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Clean Port 80, a group created by SCO chairman Ralph Yarro, is trying to keep websites with pornographic content from using port 80, the main HTTP port, in order to contain the proliferation of porn on the internet. Clean Port 80's main argument is that the internet is comparable to a TV with only one channel on which pornography or other unsuitable content may randomly show up while children are watching; something the group argues no parent would want. While Clean Port 80's goals may sound noble to some, to others they amount to nothing more than censorship.
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Post by a bird » Sun Feb 05, 2017 5:12 pm
Just out of curiosity, does NAQT have a formal policy on teams from the same school addending multiple Sectionals? Or on two teams from the same school both claiming ICT bids by winning two different sites of SCT?
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Post by Important Bird Area » Sun Feb 05, 2017 5:26 pm
We do not currently have such a policy (so teams are free to travel where they wish).
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Post by CPiGuy » Sun Feb 05, 2017 5:29 pm
a bird wrote: Just out of curiosity, does NAQT have a formal policy on teams from the same school addending multiple Sectionals? Or on two teams from the same school both claiming ICT bids by winning two different sites of SCT?
bird bird bird bird bird wrote: We do not currently have such a policy (so teams are free to travel where they wish).
My two cents: such a policy should allow teams to play wherever they wish, but it should require a school, if they field teams at more than one SCT, to designate one SCT from which they want to receive bids to ICT, and make the team fielded at any other SCTs ineligible to qualify for ICT. The situation here will probably result in no actual teams from the Rocky Mountain circuit qualifying for ICT in Division I. This is probably not good.
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CPiGuy wrote: The situation here will probably result in no actual teams from the Rocky Mountain circuit qualifying for ICT in Division I. This is probably not good.
None of the policies proposed in this thread would change that situation.
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Post by Ike » Sun Feb 05, 2017 6:46 pm
IIRC, there used to be a policy in place, but Illinois and others pushed hard for a relaxation after the 2010 Indiana fiasco, complete with us almost dying while driving on the highway of death. This certainly does look exploitative -- though I have no idea what the facts are in this case. In any case, this doesn't look any more exploitative than teams splitting up their A teams to qualify their much weaker B team, except this one may have involved an airplane ticket. I assume this will become a collegiate discussion topic in the near future; I'll post more thoughts there when that thread forms.
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Post by Cheynem » Sun Feb 05, 2017 7:00 pm
Charlie is from Kansas City; I assume he happened to be home when SCT was running. I also have thoughts on this topic, but I'll wait for a full thread.
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Post by Red Panda Cub » Sun Feb 05, 2017 7:42 pm
Cheynem wrote: Charlie is from Kansas City; I assume he happened to be home when SCT was running. I also have thoughts on this topic, but I'll wait for a full thread.
Would the St. Louis site not have been twice as near, in that case?
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Post by gyre and gimble » Sun Feb 05, 2017 8:02 pm
Ike wrote:
In any case, this doesn't look any more exploitative than teams splitting up their A teams to qualify their much weaker B team, except this one may have involved an airplane ticket.
That's not true. If Chicago sent its B team to Georgia, its C team to Florida, its D team to Colorado, and its E team to Idaho, they might all have a decent shot at qualifying by winning each site but with low D values. If they all played at one site (and against Chicago A), they probably wouldn't all qualify.
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bird bird bird bird bird wrote:
That's false; limiting teams to one site would have disincentivized Columbia from sending a one man team to Colorado by making it so that they would have no chance to qualify more than one D1 team, and so that they couldn't qualify any D2 teams. If a club really wanted to have one guy play a weaker field to guarantee a spot at the expense if letting the rest of their players meaningfully play the tournament, they're welcome to.
For that matter, I would support preventing schools from fielding teams at more than one SCT. I would also support, for this year, extending a bid to the team which would have otherwise won this SCT (I don't know who that is), even if their D-value would be otherwise too low.
gyre and gimble wrote:
I agree with that. What I'm trying to say is, what Columbia did may have been "unfair," but it certainly isn't against the rules any more so than splitting your team at one sectional. In fact, I really don't think Columbia did any rule-breaking here. I'd probably do this if I wanted my school to qualify two teams as well!
I would also support, for this year, extending a bid to the team which would have otherwise won this SCT (I don't know who that is), even if their D-value would be otherwise too low.
I disagree with this. This would entail taking away a spot from another team to give a team a bid when there was no rule-breaking going on.* If we want to see the problem fixed, NAQT should change the rules.
*Although it's relatively immaterial to the discussion, I suspect that the D-Value of the team you would strip the bid from to award it to the Rocky Mountain team would be significantly higher than the Rocky Mountain's team D-Value.
Ike wrote: In fact, I really don't think Columbia did any rule-breaking here. I'd probably do this if I wanted my school to qualify two teams as well!
I agree, but it *should* be against the rules in my opinion, if only because it's harmful to developing quiz bowl in regions like the Rockies if they're just going to get dominated by a one man team from the Northeast every year at SCT and therefore stand no chance of being represented at national tournaments. The obvious endgame to this is that "big" teams will be sending entries to "small" SCTs at a higher rate, and winning them, which is *really bad* for everyone who's not those few big teams. Obviously Columbia shouldn't be punished for doing something they believed to be legal, but the rules need to change to prevent this from happening again.
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Post by RexSueciae » Sun Feb 05, 2017 9:03 pm
I really, really don't think anybody was buying plane tickets and flying out to other sites for the specific purpose of winning isolated SCT sites, regardless of the effects of people from schools outside the region playing quizbowl in a different region where they happen to be located at that moment.
What does the community want from SCT? Is it just another regular-difficulty event, or the vehicle by which teams qualify for ICT? (Or a third option?)
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Post by Mike Bentley » Sun Feb 05, 2017 9:03 pm
As someone who has been to a lot of tournaments with very small fields, I think I'd rather have people fly in to have larger fields.
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Post by Important Bird Area » Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:36 pm
CPiGuy wrote:
Standings from this SCT site (I've marked the divisions for all the teams):
1. Columbia (UG, DI champ)
2. Colorado A (DII champ)
3. Kansas State A (DI)
3. Maryland (DI)
5. UCCS (DII)
6. Colorado B (DII)
7. Kansas State B (DII)
8. Colorado C (DII)
Hypothetically ruling Columbia ineligible wouldn't generate a new Division I qualifier from that set of results; instead, there would have been no automatic qualifier in Division I.
NAQT qualification policy wrote: If the divisions at a Sectional compete together (as a result of one or both divisions not having at least four teams), then an automatic invitation will also be given to the overall winner if there are at least four total teams at the Sectional.
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Post by Cody » Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:10 am
If a team from outside a region competes and wins their SCT, they by definition deserved to go to ICT more than the team that would've won that SCT had they not been there.
This is no different from splitting teams.
(also: your consternation is amusing given that this tournament would've been 5 teams - at best - without a number of outside teams choosing to attend it. I would be more interested in hearing the perspective of teams who played this tournament.)
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Post by csheep » Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:13 am
Mike Bentley wrote: As someone who has been to a lot of tournaments with very small fields, I think I'd rather have people fly in to have larger fields.
As someone from Colorado where HS Quiz Bowl was non existent during my time there, and the collegiate scene appears to be fledgling, it would be very discouraging to have someone from a powerhouse school from a powerhouse region like New York/Cali/etc. fly in and casually sweep the field in a tournament that has qualification implications for a larger national tournament.
Regardless on the actual impact on qualifications, the optics of the situation look quite poor, no? A Rocky Mountain SCT being won by a Columbia team. And just because it doesn't seem to have an impact on qualification for ICT in this particular case per Jeff, doesn't mean it couldn't conceivably have an impact in future iterations. Something like limiting teams to 1 SCT, or some other more nuanced rules to be hammered out via discussion preventing this, doesn't seem out of order.
Cody wrote: If a team from outside a region competes and wins their SCT, they by definition deserved to go to ICT more than the team that would've won that SCT had they not been there.
Depends on your goals. If your goal is to have the best set of teams competing at ICT every single year, then yes, but if you're trying to grow quiz bowl into different regions, it can be argued something like this just completely prevents any new region from developing into a competitive, nationally relevant one.
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csheep wrote: Depends on your goals. If your goal is to have the best set of teams competing at ICT every single year, then yes, but if you're trying to grow quiz bowl into different regions, it can be argued something like this just completely prevents any new region from developing into a competitive, nationally relevant one.
I think you'd have a very hard time arguing that this prevents a region from developing into a competitive one, but you're welcome to try.
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Post by Rococo A Go Go » Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:26 am
If the ICT field was larger this wouldn't be a problem.
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Post by Cheynem » Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:27 am
There are a couple of other rule patches that might work, one easy, one cumbersome.
(Easy): Teams that bypass sites closer to them must apply to NAQT and ask for permission/a waiver to compete elsewhere. From what I understand, Charlie had a good reason for being in Colorado, so I don't think this would affect him, but this would theoretically prevent teams from trying to pick and choose "easier" sites (which I also find extraordinarily rare).
(Cumbersome): Teams can play anywhere, but they are announcing their intent to qualify an ICT team with the roster they are playing as during SCT (i.e., you lock in an "A" and "B" roster) and if you qualify two teams, those are the rosters that you play at for ICT. You could add anyone to the teams who didn't play SCT for ICT, but if you wanted to juggle players, you had to apply to NAQT for a waiver.
I mean the only reason we're talking about this is that Columbia won. Nobody is carping that Maryland (unless this is some other Maryland?) also played out west. One year, Trevor Davis who is from Minnesota played as Carnegie Mellon at the Minnesota SCT, but nobody cared because he lost to me. I would be wary of establishing a rule patch for something that I think is probably a very rare occurrence, unless we start to see a preponderance of such actions. This is unfortunate for the teams at this SCT, although in some ways this actually boosts their D-values.
I also think the ICT field should expand.
The only way this would stagnate a region is if I guess numerous teams from abroad consistently poured into the SCT to try to get a cheap bid, but it also seems like such actions would spur local teams to improve as well.
Post by jonah » Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:37 am
The comparison is frustrated here because the top two teams were trying to qualify for different divisions of the ICT. If Columbia hadn't played, but the ranking were otherwise the same, Colorado A would have qualified for the Division II ICT.
Cheynem wrote: I mean the only reason we're talking about this is that Columbia won. Nobody is carping that Maryland (unless this is some other Maryland?) also played out west.
That Maryland team was just Mohit Iyyer, who is enrolled at Maryland (yes, that Maryland) but works at Jordan Boyd-Graber's lab in Boulder.
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I think you're being willfully obtuse if you don't see how having a team from a very strong region go out of their way, across the country, to play/dominate in a fledgling region with a very weak field might be off-putting to new players.
There might be a very good, perfectly acceptable reason why Columbia had a representative in the Rocky Mountain region, but you must admit the optics of it look bad, and that there's certainly room for questioning here. Why else would an otherwise routine thread have such robust discussion?
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Right, the Maryland player obviously had a good reason to play there; I'm just pointing out that if you were to allow broad rules against playing or qualifying at multiple places, there are also cases like this to consider.
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Post by Boise » Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:43 am
You don't have to be mean about it Cody. You asked for people who went to this tournament to give some feedback, and they did. You don't have to sling it right back in their face with attitude.
Nobody who went to this tournament has provided feedback so far, as far as I can tell.
Post by theMoMA » Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:48 am
Hey, board staff here. Let's dial down the heat of the discussion a bit; we can certainly disagree about rules without the acrimony. Thanks.
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Post by Mewto55555 » Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:53 am
Gee, if only NAQT had a way to compare teams across sites so that they didn't have to give auto-bids to teams with mediocre stats that happened to win an 8 team mirror run on D2 questions...
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Post by Cody » Mon Feb 06, 2017 1:00 am
csheep wrote:
To answer your last question: the optics only look bad if you think that this is a problem. I don't. And I think that the optics aren't nearly as bad as people are claiming.
I don't think I'm being willfully obtuse (disregarding the fact that Charlie Dees playing solo is not Chicago A flying out to dominate this region by scoring 28 PPB). I have a fair amount of experience trying to get nascent college teams to attend more/real quizbowl events and never has the competition been a big factor. It's always question difficulty, and sometimes money. Teams very well understand that they aren't necessarily going to win a bunch of games - but they can play and have fun if they're answering questions and the other teams are nice.
I welcome a correction, but Charlie Dees is a nice enough person that I'd be surprised to hear teams at this SCT had an unpleasant experience. (aside from Colorado C, which appeared to have a rough time with the question set).
Post by Ike » Mon Feb 06, 2017 1:46 am
I definitely would like to hear from the Rocky Mountain circuit too. For all we know, Charlie Dees gave a lot of advice in helping out Colorado's circuit -- he could have given some recruiting advice, shown what real competition is like by acting as a stepping stone of hope for the Rocky Mountain teams with his insight and buzzer acumen, encouraged teams etc. Until we have evidence indicating otherwise, it doesn't seem fruitful to automatically suggest Columbia's / Charlie's actions adversely impacted the circuit.
Post by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) » Mon Feb 06, 2017 10:59 am
We bought these tickets more or less by accident (literally, I said not to buy the tickets, then I found out one had already just been purchased and I was more or less locked in to go). I was unaware there would be D2 questions until after the ticket purchase as well.
However, I primarily wanted to come to this particular site for touristic reasons, because it's gorgeous, my old music teacher lives there now, and you all know what the law is, not because I wanted to play D2 questions. I had this weird last minute vacation to play sectionals and it ended up being the most fun quizbowl vacation I've ever had. Colorado's team is super nice, super chill, super hospitable, and my hat is off to them for all the hard work they are putting in to get a circuit started there. Maybe it wasn't the most ideal situation in the universe, but I encourage more people to incorporate more tourism into their quizbowl travel.
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Post by CaseyB » Mon Feb 06, 2017 11:17 am
I would also like to point out that this is not the first time a school has earned a bid to ICT by qualifying at an SCT site outside their normal region. In 2015, Aayush from Waterloo flew down to our site at UCF to play SCT and he qualified to DI ICT. Even though a school outside Florida qualified at the Florida site, we were glad to have Aayush down in Orlando. We had a lot of fun and that is still the only year a Florida sectional has not had a combined field played on D2 questions. So I don't think the rules should be changed in this regard.
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Post by The Ununtiable Twine » Mon Feb 06, 2017 3:04 pm
CaseyB wrote: I would also like to point out that this is not the first time a school has earned a bid to ICT by qualifying at an SCT site outside their normal region. In 2015, Aayush from Waterloo flew down to our site at UCF to play SCT and he qualified to DI ICT. Even though a school outside Florida qualified at the Florida site, we were glad to have Aayush down in Orlando. We had a lot of fun and that is still the only year a Florida sectional has not had a combined field played on D2 questions. So I don't think the rules should be changed in this regard.
Yeah, but then some people might try to *cough cough* bend the rules to make ICT qualification a lot easier, such as in this case. No offense, but before this SCT took place, I half-heartedly joked with a couple of my pals that some team from far away would actually be devious enough to bend the rules and steal this ICT bid - and guess what happened! Just because one fruit hangs a lot lower than the others doesn't mean you should pick it. ICT bids shouldn't be given out to teams that are willing to travel very long distances to deliberately avoid competition. [I'm not saying this is true in all cases, but it is clearly true in the case you brought up.]
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Post by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) » Mon Feb 06, 2017 3:24 pm
Again, me being there caused an extra bid to spontaneously generate that would not have been awarded otherwise. CU Boulder A would have gotten their D2 bid with or without me there.
Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) wrote: Again, me being there caused an extra bid to spontaneously generate that would not have been awarded otherwise. CU Boulder A would have gotten their D2 bid with or without me there.
Right, but assuming that every team accepts bids that they are given (which most teams do), the ones who are really affected are the teams on the wait list. It's not like Columbia wasn't going to qualify if you didn't play the Colorado SCT. In some cases, though, teams can take advantage of this rule because they know they wouldn't qualify otherwise, and that, I have a serious problem with.
As somebody who has witnessed the annual brutality of the Northeast Sectional firsthand, I have to admit that my bias leaves me deaf to complaints about D-value or who deserves a bid more from other sectionals. Every year the Northeast has a miserably competitive field that leaves multiple incredibly deserving teams without bids. It is very rare for this to be true on a regular basis anywhere else in the country, so as much of a "first world quizbowl problem" as it is, it's a grievance I think many in our pocket of the world might want to air.
Last year, Columbia's A team split up (undergrads on one team trying to get that bid but we accidentally won the whole thing, Rafael and some grad students who didn't play much on the other), and a strong iteration of our real B team was the other D1 team we fielded. The only bids we ended up getting out of the site were for the ones made up of our real A team. Our real B team placed 9th in this field, with over 18 PPB. We used a bid to bring them to ICT, where a weaker version of that team placed 24th. The other teams that actually managed to get bids out of our sectional all placed 5th, 6th, 8th, and 12th. In any just universe, our B team clearly earned their place at ICT, but failed to get properly awarded a bid for it (they also placed 14th at ACF Nationals). Amherst, Dartmouth, and MIT B were also denied a very strong chance to go do well at ICT (they were all phenomenal teams, and Dartmouth did great at ACF). It is abundantly obvious that in order to get out of the northeast sectional you have to more or less be in contention for the ICT top bracket. This year Amherst wised up and went to a different sectional, and on more or less a last minute lark that wasn't even something that was supposed to happen, we did something similar, which has been done throughout my playing career by other teams like Maryland (won 2 sectionals in 2008 by splitting their A team). Sectionals has an extremely long, storied history of A teams playing the S/D-value system in their program's favor by splitting up in order to maximize their bids. I will unabashedly join that tradition and say I am perfectly content here with the idea that I did something to help my program out when I feel that by not doing anything they run a much greater risk of being screwed than the average SCT participant.
However, all that is really besides the point - I came here because the idea of visiting Colorado is incredibly appealing in many ways, and I had a very fun 48 hours in the state that were filled with good times outside of sectionals. I think it's a little sad that so many people have trouble computing that.
If NAQT would expand the ICT fields, none of this would be much of an issue. Every year, there are a few good teams who want to attend but get left out. Expand the field to accommodate the needs of a growing circuit.
Post by Cheynem » Mon Feb 06, 2017 4:07 pm
(To be clear, I don't have a problem with Charlie playing this SCT)
The "I had a beautiful time" argument is neither here nor there; it was reviled when Will Alston used it to defend playing a closed tournament under a fake name in another thread (yes, I know he had "permission"). It doesn't matter if people have a wonderful time doing something.
Charlie is correct though in the fundamental bloodbath of some sectionals over others. It is unfair that some sectionals have a much better field than others, denying very good teams a chance to go to ICT.
I would suspect the reform is probably not in cumbersome rules about travel, but rather in the nature of qualification and ICT itself. Expanding the ICT field is one possibility. I also wonder if the bid process could be revised in some way--perhaps an auto-bid must meet a minimum "d-value"? (in this way, you'd still have a full SCT for everyone, but there is the chance nobody qualifies for ICT from a site)
Cheynem wrote: The "I had a beautiful time" argument is neither here nor there; it was reviled when Will Alston used it to defend playing a closed tournament under a fake name in another thread (yes, I know he had "permission"). It doesn't matter if people have a wonderful time doing something.
I wasn't paying attention to whatever you're referring to, but in that case there was a rule being broken, right? I think if something is within the rules, as me playing this SCT very much was, then people can and should be able to make whatever adult decisions they like about scheduling their travel/tourism/general excitement around quizbowl tournaments that they are eligible for.
Post by Cody » Mon Feb 06, 2017 4:11 pm
The Ununtiable Twine wrote:
This happens all the time whether or not teams play a different SCT – consider the ubiquitous and very, very, very lengthy practice of splitting teams. Even B teams that might qualify for D1 ICT without splitting their A team are incentivized to do so because the ICT qualification system gives undue weight to the winners of weak sectionals and teams that played combined sectionals while penalizing pretty good (but not lights out) teams that played at very strong sectionals. This is a far bigger problem, unless you think Michigan B is a candidate for a top-5 team in the nation or that Minnesota A's real roster is a 3-person team without Jason Asher. Heck, even though I knew that I couldn't play 2013 ICT, I still played on VCU's SCT team and was probably the difference in VCU qualifying or not qualifying that year, which means that VCU definitely took a spot from somebody. But given that we finished t-21, you'd be hard-pressed to say that we were the least deserving team there, though.
Don't get me wrong—I do think that splitting teams is cheating the qualification system, and I don't see playing a different SCT as any different from that practice. But I don't understand how you can have a problem with any of these practices when the weaknesses of the current qualification system mean that many deserving teams are left out each year if they don't do something to increase their odds within the strictures of the system.
Charlie, you were very much within the rules to do what you did (technically, apparently Will Alston was too!); my point is that the "enjoyment" factor isn't really applicable, as we're moving into subjective ground.
Well, I think I will agree to disagree with you there, or maybe say that my emphasis is somewhere else. I do quizbowl at this point because I want to have fun at it, and I see how other people approach quizbowl and despair at how soulless it feels sometimes. Take, for example, the ritual of people going to Chicago to play or staff ICT, or HSNCT, or CO. What do these people do in the third largest city in the USA, with a robust public transit system that could get them to any number of concerts, museums, clubs, fantastic restaurants, etc? They sit in Rosemont the whole goddamn time, or settle for eating at Medici once again, and sometimes try and pack their trip to the brim with side tournaments of dubious provenance. I've done this too many times to count, and I respect why people want to do it, but after like a decade of this, I scratch my head that so few people ever opt out of this pattern and instead say "I'm going to go out to eat somewhere in the city and maybe ask a local for some nightlife recommendations." Quizbowl is fun and all, but it can be one of many fun things to do during a quizbowl trip. To me, the fact that so much hand-wringing occurred before I even chimed in, where people seemed to have a lot of trouble thinking through that maybe I didn't just go to Colorado for the sole purpose of gaming the D-value system, but rather wanted to go to Colorado because the idea of going to Colorado for the weekend sounded like a lot of fun (and was something that coincided well with a quizbowl tournament I was eligible to play), is a sign of the soullessness I'm lamenting here. Get out and live a little, people!
Heh, I figured out from the minute I realized you played SCT in Boulder why you went there, but I was attempting to be circumspect about it. I did not think for a second that you were trying to game the system by going to Colorado to play and I think you had every right to do so.
I agree with your general sentiment, I'm not advocating soulless quizbowlery here, but I'm also saying that for the purposes of deciding if what you did is legal and/or ethical, it doesn't really matter if you got great enjoyment and carpe diemed all throughout Colorado--otherwise, what if just one person at your SCT chimed in to say he was pretty pissed and you bummed him all out by beating him? We would rightfully tell that person that his feelings don't get to determine policy, and that's all I'm saying here.
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Post by Periplus of the Erythraean Sea » Mon Feb 06, 2017 4:46 pm
Your point is taken that whether someone enjoys something or not shouldn't determine eligibility, but it really comes across as irksome self-righteous posturing when a bunch of people come out and post saying "hey, fun doesn't matter here for eligibility." We know that, and none of us are actually trying to use that as justification - if, indeed, our actions need justifying in the first place! I would love to play ACF Nationals (if I hadn't playtested it) because it would be fun, but I certainly haven't been around pushing the idea that I should be allowed to desperately try and fish Nick Jensen out of retirement to play as a "crusty Dartmouth alums" team or something - the integrity of the national competition matters much more.
Is it really that wrong to publicly state that we had fun playing, and that others around us seemed to have fun playing too? Especially when the people who actually played didn't seem to have a major problem with it (and in some cases are baffled by the white-knighting of non-involved parties on the forums)? Frankly, I'm on board with Charlie here - I'm not picking up any titles any time soon, and I got screwed out of every real attempt at playing for appropriate placement during my entire collegiate career except at 2013/2016 ACF Nationals, so I'm in things for the fun of it.
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Of course, it isn't wrong to say you had fun playing something! My point is that "having fun" doesn't matter in terms of whether something is right, wrong, legal, or illegal or not. For the hundredth time, I don't think Charlie did anything wrong.
Perhaps this is "self-righteous posturing," but I think there are a lot of dangers of people proffering "well, I had fun and it didn't break any rules," a canard that has defended all sorts of dubious instances. It's great that Charlie had fun, I enjoy fun as well, but the actual meat of his argument defending himself is the point that it didn't break any rules and that it had no real effect on the end results. Good points! This is why the flip of "well, what if someone else didn't have any fun because of Charlie?" is dubious as well because that's not how we analyze if something is right or wrong or not.
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Post by ValenciaQBowl » Mon Feb 06, 2017 5:25 pm
This thread is getting nutty! But I love Charlie saying this:
Take, for example, the ritual of people going to Chicago to play or staff ICT, or HSNCT, or CO. What do these people do in the third largest city in the USA, with a robust public transit system that could get them to any number of concerts, museums, clubs, fantastic restaurants, etc? They sit in Rosemont the whole goddamn time
I remember when NAQT held the ICT at UCLA (2003, I think?), there was a thread afterward in which a number of folks complained about it and argued for it to be in Chicago for ever and always, and I noted that I thought it was nice for ICT to move around, allowing people to visit museums and go to cool restaurants and such. But there was a decent number of "QUIZ BOWL WEEKENDS ARE FOR QUIZ BOWL, NOT TOURISM, JEEZ!" type replies (NOTE: I'm aware the larger complaint for teams was the cost of flying to LA--I'm just sayin'). I'm pretty sure one of them was by one of my CO teammates from two years ago, too. Anyway, I enjoy seeing the opposite idea articulated.
More germane to the discussion, Valencia regularly splits its teams to ensure the B (and sometimes C!) teams qualify for CCCT. I understand Cody's point about that being a type of "gaming the system," but I like to reward my players for putting in six-plus hours of practice all season, and the bottom line to me is that it's up to other teams to work to be good enough to qualify. Of course, at CC level the teams that just miss qualifying for the CCCT don't have the kinds of resumes that the first few teams left out of DI ICT, either, so maybe the stakes aren't quite as high.
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Post by Ike » Mon Feb 06, 2017 5:33 pm
Cheynem wrote: It's great that Charlie had fun, I enjoy fun as well, but the actual meat of his argument defending himself is the point that it didn't break any rules and that it had no real effect on the end results.
I think the assumption by the community at large was that there was some devious scheme cooked up by Columbia to game the system and earn more golden tickets to ICT. As it turns out Charlie was being more Charlie Bucket not Veruca Salt, and I think that's why Charlie is talking about fun here - to show that Columbia wasn't being intentionally nefarious. My guess is that if someone had started this conversation with "NAQT's qualification system is broken and here's why..." there would be no discussion of "fun."
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Post by Benin Rebirth Party » Mon Feb 06, 2017 5:43 pm
Cheynem wrote:
If the D-value based wildcard system isn't working then the formula should be changed - a reasonable first step would be to increase the weights of bonus conversion (Look at Chicago B and Columbia B last year)
I also think the host bid should go through an application like how ACF does it now.
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Post by Edward Lansdale » Mon Feb 06, 2017 5:49 pm
I've been out of the quizbowl scene for a while but was always under the impression you couldn't send teams to more than one SCT. I'll add my two cents here to note that such a rule should be put into place.
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Post by Urech hydantoin synthesis » Mon Feb 06, 2017 6:10 pm
To address an earlier question, my belief is that under the current 32-team field of DI ICT and the large increase in talent in the #10-#30 ranked teams, ICT doesn't really have the luxury of trying to grow circuits by increasing geographical diversity at the expense of letting the 32 most talented teams into the field. The current qualification system is unfortunate and probably not very fair for non-top bracket teams in very strong circuits like the Northeast, and what happened here was (IMO) a (theoretically easy to abuse) stopgap measure that, in this specific scenario, produced a result that is more in line with what the bid outcomes would have been were ICT solely intended to be a tournament among the 32 best teams in the country.
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Post by Auks Ran Ova » Mon Feb 06, 2017 7:42 pm
raffi_-_c-a-n-a-d-a.mp3 wrote: I also think the host bid should go through an application like how ACF does it now.
If you mean the ICT host, I think this would be a bad idea for several reasons, which I can lay out if you're interested.
Urech hydantoin synthesis wrote: [32 teams is not enough]
I tend to agree here, and am interested to learn if NAQT has considered the proposition from a couple years ago of expanding DI to 36 teams (which would have many benefits, including allowing more teams pushed to the bubble by the D-value system into the field and expanding the playoff bracket sizes to increase the amount of games teams play against their skill-level peers, at the cost of necessitating a couple more rooms and probably another packet or two).
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If you learned that hell is not real, how would you feel about God?
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SwordofManticorEposted 7 years ago
Please, no theological responces, as the question is simple. How would you feel about God.
MrMaranathaposted 7 years ago
You are asking a Theological Question but asking for non-theological answers... You are merely leading the Blind off a cliff.
SwordofManticorEposted 7 years agoin reply to this
I disagree. Its a simple question. How would you feel, and please dont use theology as an excuse to hide your true feelings.
MrMaranathaposted 7 years agoin reply to this
It is like asking if I woke up tomorrow and the moon had suddenly disappeared from the sky and scientists said "well it was just an optical illusion the whole time... what do you know???" The moon is a reality... fact... Hell is a reality... Fact
You give me the strong impression that you want hell to exist. The moon is seen by all with physical eyes. Your enology is useless, because the doctrine of hell is enterpreted by men like yourself with carnal eyes, and the desire it is real.
BJCposted 7 years ago
If I discovered that there was no God, I would be glad I lived my life doing the right things - most of the time anyway. Doing the right thing really does make a difference in contentment in life.
But what would you feel about God if there was no hell?
BJCposted 7 years agoin reply to this
If I discovered there was no hell it wouldn't change my mind about God. Experienced too much and seen too much to go back.
What happened if I may ask?
Too much to explain, and I have a funny feeling you wouldn't understand, and that's okay.
Dr. Haddoxposted 7 years agoin reply to this
Very good, BJC.
You would be surprised what could understand about the church and all its harmful ways. I am not your average Christian.
thostposted 7 years ago
Well then, my life would be either a living heaven or a living hell. Depending on how lucky or unlucky I am. Luck would be my new God; maybe I would feel happy with this new arrangement.
Celiegirlposted 7 years ago
I would still love Him, because He, God is still who He says He is, whether there is a hell or not. He gave His son Jesus, who is the Christ to save me so that i can be reconciled to the one who is filled with love for me, whether i choose Him or not.
That said SwordofManticoE, i would continue to love Him!!!
Be blessed...
Sister. that is an awsome answer. May you be blessed as well.
Nikki Majorposted 7 years ago
I would probably just feel relieved. I'd rather live as if heaven and hell exists, than to live as if they don't, only to find out that heaven and hell is a real place after the fact.
The spiritual realm of God is real, and that was not in part the question.
whonunuwhoposted 7 years ago
I would be quite relieved if I were to stand where I assumed were the gates of Hell and only to discover, in my great thankfulness, Hell was not to be...then I would be converted and a follower of the one and true God and changed forever. As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord. When it is our time to come to the Lord's house, we will be prepared, and do so with great joy. Unfortunately for you, my friend, there is no simple response to such a loaded and provocative question as you have posed.
Yes there is a simple responce and you nailed it until you gave opposition to my question.
Dr. Haddoxposted 7 years ago
One must ask, "What is hell?" If we do not know what it is, it does not matter, whether or not it is real. Are we living here, in hell, on earth? How does hell fit into the grand scheme of all the other concepts associated with the theology of God?
The answer is, (since you want a simple answer with not thoughts associated with the answer), "I would feel the same way about God." There you are, a simple answer to a simple question.
Dr. Haddox
Hell's reality only exists in the desires of mens hearts who seek a hidden vengence for those who reject God.
sherrituckposted 7 years ago
I would feel that I serve a loving and forgiving God.
And that you do sister. Amen.
nightwork4posted 7 years ago
i already know that hell isn't real and as for god, i know he isn't real either.
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Tour de France 2019 – Stage 16: Geraint Thomas crash [video]
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Defending Tour de France champion, Geraint Thomas, crashed on Stage 16 of the 2019 Tour de France on Tuesday. The Briton took a sharp corner awkwardly and tumbled in the peloton.
Thomas got back on the bike and immediately resumed the race immediately, though. Well, after a bike change anyway.
The extent of his injuries – or what exactly might have caused the fall – wasn’t immediately clear. However, superficially anyway, it looked like Thomas sustained only a few cuts and bruises.
He was later seen pouring disinfectant over his wounds, but kept pedalling on Tuesday’s stage.
Tuesday saw the 2019 Tour de France resumed after its second rest day. Thomas and his challengers for ultimate victory have been braced for a head-on collision with a heatwave bearing temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius and above over the next three days.
That coincides with three mountain stages in the Alps that test top riders at the best of times but will probe the outer limits of endurance in a heatwave.
Cycling fans worldwide and especially in France are transfixed by the 21-day Tour this year with two Frenchman in the victory frame ahead of Sunday’s grandstand finish along the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
Julian Alaphilippe holds the leader’s yellow jersey and his compatriot Thibaut Pinot sits firmly in the running to wrestle the title from defending champion Thomas with six stages remaining.
Thomas has already complained of overheating on a stage last week. But now he insists that he has no fear of temperatures soaring beyond anything experienced on the Tour so far.
Watch: Geriant Thomas crashes on Stage 16 of the 2019 Tour de France
💥 Crash for @GeraintThomas86! But it doesn't appear too serious for the defending champ, who is soon back on his way. 💪
💥 Plus de peur que de mal pour Geraint Thomas. Après une chute, le tenant du titre repart sans trop de difficultés. 💪#TDF2019 pic.twitter.com/EjCivc9aBC
— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 23, 2019
The 2019 Tour de France is living up to its billing as being one of the most exciting ones in recent memory. After a gruelling few days in the mountains and a most welcome rest day, business resumes and Geriant Thomas is expected to launch a staunch title defence.
Julian Alaphilippe, somewhat beyond all expectations, has managed to cling onto the yellow jersey despite looking cooked on more than one occasion.
The first day back after the break is nice and flat, so the Frenchman might use this to give whatever he has left to hold on just a little while longer.
Or, he might be over it and resign himself to losing time, seeing as this has already gone beyond his wildest dreams.
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Tour de France 2019: Stage 16
Distance: 177km
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The Irish Commercial Court has recently determined the much publicised dispute between two Irish brown bread manufacturers on product packaging get up. In McCambridge Limited V Joseph Brennan Bakeries, Mr Justice Peart held that the Defendant, Brennans Bread, had committed passing-off in respect of the packaging of its whole wheat brown bread product notwithstanding a lack of intention to do so. The finding of passing-off was also made notwithstanding the prominent use of distinctive branding elements on the part of the Brennans Bread. The case concerned two very well known Irish bread producers. The Plaintiff, McCambridge, has been dominant in the Irish whole-wheat brown bread market for the last 50 years or so. Brennans Bread, the Defendant, is one of the largest and well known manufacturers of bread in Ireland being in operation for many years but only more recently entering the wholewheat brown bread market. Having traded for so long, Brennans Bread has become synonymous with red lettering on a yellow background on its packaging. Earlier this year, Brennans Bread introduced new packaging for its wholewheat bread brown product, which the Plaintiff's contended resembled its own packaging to the extent that customers would buy the Brennan Bread's product in error.
The McCambridge packaging has been in use since 2008 and comprised a clear plastic re-sealable bag "with distinctive graphic elements thereon such as a sheaf of wheat and the McCambridge name in italics, as well as distinctive colouring, the most significant being a dark green panel, appearing on the front of the bag". Mr Justice Peart was satisfied that McCambridge, as a result of its dominant position, had acquired a public association with the packaging used by it. However, McCambridge was not held to have any proprietary rights as such over the type of re-sealable bag, its shape or the shape/size of the loaf of bread.
A comparison of the two products at issue in the case is set out in the photograph below:
Mr Justice Peart heard evidence on how Brennans Bread came to procure its packaging and was satisfied that there was no intention on the part of Brennans Bread to deceive the public. Brennans Bread relied upon the prominent use of the yellow and red colouring on its packaging which was readily identifiable by the public as associated with Brennan Bread's products.
McCambridge on the other hand argued that the overall appearance or "get-up", particularly when placed...
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161 Organizations Around the World Speak Out Against the Use of Plutonium as a Nuclear Fuel on International “Nix Mox” Day (Press Release)
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161 ORGANIZATIONS AROUND THE WORLD SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE USE OF PLUTONIUM AS A NUCLEAR FUEL ON INTERNATIONAL “NIX MOX” DAY
Washington, DC, 28 September 2000: More than 160 organizations from around the world have joined together to oppose the use of plutonium in mixed-oxide (MOX) nuclear reactor fuel as part of the third annual International “NIX MOX” Day on September 28. The groups issued a joint statement warning of environmental and nuclear proliferation risks from proposals to reuse plutonium instead of disposing of it as a deadly waste.
Earlier this month, the U.S. and Russia signed an agreement to use plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons in MOX fuel at commercial power plants in both countries and, possibly, Canada. Weapons-grade plutonium has never previously been used to fabricate MOX fuel on a commercial scale anywhere in the world.
Community actions protesting the MOX fuel plans are taking place Thursday in the southeastern United States, Russia, and Canada. “Plutonium is one of the most dangerous substances on earth,” explained Kimberly Roberts, program associate at Physicians for Social Responsibility, whose group is participating in many of the protest events. “It should be safely isolated and monitored, not turned into a commodity on the world market.”
“MOX fuel will undermine global nuclear nonproliferation efforts because the plutonium in fresh MOX fuel can be easily separated and used for weapons purposes,” added Michele Boyd, global outreach coordinator for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. “MOX fuel will also complicate safe reactor operations and increase the consequences of a severe nuclear reactor accident.”
“Use of MOX fuel in nuclear plants will significantly increase the number of cancer fatalities projected to result from a severe accident, because quantities of plutonium and other highly radiotoxic materials are several times greater in MOX fuel than in conventional uranium fuel,” Dr. Edwin Lyman, scientific director at the Nuclear Control Institute, continued.
Despite the criticisms, the U.S. Department of Energy has selected its Savannah River Site in South Carolina for MOX fabrication. Duke Power has requested Nuclear Regulatory Commissions licenses to use the fuel at plants in North and South Carolina.
“A plutonium fuel cycle will require defense measures to be taken at reactor sites and along transport routes. This militarization of the fuel cycle is unprecedented,” noted Lou Zeller, community organizer at the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League.
Russian groups are also protesting their nation’s MOX involvement with events in Kaliningrad, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Voronezh, and Dimitrovgrad. “Our Ministry of Atomic Energy proclaims plutonium to be a national energy treasure which it intends to separate from used MOX fuel, a process which will generate vast amounts of radioactive waste and increase stockpiles of weapons usable material,” said Vladimir Sliviak, co-director of the group Ecodefense!
There is growing opposition in Canada to the Canadian government’s offer to use MOX fuel in CANDU reactors. “Through the plutonium fuel project, the Canadian government is propping up its declining nuclear industry and fostering global traffic in plutonium, which will increase the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation, terrorism, and accidents,” said Kristen Ostling, national coordinator of the Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout.
All the groups support immobilization, a process that involves mixing plutonium with other materials to create a theft-resistant waste form, as an alternative to MOX. The U.S. plans to pursue immobilization for a small quantity of surplus plutonium that has been deemed unsuitable for MOX.
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KERO'S EARLY GOAL NOT ENOUGH AS HOGS FALL 4-1
Two sides rematch at the BMO Harris Bank Center on Tuesday
Charlotte, N.C.- The Rockford IceHogs (33-16-7-4) scored in the first minute of play but were held off the scoresheet for the final 59:10, eventully falling to the Charlotte Checkers (31-24-3-3) by a 4-1 score on Sunday afternoon.
Tanner Kero got the scoring started just 50 seconds into the game. Ryan Hartman deflected a bouncing puck into the slot, and Kero corralled it before firing a wrister into the top corner of the net. It stood as the fastest goal to start a game this season for the Hogs, surpassing Kero's goal just 1:01 into the first period in the very first game of the year.
Charlotte answered back at 14:16 of the frame. A two-on-one chance turned into a three-on-two in the IceHogs zone, resulting in a wrist shot from Kyle Hagel at the left circle. Michael Leighton made the initial save, but Patrick Brown found the rebound and swatted it into the cage to tie the game at 1-1 heading into the second period.
The lone strike in the middle frame put the Checkers up to a 2-1 lead. After a puck bounced away at the attacking blue line, Andrew Miller raced into the Rockford zone and polished off the breakaway with a wrist shot under the crossbar 3:55 into the second period.
The two sides traded chances in the third with the 2-1 count holding until late in the frame. With Leighton at the bench for the extra-attacker, Blair Jones fired a wrister from his own end into the empty net with 1:11 to play. Then, Derek Ryan followed it up with another empty-netter of his own to seal the final 4-1 score.
Michael Leighton turned aside 16 of the 18 shots he faced while John Muse stopped 24-of-25 for Charlotte. Both teams failed to convert with the man advantage during the contest.
Next Home Game: Tuesday, Mar. 15 vs. Charlotte Checkers. After a weekend series in Charlotte, the two teams battle it out in Rockford. The BMO will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day a little early. Danny’s Gone Rogue will be playing in the Blue Flame Lounge, and those age 21-and-older can take advantage of drink specials and green beer. Fans can also enjoy $2 beers, soda, and companion tickets at the game.
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Odisha students win grand final of Anveshan 2018 in Bangalore
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A team of five students from Odisha’s Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Technology (VSSUT) in Burla (Sambalpur) won the grand final of Anveshan 2018, which was held in Bangalore on August 6.
The team from Idea and Innovation Cell of VSSUT won a cash prize of Rs 2.5 lakh for their project titled “Anecure – A non-invasive Haemoglobin Measurement Device”.
The competition was an opportunity for technology students across the country to come up with innovative products for the welfare of the society. The event, organised by Analog Devices, was flagged off in October 2017. The competition lasted for about 10 months and had four rounds.
There were six teams in the finals, which was held at Analog Devices headquarters in Bangalore. Institutes, including Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and National Institute of Technology, Goa, took part in the event.
The VSSUT team devised a non-invasive haemoglobin measurement device, which can alleviate the challenges faced in the traditional method of blood test conducted by pricking finger. The project developed by VSSUT students uses low-cost non-invasive method to measure the haemoglobin count, by the multi-spectral technology.
The device has an integrated android app, which is user-friendly and reliable. It uses a cloud storage to keep user’s data and maintain its security. The team comprised Bodhisattwa Sanghapriya, Om prakash, Apurwa Masook, Jaswasi Sahu and Rounak Agrawalla.
They are working on the extension of project in collaboration with department of biotechnology and National innovation foundation, New Delhi, department of science and technology to launch the project for rural health care. The field test has been performed on the product with the help of ASHA workers and feedback was taken into account for attaining accuracy and calibration of the device.
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A pioneering experiment of putting the principles of Islamic banking into practice was conducted in Mit-Ghamr, Egypt, from 1963 to 1967. The experiment combined the idea of German saving banks with the principles of rural banking within the general framework of Islamic values. Mit-Ghamr was essentially a rural area and the people in general, like elsewhere in the Islamic region, were quite religious. They did not put their savings into any bank because interest is forbidden in Islam. Moreover, hardly any financial institution was available to them. Under these circumstances, the task was not only to respect the Islamic values regarding interest but also to educate the people about the use of banking.
A western observer describes the significance of Mit- Ghamr experiment in the following way:
“The majority of population had never been dealing with the financial institutions. Because of this, capital fomiation had been impaired. Basically rural and religious, they tended to distrust the bankers operating in the western style and, what is more, there were few local branches they could patronise. Since a substantial part of their income was not spent immediately, but put aside for social events, emergencies and the like, this idle capital could not be used for productive investment. A precondition, however, for any change of behaviour from hoarding and ‘real-asset saving’ to ‘financial saving’ was the creation of financial institution which would not violate the religious principles of large segments of population. Only then could the rest of the majority of population be integrated into the process of capital formation.”
Thus, an attempt was made to integrate rural population into financial system and “developmental nature of this early experiment made it very prominent.”
In Mit-Ghamr project the following types of accounts were accepted: saving accounts; investment accounts; and Zakah accounts. No interest was payable to depositors in the saving accounts but they were allowed withdrawals on demand. They were also eligible for small, short-term interest-free loans for productive purposes. The funds deposited in the investment accounts were subjected to restricted withdrawals and were invested on the basis of profit-sharing. The Zakah account attracted the amount of Zakah for redistribution amongst the poor.
The Mit-Ghamr project of Islamic banking had an unexpected success as saving deposits increased from 25,000 Egyptian pounds to 125,OCX) Egyptian pounds during 1963-66. During the same period, investment deposits increased from 35,000 to75,000 Egyptian pounds. It is also reported that “the bank functioned on cautious basis, rejecting, on the average, 60 percent of the loan applications in the first three years. The default ratio was zero in economically good times.’’
Although Mit-Ghamr project made good start, it was abandoned due to certain political factors. Its importance is only historical now. Nevertheless, it was the first experiment which showed that commercial banking activity could be organised on the basis of Islamic principles respecting the prohibition against riba without indulging in interest.
Source: Elimination of Riba, Khurshid Ahmad, Khalid Rahman and Zahed A. Valie. Republished with permission.
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IRI at World Bank Symposium
On 8 and 9 September 2015, the Islamic Reporting Initiative attended the 2- day inaugural symposium on Islamic Economics and Finance in Istanbul, Turkey. This was organized by World Bank Global Islamic Finance Development Centre (GIFDC).
The theme of this well-attended symposium was Islamic finance: A catalyst for shared prosperity. The GIFDC has been specifically set up as a knowledge hub intended to assist client countries of the World Bank to take advantage of the rapid growth of financial assets which are compliant with Islamic law and which can enhance the Islamic financial industry with regard to economic development. The centre offers technical assistance and advice on such elements as legal and supervisory standards, and carries out research on the links between Islamic finance and economic development. It also investigates the potential contribution of Islamic financing to ending extreme poverty and increasing shared prosperity in World Bank countries.
Together with the Islamic Development Bank, the Islamic Research and Training Institute, Borsa Istanbul and the Guidance Financial Group, the GIFDC initiated its annual symposium with the aim of bringing together various stakeholders from the finance industry and academia to engage in the exchange of cutting-edge ideas and objective discussion on a number of topics. Speakers included:
Dr Zamir Iqbal, World Bank, Global Islamic Finance Development Centre
Dr Ali Coskun, Director of CARF, Bogazici University
Dr Talat Ulussever, Chairman, Borsa Istanbul
Dr Azmi Omar, Director General, IRTI
Dr Mohamad Hammour, Chairman, Guidance Financial Group
Dr Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow, Fung Global Institute
Dr Abbas Mirakhor, INCEIF Chair of Islamic Finance
Dr Muhammed Umer Chapra, Research Advisor of Islamic Research and Training Institute of IDB
Hossein Askari, Iran Professor of International Business and International Affairs, George Washington University
Dr Murat Cizakca, Adjunct Professor of Islamic Finance, Luxembourg School of Finance
Thorsten Beck, Professor of Banking and Finance at Cass Business School
Patrick Amir Imam, International Monetary Fund Representative, Madagascar
Dr Obiyathulla Ismath Bacha, Professor of Finance, Head of Graduate Studies Department, International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF)
Nabil Maghrebi, Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Economics, Wakayama University
Isa Yilmaz, Durham University
Clement M. Henry, Visiting Research Professor, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore
Luqyan Tamanni, Doctoral Researcher, University of Glasgow
Dr Md. Mizanur Rahman, Head of Training, Jaiz Bank Plc, Nigeria
Dr Mustafa Omar Mohammed, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, International Islamic University Malaysia
Drs Daan Elffers (middle), Inaugural symposium on Islamic Economics and Finance in Istanbul, Turkey.
Those present, who included representatives from the private sector and development practitioners, were able to gain increased understanding of Islamic economic and financial issues, and discussion included the implications of current issues impeding advancement. While the concept of risk-sharing in financial and social contracts is a significant feature of Islamic finance, it is agreed that there are still many aspects that can be developed further, leading to the advancement of shared prosperity across the spectrum.
The organisers of the symposium are committed to the ongoing promotion and development of the Islamic finance industry, recognizing that its development plays a vital role in the promotion of inclusive growth and the acceleration of poverty reduction.
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Leaders & Laureates at Prince’s Trust International Leadership Programme 2017 in Windsor
On Monday 20th March, the Islamic Reporting Initiative (IRI) attended the ‘Leaders and Laureates’ session of the Prince’s Trust International Leadership Programme 2017 in Windsor. The session was moderated by Mohamed Amersi, who is a trustee of both the Prince’s Trust International and the IRI.
Following an introduction by the Reverend Richard Burridge, Mr Amersi discussed the topic of ‘building cohesive communities’ with an impressive panel of faith leaders. Those represented were Rabbi Harvey Belovski, Imam Ibrahim Mogra, Mr Krish Raval, Imam Ali Abbas Razawi, Bishop Alastair Redfern, and Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo.
On addressing global challenges together, Imam Ibrahim Mogra pointed to the power of diversity as a tool for unification: “To be a good Muslim, one first has to be a good human being. God has enabled human beings to stand up and protect others, and to stand up for the rights of the oppressed. In doing so, we need to celebrate our cultural differences and focus on our many shared values.”
Mr Mohamed Amersi (centred) with Nobel laureates Kofi Annan and Kailash Satyarthi
To underscore this message of common humanity, the Imam quoted verse 49:13 of the Qur’an: “O mankind, indeed We have created you from a male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.”
Imam Ali Abbas Razawi was asked to comment on the recent call of Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah for an ‘alliance of virtues’ to enable different faiths to work more closely together in putting forward the message of peace.
Imam Razawi: “All of humanity, in all its multiplicity, is united by virtues – reflections of God which are found in everyone – such as love, compassion, and a sense of righteousness. Conceptualised by Aristotle as ‘virtue ethics’, these are values which are indeed shared irrespective of one’s faith, social, or cultural background.
Today we find ourselves at the cusp of history, confronted with social, political and environmental challenges on a scale we’ve never seen before. The need for dialogue and cooperation has therefore seldom been more urgent. To achieve effective progress, I fully support the notion that dialogue should take place on the basis of common virtues. I am inspired by the countless examples in history where multiple cultures have coexisted in peace and harmony, and where societies have thrived as a result. While the form of dialogue may need adaptation, the essence of virtue is timeless.”
The second panel, on world affairs, was influenced by the book Clash of Civilisations by Samuel P Huntington. The panel presented alternative views to the book’s premise that regional, cultural and religious identities will be the main source of conflict in the post-Cold War world. Panelists shared their thoughts and opinions from perspectives of education and culture, music, imagination, youth, business, and faith:
HE Jamal bin Huwaireb – CEO, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation
Professor Colin Mayer CBE – Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Mr Vartan Melkolian – conductor, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Ms Kim Polman – co-founder of Reboot the Future, co-author of Imaginal Cells
Dr Sarah Snyder – Founding Director of the Rose Castle Foundation, and advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury for reconciliation
Ms Fatima Zaman, next-generation counter extremist, Extremely Together
Last but not least, the audience was further inspired by speeches from Nobel laureates Kailash Satyarthi and Kofi Annan, who shared their views on leadership, with a particular focus on the role and potential of young people.
Categories: CSR News, Partnering with IRITags: education, Imam Razawi, Imam Sayed Razawi, Laureates, leaders, Moulana Razawi, Sayed Ali Abbas Razawi
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US Drone Strikes in Pakistan: 1 in 3 Killed Are Civilians
March 8, 2010 by Infinite
– Washington increases drone missile strikes in Afghanistan (Radio Australia)
Winning the hearts and minds of the people in action.
The US military has used drones to attack suspected terrorists in Pakistan since at least 2004. Proponents of the small, unmanned planes say they are capable of “surgical strikes” that reduce civilian casualties and effectively combat terrorism.
Is that true? Well, not really, according to a new report from the New America Foundation, a non-profit research institute.
The percentage of civilians killed by drones in Pakistan is at about 32 percent, or one out of three, the report states, and the strikes themselves have little effect in deterring terrorist activities in either Pakistan or Afghanistan. Researchers do not believe any of the reported strikes targeted Osama bin Laden.
Our study shows that the 114 reported drone strikes in northwest Pakistan, including 18 in 2010, from 2004 to the present have killed approximately between 834 and 1,216 individuals, of whom around 549 to 849 were described as militants in reliable press accounts, about two-thirds of the total on average. Thus, the true civilian fatality rate since 2004 according to our analysis is approximately 32 percent.
The group’s report is titled “The Year of the Drone,” referring to 2009. According to the figures obtained by the foundation, the Obama administration has increased the use of drone strikes considerably when compared to the previous years of the Bush administration.
There were 114 reported drone strikes from 2004 through 2009, but only 45 during the Bush years. The other 51 were during last year.
…[A]lthough the drone strikes have disrupted militant operations, their unpopularity with the Pakistani public and their value as a recruiting tool for extremist groups may have ultimately increased the appeal of the Taliban and al Qaeda, undermining the Pakistani state. This is more disturbing than almost anything that could happen in Afghanistan, given that Pakistan has dozens of nuclear weapons and about six times the population.
Although the US military executes the strikes with the approval of the Pakistani government, the people feel differently. Only 9 percent approve of drone strikes.
The group ReThink Afghanistan has already created a short documentary using some of the report’s findings.
“Clearly when you have a drone strike that kills a wedding party of ninety people when you’re really after one person and maybe you didn’t even get that person, this contributes to the problem,” Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) says in the film.
By Andrew McLemore
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 — 10:42 pm
Source: The Raw Story
More on the war on terror:
– US officials puzzle over millions of dollars in cash, well over $1 billion a year, leaving Afghanistan by plane for Dubai
– Blackwater Guards Stole Hundreds Of Weapons In Kabul And Went On Deadly Rampage
– Judge Napolitano and Angela Keaton on Freedom Watch: Obama’s Bush Foreign Policy
– Cynthia McKinney at Munich Germany NATO Peace Rally: ‘My Country Has Been Hijacked By A Criminal Cabal’
– The New Vision of the Obama Administration: War Without End
– International Fund to Buy Off Taliban Leaders in Afghanistan Will Cost Hundreds of Millions
– Ron Paul: US Foreign Policy is Bankrupting America
– Pentagon backtracks after Defense Secretary Robert Gates ‘admits’ Blackwater operating in Pakistan
– US Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes (ABC News Investigation)
– US Marine Commander: Afghan surge troops won’t target drug crops
– Nobel Peace Laureate Obama seeks additional $33 billion for wars, on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department
– Top US intelligence officer: ‘Afghan Insurgency Can Sustain Itself Indefinitely’ and ‘Time Is Running Out’
– Afghanistan: Suicide bomber ‘kills four CIA agents’ after attacking CIA base, at least 8 Americans killed
– Afghan CIA suicide bomber ‘was courted as potential informant’
– 857 US Soldiers Died in Afghanistan Region Since 2001
– Obama’s surge comes at a cost: At least $57,077.60 per minute
– Nato appeals to Russia for more help with the war in Afghanistan
– US Forces Chief Admiral Mike Mullen Warns of More Fighting And Casualties in Afghanistan
– Robert Fisk, The Independent’s award-winning Middle East correspondent: Obama is a Disaster, Worse than Bush
– Rep. Dennis Kucinich: ‘These Wars Are Corrupting The Heart Of Our Nation!’
– Rep. Dennis Kucinich: The Truth About Afghanistan
– Obama administration tells Pakistan: Tackle Taliban or we will
– Dennis Kucinich: ‘The war in Afghanistan is a threat to our national security’; ‘America is in the fight of its life and that fight is not in Afghanistan – it’s here’
– Dennis Kucinich: Afghans ‘don’t want to be saved by us, they want to be saved from us.’
– MSNBC Rachel Maddow: War President Obama
– Ron Paul: ‘Obama is Actually Preparing Us For Perpetual War’
– Afghanistan Surge to Cost At Least $40 Billion, That Is $1.333.333 For One US Soldier Per Year
– President Obama ‘to deploy 30,000 troops to Afghanistan’
– Obama: ‘I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am President, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank.’ (!)
– CIA Secret ‘Torture’ Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy Outside Vilnius, Lithuania
– British military forces told to ‘bribe’ the Taliban with ‘bags of gold’
– Afghanistan: New 67-Million-Dollar US Prison At Bagram
– The ‘Obama Market’ in Kabul: US Military Rations, Sleeping Bags, Tactical Goggles on Sale
– Paul Craig Roberts: Republic of Fools & The Evil Empire
– Rep. Eric Massa on Afghanistan: 2950 Days, 300 Billion Dollars, 911 Dead Americans – End the War, Bring back the Troops
–Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to Uzbekistan for extreme torture, to be ‘raped with broken bottles,’ ‘boiled alive’ and ‘having their children tortured in front of them’ (Must-read):
Murray asserts that the primary motivation for US and British military involvement in central Asia has to do with large natural gas deposits in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. As evidence, he points to the plans to build a natural gas pipeline through Afghanistan that would allow Western oil companies to avoid Russia and Iran when transporting natural gas out of the region.
Murray alleged that in the late 1990s the Uzbek ambassador to the US met with then-Texas Governor George W. Bush to discuss a pipeline for the region, and out of that meeting came agreements that would see Texas-based Enron gain the rights to Uzbekistan’s natural gas deposits, while oil company Unocal worked on developing the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline.
“The consultant who was organizing this for Unocal was a certain Mr. Karzai, who is now president of Afghanistan,” Murray noted.
“There are designs of this pipeline, and if you look at the deployment of US forces in Afghanistan, as against other NATO country forces in Afghanistan, you’ll see that undoubtedly the US forces are positioned to guard the pipeline route. It’s what it’s about. It’s about money, it’s about oil, it’s not about democracy.”
– US official resigns over Afghan war: Foreign Service officer and former Marine captain says he no longer knows why his nation is fighting:
“I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan,” he wrote Sept. 10 in a four-page letter to the department’s head of personnel. “I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end.”
– Three US helicopters crash in Afghanistan, 14 Americans killed
– Morale dips for American marines in Afghanistan:
“I’m not much for this war. I’m not sure it’s worth all those lives lost,” said Sergeant Christian Richardson as we walked across corn fields that will soon be ploughed up to plant a spring crop of opium poppy.
– Afghanistan opium production reaches 6,900 tons:
Opium production rate has soared to 6,900 tons in Afghanistan in the past 10 years ‘despite‘ the presence of 100,000 foreign troops in the country for nearly eight years.
A report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said on Wednesday that Afghanistan produces 92 percent of the world’s opium that has devastating global consequences.
The UN report also noted that Afghanistan’s illegal opium production is worth 65 billion dollars.
The heroin and opium market feeds 15 million addicts, with Europe, Russia and Iran consuming half the supply, UNODC reported.
– Ron Paul: ‘The more troops we send the worse things get!’
– Ron Paul On The US Afghanistan War Policy
– Italians bribed the Taleban all over Afghanistan, say two senior Afghan officials
– Pentagon spends $400 per gallon of gas in Afghanistan
– I was ordered to cover up President Karzai election fraud, sacked UN envoy says
– President Obama quietly deploying 13,000 more US troops to Afghanistan
– Congressman Alan Grayson on Afghanistan
– Ten more US soldiers killed in Afghanistan
– Leaked Report: US Top Commander In Afghanistan Calls For More Troops Or War ‘Will Likely Result In Failure’
– ‘We’re pinned down:’ 4 US Marines die in Afghan ambush
– Top US commander in Afghanistan: The Taliban have gained the upper hand:
The Taliban have gained the upper hand in Afghanistan, the top American commander there said, forcing the U.S. to change its strategy in the eight-year-old conflict by increasing the number of troops in heavily populated areas like the volatile southern city of Kandahar, the insurgency’s spiritual home. Gen. Stanley McChrystal warned that means U.S. casualties, already running at record levels, will remain high for months to come.
(Source: The Wall Street Journal)
– General Sir David Richards: Afghanistan will take 30 to 40 years
– Former SAS Comander: Afghan operation is ‘worthless’
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April Hannah and Michael Habernig – Beyond the Physical (ep 09)
By Jeff Finley July 9, 2015 September 20th, 2016 No Comments
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April Hannah and Michael Habernig of the Path Documentary Series
On Episode 9 of the Maker/Mistaker Podcast, I talk with April Hannah and Mike Habernig, creators of The Path Documentary Series. A documentary trilogy about the afterlife, the realms beyond the physical and the science of consciousness. They are also the hosts of the fascinating Path 11 Podcast where they interview experts in consciousness exploration, out of body experiences, the paranormal, and other esoteric subject matter. Some of their guests include William Bulhman, Teal Swan, Todd Acamesis, Robert Waggoner, and Nancy McMoneagle.
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I discovered them after I started researching after my first few out of body experiences. I saw their films Afterlife and Beyond the Physical and they were really well-made and eye opening. At the time I didn’t know much about this stuff so it was all extremely new and mind-blowing. Here are the trailers for the films below. The full films are available to see on Vimeo On-Demand or on Amazon Video.
Mike and April blend the mediums of film, psychotherapy, intuition and visual effects to address the age old questions:
What will happen when I die?
What is beyond the physical body?
What is consciousness?
More about Mike and April (from their website):
Director Michael Habernig, the owner of Habernig Productions and Director of The Path Trilogy, unknowingly at first, created a path for himself. After years of investigation and interviewing experts in the field of healing and consciousness, Michael is slowly unraveling the science of the soul. By creating a series of films, Michael hopes to help viewers by giving a perspective on the subject of consciousness, that they may not have heard before and eventually the viewer will find their own path. His inspiration comes from his own soul’s journey and life experiences when he was confronted with many friends and family members who had died in a short period of time. These deaths in his life quickly sprung him on to his path. Along with running a video production company for over 10 years, Michael Habernig has over 15 years’ experience in film and video production.
See also: What I've Learned from 2 Years of Meditation (ep 05)
Producer April Hannah, the owner of Hannah’s Healing and Producer of The Path Trilogy has been on a path of healing and discovery ever since she was a young girl. She has always had an interest in the metaphysical world ever since she was a young child. Her early childhood experiences inspired and launched her into a career of psychotherapy and wellness while always striving to work on her spiritual path of development. Her goal for The Path Trilogy is to raise the consciousness level of the world, one viewer at a time. April brings a psychological awareness to the film that allows the viewers to connect with the filmmakers and feel connected to the concept that “we are all one” through the viewing of the films. Her experience working with clients in the spiritual realm also assisted in collecting the experts for the documentary. April’s clinical career began in 1999 and since then she has worked with people from all walks of life. Her clinical and healing practice includes having working with people of all ages from veterans, sexual abuse survivors, at risk children, the “severe mentally ill”, people with disabilities and those who are searching for their own path and purpose in life.
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Cooking stoves banned as LPG Tanker turns turtle in Ramgarh
*Pictures show the turtle turned LPG Gas Tanker in Ramgarh valley.It was going to Nepal from Paradip in Odisha.
LPG Gas Transportation Tanker, going to Nepal from Paradip Refinery in Odisha, turned turtle near Lohget in Ramgarh, Jharkhand. The accident has not only paralyzed traffic but also raised an alarm bell.
The Ramgarh district administration has ordered residents not to burn LPG gas stove till further order. To control the gas leakage from the fallen tanker, a team of experts from Bokaro was out to control it.
The driver of the Tanker(LN 01K-4151) Pawan Kumar Manivida is injured. Pawan is a resident of Fatehpur, UP.
Though the accident was mainly the result of a loss of driver's command, Tanker of LPG was coming from Paradip Refinery is Indian,Odisha is Indian Oil's 11th Refinery.
It was dedicated to the service of the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 7, 2016. Envisioned as Energy Gateway to Eastern India, the 15 MMTPA grassroots refinery has been set up at an estimated cost of Rs 34,555 crore.
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Trend Micro report predicts major cybercrime in 2015
Catherine Knowles
The annual prediction report from Trend Micro, leader in cybersecurity, has been released for 2015.
The report titled ‘Trend Micro Security Predictions for 2015 and Beyond: The Invisible Becomes Visible’, indicates attacks will become more targeted in a wider range of countries as hackers and cyber criminals become more professional and sophisticated.
Tim Falinski, director consumer, Trend Micro Australia and New Zealand, says bolder hacking attempts will target larger corporations as opposed to individuals.
“When cyber criminals attack big businesses they get a large amount of customer data,” says Falinski. “This is one way hackers are utilising data to attack individuals in new and different ways,” he says.
Trend Micro predicted that in 2014 there would be one main security breach every month and this has proven to be true thus far, says Falinski.
The 2015 report predicts increased cyber activity with more advanced hacking tools and attempts.
It is said there will be more exploits kits to target Android and vulnerabilities in mobile devices - new mobile payments will come with new threats, for instance.
Targeted attacks will be more rife, there will be attempts to exploit open source apps, and online banking will be the target of financially motivated threats.
The Internet of Everything devices will be saved from mass attacks due to technological diversity, but data will still be vulnerable, the report predicts.
From a consumer perspective, risk is very prevalent as people do not have the necessary security measures in place, says Falinski.
“People understand that PCs and computers need to be protected, but not so much mobile devices,” he says.
Trends in 2013 and this year have showed people are less aware that security breaches can happen through mobile devices, whereas many have some form of security on their PC.
The two screen syndrome, where people simultaneously use two digital devices with a screen, is becoming more common and with more devices, giving cyber criminals more opportunities for attack, says Falinski.
"The flow of information is opened up," he says. "People are giving up their privacy too easily and enabling the flow. Hackers have more access to our lives and information, and criminals are picking up on this creating targeted attacks."
While threats were, at one point, easier to pinpoint, they are more subtle and hidden. “Crime is no longer simply in the form of viruses," Falinski says. "It's not traditional but more sophisticated."
DNS (Domain Name System) hijacking, also known as DNS redirection, is a malicious attack that overrides TCP/IP settings on your computer and redirects it to a rogue DNS server, invalidating the default DNS settings.
A user can go about their business, thinking everything is fine, when really hackers are collecting information about the consumer to use against them.
Another example is online banking. The threats around online banking will continue to become more severe and unique, according to the Trend Micro report.
“While online banking has been around for a long time, it’s just in the last 3-4 years that it’s really driven forward,” says Falinski.
“Moving on from traditional devices opens up new venues for attacks, criminals are a lot smarter, and they can target mobile devices,” he says.
In response to this, more banks will deploy two-factor authentication for online services, Falinski says, but individuals must play their part, too.
“One in 10 people have had bank account details stolen, so it’s not a case of people not knowing this is an issue, but people need to increase the security on their devices other than their computer," he says.
Falinski says individuals and businesses alike have to be vigilant and realistic.
While free products to use against cybercrime threats are a good first step, it won’t be enough against the more sophisticated threats to security, he says.
It can be as simple as using protected WiFi ports, as opposed to those that are free. "If you aren’t using a secure network, take precautions," he says. “We encourage people to use 3G or 4G instead of free WiFi."
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"The New Zealand marketplace is internet forward and connected,” he says. "Therefore it is even more important to protect against potential threats."
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The jury's final thoughts on the IVA2018 regional winners
By the submission deadline of 15 June 2018, 637 entries had been uploaded to the International VELUX Award server via personal FTP accounts. Four entries were uploaded twice and all remaining 633 projects complied with the mandatory file formats and specifications and were available in digital format for the jury’s evaluation. The jury was composed of Came Pigem Barceló, RCR Architects (ES), Rick Joy, Rick Joy Architect (USA), Li Hu, Open Office (CHN), Saša Begović, 3LHD Architects (HR) and Martin Pors from VELUX A/S (Denmark).
The jury met in Copenhagen on 25 and 26 June 2018. Came Pigem Barceló was elected chairman and presided over the jury’s work. On the first day, the jury reviewed all the projects, individually and across regions in order to get an overall impression of the entries, their quality and their themes. After a general discussion, the jury evaluated 59 selected projects in total by region and on the themes Daylight in Buildings and Daylight Investigations.
The jury unanimously selected the winners as listed below:
The following regional winning projects in the Daylight in Buildings category were awarded with 1,000 € for the student(s) and 250 € for the teacher(s):
Africa: Light Pavilion
Students: Fatai Osundiji, Emmanuel Ayo-loto
School: Obafemi Awolowo University
Teacher: Babajide Onabanjo
The Americas: Light Liquefaction
Students: Ziqi Chen, Shuaizhong Wang, Zeyu Liu
School: University of Virginia
Teacher: Earl Mark
Asia & Oceania: My Dead Relative in the Light
Students: Qi Wang, Jingkai Chen, Peilin Yin
School: Qingdao University of Technology
Teacher: Xuechuan Geng
Eastern Europe & the Middle East: Light Forms Juggler
Student: Anastasia Maslova
Teachers: Ilnar Akhtiamov, Rezeda Akhtiamova
Western Europe: Reaching the Light
Students: Joana Robalo, João Umbelino, Ana Ázar, António Lopes, Miguel Pedro
School: Universidade de Évora
Teacher: João Soares
The following regional winning projects in the Daylight Investigations category were awarded with 1,000 € for the student(s) and 250 € for the teacher(s):
The Americas: Daylight to Water
Students: John Nguyen, Stephen Baik, Abubaker Bajaman
School: University of Toronto
Teacher: Mauricio Quirós Pacheco
Asia & Oceania: Road to Light
Students: Yuhan Luo, Di Lan, Yuan Liu, Yusong Liu
School: Tianjin University
Teacher: Shanchao Xin, Delong Sun
Eastern Europe & the Middle East: Cloud of the Polar Light
Students: Anna Borisova, Kamilla Akhmetova
Teacher: Ilnar Akhtiamov, Rezeda Akhtiamova
Western Europe: Cover to Reveal
Students: Brice Lemaire, Xiaolan Vandendries, Julien Obedia
School: Université Catholique de Louvain
Teacher: Gérald Ledent
The project Light Refraction by Water by Samuel Alayande and Kolajo Ogunsanya from Nigeria was selected at the jury meeting as regional winner for the African region. But based on information made available to the jury after its meeting, the project was disqualified due to documented plagiarism. The jury decided not to allocate a new regional winner in the category due to the quality of the remaining projects. The decision by the jury was subsequently approved by the UIA International Competitions Commission.
The total amount of 633 projects from around 250 different schools of architecture in 58 countries represents an incredible status over the current state of thinking and teaching at the schools of architecture. After looking into this cross-section of today’s architectural education, it is striking that students and teachers are interacting across the continents. There are no boundaries in student projects − students and teachers meet and study across continents, and work with places and cities remote from their actual location.
Daylight in architecture is an ever-relevant topic and the submitted projects prove that there are unlimited ways to approach and understand the impact of daylight by raising questions and by proving curiosity. The projects underline how broad the discussion can be − and it is clear that the overall theme of the award, Light of Tomorrow, has inspired the students to think about the future and ask, “what is happening in the world and what can we do?”.
The jury noted a clear focus on responsibility and consideration for some of the major issues of our time. The students are also genuinely engaged in environmental, social, cultural and political key issues − by using daylight as a uniting force and practical solution for communities all around the world. Some projects pooled the political aspects, challenging situations and social discussions into their work with light − in war zones, issues related to refugees and immigration as well as looking at environmental concerns related to water shortage, air and water pollution, desertification and infertile land. It is exciting to see how daylight can play a role and serve as a conveyor and messenger in this broad spectrum of issues.
Whereas projects some years ago would have shown new and spectacular ideas, it is now more about inclusion of all people and bringing people to the same level. Several projects looked at places that can unite people − irrespective of their social conditions, wealth or religion − and at how architecture can play an important role for society. In many of these projects, the jury would have appreciated a deeper understanding of the actual quality of the space and how spaces can improve the lives of people.
Many projects investigated daylight in an urban context and how to bring daylight to underground spaces and into narrow streets in dense urban conditions. The entries are also characterised by an interest in specific technologies and solutions related to how light can be stored and how pathways can be illuminated to make them safe at night. The jury found the overall quality of the projects to be good, and saw many interesting explorations - not necessarily suggesting spectacular, complicated or complex ideas but merely projects that focused on simple ideas with a big impact. On the other hand, some projects dealt with problems that are too complicated to tackle or embraced too many issues at the same time. It is better to choose one bright idea and explain it well.
The schools’ and teachers’ involvement in the projects is noticeable in many projects. Groups of specific themes can be recognised as being part of the same program¬me. It is clear that many projects received good mentoring in the process, striving for a higher degree of excellence. Other projects could have been edited more carefully in dialogue with the teacher.
The submitted projects demonstrate that students are working fluently with digital applications. Some projects, however, would have benefited from finding a better balance between the medium and the actual results. Students should also carefully select how they present the essence of the project.
The jury appreciated the projects that demonstrated a sincere interest in an actual problem rather than projects that jumped to fast solutions. The jury was looking for projects that maintained discipline and tried to edit a complex issue to a shorter idea, projects that had the capacity to ask the right questions, and projects that helped the jury to under¬stand the process from idea to solution.
The jury acknowledged the efforts made by the students and gave attention to every project. Some of the projects that were not among the finalists were even brought back for the final discussions for each of the two categories.
The winners distinguish themselves because they are probing, asking essential questions and providing eloquent answers. Together they represent a mosaic approach to the question of light by covering the range from futuristic concepts, technology and applications to more fundamental aspects of architecture going back to space, place and memory.
The winners of the category Daylight in Buildings
For the category Daylight in Buildings, the winning projects dealt with very different challenges: from the very concrete − how to ensure light and ventilation in buildings in hot climates − to a spiritual and poetic solution for remembering deceased relatives in a densely populated dense Chinese city, to a hands-on and easily realisable daylight pavilion for refugees in Africa, and a project that thinks oringinally and questions the way we construct our buildings and cities today.
Daylight in Buildings – Africa, Light Pavilion by Fatai Osundiji and Emmanuel Ayo-loto, Nigeria
Africa has had its share of internally displaced people, numbering in the millions. One specific sad case is the north-eastern part of Nigeria, where thousands of people are homeless; they have lost nearly everything, including their social lives, and are now forced to live and be cared for in camps created by governments and NGOs. The project proposes a special, easy-to-assemble pavilion, using cheap and locally sourced materials that include bamboo, used tyres and soil. The Light Pavilion is a simple, prototype shelter designed to serve as a social space for these poor camp dwellers.
The idea to create a communal pavilion for people who are in desperate and displaced conditions is very concrete and very sympathetic. The project suggests not just a simple and colourful roof providing shade during daytime for children playing and learning; the core idea is that the application of photo-luminous glow-paint − charged and re-charged by sunlight − will transform the roof into “light-emitting-rods” that glow beautifully at night. The project is rewarded for its simple, colourful and easily realisable idea.
Daylight in Buildings – the Americas: Light Liquefaction by Ziqi Chen, Shuaizhong Wang and Zeyu Liu, USA
Widely regarded as the opal capital of the world, Cooper Pedy is located in a desert in northern South Australia. Due to the harsh summer desert temperatures and notoriously low humidity, the residents chose to live in `dugouts´, underground residences − even restaurants and churches have been carved out below ground. Underground homes may have helped in coping with the unbearable heat in the summer, but the extreme lack of water and general lighting for the dugouts is still a problem. The intention of this design is to provide a poetic solution to the needs for both water and lighting in a way that resembles the very nature of what the town is known for − opal.
This is a very specific project, dealing with a very concrete issue in a very convincing way. The proposed device, a funnel skylight, is actually very simple. At night, the acrylic cover at the top of the tube opens and the water vapour condenses and forms droplets. During the day, the acrylic cover closes and the light passes through the glass sphere and water and is diffracted into colourful beams that penetrate underground. It is a very well-researched and well-presented project − and the jury finds it a very convincing winner of its category for the Americas.
Daylight in Buildings - Asia & Oceania: My Dead Relative in the Light by Qi Wang, Jingkai Chen, Peilin Yin, China
Worshiping ancestors is a tradition for Chinese people − at festivals and on Memorial Day. In order to retain the tradition for the future megastructures of cities with a scarcity of land, the project suggests building gravestone brick walls in the bottom space of a high-rise public building. When sunlight passes through holes in the exterior walls, each gravestone brick will be illuminated at a specific time of the day of death − following the calculated incident angle of the sun over the course of the day and seasons.
The project moved everyone in the jury considerably. The poetics of remembrance with a touching connection to the soul of the person who is deceased is a celebration of daylight, and teaches people to understand the position of the sun at all times, so that they know when to go to the wall gravesite and to understand that every day is different. The project is also illustrated in a very beautiful way and the presentation of the main idea is truly convincing. For the jury, it is a clear winner in the category for Asia and Oceania.
Daylight in Buildings – Western Europe: Reaching the Light by Joana Robalo, João Umbelino, Ana Ázar, António Lopes, Miguel Pedro, Portugal
The Alentejo, in the centre-south region of Portugal, is characterised by cold winters and excessively hot summers. This has shaped a particularly dense architecture with thick walls, confined spaces and small windows to control the temperature inside the houses. Over time, architectural elements like the `Alentejo chimney´ have been blocked, leaving the already dark, interior spaces with very little ventilation and triggering problems with humidity. To bring more natural light and quality to these spaces, the project suggests making the chimneys functional again and giving them a new purpose – to act as light channels.
The jury was intrigued by the simple idea and by its strong presentation. The project takes its starting point in a realistic situation and a real challenge, and subsequently suggests a solution that seems realisable as a very simple intervention. The solution for improving natural ventilation and introducing reflected light considers the hot summers and refers to the special light of Alentejo. The project is beautifully illustrated and very poetic in its description, thanks to the work of the Portuguese photographer Artur Pastor. For the jury, it is a clear winner in the category for Western Europe.
Daylight in Buildings – Eastern Europe and Middle East: Light Forms Juggler by Anastasia Maslova, Russia
The project invites us to take a fresh look at architecture. At present, a very significant problem is insufficient lighting in buildings. But at the same time, there is so much sunlight. So how do we shape buildings to capture the maximum amount of natural light? The project suggests a change in the shape of buildings and their openings, where rectangular shapes increasingly limit the penetration of light into space. It also analyses various alternative forms that maximise the potential of natural light penetration as well as investigating the shadows cast by buildings.
After a long debate, perhaps the most intense among all the projects, the jury agreed on this project, which is more a manifesto than a design. It asks the relevant questions: do we need to design buildings to be the way they are today? And can we bring more daylight through a vocabulary of openings? The jury hopes that this project will inspire other students to be ambitious, to be a bit rebellious, and to pose questions − even if there is no immediate solution.
The winners of the category Daylight Investigations
For the category Daylight Investigations, the winning projects dealt with very concrete challenges: from how to utilise daylight to capture moisture and transform it into usable water in desertificated areas, to safeguarding pathways in remote rural areas with naturally occurring luminous stones, charged by daylight, to a richly imaginative proposal for redirecting solar rays to illuminate cities in the polar nights.
Daylight investigations – the Americas: Daylight to Water by John Nguyen, Stephen Baik, and Abubaker Bajaman, Canada
The proposal seeks to utilise daylight to capture moisture in the air in humid environments and transform it into usable water. Environments such as deserts benefit greatly from this implementation, as light showers often evaporate in the air before reaching the ground. The proposal looks at revitalising dry climate regions into functional and farmable land over time by installing the technology into square miles of areas at a given time and making the soil soft and hydrated for seed cultivation and allowing farmers to start tending the land. Overtime, the technology can also be developed as a form of water purification.
The jury finds it a very intelligent project − and the key issue, to use daylight (not just by itself but in relation to humidity and agriculture) shows great motivation and technical insight. The jury is intrigued by the investigations and ways of providing systems that allow the transformation of arid zones and infertile land. This is a good direction for the world to take, for its climate and for feeding the increasing population. The jury congratulates a convincing winner of their category for the Americas.
Daylight investigation – Asia and Oceania: Road to Light by Yuhan Luo, Di Lan, Yuan Liu and Yusong Liu, China
With the lack of road infrastructure and electricity in the mountainous topography of rural China, getting to school can be a very dangerous task for children – especially when coming home from school in the dark. By introducing a small amount of inexpensive fluorite to the pathways, the bright colours of the stones will glow for several hours at night when irradiated by daylight during the day. Almost all provinces in China have large fluorite mines and the coarse processing of the raw stone into pavement material makes is economically feasible for poor rural areas.
The project stems from a very basic need for safe passage between communities. The idea to build pathways made of fluorescent stones is as simple as it is realisable. Other projects have worked with applications, materials and beacons that can be charged during daytime for emergency situations or for finding your way at night – but the jury finds this case to be very well researched and presented, a project that thoroughly addresses a real problem and presents a simple and practical solution.
Daylight Investigations – Western Europe: Cover to Reveal by Brice Lemaire, Xiaolan Vandendries and Julien Obedia, Belgium
The project challenges, questions and raises awareness of the phenomenon of desertification, which affects 25% of the global land area − including the region of Almeria, Spain. It proposes creating a new monumentality as a landmark in the territory, where the soils and ecosystems are regenerated by setting up a water cycle based on atmospheric water. A mesh acts as a filter or a veil, designed to create a light and shadow scenography that evolves during the day. Thus, threatened and usually neglected spaces can become places with remarkable spatial, poetic and luminous qualities where people can gather.
The project is a truly interesting investigation. In addition to the challenges of desertification and the questions it raises, this project attempts to investigate the problem and find simple and realisable solutions. Its goal is to regenerate the soil with a special mesh or net that collects moisture from fog, dew and rain. The associated helium balloons also create spectacular and shaded places, and the way it works with humidity as a medium of expression of the light is truly appealing. The jury applauds a really good investigation that is very thoroughly researched and well presented.
Daylight Investigations – Eastern Europe and the Middle East: Cloud of the Polar Light by Anna Borisova and Kamilla Akhmetova, Russia
Find out more about the winning projects and see all other submissions here.
By IVA2018 Jury
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CEE monthly bond wrap: Bond issues in Eastern Europe pick up strongly in October, but activity subdued in Central Europe
CIS companies issued 18 bonds worth $4.5bn in October of which two thirds were from Russia
By Ben Aris in Berlin November 8, 2019
Bond issuers from Eastern Europe were active in October with 18 bonds issued worth a total of $4.5bn of which two-thirds of the value and 14 out of the 18 were Russian bonds, according to data provided by CBonds.
The issues from Central Europe were more subdued with a total of six issues worth collectively $2.2bn, less than half of the eight issues that raised a total of $5.9bn in the same month a year earlier and a similar amount to that raised in October 2017.
On a cumulative basis issuers from Central Europe have raised a total of $39.4bn over the first ten months of the year, which is already more than the $39bn they raised in all of 2018, but behind the $49.8bn that was raised in 2017. CEE issues have been fairly evenly spread out over the year, but May, September and October were particularly quiet months accounting for 5.8%, 1.8% and 5.6% of the total issues YTD respectively.
By contrast bond issuers from the CIS were considerably more active this year than in the previous two years. The total of $4.5bn raised this October was double the $2.2bn raised a year earlier and five times more than the $876mn raised in October 2017.
Cumulatively, issuers from the CIS issued a total of $27.8bn over the first ten months of this year, which is already more than the $24bn that was raised in all of 2018, but well down on the $44.3bn raised in all of 2017 – a vintage year when the lion’s share of bonds were issued in the first half.
This year March and June were particularly strong months for bond issues, but September and October have proven to be equally strong accounting for 18.8% and 16.1% of all the issues YTD. March was the strongest month accounting for just under a quarter (24.3%) of all the bonds issued in the CIS YTD.
From the non-Russian bonds on offer in October most came from Ukraine with leading metallurgical company Metinvest issuing $500mn with a yield of 7.75% that matures in 2029 as part of its debt restructuring programme.
Next month’s round-up will also include more large Ukrainian issues as its leading companies are taking advantage of the economic recovery and better macroeconomic fundamentals that have led to improved sentiment to issue bonds for their investment programmes. Ukraine's natural gas monopoly Naftogaz also raised $500mn via a seven-year Eurobond at the start of November and other big state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are expected to come to market in the coming year.
But as usual the Russian issuers accounted for the largest part of October’s Eurobond issues. Russians issued a total of $19.6bn over the first ten months of this year, which is already more than the $13.1bn raised in all of 2018 but behind the $27.3bn raised in all of 2017 – the banner bond year.
In Russia’s case March was an even more active month than it was across the whole CIS, accounting for just under a third (31.1%) of all issues, while June, September and October were all active months accounting for around 15% each of the total bonds issues YTD.
The issuers were an assortment of leading Russian bluechips from banking, telecoms and metal and mining, which were raising cash for their capex programmes.
Top Russia issues in Sep 2019
Volume $mn
Lead Managers
Norilsk Nickel, 3.375% 28oct2024, USD
Societe Generale, Gazprombank, ING Bank, Sberbank CIB, VTB Capital and others
VEON Holdings, 4% 9apr2025, USD
Citigroup, HSBC, JP Morgan, Societe Generale
Uralkali, 4% 22oct2024, USD
Natixis, Renaissance Capital, UBS, UniCredit, VTB Capital, Sberbank CIB and others
Alfa Bank, 5.95% 15apr2030, USD
Alfa Bank, JP Morgan, UBS
Nord Gold, 4.125% 9oct2024, USD
Gazprombank, ING Bank, Sberbank CIB, VTB Capital and others
source: Cbonds
Top CEE issues in Sep 2019
Volume (m.)
CPI Property Group, 1.625% 23apr2027, EUR
Deutsche Bank, Barclays, HSBC, Societe Generale, RBI Group
EP Infrastructure, 2.045% 9oct2028, EUR
Citigroup, Societe Generale, Commerzbank, Erste Group, SMBC Nikko Capital
NEPI Rockcastle, 1.875% 9oct2026, EUR
Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, HSBC, Citigroup
Pozavarovalnica Sava, 3.75% 7nov2039, EUR
Erste Group
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Military Times Names Windstream to its Best for Vets: Employers 2019 Rankings
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network communications and technology solutions, has been named to the Best for Vets: Employers 2019 rankings by Military Times. This is the third consecutive year that Windstream has made the list.
In their tenth year, the Best for Vets: Employers rankings evaluate companies’ culture, veteran recruiting, veteran policies, and accommodations for members of the National Guard and reserves.
Military Times invites organizations from across the country to fill out its survey, tests to ensure the accuracy of responses, carefully evaluates survey data and includes only the best companies in its published rankings. The standards are objective, rigorous, and editorially independent. As a result, transitioning service members recognize them as the most trusted veteran job rankings and have come to rely on Best for Vets Employers to aid their transition to civilian life.
“Windstream is honored to receive this recognition from Military Times for the third consecutive year,” said Jack Brooks, chief human resources officer for Windstream. “We make a concerted effort to recruit and support service members, veterans and their families because of our respect for their service and for the skills they bring to Windstream.”
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1908 Brad Meltzer: The Book of Fate
"Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming."
So says Wes Holloway, a young presidential aide, about the day he put Ron Boyle, the chief executive's oldest friend, into the president's limousine. By the trip's end, a crazed assassin would permanently disfigure Wes and kill Boyle. Now, eight years later, Boyle has been spotted alive. Trying to figure out what really happened takes Wes back into disturbing secrets buried in Freemason history, a decade-old presidential crossword puzzle, and a two-hundred-year-old code invented by Thomas Jefferson that conceals secrets worth dying for.
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FAP-specific re-directed T cells first in-man study in malignant pleural mesothelioma: experience of the first patient treated
Magdalena Pircher1,
Petra Schuberth1,
Pratiksha Gulati1,
Simon Sulser2,
Walter Weder3,
Alessandra Curioni1,
Christoph Renner4 &
Ulf Petrausch4
Median survival of advanced malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is less than 2 years, and novel treatments are urgently needed. Immunotherapy with adoptive T cell transfer is an attractive approach that could be added to current therapeutic concepts. Fibroblast activation protein (FAP) is expressed by all subtypes of MPM [1] and can serve as target of re-directed T cells harboring an anti-FAP chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) leading to site-specific T cell activation.
Patients and methods
This is a Phase I study with the primary clinical endpoint of safety and the secondary endpoints of feasibility and immune monitoring. Immune monitoring includes measurement of T cell subpopulations, cytokines and inflammatory parameters. This is the first in human application of FAP-specific autologous re-directed T cells in patients with newly diagnosed, inoperable MPM in the malignant pleural effusion. We report here on the first patient treated in February 2015. At that time, he was 74 years old and had received the diagnosis of MPM in November 2014. After 2 cycles of standard chemotherapy (Cisplatin/Pemetrexed), 250 ml of peripheral blood were collected (day -21), CD 8 T cells extracted and retro-virally transduced with a FAP-specific CAR, while the patient was receiving the 3rd cycle of chemotherapy. On day 0 1x106 CAR T cells were injected under sterile conditions into the pleural effusion through a pleural drainage on the intensive care unit (ICU), followed by 48 hours ICU surveillance. Simultaneously, cytokine levels were measured in the serum and in the pleural effusion.
In this first patient, we demonstrated safety and technical feasibility of the application of re-directed T cells. No adverse events due to the injection were observed, in particular no immune-mediated toxicity (e.g. cytokine storm, inflammation). Ex vivo analysis showed antigen-specific activity and function of re-directed T cells.
Re-directed T cells against FAP could be a safe and feasible treatment option for patients with MPM in the future. Further studies are needed to demonstrate anti-tumor efficacy.
Schuberth PC, Hagedorn C, Jensen SM, Gulati P, van den Broek M, Mischo A, et al: Treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma by fibroblast activation protein-specific re-directed T cells. J Transl Med. 2013, 11: 187-
Department of Oncology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Magdalena Pircher
, Petra Schuberth
, Pratiksha Gulati
& Alessandra Curioni
Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Simon Sulser
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Walter Weder
Department of Oncology, Private Clinic Hirslanden Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Christoph Renner
& Ulf Petrausch
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Correspondence to Magdalena Pircher.
Pircher, M., Schuberth, P., Gulati, P. et al. FAP-specific re-directed T cells first in-man study in malignant pleural mesothelioma: experience of the first patient treated. j. immunotherapy cancer 3, P120 (2015) doi:10.1186/2051-1426-3-S2-P120
Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
Malignant Pleural Effusion
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One Team. One Family. One Jeunesse
Our collective mission is to change people’s lives while making Jeunesse a household, world-renowned brand.
Jeunesse began in the hearts and minds of visionaries Randy Ray and Wendy Lewis.
Having achieved tremendous success in other enterprises, Randy and Wendy emerged from retirement to launch Jeunesse on September 09, 2009 at 9:00 p.m. The number 9, which represents longevity, reflected the founders’ desire to not only survive, but thrive.
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Women Writers in Literary History: Lucy Larcom - Lowell "Mill Girl", Poet & Influential Memoir Writer
I was involved in this years April A to Z Challenge. My theme? Women Writers in Literary History. I fell head over heels in love with the theme so I am continuing to write my brief primarily social biographies. I hope to write as many as two a week. ENJOY!
When I discovered Lucy Larcom it was as if several of my worlds collided.
My friend Jared gave me the Poetry Edition from an old Children’s Encyclopedia last Christmas. He had found this series at a book sale and parceled the volumes to friends he knew would appreciate the content. I found a strangely feminist sounding poem tucked inside among what you might think would be in a poetry collection from the mid-1940’s. The intrigue led me to a google search where I found Lucy Larcom had been one of the Mill Girls in Lowell, living in the planned "Golden Experiment." for young girls to work in cotton mills in the 19th Century.
Lucy Larcom lived and worked in Lowell from age 11 to age 21. She started as a threader, meaning she delivered spools of thread to the women working the machines. She graduated quickly to working the loud, heavy machines. She and her friends would post their favorite poetry on the walls since books were not allowed in the mills. She read her “poetry library” throughout the day, sometimes challenging each other to recite from memory.
She and her sisters were valued both for their tenacity in the workplace, but also for their love of language. This love helped her to insure the machinery would not “make her its slave.” She continued, "(the machine’s incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly
high enough."
Until she was 15, she could attend school 3 months out of the year. She took full advantage of this opportunity for an education.
When the Mill Girls of Lowell began an experiment in publishing their work through a magazine for the workers called the Lowell Offering. Lucy was published repeatedly.
Through her poetry, she became one of the voices of the Mill Girls.
After she left Lowell, she started teaching school “out west” in Illinois, even though she had dropped out of school at age 10. She continued her education there, in Illinois, as she taught school, hoping to have enough credentials to eventually move back to Massachusetts and teach there, too. In 1849 she enrolled in the Monticello Female Seminary in Godfrey which had rigorous studies for women.
Lucy returned to Massachusetts once her education was complete. She took a job teaching at the Wheaton Seminary (now Wheaton College.) She maintained friendships with John Greenleaf Whittier (who wrote a poem about her), Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Louisa May Alcott among others and eventually left her teaching career to pursue writing and publishing full time.
Her 1889 autobiography, A New England Girlhood soon became a classic, a chronicle of the Mill Girl experience from a Mill Girl herself. She published fifteen other books, primarily poetry, in her lifetime.
So – next time you are planning your Christmas gift giving, consider each friend’s passion and gift accordingly. I am grateful Jared did!
I am working on a page with links to all my biographies. Watch for it, soon!
Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield. She teaches a teleclass/ecourse "Discover the Power of Writing & Telling Engaging, Enlightening Stories" which begins again May 24, 2012. Find details by clicking this link.
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Colorado Music Hall of Fame Inductee
Bob Lind attended Aurora Central High School and found national fame with his “The Elusive Butterfly”. The Verve-Folkways LP shown below was reportedly unauthorized, containing tracks which were recorded in West Denver’s Band Box Studios and apparently sold to Verve without Lind’s knowledge. (Lind Colorado Music Hall of Fame Page)
These comments from Country Paul Payton: “Whoever Pete Spargo (producer) and Pat Williams (arr/cond.) were, they did an abominable job trying to cover Bob Lind’s acoustic-guitar-only accompaniment with a sound that tried to approximate his successes on World Pacific. I don’t know if anyone at Band Box – or who – got those songs out of there, but it did Lind’s career no service whatsoever. As a radio station Music Director, I listened to at least some of all the tracks on the album; it was an exercise in both anger and frustration.
The arranging was sloppy – as though the orchestra couldn’t hear the track it was playing along to and frequently losing the beat – and it was a naked attempt to cash in on Lind’s success. In its most benign possibility, Lind might have sent demos to MGM is an attempt to get a recording contract; when it hit big on WP, someone found the demos and slapped on the overdub. In a less generous light, perhaps money was exchanged, which Lind was not in on. As I recall, in that era, MGM was desperate for some kind of rock credibility – they were watching other labels being revered for signing and supporting credible artists, but they kept faltering with “far from ready for prime time” bands like the Boss Town Sound hype, one of the most notorious misfires of the ’60s.This release was simply more fuel for that misfire.”
Bob has made one public statement about his time in the Band Box studio – that we know of. From a January, 2012 interview in Goldmine:
GM: Jack Nitzsche produced your first two albums, including the single “Elusive Butterfly.” What was he like to work with?
BL: “In a word: Perfect. When I came to Los Angeles and signed with World Pacific, I had never been in a studio before, if you discount those horrible sessions that became the album “The Elusive Bob Lind,” and, well, you should discount them. I knew nothing about recording, and there was nothing Jack didn’t know about it, having been [Phil] Spector’s right-hand man for many years. He loved my songs, and I trusted him to bring them to life. So I just wrote, sang and played and let him produce. Later on, there were conflicts and disputes between us. But they were personal and alcohol fueled. But on those two albums, there was no argument at all.”
Bobby Swanson on Bob Lind
And this came in from Bobby in April of 2018 – relating an experience he had with Bob Lind:
(Colorado’s) “Bob Lind and I had a mutual friend, Dave Williams. Bob had written a song and wanted to hear it on tape to see if it was any good. He asked Dave Williams if he had a tape recorder. Dave said he didn’t but Bobby Swanson had an old Ampex. He gave Bob my number.
(When Bob called) I told him to come on over. I had only met him a couple of times so we didn’t know each other well. We went in my room and Bob recorded his song. We sat on the bed and listened to it. Bob asked me if I thought it was any good.
I was a rocker and didn’t know anything about folk music so I said I didn’t think it would do good. He then made me erase the tape and double check that it was gone. I think the tune was something about a butterfly. Shows how much I know, huh?
I sent him a message not long ago and teased him about that. His message back was ‘well after all, who knows WHAT s*** will go over in this business’ !
KIMN Radio Survey – June 13th, 1966
Cash Box – January 8th, 1966
Billboard – January 15th, 1966
Cash Box and Single Composed by Bob Lind – March 26, 1966
Billboard – May 28th, 1966
(The cuts on this LP were the Band Box tracks which were sold to Verve without Lind’s permission)
Cash Box – April 9th, 1966
Cash Box – April 16th, 1966
Cash Box Promoting Bob Lind and Other Artists – July 2nd, 1966
Cash Box – September 3rd, 1966
Bob Lind Long Play Discography
LP World Artists 1841 – Don’t Be Concerned
LP – World Pacific 1851 – Photographs of Feeling
LP – Verve Folkways – The Elusive Bob Lind –
LP – Liberty 3500 – The Original Golden Greats – The Elusive Butterfly (with other Liberty Artists)
Various Artists LP’s Containing “Elusive Butterfly”
LP – Homestead 1001 – 25 Original Big Hits by The Original Stars
LP – Lost Nite 132 – WHBQ Goldens Volume 1 – 1968
LP – Lost Nite 121 – Gary Stevens In London – 1968
LP – Lost Nite 131 – WFIL Pop Oldies – Vol. III – 1967
LP – Take 6 – 2012 – WCFL – 21 Icebreakers Vol. 2
LP – Take 6 2014 – WIXY 1260 – 21 Super Oldies
LP – Take 6 – 2027 – KILT 21 Goldens
LP Take 6 2033 – KDWB 21 All Time Dream Hits
LP – Take 6 2041 – KIRL 21 Super Hits Vol. One
Bob Lind 45 Discography
World Pacific 77808 – Elusive Butterfly b/w Cheryl’s Goin’ Home – 1965
World Pacific 1841 – Don’t Be Concerned – 1966 Extended Play Juke Box Issue
World Pacific 77822 – Remember The Rain b/w Truly Julie’s Blues – 1966
World Pacific 77830 – Just Let It Take Me – b/w We’ve Never Spoken – 1966
World Pacific 77839 – San Francisco Woman b/w Oh Babe Take Me Home – 1966
Verve Folways 5018 – Hey Nellie Nellie b/w Wandering – 1966
Verve Folkways 5029 – White Snow b/w Black Night – 1966
World Pacific 77830 – We’ve Never Spoken b/w Just Let It Take Me – 1966
World Pacific 77865 – Goodtime Special b/w It’s Just My Love – 1967
World Pacific 77879 – Goodbye Neon Lies b/w We May Have Touched – 1967
Capitol 3169 – She Can Get Along b/w Theme From The Music Box – 1971
Liberty All Time Hit Series 54569 – Elusive Butterfly b/w Cheryl’s Goin’ Home
United Artists Silver Spotlight Series XW032 – Elusive Butterfly b/w Truly Julie’s Blues – 1973
Capitol Records American Pie Series 9050 – Elusive Butterfly b/w No Matter What Shape (T-Bones)
Collectables COL 6049 – The Mountain’s High (Dick and Dee Dee) b/w Elusive Butterfly (Bob Lind) – 1992
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Rockabilly Rules!
If Skiffle was uniquely British, then Rockabilly was no doubt uniquely American. But where Skiffle assumed a definite identity right from the get-go with the Koyler brothers, Chris Barber and Tony Donegan (think Lonnie) launching the genre with their “breakdown” sessions between “trad” jazz performances, Rockabilly was very different.
In the excellent historical narrative, “Go Cat Go!” by Craig Morrison, the author puts forth a set of ‘rules’ or more precisely a “recipe” for defining what qualifies as genuine rockabilly – not an easy task but a fun exercise nonetheless.
Morrison’s Rules of the Rockabilly Road
Here are a few of the “recipe” components, which are divided into three categories for scoring a rockabilly candidate. Morrison assigns points, deducts points and adds bonus points within the categories – Now we have to understand that candidates don’t necessarily adhere to all of the point categories. In fact, many musicians delivering rockabilly numbers more often would record good old country or swing or what have you. Morrison points out that nearly 100 percent of all musicians recording or performing “rockabilly” recorded and performed other forms – probably most of the time.
Here are a few Morrison’s scoring examples:
Points Awarded If:
If there is an Elvis influence
If an echo effect is used
If a wild or extreme vocal style is employed
If an upright bass is present – “especially if played in a slapped manner”
If song recorded in the years 1954, 1955 or 1956
Points Deducted If:
A saxophone is employed
If song is backed by a vocal chorus – especially if female
If “condescendingly juvenile” lyrics are employed
If there is a slow tempo
If recorded in any year after 1957
Bonus Points Awarded If:
If group employs acoustic/electric guitars, stand-up bass but no drums
If song is recorded at Sun studio or has a Memphis origin
If the artist is very obscure
These along with additional parts of the “recipe” is how Morrison would answer the inquiry “What is rockabilly?”
Hiram, Aaron & Tony
Like Skiffle’s “Moment” when the Chris Barber “breakdown” group stepped forward between sets in May of 1953 in a London Nightclub with Lonnie Donegan fronting the group with his guitar along with Ken Colyer, Alex Korner, Bill Coyler and Chris Barber – launching the Brits on a path to rock and roll!
In America the date was just two weeks earlier in the Memphis studio at Sun when Sam Phillips turned on his tape machine when he heard something he hadn’t heard previously coming from the young trio of musicians who were almost goofing around between takes – “That’s All Right” by Elvis, Scotty Moore and Bill Black was the game changer.
There was another young performer who turned the heads of young country musicians throughout the South was a Hiram Williams or “Hank” as he would become known. Although never a rocker – his style and vocal innovation inspired so many of the rockabilly artists who came down the pike. Williams was killed in an auto mishap well before the rockabilly phenomenon was under way and just a few months ahead of the the Donegan/Presley break outs – January, 1953. He was 30 years old at the time of his death.
The Skiffle musicians were very cognizant of the term “skiffle” instantly applying it to their group names or song titles. With rockabilly, this wasn’t the case. Morrison explains that “rockabilly” didn’t suddenly pop into the jargon of the day. Sam Phillips, he explains, didn’t use the term but preferred “rock n roll” and disclaimed any authorship to the identifier “rockabilly”.
Established country musicians of the day used it as a derogatory term for the new young bucks employing the genre. Hank didn’t really rock but he changed Country Music and all that followed!
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Kaichou Wa Maid-Sama! Wiki
Maid Latte
Misaki Ayuzawa
Satsuki Hyōdō
Aoi Hyōdō
Honoka
Sakuya Ayuzawa
Seika Students
Takumi Usui
Hinata Shintani
Sakura Hanazono
Shizuko Kaga
Shōichirō Yukimura
Sōtarō Kanō
Naoya Shirokawa
Ryūnosuke Kurosaki
Ikuto Sarashina
Miyabigaoka Students
Tora Igarashi
Kanade Maki
Hirofumi Koganei
Kaon Umekōji
Tomu Umekōji
Ichitarō Tomikōji
Tenryū Arashiyama
Yi Hua Li
Yumesaki Students
Kūga Sakurai
Kōma Yabu
Shōsei Nikaidō
Yūjirō Ono
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Gerald Walker
Cedric Morris
Yū Hirose
Gilbert Morris
Richard Rachester
Seika High School
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Yumesaki High School
Seisen Middle School
UxMishi
The Moron Trio
Yumeyama Brothers
Aratake Gang
Seika Students Council
Miyabigaoka's Elite Group
Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! Manga
Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! Anime
Natsu koi Monogatari
Yume no Hana
Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! OST 2
Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! OST
Kaichou wa Maid-sama! Virtual Live Album-Barashoten Princess
Kaichou wa Maid-sama! Character Concept
Kaichou wa Maid-sama! Singles
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Policy & Standards Council
Talk Page Policy
Relation Association
Main Character, Miyabigaoka Students, Male characters,
Usui Residence
Participants of wedding
Yuki Ochimura ni Ojou-sama! characters
28 (10 years later)
40 (12 year later)
Horoscope = Taurus
Miyabigaoka High School (former)
Chef(part-time)
Doctor (10 years later)
Yū Hirose (father)
Patricia Walker (mother)
Gerald Walker (half brother)
Mr. Usui (adoptive father)
Mrs. Usui (adoptive mother)
Misaki Ayuzawa (wife)
Rui Usui (son)
Sara Usui (daughter)
Hinata Shintani (brother-in-law)
Suzuna Ayuzawa (sister-in-law)
Sakuya Ayuzawa (father-in-law)
Minako Ayuzawa (mother-in-law)
Manga Debut
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Misa is a Maid!
Takumi Usui (碓氷 拓海, Usui Takumi) is the main male protagonist of the Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! Manga and anime series. He is amazingly talented at everything and he is the love interest of Misaki Ayuzawa, which then later Misaki becomes his wife as shown in chapter 85.
Takumi is a tall young man with bright green eyes and spiky blond hair. As seen in the series, he is very athletic; probably the most athletic male student in Seika High, and is slender yet muscular. He is the most popular at Seika High and all the boys and girls admire him and it is proven many times-huge evidence is shown when there was a huge contest made just to win Takumi's heart on Valentines Day. According to Misaki, his hair is really soft, but was supposed to be spiky!
Takumi is very handsome, and most of the girls who see him fall for his looks instantly (thus, resulting in many broken hearts). Takumi is usually seen wearing the Seika High School uniform. However, after he transferred to Miyabigaoka in his third year, he was seen wearing his Miyabigaoka uniform, much to the shock of everybody. He resembles his father more than his mother. Takumi inherited his mother's personality. According to Misaki, he and his half-brother, Gerald, are very similar yet, very different.
Takumi as an infant
Takumi was born on April 27, as the illegitimate child of Patricia Walker, an English-Japanese lady, and her personal butler Yū Hirose. Patricia was already married and had a son with her husband, but she fell in love with her butler. When she fell ill and discovered she was pregnant with Yū's child she went to Japan into hiding. She died giving birth to Takumi and his father was kicked out of the Walker Family and never heard of again.
Takumi as a child.
Takumi was later adopted by his mother's cousin and was raised in secrecy and didn't have much contact with his older half-brother Gerald. Because his English grandfather was very angry at his daughter's action and doesn't want anyone to know about his existence, instead of going to school he was tutored at home and changed tutors regularly because they didn't know what to teach him but told him that he should use his brain more often. One of those tutors was Maria Miyazono's mother. Takumi also learned shaolin kungfu and was schooled in judo and taekwondo.
Takumi got bored of homeschooling and randomly selected a school (through a school catalog) and decided to enroll in Seika High School with the permission of his adoptive father and English grandfather after explaining that Seika is not much of a decent school and that no one will know about his family. His family doesn't want him to do any part-time jobs because they fear that him being an illegitimate child will be exposed. To cope with his former living, he is aided financially and was allowed to move into a high-rise condo where he lives alone.
Takumi rejecting a confession
The next day at school, Misaki fears her secret will be exposed. While passing by, Takumi sees Misaki easily remove a sandbag and watches on in interest. Misaki's friends Sakura and Shizuko stare at him from afar, at which point he casually and coolly walks off.[1] Just as Misaki believes he will leave her alone, Takumi begins coming to Maid Latte, making her wonder whether he wants to torture her.[2] At school, Takumi watches Misaki rip the earrings off Shiroyan's ears. Curious, Takumi talks to Misaki's old classmate Takezawa about her. While talking, Takezawa notes that Takumi isn't usually interested in girls.[3]
Takumi catches Misaki
Soon after, Takumi visits Maid Latte and eats, making Misaki increasingly nervous about him,[4] which takes a toll on her as she drops to #2 in the school rankings while Takumi becomes #1.[5] Takumi begins taking notice of the stress Misaki is under, with her activities piling up. Intruding into the office, Takumi calls her a masochist for how she pushes herself. As she collapses, Takumi catches her, and says that seeing her in such a state makes him feel unsafe. However, Misaki pushes him away, telling him she won't accept his help.[6]
Takumi protects Misaki
Misaki becomes increasingly sick due to stress and fatigue but still goes to work. There, the members of the "Idiot Trio" discover Misaki in her uniform. The three start to harass Misaki upon discovering who she is. As their leader grabs her arm and prepares to humiliate her, Takumi intervenes. After the three are scared off by Takumi, Misaki apologizes to Takumi before fainting.[7] After Misaki recovers, Takumi tells Misaki that he asked the boys to keep Misaki's secret. Continuing, Takumi states she's very tough and lives with he head high. As Misaki talks about owing him, Takumi begins teasing her about becoming his personal maid for a day.[8]
Takumi talks to Misaki
Before it's time for the annual school festival, Misaki wants to use the opportunity to improve the school's image and encourage more girls to enroll. However, problems arise with class 2-2 because the activities proposed by the boys are attempts to exploit the girls.[9] Seeking a hold on her, the boys ask Takumi to persuade her, though he puts very little effort into it since he doesn't have any interest in the plots. However, he does tell Misaki that she should give more consideration to the ideas the boys have.[10]
Misa talking to Takumi
At Maid Latte, Takumi appears and sees Misaki cosplaying as a cat. As she expresses fear about people knowing her secret, Takumi states the Idiot Trio know but they love her.[11] At school, the boys present a perverted idea to Misaki for the festival, which she rejects immediately. Saddened, the boys turn to Takumi, who is indifferent on their proposition. The boys acknowledge Takumi as their only hope against the president, recalling the time the president locked a troublemaker in a closet and Takumi set him free.[12] As Misaki finally accepts an offer from the girls, Takumi comments on her energy and goes on to state that she's very interesting.[13]
Later at Maid Latte, Takumi waits outside by the garbage for Misaki, lifting up her skirt and commenting on her underwear when she comes out. Going on to tease her for her reaction, Takumi states that her constant antagonism towards boys will result in them returning their favor. When she states that she doesn't care, Takumi tells her it may affect her as well.[14]
Takumi is seen in a navy uniform
On the day of the festival, she finds out that the boys of class 2-2 are cosplaying in period military outfits, taking over the café and rounding up girls as prisoners. Takumi joins in as well in the costume of an American Naval Officer and begins teasing her. When Misaki scolds the boys, they turn on her and leave the three girls to run the café alone, allowing her to understand what Takumi was talking about.[15] As they still watch from outside, Takumi decides to go in, reasoning that she asked politely. Just as Misaki calls someone "Master", Takumi covers for her by speaking English and drawing attention away. As Misaki begins worrying, Takumi tells her that since she's a maid, she needs to put more effort into her work.[16] As the other boys return to help, Takumi asks Misaki if what is happening is or isn't nice and watches her smile in agreement.[17] During the end of festival bonfire, Takumi finds Misaki resting under a tree, asking why she didn't go. When she thanks him for his assistance, Takumi is surprised. Asking about telling everyone that she's a maid, Misaki is opposed but Takumi claims he won't, since she's his maid, much to her dismay.[18]
Takumi approaches Misaki at Maid Latte as she is getting ready to report misbehavior at school, commenting on her provocative words. As he is told not to keep coming around due to exams, he claims he likes being near Misaki. Takumi's arrival is noticed by Satsuki and shown a set of protection gear she has acquired to protect the staff from a group of rapists targeting maid cafés. As Misaki declines to take weapon, Takumi questions her reasons but his worries are shrugged off[19]
At school, Takumi comments on how, despite hating men, Misaki works in a maid cafe due to her father, for which he is scolded and told not to do so. Though he claims nobody is in the room due to exams, she insists on his silence. Soon, he asks her why she doesn't just get another job if keeping the secret is so hard on her. Misaki tells him that Satsuki is very considerate of her and she doesn't want to leave, making Takumi comment on her loyalty. As he pushes the issue, Takumi is pushed out of the room by a fed up Misaki. That evening, Takumi finds Misaki as she heads to work, telling her not to stay out so late. At Maid Latte, Takumi is greeted at the entrance by Misa, something he chuckles over but soon notices her angry expression. As she passes by the tables, Takumi takes note of two men who stare at her.[20]
Takumi pushed into the fountain
That night, Misaki elects to stay back at the cafe late alone due to Satsuki leaving on business. While she does so, Takumi approaches her from behind and grabs her. Due to his strength, she is unable to break free and so forces him to fall in the water fountain. As he is criticized for his prank, Takumi tells her that though she may feel safe because she is strong, she is still a girl. An angry Misaki throws him out of the cafe, causing him to leave upset, stating she doesn't understand.[21] Even at school, while watching Misaki from afar, Takumi maintains the same opinion.[22]
Takumi states Misaki is only for him
At night, Takumi watches a television broadcast about the rapists attacking maid cafes. As he stands watching, he is approaches by two girls who ask him if he is free, though he soon walks off, uninterested.[23] Later, Takumi visits Maid Latte, but upon seemingly finding it closed, leaves. However, as he walks away, he hears noises and turns back to look. Seeing the rapists have tied up Misaki, Takumi is surprised and prepares to break in and save her. Before he can do so however, Misaki frees herself and takes care of the rapists. Seeing the sight, Takumi laughs heavily but is criticized by Misaki for breaking the window. Turning to the rapists, Takumi tells them they don't understand her and never will, because she is his personal maid, though she claims she is not. Half an hour later, the rapists are arrested by the police and Satsuki returns as well, shocked to see the broken window.[24]
The next day, Takumi is approached by Misaki, who teases him for only ranking second in the recent exams while she ranked 1st, though he simply smiles and says it's because the president is the best.[25]
When Misaki has acquires a group of fans at school, the Yumeyama quintuplets, who want to know everything about her, she attempts to escape from them one night out of fear they will find out about her secret part-time job. Takumi appears as she runs through the train station and takes her around the corner, commenting that she's quite popular. Riding the train together, Takumi tells Misaki he has earned enough points to challenge her at Maid Latte and get a picture taken with her. Beating her, Takumi earns a photo with her, much to his happiness.[26]
Takumi hiding with Misaki
During school, the boys chase Misaki once again, with Takumi helping her avoid them. He suggests she tell them her feelings but she is apprehensive, telling him that while they are problematic she doesn't hate their enthusiasm. Over the next while, Takumi repeatedly helps Misaki avoid the boys, as well as going to Maid Latte. After saving her at one point, Takumi suggests that she tell them the truth, suggesting that they will understand, though she claims she doesn't want to reveal her secret because they look up to her as a president. Hearing this, Takumi asks if she intends to hide and run away forever.[27]
Takumi kisses Misaki
On the school rooftop, Takumi looks at the picture he took with Misa until Misaki arrives on the roof. Noting that it's rare to see her there, he asks if the boys are still chasing her, to which she claims they're not. Confiding in him, Misaki states she's considering telling them her secret, to which Takumi asks if she's doing it for them or for herself. While Misaki reflects on this, Takumi tells her no matter what she does, he still has their picture together and will protect it out of love. Misaki fights with him over it, causing him to drop it just as the Yumeyama brothers exit the school. Afraid they'll see the photo, Misaki panics as Takumi prepares to jump down to grab it, despite her objections. When asked why he'd go to such a length to get it back, Takumi replies that it's because he loves her as he kisses her on the lips before jumping down.[28]
Takumi keeps Misaki from revealing her secret
After grabbing the photo while falling into the school pool, Takumi states that he's lucky just as Misaki arrives and agrees. The brothers hear the commotion at the pool and arrive to see what happened. As Misaki is about to reveal her secret, Takumi claps her mouth shut and tells them she works for him and asks them to keep it a secret. His acting makes the brothers think Misaki is Takumi's bodyguard, though she tells them not to jump to such conclusions. Takumi goes to the hospital where Misaki visits him. Though she leaves in disgust when he asks her to nurse him in her maid outfit.[29]
Some time later, while at school, Takumi appears as Misaki is scolding some boys for being wet and walking around the school. When he is seen, Takumi is asked about his bandages and why he isn't still in the hospital from his fall, to which he asks if she isn't happy to see him and tells her he wants to see her in her maid uniform, at which point he is told to go to class. At her locker, Takumi approaches Misaki and asks if anything happened while he was gone, at which point she, remembering their kiss, tells him nothing happened and runs away.[30]
At school, Takumi approaches a silent, deep-in-thought Misa, telling her it's been a long time since he saw her. Startled, Misa drops her tray surprising him. Back at school, he reminds her that the deadline to apologize to students from Miyabigaoka High School for a fight is coming up but is told that she does not know what to do yet. As Misaki is continuously flustered by him, Takumi takes the opportunity to assist Vice President Yukimura in carrying some books and kissing him on the lips when they finish and leaving immediately after.[31]
Later at Maid Latte, Takumi notices Misa's happy face and asks if it is because of him. Reminding her about going to Miyabigaoka, Takumi sees her overreact to the name being mentioned and as a result, tells her he will come along.[32]
Takumi defeats Hirofumi Kognei.
Arriving at the school, Takumi and the rest go through the required channels and proceed to meet Hirofumi Koganei in the chess club room. Takumi is instantly asked who he is and replies that he is just a spectator. Hirofumi and Misaki begin talking, where the truth about the fight is revealed and Misaki demands an apology from him. Refusing, Hirofumi states he will do so if he is beaten at chess. With none of the other students present able to play, Takumi takes up the game. Declining Hirofumi's offer of an explanation of the rules, Takumi tells Hirofumi that if he loses, he must say that Seika High School's president is a butterfly. begins the game and wins soon after. Despite this, Hirofumi refuses to acknowledge the bet and leaves.[33] On a bus ride back to school, Takumi admits that Hirofumi was a good player and as Misaki denies ever having interest in him, Takumi states that he will always love her.[34]
During "Ladies Day" Takumi waits outside the cafe to meet Misaki, due to men not being allowed inside on the day the maids dress as men. Once Misaki comes out and sees him, Takumi is promptly told by her to go home until a frantic Satsuki arrives, telling them the kitchen helper won't be able to make it. Hearing this, Takumi asks if he can help and despite Misaki's apprehension, is given a chance. Proving himself capable of cooking by making omurice, Takumi remains in the kitchen to work.[35]
Misaki and Takumi taking a picture together
When "Little Sister's Day" arrives, Misaki has finally perfected the act of a little sister, which awes the customers—at least until Takumi arrives. His constant teasing and asking for the impossible causes Misaki to finally lose her cool. But when he tries to leave, Misaki, still in character, begs Takumi not to go, causing everyone in Maid Latte to be attracted to her moeness. Later at school, as Takumi rejects a confession from a girl while he witnesses Misaki rescuing a student from a falling ladder. Noticing she got injured after stopping the ladder, he manages to convince her to have it bandaged in the infirmary. Later at Maid Latte, which is hosting "Maid Rangers day", Misaki decides to vent her anger towards Takumi on to the Idiot Trio as the White Maid Ranger, an idea Takumi suggested.
When Maid Latte is visited by Aoi, a famous net idol who also happens to be Satsuki's niece. Meanwhile, as the chef is unable to make it to the café, Takumi decides to take over and impresses the ladies with his own slightly modified version of Omelet Rice. Aoi finds Takumi attractive but he repeatedly ignores her advances. She is so persistent that Takumi pushes her down on the locker room floor. Misaki arrives to push Takumi away and slaps Aoi for repeatedly trying to get his attention. It is then revealed that Aoi is, in fact, a boy, something Satsuki knew all along and which both Takumi and Misaki discovered earlier. Misaki and Takumi convince Aoi to go back home, but not before Aoi promising to make Takumi his.
As Misaki is still thinking about the incident at the rooftop (which she regards as simple teasing after Takumi kisses Shouichirou leading her to believe that he would kiss anyone as a joke), a phone call from her friends Sakura and Shizuko asks her to stop a fight between two Seika High School students and three students from the prestigious Miyabigaoka Academy. As she brings the two Seika students who started the fight to Miyabigaoka Academy to apologize, with Takumi tagging along, Misaki learns from them that the fight started when one of the Miyabigaoka students, Hirofumi Koganei, insulted their interest in chess and called them flies. He agrees to apologize, only after they beat him in chess, which Takumi does easily, humiliating him. At Maid Latte, the café has a special "Ladies Day" event where the maids dress up as handsome men, with Misaki being a huge hit with the female customers. Misaki enjoys dressing up as a man but Takumi reminds her that she's still a girl and wonders if she will accept the scholarship from Miyabigaoka. Takumi later saves Misaki from Tora at the Miybigaoka High School.
Takumi as Ringmaster and Misaki as Momotaro
One day, Takumi narrates his version of Momotarō with Misaki as the titular character herself, her guardians played by Sakura and Yukimura and Momotarō's animal companions played by the Idiot Trio. Misaki is on a quest to rescue women captured by a demon and then taken to Onigashima island. On her journey, she saves the Idiot Trio from getting eaten by their Ringmaster after the animals tell her which village has the demon been frequenting recently. Eventually forming a group, they arrived at Seika Village, which is now a stinking wasteland filled with men driven to madness with their women captured, leaving no one to do the household chores. Obtaining the directions to Onigashima, the group crosses the ocean, where they encounter the Princess of the Sea and a Turtle (Suzuna/Aoi) and the Pirate ship Miyabigaoka (led by Tora), which Takumi destroys with a rocket launcher. When they finally arrive at the island, the Idiots and Misaki sneak into the Demon's lair, with Misaki disguised as a maid. There, they found the Seika women wearing Maid uniforms in a grand palace. After the Idiots blew Misaki's cover, she is shocked to learn that Takumi is in fact the Demon himself; and that he never kidnapped the women—in fact, it was the women who followed him since they got sick and tired of serving their selfish men, and took over the palace. The Narrator ends the story by claiming Misaki and Takumi became a couple despite Misaki protesting against the ending; and the Idiot Trio dying in unfortunate ends. In reality, the entire story is in fact a dream Misaki is having while napping in the Student Council room, a result of Takumi putting headphones on her with the story he narrated, designed to send subliminal messages into her dreams, playing on a CD player.
One day, Takumi meets Misaki's mother and helps her carry her apples. To thank him, she invites him over to her house for tea with Suzuna. Misaki arrives home from school, and is shocked seeing him there. As she drags him to the park warning him not to come to her home again, Sakura and Shizuko see them, and think they're dating. The next day Sakura, Shizuko] and Misaki decide to follow Usui to have a peek at his private life and confirm rumors that he is rich. However, Usui knows he's being followed, so he leads the three on a wild goose chase around town. After the girls decide to give up, Misaki meets Usui by the roadside tending to an abandoned kitten. Misaki, claiming that she is indeed not interested in Usui's private life, gets his address from him in case she's interested.
Takumi as a ninja
It's the Seika High Sports Festival, and Misaki wins every event for the girls team. Misaki is leading until one of the boys pushes her into the pool to disqualify her but Takumi saves her from falling. Takumi wins the race but decides to give the prize to Misaki, who came runner-up. Inside the changing tent, she accidentally switches her costume, a maid uniform, with Yukimura's. Yukimura is jeered by the boys for wearing it, but seeing this, Takumi and Misaki, wearing cool costumes, helps and defends Yukimura and finish the race together.
Gouki Aratake, the strongest delinquent in Seisen Middle School, wants to be like his revered senpai, the former gang leader "Shiroyan". But he and his gang can’t believe "Shiroyan"— Naoya Shirokawa of the Idiot Trio—has gone soft. Aratake wants the old Naoya back, so he and his gang abducts a cross-dressing Yukimura, who they mistake for Naoya's girlfriend. This attracts the attention of Ayuzawa and Takumi, and, with help from Aoi, who studies at Seisen, goes looking for him. After changing into disguises and a few interruptions by their friends, they sneak into Aratake's hideout, where they find him arguing with one of his friends over Naoya. A fight later erupts between Naoya and Aratake, with the former defeating the latter. A crying Aratake admits he only wanted to be strong like Naoya, who later gives him some words of encouragement.
The Student Council plans to hold an open house at Seika High to attract more girls to enroll there. However, a girl-hating freshman named Kanō is against it, and interferes with their work by hypnotizing them to derail their efforts. But when Kanō's plans are thwarted by Takumi, who is immune to his abilities, he turns on Misaki by hypnotizing her to hate Takumi forever if she ever falls asleep within 24 hours. Despite Misaki staying up all night with Takumi's help, Kanō manages to get the upper hand by hypnotizing Yukimura to give her a sleep-inducing painkiller, making her even sleepier. With five minutes left before the time limit, she slowly dozes off and asks Takumi if she'll remember the feelings of gratitude she had towards him and get the chance to thank him properly. Takumi hugs her, promising that he'll save her as much as she wants and would make her fall for him all over again.
During the summer vacation and the Maid Latte crew have been invited by Satsuki's sister Nagisa to her beach resort, with Aoi and Takumi tagging along. The girls decide to help out at the resort by hosting a one-day Maid café event to attract customers. Misaki, though, is embarrassed to come out to help wearing a sexy swimsuit. Takumi gives her a hickie on her back, forcing her to wear a t-shirt to hide it. Later that night, the ladies head out to a local hot springs to celebrate, but Misaki, spooked by Honoka's ghost story, and embarrassed by the hickie, stays behind.
Takumi and Misaki attempting to kiss
She later changes her mind and follow them alone after believing they left their tickets behind. As she gets lost and scared on the way, somebody grabs her arm who is none other than Takumi who decided to accompany her. But realizing that he has completely scared her, Takumi hugs her to calm her down while apologizing. Aoi arrives seeing this, and, in disbelief with the denying Misaki, tells her to just admit she likes Takumi.
On the second day of summer vacation, Nagisa allows her nephew Aoi to cross-dress again should he win the local mixed beach volleyball tournament, where the winning team becomes the Beach Prince and Princess as well. Since Nagisa is ineligible, Misaki, impressed with Aoi’s determination, helps by becoming his partner. But both of them are surprised when Erika and Takumi joins the tournament. Both teams easily defeat their competition, earning them a face off at the final round. Misaki is frustrated that Takumi is her opponent and blurts out her anger much to the crowd’s surprise and her embarrassment. Misaki makes a risky save for the ball, but she’s about to hit the umpire stand when Takumi moves in to shield her from the impact. With Takumi injured, Aoi and Misaki wins the tournament but the latter skips the victory party to apologize to Takumi. At the beach, Takumi reveals he joined the tournament to prevent Misaki from becoming the Beach Princess so people wouldn’t exploit her. Misaki is touched, but their kiss is interrupted by a sudden explosion of fireworks.
Takumi dressing up as a "prince" when "dating" Ruri
During the footman audition, Usui joins the competition along with a masked Aoi, but the underage Aoi gets disqualified. Just as Misaki's and Usui's teams are about to be disqualified, Tora suggests that the remaining team members become one, and Misaki passes the gender test by grabbing Usui's hand and planting it on her flat chest, tricking everyone into thinking she is a boy. Misaki and Takumi are then allowed to pair up and move on to the next round.
Takumi hugs Misaki
In the second round of the footman auditions, Takumi and Misaki] succeed in the required task of setting up a high class table for afternoon tea. Takumi also had to contend with Yukimura's curiosity by assuming a false identity and calling Misaki as a boy. But before the third round begins, Misaki falls down from the stage but Takumi rescues her. Despite being injured from the fall, Takumi tries to hide it which Misaki decides to do all of the tasks in the third round—a butler serving his master—to conceal it. This raises Maki's suspicions on Takumi's condition, which the latter covers it up by playing the violin. However, seeing Takumi secretly in pain is too much for Misaki to bear and she begs him to stop and defends her actions to Maki, their judge, over the importance of helping colleagues. Maki, moved by Misaki's speech, decides to call off buying Maid Latte and move his butler café elsewhere. As Maid Latte continues operating as usual, Misaki heads over to Usui's apartment to take care of him as he forced himself out of the hospital despite being still sick. There, she apologizes for becoming dependent on him but he confesses that he has also become dependent on her, just as she is to him, much to her embarrassment.
Takumi the "prince"
Yukimura’s little sister Ruri loves playing make-believe princess but refuse to acknowledge her brother which, to her, is not her ideal image of a prince. But when she meets the "prince-like" Takumi, Yukimura manages to get Takumi to go on a date with his sister in order to gain her favor. Things go on as hoped (complete with a costume for Takumi made by Aoi) but, fearing the "princelier" Takumi may replace Yukimura as Ruri’s big brother, Kanō and Misaki tries to break them up by either scaring them or even acting as a third party.
However, Ruri sees through the ruse and runs away into a café, almost causing a cupboard to fall on her. Takumi stops the cupboard and its contents from falling while Yukimura shields her. Yukimura scolds Ruri when her prideful behavior goes too far, and she apologizes and re-accepts her big brother.
Through his conversations with both of them, Kanō wonders why both Misaki and Takumi won’t admit their feelings for each other. Meanwhile, a transfer student named Hinata Shintani arrives and irks Misaki due to his childish behavior and his gluttony for food. When Misaki blurts out Hinata’s nickname when he falls from a tree, Hinata maneuvers himself to safety and hugs Misaki, finally finding his first love, much to shock of everyone around them. Takumi, meanwhile, becomes increasingly bitter and jealous of Hinata, and begins to wonder about the amount of attention she is spending on him and whether or not Shintani means more to Misaki than he does.
Takumi teases Misaki
During the Seika High Outdoor field trip, the students, tricked by their bitter seniors into thinking it will be a pleasure trip, have to endure a hard life of Enlightenment at a Buddhist temple for five days and four nights. As Misaki deals with the girls' interest in her relationship with Hinata, she also has to prevent Hinata and Takumi, both vying for her attention, from fighting. Due to the grueling lifestyle they had endured at the temple, the boys lose their sanity and start lusting after the girls. The teachers are able to stop them by barricading the bridges leading to the girls' cabins, but a sudden flooding at the river blocks them from one of the bridges they forgot to barricade, which the boys are able to get to the other side unopposed. This forces the girls to brace themselves in their own cabin, as Misaki goes out to stop them. Together with Hinata and Takumi, Misaki is able to drive the boys back. Later Takumi confronts Misaki over Hinata, and she explains to him that she only sees Hinata as a childhood friend and nothing more. Relieved with her answer, Takumi faints on top of her over hunger.
During the sweets feast at Maid Latte, Misaki reveals to Hinata that she works part-time as a maid. Hinata becomes a bit rowdy about this, to a point of risking her secret, but Takumi, dressed as a butler, arrives and takes Misaki to the back and questions her change of plans. When Hinata later arrives, Takumi warns his newly-recognized rival not to come near Misaki again or he shall tear his throat out.
With the rivalry between Hinata and Takumi getting more tense than ever, Misaki throws both of them out for fighting in the student council room. The next day, the “Maid Witches” cosplay proceeds as plan but with the tension between Hinata and Takumi, Satsuki tries to defuse the situation until Takumi decides to leave. Hinata leaves as well but not before he ask Misaki to “cast a spell” to help him find the cherry tree. With her shift over, Aoi asks Misaki about Takumi and asks her what he is to her now. Later, while taking out the trash, Takumi, who was waiting at the back for Misaki, asks her the same question that Aoi asked. In a fit of embarrassment, Misaki throws a punch at him but is blocked. He then proceeds to portray his feelings for her by pulling her into a hug and murmuring a 'no-lying' spell in her ear, demanding she answer his question truthfully, which she answers truthfully but somewhat off topic.
Sakura invites Misaki and Shizuko to Yumesaki's Culture Festival to attend UxMishi’s concert, with Sakura assuring Misaki that Kuuga has changed for the better. Takumi gets invited as well after “begging” Misaki.
At Maid Latte, the café hosts a Fortune Telling Day, with Erika as the fortune teller. Erika reads Hinata’s and Takumi's relationship fortunes with Misaki with the former “flat as a paper balloon” and the latter “incompatible like fire and water unless he tries harder”. After Misaki finishes her shift, she finds Takumi waiting outside the back exit. Feeling down about his fortune and continuously making depressing comments about it, she angrily asks him if he’s going to give up on her because of that and blushes upon realizing what she said—which Hinata overhears. The next day, Hinata decides to help Misaki clean the school entrance but ends up getting them both wet. With her clothes wet and revealing, Takumi covers her with his shirt and accompanies her to get change. A few days later at the Yumesaki Festival, Misaki and Takumi gets separated from Sakura and Shizuko after a large crowd of UxMishi fans rush to the band’s concert. With no way of reuniting with them and Sakura refusing to leave the front row, Shizuko and Takumi suggest both he and Misaki enjoy the festival together.
After getting away from the crowd, Takumi and Misaki join a contest for couples, where thanks to her competitive nature and his teasing, they win the contest and receive a special prize for the post-festival fireworks. After receiving their special prize to wear a Romeo and Juliet costume, Takumi brings Misaki to an empty classroom to get a better view of the fireworks. Misaki finally confesses to Takumi, but rants a little due to her embarrassment.
Misaki and Takumi kissing
She tells him that she is confused, that she doesn't know why her heart beats so fast when she is with him, or why she feels lonely when he leaves her, or why Takumi is the only person who makes her feel like this. She can't understand why she likes him so much when all he ever does is tease and sexually harass her. For that, he hugs her and tells her he loves her and everything about her, and both of them kiss. Despite Misaki's being embarrassed to admit her feelings, both of them stroll together at the festival hand in hand.
Ten years later, they get married in England. Misaki is revealed to be working as a diplomat, traveling frequently, while Usui is a very well-known doctor in England
At the beginning
Misaki and Takumi
of his second year at Seika High, he develops an interest in Misaki and learns her secret; Misaki becomes suspicious that his interest in her is because he intends to blackmail her. Instead of accepting his apparent feelings for her, she dismisses his behavior as a joke or a form of harassment. Regardless, he continually helps and watches over her, offering insightful advice on how to deal with the boys at Seika effectively and even becomes possessive of her, as Takumi truly cares about and really loves Misaki. He often states that he is Misaki's only master, that Misaki is only his. Takumi eventually begins dating Misaki as her boyfriend, yet he is forced to transfer to Miyabigaoka High School for his third year of High school. Nonetheless, he still continued to meet with Misaki by going to Seika High. He still works part time at Maid Latte.
Takumi is the first person to learn of Misaki's part-time job of working at Maid Latte. He willingly keeps this secret from the rest of the school and is always helping and supporting her.
Mr and Mrs Usui on a Helicopter. After their wedding.
Misaki is the first and only girl who Takumi fell in love with and they are now in a relationship as an official couple. To Misaki, Takumi is a "Perverted Outer Space Alien", but this is later used as an expression of endearment rather than an insult. She is very dear to him and he will do anything to protect her. Because of this, he swore never to tell anyone about her secret as a maid. He gets jealous easily, as he says himself, he is very possessive, and has a strong desire to monopolize Misaki when she is too close with other guys. Misaki and Takumi have their second kiss in chapter 32, as Misaki finally realizes her feelings for Takumi. They also kiss in chapters 32, 37, 45, 49, 51, 57, 59, 62, 64, 66, 71, 72, 78, 79, 82, 84, and 85. He also injures himself thrice while protecting her in episodes 6, 17 and 18/19. In chapter 57, they officially become a couple. And in chapter 81 he proposes to Misaki and she accepts making her his fiancé. Finally they married in England and go on a helicopter to enjoy their honeymoon.
Misaki is the first person to whom Takumi entrusted the secret about himself and his family. He spends most of his time around Misaki and enjoys 'observing' her. He usually tries to attract Misaki's attention and often advices her to be more honest about her feelings. According to Shouichirou, Takumi and Misaki are like a 'Golden Combination'. Also, Takumi says that he will eat any food as long as it is made by Misaki.
The two dogs aura
Shintani is Takumi's main rival and the only one he takes seriously, and they are usually represented as two dogs growling at each other whenever they are battling for Misaki. Takumi often gets jealous of Shintani when Misaki is with him or Misaki is paying more attention to Shintani than to him. When these situations happen, Takumi sometimes pulls Shintani away from Misaki, and when Shintani gets too close he often likes to remind him that Misaki is his.
Shouichirou Yukimura
Takumi kissing Yukimura
Shouichirou Yukimura is not an exact friend of Takumi's "he's more like a pet" as said by Misaki Ayuzawa. Yukimura is seen to be very embarrassed around Takumi after he kissed him to make Misaki more at ease after stealing a kiss from her at the rooftop. Still, not a very big friendship is held between Takumi and Yukimura. Takumi enjoys harassing Yukimura, mostly to attract Misaki's attention. Yukimura often blushes when Takumi is around. He proved himself to be useful, when Takumi was trying to find about Soutarou's true motive.
Li Yi Hua
Li Yi Hua is the daughter of a Hongkong millionaire. She first appeared in Chapter 68 of the manga together with her fiance Arashiyama Tenryuu. They're not really close friends with Takumi but they were asked to befriend her just like Tomikouji, Umekouji Tomu, and Kaon Umekouji. When Takumi visited Misaki during lunch break at Seika they tagged along and took a picture to show that they are befriending Takumi just like what they were told to.
Gerald advertising Takumi
Gerald is Takumi's older English half-brother. [36] He and Takumi look almost identical, except that Gerald's hair is straight and dark blue and also his eyes are light blue. Gerald is an active part of the Walker family's plan to control Takumi, and helps in the tracking of Takumi and the plan for his transference to Miyabigaoka. His Japanese is fluent, although he and Takumi usually communicate in English. Takumi and Gerald's relationship does not seem to be very good, which might possibly be because of Gerald's interference with Takumi's life and relationship with Misaki. Gerald is disapproving of the relationship between Misaki and Takumi and is out to separate them. Gerald despises Takumi, most probably because he is an illegitimate child.
‘‘I'm Takumi. I'm the ringmaster of the Moron Trio Circus. That's our members.’’
‘‘I love you, Misaki."
‘‘You are so kawaii desu"
‘‘If you were to drown... I wouldn't let anyone else give you mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.’’
‘‘If you lay your hands on her again... I'll tear your throat out. Be prepared for it.’’
‘‘I'm actually a hardcore otaku who likes maids more than having three meals a day. And I only read books related to maids. Also, I only visit maid cafés. Of course, I also collect maid figurines. I play games which feature female maids and it turns me on so much. Then I'll wear the maid uniforms and jump in joy. I'll take my leave now.’’
‘‘Please, don't be bothered by it, I'm just another stalker.’’
‘‘Instead of being kissed, I prefer to kiss someone else. That's more like my style.’’
‘‘I'll come to save you as much as you want. I'll make you fall for me as much as you wish.’’
‘‘Ayuzawa, you are the first person ever to appear in my life and able to make me a mess.’’
‘‘If it is with Ayuzawa, whatever I do, wherever I am, I am happy. So it's okay.’’
‘‘It's okay, no need to thank me or anything else... no matter how many times, i will always be there for you, i will make you fall for me over, and over again.’’
‘‘My interest is to observe Misa-chan in Maid Latte. Observing Prez Ayuzawa is my specialty. My favorite food is Misa-chan's omelet rice. Favorite word is Ayuzawa Misaki.’’
‘‘I have decide not to abandon. No matter what kind of path I choose, if some sort of sacrifice must be made, it is only Ayuzawa who I will not sacrifice. Because I think if I am with Ayuzawa, I can overcome anything.’’
‘‘Love, passion, why do we get caught up by such troublesome feelings? The mind couldn't ever get things straight, and you lose control to know what is sensible. Deep down, it's all so vexing.’’[37]
“You may feel safe, because you, think you are strong, but you should remember... you are still a woman, Misa-chan.”
‘‘This is the place where, I'm the happiest because i have a girl by my side who lets me tease her so much.’’
‘‘That's exactly the way it should be. Doing only unexpected things, otherwise, I'll lose my reputation as a perverted outer-space human.’’
‘‘I'm leaving for Miyabigaoka High School. No hard feelings?’’[38]
‘‘I guess it's really worth just being by Ayuzawa's side.’’[39]
"What color is misa-chan's underwear?"
His first name, Takumi, means "open sea" while his last name, Usui, means "light".
Takumi was voted the 1st most popular character in the Character Contest.
His star sign is Taurus.
Takumi has a dark blue cat named Licht (meaning light in German) which he found on the street. Misaki chose the name for the cat.
According to the author Hiro Fujiwara, Takumi is the hardest character to draw with a serious expression.
Takumi Usui was voted Sexiest Anime Man 2010.
His real name is "Takumi Walker".
According to the manga:
His specialty is everything.
His hobby is stalking and successfully holding his reputation as a 'perverted outer-space alien'.
Takumi and Misaki were voted Sexiest Anime Couple 2010.
He is 1/4 British.
According to the Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! Official Fan Book:
His favorite food is Amedama (Candy Balls).
His disliked food is Egg Yolks.
↑ Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! Manga: Chapter 1, Pages 11-13
↑ Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! Manga: Chapter 1, Page 14
↑ Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! Manga: Chapter 2, Pages 2-4
↑ Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! Manga: Chapter 2, Page 8
↑ Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! Manga: Chapter 2, Pages 9-11
↑ Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! Manga: Chapter 50
↑ Kaichou wa Maid-Sama! Manga: Chapter 48, Page 21
Student Council Misaki Ayuzawa • Sōtarō Kanō • Shōichirō Yukimura • Takashi Hagimoto • Kenji Sawa • Kiyomasa Katada • Hayase Kōta • Yūta Utsumi • Bunta Kosugi
Idiot Trio Naoya Shirokawa • Ryūnosuke Kurosaki • Ikuto Sarashina
Students Takumi Usui • Hinata Shintani • Shizuko Kaga • Sakura Hanazono • Suzuna Ayuzawa • Yumeyama Brothers • Takezawa • Gonda • Masaru Gōda • Hideki Suzuki
Teachers Maria Miyazono
Student Council Tora Igarashi • Kanade Maki
Students Hirofumi Koganei • Chiyo
Elite Group Kaon Umekōji • Tomu Umekōji • Ichitarō Tomikōji • Tenryū Arashiyama • Yi Hua Li
Former Students Takumi Usui
Manager Satsuki Hyōdō
Maids Misaki Ayuzawa • Erika • Honoka • Subaru • Sayu • Gon-chan
Chef Sakuya Ayuzawa
Cooks Takumi Usui • Sen • Mochi
Members Takumi Usui • Gerald Walker
Employees Cedric Morris • Yū Hirose • Gilbert Morris
Duke Richard Rachester
Marquis Edward Walker
Heir Patricia Walker
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By Kaput Products
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First Generation Anticoagulants and the Wafarin Myth
The most popular rodenticides used today are anticoagulants, more commonly known as blood thinners. When these products are used, rodents typically experience mortality between five and eight days after initial feeding on the bait. First-generation anticoagulants include the active ingredients that were developed as rodenticides before 1970, including warfarin, chlorophacinone and [...]
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Fall Furries: Signs that You Have Rats or Mice in Your Home
According to the National Pest Management Association, 29 percent of Americans have had a rodent problem in their home. With 45 percent of these problems occurring in the fall and winter now is the time to learn the signs that you may have an infestation on your hands. Droppings Given that mice can produce 50+ […]
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Flea-borne typhus outbreak, rats taking over Los Angeles city buildings
Disease carrying fleas from a rat infestation are being blamed for a Typhus outbreak in Los Angeles. The outbreak has spread from the streets of ‘skid row’ to the offices of City Hall. City attorney Elizabeth Greenwood told local station KCAL9 she contracted typhus in November and said “I thought I was going to die.” Symptoms of […]
Scimetrics Ltd Corp withdraws Texas registration of Kaput Feral Hog Bait
WELLINGTON, Colo., April 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Scimetrics Ltd Corp has withdrawn its registration of Kaput Feral Hog Bait in the state of Texas. We have received tremendous support from farmers and ranchers in the State of Texas, and have empathy for the environmental devastation, endangered species predation, and crop damage being inflicted there by […]
Kaput Feral Hog Bait Offers Management Option for Landowners
Hear Richard Poche as he discusses Kaput Feral Hog solutions with “Texas News and Views” on the Texas Farm Bureau Radio Network. April 3, 2017.
Scimetrics Ltd Corp Conservation Efforts Continue
At a March meeting with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in Colorado, Scimetrics Ltd Corp re-iterated its support of conservation efforts aimed at reducing the spread of plague in Black-Footed Ferret communities and the prairie dog population needed to sustain them. Updated methods of flea control were discussed as well […]
Scimetrics Ltd. Corp. Releases Facts On Kaput Feral Hog Bait
WELLINGTON, Colo., March 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Over the past month there have been many press articles on the new feral hog bait approved by the EPA. In 2000, product development of Kaput Feral Hog Bait was initiated by Scimetrics Ltd. Corp., a family-owned small business based in Colorado. Read the full article here…
Kaput-D Pocket Gopher Bait now labeled for use in “Crop Areas”
We are excited to announce that Kaput-D Pocket Gopher Bait has a newly expanded label! With the addition of “crop areas” to our use sites, Kaput-D Pocket Gopher Bait will now be a valuable tool for a wider range of growers and producers. The updated label is available for download on our website.
Plague cases in California, Colorado
Several plague cases have now been reported in 2015, leading public health departments in Colorado and California to warn the public to be on guard against flea-borne diseases. The California Department of Public Health recommends these steps the public can take to avoid exposure to human plague: • Never feed squirrels, chipmunks or other rodents and […]
Kaput Mole Gel Bait now registered in North Carolina!
Kaput Mole Gel Bait has now been approved and registered for use in the state of North Carolina! As of 7/27/15 Kaput Mole Gel Bait can be used in North Carolina EXCEPT for on the Star-nosed Mole. Review the updated label now available for download or give us a call with any questions.
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Single Cell Immune Profiling
How to create a Cell Ranger compatible V(D)J reference?
Can we tell which barcodes contain multiple cells for V(D)J libraries?
Can I identify differentially expressed genes between cells in two different clonotypes?
Is there way to filter the BAM file produced by 10x pipelines with a list of barcodes?
Can I combine gene expression data from 3' and 5' assay chemistries?
Question: Is it possible to combine gene expression data from 3' and 5' libraries?
Answer: Although cellranger aggr command will successfully combine 3' and 5' gene expression data. However, even though Cell Ranger will successfully generate a matrix, it will not correct for chemistry-specific effects.
In general, normalization and correcting for systematic or batch effects in single-cell RNA-seq data are areas of active research, and at present, we don't have a specific recommendation.
From the literature, there are a number of packages in R, such as Seurat (1), scran (2), and scone, which attempt to address these issues.
Below are some examples of performing batch correction in Seurat:
The following tutorial shows an example using the RegressOut function:
https://github.com/broadinstitute/single_cell_analysis/blob/master/cegs_2017_demo.md#seurat-batch-effect-correction
Alternatively, below is a tutorial for “aligning” data sets or samples which are expected to be similar (as in the case of biological replicates):
http://satijalab.org/seurat/Seurat_AlignmentTutorial.html
(1) Butler, Andrew, and Rahul Satija. "Integrating single-cell transcriptomic data across different conditions, technologies, and species." Nature Biotech (2018).
(2) Haghverdi, Laleh, et al. "Batch effects in single-cell Rna-sequencing data are corrected by matching mutual nearest neighbors." Nature Biotech (2018).
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Chaplain provides comfort, care to families of fallen first responders
Posted 11:31 pm, October 29, 2018, by Jasmine Huda
ST. LOUIS -The families of two fallen law enforcement officers have someone to turn to for support.
The St. Louis Police Wives Association’s chaplain met with the family of Ralph Harper, the retired St. Louis Police sergeant who was shot and killed during a botched robbery Monday morning.
“It’s heartbreaking in any case. But this one hit home because you feel like he was safely retired,” Chaplain Maria Byers said.
Byers was among the first to arrive at Barnes Hospital shortly after Harper had been transported.
“You’re just there to lend support and to see what they need right then and there,” she said. “You ask if there’s a person of faith that you can contact. If there are family members you can contact. If it’s a parent who has children. Where are the little ones? Can we pick them up? Do you need someone to sit with them?”
Byers said she was impressed by the strength of Harper’s wife.
“She’s a very strong, brave woman. And I think you have to be to be a law enforcement spouse. He strength definitely shone through,” she said.
The STLPWA will also provide assistance to the family of Washington Park Officer Ricardo Davis, who was killed in the line of duty while pursuing suspects Saturday.
The organization plans to assist with preparations during the funeral.
“We want to see them through this entire process,” Byers said.
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Fox Files: Imperial man blames hospital rating system for his kidney transplant denials
Spirit of St. Louis: Pathways to Progress
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Enchanting Sri Lanka (18 Days)
Locations: Negombo, Dambulla, Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, Ella, Yala, Galle
LK10170200: Enchanting Sri Lanka (17 Nights)
Enchanting Sri Lanka is a trip for those who appreciate the true beauty of diverse landscapes and the rich and fascinating culture and history of Sri Lanka. Visit the cool, lush green hill country. Embark on fascinating wildlife safaris and walk with the Aborigines (The ancient ones). Have a truly Sri Lankan experience with a cup of Ceylon Tea or fresh King Coconuts on the calm southern coast. This is undoubtedly a tour of immense charm.
Arrive at Colombo International Airport Here, you will be met by a designated chauffer guide from Lakpura. After the formalities at the airport you will be escorted to your air-conditioned vehicle and proceed to Negombo and check in to the hotel and relax. (Travel Time: 20 to 30 mins)
After Breakfast enjoy a city tour in Negombo
City Tour in Negombo
On completion of the visit, return to the hotel and relax.
3 Nights in Dambulla
During your time in Dambulla, you can engage in the following activities.
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage is the home for young Elephants who have been displaced or lost from their natural habitat, located at Pinnawala village in Sabaragamuwa province of Sri Lanka. Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage is the best place for an up close and personal experience with the world’s largest land mammals! Today with 70 elephants herein, Pinnawela has become the home to the largest captive group of elephants in the world.
Sigiriya Rock Fortress
Climb the 5th century AD rock fortress, Sigiriya, where the King Kasyapa ruled. Walk through the entrance framed by the paws of a lion that is quite appropriate for its name, ‘ the Lion Rock’. View the beautiful unfading murals that brought Sigiriya its fame. Climb the steep staircase to see the terraced gardens and still-working cisterns. Walk through the tunnels leading to the palace as you get a feel for times long past.
This three-hour safari takes you on a ride through the Minneriya National Park. Enjoy the sight of over 150 elephants congregating in one place during the famous Great Elephant Gathering, which happens in the dry season between May to October. In addition to elephants, get a chance to also see many mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians in the scrublands, forests and other areas.
Spend the day Leisurely.
Euphoria Spice and Herbal is located 12 km away from Matale (The spice capital of Sri Lanka). Enriched with herbs, spice groves and plants with fragrant greenery shading from the tropical trees that enlightens the unique aroma of each spice and herb. We give the opportunity for our visitors to explore and gain knowledge on Sri Lankan spices, herbs and the benefits of Ayurveda. The tropical climate in which our plants and herbs are grown helps them preserve its ancient originality. The educational tour around the garden, which we call “The Spice Tour”, let the visitors feel the sensation of the Sri Lankan spices and herbs which is demonstrated in different foreign languages to suit our customer need.
Royal Botanical Gardens Peradeniya
Visit the famous Royal Botanical Gardens of Peradeniya, which were formed in the early 19th century. Walk through the vast area containing over 4000 species of plants. Enjoy the learning more about the orchids, spices and medicinal plants. Wander down avenues shaded by large and rare trees, or bordered by flowering plants. Enjoy seeing the cannonball tree, walking over the wobbly suspension bridge and through the short hedge mazes or even climbing the twisty trees that make wonderful jungle gyms.
Ramboda Falls
Visit Ramboda Falls, which is the 11th tallest in the country. Get a guided tour through Mackwoods Tea Estate and learn more about the varieties, processing methods and qualities of tea. Walk through the shaded avenues and colorful mazes of Hakgala Botanical Gardens. Relax and take a walk along the shores of Lake Gregory. A peaceful day filled with lots of beautiful sights.
Tea Factory and a plantation where you would see how the world’s famous “Ceylon Tea” is manufactured. In 1824 a tea plant was brought to Ceylon by the British from China and was planted in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Peradeniya for non-commercial purposes. James Taylor was a British citizen who introduced commercial tea plantation in Sri Lanka (Ceylon). He arrived to Sri Lanka in 1852 and settled down in Loolecondera estate in Kandy. Today even people who have never heard of Sri Lanka are familiar with Ceylon tea, which is known for its quality.
Misty City of Nuwara Eliya
Nuwara Eliya is set in the heart of tea-country is a beautiful town where the British succeeded in creating a replica of the English countryside, with homes in styles from Georgian to Queen Anne. Well-kept lawns with hedges, an Anglican church, a famous golf course and beautiful parks give the place an air of nostalgia. Situated 6,200 feet above sea level, the air is cool and fresh – a serene retreat from the hustle and bustle of the city life.
Horton Plains National Park
Visit the beautiful Horton Plains National Park in Ohiya, with its montane grasslands and cloud forests. Enjoy the majestic views from the precipice of World’s End and the cooling sprays from Baker’s fall. Catch glimpses of the many endemic fauna that make their home in the plains. Get to know more about the archeological finds that were discovered in the area.
The Nanu Oya to Ella train journey takes you on scenic ride through some of the most beautiful highland countryside areas in Sri Lanka. Watch the brilliant greens carpets of the tea plantations. See the picturesque villages with misty mountain backdrops pass by. Peer through drizzle and mist to look at the magical landscapes of Haputale. Enjoy the amazing sights of intimidating mountains, deep and dark woodlands, and magnificent waterfalls as they go by your windows.
2 Nights in Yala
During your time in Yala, you can engage in the following activities.
This amazing three-hour Safari offers the opportunity to visit Yala National Park, the second largest in the island based off the Southeastern coast of Sri Lanka. Get a chance to see the famous Sri Lankan leopards, indigenous wild water buffalo, Sri Lankan Sloth Bear and large herds of Sri Lankan Elephants. The park is also home to many other species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates.
4 Nights in Galle
During your time in Galle, you can engage in the following activities.
Ussangoda Beach
Ussangoda is a strange coastal area because of its lack of trees. Its serpentine rock contains toxic heavy metals. Only specific smaller plants were able to adapt to this soil. But according to the Ramayana legends there are two more explanation for the baldness of Ussangoda. After meeting Sitadevi Lord Hanuman provoked the mighty King Ravana and his army of Rakshasas. It resulted in Lord Hanuman’s tail being set on fire by Rakshasas. Hanuman in turn went on to torch parts of King Ravana’s empire with his burning tail. Ussangoda is said to be one of these burnt areas. Besides the Ramyana Trail legend has it that earlier on the Ussangoda plateau was used an airport by King Ravana for his Dandumonara peachock chariot, before Hanuman devastated the landing site.
Rumassala
Rumassala hill 3 kms east of Galle is the landmark of Unuwatuna beach because of the picturesque white Buddhist dagoba on top of it. Rumassala rock is one of the five Sri Lankan spots believed to originate from parts of Mount Dronagiri. They fell down when Hanuman carried the Dronagiri on his flight back to Lanka in order to use its Sanjiwani herb to rescue Lakhshmana and Rama who were in need of this medical plant to be reanimated after suffering severe injuries. Rumassala is also said to be an abode of Sita during her stay in Lanka.
Old Colonial City of Galle
Explore the secrets of Galle where the Portuguese and Dutch made their headquarters. Visit the Galle Fort which is one of the best-preserved fortifications in Asia. View the museums of Galle and the lighthouse. Walk through the cobblestoned streets with their Dutch names and listen to your guide tell their stories. Relax with a king coconut or a cup of tea caressed by a breeze of the tropics.
Spend the day leisurely enjoying the beach and the hotel facilities.
After breakfast at the hotel on your final day, proceed to the Colombo International Airport (CMB) and get ready for your departure after spending a memorable time on the Pearl of the Indian Ocean.
Dambulla- Fresco water Villa
Yala – Chaarya Resort & Spa
Galle – Cantaloupe Aqua
Accommodation as per the list of Hotels
Meals on Bed and Breakfast Basis starting with Breakfast on Day 2 and ending with Breakfast on Day 18
Transport in a Private vehicle with the service of an English Speaking Chauffeur Guide
Entrance Fees and guided tours to all sights as per the itinerary
All Taxes & Service Charges (Except for 4% Online Payment Surcharge)
Entrance fees where not specified
Daily 1ltr bottle of OLU water Per Person
1 Un-loaded SIM card
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Daya in Indonesia
Map source: People Group Location from IMB. Other map data / geography from GMI. Map by Joshua Project.
92,000 Lampung Api Islam 0.02 % 0.01 %
The Daya live in the Barisan Mountains in the southern part of South Sumatra province. They speak a dialect of the Lampung Api language. Although the Daya can understand Lampung Pesisir and Komering, they do not identify ethnically with the Komering. Instead they identify with the Lampung Pesisir and Ranau people who live to their South. The Daya are spread throughout the two subdistricts of Simpang and Muara Dua in South Ogan Komering Ulu regency in South Sumatra.
The Daya live in the same area as the Aji and Komering. The mixing of the Daya villages among Komering and Aji villages is unique in that their villages are often in an alternating pattern geographically. On a trip from Simpang to Muara Dua Kisam, one will find alternating Aji, Komering and Daya villages, though there are fewer Aji villages than Daya and Komering. The Daya live at an elevation of 100-500 meters above sea level. Many varieties of plants can grow in this fairly fertile area. The Komering often consider the Daya to be a part of the Komering because they use the same language. There are many similarities between the Daya and Komering languages. However, the Daya feel that their language and identity are distinct from the Komering. Even so, the Daya don't deny that there are many similarities between the Daya and Komering languages. Linguistically speaking, the Daya use the Daya dialect of the Lampung Api language. Farming in this area is successful. Harvest can be done two or three times per year. This work is generally done by Javanese who manage the rice fields, either as owners or as laborers in fields owned by the Daya. If someone becomes a laborer in the rice fields, he will receive a portion that is one-half or one-third of the total harvest. The Daya typically don't manage their rice fields well, therefore many of them entrust their land to Javanese managers. A Daya family will often own 1-2 hectares of rice fields. The housing style among the Daya has shifted from the traditional raised wooden homes to more modern cinder block and concrete homes built at ground level. Sometimes they follow the design used for Javanese homes. In the areas where the Daya live in the hills, there are few Javanese because the Javanese usually live among the rice fields or other fields.
The Daya's Islamic beliefs are strongly held. For example, one young man told the story of a Chinese person who married with a local Ogan person. He explained: "Chinese, but Muslim…!" This story displays that Islam is still a strong part of their identity. Even so, almost every village has a burial ground for the ancestors that is guarded and taken care of well. There are even tombs that are seen as so holy that some people will come time after time to pray and make special requests.
Jobs are hard to come by in this area. Many young men are unemployed because there is no work in the village and they are reluctant to leave for the city. The surrounding people groups tend to view the Daya youth as lazy. Only a small number of the young men here seek work outside the local area. Character building and skills development for the young men would assist them greatly.
View Daya in all countries.
Location in Country: Southernmost Sumatra island, 3 provinces, many communities near or on Selat Sunda, west, central, and south Lampung Province, regencies: Lampung Barat and Tanggamus, southwest coast and coastline around Semangko bay, Way Kanan, Lampung Utara, and Pringsewu, inland, southeast tip, Lampung Selatan, east coast of Lampung bay and nearby islands Sebuku, Sebesi, Tabuan, and Legundi; Sumatera Selatan Province, Ogan Komering Ulu Selatan, Ogan Komering Ulu Timur, and Ogan Komering Ulu regencies, near headwaters of Kanan river; south Bengkulu Province, Kaur regency.
People Name in Country: Daya
People Name General: Daya
People Cluster: Lampung of Sumatra
Ethnic Code: MSY44k
Primary Language: Lampung Api (92,000 Speakers)
Language Code (ISO): ljp Ethnologue Listing
Protestant 100.00 %
GSEC Status: Level 1 Less than 2% Evangelical. Some evangelical resources available, but no active church planting within past 2 years
Film / Video Condemnation or Forgiveness
Film / Video Jesus Film: view in Lampung Api
Lampung of Sumatra Asia, Southeast
Daya Indonesia
Islam Lampung Api
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Winter Bounty
Vermont growers use innovative structures and methods to feed us during the coldest months.
High tunnels at Screamin' Ridge photo by Lori Martin
Brooke Werley
It is almost winter in Vermont. The familiar crunch accompanies the early riser’s first steps onto the frosted tips of grass. Where the garden once teemed with large leaves of Swiss chard and the sweetest of cherry tomatoes, there remain only a few flattened beet leaves and carrot tops left behind from the fall harvest.
Still, all over the state, winter farmers’ markets are preparing to offer an abundance of Vermont-grown products. How do our farmers keep the locally grown markets going all winter? They’re using innovation to stretch Vermont’s short natural growing season to meet the demand for local produce year-round.
“A lot of growers are pushing the envelope,” says Joe Buley of Screamin’ Ridge Farm, a 3-acre farm on the outskirts of Montpelier. “We’re cutting greens 12 months a year here.”
On his farm, Joe plants spinach in three 30 x 96-foot-high tunnels that rely entirely on sunlight. The tunnels look a lot like traditional “greenhouses” but don’t use expensive wood or propane heat, making the growing of greens year-round more economical. The structures have the traditional steel frame and greenhouse plastic, but are oriented east to west to optimize winter growth. That means the end walls, where the doors are, are on the east and west sides, and the vegetable beds inside are parallel with the long, domed surface of clear plastic.
“It’s the exact opposite of traditional tunnels,” explains Joe, who says that most high tunnels are oriented north to south to allow Vermont farmers to grow more high-value summer crops like tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant. “I sacrifice a little of the summer growth and grow cultivars that do well in the cold instead of forcing something to grow.”
Growing greens through the winter lets members of Joe’s CSA enjoy fresh greens when there is no green to be found outside their windows. His winter CSA is uniquely structured, providing members with produce from the farm, products from other local food producers (such as cheese and baked goods), and foods prepared by Joe, who is also a trained chef.
Inside each of the high tunnels—also called passive solar greenhouses—are five four-foot raised beds. In addition to the protection from the exterior plastic, the beds are protected with row cover fabric. They will each yield 50 to 60 pounds of spinach per cutting, according to Joe. The number of cuttings varies per season.
At Screamin’ Ridge, all of the seed propagation is done in the “seedling shack” between March and May 1, using propane heat. The farm also uses the structure as a wash station to achieve more economic benefit. “I got tired of running around in the basement,” jokes Joe, who says that he used to start seed trays in the house, sometimes using energy-consuming grow lights.
A little farther north, at Tamarack Hollow Farm in Burlington, farmer Amanda Andrews talks about the benefits of using lumber from the farm to fuel two small heated greenhouses through the winter. The two greenhouses are not much bigger than a backyard tool shed, so they can be kept warm using less heat.
Amanda runs the 88-acre farm with her husband, Mike Betit. The couple is able to use wood from their parcel to heat the greenhouses through January and February to grow high-value shoot and sprout crops. “It probably takes two to three cords of wood for those two months,” Amanda says, “but there’s no outside cost. It’s just our labor.” The trees also are cleared to reclaim the fertile soil, where they now plant spring, summer, and fall vegetable crops. The greenhouses are also used for seeding trays of crops destined for the field.
In addition to the heated greenhouses, Amanda and Mike use two season-extension structures. They erected a 12 x 96 caterpillar low tunnel this spring, both for summer crops and over-wintered greens. A low tunnel is shorter than typical hoophouse structures like the ones at Joe Buley’s, but is made of the same steel tubing and plastic and is large enough for an average person to stand up in. “We’ve tried to use PVC,” Amanda says of the heavy-duty plastic piping sometimes used for low tunnels. “It always collapsed. It couldn’t stand up to the snow load.”
The farm also has a 30 x 96-foot north-to-south high tunnel. The tunnel was financed by a federal grant from the federal Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), which runs a high-tunnel initiative to support winter growers. Tamarack Hollow’s tunnel allows them to get a jump on spring greens. “We plant in September and see a lot of growth by December,” says Amanda. “They’ll start regrowth in February and are ready for harvest earlier than anything we have out in the fields.”
This year the Tamarack tunnels are planted with kale, chard, collard greens, and lettuce. Amanda looks forward to experimenting with smaller low tunnels in the future. “The low tunnels are more portable,” she says. “You can cover established crops and extend the growing season using a layer of row cover and an additional layer of plastic.” The current fields leased by the farm are mostly located in the Winooksi River flood plain, so the farmers have been unable to use the portable structures efficiently due to spring flooding. All of the current structures are on the few acres located on higher ground. Amanda and Mike are currently searching for farmland and look forward to growing vegetables away from the unpredictable flood plain.
Down in the Mad River Valley, Aaron Locker is harvesting the benefits of four unheated high tunnels, with a twist. “Our structures are somewhat unique in that they are built on angle iron skids which enable us to move them on and off already-growing crops,” Aaron says. He is the farmer at the 7-acre Kingsbury Market Garden in Warren. He goes on to explain that the mobility of the structures allows the farm to grow lower-value spring crops that would not be financially justifiable if the high tunnels were permanent because they would not be ready to harvest before it was time to plant the higher-value summer crops.
“With our system, the tunnels are simply moved off of the spring crop and onto the summer crop. In the fall, this allows us to start growing our early winter crops in the open air and to use the structures to protect against the first few frosts. Then, they’re moved over the winter crops before the temperatures get cold enough to damage them.”
Aaron is also innovative with his crop choice. This spring, he planted three houses in carrots and one in potatoes. The idea was to avoid the rush to have the first spring greens at market and instead have early carrots, extra sweet from their exposure to the cold.
In the fall, it’s also marketing that sets Kingsbury Market Garden apart. The houses are host to an eclectic mix of winter greens, but Aaron doesn’t try to push production too far into the winter. “Instead, I focus on selling larger volume for less money and sell out fast. This is the opposite of what most folks seem to be trying to do and provides me with a nice niche in the wholesale market for such a small operation.”
To achieve all of this winter bounty, Vermont farmers learn from each other through many avenues, including the Vermont Vegetable and Berry Grower Listserv, an e-mail list for farmers. There are also conferences and workshops, like those put on by the Vermont chapter of the Northeast Organic Farmers Association (NOFA-VT) and the New England Vegetable and Berry Growers Association (NEV & BGA). Screamin’ Ridge farmer Joe Buley will be talking this December at the New England Vegetable and Fruit Conference in Manchester, NH. The subject? Winter production.
While some folks prefer not to eat summer-type vegetables in the middle of winter, the demand for them is strong, and farmers throughout Vermont are employing many different methods to supply us with locally grown produce year-round. It’s safe to say they’ve got us covered.
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Brooke Werley has been farming in New England for the past six years, first in Massachusetts and then here in Vermont. She is part of the Agrarian Trust initiative to help find land-access solutions for next-generation farmers. Her blog is thisgrowingup.wordpress.com.
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Book Reviews / By erin / August 22, 2013 1
ARC Review: Cobweb Bride by Vera Nazarian
Many are called…
She alone can save the world and become Death’s bride.
Cobweb Bride is a history-flavored fantasy novel with romantic elements of the Persephone myth, about Death’s ultimatum to the world.
What if you killed someone and then fell in love with them?
In an alternate Renaissance world, somewhere in an imaginary “pocket” of Europe called the Kingdom of Lethe, Death comes, in the form of a grim Spaniard, to claim his Bride. Until she is found, in a single time-stopping moment all dying stops. There is no relief for the mortally wounded and the terminally ill….
Covered in white cobwebs of a thousand snow spiders she lies in the darkness… Her skin is cold as snow… Her eyes frozen… Her gaze, fiercely alive…
While kings and emperors send expeditions to search for a suitable Bride for Death, armies of the undead wage an endless war… A black knight roams the forest at the command of his undead father … Spies and political treacheries abound at the imperial Silver Court…. Murdered lovers find themselves locked in the realm of the living…
Look closer — through the cobweb filaments of her hair and along each strand shine stars…
And one small village girl, Percy—an unwanted, ungainly middle daughter—is faced with the responsibility of granting her dying grandmother the desperate release she needs.
As a result, Percy joins the crowds of other young women of the land in a desperate quest to Death’s own mysterious holding in the deepest forests of the North…
And everyone is trying to stop her.
Cobweb Bride is an enthralling story reminiscent of a dark fairytale. Set in 17th century Europe, Death has provided the world with an ultimatum: until his Cobweb Bride is found, no one will die. This promise of eternal life sounds appealing at first, but Death’s proclamation is not without its share of horror — soldiers mutilated on the battlefield bleed out yet do not die; animals prepared for slaughter who won’t be slain; people waiting on their deathbed to take their last breath, which just won’t come. Across the land, inhabitants are trapped in this perverse imitation of “life,” and while many wish to restore the balance between life and death, there are others who are determined to remain in the realm of the living regardless of the cost.
The first third of the story is very slow paced, allowing for the development of multiple main characters and their associated story lines: Percy, the unappreciated daughter who embarks on a quest to become the Cobweb Bride, finding herself and her purpose along the way; the murdered princess who truly becomes alive after her death; and the dead duke’s son whose loyalty is tested when he is charged with capturing the aspiring Cobweb Brides. As these seemingly unrelated story lines intersect, the characters find themselves inextricably bound together by the same purpose: to return death to the world.
Nazarian’s writing is evocative, and beautiful. The descriptions were so detailed and lush that I found myself hanging on to every word, as opposed to skimming through the paragraphs of description in favour of the action like I do with Lord of the Rings. When the writing isn’t creating stunningly vivid images in the reader’s mind, it raises excellent points about immortality, life, death and suffering.
“It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer… Whereas I, I come softly when it is all done. Pain and death are an ordered sequence, not a parallel pair. So easy to confuse the correlations, not realizing that one does not bring the other.”
Overall, Cobweb Bride is a brilliant start to a new fantasy series. Nazarian’s vivid, lush writing makes for an enjoyable read, even in the slowest portions of the book.
I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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Elena Kagan is the 112th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. She was confirmed for the post by the U.S. Senate on August 5, 2010.<ref>http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0514726620100805</ref> Prior to her role as a Supreme Court Justice, Kagan served as the 45th [[Solicitor General|U.S. Solicitor General]] in March 2009 and was nominated to the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] on May 10, 2010 by President [[Barack Obama]]. {{Current event}} <br> == Overview == As Solicitor General, Elena Kagan supervises and conducts government litigation in the United States Supreme Court.<ref>http://www.justice.gov/osg/</ref> Prior to her appointment as Solicitor General, Kagan was the 11th Dean of the Harvard Law School. As a scholar of administrative law, Kagan began teaching at Harvard in 1999 in the areas of administrative law, constitutional law and civil procedure. In 2003, she was appointed Dean of the Law School. Kagan also served in the White House, first as Associate Counsel to President Clinton (1995-96) and then as Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council (1997-99).<ref>http://www.justice.gov/osg/meet-osg.html</ref><br> Kagan was recently requested to complete a questionnaire from the United States Senate Committe on the Judiciary with regard to her nomination to the Supreme Court. Her answers were recently received.<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/ElenaKagan-PublicQuestionnaire.pdf</ref> The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved Kagan's [[United states supreme court|Supreme Court]] nomination by a vote of 13 - 6. If Kagan is confirmed by the full Senate in early August 2010, Kagan will be the third female supreme court justice to serve. This will be the first time in U.S. history that three women have simultaneously served on the court.<ref>http://www.latimes.com/news/sc-dc-kagan-vote-20100720,0,3340875.story?track=rss&amp;amp;amp;amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews+%28L.A.+Times+-+Top+News%29</ref> On August 5, 2010 the [[Senate|United States Senate]] approved Kagan as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice in a vote of 63-37, largely along party lines. She is the fourth female justice to serve on the Supreme Court in U.S. history. == Kagan's Opinions == Much of the controversy surrounding Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court deals with the fact that she has never sat on the bench as a judge. Additionally, there is little knowledge about what her judicial philosophy is as there is a minimal amount of oral or written communication on how she believes a judge ought to decide cases. Below are a few documents indicating some amount of opinion of various legal issues. Memo topics and notes while working for White House:<br> *Abortion<ref>http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/Documents/Kagan%20-%20Bruce%20Reed/Kagan%20-%20Bruce%20Reed%20-%20Subject%20File%20Series/Box%2097%20Abortion%20Doc%203.pdf</ref><br> *Cloning<ref>http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/Documents/Kagan%20-%20Bruce%20Reed/Kagan%20-%20Bruce%20Reed%20-%20Subject%20File%20Series/Box%20105%20Cloning.pdf</ref> *Race<ref>http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/Documents/Kagan%20-%20Bruce%20Reed/Kagan%20-%20Bruce%20Reed%20-%20Subject%20File%20Series/Box%20124%20Race%20Commission%20Doc%201.pdf</ref> *Charitable Choice<ref>http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/Documents/Kagan%20-%20Bruce%20Reed/Kagan%20-%20Bruce%20Reed%20-%20Welfare%20Reform%20Series/Box%206%20Churches.pdf</ref> Responses to Supreme Court cases as Solicitor General: *Richard Lawrence Alexis v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.<ref>http://www.justice.gov/osg/briefs/2009/0responses/2009-0955.resp.pdf</ref> *Lyndon Young v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.<ref>http://www.justice.gov/osg/briefs/2009/0responses/2009-0733.resp.pdf</ref> *Beauvais Bellevue v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.<ref>http://www.justice.gov/osg/briefs/2004/0responses/2004-0828.resp.html</ref> *Derek Cunningham v. United States of America<ref>http://www.justice.gov/osg/briefs/2008/0responses/2008-1149.resp.pdf</ref> *Gena Marie Dunphy v. United States of America <ref>http://www.justice.gov/osg/briefs/2008/0responses/2008-1185.resp.pdf</ref> <br> == References == <references /> == External Links<br> == *[http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/textual-Kagan-BruceReed.htm <span class="Tiny">Clinton Presidential Library and Museu: Bruce Reed Collection - Elena Kagan </span>] *[http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Politicians,+Government+Officials,+Strategists/Elena+Kagan <span class="Tiny">USA Today: Elena Kagan</span>] *[http://www.justice.gov/osg/aboutosg/osghistpage.php?id=45 Office of the Solicitor General: Elena Kagan] *[http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2010/05/judiciary-committee-questionnaire-for-scotus-nominee-elena-kagan.php?page=1 U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Questionnarie for Nominee for the Supreme Court] *[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/ElenaKagan-PublicQuestionnaire.pdf Elena Kagan's Response to U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Questionnarie for Nominee for the Supreme Court] *[http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=112 Harvard Law School Faculty: Elena Kagan] == Related Resources on FindLaw == *[http://pview.findlaw.com/view/3012394_1 FindLaw listing for Elena Kagan] *[http://news.findlaw.com/ap/a/w/1154/07-20-2010/20100720095012_141.html?DCMP=NWL-cons_legalgrounds Judiciary panel OKs Elena Kagan for Supreme Court] == Related Blogs on FindLaw == <rss>http://search.yahooapis.com/WebSearchService/rss/webSearch.xml?appid=yahoosearchwebrss&query=Elena+Kagan%20site:blogs.findlaw.com|max=5</rss> <br> <!-- Begin Yahoo Web Services HTML Attribution Snippet --> [http://www.developer.yahoo.com Web Services by Yahoo!] <!-- End Yahoo Web Services HTML Attribution Snippet --> == See Also == *[[Solicitor General]] *[[Barack Obama]] *[[Supreme Court of the United States]] [[Category:U.S. Supreme Court Justices]] [[Category:U.S. Supreme Court]]
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Can Democrats take advantage of the opportunity Republicans have given them? It depends on whether they can unite behind policies that help a broad portion of the electorate. What message could compete with the Republican unity behind MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN? Of course, Republican unity is more a mirage than a reality. The critical fact is that Republicans are in trouble because they used their majorities to push a narrow, ideological agenda instead of trying to negotiate policies that command broad support. A successful response might try to convince as broad a majority as possible that Democrats believe YOU MATTER.
Credit where credit is due. Despite his poor management skills, self-centered moral system and immaturity, Trump sometimes gets things right. Regulatory reform have been the clearest sign of this. The Administration’s efforts on financial reform, permitting of infrastructure projects and undoing of several overreaching Obama rules are good policy. The same might be true of putting America First. Our allies need to carry a larger share of the common burden, China needs to adopt fairer trading rules, and the world needs to weaken North Korea. If Trump’s blustering accomplishes these goals, he’ll deserve begrudging praise. It depends on the outcome.
I’m back. It took me a while to figure out the Democrats strategy during the government shutdown over the Dreamers. After seemingly having the upper hand, they suddenly reversed course and accepted a weak deal. But perhaps Democrats are settling on a strategy designed to appeal to as broad an electorate as possible, especially in the states where they are weak. If so, it is likely to make it even harder for Republicans to maintain control of Congress. Besides having few accomplishments that matter to voters, they now have to take the minority position on finding a solution for Dreamers.
Can Republicans avoid disaster in 2018? Not unless they begin to govern in ways that invite success rather than defeat. To date their leadership has consistently followed a strategy of partisan efforts to enact policies that the majority of Americans oppose. Current polling should come as no surprise. Instead they should concentrate on the issues that matter most to people and worked in a bipartisan way to move solutions through committees with as much support as possible. Although they would have to compromise on many issues, voters would then see what each party truly stood for and could vote accordingly.
Someone needs to make a stronger case for American global leadership. It starts with American Exceptionalism. America was created as an initial experiment in personal freedom and democracy. Despite its many flaws, it has steadily advanced those values, usually leading other nations in their practice rather than following. It has done more than any other nation to support international institutions and alleviate poverty abroad. To be successful now, it needs to articulate a message of hope directly to citizens in other countries and then help them achieve their own freedom and prosperity. Such a policy is in our own interest.
Could Trump win reelection? Despite the narrowness of his win against a flawed candidate, there is a clear path toward another term. Should 4-5 candidates challenge him in the primary without eroding his base, Trump would most likely will pluralities in enough states to eliminate them one-by-one and secure renomination. Should Democrats then nominate a candidate from the left who fails to connect with moderate voters of both sides, Trump could win another narrow victory. Despite the need for a moderate candidate capable of uniting the anti-Trump vote, I have difficulty identifying a likely Republican challenger. It is not Cruz.
Republicans are worried about keeping control of Congress. They have a funny way of showing it. After six years of lecturing on why Democrats deserve to be in the minority, Republicans copied their playbook. Rather than representing the interests of a broad section of Americans, they are playing to their base. Rather than applying the same standards to Trump that they applied to Obama and Clinton, they waffle as Trump sets new standards in baseness. Rather than returning the nation to the rule of law, they build on the excesses of the Democrats. Why should the electoral verdict be different?
The Trump presidency is reducing the huge benefits America derives from global leadership. The absence of leadership usually brings stagnation and discord, not prosperity. The benefits include the ability to borrow cheaply, less unrest and resistance abroad, and, most important, an international regime that reflects our interests more than it reflects those of other nations. But leadership requires sacrifice. One must lead others to a place that they want to go. This requires a compelling vision of what the future could be. It also requires an ability to put others ahead of ourselves. Bullying and selfishness are not leadership traits.
GM’s announcement that its self-driving cars will lack steering wheels acknowledges that automation will eventually eliminate the need for any human intervention. This also applies to automation efforts in other forms of transportation including railroads, planes, and freight trucks. The fact is that, as automation becomes safer, drivers are called on less. This degrades driver skills. More importantly, it dramatically increases the probability that drivers will use their freedom to read, sleep, lie down in the back seat, whatever. Despite any laws, warnings, or technical requirements, they will not be available when an emergency happens. Regulators should recognize this reality.
The strength of our political process is that when followed it generally produces the wisest and most enduring political compromises. It never produces perfect legislation, but it does produce solutions that have strong political support and successfully address social problems. But this process requires active political bipartisanship. Whenever one party imposes its will over the other it creates its own failure. This is not only because it weakens the institutional constraints that fetter the other side, but also because, acting alone, it can neither envision nor implement good policy. The failure of Obamacare predicts the failure of recent tax reform.
Historically, automation has not replaced as many jobs as people feared. Rather, its main effect is to let people produce more with less, thereby increasing the wealth of society and allowing for the creation of new jobs with higher incomes. One reason is that much of what automation does would not be done otherwise, because it is too low value to justify paying someone to do it. For example, automation will let you monitor your house cheaply. It may put a few guards out of business, but for most people it replaces no monitoring with cheap monitoring. This creates value.
Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? If everything we do or say fades into the abyss of time, what gives us meaning? Perhaps we are here to express ourselves: to assert that out of the infinity of DNA combinations, ours improbably existed, recognized itself, and acted purposefully. I believe the best means of that assertion is to create an ephemeral work of art containing actions and thoughts that signify something profound and beautiful. To me that increasingly requires the demonstration of ethical values, including love, giving, and responsibility. Sometimes the greatest act of self-assertion is self-sacrifice.
They can’t help themselves. The White House seems determined to fuel speculation about Trump’s mental capacity. The chief protagonist is the President himself, who seems addicted to sending out tweets that no other politician would think wise. But supporters of Trump also contribute to it. A prime example is the frenzied attack of advisor Stephen Miller. Less dramatic but equally telling are the comments from Trump’s inauguration chairman: “It’s not mental instability. It’s management by controlled and orchestrated chaos.” Would other presidents have even dignified such a charge with a response? Does anyone think this is a sound management practice?
Politico asked political commentators whether Oprah should run for president, given the favorable reaction to her speech at the Golden Globe awards. The only truly wise (and brave) response was by Sophia Nelson who pointed out Oprah’s total lack of political experience. One would think that, given the performance of Barak Obama and Donald Trump, the nation would have its fill with novices. It is useless to hope that someone untainted with politics will reform our system. The system largely reflects the voters that elect it. Reform will come when voters change. Until and after then, experienced leadership is vital.
I missed yesterday because my wife threw a wonderful surprise birthday party for me, the second in two weeks. You might wonder how I could be surprised twice when birthdays are pretty predicable things. Let’s not go there. But turning 60 helps me think more about the transience of our lives. In the end, we only have the legacy that we build. That raises the question of whether a large number of Americans would be willing to work harder and sacrifice more if they felt confident that they were building a better society for their children. I think they would.
I am currently working on a paper regarding the degree to which a carbon tax would shift the type of technology that is discovered. To the extent that taxes not only deter the use of existing technology but actually induce the faster discovery of clean technology, the cost of dealing with climate change would be reduced. It appears that the answer to this question depends to some extent on how new technologies are developed and on how the proceeds of the tax are used. It also seems clear that technology is path dependent so that earlier action may reduce costs.
If people want to cooperate but refuse to give up anything until they are assured that others will, then the job of policy is to negotiate and then impose this agreement. This often calls for a larger deal involving more issues. The most prominent of these is the budget plan that combines tax increases with significant entitlement reform. Everyone seems to agree that this needs to happen but so far no one has made a serious effort to enact it. This failure is not for want of good ideas or, I think, public support. It is a failure of leadership.
Is it possible for our society to collectively choose a long-term goal of how life should be? If we look out 30 years, can we agree on enough things about the basic structure of the economy and society to form a common vision? And can we reach enough agreement on the effects of policy to form a consensus about the policies needed to get us there?
I believe the right policies can assure everyone a comfortable living standard and greater personal freedom. But this achievement depends on a collective decision to pursue it in a coordinated way. Something we lack.
I was surprised Republicans managed to pass the tax bill. The pressure on holdouts can be intense, even for those who plan to retire. While passage averts a major political embarrassment, Republicans will likely pay a significant political price for passing it.
The corporate reform is good, with a much lower rate and movement toward a territorial system. But few voters understand the need for it. Conversely, the individual changes give too much to the wealthy and introduce a major distortion that favors pass-through businesses. The overall result will raise growth only marginally, especially if revenues are lower than estimated.
As we greet another New Year, I felt the need to resurrect my blog. It was started at a time of new beginnings, when I hoped to start a successful consulting career. That hope was started largely from a lack of good alternatives. Since then my fortunes have been worse than I hoped but better than I deserve.
I sense our country is in a similar state. My purpose will be to add brief comments to the news as the nation struggles to confront its fears; a necessary hurdle if we are to reach our potential. All in 100 words.
Joe Kennedy has worked as an attorney and economist on a large variety of issues related to the relationship between public policy and the private sector, including economic growth and technology. Among his past positions are Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Commerce and General Counsel of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He is the author of Ending Poverty (Rowman Littlefield, 2008).
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Learning First Aid: What to Do Until Medical Help Arrives
A special mouth covering can be used to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR.
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BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty.
PAT BODNAR: And I’m Pat Bodnar. Today, we will provide a short guide to first aid.
BOB DOUGHTY: Doctors in hospital emergency rooms often see accidental poisonings. A frightened parent arrives with a child who swallowed a cleaning liquid. Or perhaps the harmful substance is a medicine. Or it might be a product meant to kill insects. These are common causes of accidental poisoning.
In cases like this, seek medical help as soon as possible. Save the container of whatever caused the poisoning. And look on the container for information about anything that stops the effects of the poison.
Save anything expelled from the mouth of the victim. That way, doctors can examine it.
PAT BODNAR: In the past, some people forced poisoning victims to empty the stomach. They used a liquid -- syrup of ipecac -- to do this. But a leading medical organization no longer advises parents to keep syrup of ipecac. The American Academy of Pediatrics says some poisons can cause additional damage when they come back up the throat.
BOB DOUGHTY: Millions of people know how to give abdominal thrusts to save a person choking on something trapped in the throat.
The American Red Cross says a rescuer should first hit the person on the back five times between the shoulder bones. These back blows may ease the choking. If the airway is still blocked, the Red Cross suggests pushing hard five times along the victim's abdomen. The abdomen is the area between the chest and the hipbones.
You can do these abdominal thrusts by getting directly behind a sitting or standing person. Put your arms around the victim's waist. Close one hand to form a ball. Place it over the upper part of the stomach, below the ribs. Place the other hand on top. Then push forcefully inward and upward. Repeat the abdominal thrusts until the object is expelled from the mouth.
PAT BODNAR: For someone in late pregnancy or who is very fat, place your hands higher than with normal abdominal thrusts. Place the hands at the base of the breastbone -- just above the place where the lowest ribs join. Then begin pushing, as with other victims.
The American Heart Association suggests another method in this case. The group advises chest thrusts instead of abdominal thrusts. For chest thrusts, put your arms under the victim’s arms and your hands on the center of the victim’s chest.
BOB DOUGHTY: Even if you are the person choking, you can still help yourself. Place a closed hand over the middle of your abdomen just above your waist. Take hold of that hand with your other hand. Find a hard surface like a chair and rest your body on it. Then push your closed hand in and up.
Red Cross experts say taking these steps can save many lives. But they also say abdominal thrusts are not for people who have almost drowned. They say using the method could delay other ways to re-start breathing in the victim.
PAT BODNAR: CPR is cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It forces air into the lungs and pumps blood and oxygen to the brain. Doctors say CPR greatly increases the chances that a person whose heart stops will survive. It increases the chances that he or she will suffer little or no brain damage.
The American Heart Association suggests two ways of helping. One combines the use of hands to pump the victim’s chest with rescue breathing. The other method is called “Hands-Only CPR.”
BOB DOUGHTY: “Hands-Only” is for people who are unwilling or unable to perform rescue breathing. Some people fear infection. Others say they are afraid of making the patient worse.
But an expert in emergency medicine says a person cannot be worse than dead. Doctor Michael Sayre works at Ohio State University. He strongly urges people in contact with a victim to take action.
PAT BODNAR: The American Heart Association tells how to take that action. It says you can recognize a person needing CPR because the person has collapsed. He or she is unconscious -- unable to communicate or react to surroundings or speech. His or her skin has lost color. The person is not breathing. If such conditions describe the situation, chances are the heart has stopped beating.
You should act by calling for help, or sending someone else. Even if you cannot do mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing, you can perform Hands-Only CPR. You can do chest compressions that help to keep blood flowing to the brain, heart and other organs.
To perform the compressions, place one hand over the other and press firmly on the center of the victim’s chest. Push down about five centimeters. Aim for one hundred compressions each minute. Doctor Sayre says you do not need a measuring stick or a timing device.
BOB DOUGHTY: If the heart does not start beating, continue with chest compressions until help arrives. For a choking victim who is unconscious with no heartbeat, clear the airway first. Then do chest compressions.
Doctor Sayre suggests that medical workers do both the breathing method and chest compressions. He says some victims, including babies, need the mouth-to-mouth breathing with the compressions. Still, the doctor says it is better to do just chest compressions than to do nothing. CPR is not difficult to learn. Many organizations teach it.
PAT BODNAR: Most CPR training now includes how to use an automated external defibrillator, or AED. Defibrillators use electric shocks to correct abnormal heartbeats that can lead to sudden death. Such devices are found increasingly in public places like airports, restaurants and office buildings. A recorded voice on the AED guides the user. The voice provides detailed information about what to do.
The defibrillator of today has developed from the first defibrillators. Medical historians say the devices appeared late in the nineteenth century.
BOB DOUGHTY: In the 1920's, American Claude Beck performed the first surgical operations to repair damaged hearts. Doctor Beck worked at what is now called Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Ohio.
Another doctor, Carl J. Wiggers, had kept laboratory animals with heart stoppage alive by massaging their hearts. Then he followed this rubbing with electrical defibrillation. This led Claude Beck in his efforts to help return normal heart actions to human patients.
In 1947, Doctor Beck saved a patient with a defibrillator device for the first time. The doctor’s success led others to further develop the method and device. Today small, moveable AED’s can identify heart rhythms and produce electricity to treat victims of heart stoppage.
PAT BODNAR: Bacteria can enter the body through even the smallest cut in the skin. So medical experts advise people to treat all wounds. Clean the cut with soap and water. Then cover the wound while it heals.
The Mayo Clinic health centers suggest several steps if bleeding is severe. First, if possible, have the person lie down and raise the legs. Remove dirt from the wound and press on it with a clean cloth or piece of clothing. If you cannot find anything clean, use your hand.
Keep putting pressure on the wound until the bleeding stops or medical help arrives. Do not remove the cloth if the blood comes through it. Instead, put another cloth on top and continue pressure. If the bleeding does not stop with direct pressure, put pressure on the artery that carries blood to the wound.
BOB DOUGHTY: In the past, people were advised to stop severe bleeding with a tourniquet. This device is made with a stick and a piece of cloth or a belt. But experts now say tourniquets are dangerous because they can crush blood passages and nerves.
If a wound seems infected, let the victim rest. Physical activity can spread the infection. Treat the wound with a mixture of salt and water until medical help arrives. Add nine and one-half milliliters of salt to each liter of boiled water. Place a clean cloth in the mixture and then put the cloth on the wound. But be sure not to burn the skin.
PAT BODNAR: To learn more about first aid, ask a hospital or organization like a Red Cross or Red Crescent Society for information. Training may be offered in your area.
If you know first aid methods, you can be calmer and more helpful in case of emergency.
BOB DOUGHTY: This SCIENCE IN THE NEWS was written by Jerilyn Watson. Our producer was Mario Ritter. I'm Bob Doughty.
PAT BODNAR: And I'm Pat Bodnar. Listen again next week for more news about science in Special English on the Voice of America.
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Misunderstanding at the Wow Café
Gurk!
By Ed Bedford, Feb. 10, 2016
Tin Fork
Not for the faint-hearted: Wow Café on a stormy day
Everything happens at once: Igor the pelican flies onto my table, a monster wave rumbles through below (sounding like a near-miss by a jet), and Marianna lands my lobster in front of me.
Lobster taco, that is. Big chunks of sautéed lobster, cheese, salsa, double corn tortilla, with coleslaw and a mess of chowder on two buns next to it.
The pilings holding us up kinda sway so you feel like you’re on a ship running before the storm. Waves tumble by outside the window. The whole ocean is in motion. Makes you feel dizzy, sitting here fending off Igor, trying to get your first bite in.
This is at the li’l ol’ fish diner way out on the “longest concrete pier on the West Coast,” Ocean Beach Pier. It was the final windy day of last week’s storm, Monday, about 4:30 p.m. Onshore, the wind’s turning power-lines into violins. Tall palms’re looking like Donald Trump’s hairdo. But the sun’s starting to make a late appearance. I decide to hit the pier, get some decent lungsful of oxygen. And maybe even see some sunset green flashes.
I’m about halfway to the end of the pier when I meet Igor. He’s sitting on the railing, facing the buffeting wind like a pro. He spreads his whopper wings and coasts forward and lands on the roof of the eatery. Huge blue letters on its seaward wall say “CAFÉ.”
And it looks so cozy in there, with varnished thick-plank tables, warm wood cladding, fishing rods on display, port and starboard ship’s lanterns glowing, fresh-cut flowers at each table, and, like moving pictures, windows showing waves whooshing past outside. Beautiful. Scary. Scary-beautiful.
Uh, yes, they do have tables outside, and stools along the pier railing on the other side, but hey, I want out of this mighty, biting breeze. I head in. The lady, Marianna, gives me a menu. Huh. They have all-day breakfasts. Except, this kind of day I’m thinking warm fish and chips.
I check out the menu. Uh, not totally cheap. They have an “ultimate nacho supreme,” with a “huge portion” of chips, plus nacho cheese, shredded beef, lettuce, beans, sour cream, salsa, plus jalapeños on the side, for $12. A shredded-beef taco runs $5. Even chips and salsa are $5. Burger’s $9, but it is a half-pounder. “OB Sinkers” — jalapeños stuffed with cream cheese and deep-fried — go for $5.
Fish-wise, we’re talking Captain’s Platter, which is a combo of breaded pollock, halibut, shrimp, “and a bun’o chowder.” Costs $14.
The rest — fish and chips, clams, shrimp, or a pollock-and-shrimp combo — cost $11 each. But right below, ooh. Lobster taco, “sautéed and grilled,” nine bucks. Then it reads, “Make it a meal — add coleslaw and a bun’o chowder” for $4 more.
I do. Order the lobster taco and whatever the bun’o chowder is. Thirteen buckeroos. Plus a coffee ($2).
So, I’m sipping my joe, looking at the waves, when two things happen. One, I realize that we are actually moving. This whole pier is swaying to the rhythm of the ocean. Two: Just as Marianna brings my meal, something grabs me. I look around. It’s this pelican. He has my arm in his beak.
Except he’s not hurting. He lets go, makes some gurk noise, and stands there staring at me, this little head with the crewcut hair and the way-big beak.
“He wants some food,” says Marianna. “But he only eats raw fish. And I have to scoot him out for health-regulation reasons, anyway. Also, he can peck if he gets annoyed. That’s why I use this.”
She picks up one of the heavy wooden chairs and backs Igor out the entrance, like a matador.
The lobster taco is the best. Two big corn tortillas, plenty of lobster, shredded cabbage, and a lush mix of pico de gallo, cheese, and a white sauce they make here. Plus, coleslaw and the “bun’o chowder,” which turns out to be a really filling side of clam chowder drooled over two toasted hamburger buns, a kind of fisherman’s biscuits and gravy.
Memo and Marianna
Guillermo (“Memo”) the chef says he makes the chowder from clams, bacon, celery, potato, and white sauce.
While we’re talking, Igor’s back, trying to hypnotize me with his unblinking stare. When I don’t respond, he spreads his wings and jumps and flaps his way onto my table. Man. Feel kind of privileged, even though...uh, Jurassic Park, anyone?
Igor fits in with the woodwork
“Igor!” Marianna cries. She grabs a chair and starts maneuvering him back out into the windstorm.
So, how does she stay warm, out here all day, every day?
“Look at me,” she says. “Three layers on top, two pairs of jeans, the scarf. You have to.”
She has been working here six years. Memo, five years. “The family who own it have had this place since 1996,” she says. “But it has actually been going since 1966.”
“Wow,” I say. That’s…”
“Fifty years. We are hoping to have a big party on July 2nd, the actual anniversary.”
Light’s fading. Igor has glided off. “We stay open till sunset,” Marianna says, “but in summer we’re open till 10 p.m., maybe midnight. Because people love to come out here in the cool of the evening.”
Wow. So would I.
Talking of Wow, I have to ask what’s with the name.
“‘Walking On Water,’” says Marianna. “We’re Christians.”
Come to think of it, all the music has been kinda religious pop.
I head up to the pier’s end. Mega waves. Mighty wind. Look for green flashes. But the only flashes I see are from these two guys taking photos of their girlfriends, laughing their heads off at their totally wind-wrecked hair.
Wow Café
5091 Niagara Avenue, Ocean Beach
What $15 buys: lobster taco, chowder on buns, coleslaw, coffee.
Wow Café (Ocean Beach Pier Café), on the pier
Prices: Nacho Supreme (chips, cheese, shredded beef, lettuce, beans, sour cream) $12; shredded beef taco, $5; chips, salsa, $5; half-pound burger, $9; four “OB Sinkers” (cream-cheese-stuffed deep-fried jalapeños), $5; Captain’s Platter (breaded pollock, halibut, shrimp, clam chowder over bun), $14; fish and chips, $11; clams, $11; shrimp, $11; pollock/shrimp combo, $11; lobster taco, $9; coleslaw, “bun’o chowder,” $4
Hours: 8 a.m.–5 or 6 p.m. (sunset) daily (winter); 8 a.m.–10 p.m. or midnight (summer)
Buses: 35, 923
Nearest bus stop: Cable at Newport
More stories by Ed Bedford
Crisp Fish ’N’ Chips makes dreams come true — March 30, 2016
First Nations-Asian — Oct. 15, 2014
Coastal clam chowder is perfectly peppery — Sept. 20, 2014
I.B. Pier’s Tin Fish cures Ed’s queasiness — Nov. 13, 2013
We Love Jerry at Tin Fish Gaslamp — Jan. 19, 2011
Jan. 18, 2019 @ 4:24 p.m.
LOL I realize this is an old article, but all the food served there-including the ‘alleged’ hand-made clam chowder, is from Costco. Even the fish, frozen, imported from China ;) Enjoy.
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Plea to stepdad jury: ‘Don’t be distracted’
by Pete Martinelli and Grace Mason
PROSECUTORS of a man accused of molesting and raping his stepdaughter have urged jurors not to "be distracted" when considering a verdict.
The Crown has alleged over 20 counts of sexual abuse and rape occurred in seven different houses, including homes in southern Cairns and the Tablelands.
The complainant child, now aged in her 20s, gave evidence in a closed session of Cairns District Court and alleged her stepfather sexually abused until she was 17.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to all the charges and stood trial this week.
"Don't be distracted," crown prosecutor Nicole Friederwald told the jury in her closing address yesterday.
"(Her) evidence was sufficiently consistent to be satisfied by its reliability."
Ms Friederwald was at pains to counter the defence of barrister Craig Eberhardt, who focused on alleged inconsistencies in the complainant's claims. He also called on the defendant and the complainant's own sister to counter the allegations.
The prosecution described the issues raised by the Mr Eberhardt as "peripheral matters".
The defending barrister called attention to perceived discrepancies in details of the complainant's allegations, such as the distances recalled during an alleged incident when the defendant was accused of using the family dog to molest her.
"She was drawing upon her memories as a child," Ms Friederwald said.
"Distances may feel larger than as walked as an adult."
The Crown also alleged the defendant made the girl watch intimate moments between him and the girl's mother.
"He either placed her there to watch the activity or invited her," Ms Friederwald said.
The estranged younger sister of the complainant told the court she didn't know the alleged abuse occurred.
She said her sister had spoken of dreams she had about alleged abuse. "She asked if I had any dreams; she said she had been having dreams about dad doing things to her and asked if I had," she said.
Judge Tracy Fantin will address the jurors before they retire to consider a verdict.
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Supplier Spotlight: Afternoon Tea at Garfunkel’s with Amy Dubin
on October 11, 2017 in #teaisaplant, Culture, Partnerships
On a bright summer Friday, three of my colleagues from Try The World and I ducked into the Burgary on Clinton Street on the Lower East Side. Before our eyes could even adjust to the dim lighting, Amy Dubin, founder of Janam Tea and #teaisaplant, was already waiting to greet us. We were here to experience her afternoon tea service, recently featuring in the New York Times, and to learn more about her passion for single-estate Indian teas.
Amy is the supplier for the Kingly Estate Black Tea in our Subscriber box, and is one of the most knowledgeable people we know about teas in general and Indian teas in particular. Following her leads, we snaked through the Burgary to an old-school bank vault door, opened to reveal a curving wooden staircase. The stairs led to Garfunkel’s, a stunning speakeasy hidden on the second floor, and Janam Tea’s home base.
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The ambience is “sexy, not stuffy,” as Amy explains, with plush couches, cozy armchairs, and vintage teaware dotting the glass-topped tables. The location’s liquor license allows Amy to serve an add-on champagne option.
It’s not your typical afternoon tea experience, and it’s not meant to be. When Amy opened her first teashop in Downtown Jersey City in March 2005, the first in the Western Hemisphere for single-estate Indian tea, she sponsored a skateboarding team. The teenager skaters were in and out of the shop, grabbing cookies and tea on their way home from school. What other teashop do you know of that sponsors a skate team? Or any sports team, for that matter? Along with supporting the team, the sponsorship was a signal that hers was no stuffy teashop only for the prim and proper. As we spoke with Amy over the course of the tea service, her passion for shattering the prejudices and assumptions around what tea is, what sort of social situation it should denote, and who should drink it continually shone through. She explained, “I want afternoon tea to be about personal connections and making memories. I want to associate tea with beautiful moments in people’s lives.”
The idea that tea is for anyone – “tea is a plant, and is more closely related to a cigar than it is to coffee” – is one that is close to Amy’s heart. Accessibility is a huge part of her mission. She educates about tea, to her customers, yes, but also to members of the restaurant industry. The accessibility aspect extends beyond tea knowledge – she also supports tea farms that are going through organic certification, a long and expensive process that can halt production for around three years, and sources from farms that support their local community through ethical hiring practices. Hers is not an impersonal operation – more often than not, the teas that she sources comes from farms she has actually been to. Amy has traveled within India extensively, and has lived and worked with many of the people whose hands have rolled the very tea she serves.
We had the chance to try four teas on our visit, along with two beautiful tiered trays of tea accompaniments. Aside from the scones and jam, Amy makes all the food – from cucumber and mushroom and scallion cream cheese open-faced sandwiches to melty brown butter cookies – herself. The teas themselves were amazingly unique. The first was a handmade orthodox leaf tea from Mandal Gaon in Assam, the color of honey. Next was a black tea from Sikkim, a Buddhist state to the north of Darjeeling and higher in altitude. This tea, the color of scotch, was grown in the fall, and had earthy notes of toasted hazelnut chestnut. The final two were a light green tea from Assam, an unusual but exquisite offering from an area that is known primarily for black teas, and an Italian rose petal tisane. (As we learned from Amy, herbal teas are not really teas – you can steep nearly any herb, but if it is not from a tea plant, it is called a “tisane”.)
Throughout the whole experience, from the glass cups that allowed us to actually see the luminous colors and shine of what we were drinking, to Amy’s charming and open personality, to the sultry interior of Garfunkel’s, I don’t think I’ve ever been more relaxed in a tea parlor. We left full (and giddily caffeinated), and wanting to come back for more.
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Music for Melancholy Moods
I’ve been pondering the posting of lists. This will be the first in a series of thematic collections relating to floats my boat. Today’s list was inspired by a humid drive into the barren heart of Delaware County where Peter Jefferies’ depressing Electricity album placed me in one of those pensive moods that went perfectly with the blur of chain restaurants dominating my horizons. Therefore, this led to this list of songs that always make me feel like a maudlin chump. Sorry that these are individual tracks, but I broke it up so you may pick and choose. There will probably be a sequel since I gave up at twenty.
1. Skip Spence-“Broken Heart” from the Oar LP
-he sounds broken down before his life even began. There are many worthy choices on this album, but this captures the weight of love gone wrong.
http://www.mediafire.com/?dxntyjgtxyv
2. Beck-“Lost Cause” from the Sea Change Lp
-he has devoted so much time to being the most wiggity-wack Scientologist in the club that you forget how great he can be without the fixins’. A vivid snapshot of regret, lost friendships and the worry that goes along with new beginnings.
http://www.mediafire.com/?2tst2o2jbts
3. Bread-“Look What You’ve Done” from the On the Waters LP
-a soft-rock classic where the protagonist is pitiful and pissed at the same time. Who knew Bread had such issues with passive aggressive behavior?
http://www.mediafire.com/?nfzg1c4gg91
4. Camper Van Beethoven-“All Her Favorite Fruit” from Key Lime Pie LP
-domesticity gone awry.
http://www.mediafire.com/?r69tkztryc2
5. Codeine-“3 Angels” from the Frigid Stars LP
-I could probably pick any of their songs, but this one crushes you more than the others.
http://www.mediafire.com/?3005tccwn42
6. Galaxie 500-When Will You Come Home” from Peel Sessions
http://www.mediafire.com/?mauo9b1cnem
An old chestnut that deals with those times you miss the company of other humans.
7. Gary Stewart-“She’s Acting Single(I’m Drinking Doubles) from The Essential Gary Stewart
http://www.mediafire.com/?dgibufxxzum
-Oh Gary, lemme give you a big old hug. Nevermind, let’s finish the bottle.
8. Gene Clark-“Life’s Greatest Fool” from the No Other Lp
http://www.mediafire.com/?39z1yp4mmog
-an exploration of powerlessness, then hope. Actually, this is kind of uplifting in its own way.
9. Go-Betweens-“Dive For Your Memory” from 16 lovers Lane LP
http://www.mediafire.com/?ify3xjmnyyw
-A man willing to do anything to regain the past. Kind of romantic, but tragic.
10. Graham Nash-“Military Madness” from the Songs For Beginners LP
http://www.mediafire.com/?hiyftjm9pdn
-Sad only because its Vietnam era warnings seem relevant again.
11. The Jayhawks-“Take Me With You When You Go” from Hollywood Town Hall
http://www.mediafire.com/?1tcummrzuyd
-I always imagined this to be about Mark Olson’s worries about his wife’s struggle with Multiple Sclerosis.
12. Kristin Hersh-“Beestung” from Hips and Makers Lp
http://www.mediafire.com/?pqdg46mvcky
-I don’t know what the hell she’s talking about, but it seems to deal with her struggles with mental illness and her pleas for a lover to assist her.
13. Lisa Gerrard-“Sanvean” from Live in Dusseldorf bootleg.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ndelmnjn9an
-I hope these are the sounds I hear as my life enters its last minutes.
14. The Magick Heads-“Before We Go Under” from Before We Go Under Lp
http://www.mediafire.com/?lmy9qzbtgzo
-A song about drowning from a side project of Robert Scott of The Bats.
15. Michael Hurley-“Sweedeedee” from Armchair Boogie(the best album ever made)
http://www.mediafire.com/?axmtoxymmuc
-another tale of lost love and the attempts to regain it.
16. Mickey Newbury-“The Future’s Not What It Used To Be” from ‘Frisco Mabel Joy
http://www.mediafire.com/?lxmd2y1ddij
-a man discovers that travel and booze won’t solve his problems. Go figure.
17. Peter Jefferies-“Scattered Logic” from the Electricity lp
http://www.mediafire.com/?el1jtm1ej3n
– my favorite song at the moment. A heart-wrenching three minutes.
18. John Cale-“I Keep a Close Watch on My Heart at Night” from Music for a New Society
http://www.mediafire.com/?nxtwsbscisl
-somebody not only broke this dude’s heart, but squashed it into a pulp.
19. Peter Hammill-“Been Alone So Long” from the Nadir’s Big Chance Lp
http://www.mediafire.com/?semmnz2ejsd
-This is a close second to the John Cale song in terms of crushing hopelessness. A song about a man who has been isolated so long that he’s forgotten how to relate to humanity.
20. Marc Ribot-“Saints” from the Saints Lp
http://www.mediafire.com/?qbadnytjjdx
-let’s end on a wordless note. His cover of Albert Ayler’s “Saints” is a dark, moody end to this self-indulgence.
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As a combat nurse in Iraq, Linda witnessed the trauma of war up close but never sustained a physical injury. She was unaware that the mental and emotional impact of her experiences could be just as serious.
“I always felt that I was a strong person,” she says. “I didn’t think that someone who wasn’t physically injured could have problems, but the sleeping problems turned into nightmares and a little bit of isolation.”
Linda’s husband, Steve, and other members of her family noticed a change after her military service. “Her mother noticed it right off the bat when she returned [from Iraq],” says Steve.
Linda included Steve, a Navy Veteran, in her therapy process, and it helped them learn how to support each other. “That was the beginning of him seeing how I felt with the PTSD,” Linda says.
It’s a continual process of always getting better — of adjusting and finding other ways to experience life. Linda, U.S. Army and Air Force Veteran
As a civilian, Linda now has a new mission: supporting fellow Veterans as a psychiatric nurse at VA.
“I want to see people live their life to the fullest,” she says. “I want them to have a good life. I want them to be happy.”
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You Gave Up What For 90 Days? Fasting from comforts for 3 months.
April 24, 2019 by Kate Torline
90 days – no social media, no TV, no movies – no snacking. Hearing that for the first time, you might wonder why in the world someone would put themselves through it. It’s called Exodus or Fiat 90, defined as an intense spiritual time of growth before Easter. Exodus 90 is for men and Fiat 90 for women. The guidelines for each are slightly different, but focus on the same goal. Many students are participating in this practice, including junior Human Development and Family Science major Carly Smith and sophomore Accounting major Jacob Bednar.
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These two retreats are designed to challenge a person physically, mentally, and spiritually for 90 days. The retreat can be done anytime during the year, but many students chose to start on January 21, 90 days before Easter. The basic idea for both Fiat and Exodus 90 is to clear your life from distractions – something all students could benefit from. Participants dedicate themselves to 20-60 minutes of prayer each day, self-mastery practices (such as cold showers, regular exercise, at least 7 hours of sleep, abstaining from sweets, snacks, TV, movies, social media, and nonessential material purchases), and meeting with a group once a week.
Smith said she never felt more alive than when she’s participated in Fiat 90.
“I originally said yes to Fiat because there were so many women who wanted to do it,” Smith said. “Social media is not good for my life. There are so many more opportunities that I have taken part in due to my lack of time wasting on my phone.”
“Social media is not good for my life.”
A lot of things Smith didn’t know about herself have been revealed through this retreat, such as how important regular exercise is for self-care and how social media can be extremely harmful to one’s mental health.
Bednar embarked on Exodus 90 because his friends convinced him to do it. The most challenging part of the retreat for him was taking cold showers daily. Like Smith, he noticed how much more time he had because he wasn’t on his phone.
“I haven’t been so attached to my phone,” Bednar said. “It’s allowed me to be more present with those around me.
If you think Exodus or Fiat 90 might be for you, be cautious: these retreats are not for the faint of heart.
“Have a solid group of committed people do it with you to hold you accountable,” Smith said. “Be okay with failure! I can’t name one woman who has gone this far without failing at least once. You won’t be perfect, but it gives you room to ask the Lord for His grace.”
“Be okay with failure!”
Although the parameters of both Exodus and Fiat 90 seem daunting, the benefits are worth it. Our lives sometimes feel like they are filled to the brim with things going on, so eliminating distractions can allow for an increase in peace.
“Overall, these 90 days (thus far) have taught me that life has so much more to offer than the worldly pleasures we engage in every day,” Smith said. “We are called to live fully alive and to see, know, and love those we encounter.”
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Generic convention, generic invention, or: RPF as biography by other means
[Welcome to the Peskies (Pesky and his partner, whom I’ll call Poet, as lurkers / occasional readers. I don’t expect they’ll comment but I wanted to say “hi.”]
Scholarly discourse assumes that every method or discipline has rules and principles that tell us what may or may not be known as a result of studying it. Economics as a discipline, for instance, studies many of the same subjects as psychology or chemistry or literature or mathematics, and some of the disciplines make use of each other (“interdisciplinarity”), but each discipline asks its questions differently and hence gives us different answers to our questions.
A similar principle applies to texts. Texts take on different forms with different rules according to their forms — such rules are called generic conventions. These rules determine what may be said in a particular text. News, fiction, poetry, history, satire — all of these may concern a single topic — but what we expect to read in each text is different. (And part of one’s skill as a reader is determining which sort of text is being presented and applying one’s knowledge of the generic conventions to it to understand what it appears to say.) And not all assertions are equally meaningful — so that an assertion in a satire, for instance, should potentially be taken to have a different meaning than an assertion in a biography.
One of the guiding approaches of this blog — in sum, an attempt to explore myself in light of my knowledge and perceptions of me + richard armitage — comprises my attempt to write texts that obey different generic conventions or combinations of same in order to understand the topic. Inter alia, some texts are confessional; some informative; some analytical; some biographical; some persuasive; some poetic; some fantastical; some erotic; some satirical; some programmatic. Not everything that might be said on any topic can be said in all of these genres of text, even the ones that are hybrid. Not every text tries to do the same thing.
Most of the genres in which I write are largely not informed by huge amounts of speculation, or when they involve speculation, I articulate the governing assumptions and label the speculative assertions in them as such. When they are fictional, fantastical, or poetic, I write them in ways to make the genres clearly identifiable so that the reader can use these in evaluating them. Presumably the alert reader can be trusted to identify a confession or a poetic text as such rather than mistaking it for an analysis. I think I can be judged to be reasonably reliably informed about myself, and when I write about Richard Armitage, I do so in light of evidence about him insofar as such can be found. Even if readers sometimes decide that sentences clearly marked as speculation are assertions of fact, those sentences still include elements — qualifiers, adverbs — that indicate how reliable I feel a conclusion to be. All writing involves an act of interpretation, but insofar as it’s possible, this blog tries to be honest about its interpretive stances, and it doesn’t try to hide them from anyone.
Genres — and a writer’s explicit interaction with them as author — play important roles in our understanding how texts make meanings. For reasons that will be apparent to the superfans, at least, I’ve been thinking a lot about the genre of RPF lately and why I so much enjoy reading, considering, and discussing it that I’m not willing to eliminate my adherence to it from this blog (even though I don’t write it — I recount only my own fantasies, which are a variation on RPF but not true fictions in the sense of RPF, insofar as my fantasies are accurate representations of how I see myself at any given moment). Here, I have to factor out one aspect of these texts — the tendency for RPF to include sexual content — as too much for this post to discuss meaningfully, although I have thought about this matter and will write about it eventually as well.
But simply considering the question of RPF (with or without sex) as a genre of text about a perception of Richard Armitage, what are its attractions for me?
I think it’s because, as a genre, it offers the author speculative options for understanding Richard Armitage that other genres don’t. That is to say — I’ve spent as much time as anyone reading everything that’s been published about Richard Armitage that I can find and evaluating its content on the basis of different scales of merit. I’ve also tried my hand at writing biography, and I plan to continue — while I haven’t been completely satisfied with the results, I also think I’ve achieved a fair picture (or at least one person’s fair picture) of who Armitage could be. But in the genres I usually use to write about Armitage (source critique, performance analysis, interpretive biography) some questions simply are not asked or answered because the available data will not go there in the ways that the genres involved require. Biography requires a particular kind of data and a particular means of writing about things one does not know that concedes (either explicitly or implicitly) the gaps in one’s knowledge. Biography mobilizes the trope of reality and it is bound by the rules of evidence and the accepted language for evaluating and writing about it. Biography as a genre may speculate about things insofar as it puts data together in an integrated way — what do Armitage’s past behaviors suggest about his personality at a particular time, for example — but it always speculates within particular parameters and points to its speculations.
For instance — someone emailed me yesterday to ask me about Richard Armitage’s romantic life. Darned if know. Really (so if you’re about to hassle me over an alleged search I’m involved in for secret information you can save your breath — I don’t dig for information that is not already publicly available, or know anything more about any Armitage-related topic than anyone who reads publicly available sources already knows). A long time ago, I wrote a speculative text on what a particular answer to this question would mean to me if I knew it were the correct one (a text that labels itself as such, throughout, by the way) but reliable data simply do not go to substantiate anything more than a vague answer.
Even more importantly, however, even if they did, if I had a reliable public source with a list of who Richard Armitage’s romantic partners had been — which I could then include in a biographical text — they still wouldn’t answer so many of the questions I wonder about. Not every discipline answers every question; not every genre of text addresses an issue in the same way. Some of these things can be approached via the development of headcanon about Armitage, and this is still one of my favorite things to do with fellow fans: chat about what Richard Armitage is really like based on what we’ve read and seen and how we interpret that material.
RPF, in essence, goes one step further down the road that headcanon development outlines. What’s so interesting about RPF is the permission it gives us to ask and ponder and write about subtle questions that aren’t treated in other genres. For instance, not just “Which car does Armitage drive?” but “What kind of driver is Richard Armitage?”; not just “Who is Armitage’s romantic partner?” but “What is Armitage like as a romantic partner?” Discussion of the former would fit in the genre of standard biography both in terms of evidence and as a theme, whereas the latter would involve a potential generic transgression for standard biography (particularly of a living person) and a definite transgression in terms of evidence.
In contrast, RPF allows both asking of the question and a particular sort of processing of evidence to answer it. RPF is not simply or only wish fulfillment, with an author building an Armitage with all of the features he or s/he prefers. Rather, RPF also has evidential features, insofar as authors build the character of Richard Armitage that they write based on their confrontation with information that they have gathered about him. Like biographers, authors of RPF are sifting through (sometimes contradictory, often fragmentary) evidence and processing it ways that gel together to form a complete personality. They use this information, and their impressions of him, to build the RPF Armitage written into their stories. In turn, readers evaluate that character in light of evidence they have assembled in their own reading.
Not all RPF Armitage stories are created equal, then, insofar as each of them may not be equally plausible to the reader based on what s/he knows or believes about Armitage based on his or her own confrontation with that evidence. What I once called “the iconic moment” in fanfic, that moment when the fanfic author captures something about the character this is so sympathetic and “right” as to be irresistible to me as reader becomes, in RPF, that moment of truth when, as reader, one sees Armitage the character in a light that corresponds, however briefly, to my own preferred construction of Armitage the person. When I talk about RPF with friends who read it, a repeated conversation concerns the point at which we decide as readers that the author is building an Armitage that we don’t find plausible from our perspectives (at which point we often abandon the story).
Or, on the contrary, we discover some insight that we consider so strongly correct and effective that it compels us to keep reading. I’ll give as an example of the latter moment the author’s depiction of her RPF Armitage character in “Poldark and Handsome” as someone who cares how things look when he knows that other people are watching him. (In the story, then, to fall in love with an OFC who is regularly the object of paparazzi attention, he has to find a way to surmount that reservation and/or resolve its conflict with his extreme attraction to Claire.)
I could not make a claim like that in biography — it’s a bit like the intuitive case of evidence interpretation I described for Richlee realism, and the genre of formal biography, while it permits of some speculation, requires that the author amass large amounts of evidence for such steps. When I write, for instance, that I believe Richard Armitage to have been highly (though not openly) ambitious from a young age, I label that as a speculation but I provide a great deal of evidence for my case. When I read “Poldark and Handsome” as a musing on Armitage’s personality, I find myself nodding in response to that particular drawing of the Armitage character and thinking about the fragmentary evidence I have for that position about his response to being watched, which is, however, mostly an intuitive case. Biography requires that the author avoid such highly intuitive leaps.
So to summarize: among its many potential attractions, RPF can be attractive because of its generic conventions and the ways that it allows us to ask and answer questions. It can be a way of writing a speculative, intuitive character sketch, a fragmentary biography, and of exploring, at length, a perception that one has about the object of one’s crush that may be mostly intuitive. One of the many factors in its success is the comfort the reader feels in joining in the speculation, and if the reader has bought into the genre, the extent to which s/he has made, or is willing to make, the same intuitive jumps about the character as the author has made and the extent to which she finds this kind of “biography by other means” plausible, realistic, or sympathetic.
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2 Responses to “Generic convention, generic invention, or: RPF as biography by other means”
Thanks for directing me to Poldark and Handsome, Servetus, which I thoroughly enjoyed. And I think your observations above are spot on – I’m sure I enjoyed it so much because it really seemed to be in character, or rather in my idea of what RA’s character is.
Helen said this on February 16, 2014 at 10:37 am | Reply
Yes — so if you believed him to be different than that Armitage in significant ways, that particular kind of fiction wouldn’t work for you, i think. This is part of why RPF ends up being so contentious — because it’s hard to bear the possibility that our crush might be different than we imagine him to be.
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Revolution Blues by Chelsea McBride
Album Title: Aftermath
By: Chelsea McBride
Big chills intro, fine composing, a little run-on in places but brass and horns are immaculate. There's a seat at the front for Kurt Elling...
In 2017, Toronto composer and saxophonist Chelsea McBride wowed critics and listeners alike with The Twilight Fall, the first full-length album from her large ensemble Socialist Night School. Two years later, Chelsea and co. are back with an even more ambitious follow up: Aftermath. This is an album that explores conflict in all its forms: macro and micro, internal and interpersonal. It's an exploration of the things that we do to each other out of hurt, and the consequences of those actions. “The works found on this album were meant to be dark, and scary,” explains McBride. “Conflict is never an easy thing to explore. But I can't look at all the hurt that inspired this recording without remembering that even in the worst moments... somehow there is hope. People are inherently good. We may gravitate to the negative at times, but we could use a little more practice of love and gratitude. To remember that if we don't teach, no one learns, and if we don't open, no one loves. Consider this album to be an invitation and a call to action: to be true to your word, to own your actions, and your commitment to making the world a better place. No one person has all the answers, all things right, all things good. But you are much stronger when you're not alone.” It's an ode to and an antidote for times of division – times such as these. Aftermath will be released worldwide on Friday, November 1st, 2019.
Revolution Blues; Say You Love Me; The Righteous and the Wicked; Ballad of the Arboghast; House On Fire; The Void Becomes You; Fly By Night; Niagara; Porcelain; Love Is On The Line.
Chelsea McBride: tenor sax, conductor, composer; Colleen Allen: soprano and alto saxophones, piccolo, flute, alto flute; Naomi Higgins: soprano and alto saxophones, flute, alto flute; Alison Young: tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet; Patrick Smith: tenor and soprano saxophones, flute, clarinet; Conrad Gluch: baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, alto flute; James Rhodes: trumpet, flugelhorn; Justin See: trumpet, flugelhorn; Tom Upjohn: trumpet, flugelhorn; Kaelin Murphy: trumpet, flugelhorn; William Carn: trombone; Aidan Sibley: trombone; Jill Richards: trombone; Nicholas Sieber: bass trombone, tuba; Alex Samaras: voice; Chris Bruder: piano; David Riddel: guitar; Steven Falk: upright and electric basses; Geoff Bruce: drums.
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The US Navy secretly designed a super-fast futuristic aircraft resembling a UFO, documents reveal
Jasper HamillThursday 18 Apr 2019 6:51 pm
The US Navy has been granted a patent for an advanced aircraft which resembles a flying saucer UFO.
Military inventors filed plans for a highly unusual flying machine which uses an ‘inertial mass reduction device’ to travel at ‘extreme speeds’.
What that means is that the aircraft uses complex technology to reduce its mass and thereby lessen inertia (an object’s resistance to motion) so it can zoom along at high velocities.
The patent is highly complex and describes methods of reducing the mass of an aircraft using various techniques including the generation of gravity waves, which were first detected in 2016 after being produced when two black holes collided.
These drawings were filed as part of the patent and show a craft which looks a lot like a UFO (Photo: Salvatore Cezar Pais/ Google)
‘It is possible to reduce the inertial mass and hence the gravitational mass, of a system/object in motion, by an abrupt perturbation of the non-linear background of local spacetime,’ the patent says.
The craft described in the patent features a cavity wall filled with gas, which is then made to vibrate using powerful electromagnetic waves.
This then creates a vacuum around the craft, allowing it to propel itself at high speeds.
The UFO-style ship can be used in water, air or even space.
‘It is possible to envision a hybrid aerospace/undersea craft (HAUC), which due to the physical mechanisms enabled with the inertial mass reduction device, can function as a submersible craft capable of extreme underwater speeds… and enhanced stealth capabilities,’ the patent continues.
‘This hybrid craft would move with great ease through the air/space/water mediums, by being enclosed in a vacuum plasma bubble/sheath.’
Although the US Navy applied for the patent in 2016 and it was granted last year, it doesn’t necessarily mean the craft has been built and tested.
However, the technology is further evidence of the military’s interest in developing ‘exotic’ technologies.
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Earlier this year, it was revealed that US government researchers investigated wormholes, antigravity, invisibility cloaking, warp drives and high energy laser weapons during a probe into ‘unexplained aerial phenomena’ called the Advanced Aerospace Threat and Identification Program (AATIP).
Details of AATIP were first released in 2017, including reports of a sighting made by fighter pilots from the USS Nimitz.
These pilots saw a huge patch of churning, turbulent water the size of a Boeing 737, suggesting something was beneath the surface, as well as a ‘tic tac’ aircraft which zoomed off at almost impossibly high speeds.
We spoke to Nick Pope, former UFO investigator at the Ministry of Defence, and asked if he saw any similarities between the patented design and the Nimitz Tic Tac.
‘A hybrid craft, capable of flying both in the air and underwater, is uncannily similar to what was reported in the USS Nimitz incident from 2004,’ he said.
‘There was a similar incident of a UFO flying underwater in Puerto Rico in 2013. The possible connection between the USS Nimitz incident and this patent is intriguing, and it’s interesting that the US Navy seems to be the link here.
‘It’s possible that the patent is inspired by the incident and is part of an attempt to work out the technology behind the objects that were chased by the Navy F-18s. This is known as ‘reverse-engineering’.’
Nick Pope is a novelist and global authority on UFOs (Credit: David Howard/Flickr)
He said a ‘key question’ is how the plans fit in with the wider AATIP project.
In the latest patent, author Salvatore Cezar Pais mentions Harold Puthoff, a key figure in AATIP who commissioned the 38 papers exploring exotic technologies, which were then used by Defense Intelligence Agency durings briefings filed with the US Congress.
‘The papers that got media attention related to anti-gravity, invisibility cloaking, warp drive and wormholes, but a key point is that many of the papers relate to exotic propulsion systems – not just the technology that would enable us to build a faster aircraft, drone or missile, but the technology that we’d need for interstellar travel,’ Pope added.
‘These patents might be the first steps in taking humankind to the stars.’
Two views of the Tic Tac UFO observed by US Navy pilots
A declassified document which gives details of some of the research papers produced by AATIP investigators
We asked if he believed the craft in the patent had ever been built.
This patent for a “craft using an inertial mass reduction device” is fascinating, and is one of three patents filed by US Navy scientist Salvatore Cezar Pais.
‘The other one of his patents that caught my eye was one for a “high-frequency gravitational wave generator”.
‘It’s sometimes hard to tell where the boundary lies between fringe science and science fiction. Furthermore, even if the theoretical physics turns out to be sound, aeronautical engineers still have to be able to build something, if any of this is to have any tangible effect.
‘If they have built the technology described in the patents, I’m sure the program is highly classified. The bottom line is that if any of this works, we’re in game-changing territory.’
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ICYMI: MAP in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser— Climate Change Lawsuits Are a Distraction and Counterproductive to Real Solutions
The Manufacturers’ Accountability Project’s Counsel Chris Appel tackles the misguided climate change lawsuits being filed against energy manufacturers in an op-ed published today in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, calling them a “distraction” and “counterproductive” to real environmental solutions. Appel details how these lawsuits will not solve the “shared challenge” of climate change and outlines the consequences ….
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In Chapter Five of Beyond the Courtroom: A Closer Look at Climate Litigation in the United States, the Manufacturers’ Accountability Project explains the private funding models, namely foundation money and contingency fee arrangements, behind today’s government climate lawsuits. The Chapter explains how these funding sources can distort justice and create conflicts of interest between the for-profit ….
U.S. Court of Appeals Hears NYC Climate Tort Case, Properly Identifies that Case is About Emissions and Asks Whether It Should be Preempted
New York, NY. Phil Goldberg, Special Counsel to the Manufacturers’ Accountability Project, attended the oral argument in The City of New York v. BP P.L.C., which was held this morning at the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse in New York and issued the following observations: The judges hearing this appeal were presented with clear arguments as ….
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Today, the Manufacturers’ Accountability Project (MAP) released a short, 90-second video that breaks down public nuisance law and demonstrates why it has no relation to complex global public policy matters like climate change. In the video, MAP Special Counsel Phil Goldberg discusses the foundations of public nuisance theory, noting how attorneys and local governments filing ….
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The Climate Liability Road Trip
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Panel of Legal Experts Agree: Climate Litigation Lacks Legal Viability, Improper Solution to Important, Complex Issue
The Rule of Law Defense Fund gathered a seasoned and broad panel of legal experts in Washington, D.C. for a discussion of the current climate change litigation landscape. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson served as the event’s keynote speaker, and the panel featured Andrew Grossman, partner at Baker Hostetler; Phil Goldberg, managing partner at ….
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Pro-Marijuana Billboard Posted Outside NFL Opener
COLORADO: Thursday’s NFL season opener is about to get hit with an end-around PR play from a harsh critic that’s ultra-savvy at garnering media attention.
The Marijuana Policy Project will announce Wednesday that it has posted a giant billboard advertisement — within eye-shot of Denver’s Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium — that warns the National Football League: “Stop Driving Players to Drink.”
The 48 X 14 foot billboard, which shows a football leaning against a foaming beer glass, advises: “A safer choice is now legal here.” Colorado, after all, is one of two states (along with Washington state) that have recently legalized marijuana use by adults 21 and over.
“NFL players are being told that they can go out and get completely drunk, but face no punishment from the league,” says Mason Tvert, a spokesman for the Marijuana Policy project. “But if a player gets caught using marijuana, they could be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars, forced to sit out games and deemed a troublemaker.”
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Because marijuana is now legal for adults in Colorado and Washington — and is not a performance-enhancing substance — “we don’t think the NFL should be punishing players for using marijuana,” Tvert says.
For the NFL, one of the most successful and powerful behemoths in the entertainment world, the ill-timed billboard is a painfully public reminder that a long-time league policy that prohibits marijuana use for all players is arguably in conflict with the two new laws.
The billboard also is a visual pie-in-the-face to the big beer makers — particularly the NFL’s big beer sponsor, Anheuser-Busch, maker of Budweiser and Bud Light.
For the Marijuana Policy Project, it’s a virtual PR gold mine, almost certain to gain the attention of national media attending the league’s high-profile opening game Thursday night between the Denver Broncos and the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens.
The move comes just weeks after the same advocacy group posted a high-profile, pro-marijuana video ad outside an entrance to — but off the grounds of — NASCAR’s big Brickyard 400 race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The ad stayed up part of one day before it was taken down.
But, for the moment, at least, the much larger billboard company that’s posting this ad has no plans to remove it. “We’re putting it up like we put up a campaign for any other company,” says Paul Zapata, the salesman at Lamar Advertising, who sold the billboard space to the advocacy group for about $5,000.
Executives from Lamar, one of the nation’s largest outdoor ad companies, did not respond to interview requests. Anheuser-Busch declined comment. NFL executives declined to specifically comment on the ad, but league spokesman Brian McCarthy says, “we do not plan on changing our policies.”
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Long Run Relationship between IFDI and Domestic Investment in GCC Countries
Ghassan, Hassan B. and Alhajhoj, Hassan R. (2012): Long Run Relationship between IFDI and Domestic Investment in GCC Countries.
The research aims to examine the relationship, whether complementary or substitutive, between inward FDI and gross domestic investment in the six GCC countries using cointegration techniques and fully modified GMM estimation. Based on the panel data during the period 1979-2010, the empirical evidence implies that in Qatar, Oman, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, the inward FDI has positive short-run and long-run effects on the domestic investment. For Bahrain, such a complementary relationship exists only in the short-run. For the majority of GCC countries, the long-run elasticities have large magnitude compared to the short-run counterparts, justifying more attraction policy of the IFDI in the future. The gap in the privatization process of public enterprises in the GCC explains in a large extent their heterogeneity in terms of elasticities and spillovers effects.
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3. Antikiewicz A. and M. Bessma. 2009. “Pursuing Geopolitical Stability through International Trade: The EU’s Motives for Negotiating with the Gulf Cooperation Council.” Journal of European Integration, 31(2): 217-235.
4. Andrews, DWK., and RC. Fair. 1988. “Inference in nonlinear econometric models with structural change.” Review of Economic Studies, 55: 615-639.
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7. Blomstrom, M. and A. Kokko. 2003. “The Economics of Foreign Direct Investment Incentives.” NBER Working Papers 9489, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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GETTING MORE TALE #719: Mystery Disc
Cleaning out Jen’s mom’s house after she passed away was very emotional work. Nobody’s been living there since July. One day she got up and broke her hip. We didn’t know it yet but the cancer was in her bones. She never came home again. When we started working on the house in September, everything was more or less how she left it.
Her music collection was small with a few gems. One disc that I kept was Cat Stevens’ Icon. I had to take it for “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out.” As told in Getting More Tale #702, that song seemed to make a connection with me when she was sick. One day we went to see her in the hospital, and she was unconscious. No longer able to communicate. That song was stuck in my head for reasons I can’t explain. I like to think she was sending me a message. Not to be sad. It would have been like her to say that to me. I get tears in my eyes thinking about her lying there dying, and that song playing on repeat in my head. I had the song played at her funeral. It just seemed like such a “mum” song, even though I have no memories of us ever listening to it together. When I found out that she actually owned that song, I got the chills again. Finding Cat Stevens made my heart swell.
We also found a number of CD-Rs that I made, but had no labels or covers. For today’s chapter I’m focusing on one specifically. I can’t figure out why I made it, or who I made it for, or what it was doing at Jen’s mom’s house!
It is a lightscribe CD, and burned into the top is the old background from my website. It’s a photo of some model guitars and guitar picks. The 15 song track listing is most bizarre and I can’t figure out what I was doing!
Track 1: Craig Fee saying “LeBraaaain”. This dates the CD to 2012 at the earliest. I liked to introduce my CDs with something amusing, so this works.
Tracks 2-4: “Whiskey in the Jar”. The first is Metallica’s studio cover from Garage Inc. The second is Thin Lizzy’s take from 1972. Last is a live Metallica version, possibly from the CD single. That’s a lot of whiskey – 15 solid minutes worth. Listening back, the Metallica live version absolutely kills their studio cut. Yeah-hah!
Track 5: Steve Earle – “Home to Houston”. This track is from Steve’s political 2004 album The Revolution Starts Now. I haven’t played that album in years and I don’t remember this song. Why it stuck out enough to put it on this mystery disc, I haven’t a clue. Good tune, but I don’t know it anymore!
Track 6: Jeff Bridges & Colin Ferrel – “Fallin’ & Flyin'” from the 2010 soundtrack Crazy Heart. Now, memories are starting to form. I can remember driving around with Jen and her mom, listening to this song in my car. Did I make this CD for her mom? If so, why the Metallica?
Track 7: Johnny Cash – “The Man Comes Around”. One of the greatest Cash songs, from the best American album in my opinion. Goosebumps, still to this day. Jen and I love Cash and had him played at our wedding.
Track 8: Me doing a song intro! The backing track sounds like Motorhead’s acoustic version of “Ace of Spades” with the main lick looped and no vocals. I made this for a past Sausagefest countdown! The track I’m introducing: “Renegade” by Styx! I mention that it was covered by Daughtry and then add sound effects of Nicko McBrain burping and farting. I have to admit it’s a pretty great (and funny) intro! It was #30 on the 2013 countdown. From that I can now assume I made this CD the same year. Which is strange because I wasn’t really making mix CDs anymore in 2013.
Track 9 is a personal favourite, “Rock An’ Roll Angels” from Whitesnake’s 1982 album Saints & Sinners. I’ve always been into rock and roll songs with boogie woogie piano. I have loved this song for three decades. Then Track 10, another Whitesnake classic: “Slow An’ Easy” from the landmark classic Slide It In. That’s another personal fave, because of the slide riff. It’s incredible and I spent many hours as a teenager playing air slide to it. Not to mention air drums! Cozy Powell was so fucking cool.
Then more slide! Track 11: The Black Crowes – “Twice as Hard”. I was clearly trying to make the CD flow. Indeed I used to spend hours shuffling track order until I had it “just right”. With all this slide business going on, I wonder if the next song is going to be some “Travelling Riverside Blues”?
Nope! A total surprise to me, Track 12 is The Tragically Hip! “50 Mission Cap” is Jen’s favourite, for reasons you’ll understand.
Bill Barilko disappeared that summer,
He was on a fishing trip.
The last goal he ever scored,
Won the Leafs the cup.
They didn’t win another till nineteen sixty two,
The year he was discovered.
I stole this from a hockey card,
I keep tucked up under.
I think the lyrics are brilliant because they tell two stories at once. First, they tell the true tale of Toronto Maple Leaf Bill Barilko, who tragically died in a plane crash in a remote part of Quebec. Nobody knew what happened to him until his body was found 11 years later. The second tale is that of a young Gord Downie who read about it on the back of a hockey card.
Track 13 is another surprise: “The Boys are Back in Town” by Bon Jovi! Don’t scoff, this is actually a really good Thin Lizzy cover from their New Jersey period. Lyrically, Jon and Phil Lynott were on similar wavelengths. This is exactly the kind of tune that Jon was writing. “Wild in the Streets” is Bon Jovi trying to re-write “The Boys are Back in Town”.
Track 14: “Big Foot” from Chickenfoot III. Gotta be one of my favourite car tunes. “Got Houses Of The Holy on the box, got it all cranked up cause, yeah! That shit rocks!” What a groove — you can’t help but stomp along. Joe Satriani has a way with a riff.
I had a guess that Track 15 was going to be all of side one of 2112. The track time was over 20 minutes, so I had an inkling it was either that or side two of Abbey Road. I’ve ended mix CDs with 20 minute epics before, and I think it works. The Beatles did it! Granted, the 2112 epic was a side one, but it still functions perfectly in the closing position. Try it yourself!
Listening to this mystery disc has been enjoyable, but my reasoning still escapes me. It’s such a bizarre mix, with the front loaded threesome of “Whiskey in the Jar”. From there it starts to make a little more sense. But how it did it end up at “mum’s” house?
My best theory is that I made it as a gift for Jen’s Uncle Rick, and it never got mailed. He lived in Texas at the time — maybe that’s why I included “Home to Houston”. Rick is also a Whitesnake fan, and a Toronto Maple Leafs fan. I’m just not sure.
How would you rate this mix CD if you were the recipient? I think I’d give it a solid:
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2loud2oldmusic says:
That is so cool you are finding these. I think it rates a 4 out 5 for sure. Some great tracks and it would have been great for a nice long drive cranked to 10.
mikeladano says:
It would be really good for that. There are several more CDs here without labels, but they could be duplicates of stuff I already know. I guess we’ll see! If this is the only Mystery Disc post I do, that’s why!
Good to know. I hope it is something different, just for trip through memory lane.
Me too! And I want to find my Christmas compilation that I made, I know we brought it home on another trip but now I can’t find it. If I can find it, I’ll “review” my own Christmas compilation!
That would be awesome. Can you be unbiased???
I’d have to give it 4 out of 5 too. There are some cool tracks on here.
There’s a few songs that remind me of late loved ones. It’s always nice to have something short and sweet to remember someone by. Even if it is AC/DCs ‘Highway to Hell.’
Hah true.
deKE says:
Nice diverse comp..
I almost always aimed for diverse. There was one that I made, I think I called it “More Heavy Than Heavy”, and honestly it wasn’t as good as the diverse ones. Although not as good as the diverse ones.
Neat collection! Love reading about your memories tagged to each song. :)
Thanks! Or what I COULD remember, anyway!
boppinsblog says:
9.5/10.
I get even more stories from 50 Mission Cap.
Bill Barilko theme ( is 3 or more stories rolled into one. ( it was remote Ontario)
Gord Downie as a kid with the hockey card.
50 mission caps and how bomber pilots with the most air time could work them in and get ’em dirty. As a new pilot would try and make his hat dirty to appear more experienced, perhaps a young Gord did the same.
Damn I miss that guys lyrics and thought process.
Hey that’s some good analysis man. You gotta work it in like that. I miss Gord. Just talking about his lyrics, you appreciate him even more.
I hope finding that comp and playing it was a release. Sad but happy too.
Yeah it was. I had some tears, but lots of smiles and I enjoyed trying to piece together my thinking.
I thought the Fee thing was “Damn You Lebrain!!!”
He sent me a recording with about 20 takes of him saying different things. There’s also “Fuck you LeBrain!”
stephen1001 says:
Including 50 mission and an epic closer would put it closer to a 5 in my books – and I imagine it was relief in the LeBrain household this afternoon when William signed!
keepsmealive says:
That’s a lot of Whisket off the top, but the rest of the mix is damn solid.
Thanks man! Who knows, you might have got one from me in the CD trading days, who can remember?
Maybe. I don’t remember that specific mix, but then again I don’t remember last Tuesday, so…
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Function of the c-Met receptor tyrosine kinase in carcinogenesis and associated therapeutic opportunities
Yazhuo Zhang1,2,3,
Mengfang Xia1,2,3,
Ke Jin2,
Shufei Wang2,
Hang Wei2,
Chunmei Fan2,
Yingfen Wu2,
Xiaoling Li1,2,3,
Xiayu Li3,
Guiyuan Li1,2,3,
Zhaoyang Zeng1,2,3 &
Wei Xiong1,2,3
c-Met is a receptor tyrosine kinase belonging to the MET (MNNG HOS transforming gene) family, and is expressed on the surfaces of various cells. Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) is the ligand for this receptor. The binding of HGF to c-Met initiates a series of intracellular signals that mediate embryogenesis and wound healing in normal cells. However, in cancer cells, aberrant HGF/c-Met axis activation, which is closely related to c-Met gene mutations, overexpression, and amplification, promotes tumor development and progression by stimulating the PI3K/AKT, Ras/MAPK, JAK/STAT, SRC, Wnt/β-catenin, and other signaling pathways. Thus, c-Met and its associated signaling pathways are clinically important therapeutic targets. In this review, we elaborate on the molecular structure of c-Met and HGF and the mechanism through which their interaction activates the PI3K/AKT, Ras/MAPK, and Wnt signaling pathways. We also summarize the connection between c-Met and RON and EGFR, which are also receptor tyrosine kinases. Finally, we introduce the current therapeutic drugs that target c-Met in primary tumors, and their use in clinical research.
c-Met (mesenchymal-epithelial transition factor), which belongs to the MET family, along with RON, is a type of receptor tyrosine kinase that is expressed on the surfaces of various epithelial cells; its ligand is HGF/SF(ligand hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor) [1, 2]. HGF belongs to the soluble cytokine family and is also a member of the plasminogen-related growth factor family. It is synthesized by mesenchymal cells, fibroblasts, and smooth muscle cells, and acts through a paracrine mechanism to activate HGF/c-Met signaling to exert its biological functions [3]. Under normal conditions, HGF/c-Met can mediate embryogenesis, tissue regeneration, wound healing, and the formation of nerve and muscle, which is controlled by the tumor suppressor p53. Thus, this axis plays an important role in normal biological functions in humans [4,5,6].
However, as a type of proto-oncogene, abnormal activation of c-Met can promote the development and progression of multiple cancers such as liver, lung, colon, breast, pancreatic, ovarian, prostate, and gastric carcinomas, in addition to cancers of the nervous system such as glioblastoma [7,8,9]. The HGF/c-Met axis, which can interact and cooperate with other types of tyrosine kinases, can stimulate various downstream signaling pathways in tumor cells, such as PI3K/AKT, JAK/STAT, Ras/MAPK, SRC, and Wnt/β-catenin, among others [10,11,12,13]. These aforementioned phenomena regulate multiple biological processes such as tumor proliferation, invasion, metastasis, anti-apoptosis, EMT, and angiogenesis [14,15,16,17]. It has been determined that c-Met gene mutations, overexpression, and amplification also occur in a variety of human tumor types, and these events are closely related to the aberrant activation of the HGF/c-Met signaling pathway [18, 19]. Meanwhile, high c-Met expression is closely associated with poor prognosis in cancer patients. Studies have shown that abnormal activation of c-Met is critical for resistance to targeted therapies such as tyrosine kinase inhibitors and drugs that act against associated signaling pathways. Therefore, as abnormal c-Met function can increase the difficulty associated with tumor treatment, understanding its role in cancer is extremely important [4, 20].
Structures of c-met and HGF
The MET (c-Met encoding) gene is located on human chromosome 7 (7q21-q31), includes 21 exons and 20 introns, and encodes a protein that is approximately 120 kDa in size [21]. The translated product is processed to form a heterodimer that is linked by the extracellular α chain and the transmembrane β chain. The transmembrane chain consists of a SEMA domain (sema homology region; SEMA), a PSI domain (plexin-semaphorin-integrin; PSI), four IPT domains (immunoglobulin-like regions in plexins and transcription factors), a transmembrane domain, a juxtamembrane domain, a tyrosine kinase domain (TK domain), and a c-terminal docking site (carboxyl terminal; CT). SEMA is the site where HGF binds directly to c-Met, and PSI can stabilize this interaction. Ser-975 and Tyr-1003 sites at the juxtamembrane domain play an important role in the negative regulation of c-Met [14, 22, 23]. When HGF binds c-Met, Tyr-1234 and Tyr-1235 in the intracellular tyrosine kinase domain undergo autophosphorylation, which results in autophosphorylation of Tyr-1349 and Tyr-1356 in the C-terminal docking site. This facilitates the recruitment of intracellular effector molecules such as growth factor receptor-bound protein 2(GRB2), SRC, PI3K, and GAB1, and consequently the activation of downstream signaling pathways (Fig. 1) [24, 25].
Structure of c-Met and binding sites for c-Met monoclonal antibody and small molecule inhibitors. c-Met is a heterodimer linked by an extracellular α chain and a transmembrane β chain. The β chain has a SEMA domain, a PSI domain, four IPT domains, a transmembrane domain, a juxtamembrane domain, a tyrosine kinase domain, and a C-terminal tail region. HGF is a heterodimer consisting of an α chain and a β chain linked via a disulfide bond, and forming six domains: the α chain contains a N-terminal hairpin domain and four Kringle domains and the β chain forms a serine protease analog domain lacking catalytic activity. The SEMA domain and the PSI domain in c-Met bind the β chain of HGF. The small molecule inhibitor PF-2341066 binds the TK domain of c-Met at Tyr312A, Lys345A, Pro317A, whereas the small molecule inhibitor ARQ197 forms a complex with the TK domain of c-Met at Pro1158A, Met1160A, Phe1123A, and onartuzumab forms a complex with the Sema-PSI domain of c-Met at Leu43B
The HGF gene encoding a 728-amino-acid protein is located on human chromosome 7 and consists of 18 exons and 17 introns [21]. Mature HGF is a heterodimer consisting of an α chain (69 kDa) and a β chain (34 kDa), which are linked by a disulfide bond. This protein consists of six domains. An N-terminal hairpin domain and four Kringle domains comprise the α chain, and the hairpin domain and first two Kringle domains are necessary for HGF to exert its biological function. The β chain forms a serine protease analog domain lacking catalytic activity, and this is the binding site for c-Met.
HGF/c-met cascades in carcinoma
The binding of HGF to c-Met can initiate several downstream signaling pathways; we selected three significant pathways, based on their functions in carcinoma for futher review.
HGF/c-met and the Ras pathway
The binding of c-Met by its selective ligand HGF can induce structural changes in c-Met [26]; specifically, its intracellular protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) domain becomes activated, resulting in exposure of the multisubstrate docking site (MDS). Grb2 is then recruited to this site [27]. After autophosphorylation of the PTK domain, it can bind the SH2/SH3 domain of Grb2 [28], which subsequently recruits downstream guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) such as SOS. Downstream SOS can recruit Ras-GTP from the cell matrix to the membrane and convert it to activated Ras-GTP. Ras successively activates Raf, MEK, MAPKs, ERK, JNK (Jun N-terminal kinase), and p38 (HOG), among others, and the activated MAPKs then enter the cell nuclei to activate transcription factors (e.g. Elk1, Etsl, c-Myc) through phosphorylation. This, in turn, can interfere with the cell cycle and induce cell transformation, consequently promoting carcinogenesis. MAPKs also induce the degradation of proteins and matrix, promote cell migration, and sustain tumor proliferation (Fig. 2) [29, 30].
Illustration of the molecular mechanism of c-Met downstream signaling pathways. a Binding of HGF and c-Met can induce conformational changes in c-Met, resulting in the activation of downstream Ras-Raf-MAPK and PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathways. After autophosphorylation, PTK binds Gab2 and activates it. Gab2 activates SOS; SOS activates Ras and then Ras stimulates Raf, MEK, and MAPKs. Activated MAPKs can enter the nucleus to regulate the expression of transcription factors such as Elk1, Etsl, and c-Myc (among others) to modulate cell proliferation and apoptosis. b The PTK domain is the site of autophosphorylation and also provides a docking site for PI3K. With this interaction, PI3K converts PIP2 to PIP3, and then PIP3 binds to the signaling proteins AKT and PDK1; PDK activates AKT, and activated AKT not only translocates to the nucleus, but also activates GSK-3 and mTOR to regulate the expression of multiple transcription factors. c Wnt binds to the low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 5/6/Frizzled (LRP5/LRP6/Frizzled) co-receptor group and activates the Dishevelled protein (DSH/Dvl) resulting in inhibition of the degradation of β-catenin by the destruction complex (consisting of Axin, adenomatosis polyposis coli (APC), protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A), glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3) and casein kinase 1α (CK1α)).Subsequently, β-catenin is transported to the nucleus via Rac1 and other factors and binds to the LEF/TCF transcription factors in the nucleus with BCL9/LGS and Pygo to promote expression of oncogenes such as Myc, Cyclin D1, and MMP-7. This process can promote the invasion and migration of cancer cells. Aberrant activation of HGF/c-Met in tumor cells can block the degradation of β-catenin by the destruction complex, resulting in a higher concentration of β-catenin in the cytoplasm, and can also promote the entry of β-catenin into the nucleus
In tumor cells, the mutation rate of the Ras gene is approximately 25%, whereas in pancreatic cancer and colon cancer, the mutation rates could be 85 and 40%, respectively. Such mutations are predominantly point mutations and gene amplifications [27]. Mutations occur in codons 11, 12, 13,18, 59, and 69, which affect the interaction between Ras and GAP. Upon mutation, its intrinsic GTPase activity is inhibited, which can lead to malignant cell transformation through sustained activation of Ras2GTP (Fig. 2).
HGF/c-met and PI3K pathway
When HGF binds c-Met and induces autophosphorylation, the phosphorylated residue acts as a docking site for the heterodimeric PI3K-p85 subunit. Here, the p85 subunit of phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) binds to the adaptor protein at the SH2/SH3 domain, using the same phosphorylated site. When PI3K recruits enough activated receptors, it initiates the phosphorylation of many phosphatidylinositol intermediates. Especially, in many tumor-associated signaling cascades, PI3K can convert phosphatidylinositol-4, 5-diphosphate (PIP2) to phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-trisphosphate (PIP3). Phosphorylated RTKs can bind the SH2 domain of p85, and subsequently recruit the p85-p110 complex to cell membranes to activate the complex. Activated PI3K accelerates the conversion of PIP2 to PIP3. The association between PIP3 and signaling proteins containing a PH domain, namely, AKT and PDK1, facilitates the phosphorylation of AKT at Thr-308 and at Ser-473 by PDK1 [27]. Activated AKT, which later translocates to cell nuclei, modulates downstream transcription factors like FKHRL1, NF-κB, and Bcl-2, and inhibits the expression of tumor suppressor genes. AKT also phosphorylates GSK-3 and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) or a series of inhibitory proteins such as p21CIP1 and p27KIP1; these, in turn, separately upregulate the expression of Cyclin D, shorten the cell cycle, and ultimately contribute to tumorigenesis [31]. In addition to this, RTKs might also activate the PI3K/AKT pathway through Ras (Fig. 2).
One study found that mTOR can regulate the degradation of extracellular matrix in cancer cells and influence the synthesis and secretion of matrix metalloproteinase; through this mechanism, this protein can also promote the invasion and metastasis of tumor cells [32]. Activated AKT might also phosphorylate nitric oxide synthase to produce NO, which positively regulates angiogenesis (Fig. 2).
The PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway can modulate the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) through the activation of human double minute 2 (HDM2) (Fig. 2) [33].
In addition, PTEN (phosphatase and tension homology deleted on chromosome 10) negatively regulates phosphorylation in the PI3K pathway. Specifically, this protein facilitates the dephosphorylation of PIP3, converting PIP3 to PIP2. Hence, it relieves the negative regulation of the downstream PI3K components AKT and mTOR. In tumor cells, mutations or deletions in PTEN are common, and enable the increased activation of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway; this leads to aberrant activation of this pathway (Fig. 2).
Association between the HGF/c-met and Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathways
HGF/c-Met is closely related to Wnt/β-catenin signaling, and promotes tumor proliferation, invasion, and metastasis by modulating this signaling pathway [34]. Studies have shown that in colon cancer and glioblastoma, c-Met expression can enhance Wnt/β-catenin signal transduction, and prevent GSK3β from phosphorylating β-catenin; this, in turn, promotes the translocation of β-catenin to the nucleus, facilitating tumorigenesis. Accordingly, it has been shown that c-Met inhibitors can inhibit Wnt pathway activity in tumor cells [35, 36]. Meanwhile, it has been found that in breast cancer cells undergoing osteolytic bone metastasis, the activation of HGF/c-Met signaling can promote β-catenin translocation to the nucleus and enhance its transcriptional activity. Therefore, HGF/c-Met can exert its biological function through the Wnt signaling pathway (Fig. 2) [37].
In normal cells lacking Wnt pathway activation, β-catenin is cytoplasmic and is phosphorylated at Ser-31, Ser-37, Thr-4, and Ser-45 by GSK3β and CK1 proteins, which are part of the destruction complex. At the same time, it can be acetylated by acetyltransferase p300/CBP-associated factor (PCAF) at Lys-49. Subsequently, these modified sites are recognized by and associate with the β-TrCP E3 ubiquitin ligase, resulting in its degradation by the proteasome, thereby preventing translocation to the nucleus [38, 39]. However, in tumor cells, aberrant activation of the HGF/c-Met pathway and stimulation of Wnt pathway block phosphorylation and acetylation of β-catenin through different signals. This results in the accumulation of β-catenin in the cytoplasm; it then enters the nucleus to displace Groucho, which has a transcriptional inhibitory effect on T-cell factor/lymphoid enhancer factor (TCF/LEF) transcription factors. β-catenin exerts its functions along with BCL9/LGS and Pygo to promote expression of Myc, Cyclin D1, and MMP-7, which facilitates proliferation, invasion, and metastasis (Fig. 2) [38, 40, 41].
Crosstalk between c-met and other receptors tyrosine kinases
C-met and RON
Studies have shown that c-Met and RON (receptor originated from nantes) are overexpressed [42] or aberrantly activated in many epithelial-derived malignant cancers [43,44,45,46,47,48,49]. These proteins can be involved in tumorigenesis by promoting cell proliferation, inhibiting apoptosis, enhancing angiogenesis, and promoting metastasis, among other functions, by acting upstream of these processes [46,47,48,49]. c-Met and RON can be activated by HGF and macrophage stimulating protein (MSP), respectively. Activated signaling depends on the tissue availability of adaptor proteins and signaling intermediates or the tendency of the adaptor proteins and signaling intermediates to undergo homodimerization or heterodimerization [50, 51]. MSP and HGF are highly homologous in sequence and structure [52], and are secreted as inactive single chains by multiple tissues and cells including smooth muscle, fibroblasts, adipose tissue, epithelial-derived tumors, liver, lungs, adrenal glands, placenta, and kidney. They are subsequently activated by proteasomal cleavage and form dimeric peptides consisting of α and β chains. In contrast to HGF, the high-affinity RON-binding site (for MSP) is located in the β chain [51].
The dimerization of these two monomers represents a major regulatory mechanism for the activation of tyrosine kinase receptors [53]. In some cases, the formation of a heterodimeric complex permits interaction and crosstalk between different receptors of the same subfamily. The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) family is the best example of a tyrosine kinase receptor that undergoes homo and heterodimerization [54, 55]. Therefore, it is important to study the dimerization mechanism of PTKs. RON and c-Met are co-expressed in many types of tumors and crosstalk between c-Met and RON has been demonstrated [52]. Analysis of their structural homology suggested that they might interact, and in fact, studies have indicated that c-Met and RON can form heterodimers and phosphorylate each other [56]. One study showed that oncogenic addiction to c-Met requires co-expression of RON in four different tumor cell lines [50]. In these cases, RON was constitutively activated, and this was dependent on transphosphorylation by c-Met [50]. Experimentally, it has been shown that c-Met has stronger kinase activity than RON [57], and thus it is possible that heterodimers might be more efficiently activated than RON-RON homodimers. The fact that oncogenic addiction to c-Met requires RON implies that c-Met-RON heterodimers can promote the activation of diverse signaling cascades through different platforms. However, c-Met and RON possess remarkably similar tyrosine-binding sites that serve as docking sites for signaling molecules, and thus these signaling platforms might also be redundant. However, one study found that these two receptors have different kinase activities. Specifically, c-Met can be activated directly through Grb2 binding, but requires modulation for activation by other platforms [58]; in contrast, RON relies mainly on Grb2-associated binder (Gab1), based on the fact that the binding of Gab2 by RON attenuates the recruitment of Gab1 and represses signal transduction.
Grb2 has a unique role with respect to c-MET-RON heterodimers. Although Grb2 inhibits RON autophosphorylation, it enhances this process with c-MET [59]. Considering heterodimers of the EGFR family, the signaling diversity through heterodimers could depend on the relative abundance of each receptor [54].
RON expression might partially modulate c-Met activity, which can be applied when modeling this receptor. With respect to this, we found that knockdown of RON enhances the level and duration of HGF-mediated activation of MAPK and AKT [53]. Although the functional relevance of c-Met-RON heterodimers has not been fully explored, some studies suggest that general knockdown of RON leads to changes in c-Met signaling. For example, it was found that silencing RON in pancreatic cancer cell lines leads to upregulation of c-Met expression and activity [56]. This suggests that inhibitors that co-target or simultaneously block the kinase activities of both c-Met and RON might be clinically useful. However, most studies have not considered the possibility that separately inhibiting either c-Met or RON might lead to compensation by [60] the other.
C-met and EGFR
It has been confirmed that signal transduction between the c-Met and EGFR pathways is closely linked in breast cancer, lung cancer, brain cancer, and other tumors; however, the associated mechanism is still not fully understood [61,62,63,64]. Studies have shown that 70% of EGFR-activating mutations in non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) are associated with an initial positive response to the EGFR inhibitors gefitinib or erlotinib [65]. However, the vast majority of tumors that respond to EGFR inhibitors achieve acquired resistance [66]. Interestingly, the expression and activation of c-Met are associated with initial resistance and acquired resistance to EGFR inhibitors in patients with NSCLC [66,67,68]. Initial resistance might occur through the simultaneous activation of c-Met and EGFR pathways in lung cancer, whereas inhibiting both maximizes the inhibitory effect on the tumor [61]. As such, studies have shown that c-Met might be an effective therapeutic target for overcoming EGFR inhibitor resistance in lung cancer [62].
Possible explanations regarding this mechanism are as follows. One study has already shown that the second mutation in EGFR, T790 M, and the amplification of the MET proto-oncogene will lead to the activation of its downstream ERBB3-initiated PI3K/AKT pathway, resulting in EGFR-TKI acquired resistance [67, 69, 70]. When the c-MET gene is amplified, the two downstream pathways (Grb2/MAPK and PI3K/AKT) are activated by the increase in the number of ERBB3 receptors [69, 70].
In addition, continuous interaction with HGF facilitates c-Met amplification-mediated reversible resistance to EGFR-TKI treatment [66, 70]. When HGF activates Met, it activates MAPK and PI3K/AKT signaling pathways through Gab1, leading to the occurrence of irreversible EGFR-TKI resistance [66].
If EGFR and Met mutations exist simultaneously, drug resistance will be further exacerbated [70]. Therefore, we speculate that c-Met activation of downstream PI3K/AKT and MAPK pathways bypasses EGFR activation because they can both act as tyrosine kinase receptors and activate this pathway (Fig. 3). In addition, c-Met can either directly or indirectly transactivate the PI3K pathway; the fact that c-Met is not activated by this RTK also supports this hypothesis [71].
Crosstalk between c-Met and EGFR. a, b The tyrosine kinase receptors EGFR and c-Met can initiate downstream PI3K/Akt signaling resulting in anti-apoptotic processes and Grb2/MAPK activation to promote the proliferation of tumor cells. Therefore, it is speculated that there might be an effect that allows c-Met to bypass the EGFR receptor to activate its downstream pathway, resulting in resistance to EGFR-TKI monotherapy. c c-Met-TKI monotherapy triggers upregulation of the EGFR ligand TGF-α, as well as upregulation of the EGFR protein family receptor ErbB3, which can contribute to one of the most potent dimers that can activate c-Met downstream pathways leading to acquired resistance in cancer cells
Another study found that EGFR mutation and Met activation were observed in tumor cells. At the same time, whereas the activation of c-Met was not the result of gene mutation, it resulted in poor prognosis for NSCLC metastasis [68]. In addition, after reversible resistance to EGFR-TKIs in lung cancer cells, HGF can induce an irreversible second mutation (Fig. 3) [66].
HGF/c-Met is activated in approximately 50% of hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC), and expression levels of these proteins are associated with poor clinical prognosis for this disease [72,73,74,75]. Cells with constitutive c-Met activity respond to c-Met inhibition [76]; however, one study found that monotherapy does not completely eliminate tumor growth, suggesting that tumor survival mechanisms that bypass the inhibition of this pathway might be involved in the maintenance of tumor growth in response to these treatments [77].
In previous studies, inhibition of the EGFR pathway was shown to lead to either activation or inhibition of the c-Met pathway, whereas another study showed that c-Met inhibition leads to the activation of the EGFR pathway in a c-Met-positive HCC model [76]. In addition, EGFR inhibitor monotherapies are not significantly effective with respect to in vitro cell viability [76]. c-Met inhibitor monotherapy triggers several survival mechanisms that bypass cell death induced by these agents, including increased expression of the EGFR ligand TGF-α and ErbB3. It has been determined that members of the EGFR family can form homodimers or heterodimers and that different dimers have different signal transduction capabilities; specifically, ErbB3 can heterodimerize with ErbB1 to form one of the most potent dimers [78]. Experiments have shown that c-Met inhibition enhances EGFR signaling by increasing ErbB3 expression [76]. In addition, the increase in TGF-α expression that results from c-Met inhibition, whether this occurs through an autocrine or paracrine mechanism, and its effect on HCC cell survival requires further study.
Current clinical trials targeting c-met
Currently, drugs targeting c-Met that are in clinical trials can be classified as monoclonal antibodies (e.g. onartuzumab) and small molecule inhibitors. Small molecule inhibitors bind to the tyrosine kinase domain of c-Met and can be further classified into ATP competitive inhibitors (e.g. crizotinib) and non-ATP competitive inhibitors (e.g. tivantinib). Inhibitors belonging to the same group inhibit c-Met downstream signaling in a similar manner. Therefore, in this review, we will introduce current clinical trials targeting c-Met, and have chosen onartuzumab, crizotinib, and tivantinib as examples to elaborate on their c-Met binding sites, as shown in Fig. 1.
Anti-c-met monoclonal antibody Metmab (onartuzumab)
Onartuzumab is a humanized single-armed specific monoclonal antibody targeting c-Met. The binding of onartuzumab to c-Met is highly specific and this antibody can block c-Met-HGF binding specifically by blocking the HGF α-chain and by forming a complex with the Sema-PSI domain of c-Met [79]; this process occurs without exerting an agonistic activity or triggering c-Met dimerization.
Onartuzumab has been applied as a c-Met inhibitor for the treatment of NSCLC and breast cancer in clinical trials (Table 1) [80], and it proved to be considerably effective. Other studies also found that onartuzumab in combination with erlotinib and placebo is effective for NSCLC. Therefore, this drug might have potential to treat c-Met-overexpressing cancer.
Table 1 Ongoing studies with Metmb (onartuzumab)
Small molecule inhibitors
Crizotinib (PF-02341066, trade name: Xalkori), an effective small molecule inhibitor of c-Met, was derived from the first-generation series c-Met inhibitor, PHA-66752 (3-benzyloxy-2-amino). PF-22341066 targets the TK domain of c-Met, and after a series of reactions, some residues cause a conformational change, which interferes with the ATP binding site. One clinical trial (phase I) for the treatment of NSCLC with enhanced Met amplification, performed in 2014 [81], showed that crizotinib has increased potential for the treatment of c-Met-associated cancer. Crizotinib is one of five drugs approved by the FDA for the treatment of advanced NSCLC, to date [82], and it is used for the clinical treatment of ROS1-positive lung cancer [83]. Moreover, the number of studies focusing on the combination of crizotinib and other drugs is increasing. Huang et al. [84] showed that crizotinib with cisplatin induces G2/M cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in ovarian cancer cells. Stanley et al. [85] elaborated on the different growth inhibitory effects caused by the combination of c-Met inhibitors with cytotoxic drugs using breast cancer cell lines (BT474, MCF7, MDA-MB-468, and SKBr3). Results suggested that crizotinib and EGFR-TKIs might have a synergistic effect on MCF7 and MDA-MB-468 cells and an antagonistic effect on BT474 and SKBr3 cells. The combination of EGFR-TKIs and crizotinib was shown to have a more pronounced effect than a single drug regimen on breast cancer. In addition, sensitivity to mitomycin C (MMC), when combined with crizotinib, was studied using a colorectal cancer cell line. The results also showed that a combination of the two drugs resulted in increased tumor cell apoptosis and a synergistic effect. Currently, several clinical trials are in progress. A summary of these trials is provided in Table 2.
Table 2 Ongoing studies with crizotinib
Cabozantinib (XL184) is a small molecule inhibitor of Met and AXL [86, 87], and has been approved by the FDA for the treatment in progressive metastatic thyroid medullary carcinoma [60, 88], and also for advanced renal cell carcinoma after the implementation of antiangiogenic therapy regimens [89]. Wakelee divided NSCLC patients into three groups as follows: the first two groups were administered erlotinib alone (150 mg poqd) and cabozantinib alone (60 mg poqd), whereas the third group was administered combination therapy (150 mg erlotinib/40 mg cabozantinib). Results showed that progression-free survival and overall survival were significantly improved with cabozantinib treatment. Shotani et al. [90] showed that cabozantinib is effective in inhibiting growth and invasion in BCa cell lines driven by HGF (5637 and T24), and blocked HGF-Met signaling to inhibit MMP1 expression. Thus, cabozantinib has potential for the treatment of muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). At present, this drug is at the clinical stage for prostate cancer treatment, and has been tested in phase II trials.
Foretinib
Foretinib (GSK1363089) is an ATP-competitive c-Met inhibitor, and its therapeutic potential has been assessed for different tumors including head and neck cancer, gastric cancer, and liver cancer [56, 57, 91, 92]. Chia et al. [93] conducted a phase I study to determine the effect of combining foretinib with lapatinib on HER-2-positive metastatic breast cancer. The study suggested that the combined use of foretinib and lapatinib at doses of 45 mg and 1000 mg PO, respectively, could be tolerated relatively well. The most common grade 3 and higher toxic adverse reactions were mainly high blood pressure, diarrhea, nausea, and fatigue. Yin et al. [22] also demonstrated that foretinib inhibits prostate cancer (PCa) metastasis by targeting c-Met.
LY280163
LY280163 is an ATP competitive Met tyrosine kinase inhibitor developed by Lilly. Cheng et al. [94] showed that this drug can improve the response of MEK inhibitors such as trametinib in metastatic uveal melanoma (UM) patients and promote the expression of PARP. In addition, studies [95] have investigated the effect of LY2801653 on human cholangiocarcinoma (CCC) cell lines. Using a xenograft mouse model, it was determined that LY2801653 blocks c-Met phosphorylation, down-regulates downstream target expression, and inhibits CCC cell proliferation and xenograft tumor growth.
MK2461 is an ATP competitive small molecule multi-target inhibitor developed by Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. It is effective in inhibiting the proto-oncogene c-Met mutants N1100Y, Y1230C, Y1230H, Y1235D, and M1250Tn1100y. Currently, this drug is in experimental stage I clinical trials for advanced cancer.
Capmatinib
Capmatinib (INC280) blocks c-Met phosphorylation and the activation of key downstream molecules in c-Met-dependent tumor cell lines, causing mitochondrial membrane depolarization and DNA repair [96, 97]. The drug has been utilized in phase I trials for advanced solid cancer. Wei et al. [96] found that the addition of capmatinib could effectively block cell proliferation induced by cancer associated fibroblast (CAF) matrix with overexpression of HGF, and could eliminate CAF-induced ovarian cancer cell resistance. The latest study by Lara et al. [97] utilized a series of NSCLC cell lines (including three EGFR-mutant cell lines, HCC827, PC9 and H1975, one Kirsten rat sarcoma virus oncogene mutant cell line, H358, and one EGFR and KRAS wild type cell line, H1666) to determine whether capmatinib in combination with erlotinib could attenuate erlotinib resistance. The Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States has also launched a clinical trial for the use of capmatinib in stage IV patients with malignant NSCLC. In addition, Novartis Pharmaceuticals is performing clinical phase II trials using oral capmatinib combined with gefitinib for NSCLC patients with c-Met amplification.
Tivantinib
Tivantinib (ARQ197), developed by American ArQule Corporation and Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo and Kyowa Hakko Kogyo, is a non-ATP competitive inhibitor that blocks receptor activation and downstream signaling by binding to unactivated receptors [49, 98]. ARQ197 directly binds the A-loop and P-loop phenylalanines by inducing “hydrophobic collapse”, resulting in disruption of the ionic interaction in the catalytic residue with the help of Arg1227, Tyr1230, and other residues. In recent years, its pharmacokinetic mechanism has become increasingly controversial. It was previously believed that tivantinib can exert its biological effects by directly inhibiting c-Met receptor tyrosine kinases. However, several subsequent studies showed that the biological effect of tivantinib does not depend on the c-met receptor; in contrast, it inhibits tumor cells through microtubule depolymerization. Tivantinib inhibits tubulin polymerization, disrupting tubulin metabolism, prolonging cell G2/M phase, and promoting apoptosis [99, 100]. Studies have shown that combining tivantinib with erlotinib for treatment improves progression free survival (PFS) and is well tolerated [101,102,103]. In patients with advanced solid tumors, tivantinib combined with sorafenib treatment was shown to be safe, especially for renal cell carcinoma (RCC), hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and melanoma patients harboring tumors with high levels of c-Met; an enhanced therapeutic effect was also observed for these cases. The combination of the two drugs was shown to enhance the antitumor activity of sorafenib, thus reducing associated resistance without promoting off-target effects [104]. As is described in Table 3, we summarized ongoing studies involving tivantinib.
Table 3 Ongoing studies with tivantinib
Despite research on c-Met over the past 30 years, the structure and function of this tyrosine kinase has not been well established. HGF/c-Met mediates cascades that play a key role in tumorigenesis; extensive research on those pathways is not only beneficial for enhancing our understanding of the mechanisms associated with carcinoma, but also suggest promising targets for the development of novel cancer treatments. Considering the complexity of the HGF/c-Met axis, further exploration of the mechanism through which blocking c-Met activation modulates downstream pathways is required.
Recently, many clinical trials have found that drug resistance is more easily acquired with single drug therapy; therefore, research on combining c-Met inhibitors with other drugs (e.g. EGFR-TKI) will lead to the rapid discovery of effective treatment options. One study showed that in a nude mouse model of treatment-sensitive NSCLC, erlotinib resistance could be effectively reversed by the administration of SU1274. Meanwhile, Klempner et al. [105] found that cabozantinib could reverse resistance to crizotinib. Thus, the use of combinations of drugs to avoid resistance induced by the utilization of a single drug might become a major priority for researchers developing novel c-Met inhibitors.
Recently, phase II/III clinical trials for c-Met inhibitors have been initiated, and many of these drugs are regarded as second-line drugs. The main problem is that in most c-Met-overexpressing cancer cells, this receptor is not always the only driver of carcinoma, as it often interacts with other tyrosine kinase receptors. For example, the cytotoxic effect of tivantinib is not due solely to c-Met inhibition. Meanwhile, non-specific reactions are also a major problem when using c-Met inhibitors. For example, the c-Met monoclonal antibody Metmab is associated with several adverse events including rash, diarrhea, fatigue, and nausea/vomiting.
Under these circumstances, more precise information regarding how the drug functions and its relationship with c-Met and other tyrosine kinase receptors is required. In fact, as mentioned previously, the relationship between c-Met and its family member RON is being extensively studied, whereas the mechanism underlying the crosstalk between c-Met and RON is still not fully understood. One study showed that in pancreatic cancer, silencing RON might modulate the c-Met signaling pathway, resulting in a compensatory reaction during the downregulation of either tyrosine kinase receptor [56,57,58,59]. As such, we might consider targeting c-Met and RON simultaneously. It turns out that c-Met and RON also interact with other tyrosine kinase receptors. Nevertheless, compared to RON, these other receptors might not be as indispensable for the activation of c-Met, and the significance of this crosstalk is still not well understood.
Meanwhile, the initiation of carcinoma can be induced by multiple factors including genome backgrounds, environmental factors [106], microenvironment [29, 107], even the non-coding RNAs [108,109,110]. Considering that, further efforts on the interactions between c-Met and other cancer related risk factors will be necessary in promoting the process of precise medical treatment on c-Met which thus, demand a further comprehensive understanding of this tyrosine kinase receptor.
However, based on the fact that c-Met has an intimate association with cancer, targeting this receptor for the treatment of tumorigenesis is still thought to be associated with vast clinical significance.
APC:
Adenomatosis polyposis coli
Cancer associated fibroblast
CCC:
CK1α:
Casein kinase 1α
c-Met:
Mesenchymal-epithelial transition factor
DSH/Dvl:
Dishevelled protein
ErbB:
Erb-b2 receptor tyrosine kinase 4
Gab1:
Grb2-associated binder
GEFs:
GRB2:
Growth factor receptor-bound protein 2
GSK3:
Glycogen synthase kinase 3
Human double minute 2
HGF/SF:
Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor
HIF-1:
Hypoxia inducible factor-1
IPT domains:
Immunoglobulin-like regions in plexins and transcription factors
JNK:
Jun N-terminal kinase
LRP5/LRP6/Frizzled:
Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 5/6/Frizzled
MDS:
Multisubstrate docking site
MNNG HOS transforming gene
MIBC:
MMC:
Mitomycin C
Macrophage stimulating protein
NSCLC:
Non-small cell lung carcinoma
PCAF:
Acetyltransferase p300/CBP-associated factor
PFS:
Progression free survival
PHA-66752:
3-benzyloxy-2-amino
PI3K:
Phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase
PIP2:
Phosphatidylinositol-4, 5-diphosphate
Phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-triphosphate
PP2A:
Protein phosphatase 2A
PSI domain:
Plexin-semaphorin-integrin
PTEN:
Phosphatase and tension homology deleted on chromosome 10
PTK:
Protein tyrosine kinase
RCC:
RON:
Receptor originated from nantes
SEMA domain:
Sema homology region
TCF/LEF:
T-cell factor/lymphoid enhancer factor
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This work was supported in part by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81472531, 81572787, 81672683, 81672993, 81772928 and 81702907), the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (2015JJ1022, 2016JC2035 and 2017SK2105) and the Overseas Expertise Introduction Project for Discipline Innovation (111 Project, 111-2-12).
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Keep Out! The Countries That Are Hardest to Visit
These forbidding places put out the un-welcome mat. They prefer that you stay home.
By Graham Hughes
Although no country in the world is impossible to visit, a surprising number don’t make it easy, even for citizens of wealthy nations.
Sometimes it’s due to a curse of geography or a lack of infrastructure. Some countries don’t want mass tourism, while others are playing tit-for-tat -- they say "we" make it difficult for "them."
Then there are those that are just hopelessly paranoid and/or xenophobic. Here’s a quick run-down of places that are (seemingly) uninterested in you and your tourist dollar.
Eds note: Graham Hughes holds the Guinness World Record for visiting every country on Earth without flying: four years, 31 days. He hosts the Travel Channel's "Lonely Planet: Odyssey with Graham Hughes" and is the author of Man of the World.
10. Saudi Arabia
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Sure, it looks desolate -- because Saudi Arabia doesn't like visitors.
With its draconian laws, shocking human rights record and seemingly inexhaustible supply of religious extremists, quite why you’d want to go to Saudi Arabia is beyond me.
But should you fancy heading back to medieval times for a holiday in a scorching hot desert theocracy, get ready to jump through some hoops. Made of razor wire. On fire.
However, the good news is that if you're a female tourist you can now rent a car — and drive it! Yay, progress!
9. Tuvalu
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The seas are swallowing tiny Tuvalu.
Tiny Tuvalu, nine atolls located 600 miles north of Fiji, is the most endangered nation in the world.
With a maximum elevation of just 15 feet, the effects of rising sea levels are rapidly rendering the entire country uninhabitable — so very soon getting there won’t be just difficult, but impossible.
Plus, wouldn’t you feel awful turning up on a big polluting plane? Little wonder the locals prefer to use the nation's main runway for games of volleyball.
8. Bhutan
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Bhutan is stunning -- but you'll probably never see it.
Bhutan is a remote mountain kingdom, high up in the Himalayas, a place where happiness comes first (which would be a wonderful way of structuring the world).
However, in order to prevent mass tourism misaligning their chakras, the Bhutanese restrict the number of tourists allowed into the country, so getting in is far from easy.
You have to apply with a tour company and pay a daily fee of around $250 just to be there.
Saving up for a vacay to a friendlier place? Find out how much you need to save each month to reach your savings goal.
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North Korea is not very welcoming.
Out of the countries on this list, the land of dictator Kim Jong Un might (somewhat counterintuitively) be the easiest to visit.
If you just fancy stepping over the border from South Korea, you can usually do it on a daytrip to the DMZ.
If you’d like to see North Korea "proper," get in touch with Young Pioneers Tours in Beijing, but be warned: It won’t be cheap, the place is still incredibly volatile, and you can forget about any kind of independent exploration.
6. Turkmenistan
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The government in Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat, makes visiting the country very challenging.
More than 80 years ago it was said that it would be preferable to dine with “the devil and his mother-in-law in hell” than to attempt to enter "forbidden Turkistan" without the proper papers.
Not much has changed in the intervening years in the region that includes modern-day Turkmenistan.
Neighboring Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan all make it tricky to pop in for a bowl of plov, but Turkmenistan takes the biscuit. Set aside a day or so for the staggering number of forms you’ll have to fill out.
5. São Tomé and Príncipe
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An average just 35 tourists make their way to Sao Tome and Principe each day.
An island nation made up of two islands 200 miles off the coast of West Africa, São Tomé and Príncipe gets an average of just 35 tourists a day.
Little wonder, considering few people have even heard of it, it’s incredibly isolated (there’s only one flight per week from Lisbon in Portugal), and potential visitors are required to get a visa in advance.
Having just 18 overseas missions (only one of which is in the Southern Hemisphere) probably doesn’t help matters.
4. Angola
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Angola's capital, Luanda, may look pretty, but it's expensive and doesn't want you there.
Angola sells a whopping 1.8 million barrels of oil a day, so they don't need you.
To get in as a tourist you’ll need a visa — a visa that requires a ton of cash — plus a letter of invitation, an introduction from your embassy, a bag of hen’s teeth and a copy of Action Comics No. 1 signed by Superman himself. Probably.
Although given how mind-bogglingly expensive the capital Luanda is, unless you work for an oil company, I’d be tempted to give the place a swerve — neighboring Namibia is much more fun.
3. Eritrea
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Eritrea is so difficult to enter, it's called the North Korea of Africa.
Holding the unenviable title of "the North Korea of Africa," the impoverished East African nation of Eritrea is notoriously difficult to drop into for a coffee.
Its border with Ethiopia is both closed and littered with landmines, the border with Sudan is open only to locals, and it's a lottery whether the border with Djibouti is ever open.
If you fly in, you’ll require a visa and a darn good reason for being there — even aid workers have been turned away.
2. Yemen
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The island of Socotra, Yemen, is known for its odd dragon blood trees.
Yemen was a tough place for me to "tick off the list" before the current civil war began in earnest, and these days the entire nation is very much a no-go zone.
Which is a shame, as the small Yemeni island of Socotra, 230 miles off the southern coast, is both peaceful and has trees that look like giant mushrooms.
However, as things stand, similar to South Sudan and Syria, organizing a daytrip wouldn’t just be difficult, it’d be downright foolhardy.
1. Nauru
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Nauru is tiny and tough to get to.
Where? Well, that's exactly it.
Nauru is one of the smallest members of the United Nations, by population as well as size.
It is a tiny, potato-shaped island 750 miles northeast of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. It has no port, no harbor and only a handful of incoming flights each week. It took me 34 days to get there and back on a cargo ship.
The easiest way to visit is probably to enter Australia illegally — because the Aussies have an offshore immigration detention facility on Nauru.
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Dedicated teams from the leading federal political parties have been sifting through the entire online histories of opponents, all in the hopes they will tip the balance in their favour
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OTTAWA — Election day is nearing, which means the policies and hard-earned accomplishments of political candidates can instantly be overshadowed by what they said on Twitter nine years ago.
That is, it’s that time when opposition researchers dig up dirt on their political opponents, overturning every rock and screen-grabbing every ill-advised Facebook screed. Dedicated teams from the leading federal political parties have been hard at work sifting through the entire online histories of opponents, all in the hopes they will tip the balance of any given riding in their favour.
The results of so-called “oppo” research can be devastating, stripping away the entire identity of a candidate and replacing it with a singular emphasis on just a few unfortunate words or outdated jokes. The specific degree of wrongdoing rarely matters; even a snippet of bad publicity will cause any potential backbencher to be permanently cast aside.
Opposition research isn’t new, but social media has brought about a kind of golden age in this dark art. A number of candidates were forced to step aside during the 2015 election due to social media-related gaffes, and 2019 is likely to ensnare a few more.
Such efforts were on full display last month when Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale tweeted a video from 2005 of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer making a speech in which he argued against same-sex marriage, partly on the grounds that gay couples cannot undergo the “inherent” marital role of the “natural procreation of children.” (The issue prompted days of media coverage, despite the largely overlooked fact that Goodale had himself voted in favour of a motion in 1999 stating that marriage should “remain the union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others”).
To be a leader for all Canadians, the Conservative Party leader should now end his lifelong boycott of Pride events and explain whether he would still deny same-sex couples the right to marry, as he said in Parliament. pic.twitter.com/5WEyja6Ov5
— Ralph Goodale (@RalphGoodale) August 22, 2019
Here are a few examples of social media-related gaffes that ended candidates’ political careers.
Ala Buzreba “blow your brains out” tweets
In August 2015, Liberal candidate Ala Buzreba was forced to address a series of tweets she posted four years earlier, when she suggested that another Twitter user should “go blow your brains out you waste of sperm.” In another comment, she told a pro-Israel tweeter that their mother “should have used that coat hanger” rather than give birth to the person. Buzreba apologized and resigned from her Calgary Nose Hill riding. She later told the CBC how her entire professional life had been overshadowed by comments that she claims to no longer recognize. “Nothing else I’ve ever said or done is looked at — it’s just those tweets,” she said.
Jerry Bance pee-brained coffee break
In a 2012 house call to repair a leaky sink, maintenance man Jerry Bance took a leak of his own, but chose as his repository a coffee mug rather than a conventional porcelain toilet. Bance, who was running for the Conservative Party in 2015 in the Scarborough–Rouge Park riding, was caught on hidden camera peeing into a coffee mug, then lightly rinsing the mug before setting it back on the counter of the stranger’s home. The Conservatives immediately said Bance would no longer be running for the party for not being truthful during the screening process.
Tim Dutaud prank calls
Conservative candidate Tim Dutaud came under fire after a series of YouTube videos appeared to show him making prank calls to strangers, which included Dutaud mimicking the voice of a mentally disabled person and faking an orgasm to a female call centre worker. The Toronto-Danforth candidate stepped down soon after the videos were found. Former prime minister Stephen Harper was asked to address Dutaud’s videos at an event in September 2015, where the Conservative Party was set to announce a tax credit for disabled people. Dutaud’s resignation as candidate came just hours after video emerged of candidate Jerry Bance using a coffee cup as a urinal. “What this says is we keep the highest standard for candidates, and these two individuals are no longer candidates,” Harper. Several of the videos by Dutaud, which were posted to YouTube using a fictitious name “The UniCaller”, received more than 20,000 views. The tone of the videos did not appear to be malicious.
Karen Wang “Indian descent” post
Karen Wang, the Liberal candidate for Burnaby South, stepped out of a byelection earlier this year after she had used the Chinese social media platform WeChat to make the observation that her opponent, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, was “of Indian descent!”, according to media reports. Wang also referred to herself as the “only Chinese candidate” in Burnaby South, according to reports, and said that if she could “garner 16,000 votes I will easily win the byelection, control the election race and make history!” Some observers claimed her stepping down pointed to a subtle contradiction on the part of the Liberal Party, who had likely decided to run Wang in the region in part because of her Chinese background, but who then pulled back after Wang drew explicit ethnic lines. The riding is roughly 40 per cent Chinese, according to 2016 census data. Wang later apologized, saying the comments “didn’t reflect my intent.”
Morgan Wheeldon Israel comments
Conservatives in the 2015 election began circulating a 2014 Facebook post by NDP candidate Morgan Wheeldon, who had suggested in a comment thread that Israel intended to “ethnically cleanse” the Middle East. The post was later deleted, according to news reports. Wheeldon, who was running in Nova Scotia’s Kings-Hants riding, said he was the victim of a “shameful and dishonest” smear campaign by the Conservatives, and argued that, seen in its proper context, the comment would have appeared benign. Wheeldon stepped down soon after the post was publicized. “Being accused of being an anti-Semite, that’s pretty much defamation if I was a private citizen,” he said.
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If there’s one common denominator among most devices this year is that they all have multiple cameras. And we’re not just talking about just dual cameras: OEMs ranging from OnePlus, Nokia, Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi and even Apple have come out with phones that have triple, quad, or even penta camera setups. More cameras don’t necessarily correlate to a better camera experience, but it does unlock more features and versatility that is normally impossible for one single camera to pull off correctly. This versatility is what has prompted OEMs to pack in multiple cameras, increasing the demand for different image sensors. Because of this, Sony’s semiconductor division is quite literally hot on their heels — so much that they can’t seem to keep up with the ever-rising demand.
Mr. Terushi Shimizu, head of Sony’s semiconductor division, says that “judging by the way things are going, even after all that investment in expanding capacity, it might still not be enough” when it comes to manufacturing capacity for their camera sensors, and that “we are having to apologize to customers because we just can’t make enough”, as reported by Bloomberg. The reason? The demand for their cameras as well as the number of smartphones being manufactured in mass with multiple sensor arrays. Sony is the main camera sensor provider for most smartphone manufacturers, and most devices we use nowadays have at least one Sony-made sensor. So even though the demand for smartphones has plateaued on a global scale, the demand for image sensors has steadily increased. Sony is even working around the clock to manufacture its in-demand image sensors, running its chip factories constantly through the holidays to keep up with the demand. But even 24-hour operations are said to be insufficient. The demand has grown so much that semiconductors are now Sony’s second most profitable business, only surpassed by PlayStation.
Sony is the manufacturer behind the 48MP IMX586 sensor which was, very easily, the most popular flagship camera sensor this year, featuring on several devices including several Xiaomi phones (Redmi Note 7/7 Pro, Redmi Note 8, Xiaomi Mi 9 line, Redmi K20 Pro/Mi 9T Pro, Xiaomi Mi A3), the OnePlus 7/7T lineup, as well as on devices from Huawei, Oppo, Realme, Asus, Vivo, Motorola, et al. Its successor, the IMX686, will compete with Samsung’s 108MP behemoth head-on featuring a 64MP resolution and will be featured on 2020 phones such as the Redmi K30. Sony claims to have a 51% market share as of May 2019, and its share is expected to have increased by a few percentage points in the intervening months.
https://www.xda-developers.com/sony-demand-smartphone-camera-image-sensors/
Trump just tweeted a tweet that might escalate a sticky situation into an outright showdown between Apple and the US Department of Justice — by effectively claiming that Apple is refusing to do its patriotic duty to unlock two iPhones connected to last month’s shooting at a naval base in Pensacola, Florida.
Here’s the tweet:
Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump
We are helping Apple all of the time on TRADE and so many other issues, and yet they refuse to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements. They will have to step up to the plate and help our great Country, NOW! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.122K12:36 AM – Jan 15, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy43.3K people are talking about this
Yesterday, Attorney General William Barr accused Apple of much the same thing, saying that the tech company had provided no “substantive assistance” to the FBI in unlocking the shooter’s phones. But it’s a much more nuanced matter than that.APPLE HAS ARGUED THAT UNLOCKING AN IPHONE MEANS WEAKENING ALL IPHONES
For starts, Apple claims that it has been continually assisting the FBI with the Pensacola phones, by providing data backed up from the phones to iCloud servers and account information, as we reported yesterday. Apple says it’s handed over gigabytes of data to investigators, and has been responding to each request within hours. Apple also suggested that the FBI seemed to be satisfied until just eight days ago, saying that “The FBI only notified us on January 6th that they needed additional assistance — a month after the attack occurred.”
But it’s also not an easy matter to simply “unlock” an iPhone for the feds — even if Apple has refused to do so in this case, which isn’t yet clear. We learned this in 2016 when Apple actually did publicly refuse to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernadino shooters, leading to a protracted legal fight that ended embarrassingly for the federal government when it turned out the feds didn’t need Apple’s help after all — partly because it paid a third-party for a tool to break into that iPhone, and partly because investigators were able to find the password on their own.
I digress: what Apple claimed in 2016 was that it didn’t actually have the existing ability to unlock a customers’ iPhone for the feds, even if they were an alleged killer, and that Apple wasn’t willing to build a backdoor into every iPhone just to make that happen — because it could potentially create a dangerous loophole that hackers could take advantage of as well.
That said, a poll at the time suggested that most Americans believed Apple should comply with the FBI’s demands, even though a majority understood it might make their personal data less secure. Those are the sympathies that Trump is attempting to draw on now.
According to The New York Times, Apple is quietly preparing for a brand-new legal fight over the iPhone’s encryption standards and the government’s desire for a backdoor, but is also internally frustrated that the Justice Department hasn’t spent more time trying to unlock the shooter’s iPhone 5 and an iPhone 7 Plus — devices lacking Apple’s most sophisticated encryption — with third-party tools. According to security experts who spoke to both the NYT and Bloomberg, third-party cell phone unlocking tools should be able to break into the Pensacola phones as well. Both phones were damaged in apparent attempts to destroy them, but the FBI managed to get both devices to turn on.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has issued a statement in support of Apple and the need for strong encryption on personal devices in the US and abroad.THE GOVERNMENT’S DEMAND IS DANGEROUS AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL
”The government’s demand is dangerous and unconstitutional, and would weaken the security of millions of iPhones,” said the ACLU’s Surveillance and Cybersecurity Counsel Jennifer Granick. “Strong encryption enables religious minorities facing genocide, like the Uyghurs in China, and journalists investigating powerful drug cartels in Mexico, to communicate safely with each other, knowledgeable sources, and the outside world. There is simply no way for Apple, or any other company, to provide the FBI access to encrypted communications without also providing it to authoritarian foreign governments and weakening our defenses against criminals and hackers.”
Apple may have even more at stake now than it did in 2016: increasingly, Apple has repositioned itself as a “privacy” company, as if it’s the only tech company you can trust. You may have seen the ads. And while Apple has stumbled a few times already on privacy, that’s the image it wants to send.
It is true that Apple has benefited from a relationship with Trump, by the way, but not necessarily around trade — unless Trump’s saying that Apple is why his proposed tariffs on phones and laptops keep getting delayed.
Apple didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s tweet.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/14/21066270/trump-accuses-apple-refuse-unlock-iphone-barr-pensacola-base-attack-tweet
Samsung has claimed to be leading the way for 5G device shipments at the close of 2019 after selling two million devices at IFA in September last year. Samsung seemingly romped through the final three months with a total of 6.7 million 5G device shipments for 2019. The figure eclipses the four million target the firm set itself, though as its main Android competitor (Huawei) is being stifled by political friction, it is hardly surprising Samsung has stormed into the lead.
According to estimates from Counterpoint Research, Samsung’s sales up to the end of November give it a global market share for 5G devices of 53.9 per cent.
6.7 million devices is simply a drop in the ocean of potential and could be dwarfed by an aggressive campaign by Apple in the US or Huawei in China. As Counterpoint’s Neil Shah notes, Apple could gain instant scale with a launch to turn these figures around. That said, you cannot argue with the figures; in the absence of main competitors, Samsung is maintaining its leadership position in the 5G segment as well as 4G.
“Consumers can’t wait to experience 5G and we are proud to offer a diverse portfolio of devices that deliver the best 5G experience possible,” said TM Roh, President of the IT & Mobile Communications Division.
“For Samsung, 2020 will be the year of Galaxy 5G and we are excited to bring 5G to even more device categories and introduce people to mobile experiences they never thought possible.”
While many analysts do not share Samsung’s belief that the consumer is clawing at the walls for 5G connectivity, there are likely to be more sales across the year. Firstly, geographical coverage will improve to whet the appetite, and secondly, 5G will come as standard on device; device shipments will most likely organically increase.
What will be worth keeping an eye on is the choices made by device manufacturers over the coming months as flagship models are pumped and hyped at industry conferences. Perhaps the most interesting element will be the ways and means by which the OEMs work with Qualcomm.
It has become widely accepted that the latest Qualcomm chipset features in the majority of flagship smartphone devices throughout the year. However, this year some OEMs will have a choice to make; to integrate or not to integrate?
Over the next few months Qualcomm will begin shipping both the Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 765 chipsets. The Snapdragon 865 is more powerful, though 5G is on a separate modem, potentially decreasing the power efficiency of devices. The Snapdragon 765 has 5G connectivity integrated, though is notably less powerful. Whichever chipset OEMs elect for, there will be a trade-off to stomach.
Looking at the rumours spreading through the press, it does appear many of the smartphone manufacturers are electing for the Snapdragon 865 and a paired 5G modem in the device. Samsung’s Galaxy S11, Sony Xperia 2 and the Google Pixel 5 are only some of the launches suggested to feature the Snapdragon 865 as opposed to its 5G integrated sister chipset.
5G might not have gotten off to the blistering start some in the industry would have been hoping for, but there is still plenty to come. With Mobile World Congress kicking-off in just over two months, there is amble opportunity for new devices to be launched prior, during and just after the event, while the iLifers will have all eyes cast towards September for Apple’s launch.
https://www.sunnewsonline.com/samsung-claims-5g-lead-after-6-7-million-shipments/
Facebook has acquired the Spanish cloud gaming company PlayGiga, which previously offered its services across Italy, Argentina, Chile, and Spain. The purchase was confirmed by Facebook to CNBC, following reports last week from Cinco Diaswhich claimed that the deal was imminent and was valued at €70 million (around $78 million).
In a tweet confirming the news, Facebook Gaming’s official twitter account said “We’re thrilled to welcome @PlayGigaOficial to the Facebook Gaming team. We’ll decline further c☁️mment for now.” A message on PlayGiga’s website says that the team is “moving on to something new” but confirmed that it would be continuing its work on cloud gaming.
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Facebook’s acquisition comes as the cloud gaming market is growing thanks to the entry of some big new players. Last month, Google launched its Stadia service, while Microsoft is previewing its own xCloud platform ahead of its official launch in 2020. Meanwhile, Sony has had a cloud gaming service of its own, PlayStation Now, for a few years now, but recently dropped its price to $9.99 a month.
Compared to these juggernauts, PlayGiga is a far smaller cloud gaming company, but prior to the acquisition it had plans to expand. As well as its existing four markets, Variety notes that it was previously planning a launch in the Middle East, and had explored offering its 300-strong library of games in Sweden, Austria, the Netherlands and Guatemala. There’s no guarantee that Facebook will use the acquisition to launch a cloud gaming service of its own, but PlayGiga’s publisher relationships and streaming technology would make it a lot easier to do so.
Gaming has been an increasing focus for Facebook in recent years. Back in March, the company added a “Gaming” section to its navigation bar, which brought together its Twitch-like streaming service Facebook Gaming, as well as its collection of web-based Instant Games. It has also had a keen interest in VR gaming ever since its acquisition of Oculus in 2014, and last month acquired Beat Studios, the developer behind Beat Saber. The company recently claimed over 700 million of its users engage with Facebook’s gaming content each month.
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Watch as a harmful cloud of carbon monoxide spills out of the burning Amazon
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The Amazon Rainforest burns thanks to hundreds of forest fires caused by humans. Now NASA has discovered a gigantic cloud of harmful carbon monoxide (CO) rising from the flame into the atmosphere.
In terrifying new images on the NASA website, you can see how the cloud develops between August 8 and 22. The images are from a satellite-based instrument called the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), detects the infrared radiation in the earth's atmosphere.
The cloud first appears as a greenish spot over Brazil before rapidly spreading across the east and west coasts of South America, gradually dimming from green to yellow to red. This color shift means an increase in CO concentration in the atmosphere from about 1
00 parts per billion (ppbv) to 160 parts by volume in less than two weeks. (According to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, 100 ppbv are normal for the lower atmosphere – 160 not).
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"A Pollutant that can cover great distances, carbon monoxide may be about one Remain in the atmosphere for a month, "wrote NASA in a press release . "At the altitude [about 18,000 feet, or 5,500 meters above the forest] mapped in these images, the gas has little impact on the air we breathe, but strong winds can drag it down where it can significantly affect air quality."
CO is odorless, colorless and tasteless, making it a particularly dangerous pollutant. According to the Mayo Clinic after excessive exposure to CO fumes, your body may replace CO in your red blood cells, which prevents oxygen from entering your bloodstream, causing brain damage and even death. Volcanoes and bushfire regularly burp traces of CO into the atmosphere. However, human activities, mainly in the form of car exhaust and emissions from industrial processes, contribute to a huge increase in CO concentration in cities.
The recently discovered cloud can float too high to pose a serious risk to the ground, it is not the only danger in the air from the ongoing forest fires. Last week, smoke from the fires traveled halfway through Brazil to cover São Paulo in a midnight black haze in the middle of the afternoon.
Most Amazon fires were probably purposely set to deface parts of São Paulo. Live Science previously reported that it is the rain forest for industrial purposes. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who rejects mainstream climate science, has promised to open the Amazon to industry.
Indeed, deforestation in the Amazon region increased by 278% in July 2019 compared to July 2018, according to satellite data of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) of the Brazilian government. Bolsonaro denied the results of the satellite and promptly dismissed after the publication of the data the INPE Director-General Ricardo Galvão.
Originally published on Live Science .
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WEC: Porsche 919 Hybrids to start from first and second rows of the grid
919 Hybrids to start from first and second rows of the grid
The two Porsche 919 Hybrids will start from second and third places on the grid in Sunday’s six-hour race at the Nürburgring, round four of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). The new Porsche 911 RSR tackles its home race from pole position.
LMP1 Qualifying
The championship leading Le Mans winners, Earl Bamber (NZ), Timo Bernhard (DE) and Brendon Hartley (NZ) qualified on the front row. Grid position three went to the crew of the reigning world champion Neel Jani (CH), André Lotterer (DE) and Nick Tandy (GB).
In the WEC, the average of the two fastest laps of two drivers counts for the qualifying result. Bernhard/Hartley achieved an average time of 1:38.272 minutes for car number 2. Jani/Lotterer in car number 1 managed a time of 1:38.278 min. Lotterer actually set the outright fastest qualifying lap of 1:37.886 minutes but could not make up for the fact that Jani had lost the rear on his flying lap. Pole-position went to Toyota. The respective third drivers of each Porsche 919 Hybrid – Nick Tandy (GB) and Earl Bamber (NZ) – were not involved in qualifying on this occasion.
The third free practice session in the morning saw the two Porsche 919 Hybrids in P3 (car number 2, 1:40.635 minutes) and P4 (car number 1, 1:40.767 minutes). Practice and qualifying took place in dry conditions. For the six-hour race on Sunday, 1pm to 7pm, a risk of rain is forecast.
Quotes after qualifying
Fritz Enzinger, Vice President LMP1: “After this thrilling qualifying with it’s very close lap times, we feel confident for the race. In free practice we had very good lap times on our longer runs. This has confirmed that our new aerodynamic kit for high-downforce is working very well. And it is also this aspect that makes us optimistic for the second half of the season. We will try everything to fulfil our target and defend both championship titles.”
Andreas Seidl, Team Principal: “We have used free practice to improve the 919’s set-up with the new high downforce aero. In qualifying it was André in particular who impressively exploited the car’s potential. He obviously is comfortable with the new aerodynamics and I’m very happy for him that he managed the outright fastest lap today. Coming from P2 and P3, everything is possible in tomorrow’s race.”
Drivers Porsche 919 Hybrid car number 1
Neel Jani (33, Switzerland): “We finished P3 but I'm personally unhappy as I threw a possible pole away. André had a great lap and showed the true pace of the car but I had a moment at Turn 12 and lost the rear. Looking at the data that cost us half a second which would have been good enough for pole. It's disappointing but it's a long race tomorrow. We have a great car and we'll attack tomorrow.”
André Lotterer (35, Germany): “It was nice to set the fastest outright lap in qualifying. Unfortunately Neel lost time but that's what happens when you need to push to the very limit. The high downforce kit suits my driving style better. The car is quick and the long runs look good for tomorrow's race so hopefully it should be a good race for Porsche starting P2 & P3.”
Timo Bernhard (36, Germany): “Unfortunately, on my flying lap I had to overtake a slow moving LMP2 car which was far from ideal. It's disappointing the [LMP2] driver didn’t look in his mirrors while on his in- or out-lap as it cost me two or three tenths of a second. Otherwise it could have been close for pole-position. Tomorrow we start the race with full momentum, will attack and try to get the maximum out of it.”
Brendon Hartley (27, New Zealand): “I've got mixed emotions as we definitely had a car capable of getting pole today. My lap wasn't 100% perfect while Timo was delayed by traffic. We missed out on pole by just over one-tenth of a second so it was very close. Thankfully the No8 Toyota, our closest rival in terms of the championship, starts from P4.”
GT Qualifying
The new Porsche 911 tackles its home race on the Nürburgring from pole position in the Sports Car World Endurance Championship WEC. In the qualifying on the 5.148-kilometre circuit in Germany’s Eifel region, Michael Christensen (Denmark) and Kévin Estre (France) set the quickest time in the GTE-Pro class with the numbr 92 contender. For Porsche, this is the first pole in this traditionally cutthroat category since the race in Bahrain in 2013. In the second (#91) 911 RSR fielded by the Porsche GT Team, Richard Lietz (Austria) and Frédéric Makowiecki (France) clocked the third fastest time.
This marks the second pole position in a row for the 911 RSR, which Porsche Motorsport in Weissach designed from scratch for this season on the basis of the high-performance 911 GT3 RS sports car. At the Bowmanville race in the IMSA SportsCar Championship a week ago, the 510 hp racer also occupied the front grid spot.
The fastest Porsche in the GTE-Am class, in which customer teams field two 911 RSR from the 2015 model year, was the number 77 race from Dempsey Proton Racing in second place. One of the drivers is Porsche Young Professional Matteo Cairoli (Italy). Gulf Racing takes up the race from fourth on the grid.
More quotes in the press release (downloads).
The 911 RSR
Results GT
GTE-Pro class
1. Christensen/Estre (DK/F), Porsche 911 RSR, 1:54.007 minutes
2. Thiim/Soerensen (DK/DK), Aston Martin, + 0.345 seconds
3. Lietz/Makowiecki (A/F), Porsche 911 RSR, + 0.511
4. Mücke/Pla (D/F), Ford GT, + 0.687
5. Rigon/Vilander (I/SF), Ferrari 488 GTE, + 0.750
6. Priaulx/Tincknell (GB/GB), Ford GT, + 0.800
7. Calado/PierGuidi (I/I), Ferrari 488 GTE, + 1.030
8. Turner/Adam/Serra (GB/GB/BRA), Aston Martin, + 1.375
GTE-Am class
1. Dalla Lana/Lamy/Lauda (CAN/P/A), Aston Martin, 1:56.721 minutes
2. Ried/Cairoli/Dienst (D/I/D), Porsche 911 RSR, + 0.408
3. Flohr/Castellacci/Molina (CH/I/P), Ferrari 488 GTE, + 1.237
4. Wainwright/Barker/Foster (GB/GB/GB), Porsche 911 RSR, 1.306
5. Mok/Sawa/Griffin (MYS/J/IRL), Ferrari 488 GTE, + 1.614
Livestream und TV
The six-hour race starts on Sunday at 13.00 hrs CEST. Sport 1 broadcasts live from 12.30 to 19.45 hrs. Sport 1.de televises the race as a live stream. Eurosport televises the last hour of racing as well as the podium ceremony live from 18.15 to 19.15 hrs. The FIA WEC App is free in its basic version. For a fee, the App offers a live stream of the entire race plus live timing.
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All scores: http://www.fiawec.com/en/season/result
All results: http://fiawec.alkamelsystems.com
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Chandrayaan-2 Mission: India has become the first country to have attempted to probe lunar South Pole
By Newsroom24x7 Network on October 14, 2019 • ( 1 )
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New Delhi: “With Chandrayaan-2 Mission, India became the first country to have attempted to probe lunar South Pole, which is believed to contain water and upholds key secrets of the solar system”.
An ebook on Chandrayaan-2, titled “The journey of a billion dreams – A story for eternity” and produced by the Publications Division, Government of India, begins with this remark underscoring the “attempt” to probe the lunar South Pole.
It claims that the Lander Vikram did “hard landing on the lunar surface on September 7 and was located the next day” without any photographs or any other alternate evidence to prove the point.
The ebook goes on to repeat that Chandrayaan-2 was 98 per cent successful. A claim also made before the media by the ISRO chief.
The ebook goes on to add “the Mission demonstrated India’s prowess in complex technologies but it has also set a benchmark for space scientists across the world”.
About the orbiter, the ebook says that it continues to share valuable information as it orbits around the moon and will do so for the next seven years.
Then it talks of Union Budget 2019-20 and a boost of 15.6% in space outlay totaling Rs. 12,473 crore againts Rs. 10,783 in the 2018-19 fiscal.
The ebook further states that Lander Vikram was designed to execute India’s first soft landing on the lunar surface.
In the end there is a photo showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi consoling ISRO Chairman K Sivan when he broke down after the control Centre at the ISRO headquarter lost contact with Lander Vikram on 7 September 2019. The photo caption carries the following quote from the PM:
The country is with you, I am with you. The effort was worth it and so was the journey.
This ebook is a shoddy attempt, apparently meant to serve the purpose of a smokescreen to hide the truth in terms of the main objective and purpose of Chandrayaan-2 and the final outcome.
Those at the helm of affairs in ISRO had lost no time in spreading misinformation regarding the fate of Lander Vikram. They have used the media extensivley to convey the message that the Chandrayaan-2 Mission has been 98 per cent successful. This claim also has been repeated in the ebook. They first told the Prime Minister that only the signals have been disrupted and as a result the Control facility has lost contact with Lander Vikram and efforts are on to re-establish contact. Then news was spread that Vikram had made a “hard landing” without pictures or even an iota of evidence to prove it and this at a time when those in knowledgeable circles were questioning whether or not the Lander had crashed on the Moon due to some last moment glitch that could have occured when the 4 outer thrusters were shut down and the central thruster had been started for the purpose of soft-landing on 7 September 2019.
The nation had watched on television screens on that fateful night the big screen displaying the Lander’s descent at the ISRO Control Centre in Bengaluru. Everyone saw how there was total gloom at ISRO’s control facility when Lander’s downward trajectory had changed abruptly and within a fraction of a second all contact with it had been lost.
It was eleven years after placing the orbiter in the Lunar orbit, that ISRO had launched Chandrayaan-2 to meet the goal of soft-landing Lander Vikram and using the robotic rover to conduct tests on the Moon’s South Pole.
The ebook tells the public about the complex technology and multi-stage vehicles used in this Mission but when it comes to the principal goal of this mission it doesnt give the real picture in terms of percentage of success or failure. It only says that India has become the first country to attempt this. It neither throws light on what went in terms of preparations, and who were the main scientists who had given their all for this Mission.
During the last eleven years, since the successful launch of Chandrayaan-1 in 2008, which placed the orbiter in the lunar orbit, there is bound to be technological and scientific advancement. It’s a big leap that the orbiter this time will have a life of seven years and the ISRO scientists, who built it as well as those engaged in every Centre and department linked with Chandrayaan-2 deserve a standing ovation despite the last moment glitch. The Prime Minister’s words of encouragement should help ISRO conquor in future new frontiers in space.
We the people need to be told by ISRO the status of an inquiry into the exact fate of Lander Vikram and also the Rover. We the people need to be told in terms of percentage how much of the main objective of the Chandrayaan-2 Mission has been achieved. We the people also need to be told in detail, if its not against national security, all about the information that is being received on Earth now from the lunar orbiter. Why not share it with us.
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December 7, 2019 • 1:53 pm
Chandrayaan 2 crash landed on September 7. Why do you need a proof ? Anyone who keeps news of spaceflight can realize that at such high speed, no spacecraft can survive in the lunar surface. By the way, M. Annadurai should have been allowed to continue until the completion of Chandrayaan – 2 mission. But it is the PM Modi’s diktat that anyone who crosses the age 60 stops functioning as a scientist. You know, the real problem is this PM who wants younger generation to take over in a labroatory. DRDO’s G. Satish Reddy is a great example. This man travels around the glob to receive the awards, whereas he doesn’t have gut to tell the PM that Agni 6 with MIRV should be ISRO’ top priority. The same logic can be applied to K. Sivan. What has happened to Chandrayaan 2 should be forgotten for the time being, as ISRO has many projects to complete especially the GAGANYAAN project which worries me now. Despite being a good rocket scientist, K. Sivan’s leadership skill is very poor
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Home › India › ISRO was in news more due to leadership deficit in 2019
ISRO was in news more due to leadership deficit in 2019
By Newsroom24x7 Network on December 27, 2019 • ( 1 )
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ISRO remained in news during the later part of 2019 more due to deficit of ISRO leadership and its credibility than the failure to soft-land Lander Vikram on Moon.
ISRO has an endless list of achievements that the whole nation and the scientific community, cutting across national boundaries, should be proud of but there are streaks of irregularities, rat-race for personal and short term gains and self-aggrandisement, lack of necessary commitment and will to further the national goals that has caused not only immense harm to the space research organisation but also forced the country to bear with a situation that’s immensely frustrating at least for those who know what’s happening and cannot be taken for a ride. After the Chandrayaan-2 failure, a lot is being talked about Chandrayaan-3. Question arises: Is chandrayan3 a priority or just a matter of ego satisfaction. There are huge gaps in remote sensing and communication satellites. Who is going to fill them. With the advantage of hindsight, one knows how quality assurance had been compromised to increase launch frequency and why GSAT-6A mission had ended in failure in the first half of 2018. Two days after India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F08) had launched GSAT-6A Satellite into Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on March 29, 2018, the the whole world knew that contact with the powerful communications satellite designed to improve communication for Defence forces had been lost. The satellite (GSAT-6A) was for military communication at border and remote areas using hand held terminals. The same frequency was originally contracted to Devas. It is rather unfortunate that ISRO was bartering surreptitiously such an important satellite frequency and orbital slot to Devas.
It is important to talk of GSAT 11 launched in 2018 after so much noise, and it is yet to see operation. It is supposed to bring high throughput communication satellite (HTS) services in the country. There is a conflict in frequency band allocation in 26 GHzHz band between 5G operators and HTS GSAT 20, to be launched next year. If the band is allocated to 5G operators, it will lead to detoxifying GSAT 20 with huge implications in schedule and unnecessary expenditure. This avoidable confusion is due to callousness of ISRO in coordinating with Government agencies.
In the remote sensing front, there is no word about operationalisation of RISAT 2B series radar imaging satellites. There is no word about the fate of performance of much touted Cartosat 3A satellite. Grapevine indicates unacceptable performance. The performance audit of ISRO’s payloads and satellites is needed by an independent agency.
Between 2009 and 2019 India has spent over Rs. 4000 crore on a series of navigation satellites (NavIC). One failed and a replacement had a launch failure. These satellites have a short life span. The much touted desi GPS has nothing on the ground – neither in terms of civil or military applications and use. The crux of the problem is that ISRO went full steam ahead and started launching the satellites in the Indian navigation system in quick succession, without bothering to ensure the chip sets required for ground support were also developed simultaneously to roll out the services that could be availed on mobile handsets just like the United States’ Global Positioning System (GPS) and Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) are fully operational GNSSs, with China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) and the European Union’s Galileo. This is not merely a lapse but has led to criminal waste of public money. Those responsible will have to be identified and held accountable.
Planetary missions like aditya L1 are delayed. Such delays are leading to waste of resources and wrong priorities. Aditya – L1 will be the first Indian mission to study the Sun. The Aditya-1 mission was conceived as a 400kg class satellite carrying one payload, the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) and was planned to launch in a 800 km low earth orbit. ISRO has conveyed that a Satellite placed in the halo orbit around the Lagrangian point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system has the major advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without any occultation/ eclipses. Therefore, the Aditya-1 mission has now been revised to “Aditya-L1 mission” and will be inserted in a halo orbit around the L1, which is 1.5 million km from the Earth. The project has been approved and the satellite will be launched during 2019 – 2020 time-frame by PSLV-XL from Sriharikota. The issue here is why the basic point regarding the “halo orbit” was missing when Aditya-1 was planned…..what was the hurry at that stage.
Now coming to priorities, instead of Chnadrayaan-3, why not create the stage for domestic initiative to compete with the USA’s GPS, Russia’s GLONASS and China’s BDS. ISRO authorities may come forward and claim that initiative is being taken in this direction but that would not help in holding accountable those responsible for the gaps in remote sensing and communication satellites, especially failure to equip the ground facilities linked with the communication satellites.
There also has been an attempt to offer Ka-band services without auction by ISRO. When this matter was taken up by Newsroom24x7 the whole process of doling out the Ka-band Service that smacked of paving the way for “backdoor entry” came to a screeching halt.
Coming to the issue of leadership, one would like to sign off by citing verbatim from one of my earlier news coverage. I wrote: “What prevents ISRO from seeking a Cabinet sanction for a number of Apex scale posts and promoting all their Center Directors to that scale and then making a fair and equal selection for the post of Chairman? Accelerated pushes are taken care of in the Merit Promotion Scheme in place which rewards outstanding contributions through a process of peer reviews. To manipulate it at the top reeks of favoritism, nepotism and a subversion of laid down procedures.” More info
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Home/February 2019, National Headlines/Google Pulls Advertisers From NewsWithViews.Com For Its Conservative Content
Google Pulls Advertisers From NewsWithViews.Com For Its Conservative Content
By News With Views|2019-02-22T02:15:50-05:00February 22nd, 2019|
By NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri
While members of both political parties appear quite interested in having more and more control over the last frontier on the earth — the worldwide web — conservatives and libertarians are openly hostile to such talk of “regulating” or “controlling” the Internet.
With some of the wealthiest corporations in the world Internet-related, they know that those who control cyberspace will dictate advertising costs and will lead to Internet users being bombarded by “pop-ups,” “additional windows pages” and other technical tricks to lure Internet users away from their original web pages and onto web sites selling time-shares, cosmetics, computer security or hair transplants.
In today’s booming economy, thanks to the new Trump administration, advertisers continue to flock to the Internet to sell their products and services. Those companies who make billions of dollars on ads for everything from pet carriers to luxury automobiles are helping to increase the number of ultra-wealthy businessmen who grow with the speed of the Internet.
In fact, online shoppers know they can find the best deals on just about every product or service one can think of and buy it for less money since comparison shopping is only one mouse-click away.
The privately-owned web sites that have advertisements placed on them by search engines Internet servers such as Google, America Online, Yahoo, and others, will usually share in the profits with a percentage based on the number of web site visitors who actually leave the web site they first visited and enter the web site of the advertiser. And so, the more viewers a web site entices the more advertisers will be given attention by visitors.
However, according to an inside source, Google is arbitrarily removing their ads from Internet web sites due to what it calls a “spike of criticism that its automatic, programmatic advertising seemingly cannot stop mainstream brands from appearing alongside extremist and offensive material.”
Last week in European Union nations, a number of brands and publishers said they would pull advertising from Google’s network after their ads were revealed to be shown alongside content such as videos promoting terrorism and anti-Semitism.
No one would wish their hair shampoo ad to be juxtaposed with an anti-Israeli news story that glorifies the Palestinian militants, nor would a company wish their ad for a swimming pool installation firm be positioned near an ad or news story focusing on climate change.
In response to criticism last week from advertisers Google said it would be expanding controls to give them more say over where their ads appear on YouTube and the Google Display Network.
More brands have since joined the boycott.
Google is now providing more details on its response — and says it’s already started making changes, evidently hoping to stem the flow of brands away from its ad network. Chief business officer Philipp Schindler writes that Google has “already begun ramping up changes” in three areas: its ad policies; enforcement of the policies; and new controls for advertisers.
“Recently, we had a number of cases where brands’ ads appeared on content that was not aligned with their values. For this, we deeply apologize,” he writes. “We know that this is unacceptable to the advertisers and agencies who put their trust in us. That’s why we’ve been conducting an extensive review of our advertising policies and tools, and why we made a public commitment last week to put in place changes that would give brands more control over where their ads appear.”
Among the changes Schindler covers in the blog is what he describes as “a tougher stance on hateful, offensive and derogatory content.”
And not just for ad display purposes; the suggestion is Google will be removing more types of offensive content from YouTube entirely — a tacit admission that hosting such content is becoming increasingly problematic for a company that has historically sat firmly in the U.S. “free speech” camp, yet which finds itself in the political firing line more and more, accused of helping spread hate online by providing a platform plus financial incentives for content intended to expand societal divisions.
“What troubles me as a private business owner who advertises on Google, Facebook and other social media is that they don’t tell you what is considered offensive since that is arguably very subjective. For instance, a news story or commentary about a President Trump political rally may be offensive to some people, while many other readers may be interested in both the story and the advertisements. Who makes the decisions to allow or refuse an advertisement on a publication in which a political issue or perceived political issue is seen,” said George DeLuca a former newsman and now a private investigator?
In Germany the government is ready to set standards for social media companies to promptly remove hate speech content from their platforms — with the country last week accusing internet companies of failing to act swiftly enough on user complaints. (Although, in that instance, Google was commended for improved responses to user complaints about illegal content on YouTube, versus Facebook and Twitter being criticized for getting worse at swiftly handling complaints.)
“We know advertisers don’t want their ads next to content that doesn’t align with their values. So, starting today, we’re taking a tougher stance on hateful, offensive and derogatory content,” writes Google’s Schindler. “This includes removing ads more effectively from content that is attacking or harassing people based on their race, religion, gender or similar categories. This change will enable us to act, where appropriate, on a larger set of ads and sites.
According to an expert web designer and webmaster “Diana,” during an interview with NewswithViews.com on Tuesday, she had been sent a violation notice from Google about their position on posting advertisements on the popular conservative-libertarian news and commentary NWV web site.
The email sent regarding a policy violation states the following, according to “Diana”:
Dear Publisher,
This Google Publisher Policy Report gives you an overview of recent activity related to violations found on specific pages of your websites. As enforcement statuses may change over time, please refer to the “Page-level enforcements” section of the AdSense Policy Center for the current list of active violations.
Please note this report doesn’t cover violations that may happen on an overall site or account level. You may be notified by a separate email if site or account level violations are found. Ads will continue to serve where no policy violations have been found, either at the page- or site-level.
In the last 24 hours:
New violations were detected. As a result, ad serving has been restricted or disabled on pages where these violations of the AdSense Program Policies were found. To resolve the issues, you can either remove the violating content and request a review or remove the ad code from the violating pages.
Further details on enforcements can be found in the AdSense Help Center. To learn more about our program policies, please view the AdSense Program Policies.
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“Finally, we won’t stop at taking down ads. The team is taking a hard look at our existing community guidelines to determine what content is allowed on the platform — not just what content can be monetized.”
The company’s web site also says Google will also be tightening safeguards for ad display pertaining to its Partner Program.
Among the new tools for advertisers that Google says it will be introducing in the “coming days and months” are:
stricter default settings for ads so they are less likely to appear beside “potentially objectionable content,” as Google puts it — with brands having to actively opt in to advertise on “broader types of content if they choose”
new account-level controls to make it easier for advertisers to exclude specific sites and channels from all of their AdWords for Video and Google Display Network campaigns, and enabling them to manage brand safety settings across all their campaigns “with a push of a button”
additional controls aimed at making it easier for brands to exclude “higher risk content and fine-tune where they want their ads to appear”
Google also says it will be beefing up resources, accelerating reviews and giving advertisers and agencies “more transparency and visibility” — with expanded availability of video-level reporting to all advertisers “in the coming months.”
The company says it will be hiring “significantly” more staff to handle the issue, as well as developing additional tools — saying it will seek to apply AI and machine learning to “increase our capacity to review questionable content for advertising.”
Advertisers with complaints about where their ads are appearing will also have access to a “new escalation path to make it easier for them to raise issues” in the future — with Google also claiming it will soon be able to resolve these cases “in less than a few hours.”
“We believe the combination of these new policies and controls will significantly strengthen our ability to help advertisers reach audiences at scale, while respecting their values,” adds Schindler. “We will continue to act swiftly to put these new policies and processes in place across our ad network and YouTube. But we also intend to act carefully, preserving the value we currently provide to advertisers, publishers and creators of all sizes. In the end, there’s nothing more important to Google than the trust we’ve built amongst our users, advertisers, creators and publishers. Brand safety is an ongoing commitment for us, and we’ll continue to listen to your feedback.”
We’ve reached out to Google with questions.
NewsWithViews.com columnist, Ron Ewart, President of the National Association of Rural Landowners, when he discovered the activities of Google, launched his own action against the media giant. “Few Silicon Valley companies have ever embraced a political party as passionately as Google has. Its executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has been described as a “kind of guru” to President Obama’s campaign manager, and Google employees emerged as the No. 2 donor to the Democratic National Committee in the last election,” stated Ewart.
Ewart also mentioned during the telephone interview with a NWV reporter that the Google Chrome Malware Alerts suddenly appeared on conservative articles right after Donald Trump, during a televised rally with 20-thousand cheering supporters, held up an article from the NewsWithViews.com website that verified his assertion about media bias and the NWV website received an astounding 1,000,000 hits in just one day.
Efforts by NWV to contact Google and discuss these serious allegations met with negative results. The person who only gave the name “Heather” said the Google browser is not involved in politics. Senior Editor, Paul Walter said that the Google ads generated between $500 and $1,000 per month for NWV.
© 2019 NWV – All Rights Reserved
Contact Jim Kouri – E-Mail: COPmagazine@aol.com
About the Author: News With Views
News With Views Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri. Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police. He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. He writes for many police and crime magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer, Campus Law Enforcement Journal, and others. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com, Booksamillion.com, and can be ordered at local bookstores. Email: COPmagazine@aol.com
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Bathurst Correctional Centre
The expansion of the existing Bathurst Correctional Centre is part of the NSW Government’s $3.8 billion investment into increasing capacity in the state’s prisons to meet demand. This project involved the addition of a further 220 beds; expansion of bulk store and grounds maintenance buildings; a new master control room, health services, education and administration buildings, (including the gatehouse and reception areas); staff and visitor parking and new perimeter road, fencing and entry road modifications. The prison was built in 1888 and is heritage listed; which posed design challenges for all disciplines involved, particularly the structural team who had to interface with heritage fabric. The civil team were faced with poor ground conditions and had to adapt their designs to suit unknown in-ground surfaces which were discovered throughout the build. In order to create consistency across their operations and adhere to tight construction timeframes, Justice NSW specified the use of modular prison cells (used at other Northrop Justice projects including Cessnock, Silverwater and Dilwynnia). The expansion will include 80 modular cells which are manufactured off-site, craned in to position. Northrop worked closely with the project team to deliver this project, on time and on budget.
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NPA welcomes Government’s recognition of the importance of nature to regional NSW and calls for forests to be protected as a key pillar
June 26, 2018 June 28, 2018 by NPA NSWLeave a comment
The National Parks Association of NSW (NPA) has welcomed Sunday’s announcement by Minister for Tourism, Adam Marshall, to develop a nature-based tourism strategy to ‘unlock NSW’s multi-billion dollar backyard’, and calls on the Government to heed NPA’s Forests For All strategy to exit native forest logging on public land and use the forests to promote nature conservation to underpin nature-based tourism.
Tourism Australia describes Australia’s ‘world class nature’ as its biggest strength, and Destination NSW research shows that nature-based visitors spent $18.3 billion in 2016—with visitor numbers growing consistently.
“We have known for a long time that national parks are one of the biggest attractions pulling visitors out of Sydney and into regional NSW, and we welcome the Government’s recognition of nature as fundamental to regional economies”, said NPA CEO, Ms Alix Goodwin.
“Just last Wednesday night we launched our Forests For All Case for Change at NSW Parliament. It demonstrates that there is an economically-viable way to transition away from logging, protect two million hectares of public forests and provide jobs and economic benefits to regional communities, including through nature-based tourism.
“We must remember that many of our outstanding national parks were only created through dedicated efforts of groups like NPA to protect them from logging or clearing for short-term gain—often hotly contested at the time, but in retrospect the right decision.
“The dollar figures show that not only are protected areas key to conserving wildlife and landscapes, but the efforts to protect them have paid off providing substantial revenue to NSW on an ongoing basis.
“NPA is urging the Government to take seriously it’s proposals, like Forests For All and the Great Koala National Park that will complement the proposed strategy by protecting the nature that underpins nature-based tourism.
“We have written to Minister Marshall to draw his attention to our proposals and we look forward to working with the Government on its nature-based tourism strategy.”
Media contact: Dr Oisín Sweeney, Senior Ecologist: 9299 0000
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Strip Me
Album Review of Strip Me by Natasha Bedingfield.
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Release Date: Dec 7, 2010
Record label: Epic
Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Strip Me - Fairly Good, Based on 4 Critics
Rolling Stone - 100
While fellow pop stars like Lady Gaga and Ke$ha squabble over who's the boldest freak, Natasha Bedingfield has found a niche repping for the wide-eyed average gal. "Strip Me" is a deceptively saucy name for the lighter-waver that launches the U.K. diva's third disc – like her smash "Unwritten," it's a bouncy female-empowerment anthem. When Bedingfield strays from her airy Kelly Clarkson vibe, she can be gorgeously soulful ("Run-Run-Run"), but she has the most fun rocking out to "All I Need," a synth-heavy dance track that recalls Rihanna's "Shut Up and Drive." Keep up with rock's hottest photos in Random Notes.
Six years have passed since Natasha Bedingfield's 2004 debut Unwritten, yet the modern-day British diva hasn’t moved too far past its steely sleek sound, retaining its same blend of well-manicured R&B and European sophistication for her third album, Strip Me. Being a pop singer, she’s keenly aware that it’s 2010 not 2004, so she’s hired Ryan Tedder to construct his patented chilly, Wall of Sound on the title track and spends time with Sia, and she’s also proud of her status as a star, bragging that it’s her face on the VIP badge, but Strip Me sure doesn’t find Bedingfield embracing the freedom that comes with that celebrity. Strip Me is neither as sexy nor as vulnerable as its title suggests.
Entertainment Weekly - 51
Based on rating C
This English singer?s chirpy ”Unwritten” never suited the airbrushed cynicism of The Hills, for which it served as the theme song until the reality series? finale earlier this year. Minus that moral counterweight, though, Natasha Bedingfield?s relentlessly earnest up-with-people pop can really grate: Strip Me, her third studio disc, plays like one long, increasingly desperate pep talk. The only breather? ”Unexpected Hero,” a lovely late-Beatles-style ballad.
Slant Magazine - 40
Based on rating 2.0/5
Strip Me, the sort-of provocative title for Natasha Bedingfield third U.S. release, suggests that the singer might have incorporated the tawdry style of Katy Perry and Ke$ha into her brand of sunny pop, but the album is yet another iteration of TashBed’s increasingly grating up-with-people shtick. Not that pop needs another starlet trying to out-whore her contemporaries, but Strip Me is so single-minded in its uplifting, inspirational tone that it raises questions as to whether or not Bedingfield can really do anything else.
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Leap of Faith Orchestra
Texture and Transformation: PEK & His Grand Aesthetic Challenge
PEK (aka David Peck) is a multi-instrument improviser who plays all kinds of instruments including saxophones, clarinets, double reeds, percussion, electronics and auxiliary sound making devices of all kinds.
PEK was born in 1964 and started playing clarinet and piano in elementary school. In 7th grade he started saxophones, first on alto, then switching to tenor in high school. He spent 10 years playing in rock bands and studying classical and jazz saxophone with Kurt Heisig in the San Jose CA area before moving to Boston in 1989 to attend Berklee where he studied performance with George Garzone. While Berklee was an excellent place to study harmony, voice training and other important aspects of a conventional formal music training course of study, it was not a very good environment for learning contemporary (or pure) improvisation (apart from his work with George). PEK did find, however, that Boston had a thriving improvisation scene, and it was here that he developed his mature pure improvisation language.
During the 90s, PEK performed with many notable improvisers including Masashi Harada, Glynis Lomon, William Parker, Laurence Cooke, Eric Zinman, Glenn Spearman, Raqib Hassan, Charlie Kohlhase, Steve Norton, Keith Hedger, Mark McGrain, Sydney Smart, Matt Samolis, Martha Ritchey, Larry Roland, Dennis Warren, Yuri Zbitnov, Craig Schildhauer, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Leslie Ross, Rob Bethel, Wayne Rogers, Eric Rosenthal, Taylor Ho Bynum, Tatsuya Nakatani, James Coleman, B’hob Rainey and George Garzone.
PEK met cellist Glynis Lomon when they played together in the Masashi Harada Sextet which existed between 1990 and 1992. They developed a deep musical connection which they continued following the MHS; first with the Leaping Water Trio for a few years and then with the first version of Leap of Faith in 1994. Leap of Faith was very active in Boston from that time until 2001 and went through a series of several core ensembles which always included both PEK and Glynis. Other key Leap of Faith core members during this period were Mark McGrain (trombone), Craig Schildhauer (double bass), Sydney Smart (drums), Yuri Zbitnov (drums) and James Coleman (theremin). Leap of Faith was always a very modular unit with constantly shifting personnel and many different guests. The early Leap of Faith period concluded in 2001 with a dual bill at an excellent room at MIT called Killian Hall with George Garzone’s seminal trio the Fringe.
At this time, PEK changed careers for his day gig, returning to college for a computer science degree and beginning to work in the structural engineering industry at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger. He became far too busy to continue the heavy music schedule, and preferring not to do music casually, he entered a long musically dormant period.
Flash forward to early 2014. PEK was a regular mail order customer of Downtown Music Gallery, the premiere specialty shop in Manhattan for free jazz, contemporary classical and other new music. While in New York on SGH business, he went down to DMG and had a lengthy conversation with proprietor Bruce Lee Gallanter about the early Leap of Faith period. He then sent Bruce a package of about 15 CD titles from the 90s and was pleasantly surprised when Bruce managed to sell nearly all of it. This public interest in the old catalog spurred PEK into getting back into performance. He reformed Leap of Faith with Glynis Lomon (cello, voice, aquasonic), Yuri Zbitnov (drums) and newcomer Steve Norton (clarinets and saxophones) and started to record and perform in early 2015.
Now having access to financial resources always absent in the early period, PEK began to accumulate a huge collection of instruments both for himself and also to expand the palate of Leap of Faith and the other projects soon to follow. He acquired new recording equipment and many new saxophones, clarinets, double reeds, metal and wooden percussion instruments, electronic instruments, signal processing equipment and other sound-making devices from many cultures. He revived his old record label, Evil Clown, and created reissues and new releases for much of the early period work by Leap of Faith and many of his other projects to sell at shows, DMG and the internet (around 100 archival titles).
The Arsenal of equipment has a grand purpose: To establish a large scale aesthetic problem to use the instruments to make long form broad palate improvisations with dramatic transformation and development. The very broad palate enables the long improvisations to evolve with very different movements and pronounced development over their length. PEK started the Leap of Faith Orchestra, a greatly expanded Leap of Faith, to achieve this purpose along with a number of smaller ensembles which are sub-units of the full orchestra including String Theory (focusing on orchestral strings), Metal Chaos Ensemble (focusing on metallic percussion), Turbulence (horn players), Mekaniks (electronics) and Chicxulub (space rock). In all, the Evil Clown roster includes over 40 musicians who contribute to one or more of the various projects, with PEK participating in all of them. Leap of Faith has also had some special guests like Steve Swell (trombone), Thomas Heberer (trumpet), Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet) and Jim Hobbs (alto sax). The Leap of Faith Orchestra happens whenever several of these groups play together at the same time, or the ensemble exceeds 7 or 8 players. The Full Orchestra is a special case discussed below.
The current roster is comprised in part of: Core Leap of Faith: PEK, Glynis Lomon, Yuri Zbitnov (Steve Norton has since left to go to Graduate School) Percussion: Andria Nicodemou (vibes), Kevin Dacey (perc), Joe Hartigan (perc), Syd Smart (drums) Strings: Jane Wang (cello), Clara Kebabian (violin), Tony Leva (bass), Mimi Rabson (violin), Kirsten Lamb (bass), Brendan Higgins (bass), Silvain Castellano (bass), Rob Bethel (cello), Kit Demos (bass), Matt Scutchfield (violin), Helen Sherrah-Davies (violin) Piano: Eric Zinman, Peter Cassino, Emilio Gonzales Horns: Dave Harris (tuba, trombone), Charlie Kohlhase (saxes), Bob Moores (trumpet), Sara Honeywell (trombone), Forbes Graham (trumpet), John Baylies (tuba), Dan O’Brien (woodwinds), Zach Bartolomei (woodwinds), Kat Dobbins (trombone), Steve Provizer (trumpet, baritone horn), Matt Samolis (flute) Electronics: Greg Grinnell, Jason Adams (electric bass, electronics) Guitar: Dru Wesely, Grant Beale, Chris Florio Voice: Dei Xhrist
Evil Clown is documenting the ongoing solutions to this aesthetic challenge by creating limited CD editions and digital download albums of every performance and studio session by this array of ensembles. Interested audience can track the development of the grand scale project over the many releases – over 80 albums recorded and released so far between Jan of 2015 and March of 2017. All of the bands are highly modular, changing personnel and instrumentation with each meeting. The result is an enormous amount of music that shares the same fundamental improvisational language but differs from event to event greatly both in sonority (overall sound) and specific detail.
For the full Leap of Faith Orchestra, PEK composes a graphic notation score to guide the improvisation. The full Orchestra is comprised of roughly 20 players from the roster and performs twice a year. Two performances have occurred to date – The Expanding Universe in June of 2016 and Supernovae in November of 2016. Composition for Possible Universes is completed and the work will be performed on May 28, 2017 with another performance (score not yet begun) scheduled for November.
The scores use a device called Frame Notation where written English descriptions of the overall sonority desired and simple graphic symbols are given durations for each player on their part along with direction on when to play and when not to play. The directions are put in little boxes called frames which are arranged on a timeline and are simple enough to be immediately understood by the performers. Horizontal lines, called Duration Bars, extend across the page indicating when each Event (the Frame + the Duration Bar) begins and ends. An Event can be intended for a defined group within the ensemble (for example, Metal Chaos Ensemble), a custom group (for example, Tubas), or an individual (for example, Andria Feature).
Parts are the full score annotated with Hiliters so that each player’s instructions stand out. They can clearly see their individual instructions, but can also see the big picture, enabling far more knowledge about the pending actions of the rest of the ensemble than typical in pure improvisation. The players track the elapsed time on a very large sports clock. There is no melodic, harmonic or rhythmic information specified. This system allows PEK to compose detailed Ensemble Events without having to notate pitches or rhythms which would require significant rehearsal to accurately achieve.
More about the Supernovae score can be seen on the Evil Clown website here: http://www.evilclown.rocks/lofo-supernovae-score.html
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Adah Sharma is an Indian actress and a model. She got popular for her role in Bollywood horror movie “ 1920 Click to look into! >> Read More... ”. She has also worked in some Telugu movies and a few ad films. Adah Sharma was born in Palakkad, Kerela on 11 May 1989 and brought up in Mumbai, Maharastra. She belongs to a non-film background, to a Tamil Brahmin family. She went to Auxilium Convent School in Pali, Mumbai for early education. She was very clear on career front and decided to become an actress when she was in class 10th. She had already learned to write Bhagwad Gita at the tender age of three. She completed her graduation in Kathak, from Gopi Krishna’s dance academy. She is a dancer since her age of three.
She is fond of gymnastics too. Adah auditioned for a lot of roles in Mumbai. She faced a lot of rejections. After, she got a role in 2008 Hindi horror film, directed by Vikram Bhatt Vikram Bhatt (Born 1969) is a prominent film direc >> Read More... . She was highly praised by critics, for playing the role of a possessed woman in the movie. She earned best female debut nomination at the Filmfare awards. After three years, she got another movie called “ Phhir”. But this movie was recorded as a flop on box office. Still Adah got mixed reviews for her performance. Her next film, “ Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke Click to look into! >> Read More... ”, was again a flop and faced critical and financial failure.
In 2014, she made a debut in Telugu films with a romantic movie called “ Heart Attack Click to look into! >> Read More... ”, and got greatly appreciated.The Same year she had a Bollywood release, “ Hasee Toh Phasee Click to look into! >> Read More... ”, which also enjoyed great success. She also starred in “S/O Satyamurthy’ (Telugu), ‘Rana Vikrama’ (Kannada), and ‘Subramanyam for Sale’ (Telugu), ‘ Garam Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ (Telugu).
Her upcoming Bollywood films are ‘ Jagga Jasoos Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ and ‘ Commando 2 Click to look into! >> Read More... ’.
She also marks her presence in a few ad films with Limca, Godrej no. 1, and Nokia (for Nokia 5233).
Tamannaah Bhatia
Tamannaah Bhatia is a well known actress in Tamil and Telugu film industry with lots of fan following. Chand Sa Roshan Chehra was her first Hindi movie, in the year 2005. Her Telugu debut was Sri and the Tamil debut was Kedi. In Kedi, she did a negative role and the movie did not go well. It was also the debut movie for Ileana, the South Indian popular actress. Tamannaah Bhatia acted in Vyapari with director S.J.Suryah; but she did not get a good recognition. After she performed in Balaji Sakthivel’s Kalloori, she became notable. Her performance in that film was appreciated by everyone. Similarly, her Telugu film Happy Days was also a super hit and got her good name. Tamannaah Bhatia steadied her market by choosing good films. She got success in her film with Surya in Ayan and the films Paiya and Siruthai with Karthi in consecutive years. Himmatwala and Humshakals were her successful Hindi movies. Her performance in Veeram with Ajith is also notable. She acted with almost all the young heroes in the South Indian film industry. Ajith, Surya, Vijay, Dhanush, Jayam Ravi and Karthi are the top heroes in her list. Her movie Anandha Thandavam with Siddharth got her a good name. She acted as an innocent girl, who nods what her parents say. Her performance was mind blowing in that movie. Tamannaah Bhatia’s latest movies are Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga in Tamil and Baahubali, Bengal Tiger and an unnamed film in Telugu. Right from her debut, she maintains a good name in the film industry, though she lost her market in the middle.
Keerthi Chawla
Keerthi Chawla, aged 32, is a Telugu film industry actress as well as a Tamil film industry actress. Surprisingly, she made her debut in a Hindi film in 1997, Gulham-E-Mustafa as a character called Vidya. She has then starred in the 2002 Telugu film Aadi as Nandu Reddy, made a special appearance in the famous song “Vaddhuraa Sodara” from the blockbuster Telugu movie Manmadhudu alongside Nagarjuna Akkineni in 2002, acted as Gowri in the Kannada film Bidalaare in 2004 along with the Telugu movie Kaasi as Anjali. She has done roles in films such as the Telugu 2005 movie Sravana Masam, and her super-hit Tamil debut film Aanai in the role of Sandhya. She has acted in the 2006 Telugu movie Iddaru Athala Muddula Alludu, and the Kannada film Dattha. In 2007, she was seen in the Tamil film Aalwar as Madhu, Tamil film Naan Avanillai as Rani Das. In 2008, she appeared in the Tamil film Piragu, Ulliyin Osai in which she played the role of Chamundi Panchavan Mahadevi, Nalla Ponnu Ketta Paiyyan as Savithri Anand, Suryaa, the Kannada film Nee Tata Naa Birla, the Tamil film Nayagan as Divya, Unakkey Uyiranen, Mahesh Saranya Matrum Palar, Shwetha 5/10 Wellington Road as well as many other films. In 2009, she was seen in the Kannada movie Mast Maja Maadi, and in 2010, she appeared in the Telugu film Sadhyam as Anita. In 2011, she acted in Kadhalar Kathai, Mudhal Idam, and Broker. She continued acting in movies such as Kasi Kuppam, Thirumathi Tamizh, Ninaivil Nindraval, Agarathi and her currently last film being Manmadha Rajiyam in 2013. This 5 feet 3 inches of an actress was born in the Nawabi city of Hyderabad and belongs to a Punjabi family. She has completed her education in dance forms and has entered the glamorous life of a film star. It is said that she knows every dance form. She is also a firm believer in Buddhism and takes time out of her hectic schedule every day to perform the daily tasks, norms and rituals required. It is also said that this actress will soon be performing in many upcoming movies in including Chori which is to be released 29 June 2016, Scam on 23 August 2017, Sikkapatte Istapatte in the month of December 2018, and finally Bhaaja Bhajantreelu on the 7th of December 2018. She has built and established a large fan base across diverse cultures such as the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada industries and continues to receive more and more film offers as she progresses in her career as an actress.
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Module helps touchy prostheses communicate their feelings
By Ben Coxworth
Module helps touchy prostheses...
A volunteer puts the technology to the test
Aadeel Akhtar
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MD/PhD student Aadeel Akhtar, lead author of a paper on the research
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We've already heard about prosthetic arms/hands that provide people with a sense of touch, although there can be problems with the devices, sometimes resulting in users either getting a painful shock or feeling nothing at all. That may not be the case for much longer, though, thanks to a new electronic module.
Such enhanced artificial limbs typically have pressure-sensitive sensors in the fingertips, that are wired to electrodes which are applied to the user's skin where the prosthesis attaches. The more pressure that is applied to the sensors, the greater the amount of mild electrical feedback that is used to stimulate nerves in the user's skin.
Should those electrodes start to peel off, however, electrical current can build up in the part that remains attached, giving the user a shock. It's also possible for sweat to accumulate between the electrode and the skin, impeding the connection between the two, which results in little or even no feedback being delivered.
Developed by a University of Illinois team led by Prof. Timothy Bretl, the new prosthesis-mounted module uses a custom control algorithm to automatically regulate the current that's delivered to the skin, so that the level of feedback remains consistent despite peeling or sweating.
"When current is sent across the skin, the module monitors the electrical resistance of the user's skin at the point where the electrodes make contact," MD/PhD student Aadeel Akhtar explains to us. "We determine the perceived sensation intensity using the current amplitude, pulse duration, and resistance."
In tests performed on two volunteer amputees, the reported level of feedback remained stable and shock-free, even when the electrodes were peeled off by up to 75 percent. There was also no reduction in sensation after the test subjects performed activities intended to make them sweat – by contrast, when the device wasn't used, they reported a complete loss of sensation by the end of the activities.
The scientists are now working on miniaturizing the module so that it will fit inside the prosthesis, and plan on conducting more extensive trials. Ultimately, they hope the device will be covered by patients' insurance, meaning there would be no out-of-pocket costs to users.
"We want our users to be able to reliably feel and hold things as delicate as a child's hand," says Akhtar, who is the lead author of a paper on the research. "This is a step toward making a prosthetic hand that becomes an extension of the body rather than just being another tool."
The paper was recently published in the journal Science Robotics.
Source: University of Illinois
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Next year, F@TE will be held from January 9th to 12 and expands to 9 venues, plus 1 site specific venue, and 57 shows performed by artists from Tasmania, Australia and abroad.
As a fringe festival, Tassie is claiming all styles of performance are represented: comedy, physical theatre, circus, drag, cabaret, burlesque, theatre, spoken word, magic, and, in the words of organisers, “the undefinable”.
In 2019, Fringe at the Edge made its debut as Australia’s newest, and Tasmania’s only fringe festival. It gave locals an opportunity to write, perform and produce a full-length festival show without having to go to the mainland. It also provided interstate artists a chance to tour Tasmania, and test their shows before the festival circuit kicked off.
F@TE is run a little differently; created by an artist, for artists, it is un-curated, with support, growth and development as the main focus. Artists receive 100% of their box office returns, and are supported through every stage of the process.
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The 10 Best Museum Shows To See in Basel This Week
Including young stars, established names, and a five-kilometer art hike.
Artnet News, June 13, 2016
Anne Imhof, Angst. Courtesy of Nadine Fraczkowski, 2016
The newly-renovated Kunstmuseum Basel (right) with the adjacent new building (left). Photo Julian Salinas, courtesy of Kunstmuseum Basel.
Once again, Art Basel is upon us. Everyone is getting ready to walk miles and miles of art fair aisles perusing the best art on the market from all the world.
But if you are one of those that think there’s more to art than fairs, despair not: the Swiss city boasts a sensational roster of museums and art institutions and they are all putting on their best shows to coincide with the biggest contemporary art fair.
Your time will surely be tight, so here we bring you the 10 shows you can’t afford to miss while in the city.
Anne Imhof, Angst. Courtesy of Nadine Fraczkowski, 2016.
1. Anne Imhof, “Angst” at Kunsthalle Basel
From June 9-19, Kunsthalle Basel is offering its visitors a viewing of Anne Imhof’s opening performance for her newly composed project Angst.
The performance will unfold over the span of 10 days and is choreographed much like an opera, with various acts and characters that reflect Imhof’s interest in the body and time.
The winner of the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2015 for young artists uses recurring motifs in her work, such as dripping liquids, and incorporates live animals into her performances. In her exhibition at the Kunsthalle, she also presents painting, installations, and elements from the opera, which will remain on view until August 21. — Carol Civre
Roni Horn, “The Selected Gifts” (1974–2015) (detail). Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
2. Roni Horn, “The Selected Gifts” at the Fondation Beyeler
Another show you really shouldn’t miss is Horn’s “The Selected Gifts,” which will be exhibited publicly for the first time at the Fondation Beyeler, following a site-specific design. The series, which was made between 1974 to 2015, is comprised of 67 photographs of gifts that the artist has received since the beginning of her career, almost forty years ago.
These include everything from books, love letters, drawings and photographs of artist friends, the ossified egg of a dinosaur, and even a stuffed swan. The wide array of objects provide a portrait of sorts of the artist, of both her personal life and her work, providing new insights into her oeuvre.
And, in case that wasn’t enough to convince you, the foundation is also currently hosting the fantastic exhibition “Calder & Fischli/Weiss,” a show in which works by the legendary modern artist Alexander Calder have been put in dialogue with pieces by contemporary mavericks Fischli/Weiss. Here, the works of the Swiss duo act as humorous counterpoints to Calder’s geometrical playfulness. What’s not to like? — Lorena Muñoz-Alonso
A car parked underneath a Tobias Rehberger-designed water spout, found along the path of “24 Stops.” Photo via Instagram.
3. Tobias Rehberger “24 stops”, A Path Between Fondation Beyeler and the Vitra Campus
Visitors to the art fairs in Basel end up spending most of their time inside stuffy convention centers and rarely get to enjoy the region’s bucolic landscape and fresh mountain air. This could now change thanks to Tobias Rehberger. The German artist has just finalized the “Rehberger-Weg,” an approximately five-kilometer-long path that snakes through two countries, and links two cultural institutions: the Fondation Beyeler and the Vitra Campus.
There are 24 way markers along the path—all created by Rehberger—to guide visitors along the route, which offers both a uniquely diverse natural landscape as well as charming, site-specific art discoveries. The path is also devised to reflect the history of the area and its rural inhabitants, providing insights to the region well beyond its financial elites encountered in Basel. Pack your hiking shoes and make sure to clear one afternoon for what will surely be the best antidote to your fair-tigue. — Hili Perlson
Gaetano Pesce, La Mamma chair. From the exhibition “Radical Design”. Courtesy of Vitra Design Museum.
4. Vitra Design Museum
Now that you’ve arrived at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, visit the Vitra Museum which has just opened its newest building, the Schaudepot, on June 3. Designed by Basel architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, the Schaudepot houses the Vitra’s permanent collection of furniture, which ranges from early bentwood pieces and icons of classical modernism to 3D printed contemporary designs.
The inauguration of Schaudepot has allowed the Vitra Museum to display its collection permanently for the first time since its opening in 1989, but there are also changing exhibitions on view. Currently, “Radical Design” looks at the avant-garde design movement that reached its zenith in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A movement that propagated criticality and taste in design and architecture, rather than mere functionalism, and which paved the way for today’s crossover between art and design. — Carol Civre
Reinhard Mucha, Ohne Titel (MILCH), [2014] 1979 (Detail). Courtesy of Kunstmuseum Basel
5. Reinhard Mucha at Kunstmuseum Basel
Returning to Basel for the first time almost 30 years after his groundbreaking show “Nordausgang” at Kunsthalle Basel, Reinhard Mucha’s current exhibition at the newly-refurbished Kunstmuseum opened on March 19 and extends through October 16.
Mucha is known for working slowly and meticulously, often re-visiting or altering pieces years after he had begun working on them. This exhibition marks the completion of 12 exhibited works, which he created between 1981 and 2014. Many of the Mucha’s pieces are dated using hyphens, commas, and brackets to indicate the artist’s “work-in-progress” style, such as Wartesaal, [1997], 1979–1982 and Das Deutschlandgerät, [2002],1990.
The present exhibition focuses on an expansive installation titled Frankfurter Block, [2016] 2014, 2012, which exemplifies the artist’s complexity and laboriousness. — Carol Civre
Michael Landy, Scrapheap Services, (1995). Installation view Chisenhale Gallery, London, 1996. Tate Collection, London. © Michael Landy. Image courtesy Thomas Dane Gallery, London.
6. Michael Landy, “Out of Order” at Museum Tinguely
If you and your wallet get exhausted at Basel, you might want to check out the work of celebrated British installation artist Michael Landy at Museum Tinguely. “Out of Order” will be Landy’s first museum survey, and will span the unpredictable artist’s entire career.
The survey follows Landy’s controversial work over three decades, including the memorable Break Down in 2001, in which he infamously destroyed all of his possessions in a former department store on Oxford Street. Also featured will be his Credit Card Destroying Machine, which you might remember from 2011 Frieze Art Fair. The bizarre contraption offered custom-made artworks …at a price: you had to sacrifice your credit card to a wood chipper.
“Out of Order” will exhibit sculptures, works on paper, and interactive artworks that can be explored in what the artist likens to a walk on an English landscape, where the spectators are invited to contemplate the impact of consumer culture on society. Then you can get back to spending. — Naomi Rea
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Pulse Room, 2006.
7. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, “Preabsence” at HeK
Don’t look now—but you’re being watched. Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will have his first solo exhibition in Switzerland this season. “Preabsence” focuses on how presence and absence can be interconnected in the footprints left behind by data, memory, and visitor interaction.
The exhibition space has been overtaken in Orwellian fashion by cameras, motion sensors, and tracking systems that record every activity. But the artist uses this technology not to control, but to connect. One example of this is the installation “Pulse Room” (2006), in which hundreds of light bulbs flicker to the heartbeats of participants holding a pulse sensor. The participant’s digital traces linger long after they absent themselves from the installation. — Naomi Rea
Natalie Czech A Critic’s Bouquet by Hili Perlson for Berlinde de Bruyckere, 2015. Courtesy of Capitain Petzel, Berlin and Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf.
8. Natalie Czech, “One can’t have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it” at CRAC Alsace
Curated by Elfi Turpin, and packed with meticulous inter-textual references, Natalie Czech’s latest exhibition is not one for the unread. The exhibition brings together works from different series, among which are Critic‘s Bouquet (2015), Poems by Repetition (2013-2014), and Il pleut by Guillaume Apollinaire (2012-2014). It emphasizes issues encountered by Czech during her research on the deconstruction of relations between language and image, signifier and signified, and writing and photography.
There’s even a free shuttle from Art Basel to the opening garden party on June 16. It leaves Isteinerstrasse at 7 pm and returns to Basel at 10:30 pm. — Naomi Rea
Get a #sneakpeek of the #swissartawards installation now on our blog. The exhibition opens June 13 at Messe Basel, Hall 4! Free entry, everybody's welcome! Photo: installation of Maya Rochat's piece. Photo: Nici Jost / BAK, 2016 #basel2016 #contemporaryart
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9. Swiss Art Awards at Hall 4 Messe Basel
While in Basel, be sure to check out the specific presentations from the 47 participants selected by the Federal Art Committee to participate in the second round of the Swiss Art Awards 2016, to discover emerging Swiss artists. Past participants include artists such as Yves Scherer, or Claudia Comte, who are now represented by important galleries.
The work contestants have produced for this exhibition will be the basis for the jury decisions and selection of the winners. The laureates will be named on June 13, together with the recipients of the Prix Meret Oppenheim 2016. — Naomi Rea
Owen Piper & Lili Reynaud-Dewar. Photo: S.A.L.T.S. Facebook.
10. Owen Piper and Lili Reynaud-Dewar at SALTS
You might already be familiar with Piper’s prolific oeuvre of paintings that take inspiration from his environment, and Reynaud-Dewar is well-known for her challenges to the conventions of art institutions by dancing around them naked.
The artists’ collaboration at SALTS will take the form of a retrospective, an immersive exhibition teeming with introspection and humor, as it questions the motivations and reception of the creative process. — Naomi Rea
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Snakes of Malawi - (Softcover)
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Snakes of Malawi - A Field Guide to the Snake Species of Malawi
By: Rupert Wilkey(Author), Bright Msaka(Foreword By)
151 colour photos,
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Snakes of Malawi has taken over 40 years of field research to complete and is the most up-to-date snake guide on the country's snakes in more than half a century. This 330-page book contains 66 distribution maps, 151 colour photographs and 134 head scale drawings that together accurately describe all of the 65 recorded species found in the Malawi. Malawi has quite a selection of species for such a small land area, but out of the 65 only 12 have the potential to kill a human. That means that over 80% of all recorded species are non-fatal to humans. In fact 43% are completely harmless and carry no venom at all. This guide will provide easy and fast identification of all species, together with bite symptoms and treatment.
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Great Migration Home Movie Study Collection
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)
WHUT Howard University Television
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2 sound recordings
The Great Migration is a unique, ongoing digitization service program that partners the National Museum of African American History and Culture with individuals and organizations across the United States to preserve their important analog audiovisual media. While major motion picture film and television historically lacked diverse representation, black history was instinctively being preserved in everyday home movies. Today, these personal narratives serve as an invaluable tool for understanding and re-framing black moving image history, and provide a much needed visualization of African American history and culture.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Supported by the Robert Frederick Smith Fund of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Collection is available online for open research.
The collection contains 39 digitized home movies, 41 digitized home videos, and 2 digitized audiotape recordings. However, as an ongoing project the scope of the collection will continue to increase over time. The scope will be updated as is appropriate.
The content of the collection consists predominantly of amateur recordings created by families to document their lives. This includes major life events, such as birthdays, as well as family vacations and holidays. Additionally, the collection includes footage produced by professionals for broadcast on television. This particular footage entered the collection through partnerships with other memory institutions.
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23 February 2016 · John Bullock ·
UK · Transport
6 design standards you'll need for railway lighting
The Rail Safety and Standards Board, a not-for-profit organisation publishes the standards you need to design lighting on the rail network, such as at the magnificent St Pancras International station in London, above
There's a library of documentation that describes the ways in which lighting should be employed across aspects of the railway network.
Standards for lighting of railway premises are published by Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB). RSSB is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to support the rail industry to continuously improve the level of safety, drive out unnecessary cost and improve business performance.
RSSB publishes a number of guides and standards that cover all areas of the system.
RIS-7702-INS Iss1 Rail Industry Standard for Lighting at Stations
Provides a standard on lighting at stations, for the infrastructure managers responsible for managing and operating stations, to use if they so choose.
This document is intended as the single reference point for identification of standards and guidance documents required in for the planning, design, operation and maintenance of lighting installations. It provides specific requirements for lighting and also references associated material published by British Standards, Building Regulations, Accessibility Code of Practice, CIBSE/SLL and ILP for lighting in public areas.
GM/RC2531 Iss1 Recommendations for Rail Vehicle Emergency Lighting
Provides an explanation of the purpose of emergency lighting and recommendations on the means of delivering the requirements for emergency lighting.
In a way, a railway carriage is just a building on wheels that happens to move very quickly along a set of tracks, so it’s important that there is a contingency for power failure. This document describes the requirements for an emergency lighting installation in all areas of the train.
GM/RT2176 Iss1 Air Quality and Lighting Environment for Train crew inside Railway vehicles
Prescribes the requirements for ventilation air and normal and emergency lighting levels in Train crew areas of railway vehicles, to ensure a working environment in which drivers and other train crew can carry out their operational duties safely and effectively and maintain safety.
This is a workplace standard that applies to train crew, not the public and provides illuminance standards for vehicles in service, including provision for emergency lighting in the event of power failure.
GK/RT0192 Iss1 Level Crossings Interface Requirements
Mandates the control, command and signalling requirements for level crossing equipment, so that level crossing functionality is compatible with infrastructure manager operations at stations and railway undertaking operations.
Put simply, a level crossing shall be illuminated if trains run after dark. This is the document that describes how to go about it. But it’s a far deeper document than that and provides vital information on how to deal with the uncomfortable coming-together of road and rail.
GE/RT8060 Iss2 Engineering Requirements for Dispatch of Trains from Platforms
Mandates the minimum engineering requirements for the facilities used in dispatching trains from platforms.
Lighting is about vision and this document is all about the ability of a driver to see what is happening along the length of a platform. Consequently, it relates directly back to RIS-7702-INS Iss1 - Rail Industry Standard for Lighting at Stations, mentioned at the top of this page.
GI/GN7619 Iss1 Guidance on the Safety in Railway Tunnels Technical Specification for Interoperability
This document gives guidance on interpreting the requirements of the Safety in Railway Tunnels Technical Specification for Interoperability (SRT TSI). It specifically gives guidance on the requirements for the Infrastructure, Energy, Control Command and Signalling, and Rolling Stock Sub systems.
Most of us think of tunnels as places where we lose our mobile signals, rather than stirring examples of the Victorian engineer’s craft as the railway was driven through the English countryside. Tunnels also need to be maintained and there are occasions when a tunnel is the scene of an emergency, including passenger evacuation, so lighting standards are required for those circumstances.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
an autobiography by Harriet A. Jacobs:
Summary here.
[Review originally posted for my Facebook friends in late 2010 or 2011.]
Harriet A. Jacobs was a negro slave in the 19th century, using the fake name “Linda” for herself.
Page 40 is making me angry on Harriet’s behalf. After all the sexual harassment he’s made her put up with, and other psychological abuses as well, her master has refused to allow her to marry the free black man she loves.
She’s upset; he hits her; she cries, “I despise you!”
In response he says,
Do you think any other master would bear what I have borne from you this morning? Many masters would have killed you on the spot. How would you like to be sent to jail for your insolence?
And he accuses her of ingratitude for all his supposed “kindness and forbearance.”
Harriet, I’ve never been a slave, but I have been where you are. I just want to slap that slaveowner.
Some of us have truly done favors out of the kindness of our hearts, only to have those favors spat upon; we have a right to claim ingratitude. But this guy is the type who wants to make you think you owe him something so he can have control over you.
And appeals to these hypothetical “others,” the Grand Society who would treat you far worse for what you have supposedly done, to make you think you should be grateful for the “mild” way he’s abused you.
He’s “only” yelled and screamed at you. Or “only” hit you. Or “only” cussed at and belittled you for your horrible behavior. This guy is a real piece of work. 😛
And she has no one to go to for help, of course, since she’s his property.
Don’t you dare go and tell anybody how I’ve treated you. Don’t tell your mother I touched you like this. Or don’t tell the police I’m slapping you around.
Or don’t go crying to your friends/husband/ boss/teacher about how I’m beating you down verbally or physically, because I don’t need the headache….
Abusers of any stripe deserve to be brought into the light and their deeds exposed.
Here we have a real-life depiction of slavery, from a real-life slave. So incredibly different from the fictional Gone With the Wind, written at a time far removed from slavery, from the point of view of slave owners, even though it was based on stories told to Margaret Mitchell by relatives who lived during that time.
So when Mitchell writes that slavery was nowhere near as bad as the abolitionist propaganda, whom are you going to believe?
And here’s the meat of it: The slaveowner, Dr. Flint, says,
I will be lenient towards you, Linda. I will give you one more chance to redeem your character. If you behave yourself and do as I require, I will forgive you and treat you as I always have done; but if you disobey me, I will punish you as I would the meanest slave on my plantation.
Then he proceeds to forbid her even mentioning her love’s name again. And we know what he means by obeying him: Not only must she shut out of her life the one she wanted to marry, but we just know Dr. Flint is going to expect her to become his mistress.
Contradicting Gone With the Wind, this real-life slave writes on p. 49-52,
I could tell of more slaveholders as cruel as those I have described. They are not exceptions to the general rule.
I do not say there are no humane slaveholders. Such characters do exist, notwithstanding the hardening influences around them. But they are ‘like angels’ visits–few and far between.’…
I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes the white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched.
And as for the colored race, it needs an abler pen than mine to describe the extremity of their sufferings, the depth of their degradation.
On pages 58 to 62, after she has become pregnant from Mr. Sands, a white friend of her family–hoping to so enrage Dr. Flint that he will sell her to her lover–Linda once again stands in front of her master after an estrangement.
He says that though she has been criminal towards him, he can pardon her if she obeys him. She says, “I have sinned against God and myself, but not against you.” In response, he curses her.
As the classic abuser, he claims that he has been lenient, that he might have whipped her to death. He says that her “mistress, disgusted by your conduct, forbids you to return to the house.”
Because, apparently, sleeping with a man she loves, after her master has forbidden her to marry, is just so disgusting, and because she deserves whatever she gets.
He says her “ingratitude chafes me beyond endurance. You turn aside all my good intentions towards you. I don’t know what it is that keeps me from killing you.”
Then he negotiates with a “friendly proposition” which is far more advantageous to him than to her: If she will cut off all communication with the father of her child, her master will “forgive” her “insolence and crime” and take care of her and her child; she must promise at once, and this is the last act of “mercy” he will show her.
Her lover is willing to buy her and take care of her child, which would be a far better state than the one she is in now, and Dr. Flint has cursed her and her child, so of course she scorns the “friendly proposition.”
He says that “a woman who had sunk to my level had no right to expect anything else. He asked, for the last time, would I accept his kindness? I answered that I would not.”
He says,
Very well, then take the consequences of your wayward course. Never look to me for help. You are my slave, and shall always be my slave. I will never sell you, that you may depend upon.
So her hopes are dashed because she refuses to give in to her master’s cruel demands. And, of course, her master considers it to be her fault, not his for making such unreasonable demands on her.
She is bedridden for some time. Forbidden to have any doctor but her master, she has no doctor at all; when her illness grows worse, he is sent for, but she screams as soon as he enters the room. So he leaves again.
She finally gives birth to a boy, who is premature–4 pounds–and both mother and child are sick for the following year. Yet he lives into his 30s, which is far more than we could have expected for a child like him of his time.
Dr. Flint looks after her health, and does not fail “to remind me that my child was an addition to his stock of slaves.”
He sends her brother William to bring constant notes to her. Since the subject of his notes in the past has been the various ways she could please him sexually, she doesn’t need to tell us what these notes are about.
One day, she hides herself from Dr. Flint when he comes to see her. He leaves, sending William with a note demanding to see her, and she goes. He
demanded to know where I was when he called. I told him I was at home. He flew into a passion, and said he knew better. Then he launched out upon his usual themes,–my crimes against him, and my ingratitude for his forbearance.
The laws were laid down to me anew, and I was dismissed. I felt humiliated that my brother should stand by, and listen to such language as would be addressed only to a slave.
Because her brother, powerless to defend her, begins to weep for her, the doctor is irritated.
Just as with any abuser, because the third party–friend, family member–feels for the abused, in the eyes of the abuser he can do nothing right.
The master’s abuse of Linda now spills over onto her brother simply because he sees and recognizes the abuse. William is yelled at and put into jail for coming later than usual to the office.
William asks to be sold, which incenses his master, who says he was put there to reflect and has shown no evidence of repentance. Because his master can’t handle the office work without him, he lets him out, but “with many threats, if he was not careful about his future behavior.”
It is dangerous to show any sign of contempt or shock at an abuser’s behavior. I have seen for myself what can happen, and have been punished for it, so I feel for William as well as Linda.
The baby finally grows healthy after a year. Linda writes,
His father caressed him and treated him kindly, whenever he had a chance to see him.
He was not unwilling that he should bear his name; but he had no legal claim to it; and if I had bestowed it upon him, my master would have regarded it as a new crime, a new piece of insolence, and would, perhaps, revenge it on the boy.
O, the serpent of Slavery has many and poisonous fangs!
In Chapter XVI, Dr. Flint gives Linda a choice between a cottage for herself and her children–supposedly “merciful,” but she knows better, that there would be no escape from him there–or his son’s plantation and slavery for her children.
Typically putting the responsibility for his lack of anger management on other people, he claims that her willfulness drove him to be harsh with her before, and, “You know I exact obedience from my own children, and I consider you as yet a child.” (Note that Linda was already in her early 20s.)
She chooses the plantation. In the editor’s notes to the book, we read:
Norcom [Flint] was a loving and dominating husband and father. In his serious and sophisticated interest in medicine, his commitment as a physician, and his educated discourse, he appears unlike the villain Jacobs portrays.
But his humorlessness, his egoism, his insistently controlling relationships with his wife and children, and particularly with his daughters–for example his obdurate response to the disobedience of his beloved daughter Mary Matilda, mentioned in Chapter XLI–suggest the portrait Jacobs draws.
This impression is supported by his quarrelsomeness with his neighbors and his unforgiving fury against those he viewed as enemies. It is underscored by his admitted passionate responses to women. (p. 274)
Flint’s son, Mr. Flint, is no better. In fact, he says that his father should have “broke her in long ago.” He whips women and children slaves so much that the spirits of the mothers have been too broken to intervene.
Linda’s son was left behind due to illness; she was obliged to bring her daughter along, but was not allowed to take proper care of her. The poor little child was left alone.
Keep in mind that her brother was not even five, so she was no older than a toddler. Finally, Linda sent the child to her grandmother, and excused this to Mr. Flint by claiming the girl was sick.
But through all of this, Linda had a plan she would not disclose to anyone: of securing freedom for herself and her children.
Young Mr. Flint is about to get married. Linda writes,
I knew that the young wives of slaveholders often thought their authority and importance would be best established and maintained by cruelty; and what I had heard of young Mrs. Flint gave me no reason to expect that her rule over them would be less severe than that of the master and overseer.
Truly, the colored race are the most cheerful and forgiving people on the face of the earth. That their masters sleep in safety is owing to their superabundance of heart; and yet they look upon their sufferings with less pity than they would bestow on those of a horse or a dog.
The wife of old Dr. Flint is an example of someone who goes through the motions of piety, but has a hard heart. Even though Linda was in no way at fault for the attentions of her master, Mrs. Flint has been jealous of her, sometimes going into Linda’s room as she slept, suspecting Linda’s baby belongs to Dr. Flint, and having murderous thoughts toward her.
In fact, to Mrs. Flint, Linda’s pregnancy is proof that Linda has been sleeping with Dr. Flint, and she refuses to believe otherwise–even though the baby’s father is actually Mr. Sands. She threatens to kill Linda.
We must always check our jealousy, whether it has no basis in fact or we actually find our love in bed with someone else, lest it lead us into violent, sinful thoughts and deeds, and bar us from the Kingdom of Heaven.
Now, we read that Linda dreads the day’s dinner party. She is to wait on Dr. Flint and his wife along with the other guests. Mrs. Flint has not been to the plantation since Linda moved there, and Linda has not seen her face-to-face for five years; she
had no wish to see her now. She was a praying woman, and, doubtless, considered my present position a special answer to her prayers. Nothing could please her better than to see me humbled and trampled upon. I was just where she would have me–in the power of a hard, unprincipled master.
She did not speak to me when she took her seat at table; but her satisfied, triumphant smile, when I handed her plate, was more eloquent than words.
The old doctor was not so quiet in his demonstrations. He ordered me here and there, and spoke with peculiar emphasis when he said ‘your mistress.’
I was drilled like a disgraced soldier. When all was over, and the last key turned, I sought my pillow, thankful that God had appointed a season of rest for the weary.
You see how jealousy–and believing it to be justified, even when it’s not–causes ugly self-righteousness.
Mrs. Flint believes she has the proof that Linda has been sleeping with Dr. Flint, and lords it over her with great smugness; since the truth is quite different, she looks like a spiteful, vindictive shrew instead.
When Linda is forced to be servile to her, handing her a plate of food, Mrs. Flint shows that she considers it her due, that Linda deserves all she’s gotten, that Linda has been just terrible to her.
But Mrs. Flint has judged without true knowledge, without even trying to find out the truth. She is unapologetic for it. And that is true ugliness.
The wife of young Mr. Flint soon shows her colors. When the monthly slave rations of meat are handed out, a faithful, very old slave hobbles up to get his;
the mistress said he was too old to have any allowance; that when ni****s were too old to work, they ought to be fed on grass. Poor old man! He suffered much before he found rest in the grave.
Yet Scarlett O’Hara said that no one would treat their slaves the way the abolitionists and Northerners had represented…..
Young Mrs. Flint and Linda get along very well for a week. Then old Mrs. Flint comes over and has a long conference with young Mrs. Flint. Linda is allowed to leave the plantation “on one condition,” but old Mrs. Flint doesn’t want her to leave it at all.
“If she had trusted me, as I deserved to be trusted by her, she would have had no fears of my accepting that condition.”
Jealousy clouds our eyes and distorts our reason so that even the innocent seem guilty; it leads us to commit sinful offenses against others.
Young and old Mrs. Flint and old Dr. Flint decide to bring Linda’s children to her; Linda sees right through this, and knows the real reason is not to get her family back together, but to break them all in to “abject submission to our lot as slaves.”
A friend of Linda’s family visits the plantation, and innocently mentions to her that the children are coming; Linda writes that this information “nerved me to immediate action.”
In the middle of the night, Linda runs off. Her children are with her grandmother. She soon finds refuge in the home of a woman who owns slaves but is kind to them. Hidden away in a little attic, Linda can see Dr. Flint going to his office each day.
Thus far I had outwitted him, and I triumphed over it. Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and oppressed against the strength of their tyrants.
However, in revenge, Dr. Flint thrusts her brother William, her aunt and her two children into jail, swearing that her grandmother will never see them again until Linda is returned. Linda wants to go to them, get them freed, but William sends her a note begging her to stay put.
One day, Linda hears Dr. Flint and the constable in the house, and is terrified when her door opens. But it’s just her benefactress, telling her that Dr. Flint borrowed $500 to go to New York to find her. So for the moment, she is safe.
After Dr. Flint has spent quite a bit of money going on a wild goose chase to find Linda, and on jail costs for Linda’s brother and children, he decides to accept the offer of a slave trader–who is actually there on behalf of Mr. Sands, Linda’s lover. But Dr. Flint doesn’t know that Mr. Sands is involved. The slave trader then rushes to sell them to Mr. Sands, safely out of Dr. Flint’s hands.
Linda’s friends and relatives help her hide in various places, out of Dr. Flint’s hands, for months. Nobody else has any idea where she is, and she’s so well hidden that everyone thinks she’s long gone to the Free States.
She acknowledges that many slaves have had even rougher treatment than she did: cruelly overworked, branded, beaten, bruised, whipped, heel-strings cut, chained to a log while working, torn by bloodhounds.
Still, from street conversations she overhears from her hiding place underneath a roof, Dr. Flint is considered even by white people to be a “d**ned brute.”
Dr. Flint goes off to New York again to find Linda, comes back empty-handed, and when her little boy Benny asks if he found his mommy, threatens to cut off his head.
It’s terrible when someone is so used to raging and using his temper to control people that he (or she) will even scream at a child he thinks is somehow offending him.
Months and seasons pass, yet Linda still stays in her tiny hiding place, barely able to move, exposed to much of the weather, because no chance for safe escape has yet come. She gets very sick, and then her grandmother “broke down under the weight of anxiety and toil.”
Her grandmother is very popular in the neighborhood with the white women because of her baking business; now these women attend on her needs during her illness. Not to be outdone, old Mrs. Flint goes to see her as well, and makes a big show of being so condescending.
Linda’s son has just been badly bitten by a dog, and his wounds sewn up. When Mrs. Flint is informed of why Benny is lame, she says,
“I’m glad of it. I wish he had killed him. It would be good news to send to his mother. Her day will come. The dogs will grab her yet.”
Can you imagine such words from someone who claims to be Christian? and all because she imagined Linda to have designs on her husband, when the truth was she did not?
Linda finally gets some good news: Her grandmother recovers.
Linda’s lover–whom she hasn’t spoken to in a few years–is elected to Congress as the local Whig candidate, despite Dr. Flint’s attempts to turn voters against him. Linda finds a way to get his attention and plead with him to free her children. He promises to do so, and to look for a way to buy her as well.
Linda has been living scrunched up in this tiny part of her grandmother’s house for several years now. She arranges for two letters written by her to be carried up to and mailed from New York, to Dr. Flint and her grandmother. She claims to be living at a certain address in Boston. Her grandmother knows about the ruse.
Dr. Flint goes to her grandmother with the letter addressed to her, and reads it to her–only it’s not Linda’s letter. It’s actually a fake letter he wrote, saying that Linda regrets running away and wants to return. Dr. Flint wants to send Linda’s uncle to find her, but he doesn’t want to go.
Dr. Flint prefers not to go, either, since the laws in Massachusetts make it a difficult place to retrieve a runaway slave. He writes to the mayor of Boston, but gets no response.
Meanwhile, after almost 5 years of living cramped in that tiny dark hole between the slanted roof and the inside wall, Linda is in danger of becoming permanently crippled. So she begins going down to the storeroom for a few hours every morning.
She passes over the years so quickly in her writing, but imagine how long and grueling they must have been for her! She can only hear her children’s voices, not see them or cuddle them or kiss them goodnight.
In her hiding place, she is so cramped she can barely move, has to stay in bed, and is exposed to heat and cold. She suffers illness because of this, and now is in danger of losing the use of her limbs permanently.
Yet her friends and family still have found no way for her to safely escape.
Linda’s former lover, Mr. Sands–after she’s been in the hiding place for several years–has now gotten married to somebody else. I wonder if it broke her heart, but she says nothing about this.
Instead, she wonders if he’ll still keep his promise to free her children, especially now that her brother William, his servant, has gotten his freedom while they traveled up north.
William soon writes to his family that Mr. Sands always treated him kindly, but he always wanted to be free. Mr. Sands is a bit miffed, though not bitter or resentful, since he planned to set him free in five years anyway. But William knew plans could change, and wanted to take his chance while he could.
Linda records a longer note for Mr. Sands, including good wishes, God’s blessings for his kindness, begging forgiveness, etc. William’s own record of the note says, “Sir–I have left you, not to return; when I have got settled, I will give you further satisfaction. No longer yours, John S. Jacobs [his real name].” I especially love how he signs it.
Dr. Flint’s family heard about this, of course, and laughed.
Mrs. Flint made her usual manifestations of Christian feeling, by saying, “I’m glad of it. I hope he’ll never get him again. I like to see people paid back in their own coin.
“I reckon Linda’s children will have to pay for it. I should be glad to see them in the speculator’s hands again, for I’m tired of seeing those little ni—rs march about the streets.”
Such a spiteful woman–I hope she plagued Dr. Flint’s heart out.
Mrs. Flint’s spite and vengeance know no bounds: She decides to tell the new Mrs. Sands who is the father of Linda’s children (thereby stirring up trouble and jealousy in the Sands household as well as her own).
She also wants to tell her “what an artful devil I was; that I had made a great deal of trouble in her family; that when Mr. Sands was at the north, she didn’t doubt I had followed him in disguise, and persuaded William to run away.”
It’s a clear case of the bully claiming to be the victim and engaging in a little character assassination.
Mr. Sands beats her to it, however. He and his wife meet little Benny in the street, he tells her he’s the father of Benny and Ellen and that the mother is dead, and now she wants to see them.
She and her sister want to adopt the children, but Linda is so scarred by slavery that she trusts neither of them; she fears that they would eventually sell the children if they fell on hard times.
Linda sends a message through her grandmother to Mr. Sands that she is not dead and wants them freed; he says they are indeed free, but they’d be better off in the north, because Dr. Flint is saying they still belong to his young daughter, who was not old enough to consent to the sale.
So they send Ellen to live with Mr. Sands’ relatives in Long Island, and go to school, with Benny going to the North with his uncle soon after. Mrs. Flint, of course, is not happy.
Before Ellen leaves, Linda is able to see her and say good-bye. But after this, she hears nothing for months; even Mr. Sands in Washington won’t respond to her letters asking what has become of Ellen.
A little girl in the family finally writes that Ellen is safely arrived, is welcome and eventually will go to school–but also that she’s to be the eldest daughter’s waiting maid.
Linda doesn’t know what to make of this. Is this a temporary arrangement, or is she a slave again? Is it possible to trust Mr. Sands, or has slavery perverted him, too?
In chapter 28, we read that slaves could not legally be married. They would get the consent of their masters and be married by clergy, but it was not legally recognized and their masters could annul it at any time.
And if a master wanted a slave to sleep somewhere other than beside her husband, to perform her usual duties, he could require it.
Linda’s aunt was required to sleep on the floor near Mrs. Flint’s bedroom, and slept there through her own six pregnancies, summer and winter. She was on-call to bring Mrs. Flint anything she needed during her own pregnancies, and tend to her babies at night.
This hard bed and lack of rest, after working all day long as housekeeper and waiting-maid, led to the premature loss of every one of her own six babies.
When Dr. Flint finally realized what this was doing to her, and that such a valuable slave could die, they let her sleep in her own room in an outhouse except when someone in the family was sick. She had two more babies, but still, none lived.
Now, Aunt Nancy dies while Linda is in the hiding place. The Flints are actually affected by her loss; Mrs. Flint even takes to her bed in grief.
But then Dr. Flint tries to use this grief to get Aunt Nancy’s mother, Linda’s grandmother, to get Linda to come home and take Aunt Nancy’s place. But her grandmother replied,
“It was not I that drove Linda away. My grandchildren are gone; and of my nine children only one is left. God help me!”
After breaking her slave down with years of “cruel selfishness,” “incessant, unrequited toil, and broken rest,” Mrs. Flint now wants to make “a beautiful illustration of the attachment existing between slaveholder and slave”: She wants Aunt Nancy to be buried at the feet of her own spot in the Flint family burial-place.
Linda writes that “It had never occurred to Mrs. Flint that slaves could have any feelings.” The clergyman suggests she consult Nancy’s mother first, and the mother wants her in the slaves’ graveyard with her own family.
After a “mighty grand funeral,” Nancy is buried, and Linda notes,
Northern travelers, passing through the place, might have described this tribute of respect to the humble dead as a beautiful feature in the ‘patriarchal institution’; a touching proof of the attachment between slaveholders and servants; and tenderhearted Mrs. Flint would have confirmed this impression, with handkerchief at her eyes.
We could have told them a different story. We could have given them a chapter of wrongs and sufferings, that would have touched their hearts, if they had any hearts to feel for the colored people.
Chapter 29: Linda stayed in that hole for almost SEVEN YEARS: August 1835-June 1842. Imagine having been in a cramped hole since 2003, getting wet during storms, only occasionally getting to come out and stretch your legs. And the effects of being in there for so long, continued in her body ever afterwards.
Now, a chance arises finally for her and another escaped slave to flee in a ship. Linda’s grandmother doesn’t want her to go–fearing the chance of seizure more than what being in the hole is doing to Linda–but then someone gets careless and Linda is at risk of being ratted out. So even her grandmother tells her to leave.
In time it’s discovered that the suspected betrayer did not actually see Linda. But for now, they have to assume she did, and Linda flees.
Chapter 30: And she’s out and off! Off she goes with her friend Fanny on a ship headed to Philadelphia.
Chapter 31: She’s in Philadelphia. Exercise and rubbing her limbs with salt water have nearly restored their use. She’s taken in by a black minister and his wife, and they also find neighbors to take in Fanny.
She meets with members of anti-slavery societies, and things are going well for her and Fanny–until she goes on a train and discovers that blacks are not allowed in first-class cars for any money.
Chapter 32: Linda finds her daughter Ellen, but discovers that Mr. Sands did not emancipate her as he promised, but actually gave her to his cousin’s eldest daughter. Ellen is supposed to be her waiting-maid when she grows up, so Ellen has not even been sent to school.
So Linda writes to Dr. Flint and his daughter, asking the price at which he would sell Linda so she can be free. Only through her own freedom can she protect her children. But instead he responds that she should go back and submit herself to her rightful owners, “and then any request I might make would be granted.”
Chapter 33: Linda’s health is much better, but her limbs still swell up when she does a lot of walking. She finds a job as a nurse to a baby, which is supposed to last for a month, but her legs bother her so much (from going up and down stairs all the time) that she can no longer work.
Instead of firing her, Mrs. Bruce makes some changes to save Linda steps, and gets her a doctor. Mrs. Bruce is kind and helps thaw Linda’s heart, but Mrs. Hobbs is reluctant to give up little Ellen, making Linda suspicious that she might sell Ellen if times get too hard.
So her distrust for white people begins to go away, but not completely. But Linda’s brother William comes home from the sea, so they are finally reunited.
Chapter 34: It’s amazing when a bully of any type claims to have treated their target very well, basically playing the victim. I’ve had this happen to me–with the bully claiming to have bent over backwards for me, even though they had been making my life miserable with covert and overt persecution and gaslighting–and here it is happening to Linda:
The girl who owns her has received her letter asking for permission to be sold; the girl’s brother writes back, saying how Linda had never been treated badly or like a slave, but as one of the family, so they thought she was above disgracing herself by running away.
Somehow the family has taken her letter to mean she wants to come “home,” and the brother writes how she will be received with open arms, with no resentment, and made happy, etc.
But Linda recognizes that the young boy could not have written this himself, and the disguised hand of Dr. Flint. So she does not respond. As she recounts,
“I did not return the family of Flints any thanks for their cordial invitation–a remissness for which I was, no doubt, charged with base ingratitude.”
I’ve seen the same thing myself, the bully making demands that cannot be met without psychologically destroying the target, then petulantly claiming that their olive branch was thrown back at them.
Her son Benny is sent to her, to her great joy. Dr. Flint, meanwhile, has come North looking for her, but can’t find her, because she has heard about his visit and gone to Boston for the duration.
In the summertime, as a nurse she needs to take her employer’s baby outside for exercise, but Southerners are everywhere. She writes,
“Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other. What a comfort it is, to be free to say so!”
Chapter 35: Unfortunately–and showing a detail that Margaret Mitchell got right–the North has segregation and prejudice, despite having no slavery. Linda encounters it on a steamboat, in a cab, on a train, in various places.
On a train she gets put in a Jim Crow car. Rather than sitting in a decent seat in a cab, she’d have to sit on top of the trunks in a truck.
As a servant her employer, Mrs. Bruce, could save her from some of these indignities, but she still finds “cruel prejudice, which so discourages the feelings, and represses the energies of the colored people.”
Finally, at a luxury hotel, she follows the other nurses–all white–into a long hall with her charge. A man, who is in charge of ordering everything, points her to a chair; she sits down, but he says the baby is to sit there, while she stands behind the chair and feeds her. Then she is to go to the kitchen for supper.
Linda sees the other nurses eyeing her “with a defiant look, as if my presence were a contamination,” even though many of them are only a shade lighter than she is (her parents were mixed race).
She says nothing, but picks up the child, goes to their room, and refuses to go back to the table. Her defiance is not that of a drama llama, but quiet, polite and dignified–and thereby probably far more forceful than a rant or tirade.
Mr. Bruce has her meals sent to the room, but after a few days, the white waiters complain, “saying they were not hired to wait on negroes.” The landlord wants Mr. Bruce to send her down to her meals, and “the colored servants of other boarders were dissatisfied because all were not treated alike.”
Linda really shows her mettle in the following:
My answer was that the colored servants ought to be dissatisfied with themselves, for not having too much self-respect to submit to such treatment; that there was no difference in the price of board for colored and white servants, and there was no justification for difference of treatment.
I staid a month after this, and finding I was resolved to stand up for my rights, they concluded to treat me well. Let every colored man and woman do this, and eventually we shall cease to be trampled under foot by our oppressors.
…And may we all stand up to our own bullies with such quiet dignity.
Chapter 36: Mrs. Hobbs, who is taking care of Linda’s daughter Ellen, has a southern brother, Mr. Thorne, who knows Linda’s grandmother. He comes to visit, but Ellen soon finds herself running back and forth to get rum and brandy for him and Mr. Hobbs–and Mr. Thorne “poured vile language” into her ears. One day, he tears up and scatters a letter in the yard, which Ellen soon pieces together due to suspicions.
Her suspicions are right: The letter is to Dr. Flint, telling him where Linda is and how easily he can get her. The children take the letter to Mrs. Hobbs, who goes to confront her brother, but he has already left with another letter. The next morning, he flees for New York before anyone else is up.
Linda hurries home, where she tells her employer, Mrs. Bruce, that she’s a fugitive slave in danger of being caught. Mrs. Hobbs lets her take Ellen, at least for 10 days, and Mrs. Bruce and others help her get out of the city and onto a steamboat. Ellen is raggedy and has had no schooling, which upsets Linda.
On the boat she finds more prejudice, as colored passengers are supposed to sleep on deck, but with a child and under the circumstances, she asks to be allowed to sleep in the cabin. The stewardess says no because too many rich people travel on this route.
However, Linda is able to convince the captain to let her sleep below deck, and when they get to shore, he also convinces the conductor of the train to allow her to ride in the first car behind the engine.
In Boston, she and a friend set up house together, she gets Mrs. Hobbs to let Ellen stay with her, she has both her children with her now, and she gets Ellen into school. Finally, things are looking up.
Chapter 37: As a mother, especially after my own difficult labor, the thought of a woman dying in childbirth saddens me. She’s waited all this time for the happy event, only to find the end of her life. What was born in love, ends in death, with her stuck in a distressing labor she can’t escape from.
These thoughts return as I read that Linda’s employer, Mrs. Bruce, died in childbirth (the baby also dead) in the following spring.
Mr. Bruce takes their other daughter, Mary, to England to visit relatives, with Linda as her nurse, while Linda leaves her children in safe hands back in the States. Benny is apprenticed to a printer, while Ellen goes to school.
And in England, “For the first time in my life I was in a place where I was treated according to my deportment, without reference to my complexion.”
She notes the living conditions of dirt-poor and oppressed English peasants, and realizes they still live better than American slaves:
They fear no lash, no one will take their children away or make them toil from starlight to starlight in heat and cold, there are societies and schools set up to help them. No patrols will flog them in the middle of the night; no one will give them 39 lashes for teaching each other how to read and write.
An English visitor to America had painted a glowing picture of slavery in the US, but Linda says she should become a poor governess on a Louisiana or Alabama plantation, rather than visiting among the fashionable.
The behavior of oppressive white Christians in her hometown had turned her against the Episcopal Church, but here in England, she is inspired by true Christians.
She stays there 10 months without experiencing prejudice against color. She writes, “Indeed, I entirely forgot it, till the time came for us to return to America.”
Chapter 38: Linda goes back to Boston, and finds Ellen well and doing well at school. Benny has done very well at his apprenticeship and has been well liked–until they discovered he was black. (Apparently he is very light-skinned.)
“They began by treating him with silent scorn, and finding that he returned the same, they resorted to insults and abuse. He was too spirited a boy to stand that, and he went off.”
Good for him: Nobody should have to take insults and abuse, and I would’ve done the same. So off he goes on a whaling voyage, and is gone for a few years.
Her young mistress is now married, and writes Linda a letter. She says she heard Linda was in England “with a family,” and waited for her return.
I was suddenly struck with the thought that Linda would be like an illegal immigrant: She’s been smuggled out of the slave states into the free, without anyone giving her papers proving that she is legally free.
This was before the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, and many trusted in the personal liberty laws of Massachusetts and other Northern states, but the law of the land still would consider Linda the property of the Flints. I wonder if her employers would be subject to prosecution….
Her mistress writes that she wants Linda with her, or she can buy herself. What she says sounds very kind to me, but Linda feels insulted, that her mistress thinks her stupid enough to fall for it. She does not respond. This letter shows her that the Flint family is aware of her movements somehow.
Linda wants her money to go to her children’s education and a home, not to buying herself, which she finds both hard and unjust.
I could not possibly regard myself as a piece of property….I knew the law would decide that I was [Dr. Flint’s] property, and would probably still give his daughter a claim to my children; but I regarded such laws as the regulations of robbers, who had no rights that I was bound to respect.
Chapter 39: Linda decides to send Ellen off to boarding school, but first tell her about her father. Turns out Ellen already knows, and that she spent five months with him and he never showed affection to her like he did to his legitimate daughter.
It concerns me that Linda beats herself up so much over what she did with the father, her “great sin” which she is afraid to tell anyone, since neither of them were married at the time and her life as a slave made any sort of “proper” morality harder to follow.
After all, she wasn’t allowed to legally marry anyone she chose, slave marriages could be dissolved at the whim of the owner, and young girls were often dallied with by their owners before they had a chance to get properly married.
Chapter 40: The Fugitive Slave Law is passed, setting Linda and all other fugitive slaves on edge. Then she’s alerted that somehow, Dr. Flint knows that she’s gone back to her old place, and is arranging to have her caught.
Mrs. Bruce died in childbirth, but Mr. Bruce has since remarried and had more children; the new Mrs. Bruce hates slavery, and since a replacement nurse could not be immediately found, she actually suggests that Linda take the baby with her.
Linda stays with the baby in the house of a senator, then in the country, until the coast is clear and she can return to her employer.
A wealthy and pro-slavery relative of Mrs. Bruce tells her she is violating the law and is she aware of the penalty? She replies,
I am very well aware of it. It is imprisonment and one thousand dollars fine. Shame on my country that it is so! I am ready to incur the penalty. I will go to the state’s prison, rather than have any poor victim torn from my house, to be carried back to slavery.
Chapter 41: In 1850, Linda’s grandmother writes that Dr. Flint has died, leaving a “distressed family.” She also writes, “Poor old man! I hope he made his peace with God.”
Linda recalls that his crimes against her grandmother were worse than his crimes against her, and that she must be a better Christian than Linda if she can entirely forgive him. Linda, on the other hand, still finds his memory odious even after he has died.
There are many things we are asked to forgive; forgiveness of abuse can be especially difficult, and can’t be asked lightly. Mrs. Flint had buried several children, yet Linda saw no softening in her heart. Instead, a letter from the South warns Linda that Mrs. Flint has declared Linda too valuable a slave for her daughter to lose.
Sure enough, Linda’s owner and her husband, Mr. & Mrs. (Emily) Dodge, soon arrive in town, and come to look for her. But Mrs. Bruce has already veiled her and sent her off to a friend’s house….
It seems that Mr. Dodge, a Yankee, brought quite a lot of drama into the Flints’ lives, with violent fights between him and Emily’s brother, and she never actually got consent before marrying him. Dr. Flint never forgave her. Now they’re left without money or inheritance, so no wonder Mr. Dodge wants to find Emily’s valuable slave.
Linda is tired of running, refuses to pay for her freedom because she shouldn’t have to pay anyone for it, and is bitter that she can’t even go to church without risk. She writes, “God forgive the black and bitter thoughts I indulged on that Sabbath day! The Scripture says, ‘Oppression makes even a wise man mad;’ and I was not wise.”
But she flees yet again, going to New England. Mrs. Bruce buys her freedom, even though Linda felt it was too much like slavery and would put her under obligation to Mrs. Bruce. She is appalled that even in “the free city of New York” in the “19th century of the Christian religion,” women could be sold.
Yet she is grateful to Mrs. Bruce, and feels a heavy load lifted at last. Back home she goes, without worry about who might see her.
In 1835, at the age of about 22, she fled her owners. In 1852, at the age of 39, after nearly 20 years of being a fugitive, she is free. Her story will be published 9 years later in 1861.
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OANA April Meeting Reminder
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Governor’s Cuomos office has advised the City of NY to try and institute Design /Build on its Capital Projects. This has proven to be a cost effective time saving process as proven by recent State Capital project, especially the construction of the new Tappen Zee (Mario Cuomo) and Kosciuszko...
NYPD to crack down on ‘block-the-box’
NYPD to crack down on ‘block-the-box’ , New Commercial Loading restrictions in Jackson Heights BE AWARE Drivers who “block the box” at intersections could get a ticket for holding up traffic. Cops will be handing out tickets to drivers who pull too far into the crosswalk at 50 busy...
NYPD Sector David Safety Summit
An important meeting will take place on March 22, 2018 at 6 PM Queens Library 37-44 21st st, Long Island City NY NYPD Precinct 114 Neighborhood Coordinating Officers Joe Esposito and Keith Matthes are hosting an meeting to discuss neighborhood safety and quality of life issues in sector David....
More developments coming to Old Astoria
A six-story building is coming to 8-29 Astoria Boulevard, mid-block between 8th and 12th streets. Astoria Houses public housing project begins at the end of the block, and Two Coves Community Garden is across the street. The project includes 50 apartments, plus retail and medical offices. of (3,700 square...
Increase Parking around Film Shoots
Astoria/LIC has historically been the center of movie and TC+V Film shoots in NYC. Studios such as Kauffman Astoria and Silvercup had lead to a renaissance in this industry in NYC. greatly adding to both the economic health and visibility of our neighborhood. As residents, however, we often have...
New Lower East Side Ferry Stop
Mayor DiBlasio announces a new Ferry stop in the Lower East Side in Manhattan. While this stop is not on the Astoria Line, you can transfer free of charge in LIC to the line servicing the lower east side. The Lower East Side Route will serve nearly one million...
New Generators for Astoria Houses
FEMA Funds secured for rehabilitation of NYCHA facilities because of Super Storm Sandy are funding new Surge protecting Generators to be installed on the roofs of some flood prone Astoria House buildings. These should help mitigate against damage and power outages from any future storms. The December 2015 FEMA...
Mid Block Cross walks on Steinway St
Councilman Costa Constantinides and the DOT announced on Feb. 23 that three new mid-block crosswalks and traffic lights would be installed along the busy thoroughfare. Constantinides first announced his plan to add traffic mitigation measures on Steinway Street in his State of the District speech last year. Steinway Street, which...
Central Astoria LDC’s Multicultural Celebration
Many ethnic cultures contribute to the diversity for which our community is justly famous, and now Central Astoria LDC is bringing us a fabulous Multicultural Celebration on Sunday March 18th from 12.30 to 5 pm. Enjoy performances by cultures from around the world The event is hosted by the...
Halletts Point update
The NY City Council has found that NYCHA was deprived of needed boiler improvements at their Astoria Houses campus. However, the Mayors office disputed this. Again, we at OANA ask that all parties involved put aside their disputes, and come together for the good of our community. We have...
February 27, 2018 -
Google and Goodwill Team up
Goodwill of NY/NJ and Google have teamed up to provide workforce development for those residents looking to enhance their tech skills to increase their chances of meaningful employment. Google.org designated $10M in grants for a workforce development initiative with Goodwill Industries called the Goodwill Digital Career Accelerator – including $300,000...
Arcadia Bar & Kitchen
Arcadia is a new neighborhood bar coming to Old Astoria in the next couple of weeks. This project has been a year in the making with nothing but love and passion for what we do. Serving up craft cocktails, draft beer and a full kitchen, we are excited to...
by George Hatzopoulos
Auto, Pedestrian, and Parking changes – Welling Court Vernon Blvd, Main ave
The NYC Department of Transportation will be presenting their new changes for the Vernon Blvd, Main Ave, 30th Ave. intersections in Old Astoria at the upcoming OANA meeting on Feb 28th at 7 PM at St George Church. At 14th st and 27th ave, Astoria. The proposal includes adding two...
New Look Coming to the Triborough B playground
The Big Ten Network, in celebration of this year’s Big Ten Men’s Basketball Tournament at Madison Square Garden, will be refurbishing the surface and basketball hoops of the full court basketball court in Triborough B playground!!! It will also be painted with a large-scale mural by Mark Paul Deren (AKA MADSTEEZ), paying homage to...
Withdrawal of Hallets Point Funding Probed
The New York City Council is investigating the withdrawal of $43.5 million in financing from the affordable housing project at Hallets Point, that would also have provided money for boiler repairs at the nearby Astoria Houses, in November 2017, shortly after a public dispute between Mayor Bill de Blasio...
Neptune Diner May Depart
The future of the much-loved Neptune Diner, at the foot of the Astoria Boulevard N/W train station, is in doubt. The Astoria Post reports that the site, 31-05 Astoria Blvd., that houses the diner and two adjacent lots are up for sale. The listing, by Eastern Consolidated, reports that...
CLIMATE CHANGE: Is Your Home At Risk?
Old Astoria is a waterfront community. Because of this we should all be aware of the potential risks that climate change and rising sea levels provide. A new Google Earth plug-in allows users to explore how rising sea levels would affect their neighborhoods and the tool shows that large...
Astoria Diving Pool Project
Work has begun on creating a public space on the site of the currently closed Astoria Diving Pool. While the neighborhood has had a vibrant discussion on how to utilize this landmarked space, from renovation as a diving pool, to reconstruction as a Theater, Performance Space, and Ice Rink,...
NEW DEVELOPMENT BY THE ASTORIA FERRY
Permits have been filed for a seven-story, 29-unit apartment building at 11-16 Main Ave. Currently, the one-story building sits on a block with mostly low-rise industrial buildings, many of which are adorned with art as part of the Welling Court Mural Project. Also, the developer is addresses 2 great neighborhood needs:...
Halletts Point Building one is nearly completion
After 2 years of construction, Building One (At 10 Halletts Point) of the Durst Organization’s Halletts Point Development is nearing completion. Leasing is set to begin this summer! Also, a much-needed supermarket, Brooklyn Harvest Market, will occupy the first floor. A fitness Center, Recreation Rooms for Kids, and Public...
NOGUCHI HIRES NEW DIRECTOR
The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City has appointed a new director: Brett Littman, the current director of the Drawing Center. He will take over the job in May, succeeding Jenny Dixon, who retired after 15 years at the helm. The Noguchi Museum is an important component of the...
OANA President Interviewed by Queens Ledger
The Queens Ledger recently published a profile of Richard Khuzami, President of OANA. The article depicts his family background, love of Astoria and community activism that goes back many years To quote the Queens Ledger, “Khuzami’s latest effort is founding the Old Astoria Neighborhood Association, formed in 2014. The...
Rally for Better Transit at the Ditmars Boulevard Station
Just when you thought the station renovations on the N/W line couldn’t be any more inconvenient, it’s just been announced that the Ditmars Boulevard station will be under reconstruction from April 2018 through June 2019. Thankfully the station won’t be completely closed, but construction materials will be stored on...
Return of Astorians Project and New Artist Portraits
New NYC Winter Ferry Schedule
It has been an amazing initial year for the New York City Ferry….3 million passengers!!! And new stops are on the way for 2018!! The ferry has been a catalyst in Old Astoria, leading to new development, services, a shot in the arm for our cultural institutions, and a...
Is Design Build the Answer to NYC Capital project Woes?
Design build is an attempt to streamline the Capital project design and construction process. Currently, the process usually takes a minimum of 2 years just to reach the construction phase. This is because there are 2 separate processes: Design and permit is handled separately from construction. Also 2 separate...
Councilman Costa Constantinides Has Been Re-appointed
Council Costa Constantinides: The New term!!!! Environmental Protection Committee and Budget Negotiating Team Councilman Costa Constantinides has been re-appointed to Chair of the Council’s newly strengthened Environmental Protection Committee. Making our city greener and more environmentally-friendly will remain his priority. The newly expanded committee now has more members and a widened...
Approved Design Plans For Whitey Ford Field
Community Board 1 in Astoria/LIC has approved design plans from the NYC Parks Department for the renovation of Whitey Ford Field! This is the culmination of extensive work done by CB1, The Friends of Whitey Ford Field, and The Old Astoria Neighborhood Association to bring this field, named after...
Van Bramer’s City Council Appointments
The New York City Council the City Council voted on committee assignments and leadership positions for the new term. District 26 Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer continues to serve as the Chair of the Cultural Affairs and Libraries Committee. Jimmy said that “I love this committee and am so...
Executive Director of BQX Stepped Down
The Friends of the BQX Executive Director, Ya-Ting Liu, stepped down on December 1st. Ya-Ting stepped down just after unveiling the first-ever life-size prototype of the light rail car of the BQX. Ya-Ting was able to accomplish a lot while being the Executive Director. She was able to build...
by Elizabeth Hodges
Small Business Owners Are Catching A Break With These New Bills
Small businesses in New York State will be getting some relief because of three different bills that have been signed into law. This is all thanks to Assemblymember Aravella Simotas, the assembly member of Astoria, and Governor Andrew Cuomo. Simotas knows how important small businesses are to communities because...
NYC Free Tax Prep Program
Are you a New Yorker who earned $66,000 or less in 2017? Good news! You may qualify for free tax preparation services. Those services could include free online filing and in-person filing with an IRS certified VITA/TCE volunteer preparer. NYC Free Tax Prep sites are operated by community-based organizations in...
Community Youth Fun Day Hosted by Saint Georges Church
Looking for something fun for your children to do next weekend? Look no further than the Community Youth Fun Day Hosted by Saint Georges Church at 14-20 27th Avenue (at 14th St) Astoria, NY. The even will be on Saturday, January 13th from 12:30 to 4 PM and is...
The BQX Timeline May be Shattered
The Brooklyn-Queens Connector (BQX) is a proposed streetcar that would link Brooklyn and Queens along the waterfront of both boroughs. The public-review process for the BQX was supposed to start by the end of 2017. However, the start date has extended into this year. According to The Crain’s report,...
Deadline for 2018 ArtHotel Residency is January 8
Attention artists! The deadline to apply for the Queens Council on the Arts (QCA) ArtHotel Residency program is Monday January 8th at 5 pm. Emerging artists from all disciplines may apply; you must be 18 or over and must be a Queens resident. The QCA ArtHotel Residency program offers...
MulchFest in Astoria Park
It’s time to take the Christmas tree down and New York City wants to turn your holiday greenery into mulch. The annual MulchFest event will be held at various locations throughout the city, including Astoria Park, on Saturday January 6 and Sunday January 7 from 10 a.m. to 2...
Astoria Wins the Curbed Cup 2017
The votes are in—and Astoria is the winner of the 2017 Curbed Cup! Astoria beat out the Manhattan finalist, Yorkville, with an impressive 60% of the vote in the final round. Curbed NY notes that that Astoria surged from its original 10th place seeding, defeating trendy newcomers like Hudson...
Astoria Heights Park Potluck Brunch and Book Swap
On Saturday January 21st from 11 am to 2 pm, please join the Friends of Astoria Heights Park for their 5th Annual Potluck Brunch and Book Swap. Start your New Year’s resolution to de-clutter by bringing books to swap (in good condition) and bring a dish to share. This...
Condos In Astoria Mock Storage Units
The residents of the Shore Towers condo building are concerned for their safety after discovering that 5 apartments had been converted to 150 storage cages. This is not only illegal, but it is also threatens the building’s fire safety because there are no smoke detectors or sprinklers within the...
Curbed NY; New poll to determine NYC’s hot neighborhoods
Curbed Cup NY 2017 is pitting 2 neighborhoods against each other for supremacy in their list of the best neighborhoods of NYC. Astoria, a diverse neighborhood known for its “Village” feel in an urban environment, versus “Yorkville”, home to the new Second Avenue subway. We urge all Astorians and...
December 30, 2017 -
Take 2017 Survey of LIC Businesses and Organizations
The Long Island City Partnership is calling all businesses and organizations located in Long Island City to tell them what they think about the future of the area by filling out an online survey. This will help the partnership update LIC’s data and better inform policy decisions that shape...
Win one for Friends of Whitey Ford Field
Congratulations to Friends of Whitey Ford Field on winning the “It’s My Park Photo Contest” hosted by the Partnerships for Parks. This comes after the organization entered the contest by submitting a photo of their September 17 Clean Up at the field. They received 548 votes. 40 volunteer park...
by Neil Herdan
A New Director for a Veteran Performing Arts Center
Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) has a large presence in the Astoria community. Founded in 2001, it is APAC’s mission to the gift of high quality theater to Astoria, Queens and support its residents. That is why they were happy to announce their new Executive Director, Jesse Machesse. Machesse...
Awards for Astoria Architectural Developments
The Graffiti House project at 11-07 Welling Court in Astoria was among those honored at the recent Queens Chamber of Commerce Annual Building Awards Gala. Graffiti House received the Interior Design, mixed use, residential/commercial/industrial award and the Best Landscape Design award. The architect is Architects Studio and the builder...
Pesticide Bill in Queens
A bill mandating NYC parks and playgrounds be wiped down after pesticides are sprayed has passed the City Council. This bill has been sponsored by Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer of Long Island City/Sunnyside. This bill will require The Department of Parks and Recreation to wipe down the playgrounds 24...
An End to Larger Truck Traffic on Astoria Boulevard
New York State Assemblymember Aravella Simotas announced that by the end of this year, larger trucks will be permitted to remain on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) and will no longer be detoured onto local streets in Astoria. (Note: many people think of the roadway from the RFK Triborough...
Cornell’s High-Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, announced on Dec. 4 a $50 million investment in Cornell Tech. The development and investment is to encourage more technology-based learning for students K-12 in New York City. This will be an amazing opportunity for the companies,...
Tragic Discovery in the East River
The City Medical Examiner’s office is performing an autopsy on the body of a woman discovered floating in the waters of the East River beside Astoria Park on Sunday December 10. The Western Queens Gazette is reporting that the body was that of a dark-haired Asian woman in her...
Internship Program Opening to Benefit the STEM Student
The life science fields are booming industries in this century, especially in New York City. You can thank the $500 million investment that created over 16,000 jobs in the life sciences. But what about the undergraduate and graduate students that are pursuing a degree? There is a dearth of...
A New School To Be Constructed in Dutch Kills
In 2015, the student population in Queens county was 2,301, 139. This is about one teacher to every 22 students. This seems like a decent distribution, but the suggested ratio is 1:18. That is why the new school building in Long Island City is such a great new development....
Planes, Trains and Automobiles Cannot Match Old Astoria’s New Ferry
Check out this wonderful video from the first day the NYC ferry system arrived in Astoria by local visual artist Rafael Fondeur. Brings us back to a wonderful day last August, when transportation starved Old Astoria finally because connected to the rest of NYC! Enjoy and try the ferry...
Keeping the arts alive in gentrifying neighborhoods
Chashama is a nonprofit organization that provides artists with affordable working space, living space, and presenting space throughout New York City. They reach out to local developers and solicitate primarily temporary space for artist workplaces. Historically as a neighborhood gentrifies, the artists that helped create the atmosphere that allows...
The Noguchi Museum: New Exhibition of The Sculpture of Gonzalo Fonseca
Trying to figure out what to do this weekend? Look no further than the to the Noguchi Museum located at 9-01 33rd Road in Old Astoria and their exhibition of the Sculpture of Gonzalo Fonseca. Fonseca was a major figure for “sculpting” modern Latin American art. The sculpture...
114th Precinct Neighborhood Policing and Safety Meeting
The NYPD 114th Precinct invite you to meet the Sector David officers who are assigned to neighborhood policing in your community. On Thursday December 14th there will be a Neighborhood Policing and Safety Meeting at 6.30 pm (doors open at 6 pm for refreshments). The location is the LIC...
EZ Pass Holders Can Now Receive Mobile Alerts
Picture this: you are driving down the highway about to get to the toll. You have your EZ Pass so you go to the EZ Pass only toll. You are about to zip through when you realize that you do not have any more money on your card. Messy....
A Special Permit Proposal for Hotels in M-1 Zones
Holiday Food Drive
‘Tis the season when many of us flock to our local supermarkets to stock up on holiday foods and treats. But for some in our community, even basic staples may be beyond their means some months. Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer is organizing his 8th Annual Food Drive...
Mount Sinai Early Planning Medical Seminar
Have you been asked if you have a health care proxy or advanced directive when getting care at a hospital? What are these? Why are they important? What if I become incapacitated when seeking treatment? Mount Sinai is hosting a early planning medical seminar in Spanish on Thursday December...
Councilman Costa Constantinides “Holiday Drive”
Councilman Constantinides is collecting unopened/unwrapped toys, toiletries, and winter coats. You can drop off your donation through December 15th at their office, 31-09 Newtown Ave., on weekdays from 9am-5pm. Coats will be donated to New York Cares, toys will be donated to Urban Upbound and Toys for Tots, and...
Get Ready to Bid the MetrocCard Goodbye
Winter Snow Removal Jobs with Sanitation
DSNY is Now Hiring Emergency Snow Laborers Register Now to Help Clear Snow and Ice After Major Winter Storms The New York City Department of Sanitation has announced that starting today, people interested in working as emergency snow laborers for the upcoming snow season should register at their local...
Women’s Power Networking With Borough President Melinda Katz
As women steadily increase their presence and influence in the economy of Queens, making contacts with individuals who can further this growth is essential. To this end, Borough President Melinda Katz is sponsoring a networking breakfast. December 14, 2017 @ 8:30 am – 10:30 am Queens Borough Hall ,Room...
Send In Ideas For Socrates Park Seating
Are you an architect? Do you like to sit? Then send in your ideas for new ideas for single or double movable outdoor seating for Old Astoria’s Socrates Sculpture Park. The park wants an artist to construct outdoor seating for at least 25 people, have a life for...
Historic St. George’s Church
The Astoria Waterfront and the New Ferry Service in the Big Picture
Many Astoria residents have taken to the new ferry service from Hallets Cove like the proverbial ducks to water. After all, would you rather cram yourself into the overcrowded and delay-plagued subway system or stroll onto a boat where you can enjoy sparkling fresh air and fantastic skyline views...
Astoria Park Alliance Fundraiser
Do you love Astoria Park? We do too! A way you can help keep our park diverse, beautiful and sustainable is by attending the Astoria Park Alliance (APA) Friendraiser Winter Social. The Friendraiser will be held on December 6th from 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM at M.I.A (Made In...
The New York Care Annual Coat Drive is Going on Now
Have a coat that is a little snug or loose? Donate it to the 2017 New York Coat Drive. The Coat Drive is held every year to ensure all New Yorkers have a warm piece of clothing to wear during these cold winter evenings. Every year, New York Cares,...
Astoria Market Returns to Bohemian Hall
Stressed out about holiday shopping? We have good news: the artisan Astoria Market is returning to Bohemian Hall, with handmade crafts, vintage items and baked goods to fulfill all your gift needs. The dates of the Astoria Market are: Sunday, December 3rd, 2017 Sunday, December 10th, 2017 Sunday, December...
Shakespeare Live in LIC
What a treat for the holiday season: a staged dramatic reading of one of the Bard’s best-loved plays at the Long Island City Community Library on Monday December 4. William Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night, or What You Will” is believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth...
OANA Advocating Parking Permit Program
OANA is backing a bill calling for the establishment of a parking permit program in East Elmhurst, and is advocating for it to be expanded to parts of Astoria. This would be a one-year pilot program where residents who live within a 2-mile radius of LaGuardia Airport would be...
Authentic Mexican restaurant Fresco’s Cantina Opens in Astoria
Fresco’s Cantina is a new addition to the Old Astoria scene located at 12-14 31st Avenue. This Mexican restaurant offers an array of modern and authentic Mexican dishes including: fajitas, salads, guacamole, and, most importantly, tacos. The owner, Brian Martinez, described the area as a “hidden gem” in an...
Rainey Park Walking Tour and Drop-In Session
Green Shore NYC, a non-profit organization that advocates for a cleaner, greener and more accessible East River waterfront in Astoria and Long Island City, is looking for feedback on Rainey Park (Vernon Blvd and 34th Avenue). They are gathering information on how people use Rainey Park, how they feel...
Applications Open for NYC Kindergartens
Online applications opened for NYC kindergartens on Tuesday November 28. If your child was born in the calendar year 2013, you can apply. Who Can Apply to Kindergarten? New York City residents Families with children born in 2013 Current pre-K students at public district schools, Pre-K Centers, NYC Early...
Paper Factory Hotel Expands
The Paper Factory Hotel will add 6 stories to their facility at 37-06 36th Street for a total of 11 stories with an additional 35000 Square ft floor space. Additional Green Space will be created on the roof with great views of Manhattan. The Paper Factory has been a...
Long Island City High School Students Receive Computers
50 Long Island City High School students struck it big and were given computers thanks to the non-profit Technologies For Families in Need. This organization started in 2013 and started distributing computers throughout communities in early 2016. So far, the nonprofit has distributed 500 computers and is planning on...
The Old Astoria Neighborhood Assn. has been a strong advocate for the establishment for Residential Parking Permits. Our local parking issues have a strong effect on our quality of life, from the extra pollution, waste of time, and the psychological frustrations we all face from cruising the neighborhood looking...
Property Tax Management to enter the Digital Age
OANA is supporting our Councilman Costa Constantinides’s bill to create website access for information on Property Taxes for NYC Property owners. This is an attempt to simplify a process which today is depended upon “SnailMail” in order to get timely information on property taxes. Councilman Constantinides states: “For too...
Important news for holiday travel via Laguardia Airport
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 16, 2017 CONTACT: Metropolitan Transportation Authority: 212-878-7440 Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: 212-435-7777 PORT AUTHORITY AND MTA ANNOUNCE FREE LAGUARDIA LINK Q70 SERVICE DURING THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY LaGuardia Link Q70 bus provides convenient connection to New York City Subway and Long Island Rail...
BQX Connector Mock up
Are we seeing the future of inter-borough transit? Housed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Friends of the BQX, an advocacy group, has provided a mock up of what a streetcar might look like. This plan originally announced by Mayor DiBlasio, seeks to connect via streetcar Astoria with Sunset...
Landlord Watchlist
It is extremely important that the public be aware of Landlords who do not meet their obligations in regards to their tenant’s quality of housing. The List of Landlords (provided by the Public Advocate) who do not meet housing standards is an important instrument in holding them accountable. It...
Whitey Ford Field
Queens has been home to two of the NY Yankees most iconic players: Phil Rizzuto and Whitey Ford. Our Old Astoria neighborhood is home to the Whitey Ford Field, which is undergoing a renaissance, as is our entire neighborhood. NYC Parks Dept. has received 2 million dollars in funding...
Delayed Opening for Charybdis Playground Bathrooms
NYC Parks Departments plan for renovating Charybdis Playground, phase 2 of Mayor DiBlasio’s Anchor Park Initiative, will include renovation of the Comfort Station. Because of this renovation, the facility will not reopen until 2020 (The completion of Phase 2). Initially closed because sewer lines were emptying directly into the...
Separate Bike and Pedestrian Lanes on the Queensboro Bridge
Transportation Alternatives are asking that the Queensborough Bridge outbound lower roadway exterior lane be converted from automobiles use to Pedestrian/Bicycle use. Currently the inbound lower roadway exterior lane is reserved for pedestrian/bicycle use. Transportation Alternatives feels that combining pedestrian and bicycle use in one lane is a safety hazard....
San Francisco Ferry Boat Visits New York
The ferry Zelinsky, which started its career San Francisco Bay 30 years ago, was providing free ferry rides in New York City this week. The Mozilla company hired the Zelinsky from Hornblower Metro Fleet LLC (who operate the ferry service from Hallets Point in Astoria) to provide a free...
Holiday Festival & Tree Lighting in Astoria Park
On Saturday December 2nd, please join Central Astoria LDC for their 5th Annual Holiday Festival & Tree Lighting Celebration on the Great Lawn in Astoria Park from 2 to 5 pm. Join friends and neighbors for entertainment by the New York Holiday Choristers, Dave Cremins Out of This World...
Represent Your Neighbors on Community Board 1
Are you civic-minded and interested in playing a part in New York City’s governance? Why not apply to join your local community board? Queens Borough President Melinda Katz is accepting applications for new members of the community boards. These are volunteer 2-year positions, and community board members attend monthly...
A great new series based in Astoria
Sean’s Place Reopens After Renovations
Affordable Housing Units Open on the Astoria Waterfront
Have you always dreamed of living near the East River waterfront? Applications are now open for 21 affordable units in Vernon Tower, at 11-06 31st Drive, an 8-story luxury building that overlooks Socrates Sculpture Park. QNS.com reports that five units are studios, five are one-bedroom apartments and the remaining...
Has NaNoWriMo Got You Down?
Every year all over the world, authors and would-be authors sign themselves up for National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo. The goal is to write 50,000 words before November 30th—the average length of a novel. If you have started that novel you always wanted to write, but...
Footloose at Last
Our City Council, after many years of lobbying from those who have created New York City’s famous nightlife scene, has voted to repeal the Cabaret Law. This antiquated statute had long since ceased to be relevant. The bill passed by the City Council will require nightspots to ensure that...
Direct Public transit between Outer Boroughs
Public Transportation in NYC has always been Manhattan Centric. Travel between the outer boroughs almost always includes being diverted to Manhattan. There are very few direct options. Regional Plan Association has created “The Triboro: Transit in the Boroughs” as an overview of various options. As more and more residents...
Big Reuse is Closing Their Astoria Store
Big Reuse is closing their Queens store, which came to the Astoria waterfront more than a decade ago. In a letter on Big Reuse’s website, director Justin Finley said that “our landlord now wants to double our rent. We have to shut down our Queens location by November 30th....
Socrates Sculpture Park Wants You
It’s that time of the year when Socrates Sculpture Park sends out an open call artists to submit proposals for the 2018 Emerging Artist Fellowship (EAF), an annual residency program at this local treasure on the Astoria waterfront. EAF18 recipients will receive a $5,000 production grant to support their...
Film Screening at the Noguchi Museum
On Wednesday November 15th, there will be a free film screening at the Noguchi Museum. The museum presents Membra Disjecta: Gonzalo Fonseca and the Heart of Stone, a new biographical film by Michael Gregory. The program begins at 6.30 pm and the film will be followed by a conversation...
Celebrating the Hellgate Photo Exhibit
The Hellgate 100 Committee has been hard at work this year, organizing commemorative events such as the cleaning and painting of the Bridge’s supports and the vibrant murals “Liberty, Justice and Freedom” and “HellGate 100” that went up on Astoria Park’s Shore Blvd. Thanks are due to the artists...
Community Input for Chappetto Square Renovation
There was considerable enthusiasm for an upcoming local renovation project amongst the community members who turned out to tell the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation what they would like to see happen at local park Chappetto Square during a recent visioning meeting at the Judge Charles F. Vallone...
Asthma Legislation Introduced
District 22 Council Member Costa Constantinides has announced the introduction of a legislative package to combat asthma. Costa was joined in support by legislation co-sponsor and Council’s Health Committee Chair Councilman Corey Johnson, St. Mary’s Hospital for Children, the Astoria Houses Tenants Association, the American Lung Association, the Asthma...
Astoria Kayak Launch Design Session
The first visioning session for the Astoria Kayak Launch will take place on Thursday, November 2, from 7 to 8pm at the Astoria Houses Community Center. Join NYCEDC, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, and Council Member Costa Constantinides in exploring ways to get Astoria residents down to the...
Can You “Be-Leaf” It’s That Time of Year
Yes, the summer went quickly and the leaves are starting to turn color. But they won’t stay on the trees for long! The Leaf Collection Schedule for Community Board 1 is Set out after 4 pm: Saturday, November 18 Saturday, December 2 Guidelines For Leaf Collection: – Collect your...
HALLOWEEN HARVEST FESTIVAL AT SOCRATES
It’s the spook-tacular finale to the season at Socrates Sculpture Park—the Halloween Harvest Festival on Saturday October 28th from 11AM to 3PM. This is a free event and no RSVP is required. 11AM – 2PM: Costume and art-making workshops with Socrates artists, creating collaborative ‘exo-skeletons’ sculpture with Free Style...
NYC Ferry’s Winter Schedule
If you are enjoying taking the new Astoria ferry service to work—or for pleasure excursions—it is likely that the winter service will be somewhat reduced to match an expected decrease in ridership, AMNY reports that the City Council was told last week. While peak-hour ferry trips will not be...
OFFICE RECYCLING 2.0
If you run a business or you are a landlord leasing space to commercial tenants, you should be aware that the regulations for office recycling in New York City have recently changed. New rules now require businesses to set up and label three-bin recycling stations throughout their offices: one...
OANA’s Position on Renovations of Elevated N Subway Stations
If you ride the N/W train line in Astoria, you are likely aware that the 30th Avenue and 36th Avenue stops are about to close for months of renovation. Once these upgrades are completed, the Broadway and 39th Avenue stations will be then be closed for months of renovation...
Chappetto Square Community Input Meeting
It was recently announced that Chappetto Square in Astoria was added to the Community Parks Initiative program and will therefore receive funding from the city for a renovation and upgrades. What will the renovation of Chappetto Square look like? The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation wants...
Be A District 22 Participatory Budgeting Delegate
It’s time to move on the next stage of Participatory Budgeting for District 22. Capital project ideas for how to invest $1 million in our community were recently collected at in-person Neighborhood Assemblies and online. If you’d like to be involved in the next stage of the process, you...
Central Astoria’s Halloween Party Will Be Spook-Tacular Fun
Time to get out your vampire capes and Frankenstein costumes out of mothballs—it’s almost Halloween and Central Astoria LDC is putting on their 2nd Annual “Batty Over Halloween” Celebration on Sunday, October 29th, 2017 from 12 noon to 2.30 pm. Location: on the Great Lawn in Astoria Park. Activities...
“Astoria Character” Neil Herdan is Pitching Whitey Ford Field
Nancy Ruhling’s “Astoria Characters” series in the Huffington Post and collected on her own website, have featured a wide variety of people living in our community—a Tiffany glass curator, a hairdresser, the couple who own the Victory Sweet Shop and Victory Garden Cafe, the principal trombonist for the Astoria...
Your Phone Can Now Help You Park
If you follow OANA on Facebook, subscribe to our newsletter or check this blog, you will have seen regular postings about some great community events in our neighborhood. But wait–you’ve left in good time and found a great parking spot—but you don’t have any quarters and you’ve left your...
A New Production from APAC
The crew at APAC (the Astoria Performing Arts Center) is rehearsing the world premiere production of Veil’d, a play by Monet Hurst-Mendoza, and the excitement about their new production is mounting! Veil’d tells the story of Dima, a 16-year old girl with a rare skin condition who gets by...
NYC Initiative Soccer Field Opens at Triborough Bridge Playground
A New Home for Academy of American Studies
The city will build a new school in Dutch Kills to house the students at Academy of American Studies, who currently have to share space with Newcomers High School at 28-01 41st Avenue. DNAInfo is reporting that the new 4-story school will be located at 40-11 28th St and...
Takin’ It To the Streets
It’s time for the Broadway Street Fair! On Sunday October 15th, join your neighbors from 11 am to 6 pm, stroll along Broadway and check out the many vendors and the activities for kids. The event runs the length of Broadway from Crescent St to Steinway St. and is...
Astoria Sites Take Part in Open House NY Weekend
Every October hundreds of locations around the five boroughs offer behind-the-scenes tours to visitors. It’s called Open House New York Weekend, and this year it’s October 14 and 15. Some Open House New York tours require reservations, but three sites in Astoria are offering free tours for which no...
Old Astoria Shop Owner Coins New Name for the Neighborhood
Natassa Contini, owner of local business the pet store/café Chateau Le Woof, has a new name for the part of Astoria west of 21st Street, between Astoria Park and Broadway—it’s “Westoria.” DNAInfo reports that Contini started to use the hashtag #Westoria on Chateau Le Woof’s Instagram posts “as a...
NYC Ferry to Add Three New Boats
Good news for Astoria residents who are enjoying the new ferry service from Halletts Cove—and for those from other neighborhoods who want to ride the ferry out to explore the many attractions our community had to offer. AMNY is reporting that New York City’s Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is...
Chappetto Square Joins the Community Parks Initiative
Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced that Chappetto Square in Astoria will receive city funding and upgrades since it has just been added to the Community Parks Initiative. Founded in 2014, the Community Parks Initiative (CPI) focuses on improving parks in neighborhoods with dense and/or growing populations. Chappetto Square...
QUEENS FOOD DAY RETURNS
On Saturday October 14, Socrates Sculpture Park is hosting the popular festival Queens Food Day. The day will feature fun activities and demonstrations relating to locally sourced food, gardening, urban farming nutrition and food justice. Co-hosts Queens Action Council (QuAC) will moderate a speaker’s panel featuring community representatives. Lauren...
Notify NYC App is Live
The launch of the Notify NYC app will be a boon for those with smartphones who want to get notifications about weather emergencies like blizzards, transit problems, and suspensions of alternate side of the street parking rules. In its report, Gothamist gave some examples of the kinds of alerts...
Cornell Tech Phase 1 Opens
Cornell Tech, a partnership between Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, opened the first phase of its new Roosevelt Island campus this week. DNAInfo reorts that Cornell Tech’s new 4-story academic center plans to be one of the country’s largest net-zero building, with all of its power being...
Two N Trains Stations To Close for 8 Months
Bad news for commuters in Astoria who were looking forward to having full train service back after a summer of weekends with no train service—the 36th Avenue and 30th Avenue stations will be shuttered for at least 8 months starting on October 23rd, DNAINfo is reporting. Whereas Summer’s weekend...
Whitey Ford Field Clean-Up On Sept 17
Please help Friends of Whitey Ford Field during their Volunteer Clean-Up Day on Sunday, September 17 from 10 am to 1 pm. Supplies and tools will be provided. A couple of hours of your time can make a big difference to this local park with a lot of heart!...
Shore Fest Returns on September 16
On Saturday, September 16th, Astoria Park Alliance is once again hosting the ever-popular community event Shore Fest in the park.. The festivities will take place from 1 to 5 pm, on the Main Lawn adjacent to the Bocce Court off Shore Boulevard. Activities planned for this popular event will...
50-Unit Condo Building Planned for 27th Avenue
An application has been filed by LIC developer Strategic Capital Metropolitan to develop a seven-story condo building at 3-11 27th Avenue. The application permit specifies 37,940 square feet of residential space, 7,991 square feet of retail and a 12,656-square-foot “community facility”, which will include space for a day care...
Asthma Awareness Back to School Fair
Mount Sinai Hospital Queens, Council Member Costa Constantinides, St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children, and Asthma Coalition of Queens are sponsoring an Asthma Awareness Back to School Fair on Thursday September 28 from 5.30 to 7 pm at Variety Boys and Girls Club. Celebrate the new school year with...
SAFE Disposal Event in Astoria Park, September 9
To help residents dispose of harmful household products safely, DSNY hosts SAFE (Solvents, Automotive, Flammables, and Electronics) Disposal Events throughout the year in all five boroughs. On Saturday September 9, there will be a SAFE disposal event in the parking lot of Astoria Park, from 10 am to 4...
Here Comes CitiBike!
The popular bike sharing program CitiBike will cut the ribbon on new docking stations in Astoria, Long Island City, Harlem, Crown Heights and Prospect Heights starting next week, DNAInfo is reporting. A DOT spokesman said that building of the new stations will begin on September 12, starting first in...
Astoria Celebrates Launching of New Ferry Service
Friends of Whitey Ford Field Get Grant from Costa
Councilman Costa Constantinides has allocated a $5,000 grant through the City Parks Foundation on behalf of the volunteer group Friends of Whitey Ford Field. This allocation is part of the City Council’s Parks Equity Initiative, which supports community programming in smaller neighborhood parks. Friends of Whitey Ford Field Chairperson...
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Support Socrates Sculpture Park at Their Annual Benefit Gala
Socrates Sculpture Park is hosting their Annual Benefit Gala on Wednesday, September 27, 2017. The event will be hosted at Mark di Suvero’s waterfront studio in Long Island City, where guests can mingle on the pier or enjoy a boat excursion on the East River. A special limited edition by artist Roxy...
Astoria Ferry Schedule
The schedule for the new Astoria Ferry Service has been released! You can find it here: https://www.ferry.nyc/routes-and-schedules/route/astoria/ or if you want to download a copy of the schedule, click here. It’s safe to say that there’s much excitement in our community as Astoria gears up for the start of...
114th Precinct Meeting
There will be a 114th Precinct Summit Meeting this Thursday August 24 at 7 pm. This is a great chance for people in Sector David to meet the officers and air any concerns you may have. Sector David runs from Astoria Park South to Queens Plaza North and from...
Street Renamed for Betty Jean DiBiaso
A light post at the intersection of Ditmars Blvd and 19th now bears the name of Betty Jean DiBiaso Way that’s a tribute to a young woman who was killed by a hit-and-run driver in June 2015. In a street co-naming ceremony, family, friends and community leaders paid tribute...
The Muppets Take Astoria
Our neighborhood has been known for its association with the entertainment production world since the studio known today as Kaufman Astoria was opened by Adolph Zukor in 1920 and local fans hovered around the lots in the hopes of catching a glimpse of silent-screen stars like Rudolph Valentino and...
New Astoria Ferry: Open Hours with NYC Ferry staff
The countdown is on till the start of the NYC Ferry service in Astoria on August 29th. A new route servicing the Rockaways has proved very popular. NYC Ferry staff will hold open office hours about the new ferry service at the Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd Road, on Thursday...
Register to Get Daffodil Bulbs, Starting August 14
Daffodil Bulb Registration Opens in One Week! Don’t miss out on your chance to be a part of New Yorkers for Parks’ Daffodil Project! This is the sixteenth year of the Project, which was founded in 2001 as a living memorial of the events of September 11. To date,...
Check the Front Seat
The 114th Precinct is warning drivers in Astoria to remember to lock their cars and check for valuables on the front seats and in the glove compartments. Deputy Inspector Peter Fortune says that there have been more than a dozen cases of cars being broken into in the last...
Hollywood East River
John Turturro, the New York-born actor best known for his roles in The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, and the Transformers movies, will be at Socrates Sculpture Park on Wednesday August 16 to introduce the film “Romance & Cigarettes,” DNAInfo reports. The 2005 movie, which...
The Floating Hospital’s Astoria Branch
With health care much in the news these days, we wanted to remind Astoria residents that we now have a branch of the Floating Hospital right here In our neighborhood. The Floating Hospital was founded in the 19th century and originally ran ships that frequently New York Harbor and...
Aviation Job Fair on August 3rd
Job hunting? The Port Authority, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, and the Council for Aviation Opportunity are sponsoring an Aviation Job Fair at Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, on Thursday August 3rd from 10 am to 2 pm. Meet with companies who are hiring! Bring multiple...
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Techopia Live: Syntronic Canada aiming for 180 new Ottawa hires by 2022
Aug 27, 2018 3:57pm EDT
Syntronic
KRP Properties
Darrell Wellington
Techopia Live took advantage of a new broadcast location at the Red Dragon Golf Classic to grab Syntronic Canada – a new neighbour of the Marshes golf course in Kanata – and chat between holes about the company’s ambitious growth trajectory.
Darrell Wellington, vice-president at Syntronic’s Ottawa offices, joined us to talk about the Swedish engineering and design house’s ever-expanding local operations.
When Wellington joined the company four years ago, the employee count was one: him. Today, the headcount stands at 220, with ambitions to grow to 400 in the region over the next three years. The company recently moved into a new location next to the Marshes Golf Club on Terry Fox Drive to accommodate the rapid growth.
“Here in Ottawa, there’s an excellent depth of talent in the area as well as customers,” Wellington told Techopia Live.
Syntronic doesn’t craft its own products; rather, it helps companies with their own development process. Employees joining the firm in Ottawa are often working on one or two projects throughout the year, a refreshing workflow that’s helped Syntronic to attract many workers.
Also helping the firm grow is the lifestyle available to employees in Ottawa. Wellington says nearby amenities and activities such as skiing and hockey make life similar to Sweden, and the company has even brought up new hires from the United States who want to raise their kids in Canada.
Syntronic is also getting a bit of a boost from the Ontario government. Through the Eastern Ontario Development Fund, the province is matching 10 per cent of Syntronic’s investments in wireless product development in an effort to capitalize on Ottawa’s telecom talent base.
“We want to make sure that we can keep that here, rather than have the expertise go to other places in Canada,” Wellington said.
To hear more about Syntronic Canada’s plans in Ottawa and about KRP Properties’ annual golf tournament and charity drive, watch the video above.
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DeWine and the Boys
We’re hearing rumors (okay, we’ve seen the invite) that U.S. Senator Mike DeWine will be parachuting into the city next Monday, June 26, to raise some old fashioned New York cash for his November re-election bid.
The fund-raiser will take place at the 21 Club — one of the original old-boy hangouts — where guests will pay $1,000 for lunch or $2,100 if they want to rub shoulders with Mr. DeWine & Co. at a pre-lunch VIP reception. The hosts include such Wall Street sugar daddies as Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince, JPMorgan Chase chairman Bill Harrison, and Goldman Sachs executive veep Ed Forst, as well as GOP musclemen Senator John Sununu, Senator Chuck Hagel, and Congressman Michael Oxley.
Given DeWine’s position on gay marriage — he’s one of the guys who sponsored the amendment banning same-sex marriage — we doubt he’ll be flying in a day early to cheer on the marchers at next Sunday’s Pride parade down 5th Avenue. In fact, we doubt he’ll be seeing much of New York at all beyond the cool interiors of ’21’ and his Town Car. But you never know.
— Lizzy Ratner
Filed Under: Home, Politics, Politics Daily, goldman sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Mike Dewine, Mr. DeWine & Co.
SEE ALSO: ‘How Many Cakes Will Be On Our Cake?’
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Home » Entertainment » Megan Fox Talks About How She Uses Acting to Get her Kids to Eat their Veggies, Feminism and TMNT 2
Megan Fox Talks About How She Uses Acting to Get her Kids to Eat their Veggies, Feminism and TMNT 2
Posted by Amber Gheysari-Little on Jun 4, 2016 in Entertainment, Film | 0 comments
We attended the interview as a gust of Paramount
I met Megan Fox! I fathomed for hours how I’d describe my epic day, but honestly, these words won’t do it justice!
Imagine driving to Los Angeles knowing you’ll be up close and personal to Megan Fox in a couple of hours.
Keep in mind; this was my first time meeting a celebrity. Naturally, I was very eager to meet the beautiful Hollywood feminist of my time. Why? I was extremely curious about her life, after researching key facts about her. Come to find out, she is only two years older than me, and a mother of two young boys, who are almost the exact age as mine. Oddly enough, her oldest son was born on the same day as my youngest. In retrospect, I was fascinated thinking about our similar mommy situations in ‘real’ life, with the main difference being, of course, her job was acting in Hollywood, and I was a stay at home mother in Ladera Ranch. Had I imagined celebrities to be superhuman or something?
The time came, and I was sitting in a small conference room at a round table with five others. Before I know it, she walks right in and gives us all a genuinely warm, hello. My reaction? To put it simply, I was ‘STAR STRUCK.’ She sat right in front of me and frankly I was giddy! Mesmerized by how pretty and I guess how ‘real’ she really was. An interviewer jokingly asked which male actor, in TMNT 2, was more in love with her while filming. Megan smiled and replied, “Well none has professed their love to me yet.” It was a funny ice breaker. The questions continued, and she was answering every one with ease. It had to be the flow of her honesty, which just captured my full attention.
She discussed her childhood love for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) series, and how much fun she had playing the lead female role, April O’ Neil. For the record, I would have to say that TMNT 2 was more action packed than the first movie, with a ton of funny lines and really creative new villains.
At one point during her thoughts about making the movie, she mentioned missing her sons, Noah, 3, and Bodhi, 2, when she goes to work on the film, even if it’s for a couple of hours a day.
I began smiling, nodding with agreement, as I’m there at the interview, wondering what my munchkins are up to with Nana and thinking of my recent date night with my 3-year old son, Piercen, to the pre-screening of her new movie TMNT 2.
While at the screening, my rambunctious boy sat and laughed along the entire movie. That says a lot about how good the film is. Megan described how her boys love to dress up and role play, so she describes her job to them, as doing just that. Then when the boys ask where mommy is, they have a real answer. She encourages truly listening to children and fully explaining as much as you can when you can.
Are you ready to hear her mommy trick to getting her boys to eat their veggies? Together they read books about characters eating veggies and sometimes act like an animal at the table while eating their veggies. She insists acting can make it more fun, and I am up to trying that out!
When asked about her thoughts on being the ‘hot’ one in her films, Megan stated that she was a feminist and does not have a problem using her beauty and sexuality in Hollywood because she has control over it, and it can be powerful if used the right way. She further talked about how her sons’ father, Brian, follows in line with the feminist ideas and they are both raising their boys to have the utmost respect for women. Major thumbs up in my book.
After the interview, I felt personally enriched. At first, my head was in the clouds as I had subconsciously thought of her as being superhuman. Her confident, down to earth, motherly self-brought me back down to Earth.
Don’t miss seeing Megan Fox in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, in theaters now. Learn more about the movie online, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Honestly, you won’t catch me without a smile on my face. I am an easy-going wife and super patient stay at home mom, always looking to excite my busy boys with adventurous fun! We love to be outdoors running wild and getting dirty. My boys are pretty rugged, [so as a tom-boy myself], we are the best of friends. We especially love bike riding together, splashing around at the beach and hanging out with those who want to join in on the fun. After starting a family with my childhood sweetheart, Jarred, and becoming a mother to our sons, now 3.5 years old and 18 months old, I was given a purpose in life! I thrive to balance every day, as a sincerely loving wife, mom, sister, aunt and daughter. Family is everything to me.
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2019-20 Important Dates
The NFL Competition Committee
Working to maintain competitive balance and consistency throughout the NFL.
The NFL’s process for modifying or adopting rules and regulations is systematic and consensus-oriented. The Competition Committee reviews all competitive aspects of the game, including (but not limited to) playing rules, roster regulations, technology, game-day operations and player protection.
Atlanta Falcons president Rich McKay. (Al Messerschmidt via AP)
The committee’s deliberative process takes into consideration the input of experts, clubs, players, league committees, the NFL Players Association and other sources.
Commissioner Pete Rozelle created the Competition Committee in 1968, two years after the announcement that the NFL and the AFL would merge before the 1970 season. It replaced the Rules Committee, which was formed in 1932 to help develop the professional game’s playing rules as it moved away from the college rulebook, which was used in the league’s earliest days.
The Competition Committee’s actions are based, in part, on feedback from a variety of sources. At the end of each season, the 32 NFL clubs fill out a survey, answering questions about player protection, officiating, competitive balance and technology. Leading up to the National Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, NFL Football Operations meets with coaches, general managers, players and NCAA representatives to gather their input about potential changes to the rules. There is also a review of data on injuries, instant replay and technology.
Deeper Dive: Learn more about the evolution of the NFL's rules.
The committee holds a meeting before the National Combine to prepare agenda items, discuss the feedback it received and review information with league medical advisors, members of the coaches’ and general managers’ subcommittees and NFL Players Association representatives.
After the combine, the committee reconvenes to review video, draft rule proposals and positions, discuss proposals submitted by clubs and prepare its report of supporting statistics for the membership to discuss and vote on at the league’s annual meeting.
At the annual meeting, the Competition Committee presents a report of its findings to the 32 owners, who vote on any proposed new rules or rules changes. To be adopted, a new rule or a revision must have the support of 75 percent of the owners (24 yes votes out of 32 clubs).
During the season, the committee meets occasionally by conference call or in person to review current issues in the game and to begin to discuss potential agenda items for the next year’s meeting.
The NFL commissioner selects the members of the Competition Committee, which currently consists of two owners, two club presidents, two general managers and two head coaches:
Rich McKay (chairman) – president, Atlanta Falcons
John Mara – owner, New York Giants
Stephen Jones – owner, Dallas Cowboys
Mark Murphy – president, Green Bay Packers
Ozzie Newsome – general manager, Baltimore Ravens
Mike Tomlin – head coach, Pittsburgh Steelers
John Elway – general manager, Denver Broncos
Sean Payton – head coach, New Orleans Saints
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Poll: Ted Cruz Leads Dem by Only 8 Points…
01) Poll: Ted Cruz Leads Dem by Only 8 Points
“Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is up for reelection in 2018 and a Democratic-leaning End Citizens United poll has Representative Beto O’Rouke (D-TX), who is likely to be Cruz’s challenger, behind by only eight points, 37% to 45%
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/370477-dem-poll-cruz-leads-dem-challenger-by-single-digits“
This entry was posted in Wordpress Archive on January 28, 2018 by eqfoundation.
3 Lessons on Managing Criticism from Others…
01) 3 Lessons on Managing Criticism from Others
“The moral of the story is: Try to please everyone, and you will please no one.
It’s natural for us to try to win the approval of others, whether it means pursuing a respectable career, following our peers, or acting in certain ways. We crave social acceptance to reassure ourselves that we’re doing the right thing.
But whatever you decide to do, someone, somewhere will have an opinion about it. People might question your motives, your reasoning, or nitpick at the smallest details.
Sometimes, people can take an issue and blow it out of proportion. They take offense over something. They might even make personal remarks.
1. Recognize the source
2. Manage criticism accordingly
3. Know that the issue usually has to do with them, not you
Focus on the Road Ahead”
Why Aquaponics is an Amazingly Sustainable Way to Put Food on Your Table…
01) Why Aquaponics is an Amazingly Sustainable Way to Put Food on Your Table
“With the growing interest in organic food, many people have turned away from the exorbitant prices in their local grocery store and started planting their own gardens. Unfortunately, they figure out really quickly that gardening requires a lot more than digging a hole in the ground and throwing a few seeds in after. Aside from having to use fertilizers, there are a whole host of pests, weeds, and diseases just waiting to feast on your nascent veggies.
But what if there was a way to grow all of those delicious vegetables without having to worry about the meticulous upkeep that still may not prevent your garden from being ruined? Even better, what if this method of farming also provided you with fresh fish and cut the costs of gardening by up to 90 percent? In this article, we are going to show you 7 reasons we think aquaponics is an amazing, sustainable way to put food on your table.”
I do wish they had more description of the ecosystem, itself…But, it’s an interesting article.
This entry was posted in Frontier Kitchen, Nature and Technology, Wordpress Archive on January 27, 2018 by eqfoundation.
BOY (2010) Official Trailer…
01) BOY (2010) Official Trailer
“The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand “Thriller” is changing kids’ lives. “Boy” is the hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age tale about heroes, magic and Michael Jackson.”
Michigan Supreme Court rules in sex offender registry case…
01) Michigan Supreme Court rules in sex offender registry case
“LANSING, Mich. – Michigan’s Supreme Court says a Detroit-area man who served probation and community service after being charged with touching a girl’s breast when he was 19 can be removed from a sex offender registry. “
Montana & New York Governors Enforcing Net Neutrality Using Executive Orders…
01) Montana & New York Governors Enforcing Net Neutrality Using Executive Orders
“Some state legislatures have made it clear they’ll be fighting back against the FCC’s repeal of Title II net neutrality protections, but two governors recently announced that they’ll be protecting net neutrality through executive orders. This move by governors marks another way in which the FCC and Ajit Pai’s authority has been defied after voting to block states from protecting net neutrality themselves.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/sorry-fcc-montana-is-enforcing-net-neutrality-with-new-executive-order/
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/24/16928494/new-york-governor-net-neutrality-cuomo-executive-order “
The Medicare for All National Town Hall…
01) The Medicare for All National Town Hall
“The Medicare for All National Town Hall is live from Washington. It’s time to make health care a right.”
Bernie Assembles Team To Discuss 2020 Run…
01) Bernie Assembles Team To Discuss 2020 Run
“Over the weekend Senator Bernie Sanders met with a team of advisors to discuss potential steps leading up to a Presidential run in 2020.”
Bernie Preparing For 2020?:
Why do religious believers hate reality so much?…
01) Why do religious believers hate reality so much?
“This presentation was given at Skeptics in the Pub gatherings in Reykjavik, Amsterdam, Cambridge and London.”
This entry was posted in Atheist Media, Wordpress Archive on January 25, 2018 by eqfoundation.
Net Neutrality Repeal APPEALED by 22 State Attorneys General…
01) Net Neutrality Repeal APPEALED by 22 State Attorneys General
“22 State AGs sue the FCC over the Net Neutrality repeal. Let’s review.”
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Audit Report - A-02-96-02202
Cataloging Social Security’s Customer Service Monitoring - A-02-96-02202 - 9/24/97
SSA Conducted a Significant Number of Customer Service Reviews
The Reviews Lacked Uniform Standards
The Training and Professional Backgrounds of Reviewers Varied
There Was No Formal Process for Coordination of Reviews Within SSA
The Reported Staff Hours Required to Complete Reviews Within SSA Varied Greatly
Appendix B - Major Contributors to This Report
The objective of this evaluation was to catalog the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) efforts to monitor its service to the public and to identify monitoring gaps, duplicative efforts, and opportunities for improving coordination and quality.
One of SSA’s goals is to provide "world-class service." To that end, numerous SSA components conduct customer service monitoring reviews. Because we were unable to identify any catalogs or summaries of all such reviews, we attempted to create a listing of reviews. Additionally, we looked at factors that affect the quality of reviews, such as review standards and staff training.
In order to identify all the customer service reviews that SSA components conducted in Fiscal Year (FY) 1996, inquiries were sent to all Deputy Commissioners. The Deputy Commissioners were asked if any customer service reviews were conducted by their components and, if so, the purpose, cost, and frequency of each review. We received a response from each of the Deputy Commissioners. We then contacted the individual components identified as being involved in customer service reviews to obtain more specific information such as the professional background of the reviewers, the source of the request for the review, and the controls in place to ensure quality reviews.
While SSA has numerous initiatives to monitor its service to the public, these initiatives are not coordinated and some lack the rigor of professional standards. Additionally, two prior Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reviews and SSA’s Customer Service Executive Team’s independent contractor found that SSA’s sample sizes are often excessively large. Given the extent of resources committed to these initiatives, we recommend that SSA:
Develop a coordination mechanism to ensure that review resources are efficiently used (this is consistent with the recommendations of the Customer Service Executive Team’s contractor).
Perform cost-benefit evaluations of the sample sizes for customer service reviews conducted by the Agency in order to limit the staff hours required to perform those reviews.
Institutionalize existing Agency-wide professional standards for conducting customer service reviews.
Develop and publicize consistent training requirements for staff assigned to conduct customer service reviews in order to ensure the integrity of the reviews.
SSA acknowledged the need to better coordinate and integrate the Agency’s service monitoring activities, and has taken steps to meet this challenge. Earlier this year, SSA retitled the Chief Policy Officer position as the "Senior Advisor to the Commissioner on Customer Service Integration." This was done to reinforce the position’s role as principal contact and coordinator on both reinvention and customer service activities. Additionally, the Agency’s Customer Service Executive Team was reconvened to develop an integrated market measurement system.
In response to our recommendation on performing cost-benefit evaluations of sample sizes for reviews, SSA stressed that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reviews and approves all survey methodologies before they are undertaken by SSA. Further, SSA states that often a larger sample size is needed to provide breakdowns of responses by various subgroups.
In response to our recommendation that SSA institutionalize existing professional standards for conducting reviews, SSA acknowledged that, while these standards do exist, it will take steps to ensure greater visibility and understanding of the standards it employs.
OIG RESPONSE
Although both SSA and OMB review the statistical methods used for each customer service review, previous OIG reports and the report by the Customer Service Executive Team’s independent contractor have found that SSA’s sample sizes are often excessively large. We feel that the large size of some samples corresponds to the use of excessive resources. Accordingly, we continue to believe that SSA needs to ensure that it carefully evaluates the sample sizes of each review to ensure the most efficient use of resources.
OIG affirms its recommendation for establishing standards where there are currently none. The Agency should attempt to establish one set of standards for customer service reviews to help ensure the use of consistent standards and the production of valid and comparable results.
The objective of this evaluation was to catalog SSA’s efforts to monitor its service to the public and to identify monitoring gaps, duplicative efforts, and opportunities for improving coordination and quality.
OIG is conducting a series of inspections to evaluate how SSA monitors service to the public. The first two reports, How The Private Sector Monitors Customer Satisfaction (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, OEI-02-94-00060), issued in April 1994, and Monitoring Social Security`s Customer Service (OEI-02-94-00780), issued in April 1995, were benchmarking exercises that described how private "world-class" organizations assessed customer satisfaction and the quality of customer services. Based on the findings of the first two reports, we have begun to look at SSA’s practices in monitoring service to the public and its use of comment cards to collect agency-level, customer-based data. The use of comment cards to collect customer-based data is described in a separate report, The Social Security Administration’s Use of the Customer Comment Card, A-02-96-02203, issued in April 1997.
Other reviews by OIG raised questions about SSA’s practices in conducting customer service reviews. OIG’s report, Monitoring Field Office Waiting Time (OEI-02-95-00110), issued in December 1995, concluded that a dramatic reduction in the sample size used in SSA’s ongoing field office (FO) waiting time study would achieve efficiency with a negligible loss in the precision of the study results. Another OIG report, Audit of the Office of Program and Integrity Reviews’ Special Studies (A-13-96-51142), issued in February 1997, also noted deficiencies in statistical practices. Additionally, the report of the consultant to the Customer Service Executive Team found that sample sizes for customer service reviews were excessively large.
SSA’s Customers
SSA has pledged to provide world-class service to its many different customers. Clearly, in terms of raw numbers of encounters and political sensitivity, the individual is SSA’s most identifiable customer. SSA serves the public through 1,300 FOs and 33 teleservice centers (TSC). FOs serve over 24 million visitors annually and answer an unknown number of telephone calls. SSA’s 800 number receives about 70 million calls annually.
SSA’s Performance Standards
Many of SSA’s components have customer service delivery performance standards. Some examples of these are access to the 800 number within 5 minutes of the customer initiating the call, and providing service to FO visitors within 10 minutes of their scheduled appointment. SSA’s performance standards are published in four documents--the Customer Service Pledge, the Social Security Strategic Plan, the Accountability Report, and the General Business Plan. Many of SSA’s components independently developed these standards and their uncoordinated efforts may have led to gaps in coverage or overlapping efforts. Currently, some of the Agency`s performance standards are not being monitored, while others have multiple monitoring efforts. Failure to coordinate efforts may have resulted in inefficient use of monitoring resources.
There are administrative and legislative directives that directly affect how SSA monitors its performance in serving the public. They are Executive Order 12862, "Setting Customer Service Standards," which is part of the National Performance Review, and the Government Performance and Results Act.
As noted above, SSA’s performance standards are published in a number of documents. While not contradictory nor inconsistent, these documents were developed at different times and for different purposes. The Social Security Strategic Plan, first published in September 1991 and updated in 1997, was created as part of the unified planning system to create a vision of SSA for the 21st century. The General Business Plan, also part of the unified planning process, was published in February 1995 as a centralized statement of SSA’s business processes and operational plans. The development of the Accountability Report was encouraged by the Chief Financial Officers Act. The Customer Service Pledge was developed in 1993 in response to President Clinton’s Executive Order 12862, "Setting Customer Service Standards."
The Customer Service Pledge has eight performance standards, as follows:
We will provide service through knowledgeable employees who will treat you with courtesy, dignity, and respect every time you do business with us.
We will provide you with our best estimate of the time needed to complete your request and fully explain any delays.
We will clearly explain our decisions so you can understand why and how we made them and what to do if you disagree.
We will make sure our offices are safe, pleasant, and our services accessible.
When you make an appointment we will serve you within 10 minutes of the scheduled time.
If you request a new or replacement Social Security card from one of our offices, we will mail it to you within 5 working days of receiving all information we need. If you have an urgent need for the Social Security number, we will tell you the number within 1 working day.
When you call our 800 number, you will get through within 5 minutes of your first try.
SSA has also identified the following standard that it realizes is important to customers but that cannot be met at the present time:
When you first apply for disability benefits, you will get a decision within 60 days.
The 1997 Social Security Strategic Plan contains five service-delivery goals.
To promote valued, strong, and responsive Social Security programs through effective policy development, research and program evaluation.
To deliver customer-responsive world-class service.
To make SSA program management the best in business, with zero tolerance for fraud, abuse, and mismanagement.
To be an employer that values and invests in each employee.
To strengthen public understanding of the Social Security programs.
The General Business Plan has a section on "Service Standards & Performance Measures," but references only the eight standards in the customer service pledge in this section. It further references seven core business services and six service-delivery interfaces in other sections of the Plan. The Plan states that ". . . all existing measures of service delivery and overall Agency performance are being re-examined from the customer satisfaction perspective." This review will lead to the development of a revised performance management system for the Agency. Similarly, the Accountability Report lists performance measures both in the Overview and in a chapter on Program and Financial Performance Measures. This report contains the Agency’s financial statement and is updated annually.
In May 1997, SSA Executive Staff completed a series of meetings to revise the Agency’s Strategic Plan (ASP). The revised ASP has five new goals. Because of the revised ASP, the performance plan published in the FY 1998-2002 Business Plan is also being revised.
PRELIMINARY REVIEW
Based upon a review of the use of SSA`s FY 1995 generic clearances required by the Paperwork Reduction Act, we identified 11 different offices that are collecting customer-based data. Most are conducting ongoing monitoring studies. (See Table 1.)
SSA Components Currently Involved
in Monitoring Customer Service
Office of the Commissioner
OCOMM
Office of Central Records Operations
OCRO
Office of Disability
Office of International Policy
Office of Policy
Office of Program and Integrity Reviews
OPIR
Office of Public Service, Operations and Support
Office of Research and Statistics
Office of Workforce Analysis
Because of the number of components conducting reviews, we are concerned that SSA may not be applying uniform evaluation standards in all of its research/ evaluation components.
In order to identify all of the customer service reviews that SSA components conducted in FY 1996, inquiries were sent to all Deputy Commissioners. They were asked if any customer service reviews were conducted by their components and, if so, the purpose, cost, and frequency of each review. We received responses from every Deputy Commissioner. We then contacted each component identified to obtain more specific information, such as the professional backgrounds of the reviewers, the source of the request for the review, and the controls in place to ensure quality reviews.
Our review was conducted from April 1996 to February 1997. This evaluation was performed in accordance with the Quality Standards for Inspections issued by the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency.
Twenty-one reviews of customer service were performed by SSA in FY 1996. The methodologies used included focus groups, telephone or mail surveys, and observational studies. These reviews looked at telephone service (both local and 800 numbers), the application and disability determination processes, FO waiting times, customer and employer satisfaction, and electronic service delivery. It should be noted that, in addition to the reviews, SSA uses operational data to augment its customer service information.
Five components performed the reviews, with two of the components responsible for almost three quarters of the reviews. The Office of Program and Integrity Reviews was the predominant reviewer with nine, the Office of Communications was next with seven, followed by OIG with three, and the Office of Human Resources and the Office of Operations with one each.
The majority of requests for reviews came from within SSA. Aside from three studies requested by Congress, requests came from the Commissioner, the Chief Policy Officer (now the Senior Advisor to the Commissioner on Customer Service Integration), the Senior Financial Executive, and various Deputy Commissioners. Most (14) were considered 1-time reviews, while 7 are ongoing.
While most respondents reported having controls or procedures in place to ensure quality reviews, only one used externally-developed procedures, such as those provided by the General Accounting Office (GAO), OMB, or a professional society. The majority of respondents used internally-developed controls, such as reviewing all questionnaires and data entry to ensure accuracy. There was a lack of uniform standards and those used were developed by individual components to best meet their own needs. Additionally, one study conducted by individual FOs was decentralized; therefore, there was no uniform quality control in place. Only OIG used external controls. Its evaluations are guided by the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency Inspection Standards and its audits are guided by the GAO Government Auditing Standards.
The professional backgrounds of SSA`s reviewers varied greatly. Nearly all were social insurance specialists and a few were management analysts. The position description for social insurance specialists indicates that they are responsible for analyzing and reporting on the quality of Retirement and Survivors Insurance operations and nonmedical aspects of Disability Insurance operations and/or Supplemental Security Income operations. Their tasks include: conducting beneficiary interviews; analyzing quality review data; identifying weaknesses in the process; and preparing reports on regional, area, district office, program service center, and TSC effectiveness.
The position description for management analysts indicates that they are responsible for measuring the effectiveness of Agency legislation, policies, and procedures; assessing achievement of program goals; evaluating the economy and efficiency of operations; and identifying vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, and abuse in a selected program or issue area. Their tasks include: planning extensive pre-inspection research; coordinating the development and training of team members; offering direction to team members conducting on-site visits; reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating quantitative and narrative data submitted by the team; and developing a final report incorporating outside comments.
Most of the employees conducting the reviews have received general on-the-job training in the various aspects of reviews. This training included, but was not limited to, survey methods, report writing, statistics, graphic design, interviewing techniques, and questionnaire construction. We were not able to determine whether the training received by the reviewers would equate to the professional standards indicated for these reviews.
Customer service reviews are done independently by the SSA components identified previously and there is no reported coordination of these efforts. In fact, most respondents were not aware of any efforts within SSA to coordinate its various customer service reviews. However, three respondents reported that the recent creation of an executive team within SSA may address uncoordinated monitoring efforts. This team, the Customer Service Executive Team, was formed to update SSA’s customer service standards and performance measures, and to support its strategic planning. The team developed a Statement of Work that SSA used to obtain the assistance of an outside contractor to provide an independent assessment of SSA`s current input program and current standards and performance measures, and to make suggestions for improvements. The contractor submitted a report of its findings in April 1997.
There is another SSA initiative which may enhance coordination of customer service reviews. In February 1997, SSA changed the title of its Chief Policy Officer to "Senior Advisor to the Commissioner on Customer Service Integration." A responsibility of this position is to serve as the focal point in SSA for coordinating customer service initiatives.
The staff hours required to complete a review within SSA varied greatly. The range was from a low of 20 staff hours to a high of 14,600 staff hours. The median number of hours required to complete a review was approximately 1,000 staff hours. (See Table 2.)
Staff Hours by Review in FY 1996
STAFF HOURS
800# Evaluation - Caller Recontact
Field Office Wait Time
Initial Awardees Satisfaction
Initial Denials Satisfaction
Redetermination Satisfaction
Automated Service - "Perfect Access"
Employer Satisfaction
SI PEBES
Local Satisfaction Surveys
12th Annual Customer Satisfaction
Kiosk Evaluation
Benchmarking Notices
Test of Satisfaction Scales
System-to-System Access
Disability Packets
Public Information Material
Provider Packets
Payment Cycling II
Posters for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Review Team Focus Groups
While SSA has numerous initiatives to monitor its service to the public, these initiatives are not coordinated and some lack the rigor of professional standards. Additionally, two prior OIG reviews and the Customer Service Executive Team’s independent contractor found that SSA’s sample sizes are often excessively large. Given the extent of resources committed to these initiatives, SSA should:
Develop and publicize more consistent training requirements for staff assigned to conduct customer service reviews in order to ensure the integrity of the reviews.
SSA acknowledges the need to better coordinate and integrate the Agency’s service monitoring activities, and has taken steps to meet this challenge. Earlier this year, SSA retitled the Chief Policy Officer position to the "Senior Advisor to the Commissioner on Customer Service Integration." This was done to reinforce the position’s role as principal contact and coordinator on both reinvention and customer service activities. Additionally, the Agency’s Customer Service Executive Team was reconvened to develop an integrated market measurement system.
In response to our recommendation on performing cost/benefit evaluations of sample sizes for reviews, SSA stressed that its survey process does include evaluations of Agency benefit and that OMB reviews and approves all survey methodologies before they are undertaken. Further, SSA stated that often a larger sample size is needed to provide breakdowns of responses by various subgroups.
In response to our recommendation that SSA institutionalize existing professional standards for conducting reviews, SSA acknowledged that while these standards do exist it needs to take steps to ensure greater visibility and understanding. Also, SSA believes that the training requirements for the surveys conducted by the Agency are adequate. The full text of SSA’s comments, except for technical comments, is provided in Appendix A.
Although both SSA and OMB review the statistical methods used for each customer review, previous OIG reports and the report by the Customer Service Executive Team’s independent contractor have found that SSA’s sample sizes are often excessively large. We feel that the large size of some samples corresponds to the use of excessive resources. Accordingly, we continue to believe that SSA needs to ensure that it carefully evaluates the sample sizes of each review to ensure the most efficient use of resources.
OIG affirms its recommendation for establishing standards where there are currently none. The Agency should attempt to establish one set of standards for customer service reviews to help ensure the use of consistent standards and the production of valid and comparable results. Additionally, the training provided to the reviewers should equate to the professional standards indicated for these reviews, rather than be limited to the general on-the-job training currently provided.
MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS REPORT
E. Scott Patterson, Director, Evaluations and Technical Services
Timothy F. Nee, Acting Deputy Director
Tracey K. Rennie, Evaluator-in-Charge
Robert Blake, Senior Auditor
Evan Buckingham, Senior Evaluator
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Burgess Shale fossil site gives up oldest evidence of brood care
by University of Toronto
Waptia fieldensis (middle Cambrian) is seen with overlay of scanning electron microscope image highlighting location of eggs. Credit: Copyright: Royal Ontario Museum
Long before kangaroos carried their joeys in their pouches and honey bees nurtured their young in hives, there was the 508-million-year-old Waptia. Little is known about the shrimp-like creature first discovered in the renowned Canadian Burgess Shale fossil deposit a century ago, but recent analysis by scientists from the University of Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, and Centre national de la recherche scientifique has uncovered eggs with embryos preserved within the body of the animal. It is the oldest example of brood care in the fossil record.
"As the oldest direct evidence of a creature caring for its offspring, the discovery adds another piece to our understanding of brood care practices during the Cambrian Explosion, a period of rapid evolutionary development when most major animal groups appear in the fossil record," said Jean-Bernard Caron, curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum and associate professor in the Departments of Earth Sciences and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto.
Caron, along with Jean Vannier at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Lyon, France, describe the findings in a study published December 17 in Current Biology.
Waptia fieldensis is an early arthropod, belonging to a group of animals that includes lobsters and crayfish. It had a two-part structure covering the front segment of its body near the head, known as a bivalved carapace. Caron and Vannier believe the carapace played a fundamental role in how the creature practised brood care.
"Clusters of egg-shaped objects are evident in five of the many specimens we observed, all located on the underside of the carapace and alongside the anterior third of the body," said Caron.
Illustration of Waptia fieldensis (middle Cambrian) shows eggs brooded between the inner surface of the carapace and the body. Credit: Illustration: Danielle Dufault, Copyright: Royal Ontario Museum
The clusters are grouped in a single layer on each side of the body with no or limited overlapping among the eggs. In some specimens, eggs are equidistant from each other, while in others, some are are closer together, probably reflecting variations in the angle of burial and movement during burial. The maximum number of eggs preserved per per individuals probably reached 24.
"This creature is expanding our perspective on the diversification of brood care in early arthropods," said Vannier, the co-author of the study. "The relatively large size of the eggs and the small number of them, contrasts with the high number of small eggs found previously in another bivalved arthropod known as Kunmingella douvillei. And though that creature predates Waptia by about seven million years, none of its eggs contained embryos."
Kunmingella douvillei also presented a different method of carrying its young, as its eggs were found lower on the body and attached to its appendages.
The presence of these two different parental strategies suggests an independent and rapid evolution of a variety of methods of parental care of offspring. Together with previously described brooded eggs in ostracods from the Upper Ordovician period 450 million years ago, the discovery supports the theory that the presence of a bivalved carapace played a key role in the early evolution of brood care in arthropods.
The research appears in a study titled "Waptia and the diversification of brood care in early arthropods" published in Current Biology.
The 100 million year-old piggyback: Amber reveals earliest example of maternal care in insects
More information: Current Biology, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.201511.006
Journal information: Current Biology
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Demolition is the tearing down of buildings or structures partly or completely. Some projects require complete levelling while others simply need specific parts removed to be replaced. For every client call, we have a demolition expert equipped to do the job. Deconstruction differs from demolition in that, it involves tearing apart a building or a home in a manner that salvages materials. No matter how complex your project is, we are happy and ready to serve in Eden Prairie, MN.
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Hydraulic Breakers This strong hammer is built to withstand heavy and rigorous use. As one of the high-quality demolition tools used by our demo company, it offers greater productivity in regards to speed, efficiency and its overall performance.
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Hydraulic Shears and Rock Breakers They are able to demolish steel structures. Hydraulic shears are also used for recycling or secondary breaking. Rock Breakers are robust pounding hammers that are usually fitted to excavators. They are used to demolish rocks, as the name suggests or concrete.
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Cranes Demolition contractors use a crane to attach a wrecking ball. A demo company can also use a crane for moving materials on the different levels of the structure or building.
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Texas Hold’em poker takes it a step further. When playing offline, instead of playing against the house, you play against other players. If you lose a hand, most of your money goes to the winning player. If you win a hand, most of that money goes to you. Only a small percentage goes to the casino.
Bingo is similar to Texas Hold’em in this regards. Unlike blackjack or keno, where you play against the casino (in the form of a dealer in blackjack and more directly against the casino in keno), when you play bingo, you’re up against the other players. You do have to pay for each bingo card, which is how the bingo hall or casino makes its money.
Whether you play online or in brick and mortar casinos, you have to pay for each bingo card you use, and, unlike keno, you cannot pick which numbers appear on the card. In this sense, it’s impossible to avoid giving the gaming operator its money, whether it’s an online institution or a land based one, although you can adopt a simple strategy which increases your chances of winning at online bingo.
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While it’s important to remember that bingo is essentially a game of luck and there’s nothing an individual player can do to influence the outcome of a bingo draw, we explain some of the small things you can take into consideration to make your bingo games more successful.
Bingo exists primarily in two forms; the North American 75-ball version, and the European/Asian/Australian 90-ball version, which is also known throughout the world as Housie.
Bingo, the standard 75-ball version, uses a 5×5 card where numbers are posted on a grid. Across the top are the letters B-I-N-G-O, one letter for each vertical column. In each column a range of numbers shows up, and it’s different on every card. Numbers 1-15 show up under the B column, 16-30 under the I column, 31-45 under N, 46-60 under G, and 61-75 under O.
In the real life game, a device called an air hopper shoots out a ball which has a number on it between one and 75. The online version uses a random number generator (or RNGs) to accomplish the same thing. A caller announces the number based on which column it falls under, thus you may hear I-32, but you will never hear I-9, since the number 9 falls under the B column. The objective is to fill out an entire line, or in many cases a pattern that has been announced as the requirement to win, such as two rows down.
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Whichever version you play, the game itself is fairly basic and relies on luck of the draw. However, since bingo is a game in which you compete against other players, there are steps you can take to give yourself an advantage over everyone else.
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In the case of online bingo, you have the option of letting the computer automatically daub any numerical matches that get called out. This increase the number of cards you can play at once while eliminating the possibility of missing a match because you’re trying to keep track of too many cards, and is a solid reason to switch to online play.
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Xanax is one of the most popular medicines that is prescribed in the United States for its medicinal value. It is a brand name given to the generic form of the same drug, Alprazolam.
This medicine comes from the family of drugs known as Benzodiazepines. It is the single most prescribed drug that is categorized as psychiatric medication for people suffering from mental issues.
The FDA has approved this drug for the treatment of issues related to depression. However, some doctors also take this drug for chemotherapy-induced nausea along with other sorts of treatments. Xanax comes in a number of other forms as well.
You can get detailed information in the below-mentioned data. The generic form of Xanax is as effective as the brand name, though the price of Alprazolam (generic version) is a little lesser as compared to Xanax (brand drug).
What is The Use of Xanax?
The use of Xanax is to manage the symptoms of anxiety, panic attack, and depression. Mostly, the reason for depression to be faced by a person is anxiety.
Xanax or Alprazolam acts upon the chemicals inside the brain that are responsible for the disturbance. This unbalance in the activity of the brain is the reason for making a person suffer from anxiety.
As said above, there can be other uses of Xanax as well. Apart from Xanax, there are other drugs also that falls under the category of Benzodiazepines. These drugs are termed as stimulants that act over the brain and helps a person get relief from anxiety and its related issues.
This drug was firstly approved by the FDA in the year 1981. The drug act on the Central Nervous System (CNS) by producing a calming effect on the brain. It slows down the chemical movement inside the brain and reduces the nervous tension and anxiety.
Furthermore, it boosts up the naturally occurring chemical that is called GABA.
What Are The Types of Xanax?
As we inform you about the types of Xanax and how they are used, let us give you a brief note on certain points. There has been an increase in the number of patients getting addicted to the use of Xanax or Alprazolam.
It can be rightly said that the increase rate of Xanax addicts is due to the misuse or overuse of the drug. Unfortunately, Xanax is one among the commonly abused drugs even when a person takes it according to the prescription.
Though patients might get addicted to Xanax, they’ll be soberer once they have completely withdrawn from the drug. The person will feel more energized and have health benefits that will eventually improve the overall functioning of the body.
Along with these, there are other mental health benefits such as – increased and focused concentration, improvised level of self-confidence, low depression levels.
Now, coming back to the types of Xanax bars, this drug has several other features that should be taken as per the need of the person. Below are listed the types of Xanax that are commonly used by the patients –
White Xanax Bars –
Mostly, all the medicines that we see around are of white color. You can also say that white is the most common color of drugs as it is easy to denote. White Xanax bars are a type of Xanax that is sold on the street by the name ‘sticks.’ This form of Xanax comes in 2mg strength and is also high in effectiveness.
People are advised to be aware of the dose of Xanax as 4mg is considered the maximum dosage in a day. Not only white Xanax bar but other types of Xanax as well that comes in bar (rectangular) shape are of 2mg value.
Yellow Xanax Bars –
Yellow Xanax Bar, as the name says is a yellow color tablet that is also considered as the generic form of Xanax. This tablet also comes in a rectangular shape and has R039 imprinted on one side of the pill. Many people may not know that a yellow Xanax tablet can also be found in 1mg dose.
Most commonly, a yellow Xanax comes in 2mg power that is very effective and should not be taken in one go without asking a doctor. As you make up your mind to purchase Xanax, take consultation from a health expert, and follow the direction given by him/her.
Green Xanax Bars –
These are green color tablets that are quite similar to white and yellow Xanax. Talking in terms of effectiveness and strength of the pill, all three works exactly the same. A dose of green Xanax bar consists of 2mg drug in one single bar or tablet. On the street, people also call this tablet by other names like – Hulk Xanax or monster Xanax. Apart from this, green Xanax is the costliest and also rarely seen the form of Xanax medication.
Peach Xanax Tablet –
This is the lowest dose of Xanax that is used for less severe cases of anxiety. A peach Xanax bar comes in an orangish or peachy color pill that is oval in shape. On the front of the tablet, number 257 is imprinted, that is its unique identification. The strength of a peach Xanax is 0.5mg per dose.
Pink Xanax –
Pink Xanax is a common dosage of Xanax that is smaller and comes in the strength of 0.5mg. This dose of Xanax is considered suitable for treating lower cases of anxiety and panic disorder. You can also say that it is quite similar to a peach Xanax pill.
The shape of a Pink Xanax is oval or round. There are not many pharmaceutical industries that are producing this type of Xanax on a wide range. It is due to the low strength of tablet and doctors do not recommend this dose to most of the patients suffering from anxiety or panic-related issues.
Blue Xanax –
A blue Xanax tablet comes in an oval shape and is blue in color. On the street side, sellers also name it as blue football because of the color and shape it acquire. The dose of a blue Xanax is 2mg in strength.
The shape of this tablet is round and has 031 R imprinted on one side of the drug. The imprints that are marked on the pill are to make the tablet differ from the others.
Blue Xanax Bars –
Blue Xanax bar is a type of Xanax that is similar in work and effect as other forms of the same drug. A pill of blue Xanax bar comes in the shape of a rectangle. It has B707 imprinted on one side of the drug that makes the drug unique in identity.
This tablet comes in 2mg power which is common for Xanax bars. All of the tablets of Xanax that comes in bar shape are of 2mg strength. It is also considered a high dose of Xanax and shall only be taken as per the doctor’s advice.
Liquid Xanax –
Liquid Xanax is also a kind of Xanax that is used for treating anxiety and panic disorder. The effect of liquid Xanax is almost equal to the Xanax tablets that are prescribed by the doctor.
2mg of Xanax in tablet form is equal to 1ml of liquid Xanax. Sometimes, a liquid Xanax is also termed as “Liquid Bliss.” The only difference between a tablet and liquid Xanax is in the way they are taken, and the time they may take to affect your system.
Are There Any Side Effects of Xanax?
There are a few side effects of Xanax that may emerge within a period of time. Although the drug is mostly prescribed and consumed in the United States, it still has certain side effects that are way too dangerous to your health.
The possibility of side effects occurs at the beginning of the treatment. They also take less time to wear-off from your system. However, in order to stay safe from these side effects, ask your doctor to give you precautionary measures.
List of side effects that mainly occur are:
Feeling lightheaded
Trouble in memory retention
Confused state
There were the side effects that mainly occur in the case of Xanax abuse or misuse. Generally, if the dose of Xanax is taken as per the guidelines provided by the health expert, it won’t harm your system.
Apart from the side effects that are listed above, there are some rare symptoms also that may occur at times. These are severe in terms as compared to the ones mentioned above.
Severe Side Effects of Xanax:
Unusual risk-taking behavior
Pounding heartbeats
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Boston, Massachusetts, 1936 to at least 1984.
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Son of Henri Lahaise, brother of Robert Lahaise; with father and brother in Henri Lahaise & Sons of Boston, Massachusetts, service; succeeded brother in firm, 1984; active in 1989.1 Richard Lahaise died January 3, 2010.2
David H. Fox, A Guide to North American Organbuilders (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991) 183.
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Spring Songs EP
by Ian Cohen
On Kingston, Penn., punk outfit Title Fight's ambitious new Spring Songs EP, the group softens their sound without forfeiting the hooks or energy of their previous releases.
Featured Tracks:
"Be a Toy" — Title FightVia SoundCloud
Title Fight are from Kingston, Penn., an erstwhile coalmining town in the northeast part of the Keystone State that uses Wilkes-Barre as its metropolitan reference point. Though its punk scene is vibrant and tight-knit, to the point of being kinda quaint, a band looking to break out on a national level needs an almost pathological level of ambition. Of course, you need great songs as well and Title Fight have plenty of those. But as a melodic punk band that functions within a realm that doesn’t have much use for typical signifiers of compositional ambition, their drive is trickier to quantify, a “most likely to succeed” kind that can smack as careerism in the wrong hands. The quartet are productive, they respect their elders (Quicksand/Rivals Schools’ Walter Schreifels produced their proper debut LP, 2011's Shed), they roll with the winners (collaborators and tourmates such as Balance & Composure and Touché Amoré), they’ve been on three different labels amenable to their sound at the time and they tour relentlessly. That and they have no time for bullshit—Title Fight’s Twitter account has over 32,000 followers and zero "followings", which makes them look far more focused than antisocial.
So, it’s interesting to see their Spring Songs EP called “ambitious” by onlookers, as if that's a new quality for Title Fight. In a way it’s backhanded, suggesting that their previous influences such as Lifetime or Jawbreaker or Saves the Day were necessarily stepping stones to the trad indie-rock sound captured here. But it’s worth keeping in mind that Title Fight are still barely out of their teens, and you know what? That’s not an atypical listening progression for someone who’s growing up right along with Title Fight. And so Spring Songs does manifest a new kind of ambition, which is the band staking out different territory and hoping their fans come along.
The arrangement makes for a tidy introduction: two songs on two sides, split equally between their two vocalists, Ned Russin and Jamie Rhoden. Moreover, half of Spring Songs finds the vocals lunging out from the newly warm and analog production, the other have them more nestled within the handsomely textured, melodic guitar leads. The permutations allow Title Fight the ability to show just how little they needed to change their overall approach to edge into a new aesthetic. The Rhoden-led “Be A Toy” susses out the musical currency existing between early-90s Merge and mid-90s pop-punk as well as the emotional underpinning—I mean both cohorts were accused of being “slackers," right? And “Be A Toy” finds common ground in a line like “do you regret being used/are you used to it yet?”, trying to get your rocks off while feeling like crap. Meanwhile, “Blush” counters with the rawer-voiced Russin raging over sour guitars for an effect that’s hooky and also jagged—it’s probably what A&Rs had in mind when trying to find that bridge between Nevermind and Dookie.
In most aspects, Spring Songs is the loosest Title Fight recording. Ranging from 2:30-4:00 and removing the BPM and rhythmic strictures of punk, these would all be among the longer tracks on previous LPs Shed and Floral Green. Yet, it’s their tightest, most hook-focused songwriting yet. The spare, midtempo “Receiving Line” gives Russin’s lyrics more sonic space to be heard and as a result, a typically topical Title Fight song allows the listener more freedom of interpretation. You sense the emotional tenor when Russin sings “we drove my car that weekend/ 100 miles barely speaking," and with an understated economy of words, he gives just enough inside information to pique interest rather than full disclosure “‘I’m sorry for your loss’/you probably get that a lot/we didn’t have to talk/you probably get that.” “Evolution” feels like the proper term here, as Title Fight are simply teasing out certain aspects that were present of their previous two LPs, particularly Floral Green. And if there are any qualms to be had, it’s in the sense that you’ll be hearing these again soon, that Spring Songs is a teaser rather than a standalone for a band that would probably feel very lazy if they ended 2013 without a proper release.
But Spring Songs does leave a lot to the imagination and not simply in the matter of “what will the next Title Fight album sound like?” Here we have a rock band on an independent record label, whose sound and work ethic are unmistakably punk. And yet, you’re more likely to hear electro-pop or major-label bands such as Chvrches or Haim called “indie” more often than Title Fight. How is that? Is it because most of time, genre tags are used to described the perceived fanbase than the music itself? If that's the case, Title Fight really are going indie rock on Spring Songs. But even if it reaches people who aren't familiar with their past work, Spring Songs helpfully shows Title Fight as pretty much the same thing they've always been: an ambitious band that makes very good songs.
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Update: Bush, Clinton cancel joint event
A joint event featuring both former president has been cancelled.
Washington (CNN) - A representative for former President Bill Clinton is confirming a report that a scheduled event featuring Clinton and former President George W. Bush has been cancelled by the two ex-presidents.
Radio City Music Hall had announced that the two former presidents were set to share the legendary venue's stage on February 25.
But the New York Post reported on Wednesday afternoon that Bush and Clinton have cancelled the event because the promoter had "overhyped" the joint appearance.
In an e-mail to CNN, Clinton spokesman Matt McKenna confirmed the New York Post's report.
Earlier, McKenna had stressed that the New York event would not be a heated debate.
"Just a moderated conversation...no fireworks," he said.
Earlier: Bush, Clinton to appear at Radio City Music Hall
–CNN's Alexander Mooney and Kay Jones contributed to this report.
Filed under: Bill Clinton • Extra • George W. Bush • Popular Posts
Obama gets personal, shares oldest daughter's test scores
Related: Obama highlights federal grants for education reform
Filed under: Education • Obama family • President Obama
Palin: NY-23 race 'just postponed until 2010'
CNN's Lauren Kornreich
Sarah Palin said the race in NY-23 is 'just postponed until 2010.'
(CNN) - Democrat Bill Owens may have won last night's special election in New York's 23rd congressional district - but Sarah Palin said Wednesday that race "is not over."
Writing on Facebook early Wednesday morning, the former Alaska governor praised Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman and "all the other under-dog candidates who have the courage to put themselves out there and run against the odds."
"The race for New York's 23rd District is not over, just postponed until 2010," Palin wrote. "The issues of this election have always centered on the economy – on the need for fiscal restraint, smaller government, and policies that encourage jobs. In 2010, these issues will be even more crucial to the electorate."
Owens – the first Democrat to win this district since the 19th century – is up for re-election in 2010.
Palin, along with prominent conservatives Tim Pawlenty, Fred Thompson and Dick Armey, backed Hoffman last month over then-Republican nominee, Dede Scozzafava, who dropped out the weekend before Election Day. The race garnered national attention over the Republican Party split between the Scozzafava and the more conservative Hoffman.
Filed under: Bill Owens • Doug Hoffman • NY-23 • Popular Posts • Sarah Palin
Senate throws a lifeline to the jobless
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - After weeks of partisan debate, the Senate voted on Wednesday to lengthen unemployment benefits by up to 20 weeks and to extend the $8,000 homebuyer tax credit.
The closely watched legislation would extend jobless benefits in all states by 14 weeks. Those that live in states with unemployment greater than 8.5% would receive an additional six weeks. The proposal would be funded by extending a longstanding federal unemployment tax on employers through June 30, 2011.
The measure would apply to those whose benefits will run out by Dec. 31, which is nearly two million people, according to Senate estimates. Those whose checks have already stopped would be able to reapply for another round.
The vote was 98 to 0.
The measure now moves to the House, which passed its own benefits extension in September, giving an additional 13 weeks in high-unemployment states. The two bills must now be reconciled, though the House is expected to support the Senate's version.
Full story on CNNMoney.com
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Obama calls McDonnell to offer congratulations
CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby
Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell, a Republican, told reporters Wednesday that President Obama called to wish him congratulations after his win Tuesday.
RICHMOND, Virginia (CNN) - Virginia's Republican Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell took a congratulatory phone call from President Obama the morning after his landslide victory over Democrat Creigh Deeds, McDonnell told reporters Wednesday.
The call came shortly after 11 a.m. this morning, he said.
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The White House said Wednesday that the president called the winners of all of last night's races, including Republican Gov.-elect Chris Christie of New Jersey, Democrat Bill Owens of New York's 23rd congressional district, and independent New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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GOP continues boycott of committee debate on climate bill
Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Sen. Boxer, are boycotting hearings on a climate change bill.
Washington (CNN) - A Republican boycott of Senate committee debate on a major climate change bill continued for a second day Wednesday, frustrating majority Democrats who have threatened to move ahead despite the lack of a GOP presence.
Only one of the seven Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee showed up Wednesday when the panel started its meeting on the bill authored by Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts.
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CNN Exit Polls – November 3, 2009 – New Jersey and Virginia
TOPICS: Exit polls in New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections
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David Axelrod said the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia were 'impacted by state issues.'
(CNN) - Top White House aide David Axelrod brushed off Democratic electoral losses in Virginia and New Jersey Wednesday, calling the congressional race in New York's 23rd district the "only national race of consequence."
Axelrod told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey were "impacted by state issues" and that they were not national races. He said the results of those races should not intimidate moderate Democrats, who he said should focus instead on the election in upstate New York, where a Democrat won the seat for the first time in over 100 years.
"That's the race that most members of Congress are going to look at with interest, and that's the race they should," Axelrod said. "Because the message was, if you embrace the president's agenda… then you will do well and you'll energize voters and you'll get the kind of turnout you need to win your race."
Many Republicans have called the race in NY-23 a unique situation - since the local GOP appointed the nominee instead of conducting a primary, which they say Hoffman would have won - Axelrod called the chaotic contest evidence of an intra-party split.
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The West is tough terrain for Democrats
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Denver, Colorado (CNN) - The western United States, with its independent streak and growing population, is the terrain both political parties are hoping to mine for electoral gains in the coming years.
With Denver hosting the 2008 Democratic Convention and a more concentrated effort in the region, the Obama campaign was able to capture Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada in last year's presidential election. Some Democrats hoped those results foretold a transformation, but a year later, political experts are saying not so fast.
Related video: Colorado senator discusses challenges
The West gives President Obama his lowest approval ratings, and the Democratic Party has a 45 percent approval rating in the area - the only region in the country in which it gets under 50 percent, according to an October 16-18 CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll.
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Investigative reporter Gretchen Hammond exposes alleged massive elder abuse & Exploitation Ring Michigan probate court
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LOS ANGELES , CA, USA, August 26, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GRETCHEN RACHEL HAMMOND EXPOSES
ALLEGED MASSIVE ELDER ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION RING IN MIGHIGAN PROBATE COURTS
The guardianship system isn’t new; in fact, it’s rooted in medieval English law. Every US state still uses some form of the system, which, at its best, is designed to protect citizens who are no longer able to protect themselves by declaring them wards of the state. We know, of course, that the system is rarely at its best, with increasing reports of abuse cropping up nationwide, prompting Congressional calls for reform.
But the level of controversy over how guardianship cases are handled in one Detroit-area probate courtroom has reached such heights, the story reads more like Orwellian fiction than it does a model of the American experience.
An unsettling number of accusations have been leveraged against the court, citing abuse, neglect, robbery, and exploitation, often in cases that arguably didn’t merit guardianship in the first place. In as little as a year, “incapacitated wards” are stripped of the entirety of their savings and possessions and rendered completely reliant upon social services and benefits such as Medicaid. Even high-profile families, including the estates of Rosa Parks and Aretha Franklin, have been drawn into the quagmire.
Award-winning investigative journalist Gretchen Rachel Hammond spent the past 13 months independently investigating a systemic problem at the Oakland County Probate Court, which has allegedly been shielded by the highest levels of Michigan government for the past 30-some years. With the help of a forensic accountant, three Wayne State University Journalism School researchers, and thousands of corroborating documents, she has published a first-of-its-kind exploration into the court system, its four judges, four guardians, and the stories behind more than 2,200 wards.
In July 2018, Hammond engaged in a freelance, self-funded investigation to determine if alleged abuses at the Oakland County Probate Court were systemic.
Discoveries include the forced separation of families and isolation of the vulnerable; fraudulent petitions for guardianship by Adult Protective Services investigators; massive overbilling; the forced removal of individuals from their homes and the placement of them in nursing facilities or unlicensed group homes with subhuman living conditions; real estate fraud; and missing assets that number in the millions of dollars.
The investigation met with constant challenges, including threats and harassment by Oakland County Sheriff’s officers. A surreal March 12, 2019 four-hour meeting between Hammond’s team and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s staff led to a new line of inquiry and discoveries of campaign ties between Nessel, Whitmer and Oakland County Probate Court Chief Judge Kathleen Ryan and her family.
Gretchen Rachel Hammond is an award-winning freelance investigative journalist based out of Chicago. Her work has won or been nominated for four successive Chicago Press Club awards, been recognized by the National Association of Lesbian and Gay Journalists (NLGJA), and covered topics such as criminal justice, abuse at ICE detention facilities, and alleged discrimination on the part of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services leading to the unnecessary separation of children from their parents.
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