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Newell Brands Announces Pricing Terms of its Waterfall Tender Offer
HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 2019-- Newell Brands Inc. (NASDAQ: NWL) (the “Company” or “Newell Brands”)announced today the pricing terms of its previously announced tender offer to purchase for cash up to $356,746,000 aggregate principal amount (the “Maximum Waterfall Tender Amount”) of the Company’s outstanding 3.850% Notes due 2023 (the “2023 Notes”), 4.000% Notes due 2022 and 4.200% Notes due 2026 (collectively, the “Waterfall Notes”), subject to the Acceptance Priority Levels as defined below (such offer, the “Waterfall Offer”). The Company also announced the principal amount of each series of Waterfall Notes that it expects to accept for purchase pursuant to the Waterfall Offer. The Waterfall Offer is being made upon and is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, dated August 12, 2019 (the “Offer to Purchase”).
The Total Consideration (as defined in the Offer to Purchase) for each series of Waterfall Notes is payable to holders of the Waterfall Notes who validly tendered and did not properly withdraw their Waterfall Notes at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 23, 2019 (the “Waterfall Early Tender Deadline”) and whose Waterfall Notes are accepted for purchase by the Company. The Reference Yield listed in the table below was determined at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on August 26, 2019 (the “Waterfall Price Determination Date”) by the lead dealer managers. Payments for Waterfall Notes purchased in connection with the Waterfall Early Tender Deadline will also include accrued and unpaid interest from and including the last interest payment date applicable to the relevant series of Waterfall Notes up to, but not including, the early settlement date for such Waterfall Notes accepted for purchase, which is currently expected to be August 27, 2019 (the “Waterfall Early Settlement Date”).
Title of Security
CUSIP/ISIN
Expected to be
Accepted(1)
Reference U.S. Treasury
(basis
points)
Consideration(2)
3.850% Notes due 2023
CUSIP: 651229 AV8
ISIN: US651229AV81
1.75% due 7/31/2024
Expected to be accepted for purchase, and paid for, on the Waterfall Early Settlement Date.
The Total Consideration payable for each $1,000 principal amount of Waterfall Notes validly tendered at or prior to the Waterfall Early Tender Deadline and accepted for purchase by us includes an early tender premium of $50. In addition, holders whose Waterfall Notes are accepted will also receive accrued interest on such Waterfall Notes.
As previously announced, because the aggregate principal amount of validly tendered Waterfall Notes as of the Waterfall Early Tender Deadline exceeded the Maximum Waterfall Tender Amount, Waterfall Notes will be purchased subject to the Maximum Waterfall Tender Amount, the acceptance priority levels (the “Acceptance Priority Levels”) and proration as described in the Offer to Purchase. Accordingly, and as listed in the table above, the Company expects to accept for purchase, and pay for, $356,746,000 aggregate principal amount of its 2023 Notes on a prorated basis on the Waterfall Early Settlement Date. The Company will use a proration rate of approximately 34.11% for the 2023 Notes. 2023 Notes validly tendered at or prior to the Waterfall Early Tender Deadline will be multiplied by such proration rate and then rounded down to the nearest $1,000 increment.
Although the Waterfall Offer is scheduled to expire at midnight, New York City time, at the end of September 9, 2019, unless extended or terminated (the “Waterfall Expiration Date”), because the Waterfall Offer was fully subscribed as of the Waterfall Early Tender Deadline, the Company does not expect to accept for purchase any Waterfall Notes tendered after the Waterfall Early Tender Deadline. Holders of Waterfall Notes who validly tender such notes following the Waterfall Early Tender Deadline and at or prior to the Waterfall Expiration Date will only receive the applicable Tender Offer Consideration for such Waterfall Notes accepted for purchase, which is equal to the applicable Total Consideration minus an early tender premium of $50. Waterfall Notes not accepted for purchase will be promptly returned or credited to the holder’s account. The withdrawal deadline of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 23, 2019 has passed and, accordingly, Waterfall Notes validly tendered in the Waterfall Offer may no longer be withdrawn except where additional withdrawal rights are required by law.
The Company does not currently intend to call for redemption the Waterfall Notes not tendered and accepted for purchase in the Waterfall Offer.
Newell Brands’ obligation to accept for payment and to pay for the Waterfall Notes validly tendered in the Waterfall Offer is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions described in the Offer to Purchase.
Barclays Capital Inc. and RBC Capital Markets, LLC are serving as the Lead Dealer Managers, and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. is serving as Co-Dealer Manager, in connection with the Waterfall Offer. The information agent and tender agent is Global Bondholder Services Corporation. The full details of the Waterfall Offer, including complete instructions on how to tender Waterfall Notes, are included in the Offer to Purchase. Holders are strongly encouraged to read carefully the Offer to Purchase, including materials incorporated by reference therein, because they contain important information. Copies of the Offer to Purchase are available at https://www.gbsc-usa.com/newellbrands/ and requests for copies may also be directed to the information agent at (212) 430-3774 (banks and brokers) or (866) 807-2200 (all others). Questions regarding the Waterfall Offer should be directed to Barclays Capital Inc., Liability Management Group, at (212) 528-7581 (collect) or (800) 438-3242 (toll free) or RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Liability Management Group, at (212) 618-7843 (collect) or (877) 381-2099 (toll free).
None of the Company or its affiliates, their respective boards of directors, the dealer managers, the information agent and tender agent or the trustees with respect to the Waterfall Notes is making any recommendation as to whether holders should tender in response to the Waterfall Offer, and neither the Company nor any such other person has authorized any person to make any such recommendation. Holders must make their own decision as to whether to tender any of their Waterfall Notes, and, if so, the principal amount of Waterfall Notes to tender.
This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell, a solicitation to buy or an offer to purchase or sell any securities. The Waterfall Offer is being made only pursuant to the Offer to Purchase and only in such jurisdictions as is permitted under applicable law.
About Newell Brands
Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Paper Mate®, Sharpie®, Dymo®, EXPO®, Parker®, Elmer’s®, Coleman®, Marmot®, Oster®, Sunbeam®, FoodSaver®, Mr. Coffee®, Rubbermaid Commercial Products®, Graco®, Baby Jogger®, NUK®, Calphalon®, Rubbermaid®, Contigo®, First Alert® and Yankee Candle®. For hundreds of millions of consumers, Newell Brands makes life better every day, where they live, learn, work and play.
This press release and additional information about Newell Brands are available on the company’s website, www.newellbrands.com.
This press release contains statements that constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws. These “forward-looking statements” are statements other than statements of historical fact and may include, among other things, statements in relation to the Company’s current expectations and beliefs as to its ability to consummate the tender offer, including the timing, size, pricing or other terms of the tender offer, and other future events. All information set forth in this release is as of the date hereof. The Company does not intend, and undertakes no duty, to update this information to reflect future events or circumstances. Actual results are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties and may differ materially from the current expectations and beliefs discussed in this press release. Certain potential factors, risks and uncertainties that could affect the Company’s business and financial results and cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements include the Company’s ability to complete the tender offer and satisfy the conditions thereto, and other potential factors, risks and uncertainties under the captions “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2019, which are on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and available at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
Source: Newell Brands Inc.
Investors:
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SVP, Investor Relations and Communications
nancy.odonnell@newellco.com
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Pastor Adeboye donates N10m dialysis machine to UCH
ireporteronline Local News November 20, 2019
The University College Hospital, Ibadan has received the donation of a dialysis machine worth N10m from the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye.
This was made known after the University College Hospital, Ibadan marked its 62nd founder’s day on Monday.
Pastor Adeboye, who was accompanied by the top management of UCH led by the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Prof. Abiodun Otegbayo said the donation was necessary for view of the vital role that kidney plays in the life of to human being.
Adeboye said unlike what operates nowadays, going overseas for treatment was not common during his childhood days.
He said, “people didn’t think of going abroad for their treatment when we were young, they believed once you come to UCH, they would be healed.”
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While speaking to kidney patients and the teaching hospital, Pastor Adeboye said, “I rejoice with you that we have already had one on ground and we will have another two by the end of this year. I promised to do more because kidney is vital to human existence looking at the challenges people living with kidney problems are facing”.
Making allusion to the Holy Bible where a woman with the issue of blood ran to Jesus Christ for healing, he enjoined those with problems to Jesus. “If human beings can’t help us, then we can go to the all-sufficient God and we keep crying to him”.
The Chief Medical Director of UCH, Prof. Abiodun Otegbayo, however, enjoined well-meaning Nigerians to donate generously for the development of the hospital.
Otegbayo who took over from Prof Temitope Alonge stressed that funds remained the greatest challenge confronting the hospital.
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Other challenges militating against the hospital, he noted, include payment of huge amount of money for the supply of electricity, buying diesel for generators, lack of adequate equipment, problem of water supply, training of staff and absence of good infrastructure among others.
“UCH is overwhelmed and overstretched because of the influx of patients with primary and secondary healthcare challenges which he said had been derailing UCH from its original focus which is tertiary healthcare.”
“I came in as the 8th Chief Medical Director of the University College Hospital, Ibadan with the mantra of shared vision for excellence.
“The hospital has taken over the training of about 65 percent of the medical personnel in Nigeria while we have worked towards strengthening the tripartite function on which the hospital stands which are training, research and service.”
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“We have channelled our energy toward getting those who would help get resources for the upliftment and upgrading our services and facilities. Services are greatly improving in the hospital, while efforts at making our patients’ relation comfortable are obvious.”
“In the areas of training, we have sponsored several professionals to their annual conferences, workshops and seminars because I believe so much in manpower development and I am unleashing my zeal to make it a reality in the hospital.”
“We have been able to raise a team of influential Nigerians to be on Board of Trustees that will help improve services and facilities in the hospital, and yet we must meet the yearnings of our teeming patients,” he said.
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Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park
Shape: High- banked oval
Surface: Asphalt
Length: .625-mile
Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park is a historic 5.8- mile asphalt oval with a 1.7- mile road course in Northeastern Connecticut. The facility features a challenging, high- banking track accompanied by an 18- hole golf course and Clubhouse Resteraunt located on 500 acres of rolling hills. The track hosts severeal NASCAR events each year including stock car races, the Whelen Modified Tour and Whelen All American Series.
First became a track in 1939.
Facility includes a 5.8-mile oval, 1.7-mile roadcourse, 1.10-mile quarter midget track, 4.5 acre autocross area and a golf course.
The historic track is the only one of its kind, offering both an oval track and a road course in Connecticut.
The Hoening family has owned the track since before its inception for four generations.
Known for its savory ice-cream conveniently found at Bogey's Ice Cream Stand.
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Kosmos – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book Review
Adrian Laing
Flame Tree Press
Synopsis courtesy of Goodreads:
“Early one fine autumnal morning in 2001, an old man is found asleep on Hampstead Heath. Abruptly awoken by two dog patrollers, a struggle ensues resulting in the oddly-dressed character being arrested facing a minor assault charge. Rookie barrister, George Winsome, is tasked with defending the old boy who believes himself to be the mythical character, Merlin. When the victim of the assault unexpectedly dies the resulting manslaughter case turns into a jury trial catching the public’s imagination. George decides to defend Merlin on the basis that there are well-established historical grounds for the old boy’s self-adopted identity believing the jury will decide whether he is ‘Merlin’ or not, does not matter; it’s a question of the old boy being accepted an honest and peaceful character. That’s the plan. But as the riotous trial plays out, events conspire to challenge everyone’s cynicism. What if the defendant really is Merlin? The trial progresses through one unexpected twist to another and those present in the courtroom and the wider public begin to embrace the extra-ordinary possibility that Merlin has indeed returned to this world. Even the crusty trial judge is forced to reconsider his ingrained beliefs and confront his own domestic demons especially when his wayward, new age son decides sneakily to ‘enlighten’ his father with some vintage LSD. The media take an unexpected interest in this engaging and challenging character and turn the trial into a cause. In the hazy and wild events which follow the trial, George’s girlfriend, Heather, discovers she is pregnant and on the same day she is cynically fired from her promising publishing job leaving Heather bitter and vengeful. Heather sees as her route to revenge the acquisition of a quickly-acquired fortune through Merlin’s celebrity status, and decides to take advantage of the interest in Merlin by the Prince of Wales. But who is playing whom? As Merlin’s past unfolds George and Heather become embroiled in Merlin’s other-worldly friends, spirits and gods. At the time of the birth of their son, Merlin’s past is unraveled, and his true identity revealed, dramatically. Both Heather and George, in their separate ways, come to understand that their collective material-based obsessions were merely illusionary and that the real source of their happiness and love has far deeper, spiritual foundations. ‘Kosmos’ is a contemporary novel of two halves; the first part culminating in Merlin being tried and freed; the second half in the outrageous events and revelation that follow, Kosmos draws on the author’s experiences as a trial lawyer, his interest in complex psychologies and the rich and complex history of the mythical figure of Merlin. Kosmos is a wild, feelgood novel, a right-of-passage tale of love, redemption, revenge and hubris”
First of all I’d like to thank Flame Tree Press for a copy of ‘Kosmos’ to read in exchange for an honest review.
With the extensive synopsis, that’s the biggest I’ve seen (I can hear the “that’s what she said” already by the way) I don’t need to say too much really, if anything about the general plot. I think we’ve got it pretty much covered.
I hate to say it, but I wasn’t too fond of this one. It’s a great story, well written, and MERLIN of course. But I just could not get into it at all. It is though as lovely tale of morals, good deeds and being happy with ourselves rather than material possessions. That I really liked, I always enjoy stories like that as I do think we (as humans) get a bit to pre occupied with ‘things’, over what really matters. I’m guilty as charged at times with that.
The book splits between a courtroom drama where we have our newbie lawyer defending a man who believes he is the one and only Merlin. It play’s out in an interesting way, although again, it’s given away really in the synopsis. I feel I would have preferred not to know. Though I guess it’s like Columbo in a way. You know who the killer is and who the victim is, but you watch to find out how Columbo pieces it all together,
The second part is focused on the lives of Merlin, George the lawyer and his family. It’s rather sweet, and it all comes together in a heart warming way.
It’s a really fun read, with good characters, but a little slow in parts.
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The 'Now' Web Comes to Abnormal Returns and StockTwits
First off, Tadas, the founder of Abnormal Returns, will be live with me at 5 pst on Stocktwits.TV to talk about his passion for this news project.
Passing news link is still the main shizzle when it comes to Stocktwits, Twitter and blogging. When I stumbled upon Techmeme in 2005, it became an instant favorite and still is today. Gabe Rivera has grown and evolved the site in amazing ways adding curation to the aggregation. He just has a great eye and style.
I have always been unhappy with how the Financial sector has dealt with aggregation. It’s narrow and big media focused. I discovered Abnormal Returns in 2006 and was also hooked. Tadas had a simple Google Blogger site. Tadas knew how to put together a themed linkfest. The only problem was I wanted more. Now, with URL shrinking, and a big Stocktwits community sharing links in real-time from all over the financial web, we are launching our version of a Financial/Market Meme.
Mike at Tech Crunch is covering the story with the following post. Here is what we are launching:
· Abnormal Returns is now fully integrated into StockTwits.
· New real-time component brings the ‘Now’ web to Abnormal Returns.
· Classic Abnormal Returns remains in effect.
We are happy to announce that Abnormal Returns is a fully integrated part of Stocktwits. We have acquired the website and Tadas Viskanta is joining Stocktwits. Tadas will continue to run the site full-time as its editor-in-chief while contributing his insights as we grow Stocktwits.
The ‘Now’ web is all about links, and the financial community is all about fresh ideas. Stocktwits streams can move pretty quickly especially in fast markets. Therefore, some level of aggregation is a welcome tool for many users. While aggregation tools continue to evolve, curation remains a crucial component.
Blending the two is where art and science meet.
The new look Abnormal Returns will continue to bring it’s daily “wide-ranging, forecast-free investment blog” while adding a real-time component. Abnormal Returns Now will provide readers with a real-time take on finance and investment news. This aggregation will harness both the power of the StockTwits community and editorial insight to bring a stream of intelligent investment links to its readers.
This launch is the next step in an entire revamp of the StockTwits platform coming in the next two weeks. Design clues like the cleaner navigation bar and integrated Abnormal Return headlines tie together the growing network of real-time sites that power StockTwits.
How to add an Abnormal Returns Now Stream in StockTwits Desktop
A great way of consuming the new Abnormal Returns Now is in the StockTwits Desktop application. To do this , first copy the Abnormal Returns Now RSS Feed URL. Then open up your StockTwits Desktop and select the Add Streams button in the upper-lefthand corner. Select RSS Feed and paste the Abnormal Returns Now RSS URL into the box that pops up and click Load. If you’ve done it successfully, a stream like on the left should pop up in your desktop.
About Abnormal Returns
Abnormal Returns brings the best of the finance web to its readers. Over time, it has been widely praised and has become an integral member of the investment blogosphere. Abnormal Returns is now a fully integrated member of the StockTwits network of real-time sites. In its current incarnation, Abnormal Returns has two components.
First, Abnormal Returns Classic, “A wide-ranging, forecast-free investment blog” is the version of the site that has been online since its inception in 2005. The site’s daily linkfest is relied upon by readers around the world for its consistent look at the best of the investment blogosphere.
The second component, Abnormal Returns Now is a real-time version of the site that is harnessing the power of the StockTwits community to source unique and highly relevant investment links for its readers. The site seeks to artfully blend the use of automated aggregation tools and editorial insight to curate in real-time the rapidly changing financial web.
Tadas Viskanta is the founder and Editor-in-chief of Abnormal Returns. Tadas is a private investor with over 20 years of experience in the financial markets. He is the co-author of over a dozen investment-related papers that have appeared in publications like the Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Portfolio Management among others. Tadas holds a MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA from Indiana University. He lives with his family in the heartland of America.
The Absurdity Trend…
Apple Tablet Overdose… $AAPL
my prediction: Dow 14000 this year. 0% interest rates . 10% unemployment not a big deal because the useless, redundant jobs are being shed. Buy all dips. Globalization will compensate for weak US consumer.
Buy MA POT AAPL GOOG BIDU MA V RIMM
AAPL is gonna blow it out
Jack Damn says:
Awesome Howard! “Nicely done” to you and the StockTwits crew. Congrats to Tadas Viskanta. Win-win for everyone … especially real-time news “infovores” such as I and many in the trading community.=^.^=
David Dalka says:
As someone who used to work in financial services and hopes to one day return, you guys inspire me!
thx david
rebootcomputer says:
Awesome Howard! “Nicely done” to you and the StockTwits crew. Congrats to Tadas Viskanta. Win-win for everyone … especially real-time news “infovores” such as I and many in the trading community.
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bijan says:
congrats – very cool.
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Corporate fraud in India zoomed in last 15 years: Report
Over half cases of fraud deal with siphoning of funds by promoters/management.
Written by Fe Bureau | New Delhi | Published: June 25, 2013 4:47:50 am
The scale and size of corporate frauds in India have zoomed in the last 15 years with over half the cases of fraud dealing with siphoning of funds by promoters/top management and defrauding the lenders,says the latest study report by Thought Arbitrage Research Institute (TARI),in partnership with UN Global Compact India.
This is the first report in India which analyses with quantitative data of over 15 years frauds committed by management and owners of private sector companies based on information available in public domain. The report was released on Monday in India though it was presented in St Petersburg,Russia,at the B20 meeting on June 20 by UN Global Compact,USA.Business 20 or B20 is an informal network of business associations,collaborating in order to maintain a continuous dialogue between the business community,G20 governments,and relevant international institutions.
According to TARI report,prior to 2009,the average size of frauds was about R 282 crores. This has significantly increased since then due to a number of high profile and large frauds detected in the period 2009 to 2012,TARI report said. The average size of frauds since 2009 is R 502 crores,an increase of almost 80% from the average of the past 15 years which was R 381 crores, the report said.
However,the report noted that one of the reasons of increase in frauds could be linked to the low rate of prosecution. According to the analysis of cases filed by the market regulator Sebi,the report said in nearly 80% of the criminal prosecution cases,there was no sentencing. Further 18% of such cases resulted in a sentencing of less than six months. And for every four people convicted by the court,there is at least one person is a proclaimed offender i.e. a person on whom the notices or the Courts order cannot be served as his whereabouts are unknown. Out of 540 accused convicted by the Courts,there were 133 proclaimed offenders in our sample size, the report said.
The report is based on the analysis of data of companies involved in fraud since 1997 till 2012. The report found that a significant motivator for fraud by the promoters and management was a personal enrichment at the cost of all other stakeholders. However more research is warranted to understand the behavioural aspects of individuals committing such fraud, it said.
According to the report,committing fraud does not pay as majority of the companies involved in fraud have either been liquidated or business discontinued or is continuing at reduced levels with market valuations drastically reduced.Our data analysis shows that in 43% of the cases,the business or the company ceased to exist. The companies have either been liquidated or currently in the process of liquidation or their operations may have been discontinued, the report said. However,some companies were completely untraceable with no credible information available about their existence or operations,it said. In other instances,30% of the cases the companies are continuing their business but at reduced levels. In some of the listed companies,market valuations have significantly fallen with little or no trading in their stock,the TARI report said.
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Deori: Ancient Sixteen-armed Durga Temple
by Indrajit Roy ChoudhuryPosted on May 1, 2018 Jan 2, 2020
After a long time, all three of us are at home this time. We thought of visiting the ancient solahbhuji (sixteen-armed) Durga temple at village Deori, near Tamar, around 60 km from Ranchi, on the Jamshedpur-Ranchi Highway (NH-33) to pay our obeisance to Maa Deori – the sixteen-armed goddess Durga, an avatar of goddess Kali and the resident deity of Tamar’s Deori Mandir.
I have been visiting this temple from the time it was in its original shape – a small, ancient structure housing the stone idol of Goddess Durga inside a dark chamber with a big lamp providing light inside the sanctum sanctorum. I came to Ranchi for the first time from New Delhi on my promotion in the middle of 1997. My bank colleagues in Ranchi told me about this temple and we started visiting this temple often.
Deori Mandir
Durga is a warrior goddess, and she is depicted to express her martial skills. Her iconography typically resonates with these attributes, where she rides a lion or a tiger, has between eight and eighteen hands, each holding a weapon to destroy and create. The main attraction is that the idol is having sixteen hands, normally goddess Durga is seen with eight or ten hands.
There are many legends related to this temple. According to some local beliefs, this Solahbhuji Devi Prachin Durga Mandir is in existence since the Mahabharata times. The Pandavas are believed to have prayed here during their period of ‘Agyatvaas’ (secluded exile). It is also believed by many here that Emperor Ashoka (Reigned circa 268 – circa 232 BCE) and his army worshipped and invoked Maa Durga’s blessing for victory at Kalinga War (circa 260 BCE) at this temple while marching en route Kalinga region.
The original temple is made up of big stone placed one over another without using any cementing material in between, like many ancient constructions. Inside the sanctum sanctorum, an ancient idol of Goddess Durga with sixteen hands is consecrated along with Lord Shiva. In the Mundari language, the word deori means stone. The idol and the temple both are made of stone.
According to folklore, a king of Tamar, believed to be in the 18th century, once saw a dream. The goddess told him that there was a temple in Deori, where she must be worshipped. Villagers, as directed by the king, cleared a forested patch to find a small temple with a stone statue of Durga. Ever since the deity is worshipped here.
Ancient temple structure, Deori, Ranchi-Tata Highway (NH33), Jharkhand, India
Legend has it that whoever has tried to alter the structure of the temple has had to face the wrath of the gods and suffer consequences. Therefore, new construction is being done from outside keeping the original temple intact.
Devotees tie red and yellow sacred threads onto bamboo poles that are kept in the premises.
Alongside the Brahmin priests, there are six tribal priests known as Pahans who worship in this temple and take part in different rituals and prayers. It is, probably, the only temple where the tribal priests are allowed to worship the Goddess along with Brahmin priests. The best thing in this temple is that one can directly worship the Goddess. The priests only assist with ways and mantras and this attracts me to this temple more.
Even, the former captain of India’s cricket team, MS Dhoni comes to this temple regularly. Another previous captain Saurav Ganguly also came here for worship several times. Since the creation of the state of Jharkhand on November 15, 2000, the popularity of this temple has grown manifold and so is the number of pilgrims visiting the temple.
I still find peace in the temple and so I love visiting Deori Mandir. Whenever I am in Ranchi, I try to visit the temple once.
Jai Maa Deori!
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Somali K Chakrabarti says:
Interesting to read about the temple where tribal priests worship the deity of Durga Ma with 16 hands. The dome of the temple is very beautiful. Many of these ancient structures are built of stones interlocked with each other and have survived for a very long time. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks, Somali.
Mrinalini Raj says:
Glad to come across this post on Deori Mandir!
Thanks, Mrinalini.
abhibishnu says:
Nice to know these facts about Deori mandir. Been there number of times.
Reblogged this on World beneath the feet and commented:
The famous Deori Mandir near Ranchi is an all-time favourite for the people of this city.
Thanks, Abhi. You’re right.
Rajesh Kumar says:
Just now visited this temple…so old and yet not known.Great place…requires govt attention for infrastructural dev.
Yes, you are right. A small improvement in the tourist infrastructure can make it a big religious tourism attraction.
Nice Blog!! Very beautiful place! Pictures are great,Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Chitra.
Nilanjana Moitra says:
Nice story! Beautiful temple.
Thanks, Nilanjana.
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What is IoT's Future in Healthcare Facilities?
Access to instantaneous, customized and localized information will be a game-changer for facilities leaders.
By Hannah Chenoweth
Although IoT remains one of the hottest buzzwords in business, the majority of health systems remain unsure of how to truly unlock the potential business value of connected devices--specifically, in facilities.
Many questions, from security to the infrastructure needed to support IoT, still linger despite big players spending big bucks to race to the top. To get a better understanding of the future outlook for IoT in healthcare, we spoke to Brendon Buckley, North America’s Healthcare Technology Director for Johnson Controls; Indranil "Neal" Ganguly, VP & CIO of JFK Health System; and Brian Weldy, VP of Engineering & Facilities Management at HCA.
Though their experiences with IoT are diverse, all three agreed on one thing: access to instantaneous, customized and localized information will be a game-changer for facilities leaders. So, what exactly is the “Internet of Things,” and where are the opportunities in healthcare facilities?
The Current State Of IoT
The billion-dollar industry poised to transform business and healthcare was actually set in motion when a young man noticed that a certain shade of lipstick was always out of stock at a store.
It was the missing lipstick--and the realization that there must be a better way to track inventory--that led British tech pioneer Kevin Ashton to the idea of adding data to everyday items. Ashton coined the term in 1999 to describe “the network connecting objects in the physical world to the Internet.” The “T” in IoT applies to anything that can be used to harvest data; objects, buildings, devices, lightbulbs, even people.
Caption: Kevin Ashton, who coined the term "Internet of Things."
Because of the error-prone nature of human data entry, IoT enables computers to sense things for themselves. It’s the connection of these touch points that presents the opportunity to revolutionize the way that businesses operate.
“Computers needed to gather their own information by sensing the world for themselves.” -Kevin Ashton
Eighteen years later, billions of dollars are being spent in an attempt to capitalize on the technology by companies like IBM, Johnson Controls, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Cisco, GE and more. Business Insider’s Global IoT Executive Survey recently revealed that “the proliferation of connected devices and massive increase in data has started an analytical revolution.”
According to the survey, companies plan to spend almost $5 trillion on the IoT in the next five years and forecast a total of 22.5 billion IoT devices in 2021 (as opposed to 6.6 billion in 2016).
Where Will the Value Come From?
When it comes to IoT in facilities management, Weldy simplifies the complex concept by “looking at the job to be done,” with the job at hand being to connect devices to provide better situational awareness to predict and respond to building maintenance issues.
“I think that most people grasp the concept of connecting devices to a network infrastructure, then accumulating data from these devices and using the data for actionable analysis. However, the commercial application of IoT is still in its infancy,” he said. “There is still quite a bit of hype, but over time it will become a universal practice.”
In reality, every facilities leader needs (but lacks) the ability to be everywhere at once. IoT, on the other hand, can do just that. By effectively managing the data available, hospitals gain an unprecedented ability to run efficient operations.
In an industry driven by circumstances where milliseconds count, interconnected sensors and real-time data offers “a world of amazing potential,” said Ganguly.
He predicts a massive increase in IoT for healthcare and radical change in the areas of inventory management, workflow optimization, medical device integration and beyond. He also believes the ability to track and measure activity will transform how organizations implement process improvement initiatives.
In Buckley’s eyes, the benefits are simple yet powerful. “It’s about leveraging the systems you already have to take a stressful situation and make it a little bit better."
"IoT is about setting up a hospital room that will be better at saving lives.” -Brendon Buckley
Examples of IoT’s application in facilities include:
Enhanced equipment management. By using remote detection, manual checks can be reduced and/or eliminated.
Improved inventory management. Thanks to real-time location technology, such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), assets can be tracked at a lower cost.
Reduced energy consumption. Controlling factors like heat, cooling and water in smarter ways spells energy (and cost) savings.
Strengthened security. Facilitiesnet.com reports that a multitude of new capabilities are reshaping security options.
Smarter, more efficient design. Throughput can be monitored and analyzed to understand where bottlenecks exist via wireless infrastructure and tag devices.
Examples of IoT’s application in healthcare include:
Patient data-gathering. Through wearables and sensors, physicians can better diagnose, monitor and manage patients and their treatment.
Mobile access of patient records. Quicker and more instantaneous access to records saves massive amounts of time and enhances efficiency.
Improved performance in emergency situations. Technology that monitors vital signs and symptom-detecting wearables will result in better-informed decisions.
A New Future for Building Automation Systems
As the IoT framework increases, along with the growth of data analytics, Weldy predicts that the traditional BAS systems will eventually transform into new kind of system that controls our buildings.
“Individual pieces of equipment will optimize themselves utilizing the sensors and logic inherent within that equipment. Numerous IoT sensors will bring a multitude of data, which will help to analyze how all these independent systems are operating together as a system,” Weldy said. “A leaner BAS will use this information to control the systems in the most effective manner.”
According to Weldy, the transition from traditional BAS controlling buildings to an expanding array of sensors (also referred to as edge devices) will provide improved real-time situational awareness in order to predict and/or react to optimize operations.
“Manufacturers today are adding more sensors and situational logic at the equipment control panel level as well allowing the ability to grab that sensor data easier and at a lower cost,” said Weldy.
“This layer of additional data gathered by an IoT platform changes the future of BAS technology.” -Brian Weldy
Edge devices are imperative because the sensors are at the very “edge,” where all the action is. Techopedia provides this definition: “An edge device is a type of networking device that connects an internal local area network (LAN) with an external wide area network (WAN) or the Internet. It provides interconnectivity and traffic translation between different networks on their entering edges or the network boundaries.”
With their own network to get to the cloud, edge devices provide a way to increase and broaden visibility to what's really happening, so that facilities managers can develop associations. For instance, a sensor might tell you it’s too hot but not why, whereas edge devices will look at all the conditions to figure out the reason.
“Otherwise, you have no idea how to diagnose the problem,” Weldy said. “With the evolution of IoT, increased access to a much broader range of real-time data will allow organizations to diagnose and get a prognosis in the most efficient possible way.”
Beyond buildings, IoT will transform overall healthcare delivery and aid in the migration away from traditional solution silos to solutions that blend together.
“For example, intelligent lighting could be used not only for lighting control but perhaps Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) for tracking equipment and workflow, wayfinding for patent, staff and visitors and physical security applications. What is important is to install something that has the ability to layer in additional solutions rather than single application solutions,” said Weldy.
When it comes to building maintenance, smarter systems offer not just reduced energy use and cost savings, but real, actionable insights into data that has previously been unavailable.
Deciphering vs. Drowning in the Data
With all these connected devices and data, making sense of the data and analytics is a hurdle--so how can organizations transition from “connected” to “smart”? After all, the wealth of data is only valuable if it's harnessed to make better decisions.
“I don’t know that there’s a magic bullet, but you’ve got to have a repository somewhere to store, and the tools to draw that data and analyze it in a meaningful way,” Ganguly said.
From Buckley’s perspective, the biggest conception about IoT is that it’s all about analytics; what’s missing is leveraging the integration piece.
“To think of IoT within one silo is a mistake; many organizations don’t think of it holistically enough." -Brendon Buckley
"To truly leverage it, you have to start with integration between systems to really maximize those investments,” Buckley said. “There’s a huge amount of value that could be unlocked that could impact key metrics in a measurable way, and that’s the exciting part that’s missed.”
Buckley provided a simple outline for avoiding the data-drowning trap.
1. Identify outcomes.
“You must identify: what are you doing with the data to make things more efficient? Start with the outcomes first: what metric are you trying to improve on? Don’t start off with technology, but with people, process, and an understanding what the areas of need are within the organization,” he explained.
2. Don’t think in silos.
“Know what you already have, aka the systems that touch any part of the process that impact the metric you’re trying to measure,” said Buckley.
3. Conjure up the best case scenario and identify the obstacles in your way.
“Ask: what does good look like, what’s ideal? What’s challenging you or preventing you?” Buckley said. “Then think about technology and process together; okay we have this info and systems, how could we just make it smarter by using info from another system or sensors that are tied to the system? That’s where the magic happens.”
To have that data complement each other, the 1+1=3 approach is ideal, Buckley added. “That’s how you really leverage IoT: Figure out what you want to achieve, what technology you can use, and then how to implement it leveraging as much of the technology you already have.”
IoT’s Impact on Jobs: Help or Hazard?
Forget the threat of tech-savvy Millennials or Gen Z’ers taking over; the evolution of IoT has spurned many a headline along the lines of, “Will Robots Replace Our Jobs?” As IoT reduces the industry’s dependence on humans, will a takeover of technology eliminate the need for human employees?
Buckley foresees more of a “reallocation” than replacement.
“These technologies will enable medical professionals to be more efficient in their work, which should be focused on delivering care rather than looking for things,” Buckley said. “There’s more intelligent ways to identify who/what is doing a task and workflow efficiency is going to make life much easier for both staff and patients, making the tasks of the medical staff more meaningful.”
Buckley believes that design, layout and efficiency is where the real critical change will be impacted, not staffing.
“Leveraging space in a more flexible, efficient way will be huge. For example, using the IoT could make operations so efficient that you now don’t need as large a waiting room,” he said. “Perhaps on Tuesday a room is a dermatology suite, on Wednesday it could be a general practice room. IoT and data can make the most of the space and enhance flexibility,”
Ganguly also notes the potential for smarter hospital design.
“With the evolution of IoT, hospitals can really understand the flow of every factor and it can have an impact on more efficient design." -Neal Ganguly
From the FM perspective, Weldy believes that IoT will be born out of necessity, not just luxury, due to the lack of skilled workers entering the trade.
“With the rising age of facilities professionals and the shortage of new ones coming in, the topic of developing a succession plan is huge. The counteraction is to make an investment to make our buildings more intelligent,” he said.
“This way, we can specialize and afford to pay for having someone with a more focused expertise respond to a facility’s unique system. This also amps up the competitiveness and attractiveness of the profession, as it’s both hands-on and technical with an IT slant.”
Just as IoT is poised to become inevitable, so too are challenges and security issues that must be overcome.
“One concern is that the emerging device infrastructure or ecosystem needs to mature. A lot of focus now is on fitness oriented devices or glucometers, and the whole device world is still maturing,” Ganguly explained.
Weldy echoes Ganguly’s sentiment that there is a certain element of complexity in putting all the pieces together to deliver the end product.
Privacy concerns are the oft-cited issue when it comes to IoT, especially when it comes to the vulnerability of healthcare records.
“It’s an essential concern that no one corrupts data. You want to have a bit of separation, of BAS doing what it does independently to run the facility, then you need a separate intelligence layer so they can optimize the system,” Weldy said. “What I’m trying to do is to not let anyone unauthorized get into the BAS and make adjustments.”
A hardened process to prevent hackers is necessary, which means finding a way to separate networks. Weldy cites the growing popularity of blockchain, which is still in its infancy but gaining momentum as a legitimate way to move transaction data securely, as a possible solution.
Boundless Future Possibilities
Although there are challenges to overcome, Buckley believes we’re in “a really unique time with a lot of opportunity."
"It’s an exciting time to leverage tech and business systems together to drive important outcomes. It really comes down to enhanced patient care.” -Brendon Buckley
By acting on all kinds of data, from building to operations to patient wait times, facilities leaders can reach for unprecedented levels of reactivity and efficiency. As machines and devices become more intelligent, they will be able to act in ways that benefit all parties involved, from patients to staff.
Buckley also cites less critical factors will be influenced that aren’t “life or death,” but will go farther in creating a positive patient experience, like TV, lighting control, and simply making sure the blinds are open in the morning.
“Leveraging IoT is going to allow hospitals to drive a lot more value out of systems they’ve already purchased,” said Buckley. “Electronic health records, BAS, nurse call systems, location services, they’re all expensive.”
The bottom line is, the world of IoT is taking off. Although we’re still early in adoption, an enormous opportunity exists with the ability to access and analyze real-time, localized disparate data. This data mined from sensors, meters and equipment will provide fact-based value that optimizes facilities management operations.
The industry is on the cusp of an explosion in the potential of innovation that will ultimately save time, money, energy and lives as it evolves.
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Hannah Chenoweth is a writer for influence group. Passionate about collaborating with thought leaders in real estate, design, construction & facilities management.
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Colorful cowboy gets some high-tech TLC
In Art / 24 February 2016
By Maria Anderson
Helen Ingalls, objects conservator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, cleans “Vaquero,” a fiberglass and resin sculpture by Chicano artist Luis Jiménez. (Photo courtesy SAAM)
What do a cowboy and a Corvette have in common? It’s not the opening of a joke, but rather a key to the current restoration of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s vibrant outdoor sculpture “Vaquero,” by Chicano artist Luis Jiménez.
“It’s really an unusual piece because it’s not bronze and it’s not marble, which most outdoor sculptures are made of,” Helen Ingalls, objects conservator at SAAM, explains. “‘Vaquero’ is made of a plastic, acrylic urethane, which is typically used to make signs and some car bodies, like the Chevy Corvette Stingray. It is one of the more stable plastics and holds up really well outdoors.”
“Vaquero” is hollow inside. A woven fiberglass fabric inside the sculpture serves as a matrix to hold the resin. Jiménez once worked with fiberglass as an apprentice in his father’s sign-making shop in El Paso, Texas.
Since Ingalls is responsible for the material well being of all SAAM’s sculptures, it has been up to her to figure out how to regularly treat “Vaquero,” which has stood outside the museum for more than 20 years enduring bird droppings, acid rain and city dust. Jiménez even came to the museum and worked with Ingalls to repair the sculpture’s base years ago.
Treating “Vaquero’s” surface over the years “was a challenge because there weren’t a lot of precedents; there weren’t a lot of maintenance programs that dealt with outdoor sculpture made from plastic resin,” she says.
Traditionally, outdoor sculpture is maintained by washing and waxing, so that is what Ingalls began to do. “That is how you maintain a car so it made sense to give the sculpture a protective layer to exclude water and grime, which wax does.”
Susan Edwards, conservation specialist at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, cleans and examines the surface of “Vaquero,” a sculpture by Chicano artist Luis Jiménez. (Photos courtesy SAAM)
Preventing the fading of its richly colored plastic was also a critical aspect of Ingalls preservation strategy. “So much of the very essence of ‘Vaquero’ are the vibrant colors that contrast with the urban landscape around it. I was determined to do everything in my power to keep the sculpture from fading,” Ingalls says.
To that end, Ingalls changed the type of wax numerous times over the years to see if any particular blend yielded better results. She also experimented with adding different light-stabilizing chemicals to the wax.
“The Jiménez sculpture is a very complex, layered structure. On the outside there are several clear coats of acrylic urethane resin, with no pigment, which act as a sealant. Its high gloss contains a kind of SPF (“sun protection factor” or light absorber) that protects the sculpture against ultraviolet rays,” explains Ingalls. “Just as suntan lotion needs to be reapplied constantly, these chemicals also start to lose their effectiveness over time—so I began to make my own wax coating, adding these UV protective chemicals to prevent fading.”
Ingalls and her team thoroughly wash and wax the sculpture once a year, which has helped preserve the surface. But after constant exposure to the elements, the sculpture was in need of a full-scale restoration.
“Vaquero,” a fiberglass and resin sculpture by Chicano artist Luis Jiménez at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. (Photo courtesy SAAM)
“The main problem was the deterioration of the top clear layers that act as a first line of defense. Breakage of the chemical bonds that make them a film caused them to begin to flake off,” explains Ingalls. “We knew we needed to renew these top layers but we faced a technical problem: we couldn’t just put a new coating on top of a coat that was flaking since the deteriorated coating would just take the new coating with it when it flaked off.”
The solution: The sculpture was transported to Oberlin, Ohio where McKay Lodge Fine Art Conservation Laboratory will undertake “Vaquero’s” re-surfacing. Their staff will use low to medium pressure water followed by a very fine glass powder abrasive to gently remove the flaking layers of degraded clear coat.
To restore clear coats that protect the sculpture, McKay Lodge will work collaboratively with PPG Automotive Refinish, a company specializing in transportation and industrial coatings, to research and identify an appropriate coating to use on “Vaquero.”
Helen Ingalls, objects conservator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, examines “Vaquero,” a fiberglass and resin sculpture by Chicano artist Luis Jiménez, from a hydraulic ladder. (Photo courtesy SAAM)
“When we first considered the conservation of this sculpture, we didn’t realize that new automotive resins have been researched so thoroughly over the last 10 to 15 years and their durability has evolved way beyond the durability of the acrylic urethane that “Vaquero” is made from,” Ingalls says.
The newer coating formulations that McKay Lodge is applying to the sculpture will last longer, withstand the elements much better and won’t require any maintenance—other than regular washing, something that makes Ingalls very excited.
“The maintenance up until now has been very hard work,” Ingalls says. “Applying two to three coats of wax to such a large sculpture and buffing it for hours is very labor intensive. Plus it’s not a flat surface like a car but rather has lots of folds and corners that make it more difficult. In terms of surface area, it’s more like applying wax to six cars… six cars that are 16-feet high.”
One of the most important Latino artists of the twentieth century, Luis Jiménez (1940-2006) was celebrated for his public works that offer unconventional perspectives on American culture and history.
“Vaquero” is widely considered one of Jiménez’s most significant works. The sculpture features a brown-skinned figure, wearing a sombrero and sitting atop a rearing horse. Jiménez intentionally titled the sculpture “Vaquero,” Spanish for cowboy, to emphasize the Mexican roots of this classic American icon. Unlike traditional stone or bronze equestrian monuments that depict historical leaders, Jiménez depicted an anonymous Mexican American cowboy in vivid color.
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Israeli Army Injures Many Protesters in Bil’in, Burns Olive Trees
October 6, 2018 2:22 AM IMEMC News Israeli attacks, Israeli Settlement, News Report, Non-violent action, Ramallah, The Wall, West Bank 0
Israeli soldiers resorted, Friday, to the excessive use of force against the weekly nonviolent procession against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Bil’in village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, wounding many protesters, and burning olive trees.
The Popular Committee against the Wall and Colonies in Bil’in said many Palestinians, accompanied by Israeli and international peace activists, marched from the center of the village, heading towards the olive orchards in Abu Lemon area, near the illegal wall, before the soldiers fired a barrage of gas bombs and concussion grenades at them.
Many protesters suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, and received the needed treatment.
The Israeli gas bombs and concussion grenades also caused fires in Palestinian orchards in the area, burning many olive trees.
The soldiers, stationed on military towers on the Annexation Wall, photographed the protesters, and prevented many Palestinians and international peace activists from entering the orchards to pick the olive trees, isolated behind the Wall.
Dr. Rateb Abu Rahma, the coordinator of the Popular Committee in Bil’in, said the protesters marched carrying Palestinian flags, and chanting for national unity, the release of all detainees and the Right of Return of the refugees.
He also called on constant solidarity with the al-Khan al-Ahmar Bedouin community, facing demolition and displacement by Israel for the illegal construction and expansion of colonies.
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Palestinian Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered On March 30, 2018
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New Delhi: Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said that India and the US deliberated on several issues to take their trade relationship to the next level after bilateral talks resumed amid rising trade tensions between the two countries.
American trade officials were on a two-day visit to New Delhi for a relationship-building with Indian government counterparts, including introductory meetings for the new assistant United States Trade Representative (USTR) for India.
Assistant Christopher Wilson and deputy assistant Brendan Lynch were in New Delhi July 11-12.
Talks took place for the first time after the US withdrew duty-free benefits to Indian exporters and India imposed retaliatory tariffs on imports from the US, a move for which Washington dragged India to dispute at the World Trade Organization.
“Met the United States Trade Representative team today to strengthen India-US trade ties.
We deliberated on several issues to take our deep, historic and strong trade relationship to the next level,” Goyal said in a tweet after meeting the USTR delegation on Friday.
The delegation visited India to “explore the potential for enhanced bilateral trade and economic engagement with India under the new government”, the commerce and industry ministry said in a statement.
Goyal is likely to visit Washington to meet USTR Robert Lighthizer to resume bilateral trade talks after the leaders of the two countries met at the G20 Osaka Summit last month and agreed on a meeting between their commerce ministers.
Crucial issues such as e-commerce, IPR, medical devices, steel and aluminum, and agricultural commodities could be discussed then.
The US has already asked for a rollback of the higher duties on agricultural products including apples and almonds that India imposed as part of the retaliatory tariffs last month.
“The meeting was cordial and aimed at providing a new impetus to bilateral trade and commercial ties, in line with the mandate given by Prime Minister Modi and President Trump during their meeting at Osaka, Japan on 28 June 2019,” the ministry said.
The delegation held bilateral talks with the Indian delegation led by a senior official of the commerce department, which included senior officials from other ministries also.
“Both sides discussed broad contours of bilateral trade and commercial ties and agreed to continue their discussions for achieving mutually beneficial outcomes aimed at further growing the economic relationship and addressing mutual trade concerns,” the ministry said.
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Q&AZ: Who Does Those Funny Highway Electronic Signs?
While making your way to work or sitting in traffic you may have noticed some quirky safety messages along Arizona’s interstates. Through our Q&AZ reporting project, one listener asked : “Who does those funny electronic signs. Is it one person or a team?”
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Roads Closed For 2020 Rock 'n' Roll Marathon
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About J.E. Taylor
JET-Fueled Fiction
Home of USA Today Bestselling Paranormal Suspense Author J.E. Taylor
Games Thriller Series
Ty Ryan’s downward spiral started the day his mother met Jacob Aris.
An unexpected romance between the emergency room nurse and the multi-billionaire plunges Ty into the wealthy world of entitlement, secrets and lies.
When tragedy strikes, leaving Ty and his siblings at the mercy of Jacob Aris, Ty is powerless to defend against the old man’s rage. Each random beating chips away at Ty’s sanity, leaving him vulnerable to his stepbrother’s master manipulation.
Until he snatches Jessica Connor, Ty Aris happily followed his stepbrother’s orders, producing some of the most coveted black-market films on the street. But the day he grabs her in the parking lot, his life becomes a living nightmare.
Jessica foils his plans, fires his passion, and frustrates the hell out of him. She never gives in to his demands, his pleas, or his desires, and yet a psychic bond claims his soul and melts the iron walls around his heart.
His obsession sparks a fierce rift when his stepbrother wants to start filming Jessica. Ty stalls with any and every excuse in the book, fueling his stepbrother’s fury, but he knows it’s only a matter of time before he loses this game.
With the clock ticking, he scrambles for escape options.
Options that won’t land him in jail…or worse…a captive in his stepbrother’s sadistic prison.
Chris Ryan doesn’t understand why he’s alive. He should have died in the prison he and his stepbrother created. Dying screams and the ring of gunshots still haunt his dreams, and to make matters worse, five years hasn’t erased his passion for Jessica Connor.
She left him bleeding on the cold concrete floor, escaping the prison that held her for close to a year. Semi-conscious and close to death, his gaze fell on an apparition of her son. White light filled his skin, healing his wounds and giving him a second chance… and to this day that power still rages within him.
Haunting visions of her daughter’s death drive him out of hiding, and he shows up at her doorstep with the intent of giving her the power to save her cancerous daughter. The power he safeguarded all these years. But his good intentions fall short when they realize he led the vengeful spirit of his stepbrother straight to her.
Cancer is no longer their biggest worry. Now, Chris and Jessica must battle a ghost hell-bent on destroying all of them.
Chris Ryan has everything he's ever dreamed of: the love of a beautiful woman, two amazing children, an obscene amount of money, and mystical powers beyond his wildest dreams.
His perfectly planned Valentine’s Day proposal hits a speed bump when Jessica receives a call from her ex-husband and agrees to attend the premier of his movie in New York City. A movie Chris isn’t so sure he wants to see, especially on the same night as his wedding.
Sharing the spotlight with her ex becomes the least of his concerns when three thousand miles away on the sunny coast of California, a scorned woman activates a contract on Jessica.
Chris lands in the cross hairs between an endless trail of assassins and his wife, fending them off and vowing revenge on the crazy bitch that set them loose. But his valiant efforts crumble in a near fatal hit, leaving him on the brink.
In the dark plane between life and death, Chris is given a choice: save his family or save his soul.
All four books in a single boxed set!
The Games Thriller Series
Steve Williams FBI Thriller series
Dark Reckoning
A sadistic killer stalks the secluded college town of Brooksfield, New Hampshire. With bodies piling up and rumors of the murders being part of sacrificial hazing rituals, the FBI plants Special Agent Steve Williams in a fraternity at Brooksfield University. His investigation takes a ninety degree turn into the bizarre when he’s introduced to Jennifer, a clairvoyant co-ed who swears the killer isn’t human.
Steve considers the plausibility of the extraordinary, the unspeakable, even the inconceivable, when his notebook starts bleeding cryptic messages. Messages that indicate Jennifer is at the heart of the darkness in Brooksfield.
When she describes her latest vision, a trail of violent deaths, including his, Steve asks the million-dollar question:
Is Jennifer trying to help... or is she actually the one responsible?
Living large in New York City as a corporate lawyer for the most savvy drug lord on the East Coast, Special Agent Steve Williams carefully plots Charlie Wisnowski's downfall. His plans go to hell when his wife Jennifer survives an attack by a serial killer. With her life in jeopardy and his undercover guise threatening to unravel, he orders Charlie’s arrest. But the sting goes woefully wrong and Steve becomes the target of a mafia assassin hired by the biggest crime boss in America.
Escaping from the city, Steve and Jennifer settle back into their quiet life on the banks of Mirror Lake. Their peaceful existence shatters with a crippling loss and Jennifer’s visions escalate, forecasting a brutal assault on their family.
Armed with scant details from her dreams, Steve trudges through a litany of past connections, searching for the key to stop the course of fate.
What he uncovers chills him to the core - a brother with a grudge, a serial killer and a mafia assassin are all on his trail. The hunt begins...
When Kyle Winslow escapes from custody and targets everyone Special Agent Steve Williams cares about, a turn of fate brings Steve face to face with Ty Aris—a criminal mastermind topping the FBI’s most wanted list.
Torn between justice and vengeance, Steve must make a decision.
Join alliances with Ty, or arrest him and lose his best chance to catch the bastard who destroyed his family.
Special Agent Steve Williams, still reeling from the death of Chris Ryan and his unexpected inheritance, isn’t ready to step back into the line of fire. Relations with his wife are strained at best, and now he’s saddled with a new partner and a not so silent guardian angel.
When his boss calls with news of another case, a serial killer in Atlanta targeting children, it strikes a nerve in Steve. Caught between responsibility and instinct, he makes a choice – a choice he’ll regret forever.
Crystal Illusions
Assistant D.A. Carolyn Hastings has an uncanny knack for putting away criminals. With one of the best prosecution records in recent history, her future as Manhattan’s next District Attorney looks certain. But her sixth sense for winning cases threatens to work against her when she starts seeing a string of murders through the eyes of the killer.
With suspects piling up as fast as bodies, and the motives of those closest to her questionable, Carolyn doesn’t know who to trust. When the FBI assigns Special Agent Steve Williams to the case, Carolyn discloses her deepest fear - that the man she loves may be the one responsible for the city’s latest crime spree.
The only thing Steve knows for sure is Carolyn has an inexplicable psychic connection with the killer, and all the victims have one thing in common… a striking resemblance to Carolyn Hastings.
And he knows it’s only a matter of time before this psychopath knocks on her door.
The Windwalker Serial Killer stalks the inlets of southern Maine for the next beauty to advance his collection and Special Agent Steve Williams is frustrated with always being a breath behind the slippery psychopath. Escalating the pressure, Steve’s adopted sons, CJ and Tom Ryan, take teenage rebellion to an entirely new level, leaving Steve in an explosive situation.
When the Windwalker slaughters Tom’s ex-girlfriend, taking her face as a macabre trinket, Tom is found on the scene covered in her blood, with her scalped body draped across his lap. Damning evidence against him is unearthed, his father's secret identity is about to be exposed, and he's charged with Tanya’s traumatic murder.
To prove his innocence, their only hope is the worst-case scenario; for the Windwalker to harvest a new face.
The Steve Williams Thriller Series Box Set
All six books in the Steve Williams Series are packaged in this single box set.
From the mountains of New Hampshire to the streets of New York City, these novels take you on a journey through some of the darkest days in Steve Williams' FBI career.
Steve Williams Series
Night Hawk Series
Sentenced to death at the hands of a demon, Naomi Hawk has a firsthand lesson in betrayal. Now, she thirsts for justice... and revenge.
Selling your soul has never been so charming and Mark throws in a little something to sweeten the pot, his girlfriend Naomi.
Sentenced to death at the hands of a demon, Naomi Hawk has a firsthand lesson in despair and betrayal in Mark’s deal for fame with all the trimmings. Deep in the clutches of the underground brotherhood, Naomi's light is coveted for the Master's gain.
When she slips and falls eighty stories from a precarious ledge, Naomi resigns herself to the inevitable impact and death by shattered bones. Before she can escape her demons in eternal slumber, something sinister plucks her from the plummet, stealing her out of the night to sacrifice her forever to the shadows.
Imprisoned in bottomless darkness, Naomi thirsts for justice…and revenge.
The antidote to the shadow virus turns Naomi’s blood into a lethal elixir, making her toxic to all vampires, including Damian.
Naomi's immortality is nullified, making her vulnerable to the ones who consider her their conquest. If she wasn't already walking over the hot coals of misfortune she would be obsessed with the next ambush.
The shadow vaccine is hell in a syringe, the antidote turning Naomi’s blood into a lethal elixir, rendering her toxic to all vampires, including Damian.
Archangel Michael reveals a long buried secret of her heritage and cautions Naomi against personally triggering the apocalypse. If Lucifer discovers just how unique she is, death at his hands will become her most appealing escape.
Trinity Rising
Plans for a bright future disintegrate when Lucifer comes to claim Damian and Naomi’s trinity child.
Mornings are a challenge with Damian being mortal, he instinctively dives for the floor when dawn's light illuminates the bed. The scald of whiskey, and the way Naomi feels, are the only constants which haven't changed. However, his mortal world begins to shine when fatherhood hits his horizon.
Plans for a bright future disintegrate when Lucifer comes to claim their Trinity child, playing dirty by framing Damian for murder. Now, Damian and Naomi are on the run from both Lucifer and the law. They find an ally in a most unlikely source, ex-FBI agent Steve Williams and his family; a family with enough psychic energy to wage a war and realign the universe.
With their new friends as part of the dynamic, Damian and Naomi are desperate for victory against the devil. One wrong step and they could trigger Armageddon, or worse, the hope for our future could fall into Lucifer's greedy grip.
Midnight Vows
Before she met Damian Andreas, Naomi Hawk always envisioned her wedding on a beach at sunset.
She never thought she’d get married in the mountains under a canopy of stars, but being a vampire bride makes logistics, such as dress shopping and finding a location willing to book a midnight ceremony, difficult to navigate.
Is her wedding going to be everything she dreamed, or a disaster of epic proportions?
Night Hawk Trilogy
Damian Andreas is an ancient vampire tasked with keeping the archangel bloodlines safe. Blinded by his hatred for Lucifer, he snatches Naomi Hawk from the devil to claim her as his own. The moment his teeth sink into her neck, he realizes he has just broken his own vows.
When Naomi bites him back, his blood transform her into an immortal shadow, and puts Damian on a collision path with an angry archangel.
Series includes:
Obsession puts Lilith within the grasp of immortality, but the price for living forever creates a different, much darker fixation.
The Ryan Chronicles
When CJ Ryan's girlfriend decides life is less complicated without him, CJ travels a destructive path into despair, walking the line between what's right and what feels good. But what feels good is a dangerous slope to travel, especially when Lucifer wages war for his soul.
One wrong step and CJ could fall into the devil's trap, becoming no better than the demons he battles.
CJ Ryan still can’t remembered a thing about his past, but he is determined to have a future with Valerie. Despite his lack of memory, he finds himself ensnared in the cutthroat world of entertainment whether he wants it or not. The push into the spotlight shines a harsh glare on his family and brings with it a plague of horrors that drag him to the edge.
With the darkness of the past threatening, CJ turns to his brother looking for answers, but when an enemy with a psychotic history re-enters their lives, it will take more than just his memory to save them.
Angel Wrath
CJ Ryan's life seems to have fallen into place, and while the backdrop of his Hawaiian honeymoon provides the perfect healing elixir, the guilt of sentencing his father to an eternity of torture at Lucifer's hands starts to intrude on his happily-ever-after.
When he and Valerie return from Hawaii, a note from the king of hell greets him, outlining in sickening detail his plans for CJ and those he holds dearest.
With everyone he loves on Lucifer's hit list, CJ must start living up to the bargain he made in Heaven, but every one of Hell's gates he closes is one less portal available for his father's escape.
Angel Blood
Someone is murdering people, draining them dry, and the police suspect it may be a vampire. When the captain of the York police department turns to Tom Ryan and his paranormal investigation agency for help, Tom takes one look at the crime scene photos and knows the killer isn’t a blood sucker.
Tom and his business partner compare the murders with a list of angel descendants and a chilling pattern is confirmed. Angel bloodlines are being extinguished, and there are only a handful left between the killer’s hunting ground and their family in York.
They must stop the assassin before he can cross off any more names on his hit list.
In the aftermath of his wife's death, Tom Ryan cannot breathe when his three-year-old daughter, Hannah, is out of his sight. His over protectiveness falls into the realm of paranoia, born from the fear that Lucifer is not done with him yet.
When that same apprehension manifests in his daughter, he realizes he needs to deal with his issues before his terror poisons Hannah’s innocence. Just when he manages to get a grip on his separation anxiety, his worst nightmare comes to fruition.
Desperate to save Hannah from the devil's grip, Tom will do just about anything to get her back, even if it means the ultimate act of betrayal.
Angel Fury
Duty is a double-edged sword. It means putting yourself last, ripping you away from everyone you love while you complete an unreasonable quest just to keep them safe.
Tom Ryan left York. He left everything he loves to safeguard the last angel descendants.
Now he’s back, still damned, still persecuted. Prophecy says York will burn, and everyone left who matters to Tom is in York. With no time to catch up and reconnect, Tom is thrust into a battle he’s destined to lose.
There are only so many ways you can break a man before his wrath changes the status quo.
Rekindled by family, by love, by home and memories, the ruthless son of Ty Ryan steps into the shoes left under the family tree by his dad, and this time he’s out of mercy.
All six books in one boxed set!
The series includes these single titles:
CJ’s Story:
ANGEL GRACE - Book 1
ANGEL HEART - Book 2
ANGEL WRATH – Book 3
Tom’s Story:
ANGEL BLOOD - Book 4
ANGEL FIRE - Book 5
ANGEL FURY – Book 6
Magick Trilogy
All the stars in Paige Turner's life align when Hunter Garrett proposes under a full moon in a graveyard garden on Halloween night. However, the moment they step inside the fraternity for the annual Halloween bash, their entire future unravels in a swell of drugs and deceit.
Paige wakes in a sanitarium with no recollection of anything beyond a few raunchy sex acts, and the news she is presented with squeezes her heart to the breaking point. Hunter died of an overdose and everyone thinks she is responsible.
With all the evidence pointing in Paige’s direction, proving her innocence may be an impossible feat, but that is the least of her worries now that she has unleashed an angry ghost.
Black Magick
What was supposed to be a relaxing weekend in New York City turns sour when she meets a familiar stranger who freezes the blood in her veins. The experience shocks her world, and sends her into a flurry of doubt over everything in her life, from her current relationship, to her skills as a witch.
Did she truly banish a ghost, or just transplant him into a different body...a body primed for revenge?
Practical Magick
When Paige and Austin find out the truth about Austin’s heritage, they must come to terms with an evil much greater than Hunter’s ghost. An evil targeting Austin, coveting his blood.
Paige must keep him safe from the devil’s henchmen, and the only way she knows how is to call into practice her rusty skills wielding practical magick.
If she fails, Austin’s heart will be used in the battle of good versus evil.
Single titles in this series:
The Paradox Files
Silencing the Siren
A protector. A lost soul. A siren looking for salvation.
Kylee Paradox never expected to be a protector of humankind, but when hell’s portals open and let loose the creatures of the underworld, she can’t see any other way.
Armed with an ultimatum, Kylee has no choice but to embrace her new position as bounty hunter of the damned. Sending these monsters back to purgatory becomes her life’s mission.
The only glitches in an otherwise noble pursuit are those who hold her fate in their hands. They forbid her from using her deadly siren song to lure the beasts back to the pit.
If she harms even a single innocent soul in her quest, Kylee herself will become one of the hunted.
Waking the Siren
Kylee has another mission and a new ally, but will it be enough to battle the desert heat?
Virtue and devotion.
Who would have thought those two qualities could get you killed? When a bicorn starts terrorizing Las Vegas, that’s exactly what this murdering beast targets.
Kylee Paradox is given the mission to bring this monstrosity to justice, but the desert does not bode well for a siren. In fact, it could be just as deadly as the monster she is hunting.
Hunting the Siren
In the aftermath of the massacre in Las Vegas, Kylee Paradox has no choice but to run.
Her siren caused innocent lives to be lost, and now Fate is bound to carry out Kylee’s punishment for breaking her contract.
If Fate catches her before she can find a loop hole, Kylee will be on a one way train to a tortured eternity in the fiery pits of hell.
The Paradox Files Books 1-3
Armed with an ultimatum, Kylee has no choice but to embrace her new position as bounty hunter of the damned.
Sending these monsters back to purgatory becomes her life’s mission.
The Death Chronicles
Don't Fear the Reaper
The day Nick Ramsay’s eighth-grade teacher drops dead in his classroom, Nick sees his first reaper. When another cloaked figure appears at his grandmother’s bedside, Nick issues an order for the vile creature to leave her alone.
This simple act of defiance creates a domino effect that brings Fate and Death to Nick’s door and reveals his true lineage, throwing his world into chaos. To make matters worse, a group of rogue reapers declares war on humanity and Nick is the only one who can stop them.
Nick Ramsay thinks there’s nothing worse than starting high school in a new town, especially in the sweltering Florida heat.
But being cast as an outsider is a far cry from the danger of his pending rescue mission to Purgatory to save his father from the grip of Leviathan.
As a senior in high school, Nick Ramsay should be focusing on his college choices, but instead, he's dealing with a tear between his world and Purgatory. Leviathan and a dozen demons are running amok in central Florida and Nick must herd them back into the underworld before Heaven opens its gates and sends down a pack of angry angels to clean up the mess.
The Death Chronicles Trilogy
What would you do if you found out Death was your father and you were destined to take over the family business?
Dylan Nicholas Ramsay—Nick to his friends—does not want the job, but he has no choice. The fallout of refusing to accept his fate is bleak, and when rogue reapers step in to try to overthrow the status quo, all hell breaks loose.
Single titles in this Young Adult paranormal suspense series:
DON’T FEAR THE REAPER (Book 1)
HIGHWAY TO HELL (Book 2)
KNOCKING ON HEAVEN’S DOOR (Book 3)
Fire Cursed Series
Fire Cursed
Lucifer’s daughter rises.
Faith Kennedy’s quiet life off the grid ends when her mother dies of cancer. Before her mother succumbs to the disease, she tells Faith who her father is.
The revelation terrifies Faith more than the thought of the state foster care system.
When Tom and Bridget Ryan step into the state home for girls, the course of Faith’s life changes yet again. With a new, less frightening future offered, Faith jumps at the chance to live in the light despite her newly found talents.
However, word that the devil’s daughter lives brings out dark supernatural entities, and each and every one of them either wants to control her or kill her.
Being supercharged doesn’t mean you can stop the inevitable.
Faith Kennedy has no control over her own powers, never mind what Tom Ryan bequeathed to her. She must learn to control her natural fire abilities while harnessing all her new supernatural gifts without harming those she cares about most.
When Faith partners with Kylee Paradox, an ancient bounty hunter, to close rifts she created across the globe, her worst fear comes to fruition. Half a world away, Alex Ryan goes missing.
Faith must hunt down the devil before he can claim Alex as his own. If she fails, she may have to kill her one true soulmate.
Nothing is easy. Especially when your only choice is between death and never existing at all.
Faith Kennedy faces the toughest challenge of her young life. She must hunt Lucifer and put him down at all costs, otherwise the world will burn.
But if she succeeds, she may wipe herself, and everyone she loves, out of existence.
FIRE CURSED TRILOGY
Running from the devil series
An escaped demon and a snarky cat face off against the seven deadly sins.
Escaping from Hell was just the beginning of Phoebe’s problems. In Hell, she had a position of legend. A marquis of torture. But on the human plane, she is just another New York City destitute.
Before she has a chance to get her bearings on the unforgiving streets, Fate steps in and offers her a chance at redemption, but it doesn’t come cheap.
She must bring in the demons that escaped alongside her while making sure no humans are harmed in the process. In order to do that, she needs to learn to live in the human world with the help of another one of Fate’s parolees, a snarky cat named Smoke.
If it means never seeing the halls of Hell again, Phoebe will do anything, even battle the seven deadly sins single-handed.
A malevolent benefactor is collecting demons. Will Phoebe survive the culling?
It has been months since Phoebe was able to knock off two of the seven deadly sins. When a succubus shows up at a popular nightclub in the East Village, stripping all inhibitions from her human victims before they succumb to death by lust, Phoebe must step into battle.
But the danger isn’t just the succubus. A malevolent benefactor is collecting demons, one that poses a bigger threat to all humankind.
When Phoebe goes to take down the succubus, she gets caught up in the fray. Will she be led to her own walk of shame, or worse, to her death?
An old ally turns enemy and puts Phoebe’s redemption in jeopardy.
Phoebe’s next job from Fate isn’t one that will count towards salvation. It’s to clean up the mess the Fae made following her directive.
It’s a tall order considering the slaughter has made it onto the public news.
With war between the Fae and demons exploding all over Manhattan, Phoebe navigates the fine line between bounty hunter and peacemaker. Unfortunately, she has never been good at discouraging violence.
Her old taskmaster from Hell gathers the demon forces together for the next battle, one that would make his ascent to Hell’s throne possible. And he wants Phoebe strapped to a table screaming for all eternity for her betrayal.
Phoebe must stop him before he opens a two-way portal from Hell to Earth, even if it means sacrificing her own soul.
Running From the Devil Trilogy
Running From the Devil Complete Trilogy
What happens when a werewolf hunter falls for her prey?
Red Locklear regularly hunts all manner of woodland prey, but her favorite kill is the beast that tore her parents apart when she was a little girl.
The werewolf.
Now that Red is all grown up, these horrid creatures are terrorizing Dakota Territory once again. As a member of the elite Dakota Guard, Red has a duty to extinguish the life of every last wolf she sees. Failing to do so is a death sentence.
When her grandmother doesn’t come back from a foraging run, Red dons her quiver of silver arrows and breaks town law, heading into the forest after sunset to search for her.
The dark woods test her hunting skills as well as her loyalty to the Dakota Guard, and she’s left wondering if there is any way out of this alive.
Fans of Once Upon a Time and Grimm will devour RED.
Elle must escape a life of despair to find magic in a Prince’s arms.
Elle Seeley’s world turns upside down when her mother passes unexpectedly. Her father brings her into his business, teaching her the art of negotiation in the marketplace and how to defend herself against attack.
All his training and grooming comes to a halt when he brings home a new wife and the woman’s daughter. Elle’s father makes her promise to listen and obey.
The minute her father leaves, her new step-mother transforms into a monster with one goal—to humiliate Elle into submission.
When news of a ball is announced, Elle wants to escape her mentally unstable captor, but she is forbidden to go.
Will Elle find a way to escape a life meant only for despair?
An ultimatum. A curse. A forbidden love.
May Stewart’s father, King James VII, demands she choose a husband within a fortnight. The list of approved suitors leaves her uninspired at the courtship festivities until fate intervenes, and an uninvited stranger sparks her interest.
Unfortunately, even uttering handsome Aiden MacMahon’s surname is a capital offense, for it whispers of a dark curse that dictates the daylight belongs to the beast on their family crest.
The MacMahon name is not a choice the king will allow for May, but she cannot deny the connection she has with Aiden.
When May discovers her own secret lineage holds the key to reversing the MacMahon curse, her choice of suitor becomes so much more than just a marriage match.
But choosing Aiden MacMahon could lead them both into death’s cold embrace.
How dark is obsession?
Imprisoned in a tower from the time she was old enough to walk, Danae longs to experience more than just what is within her ornate cage. But her mother insists the world is just too dangerous for a precious light-bringer.
When Danae encounters a disgraced dark-bringer, their combined power lights a fire within her soul, illuminating the tangled web of lies her captor has spun.
Danae learns that while her magic can renew hearts and heal wounds, it cannot erase the ultimate betrayal.
Will the ice queen keep her royal station, or will the fight for the throne end in a bloody battle?
Elsa must marry before midnight of her twenty-fifth year or lose her kingdom. The only problem is that no man in Bryggen can be near her without getting frostbite.
Kyle Bryggen, the founder of the kingdom Elsa rules, has been in hibernation for two hundred years, and now he is awake and wants his kingdom back.
They could be a match carved in ice, except every time they meet, they want to kill each other.
When a diabolical senator manipulates the law to his own purpose, Elsa must choose between the lesser of two nightmares.
One will lead to the ruin of her kingdom, and the other will lead to her death.
Dark magic has a price.
While the kingdom’s witches and warlocks were slaughtered to fulfill the queen’s insidious plans, Maggie White, the last pureblood sorceress, escapes with the help of her best friend and seven dwarves.
Maggie enchants a forest with a blood spell to keep them hidden from the evil queen. But the queen’s army of the dead are immune to the enchantment and bypass Maggie’s protections.
Even though Maggie has been battle-ready since the day she went into hiding, she is not prepared for the army of the dead or their tainted blades.
If Maggie loses her fight, not only will she watch those she loves die, but her life force will be sucked from her bones, and her magic will give the queen the ultimate power to enslave the world.
A Fractured Fairy Tale : Books 1-6
Alessandra and Hunter have a price on their heads. Can they escape their fate, or will the sins of the past lead them to their death?
In the eyes of the werewolf council, Alessandra Tate and Hunter Blaez committed the ultimate sin. Humans were killed at the hands of a werewolf, and the price for taking a human life is death.
After being on the run for three months, Alessandra’s nightmares are still plagued with the acts of that evening. Never again will she trust a man to get close enough to betray her, even Hunter Blaez, her beta wolf and protector.
Hunter has other ideas. He has been in love with Alessandra for years, but all she ever saw was her second in command. Even rescuing her from certain death and following her into damnation wasn’t enough for her to see him as a man.
When the council catches Hunter, Alessandra must choose between surviving without him, or risking her life to save the only man she truly loves.
Wolf Moon Amazon | Amazon Paperback | Barnes & Noble Paperback | Audiobook
No matter which side of the coin she’s on, Star is destined to lose everything she loves.
To keep Sector Eleven in his bloodline, Jaden has to marry a pure witch. Born into the Regency, his challenge is to find a wife who satisfies his mother’s criteria while also managing to love him. Easier said than done when ambition supersedes the connection of hearts in a love mandate.
When Jaden asks Star to help him find a suitable mate, she agrees, but her heart doesn’t want any part of it. Forced to serve the Regency since she was born, Star has been raised to hide her magical ability from Jaden and his mother, for fear the Regent would carry out her promise to destroy Star if she ever showed a propensity for magic.
Star is not sure which is worse, exposing her secrets to the man she loves which will have her exiled to the ravagers, and certain death, or playing matchmaker and losing Jaden to someone else. No matter which side of the coin she’s on, she’s destined to lose everything she cares about.
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An Ancient Prophecy.
A forbidden love.
Now, there’s nowhere to run.
André's abilities have always marked him as special, but fulfilling an ancient prophecy is enough to have him ostracized into the cosmos. Love was his motivation for preventing his parent's execution, now in Earth's refuge, love is his undoing again.
The Commander's daughter is off limits, but this kind of love is destiny, forcing Katrina and her alien paramour to elope.
Word of André's survival reaches his home planet when his image is broadcast across the universe. This time, his very existence may well trigger the destruction of a planet, his haven, Earth.
Messiah Amazon | Amazon Paperback | Barnes & Noble Paperback | Audio Book
On an early September day in 1979, Jamie Wilson hobbles down the sidewalk on crutches, her broken leg aching. As the school buses rumble past, some jerk yells “Faker!” out the window.
Jamie flips the bird in response.
She pissed off the wrong egomaniac, and this bully rules the school.
High school becomes a daily nightmare when her tormentors wage psychological warfare, starting with a physical attack in the hallway meant to terrorize. With only a three-day suspension as punishment and the threat of expulsion for any further physical attacks, the bitch squad change tactics, relentlessly lobbing verbal hand grenades at every opportunity.
Words are powerful weapons, especially when the school offers no protection against verbal assault. Suffering in silence is Jamie’s only choice if she doesn't want to end up in ICU.
But silence can become an equally dangerous agent of self-destruction.
Silence Amazon | Amazon Paperback | Barnes & Noble Paperback |Audio Book
Winter's Heart
Myths. Magic. And a prophecy realized.
Lisa Winters is supposed to save the small town of Opal from destruction with magic she does not possess. The white tiger has awoken, and he wants revenge on the people who betrayed him, as well as the sorceress who bound him in frost.
Lisa was not that witch. And yet, everyone believes she is the fated one. The one who will finally end the white tiger’s reign of terror.
Even her mentor, Herk, thinks so.
Lisa doesn’t want to let anyone down, but she can barely start a fire with a match and lighter fluid, let alone do anything magical.
That is, until the moment she meets the white tiger.
His majestic beauty stirs deep within her soul. Her magic, dormant for so long, sparks to life like a shooting star streaking across the universe.
But as the burst fades, so does her strength, leaving her vulnerable to the tiger’s wrath.
Glimpses includes stories that capture the imagination and lead you down the dark path to such places like the end of the world, or in a small boat on the ocean during the storm, or to a disturbed teens house on Halloween. These and several others grace the pages of this anthology. Sit back and enjoy if you dare.
Some of the titles included in Glimpses are Armageddon, Nightmares, Abyss, Understudy and Grayson House! This collection also includes short stories that are not available anywhere else!
Touch of Fire
Collection of spicy short stories including
The Seduction of Sir Galahad
Sir Galahad comes out of his shell when a fallen angel catches his attention.
After leaving an abusive relationship behind, all Lynn wanted was a quiet summer in Miami – but her ex has other thoughts.
An office attraction ignites into one wild and kinky affair.
An exploration into sexual ménage and a helicopter ride she’ll never forget.
The Raising
What would you do to bring your soul mate back from the dead? Would you give up your soul? Your talents? Your life?
Dr. Holly Robbins lost her husband to a stray bullet and now she has another patient on the brink between life and death. A patient whose mother offers a unique opportunity, but only if Holly can save her son.
Layla's gambling addiction brings her face-to-face with the devil’s emissary and now she's playing for her soul.
Kaine is one hot, soul-collecting stud. He runs the table in Hell’s den, and the house rules are simple: if the player wins, they are given the choice to walk away with the amount of time in their pot. But if the house wins, the player must pay the loss with pain.
When all the player’s chips are lost, they become a permanent resident of hell.
Can Layla resist the temptation for more time, or will she end up locked in hell, screaming for all eternity?
A Touch of Fire
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Inhibition of the T cell oxygen sensing machinery promotes anti-tumor efficacy
David Clever1,
Rahul Roychoudhuri1 &
Nicholas P Restifo1
Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer volume 3, Article number: O1 (2015) Cite this article
Mechanisms of immune tolerance can also be co-opted by tumors to subvert anti-tumor effector T cell responses. The lung represents a unique anatomic tissue of pronounced immune tolerance where T lymphocytes do not mount effector responses under steady state conditions despite continual exposure to innocuous foreign antigens. We hypothesized that a cell intrinsic mechanism by which T lymphocyte behavior is modulated to promote local immune suppression within the lungs can be inhibited to promote anti-tumor T effector responses. Here, we demonstrate that the family of prolyl-hydroxylase (Phd) proteins promote T cell tolerance in the lung and limit anti-tumor T cell responses throughout the body. Prolyl-hydroxylase isoforms 1, 2, and 3 functioned redundantly as oxygen sensors in T lymphocytes and enabled environmental oxygen to limit effector differentiation in vitro and in vivo. Mice with a T-cell specific deletion of all three Phd proteins (Phd-tKO) developed spontaneous Th1-mediated immunopathology in the lungs. Phd-tKO CD4+ T lymphocytes activated under normoxic conditions or wild-type T cells activated under oxygen-deprivation conditions exhibited reduced specification into T regulatory cells (Treg) and instead defaulted to a Th1 program as revealed by whole transcriptome RNA-sequence profiling and induction of Tbet and IFNg protein expression. This predisposition to effector cell specification in the absence of Phd protein expression or under oxygen deprivation was dependent on the functional expression of the hypoxia inducible proteins HIF1a and HIF2a. Importantly, genetic or pharmacologic inhibition of the Phd proteins in tumor antigen-specific CD4+ T cells promoted anti-tumor efficacy in murine models of adoptive cell transfer immunotherapy as indicated by increased tumor clearance and improved overall survival of tumor-bearing mice. These findings establish the oxygen sensing Phd proteins as a T cell intrinsic regulatory node in immune homeostasis that may be targeted genetically or pharmacologically to promote anti-tumor immune responses.
Surgery Branch, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
David Clever
, Rahul Roychoudhuri
& Nicholas P Restifo
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Correspondence to David Clever.
Clever, D., Roychoudhuri, R. & Restifo, N.P. Inhibition of the T cell oxygen sensing machinery promotes anti-tumor efficacy. j. immunotherapy cancer 3, O1 (2015) doi:10.1186/2051-1426-3-S2-O1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/2051-1426-3-S2-O1
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THE INVISIBLE WARRIOR REPORT
A publication dedicated to exposing the Rape culture and sexual assault as it pertains to our armed forces society and college life.
Anne Hathaway as Fantine The Victim of Society
From Les Misrebles
There was a time when men were kind
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong,,,
Claude-Michel Schonberg
From Les Miserables
Fantine is the tragic figure of Victor Hugo's story to overcoming oppression, corruption, and other issues in Les Miserables. Although she is not the main character of the book, you cannot turn away from her trials as she goes from a young girl in love, to an abandoned single mother, and finally a prostitute on the streets of Paris who has nothing else to sell but her body to keep her child from being thrown out into the streets.
Recently I had the privilege of producing some videos for an organization which helps to rescue people from a life of prostitution. I learned how young girls (mostly) have been lured into the sex trade and even held captive against their will. Debra Woods told me her story.
When Love Was Blind
Debra Woods
Debra Woods came from a good environment with a loving dad and grandparents who reaffirmed and praised her for her achievements. But with an absent mother at the age of 12, she began to rebel like most children do. By the age of 15, Debra had a full on rebellious streak which included drug use, running away from home, and by 17 she was a single mom. She had reconnected with her mom who had been in prison for drug use and sex work. Debra's bad behavior in her father's home eventually led her to leave and live with her mom. Shortly afterwards she met a man who had charm, smooth words, and seem to love her. Her boyfriend convinced Debra to take a trip with him to LA and meet some friends of his. After checking into a hotel room, her sweetheart tossed some condoms to her and told Debra that she was going entertain his friends. Apparently money had been or was about to exchange hands for this entertainment. This infatuated and naive teenager was about to be introduced to prostitution, and he looked at her and remarked: "this is pimping, bitch." She endured a living hell for the next10 months.
He Took My Childhood In His Stride
The Romeo Pimp and his unsuspecting victim
The boyfriend who Debra met turned out to be a "Romeo Pimp." It's a good name for them. Romeo Pimps target problem girls mostly. They troll the bus depots, malls, you can find them on or in generally any place transient or troubled girls might be. They're called Romeo pimps for a good reason. They're very charming, charismatic, and sympathetic to a troubled girl. He goes from a sympathetic ear, to maybe a protector, and then being the boyfriend, and the man with all of her answers. This is not the comical over dressed flashy guy from from the past; he looks like your everyday man so that he's not noticed by the cops. When these men eventually have a woman in their clutches, they close the door on her choice to leave. The beatings, intimidation, and threats to family members are employed as a tools to keep her in line. In Debra's case what ended her 10 month nightmare of terror was getting incarcerated, and returned to her family.
But most girls become women, who have the deep wounds, which turn to scars from the experience.
Even after the pimp has been removed from her life, the hardness of being sex trafficked becomes tatooed onto her heart. She's learned how to survive and adapt. Many because of poverty, drug addiction, or homelessness, many return to the streets on their own to have enough money to make the rent, have food, or support their habit. Like in the story of Les Miserables, Fantine went from a young girl in love, to a woman struggling from day to day just to survive. She sold her possessions, and then eventually herself to survive.
Advocates (some who have been victims themselves) do not see these girls and women, as sex workers, but victims of sex trafficking. Because most of the victims have started out as young girls who were forced into this lifestyle as early as 13 years old, the choice was not theirs. And after being arrested and profiled as hookers or prostitutes by the police, and even society, they carry the Scarlet Letter of shame. In an interview with Police Chief Jerry Dyer; he stated,
Fressno Police Chief Jerry Dyer
"We in law enforcement have found over the years---is that historically we have treated many of the girls out there on the streets--- involved in the sex trade and prostitution as suspects, when in reality is that they are victims. So many of them are forced into this lifestyle and cannot get out. And that's why we have had to change our attitude in law enforcement--- to look at them as victims." - Police Chief Jerry Dyer Fresno PD
Police Chief Dyer and other police officers in a task force called The Coalition Against Human Trafficking are working to to break the cycle along with Debra Woods and the organization: Breaking The Chains. But sadly there are dark corners in this issue; we have pimps who wear the military uniform or the badge while exploiting victims for profit and their own personal needs.
The Tigers Come At Night
In 2014 sex trafficking was discovered at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, where a NCO masquerading as a Sexual assault prevention officer would approach cash strapped female soldiers in attempts to recruit them into a prostitution ring. It all fell apart for Sgt. 1st Class Gregory McQueen, when a female soldier reported him for sexual assault and attempting to coerce her into his stable. McQueen had set up services for high ranking officers as well as civilians. The problem in the military isn't just confined to one military base in Texas, but as far as Korea. See: The U.S. military’s long, uncomfortable history with prostitution gets new attention
And the meme "good cop, bad cop" takes on a whole new meaning as a story in Oakland CA reveals that several cops exploited a young sex worker. They traded her safety and anonymity for sex and money.
Officer Brendan O'Brien
The scandal began in February 2015. Guap was seventeen at the time and working on the streets of East Oakland as a sexually exploited minor. In an interview, Guap said that one day a pimp chased her down International Boulevard, but she spotted an Oakland police car and approached the vehicle for help. That’s when she met officer O’Brien. The Real Reason Why Oakland's Police Chief Was Fired- East Bay News June 10, 2016
At the time Celeste Gaup was 17 years old running down International in Oakland Ca. from her pimp.
Fortunately for Celeste (at least for the moment) she spotted a patrol car, and asked for the Officer's help. Officer Brendan O'Brien was Celeste's rescuer and the man of the hour. According Gaup, she and O'Brien began dating then the officer introduced her several other officers. All of them became sexually involved with her for money and protection. She was also transported from Oakland, to Alameda County, Richmond, and Livermore. Sadly the motto: "To Protect and Serve" gets another black eye and it did in the Kenneth Hotlzclaw situation. See my blog: The Times, They Are A Changin
I Had A Dream My Life Would Be...
Back in April at a meeting with several of the staff of Breaking The Chains Organization, with the co-founder Tiffany Apodaca, Debra Woods entered the room. She recalled some words to me which she spoke in an interview:
Debra Woods Today
"I have a lot of friends out there. I have a lot of girls--- and although I haven't seen them in 10 years, and although I've seen them in the most seediest of circumstances. I love these women. These are women that I cried with--- these are women that I have struggled with."
She then ushered in two young women who looked about 19 or 20. The were frail, and a little nervous with tears streaming down their faces. Debra then introduced them as two of the many girls she left behind years ago when she left the lifestyle, but seemed to have found a way to go back and rescue. I just looked stunned as others embraced the girls and introduced themselves. When those who have the power fail to be part of the solution, then we who have just a little hope, and a lot of heart must step into the arena. The Invisible War continues.
Debra Woods and Tiffany Apodaca
Co Founders of Breaking The Chains for inviting me into your world and sharing your story and vision. and for giving hope to women everywhere.
Police Chief Jerry Dyer
For Taking a bold stand in the face of an issue that is older than America itself
Denise (Dancing Paint Brush)
For being my invaluable editor and spell-checker
Vera Santa Clara And Catherine (Deja1422)
My friends and Article finders who share what's going on in today's Rape Culture
Fort Hood sexual assault prevention officer ran on-base prostitution ring: witness
By:Sasha Goldstein New York Daily News
The U.S. military’s long, uncomfortable history with prostitution gets new attention
The New York Post- October 31, 2014
The Real Reason Why Oakland's Police Chief Was Fired
East Bay News by Darwin Bond Graham and Ali Winston
Breaking The Chains.Org
YouTube- https://youtu.be/ifQyV85lNfU
The Previous Blog:
Macho Man: The truth about Male Sexual Assault
Posted by Kevin McGill at 11:19 AM 5 comments:
Village People I've Got Be A Macho
Every man ought to be a macho, macho man
To live a life of freedom, machos make a stand
Have your own lifestyles and ideals
Possess the strength of confidence, that's the skill
You can best believe that he's a macho man
He's the special god son in anybody's land
℗ 1978 Can Not Stop Productions NYC 1978
I've Got To Be
Cowboy, Construction worker, Native American, Biker, Soldier, and Cop, made up the fun pop style of the group called the Village People. They strutted, gyrated, and sang to the pop sounds of Disco. We were no longer in the "Mad Men" era of Jazz, or the folk crooning's of the Sixties. It was colored lights, silk shirts with puffy sleeves, tailored hair and platform shoes. Outwardly we seem to be enjoying life, while not being afraid of the culture of unisex ideas and philosophy. Songs like the Village People's Macho Man, parodied the over done idea; the culture of male dominance and toughness. It was something of a joke, at least on the surface. Bulking up and being Mr. Hard Body back then, was no longer center stage in society. But still the idea of what a real man should be always remained in the forefront of many societies, especially in America.
Doing what boys and men do
To be a real man the culture has taught us, means power, respect, and privilege. We live in this man-built, male driven society to succeed at all cost. Real men are suppose to live, play, and love like men do. We follow that pathway of maleness through sports, business, and the military. "Be a man...," your father would say. "It will make a man out of you...," said the recruiter or the coach. "Big boys don't cry" forced back the emotional and physical pain that every boy remembers from one generation to the next. We play hard, we fight to win, and never let people see your pain, insecurities, or short comings.
The unadorned truth is men in the military, college campuses, and even church institutions have been sexually assaulted. They fall prey to coaches, superior officers, the clergy, as well as acquaintances or peers. When it happens, everything the victim thought was true about masculinity becomes a brain salad of confusion. Like any victim of sexual assault, the boy or man feels a deep initial guilt. "How could I let this happen to me?" while no doubt questioning his own masculinity.
Every Man Wants To Be
Rape is thought to be the sexual conquering that happens exclusively to women. And so following the pattern in our society, male rape victims never talk about it, because to do so would conclude that they are not real men. A male victim of rape feels he has no other choice but to try to out-run the shame of the experience by keeping quiet while pursuing a more outwardly manly lifestyle. But the silence only allows his doubts, anger, fear, and guilt to grow inside of him.
On the surface the lyrics:
"Macho, macho man, I gotta be a macho man..." are humorous, but it is also the programming of our society. Be macho, act the part, or at least fake the tough male boldness with everything we have. "If people find out this thing happened to me, then I might as well be dead." For awhile most male sexual assault victims can pull it off. But then like anything that goes unchecked, the assault(s) come flashing back. The victim pushes back harder with more work, more man activities. Maybe they drink more, move to another state, or whatever it takes to squelch the thing which violated them.
Call Him Mister Ego
Sadly the very thing that young men choose to enhance their masculinity, has become their
betrayer. "Be all that you can be...," the old commercial jingle would chime. Or "Aim High..." and "The Few, The Proud..."
Bill Minnix who joined the Air Force in 1973 at the age of 17 was eager to serve and of course, do something with his life. While stationed at Kessler Air Force Base, he had been targeted by officers at that base who invited him and other recruits to these parties where they were given large amounts of alcohol. Minnix says he was raped 4 times within several weeks. The sexual assaults plus seeing his perpetrator everyday, lead to him not showing up for duty on multiple occasions. Finally after only 6 months of active duty, Minnix was given an "other than honorable discharge" and released from the Air Force. Another hard truth is that although rape is more prevalent with women; more that half of the report cases in the military are of male servicemen. But our credo of what a man is suppose to be, grips male victims with the guilt. They've seen female victims come forward, and speak out, only to be ridiculed, re-victimized, retaliated, and branded as not good enough.
To Live A Life of Freedom
When the myth of who men are supposed to be collides with the reality of sexual assault and trauma, they get the living shit beat out of them. They feel not only not good enough in their profession, but not good enough to be a man. The most significant statement of stigma that Bill Minnix made after his discharge was:
“Nobody believed me. My family didn’t believe me," he said. "My sister picked me up from the airport. I couldn’t share with her what had happened, because a man just doesn’t get raped." -Veteran Fights To Overcome Stigma And Trauma Of Military Sexual Assault APR 29, 2016
Advocate and Sexual Assault Survivor: Bill Minnix- Photo BRADLEY W. PARKS
The culture of what is acceptable about both genders tells us that a man doesn't get raped. And that may be part of the reason for such low reporting of this crime. The shame and fear of ridicule from those that we know, keeps us silent and feeling disconnected from others.
Bill like other survivor/victims felt disconnected and lost. Disconnection and shame leads many male victims to broken relationships, homelessness and even in Bill's case attempted suicide. 40 years later, Bill Minnix was ready to end it all. With his Chevy Hatchback over looking a cliff he was ready to hit the gas and plummet to his death. Fortunately another car pulled up behind him at that moment.
maybe that was the moment which lead Minnix to make a call for help. Shame was the monster in the car with Bill and many other men like him, saying "Real men never let this happen." The shame was his constant companion which reminded him of his failure as a man. Many male sexual assault victims are losing this battle because they're running away from being open to the reality that their sexual assault happened. They won't tell anyone because if they do so, it will expose them as being weak.
I'd advise everyone reading this blog to go and listen to Dr. Brene Brown on the topic of shame and vulnerability. It could change your life. She said in a conference:
Dr. Brene Brown- Listening To Shame
"Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives. that vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage to be vulnerable, to let ourselves be seen, to be honest.---If you put shame in a petri dish,it needs three things to grow exponentially :secrecy, silence and judgment. If you put the same amount in a petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive. The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too" -Dr. Brene Brown: Listening To Shame- Ted Talks March 16, 2012
A few of my feminist friends will give me a gentle nudge on social media, hinting to me that I need to tell the stories of men and boys in our society who have been victims of sexual assault. And I humbly admit that they need to be more part of the conversation about sexual assault, because this is not a woman's or feminist issue, and it should not be used as a tool for the Male Rights Advocates to shame those who speak out. This affects us all. And with that said; I call more men to step out of the shadows into the arena having the courage to be vulnerable, because vulnerability is courage. Be the man in the arena who steps in to the fight, and makes this his fight too. Men like Bill Minnix are in this fight. They are speaking out through organizations like Protect Our Defenders, and other groups to let men and women know that they don't have to do it alone.
Possess The Strength of Confidence
The Fear of Ridicule and Blame for Men
Men like Bill Minnix need to be able to step out of the shadows of shame, and be heard and believed. They should not be re-victimized by a society or culture in America or anywhere that would tell them, "because this happened to you, you're not macho, and you are not a man." Boys who wanted to serve their church in the name of God are betrayed by priests, or clergymen. In families some are attacked by another family member, and shamed into silence. And men on college campuses, in the military and other institutions are sexually assaulted, ridiculed, retaliated, and then eventually discharged with a less than honorable label. Some can't find work, become homeless, and or develop a drug addiction, and PTSD.
Our society refuses to understand male trauma and suffering. Men try to survive in a culture of manliness, bravado, and whatever else, and of course the shame continues to remain with them until they find themselves on the edge of a cliff ready to hit the accelerator and end their misery. Is it wrong to be cool, or feel manly, and enjoy what other guys enjoy? Of course not. But when the outer man is disguising a wounded broken soul, that is hemorrhaging with shame, life becomes a masquerade.
When We do Nothing For Men and boys
Although most of the stories I've share in my blogs, deal with sexual assault against women, I'm reminded by my fellow advocates (mostly women) that we need to encourage more men to speak out and share their stories. We must help both men and women to help break the silence. Again Brene Brown remarked in a Ted Talk, that a wise Feminist friend once told her, "When we do nothing for men and boys, then we do nothing for girls, and women." Brene Brown at The UP Experience 2009- You Tube-2009
Real men are afraid mostly being rejected by those who are closest to them. They hide their pain from family, friends, sweethearts, and people whose respect they covet. Maybe they take a risk and share their story, only to look back into the face of someone who reacts with a TMI (Too much info) stare. And so like Bill Minnix, many male victims would rather survive in silence than to risk being vulnerable again. We need to be open to their hurt and allow them to be real men who can step into the arena of shame, without the fear of getting the emotional shit kicked out of them by the ones they love the most.
The Man In The Arena
Macho Man- Village People ℗ 1978 Can Not Stop Productions NYC 1978
Military "Rape" Estimates: The Truth Behind the Numbers- Villainous Company
Veteran Fights To Overcome Stigma And Trauma Of Military Sexual Assault- By Conrad Wilson April 29, 2016
Dr. Brene Brown: Listening To Shame- Ted Talks March 16, 2012 -You Tube
Brene Brown at The UP Experience 2009- You Tube-2009
Vera SantaClara. Rosie Palfy and SueVee (For giving me the gentle nudge on the issues)
Catherine- Deja Thanks Cath for telling it's okay for real men to be vunerable
Denise Artlady- My spellchecker. It goes without saying. You're the last stop before I publish
And so many other whom shared with me parts of their stories of personal pain in confidence
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Ramifications of a Baby Switch [duplicate]
“Am I Jewish?” (2 answers)
At the hospital 2 newborns get swapped, one Jewish for one not. 20 yrs later someone realizes what happened & informs both kids of the mistake, does their status change? Does the ‘non Jewish’ boy who was raised to be a proud observant Jew need to officially convert now? And would the Jewish boy raised ‘non Jewish’ have to convert to Judaism now or was he always considered Jewish?
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Certainly the actually Jewish one is still Jewish. There’s no way to lose your Jewish status. – DonielF Jun 6 '19 at 16:26
Let's give the kids names at least. How about Yehuda and Antoninus? – user6591 Jun 6 '19 at 16:41
Yevamot 11 discusses many cases of mixed up babies, but not where they later figure it out. I don't know what the doubt is in this case: once we figure it out that's it, no? – Double AA♦ Jun 6 '19 at 17:08
It appears that everything depends on "informs both kids of the mistake" - is that a valid testimony, is that before a valid Beis Din, etc? Keep in mind that to remove a person's status (Chazakah) a decision of a Beis Din is required! It is not sufficient that a doctor calls the parents and informs them - maybe it's a scam. – Al Berko Jun 6 '19 at 18:55
Assuming it's a boy, would the Brit Milah + toiveling at some point not serve as an ersatz, undocumented conversion? – Josh K Jun 6 '19 at 19:07
According to Jewish law, a person is only considered part of the Jewish people, if they were born to a Jewish woman, or they formally converted to Judaism.
Also according to Jewish law, a person who was born Jewish, but was raised secular, as a non-Jew, is still considered to be a Jew, even if he wasn't even circumcised.
So in the hypothetical case of the OP, assuming that it was unequivocally proven that in fact they babies were switched, then the Jewish boy raised ‘non Jewish’ does NOT need to convert to Judaism, since he was he always Jewish. His "Jewishness" was conveyed to him by his biological mother.
On the other hand, the boy born from a non-Jewish woman, never had any "Jewishness" formally conveyed to him. The fact that he observed Jewish laws and customs is immaterial, since as a biological non-Jew, he requires a formal conversion process, which he never underwent.
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I disagree with the later. It appears that since 1. he was circumcised 2. he accepted Mitzvos at 13, he's considered automatically converted. – Al Berko Jun 6 '19 at 19:01
@Al he presumably toiveled at some point or at least went swimming in a kosher mikvah, as well – Josh K Jun 6 '19 at 19:40
@JoshK and because he was Katan, his consent was not required. – Al Berko Jun 6 '19 at 19:57
@JoshK Immersion in a mikva per se, without the auspices of Beis Din, is ineffective for conversion. This is clear from the sugya in Yevamos 45b. Despite the argument among the Rishonim, as to the exact meaning of the Gemara, the common denominator is that BD is required. The same is for the Gemara in Yevamos 47a. – IsraelReader Jun 6 '19 at 20:20
@AlBerko The point is moot. I wrote that we're assuming that it was unequivocally proven that in fact they babies were switched. That covers all bases. – IsraelReader Jun 6 '19 at 20:56
The gemara in Gittin 42b discusses whether a slave owned by a Cohen that has been freed, but has not been given a formal document of freedom (גט שחרור) can still eat Terumah. The gemara attempts to bring a proof that he may eat Terumah from the following Mishna (Yevamos 99a):
כהנת שנתערב ולדה בולד שפחתה הרי אלו אוכלין בתרומה וחולקין חלק אחד על הגורן הגדילו התערובות משחררין זה את זה
If the wife of a Cohen mixes up her child with her maidservants' child, the 2 children may eat Terumah, and collect a portion of Terumah (together). When they grow up they both free each other.
The implication is that the slave is effectively considered "freed" since you cannot work them since they may be Jewish, yet they were not formally freed with a גט שחרור and the Mishna says that they may eat Terumah.
The gemara rejects this proof:
הכי השתא התם אם יבא אליהו ויאמר בחד מינייהו דעבד הוא קנין כספו קרינא ביה
That case is different because If Eliyahu Hanavi would come and identify which one is a slave, they would indeed revert back to being in the possession of their owner.
From here It seems clear that even a child who was raised as Jewish, but Eliyahu Hanavi revealed that they are not, they would indeed have the status of a non-Jew.
A slave isn't exactly a non-jew. More like a half Jew. – Double AA♦ Jun 6 '19 at 17:12
You can't learn from Eved to a Jew. Rambam (end of Melachim) rules that regarding the ancestry one who's considered a Kosher Jew can't be withdriven that status, I think. – Al Berko Jun 6 '19 at 18:52
@AlBerko I don't understand the comment. This gemara shows that if Eliyahu would come and tell someone presumed as a Jew that they are, in fact a slave, they would revert back to being a slave. The Rambam in Melachim 12:2 (if thats what youre referring to) says that in the Yemos Hamashiach Eliyahu is not going to invalidate people's lineage. But that doesn't mean that if he would do it, it wouldn't work. He just isn't going to do it. – Silver Jun 6 '19 at 19:10
As DoubleAA commented, it seems that your learning from one case to another is far fetched. Unless you bring a source, that learns that explicitly. – Al Berko Jun 6 '19 at 19:15
My point was just a matter of precision. There is no reason to think it matters. @AlBerko please don't invoke my name next to incorrect claims – Double AA♦ Jun 6 '19 at 20:44
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Temples & Nature (22 Days)
Locations: Negombo, Anuradhapura, Sigiriya, Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, Ella, Udawalawe, Sinharaja, Bentota
LK10210300: Temples & Nature (21 Nights)
Sri Lanka though a renowned leisure destination for its mesmeric hill country, exquisite beaches, and fascinating cultural attraction of ancient cities and shrines is not a destination that readily comes to mind for a golfing holiday. If you look up the Sri Lanka Map you will learn to your delightful surprise that you can easily fit in three fabulous golf courses of all Asia located at three elevations.
1 Night in Anuradhapura
During your time in Anuradhapura, you can engage in the following activities.
Munneswaram Temple
Later on proceed to Chilaw to Munneswaram temple is an important regional Hindu temple complex in Sri Lanka. It has been in existence at least since 1000 CE, although myths surrounding the temple associate it with the popular Indian epic Ramayana, and its legendary hero-king Rama. The temple is one of five ancient temples dedicated to Shiva in the region.
2 Nights in Sigiriya
During your time in Sigiriya, you can engage in the following activities.
Ancient Ruin kingdom of Anuradhapura
Walk through the ancient ruined city of Anuradhapura, which was the capital for over a millennium until the 10th century AD. View the pagodas, monastic buildings and ponds that are scatter all over the vast area. Visit important landmarks such as Jetavanarama, which was one of the tallest buildings of the ancient world, the Sri Maha Bodhi and the ruins of the huge Abhayagiri Monastery. Gain more knowledge about Sri Lanka’s history as you walk in the footsteps of Kings.
Rock Fortress Sigiriya
The 5th century AD rock fortress Sigiriya, once ruled by the Sri Lankan King Kashyapa, is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Sri Lanka’s most historical landmarks. Walk through the entrance framed by the paws of a lion that is quite appropriate for its name, ‘The Lion Rock’. View the beautiful unfading murals that brought Sigiriya its fame. Climb the steep staircase to see the terraced gardens and still-working cisterns, that are a mind blowing example of ancient Sri Lankan hydraulic engineering.
This safari takes you on a ride through the Minneriya National Park. Enjoy the sight of over 150 elephants congregating in one place during the famous Great Elephant Gathering, which happens in the dry season between May to October. In addition to elephants, get a chance to also see many mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians in the scrublands, forests and other areas.
The Matale Spice Tour gives you a hands on experience of a Spice & Herbal Garden within the Spice capital of Sri Lanka, Matale. Here you will learn about Sri Lanka’s famous spices such as coriander, chili, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, and their uses. The garden is enriched with herbs, spice groves and plants with fragrant greenery shading from the tropical trees that heighten the unique aroma of each spice and herb. Apart from gaining knowledge on Sri Lankan spices, this unique tour also lets you learn about Ayurvedic medicine. The tropical climate in which the plants and herbs are grown helps them preserve its ancient originality.
Kandyan Cultural Show
The Kandy Cultural Show gives an opportunity to experience some of the traditions of Sri Lanka. Enjoy this hour long extravaganza as some of the most popular art forms of the island take to the stage. Get wowed by fire dancers and sword dancers. Watch the colorful Kandyan dancers take to the air to the thrumming primal beat of the drums.
Visit the famous Royal Botanical Gardens of Peradeniya, which were formed in the early 19th century. Walk through the vast area containing over 4000 species of plants. Enjoy the learning more about the orchids, spices and medicinal plants. Wander down avenues shaded by large and rare trees, or bordered by flowering plants. Enjoy seeing the cannonball tree, walking over the wobbly suspension bridge and through the short hedge mazes or even climbing the twisty trees that make wonderful jungle gyms..
Visit a Tea Factory and a plantation where you would see how the world’s famous “Ceylon Tea” is manufactured. In 1824 a tea plant was brought to Ceylon by the British from China and was planted in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Peradeniya for non-commercial purposes. James Taylor was a British citizen who introduced commercial tea plantation in Sri Lanka (Ceylon). He arrived to Sri Lanka in 1852 and settled down in Loolecondera estate in Kandy. Today even people who have never heard of Sri Lanka are familiar with Ceylon tea, which is known for its quality.
Horton Plains
Visit the beautiful Horton Plains National Park in Ohiya, with its montane grasslands and cloud forests. Enjoy the majestic views from the precipice of World’s End and the cooling sprays from Baker’s Falls. Catch glimpses of the many endemic faunae that make their home in the plains. Get to know more about the archeological finds that were discovered in the area.
Visit the highland city that was the premium holiday resort town of the British in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Enjoy walking through the streets with their pretty little cottages, quaint villas and beautiful mansions. Make a memory in the old red-bricked post office as you purchase an inexpensive and colorful postcard to take home or send to your friends. Relax at Queen Victoria Park or on the shores of Lake Gregory.
Enjoy panoramic views as you take a train ride from Nanu Oya to Ella. Watch the scenic mountains, beautiful waterfalls and bright green fields of tea. See the little misty villages and towns filled with bright lively locals pass you by. Relax to views of dark forests or enjoy the thrill of heart- stopping drops right at your feet. A leisurely ride that reveals Sri Lanka’s beauty (Travel Time: 3 hrs)
Explore Ella City
Explore Ella’s most interesting places. Pass through bright green tea fields, and tough stretches of rock, and get to see the magical views of Little Adam’s Peak. Walk over the history seeped Nine Arches Bridge and listen to the story of its construction. End your hike at the Demodara Railway station with its unique loop-over track design. This tour gives you the chance to see the best sights of Sri Lana.
Explore Haputale
Explore the most famous landmarks of Haputale. Visit Lipton’s seat, one of the most famed observation points in Sri Lanka, which gives views of the Uva, Sabaragamuwa, Central and Eastern Provinces. Roam over the grounds of Adisham Bungalow, a beautiful Tudor mansion built in the early 1900s. View the neo-gothic architecture of St Andrews church, walk through its graveyard which is the resting place of many British tea planters, and much more. This is a great opportunity to relax and enjoy the calming beauty of Haputale and its sights.
1 Night in Udawalawe
During your time in Udawalawe, you can engage in the following activities.
Udawalawa National Park
Enjoy a three-hour safari which would give you a chance to explore the amazing Udawalawe National Park. Travel through the marshes, forests and grasslands of the park that was created as a sanctuary for wildlife in the 1970s. See the water birds and Sri Lankan elephants for which the park is famed. Catch glimpses of the other mammals and birds, as well as the reptiles, amphibians and butterflies.
2 Nights in Sinharaja
During your time in Sinharaja, you can engage in the following activities.
Sinharaja Rain Forest
Go on a jungle safari to the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sinharaja Forest Reserve. Experience the virgin forest with its dense evergreen type vegetation. Feel the adventure as you listen to the screeches of monkeys and see the glimpses of colorful forest birds. Feel the spine-thrilling chill as you watch a green pit viper wind itself amongst the foliage. A wonderful opportunity for those who wish to see Mother Nature at her wildest.
5 Nights in Bentota
During your time in Bentota, you can engage in the following activities.
Madu River
Go on a wonderful boat ride down the Madu River with its flourishing ecosystem. Pass through the secretive passages created by the mangroves. See the basking crocodiles and water monitors. Visit one of the small islands with its cinnamon harvesting natives. Enjoy the restorative qualities of the famous fish massage. Observe the waterbirds in their natural habitats.
Turtle Hathery
Visit the Kosgoda Turtle Hatchery on the Southwestern coast of Sri Lanka. Learn more about the five endangered sea turtle species that come to the shores of Sri Lanka to nest. Learn how the Kosgoda Turtle Care Program helps protect the nests until they hatch and increases the chances of survival for the babies. Get a chance to see, touch and feed baby turtles; or even injured adult turtles that the Turtle Hatchery cares for.
After the breakfast at the hotel check out and proceed to airport after spending a memorable time in this island.
Anuradhapura – Lakeside At Nuwarawewa
Sigiriya – Fresco Water Villa
Udawalawe – Centauria Wild
Sinharaja – The Blue Magpie
Bentota – Earl’s Reef
21 nights’ Accommodation in hotels as per the above itinerary or hotels of similar standards
Meals on Bed and Breakfast basis commencing with breakfast on Day 2 and ending with breakfast on Day 22
Private Transport with airport transfers in an Air-Conditioned Car throughout the tour. (2010 and Above Manufactured)
Service of an English-Speaking Chauffer Guide
All applicable current local taxes, but subject to change at the time of booking
Entrance fees and other services not mentioned above
1 x 1 Litre Water Bottle Per Person Per Day
1 Local SIM Card Per Room
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Where Did Our Love Go lyrics
The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go
Where Did Our Love Go
Baby, baby
Baby, don’t leave me
Ooh, please don’t leave me
I’ve got this burning, burning, yearning
Feeling inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad
You came into my heart (baby, baby)
So tenderly (where did our love go)
With a burning love (baby, baby)
That stings like a bee (baby, baby, ooh baby, baby)
Now that I surrender (baby, baby)
So helplessly (where did our love go)
You now want to leave (baby, baby)
Ooh, you wanna leave me (baby, baby)
Ooh (ooh, baby, baby)
Ooh, don’t you want me (baby, baby)
Don’t you want me no more (baby, baby)
Ooh, baby (baby, baby)
And all your promises (baby, baby)
Of a love forevermore (baby, baby, ooh baby, baby)
Feeling inside me (where did our love go)
Ooh, deep inside me (baby, baby)
And it hurts so bad (baby, baby, ooh baby, baby)
Before you won my heart (baby, baby)
You were a perfect guy (where did our love go)
But now that you got me (baby, baby)
You wanna leave me behind (baby, baby)
Ooh baby, baby, baby
Baby don’t leave me (where did our love go)
Ooh, please don’t leave me (baby, baby)
All by myself (baby, baby)
Ooh (baby, baby)
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Every victory merits a theme song. Skillet write the soundtrack to triumph on their tenth full-length, Victorious [Atlantic Records]. One of the best-selling rock bands of the 21st century, the two-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated multiplatinum Wisconsin quartet—John Cooper [lead vocals/bass], Korey Cooper [guitar/keys], Jen Ledger [drums/vocals], and Seth Morrison [lead guitar]—ignite seismic stadium-size anthems highlighted by chantable choruses, thunderous rhythms, symphonic electronics, and intricate musicality. Each lyric, riff, and beat motivate as the group sharpen their signature style with precision, passion, and power.
In many ways, the title encapsulates a shared mindset for the musicians.
“Victorious perfectly describes how the record makes me feel,” affirms John. “You wake up, face your own demons every day, and never give in. There’s an introspective side to it. We might’ve commented on the world explicitly on previous albums. This one is about looking inward. Perhaps, it’s because I’ve gotten a little older, and I’ve accepted struggle as part of the journey. When I listen to these songs, I want to fight for my life, I want to fight for who I am, and I want to fight for what I believe in.”
This undying spirit humbly asserted and affirmed Skillet as one of this generation’s most successful rock acts. However, as all classic underdog stories do, it happened quietly under the radar. By 2019, they not only garnered a pair of GRAMMY® Award nods and sold over 12 million albums worldwide, but they also took home a Billboard Music Award for the double-platinum Awake. Its breakout single “Monster” remains “one of the most-streamed rock songs of all-time” with 285 million global audio streams. 2016’s Unleashed bowed at #3 on the Billboard Top 200. Going #1 on Rock Radio, the lead single “Feel Invincible” cracked 150 million global audio streams and went platinum. Meanwhile, the gold-certified Unleashed became their fourth consecutive album to receive either a gold, platinum, or double-platinum plaque. To date, nine original tunes earned RIAA recognition in tandem with high-profile syncs by everyone from WWE and Marvel to ESPN and NFL. Between selling out arenas on four continents, the group performed on CONAN and graced the pages of USA Today and New York Times, to name a few. In 2018 alone, the band clocked 1 billion streams.
In the wake of this runaway success, they capitalized on a flurry of creative inspiration. Galvanized by this chapter, they reupped their last offering with a popular special edition, Unleashed Beyond, in 2017 and flexed their production prowess outside of Skillet. Korey produced Jen’s well-received debut as Ledger in 2018. Meanwhile, John wrote, recorded, and produced the debut Still Breathing EP for his metal outfit Fight The Fury.
Coupled with the production strides made in the last full-length studio offering, Korey and John took the reins for the bulk of production on Victorious—a career first.
“Unleashed recharged us, and we returned to what we love about writing,” continues John. “It was tight and electronic hard rock. We wanted to keep the sound modern and pull in influences from hip-hop drums and keyboards, while staying riff-y. Victorious started there. Our confidence was sparked by the last record and all of the other projects. We were feeling prolific. We thought, ‘We can produce our own Skillet album.’ It lit a fire. Korey and I have produced in the past, but nothing quite like this. It’s a brand new season.”
This season kicks off with the lead single “Legendary.” Otherworldly keyboards and wiry, blues-inspired guitar give way to kicking percussion before the song explodes with a hummable hook punctuated by hypnotic harmonies.
“The lyrics are a call to make your life matter,” he goes on. “You’re realizing you have a chance for your life to count every day. In a sense, we’re all destined to be forgotten, so live the way you want and don’t turn your back on who you are. I drew the sentiment from my own career. We’ve always put our heads down and pushed forward when confronted with adversity.”
Fittingly described as “a full-on rock song,” the hard-hitting “Save Me” channels “old-school Skillet” with its searing solo, thick punch, and introspective take on “looking into the mirror, opening up, showing that side you’re not proud of, and hoping to be rescued from the inner turmoil.” Co-produced by Unleashed collaborators Kevin and Kane Churko [Five Finger Death Punch, Ozzy Osbourne], “You Ain’t Ready” stands primed to detonate on stages worldwide with its encouragement to “get back up when you get knocked down.”
A very special composition, “Reach” kicks into high gear on deft riffing before detailing a heartbreaking, yet inspiring true story about Korey’s high school friend who passed away after a stage four cancer diagnosis. The record remains dedicated to her memory.
“It’s a heartbreaking situation,” he says. “She and Korey would talk about spiritual subjects like God and the afterlife. Korey mentioned, ‘The Bible says if you ask God to make himself real to you, he will.’ She texted Korey and said nothing happened a week later. When she was taking a shower, it suddenly occurred to her the prayer went unanswered. So, she said, ‘Hey God, I’m going to call you on this. You’re supposed to make yourself real to me, if I asked. I asked’. She heard a voice in her heart at that point. It told her to raise up her hands. She did and felt a great peace come over her. This is the idea for ‘Reach’. It’s specifically about feeling let down and betrayed, but reaching out for hope. We’re glad she heard it before she left us.”
During the title track “Victorious,” a groundswell of strings resounds alongside jagged distortion before John’s voice takes center stage on an emotionally charged verse augmented by Jen’s melodic bridge.
“I was reading about depression, and I gained an insight into it, which really bummed me out,” he admits. “This song is what you can say to anyone who’s depressed. I didn’t know Chester Bennington, but I’m a huge Linkin Park fan. When he died, I couldn’t believe it. So, I wanted to write what I would say to him, if I got the chance. That’s ‘Victorious.’ Hopefully, it can help others get through the struggles with their own demons. As a whole, the record is very honest.”
In many ways, the four-piece’s unity can be traced back to the marriage at heart. Korey and Jen also reshape the face of rock music, giving it an empowering female presence.
“The band feels very stable, because of Korey,” John smiles. “A lot of fans come from unstable backgrounds, and she makes everyone feel special and cared for. She’s also a musical genius. We wouldn’t be Skillet without her. She’s the binding force for us.”
In the end, Victorious lives up to its name for Skillet as their most triumphant body of work yet.
“When you hear it, I hope you feel better about your life,” John leaves off. “I want you to know you’re not alone and you can be victorious through those hard times.” — Rick Florino, May 2019
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Hey! Guess what? We might be sued by the PKM Database! They say you stole the info from their site! You didn't, though! PLEASE tell them that!--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 16:43, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
Let me explain. I go to the Japanese site of Pokémon from time to time to see anything new, where I saw the Eevee one. For the Mew one, I wanted to complete the info on the Korean event Pokémon with missing info so I searched in Google. Honestly, all this info belongs to the Pokémon sites anyway. *tc26* 11:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! That is what I thought!--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 14:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Darkrai article
Good editing on the Darkrai article. However, TorchicBlaziken had the source right — he/she should have been credited instead of Pokemon.com (that goes in Information at the bottom). I know the article template is confusing. In almost all cases the source in the beginning template is the bulbanews writer. Thanks for being an active user. :) --Argy 16:13, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
This week Test
You don't need to update it, but thanks anyways!--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 01:39, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Yo, teacey.
Yeah uh. Editing the article after it's left the Draft namespace causes BulbaBot to go insane on the forums and repost threads. Especially if you do it repeatedly. So. PREVIEW BUTTTTTTTTTON and don't move it outta that namespace AGAIN UNTIL YOU FINISH. TTEchidna 09:30, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Also, please do not move articles out of the draft namespace until you are absolutely sure the style it's written in is correct. For example, I just had to do some basic edits to the GameStop article that should have been made before it was moved over. If you're unsure, then leave it, and I or another admin will get to it. At the very least, please compare my edits to the previous version so you know what you should be looking for in the future. Thanks. --Argy 03:15, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, I can't really think straight these days. *tc26* 00:48, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Please sign your comments while editing and not seconds after saving. Use preview button if you cant remember. Thank you. --Prongs 09:12, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
I know that. It's called forgetting. *tc26* 10:40, 30 March 2009 (UTC) See
I was about to post a page for the new titles of episode, since they are revealed in different days and the article focuses on DP124 and DP125 only. ►Ҝəυzø8 04:18, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Okay, that's fine, but you still didn't add DP beside 125.. =P ►Ҝəυzø8 04:33, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
And, "a Pichu" maybe correct but "the Pichu" is more correct since it refers to "the Pichu that will appear in DP127", not "a Pichu in DP127". Sorry if I am annoying you so much... your the only writer around at this time.. ►Ҝəυzø8 04:38, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Since there are two Pichu there and the basis of the Shokotan Pichu is not really clear, stick with "a". No prob. You should really be a writer too. *tc26* 04:40, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
I hope so.. There are lots of pages I would really like to edit, to add forum discussions, etc. but they are protected. So I just post them on its talk page instead... ►Ҝəυzø8 04:47, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
BTW, the current events needs update. ►Ҝəυzø8 05:04, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
update.. please? Thanks, ^^ ►Ҝəυzø8 11:07, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Are DP126 and 7 true episodes? *tc26* 11:25, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
Umm..
More images to be captioned. :D Thanks ►Ҝəυzø8 12:24, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm going to make it set in the rules about Front page captions. They need to be short. VERY short.--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 20:06, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
TEACEY I KILL YOU
DON'T UPDATE THAT WHEN A NEW ARTICLE DOES JUST AS WELL TTEchidna 02:38, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Exclamation point
Please use the ！ exclamation point for Japanese titles. It is different from !. ►Ҝəυzø8 10:02, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
And, Ash's Satoshi's Pikachu doesn't exist..►Ҝəυzø8 10:03, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
How to edit Current events!
See User:Prmatt11/Resources!--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 22:24, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
It's still confusing. tc²₆tc26 10:34, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Try to refrain from using "To ...". It gets a bit annoying.--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 16:38, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, couldn't think of any. tc²₆tc26 04:03, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
You did not have to make all those templates to get my page to work, but thanks! Now we will have more strength!--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 12:35, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
It wasn't just necessarily for that. I also thought that they might be used more here some time. Protect them though. tc²₆tc26 13:07, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
K.--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 14:34, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
BTW, something's wrong with your sig...--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 14:35, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
What do you mean? tc²₆tc26 02:35, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
The 26 links to "bp:bp:User:Tc26/Sandbox". That's what he means. ►Ҝəυzø8 02:44, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
It should work now. tc²₆tc26 03:44, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
Upcoming events format
My idea was so that, to make things easier on all of us, we have the same format on Upcoming and This week, so we could just copy-n-paste, kay?--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 22:39, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
You may want to check this to at least decrease the question marks on the user groups..►Ҝəυzø8 08:45, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, forgot that that existed. tc²₆tc26 09:12, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to add them before you protected the page though. D: ►Ҝəυzø8 09:22, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
You broke it... again
Look on the front page. Under the Clearer CoroCoro article. At who wrote it. See why I deleted the template in the first place?--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 14:09, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
NVM you got it.--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 14:10, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
This week problem
See Template:Current events/-1. Something is extending into the next column. Can you look into it?--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 15:27, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
What exactly do you mean? tc²₆tc26 15:35, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
The right size is larger than the left. The width parts are right, though, so something in Front page/This week is doing it.--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 was here at 15:58, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
The point of using color2 for regular links
Why? It shows the same thing, except you can't tell if you went to that page yet. If you don't like that, you can change it in your browser preferences.--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 was here at 12:40, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
Moving the page
You did it ALL wrong! You messed up BulbaBot by thinking there was another article, you didn't move it, and you gave yourself credit for an article that I originally wrote. Now, to fix all this, I have to copy everything from the new article, delete it, and move it back. YOU NEED TO FOLLOW THESE RULES!!!--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 was here at 19:30, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Oh, and another thing. -webkit-border-radius rarely works with #px, and there is no -bottomright type of thing.--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 was here at 19:43, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Reread that second comment, will ya?--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 was here at 11:52, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Stop editing for a sec
I know what I am doing seems weird, but just wait. I'm trying to fix something.--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 was here at 14:28, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Sure, go ahead. tc²₆tc26 14:29, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Ok, you can edit. However, we need to try and make it look fine on Template:Bulbanews, as that is the reason I am doing these.--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 was here at 14:31, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
K. Use [[:Category:(Name)|Name)]]tc²₆tc26 14:33, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
???--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 was here at 14:38, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
...on that template so that the category appears... tc²₆tc26 14:39, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
I got it figured out. Oh, can you move the cats to the same name as on the 'pedia? Now just inserting {{bulbanews}} there will work after an admin gets to the temp.--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 was here at 15:03, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Like this: Category:Articles {{{2|relating to}}} {{{1}}}. That's the code on the temp. The 2 is for "about the" for secret key.--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 was here at 15:06, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
About the block...
I take it your experiment was to see if, while blocked, you can unblock yourself? Just curious me.--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 was here at 15:37, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
...and how blocking and unblocking someone would be like :D tc²₆tc26 16:11, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
Oh. Well, that's how. :|--Mew a.k.a. Prmatt11 was here at 17:57, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
{{epi-mv}}
What do you mean, comma? How 'bout you fix it...--Mew a.k.a. Immewnity* was here at 12:15, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
It appears as "July 18, JST". It's only one anyway. No need to worry over it. tc²₆tc26 12:19, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Oh. (PS Couldn't help it... :-) )--Mew a.k.a. Immewnity* was here at 12:21, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, I never thought I'd be saying the sentence. :D tc²₆tc26 12:23, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
It's OK to have links!
You don't need to change the templates to make the links black. It just makes it harder to change the Front page color (which we will hopefully be doing in September) and, regarding changing it to link color, it's also a good idea to know what you've seen. If the reason you are doing this is because the link is also underlined, get Firefox, the best browser on the web.--Mew a.k.a. Immewnity* was here at 12:31, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
I've been using FF for a long while now. It was just with that recent red one. tc²₆tc26 10:51, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Amazon announced Pre-order for HG/SS
How come you deleted my article? - unsigned comment from Thomas.thomson011 (talk • contribs)
We don't usually make articles about pre-orders just coming into existence. We usually report about them when they come with something or, sometimes, when they announce the release date. For example, Platinum came with a Giratina figure and the Japanese HGSS will come with a Ho-Oh/Lugia/Arceus figure. tc²₆tc26 10:52, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
OK thanks for that, sorry for the trouble. - unsigned comment from Thomas.thomson011 (talk • contribs)
Sign next time. tc²₆tc26 20:23, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
New Article - Draft:A_New_Video_of_Heart_Gold,_Soul_Silver_emerges.
I have posted a new article, which you may want to browse through, and edit some details of it. Links here:
http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Draft:A_New_Video_of_Heart_Gold,_Soul_Silver_emerges.
Are you serious? Maverick Nate 13:07, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
There was no bloody need to delete my article, so people can watch it themselves, but some people might not know that the video was out. - unsigned comment from Thomas.thomson011 (talk • contribs)
What Am I Going To Do Now?
You deleted my article for god sake, your suppose to be an editor, not a deletor, your job role is in the title. Some people might not of known that the video was out on the website, it weren't cool to delete it, some people use this website for information, so instead you delete the information.
Well done, I salute you. - unsigned comment from Thomas.thomson011 (talk • contribs)
There is no need to tell everyone every time you report something.
There's Small bits for news that would make a very small article. We don't need to report every new tiny detail about a game.
Reporter does not necessarily editor and there's not such word as deletor.
Please don't get mad every time someone deletes your article. Calm down!
tc²₆tc26 13:55, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Sorry for editing your post, tc, but you made a lot of mistakes.--Mew a.k.a. Immewnity* was here at 19:18, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
Did you not see many things that were revealed? I am re-creating the article, fixing it up, and will post it.--Mew a.k.a. Immewnity* was here at 13:37, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Never mind.--Mew a.k.a. Immewnity* was here at 13:42, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
So what happened? tc²₆tc26 13:55, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
It's not Lucas/Dawn. They are different people.--Mew a.k.a. Immewnity* was here at 22:23, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Also, the reason the breaking story wasn't red is because it had been up for a few days. It changes status after I think 5 days.--Mew a.k.a. Immewnity* was here at 12:32, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for clearing up the second one. I don't really get what you mean with the first. tc²₆tc26 12:50, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
Extra thing for the Small Bits section on Bulbanews
I just thought I'd let you know, that the official Nintendo website has updated it's page on HG/SS, here's the link: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/ipkj/index.html - unsigned comment from Thomas.thomson011 (talk • contribs)
So all the BP admins want the page set up as Japanese/English. However, if we were to keep it so we don't have to update three pages when a new ep is released, I'd need to separate it like this: Front page/Next on TV/Japan. Won't this be hard? We need to find a way to tell them how hard this will end up being.--Mew a.k.a. Immewnity* was here at 19:14, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
Plus we'd have to figure something out for splitting Front page/Events.--Mew a.k.a. Immewnity* was here at 19:20, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
Different pages would mean practically empty pages. It's kinda fine the way it is. There is also no need to separate Events. It will be SO ANNOYING to have them on different pages. They're not even the ones who update those pages. tc²₆tc26 02:04, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you! How about we ask them to do the page and update it? Betcha it will NEVER be updated, and won't be programmed as they want it.--Mew a.k.a. Immewnity* was here at 12:22, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Another thing for the Small bits section, or major article whatever you want.
Just to let you know, a Japanese commercial has started showing on mainstream japanese tv, and it shows the return of headbutt trees, sorry I don't have any more information, whether or not it's a certain type of tree or just any tree insight, I'll try and find out more for you. --Thomas.thomson011 08:49, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
EDIT: The commercial also shows Munchlax being a Pokémon that can be caught on a track (new or old) on the Pokéwalker, and also shows all of the Azeala Gym.
Right sorry about that, I'll make sure I'll sign properly now. --Thomas.thomson011 13:58, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Some small things
I did another new article, however I pressed Save page instead of preview page, please change it to: Soul rumoured to be in DP143 Also the official Yahoo! Website has a mini-game, which the further you progress reveals stuff on HG/SS, you can put that in the small bits section on the page. Thank you. --Thomas.thomson011 13:36, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, had to delete it. We do not usually add things like that when the article announcing the episode is done. It's a bit late for an update too, I guess. Sorry. On the HGSS thing, could you give the link? tc²₆tc26 14:38, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
Sure thing, I'll find the link again, the games called mazeland, I don't know much about it though, but the further you progress, the more elusive the information is. --Thomas.thomson011 14:49, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
Sorry for the wait, the website is: http://pokemon.kids.yahoo.co.jp/ the game is called Mazeland, the maps are done in the style of previous pokemon games, also you need a Japanese Yahoo! Account to play the game. Thomas.thomson011 14:52, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
Information missing of your story.
Just to let you know, you have some information from your news story about the latest DP episodes soon to air in Japan.
Episode 613: Gible...Get!!
Episode 614: Pokémon Contest: Suiren Convention
Episode 615: Getting a Ribbon in a Hotspring Battle!?
Episode 613 sees Kotone join the group and travel with Ash and co for a while, where they meet up with a new character called Kazunari, whilst the other two episodes are both part of Dawn's Contest Battle.
Episode 613 and 614 air together as an hour long special, whilst Episode 615 is expected to be aired on October 15th.
--Thomas.thomson011 16:18, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
In a Rush... Ooops...
I was in a rush, so the title of my article is spellt wrong, so can you please change official, to officially please? Thanks --Thomas.thomson011 17:25, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Ok, you didn't have to go through and revert everything... like seriously though. I'd have rather you just come and talked about it like said "Ya da ya da, this doesn't look good" and let me go through and redo it all. I'm sorry if you didn't like it =/ __- unsigned comment from AiedailEclipsed (talk • contribs)
{{editreq}}
What did you mean by "it edits the template"? It looks the same to me, pixel-by-pixel.--Mew a.k.a. Immewnity* was here at 23:19, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
After you place the template, clicking edit will edit the template instead. tc²₆tc26 10:25, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
That most recent article got out of stub status; I just forgot to take off the stub template.--Mew a.k.a. Immewnity* was here at 23:02, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Article talk
Could you either restore that or give me the code? Because I was trying to implement it, or just try to.--Mew a.k.a. Immewnity* was here at 23:52, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
American Pokémon Rumble TCG set revealed
No. Make sure to check over EVERYTHING in the article.--Mew a.k.a. Immewnity* was here at 13:12, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Two new Generation IV events revealed
You've written "This key item will grant access to Latios in HeartGold and Latios in SoulSilver" I don't think this is what you meant... ;) Kidburla 19:21, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
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Malawi draughts team leaves today for World Championship
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Four Malawi draughts players will leave the country today for Bulgaria where they will participate at this year’s Draughts World Championship.
Confirming the development was president for the Association of Draughts in Malawi (ADMA) John Ngwenya who was speaking at a media briefing in Blantyre as the four players completed their preparations ahead of the tournament from 1st to 10th September.
Malawi draughts team
Ngwenya identified the four players who are to board their flight at Chileka Airport as Moses Winesi who is Current Malawi Champion, Federation Master Madalitso Thom, International Master Enock Makoka Banda and Humble Bondo.
The ADMA president said Malawians should expect excellent results from the team on transit claiming that the players have got the much needed support from both stakeholders and government hence the assurance.
He said ADMA is grateful to government for providing about K15 million for air tickets, meals, accommodation, camping and visas which is 70 per cent support on the trip whilst the remaining 30 percent has been covered by African Draughts Federation (IDF) and other stakeholders.
“We have a very big expectation from our four member team. We expect them to do better than before. At least if they can be in the top 10, that will be a great achievement to me since this is their first tournament with me as a president.
“The preparations have so far gone so well and we are thanking the Malawi government and other stakeholders for the support they have rendered to us on this trip. We say thank you to the government,” said Nowata.
He further said that the trip to South Africa which the team had earlier this year in readiness for the Championship helped them a lot to sharpen the players’ skills and knowledge.
In his remarks, one of the players, International Master Enoch Makoka Banda, said they would like to surprise Malawians on this year’s draughts championship claiming that they have received the needed support so there is the possibility of doing well.
Makoka Banda added that they are eyeing top position although it is always difficult for African teams to make it into top 30, they are eyeing nothing but position one which he said he is sure will be so.
“Our inspiration as a team is to get the draughts world championship to surprise the nation and we are sure that we have all what it takes to win the championship. It had been hard for Africa to make it into top 30 but I can tell you that with the experience which we have we are seeing ourselves doing great,” said Banda.
This is the first time for Malawi to send four players at the international tournament as previously only one player could attend.
At the Championship which is held every 2 years, there are eleven teams from Africa such as Zambia, Ethiopia, South Africa, Ghana and DR Congo.
The other teams include Russia, Belarus, Latvia, France, USA and Brazil.
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Representative Bradford Hill Republican - 4th Essex
Assistant Minority Leader
Brad.Hill@mahouse.gov
Select Court 191st (Current) 190th (2017 - 2018) 189th (2015 - 2016) 188th (2013 - 2014) 187th (2011 - 2012) 186th (2009 - 2010)
H.201 HD.2270 By Representative Hill of Ipswich and Senator Tarr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 201) of Bradford R. Hill, Bruce E. Tarr and others for legislation to require physicians and physicians assistants to certify being trained in eating disorders when applying to renew their licenses. Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.
H.400 HD.2256 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 400) of Bradford R. Hill and others relative to the foundation funding of special education. Education.
H.401 HD.2261 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 401) of Bradford R. Hill and others that costs associated with special education follow students upon the change of school districts in mid year. Education.
H.402 HD.2263 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 402) of Bradford R. Hill and others that current employee and retiree health care costs shall be included in the calculation of the foundation budget for school districts. Education.
H.403 HD.2273 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 403) of Bradford R. Hill and others relative to total amounts distributed to cities and town for the purpose of education. Education.
H.445 HD.2226 By Messrs. Muradian of Grafton and Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 445) of David K. Muradian, Jr., Bradford R. Hill and others relative to special education funding. Education.
H.564 HD.2268 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 564) of Bradford R. Hill and others for legislation to require applicants for voter registration to show proof of identification. Election Laws.
H.1375 HD.2229 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1375) of Bradford R. Hill and others relative to holding habitual, violent offenders responsible for simultaneous crimes. The Judiciary.
H.1376 HD.2230 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1376) of Bradford R. Hill and others relative to certain habitual offenders. The Judiciary.
H.1377 HD.2234 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1377) of Bradford R. Hill, Donald H. Wong and Mathew Muratore for legislation to establish penalties for persons found guilty of placing graffiti on property. The Judiciary.
H.1378 HD.2240 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1378) of Bradford R. Hill and others relative to notices to notaries public and justices of the peace prior to the expiration of their commissions. The Judiciary.
H.2139 HD.3195 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2139) of Bradford R. Hill and others for legislation to exclude novelty sparklers from the definition of prohibited fireworks. Public Safety and Homeland Security.
H.2532 HD.2224 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2532) of Bradford R. Hill and Donald H. Wong for legislation to provide an income tax deduction for donations to charitable institutions. Revenue.
H.2533 HD.2238 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2533) of Bradford R. Hill and others for legislation to exempt certain persons who are part of the curatorship program within state parks from paying real estate property taxes. Revenue.
H.2534 HD.2266 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2534) of Bradford R. Hill and others relative to the property tax deferral program. Revenue.
H.2753 HD.2243 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2753) of Bradford R. Hill and others for legislation to make the General Court subject to the open meeting law. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
H.2754 HD.2254 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2754) of Bradford R. Hill and others relative to accessible electronic information technology for persons with disabilities. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
H.2755 HD.2265 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2755) of Bradford R. Hill and others for legislation to impose a fine for public officials in noncompliance with allowing access to public records. State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.
H.2884 HD.2276 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2884) of Bradford R. Hill and others that the the Department of Energy Resources be directed to establish and administer a grant program providing rebates for purchases of qualifying plug-in electric vehicles. Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.
H.3011 HD.2918 By Representative Hill of Ipswich and Senator Tarr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3011) of Bradford R. Hill and others relative to motorcycle awareness instruction. Transportation.
H.3139 HD.2237 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3139) of Bradford R. Hill and others that the Department of Housing and Community Development be directed to allow preference to veterans from other communities over local residents. Veterans and Federal Affairs.
H.3140 HD.2250 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3140) of Bradford R. Hill and others for legislation to allow veterans living in housing authorities to deduct the cost of traveling for medical purposes from the income total assessed by said authority. Veterans and Federal Affairs.
H.3356 HD.3799 By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3356) of Bradford R. Hill (by vote of the town) that the town of Wenham be authorized to pay a certain unpaid bill. Municipalities and Regional Government. [Local Approval Received.]
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Apple Arcade is a no-brainer for iOS users who play games
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By Adam Rosenberg 2019-09-16 16:00:00 UTC
Apple Arcade immediately feels like a confident first step for a company that has generally kept video games at arm's reach.
That's a funny thing to say about Apple, more than a decade after its inaugural iPhone effectively created a new market for mobile gaming. But while plenty of developers and publishers have hopped on the iOS gaming (and later, Android gaming) train, Apple itself has been content to just watch it all unfold.
No longer. Apple Arcade is a subscription service that unlocks access to a library of games that you won't be able to find on any other mobile platform (even a la carte from the iOS App Store). The premise is simple: for $4.99 per month, roughly the cost of one or two mobile games, you get access to an entire library of titles, plus any add-ons released for the same.
This isn't exactly a Netflix or Hulu for games. Some of the Arcade titles offer online features, but the games themselves aren't streaming. You can play them offline during subway commutes and long flights. The better comparison is to Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass service, since both give subscribers access to a library of offline-friendly titles.
Where they differ is content and who makes and/or publishes it. Microsoft's service draws primarily from the Xbox maker's first-party catalog and indie publishing relationships. Apple hasn't made the same kind of investments into homegrown gaming IP, but the company is working with established publishers and developers – and providing financial support – on Apple Arcade titles.
Of course, the make-or-break factor here is the library Apple's assembled. The intent is to deliver a curated catalog filled with "premium" games. It's a list that should surpass the "more than 100 titles at launch" promise by mid-October, and Apple intends to continue growing it monthly.
Based on a brief look at a limited selection of titles in the week before Arcade's launch, the library is off to a solid start. Knowledgeable gamers already have a bunch of options to look forward to, with buzzy titles like Sayonara Wild Hearts, Jenny LeClue: Detectivu, and Exit the Gungeon all confirmed for Arcade.
But there's plenty more. Here are six promising and – importantly – wildly different gaming experiences that subscribers can look forward to playing with at Apple Arcade's launch.
Where Cards Fall
Fans of puzzle-centric mobile hits like Monument Valley, take note. Where Cards Fall is an eye-catching puzzler where each level has you erecting and knocking down different-sized houses of cards, using them as temporary platforms to guide the protagonist from the level's start to its exit.
The game, published by Snowman (Alto's Adventure) and developed by The Game Band, takes you on a wordless journey through the protagonist's life – from childhood into adulthood. The diorama layout of each level bursts with color and detail, and The Game Band hopes that the engaging story will keep players hooked across all 52 levels – yes, one for every card in the deck.
Skate City
Skate City is a side-scrolling skateboarding game in the vein of indie darling OlliOlli. The Snowman-published title from the Norwegian studio Agens sends players through randomly generated locations in three different parts of the world, tasking them with stringing trick lines together using controls that are simple to grasp but will take skill to master.
The game breaks down across endless free skate modes for each location as well as more focused and bite-sized challenges. There's also a video recording feature that lets you capture your favorite trick lines from a variety of angles and then share them online and/or sell them in-game for currency you can use to customize your skater's appearance.
Shinsekai Into the Depths
Shinsekai Into the Depths is an underwater adventure that emphasizes exploration and survival. It opens on a world that's been flooded into oblivion, with the protagonist having carved out a home in the open air confines of an otherwise submerged apartment building.
The story opens with a slowly advancing wall of ice forcing you out of your safe and comfortable home. Your air supply is low and there are threats all around you. All that's left to do is push forward into the depths in search of shelter, survival tools, and answers. If you're a fan of "Metroidvania" games, don't sleep on Shinsekai.
Fans of the indie scene know all about Overland already. The post-apocalyptic, turn-based strategy game from Finji – the studio founded by Adam Saltsman, creator of the early mobile hit (and formative endless runner) Canabalt – has been cooking for a number of years, with screenshots and GIFs becoming something of a fixture on social media.
Well, it's finally done. The end times survival scenario puts you in command of a small but growing group of randomly generated survivors making their way across the country. It's not initially clear why the world ended, but a growing lineup of alien creatures from below the Earth seem to be a part of it.
Overland is a game of balancing needs against threats. Each diorama-style location is random laid out and potentially filled with useful tools and supplies – including always-necessary fuel for your vehicle – but also dangers. You've got to decide if it makes sense to fight your way to the next potential supply cache or simply cut bait and hope the next destination is kinder. The turn-based gameplay and touch controls are perfectly suited to iOS.
Spek.
A game about perspective, coming later this year.#gamedev #madewithunity pic.twitter.com/bjQ7LKPS36
— Jesse Ringrose (@jesseringrose) June 4, 2018
Spek is a tough one to describe; in truth, I think the best way to experience it for the first time is to just go in blind and figure it out as you go.
For those who'd like to know at least a little bit: it's a minimalist puzzler that's just black lines and geometric shapes on a stark white background. Using your fingers, you move the environment around and play with perspective as you try to collect a set of... well, they're squares. You need to collect the squares.
There's no story or narrative justification for this one; it's just puzzles for the sake of it. But with a gentle ramping of difficulty and deceptively sticky gameplay, developer RAC7's unique creation worms its way into your brain very quickly. There's also a wild augmented reality mode – with its own AR-specific levels – that lets you solve a similar set of puzzles against a real world backdrop.
Sneaky Sasquatch
You may have caught a quick glimpse of a Sasquatch driving around a golf cart during the #AppleEvent - that's one of our new games, Sneaky Sasquatch! Coming out later this year on Apple Arcade! pic.twitter.com/uFPT2x3oYn
— RAC7 (@RAC7Games) March 25, 2019
Sneaky Sasquatch is an odd video game. It's another RAC7 creation, though it couldn't be further from Spek. Instead, you're cast as a sasquatch who's just trying to live out their life peacefully. Yeah, some humans get terrorized occasionally. But it's not what you're there for, necessarily.
Just like people, the sasquatch has needs. You've got to forage for food, take care of your place, and find things to do that fill your days in a meaningful way. All of which is to say: Sneaky Sasquatch is really more of a platform for different minigames. In addition to basic survival game elements, there's car racing, fishing, skiing, golfing, and more.
The point is that there's no point at all, really. You're just trying to live out that sasquatch life, in whatever way seems the most acceptable to you. It's unlike any of the other games I tried, but bright graphics and a vaguely irreverent sense of humor promise to cement this one very quickly as an entertaining diversion.
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Organic and Sustainable Farming in Puerto Rico
Our Goats
Available Kids
Our Tropical Fruit Trees
Our Bamboo
Your Hurricane Maria Story
Operation Rebuild Mayani Farms
Organic Farm Charity Proposal for Fundraising
Organic Farm Charity Donation Letter
Thank You for Sponsoring Us
Submit Your Hurricane Maria Story
ENTREGAS DE TU HURACÁN MARÍA
Finca Mayani
Most people who know Sarah see her as a writer or an activist of issues relating to women, people of color, the LGBTQ, animals and the environment. In fact, if you've ever been in what she refers to as "an epic Facebook thread," you've witnessed her in action.
Some admire her, others are repelled by her "dedication" to the cause ... in her case, the cause du jour (the cause of the day). She's intense, that's for sure.
There's a side of Sarah most don't know about unless they visit us or they know her well. Ask her to take you on a tour of our eco-organic farm and she lights up. She will tell you a story of two corporate working stiffs who gave up their all-consuming, consuming-all lives to become eco-organic farmers in Puerto Rico.
Oh, you didn't know we had a farm or you only heard about the antics of our goats?
In the interior of the island of Puerto Rico lies a town called Utuado. It's the third largest municipality on the island. Nine ago we came to Puerto Rico for our second vacation. We'd decided to give up our corporate America jobs (in biotech) and buy a farm in the middle of nowhere and become self-sustaining farmers. Our intentions were two-fold:
Get away from the all-consuming, consuming all lifestyle we'd been living
Give back to Mother Earth.
We rented a house sitting on 8 acres of land in a town whose name we couldn't pronounce. Who comes to Puerto Rico to vacation in the mountains in search of farmland? Why farmland when the island boasts some of the most beautiful beaches in the world?
Well four days into our vacation we decided we'd been traveling the last 40+ years and now we were home. We moved two weeks later on September 17, 2008.
We rented a house and searched for farmland. We found one very fast and made an offer. We closed three weeks later and started expanding the tiny house and planting fruits and vegetables.
We moved in on December 31, 2009. Having sunk our life savings into buying the farm and expanding the house, we were indeed home but broke. We had $40 in our checking account.
We couldn't go back to work for someone. Amgen (where we'd both worked) offered me a job here on the island as a consultant. Although I would have made double my U.S. salary, it's not what we came here to do. I would have had to get an apartment on the other side of the island and it would have delayed our reasons for coming here.
Sarah started doing freelance work: marketing and admin at first and at some point she decided to see if the apple hadn't fallen too far from the tree. Both her parents had been writers and so she thought "why not?"
Sarah built a business that started with an article for a client who wanted more than she could deliver on her own. Offering clients writing, social media, graphic design and web coding, every dime Sarah's business brings in goes to the farm. After her team members are paid, after expenses are covered and food is purchased, everything Sarah makes pays for plants, construction on the farm, animals, etc.
If you've visited us, you know we live very modestly. Our house is small (one bedroom) and it's all about the farm. The goats, the ducks, the chickens, dogs and cats are a huge part of our life. What many people don't know is that over the years we've planted fruit trees from around the tropical world, vegetables and many varieties of bamboo (for construction, a living fence along the property line, furniture, and of course, eating).
We compost and recycle everything we can. Everything we do is on a meager budget.
Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner?
Although vegetables usually take no time to come up, by contrast fruit trees can take between five and seven (sometimes more) years to fruit.
This year we'd started seeing flowers on many of the trees I planted five and six years ago. We often talked about how we aren't rich but soon we would be eatin' good! (For an idea of what we grow, visit our website Mayani Farms: http://mayanifarms.com)
Our hopes and dreams would soon be realized but in an instant...
On September 20, 2017 with only four days notice (just enough time to ensure cisterns were filled with water, gas containers were filled up, animals are put in their hurricane shelters and wood covered all the windows), Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico.
Some say she was a category 5, others say she was just a category 4. These are semantics. With wind speeds of 150 miles per hour or higher, Maria undid 7.5 years of hard work we'd put into the farm.
She arrived on the island at about 8:00 p.m., and we kept checking her trajectory. All signs pointed to her eye passing over our town. All we could do was brace for her wrath.
Maria hit the whole island but the majority of her devastation was in Barceloneta, Arecibo, Adjuntas, Lares and Utuado. We believe Arecibo and Utuado were hit the hardest.
By 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 21, our once-lush farm that was going to feed us into our old age was gone. 12 hours of punishing wind and rain uprooted trees like someone plucking a piece of sand from the beach.
When it was safe to go outside, we determined we'd lost 80% of our trees. Fortunately our animals are fine. We only lost three chickens and two ducks.
Many people lost during Maria's "visit" to our beloved island: their homes, furniture, roofing, you name it. Our situation is no more or less dire than others. What Maria stole from us was years and our future. We can't get back the 8 years she took from us (time since we started planting).
We've estimated it will cost about $20,000, maybe more, to rebuild our farm. We are asking our friends and family to help us.
We estimate it will take between six months and a year just to clean Mayani Farms. Replanting will take another 18 months.
The photos are some before and after for perspective.
This is a rough breakdown of what we will use the money for:
We learned this year we have water at the bottom of our property. We had already started pumping that up to the house.We need new pumps, water lines, another cistern. Estimated cost: $4,000
Fix the fence to the goats' play area and extend it down the hill: $2,000
A new greenhouse (one thing we didn't have time to do before Maria came was dismantle it): $1500
Rebuild two dry sheds for hay (we live in the tropics where it's extremely humid. We have to have a way to keep hay for goats dry and free of mold): $3,000
Replace the tropical fruit and vegetables we lost: $9,000
Chains, oil and gas for the chainsaw: $1000
We've already received $11,303 in donations but we are still short about $9,000.
If you aren't comfortable donating cash, please consider Amazon or Home Depot gift cards. We purchase our chains for the chainsaw from Amazon and we estimate we will need about 25-30 of them. And if you prefer buying the chains and shipping them, it's a Stihl 16" chain loop (61 PMM3 55 Drive Links).
If you'd like to buy 2 at a time, Amazon has a 2-pack for less money.
We have a smaller chainsaw that we'll need chains for as well. It's a Stihl Rapid 33 RS3 72 20".
We can order the bars for both chainsaws on eBay.
If you buy a gift card, please send them via USPS to:
Paul and Sarah Ratliff
HC 2
Utuado, Puerto Rico 00641
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts,
P.S. please forgive any typos. I'm not a writer like Sarah.
Thank you to those who have generously donated
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Comparative Scene Analysis With Pride
Subjects admin November 25, 2019
Comparative Scene Analysis
With Pride & Prejudice Austen gave her audience the main character Elizabeth Bennett
and the story shows us the life of Elizabeth and her family as they deal with issues such as marriage,
social class, and misunderstandings that have follows throughout into the modern adaptations. The
original novel is a love story between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, although they initially dislike each other
when they meet. They get off on the wrong foot, Elizabeth’s pride keeps her from seeing Mr. Darcy as
anything except the negative first impression she initially had of him. While Mr. Darcy’s prejudice
towards Elizabeth’s lower social class blinds him to her many good qualities. As we look at the
comparison going from novel to movie what continues to make the adaptations something an audience
wants to keep watch and what modern changes have been added.
As we compare a “scene” from Austen’s novel comparing it to the 2005 movie, all the
dialogue was kept the same almost throughout the entire movie and from the perspective of Elizabeth
like the book. In the end, the dialogue in the film varied between being the same as the book in some
scenes, while most scenes have altered dialogue. This I believe was done to help a modern audience
better connect with the movie and the characters. The movie also features scenes from the perspective
of Mr. Darcy, these were added in addition to the movie and not in the book, I believe this was done to
show Darcy as more human as well. Mr. Darcy, we have come to understand for earlier versions that he
a self-absorbed aristocrat. His upper class, entitled life makes him appear arrogant and unfriendly at first
glance.
Within Elizabeth’s hearing, Bingley exclaims to Darcy that Jane is “the most beautiful
creature” he has ever beheld. Bingley suggests that Darcy dance with Elizabeth, but Darcy refuses,
saying, “she is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me.” He proceeds to declare that he has no
interest in women who are “slighted by other men.” Elizabeth takes an immediate and understandable
disliking to Darcy. Because of Darcy’s comments and refusal to dance with anyone not rich and well
bred, the neighborhood takes a similar dislike; This slight was the first offense leading her to declare him
the last man on earth she would ever marry.
To me the ball Meryton is important to the structure of the story that brings a
significance and the underlying tone to the novel as well as the movie, since it brings the
couple—Darcy and Elizabeth together for the first time. Meryton Ball is also important because here we
find that Elizabeth develops her prejudice against Darcy, while Darcy’s opinion of Elizabeth changes
within a few chapters, to the reader’s there remains the undertone and sense of Darcy as self-
important and arrogant remaining unaltered until midway through the novel.
In the 2005 film, we see the world through Elizabeth’s eyes. When she walks away
from Darcy at the Meryton assembly, very one else pales, but our focus remains constant on Elizabeth.
She is framed by the retreating camera lens that helps capture her true feelings on camera. This scene
is where I believe to be pivotal point in the story, during the Meryton ball we meet all the major and
most important characters of the novel. Mr. Darcy is introduced to the novel in this chapter. He is one of
the major characters. Here we are also introduced to the importance of dance in Pride and Prejudice. It
seems the main purpose for dance in Pride and Prejudice is to explore the social etiquette at this period
of time and also how the characters compare and contrast with one another. Dance is very significant at
this ball as it seems to initiate Jane and Lizzie’s relationships with Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy. In this
adaptation of the ballroom scene it shows the intimacy between the pair and how dance has in fact
brought them together unlike before where it was the main reason for their disconnection.
As we further watch the story unfold the scene where he jumps in a pound and goes for a
swim shows us that the one-sided view of Darcy for much of the movie, now gives us throughout that
there is much more to his good character than meets the eye and he not only has a noble character and
good heart but a “playful” side as well. I think by adding this adaption from the original reading to the
movie it gives us what I am to understand the “re imaging of Mr. Darcy “and presents him to be more
human and approachable to the audience, it lacks the stiffness of earlier productions. This is to me what
gives this particular scene a fresh, lively change to the original and now seems to be a story about real
people, and gives it more of the contemporary element.
Although Darcy was well mannered, he did not know how to treat women with respect,
especially those of a lesser economic status them himself. The love of Elizabeth Bennet, however,
changed his behavior, we able to see this transformation on screen. Without the first interaction, the
entire story in the beginning of the novel, we see Mr. Darcy is only concerned with the wealth and social
standing of people. Because of their lesser social rank, he feels they are un-deserving of his presence
and refuses to communicate with them. Darcy experiences a change in personality and character as the
story unfolds. In order to dispose of his existent views on money and marriage, Darcy needed to feel
something, to fall in love, and we needed to feel it with him as we watched him throughout this
transformation first the very beginning until the close of both the novel and movie as we are able to
watch our most beloved charters finesse their way through the pages of the novel and bring life
to a modern movie version and can see how it all started with a dance.
History pushed the free dance movement forward. One of
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Scene in Cleveland: Bullets Over Broadway the musical
October 7, 2015 October 7, 2015 / me2ism / Leave a comment
Last night I saw the first official performance of the 1st National Tour of Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical. I had trepidation about the show from the start because I knew that, despite this being a 1st National Tour, it was a non-Equity production, which made me queasy both ethically—they’re charging Broadway tickets prices and paying the actors 25% of a Broadway salary—and artistically. Once the house lights went down, however, the cast’s lack of union representation was the furthest thing from my mind.
They didn’t sell magnets so I had to make one out of my ticket.
The cast was, by and large, excellent. Recent college graduate Michael Williams is wonderful leading man: instantly likable, an impressive dancer, a fine singer, and in possession of good comedic timing. I imagine this won’t be the last time I hear from him. The three leading ladies—Hanna Rose Deflumeri, Jemma Jane, and Emma Stratton—are all fantastic singers. The latter two are pretty darn funny as well. (Deflumeri had more of a “straight man” role and as such didn’t have to opportunity to exhibit whatever comedic chops she may or may not possess). The remainder of the cast and ensemble fully inhabited the zany world of the show and pulled off Susan Stroman’s impressive choreography (recreated by Clare Cook) enthusiastically.
But a well-executed musical (I’m sure there’s a gangster pun in there somewhere) is not the same as a good musical. And I’m not even sure that Bullets… is a musical to begin with. There were definitely songs, dances, characters, and the general shape of a plot, but they rarely had anything to do with each other. The score represents the first time in which I’ve seen a jukebox musical in which 90% of the audience has never heard of 90% of the songs. The book (by Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath based on their screenplay) tried to squeeze in jokes wherever it could, but failed to justify the actions of their lead characters or the existence of the minor ones. (There is a character whose sole arc is seeking psychiatric help for a stuffed dog. Another character gets two unrelated plot lines—if you count “having an affair with a mobster’s girlfriend for no discernible reason” and “eating pastries” as plot lines.) The songs—aside from a phallic ode to hot dogs–were largely devoid of any humor whatsoever unless Stroman was able to find a way to ignore the content and choreograph a joke on top of it, a rabbit she managed to pull out of her hat a few times over the course of the evening. While the performances and heroic efforts of Susan Stroman (at least as a choreographer…perhaps she should consider ceding directing duties to those with a better understanding of musical development) created an evening with much to enjoy, the disjointed affair didn’t give us anything to like.
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Minor League Baseball has selected international sports marketing agency Octagon to develop a long-term content, media, and distribution strategy.
The three-phase partnership has already been in development for months as Octagon has conducted a detailed fan research and digital platform analysis of the affiliated minors’ rights. The latest phase now unfolding involves MiLB and Octagon going to market to seek new media distribution opportunities.
“We are committed to staying ahead of the content curve and investing in the necessary resources to best position MiLB to drive meaningful fan engagement and overall growth in a hyper-competitive space,” said David Wright, MiLB chief marketing and commercial officer.
The Octagon tie-up comes as a particularly delicate time for MiLB. The organization this past year reversed an attendance slide, and continues to boost its Hispanic outreach program, Copa de la Diversión.
But the affiliated minors are also currently in the midst of a deeply fractious negotiation with Major League Baseball on a new Professional Baseball Agreement. MLB is seeking a dramatic overhaul that would reduce the number of clubs by a quarter and impose broad realignment and affiliation changes. MLB’s proposal has been blasted by the US Congress on a broad bipartisan basis, with Vermont Senator and Democratic candidate for President Bernie Sanders most recently attacking the league’s plans.
MiLB, however, enjoys a level of overall game volume and geographic breadth unrivaled by any other US sports property
“There is no US sports property comparable to Minor League Baseball. With more than 6,700 games and 16,000 hours of live content annually available to fans, MiLB’s reach and live content breadth is in a league of its own,” said Daniel Cohen, senior vice president of Octagon’s global media rights consulting division.
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YoungArts New York Gala
April 16, 2019 | 6 PM
The YoungArts New York Gala underscores YoungArts’ longstanding and growing commitment to supporting emerging New York-based artists. The event brings together New York City’s top cultural and community leaders, philanthropists, celebrities and art aficionados.
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On Tuesday, April 16, the National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) will welcome nearly 300 of New York City’s top cultural and community leaders, philanthropists, celebrities and art aficionados to the fourth annual YoungArts New York Gala in The Temple of Dendur at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The festive evening will celebrate aspiring artists in the cultural capital of New York and across the nation, as well as this year’s 710 YoungArts winners—more than 50 of whom hail from the greater New York area. Presented by Baccarat, the event will be hosted by gala honorary co-chairs Derrick Adams and Agnes Gund, and co-chairs Sarah Arison, Gillian Hearst and Sandra Tamer.
The YoungArts New York Gala will be emceed by Broadway and TV star Daniel Watts (2000 YoungArts Winner in Dance) and will feature an elegant reception and seated dinner.
Throughout the evening, a series of interdisciplinary performance vignettes will be directed by Grammy Award nominee Michael McElroy (1985 YoungArts Winner in Theater), and will feature a line-up of performances by emcee Daniel J. Watts, Kassi Abreu (2002 YoungArts Winner in Dance), Joshua Banbury (2013 YoungArts Winner in Theater and Voice), Cole Davis (2015 YoungArts Winner in Jazz), Ryan Doyle (2018 YoungArts Winner in Voice), Danny Fox (1998 YoungArts Winner in Jazz & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts), Joshua Green (2018 YoungArts Winner in Jazz), Mara Jill Herman (2003 YoungArts Winner in Theater), Jay Julio (2016 YoungArts Winner in Classical Music), Harrison Knostman (2018 YoungArts Winner in Dance), Liisi LaFontaine (2013 YoungArts Winner in Voice), Derek Louie (2016 YoungArts Winner in Classical Music), Kevin Sherwin (2012 YoungArts Winner in Classical Music) and Roxanne Young (2006 YoungArts Winner in Dance), among others.
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In addition to their generous financial support, Baccarat is providing elements from their collection — including specialty flatware, glassware and table décor for the glamourous event.
Continuing YoungArts’ longstanding and ever-growing commitment to supporting emerging artists, the event will kick off the organization’s annual regional program YoungArts New York, which will take place from April 23 – 28 and feature an exhibition at Sotheby’s New York and performances at Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC). As part of a series of regional programs also presented in Los Angeles and Miami—and modeled after the organization’s signature program, National YoungArts Week, YoungArts New York provides 2019 YoungArts winners from the southeast region of the country with life-changing opportunities to participate in interdisciplinary workshops, seminars and master classes with renowned leaders in their fields, including photographer Lydia Bittner-Baird, screenwriter Shari Carptenter and Joan Mitchell Fellow and visual artist Yashua Klos. This year, participants will showcase their talents to local audiences through performances directed by composer Jeanine Tesori with jazz direction by musician Emmet Cohen (2009 YoungArts Winner in Jazz), and a classical music concert and writers’ readings directed by Dave Eggar (1987 YoungArts Winner in Classical Music & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) and author and award-winning journalist Joan Morgan.
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About The National YoungArts Foundation:
YoungArts was established in 1981 by Lin and Ted Arison to identify and nurture the most accomplished young artists in the visual, literary, design and performing arts, and assist them at critical junctures in their educational and professional development. Through a wide range of annual programs, performances, and partnerships with some of the nation’s leading cultural institutions, YoungArts aspires to create a strong community of alumni and a platform for a lifetime of encouragement, opportunity and support.
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Your donation will directly support the nation’s next generation of artists and their pursuit of careers in the arts.
YoungArts acquired the landmark Bacardi Tower and Museum buildings in Miami, Florida in 2012 and has since converted the buildings into the YoungArts Campus—the organization’s national headquarters. Located on the corner of Biscayne Boulevard and NE 21st Street—at the nexus of the Wynwood Arts District, Arts & Entertainment District and Edgewater—the campus supports expanded programming in Miami and across the country.
The buildings were granted a historic designation by the City of Miami Preservation Board in October 2009 and were listed on the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
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World Wrestling Entertainment’s (WWE) Wrestlemania 33 was indeed a showcase of the immortals held under the clear sky of Orlando, Florida, USA. Appearing in this year’s Wrestlemania were The New Day as the Hosts who, being a tag team of the New Era in the WWE, could not overshadow the legends of the WWE’s Attitude Era who made their presence felt at WrestleMania with panache and force.
Among all the matches held at WrestleMania 33, I believe fivedid turn out to be memorable ones.
1. AJ Styles VS Shane McMahon
Winner: AJ Styles
Following their rivalry at SmackDown Live, AJ Styles and Shane McMahon decided to settle the score inside the squared circle. After an intense match during which Shane also delivered the infamous “Coast to Coast” on AJ Styles, it was Styles who cashed in the match after delivering his Phenomenal Forearm.
2. Fatal Four-Way Tag Team Match: The Hardy Boyz (Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy) defeated Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson (c), Cesaro and Sheamus, and Enzo Amore and Big Cass
Winners: the Hardy Boyz
Just when the three teams of the match, originally on the cards as a Triple Threat Match for the WWE RAW tag Team Championships, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, Cesaro and Sheamus and Enzo Amore and Big Cass were waiting for the bell to ring, the New Day informed of a fourth team to make their way to the ring. As soon as The Hardy Boyz’s entrance music hit, the Camping World Stadium in Orlando erupted into a frenzy of excitement. After making their return to the WWE after nearly seven years, The Hardy Boyz beat all odds to become the new WWE RAW Tag Team Champions.
3. Seth Rollins Vs. Triple H
Winner: Seth Rollins
Triple H along with Stephanie McMahon entered the ring on a badass looking motorcycle, which I guess was a tribute to The Undertaker’s American BadAss gimmick during the early 2000s. HHH was fighting against Seth Rollins in a non-sanctioned match to settle their scores. The highlight of the match was when HHH accidentally threw Stephanie off the ring apron making her crash through the table. This was enough distraction for HHH when Rollins delivered The Pedigree for the win.
4. Randy Orton vs. Bray Wyatt for the WWE Championship
Winner: Bray Wyatt
Former tag team champions, Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt fought for the coveted WWE Championship. Orton had earned the right to compete in this match following his win at the 30-men over-the-top match at the Royal Rumble. Despite Wyatt’s evil ways to intimidate his opponent, Orton prevailed the onslaught and defeated his former tag team partner to become the new WWE Champion.
5. Roman Reigns vs. The Undertaker
Winner: Roman Reigns
There is not a single WWE Superstar could ever match the thrills The Undertaker sends down the spine of the WWE Universe when making his way to the ring at Wrestlemania or on RAW and SmackDown. Following his first-ever loss at WrestleMania by the hands of Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 30 in April 2014, it was evident that The Undertaker would soon be hanging his gloves. At WrestleMania 33, The Undertaker wrestled against Roman Reigns, the former Shield member and The Big Dog in the WWE. The Undertaker gave a decent fight and delivered his signature moves, however, Reigns emerged victorious and cashed in the biggest win of this career by defeating The Undertaker at WrestleMania. Following the match, as the sold-out Camping World Stadium was clapping for The Undertaker and chanting “Thank You Taker!”, The Undertaker took off his gloves, leather robe and hat to place them in the middle of the ring. As he left the right, he broke character to hug his wife before making his way up the ramp. It is evident that this was perhaps the last match of The Undertaker’s illustrious wrestling career in the WWE. However, it would be great to see The Undertaker becoming the SmackDown General Manager not as The Deadman but as The American BadAss!
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Handlbauer chapel and statue
Tiefgraben am Mondsee, Oberösterreich, Österreich
It can be read in old wooden shingles: "Johann and Johanna Radauer had the chapel built in 1865. As a carpenter Josef Eppenschwandtner of Mondsee 36, born in Tiefgraben, Parz 3 on March 11, 1831. Ca. every 30 years a new roof was necessary. In 1954, Michael Widlroither, carpenter in Tiefgraben 12, was commissioned to do so. "
This statement led to some questions. Johann Radauer was born on 15. 5. 1907 in Keuschen. His first wife was a born Pinwinkler. Johanna Radauer, b. Edtmaier of Tiefgraben 8, was his second wife, whom he married in 1948. She was a cousin of the first woman. The two can not have built the chapel. Probably they had a renovation carried out and enter this data later.
In 1980 the chapel was re-covered.
In 2013, the chapel was already so desolate that it was considered to remove it altogether. The handlbauer, Mr. Johann Radauer, could not accept this. Not only did he want to preserve the old chapel, it should also look the way it was when it was built here on the Wallfahrweg - and he was ready to do the renovation himself as much as possible. Indispensable helpers here were neighbor Alois Putz Sr., who took over the carpentry work and Maria Höllerer, who took care of the restoration of the paintings, pictures and the statue.
The elaborate work for the rounding of the building took Mr. Radauer despite well-intentioned advice for a simplification in purchasing. Wood from the former Gasthaus Schlössl was used for the new roof truss. what else was needed on wood, should only be taken from their own forest. Alois Putz stuck to it.
The vaulted wooden ceiling graces a painting depicting the coronation of Mary. Maria Höllerer managed to restore this work of art, so that it now forms the "heaven" of the chapel again. In painstaking detail work, she also managed to restore the images and the great statue of Christ.
Masonry and tiling work was done by Mr. Radauer himself.
Eventually, he set about installing a lighting that could be changed according to different liturgical times.
It is his endeavor that the Handlbauer chapel is again - as in earlier times - a place where pilgrims and hikers rest.
Florian statue above the house entrance - Handlbauer
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Banks brace for tough second half of '09
Loan losses and regulatory reforms will give bankers and investors plenty to worry about in the months ahead.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stress tests. Massive government interventions. Speculation that the government would nationalize Citigroup and Bank of America.
Suffice it to say that the first half of 2009 was anything but normal for the usually sleepy U.S. banking sector.
But even as some sense of calm has returned, there are few indications that lenders will make a full recovery by year's end.
For starters, many banks are still trying to get a firm grip on their unwieldy loan portfolios that continue to deteriorate.
The focus for many big-name banks lately has been on credit cards as more and more consumers find themselves out of work. Construction and development loan problems remain front and center for smaller lenders, particularly community banks.
As the recession drags on, however, losses are starting to migrate to other areas, including commercial and industrial loans, as well as traditional commercial real estate, said Blake Howells, an analyst at Becker Capital Management, a Portland, Ore.-based investing firm which oversees $1.7 billion in assets.
Howells and others suggest that as a result, banks will have to continue building their loan loss reserves through the end of this year and quite possibly into 2010.
That could be a further drag on profits -- especially for regional banks. Full-year earnings for regional banks in the S&P 500 are expected to decline 34% this year, according to Thomson Reuters.
Large diversified financial services firms, which include JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500), Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) and Citigroup (C, Fortune 500), are expected to post a 19% increase in earnings for 2009. Experts said that the recent flurry in capital markets activity, including newly-issued corporate debt, is helping buoy results of the larger banks.
It hasn't hurt that the 19 stress-tested banks themselves have conducted $93 billion in debt and equity offerings since May, according to SNL Financial. Fees tied to those offerings have also helped to boost profits at those same big banks.
"Banks that have capital markets operations are clearly are benefiting from those markets in first half of this year," said Howells. "Whether that holds for the second half remains to be seen."
Few answers, lots of questions
This uncertainty, as well as broader questions about banks' underlying earnings power, has caused bank stocks to stall after a sizeable rally in March and April.
Both the KBW Bank Index and S&P Banking Index - two of the most widely-watched barometers of the sector - have doubled in value from their March lows. But they have largely traded sideways since the government released the results of its stress-test program in May.
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The outlook for U.S. banks has been clouded by other issues too, namely which banks might be next to escape the government's controversial Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, and whether some of the biggest banks indeed have enough capital on hand to weather the recession.
"There are a lot of questions about whether banks are adequately capitalized to deal with a recovery that goes on for several years," said analyst Nancy Bush, founder of NAB Research.
There's also the question of how Congress will decide the fate of the financial services industry. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have appeared willing recently to back some of the changes proposed by President Obama two weeks ago as part of his sweeping regulatory reform plan.
Some of those proposals, however, including the creation of a new agency geared towards protecting consumers from financial products and stiffer capital requirements for banks, are certain to impact banks' profitability, note experts. But no one seems to know by how much.
Tom Kersting, a financial services analyst at St. Louis-based Edward Jones, estimates that banks will feel the pinch as they spend more money to implement some of these proposed regulatory changes, but adds that the costs will not have a "material impact."
More changes in Washington could also become an issue before long. At the end of October, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is expected to bring to an end its debt-guarantee program, which has helped banks access cheap forms of financing.
And of course, there have been rumblings that the Federal Reserve may have to move to raise interest rates later this year as part of an effort to unwind some of its ongoing rescue programs and combat the threat of inflation in the future. Such actions could potentially weigh on recovery efforts for banks that have relied on wide interest rate margins to borrow and lend money.
Investors, however, may take comfort in knowing that banks are unlikely to undergo the type of turmoil that defined the first half of 2009, which would certainly be welcome news for the hard-hit industry.
"We certainly believe we are past that point," said Kersting.
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Hands-on Oris Big Crown Bronze Pointer Date
Full bronze ahead for the iconic Big Crown Pointer Date.
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Just before Father Christmas made his rounds in 2019, Oris delivered a full bronze version of its Big Crown Pointer Date. When we say full bronze we are referring to a bronze case, a bronze bezel, a bronze crown and even a bronze dial. We reviewed the 80th anniversary models of the Big Crown in 2018 decked out in bronze (36mm and 40mm) with green dials, but this is the first time bronze makes its appearance on the face of the watch, with the new Oris Big Crown Bronze Pointer Date 40mm. And it’s in, at the MONOCHROME’s office, for a review.
Originally designed for pilots in 1938, the Oris Big Crown Pointer Date has become the backbone of the brand and is one of the most popular models today. Reintroduced by Dr Rolf Portmann in 1984 on a hunch that nostalgia for mechanical watches with a dash of aviation history might catch on, the Big Crown Pointer Date was the mechanical piece that kept the company afloat during the quartz flood. Let’s take a closer look at this bronze-on-bronze model.
Short history of the Oris Big Crown Pointer Date and the man who resucitated the brand
Oris made its first pilot’s pocket watch in 1910 followed by the first wristwatch for pilots in 1917 – reissued recently. The Big Crown Pointer Date made its debut in 1938 and was characterised by an oversized crown so that pilots in their freezing cockpit could adjust their watches without having to remove their gloves. In addition to the extra-large crown, the time was displayed with large Arabic numerals and cathedral hands and a central hand with a red tip to indicate the date displayed on a peripheral track (patented in 1915 by A. Hammerly).
An Original 1938 Oris Pointer Date
The story behind the reintroduction of the Big Crown Pointer Date in 1984 by Dr Rolf Portmann is an ode to the mechanical watch. Originally hired as a solicitor by Oris in 1956 to fight the protectionist federal resolution known as the Swiss Watch Statute that prevented Oris from building lever escapements, Portmann would eventually become a key figure in Oris’ history and is today the Honorary Chairman of the company. With the advent and invasion of quartz and the demise of many Swiss watch companies, Portmann – appointed managing director of Oris in 1982 – made a daring bet and defended the exclusive production of mechanical watches.
Dr Rolf Portmann, Oris’s Honorary Chairman
As Portmann said in an interview on the eve of his 90th birthday: “We were convinced we were mechanical through and through and didn’t want to have anything to do with quartz watches. We knew we understood mechanical watches. We were positive there was a global audience that still appreciated the value in hand-crafted, tangible products that transmitted history.”
The latest version of the Oris Big Crown Pointer Date, as displayed during Baselworld 2018, here in steel version
Although pilot’s watches had been replaced with sophisticated instrument panels and digital devices, Portmann decided that the Big Crown was the most fitting ambassador for the brand: “Although we don’t need a watch we can use wearing gloves any more, the idea is romantic, which I think people like. And a simple, handsome design that’s easy to read will always have relevance. In a way, I’m surprised it’s still here, but fundamentally the Big Crown is a design that makes sense.”
from Vulcan’s forge
Bronze watches have been enjoying a heyday of late coinciding with the trend for vintage-inspired watches (Bell & Ross, Tudor, Panerai, Zenith, Montblanc and so on…). Going back in history, bronze is considered to be the first successful alloy and was made from a combination of copper and other metals. The hardest metal known to man at that time, bronze was originally used to make tools, weapons and armour and gave its name to an entire historical period associated with the first stages of urban civilisation.
On this fairly new example of the Big Crown Bronze Pointer Date, the case still retains its shine and golden colour. But give it a few weeks and you’ll get a watch with a darker, less bright colour, and possibly a bit of green oxide.
The beauty of this alloy is that as it oxidises it creates an attractive patina on the surface. Thanks to this organic reaction, no two bronze watch cases will ever look the same. If you ever doubt that the material is bronze, all you have to do is hold the watch in your hand and smell the metal. I know that sounds odd, but bronze has a very distinctive smell that intensifies as it comes into contact with your skin and heats up. Scientifically explained, the characteristic smell and green patina are generated by the copper in the alloy that reacts to moisture in human skin.
To avoid your wrist turning green, Oris has created a special bronze alloy that will patinate over time but avoid your watch looking like something salvaged from the Titanic. In addition to this special bronze alloy, the part of the caseback that comes into contact with your skin is made from stainless steel.
The multi-part 40mm case of this model has all the hallmark features of the Big Crown with its coin-edged bezel and extra-large fluted crown, designed for pilots in the cockpit to be able to manipulate the crown without having to remove their gloves. Looking closely at the case you can appreciate the mottled appearance of the matte bronze.
Textbook pilot watch dial in bronze
I have to admit that when I first handled this watch I thought the dial was a rich chocolate-brown colour. Oris has never been shy of colourful dials and for the 80th-anniversary celebration of the Big Crown Pointer Date, we saw some unusual dial colours like this oxblood red or even this light green colour inspired by a colour from Le Corbusier’s Architectural Polychromy. Fresh, pleasant and unusual enough to make these watches stand out.
The solid bronze dial might look brown today, but that is destined to change. Like the case, it has been chemically treated but has also been coated with a transparent matte lacquer to stabilise the oxidisation process. The layout of the dial is identical to the 2018 Big Crown models with a peripheral date track indicated with a red crescent-shaped central hand, large Arabic numerals in vintage typography and classic cathedral-style hands. In keeping with its vocation as a pilot’s watch where legibility is paramount, plenty of lume has been applied to the indices and hands and the domed sapphire crystal has an anti-reflective coating to avoid any possible glare.
A robust and reliable movement
Inside the Oris Big Crown Bronze Pointer Date is the Sellita-based SW-200 calibre 754 modified to accommodate the central date indication. You can see the movement through the sapphire crystal caseback along with the trademark red bi-directional rotor. The movement has a power reserve of 38 hours and a frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour. A robust, reliable, easily serviceable movement that helps to keep the price relatively low.
There’s a lot of history packed into this model, from its aviation roots to its symbolism as the watch that saved Oris from the onslaught of quartz. With its textbook pilots watch layout, the pointer date is a nice extra and the all-bronze look underscores the vintage styling of this watch.
We didn’t have enough time to see the watch patinate under our eyes and the dial was brand new and very ‘milk chocolaty’ at the time of writing… I am sure this will change over time and be delighted to hear from any owners on the particular evolutions of their bronze dials and cases. If this watch behaves anything like its siblings, the next step will be a 36mm edition, ideal for those of us with smaller wrists or women who want something that isn’t girly and comes with a great history.
The Oris Big Crown Bronze Pointer Date (reference 01 754 7741 3166-07 5 20 74BR) comes on a fuzzy brown chamois deer leather strap with a bronze buckle. If you prefer a different look, the easy-to-use spring bars allow you to change one strap for another with ease. It retails for CHF 1,900 or EUR 1,800 and is now available at authorized retailers and online, on Oris’ website.
More information at www.oris.ch.
Technical specifications – Oris Big Crown Bronze Pointer Date
Case: 40mm diameter - multi-piece bronze case - fluted bronze bezel - oversized bronze screw-down crown - domed sapphire crystal, anti-reflective coating - steel caseback, screwed, with sapphire crystal - 50m water-resistant
Dial: bronze dial with gold-plated cathedral hands - painted Arabic numerals - hands and hour markers with Super-LumiNova - pointer date
Movement: Oris Calibre 754, based on Sellita SW-200 - automatic with signature central red rotor - 28,800 vibrations/hour - 38h power reserve - hours, minutes, seconds, date by hand - instantaneous date, stop seconds
Strap: brown "chamois" deer leather - bronze pin buckle
Reference: 01 754 7741 3166-07 5 20 74BR
Not limited in production
Now available in stores and at oris.ch
Price: EUR 1,800
CHF 1,900
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Maciej says:
Yes, so many cool bronze watches in 2020. Can’t wait for posts on Monochrome in 2030 to see how they look once they really develop the patina, since now they are all new and shiny.
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Marjorie's Forgeries
Conversations from the Montrose Forge
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Facets of Leather
Sheep Livers, Ltd.
“You have to look at the card for a few seconds before you see that the animals that pull the chariot have neither reins nor bridles. It’s the Captain James T. Kirk card, the card of leaping before looking, of burned bridges and uncovered asses. The card of thinking you know what’s going on when you don’t. As a message for the reader, it was ambiguous.”
—Rosemary Edghill
If almost anyone in my social network sent me a text that said, “Holy shit! I just hit myself in the face!” I’d respond with something like, “Oh no! Are you hurt? How did this happen?” However, when I receive the same message from my Misfits brother Tony, I’m like, “Good job, but you really don’t need to tell me every time you masturbate.”
It was Tony who talked me into joining the Misfits in the first place, and over the course of our friendship, we’ve coerced each other into any number of misadventures: For example, I forced him to go on a meditative labyrinth walk, and in return, he tricked me into qualifying for IML (which is probably worth a story of its own sometime). He currently lives in San Francisco with his husband, but he’s coming to visit over his Easter break, and in anticipation of our reunion, I’ve been reminiscing about our many escapades, the majority of which left lasting impressions on both of us.
My favorite, though, left permanent scars.
It all went down a couple of years ago, when Tony launched himself on a mission to come up with a concept for his next tattoo. After a few days of research, he emailed me to show off the design he’d selected to have etched on his bicep:
Innocuous AF, yo.
“Isn’t it amazing?!” he wrote. “It’s simple, clean and meaningful. Perfect”
His glee is always infectious, but something about the rune he’d picked was niggling at me. The runes themselves are decidedly not my forte, as I tend to shy away from anything occult I can’t pronounce, but seeing as how I have the entire Internet at my disposal, I poked around and quickly found a name and description.
Thurisaz. “Thorn.” Conflict, destruction, violent aggression, raping and pillaging, generalized stabbiness, and male sexuality. Or, as Tony saw it, conflict, destruction, violent aggression, raping and pillaging, generalized stabbiness and MALE SEXUALITY (-ALITY -Ality -ality…).
In an attempt to distract him with metaphysics until I could figure out a nice way to throw rocks at his joy, I was all, “Hey, that reminds me of the geomantic figure Rubeus.” To which Tony responded, “Brother! You should get that as a tattoo when I get mine!” While I appreciated the invitation, I was about as likely to get a tattoo of Rubeus as I was to have the word “republican” branded on my forehead. What I was likely to do was have a controlled meltdown over his identification with Thurisaz, but only because I fundamentally disagreed with his interpretation, and I’m never, ever wrong about anything.
Call it a pet peeve or control issues or what have you, but I lose my damn mind when negative connotations are removed from divinatory archetypes. A friend of mine once purchased a Celtic-esque Tarot deck, in which the Devil card had been replaced with “The Green Man.” There was no Devil in Paganism, the deck’s creator explained in the little white book, so there was no need for such a card in the Tarot. The Green Man — symbolizing nature’s bounty and gentle, paternal guidance — was ever so much more appropriate. One wonders how the Green Man relates to the obsessions and addictions foretold by the Devil, but one sincerely hopes it translates as, “You, alright?! I learned it by watching you!”
Symbols have meanings, and those meanings have power, yet while we accept that ignoring symbolic warnings in the “real” world results in consequence (as anyone who’s run a red light in front of a cop can attest), we’ll toss out any portent with an “ick” factor when attempting to scry or divine. We won’t rework the meanings of standardized cultural motifs — which would be appropriation at best (“Why would you think I’m gay? This is the Pink Triangle of Imaginary Dietary Restriciton Awareness.”) and dangerous/idiotic at worst (“You guys are Crips? Neat! I’m a Scorpio, which is why I’m wearing this fetching red bandana.”) — but the logic that keeps us from doing so is nowhere to be found when we decide that the Tower means “invest in immoveables.”
Tony is fascinated by the supernatural but has only cursory knowledge of it, which made it difficult to loudly condemn his dtermination to stamp what I saw as the runic equivalent of a “Kick Me” sign on himself. Fortunately, he saved me the trouble by unwittingly pointing out what a dickhead I can be about these things.
Shortly after his first message, Tony wrote back to express some newfound reservations. He’d been tooling around online, looking for good Thurisaz pics to show his tattoo artist, when he came across some explanations of the rune that were less than glowy.
“I want it to be the right symbol for me, but there are a lot of really dark meanings here,” he said, his disappointment palpable even in sans-serif font. “What do you think? Should I get it?”
Tony may be a big, burly conglomeration of brotein, but he’s also, without a doubt, the most affable person I’ve ever known. He has no enemies — everyone is a friend until they prove otherwise, and if they do so, he wishes them the best and moves on without grudge or resentment. He is trusting and honest, and he trusts me to always be honest with him.
So I responded to his question as honestly as I could:
“I think it’s awesome that you see the good in everything.”
In the end, Tony got his Thurisaz, and I agreed to get a stylized Puer, which represents male sexuality in all its expessions (the phallus, the sword, the plow… the ink-filled needle) while being far less incindiary than Rubeus. Additionally, it’s the first of the geomantic forms in their proper order and signifies the beginning of the astrological year, making it the ideal start to an armband featuring all 16 figures.
Much like the Chariot, Puer speaks of jumping to conclusions; of shooting first, asking questions later, and setting aside collected wisdom in favor of immaturity; of losing your shit over your best friend’s choice of body art without stopping to consider how capable he is of making his own decisions, or getting a tattoo on the spur of the moment, because hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
And you know what? It totally was.
Author Thumper (MJ)Posted on March 29, 2019 April 15, 2019 5 Comments on Brothers in Arms
Lord of the Boiler Plate
Customer: “Hey there! Can I try on this cock ring?”
Me: “Sure. The dressing room is right behind those curtains.”
Customer: “… Oh. I was… um, I was just joking.”
Me: [smiling sadly] “Yeah. I know.”
For my fellow retail workers who have led cleaner lives, “Can I try on this cock ring?” is the leather and fetishwear equivalent of “No price tag? Then it must be free!” The linguistics may differ, but the shared experience of surviving a ceaseless barrage of hackneyed jokes is almost initiatory.
Having said that, I really don’t know if there’s anything in mainstream sales comparable to “Aren’t you going to make sure this cock ring fits me properly?” But if there is, I’ll bet you anything that golf pants are involved.
Author Thumper (MJ)Posted on March 19, 2019 March 19, 2019 Tags TMFLeave a comment on Lord of the Boiler Plate
Erin… seriously, just go, bragh.
The Misfits tended bar at Ripcord this past Saturday, and since it was the night before St. Patrick’s Day, we wore kilts, with the vague understanding that said garments may or may not have originated in Ireland. I felt kind of guilty for lumping anything remotely Gaelic into a one-dimensional bartending theme, but then again, my heritage is Irish and Scottish, so at least my own ass was covered (so to speak).
Feeling Celtic, idk might Brexit later.
The evening was in full swing, with R-rated shenanigans beginning to sprout up all over, when John (our vice president) tracked me down on the patio and pulled me aside.
“There’s this guy who wants to buy all of our jello shots,” he said. “And I’m not sure what to tell him.”
So let me quickly explain the jello shots. Misfits bartending is fundraising more than anything else — we make jello shots and sell them for $2 apiece, and the money we collect goes towards putting on GLUE Weekend, which in turn brings in a giant wad of cash that we donate to our beneficiary. However, while selling all of our shots at once would result in a nice chunk of change, it would prevent us from making any tips for the rest of our shift, which would mean a financial hit that I wasn’t willing to take.
I headed over to the outside bar, where I found Keith engaged in a battle of raised eyebrows with the customer in question, who was dolled up in tailored jeans and high-end eyewear.
“What can I get you?” I asked.
“I want to buy all of your jello shots,” he replied.
“We have 48 shots left,” Keith murmured. “So it would be $96.”
“So what deal can I get?” the customer asked.
“Well, the shots are $2 each,” I said. “I’d be happy to sell them all to you, but I want to make sure everyone who’s interested gets a chance to have one first.”
“I’m saying I’ll by all of them.” he repeated unnecessarily. “You’re saying $2 each, but what deal can I get for the whole batch?”
“Um… this is for charity,” Keith said.
“I’m not going to cut a deal,” I said in my best attempt at an I’m-in-charge-and-you-should-probably-think-about-fearing-me voice. “And I’m not going to sell all of them at once. But I’ll sell you 20 now, and if you come back in 45 minutes, I’ll sell you whatever’s left.”
“So what deal can I get on 20 shots?” he asked.
“You can have 20 shots for $40 dollars,” I replied.
“So what will the discount be?”
“You’ll get 20 shots for $40.”
“So no discount?”
“No discount.”
“But I’m buying 20 shots.”
“Yes, for $40.”
I don’t know if he was trying to impress a date or show off for his friends or what, but I refused to budge, and after several more wearying rounds of 20/40, he relented and begrudgingly paid $40. And as soon as he did so, the members of ONYX Lone Star wandered over and were like, “Ooh, jello shots!” and bought every last one of them, at which time I swore fealty to their road captain.
Karmic retribution aside, the ONYX guys deserved a couple of drinks, since a straight girl had pounced on them earlier and all but demanded information about their organization. She was fascinated by their run pins, and she kept telling them how she was really, really into leather, and how she was a really, really big deal back in the Portland leather community, and I really, really wanted to ask her to explain the spiritual and historical significance of the faux-indigenous weaving on the back of her denim vest. But every time I opened my mouth, John would start singing Voices Carry at me, so I finally just gave up and accepted that ONYX could handle the situation without my help.
It is worth noting, though, that she neither bought a single jello shot nor complimented any of the Misfits on our kilts. I’m definitely adding stinginess and Hibernophobia to my list of reasons to keep quietly resenting her.
Author Thumper (MJ)Posted on March 18, 2019 March 18, 2019 1 Comment on Erin… seriously, just go, bragh.
American Horror Story: Day Drinkers
The Forge’s main store recently received a restorative coat of paint. While certainly not to everyone’s taste, I appreciate spending my afternoon in a building that could pass for a satanic temple and/or murder house.
It would be best not to ask what we keep under the porch.
Although a customer just walked in and looked around in confusion and was like, “Oh. I… thought this was a bar.” So, y’know, I guess we pass for a speakeasy too. I’m cool with that.
Author Thumper (MJ)Posted on March 16, 2019 March 17, 2019 Tags TMF1 Comment on American Horror Story: Day Drinkers
It Was Loopholes I Wanted, Now I’m Living Without
Me watching the first episode of The Order: “This is pretty schlocky, but there’s nothing else holding my interest right now.”
Me halfway through Season 1: “None of these alleged college students have gone to class in weeks.”
Me watching the second-to-last episode: “I like how nobody has figured out that they’d have fewer problems if they’d stop giving Very Important Responsibilities to that freshman with the personality disorder.”
Me watching the last five minutes of the season finale: “Oh, good. It’s almost over. Now I can… wait. What is she… Don’t do… NO NO NO DON’T DO THAT… OH MY GOD, HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!?!”
Me the rest of the evening: [curled up in the fetal position, softly singing “It Must Have Been Love” while a single tear runs down my cheek]
Author Thumper (MJ)Posted on March 12, 2019 April 15, 2019 1 Comment on It Was Loopholes I Wanted, Now I’m Living Without
Party Flavors
[A group of five preppies bustle into the store and crowd around the counter.]
Preppy 1: “Do you sell gum?”
Me: “I’m sorry, but we don’t.”
Preppy 1: [clearly disillusioned] “Oh. Okay.”
Me: “I do have some mints, though. Would you like a mint?”
Preppy 1: “Ooh, I would!”
[I hand him my tin of mini Altoids, taking one for myself first.]
Preppy 1: “Thank you!”
Preppy 2: “May I have a mint too?”
Me: “Sure.”
Customer 2: “Thanks!”
[The other three preppies ask if they can also have mints. I nod affirmatively, and they pass the tin around until everyone has imbibed of the winter-fresh goodness. And then…]
Preppy 1: “Wait. Are these just mints?”
[Preppies 2-5 glance over at him, then turn and look at me with mild concern.]
Me: “WELL, I GUESS WE’RE ALL GOING TO FIND OUT IN FIFTEEN MINUTES, AREN’T WE?”
[They freeze.]
Me: “Kidding! I kid. They’re just mints.”
Preppies 1-5: “…”
Me: “Sláinte?”
I feel like this might be one of those times when I think I’m funnier than I actually am. But hey, at least they learned an important lesson about accepting candy from strangers. And also about the social necessity of disposable toothbrushes.
Author Thumper (MJ)Posted on March 11, 2019 March 11, 2019 1 Comment on Party Flavors
Cat Hair Triggers
[So Ben sent me this meme a few days ago...
… and the following conversation ensued.]
Ben: “WHO IS THIS AND WHY IS IT NOT YOUR HALLOWEEN COSTUME?!”
Me: “That’s Forge. He was Storm’s first love interest in the X-Men comics. He’s a Native-American sorcerer with the mutant power to invent anything. He built a mutant neutralizer for the government that took away Storm’s powers for most of the 80s, but they reconciled while they were trapped in another dimension, and she got her powers back. They were an item for awhile after that, but they eventually broke up, and she married Black Panther. I think he ended up with Mystique, maybe?”
Ben: “Um… okay, that was a lot.”
Me: “I kind of wish I didn’t know all that.”
Ben: “Nah, it’s cool. I love it when you do nerd-to-Ben translation.”
Me: “Well, I promise I will never force you to listen to my diatribe on everything wrong with the first three X-Men movies. This is my solemn vow.”
Ben: “Nope. Now I want to hear it.”
Me: “You really don’t…”
[twenty minutes later]
Me: “… AND RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF X2, HALLE BERRY SAYS, “OH, MY GOD.” BUT STORM IS A GODDESS WORSHIPER WHO ONCE BELIEVED HERSELF TO BE A GODDESS. STORM WOULD NEVER SAY “OH, MY GOD.” THEY THREW AWAY DECADES OF CANON AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT WITH ONE FUCKING LINE.”
Ben: “…”
Me: “And then, of course, Halle Berry got cast as Catwoman. Don’t even get me started on Catwoman.”
Ben: “Yeah, I heard it wasn’t ver-”
Me: “CATWOMAN IS A FEMINIST MASTERPIECE.”
Ben: “Welp, didn’t see that one coming.”
Me: “… And so she takes down the patriarchal cosmetics corporation, all while kicking ass in open-toed, chunky-heeled shoes…”
Ben: “Whoa, wait a minute. Stop right there.”
Me: “…?”
Ben: “THERE IS NOTHING OKAY ABOUT DOING ANYTHING IN OPEN-TOED, CHUNKY-HEELED SHOES.”
And then he went off on this long rant about current trends in fashionable footwear. Man. if I’d known he was going to get so testy, I wouldn’t have even brought it up.
Author Thumper (MJ)Posted on March 9, 2019 December 12, 2019 Leave a comment on Cat Hair Triggers
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I am tragically under-caffeinated. You’re my only hope.
“In Germany, where dogs bark ‘vow vow’ and both the frog and the duck say ‘quack,’ the rooster greets the dawn with a hearty ‘kik-a-ricki.’ Greek roosters crow ‘kiri-a-kee,’ and in France they scream ‘coco-rico,’ which sounds like one of those horrible premixed cocktails with a pirate on the label.” -David Sedaris
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And That Happened: Tuesday’s Scores and Highlights
By Craig CalcaterraMay 15, 2019, 6:15 AM EDT
Here are the scores. Here are the highlights:
Blue Jays 7, Giants 3: As noted last night, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his first career homer and it was a shot. Later in the game, however, he hit his second home run — with two men on base — and it was even a longer shot. The first one went 438 feet, the second: 451. Guerrero finished with three hits and four RBI. All that the same ballpark where Vlad Guerrero Sr. won the Home Run Debry back in 2007.
Watch these blasts:
Welcome to the bigs, kid.
Rockies 5, Red Sox 4: As Bill noted last night, Chris Sale struck out 17 Rockies in seven innings. After he left, Red Sox relievers added seven more in the next three innings for a total of 24 through the top of the 10th inning. With no walks! But the game was still going, tied at four, and that momentum would not hold up in the 11th. That’s when Ryan Brasier came in, walked two batters and gave up a go-ahead single to Mark Reynolds and the run held up. Nolan Arenado and Charlie Blackmon each hit two-run homers in regulation for the Rockies previous four runs. Boston’s four came on homers from Michael Chavis, J.D. Martinez and Rafael Devers plus a Mitch Moreland RBI single in the eighth.
Is there anything more 2019 baseball than a team striking out 24 times and winning?
Indians 9, White Sox 0: Carlos Carrasco tossed seven shutout frames and three relievers handled the final two. More importantly, the moribund Indians’ offense finally woke the heck up, hitting five homers, with Jordan Luplow going deep twice and knocking in three in all. Now if only they can face the White Sox and Manny Bañuelos every time out. Luplow has hit three of his four 2019 homers off of him.
Cubs 3, Reds 1: Kyle Hendricks was damn nigh untouchable again, allowing only one run on three hits over eight. He also hit a two-run double to give the Cubs their first two runs and singled twice. Hendricks has won all three of his starts in May, allowing only one earned run in 25 innings. The Cubs are 10-2 on the month so far. They’ve won 22 of 28 overall. Remember way back in April when Joe Maddon was supposedly on the hot seat? Seems like a thousand years ago.
Mets 6, Nationals 2: Speaking of hot seats, Dave Martinez’s Nationals gave their fans another uninspiring performance. Let’s see how they’re taking it:
Raze Nats Park and salt the earth so nothing can ever grow there.
— Kevin Reiss (@kevin_reiss) May 15, 2019
Given how this one started it’s understandable to feel that way. The Nats had two outs in the first inning with a runner on, Wilmer Difo threw away a tailor-made double play ball to extend the inning and then former Nats catcher Wilson Ramos hit a grand slam. From there Noah Syndergaard took a no-hitter into the sixth to help extinguish any remaining hope Washington fans harbored. The Nats lost for the 11th time in 15 games and have only the truly wretched Marlins to thank for not owning the worst record in the National League.
Brewers 6, Phillies 1: Yasmani Grandal hit a three-run homer in the second and Ryan Braun hit a two-run homer in the third to put this one away pretty early. In case there was any doubt of that, Brewers’ starter Brandon Woodruff gave up only one hit in six shutout innings, working around five walks. Bryce Harper hurt himself making a sliding catch into the wall in foul territory, stayed in the game and then made another catch just like it to end the inning, gaining a standing ovation from the Philly crowd. Two innings later he struck out and got booed. The Philly crowd rides an emotional roller coaster not unlike that my kids rode when they were toddlers.
Astros 11, Tigers 4: Not gonna say Houston is on a roll, but the Astros have won seven games in a row and have scored 61 runs in those games for an 8.7 run/game average. Carlos Correa hit a first inning homer — a three-run shot — George Springer hit an inside-the-park homer and Aledmys Díaz went deep as well. Like so many inside-the-parkers, Springer’s was premised on a bad bounce and, his hustle aside, there wasn’t even a play at the plate:
Most overrated allegedly exciting play in baseball. Beats out the “stealing home” play in which it’s really a delayed double steal with runners on the corners and the catcher gets deked into firing it down to second.
Rays 4, Marlins 0: Charlie Morton tossed six shutout innings to improve his record to 4-0 and lower his ERA to 2.32. Avisail Garcia homered, had three hits in all and drove in three. Not bad for a day in which the Rays, due to weather issues the night before, had to wake up at 5:30AM for a morning flight to Miami.
Cardinals 14, Braves 3: One of the reasons the Braves didn’t upgrade their rotation in the offseason was because they believed, not unreasonably, that Mike Foltynewicz was a serviceable ace and the young pitching depth they possess would carry them the rest of the way. That last part has been mostly born out this year but the first part ain’t happening. Foltynewicz began the year on the injured list and has been dreadful since being activated. here he was torched for eight runs on seven hits and couldn’t make it out of the fifth to balloon his ERA to 8.02. He’s allowed eight homers in 21.1 innings across four starts, including three here to Marcell Ozuna, Dexter Fowler and Yadier Molina. Kolten Wong added a later three-run shot. In 2018 Foltynewicz allowed only 17 in 183 innings.
Twins 4, Angels 3: Twins catcher Mitch Garver has been a big reason for Minnesota’s early season success, and he continued to produce when he hit a two-run homer to help the Twins to an early lead. But he left the game late with an ankle sprain after making a nice play at the plate to put out a sliding Shohei Ohtani and prevented the tying run. It’s unclear how long he’ll be out but not a good thing for the Twinkies. Ohtani had three hits, including an RBI single in a losing cause.
Royals 11, Rangers 5: The Royals scored nine times in the first two innings to make this one a laugher for everyone except Rangers starter Shelby Miller. Hunter Dozier drove in three, and Alex Gordon and Jorge Soler drove in two each. Miller has a 9.51 ERA on the season and opposing batters are hitting .317 off of him. Call me crazy, but I’m thinking he’s not gonna be long for the Texas rotation. Nicky Lopez, the Royals’ rookie second baseman making his big league debut, got his first hit and first RBI in the bigs in the seventh inning.
Pirates 6, Diamondbacks 2: Josh Bell homered twice, driving in four, Cole Tucker hit a two-run homer and Joe Musgrove allowed only one hit over seven shutout innings. Bell extended his hitting streak to 14 games, and it hasn’t been a single-a-night affair: he’s batting .421 over that span with seven doubles, six home runs and 21 RBI.
Dodgers 6, Padres 3: Manny Machado came back to Dodger Stadium was booed heavily but had himself a nice night anyway, going 3-for-4 with a two-run homer. That was about all that went right for the Padres, though, as rookie phenom Chris Paddack was touched for six runs — three earned — in four and two-thirds and surrendering homers to Joc Pederson and Cody Bellinger. Bellinger knocked in three on the night. Clayton Kershaw, now relying on craftiness over dominance, pitched seven innings, allowing three, and picked up his third win of the year.
Mariners 4, Athletics 3: The M’s got solo homers from Daniel Vogelbach and Tim Beckham in the second inning and a two-run homer in the fifth inning from Mitch Haniger to break a 2-2 tie and give Seattle its winning margin. Mike Leake was effective for six innings but got into some trouble in the seventh, allowing a run to make it 4-3. Cory Gearrin relieved him and promptly put two men on but Roeins Elías put out the fire.
Orioles vs. Yankees — POSTPONED:
You and me and rain on the roof
Caught up in a summer shower
Dryin’ while it soaks the flowers
Maybe we’ll be caught for hours
Waitin’ out the sun
You and me were gabbin’ away
Dreamy conversation sittin’ in the hay
Honey, how long was I laughing in the rain with you
‘Cause I didn’t feel a drop ’til the thunder brought us to
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And That Happened: Tuesday’s Scores and Highlights May 15, 2019 6:15 am
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Obama Skips Texas Border Visit Endorses A Womens Right To Choose
President Barack Obama is refusing to visit the turbulent U.S.-Mexican border, where a flood of illegal immigrants continues to overwhelm the region. Instead, Obama will visit the home of Austin-based filmmaker Robert Rodriguez this week as part of a trio of Texas fundraisers. The Austin visit features tickets ranging in price from $5,000 to $32,400. The July 9 fundraiser also will feature actors Rosario Dawson, Danny Trejo and Jessica Alba.
Both Trejo and Alba star in Rodriguez’s ultra-violent Machete franchise. The first film in the series demonized a politician (Robert De Niro) who sought tight border control as well as a Minuteman-style American who delighted in shooting a pregnant Mexican woman. Alba’s character, a champion for immigrants’ rights, utters the following line in the first Machete feature: “We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.”
Obama skips border visit but visits Robert Rodriquez endorsing a womens right to choose whether on the left or right.
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Hillary Outraged By Hobby Lobby Decision Protecting Statute Signed By Bill Clinton In 1993 Thats Rich
Hillary Clinton blasted the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling, announced Monday, that craft chain Hobby Lobby and other “closely held” for-profit companies do not have to provide contraceptives to their employees if doing so violates their religious beliefs. “I disagree with the reasoning as well as the conclusion,” Clinton said during a Facebook Live interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado. “I find it deeply disturbing we are going in that direction.”
Hillary Clinton blasts Supreme Court on Hobby Lobby ruling protecting Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 signed by Bill Clinton. Funny on so many levels. Now that is rich.
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Obama Spends Fathers Day In Palm Springs Dodging The Tough Decisions
It’s perhaps appropriate that President Barack Obama is vacationing this weekend in California, where the state flag features a roaming grizzly.The restless president, who has compared himself to a caged animal on recent wanderings by declaring the “bear is loose,” took a long Father’s Day weekend away with his wife and older daughter. The visit to the desert resort area of Palm Springs is one of the ways Obama has been trying to escape during his sixth year cloistered in the White House.In California, Obama has worked out mornings at a gym near the Rancho Mirage home where the first family is staying with White House decorator Michael Smith and his partner, James Costos, the American ambassador to Spain.Obama seemed determined not to let the crisis overseas keep him from getting away, in a time-honored tradition of presidents going on working vacations even as some question the optics. Obama spends Fathers Day in Palm Springs with White House Decorator, dodging the tough decisions.
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Obama Bracket Buster Trade Sends Gitmo 5 Dream Team For A Player To Be Named Later
Days after President Obama released five of the world’s most dangerous terrorists from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo, two alarming reports—one from a mainstream newspaper and the other from a prominent research group—provide distressing information that confirms it was a really bad idea. Here’s a little background on the freed terrorists from a U.S. Senator who wants the Senate Armed Services Committee to conduct a hearing. “The five terrorists released were the hardest of the hard-core,” Senator Lindsey Graham tells the committee chairman in a letter requesting the hearing. “They held positions of great importance within the hard-core anti-American Taliban, including the Chief of Staff of the Taliban Army and the Taliban Deputy Minister of Intelligence. They have American blood on their hands and surely as night follows day they will return to the fight. In effect, we released the “Taliban Dream Team.” The United States is less safe because of these actions.” Surely, they’ll be thrilled to have five more experienced jihadists on their roster.
Gitmo 5 Dream Team. Coming to a stadium near you.
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Michael Moore Thinks GM Criminals Deserve Death
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore believes that whoever was responsible at General Motors for failing to recall a faulty ignition switch deserves death.
“I am opposed to the death penalty, but to every rule there is usually an exception, and in this case I hope the criminals at General Motors will be arrested and made to pay for their pre-meditated decision to take human lives for a lousy ten bucks,” he wrote. Moore called for the Obama administration to deliver justice.
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During bin Laden Raid, Obama and “Body Man” Reggie Love Play Strategic Card Games
On the day Navy SEALs were raiding Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan and killing the 9/11 mastermind, President Obama didn’t spend every moment in the White House situation room. Instead, the commander in chief played cards in a private dining room that day, too — about 15 games of spades, in fact, his former personal assistant Reggie Love recently told a UCLA forum.Most people were like down in the Situation Room and [Obama] was like, ‘I’m not going to be down there, I can’t watch this entire thing,’” Love recalled during a Q&A at an Artists & Athletes Alliance event.
Instead, Love said he, Obama, White House photographer Pete Souza, and staffer Marvin Nicholson got together in a nearby private dining room and “must have played 15 games of spades”
Obama and Reggie Love play strategy card game during Osama bin Laden.
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July 4th In The USA Sucks, He’s Just Not That Into You
“Hot” or “open mics” frequently catch public figures unknowingly expressing their true feelings, usually with colorful language.
The smaller of Obama’s two microphones, which was clipped inches below Obama’s shirt collar, was supposed to have been turned off immediately after his closing remarks to guests and reporters on the White House lawn. But the microphone remained “hot,” catching the President muttering: “God, this holiday sucks! All this national pride shit get’s on my nerves.”
4th of July in the USA. He’s just not that into you…The No Excuses Truth to understanding Obama.
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Obama’s Limo Breaks Down In Israel,Status of Check Engine Light Unknown
President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Israel this morning had an embarrassing setback when his armored limo broke down on the way to the airport.
The custom General Motors Cadillac limo “The Beast” was relegated to a pick up truck after the driver accidentally put gas in the engine instead of diesel.
Mr Obama arrived in Tel Aviv Wednesday afternoon local time, and earlier that morning, the limo that was designated to his hotel was unable to move after the driver made the silly mistake. Given the Secret Service statement, it appears that the President drove off in the second limo while the American technician worked on the first.
It was not clear at the time if the check engine light was on.
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Obama Goes Full Diva, Calls Debt Crisis “No Big Deal”..
There has been no shortage of dire warnings about the mounting US national debt, but President Obama is now offering a different assessment: no big deal.
Allan Simpson went further, calling the failure to control entitlement spending “madness.” “Ten thousand [Americans] a day are turning 65,” Simpson told me. “This is madness. And life expectancy is 78.1, and in five years will be 80. Who is kidding who? This will eat a hole through America.”
Obama goes full diva calls debt crisis no big deal..
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Amazon Enables Holiday Laggards With Last-Minute Offerings
Douglas P. Clement
Amazon announced shipping deals and deadlines that give U.S. consumers a license to spend on really, really last-minute holiday shopping, basically a procrastinator’s dream come true.
At the same time, Amazon experienced some issues hitting those high fulfillment expectations over a record Cyber Weekend, some of it weather related, from which it has since recovered. even with all of its logistics infrastructure in place, months after severing ties with FedEx on the ground and in the air.
Prime customers who live in eligible areas can shop millions of products on Christmas Eve, and receive them in time for gift exchanges with Prime free same-day delivery if ordered by 9:30 a.m. local time. Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market purchases on Christmas Eve in those eligible areas offer free two-hour delivery.
The company said Prime members also qualify for free one-day delivery on more than 10 million items that include toys and electronics, home good, and fashions.
Even if you’re not a Prime member, all U.S. consumers can shop hundreds of millions of products through Dec. 14 and receive them by Christmas, with free shipping on orders over $25, the company said.
Besides delivery, shoppers can also pick up orders from Amazon lockers and stores run by a growing list of partners including Rite Aid, GNC, Stage Stores, Kohl’s and Stein Mart. Amazon stores are open in 12 U.S. states on Christmas Eve.
The ecommerce giant is also enticing more shoppers into the Prime pool, 100 million plus and growing, by offering a free trial over the holidays. Most items ordered during the holiday season can be returned until Jan. 31, 2020, Amazon said.
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Jan Ashton
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Jan Ashton [given birth to Jan Errico] was among the hardly any women drummers of be aware in 1960s rock and roll, playing with SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region folk-rock/psychedelic rings the Vejtables as well as the Mojo Guys. She also sang in those groupings, and her solid folk-rock tone of voice was most likely the most significant asset that both of these bands appreciated. She was also a good songwriter and penned the Vejtables’ lone Top Hundred strike, the 1965 one “I Still Like You,” which sounded just like the lighter function of Vejtables labelmates the Beau Brummels. In 1966 she became a member of the Mojo Guys (who maintained the name Mojo Guys regardless of the addition of the Mojo Girl) and cowrote a lot of that band’s materials with bassist Jim Alaimo. Ashton also acquired a brief single profession in early 1966, when the obscure Fall single “Cool Dreary Morning hours”/”Smile, Smile, Smile” was documented, although apparently not really released. Ashton provides said these are actually Vejtables monitors, despite her single billing. Both edges had been Ashton originals, “Cool Dreary Morning hours” being truly a pleasurable pop-folk-rocker relatively in the mildew of the rockier We Five or Seekers, and “Smile, Smile, Smile” a tougher tune whose moving minor keys had been more commensurate with the rising SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA psychedelic audio. “Cool Dreary Morning” was ultimately issued over the Rhino compilation Nuggets Vol. 7: Early SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, and both monitors are on the Sundazed Vejtables compilation Experience…the Vejtables.
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Things That Got Our Teachers’ Goats
June 30, 2018 June 30, 2018 ~ millennialmatriarchs ~ Leave a comment
A few weeks ago, I wrote about something that had our teachers and school management paranoid—so called ‘contraband books’. We had a well-stocked school library, but obviously we had an urge to read something beyond—like comics and M&Bs! Which our teachers and the nuns were determined to stop us from doing. One of the things that used to happen irregularly regularly were surprise checks. Suddenly about four teachers would walk into the classroom, and order us to open our desks and bags, and would riffle through them. Anyone caught with any book other than textbooks or school library books was sent off to the Principal, and had the book confiscated.
I marvel at those days of innocence, considering that as far as I know, no one was ever caught with anything more wicked than an Archie comic. Or yes, a Barbara Cartland. While Georgette Heyers were completely kosher and in fact, in the school library lists, and even M&Bs were tolerated (which meant we were not too nervous if a teacher heard us mention them), for some reason BCs really got the teachers paranoid.
They were also paranoid about what our hair was fastened with. It had to be black ribbons. Rubber bands, even black ones, got them. What to talk of ‘love in Tokyos’!
And socks. They had to be plain white, and NO DESIGN! The faintest sprays of flowers or creepers, even white on white, would get them on a trip.
Skirts had to be just above the knee. Anything shorter and there would be consequences. The girls with more oomph and guts found their way around this. They used to roll up the waist band of the skirt two or even three times, so that the skirts were at a daring mid-thigh. And roll them down, oh so innocently, when any strict teacher happened by.
All this was at Carmel Convent Delhi. But I am sure that readers of my generation would all relate to this.
I thank my teachers for the discipline they dinned into us. For the values they made a part of our lives. For the seriousness with which they taught us. For how earnestly they took their mission of making something of us.
June 28, 2018 ~ millennialmatriarchs ~ Leave a comment
I am a logophile. Before you leap to dangerous conclusions, let me explain! I am a lover of words! Words fascinate me, excite me, and intrigue me—the sound of words, the use of words, and the play with words. While I run scared from attempting a Sudoku puzzle (I guess that makes me Numerophobic or Arithmophobic!) I cannot resist any kind of word game or puzzle. Scrabble is the only board game I enjoy. I feel insecure without the presence of my faithful dictionaries on my table, even when I can Google up a word with a single click. I enjoy the act of turning the pages to find the word I am looking for and, in the process, discover at least a few new ones while browsing.
Perhaps the first word that got me hooked was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from the film Mary Poppins. It sounded as wonderful as it meant. It took many hours to learn how to say this, and much longer to even dare to spell it out! Though an invented word, it later found its legitimacy in the Oxford English Dictionary. But it could not lay claim to being the longest word in the English language, the title of which is claimed by—take a deep breath—pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis! (a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust.)
Over the years I have been noting down interesting words and word-related things.
Sharing some fun and games with words!
These are words or phrases that read the same in both directions. According to language experts palindromes are the most difficult kind of phrase to create.
The best known example: Madam I’m Adam.
An interesting one: A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama.
And a very clever one!
Doc, note, I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
This is a literary work in which one or more letters of the alphabet are excluded. The term lipogram comes from the ancient Greek leipográmmatos, which means ‘leaving out a letter of the alphabet’.
As far back as the 3rd century BC, Greek poet Tryphiodorus wrote an epic of 24 books, each one omitting one letter of the alphabet.
One of the most famous lipograms of more recent times (1939) is a 50,000 word novel called Gadsby. The author Ernest Vincent Wright makes no use of the most frequently used letter of the English alphabet—E.
A tiny extract illustrates how: ‘Upon this basis I am going to show you how a bunch of bright young folks did find a champion: a man with boys and girls of his own; a man so dominating and happy as individuality that youth is drawn to him as is a fly to a sugar bowl.’
From selective exclusion to all-inclusion—that is the Pangram! This is a short sentence containing all 26 letters of the English alphabet. All the worthies who learnt touch typing on a manual typewriter will be glad to learn that the one sentence they pounded out, in endless practice, is the most famous Pangram: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Cheers to all fellow logophiliacs, wordaholics, word fanatics, word nuts, logolepts, verbivores and, the even nobler, epeolatrists (worshipper of words).
May our tribe increase!
Starry, Starry Village
Last week, I was in interior Andhra Pradesh. We were felicitating high-performing Std. 10 students from government schools of villages in our project area.
All was routine, till they announced one of the winners as Keerthi Chawla. I wasn’t sure I had heard right. It was too North-Indian a name for a village in AP. So I asked again what the child’s name was, and she reiterated that it was Keerthi Chawla. And she was speaking Telugu. I asked her if she belonged to those parts or her family had moved there. She told me she was very much from Dosari village. And also told me her full name, which was Vangapudi Keerthi Chawla.
I couldn’t wait for the function to finish to catch hold of my colleagues to ask what this was about. They told me that the trend in Dosari village was to name children after film stars. That is not an unusual trend—we all know that many a Rajesh or Dilip or Aishwarya were named about the eponymous stars. What was unusual of course was the adoption of the name—lock, stock and surname!
We thought we should get a little more into it. A very quick count in the primary school and Bala Badi in the village threw up 81 children who were named after stars: from Trishas to Tamannas to Anushas (these ladies don’t use surnames, I think). From among those who do use surnames, we found apart from Keerthi Chawla, also a Vidya Balan. Among the boys there were Nageswar Raos, Ram Charans and Prabhas.
(I have met many a Jhansi, Jhansi Rani and Jhansi Lakshmi from AP/Telangana. Not sure why these names are so popular here.)
I thought mine was my Keerthi Chawla was the most exciting find. But I was deflated when my colleague told me that in her previous job, where they used to provide education support for children from Tamilnadu slums, they had one child called David Beckham (Muthu David Beckham).
With what dreams do parents name their children?
How we look up to the stars!
Do they know?
The Sounds of Silence
When we were children and started becoming overly excited or noisy, our aunt would say “OK time for Shantini Ramat!”(the game of silence). All we had to do was to close our eyes and stay still and silent. This was not in the form of a “fingers on lips” punishment, but rather always had the most calming effect. Even as young children it made us aware of the many sounds that even silence was made up of, and sensitized us to the power of Quiet.
Many years later, as environmental educators, one of the exercises we often did in our workshops, with teachers or children, was to ask everyone to close their eyes and sit silently for just 5 minutes. After that we would ask them what sounds they heard / how they felt. It was interesting to note that they found this hard to describe or pinpoint. They were so unused to distinguishing individual sounds—even if they were obvious and strident like the honking of horns, the rumble traffic, the hum of the fan; or less obvious like the chirping of birds or squirrels.
We all live in a continual clutter of noise. Most often our ears are so tuned out of the subtle sounds around us, we can hear only the loudest, glaringly harshest and strident noises. We no longer know what silence sounds like. In fact we are almost afraid of the Quiet. Yet there is much to hear in silence. Even amidst the clamour of urban life, there are sounds that we can hear if we really listen—the early morning call of the lone bird, the rustling of leaves in the breeze, the buzz of the bee, the plop plop of the first raindrops and the steady gush of a downpour.
There is magic in silence, in being quiet. There is great power, beauty and creativity in silence.
This is beautifully captured in The Book of Quiet, a wonderfully sensitive children’s book by Deborah Underwood. Each page, lovingly illustrated by Renata Liwska, is dedicated to a different Quiet moment, beginning with “first one awake Quiet” and ending with “sound asleep Quiet.”
Some excerpts
ALL KINDS OF QUIETITUDES
Best friends don’t need to talk Quiet (Comfortable)
Trying not to hiccup Quiet (Embarrassed)
Last one to get picked from school Quiet (Nervous)
Sleeping sister Quiet (Tender)
First look at new hairstyle Quiet (Shocked)
“Silence is itself the stuff of substance; the moments it fills are not the in-betweenery of life but life itself — rich and nuanced and irrepressibly, if quietly, alive.” (Maria Popova)
A Magical Walk
June 21, 2018 ~ millennialmatriarchs ~ 2 Comments
I remember it well—a mere 400 metre walk on our office campus in Ahmedabad. That day we were walking along the path that all of us took regularly; walking along with us was Professor HY Mohan Ram, a member of our Governing Council, who was there for the Council meeting. As we walked, Professor Mohan Ram talked—gently, softly, but with passion and excitement, pointing out plants that we saw every day, but, as we realised, we never really ‘looked at’.
“Look at this one”, he pointed at a plant, “this is Aduso. Its botanical name is Adhatoda vasika which means ‘that which the goat will not touch’. This is what is used for making medicines for cough and cold.” Going just two steps ahead, “You know the cactus, but did you know that there is not a single native cactus in the whole of Asia and Europe? All cactii are from the New World—Mexico, North America and South America.” ”Look at this magnificent neem tree. Its botanical name Azadirachta indica comes from the Arabic for azad meaning ‘free’ and drakhta meaning ‘tree’. This is thought to be a tree indigenous to India, but there is some doubt if it is originally Indian. It may have originated on the Burma border and come to Bangladesh from there.” “Did you know that Lutyens, when planning the landscaping of Delhi’s roads, planted only native species. Each avenue was planted with one species of fruit tree.” Three steps ahead, we come to the white flower commonly called Chandni. Professor tells us, “Have you noted carefully the arrangement of petals of flowers? Most flower petals are usually in multiples of 3 or 5 (except in the case of the mustard flower).” “Many high school students know this as the shoe flower that they got for dissection in the exams. But why the name shoe flower? Because it is used to polish shoes! Its other name is hibiscus, and is believed to have originated in China.”
Professor HYM had a fascinating story for every step that we took, drawing attention to the tiniest of flowers that we carelessly trampled underfoot, to the towering culms of bamboo. The path that took us 5-7 minutes to traverse became a magical mystery tour that took close to two hours. Through his eyes the blur of vegetation turned into a veritable treasure trove, with each plant glowing with its own special attributes.
Not long after this visit, Meena and I invited Professor HYM to contribute to a collection of tales of ‘Nature Heroes’ that we were putting together. He graciously agreed, and shared with us some of his journey, experiences and inspirations in a piece titled Reflections of a Botanist. He writes “I have not pursued any single course. I have done what interests me and not what is in style. I have a deep interest in Indian classical music and photography.”
He concludes the piece with this, “What enlightenment have I received as a student of plant biology? I wish I could be like a tree: deep-rooted and firmly fixed, bearing a lofty bole and a broad canopy, continuously absorbing, synthesizing and renewing, unmindful of stresses and insults, resilient to changes and perpetually giving.”
In the passing away of Professor HY Mohan Ram the world has lost not only a botanist par excellence, but a much loved and respected teacher, researcher, and writer. For us, the Matriarchs, Professor Mohan Ram will always be remembered as a gentle, unassuming guide with a twinkle in his eyes, and a life-long inspiration whose visits to the Centre were like the Open Sesame to a fascinating world of flora.
A page from my notes on the Walk! (Date 22 August 1998)
Sights That Make Me Smile As I Walk By
Our Indian cities don’t have much by way of street art. And what there is, looks typically municipality-commissioned.
Which is why i thought i should share a few examples of street art that ticks all the boxes of what this should be–creative, imaginative, quirky and brilliantly executed.
So I am going to let the pics speak for themselves!
A brilliant 2-level piece, partly on the compound wall, and partly on the building wall. (Note the line across the boy’s shoulder. Below that, is the the portion on the compound wall, and above on the building wall). Yelahanka, Bangalore.
Compound wall of a house. Yelahanka, Bangalore.
Discarded dish antenna. GMR Institute of Technology. Rajam, Andhra Pradesh.
My Crores vs. Your Millions
June 16, 2018 June 17, 2018 ~ millennialmatriarchs ~ 5 Comments
India gave the world Zero. So should we not be a bit more assertive in the matter of numbers?
I have grown up with lakhs and crores. And I have not heard that India has officially moved to millions and billions.
Why then does my newspaper headline inform me that 55 million Indians are pushed into poverty every year due to health spending? Isn’t it a sad enough fact for me to take in, without having to contend with doing mental callisthenics?
And an Indian research journal in which I hope to publish a paper also says that figures must be in millions and billions, not in good old familiar lakhs and crores.
Well, in the case of the research study, maybe it has been done in collaboration with American researchers? And in the second, maybe it is that the journal hopes for an international audience?
Whatever the reasons, when communicating to Indians, would it not make more sense to use familiar number-names? Is 55 million a lot? Or not so much? What proportion of the population is it? I can’t do these calculations early in the morning.
And writing numbers too! I write and relate to 10,00,000. Not 1,000,000. But will Excel allow me to? NO!
India, we hear has a lot of soft power (as well as software power). Can we not prevail upon companies making programs to have an ‘Indian number variation’, like there are options for UK and US spellings?
And even more important, can we in India—the media, academia et.al., use lakhs and crores? The Americans have proved that a country can get by in the comity of nations without switching to the metric system. Mine is a relatively small ask!
Just about fifteen years ago, as I lay in bed at night, I could hear the howling of jackals, the rhythmic beat of the distant train, hoots of owls, and the chorus of frogs after the first rains. I would waken to the call of the Sarus cranes, and the meowing cry of the Jacanas in the open ground across from my house.
Today I lie awake all night to the rattling, shattering clangour of the monstrous mechanical cranes and concrete mixers as they dig deep into the soil where the Sarus sang and Jacanas nested, and from where rise the gigantic metal skeletons of multi-storey towers. On the weekends I can no longer listen to the music that used to be a part of our evenings, over the incessant honking, beeping, screeching and yelling from the traffic jams outside my gate, as a noisy, rambunctious crowd heads for the ‘happening’ mall that looms in neon-lit glory, where once the buffalo wallowed and the froggies sang.
Our lives are so cluttered with noise, we do not know silence any more. We are almost afraid of the quiet. We get anxious if we are not continuously reassured by the hum, buzz or ringtone of our phone…Why no calls, no messages, no alerts?? Does nobody ‘like’ us anymore? We feel unmoored without the 24/7 din around us. Is there a moment in our day when we can hear simply silence?
On a visit to Bali last year I learned about Nyepi–the Day of Silence. This day falls (usually in March) on the day after the dark moon of the spring equinox when the day and night are of approximately equal duration. It marks the start of “Caka” year – Balinese New Year – which is celebrated over six days. The first two days are marked by parades, noise and revelry, and Nyepi falls on day 3. The observance of the Day of Silence is based on an ancient myth that, after the boisterous and active celebrations of day 1 and day 2, the Island goes into hiding to protect itself from the evil spirits, fooling them to believe that Bali, enveloped in an atmosphere of complete tranquility and peace, is a deserted Island.
The quietest day of the year is guided by the four precepts:
No fire or light, including no electricity.
No form of physical working other than that which is dedicated to spiritual cleansing and renewal.
No movement or traveling.
Fasting and no revelry/entertainment or general merrymaking.
Everyone stays indoors, engaged in fasting, prayer, meditation, reflection and introspection—erasing the clamour, and cleansing the body and spirit. What a wonderful tradition and even more, how wonderful that it is so well honoured and celebrated in spirit and deed, even today.
If only we could all disconnect from the din, and connect within.
STOP PRESS!
This year for Nyepi all phone companies on the island of Bali agreed to shut down the mobile internet for 24 hours. Imagine a day without internet, Facebook and Instagram and instant messaging apps! And this, on one of the world’s most popular and busy tourist destinations! Yes, they did it, and survived!
Skies open
Rains pour
Thunder rumbles
Lightning scores
But yes, it is beautiful, in a different way
rain plops
plink, plink
shiny drops
trees drink
squirrels scatter
flowers glisten
birds natter
i listen
Living Magic!
How can you not be cured by a medicine called Living Magic! That is what ‘Zinda Tilismat’, translates to! With a name like that, can you wonder that it claims to cure everything from colds to upset stomachs to toothaches, to ‘new’ ailments like swine flu and bird flu? (But no, I haven’t heard of its use in Nipah, I have to admit!)
The ‘wonder drug’ was formulated by Hakim Mohammed Moizuddin Farooqui, way back in 1920, and has been manufactured in the Zinda Tilismath Karkhana in Hyderabad since then. This Unani medicine is basically made from aromatic herbals—mainly eucalyptus, and also some camphor, menthol, thymol, etc. Amazingly, you can apply it externally or ingest it.
The pack seems to have been unchanged for all these 100 years too. It carries a picture of a spear-toting African. The reason, it seems, is that the founder was so impressed by the Siddhi guards of the Nizam that he thought that such a picture on his medicine would give it an association with strength and well-being.
I have no idea if there have been clinical trials on this medicine to substantiate any or all the claims. But can you argue with a sale of 1 crore vials every year?
And the romance of the name! I am ready to be cured of anything with this. And, to its credit, the ingredients cannot do me harm!
As a Hyderabadi for some years, I obviously knew of this magic potion. But as we do with things which are local, I didn’t bother to buy it or try it. Now that I have left Hyderabad and someone reminded me of ZT, I became obsessed with it! So I made some friends buy and send me some. Now I am waiting for some (minor) illness to strike me, so that I may be magically cured.
So I suppose my message is, everything is in a name! An invaluable lesson to product managers (I began my life as one), innovators, company founders, et.al.
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UK PM May: Keep talking to businesses as Brexit nears
PMN Elections
LONDON — Outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday told her top ministers to keep engaging with businesses over Brexit, and that firms expect her successor to keep up infrastructure investment and continue developing an industrial strategy.
“The PM noted the resilience of the economy despite the uncertainty of recent years and the importance for the government to keep engaging intensely with business as we approach and after we leave the European Union,” May’s spokeswoman said.
The comments came as May reported the findings of her meetings with different business groups in recent months, and just over a week before she hands over power to a new prime minister.
“She said there had been a common theme of messaging from businesses which included further investment in infrastructure outside London and the South East, and further support for the industrial strategy,” May’s spokeswoman said.
“Businesses expect these proposals to be reflected in future policy initiatives.”
Later on Tuesday, May is due to meet business leaders from the industrial, infrastructure and manufacturing sectors – one of five consultation groups she set up in November last year to try to improve relations with business over Brexit. (Reporting by William James, Editing by Kylie MacLellan)
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Aylan between faith and infidelity
Images of the two-year old Syrian child Aylan who washed ashore with his innocent face down in his red shirt shocked the whole world and prompted a human revolution all over Europe, Australia and North America, while Arabs, from the Ocean to the Gulf, did not shed a single tear even out of shyness.
Despite their newly-set strict immigration laws, lands of ‘infidelity’ opened wide and thousands of the non-believers went out carrying food, flowers and presents to receive swarms of Syrian refugees while carrying signs with welcoming phrases. Thousands of European houses, including those of prime ministers and senior officials, were opened to host them in scenes that Muslims have been always teaching their children about how the Ansar in Madinah received the Muslims fleeing Makkah. It is ironic how ‘infidels’ and ‘non-believers’ are now the ones receiving Muslims!
Through funds, weapons and their media, Many Arab countries have somehow contributed to the massacres committed in Syria under the name of religion, Arabism or even humanity, until it was completely destroyed and its poor people displaced in the wild. The luckiest of those refugees are the ones living in UNfunded refugee camps on the Lebanese and Jordanian borders. Meanwhile, the rest of the Arab countries have been directly supervising the civil war going on in Syria and hundreds of millions has been spent to fund it without even hosting a single Syrian family. Moreover, families of those officially and legally residing in those countries were banned from joining or temporarily visiting them. Hundreds were even deported.
Arab peoples have fought bitter, long wars to be liberated from European colonizers, drive them out of their countries and achieve their dreams of independence and Arab unity as promised by wealthy states. Thousands of martyrs have fallen in the course of reconstructing those countries according to new slogans of Arabism and progressiveness. But now, the sons of those freedom fighters and martyrs’ families are now flocking to colonial countries’ doorsteps seeking refuge from decapitation and having their women and children enslaved by tyrant regimes or terrorist gangs pretending to be Muslims and shouting Allahu Akbar!
Such images clearly show how many Arab peoples have been living in humiliation during the age of space and technology. Who is responsible for turning Arabs into ghouls and having infidels seem to have more faith? Why did Arabs turn into monsters while the West actually embodies our religion, the Holy Quran and ancestors’ teachings? To hell with all conspiracy theories! What conspiracy are we talking about when thousands of European soccer fans stand in mourning of the death of the child Aylan with tears clouding their eyes, while Arabs, who destroyed his village and displaced and drowned him, have not even shed a tear for the poor child, perhaps because this would be a form of heresy or perversity?!
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First CyberKnife® Full-Body Radiosurgery System in Manhattan Now Treating Patients
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY) announced today that the first CyberKnife® System in Manhattan is now treating patients at Winthrop University Hospital's NYCyberKnife Center. Winthrop's decision to install the latest generation CyberKnife M6™ System reinforces its growing reputation as a dedicated radiosurgery device that delivers extremely precise full-body treatments while maximizing patients' quality of life during and after treatment.
The CyberKnife M6 System's true robotic mobility enables it to deliver radiation beams from a wide range of angles around the body, precisely targeting tumors while avoiding healthy tissue. It can be used to treat tumors anywhere in the body, including the prostate, lung, brain, spine, liver, pancreas and kidney. The treatment - which delivers high doses of radiation to tumors with extreme accuracy - may offer hope to patients who have inoperable or surgically complex tumors, or who may prefer a clinically effective, non-surgical option.
The CyberKnife System's ability to automatically stay on target despite patient and tumor motion is what truly differentiates it from other forms of radiation therapy systems. It automatically follows the tumor throughout the treatment process, intelligently delivering radiation with sub-millimeter precision. This unique, dynamic motion compensation feature enables clinicians to precisely maximize dose, minimize side effects and maximize patient comfort.
Joshua H. Levine, president and chief executive officer of Accuray: "The CyberKnife System is a transformative innovation, changing the face of cancer treatment and enabling clinicians to help their patients live longer, better lives. We're honored that Winthrop selected our system and want to congratulate the team as they expand their significant clinical expertise to treating patients in Manhattan with the CyberKnife System."
Jonathan Haas, MD, chief, Division of Radiation Oncology at Winthrop-University Hospital: "The Winthrop team is excited to be the first center in Manhattan to offer patients requiring radiation therapy the option to receive treatment with the CyberKnife System. We saw the considerable benefits the system has provided to our patients in Mineola, so when considering alternatives for our new location, it was an easy choice. We selected the CyberKnife M6 System because it includes the features and precision of the previous model, with the potential to provide faster treatment times and expand access to more patients."
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Luminary cuts the price of its premium podcast plan to $5/month
Kris Holt
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Less than 12 months after its rocky debut, premium podcast service Luminary has lowered its subscription fee. It's down to $5 from $8 per month, while the company added a $35 annual plan.
The premium offering includes access to exclusive, ad-free podcasts from folks including Trevor Noah, Conan O'Brien, Hannibal Buress and Lena Dunham. You can also use Luminary's app as a regular podcast player for shows from elsewhere, which the company describes as the free version of its service.
Luminary, which hopes to become the "Netflix of podcasts," ran into some major issues right off the bat. Many big-name publishers pulled their shows from the free version of the service when it debuted in April. Spotify, PodcastOne and Barstool Sports were among those who stopped Luminary from using their shows, as did the team behind The Joe Rogan Experience, one of the most popular podcasts around.
There were other early controversies, including Luminary removing links from show notes on free-tier podcasts, depriving them of key money-making opportunities via sponsors and donation pages. Even now, Luminary's web player requires listeners to copy and paste show note URLs instead of letting them clicking on links.
Also, the method Luminary initially used to add other podcasts to its free tier was said to have given publishers incomplete or inaccurate data, which might have made selling ads more complicated for them. Luminary saw leadership shakeups last year too, including the hiring of a new CEO back in October.
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Schools Chancellor In Hot Water Over ‘Sophie’s Choice’ Comments
Joke On Subject Of Overcrowding Turns Into Controversy January 14, 2011 at 11:15 pm
Filed Under:Cathie Black, Marla Diamond, NYC Schools Chancellor, Overcrowded NYC schools, pablo guzman, Sean Hennessey, Sophie's Choice, Terry Sheridan
Cathie Black and Joel Klein during a news conference at City Hall in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)New NYC Schools Chancellor Cathie Black (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New York City Schools Chancellor Cathie Black opened up a can of worms on Thursday after joking about her solution for overcrowding in schools.
“Couldn’t we just have some birth control for a while?” Black mused. “It could really help us out a lot.”
There were chuckles from those attending the meeting, but some said her attempt at a joke was not funny.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14578484/2011/01/jan14-copy-of-1010-sheridan-black.mp3WCBS 880 Reporter Marla Diamond finds parents who are not happy with Cathie Black’s controversial comments.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14578484/2011/01/jan14-copy-of-1010-sheridan-black.mp31010 WINS Reporter Terry Sheridan gets reaction from parents to the “birth control” joke.
Now the chancellor is under fire, facing criticism from parents, reports CBS 2’s Pablo Guzman.
At a meeting Thursday night in Tribeca, Black compared the tough decisions on schools to a classic book set after the holocaust that was later made into a film starring Meryl Streep.
“So it is, and I don’t mean this in a flip way, it is many Sophie’s choices,’” Black said.
“As we know, in ‘Sophie’s Choice,’ one child dies, so I … you know … I was offended by it. I’m sure the people were,” parent Tricia Joyce said.
Tricia Joyce was at that meeting, called by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, to discuss overcrowding in the schools. There were about 40 people in the room. Joyce has children who attend P.S. 234 in Tribeca. Those at the meeting also heard the new schools chancellor make the joke — after a parent who is also an NYU professor detailed the growing number of schoolchildren over the next few years.
“There are jokes that make sense, and jokes that insult and this joke is an insult to us,” parent Nubayaro Fulani told CBS 2’s Sean Hennessey.
“I was surprised and a little disappointed,” added parent Eric Greenleaf, who was sitting across from Black. “I don’t really think she meant that the solution is birth control.”
But Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron said the comment was aimed at minorities.
“It’s ignorant, outrageous, and it’s racist. It has racist connotations to it – 80 percent of the children in the school are back and Latino,” Barron said.
The Department of Education released the following statement: “Chancellor Black takes the issue of overcrowding very seriously. She regrets if she left a different impression by making an off-handed joke in the course of that conversation.”
“It’s actually … out of context. You know if she was nervous it’s not an unusual thing to have said, given the news she had just been delivering. Was it in good taste? In my opinion, no,” Joyce said.
The people that Guzman talked to want to give Chancellor Black a chance. They said they’re hoping this was just a misstep, and not typical of what they could expect in the years to come.
The statement released by Department of Education came only after persistent requests from the media. At first, all the DOE said was: “no comment.”
Question of the Day says:
If you had to hand over Mayor Bloomberg or Cathie Black to the Nazis which one would you choose??
Sophies Regret says:
Having neither the requisite three years of teaching experience, a master’s degree nor a professional degree in educational management, Black required a waiver from the New York State Education Department under Education Commissioner David M. Steiner.”
WHY IS THIS WOMAN EVEN IN THIS POSITION PRAY TELL?
sendkenzie says:
I think Bloomberg’s choice should be to sacrifice her….to remove her from her position.
No class. No style. No knowledge. No kidding
No style. No taste. No class. No knowledge.
Elizabeth Carson says:
There was absolutely nothing wrong with either of Cathie Black’s comments, if taken in context. She made a light humorous comment in regard to the topic of school overcrowding at the top of a meeting in mentioning birth control.It was certainly not forwarded as a real solution. Lighten up New York!! Her reference to Sofie’s Choice actually demonstrate a heartfelt care and astute recognition that budget decisions are zero sum: funding to remedy one district’s overcrowding, can mean at the cost of remedy to another, and so require hard, painful choices, sometimes helping one set of children is at the expense of others. Yet privileged downtown Manhattan parents complaining about overcrowding in THEIR schools would choose to have us conclude Black’s comments prove she lacks sensitivity! The high drama and vitriol Bloomberg’s critics have stored up to spew at our new Chancellor at any moment is the real embarrassment in this story
Tricia Joyce says:
Elizabeth I wanted to respond to you as I was at this meeting; you were able to see that her remarks were taken out of context which they were in some cases by the media. But what was worrisome about your post was your reference “privileged downtown parents”. It would be important for you to know, and to anyone else that has this opinion, that our situation downtown is not like any other in the city. This is not just a gripe session about the usual DoE shortcomings; seat shortages, class sizes, old schools, poor facilities, program shortages. These are also our gripes along with the rest of the city’s.
What is different about downtown is that the city, in 2002, gave enormous tax breaks (yours and our money) for developers to develop downtown post 9/11 to try and revitilize it after we were decimated. The building was targeted at families, promising them a “new community” with schools, parks and other infrastructure. They granted permits for almost 14,000 new apartments and built them. But without planning ONE school. That is the size of dozens of suburban neighborhoods, its unconscionable. We aren’t short 50 or 150 seats short as we are seeing elsewhere in the city. We are short over 1000. 37% of our neighborhood will have to leave if the DoE cannot provided the schools and other infrastructure that is needed. The families down here are no more privileged than anywhere else in Manhattan. They came in good faith just like you and all of the families of New York; except in an intentional mass, driven by the city.
So you see this is no small thing. Its a precedent for ALL of New York in terms of how we go forward as a city. The mayor has to decide whether or not it’s tenable to continue residential development if they cannot provide the school seats for the people who fill them. The birth control remark is offensive because the city is the one who drew the people here, and the people had children at no different s rate than anywhere else. Its just that 14,000 families will eventually have some kids.
The fact that she would even think this is funny or that she would say it proves how far removed she is from the reality of those whose schools she would run. Send her back to whatever corporate hole she came from.
Ron, I totally agree there isn’t anything “light or humorous” about her comment. As Elizabeth says. Less is the comment by Bloomberg to insinuate that comments like this are merely blunders excusable by getting acclimated from the private sector to the public sector. Think before you talk. Offensive remarks are unacceptable in any professional setting. I grew up in the city through very difficult and challenging times, and still over came many barriers to get the best public education I could. the education system still has long strides ahead, birth control Chancellor Black, and Bloomberg what right do you have. Control your mouth not our bodies.
Let abort Cathie Black and get a new school chancellor
Theresa Clarke says:
Cathie Black is right — with a 39% abortion rate in NYC (figure just out), birth control is needed more so now than ever before. Does every comment this woman make need to be a starting point for scandal? I can’t even imagine how hard it much be for her in this job with nothing but adversaries.
You do realize that a 39% abortion rate means a much lower birth rate is already here?? If Ms. Black was qualified for this position, she too would realize her remark was inappropriate. By the way, Tribeca is one of the wealthiest areas in Manhattan.
With a 39% abortion rate in NYC not sure why the schools would be over crowded….have those kids should be dead
Then she shouldn’t have taken the job……she obviously believes she going to run our schools in laughter.
Not only is Black’s comment tasteless, but it’s quite racist — unconsciously so — which makes it even more problematic.
In her position any lighthearted comment will be examined with the most serious of scrutiny and then exploited by many. She may be a terrible in her new job or great (Bloomberg didn’t make his billons by not knowing a thing or two about administration) but so far – so far – I would give her a pass on this one.
Bad Choice says:
Bad choice of words in the wrong place and at the wrong moment….. She obviously made a stupid joke, without thinking of the consequences. But in the very, very back of her mind she must have been thinking about it, seriously.
bush says:
she is one foxy mama!
whiteandproud says:
there was nothing wrong with what she said, perhaps if people did in fact use birth control there wouldnt be so much overcrowding………………AND STOP PLAYING THE RACE CARD!!! it doesnt apply here!!!
TborSen says:
As much as your post is offensive to me, as you clearly don’t understand the situation downtown to make such an absurd remark, there actually is no race card to play here. Charles Barron was incorrect. Our school is not 80 percent black and Latino. Overcrowding does not discriminate. In fact, at the moment, overcrowding is more prominent in non black and hispanic schools, fyi…
Gregg says:
Agree Agree Agree ! So tired of hearing the Race Card being pulled !
Big Poppa says:
I agree whiteandproud if your daddy had used a condom there wouldnt be so many stupid comments on this board
Larry Schwarz says:
A poor choice of words,but I really dont think she meant any harm.She should apologize,call it a misunderstanding,and lets move on.
Hot Blooded says:
Nothing wrong with trying to “Break The Ice” with a little joke at a tense meeting, but because she is “under the microscope” so to speak, she should have kept it serious.
Uncle Kermit says:
She looks so much like Michael Bloomberg. I think that’s why he likes her so much.
Spider Man says:
She does!!….they look like they were both born from the same reptilian egg!!
I love how the libturd media here censors anything that would lessen their voting base of imbeciles.
Abortion is good. Especially when it aborts my highly extortionate taxes.
DanTe,
I hate to break this to you but without the families of Manhattan you would not enjoy half of the things you have here.. oh and about the taxes? You agreed to finance the building of all of these homes nobody needed where all of these families came to live by voting for Bloomberg. The taxes of a million single people have no weight against the taxes of families, so you’d best not wish them away or you will be in 1972 again. if you are too young to remember, google Hugh Carey.
Raz says:
Have another you senseless drunk.
Stone sober Raz
Abortion would have been even better had it been your mother’s choice Dan.
Su Ellen Silverman says:
Really, can this woman ever open her mouth, without inserting her foot?
pogo the clown says:
Proof positive that money cannot buy class or intelligence.
David11238 says:
Afterward, she told a news reporter she could see Syosset from her house.
Just bad taste on her part. I’m sure a lot of people think that too. Brothers and Sisters move out to Hew HYde Park, Merrick, Floral Park to shut those UNION bigots up.
TiredTeacher says:
What does the union have to do with the dumb comments out of this woman’s mouth? The union didn’t support a publisher with a bachelor’s degree being appointed to the position of chancellor when teachers must have at least a bachelor’s + 30 credits or a master’s degree.
voiceofreason says:
Define a brother or a sister for me please. Last time i checked we are all part of the same family of humans. Sounds like you are the bigot.
Very silly statement. She was in a TRIBECA meeting, with parents who are not only NYU professors, as noted, but brokers, lawyers, and doctors. This is Wall St. and Battery Park City, where people not only use birth control but have designer children. RACE IS NOT AN ISSUE in Tribeca. It does say that even when facing a wealthy, well-educated audiece of parents, Ms. Black is off-handedly contemptuous. What will she say to working-poor parents of all spectrums?? By the way, when is the school going to open in the Frank Gehry building on Spruce St.? It was supposed to open in 2009.
That is a bigoted statement. Ask her why her priveliged children are not in public school when shes to represent the department of education.
Steve C. says:
And so it begins. It’s just the start folks. We’ve got a real prize running our educational ship.
WHITE TR#### was one of the words they censored when put together with another color word.
Spoiled yapping dog says:
If the last few days showed us how quick ms Black is on her feet in term of warming up the crowd, we are in for a world of hurt. Cathie Black is in this for squeezing $$$ out of the Board of Ed by any means necessary. Acting on the rationale that whose “worthy enough” of quality education have already left the public sphere. Those that remain are either too poor or too undisciplined to leave. She intends to make those remaining fight tooth and nail with each other for what few quality slots in the good schools that remain. The that don’t make the cut will either have make do with substandard service or will drop out all together, which in some circles will be deemed a good thing.
Bottom line: a decent education will no longer be a right, but a privledge. And a pricy one at that.
Dude Here says:
This woman had no educational experience before this job it is a outrage why she was chosen,jus caue bloomjerk liked her. There was far more qualified people than her who have many years of education background.
this lady is an idiot
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Job Cohen
NS WWII compensation must include resistance fighters, interest group says
Aug 1 '19 08:12
PoliticsTop Stories
The compensation arrangement NS made for victims of the Holocaust and their relatives should also apply to resistance fighters, according to association Children of Resistance Participants 1940-45. NS is using double standards and "forgot" the families of Dutch resistance fighters, chairman Henk Mreijen said to the Telegraaf.
Dutch railway to pay tens of millions to Holocaust survivors, families
Jun 26 '19 17:45
Dutch national railway NS plans to pay reparations to thousands of Holocaust survivors, their widows, and their children. The decision regards people who were transported by the NS to extermination camps, for which the company earned an estimated 2.5 million euros, adjusted for inflation.
King, politicians, Ajax, police react to Amsterdam mayor's death
Oct 6 '17 11:04
PoliticsHealth
"Amsterdam is crying for its beloved mayor and all of the Netherlands is grieving", Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Facebook in reaction to the death of Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan. He passed away on Thursday at the age of 62. The Dutch King and Queen, numerous politicians, the Amsterdam police, and Amsterdam's football team Ajax all responded to news of his death with shock and sadness.
Amsterdam to back Mayor Van der Laan for second term
Mar 30 '16 16:10
The city council of Amsterdam is set to give its formal recommendation in favor of keeping the city’s mayor, Eberhard van der Laan, in office for a new six-year term. The decision will be announced at the beginning of a council meeting on Wednesday, according to Het Parool.
Wife of fmr. Amsterdam mayor dies after MS battle
Lidie Cohen, the wife of former Amsterdam mayor and Labour leader Job Cohen, died on Tuesday. She was 67-years-old.
ISIS a "Zionist plot" tweet not enough to fire Justice official
The Justice official who tweeted that terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS) is a "Zionist plot", can not be dismissed. Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher (Social Affairs) made premature remarks about the tweeting official and thereby "disturbed" the labor relations.
Ex-A'dam mayor now Leiden prof.
Job Cohen, former mayor of Amsterdam, and former Labour-leader, was appointed Professor by special appointment at the Faculty of Law at the University of Leiden.
PvdA, PVV lose big, D66, SP on top
Municipal councils throughout the country got an extreme makeover at the local elections Wednesday. The CDA is still the biggest party, but the PvdA and the VVD have had to swallow big losses as they saw their leading positions slip away in many places.
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PACAP centrally mediates emotional stress-induced corticosterone responses in mice - Journal Club by Shilpa
Shilpa Gangatkar (2nd year PhD Scholar) discussed the paper "PACAP centrally mediates emotional stress-induced corticosterone responses in mice" by N. Tsukiyama et al from Stress, July 2011.
Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is a pleiotropic neuropeptide widely distributed in the nervous system. Recently, PACAP was shown to be involved in restraint stress-induced corticosterone release and concomitant expression of the genes involved in hypothalamic – pituitary – adrenal (HPA) axis activation. Therefore, in this study, we have addressed the types of stressors and the levels of the HPA axis in which PACAP signaling is involved using mice lacking PACAP (- /-). Among four different types of stressors, open-field exposure, cold exposure, ether inhalation, and restraint, the corticosterone response to open-field exposure and restraint, which are categorized as emotional stressors, but not the other two, was markedly attenuated in PACAP (- /-)
mice. Peripheral administration of corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) or adrenocorticotropic hormone induced corticosterone increase similarly in PACAP (- /-) and wild-type mice.
In addition, the restraint stress-induced c-Fos expression was significantly decreased in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) and medial amygdala (MeA), but not the medial prefrontal cortex, in PACAP (- /-) mice. In the PVN of PACAP (- /-) mice, the stress-induced c-Fos expression was blunted in the CRF neurons. These results suggest that PACAP is critically involved in activation of the MeA and PVN CRF neurons to centrally regulate the HPA axis response to emotional stressors.
Keywords: Corticosterone, hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus, hypothalamic – pituitary – adrenal axis, medial amygdala, PACAP, stress
The Journal club provoked much discussion and interaction considering why PACAP should be considered as a key factor at all. Some of the immunofluorescence staining and immunohistochemistry results seemed contentious. The classification of open-field and restraint stress as emotional stressors, ether inhalation(for 90 seconds) as a physical stressor and cold exposure (4 degree Celsius) as a metabolic stressor was new and somewhat surprising. Shilpa handled the many questions that were posed about the paper and also provided a detailed critique of several of the discussion items as they seem to contradict findings in multiple papers.
Is LTP = Memory? Concept Seminar by Bhagya
Dr. V Bhagya (Senior Research Associate) presented the first concept seminar of the year on the topic "Is LTP = Memory?"
She started with a detailed overview of LTP formation, she narrowed down to LTP in NMDA receptors in CA1 region of the hippocampus. She discussed several early papers starting with the Morris water maze test in 1984 that supported the hypothesis that learning and memory could indeed be directly correlated to LTP. These papers demonstrated that blocking of NMDAR or some of its subunits (NR2B) lead to learning impairment.
She then discussed several later papers that show that there is no direct correlation. For example, severe early life stress (24 hour maternal separation in neonatal rodents) hampers learning and neurogenesis but improves hippocampal plasticity under high stress for adults. LTP is also seen in other areas (eg: addiction to cocaine, nicotine causes LTP in the VTA).
The current status of research seems to indicate that LTP is perhaps necessary but not sufficient in the memory formation and retrieval processes.
The seminar provoked plenty of lively interactions - some hypothetical questions, some comments targeted to the topic and on the various experimental approaches taken up in the papers.
"Does the brain prefer oscillatory stimuli or LTP type of stereotyped inputs?",
"Interpretation of data based on Gene knockouts needs to be done with care as there is significant impact on aspects of functioning other than the one under study."
"Isn't focus on NMDA too simplistic as it is involved in many other activities for normal functioning?"
"What about learning aspects outside the hippocampus - involving the cortices?"
Overall, great coverage of the topic and a stimulating debate on its different aspects.
PhD Defense - S Dayalan
Dayalan defended his PhD work on "Neural Correlates of behavioral alterations in fear learning and memory following early maternal separation in rats" on 18th Aug 2011.
Guide: Laxmi T Rao (NIMHANS)
Co-Guides: Prof. Bindu M Kutty (NIMHANS)
Prof. Sumantra Chattarji (NCBS)
Best wishes to Christofer
Christofer Thomas (4th year PhD scholar) and Reni got married on 20th Aug.
NPhy wishes them a happy married life!
Photos on the NPhy flickr site.
Journal Club by Pradeep Mishra
Pradeep Mishra (1st year PhD Scholar) presented his journal club on 20th Aug on "Loss of activity-induced phosphorylation of MeCP2 enhances synaptogenesis, LTP and spatial memory" by Hongda Li et al, Nature Neuroscience (August 2011), Vol. 14,Pg: 1001–1008.
DNA methylation–dependent epigenetic mechanisms underlie the development and function of the mammalian brain. MeCP2 is highly expressed in neurons and functions as a molecular linker between DNA methylation, chromatin remodeling and transcription regulation. Previous in vitro studies have shown that neuronal activity–induced phosphorylation (NAIP) of methyl CpG–binding protein 2 (MeCP2) precedes its release from the Bdnf promoter and the ensuing Bdnf transcription. However, the in vivo function of this phosphorylation event remains elusive. We generated knock-in mice that lack NAIP of MeCP2 and found that they performed better in hippocampus-dependent memory tests, presented enhanced long-term potentiation at two synapses in the hippocampus and showed increased excitatory synaptogenesis. At the molecular level, the phospho-mutant MeCP2 protein bound more tightly to several MeCP2 target gene promoters and altered the expression of these genes. Our results suggest that NAIP of MeCP2 is required for modulating dynamic functions of the adult mouse brain.
Change of guard - Dr. Bindu takes over as Head of Department from Dr. Raju
Aug 16, 2011 was a special day in history for nphy nimhans. Prof. TR Raju formally handed over the charge of Head of Department of Neurophysiology to Prof. Bindu M Kutty after having served in the position for 19 years.
Prof. Raju had taken over charge as Head of Department from the late Prof. Desiraju, founder and Head of department of Neurophysiology from 1975-1992. Dr. Desiraju was a visionary who conceptualized the department and built up each of the labs from scratch to efficient functioning.
Under some extraordinary circumstances, Dr. Raju stepped up to the plate as a young professor to become head of department. He went on to recruit the faculty, modernize the department and add breadth and depth to the research activities. As Dr. Bindu mentioned in her talk, he has been the "the voice of the department". He has, until recently, served as Dean for the "Basic Sciences" wing of NIMHANS.
Dr. Raju has been recognized for his significant contributions and promoted to the post of "Senior Professor". He continues to be a guiding light and mentor for the department.
Dr. Bindu is one of the earliest students of Nphy Nimhans and was mentored by Dr. Desiraju. She completed her MPhil in 1985 being the second student to be awarded the MPhil degree. She earned her PhD also from the department and continued on to serve as faculty.
We wish Prof. Bindu the very best in her new role as Head of Department.
Housewarming - Dr TN Sathyaprabha
Dr TN Sathyaprabha, Additional Professor Neurophysiology and In charge of Autonomic lab, invited all staff and students for the housewarming ceremony for her new home "Brindavana" on 11th Aug 2011 and prayers on 12th Aug.
Photos are on the nphy flickr site.
Event Related Activity and Psychomotor vigilance during Sleep deprivation - Journal Club by Nirmala
Nirmala M (3rd year PhD scholar) took up a paper from Journal of Sleep Research "Event related activity and phase locking during a psychomotor vigilance task over the course of sleep deprivation" for her Journal club on 6th August.
The paper explored the effects of 24 hour sleep deprivation using the Karolinska sleepiness scale, event related activity and phase locking during psychomotor vigilance tasks using visual stimuli. The measurements were taken on an hourly basis throughout the night. The subjects were monitored using actimetry for 3 days prior to the study.
Current Therapies to treat Epilepsy - Seminar by Vrinda M
Vrinda M (2nd year PhD Scholar) presented her seminar on "Current Therapies to treat Epilepsy". She started with an overview of epilepsy and symptoms and a broad coverage of pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to treatment and prophylaxis over the years. Epilepsy has a 1% prevalence rate.
While modern pharmacological treatment of epilepsy began as early as 1860 and several broad spectrum drugs were used until 1980, a host of Anti Epileptic Drugs have been developed post 1980 that have targeted actions on epileptogenesis (eg: Na+, Ca++ channels) or act as anticonvulsants. These have fewer side effects as well.
About 30% of cases are pharmacoresistant and need non-pharmacological interventions such as surgery, vagal nerve stimulation, deep brain stimulation, diet, EEG biofeedback, meditation, exercise, enriched environments, gene therapy etc. Each approach has some benefits and side effects and at times be contra-indicated for a specific case.
Overall, a comprehensive seminar that was well appreciated by faculty and students.
Wolfgang Löscher (2002) Current status and future directions in the pharmacotherapy of epilepsy, TRENDS in Pharmacological Sciences Vol.23 No.3.
Cameron C. McIntyre et.al. (2004) Uncovering the mechanism(s) of action of deep brain stimulation: activation, inhibition, or both, Clinical Neurophysiology 115, 1239–1248.
Alan R. Gaby (2007)Natural Approaches to treat Epilepsy, Alternative Medicine Review Volume 12, No. 1
Ricardo M. Arida (2009) Physical exercise in epilepsy: What kind of stressor is it? Epilepsy & Behavior 16 381–387.
Ricardo Mario Arida (2009) Is physical activity beneficial for recovery in temporal lobe epilepsy? Evidences from animal studies, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 33, 422–431.
Meir Bialer et al., (2010) Key factors in the discovery and development of new antiepileptic drugs, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, volume, 69.
Michael A. Rogawski (2004) The neurobiology of antiepileptic drugs, NATURE REVIEWS | NEUROSCIENCE volume 5, 553.
Simon D Shorvon (2005) Handbook of epilepsy treatment, 2nd edition.
Véronique Riban (2009) Gene therapy in epilepsy, Epilepsia. January ; 50(1): 24–32
Dr Phalguni's Housewarming
Most of us from the department were able to join in the celebrations for Dr. Phalguni Anand Alladi's new home. Some snaps posted on the our flickr site under the people set.
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Free Shirt w/ GoFundme Donation ($50 minimum)
Nede Resorts and Transitions Community Organization Inc
I Support Nede Shop
Pronounced "Knee-Day"
Nede Resorts & Transitions Community Org is dedicated to education, preservation, and sustainability
Welcome to Nede Resorts and Transitions Community Organization(NRATCO): Shelter and Education Center
Nede Resorts and Transitions Community Organization offers an opportunity for an individual or families to change their future by giving them the education, self-discipline, leadership, and responsibility within a New Urbanism Community designed to cater to their needs not offered in their current environment.
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. Mother Teresa
There are about 3.5 million people that are homeless in the United States. The number is expected to keep rising, and there are not enough homeless shelters to help house these people. The population of the homeless, victims of substance abuse, domestic violence victims, military veterans, and previously incarcerated individuals has remained the same over the past five years. As a result of this, the demand for the services in this industry is still high. The United States still has a lot of need for the services for these individuals. Therefore, this will lead to further growth of the revenue in the industry.
Considering this case, the purpose of NRATCO is to develop a community and safe environment to evaluate the feasibility of the business, focused on the homeless, victims of substance abuse, domestic violence, and previously incarcerated individuals introduced back into society.
The NRATCO is committed to being a steward for the environment and engages in sustainable practices when it comes to maintenance, janitorial work, new construction, and renovations. For the NRATCO community, “going green” accomplishes the following:
Projected Project Vitals Name: Nede Resorts and Transitions Community Organization(NRATCO): Shelter and Education Center (Nede Principle location and School)
Projected Donors: Government Grants, Crowdfunding, Other Charitable Organizations and Individual Contributors (Kickstarter and GoFundme)
Gift Amount Needed: $1,000,000. 100% to the design and construction costs and to support programming activities
Property Location: (Currently looking at vacant land in Atlanta and Ellenwood, Georgia or Henry, Rockdale, Dekalb and Newton Counties Georgia.)
Intended Use of Land Acquired: Trade Specific Education (Alternative Energy, Agriculture, Sustainability, Solar Power, Science, Physics, Construction and New Urban Development, etc.)
Safe Shelter
Alternative Energy Source
2 Apartment Style - Modern Micro Dwelling Spaces
Outdoor Learning Spaces
Aquaponics/Hydroponic Gardens and Streams (attached to Education Facility)
Honeybee Apiary
Substantial completion end 2020
Full occupation (classes begin) January 2021
Certification 2021 (or after at least 12 months of consecutive performance after full occupation)
Drafter: Wiggins Design
Builder: TBD
Contributing teams: TBD
What is my Return on Investment?
All funds raised during this nonprofit crowdfunding fundraiser are tax-deductible and will be used to build the Nede Resorts and Transitions Community Organization Shelter and Education Center in Atlanta, GA.
What benefits does the NRATCO Shelter and Education Center provide for the community at large?
Provides a lower cost alternative to existing failed programs.
Implemented in phases
Repeat crime reduction, and alternative to the high financial and social cost of prison
Not in anybody's back yard. Thoroughly addresses the NIMBY issue.
Provides a permanent solution for the chronically adult homeless which is not being addressed or serviced locally, while providing a place for the adult homeless to work their way back into the broader community.
Located in a remote, undeveloped area which will have the least impact on existing communities.
Creates desired “campus” of centrally located services.
Hierarchy system which separates drug and alcohol users from the clean and sober.
Provides various work opportunities and screened labor force.
Provides a model for other areas to solve their own homeless problem.
Projected Budget
Copyright © 2019 Nede Resorts & Transitions Community Organization Inc (NRATCO), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (Federal Tax ID: 83-3408064). All rights reserved.
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Swallowing function and medical diagnoses in infants suspected of Dysphagia.
L. A. Newman, C. Keckley, Mario Petersen, A. Hamner
OBJECTIVE: There has been an increase in infant swallowing disorders as a result of improved survival for infants born prematurely or with life-threatening medical disorders. These infants often have multiple health issues and an increased risk of respiratory complications. However, there is little understanding of the biomechanics of infant swallowing disorders. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to determine 1) the percentage of dysphagic infants who experience laryngeal penetration, aspiration, or nasopharyngeal backflow; 2) reasons for laryngeal penetration/aspiration; 3) whether infants with laryngeal penetration/aspiration clear their airway; and 4) the relationship between swallowing disorders and medical diagnoses. METHODS: Patients included 43 infants who were referred for videofluoroscopic swallowing studies in a university-affiliated pediatric medical center. Medical charts were reviewed. The videofluoroscopic swallowing studies were recorded on videotape, and each swallow was analyzed for laryngeal penetration, aspiration, nasopharyngeal backflow, cough, airway clearance, and reason for penetration/aspiration. Statistics included chi2 for nonparametric data and measures of central tendency for numeric/timing data. RESULTS: More than half of the infants experienced laryngeal penetration, aspiration, or nasopharyngeal backflow; however, the first occurrence of these events was after multiple swallows. Only 3 infants experienced laryngeal penetration and aspiration on the first swallow and all 3 had an absent pharyngeal response. Premature infants experienced significantly more nasopharyngeal backflow. Material in the pyriform sinuses before pharyngeal swallowing was associated with penetration/aspiration. In episodes of laryngeal penetration, all patients were able to clear their airway during the swallow without a cough. Almost all infants (8 of 9) who aspirated did not cough or clear their airway. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated that most infants suspected of dysphagia showed overt abnormalities: laryngeal penetration, aspiration, and/or nasopharyngeal backflow on the videofluoroscopic swallowing study. Most of these infants did not demonstrate abnormalities in the first few swallows but displayed deterioration in swallowing function as they continued to feed. Thus, radiographic assessments in infants must examine multiple swallows. The high incidence of silent aspiration demonstrates the necessity of a videofluoroscopic assessment to evaluate swallowing function in these infants.
Deglutition
Pyriform Sinus
Videotape Recording
Premature Infants
Newman, L. A., Keckley, C., Petersen, M., & Hamner, A. (2001). Swallowing function and medical diagnoses in infants suspected of Dysphagia. Pediatrics, 108(6).
Swallowing function and medical diagnoses in infants suspected of Dysphagia. / Newman, L. A.; Keckley, C.; Petersen, Mario; Hamner, A.
In: Pediatrics, Vol. 108, No. 6, 12.2001.
Newman, LA, Keckley, C, Petersen, M & Hamner, A 2001, 'Swallowing function and medical diagnoses in infants suspected of Dysphagia.', Pediatrics, vol. 108, no. 6.
Newman LA, Keckley C, Petersen M, Hamner A. Swallowing function and medical diagnoses in infants suspected of Dysphagia. Pediatrics. 2001 Dec;108(6).
Newman, L. A. ; Keckley, C. ; Petersen, Mario ; Hamner, A. / Swallowing function and medical diagnoses in infants suspected of Dysphagia. In: Pediatrics. 2001 ; Vol. 108, No. 6.
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Old Harlow Health Centre
Jenner House
Garden Terrace Road
Essex, CM17 0AX
Repeat Dispensing Scheme
Dr Carolyn Smalley retired from the Practice on 30th September 2019 and Dr Dmitri Jegorov is her replacement.
Change to service: As from 7th August 2019, it has been agreed that the reception staff should ask patients 'why they need to be seen'. Reception staff are trained to ask certain questions in order to ensure that you receive:
The most appropriate medical care, from the most appropriate health professional, at the the most appropriate time.
Children's Immunisation Schedule
Here's a checklist of the vaccines that are routinely offered to everyone in the UK for free on the NHS, and the age at which you should ideally have them.
Routine childhood immunisations
When to immunise
Diseases protected against
Vaccine given
Site**
Two months old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) DTaP/IPV/Hib (Pediacel) Thigh
Pneumococcal disease PCV (Prevenar 13) Thigh
Rotavirus Rotavirus (Rotarix) By mouth
Meningococcal group B (MenB) MenB Left thigh
Three months old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Hib DTaP/IPV/Hib (Pediacel) Thigh
Meningococcal group C disease (MenC) Men C (NeisVac-C or Menjugate) Thigh
Four months old Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Hib DTaP/IPV/Hib (Pediacel) Thigh
Meningococcal group B (MenB) Men B Left thigh
One year old Hib/MenC Hib/MenC (Menitorix) Upper arm/thigh
Pneumococcal disease PCV (Prevenar 13) Upper arm/thigh
Measles, mumpsand rubella (German measles) MMR(Priorix or MMR VaxPRO) Upper arm/thigh
MenB MenB booster Left thigh
Two to six years old
(including children in
school years 1 and 2) Influenza (each year from September) Live attenuated influenza
vaccine LAIV4 Both nostrils
Three years four months old or soon after Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and polio dTaP/IPV (Repevax) or DTaP/IPV(Infanrix-IPV) Upper arm
Measles, mumpsand rubella MMR (Priorix or MMR VaxPRO)(check first dose has been given) Upper arm
** Where two or more injections are required at once, these should ideally be given in different limbs. Where this is not possible, injections in the same limb should be given 2.5cm apart.
Immunisations for at-risk children
Target Group Age & Schedule Disease Vaccines required
Babies born to hepatitis B infected
mothers At birth, four weeks, eight weeks
and Boost at one year1 Hepatitis B Hepatitis B vaccine
(Engerix B / HBvaxPRO)
Infants in areas of the country with
TB incidence >= 40/100,000
At birth Tuberculosis BCG
Infants with a parent or grandparent
born in a high incidence country At birth Tuberculosis BCG
There is a good guide on the NHS website which describes various conditions affecting children. There is advice on how to diagnose them, how to treat them and if further advice should be consulted.
NHS childhood illness slideshow
When Should I Worry?
Having an ill child can be a very scary experience for parents. If you understand more about the illness it can help you to feel more in control. This booklet is for parents (and older children) and deals with common infections in children who are normally healthy.
Download the booklet
See the NHS Conditions and Treatments browser for an in-depth description of many common health issues.
These links all come from trusted resources but if you are unsure about these or any other medical matters please contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice
Girls aged 12 to 13 years old Cervical cancer caused by human papillomavirus types 16 and 18 (and genital warts caused by types 6 and 11) HPV (two doses 6-12 months) Upper arm
14 years old (school year 9) Tetanus, diphtheria and polio Td/IPV (Revaxis), and check MMR status Upper arm
Meningococcal groups A, C, W
and Y disease MenACWY Upper arm
The Meningitis C vaccination will be introduced during the 2013/14 academic year and the vaccine supplied will depend on the brands available at the time of ordering
Most symptoms of a fever in young children can be managed at home with infant paracetamol. If the fever is very high, they may have an infection that needs treating with antibiotics.
Bupa - more about childhood fevers
NHS Choices - what temperature is a fever?
Head lice are insects that live on the scalp and neck. They may make your head feel itchy. Although head lice may be embarrassing and sometimes uncomfortable, they don't usually cause illness. However, they won't clear up on their own and you need to treat them promptly
Head Lice Factsheet
Nosebleeds (also known as epistaxis) are fairly common, especially in children, and can generally be easily treated.
NHS Conditions and Treatments
Five health symptoms men should not ignore:
"British men are paying the price for neglecting their health: more than 100,000 men a year die prematurely.
On average, men go to their GP half as often as women. It's important to be aware of changes to your health, and to see your GP immediately if you notice something that's not right." Find out more
Each year about 36,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with prostate cancer, making it the most common cancer in men. It mainly affects men aged over 50.
difficulty in starting to pass urine
a weak, sometimes intermittent flow of urine
dribbling of urine before and after urinating
a frequent or urgent need to pass urine
rarely, blood in your urine or semen and pain when passing urine
These symptoms aren't always caused by prostate cancer but if you have them, see your GP.
Find out more about the symptoms, causes and diagnosis of prostate cancer by using the resources below.
BUPA - Prostate Cancer
NHS - Prostate Cancer
Testicular cancer, though the most common cancer in young men, it is still quite rare. With 2000 new cases being diagnosed each year, this makes it the biggest cause of cancer related death in 15 - 35-year-old males. It accounts for around 70 deaths a year within the UK alone.
What to Look Out For
The most common symptom of testicular cancer is swelling or a pea-sized lump in one of the testes (balls). There is no current screening test therefore it is important that you look out for the following signs and symptoms.
A dull ache, or sharp pain, in your testicles, or scrotum, which may come and go
A feeling of heaviness in your scrotum
A dull ache in your lower abdomen
A sudden collection of fluid in your scrotum
Fatigue, and generally feeling unwell.
NHS - Information on Testicular Cancer
BUPA - Testicular Cancer
It’s estimated that one man in 10 has a problem related to having sex, such as premature ejaculation or erectile dysfunction. Dr John Tomlinson of The Sexual Advice Association explains some of the causes, and where to seek help.
Find our more on NHS
Cervical Screening (Smear Tests)
Cervical screening is a method of preventing cervical cancer by detecting abnormal cells in the cervix (lower part of the womb). Cervical screening is not a test for cancer, but it is a test to check the health of the cervix.
Most women's test results show that everything is normal. But for one in 20 women, the test will show some changes in the cells of the cervix. Most of these changes will not lead to cervical cancer and the cells will go back to normal on their own. In some cases, the abnormal cells need to be treated to prevent them becoming a problem later.
NHS - Cervical Screening
The why, when & how guide to cervical screening
NHS Inform (Scottish Patients)
Cervical Screening information, risks, benefits and tests for patients based in Scotland
This factsheet is for women who would like information about having a cervical smear test for screening. This means having the test when you don't have any symptoms.
Since September 2008 there has been a national programme to vaccinate girls aged 12-13 against human papilloma virus (HPV). There is also a three-year catch up campaign that will offer the HPV vaccine (also known as the cervical cancer jab) to 13-18 year old girls.
The programme is delivered largely through secondary schools, and consists of three injections that are given over a six-month period. In the UK, more than 1.4 million doses have been given since the vaccination programme started.
What is Human papilloma virus (HPV)?
Human papilloma virus (HPV) is the name of a family of viruses that affect the skin and the moist membranes that line your body, such as those in your cervix, anus, mouth and throat. These membranes are called the mucosa.
There are more than 100 different types of HPV viruses, with about 40 types affecting the genital area. These are classed as high risk and low risk.
How you get HPV?
Types of HPV that affect the skin can be passed on by skin contact with an affected person. The types of HPV that affect the mouth and throat can be passed on through kissing. Genital HPV is usually spread through intimate, skin to skin, contact during sex. You can have the genital HPV virus for years and not have any sign of it.
How HPV can cause cervical cancer?
Most HPV infections are harmless or cause genital warts, however some types can cause cervical cancer. Most HPV infections clear up by themselves, but in some people the infection can last a long time. HPV infects the cells of the surface of the cervix where it can stay for many years without you knowing.
The HPV virus can damage these cells leading to changes in their appearance. Over time, these changes can develop into cervical cancer. The purpose of cervical screening (testing) is to detect these changes, which, if picked up early enough, can be treated to prevent cancer happening. If they are left untreated, cancer can develop and may lead to serious illness and death.
HPV Facts and information
NHS - HPV Vaccination Why, how and when is the vaccination given and what are the side effects
This factsheet is for people who would like information about the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK. About 46,000 women get breast cancer in the UK each year. Most of them (8 out of 10) are over 50, but younger women, and in rare cases men, can also get breast cancer.
The NHS Breast Screening Programme invites over 2 million women for screening every year, and detects over 14,000 cancers. Dr Emma Pennery of Breast Cancer Care says: “Breast X-rays, called mammograms, can detect tumours at a very early stage, before you’d feel a lump. The earlier it’s treated, the higher the survival rate.”
Find out more about breast cancer screening
Macmillan Cancer Research
The causes and symptoms of breast cancer in women and explains how it is diagnosed and treated
Symtpoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention & screening information
Seasonal Flu Vaccination
Influenza – flu – is a highly infectious and potentially serious illness caused by influenza viruses. Each year the make-up of the seasonal flu vaccine is designed to protect against the influenza viruses that the World Heal th Organization decide are most likely to be circulating in the coming winter.
Regular immunisation (vaccination) is given free of charge to the following at-risk people, to protect them from seasonal flu:
people aged 65 or over,
people with a serious medical condition
if you are pregnant
people living in a residential or nursing home
the main carers for an elderly or disabled person whose welfare may be at risk if the carer becomes ill
healthcare or social care professionals directly involved in patient care
For more information on flu immunisation, including background information on the vaccine and how you can get the jab, see Seasonal flu jab
HPA - Season Flu Guide
Seasonal Flu Factsheet
Eating Well & Exercise - helping you maintain a healthy body
We're bombarded with scare stories about weight, from size zero to the obesity 'epidemic'. But a healthy body is determined by different factors for each of us.
NHS - Good Food Guide
Information on a healthy diet and ways to make it work for you
NHS - Why be active?
Even a little bit of exercise will make you feel better about yourself, boost your confidence and cut your risk of developing a serious illness.
These links all come from trusted resources but if you are unsure about these or any other medical matters please contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
Both men and women need to look after their sexual health and take time to understand the issues that surround contraception and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
For instance there are some STIs, like chlamydia, that you could be carrying without having any symptoms. This infection can affect fertility, so it's important to make use of the sexual health services available for free on the NHS.
Useful Resources:
Sex & Young People
A comprehensive guide to the questions you may have about sex from the NHS
Issues, symptoms and treatments
Sexual Health FAQs
Expert answers from a qualified Doctor
Netdoctor
Here you'll find tips for a fulfilling sex life plus advice on STDs, contraception and common sex problems.
FPA - The Sexual Health Charity
Sexual health advice and information on contraception, sexually transmitted infections, pregnancy choices, abortion and planning a pregnancy.
There are so many different types of contraception available that you should be able to find the right method. You may have to try several different things before you choose the one you like most.
Types of contraception
A Family Planning specialist writes about the different types of contraception, the benefits and pitfalls and how effective they are
Contraception - NHS
Information on Contraception from NHS Choices including why, when and how it should be used and with links to other useful resources.
Hormonal Contraception
This factsheet is for women who are taking hormonal contraceptives, or who would like information about them.
Chlamydia is the most commonly diagnosed sexually transmitted infection among under-25s. Often there are no symptoms, but testing and treatment are simple.
Causes and risk factors Chlamydia is usually passed from one person to another during vaginal, oral or anal sex, or by sharing sex toys. It can live inside cells of the cervix, urethra, rectum and sometimes in the throat and eyes.
NHS - focus on Chlamydia Information, videos and advice from the NHS website
This factsheet is for people who have chlamydia, or who would like information about it.
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NTC Texas, NTC Healthcare Announce New Website Launch With Updated Brand Identity
IRVING, Texas (PRWEB) January 04, 2018
NTC Texas, a payment processor representing revenue-cycle solutions throughout the United States announced today the launch of a series of newly revamped websites. These newly designed websites offer visitors a fresh user experience with access to educational content for businesses and healthcare providers.
With an updated look and feel the NTC Texas website along with its sister brand, NTC Healthcare, are designed to help simplify the quest for businesses seeking customized payment processing solutions.
The new websites boast a modern, professional feel – with easy to use navigation, attractive icons and interactive tools to help prospects find what they need. They are also equipped with robust resource centers containing hundreds of articles and content downloads addressing the many revenue challenges businesses face today. These new websites are live and can be found at https://www.ntctexas.com and https://www.ntchealthcare.com
“We couldn’t be more pleased with our development partners who worked very hard to make these sites an accurate reflection of our company values and gold star standards,” said Linda Borek, President and CEO of NTC Texas. “The focus of our new websites is the user experience, we want our clients and prospective clients to feel good about our brands, find answers to all their questions and use our resource sections as tools to help manage their businesses.”
Along with the launch of the websites, NTC Texas and NTC Healthcare underwent a brand makeover undergoing logo and branding updates. These changes were the result of an extensive discovery process designed to create visuals which better reflect the brand’s core values.
Designed specifically for healthcare providers, the NTC Healthcare website features a state of the art revenue calculator. This calculator was developed to provide an estimate of how much revenue healthcare facilities can save when using the right revenue cycle technology. That calculator can be found at https://ntchealthcare.com/revenue-calculator.
The NTC Texas and NTC Healthcare websites are updated weekly with new content, tips and resources to help business owners and healthcare practitioners streamline revenue and cash flow.
About NTC Texas:
Established in 2004, NTC Texas located in Las Colinas, Texas is a merchant service provider representing Elavon Global Acquiring Solutions throughout the United States. As a team, NTC Texas and Elavon deliver the most powerful transaction processing package in the industry with a proprietary network, fully redundant systems, superior customer service and a broad spectrum of products. Our credit card processing and other merchant services help increase revenues and decrease costs for businesses in healthcare, manufacturing, and many other industries.
About NTC Healthcare:
NTC Healthcare, a division of NTC Texas, is a healthcare merchant service provider representing Elavon Global Acquiring Solutions throughout the United States. Our payment processing and healthcare transaction processing including eligibility, claims, and patient statements, increase revenues and decrease costs for healthcare facilities. As a security centered team, NTC Texas and Elavon deliver the most powerful transaction processing package in the industry with a proprietary network, fully redundant systems, 100% up time, and a broad spectrum of healthcare products.
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NV Gold Signs Binding LOI for Option to Acquire 100% of the Silver District Property in Arizona, USA
January 13, 2020 - Vancouver, British Columbia – NV Gold Corporation (TSXV: NVX; US: NVGLF) (“NV Gold” or the “Company”) announces that it has entered into a Binding Letter of Intent (“LOI”) with Magellan Gold Corporation (OTCQB: MAGE) (“Magellan”) under which NV Gold has an option to acquire all of Magellan’s interest in its Silver District Project located in La Paz County, Arizona, USA (the “Property”).
“With continued optimism in the gold and silver market, NV Gold has reviewed the Silver District Project in Arizona, and believes the property provides a unique resource development opportunity for the Company and its shareholders. The Silver District project can be explored and developed year-round, it lies in close proximity to our other projects in Nevada, it hosts an unconfirmed historical resource totaling in excess of 15 million ounces of silver developed nearly 30 years ago and it is potentially open along strike and at depth in multiple vein systems, with very limited drilling below 40 meters,” commented Peter A. Ball, President. “After securing positive terms for NV Gold to acquire the Silver District Project, including minimal cash and dilution components, we look forward to an in-depth review of the project during the four-month exclusive due diligence period. Our goal is to push forward to finalize a Definitive Agreement with Magellan, and quickly engage a third-party, independent technical consultant, to provide geological modelling and data verification.”
Highlights of the Silver District Binding LOI Terms:
Magellan grants NV Gold the exclusive right to purchase an undivided 100% right, title and interest in and to the Property and the Property Data in consideration of NV Gold completing the following payments and work commitments:
Time for Payment
Shares CDN$
Work Commitment
CDN$
Binding LOI
120 Day Due Diligence / Exclusivity Period
Definitive Agreement (DA)
1st Year Anniversary of DA
2nd Year Anniversary of DA
3rd Year Anniversary of DA
4th Year Anniversary of DA
“As we continue to evaluate, explore and develop our core project portfolio and data library in Nevada, we see the Silver District as a promising strategic project and it expands our regional geographic horizon into Arizona. Southwestern Arizona is accessible 12 months of the year, ensuring year-round accessibility and continued news flow,” stated John E. Watson, Chairman. “We continue to carefully manage and allocate capital with an emphasis on minimizing dilution. We will look to advance the Slumber and other projects this spring, as we currently focus on our initial review of the Silver District Project. Our technical team has completed an internal geological modelling exercise of the Slumber Gold Project and defined this asset as priority drill project, and we look forward to testing it with additional geophysics to develop a more comprehensive model.”
About the Silver District Project and Historical Resource (*Please refer to disclaimer and disclosure below related to the Silver District Project):
The Silver District Property consists of 108 unpatented mining claims, 3 patented claims and one state lease, totaling close to 2,000 acres. The property covers a majority of the historic Silver District in La Paz County, approximately 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Yuma in southwest Arizona.
The district-scale property position covers the heart of the historic Silver District and includes all of the important historical producers, most of the old mines and prospects and all of the known exploration targets, where historic recorded production during 1883-1893 from small underground mines was 1.56 million ounces silver and 2.33 million pounds lead.
The Silver District Project in La Paz County was explored from 1973 – 1992, where New Jersey Zinc Company and Orbex Minerals Ltd., and its successor companies drilled a total of 465 shallow holes (limited to less than 40 m (130 ft)) for an aggregate length of approximately 19,162 meters (62,866 feet), conducted metallurgical test work (up to 65% recovery of silver) and carried out historical scoping studies.
In 1991-1992, using polygonal methods, a historical silver resource was estimated by Gulf and Western Industries, Inc. as 3.56 million tons grading 4.46 oz/t silver or 15.9 million contained ounces silver, and fluorspar mineralization was estimated as 2.3 million tons grading 14.5% CaF2 or 328,450 tons contained fluorite, but neither estimate has been confirmed by the Company (see below). Included within this mineralization are substantial tonnages grading 17.0% barite (BaSO4) and 3.57% lead-zinc.
Mineralization is controlled by three principal sub-parallel north-northwest trending epithermal vein systems cutting Tertiary volcanic rocks underlain by basement metamorphic rocks. The three vein structures extend over a collective strike length of 12.8 km (8 miles). The deposits containing silver, lead-zinc, fluorspar and barite occur along the veins in pod-like bodies commonly 15-50 feet or wider and hundreds of feet long.
In 2014, Magellan drilled hole PA-01, which intersected 90 feet grading 6.05 oz/t silver (including 10 feet of 17.06 oz/t silver) and compared favorably to historic results. PA-01’s 90-foot intercept also returned previously unreported zinc-lead values averaging 4.71% zinc and 1.56% lead over the 90 feet, including 10 feet grading 8.35% zinc and 4.02% lead.
Conceptual development plans by past operators have involved multiple open pits feeding a central mill. Flow sheet designs employ fine grinding and cyanide leaching to recover silver, and conventional flotation to recover fluorspar and barite.
NV Gold’s management team does not view the Silver District project material to the Company at this time.
Disclosure of Historical Estimates*:
The Company considers the prior mineral resource estimate to be a historical estimate for purposes of NI 43-101. The Company plans to assess the historical estimate as it commences work on the Silver District Project to determine whether it can be verified as a current mineral resource estimate under NI 43-101 or the extent of the work that might be required if it can be verified. However, at this time a qualified person has not done sufficient work to classify the historical estimate as a current mineral resource on behalf of the Company and it should not be considered reliable. The estimate does not classify the resource as either a measured, indicated or inferred resource and, accordingly, readers should not assume it satisfies the requirements of any of such classifications. The Company is not treating the historical estimate as a current mineral resource but considers it relevant historical information in respect of the Project. Readers should be cautioned that there is no guarantee that the foregoing historical resource estimate will be verified or confirmed in accordance with the requirements of NI 43-101.
Furthermore, to the extent that the historical estimate is reliable, readers should be cautioned that mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. Mineral resource estimates do not account for mineability, selectivity, mining loss and dilution. The mineral resources at the Silver District Project are considered too speculative geologically to have economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as mineral reserves. There is also no certainty that the historical mineral resource will be converted into mineral resources or mineral reserves, once economic considerations are applied; or that these mineral resources will be converted to measured and indicated and inferred categories through further drilling, or into mineral reserves, once economic considerations are applied.
View of Silver District Claims:
Note: Red Cloud Mine and related claims are not included in the Agreement.
Closing of the Transaction is subject to various conditions, including, without limitation, satisfaction of any regulatory requirements and receipt of the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. All shares issued related to the transaction requires the statutory hold period of four months plus a day from the date they are issued.
About NV Gold Corporation
NV Gold is a junior exploration company based in Vancouver, British Columbia that is focused on delivering value through mineral discoveries and advancement. Leveraging its highly experienced in-house technical knowledge, NV Gold’s geological team intends to utilize its geological databases, which contains a vast treasury of field knowledge spanning decades of research and exploration, combined with a portfolio of mineral properties in Nevada and Arizona, to prioritize key projects for focused exploration programs.
John E. Watson
For further information, visit the Company’s website at www.nvgoldcorp.com or contact:
Peter A. Ball, President & COO
Email: peter@nvgoldcorp.com.
This news release includes certain forward-looking statements or information. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this release, including, without limitation, the plans to complete the Definitive Agreement to Acquire the Silver District Project, the historical resource at the Silver District Project and whether it can be confirmed in accordance with the requirements of NI-43-101 and a new current resource developed, the plans to complete exploration or development of the Project and other future plans and objectives of the Company, including exploration plans, are forward-looking statements that involve various risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company’s plans or expectations include regulatory issues, market prices, availability of capital and financing, general economic, market or business conditions, timeliness of government or regulatory approvals and other risks detailed herein and from time to time in the filings made by the Company with securities regulators. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise except as otherwise required by applicable securities legislation.
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Corrections Officer behind Cuomo’s BQE rescue describes scene
By Bernadette Hogan
January 7, 2020 | 4:48pm | Updated January 7, 2020 | 7:37pm
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It’s takes a village to help Gov. Andrew Cuomo become a hero.
The governor made headlines with his rescue of a trapped driver on the BQE Monday, but Cuomo may not have been able to save the day if he didn’t get hand from a corrections officer who showed up at the scene.
Sandra Germain, 44, also stopped to help when she saw a delivery van tipped over into a highway divider in Brooklyn — and was able to make a big assist by giving Cuomo the specialized knife he used to cut the trapped driver’s seat belt.
“We pulled over to assess the situation, and the driver was hanging sideways on the inside. The governor’s employee asked us if we had anything to break the glass. I had my ‘911 knife’ and I gave it to him and [the governor] cut the seatbelt,” Germain told The Post in a phone interview.
Germain, who said she arrived at the scene just moments after Cuomo’s entourage, have been driving in a corrections van that had no inmates in it.
“He was shaken up,” she said of the driver, who was hanging sideways on the inside of the van before Cuomo personally climbed up and released him with the hooked knife, which is a typical part of corrections officer’s equipment.
“He was happy that we got him out of there. I could tell he was OK and told him to sit down. I can only imagine the shock,” Germain said of the man in the van.
She said there were three cars involved in the pileup, the tipped-over van, a Honda Pilot and a flatbed.
A spokeswoman for Regina Caterers, the company that owns the tipped vehicle, said the driver is “doing good,” when contacted by The Post Tuesday.
Germain said she was impressed with Cuomo’s actions.
“I was not surprised because just growing up seeing how my parents felt about his father, he seemed to emulate his dad,” she gushed.
“He’s just a people’s person, just a human being assisting and getting involved hands off he jumped up onto the median and it was just beautiful. I was in awe.”
“New Yorkers help New Yorkers in their time of need and we deeply appreciate Ms. Germain assistance in this potentially serious situation,” a spokesperson for the governor said.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo helps a man out of a vehicle turned on its side on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
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National Gallery of Canada Foundation lights up giant Christmas tree for holiday party
Guests include retiring Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin
Dec 7, 2017 12:58am EST
National Gallery of Canada Foundation
Welch LLP
Karen Colby-Stothart
Micheal Burch
Beverley McLachlin
An invite-only crowd of about 200 got a sneak peek at the four-storey-high Christmas tree, in all its glam and glory, during a holiday party hosted Wednesday by the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) Foundation.
The tall and splendid-looking spruce, reaching more than 11 metres in height and some eight metres wide, was lit up just for the party, in advance of the official tree lighting ceremony taking place tonight with the public.
On hand to welcome the crowd in the national gallery's Scotiabank Great Hall was the NGC Foundation’s CEO, Karen Colby-Stothart, along with the gallery’s chief curator and deputy director, Paul Lang, who individually introduced all the curators.
Supporting the event from the business community were NGC Foundation board member John Mierins, owner of St. Laurent Volvo, along with accounting firm Welch LLP. Its managing partner is Micheal Burch. He's treasurer of the NGC Foundation board and chair of its audit committee.
Micheal Burch with his wife, Marianna, at the National Gallery of Canada Foundation's Holiday Party, held Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Photo by Caroline Phillips
John Mierins, president of the Carling Motors Automotive Group -- which includes the St. Laurent Volvo dealership -- with his wife, Keltie, at the National Gallery of Canada Foundation's Holiday Party, held Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Photo by Caroline Phillips
“From a business perspective, we were lucky to bring some of our best clients here tonight,” Burch told OBJ.social. “They have an opportunity to experience the gallery, have a little tour, and hear from the curators about why particular pieces of art are so important to us.”
Welch is holding its big 100-year anniversary party at the National Gallery next September. The founder’s son, Malcolm Welch, has been an avid art collector and the firm has gone to great lengths to fill its office walls at 123 Slater St. with Canadian artwork.
From left, Kristi Dean with her husband, Welch LLP partner Jim McConnery, and Mary Ann Tippett with her husband, Alan Tippett, also with Welch LLP, at the National Gallery of Canada Foundation's Holiday Party, held Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Photo by Caroline Phillips
From left, Bruce Raganold, director of business development at Welch LLP, with Steve Hulaj, founder and chief executive of ItemtopiaPlus, with his wife, Denise Hulaj and her business partner, Jason Bellaire, of StyleHaus Interiors design firm, at the National Gallery of Canada Foundation's Holiday Party, held Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Special guests included retiring Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and her unfailingly affable husband, Frank McArdle, as well as Graham Flack, deputy minister of Canadian Heritage.
Also seen was prominent Ottawa couple Greg Kane, counsel at Dentons, and Adrian Burns. She's chair of the board of trustees for the National Arts Centre and is keeping busy with the NAC's search for the best candidate to fill the big shoes of retiring president and CEO Peter Herrndorf.
From left, Karen Colby-Stothart, CEO of the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, with Frank McArdle and Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, at the foundation's holiday party, held on Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Photo by Caroline Phillips
From left, Greg Kane with Troy Anderson, a professor at the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University, Adrian Burns and Serge Belet, senior exhibitions manager at the National Gallery of Canada, at a holiday party hosted by the National Gallery of Canada Foundation on Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Green Party leader Elizabeth May approved of the gallery’s choice of a real tree, rather than a fake one made with plastic and chemicals. “It’s a sustainable business,” the renowned environmentalist said of Christmas tree farms, adding that they're effective in improving air quality by sequestering carbon dioxide.
Tim Leah with Green Party leader Elizabeth May at the National Gallery of Canada Foundation's Holiday Party, held Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Photo by Caroline Phillips
Guests mingled over food and drinks, alongside the marvellous tree. Performing for the crowd was Toronto-based jazz icon Molly Johnson, a Juno Award-winning singer who lived in Ottawa as a child. She attended Hopewell Public School and Glebe Collegiate.
Molly Johnson performed at the holiday party hosted by the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, at the national gallery on Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Photo by Caroline Phillips
There was also time to slip away and explore the exhibitions and galleries. Some guests went to find the two new Gustav Klimt paintings, on loan from a private collection. Others headed to the nearby Biennial exhibit, where, on display, were contemporary Canadian and Indigenous artworks, including paintings, photography, sculptures, drawings, videos and large-scale mixed-media installations.
From left Bambury Pristanski with Karen Colby-Stothart and William Pristanski, principal at Prospectus Associates, at the holiday party hosted by the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, at the national gallery on Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Photo by Caroline Phillips
From left, Laura Chapman with Graham Flack and Barbara Anderson at the holiday party hosted by the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, at the national gallery on Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Photo by Caroline Phillips
From left, Micheal Burch with Karen Colby-Stothart and Paul Lang at the holiday party hosted by the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, at the national gallery on Wednesday, December 6, 2017. Photo by Caroline Phillips
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The Tranny Diaries: (Wo)men Wimp Out!
By Simon Doonan • 03/20/06 12:00am
Though I have never felt the need to chop off my own willie, I take no issue with those who have. On the contrary, the trannies of the world and I have always hit it off. The best thing about living in New York was always the high density of cross-dressers, transgendered persons, drag queens, hermaphrodites and what-have-yous who sprinkled their fairy dust on all and sundry at L’Escualita, the Pyramid Club, the Copa and other unsavory boîtes. Does anyone still remember G.G.’s Barnum Room? Mandy, Candy, Sandy, Ava and Potassa … thanks for the memories! You “girls” were funny, you were crazy, you freaked people out, and you never failed to add a sizzle of Warholian glamour to any occasion. And you had guts: When the chips were down, it was purse-wielding trannies who subdued the police at the Stonewall riots, while the “butch” clones trembled on the sidelines in their Lacoste shirts.
Fan though I am of the tran, I am becoming increasingly concerned that, now that they are part of the GLBT community—gay, lesbian, bacon and tomato?—the girly men and manly girls might be losing their balls, for real. Are the gender-bending freakazoids of the world becoming pointlessly mired in P.C. dogma and victimhood? Are the increased sensitivities of a previously tough marginalized group sucking all the life—not to mention the joie de vivre—out of the very cause that they are supposed to serve?
When Simon Cowell told that American Idol contestant to buy a frock and become a Cher impersonator, it was clearly the best advice that kid had ever received, yet Le Cowell was instantly vilified by GLAAD as a tranny-bashing bully. When he asked another contestant, “Are you a boy or a girl?”, my namesake was merely posing the elephant-in-the-room question which was on all our lips. More anti-Cowell outrage followed. These kids need to toughen up! Nothing would make me happier than to see an out transgender songstress win the contest, but he/she would have to be able to get up there in front of the judges and take straightforward questions without blubbering like a big girl’s blouse. Paging Holly Woodlawn!
Meanwhile, in academia: An N.Y.U. professor friend told me that the students have all but abandoned their studies. Gender has become the preoccupying issue on campus. Kids of all persuasions—and faculty members!—now divide their time between reading Judith Butler (she’s the super-freaky academic who believes sex is a social construct and that gender is fluid) and petitioning for “trans” bathrooms. This is so that gender ’tweeners, with their heightened sensitivities, could avoid those “Hey, Blanche! What the hell are you doing in here?” moments that have always provided so many great opportunities for antagonistic dialogue to the combative Sherries and Jackies of yore.
Whatever happened to those tough trannies who strutted their stuff at Edelweiss and Sally’s Hideaway in the 1980’s and 90’s? Where are the big, hairy, hetero New Jersey cross-dressers one used to see popping into Lee’s Mardi Gras Boutique in the meatpacking district to buy their size-17 black patent Mary Janes? Ho-hum. Trannies just ain’t what they used to be.
Instead of glorying in the hilariously freaky diversity of it all like we all used to, we now spend far too much time applauding the courage of those involved. I’m thinking of the breathy reverence accorded Felicity Huffman’s “brave choices”—playing a man becoming a woman—in the movie Transamerica. Don’t get me wrong, I think La Huffman did a bang-up job, but I suspect that playing Bree was probably the easiest, most rollicking fun job of her career, requiring none of the draining nuances and subtleties that she so successfully deploys to keep her two-dimensional character alive on Desperate Housewives.
Though Bree extracts a few laughs from her predicament, this movie is hardly Some Like It Hot. Humor, or rather the lack of it, is the problem. Contemporary culture seems determined to deny the obvious fact that trannies are fun, and funny. Impersonation is the cornerstone of humor, and if we can’t chuckle at someone attempting to ape a member of the opposite sex, then what, in the name of strap-ons and implants, can we laugh at?
The recent LOGO documentary series TransGeneration followed the lives of a group of deadly earnest college kids undergoing gender reassignment. (I predict that the majority of those featured will live to regret doing something so drastic at such a young age, but, with tranny politics abounding, there was no room for common sense.) Most intriguing were a couple of fiercely butch chicks who were studying at Smith College. They were in the process of becoming men. Shockingly, at no time did these gals, or their college supervisors, acknowledge the sidesplitting irony of the central conundrum of their lives—i.e., Smith is an all-girl’s college. Bonjour!
And let’s talk about their personal style. One would imagine that two feminist F-to-M’s would, given their antipathy toward male archetypes, adopt a nonaggressive post-op dressing style. I’m thinking an effete Dorian Gray look in Hedi Slimane Dior suits, a little Paul Smith, a little Jil Sander fall 2006. Paging Aubrey Beardsley and Cecil Beaton! But no. Au contraire. As the documentary progresses, the Smith gals/guys macho it up to the point where they resemble truck-stop rednecks and, eventually, gay male bears. Yikes! It’s all so confusing. As Ray Davis of the Kinks so presciently sang back in 1970:
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
It’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world
Except for Lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo-Lola ….
Now to more mundane concerns: The most heartwarming aspect of Transamerica is Bree’s commitment to an important spring trend: I’m talking about the espadrille. We retailers are hoping to wring another season out of this particular moneymaker, and I feel that Ms. Huffman’s character has given us significant support in this regard. Get yours customized by Christian Louboutin: On May 2, the genial M. Louboutin will be coming to Barneys Madison Avenue to personalize your espadrilles with his doodles, under your direction. Trannies of all descriptions are very welcome. Warning: Sizes only run up to a 10.5.
Happy Saint Patricia’s!
Filed Under: Home, Lifestyle, Simon Says, Christian Louboutin, Felicity Huffman, Cecil Beaton
SEE ALSO: George and Hilly: Rome, Part II
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Woman railway employee killed under wheels of train
Edited By Odishatv Bureau Published By PTI Last updated Jun 24, 2018 - 4:29 PM
Bhubaneswar: A woman railway employee was run over and killed by a train when she was crossing the tracks near Bhubaneswar station here, railway sources said on Saturday.
The 35-year-old woman, identified as Madhusmita Pradhan, was posted at Bhubaneswar railway station and was staying at her quarter near the station.After the accident yesterday, she was taken to hospital where doctors declared her dead on arrival, the sources said.
Pradhan, a widow, was on leave Friday, the sources said.
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I was wrong about Lord Monckton
I must admit I was wrong about Lord Monckton. I thought his speaking tour of New Zealand, which started on April Fools day, would be a huge yawn. Local climate scientists have learned that debating the man may be a huge plus for Monckton’s CV, but it was a negative for their own. So what interest could there be in a speaking tour where the audiences were basically fellow climate change deniers, conspiracy theorists and extreme political libertarians – all singing from the same hymn sheet.
After all, even his own publicity makes clear that his message is political, not scientific. That he is here to tell us all about the international conspiracy of greenies, fascists, communists, capitalists, imperialists and the United Nations to impose a single world government, put us in concentration camps, etc. Those horrible climate scientists are only a small part of Monckton’s international conspiracy.
But I should have learned from Monckton’s Australian tour. His antics there managed to keep his name in the public eye – and give Australians something to laugh at. He threatened climate scientists with court action and called prominent Australians Nazis!
Well, he seems set to do the same for us. He’s only been here a few days and he is threatening (“in the first instance”) a complaint to the New Zealand Press Council (yes he is not happy with the way his beliefs are reported). He expects the press Council to investigate not only a recent Herald article about his tour but also “whether the Herald has given balanced coverage to both sides of the debate on the climate, having regard not only to the present article but to its previous record of publication on the climate “science” issue.” He expects (or demands) a lot, doesn’t he?
Monckton also promises to invite “authorities in the United Kingdom to remove the name of one of [our] universities . . .from the list of academic institutions whose degrees are recognized in Britain.” No, he is not happy with what our climate scientists tell us about their findings (or indeed the findings themselves), or what they think of his scientific credibility. So we are all going to be punished.
It’s enough to make us shiver in our boots – he must be such a powerful man. Our scientist’s degrees won’t be recognised in the UK in future.
I think we are shivering – but out of laughter, not fear.
The man is certainly good for a laugh. I look forward to more of this humour as his speaking tour, and threats against our media, scientists and educational institutes, progresses over the next few weeks.
If you want to read his letters and threats they are recorded at VISCOUNT MONCKTON’S RESPONSE TO DENIGRATORY ARTICLE IN NZ HERALD). Looks like they will also be faithfully repeated at the Climate Conversation Group’s blog (see, for example Herald, APNZ find Monckton no easy target).
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54 responses to “I was wrong about Lord Monckton”
John Russell (@JohnRussell40) | April 4, 2013 at 11:09 am |
Monckton is hardly ever seen and rarely mentioned in the UK. Even the climate fake sceptics find him embarrassing. I guess it’s because he’s associated with an oddball, right-wing, anti-Europe party. Just ignore him and he’ll go away. He’s only coming over there to visit you because of the attention you give him.
Yes, John, I guess Monckton is so discredited in his own homeland he has to spend the Northern winter down here. This produces a silly (for him) situation where he is attempting to mobilise local climate change deniers while we have been suffering a country-wide drought and record summer temperatures. meanwhile ha can’t take advantage of the record cold winters in the UK!
He is actually basically ignored down here too – probably why he is indulging in these sort of tricks to get the publicity he can’t get legitimately.
RossN | April 4, 2013 at 2:05 pm |
Ken, instead of doggedly clinging to your climate denier ways, how about looking for another barrow to push before you become NZ’s ultimate science-groupie embarrassment? (If it isn’t too late already).
Ross, isn’t it a wee bit farcical for a naive self-confessed creationist to lecture me about embarrassment in the science community?
Ross Nixon | April 4, 2013 at 6:57 pm |
Theoretically, yes.
The difference is that climate alarmists are in imminent danger of embarrassment (model failure, shenanigans discovered, global cooling).
In contrast, creationism and other ‘origins’ hypotheses aren’t ultimately scientifically provable – so we can both continue with our chosen ‘faith’ for the foreseeable future.
Ross “scientifically provable” is not logical.
However, you give away the motivation by admitting you rely on your chosen faith. Scientists rely on evidence and reason to draw the best inference. An inference which can change with time and more data.
The key point – it’s no skin off my nose if there is a god, raven, taniwha or whatever designing and making animals. I will happily accept that if the evidence and reason supports it. But the current fact is that it doesn’t. We have an excellent understanding of how life evolves and this explanation just seems to get better with every passing day.
I don’t rely on faith.
As for models failing – that happens all the time to some degree or other. That’s why science is continually improving models, and the computers which run them.
Shenanigans – always a problem but we seem to have far less of them in the science community than the faith community. They usually are found out, and disciplined in the end. In contrast to the faith community we don’t rally around to defend such people in science. We expose and get rid of them.
Global cooling – well if that occurs it will be the scientists who demonstrate it. We currently understand a number of mechanisms, both natural and man made which could do that. We think that in the verylong term it will actually be a problem because of removal of CO2 from the planet’s surface pools.
Cedric Katesby | April 4, 2013 at 9:03 pm |
NASA and every single scientific community cannot be described as “climate alarmists”.
Just how good are NASA climate/weather models?
toby52 | April 4, 2013 at 9:14 pm |
Monckton appeared on a talk show here in Ireland a few years ago in a segment devoted to “fringe” beliefs. The other person interviewed was a 9/11 “truther”.
Even the political party of which he was supposed to be Deputy Leader (the anti-EU anti-immigrant United Kingdom Independence Party) is giving him a wide berth.
It is amusing to watch the adulation he seems to attract in the USA, NZ & Australia. One suspects he is stopping to more and more outrageous tactics as his audiences diminish. In the US he has joined the Tea Party “birther circuit” claiming he has proof of the President’s Kenyan birth. And did you know about his claims of a cure for cancer? And his one-time call for AIDs sufferers to be segregrated from the healthy population?
Monckton is a gift that keeps on giving.
Copie | April 5, 2013 at 9:13 pm |
I am pleased that Moncton has come to NZ to expose the global warming religion cranks for the hoax they are. Even the biased UK Met service have admitted that there has been no warming for the past 16 years
Copie, you need to read my article Climate change is not simple. That will help you understand the issue of so-called “no warming for the past 16 years.”
That is if you can be objective about the issue. You seem to have some extreme interpretations. Which may be why you welcome Mad Monckton because his basic purpose here is to push a very extreme political line.
Cedric Katesby | April 5, 2013 at 11:10 pm |
Hmm, technical difficulties. Pity.
Sorry Ken. Would you mind deleting my previous posts? Must have a bug or something.
Copie | April 6, 2013 at 4:19 am |
Hot weather – Global warming, Cold. Weather- Global warming, wet weather- Global warming, Dry weather – Global warming
It is all a sham, designed to make money for Al Gore and his carbon trading buddies.
Copie, you didn’t read my recommended article, did you? You are just trolling.
cindy baxter (@cindybax) | April 7, 2013 at 2:06 pm |
Here’s something to make you laugh a bit more.
NOT the APNZ “retraction” in response to Monckton’s threats (ugh), but the NZ Herald’s Michele Hewitson interview yesterday.
Where he walked out on the interview after just a little bit of questioning about his “hitler youth” incidents in Copenhagen. Here’s a quote:
“He had got the huff and walked out of the interview. It is very difficult to walk out on an interview when the only place you have to walk out of is the living room in the house where you are staying and into the kitchen where the person you are walking out on has to follow you to get to the front door.”
Yes, seems Monckton got upset because the reporter asked him a question.
What a fantastic scene for a comedy sketch. So very Mitchell & Webb.
roymustard | April 7, 2013 at 3:25 pm |
Actually, Monckton’s recent tour of Australia was a complete bomb. He seems to be stuck in a self-defeating spiral. The media only give him attention for saying extreme things, and as his profile diminishes it forces his position to be more and more extreme. As the author correctly noted, it’s no longer a scientific presentation. He’s now preaching against “Agenda 21”, a non-binding agreement that’s achieved little in 20 years.
As he becomes more outlandish, the media tune out, forcing him to become more extreme. This is where the toothless and, frankly, pathetic threats against scientists and institutions come into play.
Here in Australia Monckton launched his tour by attacking a Tasmanian scientist, threatening to jail all climate scientists for fraud (with the help of an unnamed policeman friend) and helping launch fringe anti-Muslim nationalist, right-wing parties. Upon his leaving these scientists remained distressingly free to roam the streets, researching with impunity while Rise Up Australia, presided over by a man who claims to raise the dead, has failed to take the nation by storm.
It’ll get to the point during his next visit that he’ll be trying to crash Gillard’s press conferences dressed as Hitler and even his only current Australian supporter Jo Nova will be quietly backing away.
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Chris B | April 7, 2013 at 5:58 pm |
He didn’t deal well with questions at the talk either. The audience got to ask two questions, both critical of his talk, after which we were ordered out of the theatre on the grounds that they’d get in trouble if we stayed past 9pm.
Having promised there would be an opportunity to ask questions at the end, I don’t imagine this left a very good impression on people, especially after sitting through a one hour, 45 minute talk which opened with the assertion that Agenda 21 was a UN plot to have their lackeys in local government herd us all into concentration camps and sterilise us with vaccines.
serdeb | April 8, 2013 at 2:47 am |
You know guys, you make me laugh! They are telling us that global warming is real, and we should be scared. well, we are, I was, the drastic measures the government is introducing are progressive. The aim is to drastically reduce forms of energy for the Country and people will be impoverished by that. You won’t be even able to write in your blogs because you will not have the money at the end of the month to pay for your internet connection. It would all be for good if the global scare was real but is it really? Wouldn’t Monckton represent some kind of hope worth checking before criticising him and the dozens of scientists who agree with him? that’s what I did; I went and look for data, I listened to many other climate scientists and I was cheered up by the findings.
how many researches have you done to check out the facts for yourself? Every week there is a segment dedicated to the disasters caused by global warming in tv; have you healed anyone declaring the exact opposite? No debate has ever been allowed pubblicly? If they are so certain about their theories, then why the opposite opinion is not being heard?
unfortunately you are still asleep, the left parties have always been in history against development and the capital and the good things that money can do gor people. Do you hate Australia so much? iand
Cedric Katesby | April 8, 2013 at 6:16 am |
They are telling us that global warming is real, and we should be scared.
Yes. Yes they are.
That’s the “they” you are referring to.
…the drastic measures the government…
Vague, unsubstantiated claims of “drastic” measures by mystery “governments” fail to impress.
Besides, it’s go nothing to do with the science.
Claiming that the cancer treatment is “drastic” does not make the cancer magically go away. You are making an Argument from Consequence.
Reality does not care about your inconvenience.
Reality just is.
It would all be for good if the global scare was real but is it really?
According to NASA and every single scientific community on the planet.
You can ignore them and the decades of work that they have done in reaching their conclusions if you want but it would make you look very foolish.
Wouldn’t Monckton represent some kind of hope worth checking before criticising him and the dozens of scientists who agree with him?
Hope?
Hope all you like. Go with your gut. Let your feelings guide you. If you don’t want something to be real then click you red shoes three times and say “There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home”.
Nobody likes bad news. Nobody like to be told they have AIDS or cancer or that their tobacco product that makes them money is actually slowly killing people. Nobody likes to be told that their fishing practices are systematically killing the core fish stock and will cause a catastrophic collapse which will kill the industry and the community that it supports.
People really hate bad news.
So….they always look for someone to tell them that everything will be alright.
“Tell people something they know already and they will thank you for it. Tell them something new and they will hate you for it.”
that’s what I did; I went and look for data, I listened to many other climate scientists and I was cheered up by the findings.
No doubt. Sadly, it happens all the time.
Doubt – Tobacco and the Anti Science Movement
Serdeb, having studied economics myself, I fully agree that we should be weighing up the costs and benefits of different courses of action before making a decision. That means making some calculations of the net present value of action versus inaction, hopefully including some reasonable assessment of the costs and likelihoods of different scenarios (both above and below the three degree mark), and making policy decisions, which may well be subject to modification further down the road as new information comes to light.
So far so good, and this is, in theory, what governments do when making policy decisions. Lobby groups, ideology and public opinion polls notwithstanding.
However. Let me just share some of the maths which Lord Monckton uses to convince us that we’ll all be impoverished by efforts to curtail global warming. This is for the Australian scheme, which is what he seems to be beavering away about on this tour. It contains at least two ridiculously basic errors.
Monckton’s figures are sourced under case study 6 here (helpfully provided with his letter to the Herald): http://nzclimatescience.net/images/PDFs/co2-mitigation.pdf
Note that the paper does contain other case studies, which I probably could (and perhaps should) pick holes in in turn, but the Australian study is the one he provided in his slides on the night. I did not get a chance to challenge him on it, since he cut off questioning. A distinct mark against his ability to defend his work.
“Carbon trading in Australia, as enacted the Clean Energy legislation (Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, 2011), costs $10.1 bn/year, plus $1.6 bn/year for administration (Wong, 2010, p. 5), plus $1.2 bn/year for renewables and other costs, a total of $13 bn/year, rising at 5%/year, or $130 bn by 2020 at 13 n.p.v., to abate 5% of current emissions, which represent 1.2% of world emissions (derived from Boden et al., 2010ab). Thus p = 0.0006. CO2 concentration would fall from a business-as-usual 412 to 411.987 ppmv after ten years. Forcing abated is 0.0002 Wm–2; warming abated is 0.00006K; mitigation cost – effectiveness is $2,000 tr /K; global abatement cost of projected warming to 2020 is $300 trillion, or $45,000 /head, or 59% of global GDP to 2020. Action costs 48 times inaction.”
So, Monckton has taken the Australian plan for reducing emissions by 5% over 8 years and extrapolated it to come up with global abatement costs.
Perhaps the most obvious problem is with these words: “global abatement cost of projected warming to 2020 is $300 trillion.” Now, regardless of how much impact you think CO2 has on global temperature (as long as it’s not zero or negative), the only way to prevent 100% of global warming out to 2020 is to prevent any further CO2 emissions. That’s right, shutting down, overnight, everything on the planet which burns fossil fuels will cost us $300 trillion (in net present value over the next 8 years).
And you know what? I think that figure may actually be too low. Especially if we consider the human suffering and misery which would result from shutting down, say, combine harvesters and the trucks, trains and ships which carry food to markets.
It’s a good thing that Nobody. Whatsoever. Is suggesting that we cut emissions by 100% Right This Minute. Actual policy, from various quarters, aims towards a rather more incremental process, according to which developed nations gradually reduce emissions, by 2050, by 80% of present numbers, while developing nations follow a slower curve. Said policy being aimed at holding temperature rises to two degrees by the end of the century, as opposed to three degrees.
Which leads me on to my second problem. Anybody familiar with net present value calculations will tell you that money now is worth more than money later. The further into the future you receive or spend a given quantity of money, the less valuable it is to you in terms of present value.
By compressing his calculations for the cost of carbon emissions reductions into an 8 year timeframe, Monckton weights the calculations towards ‘money now’, then multiplies the number to get cost of mitigation per degree celsius. In fact, he should be working out the cost of mitigating a one degree temperature rise over the course of 87 years. Which, as you might imagine, gives a bit more weighting to the ‘money later’ side of the NPV calculation.
I did some rough calculations of my own based on the Australian figures Monckton provided, assuming that each $13 billion a year spent ($1.08 trillion globally) gets you a 5% reduction in emissions per 8 year period, with a goal of 80% reductions by 2050. Simplified, of course, but illustrative. I came up with a net present value of $64 trillion. Or $9,300 per person. Ever so slightly lower than Monckton’s figures.
The figures for the UK and US schemes (case studies one and two) are closer to the realms of sanity, since they have a time horizon of 38 years, as opposed to 8, but I’d really want to check Monckton’s assumptions and recalculate the numbers for myself before giving them any credence. If nothing else, it looks as if he’s mixing up nominal and real rates of return.
In fact, given my impression of Monckton in general, I’d really prefer to just start from scratch or check somebody else’s figures.
Copie | April 8, 2013 at 10:21 pm |
You global warming fanatics are amazing, dreaming up new theories everyday to continue your discredited claims. Antarctica has expanded enormously, so the scientists claim that it is”melting from below” or the record cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere is blamed on global warming! Do you people have no shame?
Ken | April 8, 2013 at 10:26 pm |
No Copie, we have science – we follow the evidence.
Cedric Katesby | April 9, 2013 at 12:32 am |
You global warming fanatics are amazing…
NASA cannot be described as “global warming fantatics”.
Plus they really did make it to the moon.
roymustard | April 10, 2013 at 2:43 am |
Listen guys, these “skeptics” don’t actually have to investigate how rising temperatures affect the jet streams and bring cold weather (which climate scientists actually predicted, but the fake skeptics don’t mention that). That’s complicated. Better to go by nice feelings and throw around memes like “no one is allowed to debate” even though it Monckton trying to throw scientists in prison and Delingpole smirkingly insinuating murder.
And finally, “how many researches have you done to check out the facts for yourself?”
I’m guessing many, many, many more than you, since you admitted you stopped when “climate scientists” (they were not) told you what you wanted to hear. Phew! Problem solved!
Copie | April 12, 2013 at 9:56 pm |
Will you global warming fanatics never stop your nonsense and be honest for once? Just say,sorry, we got it wrong, record cold is not global warming! Say, “an expanding Antarctica is not global warming! Perhaps you will gain some credibility?
Perhaps, Copie, you can give us the benefit if your great intellect? Why is Antarctica “expanding?”
Cedric Katesby | April 14, 2013 at 1:35 am |
Volcanoes?
Hidden tectonic fault lines?
Guano deposits from migrating birds?
Andy | April 14, 2013 at 9:58 am |
I presume that Copie is referring to increasing sea ice extent in Antarctica.
Yes, that’s what I understood from the troll’s vague comment. But I was posing the question of how she explained the phenomenon. Why did she think it has nothing to do with climate change? If she is logical her comment implies that she could provide an explanatory mechanism.
What about you doing so, Andy?
Andy | April 14, 2013 at 10:18 am |
I have got no idea why sea ice extent is increasing in Antarctica. It is an observed phenomenon. End of story, from me anyway
So, Andy, unlike our troll, you would not use this fact as an argument against scientific understanding if climate change?
After all, the current scientific assessment involves increased winds moving ice, and exposing more water to freeze, and entry of cold salt-less water from melt under the continental ice which being less dense is at the sea surface and freezes more easily.
These explanations are consistent with current understanding of a warming planet.
I have got no idea why sea ice extent is increasing in Antarctica. It is an observed phenomenon. End of story, from me anyway.
For you? What about the British Antarctic Survey?
(You’ve heard of them, right? Yes, you can look them up on the net.)
Why do you suppose that it’s not the end of the story for them?
Have you even bothered to find out how actual working scientists view it?
No? Didn’t think so.
You are engaged in a logical fallacy known as anomoly hunting.
For moon landing deniers, the “anomoly” could be the flag moving by itself in a vaccuum…therefore the Apollo missons were a hoax.
Or multiple shadows appearing in the photos taken on the moon…therefore it’s a hoax.
For 9/11 Troofers, the “anomoly” could be Building Number 7 collapsing despite not being hit by a plane…therefore 9/11 was an inside job.
That’s not the way to think. You have to be more careful than that. Don’t latch onto some factoid that at first glance seens to support your presuppositions and leave it at that. You may have it all wrong because it’s not your field of expertise. You have to be willing to look at things that don’t necessarily support your suspicions and acknowledge them too. Otherwise you are no better than the Troofers and the moon landing deniers and the ghost hunters out there.
Andy | April 14, 2013 at 5:37 pm |
I haven’t studied sea ice so I don’t have an opinion on it. It is really that simple.
Come on, Andy, it’s not like you to be so reticent. You often comment, in the strongest possible terms, about things which you have not studied.
And I get the impression by “study” you probably mean check out the climate change denial echo chamber.
You appear to be looking for a fight.
I am not interested.
Bit depressed, are we Andy?
Yet there are people that do.
Step away from the echo-chamber of the denialist blogs for a minute.
There are scientific communities that make it their business to have a scientific opinion on the Antarctic. They are on the web.
You don’t have to just go to a blog and be spoonfed factoids that make you feel good.
It’s ok to think for yourself for a change and independently check out what the experts in the field have to say.
The British Antarctic Survery is a good place to start.
Unless (without knowing anything about them) you are going to pretend that they are…Marxists or something?
That trick gets old. You can’t use it forever. Not for everything and everyone all the time.
Not every scientific community on the planet can be super sekritly controlled by Marxists or whatever. It’s silly.
It would be hard for “them” to sekritly control even one.
You have to have a really solid reason not to listen to the scientific community. Paranoia and conspiracy thinking doesn’t cut it in the real world.
Seriously, did you ever even know that the British Antarctic survery even existed? Did it never occur to you to find out?
Yes, friends of mine were working for it. I am not really that interested in why sea ice is increasing.
Yes, friends of mine were working for it.
Are they “hard left Marxists” too? Would they keep a secret global konspiracy safe?
Don’t you see how insane such an idea is?
A global scientific conspiracy is impossible. There’s no way to make it work.
You are being led by the nose.
The British Antarctic Survey is not lying to you.
It is widely accepted that climate change as a result of human activity, is real, happening now and will have an impact of everyone and everything on the Earth. Antarctica, and the Southern Ocean that surrounds it, affects our whole planet through its influence on the Earth’s climate system. Understanding Antarctica’s role in climate change is not only a huge scientific challenge but also an urgent priority for society
What makes Antarctica so important?
The vast, ice-covered Polar Regions are like a global thermostat that regulates the Earth’s climate system. The whiteness of the ice sheets help cool the atmosphere by reflecting heat from the Sun; the darkness of the polar oceans absorbs heat from the sun. Ice cold, salty water from the surface drops into the deep oceans to drive the ocean currents that carry heat around the globe. The Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica is a natural ‘sink’ that absorbs the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Scientists know that the Antarctic ice sheet has grown and shrunk over geological history. Recent analysis of Antarctic ice cores reveal that during the last 800,000 years the Earth experienced eight glacial cycles (each with an ice age and warm period). Understanding this natural rhythm helps scientists get a better picture of what’s happening to the Earth’s climate today and what might happen in the future.
So is Antarctica really melting?
The majority of long-term measurements from Antarctic research stations show no significant warming or cooling trends, and temperatures over most of the continent have been relatively stable over the past few decades. The effects of the ozone hole have shielded much of the Antarctic continent from the impact of ‘global warming’.
Does the Ozone Hole affect Antarctic climate?
We now know that the Antarctic ozone hole has had a profound effect on the Antarctic climate that extends far beyond increasing the levels of ultra-violet radiation. As stratospheric ozone amounts have fallen, temperatures above the continent have also dropped. This creates a bigger temperature difference between the tropics and the Antarctic which affects global weather patterns. For example, since 1980 the strength of winds over the Southern Ocean has increased by about 15%.
What about reports about Antarctica melting?
It is a very different story on the Antarctic Peninsula — the long mountainous landmass that projects from the main continent. Climate records from the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula show that temperatures in this region have risen by nearly 3°C during the last 50 years — about five times the global average, and only matched in Alaska and Siberia. British Antarctic Survey research has shown also that near-surface sea temperatures to the west of the Peninsula have risen by over 1°C over a similar period. It is now accepted that the waters of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current are warming more rapidly than the global ocean as a whole.
Is human activity warming Antarctica?
Experiments with climate models suggest that human activity has contributed to temperature changes observed across Antarctica, including the rapid warming on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula. However, these changes also reflect natural factors, such as variations in volcanic dust in the atmosphere and changes in the energy output of the Sun. But the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula is very sensitive to climate change. Stronger westerly winds in the northern Antarctic Peninsula, driven principally by human-induced climate change, were responsible for the marked regional summer warming that led to the well-publicised retreat and collapse of the northern Larsen Ice Shelf. In October 2006, the first direct evidence linking human activity to the collapse of northern Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves was reported in the Journal of Climate.
What’s the evidence?
The ozone hole and global warming have changed Antarctic weather patterns such that strengthened westerly winds force warm air eastward over the natural barrier created by the Antarctic Peninsula’s 2km-high mountain chain. On summer days when this happens temperatures in the north-east Peninsula warm by around 5°C, creating the conditions that allowed the drainage of melt-water into crevasses on the Larsen Ice Shelf, a key process that led to its break-up in 2002.
It is important that society and political leaders have access to the best scientific evidence and understanding of the likely scale and impact of global climate change. Attributing observed changes to either natural environmental events or to human activity requires reliable observations of past and present climate. A great deal of international effort is focused on using and improving sophisticated climate models that will analyse results of experiments and help determine future change.
Since the start of the Industrial Revolution the amount of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere has increased beyond that caused by these natural events.
There is growing evidence that a large part of the recently observed rapid change is driven by human activity.
The lowest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica was −89°C
The temperature in the Antarctic Peninsula has risen by almost 3°C in the last 50 years causing some of the smaller ice shelves to melt
Around 30 countries operate Antarctica research stations where scientists study global environmental issues like climate change, ozone depletion and sustainable management of marine life.
Science Briefing – Antarctica and climate change (BAS)
What the heck are you on about Cedric?
Andy, do you remember all that wierd shit about the hard left Marxists that you said before? The sockpuppetry and the rest of your bad behaviour?
Can’t you give yourself a little more credit than that and lift your game?
You see, all the scientific communities on the planet are independent from each other.
The BAS is independent from NASA. NASA is independent from the CSIRO etc.
There is no secret cabal. There is no mass conspiracy.
There’s no good reason to wed yourself to some aged kooks with a blog that are telling you only what you want to hear.
It’s not going to change.
Six month from now, six years from now or sixty years from now. There’s never going to be some wonderous announcement that, gosh darn it, those climate “skeptics” were right all along.
Six months from now, you will be forced to ignore the conclusions of NASA.
Six months from now, the moon landing deniers will also be forced to ignore the conclusions of NASA too.
Six months, six years or whatever.
There’s no moving forward. It’s not going to get “better” somehow.
Whatsupmybutt and Co. are writing endless checks that they can never cash.
You’ve been taken. For years, you have been taken. You’ve allowed yourself to be pursuaded to emotionally invest in some dumb no-name blogs at the expense of turning your back on all the scientific communities on the planet. Every single one on the planet.
It’s unjustifiable.
It’s insane.
Contact their currently working collegues at the BAS. Send them an email.
Ask them if what they are telling you is really real or not.
You have nothing to lose. It won’t cost you a penny.
To request an interview with Dr Nick Barrand please contact Catherine Byerley, International Media Relations Manager at the University of Birmingham.
Email: c.j.byerley@bham.ac.uk
For information on ice2sea contact Paul B. Holland at the British Antarctic Survey Communications Office, Cambridge.
Email: paul.b.holland@bas.ac.uk
Fascinating, thanks for the links Cedric.
By the way, I am just returning from a fantastic weeks holiday in France and Spain, which have had record snowfalls, allowing me to enjoy some great backcountry skiing. Therefore, if I appear more relaxed than usual, this may be the reason.
By the way, I am just returning from a fantastic weeks holiday in France and Spain, which have had record snowfalls…
And someone’s Uncle Vinny smoked three packs a day until he died at the age of 101 when he was run over by a bus therefore there’s no link between cancer and cigarettes.
Somewhere in the world, there’s always going to be a record snowfall.
That’s the nature of statistics.
Climate is not weather. Weather is not climate.
The British Antarctic Survery is still not filled with Marxists.
Climate Denial Crock of the Week- “It’s cold. So there’s no Climate Change”
You global warming religion fanatics are amazing, always thinking up a new theory to justify you discredited stories. Why is Antarctica expanding? Quite simple really, because it is not warming.
Copie, why should that cause the “expansion”? Surely if there is no change in climate we should expect the status quo?
Come, on. You are so sure of yourself. Surely you must be able to explain it..
You don’t seem to have thought it through.
I didn’t say that there is no change in climate. Climate is always changing, sometimes hotter, sometimes colder. However, none of this has anything do do with human activity.
Antactica is expanding because it sometimes does this.
Copie – care to support your claim that climate change has nothing to do with human activity with some evidence?
Have a look at Climate change is complex.
Richard Christie | April 25, 2013 at 10:19 pm |
Meanwhile, Treadgold is seeing Lizardmen everywhere.
The man is a certifiable lunatic.
http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2013/04/ipcc-created-and-controlled-by-activists/#comments
How do you like this comment from Huub Bakker on Treadgold’s post, though Richard:
“It was in ca 1980 that James Hansen gave his famous talk to Congressmen on global warming. He picked the day of the year with the warmest average temperature and snuck into the building the night before to disable the air conditioning. (I don’t think that they had to lock the windows closed as that is the general case in air conditioned buildings.)
This is not the work of a scientist but the work of an activist.”
I can just see these horrible climate scientists “snucking” around and disabling air conditioning everywhere!
These guys are away with the birds.
Cedric Katesby | April 25, 2013 at 10:35 pm |
Here is the first sign (the first I’ve seen, anyway) of the IPCC acknowledging its links to Agenda 21 and the over-arching ambitions of the United Nations to rule the world. For what guidelines for “urban planning” or “policy requirements” could the IPCC adopt but those handily available and vigorously promoted for 21 years by its parent, the UN?
Agenda 21? Again?? Wow.
To the naive, this looks innocent. But to the activist, it’s a golden opportunity to manipulate society and gain control of it. They will grasp the opportunity.
Yes, it’s looks innocent. Rather innocent and boring. Yet the wheels within wheels within wheels continue to turn. Tinfoil hattery.
I don’t use the word conspiracy, nor do I believe it. I simply cite public documents. It’s a fact that the UN wrote Agenda 21. Read it.
Comedy that writes itself. Impossible to parody further.
Kook.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2012/spring/behind-the-green-mask
Ken, might you please remove the (my) ISP info that appeared at the end of your last reply. I don’t know about assocoiated risks but better safe than sorry.
I heard the Hansen story before, at least the “it was a very hot day” part.
So according to Huub, Hansen can’t have climbed in the windows to disable the air conditioning, that would have forced him to use the secret tunnel.
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The StarPhoenix
The City of Saskatoon and Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc. have opened Canada’s first commercial nutrient recovery facility at the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The project is the first commercial plant of its kind in Canada to use Ostara’s Pearl nutrient recovery process to recover phosphorus and nitrogen from the facility’s waste water stream and transform them into Crystal Green, a slow-release and environmentally responsible enhanced efficiency fertilizer.
“The example of responsible stewardship of our resources begins at home,” said Mayor Donald Atchison in a news release, noting that with the project, “we are proactively and cost-effectively tackling the growing issue of nutrient overload in our regional waterways. And that’s good for taxpayers and good for the environment.”
By removing potentially-polluting nutrients from the treatment facility’s waste water stream, the technology helps the city meet nutrient discharge limits and overcome operational issues caused by the unintentional buildup of struvite scale in plant equipment.
Struvite is a concrete-like mineral deposit that chokes process equipment, increases operating and maintenance costs, and undermines plant reliability. The formation of struvite is a common challenge in plants that practice biological nutrient removal and anaerobic digestion.
In Saskatoon, the sludge is handled at a bio-solid facility which is 12 kilometres away from the treatment plant where it is stored. The struvite challenges are exacerbated as the sludge must travel this distance through pipes from the treatment plant to this facility, and then pump decant water back to the treatment plant. Keeping the pipes clear of struvite is a significant operational challenge, especially in the winter. Chemical additives can sometimes be used to mitigate struvite problems, however they are costly and result in a higher volume of sludge waste requiring disposal.
The Ostara system will help the city overcome these challenges by recovering 75 per cent of the phosphorus and 10 per cent of the nitrogen from the waste water stream before they accumulate in the equipment.
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Bearded Alex Jones Goes On Craziest 9/11 Tangent Yet…
01) Bearded Alex Jones Goes On Craziest 9/11 Tangent Yet
“Ah, Alex Jones. As funny and crazy as this man is, you can’t deny how dangerous his rationale and rhetoric can be. Michael Brooks and the Majority Report crew discuss this.”
This entry was posted in Alex Jones, Wordpress Archive on July 6, 2018 by eqfoundation.
Mozart: “Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber” – Sung by a Teen Choir…
01) Cor Vivaldi – Leck mir den Arsch fein recht schön sauber – W A Mozart – 5/14
“Concert “Mozart, Schubert, Rossini” “De l’humor escatològic a la fe tot passant per la flauta màgica”
Cor Vivaldi “Petits Cantors de Catalunya”
Òscar Boada, piano i direcció”
The title translates to “Lick my ass fine pretty clean”…
I’m not into that sort of thing…but I have to confess…I find school kids singing such a song, to be absolutely hysterical!
…A few of them look like middle schoolers…
This choir needs more boys, though.
This entry was posted in Social Artifacts, Wordpress Archive on July 6, 2018 by eqfoundation.
Zlocin v obrazarne (1983)…
01) Zlocin v obrazarne (1983)
“Radek dreams of becoming a famous artist, and his mother works in an art gallery. One day his drawing accidentally replaces the painting at the exhibition-sale of the fashionable Impressionist painter. And it becomes the only work that was sold there.”
This entry was posted in Frontier Matinee, Wordpress Archive on July 6, 2018 by eqfoundation.
Gizmondo: The Worst-Selling Handheld Console Ever…
01) LGR – Gizmondo: The Worst-Selling Handheld Console Ever
“A deep dive into the infamous Gizmondo by Tiger Telematics from 2005! Its rapid rise and fall, the packaging, the games, and the odd legacy it leaves in its wake. May include wrecked Ferrari Enzos and melty rubber.”
This entry was posted in Club Diamond Arcade, Wordpress Archive on July 6, 2018 by eqfoundation.
‘Paedophile hunter’ jailed for blackmailing victims…
01) ‘Paedophile hunter’ jailed for blackmailing victims
“A self-styled ‘paedophile hunter’ who blackmailed his victims for tens of thousands of pounds has been jailed. Charles Touzel, 29, from Stiby Road, Yeovil posed as a 14-year-old girl called Sky to entrap his victims. He arranged to meet them and when they turned up he threatened to expose them as paedophiles.
Jailing Touzel for eight years at Taunton Crown Court, Judge David Ticehurst said the ‘corrupt scheme was motivated entirely by money’. At an earlier hearing, Touzel pleaded guilty to four charges of blackmail involving three men, for a total of £33,000. Ian Fenney, prosecuting, said Touzel took his victims to cash machines or their banks and demanded money. On one occasion, one of the men was held against his will in a hotel overnight and forced to withdraw £10,000 the next day.”
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.”
Thanks, feinmann0!
We need a whole new wave, of this kind of justice being served…It is so long overdue, on so many levels…
…There are so many people out there, for whom this legal reckoning is an absolute necessity.
I agree…It is time to bring them to justice.
This entry was posted in TAP-Net, Wordpress Archive on July 6, 2018 by eqfoundation.
Republican caught in someone else’s child molestation scandal…
01) Republican caught in someone else’s child molestation scandal
“Republican Congressman Jim Jordan allegedly looked the other way when boys were getting molested on his watch.
Rep. Jim Jordan, the powerful Republican congressman from Ohio, is being accused by former wrestlers he coached more than two decades ago at Ohio State University of failing to stop the team doctor from molesting them and other students.
The university announced in April that it was investigating accusations that Dr. Richard Strauss, who died in 2005, abused team members when he was the team doctor from the mid-1970s to late 1990s.
Jordan, who was assistant wrestling coach at the university from 1986 to 1994, has repeatedly said he knew nothing of the abuse until former students began speaking out this spring, and continued to deny it on Tuesday. His denials, however, have been met with skepticism and anger from some former members of the wrestling team.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/powerful-gop-rep-jim-jordan-accused-turning-blind-eye-sexual-n888386“
Rep. Jim Jordan denies ignoring alleged sex abuse:
TYT’s video contradicts it’s own title…This is not “child molestation”…It is sexual assault, on young adults.
I don’t know who thought it was okay, to spread such disinformation…but that is sloppy, lazy and propagandist.
One has to wonder…if public universities are going to be the next “catholic church”…
…Yet another common public institution, responsible for the lions share of all the things the rest of us get blamed for.
This entry was posted in Wordpress Archive on July 6, 2018 by eqfoundation.
This Rapture Believing Lunatic Talks To President Trump…
01) WATCH: This Rapture Believing Lunatic Talks To President Trump
Are Jordan Peterson Fans a Cult?…
01) Are Jordan Peterson Fans a Cult?
“Jordan Peterson fans are often fanatical, but are they a cult? In speaking out against supposed neo-marxists and post-modernists, writing 12 Rules for Life, speaking against mainstream feminism, and launching his Biblical Series, Peterson has gained a cult-like following. Can this fan base be compared to Scientologists or Jehovah’s Witnesses? Let’s find out.
Dawson’s comprehending cults
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/IJSNR/
article/download/9368/pdf
Stark and Bainbridge
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1385935?
seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
BITE Model
https://freedomofmind.com/bite-model/“
I cant speak for all fans of Jordan Peterson…I do, however, agree with one of the commentators, who points out that Jordan arose out of a very real social conflict that has been simmering just under the surface…one which exploded into total craziness, and demanded that voices of reason respond to it.
To that extent…Jordan filled a necessary role…
…Is he perfect?…no…
…And speaking as somebody who did not expect him to be…I am fine with the fact, that he’s not perfect…It’s not as though I’m buying into an entire life philosophy served up by Jordan, just because I have a strong appreciation for what he’s done, standing up against political correctness gone tyrannical dominator, over the past year.
It’s high time somebody actually did stand up to such abusive people…And if anybody is especially troubled by the fact that Jordan is in the mix of that resistance…maybe it’s a sign, that such troubled people need to get themselves out there…and start personally representing the things they perceive as lacking [in the situation or in Jordan]…
I don’t see an articulate person pushing back against abusive tyranny, as being a problem…
Maybe, he has some hard core fans who are crazy…I don’t know…I don’t pay any attention to them…I just know that I like what I’ve seen, where it comes to standing up to the political correctness…
…Beyond that…of course…people are perfectly free, to assess other things expressed by Jordan…And maybe, some of them have proven to be unsound…
…The chips will fall where they fall.
This entry was posted in Atheist Media, Wordpress Archive on July 5, 2018 by eqfoundation.
Ed Schultz Dies…
01) BREAKING: Ed Schultz Dies
Konrad or the Child out of the Tin (1983)…
01) Konrad oder Das Kind aus der Konservenbüchse – Konrad or the Child out of the Tin (1983)
“8 Languages Subtitles in Settings! The movie Konrad or the Child out of the Tin is based loosely on the children’s book Konrad oder das Kind aus der Konservenbüchse (Konrad ou a criança fora da lata 1975) by Austrian author Christine Nöstlinger. The book Konrad ou l’enfant hors de l’étain was awarded the Mildred L. Batchelder award from the American Library Association in 1979.”
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UFO-Forschung - IFO-Universität: Sirius am Südhimmel (19.01./20.01.2019)
Planet Erde - Himmelsphänomene Teil-188
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Astronomie - NASA preps for Armageddon style asteroid threat — but with far less drama
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Astronomie - New solar flare simulation reveals dazzling beauty of dangerous eruptions This research is teaching us how the sun evolves, and how it affects our daily lives.
Raumfahrt - First crewless launch of Soyuz-2 with manned type craft due on September — Progress center
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Donnerstag, 17. Januar 2019 - 20:15 Uhr
WASHINGTON — The long-delayed Missile Defense Review, which will be formally introduced by President Donald Trump at the Pentagon on Thursday, will call for research and investments to ensure America’s security for the next several decades: laser technology, the F-35 as an ICBM killer, and potentially putting interceptors in space.
Trump will roll out the report at 11 a.m. Thursday as part of his third visit to the Pentagon since taking office.
Expected to attend the rollout is a who’s who of national security officials, including vice president Mike Pence, national security adviser John Bolton; Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan; Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson; Army Secretary Mark Esper; Pentagon policy head John Rood; Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Ellen Lord; Pentagon technology head Mike Griffin; and Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio, a leading advocate for missile defense.
A senior administration official, speaking to reporters ahead of the report’s release, confirmed a number of new technologies that Defense News has learned are highlighted in the report. The official told reporters that overall, the review looks at “the comprehensive environment the United States faces, and our allies and partners face. It does posture forces to be prepared for capabilities that currently exist and that we anticipate in the future.”
It’s been a long road for the MDR to finally emerge. Pentagon officials originally said the document would be released in late 2017 — then February, then mid-May and then late in the summer. In September, Rood, who as undersecretary of defense for policy is the point man for the MDR, indicated the report could come out in a matter of weeks. And in October, Shanahan, then the deputy secretary of defense, said the document had been done “for some time.”
There is also widespread speculation in the missile defense community that the review has been delayed, at least in part, because of the warmed relations between the Trump administration and North Korea. Notably, the mid-May time frame for release, which was floated by Shanahan in April, lined up President Donald Trump’s planned meeting in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. While that meeting was canceled and then eventually happened in June, there was a sense the Pentagon did not want to do anything that could jeopardize those talks, such as releasing a report discussing how the U.S. could counter North Korean capabilities.
Ironically, Trump will be rolling the report out just hours before a high-level North Korean delegation is expected to arrive in Washington for talks with the administration. However, Sung-Yoon Lee, a Korean expert with Tufts University‘s Fletcher School, doesn’t expect that to impact any negotiations.
“North Korea has the upper hand and is playing hard to get,” Lee said, and so won’t make a big deal out of the MDR’s statements on North Korea.
“Their propaganda machinery at home may issue a statement a couple of days later, but [lead North Korean official Kim Yong Chol] would be foolish to address it while he’s in D.C," he added.
Technological changes
Much of the technology discussed in the MDR will require many years of development, and in some cases will never come to fruition. But the following points give a good sense of the let’s-try-everything approach the Pentagon is putting forth with the report:
Turn the SM-3 and F-35 into intercontinental ballistic missile killers: The SM-3 Block IIA ship-launched interceptor is designed for dealing with regional threats. But the Pentagon intends to test the weapon as a counter-ICBM system in 2020, as part of a goal of creating an extra layer of protection for the homeland. In essence, the department wants to offer as many options as possible, scattered around the globe, for making sure nothing gets through the safety net.
The department has previously said the F-35 could be used in some capacity for missile defense, but the MDR calls for the testing and development of a new or modified interceptor which could shoot down a ballistic missile in the boost phase; expect early R&D funding for such a weapon to be in the FY20 budget request. There is also the possibility of using the F-35, equipped with its array of sensors, to hunt and track mobile missile units, which is a key part of North Korea’s doctrine.
Lasers on drones: The idea of using directed energy weapons, more commonly known as lasers, to take out a missile in the boost phase is not new, but it has received a boost in the past year in comments from technological leaders inside the building. In theory, putting a drone equipped with a laser high in the air at around 60,000 feet would keep it safe from any missile defense systems, while providing overwatch on potential launch sites. However, this idea feels more far-flung than others, in part because both the scaled up laser that would be needed for such capabilities has yet to be invented, let alone paired with a system that would be able to stay that high for long periods of time.
In the meantime, DoD is developing a low-power laser demonstrator to evaluate and test what technologies would be needed to make such a system a reality, despite the fact that airborne laser weapons are perhaps the hardest directed energy system to develop.
Space-based sensors: In the FY19 defense authorization bill, Congress required the missile defense agency to fully study and prototype ways to increase the space-based sensor layer. It’s been another focus area for Griffin during his time in the Pentagon.
“A space-based layer of sensors is something we are looking at to help give early warning, tracking and discrimination of missiles when they are launched,” the administration official said. “We see space as an area that’s very important as far as advanced, next-level capabilities that will help us stay ahead of the threat.”
Just what that layer looks like, however, remains to be seen. Expect some form of disaggregated architecture, relying on many smaller systems rather than the expensive, highly-capable systems that the U.S. has traditionally relied upon. Hosting sensor payloads on commercial satellites could also be in play.
The hope is to demo some form of space-based sensor layer by early in the 2020s.
Space-based interceptors: Perhaps the most controversial of the ideas being considered in the document comes from the idea of having interceptors placed in orbit to take out ballistic missiles. Picture a satellite equipped with 10 rockets that, when triggered by the sensor net, can target and launch against an incoming missile.
The MDR does not call for investment in space-based interceptors at this point. Instead, the department will launch a study, lasting perhaps six months, to look into the most promising technologies and come up with estimates for cost and time; after the study is done, the department will look to move forward if it makes sense.
But don’t expect lasers in space anytime soon, with the administration official saying nothing has been determined, only that “we’re going to study it and we’ll see whether or not it’s feasible.”
Countering hypersonic weapons: A Defense Intelligence Agency report released this week said that China is leading the world with hypersonic weapons, systems capable of going at Mach 5 and able to move too quickly to be defeated by current generation missile defenses. Russia has also invested heavily in that technology. So it’s no surprise the MDR calls for investments in ways to protect against such weapons.
Third missile defense site: Right now, the U.S. has two homeland missile defense sites for its Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, in Alaska and California. Could a third site be considered?
“That’s something we have been considering,” the official said. “We’ve done environmental impact study on three potential sites. So we’re ready to move forward if its determined that that’s something that would really enhance our posture with respect to Iran. But no decision has been made about a third interceptor site yet.”
One option noted in the MDR is to temporarily or permanently operationalize the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Center in Kauai, Hawaii. That system is currently used just as a test facility.
The document, as ordered by Congress, must include milestone targets for developing new capabilities. It requires statements of five- and 10-year programmatic goals for developing capabilities, “as well as desired end states and milestones for integration and interoperability with allies, and a statement on the role of international cooperation,” per congressional guidance.
However, the new technologies presented as option in the report are not broken down in great detail in the report; those details are more likely to appear in the FY20 budget requests that correspond with the new capabilities.
Homeland versus regional strategies
A large potential change from the 2010 MDR that had been closely watched was whether the new document would call for a homeland defense capability that could defeat Russia and China.
Traditionally, America’s approach has been to focus on the ability defend against rogue states like Iran and North Korea, which could launch at most a handful of missiles at the homeland, or against one-off mistakes launched from Russia and China. To try to counter the overwhelming number of ICBMs those two nations could launch would be cost-prohibitive and, advocates of this approach argue, destabilizing.
However, the review does not shift the approach, saying instead that "United States still relies on nuclear deterrence to deter a potential Russian or Chinese nuclear attack,” the senior official said.
At the same time, the review pledges that the U.S. will not accept any limitation or constraint on the development or deployment of missile defense technologies the administration feels are needed to secure the safety of the American public – a line which may be seized upon by Russia or China as proof that the administration intends to impinge upon their own sovereignty.
While its homeland defense posture is very similar to the 2010 Obama review, the document presents a more aggressive posture with regional defense, calling for greater integration of missile defense into the strategic thinking abroad. Specifically, the review notes that missile defense systems can shape an adversary’s views of how effective missiles can be against the U.S. or its allies. The report calls for the ability to surge missile defense at times of crisis.
Fundamentally, the reports rests on the idea that missile defense systems are stabilizing forces, which change an opponent’s calculus and reduces the risk. That has been a controversial opinion in the past, with nonproliferation advocates like Laura Grego of the Union of Concerned Scientists saying missile defense systems simply encourage adversaries to try to top them.
“For every defensive measure, the adversary will take steps to overcome those defenses," Grego said. “A potential adversary is likely to increase the numbers and types of nuclear-armed missiles if worried about missile defense undermining the credibility of their nuclear deterrent.”
"Militaries plan decades in advance for what they think they need, and China and Russia will likely plan for the worst-case scenarios, where there’s no treaty constraint or political constraint on US missile defenses,” she said.
However, advocates of missile defense such as Rebeccah Heinrichs of the Hudson Institute, believe the absence of strong U.S. defenses emboldens potential adversaries and gives them a bargaining chip over America.
“Missile defense can contribute to deterrence if they can increase our enemies' uncertainty in their ability to successfully hit their intended target. The more we can convince the enemy that their initial attack will not be worth the cost, the more effectively we can deter that attack in the first place,” she said. “Plugging that gap has a stabilizing effect, remaining vulnerable is not a stable situation and it gives our adversaries an advantage we should not allow them to have.”
In both regional and homeland defense, the review calls out Iran and North Korea as bad actors who must be countered both regionally and for homeland defense.
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Jewish people have been living in Turkey for thousands of years. Even today, Jewish community have strong presence in major cities like Istanbul, Izmir and Bursa, although the total population is around 27,000. This makes Turkey one of the most interesting countries with so many religion and empires leaving significant impact on the historical richness.
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In 70 CE, Roman army invaded Jerusalem and forced Jews out. Some Jews travelled to Spain and established their roots. In 15th century, they were again forced to flew for their lives. When Ottoman Empire heard about this expulsion, they opened the doors of the empire for Jews. Throughout five centuries, Jews enjoyed the safe haven in the Empire and served as an important part of Ottoman economy. This religious freedom allowed them to build many historical structures.
This place has symbolic significance as there are clusters of synagogues bearing Spanish architectural style. Some of the synagogues are ancient giving historical architectural complexities to this place. There are many famous synagogues worth visiting in this area. Some of famous ones are Ancient Ephesus, Beth Israel, Hevra and Rosh Ha-Har
Istanbul has the highest percentage of Jewish population in Turkey. Because of this reason you can explore holy synagogues and Jewish Museum of Turkey. It will give you glimpse of the historical presence of Jewish population.
Archaeologist excavated two ancient synagogues in Antalya. In 2009, one of the synagogue in the port city was found in Andriake located near Antalya. It was built in the 3rd century after Jews were allowed to become Roman Citizen. You can still find of menorah and other Jewish symbols on this structure. Similarly, another synagogue was discovered in 2012 in the ancient city of Limyra.
This synagogue was an active place of worship until the fire broke up. It was built in 19th century but the structure was abandoned after serious fire in 1940s. It was restored after much restoration. The muncipility also worked hard to incorporate the original colours and designs in the synagogue.
Jewish people are present in this region since the arrival of Romaniote Jews during the Byzantine era and through the influx of Sephardic Jews from Iberia. You can find Jewish cemetery which are horizontal slabs in Sephardic manner.
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The synagogue replaced 13 synagogues in 1905. It is one of the largest in Europe and has a capacity of 1200 people till 1983. This synagogue closed down for the worshipper. It reopened in 2015 after $2.5 million restoration process and now it serves as cultural center and place for worship.
This synagogue dates back to 1920s. Government worked on restoration project and reopened it for tourist and worshipers.
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Plant Magic by Sandra Kynes
March 11, 2019 at 11:29 pm (guidebooks, Nature spirituality, Plants, Wicca and Witchcraft)
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Plant Magic: A Year of Green Wisdom for Pagans and Wiccans
Sandra Kynes
Llewellyn Publications, 2017
Review by Rebecca Buchanan.
I love to garden and I love to bake, so I was very excited to lay my hands on an advance copy of Sandra Kynes’ new Plant Magic. I am happy to report that Kynes’ book is well-researched, easy to understand, and would make a great addition to the library of any witch, gardener, or baker.
The book is divided into two main sections: a lengthy introduction, followed by entries for each individual month. In the case of Plant Magic, it is vital to *not* skip the Getting Started section. Kynes lays out the importance of scientific names (“meadowsweet” for example, is colloquially applied to two very different plants), defines some basic botanical terms, discusses the role of the planets and stars and moon in plant magick, and analyzes the symbolism of the various parts of plants.
Each month, in turn, is divided into four sections: On the Calendar (sacred days and the plants associated with them), In the Garden, In the Wild, and In the House. January, for example, includes entries on New Year’s, Epiphany, and the Celtic Month of Rowan, witch hazel, eucalyptus, spider plant, and a winter wellness rite with thyme. The entry on witch hazel is further divided into a discussion of its common and scientific names, a description of the plant, its magical uses, its astrological influences, and its link to the ogham Emancoll.
I definitely recommend Plant Magic. It is one of the easiest-to-use manuals on the subject that I have ever seen. I do have a suggestion, though: if you buy a physical copy of the book, also grab a blank journal. Use it to take notes, jot down garden plans, and, especially, include photos of the plants. Aside from a lunar chart and illustrations of ogham and runes, there are *no* pictures in Plant Magic. (In the case of a digital copy, it should be possible to copy/paste and attach images in the margins, or create hyperlinks.)
Recommended, especially in conjunction with texts such as Roth’s The Witching Herbs, Rodale’s Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening, Riotte’s Carrots Love Tomatoes, and Culpepe’s Herbal.
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Christian Animism by Shawn Sanford Beck
March 11, 2019 at 6:03 pm (Animism, Christianity, Nature spirituality)
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Christian Animism
Shawn Sanford Beck
Christian Alternative, 2015
Review by Katina Haaland-Ramer.
Christian Animism’ by Shawn Sanford Beck is a curious and brief (52-page) treatise on the titular topic by a Canadian Anglican Priest with Pagan leanings. The author cites as his two greatest sources of inspiration activist/theologian Walter Wink and Starhawk. The work could roughly be called an apologetic, as a great deal of the text is taken up with explaining how such a thing could exist in the first place.
While he claims full faith in Christ, his alternative theology recognizes the influences of Buddhist, Cree, and the aforementioned Pagan traditions. Internal to the Christian heritage he recognizes Celtic faith and classic apocryphal Enochian literature. He contests that while monotheism may be at odds with pantheism and polytheism, there is sufficient Biblical support for an animistic worldview as to make it not incompatible with the Christian faith.
I believe it [an apple tree] to be a fellow creature, a being both physical and spiritual, as I am. But I don’t worship it, and I don’t consider it a god. It is simply a neighbor. Now, while you may think me a bit off my rocker for holding this belief, you cannot accuse me of being a heretic (14).
Beck’s vision is one in which the world may be treated as the body of the triune God: Creator, Word, and Holy Sophia. At the same time, he sees it populated by the spirits of individual living things (including rocks, plants, and even natural features) under the jurisdiction of presiding spirits (such as all vegetables, the sky, and so forth). He also references the fictional worlds of Narnia and Middle Earth as parables of his world view.
Beck contests that adopting this paradigm is theologically beneficial in the areas of creating an ecologically-aware Christianity that treats all beings of the earth as “neighbors”. This is to correct for the other Biblical models of relatedness to the world which are anthropocentric. His work is very carefully progressive, and he seems to suffer much over the past and present errors of the traditional Church.
It is unfortunate to see such a brilliant thinker apparently girding himself for attack expected from all sides, but understandable. He is attempting to syncratize traditions that have much hatred to overcome if they are ever to coexist peacefully. The second benefit he cites is the potential for creating the interfaith dialogue required to make such a future a reality.
Finally, he hopes to revitalize the faith by encouraging personal awakening in the faithful:
Christian animism can give us some tools so that we might begin to open our hearts and minds to the “spirit world”, not as a realm far removed from day-to-day reality, and not as a synonym for heaven (as an eschatological reality), but rather as the world of energy and consciousness intricately bound to the physical creatures whom we encounter in our real lives (18).
If there be any criticism, this is a highly intellectual and academic work thick with jargon through which those unfamiliar with technical religious study might find it tedious to pick. However, it may be the best piece of literature possible for someone from a deep Christian background seeking to reconcile that faith with a magical awakening.
The Tarot of Bones by Lupa
March 8, 2019 at 6:12 pm (Animal Magic, Nature spirituality, tarot)
Tags: Animal Magic, card decks, Nature spirituality, reviews, tarot
The Tarot of Bones
Review by Natalie Zaman.
I’m admittedly biased about The Tarot of the Bones because I supported the Indiegogo campaign. I’ve always loved Lupa’s work and have been eye-balling sets of her bone runes (visit her etsy shop at http://thegreenwoff.etsy.com for a look if you already haven’t), so when she started putting out the word for patrons to fund the creation of a Tarot deck that would be based in her artwork, I was in like skin (no pun intended).
It wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect a somewhat skeletal rendition of the Rider-Waite-Smith symbolism in The Tarot of the Bones. Lupa said that she’d be building on traditional symbolism, but Tarot of the Bones is unique. Each image is a combination of natural elements, arranged and collaged in Lupa’s signature style; stark, crisp, immersive. Looking at these images is a wander through the woods, or the careful navigation of a moss and wildflower-tufted cliff. It’s a walk along the seaside, or a peek inside a cave, a visual feast. Close your eyes and you might hear bird calls, the soft pad of feet in the underbrush, smell earth and rain. If you’re not comfortable of confident about handling actual bones, working with these cards would certainly be an effective beginner’s step.
I love beautiful collector’s decks, but ultimately, I like things that I can use. Some of The Tarot of the Bones’ nods to Rider-Waite-Smith are subtle, but obvious, like the serpent skeleton that chases its own tail to represent the Magician. I cheekily thought that I’d “gotten” that one: The skeletal snake is The Magician’s belt. Perhaps that can enter into the card’s meaning in a reading—after all, there is the archetype, and then there’s the intuitive pulls the reader draws from certain imagery. I couldn’t help but think of The Magician’s belt as soon as I saw this image. But it does not end there. The snake, as Magician, Lupa says, sheds his skin to emerge as something new. Then there is that sinewy magic of a snake’s movement. Even the type of serpent—the corn snake—was, she says, “a deliberate choice.” Not just the physical remains, but the whole animal and its nature is taken into consideration: The corn snake is often kept as a pet, Lupa says, and as such he is The Magician. Unlike his counterpart, The Hermit (played by a female hornbill skull). The Magician is evident, and in the public eye. Not so obvious was the Four of Cups portrayed as four white deer bones that form a shelter is, Lupa says, “the card of the introvert,” a safe haven from choices (at least for the moment), a place of contemplation. These details add a new and fresh meaning to the Tarot archetypes.
Like all takes on the Tarot, The Tarot of the Bones is loaded with symbolism, some traditional, and some with its own meaning entirely, embedded in natural elements, some I was familiar with (or thought I was familiar), and some not so much. I will need the book, at least at first, to help me identify all of the elements that went into each piece (It also occurred to me that this will make a marvelous reference for identifying and interpreting these natural elements both for working with this deck and otherwise.). Lupa is thorough in this regard—we get the story behind the card and its making, her associations and its connections with traditional Tarot archetypes where applicable. Her conversational and witty writing style makes this a pleasure (free Lupa with every deck!).
My favorite cards:
The Happy Squirrel (a happy add on after the Indiegogo campaign made goal). Apart from the Magician, it is the only other complete skeleton. I also love having a wild card type element in a reading.
Wheel: I have a thing about sand dollars, and was glad to see this shell-skeleton make an appearance.
The Lovers: I loved the almost pre-historic look of the albatross (made of resin) skulls in this image; they also look like the hands of a clock, pointing to the crystals that encircle them. Choices!
The King of Cups, represented by a turtle shell—perfect.
The Path of Paganism by John Beckett
March 7, 2019 at 5:51 pm (Druidry, guidebooks, Nature spirituality)
Tags: books, Druidry, guidebooks, Nature spirituality, reviews
The Path of Paganism: An Experience-Based Guide to Modern Pagan Practice
John Beckett is a well-known writer and speaker, and a member of the OBOD, CUUPS, and the ADF. In The Path of Paganism, he offers practical, heart-felt, hard-earned advice on how to be Pagan in the world. Not just offer lip service to the idea of Paganism, but how to actively honor the Gods, live their virtues, and find our true purpose.
Beckett divides the book into four sections: Building a Foundation (the origins and purpose of religion, the different types of Paganism, the place of nature in Paganism, the nature of the Gods, and so on); Putting It Into Practice (the importance of prayer and meditation, piety, how to build an altar, ethics, and so on); Intermediate Practice (individual and group practice, sample rituals and circles, initiation, and so on); and Living at the Edge (the importance of continuing to learn and experience and grow our Paganism, whatever tradition it may be). Most chapters end with questions for contemplation or suggested rituals.
Following his proposal that life, experience, and learning are helical or cyclical, not linear, each section builds on the last, returning to previous discussions and ideas with new insights and information and suggestions. For example, in the beginning Beckett discusses growing up in a fundamentalist Baptist church; the seeds of doubt planted in his childhood continued to plague him until he really began to take his Paganism seriously; when he finally answered the calls of Cernunnos and Danu and the Morrigan (or maybe, began to hear the calls for what they were is more accurate), everything fell into place and he came to understand why he was here and what he was meant to do.
It has been a long time since I underlined anything in a book. I underlined a lot in The Path of Paganism. The pages are filled with both practical advice and real wisdom. I found myself pausing more than once to wonder how this or that line could apply to my own life, or how would I react in this situation, or gee, I should really try to incorporate this into my practice because it sounds useful! Beckett is a Druid and he does honor the Celtic pantheon; if you’re not, don’t let that scare you away. Much of what he discusses — how to answer the call of the Gods, how to live faithfully in troubled times, how to care for the world and the people around us — can be applied across any tradition.
One element that I found particularly compelling was Beckett’s emphasis on science. More than once, he notes that “bad science makes bad religion.” This, in turn, ties into the over-emphasis we place on literal truth and scientific validation. “When we misuse and misunderstand science we are doing exactly the same thing Christian fundamentalists do when they insist the Bible is inerrant [….] The foundation of their proof has crumbled, and they are forced to deny established facts to pretend otherwise. [….] Science has become the arbiter of truth in our materialistic society and we want science to bless our religion. At the root of this desire is the idea that the only truth worth having is the kind of truth science can validate, that the only knowledge is literal, material knowledge. This is why fundamentalists insist the Bible is literally true — if it’s not literally true, they think it’s worthless. They ignore the value of mythical and mystical truth.” (pp. 32-33) For Beckett — a Druid, an engineer, and an environmentalist — science and religion are the twin branches of a helix, twining together to create a life of virtue and knowledge, a life worth living.
Highly recommended to both those new to Paganism and those already far along their chosen path, especially when read in conjunction with Nature Spirituality From the Ground Up by Lupa, The Earth, The Gods, and the Soul by Brendan Myers, The Earth Path by Starhawk, and A World Full of Gods by John Michael Greer.
Pagan Portals by Rebecca Beattie
March 3, 2019 at 4:21 pm (History, Nature spirituality)
Tags: books, History, Nature spirituality, reviews
Pagan Portals – Nature Mystics: The Literary Gateway to Modern Paganism
Rebecca Beattie
GoddessInk, 2013
Review by Amanda Lonsdorf.
In the author’s mind “modern Paganism is a movement born from literature”. Rebecca Beattie’s book Pagan Portals-Nature Mystics: The Literary Gateway to Modern Paganism exposes the reader to some of the historical and literary foundational individuals who helped to develop the modern Pagan movement through their lives and written works. These individuals are labeled “Nature Mystics”. Beattie describes Nature Mystics as “someone who has mystical experiences in nature or connects to the divine through nature, and uses that connection to fuel inspiration”. Now, Beattie does not claim that any of the authors explored in this book are explicitly Pagan, but that they “contributed to the pre-Pagan cultural environment” that helped lay the foundations of modern paganism to develop and grow. She calls them “proto-Pagans”. The authors individually have attitudes, beliefs, practices, or themes in their lives and works that would echo modern pagan culture or personal experience. Beattie explores various authors: John Keats, Mary Webb, Thomas Hardy, Sylvia Townsend Warner, D.H. Lawrence, Elizabeth von Arnim, William Butler Yeats, Mary Butts, J.R.R Tolkien, and E. Nesbit. A reader might say that is a narrow list and Beattie would agree with you. Beattie freely admits there could have been more authors included, but states this book is meant to be an introduction into the topic.
Beattie divides the book by author. Each author is explored thoroughly. There are four sections to each author: 1) a description of the reason they were included in the book, 2) Putting their work in context with their life and time they lived in, 3) exploring their spirituality, 4) examples of their written work. Having selected examples of the writer’s works was helpful to not only get a feel for the author’s voice, but their connection to nature. This made them more relate-able. It was interesting to see where and how some author’s lives crossed and influenced each other. In addition, Beattie included how the authors crossed paths with other notable figures or groups in the history of modern paganism. If you are interested in history, whether it be world, literary, or pagan history, you will get a good dose of it in this book. Beattle does an admirable job of explaining historical events, terms, or people of import in the space available to her. The reader might need a little previous knowledge of Pagan or literary history to get the most out of this book. At the same time, I appreciated that Beattie didn’t drag down the book with too much historical explanation. She explains just enough to show you the significance of each individual author without belaboring the point. The only thing I would have liked to see in the book was in text citation. While Beattie does have a bibliography at the end of the book, which is appreciated and adequate, I would have felt more comfortable with accepting the historical information or personal details of author’s lives with the inclusion of in-text citations. Even so, Beattie freely admits this is not a “scholarly” book, but that she is “wearing the hat of practitioner, who is exploring our literary past and origins”. Thus, my one criticism is very minor over all.
This is book offers a great introduction to our literary history as pagans. Often, when works are being critically analyzed they are compared to Christian religious topics, themes, and archetypes. In this book, the authors and their texts are explored with an understanding of broader Pagan references, beliefs, and symbolism. It was personally pleasing to see myself and my beliefs reflected back at me in these literary works and history. This book offers the reader a look at some of the individuals who helped pave the way of modern Pagan thought and practice to become more open and accepted. It is important for us as modern Pagans to understand the many directions and sources our spiritual roots stem from. This way we can feel more grounded in and have understanding of the complexity of our current modern Pagan culture. Through exploring our literary past, we become more connected to those who came before us and each other today. In addition, this book renewed a desired to re-explore old authors or introduce myself to new authors. This text inspired me to add their words to my own beliefs, practice, and spiritual path. These authors, just like myself and other Pagans, have a deep connection to the natural world around us and the magic within it. Their words allow me to become closer to my own spirituality and inspires me to continue to develop it. Reading their works, which echo those felt in my own soul, puts words to my own experiences and beliefs. Treat yourself and expose yourself to these fascinating individuals in our collective Pagan history by reading Beattie’s book.
Tree Girl by Julianne Skai Arbor
March 2, 2019 at 4:11 pm (Feminism, guidebooks, Nature spirituality)
Tags: books, Feminism, guidebooks, Nature spirituality, reviews
Tree Girl: Intimate Encounters With Wild Nature
Julianne Skai Arbor
Tree Girl Studios, 2016
Review by Lupa.
There are certain books that are pagan without expressly using that label; this is one of those. Part field guide, part photography book, it beautifully weaves together science and art while being spiritually viable.
The author, Julianna Skai Arbor, aka Tree Girl, has spent the past several years photographing remarkable individuals from fifty different tree species around the world. Many of these photos feature her or other female models in the nude, embracing the trees in sensual communion. Sometimes the models appear to be sleeping comfortably amid great roots and branches; other times there is a playful exploration. But always the human is only one part of a greater ecosystem, something that this book cannot emphasize enough.
For it is more than pretty pictures. Tree Girl shares in detail the natural history of each species she profiles, as well as the relationships humans historically had with it, to include medicinal uses. More importantly, she is quite clear about how our current actions are threatening many of these great plants and the many other beings who rely on them for food, shelter and more. But she also gives many excellent suggestions for how to reconnect with nature and become a better advocate for the beings we share this world with, for the benefit of all involved. This book is a bold combination of ethereal beauty and hard reality.
If this all isn’t overtly pagan enough for you, check out the titles of some of the photos: “Silver Beech Root Fairy”, “Cathedral Fig Dryad” and “Sequoia Meditation” are just a few of the animistic names Tree Girl has given her works. It’s a divinely feminine book, celebrating women’s bodies without heavily sexualizing them, and placing women in the context of the natural world around us. And within the very first chapter, she details the way in which she connects with the tree physically and spiritually. Her process should be familiar to anyone who has worked with nature spirits embodied in wood and flesh.
Whether you be naturalist or feminist, artist or environmentalist, witch or Druid or animist, this is a deeply inspirational book that you may draw deeply from again and again. As there are fifty trees, perhaps you could spend a week meditating on each one’s unique spirit, with a week on either end to prepare yourself to enter this great work or to bring it back out to share with the world. Or simply let it be something you enjoy paging through when you feel the need to live vicariously through a passionate artist’s works.
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‘SVU’ to merge Paula Deen scandal with Trayvon Martin shooting in upcoming ep
August 22, 2013 | 3:21pm
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Cybill Shepherd, right, and Jeffrey Tambor filming an episode of “Law and Order”. (ACE/INFphoto.com)
Cybill Shepherd films an episode of “Law and Order: SVU” in New York. (ZUMAPRESS.com)
“Law & Order SVU” is staying true to its “ripped from the headlines” roots, taking inspiration from both the Trayvon Martin trial and Paula Deen scandal for an upcoming episode.
In the episode, Cybill Shepard plays Jolene Castille, a famous southern chef who guns down an unarmed, hoodie-wearing black teen she thought was following her on the Upper West Side, TV Guide reported.
The sure-to-be-controversial episode, which also features Jeffery Tambor and Leslie Odom, Jr., will air in October.
“[Jeffrey] Tambor is a defense attorney representing a very high-profile celebrity woman chef who thought she was being pursued by a rapist and turned around it was a teenager. And she shot him,” Executive Producer Warren Leight told Entertainment Weekly.
Leight also said the episode will also deal with the city’s stop-and-frisk policy.
The “Law and Order” franchise has based stories on real, and often sensational, crimes from the very beginning. Last season featured an episode that depicted a dangerous love affair between two pop stars that bore a striking resemblance to Rihanna and Chris Brown’s stormy romantic history.
The long-running NBC police procedural begins its 15th season on September 25.
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$460m Abuja CCTV: SERAP wins suit to compel FG to disclose details of project
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has won the latest round of the legal battle compelling the Federal Government, to disclose the details of the $460 million loan obtained in 2010 from China to fund the failed Abuja Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) project.
The details will include the names of contractors who collected money, and why Nigeria is re-paying the loan.
Justice Anwuri Ichegbuo Chikere, of the Federal High Court, Abuja, last week granted leave clearing the way for SERAP to advance its case to compel Mrs Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, to disclose details of payment of the $460 Chinese loan to contractors, and whether the sum of N1.5 billion paid in 2010 for the failed contract to construct the headquarters of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) was part of another Chinese loan.
“After going through the Application filed by SERAP supported by 7 paragraphs Affidavit, with supporting exhibits, statement of facts, and verifying affidavits and written address in support, leave is hereby granted for SERAP to pursue its suit,” Justice Chikere, in granting leave, stated.
Justice Chikere granted the order following the argument in court on an exparte motion by SERAP’s counsel, Ms Atinuke Adejuyigbe and Mr Opeyemi Owolabi.
The suit was adjourned to Monday, 24th February, 2020, for hearing of the substantive suit.
SERAP had in the suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1447/2019 filed last month sought: “an order for leave to apply for judicial review and an order of mandamus to direct and/or compel the Minister of Finance to disclose the details of local companies and Chinese contractors that have received funds from the $460 million loan for the finance of the failed Abuja CCTV project as well as details of the status of implementation of the project.”
The suit followed SERAP’s Freedom of Information (FoI) request dated 25 October 2019, to Mrs Ahmed, expressing: “concern that Nigerians are being made to pay for the Chinese loans for failed and abandoned projects, and for which they have not benefited in any way, shape or form.”
The suit read in part: “Transparency in the spending of Chinese loans is good for everyone, as this would help to increase the effectiveness, legitimacy, and contribution of the loans to the development of public goods and services, and the general public interests.”
“Democracy cannot flourish if governments operate in secrecy. The citizens are entitled to know how the commonwealth is being utilized, managed and administered in a democratic setting.”
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Gordon Ramsay targets Tracy Grimshaw in rant
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FOUL-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay has shocked a public audience by vilifying high profile Australian journalist Tracy Grimshaw in an obscene, sexist rant.
The putrid tirade, which included references to Grimshaw’s looks, sexuality and depictions of her as a pig, shocked audiences who went to see the celebrity chef at the Good Food and Wine Show in Melbourne.
Ramsay told an audience of several thousand people that Grimshaw was “a lesbian”, the Sunday Herald Sun reports.
When the crowd reacted with gasps, he said: “What? I’m not saying she’s a …”
The phrase that Ramsay used was a highly derogatory term often used to describe lesbians.
Ramsay also showed a picture of a woman – who appeared to be naked – on her hands and knees with the features of a pig and multiple breasts.
Tracy Grimshaw,” he told the audience. “I had an interview with her yesterday – holy crap.
“She needs to see Simon Cowell’s Botox doctor.”
Ramsay – who later dismissed the comments as a joke – went on with more innuendos about Grimshaw’s sexual preference and activities.
The crude remarks did not impress Channel Nine chief executive David Gyngell, who phoned Ramsay to tell him they were inappropriate and that he had gone too far.
Just a year ago, the celebrity chef had been lauded as the network’s saviour, with his programs Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares rating highly.
Mandy Saunders was at the food expo with her two children and elderly mother.
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and hearing – it was disgusting,” Ms Saunders said.
“The show is meant for families. That was way out of order.”
Anthony Kavroulas was also in the audience at Ramsay’s performance.
“What can I say? It was totally sexist,” Mr Kavroulas said.
Women’s groups also expressed their disgust, saying it was wrong that Ramsay was making money by comparing women with animals.
Melinda Tankard Reist, from Women’s Forum Australia, said Ramsay’s sponsors should dump him and he should leave Australia.
“Ramsay’s sexist and demeaning actions are offensive to every Australian woman,” Ms Reist said.
“Why should he get paid for depicting a woman as an animal and publicly deriding her looks?
“He shouldn’t be making money through the verbal abuse of women.
“Gordon Ramsay is no longer welcome here. The sponsors of his trip should immediately remove their support and send him packing.”
LG, a major sponsor of the Good Food and Wine Show, said it did not want to comment on the incident.
Ramsay appeared on Nine’s A Current Affair and was interviewed by Tracy Grimshaw on Friday night.
During the interview, he commented on Grimshaw’s facial mole, asking: “Is that a wart? It looks like your little sister’s on your lip.”
Grimshaw appeared to take that remark well.
But A Current Affair executive producer Grant Williams said yesterday the chef had gone too far and should stick to cooking and lay off the comedy.
“We know Gordon Ramsay sets out to shock, but if what we’re being told is true, we’re very surprised,” Williams said.
“Frankly, although it’s plainly a joke, it’s out of order.
“Gordon has proved here that he doesn’t need to be in the kitchen to create a nightmare.
“As a comedian, he makes a pretty good cook. Maybe he’d be better off at The Chaser.”
A spokeswoman for Ramsay said the stunt was just a joke and should have been taken as one.
“He really respects Tracy Grimshaw as a journalist. It was just a joke,” Sarah Armstrong said.
“She interviews him every time he comes to Australia. They have a great relationship.”
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Max Blumenthal: Generation Chickenhawk
June 2, 2008 in Elections, Gay, Humor, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Religion, Video
Tags: Blumenthal, Bush, Cheney, Chickenhawk, College, Convention, Gay, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jew, Max, McCain, military, Muslim, Obama, Operation, Republican, Rumsfeld, Syria, terrorism, War
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Generation Chickenhawk was a documentary by Max Blumenthal that was filmed at the 2007 College Republican National Convention in Washington, D.C. This film featured interviews with convention attendees, focusing on why they, as Iraq War supporters, had not enlisted in the armed services.
Breaking: Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) Hospitalized
June 2, 2008 in Politics
Tags: Byrd, Hospital, hospitalized, Robert Byrd, Senator, West Virginia
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann: Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) was hospitalized in Falls Church, Virginia this evening around 7 p.m. Eastern after reportedly feeling “sluggish” and suffering from a fever. Byrd is 90, and as a word of note, the West Virginia is a Democrat.
UPDATE: The Hill: Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.) was admitted to the hospital for the third time this year on Monday night, this time for overnight observation after suffering a high fever.
Byrd, 90, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, was taken to a Virginia hospital in the early evening and will stay there overnight after feeling ill throughout the day, spokesman Jesse Jacobs said. Jacobs said Byrd had felt “lethargic and sluggish” throughout the day, but attended the lone Senate vote of the day, at 5:30 p.m. He was one of 14 senators to vote against debating a climate change bill.
International Herald Tribune: Sen. Robert C. Byrd’s spokesman says the 90-year-old lawmaker was hospitalized Monday night at his doctor’s urging after suffering from lethargy and sluggishness at his home.
Press secretary Jesse L. Jacobs says the West Virginia Democrat will be there overnight for observation.
Byrd, who is the longest-serving senator in history, voted during a 5:30 p.m. roll call Monday, then went home. Jacobs says that less than an hour later the senator began to feel ill.
He was found to have a fever, and at his doctor’s request he was taken to a nearby hospital.
Jacobs added that he didn’t know which hospital Byrd was taken to.
Byrd was hospitalized March 5 for tests after a reaction to antibiotics. A week earlier he was hospitalized at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after a fall at home.
McCain Speech At AIPAC Annual Meeting
June 2, 2008 in Elections, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Religion, Video
Tags: Ahmadinejad, AIPAC, Elections, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, McCain, Obama, Politics, terrorism, War
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Ahmadinejad Says Israel Will Soon Disappear
June 2, 2008 in Elections, International, McCain, Obama, Politics, Religion
Tags: Ahmadinejad, Bush, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jew, McCain, Muslim, nuclear, Obama, Palestine, Religion, terrorism, War
AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted on Monday that Muslims would uproot “satanic powers” and repeated his controversial belief that Israel will soon disappear, the Mehr news agency reported.”I must announce that the Zionist regime (Israel), with a 60-year record of genocide, plunder, invasion and betrayal is about to die and will soon be erased from the geographical scene,” he said.
“Today, the time for the fall of the satanic power of the United States has come and the countdown to the annihilation of the emperor of power and wealth has started.”
Since taking the presidency in August 2005, Ahmadinejad has repeatedly provoked international outrage by predicting Israel is doomed to disappear.
“I tell you that with the unity and awareness of all the Islamic countries all the satanic powers will soon be destroyed,” he said to a group of foreign visitors ahead of the 19th anniversary of the death of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
McCain’s Top Strategist Lobbied For Iran-Linked Firm
June 2, 2008 in International, Politics & Government, Religion, Video
Tags: Charlie Black, Elections, Iran, Iraq, McCain, Obama, Politics & Government, terrorism
Huffington Post: In the summer of 2005, John McCain’s chief strategist Charlie Black, working for his firm Black, Kelly, Scruggs & Healey, was paid $60,000 to lobby the U.S. government on behalf of the Chinese oil conglomerate CNOOC. At the time, CNOOC was mounting an aggressive bid to buy Unocal, a California-based oil giant, and Black was tasked with churning up congressional support. But the bid ultimately fell through, in part because of objections over the China oil industry’s ties to Iran, a country in which it had already invested tens of millions of dollars.
Tags: Charlie Black, Elections, Iran, Iraq, McCain, Obama, Politics, terrorism
Superdelegate Tracker: BHO +4.5, HRC +2
June 2, 2008 in Alabama, Elections, McCain, Obama, Politics, Veepstakes
Tags: Clinton, Clyburn, delegates, DNC, Elections, House, McCain, Obama, Politics, Senate, superdelegates
2008 Democratic Convention Watch:
DNC Jerome Wiley Segovia (VA) for Obama
DNC Nancy DiNardo (CT) for Obama
DNC Chris Whittington (LA) for Clinton
DNC Brenda Lawrence (MI)* for Obama
DNC Lu Battaglieri (MI)* for Obama
DNC Irene Stein (NY) for Clinton
DNC Janee Murphy (FL)* for Obama
Rep. Jim Clyburn (SC) for Obama
MSNBC: 34 members of the House to endorse Obama tomorrow.
The End Of The Road
June 2, 2008 in Elections, McCain, Obama, Politics, Veepstakes
Tags: Clinton, Elections, McCain, Obama, Politics
AP: Hillary plans New York speech
The Hill: Clinton, Obama will both be in NYC on Wednesday
AP: Obama Working To Clinch Nomination on Tuesday
Kennedy Brain Tumor Surgery Successful
June 2, 2008 in Elections, Politics
Tags: cancer, Kennedy, surgery
WBZ: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy underwent what his doctors called successful surgery Monday to treat his cancerous brain tumor, and told his wife shortly after that he felt “like a million bucks,” a family spokeswoman said.
The surgery at Duke University Medical Center took about 3 1/2 hours. He is expected to undergo chemotherapy and radiation in coming weeks, and will remain at the North Carolina facility for about a week.
Clinton Supporter Ejected From DNC Meeting Shows Bruises
June 2, 2008 in Uncategorized
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Satanists Hold Gay Love Fest At Fred Philips Mom’s Grave Say, Now She’s Gay…
Added by Kelli Busey on July 20, 2013.
…for eternity.
Disclaimer: I’m not a devil worshiper or even an admirer. As a matter of fact the devil is my enemy.
Claimer: I just got to admire these folks regardless of the differences in our spiritual beliefs. They are upstanding Americans which is more than I can say for the WBC.
(have they ever offered to clean up a highway?)
Source The Gauntlet “This past Sunday, July 14, top officials from the New York-based Satanic Temple traveled to the grave site of the mother of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps in order to stage a formal ceremony celebrating same-sex unions. Photos of the ceremony are publicly available on the new Satanic Temple-operated website, westboro-baptist.com, where The Satanic Temple encourages other same-sex couples to submit their own photos from similar pilgrimages to the Mississippi cemetery.”
“Satanic Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves officiated the ceremony while two same-sex couples celebrated their homosexuality at the gravesite.”
Satanists Hold Gay Love Fest At Fred Philips Mom’s Grave @WBCSay OH SNAP Now She’s Gay… admires>> @satanicpsalms http://t.co/EQ6b1BNgtq
— planetransgender (@kellibusey) July 20, 2013
“The Satanic Temple supports freedom and the pursuit of happiness for all people, thus they support same-sex couples’ legal equality. The Satanic Temple claims that the mass was conducted as an affirmation of those values, and claims that the action is meant to convey a message of love in the face of hate.”
“The Westboro Baptists, famed for their bombastic “God Hates Fags” anti-homosexual activism, raised the ire of the Satanic Temple months previous. “The idea for the Pink Mass ceremony and website came during the aftermath of the tragic Boston Marathon bombings, during which time the WBC were threatening to protest the funerals of the bombing victims,” explains Greaves. “Members of The Satanic Temple were in Boston, waiting for them, but they failed to show. Later, the WBC issued a statement that they had been present ‘in spirit’. We decided that a same-sex couple celebrating ceremony at the grave-site of Fred Phelps’s mother was an appropriate way to meet the Westboro Baptists, ‘in spirit’, but this time on our terms.”
“Explaining the ceremony itself, Greaves continues, “The Satanic Temple now believes that Fred Phelps must believe that his mother is now gay, in the afterlife, due to our Pink Mass… And nobody can challenge our right to our beliefs.”
“This revelation of The Satanic Temple’s graveyard ritual comes fast on the tail of the Westboro Baptist Church’s announcement that they intend to picket the death of 31 year-old “Glee” actor, Cory Monteith.”
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Wenceslao: Moving on?
Bong O. Wenceslao
Sunstar 22 December 2019
THE worst episode of political violence in the country has gone full circle with the court convicting at least the act’s masterminds. But what happened in Maguindanao in 2009 should never be forgotten. The Ampatuan massacre should remain in our minds as an example of how deeply political warlordism can tear our democratic fabric. “Never again” should be our call after a Quezon City judge finally came out with a decision on the case after years of litigation.
The handing down of the court decision certainly opened old wounds because of the flood of memories it brought in. I was still a full-time journalist when reports said that a number of media people were among those killed. When a member of the Mangudadatu clan attempted to wrest political control of Maguindanao from the already politically entrenched Ampatuan clan, he knew the consequences and thought transparency could negate the power a warlord wields. The media people obliged and ended up victims of the political power play there.
Maguindanao is basically rural as is most of the places in Mindanao. I stayed in the countryside for around six years and could therefore imagine the horrors the mainly urban-based journalists went through when their coverage of the filing of the certificate of candidacy of an Ampatuan clan challenger was cut short on the road going to the provincial capitol and they and the others were herded to what was supposed to be their final resting place.
Previous to this, political killings were isolated and selective. The Ampatuan massacre was wholesale and virtually unprecedented in the country in its brutality. And it would not have happened had not various factors come into play, including the wielding by the Ampatuans of absolute power in their jurisdiction, which was made possible by their political alliance with the camp of then president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. What the Ampatuans sought to achieve with the massacre is a testament to the mindset that warlordism cultivates.
Would a governor, say of an urban center like Cebu, think he could kill journalists, his political opponents and the family of his opponents in one sweep and bury all of them, including their vehicles in a mass grave dug by government-owned backhoe and trucks? What politician would think he could make political opponents and journalists vanish without a trace? That thinking could only have been cultivated in a place controlled by isolated warlords.
Of course, the massacre did not result to the further political entrenchment of the Ampatuans but instead broke the clan’s political and economic stranglehold on many Maguindanao areas. The recent convictions of the clan’s leaders means the clan, if ever, needs to start all over again in rebuilding its political power. If not, new political warlords could emerge and the cycle of violence is repeated.
The point is, the political condition that has given rise to political warlordism in the country has remained. Which is still worrisome despite our efforts to move on from this sordid episode in our supposedly democratic milieu.
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Trial to evaluate the effectiveness of KRYSTEXXA to sustain reduced serum uric acid levels for post-kidney transplant adults; a vulnerable population.
Image: KRYSTEXXA is a PEGylated uric acid specific enzyme indicated for the treatment of chronic gout in adult patients refractory to conventional therapy. Photo: Courtesy of PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay.
Horizon Therapeutics has initiated an open-label clinical trial evaluating the use of KRYSTEXXA (pegloticase injection) in adults with chronic gout refractory to conventional therapies – also known as uncontrolled gout – who have undergone a kidney transplant to demonstrate that KRYSTEXXA may provide effective disease control without burdening the kidneys.
PROspective sTudy of pEglotiCase in Transplant patients (PROTECT) is a multicenter, open-label study which will evaluate the efficacy and safety of KRYSTEXXA among 20 adults with uncontrolled gout who have received a kidney transplant at 15 centers across the U.S. The study and its protocol were thoughtfully designed in collaboration with the American Association of Kidney Patients to incorporate considerations for high-needs populations and their priorities in effectively managing uncontrolled gout.
“The prevalence of gout is more than ten-fold greater among patients who have undergone a kidney transplant than the general population,” said Abdul Abdellatif, M.D. F.A.S.N. primary investigator and assistant professor, Baylor College of Medicine. “Post-transplant medications to prevent organ rejection can also contribute to increased uric acid levels and lead to higher rates of uncontrolled gout. It is here where we have seen higher mortality rates compared to patients who have received a kidney transplant without uncontrolled gout. Strategies to effectively manage uncontrolled gout within the vulnerable post-transplant population are important to ensuring long-term protection of the kidney.”
During the study, participants will receive KRYSTEXXA 8 mg IV every two weeks over a six-month treatment period, with a 3-month post treatment follow-up. The study’s primary endpoint is response rate, as measured by sustained serum uric acid reduction to <6 mg/dL at Month 6 of treatment. It will also evaluate secondary outcomes such as complete resolution of at least one tophus, and scores related to pain and disability. This population was not originally studied in the KRYSTEXXA pivotal trials.
“The unique mechanism of action of KRYSTEXXA provides an opportunity for clinicians to address elevated uric acid levels irrespective of kidney function,” said Paul Peloso, M.D., M.Sc., vice president and therapeutic area head, rheumatology, Horizon. “Working together with our colleagues in the nephrology and transplant communities we designed the PROTECT trial to demonstrate that clinicians can safely and effectively manage uncontrolled gout for individuals who have undergone kidney transplantation.”
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Ubiquitin Pathway Involved in Neurodegenerative Diseases
February 15, 2013 by larryhbern
Larry H Bernstein, MD, FCAP
PINK1 and Parkin and Parkinson’s Disease
Studies of the familial Parkinson disease-related proteins PINK1 and Parkin have demonstrated that these factors promote the fragmentation and turnover of mitochondria following treatment of cultured cells with mitochondrial depolarizing agents. Whether PINK1 or Parkin influence mitochondrial quality control under normal physiological conditions in dopaminergic neurons, a principal cell type that degenerates in Parkinson disease, remains unclear. To address this matter, we developed a method to purify and characterize neural subtypes of interest from the adult Drosophila brain.
Using this method, we find that dopaminergic neurons from Drosophila parkin mutants accumulate enlarged, depolarized mitochondria, and that genetic perturbations that promote mitochondrial fragmentation and turnover rescue the mitochondrial depolarization and neurodegenerative phenotypes of parkin mutants. In contrast, cholinergic neurons from parkin mutants accumulate enlarged depolarized mitochondria to a lesser extent than dopaminergic neurons, suggesting that a higher rate of mitochondrial damage, or a deficiency in alternative mechanisms to repair or eliminate damaged mitochondria explains the selective vulnerability of dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson disease.
Our study validates key tenets of the model that PINK1 and Parkin promote the fragmentation and turnover of depolarized mitochondria in dopaminergic neurons. Moreover, our neural purification method provides a foundation to further explore the pathogenesis of Parkinson disease, and to address other neurobiological questions requiring the analysis of defined neural cell types.
Burmana JL, Yua S, Poole AC, Decala RB , Pallanck L. Analysis of neural subtypes reveals selective mitochondrial dysfunction in dopaminergic neurons from parkin mutants.
Autophagy in Parkinson’s Disease.
Parkinson’s disease is a common neurodegenerative disease in the elderly. To explore the specific role of autophagy and the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in apoptosis, a specific proteasome inhibitor and macroautophagy inhibitor and stimulator were selected to investigate pheochromocytoma (PC12) cell lines transfected with human mutant (A30P) and wildtype (WT) -synuclein.
The apoptosis ratio was assessed by flow cytometry. LC3, heat shock protein 70 (hsp70) and caspase-3 expression in cell culture were determined by Western blot. The hallmarks of apoptosis and autophagy were assessed with transmission electron microscopy. Compared to the control group or the rapamycin (autophagy stimulator) group, the apoptosis ratio in A30P and WT cells was significantly higher after treatment with inhibitors of the proteasome and macroautophagy. The results of Western blots for caspase-3 expression were similar to those of flow cytometry; hsp70 protein was significantly higher in the proteasome inhibitor group than in control, but in the autophagy inhibitor and stimulator groups, hsp70 was similar to control. These findings show that inhibition of the proteasome and autophagy promotes apoptosis, and the macroautophagy stimulator rapamycin reduces the apoptosis ratio. And inhibiting or stimulating autophagy has less impact on hsp70 than the proteasome pathway.
In conclusion, either stimulation or inhibition of macroautophagy, has less impact on hsp70 than on the proteasome pathway. This study found that rapamycin decreased apoptotic cells in A30P cells independent of caspase-3 activity. Although several lines of evidence recently demonstrated crosstalk between autophagy and caspase-independent apoptosis, we could not confirm that autophagy activation protects cells from caspase-independent cell death. Undoubtedly, there are multiple connections between the apoptotic and autophagic processes.
Inhibition of autophagy may subvert the capacity of cells to remove damaged organelles or to remove misfolded proteins, which would favor apoptosis. However, proteasome inhibition activated macroautophagy and accelerated apoptosis. A likely explanation is inhibition of the proteasome favors oxidative reactions that trigger apoptosis, presumably through
a direct effect on mitochondria, and
the absence of NADPH2 and ATP
which may deinhibit the activation of caspase-2 or MOMP. Another possibility is that aggregated proteins induced by proteasome inhibition increase apoptosis.
Yang F, Yanga YP, Maoa CJ, Caoa BY, et al. Role of autophagy and proteasome degradation pathways in apoptosis of PC12 cells overexpressing human -synuclein. Neuroscience Letters 2009; 454:203–208. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2009.03.027. www.elsevier.com/locate/neulet http://neurosciletters.com/ Role_of_autophagy_and_proteasome_degradation_pathways_in_apoptosis_of_PC12_cells_
overexpressing_human –synuclein/
Parkin-dependent Ubiquitination of Endogenous Bax
Autosomal recessive loss-of-function mutations within the PARK2 gene functionally inactivate the E3 ubiquitin ligase parkin, resulting in neurodegeneration of catecholaminergic neurons and a familial form of Parkinson disease. Current evidence suggests both a mitochondrial function for parkin and a neuroprotective role, which may in fact be interrelated. The antiapoptotic effects of Parkin have been widely reported, and may involve fundamental changes in the threshold for apoptotic cytochrome c release, but the substrate(s) involved in Parkin dependent protection had not been identified. Here, we demonstrate the Parkin-dependent ubiquitination of endogenous Bax comparing primary cultured neurons from WT and Parkin KO mice and using multiple Parkin-overexpressing cell culture systems. The direct ubiquitination of purified Bax was also observed in vitro following incubation with recombinant parkin. The authors found that Parkin prevented basal and apoptotic stress induced translocation of Bax to the mitochondria. Moreover, an engineered ubiquitination-resistant form of Bax retained its apoptotic function, but Bax KO cells complemented with lysine-mutant Bax did not manifest the antiapoptotic effects of Parkin that were observed in cells expressing WT Bax. These data suggest that Bax is the primary substrate responsible for the antiapoptotic effects of Parkin, and provide mechanistic insight into at least a subset of the mitochondrial effects of Parkin.
Johnson BN, Berger AK, Cortese GP, and LaVoie MJ. The ubiquitin E3 ligase Parkin regulates the proapoptotic function of Bax. PNAS 2012, pp 6. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1113248109
http://PNAS.org/ The_ubiquitin_E3_ligase_Parkin_regulates_the_proapoptotic_function_of_Bax
Parkin Promotes Mitochondrial Loss in Autophagy
Parkin, an E3 ubiquitin ligase implicated in Parkinson’s disease, promotes degradation of dysfunctional mitochondria by autophagy. Using proteomic and cellular approaches, we show that upon translocation to mitochondria, Parkin activates the ubiquitin–proteasome system (UPS) for widespread degradation of outer membrane proteins. This is evidenced by an increase in K48-linked polyubiquitin on mitochondria, recruitment of the 26S proteasome and rapid degradation of multiple outer membrane proteins. The degradation of proteins by the UPS occurs independently of the autophagy pathway, and inhibition of the 26S proteasome completely abrogates Parkin-mediated mitophagy in HeLa, SH-SY5Y and mouse cells. Although the mitofusins Mfn1 and Mfn2 are rapid degradation targets of Parkin, degradation of additional targets is essential for mitophagy. These results indicate that remodeling of the mitochondrial outer membrane proteome is important for mitophagy, and reveal a causal link between the UPS and autophagy, the major pathways for degradation of intracellular substrates.
Chan NC, Salazar AM, Pham AH, Sweredoski MJ, et al. Broad activation of the ubiquitin–proteasome system by Parkin is critical for mitophagy. Human Molecular Genetics 2011; 20(9): 1726–1737. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddr048. http://HumMolecGenetics.com/ Broad_activation_of_the_ubiquitin–proteasome_system_by_Parkin_is_critical_for_mitophagy/
Interactome Networks and Protein Expression
Aloy P. Shaping the future of interactome networks. (A report of the third Interactome Networks Conference, Hinxton, UK, 29 August-1 September 2007). Genome Biology 2007; 8:316 (doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-10-316)
Complex systems are often networked, and biology is no exception. Following on from the genome sequencing projects, experiments show that proteins in living organisms are highly connected, which helps to explain how such great complexity can be achieved by a comparatively small set of gene products. At a recent conference on interactome networks held outside Cambridge, UK, the most recent advances in research on cellular networks were discussed. This year’s conference focused on identifying the strengths and weaknesses of currently resolved interaction networks and the techniques used to determine them – reflecting the fact that the field of mapping interaction networks is maturing.
Peroutka RJ, Orcutt SJ, Strickler JE, and Butt TR. SUMO Fusion Technology for Enhanced Protein Expression and Purification in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes. Chapter 2. in T.C. Evans, M.-Q. Xu (eds.), Heterologous Gene Expression in E. coli, Methods in Molecular Biology 705:15-29. DOI 10.1007/978-1-61737-967-3_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
The preparation of sufficient amounts of high-quality protein samples is the major bottleneck for structural proteomics. The use of recombinant proteins has increased significantly during the past decades. The most commonly used host, Escherichia coli, presents many challenges including protein misfolding, protein degradation, and low solubility. A novel SUMO fusion technology appears to enhance protein expression and solubility (www.lifesensors.com). Efficient removal of the SUMO tag by SUMO protease in vitro facilitates the generation of target protein with a native N-terminus. In addition to its physiological relevance in eukaryotes, SUMO can be used as a powerful biotechnology tool forenhanced functional protein expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
IL-6 regulation on mitochondrial remodeling/dysfunction
Muscle protein turnover regulation during cancer cachexia is being rapidly defined, and skeletal muscle mitochondria function appears coupled to processes regulating muscle wasting. Skeletal muscle oxidative capacity and the expression of proteins regulating mitochondrial biogenesis and dynamics are disrupted in severely cachectic ApcMin/+ mice. It has not been determined if these changes occur at the onset of cachexia and are necessary for the progression of muscle wasting. Exercise and anti-cytokine therapies have proven effective in preventing cachexia development in tumor bearing mice, while their effect on mitochondrial content, biogenesis and dynamics is not well understood.
The purposes of this study were to
1) determine IL-6 regulation on mitochondrial remodeling/dysfunction during the progression of cancer cachexia and
2) to determine if exercise training can attenuate mitochondrial dysfunction and the induction of proteolytic pathways during IL-6 induced cancer cachexia.
ApcMin/+ mice were examined during the progression of cachexia, after systemic interleukin (IL)-6r antibody treatment, or after IL-6 over-expression with or without exercise. Direct effects of IL-6 on mitochondrial remodeling were examined in cultured C2C12 myoblasts.
Mitochondrial content was not reduced during the initial development of cachexia, while muscle PGC-1α and fusion (Mfn1, Mfn2) protein expression was repressed.
With progressive weight loss mitochondrial content decreased, PGC-1α and fusion proteins were further suppressed, and fission protein (FIS1) was induced.
IL-6 receptor antibody administration after the onset of cachexia improved mitochondrial content,
PGC-1α,
Mfn1/Mfn2 and
FIS1 protein expression.
IL-6 over-expression in pre-cachectic mice accelerated body weight loss and muscle wasting, without reducing mitochondrial content, while PGC-1α and Mfn1/Mfn2 protein expression was suppressed and FIS1 protein expression induced. Exercise normalized these IL-6 induced effects. C2C12 myotubes administered IL-6 had
increased FIS1 protein expression,
increased oxidative stress, and
reduced PGC-1α gene expression
without altered mitochondrial protein expression.
Altered expression of proteins regulating mitochondrial biogenesis and fusion are early events in the initiation of cachexia regulated by IL-6, which precede the loss of muscle mitochondrial content. Furthermore, IL-6 induced mitochondrial remodeling and proteolysis can be rescued with moderate exercise training even in the presence of high circulating IL-6 levels.
White JP, Puppa MJ, Sato S, Gao S. IL-6 regulation on skeletal muscle mitochondrial remodeling during cancer cachexia in the ApcMin/+ mouse. Skeletal Muscle 2012; 2:14-30.
http://www.skeletalmusclejournal.com/content/2/1/14
Starvation-induced Autophagy
Upon starvation cells undergo autophagy, a cellular degradation pathway important in the turnover of whole organelles and long lived proteins. Starvation-induced protein degradation has been regarded as an unspecific bulk degradation process. We studied global protein dynamics during amino acid starvation-induced autophagy by quantitative mass spectrometry and were able to record nearly 1500 protein profiles during 36 h of starvation. Cluster analysis of the recorded protein profiles revealed that cytosolic proteins were degraded rapidly, whereas proteins annotated to various complexes and organelles were degraded later at different time periods. Inhibition of protein degradation pathways identified the lysosomal/autophagosomal system as the main degradative route.
Thus, starvation induces degradation via autophagy, which appears to be selective and to degrade proteins in an ordered fashion and not completely arbitrarily as anticipated so far.
Kristensen AR, Schandorff S, Høyer-Hansen M, Nielsen MO, et al. Ordered Organelle Degradation during Starvation-induced Autophagy. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 2008; 7:2419–2428.
http://MolecCellProteomics.com/Ordered_Organelle_Degradation_during_Starvation-induced_Autophagy/
Skeletal Muscle Macroautophagy
Skeletal muscles are the agent of motion and one of the most important tissues responsible for the control of metabolism. Coordinated movements are allowed by the highly organized structure of the cytosol of muscle fibers (or myofibers), the multinucleated and highly specialized cells of skeletal muscles involved in contraction. Contractile proteins are assembled into repetitive structures, the basal unit of which is the sarcomere, that are well packed into the myofiber cytosol. Myonuclei are located at the edge of the myofibers, whereas the various organelles such as mitochondria and sarcoplasmic reticulum are embedded among the myofibrils. Many different changes take place in the cytosol of myofibers during catabolic conditions:
proteins are mobilized
organelles networks are reorganized for energy needs
the setting of myonuclei can be modified.
strenuous physical activity,
improper dietary regimens and
lead to mechanical and metabolic damages of
myofiber organelles,
especially mitochondria, and
contractile proteins.
During aging the protein turnover is slowed down, therefore it is easier to accumulate aggregates of dysfunctional proteins. Therefore, a highly dynamic tissue such as skeletal muscle requires a rapid and efficient system for the removal of altered organelles, the elimination of protein aggregates, and the disposal of toxic products.
The two major proteolytic systems in muscle are the ubiquitin-proteasome and the autophagy-lysosome pathways. The proteasome system requires
the transcription of the two ubiquitin ligases (atrogin-1 and MuRF1) and
the ubiquitination of the substrates.
Therefore, the ubiquitin-proteasome system can provide the rapid elimination of single proteins or small aggregates. Conversely, the autophagic system is able to degrade entire organelles and large proteins aggregates. In the autophagy-lysosome system, double-membrane vesicles named autophagosomes are able to engulf a portion of the cytosol and fuse with lysosomes, where their content is completely degraded by lytic enzymes.
The autophagy flux can be biochemicaly monitored following LC3 lipidation and p62 degradation. LC3 is the mammalian homolog of the yeast Atg8 gene, which is lipidated when recruited for the double-membrane commitment and growth. p62 (SQSTM-1) is a polyubiquitin-binding protein involved in the proteasome system and that can either reside free in the cytosol and nucleus or occur within autophagosomes and lysosomes. The GFP-LC3 transgenic mouse model allows easy detection of autophagosomes by simply monitoring the presence of bright GFP-positive puncta inside the myofibrils and beneath the plasma membrane of the myofibers, thus investigate the activation of autophagy in skeletal muscles with different contents of slow and fast-twitching myofibers and in response to stimuli such as fasting. For example, in the fast-twiching extensor digitorum longus muscle few GFP-LC3 dots were observed before starvation, while many small GFP-LC3 puncta appeared between myofibrils and in the perinuclear regions after 24 h starvation. Conversely, in the slow-twitching soleus muscle, autophagic puncta were almost absent in standard condition and scarcely induced after 24 h starvation.
Autophagy in Muscle Homeostasis
The autophagic flux was found to be increased during certain catabolic conditions, such as fasting, atrophy , and denervation , thus contributing to protein breakdown. Food deprivation is one of the strongest stimuli known to induce autophagy in muscle. Indeed skeletal muscle, after the liver, is the most responsive tissue to autophagy activation during food deprivation. Since muscles are the biggest reserve of amino acids in the body, during fasting autophagy has the vital role to maintain the amino acid pool by digesting muscular protein and organelles. In mammalian cells, mTORC1, which consists of
mTOR and
Raptor,
is the nutrient sensor that negatively regulates autophagy.
During atrophy, protein breakdown is mediated by atrogenes, which are under the forkhead box O (FoxO) transcription factors control, and activation of autophagy seems to aggravate muscle loss during atrophy. In vivo and in vitro studies demonstrated that several genes coding for components of the autophagic machinery, such as
LC3,
GABARAP,
Vps34,
Atg12 and
Bnip3,
are controlled by FoxO3 transcription factor. FoxO3 is able to regulate independently
the ubiquitin-proteasome system and
the autophagy-lysosome machinery in vivo and in vitro.
Denervation is also able to induce autophagy in skeletal muscle, although at a slower rate than fasting. This effect is mediated by RUNX1, a transcription factor upregulated during autophagy; the lack of RUNX1 results in
excessive autophagic flux in denervated muscle and leads to atrophy.
The generation of Atg5 and Atg7 muscle-specific knockout mice have shown that
with suppression of autophagy both models display muscle weakness and atrophy and
a significant reduction of weight, which is
correlated with the important loss of muscle tissue due to an atrophic condition.
An unbalanced autophagy flux is highly detrimental for muscle, as too much induces atrophy whereas too little leads to muscle weakness and degeneration. Muscle wasting associated with autophagy inhibition becomes evident and symptomatic only after a number of altered proteins and dysfunctional organelles are accumulated, a condition that becomes evident after months or even years. On the other hand, the excessive increase of autophagy flux is able to induce a rapid loss of muscle mass (within days or weeks). Alterations of autophagy are involved in the pathogenesis of several myopathies and dystrophies.
The maintenance of muscle homeostasis is finely regulated by the balance between catabolic and anabolic process. Macroautophagy (or autophagy) is a catabolic process that provides the degradation of protein aggregation and damaged organelles through the fusion between autophagosomes and lysosomes. Proper regulation of the autophagy flux is fundamental for
the homeostasis of skeletal muscles during physiological situations and
in response to stress.
Defective as well as excessive autophagy is harmful for muscle health and has a pathogenic role in several forms of muscle diseases.
Grumati P, Bonaldo P. Autophagy in Skeletal Muscle Homeostasis and in Muscular Dystrophies. Cells 2012, 1, 325-345; doi:10.3390/cells1030325. ISSN 2073-4409. www.mdpi.com/journal/cells
http://cell.com/ Autophagy in Skeletal Muscle Homeostasis and in Muscular Dystrophies/
Parkinson’s Disease Mutations
Mutations in parkin, a ubiquitin ligase, cause early-onset familial Parkinson’s disease (AR-JP). How Parkin suppresses Parkinsonism remains unknown. Parkin was recently shown to promote the clearance of impaired mitochondria by autophagy, termed mitophagy. Here, we show that Parkin promotes mitophagy by catalyzing mitochondrial ubiquitination, which in turn recruits ubiquitin-binding autophagic components, HDAC6 and p62, leading to mitochondrial clearance.
During the process, juxtanuclear mitochondrial aggregates resembling a protein aggregate-induced aggresome are formed. The formation of these “mito-aggresome” structures requires microtubule motor-dependent transport and is essential for efficient mitophagy. Importantly, we show that AR-JP–causing Parkin mutations are defective in supporting mitophagy due to distinct defects at
transportation, or
ubiquitination of impaired mitochondria,
thereby implicating mitophagy defects in the development of Parkinsonism. Our results show that impaired mitochondria and protein aggregates are processed by common ubiquitin-selective autophagy machinery connected to the aggresomal pathway, thus identifying a mechanistic basis for the prevalence of these toxic entities in Parkinson’s disease.
Lee JY,Nagano Y, Taylor JP,Lim KL, and Yao TP. Disease-causing mutations in Parkin impair mitochondrial ubiquitination, aggregation, and HDAC6-dependent mitophagy. J Cell Biol 2010; 189(4):671-679. www.jcb.org/cgi/doi/10.1083/jcb.201001039
http://JCellBiol.com/Disease-causing_mutations_in_Parkin_impair_mitochondrial_ubiquitination_ aggregation_and_HDAC6-dependent_mitophagy/
Drosophila Parkin Requires PINK1
Loss of the E3 ubiquitin ligase Parkin causes early onset Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder of unknown etiology. Parkin has been linked to multiple cellular processes including
protein degradation,
mitochondrial homeostasis, and
autophagy;
however, its precise role in pathogenesis is unclear. Recent evidence suggests that Parkin is recruited to damaged mitochondria, possibly affecting
mitochondrial fission and/or fusion,
to mediate their autophagic turnover.
The precise mechanism of recruitment and the ubiquitination target are unclear. Here we show in Drosophila cells that PINK1 is required to recruit Parkin to dysfunctional mitochondria and promote their degradation. Furthermore, PINK1 and Parkin mediate the ubiquitination of the profusion factor Mfn on the outer surface of mitochondria. Loss of Drosophila PINK1 or parkin causes an increase in Mfn abundance in vivo and concomitant elongation of mitochondria. These findings provide a molecular mechanism by which the PINK1/Parkin pathway affects mitochondrial fission/fusion as suggested by previous genetic interaction studies. We hypothesize that Mfn ubiquitination may provide a mechanism by which terminally damaged mitochondria are labeled and sequestered for degradation by autophagy.
Ziviani E, Tao RN, and Whitworth AJ. Drosophila Parkin requires PINK1 for mitochondrial translocation and ubiquitinates Mitofusin. PNAS 2010. Pp6 www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0913485107
http://PNAS.org/ Drosophila_Parkin_requires_PINK1_for_ mitochondrial_translocation_and_ubiquitinates_Mitofusin
Dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1) in Parkinson’s
Mutations in Parkin, an E3 ubiquitin ligase that regulates protein turnover, represent one of the major causes of familial Parkinson’s disease (PD), a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons and impaired mitochondrial functions. The underlying mechanism by which pathogenic parkin mutations induce mitochondrial abnormality is not fully understood. Here we demonstrate that Parkin interacts with and subsequently ubiquitinates dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1), for promoting its proteasome-dependent degradation. Pathogenic mutation or knockdown of Parkin inhibits the ubiquitination and degradation of Drp1, leading to an increased level of Drp1 for mitochondrial fragmentation. These results identify Drp1 as a novel substrate of Parkin and suggest a potential mechanism linking abnormal Parkin expression to mitochondrial dysfunction in the pathogenesis of PD.
Wang H, Song P, Du L, Tian W. Parkin ubiquitinates Drp1 for proteasome-dependent degradation: implication of dysregulated mitochondrial dynamics in Parkinson’s disease.
JBC Papers in Press. Published on February 3, 2011 as Manuscript M110.144238. http://www.jbc.org/cgi/doi/10.1074/jbc.M110.144238
http://JBC.org/ Parkin_ubiquitinates_Drp1_for_proteasome-dependent_degradation_implication_of_ dysregulated_mitochondrial_dynamics_in_Parkinson’s_disease
Pink1, Parkin, and DJ-1 Form a Complex
Mutations in the genes PTEN-induced putative kinase 1 (PINK1), PARKIN, and DJ-1 cause autosomal recessive forms of Parkinson disease (PD), and the Pink1/Parkin pathway regulates mitochondrial integrity and function. An important question is whether the proteins encoded by these genes function to regulate activities of other cellular compartments. A study in mice, reported by Xiong et al. in this issue of the JCI, demonstrates that Pink1, Parkin, and DJ-1 can form a complex in the cytoplasm, with Pink1 and DJ-1 promoting the E3 ubiquitin ligase activity of Parkin to degrade substrates via the proteasome (see the related article, doi:10.1172/ JCI37617).
This protein complex in the cytosol may or may not be related to the role of these proteins in regulating mitochondrial function or oxidative stress in vivo. Three models for the role of the PPD complex. In this issue of the JCI, Xiong et al. report that Pink1, Parkin, and DJ-1 bind to each other and form a PPD E3 ligase complex in which Pink1 and DJ-1 modulate Parkin-dependent ubiquitination and subsequent degradation of substrates via the proteasome. Previous work suggests that the Pink1/Parkin pathway regulates mitochondrial integrity and promotes mitochondrial fission in Drosophila.
(A) Parkin and DJ-1 may be recruited to the mitochondrial outer membrane during stress and interact with Pink1. These interactions may facilitate the ligase activity of Parkin, thereby facilitating the turnover of molecules that regulate mitochondrial dynamics and mitophagy. The PPD complex may have other roles in the cytosol that result in degradative ubiquitination and/or relay information from mitochondria to other cellular compartments.
(B) Alternatively, Pink1 may be released from mitochondria after cleavage to interact with DJ-1 and Parkin in the cytosol.
A and B differ in the site of action of the PPD complex and the cleavage status of Pink1.
The complex forms on the mitochondrial outer membrane potentially containing full-length Pink1 in A, and in the cytosol with cleaved Pink1 in B.
Lack of DJ-1 function results in phenotypes that are distinct from the mitochondrial phenotypes observed in null mutants of Pink1 or Parkin in Drosophila. Thus, although the PPD complex is illustrated here as regulating mitochondrial fission, the role of DJ-1 in vivo remains to be clarified.
(C) It is also possible that the action occurs in the cytosol and is independent of the function of Pink1/Parkin in regulating mitochondrial integrity and function.
The Xiong et al. study offers an entry point for explorations of the role of Pink1, Parkin, and DJ-1 in the cytoplasm. It remains to be shown whether Parkin, in complex with Pink1 and DJ-1, carries out protein degradation in vivo.
Li H, and Guo M. Protein degradation in Parkinson disease revisited: it’s complex. commentaries. J Clin Invest. doi:10.1172/JCI38619. http://www.jci.org
http://JCI.org/ Protein_degradation_in_Parkinson_disease_revisited_it’s_complex/
Xiong, H., et al. Parkin, PINK1, and DJ-1 form a ubiquitin E3 ligase complex promoting unfolded protein degradation. J. Clin. Invest. 2009; 119:650–660.
http://JCI.org/ Parkin_PINK1_DJ1_form_ubiquitin_E3_ligase_complex_promoting_unfolded_protein_degradation/
Mitochondrial Ubiquitin Ligase, MITOL, protects neuronal cells
Nitric oxide (NO) is implicated in neuronal cell survival. However, excessive NO production mediates neuronal cell death, in part via mitochondrial dysfunction. Here, we report that the mitochondrial ubiquitin ligase, MITOL, protects neuronal cells from mitochondrial damage caused by accumulation of S-nitrosylated microtubule associated protein 1B-light chain 1 (LC1). S-nitrosylation of LC1 induces a conformational change that serves both to activate LC1 and to promote its ubiquination by MITOL, indicating that microtubule stabilization by LC1 is regulated through its interaction with MITOL. Excessive NO production can inhibit MITOL, and MITOL inhibition resulted in accumulation of S-nitrosylated LC1 following stimulation of NO production by calcimycin and N-methyl-D-aspartate. LC1 accumulation under these conditions resulted in mitochondrial dysfunction and neuronal cell death. Thus, the balance between LC1 activation by S-nitrosylation and down-regulation by MITOL is critical for neuronal cell survival. Our findings may contribute significantly to an understanding of the mechanisms of neurological diseases caused by nitrosative stress-mediated mitochondrial dysfunction.
Yonashiro R, Kimijima Y, Shimura T, Kawaguchi K, et al. Mitochondrial ubiquitin ligase MITOL blocks S-nitrosylated MAP1B-light chain 1-mediated mitochondrial dysfunction and neuronal cell death. PNAS; 2012. pp 6. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1114985109
Ubiquitin–Proteasome System in Neurodegeneration
A common histopathological hallmark of most neurodegenerative diseases is the presence of aberrant proteinaceous inclusions inside affected neurons. Because these protein aggregates are detected using antibodies against components of the ubiquitin–proteasome system (UPS), impairment of this machinery for regulated proteolysis has been suggested to be at the root of neurodegeneration. This hypothesis has been difficult to prove in vivo owing to the lack of appropriate tools. The recent report of transgenic mice with ubiquitous expression of a UPS-reporter protein should finally make it possible to test in vivo the role of the UPS in neurodegeneration.
Hernandez F, Dıaz-Hernandez M, Avila J and Lucas JJ. Testing the ubiquitin–proteasome hypothesis of neurodegeneration in vivo. TRENDS in Neurosciences 2004; 27(2): 66-68.
ALP in Parkinson’s
The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) and autophagy-lysosome pathway (ALP) are the two most important mechanisms that normally repair or remove abnormal proteins. Alterations in the function of these systems to degrade misfolded and aggregated proteins are being increasingly recognized as playing a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of many neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. Dysfunction of the UPS has been already strongly implicated in the pathogenesis of this disease and, more recently, growing interest has been shown in identifying the role of ALP in neurodegeneration. Mutations of a-synuclein and the increase of intracellular concentrations of non-mutant a-synuclein have been associated with Parkinson’s disease phenotype.
The demonstration that a-synuclein is degraded by both proteasome and autophagy indicates a possible linkage between the dysfunction of the UPS or ALP and the occurrence of this disorder.The fact that mutant a-synucleins inhibit ALP functioning by tightly binding to the receptor on the lysosomal membrane for autophagy pathway further supports the assumption that impairment of the ALP may be related to the development of Parkinson’s disease. In this review, we summarize the recent findings related to this topic and discuss the unique role of the ALP in this neurogenerative disorder and the putative therapeutic potential through ALP enhancement.
Pan Y, Kondo S, Le W, Jankovic J. The role of autophagy-lysosome pathway in neurodegeneration associated with Parkinson’s disease. Brain 2008; 131: 1969-1978. doi:10.1093/brain/awm318.
Ubiquitin-Proteasome System in Parkinson’s
There is growing evidence that dysfunction of the mitochondrial respiratory chain and failure of the cellular protein degradation machinery, specifically the ubiquitin-proteasome system, play an important role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease. We now show that the corresponding pathways of these two systems are linked at the transcriptomic level in Parkinsonian substantia nigra. We examined gene expression in medial and lateral substantia nigra (SN) as well as in frontal cortex using whole genome DNA oligonucleotide microarrays. In this study, we use a hypothesis-driven approach in analysing microarray data to describe the expression of mitochondrial and ubiquitin-proteasomal system (UPS) genes in Parkinson’s disease (PD).
Although a number of genes showed up-regulation, we found an overall decrease in expression affecting the majority of mitochondrial and UPS sequences. The down-regulated genes include genes that encode subunits of complex I and the Parkinson’s-disease-linked UCHL1. The observed changes in expression were very similar for both medial and lateral SN and also affected the PD cerebral cortex. As revealed by “gene shaving” clustering analysis, there was a very significant correlation between the transcriptomic profiles of both systems including in control brains.
Therefore, the mitochondria and the proteasome form a higher-order gene regulatory network that is severely perturbed in Parkinson’s disease. Our quantitative results also suggest that Parkinson’s disease is a disease of more than one cell class, i.e. that it goes beyond the catecholaminergic neuron and involves glia as well.
Duke DC, Moran LB, Kalaitzakis ME, Deprez M, et al. Transcriptome analysis reveals link between proteasomal and mitochondrial pathways in Parkinson’s disease. Neurogenetics 2006; 7:139-148.
The causes of various neurodegenerative diseases, particularly sporadic cases, remain unknown, but increasing evidence suggests that these diseases may share similar molecular and cellular mechanisms of pathogenesis. One prominent feature common to most neurodegenerative diseases is the accumulation of misfolded proteins in the form of insoluble protein aggregates or inclusion bodies. Although these aggregates have different protein compositions, they all contain ubiquitin and proteasome subunits, implying a failure of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) in the removal of misfolded proteins.
A direct link between UPS dysfunction and neurodegeneration has been provided by recent findings that genetic mutations in UPS components cause several rare, familial forms of neurodegenerative diseases. Furthermore, it is becoming increasingly clear that oxidative stress, which results from aging or exposure to environmental toxins, can directly damage UPS components, thereby contributing to the pathogenesis of sporadic forms of neurodegenerative diseases.
Aberrations in the UPS often result in defective proteasome-mediated protein degradation, leading to accumulation of toxic proteins and eventually to neuronal cell death. Interestingly, emerging evidence has begun to suggest that impairment in substrate-specific components of the UPS, such as E3 ubiquitin-protein ligases, may cause aberrant ubiquitination and neurodegeneration in a proteasome-independent manner. This provides an overview of the molecular components of the UPS and their impairment in familial and sporadic forms of neurodegenerative diseases, and summarizes present knowledge about the pathogenic mechanisms of UPS dysfunction in neurodegeneration.
Molecular mechanisms of protein ubiquitination and degradation by the UPS. Ubiquitination involves a highly specific enzyme cascade in which
ubiquitin (Ub) is first activated by the ubiquitinactivating enzyme (E1),
then transferred to an ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (E2), and
finally covalently attached to the substrate by an ubiquitin-protein ligase (E3).
Ubiquitination is a reversible posttranslational modification in which the removal of Ub is mediated by a deubiquitinating enzyme (DUB).
Substrate proteins can be either monoubiquitinated or polyubiquitinated through successive conjugation of Ub moieties to an internal lysine residue in Ub.
K48-linked poly-Ub chains are recognized by the 26S proteasome, resulting in degradation of the substrate and recycling of Ub.
Monoubiquitination or K63-linked polyubiquitination plays a number of regulatory roles in cells that are proteasome-independent.
Parkin
Loss-of-function mutations in parkin, a 465-amino-acid RING-type E3 ligase, were first identified as the cause for autosomal recessive juvenile Parkinsonism (AR-JP) and subsequently found to account for ~50% of all recessively transmitted early-onset PD cases. Interestingly, patients with parkin mutations do not exhibit Lewy body pathology.
Possible pathogenic mechanisms by which impaired UPS components cause neurodegeneration. Genetic mutations or oxidative stress from aging and/or exposure to environmental toxins have been shown to impair the ubiquitination machinery (particularly E3 ubiquitin-protein ligases) and deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs), resulting in abnormal ubiquitination. Depending on the type of ubiquitination affected, the impairment could cause neurodegeneration through two different mechanisms.
aberrant K48-linked polyubiquitination resulting from impaired E3s or DUBs alters protein degradation by the proteasome, leading to accumulation of toxic proteins and subsequent neurodegeneration. The proteasomes could be directly damaged by oxidative stress or might be inhibited by protein aggregation, which exacerbates the neurotoxicity.
aberrant monoubiquitination or K63-linked polyubiquitination resulting from impaired E3s or DUBs alters crucial non-proteasomal functions, such as gene transcription and protein trafficking, thereby causing neurodegeneration without protein aggregation.
These two models are not mutually exclusive because a single E3 or DUB enzyme, such as parkin or UCH-L1, could regulate more than one type of ubiquitination. In addition, abnormal ubiquitination and neurodegeneration could also result from mutation or oxidative stress-induced structural changes in the protein substrates that alter their recognition and degradation by the UPS.
Lian Li and Chin LS. IMPAIRMENT OF THE UBIQUITIN-PROTEASOME SYSTEM: A COMMON PATHOGENIC MECHANISM IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS. In The Ubiquitin Proteasome System…Chapter 23. (Eds: Eds: Mario Di Napoli and Cezary Wojcik) 553-577 © 2007 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. ISBN 978-1-60021-749-4.
filedesc Schematic diagram of the ubiquitylation system. Created by Roger B. Dodd (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Current Noteworthy Work
Statins inhibit HMG-CoA reductase, a key enzyme in cholesterol synthesis, and are widely used to treat hypercholesterolemia.
These drugs can lead to a number of side effects in muscle, including muscle fiber breakdown; however, the mechanisms of muscle injury by statins are poorly understood. We report that lovastatin induced the expression of atrogin-1, a key gene involved in skeletal muscle atrophy, in humans with statin myopathy, in zebrafish embryos, and in vitro in murine skeletal muscle cells. In cultured mouse myotubes, atrogin-1 induction following lovastatin treatment was accompanied by distinct morphological changes, largely absent in atrogin-1 null cells. In zebrafish embryos, lovastatin promoted muscle fiber damage, an effect that was closely mimicked by knockdown of zebrafish HMG-CoA reductase. Moreover, atrogin-1 knockdown in zebrafish embryos prevented lovastatin-induced muscle injury. Finally, overexpression of PGC-1α, a transcriptional coactivator that induces mitochondrial biogenesis and protects against the development of muscle atrophy, dramatically prevented lovastatin-induced muscle damage and abrogated atrogin-1 induction both in fish and in cultured mouse myotubes. Collectively, our human, animal, and in vitro findings shed light on the molecular mechanism of statin-induced myopathy and suggest that atrogin-1 may be a critical mediator of the muscle damage induced by statins.
Inami Y, Waguri S, Sakamoto A, Kouno T, et al. Persistent activation of Nrf2 through p62 in hepatocellular carcinoma cells. J. Cell Biol. 2011; 193(2): 275–284. www.jcb.org/cgi/doi/10.1083/jcb.201102031
Macroautophagy (hereafter referred to as autophagy) is a cellular degradation system in which cytoplasmic components, including organelles, are sequestered by double membrane structures called autophagosomes and the sequestered materials are degraded by lysosomal hydrolases for supply of amino acids and for cellular homeostasis. Although autophagy has generally been considered nonselective, recent studies have shed light on another indispensable role for basal autophagy in cellular homeostasis, which is mediated by selective degradation of a specific substrate(s). p62 is a ubiquitously expressed cellular protein that is conserved in metazoa but not in plants and fungi, and recently it has been known as one of the selective substrates for autophagy.
This protein is localized at the autophagosome formation site and directly interacts with LC3, an autophagosome localizing protein . Subsequently, the p62 is incorporated into the autophagosome and then degraded. Therefore, impaired autophagy is accompanied by accumulation of p62 followed by the formation of p62 and ubiquitinated protein aggregates because of the nature of both self- oligomerization and ubiquitin binding of p62.
Epicrisis
This extensive review leaves little left unopened. We have seen the central role that the UPS system plays in normal organelle proteolysis in concert with autophagy. Impaired ubiquitination occurs from aging, and/or toxins, under oxidative stress involving E3s or DUBs.
This leads to altered gene transcripton, altered protein trafficking, and plays a role in neurodegenative disease, and muscle malfunction.
English: A cartoon representation of a lysine 48-linked diubiquitin molecule. The two ubiquitin chains are shown as green cartoons with each chain labelled. The components of the linkage are indicated and shown as orange sticks. Image was created using PyMOL from PDB id 1aar. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Different forms of protein ubiquitylation (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Autophagy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Structure of the PARK2 protein. Based on PyMOL rendering of PDB 1iyf. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Comparison of the process of macroautophagy versus microautophagy. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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The Ubiquitin Ligase Nedd4-1 Participates in Denervation-Induced Skeletal Muscle Atrophy in Mice (plosone.org)
Polyglutamine ‘toxicity’ (dundeemedstudentnotes.wordpress.com)
Inhibition of Xanthine Oxidase by Allopurinol Prevents Skeletal Muscle Atrophy: Role of p38 MAPKinase and E3 Ubiquitin Ligases (plosone.org)
Ubiquitin Dynamics in Complexes Reveal Molecular Recognition Mechanisms Beyond Induced Fit and Conformational Selection (ploscompbiol.org)
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Betulinic Acid Selectively Increases Protein Degradation and Enhances Prostate Cancer-Specific Apoptosis: Possible Role for Inhibition of Deubiquitinase Activity (plosone.org)
The N-Terminal Region of Nurr1 (a.a 1 – 31) Is Essential for Its Efficient Degradation by the Ubiquitin Proteasome Pathway (plosone.org)
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This was Phish’s fourth appearance and second headline gig at Jones Beach. Tickets cost $20.00. In conjunction with Greenpeace, this was also the “1st solar powered Phish show.” Trey sang the verses of Fee through his megaphone. The first ever Letter To Jimmy Page to open a set was played without Alumni Blues here for only the third time ever. David Bowie concluded with demented laughing from Fish during the ending. Reba included the theme from Brazil which was played for the 1st time in more than two years (since 3/26/92) as well as the Popeye Theme, and ended without whistling. Setting Sail, “a sing-along song” appropriate to the location on Zach’s Bay, was played for the first time in more than two years (since 3/25/92) and included the world’s first solar powered vacuum solo as well as an “I am Iron Man” quote from Fish. It’s Ice featured an unusual jam led by Page.Before the Sleeping Monkey encore, Trey thanked everybody for participating in the 1st ever solar powered Phish show and, along with Page, urged people to stop by the Greenpeace table to visit Greenpeace Mike, saying “This was his idea.” After this show, the band and crew traveled 272 miles overnight to Fayston, Vermont to prepare for the last show of the tour.
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Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta
helena.stensota@pol.gu.se
Rumsnummer: B534
Om Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta
Associate Professor (since 2010) and senior lecturer at Political Science Department at University of Göteborg. My research focuses on gender, ethics, public policy and administration.
* Gender and corruption
* Diminishing political gender differences? Extrapolitical and intrapolitical causes
* Child and youth wellbeing
* Street-level bureacracy and resiliance
* Ethics of care and politics
Making sense of gender and corruption
(Forte 2014-2018 med Lena Wängnerud)
Corruption, commonly defined as the act of using public power for private ends, can be considered a major destructive force in society. As an overview by Treisman shows, a vast flora of recent research confirms how serious the problem of corruption is perceived to be (Treisman, 2007). Corruption reduces economic prosperity and undercuts various dimensions of human wellbeing, such as health, access to clean water and education, and subjective features such as human subjective wellbeing and happiness (Halleröd et al., 2012; North, 1990; Rothstein and Holmberg, 2012; Swaroop and Rajkumar, 2002; Uslaner, 2008).
The point we are making is that previous research demonstrates a clear link between the quality of the state and a number of outcome variables such as human well being, but what produces high quality in government institutions in the first place? After more than two decades of research on corruption and other aspects of government quality, it is clear that the top echelon of society is of fundamental importance, not only because of their direct influence on politics, administration and economy but also since their behavior indirectly signals how things are done. At the same time there is a need for fine-tuned understandings of the role of elites in the complex dynamics between formal rules and informal norms in different settings. In this project we develop new understandings of enabling and hindering factors in the development of high quality government institutions from an intersectionality perspective, where gender is central.
The main idea is to depart from scholarship on feminist institutionalism. This strand of research treats gender as a fluid category and sees gender as dependent on logics within specific institutions. Our take on this argument is that institutions are important mediating factors that affect possibilities for female politicians and bureaucrats to have an impact on the quality of government institutions.
Our study will be conducted in three different settings – Sweden, Spain, and Mexico – and cover three types of institutions or spheres of government; the electoral arena, the bureaucracy and street-level administration. Before we anchor our study in previous research on gender and corruption we want to point out that one could assume that problems of corruption, withering the trust in government, is a problem limited to developing countries, whereas Sweden, with its encompassing welfare state, have a stability reaching beyond these challenges. To this we can say first, that recent scandals in the Swedish context, for example in public–private partnership shows that corruption is not astray to Swedish contemporary society. In Gothenburg outsourced local health service have been found to swindle with their bookkeeping transactions and in Stockholm, local health service and kindergartens have been sold for dump-prices – acts that can be categorized within the grey-zones of corruption.
* Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena, Lena Wängnerud and Richard Svensson ”Gender and corruption in different institutional settings: Distinguishing the electoral arena from the bureaucracy” 2014b, (Accepted for publication in Governance August 2014) ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2013: 8/46 (Public Administration); 22/156 (Political Science).
Why are gender differences in the Swedish parliament diminishing? Inter-political and extra-political causes
(Riksbankens jubileumsfond 2012-2015 med Lena Wängnerud).
Research on the representation of gender has been dominated by the problem of what determines the numerical share of women in representative bodies, as well as the question on whether or not these women make a political difference (Beckwith, 2007; Celis, Childs, Kantola and Krook, 2008; Dahlerup, 2006; Grey, 2006; Kittilson, 2006; Mackay, 2004; Lovenduski and Norris 2003; Norris, 1996; Wängnerud, 2000; 2009). In short, empirical research has generally concluded that women in parliament express more concern for social and family issues, i.e., “care-and-career policies” than men and that women more often think of themselves as representative of women and being in close contact with women’s grassroots organizations (Lovenduski and Norris, 19933; Inglehart and Norris, 2003). Recent empirical developments, however, suggest that substantial changes in what women and men represent are currently happening, more precisely, we see that substantial differences between women and men are diminishing. This process has hardly been examined in research, but it opens the field to issues of whether gender equality gives rise to new orientations among both women and men, for example with increased attention to issues of care (Engster and Stensöta, 2011; Stensöta 2004; Williams, 2000; Young, 2000).
Diminishing substantial gender differences among politicians can be seen in a variety of areas. In Sweden, for, which has had a longer history of larger women representation, a clear trend toward diminishing gender differences between women and men can be seen in over a period of twenty years (1985–2006). There is almost complete gender equality in the proportion of women and men on Riksdag committees since about a decade. Further, there are diminishing gender differences of the representative mandate captured, for example, as the percentage of women and men MPs who say it is crucial to promote women’s interests and concerns. Last but not least we see diminishing gender differences between the top ten issues that women and men MPs say are their main political priorities in open-ended answers (Riksdag Surveys); the ranking correlations have increased from 0.42 in 1985 to 0.74 in 2006. This trend is seen across parties, although it is stronger among the left and green representatives (Wängnerud, 2010). Traces of the trend can be found internationally, which is mirrored by the increased critique on a definition of “women´s issues” and the expressed need to update research on this area (Tronto, 1996; Young, 2000).
The project “Why are gender differences in the Swedish parliament diminishing? Inter-political and extra-political causes” aims to explain these diminishing differences. The aim of the project is to determine whether the change is mainly attributable to factors within parliament, here called inter-political forces, or whether they are mainly attributable to factors outside parliament, here called extra-political forces. In the likely case that explanatory factors are interrelated the project will describe how processes interact to produce the empirical phenomena of diminishing substantial gender differences. At large, the project is situated in research on substantive representation, which focuses primarily on the content of representation rather than on the numerical issue, as research on descriptive representation does.
The Swedish case is an optimal case for examining the process of diminishing gender differences. Sweden is generally regarded as being at the front line of establishing gender equality both in terms of political efforts and outcomes, as its high rankings on indices such as the Gender Empowerment Index and Gender Development Index (GEM and GDI, respectively; Human Development Reports) clearly indicate. Thus, one could argue that by examining Sweden and gender equality, we might get a “glimpse ahead” of more general processes. Sweden is further well chosen for discussing especially decreasing differences between women and men priorities and preferences as Swedish gender policy generally is characterized as an “equality route” aiming at shared responsibilities of women and men both at work and at home (Florin, 1998; Lindvert, 2006). Sweden is further generally regarded as a country where the processes of party professionalization have proceeded far (Hagevi and Jahn, 1999). Last, in regard of more formal equality tools such as quotas, Sweden lies far ahead through the voluntary assignment of most parties to this strategy since the beginning of the 1990s (Freidenvall, 2006).
Two broad hypotheses are examined, interpolitical and extrapolitical causes behind diminishing gender differences. The hypothesis of inter-political causes is in turn derived from two strands of research; party-theory, which predicts a professionalization of parties, involving increasing similarities between parliamentarians accompanied by an expanding cleavage towards the general population (Katz and Mair, 2009). From feminist theory, we derive the idea that conscious equality measures such as quotas can be one important cause behind diminishing gender differences (Dahlerup, 2006; Freidenvall, 2006). In previous research interpolitical factors have been discussed on a general level in the previous work of Wängnerud (2010), but no more thorough studies on the problem has been performed. The hypothesis of extra-political causes is derived from more structural oriented feminist theory where changing living patterns in regard of care responsibility are seen as transforming forces in society (Hernes, 1987; Rosenbluth, Salmon and Thies, 2006; Stensöta, 2004). Because living patterns of men and women are becoming more similar in regard of combining work-and-family responsibilities in the private sphere, and because of an increasing share of men in welfare state entrepreneurship, a trend of diminishing differences can be predicted. This idea is widespread in feminist theory generally, however existing theories lack in theoretical precision on how these processes of change take place more precisely, as well as empirical assessment of these more precise theoretical ideas.
* Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena 2014f. Cartel theory from a gender perpspective [Kartellteorin ur ett genusperspektiv]. Svensk Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift. 116. no 1).
* Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena. ”Managing rather than Steering? Explaining successful implementation of gender mainstreming in Sweden.”
* Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena and Anna Högmark. Does gender equality affect political preferences? A study on preferences of politicians in Swedish municipalities 1970-2012. (working-paper).
* Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena More women – more conflicts? A complete study of politicization of gender in Swedish parliament proceedings (reservations and co-worked propositions [motioner] 1971-2012). (working-paper).
* Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena Do care assignments change men´s political preferences? (working-paper).
* Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena Political styles among swedish representatives: gender, age and ethnicity. (working-paper).
Child and youth wellbeing - welfare state institutions and civil society
(Vetenskapsrådet 2011-2015).
The project explore differences in levels of objective and subjective wellbeing across Europe as well as the interplay between local welfare state and civil society for youth wellbeing in the Swedish context. It is part of Civil Society Framework Program financed by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).
* Engster Daniel and Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta. 2011. Do Family Policies Matter for Children Well Being? Medförfattare: Daniel Engster. Social Politics. 18:1 (Spring) pp. 82-124. (Impact Factor 2010 1.579 (5 year 2.138) 6/35 Social Issues).
* Nordlander Erica, and Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta. 2014. Grades - for better or worse? The interplay of school performance and subjective well-being among boys and girls. Child Indicators Research 6.
* Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena and Tove Wikelhult “Building social trust. Marginalized youth in high trust context Sweden. Under review formajor journal civil society studies, September 2014.
* Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena ”Youth wellbeing between local welfare state and civil society. Is the young generation lagging behind?” Presented at CES conference, Barcelona 2011, June.
* Building general trust among marginalized youth in high trust context Sweden: Local welfare state and civil society. Working paper.
Street-level Bureaucracy – resilience to managerial pressure?
The project explores current challenges to street-level bureaucracy. Based on longer interviews with public employees handling sick leave benefits we ask whether neoliberal global trends have poured down into welfare state administration, or whether national trajectories may provide defense. We compare the situation in Denmark from that in Sweden. The project started through funding from Social Security Administration in Sweden (Försäkringskassan).
* Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena and Marie Østergaard Møller ”Caseworkers’ discretions of eligibility to social insurance in Denmark and Sweden – signs of Neoliberalism in Scandinavian welfare states? (R&R to major journal in public administration June 2014h).
*Stensöta, Olofsdotter, Helena. 2012. Political influence on street-level bureaucratic outcome: Testing the interaction between bureaucratic ideology and local community political orientation. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 22:3, sidor 553-571. (Impact Factor 2010 2.086 (5-year 3.832) 2/39 Public Administration).
Ethics of care
Ethics of care has been my main theme in research during several years. I understand ethics of care theory as a way to capture citizenship and human ontology as necessarily involved in care-responsibilities, a notion with political consequences.
I have developed a theoretical model for how patterns of care-responsibilities on structural level may affect policies, a notion that I examined empirically in my disseration and pursues in the pojrect "why are gender differences in the swedish parliament diminishing?"
I have also argued to include ethics of care in public ethics discourse and elaborated on why this is a good idea as well as how it may proceed. I argued that many areas in which public ethics is thought to improve implementation are actually care areas. However, my point is broader, and argues for the implementation of care ethics in a range of policy areas hither to not consider as care oriented, such as prison management, law enforcement or city planning. The introduction of a public ethics of care serves as to strengthen care considerations in society.
The last topic in relation to ethics of care that I have engaged in, is the discussion about whether the empathetic state also is the green state, together with Annica Kronsell.
* Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena. 2010. The Conditions of Care. Reframing the Debate about Public Sector Ethics Public Administration Review. 70 (March-April), pp. 295-303, (Impact Factor 2008 1.503 (5 year 1.915) 3/39 Public Administration).
* Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena, ”A public ethics of care. A general public ethics for actual implementation.” (R&R to social politics journal. August 2014c).
* Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena. 2004. The empathetic state. Childcare and Law Enforcement Policy 1950 – 2000. [Den empatiska staten. Daghemspolitik och polispolitik 1950-2000]. Doctoral dissertation. Gothenburg Studies in Political Science No 80. Livrena (250 sidor).
* Kronsell Annica och Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta “The Green State and Empathic Rationality in Backstrand Karin & Kronsell Annica “The green state” (forthcoming).
Family policies and child well-being.
Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta, daniel engster
Handbook of Family Policy , Kapitel i bok 2019
Street-level bureaucracy research and the assessment of ethical conduct.
Handbook in street level research. , Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Research Handbooks, Kapitel i bok 2019
Welfare State Regimes and Caseworkers’ Problem Explanation
Marie Östergaard Möller, Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta
Administration & Society, Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift 2019
Does Care Experience Affect Policy Interests?Male Legislators, Parental Leave, and Political Priorities in Sweden
Politics and Gender, Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift 2019
Public response to welfare policy retrenchment: The importance of trust in implementing agencies. The case of early retirement in Sweden 1999-2010
Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta, Anna Bendz
Social Policy & Administration, Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift 2019
Corruption and Female Representation in the Bureaucracy
Gender and Corruption. Historical Roots and New Avenues for Research, Palgrave Macmillan, Kapitel i bok 2018
Legitimitet, byråkratisk representation och etik
Politik som organisation. Förvaltningspolitikens grundproblem, Lund, Studentlitteratur, Kapitel i bok 2018
Gender and Corruption: institutions and mechanisms of accountability
Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta, Lena Wängnerud
Handbook on the Geographies of Corruption. , Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Press, Kapitel i bok 2018
Final Thoughts: Taking Stock and Reflections on Ways Forward
Kvinnor, män och makt. Politikens innehåll och positioner
Helena Stensöta, Lena Wängnerud
Rösträttens århundrade. Kampen, utvecklingen och framtiden för demokratin i Sverige, Göteborg , Makadam förlag , Kapitel i bok 2018
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Library Staff Attends PLAI Congress 2019
The Philippine Librarians Association, Inc. (PLAI) National Congress 2019 was recently held on November 19-21, 2019 at Tagaytay International Convention Center in Tagaytay City. This year’s theme was “Inclusive Innovative Interconnected.”
Ms. Jeanybeth D. Casa and Ms. Nirvana G. Ramos, College Librarians assigned at the Postharvest Horticulture Training and Research Center (PHTRC) Library were among the College Librarians from the University who attended the event.
This year’s PLAI Congress was in partnership with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) through the National Committee on Libraries and Information Services (NCLIS). The event highlighted the role, efforts, advocacies, initiatives, programs, projects, and services of libraries, information centers, archives, and other cultural heritage partners and institutions in building and contributing inclusive, innovative, and interconnected societies.
PLAI Congress is annually conducted in the month of November, participated by librarians all over the Philippines. (NGR)
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PHTRC Researchers and Staff Celebrates 2019 NBM
The Postharvest Horticulture Training and Research Center (PHTRC) Library and PHTRC In-House Seminar partnered in the conduct of activities to celebrate this year’s National Book Month.
This event is commemorated every month of November nationwide. The theme for this year’s celebration is “Inclusive, Innovative and Interconnected” which highlights the role of libraries and information centers in promoting reading, writing, and literature.
To highlight the purpose of the celebration, PHTRC conducted “Hugot sa Libro Poetry” and “Blackout Poetry” on November 4 and 11, 2019, and a seminar on “Fake News and Information Disorder: A Guide for Digital Natives” held on 18 November 2019 at PHTRC Annex Training Room. Ms. Meichelle Ann Jenine S. Rivas, College Librarian at the University Special Collection Section of Main Library, served as the Resource Speaker while Ms. Irene L. Delos Santos, Chair of the UPLB 2019 National Book Month Celebration shared about the history of National Book Month.
The activities were participated by the researchers and staff of the unit. After the seminar was the awarding ceremony. Mr. Ryan Anthony O. Lualhati, Ms. Daphne Cassandra H. Gonzales, Mr. Johnrell S. Zuniega and Ms. Jennelyn M. Resorez were announced as winners in the conducted poetry contests. (NGR)
Farmers Attend FAO & PHTRC Training on Postharvest Handling
UPLB Library Upskills Staff on “Technological Innovations”
UP System Librarians convene for "2018 Librarians’ Summit"
CAFS Library Committee joins book selection at 39th MIBF
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We’re headed to Los Angeles tomorrow (that’s Wednesday, 8/22/2018) to speak at the 2018 US China Blockchain and Digital Currency Conference!
Check out our CEO, Alex Linebrink’s intro here, and snag tickets here if you’re in the area. We’d love to say hi!
Have you ever watched one of those crazy interesting and inspiring TED talks online? This year the PassageX CEO, Alex Linebrink, will be giving his own TED(x) talk at TEDxDetroit!
Check out the speaker line-up in this Detroit Free Press article, and snag tickets for this must-see event before they sell out!
Event: Come see us at TECHyeah! in Ann Arbor, MI on Tuesday!
We’re headed to Ann Arbor, Michigan tomorrow (that’s Tuesday, July 24), where CEO Alex Linebrink will be speaking at the Tech YEAH! blockchain event inside The Forge By Pillar Technology. This is a fast-paced summit exploring the business, technology, and human elements of blockchain.
We’ll kick things off at 5:30 p.m. and you’ll be on your way home by 7 p.m. Oh, and there’s free food! The event is free, but spaces are limited, so sign up now before all the spots are filled.
0♥69July 23, 2018
Break It Down Podcast: “What Can We Do With Blockchain?”
On this week’s “Break It Down Podcast”, Matt Carter (yep – THE Matt Carter of the post-rock bank, Emery) interviews PassageX CEO Alex Linebrink to talk about PassageX and other applications of blockchain tech. This is an awesome episode that you won’t want to miss!
Listen to the full episode here, and don’t forget to subscribe to the Break It Down Podcast for weekly episodes breaking down interesting topics with experts from around the world!
Xconomy: “PassageX, Listia Partner to Use Blockchain to Resell Tickets”
Xconomy covered PassageX and our Listia partnership! Here’s a bit from the article:
Alex Linebrink is on a mission to cut out the middle man.
“There are more than 1,000 small ticket companies around the world, of which Passage is probably in the middle of the pack” in terms of size, he says. “Big corporations have all the power now. We think we can change the industry if we can get enough of these little guys together. It might be enough pressure to get the big guys involved.”
Continue Reading on Xconomy here.
PassageX to bring fraud-free ticket reselling to Listia’s peer-to-peer marketplace
DETROIT – Two online platforms both using blockchain technology to re-invent how people securely resell items, have partnered to offer low-fee and fraud-free transactions to the secondary event ticket market.
Listia, a peer-to-peer marketplace launched in 2009, will soon list event tickets from PassageX on its platform. PassageX, a new project from Passage, Inc. , is a blockchain-powered network that eliminates fraud, high fees, fake tickets and the many other problems that plague the secondary ticket market.
“Over the past nine years, Listia has built an enthusiastic community of more than 10 million people, and the opportunity for those fans to buy and sell event tickets using a marketplace they trust simply makes sense,” said Alex Linebrink, CEO of PassageX. “Our goal with PassageX is to put the power back into the hands and of fans and artists, a vision that aligns with Listia. Blockchain technology lets us do that.”
Currently, PassageX sells secondary tickets for Passage, which has powered primary ticketing sales and payments, both online and at-the-door, for niche events since 2014. With this proof-of-concept software development complete, PassageX expects to have tickets on Listia.com this fall, when it launches the network in full, after completing its token sale.
At launch, PassageX will allow both primary ticketing companies and marketplaces – such as Listia – to use its network for low-fee, 100-percent transparent secondary ticket sales. The network allows for revenue splits through smart contracts, ensuring artists and venues get a fair percentage of the resale.
“We’re thrilled to partner with PassageX to build the most trusted way to buy and sell tickets,” said Gee Chuang, CEO and founder of Listia. “Using our newly developed Ink Protocol, a decentralized peer-to-peer transaction and reputation system for marketplaces, we’ll incorporate PassageX ticket inventory into Ink Protocol-enabled marketplaces such as Listia.”
About PassageX
PassageX is a new secondary-ticketing platform that’s free of fraud, high fees, and unfair revenue splits. Using blockchain technology, the PassageX Network eliminates those problems, while providing fans 100-percent transparency into each ticket sale. PassageX is a project of Passage, Inc., which has powered ticketing and payments, both online and at-the-door, for niche events all over the world since 2014. For more information, check out passagex.com.
0♥78June 18, 2018
PassageX hires Lindsay, Stone & Briggs for public relations, digital marketing
MADISON, Wisconsin – PassageX, a Detroit-based startup that’s reshaping the secondary ticket market, has hired Lindsay, Stone & Briggs to lead its public relations and marketing efforts.
Using blockchain technology, PassageX lowers fees, and eliminates fraud and fake tickets – problems fans face daily when purchasing event tickets. PassageX allows any primary ticketing company or online marketplace to plug into its network, securing the benefits of the blockchain without changing the way they currently sell tickets. Fans can then validate tickets in one quick step before they purchase.
LSB will help PassageX share its story with frustrated fans, artists and venues worldwide who are looking for a better online marketplace, while also working with the company to attract investors.
“LSB has a long history of successfully launching new brands and products into the world,” said Alex Linebrink, CEO of PassageX. “Our partnership with LSB is going to play a significant role in communicating with fans, artists and investors, as we continue to grow at a rapid pace.”
Initially, LSB will lead PassageX’s public relations efforts, including media relations. LSB also will assist with digital content strategy and web optimization.
“Working with startups like PassageX is a passion for all of us at LSB, especially in the tech space,” said Amy Rohn, senior vice president and director of public relations at LSB. “PassageX is on a mission to solve a problem too many of us have begrudgingly accepted for too many years, and they have a great story – one we’re eager to share.”
About LSB
Lindsay, Stone & Briggs is a Madison, WI based agency that combines data and creativity to drive our clients’ businesses forward. With a full suite of services, we provide comprehensive marketing solutions for a range of budgets across categories that include the home environment, food, healthcare and cannabis. The agency consists of a nimble team of digital natives, MBAs, art school grads, strategists, word nerds and tech geeks. Each LSBer brings a perspective that helps shape the best solution. Learn more at lsb.com.
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WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN | Cork Opera House | BGET | Oct 2019
We’ve Only Just Begun : The Carpenters 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert, with a 30-piece Orchestra
One of the most fascinating, but tragic stories, in popular music history was the life of Karen Carpenter. She achieved so much in her short life and her untimely death at just 32 years old was a sad loss to the music industry and her many, many fans. Karen was the voice of the multi-hit making group The Carpenters who, along with her brother Richard, scored an unprecedented 17 consecutive billboard US top ten hits.
The touring show “We’ve Only Just Begun’ has been on the road now for over 5 years and is simply the best celebration of The Carpenters music to be heard anywhere in the world. The show features every Carpenter hit embellished by a 10-piece big band and accompanying audio visuals of The Carpenters career highlights. It’s an evening of pure nostalgia where Toni Lee truly becomes Karen Carpenter.
Karen Carpenter had a unique voice, so unique in fact that it has proven almost impossible to duplicate its deep, smoky, emotional edge, creating that uniqueness that is so hard to perfect. Now, for the very first time in over 30
years, the voice that melted a thousand romantic hearts lives again through Toni Lee…
As a very young girl, Toni Lee was touched by Karen Carpenter’s breath-taking voice, and by the wonderful arrangements of The Carpenter’s beautiful love songs. She became, and has remained, one of their greatest fans. Now Toni transports her audiences with the natural and uncanny likeness of her voice to that of Karen Carpenter. In fact, Toni graced the stage on TV a few years back as Karen Carpenter on the hit television show Stars In Their Eyes, showcasing the vocal and visual likeness by singing Superstar, which was met with great acclaim. She looks on this as a tribute to Karen as well as an endorsement to herself!
Toni has had great success performing at many venues, large and small, in theatres across the UK and live on radio, performing hits such as Close To You, Superstar, For All We Know, Song For You and Top Of The World, just to mention a few.
This is a show not to be missed, especially if you are a true fan. You will certainly go away uplifted and enthralled by the experience!
“If Karen Carpenter is the apex of the human singing voice in all its highways, byways and dank rivers of expression, Toni Lee is up there in the early 92-94th percentile.” – Irish Examiner .
From start to finish Toni Lee made you believe she was Karen Carpenter. An absolutely fantastic show.” Ticketmaster Review .
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Justia Patents Channel AllocationUS Patent Application for Channel switching for support of multimedia broadcast and multicast services Patent Application (Application #20040116125)
Channel switching for support of multimedia broadcast and multicast services
Aug 7, 2003 - InterDigital Technology Corporation
The present invention includes a radio access network and a method for sending a multimedia broadcasts/multicast services (MBMS) using channel switching. The channel switching is between dedicated and shared/common channels. The invention also includes MBMS reception scheduling for use when a wireless transmit/receive device receives an MBMS service from multiple transmission sources. The sources transmitting the MBMS service data in differing orders. One embodiment uses in band segmentation information and another embodiment uses out of band synchronization information.
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION(S)
[0001] This application claims priority from U.S. provisional application No. 60/402,161 which was filed on Aug. 7, 2002, which is incorporated by reference as if fully set forth.
FIELD OF INVENTION
[0002] The present invention generally relates to wireless communication systems. In particular, the present invention relates to channel switching and scheduling of multimedia broadcasts and multicast services in such systems.
[0003] There is a growing desire to use multimedia broadcasts/multicast services (MBMS) in wireless communication systems. For a particular MBMS, a given cell in the network may have none, one or multiple users, wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs), subscribed to that MBMS. As users migrate between cells, a cell that may originally have one or no users subscribed to the service may at a later point have multiple subscribed users. Conversely, a cell that may at one point have multiple subscribed users may at another time have only one or no users.
[0004] This migration of the users can create inefficient use of radio resource. If only one or a few users are subscribed to the MBMS in the cell, it may be desirable to support the service using dedicated channels to the users. The dedicated channels can utilize power control and beam steering to reduce the amount of radio resources utilized to support the MBMS.
[0005] However, if many users are subscribed to the MBMS in the cell, the multiple dedicated channels in total may use considerable radio resources. In such a situation, a more optimal use of the radio resources may be to send the MBMS data over a common/shared channel to a set of users subscribed to that MBMS. Although the use of beamsteering and power control in such situations is limited, the reduction in the number of total channels may reduce the used radio resources. As the number of MBMS users in the cell changes, an original choice of using either a common/shared channel or a dedicated channel may not be optimal at a later time.
[0006] Another potential problem resulting from user migration is MBMS scheduling. As a MBMS user moves between cells, that user needs to reconstruct the MBMS service from information received from both cells. If both cells synchronize their MBMS transmissions, the MBMS user can seamlessly move between the cells. However, such a scenario is typically not practical and undesirable. At certain time intervals based on the cell's loading and available resources, a cell may have more available resources to support the MBMS transmission than at another time. As a result, at that time, it is desirable for that cell to transmit a large amount of the MBMS data. For another cell at that same time interval, resources to support the same MBMS bandwidth may not be available. As a result, it may be desirable to schedule the MBMS transmissions differently between the cells, to better utilize such resources. As the MBMS user moves between cells, the new cell that the user has moved into may have transmissions either ahead or behind the other cell's transmissions. As a result, the MBMS user may miss MBMS data or needlessly receive redundant MBMS data.
[0007] Accordingly, it is desirable to have better resource utilization for MBMS.
[0008] The present invention includes a radio access network and a method for sending a multimedia broadcasts/multicast services (MBMS) using channel switching. The channel switching is between dedicated and shared/common channels. The invention also includes MBMS reception scheduling for use when a wireless transmit/receive device receives an MBMS service from multiple transmission sources. The sources transmitting the MBMS service data in differing orders. One embodiment uses in band segmentation information and another embodiment uses out of band synchronization information.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING(S)
[0009] FIG. 1 is a flow chart for use in MBMS channel switching.
[0010] FIG. 2 is a radio access network using MBMS channel switching.
[0011] FIG. 3 is a flow chart for coordinating reception of a MSMS transmissions from multiple sources using in band segmentation information.
[0012] FIG. 4 is a flow chart for coordinating reception of a MSMS transmissions from multiple sources using out of band segmentation information.
[0013] FIG. 5 is a WTRU for receiving MBMS information using in band segmentation information.
[0014] FIG. 6 is a WTRU for receiving MBMS information using out of band synchronization information.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT(S)
[0015] Although the preferred embodiments are described in conjunction with a third generation partnership program (3GPP) wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA) system, the embodiments are applicable to any wireless system using MBMS. Hereafter, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) includes but is not limited to a user equipment, mobile station, fixed or mobile subscriber unit, pager, or any other type of device capable of operating in a wireless environment.
[0016] FIG. 1 is a flow chart for channel switching for a MBMS. In a particular cell, the number of WTRUs subscribed to the service is determined or estimated, step 20. Typically, this information is known. Using the number of WTRUs in the cell and/or other cell information, such as information on cell conditions, available cell resources, etc., a choice of whether dedicated channels, a common/shared channel or both are used, step 22. After the channel choice is made, the MBMS data is mapped to the corresponding channel(s), step 24. One possible approach to determine which type(s) of channels should be used is a threshold test. If below a certain threshold number of WTRUs is in the cell, dedicated channels are used. The dedicated channels allow for power control and transmit diversity techniques to be employed. These techniques are highly desirable when high data rate MBMS transfers are made, to efficiently use the available resources.
[0017] If the number of WTRUs exceeds the threshold, a common/shared channel is used, such as a shared channel, a high speed shared channel or a secondary common control physical channel (S-CCPCH). A shared channel or high speed shared channel can be used to transfer the MBMS data to multiple WTRUs simultaneously. The S-CCPCH can be used to broadcast the MBMS data to multiple users. Typically, the shared/common channels are less radio resource efficient.
[0018] In an alternate embodiment, a two threshold scheme may be used. If the number of MBMS subscribed WTRUs in the cell is below a first threshold, dedicated channels are used. If the number is between a first and second threshold, a shared or high speed shared channel is used. If the number exceeds the second threshold, a common channel is used to broadcast the MBMS.
[0019] Under certain circumstances, it may be desirable to use both shared and dedicated channels to support an MBMS. To illustrate, many subscribing WRTUs may be located together, such as at a train station, and a few or a single WTRU may be outside of the train station. In such a situation, the most efficient use of cell resources to support the MBMS may be to allocate a shared channel to the train station WTRUs and a dedicated channel to the other WTRU. As the number of users in a cell changes, the cell conditions changes or periodically, the channel choice is repeated using the new information, step 26.
[0020] FIG. 2 is an illustration of a preferred radio access network (RAN) for performing channel switching. The RAN is managed by a serving radio network controllers (S-RNC) 30 which manages the user's services and the controlling radio network controller (C-RNC) 34 which manages the physical resources of the cells. Signaling procedures which provide the coordination needed between the S-RNCs 30 and the C-RNCs 34 for proper operation of the RAN are utilized.
[0021] A channel switching entity (MBMS channel switching device 36) determines which channels to use, such as dedicated, shared or the common, for MBMS transmission and it also coordinates reception of the MBMS with the WTRUs 401 to 40N (40). The MBMS data is sent to the WTRUs 40 via the Node-B 38.
[0022] A preferred implementation of the channel switching is as follows. A first WTRU 40 subscribed to the MBMS can enter and exit cells autonomously with respect to the activation and distribution of the MBMS service. When the MBMS is first established for the first WTRU 40 or a small number of users within a particular cell, dedicated channels are established with a unique radio link (RL) indicator that identifies the MBMS service. A second WTRU 40 that wishes to utilize another MBMS will have a different dedicated channel assigned to that user. When the RL is established for each user, a unique MBMS indicator is signaled from the S-RNC 30 to the C-RNC 34. This MBMS indicator is unique to each service provided to the user. The C-RNC 34 maintains a database of all users currently active for a particular MBMS service and this group is known as the MBMS user group.
[0023] The data for each active MBMS service is distributed to the C-RNC 34 from the core network 28 via the MBMS data stream. A unique identifier is associated with each MBMS data stream allowing the C-RNC 34 to associate the data with the appropriate user or user group so the data can be properly routed. Depending on the number of active users for a particular MBMS service and cell conditions, the C-RNC 34 will determine if the service should be transmitted on dedicated or shared/common channels.
[0024] Since individual users autonomously enter and exit the cell, the switching between dedicated and common channels is dynamic and may occur during ongoing transmissions. Dynamic switching can be applied to the downlink shared channels (DSCH). Data can be sent on the DSCH to be received by a single user is referred to as dedicated DSCH (D-DSCH) or by multiple users simultaneously is referred to as common DSCH (C-DSCH). For a particular MBMS when there is only one user or a small number of users existing within the cell, the DSCH will be a D-DSCH to the user or users. When the number of users associated with a particular MBMS increases, a C-DSCH can be established for this MBMS user group.
[0025] When the first WTRU 40 becomes active within the cell, a D-DSCH is established to this first user. The MBMS transmission may not necessarily be continuously active. The transmission of the MBMS on the DSCH is indicated to the first WTRU 40 on an associated dedicated channel. This indication may be turned on and off on a transmission time interval (TTI) basis.
[0026] The C-DSCH may be physically identical to the D-DSCH. However, a distinguishing characteristic is that the signaling for the DSCH transmission for the individual user associated with a dedicated channel within the MBMS user group is that the transmission is synchronized. This allows all users in the MBMS user group to receive the common DSCH transmission. An indication may be signaled along with MBMS transmissions to indicate that the MBMS transmission is either dedicated to a particular user or common to the users in the MBMS user group. This allows for proper operation of power control techniques, transmit diversity or any other unique physical transmission attributes. The MBMS transitions between dedicated and common DSCH is preferably transparent to the WTRU 40.
[0027] In another embodiment, the channel switching is applied to the high speed DSCH (HS-DSCH). A difference between using the HS-DSCH instead of the DSCH is that rather than applying synchronized allocations in the C-RNC 34 on the associated dedicated channels, the synchronized allocations are provided on HS-DSCH control channels in Node-B 38.
[0028] In another embodiment, switching may be performed between the dedicated physical channels and common physical channels without the use of the associated dedicated channels. The channel switching between the dedicated channels to the common channels is explicitly signaled to each user. The RAN layer 3 protocols allow for procedures of signaling the radio frame to transition between the dedicated and the common channels. The signaling is performed by either signaling a radio frame for the transition or by signaling the transmission scheduling information.
[0029] FIGS. 3 and 4 are flow charts to allow for different cells and different inter-cell MBMS transmissions to be scheduled in different orders. To illustrate, a first cell may be able to transmit large amounts of MBMS data to WTRUs 40 in a radio frame that a second cell can not. As a result, MBMS transmission in the first cell may be one or multiple radio frames or TTIs ahead of the second cell.
[0030] To illustrate for inter-cell, within a cell, one group of users may be located in a train station and serviced by a common DSCH and another user within the same cell may be outside of the train station and be serviced by a dedicated channel or dedicated DSCH to take full advantage of beam forming and power control. Based on the DSCH loading and other factors, it may be desirable for transmissions to the train station WTRUs 40 to either lead or lag the outside WTRU transmissions. If a user of the outside WTRU 40 goes to the train station, it would most likely be desirable to switch that WTRU 40 to the common DSCH and disestablish the dedicated channel. In this scenario, the outside WTRU 40 may need to catch up to the transmissions on the common DSCH or allow those transmissions to catch up to the segments that the WTRU 40 already received.
[0031] To maintain continuous service distribution and make more efficient use of radio resources, the MBMS transmissions are preferably either segmented or scheduled so that users can receive elements of an MBMS service transmission in any order. As a result, the MBMS service transmissions do not have to be reinitiated in a cell upon a user entry to that cell or the user does not have to wait to synchronize with an existing MBMS service transmission.
[0032] FIG. 3 is a flow chart for using in-band segmentation information to handle differing MBMS transmission orders either inter-cell or between cells. Along with the MBMS transmissions, segmentation information is sent along with the MBMS data, step 42. This segmentation information typically includes a segment identifier so that each receiving WTRU is aware of which segments that it has received. As a particular WTRU moves between MBMS transmission sources (between cells or switched channels), step 44, the WTRU can receive segments from the new MBMS source and reassemble the transmissions to recovery all the MBMS data, step 46.
[0033] FIG. 5 is a simplified block diagram of a WTRU 40 for receiving the differing MBMS transmissions. The WTRU 40 receives the MBMS transmissions using an antenna 54. A MBMS receiver 56 receives the MBMS transmissions from the differing transmission sources, including the in band segmentation information. A segmentation information recovery device 58 recovers the segmentation information. Using the segmentation information and received MBMS segments, a MBMS segmentation reassembly device 60 reassembles the segments to recover the MBMS data.
[0034] FIG. 4 is a flow chart for using out of band transmission scheduling information to handle differing MBMS transmission orders. A WTRU receives a MBMS transmission from a particular source, step 48. The WTRU also receives out of band scheduling information, step 50. As the WTRU moves to a different source, the WTRU can receive MBMS data from the new source and using that source's out of band scheduling data reassemble the MBMS received segments, step 52.
[0035] FIG. 6 is a simplified block diagram of a WTRU 40 for receiving the differing MBMS transmissions. The WTRU 40 receives the MBMS transmissions using an antenna 54. A MBMS receiver 64 receives the MBMS transmissions from the differing transmission sources. An out of band synchronization information device 62 receives synchronization information from the multiple transmission sources. Using the synchronization information and received MBMS segments, a MBMS segmentation reassembly device 66 reassembles the segments to recover the MBMS data.
[0036] Both the approaches of FIG. 3 and 4 allow for users existing within the cell to just transition between dedicated and common channels without interruption or delay in the MBMS transmission. Additionally, WTRUs entering the cell can maintain continuous reception of the MBMS service, even though the sequence of transmission between the new and old cell are different. Once MBMS transmission data is received the WTRU reorders the information according to the in band segmentation and/or out of band transmission scheduling information.
[0037] Since either in band segmentation or out of band scheduling is provided, lost or failed transmissions can be efficiently recovered by the WTRU's knowledge of when retransmission is expected. The RNC MBMS retransmission scheduling can also be reduced by taking into account intelligent reception by the WTRUs. To illustrate, if the RNC knows all the users have received a particular MBMS segment, retransmission of that segment can be prevented.
1. A method for transferring multimedia broadcasts/multimedia services (MBMS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
determining a number of users in a cell to receive the MBMS;
using the determined number of users to determine whether a dedicated channel or a shared/common channel is to be used for the MBMS;
receiving MBMS data; and
mapping the MBMS data to the determined dedicated or shared/common channel.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the determined dedicated or shared/common channel is based on a threshold test where if the determined number of users is below the threshold, a dedicated channel is used for the MBMS and if the determined number of users is above the threshold, a shared/common channel is used for the MBMS.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein the threshold test has the threshold and a second threshold and if the determined number of users is above the second threshold, a common channel is used for the MBMS and if the determined number is between the threshold and the second threshold, a shared channel is used for the MBMS.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the dedicated or shared/common channel determination is based on cell conditions.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the dedicated channel is a dedicated shared channel and the shared/common channel is a common shared channel.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the dedicated channel is a dedicated high speed shared channel and the shared/common channel is a common high speed shared channel.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein steps of determining the dedicated channel or shared/common channel and mapping the MBMS data onto the determined dedicated channel or shared/common channel is repeated during a MBMS service.
9. A radio network controller comprising:
an input configured to receive multimedia broadcasts/multimedia services (MBMS) data; and
a MBMS channel switching device for determining whether the MBMS data should be mapped to a dedicated channel or a shared/common channel for a particular cell and mapping the MBMS data onto the determined channel for the particular cell, the determined channel is based on a number of users of the particular cell.
10. The radio network controller of claim 9 further comprising a database indicating users subscribed for each MBMS service.
11. The radio network controller of claim 9 having an input configured to receive a unique radio link indicator that identifies a particular MBMS service of the MBMS data.
12. The radio network controller of claim 9 wherein the MBMS channel switching device re-determining whether the MBMS data should be mapped to a dedicated channel or a shared/common channel and remapping the MBMS data to the re-determined channel.
13. A method for transferring multimedia broadcasts/multimedia services (MBMS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising:
receiving MBMS data;
transmitting the MBMS data from a first MBMS transmitting source to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) along with segmentation information;
the WTRU receiving the MBMS data and the segmentation information from the first MBMS transmitting source;
the WTRU moving from the first MBMS transmitting source to a second MBMS transmitting source and receiving the MBMS data and segmentation information from the second source, the MBMS data from the first MBMS transmitting source and the second MBMS transmitting source having different orders; and
the WTRU reassembling the MBMS data using the first and second MBMS transmitter source segmentation information.
transmitting the MBMS data from a first MBMS transmitting source to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and out of band scheduling information;
the WTRU receiving the MBMS data from the first MBMS transmitting source and the out of band scheduling information;
the WTRU moving from the first MBMS transmitting source to a second MBMS transmitting source and receiving the MBMS data from the second source, the MBMS data from the first MBMS transmitting source and the second MBMS transmitting source having different orders; and
the WTRU reassembling the MBMS data using the first and second transmitter source scheduling information.
15. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for receiving a multimedia broadcasts/multimedia services (MBMS) from a plurality of transmitting sources at differing times, the plurality of transmitting sources transmitting the MBMS data in different orders, the WTRU comprising:
a MBMS receiver for receiving MBMS segment from each of the transmitting sources;
a segmentation information recovery device for receiving segmentation information transmitted in band with the MBMS segments; and
a MBMS segmentation reassembly device for reassembling the MBMS segments based on the segmentation information.
a out of band synchronization information receiver for receiving out of band synchronization information from each of the transmitting sources;
a MBMS segmentation reassembly device for reassembling the MBMS segments based on the synchronization information.
Applicant: InterDigital Technology Corporation (Wilmington, DE)
Inventor: Stephen E. Terry (Northport, NY)
Application Number: 10637022
Current U.S. Class: Channel Allocation (455/450); Combining Or Distributing Information Via Time Channels (370/336); Multiple Access (e.g., Tdma) (370/347); Special Service (455/414.1); Computer-to-computer Data Routing (709/238); Remote Data Accessing (709/217)
International Classification: H04J003/00; H04B007/212; H04Q007/20; G06F015/16; G06F015/173;
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Justia Patents US Patent for Method of forming a glass-reacted-ceramic with cadmium Patent (Patent # 4,066,426)
Method of forming a glass-reacted-ceramic with cadmium
Nov 1, 1976 - Sprague Electric Company
A method for forming a cadmium-containing glass-reacted-ceramic body is described. This material is advantageously employed as the dielectric material in a capacitor. The method comprises mixing a barium-titanate alkaline-earth-metal-zirconate powder with glass powder, forming a cake or layer of the powder mix and firing the cake at from 1600.degree. to 2050.degree. F in a controlled cadmium containing atmosphere to sinter and densify the material. The cake is buried in an inert powder to which has been added a cadmium oxide powder to supply a source of cadmium external of the cake and to control the cadmium containing atmosphere during firing. Cadmium ions diffuse, during sintering, into the glass and further, into the ceramic grains to promote grain growth and to downwardly shift the Curie temperature.
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The present invention relates to methods of making dielectric materials of the kind known as glass-reacted-ceramics, and more particularly to such methods wherein the glass-ceramic reaction during sintering results in a downward shift in the Curie temperature. It is known that the inclusion of a low melting temperature glass in a ceramic dielectric material makes possible the sintering and densification of the combination at relatively low firing temperatures. For example see the patent to G. Maher, U.S. Pat. No. 619,220 issued Nov. 9, 1971, and assigned to the same assignee as the present invention. Such low firing dielectric materials are especially advantageous for use in monolithic ceramic capacitors that may include relatively low cost silver-palladium electrodes.
A glass-reacted-ceramic is described in my U.S. Pat. No. 3,885,941, issued May 27, 1975 and assigned to the same assignee wherein cadmium from the glass is reacted with the ceramic to provide a high dielectric constant and a downward shift in the Curie temperature.
It is an object of this invention to provide an improved process for making a glass-reacted-ceramic material having more uniform and predictable electrical properties.
It is a further object of this invention to provide a process for making such dielectric materials wherein a higher dielectric constant and a further lowered Curie temperature may be achieved.
It is a further object of this invention to provide an improved process for making a glass-reacted-ceramic wherein the sintering temperature may be reduced.
It is yet a further object of this invention to provide an improved process for making a glass-reacted-ceramic wherein firing kiln contamination and escape of toxic gases is reduced.
In a method for making a glass-reacted-ceramic body, a high temperature ceramic material is mixed in fine powder form with a low melting temperature glass powder. The high temperature ceramic is comprised of a barium titanate and an alkaline-earth-metal zirconate. The ceramic may be presintered barium titanate wherein an alkaline-earth-metal zirconate is substituted in the lattice for from 1 to 6 mole percent of the barium titanate. Alternatively it may be a mixture of particles of a titanate and of a zirconate. The glass is any of a variety of glass compositions having a melting temperature under 1600.degree. F. This powdered ceramic-glass mixture is homogenously dispersed in a liquid organic binder medium and subsequently screened, pressed, extruded or otherwise formed into a cake or layer that is then heated to burn off the organic binder medium. The cake is fired in a controlled cadmium-containing atmosphere to sinter the material and to cause cadmium from the atmosphere to diffuse into the glass and further, into the ceramic grains. This cadmium in the controlled atmosphere is preferably in the form of cadmium oxide but may also be elemental cadmium and is supplied at least in part from a source external to the cake. The atmosphere contains more cadmium than it would without the external source all other conditions remaining the same. Thus such atmospheres will be called cadmium enriched atmospheres.
The cadmium reacts with the ceramic and tends to promote grain growth resulting in an increase in the dielectric constant of the fired body at the Curie temperature. This cadmium reaction also causes a downward shift in the Curie temperature of the body. This controlled cadmium enriched atmosphere may be provided at firing by burying the cake in a course inert powder containing from 1-14 weight percent cadmium oxide. The cadmium oxide powder is thus placed adjacent to the cake and provides during firing a source of cadmium in the atmosphere external of the cake.
When the initial glass contains cadmium oxide and firing is accomplished in an open air atmosphere, some of the cadmium in the glass diffuses into and reacts with the ceramic grains during firing, but some of the volatile cadmium escapes to the atmosphere. However, when the firing is conducted in a controlled cadmium enriched atmosphere, the cadmium vapor pressure in the glass-ceramic mixture is maintained at a higher and much better controlled level, thus providing a less critical process and providing a product having more predictable and uniform properties.
When the initial glass contains no cadmium and the firing is conducted in a cadmium enriched atmosphere, some cadmium from the atmosphere enters and becomes a part of the glass. Subsequently the cadmium reacts with the ceramic grains.
The glass serves as a cadmium vehicle and a cadmium vapor pressure stabilizer in the vicinity of the grains. The presence of the glass in either case is further advantageous in that it permits the firing and densification of the body to be accomplished at a temperature from 1600.degree. F, to 2050.degree. F, at which temperatures the stabilization and control of the vapor pressure of cadmium or cadmium oxide is much more readily achieved than at the higher temperatures required for firing almost all glass-free titanate ceramics, e.g. 2100.degree. F to 2600.degree. F. This provides glass-reacted ceramic materials having more uniform and predictable properties.
FIG. 1 shows a graph of Curie temperature (T.sub.c) as a function of the zirconia content in a simple barium titanate zirconate (line 1), as well as the same function for a glass-reacted barium titanate zirconate of the present invention (line 2).
FIG. 2 shows a graph of the percent change in capacity of four groups of capacitors having a glass-reacted-ceramic dielectric as a function of temperature. The initial glass composition contained cadmium oxide. The dielectrics were fired in various cadmium containing atmospheres.
FIG. 3 shows a graph of the percent change in capacity of two other groups of capacitors having a glass-reacted-ceramic dielectric as a function of temperature. The initial glass composition was the same in each group and included a large quantity of bismuth oxide and no cadmium oxide. One group 11a was fired in air while the other group 11b was fired in a cadmium enriched atmosphere.
FIG. 4 shows a graph of the percent change in capacity of five other groups of capacitors having a glass-reacted-ceramic dielectric as a function of temperature. The initial glass compositions contained no cadmium. Each group was fired in an atmosphere having a different cadmium content than for the other groups.
Various compositions of barium-titanate-zirconate were made starting with powders of barium carbonate, titanium and zirconium oxides. A stoichiometric ratio was maintained between large and small cations:
BaO .multidot. (Ti.sub.1-x Zr.sub.x)O.sub.2.
in a series of experiments various ceramic compositions were made wherein x was 0, 0.0125, 0.0175, 0.0225, 0.025, 0.0375, 0.045 and 0.055. Since these numbers for x are very small (e.g. there are never more than 5.5 zirconium atoms for every 100 titanium atoms), the above numbers for x correspond very nearly to 0, 1.25, 1.75, 2.25, 2.5, 2.75, 3.75, 4.5 and 5.5 mole percent of the zirconia to the zirconia plus the titania in the ceramic (or of the zirconium to the zirconium plus titanium in the ceramic, or of the zirconate to the zirconate plus the titanate in the ceramic).
Dielectric materials using these ceramic compositions were first produced in the form of a simple high temperature ceramic and then additionally with glass as a glass-reacted-ceramic. In the latter case, glass powder was mixed with the sintered ceramic powder. Powders for disc samples were spray dried with a small amount of polyvinylalcohol (PVA) binder solution, then pressed into a cake to about 62% of theoretical density, and fired. The fired thickness of the samples was about 20 mils (0.05 cm). The glass-reacted-ceramic compositions included 12.5% by weight of a cadmium containing glass identified as Q-1 in Table I.
TABLE I ______________________________________ Compositions Q-1 Q-2 Q-3 Q-4 Q-5 Q-6 ______________________________________ CdO 35.5% 30.0% 0% 0% 0% 0% Bi.sub.2 O.sub.3 24.5 30.0 0 0 0 90.90 PbO 24.8 24.8 62.1 58.5 81.25 0 ZnO 4.0 4.0 10.0 9.0 0 1.98 B.sub.2 O.sub.3 5.2 5.2 13.1 13.0 0 3.39 SiO.sub.2 4.9 4.9 12.3 0 0 2.93 Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 1.0 1.0 2.5 0 0 0.80 GeO.sub.2 0 0 0 19.5 18.75 0 ______________________________________
Firing in air of the simple ceramic discs (having no glass) was accomplished at 2550.degree. F, while the glass-reacted-ceramic discs were air fired at between 1900.degree.-2000.degree. F. Silver patterns were printed on both surfaces, then fired at 1450.degree. F. Capacitance was measured over a broad temperature range of 1KHz, and 2 volts rms. The Curie temperature and dielectric constant at the Curie temperature were determined for each capacitor.
The Curie temperature shifted downward in both groups of samples as the zirconium content increased. This is shown in the graph in FIG. 1. The glass-reacted-ceramic discs of group 2, represented by line 2 in FIG. 1, show a much more pronounced downward shift in Curie temperature as a function of zirconium content, than do the discs of group 1 having no glass that are represented by line 1.
The dielectric constants of the dielectric materials corresponding to the zirconium contents of 2.0, 2.5, 3.75 and 5.5 mole percent in the glass-reacted-ceramic (of line 2) are: at the Curie temperature 2600, 4300, 3500 and 2700, respectively; and at room temperature are: 1400, 1700, 3300 and 2200. The dielectric constant at the Curie temperature K(T.sub.c) of these glass-reacted-barium titanate zirconates (group 2) grows to a maximum as the zirconium content of the ceramic increases from zero to about 3 mole %. These two different phenomena in the group 2 discs are attributable to cadmium of the glass being reacted with and diffused into the titanate-zirconate grains during sintering. The dots and crosses in FIG. 1 represent data points.
With further reference to line 2 in FIG. 1, it is noted that at low zirconium content, i.e. less than about 1.5 mole percent, the glass-reacted ceramic shows a shift upward in Curie temperature. This is believed to be caused by the diffusion of Pb and Bi from the glass into the titanate lattice. Above 1.5 mole percent zirconium, the Curie temperature shifts down very rapidly. The substitution of zirconium at this level for some of the titanium in the lattice produces in the presence of cadmium a strong downward influence on the Curie temperature and the minor influence of the Pb and Bi is overwhelmed and masked by that of the cadmium and zirconium together.
Another set of experimental capacitors, groups 3 through 7, all having a glass-reacted-ceramic dielectric material, were made. The glass composition used was that designated as Q-2 in Table I, and contains 30% by weight cadmium oxide. The following process by which these capacitors were made includes the provision of various cadmium containing atmospheres during firing and sintering.
A ceramic composition consisting by weight of 95% BaTiO.sub.3, 2.88% CaZrO.sub.3, 1.42% Nb.sub.2 O.sub.5, 0.28% MgCo.sub.3 and 0.35% U.sub.3 O.sub.8 was presintered at 2400.degree. F in air and then jet pulverized to about 1 micron average particle size. Presintering of the high temperature ceramic is needed to form such compounds as BaTiO.sub.3, CaZrO.sub.3 and/or [Ba, Ca, Ti, Zr]O.sub.3. The presence of free TiO.sub.2, ZrO.sub.2 or Nb.sub.2 O.sub.3, for example, will tend to retard the wanted reaction of the ceramic with the glass. To this ceramic powder was added the above noted Q-2 glass in powder form in the amount of 10.5 weight percent of the glass ceramic mix. Homogeniety of the mix was achieved by wet milling for about 4 hours. This material was then cast in layers about 0.001 inch thick.
The layers were subsequently coated with a 70%Ag30%Pd electroding paste and stacked in a standard manner to provide a monolithic ceramic capacitor structure. Each capacitor had 40 active dielectric layers. The capacitor stacks were heated to 800.degree. F for a 1 hour soak to burn off the organic binder materials of the ceramic and of the electroding paste. It is particularly important to thoroughly burn off the organic materials prior to sintering so as to avoid reduction of cadmium oxide in the glass by the organics during sintering. Cadmium has a higher vapor pressure than cadmium oxide making escape of cadmium more rapid and control of the firing atmosphere more difficult. In the event that organic binders are not employed, this precaution is of course not necessary.
It is also noted that if firing is accomplished in a tightly sealed sagger then a cadmium atmosphere would be operable. However, such tightly sealed firing containers present many practical problems in construction and a cadmium oxide atmosphere is preferred.
Some of these experimental monolithic capacitors designated group 3 were placed directly on an open slab for a conventional firing in air. Others of the monolithic capacitors, groups 4, 5, 6 and 7, were buried in piles of an inert powder. The basic inert powder consisted of particles of a calcined mixture of ZrO.sub.2 -CaTiO.sub.3 wherein the zirconia and calcium titanate were of equal weight ratio. This basic portion of the course powder composition was chosen to be non-reactive with the capacitor bodies to be fired. However, many other basic compositions such as pure zirconia would be suitable. The inert powder is selected from the group of zirconium oxide and calcium titanate and mixtures thereof. In the mixture calcium titanate is substituted for up to 50 weight percent of the zirconium oxide. Powder containing Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 or SiO should be avoided, which materials tend to react with and reduce the available cadmium and thus tend to inhibit the diffusion of cadmium into the ceramic. The ratio of the weight of the inert powder to the weight of the capacitor bodies buried therein was maintained at about 3:1. The inert powder was supported by a standard firing slab. The capacitors of groups 5, 6 and 7 were buried in the inert powder to which had been added 1%, 2% and 4%, respectively, of CdO powder by weight. Larger quantities than about 1 weight percent of SiO.sub.2 and Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 could be compensated by adding more CdO to the powder but at needless expense. All groups, 3-7, were fired at 2000.degree. F for 2 hours.
The fired capacitor bodies of groups 3-5 had the same yellow-brown color while those of groups 6 and 7 were progressively more brown-grey.
The average dielectric constant for the glass-reacted-ceramic of the monolithic capacitors in each group is shown in Table II, along with the corresponding dissipation factor of each capacitor group. In FIG. 2 the percent change in capacity (% .DELTA.C) relative to capacity at 25.degree. C (C.sub.o) as a function of temperature is plotted for each of the groups 4, 5, 6 and 7.
TABLE II ______________________________________ K D.F. "Upper" CAPACITORS (average) (average) Curied Temp. (Glass Q-3) Firing 25.degree. C (%) (.degree. C) ______________________________________ GROUP 3 On Slab 1720 2.45 130 GROUP 4 In Powder 1690 2.40 130 + 0% CdO GROUP 5 In Powder 1870 2.60 130 + 1% CdO GROUP 6 In Powder 2500 2.75 10 + 2% CdO GROUP 7 In Powder 3650 1.15 10 + 4% CdO ______________________________________
The difference in dielectric constant between groups 3 and 4 is within experimental error. The large decreases in Curie temperature and increases in K at room temperature are seen to be a function of the amount of cadmium oxide contained in the powder. More generally as the cadmium oxide vapor pressure at firing increases, the lower the Curie temperature becomes and the greater the K (25.degree. C) becomes of the resulting glass-reacted-ceramic parts.
Glass-reacted-ceramic capacitors similar to those of group 3 were made employing 7 weight percent glass in the dielectric body. The capacitors were fired at 2050.degree. F. The body was non-porous but an insufficient grain growth was achieved resulting in a low dielectric constant. It is accordingly estimated that no less than about 8 weight percent glass should be employed in the glass-reacted ceramic body fired at temperatures of 2050.degree. C or below. Temperatures above 2050.degree. C should not be used because, low cost Pd-Ag electrodes become less feasible (higher Pd/Ag ratios are required) and the volatility of the glass components such as Cd, Bi and Pb becomes much higher and more difficult to control.
Another set of experimental capacitors having a glass-reacted-ceramic dielectric were made wherein the glass component does not initially contain cadmium. Four widely different glass compositions were employed. The glass-reacted-ceramic dielectric materials of this set of capacitors were made using the same titanate-zirconate-niobium powder employed in the first experimental groups 3 through 7 described above. Each of the groups 8, 9, 10 and 11 of this set of capacitors included one of the four low temperature glass compositions, designated Q-3, Q-4, Q-5 and Q-6, respectively. The compositions of these glasses are given in Table I.
The presintered ceramic and glass powder materials were prepared and mixed together as described above in the ratio of 12 wt.% glass and 88 wt.% ceramic. A layer of this powder mixture dispersed in an organic medium was cast on a glass plate to about 0.030 inch (0.076 cm) in thickness. After heating to burn off the organic material, the layer was cut into squares about 0.5 .times. 0.5 cm and the squares removed from the glass. Some of the squares from each of the four groups (8-11) were fired on an open slab while others of the four groups were fired while being buried in a cadmium containing inert powder on a slab in an air environment. Firing in both cases was at 2000.degree. F for 2 hours. Calcined ZrO.sub.2 -CaTiO.sub.3 powder was used as before, in all cases containing 10% by weight of a homogeneously mixed CdO powder.
Silver electrodes were painted on both sides of each square, the silver was fired at 1450.degree. F and the electrical properties of the disc type capacitors were then determined. These data are summarized in Table III. In each case, the units fired in cadmium containing inert powder exhibited a downward shift in Curie temperature and an increased dielectric constant at the Curie temperature. The four firings on an open slab 11 showed varying degrees of porosity while the units fired in the cadmium containing powder were all dense and non-porous. The properties including dielectric constant (K) at the Curie temperature (T.sub.c) and percent dissipation factor (D.F.) are shown in Table III. The properties of capacity or K versus temperature for samples containing glass Q-6 are shown in FIG. 3 for the open slab fired capacitors of group 11a and for the cadmium in powder fired capacitors of group 11b. The cadmium diffusion into the ceramic body from the vapor state caused an enhanced densification, an increased dielectric constant and a downwardly shifted Curie temperature.
TABLE III __________________________________________________________________________ Degree of K at DF T.sub.c CAPACITORS GLASS Firing Porosity 25.degree. C (%) (.degree. C) __________________________________________________________________________ GROUP 8a Q-3 On Slab slight surface 770 0.9 +127 8b Q-3 Powder + 10% CdO none 1580 1.8 + 92 GROUP 9a Q-4 On Slab slight surface 830 1.9 +127 9b Q-4 Powder + 10% CdO none 1680 2.0 + 96 GROUP 10a Q-5 On Slab very porous -- -- -- 10b Q-5 Powder + 10% CdO none 1600 2.3 .apprxeq.+100 GROUP 11a Q-5 On Slab slight 980 1.3 +135 11b Q-5 Powder + 10% CdO none 1225 0.9 .apprxeq. flat* __________________________________________________________________________ *FIG. 3
When making glass-reacted-ceramic materials wherein a cadmium containing glass is reacted with a titanate zirconate ceramic during firing in an air atmosphere, it has been found necessary to limit the glass formers to 14 percent or less by weight in the glass so as to avoid their inhibiting influence over the desired cadmium diffusion from the glass into the grains. It is now no longer necessary to so limit the glass formers when a cadmium enriched atmosphere is employed during firing, because a greater source of cadmium is available for diffusing into the ceramic and its supply is usually not significantly diminished by reactions with the glass formers.
Another set of experimental capacitors similar to those of group 8-11 were made using the same materials and by the same process except that only Q-3 glass was used and except for variations in the firing steps. The cast discs were divided into four groups, namely groups 12, 13, 14 and 15. Twelve discs of each group were buried in the ZrO.sub.2 -CaTiO.sub.3 powder having varying amounts of cadmium oxide homogeneously mixed therewith. The powder was contained in an alumina crucible in each case and another identical crucible was inverted and fitted over the powder containing crucible to serve as a top therefor. The volume of powder and the volume of overlying air enclosed were equal (about 26cc each). The particular amount of cadmium oxide mixed in the powder for the firing of each of the groups 12-15 is indicated in Table IV, as are the corresponding electrical performance results. Firing was accomplished at 2000.degree. F for 11/2 hours. The graph of FIG. 4 shows the change in capacity as a function of temperature for these four groups. The data for the open slab fired capacitors of group 8 is repeated in Table IV and FIG. 4 for convenient comparison. The amount in percent by weight of cadmium oxide present in the fired glass-reacted-ceramic as shown in the table, was determined by electron micro-probe analysis, using a 50 microns diameter beam at 20 KV and 50 milliamperes. The data is also shown in Table IV. Similar analysis of the titanate-zirconate grains of group 12 and 13 material indicate the presence of zero and 0.5 weight percent cadmium oxide, respectively. Similar analysis of the glass-reacted ceramic materials of groups 8, 12, 13, 14 and 15 showed a lead oxide content of about 5.6 weight percent for each and every sample indicating that there was no difference among the groups in lead out-diffusion occurring during firing.
TABLE IV __________________________________________________________________________ CdO in CAPACITORS K at DF Dielectric (Glass q-3) Firing 25.degree. C (%) T.sub.c (wt. %) __________________________________________________________________________ GROUP 8a On Slab 770 0.9 +127.degree. C 0 GROUP 12 Powder + 2.5% CdO 1140 2.0 + 98 2.8 GROUP 13 Powder + 5.0% CdO 1560 2.3 + 94 3.6 GROUP 14 Powder + 7.5% CdO 1430 2.2 + 96 5.8 GROUP 15 Powder +10.0% CdO 1380 1.9 + 96 6.2 __________________________________________________________________________
The dielectric constant is seen to peak as the cadmium oxide content grows to about 5% in the powder, for the closed crucible fired units. More cadmium oxide above the 5% causes the K to diminish. This peak condition appears to correspond roughly to the burying of units of groups 8-11 in inert powder having 10% CdO and firing in an open atmosphere. It is generally advantageous to fire in controlled cadmium containing atmospheres corresponding to the cadmium oxide vapor pressure near this peak condition to obtain an optimally high dielectric constant at room temperature. Thus for firing in inert powder on an open slab the cadmium oxide additive in the powder is preferably in the range of 6 to 14 weight percent when the initial glass composition contains small quantities (e.g. 10%) or no cadmium oxide; and from 1 to 6 weight percent cadmium oxide in the powder when the initial glass contains approximately 30 weight percent cadmium oxide. However, for a closed firing of a non-cadmium containing glass-ceramic cake to obtain an optimum dielectric constant, as in Table IV, the cadmium oxide should amount to from about 3 to 7.5 weight percent of the inert powder.
These 30 mil thick disc capacitors of groups 12 through 15 employed a starting glass composition that contained no cadmium. It is believed that for these thick discs the cadmium diffused uniformly through the glass-ceramic body because the corresponding curves of FIG. 4 are sharp in the vicinity of the Curie temperature indicating that all regions of the dielectric body have about the same composition and Curie temperature. During an initial period of the firing cycle and prior to the realization of sintering and densification, the ceramic dielectric is somewhat porous and the hot cadmium vapors may diffuse through and saturate the pores of the dielectric.
In a monolithic capacitor that is on the order of 30 mils long and wide, which employs a cadmium free starting glass, cadmium derived solely from the firing atmosphere would be expected to penetrate the buried electrode films more slowly than the rate by which it diffused laterally through the sides of the body, the latter path being free from the blocking effect of the electrode films. Thus, similar results would be expected for disc and monolithic structures of similar dimensions in thickness and buried electrode width, respectively, after both were fired in the same cadmium oxide atmosphere.
In a related experiment, monolithic capacitors having buried electrodes were made having 10 active dielectric layers, each layer being about 0.001 inch thick (1 mil) and having an active area of 0.055 square inches. The glass employed was type Q-1 and the ceramic formulation was the same as for the above described group 3 capacitors. A control group 16 was fired at 2000.degree. F for 1 hour on a slab in an open air atmosphere. Capacitors of groups 17, 18, 19 and 20 were each fired in a closed crucible containing inert powder having 2.5 wt.% cadmium oxide, and held at 1950.degree. F for 1 hour, 3 hours, 6 hours and 12 hours, respectively. The resulting dielectric constants exhibited by capacitors of groups 16 through 20 were 3000, 4800, 5100, 5500 and 6200, respectively, while for all groups the dissipation factor remained within 1.8% to 2.2% and the Curie temperatures varied from 22.degree. C for group 16 to 25.degree. C for group 20. As the firing time increased there was a strong tendency for the capacity versus temperature curve to become sharper and for the ceramic grains to grow larger. Large grains having the approximate dimensions of the thickness of the dielectric layers were observed in capacitors of group 20. Thus, it becomes possible by the method of this invention to further increase grain growth in the presence of diffused cadmium ions, without substantially affecting the Curie temperature. This is accomplished in general by employing a glass-ceramic mixture wherein the glass contains at least 20% CdO by weight and firing the mixture for more than 3 hours in a closed crucible that also contains an additional source of cadmium. These results could not at all be achieved in an open slab firing because the volatile cadmium and other volatile oxides would be lost.
In yet another experiment three other lots of monolithic capacitors, groups 21, 22 and 23 were constructed in the same manner using the same materials as for capacitors of groups 16-20, except for the firing conditions. It will be convenient to compare these three groups with the capacitors of group 17 since they were also fired in a closed crucible with the inert powder containing 2.5% by weight cadmium oxide.
The capacitors of group 21 were fired at 1850.degree. F for 2 hours. The dielectric constant dropped to 4300 and dissipation factor remained about the same at 2.1%.
The capacitors of group 22 were fired at the even lower temperature of 1775.degree. F for 3 hours providing a dielectric constant of 3900 and a slightly higher dissipation factor of 2.6%.
The capacitors of group 23 were fired at 1650.degree. F for 3 hours and surprisingly provided a nonporous body (as determined by a standard dye test) having a dielectric constant of 2200 and a dissipation factor of 2.3%. The temperature coefficient of capacity (TCC) of these capacitors were progressively flatter in the order of groups 17, 21, 22 and 23. The TCC of group 23 capacitors was within +0 to -37% over the temperature range of -55.degree. C to +125.degree. C.
When more than one glass-reacted body that contains cadmium in the glass are fired simultaneously in the same closed crucible, the cadmium source for one body is represented by the other and vice versa. Thus no cadmium containing powder need be used especially when a large number of such bodies are fired in the same closed crucible.
It is concluded that this technique of extended firing in a closed crucible with a source of cadmium contained therein is capable of providing fully densified high dielectric constant bodies at peak firing temperatures as low as 1600.degree. F when the glass content in the glass-ceramic body is as low as 10.5% by weight. Pure silver melts at 1764.degree. F and could have been employed as the electrodes of the capacitors of group 23 providing a very low cost high conductivity electrode. Such low temperature firing capacitors combine the highly useful properties of a relatively flat TCC and a dielectric constant higher than about 2000. It is also anticipated that alternatively the glass content may be reduced and the firing temperature maintained for 3 hours or more in the higher ranges near 1950.degree. F to provide dielectric constants of greater than 5000. Thus the technique of extended firing of the glass-reacted-ceramic to provide continued grain growth without further shifts in Curie temperature leads unexpectedly to the further enhancement of densification permitting a further lowering of the peak sintering temperature or lower glass content while providing a dense high dielectric constant body.
1. A method for making a glass-reacted-ceramic body comprising mixing a major proportion of a finely ground ceramic comprised of barium titanate and an alkaline-earth-metal zirconate and a minor proportion of a pulverized low temperature glass; forming a cake of said mixture; placing a quantity of cadmium oxide powder adjacent to said cake; and firing said cake and said cadmium oxide powder at a temperature of between 1600.degree. F to 2050.degree. F so that said cadmium oxide powder provides during said firing a controlled and enriched cadmium atmosphere external of said cake to transform said cake during said firing into a sintered body and to cause cadmium ions from said cadmium of said atmosphere to react with said ceramic and to diffuse into the titanate lattice thereof, whereby grain growth in said body is enhanced and the Curie temperature of said body is shifted downwardly.
2. The method of claim 1 additionally comprising preparing a homogenous mixture of an inert powder selected from the group of zirconium oxide and calcium titanate and mixture thereof and said cadmium oxide powder, wherein said placing is accomplished by burying said cake prior to said firing in a pile of said inert powder mixture, said inert powder being inert at said firing temperature with respect to said cadmium and said cake.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein said inert powder consists of zirconium oxide, wherein calcium titanate is substituted for up to 50 percent of said zirconium oxide.
4. The method of claim 2 wherein said cadmium oxide in said inert powder amounts to from 1% to 14% by weight of said inert powder.
5. the method of claim 4 wherein said low temperature glass contains approximately 30% by weight cadmium oxide and said cadmium oxide in said inert powder amounts to from 1% to 6% by weight of said inert powder.
6. The method of claim 4 wherein said low temperature glass contains less than 10 weight percent cadmium oxide and said firing of said buried cake is accomplished on an open slab.
7. The method of claim 4 wherein said low temperature glass contains less than 10 weight percent cadmium oxide, said cadmium oxide in said inert powder amounts to from 3 to 7.5 weight percent of said inert powder, and said firing of said buried cake is accomplished in a closed crucible.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein said mixing includes adding an organic binder to said ceramic and said glass, and said method additionally comprises heating said cake prior to said firing to burn off said organic binder.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein said glass contains at least 20% by weight of cadmium oxide and said firing of said cake with said cadmium oxide powder is effected in a closed crucible for more than 3 hours.
10. The method of claim 9 wherein said temperature of firing is from 1600.degree. F to 1764.degree. F.
11. A method for making a glass-reacted-ceramic body comprising mixing a major proportion of a finely ground ceramic comprised of barium titanate and an alkaline-earth-metal zirconate and a minor proportion of a pulverized low temperature glass; forming layers of said glass-ceramic mixture; coating said layers with an electroding paste, stacking said electroded layers to form a cake; placing a quantity of cadmium oxide powder adjacent to said cake; and firing said cake and said cadmium oxide powder at a temperature of between 1600.degree. and 2050.degree. F so that said cadmium oxide powder provides during said firing a controlled and enriched cadmium atmosphere external of said cake to transform said cake during said firing into a sintered body and to cause cadmium ions from said cadmium of said atmosphere to react with said ceramic and to diffuse into the titanate lattice thereof.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein said electroding paste is comprised of silver and palladium.
2789061 April 1957 Coffeen
3529978 September 1970 Taylor et al.
3619220 November 1971 Maher
3885941 May 1975 Maher
4017291 April 12, 1977 Gliemeruth et al.
Date of Patent: Jan 3, 1978
Assignee: Sprague Electric Company (North Adams, MA)
Inventor: Galeb H. Maher (North Adams, MA)
Primary Examiner: S. Leon Bashore
Assistant Examiner: Frank W. Miga
Law Firm: Connolly and Hutz
Current U.S. Class: 65/18; 65/30R; 65/32; Titanium, Vanadium, Chromium, Molybdenum, Tungsten, Manganese, Iron, Copper, Zinc, Tin Or Lead Compound Containing (ti, V, Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn, Sn, Pb) (106/733); 106/7331; 106/46; 106/398; 264/61; 264/65; 65/59R
International Classification: C03C 2100;
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Justia Patents One Passage Controlled By Motive Fluid Pressure Or Flow-responsive Valve (468)US Patent for Hydraulic control system Patent (Patent # 4,676,140)
Hydraulic control system
Sep 12, 1985 - Beringer-Hydraulik GmbH
A hydraulic control system for an elevator or other similar reciprocating user is disclosed, which comprises an adjustable throttle valve and a control or bypass valve disposed in the fluid supply line between the pump and elevator. A pressure difference balance is provided for controlling the operation of the control valve, and the pressure difference balance has one end operatively connected to the pressure provided by the pump, and the other end operatively connected to the pressure in the user or load line. The control valve is thus adapted to maintain a desired pressure difference across the throttle valve which is independent of the load on the user. In addition, the zero setting of the pressure difference balance is adjustable, so as to permit the system to be equally operable in both the upward and downward movements of the elevator.
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The present invention relates to a hydraulic control system adapted to control hydraulically operated elevators and other users.
Hydraulic control systems are known which include a metering or throttle valve positioned in the fluid supply line leading to a user, and a pressure difference balance adapted to monitor the difference in pressure on opposite sides of the throttle valve and to generate a hydraulic control pressure as a function of the pressure difference. The pressure difference balance comprises a piston which is biased at one end by the pressure upstream of the throttle valve, and which is biased at the other end by the pressure downstream of the valve. The system also includes a flow control valve which is positioned in the hydraulic supply line between the pump and the throttle valve, and which is controlled by the control pressure generated by the pressure difference balance to control the fluid pressure in the supply line upstream of the throttle valve. A system of this general type is further described in German OS No. 21 39 119.
In the above control system, the flow control valve includes a control chamber which receives the fluid from the supply line via a throttle, and which is connected via the control edge of the pressure difference balance to a storage tank. As a result, there is a continuous flow of fluid through the control chamber and to the storage tank, even in the static condition of the system. Thus the system is subject to fluid loss.
The above system is unsuitable for hydraulic control systems which are connected to an intermittently operating pump. This applies primarily to hydraulically operated elevators, in which the pump operates only during upward movement and the pump is inoperative during downward movement. The hydraulic control system serves the purpose of imparting a defined speed to the elevator descending under its own weight, through a corresponding control of the fluid (i.e. oil) flowing out of the elevator cylinder. Also, very low "creeping speeds" are desirable upon the approach of the predetermined end positions. However, this is not possible since the fluid is lost from the control chamber, causing the adjusted creeping speed to increase, which is undesirable.
In accordance with the present invention, the above disadvantages are avoided by providing the pressure difference balance with a double edge control which permits the control chamber of a control valve to be connected either to a reference input line, or to a return flow line. In the disclosed embodiment, the fluid flows only during a hydraulic adjustment of the control valve, and this flow is insignificant with regard to its power loss and its fluid consumption. In the static operation of the control valve, no fluid flows into or out of the control chamber.
When using a hydraulic control system in accordance with the present invention, and in particular in association with hydraulically operated elevators, the control valve is preferably designed as a bypass valve. To control the pressure in the supply line at the adjustable throttle, the control valve connects the supply line with a return flow line leading to a storage tank. The valve includes a regulating piston which is biased on one side by the supply pressure and a spring, and on its other side by the control pressure from the pressure difference balance. When used for this purpose, an advantage of the control valve resides in the fact that it is suitable for both the upward and downward operations, without any further adjustment.
As one aspect of the present invention, the pressure difference balance is connected to a reference input line. The pressure in this reference input line is converted to a control pressure as a function of the pressure difference which is present on the balance piston. The reference input line may be connected with the supply line between the pump and the adjustable throttle valve, or to the user or load line, i.e. between the throttle valve and the user. In one embodiment, which is adapted for use in association with reciprocatory users, in particular elevators, the reference input line of the pressure difference balance is connected via a two-way valve with either the user line downstream of the throttle valve, or with the supply line upstream of the throttle valve. As a result, it is provided that the higher pressure is always available for the control of the control valve. This feature is of particular importance when the elevator is at a standstill or during a slow descent, and the supply line between the control valve and the adjustable throttle valve is substantially at zero pressure. In this event, such low pressure would not be adequate to operate the control valve.
When used with reciprocating users, and in particular elevators, the present invention further provides that the balance piston of the pressure difference balance may be mounted with an adjustable spring tension and so that the zero position of the balance piston may be adjusted. Zero position is here defined as the position the balance piston assumes when neither of its ends is biased by fluid pressure. The spring tension may be adjusted so that the balance piston connects the output control line leading to the control valve with the reference input line in one zero position, and overlaps or slightly connects the output control line with the return flow line leading to the tank in the other zero position. Thus, during upward operation, the control valve may be biased by the reference pressure so as to close the bypass and build up a pressure in the supply line, until the pressure has overcome the initial force of the spring and the load pressure acting on the balance piston. The balance piston then moves to close the output control line to the reference input line, or if necessary, to open the control line to the return flow line. In the downward operation, the load pressure in the user line is initially greater than the pressure in the supply line. As a result, the load pressure displaces the balance piston against the initial force of the opposite spring, and the output control line is thereby connected with the reference input line, which tends to close the control valve and increase the pressure in the supply line. As the pressure increases in the supply line, it becomes operative to act against the load pressure so that the balance piston closes the control line to the reference input line and possibly opens the control line to the tank, so that the control valve is again actuated in the sense of bypassing fluid to the tank and lowering the pressure in the supply line.
A stop may be provided for limiting the movement of the balance piston, and in particular, for allowing a throttled opening between the reference input line and the control line. As a result, a dampening of the movement of the control valve may be provided.
The present invention also provides for the adjustability of the setting of the springs of the balance piston, which permits the hydraulic control system to be operative with the same structural units in both the upward and the downward directions. The setting of the springs is preferably adjusted as a function of the elevator control, and in a preferred embodiment, the end abutment for one of the springs is mounted for movement between two positions. Preferably, the movable end abutment is in the form of a hydraulically operated piston, which is hydraulically adjustable by the elevator control as a function of the operating direction.
A special advantage of the present invention resides in the fact that the limits of the adjustable movement of the abutment piston may be adjusted in each direction by adjustable mechanical stops. This arrangement permits a very accurate adjustment of the two zero positions of the piston and of the operative spring forces. Thus the pressure ratio of the throttle valve which is regulated by the pressure difference balance may be adjusted independently of each other for both the upward movement and the downward movement of the elevator.
When used in an elevator control, the throttle valve may also be hydraulically controlled, in that it may be biased in one direction by the supply pressure upstream of the valve, and in the other direction by a controllable counterpressure. To enable a low counterpressure, and to ensure an automatic adjustment of the throttle valve even at a high supply pressure, the throttle valve may be designed to include a differential metering piston, with the small piston end being biased by the supply pressure and the large piston end being biased by the controllable counterpressure.
In a preferred embodiment, the counterpressure for the metering piston of the throttle valve is provided by the load pressure, via the previously mentioned two-way valve. In particular, the small end of the metering piston is provided with an annular groove immediately upstream of its seat, and the groove is connected to the two-way valve via a pilot duct in the piston and a second annular groove on the piston. This design of the metering piston provides that the load pressure is applied to the counterpressure side of the piston in the direction of closing, and to the balance piston of the pressure difference balance in the sense of closing the control valve, before the metering piston has opened to connect the supply line and the user line. Thus a pressure corresponding to the pressure in the user line may build up before communication is effected between the supply line and the user line.
The connection between the counterpressure chamber of the throttle valve and the two-way valve includes an inlet throttle. Further, the counterpressure chamber is connected via a discharge throttle and stop valve with the storage tank. By opening the stop valve, and by reason of the predetermined ratio between the inlet throttle and the discharge throttle, the metering piston may be hydraulically actuated.
A further aspect of the hydraulic control system of the present invention resides in the fact that the pressure difference balance may be adjusted to a certain pressure difference between the user line and the supply line. As a result, the behavior of the user in operation substantially depends on the movement of the metering piston. This movement is predetermined by the inlet throttle and the discharge throttle, so that a load independent behavior in operation, together with uniform acceleration and deceleration, may be achieved.
Some of the objects and advantages of the present invention having been stated, others will appear as the description proceeds, when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which--
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a hydraulic control system which embodies the features of the present invention; and
FIG. 2 is a more detailed view of a portion of the circuit shown in FIG. 1.
Referring more specifically to the drawings, FIG. 1 illustrates a hydraulic control system in accordance with the present invention and which is adapted to operate a user 1, such as an elevator, which comprises a cylinder 3 and a piston 2. A hydraulic pump 4 is powered by a motor 5, and the hydraulic fluid (oil) is delivered from the storage tank 6 and pumped into the supply line 7. From the supply line 7, the fluid passes through an adjustable throttle valve 8, and then to a user line 7A which is operatively connected to the user 1. The throttle valve 8 thus is positioned to adjust the flow from the pump 4 to the user 1. A control valve 9 is disposed in the supply line 7 between the pump 4 and the throttle valve 8, for selectively bypassing a portion of the fluid in the supply line 7 to a return flow line 13 leading to the tank 6.
The control valve 9 includes a cylindrical housing having an inlet opening communicating with the supply line 7 and an outlet opening communicating with the return flow line 13. A regulating piston 10 is slideably mounted in the housing for movement between a closed position closing communication between the inlet opening and outlet opening, and an open position which permits communication therebetween. The forward portion of the piston includes an extension 11 of reduced diameter, which has a transverse groove which provides the connection between the supply line 7 and return flow line 13. The forward extension 11 is biased toward the open position by a spring 12 as well as the pressure in the supply line 7. The larger portion of the piston 10 is biased by the pressure in a control chamber 14 formed at the inner end of the valve housing, and if desired, an automatic pressure relief device (not shown) may be provided in the control chamber 14. Such a pressure relief device is particularly desirable when the motor 5 has a Y-delta electrical circuit, and which starts on the Y circuit.
The supply line 7 further includes a one-way valve 16, which closes when the pump 4 is idle, i.e. when the elevator is idle or moves in a downward direction.
The pressure in the control chamber 14 is controlled via an output control line 15 leading from a pressure difference balance 17. The balance 17 includes a balance piston 18, which is slideably mounted in a tubular cylinder between springs 22 and 23. Also, the cylinder communicates with a reference input line 31, the return flow line 13, and the output control line 15. In operation, the balance 17 acts to selectively connect the reference input line or the return flow line to the output control line 15, in response to the pressure difference on opposite sides of the throttle valve 8. The abutment for the spring 23 is in the form of a forward end portion 24 of an abutment piston 25, and pressure may be applied to the opposite side of the piston 25 in the adjusting pressure chamber 28, via the adjustment line 27 and valve 30. The pressure in the chamber 28 is relieved via a throttle passage 26 which extends through the piston. The chamber formed on the forward side of the piston 25 is connected via the return flow line 13 to the tank 6. One end position of the piston 25 is determined by the adjustable set screw 29, and the other end position is determined by the set screw 56.
The ends of the balance piston 18 define hydraulic control chambers, 19 and 20, with the end chamber 19 receiving the pressure in the supply line 7 via the pilot duct 33, and with the load pressure end chamber 20 being biased, via the user pressure line 34, by the load or consumer pressure. Thus the balance piston performs a control motion as a function of the ratio of the load pressure and supply line pressure, wherein the control shoulder 35 of the piston cooperates with the outlet to the control line 15, the outlet 21 to the reference input line 31, and the outlet to the return flow line 13. The reference input line 31 is connected to a two-way valve 32, which in turn is connected to the pilot line 33 of the supply line 7, and to the user pressure line 34. The respectively higher pressure of these two lines is supplied via the reference input line 31 to the pressure difference balance as the input pressure thereto.
Referring now to the throttle valve 8, reference is made to FIG. 2. The throttle valve 8 has an inlet communicating with the supply line 7 and defining an annular seat 40, and an outlet communicating with the user line 7A. A metering piston 36 is slideably mounted in the housing, and the piston 36 includes a smaller forward cylindrical extension 37 having a transverse control groove 38 through which a connection is made between the supply line 7 and the user line 7A. The forward extension 37 further includes an annular shoulder 39 which is adapted to seat against the valve seat 40. This seating engagement permits the piston 36 to close the user line 7A to the supply line 7 without substantial leakage, which is particularly important in the idle condition, so as to prevent an unintended descent of the user, i.e. the cage of the elevator. The forward extension 37 of the piston further includes an annular groove 41 which is adjacent the shoulder 39, and which is connected via the pilot duct 42 in the piston with an annular groove 43 at the larger end 44 of the piston 36. The annular groove 43 is enclosed by suitable dynamic seals, and is connected with the user pressure line 34 which leads on the one hand to the two-way valve 32, and on the other hand to the pressure difference balance 17 and adjusting valve 30. The particular placement of the annular groove 41 on the piston 36 provides that the load pressure in the user line 7A is delivered via the duct system 42, 34 to the pressure difference balance 17 immediately after the metering piston has lifted from the seat 40.
The rear end of the metering piston 36 includes a relatively large shoulder 44, which is biased by a spring 45, and the metering piston further includes a connecting duct 46 which passes through the piston and communicates with the chamber 48 at the inner end of the valve housing. The connecting duct 46 includes a throttle 47, so as to pressurize the chamber 48 of the valve 8 with the user line pressure, when the valve is seated against the seat 40. This provides that the piston is held against its seat, free from leakage, during idle or whenever the pump is shut down.
The hydraulic control of the metering piston 36 includes a pressure converter generally indicated at 52, and as best seen in FIG. 2. The pressure converter 52 includes an inlet throttle 49, a discharge throttle 50, a one-way valve 55, and a seat valve 51, which permits passage to the return flow line 13 via the discharge throttle 50. The control line 53 from the throttle valve is connected via the inlet throttle 49 to the reference input line 31, and via seat valve 51 and discharge throttle 50 with the tank 6. The inlet throttle 49 and the discharge throttle 50 may be adjusted to a constant oil flow, and they are therefore preferably constructed as adjustable flow control regulators. Upon the adjustment of the flow ratio, the control pressure in the chamber 48 is dependent on the pressure in the reference input line 31, and in this regard, it will be understood that the throttle 47 in the metering piston 36 is very small in comparison to the throttle 49.
The operation of the illustrated hydraulic control system will now be described. During idle conditions, the motor 5 and the pump 4 are inoperative, the user 1, i.e. the elevator cage, exerts a pressure in the user line 7A, which is applied via the duct 46 and throttle 47, to the control chamber 48 adjacent the large end of the metering piston 36. As a result, the shoulder 39 is held against the seat 40, and the user line 7A is closed to the supply line 7, substantially free of leakage. Also, the supply line 7 is substantially at zero pressure, as is the annular duct 41 in the metering piston 36. The one-way valve 55 in the pressure converter 52 prevents the oil from returning from the control chamber 48 via line 53 into the control system. For this reason, the control chamber 14 of the control valve 9 is also at zero pressure. The piston 10 thus serves to open the supply line 7 to the return flow line 13, by reason of the force of the spring 12.
To initiate upward movement, the motor 5 and pump 4 are put into operation, and the valve 51 is switched. The valve 30 remains in the indicated position. In this regard, further non-illustarted connecting possibilities for the control of the startup acceleration and for the control of the creeping speed upon approaching a stopped position, are possible. Also not considered is the possibility of a pressure relief in the control chamber 14 when the motor 5 is initially started with a Y-connection.
Since the user pressure line 34 and the supply pressure pilot line 33 are initially at zero pressure, the control chamber 14 also is under no pressure. The spring 12 pushes the piston 10 against the stop screw 54, which is adjusted so that the oil flow is throttled and a pressure of about 3-6 bar develops in the supply line 7. This supply pressure is applied via pilot line 33 to the balance piston 18 on the supply pressure end 19. Similarly, the supply pressure reaches the two-way valve 32 and the reference input line 31, and the pressure converter 52. Also, the supply pressure passes through the converter 52 to the line 53 and the control chamber 48 of the throttle valve 8. In this regard, the inlet throttle 49 and the discharge throttle 50 are adjusted so that the oil flow through the inlet throttle 49 is about half as much as the oil flow through discharge throttle 50. As a result, the metering piston 36 is relieved of pressure in the chamber 48, and it is moved to the right by the pressure in the supply line 7. As it does so, it displaces the oil from the chamber 48 via the discharge throttle 50.
Upon the metering piston 36 moving to the right and lifting from the seat 40, the annular duct 41 becomes connected with the user line 7A. The pressure of the load is therefore supplied, via the annular duct 41 and the pilot duct 42, into the annular groove 43. From the groove 43, the pressure is supplied through the user pressure line 34 to the two-way valve 32, and to the load pressure end 20 of the pressure difference balance 17.
Since the valve 30 remains closed, the abutment piston 25 rests against the set screw 29. The springs 22, 23 are so dimensioned that the tension of the spring 22 preponderates in this position, and is operative to move the balance piston 18 in the direction of the stop 57. Since the load pressure end 20 of the balance is simultaneously biased in the same direction, the balance piston is held against the stop 57. As a result, the outlet to the reference input line 31 communicates with the output control line 15, and the control chamber 14 of the flow control valve 9 is biased by the pressure in the reference line 31. This pressure is selected by the two-way valve 32 to be the higher of either the pressure in the supply line 7, or the pressure in the user line 7A.
The pressure in the chamber 14 causes the control piston 10 of the flow control valve to move to the left, as seen in FIG. 1, so that the supply line 7 is closed with respect to the return flow line 13. This permits the pressure in the line 7 to build up further. Since the pressure in the line 7 is also supplied to the balance piston on the supply pressure end 19 via the pilot line 33, the pressure counteracts spring tension 22 and the load pressure on the end 20, so that the output control line 15 is initially closed to the reference line connection 21, and then connected with the return flow line 13. As soon as the pressure gradient between the load pressure end 20 and the supply pressure end 19, and thus also the pressure gradient between the user line 7A and the supply line 7, becomes too large, i.e. greater than that provided by the spring tension which is operative in a direction toward the stop 57, the balance piston moves to the left and thus connects the control chamber 14 of the control valve 9 with the return flow line 13. This provides a larger discharge cross section between the line 7 and the return flow line 13, until the pressure gradient has regulated itself to the desired value. The pressure drop across the metering piston 36 remains constant during the upward movement, whereby the flow is determined only by the cross section of the opening of the metering piston, and is independent of the load pressure. The entire behavior of the movement is thus substantially determined by the motion of the metering piston 36. Since this motion is load independent, in that the inlet flow regulator 49 and the discharge flow regulator 50 ensure a constant oil flow, the piston 2 of the user 1 moves in a load independent manner with uniform acceleration and deceleration.
Upward movement of the user 1 is terminated by closing the valve 51. As previously indicated, means and circuits may be provided for producing a creeping movement before reaching the terminal position, which are not illustrated. After the valve 51 has been closed, the motor 5 is also disconnected after a certain delay. Thus all elements are in the idle position, as shown in the drawing. Specifically, the user line 7A is again closed in a leakproof manner by the shoulder 39 resting upon the seat 40, and the pressure of the user line again builds up in the control chamber 48. The one-way valve 55 prevents the oil from returning from the control chamber 48 into the precontrol portion of the circuit.
It should be noted that the pressure gradient between the supply line 7 and the user line 7A may be predetermined by the setting of the screw 29 of the abutment piston 25. This permits the flow of the throttle valve to vary by nearly a 1:2 ratio. As a result, one and the same embodiment of the throttle valve may be employed for a wide range of applications.
To initiate the lowering operation, the valves 30 and 51 are concurrently switched to the open position. The motor 5 and the pump 4 remain inoperative, and the one-way return valve 16 which connects the pump with the supply line 7 is closed in the direction toward the pump by the associated spring.
The opening of the valve 51 relieves the control chamber 48 of pressure, and the metering piston 36 moves under the pressure of the user line 7A, which is operative on the opposite annular surface of the piston 36, to the right as seen in FIG. 2. The piston 36 thus lifts from the seat 40, and the load pressure in the line 7A is supplied via the annular duct 41, pilot duct 42, annular groove 43 and user pressure line 34, to the two-way valve 32. The pressure moves through the valve 32 to the reference input line 31 and to the pressure converter 52. The line 31 leads to the outlet 21 of the pressure difference balance 17, and the pressure is also delivered via the line 34 to the valve 30 and to the load pressure end 20 of the pressure difference balance.
From the valve 30, the pressure is supplied to the pressure chamber 28 of the abutment piston 25, and the abutment piston is displaced to the left as seen in FIG. 1. As a result, the zero position of the balance piston 18 is displaced to the left until the abutment piston 25 engages the stop 56. The stop 56 is an adjustable set screw, so that the control shoulder 35 of the balance piston covers the output control line 15 in its zero position, or already opens the line 15 to the return flow line 13.
It should be particularly noted that the adjustment of the set screw 56 for the piston 25 provides for the pressure ratio across the metering valve to be adjusted during the downward movement, independently of that of the upward movement. As previously noted, the pressure ratio for the upward movement may be adjusted by the screw 29.
The supply pressure on the supply pressure end 19, as well as the tension of the spring 23, which is biased by the displacement of the piston 25, tend to move the balance piston to the left, as seen in FIG. 1. Acting in the opposite direction is the load pressure in the load pressure end 20, and the spring 22. During the lowering operation, the load pressure is higher than the supply pressure, and as a result, the balance piston is displaced to the right, as long as the metering piston 36 is closed. Thus the pressure in the reference line 31 reaches the output control line 15 and the control chamber 14 of the control valve, via the pressure difference balance. This acts to close the bypass from the supply line 7 to the return flow line 13, against the force of the spring 12. When the throttle valve 8 opens, a pressure builds in the supply line 7, and this increase in pressure causes the balance piston 18 to move to the left, so that the output control line 15 is first closed, and then opened to the return flow line 13 as the pressure builds further. Thus, the pressure in the control chamber 14 decreases. The pressure difference balance 17 thus regulates a constant drop in pressure across the throttle valve 8, and as a result the downward movement is only dependent on the cross section of the opening at the metering piston 36. This opening cross section is again determined by the adjustment of the inlet flow regulator 49 and the discharge flow regulator 50, and a load independent downward movement may thus be ensured.
In the drawings and specification, there has been set forth a preferred embodiment of the invention, and although specific terms are employed, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation.
1. A hydraulic control system for delivering a pressurized hydraulic fluid to a user (1) and comprising:
pump means (4,5) for supplying pressurized hydraulic fluid to a fluid supply line (7),
a user line (7A) operatively connected to said user (1),
adjustable throttle valve means (8) connected between said fluid supply line and said user line for controlling the flow of the hydraulic fluid from said pump means to said user,
pressure difference balance means (17) including a reference input line (31), a return flow line (13), and an output control line (15), for selectively connecting said reference input line or said return flow line to said output control line in response to the pressure difference in said fluid supply line and said user line, and
control valve means (9) disposed in said fluid supply line between said pump means and said throttle valve means and operatively connected to said output control line of said pressure difference balance means for selectively exhausting a portion of the fluid in said fluid supply line in response to the fluid pressure in said output control line.
2. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 1 wherein said control valve means comprises a housing having an inlet opening communicating with said fluid supply line and an outlet opening communicating with said return flow line (13), a piston (10) slideably mounted in said housing for movement between a closed position closing communication between said inlet opening and said outlet opening, and an open position permitting communication therebetween, and a control chamber (14) in said housing on one side of said piston and operatively connected to said output control line (15) of said pressure difference balance means such that the pressure in said output control line acts to bias said piston into a position between said closed position and said open position.
3. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 2 wherein said control valve means further comprises spring biasing means (12) mounted on the other side of said piston and such that said spring biasing means and the pressure of the fluid in said fluid supply line act to bias said piston toward said open position, and the pressure in said control chamber (14) acts to bias said piston toward said closed position.
4. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 3 wherein said pressure difference balance means comprises a cylinder slideably mounting a balance piston (18) therein, and with said reference input line (31), said return flow line (13), and said output control line (15) each communicating with said cylinder.
5. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 4 wherein said pressure differential balance means further comprises a line (33) connecting one end (19) of said cylinder to said fluid supply line for biasing said balance piston to a position so as to interconnect said output control line and said return flow line, and a user pressure line (34) connected to the opposite end (20) of said cylinder and adapted for biasing the balance piston to a position so as to interconnect said reference input line (31) and said output control line.
6. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 5 wherein said control system further comprises two-way valve means (32) for connecting said reference input line (31) to either said fluid supply line (7) or said user pressure line (34) in accordance with which line is at the higher pressure.
7. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 6 wherein said throttle valve means includes duct means (42) for selectively connecting said user line (7A) to said user pressure line (34).
8. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 7 wherein said pressure difference balance means further comprises means for selectively positioning said balance piston at either a first zero position wherein the reference input line (31) communicates with said output control line (15), or at a second zero position wherein said output control line is either closed or in communication with said return flow line (13).
9. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 8 wherein said means for selectively positioning said balance piston includes springs (22, 23) supporting said piston at respective ends of said cylinder, and means for selectively altering the tension of one of said springs.
10. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 9 wherein said pressure difference balance means further includes a stop (57) for limiting movement of said balance piston in a direction toward said first zero position.
11. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 10 wherein said means for selectively positioning said balance piston comprises an abutment piston (25) coaxially mounted in said cylinder adjacent one end of said balance piston, with a spring (23) interposed therebetween, and means (30) for selectively moving said abutment piston in a direction toward said balance piston and so as to move said balance piston toward said second zero position.
12. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 11 wherein said means for selectively positioning said balance piston further comprises means (29,56) for accurately adjusting the end positions of the movement of said abutment piston.
13. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 6 wherein said throttle valve means comprises a valve housing having an inlet communicating with said fluid supply line and defining an annular seat (40), an outlet communicating with said user line, and a metering piston (36) slideably mounted in said valve housing so as to selectively move axially into engagement with said seat to close communication between said inlet and said outlet.
14. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 13 wherein said metering piston (36) comprises a cylindrical front extension (37) adapted to extend through said annular seat (40) in the closed position, and said front extension includes an annular groove (41) therein which is located on the supply side of said seat in the closed position, and wherein said throttle valve means further includes a pilot duct (42) extending through said metering piston to a rear annular groove (36) on said metering piston and then to said user pressure line (34).
15. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 14 wherein said metering piston of said throttle valve means further includes a rear cylindrical shoulder (44) which is larger than said cylindrical front extension (37) to define a rear pressure chamber (48) between said rear shoulder and the end of said valve housing, and wherein a pilot duct (46) communicates between said user line and said rear pressure chamber (48), with said pilot duct (46) including a throttle (47).
16. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 15 wherein said pilot duct (46) extends through said metering piston.
17. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 15 wherein said throttle valve means further includes a line (53) communicating between said rear chamber (48) and said return flow line (13) via a control valve (51) and a flow regulator (50).
18. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 17 wherein said line (53) further communicates with said reference input line (31) via a one-way valve (55) which precludes flow in a direction toward said line (31) and a second flow regulator (49) which permits a flow rate greater than that of said first mentioned flow regulator (50).
19. A hydraulic control system for delivering a pressurized hydraulic fluid to a user (1) and comprising:
pressure difference balance means (17) including a reference input line (31), a return flow line (13), and an output control line (15), for selectively connecting said reference input line or said return flow line to said output control line in response to the pressure difference in said fluid supply line and said user line, and wherein said return flow line is connected to a storage tank (6), with said storage tank being operatively connected to said pump means for supplying hydraulic fluid thereto,
means (32, 42) for selectively connecting said reference input line to either said supply line or said user line, and
20. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 19 wherein said control valve means includes an outlet communicating with said return flow line (13), such that the portion of the fluid which is exhausted from said fluid supply line passes into said return flow line passes into said return flow line and to said storage tank (6).
21. The hydraulic control system as defined in claim 20 wherein said pressure difference balance means comprises a cylinder slideably mounting a balance piston (18) therein, and means for selectively positioning said balance piston at either a first zero position wherein said reference input line (31) communicates with said output control line (15) or at a second zero position wherein said output control line is either closed or in communication with said return flow line (13).
3437012 April 1969 Bjorklund
3842943 October 1974 Nakamura et al.
4179889 December 25, 1979 Gondek
4401009 August 30, 1983 Zeuner
4548296 October 22, 1985 Hasegawa
2139119 February 1973 DEX
Filed: Sep 12, 1985
Assignee: Beringer-Hydraulik GmbH (Neuheim/Zug)
Inventor: Hubert Haussler (Neuheim/Zug)
Primary Examiner: James C. Yeung
Current U.S. Class: One Passage Controlled By Motive Fluid Pressure Or Flow-responsive Valve (468) (91/452); Relatively Movable Inlet And Exhaust Valves For Single Working Chamber (91/454); Ram Driven By Fluid Pumped From Reservoir (60/477); 187/17
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Paula Reed Nancarrow
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The 12 Movies of Christmas
December 20, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
This is a busy time of year, and with Krampus coming this past weekend, there wasn’t a whole lot left over for writing – so I thought my gift to my readers this year would be easy access to a few holiday classics. Below, then, are my 12 Movies of Christmas. To be fair, some are shorts, and others are that odd genre, the Christmas TV special.
It was a Christmas tradition for me for many years to wrap presents on Christmas Eve while watching It’s a Wonderful Life. That movie has been in the public domain so long it is not difficult to find it online – but some of these you may be unaware of.
It is telling that a full third of these are variations on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and I could have included more. I am embarrassed to say that the version that most influenced me growing up was the one with Mr. Magoo in it – which I did find, though I’m not able to embed it. So I suppose this is a baker’s dozen.
1. A Christmas Carol [1910]
This is the first Christmas Carol movie, a silent version made for Edison Studios.
2. The Insect’s Christmas [1913]
One of the first stop-motion animations, by Russian filmmaker Wladyslaw Starewicz.
3. The Little Match Girl (La petite marchande d’allumettes) [1928]
A film by Jean Renoir based on the Hans Christian Anderson story.
4. Laurel and Hardy: March of the Wooden Soldiers (Babes in Toyland) [1934]
Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep’s shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby.
5. It’s a Wonderful Life [1946]
Donna Reed really did knock the glass out of that window, and Jimmy Stewart really cries in the bar. You can find out cool trivia like that at the IMBd site.
6. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1948]
The Max Fleischer version. All the two-leggedness is a little odd, but hey.
7. A Christmas Carol [Scrooge] 1951
Both Alastair Sim (as Scrooge) and Michael Hordern (as Marley) reprised their roles in A Christmas Carol (1971), and Hordern also appeared as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (1977).
8. Peter Pan [1962]
You know, there’s no reason for this to be a Christmas movie other than that it was always broadcast between Thanksgiving and Christmas. So that’s how I’ve always thought of it.
I loved this as a child, and when I was a parent, I loved sharing it with my own kids. Somehow the Christmas special season became part of the anticipation. The triumverate of “good” Christmas specials – i.e., not cheesey, or with bad animation – were Rudolph, A Charlie Brown Christmas, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Neither of the other two are available in full online, though there is a nice animation of the Dr. Seuss book. We are all grateful that Star Wars: The Force Awakens does not suck, but The Star Wars Holiday Special was so bad that it has become infamous.
10. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians [1964]
About as bad as Rudolph is good.
11. A Christmas Carol [1984]
George C. Scott’s performance has received accolades, but what I find most interesting about this version is that the film is directed by Clive Donner, who had been an editor of the 1951 film starring Alastair Sim.
12. The Muppet Christmas Carol [1992]
Because, why not?
Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hannukah or Solstice or just another day above ground, I wish you well this holiday season.
Are any of your favorites here? What might you add?
Update 1/1/2016: Because, why not? Well, apparently because it was not a legitimate copy of the film. As with two others, including It’s a Wonderful Life, which became hugely popular precisely because the copyright had lapsed. But there are enough movies embedded in the comments to make up a dozen, and then some. At any rate, it will be interesting to see, when the season comes around next year, if there are still 12 free Christmas movies to be had.
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Interesting selection there Paula. Some I have watched, and some not. I would probably add Home Alone, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and there is a third but I can’t remember it’s name. I thought it was called The Santa Claus Movie, but all I can find is reference to a Tim Allen movie, and it’s not that.
Best wishes to you and your family for the Christmas season and 2016.
funnyvideojukin says:
all films are interesting :)
There was a Santa Claus movie in 1959; I haven’t watched it yet, but it is available on YouTube, where the description is…intriguing. “In a battle of good vs. evil, Lucifer sends his trusted demon Pitch to earth in an attempt to corrupt children and get rid of Santa Claus.”
But I think you may be thinking of the 1985 movie with Dudley Moore and John Lithgow. For that the only legitimate version I can find online is the trailer:
Thanks for trying to find the movie for me, Paula. It definitely wasn’t the Lucifer one. It may have been the 1985 movie, but I can’t be sure. The trailer didn’t reveal enough for my hazy memory to clear.
Have a great Christmas. :)
You too, Norah – enjoy the beach!
Fantastic list! 🎄🎁❤️
princessvrushali says:
Wow great list paula. Some were definitely new to me. Enjoyed watching :) :)
ann reay says:
I would add “The Lion in WInter” because it takes place on Xmas Eve. When I am feeling Krampus-y my go-to Xmas movie is forever “Die Hard” – the first one. When I was recovering from foot surgery and in pain I saw, through the haze of oxycontin,” Meet Me in Saint Louis” – and when Margaret O’Brien destroyed the snow people, I finally started to let that pain go. I am at heart a true sap and for that reason I will drift under the spell of “Love Actually” because Xmas and airports have always been a part of my experience of the season – and I love what the film says about Wisconsin. Good list, Paula. Merry Xmas.
Do you know, I’m not sure I have seen Die Hard. Someone else on Twitter mentioned it as a Christmas movie as well. And The Lion in Winter was so long ago, if I did see it, that I can not recall much. (I’m assuming you mean the 1968 movie with Peter O’Toole and Katherine Hepburn, not the less well known 2003 movie with Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close?) Meet Me in St. Louis was something I watched with Katherine on one of her movie nights. My daughter loves Love Actually, and had me watch it with her the Christmas I spent in Chicago. Merry Christmas, my redoubtable Frau Perchta We are so happy to have you back in the Twin Cities. ;-)
DeeScribes says:
I watched Scrooge with Alistair Sim this weekend. It is still good!
A classic is a classic is a classic. It’d be interesting to watch that and the George C. Scott version back to back.
I almost did that, but ran out of time. I may need to watch the George C. Scott version on Friday.
Interesting selection. Will have to make time to watch some of them :) I am a big fan of good animated movies. The last one I saw was Inside Out. There is as much, if not more in them for adults as kids. I’m a big kid at heart anyway!
You are quite right on that score.
pinkmenotmom says:
Ah, your post brings back memories, Paula! Laurel & Hardy’s March of the Wooden Soldiers was one of my favorites when I was a kid. I will have to try to find it online to introduce it to the girls! Happy Christmas to you – I hope you have a lovely and peaceful holiday.
It’s right here, dear. Below the picture, I’ve embedded the YouTube version. There’s a place where you can click to watch it on YouTube, where you can expand it to fit your screen
You’re welcome. ;-)
Now that’s providing good service to your readers. Awesome! Merci, Paula.
Love all the versions of a Christmas Carol. There’s a new version on the Beb here this Christmas with Jim Broadbent in the role which should be fun. Our must watch for the last ten years has been Love Actually. My daughter and I settle down with turkey sarnies at ten pm and blubb our eyes out as well as laughing hard. Perfect end to a good Crimbo.
All right, Geoff, you’ll have to explain turkey sarnies and Crimbo… I do know what the Beb is. And yes, Jim Broadbent would be a good Scrooge. Although I think for me he will always be John Bayley, the husband of Iris Murdoch, a role in which he is both the brilliant husband of a brilliant woman and the archetype of all spouses caring for a partner with Alzheimers.
He was extraordinary. I think Broadbent played him in the film, Iris? Anyway Crimbo is slang for Christmas and turkey sarnies are the cold turkey and stuffing sandwiches mum made on Christmas evening a tradition now carried on in this house.
Muppets Christmas Carol! Every time ‘light the light, not the rat..’ xx
I definitely have to watch it again. Definitely.
Great list, Paula! Need to make some time to watch some of these. Have never seen the Muppet Christmas Carol, but hope to this year. Thanks so much, and happy holidays! xo
Thank you Mary. And same to you.
GigTog says:
I loooove Christmas movies! I’ve already watched White Christmas three times! I’ve also seen Muppets Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim, The Bishop’s Wife with Cary Grant, While a You Were Sleeping, Sleepless In Seattle, Christmas Vacation, Polar Express and It’s A Wonderful Life. Santa Claus with Dudley Moore and Rudolf the Rednosed Reindeer are next lol!
I love The Bishop’s Wife.
Diane Holcomb says:
Awesome! What about Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol? And of course White Christmas. My fav.
Yes, Mr. Magoo was one of my favorites – (though as a child it scared me just as much as any “real” version of A Christmas Carol might have) I have a link to it in the third paragraph but it’s not on a site where I could get embedding to work. I love White Christmas as well, though all I can find online in any legitimate format is the preview:
Of course, Bing singing the song is easy to find. As is Holiday Inn, in which the song first appeared.
Ray Defendorf says:
Have a wonderful Christmas Paula. My recommendation is The Best Christmas Pageant Ever with Loretta Swit. The Herdmans steal the show.The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt0085231/
You too, Ray. And here are the Herdmans:
Judith Post says:
I loved the story The Little Matchgirl, but it breaks my heart. Don’t think I could watch it while wrapping presents:) They’d all be soggy. I love the movie A Christmas Story, about the little boy who wants a Red Ryder BB gun. I’ve yet to watch It’s a Wonderful Life. I’ll have to put that on my “to do” list after the holidays settle down. Have a wonderful Christmas!
Thank you. And if you want to refresh your Red Ryder nostalgia, Daily Motion (the same place I found Mr. Magoo) has A Christmas Story: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2chfii_a-christmas-story_fun
Thanks! Right now, I haven’t watched one Christmas special. My grandson (19) is introducing me to Game of Thrones. We’re watching it together, and we get in about two shows a night. My Christmas shows this year will be about winter walkers and battles:)
I’d never heard of An Insect’s Christmas!
I hadn’t either before last night. But it’s short and lovely.
vafayari says:
Awesome collection of Christmas movies
Thank you! Have an awesome holiday!
Anna Celeste Burke says:
Wow! What a collection of films…we just watched the musical version of A Christmas Carol, starring Albert Finney singing his heart out. Quite another twist on that classic. I’m always struck by how timely Scrooge’s tale seems to be, given ongoing political and social issues Dickens raises. We’re reading the book as a holiday treat–so witty, too! Great post!
Ah yes. The musical. At present the only full version of that one I could find on YouTube has Greek subtitles. ;-)
elainemansfield says:
I know a few of these. Jimmy Stewart . Thanks for sharing them, Paula. Family crashed around the house either sleeping after a red-eye flight or knitting or dozing. We made a wonderful Solstice altar this year. My sons dragged out my many boxes of sandtray figures (from the days when I worked psychologically with sand tray), so we have Dark Vadar, a red tractor driven by a baby, a sweet Baby Mohammed with a roughly hand carved Madonna from Lebanon, and on it goes. Many photos taken. Peter Pan and The Christmas Carol ring my bell.
I am looking forward to reading your solstice post. Sand tray figures, huh. I’m not quite sure how that works, but it sounds a little like the Godly Play stuff we used to do with Bible stories in children’s worship.
Lidy says:
Oh, I loved watching March of the Wooden Soldiers on TV growing up. I also loved The Flintstones and the Micky Mouse version of The Christmas Carol. And Miracle on 34th Street (the 1940s and 1990s version). And can’t forget Jingle All the Way with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad.The Santa Clause too.
I love Miracle on 34th Street. The 1994 version is available on one of those not-quite-reputable sites, as is the one everyone knows and loves, the 1947 version with Edmund Gwenn, John Payne, Maureen O’Hara, and a young Natalie Wood. Interestingly, there is a 1955 version on YouTube I wasn’t even aware of:
There is currently a version of Jingle All the Way on YouTube – “full version English” it says. But there is something very, very weird about the English. Everybody sounds like they’ve had a shot of helium.
Tim Ereneta (@tereneta) says:
In our family, it’s “Scrooge” with Albert Finney and “A Christmas Story” with Peter Billingsley. And we just discovered the 2003 anime “Tokyo Godfathers,” as dark and as uplifting as “It’s a Wonderful Life.” And definitely check out the 1982 Academy Award winning animated short, “The Snowman.” Except for the introduction, it’s nearly wordless:https://youtu.be/HHCZhUZXhZU
Lordy, Tim, I had no idea “The Snowman” was available in its entirety on YouTube. It didn’t come up on any of my searches… Thank you! And I will definitely look for Tokyo Godfathers. Happy Holidays, and Good Stories!
And Tokyo Godfathers I did find. Though it won’t embed, here’s a link: http://www.veoh.com/watch/v19669490tZ6j9kwg
Bad Santa and Die Hard are missing. :)
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This is the Ramirez signature product. At a time when the rapid pace of society often leads to eating disorders and unhealthy diets, Ramirez continues to favour healthy and easy-to-prepare meals.
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Nutritional properties per 100 g of drained weight:Energy value: 209 Kcal (875 kJ)Fats: 13 g, of which,- Saturated: 2.1 g - Polyunsaturated: 7.4 gCarbohydrates: < 0.1 g, of which,
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Proteins: 24 g
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Omega 3: 0.4 gIngredients: Tuna (fish), soya oil and salt.Net weight: 120 gStorage conditions: After opening, keep 1 day in the cold, in appropriate container
Sardines with Lemon
Another irresistible Ramirez speciality that you will not want to miss out. The freshness of the sardines blends harmoniously with the scent and the acid aftertaste of the lemon, providing a special flavour and numerous health benefits.
Sardines in Olive Oil
Being a typically Portuguese product, the Ramirez sardines in olive oil combine two essential foods of the Mediterranean diet: sardine, indispensable for obtaining proteins, and olive oil, the preferred source of fat. Combining the benefits of sardines with olive oil, this Ramirez product is an excellent alternative to fresh fish in the so-called Mediterranean diet.
Tuna in Hot Sauce
For all those who like a strong spicy taste, the Ramirez Tuna in Hot Sauce is a variant of the Tuna in Vegetable Oil, to which is added a whole chili pepper per can. The whole chili pepper gives the sauce a more involving flavour, since it is a fresh chili pod, not powder as it is commonly used. It is an easy to prepare product that has health benefits, since the capsaicin from the chili activates the blood circulation, has anti-inflammatory and also thermogenic effects, and can help in weight loss.
Sardines in Light Brine
The Ramirez Sardines in Light Brine, made with just water and salt, are the ideal choice for anyone who wants to keep fit and control their cholesterol levels. Sardine is the fish of reference of the Mediterranean diet and is advised by nutritionists worldwide due mainly to its high content of Omega 3, a polyunsaturated fatty acid that protects the heart and helps reduce the risk of heart attack, controlling the levels of cholesterol present in the blood.
Sardines in Spicy Vegetable Oil
The sardines in spicy vegetable oil include a whole chili pepper per can, in order to give a more spicy seasoning to the sardines. The fresh whole chili pepper, used by Ramirez, gives the sauce a more enveloping flavour than the powdered chili. Sardine is the fish of reference of the Mediterranean diet and is advised by nutritionists worldwide due mainly to its high content of Omega 3, a polyunsaturated fatty acid that protects the heart and helps reduce the risk of heart attack, controlling the levels of cholesterol present in the blood.
Sardines in Tomato Sauce
For those who enjoy canned sardines, but like to vary the way they consume them, Ramirez also recommends its sardines in tomato sauce, which, besides stimulating the palate, play an important role in the immune system. Sardine is the fish of reference of the Mediterranean diet and is advised by nutritionists worldwide due mainly to its high content of Omega 3, a polyunsaturated fatty acid that protects the heart and helps reduce the risk of heart attack, controlling the levels of cholesterol present in the blood. The tomato is a source of several vitamins, such as C, which gives it antioxidant properties, as well as lycopene, also an antioxidant and with a cardioprotective effect.
Tuna in Olive Oil
It is one of the most appreciated products in Portugal and abroad. The Ramirez Tuna in Olive oil combines the benefits of tuna with those of olive oil, making it a good alternative to fresh fish in the so-called Mediterranean diet. The Mediterranean diet is now considered by doctors and nutritionists as one of the vectors of healthy living and increased life expectancy, providing a nutritional balance and presenting numerous benefits in terms of cardiovascular health and prevention against various types of cancer.
Skinless and Boneless Sardines in Vegetable Oil
All the flavour of traditional Portuguese sardines, but without skin or bones. One of the Ramirez specialties that combines the secular secret of preparing the fish with the most modern conservation techniques. A ready-to-eat delicacy, with all the nutritional benefits of sardines, in a more appealing and easy to prepare presentation.
The oldest working canning factory in the world, it continues to expand an inheritance of the brand 'RAMIREZ', created by this family, for 5 generations.
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Email: ramirez@ramirez.pt
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Portland Police Bureau officer Dan Spiegel poses with two young girls in the Women's March on Portland on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2016 in downtown Portland, Ore. The march was held in support of a national women's march held in Washington, D.C. Photo by Randy L. Rasmussen, © 2017.
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Drugs & Diseases > Medscape > Trending Clinical Topics
Trending Clinical Topics for October 2018
Ryan Syrek
Each week, we identify one top search term, speculate as to what caused its popularity, and provide an infographic on a related condition. If you have thoughts about what's trending and why, feel free to share them with us on Twitter or Facebook!
Trending Clinical Topic of the Week (October 27 to November 2): Brain Death
What constitutes brain death? A discussion about this often controversial question helped drive interest in this week's top trending clinical topic. In May, a 13-year-old boy in Alabama named Trenton McKinley awoke just 1 day before his organs were scheduled to be harvested, after being declared brain dead due to injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision. In June, Jahi McMath succumbed to complications related to liver failure nearly 5 years after being declared brain dead. These high-profile cases have resulted in numerous examinations of the procedures and practices surrounding declaration of brain death.
A perspective recently published on Medscape takes a look at the questions prompted by shocking cases like McKinley's and McMath's. The author asks whether situations like theirs were more about errors in clinical judgment and improperly following procedures, or whether tougher standards are needed regarding brain death. The subject has been deeply controversial since the idea of declaring a patient dead on the basis of irreversible loss of all clinical brain function was first proposed five decades ago. In 2010, the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) updated its guidelines for determining brain death in adults and found no reports of patients recovering brain function after the appropriate use of criteria for declaring brain death. Still, as evidenced by the fact that it was this week's top trending clinical topic, questions surrounding the issue persist.
For more on the checklist for determining brain death, read here.
Cite this: Ryan Syrek. Trending Clinical Topics for October 2018 - Medscape - Nov 30, 2018.
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Charleston shutdown to hurt Wacker's 2018 polysilicon sales
Image from www.wacker.com.
March 13 (Renewables Now) - German chemicals company Wacker Chemie AG (ETR:WCH) today said it expects its polysilicon sales to be down in 2018 compared to 2017 because of the production shutdown at its Charleston plant in the US.
Volumes will be in line with 2017 but lower average prices for polysilicon will result in a decline in 2018 sales. The segment's earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) are expected to show a slight increase from 2017 on the back of cost-cutting measures and taking account of insurance compensation, the company said.
In 2017, the polysilicon business recorded a 3% increase in sales to EUR 1.12 billion (USD1.39bn), reflecting "a strong rise in volumes despite lower average prices." EBITDA climbed 2% to EUR 290.4 million.
Production was shut down at Charleston after on September 7, 2017 a hydrogen explosion caused by a technical defect damaged a plant section.
In the first two months of 2018, polysilicon sales were "noticeably" below year-ago levels. Chief executive Rudolf Staudigl said that demand is strong in all of the company's business fields and the chemical business will continue to grow in 2018. "In our polysilicon business, we currently lack Charleston’s output, but, in all likelihood, we can begin ramping up our facilities there in a few weeks’ time," the CEO added.
The company expects its overall sales to grow at a slower rate than in 2017, but earnings to rise "markedly" this year. Sales are projected to increase by a low-single-digit percentage and EBITDA by a mid-single-digit percentage. Currency effects and amendments to accounting standards are seen to cut sales by an amount in the low-triple-digit millions.
In 2017, Wacker's sales and EBITDA were both up by 6% to EUR 4.92 billion and EUR 1.01 billion, respectively. Profit from continuing operations rose 40% to EUR 250 million.
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Tohoku Mathematical Journal
Tohoku Math. J. (2)
Volume 56, Number 2 (2004), 179-204.
Semi-Riemannian submersions with totally geodesic fibres
Gabriel Bǎdițoiu
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We classify semi-Riemannian submersions with connected totally geodesic fibres from a real pseudo-hyperbolic space onto a semi-Riemannian manifold under the assumption that the dimension of the fibres is less than or equal to three. Also, we obtain the classification of semi-Riemannian submersions with connected complex totally geodesic fibres from a complex pseudo-hyperbolic space onto a semi-Riemannian manifold under the assumption that the dimension of the fibres is less than or equal to two. We prove that there are no semi-Riemannian submersions with connected quaternionic fibres from a quaternionic pseudo-hyperbolic space onto a Riemannian manifold.
Tohoku Math. J. (2), Volume 56, Number 2 (2004), 179-204.
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The Department of Geociences has two open-circuit wind tunnels, which today are part of the Aarhus University wind tunnel laboratory. These are used for sand transport studies. The Mars laboratory has also access to two closed-circuit wind tunnels placed in vacuum chambers. These can be operated under low pressure and are used for Mars surface simulation experiments.
These wind tunnels were complemented by a bio-chamber constructed for long-term microbiological experiments under Martian atmospheric and UV conditions, and two smaller environmental chambers for chemical and physical surface reaction studies.
Besides being an instrument for basic research purposes, the wind tunnels are also used in instrument development, for calibrations and in tests of solar panels and other items that are constructed for functioning in the dusty, cold and dry environment on Mars.
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The Mars Simulation Laboratory has been working in close collaboration with the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. The NBI was responsible for the magnetic properties experiments on NASA’s, Mars Pathfinder in 1997, and for magnetic properties experiments on the two NASA, Mars Exploration Rovers that landed on Mars in January 2004. Magnetic dust capture experiments and experiments with Mössbauer spectroscopy and x-ray fluorescence was part of the NBI wind tunnel experiments.
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PROTRACK » GENERAL » Coach Sharon says Sally won't peak for another 3 years
Coach Sharon says Sally won't peak for another 3 years
1 Coach Sharon says Sally won't peak for another 3 years on Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:59 am
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Pearson has more in the tank
Ray Wilson,
February 10, 2012,
Coach believes best is yet to come for Sally Pearson.
The coach of hurdling star Sally Pearson believes the world champion will not reach her peak for another three years.
Pearson arrived in Perth yesterday to contest the 100m hurdles and the 100m sprint tomorrow night at the WA Athletics Stadium at Mt Claremont.
Coach Sharon Hannan is frustrated over the European athletics calendar in the lead-in to the London Olympic Games because it prevents the Australian from replicating the schedule followed in the gold medal success at the IAAF world championships in Daegu, South Korea, last September.
Hannan, who along with husband Peter has mentored Pearson for more than a decade, is adamant the 25-year-old's best is still ahead.
"I don't think Sal's hit her peak yet. And based on where she's come from, I think she may not reach her peak till 27 or 28," Hannan said.
While seven of the premier 100m hurdlers are American, Pearson dominated the event last year and remains the fourth youngest in the top 10 - but the younger athletes are not within cooee of the times set by the Australian.
Hannan is seeking an event outside the major lead-in meetings for Pearson following her first competition in the European summer, the Diamond League in Oslo on June 7.
"At the moment we have only three meets; we're searching for a fourth," Hannan said.
"We thought we really had a good competition program last year with the four meets, with a minimum of 13 days apart.
"Last year we agreed on less racing and more time in between. It worked really well and we wanted to go in with the exact same program this year because it proved a winning formula."
Hannan is looking to fill the gap after Oslo and the next big meeting in Paris on July 6.
"She has a meet in Oslo in early June and then nothing till Paris in early July, and London one week later," the coach said.
"That means two big meets within a week, and London will have heats, so that's three races in eight days.
"It's not what we were hoping for but that's the cards we have been dealt. We want the same three weeks off competition leading into the Games as we had in Daegu.
"Everyone thinks she is going to do Monaco (July 20), but Monaco's only two weeks before (the Games). If something went a little awry and we didn't get those races beforehand we probably would consider Monaco, but only if she was short a race."
Hannan has earmarked the Belgium nationals in the third week of June as a possible meeting to fill the void.
While Pearson will run in the 100m sprint tomorrow night, generally she has dismissed suggestions that she will permanently adopt the event on the international stage.
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Iloilo-Bacolod route
When SuperCat Ruled The Waves
Posted on July 28, 2016 by psssadmin
SuperCat as a brand of Aboitiz Shipping Corporation started in the summer of 1994 in the Batangas-Calapan route with the fielding of the SuperCat 1. She was not the very first High Speed Craft in the route as Bullet Express 1 beat her by a day. However, SuperCat immediately made a very big splash and impact. It was super-fast compared to the local ferries and would only take 45 minutes for the 24-nautical mile route when other ferries in the route normally took 2.5 hours. And being a catamaran it made a lot of visual impression. She was also very comfortable considering there no airconditioning in any of the ferries in the route. There was also a smooth and true passenger service. I myself was there in Batangas port when the SuperCat 1 was formally launched and it was impressive.
Bullet Express 1 was also outclassed, overwhelmed and very soon it quit the route because they can’t match SuperCat and they went to the Visayas. Meanwhile, the old kingpin of the area, the Viva Shipping Lines immediately purchased two second-hand fastcrafts of Japan origins from the Sun Cruises of Manila to say they also have a fast one. It charged cheaper but they were not as fast as they took one hour for the route.
However, in about 4 months time, SuperCat 1 met a mishap and was wrecked on the western side of Verde Island soon after MARINA ruled she should take that route (before she took the route east of Verde Island and between the “Mag-asawang Pulo”). She hit an underwater obstacle and the superstructure completely deformed. There were suspicions of sabotage but the investigation ruled it was an accident. Whatever, Aboitiz had already sensed High Speed Crafts (HSCs) will be successful in the Philippines since SuperCat 1 had good patronage and many were impressed. Well, it was peak season when she came (a summer when many are going home) and the Batangas-Calapan route really lacked bottoms then and no ferry there had airconditioned accommodations and good service.
Aboitiz immediately sought a replacement to the wrecked SuperCat 1 and within months a new one arrived in the route and this was named the SuperCat I. Many thought this was a repaired version of SuperCat 1 but actually this was a different ship. Since Aboitiz thought High Speed Crafts will be successful in the Philippines and wants to jump the gun on the others, so to say, it partnered with a Macau operator of High Speed Crafts and the company Universal Aboitiz Inc. was born. In a short time, catamarans started arriving for SuperCat and Aboitiz fielded them to different routes. Aside from the Iloilo-Bacolod route, it based catamarans in Cebu for different routes to the near islands like Leyte (Ormoc), Bohol (Tagbilaran), Negros (Dumaguete) and it even had far routes like Surigao (via Maasin) and it has an extension to Dapitan in Zamboanga del Norte.
With this move for partnership with the Macau concern, Aboitiz was the first in the Philippines to have many High Speed Crafts and in the process they overtook Bullet Express which was backed by combined Zamboanga-Malaysia concerns. In just the years 1995 and 1996, eight catamarans arrived for Universal Aboitiz and they practically swamped their competitors which were also new to High Speed Crafts. These were the Sea Angels of Negros Navigation Company and Waterjet Shipping Company. With Bullet Express, Viva Shipping Lines (and its legal fiction companies Sto. Domingo Shipping and DR Shipping), Royal Ferry, Florinda (RN High-Speed Ferries), Oceanjet (Ocean Fast Ferries), Sea Cat (ACG Express Liner) and a half-dozen other minor operators in the mix, very soon it became a veritable dogfight in the High Speed Craft world here as in matira ang matibay (only the strong will survive).
Not long after, the Sea Angels and Waterjet both gave up and merged with SuperCat. That will happen as there were just too many High Speed Crafts for the passengers willing to pay their higher fares which were double or so the regular ferries. With that suddenly SuperCat had 13 high-speed cats, the SuperCat I, SuperCat 2, SuperCat 3, SuperCat 5, Supercat 6, Supercat 7, SuperCat 8, SuperCat 9, SuperCat 10. The St. Raphael and St. Gabriel of the Sea Angels became the SuperCat 11 and SuperCat 12, respectively and the Waterjet 1 and Waterjet 2 became the SuperCat 17 and SuperCat 18, respectively. These were just too many for some 5 profitable routes (Batangas-Calapan, Cebu-Ormoc, Cebu-Tagbilaran, Cebu-Dumaguete and Iloilo-Bacolod (I am not sure if Cebu-Dapitan is really profitable) and to think the competition has even more High Speed Crafts than SuperCat (though admittedly not as good).
Except for SuperCat 6 and SuperCat 10 which were smaller and not that fast, all the other SuperCats had 2 x 2,600hp MTU engines with two waterjets as propulsion and all were capable of 38 knots, a speed not reachable by propeller-driven High Speed Crafts because of the phenomenon called “cavitation”. All of them were true sister ships and all were built in Singapore but by different manufacturers. All had aluminum alloy hulls for light weight. While the catamarans from Macau were not brand-new (but still very good), the former Sea Angels and Waterjets arrived here brand-new. All were built by Kvaerner Fjellstrand and were all true sister ships (together with the Stella Maris of Grand Seaways that also came here too). The rest that came from Macau were built by FBM Marineteknik.
In 1999 and 2002, the trimarans TriCat 50 and TriCat 2 also joined the SuperCat fleet. Later the tricats were renamed the SuperCat 2001 and SuperCat 2002. Both also had 2 x 2,600hp MTU engines with twin waterjets but being bigger their speed were a little lower at 36 knots. The two were true sister ships and they were the biggest ever High Speed Crafts that plied Philippine waters. Aboitiz, being a partner in FBM-Aboitiz (FBMA) which built them in Balamban, Cebu surely would have had to purchase one of their products even just for showcase purposes.
This was the time that SuperCat completely ruled the waves. They were the fastest, they were the most comfortable, they had the best passenger service and they have the best booking system. They even had the best, owned passenger terminal in Cebu port (which was shared with WG&A and Cebu Ferries Corporation ferries). In speed it was only the Weesam Express (1) and Weesam Express 5 of SRN Fastcrafts which can give any semblance of challenge but still the MTU-powered SuperCats were slightly faster. They dominated the High Speed Crafts routes and even bullied the opposition a bit (well, isn’t that what alpha dogs are supposed to do?).
But speed has its cost which is higher fuel consumption. And waterjets might give better speed especially at ranges where propellers begin to lose efficiently because of “cavitation” but waterjets also needs more maintenance. The dirty waters of our ports can easily clog them especially since many people just throw their trash in the water and the rivers that empty into the sea also contains garbage and these can be sucked by the waterjets. And one fouling costs money and moreover it throws a monkey wrench on the schedules, trips are lost and tempers and the patience of passengers are tested.
With the merger with Sea Angels and Water Jet, SuperCat actually found themselves with many excess catamarans especially since it was already found out then that the routes where one can field High Speed Crafts are limited since many others do not have enough patronage. The successor company to Universal Aboitiz, the Philippine Fast Ferry Corp. soon realized that. There was also the late realization that their catamarans were overpowered and that waterjets are actually not too well suited for local waters. Soon SuperCat began selling their MTU and waterjet-powered catamarans. And slowly they began buying High Speed Crafts that were not that powerful, not propelled by waterjets and some were actually not catamarans but fastcrafts which are monohulled vessels. Their first non-MTU, non-waterjet HSC, the Supercat 20 was actually a fastcraft.
Soon all their MTU and waterjet-powered catamarans and trimarans (which are triple-hulled vessels) were gone and sold abroad. One of the factors that forced them was the steady rise of the world oil prices starting in 2001. They then had a mix of catamarans and fastcrafts which were equipped with propellers. Their next favorite powerplant after MTU was the Caterpillar brand. With those changes, the SuperCats became just a fast as the competition and there were Weesam Express fastcrafts which invaded the Visayas that can already beat them in raw speed.
They were also not so as numerous as before as SuperCat slowly pruned down the number of units because of over-competition. Moreover, their parent company WG&A was split asunder and had to sell ferries to pay for the shares of the partners that were divesting. And the paring down of vessels included that of SuperCat too. With that situation the number of SuperCat HSCs shrank by a half and they no longer had showcase units which will show they have the best High Speed Crafts. Along this way the company’s name was changed to SuperCat Fast Ferry Corporation.
So, once at the apex of the High Speed Craft field, their rule of the waves slowly vanished in the new millennium. They then just became one of the few survivors of the High Speed Crafts wars here where most HSC companies sank. They initially still had a slight lead though but then their controlling stockholders, the Aboitiz family got more interested in the power generation industry and tried to sell the Aboitiz Transport System (ATS), the successor of WG&A. This was consummated later and SuperCat became a brand of 2GO under Negros Navigation Company.
With the number of units not growing and getting older, SuperCat slid further and the mistake of acquiring SuperCat 36 and SuperCat 38 did not help. Currently their best units are just the sister ships St. Jhudiel and St. Braquiel, the former SuperCat 30 and SuperCat 32, respectively. Though still using SuperCat as a brand since that is already an established brand, their High Speed Crafts have already been renamed to saints in the tradition of Negros Navigation Company. And yet this did not arrest the slide of SuperCat and they have HSCs whose engines that are already getting tired.
In this situation, Oceanjet began their challenge for the top of the High Speed Craft field. The company embarked on continuous addition of vessels to their fleet with their own-assembled fastcrafts and by acquisitions of the High Speed Crafts by the competition that quit the HSC field. And before the middle of this decade, Oceanjet or Ocean Fast Ferries already overtook SuperCat in sheer number. And then they were also overtaken in speed and newness by Oceanjet which aside from assembling their own fastcrafts also continuously changes the tired engines of HSCs in their fleet.
Most people including the tourists have no idea of these developments. Many think, wrongly, that SuperCat is still on top. They do not know that SuperCat is now just a shadow of its former self that once ruled the waves. However, Super has ordered two new HSCs in Austal Balamban recently but I doubt if it can overtake Oceanjet and rule the waves again.
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Would have loved to learn more about what he meant by this. Actually it must be what was previously referred to by others as Jobs’ “reality distortion field,” referring to his charisma. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
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The power of personality is a key management tool, akin to casting spells and mesmerizing the team to get on board and strive for success. But you have to have the kind of laserlike focus and ambition that Jobs was blessed to do amazing things. For all his failings and human foibles, he is legendary.
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Steve Jobs succeeded by casting spells and mesmerizing people, says Gates. And he was great at picking talent, hyper-motivating that talent, and judging designs as to what is good and what is not good. He succeeded even when he failed. These are the main leadership traits Bill Gates highlights in this
Steve Jobs succeeded by casting spells and mesmerizing people, says Gates. And he was great at picking talent, hyper-motivating that talent, and judging designs as to what is good and what is not good. He succeeded even when he failed. These are the main leadership traits Bill Gates highlights in this interview. Most leaders have one or two of these qualities. Jobs had many of them that can be emulated beyond his toughness.
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Well that spell was often called “Steve’s reality distortion field”. And it was...he made his team do impossible things....his products reflected his character...the control freak that he was .....and look at apple.....the only product with an integrated hardware and software design and a dummy Bluetooth...😎....
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He was definitely a very charismatic, ambitious and motivational individual. This definitely made him a great leader. Even though he failed many times, he managed to succeed. What a legend!
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Australia Traditional owners driven apart by Adani issue unite to fight Queensland Government
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Traditional owners who were split for years over Adani mining their ancestral homelands say they have joined forces to fight the Queensland Government over its opposition to their land rights claim.
Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) representatives have publicly united to condemn the state's decision to contest their bid, lodged 15 years ago, for native title in central Queensland's Galilee Basin, which includes parts of the Adani mine.
A 10-day Federal Court trial is underway in the nearby town of Clermont.
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Adrian Burragubba, who was forced into bankruptcy over legal challenges to Adani, said that all of the W&J were "now faced with a common enemy and that is the state that wants to take away our rights".
Patrick Malone, who had been at odds with Mr Burragubba by supporting the successful land use deal with Adani, said he thought "as a native title group, we've moved on from Adani".
"We're all on the same page and we want the same outcome … recognition of our native title and our native title rights," he said.
Both men questioned the motives of the state, which is opposing an unusual number of current claims.
The ABC is aware of at least eight contested claims, from Cape York to the south-west Queensland outback.
© ABC News Images Wangan and Jagalingou lodged a native title claim 15 years ago for land across the Galilee Basin.
The Queensland Government said that over 26 years of the Native Title Act, the state had opposed fewer than one in 12 claims.
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"Who knows what the motives of the state are in pushing us through the courts?" Mr Malone said.
"It makes it very difficult because of over 15 years, a number of our elders have died, people with first-hand knowledge, people who were born in this country are no longer with us.
"The longer you drag things out the more that's going to happen."
The state's refusal to consent to native title is the latest blow dealt by the Government to the W&J in recent months.
In August, the state extinguished native title over parts of the Adani site without first telling representatives.
The state also successfully pushed for the exclusion of four of the 12 W&J native title representatives from the current claim after a government-appointed anthropologist raised questions about evidence of their ancestors.
Documents seen by the ABC indicate that two other expert anthropologists commissioned by Queensland South Native Title Service accepted the evidence of the four family representatives.
Native title recognition over Qld island
The Quandamooka people have been formally recognised as traditional owners of Moreton Island off Queensland following legal proceedings that began in 1995.A historic Queensland native title decision is expected to have a significant impact on bushfire management at the world's third largest sand island.
A genealogist questioned the ancestral evidence of only one of the representatives.
All the experts including the state's anthropologist agreed the claim involved a pre-colonisation society that was more accurately characterised as the Clermont-Belyando people.
Wangan and Jagalingou have agreed to bring forward their native title claim under this name but identify as W&J.
Three of the excluded representatives have since launched a legal bid to re-join the claim.
Mr Malone said the state's position, flagged a year ago, that the W&J did not have strong enough evidence of ongoing cultural connection to country, was wrong.
"It seems to me we've met all the criteria," he said.
He also blamed the state's handling of the claim for "dragging it out" 15 years.
"Name other claims that have gone on for 15 years without resolution. I'm saying it's not normal process," he said.
Mr Malone said that without native title, "people won't have to take any notice of any traditional owners and go ahead and do their own thing and mine their merry way out of things".
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© ABC News Images W&J representative Adrian Burragubba
A spokeswoman for Natural Resources Minister Anthony Lynham declined to comment on a matter before the court.
But in a statement issued last week, Mr Lynham said the resolution of native title claims was "complex".
"Under Commonwealth law, applicants must demonstrate that they have maintained a continuing connection to the claim area," he said.
"Queensland has a strong record of settling native title through consent determinations, voluntarily agreed to by all parties.
"Since the Native Title Act commenced in 1993, Queensland has resolved a total of 148 native title claims with only 12 going to trial in the Federal Court."
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