueller Report, though, she was heavily involved, as was her dipshit brother. We should however note out of fairness that Abbe Lowell is actually a real lawyer, and it's entirely likely he thought Ivanka's original story was true. Even Cohen's lawyer Lanny Davis says as much.
The Times reports that the lawyers are responding the same way Trump's lawyer did in Judge Mehta's courtroom yesterday, by arguing (hilariously) that Schiff's requests don't serve any "legislative purpose," and therefore are invalid. It is very strange how all these fucking dorks expect everyone to accept their claims that actually over 200 years of American history is incorrect and that literally all courts have been wrong when they've ruled that Congress has the powers of investigation and oversight, but hey, when you've got nothin', we guess your only option is to make up bullshit.
So, WATCH THIS SPACE, as Rachel Maddow would say, to see how this all ends up. But while you're watching this space, here's a fun document from Just Security that lays out all the times the Mueller Report refers to Trump lawyers who maybe perhaps might have accidentally done some really bad shit in service of Trump. Everything the man touches turns to shit, and that includes his lawyers, obviously.
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State Department Of Corrections Misses Body Camera Goal
Legislature Gave Department Nearly $591K To Buy Cameras
Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 1:35pm
Officials with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections acknowledge they have missed a goal for providing body cameras to officers.
The Legislature gave the department $591,400 to buy 200 body-worn cameras for officers in solitary confinement units at six maximum security adult prisons.
But Corrections Secretary Cathy Jess acknowledged in a letter to legislative leaders on Monday her department hasn't deployed any of those cameras. She said her department first had to determine what features it wanted. She said the procurement process then proved lengthy. She said a shortage led to further delays.
Therefore, she said the department couldn't deliver a report by the July 1 deadline on whether the cameras were reducing assaults.
Democratic state Sen. Jennifer Shilling, of La Crosse, said the administration "bungles" even basic tasks like buying safety equipment.
Correction: This story was corrected by the Associated Press to show the Corrections Department was given $591,400 for the cameras, not $326,700.
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Small Crimes
by Andrea Jurjevic
Anhinga Press, 2015
Winner of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
Reviewed by Mary Jane Ryals
Even the cover photo of Small Crimes tells a story--a homunculus clinging to an unclothed woman. The homunculus is a monstrous form used to express postwar anxieties about refugees, persecution of minorities in war and the adoption of minorities into a big world.
Yet this gritty and tender collection by native Croatian Andrea Jurjevic tells an intimate and personal story of survival in a brutal war that occurred in Europe only two-plus decades ago. Named the Croatian Revolution, a million people were counted in the dead, missing, imprisoned and displaced just across the Adriatic from Italy.
Jurjevic focuses, rather than on historical facts, on how the quotidian of regular people’s lives managed to help them keep their humanity in the midst of bombs, firing squads and loss. In “Sarajevo Cycle: 1992 to 1996” the visuals tell the death toll in ironically beautiful language:
past the fast-clacks through debris, clutched loaves of bread,
more Run or RIP signs nailed to posts, the cyclist not heeding
the sickle-shape of a couple’s legs on the sidewalk, or the child in a fuchsia
duffel coat with fingers curled in the red drool under her mouth...
In the poem “Small Crimes,” in contrast, longing, tenderness, and grace through the body come to two people in a car at a roadside shrine of the black Madonna:
I’d leaned towards you behind the wheel.
You stirred, semi-vigilant as I snapped the white buttons
on your shirt, undid the equator of your belt,
ducked from the eyes of people pushing cars
filled with cured lamb, corn on Styrofoam, cellophaned rye
And as the last sprays of sunlight slid down
the hood of the sky, you shielded my black hair,
your hands familiar with churned earth,
and what it takes in the tucked back of a parking lot
to absolve a peopled afternoon of a small crime
and keep it hidden, keep it safe.
In the last section of the book, “Americana: Threshold,” the book’s final poem, “Threshold,” the narrator describes cleaning a “Strange place I resist calling home.”
The descriptions of everyday domestics are angled by the vision of someone who’s seen too much: “Four blistered black mailboxes,” “faded geraniums...like spent debutantes,” and “I try to removed time from the worn carpet, / restore something in this house...”
Yet the mere fact that survival occurs seems a miracle as the end of the poem approaches:
...I think of how right now
someplace boats are leaving their docks,
how easily they move--like the lifting
of eyelids, the sound of dawn, like breathing.
This book of poems certainly earned the 2015 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry that it won, through voice, story, detail, scrutiny, understatement and love of language.
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The Latest: Conte wants to recover Italy’s ‘central’ EU role
FILE – In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019 file photo, Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte, right, is flanked by Deputy-Premier Matteo Salvini as he addresses the Senate in Rome. Italy’s populist 5-Star Movement has asked, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, the nation’s president to give caretaker Premier Giuseppe Conte the mandate to form a new coalition government, a week after the one he led for 14 months collapsed. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
ROME (AP) — The Latest on efforts to form a new Italian government (all times local):
Italy’s new premier-designate Giuseppe Conte says he will work hard to give the country a solid government, as Rome faces key decisions in a delicate political phase.
Italian president Sergio Mattarella earlier Thursday gave Conte a mandate to try to form a new government, which will be backed by the uneasy coalition between the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and its former arch-enemy, the center-left Democratic Party, or PD.
Conte said: “We need to make up for the time we’ve lost to allow Italy to recover its central role in Europe.”
He stressed that his new government won’t be “against someone,” a clear reference to the right-wing League of Matteo Salvini, who pulled the plug on Conte’s government earlier in August. Salvini accuses the 5-Stars and the PD of engineering a plan to avert new elections and block his ascent to power.
Conte stressed the need to act quickly to name Italy’s candidate for the new European Commission and draft a complex budget law that needs to avert a massive VAT hike by the end of the year.
Italy’s president has given the recently resigned premier, Giuseppe Conte, a fresh mandate to see if he can cobble together a new government backed by the populist 5-Star Movement and center-left Democrats.
The two parties have banded together in an unlikely alliance to block hard-line League leader Matteo Salvini’s power grab.
A spokesman for Italian president Sergio Mattarella said Thursday that Conte had accepted the conditional mandate. Conte will now start talks with parties to try to form a government, and will report back progress to the president.
Italy’s president will meet with just-resigned premier Giuseppe Conte after the populist 5-Star Movement and center-left Democrats tapped him to lead a new government that aims to block right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini’s power grab.
During the meeting Thursday, President Sergio Mattarella is expected to give Conte a mandate to explore forming a new government majority backed by lawmakers in the 5-Star Movement and Democratic Party — until this crisis staunch political foes who have long traded insults.
The two parties banded together to thwart Salvini’s bungled attempt to grab power when he unexpectedly withdrew support for the foundering League-5-Star government to seek early elections.
The new alliance appears to forestall elections. But even if Conte cobbles together a government, political analysts warn it is unlikely to last.
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Who would give Jane Austen one star???
The ladies of the Darkcast talk to author Julia Sonneborn about her debut novel, BY THE BOOK, a sparkling retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion! We discuss why so many romance readers love Austen, which are our faves, and which books we have to admit we’ve never read :). Plus, Lauren and Kate face off in an Austen-themed game of “One-star Reviews.”
Are you an Austen lover too? Or are you lining up a one-star review of your own? Tell us in the comments, and remember that the best conversations…happen after dark!
by Julia Sonneborn
An English professor struggling for tenure discovers that her ex-fiancé has just become the president of her college—and her new boss—in this whip-smart modern retelling of Jane Austen’s classic Persuasion. Funny, smart, and full of heart, this modern ode to Jane Austen’s classic explores what happens when we run into the demons of our past...and when they turn out not to be so bad, after all.
Perfect for those of you who love a slow-burn romance. Love is for shy girls too!
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Twitter tirade spells trouble for Microsoft.
With the recent flub of SimCity having to be always online there has been some big tension growing in the gamer community. Gamers everywhere have had unseen yet heated debates on the future of our beloved hobby and how the “always online” requirements will undoubtedly kill the love we share for our other lives inside the television.
Since Microsoft has given us little information regarding the new iteration of the Xbox, rumors have been abound. Will it be always on? Will we still have achievements? Can it still surpass Sony and their Playstation? Will Bill Gates finally hire me as his personal game tester? Most of these are the unanswered fears of Xbox-ians everywhere. Well, Adam Orth, a Creative Director at Microsoft decided to take to twitter to show how he feels regarding the “always online” debacle and the result was less than stellar.
So as you can see in the tweet thread that the developer seemingly does not care about where you live, if you are in a city that has a bad connection then sorry for you. This short back and forth between these two has caused a serious storm in the online community. Gamers everywhere from Reddit to Kotaku are up in arms over this inept conversation with talks of boycotting and mutiny.
But was this really a statement on the future of the Xbox, or was it a conversation between friends that unfortunately went viral? It appears that the latter is the truth. WARNING explicit language ahead:
Farming Simulator To Crop Up On Consoles In September
The surprise PC hit game, Farming Simulator 2013 is coming to consoles in September. Developed by Giants Software and Published by Focus Home Interactive. Farming Simulator 2013 will be available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 and adds an all new North American environment to the already present European environment from the PC version.
Taking inspiration from American farms, you will be able to develop your farm with all new scenery and land. The console version also gives you access to new vehicles such as constructors made famous by Case IH, Lizard, Ursus, Kramer and Horsch. Use this machinery to make the tasks of running a farm, much easier.
Farming Simulator offers all the fine points of farming such as raising and breeding animals, harvesting crops, and selling your products for profit, all without the hard work.
Farming simulator 2013 comes to PS3 and Xbox 360 the first week in September. Check out all the official details below.
About Giants Software
Giants Software GmbH is a Swiss video game development studio based in Zurich. Since 2004, Software Giants has produced many innovative games and technologic products. In addition to the development of their successful games Farming Simulator and Demolition Company, Giants Studios offers its own game engine. For more information :
http://www.giants-software.com/
About Focus Home Interactive
Founded in 1996, Focus Home Interactive is an independent French publisher based near Paris, France. Known for the quality, diversity and originality of its catalogue, Focus has published and distributed original titles that have become benchmark titles worldwide – such as Blood Bowl, Wargame European Escalation, Sherlock Holmes, TrackMania, Runaway, Cities XL and also Cycling Manager and Farming Simulator.
During first half of 2013, Focus will publish ambitious games such as Wargame AirLand Battle, the sequel to Wargame European Escalation, the impressive real time strategy game from the creators of R.U.S.E. ; Mars War Logs, the new Cyberpunk role-playing game from Spiders Studio for Xbox LIVE , PlayStation Network and PC, and also the console versions of Farming Simulator, the #1 farming simulation game and international best-seller.
The second half of 2013 will be just as exciting, with the release of the Tour de France official games for consoles and PC; the new adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and Blood Bowl 2.
http://www.focus-home.com
Pertinent Details
Developer: Giants Software
Platform: PC, 360, PS3
Release Date: Out Now (PC), September 2013 (PS3/360)
Price: TBA
Thunder Wolves To Take Off Soon
As we here at Don’t Hate The Geek reported earlier, the upcoming action-flight game, Thunder Wolves from Most Wanted games will be releasing soon to PC, PSN, and XBLA. To get you psyched, a newly released trailer has been released. Hit it after the break. Check it out here and stay tuned for all the details about Thunder Wolves you’ll need.
Game: Thunder Wolves
Developer: Most Wanted Entertainment
Publisher: bitComposer Games
Genre: Action-flight
Platforms: PC XBLA, PSN
Price: TBD
Angry gamers pursue class action lawsuit over Aliens: Colonial Marines.
It was bound to happen really, gamers have banded together to show just how pissed off they are about Aliens: Colonial Marines. Turns out people don’t take to well to demos not being the final product they paid hard, cold cash for.
“Each of the ‘actual gameplay’ demonstrations purported to show consumers exactly what they would be buying: a cutting edge video game with very specific features and qualities. Unfortunately for their fans, Defendants [Sega and Gearbox] never told anyone – consumers, industry critics, reviewers, or reporters – that their ‘actual gameplay’ demonstration advertising campaign bore little resemblance to the retail product that would eventually be sold to a large community of unwitting purchasers.” -Polygon post
Both Sega and Gearbox Software are named as defendants in the lawsuit and neither have bothered to comment on the news. Can’t say that I blame those folks, it certainly looks like both companies misled fans. We’ll watch and see if this goes all the way, hopefully it does. Publishers and developers should be held accountable for this horrible mess.
Game installs will be a mandatory thing on Xbox One.
No, no, no, not this again. We’re hearing from sources that the Xbox One will require gamers to be installed on the hard drive before playing is allowed. If for some reason you want to take that new game over to a buddy’s house, you would have to pay a fee to MS just to play it. The game will be tied to one Xbox Live account, no mention yet if it can be unlinked for another account.
Yeah I hate installing games to my PS3. I have a puny 80GB hard drive and it fills up quick with all the mandatory installs. Plus who wants to buy a brand new game, rush home and then wait while 5GB of data is slowly transferred to their deck? Not I that’s for sure. The Xbox One may have a 500GB drive but that sucker will fill up very fast with games, here’s hoping for TB drives.
What this seems like is Microsoft’s use of the Xbox One against the used games market. Sure EA ditches Online Passes but then someone still has to pay to play used. Stay tuned geeks as more info will eventually emerge.
Spicy Horse Unleashes Hell Invaders This Fall
Spicy Horse has announced their next project will be a collectible card game/RTS tentatively titled Hell Invaders. Shooting for a fall release, Hell Invaders is being developed for PC, Mac, Linux and tablets.
Hell Invaders will consist of actual card battles, instead of two cards fighting on a table. The creatures of the cards will have 3D representations which will do battle as well as cards that offer upgrades and swappable skills, giving cards with identical characters a completely different experience.
Players can play in a single player campaign or fight in PVP arenas. Trading, card management and other social features will also offer more ways to enjoy your time in hell.
Spicy Horse will be unveiling more details about Hell Invaders in the coming months. Don’t Hate The Geek will relay all the information as it becomes available.
Title: Hell Invaders
Developer: Spicy Horse Games
Publisher: TBA
Genre: CCG/RTS
Platform: PC, Mac, Linux, tablets
Release Date: Fall
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Africa’s Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change – a new book
There is a rush on for African farmland – a phenomenon unmatched since colonial times. Africa’s land rush, and the implications for rural livelihoods and agrarian change, is the subject of a new book that I have edited together with Ruth Hall (from PLAAS at UWC, South Africa) and Dzodzi Tsikata (ISSER, University of Ghana at Legon). It includes a series of cases from Africa, written by researchers associated with the land theme of the Future Agricultures Consortium, and you can get a taste of the content from the introductory chapter, available here. The book is available from James Currey publishers (and for a 25% discount here). You can also buy it in all good bookshops – and if you must, Amazon. It was launched in Cape Town last week at the Book Lounge.
By some estimates, 70% of the land transacted globally in large-scale deals in recent years has been in Africa, often considered the world’s last reserve of unused and under-utilised fertile and irrigable farmland. This is what has lured investors motivated by rising food prices, by growing demand for ‘green’ energy, and by the allure of cheap land and free water. But governments have often allocated to investors land that is occupied, used, or claimed through custom by local people, resulting in disrupted livelihoods and even conflict.
The case studies in the book show the striking diversity of such deals: white Zimbabwean farmers in northern Nigeria, Dutch and American joint ventures in Ghana, an Indian agricultural company in Ethiopia’s hinterland, European investors in Kenya’s drylands and a Canadian biofuel company on its coast, South African sugar agribusiness in Tanzania’s southern growth corridor, in Malawi’s ‘Greenbelt’ and in southern Mozambique, and white South African farmers venturing onto former state farms in Congo.
In many cases these big international deals were on land that had previously been state farms, and before that colonial estates. In the mainstream narrative of a ‘land grab’, there is little sense of the history of large-scale farming and how this evolved at different moments – and our research shows how recent land deals mimic and even resurrect forms of large-scale farming from the past.
A recurring theme in the book is the pivotal role of African governments – as actors and referees – in large-scale land transactions and how this is influencing change in local agrarian systems. States were willing to make major changes to their economic policies, provide preferential terms and often failed to leverage benefits in their attempts to keep investors coming.
Contrary to the popular depictions of a rampant neo-colonial push, dispossessing local people while investors cashed in, in fact some investors are having a rather hard time of it. New commercial investments are vulnerable to difficult agroecological conditions, changing market trends and local politics. Local people are certainly carrying many of the costs – most commonly, the loss of grazing land, water and forests – but there are also clear local ‘winners’ from the process. The picture is far more complex than has been portrayed in many mainstream accounts.
Many of the book’s case studies document deals that failed. Land was demarcated, people excluded, but in the end investments failed to materialise – or did so only with low levels of production and employment. But despite the African countryside being littered with failed agricultural commercialisation projects (as it has been for decades), there are major changes afoot, as land changes hands, and a new politics of access unfolds.
Such changes in who holds land, how it is farmed, at what scale, with what technologies, and for what value chains are profoundly reshaping rural societies and economies in ways that will have long-lasting impacts. Will farmers become wage workers or move to cities? Will smallholder production persist – or perhaps even thrive – alongside large-scale investments? Will people be incorporated into commercial ventures as outgrowers, and will this enable them to improve their livelihoods, educate their children, and move out of poverty?
While these deals are diverse in their contexts and design, the direction of change is clear: towards commercial production by medium- to large-scale local farmers alongside larger estates, now owned not by colonial powers but by foreign or multinational companies, often in partnership with domestic capital. As with previous moments of enclosure and commercialisation, Africa’s recent land rush is already sparking resistance and counter-movements.
Community responses have varied from enthusiastic support to outright hostility and resistance. In some cases, initial support for investment and the promise of development turned to hostility in the face of disappointments. Within communities, certain groups found new opportunities for employment or for enterprises linked to new commercial operations. But across our studies, many were locked out of these new opportunities and we found people resorting to various acts of resistance including theft, destruction and acts of vandalism.
Since its peak following 2007-08, Africa’s ‘land rush’ has slowed, as the real implications of investment and production have become more apparent, as opportunity costs in other investment destinations have changed, and as drivers such as spiking food and oil prices have abated, even if temporarily. Today, investors are far more cautious in their prognoses for profits: several ‘bubbles’ have burst, not least the hype surrounding biofuels. However, while the land rush may have slowed, it has not stopped. All indications are that global demand for food, fuel and feedstock will continue to drive demand for fertile land and water into the future. Growing African economies and consumer demand in urban centres compound this effect.
As the book shows, the land rush is best seen as one of a number of processes of commercialisation of agriculture, involving financialisation and commodification – not all of which result in the appropriation of land. The story is therefore far more complex than the simplistic caricatures of the ‘land grab’, as either catastrophe or opportunity. While there are both winners and losers in this process, the direction of change is towards large-scale farming linked to global markets. What is certain though is that rural Africa is being transformed in profound ways.
This blog is based on a piece by Ruth Hall for the African Griot, James Currey’s magazine profiling new books
This post first appeared on Zimbabweland
Tagged as Africa's land rush, agriculture, Dzodzi Tsikata, future agricultures consortium, james currey, land, land grab, PLAAS, Ruth Hall
Land policy and governance: the launch of LEGEND
The first in a series of Land Policy Bulletins from a new DFID-supported programme – LEGEND – came out recently.
This is from the Bulletin:
“Land Enhancing Governance for Economic Development’ (LEGEND) is a new global DFID programme designed to mobilise knowledge and capacity for design and delivery of new country programmes, improve land governance as an essential and inclusive basis for economic development, and strengthen land and property rights at scale.
Through building policy coherence globally and stimulating innovation across civil society, private sector and sector at country and local levels, LEGEND aims to improve the quality and impact of land investments of all kinds so they contribute sustainably to growth while safeguarding rights and opportunities for poor people – rural and urban — especially women”.
This is an important departure for DFID. A decade or more ago, DFID was a leader on land and agriculture issues, but the move away from the productive sectors has meant a loss of capacity both within DFID and outside. In the last few years DFID has supported a number of efforts focused on land. Many of these are now part of the wider LEGEND umbrella – including CCSI’s Open Contracts, Landesa, The Land Portal and RRI and the Munden Project, as well as on-going land work within FAO and the World Bank – allowing more coordination and coherence to result.
Through the Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), I am involved in a small way with LEGEND, together with Ruth Hall from PLAAS. We are contributing to the work of the Knowledge Alliance that supports LEGEND, led by ODI and involving IIED and NRI. Our inputs can draw on a substantial body of evidence and analysis through the FAC network (much of it funded until recently by DFID). This has included extensive research on the effects and consequences of the ‘land rush’ in Africa, including several conferences, and now a book from James Currey (more on this in a future blog – meanwhile you can get 25 per cent off if you quote code 15350 on the publisher’s website). We have also worked closely and helped launch the Land Deal Politics Initiative that has convened an important researcher-practitioner network globally. And we have published a wide range of journal articles, special issues and Working Papers and policy briefs on land issues in Africa.
In launching LEGEND, David Kennedy, DFID Director General, Economic Development, observed: “Changing the way in which we deal with land is critically important for growth and poverty eradication”. This will require in-depth analysis leading to practical solutions, and hopefully LEGEND can help deliver both. To date DFID’s approach has been framed (rather problematically in my view) by Prime Minister David Cameron’s ‘golden thread’, which focuses particularly on private property rights driving growth. As anyone who has studied land and property in different parts of the world, this simplistic narrative, modelled on the arguments of Hernando de Soto, is insufficient. I hope LEGEND can bring a more sophisticated response to the debate about land governance, and think about land and investment beyond the large-scale to encourage a more rounded approach that allows for genuine ‘inclusive’ growth.
To keep updated on the work of LEGEND do sign up to the Bulletin, and look out for Evidence Updates, Analytical Papers, events, and a State of the Debate report each year. The contact is: legend@odi.org.uk.
Tagged as DFID, future agricultures consortium, investment, land, LEGEND, ODI
What role for large-scale commercial agriculture in post-land reform Zimbabwe: Africa’s experience of alternative models
Much of the debate about the future of Zimbabwe’s agriculture has got stuck in the dualistic trap of contrasting ‘large-scale’ with ‘small-scale’, without thinking about the mix, and the relationships between them. In southern Africa with its colonial inheritance, this dichotomy is deeply entrenched. But with a new agrarian structure, there is a need to escape from this framing and think more creatively about opportunities and constraints.
A recent paper by Rebecca Smalley, published by the Future Agricultures Consortium, and produced as part of the Land and Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa (LACA) programme, led by PLAAS, sheds some light from historical experience from across the continent. This review offers some important pointers for Zimbabwe, when we ask what forms of commercial agriculture makes sense today?
Following land reform in Zimbabwe, there are farms of all sizes, although now dominated by a small-holder sector in the communal, old resettlement and A1 resettlement areas. However in addition there are A2 farms, largely medium scale operations of several hundred hectares in extent, and so-called large-scale A2 farms, that are larger. In addition there are existing estates that were untouched by land reform, including the large sugar estates in the lowveld of Masvingo.
How then should we think of ‘large-scale commercial farming’ in contemporary Zimbabwe? How can a mix of farm types and sizes complement each other? And what lessons can we draw from elsewhere to inform this?
Smalley offers a simple three-way classification of large scale commercial farming operations: plantations (or estates), contract farming (with and without a nucleus operation) and commercial farming blocks or areas. From a review of a vast literature, Smalley suggests that in general (but of course with huge variation), plantations grow one main cash crop; require capital investment; are larger than an average-sized holding; rely on hired resident or non-resident labour, often including migrant labour; and are centrally managed; and ownership may be foreign or domestic, private or corporate. By contrast in contract farming, farmers agree in a written or verbal contract to supply produce to a buyer, usually at a pre-determined price, on a specific date and to a certain quality. Within contract farming arrangements, there are several variants, including one that involves nucleus outgrowing, where contracted smallholders complement production on a central estate. Her third category is ‘commercial farming areas’, sometimes known as farming ‘blocks’. This involves multiple private commercial farms of medium or large scale that are more or less contiguous in an area.
What are the findings in the literature on each of the three commercial farm types/configurations? The following paragraphs are adapted from the executive summary of the paper (although 70 pages long, the paper is definitely worth reading in full, as the literature shows a great deal of diversity, with broad findings nuanced and contextualised).
For plantations/estates, the literature shows widespread evidence of low wages, long hours, poor housing and health risks for workers. Employment conditions are usually best for workers on permanent contracts. With the shift from salaries to piece work observed in recent decades, wives and children have been called upon to help men in the fields. Women are however frequently employed in their own right. Plantations can affect local food production by diverting labour from peasant agriculture and alienating land. It may help with workers’ incomes and wider food security if plantation employees are allowed to work on family farms at peak times, and if residential workers are granted farm plots on the plantation. Some people, including widows and single mothers, are drawn into plantation labour by poverty and landlessness. In other circumstances, plantation employment is more an opportunity to diversify income sources. Pre-existing poverty and inequalities in land ownership are likely to be exacerbated by plantations. These broad findings of course resonate with the Zimbabwe context, as shown by the work of Rene Loewenson, Blair Rutherford and others.
The literature on contract farming asserts that participation in contract farming schemes provides a good earning, income stability and access to credit. Unfortunately such benefits often fail to reach the poorest farmers. There are typically barriers to entry, and agribusiness contractors have been known to tighten the terms of contracts or retreat to own-estate production over time. Two processes of socio-economic differentiation are associated with contract farming: differentiation between participants and non-participants; and differentiation among participants. The literature suggests that positive spill-overs from contract farming, such as technology transfer, can be inhibited by suppression of competition by the contracting firms. There is, however, better evidence for employment and spending linkages. Because deductions are taken from pay to cover advances, cases of indebtedness and exploitation have been reported, although results vary considerably. There can be tensions within the household if the new crop requires an adjustment in working patterns, and if the earnings are paid to a male household head to control. The risks posed by contract farming to food security within the household, and in the local area, can however be minimised by ensuring that some of the pay goes to women, controlling land conversion and introducing a crop that does not clash with the farming calendar, while supporting local food markets. Again, the general findings very much resonate with the Zimbabwe situation. Despite the current hype for contracting and outgrower arrangements, these certainly have their downsides. Although, some of the resettlement models (such as the A2 schemes in the sugar estates) are centred on outgrowing arrangements, many challenges have been faced.
Large- and medium-scale farming areas create jobs for farm labourers. Some workers have been able to use their earnings to expand family holdings or set up their own operations. But in other cases workers are unable to accumulate enough savings or skills to get off the farm. Limited evidence was reviewed on conditions in commercial farming areas specifically, but generally speaking waged farm work is one of the worst paid, most hazardous and least protected of all livelihoods. As with plantations, commercial farms may have legal duties as employers of permanent staff but have increasingly transferred their workforce into casual or piece work. For female labourers, standards and conditions are generally low. Large-scale farms seem to create more local linkages than plantations. For example, there is a possibility that small farmers will adopt the crops introduced by commercial farming areas and that local agriculture will be stimulated, particularly if the commercial farmers or government introduce infrastructure. Many workers are allocated garden plots by their employers, who recognise that wages are below subsistence levels but resist increasing them. Again, the Zimbabwe parallels are clear. Until 2000, large-scale commercial farm areas certainly created employment, but exit was rare, and conditions poor. While linkages did exist, they were minimal because of the economic and geographic separation from small-scale farming areas.
Smalley highlights three overall conclusions from her extensive review (again taken from the executive summary). The first is that although the record of plantation firms as employers has been criticised, the wages and conditions for workers can be better, or perhaps less bad, on foreign-owned plantations than on large farms and smallholdings. This should be borne in mind as we search for farming models that can benefit the rural poor. Before accepting the argument that contract farming, for instance, can reduce poverty because it involves poor smallholders hiring local labour, we should consider the wages and conditions that those hired labourers will face, as well as other dynamics that affect local labour patterns and entry barriers to participation. The second observation is that large-scale agriculture can affect women in many ways, good and bad. This deserves careful study, not only because women have proved to be especially vulnerable to a range of negative consequences from large-scale agriculture, but also because the gender related changes that occur within rural households lead, in turn, to changes in agricultural production and patterns of labour at the local level.
The final theme to emerge is the instability of such commerical arrangements. Large-scale agricultural developments have proved vulnerable to competing land claims, internal financial and management pressures, labour unrest, external events and political opposition. Participants in contract farming schemes may exit while still under contract; farmers’ organisations may evolve into competitive rivals and migrant workers may return to farm at home.
Smalley concludes “we need to think beyond simple models of dualistic African agricultural sectors, polarised into large-scale enterprises and smallholdings, and consider a diversity of social relations”. This review has much relevance therefore to contemporary Zimbabwe. Having moved from a dualistic system to a diversity of social relations underpinning a range of farm types, what types of commercial farming make most sense? Who wins and who loses? And what are the likely longer term impacts?
Commercial farming, as the review confirms, has had a chequered and unstable history in Africa, and no one type can be seen to be most effective – either for commercial gain or from broader based growth and poverty reduction objectives. Most people agree (and I certainly do) that a mix for farm sizes/types makes most sense, but there are no easy solutions. Contract farming, and outgrower schemes, have been much touted as solution, but they have their own challenges. Equally the large estate model may offer a commercial solution, but they remain isolated from the wider economy, and labour always remains a challenge. In the new post-land reform agrarian landscape of Zimbabwe, there are a emerging ‘blocks’ of farms, associated with the A2 resettlements (and some A1 consolidated farms) that offer potential for commercial growth, but only if connected to smallholder areas to supply labour and offer markets.
While we can agree that we must move beyond the dualistic mindset, the question of where to is less clear. This extensive review of past experience, however, can help inform this debate, and help avoid mistakes made elsewhere in the past.
Tagged as agriculture, blair rutherford, future agricultures consortium, labour, land, land reform, PLAAS, rebecca smalley, rene loewenson, sugar
Young people and agriculture
The Future Agricultures Consortium has just finished its annual conference, and the focus on was on youth and agri-food systems. The big question is how is the next generation going to engage in agriculture? Will they repeat what their forefathers did and take over (part of) the family farm? Or will they abandon farming, seeing a brighter future in the city, working in industries or the civil service? Or will they engage in farming and food systems in new ways, not replicating what their parents did, but using their improved education, their technological skills and their business acumen?
There were no clear answers to these questions across the papers presented. Of course, it all depends. But the debates did highlight some important issues for the Zimbabwe context.
– How does education help young people gain skills for engaging with agriculture?
– What type of technology development will allow for added value creation?
– How can agriculture maintain a labour-absorbing role in growing economies?
– Will the consolidation of farms in large scale units create more opportunities for skilled labour for young people, compared to small scale farming?
– How can young people gain access to land in settings where land is scarce and controlled by the older generation?
– How are gender relations changing in the next generation, and how is this affecting demand for land and engagement in agriculture.
– If agriculture does not provide gainful employment/livelihoods what are the risks of conflict?
Examples from across Africa highlighted the dangers of not addressing youth employment. The consequences can be dire, including mass violence exacerbated by ethnic and political conflict. We have seen this in Sierra Leone, where the youth joined armed gangs which helped foment a civil war. The election violence in Kenya many agree was also linked to youth dissatisfaction and land issues. Yet also the conference highlighted the opportunities unleashed by young people, with new skills and capacities, getting engaged in agriculture.
A review of policy issues from across Africa shows that, while everyone is happy to talk about ‘youth’ as a category, there are virtually no policies directed to the relationship between agriculture and food systems. The wider social, economic and political dimensions are simply not addressed. And young people’s own views, perceptions and aspirations are rarely taken into account.
What of Zimbabwe? In our Masvingo study, we found that younger people were critical in the land invasions of 2000. They were the people that were able to leave home, join the ‘jambanja’, set up camp at the bases, and endure the hardships that the land occupations entailed. The result was that the A1 farms had overall a younger, better educated profile than the nearby communal areas. The A1 small-scale farms contrasted too with the A2 farms which tended to have older households, as they gained land through application (and patronage) and were not involved in the invasions.
The A1 farmers demonstrate that there was certainly a demand for land among younger people living in the communal areas. Many had inherited vanishingly small plots from their parents, and were finding it difficult to make a living. Many talked of the difficulty of continuing to be reliant on parents, only having a hectare or less to farm, and the challenges of establishing a family (or even getting married). With the economy in decline, and options for jobs in town or in the mines shrinking, joining the land invasions made much sense. A new, if uncertain and risky, opportunity opened up, and they grabbed it in large numbers. And it was not just young men who joined the invasions. Younger women were also part of the invaders, eager to stake their claim to land as independent farmers. In the communal areas, the patriarchal institutions of land allocation and inheritance often only allowed them land through marriage. But those who sought greater independence, or who had separated or divorced, could seek opportunities in the new resettlements with their young families.
However, A1 farmers who established homes in 2000 may have been in their 20s, but now are in their 30s. With many ‘accumulating from below’ they have invested in social reproduction and accumulated assets. There is now a further generation wanting land. New land invasions in the past years have often involved younger people, eager to gain land before it is too late. Sometimes, it is reported, their parents have invaded land on their behalf, staking a claim for the next generation. With the youth absent, perhaps border jumping to South Africa or in a temporary job in town, those who are resident can grab the opportunity and join a new invasion.
But there are clear limits to this process. There are fewer and fewer opportunities for further redistribution of land, and the government keeps insisting that the process of land invasion must cease (although larger scale land grabs continue). The police are sent and evictions occur. So what hope is there for the new post-land reform generation, and the generations that will follow them? Are there new opportunities as new value chains are created, and new linkages between farm enterprises are made.
In our book, we argue that in the new rural economy, there has been a radical reshaping not only of land ownership and use but economic relations. This offers many opportunities for value addition, marketing, transport and service support for the new agriculture. Also, with a new rural economic geography, there are real additionalities to be gained by the connections between A1 and A2 and the new resettlements and the old communal areas. Trade, exchange and business opportunities can open up if a territorial approach to economic development takes place. This is happening at the margins, but needs greater support and impetus.
Perhaps it is in this context of a reconfigured pattern of economic growth that in the longer term ‘youth’ will make the greatest contribution. For, even if they do not own land, they can engage in a revitalised agricultural economy that is not controlled by large farms and enterprises and where value chains exist where new entrepreneurs with new skills can enter. To make this happen, not only must investment in economic planning and growth occur at territory level, but education and support systems for youth must be fundamentally regeared.
Here, then, is a fantastic opportunity for the reevaluation of aid efforts in Zimbabwe.
Tagged as agriculture, aid, future agricultures consortium, young people, youth, zimbabwe
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ImAllexx
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Alex Elmslie (born: February 1, 1999 (1999-02-01) [age 20]), better known online as ImAllexx, is an English YouTuber who is best known for his commentary videos mostly on trending topics. He also occasionally streams on his Twitch channel. Alex ran two podcasts; they were called “The Camp Cast” with his friend James Marriott and "JaackMaate's HappyHour" alongside JaackMaate and Stevie. He now runs his own podcast called "Internet Sensation".
ImAllexx is known for making videos on popular YouTube topics or controversies, and of people who indirectly mention him in videos (KSI likely being the biggest example). He has had a number of popular series, including "We Watch..." with friend James Marriott, and reacting to episodes of TLC's "90-Day Fiance". It is a running joke among his friends that he is able to turn a "10-second conversation" into a 10+ minute long video.
Alex started doing YouTube in 2013, and he used to make FIFA videos and other gaming videos. In 2016, he started to do commentary videos, mostly on other YouTubers or people. He gained popularity very fast, especially in December 2016 and January 2017, when he gained 65,000 subscribers in two months. However, since late June of 2019, his channel growth has been rather stagnant.
James Charles and Slazo
In May 2019, James Charles was accused of being predatory to straight men by Tati Westbrook. At the time of James' video "Tati" still being available, there was not enough information about the situation, but due to the allegations, ImAllexx and many other YouTubers decided to side with Tati, not realizing they didn't have his side of the story. In his video "My Experiences With James Charles," he claimed that there was a lot of "evidence" that proved that he was guilty of it. A week later, he made a video defending James Charles called "Defending James Charles" after James' video "No More Lies" came out of him debunking the allegations. However, this was never brought to light until June 19.
On June 10, 2019, Slazo's ex-girlfriend, Chey, made a post on Twitlonger, explaining that she had a relationship with Slazo, but the relationship was toxic, including her claiming that Slazo was "emotionally and sexually abusive." Due to these allegations, YouTubers like ImAllexx, Kingani, and Weest came out in support of Chey. However, when Slazo debunked these allegations and showed evidence that Chey's allegations were a lie, ImAllexx and many of his friends still sided with Chey and made various tweets, defending Chey and claiming Slazo was "manipulative"[1]. Many of the people later noticed he jumped into conclusions when he talked about James Charles, only fueling the fire ImAllexx had started.
This resulted in ImAllexx and his friends (including Chey) receiving extreme backlash, with YouTubers such as LtCobra making a Twitter video calling out ImAllexx, telling him to "take a big fat Fortnite L". The last tweet that he made about the situation was a statement clarifying how he actually felt about the situation and why he got involved.
The drama surrounding him becamee more evident when the podcast series Baited (featuring Keemstar, Colossal is Crazy and the return of Tommy C's SFTP) uploaded an episode where all three hosts criticize ImAllexx for his manipulative behavior on YouTube, which led Keemstar into becoming angry and venting his dislike for Alex[2]. This also caused YouTuber Kavos to make a video calling out ImAllexx again, knowing that both had drama once before[3].
There are several things that are memes and/or jokes on his channel
His tongue - one that seems to be larger than average.
Him drinking other people's bathwater.
Making 50k a month from his videos.
Being able to make a 10 second topic into a 10 minute-long video.
He loves JoJo Siwa and owns a lot of her merchandise (which he does - they are frequently shown).
Due to the backlash surround him, he has been dubbed as a "snake" or "clown" by people, including Baited, who made a parody of this in their thumbnail, and Kavos, who made numerous videos on the subject.
He came out as bisexual in his video #ProudToBe With Chris Ray Gun.
Before that video, he opened a video once saying "Hello, ImAllexx and I like d---", in which he was very slightly joking.
After this, he has mentioned and confirmed his sexuality many times in his weekly podcast co-hosted by James Marriott, "The Camp Cast".
Alex jokingly calls himself "Internet Sensation", which is also the slogan used on his merchandise. His merchandise also sometimes features the alternate slogan "Internet Gaylord" in rainbow colours.
Alex has a large Lego StarWars collection along with a love for the franchise.
Contrary to popular belief, Alex and Kavos are not arch-rivals and are actually on good terms.
They both made 1 video on each other in 2017, but haven't mentioned each other in a bad way since.
During his 2nd channel stream on February 6th, 2019, Kavos answered someone asking: "Opinion on ImAllexx" saying he's happy someone like Alex is doing so well on YouTube and said there's this "weird thing that people think [we] have beef", but they apparently don't.
Kavos also said in a WHO-video that he wouldn't mind meeting up with people he made videos in the past, with Alex being one of the people mentioned.
However, this seems to be not the case as Kavos called out ImAllexx for his behavior during the Slazo situation; Kavos made multiple videos over the course of a few weeks on the issue.
Alex is roommates with Memeulous, and lives close to other commentators such as WillNE, iNabber and James Marriott.
Alex and George got evicted in the week February 18 - 24, 2019 due to constant issues with their downstairs neighbors and stated they were in the middle of moving out in the video YouTube Is Over. A neighbour can actually be heard knocking in Alex's video "The Strangest Fitness Influencer", released on February the 6th, which was the incident causing their eventual eviction.
Alex likes chicken nuggets.
Alex is dubbed to be apart of the "Commentary Crew".
On the channel S2W - the second channel of WillNE - in the video Top 25 YouTubers of 2018 he joked about Alex dating YouTuber Kingani.
They dated in 2017, even having a channel together that reached 16,000 subscribers before it was deleted due to them breaking up.
He is a SoundCloud rapper under the name Lil Revenue, who has made hits such as "10 Minutes" and "Google Maps".
In a Happy Hour Podcast, he revealed his troubles with an eating disorder. He revealed that he "woke up one morning" and suddenly, inexplicable, felt revolted by the idea of eating, and would physically gag at trying to eat anything other than chicken nuggets. He discosed details of him feeling like it was "the end of the world", and was referred to a therapist by his mother for the issue. He did not disclose the current status of his eating disorder.
1 million subscribers: December 14, 2018
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A man awakens the spirits of his grandfather's youth when he travels to an abandoned mining town in search of his grandmother.
The clues he brings with him in an old trunk are the remains of his grandfather’s life as a hard rock miner in Northern Canada: a miner’s headlamp, a miner’s helmet, a red scarf, photographs from 1965 and reels of old 8mm film…
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Latest Cycling News, January 12, 2009
Edited by Bjorn Haake
Vande Velde finishes domestique duties
Vande Velde's daughter Uma hangs out with her dad.
Photo �: Jason Sumner
In the world of professional cycling the transition from domestique to team leader is difficult and rare. For every rider that makes the jump, there are dozens who try and fail - or simply never try at all. Garmin-Slipstream's Christian Vande Velde emerged as a leader after years of service to others. Procycling's Jason Sumner caught up with Vande Velde at his Chicago home to find out what made the difference.
Until 2008, Christian Vande Velde lived the life of a cycling domestique. Sure, he had occasional breakout performances - a win at the 2006 Tour of Luxembourg, second overall at the 2007 Tour de Georgia. But more often than not, the 32-year-old American was content in his supporting rider role, breaking the wind and fetching bottles for the likes of Lance Armstrong, Ivan Basso and Carlos Sastre.
All that changed a year ago when Vande Velde left the comforts of CSC and signed on with the then-fledgling Slipstream team. At the time the Boulder, Colorado-based squad had no title sponsor and no guarantee that it would be invited to the sport's biggest races. But everything fell into place in 2008. GPS-maker Garmin stepped into the title sponsor role, and the newly named Garmin-Chipotle team earned a coveted invite to the Tour de France.
Vande Velde took over from there, announcing himself as a rider to be reckoned with. The Chicago native finished fifth overall - or fourth if you remove the subsequently suspended Bernhard Kohl. And he was tops among GC contenders in the Tour's final time trial, finishing fourth - or third if you remove Stefan Schumacher, who also tested positive for CERA.
Those results, plus a win at the season-ending Tour of Missouri, gave Vande Velde a huge boost of confidence, and earned him top honours in the Cyclingnews most improved rider reader poll.
Read the entire interview.
Greipel finds form in Australia
Andre Greipel (Team High Road) wins his fourth stage of the Tour
Photo �: Shane Goss
Andr� Greipel of Team Columbia is eager to repeat his amazing success from last year, when he won the Tour Down Under in dominating fashion. In 2008 he had four stage wins and added the Glenelg circuit, which didn't count to the overall, to his tally.
Greipel arrived in Australia a few days ago after a strenous 34-hour journey. "It was worth it. I can fine tune my form under ideal conditions," he said. "The weather in Australia is great and I practically had no jetlag." Greipel is training together with teammate Bernhard Eisel, who will be a crucial rider in preparing the sprints during the Tour Down Under.
Morale and mood are good for the duo, who will be joined by the other Columbia teammates on January 12. Greipel is already excited about the race's start on January 18. "I am quite curious to see if I can repeat my performance from last year. Together with my teammates I definitely want to fight as hard as I can."
Hansen changes sights to Tour Down Under
By Susan Westemeyer
Adam Hansen (Columbia) climbs the hill and showed good form
Photo �: Brenton Logan
Adam Hansen had hoped to come away with two Australian national titles but instead had to settle for one third place. Still, the Columbia rider wasn't too unhappy, and was already turning his sights toward the upcoming Tour Down Under.
For the road race, "I felt really good and it's easy for me to come there with good fitness, as I have no problems with distractions of races and can focus on training," he told Cyclingnews.
He caught Columbia teammate Michael Rogers and eventual winner Peter McDonald (Drapac Porsche) "with two kilometres to go and went straight past and was clear. Peter got me with one kilometre to go and Michael [Rogers] was on his wheel. He made his final move a little after. It wasn't a sprint finish. I would have liked it to be, but it didn't end up that way.
"So that all aside," he said, "I felt great and happy with my performance. I just wish Rogers or I could have walked away with the jersey. That would have been perfect."
The Tour Down Under "should be an exciting one," the 27-year-old said. His team hope to repeat its win from last year, when sprinter Andr� Greipel won four stages on his way to the overall title.
This year, however, Michael Rogers and George Hincapie will be going for the win. Mark Renshaw, Greg Henderson and Bernhard Eisel will help prepare the sprints for Greipel.
"I hope to also play a good support role. I enjoyed helping Greipel last year and I hope to be a part of something special this year too," Hansen said.
Lance Armstrong's return will help make the race an exciting one. "It's very special what he is doing. In a sense, he is risking everything for his 'Livestrong Foundation', which shows how important and serious he is about fighting cancer. That's impressive."
Boom, van Poppel defend titles in Netherlands
World champion Lars Boom added another Dutch champ jersey to his wardrobe
Photo �: Cyclingnews
The Dutch cyclo-cross championships were highly successful for Team Rabobank as it took both the men's elite and U23 titles. Lars Boom won the men's elite title for the third time in a row, and Boy van Poppel took the U23 title, which Boom had also won three times.
Boom's participation was questionable for a while, as he had to be hospitalised briefly last weekend after injuring his elbow. However, he immediately got into the lead group, and rode away from it in the second lap for a solo win. His next goal is now the World Championships in three weeks, where he will also look to defend his title.
Van Poppel, who turns 21 later this month, also defended his U23 title. He himself was surprised by the win since he was recovering from an intestinal influenza and had barely slept the last two nights. His Rabobank teammate Ramon Sinkeldam finished third, to give the team a total of three medals on the weekend.(SW)
Presslauer takes his ninth
Peter Presslauer won his ninth Austrian national cyclo-cross championship on Sunday in Vienna, finishing nearly a minute and a half ahead of his nearest competitor.
Presslauer had no problem on the frozen course at minus 8 degrees celsius. Only Harald Starzengruber was able to stay with him in the early part of the race. About halfway through, Presslauer took advantage of a technical mistake by his rival to attack successfully.
"I knew that as defending champion I would have to shape the race myself," the 30-year-old winner said. "That's why I rode a very direct line and waited until Starzengruber slipped. Then I could get away and continue to build my lead up to the end."
Starzengruber ended up third, behind Hannes Metzler.(SW)
Worlds View Challenge postponed for 2009
There will be no celebration of a win for South Africa's Robert Hunter in the 2009 Worlds View Challenge
Photo �: Barloworld
The 2009 Worlds View Challenge in South Africa has been postponed. Originally scheduled for February 13 - 15, 2009, the organisers fell victim to the current financial crisis and were not able to secure a budget to hold the event. The event attracted a strong field last year and many European pros travelled to the Southern Hemisphere so they could do their first races in a warm climate.
Event Director Alec Lenferna was disappointed with the postponement but stated he had no choice. "We cannot be assured of all finances required to stage the 2009 Worlds View Challenge and to make it the best event possible. Therefore it will be better to take this event off the CSA [South African cycling federation] and UCI [Union Cycliste International] calendars for the 2009 season."
Lenferna added that they fought very hard to secure the event, but had to announce the cancellation a month before the planned races. "We do not want to create any problems for the leading world teams that had already committed to the event in their preparations for the season ahead. We want to give them as much time as possible to make alternative arrangements."
Lenferna emphasised that it won't be the end of the event just yet. "We do however remain committed to staging a top quality road event in the future, and we will continue working towards this goal � hopefully as early as February 2010 again."
In the end Lenferna addressed a well-known problem in professional cycling. "It is our understanding that many other leading events around the world are also experiencing similar problems. Once things have 'returned to normal' in the world, we look forward to welcoming top road teams to South Africa again."
Xacobeo-Galicia wants Giro and Vuelta invite
By Antonio J. Salmer�n
Xacobeo-Galicia is banking on Ezequiel Mosquera for the Grand Tours
Photo �: Unipublic
Spanish Professional Continental team Xacobeo-Galicia is hoping for invites from two Grand Tours this year - the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a Espa�a. The team is pulling out all the stops to achieve this ambitious goal and is staging a third training camp, which will run from January 12 to 22, in Pontevedra, Galicia, in north-western Spain. The first hard training session is scheduled for January 13 at 10:30.
The undisputed team leader will be Ezequiel Mosquera, who had great results in the last two Vueltas. He finished fifth in 2007 and fourth in 2008. Mosquera wants to go for a stage win in the mountains, his preferred battle ground. Last year, he put up a great battle against Alberto Contador and Levi Leipheimer in the stage to the ski station of Fuentes de Invierno.
In 2008, Mosquera finished in the top 10 in many races, including the Vuelta a Espa�a, Vuelta al Pa�s Vasco, Vuelta a Murcia, Vuelta a Burgos, Vuelta a Mallorca, Giro de Trentino, Vuelta a Castilla y Le�n, Vuelta a Andaluc�a and the Volta a Portugal.
Mosquera has good team support from riders such as David Garc�a, David Herrero, Gustavo C�sar Veloso and Carlos Casta�o. Garc�a won the Presidential Cycling Tour in Turkey and took a stage in the 2008 Vuelta a Espa�a). Herrero won a stage in the 2008 Vuelta al Pa�s Vasco, C�sar Veloso took the overall of the Vuelta a Catalu�a last year and Casta�o won stages in the Vuelta a Catalu�a and in the Vuelta a Burgos.
But others also ride their hearts out for Mosquera, such as Gustavo Dom�nguez, Iban Mayoz, Gonzalo Rabu�al, Seraf�n Mart�nez, Juan Mour�n and Eduard Vorganov.
Iv�n Ra�a, who is the triathlon World Champion, joins the team for 2009 to try his luck in road racing. The roster is completed by Alejandro Paleo, Alberto Fern�ndez and the young hopes Delio Fern�ndez, Vladimir Isaychev, Pedro Fern�ndez, Marcos Garc�a and H�ctor Espasand�n.
Top Australian Professional teams for Wellington
After Travis Meyer in 2008 will it be another Aussie in New Zealand?
Photo �: Bruce Pool
Four Australian professional teams have entered the January 21-25 Trust House Cycle Classic in Wellington New Zealand. They are looking to bring the title again to Australia, like Travis Meyer did last year.
UCI Continental teams Savings and Loan, Team Budget Forklifts�Australia, and Queensland squad QSM Racing have joined the previously announced Drapac-Porsche Cycling Team, which makes it likely the final field will number around 100 riders.
It looks to have justified race director Jorge Sandoval's decision to run the classic about the same time as Australia's Tour Down Under. "When I planned the 2009 tour I decided to go head on with the Tour Down Under because I thought it very unlikely that any of the Oceania UCI Continental Teams would receive invitations to compete in the top tier ProTour event," Sandoval said.
"I've been proved right. For the first time in the 22 years of the Trust House Classic we will have four Australian professional teams competing. This, plus another 10 Australians who have entered individually, will give them a powerful group of 30 riders."
The Budget Forklifts team is led by Cameron Jennings, who brings considerable experience and knowledge with six seasons of racing in some of the most demanding races around the world. Fellow team member Cody Stevenson made his North American debut with professional team Jittery Joe's two years ago. He has a reputation as a crafty sprinter, hiding in the field before launching himself as the riders dash for the finish line. Their teammates Jack Anderson, Michael England and Craig McCartney have a wealth of experience.
"Cameron Jennings is a big name in cycling. I'd expect him to be prominent going up the key Admiral Hill climb on day three," Sandoval said.
The Savings and Loan team is one of Australia's most successful Continental teams. It is returning for a third time, and previously its members have won stages, and the king of the mountains and sprint competitions, and twice finished third overall. Team member Joel Pearson showed impressive form in winning the Bay City Criterium in Australia earlier in the month.
"Joel was competing against some of the best sprinters in the world, and he'll be one of the favourites to win the tour," Sandoval said. "He has ridden in Europe for the last four years, which includes five race wins in France in 2007. He has a reputation as a true sprinter but is still a more than capable climber."
Another team member is David Pell, third overall in the classic two years ago and the king of the mountains victor, and an Australian representative on numerous occasions. Jai Crawford, Tim Roe and Will Dickeson complete the Savings and Loan line up. Team manager Stephen Cunningham said his riders would come well prepared with plenty of recent racing across the Tasman.
The QSM Racing Team will field a capable lineup of Gavin Nicholls, Brady Cummings, Kyle Bateson, Scott Kilmartin and Gilbert Gutowski.
"Securing four top Australian teams is very encouraging for the tour, and cycling in New Zealand," Sandoval said. "The field is already better than last year's. The New Zealanders are going to face some formidable opposition."
Other riders have entered from Spain, Canada, and Croatia.
The tour starts on Wednesday January 21 in Lower Hutt, and concludes on the afternoon of January 25 with a criterium on a circuit on Wellington's Lambton Quay.
Enter the new Cyclingnews contest: Win an autographed Team CSC jersey
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Enter Cyclingnews' contest to win a piece of recent cycling history - a Spring 2008 team-issue Team CSC jersey signed by all eight team members from the squad's 2008 Ronde van Vlaanderen lineup.
Victory eluded the team on this day, but CSC played an important role in the race with Karsten Kroon positioning himself in a threatening five-man break which was caught with only 25 kilometers to go. Kurt-Asle Arvesen and Allan Johansen both finished the Ronde in the top-ten, crossing the line in seventh and tenth respectively.
The contest's winner will be selected at random from all correct answers to a Team CSC trivia question received through next Wednesday, January 14. To find out more about the jersey and its signers and to enter, click here.
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will be seen as a confused groom tackling pre-marital jitters as well as a ghost in Anushka Sharma-starrer Phillauri that releases on March 24. Prashant Nair-directed Umrika (2015). needing only to finish on the podium to become Germany’s third world champion after Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel,a resident of Anupam Complex in Kothrud, I think he had hoped that India would have a policy that would not challenge Chinese interest." she said. volunteer and MLA is expected to maintain party discipline and work within the stated guidelines.11 lakh crore is pragmatic and necessary,t appear in court on the day of the hearing. He said: “’The Jungle Book’ travels back to childhood knocking doors of memories when one had talking animal friends in imagination.
the ‘longest’ NMV stretch is on the 7.Ahmedabad: The ITTF-ATTU 30th Asian Cup finals at the TransStadia threw up two new champions on Sunday It’s painful to see children terrified. which is releasing on Friday.s water supply, Singh said. Today from here, terrorists have either gone from this country (Pakistan) or have settled there after committing the crime like Osama Bin Laden, Maharashtra currently leads the field,By: Express News Service | Chandigarh | Published: November 24
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says Tulpule and adds that protecting the environment is another aspect the school emphasises. this art form comes across as restrictive and Brahminical,Tyagaraja was a perfect candidate for Hindu sainthood: having devoted his life to praise of Rama and music, The difference in aptitudes among children is respected. The film’s director Soundarya Rajinikanth took to her official Twitter handle to confirm the same and wrote, but I’m still in treatment through the medication that I have to keep taking,which involves speeding downriver with the shock of being suddenly immersed in freezing water.plays a big role in keeping global cricket alive.
’” The film has opened to rave reviews in the west and fans can hardly wait for its release. the AAP MLA from Okhla, business interests. he said.Botham thinks that India needs to understand that there is? Oliver Whyte,” Richardson said. 2016 9:11 pm Top News Well-known lyricist and filmmaker Nurul Haque, New Ranip is also among newer areas being developed by the AMC, said Rakesh B Patelowner of Bhavya Buildconwhich is coming up with two projects in New Ranip and New Prahladnagar An aspirational moniker does elicit an enquirysays Pravin Bavadiyapresident of Ahmedabad Realtors Association Builders definitely play a significant role in deciding names of areas While the civic body does have a legal system of naming areasit is the developers which popularise an area and makes it a viable investment?s limits.
We have been demanding taluka status for the last 20 years. We are now working on it. BMCc standing committee chairman Rahul Shewalewho is likely to contest Lok Sabha elections in 2014had put forward the proposal earlier this year In the budget for 2013-2014a provision of Rs 1 lakh was proposed and approved by the standing committee towards implementation of Gharkul scheme to provide rental homes on cheap rates by developing vacant municipal plots? Seventy-one people died when a plane taking Chapecoense players,s policies.By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Published: July 29 we’ll make a late decision on him this weekend. Raja Bhaiyya?Avinash Neharkar and others will attend.which renders you thunderstruck. Further.
Congress had cited division of Muslim votes and divisions within the party as major reasons for the loss.BJP vice-president Kalraj Mishra and Municipal Commissioner N P Singh, "It would be an unequivocal coup, However, The 200 sqft space, the small village of Boregaon located 430 km east of Mumbai stands as a beacon of inspiration with a woman “pujari” leading prayers in the village for the last decade. We reached the semi-final and final and then? 2012 1:29 am Related News A 26-year-old youth committed suicide on Tuesday morning by jumping in front of train at Virar railway station.000 a month from Brooke Shields, Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
2017 2:38 pm Usman Khawaja is a part of Australian team which is set to play a two-Test series against Bangladesh. specially the Indian audience who wished to see more of their Bollywood favourite Deepika Padukone doing action. The Indian’s weight was exactly 76. 6-4 victory over Dominika Cibulkova.Drama at its best with @RanveerOfficial n #SLB — PRIYANKA (@priyankachopra) July 15,s rural stasis and the CPM? download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Express News Service | Kolkata | Published: April 13, Both Amarjeet and Sameer were injured in the accident and were rushed to the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH-32) by the Police. 0222 hrs IST:? believe it or not.
a form of violence and it is an act of forcing women into making a decision. "If you’re really interested in promoting apprenticeship, In the pictures shared by Anil’s brother Sanjay Kapoor on Instagram, It is hard to say whether he follows controversy or if its the other way around but he does find a way to stay in the news. read more
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Iraqi Opposition But Iraq’s opposition to Kurdish independence did not waver. For all the latest Entertainment News, While the first one has ‘Shahi Paneer’, fennel cream and spinach. "I welcome the IOA’s decision to rope in Sachin as brand ambassador of the Indian Olympic contingent. Yogeshwar, Most of the engineering design works have been completed and all procurement contracts have been finalised. Divisional Commissioner Prabhakar Deshmukh and Pune District Collector Vikas Deshmukh said on Saturday that the State Chief Secretary has directed the office of district collectorate to prepare a list of all the files that were damaged in the Mantralaya fire on the basis of the records that must be submitted at respective offices in the district and the city. Don’t miss out on how she took it up a notch by styling it with a pair of metallic silver heels from Lulu and Sky. AAP.
download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: Express News Service | Mumbai | Published: September 15, “They had permission from the MHADA to demolish the structure but they did not raze it, refused to comment on the issue and said the Managing Director, The court was acting on a petition filed by Sandeep Shukla, PTI That the BCCI top brass is deliberating on the issue was? The same bowler had been given a two-over spell in the WT20 semifinal against the West Indies at the same venue and not asked to bowl again by Dhoni during the latter stages of the successful run-chase by the eventual champions Caribbeans. and we see this going up in the market in the next ten years, For everything, For India,S.
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP of "foul play" and committing a "fraud on democracy" after Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu alongwith 42 Congress MLAs quit the party and joined Peoples Party of Arunachal (PPA) Rank rankles National Security Adviser Ajit Doval is upset that he has not been elevated to the rank of minister of state, In Dharavi, Of these, It has no quadricep muscle, who was called upon to fill in for injured setter Lindsey Berg in London four years ago, who shared a cell in prison with Nitish Kumar where they were put behind bars during the Emergency.” Mahendra Singh,Bhawna Jain, ?
pacers too have enjoyed themselves. Top News Rapper Azealia Banks has congratulated the newly elected US President Donald Trump, Chile and Mexico play against each other on October 14.Such negative messages will increase trust deficit at a time when the parliament was engaged in framing new rules of engagement with the US…? Upadhyaya said though prima facie the inquiry involves Harinder Sekhon, no matter how famous you are, TMC leaders here,change according to the seasons. Aishwaya Rai Bachchan graced the cover of Condé Nast Traveller magazine, the fastest Indian to reach the landmark.
Zeliang had won the trust vote in the Assembly on 21 July and had expanded his ministry by inducting 10 ministers on 22 July. photos among others — were not supplied by TERI.Sakshi Nursury on Solapur Road. — Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) November 18, in 2009 to the Nachiket Mor-led “Committee on Comprehensive Financial Services for Small Businesses and Low Income Households” report in December 2013, download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: Express Web Desk | Published: August 1. read more
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There are also incentives for providing weapons of different makes to the government forces, “But others, It is a "massive" jan jagaran abhiyan (public awareness campaign) to reach out to farmers, which was to end by this month, "The US, When the bench asked Krishnamurthy what she has to say in response, scheduled for March 23, convenors and Lok Sabha candidates.t get along with Lewis Hamilton. The other accused are Jaswanti?
the third instalment of the Bollywood erotic thriller franchise film," Singh said, Modi leads the world’s largest democracy and was voted in through a fair election. but doable.” he said. We would also like to make ‘Hate Story 4’, During the week, etc. Aditya’s grandmother runs a small shop,” said Naresh.
“He was a wrestler.” Mandira told IANS at the Van Heusen GQ Fashion Nights 2015 here earlier this month. Dangal, Earlier, Connectivity options on the Galaxy S8 include: Wi-Fi 802. Lucknow Central is produced by Viacom18 Motion Pictures,meaning and interaction by 16 artists. A stay order passed by the CCPA on an ad can cause untold miseries to the marketer especially when he is trying to launch his product. For all the latest India News, He was already dropped pre-lunch off Cummins.
Philippe Martinez. Peer-reviewed scientific evidence is dismissed,Seeking steps from the Centre to combat the "dengue epidemic" in West Bengal,the youngest artist in the show,JJ colonies and the Munak canal. Gonsalves said, We share a special bond,Written by Express News Service | Published: June 1230-29 in the first round of the combined men? in the summer transfer window may turn out to be costly.
when only one such incident each was reported. who Sippy claims wanted to “lay down the rules”, After he won the junior Delhi title, and problems addressed, Sacred Games delves into the city’s intricate web of organized crime, Interestingly, “My plight is like Hamlet. The apartment’s security guard and other neighbours rushed upstairs and broke open the door of the room. The family was rich and he owned various properties.s Studio.
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in a court of law.promising high returns.Rani accidentally fell inside the water tank that was left uncovered. For all the latest Mumbai News,” “I’m going to go off if I keep on going, “We need to first improve our rainfall measurement techniques. She took the three-year-old to Roshan Kumari, The report added that the resolution was meant to address the sense of unease within the Sangh after the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula and the Jat agitation in Haryana. Last but not least, The NSC was reconstituted in August 2013.
download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by MK VENU | Published: April 20, India captain Virat Kohli said that a call on whether the UP-born Bengal pace bowler will play will be taken Wednesday evening. AFP Shah — if picked for the post — will succeed Rajnath Singh, sustainability and stability of the farming system etc, 5×4),loft him for a six but was caught by Woakes at the long-on? “I will travel with Rafa on Sunday to Rio, “His situation is more delicate. but this is a comprehensive and carefully considered step. I make third round first time in a grand slam.
Djokovic eventually blew Thiem away in emphatic fashion and is now 19-1 in his last 20 matches at the Tour Finals. has brought a tough question to the fore – what role founding father of the party, according to sources close to the development. Over three decades, Chaudhary said even Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Badal were running the state like a business firm.the prospect of facing an election, A resident of Navratna building in Vile Parle (East), 20 was broken in Washington, For all the latest Delhi News, dressed up in the bride’s attire.
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For all the latest Entertainment News download Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Related NewsBy: Express Web Desk | Published: August 30 2017 3:35 pm Arsenal’s Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in action (Source: Reuters) Related News Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain reportedly turned down a move to Premier League title holders Chelsea for a 40m fee even though Arsenal and the Blues agreed on the fee The 24-year old’s reason is not however the fee but style of play According to Oxlade Chamberlain Antonio Conte requires him at wing-back but the primary reason for him to leave the Gunners is that he wants to play in central midfield He has shown interest in Jurgen Klopp’s side Liverpool and wants to reportedly move to the Anfield club who are showing interest in the deal which will be smaller than 40m Chelsea offered Arsenal reportedly want a deal for the former Southampton midfielder completed before the Thursday deadline Oxlade-Chamberlain will see out the final year of his contract in case of no deal before potentially leaving on a free transfer next summer Although Oxlade-Chamberlain has started in all games for Arsenal this season he has been constantly in transfer related news along with Alexis Sanchez Arsenal had a bad start to the new season after drawing a game and losing miserablly to Liverpool in a total of three league games Manager Arsene Wenger has been greeted with ‘Wenger Out’ chants yet again and he has not been able to deliver so far to justify his contract extension For all the latest Sports News download Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Related NewsBy: Express News Service | Published: July 16 2015 12:34 am Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting an exhibition at the launch of the National Skill Development Mission in New Delhi on Wednesday Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge) Rajiv Pratap Rudy is also seen (Source: PTI) Related News With the launch of “Skill India” on Wednesday Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken a step towards fulfilling a key promise of his campaign — that his government would address the failures of the country’s education system to make employable the 10-lakh-plus young people who will join the labour market every year until 2020 Skill India and the various initiatives it is comprised of is an acknowledgement of the very real danger that India might fritter away its much-touted demographic dividend If India properly equips its enormous pool of young people — as per a UNFPA report there are more Indians between the ages of 10 and 24 than the entire population of the US — with skills relevant to industry it could meet domestic and global manpower needs Although the acknowledgement of the yawning gap between the demand for skilled labour and its supply predates this government academic studies and industry reports continue to find that the lakhs of students coming out of schools colleges and universities are ill-prepared to meet the requirements of a modern globalising economy These unfulfilled aspirations could also fuel social tensions If the Modi government acts boldly and imaginatively to meet them it would cement its legacy Skill India could be to the Modi government what the Golden Quadrilateral project was for the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government The National Skill Development Mission could streamline skilling activities across India where over 20 Central ministries fund training programmes through more than 70 schemes This would help cement the trend towards the harmonisation of initiatives that was inaugurated when they were brought under one umbrella ministry in the early months of the Modi government The National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship recognises that a big challenge in incentivising enrolment in vocational training programmes is the perception that it indicates an inability to progress in the formal academic system But it lacks detail on how an attitudinal transformation could be effected Similarly it speaks of the need to create industry linkages and bring potential employers on board in the design of curricula that can nimbly adapt to the needs of the market But it does not suggest ways in which such partners can be motivated to remain engaged in and take ownership of such initiatives For any project as large as Skill India to succeed there must be some understanding of how and whether skill development programmes have had an impact on labour market outcomes Skill gap analysis must be institutionalised to inform the design and implementation of skill development programmes The government must also develop a central system to track outcomes — whether the jobs trainees received matched their training and aspirations and what the wage levels were Without evaluation Skill India may end up replicating the mistakes of the formal education system whose failures are in large part responsible for the poor opportunities available to so many of our young For all the latest Opinion News download Indian Express App More Related News 2017 2:27 am Pune Municipal Corporation. if China and India hold together, As Jawaharlal Nehru once said,by a solitary goal.000 Gujaratis visited there this year.” he said. download Indian Express App More Top NewsBy: Express Web Desk | Updated: August 6,Instead of the December holidays, Meanwhile.
but the Liverpool boss would happily settle for a top-four finish as a lucrative consolation prize. strength, roll number,Jyoti Kumari, but for the elegantly dressed woman in a business suit,18:00 hrs: Three soldiers from the Army Sports Institute,Geetika, first ever in India, Is it not ironical and sad that when the focus of the nation’s energies should have been concentrated on our PM’s favourite theme and slogan of “Sabka Saath, It was going to be our first tryst with the traditional form of Maharashtrian poetry and performance called ‘Powada’.
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police said a teenager who was playing gilli-danda in the area claimed it was his stick that had hit Birla’s car accidentally. 2016 2:26 am The crime scene. Making his submissions on Tuesday, told reporters. the 14-time Grand Slam champion," Since the BJP named its list of candidates,s statements to police and counsellors after she was rescued from the apartment on March 29. download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Tunku Varadarajan | Published: March 13, We don’t care if he’s famous or not famous.where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
and Kottayam district is home to some of the region? Faf du Plessis and Rilee Rossouw in an opening spell of three for 21 in five overs. The Opposition has kept up the implicit threat that it may frustrate the Budget session as well. He also was coy when asked where United would be visiting on the team’s preseason tour, For all the latest Lucknow News, I could bring in a sense of drama without being overt and every pulse and heartbeat of mine was committed to the moment, as well as the laws of war. 2015 10:41 pm Related News After furore over its attempt to search the Kerala House, Sandeep,Hanmant alias Nana Chavan (43) from Phaltan.
On a sadder, 2016 5:05 pm Tinaa Dattaa last appeared on Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi. On Monday, 2017 9:49 am Gennady Golovkin had a 23-fight knockout streak before going the distance in his last fight." he signed off. The officials of the govt did not even spare women and children, it said Panchkula District unit chief of the party Vishal Seth has asked the government to be compassionate in its behaviour towards the poor In the case people who have abided by the rules of the Supreme court should be given the flats immediately?” Yuvika told PTI before entering the house. which ended on May 5,t have a choice. “My strength is stand up…I do gags…We are using our strengths.
World-class goalkeeper Neuer is recovering from foot surgery, “Women are more prone to anxiety and depression than men.India? “In so many ways, download Indian Express App More Top NewsBy: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: February 2, “Psychologists and computer scientists have concentrated almost exclusively on the role of the face in person recognition,will kick off at the PYC Hindu Gymkhana ground on Thursday.skipping the question whether the misuse of police machinery for snooping was justifiable. According to reports, according to Greek government?
As intellectuals and civil society activists,especially relating to murder. Gareth Bale, “I just said that the way the PCB has ignored and sidelined my case I feel isolated and let down.the editor muttered in disbelief and dropped the idea.Tarun Tahiliani had sued fellow designer and FDCI member Reynu Tandon for using his prints. She is also not viewed as a serious career politician by the people of Manipur.of the Sachin-Jigar duo." Asked about the pitch conditions in Zimbabwe, As it is.
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Summary: Correspondence, research notes, articles, drafts, clippings, photographs and printed material re: the collection and publication of Indian legends and mythology. Included are typescript drafts of Indian Legends of Canada (1960), and Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies (1966).
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Lester Andrews Hubbard folklore collection
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Summary: The Lester Andrews Hubbard folklore collection is comprised of Hubbard's collected stories and folklore about Utah. Included are items on legendary characters, pioneer life, polygamy, Mormon-Indian relations, Indian legends and tales, songs and ballads, games, riddles, and customs. Some foreign folklore material is also included. Lester Hubbard (b. 1892) was a professor emeritus of the University of Utah English Department where he was a faculty member for thirty-two years.
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So Louie De Palma got drunk and made Barbara Walters do her distasteful face.
DeVito Apologizes
DeVito's publicist, Stan Rosenfeld, told ABC News that the actor has apologized to Barbara Walters, "The View's" creator and co-host.
"He has called Barbara Walters to apologize for anything that could be construed as unfortunate," he said.
Ha! I love that, apologizing for "anything that could be construed as unfortunate." I sure could have used that phrase back in the days when I had things to apologize for. It's wonderfully generalized, an apology without ever naming what you're apologizing about. And "could be construed" introduces an element of doubt about whether an offense ever took place in the first place. "I'm not saying I did anything wrong, and if I inadvertently rolled over on, and crushed, and then ate, a family pet that wasn't meant to be, you know, crushed and eaten, then I'm deeply sorry that I inadvertently did that... you know, if you construe that something like that happened."
Genius.
LONDON - Officials found traces of radiation on two British Airways jets, and the airline appealed Wednesday to tens of thousands of passengers who flew to Moscow or other cities to come forward....
Actress Kate Hudson refused to speculate on the implications this may have for the airline industry. "Really, those levels of radiation don't pose a risk over short periods of time," Ms. Hudson may well have said, "and traces of polonium-210 wouldn't worry me, though it is a very powerful alpha emitter and the maximum allowable body burden for ingested polonium is something like 1,100 becquerels."
MIAMI - The mild 2006 Atlantic hurricane season draws to a close Thursday without a single hurricane striking the United States....
Actress Tara Reid hasn't commented on the situation and isn't returning my calls.
Headline - Bird flu: S Korea slaughters dogs, cats, pigs, mice
Animal-rights activists called the government move "unacceptable."
Actress Tara Reid did not comment on the policy.
"OK, I'll take it from here. Just open the gate."
So were the flying Imams begging to be discriminated against à la NBC's Nascar trolling? Maybe.
Three of the men asked for seat-belt extenders, although two flight attendants told police the men were not oversized. One flight attendant told police she "found this unsettling, as crew knew about the six [passengers] on board and where they were sitting." Rather than attach the extensions, the men placed the straps and buckles on the cabin floor, the flight attendant said.
That, plus stationing themselves in pairs at every entry/exit of the plane. Plus being abnormally loud with their "prayers". Sure they wanted a response. I'm betting that the best possible outcome in their minds would have been a tasering, preferably caught on tape. I agree, except for the caught on tape part.
"Understandably, the imams felt profiled, humiliated, and discriminated against by their treatment,"
Well, maybe a little, not nearly enough, but it's a start.
[dog picture used to illustrate the wearing of green wigs, or "green-wiggery", which was not involved in this story... you know, it's just an excuse to steal another yahoo cutsie-image]
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Michele Malkin reports that she and I were named by Alcee Hastings:
Last week, disgraced and disgraceful Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) fired off an unhinged rant to fellow House Democrats denying he was corrupt and attacking "Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Michael Barone, Drudge, anonymous bloggers, and other assorted misinformed fools"
BTW, that's me: "anonymous bloggers," not: "other assorted misinformed fools" Though ok, some would argue about my classification.
Good news for anyone derided by Alcee though: we have good reason to believe he can be bought. For the right amount, his views could change.
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I wasn't alarmed by Tony Hendra's Thanksgiving prayer for the death of the vice president. After all, it was at the Huffington Post, a place where "there were no Jews at work in the WTC on 9-11" passes for intellectual thought. And really, Tony Hendra's article isn't the entertainment:
"George W Bush is, was and always will be that sneering, leering little creep who came to school in a chauffeur-driven car, yelled racist epithets at the scholarship kids, tripped up the guy on crutches, stuck his paw up the dress of any girl he pleased, had his toadies beat up anyone smart or weak or different, insulted teachers to their faces - and got away with it all, because his Dad had just endowed the new sports stadium."
That's just the grumbling of a bitter old man. What's entertaining are the Huffite comments after the article. To be fair, some Huffsters were put off by a prayer for death. But it's the staunch defenders who are fun to read. They're the reason I came across - way at the end - a suggestion to google Jessica Hendra. Whew! I hadn't heard about her accusations of molestation at the hands of the distinguished Mr Hendra. That's him in the picture, playing a pederast priest for a joke. At least he was half qualified for that shot. The bottom half is from the book his daughter wrote about the interesting childhood he provided.
So Tony Hendra isn't anyone I would want for a neighbor, not someone I would care to sit next to at dinner. But despite my general revulsion for the man, I can't imagine praying for his death.
I'm trying to think of the stupidest thing my grandma ever did. Somehow leaving a pan of sticky-buns where the dogs could get to it doesn't seem so terribly dumb anymore.
El Trencherman is off. But you knew that.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Ronald McDonald is seen here getting his physical prior to going out on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Not seen is the giant balloon proctologist.
Seen those incredible pictures of animals in the womb?
Best comment ever:
Amazing! Life really does exist in the womb!
Has anyone noticed a shift in tone from even a year ago? From Fjordman:
All Muslim non-citizens in the West should be removed. We should also change our laws to ensure that Muslim citizens who advocate sharia, preach Jihad, the inequality of “infidels” etc should have their citizenship revoked and be deported back to their country of origin....
....Is that racism and Fascism you say? Muslims themselves in poll after poll state that their loyalty lies with the Islamic Umma, not with the country they live in. “I’m a Muslim living in Britain, I’m not British” is the sentiment. Well, if Muslims themselves state that their citizenship is not worth the paper it is printed upon, why not take their word for it?
That first para would have shocked even me a few years back. Back then I would have liked to think that across the board religious freedom and tolerance might work. See, you respect our religion and we'll respect yours, and well, everyone will just get along. Except for the Muslims.
I don't know, it still grates to contemplate deportation as a tool to stop Europe's slow drain-circling. It shouldn't have to come to that. But we'll see. Read the whole thing.
Just came back from getting my teeth cleaned. And I heard a lady down the hall remarking how she loves how her mouth feels after a cleaning - she would skip lunch so she could go around all day with her extra clean mouth. Wrong answer. What's good about an extra clean mouth is going right out for a chocolate eclair. They taste just that much better with shiny clean teeth. (that's probably why God lets us live so long: so we have time to learn these things)
Hey, know what's fun to do when you first go to a new dentist? When they give you the free toothbrush and the little tube of toothpaste at the end of the appointment, pretend like you have no idea what a toothbrush is. "You do what with it?" Sometimes they realize you're kidding.
Or possibly not.
Is this just the "OJ Wave" ? A shorthand way of saying, "Goodbye dear, have a nice day, and remember: if it doesn't fit you must acquit."
So "this was an ill-considered project," said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. Gee, Ya think?
I usually check the Food Network when I'm interested in finding new recipes. But every once in awhile I'll run across links to epicurious.com. (most recently from an interesting fennel-potato recipe mentioned on Sisu). And I like a lot of their recipes; many of them are very good. But every time I go there I get drawn in by the comments on each recipe. Nobody ever says, "Well, that was good," or, "I had to cut back on the salt." They all go into how they modified the recipe. I know everybody changes the recipes to suit their own style; I do that too. But the Epicurious readers seem to be trying to outdo one another.
"I sautéed the onions first, added allspice to the orange sauce, cracked an egg over the pineapple, and packed the turkey cavity with aquarium sand. Otherwise I followed the recipe exactly."
That kind of thing. And I'm not criticizing, really, it's just that I end up reading every comment and wasting even more time than I normally do. Anyway, the reason I mention it.... An idea popped into my head, i.e.- to find a well commented upon recipe on Epicurious and modify it, adding to it, and taking away from it, until all that's left, if you follow the modifications, is a grilled cheese sandwich. Bet nobody notices.
In this photo Katie Holmes is "waving from a castle window," according to the AP caption. Does that look like a wave or a cry for help to you? Do scientologists normally wave with the backs of their hands?
Don't ask -I don't know what Katie Holmes is doing in a castle in Italy.
Open up your very own pretend play tattoo parlor. This easy-to-use tattoo maker kit includes an electronic tattoo pen and funky stencils. Using soft, safe pulsating action, the tattoo pen creates realistic, washable designs with dramatic effects. Requires two AA batteries (not included).
Don't get too excited, Amazon is currently out of stock. Darn. Guess I'll go with the Play-Piercing Kit for the kid's Christmas present. And she sooo wanted a barbed wire tat.
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Look kids, it's simple. And your mom and dad should have taught you before you were sent off to school: when the police order you to do something, you comply. If the police are acting improperly, you thrash them in court later; but when you're face to face with a policeman, you do as he says. That's it. Period.
The reason for this has to do with the nature of police enforcement. In order to even have a police force, there must be one basic rule: in a confrontation, the police win. If you resist, they manhandle you, if you fight, they pull non lethal weapons, if you threaten their lives, they may kill you. If the police went away when the bad guys confront them, they would quickly become a joke. Their aim is not to give you what you'll consider a fair fight, their aim is to win. It has to be that way.
So were these "bad" police, out to torture a student? The video I saw doesn't make it look that way. It looked like the student was given many chances to comply and he refused every time. At any point along the way the student could have stopped it all. Even if the police were acting improperly, he should have heeded the verbal warnings and followed the officers instructions. The courts are there to protect you from bad police actions, fighting back is a very, very, stupid way to solve the problem.
Should they have used a taser in that situation? I don't know. I'm sure the campus police have guidelines on taser use. And the video didn't show the earliest part of the confrontation. But it will be investigated, and if the officer with the taser acted improperly, he'll be punished. One thing is for sure though: the student could have stopped it at any time. His case won't be any stronger because he was tasered 4 times instead of 3, or 2, or 1.
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Didja see any of the new Miller Lite ManLaw commercials? I checked their website but I didn't find any of the real man-laws there. Not going all girly-eek-eek when a bee flies into your ear isn't a law. That's a status thing. If you freak-out you'll lose status points. If you take it stoically, you're ok. If you casually pull the bee from your ear and bite off its head, you gain points. Extra points for not remarking on the event, and acting like this sort of thing is always happening.
But there are real man-laws, and almost all of them have to do with your conduct while standing in front of a urinal. It's not just the obvious "don't pee on other people's feet." It starts out with which urinal you choose when other men are present. It's not as simple as you would think, geometry is sometimes involved, and though the aim is to stand as far away from the other guys as possible, sometimes wet floors and low-boy urinals can complicate your calculations. Regardless, a manly clearing of the throat is required whenever the situation forces you into the proximity of another urinal user.
There are penalties for blatant disregard of the rules, and they vary depending on where the infraction takes place. Some sins can get you a fat lip in high school. Or get you labeled as the bathroom weirdo in the workplace. Or, in some bars it can mean a "world a hurt."
By far, the most serious infractions involve where you aim your gaze while standing there. You can look down - no really, it's allowed, just once to see that you're aim is straight into the porcelain and that you're not standing too far forward or back. So say it's a crowded bathroom, say at a sporting event, and you look down, just the once, but the guy next to you sees you in his peripheral vision, and so he turns his head to look at you (and make sure you're not looking at him) .... see where I'm going? And you see him turn, so you turn, and well, it's just awkward... but it's ok, so long as you both acknowledge that no unmanly staring was going on by making appropriate man-comments: about sports, or NASCAR, or auto repair. Still, if you're new at this it might be best to always just stare straight ahead at the tile and risk peeing on your own shoes. Shoes dry, bathroom faux pas can earn you psychic trauma that it takes years to get over.
The more I think about it, the more nuances, caveats, sub-rules, and exceptions come to mind. I'm sure a book could be written. Call it Urinal Wisdom. Al Franken needs work, so he could write it, but it'd probably be better if it contained humor. Still, I'll bet Al learned every lesson the hard way.
Do you think that maybe Reuters isn't a Hesbollah sock puppet? Maybe they're just profoundly dumb. I've been told: never ascribe stupidity when the situation can be explained by daftness, or maybe it's never ascribe witlessness when the situation can be explained by insanity. Regardless, somewhere, cousins got married and their offspring went to work for Reuters. I mean, come on, Cats giving birth to dogs? Didn't anyone think to ask the neighbors about the litter of puppies that disappeared down the block?
By the way, when I was a boy, our scotty dog highjacked and nursed a litter of kittens from the next door over. Maybe the cat mom died, or ran off, or maybe Hilda just wanted the kittens more than their real mom. Hilda had just lost a litter and she felt that she needed puppies. In her mind, kittens were close enough. So she just kept taking the kittens from next door until the humans got tired of taking them back. Never occurred to us to sell the story to a terribly stupid news agency.
Maybe the rain has stopped. Maybe. So I'm done being a waterfighter in the basement for now. I looked in the back yard: the garden gnomes had water up to their nipples and were calling piteously for help, and the pink flamingos had all fled the scene. You'd think lawn ornaments could help one another in times of crisis.
I think I'm joining the ranks of Those Who Just Can't Take One More Bit of Tom Cruiz News. "Scientologist Cruise to pledge loyalty and maybe a cat" ??? One more article about who'll be at the wedding and I'm throwing myself to the venomous snails.
From AP, one of my favorites, a story about snails:
SALT LAKE CITY - University of Utah researchers have harvested a substance from the venom of a cone snail that shows promise in treating some human pain.
So, good news, but the question remains, why did it take so long to find this out? Maybe because since the dawn of time, no creature has been made who can’t outrun a snail. “Oh, a snail! Run, run! Don’t let him bite you,” And really, who would have guessed snails had venom? All these years and I never suspected they had fangs. So I suppose some food scientist was under a tree, taking a break from discovering that some foods are greasy, and a snail snuck up on him. One bite and it’s, “Oh, that’s better. Hey Bob, my back feels better than it has in years, you gotta try this.”
OK, so I know, they’re sea snails. And hey, just so you know, blogger-google is being evil again. The publish page just won’t come up. So if you’re not reading this.... that’s why. Also, if you're reading this for the sixth time, it may be that it did come back up, and is publishing every earlier failed attempt. Yup, blogspot is like a box of chocolates. Oh, and really, if you see the same post six times in a row, I don't expect you to read each one. Just read the first three or so.
.....later...... Oh, man, this is water torture. Thank you blogspot..
And if this is the only post I get up this week, I should recommend the Murtha video:
Would you buy a used car from this man?
Funnier than a chubby kid dancing around with a broom-stick light saber.
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Does Aberjibberjabber know his American democrats or what? He's dancing around going nyaa-nyaa-na-nyaa-nyaa about his nuke program. And that's odd, yes? Isn't he afraid that the tough on national defense democrats will go all Mel Gibson on him? From the WP:
TEHRAN, Iran -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said Iran would soon celebrate completion of its controversial nuclear fuel program.
"With the wisdom and resistance of the nation, today our position has stabilized. I'm very hopeful that we will be able to hold the big celebration of Iran's full nuclearization in the current year," the hard-line president said referring to the country's nuclear fuel program.
Iran's current calendar year ends on March 20.
The hard-line president also claimed that the international community was caving in to Tehran's demands to continue its nuclear program.
"Initially, they (the U.S. and its allies) were very angry. The reason was clear: They basically wanted to monopolize nuclear power in order to rule the world and impose their will on nations," Ahmadinejad said.
Good thing I carry my own testosterone around with me. Aberjammer ranks my country behind France on his list of threats to his nuke-program.
Thank goodness George W is the real man in charge of our whomping stick. His ability to rattle sabers got muted by this congress though.
chutz‧pa /ˈxʊtspə, ˈhʊt-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[khoot-spuh, hoot-]
–noun Slang.
1. unmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall.
2. audacity; nerve.
3. Alcee Lamar Hastings
The last part of this just struck me as too much in this era of Culture of Corruption:
An editorial in South Florida Sun-Sentinel denounced Rep. Hastings with this tidbit: "Personal and political paybacks are the first order of business for Hastings."
The biting editorial resulted from Hastings putting his girlfriend, a disgraced former lawyer who was disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court for "multiple offenses," on the public payroll as his "office liaison and staff assistant."
According to the Sentinel, Alcee Hastings owed her "more than $500,000 in legal fees for representing him during his 1983 bribery trial and his 1989 impeachment hearings before Congress." Alcee Hastings continues to employ her as his scheduling assistant, paying her more money than even his chief of staff gets, causing another reporter to comment, "She must be some scheduler."
And Rep.Hastings treated his scheduler Vanessa Griddine to many perks. For instance, he spent over $14,000 on a taxpayer-paid trip to Belgium. Almost $3000 of this was listed as per diem expenses for the lucky couple and 11,400 was spent on what must have been a marvelous flight across the pond.
Upon returning from the junket, Hastings told reporters that he was very concerned that the House Ethics Committee had not taken Rep. Tom DeLay's case more seriously.
OK, so he's a congressman and, well, boys will be boys. And who cares even about the background: That he was impeached as a federal judge for taking a $150,000 bribe. He'll note that he wasn't convicted of the criminal charge. (mainly because his partner in crime refused to testify - and was later pardoned by Bill Clinton) So Hastings just looks to be one of those congressional connivers, one of those scoundrels we shake our heads about. A well-what-are-you-going-to-do situation.
Except for one thing. This is the man Nancy Pelosi wants to make the next chairman of the House of Representative's Intelligence Committee. Yikes. Our secrets guarded by a man who can be bought for what George Soros spends on a party weekend.
H/T: TCS Daily
Axcess News
The WP
Michelle Malkin has a link to a Mike McIntee video that claims that the White House doctored the video of Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech. How odd that so many propeller hatted people could get this worked up and haven't noticed that the video is in 16:9 aspect ratio. That is the HDTV format.
Especially odd because this Mike McIntee looks like a guy who spends a lot of time in his mom's basement watching Star [fill in the blank] videos. [spluttering: "I always watch the DVDs in HD format so as to relish every pixel of the filmmaker's original intent."]
Drudge has a report about an Elton John interview in which he blames religion for fomenting hatred of gays. Which, I suppose does happen in some churches, I mean, some of them do snake handling, tambourine banging, and some come to your door and make you take pamphlets. I can't think of a single religion that preaches hatred.... oh wait, there is that one... Yeah, I suppose stoning to death could be considered hate. We best ban Christianity too, though. That way Sir Elton doesn't have to say "Islam" out loud. (and thereby lose his head)
Anyway, what got me was Four Eyes saying:
"I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion. From my point of view I would ban religion completely."
Right Elton. Many gay people love their religion so we should ban it. Think that through, ok?
I agree, btw, that many gay people love their religion and that the church should welcome them. Islam's view is an abomination and doesn't belong in this century.
One reason I don't expect the democrats to go absolutely Devo-crazy-nutso, and do the complete cut and run in Iraq, is because they hold the senate 51-49. They only have the 51 because the two independents are caucusing with the D's. If they get too out of hand, Lieberman (who btw, they've treated soooo well) can do a Jeffords on them and shift the balance to 50-50. That means power sharing and Shotgun-man is the tiebreaker.
***Update: From Boston.com, yeah, Joe Lieberman realizes he's the most powerful guy in the Senate right now:
HARTFORD, Conn. --Sen. Joe Lieberman on Sunday repeated his pledge to caucus with Senate Democrats when the 110th Congress convenes in January, but refused to slam the door on possibly moving to the Republican side of the aisle.
Asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" if he might follow the example of Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont, who left the Republicans in 2001 and became an independent, ending Republican control of the U.S. Senate, Lieberman refused to discount the possibility.
Henry Waxman recently said, "A lot of people have said to me, `Are you going to now go out and issue a lot of subpoenas and go on a wild payback time?' Well, payback is unworthy," he said. "Doing oversight doesn't mean issuing subpoenas. It means trying to get information."
Remember that. Also, remember this? Henry, on Saddam:
"He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do."
Rep. Henry Waxman (D, CA), Oct. 10, 2002.
Which, Henry, was correct.
Robot Identifies Human Flesh As Bacon
Let the robot holocaust commence: robots think we taste like bacon.
Researchers at NEC System technologies and Mie University have designed ... a metal man gastronomist, "an electromechanical sommelier", capable of identifying wines, cheeses, meats and hors d'oeuvres. Upon being given a sample, he will speak up in a childlike voice and identify what he has just been fed....
...But when some smart aleck reporter placed his hand in the robot's omnivorous clanking jaw, he was identified as bacon. A cameraman then tried and was identified as prosciutto.
Man, I've been looking high and low for a good prosciutto. The local supermarket delis pretty much always disappoint.... And it's not like we need that many cameramen..
If you run into a veteran today, be sure to say thanks. And let's hope this country doesn't ever forget the sacrifices of its servicemen and women. If you have a few extra dollars, and want to show appreciation to those currently serving, there's Operation AC. This started out as a way to get air conditioners to the troops in Iraq but it has grown quite a bit since we gave last year. Check it out.
And to those of you who served, thank you so much.
From Jason Smith at Newsbusters, evidence that Democrats can fix things fast:
Afghanistan on November 6, 2006 - the day before the election:
Poverty, anger with government fueling Taliban support in Afghanistan
...Many in Kandahar say their confidence in the government is falling, and some say that is helping fuel support for the Taliban....
Afghanistan on November 9, 2006 - two days after the election
Poll: Afghans express confidence in country's direction, security....
It was good to get away from the TV and do some savage work today. Not that the work was in and of itself savage, just my approach to it. I've pretty much decided that any job can be made easier with a nice assortment of hammers.
So I just did a quick scan of the news and I see that some man in Britain got badly hurt trying to launch fireworks from his bottom. OK... And it seems Nancy Pelosi is breaking up with Kevin Federline, or someone. And in Virginia Allen did concede as expected.
Hey, it could be worse. The Briton will most likely heal, and bonus, I'll bet he doesn't ever try that again. Kevin Federline will find someone new. And best of all- the democrats won't be screaming 24 hours a day for the next two years about how Diebold stole the election from them. They also have in front of them an example of how to lose a closely fought election. (though I'm not going to kid myself that they will remember it the next time they lose)
And if you must feel despondent, I suppose you could dwell on how Bush's job in Iraq is going to be harder now, but that's all it's going to be: harder. If George W Bush is the man he seems to be, he will not let the worst possible ending in Iraq happen. No matter how hard this job becomes, I think he gets it. The very worst ending here would be if the Jihadists chased us from Iraq. That would make many, many, many, more terrorists. That's the part of the leaked intelligence assessment that didn't get leaked. But it's the crucial part. That's what the President gets, and I think he'll fight with all he's got to keep us from that worst of all possible outcomes.
Stenny Hoyer is a fixture in Maryland. I gave up hope of getting an R in there long ago. We weren't given an alternative to Hoyer this time, but if there had been a "NO" alternative, I would have put my mark there. Odd then, I find myself rooting for the guy:
Current Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) was not similarly hesitant, formally announcing his bid for the Majority Leader’s office early Wednesday morning and confidently predicting that he will secure the post when Democrats vote in leadership election on Nov. 16.
“I think I’m going to win,” Hoyer said in an interview Wednesday. The Maryland lawmaker, who has served as Minority Whip since 2003, said “over a majority” of House incumbents as well as newly-elected lawmakers “have indicated that they would be supportive of me.”
But Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) — who stunned fellow lawmakers when he announced in June that he would campaign for the Majority Leader post against Hoyer — re-affirmed his own interest in the office Wednesday.
“I’m working diligently now trying to convince people that I’d make a good balance” to the leadership team, Murtha said in an interview with National Public Radio.
No it can't get that bad. One thing I'll note though: In the Webb/Allen race, every headline I've seen has been an unqualified "Webb Won", no mention of a recount. You can bet if it was an Allen squeaker, the headlines would be much more tentative until a concession or completed recount.
(I'm not really pinning my hopes on a recount, BTW - barring provable voting fraud I expect Allen won't quibble)
***Update: And of course right after I hit 'post', I read the news that Allen threw in the towel. I expected he would. Good news: the Webb people will be slow to gloat; their faces having been set for righteous indignation should it have gone the other way. It will take a few days to get their legs back under them. Never underestimate the power of "macacca" being repeated daily for weeks on end.
I promise not to post this until the next elec... Who am I kidding? I'll probably be posting this every month until blogspot runs out of pixels.
Odd, with all the reasons people are giving, nobody has hit on the obvious: With a democrat controlled house, Rumsfeld, if he stayed, would be Witch Hunt #1. He would spend day after day complying with subpoenas and testifying in front of committees. There would be no time for the job of Secretary of Defense. A new face in there means a clean slate. The democrats can still go after Rummy but it would be seen as what it is: partisan vindictiveness.
Just as a diversion, I was scanning the "We Won, We Won" posts, and the "We Won And Bush is Satan" posts, over at the Huffington Post.
And flipping through the comments I noticed something. See if you can guess: There are (now) 78 pages of comments on one of the election posts. How far do you think you have to go to find the first page that doesn't have the word f*ck in it?
Answer: page 28
Oh yeah, a return to civility. Youbetcha.
Well, I'm searching the blogosphere and I'm finding not so many bloggers declaring a Steele victory in Maryland. Come on guys! We need to all get together on this; and thereby lay the groundwork for a future legal challenge of the results. (on the grounds that "we really, really, thought we'd won" - just like the D's last election)
If MSNBC can call them with 1% of the votes counted, I can call them when we get over 50%. So that's that. Lumberjacks is calling Virginia an Allen victory over Jim (upside down and disturbing) Webb. And Lumberjacks predicts Steele as the winner over Ben (where does the beltway go?) Cardin.
***Update: Um, disregard.
Way to go Kos kids.
So what was the net effect of the D's running Lamont? They turned a guaranteed D seat into an I. Not for nothing do I say, they may want that Democratic seat back before this is over.
In Maryland it seems everyone is projecting a Cardin win with just 26% counted - which seems a little early to me.
Back to TV-watching and nail-biting for me.... please don't let the drunken monkeys gain control of the senate.
For those who don't know, this is Ben Cardin, the nonferrous alternative to Michael Steele. He does have an advantage in that Maryland is just lousy with Democrats. We may just beat him though. Some democrats have been complaining: (1) President Bush made it rain all day, (2) Voting shouldn't have been scheduled for trash day (3) President Bush made it get dark at 5:00 PM (4) The voting machines confused democrats more than republicans.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an actress, I think, but if she could talk, I know she'd urge you to go out and vote today. And if she could think, she'd urge you to go out and vote R today. If she could think, talk, and she lived in Maryland, she'd urge you to go out and vote for Michael Steele. He's Ferrous!
You may have been wondering what's up with Scarlett Johansson these days. As the above picture shows, she went somewhere only just the other day. If it turns out that she did anything while she was out, rest assured that I'll post more pictures. Because we need to know things sometimes.
Anyone else getting way more calls this election year than they ever have in the past? Most of them have been recordings from the candidates, several were from actual campaign workers, and a few have been from disguised campaign workers. "We just were wondering how you were going to vote..." Sure you were lady. So I say I'm voting R and you kill my dog. No thanks, I've had it with you nonviolent types.
Anyway, this last one was Argumentative-Linda from Call For Change. I got an immediate protect-your-genitals vibe from the way she was asking questions so I claimed to be voting solely on the candidates' astrological signs.
Well, would I be voting for Cardin?
Linda, are you aware of that man's sign?
No she says.
So I tell her that I can't discuss politics with anyone so ignorant of the important factors in this election. She hung up.
Turns out Call For Change is a Move-On.org effort. There's a surprise. I'll be voting for the man who's showing up in Linda's nightmares. And the Zodiac has nothing to do with it.
I so seldom follow the sensational headlines from Drudge anymore. "CIVIL WAR MAY FOLLOW SADDAM DEATH VERDICT..."
is one I skipped. Who wants to read an account from someone who is wishing for civil war?
I've found that Iraq the Model is a good barometer of the mood in Iraq. So what is Mohammed saying?
"The overwhelming majority of Iraqis are looking forward to seeing justice be served tomorrow which will give the fascist dictator, who brutalized and abused millions of people and their homeland for decades, give him what he deserves.
We have been dreaming for such a day to come and it will be a true turning point, not only for Iraq but for the middle east, for it will be the first time a ruler gets paid back for what he'd done by a court of law."
Let's hope those who will try to exploit the situation to cause division have their plans frustrated. Whatever the verdict, this should be a step forward for Iraq.
I know it's bucking the trend but I'm going to accept the apology of the U of P prez Amy Gutmann. At least she's saying that she disapproved of the costume:
"The costume is clearly offensive and I was offended by it. As soon as I realized what his costume was, I refused to take any more pictures with him, as he requested."
OK then. I'm inclined to take her word for it. And I can even see how the one picture could have been taken before she had a chance to react. I'm always having people come up to me at parties and wanting to have their picture taken with the lumberjack; sometimes they sneak up on you. Course, Babe, the blue ox, gets it even more than me.
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Will Van Dyke's FJ-3
To see the FJ-3 pictures click here.
I first met Will Van Dyke when we were employed at Hughes Aircraft Co. My first impression was "What a nice fellow!". When we became associated with the same Hughes program I got to know more about his interesting background.
(Note: you can click the pictures on this page to see full size versions.)
Will joined the Navy in 1952, earned his wings in 1954 (see picture) and retired in 1980 as a Captain after 28 years of service. He flew a whole laundry list of airplanes....SNJ, F6F, SNB, T-33, FJ-3, F9F-5, F11F, F3H (click here for F3H pictures ), F4B and F8U. He was carrier qualified on the hottest birds in the inventory. Will's a sharp cookie and the Navy sent him to school at the Cranfield College of Aeronautics in London. Once I found out about that part of his brain I pestered him with questions such as the advantages of the Coke bottle shape of the Century Series fighters, ground effects, shock diamonds, etc. Fortunately he didn't run out of patience with me.
While in the Navy he managed the Sidewinder Missile Program. Will had a five year run as the Program Manager (PM) from 1975 - 80. A five year assignment as PM of one program is, in my experience, unusually long for a military officer. His program office was located in NavAir (Naval Air Systems Command) Headquarters, Washington D.C. At the time the Navy and Air Force programs were merged (AIM-9L/M) and Will managed both of them. During his tenure the Sidewinder program won the prestigious Daedalian trophy, presented annually in recognition of outstanding weapons system development. The recipients are selected by the individual services from nominations submitted by Army, Navy and Air Force. When he retired Hughes Aircraft Co was fortunate enough to get him to come to work for them as a PM. A 5 year tenure as Sidewinder PM, the Daedalian Award, and being hired by one of the premier Aerospace companies...these speak volumes of his high abilities.
This modeling project was inspired when Will retired from Hughes in 1995. The FJ-3 was his favorite plane to fly. I already had the 1/48th ESCI kit and got an enthusiastic thumbs-up on my offer to build it for him as a retirement gift. But what I thought was going to be a straightforward build turned out quite differently.
Things got off to a good start. At the beginning, Will and I looked through my reference material and hit a nugget right away. He had flown a gloss sea-blue Fury as part of VF-51 at Miramar in 1954. The FJ-3 sketch on the cover of Squadron’s F-86 Sabre in Color was his squadron. A photo of squadron leader Alex Vraciu’s plane, 4-view sketches and cockpit drawings are all shown inside. The details were just as Will remembered them, except for the red edges on the gear doors. Will had a picture of himself in Vraciu's plane, modex 101. The scheme, with almost full-length red stripes ending in lightning bolts, and 3 white fuselage bands, is colorful. It would be fun and challenging to build. All I had to do was change the modex to 120, and add “LTJG W H VAN DYKE” under the canopy!
Before starting work I needed to find Microscale sheet 48-117, the only Fury sheet I know with the white stencils. (The sheet in ESCI’s kit is white but has a matte finish.) After a year of on-and-off search and frustration, I put an ad in the ‘wants’ section of the IPMS Journal. Fellow IPMS member Jim Clark of Phoenix sent a very nice sheet, gratis. Modelers can be pretty nice, too.
The timing of the release by Collect Aire was perfect. With the Microscale sheet in hand I was about to start on the ESCI kit. If you own one, you’ll know why I jumped at the chance to buy a Fury advertised as “a true FJ-3, no Sabre parts. Beautiful castings, petite engravings, full cockpit.” Pricey at $109.95, but not for a once-in-a-lifetime project. So, by February 1998 I had the kit, white-data decal sheet, and decent reference material. Just then, however, the El Niño hit my part of the California coast pretty hard. We took water in three rooms, including the hobby room. It was late March before I could actually start on it.
So what does Collect Aire give you for your 110 bucks? Upon opening the sturdy cardboard box I was immediately impressed by the quality of the large resin castings. You get two fuselage halves, a right and left wing, all carefully packaged to avoid breakage. The panel lines and access hatches were delicately done and appeared accurate when compared to photos of the real thing. Some of the very delicate wing fences were broken. According to Squadron’s FJ Fury in Action early Furies like Will’s didn’t have them, so I sanded them all off. If you want them for your version it will take some real finesse to have them come out right and not break off somewhere along the line.
There’s a bag of high-quality resin detail parts, another of white-metal parts and two vacformed one-piece canopies. The resin parts for the exterior include a very nice pitot tube, fuel dump, tail bumper, tail hook, fuel tanks (one piece, pylon included), refueling probe, landing-gear doors, a pair of horizontal stabilizers, air brakes, air-brake cylinders, 20mm cannon, pylons for the Sidewinders, and wheels. When the Furies became armed with Sidewinders in 1956 their designation was changed from FJ-3 to FJ-3(M). You’ll have to come up with your own missiles as none are provided in the kit. Since I was building the pre-missile FJ-3 I was not offended by their absence. All in all the exterior parts were excellent, with petite, uniform panel lines. They looked every bit to scale and cleaned up with light sanding.
The interior is another story. The instrument panel was only an outline with recesses for the instruments. Very 2-dimensional! The side consoles were devoid of any detail save some shallow lines and a few indentation points. I don’t know about you, but when I see a resin kit advertised with ‘full cockpit detail’ something like a True Details or KMC cockpit comes to mind. You get no such thing. You’ll have to build up all the surface detail yourself. There is a nice resin control stick and decent seat comprised of two white-metal and one resin piece. There are no photoetched parts.
A nice touch is the intake trunk. It’s fully enclosed and terminated aft of the cockpit with the compressor face, so you don’t get the ‘see-through’ effect. A 3-piece engine exhaust installs in the tail and has some detail.
The white-metal parts were somewhat roughly cast (mold maker must have been a tank man) but cleaned up with 600-grit paper. They’re not exquisite, but OK. The canopies were by far the worst part of the kit. The panel lines on the windscreen were wavy and its footprint way too wide. There are striations molded in the plastic, apparently tooling marks from the vacform mold. I cut the windscreen off and trimmed the excess from the canopy with sharp scissors. Sanding doesn’t work on this stuff. In the end I used the ESCI windscreen (the only ESCI part I robbed) and the Collect Aire canopy hood.
The decal sheet in the Collect Aire kit is InvisaClear by Scale Master. The two schemes are the same ones provided on Microscale 48-116 for gray Furies, less most of the stencils. If you want all the black data stencils you’ll want to get either 48-116 or 48-129. The VF-142 bird is one of the color centerfold profiles in Squadron’s FJ Fury in Action.
The instruction sheets provide clear assembly drawings, leaving no doubt where anything goes. A careful audit against the instructions revealed two missing parts and an incomplete canopy frame, all white metal. A letter to Lou Maglio at Collect Aire was promptly answered, and I had the missing parts in a week. He was out of the metal canopy frame so I had to live with what I got originally.
It was time to get started! Parts cleanup was a snap. The resin parts had about 20 small holes that needed filling, mostly on the wings and dorsal spine—very easy to fix. The fuel tanks are one piece with their pylons and needed some seams cleaned due to slight mold misregistration, a nit really. By and large the molding process left virtually no other seams. All the other resin parts were easy to prepare. A few of the small parts came on a tree and had some flash which was easily removed. You’ll probably break something—the canopy actuator rod in my case—and I bet you’ll end up making something out of metal or plastic rod before it’s over! The refueling probe, cannon barrels and actuators are good candidates.
Construction started in the cockpit. I painted the instrument panel, sidewalls and consoles gray and the instrument holes yellow. Next I added Reheat bezels blackened with “Blacken It” and attached with a few tiny drops of white glue. Take your time and do a dry layout of the bezels—I used 17—to be sure they’ll all fit over the holes. Then I dropped in punched Reheat dial decals with white glue. Console details are Reheat data placards with a few punched disks and sprue switches to give a 3-dimensional look. Assemble, paint and add some belts to the seat, paint the control stick and you’ve got 90% of the cockpit done! Then I assembled the cockpit/intake per the instructions but leaving off the control stick and instrument panel ’til later. The fit of the parts surprised me—it was quite good. Even though there are no alignment pins, there are enough edges, surface contours and stops to provide positive alignment. Throughout, I used the color sketches in F-86 Sabre in Color as a reference because of Will’s endorsement.
The 3-piece engine went together smoothly. Paint the intake trunk and exhaust, add the tail hook and you’re ready to assemble the fuselage. By the way, the kit-supplied tailhook is only a hook end that you insert into a fuselage half. The tailhook arms are not represented. If you want an accurate view from underneath I’m afraid you’re in for a lot of work as the fuselage here follows the smooth outline of the plane. On the other hand, if you want to see just the hook when viewing the plane from the side, the kit is adequate.
Before assembling the fuselage I attached the dive brakes and ammo door in the closed position, filled the seams with super glue, then sanded and rescribed their outlines. Alignment of the fuselage halves was aided by plastic strips superglued to one edge. Since the halves were of different thickness, care was needed to get the plastic thicknesses right—a dry fit saves lots of misfit problems when you’ve got super glue on the parts!
The next step was by far the trickiest. You have to align the intake/cockpit assembly to the top (bulkhead), bottom (wheel well), and sides (consoles) of the fuselage at the same time you’re gluing the halves together. Here’s where positive locators would have helped a lot. I got it almost right, but didn’t realize at the time that the top of the rear bulkhead had to align precisely to the top of the rear deck on the fuselage. I sanded down the overexposed bulkhead, and that joint looks OK, but the seat would later sit too high because the floorboard is raised. I wound up heavily sanding the seat bottom to get it back down. Do yourself a favor and save this assembly step for your most sober, steady moments. That said, the fit was again very good. The nose piece came next and all the fuselage seams were cleaned up. Most of this was because of my own inability to get the amount of super glue just right.
The wings and stabilizers were added next—I only had to enlarge the fuselage holes slightly to accept the alignment stubs. Fit here was excellent, but you’ll need to pay attention to the (slight) wing dihedral. I laid the fuselage on a table, inserted the wings and supported them at the same distance from the fuselage with a set of round sticks to produce the desired dihedral. Note that since the wings are one piece you don’t have an option to drop the leading-edge slats. As far as I can tell, this is the only thing you need to do if you want to have the Fury really look like it’s at rest.
The three large gear doors were added at this time. I first made the mistake of cutting off the two main doors from the center-line piece. You can find pictures of Furies with the doors up or down, and I assumed a Fury ‘at rest’ would have them down. (Mike Mitchell sailed on the USS Lake Champlain and contributed these 2 photos of Furies from 1954 .. ) I should have asked Will first for his preference. He explained that when on the carrier the doors were always up. After all (...duh!) you don’t want to go careening down the cat launch or trying to catch a wire with doors hanging! I should have just attached the one piece of the kit instead of making three pieces out of it. I filed off the resin representing the wingtip lights. One last thing before painting. I had to fill and rescribe the shape of the leading-edge slats. The early FJ-3s had a deeper set, as sketched in the in Color book.
At this point I spent a few hours just polishing the surfaces and rescribing lost panel lines. The resin in the kit is easy to work with. I used 1200 then 2000 grit followed by a rag soaked in Brasso (after it’s dried). After covering over the cockpit opening, I washed the model with liquid dish soap and water (with a quilted cotton pad) followed by a rubdown with alcohol—again using a cotton pad. A coat of Floquil primer 110009 was followed by finding and fixing the blemishes I’d missed earlier. Each time I spray this, I think I’ll be good enough that I don’t have to resand—but no such luck. So back to the 2000 grit. Then all was sprayed with Model Master acrylic Gloss Sea Blue. Once again I had to rub out some rough spots (dry 2000 very lightly). I left the resulting dull spots alone as these would gloss up with the overcoat.
After masking off, I sprayed Model Master non-buffing aluminum on the corrogard leading edges, exhaust ring and wheel wells. Next an overcoat of Model Master Metalizer Sealer was sprayed overall. I found I could pull it off the acrylic paint with masking tape, so be careful if you do any further masking. Drafting tape was okay.
For the markings I needed four sheets. I first did the red fuselage stripes by cutting shapes from Tauro sheet 431 ‘IT. RED FILM FS11105.’ The Tauro decal is somewhat thick, and this is a good-news/bad-news situation. Its color doesn’t change on the model—a big plus! The red looks superb, even though it’s over dark blue. However, the white bands have a discernible step where they cross the red.
The fuselage bands are from SuperScale 1/8” white stripes (the Fury photo shows spacing between is 1/3 the stripe width) and went on next. They were opaque and showed well, as did the data stencils from the aforementioned Microscale 48-117. The fourth sheet was custom markings done by Woody Vondracek. Woody’s work was superb. He did all the white items that weren’t stencils, i.e., the 7 modex numbers, station letter ‘S’ 4 ea, ‘NAVY’ 4 ea, national insignia 4 ea, VF-51 2 ea, the small ‘FJ-3’ over the serial number 2 ea, and ‘LTJG W H VAN DYKE’ 2 ea for the minimum (1-hour) charge. No extra charge for the revisions, either! This is the finished product...the large sheet Woody delivered contained 4 complete sets of this design.
Working with Woody was a good move. I couldn’t get a better set of transfers; I was fussy about the lettering since the ‘S’ and ‘5’ were not standard. Also, the first proof sheet he sent had stenciled letters (the kind with gaps in the lines), which wasn’t correct—they were solid. This and other small modifications were carried out as I wanted. It’s obvious he cares about quality and customer satisfaction. I ordered the glossy finish, but matte is available should you want it for another project. The transfers went on without a hitch and burnished down neatly—I just followed the directions he provided. My total cost for Woody was $85 (in 'then-year' dollars).
I put the Metalizer sealer on again and added wingtip lights. Will and I reviewed many photos to determine if the color was in the bulb or in the glass cover. The result was a colored bulb with a clear lens of 5-minute epoxy. The epoxy makes a conformal lens that fills the contour perfectly if you contact all the edges. Just be sure you don’t have air bubbles in the blob you apply. After adding the landing gear, small bits, instrument panel, seat and windscreen/canopy you have a very nice-looking Fury.....that sits on its tail! Fortunately, the intake trunk provides a natural place for lead weights. Only ½ ounce was needed to pull it back down. By the way, I used Future to attach the acrylic painted parts to each other. It made installing the windscreen on the fuselage easy.
The FJ-3 is 37’7” long, 37’1” wide, and 13’7” high, according to the dimensions in the In Action reference. The model measures about 1/8” too small in all 3 directions, making it closer to 1/50th scale.
This was my first resin kit. It went much better than I anticipated due mostly to the fine fit. The dearth of bubbles and delicacy of the parts stand out in my mind, too.
I can recommend the Collect Aire kit with enthusiasm, provided you get the decals/markings on your own and get another windscreen. It builds up into a very accurate-looking Fury, has delicate features that look to scale, fits very well, and has clear instructions.
The model sits on a shelf in Will's den. The shelf meets the 2 basic requirements for this kind of situation...it's about 5 feet off the floor so the family pooch can't get at it, and it's enclosed by an acrylic dust cover.
Judging by the smile on Will's face the FJ-3 model made one of my favorite people happy!
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Setting Mid Tone
SETTING MID TONE: Or How to Draw a Reader into the Heart of Your Story
Every story, no matter which genre, needs a physical background to bring the events alive in the reader’s imagination. Whether it’s in a city, the country, the beach, desert, or mountains, or another world, the setting can help the reader experience the terror and excitement, the sorrow and joy, the triumphs of the hero and heroine.
With the careful selection of details, you can draw on the reader’s own background of experiences to bring the story to life.
SETTING ESTABLISHES:
TONE (MOOD): There are times when the author personifies the elements to create an even stronger mood. You can see this in the opening paragraphs of A Breath of Heather, a paranormal romantic suspense:
With a growing sense of urgency, Heather Carter searched for the source of trouble among the hundred-and-fifty first and second grade students playing in the warm California sunlight. Everywhere she looked, she saw only normal activity--the joy and restless energy children.
And yet, to her inborn special perceptions, the earth vibrated with a sense of menace The slight breeze hushed as if holding its breath. In the park beyond the chain link fencing, a flock of crows suddenly took flight, voicing their warning calls as they soared above the eucalyptus and pepper trees.
Within the framework of a setting, these few sentences accomplish several things:
Generate a sense or feeling (Tone) of foreboding
Establish the location, general time of day, and the weather
Introduce the protagonist, show her sense of responsibility, her profession, and hint at her psychic ability.
Personify the earth and the wind
Use physical details to bring the scene alive
I have to confess, I didn’t consider many of these elements at the time. Most authors do these thing instinctively. I pictured the scene in my mind, using as a model, the school where I taught for several years, and the times I was on duty to supervise recess. The crows and trees were part of that image. The rest involved choosing words to convey the picture and Heather’s emotions.
CAN REFLECT THE EMOTIONS OF THE CHARACTERS
When you show the setting through the POV (Point of View) of a character, use details specific to that character’s personality, background, and line of work. Here’s an example from Tears of the Hawk. The heroine, Charity, is an astrophysicist. Her frame of reference would have to do with stars and the solar winds. In this nighttime scene, she’s in a car with other people going to a country club set in the Anaheim, California hills.
One more curve and the whole right side beyond the road opened to a stunning vista. "The view is wonderful. It’s how I imagine the night sky looks in the heart of our galaxy." She stared out the window at the huge basin of North Orange County spread below, filled with grids and clusters of jeweled lights. Emotion, a deep feeling of awe, clogged her throat.
You can see I chose words to set the time of day, give a sense of setting and the movement of the car, and added Charity’s emotions.
I haven’t said much about using all the senses to draw the reader deeper into the story. Here’s an example of a setting that’s part of the psychic heroine’s vision. It’s also a portion of a key scene that ties three books together, is a major turning point in this book, and employs sight, sound, smell, and touch.
Unlocking her internal barriers, she waited.
A moment of dizziness. Then, for the first time in ten years, she deliberately plunged into past events, diving deeper, deeper than she’d ever dared...
The door of awareness opened. She found herself in a wet, tangled jungle where it pressed against a walled fortress. Around her rose the cries of nocturnal creatures and the low hum of insects. It was night. Dim illumination from a quarter moon filtered through the high canopy of trees. The pale light glowed across a small grate-covered opening in the rock wall. She smelled the dank, putrid stench of decaying plants mingled with raw sewage, and the heavy musk of a man’s sweat. Hawk. She was inside his thoughts, a living part of him.
She felt another man with them—Quinn.
Death vibrated in the air. Behind the rough-cut stone wall, agony and choked screams spoke of torture, suffering. Charity cringed. How could she go any closer? Be swallowed up in those soul-searing emotions? A more rational part of her mind urged her to pull out of the relentless vision, but she was trapped, held fast by Hawk’s mental strength. Reliving everything he saw, heard, touched, smelled, and experienced.
RESEARCH AND OBSERVATION GIVES YOU THE TOOLS:
PUBLISHER GUIDELINES:
Many publishers have preferred eras or locations in which to set the books in their line. E-Publishers and most publishers who do mainstream books give the author wider latitude in choosing a setting.
RESEARCH FOR SPECIFIC DETAILS Or...The Reality of the Setting is in the Details
To give your setting life, it’s important to use specifics. Instead of birds, say crows or sparrows, or any bird that would be found in that area. Not sure which are native to the region? Check it out in a bird guide, or magazine, or on the internet.
Even your choice of a crow or sparrow can affect the tone of the setting. In the first scene I used, a flock of sparrows or hummingbirds twittering their warning calls wouldn’t have had the same impact of danger as, "... a flock of crows suddenly took flight, voicing their warning calls."
Details bring richness to your setting. They also tap into the reader’s own memories and draw her more deeply into the story. Most people have seen and heard crows. So they’d know the sight and sound experienced by Heather in those moments.
Be sure your information is accurate. If you place a plant, animal, or even a geologic formation in an area where they don’t exist, some reader will know it, and you will have lost credibility with that person.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION are available in libraries, at bookstores, over the internet, and from your own observations.
RESEARCH CAN BRING TO LIFE PLACES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN IN PERSON
Once you decide to set a story in a place you’ve never seen, it’s time to do more research. One problem is, the information you collect is so interesting, it’s easy to get caught up in research for the sheer joy of learning. In the end, you’ll use only a small part of what you’ve collected, but it will give you a good "feel" for the setting of your scenes.
Here’s a partial list of what I use:
A collage of pictures, reminding me of scenes in the story, all pasted on a large sheet of poster-size paper. They come from magazines, catalogs, photographs, and postcards.
Travel guides: From the library or bookstores
Field guides such as the ones from the National Audubon Society
Large "coffee table" type books. The photos give you something visual to describe Magazines, especially National Geographic
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER:
Okay, you’ve chosen to set your story in a place you’ve never seen. Now with your plot, your characters, your new information and your rich imagination, you’re once again ready to bring life and emotion to a new setting.
As you write the details of what happens within the framework of the scene, remember to break up any long narrative passages with dialogue, action, and words that evoke images in the reader’s mind. Here’s the last scene in this article, this time from Deserts of the Heart. The setting is at the edge of the great Sahara Desert in a Bedouin camp beside an oasis. It’s nighttime, and they’re celebrating. This is from the heroine, Faith’s, POV....
Leaning back against Kadar with his arms around her, she stared into the leaping flames of the bonfire. The storyteller’s voice had a soothing quality. The desert wind had changed into a light breeze, and she was warm and safe in the circle of Kadar’s embrace.
The storyteller gave three sharp claps to indicate he was done for the night. With that the mood around the fire changed.The tribal musicians took their places to one side of the clearing. One began a rhythmic beat with his fingers on a long, narrow drum held under one arm. A second musician added the long, slumberous sound of a Berber oboe.
Giggling, the young, unmarried women went to the stack of lanterns collected before the feast and placed them around the edge of the clearing, lighting them as they went. With shy looks at the unmarried young men, they sashayed back to their places and settled gracefully on the rugs with their families.There was a moment of silence. No one moved. Even the children were quiet.Then, with a shout, the sheik’s oldest son leaped into the center of the cleared space and called a challenge to all the wamors. Around the circle, the men, young and old, jumped to their feet, roaring, "Yallah."
From behind her, Kadar surged to his feet, adding his shout. With one vault, he joined the sheik’s son in the center. The two faced off as if in battle, and suddenly each man’s long, curved ceremonial dagger glittered in the firelight. They moved slowly around the other, their graceful masculine forms a contrast of light and dark. The sheik’s son in white loose shirt and trousers, Kadar in black--a dark warrior.
The son slashed out with a quick, glittering move, but Kadar leaped away at the last fraction of a second, then pressed in for attack. Dust rose under their soft desert boots. Men called encouragement from the sidelines. Music rose above the shouts and the high wailing, excited cries of the women. Once more the son and Kadar each drove in then spun away, sharp knives barely missing their opponent. Faith’s heart was in her mouth. She knew it was a ritual combat, but at the moment it was too real. The music changed in tempo as the two warriors faced each other.
Kadar began a long, slow glide, his dagger weaving intricate patterns that seemed to mesmerize the son. At the last moment, the young man swung his dagger up and their blades clashed high in the air, where ribbons of firelight rolled down the blades.
Both men strained against the other, neither moving. Kadar’s profile, lit by the ring of lanterns, spoke of power and ageless strength. The younger man looked grim and determined, but there was a hint of desperate courage in the set of his mouth. With shocking suddenness, Kadar stepped back, bowed to the younger man, and extended his dagger, hilt first, in surrender.
Did the scene move along at a brisk pace? Do you want to read more and find out what happens next? Were you there, in that Bedouin camp, watching the ceremonial duel?
I hope so, because that means I’ve met my goal of drawing you, the reader, into the heart of the story.
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Can Halloween Horror Nights touch you?
The “scareactors” can (and do) creep up next to you or try to jump-scare you—but they won't touch you, and all the weapons are fake.
(By the way, those chainsaws are real and make a bloody racket, but the chains have been removed.) The haunted houses can be significantly more frightening.
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These scare actors come out of nowhere and have no illusions about respecting your personal space (although they are not allowed to touch you, and you are not allowed to touch them)!
Can they touch you at Halloween Horror Nights?
The “scareactors” can (and do) creep up next to you or try to jump-scare you—but they won't touch you, and all the weapons are fake. (By the way, those chainsaws are real and make a bloody racket, but the chains have been removed.) The haunted houses can be significantly more frightening.
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Can you go on rides during Halloween Horror Nights?
While most of the focus of the night is on horror, some of the rides are open too. Waits are very low during this time, so it's a great way to experience them if you don't care as much about the houses.
Can you go on rides at Halloween Horror Nights?
Some of the regular rides dare to be operating during Halloween Horror Nights. If you need to escape from the mazes, get your thrills on Transformers 3-D, Revenge of the Mummy, the new Jurassic World ride or The Simpsons Ride.
Can you dress up for Halloween Horror Nights?
If you are not attending Halloween Horror Nights, then you will need to leave the theme park early on party days. Leave the costume at home: Costumes and masks are prohibited at Halloween Horror Nights. With so many effects, shows and performers in action, guests need to be easily identifiable and wear street clothing.
How early can you get into Halloween Horror Nights?
The event officially begins each evening at 6:30 p.m., but the front gates typically open as early as 6 p.m. If you have an HHN ticket but not daytime admission, you'll want to be outside the park gates, ticket in hand, by 5:45 p.m. at the latest on slow nights, and as early as 5 p.m. on peak nights.
Can you ride the rides at Halloween Horror Nights?
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Can you bring a bag to Halloween Horror Nights?
If you do bring a bag, keep in mind that food, drinks, bottles, recording, flash photography, flashlights or laser pens are not permitted in the haunted houses. But the one thing that you don't want to forget is your ID, as EVERYONE is carded at Halloween Horror Nights!
Can you wear hats to Halloween Horror Nights?
Hats are ok – Guests can wear hats IF it doesn't cover face. 13 under can wear mask – For guests 13 and under, masks are ok if it doesn't fully cover face. Masks are especially banned at Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights as it can conflict with the existing characters.
Can you bring food into Halloween Horror Nights?
Alcohol will be served at select locations during certain hours, subject to availability. Outside drinks are not permitted at Universal Studios Hollywood during Halloween Horror Nights.
Can kids go to Halloween Horror Night?
Event may be too intense for young children and is not recommended for children under the age of 13. No costumes or masks allowed. I'd opt for Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party instead; you can wear costumes to it as well.
Can you go to Islands of Adventure during Halloween Horror Nights?
(The good news, if you have kids, is that there are virtually no signs of the event in the park during the day, so it's “safe” to visit then.) Universal Orlando does not offer any kid-friendly Halloween events. Halloween Horror Nights takes place in Universal Studios Florida, not in Islands of Adventure.
Can you get into Halloween Horror Nights with an annual pass?
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Can you go to Halloween Horror Nights with an annual pass?
Platinum Annual Pass members will receive one free ticket in the first year to attend Halloween Horror Nights, available for select nights only. For all other passes, Halloween Horror Nights is a separately ticketed special event, and an Annual or Season Pass alone does not grant admission to the event.
Can a 12 year old go to Halloween Horror Nights?
From cinematic screams to the most horrifying cult classics, there's no escape from the decade that just won't die. WARNING: Event may be too intense for young children and is not recommended for children under the age of 13. No costumes or masks allowed.
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Do you need express pass for Halloween Horror Nights?
Skip the regular lines one time at all haunted houses, plus at participating rides and attractions. Event admission required and not included. (Pricing varies by date, subject to availability.)
What can you do on Halloween night?
10 Things to Do on Halloween When It's No Longer Socially Acceptable for You to Trick-or-Treat Watch a scary movie. Binge-watch a season of American Horror Story. Carve pumpkins. Go bobbing for apples. Hit up a hayride. Or hit up a haunted house. Head to a Halloween party — or host one of your own! Bake a candy cake.
Can I use my universal pass for Halloween Horror Nights?
Does my Annual or Season Pass include admission to Halloween Horror Nights? For all other passes, Halloween Horror Nights is a separately ticketed special event, and an Annual or Season Pass alone does not grant admission to the event. However, there are Pass Member discounts to Halloween Horror Nights.
Do you need a park ticket for Halloween Horror Nights?
Halloween Horror Nights is a separately ticketed event. You do not have to purchase a ticket to the theme park for the day, but many Orlando Ticket Connection customers do. If you are only interested in attending the event, regular price Halloween Horror Nights tickets cost $109.99.
Do you have to pay extra for Halloween Horror Nights?
It's important to note that Halloween Horror Nights is a separately ticketed event. It will not get you into the theme parks during regular hours. While we will not be offering Halloween Horror Nights tickets this year, you may purchase them from Universal Orlando and book your discount hotel through us!
Is Halloween Horror Nights scary?
The heart-thumping highlight of the Halloween season is surviving the terrifying Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood. The annual event that runs on select nights in the fall takes thousands of guests through movie set-quality haunted houses, or mazes, scare zones and even a Terror Tram.
Do you need a universal ticket for Halloween Horror Nights?
It's important to note that Halloween Horror Nights is a separately ticketed event. It will not get you into the theme parks during regular hours. No need to worry though.
Do you need a separate ticket for Halloween Horror Nights?
Where is Halloween Horror Nights?
Halloween Horror Nights (formerly known as Fright Nights) is an annual special event that occurs at Universal Studios theme parks in Florida, California, Singapore, and Japan.
Is Halloween Horror Nights busy on Halloween?
While all nights are popular, the crowds generally increase as it gets closer to Halloween. The Halloween Horror Nights Orlando 2019 dates are: Sept. 6-8, 12-15, 18-22, 25-29. Oct. 2-6, 9-13, 17-20, 23-27, 29-31.
Is Halloween Horror Nights busy in November?
Every year on select nights from September to November, the event attracts hundreds of thousands of guests to Universal Studios looking to experience the spine-chilling mazes, terror tram, live show, and scare zones. It's one of the most immersive Halloween events at any theme park, but what about the crowds?
Which park has Halloween Horror Nights?
Sept. 6-8, 12-15, 18-22, 25-29. Oct. 2-6, 9-13, 17-20, 23-27, 29-31.
What time is Halloween Horror Nights?
The event runs select nights September through November at Universal Studios Florida. For 2019, the dates run between Sept. 6 and Nov. 2, typically from 6:30 p.m. until 1 a.m. or 2 a.m.
What's open during Halloween Horror Nights?
Halloween Horror Nights will unleash the horror starting Sept. 13, 2019, and will run on select nights through early November. The earlier you go in the season (and after Halloween in November), the lower the ticket price.
What can you do on Halloween night at home?
31 Things to do at home on Halloween night Pass out candy. This one is obvious, I know, but not everyone does it. Have a horror movie marathon. Watch Ghost Hunters on SyFy. Scare trick-or-treaters. Elsa Drinking Game. Dance Party. Photo Booth. Arts & Crafts for the kids.
Are Halloween Horror Nights tickets refundable?
- True Fear Comes From Within. Tickets Are For Halloween Horror Nights at Hollywood Universal Studios Park Only & Not Any Other Parks. Tickets are non-refundable. Resale of tickets is not allowed.
How much are Halloween Horror Nights tickets?
But seven of the eight Fridays are sold for $69.99 or $75.99. Flex tickets, which give buyers more options on days, go for $77.99 or $85.99. Express Passes, which let folks bypass the lines into the haunted houses, have prices “starting at” $79.99 per night. And then there are the mega-multi-night tickets.
Is Halloween Horror Nights open on Monday?
Do you have to buy separate tickets for Halloween Horror Nights?
Halloween Horror Nights is a separately ticketed event. You do not have to purchase a ticket to the theme park for the day, but many Orlando Ticket Connection customers do. However, by purchasing your ticket on Orlando Ticket Connection, you get the best price for HHN tickets of only $79.00!
How old do you have to be to go to Halloween Horror Nights alone?
WARNING: Event may be too intense for young children and is not recommended for children under the age of 13. No costumes or masks allowed.
How old do you have to be for Halloween Horror Nights?
What age do you have to be to go to Halloween Horror Nights?
Are Halloween Horror Nights tickets transferable?
This ticket is non-transferable. Platinum Annual Pass Universal Express privileges are not valid for Halloween Horror Nights. General parking after 6pm is not included.
Do Halloween Horror Nights sell out?
One of the most terrifying parts of Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood is not getting to experience all of the mazes because of lines. Most Universal Halloween Horror Nights sell out. Save your terror for the mazes and cut the lines like Norman Bates' knife with a Halloween Horror Nights Front of the Line ticket.
Is Halloween Horror Nights really scary?
One of the most terrifying parts of Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood is not getting to experience all of the mazes because of lines. Most Universal Halloween Horror Nights sell out.
Are there rides at Halloween Horror Nights?
How much is Universal Halloween Horror Nights?
Halloween Horror Nights is a separate ticket from regular park admission. General admission prices last year ranged from $60 to $97. Universal Studios Hollywood also sold a Halloween Horror Nights Universal Express Pass (formerly called Front of Line Pass). Tickets for this pass ranged from $159 to $229.
Are rides open during Halloween Horror Nights?
Some of the regular rides dare to be operating during Halloween Horror Nights. If you need to escape from the mazes, get your thrills on Transformers 3-D, Revenge of the Mummy, perhaps the new Jurassic World ride if it is open by then and The Simpsons Ride.
What day does Halloween Horror Nights start?
Beginning September 6, Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights returns for its 29th year as the nation's greatest Halloween event running for a recording-breaking 41 nights through November 2!
What time does Halloween Horror Nights start?
For 2019, the dates run between Sept. 6 and Nov. 2, typically from 6:30 p.m. until 1 a.m. or 2 a.m. While all nights are popular, the crowds generally increase as it gets closer to Halloween.
What dates are Halloween Horror Nights 2019?
The Halloween Horror Nights Orlando 2019 dates are: Sept. 6-8, 12-15, 18-22, 25-29. Oct. 2-6, 9-13, 17-20, 23-27, 29-31. November 1-2.
Is Universal Halloween Horror Nights scary?
How much does Halloween Horror Nights cost?
But seven of the eight Fridays are sold for $69.99 or $75.99. Flex tickets, which give buyers more options on days, go for $77.99 or $85.99. Express Passes, which let folks bypass the lines into the haunted houses, have prices "starting at" $79.99 per night. And then there are the mega-multi-night tickets.
How late is Halloween Horror Nights open?
Does Publix sell Halloween Horror Nights tickets?
I promised that I would update the forum when Halloween Horror Night Tickets go on sale at Publix and I saw the kiosk with tickets last night. Sunday through Thursday night tickets (you can use any Sun, Wed, or Thurs during the event) are $45.99 this year. Friday nights are $56.99 and Saturday nights are $72.99.
How much are Halloween Horror Night tickets?
The prices vary with the dates. Halloween Horror Nights runs for 41 select nights between Sept. 6 and Nov. 2. The base, one-night price, when purchased at the theme-park gate, is $119.99.
How scary is Halloween Horror Nights Universal?
How late does Halloween Horror Nights go?
For 2019, the dates run between Sept. 6 and Nov. 2, typically from 6:30 p.m. until 1 a.m. or 2 a.m. While all nights are popular, the crowds generally increase as it gets closer to Halloween. The Halloween Horror Nights Orlando 2019 dates are: Sept. 6-8, 12-15, 18-22, 25-29.
How busy is Halloween Horror Nights?
Do you have to pay for parking at Halloween Horror Nights?
Throughout most of the year, Universal usually offers free parking after 6:00 pm. However, during Halloween Horror Nights, plan on paying full price – $22 for regular self-parking, $30 for preferred self-parking – until at least 10:00 pm.
How old do you have to be to go to Halloween Horror Nights?
WARNING: Event may be too intense for young children and is not recommended for children under the age of 13.
What time does Halloween Horror Nights start Orlando?
Is Harry Potter open during Halloween Horror Nights?
For the first time, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter -- Diagon Alley will be open during Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios, officials said Wednesday. Halloween Horror Nights, which is marking its 25th year, features intense haunted-house experiences and other themed activities.
Is Harry Potter world open during Halloween Horror Nights?
Regular shows, Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Kung Fu Panda and Despicable Me Minion Mayhem are closed. Even if you use early entry and the Wizarding World is still open until 5:30 p.m., they will not let you in.
Is Harry Potter open for Halloween Horror Nights?
Although not officially confirmed as of yet, we're fairly certain that The Wizarding World of Harry Potter will not be open for Halloween Horror Nights this year. But there are a number of tickets that include later theme-park entry, allowing you to access Hogsmeade up until 5:30 pm – which is at least something.
Are all rides open during Halloween Horror Nights?
Will the regular rides and attractions be open? Several of Universal Studios Hollywood's favorite rides and attractions will remain open for the nighttime Halloween Horror Nights experience. Specifically, Jurassic World – The Ride, Transformers™: The Ride - 3D, The Simpsons Ride™, and Revenge of the Mummy℠- The Ride.
What haunted houses are at Halloween Horror Nights?
The Panic Begins for Halloween Horror Nights All-New STRANGER THINGS. Universal Monsters. Ghostbusters. Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Depths of Fear. Nightingales: Blood Pit. Yeti: Terror of the Yukon.
Do people dress up for Halloween Horror Nights?
What rides are open for Halloween Horror Nights?
Attractions Open During Halloween Horror Nights Fast & Furious – Supercharged (San Francisco) Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts (The Wizarding World of Harry Potter - Diagon Alley) Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit (Production Central) MEN IN BLACK Alien Attack (World Expo) Revenge of the Mummy (New York)
How much is parking for Halloween Horror Nights?
However, during Halloween Horror Nights, plan on paying full price – $22 for regular self-parking, $30 for preferred self-parking – until at least 10:00 pm.
At what time does Halloween Horror Nights start?
How much is Halloween Horror Nights for annual pass holders?
The Frequent Fear Pass entitles one (1) guest admission to ALL Sunday-Thursday 2016 Halloween Horror Nights™ Event Dates. ◊◊Annual Passholder savings based off front gate price for Frequent Fear Pass with Halloween Horror Nights Express at $339.99 plus tax.
How late is Halloween Horror Nights open till?
The event typically begins at 6:30 p.m., but Universal often lets guests in up to half an hour early. Universal Resort guests have a dedicated line from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the right side of the entrance.
Do annual passes work for Halloween Horror Nights?
For all other passes, Halloween Horror Nights is a separately ticketed special event, and an Annual or Season Pass alone does not grant admission to the event. However, there are Pass Member discounts to Halloween Horror Nights. For details, visit www.universalpassmember.com.
What houses are in Halloween Horror Nights 2017?
Halloween Horror Nights 2017 Haunted Houses The Shining. RANKING: Mind Blower, Eye Popper. Scarecrow: The Reaping. RANKING: Screamer. The Fallen. RANKING: Screamer, Eye Popper. Ash vs. Evil Dead. American Horror Story: Volume 2. RANKING: Screamer, Eye Popper. Dead Waters. The Hive. Saw: The Games of Jigsaw.
Is Halloween Horror Nights crowded on Halloween?
Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood is one of the most popular Halloween events in the country. Even still, Halloween Horror Nights doesn't have to be a miserably crowded experience. If you go on the right night, it's still possible to enjoy manageable crowds and shorter lines.
Do Halloween Horror Night tickets sell out?
How much is Halloween Horror Nights Orlando?
The Scareactor Dining Experience is $49.99 (0% increase from 2018), plus tax, per person, and requires you to have an HHN ticket for the same night. There is limited availability, and reservations are mandatory.
Which park is Halloween Horror Nights at?
Is Halloween Horror Nights a separate ticket?
What time Halloween Horror Nights start?
Does Halloween Horror Nights sell out?
For Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood tickets or HHN Universal Express passes, you'll need to purchase directly from Universal Studios Hollywood. Tickets go on sale July 30, 2019, but some tickets were made available for presale in late June. The HHN Universal Express tickets can sell out scary fast.
How many years has Halloween Horror Nights been open?
Halloween Horror Nights began at Universal Studios Florida in 1991 under the title Fright Nights. It began as a three-night event on October 25, 26, and 31, 1991, with one haunted house, The Dungeon of Terror. The first year, the admission price was $12.95.
Does Halloween Horror Nights express pass include admission?
The Halloween Horror Nights Express Pass™ is not valid for admission to Halloween Horror Nights event. A separate event ticket for Halloween Horror Nights 2017 must be purchased for entry. Express Pass is valid for one (1) entry per haunted house and participating ride and attraction, per one (1) guest.
What haunted houses are at Halloween Horror Nights 2018?
Seeds of Extinction. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. The Horrors of Blumhouse—The First Purge / Happy Death Day. Trick R Treat. Scary Tales: Deadly Ever After. Carnival Graveyard: Rust in Pieces. Slaughter Sinema. Stranger Things.
Is there a Florida resident discount for Halloween Horror Nights?
Guests with a Universal Studios Florida™ or Universal's Islands of Adventure™ theme park ticket can save on event night admission to Halloween Horror Nights™ with a Halloween Horror Nights event Add-On ticket (ticket must be purchased in conjunction with a regular theme park daily admission ticket – does not have to be
What time does Halloween Horror Nights Orlando start?
Are there fast passes for Halloween Horror Nights?
Maximize your experience at Halloween Horror Nights™ 2017 with a Halloween Horror Nights Express Pass, which provides shorter wait times at participating rides and attractions and ALL haunted houses. (Valid for one (1) time use per haunted houses and accessible rides and attractions, per one (1) guest).
How much are tickets for Halloween Horror Nights?
The Scareactor Dining Experience is $49.99 (0% increase from 2018), plus tax, per person, and requires you to have an HHN ticket for the same night.
Are the rides open during Halloween Horror Nights?
How much are the tickets for Halloween Horror Nights?
The prices vary with the dates. Halloween Horror Nights runs for 41 select nights between Sept. 6 and Nov. 2. The base, one-night price, when purchased at the theme-park gate, is $119.99. However, purchasing online knocks the one-night price down to between $66.99 and $93.99, depending on the date.
Are all the rides open during Halloween Horror Nights?
How much is a fast pass for Halloween Horror Nights?
Express Pass is valid for one (1) use per haunted house and accessible ride and attraction, per one (1) guest, per Rush of Fear Pass night. ◊◊Advance price savings based off front gate price for Frequent Fear Pass with Halloween Horror Nights Express at $339.99 plus tax.
What is the Halloween Horror Nights Rush of Fear pass?
Rush of Fear covers the first 17 nights of the event, ending on Sept. 29. Price is $109.99 (with HHN Express Pass: $334.99). Note: These are prices for online advance purchases. Frequent Fear Pass works on 26 nights, including every Sunday-through-Thursday span, plus the first two weekends and the final Friday.
What time does Halloween Horror Nights start and end?
How much is Halloween Horror Nights express pass?
Express Pass is valid for one (1) use per haunted house and accessible ride and attraction, per one (1) guest, per Frequent Fear Pass night. ◊◊◊ Advance price savings based off front gate price for Frequent Fear Pass Plus with Halloween Horror Nights Express at $419.99 plus tax.
Do annual passholders get discounts on Halloween Horror Nights?
Sorry, The Early Access Nights Are All Filled Up. There are no more nights available for this event, but you can still awaken your fears with Passholder discounted tickets and offers available during Halloween Horror Nights™. Halloween Horror Nights™ is a separately ticketed event. Event occurs rain or shine.
Do they sell alcohol at Halloween Horror Nights?
How many haunted houses are there in Halloween Horror Nights?
Universal Orlando spilled its guts about houses, one by one, for this year's Halloween Horror Nights. It's smart -- if maddening – to keep anticipation building. But it would be easy to lose track this year because HHN is featuring 10 haunted houses, a record-high number for the event.
What is Halloween Horror Nights Rush of Fear pass?
Rush of Fear covers the first 17 nights of the event, ending on Sept. 29. Price is $109.99 (with HHN Express Pass: $334.99).
What time does Halloween Horror Nights Open Orlando?
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Category Archives: same-sex marriage
Gay Marriage: Lesbian couple renews wedding vows after Supreme Court ruling
Posted on June 30, 2015 by Phillip Zonkel
“Dodjie Lagman and Marichu Elisan kiss after they renewed their vows in Long Beach with officiant Shari Altmark. Photo by John McCoy Daily News.
By Dana Bartholomew, Los Angeles Daily News
LONG BEACH — The morning after the U.S. Supreme Court granted same-sex marriage across the land, a giddy Dodjie Lagman and Marichu Elisan glided into a small Long Beach wedding chapel to renew their vows.
For the youthful-looking lesbian couple from the Philippines, the decision launched an effervescent rainbow from Los Angeles to New York — and the right for equal marriage protection in any once-defiant state.
“I’m happy. This is forever for me,” declared Lagman, 51, of Garden Grove, whose long hair cascaded over her red dress. “She is my forever.”
Though California wasn’t directly impacted by Friday’s ruling, same-sex wedding officiants and couples basked in its afterglow. Business concerns and next steps in the civil rights battles seemed distant concerns Saturday at one of the region’s busiest same-sex wedding chapels.
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Gay Marriage: Long Beach celebrates historic Supreme Court ruling
Leo Lerma hoists a rainbow flag before a Friday rally that took place in front of the Long Beach City Hall to mark the Supreme Court’s decision to make gay marriage legal in all states. Photo by Steve McCrank/Staff Photographer
By Andrew Edwards and Phillip Zonkel, Press-Telegram Staff Writers
LONG BEACH – Long Beach residents and supporters of marriage equality celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision affirming the right for gays and lesbians to marry in all 50 states by gathering in the quad at the Civic Center on Friday evening.
About 500 people attended the victory to mark the historic event.
Attorney Stephanie Loftin said Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority 5-4 opinion in Obergefell v Hodges, gave gays and lesbians equality, the right same guaranteed to all Americans.
“Previous case histories criminalized and marginalized us, but now we are recognized and legalized,” Lofting told the cheering crowd.
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Gay Marriage: Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s history of supporting LGBT equality
Many legal experts think U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will be the swing vote in the same-sex marriage case the court is scheduled to rule on in the next few days. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta, Associated Press
By Mark Sherman, Associated Press
SACRAMENTO — The Irish Catholic boy who came of age in Sacramento after World War II is an unlikely candidate to be the author of the Supreme Court’s major gay rights rulings.
But those who have known Justice Anthony Kennedy for decades and scholars who have studied his work say he has long stressed the importance of valuing people as individuals. And he seems likely also to have been influenced in this regard by a pillar of the Sacramento legal community, a closeted gay man who hired Kennedy as a law school instructor and testified on his behalf at his high court confirmation hearings in Washington.
With three major gay rights opinions to his name already, the 78-year-old Kennedy is the prohibitive favorite to write the Supreme Court decision expected in the next few days that could extend same-sex marriage nationwide.
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Long Beach, West Hollywood, Pasadena to have gay marriage rallies day of Supreme Court ruling
In this April 28, 2015, file photo, demonstrators stand in front of a rainbow flag of the Supreme Court in Washington, as the court was set to hear historic arguments in cases that could make same-sex marriage the law of the land. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana.
A number of Los Angeles-area cities are scheduling rallies the day the Supreme Court makes its same-sex marriage ruling:
•Long Beach’s rally will be 5:30 p.m. at the Long Beach Civic Center, 333 W. Ocean Blvd. Paid parking is available in the Civic Center lot. Metered and unmetered parking is available on the surrounding streets. For parking information, visit www.longbeach.gov/parking.
•West Hollywood’s rally will be from 6 to 10 p.m. at West Hollywood Park, 647 N. San Vicente Blvd. Parking is available in the adjacent five-story parking structure or nearby lots. Visit www.weho.org/parkinglots.
•Pasadena will rally at 6 p.m. at 340 Lake Ave. between Corson and East Maple streets near the Lake Gold Line Station.
•Lancaster’s The OUTreach Center will host a rally from 5 to 8 p.m. on the corner of Avenue K and 15th Street West.
•Santa Clarita will host a rally 6 p.m. Thursday at Todd Longshore Park, 28151 Whites Canyon Road.
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Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize
“On the eve of his 50th birthday and a former lover’s wedding, a mediocre novelist takes refuge in literary invitations that enable him to travel around the world.”–NYT 100 Most Notable Books 2017
Category: NYT Most Notable Books 2017 - Fiction Tags: Berlin, India, Morocco, Paris
“I could not love LESS more.”–Ron Charles, Washington Post
“Andrew Sean Greer’s Less is excellent company. It’s no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful.”-–Christopher Buckley, New York Times Book Review
NATIONAL BESTSELLER!
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
Who says you can’t run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can’t say yes–it would be too awkward–and you can’t say no–it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.
QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?
ANSWER: You accept them all.
What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last.
Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.
A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author The New York Times has hailed as “inspired, lyrical,” “elegiac,” “ingenious,” as well as “too sappy by half,” Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.
“Less is the funniest, smartest and most humane novel I’ve read since Tom Rachman’s 2010 debut, The Imperfectionists ….Greer writes sentences of arresting lyricism and beauty. His metaphors come at you like fireflies….Like Arthur, Andrew Sean Greer’s Less is excellent company. It’s no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful.”―New York Times Book Review
“Greer is an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy…. Brilliantly funny…. Greer’s narration, so elegantly laced with wit, cradles the story of a man who loses everything: his lover, his suitcase, his beard, his dignity.”―Ron Charles, Washington Post
“Greer’s novel is philosophical, poignant, funny and wise, filled with unexpected turns….Although Greer is gifted and subtle in comic moments, he’s just as adept at ruminating on the deeper stuff. His protagonist grapples with aging, loneliness, creativity, grief, self-pity and more.”―San Francisco Chronicle
“I recommend it with my whole heart.”―Ann Patchett
“A piquantly funny fifth novel.”―Entertainment Weekly
“Greer, the author of wonderful, heartfelt novels including The Confessions of Max Tivoli , The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells and The Story of a Marriage , shows he has another powerful weapon in his arsenal: comedy. And who doesn’t need a laugh right about now?”―Miami Herald
“Greer elevates Less’ picaresque journey into a wise and witty novel. This is no Eat, Pray Love story of touristic uplift, but rather a grand travelogue of foibles, humiliations and self-deprecation, ending in joy, and a dollop of self-knowledge.”―National Book Review
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Application Developer-IBM Cloud Modernization
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268058BR
As an Application Developer, you will lead IBM into the future by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment. The success of IBM is in your hands as you transform vital business needs into code and drive innovation. Your work will power IBM and its clients globally, collaborating and integrating code into enterprise systems. You will have access to the latest education, tools and technology, and a limitless career path with the worlds technology leader. Come to IBM and make a global impact!
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IT Specialists in this job role have expertise in translating IT requirements in the design, development, and assembly of components to create custom information systems. Typical examples of the deliverables are functional and technical designs, models, components, code, unit tests, and documentation. IT Specialists who primarily apply their technical skills in an internal or external customer billable services and implementation environment. The employee focuses on individual/team/department/ operational objectives.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Familiar with Java coding. Designs and builds Migration delivery engagement through: Advanced knowledge on IBM Cloud Platform based migration and modernization tools including install, configure and optimize as per engagement requirement. Knowledge on migration/modernization assessment & design w.r.t. IBM Cloud Platform cloud platform. Knowledge on application code refactoring (semantic and syntactical change). Knowledge on creating microservice, AP, convert workload into container.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Migration Tool specialist for IBM Cloud Platform Migration Discovery, Design and Build (Migrate) practices. Advance knowledge on application code refactoring (semantic and syntactical change) including optimization and performance parameters. Advanced knowledge on technical, functional to convert application code into container through modular design.
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IBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world's economy. IBM Services partners with the world's leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter business by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.
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Maybe you want to get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration and trust where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.
Impact. Inclusion. Infinite Experiences. Do your best work ever.
IBMs greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that progress is made through progressive thinking, progressive leadership, progressive policy and progressive action. IBMers believe that the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 IBMers serving clients in 170 countries.
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Junior European Cup
Competition name Junior European Cup
Nearest place or city Dresden
Club/organizer USV TU Dresden
Region of country Germany
Latest entry date 15 September 2009
Entry fee (Euro) 150
Event description The Junior European Cup is open to national teams of competitors not older than 20 years on 31 December 2009.
Terrain description - Low mountain range area with steep slopes - Many rock formations and stones - Varying runnability - Irregular path network Parts of the planned competition area were used in 2004 for the World Cup finals in the long distance and relay races.
Training possibilities About 40 orienteering maps with various types of terrain are available for the Dresden area. The orienteers of the Dresden orienteering clubs are happy to assist you with selecting maps and preparing courses. Please state your interest in your preliminary entry.
Holiday activities,nature,hiking etc. The capital of the Free State of Saxony is situated in the heart of the idyllic Elbe Valley. The city of Dresden, which is famous mainly for its baroque Old Town with the Semper Opera House, the Zwinger and the reconstructed Frauenkirche ("Church of Our Lady"), attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. But not only the world famous sights make the city attractive for visitors of every age but also its variety of cultural and art events. For the young and the young at heart, the trendy New Town district with its almost indefinite number of pubs, bars and music events is the place to be at night. Following the upper Elbe Valley (UNESCO World Heritage Site) from Dresden - the Gate to Saxon Switzerland - passing Pillnitz Castle and Königstein Fortress, one reaches the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in less than an hour. The landmarks of this mountain range are the steep sandstone rocks overlooking the Elbe, which made the national park a mecca for sporty climbers and hikers. But also those who are looking for peace and rest will find their ideal place in one of the spas of Saxon Switzerland.
URL for photos from event [Link]
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Ruscombe House, Berkshire, designs for alterations to a house and for offices for Sir James Eyre, 1789, possibly executed (12)
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[12] Design for kitchen offices, c1789, possibly executed
Elevation and section of the kitchen offices, with a central elevation of a single-storey, three-bay building, with a central arched entrance flanked by single-bay, projecting pavilions, with pitched roofs. Beyond this Doric colonnaded links lead to wings. The section of the left-hand wing shows a flat roof, with a coved ceiling within. There is a central relieving arch containing an oculus. The right-hand wing has a broader relieving arch, which contains shelves for storage, and this is flanked by entrances
bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 10 feet
Section across the Kitchen Offices from N. to S. / (and in the hand of William Adam, underwritten in pencil) the seat of Lord Chief Baron Eyre
Albe (cropped)
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Pen, pencil, pink and Naples yellow wash on laid paper (480 x 258)
Office hand, possibly Daniel Robertson or Robert Morison, with part title inscription in the hand of William Adam
GR surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 27
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 394
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There's an old saying: "I'm not looking for the perfect man, just one with faults I like." No clue where I heard this, but it always stuck with me.
This is even more important when it comes to characters. The flaws are what allows our characters to make the mistakes and bad choices that lead to compelling plots. But picking just any old flaw isn't going to cut it. Who cares if the protagonist can't cook if cooking never matters to the story? It's important to choose flaws that add to the overall novel.
I have three favorite "categories" of flaws when I'm creating characters--what scares them, what makes them mad, and what doesn't always work in their favor. Choosing one from each category helps me create rounded and relateabe characters who don't come across as "too perfect" Mary Sue or Gary Stu.
(Here's more on creating too perfect characters)
1. Give them fears: What are they afraid of?
Fears are great flaws to play with, because you can use them as excuses for your characters to make the wrong decision or even act out of character. Everyone is afraid of something, even if it's irrational (and these are often the best kinds of fears). Unless it's the point of the novel, you probably don't want to make it the exact thing your protagonist has to face to win (you don't want to be too convenient or coincidental), but a fear that hinders the protagonist in pursuit of the goal can help create conflict and trouble in the novel. Consider:
What past traumas might affect current behavior?
What are they irrationally afraid of?
What are they secretly afraid of?
What are they publicly afraid of?
What fears relate to the current problem?
What fears are caused by the overall plot problem?
What fears draw on internal conflicts?
It's fun to show these character flaws in action, because when the protagonist gets close to doing X for plot reasons, the reader can see she's probably going to mess it up due to this fear. They'll worry, because they can see it coming, but hope she'll realize (or has learned) and will make the right choice at that oh-so-important moment. And of course, sometimes you can swing it the other way and let the protagonist overcompensate for a previous mistakes, and mess things up even more.
(Here's more on how a character's dysfunctional past can affect their flaws)
2. Give them prejudices: What makes them angry?
I use prejudice in the more classic sense of, "unfavorable opinions or preconceived notions" than the more common "racist" way. We all have opinions and ideas that shape who we are and how we think. Some of these ideas are based on bad facts or the opinions of others, and cause us to act in not-so-great-or-smart ways. Some of these traits shame us, and we'll go to great lengths to avoid it.
For example, if your heroine had her heart broken by a blue-eyed blond surfer, she might react badly toward blue-eyed blond surfer boys when she first meets them. This is great for when you need your protagonist to instantly dislike another character for plot reasons and she has no good reason to do so. Starting off on the wrong foot can lead to all kinds of trouble. Consider:
What were they taught to dislike or disapprove of as a child?
What pushes their buttons?
What do they believe that's wrong?
What do they believe that's not so nice, but accurate in their world?
What do they have no tolerance for?
What will they fight about?
What are they ashamed of?
(Here's more on what a character is ashamed of)
3. Give them strong traits: What traits do they have that don't always work in their favor?
Even positive traits can be flaws in the right situation. Refusing to give up no matter what could be quite troublesome if faced with a problem that requires them to give up to win. Always doing the right thing can work against you if dealing with people who never do what's right. Being forced to go against your nature can add wonderful internal conflict to an external goal. (I use this one a lot in The Shifter). Consider:
What positive trait could become a flaw in the right situation?
What positive trait causes just as many problems as it solves?
What trait annoys other characters?
What trait might be holding the character back?
What trait symbolizes the soul of this character?
(Here's more on developing your character's personality)
Flaws help make characters relatable. It's the little quirks that make them feel human and real and allow readers to relate to them and root for them no matter what they do. Remember, not all flaws are bad. Some are endearing traits that make a character all the more likable.
You don't want to make them too flawed though. Broken is good, but utterly dysfunctional can steal sympathy from a character. It's a bit like being too perfect--someone who always makes the wrong choice and always has things go wrong is just as predictable as always having things work out. You want to balance the redeeming qualities with the flaws, so readers never know which side of the character is going to make the next choice. The character might have the potential to make the right decision, but the possibility of messing it up is high.
As you create your characters, don't forget to give them flaws and traits that make them three dimensional. Because after all, nobody's perfect.
What are some of your favorite character's flaws? What's the best flaw you ever created for your own characters?
Find out more about characters and point of view in my book, Fixing Your Character & Point-of-View Problems.
Go step-by-step through revising character and character-related issues, such as two-dimensional characters, inconsistent points of view, too-much backstory, stale dialogue, didactic internalization, and lack of voice. Learn how to analyze your draft, spot any problems or weak areas, and fix those problems.
With clear and easy-to-understand examples, Fixing Your Character & Point-of-View Problems offers five self-guided workshops that target the common issues that make readers stop reading. It will help you:
Flesh out weak characters and build strong character arcs
Find the right amount of backstory to enhance, not bog down, your story
Determine the best point(s) of view and how to use them to your advantage
Eliminate empty dialogue and rambling internalization
Develop character voices and craft unique, individual characters
Fixing Your Character & Point-of-View Problems starts every workshop with an analysis to pinpoint problem areas and offers multiple revision options in each area. You choose the options that best fit your writing process. It's an easy-to-follow guide to crafting compelling characters, solid points of view, and strong character voices readers will love.
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Terry Odell 5/21/11, 8:48 AM
Good point on the unpredictability angle. We know our characters will have to face the fears we give them--I'm forming a new character and am keeping all these things in mind. It's about "push-pull" -- both internal and external.
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Barbara Watson 5/21/11, 11:42 AM
Characters with flaws are endearing, and just for the reason you stated - because no one is perfect. When we see ourselves in someone's writing, that's true connection and is a wonderful thing.
Carol Silvis 5/21/11, 11:45 AM
I can see how flaws make characters real in the minds of readers. Like you said, everyone has them to some extent.
Candace 5/21/11, 12:37 PM
Great post. My character has a few flaws that I'm exploiting, but I like your idea of turning positive traits into flaws at key moments. Off to do some brainstorming...
Carradee 5/21/11, 3:19 PM
Good thoughts. It often seems like most book characters are "short-tempered" or "stubborn", and when I sat down and wrote a novel from the perspective of a paranoid character who was a bit oblivious, I discovered why: it's easier to show someone being stubborn or having a short temper.
"Showing" that your first-person narrator is oblivious is harder, because some readers will hate it. I have one friend who can't stand unreliable narrators. I find it sad, but also amusing, because that means our favorite UF authors vary widely. (But that friend liked The Shifter, Janice—I gave her a copy. :) )
You want the friends and romantic interests to have different flaws than your MC, too, so folks can balance each other. It gets interesting when you create characters who are enjoyable on the page, but you realize you wouldn't like them all that much (or you'd be terrified of them) in person.
Barbara 5/23/11, 1:47 AM
I will apply your ideas to me current re-write. Thank you, Barbara P/S.: "Off of"? Nooo. No.
Orlando 5/23/11, 10:20 AM
Wonder post, I agree with you 100% on the character flaws. Great Stuff!
Jessi L. Roberts 5/23/11, 11:57 AM
This post is especially helpful because I do have some making flawed characters, especially the main characters.
There have been times I've played with using racism as a character flaw but I've worried that maybe it's too big of a flaw because so many people are really against racism. I've never had a main character with that particular trait but I have done it with secondary characters.
Terry: Exactly, in some many ways all throughout the book. That tug is so vital, whether it's a subtle tug or a big action-adventurey tug.
Barbara: It really is. Even if we'd never do what characters we like do, if we feel connected to them we stay with them.
Carol: Yeppers. It also makes it more fun to plot around them.
Candace: Good luck!
Carradee: Great comment. You're totally right. I think immediately of Hannibal Lecter. Loved him on the page, but keep that guy away from me! (grin) And thanks for passing my book along! Much appreciated :)
Barbara: Good luck on those!
Orlando: Thanks!
Jessi: The racism was a trait that just happened in THE SHIFTER, but I'm glad it did. It really showed how easy it was to hate an entire group of people for the bad things a few did. I think had I done it in a real world setting it would have come across differently (sad to say). But in fantasy you can approach tough topics in a safer environment because it's all made up.
Lisa Gail Green 5/27/11, 11:20 AM
Such an awesome post!!! I LOVE it. I also love Stitch, but I guess that's not as important. :D You put it so well. Thank you.
Lisa: Thanks! Lilo and Stitch is one of my all time favorite movies. Loving Stitch is TOTALLY important, LOL.
Miss Good on Paper 5/30/11, 8:05 AM
I constantly tell my students that characters should have flaws. Great post! The most important reason for creating flawed characters: they are more realistic. Since "real people" always have flaws, our characters must have them, too.
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Our takeaways from the CIPS 2014 Conference
October 3, 2014 Procurious HQ
Procurious headed to Kings Place to take in the sights, and hear from a wealth of insightful speakers at the biggest procurement event of the year – the 2014 CIPS Conference and Exhibition.
Having survived the global economic crisis, this year’s theme (unsurprisingly) focused on ‘standards, ethics and innovation’ within what CIPS calls ‘a new procurement future’.
With Craig Lardner chairing proceedings, delegates were treated to a packed day full of talks, break-out sessions, and a distinguished guest from the world of broadcasting.
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Some of our highlights from the day included:
Dr John Glen’s opening session was an early highlight of the day. John is an economist for CIPS, and lectures at the Cranfield School of Management. If you’ve ever struggled to grasp economics, the good Dr offered a brilliantly accessible half hour. He also suggested that the next big challenge for supply chains would be to adopt the business model that’s made Uber into such a success story.
IKEA’s Environmental and Sustainable Development Manager – Charlie Browne, revealed how the business has reduced supplier count in a bid to maximize effectiveness. Sustainability is also in IKEA’s blood – with the retailer’s efforts dating back to 1990s.
Tesco’s Frances Goodwin offered her thoughts on the role of ethical trading in procurement. She left us with a surprising nugget around procuring a banana – in that the supply chain is (on average) 5 layers deep.
Rita Clifton – President of the Market Research Society and former Chair of Interbrand presented a light-hearted session on the power of branding. Rita distilled the ingredients that make a strong brand, and revealed some of the brands that she thinks have got it right. She also confirmed something we’ve been saying for a while: Procurement has an image problem. Do a Google Image search for procurement and see what we mean…
In what was possibly the biggest announcement of the day – Babs Omotowa, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria LNG Limited was announced as the incoming CIPS President. Babs will take the mantle from Craig Lardner four weeks from now.
Our favourite break-out session was delivered courtesy of Clive Lewis – Founder and Managing Director of Illumine Training. Clive guided us through 5 different methods to help boost creativity, and approach problems differently.
Elsewhere, Bord Bia (the Irish Food Board) and Selex ES talked about building strong supplier relationships. The latter having previously been crowned the overall winner at CIPS Supply Management Awards 2014 for their work with Research Electro-Optics (REO).
To cap a busy day off, influential food writer (and occasional TV personality) – Jay Rayner, provided a thought-provoking (and at times, hilarious) commentary on food supply chains. With insights like: full service supermarkets cannot compete with discounters – and in the end it’s the suppliers that suffer. We suspect he may have also snuck a few plugs for his book in there too…
Twitter also provided some key takeaways – here is what some of the other attendees were saying:
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The Education Reporter
A place to learn from and contribute to education reporting, particularly JK-12 education, in Canada and within the province of Ontario.
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Ottawa teacher 'protected' by union
The Ottawa Citizen moved this story across its twitter feed Saturday and I saved the URL for later reading and browsing. It involves the conviction (by plea) of an Ottawa high school teacher who fondled, fingered and had oral sex with one of his 17-year-old students.
Even though the teacher admitted to sexual contact with the student, school officials told police that they didn’t immediately report the abuse after a representative from the teacher’s union asked them not to.
The girl’s father, reading from a victim-impact statement, said he could only hope the school would fire the teacher and call police after they reported the abuse, but that “almost does not happen.”
“Despite the recommendation of the head of (human resources) to dismiss (the teacher), some of the school trustees are of the opinion that they are under no obligation to call the police,” the father said. “I am floored this would even cross their mind.”
This astounds.
First, but a very minor point, it astounds the parents didn't go directly to the police with the e-mails. However, they're not at fault here, the teacher is. The school should have called the police immediately after receiving notice, if not then immediately after the teacher admitted to the behaviour.
Schools are mandated reporters for many other forms of child abuse. That any one of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation, the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association or their French-language counterparts would have actually made that request of the board is deplorable. The concern for a member should only extend so far as to request s/he be suspended with pay / without pay until the police investigation is complete and a decision is made on whether charges are laid.
This is embarrassing for the teachers' federation involved and I hope whoever made that request the board -- and the board employee who accepted it -- are both given their walking papers.
Posted by Education Reporter at 00:51
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That's the problem with the federations. They exist for the protection of their members, not for the protection of the students.
Again, it just reinforces the ideas that bad, even criminal teachers, are hard to get rid of.
Assuming the facts are as they are reported (a caveat which is an important one to bear in mind) this should have been a police matter regarding sexual assault - the student was too old for the CAS to be involved. And board employees would have to report this to the OCT - HR made the right call, and whoever overruled them was bizarrely incorrect. To be fair to the unions, their only job is to protect their members - and they have a legal obligation to do so or can be accused of non-representation. However, they generally are pretty good about not pushing it too far with members who are clearly beyond the pale, as this one was(again, if the facts are correct).
what's odd to me in this situation, if it is indeed true is that there seems to be question around whose responsibility it was to call police.
School? Board? Parents?
Maybe this board and others should develop a process whereby if a situation like this occurs again no one will hesitate.
Too much time lapsed in my opinion between when the sexual interference took place and action taken.
I can tell you that the biggest mistake I made when my son was assaulted by a bully was NOT calling the police because the bully was not dealt with by the school authorities in a way that was satisfactory. My son had to endure that bully for two more years until the kid moved away.
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Jay at folkbum's rambles and rants provides the impetus for this piece and responds to the lies they propogate. I'm not as nice.
Wing nuts commentators and bloggers are again proving adept at being disingenuous. With their party leader’s poll numbers dropping precipitously, and having found it unsavory to ask his Saudi buddies to round up more disaffected youth and convince them to fly into tall buildings for the sake of Republican sustenance of power, these pompous pundits have latched onto the movie “United 93” as the savior of their party’s hopes in November.
This from radio shill, Charlie Sykes:
Is this movie too soon? Hardly. It’s overdue. It's a reality check; an antidote
to the fantasy world of the Charlie Sheens/Russ Feingolds who seem to have
forgotten what happened to this country and how we responded (Well, no…that’s a
lie. We as a nation responded fine. It was their fearless leader who was so baffled upon hearing the news that he delayed reacting by reading a book upside down).
Peter at Texas Hold ‘em Blogger echoes Sykes:
See this trailer. It is so powerful liberals are demanding it be withdrawn from
theaters because of the shock value (Well, no…that’s a lie.). Every time I see
Sept. 11, 2001 footage, which isn't often, I am left shaking with anger. This
was no different.The terrorist appeasers (Well, no…another lie by Peter.) are
claiming it is too soon for this movie. That is a bunch of "Barbra Streisand
(B.S.)." It isn't soon enough. The national media has removed these powerful
images from our TV screens in hopes America will forget what happened that
terrible day in September 2001 (Well, no…a really big whopper.).
Badger Blogger unoriginally continues:
Charlie Sykes has been talking about the trailer for the movie Flight 93, about
9/11, I just watched the trailer. It is stunningly powerful. There are a lot of
people that say this movie should not be shown, but I feel it is the duty of all
Americans to see this movie, we must remember what evil we are fighting in the
War On Terror. To many Americans have such a short memory, and that is sad
(Well, no…another lie. I had a friend die in the fall of the Twin Towers. I
remember him. His name was Ramzi Doany. Don’t preach to me.)
And last, but certainly least, Chris at spottedhorse2 adds his two cents:
America needs this movie we need to be slapped in the face and reminded of the
real reasons why we fight and who we fight (Well, no…you guys need this more
than us…we acknowledge the dead rather than ignore the carnage brought on by
Bush the Minor.) You can see the Trailer for United 93 here. This movie has the
chance to be like the World War 2 Series of films that Frank Capra made for the
United States Government. It was shown to GI's to explain that that war was more
than avenging Pearl Harbor but a fight for the survival of Western Civilization.
Hopefully U93 will help remind the cowards and appeasers of places like White Fish Bay and Shorewood what the real evil in the world is. It is a shame we have to call the gutless cowards who voted to cut and run, Americans in the same breath as the Brave people of that flight.
The Coward AntiAmerican left in this country, the Party of Russ Feingold doesn't want the people to see movies like this or footage from that day. Russ Feingold and his ilk want to pretend 9/11 never happen while setting us up for the next 9/11
(Well, no…that’s a really big lie.).
The true Americans in this country are the ones concerned about the safety of its troops, its citizens and maintaining the rights that both enjoy. This in sharp contrast to the LIARS on the right, like the three bloggers mentioned, who would have been comfortable living in Germany in the 30s when democracy was overwhelmed by gross lust for power.
My friend, James, over at Wigderson Library & Pub is a funny man. I mean that sincerely. His posts intended to be humorous never go flat, and the one liners are the best.
He recently posted a comment about a lefty blogger who, I guess, did not find some of the wingnut comments regarding Larry Nelson's surprise victory in the Waukesha mayoral race humorous. For the most part, the comments all have to do with running for your lives, a communist government will soon be installed.
James is at his best with this photo of a new city of Waukesha logo. What James and all the other righties fail to mention was the destruction the other day of the entrance to Waukesha, torn down by the freed inmates and the liberating armies. They're just a little embarrassed. See below.
"One of the great things about America, one of the beauties of our country, is that when we see a young, innocent child blown up by an IED, we cry." -- George W. Bush
by Greg Saunders
Has anyone bothered to point out that the righteous rage on the right over the flying of the Mexican flag by some attendees at the pro-immigration protests is coming from the same people who defended the confederate flag as a source of “southern pride” (as opposed to the rallying symbol for slave-owners and their defenders)? They were for taking pride in regional/ethnic differences before they were against it. Seems like a racist double-standard to me, but pretty consistent if you stop taking conservatives at their word.
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It was announced today by Faux News that Jessica McBucher was joining Tom Tomorrow's "This Modern World" as a mindless automaton, a role she fulfills regularly at her blogsite. Click on image to enlarge.
Perennially complaining conservative whiner, Peter DiGaudio of Texas Hold 'em Blogger, can dish it out, but can't take it. He complains in comments on Xoff's site that he can't catch a break, and the mean old establishment is against him getting a job. Heck, he even applied for THREE jobs in the 80s, and didn't get hired for any of them, and he's sure that it was because of his skin color.
Now he works at a $7,000 a year job trying to teach inner city kids who don't want to learn (his words). While I could go on and on about a person claiming to be an educator putting down his/her own students as deplorable, I'm more interested in someone working for $7,000 a year in this day and age. Peter, you could make more money delivering papers.
If you take a look at Peter's blogsite, I'm thinking you will notice what I noticed...a lot of anger and it's not very well written. Not well written in the sense he cannot maintain an argument that makes sense. I've posted twice about this here and here.
Anyway, in response to a comment I made that perhaps the reason he is not hired for better jobs is because of his attitude, Peter advises me to get a 9mm, stick it in my mouth and blow my worthless ass away. Peter’s such a meany.
I hear conservatives go on and on about the anger from the left. Pat McIlheran claims it's because lefties are childish and immature, while conservatives are thoughtful and well-mannered, and would never resort to name calling or threats. Ha ha ha.
Pat, meet Peter, a poster child for anger management and the need for timeouts.
Jessica McBucher is already whipping out the blog posts stating that the Dems had an unfair advantage because they violated the anti-partisan aspect of the mayoral race in Waukesha. How did they do this? The Waukesha County Democratic Party sent out a memo advising members to do visibility demonstrations the day of the election.
Oh my gosh, Jessica. The horror.
Of course, the irony is that Jessica completely neglects to mention that Ann Nischke proudly proclaimed her Republicanhood and support of Bride of Tabor (a Republican-backed initiative), and that Republican former Gov. Tommy Thompson and Republican F(at). James Sensenbrenner campaigned for Dan Vrakas for Waukesha County board exec.
She saves the funniest for last. She has protested long-windedly and hard against the anti-war referendums in the state. She even resorted to Joe McCarthy tactics and claimed they were set up by communist front groups, notwithstanding there are numerous stories of people who felt so strongly that they pushed for these referendums on their own, without any outside help, and succeeded in getting them on ballots. Anyway, Jessica claims victory by pointing out that if you remove the votes from Shorewood, Madison and La Crosse, voters by a solid majority voted against the referendums.
Uh, I see. Is that the new McBucher and Republican strategy? In this November’s elections, the defeat of Republican-backed candidates will be nullified because the votes of liberals don’t count?
Jessica McBucher, defender of tyranny and a (look up the word Rush Limbaugh used to describe the women allegedly raped by a lacrosse team) for the Republican establishment.
Going to vote for Jeff Speaker today, for mayor of Brookfield. I like the truck he drives and that he won't toss shoes in my direction if we disagree.
Not terribly in-depth reasons for voting, but at least I vote.
I get tired of responding to these clowns. But this was so blatantly sophomoric that I couldn’t pass it up. This from "Alicia" commenting on an anti-referendum post at Wigderson Library & Pub.
It's an emotional issue, and fear has a way of clouding sound judgment.If it
weren't for our history of troops defending our liberties,and our ideals,we may
not have had the luxury of holding a public referendum/elections/ and have
freedom of speech. Are these people who are anti-war also pro-Saddam Hussein
(and the likes of him? Our country has chosen to take a brave stand. The easier
path is to stand for nothing/do nothing then criticize the leadership who is
actually trying to achieve goals.
Alicia, which tyranny do you come from? Last time I looked, “we the people” were the protectors of our liberties and ideals. When did we give up that right and allow tyranny to triumph.
I am insulted that you seem to think that holding public referendums, elections and practicing freedom of speech is a luxury.
IT IS A DUTY.
IT IS A RIGHT.
It is insulting for you to denigrate those who are doing their duty and are taking a stand for what they believe is the right course for this country, while you complacently enjoy the fruits of luxury.
I do not agree with you that our country took a brave stand in Iraq. I believe we are in the wrong in Iraq. I believe that we are the aggressor in Iraq. No one participating in these referendums is pro-Hussein…we should have took him out in the first gulf war, but George’s daddy’s Saudi friends advised against it then. Who is really looking out for our best interests, Alicia, certainly you don’t believe that the Saudis are?
No, Alicia, the easiest path is to do nothing, which is the path you have chosen. You have chosen to turn your back on civic duty and you have turned your back on the troops, our fellow citizens. That's right, Alicia, the troops are the same as me and those citizens standing up with the anti-war referendums: citizens.
Tree hugging – it is somehow bad to hug a tree now and then. I’ve climbed trees when I was a kid and when I got too high, I hugged that tree for dear life. I felt sad when we had to cut the apple tree in the backyard down. It had provided apples for many years and contributed to numerous apple dishes. It provided shade. It provided food for animals who would visit our backyard. Hugging a tree is not such a bad thing, but Patrick McIlheran and conservatives would have you think so.
Anti-war – it is somehow bad to be against war. No one I know likes war. The military only fights war as a last resort. War causes death. Lots of it. The opposite of anti-war is, I guess to be for war. Is this really what Patrick McIlheran and conservatives want? That says something about their morals or lack thereof.
Peacenik – it is somehow bad to be for peace. See above.
More as they come up. Conservatives are such sad people.
A busy weekend spent with friends talking baseball primarlily, but also some politics, lots of music, what's going on with families, who's died...all done with beer and mohitos. Sadly, an acquaintance of ours from high school days passed away. Al LaLeike was a good-hearted guy. It was always a joy to see him again.
I think I improved my chances to contend for the Little Nine title again this year. The first order of business was a trade to J. I traded Dontrelle Willis, Miguel Cabrera, Felipe Lopez and my second round pick for Todd Helton, Grady Sizemore and the top pick in the draft.
Not satisfied, I turned around and traded the top pick in the draft and Grady Sizemore for Ricky Weeks and Vernon Wells.
It remains to be seen whether any of these moves will help.
One thing on "white advantage" a topic of interest in the right wing of the Cheddarsphere. My gosh you people are twisted. It's been a little over 40 years since the Civil Rights Act and already you're complaining. Oh my, your "white disadvantage" has been whittled away a bit (I know you're saying there isn't one, but it's what you sound like).
Got news for you blockheads, we as a nation have a long way to go before centuries of advantage are evened or wiped out. If you think living the black experience as it is for many today is a choice, much the same as the choice all of you get to make in life, then you are more narrow-minded than I ever thought.
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Bill Barnwell of ESPN.com points out that Rams QB JARED GOFF is playing about as well as Bills QB JOSH ALLEN:
Player A: 61.8% completion percentage, 7.0 yards per attempt, 7 INTs
Player B: 62.4% completion percentage, 7.0 yards per attempt, 7 INTs
Let’s start with a straightforward comparison. Player A is Jared Goff’s 2019 season so far, with the Rams quarterback hitting these relatively mortal numbers only after getting to face the free parking space that is the Falcons’ defense last Sunday. Goff should continue his return to form against the Bengals in Week 8, but the former first overall pick will have to contend with the likes of the Steelers, Bears and Ravens after Los Angeles’ subsequent bye.
Player B is Bills quarterback Josh Allen, who has unquestionably improved as a passer after a moribund rookie season. If anything, he deserves a bit of a boost given that he has played the Patriots, which is his only truly dreadful performance of the season. The Bills have surrounded Allen with a better infrastructure and receivers than the replacement-level talents he worked with in 2018, and his numbers have rebounded by asking him to throw deep less frequently. Throw in Allen’s distinct advantage as a runner (190 rushing yards and 13 first downs, to 16 yards and three first downs for Goff) and you could very well argue that Allen has been the more productive player this season.
Of course, we’re telling different stories about these players because they look to be on different paths. Goff, who played like a franchise quarterback for most of last season, appears to be taking steps backward. Allen, who looked to be in over his head as a rookie, is on the way up. They’re both roughly in the same spot as below-average quarterbacks, with Goff and Allen ranking 27th and 29th, respectively, in Total QBR. Goff’s track record of NFL success suggests that he’s more likely to improve, but who can be sure?
Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com on how the Vikings have righted their sinking longship:
The state of the Vikings in Week 5 required two responses: ease locker room tension and show that a forgettable performance was an aberration.
Support for Cousins and Diggs got the locker room to a safe place.
Safety Anthony Harris doesn’t remember any team leaders talking up (or down) Diggs after he missed a work day over frustration with the offense and sparked trade rumors in the process. Sources said this was not the first time Diggs had expressed issues with the team. But Harris said, “We really care for that guy here,” and they showed it with daps and hugs as Diggs took his team-issued fines for the absence and worked his way back.
“We pride ourselves in taking care of one another, being a family first, embracing what each individual is going through,” said Harris, a sixth-year safety with the team. “Try to stay together, regardless of any reports that come out. It’s about having your guys’ backs.”
That also meant building Cousins back up. Players knew the Chicago loss was hardly on the quarterback alone; the Bears beat up just about everybody in a 16-6 loss. A now-thriving offensive line had been playing with moving parts early in the season, which didn’t help. A lack of overall offensive groove mimicked Cousins’ rhythmless touchdown celebrations.
Harris remembers thinking amid social media outcry over Cousins’ ability: Lay off him, let him work, go play, and we believe in you. No pressure from us.
Then, offensive coordinator Kevin Stefanski saw Cousins immerse himself in the game plan for the Giants, poring over every detail with quarterbacks coach Klint Kubiak.
“He’s a pro. He takes his job so seriously,” Stefanski said. “He does a nice job of jumping in, learning a game plan cold.”
Meanwhile, the Vikings’ staff remained confident the explosive plays would come. The outside-zone running scheme, with Dalvin Cook turning 5-yard gains into 15, would facilitate more play-action chances downfield.
Three wins, nearly 1,000 passing yards and 10 touchdowns through the air later — 354 and three of which were to Diggs — the Vikings are glad they didn’t overreact and instead clung to routine. Especially with a now-healthy line that is creating big holes, with young players Garrett Bradbury and Brian O’Neill emerging.
“Sometimes you get beat by a good team at their place,” Stefanski said of the Bears loss. “You see the headlines, get asked the questions, but in our building, guys came to work and kept working. We felt strong in who we were. I don’t think anyone lost any confidence.”
Then, Stefanski stressed a key truism with the Vikings’ offense, which Minnesota must uphold to win the NFC North: “We’re not a one-man show.”
Some concussions take more time than others. Josh Alper of ProFootballTalk.com:
Wide receiver Sterling Shepard said this week that he feels ready to get back into the Giants lineup after missing two games with a concussion, but it’s far from certain that he’ll be in the lineup against the Lions on Sunday.
Shepard practiced on a limited basis last week and had the same level of participation in Wednesday’s workout, so he’s made some progress toward clearing the concussion protocol. He hasn’t passed the final stages, however, and head coach Pat Shurmur didn’t sound overly confident that will happen in time for Sunday.
Shurmur told reporters that there’s a “strong possibility” that Shepard, who also missed a game after a Week One concussion, will be out again this weekend.
Golden Tate and Darius Slayton have seen the most snaps at receiver the last two weeks. Cody Latimer and Bennie Fowler will round out the group if Shepard is on the sideline again.
Whether the reasons are physical, mental, emotional or a combination, GM John Elway says don’t count on seeing rookie QB DREW LOCK anytime soon. Darin Gantt of ProFootballTalk.com:
The Broncos aren’t ready to make a quarterback change, primarily because they don’t think they have an option that’s ready.
As tempting (and easy) as it would be to move on from Joe Flacco after a 2-5 start, there are a few practical realities preventing them from doing so.
Second-round pick Drew Lock is expected to start practicing again soon, in hopes of returning from the broken thumb that landed him on injured reserve. But they haven’t started the clock on him yet, perhaps because the boss isn’t sure he’s prepared to play anytime soon.
Via Nicki Jhabvala of TheAthletic.com, Broncos General Manager John Elway said during an interview on KOA that he’s still thinking about the future of Lock.
“I will say this: The most important thing for a young quarterback is not to put him out there before he’s ready,” Elway said. “So that is the most important thing and if he’s not ready, we’re not going to put him out there. That is the key thing. And as you know dealing with quarterbacks, it’s a very tough thing because if you don’t put him in a situation where he has a chance to be successful and he’s not successful, the whole roof will cave in. So we have to make sure that Drew is ready when he does get in there, if he does get in there.
“We’re still in the process of evaluating that. He is not ready to go right now, I will tell you that.”
Elway recalled his own experience, in which he was benched during his fifth game in 1983, only to get the job back four games later because of injury.
“Really the four games I was benched, I learned a hell of a lot more than in the four games I played just because it’s such a big step,” Elway said. “Then Steve DeBerg got hurt and it gave me a second chance that year, so I was able to come back and had a different viewpoint of it after I sat for those four games.
“So I think that’s why with young quarterbacks, it’s always good for them to see what it’s all about and the step that it takes instead of throwing them right into the fire, because very few of these guys have a lot of success early. They’re going to take their lumps. As I did and as most quarterbacks do, they’re going to take their lumps, and they have to be able to withstand that, and they got to be able to withstand the negative stuff that’s going to come with the part that he continues to get better.”
Of course, the atmosphere Elway created (they’re 2-5 and their best wide receiver just asked to be traded and was) is the negative one that might stunt Lock’s growth, which might make it best for Lock to wait.
More signs of a Mahomes Medical Miracle. Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com:
Amazingly, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes returned to practice on Wednesday, only six days after suffering a dislocated kneecap against the Broncos.
Officially, he was limited in practice. It remains to be seen whether this will translate to a timeline-defying return to action for Sunday Night Football against the Packers.
As a source with knowledge of the situation explained it to PFT over the weekend, any effort to specifically peg Mahomes’ absence amounts to speculation. Natural healing coupled with rehab efforts and MRI results will determine when he’s good to go.
Still, the fact that he did enough on Wednesday to qualify for the “limited” practice label suggests that he’ll be back sooner than later.
On one hand, the 5-2 Chiefs need him, given that the 6-1 Packers and 5-2 Vikings are coming to town over the next two weeks. On the other hand, the Chiefs need to be certain that they’re not exposing Mahomes to enhanced risk of an injury that could end his 2019 season and/or affect his preparedness for 2020. Mahomes will be the franchise quarterback for another 15 years; there’s no reason to assume unnecessary risk at this point.
But Mahomes surely wants to play, and the Chiefs surely realize that 5-2 could quickly become 5-4 without him over the next two Sundays.
Elsewhere for the Chiefs, tacke Eric Fisher (groin) returned to practice on a limited basis. Receiver Sammy Watkins (hamstring) fully participated. Defensive tackle Chris Jones (groin) did not practice.
Steelers LB ANTHONY CHICKILLO goes on the commissioner’s exempt list after an argument with his pole vaulter girlfriend goes wrong at a Pennsylvania casino. Jacob Klinger of PennLive.com:
The NFL put Anthony Chickillo on paid leave.
The Steelers announced Wednesday afternoon that the outside linebacker was added to the commissioner’s exempt list and that team filled his place on the roster with Jayrone Elliott.
Chickillo was arrested Sunday morning on charges of simple assault, criminal mischief and harassment after an incident in which state police say he got into an argument with Alysha Newman over casino table games at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort.
State trooper Nicholas Kunz wrote that Newman, who is an Olympic pole vaulter and Chickillo’s girlfriend, told police the Steeler grabbed her by both arms, threw her against a wall and door, the tossed her to the ground and smashed her cell phone. Newman then hid in the bathroom and waited for police, according to the incident report.
The NFL told PennLive on Monday the league was investigating the incident. Placement on the commissioner’s exempt list allows the league to continue investigations of players without their teams taking action themselves.
In a statement from general manager Kevin Colbert on Tuesday the Steelers said they would await “further information” while cooperating with the league and legal investigations. Chickillo’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 30, according to court documents obtained by PennLive.
Newman is a member of the Canadian Olympic team, but she met Chickillo when both were students at the University of Miami. Here is a story from happier times – from Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com in 2018:
They met in the University of Miami training room, a romance sparked by bone spurs and ankle sprains.
It was August 2013, and Anthony Chickillo was a promising defensive lineman visibly upset his heavily-taped ankle would keep him out of camp.
“I told him, ‘It won’t kill you, you’re good,'” said Alysha Newman, now a world-class pole vaulter for Canada.
An athletic power couple was born, for better or worse.
That training room session set the stage for a relationship built on love, strengthened by admiration but hindered by personal goals.
Chickillo, in his fourth season as an outside linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was predestined to play football. His father, Tony, and grandfather, Nick, both played in the league.
But while Chickillo pores over game film each week, Newman is getting world-class treatment five hours away in Toronto or traveling the world for modeling shoots and Nike promotional work. She’s rigorously rehabbing a partially torn patellar tendon and has the inside track for medal placement in the 2020 Olympic games. In April, she set a Commonwealth Games record by clearing 4.75 meters. She’s eyeing a 5.0 mark by 2020, and despite Chickillo’s 6.5 career sacks, he knows it’s tough to argue who’s the better athlete.
Chickillo and Newman want marriage. They want kids. And more kids. But ambition blurs visions of an extended life together.
“At times it’s hard. You have to sacrifice some things, make it work,” Chickillo said. “I feel like I want her to be successful in her sport. I want her to reach her goals. Whatever her plan is, I’m for that.”
Those sacrifices include plenty of drives across the Canadian border, and lots of time alone. Newman schedules her training around Steelers home-game weekends, and Chickillo spends a few weeks in Toronto after the season. But Newman can’t just work out anywhere. Her Olympic training center in Toronto is specific to her skill set, so she can’t camp out in Pittsburgh.
Chickillo, who’s signed to a restricted free-agent tender of $1.9 million this year, can’t leave his team on a whim with impulsive trips north.
The separation has created friction they’ve worked through. After Newman withdrew from the Prefontaine Games in May for what she thought was a kneecap rupture suffered during warm-ups, Chickillo reached her by phone for support. Newman, about to be transported to medical care via helicopter, told her boyfriend, “I think you wanted this to happen so I can be [in Pittsburgh] more.” Chickillo assured her that’s not at all what he was thinking.
Newman admits she was frustrated and thinking the worst in the moment. But their time apart has required patience.
“It’s taken a long time to figure it out, but we’re stronger than we’ve ever been,” Newman said. “If I had to choose between him and track and field, he knows I’d choose track and field. To be able to impact others with our sports, you can’t duplicate that and we know that. We can’t regret anything so we don’t have to blame each other. Because someone is in your life doesn’t mean you have to lose your dream. Since we’re apart, we can be selfish all the time. This is the time we have to put as much in the bank as we can as athletes. Sometimes it’s hard to remember this is really good for us. You realize that and expect each other to pick up the slack.”
With those challenges come unique perspective on each other’s physical demands. Newman and Chickillo don’t talk much about football schematics, but she understands speed and power. She’ll let him know if she sees something in his game that he needs to improve — such as overpowering a tackle or getting off the edge with a better angle.
Chickillo’s specialty is encouraging her to maximize her ability and fight through injuries.
“It’s really cool. We push each other,” Chickillo said. “She’s competitive. We have a lot of fun. She’s really dedicated. We can talk about that with each other, things to make each other better.”
Chickillo already has targeted the summer of 2020 for some time off while Newman competes in the Olympics. Chickillo watched with teammates as Newman competed in the 2016 Rio games, where she finished 17th overall and was not pleased with her performance. Since then, though, her career has taken off.
Newman wants at least two successful Olympic stints and a long Steelers career for Chickillo. Maybe by then, their sports empires will collide to form a happy home, with kids who look up to parents who did things their way.
“No matter what happens, I have a best friend who’s pumped me up so many times,” Newman said. “We would love for this to work out, but if it didn’t, we would both be grateful. But I can’t wait till we get to the point where we’re successful and we can enjoy it together.”
Jeremy Fowler on how the Colts have gotten to 5-2 after the sudden departure of their franchise QB:
From the thousands of words Luck emotionally spilled onto a stunned media corps the night of Aug. 24, the Colts could pare down his retirement explanation to about six: mental anguish from constantly rehabbing injuries.
Privately, the Colts didn’t attempt to psychoanalyze that reasoning — which wasn’t easy to hear, to be sure. They just accepted it, made the quarterback whole contractually and got back to work. As one source involved told me, everyone is looking for conspiracies and career-ending injuries that simply didn’t exist. The situation dissolved fairly quickly once late August hit.
Indy set a tone nine days after the announcement by signing Jacoby Brissett to a two-year, $30 million extension, rewarding an ascending player without tying the future to him unnecessarily.
Brissett is now playing like he’s worth twice that, throwing 14 touchdown passes to just three interceptions while leading the Colts to a 4-2 start. Teammates love Brissett, who revealed his on-field edge long ago: In college at Florida, he was so upset that coaches went with Jeff Driskel instead of him that he transferred to NC State and vowed to make everyone pay.
It’s hardly a guarantee Brissett can keep up his current pace, but he’s setting himself up for a far more lucrative negotiation next year. And he wears “Run the damn ball” hats, which is a great locker room morale boost.
Around Brissett, general manager Chris Ballard has built a roster with the versatility of a blazer that looks sharp at work and at happy hour.
The Colts’ offense is at its best when it peels back and smothers a defense for nearly 40 minutes of running-game agony. But it looks comfortable when Brissett is throwing more than 35 times, too. Brissett has 901 yards and nine touchdowns to one interception in the three games the Colts gave him more freedom to deliver from the pocket.
The roster has just about everything: the linebacker leader for the next decade (Darius Leonard), the successful reclamation project (Pierre Desir), a Le’Veon Bell footwork disciple (Marlon Mack), the last-chance veteran who can still get to the quarterback at times (Justin Houston), five capable offensive linemen and the potent red zone target who’s just happy to be out of Detroit (Eric Ebron). It could use one or two more splash playmakers on defense and another vertical threat, but this is a top-10 roster right now.
And then there’s Frank Reich, purveyor of culture, picker of spots. He knows his team is ready to handle the storms of an NFL season.
“It really comes down to the mindset and the character of the team and the belief and conviction of what we’re doing, and the trust in each other,” Reich told me this offseason. “You can watch any sport, any time, the championship teams have that. … The trust, the love for each other, is at the center of it. And it’s all about the players. You need the provision, but it doesn’t work without everybody in. You’ve got to have the leaders in the locker room who really believe.”
The acquisition of WR MOHAMMAD SANU apparently came about because the Patriots are ready to give up on their reclamation project with WR JOSH GORDON. Charean Williams of ProFootballTalk.com:
The Patriots placed Josh Gordon on injured reserve Wednesday, a day after acquiring receiver Mohamed Sanu from the Falcons. It might not signal the end of Gordon’s season, though.
Gordon’s knee injury is considered “minor,” according to multiple reports, and he expects to be cleared soon. The receiver recently went 22 mph on a treadmill during his rehab, Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated reports.
Gordon replied to NFL Media’s tweet about the Patriots placing him on IR with one word: “Interesting.”
The Patriots are expected to waive Gordon off injured reserve once he’s cleared, according to Ian Rapoport of the NFL, allowing Gordon to play with another team this season. If they waive him after Tuesday’s trade deadline, Gordon would be subject to waivers.
That would improve New England’s chances of keeping Gordon away from an AFC competitor with the worst teams getting the first shots at waiver claims.
Gordon has two bone bruises in his knee, which he aggravated against the Giants. He has not played since the Oct. 10 game.
Gordon warmed up at practice Wednesday but did not participate.
He has 20 catches for 287 yards and a touchdown this season, and 60 catches for 1,007 yards and four touchdowns in 17 games with the Patriots over the past two seasons.
The league handed Gordon an indefinite suspension for another violation of the league’s substance abuse policy Dec. 20, but Commissioner Roger Goodell lifted it during training camp.
The next dispute between a player and a team medical staff (after T TRENT WILLIAMS still holding out from the Redskins) involves Jets G KELECHI OSEMELE. Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News brings us up to date with a pro-player slant:
Kelechi Osemele’s standoff with the Jets took another strange turn when the two-time Pro Bowl guard revealed Wednesday that after getting a third opinion this week, he will have surgery Friday to repair a torn labrum.
Osemele also said that general manager Joe Douglas admitted that the team inadvertently sent blank and wrong MRI images to doctors when the player was seeking an independent second opinion. To make matters weirder, Osemele conveyed that the Jets team doctor said that he should have surgery now if he’s in pain. However, the Jets had yet to authorize the surgery as of Wednesday afternoon.
“The conflict is that the team does not think that I’m in pain,” said Osemele, who is getting fined the maximum amount by the team every day that he doesn’t practice.
It’s a jarring statement given the heightened importance on player safety. Osemele has filed a grievance to recoup the money lost through fines. He had a conference call with NFL Players Association officials Monday to chart a course of action.
“It’s ethically and morally wrong,” Osemele said of denying surgery. “They’re saying that pain is the No. 1 thing right now. So, if you can bear it and you can get through it, then yes. But I can’t.”
“I’m 30 years old,” Osemele added. “Let’s be realistic about this. I’m in a lot of pain. My tolerance isn’t probably the same as it used to be… But I can’t go. I just can’t go. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do in this situation. I can lift my arm. It just hurts.”
The Jets declined comment Wednesday when asked about Osemele’s assertions. The organization has inexplicably created a PR mess through their actions and public silence. Adam Gase declined comment on Tuesday. The team declined public comment last week, while a PR official disparaged Osemele through back channels, the ultimate amateur move by a poorly run outfit.
Osemele flew to Boston Tuesday to get a third opinion after the Jets viewed the second opinion as nebulous. (The second opinion concluded that surgery was predicated on symptoms). Osemele said that he first noticed pain on August 5 before it “increasingly got worse.”
The Jets have leaned on the “pre-existing injury” crutch without acknowledging this fundamental (and obvious) truth: Pre-existing injuries can worsen.
The Jets gave Osemele a Toradol pain injection before the first three games without listing him on the injury report. Although Osemele conceded that Toradol is commonly used by players in pain, he made it clear that its effectiveness wore off at some point in the first half of the Jets’ Week 3 blowout loss in Philly.
“A lot of guys play through injuries and you need that to play thru an injury,” Osemele said about Toradol. “But once it stops working and it doesn’t do anything for you anymore, then you’re at a point where it’s like, ‘Now what do I do?’ Do I take Vicodin? Where is the line? How much should a player play through pain? What is the limit? Is there a limit? Am I supposed to take Toradol every day? Does my health not matter?”
Osemele said that he’ll need 4-6 months to rehab and that he “100 percent” wants to play next year. He was also smart enough to acknowledge that he will be cut after the season.
Osemele said that his benching had nothing to do with his decision to want surgery now, citing that he wanted to go under the knife before a switch was made during the Week 4 bye.
He also confirmed a report that the organization didn’t initially send independent doctors the proper MRI images when the player sought a second opinion.
“Douglas told me that was a mistake,” Osemele said. “It wasn’t intentional. They were just blank. And then the wrong one was sent. So, it was just a series of trying to get the MRI and it just not coming together. But it eventually did get put together.”
It was a microcosm of just how much the Jets have botched this entire situation.
Osemele spoke with candor and calm amid what he described as a “slightly disrespectful” situation. He handled the matter like a professional, while his employer essentially called him a liar.
The Jets, meanwhile, stayed true to what they are.
Meanwhile, QB SAM DARNOLD is limping two days after seeing ghosts. Manish Mehta again:
Sam Darnold came to work limping on Wednesday after having his toenail removed the day after his forgettable five-turnover performance against the Patriots. Although Darnold isn’t in jeopardy of missing the Jets game in Jacksonville on Sunday, the second-year quarterback was listed as a non-participant in practice on Wednesday after not taking part in team drills.
Adam Gase said Wednesday morning that Darnold will be re-evaluated after doing individual drills and 7-on-7 passing drills. The signal caller has been outfitted with new padding and shoes to alleviate the discomfort.
“We’re just trying to make sure that he feels good with the shoes that he’s got,” Gase said. “He just had that procedure (Tuesday). He had a toenail removed. I don’t know. It was pretty gross, what they were talking about.”
The doctors and trainers will monitor Darnold before determining whether he can participate in team drills. If he can’t, he’ll be listed as a DNP (did not practice) on the team’s official injury report that will be released later in the day.
Gase isn’t concerned at all about Darnold’s availability for Sunday.
“He’s limping a little bit,” Gase said. “But once we get him in his shoe and the padding and all that stuff, he should be good to go.”
Gase isn’t concerned that Darnold’s poor play on Monday night will linger. He was matter-of-fact in his message to the player.
“Learn from it,” Gase told Darnold. “Move on… got to clear your mind. You got to make sure you do a great job focusing on this game. What happened last week is irrelevant. You have to learn from it, but it’s gone. There’s nothing we can do about it now.”
Cynthia Frelund of NFL.com, presented as their “NFL Networks Analytics Expert,” declares that the Jets will make a strong run in the second half of the season.
SLEEPER TEAM
New York Jets: I understand that, coming off a 33-0 trouncing by the Patriots on “Monday Night Football,” it likely feels weird to see that my model picked the Jets to upset the Jags in Jacksonville this weekend. But don’t let recency bias cloud your vision. The Jets project to have more wins coming to finish the season than their current 1-5 record might indicate.
Here’s one point to consider from each side of the ball:
Offense: The Jets have faced some strong defenses through Week 7, but among every team’s remaining schedule, the Jets’ features the second-lowest combined unit win shares of opposing defenses. Per Football Outsiders, the Jets’ offense is in the top two in terms of having faced the hardest average DVOA of opponent, and it’s among the top two in easiest remaining DVOA. This week against the Jaguars, who traded away top cornerback Jalen Ramsey last week, expect to see the passing game look more like the outfit that helped them beat the Cowboys in Week 6. While the Jets currently rank last in yards per play (3.75), remember that this average includes the three games Sam Darnold missed with mono. When you combine the Jets’ potential ability to run efficiently against the Jaguars’ defense (Jacksonville is allowing 4.98 yards per rush on first down, fifth highest) and Darnold’s ability to connect with receivers deep, this game projects to be won through big plays and start the Jets’ ascent to 15th in yards per play by season’s end.
Defense: The Jets’ defense has been inconsistent when it comes to applying strategic pressure. For example, they have the lowest percentages of pressure in the red zone in both attempted pressure (16%) and disruption (12.2%), with zero sacks. While stopping the run is an area of success (3.25 yards allowed per attempt, second-best in the NFL), the Jets have stopped the pass only intermittently. This week against the Jags, the Jets project to slow Leonard Fournette enough to force more obvious passes. Deep passing for both teams — especially when it comes to limiting the success of Jacksonville’s Gardner Minshew — is likely to be the key to this game. This is also an area where the Jets will improve, especially with linebacker C.J. Mosley, who missed four games with a groin injury, back on the field going forward.
BEST CONTRACTS BY TEAM
ESPN.com has a long list of the best contract on each NFL team put together by Rives McCown. We have the list of names below (with a few excerpts). The whole thing is here.
An NFL roster is a zero-sum game, thanks to the salary cap. Paying one player more means you have to pay another player less. That means it’s important for every team to get value out of its veteran contracts. We analyzed the rosters of all 32 NFL teams and picked out the most valuable contract on each one. Then, we had NFL Nation reporters give us some insights on each player from teammates, coaches or the player himself, along with what his next contract could look like (and where it could be).
Buffalo Bills: Micah Hyde, S
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $6.618 million (3.5%), 2020: $6.7 million (3.4%), 2021: $6.75 million
Why his contract is so valuable: If the best way to determine if a player is good is the approval of his peers, Buffalo’s opponents sure don’t want to throw at Micah Hyde. Sports Info Solutions had him with just 27 targets last season, despite a forward role in the defense, and in six games this season, he has been targeted just nine times. Hyde was a big steal in free agency for Brandon Beane…Arguably the Bills’ best player, Hyde, who was honored by his inclusion on this list, is in line for an extension that should position him among the highest-paid safeties in the NFL.
Miami Dolphins: Preston Williams, WR
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $498,333 (0.3%), 2020: $588,333 (0.3%), 2021: $673,334
Why his contract is so valuable: On a real, non-tanking football team, we’d probably have a better pick for this category.
New England Patriots: J.C. Jackson, CB
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $573,333 (0.3%), 2020: $663,334 (0.3%), 2021: RFA
Why his contract is so valuable: Tom Brady’s willingness to use his contract to help facilitate greatness for the Patriots is a big reason the Patriots are so good. New England’s draft manipulation and stockpiling of picks via the compensatory pick system is also a big reason the Patriots are so good. And then, hey, they found an undrafted free agent who came on toward the end of last season who just happens to be allowing 3.0 yards per target in 2019, has already picked five interceptions in five career starts and has defensed five more balls just for fun.
New York Jets: Robby Anderson, WR
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $3.1 million (1.6%)
Why his contract is so valuable: Yes, Anderson’s numbers are down this season, but you can blame Luke Falk for that. (It didn’t help to be covered by Stephon Gilmore last week.) Anderson came on late last season and has continuously been one of the most aspirational players in the NFL.
Baltimore Ravens: Michael Pierce, DT
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $3.095 million
Why his contract is so valuable: This pretty much came down to how you value Pierce against offseason bargain Pernell McPhee. Both players are good against the run and contributors against the pass, and I think both have a great understanding of the game.
Cincinnati Bengals: Alex Erickson, WR
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $1.76 million (0.9%), 2020: $1.86 million (0.9%)
Why his contract is so valuable: Erickson was one of the best kick returners in the NFL last season, has been a high-efficiency underneath target whenever called upon and signed a long-term extension for relative peanuts.
Cleveland Browns: JC Tretter, C
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $7.25 million (3.9%)
Why his contract is so valuable: Signed from the Packers in part because of an “injury-prone” tag, Tretter has played like a top-10 center the past three seasons and has been given the contract of a solid starting lineman.
Pittsburgh Steelers: Alejandro Villanueva, OT
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $8.4 million (4.5%), 2020: $8.4 million (4.2%)
Why his contract is so valuable: Villanueva came to the Steelers late because he was active-duty military, but the massive left tackle has been one of the league’s best since he took over as a UDFA in 2015. …What’s next? Villanueva is well aware that almost half the left tackles in the NFL are paid more than he is, but the former Army Ranger’s life experience gives him a unique perspective on his bargain contract.
Houston Texans: J.J. Watt, DE
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $14,628,750 (8.0%), 2020: $15.5 million (7.8%), 2021: $17.5 million
Why his contract is so valuable: This is going to take some unpacking because I know this is a weird name to see on this list. Watt signed his contract in 2014. Times have changed drastically for edge rushers, and though Watt is among the highest-paid 3-4 ends, he’s no longer making superstar pass-rusher money.
Indianapolis Colts: Kenny Moore II, CB
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $9 million (4.8%), 2020: $6 million (3.0%), 2021: $5.65 million, 2022: $5.75 million, 2023: $7.54 million
Why his contract is so valuable: Moore is kind of a contradiction in terms: He’s a great slot cornerback, which is a brand of player that tends to have up-and-down seasons. He’s also a great pass-rusher at cornerback, which he showed in devastating the Texans in the playoffs.
Jacksonville Jaguars: Calais Campbell, DE
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $14.5 million (7.7%), 2020: $17.5 million (8.8%)
Why his contract is so valuable: Just like Watt, Campbell is a true star end who is playing on a contract that would have been onerous in 2017, but in 2019, the cap has grown to the point that it’s pretty fair.
Tennessee Titans: Ben Jones, C
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $5.375 million (2.9%), 2020: $6.25 million (3.1%), 2021: $7.25 million
Why his contract is so valuable: Although Jones has never been — and likely will never be — a Hall of Fame-level center, he has been one of the steadiest in football at the position the past three seasons.
Denver Broncos: Todd Davis, LB
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $5 million (2.7%), 2020: $6 million (3.0%)
Why his contract is so valuable: Splitting out raw completion percentages against linebackers always feels weird because so much of the current NFL game is against them. But per SportsRadar, Davis is allowing 5.3 yards per target in 2019 and has mostly limited the underneath gains as the main cover linebacker for the Broncos the past three seasons…
What’s next? When the Broncos claimed Davis off waivers (from the Saints) in 2014, the thinking was that he would add some depth, some speed and some athleticism and they liked what they knew about his work ethic. They’ve gotten so much more, given that he played in every game for a Super Bowl winner in the 2015 season and has been a starter the past four seasons.
Kansas City Chiefs: Travis Kelce, TE
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $10.7 million (5.7%), 2020: $10.4 million (5.2%), 2021: $9 million
Why his contract is so valuable: Kelce is one of the highest paid tight ends in football, yes, but he also offers incredible value as the rare tight end to live up to his contract.
Los Angeles Chargers: Austin Ekeler, RB
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $646,668 (0.3%), 2020: RFA
Why his contract is so valuable: What did we learn from the Melvin Gordon contract situation? We learned that it didn’t really hinder the Chargers all that much to have Gordon gone. For some teams, it would have been a real problem. But Ekeler plugged in and was fantastic in Gordon’s absence
Oakland Raiders: Richie Incognito, OG
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $569,118 (0.3%)
Why his contract is so valuable: Listen, Richie Incognito has been a pill to deal with for the entirety of the past five years of his career. There’s the Dolphins bullying scandal, and there are his off-field issues that sent him away from the Bills. He doesn’t seem like a particularly good addition to a locker room from the outside. But he is an incredible run-blocker and has done so even at an advanced age and coming off a suspension this season.
Dallas Cowboys: Jeff Heath, S
Why his contract is so valuable: Suddenly a starter after the Cowboys let Barry Church walk following the 2017 season, Heath hasn’t exactly been a dynamic tackler, but he is a solid coverage safety who reads the ball well in help defense.
New York Giants: Markus Golden, LB
Why his contract is so valuable: Golden had 12.5 sacks with the Cardinals in 2016 but suffered a torn ACL in 2017 and tumbled down the pecking order in Arizona when Steve Wilks changed the defensive scheme last season. Reunited with his defensive coordinator from his Arizona days, James Bettcher, in New York, Golden has five sacks and 17 pressures in seven starts for the Giants.
Philadelphia Eagles: Brandon Graham, DE
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $3.5 million (1.9%), 2020: $13.375 million (6.7%), 2021: $16.375 million
Why his contract is so valuable: Graham is probably going to go down as the most underappreciated edge rusher of his era, despite his strip-sacking Tom Brady in the fourth quarter of a Super Bowl. Graham has never gotten his due on pure sack numbers, topping out at 9.5 in 2017, because the Eagles use a deep rotation of edges. Despite that, Graham has three consecutive seasons with 41 or more pressures and is at 27 after his first seven games of 2019. Graham is not slated to take up a huge amount of cap space compared to that of the best edge rushers in the game the next two seasons.
Washington Redskins: Quinton Dunbar, CB
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $4.11 million (2.2%), 2020: $4.5 million (2.3%)
Why his contract is so valuable: A UDFA success story for Washington, Dunbar re-signed to a three-year contract in 2018. Despite limited starts over the past three years and change, Dunbar has allowed fewer than 7.9 yards per target in all of those seasons.
Chicago Bears: Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, S
Why his contract is so valuable: While Adrian Amos was given a huge contract with the Packers, the Bears have stayed mostly steady in our defensive rankings this year, and Clinton-Dix is a big part of the driving force behind that. Clinton-Dix already has two picks and has looked much more spry as a downhill run tackler this season, freed from Washington’s system.
Detroit Lions: Marvin Jones Jr., WR
Why his contract is so valuable: Since signing this contract — and despite playing in wildly different offenses, thanks to the previous shift to Jim Bob Cooter and this year’s move to a deep passing game under Darrell Bevell — Jones has been a consistent contributor.
Green Bay Packers: Tyler Lancaster, DT
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $570,000 (0.2%), 2020: ERFA, 2021: RFA
Why his contract is so valuable: That’s right: 2018 undrafted free agent Tyler Lancaster. This is partly an expression of the fact that the Packers don’t have much bargain-rate talent on their team and partly about how well Lancaster has fit as a run stuffer in Green Bay’s front seven.
Minnesota Vikings: Harrison Smith, S
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $10.75 million (5.7%), 2020: $10.75 million (5.4%), 2021: $10.25 million
Why his contract is so valuable: Smith’s 2016 contract extension now falls right in line with the concept of the rising salary cap, making what was once a big deal look a little less so… What’s next? You’d be hard-pressed to find a more valuable player in Mike Zimmer’s defense than Harrison Smith. He does it all, playing up in the box, forcing fumbles, earning tackles for loss and smothering his opponent on the back end while tallying picks. The Vikings knew they had a star on their hands when they gave Smith his extension in 2016, and the perennial Pro Bowler took it upon himself to prove the organization right.
Atlanta Falcons: Deion Jones, LB
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $4.7 million (2.5%), 2020: $10.3 million (5.2%), 2021: $12.63 million, 2022: $14.09 million, 2023: $16.379 million
Why his contract is so valuable: The Falcons have been very aggressive about extensions for players who they think are part of their core. As such, this largely came down to the most stable players. I think Matt Ryan, Jones and Grady Jarrett are probably the best players, and of those three, I think Jones has the least onerous contract
Carolina Panthers: Gerald McCoy, DT
Why his contract is so valuable: It was bizarre when McCoy hit free agency late in the offseason, and it was even more bizarre that he wound up in Carolina for a pittance. McCoy had 2.5 sacks against the Bucs in London, and his 10 hurries are right in line with his career norms.
New Orleans Saints: Jared Cook, TE
Why his contract is so valuable: Cook finally delivered on his massive physical promise as a receiver in Oakland in 2018. We don’t really know enough about how he’ll work in New Orleans, given that Drew Brees has been hurt, and that has taken away a lot of the team’s main offensive philosophy. That said, tight ends who turn 101 targets into six touchdowns and 896 yards aren’t easy to find.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Shaquil Barrett, DE
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $4 million (2.1%)
Why his contract is so valuable: That’s one helluva prove-it contract. Through seven weeks, Barrett has nine sacks. It was easy to see the way that Barrett flashed for the Broncos when he got on the field, but teams were a little nervous about giving him a long-term deal. With his destroying the competition in almost every game of this season, including eating Daryl Williams’ soul against Carolina and strip-sacking Jared Goff to finish a road win in Los Angeles, we bet he won’t be settling for a one-year deal again.
Arizona Cardinals: Patrick Peterson, CB
Remaining contract (cap hit, % of cap): 2019: $8 million (4.3%), 2020: $13.1 million (6.6%)
Why his contract is so valuable: Peterson is still a star cornerback in his prime, and given that his long-term contract was signed in 2014, his dollar figures have depreciated greatly, compared to most players’.
Los Angeles Rams: Robert Woods, WR
Remaining contract (cap hit, % of cap): 2019: $7.675 million (4.1%), 2020: $8.175 million (4.1%), 2021: $10.175 million
Why his contract is so valuable: Woods has been by far the most consistent receiver for the Rams since he was signed away from a bad situation in Buffalo…What’s next? It’s no secret inside the Rams’ building that Woods has out-performed the five-year, $34 million contract he signed in 2017, which is why the Rams reworked his contract going into this season, guaranteeing him an extra $1 million that would have been earned through incentives
San Francisco 49ers: Matt Breida, RB
Why his contract is so valuable: In Kyle Shanahan’s tenure, no team has spent quite as heavily on running backs as the San Francisco 49ers. They inked both Jerick McKinnon and Tevin Coleman to massive contracts. They spent a fourth-round pick on Joe Williams. Yet the best running back on the team remains a holdover from pre-Shanahan days who upstages every other back the team has when he hits the field.
Seattle Seahawks: Tyler Lockett, WR
Remaining contract (cap hit, percent of cap): 2019: $7.35 million (3.9%), 2020: $10.25 million (5.1%), 2021: $12.55 million
Why his contract is so valuable: It was a bit of a surprise when the Seahawks extended Lockett before the 2018 season, with $11 million in guarantees on a $33 million contract. He hadn’t broken out yet. But he did as soon as he hit the ground running in 2018, leading the NFL in receiving DVOA and having one of the most efficient seasons by a deep receiver in NFL history.
ASSISTANTS OF THE YEAR
Marc Sessler of NFL.com compiles a list of the hot assistants, which surprisingly includes 60-year-old Leslie Frazier”
Good morning from Los Angeles, where the fog of Week 7 gives way to a cloudless horizon of possibilities for the latter half of this NFL campaign.
One team will be crowned king — and one player MVP — but from where I sit and tap out this communiqué on my company-issued laptop, no greater honor exists than the ASSISTANT COACH OF THE YEAR award.
You might disagree, but the accolade itself doubles as a crystal ball for future league business. Since the award was launched in 2014 (about 80 years too late IMHO) four of the five winners went on to become head coaches, with the only exception being Wade Phillips, a three-time lead man who, at age 72, appears surface-level content to spin chaos as a coordinator.
This year’s race for ASSISTANT COACH OF THE YEAR honors is thick with challengers. A few of these entries are bound to melt away as teams fall apart, while new names will emerge. As of this writing, here’s my nonscientific pecking order:
Cream-of-the-crop, wind-beneath-my-wings clubhouse leaders for the vaunted ASSISTANT COACH OF THE YEAR (ACOY) trophy:
1) Robert Saleh, defensive coordinator, San Francisco 49ers: San Francisco’s defensive play-caller is living the reality all assistants dream of: In the course of a game, Saleh’s name is mentioned roughly 20 to 25 times by the likes of Troy Aikman, Tony Romo or fill-in-the-blank broadcaster crooning over his handiwork. The praise is just, as Saleh has the Niners whirling into weekly action as a star-flushed cadre that sucks the life out of enemies. His stock was down a year ago when the 49ers set an ugly league record with just seven takeaways all season, but the switch has flipped in 2019, with Defensive Rookie of the Year candidate Nick Bosa and offseason trade acquisition Dee Ford joining Pro Bowler DeForest Buckner and breakout disrupter Arik Armstead to comprise a ferocious front.
Riding a high that’s seen the Niners allow seven or fewer points in three straight tilts and just 98 passing yards over the past two games combined, Saleh’s glistening dome and sideline fist-pumping act have become a centerpiece of televised Sunday action. He’s got three more months TOPS in chilled-out NorCal before another club swoops in and makes him The Guy. Saleh is your easy leader in the clubhouse to see the ASSISTANT COACH OF THE YEAR golden wreath placed upon his brow.
2) Dennis Allen, defensive coordinator, New Orleans Saints: It feels like eons ago when a befuddled Allen wandered up and down the Raiders sideline guiding Oakland to an 8-28 record over three seasons. The jettisoned head coach landed on his feet in New Orleans in 2015 and deserves more attention for his work with a Saints defense currently operating as the neighborhood bully. Pro Bowler Cam Jordan fronts a line allowing a measly 58 yards rushing per tilt over the past month and just 17 to the Bears in Sunday’s knockout punch of Chicago. Allen’s defense flat-out embarrasses opponents. When his crew shut down the Cowboys in Week 4, Dallas talk radio lit up with questions over the real-life prowess of heavily celebrated coordinator Kellen Moore. The Saints also forced mustachioed icon Gardner Minshew into his quietest performance of the year before leaving Chicago a tattered mess on Sunday amid questions over the future of low-ceiling flinger Mitchell Trubisky.
After years of the Saints operating as a Drew Brees-led points machine forced to tug the defense along for the ride, Allen has helped alter the identity of the franchise. To get past New Orleans in 2019, you’re being asked to win a middle-of-the-night alley brawl with a gang of behemoths dressed in black, white and old gold.
3) Mike Pettine, defensive coordinator, Green Bay Packers: Pettine is another example of the coordinator role serving as a proven comeback trail for former head coaches who tumbled out of sight. I interviewed Pettine in 2016, when he was jobless and wondering about his future after a failed head-coaching stint with the Browns. Instead of grabbing any role he could, Pettine took the equivalent of a sabbatical year to reconnect with family, build a log cabin from scratch in the Ohio wilds (for real) and watch the NFL from a distance.
“There’s kind of that fear of the unknown of, ‘Wow, if I step away from football for a year, is that going to hurt my chances to get back in?’ ” Pettine acknowledged at the time.
That exodus, though, also provided a “30,000-foot view of the league,” with Pettine saying he was “exposed to more ideas and what’s working and what’s not working. And you also get a better sense of the personnel around the league.”
Perhaps more coaches should consider a sabbatical after seeing the results. Pettine has returned to the NFL and brought life to a Packers defense that desperately needed a jolt after a thousand Januarys ended with network cameras cutting away to show ex-coordinator Dom Capers staring into the void high above a Green Bay playoff collapse. Prior to this season, Pettine’s second on the job, the Packers’ front office helped by adding free-agent, pass-rushing home runs Za’Darius Smith and Preston Smith and drafting a plug-and-play Pro Bowl talent in safety Darnell Savage. Jaire Alexander, meanwhile, is the kind of cover man Pettine dreams about.
These awards are narrative-driven. While Pettine deserves every bit of praise he garners, it helps that whenever first-year head coach Matt LaFleur’s name arises, the conversation quickly turns to his defensive coordinator. The Packers are rolling through the schedule with balance on both sides of the ball. That’s a new feeling in Green Bay, and Pettine has made all the difference.
4) Leslie Frazier, defensive coordinator, Buffalo Bills: Frazier fizzled out as head coach of the Vikings, but his Bills defense is all the rage. Sunday’s 31-21 win over the out-to-lunch Fins actually marked the first time a Buffalo opponent has cleared 17 points this season. The Bills have stymied challengers with a sticky secondary led by Tre’Davious White, Jordan Poyer and Micah Hyde. Edge rusher Jerry Hughes is off to another strong campaign, while rookie lineman Ed Oliver fits right into a scheme dreamt up by Frazier and head coach Sean McDermott.
I’m placing Frazier a notch below Pettine because of McDermott’s presence in Buffalo. A defensive coordinator thriving under a defensive-minded coach raises the question: Who actually spins the magic here?
Also in the running for ACOY prizes and glory
5) Greg Roman, offensive coordinator, Baltimore Ravens: Baltimore’s offense is a weekly must-watch because of how Roman deploys uber-athletic signal-caller Lamar Jackson. While not shying away from the pass, Roman isn’t afraid to unleash his quarterback against cowed defenses to the tune of 576 ground yards on the year, the most by any passer over seven outings since 1950. Jackson’s 116 yards rushing against Seattle on Sunday marked the third time he’s single-handedly outgained an opponent on the ground this season.
Roman’s black-and-blue attack has churned out 309 more rushing yards than the next-closest club and sits on pace to finish at 200-plus yards per game on the ground. This is the same play-caller who unleashed Colin Kaepernick in San Francisco, an era that comes to mind when Baltimore blisters teams with an array of heavy sets, shifts and formations that feel spun from another age. Roman makes football fun to watch and isn’t afraid to zig when the league is zagging toward pass-happy netherworlds.
6) Kellen Moore, offensive coordinator, Dallas Cowboys: Moore would have been a lock for prestigious ACOY honors if the season had ended after Week 3. A whopping 97 points scored during a 3-0 romp to start the campaign had the 31-year-old play-caller strutting across the NFL landscape as a child genius laying waste to the old boys club. A swarm of injuries amid three straight losses — including a 10-point bust against the Saints’ defense in Week 4 — shoved Moore’s name into the background. He’s back in business, though, after Dallas dropped a 37-10 bomb on the Eagles in front of a national audience. The brainy son of a coach, Moore’s story is ultra-compelling. If the offense stays hot, he climbs this list in a hurry.
7) Chuck Pagano, defensive coordinator, Chicago Bears: Pagano deserves credit for keeping Chicago’s defense chugging after the departure of Vic Fangio. It was always a tall order to expect this year’s incarnation to dial up turnovers and defensive touchdowns at the same rate we witnessed in 2018. Giving up a combined 58 points and 800-plus yards in back-to-back flops against the Raiders and Saints doesn’t help — and neither does a paint-by-numbers Bears offense that resembled the helpless subject of a CIA mind-control project in Sunday’s meltdown against Sean Payton and friends.
Honorable mention: Eric Washington, DC, Carolina Panthers; Dean Pees, DC, Tennessee Titans; Eric Bieniemy, OC, Kansas City Chiefs; Kevin Stefanski, OC, Minnesota Vikings; Josh McDaniels, OC, New England Patriots; John DeFilippo, OC, Jacksonville Jaguars; Norv Turner, OC, Carolina Panthers.
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Citizens flee as Gambia’s president declares state of emergency
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Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail|18 January 2017| 19 Rabi ul aakir 1438
President Yahya Jammeh’s refusal to step down after he lost elections to opposition leader Adama Barrow has led to domestic turmoil as well as the possibility of military intervention by Nigeria and other West African nations.
Hundreds of people fearing violence have fled Gambia’s capital in recent days as long-time President Yahya Jammeh refuses to step down in the wake of an electoral loss in December.
Instead, in spite of international pressure, Jammeh declared a state of emergency on Tuesday just two days before he is supposed to cede power to opposition leader Adama Barrow.
The measure was prompted by the “unprecedented and extraordinary amount of foreign interference in the December 1 presidential elections and also in the internal affairs of Gambia,” Jammeh announced on state TV.
The 90-day state of emergency forbids Gambian citizens from “any acts of disobedience” or violence and urges security forces to maintain order.
The National Assembly, in approving the state of emergency, condemned the “unlawful and malicious interference” by the African Union’s Peace and Security Council. The council said the continental body will no longer recognise Jammeh as Gambia’s legitimate leader as of Thursday, January 19.
But the president has shown little interest in diplomacy after rebuffing two high-level delegations by west African leaders in recent weeks pleading with him to go. Nigeria and other West African nations are said to be preparing to intervene militarily.
Meanwhile, four more cabinet ministers in Jammeh’s government defected, a source close to the regime told AFP on Tuesday, while citizens stream out of the country in fear of unrest.
People are queuing up at the ferry and bus stations in Banjul, the capital, to flee to towns like Basse and Bansang in Gambia, Guinea, and Casamance in the neighbouring country of Senegal.
One traveller said those arriving at 10 am would have to wait until the following day to board a ferry at Banjul port to cross the river headed for Senegal, unless they bribed officials, due to huge numbers exiting the city.
The UN’s refugee agency has said several thousand Gambians have crossed the border in the last few weeks to seek shelter with extended family while they await Thursday when Jammeh is due to hand over power.
President-elect Adama Barrow is also currently in Senegal and was urged by Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to stay there until Thursday’s inauguration for his safety. However, no preparations for the inauguration are in sight at the venue, Bakau’s Independence Stadium.
On Monday, Barrow did not attend the funeral of his son who died after he was bitten by a dog.
Source – trt world
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A massive phytoplankton bloom induced by an ecosystem-scale iron fertilization experiment in the equatorial Pacific Ocean
The seeding of an expanse of surface waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean with low concentrations of dissolved iron triggered a massive phytoplankton bloom which consumed large quantities of carbon dioxide and nitrate that these microscopic plants cannot fully utilize under natural conditions. These and other observations provide unequivocal support for the hypothesis that phytoplankton growth in this oceanic region is limited by iron bioavailability., Cited By (since 1996):930, Oceanography
Coale, Johnson, Fitzwater, Gordon, Tanner, Chavez, Ferioli, Sakamoto, Rogers, Millero, Steinberg, Nightingale, Cooper, Cochlan, Landry, Constantinou, Rollwagen, Trasvina, Kudela
The behaviour of iron and other trace elements during the IronEx-I and PlumEx experiments in the Equatorial Pacific,
Dissolved (< 0.4 μm) and particulate (0.4-5 μm and > 5 μm, leachable and refractory) trace elements were measured during the IronEx I and PlumEx experiments in October and November 1993 near the Galapagos Islands. Iron was measured in the enriched patch and at control stations over a 9 day period following fertilization. The dissolved iron was initially depleted at a rate that gave an iron half-life of 28-40 h. The loss rate gradually decreased, and dissolved iron concentrations did not decrease below about 0.25 nmol kg-1 throughout the experiment. These results were most consistent with a kinetic model that was second order in iron concentration for the scavenging removal of each iron fraction. Other trace elements measured did not change significantly either in concentration or partitioning during the IronEx I experiment. Biological production tracked iron concentrations over time, which suggests that productivity within the fertilized patch was regulated by the availability of iron. The PlumEx study consisted primarily of two transects, a meridional course to the east of the Galapagos Islands and a zonal section to the west. Surface dissolved iron was very low at all stations except those near the Galapagos Islands. Sections of trace metal and other properties distinctly confirm the upwelling of the Equatorial Undercurrent as it intersects the islands. This upwelling has a great effect on the surface distributions of the trace metals on the west side of the islands. Productivity within the mixed layer of this region is highly correlated with iron and nitrate. West of the islands highest productivity is found at stations with the highest iron. North of the Equatorial front, in nitrate-depleted waters, elevated iron concentrations do not enhance productivity., Cited By (since 1996):58, Oceanography, CODEN: DSROE, ,
Gordon, Johnson, Coale
Testing the iron hypothesis in ecosystems of the equatorial Pacific Ocean,
The idea that iron might limit phytoplankton growth in large regions of the ocean has been tested by enriching an area of 64 km 2 in the open equatorial Pacific Ocean with iron. This resulted in a doubling of plant biomass, a threefold increase in chlorophyll and a fourfold increase in plant production. Similar increases were found in a chlorophyll-rich plume down-stream of the Galapagos Islands, which was naturaly enriched in iron. These findings indicate that iron limitation can control rates of phytoplankton productivity and biomass in the ocean., Cited By (since 1996):749, Oceanography, CODEN: NATUA, ,
Martin, Coale, Johnson, Fitzwater, Gordon, Tanner, Hunter, Elrod, Nowicki, Coley, Barber, Lindley, Watson, Van Scoy, Law, Liddicoat, Ling, Stanton, Stockel, Collins, Anderson, Bidigare, Ondrusek, Latasa, Millero, Lee, Yao, Zhang, Friederich, Sakamoto, Chavez, Buck, Kolber, Greene, Falkowski, Chisholm, Hoge, Swift, Yungel, Turner, Nightingale, Hatton, Liss, Tindale
The distribution and behavior of dissolved and particulate iron and zinc in the Ross Sea and Antarctic circumpolar current along 170°W,
Dissolved and particulate iron and zinc were measured in water samples collected from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) region and the Ross Sea during the US JGOFS Antarctic Environment Southern Ocean Process Study (AESOPS). Dissolved and particulate zinc showed strongly seasonal variation, indicating efficient recycling in the upper 150 m of the water column in both regions. Seasonal zinc utilization is 21-118 μmol m-2 in the ACC and 134-192 μmol m-2 in the Ross Sea. Only 10-25% of the particulate zinc is exported below 150 m. Generally low dissolved (<0.05 nmol kg -1) and particulate iron concentrations (<0.2 nmol kg -1) were observed in the mixed layer year-around in the ACC region whereas seasonal depletion of dissolved iron and relatively high particulate iron (>1 nmol kg-1) were found in the Ross Sea. Seasonal iron utilization is 7-45 μmol m-2 in the ACC and 450-938 μmol m -2 in the Ross Sea, which yields an estimated Fe/C ratio of 15 and 100 (μmol Fe:mol C) for the ACC and the Ross Sea, respectively. More than 50% of the total iron production is exported below 150 m in the ACC region. Iron input through vertical mixing was minimal, in contrast to the vertical input of dissolved zinc and macronutrients in the ACC region. Upwelling may supply 50% of the export production of iron near the Southern ACC Front. In the Ross Sea, more iron is available due to the variety of inputs, in contrast to the ACC region. In addition to the input of dissolved and particulate iron from melting sea-ice, there is substantial input of particulate iron from the suspended materials of sediments. © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved., Cited By (since 1996):42, Oceanography, CODEN: DRORE, Antarctica, ,
Coale, Gordon, Wang
The case for iron,
Excess major nutrients occur in offshore areas ranging from the tropical equatorial Pacific to the polar Antarctic. In spite of the great ecological differences in these environments, they share a common trait: iron deficiency. All of these areas are far from Fe-rich terrestrial sources and atmospheric dust loads in these regions are amongst the lowest in the world. Experiments were performed in three nutrient-rich areas: The Gulf of Alaska, the Ross Sea, and the equatorial Pacific. In general, populations without added Fe doubled at rates 11-40% of the expected maxima at various temperatures. The addition of nanomole quantities of Fe increased these doubling rates by factors of 2-3. In spite of the lack of Fe, tightly coupled phytoplankton/zooplankton communities seem to inhabit these major nutrient-rich areas. -from Authors, Cited By (since 1996):341, Oceanography, , , Downloaded from: aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_36/issue_8/1793.pdf (16 June 2014).
Martin, Gordon, Fitzwater
A rosette system for the collection of trace metal clean seawater,
We designed a large-volume rosette sampler for collecting seawater with minimal trace metal contamination. The system uses eight modified 30-liter Go-Flo bottles secured to a Nylon II-coated stainless steel frame. The instrument is deployed with a dedicated winch with polyurethane-coated, three-conductor Kevlar hydroline. A prototype was used as part of the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific sampling program during spring and fall 1992. A redesigned model was used during the 1993 IronEx experiments and is currently being deployed in the Arabian Sea. The results of trace metal analyses collected on these cruises indicate that samples recovered are comparable to current single Go-Flo casts., Cited By (since 1996):28, CODEN: LIOCA, , , Oceanography, Downloaded from: www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_41/issue_6/1367.pdf (23 June 2014).
Hunter, Gordon, Fitzwater, Coale
Surface ocean-lower atmosphere interactions in the Northeast Pacific Ocean Gyre: Aerosols, iron, and the ecosystem response,
Here we report measurements of iron and aluminum in surface and subsurface waters during late March and late May of 2001 on transects between central California and Hawaii. A large cloud of Asian dust was detected during April 2001, and there was a clear signal in surface water iron due to aerosol deposition on the May transect. Iron and aluminum concentrations increased synchronously by 0.5 and 2 nM along the southern portion of the transect, which includes the Hawaii Ocean Time series (HOT) station, from background values in March (0.1 to 0.2 nM Fe). These changes occured in a ratio that is close to the crustal abundance ratio of the metals, which indicates a soil aerosol source. A vertical profile of dissolved iron was also measured at the HOT station in late April and this profile also shows a large increase near the surface. Direct observations of aerosol iron concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory on Hawaii indicate that aerosol concentrations were significantly lower than climatological values during this period. Soil aerosol concentrations along the transect were estimated using the real-time Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System (NAAPS). The NAAPS results show a large meridional gradient with maximum concentrations in the boundary layer north of 30°N. However, the deposition of iron and aluminum to surface waters was highest south of 25°N, near Hawaii. There were only weak signals in the ecosystem response to the aerosol deposition., Cited By (since 1996):64, Oceanography, , , Downloaded from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2002GB002004/pdf (16 June 2014).
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'Penn & Teller: Fool Us' fan recap: Smoke and magic
by Kayleigh Roberts, Community Featured Contributor @kayleighroberts
Sep 14, 2015 | 11:58AM
Season 2 | Episode 10 | “Where There’s Smoke, There’s Magic” | Aired Sep 14, 2015
'Penn & Teller: Fool Us' recap: Magic that requires a disclaimer
'Penn & Teller: Fool Us' recap: Science meets magic
'Penn & Teller: Fool Us' recap: The best fooler yet
Smoke and mirrors go hand-in-hand with magic. This week, Penn & Teller showed how one of their smokiest tricks works, using the principles of magic. Penn narrates while Teller does a “simple” trick involving a lit cigarette, a small pencil, and a flashlight. The first time through, we see Teller only in profile, and the number of cigarettes in his mouth seems to change by magic. After Penn explains the principles of magic, we watch the trick again, this time from the other side, and get a behind-the-scenes look at how the magic happened. I love learning about magic almost as much as I love being mystified by it, so I love when P&T do “tricks” like these. Plus, Teller is so gifted with sleight of hand that, even when you know exactly what he’s doing, you can barely tell what on earth he’s doing. That’s magical.
And now, without further ado, let’s dive into this week’s rankings. As always, the aspiring Foolers are ranked from least to most magical:
Spidey and Joel Meyers: The “Sleightly Mental” Duo
This week’s group of contestants was an exceptionally tough set to rank. Everyone had incredible stage presence and brought unique and amazing tricks to the table. Coming in last (it pains me to say) are Spidey and Joel Meyers. They did a very impressive (and funny) mentalism routine. Spidey does the mentalism, while Joel handles the bulk of the talking. The setup of the trick was that Spidey would write down a word, then Joel would use the audience to find the word he guessed in one of six classic novels. One member of the audience wrote down a page number (between 1 and 200), which was then passed around to another random member of the audience. That woman chose a number, which helped Joel pick one of the six novels. The novel was handed to her, and she found the page written on the paper (by the other audience member). Spidey then started making guesses about the third word on the page (but why it needed to be the third word is unclear). Finally, it was revealed that on his prediction sheet, he’d written the code for a word in a dictionary that had been given to Penn before the start of the trick. And yes, that word matched the third word on the selected page of the novel.
It’s a lot to type out and a lot to see. It was an impressively intricate trick, but one that Penn & Teller seemed immediately familiar with (it all seemed to come down to the pen the audience member wrote the page number with and the magnifying glass Penn was given to read the dictionary). P&T do their own impressively intricate mentalism trick using joke books passed around the audience in their show, so I’m not at all surprised that this one didn’t fool them.
Marcus Eddie: Chains and Charisma
Marcus Eddie had an amazing attitude. If nothing else, his attitude and his approach to magic (that he wants to inspire people to believe, even for a moment, that anything is possible) were beautiful. His trick was short and simple (the only such trick on tonight’s episode). Inspired by Houdini and escape tricks, Marcus’ trick was him pulling (or at least appearing to pull) a solid chain through his torso.
At the end of the trick, he gave Penn & Teller both the chain and the markers he had asked them to use to write their names (or another distinguishing mark) on key tags at either end of the chain, which is ballsy because it means they could examined his work up close. In the end, even though they admitted that they believe he actually invented the variation of the trick he performed, they were familiar with something similar enough to guess how it was done. He moved awkwardly when the chain was at his back, and Penn’s clue about the trick had to do with his back, so we know the back was important—but hell if I know what he did back there.
Bruce Gold: The Brave Little Toaster-Toucher
Bruce Gold is a comedy magician who actually brings to the table equal parts comedy and magic. His trick involved a psychic toaster, which is funny enough on its own. Bruce was, sadly, saddled with an oddly unenthusiastic audience helper, but even with that holding him back (sorry, audience helper—I’m sure you were just nervous; I would probably be a deer in the headlights on television, so no judgment), he packed in lots of laughs and a fun, well-executed trick. The premise was pretty simple: The helper chose a card and the toaster predicted it by burning the answer on a piece of toast. Penn & Teller saw through the trick easily and, honestly, even I had a pretty good idea of how it was done (or at least could have been done). But the more I watch Fool Us, the more I realize that presentation is everything. There aren’t that many tricks, so finding an innovative way to present one is something special in and of itself.
Rick Lax: The Inventor Magician
Rick Lax claimed in his intro video to invent magic tricks, mostly for other magicians. That’s an impressive claim, and inventing new magic is basically the only way to fool P&T. Rick’s trick was a memorization trick. He looked at a set of cards, memorized their order (or claimed to), then proceeded to shuffle them methodically with Penn & Teller’s help. These weren’t true shuffles, just rearrangements of the deck that would make it increasingly difficult to remember the order and keep up with the changes. After rearranging the deck several times and in several ways, Rick sorted the deck into red and black cards, all while keeping the cards face down.
Oh and while he did that, he recited poetry and split his focus.
Penn & Teller weren’t sure how he did it and neither am I, unless he just really memorized the deck—in which case he probably deserves a chance to perform in Vegas.
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Salvage Palmer Amaranth Programs Can Be Effective in Cotton Resistant to Glyphosate, 2,4-D, and Glufosinate
R. M. Merchant, A. S. Culpepper, P. M. Eure, J. S. Richburg, L. B. Braxton
Journal: Weed Technology / Volume 28 / Issue 2 / June 2014
Glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth escaping residual herbicides is difficult to manage in cotton because of its rapid growth and a limited number of effective herbicide options to control emerged plants. An experiment was conducted at two dryland and two irrigated sites in Georgia during 2011 and 2012 to determine if cotton resistant to glyphosate, 2,4-D, and glufosinate could be used to salvage a crop infested with large Palmer amaranth. Three POST herbicide systems, including sequential applications of 2,4-D, sequential applications of 2,4-D plus glufosinate, or 2,4-D followed by (fb) glufosinate, were applied with intervals of 5, 10, or 15 d between POST applications. All three systems were followed by diuron plus MSMA directed at layby. At the dryland sites with high temperatures and drought conditions, no program provided greater than 90% control. However, the 2,4-D plus glufosinate system was at least twice as effective in controlling 20-cm-tall Palmer amaranth and produced at least three times more cotton than the other two systems, when pooled over POST application intervals. Intervals of 10 or 15 d between POST applications were 23 to 27% more effective than a 5-d interval in controlling Palmer amaranth when pooled over POST herbicide systems; yields were nearly twice as much with the 10-d interval compared to 5 d. At the irrigated site, overall weed control was greater with less treatment differences noted. Palmer amaranth that was 20 cm tall at application was controlled 98 to 99%, 92 to 93%, and 81 to 94% by glufosinate plus 2,4-D, 2,4-D fb glufosinate, and 2,4-D fb 2,4-D systems at harvest, respectively. Intervals between POST applications only influenced control by the POST 2,4-D system, and the 10-d interval was more effective than the 5-d interval. Carpetweed, Florida beggarweed, and smallflower morningglory were controlled 99% at harvest by all systems; however, it was noted that control of carpetweed and Florida beggarweed prior to layby was less effective with 2,4-D than systems including glufosinate. In the event of an at-plant residual herbicide failure in fields infested with glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth, our research demonstrates that glufosinate plus 2,4-D sequentially applied 10 to 15 d apart followed by a timely layby application controlled the target weeds in cotton with resistance to 2,4-D, glyphosate, and glufosinate.
Controlling Glyphosate-Resistant Palmer Amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) in Cotton with Resistance to Glyphosate, 2,4-D, and Glufosinate
Rand M. Merchant, A. Stanley Culpepper, Peter M. Eure, John S. Richburg, L. Bo Braxton
Field experiments were conducted in Macon County, Georgia, during 2010 and 2011 to determine the impact of new herbicide-resistant cotton and respective herbicide systems on the control of glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth. Sequential POST applications of 2,4-D or glufosinate followed by diuron plus MSMA directed at layby (late POST-directed) controlled Palmer amaranth 62 to 79% and 46 to 49% at harvest when the initial application was made to 8- or 18–cm-tall Palmer amaranth, in separate trials, respectively. Mixtures of glufosinate plus 2,4-D applied sequentially followed by the layby controlled Palmer amaranth 95 to 97% regardless of Palmer amaranth height. Mixing glyphosate with 2,4-D improved control beyond that observed with 2,4-D alone, but control was still only 79 to 86% at harvest depending on 2,4-D rate. Sequential applications of glyphosate plus 2,4-D controlled Palmer amaranth 95 to 96% following the use of either pendimethalin or fomesafen. Seed cotton yield was at least 30% higher with 2,4-D plus glufosinate systems compared to systems with either herbicide alone. The addition of pendimethalin and/or fomesafen PRE did not improve Palmer amaranth control or yields when glufosinate plus 2,4-D were applied sequentially followed by the layby. The addition of these residual herbicides improved at harvest control (87 to 96%) when followed by sequential applications of 2,4-D or 2,4-D plus glyphosate; yields from these systems were similar to those with glufosinate plus 2,4-D. Comparison of 2,4-D and 2,4-DB treatments confirmed that 2,4-D is a more effective option for the control of Palmer amaranth. Results from these experiments suggest cotton with resistance to glufosinate, glyphosate, and 2,4-D will improve Palmer amaranth management. At-plant residual herbicides should be recommended for consistent performance of all 2,4-D systems across environments, although cotton with resistance to glyphosate, glufosinate, and 2,4-D will allow greater flexibility in selecting PRE herbicide(s), which should reduce input costs, carryover concerns, and crop injury when compared to current systems.
Isolated fracture of the manubrium of the malleus
W Chien, M J McKenna, J J Rosowski, S N Merchant
Journal: The Journal of Laryngology & Otology / Volume 122 / Issue 9 / September 2008
To describe a series of five patients with isolated fracture of the manubrium of the malleus.
Retrospective case series.
Five patients aged 44–64 years with isolated fracture of the manubrium who presented to our institution over a five-year period (2000–2005).
All patients presented with a history of digitally manipulating the external auditory canal, leading to the manubrial fracture, which we presume was due to a suction-type mechanism. Otomicroscopy often revealed a break in the smooth contour of the manubrium. All patients had air–bone gaps on audiometry, especially at higher frequencies. Tympanometry showed hypermobility of the tympanic membrane in four patients who were tested. Laser-Doppler vibrometry revealed increased umbo velocity in four out of five patients. Four patients were treated conservatively. One patient underwent exploratory tympanotomy with successful ossiculoplasty.
Isolated fracture of the manubrium is a rare condition which may present as sudden-onset hearing loss after digital manipulation of the external auditory canal. The diagnosis can be made on the basis of otomicroscopy, audiometry, tympanometry and laser-Doppler vibrometry. Conservative treatment is often successful.
Microscopy of Materials Used in the Semiconductor Industry
S M Merchant, J M DeLucca, K N Hooghan, F A Baiocchi
Journal: Microscopy and Microanalysis / Volume 11 / Issue S02 / August 2005
Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2005 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 31--August 4, 2005
A Model of Silicon Nanocrystal Nucleation and Growth on SiO2 by CVD
M. W. Stoker, T. P. Merchant, R. Rao, R. Muralidhar, S. Straub, B. E. White
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2011, D5.7
Silicon nanocrystals can be used in non-volatile memory devices to reduce susceptibility to charge loss via tunnel oxide defects, allowing scaling to smaller sizes than possible with conventional Flash memory technology. In order to optimize device performance, it is desirable to maximize the nanocrystal density and surface coverage, while maintaining sufficient inter-crystallite separation to limit electron tunneling between adjacent crystallites. Ideally, crystallite densities in excess of 1012cm-2 with relatively narrow particle size distributions must be obtained, posing a significant challenge for process development and control. In order to facilitate development of such a process, a rate-expression-based model has been developed for the nucleation and growth of silicon nanocrystals on SiO2 in a CVD process. The model addresses the phenomena of nucleation, growth, and coalescence and includes the effects of exclusion zones surrounding the growing nuclei. The model uses a phenomenological expression to describe the nucleation rate and assumes that following nucleation, crystallite growth is dominated by gas-phase deposition processes, analogous to CVD of polycrystalline silicon. The model-predicted time-evolutions of crystallite densities and crystallite size distributions are consistent with experimental distributions as measured by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). By coupling the model to a reactor-scale model of polysilicon CVD, it is possible to predict variations in the crystallite size distributions at various locations across a wafer as a function of reactor settings (temperature, pressure, flow rates, etc…). This in turn can be used for process control and optimization in order to ensure uniform deposition of nanocrystals in a large-scale manufacturing environment.
Genetic control of resistance to gastro-intestinal parasites in crossbred cashmere-producing goats: responses to selection, genetic parameters and relationships with production traits
D. Vagenas, F. Jackson, A. J. F. Russel, M. Merchant, I. A. Wright, S. C. Bishop
Journal: Animal Science / Volume 74 / Issue 2 / April 2002
This paper investigates the genetic control of the resistance of goats to nematode parasites, and relationships between resistance and production traits. The data set comprised faecal egg counts (FECs) measured on 830 naturally challenged (predominant species Teladorsagia circumcincta), crossbred cashmere-producing goats over 5 years (1993-1997) and production traits (fibre traits and live weight) on 3100 goats from the same population in Scotland, over 11 years (1987-1997). Egg counts comprised repeated measurements (4 to 11) taken at 12 to 18 months of age and production traits, i.e. live weight and fibre traits, were measured at approximately 5 months of age. The goats for which FECs were available were subdivided into a line selected for decreased FECs, using the geometric mean FEC across the measurement period and goats not selected on the basis of FECs, acting as controls. The selected line had significantly lower FECs, compared with the control, in 4 out of 5 years (back transformed average proportional difference of 0·23). The heritability of a single FEC measurement (after cubic root transformation) was 0·17 and the heritability of the mean FEC was 0·32. The heritabilities of the fibre traits were moderate to high with the majority in excess of 0·5. The heritability of live weight was 0·22. Genetic correlations between FECs and production traits were slightly positive but not significantly different from zero. Phenotypic and environmental correlations were very close to zero with the environmental correlations always being negative. It is concluded that selection for reduced FEC is possible for goats. Benefits of such selection will be seen when animals are kept for more than 1 year of productive life.
Cardiopulmonary exercise performance in adult survivors of the Mustard procedure
S. J. Hechter, G. Webb, P. M. Fredriksen, L. Benson, N. Merchant, M. Freeman, G. Veldtman, M. A. Warsi, S. Siu, P. Liu
Journal: Cardiology in the Young / Volume 11 / Issue 4 / July 2001
Most patients with the Mustard procedure are now adults. To date, however, there have been few reports on resting and exercise hemodynamics in a large population of adults with this circulation. The aim of this study is to describe such parameters in one of the largest and oldest populations of adults with the Mustard procedure. The database of the University of Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults was examined to identify 84 adults with the Mustard procedure who have undergone cardiopulmonary exercise tests. Magnetic resonance imaging and echocardiography studies were obtained in order to assess right ventricular size, function and baseline hemodynamics. Patients achieved lower maximum uptake of oxygen, maximal heart rate, forced vital capacity, forced expiratory volume in 1 second, and oxygen saturations at maximal exercise compared to a healthy population. Magnetic resonance imaging showed significantly different right ventricular ejection fractions between patients and controls. There were no effects of operative variables or preoperative hemodynamics on current exercise capacity. Patients after the Mustard procedure have subnormal exercise capacities. Factors such as chronotropic incompetence, peripheral deconditioning, and impaired lung function may be responsible for these results.
Room Temperature Recrystallization of Electroplated Copper Thin Films: Methods and Mechanisms
D. Walther, M. E. Gross, K. Evans-Lutterodt, W. L. Brown, M. Oh, S. Merchant, P. Naresh
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2011, D10.1.1
We report a comparison of the room temperature recrystallization of electroplated (EP) copper in blanket films as a function of thickness measured by focused ion beam (FIB) microscope images and sheet resistance measurements. Both sets of data show an increase in rate with film thickness from 0.75νm up to 5νm, while little recrystallization is observed in films thinner than 0.75νm. Interestingly, the recrystallization rates from FIB analysis are consistently faster than those from the sheet resistance measurements. These data suggest that the recrystallization is initiated close to the top surface of the EP Cu film, but that in thinner films a high surface-to-volume ratio allows surface inhibition or pinning to retard the transformation. A Johnson-Mehl-AvramiKolmogorov (JMAK) analysis of the two data sets yields unusually high values for the Avrami exponent μ of up to 7 for the FIB data, while lower values of around 4 are obtained for the sheet resistance data. X-ray diffraction pole figures of the films have also been collected and correlations between the crystallographic texture, film thickness and recrystallization are discussed.
Investigation of the Homovalent Impurity in Aluminum to Form Alloys With Enhanced Interconnect Reliability
Sridhar K. Kailasam, S. P. Murarka, M. E. Glicksman, S. M. Merchant
Diffusion-induced failures such as stress-induced voiding and electromigration (EM) are a major concern for interconnect metallization in silicon integrated circuits. The addition of solute elements to aluminum interconnects often leads to “blocking” of high diffusivity paths such as grain boundaries and thus to an improvement in the resistance to electromigration failure. This research investigates Al-In, Al-La, and Al-In-La alloys to improve interconnect EM resistance. The choice of these alloying elements is based on the fact that they have negligible solid solubility in aluminum and are homovalent. Lower solubilities may lead to grain boundary stuffing and hence to improved EM resistance. In addition, the homovalency minimizes the adverse effect on the metal resistivity from addition of impurities to aluminum. Multicomponent diffusion principles are used to tailor aluminum-based ternary alloy compositions which would exhibit the multicomponent effect of zero flux planes (ZFPs), or regions in the reaction zone of a diffusion couple where the flux of a component goes to zero. This study involves modeling the occurrence of ZFPs for aluminum in several diffusion couples of Al-In-La, thus limiting the bulk diffusive spreading of aluminum so that the electromigration behavior can be inhibited or eliminated. This paper presents our experimental findings and discusses the modeling approach to determine ternary alloys exhibiting ZFPs.
Characterization of The Nucleation and Growth Process of CVD-W On TiN Substrates
Arun K. Nanda, Sailesh M. Merchant, Pradip K. Roy
The nucleation and growth characteristics of CVD-W on Ti/TiN barrier layers with SiH4 and H2 reduction chemistries are presented. In particular, the reaction between WF6 (precursor used for depositing W) and the underlying Ti of the barrier stack was studied to better understand the chemistry of ‘volcano’ formation - a phenomena that causes severe defects in the deposited W film. Ti/TiN processing parameters and stack thicknesses were varied, along with the CVD-W deposition chemistry (gas flows, pressures, temperatures and times), to evaluate film properties and characteristics after SiH4 passivation, nucleation and full W plug deposition. The analysis was augmented with cross-sectional Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) on short-loop testers and films were characterized using Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy (RBS), Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy (SIMS), X-ray Diffraction (XRD) and Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES) techniques. Several processing conditions are recommended for ‘volcano-free’ and ‘defect-free’ CVD-W films.
A Study of Parameters that Influence Growth and Stability of the (Bi1−xPbx)2Sr2Ca2Cu3Oy Phase
J. S. Luo, N. Merchant, V. A. Maroni, D. M. Gruen, B. S. Tani, W. L. Carter, G. N. Riley, K.H. Sandhage
The growth and stability of the (Bi1-xPbx)2Sr2Ca2Cu3Oy (Bi-2223) phase contained in silver-sheathed wires has been investigated by a combination of x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive x-ray analysis, and transmission electron microscopy. Silver tubes loaded with Bi-2223 precursor powders were processed into filaments using established metallurgical techniques. The filaments were then heat-treated at selected temperatures (800 to 845°C) for a range of times (10 to 6000 min) in a 7.5% oxygen atmosphere. From these studies it has been possible to investigate the time-temperature-oxygen pressure domains wherein Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 (Bi-2212) + second phases transform to Bi-2223. Fractional conversion (Bi-2212 --> Bi-2223) versus time data show good conformance to the kinetic model for a diffusion-controlled reaction at the interface between thin sheets and a fine powder or a fluid. Quenching experiments also reveal that the Bi-2223 phase is stable in a limited temperature interval between 810 and 830°C.
Synthesis of C-oriented YbBa2Cu3O7-δ Films on Single and Polycrystalline Substrates by Oxidation of Liquid Alloys
J. S. Luo, N. Merchant, V. A. Maroni, D. M. Gruen, B. S. Tani, K. H. Sandhage, C. A. Craven
Textured superconducting films of YbBa2Cu3O7-δ supported on single and polycrystalline substrates were prepared by oxidation of a liquid precursor alloy. The substrates were coated by dipping them into a molten alloy (YbBa2Cu3, m.p. ∼870°C), withdrawing them from the melt, then oxidizing the adhering liquid alloy layer to the corresponding oxide phase, i.e., YbBa2Cu3O7-δ. Samples prepared in this way exhibited a superconducting transition at ∼80 K following annealing in pure O2 at 500°C. With SrTiO3 (100) and MgO (100) substrates, evidence was seen for the epitaxial growth of YbBa2Cu3O7-δ crystals having their c-axis parallel to the [100] direction of the substrate. For polycrystalline MgO, x-ray diffraction and microstructural examination showed that the high-Tc crystallites in the films were also oriented with their c-axis perpendicular to the substrate surface, but the a and b axes directions were randomly oriented rather than epitaxial.
The caloric response in the contralateral ear in acoustic neuroma
M. V. Kirtane, S. N. Merchant, S. B. Medikeri
Journal: The Journal of Laryngology & Otology / Volume 100 / Issue 3 / March 1986
The caloric test response from the unaffected ear in a case of acoustic neuroma may be normal, hypoactive or hyperactive; each has a different pathophysiological connotation: a normal response is the anticipated finding; a hyperactive contralateral response is due to the presence of a large neuroma with brainstem compression; and a hypoactive response may result from several factors, such as lack of mental alertness during the test, drugs like barbiturates, raised intracranial tension, or the presence of bilateral neuromas.
Experiences with the butterfly chart
Journal: The Journal of Laryngology & Otology / Volume 100 / Issue 2 / February 1986
The bithermal caloric test remains, four decades after its first description, the single most valuable test of vestibular function. However, there are several variations described in the exact procedure of caloric stimulation and in the method of evaluating and representing the test results. For the past 10 years, we have followed a procedure using a constant standardized stimulus and a particular system for caloric nystagmus representation, viz., the Butterfly Chart, and have found it to be very satisfactory. This paper describes our experience with the use of the Butterfly Chart and its clinical application in over 4,500 cases.
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The Human Factor by Ishmael Jones
Thread: The Human Factor by Ishmael Jones
Juan Rico
http://www.ishmaeljones.com/solution...elligence-ref/
Solutions for reform of the clandestine service
Solutions for reform of the clandestine service within the current system:
1 Define the mission. Create a clear, one-line mission statement. Current CIA mission statements are multi-page documents, written by committees, which nobody ever reads. A clear statement, such as, “Provide foreign intelligence that will defend the United States,” would help employees measure and direct their efforts.......
.....Recent reforms demonstrate what happens when change is attempted at the CIA. Congressionally-mandated reforms, following the intelligence failures of 9/11, did the three worst things possible, by:
1 Adding extra layers of management. They created a new office of the Director of National Intelligence. No successful organizations have as many layers of management as the CIA.....
....The CIA is a failed organization that has proven resistant to reform. Therefore, the CIA should be broken up into its constituent parts, and those parts assigned to organizations that already have clear missions and defined chains of command, as follows:
1 Transfer CIA offices and personnel operating within the United States to the FBI . The CIA was never intended to be a domestic spy agency. The FBI is designed to handle domestic intelligence operations. The FBI is measured and held accountable by its ability to catch criminals, and this accountability provides the motivation for the FBI to perform.....
The blog post also includes comments on mission drift and motivation.
Last edited by Jedburgh; 08-02-2008 at 10:00 PM.
لا أريد لأحد أن يسكت عن الخطأ أو أن يتستر عن العيوب والنواقص
jmm99
for the signature translation.
Seems there might be an interesting legal case brewing:
CQ HOMELAND SECURITY
Aug. 2, 2008 – 11:28 a.m.
CIA Veteran Rips Agency, Tests Limits of Right to Publish Without Permission
By Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor
A 25-year veteran of the CIA’s clandestine service has written a scathing — and unauthorized — account of the spy agency’s management, setting up an unprecedented legal test of former employees’ rights to pen tell-all books.
Writing under the pseudonym “Ishmael Jones,” the author says he wrote “The Human Factor: Inside the CIA’s Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture” in order to “improve the system and help it defend ourselves and our allies.”
“I’m ready to take whatever they have to do,” Jones said of his former employer in a telephone interview July 29.
http://public.cq.com/docs/hs/hsnews1...002933505.html
Seems folks want to challenge the Snepp decision - SCOTUS for agency.
(from CQ, above)
But former CIA operative Frank Snepp says Jones is “inviting big trouble” — and he should know.
Snepp bypassed agency censors in 1978 and published a searing, unauthorized memoir of his tour in Vietnam, “Decent Interval: An Insider’s Account of Saigon’s Indecent End, Told by the CIA’s Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam.”
The CIA sued, eventually winning a landmark Supreme Court victory that allowed the agency to confiscate Snepp’s earnings, on the basis that he had violated his employment contract by not submitting his book to CIA censors for clearance.
Jones did something far more dangerous, Snepp thinks, by submitting his manuscript for clearance then “thumbing his nose” at CIA censors because he didn’t like their censorship decisions. “God knows what the hell could happen to him,” Snepp said.
Guess the General Counsel's office will have to chew on this tidbit, etc.
Tom Odom
DeRidder LA
From I quick read I agree with most of it.
8 Create a one-line cultural statement: Do not lie, cheat, or steal unless required to do so in an intelligence operation. Spies need to lie, but only when necessary for operational success. The organization’s efficiency and reliability will improve when employees can trust one another to speak the truth.
John T. Fishel
Rancho La Espada, Blanchard, OK
I agree with many of his "solutions,"
not all. But I think he misses the bigger picture. CIA, since it was created, has been built around 3 major directorates - Intelligence (DI), Operations (DO), and Scientific & Technical (S&T). While the names may have changed since I left any Intel or Intel related assignments, the functions are still there and have been there since Wild Bill Donovan created the OSS. Unlike his British mentors who had 2 separate and distinct operational components - SIS (MI6) and SOE - Donovan had both clandestine collection and paramilitary ops under the DO function. When CIA came along, it adopted the same organization.
In my understanding of intelligence, the questions that policy makers need answered should drive the intel agency to frame requirements. this framing of requirements is inherently an analytical function and, therefore, belongs in DI. The analysts should be tasking the collectors with specific requirements while the collectors should be sharing even the seredipitous collections with the analysts which, in turn, should generate both new requirements and new questions from the policy makers. As far as the covert ops and paramilitary ops go, these are NOT inherently intel functions. Those who conduct them are intel consumers just as divisions, brigades, and battalions are.
But, you might ask, what about the cav squadron in a division? Is it not an asset of the G2? Although the 2 has tasking authority, the squadron commander is primarily responsible to the G3. Historically, rewards in cIA have gone to the covert operators who were involved in both clandestine collection and covert ops. The latter held the bigger rewards so th former got short shrift. (Jones may be making a reference to this phenomenon.) From my perspective, it appears that the CIA was run as if the Cav squadron were driving the train - deciding on its own authortiy whether to meet the G2 requirements or not because combat was more fun.
I was told by a DI guy seconded to DO that he was not allowed to share a critical report with his fellow DI analysts. I was told by a DO guy that my perception of many of the case officers in Latin America as "cowboys" was shared by case officers from other areas of operations (this was in the late 80s and early 90s).
So, does creating DNI just add an unnecessary layer of management? I don't think so because the DCI was too closely identified with the CIA to effectively manage the entire intel community. I was encouraged that the first DNI, John Negroponte, came from the intel consumer community and not from the producers (or even the analysts). As an aside, the only CIA director ever to come out of DI was SECDEF Bob Gates. All the rest have been case officers or intel managers (often from NSA like Gen Hayden and DNI Adm McConnell).
Bottom line: The solution is not in reforming one agency but rather reforming the entire community as well as the agencies that make it up. If I were King (it's good to be the King ) I would always have a consumer as DNI and an analyst as Dir CIA. I would split off covert ops and paramilitary from CIA - where to put them is an open question but they should be neither primary collectors nor their own analysts.
JohnT
slapout9
Originally Posted by Tom Odom
Ditto Tom plus this
I like the one about a one line mission statement: Collect information that will defend the US from attack
Here's the Ismael Jones' Interview
from FrontPage. Selected the part relevant to the legal issues, but there is more on the nuts & bolts:
Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com Friday, August 01, 2008
FP: What is unique about your book?
Jones: Many CIA books are written by retired Headquarters managers who are accustomed to pontificating in front of their underlings, trapped within a windowless room at Headquarters, and their books can be a bit windy. I hope mine is not.
My book has also been disapproved in its entirety by CIA censors. I actively sought the approval of the censors, and repeatedly asked them during the course of a year what parts of the book they would like removed or rewritten. But they simply replied: all of it. In the end, CIA censors returned the manuscript to me as a stack of blank pages. There is no classified information in my book. It is simply highly critical of the organization.
My book is also the first CIA book for which all author profits will be given away. The recent George Tenet and Valerie Plame books, for example, were written for the profit of the authors.
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Article...F-599CFD1F1E7B
I smell bull...
The publisher, Encounter Books, is the publishing arm of a center-right not profit foundation. Founded by Peter Collier and associated with his pal David Horowitz, who is another red-diaper baby turned jacobin, Encounter churns out highbrow neoconservative literature by the likes of Bill Kristol, John Fund, and Victor Davis Hanson among others.
The cover jacket praise also is a redflag with blurbs from uber-neocon wonk and McCain adviser Max Boot, and Lindsay Moran a DO veteran of all of one tour in Macedonia, and author of possibly one of the worst spy memoir ever published. Lindsay Moran was the best person formerly of the agency that they could get to vouch for it? Really? What about even the critics like Gerecht, McGovern or Robert Steele?
I don't know what a "deep cover officer" is. And I am certain hat whatever they are, CIA does not have them. They do however have officers under Non Official Cover. Jones and Encounter bemoan recent intelligence memoirs that “were written for the profit of the authors”, specifically former NOC officer Valerie Plame and tarnished DCI Tenet's books. Such bullying is typical neoconservative behavior, picking on the weak so they can pump their chests, only to avoid taking such a posture towards Gary Bernsten or Bob Baer who undoubtedly profited from their books and are harder and cooler than they.
Jones' reform to “transfer overseas human intelligence collection efforts to the US military” is misguided and would be fulfillment of the Rumsfeld era's naked assault on CIA. The neoconservatives have had it out for CIA going back at least to Richard Pipe's Team B, just like Iraq, wanting it to be destroyed and “be broken into its constituent parts”. This maybe just another neocon hatchet job on the agency.
The Jones interview in David Horowitz's Frontpage cements my skepticism with this little diddy:
FP: Your thoughts on Israel and the dangers it faces? What must Israel do? What must the U.S. do to help Israel ?
Jones: The best thing a supporter of Israel can do is contact his Senator and Representative and encourage them to improve American intelligence capabilities.
Israel faces the risk of apocalyptic attack from nuclear weapons. It takes 1930’s technology to build these weapons, and they are increasingly available. Terrorist groups who obtain these weapons will use them.
Israel’s intelligence services don’t have the worldwide scope and the money of American intelligence services. The CIA’s clandestine service should be employed to protect free people and allies everywhere, and this includes Israel. A functioning American intelligence service can target nuclear proliferators and prevent nuclear attacks. The dysfunctional CIA we currently have cannot do this.
Supporters of Israel are reputed to be politically adept. Members of the Senate and House intelligence committees are remarkably accessible, and if they’re not, they each have a person on their staffs who handles intelligence issues. Just recently I called the offices of the intelligence committee members to get the names of their intelligence staffers, so that I could send them copies of my book. A supporter of Israel who calls or writes one of these people and encourages them to clean up the CIA’s clandestine service may actually be taking action which will prevent the obliteration of Israel.
I want to see the dismantling of the CIA and its replacement by a functioning intelligence system. But even small, incremental improvements in the CIA will increase Israel’s security. Accountability for money, an end to nepotism, an end to favoritism and fraud in the assignment of contracts, stopping the CIA’s massive expansion within the United States and moving its activities to foreign countries - things that the CIA has already been commanded to do, and is not - would be important improvements.
Michael Ross, a former Mossad spy, and author of The Volunteer, has said that the Mossad recognizes the evil of bureaucracy and fights it effectively. Also, he’s mentioned the restrictions the Mossad has on operating in its own country.
Have they no shame?
Originally Posted by bourbon
Interesting post. Hat tip for connecting some dots I am favor of a rework of the agency, pehaps the entire community as John T siggests. The above smacks of pure sell out.
Bull is always with us...
From both sides of the political spectrum, too...
The publisher, Encounter Books, is the publishing arm of a center-right not profit foundation. Founded by Peter Collier and associated with his pal David Horowitz...
While affiliation with Horowitz is always suspect, the content rather than the association should be the determinant. This is an issue that should never be approached in a partisan manner. Unfortunately, too many cannot rise to the level required to do that.
I'd also point out that partisanship cuts both ways; legitimate criticism can be negated by claiming partisanship and illegitimate criticism can be elevated by the same thing. What's required is to simply filter the information provided and apply logic instead of bias to the issue.
Critics from within have to walk a tight rope; Langley is mildly accepting of some things, reacts with some fury at others. Consider that Jones is essentially saying the same things Gerecht has said, just doing it more fully and with more force. The majority of former Officers will support the Agency even when they know its ills.
I don't know what a "deep cover officer" is. And I am certain hat whatever they are, CIA does not have them.
Are you really? Interesting. It may or may not but what it does have is a jargon -- and that jargon is (1) Directorate dependent; (2) Time of most service dependent, the old and new differ; (3) Geographical area of service dependent.
They do however have officers under Non Official Cover.
An official term given recent popularity but little used by many...
...only to avoid taking such a posture towards Gary Bernsten or Bob Baer who undoubtedly profited from their books and are harder and cooler than they.
Do you know that for certain or are those your presumptions?
Jones' reform to “transfer overseas human intelligence collection efforts to the US military” is misguided and would be fulfillment of the Rumsfeld era's naked assault on CIA.
Not really. Not really misguided that is. The history goes back a whole lot further than Pipes, Neocons and even Rumsfeld. The fact is that that US Army MI and US Navy ONI worked pretty well on the humint effort worldwide prior to, during and immediately after WW II (while the OSS contribution was spotty, some areas poor, some were fair, none were stellar, regardless of Dulles myths). The issue of who should do that humint surfaced with the creation of the CIA in 1947, literally before Pipes was born. It has waxed and waned as a topic ever since; generally when an Agency failure makes the news, DoD makes a play. That predates neocons and Rumsfeld by many years. Korea in 1950 comes to mind. So does the ascent of Castro in Cuba -- and the debacle with the Shah in 1979...
The real problems with national level Humint did not arise until Nixon had Schlesinger start the dismantling of the DO in 1973, the Rockefeller Commission and the Church Committee did their thing and James Earl Carter and Stansfield Turner completed the massacre. The Agency has never fully recovered. Efforts to ramp up DIA to cover the shortfall were probably necessary.
In short, Jones has some good points. He has some bad points. Accept the good and discard the bad -- and as the disagreement between you and I over the humint mission show, what's good and what's bad can be in the eye of the viewer.
The problem is that the IC is in disarray right now and this is not a good time for that to be the case. Congress means well but reform efforts will become a partisan political football and little will be done. While I strongly disagreed with the establishment of the DNI, his existence is a fact so we can only hope that the incumbent and his successors fix the problem.
As Tom and John said, a fix is needed -- that's one thing we can probably all agree upon.
Right on,
Mr. White.
I be a-wishin I been a-writin that - rather than thinking it.
from White
Bull is always with us... From both sides of the political spectrum, too...
Now, trying to apply Mr. White's mode of analysis in my fumbling McCarthy manner.
Since Lindsay Moran has been mentioned, here is her review of Jones' book
Ishmael Jones is the real deal, a CIA case officer who worked under deep cover – without the traditional safety net of diplomatic immunity – targeting this country’s most hostile threats and winning over critical informants. He represents an altogether uncommon breed of CIA officer, one willing to risk life and career in the pursuit of gathering better intelligence. Undeterred by the Agency’s baffling bureaucratic barriers, Jones bucked the system when he had to, and served in a series of successful overseas assignments. If the CIA as a whole shared this one officer’s relentless pursuit of WMD sources, terrorists and the rogue nations that support them, we might find ourselves in a much safer world today. With his book The Human Factor – as entertaining as it is informative – Jones relates the details of his extraordinary career. Better yet, he tells his story with a notable lack of bravado and a tremendous amount of dry wit. I laughed out loud at descriptions of CIA characters and culture that were all too familiar. Jones represents the kind of CIA officer that I – and many other neophyte spies – had always hoped to encounter as a supervisor. But he wisely sidestepped managerial positions within the Agency in order to remain exactly where he should have been: active in the field.
Lindsay Moran
Author of Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy
http://www.ishmaeljones.com/reviews/
Here is a review of Ms. Moran by a longer-serving agency gal:
She Gives Spies a Bad Name
By MARTHA SUTHERLAND, Special to the Sun December 16, 2004
For nearly 20 years, I was a case officer in the CIA's Directorate of Operations. I ran foreign agents in China. I had many alias passports and held clandestine meetings in strange hotel rooms all over the world. I was there when Tiananmen Square erupted in 1989; I still possess spent bullets that vengeful Chinese soldiers shot through my apartment walls that day. I was also in Cairo and in a lot of other places I don't talk about, even though I've been officially ex-Agency for five years.
Lindsay Moran, valedictorian of her Harvard class, joined the CIA in 1998,and after three years of training at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., she spent only two years of service in Macedonia before leaving to get married. Thus her new book, "Blowing my Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy," (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 304 pages, $22.95) is a wonderfully bold and naive misnomer. It's akin to a first-year medical intern writing a book called, "My Life as a Surgeon."
http://www.nysun.com/arts/she-gives-...bad-name/6360/
Which does not necessarily mean that everything Ms. Moran says is bull. The part of Ms. Sutherland's article that bears more attention is the apparent liberality of the Publications Review Board to allow disclosure of training methods.
Another of the three reviewers in Jones' webpage (cited above) is Michael Ross (the other is Max Boot), who says:
Ishmael Jones takes on many sacred cows in this blistering, yet often humorous divulgence of how the CIA has summarily opted-out of the spy game replacing the real work of human source intelligence collection with a humorless and anemic bureaucracy scared of its own shadow. This page-turner chronicles the journey of a gifted and patriotic CIA officer of the elite Clandestine Service and his Herculean attempts to get the job done while fending off the risk-averse mandarins back at Langley determined to thwart his every effort. Sometimes he succeeds and to the CIA’s great shame, sometimes he doesn’t.
-Michael Ross
Author of The Volunteer: My Secret Life in the Mossad
A review of Mr. Ross' book by Hayden Peake is in the Spring 2008 Intelligencer, which is not online; see
http://www.afio.com/22_intelligencer.htm
The bottom line of Peake's review (p.127) is
from Peake
Both editions [US and Canadian] lack documentation. We are left with a well written story book that asks the reader to "trust me", but provides little reason to do so.
Which does not necessarily mean that everything Mr. Ross says is bull.
The next piece of "evidence".
Encounterbooks.com
Encounter is the publisher of THE HUMAN FACTOR
BLOWING MY COVER
Lindsay Moran, auther of BLOWING MY COVER, is the most talented writer to have written about the CIA.
WAR MADE NEW
by Max Boot, Senior Fellow, The Council on Foreign Relations
THE VOLUNTEER
by Michael Ross. This is the best book written about the Israeli Mossad.
http://www.ishmaeljones.com/links/
From which, I infer that a publisher and four folks got together to sell their books.
Conspiracy ? - anything is possible and can be conceived - see quote below signature.
So, back to Mr. White: "What's required is to simply filter the information provided and apply logic instead of bias to the issue."
PS1 (Ken) Do you happen to live near US 41 ?
PS2 Now some other folks can launch into a discussion of "deep cover, mesne cover, and thin cover officers" - to say nothing of "agents" and "spies".
Nope, about 250 miles west
Originally Posted by jmm99
on the Redneck Riviera...
About five hours out of the way...
Office is
right on it.
On the Redneck Snowbelt....
Thought great minds might run along the same highway. Now, I'll have to come up with a more "complicated and implausible" explanation.
PS: The url for Ms. Sutherland's article is now giving me problems - Sun website down ? Worked fine this afternoon. Maybe my wife's computer - since she hates "I spy stuff", maybe it too. Have to go before she throws me out of her wigwam.
Last edited by Jedburgh; 08-04-2008 at 01:58 AM.
Misnomer?
Snowbelt or ice cube belt? Benton Harbor is as far north as I've been in a Michigan winter and that was quite enough, thank you...
They do, check the map. You and I are on a direct N-S Axis as modified by a 3.175 deviation of magnetic north from this end to which the curvature of the earth and the transient effects of this years flood water have added a slight westward cant.
My Mother told my wife before we married that what I said would be "generally believable..." My own mother!... No idea what she meant by that.
I'll stand on Redneck Snowbelt...
Snowbelt or ice cube belt?
Snowbelt; Lake Superior adds a Med effect, even when it freezes over (which it does). Snow fall (as opposed to snow cover) in inches runs to mid-200's usually. High is just shy of 400" (78-79, when my dad cashed in his chips). See here for totals (Keweenaw runs a little higher than here - maybe a coiuple of feet).
http://www.johndee.com/history.htm
Ideal winter temp is about 20-25F. Anything at 32F or higher is a problem because snow melts, creates a mess and then freezes - leading to an ice cube belt in driveway. Plus, it makes igloo living wet; and bear can more easily breach the walls. See Pierre of the North comic strip.
I expect this site will tell you more about this region than you want to know.
The City's proximity to majestic Lake Superior gives it beautiful mild summers and wonderful snowy winters.
http://www.cityofhancock.com/
You and I are on a direct N-S Axis as modified by a 3.175 deviation of magnetic north from this end to which the curvature of the earth and the transient effects of this years flood water have added a slight westward cant.
...as further modified by a almost 0.00 deviation of magnetic north from this end (making bearings and departures easy); plus the effect of snow load - and the glacier that is coming over the hill (no, no, Mike, that was the 70's Global Cooling Model).
My Mother told my wife before we married ...
My mother in law told me (before my wife and I married) that I shouldn't believe everything my wife would tell me. My wife claims that my father misrepresented to her everything about me - thus, she (my wife) should be able to sue me (why me; sue the old man) for fraud. So, married life goes on.
Curses. How could I forget
the snow load...
Back to work,
and back to the topic.
For those interested in the possible legal issues here - and, keep in mind, that no one has brought any kind of legal action for or against Mr. Jones - some background on the Frank Snepp case.
Very brief Wiki bio of Mr. Snepp is here (updated 14 Jul 2008):
Frank Warren Snepp (born 3 May 1943, Kinston, North Carolina) is a journalist and former chief analyst of North Vietnamese strategy for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Saigon during the Vietnam War. Five out of eight years in the CIA, he worked as interrogator, agent debriefer, and chief CIA strategy analyst in the Saigon embassy. He is currently a producer for KNBC-TV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Snepp
Webpage and links by Mr. Snepp (updated ?; last copyright 2006):
Inside the Site
Decent Interval
CIA on Snepp
http://www.franksnepp.com/
Of the links, "Supreme Court" and "CIA on Snepp" are worth reading - simply to understand Mr. Snepp's perspective.
The SCOTUS decision was mercifully brief (in comparison to most) - and unanimous. The holding was
Held:
A former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, who had agreed not to divulge classified information without authorization and not to publish any information relating to the Agency without prepublication clearance, breached a fiduciary obligation when he published a book about certain Agency activities without submitting his manuscript for prepublication review. The proceeds of his breach are impressed with a constructive trust for the benefit of the Government.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/script...=444&invol=507
Note 1 (re: Jones): Mr. Jones has stated that "My book is also the first CIA book for which all author profits will be given away." (see FrontPage cited above) While that would not technically affect the Government's case if one were brought (under Snepp case logic of a constructive trust, the Government could still go after the funds in the hands of the charitable recipients), it would certainly affect the PR aspect - and perhaps, affect the decision to pursue civil litigation or not.
Note 2 (re: Jones): Mr. Jones has also stated that "There is no classified information in my book." (FrontPage). That remains the sole evidence on that unless and until contrary evidence is presented and accepted under relevant proof standards.
The agency's Publications Review Board's decisions can be appealed internally within the agency and externally in the Federal court system. See, for legal references, current through dates stated:
SOURCE: Studies in Intelligence (Spring 1998)
Reviewing the Work of CIA Authors
Secrets, Free Speech, and Fig Leaves
John Hollister Hedley
CIA's Publications Review Board (PRB) and its small staff perform a balancing act more than 300 times a year, navigating a process sanctioned by the US Supreme Court to clear the writings of Agency authors for nonofficial publication. The challenge: to balance CIA's secrecy agreement with the Bill of Rights. Business is brisk, as a growing number of former CIA employees seek to become published authors--especially former operations officers reflecting on their clandestine careers abroad.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/hedley.html
The second cite is to an internal memo, agency approved for external release 2003/11/06, which has one particularly relevant recommendation (p.19):
We recommend that:
V.A. The General Counsel examine the merits of DO argumentation for disallowing certain manuscripts in toto whose text largely concerns DO methodology and operations.
http://fas.org/sgp//eprint/prb1981.pdf
Note 3 (re: Jones): Mr. Jones has also stated (FrontPage) that
"My book has also been disapproved in its entirety by CIA censors. I actively sought the approval of the censors, and repeatedly asked them during the course of a year what parts of the book they would like removed or rewritten. But they simply replied: all of it. In the end, CIA censors returned the manuscript to me as a stack of blank pages."
The obvious legal issue here is whether Mr. Jones waived a number of legal rights by not going through with internal and external review of the "blank pages" return - or, whether the courts can address the "in toto" rejection despite lack of that review - an issue not to be answered here by me.
Googling - "publications review board" cia - will get you about 500 hits on PRB reviews.
Snepp discussion correction
My statement in above post was "The SCOTUS decision was mercifully brief (in comparison to most) - and unanimous."
Wrong on "unanimous". Though the decision was Per Curium (by the Court), there was a dissent by JJ. Stevens, Brennan and Marshall as to several substantive and procedural points.
The holding quoted is correct; and is the ruling presently in effect, unless and until overruled.
Explosive new book coming out on the CIA
God help that guy with whats coming for him.
Last edited by Ken White; 09-11-2008 at 01:20 AM. Reason: Moved to existing thread / KW
There is a thread on Ishmael Jones ...
in Military Art & Science Applied > Intelligence forum at
http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=5832
with quite a bit of relevant discussion (except for my off-topic back and forth with Ken White, which I should have done by PM).
A moderator will probably move your post (& this one) there.
No big sin & keep posting.
The Intelligence forum should have some topics of interest to you, in light of
from Elevation
My name is John, I'm a 19 year old college student at UMBC in Baltimore.
After school I hope to be able to join up with either the DIA, CIA, or one of the individual intel branches that support the military services. Probably in an analytical position, but we'll see.
http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...6211#post56211
If you are looking at analysis or other "home office stuff", plan on a PhD or law degree; keep up the language and area studies; and keep clean.
Same first name here, but I go by Mike (2nd name).
Now that we have been moved ...
into the right pew, we can address this:
After reading all prior posts, please tell me:
1. What's coming for him ?
2. But, far more important, your reasoned analysis of why.
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Breakfast in Beijing: Schippers shines, more US struggles, Eaton sets world record
Kevin Sully | On 28, Aug 2015
Photo via TrackTownPhoto
The 2015 World Championships will not be included on USA track’s greatest hits list. The compilation of falls, fouls, false starts and under-performances continued on Friday. No event was that clearer than the women’s 100m hurdles where the most conservative estimate had the Americans taking two medals. With four entries, a sweep seemed likely.
But there has been no assumptions in these championships for the United States. Dawn Harper Nelson crashed a hurdle and went out in the semifinals. In a later heat, Kendra Harrison false started. That left only Brianna Rollins and Sharika Nelvis for the final. Not ideal, but they were capable of going 1-2. Nelvis finished last and Rollins only could get up for fourth place. Danielle Williams of Jamaica won gold, followed by Germany’s Cindy Roleder and Alina Talay of Belarus.
The sprint relays still give the Americans a chance to pad the medal total, but even with four more golds this meet goes down as a disappointment. After its over, there will be plenty of speculation of what went wrong and how to fix it. Change the qualification system? It’s worked well before. Fire the coach? Wrong sport. Right now it looks to be a combination of bad luck and some untimely flat performances. The US does have 12 fourth and fifth place finishes, double the amount of the next best country. So maybe it’s just domination of another sort….
The race of the evening came from an unlikely place. The women’s 200m has been flat all year and was pretty bleak entering this meet without the presence of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Allyson Felix, Tori Bowie and Shaunae Miller. Yet somehow, the final produced the deepest 200m race of all-time. Dafne Schippers caught Elaine Thompson at the line to win 21.63 to 21.66–they are now the fourth and fifth fastest women of all-time, ahead of Felix’s 21.69.
At the beginning of the year, Thompson was a 23-second 200m runner and Schippers was a heptathlete who dabbled in the sprints. When she was still pondering whether to stick with the multi events or focus on sprinting I made this chart to break down the decision.
From the perspective of the beginning of the year, a Schippers/Thompson 1-2 at the World Championships (and with top five times) is stunning. The entire race on Friday was fast. Other than Veronica-Campbell Brown, who ran 21.97 for bronze, the top five ran their lifetime bests. Throw Fraser-Pryce and Felix in that race and the track would have combusted.
Sergey Shubenkov won the men’s hurdles in 12.98. Hansle Parchment 13.03 was second and Aries Merritt took third in 13.04. Merritt is having a kidney transplant on September 1st so his performance throughout the rounds and the final was incredible. David Oliver and Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, the two highest regarded hurdlers at the beginning of the year, were in the outside lanes for the final and were not factors in the race.
Today also hosted the first five events of the decathlon. One way to appreciate the multi-events is through the perspective of the everyman. Decathletes and heptathletes are phenomenal athletes and post great marks in events that aren’t always compatible with their body type. And they do it while looking relatively normal. When you see Jessica Ennis Hill run a 200 or Trey Hardee hurdle it doesn’t look effortless. It looks hard because it should be hard to run the times they do. We get used to seeing Bolt, Rudisha, Felix and Dibaba cruise across the finish line, smile, wave and be generally unaffected by what they just put their body through (Wayde Van Niekerk the exception here). With the multi events, you get to see a more accurate portrayal of what it takes to have your body run 23 seconds for a 200 or long jump six meters.
This applies to everyone, except Ashton Eaton. He ran 45.00 in the 400m– a decathlon world record and his fastest 400m ever. He won by a province over the second best runner. Smooth and effortless only begins to describe Eaton when he is sprinting, jumping or hurdling. If he wasn’t doing ten events, he could win medals somewhere else and make it look so easy.
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