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1-Year Hands-on Acting Conservatory NYC Program
Acting School
Overview of our 1-Year Acting Conservatory NYC Program
The New York Film Academy acting programs are unlike any other actor training programs in the world—cutting-edge explorations into the art and practice of acting for the screen.
NYFA Hosts Alumnus Manuel Garcia Rulfo
The One-Year Acting Conservatory runs on an eight-month calendar, divided into two sixteen-week semesters. Each of the sixteen-week semesters requires intensive time demands and a complete commitment on the part of the student.
A standard week of study involves additional time in the evenings and on weekends for classes, rehearsals, and shoots.
WHAT MAKES OUR ACTING PROGRAMS UNIQUE?
PRACTICAL HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE
The best way to learn how to act in films is to actually act in films. Our students begin acting in front of the camera from the first week of the program. Every week, students get the opportunity to practice the techniques and skills they have gained in class with exercises that are shot and reviewed.
PROFESSIONAL FACULTY
Our instructors are working veterans of Hollywood and independent film, Broadway and Off-Broadway.
Many of our programs feature the production of short films or scenes that are created by and star our acting students. These are shot and edited together and may be used for students' own reels.
FILMMAKING RESOURCES
Our Acting for Film and Filmmaking programs work hand-in-hand, providing all of our students with resources such as film equipment, live film shoots, and a network of filmmakers, screenwriters, producers, and editors that is developed before entering the real world.
REEL MATERIALS
We provide all of our students with shot and edited materials that are suitable to put on an actor's reel.
SEMESTER ONE OVERVIEW
Please note that the learning and performance goals are subject to change depending on location. The below goals are for the acting conservatory NYC program on the Academy’s NYC campus. Students should consult their catalogs for any differences in the LA curriculum.
The first semester concentrates on building a foundation in the craft of acting, using training techniques rooted in the theater but applicable to screen acting. Students participate in a broad array of core classes that introduce them to finding the actor within, while simultaneously training their instrument to do the kind of technical, emotional, and physical work necessary for film acting. Since we believe that film actors also benefit immeasurably from working in front of a live audience, in addition to work in front of the camera, training in the first semester builds towards a live performance.
LEARNING GOALS:
Understand the fundamental principles of acting for film.
Grounding in classical scene study and acting techniques.
Fundamentals of script and text analysis.
Survey and examination of film studies from a film actor’s perspective.
Exposure and practice in a variety of vocal techniques.
PRODUCTION GOALS:
Perform in a live monologue presentation.
Shoot in-class on camera scenes for critique.
Participate in a Film Craft shoot.
SEMESTER TWO OVERVIEW
In the second semester, the core classes continue as the students' focus intensifies on applying the techniques they have learned to more elaborate scene work, on-camera exercises, and film shoots—all designed to develop and hone their screen-acting ability. All students perform in film or video shoots, oftentimes, original work that was created and developed by the students in collaboration with their instructors. In addition, a variety of classes are given to broaden students' knowledge of acting techniques, the film business, and the many different aspects of filmmaking that impact the actor's ability to perform on set.
The second semester culminates in four public presentations of student work and one honors presentation. These include a live Improvisation performance, a Meisner technique open demonstration, a Scene Study showcase performance, and a screening of student film productions.
Intermediate training in acting principles.
Grounding in intermediate scene study and acting for film.
Intermediate training in Vocal, Movement and Improvisation work.
Perform in a short film.
Perform in a taped Improvisation presentation.
Perform in a taped, year-end, scene study presentation.
Meisner technique open demonstration.
Please note that the courses are subject to change depending on location. The below courses are for the Academy’s NYC campus. Students should consult their catalogs for any differences in the LA curriculum.
Acting Technique I
Acting for Film I
Voice and Movement I
Scene Study I
Improvisation I
Audition Technique
Text in Action
Performance Analysis I
Acting for Film II
Scene Study II
Meisner I
Voice and Movement II
Improvisation II
Acting for Television
Combat for Film
Performance Analysis II
The Business of Acting
Students are introduced to foundational acting practices and tools necessary to deliver quality performances when they do not have a scene partner on which to rely. Students work on monologues from theatre and film sources that help them find a personal relationship to character and text and command attention at auditions and professional performances.
Acting for Film I provides students with an environment to facilitate confidence and familiarity with acting in front of the camera. The primary emphasis of the class is the technical requirements and practice of film acting. Students learn specific practices to assist in relating to the camera such as learning to adjust the performance for specific shot size, and foundational on-camera technique. Film set terminology and etiquette will also be addressed.
In the voice segment of this course, students learn to access the natural voice through relaxation exercises designed to improve alignment and alleviate habitual tension. During the movement portion, students increase the access and involvement of their body in acting work and experiment with different ways of becoming physically present in their work. Elements of various approaches are taught, including modern dance, yoga, Alexander Technique, and Laban movement.
Students learn to break scenes down into units or beats, identify and develop the arc of a scene, and develop awareness of the evolution of scenes from moment to moment. Students have the chance to incorporate the skills learned in this class, as well as the various other skills covered in the first term, into a taped live presentation of a monologue at the end of the term.
In this introductory class, students work with basic elements of speech, such as anatomical awareness, use of the articulators, and operative words in text according to the principles of Skinner and Knight-Thompson speech work. Students will be introduced to the history and context of the General American Dialect as well as the International Phonetic Alphabet.Learning the role of each key player on a film set dramatically increases the actor’s ability to collaborate with filmmakers in developing dynamic performances. In this course, students explore filmmaking through classes on directing, cinematography, producing, screenwriting, and editing. Students participate in an in-class shoot, utilizing skills gained in the course.
In order to truly be effective actors, students must learn how to skillfully nurture their instincts and freely release their creative impulses. Through a variety of exercises designed to help cast off inhibitions, actors experiment with the group dynamics and individual expression vital to vibrant and truthful performances.
Students learn about the etiquette, practice, and procedure of audition structures along with techniques to effectively deliver successful audition performances. Students work with a variety of sides from commercial to TV series regular, and participate in an open call for the school’s filmmaking students.
This course teaches core skills necessary for maintaining the integrity of a performance. Text in Action focuses on the analysis and mapping skills required while shooting out of sequence. Students examine contemporary playwrights and screenwriters, examining plot structure and extracting given circumstances, and learn to utilize these fundamental tools for rehearsal and performance.
Shakespeare exposes students to the special skills required in the work of William Shakespeare that are directly transferrable to the work of the film actor. In order to gain a better appreciation of this master playwright, students use a variety of text analysis approaches including key poetic and rhetorical devices.
Students view and participate in discussions of pivotal film performances throughout the last century to develop an appreciation and technical understanding of the methods, choices, and effects of various styles of acting. This course develops the actor’s ability to assess and draw key lessons from viewing the work of master actors in key film performances.
In this introductory course, students work with basic elements of speech, such as anatomical awareness, use of the articulators, and the value of operative words in text according to the principles of Skinner and Knight-Thompson speechwork. Students are introduced to the history and context of the General American Dialect as well as the International Phonetic Alphabet for later use in dialect study.
Students apply training learned in term one to more advanced on-camera exercises focused on finding the arc of the character and learning to maintain the integrity of the script while shooting out of sequence. Students prepare scripts and digitally tape scenes to be screened for critique in class by their instructor. Emphasis is placed on the actor’s work in pre-production and preparation of a role in a professional setting. The course culminates in a four-day shoot on location with a five-member production team and professional post-production.
This course advances lessons learned in Scene Study I by incorporating work on text, including scene structure and the arc of dramatic action in scenes while utilizing the actor's imagination to develop a world based on given circumstances of the script or screenplay. Key lessons involve the evolution of beat development and its contribution to rising action as well as the collaborative relationship necessary for effective scene work between partners. Students learn the value of rehearsal and the role of improvisation in work on scripted scenes as well as how to diversify their creative choices and develop fully fleshed characters. Students also gain experience presenting their work in front of a live audience.
This course is an introduction to the acting approach formulated by the late Sanford Meisner. Largely based on listening, observation, and immediacy, the Meisner technique helps actors to create rich emotionally truthful performances by being grounded in the reality of both textual and momentary given circumstances.
In a continuation of their work during first term, students focus on knowledge gleaned in Voice and Movement I to begin to work creatively with the body and voice in character creation and storytelling. Projects heighten in complexity and develop education from the first term.
Building on Improvisation I, this course continues to encourage students to use their creative impulses to develop their improvisational skills through a variety of individual and group exercises. Students work through the evolution of short form improvisational exercises into long form scenes. The course culminates in a public performance at the end of the second term.
Acting for Television introduces students to skills and techniques necessary for translating performance from single-camera production to multi-camera production. Students focus on performing two basic three-camera television genres: procedurals and sitcoms. Students study an overview of these formats, and learn the preproduction process including individual preparation, rehearsal, and last minute script or blocking changes. Students have the opportunity to experience the speed that is part of television production as each student performs scenes from each genre. Students also supplement the technical crew in production duties, and act as background extras or under-fives.
Combat for Film covers the fundamental principles of unarmed film combat. With emphasis on safety, students will learn a basic vocabulary of slaps, punches, kicks, hair pulls, rolls, and other fight-related illusions. Angles for camera viability are introduced, allowing each student to know how best to enact a safe and effective moment of physical violence for screen. Exercises are filmed and critiqued in class.
A continuation of Performance Analysis I, this course offers an in-depth look at a series of film performances, each of which is viewed and becomes a common reference point and teaching example of significant and quality working the discipline. Students view and participate in discussions of pivotal film performances of the last 50 years to develop an appreciation and a technical understanding of the methods, choices, and effects of various acting styles as the discipline of acting for film evolved to present day.
Instructors assist students in understanding best practices and current trends in headshots, resumes, representation, reels, and casting. Students are introduced to performance unions and their respective histories as well as contemporary marketing skills and tools. Students are also introduced to the processes for contact with casting directors and agents, and the proper etiquette for dealing with industry professionals during the audition and interview process.
Fees Per Year
Tuition: $34,820 (USD)
January 2020 - September 2020
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Singapore Night Safari a wild way to spend the evening
27 Oct, 2019 12:00pm
A tram ride through Singapore's Night Safari gets visitors up close to a variety of animals, including tapirs. Photo / Supplied
By: Melissa Nightingale
NZ Herald reporter based in Wellington
melissa.nightingale@nzherald.co.nz @mel_nightingale
When things go bump and roar in the darkness, there is no need for fear, writes Melissa Nightingale.
I'm trekking alone through stifling hot darkness, surrounded by dense forest and the sounds of wilderness. In the distance, something begins to roar.
It sounds like a scene from Jurassic Park. Surely any moment something large and toothy will burst through the trees and devour me with one quick chomp of its deadly jaws.
But there are no dinosaurs here and all the large, toothy creatures are safely contained.
I'm at the Night Safari in Singapore, a 35ha nocturnal wildlife park connected to the local zoo.
Attracting about 1.9 million visitors every year, the Night Safari has close to 900 animals from about 11 species, of which almost 41 per cent are threatened.
In line with its mission to promote biodiversity, the park focuses on the captive breeding of threatened species, and has successfully bred Malayan tigers and Asiatic elephants and lions, among other threatened species.
The Wildlife Reserves Singapore Night Safari has non-restrictive enclosures with minimal fencing that allow animals to exhibit their natural behaviours at a safe distance. Photo / Supplied
Some of the animals here are free roaming - as I discovered when a bat nearly flew into my face several times.
But importantly the ones that might actually want to devour me are separated by moats from the public, kept in non-restrictive enclosures with minimal fencing that allow them to exhibit their natural behaviours at a safe distance from visitors.
When I arrive at the park on a muggy midweek night, I head straight for the tram. The ride takes passengers through sections of the park, with recorded commentary providing interesting facts about the animals.
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The park is specially set up so the lighting mimics the brightness of a full moon filtering down through the trees. It means visitors can see where they're going and what the animals are doing, but it makes photos a tricky business.
Striped Hyena at the Singapore Night Safari. Photo / Getty Images
There's a huge range of wildlife - from rhinos and white African lions to flocks of flamingos and an elusive tiger - and that's just what you can see from the tram.
My feet are aching from a day of exploring Singapore, but as the ride comes to an end I know I can't leave the park without checking out the walking trails that take you through parts of the zoo not accessed by the tram.
I spend some time at the first enclosure watching the fishing cat wading stealthily through the ponds looking for its dinner while a turtle swims nearby. It pointedly ignores the crowd of people watching, in true cat fashion.
There's a steady stream of people on the trails, but also the occasional moment where I find myself alone in the darkness, surrounded by chirping crickets.
It's not scary - at least for me it isn't - until I reach a section of the trail where something appears to be scurrying alongside me in the bushes. Whatever is following me sounds too large to be a rat and sends me off on some panicked scurrying of my own.
When you're not running away from ominous noises in the shadows, it's wonderful to stop and take time to watch the animals going about their nightly business.
In one habitat, a large branch is suspended in front of a window, covered in assorted bits of fruit, across which the bats inside have gleefully draped themselves.
In another enclosure, a group of dinosaur-like Indian gharial crocodiles glides through the water. It's mesmerising to watch the silent, smooth way they move, and they're so close I could almost lean over the railing and touch them.
I catch myself wondering how much room and run-up a crocodile needs to propel itself out of the water and swallow up an unsuspecting tourist.
Singapore Night Safari has several walking trails that take you through parts of the zoo not accessed by tram. Photo / Getty Images
I carry on through the park, and that's when the roaring starts. As I make my way toward the sound, I come across a tour group, whose guide is explaining to them how the lions roar to let other lions know where they are. It's a way for them to stake their claim on an area and warn other lions not to come into their territory.
I intend to do only two of the four walking trails because I'm so tired, but the deeper I go into the zoo the more I want to see. Oh, the tiger enclosure is just this way? I guess a detour won't hurt . . .
Of course, I end up "detouring" the whole way through the park.
I finally emerge from the trails about 11pm, exhausted, awed and uneaten.
Not a bad way to end the night.
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If a wine is good, why age it in costly oak barrels?
Updated Mar 27, 2019; Posted Apr 05, 2009
By Special to The Oregonian
These wines don't need mask of aging in oak barrels
By MATT KRAMER
Special to The Oregonian
Few subjects among wine lovers are more vexing than the issue of oak. Anyone who has visited a winery has surely seen --indeed, wineries make sure that you can't miss them --row after row of small oak barrels.These small oak barrels typically hold 225 liters or 60 gallons of wine, the equivalent of 300 bottles (25 cases). They are among some wineries' most costly annual expenses. Depending on the exchange rate, one new French oak barrel can cost between $700 and $1,200. And the sought-after flavor that a new barrel can impart to a wine, red or white, is exhausted after just three years of use. Then it's just a neutral vessel.
So why is the issue of oak so vexing? It's an aesthetic matter that comes down to one question: How much do you want your wine to smell and taste of oak rather than of the wine itself? New oak barrels impart a scent and taste of vanilla as well as some spiciness.
Different oaks from different forests have more or less of these and other flavors. Then, how the barrels are treated --what's called the "toast" is char created inside the barrel by the fire that heats the staves so that they can be bent into a barrel shape --adds yet another flavor element. Some wineries like what's called a heavy toast, which imparts to a wine a sweetish, caramelized flavor.
All of the above applies only to new oak barrels. Most wineries prefer to use a mixture of older barrels that are flavor-neutral along with a small number of new barrels. Partly this is because of expense and partly because it allows a greater nuance in flavoring a wine.
So what's best? There's no "right" way and no recipe, either. Much depends on the flavor intensity and scale of the wine itself (bigger, richer wine can absorb more new oak flavor) and, not least, the palates of the winemaker and winery owner.
That said, the wine-drinking public likes oak: Vanilla is catnip for humans. To borrow from H.L. Mencken, no winery ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public for oak.
Chardonnay "Inox" 2007, Chehalem: As best as I know, Chehalem winery in Newberg is not going broke. Nevertheless, it is certainly taking the road less lucrative by issuing an Oregon-grown chardonnay that doesn't see a splinter of oak. Chehalem's 2007 chardonnay designated "Inox" (from inoxydable, the French word for stainless steel) is aged, as the name suggests, entirely in flavor-neutral stainless steel.
What results from such treatment is a wine utterly pure in grape flavors. Put another way, if the grapes don't have the stuff, then neither does the wine; there's no cosmetic makeup, such as, ahem, the vanilla scent of oak, to distract you from the vacuity of the wine itself.
It takes a courageous winery owner who believes in the intrinsic quality and character of the fruit of his or her vines to make such a "transparent" wine. In Chehalem's 2007 "Inox" chardonnay this belief is justified. This wine delivers chardonnay as its true self, which is to say a dry white wine with bright, true chardonnay flavors of pear, melon and green apple and a zip of citrus. It's also impressively dense-textured which, again, speaks to the underlying quality of the grapes.
Worth noting is that this wine is composed of various so-called Dijon clones of chardonnay (which are recently arrived strains of chardonnay suited for cool climates) and that the wine did not go through a malolactic fermentation (which means a crisp acidity).
At $16.95 a bottle, Chehalem "Inox" Chardonnay 2007 is a standout dry white wine that shows the virtues of living an oak-free (wine) life. It is one of the best chardonnays to emerge from Oregon in recent years. (Distributor is Galaxy Wine Co.)
Langhe Nebbiolo 2006, Ugo Lequio: For centuries, the nebbiolo wines of Piedmont's famous Barolo and Barbaresco wine districts never saw anything other than very large, flavor-free casks called botti. Only in the 1980s did French-style small barrels become popular. Today, many nebbiolo (and barbera) wines spend time in small, new oak barrels.
Because of this it can be a revelation to taste an oak-free nebbiolo such as the really lovely Langhe Nebbiolo 2006 from the small producer Ugo Lequio. This is not just any nebbiolo bottling, it should be noted. It comes entirely from Lequio's holding in the Gallina vineyard in the Barbaresco zone, making this wine effectively a declassified Barbaresco. At its $21.95 asking price, this is a flat-out steal in really fine nebbiolo from a top vintage and a great vineyard. Get it while you can. (Distributor is Young's Columbia.)
Matt Kramer is a Portland wine critic and author. Reach him at 1320 S.W. Broadway, Portland, OR 97201
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Proposed law would restore seniors' tax break
Crystal Lindell
SPRINGFIELD - Legislation that would restore a property tax break for senior citizens was approved by the Illinois House Wednesday.
The proposal, known as the "senior freeze," received a 116-0 vote. It would stabilize property taxes for those who are over 65 and whose income is under $50,000 a year.
The measure is moving through the legislative process in response to an Illinois Supreme Court ruling in December that declared a similar, 1994 law unconstitutional because of technical problems. It now heads to the Illinois Senate.
"Many seniors are depending on us in the General Assembly to reinstate this law," said state Rep. Bob Flider, D-Mount Zion.
The proposal increases the income threshold by $5,000 and increases the senior homestead deduction from $3,000 to $3,500.
Proponents say if the proposal is made into law it would be as though the original legislation had never been ruled unconstitutional.
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With two toddlers and a third baby expected this fall, “just keep swimming” is the name of the game for Olympian Michael Phelps and his wife, Nicole.
By Aili Nahas
Daymion Mardel
Think back to the 2016 Olympic Games, and Michael Phelps’s record-breaking triumph is undoubtedly the first image that comes to mind. But a close second is 3-month-old Boomer Phelps in the arms of his mom, Nicole. Three years later, the little nugget in the jumbo headphones is a walking, talking, and, of course, swimming big brother. And Michael and Nicole? Life’s pretty different for them too. On a recent afternoon, just before Michael got dinner on the table for Nicole, Boomer, 3, and Beckett, 1, Parents chatted with the Scottsdale, Arizona–based pair about how they’ve learned to join forces and enjoy the ride.
Congrats on baby #3!
Michael: It’s crazy to think about. We’re excited. It will be a journey, but we can already handle two. We’ll tag-team!
Nicole: There was an initial “Oh, my gosh, what are we doing?” feeling. I got pregnant with Beckett a month after Boomer turned 1, and I got pregnant with our third a month before Beckett turned 1.
Michael: They’ll be 21 and 19 months apart.
Nicole: But we both have always said we want three kids. A week after coming home from the hospital with Beckett, I was like, “Okay, I’m not done, I want more.”
How was the transition when Beckett was born?
Nicole: Beckett would not sleep and wanted to nurse 24/7. I tried every sleep method you could imagine. I was ripping my hair out for months! I just did whatever work-around I could so that I could function the next day.
Michael: It’s kind of a curse for me, but I don’t wake up to anything. You could send a tornado to our house and I don’t think I’d wake up. But I’m an early riser.
Nicole: Michael would take Boomer to Starbucks or on an outing every morning and let me stay with Beckett.
Michael: Booms and I were connected at the hip.
Nicole: Then all of sudden, between 9 and 10 months, Beckett was like, “Yeah, I’m going to sleep the whole night now.”
What is it like seeing the boys interact?
Nicole: They share a room. There were about two weeks where it was difficult, and both our moms said we were crazy, but it’s worked. At 6 a.m. Boomer will yell at Beckett to wake up, and then they’ll talk before we get them at 7.
Are you parenting differently the second time around?
Michael: We’re both much more relaxed now, though Nicole is probably more laid-back than I am at times. You learn about the distinct cries and what they mean, and go from there.
Nicole: Even with Boomer, we only used a sound monitor at night, and that helps us not stress. We have video cameras but don’t use them at night so we don’t keep wondering, “Oh, my gosh, is he moving?”
Michael: But when we go on a date, Nicole and I will both check the cameras on our phones. It’s kind of crazy how much we’re glued to them.
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Michael, how do you balance work and parenthood?
Michael: I don’t know how it would be possible if I were still competing. Now I’m gone for a week or two, but there are times when I’m home for two months. I was raised in a single-parent home and never really had a father figure. So having the opportunity to sit down for family dinners or play out back or take Boomer to school, I feel very fortunate.
Do you hope your kids become swimmers?
Michael: If my kids want to swim, great. If they don’t, awesome. But being who I am is challenging. I find myself critiquing Boomer’s stroke. That’s my competitive self coming out.
Nicole: We just want our kids to be safe in the water. We have a fence around our pool and someone with them at all times. As beautiful as the water is, it’s a scary beast.
Michael: We got them in very early. It’s been a high priority. Boomer is in the pool nearly every day.
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What keeps you sane?
Nicole: I have to remember to give myself time. There is always guilt, no matter what—do the laundry, clean the sink, put away the kids’ stuff—but if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that it will all be there later, but the time for me to be a healthy parent and a healthy wife is right now.
Michael: I need to exercise. If I’m in a bad mood and I go for a swim, I’m better 99.9 percent of the time. It’s part of my DNA, and it will always be that way.
How has having kids affected your marriage?
Nicole: It’s difficult at times. But in all the years we’ve been together, our communication is best now. And I think that’s because of the kids. It’s a lot of work, and there are days when I’m like, “Are you really acting that way?” But listening to each other and not thinking the other person is wrong before hearing them out has been helpful.
Michael: In swimming, I know better than a lot of people in this world, but when it comes to parenting, I don’t have all the answers. It’s about Nicole and me always working together. And we’re constantly learning. We’re pretty good about voicing our opinions when we’re stressed and need somebody to take on more of the load.
Nicole: With morning sickness, I haven’t been able to do much, and Michael has been amazing, cooking, cleaning, and helping out.
Michael: What we have is so special. I appreciate everything differently than I did before. I feel very lucky.
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In what way has being a parent changed you the most?
Michael: For me, it’s learning patience and staying calm. Nicole taught Booms to take “lion breaths” when he gets frustrated. There have been times when I’m frustrated and he says to me, “Dad, take a breath!” But before Booms was born, someone told me you’ll really understand true love when your first child is born. And now I do, 100 percent.
This article originally appeared in Parents Magazine as 'Team Phelps.'
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Hoatzin Facts
Firstly, the remarkable Hoatzin represents a unique species of tropical bird. Further, it appears to also be endemic to a very specific type of habitat throughout its entire natural range.
The extremely unusual bird also remains widely regarded for a rather specific reason. This occurs because the unique avian remains the most enigmatic of all known extant species of bird.
It also remains extremely distinct from any other recognized avian known to modern science. Due to this fact, scientists now classify it in its own separate family and suborder.
The Hoatzin also has the well-deserved reputation of exuding a strong manure-like odor.
Finally, there remains no clear picture of the evolutionary path of this animal to the present.
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Hoatzin Physical Description
Perhaps most notably, in terms of general shape, the Hoatzin appears similar to the pheasant. Therefore, the total body length averages roughly 26 in (65 cm), with no discernible sexual dimorphism.
The neck grows elongated, and the head stays relatively small. The face also appears devoid of feathers. The species also remains noted for its bright maroon colored eyes. Atop the head sits a large spiky crest.
Further, the tail grows long and broad, while the wings and back typically show a dark shade of brown. The underside typically displays combinations of off-white and chestnut in color.
Finally, one unexplained evolutionary trait of the Hoatzin ranks as extremely unique. Though they disappear shortly after birth, the hatchlings are born with claws on the wing digits.
Order: Opisthocomiformes
Family: Opisthocomidae
Genus: Opisthocomus
Species: O. hoatzin
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Hoatzin Distribution, Habitat, and Ecology
In the Amazon Basin, the Hoatzin occurs in riparian forests, mangrove forests, and swamps. Elsewhere in South America, it also lives in the Orinoco Delta.
The truly remarkable bird feeds primarily on the leaves of plants native to its specific habitat. Yet, the fascinating animal also feeds on the fruit and flowers of the same species occasionally.
Despite the relatively large wings, the bird is a poor flier. It also remains quite clumsy on the ground, moving awkwardly. The bird also possesses a generally mild temperament.
The animal generally congregates in small colonies, and breeding occurs during the rainy season.
The existence of the claws on the wings of the hatchlings has led many to believe it is descended from the Archaeopteryx. This ancient creature disappeared around 150 million years ago.
There remains absolutely no evidence of that, however.
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The Philippines - Fastest Glowing Economy In South East Asia
“The Philippines will continue to be the fastest-growing economy in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), despite some stabilization of investment growth,” the World Bank's January 2018 Global Economic Prospects report dated 10 January, 2018. The World Bank projected the Philippines’ gross domestic product (GDP) to grow 6.7 percent in 2018 and 2019, before growing at a slightly slower rate of 6.5 percent in 2020.
The total population of the Philippines is now standing at 106.51 million people, of which 22.7 million are staying in Metro Manila. Children below 14 year old makes up of 34m (32%), youngster between 15 to 29 year old 29.5m (27.7%) and up to 49 years old 26.62m (25%), which means more than 84% of the whole population is under 49 years old, a country with youthful population.With Philippine's economy growing stronger, households are spending more on recreation and cultural activities.
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With the country ‘s economic fast growing as now the fastest in amongst ASEAN countries, citizens' income has increased. Households are allocating more expenditures to Recreation and Cultural activities. From 2012 to 2017, total expenditure estimate has increased from US$2.05 to US$2.89 billion and it is projected to reach US$3.10 billion by end of 2018.
Aside from food, shopping and park going are the most popular and favourite activities amongst Filipinos. Statistics found 27% of R&R activity-time are spent on amusement and recreation activities. There are more than 100 amusement and water parks across the country built on vast resorts and major popular tourist areas. Manila already has more that 20 of such theme parks located mainly in huge shopping malls and casino resorts.
Shopping Mall & Parks
The Philippines is planning its next business district to be located at Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga where the new Clark Green City is now under construction.
The country also holds the record of having several large shopping malls in Asia. According to World Facts, out of 25 large shopping malls (above 300,000 m2 Gross Leasable Area) in Asia, Philippine has five (5) on the list.
There are over 220 shopping malls in Metro Manila and more than 110 outside. 10 new shopping malls are under construction and several are having its facilities upgraded to include arcades, family & fun entertainment centers, fun-ride & movie-based theme parks, indoor water parks & swimming pools, IMAX theatres, ice-skating rinks and edutainment kid-zones, which is fast becoming the growing trend.
SM Mall Of Asia, one of the large shopping malls in the Philippines, has an Olympic-sized skating rink, an IMAX theater and a fun-ride theme park. In Cebu, the Sky Waterpark is built on the roof top of the mall.
Aqua Planet in Clark Freeport Zone Pampanga has just opened its door in February 2018. This waterpark is deemed to be the most modern, sits on a 10-hectares land with 38 slides and attractions, capable of receiving 3,500 guests.
Fast Growing Attractions Market
The Philippines already has more than 180 attractions but the flourishing market for family amusement rides, attractions activities triggers a boom in theme park construction. With more disposable incomes, the growing middle class tends to spend more on attractions visit. Several investors are eyeing this growing attractions market. With its fast growing economy and increasing spending power, more parks and recreation facilities will rise.
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Children's education is gaining importance with young parents. Facilities that offer education through play, create and learn are getting very popular. Aeon Fantasy Group "Kidzooona" started operation in 2014 with 5 locations, within 4 years has till date expanded to over 40 indoor playground locations across the country. The company has plans for rapid expansion to eighty (80) by 2020.
Mexican chain KidZania, known for theme parks where children can role-play as various occupations, open a city for kids at Global Fort Bonifacio with 8,000 sq. meter play space. And the latest addition in edutainment attractions is DreamPlay with 5,000 sq. meter creative play-center is located at City Of Dreams Manila.
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Visiting and playing arcade games is one very popular activity in the Philippines as most families do not have online games or game stations at home. Millions of Filipinos visit over thousands of FECs (Family Entertainment Centers) every day with majority of them in shopping malls.
Few of the biggest stores like Timezone, World Of Fun and Tom’s World have been around for decades, and to keep customers coming back, they constantly updating their machines and games for all ages, by popularity. It has been very successful they keep growing by adding more outlets every year. Just hop in to every shopping malls, you will see at least three to four big FECs around.
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Selecting a Photodetector: Using WITS$ as a Rough Guide
Performance of a photodetector with respect to the four basic attributes of light, in addition to cost, can be used to make an appropriate choice.
Earl Hergert and Slawomir Piatek, Hamamatsu Corporation
Light is a versatile tool for investigating physical and chemical processes in nature. Any specific system being analyzed may, through the light it emits or reflects, communicate information about itself. Electrical signal is an effective medium for processing, transporting and storing information. The photodetector’s role is to convert information propagating in the form of light into an electrical signal with a minimal loss of information quality.
Information carried by light may be encoded in any combination of light’s four basic attributes: spectral composition (W), intensity (I), and temporal (T) and spatial (S) characteristics (Figure 1). Thus the choice of the appropriate photodetector hinges on its performance with respect to these four aspects and, in addition, cost ($) — altogether known as WITS$.
Figure 1. Light from the system under investigation may contain information about the system in the form of spectral composition, intensity, temporal characteristics (e.g., constant intensity, pulses, exponential decay, etc.), and spatial characteristics (e.g., collimated light, diffuse light, etc.).
The signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) at the output of a photodetector is the measure of the detector’s performance and the figure of merit when choosing from an available pool of detectors. This selection guide is for a set of four point detectors: photomultiplier tube (PMT), photodiode (PD), avalanche photodiode (APD), and silicon photomultiplier (SiPM).
A PMT is a vacuum tube with a light-sensitive photocathode, a sequence of dynodes providing an internal electrical gain and a signal-collecting anode. A PMT is characterized by low internal noise, a gain (μ) on the order of 105 to 106 and an ability to detect single photons. A PD is a light-sensitive, solid-state device with a p-n junction and no internal gain (μ = 1). In a typical operation, a PD is reverse-biased to several volts. An APD is a type of a PD that has an internal gain. In a typical operation, an APD is reverse-biased to a voltage that is close to but less than its breakdown voltage. A gain of up to about 100 is possible. If the reverse voltage is less than the breakdown voltage, an avalanche triggered by a single charge carrier quenches by itself; otherwise, the avalanche must be externally quenched. The latter mode of operation is known as the Geiger mode. An SiPM is a rectangular array of square cells, or pixels, where each cell is a series combination of an APD and a quenching resistor. All of the cells are in a parallel combination. In a typical operation, an SiPM is reverse-biased so that the APDs operate in Geiger mode, giving the device a gain that is comparable to that of a PMT. One may think of an SiPM as a solid-state analog version of a PMT, albeit with higher internal noise. Table 1 compares the four photodetectors.
Selection based on wavelength
The first step in the selection process is matching the spectrum of the observed light with the spectral sensitivity of a potential photodetector. The pertinent characteristic to be inspected is the detector’s quantum efficiency as a function of wavelength η(λ) or, alternatively, responsivity σ(λ). Quantum efficiency is a ratio of the number of photogenerated charge carriers per unit time contributing to the output signal to the number of incident photons on the light-sensitive section of the photodetector per unit time. Responsivity is a quotient of the electric current, I (in amperes), resulting from the photoconversion and the incident optical power, P (in watts). For a given wavelength, the two quantities are related by η = 1240σ(A/W)/λ(nm). A device manufacturer provides at least one of these two characteristics in the form of a plot as a function of wavelength. Based on the W criteria only, the responsivity of the optimal photodetector would be higher than that of a competing photodetector at the wavelength of observed light. Ideally, this responsivity would also be close to, if not equal to, the peak responsivity of the optimal detector. If a photodetector has zero responsivity at the wavelength of interest, the detector must not be selected regardless of its other characteristics.
Photon detection efficiency (PDE) is an attribute of an SiPM that expresses a fraction of the incoming photons contributing to the output signal. It is a product of η(λ), fill factor (i.e., the ratio of the light-sensitive area to the total area) and the probability of avalanche. A manufacturer provides plots of PDE as a function of wavelength and overvoltage (i.e., bias voltage minus breakdown voltage). If PDE is zero at the wavelength of interest, an SiPM is not an appropriate selection.
The first row in Table 1 gives the spectral coverage for the four families of photodetectors. None has photosensitivity for λ < 115 nm. However, using scintillation techniques could make detection of such radiation possible. PDs have the widest spectral coverage: their photosensitivity extends into far-infrared. Operating in this spectral region almost always requires cooling — in some cases, to a temperature as low as 4 K.
The second row in Table 1 lists the peak quantum efficiency. The physical structure of the device and the type of light-sensitive material used in making the device control the wavelength of maximum quantum efficiency. The values show that solid-state devices have higher peak quantum efficiency when compared with PMTs.
Selection based on intensity
The second step in the selection process is estimating the S/N at the output of the photodetector for the given intensity of incident light, which is an important factor the potential user needs to know — at least approximately. The desired outcome is the highest possible S/N.
There are two definitions of radiant intensity used in literature, which are not equivalent. In the first definition, it is the radiant power per unit solid angle and in the second, it is the radiant power passing a unit area. The latter is more appropriately known as irradiance, or I (in W•m−2). Suppose that a monochromatic light with constant irradiance illuminates a photodetector with active area, A. The rate (nγ) with which the photons arrive at the surface is:
Within this equation, Eγ = hc/λ is the energy of a single photon; P = IA is the power of the incident light; h is Planck’s constant, and c is the speed of light. The resulting rate of charge carrier photogeneration in the detector is given by:
The output signal from a photodetector can be viewed as a chronological sequence of current pulses, each originating from a single photogenerated charge carrier. Together, equations 1 and 2 imply that ne depends linearly on the product of I and A. Maximizing S/N may consist of maximizing the signal, S, and/or minimizing the noise, N. For a given irradiance, increasing the signal may be possible by increasing incident light power with light-collection optics or by selecting a photodetector with a larger active area. Decreasing the noise may be possible by selecting a detector with lower inherent noise and/or by limiting detection bandwidth. Manufacturers provide guides, sometimes both in print and as an online resource, on how to estimate the minimum detectable power — an input optical power yielding a S/N = 1 at the output of the detector. A spec sheet for a photodetector also is likely to list noise equivalent power (NEP) in units of W/√Hz, which is the incident optical power that generates a photocurrent equal to the root mean square (rms) noise current for 1-Hz bandwidth. NEP is useful when comparing photodetectors and, all else being equal, a photodetector with a lower NEP yields a higher S/N output.
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It is important to note several points: 1) A complete estimate of S/N should include the detection circuit’s contribution to the noise (e.g., noise caused by a resistor or by a transimpedance amplifier). This contribution becomes less significant for a photodetector with internal gain, and this fact alone is the reason for a gain in a photodetector. 2) The minimum detectable power is a function of detection bandwidth. Higher bandwidth increases noise and, therefore, increases the minimum detectable power. Alternatively, higher bandwidth lowers S/N for a given power of input light. 3) Large bandwidth is desirable if high fidelity is required — the output electrical signal accurately reproduces the input light signal.
4) The minimum detectable power for a given bandwidth is always larger than NEP for the same bandwidth. 5) Terminal capacitance of the photodetector affects the detection bandwidth — the higher the capacitance, the smaller the bandwidth. 6) For solid-state photodetectors (but not for PMTs), a larger active area causes a larger terminal capacitance, which decreases the detection bandwidth. Consequently, there is a tradeoff between sensitivity and bandwidth, or sensitivity and signal fidelity.
In summation, the incident light power must be greater than the minimum detectable power for the photodetector to be a viable selection.
Figure 2 depicts the suitability of selecting a photodetector depending on the input light level. In it, the scaling for the top axis corresponds to the photon irradiance (number of photons•mm−2•s−1). The axis below gives the corresponding irradiance (in W•mm−2), assuming monochromatic light with λ = 550 nm. The bottom axis gives a distance, R, in meters, from a 1-W point source producing the above irradiances. Suppose that each photodetector has an active area equal to or greater than 1 mm2, and that it is spot illuminated with an effective beam size of 1 mm2. In this case, the rate of the photon arrival nγ is equal to 1 mm2 times the photon irradiance. If nγ is less than about 108 s−1, the current pulses are distinguishable in time, and individually detecting them is known as “photon counting.” The horizontal red line in the figure depicts this regime. Blue arrows indicate the range of irradiances that each respective photodetector can detect.
Figure 2. Photodetector suitability as a function of irradiance.
A PMT is the best choice — perhaps the only choice — for situations where the incident light level is extremely low. As the light level increases, SiPM, APD and PD become viable choices. Where the detectors overlap, other light and detector characteristics should be considered in making the selection. For high light levels, a PD and an APD are the possible choices. However, in a vast number of cases, a PD will be the better choice when ease of use and device cost are taken into consideration.
Selection based on temporal characteristics of incident light
The intensity of the incident light can be a function of time. It is a “DC light” if the intensity is constant, “AC light” if the intensity varies with time, and “pulsed light” if it arrives as discrete packets of photons. DC light poses no additional restrictions on the photodetector, whereas the other two do impose restrictions. For AC light and pulsed light, capacitances (e.g., junction, parasitic or terminal) matter — their values affect the output signal rise time, time jitter, and detection bandwidth. Table 1 lists these parameters: the rise time and bandwidth are for a 50-Ω resistive load (current-to-voltage conversion), whereas time jitter is for a single-photon illumination. Increasing the load resistance increases the output voltage but reduces the bandwidth. Because the quantity of noise in the output increases with bandwidth, a well-designed system has just enough bandwidth for the purpose of the observation.
Dynamic range and a related concept — linearity of a photodetector — should also be examined in pulsed and AC detection. Is there enough dynamic range to detect the full variation of the incident intensity? Are the input and output signals linearly related? If not, what is the deviation, and is it acceptable? Several factors can influence the dynamic range of a photodetector, such as an intrinsic noise floor, biasing level, output load and, in the case of an SiPM, number of cells. Manufacturers most commonly provide information on dynamic range and linearity in the form of graphs, examples of which may be linearity versus the power of incident light or linearity versus the load resistance.
Selection based on spatial characteristic of incident light
If the level of incoming light is low, but the light is nearly collimated, employing focusing optics can increase the incident light power on the detector and thus improve the S/N. However, if the incoming light is diffuse, focusing optics will not increase the incident power, as diffuse light cannot be focused. The only other option is to use a detector with a larger active area. The tradeoff, though, is a higher dark current in the photodetector, which increases noise and, therefore, NEP. In the respective cases of a PD, an APD and an SiPM (but not a PMT), a larger active area reduces the detection bandwidth due to a larger junction capacitance.
Selection based on price
If the WITS$-based selection process does not produce a unique and outstanding choice (which is unlikely yet possible), then price may be the deciding factor. Prices can vary greatly among the different models of a photodetector in a given family, but when the typical representatives of the families are compared, the highest-to-lowest pricing is, respectively, PMT, SiPM, APD and PD. This is a price for a stand-alone photodetector. If the potential user needs to design a detection setup from the ground up, the cost of auxiliary equipment (e.g., power supplies and amplifiers) should also be considered. All of the detectors described in this article are also offered as part of a module. Inclusive of the photodetector, a module may or may not contain, among other components, a power supply, amplifier, temperature and/or voltage control system, or an A-to-D converter.
In most cases, the selection process ends here. There are, however, applications and situations where additional criteria need to be considered. Examples include such criteria as ruggedness, immunity to an external magnetic field, ease of use, physical size, and ease of customization. If the device may be customized, how much might it cost to do so? How long might the lead time be?
The selection process can be taxing, confusing, and potentially costly. Establishing a partnership with the device manufacturer can make the process much quicker and result in optimal sensor selection.
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The psychological matrix during arrest can be overcome with.... (sh!) silence.
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Nearly all people who come into contact with the criminal justice system for the first time do so at the time they are arrested. An arrest is a traumatic experience.
Several psychological events takes place during an arrest:
First a person is seized by what he perceives as an authority figure. The arrested person suddenly realizes his freedom of movement, his autonomy as a free human being, is illusory. He’s no longer free. He’s caged. He tries to explain his innocence, only to realize that this authority figure doesn’t care.
Prior to being arrested, the average person believes cops are solid, honest and trustworthy.
Now, the truth about cops is revealed. Cops are human, thus imperfect. Cops have a flawed sense of judgment. Cops have a bias against non-cops. Cops believe everyone is guilty.
Nothing is more frightening than being arrested. Someone who is arrested is shackled into a pair of handcuffs, often so tightly the nerves in the hands become constricted, causing severe pain. Often handcuffs are so tight they cut off circulation. While at police academy, cops are taught not to put cuffs on too tight. They forget that rule as soon as they hit the streets.
The arrested person is often bolted to a bench like a wild animal. What is most harrowing for an arrested person is the realization that he’s not free anymore. He is completely helpless and at the mercy of his captors.
It’s dehumanizing. It’s terrifying.
So, one can imagine how it must feel to this person who has never had his freedom restrained by an authority figure. He is suddenly unable to move, unable to leave, unable to scratch his own nose or touch his own face, unable to have the simple dignity of simple things like getting water to drink or using the bathroom without begging his captors for permission.
The arrested person is unable to exercise his own free will.
The problem with the arrest matrix is that the arrested person is placed in a position of complete powerlessness. The arrested person assumes that he is without any rights, any power to assert his dignity as a free individual.
The arrested person believes he has to cooperate with the police in order to “clear up” the matter. The arrested person doesn’t understand that he is experiencing this psychological dynamic because fear has gripped him and he is panicking.
The arrested person believes that if he tells cops everything, the cops will see the light and let him go free.
Here is a very important thing to remember: The arrested person does not realize that nothing he says will prevent or void his arrest and everything he says will be used against him.
It’s a human trait to intrinsically believe that a person can talk himself out of trouble. Kids do it all the time. When a kid breaks a window playing baseball, he tells mommy and daddy a long story about why it wasn’t his fault.
Cops use this psychological matrix of control to their advantage. They use the ability to control the arrested person’s freedom of movement to maximize the pressure necessary to obtain the result that they want: the collection of evidence necessary to make a case against that arrested person and to take that case to court for prosecution and ultimately for the conviction of the arrested person.
Remember this: The truth won’t set an arrested person free. Silence will.
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Predictors of successful percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (PTNS) in the treatment of overactive bladder syndrome.
Rostaminia, Ghazaleh1
Chang, Cecilia2
Pincus, Joseph B3
Sand, Peter K3
Goldberg, Roger P3
1 NorthShore University HealthSystem Research Institute, Evanston, IL, USA. [email protected]
2 NorthShore University HealthSystem Research Institute, Evanston, IL, USA.
3 Division of Urogynecology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 9650 Gross Point Road, Suite 3900, Skokie, IL, 60076, USA.
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Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms
Overactive Bladder Syndrome
Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation
Multiple publications have demonstrated the efficacy of percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (PTNS) for overactive bladder syndrome (OAB). However, patient characteristics associated with successful treatment have not been well established. The aim of this study was to identify prognostic factors for successful PTNS treatment. This was a retrospective chart review of women who underwent PTNS therapy for OAB between January 2011-Decemeber 2017. Treatment success was defined by subjective improvement according to patient self-report and objective bladder diary parameters including the intervoiding interval, nocturia episodes and urgency urinary incontinence (UUI) episodes per day, before and after PTNS treatment. Baseline symptoms were dichotomized for each symptom based on severity. One hundred sixty-two women with a mean age of 72.7 ± 11.3 years and BMI of 28.5 ± 7.1 were included in the study. There was a statistically significant improvement in all three OAB symptoms after treatment. Multivariable analysis revealed that a history of depression and anxiety was associated with subjective improvement, whereas decreased subjective improvement was associated with a history of hypertension, prior intravesical onabotulinnumtoxinA injection and sacral neuromodulation. While dichotomizing subjects into two groups defined by < 50% versus ≥ 50% improvement, depression/anxiety, urodynamic volume at first sensation to void and more severe baseline urgency urinary incontinence severity were all significant predictors of subjective improvement. Among women treated with PTNS for refractory OAB, a history of depression/anxiety and severe baseline urgency urinary incontinence were positive predictors of a successful PTNS outcome.
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The contributions to this volume on Namibian languages were occasioned for different purposes. Hence they are of quite varied nature and format.
All of them, except the paper by W. Mohlig, were initially presented at the international conference on Language Ecology in Africa, hosted by the Department of African Languages of the former University of Namibia, which at that time was incorporated in The Academy, Windhoek.
The purpose of that conference was to re-establish international dialogue with fellow Africanists. On this occasion preliminary reports were also to be presented on a departmental project entitled A Dialect Survey of the Major African Languages of Namibia.
This project had been initiated by W. Haacke in 1986 as an umbrella project to facilitate research by Namibian and foreign researchers into Namibian languages.The terms of reference were kept deliberately non-specific, so as to allow researchers to investigate any matters deemed most relevant in a particular language, albeit with a comparative bias.
Of the contributions in this volume the reports by the following authors emanated directly from this project: E. Baumbach (Caprivi languages), D. Fourie (on Oshimbalanhu of the Wambo group; other dialects were covered elsewhere), J. Snyman (Julh'oan), and W. Haacke, E. Eiseb & L. Namaseb (Khoekhoegowab).
As the investigation of Kavango languages was abandoned prematurely through an act of fate, W. Mohlig kindly filled the hiatus by providing his contribution on the strength of data collected through field work undertaken in the 1970s. The survey on Otjiherero dialects in Kaokoland by J. Kavari was included in the journal Logos vol. 13 (1993). The report by E. Baumbach was kindly edited for this volume by E. Elderkin, now of the Department of African Languages, UNAM.
It was deemed practical to include other conference papers on Namibian African languages in this volume with the reports on the said Dialect Survey, rather than with those sociolinguistic and literary papers on diverse topics that constitute volumes 13 and 14 of Logos (1993/4). Such papers that were included here are the contributions by P. Dickens (Jul'hoan), Th. Widlok (Haillom), L. Anderson (Yeyi) and D. Gowlett (Yeyi).
Most of the survey reports were presented in a preliminary form at the conference in 1991, and needed extensive refinement for publication. Analytical and technical processing and - not least -the transition from the erstwhile Academy to the present University of Namibia, which also involved the rehousing of this series under its new name with the Rudiger Koppe publishing house in Germany, has caused further delays in the finalization of this project.
It is hoped that, after all, this volume will serve to invigorate the interest in Namibian African languages and to correlate ongoing linguistic research conducted locally and in neighbouring countries. The extensive financial assistance of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) within he framework of the interdisciplinary research unit ACACIA (SFB 389) at the University of Cologne, towards the publication of this volume is hereby gratefully acknowledged. Needless to say, the opinions expressed by the authors need not be those of this foundation.
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- Seyeyi revisited. Prospects for the Future of a Threatened Language; L.-G. Andersson
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Overwatch’s hit sound effect is apparently powered by beer
By James Davenport 2016-05-23T22:10:42.143Z
Kick back and crack open several thousand cold ones.
I understand why so many people not typically interested in competitive first-person shooters are interested in Overwatch—the diverse set of characters, their cosplay-ready outfits, the lighthearted Pixar-hued presentation, and so on. But now I finally know where my interest begins: a pavlovian response to beer.
According to this post on the Overwatch subreddit, the Overwatch visual source book (it comes with the collector's edition) digs into how the hit-confirmation sound was made. Over the course of several weeks of hoppy fermentation, it turns out. That’s the sound of a beer bottle opening, chopped and screwed a bit.
Here’s the full quote:
“Another extremely challenging sound is the ‘hit-pip.’ When you hit someone, you need to know you made contact. The sound needs to cut through the mix but not feel like it comes from any hero. It went through tons of iteration. Finally, one night I thought, ‘It should be satisfying to hit an enemy.’ Just think about what's satisfying: beer. So I literally opened a beer bottle. Pssht. The sound is reversed and tweaked a little, but that sound is our hit-pip.”
I was skeptical at first (we are taking this redditor's word), but the hit-pip sounds exactly as described, even if it isn’t always high in the chaotic sound mix. Take a gander at this clip from early on in the beta—skip to 2:40.
This version of the tutorial is pretty dated, and there’s no new sound for headshots yet, but the crisp sound of imminent alcohol is much easier to make out. Blizzard is known for their chunky, delicious aural and visual feedback, so it’s a bit surprising to learn such a slight feedback response has such a high ABV.
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This Rapper’s Show In Mississippi Was Shut Down Due To Threat Of…“Gyration”?!
17 February 2016, 10:44 | Updated: 8 May 2017, 17:09
By Woodrow Whyte
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The Beyoncé collaborator got in trouble because of her Youtube videos.
Here's something you don't hear everyday: a show by Beyoncé's latest co-sign, Big Freedia, was cancelled in Mississippi because of 'potential gyration'.
Big Freedia, otherwise known as the 'Queen of Bounce', is famed for her high energy shows which typically end in EVERYBODY twerking upside down on/against any surface/person available.
Doesn't it look fun?
And if you haven't heard Big Freedia's "AZZ EVERYWHERE" then, quite frankly, you haven't lived.
As well as featuring on Beyoncé's comeback single "Formation", Freedia also has her own TV show Queen of Bounce on Fuse, and has a fairly large profile in the LGBT community. Not that this matters to State Alcohol Beverage Control in Mississippi, of course.
As reported by NOLA, "Club owner Ben Shemper said that roughly two weeks ago, he got a phone call from a State Alcohol Beverage Control officer who said that based on YouTube videos of past Big Freedia performances, he felt the show would be in violation of Mississippi codes.” Shemper also reportedly said that the word “gyrating” was mentioned. "He made it sound like it was some kind of strip show or whatever."
Freedia was not impressed by the cancellation.
My show cancelled in Mississippi for potential gyrating?!?! 2016?!?! #twerkloose https://t.co/LdmpQQYucI
— Big Freedia (@bigfreedia) February 13, 2016
Someone at the Mississippi booze police clearly needs to get their twerk on! They desperately need to get down 'n' dirty to some pussy poppin' bounce music. Come on, gurl, we bet Freedia would even teach you herself!
Let's hope Freedia can twerk in peace for the rest of her upcoming shows and the Mississippi loosen up a bit. It's 2016, ya'll!
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The City Council of the City of Portland shall consist of a Mayor and four (4) Commissioners. [1942 recod., sec. 2-101; rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
The Council may create and establish such boards and commissions as it may deem necessary in addition to boards and commissions established by this Charter, and may abolish or alter from time to time any boards or commissions it has established or may establish. All powers and duties of abolished boards and commissions shall be exercised and performed by the Council. [1942 recod., sec. 2-102; sec. 2-103; am. Nov. 6, 1962.]
The Council shall have and exercise all powers and authority conferred upon the City of Portland by this Charter or by general law, except where such power is herein expressly bestowed upon some other officer, board or commission to the exclusion of the Council. The Council may delegate any of its nonlegislative functions or powers to subordinate officers, boards or commissions as it may find appropriate. [May 3, 1913, part of new sec. 56; rev. 1914, sec. 18; 1928 pub., sec. 18; 1942 recod., sec. 2-104; am. Nov. 6, 1962.]
The City of Portland by its Council has power and authority, subject to the provisions, limitations and restrictions contained in this Charter or in statute, to exercise any power or authority granted to the City by statute, general or special, or by this Charter, and may do any other act necessary or appropriate to carry out such authority, or exercise any other power implied by the specific power granted. [Ch.1903, sec. 73; May 3, 1913, new sec. 34; rev. 1914, sec. 34; 1928 pub., sec. 34; 1942 recod., sec. 2-105; am. Nov. 6, 1962; Nov. 8, 1977, new sec. 65; am. Nov. 4, 1980; amended May 15, 2012, effective June 13, 2012.]
(a) Among such specific powers, the City has power and authority:
1. To exercise within the City and City‑owned property, all the powers commonly known as the police power to the same extent as the State of Oregon has or could exercise said power within said areas, and to make and enforce within said areas all necessary or appropriate water, local, police, sanitary and safety laws and regulations.
2. To secure the protection of persons and property and to provide for the health, cleanliness, ornament, peace, safety and good order of the City.
3. To provide for entering into contracts by the City for a period not exceeding five (5) years and the extension or renewal thereof by option or otherwise, for not to exceed an additional five (5) years, except as to property contracts which may extend for more than five (5) years, or as otherwise permitted by this Charter or by statute.
4. To enter into agreements without limitation as to term, as the Council finds appropriate, for cooperation, consolidation of services, joint acquisition or ownership and maintenance of facilities or services, with any other public corporation or unit of government.
5. To establish, construct, maintain, equip and alter buildings and facilities found necessary or appropriate for administration of government or for use by or for the public.
6. To purchase, or acquire by condemnation or otherwise, or to lease, for such term as the Council may find appropriate, which need not be limited to five (5) years, such property, real and personal, as may be needed for public use; in purchasing property, to enter into lease‑purchase agreements or other contracts of purchase which may extend for more than a five (5) year period; to obtain options; and to mortgage for the term of the purchase as security for the purchase price the property being purchased. In exercising this power and authority, only the payments to be made during the year in which the purchase, condemnation, lease, lease‑purchase, option, or purchase price mortgage is entered into shall be considered for purposes of applying Section 7‑102 thereto. [Am. Nov. 4, 1980.]
7. To provide for the purchase of property levied upon under execution in favor of the City.
8. To purchase, take and hold real or personal property when sold for a delinquent tax or assessment levied or imposed under the authority of the City ofPortland, and to sell and convey the same. But the sum bid by the City on or for any such property so sold for a delinquent tax or assessment, shall not exceed the amount of all taxes and assessments plus interest and penalties, and the necessary costs and expenses.
9. To sell by bid or public auction abandoned or impounded and unclaimed property, and property for which storage charges and removal charges, if any, have not been paid.
10. To provide a seal for the City and seals for the several boards and officers thereof.
11. To establish and regulate the fees and compensation of all officers of the City, and for all official services not otherwise provided for in this Charter.
12. To fix by ordinance the hours during which all offices and departments of the City shall be kept open for business.
13. To appropriate money to pay the debts, liabilities and expenditures of the City or any part or item thereof.
14. To appropriate annually to the Mayor two thousand dollars ($2,000) as and for a discretionary Fund and such appropriation shall be made.
15. To issue City bonds authorized by this Charter or statute or expressly authorized by vote of the City electors, certificates, warrants, checks and other evidences of indebtedness, but otherwise the City shall not have the power to issue its bonds for any indebtedness or for any purpose, or to increase the bonded indebtedness of the City in any amount or for any purpose whatsoever.
16. To fix fees for establishing street grades, surveying and marking the boundaries of streets, lots or blocks, granting permits for the opening or temporary use of street surfaces, planning of improvements, laying sidewalks, vacating street area, processing of all types of applications, erection and inspection of buildings or facilities, and any special services or functions performed by the City or bureaus thereof.
17. To grant licenses with the object of raising revenue or of regulation, or both, for any and all lawful acts, things or purposes, and to fix by ordinance the amount to be paid therefor, and to provide for the revoking of the same. No license shall be granted to continue for a longer period than one year from the date thereof.
18. To provide for the opening, laying out, establishing, altering, extending, widening, enlarging, vacating and closing, or for establishing and changing the grades, of streets, squares, parks or public places, and to provide for the improving and repairing of streets, squares, parks and public places or of any land over which any right of way has been obtained or granted for any purpose of public travel or use, by means of any kind of work, improvement or repair which the Council finds necessary or appropriate.
19. To provide for lighting the streets, public grounds, buildings and places, and furnishing the City with light, heat and power, by contract or by means of its own plant.
20. To provide for surveying the blocks and streets of the City and for marking the boundary lines of such blocks and streets; to change by ordinance the number, letter or designation of any lot, block or tract of land within the City which may be conflicting or otherwise unsuitable and to give by ordinance a designation to any tract of land within the City not numbered, lettered or designated. A certified copy of such ordinance shall be transmitted by the Auditor to the recording officer of the County, who shall record the same in the record of plats of said County and shall make a reference to the record of such ordinance upon the recorded plat on file. No charge shall be made by the recording officer.
21. To set apart as a boulevard or boulevards any street or streets, or portion thereof.
22. To regulate the numbering of houses and lots on the streets, boulevards and avenues and the naming of streets, boulevards and avenues.
23. To regulate and control for any and every purpose the use of streets, highways, alleys, sidewalks, public thoroughfares, and public places within the City and City parks and properties within or without the City, and to regulate the use of streets, roads, highways and public places for transportation or use of every description, and for installation of any kind.
24. To provide or require conduits under the streets, lanes, alleys and public places of the City or any part or parts thereof for the use of telephone, telegraph, electric light and other wires, or for other purposes, either by constructing said conduits itself or authorizing or requiring their construction by others upon such terms and conditions as the Council may impose, and to regulate and control the use of such conduits, and to prescribe and establish reasonable rentals to be paid by any person or company using any of said conduits by whomsoever the same may be constructed for the use thereof, and to provide for the collection of such rentals, in addition to the ordinary processes, by such summary methods as it may deem proper. If any such grant be made to any person, firm or corporation, such grantee shall not have power to sublet the same or the use of the same to any person, firm or corporation engaged in selling, hiring, leasing or otherwise receiving any income from the business or purpose for which it desires to use such conduits, without such person, firm or corporation first obtaining, as provided in this Charter, a franchise for such business, purpose or use.
25. To regulate, restrain and prevent obstructions within the public streets, sidewalks and places and to make all needful regulations to keep and maintain the public streets, sidewalks and places in a clean, open and safe condition for public use; to provide for the removal, impounding and sale or other disposition of such obstructions, and to make the cost of removal a lien upon any property from which such obstruction originated or to which such obstruction was attached, to be placed upon the lien docket and collected as the Council may direct.
26. To control and limit traffic and classes thereof, and vehicles and classes thereof on the streets, avenues and elsewhere.
27. To prevent and prohibit planting of trees or shrubbery which may be detrimental to sewers, streets, sidewalks, utilities lines, fire hydrants, or use thereof, or which may interfere with safe travel or vision or may constitute a nuisance, and to cause such trees or shrubbery to be cut down or removed and to make the cost of such cutting or removal a lien upon the property, to be placed upon the lien docket and collected as the Council may direct.
28. To prescribe rates to be charged for transportation of passengers or property within the City and area outside the City over which City jurisdiction is authorized or recognized by statute, by means of vehicles of every description.
29. To provide for the establishment of market houses and places, and transportation terminals, and to regulate the location and management thereof.
30. To provide for the location, construction, repair and maintenance in or outside the City, of any ditch, canal, pipe or other facility for the impoundment, storage or conduct of water, and any drain, sewer or culvert or other facility in or outside the City for conduct, storage or treatment of storm or sanitary drainage or both, as it may deem necessary or convenient; for such purpose to enter upon any land for the purpose of examining, locating and surveying the line or location of such water or sewer facility, doing no unnecessary damage thereby; to appropriate said land or so much thereof as may be necessary for the construction or installation of said facility in any manner permitted by the laws of this State; to appropriate and divert from its natural course or channel temporarily or permanently, any spring or stream of water; and to compel the extension of utility connections from the main line or pipe to the curb line, property line or the sidewalks of all public streets, as the Council may determine.
31. To provide for furnishing the City and its residents with water, and to sell water to or for nonresidents.
32. To regulate the plumbing, drainage and sewerage of buildings and structures and the installation and use of appliances or facilities for heat, light, cooling and energy; to provide for the registration and qualification of specialists in trades or in installation or use of appliances and facilities; to provide inspection for such installation or use.
33. To compel all persons erecting or maintaining privies, water closets or other toilets or cesspools, septic tanks or private sanitary sewerage systems within one hundred (100) feet or one‑half block, whichever is greater, of any street in which a public sewer has or may hereafter be constructed, to connect the same therewith; and where a public sewer is not available, to prescribe disposal so as to protect the public, property, health and welfare.
34. To regulate, restrain and prohibit use of public sewers for any substance which may be harmful or detrimental to the sewers, to sewage disposal and treatment, or hazardous to workers, to property or to the public.
35. To regulate the construction, care, use and management of buildings and structures in the City for the better protection of the lives and health of persons dwelling in or using the same or of the public, and for the public welfare.
36. To regulate, restrain and to provide for the exclusion from the City, or any part thereof, of trades, occupations or businesses which are offensive or may in the opinion of the Council create or constitute a nuisance, and to regulate uses of land and structures within the City.
37. To prevent the erection or cause the removal, demolition or repair of buildings or structures wherever situated, found to be unsafe or dangerous to the occupants, to passers‑by or to other property, or which are found to obstruct a street, and to make the cost of such removal, tearing down or repair a lien upon the property, which liens may upon the order of the Council be entered into the docket of City liens and thereafter collected in such manner as the Council may direct.
38. To regulate or prevent the moving of buildings or structures over City streets and limit the locations to which such buildings or structures may be moved.
39. To define and classify the fire limits and to prohibit the erection or repair of buildings constructed of particular materials within all or any such fire limits.
40. To regulate or limit the height, construction, size, materials, setbacks, yards, inspection and repair of all private and public buildings, structures, and fences within the City and to provide City inspection thereof.
41. To require adequate fire escapes, apparatus and appliances for protection against fire, to be provided in buildings and structures, or in connection with specific uses.
42. To make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into the City, and to remove persons afflicted with such diseases to suitable hospitals which the City may designate or provide for that purpose either within or without said City; and to regulate such hospitals.
43. To provide a standard of weights and measures and to authorize inspection of weights, measures, food, beverages, and fuel; to regulate the commodity, size, weight and ingredients of food or beverage products and fuel, and to prevent the sale of adulterated, unhealthful or unwholesome food and beverages, and to provide for the seizure and forfeiture of food or food products, beverages and fuel offered for sale or sold contrary to said regulations.
44. To prevent and remove nuisances, to declare what shall constitute the same, to punish persons committing or suffering nuisances, to provide the manner of removal of nuisances, and to make the cost of such removal a lien upon the property where such nuisance existed; and to fill up or drain any lots, blocks or parcels of land subject to flood or where any stagnant water stands, to declare the same a nuisance, and to make the cost of filling up or draining the same a lien upon the property so filled or drained. Liens for abatement of nuisances may upon the order of the Council be entered in the docket of City liens and thereafter collected in such manner as the Council may direct.
45. To regulate or prevent the storage, manufacture, sale, use and transportation of dangerous, explosive, radioactive or combustible materials or weapons, and to provide for the inspection of the same, and to prevent by all proper means risks of injury or damage therefrom.
46. To regulate, prevent and prohibit loud or unnecessary noise.
47. To prevent trespassing and punish trespassers upon real and personal property.
48. To restrain and punish intoxication, fighting and quarreling in the City, and any disturbance, riot or riotous assemblage or participation therein, or any unlawful or indecent practice, and to define what shall constitute the same.
49. To prevent and suppress gaming and gambling houses, lotteries or places where any game in which chance predominates is played for anything of value, and to punish any person who engages in such game, or keeps or frequents such houses or sets up or promotes lotteries or sells lottery tickets; to prevent and suppress bawdy houses or places where fornication is practiced, and to punish any inmate, keeper or frequenter thereof; to prevent and suppress use of narcotics and dangerous drugs and houses and places kept therefor, and to punish any keeper of such house or place, or person who frequents the same.
50. To prohibit persons from roaming the streets at unseasonable hours.
51. To prohibit and prevent cruelty to children and animals; to appropriate such sums as may be paid into the treasury from fines collected on conviction of persons charged with cruelty to animals or children, and to authorize the payment of the same or any part thereof to any person or society that shall have officially aided in such conviction.
52. To provide for the punishment by fine of not less than twenty‑five dollars ($25) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment not exceeding two (2) years, or both, of any person or persons who may injure, deface, interfere with or destroy any property belonging to the City or in which the City has any interest, right or estate, and to provide that the district court or the circuit court of the State of Oregon for the County of Multnomah shall have jurisdiction to enforce such punishment or punishments.
53. To establish, change, discontinue, or re‑establish City jails, prisons, police stations, workhouses and houses of detention, punishment, confinement or rehabilitation, within or without the City.
54. To regulate and restrain the keeping of all pets, birds, fowl, reptiles, and animals of any kind, and to prevent any and all animals from running at large within the City or any part thereof, and to punish persons who allow animals to run at large or to be unlicensed; to provide for impounding, sale and disposition when found at large, or when kept against City regulations or when no license has been obtained or tax paid as provided by the Council.
55. To regulate, prevent and prohibit the erection, maintenance or display of signboards, billboards, signs, posters and advertisements designed to attract the attention of persons on sidewalks, streets or public places.
56. To regulate and prohibit the exhibition and hanging of material in or across the street or from houses or other buildings or structures.
57. To regulate and control water‑borne commerce and recreational uses within the City, and uses of and activities in or upon bodies of water within the City.
58. To provide for the removal of obstructions, debris and deleterious matter from waters within the City limits and to prohibit putting or negligently or willfully suffering the same to be put therein.
59. To regulate the building of wharves, and the driving of piles in any body of water or watercourse within the limits of the City and to establish lines beyond which wharves shall not be built nor piles be driven.
60. To provide for the construction and regulation of public facilities and landings at the foot of the streets terminating at a watercourse or body of water within the City.
61. To appropriate money for the deepening, widening, docking, covering, walling, altering or changing channels, water, or watercourses within the City, and to provide for the construction and maintenance of canals, slips, public landing places, wharves, docks and levees, and all such other work as may be required for the accommodation of commerce or recreation; to control and regulate the use thereof and to provide for the acquisition by condemnation or otherwise of all such work or works by the City, and for the construction, maintenance and ownership of the same by the City.
62. To provide for entering into contracts by the City with publicly or privately owned utilities or other governmental agencies for a period not exceeding forty (40) years for the transmission, sale or exchange of the capacity of and electric power generated by hydroelectric power generating facilities owned by the City and for operation and maintenance of the facilities.
The foregoing or other enumeration of particular powers granted to the Council in this Charter shall not be construed to impair any grant of power herein contained, express or implied, nor to limit any such general grant to powers of the same class or classes as those so enumerated. The City Council may exercise any power or authority granted by Oregon statute to municipal corporations at any time and also to cities of a class which includes the City of Portland. [Ch. 1903, sec. 74; rev. 1914, sec. 36; 1928 pub., sec. 36; 1942 recod., sec. 2-120; rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
The Council has power and authority, subject to the provisions, limitations and restrictions contained in this Charter, to provide for the punishment of a violation of any ordinance of the City by a fine or by imprisonment, or by both. Such imprisonment shall be for a term not exceeding six (6) months. In addition to the foregoing penalties, forfeiture of property or license of any kind may be provided. The limitations as to length of sentence contained in this Section shall not apply to any offense for which different limitations are fixed elsewhere in this Charter. [Ch. 1903 subdn. 3, sec. 73; rev. May 3, 1913, effective in July; new sec. June 2, 1913; subdn. 3, sec. 73; rev. 1914; sec. 35; 1928 pub., sec. 35; 1942 recod., sec. 2-106; rev. Nov. 6, 1962; am. Dec. 14, 1971; am. May 20, 1980.]
There shall be annually appropriated and set apart the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) to be known as the Emergency Fund of the Council and the Council may use and expend such Fund, or any part thereof, in its discretion for any purpose it may deem proper or advantageous to the public welfare. No part of such Fund shall be used as compensation or additional salary or for the personal benefit of the Mayor or any Commissioner. [May 3, 1913, new sec. 33; rev. 1914, sec. 31; 1928 pub., sec. 31; 1942 recod., sec. 2‑117; rev. Nov. 6, 1962; amended May 15, 2012, effective June 13, 2012.]
The Council, or a committee of the Council duly authorized by it, may investigate any board or department of the City government, and the official acts and conduct of any City officer, employee, or agent; and for the purpose of ascertaining facts in connection with such investigation, shall have full power to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses, to administer oaths, and to examine such persons as it may deem necessary, and to compel the production of books, documents, and other evidence. Willful false swearing in such investigations and examinations shall be perjury, and punishable as such under the laws of the State of Oregon. [Ch. 1903, sec.47; rev. 1914, sec. 32; 1928 pub., sec. 32; 1942 recod., sec. 2-118; rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
At its first regular meeting each calendar year, or oftener at its option, the Council shall elect a President by majority vote. The Mayor shall preside at all meetings of the Council. In the Mayor's absence or disability, the President of the Council shall perform the duties of the Mayor. In the absence or disability of both President and Mayor, the other members of the Council shall select one of their number to perform the duties of President and Mayor during such absence. [May 3, 1913, new sec. 35; rev. 1914, sec. 37; 1928 pub., sec. 37; 1942 recod., sec. 2-121; rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
The Council shall determine its own rules of procedure, may punish its members for disorderly conduct, and may compel the attendance of members. [May 3, 1913, new sec. 19; rev. 1914, sec. 41; 1928 pub., sec. 41; 1942 recod., sec. 2-122; am. Nov. 6, 1962.]
All regular and special meetings of the Council shall be public. It shall hold one regular legislative meeting each week, and such other meetings as it may prescribe. The Council shall keep a journal of its proceedings which shall be a public record. [May 3, 1913, new sec. 20; rev. 1914, sec. 42; 1928 pub., sec. 42; 1942 recod., sec. 2-123; rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
The Auditor shall produce for distribution at least twenty-four (24) hours before each legislative session a summary of all matters to come before the Council at the next regular legislative session. Only matters contained in said summary shall be considered at such legislative session unless four (4) members of the Council shall vote to consider otherwise. [May 3, 1913, new sec. 30; rev. 1914, sec. 38; 1928 pub., sec. 38; 1942 recod., sec. 2-124; rev. Nov. 6, 1962; am. May 19, 1994.]
At any meeting of the Council a majority of the total number shall constitute a quorum, but a lesser number may adjourn or recess from time to time, and may compel the attendance of absent members. [May 3, 1913, new sec. 21; rev. 1914, sec. 43; 1928 pub., sec. 43; 1942 recod., sec. 2-125; rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
A member of the Council for words uttered in debate therein shall not be questioned in any other place. [May 3, 1913, new sec. 32; rev. 1914, sec. 40; 1928 pub., sec. 40; 1942 recod., sec. 2-126; rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
Upon the request of any member the ayes and nays shall be taken and recorded upon any action or resolution. [May 3, 1913, new sec. 31; rev. 1914, sec. 39; 1928 pub., sec. 39; 1942 recod., sec. 2-127; rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
In the transaction of legislative or judicial business the Council shall act only by the ordinance. The ayes and nays shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances and entered upon the journal of the proceedings of the Council. Every member when present must vote, unless the remainder of the Council approves the member's excuse for disqualification, and every ordinance shall require the affirmative vote of three (3) members. [May 3, 1913, new sec. 22; rev. 1914, sec. 44; 1928 pub., sec. 44; 1942 recod., sec. 2-128; rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
No ordinance, except one making an appropriation, shall contain more than one general subject; ordinances making appropriations shall be confined to the subject of appropriations. [May 3, 1913, new sec. 23; rev. 1914, sec. 45; 1928 pub., sec. 45; 1942 recod., sec. 2-129; rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
The enacting clause of all ordinances shall be the words "The City of Portland ordains." [May 3, 1913, new sec. 24; rev. 1914, sec. 46; 1928 pub., sec. 46; 1942 recod., sec. 2-130; rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
Every ordinance except an emergency ordinance shall have two (2) public readings of its title or the effect thereof. At least five (5) days shall elapse between the introduction and final passage of any ordinance and no ordinance shall be amended within five (5) days of its final passage except in the case of an emergency ordinance. An emergency ordinance shall have one public reading of its title or the effect thereof and may be enacted upon the date of its introduction, providing that it contains the statement that an emergency exists and specifies with distinctness the facts or reasons constituting such emergency. The unanimous vote of all members of the Council present, and of not less than four (4) members shall be required to pass an emergency ordinance. [May 3, 1913, new sec. 25; rev. 1914, sec. 47; 1928 pub., sec. 47; 1942 recod., sec. 2-131; rev. Nov. 6, 1962; am. May 20, 1980.]
Amendments or repeals of ordinances, or sections thereof, shall also be by ordinance. [May 3, 1913, new sec. 28; rev. 1914, sec. 50; 1928 pub., sec. 50; 1942 recod., sec. 2-132; rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
An ordinance when passed by the Council shall be signed by the Auditor. It shall be carefully filed and preserved in the custody of the Auditor. [May 3, 1913, part of new sec. 29; rev. 1914, sec. 51; 1928 pub., sec. 51; 1942 recod., sec. 2-133; rev. Nov. 6, 1962; am. May 20, 1980; am. May 18, 1994.]
Ordinances (a) making appropriations and the annual tax levy, (b) relative to local improvements and assessments thereof, and (c) emergency ordinances, shall take effect immediately upon their passage, or any special date less than thirty (30) days after passage, specifically fixed in such ordinance. All other ordinances enacted by the Council shall take effect thirty (30) days after their passage unless a later date is fixed therein, in which event they shall take effect at such later date, subject to referendum if legislative, and subject to the provisions of this Charter relating to objections. [May 3, 1913, new sec. 26; rev. 1914, sec. 48; 1928 pub., sec. 48, 1942 recod., sec. 2-134. rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
At any time within ten (10) days after the passage of any ordinance which shall not take effect immediately, any member of the Council may file, in writing, objections to said ordinance, which shall be considered and voted upon by the Council at its next regular meeting. If a majority shall vote to sustain such objections, the ordinance shall be deemed repealed and shall not take effect unless again passed in the same manner as a new ordinance. If a majority shall vote not to sustain such objections, the same shall have no effect on the ordinance. The objections, together with the vote thereon, shall be preserved on record. [May 3, 1913, part of new sec. 29; rev. 1914, sec. 52; 1928 pub., sec. 52; 1942 recod., sec. 2-135; rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
All existing ordinances of the City of Portland, in force when this Charter revision takes effect and not inconsistent herewith, or constituting a contract between the City and another person, shall be and remain in full force until repealed or until they expire by limitation contained therein. [Ch. 1903, sec. 52; rev. 1914, sec. 53; 1928 pub., sec. 53; 1942 recod., sec. 2-136; rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
The City Council shall have authority to promote industrial growth and assist in securing additional business and industry within the City, and to that end the Council may make appropriations and expenditures from the General Fund for advertising the advantages of the City, for assisting private industry and business enterprises in obtaining contracts or business, for assisting new business or industry to find locations in or adjacent to the City, and for such other promotional activities as the Council may find appropriate. The Council may cooperate with any non-profit organization or other governmental agency in carrying out the purposes of this Section. [May 16, 1952, sec. 2-137, new sec.; rev. Nov. 6, 1962.]
Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 2-116, 2-117, and 2-120 of this Charter, the Council by rule may publish a procedure under which any ordinance, resolution or other action may be placed on a consent agenda. At any meeting at which there is a consent agenda on the calendar, the ayes and nays shall be taken upon the passage of all items on the consent agenda by a single Council vote. It shall not be necessary that there be a reading or readings of the titles or the effect of the items on a consent agenda or that time elapse between the introduction and final passage of the items. The unanimous vote of all members of the Council present, and of not less than four (4) members, shall be required to pass a consent agenda. All items to be contained in a consent agenda shall be so listed in the summary of matters to come before the Council prepared under Section 2-113 of this Charter. Items on a consent agenda shall not be subject to amendment or debate. Any item shall be removed from a consent agenda on the request of a Council member, or on the request of any person who wished to be heard on the item, provided the request is made prior to taking the ayes and nays on the consent agenda. An item so removed from a consent agenda shall be treated as a regular calendar item for the meeting for which it was on the consent agenda. [May 20, 1980.]
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Brewers top Double-A Biloxi
Ryan Braun and Domingo Santana both homered in the third inning to lead Milwaukee.
Brewers top Double-A Biloxi Ryan Braun and Domingo Santana both homered in the third inning to lead Milwaukee. Check out this story on postcrescent.com: http://post.cr/1MKA6fh
Wisconsin Published 7:38 p.m. CT April 2, 2016 | Updated 7:43 p.m. CT April 2, 2016
Milwaukee Brewers shortstop Jonathan Villar waits on the throw before tagging out Biloxi Shuckers’ Nathan Orf out on a stolen-base attempt during an exhibition game in Biloxi, Miss., Saturday.(Photo: AP)
BILOXI, Miss. - Ryan Braun and Domingo Santana both homered in the third inning to lead the Milwaukee Brewers past their Double-A affiliate Biloxi 7-4 on Saturday.
Milwaukee starter Chase Anderson allowed two runs in five innings. He also struck out four.
Biloxi took a 1-0 lead before Braun and Santana hit solo home runs that put the Brewers ahead for good.
The Brewers open the regular season on Monday at home against San Francisco.
Anderson had a bounce back performance for Milwaukee. He was hit around in his final major league spring training start Monday against Cincinnati, where he surrendered four runs on seven hits and four walks in four innings.
Things went much more smoothly on Saturday.
“It was probably the best I felt all spring. I was able to locate the fastball down,” he said. “I had a couple of bad pitches the first part of the game, just trying to get my feel and tempo going, but other than that I felt really good. Everything was pretty much in sync from the get-go and I was happy with how it went.”
Anderson completed major league spring training with a 9.82 ERA. He was 6-6 with a 4.30 ERA last season for Arizona.
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Brewers: Braun homered for the third straight game, a third-inning shot that hit off the top of the center field wall 400 feet away. It was the second homer in the inning for the Brewers as Santana hit a solo homer to right earlier with the wind blowing across MGM Park from left to right.
“That’s a good way to go into the season,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said.
Two of the Brewers’ prospects — Brett Phillips and Jacob Nottingham — hit homers for the Double-A Shuckers. Nottingham, acquired from Oakland this offseason for Khris Davis, hit a solo homer in the fourth.
Phillips, who came to Milwaukee’s organization last year in the Carlos Gomez trade with Houston, hit a two-run shot in the sixth.
“It’s easy to be excited about those guys,” Counsell said. “It was fun to see.”
Brewers: Right-hander Matt Garza was removed early from the Brewers’ last major league spring training game Friday early with right shoulder tightness. Garza lasted just 3⅓ innings before being pulled.
“Today is kind of his recovery day. We won’t know much today,” he said.
“He’ll progress as normal. We have some dates to play with so we can push him back if we have to. Sunday will be his bullpen day and we’ll probably have more information after that. We’ll know more tomorrow.”
Garza made six starts this spring, posting a 4.50 ERA in 22 innings.
The Brewers will have an off day Sunday before opening the season Monday at home against the San Francisco Giants. Wily Peralta will start for Milwaukee against Madison Bumgarner.
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Thieves steal youngster’s diabetic equipment during run training
by Lee McCann
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Ellouise and mum Karen Paterson.
An Aberdeenshire mum has urged thieves to return her daughter’s diabetes equipment after it was stolen from a school playing field.
Karen Paterson, 32, has spoken of her anger after her daughter Ellouise had her
diabetic scanner stolen while she took part in a running club.
The scanner helps monitor blood sugar levels, meaning the seven-year-old, who suffers from type 1 diabetes, does not have to take a blood sample.
The scanner – which looks like a mobile phone – was taken from Meldrum Academy’s playing fields during a training session with Oldmeldrum Young Runners Club.
Police are investigating the theft.
Ms Paterson, from Auchterless, said: “On Friday, my son, Daniel, five, goes to the Meldrum Young runners out in the field of the academy.
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“As Ellouise is type 1 diabetic, she has this case, it is like a pencil case with all her stuff for checking her blood sugar.
“She had left it at the side of the playing field so it was in easy reach if she needed it and the teacher also knew it was there.
“When they are doing the running they are all over the place, and it wasn’t until I had picked her up that both sides of the case were open.
“I originally thought her blood sugars had been low and I asked her if she was feeling okay and she said she was fine.
“It was then that we realised she’d lost the scanner, Ellouise hadn’t opened it, so I checked to see if there was anything else missing.
“The equipment lets Ellouise play outside and lets us check her blood sugar levels quickly.
“We want her to be as normal as she can be, she wasn’t happy when she found it had gone.”
The scanner connects to a sensor on Ellouise’s arm and detects her blood sugar levels, and would be useless to anyone but her daughter.
She said: “I think it could have been mistaken for a small phone. It is small, black with a big screen and has one big button.“
“We do hope we can get it back.”
Police confirmed they are investigating the theft from the sports field in the Colpy Road area of Oldmeldrum, which happened between 5.30pm and 6.30pm on June 7.
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The story so far: Here are Aberdeen’s ins and outs as Derek McInnes prepares for 2019-20
by Stuart Findlay
June 5, 2019, 3:22 pm Updated: June 5, 2019, 3:50 pm
Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes.
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While players lie in the sun and recover from a long, hard season, the management of the top football clubs in Scotland have been busy.
The Scottish football season might have only just ended but the recent Betfred Cup draw is a reminder that the real stuff kicks off again in just over six weeks.
Aberdeen have a bye for the group stages but that doesn’t mean they can rest on their laurels, they have the first leg of their first qualifying round in the Europa League scheduled for July 11.
Let’s take a look at how the Dons are shaping us so far.
At the head of the list so far is central defender Ash Taylor.
Returning for a second spell with the Dons, Taylor is confident that the fans will see a better player than they did during his first spell.
Aberdeen defender Ash Taylor.
That’s good news as Taylor was a solid performer and well-liked by supporters during his three-year stint at Pittodrie between 2014 and 2017.
Alongside Taylor, manager Derek McInnes has secured the signing of Welsh international winger Ryan Hedges.
The 23-year-old made 21 appearances for a Barnsley side which secured promotion from League One in 2018-19 and was offered a new deal by the Tykes.
The fact he was willing to turn it down and move north is a good sign for McInnes.
The loss of captain Graeme Shinnie will be keenly felt at Pittodrie next season.
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The 27-year-old enjoyed four successful seasons with Aberdeen and one of McInnes’ top priorities must be to replace his presence in the middle of the park.
The Dons relied heavily on the loan market last season and a quick glance of who is leaving the club is evidence of this.
Greg Stewart, Dominic Ball, James Wilson and Max Lowe all left the club at the end of their loan deals but there is talk of Lowe and Ball returning next season.
Ball’s deal at Rotherham has expired, while Wilson’s Man Utd contract has also ended. McInnes remains keen to get Lowe back on loan from Derby and had been interested in re-signing Stewart but the forward is reportedly close to a deal with Rangers.
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Greg Halford, as well as youngsters David Craddock, Ryan Harrington and Morgan Brown have also left the club.
Mark Reynolds has also joined Dundee Utd on a permanent deal, after a successful loan spell at Tannadice.
The 32-year-old has made more than 200 appearances for the Dons but struggled for fitness and required knee surgery last summer.
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Rock climbing has a strong history in the Priest Lake area. Because you can see chimney rock from the lake, many early Priest Lake visitors talked about whether or not chimney rock would ever be climbed. Mountaineers from Seattle tried to climb the rock in 1933. They were unsuccessful, but returned the following year to put a team of 4 climbers on top. The route they took has become the standard route to the top, to this day still a hair-raising trip. Chimney Rock was soloed the following year by an ambitious climber in tennis shoes. John Booth started the approach from his parents cabin at Indian Creek bay, hiking a rough trail from the lake to the base of Chimney. He climbed up and down the rock without a rope and back to his parents cabin by nightfall. This rather alarming feat would still be considered a major event even by today's high rock climbing standards.
Chimney rock was virtually ignored until the early 70's, when the team of John Roskelley and Chris Kopszynski came on the scene. This team was the first to free climb the east face. The east face is the side we can't see from Priest Lake. This face is steeper and longer than the Priest Lake side and overhangs 15 feet at the top. As John describes it, he was lay backing up a flake when his arms tired and he started sliding down. The corduroy pants he was wearing caught on the flake just long enough for him to pound in a piton. He claims it's the first time he realized he could die in the mountains.
There are over 20 routes to the top of Chimney Rock and 2 routes of descent. The rappel chimney on the west face is the normal route of descent and can be done with one rope. The east face descent is free hanging for most of the second rappel and requires two ropes. Both routes of descent require some easy down climbing to reach the base safely. There is also a rough climbers trail that winds around the base of the north face, providing access to the east side.
A climb of Chimney Rock is an all day outing. The rock can be reached via the Mount Roothaan trailhead. It takes 2 hours from the car to the base of Chimney Rock, and 3 to 4 hours to complete the climb. A guidebook is available from Keokee press that describes the approach and the climbing routes. The book is called "Climbers guide to North Idaho and the Cabinet wilderness" written by Thaddeus Laird.
A local climbing area within 20 minutes of Priest Lake that is easily accessible is Granite Pass. Granite Pass is located on Idaho highway 57 about 12 miles north of Nordman and one mile north of Granite Falls. The road passes through cliffs that are 50 feet high. Easy to rope or lead climbs are found on both sides of the road. You can park next to the climbing and easily walk around the back of each cliff to set up top rope anchors. Most of these anchors consist of large trees, but some chain anchors are in place.
The classic route here is Spider in the Crux, a bolted sport climb that was first climbed in 1995 by Charlie Sassara. This striking line is located on the buttress on the right side of the road as you drive north. It was top-roped for many years by slinging 2 large boulders at the top for anchors. Local bolters equipped the route, but before they could complete the first lead of the climb, on a warm August evening, Alaskan ace and climbing guide Sassara led the route.
The newest area to be developed is Lions Head. This granite spire is twice as high as Chimney Rock and just as steep. Charlie Sassara was on scene here as well, establishing the first ascent of the west face, a climb he calls The Fugitive. The north face route, a route called Lion Tamer, is the longest climbing route in the Selkirk mountains. Only a handful of climbers have ventured onto the north face, a free climb since 1991.
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Mana Health Taps Nita Stella as Head of Product Strategy
Strategic product development expert joins healthcare transformation leader
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NEW YORK, April 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Mana Health, a leading healthcare technology company that has developed an award-winning patient health portal designed to empower patients and support healthcare transformation, announced today that Nita Stella, a healthcare veteran with more than 20 years of experience in product and strategy development and management, has joined their expanding team. Previously, she served as senior vice president for product development at ActiveHealth Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aetna. At ActiveHealth, Nita led the development and management of all new products and online initiatives, including the web portal for patient use that was rolled out for ActiveHealth and Aetna.
"Well before Nita came to Mana Health, we were aware of the great things she was doing in the industry to improve healthcare for consumers through the use of technology," said Raj Amin, co-founder and executive chairman, Mana Health. "Nita's extensive experience in healthcare strategy and product development make her a most welcome addition to our team, particularly as Mana Health continues to expand our product portfolio."
In her new role, Ms. Stella's primary focus will be on product strategy development, working closely with the Mana Health development team to construct the most effective, user-friendly and beneficial tools for both clinicians and patients. Prior to her role at ActiveHealth, Nita was vice president of consumer strategy at CVS Caremark and assistant vice president of product management at Consumer Health Interactive. A published researcher on patient portals, Nita has also held senior positions at NYU Medical Center, Ernst and Young Health Care Consulting, and Kaiser Permanente. Ms. Stella brings diverse experience in large and small healthcare enterprises, start-ups and mature companies in exit or acquisition phases.
"My previous roles in consumer healthcare technology have enabled me to bring a variety of extremely relevant expertise to a healthcare market in need of advocates," said Ms. Stella. "I am proud to join a company with such a strong dedication to transforming patient care and a focus to becoming an advocate for healthcare transformation."
About Mana Health
Mana Health is a healthcare technology company that uses data to make healthcare work better. Based in New York City, their team is comprised of experts from across healthcare, software development, consumer experience, and analytics. Mana Health's first product, the Mana Patient Gateway, offers an engaging experience that empowers patients through their HIE, hospital, and employer data. Mana Health's innovative portal designs won the Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge. To learn more about Mana Health, visit www.manahealth.com.
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New York Is Poised to Become The First US State to Ban Declawing Cats
New York is one signature away from becoming the first state in the country to ban cat declawing, a practice advocates say serves no benefit to felines and is done typically out of convenience.
The bill, which passed by a wide margin Tuesday in the state's majority-Democrat Assembly and Senate, would impose a US$1,000 fine on veterinarians who perform the procedure for non-medical purposes.That means pet owners in the state would no longer be able to have their cats declawed for cosmetic, aesthetic and other ostensible reasons.One of several lawmakers to champion the measure, Assembly woman Linda Rosenthal (D-Manhattan) was visibly jubilant after the vote.
She has previously rallied against declawing and condemned its invasive nature in a statement: "It is not like getting a mani/pedi," she said. "It's a brutal surgical procedure.""The days when this procedure is cavalierly offered for the convenience of the owners to protect couches and curtain are numbered," she added.
Rosenthal and other proponents of the bill say declawing, or onychectomy, can cause long-lasting complications for cats. New York director for the Humane Society of the United States Brian Shapiro, who advocated the legislation, explained the procedure is not as simple as removing a cat's nail; it requires amputating the last bone segment in a cat's toes.
He likened it to chopping off the tip of a human finger at the first knuckle. The legislation is a "great victory," he added.Some estimate 25 percent of cats in the United States are declawed, and Shapiro said veterinarians are generally divided on the issue.
The New York Veterinary Medical Society, for example, argues declawing should be allowed if a cat is using its claws destructively, or if a potential scratch could pose health risks to households containing people with weakened immune systems.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends sanitation methods and selective pet ownership over declawing.
The origins of declawing date back to at least 1952, when the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association published a letter to the editor from Chicago veterinarian A.G. Misener, who described the procedure as a "practical measure".
Speaking to The Washington Post in 2017, Minnesota veterinarian Ron Gaskin said Misener's practice was widely adopted across the United States - namely to keep cats from scratching up furniture - despite a lack of scrutiny on the procedure."It was never investigated for long-term safety, or whether it generated pain later on in life," Gaskin said. "It was never researched that way."
Several cities in the United States and the majority of Canadian provinces have banned declawing, according to Rosenthal. The procedure is also outlawed in Britain, Germany, Austria, Sweden and several other countries.
Acknowledging New York is leading the way at the state level, Rosenthal said she hopes others will follow their lead. Lawmakers in California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and West Virginia are pushing to pass similar legislation.
The bill will now be delivered to the desk of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo (D-N.Y.), who has indicated he will review the measure before making a decision.
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Evolution. Changing times call for changing tools. That’s why our new multi-format player is the natural selection for the next generation of DJs.
It’s been 15 years since the genesis of Pioneer’s first CDJ deck, which led to the world-beating CDJ-1000 series.
Now it’s time for something completely new.
Introducing a major leap forward for the club standard CDJ series: the CDJ-2000 – our new professional player for the digital age.
The CDJ-2000 fizzes with fresh DNA and can play music from multiple sources, including CD, DVD, USB storage devices and SD memory cards.
It also comes with the revolutionary music database management software for DJs: rekordbox™. Based on our ‘Prepare & Perform’ concept, rekordbox works (for both Mac and PC) like the leading music database management software, but is more creative and more DJ-friendly.
rekordbox allows DJs to prepare more before their performance and opens a door to tools such as Hot Cue Banks and Quantize, for perfectly synced loops every time. DJs can then export data to a USB or SD device to access vast libraries of music files and perform live – without the need for extra equipment or any inconvenient rewiring in the club.
Through the industry-first Pro DJ Link, music files and database data on one single USB or SD device can be shared simultaneously by up to four players connected via LAN (local area network) cable.
Plus, the data history of each DJ set is automatically saved and can be made into a playlist that can be loaded back into rekordbox.
Another key facet of the CDJ-2000 is its advanced HID (human interface device) and MIDI capabilities for native control of DVS (digital vinyl systems) via USB. What’s more, it achieves Pioneer’s highest sound quality to date through an improved audio output circuit, a new audiophile-pleasing Wolfson DAC processor, and a built-in 24-bit/48 kHz sound card.
Naturally, the CDJ-2000’s layout is related to its robust, reliable predecessor, the CDJ-1000MK3. However, although it fits easily into the MK3’s footprint, it ramps up performance with the largest (6.1-inch) clearest full-colour screen in the business.
Below the screen is an industry-first waveform Needle Search™/Needle Drop ribbon, so that all the convenience of direct file browsing can now be found in an intuitive hardware format. Add to these features a highly evolved illuminated Jog wheel, and an overall enhanced design, complete with carry handles and Kensington lock, and you have the ideal digital innovation for total performance and seamless synchronisation.
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Continued emissions of carbon tetrachloride from the United States nearly two decades after its phaseout for dispersive uses
Lei Hu, Stephen A. Montzka, Ben R. Miller, Arlyn E. Andrews, John B. Miller, Scott J. Lehman, Colm Sweeney, Scot M. Miller, Kirk Thoning, Carolina Siso, Elliot L. Atlas, Donald R. Blake, Joost de Gouw, Jessica B. Gilman, Geoff Dutton, James W. Elkins, Bradley Hall, Huilin Chen, Marc L. Fischer, Marikate E. Mountain, Thomas Nehrkorn, Sebastien C. Biraud, Fred L. Moore, and Pieter Tans
PNAS March 15, 2016 113 (11) 2880-2885; first published February 29, 2016 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1522284113
Lei Hu
aCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309;bGlobal Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO 80305;
For correspondence: leihutx@gmail.com Stephen.A.Montzka@noaa.gov
Stephen A. Montzka
bGlobal Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO 80305;
Ben R. Miller
Arlyn E. Andrews
John B. Miller
Scott J. Lehman
cInstitute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309;
Colm Sweeney
Scot M. Miller
dDepartment of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305;
Kirk Thoning
Carolina Siso
Elliot L. Atlas
eRosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149;
Donald R. Blake
fSchool of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697;
Joost de Gouw
aCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309;gChemical Sciences Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO 80305;
Jessica B. Gilman
Geoff Dutton
James W. Elkins
Bradley Hall
Huilin Chen
aCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309;hCenter for Isotope Research, Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen, University of Groningen, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands;
Marc L. Fischer
iEnergy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720;
Marikate E. Mountain
jAtmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA 02421;
Thomas Nehrkorn
Sebastien C. Biraud
kEarth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
Fred L. Moore
Pieter Tans
Edited by John H. Seinfeld, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, and approved January 21, 2016 (received for review November 12, 2015)
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Global-scale observations suggest large unexplained emissions of the ozone-depleting chemical carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) despite stringent limits on its production for dispersive uses for many years. Identifying the sources of continued CCl4 emission is necessary before steps can be taken to accelerate the emission decline and limit future ozone depletion. Results from an extensive air sampling network over the United States indicate continued emission of CCl4 with a similar distribution but much larger magnitude than industrial facilities reporting emissions to the US Environmental Protection Agency. If these emissions are attributable to chlorine production and processing and are indicative of release rates of CCl4 from these industries worldwide, a large fraction of ongoing global emissions of CCl4 can be explained.
National-scale emissions of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) are derived based on inverse modeling of atmospheric observations at multiple sites across the United States from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s flask air sampling network. We estimate an annual average US emission of 4.0 (2.0–6.5) Gg CCl4 y−1 during 2008–2012, which is almost two orders of magnitude larger than reported to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) (mean of 0.06 Gg y−1) but only 8% (3–22%) of global CCl4 emissions during these years. Emissive regions identified by the observations and consistently shown in all inversion results include the Gulf Coast states, the San Francisco Bay Area in California, and the Denver area in Colorado. Both the observation-derived emissions and the US EPA TRI identified Texas and Louisiana as the largest contributors, accounting for one- to two-thirds of the US national total CCl4 emission during 2008–2012. These results are qualitatively consistent with multiple aircraft and ship surveys conducted in earlier years, which suggested significant enhancements in atmospheric mole fractions measured near Houston and surrounding areas. Furthermore, the emission distribution derived for CCl4 throughout the United States is more consistent with the distribution of industrial activities included in the TRI than with the distribution of other potential CCl4 sources such as uncapped landfills or activities related to population density (e.g., use of chlorine-containing bleach).
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Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) is an ozone-depleting substance (ODS) and a potent greenhouse gas (1, 2). Exposure to high concentrations of CCl4 also may have adverse health effects (3⇓–5). As a result of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Montreal Protocol), a 100% phaseout of CCl4 production for dispersive applications has been in place since 1996 in developed countries and since 2010 in developing countries. Production of CCl4 for nondispersive applications, exempted from the Montreal Protocol, continues at a significant rate and totaled ∼200 Gg in 2012 (6). These nondispersive applications include use as a process agent, use as a feedstock for production of various chemicals (hydrofluorocarbons, hydrofluoroolefins, vinyl chloride monomer, and chlorofluorocarbons) (7), and essential uses defined by the Montreal Protocol.
A mystery persisting for more than a decade stems from the unexpectedly slow rate of atmospheric decline observed for CCl4 given near-zero production magnitudes reported to the United Nation’s Environment Programme’s Ozone Secretariat for dispersive uses and an atmospheric lifetime of 26 (23–37) y (6, 8, 9). The global total emissions of CCl4 derived from observed mole fractions in the remote atmosphere have been 30–80 Gg⋅y−1 since 2008 (6, 9, 10), in contrast to emissions derived from reported production of near zero (<10 Gg⋅y−1) over the same period (6, 9). Global emissions of 30–80 Gg⋅y−1 of CCl4 are substantial compared with those of other ODSs; they accounted for 11–17% of the Ozone Depletion Potential—weighted emissions of all ODSs from 2008 to 2012 (6).
Within the United States, national emissions of CCl4 are thought to be negligible. The national total emissions of CCl4 have been reported as less than 0.5 Gg⋅y−1 in the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) and Greenhouse Gas Inventory since 1996 according to industrial reporting (11), reported emission sources, and estimated emission factors (12). For comparison, most atmosphere-based studies have suggested near-zero US emissions in recent years but with uncertainties of up to 14 Gg CCl4⋅y−1 (13⇓–15). Xiao et al. (16) derived North American total emissions of 4.9 ± 1.4 Gg⋅y−1 during 1996–2004 from measurements at remote sites across the globe, including three sites in western North America. Unfortunately, most atmosphere-based estimates have been derived from measurements conducted over limited periods or from only certain regions in the United States, so they are not representative of total US emissions nor can they be appropriately compared with the annualized US national inventory.
Here, we analyze atmospheric measurements of CCl4 in flask air collected from nine tall towers and 16 aircraft profiling sites across North America [part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network] from 2008 through 2012 (Fig. 1) (17⇓–19) (SI Text). This allows us to characterize atmospheric mole fractions of CCl4 and their vertical and horizontal variability both in the remote atmosphere upwind of the contiguous United States and in regions with stronger anthropogenic influence within the United States. Given the density and distribution of this flask air sampling network (Fig. 1), the near-surface observations [those collected between 0 km and 1 km above ground level (agl)] are sensitive to emissions from almost all regions within the contiguous United States and, therefore, to many different potential sources of CCl4 (Fig. 1). Furthermore, when combined with an inverse modeling analysis, these observations allow us to characterize spatial and temporal variability of US CCl4 emissions and suggest likely sources that contribute to these ongoing emissions.
Map showing the locations of flask air sampling sites where CCl4 was measured as part of this study (aircraft, triangles; tall towers, stars), the resulting sensitivity of this sampling network to CCl4 emissions throughout the United States during 2008–2012 (color shading from yellow to red), and the distribution of emissions reported by different facilities to the US EPA TRI (circles with size indicating emission magnitude). Sites excluded from the inversions and displayed surface sensitivity are indicated as unfilled triangles and stars. Two aircraft sampling sites are not apparent in this map: PFA (65.07°N, 147.29°W) and RTA (21.25°S, 159.83°W).
Observational Evidence for Surface Emissions of CCl4 Within the United States
A near-zero vertical gradient (between 0 km agl and 6 km agl) was observed for CCl4 mole fractions in the remote atmosphere [at the sites THD, ESP, ETL, and during the High-Performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER) Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) campaign (20)] upwind of the contiguous United States (between 20°N and 55°N), implying a net flux of CCl4 close to zero in the Pacific Ocean basin (Fig. 2, Fig. S1, and ref. 20). Over the contiguous United States, however, particularly near industrial and some populated regions, CCl4 mole fractions were enhanced by up to 60 parts per trillion (ppt) in the planetary boundary layer (PBL) (0–1 km agl) relative to background mole fractions measured in upwind areas and in the free troposphere (3–6 km agl) during 2008–2012 (Fig. 2). Enhanced mole fractions measured in the PBL within the contiguous United States (indicated in Fig. 2) averaged 0.32 ppt at all sites during this period (median: 0.21 ppt; 16th and 84th percentiles: −0.42 ppt and 1.01 ppt); large enhancements (greater than 5 ppt) were observed infrequently (4% of the time). The enhanced mole fractions of CCl4 in the PBL within the contiguous United States (compared with near-zero vertical gradients in the upwind remote atmosphere) imply the presence of ongoing surface emissions of CCl4 from the United States. Furthermore, these observed mole fraction enhancements, as well as the observed vertical gradients, have distinct spatial patterns that imply elevated CCl4 emission rates from specific regions of the United States, including Texas, central California, South Carolina, and Colorado (Fig. 2 and Fig. S2).
Measured atmospheric mole fractions of CCl4 in different regions (A and B) and site-specific mole fraction enhancements above remote atmosphere or “background” values (measured at 3–6 km agl) (C), and over time in observations and in forward calculations using different emissions (D). Measured mole fractions in the free troposphere (3–6 km agl) (gray points) are very similar to those measured in the lower atmosphere (0–1 km agl) (black points) at remote sites upwind of the contiguous United States (THD, ESP, and ETL) (A); in the midcontinent, samples with CCl4 mole fractions above background values are observed (B) (the few results above 110 ppt observed at midcontinent sites are not visible). The distribution of enhanced mole fractions measured near the surface (0–500 m agl) has significant spatial variability (C) likely indicative of spatial variations in emission strength (error bars represent the standard error of mean mole fraction enhancements, and site code + “a” indicates aircraft sites). (D) Observed (obs, black unfilled squares connected with a black line) and simulated (sim) monthly median mole fraction enhancements in the lower atmosphere (0–500 m agl) using emissions reported in the US EPA TRI (blue line) and posterior emissions derived here (red line with gray shading representing uncertainty of simulations).
Fig. S1.
A comparison of background and free tropospheric CCl4 mole fractions from different regions and sampling programs. CCl4 mole fractions in the free troposphere (3–6 km agl) at midcontinental nonremote sites as in Fig. 2 (gray) and remote sites upwind of the contiguous United States (THD, ESP, and ETL; blue), as well as those from the HIPPO campaign measured on the same GCMS instrument (red). CCl4 mole fractions in the lower atmosphere (0–3 km agl) in the remote atmosphere are also shown as cyan (THD, ESP, and ETL) and yellow (HIPPO) symbols.
Observed average vertical gradients of CCl4 at aircraft sites during 2008–2012. Error bars represent standard errors of average enhancements at different altitudes.
Some loss processes could also cause a vertical mole fraction gradient that mimics or offsets the influence of emissions. For example, CCl4 is removed from the atmosphere primarily by photolysis in the stratosphere, and smaller losses are associated with irreversible degradation in the ocean and by soils. The partial atmospheric lifetimes of CCl4 owing to these processes are estimated to be 44 (36–58) y for photolysis (21), 94 (82–191) y for oceanic loss (22), and 245 y for loss to soils (23). The near-zero vertical gradient in observations made in the remote atmosphere upwind of the contiguous United States implies that the net influence of all loss processes (and far upwind emissions, e.g., from Asia) on the vertical gradient of CCl4 in background air reaching the United States (<6 km asl between 20°N and 55°N) is likely minimal (Fig. 2 and Fig. S1).
Modeling CCl4 Emissions from Atmospheric Observations
To derive spatiotemporally resolved emissions of CCl4 from observed atmospheric mole fractions, we use both Bayesian and geostatistical inverse analyses (SI Text) (e.g., refs. 19 and 24⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓–31). These inverse approaches find an optimal solution of emissions distribution and magnitude necessary to explain observed enhancements in atmospheric mole fractions (relative to those in the background atmosphere; see SI Text) given the model-computed sensitivity of observations to upstream emissions (or “footprints”; see below) and assumed a priori (“prior” or first guess) emission distributions and magnitudes. A Bayesian Inversion uses a prior emission field (with prescribed distribution and magnitude), whereas a geostatistical inversion optimizes scaling factors of multiple prior spatial activity data (spatial information related to potential emissive sources) and uses the optimally weighted linear combination of these spatial datasets as a deterministic component in the inverse calculation. The geostatistical inversion framework also provides an optimization on stochastic emission residuals that are not prescribed in the deterministic component (SI Text) (31). Here, we use two prior emission distributions and magnitudes including the CCl4 emissions from the US EPA TRI (TRI0.06) (Fig. 1 and Fig. S3), and a prior having temporally and spatially constant emissions (flat12) (Fig. S3). TRI0.06 has an average national total emission of 0.06 Gg⋅y−1 during 2008–2012, whereas flat12 has a constant national total emission of 12 Gg⋅y−1 over this period. The flat12 prior allows the spatial distribution of the corresponding a posteriori (“posterior” or final optimized) emissions to be determined primarily by the atmospheric observations and, when considered with the much smaller TRI0.06 prior, allows the sensitivity of derived posterior fluxes to assumed prior emission magnitudes to be tested.
The distribution and magnitude of emissions used as priors and derived as posteriors from multiple approaches and input data to the inverse calculation. Prior emissions were from the US EPA TRI, which yielded an average national total emission of 0.06 Gg⋅y−1 during 2008–2012 (TRI0.06 in A), and a spatially flat prior with a constant national total emission of 12 Gg⋅y−1 (flat12 in B). Posterior emissions of CCl4 averaged over 2008–2012 were derived with a Bayesian inverse analysis (BI) and air transport simulated by HYSPLIT-NAM12 and the different priors (TRI0.06 in C and flat12 in D); they were also derived with the same representation of transport and a Geostatistical inverse analysis (GI) and the different priors (TRI0.06 in E and flat12 in F). Finally, the influence of a different approach to simulating transport (STILT-WRF) is apparent in the comparison of derived emissions averaged over a subset of years (2008–2011), the TRI0.06 prior, and a GI approach using HYSPLIT-NAM (G) or STILT-WRF (H).
Sensitivities of observed mole fractions to upstream surface fluxes associated with each sampling event, also called a sample footprint [as ppt (pmol m−2⋅s−1)−1], were computed using two air transport models: the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model (ready.arl.noaa.gov/HYSPLIT_disp.php) (32, 33) driven with archived meteorological data from the 12-km-resolution North American Mesoscale Forecast System model (NAM12, domain: ∼60–140°W, 20–60°N), and the Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) meteorology (34). The WRF meteorology has nested domains with resolution of 10 km over the contiguous United States (∼25–55°N; 135–65°W) and 40 km over the rest of North America (∼10–80°N; 170–50°W). STILT-WRF has parameterized convection in the outer domain. HYSPLIT-NAM12 footprints were calculated for each sample collected throughout the entire study period (2008–2012), whereas STILT-WRF footprints were only calculated for samples collected during January 2008 to September 2012.
US National and Regional Emissions of CCl4
The average US CCl4 emission rate derived during 2008–2012 from inverse modeling of these atmospheric observations ranged from 3.3 (± 0.2, 1σ) Gg⋅y−1 to 3.7 (± 0.2, 1σ) Gg⋅y−1 (Fig. 3). The 1σ uncertainty quoted here represents the posterior uncertainty derived from each inversion. The range (3.3–3.7 Gg⋅y−1) reflects emission magnitudes computed from an ensemble of inversions with different prior national emission totals (0.06–12 Gg⋅y−1), different inverse modeling techniques (Bayesian and geostatistical inversions; see SI Text), and a single estimate of background mole fractions (SI Text) and air transport (HYSPLIT-NAM12) (Fig. 3 and Fig. S3). A number of other sources of uncertainty exist when deriving emissions with inverse techniques that are not readily incorporated into the uncertainty stated above. For example, the derived national total emission was 20–30% lower when an alternative representation of air transport (STILT-WRF) was considered during 2008–2011 (Fig. 3 and Fig. S3). Uncertainty in background atmospheric mole fractions, determined from 1,000 Monte Carlo random samplings of the free tropospheric data, adds an uncertainty of ± 0.3 Gg⋅y−1 (∼10%) to the derived 5-y mean US national total emission (Fig. 3 and Fig. S4). Additional uncertainty in the derived national total emissions arises from changes in the air sampling network over time, such as gaps in the measurement record, initiation and termination of air sampling sites, and changes in sampling frequency during the study period. For example, although sampling at the tower sampling sites AMT, SCT, and MWO was initiated in 2009 (AMT and SCT) and 2010 (MWO), sampling at the aircraft sampling sites AAO and BNE was terminated at the end of 2009 and mid-2011. Moreover, sampling frequencies at tower and aircraft sites were reduced by 50% after mid-2011. To understand the influence of these network changes on derived emission magnitudes, we performed inversions with data only from sites where measurements were made throughout 2008–2012. Eliminating data from five sites (i.e., AMT, SCT, MWO, AAO, and BNE) in the inversion caused a −30% to +10% change in derived annual national total emissions during 2010–2012. Additionally, if sampling frequencies were artificially reduced by 50% at all sites during 2008–2010, derived national total emissions were unchanged, although uncertainty in derived emissions increased. Considering all these uncertainties from prior emissions, air transport simulations, background mole fractions, changes in the sampling frequency and locations, and minor corrections to observations (SI Text), derived mean US national total emissions during 2008–2012 ranged between 1.7 Gg⋅y−1 and 6.1 Gg⋅y−1, with a best estimate of 3.6 Gg⋅y−1. This estimate neglects the amount of CCl4 that is irreversibly lost to soils within the contiguous United States. If we consider the soil uptake of CCl4 within the contiguous United States (estimated at 0.3–0.4 Gg⋅y−1; see SI Text), the gross emission of CCl4 from the contiguous United States would be adjusted to 4.0 (2.0–6.5) Gg⋅y−1.
The magnitude and distribution of annual CCl4 emissions derived for the contiguous United States in this study from a flat prior (flat12) (A) and reported to the US EPA TRI (B) averaged over 2008–2012 (displayed as annual emissions per grid cell). (C) National total emissions of CCl4 derived here for each year during 2008–2012 from geostatistical inversions (GI) (red lines with error bars) and Bayesian inversions (BI) (blue lines with error bars) with air transport simulated by HYSPLIT-NAM12 and two different priors: TRI0.06 and flat12 (dashed lines). A range of annual national total emissions (yellow lines) were derived with the GI based on uncertainty of background mole fractions of CCl4. Uncertainty of derived national total emissions associated with 1σ uncertainty of atmospheric background mole fractions is shown as gray shading. It was then augmented (pink shading) to account for changes in air sampling network over time. Annual national total emissions of CCl4 derived based on an alternative transport, STILT-WRF, are shown as a cyan line. (D) The 5-y averaged national and state total emissions of CCl4 from the TRI (red; note expanded scale) and derived here (cyan). The six states shown account for the majority of CCl4 emissions derived from the current study.
(Left) A histogram of mean enhancements for CCl4 mole fractions in samples collected at 0–3 km agl during 2008–2012 calculated with 1,000 different representations of background values. The 1,000 representations of background values at aircraft sites were derived from 1,000 Monte Carlo samplings among free tropospheric data (3–6 km agl) on a flight-by-flight basis. The 1,000 representations of background values at tower sites were derived from 1,000 Monte Carlo samplings among free tropospheric data from aircraft profiles (3–6 km agl) binned by latitudes (every 10 degrees) in a 3-mo interval. (Right) Derived annual mean US total emissions over 2008–2012 regressed against average enhancements derived from five different representations of background (out of the 1,000 Monte Carlo-sampled background time series) using TRI0.06 as a prior. Derived average national total emission based on background mole fractions calculated from 3-mo median free tropospheric mole fractions is shown as the yellow-filled square.
The national average CCl4 emission magnitude for 2008–2012 derived from this extensive air sampling network throughout the United States is 4.0 (2.0–6.5) Gg⋅y−1, or substantially larger than the average reported to the US EPA TRI over this same period (0.06 Gg⋅y−1). The TRI reported emissions can only explain 0.1% of the magnitudes of monthly median enhancements observed in the lower atmosphere (0–500 m agl) for the period of 2008–2012, and simulated enhancements with the derived emissions account for 90–110% of the observed monthly median enhancements (Fig. 2 and SI Text). These results strongly suggest that some combination of underreported emissions and nonreporting sources currently account for the majority of US CCl4 emissions. Although the derived national total emission rate is almost two orders of magnitude larger than reported in the US EPA TRI, the spatial distributions of inventory and atmosphere-derived emissions are similar (Fig. S5). Both estimates (derived here and from the US EPA TRI) suggest the largest emissions of CCl4 come from Texas and Louisiana (Fig. 3), which together account for more than a third (60% in the US EPA TRI) of the national total emissions.
US national and regional emissions of CCl4 derived from this study and reported by the US EPA TRI. (Top) Six defined regions within the contiguous United States: Northeast (NE), Southeast (SE), Central North (CN), Central South (CS), Mountain (M), and West (W). (Middle) Annual regional emissions from the assumed priors (TRI0.06 and flat12) (dashed lines) and the derived posteriors in an ensemble of inversions (vertical bars with uncertainties). (Bottom) Relative fractions of regional emissions derived from this study (cyan; normalized by 4.0 Gg⋅y−1 total emission) and reported by the US EPA TRI (red; normalized by 0.06 Gg⋅y−1 total emission).
Spatial distributions and interannual variability of the total emissions derived for the United States are not sensitive to the details of the assumed prior emission distribution and magnitude, air transport models, and inverse approaches (i.e., Bayesian vs. geostatistical inversions) (Fig. 3 and Fig. S3). Results from an ensemble of inversions (including uses of multiple prior fluxes, inverse approaches, and air transport models) consistently show enhanced emissions in states around the Gulf Coast and near the Denver area in Colorado and the San Francisco Bay Area in California (Fig. 3 and Fig. S3). This distribution is consistently suggested by the tower data and aircraft data: An inversion performed with only data from tower sites yields a similar posterior emission distribution for CCl4, and data obtained from aircraft show larger mean vertical gradients in the more emissive regions (Fig. 2 and Fig. S2). Among the ensemble of inversions described above (Fig. 3), derived US national total emissions of CCl4 in 2010 are 2−3 times higher than in all other years (Fig. 3). This increase stems from larger emissions being derived for the central and mountain regions of the United States (Fig. S5). Although it is unclear what caused the increased emission of CCl4 from these regions in 2010, it is not attributable to changes in the sampling locations or sampling frequency (based on inversion results with a static sampling network over time).
Previous independent atmospheric CCl4 observations from aircraft and ship surveys and continuous in situ measurements showed substantially elevated mole fractions of CCl4 near regions identified here as providing significant emissions. They also reported mole fractions close to background levels in the same regions where low emissions are derived in the present work (Fig. 4). For example, in Houston, TX, substantial enhancements of CCl4 (up to 500 ppt) were repeatedly observed in the lower troposphere (0–3 km agl) during multiple aircraft and ship campaigns between 2000 and 2006 [i.e., the Texas Air Quality Study (TexAQS) in 2000 and 2006, and the Gulf of Mexico Atmospheric Composition and Climate Study (GoMACCS) in 2006] (Fig. 4). Near Denver, CO, where considerable ongoing emissions are implied from both surface and aircraft observations and are derived from the inversions (Figs. 2 and 3 and Figs. S2 and S3), elevated mole fractions of CCl4 (averaging 1.5 ppt) have been measured independently by aircraft in 2012 [the Deep Convective Clouds & Chemistry Experiment (DC3) campaign] (35) (Fig. S6) and by in situ instrumentation at the Niwot Ridge site (NWR) (Fig. 4). Significant but infrequent enhancements (up to 50 ppt; approximately five events per year) in atmospheric mole fractions observed at NWR (Fig. 4) clearly imply ongoing emissions (but with unknown sources) of CCl4 within Colorado. In other areas well sampled by aircraft (Fig. 4), such as the northeastern United States and the south-central United States, no substantial enhancements of atmospheric CCl4 mole fractions have been observed recently in other studies (Fig. 4). At a site in the northeastern United States (LEW) (Fig. 1) where we have made measurements since 2013, near-zero enhancements in CCl4 mole fractions are observed, consistent with there being no significant emissions in this region. In the San Francisco Bay Area, however, enhancements observed at the sites STR and WGC suggest emissions of CCl4 from surrounding areas (Figs. 2 and 3 and Fig. S3), whereas implications of data from a summertime aircraft campaign over California in 2010 [i.e., during the California Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change (CALNEX) experiment] are less clear. We find that the variability in the CALNEX free tropospheric data are large compared with the typical enhancements observed at the STR and WGC sites, making it difficult to quantify small emissions from these CALNEX results.
CCl4 mole fractions observed independently from aircraft, ship, and quasi-continuous in situ measurements within the contiguous United States. (A) Locations of continuous in situ atmospheric CCl4 measurements at the site Niwot Ridge (NWR) (green star) and selected aircraft or ship surveys in which atmospheric measurements of CCl4 were made within 0–3 km agl (colored dots). (B) CCl4 mole fractions observed at NWR (black) and from all samples collected during the surveys (colored symbols) shown in A. A small number of samples with mole fractions above 140 ppt are not visible (in 2000, 2006, and 2010). The subset of observations considered to be unaffected by recent emissions (i.e., background) are indicated as light gray points. For the aircraft surveys, they are mole fractions measured in the free troposphere; for the ship survey (GOMACCS) and in situ data (at NWR), they represent the lowest 90th percentile of the detrended data. (C) The spatial distribution of emissions derived in this study from a flat prior (flat12) (black shading as Gg/y/grid cell) and samples showing substantial CCl4 mole fraction enhancements (red) and those with background CCl4 mole fractions (blue) during TexAQS in 2000 and 2006, and GoMACCS in 2006. Industrial facilities reporting emissions during 2008–2012 to the TRI are shown as cyan circles.
Atmospheric CCl4 observations from the aircraft campaign, DC3 (35). (Left) Enhanced (red) and background (blue) CCl4 mole fractions observed within the lower atmosphere (0–3 km agl). Gray shading indicates CCl4 emissions derived from this study with a flat prior (flat12). (Right) Average vertical profiles observed over the Front Range area in Colorado during DC3. Uncertainties represent one standard error of average mole fractions observed at different altitudes; note that a calibration update from 18 Oct 2015 is included in these results.
Possible Sources for Ongoing CCl4 Emissions
Currently, atmospheric observations in the remote atmosphere and our understanding of the CCl4 lifetime suggest emissions of 30–80 Gg⋅y−1 globally (6, 9, 10); results presented here imply that the United States only accounts for 8% (3–22%) of these ongoing global CCl4 emissions. A number of processes have been suggested as contributing to the ongoing global CCl4 emissions, including fugitive emissions from feedstock uses and applications as process agents in chloralkali production plants, methane chlorination, petrochemical, rubber, flame retardant, and pesticide industries (7, 11, 36), and emissions from toxic wastes and treatment facilities (11, 37), uncapped landfills (36, 37), and chlorine-bleach-containing household products (when mixed with detergent) (38, 39).
A simple visual inspection of the results (Fig. S7) and a rigorous statistical analysis using the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) (SI Text and Table S1) (31, 40, 41) both suggest that the distribution of derived posterior emissions is more consistent with that of industrial sources reported by the US EPA TRI (particularly chloralkali production plants) than the distribution of uncapped landfills or population (Fig. S7 and Table S1). BIC scores rank different spatial activity data based on the goodness of fit to the observations and the number of spatial datasets included as fitting parameters. The spatial distribution giving the lowest BIC score represents the one that best explains the observations without overfitting them. Here, we consider a few spatial distributions: industrial sources reported by the US EPA TRI (in which CCl4 emissions were dominantly from chlorine production and processing industries), chloralkali production plants, uncapped landfills, population (so as to represent the distribution of CCl4 from, e.g., household bleach use), and their combinations (Fig. S7 and Table S1). Among all spatial datasets considered here, distributions of industrial sources in the US EPA TRI (and chloralkali production plants alone) have the lowest BIC scores (Table S1), as well as the highest correlation with atmospheric observations (when these distributions were converted to mole fraction enhancements using atmospheric transport models) (SI Text and Table S1). This suggests that, among the limited source distributions tested here, industrial sources included in the TRI provide the best representation of the atmospheric observations. The relatively low CCl4 emission rate derived for the densely populated northeastern United States and the poor correlation of the derived emission distribution with population (Table S1) suggests that household bleach use does not account for an appreciable fraction of total US emissions.
The distribution of posterior emissions of CCl4 derived in this work (with the flat prior, flat12) compared with the distributions of CCl4 emissions from the US EPA TRI, locations of chloralkali production plants, uncapped landfills, and population.
Table S1.
Statistics showing the relation between observed and simulated CCl4 mole fraction enhancements using different spatial models: the correlation coefficient (r), BIC scores of different spatial models, differences in BIC scores (ΔBIC), and relative likelihood compared to the model with the lowest BIC score
Summary and Global Implications
Atmospheric observations in and around the contiguous United States provide robust evidence for continued emissions of the ODS, CCl4, during 2008–2012. An ensemble of inverse modeling of those observations suggests a gross emission of 4.0 (2.0–6.5) Gg⋅y−1 averaged between 2008 and 2012. The national total emission of CCl4 estimated here is almost two orders of magnitude greater than emissions reported to the US EPA TRI over this same period. Despite this large discrepancy, the distributions of derived and inventory emissions are similar. The regions identified as contributing significantly to ongoing US CCl4 emissions (except for the San Francisco Bay Area) also exhibited enhanced CCl4 mole fractions during independent aircraft campaigns, ship surveys, and quasi-continuous in situ measurements.
Our findings suggest that the majority of US CCl4 emissions could be related to industrial sources associated with chlorine production and processing. Thus, we consider here global implications of these findings, because emissions of CCl4 from this industry are not likely to be restricted to the United States alone. If we assume that the rate of CCl4 release is proportional to chlorine demand or emissions of other gaseous chemicals (e.g., CH4) from chemical industrial processes (as defined by and reported in the Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research inventory) between the United States and other countries throughout the globe, we derive global emissions of CCl4 in the range of 12–50 (best estimate: 28) Gg⋅y−1. This could explain a large fraction of the current global emission rate (30–80 Gg⋅y−1) (6, 9, 10) derived from remote atmospheric observations and our understanding of global CCl4 losses. Although there are many uncertainties in this extrapolation, an even higher CCl4 emission from chlorine production and processing is plausible given reports suggesting a higher coproduction rate of CCl4 during methane chlorination in some developing countries (42), and the fact that developing countries are not required to capture emissions of CCl4 associated with evaporative losses or as storage tanks are filled (42).
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Atmospheric Measurements of CCl4
Flask air samples were collected approximately daily at tower sites between 2008 and mid-2011. Flasks were also filled during aircraft vertical profiling (6–12 flasks/profile) and were obtained biweekly over this same period. The location of these sampling sites is apparent in Fig. 1; more information about these sites is available at www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/aircraft/index.html and www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/insitu/index.html. Sampling frequency in both the tower and aircraft sampling programs was reduced by 50% from mid-2011 through 2012. Paired flasks were sometimes filled to assess reproducibility of sampling and analysis. Collected flask air was analyzed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GCMS) in our Boulder laboratory. Measured dry air mole fractions (pmol CCl4 per mol dry air, or ppt) were determined by calibration against a high-pressure real air primary reference sample in which the CCl4 mole fraction had been determined by periodic comparisons to a suite of gravimetric standards with known CCl4 mole fractions. The scale accuracy is estimated to be 1–2%, which is a magnitude comparable to differences in global annual mean mole fractions derived by NOAA and other global sampling networks (6). The average precision of measured CCl4 mole fractions determined from paired flask air samples was 0.4 (±0.4) % (1σ, n = 2,701) during 2008–2012. Long-term consistency of our measurement scale is assessed by repeat analyses of gravimetric standards, repeat analyses of the primary reference samples, and repeat analyses of air from a suite of archived tanks (Acculife-treated aluminum cylinders and 30-L electropolished stainless steel canisters) initially filled to high pressure (900−2,000 psi) with humidified real air.
Flux Calculation via Inverse Modeling
We use Bayesian and geostatistical inversions (e.g., refs. 19 and 24⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓–31) to derive gridded monthly emissions based on atmospheric CCl4 observations. Both inversion techniques are based on a linear relation between observed mole fraction enhancements (z) and upstream fluxes (s).z=Hs+ε[S1]where H is the sensitivity of observed enhancements to upstream emissions, or footprints [ppt (pmol m−2⋅s−1)−1] or the Jacobian matrix. Epsilon (ε) represents the model−data mismatch error and reflects the sum of errors from observations and atmospheric transport models. H is calculated with two different atmospheric transport models, HYSPLIT-NAM12 and WRF-STILT, by running the models backward in time (19). For each sampling event, 500 particles were released at the sampling location in the model, and their positions were recorded at 15-min intervals backward in time for 10 d or until all particles exited the model domain (HYSPLIT-NAM12: ∼60–140°W, 20–60°N; WRF-STILT: ∼10–80°N; 170–50°W). The magnitude of the time-dependent sensitivity for each observation to emissions in a certain grid cell is determined by the number of particles within the boundary layer in that grid cell at each time step (43).
A Bayesian inversion (BI) (e.g., refs. 19, 24⇓⇓⇓–28, and 30) starts with a prior emission field with prescribed distribution and magnitude (sp). The optimal solution of posterior emissions (s) reflects a balance between emissions suggested by observations and prior emissions, given their corresponding uncertainties. These uncertainties are expressed as model−data mismatch (R) and prior flux error covariance (Q) matrices. The optimal solution is obtained by minimizing the cost function (LBI) defined asLBI=12(z−Hs)TR−1(z−Hs)+12(s−sp)TQ−1(s−sp).[S2]The structure and magnitudes of R and Q, along with H, determine the relative weight of observations and prior emissions in the optimal solution (posterior flux).
Compared with a BI, the geostatistical inversion (GI) (e.g., refs. 29 and 31) considers a weighted linear combination of multiple spatial activity data as prior information, and it provides an optimal solution for scaling factors associated with each of the selected spatial activity data as well as a stochastic component of fluxes not prescribed by any of the spatial datasets being considered (29, 31). The modified cost function isLGI=12(z−Hs)TR−1(z−Hs)+12(s−Xβ)TQ−1(s−Xβ)[S3]where each column of X includes individual spatial activity data; β is a vector with unknown scaling factors for spatial activity data contained in X. The stochastic component of fluxes is the difference between s and Xβ.
In both Bayesian and geostatistical inversions, we assume no correlated errors between observations associated with measurements or air transport in the inversion setup; thus R is a diagonal matrix. To reduce correlated errors between observations for data included in inversion, we average mole fractions measured in samples collected within 30 min at tower sites and within 500 m at aircraft sites. A measure of the influence of correlated errors in simulated air transport on derived fluxes is reflected in part by the differences in fluxes derived with the different air transport models (HYSPLIT-NAM12 and WRF-STILT). We only include data below 3 km agl in inversions. Data between 3 km agl and 6 km agl were used to determine atmospheric background mole fractions of CCl4 (see below). We also exclude nighttime data to minimize enhanced transport errors at night.
Appropriately representing uncertainties in the model−data mismatch and the prior fluxes (R and Q) is critical in finding an accurate solution to this inverse problem. We used maximum likelihood estimation (44) and a restricted maximum likelihood method (31) to objectively determine seasonally and interannually varying model−data mismatch errors at individual sites (diagonal elements in R), as well as interannually varying prior flux error covariance matrices (Q) (19). In deriving the prior flux error covariance matrix (Q), we considered temporal and spatial correlation in prior flux errors (e.g., refs. 19, 29, and 31). This allows the model to correct the systematic biases in prior fluxes on large spatial and temporal scales.
Uncertainties of posterior emissions (or posterior covariance of flux errors) (V) derived from Bayesian and geostatistical inversions can be estimated by the following equations:VBI=Q−QHT(HQHT+R)−1(z−Hs)[S4]VGI=−XM+Q−QHTΛT[S5]where, M and Λ are defined asM=[XTHT(HQHT+R)−1HX]−1[QHT(HQHT+R)−1HX−X]T[S6]Λ=X[XTHT(HQHT+R)−1HX]−1XTHT(HQHT+R)−1+QHT(HQHT+R)−1−QHT(HQHT+R)−1×HX[XTHT(HQHT+R)−1HX]−1×XTHT(HQHT+R)−1.[S7]
Note that we conducted five batch inversions to obtain monthly gridded fluxes of CCl4 during 2008–2012 (5). Each batch had a 15 to 18-mo time interval. Between two sequential batches, there was a 6-mo overlap period that minimizes the discontinuity problem in derived fluxes. We used algorithms developed by Yadav and Michalak (45) to avoid building a full matrix of Q and meanwhile improve the computational efficiency for inverting large matrices. Annual national, regional, and state total fluxes and their associated errors were then computed based on derived monthly gridded fluxes, monthly gridded flux errors, and their temporal and spatial correlation.
Determination of Atmospheric Background Levels of CCl4
At aircraft sites, background mole fractions are derived from median free tropospheric mole fractions measured between 3 km agl and 6 km agl on a flight-by-flight basis. At tower sites, background mole fractions were derived from the 3-mo median free tropospheric mole fractions measured at all aircraft sites except SGP (see below) after binning by latitude (centered on 30°N, 40°N, and 50°N). Uncertainty of background mole fractions was estimated using 1,000 random samplings of free tropospheric data (between 3 km agl and 6 km agl) in each 3-mo time interval (Fig. S4). To minimize the influence of stratospheric air mixing down to the troposphere on our estimation of background mole fractions (which would lead to a positive vertical gradient in the troposphere that was unrelated to emission magnitudes), we did not use observations above 6 km agl. Randomly sampling free tropospheric data between 3 km agl and 6 km agl and using them as our background levels allows us to account for the small influence of stratospheric air on estimated background values.
CCl4 mole fractions in the free troposphere at nonremote sites within the midcontinent of the contiguous United States are comparable with those observed at remote sites upwind of the contiguous United States (i.e., THD, ESP, and ETL) (Fig. 1) and over the Pacific Oceanic basin during HIPPO (20) within our modeled latitudes (Fig. S1), suggesting that mole fractions of CCl4 in the free troposphere over the contiguous United States are not measurably altered by venting of the continental boundary layer as air passes from the west to east coast. Additionally, they are in the same range as CCl4 mole fractions observed in the lower atmosphere (0–3 km agl) in remote areas (i.e., at THD, ESP, and ETL and during HIPPO) (Fig. S1), indicating no measurable vertical gradient of CCl4 in the remote atmosphere below 6 km agl and no significant sampling artifacts among these multiple sampling locations and programs.
At SGP, mole fractions in the free troposphere were always offset anomalously low by 1–2% and suggested the presence of sampling artifacts associated with unique sampling equipment in place there; the low bias at SGP was only observed for CCl4 and not for other compounds that are lost by photolysis in the upper atmosphere (e.g., N2O, Halon 1211), further suggesting sampling artifacts and not real atmospheric variability. Therefore, SGP was excluded in the calculation of background levels.
Using free tropospheric aircraft data as a proxy for background values at towers requires both aircraft and tower data to be on the same scale. However, we observed an average of 0.3 ppt discrepancy in tower and aircraft samples collected within the PBL (<1 km agl) at similar time windows (±1 d) at the sites LEF and WBI. Thus, we adjusted CCl4 mole fractions downward by 0.3 ppt for all air samples collected from towers. Although we consider this correction to be appropriate, if we had chosen to apply this adjustment only at the LEF and WBI sites where the difference was explicitly measured, the derived US national total emissions would be 1.2 Gg⋅y−1 higher (3.2–6.5 Gg⋅y−1 as opposed to 2.0–5.3 Gg⋅y−1).
Evaluation of Derived Posterior Fluxes
With derived posterior fluxes, simulated mole fraction enhancements agree much better with observations than those simulated with prior fluxes (Fig. 2). When we use fluxes reported by the US EPA TRI (TRI0.06) or a flat prior (flat12), simulated monthly median mole fractions were about 0.1% or 350% of observed monthly median enhancements in mole fractions. With our derived posterior fluxes, simulated monthly median enhancements (in mole fractions) are within 10% of those determined from observations (Fig. 2). Our derived emissions can explain the majority of the small enhancements (<5 ppt) observed in the lower atmosphere (0–3 km agl) within the contiguous United States (Fig. S8). However, these derived emissions do not provide a good fit to observations with large enhancements (those larger than 5 ppt, which is more than 15 times greater than the average enhancement we observed within the contiguous United States and which accounts for about 4% of the data in the lower atmosphere) (Fig. S8). This is likely due to errors associated with near-field air transport and underestimated prior flux errors in areas near measurement locations.
Residuals between simulated (sim) and observed (obs) mole fractions for all data included in the inversion. (Top) Time series of residuals by sample (gray dots), by monthly mean (blue), and by monthly median (red). Residuals below −5 ppt (which account for 4% of the data) are not shown in the graph. (Bottom) Histograms of all residuals. Insert (whose y axis is on a log scale) shows the full range of the residual histogram.
Estimation of Soil Uptake Rate of CCl4 Within the Contiguous United States
We estimate a soil flux within the contiguous United States of 0.3–0.4 Gg⋅y−1 based on loss rates derived from static soil flux chamber studies for seven different biomes (23) (scaled to account for CCl4 mole fraction differences between their study and our atmospheric observations within the contiguous United States) and the area of those biomes over the contiguous United States (23, 46). This calculation assumes first-order kinetics for soil uptake processes.
We use BIC (40, 47, 48) to evaluate which spatial activity data can best explain the spatial variability of observed enhancements in CCl4 mole fractions, and thus inform us which are the most likely sources of CCl4 among all available spatial activity data. The BIC score (Eq. S7 and Table S1) not only takes account of how well the converted observational signal of the scaled spatial activity data (by multiplying with the footprints) can fit the atmospheric observations but also introduces a penalty for adding parameters to avoid overfitting.BIC=−2L+pln(n)[S8]where p is the number of spatial activity data; n is the number of CCl4 observations; and L is the posterior log-likelihood of the model, which can be approximated by the following expression (31, 44):L=12nln(2π)+12|Ψ|+12(z−HXβ)TΨ−1(z−HXβ)[S9]Ψ=HQHT+R.[S10]Each BIC score corresponds to a posterior likelihood. The difference of BIC scores (ΔBIC) approximates the relative likelihood of one model relative to another (RL) (49). The lower the BIC score, the higher the likelihood of the model it represents.RL=exp(−ΔBIC2).[S11]To help interpret the BIC scores, we have included correlation coefficients of various spatial datasets considered here (converted to enhancements in mole fractions using atmospheric transport models) with observations in Table S1. Note that, because the ongoing emissions of CCl4 from the United States are small, the ratio of enhancements to measurement noise is small compared with compounds that currently have strong emissions. Therefore, it is expected that correlation between observed and simulated enhancements with any distribution will be small (Table S1). Nevertheless, the observed variability of CCl4 that can be explained by the distributions of the TRI or chloralkali production plants (r = 0.17, P < 0.01) accounts for one quarter of that which could be explained by the derived posterior emissions (r = 0.36, P < 0.01) (Table S1).
We thank J. Daniel, D. Godwin, S. Yvon-Lewis, A. Jacobson, K. Masarie, L. Bruhwiler, D. Baker, and S. Basu for discussion, R. Draxler and A. Stein for advice on running Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) simulations, and J. Butler, M. S. Torn, D. Mondeel, J. Higgs, M. Crotwell, P. Lang, W. Wolter, D. Neff, J. Kofler, I. Simpson, N. Blake, and others involved with program management, sampling, analysis, and logistics. We also thank members of the HIAPER HIPPO team, particularly S. Wofsy, for enabling flask sampling during that mission and Earth Networks for sample collection at the LEW site. This study was supported in part by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Program Office's AC4 program. Flask sampling at the tower sites WGC and STR was partially supported by a California Energy Commission Public Interest Environmental Research Program Grant to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC02-05CH11231.
↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: leihutx{at}gmail.com or Stephen.A.Montzka{at}noaa.gov.
Author contributions: L.H., S.A.M., J.B.M., S.J.L., J.W.E., and P.T. designed research; L.H., S.A.M., B.R.M., A.E.A., C. Sweeney, K.T., C. Siso, E.L.A., D.R.B., J.d.G., J.B.G., G.D., B.H., H.C., M.L.F., M.E.M., T.N., S.C.B., and F.L.M. performed research; S.M.M. contributed new analytic tools; L.H., S.A.M., B.R.M., A.E.A., C. Sweeney, E.L.A., D.R.B., J.d.G., J.B.G., and G.D. analyzed data; and L.H., S.A.M., and J.B.M. wrote the paper.
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The HTC One (M8) features a 5-inch display with a 1920 x 1080-pixel resolution and 441ppi. The iPhone 5S features only a 4-inch Retina display with a 1136 x 640-pixel resolution and 326ppi. Although both displays are crystal clear and provide extraordinary levels of brightness and sharpness, the HTC One (M8) wins this round.
Simply put: The HTC One M8 boasts the larger screen and beefier display specs.
The HTC One (M8) features a 2.3GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chipset. It also has 2GB of RAM. The iPhone 5S features Apple's own A7 chip with a 64-bit architecture. If only looking at the hardware specs, it's hard to tell which phone is the fastest.
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This round is therefore a draw, for now.
The HTC One (M8) features support for Wi-Fi, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, 4G LTE and nano SIM. The iPhone 5S features support for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, 4G LTE and nano SIM.
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The HTC One (M8) features 16GB of on-board storage, a microSD card slot capable of up to 128GB and 65GB of free Google Drive space. The iPhone 5S features 16, 32 or 64GB of on-board storage and 5GB of free Apple iCloud space.
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The HTC One (M8) features a 2,600mAh battery that is supposedly 40 per cent more efficient than the first HTC One, which could last up to two days with core business use, it is claimed. The HTC One (M8) also features Qualcomm Fast Charge, meaning it can reach 80 per cent charge in just an hour via the charger cable that comes in the box.
The iPhone 5S features a built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery that allegedly supplies up to 10 hours of talk-time on 3G, up to 10 hours of Internet use on 4G LTE, and video playback up to 10 hours. It charges via a USB or wall adapter cable that comes in the box, and it takes way more than an hour to get a full charge.
We'd have to test HTC's claims before we confirm that the HTC One (M8) actually beats the iPhone 5S in terms of battery life. But, on paper, it sure does look good. This round is therefore a draw, for now.
The HTC One (M8) features the same 4.1-UltraPixel sensor (f2.0 aperture) found in the original HTC One, though HTC said that the new Qualcomm image chip processes better images in all lighting conditions. It also has a Duo Camera lens for depth perception only and 5-megapixel (f2.0 aperture) front-facing camera.
The iPhone 5S features an 8-megapixel (f2.2 aperture) rear-facing iSight camera with a Sapphire crystal lens cover. It also features a front shooter that captures 1.2MP photos with 1280 x 960-pixel resolution.
We'd have to compare both phones out in the field when the HTC One (M8) is available for a proper test. It'll be interesting to examine the HTC One (M8)'s Duo Camera functionality, as well as its video-recording capability. The iPhone has a 1080p maximum limit.
Stay tuned. Again, this round is another tie for the moment.
The HTC One (M8) features Android 4.4.2 KitKat and Sense 6.0. The iPhone 5S features Apple's iOS 7.
This is another tricky round that doesn't have a clear-cut winner. Both phones boast the latest versions of either the Android or iOS operating systems, though the HTC One (M8) also has HTC's Sense overlay. If you dislike anything other than pure Android, the HTC One (M8) is probably not for you. The iPhone clearly not.
But we still can't say the HTC One (M8) loses to the iPhone 5S, because we all know there Android devotees and iOS devotees. This isn't an operating system comparison; this is a smartphone comparison. And right now - for this round - they are tied.
The HTC One (M8) features a machined aluminium rear that now wraps around the sides and thinner walls. There will be three colours available at launch: gunmetal grey, arctic silver and amber gold. The iPhone 5S is a similarly solid device with an aluminium back and sides that feel classy, and it's available in the colours space gray, gold and silver.
This round is yet again another tie. Both phones are aluminium and solid, and both phones have different colour options. They are also both gorgeous.
The HTC One (M8) technically beats the iPhone 5S because it has a larger, beefier display and more storage options. The jury is out however as to whether two winning rounds makes the HTC One (M8) the best smartphone to buy. And then of course there's the age-old battle between iOS 7 and Android. But that's a whole other story.
To be honest, the HTC One (M8) and iPhone 5S are chalk and cheese. That's because they are both powerful and sleek devices with plentiful feature sets and numerous technological advances. Your money would be well-spent on either device.
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DEA names new members to its supervisory board
Germany-based oil and gas company DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG has appointed several new members to its supervisory board to replace interim appointments.
Namely, Andreas J. Goss, Alf Henryk Wulf, and Dr Jan Konerding are replacing Dmitry Avdeev, Jonathan Muir, and John Christopher Smith, who were interim appointments.
Andreas J. Goss is Chief Executive of Thyssen Krupp Steel Europe AG. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive Officer of Siemens UK and North West Europe.
Alf Henryk Wulf is Chairman of the German Management Board of Alstom. He was previously Chairman of the Management Board of Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG.
Dr Jan Konerding is Executive Director of PwC’s charitable foundation and a former Member of the Executive Board of PwC AG.
Commenting on the new appointments, Lord Browne of Madingley, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG said: “I am delighted to welcome Andreas, Alf and Jan to the Board. They are distinguished businessmen with a wide range of international experience. I look forward to working with them as we embark on DEA’s next phase of growth”.
To remind, in March 2015, LetterOne, a privately owned Luxembourg-based global investment company bought the Hamburg-based RWE AG. At the first general meeting of shareholders, a new supervisory board was appointed and Lord John Browne was named Chairman of the DEA Supervisory Board.
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Some companion animals are trained to provide assistance to people with a disability to help alleviate the effect of that disability.These assistance animals are not pets. They provide an important service that helps people to more fully participate in personal and public life activities with more confidence and independence. This website provides information on laws for assistance animals under the Companion Animals Act 1998 in NSW only. Other Government agencies can provide you with advice about how assistance animals are treated under other NSW laws.
What is an assistance animal?
An assistance animal in NSW is a dog or other animal that is either:
accredited under a law of a State or Territory that provides for the accreditation of animals trained to assist a person with a disability to alleviate the effect of that disability; OR
accredited by an animal training organisation prescribed by the Commonwealth; OR
trained to assist a person with a disability to alleviate the effect of that disability, and, to meet standards of hygiene and behaviour appropriate for an animal in a public place.
This is based on how assistance animals are defined in Commonwealth law (Disability Discrimination Act 1992). Currently neither the Commonwealth nor NSW laws provide for the accreditation of assistance animals. A working dog cannot also be an assistance animal.
What is a disability?
Disability covers a wide range of physical and psychological conditions and includes:
total or partial loss of the bodily or mental functions;
total or partial loss of a part of the body;
the presence in the body of organisms causing disease or illness;
the presence in the body of organisms capable of causing disease or illness;
the malfunction, malformation or disfigurement of a part of the person’s body;
a disorder or malfunction that results in the person learning differently; OR
a disorder, illness or disease that affects a person’s thought processes, perception of reality, emotions or judgment or that results in disturbed behaviour.
What does the owner of an assistance animal need to do?
Like all other companion animals, assistance animals need to be micro-chipped and registered in NSW. However, no fee is charged for registering an assistance animal.
Registration lasts for the life of each animal. If you change address or your animal goes missing or dies, please notify your local council.
It is also strongly recommended that assistance animals are vaccinated and de‑sexed. Do not train a restricted or dangerous dog as an assistance animal.
How do I register my assistance animal?
Once the animal has been microchipped by a vet or authorised identifier, the owner should contact their local council to apply for a no fee registration.
What proof is required?
Councils are entitled to request reasonable proof that your animal is a genuine assistance animal. This means proof:
that you have a disability;
that your animal has been trained to alleviate the effect of the disability; and
that your animal is trained to meet standards of hygiene and behaviour appropriate for an animal in a public place.
Importantly, a person with a disability has the right to train their own assistance animal so long as he or she can provide proof that that training means the animal meets the definition of an assistance animal (see What is an assistance animal?).
Refer to the Exercise of Functions Guidelines, or contact your local council for advice about what kinds of proof are acceptable.
Registration as an assistance animal under the Companion Animals Act 1998 does not necessarily provide proof the animal is an assistance animal for the purposes of entering a public place or public transport.
Entering public places
In general, animals are prohibited from entering certain public places – see further information here. However, a person with a disability is entitled to be accompanied by an assistance animal in public places and on public transport while he or she is genuinely using the animal for assistance. Entry cannot be refused without reasonable cause.
An animal does not need to be registered as an assistance animal under the Companion Animals Act 1998 to be permitted access to a public place or public transport. Staff in charge of access to public places and transport are entitled to request reasonable proof that your animal is a genuine assistance animal. They may be guided by their organisation’s own policy to help them to determine this. Their policies may be publicly available.
It is unlawful to impose a charge on a person to enter a place open to, or used by the public, only because the person is accompanied by an assistance animal unless:
it is reasonably necessary to supply additional accommodation for the animal and a reasonable charge is applied for that accommodation; OR
the owner, or person in charge, of the place reasonably incurs additional expense because the animal is present, the charge is reasonable in the circumstances and is charged to compensate for the expense.
For more information about access to public transport for assistance animals contact Transport for NSW on 131 500.
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ProQuest SIPX Teams with OpenStax and OpenSUNY to Boost Access to Open Educational Resources
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, April 7, 2016 – As part of its continuing commitment to support Open Educational Resources (OER), ProQuest is making OER content more discoverable and visible to instructors through SIPX and Summon. OpenSUNY OER textbooks are now indexed and available in Summon, and soon the full catalogue of OpenStax OER content will be as well – and connected into SIPX’s course materials technology. As a result, improved visibility of these open resources in campus Learning Management System environments will make adoption easier for instructors.
Additionally, through these partnerships, ProQuest, OpenStax and OpenSUNY are introducing more options to help reduce course materials costs for students. “This partnership with OpenStax and OpenSUNY lets us provide more quality, free textbooks to schools and increase visibility of this content,” said Franny Lee, Co-Founder and General Manager of ProQuest SIPX. “We’re always thrilled to add relevant curriculum materials through ProQuest, and we continue to strive for improving access to quality, affordable higher education for all.”
OpenStax is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing student access to quality learning materials. “OpenStax is committed to improving access to educational materials for all. Our partnership with ProQuest SIPX is another step toward making our content as accessible as possible, particularly at the institutional level,” said Richard Baraniuk, founder and director of OpenStax and Rice’s Victor E. Cameron Professor of Engineering.
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The Process And Benefits To Nigeria Of The Africa Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
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Friday, March 16, 2018 11.26AM / Office of the Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity)
On Wednesday, March 14, 2018, the Nigerian Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved that Nigeria should sign the framework agreement for the establishment of African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) during the Extraordinary Meeting of African Union Heads of State and Government to be held on March 21, 2018, in Kigali, Rwanda.
Here is what you need to know on AfCFTA:
1. The decision to establish the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was taken in 2012 by all Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) at their 18th Ordinary Session.
2. AfCFTA is the first step in the implementation of AU Agenda 2063: the “Vision” for an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa.
3. Actual Negotiations for the AfCFTA were launched at the AU Johannesburg Summit in 2015.
4. The Negotiations are in two Stages: Stage 1, covering Trade in Goods and Services; and, Stage 2, covering intellectual property, competition policy and investment.
5. Stage 1 negotiations have been concluded in March 2018. During the Extraordinary Summit of African Union Heads of State and Government to be held on 21st March 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda, Heads of State and Government shall “adopt, sign and launch the African Continental Free Trade Area”.
6. The Agreement to establish the AfCFTA will launch the “Single Liberalized Market for Trade in Goods and Services”.
7. At launch and when in force, the AfCFTA shall be the largest Free Trade Area (FTA) in the global economy, by number.
8. The AfCFTA is a negotiated rules-based system, to establish the rule of law in trade, deepen, and expand intra-Africa trade from its very low base of 14%.
For Nigeria, the gains are significant. The AfCFTA would:
1. Expand market access for Nigeria’s exporters of goods and services, spur growth and boost job creation.
2. Eliminate barriers against Nigeria’s products and provide a Dispute Settlement Mechanism for stopping the hostile and discriminatory treatment directed against Nigerian natural and corporate business persons in other African countries.
3. Establish rules-based trade governance in intra-African trade to invoke trade remedies, such as safeguards, anti-dumping, and countervailing duties against unfair trade practices, including dumping, trans-shipment of concealed origin of products.
4. Support the industrial policy of Nigeria through the negotiated and agreed “Exclusion and Sensitive category lists” to provide space for Nigeria’s infant industries.
5. Improve competitiveness, the enabling environment for business, consolidate and expand Nigeria’s position as the number 1 economy in Africa.
6. Stimulate, specifically, an estimated 8.18 percent increase in Nigeria’s total exports, with a small structural shift in Nigeria’s economy towards manufacturing and services. This is expected to lead to a total increase in Nigerian economic welfare by 0.62% - equivalent to around US$2.9 billion in 2018 terms. Changes would result from tariff reduction, ease of doing business and, trade facilitation.
7. Provide a platform for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) integration into the regional economy and accelerate women’s empowerment.
8. Provide an expanded platform for Nigerian manufacturers and service providers for connection to regional and continental value chains.
For Africa, the benefits are considerable. The AfCFTA would:
1. Cover a market of 1.2 billion Africans with a combined GDP of US$2.5 trillion.
2. The AfCFTA is expected to increase intra-African trade by up to 52.3%.
3. Enable all AU countries to share in the welfare gains, which are estimated at around 2.64% of continental GDP - roughly $65 billion in 2018 terms.
4. Increase real wages for unskilled workers in the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, as well as for skilled workers, with a small shift in employment expected from agricultural to non-agricultural sectors.
5. Be accompanied by additional dynamic benefits, notably, export diversification, durable sustained growth, an enlarged regional market that better attracts FDI, with wider economic space for industrialization and catalytic effects for structural transformation.
6. Expand the size of Africa’s economy to US$29 trillion by 2050, as estimated by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
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Do we need a Europe treaty anyway?
by David Goodhart / December 13, 2007 / Leave a comment
Was Gordon foolish not to sign the EU treaty along with the other heads of state, as almost everyone seems to think? I’m not so sure. When British people are pressed to think through what they want out of Europe, a sensible majority grudgingly accept the benefits of the single market and the need to pool sovereignty on some things – but what the British have always been allergic to is the supranational aspects of EU symbolism, precisely those things on display in Lisbon today. So for Gordon to distance himself from the pomp and ceremony while still signing up to what is valuable about the EU may be populist, but it is not completely unreasonable.
In any case, it turns out that the whole premise of the treaty was false. The EU is not suffering from gridlock as a result of enlargement, as many predicted; indeed, if anything, it is working better now with 27 members than it did when it had 15. This is not what either Eurosceptics or Europhiles want to hear; the former never accept the EU might be working well, and the latter are wedded to the logic of “gridlock” as a justification for the latest round of institutional reform. That is why a remarkable report by Helen Wallace, the noted pro-EU academic at the LSE, got so little publicity earlier this week. Wallace points out that of the EU decisions that are subject to complex co-decision rules, the number that went through on the first go actually rose from 34 per cent in 2003 to 64 per cent in 2005 (easing to 59 per cent in 2006), after the first wave of enlargement. Moreover, about 90 per cent of EU decisions continue to be made by consensus and the number of pending cases at the European court of justice is falling. Even the arrival of Romania and Bulgaria is failing to screw things up.
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The Late Mr Brown This seems an informed, kind and generous interpretation of events. However, a recent statement from The Countryside Alliance reads : "Yesterday we signalled our intention to take our challenge to the Hunting Act to the European Court of Human Rights .......unfortunately the ECHR is unlikely to hear the case for several years " Even to we English harrowed by a mere politician, let alone a Scot , surrendering more of our envy-of-the-world sovereignty to the EU , Mr Brown's failure to show up on time seems insupportably rude Doubtless some others amongst the foreign gentlemen present also had pressing previous engagements - but managed to observe : " public service must be preferred before private passions "(ER.I) Perhaps he was feeling a little shy ? After all , he promised us a Referendum . Going back on his word might have been compounded by global press photographs advertising the event including his grin ? Either way, the negotiating entry level of Eurosceptics accepting any European integration was that we might be less likely to bash each other up , save the odd bit of football buffoonery , in order to avoid an action replay of WWII Mr Brown's smug attitude to the ink well of integration , including not bothering to ensure any explanation nor apology was effectively circulated to the other heads present before the actual event began, was both uncivilised and distinctly un-British OF course we must not rule out the possibility that perhaps Mr Brown is a secret Eurosceptic, and is hoping that Europe will reject us ?
With all due respect to Mr Goodhart and the noted pro-EU academic.. In light of the recent BBC Newsnight v Policy Exchange spat over the possibility of fabricated expense claims ; is there any way in which British taxpayers can be reassured that the pro-EU figures supplied to the emminent researcher herself are entirely correct ?
Dominic Brett
Well, yes, in some ways Lisbon was required - not because of the legislative powers it extended to the supranational EU - but because of the partial remedy it offered for the democratic deficit. Lisbon did four main things to bring the voter and Brussels closer together. It allowed a million signatories on any particular issue the right to petition the Commission to initiate law (along the lines seen in Switzerland). It made express provision for countries to leave the EU and set out a timetable for them to do so. It said the Council of government ministers from the 27 countries would henceforth meet on the record, so we'd all know whether our continental neighbours or our own cabinet member had stitched us up in negotiations... And it said the appointed head of the Commission would have to be of the same political hue as the majority grouping in the elected European Parliament. This, of course, was why the Eurosceptic lobby in this country hated it and why these democracy-enhancing provisions got so little mention amid the half-truths and downright lies about more of our sovereignty being sold down the river. Incidentally, if it's sovereignty we're worried about, then the stink should have been created first with the Single European Act in the 1980s and particularly with Maastricht in the early nineties. Lisbon was small fry by comparison.
David Goodhart
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Epinephrine Market, By Product Type (Auto-Injector, Prefilled Syringes, Ampoules & Vials), By Applic
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EPINEPHRINE MARKET
Epinephrine Market, By Product Type (Auto-Injector, Prefilled Syringes, Ampoules & Vials), By Application (Anaphylaxis, Cardiac Arrest, Superficial Bleeding, Respiratory Disorders, Others), By Distribution Channel (Hospital Pharmacies, Retail Pharmacies, Online Pharmacies), By Region (North America, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Rest of the World) – Market Size & Forecasting (2016-2025)
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Epinephrine Market growth is expected to gain high momentum during the forecast period due to increasing heart and respiratory diseases. Epinephrine, also known as adrenaline, is a hormone secreted by the adrenal gland in the human body. It helps the human body respond in fight or flight situations of the cells, by increasing the output of the heart thereby increasing the blood flow to the muscles. Epinephrine also acts as a neurotransmitter, which transmits signals across a chemical synapse such as the neuromuscular junction, from one nerve cell to another.
Epinephrine is also used as a medication to treat various conditions such as anaphylaxis, superficial bleeding, and cardiac arrest. Inhaling adrenaline helps treat respiratory conditions such as croup and asthma.
The increasing occurrences of anaphylaxis related to food allergies are driving the epinephrine market. According to the European Academy of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (EAACI), more than 17 million people were affected by food allergies in the year 2013. Moreover, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), food allergies among children have increased by 50% in the past 10 years.
The market is also growing due to the availability of cost-effective epinephrine products. For instance, in December 2016, Mylan Inc. (US) introduced an authorized alternative of Epipen Autoinjectors with a different packaging and same formulation, which was sold at a price 50% lower than other brands.
Epinephrine is also growing its market due to the increasing cases of asthma and other chronic respiratory disease and cardiac arrests due to increased smoking and other unhealthy habits. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2018, more than 1 billion people worldwide were affected by respiratory diseases among which, asthma is a major contributor.
North America leads the global epinephrine market owing to the increase in heart and respiratory diseases. One of the main reasons for this is unhealthy eating habits and increasing obesity in America.
Key Factors Impacting Market Growth:
Food-related diseases in children causing anaphylaxis
Increasing heart and respiratory diseases
Release of cost-effective epinephrine products
Key Developments:
In July 2018, INSYS Therapeutics Inc. demonstrated the results of its epinephrine nasal spray as a potential needle-free, non-invasive and easy to use alternative to intramuscular injection for the treatment of Anaphylaxis.
In August 2018, Teva Pharmaceuticals received FDA approval for the first generic epinephrine for emergency treatment of allergic reactions including anaphylaxis in adults and kids above 33 pounds in weight.
In September 2018, Walgreens and Kaleo entered into a partnership under which AUVI-Q which is an auto-injector of epinephrine would be available at all pharmacies across the U.S.
Regional Outlook:
North America, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific by region are estimated to dominate the epinephrine market during the forecast period. These regions have been market leaders for the overall healthcare sector in terms of technological developments and advanced medical treatments. Moreover, the government policies have been favorable for the growth of the healthcare infrastructure in these regions. North America and Western Europe have an established healthcare infrastructure for product innovations and early adaptations. This is expected to drive the demand for epinephrine market during the forecast period.
The US, Germany, France, UK, Canada, and Spain have been some the major markets in the region. Asia Pacific is estimated to register one of highest CAGR for epinephrine market during the forecast period. This region has witnessed strategic investments by global companies to cater the growing demand in the recent years. China, Japan, India, South Korea, and Australia are amongst some of the key countries for epinephrine market in the region. Other regions including Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Rest of the World (South America and Africa) are estimated to be emerging markets for epinephrine during the forecast period.
Companies Covered: Mylan Inc., Impax, Lincoln Medical Ltd., ALK ABELLO, Sanofi SA, Amphastar, Emerade, Tianjin Jinyao Group, and Harvest Pharmaceuticals
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Caen - Paris
Train Caen → Paris
About this journey The average travel time between Caen and Paris is 3h08 minutes. The quickest route is 2h13 minutes. The first train leaving Caen is at 07:29, the last at 18:17. There is an average of 1 trains a day between Caen and Paris, leaving approximately every 3h40 minutes.
Arrival station : Paris montparnasse (17, Boulevard de Vaugiraud 75741 Paris cedex 15)
Paris st lazare (13, Rue d'Amsterdam 75008 Paris)
Coasting by on its solemn history
Caen, count the belltowers! Caen is situated in Basse-Normandie, in the north-east of France. The town nicknamed "ville aux cent clochers" ("hundred bell towers city" ) is only 2 hours far from Paris and connected to England thanks to the ferry boat Caen-Portsmouth. Learn more about Caen
Paris, the iconic capital of France
Paris, the capital of France. One of the world’s greatest cities, Paris! The capital of France is also known as the City of Light. This enchanting city, at the crossroads of cultures, is the capital of fashion and home to world highlights such as the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and Avenue des Champs Elysées, to name but a few. In terms of architectural beauty, art history, events, gastronomy and sheer extravagance, Paris is a milestone ahead of any other city on earth. Paris has one of the world’s most extensive public transport systems. You can take a taxi if you are not much of an adventurer, but that would be a pity! Metro (subway or underground), buses and city bicycles are much more fun and are very easy to use, even for beginners. Learn more about Paris
Book your journey from Caen to Paris From €23 €23
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"Taking the train is super easy. I had my eticket already printed out. All the station signs and monitors were easily read and understood. I took the Metro to my station and climbed aboard the train. The coaches and seats were clearly labeled, the seats comfortable, lots of storage for bags and the views were spectacular. The train ride was smooth and fast. Truly enjoyable. "
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About this journey The average travel time between Reims and Amiens is 3h04 minutes. The quickest route is 2h02 minutes. The first train leaving Reims is at 06:00, the last at 18:46. There is an average of 8 trains a day between Reims and Amiens, leaving approximately every 1h03 minutes.
The toast of France, bubbling over with history
Reims, gateway to the Champagne region Reims is a French town located in the Champagne-Ardenne region, northeast of Paris. The town of Reims has four UNESCO World Heritage Sites, museums and landmarks which bear witness to a rich and glorious past. The town is the gateway to the Champagne region. From Reims, visitors can visit great champagne houses such as Veuve Clicquot, Taittinger, Pommery and Ruinart. There are sereval landmarks of interest in Reims, namely the Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Palace of Tau, and the Saint-Remi Basilica. Learn more about Reims
Amiens, a very attractive northern France city Sometimes called the "Little Northern Venice" because of its canals, Amiens is a 134.000 inhabitants city located in the North of France. In the middle of the Paris-London-Brussels triangle, it is a one of the most attractive city of the country. Learn more about Amiens
Book your journey from Reims to Amiens From €25 €26
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Give Thanks for America's Increasing Fairness
A Commentary By Michael Barone
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It's Thanksgiving week in a country whose warring political tribes are not much inclined to giving thanks. But any American with a reasonable historic perspective can easily find reasons to do so.
For one thing, it's clear that we are a much fairer nation than we were in the past. Women, black Americans, immigrants and minorities of any perceptible kind are treated more fairly and in a more friendly manner than was the case within the memory of many of us now living.
Evidence of this comes from the strained attempts of those who criticize the country and desperately insist that things are just as bad as they ever were. The New York Times' The 1619 Project, for example, insists that anti-black racism is the central theme of American history. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates seems to argue that American racism is as strong today as ever -- and always will be.
A more sensible estimate comes via an interview by World Socialist Web Site's Tom Mackaman of Princeton historian James McPherson, the nation's premier Civil War historian. The Times, surprisingly, did not interview McPherson for its 1619 Project articles, which he called "a very unbalanced, one-sided account."
Slavery and racism were part of the American story, he argued, but so are anti-slavery and civil rights movements. And "the idea that racism is a permanent condition, well that's just not true," he said. You don't have to match McPherson's mastery of the subject -- few do -- to know that's true.
Most black Americans, the group with the most firsthand exposure to examples of anti-black racism -- agree with him. Political polling shows that any increase in those believing that racism is an impenetrable barrier to black Americans comes not from blacks but from liberal white college graduates.
In his New York Times blog, Thomas Edsall cites research showing many black voters have shifted from blaming racial discrimination for blacks' statistical disadvantages to blaming individual-based behavior.
Since Donald Trump's election, affluent white college graduates have increasingly blamed racism. As evidence they often cite 1930s New Deal housing programs' "redlining" and the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. This desperate hunt for unfairness in the distant past and the insistence that nothing has changed are pure virtue signaling, untethered to observations of contemporary American life.
Actual contemporary evidence indicates blacks are doing better in a fairer society. Crime rates, incarceration rates and teen pregnancy rates are way down from the 1990s, as Columbia undergraduate Coleman Hughes writes in Quillette. And bachelor's degrees and life expectancies are way up. Not entirely unconnected with this is the perhaps politically awkward fact that lower-income and minority Americans have been experiencing record-low unemployment and higher-than-average wage gains during the last three years.
Complaints still come in saying that social mobility is decreasing, and that various elite educational and economic categories do not contain the same percentages of blacks and some other minorities as the larger society. But it is an illusion of social engineers that a free society can be arranged with identical percentages of every identifiable group in every identifiable category. And it is a fact -- a melancholy fact, perhaps, but a fact -- that an increasingly fair society will have a decreasing degree of social mobility.
That's because in a fair society, people tend to end up in places where they started off. In a society like ours, with increasing assortative mating (people marrying those with similar interests and abilities), both nature and nurture -- hereditary traits and child-rearing practices -- tend to produce a generation of relatively few people with the capacity and inclination to climb, or fall down from, the socioeconomic ladder.
The good news is that our advanced and increasingly fair society has many such ladders and many fewer barriers. And as a recent academic study published by the National Academy of Sciences finds: "Americans overestimate the intergenerational persistence in income ranks. They overestimate economic prospects for children from rich families and underestimate economic prospects for those from poor families."
Many academics and journalists seem fixated on income inequality and the gap between billionaires and others. Ordinary Americans seem more concerned about fairness -- they embrace equal treatment and reject racial quotas and preferences -- and about showing equal respect to fellow citizens regardless of income or wealth. This is all reason for thanks, in my view, in an increasingly fair nation -- one that can get fairer still if social engineers stay out of the way.
Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.
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Sandrine's Case
Audio (9.95 hours)
Narrator/s: Brian Holsopple
Publisher: Highbridge Company
Samuel Madison always wondered what Sandrine saw in him, he a meek, stuffy doctorate student and she a brilliant, beautiful bohemian with limitless talent and imagination. Yet on the surface their marriage seemed perfectly tranquil: jobs at a small liberal arts college, a precocious young daughter, a home filled with art and literature, and trips to some of the world's most beautiful places. Then one night Sandrine is found dead in their bed from a deadly overdose of pain medication and alcohol, and Samuel is accused of poisoning her.As the truth of their turbulent marriage comes to light, Samuel must face a town convinced of his guilt, a daughter whose faith in her father has been shaken to it's core, and the truth about his brilliant wife whose shattering secrets could set him free-or condemn him to death.
Author(s): Thomas H. Cook
Genre: Mystery, Suspense Thriller
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Narrator(s): Brian Holsopple
Product Number DD5069
Genre: Suspense Thriller, Mystery
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"Narrator Brian Holsopple dishes out just the right recipe of pathos, irony, tenderness, and style in Cook's latest. A university professor is on trial for the murder of his wife, Sandrine, who was also a teacher at the same college. In this is story of rediscovered love--albeit too late--the listener is treated to 10 days of courtroom drama juxtaposed with deep revelations about the defendant, the alleged victim, and their daughter. Sometimes it's difficult to focus on the human side of the story in the face of all the legalisms. Nonetheless, Holsopple deftly switches from prosecutor to witness, and then to the defendant himself. His voices are distinctive and appropriate for the multiplicity of characters as you wonder if Sandrine's death was murder--or a suicide for the purpose of framing her husband? Stay with Holsopple for the verdict and the unusual ending. It will be worth it. A.L.H. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine"
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NBA owners vote for harsher enforcement of…
NBA owners vote for harsher enforcement of tampering infractions
After a slew of deals were announced at the opening of this summer’s free agency negotiating window, NBA commissioner Adam Silver acknowledged that some of the league’s rules regarding not allowing contract discussions have become toothless over time and might be in line to be changed. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
By Kyle Goon | kgoon@scng.com |
PUBLISHED: September 20, 2019 at 3:03 pm | UPDATED: September 20, 2019 at 5:09 pm
After an unusually expedient summer of free agency – one in which multi-million dollar deals for star players materialized immediately despite rules forbidding contact between teams and players – the NBA is taking strides to address its tampering problem.
The NBA’s Board of Governors unanimously voted to strengthen the enforcement of its tampering rules on Friday afternoon. Commissioner Adam Silver didn’t review the new procedures line-by-line, but suggested a number of harsher penalties are on the table: suspending executives, taking away draft picks and voiding contracts.
It represents the NBA’s attempt to stem a rising tide of criticism that the league’s rules of business are easily and often sidestepped – that players and teams can have unofficial conversations and even shape blockbuster moves long before they’re allowed to officially “talk.” While the NBA has generally levied fines for tampering, Silver said the league’s owners have felt mounting frustration with the disregard for guidelines.
“The ultimate goal here is to ensure compliance and to ensure that there’s that appropriate tension that exists at the team,” Silver said at a press conference in New York. “So there is sort of a significant threat that if a team doesn’t comply, that there will be consequences.”
In addition to harsher penalties, Silver suggested that teams will undergo random audits from the league to ensure that teams are staying in line. The NBA will even have the power to claim personal devices and look at private communications, though Silver offered that he was loathe to exercise that power, particularly on a first infraction.
Generally, the league will expect team legal counsel to provide relevant documentation and communications when asked for them.
“I think what we agreed with our teams is we need to work through some of the specifics on how compliance will work, how audits will work,” Silver said.
The NBA is looking to turn back the tide of widespread impropriety and disregard for tampering rules. When NBA free agency began on June 30, some deals, including signings for mega-stars Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and Kemba Walker were announced within minutes of the alleged starting gun, indicating that plenty of negotiation had occurred well in advance.
That led to an allegedly passionate meeting in July during NBA Summer League, where owners griped that the rules had little to no meaning, which they believe maintains an uneven playing field.
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Silver offered that the NBA might change other guidelines in the future with the help of the National Basketball Players Association, which it would need to alter the league’s collective bargaining agreement. That could include moving up the start of free agency, which some observers believe would make teams less likely to try to game the system in the first place.
The Lakers have run afoul of the league’s tampering rules in recent years, most notably being fined $500,000 in 2017 for reaching out to Paul George’s agent when he was under contract with the Indiana Pacers. But this summer saw the team notably quiet in the opening hours of free agency, waiting several days for Kawhi Leonard’s decision before spending most of their cap space later in the week after most players had been signed.
In separate votes, the Board also voted added specificity to the rules around traveling violations, as well as a new guideline that teams will have to submit starting lineups 30 minutes before tip-off as opposed to 10 minutes.
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DARK END OF THE STREET
Ace Atkins, Author . Morrow $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-000460-6
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The Forsaken
Devil's Garden
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The Broken Places
The Redeemers
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Crossroad Blues
Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies
As a follow-up to the well-received Crossroad Blues , Atkins offers another fast-paced, hot and heavy Southern suspense yarn that only occasionally defies credibility. Nick Travers, a former professional football star who now teaches blues history at Tulane University, is approached by an old friend who wants him to locate her brother, Clyde James, a once famous blues singer who hasn't been seen for some 25 years and may be dead. In a seemingly unrelated event, a young woman visits the home of her parents who were murdered a few weeks before, collects some papers from a hidden safe, then is accosted by two thugs who take her to a Mafia-owned casino and try to force information from her that she doesn't have. Travers happens to be at the casino seeking word of Clyde James and spots the trussed-up woman on a TV monitor. He rescues her, killing a man in the process, and the two go on the run. The action doesn't let up, moving between Memphis and New Orleans as a plethora of Dixie mobsters, hit men, Klan-like Sons of the South and unsavory gubernatorial candidates are stirred and shaken. Some of the characters border on caricature, especially two of the villains, a woman named Miss Perfect and an Elvis–look-alike hit man. The only other false notes in this otherwise sharply observed thriller come in the confusing finale, a not very believable sting operation. Major ad/ promo; 9-city author tour.(Oct. 8)
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Your Signature Emoji, According to Your Zodiac Sign
Dara Katz
| Apr. 9, 2019
Emojis have become the easiest way to communicate. We send a sunglass-wearing smiley face if something’s cool, a heart if we love something (two hearts if we extra love something) or a shrugging lady if we’re like, “Yeah, I don’t know.” But what’s the emoji that best sums up you in a nutshell? Here, your signature emoji according to your zodiac sign.
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Aries: Hourglass
As the first sign of the zodiac, you are all about the go, go, go. Stalling makes you antsy. Taking a break is gluttonous. The reason your blood runs on speed and haste is because you know deep in your heart, there’s only so much time, and so you’re always racing against it. When it comes to the ram, there’s no rest for the weary.
Taurus: Bento Box
You have expensive taste, Taurus. Your love for the material world is all about making your space more suitable for you and the people you love. But you don’t just want one thing, you want it all. What better to suit you than a delicious multi-plate bento box? Here, you can have your sushi and eat it (along with rice and cucumber salad), too. Oh, and you get to keep the plate.
Gemini: Door
Just like the twins of your personality, a door has two sides—two ways to look at it and two ways to walk through it. And since you’re not one who prefers to do anything alone, a door is a symbol of welcoming others into your life, your conversations or your plans. Just remember: a door does have two purposes; feel free to embrace solitude once in awhile.
Cancer: Love Letter
Yes, there’s a crab emoji, but that would’ve been a little too on the nose. Plus, you’re so much deeper than that, Cancer. Yes, you’re self-protective and you’re great at acquiring and building armor to protect your softer side, but at your core, you’re a deep well of emotion. You might portray yourself as logical and thick-skinned, but really, your outer layer is as fragile as paper, and inside, you’re brimming with poetry.
Leo: Volcano
You, queen of the jungle, are as fiercely loyal as you are fiercely addicted to drama. There’s nothing wrong with being the center of attention, but it’s important to remember that being such a force of nature can have a domino effect you weren’t intending. You might be at the top of the food chain, but try to be aware of the chain reaction you can set off when you explode onto the scene.
Virgo: Bull’s-eye
You’re a perfectionist. This you know. And those who aren’t don’t know what it’s like to sweat the small things. They have no idea what it actually feels like to hit the bull’s-eye right smack in the center. They also have no idea how much work (oh dear lord, the work) you do to make sure you get it right every single time. Well, Virgo, it’s up to you to let others know just how much practice makes perfect.
Libra: Surfer
As the balanced scales of the zodiac, you have a keen eye (and heart) for understanding fairness. And while you can see all sides of an argument, it’s important for you, Libra, to make sure that the quest for justice doesn’t hold you back personally. Who moves forward swiftly while maintaining glorious balance? A surfer. Time to whip out the rash guard.
Scorpio: Baggage
You’ve never met a grudge you didn’t hold on to. And it’s not because you’re a horrible person who loves drama (that’s Leo—just kidding). It’s because your emotions run deep, and they run hot. While we can’t tell you to lose your luggage—there are important things in there!—we can tell you to lighten the load. Pack light. Make it a carry-on. Leave some things, the heavy ones, behind.
Sagittarius: Roller coaster
You’re spontaneous, optimistic, fun and, most of all, you value your freedom. Being in your orbit is not being in orbit at all. On the contrary, it’s more like roller-coaster hopping at Six Flags—there are ups, downs, twists, turns and joyous (sometimes, stomach-churning)—surprises. Just remember that while you’ve got your hands in the air, your loved one sitting beside you might be feeling a bit queasy.
Capricorn: Pager
You’re practical, patient and grounded—just like the goat you’re associated with. As the consummate professional, you never want to let anyone down, least of all yourself. You’ve got that old-school, buttoned-up, rules-following way about you. If anybody needs you, they know where to find you. And why would you upgrade to a smartphone when this sturdy gadget’s been working for years?
Aquarius: Globe
Nothing you do or think exists in a vacuum. As the water bearer of the zodiac, you don’t just see the bigger picture—you’re flooding the bigger picture with your ideas. If there’s any sign connected to revolution or political disruption, it’s you, Aquarius. You don’t just make waves; you plant the seeds for a tsunami of change.
Pisces: Mermaid
Yes, we associate Pisces with fish, but your mermaid emoji goes beyond the scales. Mermaids capture a slippery duality that your sign possesses—they’re otherworldly yet so close to home. And while Ariel may not be real, you and the emotional intelligence you carry with you is just as magical as any spell Ursula could cast. Use it wisely.
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Firearms of all types, including pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns
Toy guns, replicas and imitation firearms capable of being mistaken for real weapons
Component parts of firearms, (excluding telescopic sights)
Compressed air and CO2 guns, including pistols, pellet guns, rifles and ball bearing guns
Signal flare pistols and starter pistols
Bows, cross bows and arrows
Harpoon guns and spear guns- Slingshots and catapults
Stunning devices: devices designed specifically to stun or immobilise. - Devices for shocking, such as stun guns (e.g. teasers) and stun batons
- Animal stunners and animal killers
- Disabling and incapacitating chemicals, gases and sprays, such as mace, pepper or capsicum spray, tear gas, acid sprays and animal repellent sprays
Objects with sharp points or edges that could be used to cause serious injury.
- Items designed for chopping, such as axes, hatchets and cleavers
- Ice axes and ice picks
- Razor blades, box cutters
- Knives with blades of more than 6 cm
- Scissors with blades of more than 6 cm as measured from the fulcrum
- Martial art equipment with sharp points or edges- Swords and sabres
Workers tools that could be used to cause serious injury - Crowbars
- Drills and drill bits, including cordless portable power drills
- Tools with blades or shafts more than 6 cm that could be used as weapons, such as screwdrivers, chisels
- Saws, including cordless portable power saws
- Blowtorches- Bolt guns and nail guns
Blunt Instruments objects that could be used to cause serious injury when used to hit. - Baseball and softball bats
- Clubs and batons – such as billy clubs, blackjacks, and night sticks
- Martial arts equipment
Explosives and incendiary substances devices (including replicas) that could be used to cause serious injury or threaten the safety of the aircraft - Ammunition
- Blasting caps
- Detonators & fuses
- Mines, grenades and other explosive military stores
- Pyrotechnics, including fireworks
- Smoke generating canisters or cartridges- Dynamite, gunpowder and plastic explosives
*See 'Permitted with conditions' for more information on carrying medical equipment and toiletries, liquids, aerosols, gels sporting ammuniation, and safety ammunition.
Not permitted in checked baggage
Corrosives Mercury, acids, alkalies and wet cell batteries.
Infectious substances such as bacteria, viruses.
Poisons such as insecticides, weed killers, arsenic and cyanides.
Radioactive Material.
Oxidising Materials & Organic Peroxides Bleaches and fiber glass repair kits.
Compressed Gases* (deeply refrigerated, flammable, non flammable and poisonous) Butane, oxygen*, propane and aqualung cylinders.
Flammable Liquids and Solids Lighter or heavier fuels, paint and all matches*.
Explosives Fireworks, flares, ammunition*, Christmas crackers and firearms.
Small vehicles powered by lithium batteries are not permitted in checked or cabin baggage, regardless of the watt-hour rating of the lithium battery in such devices. Some examples of these vehicles are airwheels, solowheels, hoverboards, mini-segways, and balance wheels.
Permitted with conditions
Aside from the above restrictions on items you can carry within your checked or hand baggage, please note the below:
Medical and toilet articles in small quantities may be carried.
Sporting ammunition - up to 5kg may be carried in checked baggage if they are properly boxed. Contact your local Qatar Airways office for prior approval.
Safety matches may be carried on the person.
Liquids, aerosols and gels may be carried in hand baggage in individual containers with a capacity not greater than 100 ml (or equivalent) and contained in one transparent re-sealable plastic bag of a capacity not exceeding 1 litre (or equivalent). The contents of the plastic bag shall fit comfortably and the bag must be completely closed. The size of the plastic bag must not exceed 20cm x 20cm (8 inches x 8 inches). Medications, baby milk/foods and special dietary requirements in the form of liquids or gels will be allowed.
Powder-like substances
Powder-like substances of 350 ml (12 Oz) or more, will not be allowed in cabin baggage and will be subject to further screening.
Any powder-like substance(s) above the permitted quantity must be placed in the checked baggage. Medically prescribed powder-like substances, baby formulas, human remains are exempted from these restrictions.
Duty free purchases of powder-like substance(s) must be placed in a properly sealed Security Tamper Evident Bags (STEB).
Restrictions on powder like substances is applicable to the below mentioned countries:
Australia: Customers departing from an international airport in Australia. Also, applicable to customers bound to Canberra via Sydney, when flying with QR as customers will need to clear international transit security screening at Sydney.
New Zealand: Customers departing from an international airport in New Zealand, including transfer passengers who pass through international screening points in New Zealand.
U.S: Customers travelling to the U.S with Qatar Airways.
Whether a lithium battery can be carried by air or not depends on its configuration and either watt-hour (Wh) rating (for rechargeable) or lithium content (LC) (for non-rechargeable).
Use the following table to determine if your battery is acceptable:
Watt-Hour rating (Wh) or (Li content)
Operator Approval
≤ 100 Wh (2g) In equipment Yes (Max 15) Yes No
≤ 100 Wh (2g) Spares Yes (Max 20) No No
> 100 to ≤ 160 Wh In equipment Yes Yes Yes
> 100 to ≤ 160 Wh Spares Yes (Max 2) No Yes
> 160 Wh Must be presented and carried as Cargo in accordance with the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations. Must be presented and carried as Cargo in accordance with the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations. Must be presented and carried as Cargo in accordance with the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations. Must be presented and carried as Cargo in accordance with the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations.
To convert amp-hours (Ah) to watt-hours (Wh), multiply (Ah) by voltage.
Passengers can carry up to 15 portable electronic devices containing lithium ion batteries. The watt-hour rating for batteries should not exceed 100 (or 2g, for lithium metal).
Maximum number of batteries allowed is 20 per passenger, regardless of the type of battery.
Spare batteries may not be placed in checked baggage. The terminals of all spare batteries should be protected from short circuit by enclosing them in their original retail packaging; taping over the terminals; or using separate plastic bags for each battery.
Batteries contained in equipment such as laptop computers, cameras or mobile phones, must be switched off and measures taken to ensure that they cannot be accidentally activated when placed in checked baggage.
Lithium batteries classification
Small (up to 100 watt-hours / up to 2g lithium metal): Including those used in mobile phones, watches, MP3 players and most original laptop batteries.
Medium (100-160 watt-hours / up to 8g lithium metal): Including some extended-life batteries for laptop computers, and batteries used by audio or video professionals.
Large (more than 160 watt-hours / more than 8g lithium metal): Primarily used in industry and including those found in some electric and hybrid vehicles, as well as mobility devices and scooters.
Drones are only allowed in hand baggage.
Smart baggage
Qatar Airways has specific restrictions in regards to the transportation of ‘smart baggage.’
Smart baggage devices often have:
A lithium ion battery power bank that charges electronic devices such as mobile phones and laptops
A lithium ion battery that is used for a stand up scooter or sit on vehicle
Bluetooth, radio frequency identification and Wi-Fi capability
GPS tracking with or without GSM capability
Electronic baggage tags
Self-propelled baggage
Smart baggage equipped with a permanently fixed (non-removable) lithium battery is not allowed as ‘carry-on’ or as ‘checked baggage.’
Smart baggage equipped with a removable lithium battery can only be accepted as checked baggage if the battery is removed. The removed lithium battery must then be carried on board by the passenger and must remain in their hand baggage.
If your smart baggage is brought on board as a carry-on, the lithium battery must remain in the baggage. When transporting, measures must be taken to prevent unintentional activation and to protect the device from damage. The device must be completely switched off (not in sleep or hibernation mode).
The rules above do not apply to smart baggage equipped only with lithium button cells.
Special baggage items
Contact us if you plan to carry any equipment or products that fall within the below categories:
Chemicals: Household cleaners, mercury, paint, and any other type of chemicals
Gas: Aerosol cans, gas cylinders
Heavy work: Including electrical tools and equipment used for drilling, expeditions and mining as well as autombile parts
Medical: Dental apparatus, diagnostic specimens, frozen embryos
Special interest (sport, hobbies): Ammunition, musical instruments, and equipment used for camping, photography, and diving
Other : Frozen food, household goods
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Home » Browse » Academic journals » Psychology Journals » Journal of Counseling and Development : JCD » Article details, "Gender Matters: Working with Adult Male..."
Academic journal article Journal of Counseling and Development : JCD
Gender Matters: Working with Adult Male Survivors of Trauma
By Mejia, Ximena E.
This article includes a review of the literature regarding gender role influences in the lives of men, the behaviors of men, and how men cope with trauma. The first part of the article offers an overview of feminist theory, its core tenets, and interventions. The second part presents a brief discussion on trauma: responses to trauma, its accurate diagnosis, and long-term goals for trauma survivors. Then, the discussion focuses on the influence of gender role socialization on men and how the ideology of masculinity limits men's self-concept; their behaviors; how they relate to women, to other men, and to children (Pleck, 1981); and ultimately how they cope with trauma. The article also examines the literature regarding men and society's narrow and dim concept of masculinity that provides men with limited and contradictory coping mechanisms (Fischer & Good, 1997). Finally, the discussion focuses on the applicability of gender role analysis as an effective intervention when treating this population (Brown, 1986), specifically because this conceptualization implies that the treatment of male survivors of trauma should in most cases proceed on two levels: (a) redefining masculinity and its legacies and (b) confronting the trauma and its legacies.
A key point in this article is that, because male clients have been socialized in ways that suppress their abilities necessary for coping with trauma, therapy must first help the client redefine masculinity so as to free up and strengthen the client's coping mechanisms. After this preliminary phase of stressing a revised masculinity and developing hope, resilience, and transcendence, effective therapy may move to a second phase in which traumatic experience and its legacies can be addressed.
Theoretical and Philosophical Overview of Feminist Therapy
The women's movement was a catalyst for empowering women to make choices about their own lives. As the feminist movement evolved, so has feminist theory, which has begun to make its presence known in the fields of psychology and counseling. Feminist psychotherapeutic theory has been developing since the early 1970s (Brown, 1986). Many influential feminist theorists and practitioners--for example, Laura Brown (1986), Susan Sturdivant (1980) and Sandra Bern (1981)--have laid the groundwork, writing extensively about feminist theory, principles, practice, and process. Over time, feminist therapy has become highly developed and has become more consistent in its applications, goals, and techniques (Wyche & Rice, 1997).
Feminist therapy is critically concerned with social action and with the implementation of changes in institutional sexism and in our sexist society (Cammaert & Larsen, 1988). It demands the analysis of gender roles, the changing of traditional sexist and restrictive role options in women's lives. Feminist therapy proposes that nonhierarchical egalitarian relationships should exist in human interaction and in institutional settings (Brown, 1986). This therapeutic theory holds that oppressive (nonegalitarian) social structures and relationships have shaped women's status (Cammaert & Larsen, 1988). Feminist theory rejects patriarchy and gender role ascriptions. Feminist therapy values consensual decision making, equal access to power, and open gender role options (Brown, 1990). Finally, feminist theory contends that the accumulation of knowledge has been controlled by a male hierarchy and that the shaping of knowledge has occurred in accordance with male criteria of achievement, performance, and so on, without regard for the ultimate effects on the quality of life or the nature of reality (Enns, 1993). Thus, a feminist philosophical stance argues that male perceptions have shaped the dominant view in society. This dominant view controls the definitions of women, social structures, and institutions, as well as thought and value patterns (Brown, 1990). Ironically, this dominant view has also greatly limited and harmed men. …
Publication: Journal of Counseling and Development : JCD
Publication date: Winter 2005
Mejia, Ximena E.
Feminist Therapy--Evaluation
Men--Psychological Aspects
Mental Health Counseling--Methods
Trauma (Psychology)--Care and Treatment
Sex Differences (Psychology)--Influence
A Practical Guide to Mental Health Counseling By Cynthia J. Osborn Cengage Learning, 2014
Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health and Psychotherapy: A Guide for Students and Practitioners By David Harper; Andrew R. Thompson Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
Intimate Partner Violence: A Clinical Training Guide for Mental Health Professionals By Carol E. Jordan; Michael T. Nietzel; Robert Walker; T. K. Logan Springer, 2004
An Evaluation of "Vurun Kahpeye" Halide Edip Adivar's Novel in Terms of Feminist Therapy/ Halide Edip Adivar'in "Vurun Kahpeye" Adli Eserinin Feminist Terapi Acisindan Degerlendirilmesi By Kizildag, Seval Voltan-Acar, Nilufer Kadin/Woman 2000, Vol. 10, No. 2, December 2009
Comprehensive Program Development in Mental Health Counseling: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation By Calley, Nancy G. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, Vol. 31, No. 1, January 2009
Using the Millon College Counseling Inventory to Assess Student Mental Health Needs By Millon, Theodore Strack, Stephen Millon-Niedbala, Carolyn M. Grossman, Seth D. Journal of College Counseling, Vol. 11, No. 2, Fall 2008
TeleHELP: Colleges Offer Students Mental Health Care from a Distance-Getting Them Help with Less Stigma and Easing Pressure on Campus Counseling Offices By Barger, Theresa Sullivan University Business, Vol. 21, No. 5, May 2018
Helping Hispanic Students Cope with Mental Health Issues By Mendoza, Sylvia The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, Vol. 24, No. 18, June 30, 2014
Pastoral Counselors Seek Health-Plan Role By The Christian Century, Vol. 110, No. 14, April 28, 1993
'NYPD' vs. PBS' Daring 'Evil': A Comparative Analysis Brit Series Delves into Psychological, Metaphorical Aspects of Crime By Cox, Ted Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 13, 2000
Health Department Receives Two Grants to Improve Health Services for Mental Health Patients By Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 16, 2016
Grants to Improve Services for Lake Mental Health Patients By Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 20, 2016
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80+ Physiomesh Hernia Mesh Lawsuits Now Pending in Federal Multidistrict Litigation
Published on July 20, 2017 by Sandy Liebhard
Hernia mesh lawsuits involving Ethicon, Inc.’s Physiomesh products continue to mount in the multidistrict litigation now underway in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia.
According to an update issued by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) on July 17th, there are at least 84 Physiomesh lawsuits pending in the centralized proceeding. That represents an increase of 18 filings since June 15th, when the Panel reported 66 cases.
Physiomesh Lawsuit Allegations
Plaintiffs pursuing these lawsuits claim that Physiomesh hernia patches suffer from design defects that resulted in adhesions, perforations, infections, mesh erosion and other debilitating complications. The JPML transferred all federally-filed Physiomesh lawsuits to the Northern District of Georgia in June to allow the cases to undergo coordinated pretrial proceedings, including discovery.
The multidistrict litigation is scheduled to convene an Initial Conference on August 1st, at 2:00 p.m. ET. All outstanding disclosure and discovery proceedings have been stayed pending the conference.
Ethicon Physiomesh is constructed from non-absorbable polypropylene (plastic) filaments that are woven into fabric. Each side of the polypropylene mesh is covered with an absorbable film coating, which purportedly facilitates incorporation of the patch into the body and reduces inflammations. However, Physiomesh lawsuit plaintiffs claim that this design actually increases the risk of serious complications.
“When affixed to the body’s tissue, the impermeable multi-layer coating of the Physiomesh prevents fluid escape, which leads to seroma formation, and which in turn can cause infection, abscess formation and other complications,” the complaints state. “The multi-layer coating provides a breeding ground for bacteria in which the bacteria cannot be eliminated by the body’s immune response, which allows infection to proliferate.”
Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh Market Withdrawal
Ethicon announced a worldwide market withdrawal of its Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh products in May 2016, following an analysis of unpublished data from two European registries which indicated that the products were associated with higher average recurrence and revision rates compared to other hernia meshes used in laparoscopic ventral hernia repair.
Ethicon was unable to determine what was behind these issues, but suggested the problems could be related to several factors, including possible product characteristics, operative and patient factors.
The company indicated it would not be returning the Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh to the market.
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Great character to win the game
Damien Johnson was delighted with the character that his side showed as they defeated Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-2 on Monday night.
Rovers raced into a two-goal first half lead thanks to strikes from Lewis Hardcastle and Anthony Stokes, but a sloppy start to the second period saw the visitors net twice in quick succession to get back on level terms.
The home side then saw Stokes pick up two bookings to leave the Rovers down to ten men, but a tremendous goal from Lewis Mansell saw the blues claim the points.
"Topsy-turvy is probably a good way to put it," Johnson told Rovers PlayerHD post match.
"We came in at half-time really pleased, I thought we'd coped really well with them and scored two good goals and in fairness we looked comfortable.
"I certainly didn't see the first 20 minutes of the second half coming but it did for whatever reason. They started on the front foot and we didn't deal with it very well as a team or individually and we let them back in it.
"But we showed character and when Anthony gets sent off the odds are stacked against us but the lads really dug in and Lewis scored a great goal.
"So all-in-all I'm really pleased with the character that they showed, they really stuck at it and worked their socks off and found a way to win the game."
The Under-23s are back in action this Friday afternoon when they take on Burnley in their opening group match of the Premier League Cup.
Season Ticket holders will be admitted free of charge on production of their season ticket card at the turnstiles.
Tickets for this game are on sale to supporters with a database booking history only and must be collected on the day of the game from midday onwards on production of a valid ID which must show the purchaser's address. Prices are Adults £3, Concessions £1.
Please note that there will be NO sales on the day of the game.
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The basic flaw to which I am drawing attention is the policy of permitting anonymous editing of Wikipedia articles. It allows skullduggery to take place.
Wikipedia entries are supposedly written by open and transparent consensus among article editors. In reality, Wikipedia is built on a platform of secrecy and concealment.
It leaves articles about businesses wide-open to censorship, manipulation and sabotage by parties with undeclared commercially driven motives.
Unpaid volunteers acting as administrators and editors are supposedly the bedrock on which Wikipedia is built. It is a mainly secretive community in which the vast majority of volunteers edit articles using aliases. They are free to edit any articles, without anyone having a clue about who they are or about their background. Consequently, it is impossible to determine if they have a potential conflict of interest.
Editor’s using aliases are also able to comment on the editing work of other contributors and vote on the deletion of Wikipedia articles.
Hence, there is a lot of power and influence and no real accountability.
If due to some alleged transgression, a Wikipedia editor is banned from editing, they can return under a new alias using a new IP address, with no bad odour attached. In other words, an entirely fresh start.
“Wikipedian” culture has some similarity to the Ku Klux Klan, fortunately without the racist element.
The privacy of those choosing to keep secret all information about their identity is respected and maintained within the Wikipedia community. A community that has developed its own cultish language, arising partly in response to skullduggery by some editors.
There are Wikipedia articles about every major business. A company is not permitted to edit any articles about itself. For example, BP is not supposed to edit Wikipedia articles about BP.
Because of the popularity of Wikipedia, the content of a Wikipedia article about a business is important. It can have a positive or negative impact on the reputation of the business and this, in turn, as already highlighted, can impact on its value.
The behind-the-scenes editing of Wikipedia articles has been described as the world’s biggest spinning operation. See centre article.
With regard to Shell, in particular, Wikipedia has been systematically cleansed of negative, but accurate, properly sourced, verifiable information about the company.
Some entire articles about Shell have been totally deleted by a handful of mainly anonymous censors reaching a consensus.
My suspicions about what was going on were aroused for a number of reasons:
I discovered to my surprise an obsession by Royal Dutch Shell management over my past voluntary work editing Wikipedia articles. In particular, articles relating to Shell. Information Shell supplied to me in response to a Subject Access Request, included Shell internal documents and Shell internal emails from March 2007, some marked confidential. Participants in the correspondence were discussing my Wikipedia editing and its possible impact on shareholders. The subject was mentioned 105 times within Shell internal correspondence. To verify, click on this link and run a search for “Wikipedia”. You will see 105 matches and the internal discussion about the risk of Shell being caught if it tried to edit relevant Wikipedia articles. One participant in the correspondence pointed out: “Companies, their agents, or anyone else for that matter, are not supposed to edit Wikipedia entries they have a vested interest in. Doing so undermines the editorial integrity of the product.”
“WikiScanner” technology detected that articles were actually edited from Shell premises. When Shell has dirty work in mind, it is normally passed on to a third party, thereby distancing Shell from illicit actions taken by the third party. Shell HAS in the past hired a third party agency specializing in reputation clean up on the Internet. There are many such agencies offering their services.
Information freely available on the Internet provides a blueprint of how to infiltrate Wikipedia and manipulate articles. It exploits the Wikipedia policy permitting concealment of identity and background. It advises on a stratagem of deception to disguise intent. For example, editing a wide range of articles to avoid being identified as a one-topic contributor. It discusses implications relating to IP addresses. The objective being for an organized group of infiltrators to edit target articles without detection: I will not go into detail for obvious reasons.
When I became a volunteer editor on Wikipedia, I declared from the outset my name, website, and connection with Shell. Very soon after making the first edits, it became apparent that a then senior editor using the pseudonym “BosMo” was closely monitoring my contributions. I gained the impression that he or she was an admirer of Shell. “BosMo” quickly nominated for deletion a Shell related article that I originated. It survived the nomination. I then received a tip from a Shell insider identifying Andrew Cates, a former CEO and Country Chairman of Shell, as being “BosMo.” Mr Cates confirmed to me that this was true.
Please see “Royal Dutch Shell Wikipedia Machinations” for more information about my contact with Mr Cates, a man I admire despite his high regard for Shell.
See also see my article published 7 Sept 2015 on an American news-based website: “I WARNED WIKIPEDIA YEARS AGO THAT ALIAS EDITING WOULD RESULT IN SCANDAL”
On my own website, royaldutchshellplc.com I feature all published articles about Shell, whether positive or negative in relation to the oil giant.
I took the same approach when acting as a Wikipedia volunteer editor.
Ironically, a Wikipedia article I instigated and authored, containing nothing but positive information about Shell, covering, for example, charitable works and donations by the company and/or its employees, was removed in its entirety on the grounds of being biased in favour of Shell. It was deleted despite the fact that all of the information within the article was supported by linked verifiable independent sources.
As a result of the strenuous efforts by dedicated people apparently on a mission, many acting under the cover of an alias, information about Royal Dutch Shell on Wikipedia has been transformed. Negative accurate information supported by newspaper articles, government agency publications, court documents, etc. has vanished.
Instead, we have a collection of mainly sanitized information about Royal Dutch Shell. Much of it could have been written by, or on behalf of, Shell PR people. Perhaps it was.
It is not just business articles that are laundered. The same thing has happened to Wikipedia articles about politicians. See “Capital Hill Buzz: Polishing senators’ images on Wikipedia.”
Much of the content of this chapter is taken from my article: “Ku Klux Klan culture at Wikipedia: secrecy and censorship.”
In response to the article, I was contacted by an industrious entrepreneur, Gregory Kohs the owner of an agency MyWikiBiz, who has freely admitted to manipulating information on Wikipedia on behalf of paying clients.
Instantly accessible articles providing verifiable detailed information stretching back over the entire history of a company could be invaluable to shareholders and the news media.
It would then be immediately evident if a company had been issuing unfulfilled pledges, for example, to end gas flaring in Nigeria, or give the highest priority to employee safety, when factually detailed current and historical information indicated otherwise.
In September 2015, a number of articles were published about the alias-editing flaw that I first drew to the attention of Wikipedia five years ago.
The articles are self-explanatory:
Forbes: 5 Oct 2012: Wikipedia’s “Pay-for-Play” Scandal Highlights Wikipedia’s Vulnerabilities
Wikipedia’s dark side: Censorship, revenge editing & bribes a significant issue:13 Oct 2012
The Telegraph: 2 Sept 2015: Wikipedia hit by blackmail scandal as victims are charged for content
The Independent: 2 Sept 2015: Wikipedia rocked by ‘rogue editors’ blackmail scam targeting small businesses and celebrities
Guardian Newspaper 2 Sept 2015: Wikipedia blocks editor accounts linked to extortion scam
FT.com 4 Sept 2015: Wikipedia’s struggle to save its soul
THINKPROGRESS 4 Sept 2015: Wikipedia Editors Uncover Extortion Scam And Extensive Cybercrime Syndicate
Daily Beast 4 Sept 2015: I Was Shaken Down by Wikipedias Blackmail Bandits
Guardian Newspaper 6 Sept 2015: Wikipedia founder backs site’s systems after extortion scam
Science Times 7 Sept 2015: Wikipedia Blocks 381 “Black Hat” Accounts
According to an article published by the Guardian newspaper in March 2016, the Putin regime has “set up warehouses in which an army of bloggers sat day and night, charged with flooding the internet with comments favourable to Russian interests.” They include “Wikipedia trolls” working to edit blogs and web pages to Russia’s advantage,” exploiting the anonymous editing flaw.
An article published in 2005 – “Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio” – revealed, among other things, that Jimmy Wales, the joint founder of Wikipedia, changed his own Wikipedia bio 18 times “deleting phrases describing former Wikipedia employee Larry Sanger as a co-founder of the site.” Wales claimed that although “Wikipedia generally frowns on people editing entries about themselves, there is no hard and fast rule against it.”
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Galaxy S10 launch teaser making the rounds online
A teaser for the Galaxy S10 launch is making the rounds online today. Samsung is already expected to unveil the device in February so it’s no surprise that the hype machine is going in full swing. The teaser highlights what fans are most looking forward to seeing from the flagship.
The teaser is hinting at an incredible screen-to-body ratio for the Galaxy S10. Countless reports and rumors have already pointed at this possibility. The Galaxy S10 will be the first Samsung flagship with its Infinity-O display.
Galaxy S10 launch teaser
Samsung’s Infinity-O display places the front camera within a cutout in the display itself. This eliminates the need for a notch and thus frees up more space for the display. Many renders and case leaks have suggested that the display will be stretched even more on the new flagship.
Reports have also suggested that the company will be launching three separate models of the Galaxy S10. The Galaxy S10 Lite, Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10+ are expected to feature 5.8-inch, 6.1-inch and 6.4-inch displays respectively. The camera setups will be different across the lineup as well. Samsung will also ship a 5G-enabled variant of the flagship.
The teaser first surfaced online on Weibo. UK carrier EE has now set up a pre-registration page for the upcoming Galaxy smartphone on its website as well. The pre-registration page doesn’t explicitly mention the Galaxy S10. The sole purpose is to notify users when more information about the device is available. The Galaxy S10 launch teaser doesn’t reveal much in the way of the actual design. It’s not meant to after all. No precise launch date has been provided as well.
Samcurve
the curve looks beautiful..
PaulCSYD
Interesting to note that if you look at the top and the bottom of the display just to the right of Samsung, there appears to be no hole for the camera!
u drunk.. of course u will not see it in a TEASER..
So where is this video ?
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SANSFIRE 2017
Washington, DC | Sat, Jul 22 - Sat, Jul 29, 2017
Auto-Nuke it from Orbit: A Framework for Critical Security Control Automation
Jeremiah Hainly, Master's Degree Candidate
Tuesday, July 25th, 8:15pm - 8:55pm
Over 83% of security teams report that the use of automation in security needs to increase within the next three years (Algosec, 2016). With automation becoming a reality for a growing number of companies, there will also be an increased demand for open-sourced scripts to get started. This presentation will provide a framework for prioritizing and developing security automation and will demonstrate this process by creating a script to automate a common information security response procedure - the reimaging of an infected endpoint. The primary function of the script will be to access the application program interface (API) of various enterprise software solutions to speed up the manual tasks involved in performing a reimage.
Speaker Bio: Jeremiah Hainly is a Cyber Defender at a leading chocolate manufacturer. He holds the GCIH, GCIA, and GSEC certifications. For the past 2 years, he has worked as a security consultant, architect and engineer at companies with global footprints. His security interests are in big data analytics and integrated automation. He lives in Hershey, Pennsylvania where he spends his free time playing guitar, powerlifting, and hiking. Jeremiah is a candidate for the Master of Science degree in Information Security Engineering from the SANS Technology Institute.
The SANS Technology Institute is the only graduate program that combines SANS technical training, recognized as the industryâs best, with leadership and management curriculum specifically developed for the unique needs of aspiring leaders. Learn more at www.sans.edu.
The following bonus sessions are open to all paid attendees at no additional cost. There are many different types of events that fall into these categories:
SANS@Night: Evening presentations given after day courses have ended. This category includes Keynotes.
Special Events: SANS-hosted events and other non-technical recreational offerings. This category includes, but is not limited to, Receptions and Information Tables.
Vendor: Events hosted by external vendor exhibitors.
Lunch & Learn: Short presentations given during the lunch break.
Master's Degree Presentation: Presentations given by SANS Technology Institute's Master's Degree candidates.
SANS Technology Institute Commencement — Sunday, July 23rd, 5:00pm - 7:00pm Special Events
General Session - Welcome to SANS Johannes Ullrich Monday, July 24th, 8:00am - 8:30am Special Events
State of the Internet Panel Discussion ISC Handlers Monday, July 24th, 7:15pm - 9:15pm Keynote
Coffee & Donuts with the Graduate School — Tuesday, July 25th, 7:30am - 9:00am Special Events
Stop the Exploits. Stop the Attacks. Keep threats off your devices, before they can run David Gurganious, Enterprise Sales Engineer Tuesday, July 25th, 12:30pm - 1:15pm Lunch and Learn
Cyber Threat Intelligence: Big Data Simplified. Operationalizing Threat Intelligence Brian Roy, Sr. Security Engineer Tuesday, July 25th, 12:30pm - 1:15pm Lunch and Learn
Data Breaches on the Dark Web: Between Defense and Response Alex Viana, VP of Engineering Tuesday, July 25th, 12:30pm - 1:15pm Lunch and Learn
Beyond usernames and passwords. Securing cloud services in a mobile world. James Plouffe, Lead Solutions Architect Tuesday, July 25th, 12:30pm - 1:15pm Lunch and Learn
Adaptive Network Automation in Support of Cyber Defense Richard Larkin, Senior Network Engineer, NetBrain Technologies, Inc. Tuesday, July 25th, 12:30pm - 1:15pm Lunch and Learn
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Reading Around in Groff Conklin's Anthologies
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#43: Raymond Z. Gallun's "Stamped Caution" as reprinted in Conklin's 5 Unearthly Visions -- a solid contribution to the first contact genre, published originally in the Sept. 1953 Galaxy issue, a time when, evidently, it was still possible to propose that Mars was inhabited by an old civilization that had built canals. Nothing flashy here, but the author has tried to think through all the issues involved in his immediate story. (He doesn't attempt to evoke much the public response to confirmed contact with extraterrestrials, etc., but just tells what happened to a handful of men involved.) 3/5
#44: I really liked Horace L. Gold's "A Matter of Form," in which a cold-blooded scientist partnered with a corrupt public figure has devised a way to switch the identities of men and animals based on operating on the pineal gland. The protagonist is Wood, who spends most of the story in a collie's body. Of course it's a silly idea, but it's played straight for excitement and is paced nicely. It has a classic New York feel that reminded me of old movies I've been watching. I'm perhaps overrating it at 4/5, but, as I said, I really liked it. Conklin included it in The Big Book of Science Fiction, one of his thick anthologies for Crown. It first appeared in Astounding for Dec. 1938.
#45: Morrison Colladay's "The Planetoid of Doom" from Wonder Stories (Dec. 1932) describes the sights after an asteroid, I suppose, or other space object strikes the Gulf of Mexico and swamps New Orleans. Monstrous snakes and even tyrannosaurs devour corpses and the living. A wierd green radiance glows at night; the space object seems to have brought a strange substance with it that stimulated growth of some earth creatures, or they might have been cast up from deep-sea haunts (but tyrannosaurs?). Earthquakes ensue. The devastated New Orleans angle (I suppose some or all of the numerous specific locations mentioned were genuine) and recent speculation about what would happen if a meteorite hit the earth gave this one a bit of extra interest. Characterization is nil and there isn't much of a plot, just an evocation of a bizarre event and its immediate aftermath. Conklin reprinted it in The Big Book. Contento lists just two stories by Colladay, both reprinted by Conklin, the other being "Giant in the Earth" in The Best of Science Fiction. 2/5
#46: G. Peyton Wertenbaker's "The Ship That Turned Aside" appeared in the March 1930 Amazing. The cover art must be for a different story, but I thought you might like to see it anyway.
The story is reprinted, as by Green Peyton, in Conklin's Big Book of Science Fiction. A passenger ship crosses unsuspectingly into a different dimension, voyaging for days across days of sunless sea, then arriving on a deserted shore. Three men, however, go exploring, and see, across the grasslands, a city in the distance.... I liked most of this old yarn. 3/5
#47: S. Fowler Wright's "Obviously Suicide" in Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales. A civic-minded wife does her duty when her husband possesses knowledge that could lead to the end of the world. 1/5
#48: David Grinnell's "Top Secret," a 2-pager from Invaders of Earth, originally the Fall 1950 issue of F&SF. The author's name was a pseudonym for Donald Wollheim.
I round out my Conklin reports for 2013 with, alas, a 1/5 dud. Aliens, y'see, are already among us, in Washington, DC.
This year of browsing Conkliniana has revealed he sure reprinted a lot of stories that (so far as I'm concerned) have not stood the test of time at all well, even though he must have been the pre-eminent sf anthologist for many years, as regards editors who were free to draw upon multiple magazines. (Could it be that the anthologies devoted to one specific title -- The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction; The Galaxy Reader -- ended up with higher overall quality? I doubt it. I'm fuzzy about whether Astounding/Analog had a comparable anthology series.
Looking ahead to the new year, I'm thinking of a minimum goal of one story per month from a Conklin anthology to keep this thread going. Comments on some stories more deserving of attention should be showing up here!
Once again: how about other readers? Surely others have Conklin anthologies on their shelves. Conklin's books used to be everywhere.
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Extollager said:
I'm fuzzy about whether Astounding/Analog had a comparable anthology series.
I can confirm that there was an anthology of stories from Astounding (later split into smaller parts) and eight anthologies from Analog, as well as something called Prologue to Analog, which seems to be stories from Astounding just before the title change. Also one from Unknown.
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PROLOGUE TO ASTOUNDING sounds like something I need to keep an eye out for.
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Dask:
Prologue to Analog: Amazon.com: Books
Cool! Never heard of this book before. Thanks for the link.
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Same here, and price is reasonable.
In his early, thick hardcover anthologies Conklin reprinted often from Astounding, but without having my books at hand, I have the impression that, in his later paperback anthologies he didn't reprint so often from Astounding or Analog. I wonder if he wouldn't have liked to, but (1) was unable to offer sufficient payment and (2) found that many authors didn't want their short stories reprinted because they used them in fix-ups, i.e. novels. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
I like the idea of having the stories that spawn fix-ups being made available somewhere other than its original magazine or original anthology appearance. Sometimes the original short is more favorably looked upon than the novel it eventually grows into. I think an early Zelazny is an example of this. If an author publishes a fix-up and later puts out an short story collection, stick it in there. Fans would love it and the author might make a few more bucks off it.
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Your project is amazing! It reminds me thematically of my current project--you might consider starting your own, or perhaps guesting on my blog! Your anthologies are a little earlier than the current date of my site (1959), but there's never anything wrong with revisiting classics.
#49 in this series and my first (perhaps only) entry for January is "Galley Slave" by Asimov, reprinted from the Dec. 1957 Galaxy by Conklin in Six Great Short Science Fiction Novels.
It's a 2034 courtroom drama with flashbacks, a puzzle story in which the puzzle, for many readers, will not be whodunit or why he did it, but just how he did it. As the story ends with perhaps the most emphasis on whodunit and why, it's not a great conclusion. The story remains readable, reasonably interesting and entertaining, though, of course, dated as a future scenario. Asimov seems here to have missed the emergence of the personal computer and the extent of automation, while on the other hand appearing overly optimistic about space travel (weren't they all?). Of course, someone might argue that with 20 years to go till 2034, there's still time for space travel (mentioned in passing) to develop! 3/5
I'm going to rectify the labeling here. 正名 rectification of names and all that. I shouldn't have counted the Lovecraft and Kuttner & Moore stories
http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/539121-reading-around-in-groff-conklins-anthologies-8.html#post1771431
as #36 and #37, since I had already counted them. Therefore, my previous entry, on "Galley Slave," should be #47 rather than #49, etc.
This probably doesn't matter particularly to anybody else!
No. 48: "The Great Keinplatz Experiment" by Arthur Conan Doyle, an 1885 story reprinted in The Best of Science Fiction, Conklin's pioneering 1946 anthology. A German professor wishing to show the independence of consciousness and body mesmerizes himself and a student, but their consciousnesses return to the wrong bodies, with farcical results; it takes a while for each man to realize his appearance doesn't match his sense of who he is. 3/5. I guess.
Mistaken identity farces go back to -- I suppose precede -- Shakespeare. This idea of consciousness transference was used at novel length in Vice Versa by "F. Anstey" (1882). where a magical Garuda Stone effects the change. The idea is used for weird-tale purposes in subsequent stories by various authors, most notably by Lovecraft in his science fictional "The Shadow Out of Time."
Personally, I may have run into the concept first in a multi-issue sequence in Marvel's Daredevil, where our hero finds his body switched with that of Dr. Doom:
It shows up on the final episode of the original Star Trek series, "Turnabout Intruder" --
#49 is H. G. Wells's "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes," the next story after Doyle's "Keinplatz Experiment." Davidson is able to see scenes of a remote antipodal island and of undersea places because, it appears, of a "'kink in space'" and an "extraordinary twist given to his retinal elements through the sudden change in the field of force" caused by an electromagnetic effect. Having conceived the (admittedly unlikely) naturalistic anomaly, Wells seems economically to work out the results, results both plausible and wonderful in this 1895 story. 4/5
For #50, I departed from what's been my practice so far, of reading stories in Conklin anthologies that I own. I got Conklin's Science-Fiction Adventures in Dimension from 1953 on interlibrary loan. If I'm not mistaken, this was one of Conklin's last thick hardcover anthologies, along with a sequel, Science-Fiction Adventures in Mutation (1955).
The story is A. Bertram Chandler's "Castaway," a nifty Twilight Zone-ish tale about a man marooned on a tropical island who finds a crashed spaceship from the future and the answer to accumulating puzzles. 4/5
#51 is also from Science-Fiction Adventures in Dimension, Raymond F. Jones's "Pete Can Fix It." This story, firstprinted in Astounding for Feb. 1947, too gets something of a Twilight Zone-ish quality going, but it becomes kind of talky. If someone were to compile an anthology of atomic war-fear stories from the first five years of the post-Hiroshima era, this one would make it. 3/5
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"Our world came crashing down that day, but luckily the weeks to follow were full of good news. To say life was like a storm on April 4th, 2016 on the day we received Lyla’s diagnosis, is an understatement…..the tears flowed like a monsoon, my body shook like an earthquake, and the life I envisioned for my daughter was torn to the ground. I truly thought our world had ended."
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MPS I (Hurler, Hurler-Scheie, Scheie syndrome)
MPS I, along with six other MPS diseases is a mucopolysaccharide disease that is relentlessly progressive and potentially fatal. MPS I has also been called Hurler, Hurler-Scheie and Scheie syndrome . Hurler takes its name from Gertrude Hurler, the doctor who described a boy and girl with the condition in 1919. In 1962, Dr. Scheie, a consultant ophthalmologist, wrote about some of his patients who were more mildly affected. Individuals who seem not to fit clearly in either the severe or the mild end of the disease were said to have Hurler/Scheie. The specific disease names have been replaced with the designations attenuated (diminished severity) and severe MPS I. There is no cure for MPS diseases, but there are ways of managing and treating the problems they cause.
(Source: National MPS Society, http://mpssociety.org/mps/mps-i/ )
Helen still remembers those initial hours, “As a parent your duty is to protect your child and I had failed within the first moments she was created. I passed on a defective gene that would cripple her body, deteriorate her brain, and end her precious life after it had barely begun. I held my beautiful 7 month old daughter so tight. I sobbed because I couldn’t bear to watch her smile fade away and her energy disappear day by day over the next couple years. It wasn’t possible. Lyla was too perfect, she had too much personality, she was too smart, and she could already throw a tennis ball so well. But at that moment… Lyla was still Lyla and I couldn’t help but smile when she did and enjoy every moment with her. Everything had changed but nothing had changed.”
Right away, Dr. Kristin Lindstrom at the Phoenix Children’s Hospital recommended a stem cell transplant. Initially, they thought this meant a bone marrow transplant and Dr. Lindstrom referred them to Dr. Paul Orchard at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Orchard explained that transplants for MPS patients have greatly improved over the last several years. He explained that cord blood could be the best choice for Lyla and give her the best chances for a successful transplant.
The goal was not simple. In order to be successful, the transplant needed to rid Lyla’s body of her own cells (because they were genetically faulty) and replace her cells with healthy new ones. Although the actual transplant lasts only a few minutes, the whole healing process would be quite long and span several months.
Helen and Steve were encouraged by this possible treatment and agreed that this was their best option for young Lyla. The wheels were put in motion. They would go to Minnesota for treatment. Lyla’s parents received approval from insurance and doctors began to search for a donor. It was a race against the clock as the disease was constantly working against them, deteriorating brain cells. Luckily, a match was found and it was a perfect 6 out of 6 match! The transplant date was set for July 25th, 2016.
The procedure lasted 25 minutes and was much like a typical blood transfusion. In accordance with donor rules, Lyla’s parents were not told where the donor was born or the identity of the generous family. They only know that the donated cord blood came from a little girl born in May 2013. She could be from anywhere in the world.
"Looking back the reality of the situation, it should have been much scarier than it was. But, we were just so happy and thankful Lyla had the option of a stem cell transplant and that she had a perfect 6 out of 6 cord blood match. We knew there was a long road ahead, but we were very optimistic!"
-Helen Edgington, Lyla's Mother
Hurler Syndrome is a progressive genetic disease. If you don’t treat it, it will gradually cause severe physical and mental damage. Lyla’s parents knew this and this is why timing was so crucial in her case. Luckily, Lyla was diagnosed early and did not have too much damage prior to the transplant. This meant her chances were good. However, because of the nature of the disorder, Lyla’s parents and doctors were not expecting to see major improvements necessarily in her mental and physical functions but what they hoped was that the progression of the disorder would stop. The goal was to stop the disorder from becoming worse. Questions remained as to if some damage would continue to occur following transplant or would the transplant be effective immediately?
The first few weeks after the transplant were really difficult because of the impact of the chemotherapy. Lyla suffered from low energy and clearly her spirits were down. However, after the first month, doctors confirmed that the transplant had fully engrafted (the donor cells had been accepted by her body). Success! From there it is was smooth sailing. . . she returned to being a happy girl most of the time while living under constant medical supervision (remember, she was not even a year old at the time).
When discussing stem cell transplants, doctors often refer to the “first 100 days.” Although not always applicable to every case, this milestone often indicates whether a transplant has been “successful” or not. In Lyla’s case, she was doing great and around day +95 her parents started preparing for their flight home. Then, the phone rang. Lyla’s blood tests came back with issues.
Lyla’s parents explained, “The transplant worked but for some unknown reason the new white cells were creating antibodies against the new platelets and red blood cells. Lyla’s immune system needed to be wiped out again to kill the antibodies and we had to hope the new ones wouldn’t do the same thing. This was a huge bump in the road for us and really tore down our spirits. It took another very long 5 months of Lyla on high dose steriods, tons of infusions, very little sleep, and at a huge risk for infection but luckily it worked and the bad antibodies didn’t return! Overall, it took a full 9 months after transplant to know that it was an overwhelming success.”
Success. What a magic word! Success. This word meant hope to the Edgingtons. Success, meant their daughter might beat the odds. Success meant life and quality of life!
Today, the Edgingtons are just starting to turn the corner on this battle but they have been very encouraged by the results. The transplant worked and despite some complications around day 95, it appears that the transplant stopped damage caused by the disorder almost immediately. Based on various tests, Lyla did not experience any further damage post-transplant.
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Her parents realize how lucky they are. The stars aligned for Lyla. She had excellent doctors. She had a 6 out 6 stem cell match, thanks to cord blood. She had pro-active parents and grandparents who did everything they could to help her. In the end, it literally took everyone but they have been fortunate in many ways.
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My advice for parents is to never ignore anything that seems odd about your baby. It took me a month or so to mention the curve in Lyla’s spine because I thought it could have been a normal baby thing or something she would grow out of.
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My advice for health professionals, is to continue to do the amazing work you’re doing and saving so many lives! I have so much appreciation for the medical field and doctors who devote their life to finding cures to all the horrible diseases out there. It’s truly incredible!!
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The conservationists’ proposal, which implores President Obama to use executive decree in the form of the Antiquities Act to unilaterally create a marine national monument off the coast of Massachusetts in the Gulf of Maine seems to have raised some populist hackles.
A spokesman for U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton said the Salem Democrat believes “any decisions about the future of the Gulf of Maine need to be reached in a collaborative process that includes all stakeholders, including the commonwealth’s fishermen.”
Spokesman Andy Flick said Moulton has not yet decided whether he will testify at Tuesday’s scheduled hearing by a subcommittee of the House Natural Resource Committee on the issue, but that “our staff is working to ensure all stakeholders will have an opportunity to be heard.”
The monument proposal, initially generated by the Conservation Law Foundation, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Pew Charitable Trusts, would have President Obama designate Cashes Ledge — which is about 80 miles east of Gloucester — and an area of deep-water canyons and seamounts south of Georges Bank as a marine national monument that would be off limits to all fishing and future sea-floor development.
Read the full story at Gloucester Daily Times
Congressmen Jones & Young File Bill to Prevent Marine Monument Designations Without Congressional Consent
WASHINGTON (Saving Seafood) – September 23, 2015 – The following was released by the Office of Congressman Walter Jones:
Congressman Walter B. Jones (R-North Carolina) and Congressman Don Young (R-Alaska) have cosponsored H.R. 330, the Marine Access and State Transparency (MAST) Act. The bill would prevent President Barack Obama, or any future president, from unilaterally designating offshore areas as “national monuments” and restricting the public’s ability to fish there. Instead, the bill would require a president to get the approval of Congress and the legislature of each state within 100 nautical miles of the monument before any “monument” designation could take effect.
The bill comes in response to increasing speculation that President Obama may follow the example of his predecessor George W. Bush and unilaterally designate large swaths of coastal America as “national monuments.” In 2006, President Bush short circuited the established process of public consultation and input and unilaterally designated 84 million acres off the coast of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands as a national monument. The new monument, which is larger than 46 of America’s 50 states, was then closed to fishing.
“Presidents from both parties have abused their monument designation authority for far too long,” said Congressman Jones. “No president should be allowed to just lock up millions of acres of fishing grounds by fiat, with no public input whatsoever. Frankly, it’s un-American, and it must be stopped. I am proud to be the first member of Congress to join my friend Don Young in fighting for this legislation, and I urge the rest of my colleagues to get behind it.”
For additional information, please contact Maria Jeffrey in Congressman Jones’ office at (202) 225-3415 or at maria.jeffrey@mail.house.gov.
Read the release from Congressman Jones online
Obama admin mulls marine monument off New England
September 17, 2015 — The Obama administration appears to be considering a marine monument off the coast of New England, with federal officials holding a “town hall” meeting on the idea earlier this week.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration organized the meeting in Providence, R.I. More than 100 people attended — with some estimates exceeding 300 — to debate the protection of deep-sea canyons and underwater mountains 150 miles offshore.
Environmental groups proposed the monument just two weeks ago, urging President Obama to use the Antiquities Act to permanently protect almost 5,000 square nautical miles (Greenwire, Sept. 1). Such requests are not unusual as Obama nears the end of his term and ramps up his use of the act.
But this time, the proposal came from a coalition of some of the largest conservation groups. Among them: the Natural Resources Defense Council, Earthjustice, the Conservation Law Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts and Environment America. Other groups also voiced their support.
Within days, NOAA announced a town hall to “discuss permanent protections” off New England. The agency has been vague on details; it has not specified that the discussion will inform the White House for a possible marine monument.
But the agency is not proposing a marine sanctuary, according to spokeswoman Ciaran Clayton. Such sanctuaries, which are created and managed by NOAA, can take years to materialize.
“NOAA hasn’t proposed anything,” Clayton said in an email before Tuesday night’s public meeting. “We’re holding this town hall because there’s been interest from a number of groups on many types of protections. The public meeting is an opportunity for stakeholders to provide input.”
Read the full story at E&E Reporter
Virginia, Maryland legislators fighting fake Chesapeake Bay blue crab meat
September 16, 2015 — A group of federal legislators from Virginia and Maryland urged the White House this week to do more to curb the mislabeling of Chesapeake Bay blue crab.
In a letter Monday, U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and Rep. Rob Wittman from Virginia and Sen. Barbara Mikulski from Maryland applauded President Barack Obama for launching the Presidential Task Force to Combat Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing and Seafood Fraud earlier this year.
But, they said, its draft recommendations don’t go far enough to protect area watermen from dishonest people willing to import foreign crabmeat and repackage it as Atlantic or Chesapeake Bay blue crab.
Federal agents are investigating allegations that Casey’s Seafood Inc. in Newport News did just that. No charges have been filed in connection with the case, but DNA tests on several of Casey’s Seafood products contained mixtures of Atlantic blue crab and cheaper alternatives native to foreign waters. All of the products were labeled “Product of the USA.”
“This deceptive labeling misleads consumers and threatens the livelihood of the watermen in our states,” reads the letter, which indicates Virginia’s blue crab fishery generates nearly $30 million in total fishing revenue for watermen each year. Maryland’s blue crabs generate over $58 million annually.
Read the full story at The Virginian-Pilot
Conservationists Push for Atlantic’s 1st National Monument
September 13, 2015 — Undersea ravines deeper than the Grand Canyon, submerged mountains rising thousands of feet from the ocean floor and forests of kelp and coral would become the first marine national monument in the Atlantic if conservationists have their way.
The proposal to protect a pristine ecosystem undamaged by heavy fishing and pollution in the Gulf of Maine and canyons and peaks off Cape Cod — where vivid coral has grown to the size of small trees over thousands of years — would mirror the massive conservation efforts that have already taken place in the Pacific Ocean.
“We have an opportunity to permanently protect two of our nation’s greatest ocean treasures, right off our coast,” said Priscilla Brooks, the Conservation Law Foundation’s director of ocean conservation.
Environmental groups want President Barack Obama to permanently protect Cashes Ledge, the underwater mountain and offshore ecosystem in the Gulf of Maine, and the New England Coral Canyons and Seamounts, the chain of undersea formations about 150 miles off the coast of Massachusetts.
But Maine Gov. Paul LePage and others oppose the effort to protect the two sites, together totaling about 6,000 square miles, because of the potential impact on fishermen.
LePage, a Republican, also takes issue with the president’s authority under the Antiquities Act to designate monuments, calling it a sweeping power that provides few procedural protections to those who are most likely to be affected.
Read the full story at ABC News
MARY BETH TAYLOR: Seafood Companies Bolster the President’s Fight Against IUU Fishing
September 9, 2015 — Last year, U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration set its sights on preserving America’s seafood and the global supply chain by launching the Presidential Task Force on Combating Illegal Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing and Seafood Fraud. The global companies that put seafood on the tables of millions of Americans have been a part of this important effort to fight back against IUU activities. The Task Force has identified many popular species of seafood on its proposed list of the most “at risk” species for illegal fishing and seafood fraud – including, recently, tuna.
Fortunately, many of the world’s tuna companies are already taking proactive steps aimed at combating IUU fishing within the industry. These companies are part of an innovative public-private partnership that has committed the world’s leading seafood companies to transparency and accountability by way of 21 conservation measures and commitments aimed at improving the sustainability of the world’s tuna fisheries and the greater marine ecosystem – including commitments designed to combat IUU fishing.
Compliance and transparency are basic tenets of business operations the world over. Companies of every shape and size – from financial institutions to energy firms to consumer packaged goods companies and more – serve their customers and the general public best when they put a premium on transparency and accountability. At the most basic level, companies are legally bound to comply with numerous national and international environmental regulations. And many businesses take the next step by publishing an annual report on their corporate sustainability and responsibility activities (CSR).
Read the full opinion piece from Mary Beth Taylor at Triple Pundit
Obama’s fish tale: salmon spawning on his shoes
DILLINGHAM, Alaska (AP) — September 3, 2015 — This oh-my moment was nowhere on the official schedule for President Barack Obama’s visit to Alaska: salmon spawning on his shoes.
“You see that?” Obama declared Wednesday as he gripped a fish with two hands. “Something’s got on my shoes. … Generally you don’t want fish spawning on your feet. He said the local fisherwoman who accompanied him said the fish was “happy to see me.”
Visiting an isolated fishing village on a grey, overcast day, the president was full of admiration for the whole operation: He pronounced salmon jerky “really good,” tried unsuccessfully to scare up a knife so he could attempt to filet a fish and carefully inspected smokehouse drying racks.
Read the full story from the Associated Press at the New Bedford Standard-Times
There are no national monuments in Maine. Would Obama defy LePage to create one?
September 1, 2015 — Maine Gov. Paul LePage sent letters to President Barack Obama and members of the state’s congressional delegation to express his opposition to any efforts to designate certain Gulf of Maine and forest areas as national monuments.
In question are an undersea mountain range named Cashes Ledge and its environs, which conservationists consider a crucial refuge for the dwindling Atlantic cod population, as well as Millinocket-area land eyed by some as a potential spot for a national park.
While supporters of the designations argue they would advance important natural preservation efforts and — in the case of the national park — boost tourism and jobs, the governor and other opponents worry the moves would too greatly restrict the state’s commercial fishing and forest products industries.
But was a national monument designation ever likely for either location?
There are no national monuments currently in the state of Maine. Would Obama create one?
We’ll review some basics about national monuments and their history to help flesh out that discussion.
Read the full story at Bangor Daily News
Read the letter from Gov. LePage to President Obama
JOHN SACKTON: Seafood Harvesters Call for President Obama to Back Magnuson Reauthorization During Alaskan Visit
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton — September 2, 2015 — The Seafood Harvesters of America applauded President Barack Obama for meeting with Alaska’s commercial fishing industry this week and asked that President recognize the success of and support the reauthorization of Magnuson.
President Obama’s visit included a stop at the State Department’s GLACIER Conference held in Anchorage on August 30 and 31. He addressed the conference audience of about 400 global leaders with a warning about the critical effects climate change and warming waters poses to both the Alaskan and global environment and economy.
In his letter to the President, the Harvester’s Executive Director Brett Veerhusen asks the President to emphasize the decade of success the US fishing industry has enjoyed under Magnuson. He called for the President to endorse reauthorization of the law with just minor changes.
Veerhusen also asks the President to work with his Harvester group on science-backed initiatives that would limit commercial efforts in key waters.
Following is the full letter from the Harvesters:
The Honorable Barack Obama
Dear Mr. President,
The Seafood Harvesters of America (the Harvesters) represents 17 commercial fishing organizations from Alaska, to the Gulf of Mexico and New England. As its Executive Director, a life-long Alaskan fisherman, Bristol Bay fisherman, and the son of a man who has fished for 45 years in Alaskan waters, I welcome you to this great state.
The Harvesters applauds you for choosing to sit down with real, everyday Alaskan commercial fishermen who nobly harvest an American public resource. We urge you to take this opportunity to speak to the issues of importance that are essential to the livelihoods of commercial fishermen in Alaska and the nation.
We are writing to ask that you use your trip to Alaska, and your meeting with commercial fishermen in Bristol Bay, to send a strong message about how the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) is working for this nation. Alaskans have demonstrated the audacity to succeed in the presence of all the uncertainties associated with climate change. We do so as an industry shielded by a strong MSA, which guides a public, science-based decision-making process.
The Harvesters agree with your Administration that the MSA reauthorization needs minimal changes. While we are amenable to some minor changes, we are calling on lawmakers and your Administration to keep the MSA largely intact. Mr. President, one of our biggest concerns is legislative attempts to allow individual states to takeover species management in federal waters, which would set a dangerous precedent that could unravel the responsible management of America’s fisheries. Thank you for your tireless support of this time – and climate – tested document. U.S. fishery management is a beacon of prosperity within global fisheries.
The global economic environment that our products compete in is now protected through the establishment your Task Force to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. By importing seafood, the U.S. imports the ethics and ethos of the country of origin’s fishing practices. As a world leader in sustainable fishery management, American consumers demand our imported seafood to be of the same ethics and ethos that American fishermen harvest. We commend the Task Force for recognizing sustainable fisheries as an enormous benefit to ocean stakeholders.
Additionally, we ask that the Seafood Harvesters of America have a seat at the table in future discussions regarding marine monuments and protected areas. It is critically important that these initiatives are locally driven and focus on best available science rather than politics. We look forward to working with your Administration to ensure that we protect our delicate ocean resources and our American fishing economy into the future.
Millions of people – grocery patrons, restaurant owners, and consumers nationwide – rely on commercial fisheries to help get their dinner from ocean to plate. In 2012 alone, Americans consumed 4.5 billion pounds of seafood, which added 1.3 million direct and indirect jobs to our nation’s economy. Seafood Harvesters of America is the voice for our country’s 190-foot trawlers as well as the 30-foot hook and line fishermen and are working hard to ensure the food security of our great nation remains sustainable and thriving.
With the support of your Administration and policy makers in Washington D.C., salmon, crab, pollock and snapper – to name just a few – will remain part of a complete American dinner.
Brett Veerhusen
Seafood Harvesters of America
This story originally appeared on Seafood.com, a subscription site. It is reprinted with permission.
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Salt smart: Sustainable solutions, strategic advantages
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By Pam Buckley, Sustainability Manager, Douglas Dynamics
In the commercial snow and ice industry, the most common push-back for investing in liquid technologies is that the average service provider has no need for liquids as long as salt is cheap. Then a season like 2013-14 comes along that never lets up, where salt supplies dry up and costs skyrocket. Or the winter of 2014 where New England was repeatedly inundated, and suddenly contractors were feeling the pain.
Recent years have been defined by significant fluctuations in snowfall and temperatures throughout the Snowbelt, and are most noteworthy for the increase of extreme snow events. At the same time, public expectation for performance has surpassed the capacity of traditional methods of snowfighting to deliver results, driving competition in the private sector.
In this climate, contractors have begun to explore options that can reduce their salt consumption, optimize their material performance and mitigate exposure to variances in supply and cost while meeting the requirements of an increasingly demanding market. Innovative service providers are turning to cutting-edge liquid technologies and employing best management practices that provide the added control, versatility and efficiency they need to remain competitive.
These essential tools provide increased capacity to respond to diverse storm conditions, expand the operational timeframe and deliver performance results faster than traditional methods, all at a lower cost. By adding liquids to their toolbox, new age snowfighters are fortifying their arsenals and best positioning their operations to prosper regardless of erratic weather patterns and supply constraints, in both lean and busy years.
Property owners seek sustainable salt solutions
The desire to pursue sustainable salt management practices is not being driven solely by innovative service providers seeking to optimize efficiency and cut costs. Property owners who have experienced less than desired levels of service due to salt shortages or extreme weather are likewise vested in exploring solutions. In February 2014, WFSB Eyewitness News in Norwich, Connecticut interviewed Stephen Terletzky, a local snow plow contractor. “Smaller contractors who plow the courts, hospitals and other areas told them that their salt supply was exhausted. My customers are stuck with sand, and they’re not happy about it.”
An even greater indicator of property owner concern is the escalating desire for more sustainable winter maintenance practices that can deliver on safety goals and protect valuable property from salt damage. One facility manager recently mentioned spending upwards of $100,000 last spring to replace landscaping and repair damage caused to their parking lot over the winter. Liquid solutions utilize significantly less salt in achieving performance goals resulting in substantially reduced damage to landscape, concrete and entranceways.
The drive for more sustainable property management practices is becoming a nationwide phenomenon. At the Snow and Ice Management Association Trade Show in June 2014, Stewart Kaplow, ESQ noted that according to a November 2013 McGraw-Hill SmartMarket Report, “In the last 7 years, U.S. nonresidential green building went from 1.4% to 44%...a 3,200% increase!” According to a January 2014 USBG report, “1.6 million square feet are certified per day.” The LEED Site Management Policy cites chloride reduction requirements starting in June of 2015 as a part of its certification process...a formidable opportunity for forward thinking service providers seeking to land those accounts.
The private snow and ice industry is taking notice, aware that what equates to voluntary compliance today may eventually lead to regulation. Current estimates put the cost to taxpayers at about $1,800 per ton of salt spread to repair damages to infrastructure, ecosystems and foliage. As a result, Minnesota and New Hampshire are two of a growing number of states that have implemented winter maintenance certification programs for public and private sector providers seeking to adopt more efficient and sustainable best management practices.
These are not without their benefits. Under a new law enacted by New Hampshire in 2013 (RSA 489-C) aimed at reducing chlorides in the watersheds along the I-93 corridor: “Any business owner who contracts for snowplowing and deicing with a [Green Snow Pro] ‘certified’ salt applicator, has liability protection from damages arising from hazards caused solely by snow or ice.” Similar protection is afforded to the contractor who obtains the certification.
In the fall of 2015, a Salt Summit, sponsored by The S.A.V.E. Lake George Partnership in upstate New York, drew widespread support from both public and private sectors in a combined effort to dramatically reverse the rising chloride levels threatening the lake.
Most recently, the crisis of lead tainted water in Flint, Michigan has drawn national attention to this issue. An article in the Detroit News on January 8, 2016 put the estimated cost of replacing infrastructure damaged by the corrosive Flint River water of upwards of $1.5 billion and, at present, the public health impacts are immeasurable.
Multiple sources point to the runoff from road salts used in winter services as a probable cause for the increased chloride levels in the river. Experts assessing the situation note that chloride levels in many rivers and streams in northern Snowbelt urban areas have doubled in the past 20 years and warn that municipalities that pull their water from inland lakes and rivers are increasingly at risk of similar problems unless more sustainable practices are adopted.
Salt smart liquid technologies deliver strategic benefits
In this climate, forward thinking service providers are also embracing the potential ROI to be gained by acquiring cutting-edge liquid technologies, reported to reduce salt usage up to 75% when anti-icing and up to 30% when deicing with pre-wet granular deicers.
Innovative snowfighters realize that, regardless of the price and availability of salt, salt smart liquid snow and ice control strategies outperform traditional methods, and provide improved safety and sustainable outcomes for their customers…at a lower cost. Quite simply, liquids provide strategic advantages that new age snowfighters can no longer do without.
The opinions in this article are those of SnowEx. SIMA and Snow Business make no claims to the accuracy of the information contained within and are not endorsements of any products or services referenced.
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Worlds Apart : RT : May 27, 2018 2:30am-3:00am EDT
is what an ordinary time on software engineer looks like rashad keeps chickens ducks and sheep and his recently built a big house. his parents live with him to the for in fact the only thing rashad doesn't have is a wife when he finds one she must be from crimea. to shots taken his aunts to crimea because the promise to set him up with a nice girl. does not that mean that it's about the most about that but it's not just about what about it she was. up there such that is just not stuck. to what i know very well what's there a construction site. this might just look like a simple piece of metal but it really has an important element in bridge construction. like this that welded into the piles that will support the a normal white of this bam off it coordinate through storms abstracting ice. and then i take a quick pit stop. this long. lazy god is no one. here knows. honestly i know nothing at all about wheels and bolts but luckily she doesn't just know about it she can actually do it it's not your underwear do it. all the shots in his songs are almost village. and introductions to the
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News : RT : May 26, 2018 10:00pm-10:31pm EDT
doing. things their workouts was around mom so rashad has come in search of a bride that one of the major tossed off festivals known as heather lays but then if again you're letting it go in there i think rashad speed seemed picky just look at how many pretty girls there are go back on the flop the to play. place to start fair they got and we're going to seriously have a corner office and this was the last and that's ever. so big there meyer so it seemed it was hoped was a sure they're safe at all by the way i'd say we did put the city right. they're going to play we never did find out who the mysterious sylvia from some for was because she didn't show off to. you to. take you to the water shots is looking for a bride i'm searching for torch encourage the world but. there's always a special victory day celebration in curch the stupid sees last two days on may the eighth there is a person. by torchlight and on the ninth the best of victory day parade to the income smallest introduce this torchlight procession in the seventy's to commemorate the dead curch residents carrots watches al
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let me go in there i think rashad speed and see peggy just look at how many pretty girls there are go back on the clock. playing. this her fair they've got and we're going to just play a big supporter of hers and dismiss them as and that's ever. so but there mire still see never let us hope it was a sure they're safe at all but for you it's a wee bit support for the city i. never want to talk. we never did find out who the mysterious a leader of from scene for was because she didn't show off. to continue to be. in. the water schultz is looking for a bride i'm searching for torch encourage the belief. there's always a special victory day celebration in curch vista that sees last two days on may the eighth there is a procession by torchlight and on the ninth the best of victory day parade to the income smalls introduced this torchlight procession in the seventy's to commemorate the dead courage trust and scouts watches all the way through town and mature dogs . at least. rather you know. much of this the payout the just thoughts of death the sense of chests you rush a little. sour my
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Documentary : RT : May 28, 2018 12:30am-1:01am EDT
would. be joy because she died of course on what you're going to name two months arena just rashad adopting the strategy instead of scouring crimea she should look for a bride here and some are. moving here the last little is there still a little much to do. here is the soup list there are more to go to. zero zero. zero. zero point zero eight so. you know. it's interesting you can you go to them and you put up a sky just tell you what you just have set aside just like this is how vehicles board the ferry literally bumper to bumper it's hire some ordeal first you have to wait in line for tickets then line up for inspection then again to actually board what they're. after all that even in good weather and depending on how many cars there are the crossing can take two to three hours even though the actual sailing time is only fifteen to twenty minutes but if it's stormy forget it you stay ashore praying for the weather to break. but i. just got here of course that i would. never sell you. the. ferries have the cerro bromance about them every hope they keep going after the bridge opens
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Documentary : RT : May 26, 2018 6:30am-7:01am EDT
didn't. get. once again rashad says visiting on to reno as he still failed to find the bride will try scientific approach a little into this location or would he go to georgia to see dates of course the old what you're going to name two months arena just rashad adopting the strategy instead of scouring crimea you should look for a bride here and some are. moving here the last few little words there's a little more sensitive to the legend here the soup lists there are more took a. poll on wrong. your point so. it's interesting you can you go to them you put up a scot just like you want you to just have seen a sinus light this is how vehicles board the ferry literally bumper to bumper it's hire some ordeal first you have to wait in line for tickets then line up for inspection then again to actually board what they're going. after all that even in good weather and depending on how many cars there are the crossing can say two to three hours even though the actual sailing time is only fifteen to twenty minutes but if it's stormy forget it you stay ashore praying for the weather to break. b
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Documentary : RT : May 27, 2018 9:30am-10:01am EDT
. through. this is what an ordinary time on software engineer looks like rashad keeps chickens ducks and sheep and he's recently built a big house. his parents live with him to this in fact the only thing rashad doesn't have is a wife when he finds one she must be from crimea. bishops' taken his aunts to crimea because the promise to set him up with a nice girl. that's not good not only did you know but i must know what that was not just about what good will that mean she was. up there such that is just not stuck. to. what i know very well what's there a construction site. this might just look like a simple piece of metal but it really has an important element in bridge construction. like this that welded into the piles that will support the unknown most white of this bama that coordinate through storms abstracting ice. come to the union i take a quick pit stop. the song i've got this. place because no one. here will soon. honestly i know nothing at all about wheels and bolts but luckily she doesn't just know about it she can actually do it you know you're going to do it and. all the sho
. through. this is what an ordinary time on software engineer looks like rashad keeps chickens ducks and sheep and he's recently built a big house. his parents live with him to this in fact the only thing rashad doesn't have is a wife when he finds one she must be from crimea. bishops' taken his aunts to crimea because the promise to set him up with a nice girl. that's not good not only did you know but i must know what that was not just about what good will that mean she was. up there such...
Keiser Report : RT : May 26, 2018 5:30am-6:01am EDT
. yours of course this is what an ordinary sum on software engineer looks like rashad keeps chickens ducks and sheep and his recently built a big house. this parents live with him do this in fact the only thing rashad doesn't have is a wife when he finds one she must be from crimea. to shots taken his aunts to crimea because the promise to set him up with a nice girl. but. that's not good enough and it's about the most about that but it's not just a bunch of what about it she was. up there such that is just not stuck. but i know very well what's there a construction site. this might just look like a simple piece of metal but it really has an important element in bridge construction. like this that welded into the piles that will support the i'm norma's wife of this bam off it coordinate through storms abstracting ice. and then i take a quick pit stop. this long. lazy god is no one. here knows. honestly i know nothing at all about wheels and boats but luckily who lead those she doesn't just know about it she can actually do it. more during. her shots and his songs are almost a village
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MSNBC Live With Ali Velshi : MSNBCW : May 29, 2018 12:00pm-1:00pm PDT
, rashad robinson, executive director of color for change. mark morial and eric deggens will join us by phone. gentlemen, this conversation, i hardly know where to start. i want to start with you, marc. this so clearly crossed a line in an era where we have been dealing with trymaine lee said dog whistles and actual out loud whistles in this trump era. weigh in on how abc handled this and how we got here. >> this was not a dog whistle. this was a bull horn. >> yes. >> right there in your face. >> yes. >> abc put its values above its profits because this show has been successful for them, but there's a track record with this particular person that had they checked, i think she's used inappropriate language in the past. so abc did the right thing. i think she should be univers universally condemned for saying such nasty, inappropriate, hateful, racist things about an american like valerie jarrett who served this nation with great distinction in president obama's administration, and who continues to do great things. she doesn't deserve it, because no one deserves to be called those types o
, rashad robinson, executive director of color for change. mark morial and eric deggens will join us by phone. gentlemen, this conversation, i hardly know where to start. i want to start with you, marc. this so clearly crossed a line in an era where we have been dealing with trymaine lee said dog whistles and actual out loud whistles in this trump era. weigh in on how abc handled this and how we got here. >> this was not a dog whistle. this was a bull horn. >> yes. >> right...
known as heather lace but then if again you know what they're going there i think rashad speak and see peggy just look at how many pretty girls there are go back on the cot and. play. this affair they've got and we're going to steer clear of a court officer and this was the last and that's ever. so big there mire so silver let us hope it was a sure they're safe at all by the way if there's a wee bit more for the city or the time they're going to talk. we never did find out who the mysterious sylvia from some for was because she didn't show off to. get a digital to get to the water shots is looking for a bride i'm searching for torch encourage the belief that there's always a special victory day celebration in curch vista that sees last two days on may the eighth there is a procession by torchlight and on the ninth the best of victory day parade to the income smalls introduced this torchlight procession in the seventy's to commemorate the dead curch residence carrots which is all the way through town and up mount. metra dot. around you know. much of this the payout that just elizabeth i
known as heather lace but then if again you know what they're going there i think rashad speak and see peggy just look at how many pretty girls there are go back on the cot and. play. this affair they've got and we're going to steer clear of a court officer and this was the last and that's ever. so big there mire so silver let us hope it was a sure they're safe at all by the way if there's a wee bit more for the city or the time they're going to talk. we never did find out who the mysterious...
News : RT : May 27, 2018 5:00pm-5:30pm EDT
again you know what they're going there i think rashad speed seemed picky just look at how many pretty girls there are go back on the clock love play. place or care they got and we're going to seriously about forty dollars and this was going to have a nice ever. so big they're my associate never let us hope the top was a sure they're safe and all but it was a wee bit support for the city or the to their the want to play we never did find out who the mysterious sylvia from some for opal was because she didn't show off. the table to. get to the water shots is looking for a bride i'm searching for torch encourage the belief. there's always a special victory day celebration in curch this to the city's last two days on may the eighth there is a procession by torchlight and on the nines the best of victory day parade. the income smalls introduced this torchlight procession in the seventy's to commemorate the dead curch residents carrots watches all the way through town and up mount mitra dogs. around you know. much of this the payout the just thoughts of death the sense of chests your
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News : RT : May 27, 2018 5:00am-5:31am EDT
the location rashad chose for his new car. to be honest i've never been inside a mosque before this is just as exciting for me as it is for the bride and groom. i don't understand a single word but even so it's very moving. and. always wanted to come here in winter and yesterday there was literally a stall i can't imagine how the builders can stand this weather. i've been on the bridge for about ten minutes and my face already feels as though it's being caught in a siberian frost during a storm crane operations are suspended but today the wind has subsided and work is on the way. we know no course. groups near. you know when you will renew sure. the bullshit. go to. the lower debacle over how ever so. big building a but if you just know both the colorful or both or most of the buckles of the. world war. working men the canteen is sacred in fact it's like a factory all by itself. it is actually comparable to the construction site. is a typical lunch. one thousand and eighty liters of soup two hundred seventy kilos of salad one hundred twenty kilos of meat patties thirty kilos of hump
the location rashad chose for his new car. to be honest i've never been inside a mosque before this is just as exciting for me as it is for the bride and groom. i don't understand a single word but even so it's very moving. and. always wanted to come here in winter and yesterday there was literally a stall i can't imagine how the builders can stand this weather. i've been on the bridge for about ten minutes and my face already feels as though it's being caught in a siberian frost during a...
Nightline : KGO : May 30, 2018 12:37am-1:07am PDT
, the friend they were waiting for. rashad and donte were arrested and held in custody for several hours. without delay, company chairman howard schultz acknowledged on cbs that bias was at the root of what happened. >> reason they were called was because they were african-american. and i think -- i'm embarrassed by that i'm ashamed of that. >> reporter: kevin johnson, starbucks' ceo, apologized. >> i'll say the circumstances surrounding the incident and the outcome in our store on thursday were reprehensible. they were wrong. and for that i personally apologize to the two gentlemen that visited our store. >> reporter: and today starbucks took things a step further with company-wide training on diversity. >> we have a set of content that includes a workbook for teams to work together, some video content, a lot of self-exploration, and group discussion. so it's a very experiential activity. the entire leadership team and i took this training last week and i'd say at the end of it we were emotionally exhausted. but we were inspired. because we learned something and we felt like this
, the friend they were waiting for. rashad and donte were arrested and held in custody for several hours. without delay, company chairman howard schultz acknowledged on cbs that bias was at the root of what happened. >> reason they were called was because they were african-american. and i think -- i'm embarrassed by that i'm ashamed of that. >> reporter: kevin johnson, starbucks' ceo, apologized. >> i'll say the circumstances surrounding the incident and the outcome in our...
again you let me go in there i think rashad speed seemed picky just look at how many pretty girls there are will go back on the flop. play. place to start fair they've gotten and we're going to see us play a point often dismiss them as an attempt at. so they can wear so silly of me let us hope coalition is safe at all by the way i'd say we did put the city and i thank you never want to play we never did find out who the mysterious sylvia are from some for oprah was because she didn't show off. fifty. one is looking for a bride i'm searching for torch and courage. and there's always a special victory day celebration and curch festivities last two days on may the eighth there is a procession by torchlight and on the ninth the festive victory day parade to the income smallest introduce this torchlight procession in the seventy's to commemorate the dead current trust and scouts which is all the way through town and mature dogs. around you know. much of it is the payout that just i would suggest is that suggests you are a little. sour my friends if you ever get to visit crimea during t
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think rashad speed and see peggy just look at how many pretty girls there are to go back on the flop. play. place her fair they've gotten and we're going to see us play a point often dismiss them as an example. so they can wear so silly it was hopeless cause i'm sure they're safe at all by the way i'd say it would be to put their city and i. never went back. we never did find out who the mysterious sylvia are from some for was because she didn't show off. his teeth. and barbershops is. looking for a bride i'm searching for torch in courage. and there's always a special victory they celebration in curch festivities last two days on may the eighth there is a procession by torchlight and on the nines the festive victory day parade to the income smallest introduce this torchlight procession in the seventy's to commemorate the dead curch presidents carrots watches all the way through town and mature dogs. rather you don't have. much of those the payout the just thoughts of death is that suggests you rush a lot of old. saw my friends if you ever get to visit crimea during the may holiday's
think rashad speed and see peggy just look at how many pretty girls there are to go back on the flop. play. place her fair they've gotten and we're going to see us play a point often dismiss them as an example. so they can wear so silly it was hopeless cause i'm sure they're safe at all by the way i'd say it would be to put their city and i. never went back. we never did find out who the mysterious sylvia are from some for was because she didn't show off. his teeth. and barbershops is. looking...
MSNBC Live With David Gura : MSNBCW : May 27, 2018 11:00am-12:00pm PDT
$1 million in lost profits rashad, before we get into what you'll be watching for, how big of a deal it is that you have one of the biggest companies in the world ear electricing inii electing to do it? >> i think it's huge that starbucks has taken responsibility, they have been proactive at trying to bring some of the best and brightest people in the world on race into this conversation. folks like legal defense fund, dmos, perception institute, brian stevenson, really smart people who understand these issues, and it's simply one day. we can't train away racism, but we've seen major corporations go through issues like this and do absolutely nothing. we saw a young man get shot in a walmart store on video, and walmart took no serious steps to address racism at this level. so starbucks should be commended, but results, results at the end, changes tess end are the bottom line. >> i'm going to seize on ms. you said there, we're focused on this four-hour period of time. you're saying this has to be continuity there. there are people who work at starbucks for six months, a year, howe
$1 million in lost profits rashad, before we get into what you'll be watching for, how big of a deal it is that you have one of the biggest companies in the world ear electricing inii electing to do it? >> i think it's huge that starbucks has taken responsibility, they have been proactive at trying to bring some of the best and brightest people in the world on race into this conversation. folks like legal defense fund, dmos, perception institute, brian stevenson, really smart people who...
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Janet Dewart Bell, Lighting the Fires of Freedom : CSPAN2 : May 27, 2018 12:00am-1:16am EDT
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african-american's women leadership. rashad johnson, director of color for change.org, writes about women. these stories of perseverance, love, lost, inspiration and strategy add to the song book of the civil rights era allowing us to hear and model our newly-revived movement for justice on the sharp passionate and unforgettable voices of these women whose idea was so transformative. yes, rashad, stories of these remarkable women serve as instruction for the work that still must be done to make real the ideals of this nation. join with me. ♪ ♪ >> thank you. [applause] >> we have about 15 minutes for q&a. >> please speak up. [inaudible] >> maybe pictures, sound bites, stories of that sort. [inaudible] >> thank you. >> well, thank you, that's a great question. one to have things that i did, i wasn't able to video all of the women i interviewed but i interviewed some and so i'm going to try to put those in some sort of mini series, maybe even online but because i think that their full -- the full interviews are really powerful. i had-i was privileged to interview most of the people
african-american's women leadership. rashad johnson, director of color for change.org, writes about women. these stories of perseverance, love, lost, inspiration and strategy add to the song book of the civil rights era allowing us to hear and model our newly-revived movement for justice on the sharp passionate and unforgettable voices of these women whose idea was so transformative. yes, rashad, stories of these remarkable women serve as instruction for the work that still must be done to...
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Wolf : CNNW : May 14, 2018 10:00am-10:57am PDT
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up from the white house briefing room. at the top of the hour, deputy press secretary rashad will face reporter questions and there are tons of questions for the white house. we'll have live coverage of that coming up. >>> right now i want to bring in my panel, retired rear admiral john kirby. also with us, cnn political analyst kaitlyn demirjian. do you think they'll say anything about this at the white house press briefing or will they say, we don't talk about leaks? >> they should clear the air. this was a huge issue last week. the president talked about north korea and the hostages coming home. this leaked and it becomes the first story that a lot of people are talking about. five days later, we are still talking about it. interesting to see on capitol hill more and more republicans come out and say it's time to apologize. lindsey graham did it over the weekend. we were surprised there. he's always been critical in calling out the white house when he needs to, although he does have a good relationship with the president. he has visited him as well. but we also saw less vocal r
up from the white house briefing room. at the top of the hour, deputy press secretary rashad will face reporter questions and there are tons of questions for the white house. we'll have live coverage of that coming up. >>> right now i want to bring in my panel, retired rear admiral john kirby. also with us, cnn political analyst kaitlyn demirjian. do you think they'll say anything about this at the white house press briefing or will they say, we don't talk about leaks? >> they...
The Greg Gutfeld Show : FOXNEWSW : May 26, 2018 7:00pm-8:00pm PDT
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remember yours? >> know. kat: >> the only thing i remember is my brother had bullish you rashad pre- cosby so there weren't any interesting questions. greg: no, there wasn't i'm sure. >> al gore did in maryland? that's ironic because 11 years ago he stated that it would be underwater at some point. [laughter] i don't know why he was looking for bookings in a, you know, with all the melting going on. the thing about hillary with a hat is she's horrible at delivering comedy. it's not even a joke. the joke to her is i'm referencing something we are talking about. greg: when she put on the russian hat. she put up russian hat and said this is a russian hat. >> and not one person was like how much uranium did that cost? greg: you know, my opinion on commencement addresses is that the advice they give is terrible. they always tell you yourself which is stupid because at that age you are probably a jerk. you don't become a good person until you're about 28. before that you are a jerk. i know i was. and then they say follow your dreams. what if your dreams are stupid? follow your dreams is why ever
remember yours? >> know. kat: >> the only thing i remember is my brother had bullish you rashad pre- cosby so there weren't any interesting questions. greg: no, there wasn't i'm sure. >> al gore did in maryland? that's ironic because 11 years ago he stated that it would be underwater at some point. [laughter] i don't know why he was looking for bookings in a, you know, with all the melting going on. the thing about hillary with a hat is she's horrible at delivering comedy....
ABC7 News 6:00AM : KGO : May 8, 2018 6:00am-6:59am PDT
abdul-jabbar. plus former dancing champ rashad jennings flew all the way overpass joins us live tuesday morning. i have to say i danced to that song, it's fast and hard. i give thumbs-up to kareem. >> do you see the dance moves in your head when you hear the song? >> i do, i know what they are called. you can't watch it normally anymore. >> great to see you, ginger, see you at 7:00 a.m. >>> a serious health warning coming to your morning cup of coffee. >>> rattle nation in california, the warning going out. >> a live look outsi crystal geyser alpine springpasses through here, and is bottled right here. at the mountain source. naturally. crystal geyser is the only major u.s spring water bottled at the mountain source. naturally. it's "watch what you want on the fastest internet" streaming. it's "live sports so you never miss a goal" streaming. it's "dvr shows because you'll never know when you'll need it" streaming. it's streaming from xfinity that makes your life... simple. easy. awesome. get started with xfinity internet for $40 a month for 2 full years when you sign up for tv. plus, g
abdul-jabbar. plus former dancing champ rashad jennings flew all the way overpass joins us live tuesday morning. i have to say i danced to that song, it's fast and hard. i give thumbs-up to kareem. >> do you see the dance moves in your head when you hear the song? >> i do, i know what they are called. you can't watch it normally anymore. >> great to see you, ginger, see you at 7:00 a.m. >>> a serious health warning coming to your morning cup of coffee. >>>...
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KTVU Fox 2 News at 4pm : KTVU : May 16, 2018 4:00pm-5:00pm PDT
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known as a 17-year-old rashad robinson, but in reality he was 25-year-old sydney bowl the air -- he told administrators he was displaced by hurricane harvey and told others he was homeless. he was allegedly involved with some girls on campus, at least one 14-year-old student told her parents he kissed and touched her. >> safety is the most important thing and when you have adults with students like this it's inappropriate and unacceptable. it will cause us to go back and look to see if there was anything we could've done to prevent the situation. >> he was a 2011 graduate of are different high school, coach from that school recognized him and contacted the school district. he was arrested on a felony charge of tampering with government documents. >> people toward this ship and learned about its story. >> people are not aware of the paranormal past and a young girl is said to haunt the aircraft carrier. >> we are taking behind the scenes of the history mystery to her. >> reporter: you are on one of the most decorated ships in the u.s. navy history. besides the paranormal part, it's a
known as a 17-year-old rashad robinson, but in reality he was 25-year-old sydney bowl the air -- he told administrators he was displaced by hurricane harvey and told others he was homeless. he was allegedly involved with some girls on campus, at least one 14-year-old student told her parents he kissed and touched her. >> safety is the most important thing and when you have adults with students like this it's inappropriate and unacceptable. it will cause us to go back and look to see if...
CBS This Morning : KPIX : May 1, 2018 7:00am-9:00am PDT
, condola rashad st. joan, lauren ridloff, children of a lesser god, amy schumer, meteor shower. >> the nominees for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical are harry hadden-paton my fair lady, joshua henry, carousel, tony shalhoub the band's visit, ethan slater, spongebob squarepants the musical. best performance by an actress in a leading ro el in a musical are lauren ambrose, my fair lady, hailey kilgore once on this island, lachanze, summer, the donna summer musical, katrina lenk, the band's visit, taylor louderman, mean girls, and jesse mueller, roger and hammer ste hammerstein's carousel. >> the mom nominees best revival of a play, angels in america, three tall women, the iceman cometh, travesties. [ applause ] the nominees for best revival of a musical are my fair lady, once on this island, rogers and hammerstein's carousel. [ applause ] >> the nominees for best play are -- the children, farinelli and the king, harry potter and the cursed child, parts one and two, junk, and latin history for morons. [ applause ] the nominees for best musical are -- the band's
, condola rashad st. joan, lauren ridloff, children of a lesser god, amy schumer, meteor shower. >> the nominees for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical are harry hadden-paton my fair lady, joshua henry, carousel, tony shalhoub the band's visit, ethan slater, spongebob squarepants the musical. best performance by an actress in a leading ro el in a musical are lauren ambrose, my fair lady, hailey kilgore once on this island, lachanze, summer, the donna summer...
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impeachment proceedings next week. >>> the st. louis post dispatch reports the hiring of a black officer as police chief in ferguson, missouri. major moss was a homicide detective in miami, florida. they found racism in ferguson's police department after a white officer killed an unarmed black teen in 2014. >>> "the new york times" reports a budget deal that gradually raises the state's minute wage to $15 an hour. new york is the second state to make the change, following california. the pay level will be reached by 2018 in new york city, but rises later in wealthy suburbs. >>> yahoo! sports says philadelphia will apologize to jackie robinson. robinson broke big league baseball's color barrier 69 years ago. some members of the phillies had threatened to boycott games against the dodgers. the city will honor robinson and apologize to his widow on april 15th. >>> "variety" reports that cirque de solei is suing justin timberlake. ♪ >> the performance company says timberlake's "don't hold the wall sample" from an original cirque song. "steel dream." the suit is looking for 800,000 in damag
impeachment proceedings next week. >>> the st. louis post dispatch reports the hiring of a black officer as police chief in ferguson, missouri. major moss was a homicide detective in miami, florida. they found racism in ferguson's police department after a white officer killed an unarmed black teen in 2014. >>> "the new york times" reports a budget deal that gradually raises the state's minute wage to $15 an hour. new york is the second state to make the change,...
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washington state by the coast guard. he is hospitalized in seattle. they say an air rescue was dispatched because his injuries were so severe. >>> more possible debris from a missing malaysia airlines >>> a soccer star is arrested. those are some of the headlines on the morning newsstand. >>> the oregonian reports that abby wambach is facing a dui charge and heat from other soccer fails. she failed a sobriety test saturday night in a traffic stop. men are upset about wambach's criticism of foreign guys on the national sqaur. >>> "the new york times" reports a senator's warning about an explosive commonly used by terrorists. the materials can be made from material from hardware stores. >> it's as easy to make as cake. >> researchers are working on an electronic system but it hasn't been field-tested. >>> a new effort to reverse the flow of migrants in europe. greece sent more than 200 refuges to turkey by ship today. it is the start of a european union plan to block asylum seekers. about 50,000 migrants are stranded in greece. >>> britain's daily mail reports the discovery of debris though
washington state by the coast guard. he is hospitalized in seattle. they say an air rescue was dispatched because his injuries were so severe. >>> more possible debris from a missing malaysia airlines >>> a soccer star is arrested. those are some of the headlines on the morning newsstand. >>> the oregonian reports that abby wambach is facing a dui charge and heat from other soccer fails. she failed a sobriety test saturday night in a traffic stop. men are upset about...
is now hospitalized in seattle. a guard spokesman said an air rescue was dispatched because his injuries were so severe. >>> more possible debris from a missing malaysia airlines flight. >>> a soccer star is arrested. those are some of the headlines on the morning newsstand. >>> "the oregonian" reports that abby wambach is facing a dui charge and heat from other soccer players. portland police say the retired world cup star failed a sobriety test saturday night in a traffic stop. at least two u.s. men's people gloated on social media, still upset about wambach's criticism of foreign guys on the national squad. >>> "the new york times" reports a senator's warning about an explosive commonly used by terrorists. chuck schumer of new york says detectors must be developed and deployed to stop tatp. the materials can be made from materials at drug and hardware stores. >> it's as easy to make as cake. >> researchers are working on an electronic trace detection system but it hasn't been field-tested yet. >>> a new effort to reverse the flow of migrants in europe. greece sent more than 2
is now hospitalized in seattle. a guard spokesman said an air rescue was dispatched because his injuries were so severe. >>> more possible debris from a missing malaysia airlines flight. >>> a soccer star is arrested. those are some of the headlines on the morning newsstand. >>> "the oregonian" reports that abby wambach is facing a dui charge and heat from other soccer players. portland police say the retired world cup star failed a sobriety test saturday...
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Experts unlock key to photosynthesis, a find that could help us meet food security demands
Scientists have solved the structure of one of the key components of photosynthesis, a discovery that could lead to photosynthesis being ‘redesigned' to achieve higher yields and meet urgent food security needs.
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Scientists discover how potent bacterial toxin kills MRSA bacteria
Scientists from the University of Sheffield have discovered how a potent bacterial toxin is able to target and kill MRSA, paving the way for potential new treatments for superbugs.
Sheffield academic part of a team awarded over €7 million for pioneering research on photosynthesis
A University of Sheffield academic is part of a research team which has been awarded over €7 million to continue pioneering research into photosynthesis by the European Research Council (ERC).
Feeding the world with climate-ready rice - fighting future rice challenges today
Dr Bobby Caine from the Department of of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and researcher in the Institute for Sustainable Food shared his latest research findings with The Statesman in India as he begins his new role as a Global Challenge Research Fellow.
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Dr Andrew Hitchcock awarded 5-year Royal Society University Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr Andrew Hitchcock from the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology who has been awarded a 5-year Royal Society University Research Fellowship for his research project: ‘Photosynthesis reimagined: a modular approach to engineering phototrophy’.
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New research reveals that genes on the insect genome resulting from horizontal gene transfer contribute to the synthesis of the cell envelope of a bacterial endosymbiont
New research involving the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Sheffield has revealed that genes on the genome of mealybug insects, resulting from horizontal gene transfer, have been acquired from bacterial species during evolution.
Typhoid toxin accelerates cell aging to enhance killer infection, study reveals
Scientists have revealed how the typhoid toxin works to hijack DNA repair machines and accelerate the aging of cells, a breakthrough that could pave the way for new strategies to combat the killer disease.
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New research reveals how proteins that harvest and use sunlight are organised by the most abundant organism in the world
New research from the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology has imaged the machinery for solar energy capture and conversion in bacteria living in the oceans.
Scientists develop climate-ready wheat that can survive drought conditions
Wheat plants engineered to have fewer microscopic pores – called stomata – on their leaves are better able to survive drought conditions associated with climate breakdown, according to a new study.
Membranes on the move. How plants sense and respond to changing levels of sunlight
New research published this week in Plant Physiology by University of Sheffield scientists has revealed how the photosynthetic membranes in leaves respond to changes in light intensity and spectral quality to optimise photosynthesis.
Feeding the world with climate-ready rice
More than half of the world’s population rely on rice – but as climate chaos takes hold, this lynchpin of global food security is under threat.
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Study uncovers key step in cell protein production
Scientists at the University of Sheffield have discovered how genes create proteins in research which could aid the development of treatments for human diseases.
Scientists discover how superbugs hide from their host
New research led by the University of Sheffield has discovered how a hospital superbug evades the immune system to cause infection – paving the way for new treatments.
Plant science expertise recognised with prestigious grants for University of Sheffield researchers
Prestigious Leverhulme research grants totalling more than £1m in addition to a large NERC award have been awarded to four P3 Early Career Researchers. Drs Stuart Campbell, Stuart Casson, Matt Johnson and Lisa Smith are all part of the new projects.
Students showcase cutting-edge research at annual PhD poster event
Students from across biology, chemistry, physics, maths and psychology at the University of Sheffield shared the latest research with visitors to the annual Science Graduate School Showcase.
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Why cutting taxes for big business instead of workers will test Malcolm Turnbull's sales skills
By Mark Kenny and Chief Political Correspondent
Updated March 21, 2016 — 3.37pm first published at 10.22am
Turnbull recalls MPs ahead of early election
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Email that sent shockwaves through Parliament House
The Turnbull government has gone off returning bracket creep to workers and is apparently positioning to build its long-promised tax reform proposal around a company tax cut, rather than a previously flagged personal one.
For Malcolm Turnbull, the policy basis of this may well be sound, but the politics in the lead-up to the 2016 poll are less favourable.
Telling people they'll be getting more money in their pockets is inherently popular and marries a cash benefit (albeit the proverbial "sandwich and milkshake") with the central political message that the mob running the show believes in lower taxes, and is proving it.
A company tax cut, by comparison will leave voters unrewarded and unmoved. Some will even be annoyed, viewing a cut for business over battlers as typical of the Liberal Party's tendency to look after the big end of town first.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Treasurer Scott Morrison will need to use their sales skills. Credit:Andrew Meares
For Turnbull, this is not without risks. In several surveys recently, Australians have leaned towards making large companies pay more tax, not less, in a bid to forestall harsh cuts to services like hospitals, aged care services, and schools. Stipulate that the companies are foreign-owned "multinationals" and support for taxing more hardens even further.
At the very least, these surveys suggest people will take some convincing when it comes to the claim that lower business costs will actually trickle down to them.
Turnbull set out on the tax reform process, with a wide-eyed optimism and he encouraged others to share his enthusiasm. But since dropping the GST increase, and apparently swearing off negative gearing and capital gains tax changes, his ambitions have been lowered and his options narrowed correspondingly.
Amazingly, his Treasurer Scott Morrison has been among those buffeted by these chops and changes, which have been rung mostly for political reasons. This has been the case right up to and including the timing of tax statement, and astoundingly, when the budget (Morrison's first) would be delivered.
Morrison's apparent marginalisation has been ham-fisted especially as it will fall to Treasurer primarily to sell the difficult argument that a tax cut for business will not only provide a greater growth dividend for the economy than personal tax cuts, but that it will actually lead to more jobs and, wait for it, higher wages.
While economic modelling supports this conclusion, the benefits tend to be long-run, which is to say would they take five to seven years to materialise. The election by contrast will be decided this year.
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Mark Kenny is the national affairs editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House
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Giants waive RB Perkins, claim TE Smith
Sep 16, 2019 | 6:42PM
How Jets can overcome the loss of Chris Herndon to start the 2019 season
Jul 15, 2019 | 11:24AM
5 dark horse candidates who could emerge for Jets in 2019
What roles are each of the Jets' draft picks likely to have in 2019?
May 28, 2019 | 6:10PM
Jets bring back TE Tomlinson, OL Qvale
Mar 19, 2019 | 11:21AM
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Giants waive RB Paul Perkins, bring in TE Kaden Smith
Perkins hadn't touched the field since 2017
The Giants waived RB Paul Perkins on Monday, in order to make room for rookie TE Kaden Smith, who was claimed off waivers after being let go by the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday.
Perkins, a former fifth-round pick in the 2016 draft by the Giants, had previously been inactive for New York in both games to start the season, and missed all of the 2018 season on the reserve/non-injury list after tearing his pectoral muscle last offseason.
The UCLA product played a total of 25 games for the Giants, racking up 546 rushing yards on 153 attempts (3.6 YPA) and another 208 receiving yards on 23 catches.
Tags: Daniel Jones, Eli Manning, Eric Tomlinson, Evan Engram, Paul Perkins, Rhett Ellison
Does Gang Green add another tight end like they did in 2017?
By Bent | Jul 15, 2019 | 11:24AM
Chris Herndon (89) Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports (Brad Penner)
Last week, the Jets announced that tight end Chris Herndon would be suspended for the first four games of the 2019 regular season. This will obviously be a blow for the team, as they look to establish their new-look offense under Adam Gase. Herndon caught 39 passes last year to lead all rookie tight ends, including 32 over the last 10 games.
However, if the Jets intend to make a move to improve their tight end depth and give themselves further cover at the position, the options are somewhat unappealing.
Last month, even before the Herndon suspension was announced, Bucky Brooks wrote on NFL.com that the Jets should consider trading for veteran Jimmy Graham. However, adding a veteran who is past his prime and still on a high salary would be an overreaction at this point, especially if they had to give up anything of value to acquire him from the Packers.
Tags: Austin Seferian-Jenkins, Chris Herndon, Eric Tomlinson
Some new starters and scrappy rookies have shined at camp
By Tom Krosnowski | Jun 14, 2019 | 3:00PM
Aug 9, 2018; Cincinnati, OH, USA; Chicago Bears tight end Daniel Brown (85) runs against Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Junior Joseph (48) during the second half at Paul Brown Stadium. Mandatory Credit: David Kohl-USA TODAY Sports (David Kohl)
Jets camp is in full swing, and there's a buzz in the Florham Park air. There's a new head coach, a new GM, and lots of fresh faces on the field.
Which players have the potential to be unheralded X-factors for the Jets this year? Here's five guys who have stood out so far.
Jonotthan Harrison (C)
Harrison is a familiar face after starting nine games over the last two years, but there was some thought that the Jets may pursue an upgrade at center this offseason. Instead, they stuck with Harrison, and the results are paying off.
Tags: Avery Williamson, Chris Herndon, Eric Tomlinson, Jordan Leggett, Leonard Williams, Neal Sterling, Sam Darnold, Trumaine Johnson
Quinnen Williams should play a significant role, but what about the rest of the draft class?
By Bent | May 28, 2019 | 6:10PM
Apr 25, 2019; Nashville, TN, USA; Quinnen Williams (Alabama) is selected as the number three overall pick to the New York Jets in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft in Downtown Nashville. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports (Christopher Hanewinckel)
With the Jets' rookies taking the field for the first time with the team last week, the progression towards earning an in-season role is underway for Mike Maccagnan's final draft class. Let's review each pick and what we can expect from them during the 2019 season.
Round 1 - DT Quinnen Williams
While the Jets have plenty of depth on the defensive line, they will be counting on Williams to play a significant role, and the expectation is that he'll be a difference-maker for them.
Williams was announced as a nose tackle when the Jets selected him and that seems likely to be where he'll start. Speaking to the media last week, linebacker CJ Mosley said that Williams has been lining up over the center and impressing with his motor and disruptiveness. He will probably also get some reps elsewhere along the line, depending on which defensive packages defensive coordinator Gregg Williams opts to employ from game to game.
Tags: Eric Tomlinson, Kelvin Beachum, Leonard Williams
Jets bring back TE Eric Tomlinson, OL Brent Qvale
Team also confirmed signing of TE Daniel Brown
Sep 10, 2017; Orchard Park, NY, USA; New York Jets tight end Eric Tomlinson (83) warms up before the game against the Buffalo Bills at New Era Field. Mandatory Credit: Timothy T. Ludwig-USA TODAY Sports (Timothy T. Ludwig)
With Le'Veon Bell a new centerpiece in the Jets' offense, the organization brought back two familiar faces to strengthen their blocking schemes Tuesday.
New York re-signed offensive lineman Bren Qvale and tight end Eric Tomlinson, who primarily operates as a blocking tight end in the offense. The team also confirmed the signing of tight end Daniel Brown.
Tomlinson ended last season on injured reserve after he dropped a weight on his foot. Before that, he made 12 starts and appeared in 15 games, and served as a special teams contributor. He first joined the Jets in 2016 and has played in 36 games total with 16 catches for 193 yards and one career touchdown.
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The Rochester Rhinos advanced in the 2007 US Open Cup Tournament thanks to a 1-0 win over the Long Island Rough Riders of the PDL. Matthew Delicate scored the game's only goal in the 20th minute and the Rhinos held on from there.
The Rhinos will host the Western Mass Pioneers of the PDL at PAETEC Park on Tuesday, June 26th at 7:35pm. The winner of that match will face an as yet to be determined MLS opponent in the 3rd round of the Open Cup.
- Matthew Delicate got the winner and remained on a hot streak. After starting the season with an eight game goalless drought. Matthew now has 5 goals in his past 6 games between USL 1st Division league play and last night's US Open Cup match. And of those 5 goals, three have been game winners and another was a game tying goal.
- Long Island goalkeeper Timmy Melia was solid in net for the Rough Riders. He made a few key saves and got a lucky bounce off his right post to keep the match close throughout.
- The Rhinos defense was pretty solid and Chase Harrison made the saves that he was supposed to make. While the game was always a lucky bounce away from being tied in the second half, it never really felt like a match where Long Island was going to be able to break through and get a goal.
- Will the Rhinos marketing department please stand up. The announced crowd of 3,712 fans was the worst crowd I can ever remember for a Rhinos match. Well, not counting the "crowd" that showed up for last year's Lenin Steenkamp Tribute Match. I don't care if it was a weeknight or that it was a US Open Cup match versus a PDL team. The Rhinos used to be able to have a game like this and get twice as many people to show up. This is just another sign that all is not well with the Rhinos. And it's starting to scare a lot of people.
- The injury situation is also starting to scare me. Ryan Wileman may be done for the year with a knee injury suffered in a reserve match. Kevin Novak didn't dress and had a bandage on the heel area of one of his feet before the game. Mike Ambersley dressed despite having an injury that was supposed to keep him out of action. Nate Craft was also out of the lineup thanks to the knee injury he suffered versus Carolina on Friday. Hopefully some of the bumps and bruises can heal up before Sunday's match with Charleston.
Vallow healing nicely
Scott Vallow wasn't wearing the splint on his right arm last night and he looks to be on track to return either July 28th at home versus Minnesota or August 5th in Montreal.
Scott said that the doctor gave him the OK last week to ditch the splint and they are just waiting for things to calcify around the site of the re-attached tendon. Five to six more weeks is what the timeline looks like today and Scott expects to be able to go full bore once he's back.
Kiwi and Deli named to the USL 1st Division Team of the Week
Deli's two goals (the tying goal in Carolina and the game winner vs Portland) and Kiwi's goal and an assist versus Portland landed the Rhinos duo on this week's USL 1st Division Team of the Week.
I hope to have some fun news on the Kiwi and Deli front soon...........
US finishes Gold Cup group play in style with 4-0 win over El Salvador
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With two goals from DeMarcus Beasley, a PK goal from Landon Donovan, and a goal from Taylor Twellman in his home stadium, the US closed out group play with the break out win that many skeptics had hoped to see from the US squad.
Perhaps the move to Boston and away from the hostile crowds of LA were a factor? There certianly was a ton made of Clint Dempsey returning to his former home. US Soccer.com, The Standard-Times, and The Boston Globe all had pieces on Dempsey's return to where he made his mark with the New England Revolution. Add in current Revs like Twellman, Michael Parkhurst, and Steve Rolston, and the crowd was much more pro-US than in the previous two US matches.
With first place in Group B in hand, the US will await Wednesday's results from Group C to find out their quarterfinal opponent. The US will be staying in Boston as they will again play at Gillette Stadium at 4pm on Saturday. The most interesting result would be if the US were to face Mexico in the Quarterfinals when most experts expected that to be the finals match up before the tournament started.
Also of note is the fact that there has been a different captain of the US team for each fo their three Gold Cup matches. US head coach Bob Bradley is using this time not only to search out players, but also whom will form the new leadership core of the team moving forward with the retirement from international play of guys like Brian McBride and "Captain America" Claudio Reyna.
- Blackburn Rovers could be another EPL club that is owned by Americans if this report comes true. I wonder what would happen if the day ever came where more EPL clubs were owned by Yanks than by Brits?
- DeMarcus Beasley may be on the move from the EPL to the SPL as Rangers have made an offer for the US midfielder. Beasley wasn't keen on the idea of returning to PSV after it appears that Manchester City won't be bringing him back. So, hopefully a move such as this will work out for Run DMB.
- Ives Galarcep has an update on what's going on with wunderkid Jose Angulo. Since he can't currently sign with an MLS club, I wonder if the Rhinos could sign him to a deal until his try outs in Europe come on line?
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Twitter Previews Potential Enhancements for Lists and Topics, Including Activity Details and Location Sorting
After adding lists as alternate, swipeable tweet feeds back in September, and then topics as an additional following option two months later, Twitter is now working to give lists and topics even more focus, with a range of updates designed to help improve content discovery, and connect more people - particularly new users - to increasingly relevant, engaging tweet content.
As part of a recent interview with Fast Company, various members of Twitter's design and development teams provided insight into where the company is headed on both lists and topics, the introduction of which is designed to make it easier for people to link into the conversations of relevance to them.
As noted by Twitter product designer Steve Zimmerman:
“People would hear about all the great stuff that happened on Twitter all the time, and they just couldn’t find it. It’s like, ‘Oh my God, did you see what’s happening on NBA Twitter?’ And people would search for ‘NBA Twitter’ and be like, ‘Is this it? Have I found it? Is it a hashtag or something?'”
As Twitter looks to usher in the next generation of users, it's hoping that by providing more discovery options, it will make the platform more accessible, and give people more of what they want - and less of what they don't.
So how can Twitter facilitate this? Here's a look at some of the features in the works:
Topic Activity Insights
In order to help people better understand what they'll see in their timeline if they follow a specific topic, Twitter's developing new preview elements on topic listings, which would display things like related hashtags and follower counts, as well as notes on how active the topic is in the app.
A particularly helpful, potential addition is the estimate of daily tweet volume, so you would be able to see, before you tap 'follow', just how many tweets you'll potentially be piping into your feed by becoming a fan.
Improved Induction Process
Twitter's also looking to refine its timeline set-up process for new users, which would take them through a range of simple steps to refine their interests - and ideally, keep them engaged through topics and lists.
Based on your responses at each stage, the process would recommend profiles, topics and hashtags to follow. And interestingly, Twitter's also working on a 'location' option, which would not only enable users to signify that they're interested in tweets from or about a region, but also which specific elements of that area they're most interested in being updated about.
As per Fast Company:
"[Twitter has] explored what-ifs such as the ability to follow a place - say, San Francisco - on Twitter. And then to specify which aspect of that place you cared about most - such as its food, music, and art - so that your San Francisco Twitter might be strikingly different than someone else’s."
That could be a good way to stay in touch with local conversations, while also filtering out the noise of, say, tourist shots or local marketing posts.
Improved Relevance
Of course, all of this is irrelevant if Twitter's topic streams end up filled with spam - which is what currently tends to happen with trending hashtags, and the hashtag "jackers" who use those rising discussions to peddle their offerings.
Luckily, Twitter knows this.
As part of its development of topics, Twitter's building new systems which can better identify tweets based on the content of each, as opposed to merely piping tweets from high profile users related to the subject into the stream. That means that if you follow 'Basketball', for example, you're ideally not going to see a tweet from LeBron James about a non-basketball subject, despite James being a high-profile user, and his tweets generating high engagement.
Twitter's looking to utilize not only machine learning in this context, but also human editorial input, in order to ensure that each topic stream maintains relevance. That'll be a difficult balance to maintain, especially as it looks to scale topics further, but it will be key to ensuring that the topic streams offer something new and valuable for its audiences.
Custom List Headers
Lastly, Twitter is also looking to develop new, custom image header cards for lists, providing another personalization element to the option. You can see an example of the custom image cards on the left below.
At present, lists come with a randomly generated stock image (like those in the example on the right), which, as of last month, now also show up as a preview card in tweets when you share a list URL.
Users will soon be able to further customize their display images, while Twitter's also looking to add in a new list discovery element, which will enable users to sort through "the full universe of all these user-generated timelines" in order to connect with relevant, alternate tweet streams.
Each of these updates is interesting within itself, and each holds significant potential, with new ways to showcase your favorite content, and to discover more relevant, interesting insights from across the tweet spectrum. And while long-time users may not glean significant value from such, having already refined their tweet experience to a large degree, they may still find some value in additional options like location sorting, while the larger focus of the potential changes remains on getting new users more acquainted with the app.
That's particularly relevant for international markets, where Twitter is now seeing the vast majority of its growth.
As you can see in this chart, while Twitter has only added four million new monetizable daily active users in the North American region over the last year, it's added more than 4x that in other parts of the world.
For these users, who are less familiar with the app, refining the tweet discovery process could be a massive improvement.
Given this, it makes a lot of sense for Twitter to make it a focus, and it'll definitely be an element to watch as we move into 2020.
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JUGGERNAUT - the Physical Effect
by David Edgerley Gates
I think it was the screenwriter William Goldman who said people love seeing how things are done. He meant in particular, how to pull off some dangerous and possibly illegal maneuver. The classic example is RIFIFI, the heist sequence - 30 minutes without dialogue.
JUGGERNAUT is about defusing a set of booby-trapped bombs aboard a cruise ship at sea, and it manages to ratchet the tension up nicely, thank you. Released in 1974, and directed by Richard Lester, the picture headlined Richard Harris and Omar Sharif. It was shot on board an actual ship, in the North Sea, and in bad weather. They used FX for explosions and stuff, but this is before CGI, so the pyrotechnics are happening during the shoot, not after the fact. The first big set piece is the bomb disposal crew, Brit Special Services, parachuting out of an orbiting C-130 Hercules into the open ocean and scrambling up the side of the ship on rope ladders. They lose a guy in the drink. Then our sodden heroes go belowdecks, to try and figure out how not to blow themselves out of the water.
One of the main reasons I like this movie so much is that I tried to do something similar in a story called "Cover of Darkness," which was likewise about saddling up for a dangerous job, but more to the point, the story was about the nuts and bolts. It was carried by physical action, not dialogue, and it was very hard to pull off. A lot of it took place underwater, in scuba gear, so there wasn't any talking. This is the kind of thing movies can do really well, but it's nowhere near as easy to do in narrative prose. You're using the equivalent of movie vocabulary, without anything to break up those long descriptive paragraphs. Somebody hits their thumb with a hammer, you don't even get to hear them curse about it. Trust me, this is work. Rolling the stone away from the door.
Those physical details in JUGGERNAUT, though, are seamless. Close watertight doors. Check. The gears engage, the tumblers lock. Go to infrared. Check. The visible light spectrum shuts down. Isolate the power source. Check. Richard Harris threads an alligator clip carefully past a trembling switch and shorts out the electrical contacts. His team listens in on headsets, and follows the route he maps out, step by step. There are half a dozen devices to disarm, and Harris is breaking trail for the others. If he puts a foot wrong, it's his last mistake.
Now, you had me at cut the red wire. I'm a sucker for all the generic tropes of demolition stories, going back to THE WAGES OF FEAR. But for reasons I don't understand, this picture was a dud at the box office. Maybe it was too cerebral, the suspense generated by things not going off, when any minute they could. And it seems so economical, no wasted motion, no down time, all meat and potatoes.
Then, besides, Richard Harris and Omar Sharif, you've got Anthony Hopkins and David Hemmings, Shirley Knight, Ian Holm, cameos by Freddie Jones and Roshan Seth and Jack Watson, Cyril Cusack and Michael Hordern. And to top it off, two enormously affecting performances by Roy Kinnear and Clifton James, who all too often play caricature. It baffles me, I kid you not. Richard Lester didn't always bring home the bacon, though. HARD DAY'S NIGHT, and HELP, A FUNNY THING and THE THREE MUSKETEERS, and then a truly astonishing, transcendent picture like ROBIN AND MARIAN goes straight in the toilet. You can't account for it, the intangibles.
Dick Lester shooting JUGGERNAUT
This doesn't change the essential thing, which was my starting point. JUGGERNAUT is about the accumulation of small incident, the trembling switch, the red wire, the single detail. Skip one little piece of the puzzle, and you're a smear of atomized remains on the bulkhead. That's existential, all right. No room for conversation.
I admire how coherent JUGGERNAUT is. It takes a technical problem, and lays out its component parts. Whether it's in fact
presenting an accurate picture is beside the point. You buy into it completely, at least for the duration. I understand that there are always going to be hardware guys, like me, who look for solution to target. And then there are people who look through or beyond the schematic, to the emotional context. As it happens, I think JUGGERNAUT has that, too. Clifton James, confessing his infidelity to his wife. Shirley Knight, after Omar Sharif throws her under the bus. And again, Roy Kinnear, who shows such grace, and a touching largeness of heart.
But let's be honest. Even though the characters are terrific, the picture isn't character-driven. It's compelling because it takes you through a process, and it's all of a piece. The clock just keeps ticking.
Posted by David Edgerley Gates at 00:00
Labels: Anthony Hopkins, bomb disposal movies, Clifton James, David Edgerley Gates, David Hemmings, JUGGERNAUT, Omar Sharif, physical action, Richard Harris, Richard Lester, Roy Kinnear, Shirley Knight, Special Services
Hi, David -- I don't know this film but it sounds fascinating. I'll need to give it a look! Terrific descriptions of it, analysis of it here--compelling even in summary.
28 September, 2016 09:14
To my amazement, the television show Mr Robot about a drug-snorting corporate hacker has received rave reviews for its technical verisimilitude and yet I, along with some of my colleagues who have computer skills beyond the pathetic main character, find the show ridiculous. I even pointed out some of the errors in an earlier article.
On the other hand, Michael Crichton sometimes included little boxes of technical information in novels. The reader could read about the science or skip it without affecting the narrative. I alway read them and enjoyed them.
David, where can your story “Cover of Darkness” be found?
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VIRAL: The Fight Against AIDS in America
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Well-researched and expertly paced, this compelling title deserves a place in all teen collections.
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An edifying and timely exposition of James Meredith and the March Against Fear and their impact on U.S. history, past and present. Bausum’s clear language and smart use of archival photos and pull quotes document how Meredith’s single-man walk transformed into a larger endeavor to register and unify black voters and to alleviate the fear felt by African Americans living in a racist society (a notion that would later translate to the concept of Black Power). Readers become a part of the march as Bausum begins each chapter with the date, the distance traveled by the marchers, and their next destination. Evocative quotes from those supporting the march and those in opposition provide additional context on the sentiment felt by each side. The inclusion of racial epithets, curses, and horrific abuse emphasizes the reality of the time (an author’s note explains the decision not to alter the language of quotations). Bausum expertly encapsulates the overall theme of the march during a specific episode at the Philadelphia, MS, courthouse: “Dignity over anarchy. Justice over injustice. Love in answer to hate.” In the back matter, Bausum discusses her research, which included interviewing Meredith, and how civil rights remain a pertinent issue. VERDICT A must-have volume on James Meredith, the March Against Fear, and the evolution of Black Power for high school students.— Hilary Writt, Sullivan University, Lexington, KY
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Part One, Chapters 1–5
Part One, Chapters 10–15
Part Two, Chapters 1-–3
Part Two, Chapters 4–11
Part Two, Chapters 12–17
Humbert Humbert
Clare Quilty
Charlotte Haze
Characters Humbert Humbert
Humbert Humbert uses language to seduce the readers of his memoir, and he almost succeeds in making himself a sympathetic pedophile. He criticizes the vulgarity of American culture, establishing himself as an intellectual. His ironic, self-mocking tone and his complicated word games divert readers’ attention from the horrors he describes. His skill with language makes him a persuasive narrator, often able to convince readers to see his perspective. These linguistic skills, along with his distinguished appearance, erudition, and European roots, enable him to seduce the women around him as well. Humbert has never wanted for love.
As a young boy, Humbert embarks on a short-lived, unconsummated, and ultimately tragic romance with Annabel Leigh, a “nymphet” (a prepubescent girl between the ages of about nine and fourteen).. Since then, he has been obsessed with the particular type of girl Annabel represents. He marries adult women in an effort to overcome his craving for nymphets, but the marriages always dissolve, and the longings remain. Despite his failed marriages, his mental problems, and his sporadic employment, Humbert still attracts attention consistently from the opposite sex, though he usually disdains this attention. He claims to have loved only Lolita, and his obsession eventually consumes him.
Humbert is a completely unreliable narrator, and his myopic self-delusion and need for sympathy make many of his statements suspect. He claims Lolita seduced him and that she was in complete control of the relationship. However, Humbert, as the adult, clearly has the upper hand. He controls the money and Lolita’s freedom, and he often repeats that Lolita has nowhere to go if she leaves him. When Lolita occasionally shrinks from his touch, he views her reluctance as an example of her mercurial nature, rather than as a child’s repulsion at an adult’s sexual advances. Humbert claims that his feelings for Lolita are rooted in love, not lust, but his self-delusion prevents him from making this case convincingly. Alternately slavish and domineering, Humbert has little control over his feelings and impulses. He never considers the morality of his actions, and he refuses to acknowledge that Lolita may not share his feelings. As his relationship with Lolita deteriorates, Humbert becomes more and more controlling of her and less and less in control of himself. He considers Quilty’s love for Lolita deviant and corrupting, and he murders Quilty to avenge Lolita’s lost innocence, a seemingly drastic act of denial of his own complicity in that loss. Only near the end of the novel, when he admits that he himself stole Lolita’s childhood, does Humbert allow the truth to break through his solipsism.
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Australian NBA players to donate over $1 million to bushfire relief
Written By Benyam Kidane
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Australia's contingent of NBA players are doing their bit to aid the relief efforts, with the country currently suffering intense bushfires.
All nine players have partnered with the league and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) to donate $750,000 USD ($1.09m AUD), which will go towards relief and recovery efforts and providing support to organisations around the country to help those affected by the fires.
“We are heartbroken over the devastation these fires are causing all across our homeland,” the players said in a joint statement.
"Our thoughts are with our families, friends and all of the people of Australia. We hope you feel our love and support and know that we will continue to bring awareness to this crisis globally and provide assistance in any way we can.”
There is still so much devastation but I am proud that we could all come together w/ help from @TheNBPA & @nba it is truly appreciated. There is much more to be done #AustralianBushFires pic.twitter.com/V3Xy13AxQv
— Ben Simmons (@BenSimmons25) January 7, 2020
The devestating fires in Australia have claimed the lives of 25 people and destroyed thousands of homes, with the total area burned across six states reaching 8.4m hectares (21 million acres).
It is estimated that half a billion animals have also died in the fires.
480 million is a staggering number of animals affected by these wildfires. For anyone looking to help our wildlife that have survived these devastating blows, the link to WIRES - Emergency Fund for Wildlife is below. https://t.co/iCoHXi0GH5#australiaisburning pic.twitter.com/GUj2WLZ6Zu
— Patrick Mills (@Patty_Mills) January 6, 2020
“Our players have a deep connection to the places where they grew up and have always responded with generosity and compassion in the aftermath of disasters,” Sherrie Deans, executive director of the NBPA Foundation, said.
“The Foundation’s board is committed to extending our long-standing support of players’ financial contributions in response to disasters through this joint effort.”
"It's devastating what's happening. It's a national crisis that's hard to comprehend and I'm trying to do all I can to play my part."@Patty_Mills on the combined relief and recovery efforts from around the NBA for Australia.
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— San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) January 7, 2020
The players have also established a bushfire relief fund where you can also donate.
Appreciate the @NBA + @NBPA coming together with the Aussie NBA boys to support the Australian Bushfire Relief efforts. It’s a really tough time in Australia right now but we are resilient people and stick together🇦🇺 #AustraliaFires https://t.co/i0NtpqsvUD
— Matthew Dellavedova (@matthewdelly) January 7, 2020
The players involved are: Aron Baynes (Phoenix Suns), Jonah Bolden and Ben Simmons (Philadelphia 76ers), Ryan Broekhoff (Dallas Mavericks), Matthew Dellavedova and Dante Exum (Cleveland Cavaliers), Joe Ingles (Utah Jazz), Thon Maker (Detroit Pistons) and Patty Mills (San Antonio Spurs).
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Birkhäuser Physics
Progress in Mathematical Physics
Gravitation and Experiment
Poincaré Seminar 2006
Editors: Damour, Thibault, Rivasseau, Vincent (Eds.)
Detailed pedagogical introduction to general relativity
Review of experimental tests of the theory
Very recent results of the Gravity Probe B mission
This book is the sixth in a series of lectures of the S´ eminaire Poincar´ e,whichis directed towards a large audience of physicists and of mathematicians. The goal of this seminar is to provide up-to-date information about general topics of great interest in physics. Both the theoretical and experimental aspects are covered, with some historical background. Inspired by the Bourbaki seminar in mathematics in its organization, hence nicknamed “Bourbaphi”, the Poincar´ e Seminar is held twice a year at the Institut Henri Poincar´ e in Paris, with cont- butions prepared in advance. Particular care is devoted to the pedagogical nature of the presentations so as to ful?ll the goal of being readable by a large audience of scientists. This volume contains the ninth such Seminar, held in 2006. It is devoted to Relativity and Experiment. This book starts with a detailed introduction to general relativity by T. Damour. It includes a review of what may lie beyond by string theorist I. - toniadis, and collects up-to-date essays on the experimental tests of this theory. General relativity is now a theory well con?rmed by detailed experiments, incl- ing the precise timing of the double pulsar J0737-3039 explained by M. Kramer, member of the team which discovered it in 2003, and satellite missions such as Gravity Probe B described by J. Mester. The search for detecting gravitational waves is also very much under way as reviewed by J.Y. Vinet. Wehopethatthecontinuedpublicationofthisserieswillservethecommunity of physicists and mathematicians at professional or graduate student level.
From the reviews:
“The Poincaré Seminar is held at the Institute Henri Poincaré in Paris twice a year. This volume contains lectures presented at the Poincaré Seminar focused on Gravitation and Experiment which took place in October 2006. The editors made particular effort to present the chosen topics in a pedagogical form accessible to mathematicians and physicists not only at the professional level but also at graduate student level.” (Vojtěch Pravda, Applications of Mathematics, Vol. 54 (6), 2009)
General Relativity today
Damour, Thibault
Beyond Einstein’s Gravity
Antoniadis, Ignatios
The Double Pulsar
Testing Einstein in Space: The Gravity Probe B Relativity Mission
Mester, John
Instruments for Gravitational Wave Astronomy on Ground and in Space
Vinet, Jean-Yves
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Homes for Independent Living
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Our new joint venture with Luton Borough Council
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The company, formerly known as Luton Lets which was Luton Council’s ‘Social Letting Agency’, has now formed a joint venture with Squared, previously known as Luton Community Housing. Together the two organisations are becoming a high street agent with services covering social lets, private rented scheme lets and sales.
The agency was created to provide a route to the private rented sector for applicants who are on benefits and low incomes. Very often people in such circumstances find it hard to get high quality accommodation because of the challenges of needing to be able to provide deposits, references and other criteria which can be significant obstacles.
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John Holman, Interim Service Director for Housing, said: “Luton Lets Squared is an exciting initiative that brings together the accumulated knowledge and experience of two valued organisations. Affordable accommodation is vital for everyone in the town – irrespective of who they are – and for many a dependable, secure home is the first step towards lifting themselves out of financial hardship. As the council seeks to tackle poverty in the town, Luton Lets Squared will have a vital role to play.“
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Inferior Vena Caval Thrombosis
Courtney Hollingsworth
Therese Mead
Inferior vena cava (IVC) thrombosis is a disease associated with high morbidity. Although the condition is considered rare, case reports have shown that IVC thromboses may be underdiagnosed. For example, most commonly, pulmonary emboli are thought to arise from a lower extremity deep venous thrombosis. However, there are cases where an IVC thrombus caused the discovered pulmonary embolism. IVC thrombosis should be part of the differential diagnosis for a patient with risk for a thromboembolic event. The predisposing prothrombotic condition should be determined once an IVC thrombus is identified as there are many potential causes.[1][2][3]
Virchow’s Triad can explain the pathophysiology leading to IVC thrombosis. This triad has three components: stasis in blood flow, endothelial injury, and hypercoagulability. There are two main subgroups used to describe the causes of IVC thrombosis:
IVC Thrombosis in Congenitally Normal Inferior Vena Cava
When the IVC is developmentally normal, thrombosis formation most commonly occurs from compression from adjacent structures. Examples of compressive structures can include renal cell tumor, pancreatic carcinoma, large uterine fibroid, Budd-Chiari Syndrome, liver abscess, retroperitoneal masses, abdominal aortic aneurysm, and others. These are all examples in which the IVC has normal function, and external structures are causing compressive forces that result in stasis of blood flow. Additionally, certain populations of patients are predisposed to develop thrombi because of a hypercoagulable state. Examples include thrombophilia or Factor V deficiency. Modifiable factors such as oral contraceptives, smoking, obesity, pregnancy, and hormonal replacement therapy also place patients at increased risk for the development of a thrombus. A significant cause of an IVC thrombosis is occlusion of an IVC filter which is becoming more prevalent due to the increased placement of these devices. Trauma is also a cause of inferior vena cava thrombosis. The injury can occur during percutaneous cannulation of the femoral vein or during cardiopulmonary bypass. Insertion of dialysis catheters, femoral venous catheters, pacemaker wires, and vena cava filters are all potential causes of inferior vena cava thrombosis.
IVC Thrombosis in Congenitally Abnormal Inferior Vena Cava
A congenitally abnormal IVC leads to turbulent blood flow, which can ultimately lead to the development of a thrombus. Congenital IVC anomalies occur in approximately 1% of the population, and within that 1%, about 60-80% develop IVC thrombosis. The location of the thrombus depends on the congenital abnormality, which can range from infrarenal to suprarenal. Examples include a duplicate inferior vena cava, absence of infrarenal IVC and even an accessory left renal vein leading to thrombus formation.[4][5]
The exact incidence of IVC thrombosis is difficult to measure due to the wide-ranging presentations that can occur with IVC thrombosis. For those patients diagnosed with deep venous thrombosis, there is a reported incidence of 4-15% of associated IVC thrombosis. However, the true incidence may be under-represented due to the variability in clinical presentation. Patients diagnosed with pulmonary emboli may ultimately have an inferior vena cava thrombus, but if it is not suspected, there will not be appropriate diagnostic imaging leading to the identification of the thrombus.
History and Physical
Clinical presentation can vary depending on the extent and location of the thrombus within the IVC. Typically, patients complain of leg heaviness, pain, swelling, and cramping. Symptoms can also be nonspecific such as abdominal, flank or back pain. Men may present with scrotal swelling. The vague nature of symptoms may delay diagnosis until clot migration to the lungs, and renal veins occur, which leads to shortness of breath and oliguria, respectively. The presence of bilateral lower extremity edema and dilated superficial abdominal veins suggests the possibility of an IVC thrombus. Overall, given the ambiguous presentation, there are not pathognomonic history and physical exam findings to diagnose IVC thrombosis consistently across all patients.[6]
There are currently no societal guidelines available to aid in the diagnosis and management of IVC thrombosis. Multiple imaging modalities are potentially useful when IVC thrombosis is suspected. These include ultrasound, CT, MRI, and catheter venography.
IVC duplex ultrasound can be used to visualize a potential thrombus, but there are limitations to this modality. Overlying bowel gas and patient obesity may make visualization very difficult. Ultrasound should still be a consideration as an initial test given the low-risk profile. Case studies have reported IVC thrombosis identification using ultrasound in the emergency department. Sonographic signs that indicate a potential thrombus include a monophasic waveform by doppler, a choppy sign indicating increased blood velocity, and inability to compress the vessel.
Computer tomography (CT) can also be used to visualize the location of the thrombus. However, MRI is the most reliable technique for visualizing the presence and extent of the thrombus. Given the poor general availability and the high cost of MRI, it should not be the initial imaging choice. Direct catheter venography is the most common imaging technique to arrive at a definitive diagnosis.
Once the diagnosed, there should be a consideration for imaging dedicated to potential complications from the IVC thrombus. Approximately 12% of patients diagnosed with an IVC thrombus will develop pulmonary emboli. Therefore, dedicated CT angiogram of the thorax may be needed to evaluate for pulmonary emboli. If there is a concern for renal involvement, nuclear renal scanning can be used to assess for renal vascular compromise.
Treatment / Management
Initial management consists of anticoagulation. Heparin can be started in the emergency department with the goal of bridging to warfarin or a newer generation anticoagulant. Additional treatment options depend on the acuity of the thrombus. There may be a benefit to catheter-directed thrombolysis or thrombectomy if the IVC thrombus is acute (<14 days), subacute (15 to 28 days), and for a patient who is not at high risk of bleeding. Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty with stenting is also a consideration. However chronic (>28 days) IVC thrombosis may benefit more from stenting than catheter-directed thrombolysis. Ultimately, when evaluating the patient in the emergency department, starting heparin is crucial. Consulting vascular surgery is necessary for other potential treatment options. If the IVC thrombus is due to an extrinsic cause, such as a tumor, then further diagnostic testing will be needed.[3][7]
The differential diagnosis possibilities for a patient with suspected IVC thrombosis are broad. The differential diagnosis may include nephrolithiasis, renal cell carcinoma, pancreatic cancer, DVT, liver disease, spinal pathology, pulmonary emboli, bowel obstruction, and urinary retention.
The overall prognosis hinges on the underlying cause of the thrombus. If a patient has a hereditary hypercoagulable disease, they are predisposed to the development of thrombi. However, if they are compliant with their anticoagulation therapy, their prognosis will be favorable. Alternatively, if the patient is diagnosed with progressive cancer such as pancreatic cancer that has extended and compressed the IVC, their prognosis is likely poor.
Children who have had catheterization have gone on to develop unilateral leg swelling and chronic pain. Finally, there is the potential of pulmonary embolus if the inferior vena cava has a floating embolus.
If untreated, patients can suffer from a post-thrombotic syndrome, which consists of venous stasis changes leading to ulceration in the lower extremities. Other complications include pulmonary emboli and renal ischemia due to the extension of the thrombus. Thus, if IVC thrombosis is a consideration, imaging should not be delayed.
Deterrence and Patient Education
The most important factor in determining patient education would be targeting patients who have modifiable risk factors. Patients who are at increased risk of thrombus formation are those who are obese, using oral contraceptive pills, and have a smoking history. Education and prevention of these modifiable risk factors will make the most significant difference. For those patients who have a hereditary disorder such as Factor V deficiency, the importance of long-term anticoagulation must be discussed to prevent thrombus formation.
Pearls and Other Issues
The image shows an IVC filter in a patient with common iliac vein injury from the use of a trocar during lap cholecystectomy. The right common iliac vein had to be ligated and an IVC filter placed via the RIJ. A crossover saphenous vein graft bypass is planned to help decompress the right leg.
Interprofessional communication is the key to success for patient care. Most medical errors that occur are secondary to a lack of communication. All team members must be at liberty to speak up when they have concerns. For IVC thrombosis, coordination of care by physicians is necessary. An emergency medicine physician may initially evaluate the patient, but they must be able to contact the vascular surgery, nephrologist, etc. for further management. In addition to communication skills is the importance of knowing one's limits. There must be a willingness to ask for help when needed to improve healthcare outcomes. Excellent communication and awareness of personal limitations among all team members are critical.
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Image courtesy S Bhimji MD
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Doxepin is a tricyclic antidepressant that was FDA approved in 1969 to treat major depressive disorder. Doxepin was primarily approved to treat depression; however, it can also target multiple receptors and has proven beneficial in the treatment of other disorders. Doxepin displays antagonist effects on alpha-adrenergic, muscarinic, and histaminic receptors. With such a wide variety of receptors to block, oral formulations of doxepin have been FDA approved to treat insomnia and anxiety, and topical formulations have been approved to manage skin pruritus.[1][2][3][4]
In literature and research studies, doxepin has proven to be an effective analgesic in the treatment of neuropathic pain.[5][6] It also has been used as a prophylactic agent against migraines.[7][8] Doxepin has not yet received FDA approval for the treatment of neuropathic pain and migraines.
Depression is thought to result from a chemical imbalance and a lack of neurotransmitters in the brain. The different classes of antidepressant medications have been formulated to perform unique mechanisms by targeting different receptors and increasing the availability of neurotransmitters. Doxepin is in the tricyclic antidepressants (TCA) drug class; these agents work by increasing the concentration of the neurotransmitter’s serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE) in the brain. This action prolongs the availability of the neurotransmitters (5-HT and NE) within the synaptic cleft and enhances their neurotransmission by preventing their reuptake back into the presynaptic terminal.
Doxepin also displays antagonistic properties in the central nervous system by blocking the following receptors: histamine (H1), alpha-1 adrenergic, and muscarinic. It also inhibits sodium and potassium channels in cardiomyocytes.[9][10]
Antidepressants are commercially available in the form of oral tablets, capsules, and solutions. Oral administration is the most common method used by the population and comes in two dosages, 3 mg, and 6mg. Oral capsules come in dosages of 10 mg, 25 mg, 50 mg, 75 mg, 100 mg, and 150 mg. Oral solutions come in doses of 10 mg/mL. Other forms available include topical creams (5%) and transdermal patches. Topical creams of doxepin act as a local anesthetic in the management of pain and have been useful in the treatment of urethral irritation and dysuria.[11][12][13] Transbuccal delivery of doxepin has been a topic of research, but not enough data has been reported to support its effectiveness.[14]
Methods such as intranasal, sublingual, and rectal administration have yet to be studied.[15]
Doxepin is a unique antidepressant because it produces different adverse effects based on the receptor it antagonizes. Doxepin antagonizes three different receptors, which include: histamine, adrenergic, and muscarinic. Doxepin blocks histamine H1 receptor and causes sedation and somnolence, therefore, FDA has approved low-dose doxepin, 3 mg, and 6 mg dosages, to be used as a first-line agent in depressed patients with sleep disturbances and depression associated with anxiety. Proper education is necessary to prevent patients from self-medicating and overdosing on such pills. Doxepin also has the potential to cause a significant increase in weight and was assessed in a study of 329 patients treated with doxepin and amitriptyline.[16][17][18]
Doxepin blocks alpha-adrenergic receptors and should be carefully monitored in those with cardiovascular disorders because it can cause orthostatic hypotension.[19]
Lastly, doxepin blocks muscarinic receptors and produces anticholinergic side effects such as dry mouth, constipation, dizziness, lightheadedness, tachycardia, and prolonged QT interval.[20][21][22]
Patients prescribed an antidepressant such as doxepin require careful observation due to the black box warning that states a possible increase in suicidality.[23]
Physicians are required to get a thorough medical history as well as medication history from patients before prescribing medications such as antidepressants. Antidepressants may cause serious adverse effects when combined with other medications such as different classes of antidepressants, opioids, alcohol, herbal medication, and even psychedelics. An interaction between two different classes of antidepressants may lead to excess serotonin in the central nervous system. This effect leads to a condition known as serotonin syndrome, sometimes described as serotonin toxicity. Serotonin toxicity induces symptoms such as mental status changes, autonomic stimulation, and neuromuscular excitation. Patients experience symptoms such as agitation, confusion, vital sign changes such as tachycardia, hyperthermia, flushing, tremor, and neuromuscular changes such as rigidity, increased reflexes, and clonus.[24][25]
Another contraindication to prescribing doxepin is in patients with cardiovascular disorders such as preexisting bundle branch blocks. Literature has reported cases where patients developed atrioventricular heart block, orthostatic hypotension, and abnormalities in conduction after taking doxepin.[26][27]
Lastly, doxepin has a poor safety profile in postpartum lactating mothers and is contraindicated in breastfeeding due to its sedative and respiratory depressive effects.[28][29]
Patients with hypersensitivity should also avoid doxepin.
Therapeutic drug monitoring is a valuable guide used to measure the concentration of a medication and its break down products in the blood. Its goal is to maintain a constant concentration in the blood and optimize its therapeutic outcomes, effectiveness, and safety while minimizing its potential for serious adverse effects.[30] Drug monitoring is useful in medications that have a narrow therapeutic index; this is a ratio between the toxic and therapeutic dose of the medication. Using such a method has proven effective in many drugs such as antidepressants because it has provided a more reliable index of target drug concentration compared to its dosage. Research cites doxepin as having a therapeutic range of 150 to 250 ng/mL. However, one study found that only 9% of samples displayed plasma levels between 150 to 250 ng/mL, while 88% remained subtherapeutic.[31] Side effects occurred more often when the serum levels were above the therapeutic range.[32] Although there is no definite recommendation, therapeutic drug monitoring of doxepin requires more research to maximize its effectiveness and benefits.
Tricyclic antidepressants are one of the most frequently ingested substances used for self-poison in an attempt to commit suicide. The case fatality index is a tool used to measure ratios and compare toxic levels of drugs to one another.[33] Tricyclics have a greater level of toxicity when compared to other classes of antidepressants, and doxepin is two to three times more toxic when compared to amitriptyline.[34][35]
Symptoms of intoxication and overdose can be grouped based on the organ system it affects. Overdose on doxepin can affect the central nervous system and cardiovascular system. Doxepin is known to block sodium and potassium channels on cardiomyocytes and can reduce cardiac action potential and depolarization and lead to cardiac arrhythmias.[36] It can increase heart rate and widen the PR, QRS, and QT interval as assessed in a study of an individual who overdosed on 5000 mg of doxepin and developed cardiac arrest and was persistently hypotensive.[37]
Doxepin can also cause neurological effects such as coma, grand mal seizures, and respiratory depression.[10][38][39][40]
Treatment options that are beneficial in patients with doxepin intoxication include sodium bicarbonate, hemodialysis/hemoperfusion, and in some cases, supportive therapy.[41][42]
Major depressive disorder affects more than 17.3 million Americans in the U.S., 75% of individuals who suffer from mental disorders remain untreated, and about 1 million people commit suicide. To accurately diagnose, treat, and manage patients with psychiatric disorders, an interprofessional team approach is necessary to provide the best care quality to patients.
Studies have shown that an individual’s belief about their mental illness can significantly influence their treatment plan and medication adherence.[43] Using a team approach which includes physicians, nurses, therapists, pharmacists, and the patient will help shape an individual’s belief about their illness and will hopefully decrease the number of patients who are left untreated and resort to suicide.
Nursing can coordinate between therapist, pharmacist, and the physician. The pharmacist can watch for drug interactions, verify dosing, and consult if treatment is not successful, recommending other medication options, notably a pharmacist with psychiatric certification. A psychiatric health specialty nurse will have significant contact with the patient and can monitor for medication side effects, informing the doctor of any concerns..
Doxepin has been used to treat major depressive disorder since 1969; however, patients should receive education about medication compliance, side effects, toxicity, and possible interactions with other medications. Patients should be encouraged to follow up and communicate with their primary care provider, pharmacist, psychiatrist, and therapist if they experience any changes or feel like their medication is not beneficial. The interprofessional approach to depression and doxepin therapy increases the odds of successful treatment for these patients. [Level 5]
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Wal-Mart Canada to Source Sustainably
Wal-Mart Canada has announced that it will sell only sustainably-sourced frozen, wild and farmed fish to its shoppers by 2013, and will phase out any suppliers who sell seafood from unregulated sources. We're taking a first step to help sustain the future of fish, Sam Silvestro, divisional merchandise manager at Wal-Mart Canada, said in a release. We believe that by offering sustainably-harvested
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — Wal-Mart Canada has announced that it will sell only sustainably-sourced frozen, wild and farmed fish to its shoppers by 2013, and will phase out any suppliers who sell seafood from unregulated sources.
“We're taking a first step to help sustain the future of fish,” Sam Silvestro, divisional merchandise manager at Wal-Mart Canada, said in a release. “We believe that by offering sustainably-harvested fish at affordable prices we can help improve the industry overall.”
The policy was explained to suppliers in a meeting at the company's home office. During the coming months, the company will continue to work with those suppliers, along with the London-based Marine Stewardship Council, “to assess the sustainability of the company's current fish assortment.”
The policy will likely evolve over time, but for now, the company expects to source only wild-caught fish that are certified to MSC standards or the minimum equivalent; to ensure that all farm-raised fish suppliers are adhering to Best Aquaculture Practices; and to source canned tuna from an International Seafood Sustainability Foundation member.
Wal-Mart Canada has also said it will continue to work with suppliers over the long term, in an effort to help them make their own operations and supply chains more sustainable. And, in addition, the company has asked MSC for input on ways it could leverage its power as a retailer to change the larger seafood marketplace.
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The Speckledy Hen in Shamley Green - On the Tea Shop Trail
PUBLISHED: 21:05 01 May 2014 | UPDATED: 21:18 01 May 2014
The Speckledy Hen in Shamley Green
This month, Louise Johncox gets a taste for a cake made from courgettes, pistachios and lime at The Speckledy Hen in the picturesque Shamley Green
The Speckledy Hen Café and Deli,
Shamley Green GU5 OUB. Open Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm; Saturdays 9am to 4pm. Tel: 01483 894567 / thespeckledyhen.com
The low-down…
Cathy Garthwaite and Christina Collins opened The Speckledy Hen in Shamley Green in April 2012. They met as mums at a local school and saw an opportunity for setting up a café serving home-made food and selling gifts. Cathy has a degree in Hospitality and Management while Christina has a background in retail buying and merchandising. They chose the name for the café based on a favourite book. In fact, if you look carefully, you will notice a hen theme with hen platters and themed gifts.
The Speckledy Hen is situated in The Old Forge with its classic interior of red brick and open beams. Cathy and Christina bought all the furniture secondhand from bric-a-brac and antique shops giving the café a shabby chic, homely feel. They also hand-select all the gifts on sale, ranging from jugs and mugs to locally sourced foods. I spotted lots of lovely items including a large jug (£19.95) and mugs (£6.95) while my mum bought some chutney as a present. The deli itself also stocks all sorts of goodies perfect for foodie lovers. “We love shopping and source the kind of gifts that we would buy for ourselves and friends!” says Christina.
Best table…
There are six tables and two breakfast bars with seating for 35 to 40. The window table is the most popular one where customers can enjoy the view of the picturesque Shamley Green. My mum and I sat at the table opposite the open-plan kitchen where we could chat to the owners and enjoy the atmosphere of the café. If you are planning a party, there is a large communal table available in the adjoining room, a perfect place to gather with friends. On the day we visited, there were a mix of customers, including a cyclist, a young family with a toddler and an elderly couple.
The cake counter offers a wide range of tasty treats – with everything from a classic Victoria sponge (£2.95) to millionaire shortbread (£2.50) and the exotic sounding courgette, pistachio and lime cake (£2.95). I couldn’t resist trying the latter, which had a delicate sponge and a lovely lime flavour. My mum went for the millionaire shortbread, which is made from a secret recipe. I tried a piece and enjoyed the sheer decadent indulgence. Elsewhere on the menu, favourite breakfast choices include bacon butties (£3.95), smoked salmon and scrambled eggs (£9.95), and home-made granola, Greek yoghurt and honey (£3.95). The lunch menu, meanwhile, includes filo tarts with salad (£9.95), a Salad Special containing butternut squash, Serrano ham and Stilton (£11.95) and home-made soup of the day and sandwich (£9.95). There is also a children’s menu offering mini home-made pizza (£5.95) and beans on toast (£3.95).
The drinks are priced competitively: cappuccino (£2.30), latte (£2.30), tea (£1.95), ‘Wicked’ hot chocolate with whipped cream, marshmallows and chocolate flakes (£2.85) and milkshakes (£2.50). Everything is made on the premises aside from the bread (provided by The Hungry Guest at Petworth) and the gluten-free tray bakes.
The Speckledy Hen has a welcoming, community feel and the owners have taken great care in producing an enticing menu for snacks, lunches and afternoon tea.
In the spring and summer, Shamley Green is one of those quintessential English villages worth exploring before or after a visit to The Speckledy Hen.
In addition, a six-mile walk has been created from The Speckledy Hen to its sister café, The Dabbling Duck in Shere, which you can find online at ifootpaths.com – perfect for breakfast in one and then lunch in the other.
Louise Johncox’s parents, Peter and Frankie, ran Peter’s tea shop in Weybridge from 1958 until 2000 when they retired. Louise has
written a book about her parents’ tea shop, The Baker’s Daughter, which is out in the shops now (see louisejohncox.com/index.htm)
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The Experimental 10
SMA are proud to announce the up-and-coming release of their latest project “The Experimental 10”.
SMA had the idea to showcase the talents of some of South Australia’s finest musicians and to record the project in South Australia.
Utilising Mixmaster’s awesome analogue studio facility and the production values of South Australian engineers and producers, the project is exclusively South Australian.
The album is a collection of songs showcasing the song writing talents of SMA. There is great diversity so everyone will find something they like on this recording.
There were no sheets written or rehearsals for the sessions, Willie and Mick Wordley directed traffic and everyone was given their head. The songs were performed in basic form with room to move so that everyone could add their own creative contribution. The project was recorded in six days from start to finish.
The album is set for release in November 2017. In the coming weeks we will be posting vision, pictures, interviews and performances from the 6 days recording to our social media platforms.
SMA has also shot a video for the proposed single ”Mr Fancy Pants” and it will be posted on social media and this web site also in July .We will have a Twitter account and Facebook open for comment and we welcome them good, bad or indifferent.
The album will be released in CD and digital form available on iTunes & Bandcamp. You can purchase a physical CD by emailing us by clicking here and we will mail one to anywhere in the world for $10 USD or $7 USD within Australia.
Please enjoy the journey with us.
The Experimental 10 by The Experimental 10
All songs written and Produced by Willie McCracken and Paul Lavender Sydney Music Australia Recorded at Mixmaster’s Studio in Adelaide, South Australia, and Studio 301 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Engineered mixed and mastered by Mick Worldly & Willie McCracken.
Musicians – Willie McCracken – drums, tambourine, percussion’ lead vocal
Paul Lavender – bass, electric and acoustic guitars, Backing Vocals
Chris Finnen – electric, acoustic and slide guitars, banjo guitar
David Blight – harmonica, vocals, Backing Vocals
Nick Pipe – electric guitars
Stefan Metzger – brushes, djembe
Kyle Clarke – bass,
Kelly Menhennit – vocals , Backing Vocals
Jason McMahon – tenor sax
Chris Weber – trumpet, baritone horn
Mick Wordley – hammond organ
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Lake Tahoe comedy scene with Howie Nave: Havey starring at The Improv; Newingham at Carson Club
Entertainment | December 5, 2019
Howie Nave
Special to Lake Tahoe Action
Howie Nave (right) poses with Allan Havey.
I get a message recently from comedian Allan Havey who’s in New York shooting another episode of Showtime’s “Billions.”
With barely enough time to collect his thoughts, he’s headed west to do a week of standup at The Improv inside Harveys Lake Tahoe.
Havey’s schedule has pretty much non-stop these past 2 years.
His acting gigs have eclipsed his stand up gigs as he’s more an actor now than comedian, but never forgetting that comedy opened the doors.
In addition to his growing presence as a semi-regular on “Billions,” Havey’s acting credits are impressive. He’d probably argue, but I think things really took off for him after he appeared in the last two seasons of “Mad Men” on AMC. That was one of his favorite television series, to be on it must have been mind-blowing. It’s the same with the Coen brothers.
Havey’s been a huge fan of their work on the big screen so to actually have a part in one of their movies had to be surreal. Havey played the part of a Protestant clergyman in “Hail, Caesar!” and was very convincing and I’m sure his growing up as a strict Catholic gave him an edge.
He’s got a lot of television credits that include Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” on HBO, “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” Comedy Central, NBC’s “The Office,” appearances on Ashton Kutcher’s reality-based television show, “Punk’d” along with scores of online shows too.
Movies include “Top Five” (written, directed and starring Chris Rock), “Hancock” starring Will Smith, “The Informant!” with Matt Damon, “Internal Affairs” with Richard Gere and Andy Garcia, “Checking Out” with Jeff Daniels, “Rounders” (again with Matt Damon), “Wild Things Part 2: The Glades” with Isaiah Washington and “Pilot.”
Whenever he’s available (which has been tough lately) Havey and I will talk all about entertainment on my morning radio show for a segment we call, “Howiewood & Haveywood.”
Havey doesn’t rest on his laurels and when it comes to the history of his work he’d much rather be talking about projects he’s currently involved in or ones coming up.
I didn’t know Havey was a theater major in college but it certainly has paid off.
His dream is to perform on Broadway making his professional life come full circle.
Comedy though, has been very good to Havey taking him to countries he’d never get an opportunity to visit otherwise. In fact he feels one of his most rewarding accomplishments as a comedian was performing overseas entertaining our troops in the Middle East. Again, Havey is up here through Dec. 8.
The Improv at Harveys takes place Wednesday through Sundays at 9 p.m.. Learn more at http://www.harveystahoe.com.
Curtis Newingham headlines Carson Club
Headlining the Carson Comedy Club inside the Carson Nugget this weekend is comedian Curtis Newingham.
There’s not a lot on the guy, but I sure enjoyed his YouTube videos.
He’s originally from Arizona and I’m guessing he did a lot of Gary Bynum gigs if he started working the Laffs Comedy Club circuit. Newingham now calls Sacramento home and has made Laughs Unlimited in Old Town his home club producing and hosting shows in that venue called Smile Out Loud showcasing a lot of good acts both locally and those touring nationally. Newingham is pretty solid and I like his observational bits. I’m not sure if his political rants have found their way into his act but judging by his tweets he’s definitely not a fan of the current administration.
I’ll have to see for myself.
Drive safely no matter where you’re going and allow extra time the weather has made the journey a little challenging lately.
Shows at the Carson Comedy club inside the Carson Nugget starts at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Camp Richardson this weekend hosts Snowshoe Cocktail Races
80s tribute band Tainted Love plays this weekend at Harrah’s in Stateline
Lake Tahoe comedy scene with Howie Nave: Yaffee at Carson club, Riffs; Rocha at The Improv
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Twin Cities Daily Planet (https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/local-clinic-honors-world-aids-day-free-hiv-tests/)
Local clinic honors World AIDS Day with free HIV tests
By Kathlyn Stone (TC Daily Planet) | December 1, 2008
The Family Tree Clinic in St. Paul’s Merriam Park neighborhood is offering free rapid HIV tests Mon. Dec. 1, in collaboration with World AIDS Day.
The screening test looks for the presence of HIV antibodies. If HIV antibodies are detected, a Western Blot test is used to confirm the results.
Barbara Peterson, a Family Tree clinician, said if an individual’s tests come back positive, the clinic will help the individual line up primary care, social workers, and insurance.
Family Tree Clinic
Call for appointment: (651) 645-0478
Last year, 325 new cases of HIV positive were reported in Minnesota, a 30 percent increase from 2002 and an 81 percent jump from 1997. An estimated 2,500 Minnesotans are believed to be living with HIV disease but don’t know they are infected, according to the Minnesota Department of Health’s 2007 HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report.
Minnesota is considered a low risk region for HIV/AIDS. Worldwide, the 2008 U.N. report on AIDS says:
The global epidemic is stabilizing but at an unacceptably high level. Globally, there were an estimated 33 million [30 million—36 million] people living with HIV in 2007. The annual number of new HIV infections declined from 3.0 million [2.6 million—3.5 million] in 2001 to 2.7 million [2.2 million—3.2 million] in 2007.
“Even though we’re in a low risk community, we want it to stay that way,” says Peterson. Risk increases when there’s a history of unprotected sex and sharing of intravenously injected drugs.
Maneesha Jain, Family Tree’s hotline coordinator, knows some people resist getting tested because they fear the result. What does she tell them? “It’s peace of mind. If you’re wanting to live in reality and take control of your life you can know and make decisions on that. If you know you have it you can monitor your health and the chance of living a high quality of life is much higher. People also need to think about the potential impact on others.”
Jain said the clinic was able to offer free tests through the generosity of its testing kit supplier, which donated the kits.
The free tests are being given from 1-8 p.m. On normal days, the tests are still low cost. Appointments are taken at 651-645-0478.
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More than just another statue, Zapata dedication brings countries and communities together
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KWE.Strong triathalon connects Indigenous women to the power of water and each other [VIDEO]
Kwe.Strong, a group founded by Native women for Native women, creates community while increasing strength and endurance. They're holding their fourth triathlon at Thomas Beach on Saturday, August 22. In this triathlon, women run or walk a five-mile or 10-mile distance, bike nine miles and canoe across Mde Maka Ska, or Lake Calhoun. When the women cross the finish line, they see the Ojibwe word "Mino-bimaadiziwin," which means, "Live a good life." Hear two of the co-founders talk about event and why they feel it's important. Click here to see the video
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Roxanne Anderson leads the charge for Minnesota’s first LGBTQ centerMinnesota is one of six U.S. states currently without an LGBTQ center, though there is an already-existing hub of LGBTQ-focused organizations in the Twin Cities. But in about three years, in the navel of Minnesota, this will change.
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DARPA Updates Competitor Field for Flexible, Responsive Launch to Orbit
DARPA Launch Challenge seeks to accelerate launch cadence in support of national security needs; team will attempt to launch from two sites within weeks in early 2020.
DARPA Launch Challenge. Image credit: DARPA
In early 2020, one team will attempt to win a $10 million prize in the DARPA Launch Challenge. The Challenge aims to increase the flexibility and pace of space launch to put assets into low Earth orbit to meet national security priorities.
The remaining qualifying competitor is a space startup comprising industry veterans currently operating in stealth mode while the company works toward internal technical milestones. The team will receive notification of the first launch site in January 2020 with the first launch window targeted for February. Virgin Orbit, which entered the competition via its wholly owned subsidiary, VOX Space, exited the competition in October to focus on its upcoming commercial launches. A third team, Vector Launch, withdrew from the Challenge in September due to a change in the company’s structure and financial status.
The Launch Challenge includes two launch campaigns, which will occur in a serial manner, within weeks of one another from two different locations. The team will receive notification of the first launch site approximately 30 days from the first launch window.
“A major element of the Launch Challenge is to stress the systems that currently constrain access to space. Today, space launch is a process that begins two to three years in advance, and it relies on a limited number of launch sites with complex, expensive, and fixed infrastructure,” said Todd Master, program manager for the DARPA Launch Challenge in the Tactical Technology Office. “As indicated in the quickly narrowing field of competitors, responsive and flexible access to space remains a significant challenge. Future warfighting needs will require true space resilience, the ability to put assets into orbit quickly and from a variety of locations. It’s a fundamental shift from a strategic use of exquisite space assets to a more tactical future.”
Launch Challenge Prizes
Successful delivery of the payload into low Earth orbit in accordance with the first launch mission profile will earn a $2 million prize and is a prerequisite for participation in the second launch in a new location. Success in the second launch will earn a $10 million prize.
To be successful in the second launch, the team must again deliver its payload to orbit within the launch campaign, which is targeted to begin March 2020. A U.S. Government or DARPA-designated commercial entity will verify the team’s orbit within approximately 24 hours of payload deployment.
DARPA has coordinated Launch Challenge payloads, which will be provided directly from the payload developer to the launch team. DARPA will provide updated reference low Earth orbits approximately 30 days before the start of the launch windows.
The team must provide the FAA detailed information specific to each potential launch site. The DARPA Launch Challenge has identified four launch sites for vertical lift. The potential launch sites are:
Naval Outlying Field, San Nicolas Island, California;
Pacific Spaceport Complex, Kodiak, Alaska;
Vandenberg Air Force Base, California; and
Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia.
To earn a spot to compete in the DARPA Launch Challenge, teams had to successfully complete a three-step process: prequalification, DARPA Launch Challenge application, and submission and acceptance of an FAA commercial launch license application.
Source: DARPA
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Chinese New Year: 9 questions for Nashville's Jen-Jen Lin
"I don’t believe people are racists; it’s a misunderstanding, not enough information, so stereotyping is the best they can do," she said.
Chinese New Year: 9 questions for Nashville's Jen-Jen Lin "I don’t believe people are racists; it’s a misunderstanding, not enough information, so stereotyping is the best they can do," she said. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/life/2019/02/05/chinese-new-year-nashville-jen-jen-lin/2608257002/
Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean Published 6:00 a.m. CT Feb. 5, 2019 | Updated 3:20 p.m. CT Feb. 5, 2019
Lin says the biggest misconception about the Chinese is that all food comes on buffets
She says Nashville is becoming more metropolitan and accepting of different cultures
"We need better Chinese food in Nashville," Lin says
The Chinese New Year — Year of the Pig — launches Tuesday (Feb. 5), and Jen-Jen Lin, who founded the Chinese Arts Alliance here in 2002, once again will put on Nashville's celebration, set for noon to 3 p.m. Saturday in Hillsboro Village.
In advance of that, The Tennessean had a conversation with Lin about her time in Middle Tennessee.
1. What differences have you seen in attitudes toward the Chinese in Nashville in 25 years?
When I came in 1994, things are very different.
I have come across several not necessarily racist remarks, but they’ve never seen Chinese. In the grocery store, kids would point to my face, “Chinese!” I smiled.
And my husband is American. When we travel together to a public event, we got a lot of stares.
Jen-Jen Lin, director of the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville, rehearses the Chinese dragon dance outside Eakin Elementary School on Jan. 27, 2019. (Photo: Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean)
I don’t believe people are racists; it’s a misunderstanding, not enough information, so stereotyping is the best they can do. I try to make Chinese more of a common thing.
Now there’s Chinese food, culture and arts, and now more Nashvillians travel to China. People are moving to Nashville from California, New York and other places; it becomes more metropolitan.
2. Where is the good Chinese food in Nashville?
Chinese New Year: What's your animal sign?
Years of birth: 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019 Celebrity pigs: Carrie Underwood, Gov. Bill Lee, Kid Rock Character traits: Compassionate, generous and diligent Best matches: Goat or rabbit Worst matches: Snake or monkey Sarah Warnock, Clarion Ledger
Years of birth: 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018 Celebrity dogs: Preds goalie Pekka Rinne, Dolly Parton, rocker Caleb Followill Character traits: Lovely, honest and prudent Best matches: Tiger and rabbit Worst matches: Ox and dragon Matthew Diggs for Tennessean Sumner
Years of birth: 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017 Celebrity roosters: Michael W. Smith, Marcus Mariota, Justin Timberlake Character traits: Observant, hard working and courageous Best matches: Ox and snake Worst matches: Rat and rabbit File / The Tennessean
Years of birth: 1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016 Celebrity monkeys: Ashley Judd, Mookie Betts, Kenny Chesney Character traits: Sharp, smart and curious Best matches: Ox and rabbit Worst matches: Tiger and pig Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Years of birth: 1919, 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015 Celebrity sheep/goats: Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill Character traits: Gentle, calm and sympathetic Best matches: Rabbit and horse Worst matches: Dragon and snake Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Years of birth: 1918, 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014 Celebrity horses: Singer Maren Morris, Congressman Jim Cooper, Oprah Winfrey Character traits: Animated, active and energetic Best matches: Tiger and sheep Worst matches: Rat and ox Shelley Mays/ The Tennessean
Years of birth: 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013 Celebrity snakes: Titans DT Jurrell Casey, TV personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Preds' P.K. Subban Character traits: Wise, passionate and even-tempered Best matches: Dragon and rooster Worst matches: Tiger and rabbit Brad Schmitt / The Tennessean
Years of birth: 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012 Celebrity dragons: Reese Witherspoon, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Luke Bryan Character traits: Ambitious, intelligent and enthusiastic Best matches: Rat and tiger Worst matches: Ox and sheep Melanie Foster
Years of birth: 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011 Celebrity rabbits: Rocker Jack White, journalist John Seigenthaler, author Ann Patchett Character traits: Quiet, elegant and responsible Best matches: Sheep and pig Worst matches: Snake and rooster moodboard, Getty Images/moodboard RF
Years of birth: 1914, 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010 Celebrity tigers: Garth Brooks, pitcher R.A. Dickey, civil rights activist Diane Nash Character traits: Brave, confident and competitive Best matches: Horse and dragon Worst matches: Ox and tiger Brianna Paciorka / Knoxville News Sentinel
Years of birth: 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009 Celebrity oxen: Eddie George, Steve McNair, pitcher David Price Character traits: Diligent, dependable and strong Best matches: Rat and monkey Worst matches: Tiger and dragon BETH GAUPER, KRT
Years of birth: 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008 Celebrity rats: Amy Grant, Chris Tomlin, financial guru Dave Ramsey Character traits: Quit-witted, resourceful and kind Best matches: Ox and rabbit Worst matches: Horse and rooster Melissa Reinert/The Enquirer
You have to come to my events! (Laughs.) We have monthly Chinese dining adventures at Lucky Bamboo. It’s a chef table. They bring out authentic, delicious adventures. www.ChineseArtsAlliance.org.
You just don’t want to ask what’s in it. Just eat it!
My understanding? Chinese chefs, they can do all kinds of authentic, but they’ve had to cater to Americans’ taste to make a profit.
Sichuan Hot Pot in Antioch. They have individual-size hot pots, and they prepare all ingredients and you cook yourself. And all kinds of sauces. You just have to mix it yourself.
Jen-Jen Lin, left, director of the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville, and Julian Buchi-Fotre, cheer "Happy New Year" while rehearsing the Chinese dragon dance outside Eakin Elementary School on Jan. 27, 2019. (Photo: Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean)
3. Your thoughts on U.S.- Chinese trade wars?
I’ll recuse myself from answering that. I like to keep our group not political because we focus on arts. We’re not importers. We are here living in Nashville. We already have invested our lives here, and we have a strong heritage and want to share our culture.
4. Biggest misconception about the Chinese?
People think Chinese food is, due to media, is always takeout, cheap and have to be big quantities. Or buffet. If you want big quantity and cheap, all you can do is fried food. But Chinese food isn’t like that.
Good Chinese food has fresh ingredients and is cooked and eaten quickly. Buffets sit there for a long time. How can that be fresh?
We need better Chinese food in Nashville, I agree.
5. What are your hopes for expanding awareness of Chinese culture in Nashville?
Chinese dragon dance rehearsal in Nashville
Julian Buchi-Fotre, left, controls the head of the dragon while rehearsing the Chinese dragon dance outside Eakin Elementary School in Nashville on Jan. 27, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Jen-Jen Lin, director of the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville, rehearses the Chinese dragon dance outside Eakin Elementary School on Jan. 27, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Jen-Jen Lin, left, director of the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville, and Julian Buchi-Fotre, cheer "Happy New Year" while rehearsing the Chinese dragon dance outside Eakin Elementary School on Jan. 27, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Jen-Jen Lin, director of the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville, joins hands with participants after rehearsing the Chinese dragon dance outside Eakin Elementary School on Jan. 27, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Jen-Jen Lin, director of the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville, drums while rehearsing the Chinese dragon dance outside of Eakin Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Jen-Jen Lin, director of the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville, coaches participants while rehearsing the Chinese dragon dance outside of Eakin Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Participants rehearse the Chinese dragon dance outside of Eakin Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Jen-Jen Lin, center, director of the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville, coaches participants while rehearsing the Chinese dragon dance outside of Eakin Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Julian Buchi-Fotre controls the head of the dragon while rehearsing the Chinese dragon dance outside of Eakin Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Jen-Jen Lin, director of the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville, joins hands with participants after rehearsing the Chinese dragon dance outside of Eakin Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Not just Chinese American, but from all different parts of the world, they also contribute to society. They are not a burden to society. They contribute to prosperity of entire community.
I also feel the richness of different cultures enrich our lives, from every part of the world.
I feel lucky to be American. America is still a wealthy country compared to every other part of the world. And we should be grateful for what we have and the freedoms we have that other people do not have.
6. Your favorite thing to do in Nashville?
Deep inside myself, I’m an artist and I choreograph and produce dance theater.
My favorite thing to do, closest to my heart, I came to the U.S. to study dance. Got my master’s. I continue to be in touch with my training and my skill.
7. Favorite moment of the Chinese New Year celebrations in Nashville?
Chinese New Year in Nashville, Middle Tennessee Over the Years
Four members of the Chinese Student Association of Nashville display proficiency with chopsticks during a dinner observing the eve of the Chinese New Year Feb. 16, 1969 in the Baptist Sunday School Board cafeteria. About 200 association members and guests saw a Chinese movie after the dinner. Frank Empson / The Tennessean
A Chinese New Year parade, headed by an imported Chinese dragon, moves through Hillsboro Village Feb. 20, 1973. A crowd of several hundred watches the event, which was sponsored by Ming Louie, owner and proprietor of the House of Canton. Robert Johnson / The Tennessean
Dr. and Mrs. Ray Meng and their children, Erika, left, Brita and Henriko help tie rabbit shaped cookies on branches for the Chinese New Year party they are giving at their home Feb. 15, 1975. J.T. Phillips / The Tennessean
Peking Garden restaurant owner Bonnie Chen is getting ready to celebrate the Chinese New Year Jan. 29, 1987, which is the Year of the Rabbit. Ricky Rogers / The Tennessean
An 8-foot strand of firecrackers helps chase evil spirits away from Perking Garden restaurant Jan. 29, 1987, as owner Bonnie Chen, with hands clasped over her ears, and her employees celebrate the Chinese New Year. Ricky Rogers / The Tennessean
Jen-Jen Lin, right, helps Ben Kurland staple his paper ox together Feb. 6, 1997. Lin spent some time with pre-schoolers at The Children's House to show them Chinese activities and dances to celebrate the next day's Chinese New Year. It is the Year of the Ox. Randy Piland / The Tennessean
Jen-Jen Lin, a Chinese dance instructor, shows pre-schoolers at The Children's House a Chinese dance Feb. 6, 1997 that will be performed at the new day's Chinese New Year. The dance and noise makers are believed to scare away monsters. Randy Piland / The Tennessean
Thomas Tu, the head stir fry chef at Peking Palace in Brentwood, cooks traditional foods on Jan. 26, 1998, for the upcoming Chinese New Year on Jan. 28. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Mike Whittaker, left, and Ray Friedman hold up the head of the dragon during a trial run Jan. 29, 2000 in preparation for the upcoming Chinese New Year. Michelle Lord / The Tennessean
Amy Wu, 15 a student at Eakin's Chinese School, leads the body of the 20-yard-long dragon during a trial run Jan. 29, 2000, in preparation for the upcoming Chinese New Year. Michelle Lord / The Tennessean
Five-year-old Haley Butler, center, shows Hunter's Bend Elementary third graders Chris DuVall, left, and Jessica Gary how to make a paper airplane Jan. 18, 2001. Originally from China, Butler and her mother and sister spent all day teaching 740 students how to make various paper dolls, toys and airplanes for the Chinese New Year. Eric Parsons / The Tennessean
Sarah Li, 5, performs with a Chinese Traditional Dance group during the Vanderbilt Chinese Students and Scholars Association's Chinese New Year celebration at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center Feb. 18, 2007. Dipti Vaidya / The Tennessean
Haley Butler, 5, listens to parent-helpers as her class prepares to go onstage for a dress rehearsal Jan. 20, 2001 for the upcoming Chinese New Year festival. Lisa Nipp / The Tennessean
Haley Butler, 5, watches Shalom Rottmanyang scoot under her arm as the children's dance class passes time while waiting to go onstage for the dress rehearsal Jan. 20, 2001 for the upcoming Chinese New Year festival. Lisa Nipp / The Tennessean
Jen-Jen Lin, left, and Mei-Yen Cracraft put up money gods as they decorate Scarritt-Bennett Ogburn House Feb. 5, 2002 for the upcoming Chinese New Year celebration. Delores Delvin / The Tennessean
Jen-Jen Lin hangs up the door gods Feb. 5, 2002 that she and Mei-Yen Cracraft created for the upcoming Chinese New Year celebration at Scarritt-Bennett's Ogburn House. Delores Delvin / The Tennessean
Decorations representing the 8 gods are ready for hanging at Scarritt-Bennett Ogburn House Feb. 5, 2002 for the upcoming Chinese New Year. Delores Delvin / The Tennessean
Mei-Yen Cracraft, left, and Jen-Jen Lin pose Feb. 5, 2002 with the kitchen god that resides in the kitchen at Scarritt-Bennett's Ogburn House for the upcoming Chinese New Year. Delores Delvin / The Tennessean
Jenny Wu, 14, performs the traditional "Long Silk Dance" during an Asian New Year celebration Feb. 17, 2002. The concert also featured lion, fan and banner dancing as well as original classic guitar performance. Adriane Jaeckle / The Tennessean
Visitors to the Ogden House at Scarritt-Bennett campus will be greeted by Chinese decorations put up Jan. 28, 2003 for the upcoming Chinese New Year. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
The Chinese Gods of Fortune, Prosperity and Longevity adorn a decoration at the Ogden House on Scarritt-Bennett campus Jan. 28, 2003 for the upcoming Chinese New Year. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
The Chinese Art Alliance of Nashville entertains the crowd with the lion dance at the Vanderbilt Chinese Students and Scholars Association's Chinese New Year celebration at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center Feb. 18, 2007. Dipti Vaidya / The Tennessean
Spectators watch as the Silver Lion (Justin Chatman and Brandon Kozlowski), the Buddah ( Jessica Ch'ng) and the Gold Lion (Joseph Rembert and Joe Fuller) perform the lion dance at the K&S World Market on Nolensville Road Feb. 3, 2008, for the Chinese New Year. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Drummers Brandon Kozlowski, left, Jen-Jen Lin, Justin Chatman and Annibelle Lin perform in front of the K&S World Market for a celebration of the Chinese New Year on Feb. 3, 2008. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Patrons of the K&S World Market feed the lions red pieces of paper for luck during a lion dance celebration Feb. 3, 2008 for the Chinese New Year at the market. The performance was put on by the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
Maria Sanchez, second from right, gets scared during the Chinese New Year celebration Feb. 3, 2008 inside the K&S World Market on Nolensville Road. The performance was put on by the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville. John Partipilo / The Tennessean
One of the many performances during the Chinese New Year celebration at Vanderbilt's Student Life Center Feb. 10, 2008. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
Children attending the Chinese New Year celebration at Vanderbilt peer over the front of the stage to watch the performances Feb, 10, 2008. Alan Poizner / For The Tennessean
Sharling Grummon, left, of Nashville, holds her son Xander, 4, as she waves to the Lion during the traditional lion dance performance by the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville at the Chinese School located in H.G. Middle School in Nashville Jan. 31, 2009 for the Chinese New Year. Sanford Myers / The Tennessean
Brandon Kozlowski, left, and Jen-Jen Lin, of the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville, perform on the drums during a traditional Chinese New Year celebrations at the Chinese School located in H.G. Hill Middle School in Nashville on Jan. 31, 2009. The celebration included traditional food, games and performances. Sanford Myers / The Tennessean
People reach out to feed the dragon envelopes with coins during the dragon dance while celebrating Chinese New Year at Discovery Center in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Feb. 6, 2009. John A. Gillis / DNJ
Linda Ngo and her son Kolitha Sisalith, 7, try some new year candies during Chinese New Year celebration at the Discovery Center in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Feb. 6, 2009. John A. Gillis / DNJ
Eli Ward, 7, checks out his paper dragon during the Chinese New Year celebration at the Discovery Center in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Feb. 6, 2009. John A. Gillis / DNJ
The Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville practices the lion dance at the Nashville Friends Meeting House Feb.5, 2010. The group will perform the dance at many locations during the week of the Chinese New Year in mid-February. Dipti Vaidya / The Tennessean
Quingjun Li, left, talks with Grace Awh during the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville's Chinese New Year banquet at Wild Ginger restaurant in Franklin, Tenn. Jan. 30, 2011. Samuel M. Simpkins / The Tennessean
Lion Dance Team performer JoTing Wong dances during the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville's Chinese New Year banquet at Wild Ginger restaurant in Franklin, Tenn. Jan. 30, 2011. Samuel M. Simpkins / The Tennessean
CAAN Lion Dance Team performer Pegah Kadivar dances during the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville's Chinese New Year banquet at Wild Ginger restaurant in Franklin, Tenn. Jan. 30, 2011. Samuel M. Simpkins / The Tennessean
James Zhou, 8, isn't distracted from the buffet as a Chinese lion dancer approaches Jan. 21, 2012 at Golden Coast on West End Avenue. The Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville's Lion Dance and Group Drumming Team performed at the restaurant to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
A patron drops money into the mouth of a Chinese Lion as the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville's Lion Dance and Group Drumming Team performs at the Golden Coast on West End Ave. Jan. 21, 2012 to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Larry McCormack / The Tennessean
Mayor Karl Dean, front right, dots the eyes of the dragon during the Chinese New Year celebration at Eakin Elementary School on Jan. 21, 2012. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Xiao Wang leads the New Year Dragon during the Chinese New Year celebration at Eakin Elementary School Jan. 21, 2012. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
A Chinese lion looks over the crowd during the Chinese New Year celebration at Eakin Elementary School Jan. 21, 2012. George Walker IV / The Tennessean
Several areas were set up for crafts, writing lessons and food during the annual Chinese New Year celebration at the Discovery Center on Murfree Spring in Murfreesboro, Tenn., on Feb. 7, 2013. Helen Comer / DNJ
Amber Yang, 4, and Ruba Tobasei, 5, get a chance to try out chopsticks during the annual Chinese New Year Celebration at the Discovery Center on Murfree Spring in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Feb. 7, 2013. Helen Comer / DNJ
Nana Motohashi, who is nearly 2, watches as her mother Tazuko Motohashi fills their plate with a variety of Chinese foods during the annual Chinese New Year celebration at the Discovery Center on Murfree Spring in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Feb. 7, 2013. Helen Comer / DNJ
Bryce Bohon, 4, colors a picture for the Year of the Snake during the annual Chinese New Year celebration at the Discovery Center on Murfree Spring in Murfreesboro, Tenn., on Feb. 7, 2013. Helen Comer / DNJ
The Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville celebrates Chinese New Year with a lion dance group and drumming performance at Capital Asian Buffet on Nolensville Road on Feb. 16, 2013. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
Young dancers celebrate the Chinese New Year at Capital Asian Buffet on Nolensville Road Feb. 16, 2013. Shelley Mays / The Tennessean
The Chinese New Year celebration is underway at the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center on Feb. 10, 2018. Price Chambers / For The Tennessean
Organizer Jen-Jen Lin, front, leads a fun dance during the Chinese New Year celebration at Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center Feb. 10, 2018. Price Chambers / For The Tennessean
Organizer Jen-Jen Lin, center, leads a fun dance during the Chinese New Year celebration at the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center Feb. 10, 2018. Price Chambers / For The Tennessean
Lion dance performers entertain the crowd during the Chinese New Year celebration at the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center Feb. 10, 2018. Price Chambers / For The Tennessean
Cindy Hui-Lio does tai chi during the Chinese New Year celebration at the Vanderbilt Recreation and Wellness Center Feb. 10, 2018. Price Chambers / For The Tennessean
Julian Buchi-Fotre controls the head of the dragon while rehearsing the Chinese dragon dance outside of Eakin Elementary School Jan. 27, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Jen-Jen Lin, director of the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville, drums while rehearsing the Chinese dragon dance outside of Eakin Elementary School Jan. 27, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Julian Buchi-Fotre, left, controls the head of the dragon while rehearsing the Chinese dragon dance outside of Eakin Elementary School Jan. 27, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Jen-Jen Lin, center, director of the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville, joins hands with participants after rehearsing the Chinese dragon dance outside of Eakin Elementary School Jan. 27, 2019. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Look at these kids, MLK students in the Chinese language program. I try to encourage Chinese program learners to come together to present what they learn in their Chinese programs.
And it can’t be just language. It has to be arts and culture and languages all coming together.
Reading Chinese poetry and singing Chinese songs? Fantastic.
Ensworth lower school, Brentwood High, Nashville Chinese School, Franklin High and Independence High, they have programs with Chinese. It’s good for these students to see each other at New Year. It fosters community.
8. Hopes for the Chinese community in Nashville?
There are many small pockets of Chinese communities. And I hope they won’t divide themselves and they embrace each other.
9. Why is Plaza Mariachi part of this year’s celebration?
A lot of minorities are in Antioch, and we want to jam in with them!
Reach Brad Schmitt at brad@tennessean.com or 615-259-8384 and on Twitter @bradschmitt.
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Jen-Jen Lin, director of the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville, joins hands with participants after rehearsing the Chinese dragon dance outside Eakin Elementary School on Jan. 27, 2019. (Photo: Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean)
What: Lion dancing, dragon dance, food, martial arts, juggling, arts and crafts, and more
When: Noon to 3 p.m. Saturday (Feb. 9)
Where: Hillsboro Village at Blakemore and 21st Avenue South
Register online: www.ChineseArtsAlliance.org
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Ac 11:1-18. PETER VINDICATES HIMSELF BEFORE THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM FOR HIS PROCEDURE TOWARDS THE GENTILES.
1-11. the apostles and brethren . . . in Judea—rather, "throughout Judea."
2. they . . . of the circumcision—not the Jewish Christians generally, for here there were no other, but such as, from their jealousy for "the middle wall of partition" which circumcision raised between Jew and Gentile, were afterwards known as "they of the circumcision." They doubtless embraced apostles as well as others.
3, 4. Thou wentest in . . . But Peter rehearsed the matter, &c.—These objectors scruple not to demand from Peter, though the first among the apostles, an explanation of his conduct; nor is there any insinuation on Peter's part of disrespect towards his authority in that demand—a manifest proof that such authority was unknown both to the complainers and to himself.
12-18. we entered the man's house—No mention of Cornelius' name, much less of his high position, as if that affected the question. To the charge, "Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised," he simply speaks of the uncircumcised "man" to whom he had been divinely sent.
13. seen an angel—literally, "the angel," for the rumor took that definite shape.
14. Who shall tell thee words whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved—The historian makes the angel express this much more generally (Ac 10:6). So also the subsequent report of it by the deputies and by Cornelius himself to Peter (Ac 10:22, 32). But as Peter tarried with Cornelius certain days, and they doubtless talked over the wonderful scene together, perhaps this fuller and richer form of what the angel said was given to Peter; or the apostle himself may have expressed what the angel certainly designed by directing them to send for him. Observe, "salvation" is here made to hang upon "words," that is, the Gospel message concerning Christ. But on the "salvation" of Cornelius, see on Ac 10:34, 35. On that of his "house," see on Lu 19:10.
16, 17. Then remembered I the word . . . John . . . baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. Forasmuch then, &c.—that is, "Since God Himself has put them on a level with ourselves, by bestowing on them what the Lord Jesus pronounced the higher baptism of the Holy Ghost, would it not have been to withstand God if I had withheld from them the lower baptism of water, and kept aloof from them as still 'unclean?'"
18. held their peace and glorified God—Well had it been if, when Paul afterwards adduced equally resistless evidence in justification of the same line of procedure, this Jewish party had shown the same reverential and glad submission!
Then hath God also granted to the Gentiles, &c.—rather, "granted to the Gentiles also." (See a similar misplacement of "also" in Heb 12:1). To "grant repentance unto life"—that is, "such as issues in life" (compare 2Co 7:10, "repentance unto salvation")—is more than to be willing to pardon upon repentance [GROTIUS]. The case of Cornelius is so manifestly one of grace reigning in every stage of his religious history, that we can hardly doubt that this was just the feature of it which they meant here to express. And this is the grace that reigns in every conversion.
Ac 11:19-24. THE GOSPEL BEING PREACHED TO GENTILES AT ANTIOCH ALSO BARNABAS IS SENT THITHER FROM JERUSALEM, WHO HAILS THEIR ACCESSION AND LABORS AMONG THEM.
19. they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen—and who "went everywhere preaching the word" (Ac 8:4).
travelled as far as Phenice—that part of the Mediterranean coast which, commencing a little north of Cæsarea, stretches northwards for upwards of one hundred miles, halfway to Antioch.
and Cyprus—(See on Ac 4:36). An active commercial intercourse subsisted between Phenice and Cyprus.
and Antioch—near the head of the northeast coast of the Mediterranean, on the river Orontes, and containing a large colony of Jews, to whose religion there were there numerous proselytes. "It was almost an Oriental Rome, in which all the forms of the civilized life of the empire found some representative; and through the two first centuries of the Christian era it was what Constantinople became afterwards, 'the Gate of the East'" [HOWSON].
20. some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene—(see on Lu 23:26); as Lucius, mentioned in Ac 13:1.
spake unto the Grecians—rather, "the Greeks," that is, uncircumcised Gentiles (as the true reading beyond doubt is). The Gospel had, from the first, been preached to "the Grecians" or Greek-speaking Jews, and these "men of Cyprus and Cyrene" were themselves "Grecians." How, then, can we suppose that the historian would note, as something new and singular (Ac 11:22), that some of the dispersed Christians preached to them?
21. a great number believed—Thus the accession of Cornelius and his party was not the first admission of uncircumcised Gentiles into the Church. (See on Ac 10:1.) Nay, we read of no influence which the accession of Cornelius and his house had on the further progress of the Gospel among the Gentiles; whereas there here open upon us operations upon the Gentiles from quite a different quarter, and attended with ever growing success. The only great object served by the case of Cornelius was the formal recognition of the principles which that case afterwards secured. (See on Ac 15:19-29.)
22. sent . . . Barnabas . . . as far as Antioch—implying that even on the way to Antioch he found churches to visit [OLSHAUSEN]. It was in the first instance, no doubt, a mission of inquiry; and no one could be more suitable to inquire into the proceedings of those Cyprians and Cyrenians than one who was himself a "Grecian" of Cyprus (Ac 4:36), and "a son of consolation."
23. when he . . . had seen the grace of God—in the new converts.
was glad—owned and rejoiced in it at once as divine, though they were uncircumcised.
exhorted them all that with purpose of heart—as opposed to a hasty and fickle discipleship.
they would cleave unto the Lord—the Lord Jesus.
24. For he was a good man—The sense of "good" here is plainly "large-hearted," "liberal-minded," rising above narrow Jewish sectarianism, and that because, as the historian adds, he was "full of the Holy Ghost and of faith."
and much people were added unto the Lord—This proceeding of Barnabas, so full of wisdom, love, and zeal, was blessed to the great increase of the Christian community in that important city.
Ac 11:25, 26. BARNABAS, FINDING THE WORK IN ANTIOCH TOO MUCH FOR HIM, GOES TO TARSUS FOR SAUL—THEY LABOR THERE TOGETHER FOR A WHOLE YEAR WITH MUCH SUCCESS, AND ANTIOCH BECOMES THE HONORED BIRTHPLACE OF THE TERM CHRISTIAN.
25. Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus for to seek Saul—Of course, this was after the hasty despatch of Saul to Tarsus, no doubt by Barnabas himself among others, to escape the fury of the Jews at Jerusalem. And as Barnabas was the first to take the converted persecutor by the hand and procure his recognition as a disciple by the brethren at Jerusalem (Ac 9:27), so he alone seems at that early period to have discerned in him those peculiar endowments by virtue of which he was afterwards to eclipse all others. Accordingly, instead of returning to Jerusalem, to which, no doubt, he sent accounts of his proceedings from time to time, finding that the mine in Antioch was rich in promise and required an additional and powerful hand to work, he leaves it for a time, takes a journey to Tarsus, "finds Saul" (seemingly implying—not that he lay hid [BENGEL], but that he was engaged at the time in some preaching circuit—see on Ac 15:23), and returns with him to Antioch. Nor were his hopes disappointed. As co-pastors, for the time being, of the Church there, they so labored that the Gospel, even in that great and many-sided community, achieved for itself a name which will live and be gloried in as long as this world lasts, as the symbol of all that is most precious to the fallen family of man:—"The disciples were called CHRISTIANS first in Antioch." This name originated not within, but without, the Church; not with their Jewish enemies, by whom they were styled "Nazarenes" (Ac 24:5), but with the heathen in Antioch, and (as the form of the word shows) with the Romans, not the Greeks there [OLSHAUSEN]. It was not at first used in a good sense (as Ac 26:28; 1Pe 4:16 show), though hardly framed out of contempt (as DE WETTE, BAUMGARTEN, &c.); but as it was a noble testimony to the light in which the Church regarded Christ—honoring Him as their only Lord and Saviour, dwelling continually on His name, and glorying in it—so it was felt to be too apposite and beautiful to be allowed to die.
Ac 11:27-30. BY OCCASION OF A FAMINE BARNABAS AND SAUL RETURN TO JERUSALEM WITH A CONTRIBUTION FOR THE RELIEF OF THEIR SUFFERING BRETHREN.
27. came prophets from Jerusalem—inspired teachers, a class we shall afterwards frequently meet with, who sometimes, but not necessarily, foretold future events. They are classed next to apostles (1Co 12:28, 29; Eph 4:11).
28. that there should be great dearth throughout all the world—the whole Roman empire.
which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cæsar—Four famines occurred during his reign. This one in Judea and the adjacent countries took place, A.D. 41 [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 20.2,5]. An important date for tracing out the chronology of the Acts. (But this subject is too difficult and extensive to admit of being handled here).
29. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief, &c.—This was the pure prompting of Christian love, which shone so bright in those earliest days of the Gospel.
30. sent it to the elders—an office well known to be borrowed from the synagogue; after the model of which, and not at all of the temple, the Christian Churches were constituted by the apostles.
by the hands of Barnabas and Saul—This was Saul's SECOND VISIT TO JERUSALEM after his conversion.
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Orca At Infamous Marine Park Just Had A Baby — And People Are Worried
She was taken from her wild family too young to learn how to be a mom 💔
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts
When a young wild orca named Morgan was captured from the wild and sold to a marine park, she lost everything natural in her life — and now people are worried her life just got even worse.
Last week, Loro Parque, a controversial zoo and marine park in the Canary Islands, announced that Morgan, one of its resident orcas, gave birth to a new calf. While supporters of the park celebrated the news, animal welfare advocates took a different view — they believe that Morgan shouldn’t have had a baby in the first place.
Morgan and her newborn calf Facebook/Loro Parque
Prior to 2010, Morgan was a wild orca who lived freely in the ocean with her family members. But when she was found emaciated and weak in the Wadden Sea, the team at the Dolfinarium Harderwijk in the Netherlands captured Morgan and nursed her back to health.
But instead of returning her to the ocean once she was better, they shipped her to Loro Parque in 2011, an amusement park that makes money off its performing orcas — four of whom were borrowed from SeaWorld, although SeaWorld no longer lays claim to them.
Since then, Morgan has been forced to perform show after show at Loro Parque, and she’s often shown signs of distress. In 2016, Morgan was filmed intentionally beaching herself on two separate occasions, highly abnormal behavior.
Morgan beaching herself after a performance in 2016 | Georg Volk
It’s likely she did this to avoid aggression from her tankmates as she has been relentlessly bullied by her companions, Dr. Ingrid Visser, an orca biologist and cofounder of the Free Morgan Foundation, told The Dodo at the time. In fact, photos emerged of Morgan showing deep rake marks from other orcas’ teeth across her eye patch and belly.
Now Morgan is being faced with a new challenge — taking care of a baby she shouldn’t have had in the first place.
In the wild, female orcas have a lot of control over whom they mate with, according to Naomi Rose, a marine mammal scientist at the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI). If they’re not keen on mating with a particular male, they can just swim away. But in a captive environment like Loro Parque, Morgan probably couldn’t freely choose — while it’s possible the park artificially inseminated her with outside sperm, it’s more likely the father is one of the park’s two older male orcas, Keto or Tekoa.
Morgan with rake marks across her face | Free Morgan Foundation
Rose doesn’t believe the park should have ever allowed this to happen, mainly due to Morgan’s young age and her inexperience as a mom.
“A young orca is taught how to be a mom during her juvenile and adolescent life stages,” Rose told The Dodo. “She even babysits siblings, other relatives, and sometimes the offspring of her mother’s friends in the years leading up to her first birth. She intensifies this babysitting behavior (technically called alloparental care) during her first pregnancy. Then, when she gives birth, she is attended by ‘aunties’ — her mother, her actual aunts, her sisters, her cousins, other female podmates. She is not alone — she is assisted.”
“In captivity, obviously this tried-and-true system is subverted,” Rose added. “Young orcas often have no mentors and no opportunities to babysit. They grow up ignorant. They do their best after birth, but may literally not know what to do. This is the downside of sophisticated cognition — even mothering is not instinctive. You have to learn and if you don’t have the opportunity, you might fail at it.”
A very pregnant Morgan in August 2018 Facebook/Kathleen McGarr
There’s also the issue with Morgan’s milk production. Two days after giving birth, the park separated the baby from her mom, citing Morgan’s inability to produce enough milk. While it’s not clear if the park’s explanation is true, Rose points out that captivity makes it extremely difficult for an orca mom to nurse her baby, especially when she’s stuck in a smaller-than-usual tank.
“Physically, they need lots of space, because suckling in cetaceans is not a matter of an infant latching onto a teat,” Rose said. “Rather they position themselves next to their mother’s mammary glands ... and the mother pumps milk (very high in fat, so think squirting liquid-y cottage cheese!) into the calf’s mouth in the short space between the mammary opening and the calf’s mouth. So in nature, they glide together in this formation in a straight line long while the milk goes into the calf’s mouth — they might manage hundreds of feet of swimming this way before the ‘seal’ between calf’s mouth and mother’s skin is broken.”
“But in captivity, the mother has to bank and turn when she reaches the end of the tank and the seal is broken every time she does that,” Rose added. “So she gets a few squirts of milk into her calf up one side a tank and then banks and turns and does it again down the other. Not the most efficient way to nurse.”
Morgan performing a show while pregnant Facebook/Kathleen McGarr
The park has now returned the calf to Morgan and, in a recent blog post, wrote that staffers were supplementing Morgan’s milk with bottle-feeding. Yet Rose remains skeptical about what’s going on at the park.
“I don’t trust anything Loro Parque says, frankly,” Rose said. “They’ve already put them back together, so it’s unlikely that it was insufficient milk production, because removing the calf would have made that worse, not better — the presence of a suckling infant is part of what stimulates milk production! I wonder if it was more that Morgan was behaving in a way that made them fear rejection, as happened twice with Kohana [another female orca at the park], but then Morgan actually seemed interested in returning to the calf, so they put them back together.”
In 2010, Kohana, one of the two other resident female orcas at Loro Parque, gave birth to a male calf named Adan, whom the staff had to raise after Kohana rejected him. After Kohana’s failure at motherhood the first time, the park still allowed her to get pregnant again. In 2012, she gave birth to a female calf named Vicky, but Kohana rejected her as well. Once again, the park stepped in to raise the calf, but Vicky died the following year.
Morgan at Loro Parque Facebook/From The Dolphin's Point of View
“Kohana rejected both her calves, not necessarily because she didn’t care, but because she was ignorant [of how to mother],” Rose said. “I suspect the same for Morgan and I do not trust Loro Parque’s characterization of her mothering skills. We’ll see what happens — they’ve already separated the two once and may have to again.”
Unfortunately, Rose thinks Morgan has been held in captivity for too long now to be safely returned to the wild, although she could be retired to a seaside sanctuary.
“Frankly, I could be wrong,” Rose said. “If she were returned to her natal pod, maybe someone would recognize her or she might recognize them and maybe they could work it out. But I am not confident of that.”
To help create a seaside sanctuary where orcas like Morgan could comfortably retire, you make a donation to the Whale Sanctuary Project.
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After Rang-tan, Iceland's Christmas ad embraces Disney's Frozen 2
By John McCarthy-01 November 2019 10:00am
UK retailer Iceland hopes a partnership with Disney's forthcoming animation Frozen 2 will help get customers through the door this Christmas.
The frozen retailer is playing it safe after 2018's high risk/high reward campaign came with its own fairytale-style happy ending after some controversy.
Last Christmas, Clearcast blocked Iceland's efforts to air the tale of Rang-tan the orangutang on TV. Originally a Greenpeace ad, created by Mother, Iceland's adapted spot was found to be in breach of political ad rules despite the retailer's best efforts to underscore its palm oil policies.
However, the creative racked up millions of YouTube views to become one of the most viewed spots of 2018. It also raised the issue of palm oil deforestation and highlighted Iceland's efforts to remove it from its own brands.
However, in the safe hands of Disney and its in-house creative agency, Iceland now hopes to drive footfall to stores without necessarily delivering the season's most rumbustious campaign.
Magic of Frozen
For 2019, Iceland's festive focus is to showcase the 'Magic of Frozen’ — both the goods it sells and the much-anticipated Disney sequel.
Marketing director Neil Hayes, who took the role on in summer 2018, told The Drum he had secured the Disney partnership even before launching the now famous Greenpeace spot, just weeks into his job.
The retailer was without a creative agency at the time (it has since appointed Leo Burnett) but the fates aligned twice; first in Greenpeace and Iceland's palm oil messages converging, and then in the Disney brand partnerships team noticing that Iceland could definitely work with the 'Frozen' IP. Hayes made his decision three-minutes into the initial meeting.
"We organised Frozen before I even came across the idea to run Rang-tan," he explained. "Frozen has been on the cards for some time. Rang-tan will be a hard one to top, but if this comes close I will be very happy."
As the deforested home of Rang-tan the orangutan gives way to the safer, yet, colder, climes of Frozen 2, viewers will be treated to a 40-second hero film where protagonists Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven play charades in a sitting room, celebrating their favourite things about Christmas. This is interspersed with footage of a real family.
Disney’s in-house creative agency and Walt Disney Animation Studios created the ads in conjunction with the movie. Hayes said the same creative team making the movie, animated and rendered the spot in their downtime, as part of their commercial commitments.
Now Hayes hopes to drive footfall to Iceland's 950 UK stores with the tie-in. With a hot property and a strong brand alignment, Iceland is the first of the big supermarkets to usher in Christmas.
He explained that the retailer's Christmas range typically launches mid-November, furthermore, the follow up to the 2013 movie hits UK cinemas on 22 November.
"It is a magical partnership so we don't want to sit on it for too long. We are really keen to get it out there."
Another factor is just how early the frozen retailer shifts Christmas dinners, he revealed it sells a surprising amount of frozen Christmas turkeys in November, they don't spoil so it makes sense to get the ball rolling earlier. "A lot of so-called fresh turkeys are pre-frozen then sold on after being defrosted so you might as well buy one that is fresh as the day it died from Iceland," he said.
"We are well represented in many communities, have a great offering, particularly at Christmas and the role of our advertising is to remind people we're good and they should visit."
The ad will air from 1 November on ITV and will be followed up with a series of shorter spots. Furthermore, press and out of home executions are to come, making full use of the Frozen 2 property.
But in pulling the campaign together, Iceland has launched an exclusive Disney’s Frozen 2 range of frozen treats.
The company said: "Iceland’s rich history of frozen food innovation allowed the Disney Kitchen products to fit seamlessly into its range."
But the real traffic driver will likely be a metre tall Jumbo Olaf soft toy (£40), the largest Olaf on the market. It is sold exclusively in the supermarket and online and "has gone down really well with kids already," said Hayes.
It will likely not be the only retailer putting highly desired toys out into the world. Aldi's Kevin the Carrot often pulls crowds, and John Lewis has also merchandising its mascots each year.
What about palm oil?
By embracing the popular Disney brand, Iceland is putting less emphasis on its CSR efforts. Hayes assures Iceland is still looking to become more sustainable, "we are not changing focus, this is just about timing".
In 2018 it committed to becoming the first major retailer, globally, to eliminate plastic packaging from all of its own-label products by 2024. And in 2018 it removed palm oil as an ingredient from its own label ranges.
"Last year, we spent 12 months of grueling work removing palm oil from our own brands - all done in a low key way but when the opportunity arose with Rang-tan, we grabbed it. It was the best way of celebrating the brilliant work that we've done."
Although more work has continued this year removing single-used plastics from shelves, Hayes said: "The most genuine thing to do would be to celebrate it when it is done. We are happy with the progress and are offering customers a plastic-free Christmas."
He concluded: "Frozen has such an obvious connection to us, we couldn't turn it down."
It’s not particularly unusual with a brand to tie in with movie properties, in 2017 we saw Paddington and M&S and in 2018 John Lewis set the stage for Elton John biopic Rocketman.
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US, China 'on the cusp' of possible end to trade war
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"We're trying to get that rectified, get that fixed, make it fair and reciprocal and I think we're on the cusp of doing that and I hope all those tariffs will go away, all those barriers," Pompeo(pic) told KCCI television in Des Moines, where he was attending a farmers conference.
WASHINGTON/BEIJING: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday he thought the United States and China were "on the cusp" of a deal to end their trade war, adding to positive signs about negotiations from both sides of the Pacific.
Pompeo, in a series of interviews with Iowa radio and television stations, said he hoped a deal could be agreed in coming weeks to make trade between the world's two largest economies fairer and eliminate China's retaliatory tariffs on Iowa farm commodities such as soybeans.
"We're trying to get that rectified, get that fixed, make it fair and reciprocal and I think we're on the cusp of doing that and I hope all those tariffs will go away, all those barriers," Pompeo told KCCI television in Des Moines, where he was attending a farmers conference.
His comments echoed positive sentiments earlier on Monday from White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett and a spokesman for China's parliament.
Hassett told Fox Business Network a deal with China was now possible, given recent progress in talks reported by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.
"I think that it looks like Ambassador Lighthizer has made a lot of progress, and we might get there on China," Hassett said, adding that details of any deal were still being worked out.
"I think everybody's hopeful, as the markets are, that this is going to get to the finish line sometime soon," Hassett said.
The United States has demanded that China make substantial changes to its laws and practices to protect U.S. intellectual property, end forced transfers of U.S. technology to Chinese firms, curb generous industrial subsidies and open the domestic market to U.S. companies.
In addition, Washington has sought increased Chinese purchases of U.S. goods, including farm and energy commodities and manufactured products, to reduce a U.S. trade deficit with China that USTR estimates at more than $417 billion (316.6 billion pounds) for 2018.
ENFORCEMENT NOT AGREED
People familiar with the talks told Reuters the two sides still had substantial work ahead to reach agreement on a way to ensure China's follow through on any pledges. Talks could still collapse if a deal cannot be reached on enforcement of these so-called "structural" issues.
"We are hearing things are pretty far along and the enforcement issues are the biggest sticking point," said Erin Ennis, senior vice president of the U.S.-China Business Council, a group representing U.S. firms doing business in China.
While progress has been made on language to address U.S. demands on IP, subsidies and market access, she added: "It would be difficult to finalise the negotiation if the enforcement plan isn't worked out."
In Beijing, some Chinese officials and trade experts say they now increasingly anticipate any concessions to fall short of massive changes to China's state-driven economic model sought by the Trump administration. But with President Donald Trump backing away from a March 1 deadline to raise tariffs on Chinese goods, signs of slowing U.S. growth and a re-election campaign heating up, they say Trump's appetite to hold out for deep, immediate changes may be waning.
World markets were buoyed early on Monday by investors' optimism for a deal, but U.S. stocks closed lower after U.S. construction spending data for December fell unexpectedly, causing concerns that fourth quarter growth was weaker than estimated. [.N]
In Beijing, Zhang Yesui, spokesman for China's parliament, said that China and countries around the world welcomed "substantive progress" in the trade talks.
"We hope that both sides can continue to step up consultations, to reach a mutually-beneficial, win-win agreement," Zhang told a news briefing ahead of Tuesday's opening of China's largely rubber-stamp parliament.
SOME TARIFFS MAY STAY
Goldman Sachs said in a note to clients that Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping appear "more likely" to strike a deal that lifts some tariffs when they meet later in March.
"Our base case is that an agreement would leave some US tariffs in place, potentially lifting them in stages as various commitments under the agreement have been met. We nevertheless expect some US tariffs to remain in place into 2020," the investment bank said.
It added that oil, liquefied natural gas and other energy products would likely have the biggest potential to fuel U.S. export growth to China under such an agreement.
On Sunday, Trump said on Twitter that trade talks were progressing well and that he had asked China to immediately remove all tariffs on U.S. agricultural products while delaying his own plan to impose 25 percent tariffs on Chinese goods.
A summit between Trump and Xi could occur around March 27 to finalise a deal, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a source briefed on negotiations.
A representative for the White House declined comment on the ongoing negotiations. - Reuters
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Iraq suicide bombers kill 11 fighters loyal to cleric Sadr
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SAMARRA: Two suicide bombers targeted a base of an Iraqi armed group led by Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, killing 11 fighters, the army said Thursday.
The first attack took place late in the day near Tharthar Lake southwest of Samarra, a longtime stronghold of Sunni jihadist groups some 100km north of Baghdad.
The blast killed seven fighters and wounded three, the army said, adding it was carried out by “a suicide terrorist” — its standard term for Islamic State group jihadists.
Later, a second attacker blew up a car packed with explosives at the same site, killing another four fighters, the army said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility.
Sadr’s Saraya al-Salam (Peace Brigades) force took part in the gruelling Iraqi operation against IS after the jihadists seized a third of Iraq and swathes of neighbouring Syria in 2014.
In late 2017, Iraq declared victory over the jihadist group, but its sleeper cells continue to carry out attacks across the country. — AFP
One-fifth of US teen girls reported experiencing major depression in 2017. — Tgraphic/Shutterstock.com
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·September 25, 2019
Daily Bulletin: Shoe Drops on Impeachment, and Gun Reform Talks Grind to a Halt
Good morning, Bulletin readers. As impeachment drama seizes Washington, the window for a bipartisan deal on gun legislation may have just closed. That story leads your mid-week roundup.
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WHAT TO KNOW TODAY
Gun reform talks stall as Ukraine scandal ramps up. On Tuesday morning, in a call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Trump told her that the White House was “getting close to a solution” that might break the impasse on new federal gun safety measures. Yesterday afternoon (as you have perhaps heard), Pelosi announced that the House would pursue a formal impeachment inquiry against the president. Senators negotiating with the administration over a package that Trump would support say they last were in touch with the president or his aides last Wednesday and Thursday — when reports began to swirl that Trump may have tried to pressure the Ukrainian president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a potential 2020 rival. “I’m afraid the ship may have sailed” on passing a package of new gun laws, said Dick Durbin, the Senate Minority Whip.
Trump defends opposition to arms ban in U.N. speech. In his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, the president said he will “never ratify the U.N. Arms trade treaty,” which regulates the international weapons trade, because it “would threaten the liberties of law-abiding American citizens.” Trump withdrew from the Arms Trade Treaty in April, a largely symbolic gesture since Congress never ratified the treaty signed by President Obama in 2013. From The Trace archives: How a pact meant to regulate the international trafficking of weapons of war became a target for gun rights conspiracy theories.
The Army issued a warning to service members about mass shooting threats for “Joker” screenings. The Army said it received FBI intelligence about threatening social media posts related to the so-called incel subculture and the release next month of the Warner Bros. movie. The guidance was called precautionary and not related to specific plots. However, a separate Army memo issued Monday said credible intelligence obtained by Texas law enforcement described “disturbing and very specific chatter” about a threat to a theater.
Also tied to the movie’s release: Families of Aurora shooting victims asked Warner Bros. to “actively lobby for gun reform.” Seven years after a gunman targeted a showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Colorado, families of three of the victims, along with two of the survivors, wrote a letter to the studio asking it to “end political contributions to candidates who take money from the NRA and vote against gun reform.”
The NYPD is adopting guidelines aimed at reducing police officer suicides. The department plans to hire full-time mental health professionals, overhaul its health and wellness trainings, beef up risk assessment, and establish a mandatory program to help officers nearing retirement to transition out of the department. The recommendations follow the gun suicides of nine NYPD officers this year. The City Council has also proposed legislation aimed at expanding mental health care access for first responders, as The Trace reported last week.
Pennsylvania Democrats voiced frustration over legislative inaction on gun violence. The state House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday advanced a bill that would speed up the timeline for a gun surrender following an involuntary psychiatric commitment, but the committee’s GOP chairman said he wouldn’t address any other gun safety legislation this session, including measures to expand background checks and institute a red flag law. The news drew a rebuke from both the Democratic governor and the mayor of Pittsburgh, where 11 people were fatally shot in a synagogue last October.
Gun rights activists petitioned the Supreme Court over Massachusetts’s assault weapons ban. The petition, which also includes a group of gun owners and dealers, is asking the high court to weigh in on the state’s 2004 ban on certain semiautomatic rifles and ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, which was signed into law by then-Governor Mitt Romney.
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill that would create a national clearinghouse for school security recommendations. The group would be overseen by the Department of Homeland Security and seek input from experts before issuing guidance. The idea was first proposed by the Federal Commission on School Safety, which was formed in response to the Parkland massacre.
A man threatened a mass shooting at the University of Texas. The 25-year old was arrested at an Austin hospital on Sunday after police said he repeatedly described wanting to go to the school’s Austin campus to shoot people. His Facebook page contained photos “where he displays white supremacist imagery and points guns at the camera,” according to court documents.
DATA POINT
Training employees to respond to mass shootings is now a $3 billion industry, Jillian Peterson, an assistant professor at Hamline University, told CNN. But there are huge questions about the effectiveness and propriety of the various products and services that companies are pushing.
– Jennifer Mascia
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The Second-Season Premiere of ‘Hangar 1: The UFO Files’
Makes sense, but prove it
By Billy Cox
De Void
The second-season premiere of “Hangar 1: The UFO Files” last Friday night on The History Channel’s H2 subsidiary was, as feared, a stylistic rehash of season one’s attention-deficit-jangled format — overproduced, amped up with gratuitous audio elements, and presenting speculation as fact. Don’t like the narrator's voice? No problem — “Hangar 1” relies on three voices to tell the single story of an alleged UFO encounter with U.S. forces in Vietnam in 1968. Is 43 minutes worth of programming on a single incident too much? No worries there, either. Six segments, roughly seven minutes apiece on multiple cases. You won’t need coffee, man.
What’s a little more disconcerting is how the opening installment, “UFOs at War,” seems to undermine the efforts of the Mutual UFO Network — from whom the case files are ostensibly borrowed — to advance its credibility even as the cable show attempts to broaden its base. Having survived 45 years now largely on the strength of its volunteer members, many of whom are sticklers for accuracy, its televised incarnation is clearly willing to cut corners for drama. Let’s focus on the main takeaway line from last week’s debut: “Lessons learned in Korea and Vietnam eventually led to a change in military protocol that prohibited any engagement with these unidentified aircraft.”
Given the potentially catastrophic countermeasures documented by military pilots, domestic and foreign, during close encounters over the last half century, backing away from a dogfight seems like a prudent option. But MUFON gives no source whatsoever for its claim. Jan Aldrich, an Army veteran who maintains the indispensable historical archives at Project 1947, is puzzled by “Hangar 1’s” logic. “The military always retain the right of self-defense, so a possible hostile act could have a reaction esp. in a war zone,” he states in an email. “... What protocol? No reference given. If you are going to make such a statement, better be prepared to back it up.”
In fact, during the 1950s, the Defense Department took an aggressive stance against UFOs’ repeated and infuriating affronts to sovereign American air space, especially during the Cold War. “The jet pilots are and have been under orders to investigate unidentified objects and to shoot them down, if they can’t talk them down,” stated a USAF flack, one Lt. Col. Moncel Monts. If only someone had saved the memo. But committing that policy to paper, and/or reversing that policy on paper, would be a risky move, according to former NICAP investigator Don Berliner.
“There were a lot of protests back then against the shoot-down orders, but I never saw those orders in print,” recalls Berliner, who went on to establish the Fund for UFO Research. “Maybe those orders were passed from person to person, but writing them down seems unlikely. That would actually confirm their existence and that would blow the lid off this thing.”
Ever the diplomat, Robert Powell, MUFON’s director of research, takes a pass when asked to comment on “Hangar 1.”
Suspicious of USAF behavior during and after the 2008 incident in which a monstro-sized UFO appeared to buzz President Bush’s Texas ranch, Powell co-authored MUFON’s analysis of federal radar records to reconstruct the chronology. Strange how the USAF failed to contribute anything at all to that end, even as the FAA and the National Weather Service had no trouble complying with FOIA laws. Strange how no sentinel F-16s were anywhere near the untranspondered bogey as it prepared to puncture restricted air space above the “Western White House,” especially considering how the warbirds pounced all over conventional planes that broke the zone in 2004, 2007, and later in 2008.
Still, proving the military has a non-engagement policy regarding UFOs is as tall an order as proving it had an open-season directive.
“Unless you’re in a war zone, I don’t think a military pilot would have the authority to fire on an unknown without somebody above them authorizing it,” says Powell. “And opening fire on something just because it’s unknown? What if you screw up and shoot down an airplane or a helicopter? And you risk hurting somebody on the ground, even if you’re in a military operating area. These things are almost mystical — when you fire on them it doesn’t do anything to them anyway.
“I think if we ever shoot at one, it’d have to be over open water, in the ocean.”
So yeah, if you’re going to do a story about what’s fair game in the sky, then please, j-school 101, source the freakin’ policy. Unless, of course, you’re not doing journalism. Then you’re doing “Hangar 1.”
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Rise Gold attempts to reopen once lucrative Idaho-Maryland Gold Mine
News | December 9, 2019
John Orona
The site of Rise Gold’s exploratory drilling has been cleared of all equipment along East Bennett Road. The gold mining company has decided it wants to reopen the Idaho-Maryland Mine.
Elias Funez/efunez@theunion.com
After two years of exploratory drilling at the flooded Idaho-Maryland Mine just east of the Grass Valley city limit, Rise Gold Corporation has submitted a permit application that would allow it to reopen what was once the second largest lode gold producer in the United States.
The mine produced 129,000 ounces of gold per year before being shut down by the U.S. government in 1942 to focus resources on the war effort. Previous attempts to revive the gold mine in the 1950s, 1980s and most recently in 2010 have all failed due to varying combinations of financial distress and community pushback.
“Everything that’s been designed has been designed for the purposes of minimizing the impacts of the project,” Rise Gold President Ben Mossman said. “Because of the historic permitting of the mine we were able to understand what the most important issues are to the community and how to mitigate those at the start of the design stage.”
The 93 acres of surface land and 2,800 acres of mineral rights that comprise the Idaho-Maryland Mine project were bought by Rise Gold after its previous owner spent nearly a decade trying to get the project past the permitting stage before ultimately failing to produce an environmental impact report that satisfied the community.
The permit application was filed after the company completed more than 67,000 feet of exploration core drilling which, according to Rise Gold, demonstrated a continuation of gold mineralization in both the Idaho and Brunswick gold veins below the historic mine level about a mile below the surface.
The company was allowed to do exploratory drilling due to the M1 zoning classification of the area but will need to have the area rezoned by the county, receive approval for its clean-up plan and obtain a use permit and variance before the planned deep underground mining and above ground gold processing can begin.
That process is expected to take at least a year and doesn’t include other permits that will need to be obtained by outside agencies such as the State Water Resources Control Board and the Northern Sierra Air Quality Management District.
Grass Valley was the lead agency during the last attempt to reopen the mine. According to Nevada County Planning Director Brian Foss, Grass Valley had the option of taking the role of lead agency on the project because it is within its sphere of influence. It declined this time as it would have had to annex the project into the city,
Once the county reviews the application it will hire a third party consultant to create a draft environmental impact report, the step the previous owner never completed following demands to address traffic, air quality, noise and water concerns.
While many technical and environmental documents were submitted along with the permit application and can be found on the county’s website, the traffic, groundwater hydrology and air quality studies will not be available until January, Mossman said.
In 2017, the Environmental Protection Agency ranked the top 50 abandoned mines in California in terms of risk to residential areas, recreation areas and the environment.
The Idaho-Maryland Mine ranked as the most outstanding mine in need of abatement overall, first in waterborne residential exposure, second in direct residential exposure and second in waterborne ecological exposure. The ranking takes into account factors like mine size and proximity to schools when determining the potential impact.
According to Sierra Fund CEO Elizabeth Martin, the greenhouse gas emissions from transporting the proposed 1,000 tons of mined rock per day away from the site and the impact on local water wells are the biggest concerns with reopening the mine.
“There’s an enormous amount of water underground and they have to move it aside to get to the gold, so that means what used to be your nice well down in this area is suddenly sucked dry because you have a pump somewhere down there literally sucking the water out,” Martin said. “One could imagine what that would be like to have huge trucks full of material many times an hour driving through downtown Grass Valley. One can imagine the transportation impacts would likely be raised.”
According to Rise Gold, it does not anticipate running into the same environmental challenges as previous owners because it won’t have the ceramic manufacturing setup previously proposed which significantly contributed to air quality emissions.
The company also plans to construct a pipeline of potable water to supply to about two dozen residents along East Bennett Road whose wells may be affected by draining water from the mine, a move it said is purely precautionary.
Water removed from the site would be treated through aeration followed by filtration through a manganese dioxide filter in a man-made pond on the site before an estimated 500-1,200 gallons per minute are discharged into Wolf Creek.
If the mine is allowed to reopen, Rise Gold would renovate the existing Brunswick Shaft that towers over the property and extends 3,400 feet below the surface to move rocks out of the mine. They also plan to construct a second shaft extending 3,280 feet below the surface as well as several buildings to house the mineral processing plants and operational facilities.
The company expects the project would create 300 direct jobs and as many as 1,200 in total based on a 3.9 workforce multiplier for the mining industry.
No cyanide or mercury would be used in the mineral processing.
“It is too early to define the implications of the proposed reopening of the mine, because we simply do not have adequate information at this point in time,” Board of Supervisors Chairman Richard Anderson said in an email. “On one hand, there may be local economic benefit. On the other, there may be significant environmental impact. The project-review process is intended to reveal these aspects so as to allow the board to make an informed decision.”
To contact Staff Writer John Orona, email jorona@theunion.com or call 530-477-4229.
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Women in Learning 2019
What happened at our inaugural gender equality conference
Already, a week has passed since our inaugural Women in Learning conference last week at the Ham Yard Hotel in London – and what an afternoon it was.
I’ve put on a lot of events as a vendor in my tenure in marketing. Conferences, expos, client days and breakfasts – the lot. But this was different. The buzz was palpable. And never have I seen such a positive response from both attendees and those on social media (the #womeninlearning hashtag was alive on both Twitter and LinkedIn). In particular, thanks to Sukh Pabial for live-tweeting; his insights were brilliant. The drinks were flowing, the speakers were….err….speaking. And everyone seemed to really take something tangible and visceral from the day.
So, shall we get started?
Contextualising the challenges with Kate Graham
We started the day with Kate Graham sharing some jaw-dropping insights from her recent survey. Apart from the astonishing fact that the World Economic Forum forecasts that the overall gender gap is not predicted to close for 108 years, Kate also explored the more nuanced complexities of the learning industry and the challenges women are facing within it.
One of the most compelling pieces of data she collected was around the sentiments of the challenges in our industry. When asked, those in her survey specified that the top three things they thought, overall, were challenging women in learning today:
Personal/family
Lack of opportunities
However, when you break this down by gender, women cite a completely different layer of perceived challenges. Their top three challenges were:
Nearly 30% of female respondents stated that their gender was the key challenge for them. Clearly, we have work to do.
Women learning leadership from Nicola Kilner
We then moved on to a really engaging Q&A session with Nicola Kilner, CEO of the burgeoning beauty brand DECIEM. Having started just 5 years ago, this business has grown to a gargantuan £300m turnover, and with Nicola at the helm they are endeavouring to disrupt the market with the mantra: kindness is the new cool.
The conversation between Kate and Nicola was really candid and engaging, and Nicola’s authentic, natural leadership was clear to see. She discussed how now L&D has become a vital part of their business as they continue to grow, with the function reporting directly to her. Real, honest stories which didn’t feel trite – how refreshing.
Good insight from Nicola. Kindness isn’t a female trait. People want to be treated with kindness and respect. If you’re not treating your workforce in such ways you’ll just end up losing people. #WomenInLearning
— Sukh Pabial (@sukhpabial) July 5, 2019
I love this. The leadership development at Deciem is from leaders of organisation, through 5 mins videos each day over 8 weeks. Active choice to not bring in third party to deliver. Nicola sees it as her responsibility to provide leadership developed herself. #WomenInLearning
Real stories, real women
After a swift break, everyone returned to their seats to hear from two wonderfully honest women currently holding senior L&D roles in very different business. Initially, Julie Brayson, Head of Organisational Development at The Card Factory came on stage and told of us her trials being a young, working mum from a council estate.
Like many of us, Julie didn’t start her career in L&D and talked in detail about the bumpy road she travelled as a working mother in businesses which didn’t support or facilitate progression. Her goals, like many, were around achieving a better wage for her family and were not necessarily a barometer for her ambition. She talked about how things haven’t really changed all that much for women since the 90’s when she started her career and stated that finding mentors, inspiring others and not waiting for someone to tell you to move is critical to women’s success.
Catherine Cape then joined the stage. As the Head of Talent and Development at Deutsche Bank, she had some really inspiring insights into what it took for her to be a successful L&D professional and still balance her home life. Speaking directly and sincerely, she dove into a very honest story about her journey, but also much more about female perceptions of themselves and their behaviours.
She highlighted the importance of carving out our own journeys, being honest and asking for what you want and need. She compounded this with assertions around the perceptions of being a ‘pushy woman’ (asking for what you want and need does not make you pushy) and how we need to evolve away from these ideas to be more successful.
Threads of thought and themes
The final session of the day saw a panel discussion led by Donald H Taylor, including Jane Daly from Towards Maturity, Kristina Tsiritokis from DECIEM and Catherine Cape from Deutsche Bank. Giving the audience free reign on the order of questions, our panels dove straight into some very open discussions around the challenges each woman has faced and indeed advice for our younger selves.
Key themes from the Women in Learning conference
One of the themes that emerged the most for me was the idea of authenticity, being ourselves more and being more human. We talked a lot throughout the day how the expectations of women in the workplace (from what they wear, to how they behave) are real, and indeed how we can start to break these down by being true to ourselves and challenging norms.
Some of the other key points that I had written down in my notes included:
Learning is the new loyalty: Getting buy-in, investing in staff and their development is a vital way for businesses to retain employees.
Don’t be afraid to fail/lean into uncomfortable situations: Many of our speakers talked about the necessity of failure and how, when addressed properly, can provide vital opportunities for improvement. This means getting comfortable with being uncomfortable, and that’s OK!
Discover mentors, build communities and explore outside your sphere to develop: If you want to nurture a growth mindset, it’s critical to find mentors who can help and support you. Equally, use the communities you have at your disposal to grow.
We’re in L&D, not A&E: One well worth remembering when we feel it’s all a bit too much.
Addressing and understanding your thoughts is powerful: Kristina said one of the most memorable things of the day for me: “Just because you think it, doesn’t make it true.” Many women attending the day confessed to being overthinkers, so this mantra can help to allow space to challenge your own thoughts before you react to them.
It truly was an unbelievable afternoon, and this is just the beginning. The sparks are flying, let’s hope we’re starting some fires too.
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About Maastricht University
At Maastricht University we go the extra mile. Students and staff choose Maastricht for its pioneering character. The youngest university in the Netherlands, we introduced the Problem Based Learning system. An innovative way of learning that stimulates our students to develop their personal academic skills. It is one of the added values of our university, which contributes to make our graduates attractive employees. Our employment rate is 93%.
Our top research is focussed on three university-wide themes – Europe and a Globalising World, Learning and Innovation, and Quality of Life. Curiosity driven and applied research results in solutions for global issues. Cultured Lab Meat has been invented in Maastricht. It represents the crucial first step in finding a sustainable alternative to meat production. Our innovative medical devices like special hearing equipment help patients to uplift their daily lives. In the slums of India people live longer thanks to our smoke reducing cook stove.
Located in the heart of Europe, with over 100 nationalities, UM is home to the most international student body in the Netherlands. The majority of our programmes embrace international themes and are taught either entirely or partly in English. We approach problems from a variety of perspectives. In this way, our ‘international classroom’ serves to prepare students for the rapidly changing and globalising labour market.
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Vietnam ranked most complex country in Asia Pacific for accounting and tax compliance
Only Turkey, Brazil, Italy and Greece are more complex for businesses than Vietnam, while China and India also make the global top 10 in the inaugural Financial Complexity Index.
Vietnam is the most complex country in Asia Pacific for Accounting and Tax compliance – just beating its giant and complex neighbour, China - according to TMF Group’s inaugural Financial Complexity Index 2017.
The leading provider of global business and compliance services ranked 94 jurisdictions across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas, with 1 being most complex and 94 the least complex. Hong Kong came in at 91 as the easiest place in APAC for compliance from an accounting and tax perspective; only the Cayman Islands, BVI and UAE were ranked less complex for business across the world.
In determining the rankings with its in-house accounting and tax experts, TMF Group used four weighted complexity parameters, considering the accounting and tax rules and regulations in different jurisdictions, and risks associated with non-compliance.
TMF Group also surveyed its in-house experts to get a local view on emerging compliance trends, and how they are viewed in Asia. These results show the traditional worries of regulatory and tax compliance are still top of mind for accounting professionals around APAC, though current trends such as BEPS and transfer pricing are starting to creep into the collective consciousness.
Learn more on our on-demand webinar: Reducing barriers to entry and expansion - navigating financial complexity in Asia Pacific.
TOP 5 MOST COMPLEX JURISDICTIONS IN ASIA PACIFIC FOR ACCOUNTING AND TAX COMPLIANCE
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MOST IMPORTANT COMPLIANCE TRENDS FOR APAC PROFESSIONALS
Risk of non-compliance with local regulation: 24%
Tax compliance (possibly of tax audits): 20%
Accounting complexity: 16%
Future impact of technology: 14%
BEPS and transfer pricing: 12%
Asia Pacific has three jurisdictions in the top 10: Vietnam (5), China (7) and India (10). Complexity around invoicing, filing and the conducting of audits is high with very specific documentation and processes applied.
The burden of reporting creates headaches in Vietnam. Regular filings are required alongside various monthly, quarterly and semi-annual statistics reports, foreign contractor tax and VAT returns, and numerous yearly statutory reports.
Tax is a real issue for businesses operating in Vietnam. The VAT system is very confusing and requires expertise to understand its exemptions, refunds, various VAT rates and proper filing of VAT. Businesses must correctly determine which VAT calculation method best suits the business, and ensure tax processes are followed correctly.
Elsewhere in APAC, India places 10th globally thanks to a tax system that’s complex and multi-layered. Business leaders have a close eye on the 1 July introduction of a Goods and Services Tax (GST), established as a comprehensive indirect tax on manufacture, sale and consumption of goods and services throughout India as a way to replace taxes levied by both central and state governments.
Commenting on the rankings, TMF Group’s Head of Asia Pacific Paolo Tavolato said:
“Vietnam is one of the most dynamic economies in ASEAN, growing quickly and looking to claim a place as the world’s manufacturing hub – but many foreign nationals find its regulations on business unnecessary and overly burdensome.
“A multitude of business-related licenses must be obtained before one can compliantly conduct business in Vietnam, and this is proving a barrier to many foreign companies moving their Asian manufacturing bases to the country – usually from China.
“The government is making moves to improve this, adopting the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and working to improve and streamline the tax system. It’s also looking to gain investor confidence by bringing the Vietnam Accounting Standard and System (VAS) to be in line with the IFRS.
“We remain confident that these moves to increased transparency and easier reporting will see someone else take the top ranking next year, but remain on hand to make the move to Vietnam easier for those who don’t want to wait.”
To download the full report please visit: tmf-group.com/FCI2017
Replay the webinar on-demand: Reducing barriers to entry and expansion - navigating financial complexity in Asia Pacific
Samily Kwok, PR & Communications Executive, APAC: Samily.Kwok@tmf-group.com
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TRIUMF Team Wins CCS Innovation Grant
Dr. Tom Ruth and UVic Ph.D. student Jason Crawford have received a Canadian Cancer Society Innovation grant to support their research on Astatine-211, an alpha-emitting radioisotope which carries great potential for the treatment of late-stage cancer. The CCS Innovation grant was established to support unique and creative research that will have an impact on cancer treatment. Valued at nearly $200 000 over two years, the grant will fund two related investigations into the production and medical application of At-211 at TRIUMF.
Alpha-emitters such as At-211 are a choice method for treating tumours because alpha particles have a very short range and thus do not travel far in tissue, yet at the same time are extremely damaging. As a result, when the biomolecule containing At-211 is taken up by the tumour cell,the alpha particles emitted by At-211 destroy the cancer cells without damaging surrounding healthy tissue. At-211 is particularly promising in the treatment of micro-metastatic tumours (such as in the bone or blood) which are difficult or sometimes impossible to treat through other methods such as chemotherapy.
The therapeutic potential of At-211 was confirmed in the early 1980s in a study at Brookhaven Laboratory that Dr. Ruth himself was involved in. However, the pace of At-211 research has been limited by the difficulty of producing this isotope. Astatine-211 is usually produced by bombarding bismuth-209 with alpha particles from a cyclotron. However, there are no alpha-accelerating cyclotrons in Canada and only a handful in the US. When Ruth left Brookhaven to join TRIUMF, he faced this problem himself and, with no source for alpha particles, his research moved to other areas.
Two years ago, Jason Crawford, a Ph.D. student at the University of Victoria, approached Dr. Ruth with an interest in studying the dosimetry of At-211. Though Ruth was retired, his interest in astatine research induced him to embark on this project. Ruth and Crawford began to investigate a means of using TRIUMF's capabilities of rare-isotope production to address the production difficulties that impede At-211 research.
The solution Ruth and Crawford are pursuing is radon-211, an isotope already produced at the ISAC facility which decays to produce At-211. Radon-211's generous 15-hour half-life makes it feasible to capture and ship the isotope to other labs–at last providing a source for their own research. Partof the CCS Innovation grant will fund Ruth and Crawford's investigation into the infrastructure and logistics necessary to support At-211 production through radon. Though the ISAC facility cannot produce enough radon to support a large supply, the next stage may be to use the TRIUMF Neutron Facility to produce enough radon to supply 5-6 institutions with At-211 for research and early clinical trials. This has the potential to greatly impact the advancement of At-211 cancer treatment.
The CCS Innovation grant is also supporting an investigation into At-211's sister isotope At-209, a photon-emitter that can be used in SPECT imaging. Their interest in At-209 stems from its potential to visualize and quantify the targeting of astatine to tumours and possible uptake by healthy tissues.
Using one radioisotope to diagnose a tumour and another to treat it is not ideal, because the chemistry at work is different and thus researchers' ability to precisely measure the effectiveness of treatment is diminished. However, by using different isotopes of the same element (in this case, At-209 to image, and At-211 to treat), researchers have a much more accurate picture of how effective the treatment really is.
"It's comparing apples to apples – rather than apples to pears," explains Dr. Ruth.
Last year, Crawford and Ruth achieved a milestone by producing the world's first SPECT image using At-209. Now, the next step is to combine the At-209 with biomolecules, label them, and image their uptake in tumours using the VECTor camera at UBC's Centre for Comparative Medicine. This will form Crawford's PhD thesis. First, he will build on previous imaging success by refining the techniques to produce a better image. Next, he will monitor the uptake of these radiopharmaceuticals to determine whether they are taken up by the tumour preferentially. This work contributes to the development of At-209 as an imaging agent, which will greatly improve researchers' ability to predict and measure the effectiveness of At-211 cancer treatment in preclinical studies.
This project is supported by many members of TRIUMF's Nuclear Medicine team as well as the B.C. Cancer Agency. Dr. Scott Wilbur of the University of Washington has also greatly assisted the project by providing a unique cage molecule which ensures that the astatine remains attached to the biomolecule (a crucial mechanism, for without this the astatine would not be concentrated to tumour cells).
The results of Ruth and Crawford's research could mean new hope in the treatment of late-stage and difficult-to-locate cancers, one of the most challenging and under-addressed areas of cancer research. Congratulations to Ruth and Crawford upon the receipt of this grant!
-Lindsay Kroes, Communications Assistant
First image: Dr. Thomas Ruth and Jason Crawford
Second image: At-209 in a hotrod contrast phantom, imaged using high energy SPECT (Jason Crawford, 2013).
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Is the Netflix feature, “Tall Girl,” worth watching?
Embrace your insecurities and imperfections.
Priyanka Gera, Culture Editor|September 18, 2019
Being about 6 feet tall in high school is not unheard of, but in Jodi’s small town in New Orleans where everyone else is shorter than five feet, it creates a problem. Jodi (played by Ava Michelle) is mocked in school for her height. At 16 years old and 6-foot-1, she does not feel comfortable or confident with her giant-like size. Every five minutes someone asks her, “How’s the weather up there?” and it is frustrating for her.
There is always one feature, one insecurity that people would like to change about themselves. Jodi even goes as far as searching for height reduction surgeries. She is surrounded by her two utmost supportive friends, Jack Dunkleman (Griffin Gluck) and Fareeda (Anjelika Washington). They constantly remind Jodi to stop slouching and embrace every bit of what makes her unique.
Dunkleman’s plan to be Jodi’s boyfriend fails when Stig, a Swedish exchange student (played by Luke Eisner), walks through the door with his long blonde hair, standing 72 inches tall.
However, this coming-of-age teen rom-com has its flaws –– a 6-foot-1 girl is not abnormal. Were only people under 5 feet casted in the movie? Jodi looks like she is 7 feet tall instead of 6 feet, but who is going to notice? The controversy surrounding this movie was fueled over the lack of representation. Height discrimination of a white girl is not a problem, according to angered viewers. But this movie is harmless; it represents everyone’s life one way or another. It is hard to fit in and accept our own insecurities, especially when our life is under the scrutiny of social media. It does not matter who played the role of Jodi or the reason she was bullied in school.
What truly matters is that, like Jodi, we all need to learn to stand tall and embrace who we are. We should understand that mocking other people is not the solution to accepting your own insecurities.
Jodi’s enemy and Stig’s first girlfriend, Kimmy (played by Clara Wilsey), is a spoiled rich girl who is insecure about herself. She bullies other kids in an attempt to raise her own self esteem.
It is heartwarming when Jodi stands up to Kimmy and the rest of her school at Homecoming.
The audience can relate to her fear of publicly addressing the elephant in the room, quite literally in this case. You should not have to change who you are for others. It is a cliché, but we often forget the truth behind it and Jodi stands up in front of everyone to remind us that it is an important realization.
The movie has a pure message behind the unreasonable height differences of the cast. It is a cute 102 minutes to pass time and learn something about ourselves, not to nitpick the casting decisions of the director, Nzingha Stewart. Stewart, a black female director, is not new to the industry, but “Tall Girl” is her first feature film.
Representation behind the camera is just as important as representation in front, so this movie is still a win.
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Springtown Arkansas Population Charts
According to the most recent demographics data available from the Census Bureau released in December of 2018, Figure 1 Springtown shows it has 151 population which is the 4th smallest population of all the other places in the area. The city with the highest population in the area is Township 12 with a population of 16,315 measures substantially bigger. Figure 3 compares the population change from 2010 to 2017 and we can see Springtown illustrates an increase of 64 (74%).
The population percent change for all areas for 2010 to 2017 is shown in Figure 4 and for Springtown indicates it has 73.6% Population Change which is the highest of all placesin the area. Comparing Population Change to the United States average of 5.6%, Springtown measures very much bigger. Also, compared to the state of Arkansas, Population Change of 2.1%, Springtown is very much bigger.
Looking at population density in Figure 5 Springtown shows it has 279 population density which is in the middle of other places in the area. The next higher population density is Township 12 is 39.4% larger with population density of 389. The city with the highest population density in the area is Gentry with a population density of 881 is approximately 3.2 times bigger. Figure 6 shows the median age of the people and Springtown indicates it has 40.5 overall median age of all people which is the 3d most of all other places in the area. The city with the highest overall median age of all people in the area is Highfill with an age of 47.2 is 16.5% larger. Comparing the median age of men versus women in Figure 7 we find that Springtown shows median age of men measures 14.6% larger than median age of women.
Looking at the breakdown of age groups in the generation analysis in Figure 8 Springtown has the largest proportion of people 20 to 29 year olds at 21.2% of the total and is ranked #1. Second, it has the largest proportion of people 40 to 49 year olds at 32.5% of the total and is ranked #1.
Figure 9 shows the breakdown of racial groups in the area and Springtown has the largest proportion of people who are of some other race at 72.8% of the total and is ranked #1. Figure 10 shows the Hispanic or Latino population of the area with Springtown shows it has 4.6% people who are Hispanic or Latino which is the 4th smallest people who are Hispanic or Latino of all the other places in the area. Figure 11 is the ratio of the population of men to women and shows total male population is about 15.7% smaller than total female population.
Springtown Arkansas Marriage and Families Charts
Figure 14 is the average size of a typical family. Springtown shows it has 6.3 average family size which is the highest of all placesin the area.
Figure 15 shows the ratio of families to total households and that Springtown demonstrates it has 73% percent of people who are in a family which is the 4th smallest percent of people who are in a family of all the other places in the area. The city with the highest percent of people who are in a family in the area is Highfill with a percent of 78% is 6.7% larger.
Looking at husband and wife headed families as a percent of all families in Figure 16, Springtown illustrates it has 59% percent of people in a husband and wife family which is the 4th smallest percent of people in a husband and wife family of all the other places in the area. The city with the highest percent of people in a husband and wife family in the area is Elm Springs township with a percent of 84% is 42.9% larger. Figure 17 shows the head of household using the ratio of male to female headed households. Springtown has the largest proportion of percent of families with female head of household at 40.9% of the total and is ranked #1.
Springtown Arkansas Mothers and Babies Charts
Springtown Arkansas Singles Charts
Figure 28 compares the total single people in each area. Springtown reveals it has 44% percent of people who are single for any reason which is the 4th in percent of people who are single for any reason out of 10 total in the area. The city with the highest percent of people who are single for any reason in the area is Township 12 with a percent single of 51% is 17.5% larger. Comparing percent of people who are single for any reason to the United States average of 50%, Springtown measures about 13.9% smaller. Also, versus the state of Arkansas, percent of people who are single for any reason of 48%, Springtown is about 8.9% smaller.
Figure 30 compares the single people in each area broken down by never married, divorced, and widowed. Springtown indicates it has 33% percent of people never married which is the 2nd most of all the places in the area. The city with the highest percent of people never married in the area is Township 12 with a percent never married of 33% is about the same size. Comparing percent of people never married|percent of people divorced|percent of people widowed to the United States average of 33%, Springtown is about the same size. Also, versus the state of Arkansas, percent of people never married|percent of people divorced|percent of people widowed of 28%, Springtown is 18.0% larger. Figure 31 shows the single men in each area. Springtown indicates it has 27% percent of men who have never been married which is the 3d most of all other places in the area. The city with the highest percent of men who have never been married in the area is Decatur with a men who have never been married of 40% is 48.2% larger. Comparing percent of men who have never been married|percent of men who are divorced|percent of men who are widowed to the United States average of 36%, Springtown is approximately three-fourths the size. Also, in comparison with the state of Arkansas, percent of men who have never been married|percent of men who are divorced|percent of men who are widowed of 31%, Springtown measures about 15.3% smaller. Figure 32 shows the single women in each area. Springtown has the largest proportion of percent of women who have never been married at 37% of the total and is ranked #1.
Figure 33 shows the single men between the age of 18 and 65, in each area, broken down by age group. Springtown has the largest proportion of percent of Single Men 18 to 24 at 82% of the total and is ranked #1. Second, it has the largest proportion of percent of Single Men 60 to 65 at 12% of the total and is ranked #1.
Figure 34 shows the single women between the age of 18 and 65, in each area, broken down by age group. Springtown has the largest proportion of percent of Single women 18 to 24 at 77% of the total and is ranked #1.
Springtown Arkansas Citizenship Charts
The next section of charts detail information about citizenship. Figure 35 shows a high level view of citizenship. Springtown has the largest proportion of percent of citizens born In US at 100% of the total and is ranked #1. For all citizens, Figure 36 breaks down the original place of birth and it has the largest proportion of percent of people born in the South at 34% of the total and is ranked #1.
Springtown Arkansas Birthplace Charts
Springtown, Arkansas Demographics Data
Figure 1: Springtown, AR and Area 2017 Population Data
Figure 2: Map of Springtown, AR and Area
Figure 3: Springtown, AR Population Change 2010 to 2017
Figure 4: Springtown, AR 2010 to 2017 Population Percent Change
Figure 5: Springtown, AR People per Sq. Mile
Figure 6: Median Age in Springtown, AR
Figure 7: Median Age by Gender in Springtown, AR
Figure 8: Springtown, AR and Area Age by Generation
Figure 9: Springtown, AR and Area Racial Makeup
Figure 10: Springtown, AR Hispanic Population
Figure 12: Springtown, AR Marriage Status
Figure 14: Springtown, AR Average Family Size
Figure 17: Springtown, AR Head of Household
Figure 18: Springtown, AR Birth Rate (Last 12 months)
Figure 20: Springtown, AR Teenager Birth Rate
Figure 21: Springtown, AR Unwed Mothers as % of All Births
Figure 22: Springtown, AR Unwed and On Public Assitance
Figure 24: Springtown, AR Unwed Mother Births By Age Group
Figure 25: Springtown, AR Unwed Mother Birth Rate By Race
Figure 26: Springtown, AR Unwed Mother Births By Poverty Level
Figure 30: Springtown, AR Single People Broken Down By Reason
Figure 31: Springtown, AR Single Men in Area
Figure 32: Springtown, AR Single Women in Area
Figure 35: Springtown, AR Citizenship Status
Figure 36: Citizen Place of Birth for Springtown, AR
Figure 37: Springtown, AR Percent of Population Foreign Born
Figure 39: Springtown, AR Non Citizen Age Breakout
Figure 43: Springtown, AR Foreign Born People are From What Region
Figure 44: Springtown, AR Foreign-Born World Region of Birth
Figure 45: Springtown, AR Foreign-Born Sub-Region of Birth
Figure 46: Foreign-Born Country of People Living in Springtown, AR
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Quabbin consolidation task force gets a website
Chance Viles
HUBBARDSTON — The Quabbin Educational and Municipal Partnership, formerly the consolidation task force, has launched a website that will host surveys and provide information on the consolidation and region "health check."
HUBBARDSTON — The Quabbin Educational and Municipal Partnership, formerly the consolidation task force, has launched a website that will host surveys and provide information on the consolidation and region “health check.”
The partnership came out of an effort by the Quabbin School District looking to consolidate its resources. The initial scope was just the school district, but as the partnership formed, the scope became much wider.
“It’s an entire five-town health check, and hopefully a look at how we can do things more efficiently in the future,” Board of Selectmen Chairman Dan Galante said.
The partnership aims to survey and check every facet of the towns in the Quabbin region, from public employees to the schools.
The website www.QEMP.info has surveys the public can take and general information on what the partnership is about.
Streetlights going to LED
In an another matter, selectmen recently approved a plan to switch the existing incandescent street lights with LED lights. It is estimated the town will save money. The lights are 25 and 45 watts, which consume far less energy than the existing lights. Exact savings are currently unknown, as Department of Public Works Director Travis Brown still has to figure out the exact power usage at each light post.
“All we are doing is switching the existing bulbs to LEDs on any lights currently on and adding one more at the corner of New Westminster and Old Westminster (roads) as it is a tricky intersection and a resident noted that during a previous meeting,” Galante said.
National Grid also will add a new telephone poll on Healdville Road near Old Princeton Road. The pole will serve a new customer on the street. A pole must be added, as the existing lines are rerouted there will be an issue of aerial trespass over neighboring property.
The Department of Public Works is also looking at an upcoming deficit of $17,000, following expenditures to help clean up after recent storms. It should be noted that these deficits in the DPW are common, but the unusually harsh weather may have contributed to hitting that negative number a little sooner than most years.
“Some years are harsh early and some years are harsh late. This year has been harsh early and we hope that trend doesn’t continue, as it will be very expensive. However, safety is our No. 1 goal, so we’ll do what we have to do while still making sure it is done in the most fiscally efficient manner possible,” Galante said.
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45 Restaurants That Have Just Won A Michelin Star
By Lottie Hulme |
See more Restaurants, Pubs & Food
Yesterday was one of the most important days in the restaurant industry, the day that the results of the UK and Ireland Michelin Guide were announced, a day that Gordon Ramsay labelled “the Oscars of the food industry,” and a very exciting one for us at The Handbook. The term Michelin Guides comes from a series of guide books published by the French tyre company Michelin , the first Michelin star came to London in 1977. The term normally refers to the annually published Michelin Red Guide which is one of the oldest European hotel and restaurant reference guides, which awards up to three Michelin stars for excellence to a select few establishments. A restaurant can be made or broken by the acquisition or loss of it’s star/s.
Whilst no London restaurants took home the three stars this year, sweeping up the two stars were Core by Clare Smyth and Kitchen Table, cementing the fact that it is famously hard to obtain the commendation and so big congratulations go to all the chefs and restaurants who have scooped up one (or two!) this year. It’s time to update our restaurant bucket list.
In London they were as follows:
Core by Clare Smyth
It’s without a doubt that Clare Smyth should have a smile as big as the one picture above, as her restaurant, Core, sweeps up two Michelin Stars at this years’ awards. She was the caterer for Harry and Meghan’s evening wedding reception and now she’s got two stars shining brightly by the name of her first solo career, which has been open just over one year. Gordon Ramsay has labelled his ex-chef the “Margaret Thatcher of cooking,” for her restaurant that serves up seasonal British fine dining.
Where: Notting Hill Brasserie, 92 Kensington Park Road, W11 2PN
Website: www.corebyclaresmyth.com
This 19-seat U-shaped table around a cooking station has swooped up not one but two Michelin Stars this year. The Fitzrovia restaurant won its second Michelin star at the awards last night, with the first being awarded in 2015 just a year after opening. The restaurant specialises in small European dishes located at the back of Bubbledogs in Fitzrovia.
Where: 70 Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, W1T 4QQ
Website: www.kitchentablelondon.co.uk
Roganic
Roganic first opened in 2011 in Marylebone as a two-year pop-up now has a Michelin star – impressive! Simon Rogan’s restaurant serves up foraged ingredients and mirrors the original pop-up, Roganic is all about informal dining and imaginative, innovative menu which uses the finest ingredients from around the country, including Simon’s ‘Our Farm’ in the Lake District. They also bring back many of the original Roganic team to run the restaurant, with the kitchen run by Head Chef Oliver Marlow, who has worked his way up through Simon’s kitchen.
The pop-up originally received high-acclaim and now its set to do just the same this time round… except this time you don’t have to panic about not getting a seat, as it’s here to stay.
Where: 5-7 Blandford Street, Marylebone, W1U 3DB
Website: www.roganic.uk
Leroy only opened up this year – and now the East London restaurant has grabbed enough attention to take home a Michelin star. Leroy is a new Parisian-style wine bar and bistro probably with a huge smile on its face after winning the star.
Where: 18 Phipp Street, EC2A 4NU
Website: www.leroyshoreditch.com
This aesthetically stunning restaurant is taking home a Michelin-star. Ollie Dabbous opened his first restaurant in 2012 and its fast becoming one of London’s busiest restaurants.
Where: 85 Piccadilly, W1J 7NB
Website: www.hide.co.uk
Nieves Barragan and José Etura’s restaurant Sabor also made it onto the Michelin Guide, taking home its first Michelin star just months after opening. Sabor (meaning flavour in Spanish) takes you on a journey from the tapas bars of Andalucía through to the asadors of Castile and the seafood restaurants of Galicia.
Where: 35-37 Heddon St, Mayfair, W1B 4BR
Website: www.saborrestaurants.co.uk
Ikoyi have been awarded their first Michelin star! Their first location opened up in July 2017, and Head Chef Jeremy Chan says: “We’ve had some fantastic feedback from customers, critics and guides about the food at Ikoyi but, to be perfectly honest, I didn’t think we would receive this accolade so soon – we’ve only been open for 14 months.” Well, you’ve done it Ikoyi! The cuisine promotes a modern twist on authentic West African flavours.
Where: 1 St. James’s Market, SW1Y 4AH
Website: www.ikoyilondon.com
If achieving a Michelin Star wasn’t already impressive, Brat in Hackney has strikingly only been open for six months, making it a real newcomer to the restaurant scene. The new barbecue restaurant from Chef Tomos Parry features strong Basque influences on the menu with an open wood fire grill.
Where: Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, E1 6JJ,
Website: www.bratrestaurant.com
And outside of London
Moor Hall, Lancashire
What’s better than one Michelin star? Two of course. Moor Hall in Lancashire has impressively managed to bag itself two shining stars for its luxury restaurant. Located in a majestic thirteenth century manor house in the rolling Lancashire countryside, Moor Hall brings you modern British cuisine at its best. At the helm of this culinary trailblazer is talented chef patron, Mark Birchall. A Lancashire lad born and bred, Roux Scholarship winner Mark has led an award-full chef-ing career. Inspired by the beautiful surroundings, Mark centres his menus on the abundant home grown produce. The presentation is on point – seasonal delicacies are served up on local pottery platters. The fabled cheese room is a real highlight, showcasing the best of British fromage – not one to brie missed!
Where: Moor Hall, Prescot Road, Aughton, Ormskirk L39 6RT
Website: www.moorhall.com
Bulrush, Bristol
Another starry winner from the West Country, Bulrush sits at the heart of the thriving foodie scene in Bristol. The restaurant is owned by chef Roux-sponsored George Livesey, who hails from the Peak District and has worked in several notable restaurants including Club Gascon and White Rabbit. Together with his partner Katherine Craughwell, George cooks up a storm, with an eight or nine course tasting menu on offer as well as bountiful a la carte options. From butternut squash ice cream to red cabbage gazpacho, Bulrush dishes are fizzing with flavour and popping with perfection.
Where: 21 Cotham Road S, Bristol BS6 5TZ
Website: www.bulrushrestaurant.co.uk
The Olive Tree, Bath
Tucked away in one of Bath’s finest townhouses, better known as the Queensberry Hotel, you will find this little gem – The Olive Tree. Big dog chef Chris Cleghorn is committed to sourcing local produce from the nearby hills and vales of the bucolic Somerset countryside. Since 2013 Chris has been crafting exquisite dishes, available on an impressive selection of tasting menus. This is every vegetarian’s heaven, with multiple mouth-watering meat-free options. The service and attention to detail in The Olive Tree doesn’t go unnoticed, thanks to Laurence and Helen Beere, managers of the restaurant, who believe that modern comfort is critical in a top-notch culinary experience. Stylish, with a measured touch of the eccentric, this is a west country cuisine gem.
Where: 4-7 Russell Street, Bath BA1 2QF
Website: www.olivetreebath.co.uk
Fordwich Arms, Kent
In Britain’s smallest town, you will find one of its greatest gourmet pubs. Fordwich Arms, in Fordwich, Kent, has been recently refurbished and is home to chef-patron Daniel Smith. Daniel was awarded The Observer Young Chef of the Year Award in 2016 and not for any old reason. The man can cook. With a seasonal menu, Daniel demonstrates the flavour and variety of local Kentish ingredients, whilst keeping his dishes full of ambition and modern Michelin mastery. In terms of vibe, this pub errs on arts and crafty, coupled with the classic pubby comfort of open fires and oak panelling. In the summer months, visitors can luxuriate on the dining terrace overlooking the picturesque river Stour. Not too bad at all.
Where: King Street, Fordwich, Canterbury, CT2 0DB
Website: www.fordwicharms.co.uk
Rogan & Co, Cumbria
Simon Rogan – the bigwig, the real deal, the top banana of the British foodie scene. Rogan & Co, found in the Cumbrian village of Cartmel, is Simon’s latest addition to his growing culinary cartel (or the latest extension to Roganville, as some are calling it). Rogan & co was set up to offer a relaxed way to enjoy incredible food. Emphasis is once again on home grown and local delicacies, from wood pigeon to smoked eel, the creativity and finesse in the menu is distinctively Rogan-esque and, if you happen to be near Cartmel, not one to miss.
Where: Devonshire Square, Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands LA11 6QD
Website: www.roganandco.co.uk
Gidleigh Park, Devon
Cornish turbot, leeks, purple sprouting and caviar hollandaise. If this sounds up your street/ lane / path then you need to head over to Gidleigh Park in Chagford, Devon. Awarded a Michelin star for its impeccable culinary competence, Gidleigh Park is a Tudor manor house, set in over one hundred acres of woodland in the wilds of Dartmoor National Park. Known for its old school charm and high standards, visitors to Gidleigh Park are numerous, now more than ever, thanks to new chef Chris Simpson. Chris was the former head chef at Nathan Outlaw’s restaurant in Port Isaac, Cornwall, and specialises in pared down, simple dishes with a subtle twist. It’s not just foodies who flock here, but also wine nerds. With over 13 000 bottles from around the globe, Gidleigh Park boasts an internationally renowned wine cellar to match its Michelin-renowned food. Cheers to that.
Where: Gidleigh Park Hotel, Chagford, Newton Abbot TQ13 8HH
Website: www.gidleigh.co.uk
Sorrel, Surrey
Sorrel, in Surrey, epitomises modern fine dining. The restaurant’s nine course tasting menu really is the talk of the county. The eating experience here is polished, very Surrey – plush new carpets, an abundance of tastefully exposed wooden beams and lovely hand wash in the loos. It’s not cheap, but then that doesn’t really come as a surprise. The food is mind-blowing but delicate, which is what you’d expect from Steve Drake, head chef and British food guru for more than 25 years. Rumours are that the place is fully booked for the next four months. Now that’s what I call popular.
Where: 77 South Street, Dorking RH4 2JU
Website: www.sorrelrestaurant.co.uk
White Swan, Lancashire
If you’ve heard of the village of Fence in Lancashire, then you obviously know your (geographical) stuff. Unimposing, petite and semi-rural, you are forgiven if Fence doesn’t ring a bell. However, things are changing for Fence, and that’s thanks to a certain young chef named Tom Parker. The White Swan is lucky to have such an innovative and original man in the kitchen. Along with its cheery front of house team, this pub champions outstanding, flavour-ful food, with daily menus that are impressively affordable. A phenomenal pub that fees genuinely invested in creating the best food, and giving the best culinary experience. The White Swan is finally putting Fence on the map.
Where: White Swan Hotel, 300 Wheatley Lane Road, Fence, Burnley BB12 9QA
Website: www.whiteswanatfence.co.uk
Tim Allen’s Flitch of Bacon, Essex
The Flitch of Bacon (FoB) is proudly and loudly claiming its title as the only Michelin-starred restaurant in Essex. Tucked away in the village of Little Dunmow, this modern British restaurant-cum-pub is all about locally-sourced, season-abiding top-quality nosh. The pub was bought by chef Daniel Clifford back in 2015. Earlier this year, Tim Allen was brought onboard and appointed as chef partner at the FoB. Tim and Daniel have previously worked together at well-renowned Midsummer House in Cambridge, and the FoB succeeds in emulating equal culinary acclaim. Sophisticated, delicious, yet relaxed enough for families, dogs and children, FoB is a shining beacon of cuisine light in an otherwise rather gloomy county.
Where: The St, Little Dunmow, Dunmow CM6 3HT
Website: www.flitchofbacon.co.uk
Blackbird, West Berkshire
The Blackbird, in the idyllic village of Bagnor, is at first rather unimposing; a simple country pub not dissimilar to any other. However upon further inspection, it becomes clear that The Blackbird is actually something quite special. A rural gastro pub that specialises in top calibre dishes, nailing the in between of hearty, crowd-pleasing grub and more sophisticated fare. Chef owner Dom Robinson has worked with a host of lauded culinary wizards, and this is evident in his simple, concise, seasonal (and happily affordable) menus.
Where: A34, Bagnor, Newbury RG20 8AQ
Website: www.theblackbird.co.uk
Oxford Kitchen, Oxfordshire
Paul Welburn, the master behind the Oxford Kitchen, is the talk of the food critic kitchen. With a career ranging from BBC TV series The Great British Chef to catering on private yachts in the South of France to head chef at W1, where he retained a Michelin star for five whole years. His Oxfordshire baby is all about adding a contemporary twist to Britain’s classic dishes. With impressive seasonal tasting menus offering fares such as BBQ Octopus, Ajo Blanco, Squid Ink, Romesco and Sea Herbs (and wine to match), your taste buds will not be left unfulfilled. Found in Summertown, the restaurant blends in alongside the host of indulgent local eateries and bars. Intimate, funky and modern, the inside décor is both fresh and inviting.
Where: 215 Banbury Road, Summertown, Oxford OX2 7HQ
Website: www.theoxfordkitchen.co.uk
Salt, Warwickshire
If you’re looking for the most instagrammable Michelin experience, Salt is the one for you. Chic, unfussy, delicious and mouth-wateringly aesthetic, this restaurant is the definition of a risk well taken. Back in 2016 chef Paul Foster (with the support of his wife Rhiain) packed in his job and launched a crowdfunding campaign, with the hopes of realising his long-held dream of starting his own restaurant. It has certainly paid off; in March 2017, the doors of Salt opened in Stratford-Upon-Avon, offering a relaxed fine dining experience celebrating the best of local seasonal produce. Paul is another proud winner of the Observer Food Monthly young chef of the year award, and his skill is clear in the innovative, pared back menu which oozes foodie finesse.
Where: 8 Church Street, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6HB
Website: www.salt-restaurant.co.uk
Winteringham Fields, North Lincolnshire
Winteringham Fields in Lincolnshire is all about its ‘one-mile menu’. As one of the area’s best known homegrown restaurants, expert chef Colin McGurran ensures that the food he uses is 100% rooted in the local area. Whether it’s found in the nearby sea or on the home owned farm, everything cooked up respects and showcases the beauty and flavour of local nature and the seasons. The menu changes daily, depending on which produce Colin feels is ready and at its best. This restaurant is the definition of ingredient driven, and the flavours are all the more exquisite for it.
Where: 1 Silver Street, Winteringham, North Lincolnshire, DN15 9ND
Website: www.winteringhamfields.co.uk
Chestnut, Cork
Ireland has had its fair share of Corkers when it comes to Michelin stars this year. All three of its baggers were in County Cork, and showcase a vast range of culinary talent. First up is Restaurant Chestnut, an intimate 18 seater restaurant masterminded by Cork-born award winning chef Rob Krawczyk and his partner Elaine Fleming. Bare walls and low panelled ceilings give a feeling of zen to this eatery, making room for the feasting of flavours skilfully crafted in the kitchen. From brambles with yogurt and clove sorbet to brill with cauliflower, ink and parsley, Rob certainly knows how to impress his diners.
Where: The Chestnut Tree, Staball Hill, Ballydehob, Co. Cork, P81 X681, Ireland
Website: www.restaurantchestnutwestcork.ie
Mews, Cork
If you happen to be at the South-West tip of Ireland and in need of exquisite, Cork-sourced food, Mews is the place to go. Serving perfectly simple-sounding dishes such as Cod, Shoregreens, Seaweeds and Mussel Sauce, this restaurant excels in ingredient integrity and taste mastery. The tasting menu is a joy to experience, in a wonderfully uncomplicated and sophisticated setting, with welcoming service and unrivalled culinary skill.
Where: The Mews Baltimore Co, P81TC64, Co. Cork, P81 TC64, Ireland
Website: www.mewsrestaurant.ie
Ichigo Ichie, Cork
A contender for the most exciting newly Michelin acclaimed restaurant, Ichigo Ichie is the food baby of chef Takashi Miyazaki. This is the first kappou-style and kaiseki restaurant in Ireland, however Takashi brings an ingenious twist to Japanese haute-cuisine. Using the best Irish seafood and vegetables, often not simply grown but foraged from the land, Takashi presents dishes that represent the local seasons whilst remaining deeply attuned to their Japanese cultural roots.
Where: No5 Sheares Street, Centre, Cork, T12 RY7Y, Ireland
Website: www.ichigoichie.ie
A break from the norm: The Checkers, Powys
This is one crazy, norm defying moment in the history of Michelin culinary stardom. The Checkers made headline news last month for handing back their Michelin star, as the chef-owners explained they wanted to put family first. This brings an end to a seven-year run with the famous award since the Checkers first appeared in the guide in 2011.
Where: Broad Street, Montgomery, Wales, SY15 6PN
Website: www.checkerswales.co.uk
The Araki
There is now a fifth restaurant which has made it to the dizzying heights of three Michelin stars, so joining the big four (Heston Blumenthal, Gordon Ramsay, Alain Ducasse and the Roux family) sushi bar – The Araki. It’s also the first Japanese restaurant to receive the honour in Britain. Sitting on New Burlington Street and run by chef Mitsuhiro Araki, this is one for when you’re feeling pretty luxe as the set (and only) menu is £300 per person…without drinks.
Three Michelin Stars
Where: 12 New Burlington Street, Mayfair, W1S 3BH
Website: www.the-araki.com
Originally Michelin’s London headquarters and named after the big man himself (that’s the Michelin-man), Bibendum has now been taken over by Claude Bosi who closed his two-Michelin-starred restaurant Hibiscus, so he could focus on cooking rather than running a business. On the ground floor you’ll find the oyster bar and on the first floor is where you’ll find the dining room serving up French dishes.
Two Michelin Stars
Where: Michelin House, 81 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6RD, United Kingdom
Nearest station: South Kensington (0.4 miles)
Website: www.bibendum.co.uk
The Latymer
The Latymer is a classic fine-dining experience in Surrey’s Pennyhill Park Hotel, a gorgeous ivy-clad country house that doesn’t shy away from full-fledged luxury. The kitchen is headed up by Matt Worswick, a lover of seasonal and foraged foods that showcase the best of Britain’s natural homegrown produce. It’s one of very few restaurants to hold both five AA rosettes and two Michelin stars, and at only 45 minutes outside of London, The Latymer offers a perfect escape out of town for a sophisticated dinner experience – in time for the last train home.
Where: Pennyhill Park, London Road, Bagshot, Surrey, GU19 5EU
Website: www.exclusive.co.uk
43 Elystan Street
Phil Howard opened The Square back in 1991, holding two Michelin stars for 17 years, so it came as a surprise when he sold it last year after twenty -five years at the helm. However luckily for us Londoners he went onto open Elystan Street. The restaurant does away with the fuss and formality and instead serves ‘pure, seasonal, ingredient led, gimmick free dishes’ and it’s working because he’s just been awarded a Michelin star.
One Michelin Star
Where: 43 Elystan Street, Chelsea, SW3 3NT
Website: www.elystanstreet.com
A Wong
A Wong is a homage to the cuisine of China, celebrating its diversity and the different regional cooking – you’ll find dishes inspired by almost all of China’s provinces. Upstairs the restaurant is built around an open kitchen whilst downstairs you’ll find the darker, more intimate Forbidden City Bar.
Where: 70 Wilton Road, Pimlico, SW1V 1DE
Website: www.awong.co.uk
Vineet Bhatia London
You don’t just walk into Vineet Bhatia London in Chelsea, you ring the doorbell first before you’re let in. Previously known as Rasoi which also held a Michelin star, last year the restaurant became Vineet Bhatia London. On the menu, you’ll find the likes of chicken maharani, tuna chaat and goat cheese samosas and chai fudge.
Where: 10 Lincoln Street, Chelsea, SW3 2TS
Website: www.vineetbhatia.london
Opening less than a year ago, at the height of hygge, Nordic restaurant, Aquavit has proved that it isn’t just part of the fad by winning a Michelin star. Part of the St James’s Market redevelopment, the restaurant serves a menu of traditional smorgasbord sharing plates and main courses of Swedish meatballs with lingonberries, pickled cucumber and Monkfish with Sandefjord sauce, trout roe and fennel.
Where: St James's Market, 1 Carlton Street, SW1Y 4Q
Website: www.aquavitrestaurants.com
Jamavar
Part of The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts, Jamavar opened their first restaurant outside of India in our fair city at the end of last year. The kitchen is led by Executive Chef Rohit Ghai, who has already headed several Michelin-starred kitchens including Benares, Trishna and Gymkhana. Showcasing the range of India cooking and flavours it takes inspiration from both the Royal Kitchens of the north and the fragrant spices of the south.
Where: 8 Mount Street, Mayfair, W1K 3NF
Website: www.jamavarrestaurants.com
Four Seasons Hotel London at Ten Trinity Square
Anne-Sophie Pic is currently the only female French chef to hold three Michelin stars so it wasn’t too much of a surprise that her London restaurant Le Dame de Pic has been awarded a Michelin Star. Opening at the new Four Seasons Hotel in the City, the restaurant showcases Anne-Sophie’s distinctive cooking style using classic British ingredients with more unusual flavour combinations.
Where: Four Seasons Hotel London at Ten Trinity Square, Trinity Square, London EC3N 4AJ, United Kingdom
Nearest station: Tower Hill (0.1 miles)
Website: www.fourseasons.com
Currently closed for refurbishment (it won’t look like the photo above) the restaurant that formerly belonged to Phil Howard has once more been awarded a Michelin Star. It’s set to open again this month and we expect this will draw even more diners in.
Where: 6-10 Bruton Street, Mayfair, W1J 6PU
Website: www.squarerestaurant.com
The Dining Room at Whatley Manor
Where: Easton Grey, Malmesbury SN16 0RB
Website: www.whatleymanor.com
Wild Honey Inn
This is an Irish pub but not as you might know it – with a Michelin star, this traditional, cosy inn serves up refined cuisine using the best of Ireland’s seasonal ingredients. Combining food of excellent quality with the warm and friendly hospitality of a classic pub, Wild Honey Inn is far from stuffy.
Where: Kincora Rd, Rathbaun, Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare, Ireland
Website: www.wildhoneyinn.com
Lympstone Manor
Without even taking account of the food, Lympstone Manor impresses. An imposing Georgian mansion looking out over the Exe Estuary, Lympstone Manor really is a beautiful setting to enjoy great food – and it doesn’t disappoint. A new entry into this year’s Michelin ratings, Lympstone Manor is the work of chef Michael Caines MBE, who embraces the seasonal produce of the region sourcing the restaurant’s meat and fish in the south west, and growing vegetables in the kitchen gardens.
Where: Courtlands Lane, Exmouth EX8 3NZ
Website: www.lympstonemanor.co.uk
Coworth Park
Old-school glamour without the stuffiness, Coworth Park sits in the middle of beautiful parkland on the border of Windsor Great Park – and you’ll certainly feel like royalty feasting on the work of Adam Smith, Coworth Park’s executive chef. Having won the Roux Scholarship and worked in The Ritz, Adam is now serving up elegant British dishes at Restaurant Coworth Park, focusing on flavour, quality, and a wholesome commitment to sustainable cooking. The restaurant features a ‘Best of British’ menu with options like Dingley Dell braised pork cheek, and Old Winchester fruitcake with apple and ice cider.
Where: Coworth ParkBlacknest Road, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7SE
Website: www.dorchestercollection.com
Loch Bay
If you find yourself as far-flung as the breath-taking Isle of Skye, the tiny island offers some of the best of Scotland’s culinary talent. Loch Bay’s head chef Michael Smith is a champion of Scottish ingredients alongside classic French influence, and with the restaurant situated in remote Stein, an old fishing village on the north-west coast of the Isle – so Loch Bay was always going to showcase the best of fresh Scottish seafood. Smith’s five-course Fruits de Mer menu offers dishes like twice dived sconser scallops with squash, hazelnut and claret, or sea trout with cockles and chanterelles – and demonstrates perfectly why Loch Bay deserves its Michelin star.
Where: Loch Bay Restaurant, 1 Macleods Terrace, Stein, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, IV55 8GA
Website: www.lochbay-restaurant.co.uk
Moor Hall
Chef Mark Birchall has been recognised for his efforts in the Michelin rating, with his restaurant Moor Hall in Lancashire being awarded a star this year. A homely looking hotel and restaurant, Moor Hall has masses of heritage dating back to the thirteenth century but is far from old-fashioned; Mark creates thoroughly modern British dishes using local vendors and home-grown goods, showcasing his talents across three, five, and eight-course tasting menus. Moor Hall is also home to its famed Cheese Room – home to the best of British and Irish Farmhouse cheeses selected according to season.
Where: Moor Hall Restaurant, Prescot Road, Aughton, Lancashire, L39 6RT
Paco Tapas
With the dream of bringing a taste of Andalusia to Bristol, Paco Tapas’s Chef Peter Sanchez-Iglesias has created a menu combining the best of Spanish flavours for those British foodies missing the delights of authentic tapas in gloomy England. With Galician beef, stuffed quail and duroc pork ribs all cooked over an applewood fire, as well as fish dishes like Octopus a la Gallega and Carabineros Prawns from the Canary Islands, Paco offers a warming slice of Spanish sunshine straight to the south west.
Where: 3a, The General, Lower Guinea Street, Bristol, BS16SY
Website: www.pacotapas.co.uk
The Clock House
Previously Drake’s, The Clock House in the Surrey village of Ripley gained a Michelin star this year. Head Chef Fred Clapperton is relatively new to the position but has clearly already hit his stride at The Clock House, with his current Autumn menus focusing on simple dishes that create interesting flavour combinations like the Norfolk quail with fennel and black curry or the smoked eel with broth and Isle of Wight tomatoes.
Where: The Clock House, High Street, Ripley, Surrey, GU23 6AQ
Website: www.theclockhouserestaurant.co.uk
Brought to you by same team as The Hand and Flowers and with the kitchen led by Nick Beardshaw, The Coach in Marlow runs on a no reservations basis, so you better get there early if you want to eat at this newly awarded restaurant as they now have a Michelin Star. Dishes include potted crab with cucumber chutney and smoked paprika butter and Cornish pollock Scotch egg with lobster bisque.
Where: 3 West Street, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, SL7 2LS
Website: www.thecoachmarlow.co.uk
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Means for a Better International Education
By Ranil Herath, MD-International, DeVry Education Group
The U.S education system gives much importance on acquiring concepts and applying the same in exploring the most out of it. The system keeps their preferences secondary on scoring marks out of the concepts keeping its boundaries on just memorizing and repeating only. However, the Indian education system in comparison to other countries demonstrates a deficiency in style and approach. The system focuses on content, understanding and memorizing the same which finally is to be presented in paper during examination to secure higher marks.
Focusing on the global context, as the U.S is a huge country, it has innumerous human resources and proportional amount of opportunities thereby students pour into from different parts of the world to pursue education in the U.S. Opportunity to get exposure with the best of the global company such as IBM, Oracle, Amazon, Tesla, Facebook makes obvious choice of pursuing the same level of educational background effectively promised by the U.S higher education system. Although the education system is good in every country yet the work experience makes the difference and the edge of the U.S system lies. Moreover, the Canadian Education System reflects a similar education system as the U.S. proving most of the methods similar to each other in terms of grading and university systems leaving no head to head competition between the two.
With respect to globalised form of education, the U.S educational institutions provide active learning, ability to apply concepts in real time situation and an outcome based education. The system clearly conduct assessment of students less on exams or memorizing content and more on the ability to demonstrate application of their knowledge and skills on a daily basis which otherwise is a lesser phenomena in British education or anywhere else. Likewise, American organizations have much talent acquisition recruiting many employees in India, Philippines and surrounding countries due to which the boundaries and barriers of employment are lifting globally and thereby more youths apply for such global opportunities.
With a closer look when a student joins such system, a student is expected to fit into that environment as soon as he/she has finished their respective academic training. Students are active learner and engaging with the U.S system on a daily basis expects applying the concepts learned in presentation, debate and various other forms of expression challenging other students and professors only with the purpose to hone their knowledge to articulate and ability to speak publicly. Thereby this makes obvious for a student to practice in a simulated situation polishing their resilience and be closer to people in the work force which will prove helpful after they get into a real life working space.
Indian institutes are famous in the international podium but the quality in comparison with international standards requires more enhancements. Case studies, active debate and participation can be adopted frequently which could add tremendous value to the system. Adding industry exposure to students, increasing faculty development programs for faculty exposure are some of the most effective ways to increase the quality of education. As most of the faculty members end up working in a university as soon as they complete their education might have an understanding gap of the industry. Thus, industry experience in the field of their expertise can be an important consideration.
Students in India and South Indian sub-continent has a lot of confidence in what they do, they are smart individuals with impressive and exceptional knowledge, intellect and smartness. These students are mostly shy and lack confidence to go out, speak and present them in explaining a point in a global work place. Since there is already an existence of an exceptionally smart group of talent, the only missing element that could be improved is boosting the level of confidence and ability to present in the global context.
In South Asian context, a student is expected to sit, listen, absorb and then write an exam making them passive learners and that way it harms the confidence level of the students and overall personality. This will require a cultural adaptation, where a culture which demands the teacher to be revered, but the teacher has to evolve to be a facilitator of learning and stimulate confidence in them adding up like a magic dust to the already existing positive attributes of the system.
About the Author: Ranil Herath
Renil Herath has been associated with DeVry, which operates several for-profit higher education institutions in U.S., for last eight years and has worked in higher education for seventeen years in various countries such as Sri Lanka, Canada and the U.S.
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