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DENVER/December 5, 2019 – Morris Animal Foundation, a leader in advancing animal health, is proud to announce it received four 2019 MarCom awards, including individual Platinum and Gold winners. The MarCom Awards are an international competition for marketing and communication materials and programs, honoring excellence in marketing and communication, while recognizing the creativity, hard work and generosity of industry professionals.
“We are delighted to be recognized for our marketing team’s work to engage our audiences so they might join and support us in our mission,” said Carol Borchert, Vice President of Marketing and Brand Strategy at Morris Animal Foundation. “We constantly strive for better ways to use our marketing resources to advance animal health and these awards reflect our passion for that work.”
Morris Animal Foundation 2019 MarCom Awards:
• Print Media/Design (Print)/Corporate Identity – Morris Animal Foundation Identity Suite
• Public Relations Program – “Mockingbirds Show Heightened Aggression After Lead Exposure”
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The Foundation won its Platinum award for its new identity suite. The suite, which forms a visual language around the Foundation’s logo for marketing materials, uses new colors, fonts, iconography, photography, clean lines and messaging to communicate more clearly with audiences.
A Gold award was given for a press release about a study the Foundation funded, which examined how mockingbirds are negatively impacted by sub-lethal lead exposure. It also raised the possibility that exposure may be common among other wildlife living in urban areas, and maybe even pets.
The Foundation also claimed two honorable mentions for its new e-newsletters, AnimalNEWS Tips & Tails and Fresh Scoop. Both are mobile-optimized and feature vibrant colors. Fresh Scoop is for “veterinarians & other smart people” to learn about Foundation-funded research findings. AnimalNEWS Tips & Tails is for donors and supporters to get up-to-date research findings, healthy animal tips and giving opportunities.
The Marcom Awards are administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP). They are one of the largest, most respected creative competitions in the world, with roughly 6,000 print and digital entries submitted from numerous countries each year.
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MPS Studios – a full-service rental house specializing in grip, lighting, and camera equipment, as well as sound stages, with offices located in Dallas, Austin, and Denver – has added the Cooke 180mm Anamorphic to its ever-growing inventory.
The 180mm is one of 10 various focal lengths that make up the Cooke Anamorphic/i Special Flair lens series. These lenses allow for next-level visuals when it comes to flare, bokeh, and aberration, offering remarkable optical and mechanical performance over the entire field of view.
Equipped with the /i “intelligent” Technology, the 180mm Anamorphic is designed for all PL mounted professional motion picture film and electronic cameras. The /i Technology is a feature that enables film and digital cameras to automatically record key lens and camera data, such as lens setting, aperture and depth-of-field, focusing distance, hyperfocal distance, and more, captured frame by frame – for use in post-production and real-time displays. This technology streamlines both production and post, which saves significant time and cost and takes out the guesswork while allowing for greater creative freedom.
Another great feature about the 180mm is that it comes with the Cooke Look®, which, according to the Cooke website, is “a sharp, subtle, smooth rendering that provides dimensionality and high contrast, and pleases the eye.” It has certainly caught the attention of Austin-based DP Peter Simonite.
“I recently shot with the Cooke Anamorphics from MPS on a commercial project for Amazon. The 180mm is a beautiful addition to the Cooke set,” Simonite said. “I love the clarity and the unique character of these lenses, and especially the look of the 180mm. When we put the 180mm up, everyone behind the monitors was thrilled.”
MPS’s 180mm is one of just a few in the United States. Also available at MPS are the 25mm, 32mm, 40mm, 50mm, 65mm MACRO, 75mm, 100mm, and 135mm focal lengths – just one lens shy of the complete set.
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They Changed the Ending!
Posted on January 22, 2019 April 25, 2019 by museumoflost
Movie endings can make or break a film. But sometimes, they change. Here are ten well known movies where the original ending was subsequently switched.
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The Right Note, in 'Thelma and Louise'
1991's 'Thelma and Louise' has one of the most famous endings in movie history; the title characters, on the run from awful relationships and deadend lives, and murder, have finally been cornered by the police on the edge of The Grand Canyon. But rather than give up, they hold hands and decide to 'keep going', driving off the cliff to their deaths. It's a female empowerment move, in an era not famed for that theme. The film fades to white with the car in mid air, poised in its plunge to the bottom. But originally, director Ridley Scott had intended to show the car crashing to the canyon floor, and then have one final shot of Harvey Keitel's police detective, looking sadly over the edge at the wreckage. This small change (you can watch it above) adds a very different tone to the final scene; the ending where you don't see the crash makes the characters seem almost mythical, immortal, whereas the longer ending becomes much more pedestrian. The stars of the film, Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, both objected, and the final half a minute was cut.
Duckie Gets the Girl, in 'Pretty in Pink'
When you watch 'Pretty in Pink' for the first time, you know exactly how it's going to end; Andie (Molly Ringwald) will come to her senses and chose dorky Duckie (Jon Cryer) over handsome Blaine (Andrew McCarthy). Only... she doesn't do that; leaving Duckie at the prom while she goes after the rich guy. What you may not know is that they originally filmed it the way you thought it should happen, with Duckie and Andie cuddling on the dancefloor as David Bowie's 'Heroes' played, and the credits rolled. Sadly for dorks everywhere, test audiences nixed this one, as apparently they simply didn't believe Andie would choose Duckie. Director Howard Deutch later said he was 'heartbroken' when told he would need to reshoot the ending, although Molly Ringwold would defend the change, as she also felt her character would not end up with Duckie.
Sledgehammer Subtlety, in 'Titanic'
After she has told Bill Paxton's crew her story of surviving the Titanic sinking, the older Rose sneaks out late at night and drops her enormous sapphire over the side of the boat. 'A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets,' she said earlier, and here is one more thing she kept to herself... But in the original version of the ending, Paxton catches her at the ship's railing, and after he confronts her has to listen to a heavy handed ramble about following your heart (or something). He then looks properly insane, when Rose tosses the jewel overboard in front of him (watch it, above). Wisely, the subtler version was the one that was ultimately used.
The Tone Shift, in 'Clerks'
Kevin Smith's low budget debut 'Clerks' was a hoot for anyone who had ever manned a counter in the service industry. Dante and his pal Randal dealt with annoying customers, played hockey on the roof, and otherwise did as little as possible, as they filled another average day. It's heavy on banter, and engagingly silly... until the very final moments of the original ending, when a thief enters the Quick Stop and shoots Dante dead. It's so jarring (see above) it's like a scene from some other youth slacker movie. Smith subsequently admitted that the shooting scene really showed he wasn't sure how to end the film, and he quickly cut it after a rough edit was viewed by members of the cast and crew.
The Real Monster, in 'I Am Legend'
Will Smith battles zombie type things in the post apocalyptic 'I Am Legend', as a dedicated scientist trying to find a cure for the disease that caused the zombification in the first place. Eventually, the zombie hoardes find his secret lab/hidey hole, and he blows himself (and a few of them) up, allowing a young mother and child to escape in the chaos. But in the original ending, which is taken from the Richard Mathieson novel the film is based on, the zombie attackers are actually just trying to rescue one of their own, captured by Smith and used as a guinea pig. The point is that the zombies are an evolved species, and they view Smith as the monster; a psycho who stalks, captures, and tortures them. So Smith lets his captive go, and the other zombies slink away (after screeching a bit). The Twilight Zone couldn't have wrapped it up better.
The Frame Up, in 'Fatal Attraction'
One of the most famous of alternate endings is the original final act of this taught, popular thriller. After Michael Douglas - playing one of his patented 80's douchebags - has finally fessed up to cheating on his wife, and ditched psycho Glenn Close, she hatches an ingenious revenge scheme. Close commits suicide, but does it in such a way that it will appear Douglas murdered her, framing him from beyond the grave. The film ends with Douglas being arrested, an ending that the stars both liked but which was roundly rejected by test audiences, who did not sympathise with Close's character. In an interview several years later, Close said, 'There is something with that character that people wanted her to be punished.' The ending was changed to a more conventional showdown, with Close attacking Douglas at home, and being shot by his wife.
The Prom in Heaven, in 'Heathers'
Two decades before 'Mean Girls', there was 'Heathers', the original popular-high-school-girls-run-amuch comedy. In 'Heathers', young wannabe Veronica (Winona Ryder), and her boyfriend JD (Christian Slater), cap the film with a plot to blow up their high school. Only Veronica has a change of heart, foils the plan, and JD only blows himself up. But there was no hedging of bets in the original ending, in which Veronica goes through with the plan; blowing herself up on the school steps and destroying the building, killing everyone inside. The film then cuts to... a prom, in heaven, where all the characters are seen enjoying themslves. A 'much better' ending, according to screenwriter Daniel Waters. Unsurprisingly, the studio balked at such a wild, bleak finale, where every character has been killed, and insisted on a slightly tamer version. The original ending is discussed in the clip above.
Rocket Launcher Roulette, in 'Die Hard with a Venegence'
John McClane can't lose. But in the third installment of the Die Hard series, he originally had to wait a bit longer than usual to beat the bad guy, Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons). This first ending had Gruber escaping with his trucks of stolen gold, leaving McClane and everyone else floundering in the aftermath of a huge explosion. Flash forward to six years later, and McClane has tracked Gruber to what looks like a fancy ski lodge, where he confronts him with a rocket launcher (see above). The launcher has had all the markings removed, making it hard to tell one end from the other, and McClane says they are going to play a game; Gruber has to point one end at himself and press the trigger, giving himself a 50% chance of survival. You can guess what happens.
The Unlikely Apology, in 'Election'
The end of Alexander Payne's 'Election' shows us the wash up for the characters in a few years time; Jim (Matthew Broderick) lost his job as a teacher, and is now working as a guide at the American Natural History Museum, where he sees Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), working as an aid for a politician. There's a funny bit where Jim throws his soda at the limo Tracy is in, then runs away when her secret service detail gets out. But originally, a much more low key ending was shot, which matched the book the film is based on. In this one, Jim has ended up working as a car salesman, and Tracy comes to buy a car for college. After a bit of awkward chat, they apologise to each other for their actions... which is very grown up and all, but not as funny as chucking a drink at someone. The low quality footage is above.
The Big Pie Fight, in 'Dr Strangelove'
Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr Strangelove' has one of the most famous endings in movie history, as General Kong (Slim Pickens) rides a nuclear bomb onto a Russian target, triggering World War III and the end of civilisation. Only, this was not the ending of the film as it was originally scripted and shot. Towards the end of the movie, when General Turgidson (George C. Scott) accuses the Russian ambassador of spying, the Russian retaliates by picking up a cream pie from a nearby catering table and flinging it at the general, triggering an all out food fight among everyone in the war room. The point is; whether it's nuclear weapons or cream pies, humanity will find some way to make war. But the scale - and mess - of the food fight was such that only one take was ever going to be possible, and no one was happy with the result as filmed. Everyone enjoyed flinging food around a little too much, with the result that the tone of the movie shifted dramatically to giddy slapstick. You can see more photos of the food fight (the footage is sadly lost) here.
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Hulk Hogan says he almost joined Metallica
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Hulk Hogan and Metallica? Hogan says that's no 'load' (Image credit: Mark Savage/Corbis)
Music is full of bizarre combinations, but this one very well could take the cake: Former WWWF champion Hulk Hogan says that he almost joined Metallica.
The wrestler, who used to star in his own MTV reality series, Hogan Knows Best, told The Sun that he and Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich were close pals back in the days when The Hulkster was a working session musician. (And no, we didn't know Hogan was a a session player, either - the surprises keep on comin'!)
"I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler," Hogan said. "I played bass. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich, and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days, but it didn't work out."
Can you say "good thing"?
Over the years, Hogan hasn't lost his love of music. One of his big faves is The Stone Roses - he used to play the reunited band's CDs during his bulking-up routines. "I love the Stone Roses," he said. "They're getting back together, right? That's cool, man. I used to work out to some of their songs."
As for The Hulkster's four-string skills, we present the above video in which Hogan joins the band Diamondback for a version of Johnny B. Goode. Soooo, what do you think?
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal court judge says the state of Iowa cannot enforce its latest attempt to stifle undercover investigations of livestock farms and denied the state’s efforts to dismiss a lawsuit challenging this year’s so-called ag-gag law.
The Republican-led legislature passed the state’s second such law in March, two months after a federal judge struck down the previous 2012 law, saying it violated constitutional free-speech rights.
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Nemetschek Vectorworks and BIMobject schließen Kooperationsvertrag (englisch)
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BIMobject® will now support Vectorworks native file formats
Malmö/Columbia, MD, September 1, 2015 – Global CAD/BIM design software developer Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., a part of The Nemetschek Group in Germany, and BIMobject AB announced today that they signed a cooperation agreement. The two companies will support each other’s BIM technology in order to better accommodate the needs of the AEC (architecture, engineering and construction) industry.
“We joined forces with BIMobject to deliver a streamlined way for Vectorworks designers to access up-to-date, manufacturer-approved BIM content,” said Robert Anderson, vice president of integrated practice at Nemetschek Vectorworks. “Our partnership supports our desire to provide increased access to building material and product specifications that live in a building information model – valuable data that decision-makers involved with the design, construction and maintenance of a building need to be successful.”
As part of the agreement, BIMobject® will host Vectorworks native file formats in its cloud-based web portal on BIMobject.com. In addition, BIMobject® and Nemetschek Vectorworks will collaboratively assist manufacturers with developing BIM objects for Vectorworks software users worldwide. A BIM object is a detailed piece of information that defines a product’s geometry and represents its physical characteristics. More than half a million users around the world are using Vectorworks software, and this user community will be significant contributors to the BIMobject® Cloud platform. BIMobject and Nemetschek Vectorworks will together build up an initial set of manufacturers objects, including preexisting BIMobject content. All of these BIM objects will also be available and distributed by Nemetschek Vectorworks through a multivendor private cloud, offered with the support of BIMobject® Cloud solutions.
There are also future plans for developing tighter integration and enhanced collaboration between Vectorworks software and BIMobject’s cloud platform.
“This partnership is meaningful as we’ve seen a huge demand from Vectorworks users over the last year for content from our BIMobject Cloud portfolio,” said Stefan Larsson, CEO and founder of BIMobject AB. “For our building product manufacturers, this completes our offering across BIM platforms and delivers a significant user base dedicated to the Vectorworks platform that will benefit in additional business and customer satisfaction. Now, we’ll do our best together to get the solutions done as quickly as possible to meet user demand.”
About Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc.
Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. is the developer of Vectorworks software, a line of industry-specific CAD and BIM solutions that allow designers to easily capture, develop and communicate their ideas with accuracy and efficiency. With more than half a million users around the world, Vectorworks software is a global leader in 3D design technologies for the AEC, landscape and entertainment industries. Nemetschek Vectorworks was founded in 1985 and has been a part of The Nemetschek Group since its acquisition in 2000. For more information, visit www.vectorworks.net.
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BIMobject® is a game changer for the construction industry worldwide with its cloud based Portal offering development, maintenance and syndication of digital replicas – BIM objects – of manufactured building and interior products. The marketing and pre-sales services associated with the Portal are channeled and integrated, through specialized software, into CAD/BIM applications to create a business-to-business communication across the globe. Manufacturers use BIMobject® to promote and deliver their products directly into BIM processes enabling their products to be selected and generate a real improvement in sales. bimobject.com
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Long Island weather: Dangerously rough seas from Hurricane Florence
Friday will be mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid- to upper 70s, falling into the lower to mid-60s Friday night. Credit: Weather Underground
By Chau Lam chau.lam@newsday.com Updated September 14, 2018 6:39 AM
Hurricane Florence, a Category 1 storm hitting the Carolinas on Friday, is churning up rough seas and dangerous rip currents for Long Island, forecasters said Friday.
“The swells coming from the storm are producing 7 to 9-foot waves,” said meteorologist David Stark of the National Weather Service’s Upton office.
A high rip current risk and high surf advisory remain in effect for the Island’s ocean beaches until Friday night, the weather service said, with beach erosion and flooding possible. There is also a small craft advisory for hazardous seas until 6 a.m. Sunday.
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Friday will be mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid- to upper 70s, falling into the lower to mid-60s Friday night.
The waves are expected to be much lower on Saturday and Sunday, Stark said.
Temperatures are expected to climb into the lower 80s on Saturday, with mid- to upper 70s highs across eastern Long Island.
"No rain in the forecast for the next three to four days,” Stark said. “Let’s enjoy the drier days.”
A chance of showers returns Monday and Tuesday with highs in the mid- to upper 70s.
That rain will be from the remnants of Florence, said News 12 Long Island meteorologist Rich Hoffman.
By Chau Lam chau.lam@newsday.com
Chau Lam reports on a wide range of topics: from crime and courts to aviation, hurricanes and 9/11 first responders.
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Ask the expert: Interpreting standardised scores with NFER’s Liz Twist
In this ‘Ask the expert’, Liz Twist, Head of Assessment Research and Product Development at NFER and former teacher, answers some FAQs on interpreting standardised scores.
If a pupil has the same standardised score on consecutive termly tests, does that mean they have made no progress?
It depends on the tests you are using and how you are using them. If you use NFER Tests in the term for which they were designed (e.g. autumn tests in the autumn term, summer tests in the summer term), then the same standardised score on consecutive tests would indicate that progress has been made.
With NFER Tests, each test has been standardised in the term in which it is intended to be used, so autumn tests have been standardised in the autumn term, spring tests in the spring term and summer tests in the summer term. A standardised score of 100 represents the average score of all the pupils participating in that standardisation. Therefore a pupil achieving a standardised score of 100 is performing in line with the national average for that term. If the same pupil achieves a standardised score of 100 on a consecutive test, this shows they are performing consistently at an average level i.e. they are retaining a similar position relative to the national average. A pupil who consistently gains a similar standardised score is making average or expected progress in line with the progress seen nationally.
If a pupil’s standardised score goes up significantly, it means they are making more than average progress. Conversely, if a pupil’s standardised score falls significantly, they are making less than average progress and may need to be monitored more carefully.
How do I know if the progress made is better or worse than expected?
On NFER Tests, we provide confidence bands around each standardardised score. These are specific to each test and give an indication of the range of scores in which the pupil’s true score lies. When two standardised scores are being compared, for example between summer year 3 and summer year 4 tests, then the confidence bands should be looked at. If the standardised scores are different but the confidence bands overlap then there is no significant difference between the scores. In this case, it can be stated that the pupil has made typical progress, given their starting point. For example, a pupil gets a standardised score of 98 on year 3 summer maths test. The confidence band is minus 5 to plus 5 so there is a 90% likelihood that their ‘true’ score lies between 93 and 103. On the summer year 4 test, the same pupil achieves a standardised score of 102. This has a confidence band of minus 5 to plus 4 so there’s a 90% likelihood that the ‘true’ score lies between 97 and 106. These confidence bands overlap and so the pupil has made progress that is not signficantly different from that expected, given his or her starting point.
I have been told that pupils with standardised scores of 98 and 101 are still demonstrating average attainment. Is that true?
Yes it is in respect of NFER Tests.
This is another instance when you should look at the confidence bands which have been published alongside the score tables. For example, if the published confidence band for a standardised score of 98 on a maths test is minus 4 to plus 5, then a pupil has a ‘true’ score in the range of 94 to 103. For a standardised score of 101, the confidence band on this specific test is minus 5 to plus 5, giving a band of 96 to 106. This means that these two pupils (with standardised scores of 98 and 101) have no significant difference between their scores and their performance is broadly average.
What increase in standardised score would indicate the pupil has progressed significantly more than expected, given their starting point?
If confidence bands are applied to the standardised scores from consecutive tests and the range in which the pupil’s ‘true’ score lies overlaps, the pupil is making progress in line with others from the same starting point. If the range in which the ‘true’ score lies in the second test is much higher than that of the first test, then the pupil has made better than expected progress.
For example, Mel and Ahmed both gain a standardised score of 108 on the year 4 mathematics spring test. The confidence bands indicate their ‘true’ scores lies between 103 and 112. Mel later gains a standardised score of 111 on the summer test while Ahmed scores 119. Mel’s ‘true’ score on the summer test is between 106 and 115. This overlaps with the confidence band in the spring test. She is therefore making progress in line with others from the same starting point. Ahmed’s ‘true’ score on the summer test lies between 114 and 123. Ahmed’s ‘true’ summer score is therefore significantly higher than his spring ‘true’ score and Ahmed has made significantly more progress than others from the same starting point in the spring.
Written by Liz Twist, Head of Assessment Research and Product Development at NFER
With over 20 years’ experience in assessment development and research, Liz leads the teams developing NFER’s popular assessment products and research. She has also previously worked as deputy head of a combined school and taught both primary and secondary school pupils.
Do you have a question on assessment that you’d like to put to one of our assessment team? Send it through to us at assessmenthub@nfer.ac.uk.
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Typhoon Hagibis Lands in Central Japan's Izu Peninsula
Society Guide to Japan Oct 12, 2019
Tokyo, Oct. 12 (Jiji Press)--Very big and powerful Typhoon Hagibis made landfall in the Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday (10 a.m. GMT), the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
The 19th typhoon of this year has brought heavy rains and strong winds in many areas, such as the Tokai central region including Shizuoka and the Kanto eastern region.
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Flanders man, racing-engine builder killed in two-vehicle crash on Route 206
Lori Comstock
MOUNT OLIVE — A 34-year-old Flanders man who built engines for professional racing cars was killed Thursday morning due to injuries he suffered in a two-vehicle crash that shut down Route 206 for several hours, according to police.
Frank Iaconio Jr., of the Flanders section of Mount Olive, was pronounced dead at Morristown Medical Center shortly after the crash, which occurred just before 11 a.m., according to the Mount Olive Police Department.
A preliminary investigation determined that a 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier, driven by Iaconio, was attempting to make a left turn onto Route 206 northbound from a residence located on the southbound side of the highway, police said. A 2013 Chevrolet Tahoe, driven by John Maulbeck, Flanders, 56, was traveling on Route 206 south when he struck Iaconio’s vehicle, which was in his lane of travel at the time, on the driver’s side, according to police.
Iaconio was transported to Morristown Medical Center via Atlantic Air One helicopter. Maulbeck was not injured.
Iaconio worked as an engine builder at Frank Iaconio Racing Engine, located just north of the crash site at 250 Route 206 in Flanders. Iaconio Jr.’s father, Frank Iaconio Sr., founded the company in 1972 and is an 11-time national event winner in the National Hot Rod Association Pro Stock as a driver and won 15 times as an engine builder, according to the Facebook page.
Iaconio Jr.’s Facebook page indicates he is a Mount Olive Class of 2003 graduate.
The crash remains under investigation by the Mount Olive Police Department with the assistance of the Morris County Sheriff’s Office criminal investigative section, the Flanders Fire Department and the Mount Olive Fire Marshal’s Office.
The New Jersey Department of Transportation Traffic Diversion team assisted with the road closure of Route 206.
Lori Comstock can also be reached on Twitter: @LoriComstockNJH, on Facebook: www.Facebook.com/LoriComstockNJH or by phone: 973-383-1194.
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Academic workload and lack of play time ruining children, experts warn
Saturday June 7 2014
IPupils at Blescohouse School in Nakuru take computer lessons on January 28, 2014. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Is your child playing and sleeping enough for his or her age? These are some of the questions health experts are asking as concern mounts over the effects of excess academic workload on children.
Dr Josephine Omondi, a child psychiatrist at Kenyatta hospital has warned that there has been an increase in psychological and psychiatric cases of children and adolescents arising from stressful lifestyles in school in a society that glorifies academic excellence.
By JOY WANJA MURAYA
Does your child have to wake up long before daybreak to catch the bus and make it to school and then stay up late in the evening to complete homework?
The experts warn that a crisis is in the offing across the country as schools get caught up in a rat race for academic success – and in the process stealing precious time from children and literally driving them up the wall.
The case of six-year-old Tatiana is a good example. She crawls out of bed at 6 am. to get ready for school. In quick succession, she’s taken for a bath, dressed and fed breakfast.
One hour later, Tatiana is crawling through traffic with her father as they make their way to school. She has to be in class by 7.30 am.
She joins her classmates for a day of learning that stretches to 4 pm. Then, the school bus picks her up and an hour later, she’s back home.
Another gruelling session begins – there’s homework to be done. Tatiana’s parents say that often, she will finish her homework by 7pm – but is so tired that she has to eat her dinner while standing so she does not drift off to sleep.
Tatiana is one among thousands of pupils driven into the adult world status by parents and schools that want to raise nothing but academic giants.
On the opposite side of town in Mlolongo, seven-year-old Jayden is startled out of his dream world long before Tatiana. His alarm is set for 4.30am, the hour that most lights come on in houses around where he lives as house helps scamper to prepare children for school.
Jayden has to catch the school bus by 5.30am for the traffic jam-laden journey to school on Ngong Road. The ride from Mlolongo isn’t as scenic because in nine out of 10 times he is lying on his schoolbag catching up on some sleep. Other times he has to finish homework in the bus.
In another case, Joyce is a high school student in a boarding school in Nakuru County. The morning wake-up call goes off at 3.30 am. By 4 am, the school is dead silent with students seated at their desks for the morning preps.
The rest of the day, save for meal breaks and one hour in the late afternoon, is spent either with teachers drilling some aspect of the syllabus into their heads or in class reading. “I hate school,” Joyce told the Sunday Nation spontaneously.
Now experts are raising the alarm, warning that parents and teachers are getting it all wrong – and hospital records of an increasing number of children requiring counselling exist to prove it.
No less than Kenyatta National Hospital has fired off a warning to Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi saying the situation is careening out of control – informed by the growing number of children arriving for counselling because the over-the-top routines are getting under their skin.
INCREASED PSYCHOLOGICAL CASES
“Some schools have dropped physical exercise lessons altogether to maximise on academics. As a result, these children are perpetually tired and sleepy, irritable and have poor concentration as they are half-awake during the day.
“If the status quo continues, these children will be negatively affected and their future will be put in jeopardy, notwithstanding good academic performance in some of them.
“The number of children breaking down citing academic pressures is worrying, and some children suffer silently in order to hold up the family ‘pride’. This is disheartening,” Dr Omondi told the Sunday Nation.
Some parents are even doing the unthinkable in order to support their children. When you get home at 8 pm and find your child with a large amount of homework in every subject every evening, the parent opts to do the homework for the child so that they can sleep early; it’s no secret that most of the homework is done via Goggle and other Internet sources.
A parent, Mr Kennedy Wekesa, says that from his observation, those in day schools are burdened by loads of homework, while those in boarding schools are exposed to stringent academic hours that sometimes make little or no allowance for other activities for social interaction and rest.
Keith, a parent of a four-year-old, says owing to the chilling experience in doctors’ consultation rooms because of his daughter’s congested chest and unending cough, he was informed the cause was from the 30-minute morning wait for the school bus at 5.30am.
“My wife and I made a deliberate decision to move closer to the school so that the children can wake up at 7 am, prepare for school without stress and later walk to school,” he said, adding that they would rather commute from Thika than have their children school in Nairobi.
Mental health specialist Ian Kanyanya is worried that society has placed a high premium in academic achievement at the expense of other aspects of development.
“We went wrong somewhere as a society because we are not raising our children in a wholesome way,” Dr Kanyanya, who specialises in children and adolescents, said in an interview.
Nor has he been spared by the situation which saw a change in mood and performance in one of his children.
“My child moved from being a top 10 student to the bottom 10 because of the ‘crazy’ school schedule that laid much emphasis on academic performance and gave little time to other spheres of a child’s development,” he said.
He says a child should be allowed to grow but not turned into a “perfect little adult”.
Dr Kanyanya remembers the days when as a student in the 1970s and 1980s, performance in class was balanced with participation in sports, games and other out-of-class activities.
“We had well-planned timetables that clearly spelt out our lessons, games, preps, including ‘lights-out’ so that we could sleep,” he said.
Dr David Bukusi, who runs a youth clinic at Kenyatta National Hospital and specialises in child and adolescent matters, agrees that there is undue pressure on the young ones and calls it a time bomb.
“We are bringing up robotic children who parrot everything they get in school, yet they cannot assimilate it within their unique respective environments,” Dr Bukusi said.
The pressure is extended to break times. “Holidays are stressful periods for both parents and children because they have too much homework, or attend tuition,” Dr Bukusi added.
The specialists warn that due to these changes in lifestyle and an increasing demand for academic diamonds, children are bowing to the pressure showing symptoms that indicate they cannot handle it.
“The children develop somatoform disorders which are a group of mental illnesses that cause bodily symptoms, including pain but cannot be traced to any physical cause,” Dr Omondi said.
Developmental psychologist Mbutu Kariuki says that owing to current societal pressures, parents are pushing their children to conform to superficial, non-sustainable standards.
“We are sacrificing our children at the altar of fame and money because we want to gloat about where they go to school and that they are the smartest in their class,” said Mr Kariuki, adding that parents are oblivious of the ego-damage of children who do not perform as expected.
“As you boast to your friends that your child is in expensive and academically-endowed school across town, you have an unhappy and bitter child at home who wishes they did not have to attend school the next day,” Mr Kariuki added.
According to him, when faced with the academic pressure from society and parents, the child becomes isolated and no longer finds pleasure in activities that they earlier amorously enjoyed like playing.
“It is not entirely true that you cannot find an age-appropriate school for your child where you live,” Mr Kariuki said, adding that the closer the school is to a child’s familiar environment, the better for their overall development.
“When a child begins being easily irritable, increased fatigue, bedwetting, exhaustion on waking up, makes up reasons not to attend school, poor concentration in class, reduced appetite, crying often and being unkempt there is a problem somewhere,” he added.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/03/whales-size-animals-ocean-marine-mammals.html
Photograph by Brian J. Skerry, Nat Geo Image Collection
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A southern right whale approaches a diver off New Zealand's Auckland Islands.
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Why Do Whales Get So Big? Science May Have an Answer.
Marine mammals have evolved their whopping size for a reason—and it's not what we expected.
By Carrie Arnold
Land mammals can get plenty big, but to find the planet’s true giants, you'll have to take to the seas.
In a new study, scientists show why that is. Marine mammals "have to find a happy medium between getting enough food and producing enough body heat," says study leader William Gearty, an ecologist at Stanford University. (Read about a bus-size whale that's still a mystery to scientists.)
Previously, researchers believed that marine mammals could be so large because the buoyancy of water frees them from the constraints of gravity. Although this freedom may still be a factor, Gearty says that his results show that marine mammals need their heft to keep themselves warm in the often chilly oceans.
"These animals are big for very specific reasons. It’s not that they could be big, it’s that they must be big," he says.
Bigger is Better?
When Gearty and colleagues created a series of computer models analyzing factors that influence size, they found two that converged to determine body size in aquatic mammals.
The first is that these mammals need to be large to trap enough body heat. Larger mammals also lose less of this heat to the surrounding water, which gives them a major advantage over their smaller counterparts, according to the models, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
But larger animals need more food to support their bulk, which created the second factor in Gearty’s model. Big mammals may trap heat better, but if they can’t get enough food to fuel their metabolism, then it doesn’t matter. (See National Geographic's amazing whale pictures.)
Body size is one of the most important traits to study in animals, according to Chris Venditti, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading in England who wasn't involved in the new study.
Curious Baby Humpback Whale 'Dances' With Mom and Divers This humpback whale and its calf were found playing off the coast of Tonga.
"If you're going to measure one thing in an animal, it should be body size because that one thing is related to so many others," Venditti says. "If you know how big an animal is, you probably know something about how it moves and its metabolic rate."
Testing Gravity
In the last five years, scientists have uncovered evidence showing that, over time, families of mammals have tended to evolve larger body sizes. Bulkier animals can better fight off rivals for mating, food, and other resources, as well as access a wider variety of foods.
Land mammals, however, are hemmed in by gravity: They need massive bones and blood vessels to support their bulk while maintaining mobility—no easy feat when you tip the scales at several tons, like an elephant. (Read how blue whales are mostly "left-handed.")
Initially, when Gearty started studying the factors that affected body size in marine mammals, he thought that he would simply see the elimination of gravity as a constraint.
Instead, his data told him that the minimum size of aquatic mammals was a thousand times larger than the smallest terrestrial mammals. The maximum size, however, was only 25 times larger, which meant that something must be forcing marine mammals to get large.
Scientists still haven’t entirely cracked the mystery of what determines body size in animals, Venditti says, but that hasn’t stopped life from evolving an array of shapes and sizes to fill every niche.
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Friend: Guns a Hobby for Mother of School Shooter
Published at 12:08 pm on December 17, 2012
A friend of the mother of the man who killed 20 children and six adults at a Newtown elementary school on Friday said guns were simply a hobby for her.
John Bergquist told NBC's "Today" show on Monday that Nancy Lanza loved the arts and culture and that shooting was one of her hobbies, and that she was not a survivalist.
Nancy Lanza was found dead in her bed on Friday, shot four times in the head with a .22-caliber rifle.
Another friend, Ellen Adriani, told the "Today" show that Lanza was a devoted mother.
She said Nancy Lanza always made herself available to Adam and his needs. He came first with his mother, Adriani said.
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Tail O’ the Pup: New Home for Hot Dog Icon
The Milton Black-designed frankfurter stand will soon go on display at the Valley Relics Museum in Chatsworth.
By Alysia Gray Painter • Published at 7:30 am on June 14, 2017
Tail O' the Pup
Ever get a hankering for a frankfurter while passing through the nexus of San Vicente and La Cienega Boulevards?
Does the sight of Beverly Boulevard or the Beverly Center make you think you detect a whiff of mustard in the air?
In short: Do you miss Tail O' the Pup?
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Many Southern Californians ate many, many bite 'n snap hot dogs at the iconic West Hollywood stand, a beloved business that found longtime homes on both La Cienega and San Vicente. But new construction unrelated to the stand sent the Pup into storage in Torrance, and then to Nevada, for a spot on a cable program (perhaps you saw it sailing down the 405 a few years back).
And while a new Tail O' the Pup made a food truck debut in 2016 on La Cienega, complete with the old-school frankfurters in tow, many fans wondered where they could see the Milton Black-designed programmatic building, the one shaped like a big ol' bun, the one that remains as symbolic of LA as the Hollywood Sign and swimming pools.
Here's the happy answer: The Tail O' the Pup will soon take up permanent residence at the Valley Relics Museum.
Jay and Nicole Miller donated the stand to the SoCal pop culture institution, a locally minded museum founded by Tommy Gelinas in 2013.
Mr. Miller is the grandson of Eddie Blake, a former owner of Tail O' the Pup.
"After years of preservation and storage of the iconic Los Angeles landmark, we have found the perfect home for Tail O' the Pup," read a statement from the Millers. "Building codes have made it unrealistic to use the iconic building in future locations which led us to seek out Tommy Gelinas at Valley Relics Museum."
"Tommy has generously agreed to restore the landmark and put it on display for fans to enjoy," concluded the Millers' statement.
To see the built-in-1946, huge hot dog of a building, well... you'll need to hold your horses for just a bit longer, as Mr. Gelinas will be busy performing restoration work on the stand.
But once it is officially on view, you'll only need to visit Valley Relics Museum in Chatsworth on a Saturday to commune with the Pup. That's the weekly open day for the treasure-packed vault, a spot that includes a host of signage, retro-cool cars, and other known-to-SoCalers finds, throughout the sizable space.
Though the historic stand won't be serving hot dogs, once it is on view, you can find Tail O' the Pup food today, at temporary pop-ups as well as future, down-the-road permanent eateries.
Kevin Michaels and Brett Doherty of Killer Shrimp and Hamburger Hamlet are working with Jay and Nicole Miller to bring more hot-doggery to more places around Southern California in the years to come.
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Loss-of-function mutations in TNFAIP3 leading to A20 haploinsufficiency cause an early-onset autoinflammatory disease.
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Molecular Immunology and Inflammation Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Genetics and Pathogenesis of Allergy Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Allergic Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Laboratory of Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
FMF Arthritis Vasculitis and Orphan Disease Research Center (FAVOR), Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey.
Translational Immunology Section, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Autoimmunity Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Light Imaging Section, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
National Institute of Health Intramural Sequencing Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Systemic Autoimmune Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Department of Molecular Oncology, Genentech, Inc., San Francisco, California, USA.
Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Department of Pediatric Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Department of Pediatric Rheumatology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Systemic autoinflammatory diseases are driven by abnormal activation of innate immunity. Herein we describe a new disease caused by high-penetrance heterozygous germline mutations in TNFAIP3, which encodes the NF-κB regulatory protein A20, in six unrelated families with early-onset systemic inflammation. The disorder resembles Behçet's disease, which is typically considered a polygenic disorder with onset in early adulthood. A20 is a potent inhibitor of the NF-κB signaling pathway. Mutant, truncated A20 proteins are likely to act through haploinsufficiency because they do not exert a dominant-negative effect in overexpression experiments. Patient-derived cells show increased degradation of IκBα and nuclear translocation of the NF-κB p65 subunit together with increased expression of NF-κB-mediated proinflammatory cytokines. A20 restricts NF-κB signals via its deubiquitinase activity. In cells expressing mutant A20 protein, there is defective removal of Lys63-linked ubiquitin from TRAF6, NEMO and RIP1 after stimulation with tumor necrosis factor (TNF). NF-κB-dependent proinflammatory cytokines are potential therapeutic targets for the patients with this disease.
10.1038/ng.3459
TNFAIP3 mutations cause a dominantly inherited systemic inflammatory disease
(a) Pedigrees of 5 families with heterozygous mutations in the TNFAIP3 gene. WT indicates wild-type TNFAIP3 alleles; M1, M2, M3, M4 and M5 indicate mutant alleles. The individuals selected for exome sequencing are marked with asterisk. NA: an affected sister of P6 had similar symptoms but was not available for this study.
(b) Clinical manifestations in patients: chorioretinal scarring and macular fibrosis secondary to retinal vasculitis causing a significant visual impairment (upper panel), recurrent oral ulcers (middle panel), axillary dermal abscesses and a pathergy-positive response (bottom panel).
(c) Schematic of TNFAIP3/A20 protein domains. Deubiquitinating (DUB) activity of A20 is mediated by the ovarian tumor (OTU) domain. ZFs mediate A20 ubiquitin ligase activity and binding to K63-linked ubiquitin chains. The locations of the mutations are indicated with red arrows. These mutations are predicted to affect A20 protein interactions, dimerization and its enzymatic activities.
(d-e) Reduced of TNFAIP3/A20 expression in patients’ PBMCs and fibroblasts. (d) Whole cell lysates were prepared from PBMCs isolated from three patients from Family 1, a healthy donor (C1), and purified control lymphocytes (Lym). Immunoblotting was performed against the N-terminus of A20. (e) Whole cell lysates from a healthy donor (C2) and patient P6 cultured fibroblast cells were either blotted with A20 N-terminal specific antibody (lane 3 and 4) or immunoprecipitated with one A20 N-terminal antibody and subsequently blotted with another A20 N-terminal antibody (lane 5 and 6). 293T lysates transfected with either FLAG-tagged wild-type (WT) A20 (lane 1) or A20 mutant L227* (lane 2) served as controls.
Loss-of-function mutations in TNFAIP3 leading to A20 haploinsufficiency cause an early onset autoinflammatory syndrome
Nat Genet. 2016 Jan;48(1):67-73.
Enhanced NFκB signaling in transiently transfected HEK293T cells and patients’ cells
(a) The TNFAIP3/A20 mutants do not antagonize the inhibitory effects of wild type TNFAIP3/A20 on TNF-induced NFκB activation. HEK293T cells were transiently transfected with a NFκB reporter plasmid, Renilla luciferase control vector, and expression plasmids for either GFP-tagged wild-type or mutant A20. Plasmid expressing IκBα served as a positive control. Results are plotted as luc/ren to compensate for differences in transfection efficiency. One representative result of three independent experiments is shown. Values are expressed as mean of duplicates ± S.E.M. Protein expression of the transfected plasmids was confirmed by western blotting of cell lysates.
(b) Stimulated cells from A20-deficient patients show increased IκBα degradation and increased IKKα/β and MAPK activities. PBMCs from patient P6 were stimulated with TNF for the time period indicated in the graph. Whole cell lysates were immunoblotted against respective target proteins. Healthy individuals and an unrelated patient with SLE served as controls.
(c) Fibroblasts derived from A20-deficient patients show increased levels of phospho-IκBα, phospho-IKKα/β and MAPK activity. Whole cell lysates from TNF-stimulated fibroblasts were immunoblotted against respective target proteins.
(d) Cytosolic and nuclear fractions were prepared from patient P9 and immunoblotted with antibodies against p65, A20, and β-actin, respectively.
(e) Quantified nuclear NFκB p65 immunofluorescence staining in patients’ and controls’ fibroblasts under no-stimulation (left panel) and stimulation (right panel). Patient fibroblasts are significantly more activated than control fibroblasts (P<0.0001, Mann Whitney test). Data points represent mean ± S.E.M from analysis of quadruplicates of each individual. Data from patients (n = 4) and controls (n = 2) were pooled respectively.
Impaired TNFR signaling and deubiquitinase function of mutant TNFAIP3/A20
(a) Reduced recruitment of mutant A20 to the TNFR signaling complex. PBMCs from patient P4 and a healthy control were stimulated with TNF for the indicated times. Whole cell lysates were immunoprecipitated with antibodies against TNFR1, TRAF2, or RIP1, blotted with antibodies against N-terminal A20 and re-blotted with antibodies against TNFR1, TRAF2, RIP1 and Ubc13.
(b-d) The A20 mutants lose their ability to deubiquitinate K63-ubiquitin chains but do not antagonize the deubiquitinase function of WT A20. 293T cells were transiently transfected with expression plasmids for A20 target proteins RIP1 with Myc tag (b), NEMO (c) and TRAF6 (d), together with plasmids for HA-K63Ub and either GFP-tagged WT or mutant A20. Cells were harvested 48 hrs later and an equal amount of whole cell lysates was immunoprecipitated with antibodies against respective target proteins. High-molecular weight (MW) Ub-aggregates (top panel) were indicated by immunoblotting of precipitates with a HA-specific antibody. As controls for transfection efficiency, cell lysates were also blotted with antibodies against each target protein (middle panel) or antibodies against the N-terminus of A20 or GFP tag (bottom panel).
(e-f) TNF-stimulated patient PBMCs or fibroblasts showed increased levels and increased molecular weight of the K63-ubiquitinated NEMO protein as a result of insufficient A20 deubiquitinase activity. Primary cells from patients and healthy controls were stimulated for the indicated times. Whole cell lysates were subjected to immunoprecipitation with antibodies against K63-linked ubiquitin and subsequently blotted with antibodies against NEMO and Ub. Cell lysates were also blotted with antibodies against the target protein and β-actin as internal controls.
Patients’ immune cells have a strong inflammatory signature
Cytokine profiles comparing A20-deficient patients with healthy controls. (a) Serum cytokine levels from 6 patients and 8 controls. (b) Cytokine levels from patients (n = 5) or controls (n = 6) PBMCs stimulated either with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB). Each sample was assessed in duplicates or triplicates. Values are represented as mean ± S.E.M.
(c) Representative flow plots of CD3+ CD4+ CD45RO+ single live cells: Upper panels show IL-9 expression by intra-cellular cytokine (ICC) staining. The A20-deficient patients (n = 4) expressed significantly more IL-9 compared to paired controls (n = 5), and ex vivo PU.1 transcript levels were likewise significantly increased in patient PBMCs. Lower panels show representative flow plots of IL-17A and IL-4 expression in an A20-deficient patient compared to a paired control. A significant increase in intracellular IL-17A expression was observed in patients (n = 5) compared to controls (n = 8). Consistent with an absence of clinical allergic disease, no significant difference in intracellular IL-4 was seen. * P<0.05; Mann-Whitney test. Values are represented as mean ± S.E.M.
(d) Increased inflammatory monocyte subsets in patients. Top panel: Representative flow-cytometry analysis of monocyte subsets in one control (left) and one A20-deficient patient (right). Three monocyte subsets are identified as CD14highCD16neg (classical, P1), CD14highCD16pos (inflammatory, P2), CD14lowCD16pos (non-classical, P3). The population (%) of different subsets is shown in different gates. Bottom panel: Quantification of CD14highCD16pos (inflammatory) monocyte subsets in 4 A20-deficient patients and in 4 controls. Data are shown as mean ± SD (p = 0.00013, n = 4).
Spontaneous NLRP3 inflammasome activity in PBMCs of patients with TNFAIP3 mutations
(a) Immunoblots of total cell lysates from LPS-stimulated patient cells and control show increased expression of pro IL-1β, NLRP3 and activated Caspase-1 (p10) and increased production of mature IL-1β. (b) IL-1β secretion in supernatants of LPS-stimulated patient cells is regulated by the activity of the NLRP3 inflammasome. Activation of adenylate cyclase (NKH477: adenylate cyclase activator), a PLC inhibitor (U73122), and a small molecule MCC950 attenuate the NLRP3 inflammasome activation. U73343: inactive analog of U73122. (c) Treatment with an IL-1 inhibitor, anakinra, normalized markers of systemic inflammation in Patient 6. Anakinra was initially given at a dose of 200mg daily (2014 May), later increased to 400mg daily (2014 Jun-2014 Sep), and then increased to 500 mg daily (2014 Oct-2015 Aug). The patient was also on prednisone 10mg and azathioprine 200 mg daily. Besides anakinra, she had no other medication changes from 2012-2014.
DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics*
DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
Haploinsufficiency/genetics*
Hereditary Autoinflammatory Diseases/genetics*
Hereditary Autoinflammatory Diseases/metabolism
I-kappa B Kinase/genetics
I-kappa B Kinase/metabolism
I-kappa B Proteins/genetics
I-kappa B Proteins/metabolism
Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/genetics*
Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/metabolism
Mutation*
NF-KappaB Inhibitor alpha
NF-kappa B/genetics
NF-kappa B/metabolism
Nuclear Pore Complex Proteins/genetics
Nuclear Pore Complex Proteins/metabolism
Nuclear Proteins/genetics*
Nuclear Proteins/metabolism
RNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
RNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
TNF Receptor-Associated Factor 6/genetics
TNF Receptor-Associated Factor 6/metabolism
Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha-Induced Protein 3
AGFG1 protein, human
I-kappa B Proteins
IKBKG protein, human
NF-kappa B
NFKBIA protein, human
Nuclear Pore Complex Proteins
Nuclear Proteins
TNF Receptor-Associated Factor 6
I-kappa B Kinase
TNFAIP3 protein, human
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Z99 HG999999/Intramural NIH HHS/United States
MalaCards for autoinflammatory syndrome, familial, behcet-like - The Weizmann Institute of Science GeneCards and MalaCards databases
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Title: Stay'n Out: A Program Study
Author(s): D W Aziz; D J Chard-Wierschem
Corporate Author: New York State Dept of Correctional Services
Sponsoring Agency: NCJRS Photocopy Services
New York State Dept of Correctional Services
Sale Source: New York State Dept of Correctional Services
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Annotation: This study examined recidivism rates for participants in Stay'n Out, a drug treatment program operated at two New York State Department of Correctional Services' facilities.
Abstract: The study focused on 1,364 inmates for whom complete data were available. This included 437 female inmates who participated in the program at Bayview Correctional Facility and 927 male inmates who participated in the program at Arthurkill Correctional Facility. For both the male and the female participants, the study compared their demographic and legal characteristics as well as their return-to-custody rates for a follow-up period of up to 2 years after their release. The key variable used to distinguish program participants was their length of stay in the program (6 months or less and more than 6 months). Additionally, the effect that age-at-release had on return rates was examined. Using survival analysis, data show that longer time in the program was associated with lower return rates after 12, 18, and 24 months of exposure to the community for both men and women. Age at release also apparently had an effect on return rates, since older inmates, controlling for their length of time in the program, had return rates lower than their younger counterparts. These findings are consistent with previously published studies of the Stay'n Out program. 14 tables, 2 figures, and a 5-item bibliography
Main Term(s): Corrections effectiveness
Index Term(s): Inmate drug treatment; New York; Treatment effectiveness
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Title: Bullying in Schools, 2005
Journal: Virginia Child Protection Newsletter Volume:75 Dated:Winter 2005 Pages:1-16
Editor(s): Joann Grayson
Sponsoring Agency: Virginia Dept of Social Services,
Type: Issue Overview
Format: News/Media
Annotation: This article on bullying in schools focuses on its nature and prevalence, offender and victim characteristics, causal theories and risk factors, prevention and intervention, research findings, and State responses.
Abstract: "Bullying" involves aggressive behavior or intentional harms by a person or group against other persons; a repetition of these actions over time; and an imbalance of power. A survey conducted by the Federal National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in 1998 found that just under one-third of U.S. students in grades 6 through 10 were involved in moderate or frequent bullying. A characteristic found in all bullies is an inability to channel anger or frustration in an acceptable way. The victims of bullies tend to have a physical or personality characteristic that makes them different from most students, and they are usually physically small, weak, or otherwise vulnerable. Victims of bullying may also become bullies themselves. Theories on the causes of bullying focus on the behavior of dominating those who are different and weaker than oneself; the existence of social groups with different power status; peer pressure; and a failure to become integrated into positive school activities. Models for bullying prevention and intervention have the following features: creation of a school environment that accepts diversity and includes adult involvement in school activities; a clear statement and enforcement of unacceptable behavior at school; the application of consistent sanctions when infractions occur; and the existence of clear strategies for school staff in detecting and intervening when bullying occurs. Four promising prevention and intervention programs are described. Research has shown that comprehensive, schoolwide programs have been the most effective. Some features of State laws that address bullying are also outlined. The article concludes with a listing of 20 "best practices" for preventing discipline problems and bullying at school.
Main Term(s): Juvenile delinquency prevention programs
Index Term(s): Bullying; Crime in schools; Juvenile delinquency prevention; Offender profiles; School discipline; School security; State laws; Victim profiles; Virginia
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For the First Time, We’re More Likely to Die From Accidental Opioid Overdose Than Motor Vehicle Crash
NSC analysis reveals trends that worsen the odds of dying accidentally.
Itasca, IL – For the first time in U.S. history, a person is more likely to die from an accidental opioid overdose than from a motor vehicle crash, according to National Safety Council analysis. The odds of dying accidentally from an opioid overdose have risen to one in 96, eclipsing the odds of dying in a motor vehicle crash (one in 103). NSC unveiled the analysis on Injury Facts – the definitive resource for data around unintentional, preventable injuries, commonly known as “accidents.” The nation’s opioid crisis is fueling the Council’s grim probabilities, and that crisis is worsening with an influx of illicit fentanyl.
“We’ve made significant strides in overall longevity in the United States, but we are dying from things typically called accidents at rates we haven’t seen in half a century,” said Ken Kolosh, manager of statistics at NSC. “We cannot be complacent about 466 lives lost every day. This new analysis reinforces that we must consistently prioritize safety at work, at home and on the road to prevent these dire outcomes.”
NSC analysis also shows that falls – the third leading cause of preventable death behind drug overdose and motor vehicle crashes – are more likely to kill someone than ever before. The lifetime odds of dying from an accidental fall are one in 114 – a change from one in 119 just a year ago.
To keep the public up to date on the latest injury and fatality trends, the Council has added “Poisonings,” “Older Adult Falls,” “Fire-Related Fatalities and Injuries,” and “Deaths by Transportation Mode” to Injury Facts. To demonstrate why Americans should be more concerned about preventable injuries than headline-grabbing catastrophes, the Council also added designated pages about airplane crashes, railroad deaths and consumer products – all issues that tend to spark nationwide anxiety but lead to far fewer fatal incidents than routine, everyday activities such as taking medication, driving or getting out of bed.
Preventable injuries are the third leading cause of death, claiming an unprecedented 169,936 lives in 2017 and trailing only heart disease and cancer. Of the three leading causes of death, preventable injuries were the only category to experience an increase in 2017, according to NSC analysis of the CDC data issued in December. A person’s lifetime odds of dying from any preventable, accidental cause are one in 25 – a change from one in 30 in 2004.
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Bicycle deaths, which increased 28% since 2010
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Intentional vs. preventable deaths, with preventable deaths far outnumbering intentional ones
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Insufficient Vitamin D Intake and Low Vitamin D Status in Men Over 80 Y of Age: Intervention is Required To Meet Dietary Targets in Long-Term Care Facilities
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Isabelle Germain1,2, Sherry Agellon1 and Hope Weiler1*
1School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University, Ste Anne de Bellevue, Canada
2Ste-Anne’s Hospital, Veterans Affairs Canada, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, Canada
Corresponding Author : Hope Weiler
School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition
McGill University, Canada
Received June 10, 2013; Accepted June 12, 2013; Published July 17, 2013
Citation: Germain I, Agellon S, Weiler H (2013) Insufficient Vitamin D Intake and Low Vitamin D Status in Men Over 80 Y of Age: Intervention is Required To Meet Dietary Targets in Long-Term Care Facilities. Vitam Miner 2:113. doi:10.4172/vms.1000113
Copyright: © 2013 Germain I, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Vitamin D is important to bone health. This study examined vitamin D intake and status in institutionalized elderly men in relation to biomarkers of bone metabolism and functional indicators. Materials and Methods: Elderly male veterans were studied in Phase I (n=40) for 16 weeks (April, June, August 2008) and Phase II (n=30) for another 16 weeks (October and December 2008 and February 2009) for dietary vitamin D using 5 day menu selection (Phase I) and using 3×3-d weighed food records (Phase II). Anthropometric data, Mini-Mental State Evaluation (MMSE) scores and sun exposure were collected. Functional capacity was assessed using the Frail Elderly Functional Assessment Tool (FEFA) and handgrip strength. Biochemistry included serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), parathyroid hormone (PTH), osteocalcin (OC) and C-terminal telopeptides of Type 1 collagen (CTX). Mixed model ANOVA and Pearson correlations analyses were used. Results: Participants were relatively healthy (Age: 85 ± 3 years (Mean ± SD), BMI: 26.1 ± 4.3 kg/m2, MMSE: 25 ± 5, FEFA: 13 ± 8, grip strength: 22 ± 8 kg). Sixty-six percent (280 ± 120 IU) of the planned dietary vitamin D was consumed. Vitamin D came mainly from fortified milk and meal supplements and 33% took pill supplements (400-800 IU/d). Serum 25(OH) D concentration rose by summer (Phase I: 60.9 ± 24.4, 68.2 ± 24.6 and 76.1 ± 22.4 nmol/L, respectively) and declined thereafter (Phase II: 57.7 ± 24.1, 62.9 ± 30.7 and 61.3 ± 29.2 nmol/L). PTH was lower in spring compared to late summer through winter whereas CTX and OC did not change. Serum 25(OH) D was correlated to BMI, but not to indicators of functional status. Conclusions: In long-term care, vitamin D from foods and supplements fails to meet recommendations of 800 IU (20 μg) for those over 70 y.
Vitamin D intake; 25-hydroxyvitamin D; Men; Longterm care
Aging is associated with reduced bone health, reduced mobility and increased need for help in accomplishing activities of daily living [1]. Vitamin D is considered an important nutrient for its role in bone health with well known consequences of deficiency leading to osteomalacia and osteoporosis in the elderly [2]. It is predicted that in 2025, more than 20% of Canadians will be over the age of 65 y [1]. These statistics are very similar to other countries. For example, by 2040, 21% of the population will be aged 65 years or older in the United States [3] and will represent 36.1% of the population in Japan [4]. For most people, values of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) above 50 nmol/L are sufficient to maintain bone health [5]. However, low vitamin D status demarked by circulating 25(OH) D below 50 nmol/L has been reported in community dwelling [6-9] and institutionalized elderly [10-12]. In the community, a wide range of values have been reported. A large cohort study looking at bone health in American men reported blood levels of 25(OH)D to be 62.5 ± 19.8 nmol/L with 2.9% below the deficiency cut-off of 30 nmol/L [13]. The Canadian Health Measures Survey reported that men over the age of 70 years presented with 25(OH)D values of 71 ± 27.5 nmol/L with 10% of them below 37.5 nmol/L [14]. More recently, elderly men living in the community in Australia were reported to have levels of 25(OH) D as low as 42 nmol/L [15]. Less is known about those in institutions. In long-term care facilities where 25(OH) D was assessed, values ranging from 26 to 40 nmol/L were seen despite a supervised environment. Low status may be ascribed to vitamin D intakes below recommendations [10,11,16-20], in some cases as low as 120 IU/d. Such intakes are exceptionally low in view of the newly updated recommendations by Institute of Medicine (IOM) Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) for Calcium and Vitamin D [5]. The IOM modified the recommendation from an Adequate Intake (AI) to now include Estimated Average Requirements (EAR) and Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA). For adults of >70 year, a daily EAR of 400 IU (10 μg) and RDA of 800 IU (20 μg) were set in comparison to the previous AI of 600 IU (15 μg). Vitamin D intake and serum 25(OH) D levels have been reported to be both below dietary and status targets in institutionalized elderly populations of women and men. This deserves further attention since better 25(OH)D status has been associated with better leg strength and function [21], grip strength [22], general physical activity and daily living activity [23,24]. Furthermore, low serum concentration of 25(OH) D has been identified as a risk factor for long-term care facility admission [25]. Moreover, bone turnover is a constant physiological phenomenon and although aging is associated with higher resorption than formation, vitamin D should be provided in sufficient amounts to ensure normal parathyroid hormone (PTH) concentrations and reduce associated morbidity and mortality risks [26,27]. Nonetheless, information specifically regarding very old males (aged 80+) is scarce and impacts on biomarkers of bone metabolism are not as well studied.
The primary objective of this 1 year prospective cohort study was to evaluate vitamin D intake and 25 (OH) D concentrations in a longterm care population of elderly male veterans (aged 80+y) across all seasons. Our secondary objective was to track changes in biomarkers of bone metabolism including PTH, osteocalcin (OC) and C-terminal telopeptides of Type 1 collagen (CTX) over the year as well as changes in Frail Elderly Functional Assessment (FEFA) and the Mini-mental State (MMSE) tool scores in association with vitamin D status. It was hypothesized that all participants would present with low serum 25(OH)D (<50 nmol/L) regardless of sampling time, that total intake of vitamin D would be below recommendations and that 25(OH)D concentration would be significantly related to functional tests of daily living.
This prospective observational cohort study was conducted in elderly males living at Ste. Anne’s Hospital, a long-term care facility (Veterans Affairs Canada, Montreal, QC; 46°N). Phase I took place from spring to summer (16 weeks; n=40) whereas Phase II captured the fall to winter period (16 weeks) for 30 of the 40 original participants. Of the 10 participants who did not continue in Phase II, 4 died, 3 had a significant cognitive decline and the other 2 did not wish to participate. In view of the study objectives, all veterans over the age of 70 years were eligible including those with stable chronic diseases, receiving oral and enteral feeding modes. There were 8 exclusion criteria: 1) endstage (i.e., prognosis of less than 4 months) conditions and palliative care, 2) end-stage renal disease due to altered vitamin D metabolism, 3) use of vitamin D analogues, 4) end-stage liver disease, 5) untreated hyperparathyroidism, 6) active cancers, 7) metabolic bone diseases except for osteoporosis and osteomalacia and, 8) any acute condition that would exclude any oral intake of food. The completion of the 3 month study phase or, change in clinical status preventing continuance in the study was considered the end-point (Figure 1). The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University and Ste. Anne’s Hospital Scientific Board. Consent forms stated voluntary participation, right to withdraw at any time without consequences and respect of privacy. Competency to consent was validated via medical records or confirmed with the treating physician. When competent, the patient signed the consent form for himself. If participant was unfit to consent, the legal representative (mandatory, curator or tutor) signed, as per required by Article 21 of Quebec Civil Code.
Participants were measured for weight using a standard balance, calibrated yearly at the hospital. Height was obtained from the military medical chart and confirmed using knee-height measuring calliper (Seca 207 model, Seca Corp, MD, US) using algorithms adjusted for age and sex calculations, then body mass index (BMI; kg/m2) was calculated. A nurse met with participants to complete a MMSE at baseline (unless the medical chart had a MMSE score dated less than 3 months prior to the study) and at the end of each phase of the study. The FEFA scores were obtained at midway and final assessments. Handgrip strength (Hydraulic hand dynamometer, Jamar®) was performed at midway and final assessments of Phase II (Fall-Winter). Subjects were instructed to squeeze the handle as hard as they could and were encouraged for 20 second each trial. The maximum reading of each trial was recorded. Measurements were done in triplicates, using the non dominant arm and average values were used. The time used to read and record the data (approximately 15 sec.) was used as a rest period. In both segments of the study, fasted blood samples were obtained every 8 weeks, between 0630 and 0730 h. Routine biochemistry were immediately measured at the hospital using Vitros 250E (Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Johnson & Johnson, version 250) and Symex XT-2000i (Sysmex, version XT-2000i/XT-1880i) auto analyzers. This laboratory participates in the ISO (Norm 15189–Medical Laboratories) quality assurance program. Sample aliquots were stored at–80°C until further testing at McGill. Serum total 25(OH) D, PTH, OC was measured using chemiluminescent immunoassays (Liaison; DiaSorin, Minnesota) and serum CTX by colorimetric immunoassay (IDS Inc, Arizona). This laboratory participates in the DEQAS (Vitamin D External Quality Assessment Scheme) program and consistently reports results within 25% of the ALTM (All-Laboratory Trimmed Mean). Controls were in range with specifications of each assay. Intra-assay variability ranges were 0.1%-8.1% for 25(OH) D, 0.18%-12.4% for PTH, 0% -5.8% for OC and 0%-14.8% for CTX. Inter-assay variability ranges were 5.3%-15.8% for 25(OH) D, 1%-7.7% for PTH and 1.8%-7.3% for OC. Main food sources of vitamin D were examined in Phase I using 5 days of hospital menus at each time point, for all participants. In Phase II, actual food intake was assessed using weighed food records for 3 non consecutive days, including a weekend day, in October, December and February. All foods were weighed before being served and leftover weights were deducted to obtain actual intake. For Phase II, a database including all detailed recipes cooked in the Production Center of the Hospital was used to determine nutritional composition. The Canadian Nutrient File 2007b and menu management software ProMenu was used to generate nutrient intakes to reflect the period of study. Nutritional values of market foods were included to complete the missing nutritional values of certain items. Intakes were compared to the various DRI values.
Continuous variables were expressed as means ± SD or median (range), if non-normally distributed. Categorical variables were expressed as n (%). All data were checked for normality using D’Agostino & Pearson omnibus normality test; when normality criteria were not met, data were log transformed or a nonparametric test was used. Levene’s test was used to determine homogeneity of variances. The relationships among time and vitamin D intake with 25(OH) D, PTH, OC and CTX were assessed using a mixed model ANOVA, controlling for random effect of age. Tukey-Kramer was used as post hoc test. Relationships between 25(OH) D and other measures were tested using Pearson correlation analyses. Statistical significance was set at p ≤ 0.05, and all p values presented are 2 tailed. Data were analyzed using Statistical Analysis System, version 9.2, statistical software (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, N.C.).
In general, the participants were of healthy body weight for age, in good mental status and had routine serum biochemistry within the normal range (Tables 1 and 2). Thirty-three percent of participants were receiving a supplement containing vitamin D (n=6 received 400 IU/d, n=2 received 600 IU/d and n=2 received 800 IU/d). Sunlight exposure was minimal for most participants due to limited outdoor activities or because hats, long sleeves and pants were worn regularly. From April to August, 73% (29) of participants were able to go outside for an average period of 41 min per day (Range: 2-180 min /d). Thirteen participants were less than 15 min. outdoors every day. Eighty percent (80%) wore hats, 53% wore long sleeves and 75% wore long pants. Although ultraviolet beta (UVB) radiation is minimal in the fall to winter months, sunlight exposure was observed. During that period, only 21.4% participants went outdoors, and all of them wore hats, long sleeves and long pants. In Phase I, the analysis of the foods identified as the main sources of vitamin D provided on the hospital tray (average of 3×5 days of proposed menus) revealed a mean dietary vitamin D of 240 ± 160 IU/d. In Phase II, the nutrient intake was obtained via average weight of all foods of 9 days of intake (3 days at baseline, 3 days at midway and 3 days at final assessments) using detailed recipes. No difference was seen among days, therefore the mean of 9 days of intake was used (Table 3). The diet was well balanced for macronutrients. The vitamin D content of all foods served was 440 ± 200 IU/d, however, only 66% of that was consumed. At the time of the study, the recommendation for vitamin D was an AI set at 600 IU revealing that the assessed menu could not met these recommendations with food and meal supplements alone. In Phase II, actual intakes were compared to DRI values; only 1 participant (3%) exceeded the AI of 600 IU with food and meal supplements alone in October, December and February. Similarly, when comparing to the 2011 revised DRIs, only 1 participant (3%) reached the new 800 IU/d RDA value with food alone (February only). Three participants (10%) met the EAR of 400 IU in October and December whereas 4 participants (14%) met the EAR in February with food and meal supplements alone. The main sources of dietary vitamin D (52%) were fortified milk, enriched meal supplements and milk-based soups and margarine. In Phase II, only 33% of participants were receiving vitamin D from tablets to enhance their exogenous intake, providing an average additional 530 ± 160 IU/d. Pill supplement dosages ranged from 400 IU/d to 800 IU/d. When considering actual food-derived vitamin D intakes and the additional intake of vitamin D from pill supplementation, 27% (8/30) of participants met the AI of 600 IU/d in October and December whereas 24% (7/29) met the AI in February. With the revised IOM values, 40% (12/30) of participants met the EAR value at every time points. The RDA was met by13% (4/30) of participants and by 10% (3/30) in October and February. In Phase I of this prospective study, mean serum 25(OH) D concentrations were above 50 nmol/L in April, June and August (Table 4) for this elderly institutionalized population. The proportion of participants presenting with 25(OH) D concentrations above 50 nmol/L increased from 72.5% in April to 77.5% in June and 88.9% in August. In April, 10% of the participants were deficient (<30 nmol/L). However, in June and August no participant was deficient (Figure 2). In Phase II, the proportions of participants presenting with 25 (OH) D concentrations above 50 nmol/L were 60.0% in October, 65.5% in December and 67.9% in February. Deficiency was observed in 10.0%, 10.3% and 17.9% of the population in October, December and February, respectively. Biomarkers of bone metabolism over a year are shown in Table 4. In the months of April, June and August, mean 25(OH) D, PTH and OC concentrations were within their respective normal ranges. During the fall to winter segment of the study PTH levels were indicative of secondary hyperparathyroidism. Although 25(OH) D and PTH concentrations fluctuated over time, CTX and OC did not show significant changes throughout this 1 year follow up study, reflecting a lack of change in bone turnover during the year. In Phase I, PTH and OC demonstrated a positive correlation (Pearson r=0.32; p=0.044) only in April whereas 25(OH) D was negatively correlated to PTH (Pearson r=-0.398 p=0.016) in the month of August. Body mass index was correlated with 25(OH) D concentrations in April (Pearson r=-0.32; p=0.019). No other relationships were observed in this phase. In the fall to winter period (Phase II), where 25(OH) D was at its minimal value, 25(OH)D was negatively correlated with PTH in October, December and February (Pearson r=-0.584; p=0.001, Pearson r=-0.519; p=0.004 and Pearson r=-0.440; p=0.019 respectively). CTX was positively correlated to OC at all 3 time points assessed in Phase II (Pearson r=0.546; p=0.002, Pearson r=0.523; p=0.004 and Pearson r=0.636; p=0.001, respectively). Correlations between 25(OH) D and biomarkers of bone health and function in February, when vitamin D status is dependent on exogenous sources, are presented in Figure 3. No other relationships were observed among bone biomarkers. No correlations were seen between serum 25(OH) D concentration and handgrip strength, neither MMSE nor FEFA scores. However, the FEFA scores were negatively correlated to the handgrip strength (Pearson r =-0.43; p=0.034) in February demonstrating that handgrip strength is a reflection of functional mobility and the upper body strength is required for adequate daily activity.Vitamin D intake in Phase II was positively correlated to energy intake, protein, calcium, phosphorus and potassium intakes (p<0.010), but was not correlated to 25(OH) D concentrations.
This study was carried out in an elderly cohort of males living in a long-term care facility of Montreal (QC, Canada; 46°N). Despite their advanced aged, the biological markers revealed a healthy population presenting with normal values for glucose, albumin, phosphate, total and ionized calcium as well as for total cholesterol and triglycerides. Participants maintained BMI, cognitive and functional status and number of medications taken over the year of study. The average serum concentrations of 25(OH)D were relatively good during the summer months in this elderly cohort when compared to the targets (25(OH) D >50 nmol/L) recently set by the IOM [5]. Only 34.5% and 32.1% were below 50 nmol/L of 25(OH) D in December and February when 25(OH) D is dependent on exogenous sources alone. These observations concur with other reports in nursing home facilities [10-12]. However, this report is the first to provide a yearly profile of 25 (OH) D statuses in institutionalized elderly men over 80 y as well as rigorous dietary assessment. Despite limited direct exposure to UVB, a small seasonal effect was observed in June and August where no participant presented 25(OH)D values below 30 nmol/L as observed in other studies of elderly [7,9,12]. Although Canada’s Food Guide (Health Canada) suggests that 400 IU (10 μg) of vitamin D be taken as a supplement by individuals>50 y, only 33% of participants were receiving supplements at the time of the study. Thus the majority of vitamin D intake was from diet. In Phase II, nutritional intake over time was stable and confirms the presence of a routine regarding food preferences. These results complement previous observations revealing low average intake of vitamin D in the elderly living in a Canadian long-term care facility [10,16,19,28], but provides new knowledge regarding food sources and status of vitamin D across a year. The main sources of vitamin D for this cohort were fortified milk, meal supplements and vitamin from tablets. Only one participant met the AI value of 600 IU, which prevailed at the time of the study, with food and meal supplements alone. With the new DRI values, 10 to 14% of participants reached the EAR with food and meal supplements. However, the actual intake from food was sufficient to meet the RDA for one participant in the month of December only. The implications of not meeting recommended intakes of vitamin D extend beyond vitamin D status alone. In this study, PTH was elevated often throughout the course of the study but was only significantly elevated during the early winter segment of the study. As in the younger adult, PTH is known to increase with declining 25(OH) D status [29]. However, hyperparathyroidism is also associated with higher morbidity and mortality in the elderly [26,27,30]. OC and CTX did not significantly change over time in this group. This aligns with the modest changes in PTH and that the values were on average elevated for the majority of the year. Other possible functional indicators of vitamin D status were explored in this study such as handgrip strength and function in daily living tasks. Contrary to previous observations in community-dwelling seniors with vitamin D deficiency, the FEFA [23] did not associate well with vitamin D intake or vitamin D status. It is possible that the 25(OH) D concentrations observed in our cohort were above a threshold for influencing functionality. Vitamin D status above 50 nmol/L compared to lower status positively associates with physical performance, handgrip strength in community dwelling elderly [31] as well as with functional capacity [23]. However, it is negatively associated with frailty [32]. Dose response studies are required to clarify this association and determine if a threshold exists as related to optimal performance [5]. Although this study is a comprehensive look at vitamin D nutrition in elderly men living in a long-term care facility, the fact that it is entirely composed of elderly veterans and is of small sample size might hinder the extrapolation of our results to other elderly. It is also possible that participants ate more since they were aware that meal intake was documented, therefore increasing vitamin D intake. However, the similar BMI in both study phases and only 66% of vitamin D consumed suggests this was not the situation. In summary, this study provided detailed data on food intake, vitamin D status and bone biomarkers for relatively healthy, well monitored, very old male veterans living in a long-term care facility over a year. This study underscores the importance of not only planning intakes to meet needs, but to observe actual food intakes since only 66% of the food was consumed. In this advanced aged population, vitamin D intake was positively correlated with vitamin D status during winter months. The main contributors of vitamin D in the diet of this longterm care facility were vitamin D fortified milk and meal supplements and tablet supplements. The newly published DRI values for vitamin D in the healthy population above 70 y have changed from an AI value of 600 IU (15 μg) to a EAR of 400 IU (10 μg) and RDA of 800 IU (20 μg) [5]. Reaching these recommendations with foods or meal supplements alone will be a challenge in the institutionalized elderly. This study adds to the mounting evidence of insufficient intake of vitamin D by food and meal supplements alone as well as 25(OH) D concentration values below 30 nmol/L for up to 18% of this population in the winter months. Although vitamin D status was sufficient for a majority of participants, PTH was elevated and above the normal range in the fall and winter months suggesting that higher intakes could be beneficial. Future research should thus provide information including data on calcium and bone metabolism in elderly individuals living in long-term care facilities within higher vitamin D status ranges. Vitamin D dose-response studies in the elderly population should also provide information to reduce the knowledge gap in elderly males with regard to benefits of achieving vitamin D recommendations on health outcomes other than bone health.
This work was funded by the Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research, the Federation des producteurs doeufs de consummation du Québec and the Egg Farmers of Canada. Ms. Germain received Canadian Institutes for Health Research Clinician Scientist salary award and Dr. Weiler is a Canada Research Chair. All authors were involved in design, conduct and reporting of the study. The authors have no conflict of interest.
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Hindu authoritarianism and agrarian distress
To defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism in India, we have to fight against more than just communalism.
Achin Vanaik
Jignesh Mevani, who is insisting on going beyond identity politics, demanding not just land redistribution but jobs for all the poor, in 2016. Wikicommons/ Gazal world. Some rights reserved.This is the second article in a series on ‘confronting authoritarian populism and the rural world’, linked to the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI). The opening article can be read here.
Far right political forces have burgeoned throughout the world, but only in India does a far right party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), hold governmental power on its own. Nor anywhere else is there a far-right force, with obvious fascist characteristics, that has existed now for over 90 years.
The BJP is the electoral wing of the group called the Sangh Parivar, with well over a hundred affiliates, including cultural, religious, student, women and federated trade union fronts, whose original parent body is the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
The Sangh is fully committed to the project of establishing a Hindu state/nation as the ‘true’ embodiment of nationalism. The scale and depth of its implantation in the pores of civil society is unmatched. Across India, the RSS has over 56,000 branches and an estimated membership between five to six million.
The rise of globalized neoliberalism: national histories and specificities
How this came to pass certainly involves global developments, such as the rise and spread of a neoliberalism that has had devastating economic consequences, as well as creating new and more powerful forms of social disorientation and alienation.
In such circumstances, people seek psychological refuge in clinging to ‘unchangeable’ ascribed identities of ethnicity, religion, race, caste and nation, either separately or in combination. Exclusivist and authoritarian populist nationalisms take hold.
However, the effect of neoliberal globalization is always mediated by national histories and specificities. In India, this has resulted in the rise of the Sangh and its expanding ideology of Hindutva or Hindu nationalism with its foundational hatred of Islam and Muslims, who constitute 14% of the country’s population.
Today the BJP has replaced the Congress party (now in serious decline) as the only national party in electoral terms, while in the competitive struggle to establish hegemony, compared to all other forces, Hindutva is in the lead although still well short of its ultimate goal.
Given this reality, the struggle to defeat communalism must necessarily fight on all fronts – cultural, political, ideological and economic. And it is the economic front, especially in the agrarian sector, which is currently the Sangh’s weak spot.
Agrarian crises and distress
Agriculture contributes only 14% of GDP and only 40% of all rural output with micro-, small, and medium enterprises of all sorts (services, manufacturing, construction) counting for the rest. But even here output growth far outstrips employment growth.
Two-thirds of the total population is from rural India with one-quarter being landless. Here there is a strong overlap between lower classes and lower castes: for example, a near majority of Dalits are landless but a majority of landless are not Dalits. This situation calls out for cross-caste/class alliances. Yet the main Dalit organisations and parties focus on affirmative action and identity politics. Only very recently has a young lawyer and Dalit leader, Jignesh Mevani, emerged, who is insisting on going beyond identity politics, demanding not just land redistribution but jobs for all the poor. This pleases neither upper caste farmers nor urban dwellers, while disturbing existing Dalit leaders.
Around 80% of all the landholdings of Indian farmers are small or marginal. Even the 20% of rich and medium-sized farmers feel disempowered, although they dominate rural politics, providing leadership for many, though not all, rural struggles, such as low caste mobilizations against upper caste atrocities and discrimination.
Over two-and-a-half decades Indian agriculture has suffered a serious decline. The key trends are rising costs of inputs despite some subsidies, growing indebtedness (52% of all farmers are in debt), increasing subdivision of land, declining output prices from global competition and greater corporatization of value chains between farm and retail.
Agriculture growth is not only insufficient, it is also jobless, while land acquisition for defence, infrastructure projects, real estate and industrial corridors has created uprisings against the government’s pro-urban bias.
Agrarian mobilizations
Agrarian mobilizations have been against land acquisition, for jobs/support prices/debt relief and amenities. In the last 25 years around 300,000 farmers committed suicide with around 270,000 doing so in the last 15 years.
Apart from the struggles against caste oppression most others have been led by the rich peasantry whose distress has led many to look for exit in due course and certainly for their progeny. According to the 2017 Annual Status of Education Report only 1.2% of youth from whatever backgrounds are willing to work in agriculture. It is no surprise, then, that such upper caste farmers’ movements are now demanding reserved places for themselves in secure government jobs.
A big contrast to the 1990s when reservation was extended to the middle castes (around 50% of the population and also called Other Backward Classes or OBCs) as well as to Dalits (15%) and Tribals (8%), provoking an angry upper caste reaction.
Does this mean that the hegemonic ambitions of Hindutva forces and their anti-democratic project are being seriously challenged by such agrarian discontent?
Things are not so straightforward. The agrarian bourgeoisie comes mainly from the upper non-Brahmin castes and from the upper echelons of the OBCs. Most are not opposed to Hindutva ideology; indeed the main social base for the Sangh is from these castes. Indeed, recently there has been a substantial Hindutva-isation of OBCs, as well as some in-roads into Dalits and Tribals.
The promise of cultural upward mobility as a result of joining the broader Hindu fold has served as a psychological balm of sorts. But this rural bourgeoisie feels it has lost out at the apex of society to its urban industrial, service sector and financial counterparts.
Challenges ahead
What lessons can be drawn? A major focus of the struggle against rising Hindu authoritarian populism must be opposition to neoliberal economic policies. Yet all but the Left parties are wedded to a neoliberal position.
A new programme must be worked out for environmentally sustainable development to meet employment, health and welfare needs for the vast majority. The Left and other progressive forces must also link the struggles of lower castes, women, tribals in all their variety, to the class struggles of all the working poor, perhaps especially in rural areas.
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Hydraulic Diameter
The hydraulic diameter, Dh, is a commonly used term when handling flow in non-circular tubes and channels. The hydraulic diameter transforms non-circular ducts into pipes of equivalent diameter. Using this term, one can calculate many things in the same way as for a round tube. In this equation A is the cross-sectional area, and P is the wetted perimeter of the cross-section.
Example: Reynolds number for a primary piping and a fuel bundle
It is an illustrative example, following data do not correspond to any reactor design.
Pressurized water reactors are cooled and moderated by high-pressure liquid water (e.g. 16MPa). At this pressure water boils at approximately 350°C (662°F). Inlet temperature of the water is about 290°C (⍴ ~ 720 kg/m3). The water (coolant) is heated in the reactor core to approximately 325°C (⍴ ~ 654 kg/m3) as the water flows through the core.
The hydraulic diameter of fuel rods bundle.
The primary circuit of typical PWRs is divided into 4 independent loops (piping diameter ~ 700mm), each loop comprises a steam generator and one main coolant pump. Inside the reactor pressure vessel (RPV), the coolant first flows down outside the reactor core (through the downcomer). From the bottom of the pressure vessel, the flow is reversed up through the core, where the coolant temperature increases as it passes through the fuel rods and the assemblies formed by them.
Assume:
the primary piping flow velocity is constant and equal to 17 m/s,
the core flow velocity is constant and equal to 5 m/s,
the hydraulic diameter of the fuel channel, Dh, is equal to 1 cm
the kinematic viscosity of the water at 290°C is equal to 0.12 x 10-6 m2/s
See also: Example: Flow rate through a reactor core
the flow regime and the Reynolds number inside the fuel channel
the flow regime and the Reynolds number inside the primary piping
The Reynolds number inside the primary piping is equal to:
ReD = 17 [m/s] x 0.7 [m] / 0.12×10-6 [m2/s] = 99 000 000
This fully satisfies the turbulent conditions.
The Reynolds number inside the fuel channel is equal to:
ReDH = 5 [m/s] x 0.01 [m] / 0.12×10-6 [m2/s] = 416 600
This also fully satisfies the turbulent conditions.
Reactor Physics and Thermal Hydraulics:
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U.S. Department of Energy, THERMODYNAMICS, HEAT TRANSFER, AND FLUID FLOW. DOE Fundamentals Handbook, Volume 1, 2 and 3. June 1992.
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N.Y. / Region|Out of Whiz-Kid Caldron, Intel Finalist
Out of Whiz-Kid Caldron, Intel Finalist
By Robin Finn
East Setauket
ROOM 102 at Ward Melville High School is a modest classroom that doubles as a haven and Petri dish for scientifically inclined students at risk of being dissed as disposable nerds in less-brainy quadrants of school yes, the gymnasium can be hostile territory. Some things never change, not even in this Geek Squad-as-heroes era.
Today a passel of students are running stress tests on model bridges they built for a contest sponsored by Brookhaven National Laboratory. The squish test is eliciting audible awe and groans; the competition to create a collapse-proof structure is intense. Only the strongest bridge survives. A nice, unsubtle life lesson.
In an adjoining office belonging to George J. Baldo, the Corvette-driving, bling-accessorized director of the school’s high-octane InStar (Independent Science Technology and Research) program, sits Herman Gudjonson of East Setauket. His exhibit for this month’s Long Island Science and Engineering Fair, a condensed version of the near-year-long medical research project that became his entry for the national Intel Science Talent Search, is rolled up at his feet. “Reduced Taste in Drosophila Mutated for an Obesity Syndrome Protein” is a title only a bona fide scientist could love or make sense of. That’s sort of the point.
At 17, he is an aspiring geneticist, a veteran New York Youth Symphony violinist (with Carnegie Hall concerts on the résumé) and a former varsity tennis champion (he relinquished his United States Tennis Association ranking to concentrate on science full time and orchestra rehearsals on Sundays) who found out on Jan. 30 that he was one of 40 Intel finalists. He was stunned.
“In our circle, the Intel award is known as the high school Nobel Prize,” Dr. Baldo explains. “With the level of work he is doing, Herman could actually be in graduate school right now.” Instead he’s right here overachieving, and he has company.
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This year Ward Melville contributed a bumper crop of semifinalists, 13, to the competition, besting a school record (it had been 12) and leading the nation. “We were shocked to have 13 in the semis,” Dr. Baldo says. “This is like a little fraternity that allows kids to be as nerdy or geeky as they want and nobody is going to pound them for it verbally or physically; in this room they can be themselves without recrimination, and if we also get a good scientist out of it every year or two, not a problem.”
When the field of 300 semifinalists was culled to the elite 40, Mr. Gudjonson, who spent the summer of 2006 in Iceland on an internship at a research company, deCode Genetics Inc., was the only Ward Melville student to survive the cut. Awkward? “It’s not a malicious sort of competition, it’s just a science project,” he says. There are nine Long Island finalists, each receiving a $5,000 scholarship and an Intel laptop.
Mr. Gudjonson’s project, conducted under the mentorship of Maurice Kernan at the Molecular Biology and Genetics laboratory at SUNY Stony Brook, entailed its own squish test. To study the role a mutant gene plays in Bardet-Biedl syndrome, which causes obesity, kidney dysfunction and sensory deprivation, the high school senior used genetic manipulation to produce a mutant fruit fly. How to prepare a fruit fly for DNA testing after deleting the gene MGC1203? “You squish it.”
The Intel first prize, to be announced next month after the finalists present and defend their projects before experts in Washington, consists of a $100,000 college scholarship and something priceless: cutting-edge credibility in their fields of focus, in his case biogenetics. “Genetics is sort of a hot topic,” says Mr. Gudjonson, who is wearing a black T-shirt with a Ninja decal above baggy jeans that threaten to slide off his slight frame.
If he wins the whole shebang, Mr. Gudjonson would like to thank a cast of thousands of Drosophila melanogaster. Fruit flies manage only a 10-day life cycle, squished or not. Mr. Gudjonson made the flies’ life cycle count and has guaranteed himself an education at the college of his choice. “He can write his own ticket now,” Dr. Baldo says. “When M.I.T. finds out he’s an Intel finalist, they’ll kick themselves for not granting him early acceptance.”
Not that Mr. Gudjonson, more anxious about where he’ll attend college than worried about capturing the top Intel award (“a long shot”), harbors any grudges. Caltech and the University of Chicago were prescient enough to accept him in November, before Intel entered the picture. He’s still waiting to hear nice things from the Ivy League. Doubtless he will.
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Vote for the kārearea
The Forest Owners Association is urging people to vote for the kārearea, or native falcon, for Bird of the Year.
Most pairs of this rare bird live in pine forests where they nest on the ground among newly planted trees and keep an eye out for predators and prey from the vantage point of nearby mature trees.
FOA President Peter Weir says the kārearea is New Zealand’s most spectacular bird. It can fly at more than 100 kilometres an hour to catch prey.
“It’d be great if it could be recognised as the apex species that it is.”
“I see that Federated Farmers’ Chris Allen is promoting the whio – the Blue Duck – and that’s fine, but the kārearea is on the $20 note and to my mind that trumps the whio on the $10 note,” Peter Weir says.
FOA is encouraging everyone to vote for the karearea on [www.birdoftheyear.org.nz]www.birdoftheyear.org.nz . Voting closes on Sunday at 5pm.
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NEW YORK -- Hess Corp. has appointed Greg Hill as president of worldwide exploration and production. Hill will also become an executive VP of the company. He succeeds John O'Connor, who is retiring.
Hill joins Hess from Shell, where he was executive VP for Asia-Pacific E&P, encompassing Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines, China, Australia, and New Zealand. He held numerous leadership positions during his 25-year career at Shell that included responsibilities for onshore production in parts of the US and offshore production in Europe.
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Necrobarista Wakes the Dead With Dark Magic and Espresso – PAX West 2018
Coffee to die for... and then to come back to life for.
By Ian Preschel Last updated Sep 6, 2018
Necrobarista is a 3D visual novel game, set inside of a supernatural Melbourne café, which centers itself around a character named Maddy, a part-time barista who spends her days practicing necromancy. My demo at PAX West was meant to mostly be a tonal piece, however it started as Maddy and a few other characters performed a secret ritual in what appeared to be an underground location. While I don’t have many details to share about Necrobarista’s story, which is mostly being kept under wraps, I will say that what I saw very much intrigued me. During my time with the game, it became apparent that as players eventually make their way through the Australian underworld of Necrobarista, they’ll uncover all sorts of dark, ghostly secrets.
During my conversation with Route 59, the studio that’s creating Necrobarista, I learned that the game’s art style is heavily inspired by anime such as Cowboy Bebop, Soul Eater, and Gurren Lagann – the latter of which is a favorite of mine. Most characters that I encountered were well designed, as each of them possessed some sort of visual detail or accessory that helped them to stand out amongst the crowd of other characters. Also, Necrobarista’s cinematic framing, lighting, and composition are incredible and provide a refreshing update to the visual novel genre – a look that was inspired by filmmaker Wes Anderson.
Instead of utilizing traditional text boxes that appear at the bottom of the screen, the team decided to render them within the 3D space, allowing the text blurbs to occupy the same space as the characters. This stylistic decision results in a distinct aesthetic which is further enhanced by a parallax effect in use, and serves to make the dialogue fit in with the game’s supernatural feel. Necrobarista pulls out every stop to make its world appear moody and suspenseful, and it does so successfully.
Route 59 has implemented a new keyword banking system, which proved to be very intuitive and in my opinion is a welcome addition to the typical visual novel formula. Throughout my time with Necrobarista, my progression was seemingly affected by a group of keywords that I highlighted during moments of dialogue, as they allowed me to unlock new dialogue paths. Only five of these keywords can be held on the UI hot bar, so it’s crucial to highlight words only if you deem them important. Since these words and phrases can be clicked on to read more information, it is easy to learn about the world and the characters that occupy it.
Necrobarista is oozing with style, and the game’s dialogue, mechanics, and visuals all work together to create something that I think is truly unique within the visual novel genre. If you’re looking for a mysterious narrative that merges the worlds of dark magic and espresso, keep an eye out for Necrobarista, which launches in early 2019 on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PC, and Mac.
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Tiny Troops Download (1997 Amiga Game)
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Tiny Troops is more Command and Conquer (but on the Amiga) than it is Cannon Fodder - but it's stolen elements from both of those games and created something that's similar to both without being close enough to be called a clone.
It's all about controlling small squads of, well, tiny troops actually and achieving set objectives (usually destroying the enemy's base) for each of the game's 65 levels. One of the best things about the game is how well paced the levels are in the way they've introduced not only the various weapons (tanks, gliders, grenades and so on) but strategic and tactical elements to the gameplay -like what to do when the only bridge to the enemy base has been blown up. It works so well you just can't help starting another level as soon as you've managed to complete the last.
Each level starts with a small briefing and then the player's usually left to choose the make up of his dozen or so squad members - choosing soldiers that can fire from long range will work wonders on one level where they're going to have cover, for example - before getting down to business. Cleverly, Vulcan have introduced no time limits as such, but there are levels where you're going to have to move fast because the enemy are up to their own thing while you're sat around twiddling your thumbs. Control could be a bit easier -it's the only slightly annoying feature of the game - especially when you're controlling a group of soldiers (you can 'rubber band' troops together by clicking and dragging a square around your selected soldiers) because your troops can find themselves wandering around in completely the wrong places at times. This isn't disastrous if you're keeping your eye on things but it can be a problem if you're somewhere else on the battlefield. A little experimentation allows you to compensate for the clumsiness of this feature and though it's annoying, it's certainly livable with.
This is a highly addictive, playable and fun game - especially in two player mode - that you'll love. Well worth the download.
A new game from Vulcan software, seams to be a mix of cannon fodder and lemmings. You get a fine intro animation, and a playfield with your little troops. Select them, control them, win the game! Not bad!
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The old Maestro" was known for his entertaining patter more than his violin playing and a "feud" with his good friend Walter Winchell. A musical genius from a very young age, he was the youngest violinist the play Carnegie Hall at age of thirteen.
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The blonde siren songbird is best known for her signature tune, "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup." Hildegarde's Radio Room included co-conspirators as Phil Regan, Burgess Meredith, Clifton Webb, Patsy Kelly, and Xavier Cugat.
Newspaper reporters from around the country entered their true, heroic stories of reporting the news to win a chance on the airwaves and $500 from the sponsor of the show, Pall Mall.
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Eat breakfast with the stars in this half hour daily morning show that invites you to share a chat in the Beverly Hills home of glamorous movie star Binnie Barnes and her husband, the movie producer and sports announcer, Mike Frankovitch.
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Follow Blackstone, Rhoda, and John's tales of adventure and how magic saved the day.
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Opportunities for female African American singers were few and far between when Ethel Waters started, but a strong heart and an even stronger voice shattered many glass ceilings.
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Community Garden feeding those in need
Published 9:35 am EDT, Monday, July 25, 2011
NICK KING | nking@mdn.netMidland Community Garden founder Rebecca Cummins-Lanter, left, places beets on a shelf in the Caregiving Network food bank on Thursday. Midland Community Garden donates its crops to the local food bank. At right is Caregiving Network food bank volunteer Kaye Schafer. “It’s a real blessing to have fresh produce for people,” said Schafer. less
NICK KING | nking@mdn.netMidland Community Garden founder Rebecca Cummins-Lanter, left, places beets on a shelf in the Caregiving Network food bank on Thursday. Midland Community Garden donates its crops to the ... more
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The second season of the Midland Community Garden project is producing a bountiful harvest of produce but leaders of the effort are looking for additional volunteers to help the cause. Rebecca Cummins-Lanter, a Kalamazoo College junior-to-be with aspirations to become a community organizer, says, “We have fewer volunteers (about 10) this year than last, which is unfortunate, but we’re gardening smarter.”
The garden, located on Jefferson Avenue on property the Christ Church of the Nazarene is allowing the group to use to help feed financially struggling local families, is growing a variety of vegetables that Cummins-Lanter and her cohorts are donating to the Caregiving Network, Inc. The organization then disperses the food to needy local families.
“What’s unique about this project is that food panties normally collect non-perishable and canned foods,” says Cummins-Lanter. “We’re providing fresh produce, which are healthier options. It’s rare but important that food pantries receive fresh produce. We’re trying to address that need.”
Broccoli, radishes, peas, beans, a “ton of zucchini,” lettuce and spinach are among the vegetables from the Midland Community Garden that will help feed families this summer. Volunteers this season have a rototiller, a tool they didn’t have for their initial growing season.
“The rototiller is saving our bacon,” said Joe Hitchcock, a nearby resident of the community garden who is one of the project’s principal volunteers. “I lived on a farm when I was a kid. I thought I could jump in and help.”
Caregiving Network, Inc, an assistance agency that helps families with food, clothing, household items and other basic life needs, is tickled to be the beneficiary of the Midland Community Garden produce. Its food pantry assists about 25 families each week, and being able to provide fresh, nutritious fare to its clients is huge, said Tom Vander Zouwen, Caregiving Network director.
“Having a group from the community looking after our poor is great,” Vander Zouwen said. “Just being able to offer fresh produce is something our clients really appreciate.”
“Dan Szatkowski deserves a big shout-out for all the work he’s done with the rototiller,” Cummins-Lanter said. “Another family that has been instrumental is Joe and Pat Hitchcock. They’ve been the backbone of the garden. They’re just fantastic.”
Hitchcock said he doesn’t have room for a garden in his home yard because his wife Pat, a past recipient of the City of Midland’s Beautification Award, has it devoted to flowers and other plant life.
“I like watching the garden grow,” he said. “The tomatoes aren’t doing very well this year, but we have some beans and cucumbers coming in that should be ready next week.”
Cummins-Lanter initiated the homegrown project when she was home from school over the holidays about a year and a half ago. No stranger to community service while a student at Midland High, the human development and social relations major knocked on neighbors’ doors to establish a “community base of people who can work together to help local food pantries.”
Half of the volunteers are parishioners of the Christ Church of the Nazarene-including Hitchcock — but Cummins-Lanter stresses that interested parties don’t have to be affiliated with the church.
“We could use a handful of more volunteers and we extend a standing invitation to people to drop in at our meetings anytime,” she said.
The group meets on Saturdays at the garden site, at 9 a.m. and at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays, also at the garden on Jefferson.
“This is Rebecca’s brainchild,” Vander Zouwen said as he watched volunteers load produce for that day’s delivery to struggling households. “For a college student to have this much ambition and initiative is something else.”
“This project has me excited about gardening,” Cummins-Lanter said. “In addition, I want to be a community organizer and I’m gaining valuable experience. I owe a great deal of thanks to my mother (Jan Lanter) because she has really been a great deal of help keeping things going while I’m back and forth between Midland and school.”
Caregiving Network, Inc. is funded largely through private donations, including about 20 local churches that have the agency penciled in its budget, Vander Zouwen said.
“We also have about 200 individual donors a year.”
Residents interested in helping with the Midland Community Garden project may contact Cummins-Lanter at (989) 600-7314.
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Steam’s discoverability bug was part of an attempt to improve the search algorithm
Update, December 5: Valve has issued a statement regarding the Steam store traffic bug.
Earlier this week, a number of indie developers noted that a change to Steam’s discoverability algorithm has led to lower store traffic and reduced sales – as low as half of previous averages. That bug was introduced to the store in October, and while it was fixed just a week later, those figures still haven’t recovered.
The bug saw Steam recommending big, popular games to the exclusion of smaller ones that might be more relevant to individual players’ tastes, but that’s only part of the story. The issue came alongside an update to the discovery algorithm, but intentional changes to that algorithm have also led to continued reduced sales for certain titles.
Valve has now issued a statement explaining the origin of the bug. That reads that “On October 5th, we deployed some code to Steam that changed the defaults for our search queries to factor in sales and wishlist activity more than before.” That was meant to be a fix to another bug preventing less relevant games appearing in your searches.
In fact, what it actually did was “de-boost” similar games, bringing the platform’s most popular games to the surface of searches while bumping other relevant games to the bottom of the list.
This mistake was compounded with experiments on the store’s algorithms which meant that some players were seeing fewer games than before. As a result “overall impressions and views for the ‘More Like This’ section did show a substantial decrease for about two weeks after the initial bug.” Valve claims that traffic had returned to normal by the end of October.
Indie dev Jake Birkett offered one of the most detailed breakdowns of the effects of the dip in traffic in a blog post titled ‘Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales.’ Most notably, Birkett says that he “compared full price sales before and after the October bug (being careful to avoid weeklong sales and Steam sales) and my total units sold have halved. Revenue has dipped even more because our most expensive game has dropped to 36% of previous unit sales.”
The topic has been a hot one among indie devs this week, but as Simon Roth notes on Twitter, “we should consider that our sample of developers whilst large was self selecting.” Some devs have even benefited from the changes. But the issue is that no one knows exactly when these changes are happening or why, and with Steam’s position as the de facto king of PC game distribution, subtle shifts in discoverability can have a big effect on small developers’ livelihoods.
Valve also recently introduced a new Steam revenue split that offers big benefits to big titles compared with smaller ones – and just days later, Epic announced a store that would offer an 88/12 split no matter a game’s revenue. The Epic Game Store versus Steam will be a notable battle for game developers, but it’s one that’s important for users, too. The more options we have for where to buy games, the more those individual stores will have to compete and improve.
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A Near Fatal Arrhythmia in Teenager with 2 Year History of Benign Sounding Syncope
01/09/2014 00:00:00 Francis J Gilchrist 04/01/2008 00:00:00 https://www.pediatriconcall.com/Journal/images/journal_cover.jpg
Year : April-June 2008 | Volume : 5 | Issue : 2
Francis J Gilchrist.
Pediatric Department, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.
Gilchrist F J. A Near Fatal Arrhythmia in Teenager with 2 Year History of Benign Sounding Syncope. Pediatr Oncall J. 2008;5: 99-100.
Dr Francis J Gilchrist, Pediatric Department, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 7PA, UK.
fjgilchrist@hotmail.com
Key points: Benign sounding syncope may have a serious or life-threatening underlying cause.
Benign sounding syncope may have a serious or life-threatening underlying cause. This 14 year old boy had recurrent benign syncopal attacks but subsequently had 2 syncopal attacks with exercise. He was then diagnosed to have a cardiac cause of syncope. This case highlights that warning signs in the history may not be present at the initial presentation and diligence in taking the history of all subsequent episodes will help identify the small percentage of patients with a potentially life threatening cause.
Dizziness and syncope are extremely common. It is estimated that up to 20% of children will experience an episode of syncope by the age of 15 years (1). Thankfully the vast majority of such cases are benign but a small proportion is associated with potentially life threatening conditions. Clinicians must be aware of the warning signs that suggest a significant underlying cause and therefore require further investigation.
A 14 year old boy was referred to the Paediatric out patients clinic by his General Practitioner (GP) with an eleven month history of recurrent episodes of syncope. The episodes usually occurred on days when he had not eaten breakfast or when he stood up quickly from sitting or lying. He would feel dizzy and then "black-out". Unconsciousness would last for less than a minute and he would make an immediate recovery. The patient never experienced palpitations and none of these initial episodes were related to exercise. The GP made a diagnosis of "simple faints" and referred the patient to the Paediatric out patient clinic due to the frequency of the episodes.
The patient was reviewed by the General Paediatrician who thought the likely diagnosis was vasovagal syncope. A baseline 12 lead electrocardiogram (ECG) showed a sinus bradycardia (rate of 48 beats per minute) but was otherwise normal. In view of the bradycardia a 24 hour ECG was booked; this was normal. The patient and his parents were reassured and routine follow-up was organized.
Follow-up revealed the episodes of syncope to continue at a rate of approximately one per month. After 12 months, the patient described two recent episodes of syncope that had been associated with exercise. The description of the episodes was exactly the same as previously but this was the first time they had been associated with exercise. The Paediatrician was concerned that this may suggest there was an underlying arrhythmia and therefore referred the child to the Paediatric Cardiologists.
In the cardiology clinic a repeat ECG was normal, as was an echocardiogram. The history was again thought to be in keeping with vasovagal syncope but in view of the exercise induced symptoms, an exercise stress test was organised. This showed exercise-induced ventricular bigeminy (figure 1). The arrhythmia subsided with rest. The QT / QTc intervals were normal throughout the test.
Figure 1: Exercise stress test ECG showing development of ventricular bigeminy
In view of this result it was planned to see the patient urgently in the cardiology clinic, unfortunately prior to this appointment the patient had a witnessed cardiac arrest whilst at school. Basic Life Support was administered on site by teachers and when the Paramedics arrived the rhythm strip showed him to be in ventricular fibrillation (VF) (figure 2). He was shocked with 200J twice which converted him to asystole. He was intubated and given Adrenaline and Atropine which re-established sinus rhythm.
Figure 2: Initial paramedic rhythm strip showing ventricular fibrillation
He was transferred to the local Accident and Emergency Department where he was stabilized, 12 lead ECG was normal. He was subsequently transferred to the regional Paediatric Intensive Care Unit where he was extubated after 24 hours. He woke appropriately and subsequent follow-up has shown the patient to have made a full recovery with no neurological deficit.
Whilst on the PICU, the patient was reviewed by the Cardiology team. They thought the likely diagnosis was catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia. It was decided he should have an automatic implanted cardioverter defibrillator; this was inserted under general anesthetic without complications. At the same time, he had an adenosine test to exclude the possibility of a concealed accessory pathway; there was no evidence of this. He remains under the follow up of the cardiology team and has had no further episodes of collapse or arrhythmia.
Childhood syncope can be classified in to three main groups: neurally mediated, cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular pseudosyncope (2). The vast majority of cases are benign neurocardiogenic or vasovagal syncope and therefore fall within the neurally mediated group. These episodes are caused by a transient disturbance in the autonomic control of blood pressure and heart rate leading to cerebral hypoperfusion and hypoxia. Depending on the degree of cerebral hypoxia the collapse may be associated with urinary incontinence and stiffening or fine twitching movements (1).
Arrhythmias or structural cardiac lesions account for the cardiovascular causes and it is this that although rare, can be life threatening. The structural cardiac lesions include aortic stenosis, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and primary pulmonary hypertension. The arrhythmias that can cause syncope include supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), ventricular tachycardia (VT) (often in association with long QT syndrome) and heart block. Other cardiac causes of syncope include Tetralogy of Fallot spells and pump dysfunction (3).
The non-cardiovascular pseudosyncope group comprises of children whose episodes of syncope are actually seizures and children who present with psychogenic syncope.
The key to the diagnosis in syncope is a detailed history, during which the clinician must look for certain "warning signs" that may indicate a more serious underlying cause. As in this case one of the warning signs is syncope induced by exercise, others include: syncope in response to a fright / emotional stress, syncope when supine and a family history of sudden death in an adult < 30 yrs (1).
The most important investigation in a child presenting with recurrent syncope is a 12 lead ECG. The main reason for this is to exclude long QT syndrome but also to look for heart block and ventricular hypertrophy. As in this case, it must always be remembered that a normal ECG does not exclude an underlying arrhythmia and if there are warning signs in the history, further investigations may be warranted.
The majority of children with recurrent syncope have a benign cause. This case highlights that warning signs in the history may not be present at the initial presentation and diligence in taking the history of all subsequent episodes will help identify the small percentage of patients with a potentially life threatening cause.
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CJ McCollum will have a new role, Moe Harkless nursing knee injury: Portland Trail Blazers media day highlights
Portland Trail Blazers media day 2018
Gallery: Portland Trail Blazers media day 2018
By Joe Freeman | The Oregonian/OregonLive
There was a small dab of news, a healthy dose of optimism and a long list of cliches. There was talk about future playoff ambitions and a rehash of recent playoff failures. There was praise for new pieces and excitement about roster continuity.
The Portland Trail Blazers unofficially opened the 2018-19 NBA season on Monday, when they gathered for their annual media day at the Moda Center, and the bonanza of interviews with players, coaches and executives played out in expected fashion.
It's impossible to encapsulate everything said during the three-hour blitz, but here are a few of the highlights:
HARKLESS TO BE LIMITED IN TRAINING CAMP
Perhaps the only surprising revelation Monday involved the availability -- or lack thereof -- of Moe Harkless. The Blazers' starting small forward said he will be limited when training camp opens on Tuesday as he continues a slow recovery from arthroscopic left knee surgery.
The procedure, performed May 28 to remove a loose body from his knee, forced Harkless to miss the final nine games of the regular season and all but two games of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs.
"I'll be involved in practice," Harkless said. "I don't think I'll be 100 percent in practice."
Harkless said he spent the first six weeks of the offseason rehabilitating his knee and, after running into unexpected pain early in the summer, he remained limited throughout the offseason. He has participated in 2-on-2 and 3-on-3 basketball workouts, but has not been cleared to play in 5-on-5, full-court games.
He said he and the team have a loose timeline for his full return, but refused to elaborate.
"We have a goal in mind, but it's kind of a feel-it-out-thing," Harkless said. "We've got to just keep pushing it -- and we have been lately -- just trying to see how far we can go without pain. And how much we can tolerate. So I've just got to continue to do that. I've played some 2-on-2, 3-on-3. I haven't even played 5-on-5 with the guys yet. We're close. But I just have to be a lot more careful. Because early in the summer, I had -- I wouldn't call it set-backs -- but I had moments that I realized, 'OK, you have to kind of slow down with this. You can possibly make this thing worse.' So I just had to take my time and be patient. It's hard, just being a competitor, wanting to play. That's when you have to just listen to your body."
Harkless was an integral part of the Blazers' late-season surge to the third seed in the West and any prolonged absence would hinder a team that has sputtered out of the gates in each of the last three seasons.
NEW ROLE FOR MCCOLLUM?
Terry Stotts said he plans to eliminate some of his more well-used offensive sets, tinker with player rotations and perhaps even use more switching and ball pressure on defense as he makes subtle on-court adjustments in the wake of the Blazers' recent playoff failures.
Another change on the horizon? A slightly refined role for CJ McCollum.
Stotts has used McCollum as his primary back-up ball-handler, playing him at point guard when All-Star Damian Lillard sits. But while McCollum will still initiate the offense in spurts, it sounds like he will play more off the ball and spend even more time navigating around screens.
"I think with the makeup of the roster now, with the players that we've added, I don't see him having that same amount of responsibility," Stotts said. "He'll still be put in those positions. The ball will still be in his hands. He'll come off screens. He'll come off ball screens. But he won't have the responsibility of initiating the offense quite as much."
Look for some combination of Seth Curry, Wade Baldwin and Evan Turner to spend more time running and initiating the offense on the second unit.
PRAISE FOR STOTTS
Lillard has supported him countless times over the years. McCollum and the departed Ed Davis have had his back. Really, virtually every player who has rolled through Portland in recent seasons has given Stotts a vote of confidence.
But after presiding over last season's painful first-round playoff sweep -- and overseeing 12 consecutive playoff defeats -- rumors had placed Stotts on the proverbial hot seat. Well, President of Basketball Operations Neil Olshey tossed cold water on that seat Monday, praising the success and teaching acumen of the coach he brought to Portland in 2012.
"I think Terry's record speaks for itself," Olshey said. "Every year, our players play to their maximum potential. We compete at a higher level and Terry, first and foremost, is a teacher. And teacher's constantly educate themselves and look for new teaching techniques ... Terry's incredibly bright, has a great feel, he knows our roster."
Stotts is the fourth-longest tenured coach in the NBA and has been widely successful in Portland, steering five of his six teams to the playoffs and accumulating the third-most wins (272) in franchise history behind only Jack Ramsay (453) and Rick Adelman (291).
"We're one of five teams in the NBA to make the playoffs five straight years," Olshey said. "And that's always the first bar."
SUMMER STANDOUTS: LEONARD, LAYMAN
Every year, media day brings tales of offseason growth, weight gains (and loss) and the promise that a young or underused player will pop. Monday was no exception.
When asked to name someone who has excelled behind the scenes during offseason workouts and pick-up games, Olshey and Stotts uttered the same name: Jake Layman.
"He's been terrific," Olshey said of the third-year forward. "He had a great June working out with our guys. We all saw how well he played in summer league. He shot the ball at a high level. He stayed the entire summer. He's stronger. He's more confident with the ball. He's had a great September playing with our guys. I can tell you everyone in my front office breathes a sigh of relief watching him every day that we didn't let him go ... he's really gifted and it's starting to click for him."
Another player generating buzz is Meyers Leonard, Blazers fans favorite punching bag. Lillard said Leonard has boasted a different energy and look during voluntary pick-up games and workouts this month.
"Meyers looked really good the past few weeks," Lillard said. "Every time he comes back, I say he looks good every time. It's like, he's playing with more confidence and all that. But this time, it was a little bit different. And I told him that. He was challenging shots at the rim, he wasn't the loud Meyers drawing attention to himself. He was just doing his job, playing hard, making shots. He just had a different look about him, a different energy with him. I was just impressed with what I saw with him last week."
OLSHEY EXPLAINS OFFSEASON
Olshey has been widely criticized for a quiet offseason in which he drafted two teenagers and signed two off-the-radar free agents. After entering the summer pledging to add an impact veteran with playoff experience, he failed to deliver.
So, what happened? The Blazers' top decision-maker added a little clarity Monday, saying, essentially, that the Blazers swung and missed. They were outbid in the free agent market -- six times -- and couldn't find a trade partner looking to dump salary through their $13 million trade exception.
"We were looking for an impact veteran," Olshey said. "We got outbid. We had six guys on our target list. We got outbid for each one of them on the taxpayer midlevel. The appetite for teams to put players -- impact-level players -- into trade exceptions to save money or get under the tax wasn't there in this market."
NEW UNIFORM IN NOVEMBER
There will be at least one new Blazers uniform unveiled this season as part of Nike's revolving door of NBA jerseys.
The popular "Rip City" black alternate uniforms, which featured plaid in a nod to legendary coach Ramsay, will be receiving a facelift. One of two alternate uniforms, dubbed the "City" edition by Nike, will change every year as the company and the league look to add variety -- and revenue -- to their brands. The new iteration is expected to be unveiled in November.
"I need a grid up here for every jersey that we continue to redesign and relaunch every year," Blazers President Chris McGowan said. "It gets a little bit crazy because we're doing so many of them."
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Rallies for rights: Women's marches in Oregon (participants' photos)
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By Janet Eastman | The Oregonian/OregonLive
The crowds attending the Women's March on Washington in the nation's capital D.C. on Saturday blew way past their estimated numbers and so did "sister" events, including those in Oregon.
Portland's march attracted up to 100,000 people. Ashland, a city to the south with a population of about 20,000, hosted as many as 15,000 march participants in Lithia Park, according to early reports from police (on Monday, police lowered the crowd size to around 8,000). And smaller groups across Oregon assembled to to promote equity, inclusion and women's rights.
About 15 seniors, residents of Holladay Park Plaza, a Northeast Portland retirement community, marched through their lobby and stood at the Lloyd Center MAX stop, waving signs proclaiming, "We go high" and emblazoned with lyrics from the Jay Z remix of the song "My President."
Ashland organizer Sharon Dohrmann says, "We were blown away by how many people attended."
She hoped for 2,000 participants but then heard that Interstate-5 was backed by people were trying to get into the city.
"The mood was fantastic," she says. "People were respectful while also being excited and fired up. Kate Joss-Bradley, the Ashland High School student body president, rocked the house with her speech. And the comments on Facebook from participants have been extremely complimentary. I'm really proud of what we did today."
Women, men and children walked with signs and chanted around the world on Jan. 21, the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States.
"We stand together in solidarity with our partners and children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families," reads the mission statement of the march, "recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country."
We asked people participating in Oregon marches to send in photos of their signs and the scene. Here's what has been emailed to trending@oregonian.com so far.
For Portland's march, see photos and read the story: Women's March crowd fills Portland streets: 'This is what democracy looks like'
Other events included:
Women's March Southern Oregon Ashland: Police estimate 15,000 people walked from the Ashland Public Library to Lithia Park during the march.
Women's March Astoria: Hundreds of people gathered at Heritage Square to counter President Donald Trump, sending messages of resolve and unity against potential threats to civil rights, reports The Daily Astorian. Handmade signs included "Make America Sane Again," "Power to the Peaceful," and "Girls Just Wanna Have Fundamental Rights."
Women's March Bend: More than 3,000 people gathered at Drake Park for Women's March Bend, according to the Bend Bulletin. Signs poked fun at the new president: "Tweet women with respect" and "We shall overcomb." More pointed signs read: "Women's rights are human rights" and "Our bodies, our minds, our power."
Brookings Women's March: Started at Curry County Democratic Headquarters
Sister March for Women's Rights: Started at Broadway in Coos Bay
Women's March Eugene: There weren't only women wearing pink "pussyhats" outside of the Federal Courthouse as men and children stood alongside their wives, partners, mothers and daughters on a rainy, windy afternoon, reports the Register-Guard, which states there were more than 7,000 estimated participants to honor women's rights in a modern day suffragette-style movement to keep the rights female advocates of the past had worked so hard to secure.
Women's March Harney County: Started at the Intersection of W Adams and Egan in Burns
Women's March in Florence: Started at Class Act Theater.
Women's March on Washington-Halfway: Started at Main St. and E. Record St.
Women's March: Wallowa County: Wallowa County Chieftain reported in advance of the march that started at 200 E. Wallowa Ave. in Joseph: "An estimated 200,000 women disgusted with [President] Trump's behavior and rhetoric are expected to participate in the Women's March on Washington in a show of solidarity for human and women's rights."
Women's March: La Grande: Started at Union County Recorder
Women of Yamhill County March: Started at the McMinnville Ballroom
Women's March Newport: Started at City Hall
Women's March Pendleton: Started at Pendleton Library & City Hall
Women's March Portland: See images of the march that started at Tom McCall Waterfront Park
Women's March Sandy: Started at Centennial Plaza
Women's March Salem: Women, men and children started at Salem Capitol Mall and clutched signs bearing calls for universal health care, reproductive rights for women, equal rights for the LGBTQ community and equal rights for immigrants, reports the Statesman Journal.
Women's March on Tillamook: Started at Sue Elmore Park
We Stand Together For All: Started at Our Retreat in Welches
- Janet Eastman
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Best Of :: Shopping & Services
Best of Phoenix® /// Shopping & Services /// 2003
It's easy for locals to lose sight of just how good the bargain shopping is in the Valley, but shopaholics who visit or move here from fashion meccas like Los Angeles or New York are stunned at the amazing markdowns to be found in this area. Other outlets win out on ultra-cheap prices, but without a doubt Last Call has the best, most eye-popping selection of true designer merchandise. Where else can you score outfits by Anna Sui, Michael Kors or Prada for about a third of the regular price? Most important, you don't need to do a lot of digging to find such labels. The shoe department is inspirational as well, chock-full of Kate Spade flats and Gucci stilettos. When the store holds a clearance sale, the price cuts are even steeper, giving people with beer budgets the chance to really indulge their champagne tastes.
Readers' Choice for Best Secondhand Store: Buffalo Exchange
Our car was a beauty in its day, a 1960 Cadillac. But it had been so long since we'd been able to find parts to take care of it, it had fallen into a quiet, dusty sleep of disrepair. Then, we found Arizona Vintage Parts, and our pretty car knew it had gone to heaven. The place is hard to locate, down a dirt road with virtually no address, but it's got pretty much everything a vintage auto connoisseur could ever need. Some customers come from other countries just to find that perfect chrome accent, or engine part. The specialty is Cads, from 1930 to 1985. But there's a treasure trove for all makes and models of antique cars, with parts like water pumps, fuel pumps, brake parts, U-joints, bearings, seals, ignitions, front end, gaskets, fenders, panels, hubcaps, bumpers, floorboards, radios, antennas, seat belts, steering pumps and so much more. Another big bonus: Everything is rust-free.
Baby, we can drive our car!
Bottom line: Size matters to miniature collectors, and the small-minded love this shop. At Auntie Em's, we can hold the whole world in our hands -- and decorate it. Doll houses feature furniture and every imaginable accessory, from place settings and appliances to minuscule trees and farm implements, even the teeniest cat food box. And those with big ambitions can pick up the wood, tools, paint and glue necessary to create their own trinkets. Need a little guidance? Peruse the racks of how-to books, videos and crafty magazines.
And for once, go ahead and bring the boys, for also on the premises: Smilin' Jack's Pedal Cars. (We appreciate the noncommittal slogan: "If it's got a pedal or wheel, we may have it.")
5625 W. Glendale Ave., Glendale, 85301
auntieemsminiatures.com
Rich Ihle is known as the snake or reptile man. He has a large collection of scaly friends, with names like Freckles, Miss Piggy, Junior, Mrs. Square, T-Bo and Theresa. Freckles is a leopard gecko from India. Miss Piggy is a western hognose snake. Theresa is a tiger-phase reticulated python, the longest snake in the world, growing to 30 feet. Ihle is very interesting. He enjoys educating people of all ages about these often misunderstood animals, and showing his live creatures for schools, libraries, malls, scout and church organizations, youth groups, fairs, and other special events. The animals that he uses in his programs are captive reared and extremely tame, making them perfect for school classroom hands-on presentations (including preschool), birthday and company parties, even as stars in commercials and movies. As Ihle says, the critters actually enjoy the attention as much as we enjoy the show. What a ssssscintillating ssssservice.
Thanks to the superb selection at this cool new shop, our garden now looks like an advertisement for antique dealer Michael Robertson's latest business venture. We dropped in to buy a couple of vintage earthenware pots, and left with a truckload of outdoor decor we couldn't live without. Our garden's gorgeous with Garden Party finds: a stupendous Virgin Mary fountain; a just-weathered-enough Adirondack lounger; and a crate full of like-new gardening tools that double as ornamentation. We plan to go back for another tour of the extra-cool "Shabby Chic White Room," where last trip we snagged an ecru crackle-glazed "Pissing Boy" statue and a marvelous milk glass flower bowl. Fans of campy Catholic art will want to check out the roomful of Jesus junk, and anyone else with a patch of planted soil will surely score something from this marvelous hoard.
Looking for glamour? Looking to shine? Are you a performer? A star? A man who dresses in women's clothing? Well, then . . . Boom Boom LaRue's is the place for you. Located within the shabby chic space of Vintage Interiors, sequined gowns are packed on the racks. Each piece of costume jewelry is hand-picked so there are no duplicates (this ensures that no fashion faux pas occur onstage). Boas, tiaras and wigs (oh my!).
But the true treasures are those elusive size 12 and up stilettos and go-go boots. So all you men who have an upcoming command performance at Pookies, stop in and freshen up your look and avoid looking drag -- we mean, drab.
If it came out of Africa, chances are this place sells it. With walls of several rooms plastered with artworks -- copper reliefs, paintings, masks, woodcarvings -- Gold Coast is almost more museum than store. Imported from 26 African countries, loot ranges from CDs and sculpture to clothing and musical instruments (the bebo balafon xylophone is handcrafted from wood, gourds and leather). While dolls, drums and jigsaw puzzles provide a playful touch, photos of the artists -- many of them pictured in dreary working conditions -- accompany some of the artworks, putting a human face on creations from half a world away. And by offering one-of-a-kind decorations -- wicker furniture, hand-woven baskets, blankets and bean bags -- Gold Coast frees Arizonans from that ubiquitous kokopelli creature.
One day last summer we found ourselves lunching on stale pretzels dipped in months-old raspberry preserves because it was too hot out to drive to the market. This year, we're eating right and staying in, because we're hooked on Bashas' home delivery service. We'll never again have to risk UV burns just to bag some groceries, because Bashas' operators will take orders large and small (there's no minimum purchase) via fax or phone from 8 a.m. 'til 8 p.m. during the week, and from 9 a.m. 'til 4 p.m. on weekends. When we're feeling really organized, we place our order via the air-conditioned comfort of the grocery chain's Web site, which offers online shopping 24/7, and any of these options will allow us to use both our Club Card and cents-off coupons for swell savings. They'll even fill and deliver prescriptions, too. The $10 delivery charge (same-day deliveries are slightly higher) is worth every penny. We may never leave home again.
There it was! The first edition we'd been looking for to complete our collection, its dust jacket hardly worn at all and showing almost none of its 33 years. We found this literary treasure at Bookman's, where the prices are always rock bottom.
Sure, other stores cater to the hard-core bibliophile in search of rare first editions (and willing to pay dear prices), but for casual book collectors like us -- and for book lovers in search of no more than a good read -- nothing satisfies like this supermarket of recycled treasures in Mesa.
From the outside, the place resembles a big retail joint, anchoring a strip mall along Country Club Drive. Bookman's is huge, and, even better, the store stays open much later than others -- until 10 p.m. every day of the week.
Naturally, you'll find row after row of hardcovers and paperbacks in all the usual varieties. But Bookman's also has a large selection of magazine back issues (particularly Arizona Highways going way back), used video games, CDs, videotapes and DVDs. Best of all, Bookman's has such a healthy volume of trade-in, you're almost guaranteed to find new items every time you visit.
Readers' Choice: Bookman's Used Books, Music & Software
1056 S. Country Club Dr., Mesa, 85210
bookmans.com
You've gotta love an entertainer who provides a résumé for his "trusty mount," Steel. Here's an excerpt: "Everyone loves Steel. He has been known to go up and down stairs and ride in elevators. He has even done the national anthem on ice for the Phoenix Coyotes hockey team. His ultra-soft coat and gentle personality make him a delightful and welcome visitor." The pretty white horse is just half the act, though, rearing and twirling on command as Gary Sprague croons our favorite songs from Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. Since 1987, Sprague and Steel have been entertaining locals and visitors at area restaurants, and on weekends in Old Town Scottsdale. It's just too fun -- Sprague twirls his six-shooters, plays guitar, and dances with Steel. So we were beyond gleeful to find that we could hire the duo for private performances, too, with Western music, humorous cowboy poetry, funny tall tales and educational presentations. And because Steel (and Sprague, too, we guess) is so well-behaved, we can even have them perform indoors. This is truly the West at its best.
Tuff Stuff leather is one of the few remaining original custom leather stores in the country. Offering custom chaps, vests, jocks and more for 20 years, Tuff Stuff fabricates much of its inventory on the premises. Craftsmen make a sleek and affordable line of leather floggers, which helps maintain the store's philosophy of making bondage available to everyone. For less than $100, customers can purchase a complete starter restraint package, perfect for individuals and couples curious about the lifestyle but not yet ready to invest in an $1,800 leather body bag. Owner Bob De Jardine also emphasizes that, apart from the cock and ball toys, nearly all Tuff Stuff's items can be used by men or women. De Jardine carries a full line of harnesses, cock rings, art, whips, hoods and blindfolds, as well as racks of more traditional leather vests and pants for more formal occasions.
1716 E. McDowell Rd., Phoenix, 85006
tuffstuffleather.com
From pale ale to the ale pail, if beer production requires it, these "home fermentation specialists" have it. While beginning brewers may find the inventory overwhelming -- siphons, stopcocks, yeast, hops (whole and pellet), malt extract, blueberry flavoring -- liquid courage is easy to come by. Beer-brewing and wine-making kits pack all the necessary equipment (booklet, bucket, hydrometer, thermometer, etc.) into a single box. An initial investment of $108.50, plus a month's worth of patience, turns five gallons of water into 53 bottles of happiness. So pick your poison -- American cream ale, cerveza-style amber, Irish stout, Weizenbier -- and just brew it.
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World Bank helps expansion of mobile financial services in Zambia World Bank helps expansion of mobile financial services in Zambia
World Bank helps expansion of mobile financial services in Zambia
Out-Law News | 28 Aug 2014 | 2:48 pm | 1 min. read
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, has announced a $1 million advisory services agreement with Airtel Zambia to increase access to mobile financial services in the Zambian market.
The project is part of a $37.4m joint initiative of IFC and The MasterCard Foundation to expand microfinance and advance mobile financial services in sub-Saharan Africa.
According to the IFC the overall aim of the three-year ‘Partnership for Financial Inclusion’ project is to help Airtel Money Zambia build “a sustainable mobile money operation”. IFC will provide market research and advisory services on agent network management and business strategy development.
Airtel Money director Zambia Brenda Thole said: “A key focus area for Airtel Money is to support the (Zambian) government’s mandate to enhance financial inclusion and to reach out to the unbanked population who may still have fears of mainstream banking or believe the services are too costly. This partnership with IFC and The MasterCard Foundation will boost our drive of customer education and help us build strong agent relationships, which are key to the success of this product.”
Airtel Networks Zambia Plc is a subsidiary of Bhakti Airtel, which the IFC said is the fourth largest telecommunications company in the world with 300 million customers. The Zambian subsidiary has been operational in the country since 2010 after the buy-out of Zain. According to the IFC, the company “has the widest geographical footprint in Zambia with over 1,100 sites spread across Zambia”.
The IFC said the implementation of mobile financial services has proved “to be a successful way of increasing access to finance in several African markets”.
According to the IFC, M-Pesa in Kenya is “one of the most well-known mobile money operators in the world” and is used by more than 70% of Kenyan adults. In Tanzania, the IFC said data from mobile operator FinScope showed that the use of mobile money services had helped increase the rate of financial inclusion from 15.8% to 57.4% in just four years.
In May 2014, the IFC announced a $2m advisory services agreement with Tigo Ghana to develop and expand mobile financial services in Ghana. That project was also a joint initiative under the Partnership for Financial Inclusion, which is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Development Bank of Austria and which collaborates with knowledge partners such as the World Bank and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor.
A survey published this year by Swedish company Ericsson (8-page / 224 KB PDF) said sub-Saharan Africa is “rapidly closing in” on the global penetration rate of mobile communications usage. According to the survey, mobile financial services are increasingly popular as the use of information and communications technology (ICT) grows.
However, the survey said: “Mobile operators and relevant ICT stakeholders, including governments, must drive the development of appropriate infrastructure to handle the growing traffic demand on networks.”
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FILE – Puppies rescued by a BC Wildfire crew in 2018. (BC Wildfire)
SPCA urges province to include mandatory plans for pets during emergencies
Agency said recent floods and fires have shown a need to include pets
Jan. 14, 2020 1:20 p.m.
The BC SPCA is urging the province to include pets as it overhauls its emergency management legislation this year.
In a Tuesday news release, the organization said the past few years of wildfires and floods, both in B.C. and abroad, have shown a need to plan for domestic animals.
“The devastating reports from Australia, where more than a billion animals are estimated to have died as a result of bushfires, are a somber reminder that both humans and animals are extremely vulnerable during a disaster,” said chief prevention and enforcement officer Marcie Moriarty.
The SPCA believes this leads to more animals killed, more pet owners refusing to leave their homes because there’s nowhere for their pets to go, and owners returning to evacuated areas to save their pets.
Current legislation does not require local officials to include domestic animals as part of their plans.
In prior years, the society has sent staff and resources to help pets and owners during floods and wildfires.
The province is accepting input on emergency management legislation until Jan. 31.
READ MORE: Puppies picked up by BC Wildfire crew to be returned to family
Universities across Canada to hold moment of silence for Iran plane crash victims
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Zellnor Myrie, a Brooklyn native who was working as a lawyer until launching his campaign, is challenging Jesse Hamilton, a two-term senator. | Facebook
Members of Congress back Myrie, citing Hamilton’s IDC allegiance
By GLORIA PAZMINO
Members of New York’s congressional delegation are throwing their support behind Zellnor Myrie, an insurgent Democratic candidate running to unseat a fellow Democrat as part of an effort to help steer the Senate to Democratic control next fall.
For years, a set of breakaway Democrats known as the Independent Democratic Conference has caucused with Senate Republicans. That move has angered downstate Democrats who say the alliance has prevented progressive legislation from passing in the state.
“The reason the IDC could exist and honestly thrive was because there was a level of apathy among the electorate, and I think that what we saw in [President Donald] Trump’s election and his subsequent actions is that elections have consequences,” Myrie told POLITICO.
Although the IDC formally disbanded earlier this year and its members have pledged to rejoin mainline Democrats, nearly all its members are facing primary challengers from the left.
Members of New York’s congressional delegation, however say the damage has already been done. They’re intent on helping Myrie get elected and state Sen. Jesse Hamilton out of office.
Reps. Yvette Clarke, Hakeem Jeffries, Nydia Velázquez and Jerry Nadler, all New York Democrats, will announce the endorsement on Friday morning.
“Jesse Hamilton promised his constituents that he would be part of the mainline Democratic caucus in the Senate and then broke his word to the people he took an oath to represent. That is not acceptable,” Jeffries told POLITICO in an interview.
Myrie, a Brooklyn native who was working as a lawyer until launching his campaign, is challenging Hamilton, a two-term senator who represents Brooklyn's 20th Senate District. It includes parts of Brownsville, Crown Heights, East Flatbush and Gowanus.
Myrie said he expects to campaign with the federal lawmakers as he continues to go to door to door.
“These members have served on the local level as well, they know what it takes to fight Trump’s Republican agenda right here in Brooklyn, that’s why it means so much to me to have their support,” Myrie said. “Three of the members cover the entirety of the state Senate district, so this is not just a paper endorsement. These are seasoned elected officials that know door to door wins the war, so I look forward to being on the trail with them.”
Hamilton’s allegiance to the IDC has been a central point of Myrie’s campaign. That same message is also being echoed by a slate of challengers running against members of the IDC in Queens and the Bronx.
Clarke, who narrowly held on to her seat last month after facing a challenge from a liberal candidate, acknowledged both the IDC and changing electoral dynamics since Trump's election have created a different political atmosphere in her district.
Clarke along with Jeffries endorsed Hamilton’s opponent in 2014, when he was first elected. She referred to the IDC as an “artificial group that had very selfish motives,” saying in an interview Thursday she had been doubtful of Hamilton’s promise to never join the faction.
“I felt deep down inside that he would at some point join the IDC, and I recognized at that time what that meant, in terms of Democratic values and the ultimate value for the people that we jointly represent, with him casting his lot with the Republicans in the Senate,” Clarke said, referring to Hamilton.
Myrie’s race got an additional boost of support this week. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his endorsement on Wednesday, marking the first endorsement from a mayor who has for months stopped short of getting publicly involved in local Senate races.
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Ngelawu Nawet
PMC produced Ngelawu Nawet (“Winds of Hope”) in Senegal. This 168-episode radio show aired November 4, 2008 through December 6, 2009 (with rebroadcasts through 2011) in Wolof, a recognized regional language in Senegal and neighboring countries.
Ngelawu Nawet aired on RTS National 95.7 FM, a station with national coverage in Senegal. It was one of two PMC radio shows on the air. Coñal Keele (“Harvesting the Seeds of Life”), the second drama in Senegal at the time, was written in Pulaar, and broadcast in the Matam region of Senegal. As part of the Whole Society Strategy, PMC set up monthly radio debate shows featuring a panel of experts and an open forum for callers to ask questions, hosted by Ngelawu Nawet’s lead writer. This idea stemmed from some of the reactions to the program leading to the first radio debate on August 1, 2010. The debates were broadcast live on the first Sunday of the month on the national radio stations and then rebroadcast on the regional stations throughout the week.
As with all PMC radio shows, Ngelawu Nawet was created using PMC’s radio show methodology.
Ngelawu Nawet Episode 1
“A lot of men think that women are put on Earth to give birth to children. Islam recommends family planning in the couple, and says that maternity is a serious matter that merits an adequate spirit within the couple, as well as advice from family planning practitioners, and close monitoring during pregnancy so that the child is born at term.”
Ngelawu Nawet Listener
Writer Bineta Mbaye went on a research trip to the town of Médina Yéro Foulah and found that villagers would gather in public spaces to listen to Ngelawu Nawet, then have lively discussions long into the night about the different health issues addressed in the drama.
During an April 2010 field visit to the Kaolack region of Senegal, PMC found a community contribution protocol which is used to purchase batteries for the radio sets used by community groups to listen to Ngelawu Nawet.
During a field visit to listener groups in the Kaolack region, researchers found that children were taking messages and characters from Ngelawu Nawet. If someone was coughing, children referred to the person as Bakk (a character from the series) and would tell them to seek immediate medical help.
Issues this Drama Addresses
PMC worked with RAES (Réseau Africain de l’Education pour la Santé) and the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health, who provided technical assistance to the Senegalese research team for the baseline and endline studies that were used to determine the program’s influence.
• Listeners were 6.5 times more likely to state that “HIV/AIDS can be prevented by using condoms” than non-listeners
• Listeners were 10 times more likely to state that “they think they are personally at risk for contracting HIV/AIDS” than non-listeners.
• Listeners were 77% less likely to agree that “a breastfeeding child should be weaned from the breast if the mother is pregnant” than non-listeners
• 52% of clients surveyed said they listened to “Ngelawu Nawet”
• More males (62%) listened to the program than did females (50%)
• When asked to name the principal source of information where they learned about family planning or reproductive health service, 12% of clients said “radio”
• Of those who said the principal source that informed them of the service was a health worker, spouse, relative or friend, 40% said that “radio” was the source of information where that person learned of the service
• Listeners were 6.3 times more likely to state that women should be 18 years old or older before marriage
Listeners were 74% less likely to agree "the practice of female genital mutilation is a cultural requirement" than non-listeners.
(RAES and the University of California)
Male listeners were 63% less likely to believe that "Tuberculosis can be transmitted through sharing of utensils" than non-listeners.
Listeners were 6.3 times more likely to say that the "ideal age of marriage for a woman was 18 years or older" than non-listeners.
Main Issues this Drama Addresses:
Environmental Protection Rights of Women & Girls
All issues addressed by this drama:
Adolescent Reproductive Health
Financial Literacy & Independence
Title: Ngelawu Nawet (“Winds of Hope”)
Format: Radio Show
Language: Wolof
Duration: November 4, 2008-December 6, 2009
Administrative Team:
Country Representative: Fara Diaw
Radio Serial Drama Coordinator: Arame Ndoye Sene
Creative Team:
Producer: Mansour Sow
Producer Assistant: Maty Ndiaye
Head Writer: Daour Wade
Writers: Bineta Mbaye, Cheikh Charles Sow, Abdou Sèye Ndiaye, Mansour Khouma Dieynaba Guèye
Adiwoo’s story
Adiwoo is a 20-year-old girl who lives with her father and mother. Her father has a stressful administrative job, which he deals with by frequently drinking, beating his wife, and sleeping with other women. He eventually leaves Adiwoo and her mother for a second wife. Throughout her father’s drama, Adiwoo encounters drama of her own. She falls for Lengs and repeatedly sneaks out to see him against the will of her mother, even though one escape attempt results in a broken leg. Eventually, fleeing from the violence of her father, Adiwoo spends the night with Lengs and they have unprotected sex. Adiwoo is later diagnosed with gonorrhea and HIV. At first reluctant to be honest with the doctor and continue her visits to the clinic, Adiwoo eventually goes on medicine to help with her infections. Her father is also diagnosed with HIV, and, refusing medication, dies in Adiwoo’s mother’s home; her mother cares for him until his final days. Adiwoo, Lengs, and her friend start a group to talk with others about sexuality and the best ways to protect yourself from pregnancy and sexually transmitted illnesses. Adiwoo gets a job as a street sweeper and takes night classes, eventually becoming a midwife.
Issues this storyline addresses:
Bakk’s story
Bakk is a teacher at the primary school in the capital city. He is married and has a 13-year-old daughter. He often goes to the plaza to drink and gamble with his friends. One night, he bets all of his wages and loses. This is the beginning of a terrible spiral. He must lie to his wife about his activities; he gets drunk frequently, and starts missing work. His alcohol abuse and violence get worse and worse. He starts cheating on his wife and begins getting a terrible cough, but he refuses to see a doctor. He’s coughing and spitting up blood, so his friends and mistress refuse to spend time with him. Eventually, he agrees to go to the hospital and discovers that he does not have HIV, but he does have tuberculosis which can be cured with strict adherence to the treatment schedule. He takes his wife and daughter to be tested and returns to teaching. He speaks in schools, community groups, and women’s groups about the dangers of tuberculosis.
Maakoy’s story
Maakoy is 23 years old and lives with her husband and small child, Góora. Her husband adores her and she gets along well with her mother-in-law, although her sister-in-law detests everyone. Maakoy’s son cries often and her husband tells her to take him to the health clinic. When Maakoy finally takes him, she learns that Góora is malnourished and that she needs to prepare special meals for him, but she does not follow through. Her husband, frustrated, goes to the clinic himself. His harsh words to Maakoy make her cry. She goes back to the clinic to get the special ingredients, but finds it a lot of effort to remember to leave her market stall at the right time to attend nutrition classes. She must return every two days for recipes because she cannot read them. She asks her husband to translate the recipes for her, and as she follows the regimen, they watch their son become stronger and healthier. Maakoy realizes that her illiteracy lies at the heart of her difficulties. She learns to read and write and starts literacy classes out of her home. She procures a micro loan to create a small business manufacturing local goods for children’s nutrition; her products gain popularity among women across the country.
Wereyaan’s story
Wereyaan is a 25-year-old woman who has three children. Her husband, Sóogi, adores her, but his mother hates Wereyaan because she considers her a rival for Sóogi’s attention. Wereyaan becomes pregnant again, but she suffers from anemia and the pregnancy ends in a miscarriage. Sóogi’s mother convinces Sóogi to find another wife to ensure a successful pregnancy the next time. A few months later, Wereyaan is pregnant yet again. Sóogi’s new wife, angered that Wereyaan became pregnant before she did, violently attacks her. The child is born by Caesarean. Not wanting to become pregnant again, Wereyaan sneaks out and buys contraceptives. Sóogi’s mother spots her at the pharmacy and tells Sóogi, who becomes bitter and threatens Wereyaan with divorce. However, the second marriage ceremony has landed Sóogi in serious debt, and he eventually accepts Wereyaan’s view that preventing another child would help the family financially. When Wereyaan’s father dies, she inherits a large amount of land, allowing Sóogi to escape debt and open a restaurant serving traditional food. The restaurant becomes a national success. When the Minister of Health visits, Wereyaan makes use of the opportunity to encourage a largely female audience to think about the benefits of contraceptive use, family planning, and women in the workforce.
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An old school simple arcade racer. Just pick a car and race!
As they say in the manual, Screamer is a very simple game. At minimum there are only four keys to use when driving in automatic or six keys for manual. Simple to learn but not necessarily easy to win.
There is a good sense of speed in the game. Not as fast as Burnout 3 or Trackmania: Sunrise but it is still quite fast.
There are six different cars to drive and their handling are noticeably different. They have fictional names, but if you know your cars, they are easily recognisable. When you complete the championship, an extra fictional super-ultra-mega car is unlocked.
Being an old DOS game and loading up so fast on current PCs, Screamer makes a good game to give a quick speed fix if you feel the need for speed and are in a hurry.
The game has the usual, single track racing, championship tournament and time trials, but there are also two other race types. The first one is Cone Carnage, where you try to knock down cones to increase your time limit. The second is Slalom, where you try to drive between cones to increase your time limit.
The game stores the top times for each track and you can view the replay of those races. Completing a normal mode race also shows you a replay of your immediate performance.
There are six different tracks and they are varied and well detailed despite the old graphics. Six tracks is not many but when you complete the championship, all tracks can be raced in reverse! To me that is as good as having twelve tracks.
The music was average racing music to me in the beginning. As I played more, the tunes really grew on me. It gives the fast racing feeling.
The game randomly crashes!
It is a bit unfair that when you bump into the AI cars, your speed drops a lot, but when they bump into you, it is as if nothing happened. On the up side, I have seen them stack it a few times, which does slow them down.
There is no denying, the graphics look old.
Allowing to play the tracks in reverse is good, but there are no separate records for the best reverse tracks’ times. What is worse is when you score a best time on a reverse track, it actually saves it in the normal track’s records.
The cover image has a picture of the Lamborghini Countach. Wikipedia also says there is a Lamborghini Countach. But everytime I see the car named Shadow, I swear it is a Lamborghini Diablo!
There is a narrator that yells out updates and wise cracks, but if you do not like it, there is an option to turn him off. Note, if you turn him off, you will not hear the “three, two, one, GO!” either.
There is multiplayer, but I never got the opportunity to try it out.
Biases:
Reviewed GOG.com version of the game.
I really liked Test Drive Unlimited, the original Test Drive, Test Drive 3: The Passion, Need For Speed 2, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit(the old one), Need For Speed High Stakes, Need For Speed Most Wanted, Trackmania: Sunrise, Burnout 3 and Gran Turismo 1-4.
I did not like Need For Speed Underground. I haven’t tried the other Need for Speeds.
I have completed the championship.
Screamer is DRM free from GOG.com
Minimum Requirements (as stated on GOG.com):
Windows XP or Windows Vista
1 GHz Processor (1.4 GHz recommended)
256MB RAM (512 recommended)
3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended)
Mouse, Keyboard
Computer Played On:
Windows 7 64 bit.
Intel Core i5 2.3GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M 1Gb RAM
Conexant SmartAudio with egg speakers or earphones. Or Logitech G35.
Graphics settings are set to whatever I feel comfortable with playing on this PC. They are usually not set to the highest settings. All screenshots are taken with my settings.
For the GOG.com version of the game, To run setup without it crashing, the file dosboxScreamer_setup.conf must be edited.cycles=max must be changed to cycles=140000 or a number around that range.
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Matt Crabtree
matt.crabtree@positivemomentum.com
He gets it. Every time. His enthusiasm is infectious, his content and case studies are both credible and authentic. He cares as much about what happens afterwards as he does during the assignment. A partner, not just a keynote speaker for hire.
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Matt Crabtree is the founder and principal partner of Positive Momentum.
Matt’s an unusual combination of farmer turned corporate guy. After spending the first 20 years of his life in the world of agriculture he significantly changed direction and started a corporate career that accelerated quickly, achieving his first executive board position running the sales function of a $500m telecoms company at just 28 and then went on to become one of the youngest senior executives at Barclays Bank at only 31.
Matt’s a down to earth, common sense bloke and the extent to which he enjoyed any corporate success at all he puts down entirely to his no nonsense approach – and maybe the odd bit of luck! In 2003 Matt decided it was time to test out this no nonsense way of thinking with more than one company at a time and so he set out as an independent consultant. Believing deeply that running a business is a straight forward endeavour made complicated by idiots, he’s since taken his practical ideas to hundreds of organisations who have seen their top, bottom and many other mysterious ‘lines’ improve as a consequence.
Today he travels the world, often collaborating with other Positive Momentum Partners delivering services to a very wide range of progressive companies that really want to shake up the way they do things. He’s renowned for speaking at conferences on leadership, change and transformative growth, providing one-to-one coaching, running selective training workshops and an increasing portfolio of advisory work.
As well as working with clients, Matt also leads the Positive Momentum partner programme helping other No Nonsense believers around the world to develop their own consulting businesses using the Positive Momentum Operating System – what he calls “being independent but not on your own”.
A committed family man, Matt walks the work/life balance talk by taking all school holidays off with his wife and two young daughters who by the end of each holiday look forward to him going back to work!
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Robinson's Original Annual Directory for 1817: Being an Alphabetical List of More Than 22, 000 Merchants, Mechanicks, Traders, &C. of Philadelphia and
by Author, Unknown
Excerpt from Robinson's Original Annual Directory for 1817: Being an Alphabetical List of More Than 22, 000 Merchants, Mechanicks, Traders, &C. Of Philadelphia and Suburbs
The very liberal patrgnage which has been extended the] Editor. Of the philadelphia. Drapcroigr, from his commencement _of the arduous undertaking, while it excit'es' lively gratitude, and prompts to future diligence, incontestiblyflemonstrates the utility of the work.
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How I followed my childhood dreams and wrote a novel
Helen Cullen, author of spellbinding debut The Lost Letters of William Woolf, reveals how she answered the 'nagging voice' and wrote a novel
Instead of dolls houses, skipping ropes or dressing up boxes, books stole my heart when I was a little girl, and nothing made me happier than reading. I was blessed to have parents who supported me in my obsession; my mother shared the classic children’s novels she had loved with me and my endlessly patient father drove me to the library several times a week and browsed the aisles with me finding my next magical adventure. So in retrospect, I now understand that the foundations for my later writing life were definitely laid as a child; it was in those wonderful works of fiction that I learned about story-telling, world building and the power of words to move, inspire and challenge.
As a child, I always dreamed of being a novelist when I grew up; the instinct stayed with me quietly tugging at my thought-strings throughout my adolescence and my twenties, but I found it all but impossible to start. I think I had convinced myself that real writers didn’t have to try, that writing came completely naturally to them and they were compelled to do it unlike me who was really too scared to try. I was always a letter-writer and journal keeper, and lucky to have work that required creative writing of a different sort; broadcasting, journalism, marketing so looking back I always did have some writing outlets. Over time, however, the nagging voice inside grew louder and I knew I had to at least try to write a novel – and one idea in particular had been percolating for quite a while.
I learned that in order to finish the book I would have to carve out time to write even when the circumstances weren’t ideal; in airport departure lounges, in the evenings after long working days, on Sundays when I really wanted to just relax
My partner encouraged me to apply for a six-month creative writing course being run by The Guardian newspaper in conjunction with the University of East Anglia and I was excited but terrified to secure a place. It was essentially a writing workshop with the hugely inspiring novelist Michele Roberts as our mentor rather than taught classes; there were eight students and every week we critiqued the work of four students with very constructive feedback. On my first evening for feedback, I was shaking with trepidation for what my classmates would say – when they were ultimately kind and encouraging I welled up. The very first submission by me was the first chapter of The Lost Letters of William Woolf and today remains largely unchanged – it’s remarkable to me to think that before the day it didn’t exist and may never have if I hadn’t created the opportunity for it to happen by committing to the class. Michele concluded my session by telling me, “what we are trying to tell you, Helen, is that you must keep going.” And so, I did.
I don’t believe in any way that creative writing courses are essential for anyone who would like to write a book. For me personally, however, it was integral to me in persevering to the end of my first draft and in gaining the confidence to keep going. Having a group of fellow writers invested in the work who encouraged me to work through obstacles that may have seemed impossible to overcome otherwise was invaluable – and Michele as our mentor was a source of constant inspiration.
In the end, however, I learned that in order to finish the book I would have to carve out time to write even when the circumstances weren’t ideal; in airport departure lounges, in the evenings after long working days, on Sundays when I really wanted to just relax. I didn’t have the luxury of waiting for moments of inspiration to strike or always finding the perfect place and time to work. I discovered that for me, when I sat in front of the computer, regardless of where I was, or how I felt two minutes before, the opportunity created the inspiration and the story unfolded.
So how I wrote my debut novel in the end was simpler and more difficult than I ever could have imagined; it really just necessitated me to keep going, invest in a little magical thinking when it was hard to have faith, and arm myself with some supporters who believed in me and the book. Every writer’s journey is different, of course. When I speak to writers now of their own experiences I am always amazed by how differently people work, and the different paths to publication. In fact, the only thing they all have in common is that they finished their books! To all aspiring writers out there I say, have faith, keep going and I know you will find what works for you too. Just keep swimming.
The Lost Letters of William Woolf
Helen Cullen
'My Great Love...'
William Woolf is a letter detective at the Dead Letters Depot, where he spends his days reuniting lost mail with its intended recipient.
But when he discovers a series of letters addressed simply to 'My Great Love' everything changes.
Written by a woman to a soulmate she hasn't yet met, her heartfelt words stir William in ways he has long forgotten.
Could they be destined for him? And what would that mean for his own troubled marriage?
William must follow the clues in the letters to solve his most important mystery yet: his own heart.
'I found myself totally transported into William's poignant and beguiling world of lost opportunities and love' A. J. Pearce, bestselling author of Dear Mrs Bird
'Delightful' Sunday Times
'An enchanting contribution to the popular new trend of 'up lit', such as Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine' Irish Times
'If you liked Harold Fry and Me Before You, you will love Cullen's nostalgic debut. This life-affirming book will draw you in and keep you there' Independent
'5***** perfect holiday reading' - Bookworm Amazon Reviewer
SHORTLISTED FOR NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS
Helen Cullen is an Irish writer living in London. She is the author of The Lost Letters of William Woolf which has been optioned for television. She was shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. To learn more, please visit www.helencullen.ie
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Beyond Recall
Robert Goddard
Estranged from his family for most of his adult life, Chris Napier is persuaded to return home for his niece's wedding. At the reception, he is shocked to recognise a dishevelled intruder as his childhood friend Nicky Lanyon, whose presence is a chilling reminder of a murder and subsequent trial that Chris has tried hard to forget.
When Nicky hangs himself, Chris is compelled to revisit the tragic events of 34 years ago, and the apparent justice that was served. But as present day mysteries begin to shadow his footsteps into the past, his search for the truth soon becomes a desperate struggle for his own survival.
"Satisfyingly complex... finishes in a rollercoaster of twists"
"Absorbing and intriguing"
"One of Britain's finest thriller writers"
"Goddard is clever and riveting"
"The suspense mounts to a fine crescendo. A superior example of Goddard's velvet-cloaked menace"
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Robert Goddard's first novel, Past Caring, was an instant bestseller. Since then, his books have captivated readers worldwide with their edge-of-the-seat pace and their labyrinthine plotting. He has won awards in the UK, the US and acrossEurope and his books have been translated into over thirty languages. In 2019, he won the Crime Writers’ Association’s highest accolade, the Diamond Dagger, for a lifetime achievement in Crime Writing.
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ProfiBusiness.world - International Business Platform » News » Volkswagen starts pre-production in first plant purely focused on e-mobility in China
Volkswagen starts pre-production in first plant purely focused on e-mobility in China
The new plant of the SAIC VOLKSWAGEN joint venture has been completed. It is purely built for the production of all electric vehicles on Volkswagen’s Modular Electric Drive Matrix (MEB). Celebrating the start of pre-production, a first China-specific all--electric Volkswagen ID. model rolled off the production line.
The plant sets the next milestone in Volkswagen’s global electrification strategy. The start of series production of all-electric cars based on the MEB platform in Anting is scheduled for October 2020.
“The Volkswagen Group projects a total volume of 22 million all-electric cars worldwide by 2028, with more than 50 percent of that from China. The country plays a crucial part in our electrification strategy, which will pave the way to Volkswagen’s goal of becoming net carbon-neutral by 2050”, said Dr. Herbert Diess, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG. “Together with the start of MEB production, we will launch the Volkswagen ID. family in China as well, a brand-new generation of fully electric and connected vehicles.”
Dr. Stephan Wöllenstein, CEO of Volkswagen Group China, added: “It took only 12 months to see the completion of this innovative factory. Congratulations to our colleagues in Anting, who will further prepare to produce the first China-model of the Volkswagen ID. family here in Shanghai. We will speed up our NEV offensive even more, as we expect further e-mobility market growth.”
With an annual capacity of 300,000 vehicles
Pre-production begins just a few days after the first global ID. manufacturing started in Zwickau, Germany. Full series production in the new Anting factory is planned to commence in October 2020, with an annual capacity of 300,000 vehicles. The MEB production plays a key role in Volkswagen Group China’s e-mobility strategy, as it strives to transform into a provider of sustainable mobility. The Anting plant is scheduled to start ID. model production at the same time with a plant by FAW-Volkswagen in Foshan, resulting in a combined capacity of 600,000 units per year.
The first phase of pre-production in Anting starts now with a China-specific ID. model of the Volkswagen Brand. In the future, the plant will be manufacturing MEB platform-based BEV models for various Volkswagen Group brands. In total, it is planned to increase the local production in China up to 15 MEB models from different brands by 2025.
Fully intelligent and digitized, the Anting plant sets a new benchmark for green and smart factories for Volkswagen Group China and the whole Chinese auto industry. The area utilization is highly increased, meaning less land and built-up space is needed compared to a standard plant. In terms of flexibility, the new MEB factory sets a benchmark in China by allowing for six different car projects running simultaneously.
As a unique platform specifically designed for the mass production of electric vehicles, MEB allows for vehicles with a longer wheelbase and a more spacious interior. Moreover, models produced on the MEB platform will see advanced digital and intelligent daily life integration, in terms of the latest infotainment systems and connectivity functionalities.
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Featured album: HP Lovecraft - LIVE MAY 11, 1968
Thread: Featured album: HP Lovecraft - LIVE MAY 11, 1968
That's Mr. to you, Sir!!
in a cosmic jazzy-groove around Brussels
http://www.progarchives.com/progress...41232012_r.jpg
Let's move on down to Frisco (via Chicago, since they were from there orignally)
HP Lovecraft - Live May 11, 1968
hp.jpg
Tracks Listing
1. Wayfaring Stranger (10:23)
2. The Drifter (8:24)
3. It's About Time (4:55)
4. The White Ship (7:02)
5. At the Mountains of Madness (5:34)
6. The Bag I'm In (3:35)
7. I've Been Wrong Before (2:54)
10. Country Boy & Bleeker Street (3:46)
- George Edwards / rhythm guitar, lead guitar, bass, lead vocals
- David Michaels / keyboards, clarinet, recorder, lead vocals
- Jerry McGeorge / bass, vocals
- Tony Cavallari / lead guitar, vocals
- Michael Tegza / drums, vocals
here is what youyrs truly had to say about it on PA
Rarely has a posthumous album been so justified. In 91, Edsel records released this concert of almost forgotten HP Lovecraft, catching them live at their peak, just prior to recording their second album. Recorded in one night at the Fillmore West (the Carousel Ballroom - with support from Loading Zone and Crome Syrcus) on the date mentioned (it was the last of a series of three nights) in their San Fran home base - they had relocated there from Chicago - the tapes dormed, forgotten, for over twenty years, before specialist label Edsel records released them , and they can be warmly thanked for it, since my interest for HP Lovecraft dates from this release.
The recordings are of superb quality (especially given the means available back then) and the band is in pristine form, the show being flawless and the choice of material simply outstanding and suffering no discussion. Most of the tracks are pulled from their first albums, but there are two (At The mountain Of Madness is a superb homage to the writer and It's About Time with its chilling with atmospheres and drama) coming from the second album to be recorded in the studio two months later. I personally do not think any overdubs were added, and the playing is absolutely perfect, showing how experienced they were.
Some of the tracks are extended from the original studio version, most notably Wayfairing Stranger (almost quadrupled time) and The Drifter (doubled time), but there is not one single second wasted or over-indulging in solos, just tight playing even when improvising. Then comes the two "new tracks" but separated by a superb rendition of the debut album's centrepiece, The White Ship with its stupendous bolero pace. The second part of the record is made of shorter covers of Folk giant Fred Neil and another from Randy Newman, all three fairly close to the debut album version.
This live album is really worthy of sitting next to their two studio album and the booklet as a full story of the group including great photos of their Sausalito home - a san Fran hippy community right next to the bay, across the Golden Gate.
review link: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=63693
Last edited by Trane; 5 Days Ago at 09:59 AM.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Scrotum Scissor
On first hearing this album many years back, I was quite surprised at their ability to reproduce some of those rather advanced arrangements from their second album, missing the string-quartet and all. It was known from early on how a couple of them were semi-trained musicians and consequently well aware of 'formalities' in music (composition, harmonics et al.), yet there are some truly fiery passages at play here.
Great band.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
TheH
Oh I keep forgetting to buy this one. I totally love this Version of "White Ship".
Proglodite
This was my first introduction to the band, and it was all downhill from there Love this album, but the studio stuff pales in comparison. --Peter
Originally Posted by Proglodite
Can only partially agree with that statement.
Indeed their first two albums have many good moments, but also some best-forgotten whiles. However, one can make a killer CD-r compilation out of those two albums' best tracks.
The two albums they relmeased as Lovecreft (without the "HP" before it) are really not up to par.
^ The only overtly weak track on their second album was "Blue Jack of Diamonds". The rest of that release - the first one ever recorded with all musicians and the studio crew (not the session musicians) on an acid trip - is a remarkable achievement of dedication and innovation. Songs like "Mobius Trip", "Electrallentando" and "Spin, Spin, Spin" feature among the most celestial and convincing drug-tunes of the era.
The debut is more patchy, however. Their rendition of "(Let's) Get Together" is arguably the poorest version of that tune I came across.
I hadn't heard this. I checked out the version of 'The White Ship' and it's very good- very impressive work on the clavinet (?).
I have that twofer with the first two albums. It has that one great track but I find the debut a little patchy, not keen on any of the covers on it. The second is the better album overall; it's certainly more consistent.
spacefreak
Lowest Buddha
Their second LP is one of the best psychedelic albums of the US scene.
Macht das ohr auf!
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Progga
A terrific "live" LP considering how many of our fave groups back then were often less-than-stellar "live" compared to their studio efforts.
"The White Ship" is textbook proto-Prog, one foot squarely in psych, the other striding toward something....else.
Originally Posted by Trane
their first two albums have many good moments, but also some best-forgotten whiles [sic].
Par for the course, given that eclecticism fell within psych's remit; indeed, its sine qua non.
Great stuff....
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
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The Czar
I like this live album more than the studio versions. A lot of energy on this album that isn't present in the studio versions
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Should MSPS Become An MSSP
Should MSPs become an MSSP?
Should MSPs add an extra ‘S’ and become an MSSP?
Most MSPs these days offer some form of security, such as using their core RMM to provide anti-malware/anti-virus, manage patches, and mitigate attacks. Despite these critical security offerings, not all MSPs have or specifically promote specific security services and have a dedicated security practice.
However, with cyber threats ever on the rise, the move by MSPs to Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) is a strong one. Before we explain why, let’s get our language straight, as there is a variety of definitions of MSSP floating around.
What is an MSSP?
Large enterprises often contract with MSSPs, and often these are the mega-players who initiated the concept, including IBM, AT&T, Verizon, BT and CenturyLink. In fact, many define MSSPs as these large (and often expensive) vendors that can offer a deep and broad swath of services – soup to nuts protection and security monitoring for the most demanding of enterprises.
Nowadays, there are new MSSPs that are not huge service providers, but smaller solutions providers building their own style of deep security practices.
Here are how MSP Alert sees it:
“An MSP offers a range of services — typically managing on-premises and cloud services for customers. Somewhere within that service catalog, the MSP typically offers some security services — perhaps endpoint, network and/or cloud security.
An MSSP goes the extra yard. They go all in on security. In the MSP’s case, it may involve building out a far more comprehensive security practice. It may involve building out a dedicated security practice or spinning off a business.”
Meanwhile, Gartner says that managed security services (MSSs) are "the remote monitoring of security events and security-related data sources, or the management of IT security technology along with security event monitoring, delivered via shared services from remote security operations centers (SOCs), not through personnel on-site nor remote services delivered on a one-one basis to a single customer."
Why do SMBs Need an MSSP?
Not all SMBs need the level of service from the IBMs and BTs, and few can afford them. Nevertheless, for SMBs, security has gotten too complex for their already stressed IT staffs to fully manage. They are at great risk as the threats from cybercriminals get worse every year, and the damage that they do is ever deeper.
Smart SMBs already have an MSP to provide essential security. Here is where you can upsell fuller richer sets of services as an MSSP. Moreover, once you become an MSSP; you can go after new clients that need both MSP and MSSP offerings.
The Economics of Managed Security Services
Managed Security Services are sold at a premium, so the fundamental economics are sound from the beginning. Adding to that is the fact that demand is growing. Here are some data points:
A recent CRN report noted that “Gartner said it now predicts the worldwide information security market will reach $86.4 billion by the end of 2017, up 7 percent year-over-year. That growth will continue in 2018, the report said, with the market hitting $93 billion. Gartner said there is a particular opportunity around security services, saying that area is the fastest growing segment of the security market,” CRN wrote. “The research firm said those services include IT outsourcing, consulting, and implementation services. Gartner also said there is a growing opportunity around managed security services as companies look to develop a more mature security program and look to outsource more of those capabilities. Gartner said 40 percent of all managed security services contracts will be bundled with other security services and IT outsourcing projects by 2020.”
CRN reached out to a solution provider to get their take, talking to Ted Clouser, executive vice president of Little Rock, Ark.-based PC Assistance. “He is "absolutely" seeing more opportunity around managed security services than ever before. He said his company fully embraced the MSSP model about a year and a half ago and it is "beginning to really take off,” CRN reported.
See how Pulseway can help you solve IT issues long before they have impact on your business.
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In 2000 when the Public Use Planning Program was still part of RARE Center for Tropical Conservation, PUP held its first training for public use coordinators from four Mesoamerican World Heritage Sites. The training lasted a grueling 40 days that left everyone exhausted.
The training team went on to write a critical self-reflective evaluation about its experience, recommending significant changes and truly leveraging the suffering that its participants endured. Nonetheless, the Tikal contingent went on to facilitate a strong public use management component to the site's management plan and the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve used its learnings to a lesser degree in Honduras.
Similarly when PUP began in 1998 in response to an apparent pandemic of partially and completely unimplemented protected area management plans across Latin America, it started with a research mandate to discover why plans so often end unimplemented, to look deeper than a simple lack of resources which managers and planners so often blame when their plans fail. This research effort, although still ongoing, culminated in a book on this topic which now serves as the theoretical basis for the PUP Consortium.
Historical Learning Highlights
2020. University of Costa Rica student does interpretation postgraduate project to develop interpretation training materials in Costa Rica.
2019. Wake Forest College student uses holistic/Integral lens to study the work context of a private reserve in Costa Rica for its capacity to maintain and develop an interpretation training program.
2018. PUP board conducts first self-assessment.
2016. “The Future Has Other Plans: Planning Holistically to Conserve Natural and Cultural Heritage.” Jon Kohl & Steve McCool, Fulcrum Publishing (2016).
2015 PUP Evora. “World Heritage City Évora, Portugal Transcends Multi-stakeholder Conflict through New Participatory Public Use Planning Process.” (2015-2016). Mátria Digital.
2014 Master's Thesis. Vietnamese student at Meiji University in Tokyo studies “Community participation in tourism planning: Case study of Public Use Planning in Hoi An Ancient City, Vietnam”
2011. “Managing the Tourism Flood in Central Vietnam.” (February 2011). UNESCO’s World Heritage.
2008. PUP participated in the “Meeting of the Minds: Limits of Acceptable Change and Public Use Planning,” seminar sponsored by the Center for Protected Area Management and Training, Colorado State University.
2006. PUP collaborated with The Nature Conservancy and CATIE university to study implementation barriers for Costa Rican National Park management plans. Results published (2007) as a TNC technical paper, “Barreras para la Implementación de los Planes de Manejo de las Áreas Silvestres Protegidas de Costa Rica” by Gabriel Robles, Nelly Vásquez, Róger Morales, Jon Kohl and Bernal Herrera.
“Mental Models that Block Strategic Plan Implementation.” (May 2006). Reflections, Society for Organizational Learning.
“Converting Unseen and Unexpected Barriers to Park Plan Implementation into Manageable and Expected Challenges.” (April 2006). IUCN’s Parks.
2002. Jon Kohl served as external academic advisor to Duke University Master’s student, Austin Lane, in her thesis research on plan implementation barriers, “Obstacles to Implementing Strategic Plans: A Study of Honduran Protected Areas (2003).”
“Park Planning for Life.” (March/April 2002). Legacy, magazine of the National Interpretation Association.
After the first PUP training in Antigua, Guatemala that lasted a grueling 40 days, PUP coordinators Jon Kohl and Susan Wofsy wrote a scathing self-evaluation applauded by RARE’s leaders. PUP used the report to completely redesign the training. See above.
2001. RARE hired two external evaluators to evaluate PUP’s materials and approach: Drs. Stephen McCool of the University of Montana (global expert in wildlands planning and management) and Sam Ham of the University of Idaho (guru of environmental interpretation and its application to protected areas). Their comments confirmed and improved PUP. Both are now PUP advisors.
See also PUP author publications.
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New Chief Exec Tapped at Quiznos
Industry News October 5, 2010
Quiznos announced the appointment of Greg MacDonald as CEO of Quiznos worldwide. MacDonald succeeds former CEO and Quiznos founder, Rick Schaden, who will remain involved with the company as chairman of the board as he pursues new entrepreneurial and philanthropic endeavors.
MacDonald brings more than 12 years of experience at Quiznos to the role of CEO, including his most recent position as the company’s president. MacDonald began his career with Quiznos in 1998, holding senior positions in both development and marketing before being named president of Quiznos Canada in 2005 and president of Quiznos worldwide in 2009.
“Greg brings unparalleled brand and industry knowledge to this role as well as a targeted focus on company success through exemplary operations,” Schaden says. “Greg has the support of Quiznos’ board, shareholders, and franchise owners. We are confident in his ability to execute a sound strategy for even greater company success.”
As president of Quiznos, MacDonald’s primary objective has been to elevate the guest experience through stellar restaurant-level operations. Under MacDonald’s leadership, since the beginning of 2010, Quiznos has experienced an uptrend in average unit volumes and customer experience measurements.
MacDonald was the driving force behind The New Quiznos (TNQ), a comprehensive guest experience remodel and in-store refresh. The company recertified all managers and more than 80 percent of stores have incorporated TNQ into their locations, setting a new standard for store operations.
Further, MacDonald realigned the company’s development strategy for a stronger focus on exceptional operators with proven experience. He led the charge to reintroduce a company store division to the chain, recruiting general managers with prior industry experience to operate the company’s corporate-owned locations, 70 of which have opened within the last six months.
“Quiznos is a great brand with excellent operators and a loyal customer following, and I am pleased to continue in the Quiznos tradition of outstanding ‘only-at-Quiznos’ taste, quality, and service,” MacDonald says. “Our senior management team is freshly dedicated to driving even greater company success through operations, an elevated guest experience, and innovative new products. In the coming weeks, we look forward to sharing 2011 plans to benefit Quiznos moving forward.”
Quiznos
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30c Winged Globe
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5c Skymaster Airmail 1946-48
First Day of Rate from Branff Airways for 5c large format Skymaster (C32)
In 1946 and 1947 the 5c DC-4 Skymaster airmail stamps were issued to meet the newly reduced rate of 5c per oz. This rate was in effect from October 1, 1946 to December 31, 1948. This was the last time a domestic airmail rate of 5c was in effect for lettermail. The significance of this 5c per oz rate was the extension of the rate to U.S. Territories and Possessions. Mail from the farthest flung places like Guam to the U.S. was 5c per oz. The previous rate from Guam was 35c per 1/2 oz (70c per oz.), or a savings of 70c per oz. This step was taken to increase the volume of mail in the airmail system. Guess what, it did. The domestic rate also applied between territories and possessions. The rate was only in effect until January 1, 1949 when it increased to 6c per oz.
Anyone using APO or FPO to send mail could also use the 5c rate, however, from APO/FPO to international destinations mail was assessed same rate as if mailed from the mainland U.S.. The concessionary rate of 6c per 1/2 oz in effect since 1941 ended September 30, 1946.
On November 1, 1946 "uniform" international airmail rates were introduced. These were 10c to Western Hemisphere, 15c to Europe, and 25c to Rest of the World. Rates were per 1/2 oz to international destinations. Stamps specific to these new rates were not issued until almost one year after the introduction of the rates. This meant that either the 5c Skymaster stamps or the discontinued Transport stamps had to be used to make up the rates.
For collectors these periods are interesting because of the relatively short duration of the rate and also for the interesting usages to various destinations that can be found.
Steve B. Davis
5c Skymaster small format of 1947 (C33) used to make up 15c rate to Europe.
5c Skymaster Coil (C37). First US coil airmail stamp. Solo domestic usages are scarce due to short usage period
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$5 US/yr-newsletter via e-mail.
$10 US/yr- newsletter via snail mail within US. Addresses outside US contact Jeff Shapiro.
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Outside US via PayPal
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Marc Rayman • July 18, 2018
Dawn Journal: Going Out on a High...Or Maybe a Low
Dear Phendawnmenal Readers,
Dawn is going out on a high! Or maybe a low. Rapidly nearing the end of a unique decade-long interplanetary expedition, Dawn is taking phenomenal pictures of dwarf planet Ceres as it swoops closer to the ground than ever before. While the pictures are too new for compelling scientific conclusions to be reached, a clear consensus has already emerged: Wow!!!
NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA
Strange landscapes on Ceres
Dawn observed this strange landscape on June 22 as it streaked only 21 miles (34 kilometers) overhead. (Two photos were stitched together to make this image.) The main bright structure is elevated and has a flat top, similar to a mesa. It is about one mile (1.5 km) in its longest dimension. (We will provide an interesting context for that size in a subsequent Dawn Journal.) The scene is in the southwestern part of Cerealia Facula, the famously bright area at the center of Occator Crater. You can spot this bright feature as an isolated patch in pictures Dawn took from higher altitude, including some here. Note that the image presented here is rotated so sunlight comes from the top to make it easier to interpret the shadowing. You can rotate the picture 180 degrees or see it oriented for the context with the rest of Cerealia Facula in the original released image.
Every 27 hours, the bold adventurer plunges from 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) down to just 22 miles (35 kilometers) above the alien world, accelerating to 1,050 mph (1,690 kph), and then shoots back up to do it all over again. (Try that, bungee jumpers!)
When Dawn dives low, it takes spectacular pictures, and you can see some of them here and more in the image gallery. But that's not all it does. The spacecraft also collects a trove of data on the nuclear radiation emanating from Ceres (which can reveal some of the atomic elements that are present), the gravity field (which can reveal the distribution of mass underground) and the infrared and visible light (which can reveal the minerals on the ground). Dawn has made all these kinds of measurements before, not only during more than three years at Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt, but also during its 2011-2012 studies of Vesta, the second largest. But prior to this month, Dawn had never been this close and so never had such breathtaking sights and never been able to gather such high-resolution information.
We described the nature of this orbit in the three previous Dawn Journals. It is known as extended mission orbit 7 (XMO7) because Dawn's computer program for generating really cool and dramatic names was offline when it was time to come up with the name. Ever resourceful, the team activated the backup software that generates accurate but uninspiring names.
That kind of resourcefulness has served Dawn very well. Despite critical hardware failures that could have been disastrous for the mission, the flight team has accomplished success after success. The difficulty of flying so low -- only three times your altitude when you travel in a commercial jet -- and actually collecting useful data there seemed unachievable as recently as late last year. And now Dawn is doing it regularly.
North wall of Occator Crater
Dawn had this exquisitely close-up view of a section of the north wall of Occator Crater from an altitude of only 21 miles (33 kilometers) on June 16. This area is a little east of where the crater to the north intersects Occator Crater, near the 1:00 position. (See this view, for example.) Notice the many rocks that slid part of the way down the wall, leaving a trail behind, and then were stopped by friction. The view here is about two miles (three kilometers) across. Full image and caption.
Before XMO7, the spacecraft's lowest orbit around Ceres was 240 miles (385 kilometers), about the same height as the International Space Station is above Earth. Dawn spent eight months in 2015-2016 at that altitude, providing an exquisite view of the dwarf planet. It subsequently flew higher to pursue other scientific objectives.
Now Dawn is observing Ceres from as low as about 22 miles (35 kilometers). That tremendous reduction in altitude, a factor of 11, is the largest of the entire mission. At no other time at Vesta or Ceres did Dawn move in that much closer from its previous best vantage point. For those of you who enjoy the numbers, the table here has the distances for each of Dawn's observations of Ceres before the comprehensive mapping began, and this table shows the altitudes of the four mapping orbits of the prime mission, the last being the lowest. In those tables, we compared Dawn's view of Ceres to a view of a soccer ball. The low point of XMO7 would be like looking at a soccer ball from only one-third of an inch (eight millimeters) away. This is truly in-your-face exploration.
And the jump in resolution is amazing. With the fantastic new details, it seems we are seeing a whole new Ceres. A picture is worth a thousand words, but these pictures also merit a few exclamation points!!!
Fractures in Occator
Dawn was 22 miles (36 kilometers) high on June 17 when it photographed this network of fractures in the southeastern floor of Occator Crater. The scene is about 2.1 miles (3.5 kilometers) across. Full image and caption.
Dawn completed ion thrusting to XMO7 on June 6 and began its new observations of Ceres on schedule on June 9. Everywhere the spacecraft looked, it had fascinating new views. But the team had one special site in mind, and you might too. (Maybe it's even the same site.)
One of the bonus objectives was to try to get photos of Cerealia Facula, the mesmerizingly bright center of Occator Crater. We have explained why targeting a specific location is so hard. One of the attractive features of XMO7 was that it allowed two specially targeted attempts, thus increasing the chances that at least one would work. The team worked very hard to devise methods to take full advantage of that, while always quite well aware that it might not work.
Before we proceed, let's recall some terminology and introduce a new term. The high point in Dawn's orbit, 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers), is known as apodemeter, analogous to the more common term apogee, which applies for orbits around Earth. (Demeter is the Greek counterpart of the Roman goddess Ceres.) The low point, 22 miles (35 kilometers), is peridemeter. Each 27.2-hour orbital revolution has one apodemeter and one peridemeter.
In April we discussed that Dawn travels much faster near peridemeter than near apodemeter, just as a swing moves faster at its low point than at its high point. As a fun fact, which does not bear on any of the following discussion, Dawn spends less than two hours over the dayside of Ceres (including peridemeter) and more than 25 hours over the nightside (including apodemeter). That may be surprising, but if you contemplate the illustrations of the elliptical XMO7 below and in March and think about the constantly changing velocity, it may make sense. (Or you may decide that it doesn't matter, accept it and move on.)
NASA / JPL-Caltech
Dawn XMO7 orbit
The solid ellipse is Dawn's orbit around Ceres, XMO7, ranging from 22 miles (35 kilometers) to 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers). The spacecraft orbits counterclockwise from this perspective, going around once every 27. As shown in March, the orbit itself gradually rotates, so the lowest altitude shifts south. Dawn maneuvered to XMO7 early in June. The dashed circle shows the previous lowest altitude, LAMO/XMO1.
Even as they were excited by the fabulous new pictures and other data, the flight team began the carefully planned campaign to photograph Cerealia Facula when Dawn would be at peridemeter late in the day on June 22 and shortly after midnight on June 24. Navigators measured the orbital parameters very accurately and monitored how they changed. Each time the craft fires its small jets to control its orientation in the zero-gravity of spaceflight (necessary because of the failed reaction wheels), it nudges itself in orbit. The team compared the resulting distortion of the orbital motion with their predictions of this complicating effect in order to improve subsequent predictions.
Mission planners had windows in the schedule for using the ion propulsion system to adjust the orbit. They instructed Dawn to fire its ion engine for 2 hours and 7 minutes on June 20 as the ship sailed upward. Fifteen hours later, on June 21, after it had crested in its orbit and was descending, it performed a second burn for 1 hour and 11 minutes.
The purpose of this pair of maneuvers was to bring Dawn's flight path at peridemeter right over Cerealia Facula. But the experienced explorers in mission control recognized that even with all their careful planning and Dawn's faithful execution of its assignments, there was a good chance the probe would not fly directly above that unique site as it sped northward. Therefore, they had also worked out plans to quickly determine how far east or west it would be at peridemeter and radio a (nearly) last minute adjustment in the angle it would point its sensors.
After the second segment of ion maneuvering, Dawn's orbit took it down to peridemeter again on June 21 for another intensive period of close-up observations. Even before it had time to finish radioing those findings to Earth the next day, the team began preparing for the next dive down. On June 22, they made their final calculations of the orbital path and predicted that Dawn would fly a little west of Cerealia Facula that night and a little east of it the next time around. That afternoon, they transmitted instructions to Dawn to aim its camera and spectrometers just a little to the right the first time and just a little to the left the second time. (Sophisticated and capable though Dawn is, the instructions controllers sent were a little more specific and quantitative than the descriptions here.)
The team would have considered their extensive efforts successful if the spacecraft had photographed part of Cerealia Facula once. (Dawn flies so close to the ground that it would be impossible to photograph all of Cerealia Facula on any one orbit; its camera's view is simply not wide enough.) As it turned out, Dawn managed to get pictures of Cerealia Facula on three consecutive orbits, each time seeing different parts, yielding far better coverage of this exotic landscape than we had even hoped for.
Flying to this incredibly low orbit, getting such a wealth of data and even managing to photograph a good portion of Cerealia Facula truly tested the very limits of the mission's capabilities. Dawn has surpassed all expectations, accomplishing feats not even considered when it was designed.
Vinalia Faculae closeup
Dawn had this view on June 13 when its orbit took it 24 miles (39 kilometers) over Vinalia Faculae, the diffuse bright salt deposits east of Cerealia Facula in Occator Crater. The exposure was optimized to show details of the bright material (and chosen to minimize smear from the spacecraft's high speed so close to the ground), revealing a complex distribution. The rugged dark terrain appears similar to some terrestrial lava flows, but on cold Ceres, what flowed was mostly a muddy mixture of ice and rock. The picture is 2.3 miles (3.7 kilometers) wide. Full image and caption.
In order to prepare for the long shot of attempting to capture Cerealia Facula, Dawn rotated to point its main antenna to Earth relatively often, sometimes after each peridemeter or after two or three. That allowed the flight team to work more closely with the spacecraft. Then it would turn again to bring its sensors to bear on Ceres shortly before soaring through the next peridemeter. But all that turning costs Dawn hydrazine, the resource that limits its operational life to only another few months. (We outlined this situation last month and will delve into it more fully next month.) Now Dawn will observe Ceres on five consecutive orbits, filling its memory with data, and then spend almost two full days, including one peridemeter, transmitting that valuable information back to Earth. While its antenna is trained on Earth, the spacecraft cannot simultaneously direct its sensors at Ceres. That actually yields especially good gravity measurements, which use the Doppler shift of the radio signal, because the signal is much stronger with the main antenna than with one of the auxiliary antennas. Pictures and spectra, however, cannot be acquired on that one peridemeter in every six during which Dawn sends its results to Earth. The flight team determined that the benefit of turning less often and thus reducing hydrazine consumption yields the best scientific return. (This savings was already accounted for when we described the end of the mission as likely being between August and October.)
We saw in March that the latitude at which Dawn reaches peridemeter shifts south with every revolution. That is, the low point of each orbit is about 2° south of the one before. As a result, each time the spacecraft flies over Occator Crater now, it is higher than the previous time. Occator is at 20°N. Now the peridemeter is close to the equator, and soon Dawn's best views of Ceres will be in the region of Urvara Crater.
Terrain north of Occator Crater
Dawn observed this landscape on June 10 from an altitude of 24 miles (38 kilometers). Note all the boulders in the crater on the lower left. The crater's average diameter is about 0.9 miles (1.4 kilometers). This scene is around 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of Occator Crater. We described above that Dawn's peridemeter gradually moves south. This early in XMO7, the low altitude occurred well north of Occator Crater, because the team had designed the orbit so the best Occator observations would be later in June. Full image and caption.
Firing ion engine #2 on June 21 accomplished more than the orbital adjustment that allowed the ship to spot Cerealia Facula at three consecutive peridemeters. It also completed the planned use of the ion propulsion system for the entire mission.
Dawn's ion engines have enabled this interplanetary spaceship to accomplish a journey unique in humankind's exploration of the solar system. After departing Earth with the help of a conventional rocket, Dawn used those engines to fly past Mars in 2009, to travel to Vesta and enter orbit in 2011, to maneuver extensively in orbit to optimize its observations there, to break out of orbit in 2012, to travel to Ceres and slip into orbit in 2015, and to perform even more maneuvering there than at Vesta. No other spacecraft has ever orbited two extraterrestrial destinations, and Dawn's mission to do so would have been impossible without ion propulsion.
We summarize the mission's ion thrusting on every Dawnniversary of launch, but since no further use is planned, we can give some final numbers here. Dawn thrust for a total of 2,141 days (5.9 years), or 55 percent of the time it has been in space (and 0.000000042 percent of the time since the Big Bang). The thrusting has achieved the equivalent of accelerating the probe by 25,700 mph (41,400 kilometers per hour). As we have often explained (see here for one of the more extensive discussions), because of the principles of motion for orbital flight, whether around the Sun or any other gravitating body, Dawn is not actually traveling this much faster than when it launched. But the effective change in speed remains a useful measure of the effect of any spacecraft's propulsive work. Dawn has far exceeded the velocity change achieved by any other spacecraft under its own power. (For a comparison with probes that enter orbit around Mars, refer to this earlier Dawn Journal.)
The engines have done their job admirably, and now we have no further use for them. As a reminder, they are not needed for Dawn to stay in orbit around Ceres, just as the Moon doesn't need propulsion to stay in orbit around Earth and Earth doesn't need propulsion to say in orbit around the Sun. Next month we will discuss what will happen to Dawn's orbit after the mission ends.
Field of boulders
Dawn took this picture on June 9, the first time it took high resolution photos from its new orbit, XMO7. The spacecraft was 30 miles (48 kilometers) over this field of boulders inside Occator Crater's eastern rim. This scene is 2.9 miles (4.6 kilometers) wide. Full image and caption.
When the ion engine was programmed to stop thrusting on June 21, some Dawn team members gathered in mission control to mark the occasion. Dawn was busy and was not communicating with Earth at the time. Even if it had been, a radio signal confirming the end of thrust would have taken almost 25 minutes to reach our planet. But the team decided to neglect the limitation of the speed of light and mark the moment (1:15:03 pm PDT) that the blue glow on the distant ship's engine would extinguish for the last time. And at that same moment, the blue lights in mission control were turned off for the last time as well.
It's natural to feel some sadness or loss now that the engines will not fire again. After all, ion propulsion is cool, especially for those of us who first heard of it in science fiction. It is even cooler for those who appreciate its tremendous capability and how valuable that is for deep-space missions. We can feel wistful, of course, but the last use of the ion engines was a direct result of their great success. After a truly stupendous interplanetary mission, we have Dawn right where we want it: in an orbit optimized for getting the last, best data at the endlessly fascinating dwarf planet it has unveiled. We can be grateful the ion engines allowed Dawn to explore two of the last uncharted worlds in the inner solar system and that they captivated our imagination as the distant spacecraft traveled through the solar system on a blue-green beam of xenon ions. Not too long ago, ion propulsion was mostly in the domain of science fiction. NASA's Deep Space 1 put it firmly into the realm of science fact. Building on DS1, Dawn has rocketed far beyond, accomplishing a space trek that would have been impossible without ion propulsion. Its mission was to boldly go where -- well, you know. And it has! Dawn's engines will never emit their cool blue glow again, but their legacy will not fade.
Dawn is 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Ceres (and headed for peridemeter). It is also 3.06 AU (284 million miles, or 457 million kilometers) from Earth, or 1,125 times as far as the Moon and 3.01 times as far as the Sun today. Radio signals, traveling at the universal limit of the speed of light, take 51 minutes to make the round trip.
Dr. Marc Rayman
7:00 pm PDT June 30, 2018
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Bob Ware: 2018/07/18 01:43 CDT
Drift into serendawnity with great joy for the intrepid ladies shared explorations of discovery brought to light by her team of Dawntronauts skillful works of love! These 'Captains Logs' you have written are a great piece of historical work documenting the flight with humor, education and awe! I know you and the team made Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott very happy! Thank you so much for caring so much to do this great effort Dr. Rayman.
Marc Rayman: 2018/07/18 08:43 CDT
Thank you for your interest and for your very kind comments, Bob!
Justin Bartel: 2018/07/19 12:42 CDT
Dr. Rayman - Is Dawn's final trajectory destined for the Horizons database in the near future? I'm eager to use it to visualize the final stages of the mission in my planetarium.
squirreltape: 2018/07/20 09:00 CDT
Wow... Dawn has been such an amazing mission to follow especially with your monthly journals Dr Rayman, thankyou for sharing your time, wit and images over these last few years; you deserve a medal for your public-outreach alone! (As an aside to the page editor... in the text description for the rotated first image featuring that glorious light-toned mesa it states "Note that the image presented here is rotated so sunlight comes from the top to make it easier to interpret the shadowing..." yet the image looks to have the sunlight coming from the bottom, around 5 o'clock with all the shadows pointing off up to the 11 o'clock direction. Has it been rotated twice?)
I apologize for my delayed responses. Justin: If you're interested in Dawn's heliocentric trajectory, you can always simply use the Horizons Ceres orbit. However, for the latest and most accurate trajectory, the best resource is the NAIF website. I should caution you that if you haven't used NAIF before, it may take some time to learn to navigate it, but that is where the official trajectory data are. My navigation team members and I just learned today that the Horizons team updates the Dawn trajectory every month or two with the data we put in NAIF. squirreltape: I appreciate your very nice comment. Thank you. As a lifelong space enthusiast, I have always hungered for information on missions, and my appetite was never satisfied. (The Planetary Society's Mat Kaplan described me as the "ultimate space nerd" in his informal video tour of my house and my space collection -- look in YouTube for "At Home in Space.") I am glad others now can benefit from my being able to provide some of that. It isn't easy to find the time, but comments like yours make it feel very worthwhile. (Also, you are correct that the image was rotated from what I intended. The fine folks responsible for the website will fix it.)
I found today that Horizons has just been updated - I'm not sure if you learning about their habits affected the timing or not as it's also almost two months to the day since their last update. As an avid reader of your posts, I knew the lower XMO7 orbits were in the works even earlier, so I was surprised the Horizons data from late May didn't match my expectations. I haven't used NAIF much, but I know the original SPICE kernels live there. The Horizons output files come in a format I was trained to use years ago, and until recently they were the the only files I could process and feed into my presentation software too.
morganism: 2018/07/27 07:03 CDT
Now that i look at this image again, the double image of the mesa, it appears that the edge of the escarpment actually creates a "shadow" of the topography of the raised edge in the emplacement of the salts down on the lowlands. There is a "horsehead" nebula type shadow from the large edge of mesa, and looks like the more northern cliff also has a matching "shadow" Looking more like an aerial distribution than a extruded one then....
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Bottled Water Without The Waste? Only If It's Convenient
Mike DeVito
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Bottled water is one of those debates that just keeps getting recycled. It's a healthy alternative to bottled sodas and juices, so it was initially welcomed to vending machines and took off as America became more health-concious. But then came the environmental impacts - waste from discarded bottles, questions about the purity of the sources vs. tap water. Then the bans on bottled water, then the campaign against the bans - there's an awful lot of argument over just wanting something to drink.
The fact is, there's a lot of disagreement and both sides of the debate have made some questionable claims. If we look at our own habits, though, we'll find some truth - unless you're reusing that bottle you just bought, you've created some sort of waste. You're part of a chain now, a long chain that represents the life of plastic bottle. Of course you'll recycle it - you're browsing a green tech website right now, so that's a fair assumption to make - but if you look in any trashcan you're going to see that not everyone is so dedicated to preventing waste. It seems simple enough to recycle, it really does, but the problem is that you're coming up against the single biggest factor other than cost in consumer behavior: convenience.
Convenience drives markets in a big way. That's why, despite the backlash, bottled water sales are on the rise again. As bad as the waste problem is getting, no one can deny how convenient bottled water is. You grab it, you drink it, you get rid of the bottle - doesn't get more convenient than that. Compare that to the ultimate sustainable alternative, your own reusable bottle - you have to shell out over $10 for a good one, you have to wash it (or at least you should), and you have to remember to take it with you. Leave it at home and you go thirsty or break down and buy a disposable bottle.
So in the face of convenience, how do we move away from the waste? There's a couple of solutions out there but here in DC, on the GW campus, Planet Forward noticed one company, True2O, giving it a try. Their system is simple - you buy one of their heavy-duty plastic reusable bottles and use it for as long as you like, then when you're ready for a new one you return it to a True2O location for your 50 cent deposit back. Check out is done via an RFID tag linked to your account, which then feeds into a Facebook app that tracks your usage. The returned bottles go back to their processing plant to be cleaned and reused - according to founder Jim Margolis, the closed system allows them to essentially eliminate all waste.
Of course, True2O is just starting out with only a few partners - go into local a local 7-11 or CVS and you won't find the bottles there. So far, it's mostly just smaller-scale eateries and one grocery store. And then there's the question of where to fill up should you decide to reuse the bottle - on this campus in particular, there aren't a whole lot of filling stations. Finally, there's that ultimate question: will the 50 cent refund be enough to make sure the True2O bottles don't get thrown in with the recycling- or, far worse, the trash?
The answer remains to be seen, but at least they're trying something.
- Mike DeVito
P.S. - Seriously, look in a trashcan today. You're going to be appalled by the amount of recyclable bottles in it.
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Animal Crossing: New Leaf
So you're one of those gamers who doesn't really enjoy shambling zombies, superpowered beat-downs or sizzling shoot-outs. One of the many who love treading the casual game route on Facebook or some other social site. You know, the kind of simple and fun distraction where you gather crops or build a city or frolic through virtual fields with your little anthropomorphic animal pals. Well, finally we're reviewing a game for you!
The 3DS-based Animal Crossing: New Leaf is as casual a title as you'll find. Only with this game you don't have to keep forking over cold cash for golden upgrades or inviting online friends to play in order to earn a bonus point or two. Young or old, you simply build your world as you like, at your own pace, and see what kind of fun comes of it.
Mr. Mayor, I Presume?
At game's beginning you find yourself on a train heading to a new town in search of a fresh start. Once you step onto the station platform of a pleasant little sunny burg, however, all the animal residents there give you a rousing cheer, welcoming you as their new mayor. Uh-oh, someone's made a mistake. But don't worry, the guy who was supposed to take the job got sidetracked, and he's pleased as punch that you can fill the position in his stead.
It's up to you, then, a youthful boy or girl, to start your new job by settling in and meeting all the residents. (And Isabel, your ever-helpful mayoral assistant, is ready to help.) These happy little talking bunnies, ducks, squirrels and owls all have their own homes and shops or local gathering places to reside in and run—such as the local dock or the town hall—and now you need a place of your own too.
That'll take some work though. This isn't a community built on taxes and government bonds. And you needn't be expecting a fat mayoral paycheck either. The economic system here entails a whole lot of you gathering fruit, flowers and seashells, digging up fossils, fishing and/or bug hunting. (You didn't think you'd be just sitting in a big chair giving orders did you?)
So once you fill your virtual pockets with gathered and dug items—up to sixteen items per load—you take them to a local exchange and receive golden bells for them. The rarer the item, the more bells earned. And when you earn enough bells you can build that house and maybe even get some furniture or a new suit of clothes.
Then it's on to governing.
The real goal of the game is to build your blissful borough of beasties into a merry metropolis menagerie. And it's up to you to not only dig up the cash to see this done, but also pass city ordinances to shape the behavior of your friendly animal neighbors.
Do you want to shift the hours that shops stay open or encourage your electorate to plant more greenery? Then you'll need enough I-love-the-mayor public support to get that bill passed. To make those needed friends in town you can talk to the residents and see what their interests might be. Write letters to earn some local pen pals. Even hand out a gift or two to demonstrate your generous side.
Do you want a new set of benches for tired townsfolk, a new store on Main Street or a second floor for the local museum? Then make the call and get the work going. Of course, you need to remember that most of the bells required for all of that will have to come out of your personal pockets. (The title of public servant takes on a whole new meaning in this lovely municipality.)
Oh, and by the way, the game's clock runs on real time. You set the day, month and year at the beginning of play and with each new dawn there are different items that can be found in the fields or on the local beaches, and new gear—from nets and shovels to cool suits of armor or deep-sea diving outfits—made available in the stores. The month you're playing in even influences the game's onscreen season.
Turning Over a … Well, You Know
Does all that gathering, exchanging, managing and building sound repetitive and mundane? Well, then you're not that sort of gamer I started things off talking about. To them it's the simple stuff and the comforting routine that makes a game engrossing and relaxing and fun. They're the ones who will find things worth mooing about in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. And I'll end by doing a little mooing myself: Beyond a few gaseous sound effects and the game allowing you to goofily bonk animals on the head, there's nary a negative thing I need to say here about content.
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UPDATE: Law enforcement IDs pilot killed in plane crash near Holt
Authorities have released the identify of the pilot killed Friday when his plane crashed into trees north of Highway 90 in the Holt area.
UPDATE: Law enforcement IDs pilot killed in plane crash near Holt Authorities have released the identify of the pilot killed Friday when his plane crashed into trees north of Highway 90 in the Holt area. Check out this story on pnj.com: https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2018/10/19/pilot-killed-single-engine-plane-crash-near-holt/1696800002/
From staff reports Published 12:45 p.m. CT Oct. 19, 2018 | Updated 3:34 p.m. CT Oct. 19, 2018
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Update 3:15 p.m.
Authorities have released the identify of the pilot killed Friday morning when his single-engine plane crashed into trees north of Highway 90 near Cooper Lane in the Holt area.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office tentatively identified the victim as John Boudreaux of Memphis, Tennessee, in a news release. The Medical Examiner's Office must still confirm the identity.
Boudreaux reportedly took off from George T. McCutchan Airfield in Santa Rosa County at about 9:30 a.m.
Witnesses in the Holt area told authorities they saw a plane flying low at about 10 a.m. and heard its engine shut off and then come back on. One witness reportedly saw the small aircraft go down somewhere north of Highway 90.
First responders were searching the area when a resident of Joseph Cook Road reported he had located the aircraft, tail #N107KW, in trees south of his property.
Boudreaux was founded deceased at the scene.
One person died when their single-engine plane crashed near Holt in Okaloosa County on Friday morning, according to a news release from the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.
A witness called 9-1-1 shortly after 10 a.m. and reported a small plane flying over his property with its engine sputtering.
First responders arriving at the crash scene in an area east of Highway 90 near Cooper Lane found the pilot deceased.
The individual's identity has not yet been released.
The Federal Aviation Administration has been notified of the incident.
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Poloniae Lituaniaeq. Descriptio. Auctore...
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Poloniae Lituaniaeq. Descriptio. Auctore Wencelsao Godreccio; et cor:recgtore Andrea Pograbio Pilsnesi
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Nice example of Ortelius' second map of Poland and Lithuania which first appeared in the 1595 Latin edition of Ortelius' Theatrum.
The map extends from the Dniepr River in the east to the Oder in the west and includes all of Poland, as well as Pomerania, Prussia Lithuania, etc.. Interesting small vignette.
The present example includes the corrections noted by Van Den Broecke on the Dniester River, which were first made in 1598.
The map is based upon the maps of Grodecki, published in 1558, 1562, as corrected by Pograbka. Grodecki's map itself is based on a map by Wapovsky of 1526.
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Old Color.
Van Den Broecke 155.
Abraham Ortelius Biography
Abraham Ortelius is perhaps the best known and most frequently collected of all sixteenth-century mapmakers. Ortelius started his career as a map engraver. In 1547 he entered the Antwerp guild of St Luke as afsetter van Karten. His early career was as a business man, and most of his journeys before 1560 were for commercial purposes. In 1560, while traveling with Gerard Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator’s influence, towards a career as a scientific geographer. From that point forward, he devoted himself to the compilation his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World), which would become the first modern atlas.
In 1564 he completed his “mappemonde", an eight-sheet map of the world. The only extant copy of this great map is in the library of the University of Basle. Ortelius also published a map of Egypt in 1565, a plan of Brittenburg Castle on the coast of the Netherlands, and a map of Asia, prior to 1570.
On May 20, 1570, Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum first appeared in an edition of 53 maps. By the time of his death in 1598, a total of 25 editions were published including editions in Latin, Italian, German, French, and Dutch. Later editions would also be issued in Spanish and English by Ortelius’ successors, Vrients and Plantin, the former adding a number of maps to the atlas, the final edition of which was issued in 1612. Most of the maps in Ortelius Theatrum were drawn from the works of a number of other mapmakers from around the world; a list of 87 authors is given by Ortelius himself
In 1573, Ortelius published seventeen supplementary maps under the title of Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum. In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy (his family, as early as 1535, had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism). In 1578 he laid the basis of a critical treatment of ancient geography with his Synonymia geographica (issued by the Plantin press at Antwerp and republished as Thesaurus geographicus in 1596). In 1584 he issued his Nomenclator Ptolemaicus, a Parergon (a series of maps illustrating ancient history, sacred and secular.) Late in life, he also aided Welser in his edition of the Peutinger Table in 1598.
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Azabu-Juban Michelin Star Restaurants: Dine at Some of Tokyo’s Best
Poste date: Tuesday, February 5, 2019
The Michelin Guide has become synonymous with fine dining across the world. Given its French origins, you might expect Paris to host the most Michelin-starred restaurants. Actually, the record is held by Tokyo.
With 230 such restaurants and 13 three-star restaurants as of 2019, Japan’s capital is an excellent place to sample the work of some of the globe’s most outstanding chefs.
Azabu-Juban, a popular upscale neighborhood in Minato Ward, hosts a number of these restaurants, so what better place to mark on your map for great eating?
How Do Restaurants Get Their Michelin Rating?
The word “Michelin” alone draws diners to a restaurant, but how does a place get one (or three) of those coveted stars?
Once a restaurant is on the radar of the guide, a specially trained inspector makes an anonymous visit. Although the criteria and process are secretive, it’s known that they are meticulous in assessing every aspect of the food and dining experience.
For instance, the chef’s use of ingredients, their mastery of flavors, an ability to inject their own “personality” into the cuisine, as well as consistency between visits, are all important factors.
Should the restaurant impress, the inspector will visit again a year later, and if the experience is at least as good - if not better - than the first time, there is a chance it will receive one star, designating it a “very good restaurant in its category”. To get three stars, a restaurant must be so exceptional as to be “worth a special journey”.
Best Michelin Restaurants in Azabu-Juban
While not exhaustive, here is a list of some of the Michelin-starred and Bib Gourmand-awarded restaurants in Azabu-Juban to try. They vary widely in types of cuisine and prices, so there is something for everyone.
Itosho
Shojin ryori is traditional vegetarian cuisine that originated in Buddhist temples and is known to be simple yet refined. At Itosho, a one-star Michelin restaurant tucked away on a quiet street, the chef himself greets you and describes each dish of exquisitely subtle flavors.
The atmosphere is peaceful, reminiscent of the humble beginnings of this type of meal, although the pricing is moderately expensive. Many diners report the rice-grain tempura as a highlight.
Amanoya
A delightful tea and sweets shop known for the traditional desserts it has been serving for over 70 years, Amanoya serves an okonomiyaki on its evening menu that has received the Bib Gourmand award from the Michelin Guide four years in a row since 2015. Okonomiyaki is often a cheap and cheerful meal you cook yourself on a hot plate or make at home, but in this case it is presented to you ready to eat at the table.
Azabu Ichigo
Another meal that is often served cheaply or made at home, oden is a comforting stew popular in winter. It comprises tofu, daikon radish, fish cakes, boiled eggs and other such items. So you might be surprised to hear of Azabu Ichigo, the only Michelin-starred oden restaurant in Tokyo.
Here, in a sophisticated setting, dishes such as soft-boiled eggs and daikon topped with katsuobushi and kombu are served individually having been simmered in a signature combination of eight different broths.
Edoya
Awarded the Bib Gourmand, this cozy little restaurant serves yoshoku cuisine, which is Western-influenced Japanese food that emerged after the Meiji restoration.
Hamburg steak and potato salad may sound ordinary, but these are absolute classics of Japanese cooking. As the chef has appeared on cooking shows and his food on magazine covers, you can be sure this is a great place to enjoy them.
Azabujuban Ozaki
This one-star sushi restaurant is kappo-style, meaning Chef Ozaki is in close proximity to the diners, serving up a multi-course meal that is entirely up to him. Although kappo is a less formal style than kaiseki, it is still at the higher end of the budget.
This restaurant is an elegant and calm place to enjoy the finest, freshest fish available, along with carefully chosen sake. There are 6 counter seats and several private rooms, and the servers speak English.
Kadowaki
Having held onto its two Michelin stars since 2009, this kaiseki restaurant fusing Japanese and European cuisine is worth the potential hit to the pocketbook.
Chef Kadowaki serves creative and beautifully presented dishes (including truffle rice that receives rave reviews) in multi-course meals that shift according to the seasons. Renowned for attention to detail and superb cooking techniques, this is a special experience.
Piatto Suzuki
This restaurant serves regional Italian cuisine with beef sourced from the chef’s home prefecture of Ibaraki and vegetables from Kyoto.
With quality ingredients and straightforward but well-balanced flavors, it’s a solid choice for a delicious lunch or dinner. The space is small with a few tables or counter seats where you can watch the chef work.
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PLAZA HOMES’ bilingual agents can find a property to suit you in this convenient area, whether you are looking to rent or buy. Whether you want to be close to your child’s school or a park, find an earthquake-resistant or pet-friendly property, or live in a detached house or an apartment with concierge service, we offer up-to-date information on the market, full support for relocation, and lots of information to help you settle in and start enjoying your life in Tokyo.
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The Clarence
2 Silver Street, Bury, Manchester, United Kingdom, BL9 0EX
4.7 from 1586 Diner Reviews
Open 7 days a week, and serving food from 12pm right through until 9pm (10pm Fri and Sat). Please note; Mon - Thurs we serve sandwiches only 3pm - 5pm. On Sundays we offer a menu featuring just the classics, but our popular Sunday roasts are available until 6pm, or we sell out (often earlier), so booking is recommended.
Reservations aren't always needed in the restaurant, however we strongly recommend that you book to avoid disappointment. Please note - our restaurant is situated on the first floor, up a flight of stairs. Unfortunately no lift is available. If you are unable to use the stairs, please let us know when booking a table and we will be happy to reserve you one on the ground floor. The same menu is available throughout the building.
We don't serve food in our first floor restaurant on Mondays & Tuesdays and from 5pm on Wednesdays & Thursdays, but the same menu will be available to enjoy on the ground floor.
If you'd like to book a party or a table of more than 6 people, please call 0161 464 7404, or email [email protected]
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About The Clarence
Set across four floors, The Clarence offers something for diners and drinkers of all tastes.
The Ground Floor is a sympathetically-restored traditional pub with lots of original features, offering a welcoming atmosphere in which to enjoy Manchester's best pub food. Serving 6 real ales, including some made in our Silver Street micro brewery in the basement, there's also a formidable range of wines and spirits. The full menu is available to enjoy in the pub.
Our restaurant is on the first floor, with tall windows providing a light, airy space in this beautifully restored building. With full table service provided and our chefs working hard at the pass, this is the place to come for the full dining experience with table service.
On the top floor is the Fallen Angel, our intimate cocktail bar, open at weekends or occasionally by request (and available for private hire). If you're lucky, this is the place to enjoy pre-or-post-meal cocktails or to spend your night in style, with table service for drinks.
Cuisine: Gastro Pub, British, Fine Dining, Steak, Sunday Lunch
Dress Code: Smart Casual,Casual
The restaurant had a nice ambience, however we where all quite cold sat in the restaurant. Despite the restaurant upstaires being fairly quite, we had to ask for our order to be taken. Then we waited 50min for our food, Which when it finally arrived was excellent however the portion size was small, had we known this we would have definitely ordered starters. The desserts were nice, and baised on the quality of the food it was good value for money.
Really bad service. See my review on trip advisor.
On arrival we wea informed that 2 meats out of the four on the sunday lunches were not available, although the service was good , the restaurant lacks atmosphere, there isn't a lot to draw me to going back as lack of the full menu happened on my previous visit.
They were understaffed and we were served by a chef but his work was exceptional! He had to serve all the tables upstairs on his own and he did I tremendous job. The food was fantastic and like I said the service was friendly polite and excellent. They should be proud to have such a stellar staff member.
Mr Barry Ford
Normally enjoy eating at the Clarence but this was a farce worthy of Fawlty Towers.
We were kept waiting then asked if we knew what we wanted to eat. Saying no we were then asked if we would like to see a menu. This was a long time coming once we were sat at the table. We asked for a drinks menu but told there was only a wine menu.
We decided to go for three lots of fish and chips but were told after a wait that these weren’t available. Not the end of the world so we asked for three Clarence burgers. After a further wait were told that these were also not available so we settled on the sirloin steak.
This was cooked competently but was served with non-crispy oven chips and vegetables that were clearly left over from the Christmas lunch menu.
We asked to see the dessert menu from which there was only Christmas pudding and sticky toffee pudding.
Sincerely hoping that the service and food improve before we visit again
Fabulous, thank you.
Food was hot and tasty and plenty of it. No complaints whatsoever.
Came for our works Christmas do. Great food and atmosphere. The staff was friendly and lovely and couldn’t do anymore for us. Jon especially was very helpful from booking the table. Fab service
Amanda Yates
Service terrible but apparently people were off sick. Waited an hour for main courses and waiter didn’t even know what mulled wine was. Food arrived and we got 1pc of turkey we complained and to be fair only got charged for 3 meals
Thank you for a wonderful afternoon on Sunday. Great food, excellent service from the whole team, especially Chris in the private function room, who looked after us superbly.
Extremely disappointed, I’ve been many time with friends and had a lovely time, however firstly it’s not made clear the limited menu in Sunday’s, my daughter is gluten and dairy intolerant so the menu was very limited, we waited 45 minutes for our food, when it arrived one was wrong, we where told it would be taken off the bill, but it wasn’t. The dining srea looked untidy. Please no excuses about it being Christmas as your meant to be able to deal with busier periods, and it wasn’t that busy.
Really enjoyed our Sunday roast. Great service. Excellent staff and a good atmosphere. Thank you.
We were a group of old friends, happy to chat and the room was quiet so talking at a reasonable pitch was possible.
The food took a bit to arrive but everyone enjoyed it. The young waiter needed more experience in pouring drinks. We had to ask for salt and pepper to go on the table- I noticed no tables had condiments.
The food was good, we enjoyed our choices. It was quite busy as there was a pre Xmas gathering on the top floor so our food was a little delayed but that didn’t matter.
The ambiance was good.
We were looked after very well indeed, even down to music choice and volume. The lovely guy who looked after us all was exceptional.
Food was very good, drinks were a bit pricey & the gin & cocktail selection were very limited. But we all had a great time, would def come back & recommend to others Thank you 😀xx
Good service, lovely food and great staff...
Visited On Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Visited with some friends, as we have for the last few years just before Christmas and came away very disappointed. The bar area was very cold, lacked atmosphere and you had no pie of the day. Also came in last week and you had no eggs!!! Would usually have stayed all afternoon as usual but left at 3pm. Staff did very well in trying circumstances. Standards will have to get better soon or you will be losing trade
Rebecca Dickinson
Simply the best sunday roast we've ever had. So much so I had to tell the chef personally. Lovely restaurant that has become a Christmas tradition after we've been on the Santa Express.
Thanks for the Christmas dinner. We enjoyed ourselves. Couple of issues - only 3 very young staff were on hand - it took about 20 minutes for our first drinks. The only other table on the floor was a very large and rowdy works do - conducing a quiz night whilst we ate. The starters and dessert were great - the group felt the Turkey was dry in the mains. We love the Clarence but not the best night we've had there unfortunately.
We booked our work Christmas do at the Clarence and they catered for 14 of us. They were great and the food was wonderful. They also were able to easily cater for our specialist dietary needs too and were happy to put out a high chair for one of our colleagues children who also came along. The atmosphere was good and they couldn't have been more attentive and welcoming.
We have been here before for work meals and are likely to keep coming back.
Good food, good drink and a good atmosphere
Debbie Sheridan
Good quality food in a comfortable and atmospheric location.
Sarah Murphy
Not sure if we came on an off day as we have previously had good experiences. No record of booking (despite receiving a confirmation email that day before) so we’re stood waiting for 15 mins while a table was found. 1 option of tap beer, no sav blanc wine and a vastly diminished gin selection- it felt like it was about to go under......
Service was slow & the food was just OK. It's a shame as we usually enjoy our visits to the Clarence.
Got there late because of traffic but no issue and was accommodated without a fuss.
Food and selection.of wines very good. One of us needed gluten free options and once again, fair selection.
Would happily dine there again.
Always lovely food, good service and a good time. We will be back
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Edinburgh's Royal Mile is the jewel in the capital's crown; an exciting, engaging and interesting place to stay whatever the time of year. Packed with sights to see, things to do and home to some of the city's best eating and shopping, there's something for everyone to enjoy, explore and experience.
The historical heart of Edinburgh's Old Town, the Royal Mile is actually four distinct streets, running between two of the city's most important historical landmarks: Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace. The Castle, built on an ancient plug of volcanic rock, dominates the landscape of the city, and as the Mile slopes gently down towards the Palace you can literally walk through the history of Edinburgh.
The Castle itself is a must-visit, commanding beautiful views from its forbidding ramparts, and containing a wealth of Scottish history. At the other end of the Mile, Holyrood Palace, the Queen's official residence in Scotland, is one of the greatest architectural gems in the UK. Opposite this 16th Century treasure is a much more modern one - the Scottish parliament, which is open for tours to see its excellent art collection.
Along the Royal Mile there are numerous closes and passages (called 'wynds') which lead off either side, and exploring these is one of the great pleasures that the city has to offer; as they consist of superb examples of the ancient, towering architecture which dominates the Old Town. Explore on your own, or as part of one of the numerous walking tours, where knowledgeable guides can help you discover some of the city's magical secrets, like the peaceful garden in Dunbar's Close, just a few moments away from the bustle of the main street.
There are many other attractions on or nearby the Mile. A variety of Museums and centres dedicated to subjects as diverse as Storytelling, Childhood and Edinburgh itself are there to interest the visitor. However if historical monuments are more of interest then you'll be in exactly the right place. St Giles Cathedral offers medieval architecture, with some parts dating back to the 14th century and Victorian stained-glass-windows; and, just behind it the spectacular 17th century Parliament House is still used today, with the magnificent original oak hammer-beam roof presiding over a living piece of history.
However for a true taste of Scotland, why not try the Scotch Whisky Experience? A five star visitor attraction which includes whisky tastings, a range of tours and even a whisky school, the Whisky Experience is definitely worth a visit.
For less cerebral but equally satisfying pleasures, the Royal Mile is home to some of Edinburgh's best shopping, with an eclectic mix of family-run businesses, some of which have been trading on the same spot for hundreds of years.It's a great place for artisanal, hand-made goods, with quirky independent clothing and jewellery retailers, Scottish delicatessens, antiques and the oldest independent whisky bottler in the city. As much fun to browse as it is to shop, there's bound to be something to fascinate and excite in this unique mix of shops.
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Strong M&A restaurant activity expected this year
Strategic buyers are targeting emerging brands and chains in need of restructuring.
Julie Littman @julie_littman
More restaurant consolidation is on the menu this year as private equity, public companies and other brands expand through acquisitions. Several chains — including Jack in the Box, Papa John's, Papa Murphy's and Del Frisco's — have already said they are considering selling themselves, and P.F. Chang's is set to trade private equity hands for nearly $700 million.
Aaron Allen, founder and chief strategist of Aaron Allen & Associates, told Restaurant Dive that his firm expects M&A activity to ramp up in 2019, as it has in the last two years. His firm tracked 55 restaurant deals in 2018, up from 51 deals in the prior year.
"There are all sorts of hunters and prey out there in the jungle," Allen said.
Many restaurants have expanded as much as they can organically and are looking for additional brands to allow for continued expansion, Duff & Phelps managing director Josh Benn told Restaurant Dive.
"I would expect the volume of activity to be very strong," Benn said. "I do think you'll see more and more strategic activity in the marketplace, which is a positive thing."
The acquisition targets
Buyers will have plenty of companies to consider this year from a mix of emerging concepts and struggling brands that could benefit from a new strategic direction and capital.
Jack in the Box and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers are among the likeliest acquisition candidates, BTIG analyst Peter Saleh said in a January industry report. Jack in the Box announced late last year that it would consider a sale as part of its future strategies. Saleh told Restaurant Dive that Jack In the Box is a good bet for a buyout since its financials are similar to that of Sonic, which was acquired last year by Arby's parent company Inspire Brands.
"We think there is a lot that you can change with Jack in the Box in terms of menu and marketing," Saleh said.
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Red Robin has been trying to turn things around recently and hired a new chief financial officer earlier in the month, but its stock price is still half of what it was worth several years ago, he said.
There has also been growing interest in the next generation of quick service or fast casual, Benn said. These concepts could be offering something entirely new or are just doing things better in terms of quality of food, ingredients, marketing and branding, he said.
"Every new business has the benefit of being started in a period of time when technology is improved and marketing is different," Benn said. "It takes a lot of work to adapt something than starting from a whiteboard and creating a brand that is on trend and has creative marketing."
Allen said he expects a casual dining brand to be acquired because that segment hasn't been performing well.
In addition to Red Robin and P.F. Chang's, other casual brands are primed to sell. Following pressure from activist investors, Del Frisco's Restaurant Group said late last year that it would consider a possible sale and other strategies to increase shareholder value, for example.
The buyers
Private equity has one of the bigger appetites for restaurants. Because of Amazon's impact on retail, private equity funds — many of which have partial or full mandates to deploy capital at consumer-focused businesses — have shied away from traditional retail, Benn said.
"There is not a ton of retail they are willing to do. They have just been more focused on restaurant transactions and opportunities," Benn said.
Volatility in the market and increased investor scrutiny can push some brands, especially ones that have struggled to grow as the industry has declined, to consider going private, Allen said. Bojangles shareholders approved a sale this month that will make the company private only three years after it went public. The restaurant, which was primarily focused on the Carolinas, struggled to increase stock prices and same-store sales.
"There is not a ton of retail [private equity firms] are willing to do. They have just been more focused on restaurant transactions and opportunities."
Josh Benn
Managing director, Duff & Phelps
"When you see a lot of that pressure and it creates a short-term distraction or quarter-to-quarter scrutiny and you can take it back private again with private equity capital or other means, there are upside advantages to it," Allen said.
And private equity firms have been more than willing to invest. Over the last 20 to 30 years, private equity firms have grown to 6,000, Allen said. More institutional investment is pouring into these firms as well, providing more dry powder that helps companies go out and buy businesses, he said.
Being acquired by a private equity firm can come with many benefits, Allen said. These firms look to strip down costs, provide some level of strategic guidance to struggling brands and help them improve operational and management capacity or capabilities, he said.
"There are actually more companies going private than are listing publicly," Allen said.
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Also playing into increased M&A activity is the fact that many private equity firms are at the tail end of their holds, typically around seven years, and have to sell assets and find a new investment, he said. Centerbridge sold P.F. Chang's nearly seven years after its 2012 acquisition, for example.
Restaurants that have gone through restructuring also are making good platforms for acquisitions, Benn said. Declaring bankruptcy can be particularly healthy for a multi-unit business, he said.
"In doing that, they cleanse the portfolio, they create a stronger business and they can focus on creating a productive asset as opposed to carrying all this dead weight. When you go through that bankruptcy process, it oftentimes will create a nice platform," Benn said.
For example, Macaroni Grill, which emerged from bankruptcy to then acquire Sullivan's Steakhouse, could buy another full-service brand as early as the third quarter.
Existing restaurant groups adding brands
Restaurant holding groups also are on the hunt to expand their platforms. High Buff Capital is making major moves in the segment, buying once-bankrupt Quizno's and Taco Del Mar last year. It also established Rego Restaurant Group to oversee these brands, and has plans to acquire six to 10 more companies, according to QSR Magazine. It's targeting either regional brands primed for national expansion or struggling national brands that can be brought back from the brink.
In addition, FAT Brands is expanding its co-branded Fatburger/Buffalo Express concepts in 10 locations throughout California, Arizona, Texas, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and further acquisitions will help the company continue to expand its footprint. Executives said during an investor presentation that the company plans to acquire two to three brands a year. It bought Yalla Mediterranean and Hurricane Grill & Wings in 2018.
Buyers won't be able to acquire too many brands all at once, however. The investment community doesn't like big conglomerates and prefers restaurant brands that can bring that money instead back to shareholders in the form of dividends and buybacks, Saleh said.
"The trend has been for a lot of these restaurants to spin out secondary concepts and focus on core business rather than adding distractions," Saleh said.
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As American companies buy and sell themselves, foreign companies also are considering U.S. chains as a way to expand into a new market.
"Essentially, it is a way of getting immediate access to infrastructure, to talent, to people and regionalized know-how," Allen said. "It is more difficult to take a U.S. or foreign brand and plant it in a new market."
While some U.S. companies might be looking to acquire abroad as part of expansion, foreign brands also are looking to grow their American portfolios. Jollibee, for example, acquired Smashburger last year as part of its U.S. expansion. The popular Philippines-based fast food chain has plans to be among the top five global restaurant operators by 2025 and aims to have half of its sales come from outside of the Philippines.
Regardless of which companies buy which brands, M&A is by and far a strategic move whether it be to expand into a new market or help restructure the company to create a more profitable future, analysts said.
Whispers of a coming recession and the volatility of the stock market don't appear to be slowing down the pace of mergers either, but buyers are becoming more thoughtful on the brands they acquire, Benn said.
"You might see some different types of deals, but you'll definitely see a lot of deals," Benn said.
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Two Dozen Sites for Potential Added Residential Development Listed in Zoning Ordinance Amendment Plan
Dave Emke September 13, 2017 at 2:45pm
In a letter recently provided to Reston Association, the Fairfax County Department of Planning and Zoning gives more information about what areas could see “additional residential development” if a proposed zoning ordinance amendment is approved.
A map attached to the letter (pictured at left and available in more detail within the document) shows two dozen locations outside the Reston Transit Station Area where planned residential growth is envisioned by the County. These areas are mostly within or proximate to Reston’s village centers.
The proposal from the county is to increase the limit on people per acre in Reston’s PRC District from 13 to 16. This would allow for 18,737 more people beyond the current cap in Reston over time, DPZ officials say. Reston’s PRC District is currently at about 11.9 persons per acre.
The amendment would also allow for the Board of Supervisors to be able to approve individual developments in excess of 50 dwelling units per acre in Transit Station Areas within the PRC and when in accordance with Comprehensive Plan recommendations — the details of which are broken down in the letter to Reston Association.
Included among the figures provided by the County for these growth areas are an additional 3,097 units at Reston Gateway, 2,143 units at Reston Town Center’s urban core and 2,370 units at Reston Town Center North. These numbers are determined by “the estimated number of dwelling units recommended by the Comprehensive Plan within Reston’s PRC zoned land, for those areas where growth is recommended to occur,” according to the document.
Also included on the list of potential future residential units are 1,212 at North Point Village Center, 1,209 at Hunters Woods Village Center, 724 at South Lakes Village Center and 220 at Lake Anne Village Center. The provided figures also include 465 units at St. Johns Wood, 360 at Charter Oaks and more.
A total of 14,103 “planned units” are plotted, along with 8,189 that already exist or have been approved.
After three public meetings on the subject in May, the County will hold a fourth Monday, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. in the cafeteria at Lake Anne Elementary School (11510 North Shore Drive).
Prior to that, however, a trio of community advocacy groups — Reston 20/20, Reclaim Reston and the Reston Citizens Association — have scheduled an information session about the proposal. That event, open to all Reston residents, is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. at Reston Association headquarters (12001 Sunrise Valley Drive).
The DPZ had originally hoped to bring the proposed amendment before the Board of Supervisors in July, followed by a Planning Commission public hearing in September and the Board public hearing in October. It now has those projected dates pushed back to November, January and February, respectively.
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Chester 260 Bridge Replacement
After being deemed structurally deficient due to its age and deteriorating condition, Quimby Bridge — a concrete encased steel beam bridge built in 1915 on Pusey Mill Road over the east branch of Big Elk Creek — was in need of replacement. One of the many challenges surrounding this site was its environmental sensitivity, including being home to the endangered bog turtle and holding a high value stream designation that required special permitting. Also unique to the project were the special accommodations made for protecting the neighboring boarded horses, each worth more than $1 million.
After completing the environmental permitting, RETTEW’s bridge engineers got to work and proposed a precast-concrete arch structure, an economic and practical design known for its durability and ease of construction. Using an accelerated construction method, the bridge took only three months to construct, which significantly minimized impacts to the local community. Not only does the new structure provide the County a maintenance-free service life of 100 years, but the new architectural surface treatment mimics the original stone aesthetic of the bridge and delivers a traditional appeal that fits seamlessly with the surrounding area. RETTEW’s construction cost estimate was within one-half percent of the low bid, and our quality plan set resulted in no change orders and only one question from the contractor during construction — a success story from start to finish.
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By Josh L.
Galaxy J2 (2016) passes through the FCC
Earlier today, an unannounced dual-SIM Galaxy-branded smartphone passed through the United States of America’s official certification authority, the FCC. The handset was recorded carrying the model number SM-J210F, so we have good reason to believe that the device is, in fact, the long-rumored Galaxy J2 (2016). Unfortunately, the listing itself didn’t disclose anything about the unit’s internals, other than the fact that it will ship with a 1,500mAh battery.
However, a recent AnTuTu benchmark test revealed that the Galaxy J2 (2016) will pack a 4.7-inch display, a 1.5GHz Spreadtrum SC8830 quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of expandable memory, an 8MP rear-facing camera and a 5MP selfie shooter. It’s also expected to run the latest build of Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow out of the box, which will, of course, be skinned with the most recent version of Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface.
FCC Galaxy J2 (2016) SM-J210F
asgar53
sir, galaxy J2 (2016) sm J210F as per gfxbench and geekbench has 5 inch display and 1.5 GB RAM and 8 GB internal memory. The specs you are saying is by antutu benchmark but geekbench and gfxbench is more authentic than antutu. Also when J7 (2016) SM J710F passed through FCC also has same 1500 mAh battery but it has actually 3300 mAh battery.
sanayp
Geekbench and antutu are 2 different benchmarking apps which test different aspects of the device.
Antutu is more through way to test the processor performance/gaming such as 3D and graphics.
Geekbench tests the speed of the device and gives a single core and multi core score
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News from the National Executive Director, October 2016
By Evan Elkin, October 25 2016
In this month’s Reclaiming Futures newsletter, we reflect on President Obama’s proclamation which, for the second year in a row, makes October National Youth Justice Awareness Month. President Obama’s focus on juvenile justice has been impressive, but it is important that the field does not become complacent as we contemplate what the future holds for juvenile justice reform.
Topics: Juvenile Justice Reform, News, Positive Youth Development, Reclaiming Futures
October 2016 is Youth Justice Awareness/Action Month
By Bridget Murphy, October 11 2016
Reclaiming Futures is proud to support Youth Justice Awareness Month. As such, we asked Mr. Brian Evans, the State’s Campaign Director at Campaign for Youth Justice to tell us about its history and purpose. Mr. Evans told us:
Youth Justice Awareness Month (YJAM) started back in 2008, when Tracy McClard, a mother from Missouri who lost her son to suicide in an adult jail, organized a 5K race in October to raise awareness about the harmful practice of treating children as adults in the criminal justice system. Each October since then, YJAM has seen more activities and more events highlighting what is wrong with trying kids as adults. Film screenings, panel discussion, art exhibitions, and more ambitious endeavors like Tracy’s bike ride across the state of Missouri last year, have all drawn attention to and helped build a growing consensus that we need to reform the way we approach youth justice.
As President Obama said this year in his second annual proclamation of Youth Justice Awareness Month: “When we invest in our children and redirect young people who have made misguided decisions, we can reduce our over-reliance on the juvenile and criminal justice systems and build stronger pathways to opportunity.”
Since the first YJAM in 2008, we have seen increased awareness lead to concrete action. Over the past decade around 30 states have passed legislation keeping young people out of the adult criminal justice system. So this year, we YJAM is being re-branded as Youth Justice Action Month. More and more it has become apparent that we know what the problems are. Now, it is time for advocates, legislators, and governments to take action
Topics: Juvenile Court, Juvenile Justice Reform, suicide prevention, yjam
News from the National Executive Director, September 2016
By Evan Elkin, September 27 2016
As Reclaiming Futures enters its 16th year of operation, we reflect on our unique contributions to the juvenile justice reform efforts of the past couple decades. What is most concretely evident to the field is our public health oriented approach and the creation of an accessible stepwise model, designed for juvenile justice settings, to organize the way they identify treatment need and then deliver developmentally appropriate and evidence-based treatment responses that are then sustained by community supports. In order to make our six-step approach work at the local level, we partner with jurisdictions to break down silos and build authentic collaboration across a number of systems that serve youth.
Topics: Juvenile Justice Reform, Reclaiming Futures
A Must Read - Reclaiming Futures and Organizing Justice for Drug-Using Youth
By Bridget Murphy, September 21 2016
Researchers from John Jay College of Criminal Justice (John Jay) have been involved in evaluating Reclaiming Futures since its inception. Beginning in 2002, Jeffrey Butts, PhD and colleagues began studying the relationship between the Reclaiming Futures’ system-level change approach and the way stakeholders across all the inter-connected systems in juvenile justice settings perceive the effectiveness of their system of care and the delivery of services to youth. In his approach, Dr. Butts examined variables in key domains like administration, collaboration and quality. While no evaluation is perfect, the work Butts and colleagues did to begin to quantify system-level change variables in a meaningful way was quite original and generated useful information for Reclaiming Futures and the field. The initial evaluation results were also helpful in guiding subsequent evaluations by The University of Arizona, Chestnut Health Systems, and Carnevale Associates, LLC.
Topics: Evidence-Based Practices, Reclaiming Futures
News from the National Executive Director, August 2016
By Evan Elkin, August 29 2016
In the current Reclaiming Futures newsletter we focus our attention on Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT). SBIRT is a public health-oriented framework revolutionizing the way we think about behavioral health and substance use screening and prevention. Buoyed by strong evidence from the adult research literature, there has been a surge in national interest in translating the successes of the adult SBIRT model for youth populations.
Topics: Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment, Juvenile Justice Reform, Reclaiming Futures
Year 2 Update! Reclaiming Futures' Version of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
By Bridget Murphy, August 26 2016
As many of you know, Reclaiming Futures was awarded a Conrad N. Hilton Foundation grant in September 2014. The purpose of this grant is to develop, pilot test, evaluate, and disseminate a new version of SBIRT for youth at risk for deeper involvement with the juvenile justice system. As a first step, Reclaiming Futures issued a request for proposals and awarded five sites to help us in the endeavor. The sites selected, through a competitive process, were:
Chittenden County, Vermont
King County, Washington
Nassau County, New York
Washington County, Oregon
Topics: Adolescent Mental Health, Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment, data, Family Involvement, SBIRT, strength-based, treatment
“Read All About It” - Research Findings Published!
By Bridget Murphy, July 21 2016
Reasons why I am proud to write this blog post...
Reason 1: My former colleagues (and friends) at The University of Arizona, Southwest Institute for Research on Women (UA SIROW) (UA SIROW) have been leading the efforts on the national evaluation of Juvenile Drug Courts and Juvenile Drug Courts blended with Reclaiming Futures (JDC/RF). UA SIROW collaborated with Chestnut Health Systems and Carnevale Associates, LLC to implement a comprehensive evaluation that included data from Juvenile Drug Courts, Juvenile Drugs Courts blended with Reclaiming Futures, and non-justice related intensive adolescent outpatient programs. The purpose was to examine processes, outcomes, and costs.
Topics: Adolescent Mental Health, Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment, Assessment, Community Engagement, Disproportionate Minority Contact, NDCI, OJJDP, Public Policy, Reclaiming Futures, research, strength-based, treatment court
News from the National Executive Director, June 2016
By Evan Elkin, June 23 2016
It is widely known that arrest rates for adolescents have steadily declined over the past two decades. During this time, we’ve also seen a gradual shift in the nation’s juvenile justice practices away from the use of out-of-home placement for minor, non-violent offenses and toward more treatment-oriented, trauma-sensitive and community-based responses.
This, unfortunately, has not been the story for girls involved in the juvenile justice system. In fact, the proportion of girls involved at all stages of the juvenile justice continuum increased over this time period. Experts and policymakers agree that the system remains insensitive and ill-equipped to serve the needs of girls – particularly girls of color – at all levels of juvenile justice continuum.
While we are pleased to see the recent report by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, meaningful reform focused on girls in the system is long overdue. In this month’s Reclaiming Futures Newsletter, we focus our attention on girls in the juvenile justice system and feature a new blog post by Bridget Murphy as well the latest Reclaiming Futures Data Brief, focused on gender trends in juvenile drug arrests.
Read the second Reclaiming Futures Data Brief here.
Topics: Juvenile Justice Reform, News, Reclaiming Futures
Adolescent Girls in the Spotlight
By Bridget Murphy, June 22 2016
In 2008 my colleagues and I wrote for and were awarded a recovery-oriented systems of care grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The primary goal of this grant was to develop and implement a trauma-informed and recovery-oriented system of care for adolescent girls. My colleagues and I were concerned about the increasing juvenile justice involvement and substance use rates among adolescent girls with little to no increases in their rates of enrollment in treatment. Our previous research highlighted the significant levels of trauma and other co-occurring mental health problems among girls. In addition, we found girls had higher rates of “harder” drug use such as cocaine, amphetamines, and heroin/opiates as compared to boys. And on the positive side, we also found that girls who accessed treatment responded really well and made significant behavioral improvements over time.
Other juvenile justice and behavioral health policy makers and program developers have recognized the importance of responding to these increased rates of behavioral health and substance use problems among adolescent girls. We now have a better understanding that while males and females are equally vulnerable to addiction, that from a physiological standpoint, females can have lower tolerance and may progressive to physical dependence at different rates. We also have a better understanding of the critical role played by trauma in substance use and addiction as well as a broader range of available approaches for providing gender-specific and trauma-informed treatment. The positive news is that we have seen the rates of illicit substance use significantly decrease for girls from 2008 to 2014 (26.5% versus 23.7%) and decreases in comparison to boys.
Topics: Culture, Equity, Gender-Specific, Girls, Reclaiming Futures, Trauma
Talking About Addiction
By Kate Knappett, June 08 2016
On June 1, 2016, our Reclaiming Futures national executive director Evan Elkin spoke at Red Emma's in Baltimore for Open Society Institute-Baltimore's second event in their "Talking About Addiction" series. Elkin was accompanied on the panel by Dr. Hoover Adger from Johns Hopkins Children's Center and by Carin Callan Miller, who founded Save Our Children Peer Family Support. The conversation was moderated by Scott Nolen, director of OSI-Baltimore's Drug Addiction Treatment Program. A full room of community members joined them for the evening, including families affected by adolescent addiction.
Youth, Addiction and the Juvenile Justice System
Whereas the first "Talking About Addiction" event explored alternative law enforcement approaches to addiction, this event focused on youth, addiction, and the juvenile justice system. Despite public acknowledgment of the failures of the "War on Drugs," and an increased understanding of addiction as a public health issue rather than a criminal justice issue, OSI-Baltimore recognizes that research and policy around adolescent addiction are slow to reach the mainstream. Indeed, during the discussion, some attendees expressed frustration with how long addiction treatment reform is taking; OSI moderator Nolen suggested reassurance that the addiction paradigm is finally shifting.
Topics: Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment, Community Engagement, Family Involvement, Juvenile Justice Reform, Maryland, News, podcast, Racial Disparity, radio, Reclaiming Futures, SBIRT, treatment
Youth Justice News Roundup
We round up the latest news on youth justice reform and national public health.
Compromise reached on "Second Chance" legislation; raising the age debate now closed. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy argued to raise the age of youth in the state juvenile justice system, but the debate ended last weekend in a compromise with Democratic leadership on bail reform for non-violent, misdemeanor offenses. [NBC Connecticut]
White House deletes FDA's planned policy and rationale for restricting flavored e-cigarettes. After demonstrating the appeal of flavored products to youth and young adults, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) submitted a tobacco regulation on flavored e-cigarettes to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The FDA policy and rationale for the restrictions were deleted by the OMB; no comments on why at this time. [NBC News]
Topics: Adolescent Mental Health, Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment, Hawaii, Juvenile Justice Reform, Louisiana, Maryland, News, Reclaiming Futures, Teen Pregnancy, teens, tobacco
News from the National Executive Director, May 2016
By Evan Elkin, May 26 2016
America is facing a heroin and opiate crisis. Heroin is increasingly popular – a report by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration indicates that first-time heroin users doubled between 2006 and 2013 and data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse indicate that deadly heroin overdoses increased sixfold in the years between 2001 and 2014. More than ever before, this crisis is addressed as a public health issue more than a public safety or criminal justice issue. This shift has sparked much public debate about why this is the case. Have we finally reached a tipping point as a society in our views of addiction as a health concern? Have irresponsible pain management prescription practices contributed to opening our eyes to one of the epidemic’s root causes? Some argue that race is a critical part of the story and feel that the shifting demographic - with an apparent increase in the proportion of white heroin and opiate users - is what has changed the perception of heroin abuse and finally mobilized policy makers. In this month’s Reclaiming Futures newsletter, we focused our attention on the issues surrounding the opiate crisis and featured a new blog post by Reclaiming Futures Program and Policy Analyst Bridget Murphy.
Topics: Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment, News, opiate, Reclaiming Futures
News from the National Executive Director, April 2016
By Evan Elkin, April 21 2016
We’re very excited to announce the launch of Reclaiming Futures Data Briefs, a new series of brief reports developed in partnership with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Research and Evaluation Center and the Center’s Director, Dr. Jeffrey Butts. The series will highlight current data trends at the intersection of the fields of criminal and juvenile justice, law enforcement and the epidemiology of behavioral health and substance use. The reports are intended for a wide range of youth justice and treatment stakeholders including practitioners, policymakers, advocates, researchers and juvenile justice professionals. The reports are designed to be clear and concise and to provide useful information that will help readers to put our efforts to reform the juvenile justice systems and improve outcomes for youth in a broader, more data-driven context. Dr. Jeffrey Butts from John Jay College says: “I’m pleased to be a part of the new series of data briefs because the goal of Reclaiming Futures is to distribute data in focused and accessible ways.” The first Reclaiming Futures Data Brief examines trends in drug-related arrests within adolescent, young adult and adult populations across both the juvenile and adult justice systems. We hope you find this new series useful in your work.
Read the first Reclaiming Futures Data Brief here.
Substance Use Disorder Treatment Alert!
By Bridget Murphy, March 30 2016
Deadline Approaching: Review and comment by April 11, 2016
Have you seen the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) proposed changes to 42 CFR Part 2, Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records? If not, we recommend taking a look and commenting as an individual, agency/organizational, or community collaboration. Feel free to share praises and/or critiques about the proposed changes with SAMHSA.
Here are some key highlights:
Rewind time to more than four decades ago - 42 CFR Part 2 was conceptualized and approved to provide i ndividuals seeking substance use disorder treatment with protections for privacy and confidentiality. It was acknowledged that stigma and fear of potential repercussions (familial, employment; criminal) prevented people from seeking treatment.
The last “substantive” update to 42 CFR Part 2 was in 1987 (approaching three decades ago).
There have been substantial changes in the way substance use disorder treatment is provided including a greater number of integrated health care centers (primary and behavioral health) and greater use of electronic health records. As such, modernizing 42 CFR Part 2 is necessary.
The proposed regulations will continue to apply to federally-assisted “programs“ which “holds itself out as providing, and provides substance use disorder diagnosis, treatment, or referral for treatment.” General medical facilities have always been included as a “program”, but the proposed change adds “general medical practices” to the definition.
It proposes if agencies and organizations that have “general designation” on consent form(s) they must provide patients a list of where their information has been shared.
Proposes agencies and organizations must have policies and procedures in place to sanitize paper and electronic records.
Topics: Adolescent Mental Health, Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment, News, Public Policy, Reclaiming Futures, substance abuse, substance abuse treatment providers
News from the National Executive Director, March 2016
By Evan Elkin, March 16 2016
A critical element of the juvenile justice reform narrative in the past decade has been our elevated understanding of the role that trauma plays in the experiences of young people - particularly those involved with the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. With traumatic events and victimization affecting millions of youth each year, childhood trauma has genuinely become a pressing public health issue.
Topics: Juvenile Justice Reform, Reclaiming Futures, Trauma
Weekly News Roundup
By Kate Knappett, March 04 2016
Every week we round up the latest news on juvenile justice reform, adolescent substance use treatment, and teen mental health.
In light of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, this month Medium is hosting a community-wide conversation on criminal justice reform. The two-week conversation is focused on mandatory-minimum sentencing and the war on drugs, but includes other aspects of criminal justice reform such as juvenile justice and policing. Medium will hold a Digital Town Hall Meeting as part of this conversation. The Town Hall kicks off on March 9th with a panel on racial disparities in the justice system. [Medium]
Topics: News
By Kate Knappett, February 26 2016
A new report from the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) shows how the criminal justice system is failing LGBT Americans, particularly LGBT youth and LGBT people of color. [Public News Service]
A New Resource for Developing Trauma-Informed Systems
By Bridget Murphy, February 25 2016
Trauma - a six letter word that carries a lot of significance. Depending on your education and experiences the word brings different thoughts, feelings, and reactions. It is a topic that has received a lot of recognition in the past few decades and is comprehensively described in a publication recently released by the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice (NCMHJJ). Strengthening Our Future: Key Elements to Developing a Trauma Informed Juvenile Justice Diversion Program for Youth with Behavioral Health Conditions provides necessary background and implementation practices for those working in the juvenile justice system. One aspect I found very helpful was the concrete examples of how jurisdictions have operationalized implementation practices. For example, a case example from Indiana is provided on page 21. As a way to be trauma-informed - Indiana took a procedural approach. More specifically, Indiana started by reviewing and selecting an assessment, integrated it into the electronic information technology system, supplemented the assessment with a trauma specific assessment, and providing training for personnel working within juvenile justice. This publication is a useful resource that can assist in the development of policies and procedures, practices, and training.
Topics: Resources, Trauma
News from the National Executive Director, February 2016
By Evan Elkin, February 16 2016
It took decades and a mountain of research evidence showing that incarcerating adolescents does little to prevent recidivism before policymakers took notice and began supporting measures to reduce incarceration and invest in community-based alternatives that prioritize treatment and support for youth and their families. Increasingly, over the past 15 years, we have seen the field come together around the common goal of creating a system for justice-involved youth that is more therapeutic, less punitive, less reliant on detention and incarceration, and more thoroughly grounded in research evidence and best practice. The catalyst for this paradigm shift has been a series of significant strategic investments by federal agencies and by major foundations like Annie E. Casey with its Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative, the MacArthur Foundation and its Models for Change, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) investment in Reclaiming Futures. These investments have all paid off in different ways to drive the field forward.
Topics: Adolescent Mental Health, Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment, Juvenile Justice Reform, News, Positive Youth Development, Reclaiming Futures
Reclaiming Futures Cuts Crime, Saves Money
By Evan Elkin, January 26 2016
National evaluation shows that Reclaiming Futures generated $11 million in cost savings over one year; promoted better outcomes for teens and communities.
Five communities using the Reclaiming Futures model — a national public health and juvenile justice reform framework that promotes effective treatment practices — saved $11 million in one year. The national evaluation showed that juvenile drug courts implementing the Reclaiming Futures model saw significant reductions in crime and delinquency, which drove these notable fiscal savings.
Conducted by the University of Arizona’s Southwest Institute for Research on Women and funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention through an interagency agreement with the Library of Congress, research examined cost savings over a 12-month period at five juvenile drug courts around the country where the Reclaiming Futures model was implemented. Results show that the savings from implementing Reclaiming Futures are more than double its cost; net savings amounted to $84,569 per teen. Serving a total of 139 teens over the year of the study, these five communities saved more than $11 million in total. Further, average savings were even greater among participating teens with severe clinical problems, amounting to $232,109 in savings per teen.
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Enterprise Zones
In order to aid economic recovery and stimulate growth, a programme of Enterprise Zones have been set up across the country. The Redcar and Cleveland Enterprise Zones look to attract real investment and growth to the borough, delivering significant job opportunities for local residents. All Enterprise Zones benefit from simplified planning regulations to help support growth and the development of small and medium enterprises.
They are great places to do business especially for both new and expanding firms. Financial incentives are available to qualifying businesses (i.e. those within the target sectors) by way of business rate discount or enhanced capital allowances.
Key sectors include:
Advanced engineering/manufacturing
In Redcar and Cleveland, there are four sites included in the Enterprise Zone:
Kirkleatham Business Park
Wilton International
South Bank Wharf
Prairies Site
Kirkleatham Business Park in Redcar has been designated as a business rate relief site. Qualifying businesses locating on Kirkleatham Business Park will benefit from up to five years business rate discount (worth up to £55k per annum), providing they are within one of the target sectors i.e. petro-chemical, renewable energy or advanced engineering/advanced manufacturing.
A local development order has been prepared to support the site at Kirkleatham Business Park, which removes the need to apply for permission in most circumstances.
Businesses that locate onto Kirkleatham Business Park must do so before March 2018 to be able to access the business rate relief incentive.
Meanwhile, sites at Wilton (for energy production) and South Bank Wharf and the Prairies Site (for renewable/advanced engineering) will offer large-scale occupiers enhanced capital allowances against the cost of their plant and machinery.
Wilton International, has five development plots with a total area of 164 Hectares are available. The sites are located within the fully serviced chemical complex at Wilton International with extensive existing infrastructure including power, steam and water, giving companies locating on the site the opportunity to "plug and play". Companies already on the Wilton International site include Lotte, Sabic, and Huntsman. The site is also close to Wilton Centre R&D facility and has pipe linkages to the North side of the river Tees which offers jetties and storage facilities.
Chemicals; Renewable Energy
Total space available
164 hectares
An area of 164 hectares has been identified for development, for details of development opportunities contact Margie Oliver on 01642 444366.
Enterprise Zone rate of capital allowance
100% Enhanced Capital Allowance on capital investment
The site benefits from easy access to the A66, A19 and wider road network and is close to Teesport, the UK's largest exporting port. With Darlington main line station 29km away and Durham Tees Valley Airport just 37km away the site offers excellent access to the rest of the UK and beyond.
The Tees Valley has a strong engineering and growing renewable energy skills base, supported by local colleges and universities who work closely with local businesses to deliver the skills required.
Enterprise Zone Planning Status
Planning at Wilton International is through a Performance Planning Agreement. A Planning Performance Agreement (PPA) is an agreement between a developer and a local planning authority (and usually other key players such as statutory consultees) setting out who will do what and when. The PPA will set out agreed timescales, consultation arrangements, information required, key milestones and timescales, to ensure that a planning application meets the required quality standards and a speedy decision can be made. A formal planning application has still to be submitted but following a successful PPA process, approval should be relatively straightforward.
South Bank Wharf is adjacent to Teesport, the UK's largest exporting port and has river frontage. Close to the integrated chemical site at Wilton International with its cluster of chemical and process industry companies including many of the major international players such as Huntsman, Lotte and Sabic. The area is also home to numerous advanced manufacturing and engineering companies including Darchem, Cummins, Caterpillar and has a growing renewable energy sector, with EDF Energy Renewables, Deep Ocean, JDR Cables located in the area, all of which make it an ideal location for companies in these sectors.
Renewable Energy; Advanced Engineering
80.7 hectares
An area of 80.7 hectares has been identified for development, for details of development opportunities contact Margie Oliver on 01642 444366.
Enterprise Zone rate of capital allowance
Close to the industrial heartland of the Tees Valley this site is just 1.5 km from the A66 and beyond. With Darlington main line station 28km away and Durham Tees Valley Airport just 35km away the site offers excellent access to the rest of the UK and beyond.
Planning at South Bank Wharf is through a Performance Planning Agreement. A Planning Performance Agreement (PPA) is an agreement between a developer and a local planning authority (and usually other key players such as statutory consultees) setting out who will do what and when. The PPA will set out agreed timescales, consultation arrangements, information required, key milestones and timescales, to ensure that a planning application meets the required quality standards and a speedy decision can be made. A formal planning application has still to be submitted but following a successful PPA process, approval should be relatively straightforward.
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Zoloft lawsuits go to trial but still time to file
On behalf of Reich & Binstock posted in Pharmaceutical Liability on Tuesday, April 21, 2015.
The reportedly first U.S. Zoloft birth defects lawsuit progressed to a jury trial in a Missouri state court earlier this month. Zoloft lawsuits have been filed in state and federal courts across the country. As of April 15, there were 548 such lawsuits centralized for pretrial management before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
These actions, according to the federal panel that centralized the federal cases, "involve allegations that Zoloft, a prescription medication approved for the treatment of depression and other ailments, causes birth defects in children when their mothers ingest the drug while pregnant." Central to these lawsuits is the allegation that Pfizer, the maker of Zoloft, failed to warn patients of the unreasonable risk of birth defects about which Pfizer either knew or should have known.
In the Missouri trial, the lawsuit of which was filed in 2012, a mother and her son, the latter of whom is now 11, claimed that the mother's prenatal use of the antidepressant caused her son to be born with numerous heart defects.
Meanwhile, the Zoloft attorneys at Reich & Binstock represent similar Zoloft victims and continue to give free case evaluations to those who believe they may be entitled to compensation.
There is science backing up the claims of the plaintiffs. The research refers to Zoloft as "sertraline," which is the antidepressant's generic name. Some of the research contains unflattering reports about Zoloft and about other selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, as a whole.
For instance, the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology reported Jan. 28 the results of a Canadian study. Researchers studied a cohort of more than 18,000 pregnancies and concluded, "Sertraline use during the first trimester of pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of atrial/ventricular defects and craniosynostosis above and beyond the effect of maternal depression. Nonsertraline SSRIs were associated with an increased risk of craniosynostosis and musculoskeletal defects."
Additionally, the November 2014 edition of the journal Epidemiology summarized a Boston University study in which researchers concluded, "Our data suggest an increased risk of clubfoot occurrence in relation to SSRI use."
If those studies are not enough, epidemiologists at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark looked into the association between SSRI use during pregnancy and the emergence of birth defects. They wrote for the August 2010 edition of the journal Epidemiology that "our findings suggest an association between maternal SSRI use in early pregnancy and cardiac malformations which could be causal." They also learned, "For specific SSRIs, we found an increased risk for septal defects associated with sertraline."
Could the manufacturer have missed that?
That's not even the end of the empirical chain that links SSRIs in general and Zoloft in particular to birth defects seemingly related to the mother's use of the drug during pregnancy.
The medical journal BMJ issued the findings of a Denmark study in September 2009. The bottom line, according to the authors of the study, was as follows: "There is an increased prevalence of septal heart defects among children whose mothers were prescribed an SSRI in early pregnancy, particularly sertraline and citalopram (Celexa)."
Although one Zoloft lawsuit has gone to trial as of this date, with another expected to reach trial in Pennsylvania in May, there is still time for Zoloft victims to get a free consultation from one of the experienced product liability attorneys at Reich & Binstock and to determine the legal options.
A woman who used Zoloft during pregnancy and who had a child with birth defects should contact Reich & Binstock either by calling the toll-free number, 1-866-LAW-2400, or by submitting an electronic message through this web page.
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Defiance of the Fall
by TheFirstDefier
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As Zac was alone in the middle of the forest the world changed. The whole planet was introduced to the so-called multi-verse by an unfeeling System or God. A universe where all races and civilzations fought for power and dominion.
Seemingly forgotten by the System, Zac found himself stuck in the wilderness surrounded by deadly beasts. Alone, lost and without answers, he must find the means to survive and get stronger in this new cut-throat reality.
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The Strongest Skill: (...)
by Kinu456
[Congratulations!! you have levelled up]
[Skill Replication has levelled up]
[Skill Replication allows you to replicate any one of the abilities of the opponent]
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[1. Passive Regeneration]
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At his death's door, Muto Kenshin, a low levelled Hunter with a crappy skill who was struggling for a living discovered a blue window floating over his head.
Realizing that his life has now become a game, he takes full advantage of it to become stronger and earn money.
Read how he rises from being a poor waste to a truly rich and strong Hunter, all while wooing countless girls with his charms.
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Molting the Mortal Coil
by JustinAnkar
Reincarnated as a child in a new world a mild mannered programmer, named Sage, finds himself struggling to survive. The road to immortality is paved with danger, treasure, and conflict. This mystical eastern world is filled with Demonic Beasts, Treacherous Cultivators, and Extraordinary Legacies. Follow Sage on his journey to adapt to this new world, and find out if he can overcome the limitations of body, mind, and soul. Will he rise to the occaision and become a hero? Or maybe he'll turn to the dark side and end up a villain?
Molting the Mortal Coil is more of a slower paced journey. It's not about endless battles and conquering the next bad guy who spits on the main characters shoes or sends him a funny look. There's also not a treadmill of tournaments or love interests. It's more of a slower burn with lots of, and hopefully not too much, world building. It's still supposed to be stuffed with action, but that won't pick up for a while since we start with a weakling. The first 30 chapters have a lot of time-skipping, so stay with me.
Updates will be weekly. If you want to see more chapters, check out my Patreon(button at the bottom of every chapter)! Thanks everyone!
The Scourged Earth
by Mirrored
Derrick is no ones hero. He is barely dealing with his mundane life when all of humanity is forced to confront the extraordinary. Overnight, all across the world, mysterious machines appear. They offer people the chance to purchase almost anything they can think of. Weapons, medicine and even super human abilities are offered, seemingly for free.
But following these machines, come the Scourges. The most dangerous creatures, diseases and machines that infest the universe. Ever growing and battling, these empires of horror and hunger will overhelm and devour the Earth and its inhabitants. Unless Derrick and humanity can stand against all the horrors that battle between the stars.
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My first Story, an attempt to turn the standard fantasy litrpg apocalypse into a Sci Fi. Trying for a slower build to power for the MC, so don't expect him to have cheat powers. I delight in helpful crticism so no holding back plz.
by -Sora-
The continent of Ranfel is a savage one, where humans are at the bottom of the food chain. Their known history is short and their territories are small, only being able to live on the plains at the coast where beasts are rare. When they are not fighting against each other, they have their hands full with monsters attacking their borders.
This is the place where Quin was born, in the capital of the Duchy of Ade Lai, Crows' Road. Having a hatred for exercises, or anything that is tiring and thinking the legions will protect him from the harsh outside world, he does not care about cultivation. However this all changes when a certain incident happens, altering his life forever.
Hey everyone, I've been working on this story for more than a year now, but this is my very first novel and english isn't my mother tongue, so I'd be glad to get some (constructive) input/feedback on it!
Schedule: check the announcements thread for the current schedule.
If you can't decide whether the story is for you or not based on the synopsis, check out the first thread below.
I'm also looking for an editor, if you’re interested, pm me.
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by Bearcat
Since the late 19th Century, humanity has been pushing itself at a breakneck pace towards a single convergence of technology and development. Estimated to occur in the mid 2020's, this pivotal moment is commonly referred to as the Singularity. After five years of research, college student Adrian Pierce manages to crack the code first and create the world's first robust artificial intelligence in the year 2016. Disgusted by society as it is, especially governing bodies, he decides to use his unique position to alter the tenuous balance that greed and corruption had given birth to. With his extraordinary mind, Adrian plots and plans, designing new technologies with his assistant A.I., becoming secretly embroiled in the world of politics, subterfuge, and research. As his influence increases, governments and the general populace alike scramble to discover just who the man behind Archon Industries really is.
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Enrique Martínez Celaya, The Gypsy Camp
March 9, 2017 By Riot Material 1 Comment
at Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC
Reviewed by Robin Scher
“When we think we know art, what is it that we know?”
This is a question posed by the Cuban-born artist Enrique Martínez Celaya in his book, On Art and Mindfulness: Notes from the Anderson Ranch. It is just one of the many philosophical provocations Martínez Celaya delivered to his classes during summer workshops held at the Colorado-based art center over the past few years. Walking around Martínez Celaya’s solo exhibition of recent oil and wax paintings, currently on at New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery through April 22, it’s also a thought that rhetorically resonates through much of his work.
The Last Harvest
Take The Last Harvest (2017), which reveals a man holding aloft two cod-like fish. The painting takes pride of place, greeting viewers as they enter the gallery. Figuratively, the fish evoke a well-trodden proverb. But the man—Martínez Celaya?—seems to hold a somber expression, at odds with someone who knows how to fish. If anything, it appears like he has taken on quite a burden.
This reading might fit nicely were it not for the fact that Martínez Celaya has said himself that his paintings are “not windows to a world but all that there is.” Martínez Celaya emphasizes this by bringing attention to the materiality of his work, often leaving patches of canvas unpainted and in The Last Harvest, framing the edges in a sort of halo that distorts the image.
What we know then is that this is definitively a painting, and quite a beautiful one at that. As for the scene depicted, it feels at once both timeless and momentary; an immortalized snapshot of a familiar sort of crowning affair. The embodiment of nostalgia — could this be a function of our fisherman?
Once again, it is useful here to turn to Martínez Celaya’s own words. “The qualities that distinguish great art from the rest are, directly or indirectly, related to ethics,” Martínez Celaya tells his classes. At the heart of this maxim, Martínez Celaya continues, lies a foundation built on “love and compassion.”
This sentiment illuminates another familiar-feeling scene captured by Martínez Celaya. In the painting, snow gently falls on a young boy, hands in pockets, standing beside a smirking snowman. While Martínez Celaya has once again made an effort to bring attention to the painterliness of the work, it breathes with a sort of life, like seeing an old friend. Martínez Celaya has somewhat paradoxically titled this work The Unloved (2016).
Love and compassion certainly encompass this work, but do these qualities define it? In an interview with the critic Saul Ostrow, Martínez Celaya described our current epoch as a “cynical age, a time of hollowness often pretending it is otherwise.” He attributes this detachment to the various forms of media that have infiltrated our lives, leaving little space for authentic emotional connection through art. Taking this as a point of departure, Martínez Celaya describes his striking images as “crumbling signifiers of emotion” which he wields in an attempt to reawaken the senses that lie dormant when we view art.
A translucent house occupies the small clearing of a twilight forest in The Accountant (2016). Beside the house, a cryptic sentence in cursive font reads “the thing that counts.” Taken together, the house becomes an empty container ripe for association. Similarly, at the enigmatic core of all the paintings in this show lies a wealth of subjective meaning.
The Folktale (2017) is Martínez Celaya’s magnanimous testament to this spirit. Featuring another mysterious architectural form, The Folktale places a set of black marble stairs as its curious center. Two birds can also be seen flapping as they ascend the staircase towards a distant light shimmering on the horizon. It would seem plausible to suggest that reaching a suitably profound understanding of this image would be analogous to its content.
Another possible way to think of Martínez Celaya’s paintings is as a series of vague coordinates. Each painting holds a piece of a grand puzzle, which when combined with one’s unique lived experience, helps reveal some sort of ‘X’ on a map. The thing that counts.
The Folktale
Robin Scher is a New York-based, South African writer and a graduate of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at NYU.
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Guilford Slips by Roanoke 67-65 in ODAC Semis
Roanoke (19-8) 29 36 65
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Pts: C.J. Miles - 18
Reb: Josh Freund - 15
Pts: Carson Long - 18
Reb: Kyler Gregory - 15
Ast: Jaylen Gore - 6
ODAC Semifinals
Score: No. 2 Guilford 67, No. 6 Roanoke 65
Records: Roanoke 19-8 | Guilford 20-7
Location: Salem, Va.
The Lead: Second-seeded Guilford slipped by sixth-seeded Roanoke 67-65 in the Semifinals of the 2019 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Men's Basketball Tournament.
In the first-half, a layup by Carson Long gave Guilford a 20-14 lead with eight minutes to play.
RC went on a 10-4 spurt, tying the game 24-24 on a C.J. Miles three-pointer with just under five minutes in the first.
A Marcus Curry jumper with under a minute to go made it 31-29 game in favor of Guilford heading into halftime.
The Quakers came out and scored the first eight points of the second-half and took a 39-29 lead on a Jaylen Gore three-pointer with 18 minutes to go in the game.
With the score 41-31 Guilford, RC went on a 16-5 run as the Maroons took a 45-44 lead on a Tripp Greene bucket with 12:19 to play.
Roanoke led 55-50 before the Quakers would on an 8-2 and take the lead on a Joah Logan three-pointer at the 3:47 mark.
The score was 60-60 when Greene hit a three-pointer with 2:05 to lead 63-60.
GC scored seven unanswered points, pushing ahead 67-63 on a jumper by Curry with 1:01 on the clock.
Dillon Thomas cut the deficit to 67-65 with a jumper with 49 seconds left and the Maroons would get a stop on GC's ensuing possession.
Roanoke had a chance to tie the game as time expired but its attempt fell short, giving GC the win.
Miles finished with 18 points for Roanoke, while Greene had 17. Thomas had 11 points and Josh Freund had 10 points to go along with 15 rebounds.
Carson Long finished with 18 points for Guilford, Curry had 14 points, Gore finished with 13 and Kyler Gregory had 10. Gregory and Curry had 15 and 10 rebounds, respectively to help Guilford to a 42-28 edge on the glass.
Roanoke finishes the season with a 19-8 overall record.
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SF supervisors have big housing plans with big housing bond for November
Dominic Fracassa May 7, 2019 Updated: May 7, 2019 7:54 p.m.
SF supervisors have big housing plans with big housing...
1of2An affordable housing building currently under construction at Ceasar Chavez and Shotwell St. seen on Tuesday, February 12, 2019 in San Francisco, Calif.Photo: Amy Osborne, Special to The Chronicle
2of2A cashier helps customers check out at a Haight Street market in 2017 in San Francisco, Calif. All stores are now required to accept cash.Photo: Mason Trinca / Special to The Chronicle
San Francisco officials spelled out their spending plan for a proposed $500 million affordable-housing bond expected to land on the November ballot.
Mayor London Breed and board President Norman Yee formally introduced the proposal to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. They co-chaired a working group that divvied up how the bond revenue would be spent.
The bond needs the support of at least eight members of the board to be placed on the ballot. In addition to Yee, Supervisors Vallie Brown, Ahsha Safaí, Catherine Stefani and Shamann Walton have signed on as co-sponsors, so three more supervisors still have to join them.
“We are in a housing crisis that is pushing out our low- and middle-income residents. We desperately need more affordable housing, which is why this funding is so important,” Breed said in a statement.
The board could elect to tinker with the final size of the bond, but because of the city’s strictures on issuing bond debt, growing it could mean pulling money from future bonds, like the $628.5 million disaster-preparedness bond slated for March 2020. That could prove to be politically tricky.
If the bond passes — it requires a two-thirds majority — officials expect it could fund the construction of 2,000 affordable housing units in the next four years.
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“This bond was thoughtfully crafted to address housing needs across the income spectrum,” Yee said in a statement.
Here’s the plan they unveiled Tuesday:
• $210 million to acquire, build and rehabilitate “shovel-ready” affordable housing projects that can begin construction within the next four years. Those units would be reserved for individuals and families earning 80% or below of the area median income. In 2018, the AMI for a two-person household in San Francisco was $94,700, according to the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development.
• $150 million to repair and rebuild crumbling government-owned public housing like the Sunnydale and Potrero Hill projects.
• $90 million for the construction and acquisition of housing for seniors.
• $30 million to rehabilitate or acquire affordable housing at risk of losing its affordable status because of a sale or disrepair.
• $20 million for middle-income housing, including down-payment assistance loans and the purchase of building or land for new construction. This portion will be reserved for households earning 80% to 175% of AMI.
— Dominic Fracassa
Cash still rules: Cash bans are soon to be banned in most San Francisco retailers.
On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors unanimously passed an ordinance that prohibits permanent brick-and-mortar stores from accepting only credit card or mobile payments.
“Residents who rely on cash are unjustly excluded from participating in our city economy,” said Supervisor Vallie Brown, sponsor of the ordinance.
The ordinance — which still must pass a second vote next week — will also prevent businesses from charging a fee or placing any other condition on accepting cash payments. Pop-up stores, food trucks and mobile-based companies like Uber and Lyft are exempt from the new rule.
— Trisha Thadani
Domestic violence: Bay Area Legal Aid has made good on its promise to sue the San Francisco Police Department for allegedly failing to comply with a state law that requires officers to provide timely copies of incident reports to victims of domestic violence.
The organization said last month that after spending years trying to work with the department to accelerate the release of the reports to victims, it would sue the city and the SFPD to force the issue in court unless it received a plan to get the department to comply by the end of April.
Victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, elder abuse and other crimes rely on the reports to get restraining orders against their attackers, and for victims’ attorneys they’re key to building their clients’ cases.
John Coté, a spokesman for the City Attorney’s Office, said in an email that the city was waiting to be served with the lawsuit and would then review it.
Email: cityinsider@sfchronicle.com, dfracassa@sfchronicle.com, tthadani@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @sfcityinsider @dominicfracassa @trishathadani
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Bay Guardian rises from the dead: Will make historic endorsements Monday
The final issue of the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Progressive news is dead, long live progressive news!
In a bit of good news going into the weekend, The San Francisco Center for Newspaper Preservation and Black Press reached an agreement to transfer intellectual assets of the San Francisco Bay Guardian to the center.
Though the center is granted non-commercial use only (that means no ads, and no profit), the agreement does give the center’s heads Tim Redmond and Marke Bieschke full possession of the Bay Guardian’s name, paper and digital archives, as well as the site sfbg.com.
Full disclosure: Redmond was my editor when I was an intern at the Bay Guardian, and Bieschke was my publisher when I was the Bay Guardian’s last staff reporter. My column, On Guard, takes its name from a Bay Guardian column by its founder, Bruce Brugmann (with his permission).
Perhaps more importantly, Black Press (who publishes the San Francisco Examiner and SF Weekly) also gave the center permission to revive a San Francisco progressive mainstay: The Bay Guardian’s “Clean Slate” endorsement guide.
“I’m thrilled that the Guardian’s past will be safely preserved for the future,” Redmond told On Guard, “And I’m glad that the Guardian’s voice on endorsements will be heard again.”
Redmond said the endorsements will print Monday – just in time for this crucial election that’ll seal the fate of controversial progressive causes, and candidates.
For those who aren’t in the know, for decades the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s “Clean Slate Guide” was a front page clip-out endorsement sheet, carried by thousands of San Francisco voters as they cast their ballots. For decades, the electorate scales were tipped by the Clean Slate’s proclamations.
“Bay Guardian endorsements were extraordinarily powerful because there was a group of about 35 percent of San Franciscans for who, that was how they would vote,” said Jim Ross, a long-time political consultant. “It was (these voters’) main source of information… and a progressive candidate good housekeeping stamp of approval.”
Although its power may have waned at the end, Ross said, “even on its last legs the Guardian endorsement meant something to a good chunk of people.”
Glenn Zuehls, the Examiner’s publisher (and my boss), told me “I’m glad everyone involved was able to work together to find a solution. The Bay Guardian archives are an important part of The City’s legacy and I appreciate Tim Redmond’s dedication to making sure they are accessible to the public.”
As for Redmond, he said the archives will perhaps be stored by the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley or the San Francisco Main Library, and talks are pending with both.
“I appreciate the help everyone at Black Press and the Examiner has given me at making this happen,” Redmond said.
Look out Monday for the Bay Guardian’s political endorsements, which will surely raise hell.
On Guard prints the news and raises hell each week. Email him at joe@sfexaminer.com.
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Baby Animals! Games, Jokes, and More!
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Are you looking for a kid's or children's book that is highly entertaining, great for early readers, and is jam-packed with a bedtime story, jokes, games, and more? This children's storybook has it all!
Baby Animals is a cute and rhyming picture book for early readers. It tells the story of how baby animals turn into big animals! This is an excellent read for beginning and early readers. Each story is easy to read and exciting with cute and bright illustrations for younger readers and a coloring book.
This book is especially great for traveling, waiting rooms, and read aloud at home.
-Fun games and puzzles included
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This story is great for a quick bedtime story and to be read aloud with friends and family.
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Studying Visual Art in Barcelona
Written by Reuben Tasker
by Reuben Tasker
Though film production here isn’t as prolific as Tinseltown, there’s few European cities as organically cinematic as the Catalan capital. Providing the backdrop for films such as Volver, Rec. and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the city has earned its reputation as a charming host for visual art in its galleries, cinemas and creative spaces. Unsurprisingly then, Barcelona is a fruitful centre for studying visual art, cinema and film. With a handful of institutions teaching the ways of the silver screen to Barcelona’s populace, here are some essential picks of where to learn up on film.
Bande a Part
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Bande à Part, a cinema school nestled in Eixample is an essential location to study cinema. Translating to “Keeping to himself”, the school’s named after a 1946 Jean-Luc Goddard picture. In keeping with the subject, classes touch on film thinking, technique, technology and practice. The institute promises fruitful connections with those involved in the film industry, and through the school’s production company El Dedo en el Ojo (Catalan for “The Finger in the Eye”), you’re given the opportunity to produce your own feature. The institute also has outreach with film festivals local and international, strong links with film companies and opportunities to study intensively or day-to-day. Whether it’s Spanish or English, summer course or bachelor’s degree: Bande á Part is the school for cinephiles longing for Barcelona-based education in the spirit of film.
ECIB
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Those pining for a more rounded education in audiovisual media should look to ECIB: (Escuela de Cinema de Barcelona). Also located in Eixample, the school offers a more technical approach to being educated in film, with summer workshops and seminars in animation, cinematography and sound. Yet that’s only a sample of the possibilities in being educated at ECIB. The school offers the widest range of technical education in Catalunya, with classes in post-production, improvisational acting and film directing also featuring on the impressive roster. Running just over 20 years, the school has more recently launched 9Zeros, a programme that teaches 2D, CGI and stop-motion animation. Lauded as Europe’s best animation curriculum, it’s one of the many reasons you can trust ECIB for razor sharp tuition that should help those on the way to a career in cinema or a cursory summer learnup.
For filmic inspiration, drop by for a movie at Cinemes Méliès, one of Barcelona’s independent arthouse cinemas, or catch some of the beguiling visual installations at CCCB: Barcelona’s cultural centre. Hey, maybe it’s even time to rewatch Vicky Christina Barcelona.
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Shadowverse, The Hearthstone-like TCG With A Touch Of Anime, Is Now On Steam
By Casey October 31, 2016
Last year, Cygames released Shadowverse, a TCG for smartphones similar to Blizzard’s Hearthstone. Now the Cygames has announced that their popular mobile card collecting game is available over on Steam.
In Shadowverse, players are able to pick from a selection of seven different characters, each with their own story modes, as they go one-on-one in battles. The game features over 500 types of cards and also a multiplayer mode to fight against other players around the world.
While Shadowverse is free-to-play, additional cards and decks can be purchased in the game. However, to celebrate the game’s PC release, Cygames has offered 5 Standard Card Pack Tickets to players who log in to the Steam version through November 30th at 6:59am PT.
Shadowverse is available for smartphones and PC.
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Ubisoft, game shows and Nintendo platforms
By Siliconera Staff June 16, 2008
Ubisoft isn’t a stranger to licensing or targeting the growing demographic of “new gamers” who are apathetic towards their bread and butter Tom Clancy franchise. So, it’s not too hard to believe Ubisoft is working on a Price is Right video game. EB Games says it’s in development for the Wii and Nintendo DS with no other details. I’m expecting touch and drop Plinko.
This isn’t the only game show license from Ubisoft. It looks like the publisher picked up the rights to Hell’s Kitchen too which may also be in the oven for the DS and Wii. Cooking Mama has been an international hit partially because of the heartwarming Mama character. I can’t imagine a game with Gordon Ramsay yelling at players being “fun.” Ubisoft’s hook is the Hell’s Kitchen game contains actual recipes.
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Ys VIII: Lacrimosa Of Dana Debuts On PCs On January 30, 2018
By Jenni Lada January 10, 2018
PC owners will be able to play Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana rather soon. The RPG will arrive on January 30, 2018 worldwide. It will include the revised localization of the game. In addition, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita owners will receive the localization update, which includes an improved script and rerecorded voice acting, on January 30, 2018.
Four screenshots have been released from the PlayStation 4 version of Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana that show the updated translation.
Some free DLC will be available for the PC version of Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana between January 30 and February 6, 2018. People can get a five-track soundtrack sampler, 32-page digital mini art book, an Eternian Scholar costume for Laxia and an Adol’s Adventure Essentials pack with Adol’s Adventurer Clothes, Silver Armor and Survival Kit.
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana is immediately available for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.
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Jenni has been playing games since getting access to her parents' Intellivision as a toddler. She continues to play on every possible platform and loves all of the systems she owns. (These include a PS4, Switch, Xbox One, WonderSwan Color and even a Vectrex!) You may have also seen her work at GamerTell, CheatCC, Michibiku and PlayStation LifeStyle.
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Dionysus and the Land of Beasts
Book #14 of Heroes in Training
By Tracey West
Created by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams / Illustrated by Craig Phillips
Hardcover eBook
Zeus and his friends discover another Olympian who might be able to help in their quest to defeat King Cronus in this Heroes in Training adventure.
With a clue from their trusty oracle, Pythia, Zeus and his Olympian friends are off to the “Land of Grapes,” where they discover a festival. The headline act is Dion and the Goat Guys, and Zeus has a funny feeling this Dion guy might be one of them. Athena points out that this Dion guy is the right age, and he’s definitely not acting like a regular kid. Finally, Dion and the Goat Guys take a break, and Zeus and the other Olympians approach him.
Zeus informs him that he and the others are Olympians, and they think Dion might be one too. Dion (short for Dionysus, he tells them) starts to brag that he wouldn’t be surprised, because he has awesome talents and magic powers. Before the Olympians can ask him about his powers, some of the crowd members start to throng the Olympians. Are they really Olympians? Are they really going to defeat King Cronus? Dion looks kind of peeved about this, and the next thing the Olympians know, they are in a field somewhere, puzzled and not sure what happened.
What kind of magical powers does this Dion kid actually have? And will he be more of a help—or a pain—in their ultimate quest to defeat King Cronus once and for all?
CHAPTER ONE The Search for Lost Friends
I hope the last Olympian we are looking for has awesome powers,” Poseidon was saying. “Like . . . making treats appear out of nowhere.”
Nine kids, each ten years old, were hiking toward a valley in the heart of Greece. They looked like normal kids taking a walk on a sunny morning, but really, they were all Olympians—gods and goddesses destined to rule the land.
“Yeah, I hope he’s super strong!” agreed Hades.
“Well, I hope he is a she,” said his sister Hera. “We could use another girl around here.”
“Right,” agreed her sisters, Demeter and Hestia.
“I just hope the new Olympian isn’t a jerk,” Hephaestus grumbled. The silver skull on the end of his walking stick gleamed in the sunlight.
Hermes, a boy with golden-brown hair, was the only Olympian not walking. He flew in the air next to them, powered by magic winged sandals.
“Should I take that personally?” Hermes asked. “After all, right now I’m actually the new Olympian, until we find the last one.”
Hephaestus shrugged. “If the winged shoe fits . . .”
Gray-eyed Athena nudged Hephaestus. “I don’t think you want to start anything, Heff.”
“Are you forgetting that he loves to prank us?” Hephaestus asked.
Poseidon turned around. He had black hair, and eyes the color of a turquoise ocean. “Maybe he pranked us, but he saved us too! Hermes has mad skills! I still can’t believe he turned that monster into a bunch of stars in the sky!”
Ten-year-old Zeus, the leader of the Olympians, listened to the conversation, but did not join in. The black-haired boy with serious blue eyes had too much on his mind.
It hadn’t been that long ago that he had pulled a magical dagger (which he called Bolt) from a stone at the Temple of Delphi, and Pythia, who could see the future, had told him that he was an Olympian. He was a hero in training—a god destined to take down King Cronus and his evil Titans. Pythia had said that Zeus would rule with other Olympians, too. Kids just like him.
Since then, he’d been on a crazy adventure, a quest with no rest. One by one, he’d found the other Olympians. They’d searched for magical objects that would help them defeat King Cronus and his army.
Together, they had battled Titans with awesome powers. They had faced terrifying monsters. And they’d learned secrets. Zeus had discovered that he and some of the other Olympians were the sons and daughters of King Cronus himself. They were his brothers and sisters—and family he didn’t know he had.
The biggest battle hadn’t happened yet, but Pythia had said it would start soon. And they needed to find one last Olympian to complete their team. But first . . .
“We can’t even start looking for the last Olympian until we find the others,” Zeus spoke up. “Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, and Apollo are still missing.”
“We haven’t stopped thinking about them, Zeus,” said his sister Demeter. Her green eyes looked worried. “I hope that nothing bad has happened to them.”
A few days ago, Pythia had told them to search for “hairy snakes.” (When she was looking into the future, her glasses sometimes got fogged up, and she couldn’t see things clearly.) The Olympians had split up into three groups to find the snakes. Ares, Apollo, Artemis, and Aphrodite had all headed toward the hot springs.
Zeus and his group had ended up finding the “hairy snakes”—a monster named Medusa with snakes for hair. When they’d returned to the village meeting place, they’d rejoined Hera’s group. But four of their friends were still missing.
“I’m sure they’re okay,” Hera said. “They’re probably just lost.”
“You should have let me go with Aphrodite’s group,” Hephaestus grumbled. “I wouldn’t have gotten lost.”
“You’re just jealous that Ares got to go with Aphrodite,” Hera said. She shook her head, and her golden-blond hair bounced on her shoulders. “Honestly, I don’t know what’s so great about that girl.”
Hephaestus blushed. “I’m not jealous,” he mumbled.
The group came to a fork in the path. To the right was a thick forest of oak trees. To the left, a field of pale green grass. It was dotted with purple flowers that swayed in the summer breeze. In the distance, Zeus could see a low mountain.
Zeus stopped and touched the stone disc that hung around his neck on a cord. The stone’s name was Chip, and it had been given to Zeus by Pythia. Chip was one of Zeus’s magical objects.
“Which way, Chip?” Zeus asked.
A green, glowing arrow appeared on the flat surface of the stone. It pointed left.
“This way!” Zeus called out, and the others followed him.
They walked for most of the morning. A few birds flew with Hermes overhead. Some insects with shiny green wings darted among the flowers. But they were the only company the Olympians had for a long time.
As the sun neared its highest point in the sky, the land sloped down. They made their way to the valley below the mountain. White smoke plumed from the top of the mountain and disappeared into the blue sky.
“Cool! It’s a volcano!” Hephaestus remarked.
Tracey West
About The Illustrator
Craig Phillips has been creating cover art and drawings for books, comics, and magazines for nearly two decades. He is most at home working on tales about myth and magic. His latest book—Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts: Ten Tales from the Deep, Dark Woods—is a 200-page graphic novel about just that! It will be in stores in May 2017. When he is not drawing and writing, he likes to swim in the lakes and walk in the forests and mountains of New Zealand. Visit him at CraigPhillips.com.au.
Publisher: Aladdin (December 5, 2017)
Children's Fiction > Boys & Men
Children's Fiction > Legends, Myths, Fables > Greek & Roman
Book Cover Image (jpg): Dionysus and the Land of Beasts
More books from this author: Tracey West
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DVD Review: Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
True to the spirit of the film, the hearty supplemental materials arranged on this DVD set range from the dope to the simply flatulent.
Nick Schager and Ed Gonzalez
On VH1’s recent “I Love the 90s,” actor Jeremy London explained that the reason behind the disappointing box office receipts for Richard Linklater’s 1993 cult hit Dazed and Confused was that people couldn’t enter the theater with a bong. Eleven years later, the same fate may well befall Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, the R rating and profane, drug-happy humor of which may prevent its target audience—the teenage stoner—from seeing the film in theaters in an inebriated state of mind. Directed by Danny Leiner, the idiot (or genius, you decide) who brought the world Dude, Where’s My Car?, this ganja-infatuated comedy is a trailblazing example of in-movie advertising, posing as a stupid teen comedy revolving around marijuana, boobs, and vulgar discussions of sex while in reality functioning as an extended commercial for the joys of White Castle. Although it’s ultimately as unsatisfying as its titular fast food chain’s repulsive mini-burgers, Leiner’s film (written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg) is only shooting for scatological silliness, and it does generate an occasional comedic buzz through unadulterated and rampant inanity. Uptight Harold (John Cho) and uninhibited Kumar (Kal Penn) are a modern-day Felix and Oscar, and when they get stoned on a Friday evening, their craving for White Castle sends them on a night-long odyssey through New Jersey searching for the greasy burger outlet. Along the way, they run into extreme sport bullies and racist cops who never miss an opportunity to make jokes about the duo’s ethnicity, and there’s something disquieting about the film’s pathological eagerness to embrace (and insincere attempts to subvert) offensive stereotypes about Asians as nerdish, career-driven losers. Still, Harold and Kumar are really just more intelligent versions of Ashton Kutcher and Sean William Scott’s goofy potheads from Dude, and despite a welcome skewering of over-the-top anti-drug commercials and a cameo by Neil Patrick Harris as a tripping, sex-crazed version of himself, there’s little to distinguish Harold & Kumar from its dope-loving forefathers aside from its shameless shilling for artery-clogging junk food. Somewhere, Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock is shaking his head in disbelief.
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Both image and sound are dope.
Take your pick between the three commentaries included here-they’re all keepers, but you may need to be stoned to thoroughly enjoy the third one by Danny Bochart, who stars in the film as Extreme Punk #1 and stays in character for his entire 90-minute track. It’s all down from there, and that’s a good thing: Bobby Lee interviews stars John Cho and Kal Penn inside a car and “The Art of Fart” chronicles the sound guy’s search for the perfect diarrhea noise. Also included here are a series of interviews compiled into a section that resembles a fast food restaurant’s drive-thru, nine deleted/alternate scenes (including “The Luis Guzmán Scene”), a music video for All Too Much’s “Yeah (Dream Of Me),” the film’s theatrical trailer, and trailers for Festival Express, Blade: Trinity, The Butterfly Effect, and Run Ronnie Run.
Cast: John Cho, Kal Penn, Malin Åkerman, Anthony, anderson, Boyd Banks, Dan Bochart, Steve Braun, Ethan Embry, Neil Patrick Harris Director: Danny Leiner Screenwriter: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg Distributor: New Line Home Entertainment Running Time: 90 min Rating: NR Year: 2004 Release Date: January 4, 2005 Buy: Video, Soundtrack
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John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China is a relative outlier in the director’s poetically bleak filmography, a martial-arts adventure slash monster-comedy extravaganza that suggests an Indiana Jones movie that’s been mounted on a more intimate scale. Look deeper, though, and Big Trouble in Little China recalls the spirit of the work of Carpenter’s beloved Howard Hawks (who made the similarly uncharacteristic Land of the Pharaohs) in its obsession with a team unity that eclipses the efforts of any singular individual. Indiana Jones may have touches of erudition and the help of friends, but he’s unquestionably the man of action at any given moment, while this film’s Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) is more of a wannabe, a truck driver with a John Wayne bluster who talks tough and has authentic courage, while having no clue what he’s doing.
An early scene in Big Trouble in Little China is perhaps purposefully misleading. Jack is in San Francisco’s Chinatown playing pai gow with a group of Chinese-Americans. Jack wins and takes their money, suggesting that he will be the cocksure American of the movies who’s at ease wherever he goes, besting people at their own rituals. This a warm and funny—read: Hawksian—scene in which we’re allowed to revel in the somewhat contentious energy of these men. One of the Chinese-Americans is something of a friend of Jack’s, Wang (Dennis Dun), who loses big to him in a double-or-nothing gambit. Then, Wang and Jack are swept into a bizarre quest in which the American is nearly rendered the sidekick, forcing him to get by mostly on nerve. The film is both a celebration and parody of macho American ego.
It’s amazing how loose and charming a screen adventure can be when filmmakers are willing to play around and deflate a hero’s pomposity, even if they ultimately enjoy it. Accompanying Wang to the airport, still hoping to get his money, Jack hits on a gorgeous woman, Gracie Law (Kim Cattrall), and is promptly shot down for being drunk. When Chinese gangsters kidnap Wang’s fiancée, Miao Yin (Suzee Pai), at the airport, Jack faces the gangsters and gets his ass kicked (though he is out-armed and outnumbered). Later, a wise and benevolent old sorcerer, Egg Shen (Victor Wong), delivers a bunch of exposition about Chinese black magic and the legacy of a demon named Lo Pan (James Hong), Jack says he feels like an outsider and everyone, especially Gracie, agrees. Eventually, Jack fires a machine gun into the air, finally feeling in his element, and sends a part of the ceiling crashing down on his head. And so on.
W.D. Richter’s screenplay abounds in clever one-liners that Carpenter skillfully under-emphasizes, while Russell, who’s played many un-ironic action heroes, embraces Jack’s foolishness with a lovely and graceful sense of abandon. In other words, Carpenter has it both ways: Jack is never more dashing than when crossing the master threshold of idiocy.
At the time of its release, critics complained that Big Trouble in Little China was neither an adventure, a comedy, nor a horror film, and that its characters were merely types, which is very much the point here. The stakes of the quest to rescue Miao Yin and Gracie from Lo Pan’s clutches are never high, as Carpenter is more interested in mounting a free-floating hang-out comedy that casually borrows from many genres, effectively announcing his ability to do whatever he pleases—a cocky sensibility that would influence future genre mix-masters.
Big Trouble in Little China often suggests a feature-length version of those idle moments in Hawks’s adventures, such as when Ricky Nelson’s character sang a song in Rio Bravo, only with the flippancy turned way up. The monsters and special effects are charmingly jokey—far more charming than those of Ivan Reitman’s similarly spirited Ghostbusters—and Carpenter’s beautiful widescreen compositions often liken the creatures to those of a spooky amusement-park ride, banishing them to nooks and crannies that presumably hide their puppeteers. Meanwhile, the martial-arts battles are funny, poignant, and concise, as Carpenter emphasizes singular gestures, such as an air-born swordfight, allowing them to cumulatively suggest stanzas in a poem. In its sense of controlled chaos, Big Trouble in Little China distinguishes itself from the figurative madness of the films of, say, Tsui Hark.
Despite the half-drunk, what-the-hell atmosphere, the humans in Big Trouble in Little China do register, which prevents this film from being as meaningless as genre pastiche-parodies like Stephen Sommers’s Mummy installments. Russell, with his gloriously cuckoo timing and absurd tank top, is the center of the narrative, but Dun, Cattrall, Pai, Li, and Wong have a poignant agency as well as an intergroup chemistry, and Hong wisely plays his role straight as a counterpoint to Russell. Lo Pan is an authentically elegant and frightening villain, whether mocking the heroes as an old man or hovering malevolently through his subterranean lair as an albino phantom warrior. And his exit, cleverly foreshadowed by an early scene between Jack and Wang, is both jolting and amusing, which is essentially this strange lark in a nutshell.
The image here has a painterly quality that’s in keeping with John Carpenter and cinematographer Dean Cundey’s intentions. Colors have a soft, almost watercolor quality and occasionally explode off the screen, such as the reds and greens of the various tiers of Lo Pan’s subterranean lair. Facial textures are quite detailed, such as the make-up for Kim Cattrall’s character when she’s fashioned as a bride for Lo Pan. There are two soundtracks: a 5.1 and 2.0. The mixes are clear but occasionally sound a little flat in terms of diegetic effects, though the score is robust and nuanced, allowing Carpenter’s fans to savor his synth collaboration with Alan Howarth. Overall, this is an appealing transfer, but it doesn’t quite feel definitive.
The new interviews are the highlight of this loaded supplements package, and they follow two overlapping thematic strands. On one hand, the interviews with virtually every person involved on Big Trouble in Little China offer a relatively full portrait of the film’s making (notably missing are the female actors), detailing how Gary Goldman and David Z. Weinstein’s original period western script was revised by co-screenwriter W.D. Richter to take place in the present day, and how Carpenter eventually took on directing duties, hiring friends and former collaborators such as Kurt Russell, second-unit director Tommy Lee Wallace, and Nick Castle, who played Michael Meyers in Halloween and helped perform with Carpenter and Wallace the theme song for Big Trouble in Little China.
Throughout these interviews, Carpenter is portrayed as a low-key man of many talents who knows how to command a set, and who feels the film’s comedy was misunderstood by the studio and initially the audience alike. The other strand, more poignantly, details the working experiences of the Asian actors in the cast, including Dennis Dun, James Hong, Donald Li, and Peter Kwong, who offer similar stories of combating Hollywood stereotypes and turning to acting as children as a way to fit into a Caucasian society.
There are also three audio commentaries, an archive one with Russell and Carpenter that’s a good informal listen, and two new tracks with producer Larry Franco and special effects artist Steve Johnson, respectively, that offer even more context on the film’s creation. All sorts of other goodies round out a superb set, including photo galleries, stills galleries, and a feature on the film’s various posters and lobby cards. This package is a treasure trove for fans of Big Trouble in Little China, especially for Carpenter acolytes.
The cast and crew interviews are the star of this Shout! Factory disc, elaborating on the making of a misunderstood cult classic.
Cast: Kurt Russell, Dennis Dun, Kim Cattrall, James Hong, Victor Wong, Kate Burton, Donald Li, Carter Wong, Peter Kwong, Suzee Pai, Chao Li Chi, James Pax, Jeff Imada, Craig Ng Director: John Carpenter Screenwriter: Gary Goldman, David Z. Weinstein, W.D. Richter Distributor: Shout! Factory Running Time: 99 min Rating: PG-13 Year: 1986 Release Date: December 3, 2019 Buy: Video
The film remains a hypnotic yet foreboding look at how the proliferation of images and media technology affect the mind.
Wim Wenders’s 287-minute sci-fi adventure Until the End of the World has the peculiar quality of being simultaneously elliptical and meticulously plotted. Though the 1991 film features no shortage of contemplative shots of futuristic vistas, both real and virtual, and exhibits an aversion to easy action-flick thrills, the narrative has all the intricacy one would expect of a cyberpunkian tale about the chase for stolen, mind-altering technology. Despite the story’s novelistic girth, most scenes wind up being indispensable both to the plot and to the film’s portrait of a specific, detailed milieu. Which is to say that the whole is akin to a good novel—a comparison that Wenders would likely appreciate, given that his prescient allegory of the postmodern condition ends up, somewhat paradoxically, propounding the virtues of words over images.
The pronouncement in favor of written language is uttered in Until the End of the World by the narrator character, Eugene (Sam Neill), as a kind of conclusion, after he’s witnessed the abyssal attraction that the digital image holds for his ex-girlfriend, Claire (Solveig Dommartin, who co-authored the film’s story), and the new object of her affection, Sam (William Hurt). Enthralled by a head-mounted camera invented by Sam’s father (Max von Sydow) that can read brainwaves—and, as it turns out, convert dreams into digital imagery—the two become obsessed by the potential of reading their unconscious mind’s nocturnal creations.
The images the device draws, presented in full frame in a few boldly experimental sequences, are multifarious, amorphous, and rapturously beautiful. Digital artifacts and posterizations, as a form of auto-animation, appear to imbue the images themselves with life, even as such imperfections obscure the objects actually depicted. These obscure but teeming visions compel Sam and Claire’s intense engagement, and in what’s perhaps the most clear-sighted prediction of the life in digitized society in a film chock-full of them, Wenders has his two principal characters spend much of the final act staring passively into digital devices, oblivious to the glowing orange-red vistas of the Australian Outback they wander through.
Set in 1999, Until the End of the World predicts with striking accuracy such turn-of-the-millennium devices as digital assistants, search engines, and consumer GPS navigation. The social order in which these objects are embedded also isn’t far off the mark. The film’s first half is a road trip through a globalized world auguring a post-Berlin Wall order that bears more than a passing likeness to our own: East Berlin glows with the neon of renewed capital investment; in the Soviet Union, espionage has been privatized; and San Francisco bears witness to the extreme income disparity wrought by the latter years of the Pax Americana.
The road trip that will end in the dreamland of Australia is kickstarted—though without the urgency the metaphor implies—when Claire turns off a French highway to avoid a traffic jam. This detour eventually brings her into contact with Sam, the trench-coat-clad, fedora-topped fugitive whose air of extralegal mystery and neo-noir cool draws Claire to him well before the film reveals its technological MacGuffin. As Sam, Hurt is a bit stiff, as if, like Claire, he’s unclear exactly who Sam is supposed to be—which works, to a degree, in the film’s first half, as the man has turned himself into a neutral medium, a recording device. It will eventually turn out that Sam has stolen his father’s experimental brain camera to collect images of the world that can now be conveyed directly to the visual cortex of his blind mother (Jeanne Moreau).
Wenders grounds Claire’s sudden and intense attraction to the apparent criminal by having Eugene’s detached voiceover narration describe Claire as flighty and adventurous. Such haphazard characterization is a hallmark of Until the End of the World: Wenders consistently proves less interested in a deep dive into the romantic triangle tying together Claire, Sam, and Eugene than he is in an exploration of the image-saturated milieus of the near future, with their omnipresent screens and glowing neon. He underlines the oneiric artificiality of these millennial environments with an expansive and justly renowned soundtrack—featuring songs by the Talking Heads, R.E.M., Peter Gabriel, and U2—that was more successful than the film itself upon release. That Until the End of the World at times comes off as the world’s longest music video arguably suits its project, as to ‘90s intellectuals there was no aesthetic more symptomatic of the forthcoming descent into visual oblivion as that of MTV.
Like Sam’s project, Until the End of the World is itself a compendium of images, with overt allusions to Jean-Luc Godard, Alfred Hitchcock, Yasujirō Ozu, and, somewhat randomly, Johannes Vermeer. Not to mention Wenders’s own previous films: The director’s use of the road as means of contemplating the gulf between image and experience recalls Alice in the Cities and his American breakout, Paris, Texas. If the meat of the film—the envelopment of the protagonists’ consciousnesses, as well as our own, in the chameleonic digital image, the tempting escape into virtuality—doesn’t come until rather late into the film’s 287-minute running time, it’s because Wenders first sets himself the gargantuan task of summarizing the state of the cinematic image at the moment of its eclipse. His film, well at home with the science fiction of its era, suggests that a shift in our means of apprehending the real is also an alteration of reality—the end, one could somewhat extravagantly claim, of the world itself.
The new transfer of the film reveals cinematographer Robby Müller’s strikingly bright but deeply hued color palette in all its glory, from the saturated reds of the futuristic Kiev train station, to the lush greens of the Japanese countryside, to the dusty gray of bougie-bohemian Parisian apartment buildings. Wim Wenders, who oversaw the film’s restoration, makes best use of the remastered 5.1 soundtrack during the music sequences, using the more robust mix to create a greater sense of envelopment. By comparison, the film’s environmental sounds and dialogue are mixed flatly, but given how frequently songs appear under scenes, the disc assures an aural experience that’s overall on par with its visual one.
With this double-disc Blu-ray, Criterion offers an expansive but well-curated selection of extras organized around a few through lines. First, and lending itself to a certain auteur-worshipping romanticism, is the production history of the full Until the End of the World cut, which came in at the current length of 287 minutes. The film’s producers demanded severe edits, forcing Wim Wenders and editor Peter Przygodda to reduce the running time to 158 minutes. Wenders’s efforts to save his original vision are detailed in Bilge Ebiri’s illuminating booklet essay, a prolix title card that runs before the film, and in the filmmaker’s introduction for this Criterion release, as well as in an interview from German television from around the release of the director’s cut to German DVD in 2001.
Then there’s the film’s experimental use of digital video, so we get 1990 special from Japanese television featuring Wenders working on the pioneering digital footage shot for the film in Sony’s Tokyo-based labs. And finally there’s the hit soundtrack, so we get an additional booklet essay by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, adapted from a longer (and highly recommended) piece from The A.V. Club, that celebrates the unabashed hipness of Wenders’s musical taste, and a documentary about the recording of Nick Cave’s “(I’ll Love You) Till the End of the World” that provides fascinating glimpses of Berlin immediately after the fall of the wall. A bit out of place are a series of “deleted scenes” that are really 20 minutes of extended scenes and B roll.
A film at once hip, quirky, and serious-minded, Until the End of the World remains a hypnotic yet foreboding look at how the proliferation of images and media technology affect the mind.
Cast: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Sam Neill, Max von Sydow, Rüdiger Volger, Ernie Dingo, Jeanne Moreau, Chick Ortega, Elena Smirnova, Eddy Mitchell, Chishu Ryu, Allen Garfield, Lois Chiles, Kuniko Miyake Director: Wim Wenders Screenwriter: Peter Carey, Wim Wenders Distributor: The Criterion Collection Running Time: 287 min Rating: R Year: 1991 Release Date: December 17, 2019 Buy: Video
Criterion’s release stands tall as what one, specific genius of the medium was able to do with a fair-to-middling play.
Jaime N. Christley
George Cukor’s 1938 masterpiece Holiday seems to have emerged from a happy and completely natural accord between talent and circumstances. Peel back a few layers and, like many established classics of Hollywood’s classical period, the truth is strange, and not at all neat.
The basic outline of the story is a wrinkle on the old conflict between restless, proto-hippie, free-spirit types and the maw of American aristocracy that threatens to devour them. Johnny Case (Cary Grant), having emerged from blue-collar stock and engineered an untenable balance between the shrewdly ambitious and the purposefully lackadaisical, has found himself engaged to be married into one of the richest old-money families in the country, the Setons. The family estate gives the film the perfect opportunity to indicate unfathomable American wealth, a yawning fortress tucked into the row of 5th Avenue’s Gilded Age townhouses. Holiday exploits the opportunity for all its tactile pleasures, almost unto itself grounding the fulcrum of its drama: The palace is a mausoleum, sure, but it’s also a very, very nice mausoleum—an architectural and interior design honey trap of the highest order.
These battle lines intersect within Johnny’s very soul, and his outward, competing angels are made manifest in his fiancée, Julia (Doris Nolan), and her sister, Linda (Katharine Hepburn). Julia is a deluxe wife in training, more than prepared for a life of meticulously managed leisure earned by the industry of Johnny’s business acumen. Linda, at the other end of the spectrum, is frequently charged with childishness, but it’s better to say that she dreams of actualizing a child’s pleasure long past the demarcation of adulthood. The prospect of marriage to Julia doesn’t come across as unappealing, but, serendipitously, and with some delayed reaction, Johnny and Linda provoke in each other a latent tendency to peaceful disobedience.
The very nature of the story’s pronounced dichotomy all but expressly circumscribes a path to victory for the free spirits, while the film’s romantic-comedy side implies a dual victory, a rhyming one, wherein the couple the audience was hoping for from the outset unites as the final music rises and Holiday blissfully fades out. A director and cast need not be especially clever or energetic to carry this tidy narrative to term, as Edward H. Griffith’s 1930 film Holiday—the first to bring Philip Barry’s play to the screen—amply demonstrates, but the ways that Cukor distinguishes his adaptation are self-evident.
The simplest way to explain the Cukor effect is by way of infusion, on a single, spectacular, and crucial set: Linda’s playroom. Already a visual and spatial centerpiece of the play, it’s transformed here into a Cukorian dynamo, a zone of thrilling provocation and mystery not to be found anywhere else in pictures. As a concept, it’s merely “important,” a crucial apparatus to put asunder the Setons’ pretty mausoleum and the far more animated life of Linda’s mind.
To be clear, the playroom would be a boon even to the most mediocre talent. In Cukor’s hands, it becomes a living space, a key component to the director’s entire vision. The ostensible “nonconformity versus responsibility” drama, while served dutifully, takes second seat behind a much larger artwork that breathes through its actors, and pushes energy currents through different rooms, and the meaning imbued by the dreams and plans projected therein.
Setting aside for a moment that Cukor was the one director cherished most by prestige-hungry moguls like David O. Selznick and Louis B. Mayer, or that he would sustain what seemed to be an indefatigable commitment to picture-making for five very busy decades, Cukor’s ingenuity had a lot to do with being someone who could apparently do it all. And as he would prove time and again, his polyvalent set of talents were crucial not only during the transition from one project to another (famously, at this point, he was already ramping up pre-production on Gone With the Wind, for Selznick), but in uniting the disparate elements of one project.
This kind of talent wasn’t mislaid when Cukor directed Holiday, as the project wasn’t entirely without potential pitfalls. Barry’s play often goads directors to make sure things resonate all the way to the nosebleed seats, with such bald enticements for audience goodwill as Linda hollering, “Oh, someone please, try and stop me!” A not-insignificant portion of the material depends on champagne-flute-shattering high notes like this, and Cukor is too shrewd a popular entertainer to declare himself an enemy of such gambits.
Other thorny matters include Grant’s performance. Hard as it may be for us to believe, while there could be no doubt that Grant was a lead actor by 1937 and 1938, it remained evident that the studios still weren’t entirely sure who he was or what he could do. That uncertainty somehow both feeds the dilemma that is Johnny and threatens to render it into a flattened absurdity all at the same time. Grant was an icon of impeccable style and poise, as well as the greatest dancer in non-musical cinema after Buster Keaton. His efforts early in Holiday to evince both romantic charm and devil-may-care absent-mindedness, with intimations of some deeper register of antisocial angst, are as strained as that cocktail of character traits sounds. A lock of unruly hair that falls across his forehead is made to work harder than it ought to, in order to sell Johnny as a nincompoop suffering from chronic distraction who nevertheless would bring home a rich fiancée during a casual skiing excursion.
Cukor—and Grant—make it abundantly clear that they don’t see Johnny as a problem that’s meant to be solved. Crucially, these early scenes are funny and evocative and have certain earmarks of Cukorian dexterity—a slight compression of scene choreography so that exposition and stagecraft resemble a strange game of undisclosed rules; a sprinkling of absurd non sequiturs intended only to be half-heard, not unlike the ones in Howard Hawks pictures.
Further, Johnny’s flightiness is sublimated to Linda, and, to a lesser (but still oddly moving) degree, Lew Ayres’s junior Seton man of the house, Ned. Ever after, threats of strained seriousness are either attacked or ignored, not only by Cukor or his highly adept screenwriters, Donald Ogden Stewart and Sidney Buchman, but by a robust esprit de corps that’s the result of a cast and crew brought together under the charge that no job is too small or thorny conceptual wrinkle too big. It’s this unity that lends Holiday its glow, its larger-than-life-ness, which is larger even than a star picture led by Hepburn and Grant That it’s also very funny, highly empathetic even to the losing side of its love arithmetic, and, in its way, an unspeakably sad elegy for the kind of privileged rebellion only possible in Hollywood pictures, it’s just the right kind of explosive ordnance you should aim directly at your heart, and fire.
If the best black-and-white cinema from the 1930s had a reputation for being the silvery shimmer of dreamscapes, part of that was thanks to George Cukor’s impeccable aesthetic sense; you need only flip through a few random shots from Camille, Dinner at Eight, and Romeo and Juliet for evidence. Holiday is a little bit of a different kettle of fish, as oneiric visions of swooning romance just aren’t on the menu here. Rather, the countless images of patrician elegance, needing to suggest the very best that the very fattest stacks of Upper East Side cash could buy, needs to be positioned as the obverse side—but not alien to—the cockeyed snap of Linda’s playroom, a more deeply intimate cut into the flesh of American dreaming.
Under Cukor, Franz Planer’s monochrome cinematography is expertly tuned to every nuance, without undue exuberance, from the Setons’ cavernous antechambers to the cozy bookshelves in the background of the playroom. The new 4K restoration of Holiday honors the sophisticated lighting and compositions of Planer and Cukor’s design, helping to bring under one, smooth draught of Columbia monochrome, one of the deceptively light odes to the bittersweetness of ephemeral love and desire ever to emerge from that studio or any other.
That’s not to say that the soundtrack is relegated to backup. In a scene that’s by all reasonable metrics the heart of Holiday, Johnny and Linda look out over the New Years’ Eve revelers on the Seton lawn, happenstance making the celebration a private one for just these two. The soundtrack keeps the background rumble low, far-off sounding, yet perfectly clear, the better to steal a kiss, even more the better to demur an illicit romantic overture. In a Cukor picture where the quietest asides mean the most, the Blu-ray’s attention to the nuances of each layer of sound are no less significant than the picture, and Criterion’s uncompressed monaural track for the 4K restoration must be acquitted on all charges, by any jury in the world.
There’s a line from Cukor’s 1952 film Pat and Mike that I’ve been looking for an excuse to use in a review for quite a long time: “There’s not much meat on her, but what’s there is ‘cherce’.” Such is what Criterion has given us on the Holiday disc for supplements. Not to discount too steeply the value in the videotaped conversation between critic Michael Sragow and filmmaker Michael Schlesinger, or the vintage audio clips of Cukor discussing Holiday, but the real prize hog on the disc is Edward H. Griffith’s 1930 adaptation of the Philip Barry play.
The 1930 Holiday, which earned Ann Harding her only Oscar nomination, is perfectly dreadful in ways only prestige adaptations of theatrical properties can be, within that volatile period when talking pictures were the newest wonders offered by technology. Griffith’s direction is honor-bound and correct, if you will only evaluate the film as a means to convey the Barry play to cinema audiences who happen to need some coaxing to believe that actors can enunciate their lines, and be heard, in the same instance—the magic of the movies.
Otherwise, the film is as laborious and punishing as one might expect; in particular, Robert Ames’s Johnny Case is totally unconvincing. Ames, who, sadly, would exit this life in 1931 by way of acute alcoholism, makes a totally neutral Johnny—dutifully amplifying dialogue requiring emphasis but never for an instance suggesting an agent of liberation, for himself or anyone else. Elsewhere, Griffith’s direction is strictly without urgency, pushing the actors (leading the charge, as she often would, was the grand Mary Astor) only to hit their taped marks and speak with correct diction into microphones hidden in ornate vases.
Never mind the box sets: Here’s a slender, yet unquestionably crucial, presentation of one of the greatest films to emerge from any decade of American cinema, without qualification.
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon, Henry Daniell Director: George Cukor Screenwriter: Donald Ogden Stewart, Sidney Buchman Distributor: The Criterion Collection Running Time: 95 min Rating: NR Year: 1938 Release Date: January 7, 2020 Buy: Video
This transfer of Fleischer’s B-film cheapie boasts a crisp image and strong contrast levels.
Before going on to direct such disparate genre fare as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Soylent Green, and Tora, Tora, Tora, Richard Fleischer cut his teeth directing B noirs at RKO Pictures, culminating in the 1952 classic The Narrow Margin. With 1949’s Trapped, Fleischer was loaned out as a hired gun for the Poverty Row studio Eagle-Lion Films—known primarily for producing the first four collaborations between Anthony Mann and cinematographer John Alton—where he was left to work his magic on an even more miniscule budget and a shooting schedule so tight, it could turn coal into a diamond.
Lacking any semblance of polished studio sheen, Trapped spins a gritty, no-nonsense yarn about a ruthless counterfeiter, Tris Stewart (Lloyd Bridges), who’s sprung from jail by the Treasury Department and tasked with hunting down his old counterfeiting plates, which are being used, after a three-year hiatus, to print fresh batches of dough. Despite working within the extreme budgetary limitations of the bargain-basement B film, Fleischer flashes some surprisingly adroit camerawork throughout, as well as an acute sense of composition that’s most prominent in the thrilling climactic sequence set in an empty trolley car station.
The characters also accrue a surprising complexity throughout, as high tensions arise from the conflicts between their aspirations and realities. Not only does Tris play both sides of the law once he’s back on the streets, but his girlfriend, Meg (Barbara Payton), is stuck working as a cigarette girl under the alias of Laurie Fredericks as she hides out from the cops. Even the seedy guy, John Downey (John Hoyt), who’s been keeping Laurie company at the club while Tris is behind bars has been working a long con as one of the numerous T-Men on hand to ensure Tris leads the way to the elusive and invaluable plates. Struggling with the challenges of balancing these dual identities, these characters’ frequently dicey attempts to play both sides of the law effectively blur the thin line between good and evil.
Trapped borrows liberally from earlier Poverty Row successes and relies on an intermittent docudrama aesthetic to lend an immediacy and authenticity to its drama. Despite being obviously indebted to T-Men, Trapped sets itself apart from Anthony Mann’s film with a series of elaborately conceived double-crossings and a brutally violent streak that Bridges, already warming up for his equally maniacal performance in Cy Endfield’s The Sound of Fury the following year, carries through the film’s first hour until his abrupt and unceremonious exit.
Tris’s quick temper and savage thirst for trouble enlivens nearly every scene he’s in. And each of the fights he’s involved in—three with T-Men and one with a former partner he roughs up just for the hell of it—play out with an exhilarating rawness as men awkwardly flail about, their every punch and kick carrying conveying a manic sense of desperation. Although the narrative’s seams begin to reveal themselves toward the end (with such details as Tris’s absence from the film’s final 15 minutes seeming less intentional than a byproduct of a script rushed into production), Fleischer and Bridges’s work gives Trapped a terse vitality that propels it through its duller, less inspired passages.
Soon after its release, Trapped was, like most Poverty Row films, thoughtlessly condemned to the murky waters of the public domain, where it could only be seen in extremely poor quality. Following the recent discovery of a 35mm acetate print of Richard Fleischer’s film, the Film Noir Foundation and the UCLA Film & Television Archive went to work on producing the beautiful restoration available here. Flicker Alley’s transfer boasts a crisp image and strong contrast levels, effectively restoring the rich details of the film’s location shooting. Slight signs of dirt and debris still remain, but these minor imperfections do little to hamper just how good the image looks here. The audio is quite impressive as well, with a nicely balanced mix, clean dialogue, and a complete absence of hisses and pops.
Per usual with their Blu-ray releases of new restorations, Flicker Alley has included an informative and engaging commentary track, this time with author Alan K. Rode and film historian Julie Kirgo. The two have a charming repartee, and their affection for Trapped and many of the oft-forgotten noir cheapies churned out on Poverty Row comes through loud and clear. Along with providing ample historical background about Eagle-Lion Films, particularly head producer Bryan Foy’s legendary cutthroat cheapness and efficiency, Rode and Kirgo ably traverse Bridges and Fleischer’s careers, as well as the tragic life of actress Barbara Payton. The package also includes two featurettes—one which touches upon the film’s Los Angeles location shooting and Fleischer’s lean, economical style, and another that explores Fleischer’s rise from B-film obscurity to a dependable major studio director—as well as a 24-page booklet with storyboards and artwork from the film and brief bios of its major cast and crew.
Flicker Alley’s fantastic Blu-ray release gives Richard Fleischer’s B-film cheapie the tender, loving care typically afforded only to major studio fare or canonical classics.
Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, James Todd, Russ Conway, Robert Karnes, Robert Carson Director: Richard Fleischer Screenwriter: Earl Felton, George Zuckerman Distributor: Flicker Alley Running Time: 78 min Rating: NR Year: 1949 Release Date: December 31, 2019 Buy: Video
Schrader’s lively and despairing first film as director has never been more relevant.
Audiences familiar with Paul Schrader’s customarily austere aesthetic may be surprised by the jocularity of his 1978 directorial debut, Blue Collar. Following three broke auto workers living in Detroit, the film has long passages of wittily profane, seemingly improvisatory dialogue that reveals the day-to-day tempo of the men’s lives, suggesting the scenes between the various cab drivers in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, which Schrader wrote. One particularly audacious comic sequence sees Schrader expressing his characters’ desperation and poverty in a series of comic twists so evocatively absurd, sad, and politically enraged that they suggest a Buñuel set piece. Zeke (Richard Pryor), the angriest of the men, has been caught lying about the amount of children he has to the I.R.S., and so his wife, Caroline (Chip Fields) runs over to a neighbor’s house to grab more kids while he stalls an agent (Leonard Gaines). Riffing wildly, Zeke tries to tell the agent that his extra children have names such as Jim Brown and Sugar Ray. This sort of scene can scarcely be found in many of Schrader’s most famous films as director, and such playfulness was leeched entirely of his next directorial effort, the solemn, deadening Hardcore.
This liveliness, this tonal variety, is shrewdly utilized by Schrader as a form of misdirection. Blue Collar is driven by a tragic thesis, and it’s as bleak and furious as any film Schrader has made since, but it takes its time and allows you to get your guard down. There’s even a genre hook, which Schrader casually subverts. Zeke and his co-workers and drinking buddies, Jerry (Harvey Keitel) and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto), fed up with being exploited by the auto plant and their union, decide to rob the latter’s office. In a conventional film, even one with political ambitions, such a heist would generate thrills. For Schrader, the robbery is a banal, dryly funny spectacle—a humdrum extension of the trio’s frustrating lives. They come away with nearly nothing and inadvertently benefit the union, which lies about its losses for insurance money. This failure splinters the men, and this dissolution is what truly interests Schrader.
In most heist movies, criminals fall out over the ill-gotten booty. In Blue Collar, Zeke, Jerry, and Smokey are driven apart because they are expertly manipulated by larger social forces. The union turns the men against one another in order to nullify the threat of their potential unrest—a theme that couldn’t be more timely in an age in which we’re conditioned to despise one another for our political affiliations while monopolies are forged and vast quantities of money are controlled by fewer and fewer essential oligarchs. Yet Schrader, with his sense of comedy, with his innate grasp of the working-class textures of his characters’ lives, never renders this theme into a dull sermon. Blue Collar is a surprising and emotionally robust experience.
Pryor, Kotto, and Keitel have a profoundly convincing chemistry, and Schrader modulates their performances with a confidence that would be impressive for anyone, let alone a first-time director. We’re always keyed into each man’s specific energy, and to how those energies coalesce when they’re together. Zeke is a livewire hothead, which allows Pryor to tap the same performative demons he channeled for stand-up, but Pryor’s performance doesn’t represent a mere change of setting, as his acting is a true, volatile expression of Zeke’s bitterness, which is channeled, via the character and the actor’s intelligence, into conversational riffs that suggest the “stand-up” of everyone’s regular lives. Kotto invests Smokey with a simmering, subtler intensity, while Keitel embodies the anxiety of the comparatively straight rational man—the odd man out among eccentrics in an extraordinary series of situations. (Schrader and the cast also understand these various dynamics to be informed by racial tension: Zeke and Smokey are African-American and Jerry is Caucasian, a difference in perspective and station that isn’t outwardly acknowledged until a devastating late scene between Zeke and Jerry.)
Blue Collar also features one of Schrader’s finest and most disturbing set pieces, in which his themes are expressed through a series of piercing physical gestures. Smokey is murdered by the union for his involvement in the theft, and he’s locked into a chamber where cars are spray-painted, with the fumes of the paint gradually suffocating and poisoning him. This is a wrenchingly protracted scene, showing Smokey as the life is gradually snuffed out of him, his struggles coming to nothing and drowned out by the chilling drone of the spray-paint apparatus. Schrader’s awareness of the finest details, especially the sound of the spraying of the paint, give this scene an uncanny, almost supernatural sense of cruelty, as Smokey comes to embody every person that every company has matter-of-factly annihilated.
This transfer offers a clean, detailed, appropriately gritty image. Skin textures are vivid, as one can see the men sweating as they labor in the auto plant, and colors are lively, especially the silver of the chrome in the plant, which gleams with a white heat, testifying to the extremity of the working conditions. The sound mix is well balanced with a few show-pony qualities, such as the exhilaratingly rendered strings of Jack Nitzsche’s Bo Diddley-inspired score.
The archive audio commentary by writer-director Paul Schrader and journalist Maitland McDonagh is a detailed and fascinating listen, especially for Schrader’s descriptions of working with his famously contentious leading men. Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto, and Harvey Keitel all worked differently and all resented one another, and Schrader felt that he had no control and was merely trying to “survive” the production. (Given this context, the amount of control that’s evident in the film is all the more remarkable.) Pryor would come into a scene hot from the first take and would soon flame out, while Keitel needed to warm up, so Schrader was often shooting Pryor’s first take and Keitel’s, say, 10th, which was achieved by having Keitel rehearse separately. Pryor had racial resentments, and would provoke his co-stars, possibly to stimulate himself artistically, while every actor suspected the other to be the true star of the production. These conditions informed the formal qualities of Blue Collar as well, as the camera rarely moves, mostly because Schrader had trouble getting coverage. (Austere camera movements would soon become a signature of his aesthetic.) Interestingly enough, Pryor eventually said that he wanted Schrader to make a movie about his life, claiming he was the only director who understood him. This commentary is the only supplement on this disc, but it offers a rich glimpse into a film that deserves more attention.
Paul Schrader’s lively and despairing first film as director has never been more relevant, and this disc should hopefully lift it from undeserved semi-obscurity.
Cast: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Bellaver, George Memmoli, Lucy Saroyan, Lane Smith, Cliff DeYoung, Borah Silver, Chip Fields, Leonard Gaines Director: Paul Schrader Screenwriter: Paul Schrader, Leonard Schrader Distributor: Kino Lorber Running Time: 114 min Rating: R Year: 1978 Release Date: December 10, 2019 Buy: Video
Review: Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve on Criterion Blu-ray
Somewhere along the way, this release turned out to be a mere carbon copy.
Not all masterpieces grow richer with age as both viewers and the films they revisit grow older, nor are they expected to. But nothing ages quite like sophistication, and there are few Hollywood productions as sophisticated as All About Eve. Nor are there many films whose “quiet qualities,” as Margo Channing (Bette Davis) chides about the obsequious Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), wear better with time as the formal “fire and music” of so many other paragons of early-stage cinephilia inevitably lose their freshness, leaving only memories of excitement behind. Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz at the height of his powers, All About Eve is truly a film for every era, balanced in such a manner that it miraculously gives receptive audiences exactly what they need when they need it. And I never realized to what extent the truth of that bears out until my very most recent viewing, as I arrived upon the scene and speech that always gave me reservations, a gear-shifting moment that for me had until recently always ground the entire production to a deflating halt: Margo’s contrite “book full of clippings” speech.
For its first 90 minutes or so, All About Eve runs two marathons’ worth of sparkling, bitchy repartee, with Margo thrusting her bon-mot baton many miles in front of the pack as she fends off the requirements of Broadway superstardom, the encroachment of middle age, and the obsequious attentions lavished upon her very being by the seemingly meek stage-door lamprey Eve. Then, due to the machinations of her best friend, Karen Richards (Celeste Holm, striking a pitch-perfect balance between poised and patronizing), Margo winds up stranded in the countryside in a car without gas, very clearly about to miss her first performance in many years, unaware that Karen has arranged things so that Eve, the interloper no one’s yet aware is about to upend all their lives, can step on as her new understudy, and tantrum-prone Margo can learn a lesson in humility. Surprisingly, Margo takes her impending truancy in stride, and sentimentally launches into a long reverie about domesticity:
“The things you drop on your way up the ladder…you forget you’ll need them again when you get back to being a woman.…In the last analysis, nothing is any good unless you can look up just before dinner or turn around and bed, and there he is. Without that, you’re not a woman. You’re something with a French provincial office, or a book full of clippings, but you’re not a woman.”
Say what? Most contemporary audiences coming to All About Eve in the last few decades, or indeed ever since Davis was crowned the queen mother of camp’s golden age, are invariably lured in by the promise of all-time diva fireworks, served with cosmopolitan flair on a cocktail napkin. Closeted teenage me was certainly no exception, lapping up every last one of Davis’s full-throated assaults on whatever poor sap happened to be standing in front of her at the tail end of a violent mood swing. But even from the very first time I watched the film, I was aware that Mankiewicz’s energies never seemed directed toward behavioral antics as ends unto themselves. In Slant’s previous review of All About Eve, a regrettably skeptical Joseph Jon Lanthier noted that the film’s most quotable call-to-arms (“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!”) is followed by “inebriated self-pity instead of the anticipated bitch-out,” as though the prime function of the scene, the character, and the film is to supply an endless stream of incisive, proto-Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? tongue-lashings.
Margo’s third act-ushering about-face while seated in that stalled car alongside Karen changes the entire chemistry of the film. Suffice it to say, her unambiguous embrace of domesticity would seem on its surface to be a byproduct of the times, and certainly a tough pill to swallow for equality-minded, doggedly individualistic modern Americans. But All About Eve—talky, stagy All About Eve—isn’t a surface film. Davis delivers the sentiment that, without a man, you’re not a woman with a look in her eyes that belies her real-life, on-set romance with co-star Gary Merrill, who plays Margo’s director and paramour, Bill Sampson, in the film, and who would become Davis’s last and longest-lasting husband thereafter.
Audiences might be surprised by Margo’s sudden and unequivocal semi-retirement from the spotlight, but Davis’s expression clearly telegraphs that she herself isn’t; it’s what she knew she always wanted. I, not being nearly as wise as Margo, never knew that’s also what I wanted as I, like Margo, spent the first 40 years of my life pursuing drama (in my case, only vicariously through films like this one) while avoiding—make that actively self-sabotaging myself out of—healthy relationships. To revisit All About Eve today, with an engagement ring my teenage self never once dreamed I’d get having been placed on my finger not more than 48 hours earlier, is to recognize how masterpieces aren’t aged in wood (to borrow the title of Margo’s starring vehicle on Broadway) so much as they continue to live alongside their viewers’ own lives.
Those aiming to add Criterion’s new edition to their collection on the hope that it represents a significant upgrade from the most-recent transfer before it needn’t push this to the top of their shopping lists. Because 20th Century Fox’s 2011 release looks virtually identical to Criterion’s new 4K restoration, which could very well be the mark of an original print well-preserved. Criterion’s presentation offers rich monochromatic range, and vibrantly active grain. The display is superb enough, in fact, to drive home just how underrated the film is, formally speaking. You catch every glint of Margo’s bottomless martini glass, every fastidious strand of Eve’s wrapped-too-tight coif, every furrow in dyspeptic producer Max Fabian’s brow. Cue this disc up—or, you know, the previous edition—and banish all misconceptions of All About Eve as a “filmed play.” Criterion’s disc does away with a whole boatload of alternate-language soundtracks featured on the 20th Century Fox release, but no one’s going to morosely request the party pianist play “Liebestraum” over that omission.
As with the image and sound bona fides, Criterion’s release largely recycles the most prominent bonus features from previous editions, making this particular Criterion edition vexingly superfluous in a way that very few other of their releases are. Even worse, the cardboard digipak packaging is a flimsy mess, with sticky rubber fasteners holding the discs in until they’re inevitably torn off—fasteners which also unfortunately grab onto the cover of the included booklet (my copy was torn at the staples as a result). Which is all to say that those picking it up just because it’s Criterion and they have a display fetish will already have had their main incentive taken away due to the shoddy package design.
Among the features new to this All About Eve set are the two-hour 1983 documentary All About Mankiewicz, which centers around film historian Michel Ciment’s interviews with the writer-director. It’s probably the meatiest extra in the entire set, and well worth your time. Of the two commentary tracks, I personally got more out of All About All About Eve author Sam Staggs’s slightly dishy track, despite its occasional lapses into silence, but odds are good that the film’s fans will eat up Celeste Holm’s observations on the other track, and might wish she didn’t have to share space with Christopher Mankiewicz and biographer Ken Geist.
As with Criterion’s Now, Voyager release, there’s vintage Dick Cavett footage, not only another episode with Bette Davis, but also a wonderful separate interview with Gary Merrill, from back in an era where a national talk show could feature a Gary Merrill and not be hopelessly anachronistic. Amid the rest of the well-stocked set’s reruns are a few other newly produced items, foremost among them a 20-minute chat with costume historian Larry McQueen, who unpacks the film’s immortal outfits, including the legendary party dress that Davis, at the last minute, pulled off her shoulders to ensure production wouldn’t be delayed.
All About Eve may be an essential film, and Criterion may be an essential cinephile label, but somewhere along the way, this release turned out to be a mere carbon copy.
Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Bates, Walter Hampden Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Screenwriter: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Distributor: The Criterion Collection Running Time: 138 min Rating: NR Year: 1950 Release Date: November 26, 2019 Buy: Video
Review: The Complete Sartana Rides Onto Arrow Video Blu-ray
Grab your magician’s cape and pepperbox pistol, Arrow’s box set just rode into town.
Budd Wilkins
What unites the wildly unpredictable and unabashedly entertaining Sartana films—despite the disparate contributions of two directors, a bevy of screenwriters, and two very different leading men—are the iconographic elements of the eponymous character himself: his red-and-black magician’s cape, the pepperbox pistol and other baroque gadgets that he has at the ready, not to mention his ubiquitous smoke-billowing cigarillo. Their storylines, often structured as a mystery, are ingenious Rube Goldberg contraptions that deliver sudden reversals of fortune, typically emphasizing the perils of deceptive appearances. There’s loads of violence and gunplay throughout, with occasionally astronomical body counts, yet little in the way of graphic blood and guts, which lends the films an aura of old-school charm.
Co-written and directed by Gianfranco Parolini (billed on screen as Frank Kramer), If You Meet Sartana…Pray for Your Death opens with Sartana (Gianni Garko) rescuing an elderly couple in a stagecoach from a gang led by Morgan (Klaus Kinski). Over in another part of the desert, a shipment of gold is hijacked by another gang that’s subsequently mowed down with a Gatling gun by Lasky (William Berger), who, in turn, discovers the strongbox to be full of rocks instead of gold bars. The central mystery in the film will concern what happened to the gold.
In the baroquely convoluted storyline, these factions head into town, where they play out various permutations of alliance and opposition. While the general setup for the film may seem stereotypical, the devil is in the details of the execution. Parolini brings all the style—painterly compositions, sleek camera movement, brisk, cleverly blocked action set pieces—we have come to expect from Italian westerns. But he takes things just a bit further: Indeed, the last reel of the film looks like it could have been shot by Mario Bava.
I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death finds Sartana (Garko again) framed for a bank robbery he didn’t commit. Director Giuliano Carnimeo, who would helm the rest of the series, brings an even more outrageous eye to the proceedings: The camera tilts and flops over every time someone gets gunned down (which is often). Carnimeo seems to favor distortion, like the bug-eye prismatic effect achieved by shooting through a beveled beer mug. The storyline provides a more amusing (and larger) role for Kinski, playing the bizarrely named Hot Dead, a gun forced to hire himself out due to an unending losing streak at gambling.
With Sartana’s Here…Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin, George Hilton steps into the title role for a single outing. The film also features a larger role for a female lead than earlier entries in the series, which had been populated almost exclusively by men. But the role isn’t terribly novel, as Trixie (Erika Blanc) the saloon owner is your prototypical femme fatale. Where the film does inject some novelty is in the person of Sabbath (Charles Southwood), a poetry-spouting bounty hunter dressed entirely in white to contrast Sartana’s black-based ensemble.
Garko returns for Have a Good Funeral My Friend…Sartana Will Pay, which centers on a murdered prospector whose land is said to contain a motherlode of gold. When the man’s niece, Abigail (Daniela Giordano), turns up in Indian Creek to secure her inheritance, it seems like everyone in town has a plan to wrest the gold away from her. In addition to Giordano’s appealing feminine presence, there’s also genre film stalwart Helga Liné as a saloon girl. Apart from the increased roles for women, the film trades in a good deal of racial stereotyping with regard to the presence of the Fu Manchu-like Lee Tse Tung (George Wang), whose den of iniquity features prominently in the storyline.
Light the Fuse…Sartana Is Coming, the final film in the series, is also arguably the finest. The opening has Sartana gunning down a corrupt sheriff and allowing himself to be sent to a brutal penitentiary for it. (The prison, incidentally, is designed to look like a Vietnam War-era POW camp.) Turns out he’s there to meet up with Granville (Piero Lulli), who has information about two million in gold and counterfeit bills that went missing after a mysterious three-way gunfight. The film keeps upping the ante throughout, replete with double- and triple-crosses and ever-escalating gun battles. The last battle culminates in the series’ most surreal imagery: Sartana playing the organ in middle of Mansfield’s main street, only to have the musical instrument morph into a fantastical instrument of death.
All five films in the Sartana series, each housed on its own Blu-ray disc, are presented in new 2K restorations. If You Meet Sartana…Pray for Your Death was sourced from a 35mm print, and as a result looks the weakest by comparison, with some distracting (and occasionally persistent) vertical scratches and other artefacts evident. The remaining films were sourced from original camera negatives, and the results are uniformly outstanding. Colors are vivid, flesh tones lifelike, grain properly filmic, and black levels largely uncrushed. The transfers exhibit excellent depth and clarity. Each film includes both Italian and English tracks in Master Audio mono mixes. The Italian tracks are the default, but the English may be your better bet, since they tend to be more quirkily idiomatic, and many of the characters appear to be delivering their lines in English in the first place. Regardless of your choice, dialogue comes through clearly, ambient effects have some depth (albeit at times a bit boxy), and the idiosyncratic scores from the likes of Piero Piccioni and Bruno Nicolai sound terrific.
Arrow Video includes a bumper crop of supplements for their Sartana box set. The first, second, and fourth films in the series come with commentary tracks, the first from German documentary filmmaker Mike Siegel, while the others feature film historians C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke. After laying out his genre bona fides at some length, Siegel dives into the series as a whole, describing the first appearance of the Sartana character as a black hat in a non-Sartana film, then leaning heavily into the cast and crew members’ connections to many other Italian westerns. Siegel provides an intriguing European appraisal of the films. Joyner and Parke exhibit an amiable tag-team approach, with Joyner more often than not taking point in the discussion, and Parke putting in his take from time to time. Scattered across all five discs are lengthy interviews (some archival, some newly filmed) with various cast and crew members, whose recollections range from a bit fuzzy to crystal clear. The featurette “Light the Fuse: Sartana’s Casting” provides biographical snippets for a number of familiar genre players who turn up throughout the series. Each disc comes with a gallery of colorful and strikingly designed promotional materials from the Mike Siegel Archives.
Grab your magician’s cape and pepperbox pistol, Arrow Video’s Complete Sartana box set just rode into town.
Cast: Gianni Garko, William Berger, Klaus Kinski, Sydney Chaplin, Gianni Rizzo, Fernando Sancho, Andrea Scotti, Franco Pesce, Heidi Fischer, Sabine Sun, Frank Wolff, Gordon Mitchell, Ettore Manni, Sal Borgese, Renato Baldini, Federico Boido, George Hilton, Charles Southwood, Erika Blanc, Piero Lulli, Daniela Giordano, Helga Liné, Rick Boyd, George Wang, Nieves Navarro, Massimo Serato, José Jaspe, Frank Brana Director: Gianfranco Parolini, Giuliano Carnimeo Screenwriter: Gianfranco Parolini, Renato Izzo, Theo Maria Werner, Tito Carpi, Enzo Dell’Aquila, Ernesto Gastaldi, Giovanni Simonelli, Roberto Gianviti, Eduardo Maria Brochero Distributor: Arrow Video Running Time: 480 min Rating: NR Year: 1968 - 1970 Release Date: December 17, 2019 Buy: Video
The 30 Best Home Video Releases of 2019
More than ever, there’s a necessity for the acquisition of physical media.
Photo: The Criterion Collection
Endlessly proliferating streaming platforms deliver more content each year, successfully tapping heretofore unexpected niche markets and serving an astounding variety of target demographics. (And that’s only the companies that Disney doesn’t own.) What subscribers don’t always realize, however, is that they’re at best leasing that content, even when they appear to have purchased a title outright. Films, in other words, are provisionally available merely at the caprice of our corporate overlords.
All of this is to state what might seem—to legions of devoted cinephiles and collectors alike—a glaringly obvious truth: that there’s a continuing necessity for the acquisition of physical media. Fortunately for us, every year there’s a veritable embarrassment of riches to select from, a bounty of art-house and cult titles dropping each and every Tuesday. They’re supplied by home-video stalwarts like the Criterion Collection and Arrow Video, as well as smaller boutique labels like Vinegar Syndrome, Film Movement, Flicker Alley, and Arbelos—all of whom have released titles that appear on our annual best-of list.
It’s the curatorial expertise these companies lavish on their releases that both renders them eminently collectible and sets them apart from the typically barebones and context-free content available on most streaming services. These companies’ discernment and attention to detail extends not only to the aesthetics of their packaging—replete with often reversible cover art, informative booklets, foldout posters, soundtrack CDs, and other booty—but also to well-chosen supplemental features, which provide a historical and formal framework for developing a deeper appreciation of the films and their makers. Our roundup of the best home-video titles of 2019 cherry-picks those releases that best exemplify these tendencies. Budd Wilkins
American Horror Project Vol. 2, Arrow Video
With American Horror Project: Volume Two, Arrow Video and curators Ewan Cant and Stephen Thrower continue the endeavor they started in 2016 with American Horror Project: Volume One, restoring obscure horror films and according them the respect and prominence of a lush box set with all the trimmings. The existence of such sets is aesthetically and historically symbolic, correctly suggesting that certain films relegated to drive-ins and video stores are worthy of the respect and consideration of tonier productions that are preserved by, say, the Criterion Collection. At the forefront of this project’s concerns are complementary notions of preservation and cultivation. These sets reacquaint us with low-budget films that can be made around and about a small rural area and still potentially attract national attention, while also reminding us of an analogue era, when such films, denied the slickness that can now come at the touch of an iPhone button, practically convulsed with the efforts of their strapped and scrappy creators. These films (Dream No Evil, Dark August, and The Child) are urgent testaments to the cliché of necessity being the mother of invention, as their scarce resources and naïveté beget explorations of madness and alienation that are stripped of the implicit assurances of luxurious, self-effacing studio-style production values. Chuck Bowen
An American Werewolf in London, Arrow Video
Arrow’s new 4K restoration improves considerably on Universal’s previous editions of the film, with colors in low-light and nighttime scenes really coming across. And the studio has ported over practically every available bonus feature from all those earlier Universal home-video releases and added some impressive new ones. The best of the older material is far and away Paul Davis’s 2009 making-of documentary Beware the Moon, which runs slightly longer than An American Werewolf in London itself. Davis covers every detail and aspect of the film’s production from its conception in 1969 to its release and reception in 1981. The new audio commentary from filmmaker Paul Davis miraculously contains little in the way of overlap with his making-of documentary, culling new anecdotes that were uncovered during research for his book on the film, including some fascinating information about deleted and extended scenes whose original elements have been lost. Elsewhere, the terrific feature-length documentary Mark of the Beast is a deep-dive into the figure of the wolf man from a well-selected roster of film historians and technicians, beginning with the ubiquity of the lycanthrope or shapeshifter archetype across human cultures, laying out how screenwriter Curt Siodmak singlehandedly concocted the “lore” of the werewolf (pentagrams, silver bullets, wolf’s bane) for The Wolf Man. Wilkins
Apocalypse Now: Final Cut, Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Just as Lionsgate’s last Blu-ray edition of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now boasted reference-quality audio and video, so, too, were its extras exhaustive. This six-disc release includes everything from the previous release, including Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, which as become as legendary at this point as the film its documents. There are too many extras to enumerate, with featurettes on every single aspect of the film’s production, from its casting to its sound mixing. There are deleted scenes, including an entire alternate ending where Kurtz’s compound is napalmed, as well as audio from a 1938 Mercury Theatre radio production of Joseph Conrad’s novella. Astonishingly, there are even more extras this time around, with the final disc containing the documentary and a wealth of new, retrospective features that detail Apocalypse Now’s latest audio and visual restoration. There’s also additional behind-the-scenes footage, as well as a Q&A between Coppola and Steven Soderbergh. Jake Cole
The Blob, Shout! Factory
Shout! Factory gives fans and collectors a Blu-ray that will stand as the definitive edition of Chuck Russell’s undervalued gem for many years to come. For starters, the disc comes with three feature-length commentary tracks, two of which are newly recorded. In the first of those, Russell, special effects artist Tony Gardner, and cinematographer Mark Irwin get into The Blob’s botched theatrical release, the influence of Hitchcock’s Psycho on the film’s narrative misdirects, and the challenges of location shooting and working on a tight budget. The second and other new track, with lead actress Shawnee Smith, offers little more than aimless reminiscing and admiration for how well the film holds up. And the third track is a previously recorded one with Russell and producer Ryan Turek, and as such has a bit of crossover with Russell’s newly recorded one. But their rapport is engaging, and Russell’s passion for his work and that of others is unmistakable, especially as he discusses his personal feelings for Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.’s original The Blob and how he tried to strike new ground with his remake, while remaining respectful of its forebearer. The disc also comes with a staggering 11 interviews, covering virtually every aspect of the film’s production and post-production processes. Derek Smith
Blue Velvet, The Criterion Collection
Per the disc’s liner notes, this new transfer was created in 16-bit 4K resolution from the 35mm A/B negative and was supervised by David Lynch. The results are spectacular, with radiant colors and a purposefully soft grittiness that intensifies the film’s luridly dreamy feeling. Most important, though, is the profound weight and materiality of surface textures in this image, which is important to Lynch’s fetishistic aesthetic. All of Lynch’s pet obsessions—lamps, drapes, lipstick, food, smokestacks—practically pop off the screen. The most notable supplement on the release is a 54-minute collection of deleted scenes, which have been assembled by Lynch more or less in chronological order, suggesting an entire omitted opening act of Blue Velvet. The cut footage fleshes out Jeffrey’s reasons for returning to his hometown from college, and offers many more scenes of his aunt and mother (played by Frances Bay and Priscilla Pointer, respectively). Also essential is “Blue Velvet Revisited,” an 89-minute documentary by director Peter Braatz that uses free-associative editing to offer a one-of-kind portrait of the film’s production. Braatz includes stock footage, intimate still photos, such as of Lynch taping the word “Lumberton” onto an ice truck, and uses interviews as a form of narration. Bowen
The BRD Trilogy, The Criterion Collection
The films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s BRD trilogy pull off a difficult magic trick, feeling timeless and viscerally in the moment. With his supernatural ability to crank out productions at a rapid clip, Fassbinder achieved what Kent Jones describes as a “direct correlation between living and fiction-making”—a quality that’s also evident in Jean-Luc Godard’s early films. These directors worked so fast as to annihilate the distance between inspiration and realization that often governs studio filmmaking. As a result, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss, and Lola are works of many astonishing contradictions, symmetries, parallels, and political and personal reverberations. They are expressions of macro concerns that are wrested from a singular soul. And the pristine restorations available in this set are visual and aural marvels that underscore the profound aesthetic difference between each film in the trilogy. As for the supplements, they have been ported over from Criterion’s 2003 DVD edition with no updates, though this package is so rich and exhaustive it hardly matters, offering a couple of semesters’ worth of context pertaining to German film history, German social upheavals, and the multifaceted life of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Bowen
Charley Varrick, Kino Lorber
Kino’s 4K restoration of Charley Varrick is a revelation. Grain looks well-resolved and suitably cinematic, without any distracting artifacts visible, while black levels are deep and uncrushed. The Master Audio mono mix puts the dialogue and few ambient effects front and center, as well as Lalo Schifrin’s relentlessly propulsive score. On the extras front, we get a commentary track from film historian Toby Roan that delves informatively into all the usual suspects, like shooting locations and cast and crew filmographies. Film historian Howard S. Berger’s visual essay “Refracted Personae: Iconography and Abstraction in Don Siegel’s American Purgatory” may possess an imposing title, but it astutely and articulately analyzes Siegel’s formal techniques and thematic concerns in Charley Varrick, with a particular emphasis on those of a spiritual or religious bent. Rounding things out: a feature-length documentary with contributions from Kristoffer Tabori (Don Siegel’s son), actors Andy Robinson and Jacqueline Scott, stunt driver and actor Craig R. Baxley, composer Lalo Schifrin, and Howard A. Rodman (son of screenwriter Howard Rodman); an episode of “Trailers from Hell” for Charley Varrick with comments from screenwriters John Olson and Howard A. Rodman; and a characteristically incisive essay from film critic Nick Pinkerton. Wilkins
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Grasshopper Film
In the first of its many paradoxes, Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s best-known film, is both insistently severe and intensely pleasurable. The nominal subject here is the life of Johann Sebastian Bach as told by his wife, Anna Magdalena, though, and as befits a card-carrying member of the ‘60s modernist movement that encompassed Godard, Rohmer, Warhol, and late Rossellini, the real one is the relationship between sights and sounds, artifice and reality, the medium and the world. Grasshopper’s Blu-ray is sourced from a detail-rich 2K restoration and the extras include Straub’s introduction of the film at a 2013 screening and author Alicia Malone’s intro to Straub-Huillet’s work for Filmstruck. But the highlights of this disc are two short films from Straub-Huillet’s back catalog. The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp, starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder and several members of his acting coterie, is an experimental work of black-box theater that takes on the political and structural underpinnings of love and incorporates numerous cinematic styles. And The Mother, made by Straub in 2011, tells the story of a murdered hunter whose remorseful reflections suggest the director’s own attempts to cope with Danièle Huillet’s death. Cole
The Complete Sartana, Arrow Video
What unites the wildly unpredictable and unabashedly entertaining Sartana films—despite the disparate contributions of two directors, a bevy of screenwriters, and two very different leading men—are the iconographic elements of the eponymous character himself: There’s the red-and-black magician’s cape, pepperbox pistol, and other baroque gadgets, not to mention the ubiquitous smoke-billowing cigarillo. The storylines, often structured as a mystery, are ingenious Rube Goldberg devices for delivering sudden reversals of fortune, typically emphasizing the perils of deceptive appearances. There’s loads of violence and gunplay throughout, with occasionally astronomical body counts, yet little in the way of graphic blood and guts, which lends the films an aura of old-school charm. Apart from the first transfer, which exhibits some pesky vertical scratching, the 2K restorations look uniformly outstanding, with vivid colors, lifelike flesh tones, properly filmic grain levels, and largely uncrushed blacks. Each film has a dynamic Master Audio mix, which really punch up the idiosyncratic scores from the likes of Piero Piccioni and Bruno Nicolai. There’s a satisfying bumper crop of extras here as well: Three commentary tracks, a visual essay identifying many of the genre stalwarts who turn up in the films, and numerous interviews with cast and crew members. Wilkins
Cruising, Arrow Video
Normally, cruisers would scoff at returning to the same well twice, but since the deluxe edition DVD’s choice extras were so well-done the first time around, it’s not quite a faux pas for Arrow to have licensed the lot of them. On the one hand, a newly recorded commentary track with William Friedkin and Mark Kermode all but renders the old solo commentary track by Friedkin redundant. Friedkin repeats a lot of the same observations and anecdotes in the new track, but Kermode smartly steers the conversation in new directions. Among some of the most eye-opening tidbits, Cruising was at one time earlier in the ‘70s earmarked as a project for Steven Spielberg. Talk about close encounters. Equally delicious is Friedkin referring to Al Pacino as the “least prepared actor” he’s ever worked with. Does Friedkin’s explanation of why he inserted subliminal shots of anal sex among the film’s murder sequences come off as hopelessly clueless? Intensely. But one comes away from these commentary tracks understanding just how the final product ended up so confused and contradictory. Eric Henderson
Review: Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Betty Blue on Criterion Blu-ray
Criterion’s release of Beineix’s epic erotic drama recovers the sumptuousness and precision of its images.
Joseph Jon Lanthier and Pat Brown
Today, the aesthetic divide between Jean-Jacques Beineix’s extroverted noir debut, Diva, and his bloated, lusty third film, Betty Blue, seems much less gaping, particularly for viewers intrepid enough to regard his sophomore effort, the faux-pulp kaleidoscope Moon in the Gutter, as a homely missing link. Diva is genre-obsessed, an unwieldy meditation on dystopian thriller tropes and clichés that distracts us from its overwritten plot with shorn scalps and sexy jump cuts. By contrast, Betty Blue is character-obsessed, an unwieldy meditation on the self-destructing nature of domestic relationships that distracts us from its lack of amorous insight with nipples, dicks, and the occasional fork stabbing. And while the latter film is also likely to be condemned as the most prodigal of Beineix’s progeny due to its lubricious audacity and turgid running time, the three-hour-plus director’s cut ironically reveals a far less indulgent vision than that of the originally imported 120-minute digest—or, for that matter, of Diva.
The emaciated storyline fixates relentlessly on an intensifying partnership between the eponymous Betty (Béatrice Dalle) and her blithely deadbeat lover, Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade). They start out as little more than bubbly fuck buddies, and the film opens with its most “viral” footage—a lengthy, unbroken dolly shot toward the couple ravenously humping to orgasm—in order to ham-fistedly introduce their dynamic. But Betty eventually shacks up with her booty call in his oleaginous bungalow and reveals the mercurial irascibility beneath her perpetually hot, bothered, and often nude lady parts. After discovering a mammoth manuscript Zorg penned in his youthful days as a prospective novelist, she proclaims her man a genius and assumes the role of literary bitch-agent.
Wanderlust then ensues, so the two lovers set fire to the chili bean-stained bungalow and motor out to the French countryside. The remainder of the duration is devoted to observing their apoplectic devotion to each others’ least healthy attributes: Betty desperately and violently seeks a publisher for Zorg’s tome while he would much rather mix shots of tequila with seltzer. And in harsh contrast to the semi-graphic fornication, Betty’s dramatic mood swings bristle tetchily against the most rudimentary of social environments (e.g. the workplace, where she cannot suffer difficult customers, and Zorg serves the bullish clients pizza topped with rescued scraps from the trash bin as retribution).
That the film was adapted from a novel is gawkily evident not only in the bare details of the above synopsis (what fiction authors don’t dream up Ariel-like harpies such as Betty, who treats Zorg’s abysmal output like gold and sends snarling death threats to the publishers who reject his work?), but also in the loose, polyrhythmic plot movements that incrementally propel the central duo toward tragedy. Expanded to its intended length, the movie feels not like a failed narrative hastily washed in luridness but a purposefully meandering allegory of artistic frustration, especially in light of Betty’s eventual infatuation with the apparent unlikelihood of pregnancy—which turns out to be her fatal flaw. Contrary to expectations, the additional sequences only further obfuscate Betty’s psychosis, which still seems an irritatingly unnecessary speed bump in the characters’ non-careers, as well as an ostentatious crazy-chick gun introduced in the first act so it can be fired off in the third.
The breathing room provided by the added travels and more robust encounters with supporting cast members, however, marginalizes the woman of the title—or, rather, her “blueness”—to the point of an eerily affecting Macguffin. How much more insane can she be than the sex-starved grocer’s wife (Clèmentine Cèlariè) who demands that Zorg perform cunnilingus on her atop a pile of spilled bananas, or the friend (Gérard Darmon) who tasks Zorg and his clearly batty girl with minding his recently deceased mother’s piano store?
The events that lead up to the denouement are still maddeningly flat: Despite the tight, kinetic editing technique on display, Zorg’s bank heist, pulled off in drag, is a cheesy joke when we least need it. And Betty’s predictable self-mauling and subsequent mercy-killing offer fairly substantial evidence for our uneasy reading of the character as a sexist guignol; before asphyxiating her in her hospital bed with a pillow in the spirit of Ken Kesey, Zorg claws at her misshapen, torpid breasts with misguided virility, as though to say that true devotion is arousal whether your significant other is utterly off her rocker or comatose. The lion’s share of the film, though, remains a vibrantly bipolar tribute to writerly travail, which can, indeed, often seem as hopeless as impregnating a potentially barren, absolutely abusive woman.
Beineix’s camera captures the couple’s symbolic struggles with perpetually effective angles and color schemes, and he adroitly realizes clever cinematic gestures that would melt in the hands of amateurs; a quiet, crepuscular scene where Betty and Zorg diegetically acknowledge Gabriel Yared’s ersatz-blues leitmotif on a pair of unsold pianos may be the film’s most subtle triumph. If only Beineix could have imagined an existence for his star-crossed protagonists beyond the source material (the question of whether successful maternity would have sobered Betty yelps for an impossible sequel), he may have managed a sultry masterpiece.
The restoration presented on this Blu-ray captures the sumptuousness of Jean-François Robin’s cinematography much better than prior home-video editions of the film. Although Criterion’s generalized description of the transfer as “high definition” rather than “2K” or “4K” may imply that the digital master’s resolution is relatively low for a Criterion release, it’s not evident in the disc’s image, which retains much of the warmth of 35mm—an effect vital to the mood of the film. The scenes depicting Zorg and Betty’s halcyon early days at a beach resort practically simmer, with the saturated yellows of the beach and the pink of the houses sharply defined. Accompanying the newly restored visuals is an uncompressed digitization of the original monaural magnetic soundtrack. The track allows for a fuller appreciation of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s playful manipulation of the plot—as when the sound of a saxophone played by Zorg’s neighbor pushes its way out of the confines of the beach fairgrounds and envelopes the entire film sequence, as Betty and Zorg paint houses into the night.
Criterion has assembled a number of valuable extras for this release: a recently produced, hour-long documentary about the film called “Blue Notes and Bungalows,” a short making-of video made during production and featuring Beineix and author Philippe Djian, a French television interview from 1986 with Beineix and Bèatrice Dalle, the actress’s original screen test, a series of trailers, a booklet with an essay by critic Chelsea Phillips-Carr, and a short film by Beineix from 1977 called Le Chien de Monsieur Michel. Beineix’s early short is connected to Betty Blue in one striking way: The piece of calliope music that one overhears from Zorg’s beach bungalow in the feature also serves as the theme of the farcical short, which sees a down-on-his-luck and not entirely un-Zorg-like loner forced into maintaining the illusion that he owns a dog. The short lacks Beineix’s later art-film flair, but it’s a wry, neatly told parable about communal life, with a social critique hovering at its margins.
As an erotic arthouse film that spends no shortage of time focusing on its young starlet’s body, today Betty Blue provokes questions about objectification, representation, and the treatment of women on set. Most of the special features brush by such questions. In “Blue Notes and Bungalows,” Dalle does mention that she wasn’t informed that she could request a minimal crew during nude scenes and later felt betrayed by her friend Beineix for not telling her, but she doesn’t seem to bear a grudge, and the documentary doesn’t follow up on this comment. Phillips-Carr’s insightful essay “The Look of Love,” however, compellingly addresses the film’s sexual politics, ultimately reading it as a “challenging portrait of a woman who cannot crush herself into the boxes provided for her, and a damning view of the male gaze that subsumes her identity.” To what extent the film undermines its own glossy visual appeal, of which Dalle’s body is an undeniable centerpiece, remains up for debate; Criterion certainly find’s Beineix’s flagrantly stylish imagery useful for promotion. But Phillips-Carr’s feminist perspective on the film is a useful reminder to look closely at the details of Beineix’s fraught love story, and not to dismiss out of hand films with such apparent appeal to the (hetero) male gaze.
Criterion’s release of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Betty Blue recovers the sumptuousness and precision of its images, but this epic-length erotic drama remains part genuine exploration of romantic dedication and partnership, part indulgent male fantasy.
Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Bèatrice Dalle, Gèrard Darmon, Consuelo De Haviland, Clèmentine Cèlariè, Jacques Mathou, Vincent Lindon, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Dominique Pinon, Claude Confortès, Philippe Laudenbach Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix Screenwriter: Jean-Jacques Beineix Distributor: The Criterion Collection Running Time: 185 min Rating: NR Year: 1986 Release Date: November 19, 2019 Buy: Video
Review: Satoshi Kon’s Millennium Actress on Shout! Factory Blu-ray
Kon’s landmark feat of Japanese animation at last receives a home-video release worthy of its beauty.
Ed Gonzalez and Jake Cole
Behold Millennium Actress, Satoshi Kon’s anime answer to Mulholland Drive. This radical work by the director of Perfect Blue mainlines into a cosmic crawlspace between reality and fantasy from which it never leaves. Kon’s love for his animated diva is supreme and he plays her romantic saga for delirious world-weary sorrow. The genius of Millennium Actress is infinite: the practically monochrome palette that slowly saturates color as the film moves forward in time; the meta-cinematic conceits Kon employs in order to have the film’s male documentary filmmaker penetrate what’s supposedly an older Japanese actress’s recollection of her own past; and the countless rhetorical shifts that evoke the woman’s projection of her romantic melodrama onto her art.
When a two-man documentary crew discovers the whereabouts of the reclusive Chiyoko Fujiwara, the legendary actress explains how her career in cinema ran parallel to her search for an elusive love. (The documentary filmmaker’s invasion of Chiyoko’s memory is dubious at first, but Kon soon reveals the man’s own romantic involvement in the actress’s life.) Despite her mother’s conservative wishes, a young Chiyoko is handpicked for stardom by a film studio that now lies in ruin. That fateful day, a mysterious young artist bumps into the girl while fleeing from a police officer with a hideous scar on his face. She falls in love with the boy but he disappears soon after meeting her, leaving behind only a mysterious key. For the rest of her life, she’s left to search for this “human-rights agitator” whose name she doesn’t even know.
Throughout much of her early career, Chiyoko performs with an older actress who doubles for Chiyoko’s two female enemies: the mother who almost denied her a career in cinema and the witch who may or may not have damned her to 1,000 years in the throes of eternal love. While in Manchuria shooting a film, she looks for her lover in order to give him his key. While on the set of a chamber drama, she discovers that her part also has her looking for a missing lover. During time off from production, she journeys through war-ravaged Manchuria in search of the activist. When her train is ravaged by bandits, she steps through one door and reemerges on the set of a lavish samurai epic that finds her trying to negotiate the arrows of Manchurian warlords. And Kon evokes these ravishing passages between Chiyoko’s reality and on-set fantasies often with as little as a superimposition or a mere door opening and closing.
Earthquakes and wars are serendipitously spun into the film’s many dual realities, and rubble is Kon’s metaphor of choice. From the fierce Edo-period samurai epic to the final space odyssey Chiyoko shoots before retiring from the screen, Millennium Actress’s many film-within-a-film set pieces give Chiyoko’s never-ending search for love various historical, political and cultural contextualizations. Hers is very much a tale of perseverance, so maybe this sweeping perspective is Kon’s way of celebrating the defiant Chiyoko’s power over various manmade creations and destructions in the film. Because her ability to project her emotional trauma onto her roles is so strong, it’s that much more difficult to distinguish between Chiyoko’s reality and Kon’s historical recreations.
Like Mulholland Drive, Millenium Actress concerns itself with our love affair with women in movies, many of whom are unceremoniously forgotten when they become too old. Here’s a love story that not only spans a lifetime but thousands of years of political upheavals. Kon offers several hints throughout the film that Chiyoko’s millennium sentence may be hysterically self-imposed, which makes the film’s cosmic to-the-moon sequence that much more powerful. Perhaps Chiyoko knew all along that she was chasing the shadow of a man, and as such the thrill she derives from the chase suggests she’s experiencing love vicariously through her acting. Indeed, Millennium Actress is very much a love poem to cinema itself. And Kon’s love for the medium, like Chiyoko’s eternal search, has no boundaries.
Millennium Actress arrives on Blu-ray with a revelatory restoration, which blows every prior standard-def release of the film out of the water. The film’s thick line animation now boasts razor-sharp textures. Colors pop with intensity, particularly those recurring splashes of bright orange on everything from street signs to movie-prop spacesuits, while the more naturalistic hues are well contrasted. Shout! Factory includes a lossless 5.1 track for both the original Japanese track and an English dub, both of which ably mix the film’s complex sound design, as well as Susumu Hirasawa’s tense and ever-pulsing electronic score, across all channels, truly heightening the film’s paranoiac obsession with the blurring of reality and acting.
This disc comes with a series of interviews, including separate talks with English-language voice actors Abby Trott and Laura Post. No interviews with the Japanese cast are included, and at first blush it’s a bit disappointing to only hear from members of the dub cast, but both actresses prove to be informative and engaging as they discuss their love of the project and what spoke to them about the characters and themes. Post in particular dives deep into her inspirations and her interpretation of Eiko’s complexities. Meatier still is the interview with producer Masao Maruyama, who speaks at length on everything from the production’s beginnings all the way through its re-release. Having worked with Kon across several projects, he offers keen insights into the director’s work and personality, even comparing Kon to the character of Chiyoko. A briefer interview with producer Taro Maki more specifically cover’s Millennium Actress’s 4K restoration while also making note of the then-innovative methods that were used to blend hand-drawn and 3D animation for the film.
Millennium Actress, Satoshi Kon’s landmark feat of Japanese animation, at last receives a home-video release worthy of its beauty with this presentation of a new 4K restoration.
Cast: Miyoko Shôji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa, Shouzou Iizuka, Masaya Onosaka, Shouko Tsuda, Masatane Tsukayma, Kôichi Yamadera Director: Satoshi Kon Screenwriter: Satoshi Kon, Sadayuki Murai Distributor: Shout! Factory Running Time: 87 min Rating: PG Year: 2001 Buy: Video
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With more than 330 islands and a tropical climate, Fiji is a year-round destination. The most popular time to visit is during the peak dry season from July through September, when the weather is most pleasant and schools in Australia and New Zealand have their vacations. This season is cooler than the rest of the year, and is the preferred time for mountain trekking. The reef waters are also the clearest, making it an ideal time for scuba diving. Although the low and shoulder seasons can be wet, they also draw fewer crowds and offer lower prices.
high season: July to September
low season: November to April
shoulder season: May to June, October
Fiji has a South Sea tropical climate, with two major seasons: a dry season from June through October and a wet season from November through April. The dry season is mild, with temperatures reaching a maximum of 84 degrees. The wet season can be hot and humid, with temperatures reaching a maximum of 88 degrees. Rain can occur sporadically during this season, but is typically followed by sunshine. The wet season is also typhoon season.
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The high season gets more crowded than the low season, especially in the main tourism belt that includes the western coast of Viti Levu (the main island) and the neighboring offshore island groups of Mamanuca and Yasawa. Major festivals rarely draw vast numbers of overseas visitors; however, some events such as the town of Suva's Christmas carnival, Latouka City's Sugar Festival (September), Nadi Town's Bula Festival (July), and the Savusavu South Pacific Music Festival (November) attract locals.
Hotels, restaurants, and shops remain open throughout the year, except during major maintenance or renovation. Some exclusive resorts have a no-children policy; however many welcome children during the Christmas holiday.
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Lower prices are offered on airfare and accommodations during the low and shoulder seasons.
When to Book
There is no rule of thumb when it comes to booking. Travel during the high season can be expensive, so it is wise to book as far in advance as possible. Last-minute deals can be typically found in the low and shoulder seasons.
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Smith Houses
Garden Neighborhood
Sessions Complex
Comstock House
Haven/Wesley
Gardiner House
Morrow House
Wilder House
Wilson House
Ivy Neighborhood
Mountain Neighborhood
Paradise Neighborhood
Special-Interest Housing
Ada Comstock Scholar & Graduate Housing
Living in the Houses
Sessions House, a grand colonial house on Elm Street, is the oldest house on campus. It is also the house with what may be the most intriguing history, boasting both a secret passageway and a pair of lovers.
Sessions House
Built in 1710 by Captain Jonathan Hunt, the house was the first in Northampton to be built outside of the stockade. The staircase was originally designed as a secret passageway used during colonization by the Hunts as a place to hide when Native Americans tried to reclaim their land. It is also said to have been used during the Civil War as part of the Underground Railroad.
Yet the most popular house legend is that the staircase was the site of clandestine visits between Captain Hunt's granddaughter Lucy and Johnny Burgoyne, a British Redcoat held captive in the house during the Revolutionary War. Sessions House is named for Mrs. Ruth Huntington Sessions, who acquired the building at the turn of the century and opened it to Smith students as housing became scarce. She later bequeathed the home to the college, and it has been used as a residence since 1921.
Sessions Annex
Sessions Annex, next door to Sessions House, was once the White House Inn. It was acquired by the college in 1969, and for a time housed men who were attending Smith on exchange programs.
In 1977, the house was converted into a residence for women. Since that time, the main house and the annex have operated as one house unit.
About Sessions Complex
Year built (house/annex) 1710/1873
Residential floors 3
Singles 28
Doubles 12
Triples 0
Approximate number sharing bathroom (house) 18
Approximate number sharing bathroom (annex) 8
Handicapped accessible Yes
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Computer Science Program Review
The table below lists enrollments in COMP courses for fiscal years 2005 through 2012 along with the average enrollment for each class over that period and the total and average enrollments for upper and lower division courses.
# of Offerings
Avg Enrollment
COMP 105
Major Courses
# of Courses
Avg # per Course
Total # < 300
Total # >= 300
By graphing the total enrollment by year, and the average enrollments for upper and lower division courses by semester, we see that the trends in all three are positive. However, the slopes of the trend lines for all three are small. The average enrollment of the upper division courses shows more than double the growth rate of the average enrollment of the lower division courses. The difference in these two growth rates could be explained by an increase in the number of transfers or by an increase in retention rates.
The data also shows an interesting periodicity that we are unable to explain.
The table below shows the number of graduates getting a major or minor in Computer Science for fiscal years 2005 through 2011. The data shows a very little change overall in the number of CS majors over that period. However, it does show the same type of periodicity as the total CS enrollments.
Degrees Awarded (Majors and Minors)
Degree Year 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
Computer Science Graduates
# with >15 Transfer Credits
The following table shows the Computer Science graduates grouped by calendar year in which they graduated. Note that the total number of graduates in this table agrees with the total number of graduates in the preceeding table at 95. We see that while most students do not take many more than the required number of CS credits (43 - since 2007), students take about six more Mathematics credits than the 14 credits required. Also, we see that students earn almost all of their Mathematics and Computer Science credits from SMSU. The drop in 2011 may reflect recent efforts to attract transfer students.
Graduation Year Num Grads Ave # CS Credits Ave # Math Credits % credits from SMSU
2005 16 38.56 21.31 96.24%
2008 8 43.38 23.13 94.92%
Averages 13.57 42.69 21.75 95.00%
To measure retention, we use the enrollments in COMP 164 (formerly COMP 130), COMP 233, and COMP 425. COMP 164 is the first course taken by freshmen majoring or minoring in Computer Science. COMP 233 is the first course in our Systems sequence (COMP 233, COMP 376, and COMP 377). This course is typically taken only by Computer Science major and usually during their sophomore year. COMP 425 is our highest-level non-seminar course. It is taken by Computer Science majors only, within one semester of graduation.
The following table shows the enrollments in COMP 130, COMP 233, and COMP 425 for students who started in fiscal years 2005 through 2010. Thus the row labeled 2005 shows the enrollment in COMP 130 in 2005, COMP 233 in 2006 and COMP 425Note that it appears that if we retain a student from COMP 164 to COMP 233 then they are likely to continue through to graduation with a Computer Science major. Starting in the FY 2010, students can take COMP 233 during the second semester of their sophomore year. This is why the number from COMP 130 to COMP 233 increased for that year.
COMP 130 COMP 233 % ret COMP 425 % ret
The following tables show the retention rates from COMP 130/COMP 164 to COMP 165 and from COMP 164 to COMP 166. The data shows higher retention rates from COMP 164 to COMP 165. This may be due to the curricular change and/or the switch from Java to Python as the programming language for the programming sequence COMP 164, COMP 165, and COMP 166. However, there are not enough data points to make a solid conclusion.
Starting Fall
% ret
Starting Spring
During the past two years we have observed an increase in the number of students doing internships (COMP 499) in Computer Science. We are unable to explain this increase, as there does not appear to have been an increase in the number of internships available for Computer Science students. The following table lists the number of internships for the indicated fiscal year.
The following table shows the number of declared Computer Science majors enrolled at SMSU during the indicated term.
Enrolled Majors by Term
The majority of Computer Sience students do not get a second major. However, of those who do get a second major, one of the Business fields or Mathematics are the most likely choices.
Enrollments by 1st, 2nd, & 3rd Major (FALL SEMESTERS)
Computer Science Majors
1st Major 2nd Major 3rd Major 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
ACCT CSCS
BUSP CSCS
BADM
FINA CSCS
MATH CSCS
PBUS CSCS
PLAW CSCS
As shown below, SMSU is not doing any better at attracting female students into computer science than other programs throughout the country.
Enrollment by Gender
The Computer Science program has, in the past, attracted a fairly large number of international students. In recent years, the majority of these students have come from Nepal. However, recent changes in U.S. immigration practices have limited the number of international students coming to SMSU and hence the number of international students majoring in Computer Science.
Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity
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Home » General » Business » Bengaluru bank vows to return every penny, depositors panic
Bengaluru bank vows to return every penny, depositors panic
Bengaluru, Jan 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sri Guru Raghavendra Sahakara Bank Chairman K. Ramakrishna has blamed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for the imbroglio and said he could return the depositors' money the next day the regulator withdrew the business restrictive order.
"The RBI restricted the bank to allow only Rs 35,000 withdrawal. We are following the RBI rules. If tomorrow itself the RBI revokes restrictions, we are ready to return full deposits to customers," Ramakrishna told depositors with folded hands.
Hundreds of Sri Guru Raghavendra Sahakara Bank depositors on Tuesday showed up to withdraw the Rs 35,000 allowed by the RBI. Anxious depositors formed a serpentine queue in front of the bank.
The RBI has asked the cooperative bank to disburse only Rs 35,000 after adjusting any liability the customers owed to the bank.
"A sum not exceeding Rs 35,000 of the total balance in every savings or current account or any other deposit account by whatever name called may be allowed to be withdrawn by a depositor," said the bank sharing the RBI order though text message to customers.
The RBI also ordered that whatever liability a depositor was having to the bank in any manner, either as a borrower or surety, that amount might be adjusted first to the relevant borrower accounts.
The RBI instructions, issued by Chief General Manager Yogesh Dayal under sections 35 A and 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, said the cooperative bank should not, without prior approval of the RBI in writing, grant or renew loans and advances, make investment, borrow funds or accept fresh deposits from January 10, 2020.
On Monday, amid dramatic scenes and pandemonium at the Sri Guru Narasimha Kalyanamandira auditorium in Basavanagudi, near Ramakrishna Muth on Bull Road, the bank's chairman claimed that the bank was not facing any cash crunch.
"We gave only 54 per cent deposits as loans, balance 42 per cent deposits are in cash, which the bank can return as soon as the RBI revokes restrictions," said Ramakrishna addressing hundreds of worried customers.
Bengaluru South Lok Sabha member Tejasvi Surya also assured depositors about the safety of their money. "I want to assure all depositors of Sri Guru Raghavendra Co-operative Bank not to panic. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is apprised of the matter," tweeted Surya.
He said Sitharaman is personally monitoring the crisis. "She has assured the government will protect interests of depositors. Grateful for her concern," said Surya.
The bank also publicised a letter from Surya, in which he said a group of depositors and bank authorities met him at 11.30 p.m. on Saturday.
"Surya spoke to Sitharaman on Sunday and apprised her of the situation. The Finance Minister, after speaking with the RBI Governor and other authorities assured Surya that the government will do everything in its capacity to protect the depositors' interests and the bank's long-term interests," said the letter from Surya's office.
According to the missive, Surya spoke to Sitharaman thrice on Monday who promised to safeguard the depositors, including senior citizens.
After addressing the worried customers on Monday evening, the police saved Ramakrishna by locking him in a room as anxious depositors outside demanded return of money.
Though he had to be protected, at one time during his explanation, many depositors clapped for a point he made in Kannada.
The bank's website featured several pictures felicitating Ramakrishna, including a testimonial by former Chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah.
At the end of FY19, the bank had a paid-up capital of Rs 70 crore, total deposits of Rs 2,291 crore, loan and advances of Rs 1,687 crore, investments of Rs 593 crore and 0.5 per cent non-performing assets.
Other financial details include total business value of Rs 3,979 crore, working capital of Rs 2,507 crore, gross income of Rs 261 crore, total expenditure of Rs 200 crore, gross profit of Rs 60 crore, provisions and reserves of Rs 5 crore, net profit of Rs 36 crore and a net worth of Rs 155 crore among others.
The bank also showcased photographs of a few awards it won and talked about new launches such as mobile and internet banking, RTGS and NEFT transaction, availability of personalised branded chip-based debit card, text message alerts and multiple other schemes.
The bank's head office is in Basavanagudi, and branches at Kanakapura Road, Poorna Prajna Layout, Kengeri, Raja Rajeshwari Nagar, Vidyaranyapura, BTM Layout and Rajainagar in Bengaluru.
Ramakrishna has convened another meeting with depositors at the National College ground on January 19.
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Tue., Dec. 31, 2019
Lawsuit: Famed Jesuit abused boy 1,000 times around world
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Sun., Sept. 8, 2019
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Fri., Sept. 6, 2019
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Wed., Sept. 4, 2019
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UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 19, 2019
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Sun., April 28, 2019
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Sat., March 9, 2019
Kent Roberts: The Catholic Church cannot reform itself
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Sun., Feb. 24, 2019
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Gonzaga President Thayne McCulloh responds to report on Jesuits sending abusive priests to live on campus
Gonzaga University’s president responded late Monday to an investigative report detailing how Jesuit priests accused of sexually abusing children were sent to live in a retirement home on the school’s …
Fri., Dec. 7, 2018
Vatican investigates after nuns report sex abuse by priests
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Wed., Nov. 14, 2018
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Poll: U.S. Catholics fault pope’s handling of sex abuse crisis
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Tue., Oct. 2, 2018
Idaho man sentenced to 30 to life in prison for sexual abuse
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Tribal members settle abuse cases against Mormon church
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Sat., Sept. 8, 2018
Catholic faithful demand change after sex abuse scandals
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Jul 03, 2019 IST
Impact Wrestling is in the midst of bolstering its backstage roster in addition to its talent roster, as the company has signed two names to new deals.
According to PWInsider.com, Mahabali Shera will be returning to Impact Wrestling this summer, and the company has agreed to terms with former WWE star D'Lo Brown, who will be working for Impact in a backstage capacity.
In case you didn't know...
D'Lo Brown has been working with Impact for the past several months, and the PWInsider report notes the former WWE star has been receiving rave reviews for his work. The report adds Brown has been praised for working with talents in a collaborative way and is not pushing his own wrestling or match style on current Impact roster members.
Brown does not appear to be the only producer signing a new deal with the company, as the report notes Impact Wrestling is looking to sign another producer as well.
Mahabali Shera left Impact Wrestling to return to his native India, as the former Impact star wanted to spend more time with his family.
It appears as if Shera is ready to return to the ring and will be re-joining Impact Wrestling sometime this summer, although his return date has yet to be announced.
In somewhat related news, Bhupinder Singh, who is under a developmental deal with Impact Wrestling, and has been training in Windsor, Canada, has been generating a lot of buzz surrounding his development and current in-ring work.
As for D'Lo Brown, his new deal with Impact is said to be a multi-year, full-time contract.
It looks like the move to sign D'Lo Brown has been met with positivity from talents in the locker room, as a number of talents have pushed for officials to sign Brown to a full-time deal.
With regards to Mahabali Shera, he has been doing media rounds as of late to promote his return to Impact Wrestling, and it remains to be seen what type of player Shera will be upon returning to the company.
How do you feel about Impact Wrestling signing Shera and Brown? Is it a smart move? Let us know in the comment section!
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Home Local News Bard could be placed next to his birthplace
Bard could be placed next to his birthplace
Simon Woodings
Last year there was a proposal to put the statue of Shakespeare at the top of Bridge Street but now Henley Street could be its likely destination.
A £100,000 bronze sculpture of William Shakespeare may finally be installed close to the Bard’s birthplace in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon.
The sculpture was crafted nearly two years ago but has not been able to find a permanent location in the Bard’s home town.
The latest proposal is in the middle of Henley Street, further on from Shakespeare’s Birthplace but before the library. An application was registered with Stratford District Council on 15th August and is due to be determined on 12th October.
If the Shakespeare statue is granted planning permission it will be the second statue to be located in Henley Street which already has a jester statue at its junction with Windsor Street.
Full story in this week’s Herald.
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SFX2017
Ha not a chance, the nimby Council hate having there thunder taken by somebody who has actually done more for this town than all of them put together!!
Richard M. Waugaman, M.D.
Alternatively, you could just admit, “Whoops! Our bad. This is a statue of the Merchant of Stratford. Bloke couldn’t even write his name, much less the works of Shake-speare.”
cwiseman
For someone that espouses a different author for the works, you seem slightly obsessed with events within Stratford upon Avon.
MDHJohnson
Mr. Waugaman is more than “slightly” obsessed. In fact, he has a compulsion which causes him to spread his denialist graffiti all over the net. As is evidenced here, he can’t even acknowledge the overwhelming evidence that Will Shakespeare of Stratford was an actor in the players’ companies [LCM & KM] which performed the Shakespeare plays, and was a householder/shareholder in the very theaters where those plays were performed. Simple historiography escapes Mr. Waugaman.
I think that “MD” was bought off the internet.
Sicinius
No, he’s earned it. It stands for Mad Denialist.
No, I am sure Mr. Waugaman’s M.D. (psychiatry) was earned. Of course, that lends him no expertise whatsoever as far as authorship attribution.
Lou Cifer
FAKE NEWS, FAKE STRATFORD living of a FAKE
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Subaru of America, Inc. Reports Record February Sales
February marks third consecutive month of record sales for the brand
Impreza, Legacy and Outback models also shatter previous month sales records
CHERRY HILL, N.J., March 1, 2012 -- Subaru of America, Inc. today reported record sales for February 2012 totaling 25,374 vehicles, a 17 percent gain over February 2011. The company also reported year-to-date sales of 25,374, a 19 percent gain over prior year.
"January and February sales represent the best start to a calendar year in Subaru history," said Thomas J. Doll, executive vice president and COO, Subaru of America, Inc. "We are coming off of record-breaking sales in 2011 and thrilled to see this trend continue into 2012."
The all-new Impreza was up 12 percent in February and recorded the best month in its history. Legacy and Outback also celebrated record-breaking monthly sales and double-digit gains over February 2011.
"We have seen tremendous growth in models such as Outback and Legacy, as well as the newly-introduced 2012 Impreza," said Bill Cyphers, senior vice president of sales, Subaru of America, Inc. "We anticipate similar momentum throughout the year as we launch the new BRZ sports car and XV Crosstrek, an exciting new small SUV vehicle."
"Another month of historic sales is a true testament to consumer demand for our product. This demand also means we are well-positioned for another record sales year," added Doll.
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Between broom revolution and umbrella united
In 2014, to actualize a change of government against admitted maladroitness then, some radical forces fused which led to the broom revolution
Carl Umegboro
Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria will next year complete uninterrupted twenty years of democratic governments. The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) formed in 1998 by merger of numerous groups after the annulment of June 12 election by General Ibrahim Babangida’s military junta, controlled power at the center uninterruptedly for sixteen years from 1999 albeit under three respective presidents; Chief Olusegun Obasanjo – late Umaru Yar’Adua – Goodluck Jonathan. Unfortunately, the administrations had same records in common; monumental fraud, fantastically corrupt system, administrative deficiencies and autocratic tendencies, though Yar’Adua’s administration was short-lived, thus a decisive clamour for change.
In 2014, to actualize a change of government against admitted maladroitness then, some radical forces fused which led to the ‘broom revolution; hence, the All Progressives Congress (APC) was birthed with a litany of promises. And by a resilient electoral wind in 2015, Muhammadu Buhari won as APC’s first government thereby swept out PDP from power. Since then, APC navigates the nation as the ruling party. Incidentally, whilst some give the government credit including international community, the opposition punctures it simultaneously from all sides.
However, as Nigeria runs a quadrennial system, the present administration is winding up on May 29, 2019 either for a second term or stepping aside. The ruling party (APC), most likely with President Buhari as its flag-bearer will contend with other parties. To strengthen their capacity, PDP has rallied around other political parties including the coalition’s ADC for a merger, hence the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) towards presenting a consensus candidate against APC.
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Recently, some distressed APC members in the National Assembly, strategically, first tagged themselves as the Reformed All progressives Congress (R-APC). They copiously made threats of defection and finally did lately. Incidentally, whilst they issued threats, other ambitious bigwigs wished their threats come through, and energetically work towards securing their positions. Among their grievances were the president’s non-preferential treatments to lawmakers in the fight against corruption and purported abuse of laws particularly express purchase a fighter-jet to aid security in the country, among others.
Without a doubt, a good merger will boost the numerical strength of the opposition for a tough battle to unseat the present Aso Rock number-one occupant. Nonetheless, the overriding factor is the presidential candidate vis-à-vis profile and political will that the union will produce. To oust the present government by the same groups with egotistic mindsets that drained the country for almost two decades into economic recession will not be an easy one putting into account some laudable policies President Buhari’s administration put in motion, especially the diversification of the economy and the ongoing fight against corruption.
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The APC-led Federal Government may not have done too well in the last three years and the reasons are not far-fetched. The administration was inaugurated amidst collapsed economy; stony-broke that the previous government finally resorted to loans for workers’ salaries. The treasury was drained that appointment of ministers was halted for six months while completion of ongoing projects let alone awarding new contracts wasn’t practicable. Pensioners’ pays had become no-go areas and same replicated across various state governments except Lagos, Anambra and few others. Visibly, things abysmally fell apart. Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala then as supervising minister of the economy couldn’t hold on to it but shouted at the top of her voice on the looming dangers. Unfortunately, she was surmounted by cabals in the government.
Presently, having prudently exited the recession, 2018 budget for the first time since Buhari’s assumption of office rekindled hopes of Nigerians with myriad of capital projects spread across all the geopolitical zones in the country. Unfortunately, despite the timely presentation, precisely on November 7, 2017, it danced around and round at the National Assembly until May 27 when it was passed with some questionable increments by lawmakers. Evidently, the system is adding values. For example, JAMB recently remitted N7.8 billion unlike before and similar reports across other agencies. Again, most states in the federation have migrated to producers – an index of economic progression irrespective of high cost of living at the moment. By economic theory, market forces will on its own pull down the prices in no distant time by persistent productivity. Thus, all things being equal, the present administration improved the system.
Resultantly, the onerous challenge facing the merged CUPP is the leadership material that can beat Buhari’s scorecard which redeems the nation’s hitherto impaired image. The merger’s dominant party, PDP is disreputable in the minds of Nigerians over its previous monumental havocs on the economy. Another remarkable feat of Buhari’s administration is the political will to bring to an end the ‘Ghana-must-go’ money bags that hitherto characterized the legislative arm during PDP’s era.
Irrefutably, prior to this administration, no legislative duties ever took place in the National Assembly without inducements; screening of appointees, confirmation of appointments or budgets defense. It became a norm for MDAs (ministries, department and agencies). Thus, with the same dramatis personae as the coalition’s arrowheads with prejudiced tendencies majority will reasonably zero the alliance. It goes beyond merger but the actors alongside their values. It is insufficient to merge for power but essentially, goals to accomplish and mischief to remedy. If not, it is to say the least, a collection of the fifth columnists.
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Umegboro writes from Abuja
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Ezekiel Okeke says:
APC, PDP etc. are ignorant fools, clubs of bandits, political prostitutes, generation of failures, complicit and collaborators of the enemy, fighting on a sunken ship nickname Nigeria- they must go down in the hands of the enemy or with the enemy in this final conquest of the Liberation Revolutionary Warfare of the natives in this final conquest of the Liberation Revolutionary Warfare of the natives under the natives Disintegrated Republics which is the conquest of Sokoto which has begun. God given Victory is the natives. Only the Sword decides. God Is With Us!!!
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Directed by Michael Curtiz
United States, 1942
In one of the most beloved American films of all time, a jaded expatriate in the early days of World War II finds himself faced with a difficult choice when an old flame re-enters his life.
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Casablanca Directed by Michael Curtiz
Awards & Festivals
1944 | 5 nominations including: Best Actor in a Leading Role
1944 | 3 wins including: Best Director
Stockholm International Film Festival
National Film Preservation Board
1989 | Winner: National Film Registry
Michael Curtiz Director
Humphrey Bogart Cast
Ingrid Bergman Cast
Claude Rains Cast
Marcel Dalio Cast
Murray Burnett Screenplay
Joan Alison Screenplay
Julius J. Epstein Screenplay
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During production, none of the actors knew how the film would end, and Bergman’s subtle facial expressions and oftentimes genuine exasperation at which man to choose––a noble, steadfast warrior emblematic of a greater cause, or a hard-drinking, maudlin American––demonstrate that conundrum. Casablanca is timelessly arresting thanks to a remarkable supporting cast and a bevy of pungent witticisms carried by Bogart’s languishing mystery man.
Samantha Vacca
You can make a case for Casablanca being the best of any kind of movie: action, adventure, thriller, espionage or war movie, but it has an undeniably romantic heart (Inspector Renault’s least vulnerable spot). It is a love story. A love story so noble the lovers part for the greater good. Rick and Ilsa, played by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, are also widely acknowledged as iconic celluloid lovers. Their story is one of the great screen romances.
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CASABLANCA irresistibly weds the theme of self-sacrifice for a greater good to a love story set against the backdrop of wartime intrigue. Mix in Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman at their most iconic, deliciously witty dialogue, a cast of colorful supporting characters played by unforgettable character actors and the able craftsmanship of director Michael Curtiz and you have Exhibit A for anyone looking to understand the genius of Hollywood’s old studio system.
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HKFanatic's rating of the film Casablanca
HKFanatic
"Casablanca" is purgatory; a waystation for the displaced and the morally deficient, and for those, like Rick Blaine, who operate in the shadows, unable to move on from some wound in the past. It's a place where redemption is still possible, if one learns to embrace their true nature at the most critical moment. "Casablanca" is also a perfect film—an example of the Hollywood dream factory operating at peak capacity.
Wee Hunk's rating of the film Casablanca
Wee Hunk
A movie for the ages. There are no superlatives inappropriate for this film. Loaded with talent and a masterful script. Every actor is at the top of their game. I particularly enjoyed Peter Lorre's performance.
dionysus67's rating of the film Casablanca
dionysus67
Despite a slow build-up and an unspectacular cinematography, Curtiz's classic retains the capacity to impress through the witty lines (verging on cynicism), the iconic performances by Bogart and Bergman (the latter in splendid close-ups) and the admirable use of chiaroscuro. The finale is a triumph really, and the sung juxtaposition in the bar a likely inspiration for a virtuoso sequence in 'The Travelling Players'.
msmichel's rating of the film Casablanca
msmichel
Essential cinema. Funny that the leads thought they might be making a turkey when filming then watched it go on to win the Oscar and become a staple on the re-release circuit for decades. Bogart and Bergman were sublime here and given the script to match. Supporting cast was perfection as was the rich cinematography. Too many classic scenes to pick a favourite but perhaps the rendition of "La Marseillaise".
Dave's rating of the film Casablanca
Still the first movie that comes to mind when I think of classic Hollywood. Watching this movie is pure cinematic bliss and I could watch it over and over again. Everyone involved is at the top of their game - Bogart, Rains, Lorre, Henreid, Bergman, Greenstreet. It's lofty reputation might be hard to live up to, but Casablanca does so. This movie never fails to bring a smile to my face.
Anastasia's rating of the film Casablanca
A film like this isn't about whether it's "great" or not, so much as it is a true classic, a movie people can watch for generations and appreciate, historically and aesthetically. "Casablanca" is one of the few benchmarks of American culture, since we have so few things to identify with as Americans en masse, I'm glad that this film is one of them.
Nicole Richie's rating of the film Casablanca
Moonlight and love songs: never out of date. It's still the same old story: a fight for love and glory.
João Biscaia's rating of the film Casablanca
João Biscaia
What do you call a portuguese who cries when the Marseillaise is played on a moroccan bar with the consent of an american to the demand of a czech?
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Psychedelic Mushrooms Help Depression, Study Finds
by Steven Meyer October 19, 2017, 5:00 pm 1.4k Views
MAGIC MUSHROOMS FOUND TO HELP PEOPLE WITH UNTREATABLE DEPRESSION
Magic Mushrooms are an unusual drug, usually taken by people looking for an all-natural psychedelic experience. But like marijuana, mushrooms are a natural drug that are illegal and can get you prison time for possession. Unlike marijuana, mushrooms haven’t experienced a by-state nebulous status for illegality. Mushrooms are just illegal. But a recent study has opened some new doors of possible medical use, as mushrooms were found to actually decrease symptoms of depression.
STUDY ALSO SHOWS PSYCHEDELIC PSILOCYBIN HAD MEASURABLE PHYSICAL IMPACT ON USERS BRAINS, LINKED TO LOWER DEPRESSION
The ingredient in magic mushrooms that elicits the psychedelic affects is called psilocybin. The new study was done by researchers in the United Kingdom and South Africa, which monitored the effects of psilocybin on people’s brains whose depression wasn’t helped by traditional methods. But incredibly, the group in the study not only enjoyed reduced symptoms of what had been untreatable depression, but their brains also showed a measured physical change after psilocybin use.
Namely, they found changes in certain kinds of blood flow and brain activity. “Decreased blood flow was found to correlate (in the amygdala) with reductions in depressive mood,” they write in the study, this week in the journal Scientific Reports.
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The study followed 15 male and four female depressed patients (which ultimately became 12 and then 11 male patients) receiving two doses of the drug over two weeks, who were then monitored for five weeks after. All of the patients had fewer symptoms of depression in the first week, and around half showed improvement at five weeks.
Each patient then received brain scans which revealed a decrease in cerebral blood flow and a decrease in brain activity in some areas, like the amygdala. Scientists have previously associated this area’s activity with fear and anxiety, among other emotional responses.
STUDY COULD OPEN THE DOOR FOR NEW RESEARCH TO HELP UNTREATABLE DEPRESSION
The paper points out that this is a tiny study with no control, and the researchers reminded New Scientist that you shouldn’t try to self-medicate with psychedelics. But it’s also promising. “This is further evidence that psilocybin may turn out to be effective for the most stubborn depression,” Paul Morrison from King’s College London told them.
The study adds further evidence to past research from the team, demonstrating psilocybin as a potentially useful treatment for depression, as well as the effects of other drugs on MDMA.
Obviously, this is new research that is far, far away from something that would ever be regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, especially as it is currently “scheduled.” But these findings may help open some more doors for research, especially as drugs like MDMA have recently been acknowledged for having value for research as well.
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Home » News » PwC plans first apprenticeships
PwC plans first Higher Apprenticeships in UK
London: PwC is close to offering apprenticeships in its consulting business after it became the first firm to offer places under the new UK professional services Higher Apprenticeship framework, a scheme designed by its own management consultants.
Initially it intends to offer 60 Apprenticeships in its tax practice. New recruits are expected to join the PwC tax practice from July, while use of the framework in the firm's advisory and assurance practices is also being assessed.
Gaenor Bagley, PwC partner and Head of People, said, "Our new Higher Apprenticeship programme is a real alternative for talented students who want to get into business straight from school or college, but without compromising on high quality training and development.
"Over the last ten years we have recruited over 500 school and college leavers across the firm. By implementing this new framework, it's a great opportunity for us to make the training and development opportunities for school leavers even better."
The two year tax Apprenticeship is based on the new, government sponsored professional services Higher Apprenticeship framework that PwC's own consulting practice has developed with employers and professional bodies, and which is expected to be formally endorsed by Government in the near future. By doing a formal Apprenticeship, people can take an accredited route to a highly skilled career in professional services within a nationally recognised framework.
Trainees will combine on the job experience and training with classroom learning. Apprentices in the tax practice will achieve a recognised professional services business qualification with the Association of Tax Technicians (ATT). Alongside the ATT, students will develop their business skills in areas such as managing performance, commercial awareness, and communications. On joining PwC, the Higher Apprentices will start working straight away while undertaking formal training and qualifications.
"We believe the Higher Apprenticeship will help a wider group of potential recruits gain access to professional services", Bagley said.
"The programme reflects our commitment to widening access to the profession, encouraging social mobility and offering top quality school leaver career opportunities. Last year we signed up to the government's Business Compact on Social Mobility because we think it is vital to encourage diversity, to reflect the communities we work in and the clients we have."
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Home Accountability The Xolobeni Community Is Fighting For A Voice In Mining Decisions
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The Xolobeni Community Is Fighting For A Voice In Mining Decisions
Fatima Moosa
From Monday 23 April until Wednesday 25 April, the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) will be meeting the department of mineral resources (DMR) and Australian mining conglomerate Transworld Energy and Minerals (TEM) in the Pretoria High Court regarding the Xolobeni farming community. The ACC, along with the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), will be arguing that in terms of the existing legislative the DMR can’t issue a mining right without the consent of the affected community.
The case is around the DMR’s attempts to mine the land in Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape. The court case was brought to prevent the DMR from issuing an mining license to TEM to mine titanium along the Wild Coast.
Mining in the community would result in removal of more than seventy households from the farming community according to a press release from the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC). The removal of these households would result in the disruption of the people from the land. Environmentally, the mining that would take place would cause major problems to the water supply, air supply, and ecosystems of the area.
The ACC is made up of residents from the Xolobeni community who have been fighting against the proposed open cast mining on their land since the early 2000s by the Australian mining conglomerate Mineral Resources Commodities (MRC).
The Xolobeni mine is a proposed titanium mine which would be one of the largest of its kind in South Africa. The project has been proposed by TEM, which is a subsidiary of the Australian corporation, MRC. A DMR license was first issued back in 2008 but later retracted on environmental grounds. In September 2017, the DMR announced an 18-month moratorium on mining in the area.
In March 2016, the chairperson of the ACC Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe was assassinated. He had been a firm opposer of the mine development and it was alleged that before his death, he had discovered a hit list of mine opponents with his name being first.
The court case forms part of the larger #Right2SayNO, which is an organisation of communities who are seeking to be a part of the front of the decision-making processes which is determining what type of development takes place on their land. The campaign is based on the universally accepted right of FPIC (free, prior, and informed consent) which is a right that is recognised by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The #Right2SayNO campaign has been mobilising for the court case and will be holding a day of mass action at courthouse along with people from mining communities around South Africa.
Through a series of postcards, the Xolobeni community and Amadiba people have spoken out about why they do not want mining in their community.
The Amadiba people have spoken through a postcard series why they don’t want mining in Xolobeni #Right2SayNo
Read all the postcards here: https://t.co/vo3ymitazr@LawyersJustice @StopTNCimpunity @GroundUp_News @groundWorkSA @GwedeMantashe1 pic.twitter.com/LUozwL7buJ
— Stop Corp. Power SA (@StopCorpPower) April 17, 2018
Keamogetswe Seipato from the Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity told The Daily Vox in an interview that ACC are basically saying, while they have been consulted in the process, they are clear that they do not want any mining to take place.
Ntombikayise Yalo’s postcard to DMR minister Gwede Mantashe on why she doesn’t want her community to be mined. Photo by Thom Pierce.
“The main thing is that they are saying no,†Seipato said with regards to the stance of the community.
Khanyisile Ndovela’s postcard to DMR minister Gwede Mantashe on why she doesn’t want her community to be mined. Photo by Thom Pierce.
On the importance of the case, Seipato says: “It would set a precedent for mining affected communities to go fight and say that listen it happened in Xolobeni, it can happen to us. The issue is not that they weren’t consulted. They were consulted. The mining company has been coming and consulting them. The problem is the Amadiba Crisis Committee are saying we don’t have mining in our community.â€
Bonisile Elisie Sibiya’s postcard to DMR minister Gwede Mantashe on why she doesn’t want her community to be mined. Photo by Thom Pierce.
A petition has been launched to support the efforts of the community. Dozens of local and international civil society organisations who form part of the #Right2SayNO campaign have all pledged their support for the petition.
Featured image via Pixabay
Editor’s Note: It was previously said seven households would be affected. It is, in fact, more than seventy. Additionally, the license was retracted on environmental grounds, not as previously noted because of the lack of consultation.Â
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Austrian Engineers Transplant Gasoline Engine Into Tesla Model 3 to Create Full Hybrid
Call it the Tesla-ish Model 3.
By Rob StumpfJanuary 6, 2020
Tesla/Obrist
Since its founding, Tesla has committed to being an all-electric brand. While this has worked out quite well for the company as well as the overall adoption of electric vehicles, some industry leaders believe that hybrid powertrains are the true key to the future of automotive engineering. In fact, according to European outlet Edison, one engineering firm has even retrofitted a Tesla Model 3 with a gasoline engine to produce a hybrid version of the automaker's most popular sedan.
Meet Frank Obrist, founder of the aptly named Austrian engineering firm Obrist Powertrain. Over the years, the company has worked to create alternative power plants for otherwise everyday vehicles, coining his recent ultra-efficient creations "hyper hybrids."
Obrist, who once worked for father of the rotary engine Felix Wankel, birthed the project as a way to create an efficient hybrid vehicle that could out-perform a fully electric car in terms of cost and environmental impact, despite being at least partially powered by gasoline.
Don't let the name fool you—even though it sounds like some sort of supercar creation, the first version of the powertrain was stuffed into perhaps one of the plainest compact cars out there: the Chinese-manufactured Geely EC7. Soon after, a new prototype of the so-called hyper hybrid was unveiled, this time transforming a Tesla Model 3 into the Obrist Mark II.
Obrist began the project by removing a number of battery packs from the Tesla's floor, saving around 840 pounds of total weight compared to the vehicle's stock form. Of course, fewer batteries means less battery-only range. The stock 50-kilowatt-hour (kWh) battery pack has been swapped for a more modest 17.3-kWh unit, meaning that its overall energy capacity is reduced by nearly two-thirds.
via Obrist
The Mark II makes up for the lost capacity by boasting a small 54-horsepower, two-cylinder engine in its frunk, a device that Obrist calls a "zero vibration generator." Any time the vehicle travels more than 40 miles per hour, the generator kicks on and constantly charges the battery. Obrist says that this constant charging protects the battery cells from damage and does so quite efficiently, sipping only half a gallon of gasoline for every 60 miles it travels.
The main goal of the project wasn't necessarily to hybridize a Tesla. Rather, it was to decrease the overall cost of an electrified car. So while we likely won't see a Model 3 with this particular conversion hitting Tesla's configurator any time soon, we could still see similar applications elsewhere in the world, especially as vehicle prices continue to rise.
Initial price aside, there's likely a number of other cases in which the powertrain could be useful.
For example, those who live in apartments or have limited access to public charging could potentially be interested in the ability to charge their vehicles more seamlessly without needing to seek out a plug. Additionally, drivers who take long road trips with limited access to a fast-charging network may also find themselves interested. Perhaps most fitting of all, though, are countries with limited access to charging infrastructure but have ample access to gasoline.
While this particular example might seem like blasphemy to Tesla purists, it's an interesting take for the rest of the world. Obrist says that the company has already signed a deal with a "prominent international market player" and expects the technology to make its way into a mainstream vehicle as early as 2023.
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